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Antimatter Pod
by Anika and Liz
A Star Trek podcast talking fashion, feminism, subtext and subspace.
Episodes
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246. New Windows, Same Room (SNW 4.10)
Anika and Liz don their cheapest wigs and TOS costumes to travel a year into the future: 1966. It's the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds fourth season finale, "Tomorrow's Enterprise", and don't be alarmed, but we actually like this one! This is the same plot as "Once La'an A Time", which is the same...
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245. Starring Paul Wesley as Chris Pine (SNW 4.09)
Anika and Liz put on their prettiest fairytale costumes and settle in to discuss "Once La'an A Time" -- an episode which Liz hated and Anika loved! Let's fight! (We're not gonna fight.) Looking back, "The Elysian Kingdom" was a gimmick episode - and this follow-up suffers from being one of so…
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244. The Penny Wong Concern-O-Meter (SNW 4.08)
Anika and Liz take command of the Enterprise and discuss Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "Orders of Magnitude". And Anika goes on a journey from "It's a good episode but I don't like it" to "Actually, maybe it's a bad episode?" Finally we're back to proper Strange New Worlds: a deeply regressive…
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243. Plot Device Daughter Girl (SNW 4.07)
It's the soap opera episode. It's better than the puppet episode but not actually good. Season 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is killing Anika and Liz's will to live, one gimmick at a time. Why is SNW doing a soap opera episode? It doesn't seem to be out of great love and respect for the…
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242. Good F***ing Star Trek (SNW 4.06)
Anika and Liz face an unexpected emergency situation: a ... good episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds? We're discussing "Off Hour", and in a shocking twist -- we like it! Pike does some good captaining AND spends a big chunk of the episode unconscious! Erica has real command potential!...
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241. Into the Washing Machine (SNW 4.05)
Anika and Liz, very much against their better judgement, watch The Puppet Episode. Yes, it's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "Level Five Transporter Accident", and we are using words like "I regret having a Star Trek podcast" and "it's a crime against humanity". Hey, it's not as offensive as "Four...
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240. Casablanca Cosplay (SNW 4.04)
It's Antimatter Pod, but we're in black and white! We're discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 4, episode 4, "A Case of Chiaroscuro". Did Anika include a pronunciation guide in the show notes? She sure did! This episode scales the giddy heights of "it's fine, I guess" "It's interested…
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239. Dude Where's My Shuttle (SNW 4.03)
Anika and Liz hang out with a cactus. Is it a tribute to the Doctor Who serial "Meglos"? No, we're talking about episode 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' fourth season, "Human Best Friend"! Strange New Worlds has become a show dedicated to pastiches of better media How many episodes inspired…
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238. Evil Genes (SNW 402)
Anika and Liz beam over to a long-abandoned and extremely haunted space ship. And instead of talking about what we experienced over there in the shadows, we're going to discuss episode 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' fourth season, "The Griffin Institute". This episode is a huge step up from...
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237. A Forehead Situation (SNW 4.01)
The Enterprise goes back in time and doesn't prevent a genocide, but Anika and Liz would like to go back in time to prevent this episode from ever being made. Oh, did the fourth season premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds displease us? It sure did! "Don't overthink it!" This episode provides...
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236. Nixon Broke Starfleet (DSC 1.09)
Anika does 133 jumps while Liz infiltrates a Klingon ship. What could go wrong? Well, this episode is late, so... Yes, we are discussing season 1, episode 9 of Star Trek: Discovery, "Into the Forest I Go". A nice walk in the woods! Everyone comes home! Do all Starfleet captains disobey orders?...
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235. Ghosts of Pahvo (DSC 1.08)
Anika and Liz go for a nice walk in the forest and discuss Star Trek: Discovery's "Si Vic Pacem, Para Bellum", and ask ourselves: which Discovery characters are most likely to massacre a bunch of Tusken Raiders? You may have noticed some audio issues lately, and this recording was particularly...
