Shields Up Podcast

17/05/2022

I know you really wanted that terrible DS9 episode, but its been so long since we have uploaded anything that we lost one of the audio files, and no one wants to hear a one sided conversation. Instead, we bring you the next episode, Measure of a Man. A top quality Data episode and a fine bit of Star...

20/05/2021

We were going to talk about Space Dinosaurs. How awesome does that sound? Space Dinosaurs! Turns out that it was far from awesome so we talked about the Borg instead. Join Chris and Nev as they bumble through another episode of Star Trek, this time with Enterprise, Season 2 Episode 23: Regeneration....

15/05/2021

13/04/2021

Join Chris and Nev as they are back with Chris's pick, TNG episode Darmok from Season 5. The river Temarc in winter! Picard is kidnapped and taken to a dangerous planet with the captain of a Tamarian ship, who is intent on establishing communication with the Federation at all costs. Will Picard figu...

10/04/2021

Join Chris and Nev as they are back with Chris's pick with TNG episode Darmok from Season 5 The river Temarc at Winter! Picard is kidnapped and taken to a dangerous planet with the captain of a Tamarian ship, who is intent on establishing communication with the Federation. Will Picard figure out the...

09/04/2021

Join Chris & Nev as they delve into Star Trek's First Contact - no, not that one, the original TNG episode! The Enterprise is orbiting Malcor III, home to the (surprisingly enough) Malcorians who are about to embark on their first warp flight. Picard and crew are there to initiate first contact and....

28/03/2021

William Shatner, now 90, reveals he has never seen an episode of Star Trek. What do you think of this? Let us know!

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/03/star-trek-william-shatner-never-watched-show-1234626435/

"I don't like the way I look and what I do," Shatner says about looking back on his performance as Captain Kirk.

21/03/2021

Join Chris & Nev as they review Nev's pick - The Next Generation season 1, episode 25, Conspiracy. After Captain Picard receives a dark warning from an old friend, the Enterprise-D returns to Earth to stop an alien invasion from taking over Starfleet Command. Want to satisfy your curiosity about Tra...

24/02/2021

Welcome everyone!

We hope that you will enjoy the show.

23/02/2021

Chris & Nev rejoin the crew of the Enterprise as they face their old foe, Khan Noonian Singh, and his chest, who is bent on avenging himself on Kirk for marooning he and his people to die on the desert planet Ceti Alpha V using nothing but quotes from Herman Melville and Dante. Also, Kirk had a son....

23/02/2021

In this classic episode, the crew of the Enterprise finds the SS Botany Bay adrift in space, a pre-warp sleeper ship from Earth containing several bodies in stasis. Among these is Khan Noonian Singh, a genetically engineered super-human and one of the leaders of the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s. Once....