Episode 17

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24th Jul 2025

Second Contact: Three Body Problems!

This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 9 “Singularity” now that Jamie and Maria have actually seen it. Also, we inexplicably have not yet scared away Nicole Gugliucci who came back this week to chat with us about the episode and tell us about her favorite and least favorite examples of astronomy science in Star Trek. 

A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before this one, “Three Body Problems!,” go listen to that first because this is a follow up to last week. 

Links for things we mention in the episode:

The trinary system image that looks like boobs (surprisingly safe for work)

Feet Photos (sorry – blame Maria):

Giant Comb in Archer’s Bathroom 

Interview with Dr. Erin McDonald


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EnterpriseSplaining
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.

Haven’t watched or don’t want to watch the show? No problem! At EnterpriseSplaining, we’ll do that work for you! Every week, one of us will watch an episode and explain it to the others - or try to. No Star Trek knowledge is necessary, although it might help? Who knows. This show is weird. Listen along as we try to uncover exactly what this show was trying to accomplish and what it ended up doing. Will this podcast be useful? Probably not! Will it change the world? UNLIKELY! Will they solve all of humanity’s problems through this exercise? ALMOST DEFINITELY NO. But we’ll have fun doing it and that’s really the point.

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