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234. Mushroom Party (DSC 1.07)
Anika and Liz don their finest 2017/2257 outfits and go to a party. Then they do it all over again. Then they do it all over again. Yes, we are caught a time loop and discussing Star Trek: Discovery's "Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad"! "This, to me, is like if Strange New Worlds was good." Is...
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233. Eyebrows At Dawn (DSC 1.06)
Anika and Liz take off for a cheeky little diplomatic meeting with some Klingons. What could go wrong? We are discussing Star Trek: Discovery's "Lethe", an episode which inspired our friendship, a whole lot of fic and a conversation about whether it is a flawless piece of Star Trek, or if it has...
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232. Future Exes (DSC 1.05)
Anika and Liz are thrown into a Klingon prison, where they are absolutely choosing Lorca's pain. But no one is having a worse day than that poor innocent tardigrade! We're discussing episode five of Star Trek: Discovery's first season, including: This is the worst Saru episode of the entire…
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231. Parall'rels (DSC 1.04)
Anika and Liz are petsitting a tardigrade while we discuss the fourth episode of Star Trek: Discovery's first season, "The Butcher's Knife Care's Not For The Lamb's Cry". This episode introduces Admiral Cornwell, and we are gonna be so cool about that. You wouldn't believe how cool and chill we...
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230. Michael's Adventures In Wonderland (DSC 1.03)
Anika and Liz continue their tour of Discovery's first season with "Context Is For Kings", an episode which introduces a whole lot of new regulars and dares to ask: is it possible to like Saru less? It's time to go down the rabbit hole as we discuss: You are not gonna believe this, but Michael...
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229. Stupid Sexy Sarek (DSC 1.01 and 1.02)
Remember 2017? Taylor Swift released Reputation. Kendall Jenner fixed racism with a Pepsi ad. And Star Trek returned to the small screen with the launch of Discovery. Anika and Liz go back in time to revisit the series which led us to become friends and launch a podcast ... and we are excited!...
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228. DoctorVision (VOY 3.22)
Anika and Liz, two people with experience getting too attached to fictional characters and then mourning their deaths for 900 years, convene on the holodeck to discuss Star Trek: Voyager's "Real Life" ... and the cancellation of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. We are sad and angry! What does...
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227. Moving at the Speed of Plot (SFA 1.10)
Anika and Liz toast some marshmallows in the Atrium's brand new open fireplace (Nus Braka: Interior Decorator) and discuss the first season finale of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, "Rubincon". A finale where the good guys don't fire a single shot, and where we apply the lessons learned through the...
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226. Away Team To Planet Star Wars (SFA 1.09)
Anika and Liz don their finest cloaks, hoods and masks and beam down to a planet we've seen a few times before to find Anisha Mir and discuss the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's second season, "300th Night". We know the second semester goes by fast, but this is ridiculous!...
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225. The Liberal Arts Agenda (SFA 1.08)
Anika and Liz watch Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's "The Life of the Stars" and have a little cry. Featuring a special guest appearance by Bradley Whitford and Liz reads a brief excerpt from Discipline by Randa Abdel-Fattah. We got Star Trekked. We got Our Towned. They got us RIGHT in the feels.…
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224. Queen of Fishland (SFA 1.07)
Anika and Liz take a quick trip to the Khionian Realm to attend Darem's wedding, then follow along as Caleb and Genesis get up to hijinks. We're watching Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's "Ko'Zeine", and discussing: Um. Did we make this episode happen? It's a spring break episode, but no girls are...
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223. Imzadi-coded (SFA 1.06)
Anika and Liz go out on a training exercise that definitely won't go horribly wrong! We're discussing Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's "Come, Let's Away", and talking about... We really like how the season slowed down and gave us some slice of life stories and heavy characterisation -- and now, at...
