Trekosophy

Trekosophy


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Trekosophy s03eCS: The Trouble with Trekosophy
December 21, 2014

Merry Christmas! For our final episode of the year/season, we discuss the only episode of Star Trek (to our knowledge) that was specifically billed as a Christmas episode—The Trouble with Tribbles. And yes, we actually do find some philosophical topics

Trekosophy s03e14: Best of Star Trek
December 14, 2014

Continuing our discussion from the previous episode, Ben, Ash, and I count down our top 5 favorite episodes of Star Trek ever. Some of the choices are obvious while others are completely unexpected. Curious? Then check it out!   Oh, and have a Merry Ch

Trekosophy s03e13: Worst of Star Trek
November 30, 2014

Taking a short break from all of the heavy philosophy, we decide to finish out the season by listing (and briefly discussing) our most favorite and least favorite episodes in all of Star Trek. However, it lasted too long, so we decided to split it into tw

Trekosophy s03e12: The Strange Case of the Giant Ravioli Space Baby
November 09, 2014

Actually, we're not going to talk about the Giant Ravioli Space Baby™. Instead, the topic is about the other star of the show, Dr. Leah Brahms. Specifically, we discuss the morality of using someone's image for uses of which the person might not appro

Trekosophy s03e11: Hierarchy for a Dream
October 26, 2014

The Hierarchy. Potato-heads. Sontaran rejects. Whatever you want to call them, they are entertaining to watch. Perhaps their environment reflects a bit of our day-to-day work life? In any case, the Trekosophers discuss their first appearance in Voyager th

Trekosophy s03e10 - Musings on The Muse
October 13, 2014

We're back from our super-long Summer hiatus, and we're ready to to start philosophizing again! For reasons that remain completely unknown to me at this moment, we chose to celebrate our return with… Uh, The Muse. The fourth-season Deep Space Nine episo

Trekosophy s03e09: To Kill a Keeler
June 11, 2014

NOTE: Due to unforeseen gaming this weekend, I wasn't able to get this episode edited and posted in time for the usual 11pm Sunday deadline. I cleared it with Ben, with whom I was gaming at the time, and he gave me the okay to edit and post it a few days

Trekosophy s03e08: I, Spy
May 25, 2014

Continuing our discussion from earlier, we now turn our attention to the more international aspects of spying and the ethical decisions made in the Deep Space 9 episode Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges. Sadly, said discussion becomes derailed again, but we do

Trekosophy s03e07: Dukat’s Inferno
May 11, 2014

Did Dukat cross the moral event horizon line in Waltz? Find out in this interesting episode of Trekosophy!

Trekosophy s03e06: Circular Reasoning
April 27, 2014

Ben McLean's favorite Star Trek episode ever, "The Circle", gets the Trekosophy treatment today. We are Kirby-less and Bill-less this time, but we do have our guest host back, Ash Hulme, to help fill in the gap.