Episode 42

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22nd Jan 2026

Denobulan Spiders-Man!

We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 21 “The Breach,” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. Bill was originally going to host this episode but there was a cave involved so Maria had to step in. Trip, Malcolm, and Travis try to save some Denobulan geologists lost deep in a series of caves. Geophysicist and disaster researcher, Mika McKinnon joins us to help explain what exactly is going on with these caves, rocks, and geologists. Meanwhile, on Enterprise, Phlox deals with an ethical conflict when a patient refuses his treatment because his race and the Denobulans were at war 300 years ago.

Learn more about the Mineral Cup that Mika mentioned here!

Rikermendations:

  1. Jamie: Date Everything (video game)
  2. Maria: Bat Fam (animated series)
  3. Bill: Los Angeles Plays Itself (movie)
  4. Mika: Zootopia 2 (movie)

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EnterpriseSplaining - The podcast where we try to explain Star Trek: Enterprise to each other! We are bewildered by this show. We have questions - so many questions! Join Jamie, Bill, and Maria as they attempt to make sense of this 22-year-old show that represents one of the strangest chapters of Star Trek history.

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