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222. Tumblr Star Trek (SFA 1.05)
Every now and then, we at Antimatter Pod ask ourselves: is are we due for a DS9 rewatch? And Starfleet Academy wants us to know: the answer is always yes. We're talking about episode 5 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, "Series Acclimation Mil", an episode which dares to ask: is there such a thing…
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221. Starfleet Debate Bro (SFA 1.04)
Anika and Liz take their podiums to discuss Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's "Vox In Excelso". But there's not much debate to be had, because we agree it's very good! Liz, a former debate kid, has a lot of feelings about this episode (and also about how debate bros have ruined the fine art of…
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220. Take Me Out To The Calica Court (SFA 1.03)
Anika and Liz are not sports people, but they're willing to watch from the sidelines as we discuss Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's "Vitus Reflux", including... No stakes! Only shenanigans! It's a Gen Z "Take Me Out To The Holosuite"! The War College kids are facing obsolescence and acting out, but...
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219. Liberal Arts Military School (SFA 1.01 and 1.02)
Anika and Liz step through the 32nd century arches that give them new outfits and sprawl in their chairs to discuss the first two episodes of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. And we like it a whoooooole lot. "I think I just quoted Joe Biden. I did not mean to." Character beats - Caleb can handle...
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218. Florida Man Discovers Metaphor (ENT 4.03)
Anika and Liz don their snazziest outfits and beam down to Vulcan for the most miserable wedding we've covered yet. It's Star Trek: Enterprise's "Home"! In which T'Pol marries some dude, while Archer goes rock climbing and Phlox encounters the spectre of xenophobia on Earth. Is it possible that...
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217. Dad Harder (DS9 6.07)
Anika and Liz attend a four-day Klingon bachelor party -- where the feats of strength include somehow NOT developing a time machine to go back to 1997 and fight the entire DS9 writers room for Jadzia's honour. Yes, our wedding series has brought us to Star Trek: Deep Space 9's "You Are Cordially...
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216. Live Data Reaction (TNG 4.11)
Come on a journey with us. A story of true love, as we watch Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Data's Day", one of the great romances of all time. We speak, of course, of the relationship between Admiral Mendak and Subcommander Selok. Also Miles and Keiko get married. This is the third episode in...
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215. Stephen Miller's Betazoid Eugenics Program (TNG 1.10)
We continue our wedding series with Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Haven" -- in which Deanna Troi's arranged marriage is interrupted by the arrival of an AIDS allegory. It's … rough. It's rough. Note: Liz says two completely inaccurate things with absolute confidence: first she claims that…
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214. Spacebook Relationship Status (TOS 2.01)
It's wedding season! Anika and Liz are looking at some of Star Trek's key wedding episodes, beginning with the one that launched season 2 of The Original Series and rewrote a lot of people's brain chemistry: "Amok Time". And in typical "Antimatter Pod does it Antimatter Pod's way" fashion, we're...
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213. Twentieth Century Thinking (SNW 3.10)
Noted Doctor Who podcasters Anika and Liz settle in to watch a very bad Steven Moffat pastiche. Yes, it's time for the season 3 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and spoilers, turning into a statue might be preferable to this. It turns out Marie's whole arc has been about becoming tradwife...
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212. Gamer Gorn Girlfriend (SNW 3.09)
Anika and Liz get sucked into a wormhole and trapped on a moon orbiting a gas giant, which is actually pretty standard when you're adults with jobs trying to organise a board game night. We're discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 3, episode 9, "Terrarium", an episode which comes so...
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211. Ghostwritten by J. K. Rowling (SNW 3.08)
With heavy hearts, Anika and Liz discuss "Four and a Half Vulcans", the worst episode of Star Trek's streaming era, and possibly one of the top five worst episodes of Star Trek ever. So that's fun. Liz keeps returning to the question, "Is this worse than 'Code of Honor'?" "I understand that this…
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210. Selling Starfleet (SNW 3.07)
It's documentary time! Anika and Liz look straight into the camera and share their feelings about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "What Is Starfleet?", including... We have complicated feelings about this episode! It interrogates the documentary as a form of propaganda, but also interrogates the...
