Jack's Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek Discovery, Short Treks & Podcast

Celebrate Carlos coming back from his brush with death, and the new year, with an all new episode recorded eight months ago! And guess what, it's Jack's ApeCast co-host Geoff Clarke, talking about Strange New Worlds for the first time. Guess what, like all good-hearted people they love a good body swap, and ship games, and this episode delivers on both counts. You know what else they love? DARTH. FUCKING. VADER. That's right, they're talking about the hottest Star Wars show of 2022. Obi-Wan Kenobi. This episode is as on fire as ol' Ben!

Continuity Carlos is home for the holidays! HOME ALONE, that is. Hold on to your keisters!\\Continuity Carlos is home for the holidays! HOME ALONE, that is. Hold on to your keisters!

Barm is back, and he and Jack go head to head, just like the Enterprise and the Gorn. Whoever wins you lose. Not true, every crew member of the Enterprise wins in their estimation, and they're also talking about the unexpected return of some classic Star Trek feels, some surprising character connections, flora and Hemmer and Uhura, the first look at Gorn ships, when and where they don't care about canon, and so much more. Mostly, they're relishing the opportunity to say "Gorn" so much. PS. They sense something… a presence they've not felt since….

Ghosts of Illyria is the third episode of the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. In this episode of the podcast Jack's Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek Discovery, Short Treks, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy and Strange New Worlds Podcast, the host, Jack Stovold, talks about this episode with his brother Sam and their friend Sean Davis. They also talk about Dr. Strange a good deal, and a penis museum in Japan. It is a good episode of the show and of this podcast, please listen to it.

Somethin's cookin' at the first annual Jaxilly BBQ! (Formal dress required)! Hmm, smells like fun! Like the COVID that has infected guest Sam Stovold, SNW's good writing and structure prove infectious to Richard Dunham and Sean Davis as well. Host Jack isn't immune to good times either, and no damn comet or shepherd or Prime Directive is gonna stop them from having a GOOD TIME. This episode is SICK.

Hey, Jack's FINALLY exploring them Strange New Worlds, and who better to join him than Kev Young (Reopening the Wormhole/The Great Bracket Racket) and BARM? Join them as they rejoice in Pike, marvel at how well-realized this crew is in only one episode, ponder what's to come, talk about Vulcan genitalia, try to move on with their lives after new revelations about the timeline of Earth wars, and explore Vulcan genitalia! It's everything you and we want! I'm gonna stop typing now.

Did you know there's a NEW Star Trek show? That's right, it came out the SAME DAY as the Picard S2 Finale, which DEFINITELY just happened. Anyways, Jack and Michelle kept drinking for a loooong time after recording the Picard finale ep, until the point they thought it would be a good idea to record a commentary track for the first-ever viewing of the show. Was it a good idea? Fire up your copy (?) of the premiere episode of Strange New Worlds, …. Strange New Worlds, follow along, and you be the judge! Stick around until after the credits for some red-hot ANDOR talk!

Finally, it's here for you. It's the last member of Picard Season Two. This pod's so long, it isn't funny, can make a Soong cry out for his Kahnny. Can pick up a Crusher with relative ease, make killin' Qs seem such a breeze. This season may be nonsense, it can't rank high, but this episode makes one hell of a try!

This week on Jaxilly, it's just Jack, Kev, and the final sobering realization that it's just too late at this point for Season 2 of Picard to stick the landing. That won't stop them from jiggering up some wacky out-there hail-Mary scenarios for the finale, wondering who finds loooong visually incomprehensible shootouts between faceless mercs in almost complete darkness entertaining, enjoying Elnor with major qualifications, pondering how Lawrence Tierney kept finding work, revisiting the freshmaking world of Mentos, and revealing what the Borg and Boba Fett have in common. We made a universe of Kevs (and Jax)!

