About this podcast
There are 967 episodes of Star Trek. Some are good, some are great, and the rest we'll still watch from time to time because, why not? Star Trek is like pizza or sex: even when it's bad, it's still kinda good.
It's a Star Trek podcast that seeks to establish the pecking order for its extensive canon. Which episodes are classic examples of Star Trek or simply good (TREK), which are all-timers (MARRY), and which are episodes that are okay to watch just once and then forget about (KILL)?
Hosts Bryan and Kristen and the occasional special guest ask a series of questions to arrive at a final judgment, questions like, "What part of this story would be taught at Starfleet Academy?" "What's the Best Trek Trope?" "Could the episode have been hornier and would that have made it better?" and many more. It's sort of like playing F***, Marry, Kill, but a lot more fun because it's about Star Trek!
We're trekmarrykpod on Instagram and Bluesky, and www.trekmarrykillpod.com on the web where you can see all of our standings.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 225 episodes
- TOS: "Miri" (s1e8) · 1 h 41 min · Season 5 Episode 8KIRK, BRO, WTF? Captain Kirk flirts with a "teen" girl to get information about a planet that fell apart when the olds experimented with life prolongation. It turns out it had…
- TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" (s1e7) · 1 h 22 min · Season 5 Episode 7CRAZY EX-BOYFRIEND? Kirk and Chapel meet up with a famous scientist whose expedition to a desolate world has led to the discovery of life prolongation technology. The twist? You…
- TOS: "Mudd's Women" (s1e6) · 1 h 46 min · Season 5 Episode 6GLP-FUN? The Enterprise beams aboard one of the most obnoxious characters in the history of the franchise along with some "beautiful women-hookers" in an episode that seems…
- ENT: "Strange New World" (s1e3) · 1 h 1 min · Season 5 Episode 5BECAUSE IT'S THERE? The Enterprise joyrides to an Earth-like planet and gets into trouble when the landing party begins to hallucinate thanks to the alien pollen. Is this…
- **RERUN** TOS: "The Enemy Within" (s1e5) · 52 minFor Star Trek's 60th, we're releasing new episodes on their original airdate. But for those we've already done, we're offering a repeat PLUS an episode of Enterprise to celebrate…
- TOS: "The Naked Time" (s1e4) · 1 h 24 min · Season 5 Episode 4THE POLYWATER PROBLEM. The crew of the Enterprise begins to experience space madness after encountering some weird water cooked up on an ancient planet in the process of…
- ENT: "Fight or Flight" (s1e2) · 1 h 41 min · Season 5 Episode 3IS SPACE BORING? That's what LITERALLY THE SECOND EPISODE OF ENTERPRISE wrestles with as the crew gets a little ornery waiting to run into some aliens. And then there's Hoshi…
- **RERUN** ENT: "Broken Bow" (s1e1) · 1 h 12 minAlong with Star Trek's 60th anniversary, it's the 25th anniversary of Enterprise, and so we'll be covering some season 1 episodes from that show along with TOS. But first! If you…
- **RERUN** TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (s1e3) · 1 h 9 minAll season long we'll be doing episodes from the first season of The Original Series. For those we've already done, we'll re-up them in the feed (as we're doing this week) and…
- TOS: "Charlie X" (s1e2) · 1 h 27 min · Season 5 Episode 2BOYS DON'T CRY in the 23rd century unless they have godlike powers like the ones a young man taken aboard the Enterprise possesses. Captain Kirk tries to teach him how to be a…
- TOS: "The Man Trap" (s1e1) · 1 h 4 min · Season 5 Episode 1SALTY EX-GIRLFRIEND. The crew of the Enterprise are stalked by a being that just wants to suck the salt from them. It's the last of its kind, you see, and only wants to live. Is…
- Level Four Diagnostic · 40 min · Season 4 Episode 49SEASON FIVE BEGINS with Bryan & Kristen tying up some loose ends from last season including tiebreaker votes for the Strange New Worlds season finale, "New Life and New…
- Entertainment Weekly Special #3 - The Original Series · 1 h 11 minSO MUCH SNARK in the pages of a 31-year old special edition issue of Entertainment Weekly focusing on the Star Trek franchise up to that point. Did the writers actually like the…
- Entertainment Weekly Special #2 - TNG's Marrys · 43 min*TREK MARRY KILL will be at San Diego Comic Con THIS SATURDAY! Check out TREK MARRY KILL LIVE! in the Neil Morgan Auditorium of the San Diego Central Library at 4pm!** GEN X…
- Entertainment Weekly Special #1 - TNG's Treks & Kills · 37 min**TREK MARRY KILL will be at San Diego Comic Con! Check out TREK MARRY KILL LIVE! in the Neil Morgan Auditorium of the San Diego Central Library on Saturday, July 25th at 4pm!**…
- LD: "Fissure Quest" & "The New Next Generation" (s5e9-10) with Geekscape's Katie Hampton · 1 h 33 min · Season 4 Episode 48ALL GOOF THINGS... must come to an end and now it's time for Trek Marry Kill's journey through Lower Decks to wrap it all up. Bryan and Geekscape's Katie Hampton say goodbye to a…
- LD: "Fully Dilated" & "Upper Decks" (s5e7-8) with Geekscape's Katie Hampton · 1 h 22 min · Season 4 Episode 47PURPLE PEOPLE NEEDER. Katie Hampton returns to begin to close the book on Trek Marry Kill's coverage of Star Trek: Lower Decks and in this pair of episodes, fans get the return…
- LD: "Starbase 80?!" & "Of Gods and Angles" (s5e5-6) with TV critic Diana Keng · 1 h 22 min · Season 4 Episode 46CALLBACKS AND COMEBACKS. TV critic Diana Keng reviewed Star Trek: Lower Decks through its first four seasons and jumps back in to reviewing season five right here on this week's…
- TNG: "The Outcast" (s5e17) with writers Avery Kaplan & Ollie Kaplan · 1 h 41 min · Season 4 Episode 45RIKER ENGENDERS TENSION with a member of an androgynous race who becomes smitten with The Bearded One. They're paired up to pilot a shuttle for a rescue mission to retrieve two…
- VOY: "Endgame" (s7e25-26) with Charylnn Schmiedt from Mission Log: Prodigy · 1 h 48 min · Season 4 Episode 44ALL GOOD THINGS... was a fantastic finale for The Next Generation and TV in general. But seven years later, how did the Voyager finale measure up? Does it manage to avoid…