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209. The Shape of Star Trek (SNW 3.06)
Anika and Liz battle an ancient and unbeatable enemy: grimdark anti-morality in Star Trek. We're discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail", an episode with all the ingredients of Star Trek except its soul... This feels like a backdoor pilot for a series which has…
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208. There's Always A Bigger Fish (SNW 3.05)
Anika and Liz beam down to a nice planet where nothing bad happens and everyone leaves with the same amount of eyeballs they started with. WAIT, NO, we're discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "Through the Lens of Time"... This once again felt like several unrelated episodes smushed together...
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207. Jaunt and/or Romp (SNW 3.04)
Anika and Liz are here, and we hunger for braincells! Unfortunately, before we can celebrate our favourite episode of the season so far, we have to talk about the Spock/La'an of it all... When Anika said she shipped Spock/La'an, she didn't mean in canon! "I want to slut shame Spock, and not in an...
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206. Her Body, Pike's Choice (SNW 3.03)
Anika and Liz go on a nice road trip to pick some flowers, and nothing bad happens to anyone. Okay, fine, we are discussing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 3, "Shuttle to Kenfori", including... First of all, WHAT IS HAPPENING ON REBECCA ROMIJN'S HEAD Season 3 has a recurring motif...
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205. The Girlfriend Edit (SNW 3.02)
Anika and Liz put on their cutest wedding outfits and settle in to discuss episode 2 of Strange New Worlds' third season: "Wedding Bell Blues". Liz is gonna try not to talk about Pike. Anika is going to do her best not to implode. It's fun! This episode was engineered in a lab to target Anika...
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204. Berman Era Level Misogyny (SNW 3.01)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is back, baby! Anika and Liz fight off some Gorn and settle in to discuss the premiere! (We did not realise, when we recorded, that "Hegemony" part 2 would be dropping along with "Wedding Bell Blues", so we're only discussing that first episode now.) This is…
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203. Hair Trek (part 2)
Anika and Liz let their hair down, and as it tumbles over their shoulders in perfect beach waves identical to the hair of every other woman on television in the 2020s, they return to their discussion of hair and hair styling in Star Trek... Liz has a theory about why Janeway's early hair was ……
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202. Hair Trek (part 1)
Anika and Liz put their hair up and settle in to discuss the most pressing topic of our time -- hairstyles in Star Trek. We talked for so long that we wound up splitting this into a two-parter, which is PEAK Antimatter Pod, but in this first half, we discuss... Janice Rand, Marie Antoinette and...
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201. Very Sixth Season TNG (Derogatory) (TNG 6.22)
Anika and Liz put on their least comfortable lounging clothes and settle in to discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6, episode 22, "Suspicions". Why is Beverly Crusher hosting an astrophysics conference? And other questions that will forever go unanswered However, this episode, which...
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200. Performative Femininity
It's our 200th episode! A victory for quantity over quality and our small, chill audience of friends! To celebrate, Anika and Liz are talking about Star Trek: Open A Channel - A Woman's Trek, Nana Visitor's book about women in Star Trek. Open A Channel is much more substantial than just girl…
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199. Arm Day (Star Trek: Of Gods And Men)
Anika and Liz don their sparkliest shirts and biggest earrings, and sit down to watch Star Trek: Of Gods And Men, a fan film starring Nichelle Nichols, Alan Ruck, Walter Koenig and more. You can watch it here, or -- in a much smaller window -- watch an unauthorised HD remaster. We're in our Alan...
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198. Plus A Change
Liz takes a deep dive into Usenet archives and tells Anika about fandom's earliest discussions of Star Trek: Deep Space 9! (Please note, we are still having audio problems -- despite literally nothing changing in our set ups, Liz's feed is echoing on Anika's channel. This means Anika had to be...
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197. Gel Budget (TNG 3.15)
Anika and Liz apply a normal amount of hair gel and step into a grim alternate universe to discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Yesterday's Enterprise", including... Is this TNG's best episode? It could be! This story turns on Picard absolutely trusting the word of a Black woman Rachel…
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How many episodes does Antimatter Pod have?
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A Star Trek podcast talking fashion, feminism, subtext and subspace.
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