Hailing Frequencies Open: 3 STAR TREK Podcasts

Geek Girl Authority

01-07-2025

There are many Star Trek options for you to listen to wherever you get your podcasts. In fact, there are so many that it can be daunting to figure out where to start.
For today's Trek Tuesday , we're sharing three podcasts that we enjoy. This just scratches the surface of the many podcasts devoted to our favorite Franchise. If there's one that you think we should check out in the future, be sure and let us know on social media! Women at Warp
Women at Warp has a decade's worth of episodes to occupy your time. The podcast debuted in 2014. At that time the four originating hosts — Andi, Grace, Jarrah and Sue — were each doing their own online Franchise projects. But they came together to form a kind of 'Federation,' creating the Women at Warp podcast.
Focused on examining Star Trek through a feminist perspective, Women at Warp explored 'Intersectional Diversity in Infinite Combinations.' In 2020, they added two more hosts to their command crew: Aliza and Kennedy.
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Over the course of the podcast's run, Women at Warp had a few different associations. From May 2014 to July 2016, Women at Warp was part of the trek.fm network. And then from April 2017 through 2022, they were one of the three founding shows for Roddenberry Entertainment's Roddenberry Podcast Network. But during the other intervals, Women at Warp was an independent podcast.
In March 2025, the series achieved its mission and released its final episode. However, there are a decade's worth of episodes for you to catch up on. And several of them feature guest appearances by one of Geek Girl Authority's own beloved writers, Diana Keng.
In addition to the podcast, Women at Warp hosts a blog where you can read lots of articles about the Franchise, including reviews, features and more. InvestiGates
Gates McFadden (Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Next Generation movies, Star Trek: Prodigy and Star Trek: Picard) is the host of the delicious Star Trek adjacent podcast, InvestiGates . Over the course of the three seasons released so far, McFadden invites many of her Franchise co-stars and co-creators to join her in some in-depth discussions.
In these conversations, Star Trek is brought up from time to time. However, the podcast is not limited to discussion about the Franchise. McFadden asks her guests about their personal histories and childhoods, family histories and many other topics as well. The eclectic conversations are far-reaching and informative, including details you would never think to ask but will not forget once you've heard them.
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Over the course of InvestiGates, McFadden is joined by almost every main cast member of The Next Generation. She's also joined by cast members from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise . In later episodes, she welcomes cast members from Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Plus Terry Matalas, Michael Westmore and William Shatner appear as well.
If you want to learn more about the people who put Star Trek together, then InvestiGates is the podcast for you. Hopefully, McFadden will release additional episodes in the near future. Trek, Marry, Kill Podcast
In the Trek, Marry, Kill Podcast, host Bryan Murphy and a rotating guest host examine the Franchise episode by episode. At the end of each discussion, they rate the episode. They might be good ('Trek'), great ('Marry'), or 'neither good nor great' ('Kill'). However, the podcast is always clear that even when an episode is a 'Kill,' they still love it, because it's Star Trek.
Along with the hook of determining whether each episode is a 'Trek,' 'Marry' or 'Kill,' the podcast also features a recurring rubric against which episodes are assessed. This includes great scenes, 'The Line Must Be Drawn Here: Great lines' and other regular assessment standards.
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In addition to the assessment, Murphy also brings plenty of facts about the episodes from Memory Alpha and other sources. And the audio for the contemporary TV advertisements for the individual episodes is often included, which adds a nice bit of additional flavor to the mix.
As with Women at Warp , Geek Girl Authority's own Diana Keng guest stars on Trek, Marry, Kill Podcast as well. And she's just one of the many great guest stars who appear over the course of the series. Finally, when the host and guest disagree on the show's categorization, the tie is turned over to social media for a vote, so weekly listeners can get in on the voting fun too.
STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS: 'Ad Astra Per Aspera,' a Trans Rights Allegory Avery Kaplan (she/her) is the author of several books and the Features Editor at Comics Beat. With her spouse Ollie Kaplan, Avery co-authored the middle school textbook on intersectionality Double Challenge: Being LGBTQ and a Minority. She was honored to serve as a judge for the 2021 - 2024 Cartoonist Studio Prize Awards and the 2021 Prism Awards. She lives in the mountains of Southern California with her partner and a pile of cats, and her favorite place to visit is the cemetery. You can also find her writing on Comics Bookcase, the Gutter Review, Shelfdust, the Mary Sue, StarTrek.com, in the Comics Courier and in many issues of PanelxPanel, and in the margins of the books in her personal library.