For the first time in Season 2, Space Merchant expert Kregg Castillo and Richard Dunham (Ghibli Minute, Akira Minute) join Jack and Kev Young (Reopening the Wormhole) to talk about Mercy! They dig in and feast upon Picard and Guinan's encounter with Agent Faux Mulder, ponder the bizarre implications of Adam Soong's history, bitch about more magical camera bullshit, and try to get to the bottom of just what Q can and can't do. It's more delicious and nutritious than a parking lot's worth of car batteries!

Jack is joined once again by the redoubtable Kev Young (The Great Bracket Racket) and Sean Davis (After the Credits) to puzzle out the increasingly weird workings of Picard Season 2, as they talk about MONSTERS. Notably, Sean sheds some more light on the weird vampire looking thing we only glimpsed last week, Kev and Jack debate the relative merits of fantastical metaphors for the inside of a mind, we compare and contrast Baltar and Bashir, do a classic throwback to discussions of the nature of reality, revisit Obama's biography and swap Chief Wiggum quotes. Where else but here, or in the deepest recesses of our minds, are you gonna find ALL THAT!!??

Picard just gets weirder and weirder and yo boys are HERE to talk about it. Picard STALWART Kev Young is joined by faithful Barm and Sean Davis to talk about Link's Awakening and its relationship to bad fathering, what a Star Trek: Picard video game might be like, the bizarre editing choices in this episode, what is going on with the Borg Queen, what is going on with Q, including the whereabouts of Corbyn Bernsen, they mysteries of Picard's body, the works of Lars Von Trier, and so much more! Listening to this podcast is slightly better than eing hit by a car three times in forty minutes!

Jaxilly is officially halfway through Season 2 of Picard, and you know what that means! That's right, it's a hump day midseason Picarty! And it wouldn't be much of a Picarty without the ApeCast's Geoff Clarke and emailer turned guest Michelle Ugalde, making their season two Picard debut to help out Picard experts Kev Young and Jack figure out what the hell is going on with Q, ANOTHER new nutty Soong, and ANOTHER Souji(?) and ANOTHER Laris(?). Trust us, we're as conQsed as you are. It's a big fun brouhaha at Jaxilly! Whether you're a basement dwelling nazi or a rich heiress who wants us to clone your fucking cat, there's a little something here for everyone!

Weary from Discovery, Sam Stovold and Sean Davis venture to 2024 Los Angeles to hang out with Picardos Jack and Kev Young, and together they paint the town red. Also, La Barre, France. That means, while discussing the adventures of Seven and Raffi in LA, they're also talking Star Trek IV, how the punk on the bus makes Star Trek part of the MCU and what that means, trying to wrap their minds around "young" Guinan and temporal mechanics, prognosticatin' Soongs, making some WILD predictions related to Assignment: Earth and so much more! Sincerely, Little Girl.

Kev and Barm are back for more Picard, and Jack, HIGH on Jerry Goldsmith's Borg Theme, REALLY decides to let loose and put the SILLY back into Jack's Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek Discovery, Short Treks, Picard, Lower Decks and Prodigy Podcast (some might say annoying). When the fellas can get the occasional words of non-gibbering madness into the mix, they're appreciating the creepy smugness of the new B.Queen, lovin' Rios, havin' some problems with RAFFI, comparing the relative funniness of various Kevins, and just havin' a swell ol' time. This podcast and 2022 should get a room.

Disco Season 4 FINALLY comes to a close, and Jack's wingmen Sam Stovold and Sean Davis are joined by Ferengi expert Kregg Castillo, who hasn't watched a single other episode of Season 4 to talk about Jonathan (aka Species 10-C)! The boys dish on a surprisingly decent finale to an okay season of Discovery, but it's too little, too late. Jack has cause to worry about his guest situation for Season 5. They're talking the season as a whole, the banality of Discovery's poignant moments, looking back at REAL early Jaxilly, learning to embrace the meh, dissecting Stacy Abrams' appearance, and ranking Disco season finales! But most importantly, ORBS, ORBS, ORBS! On to Picard! Surely that won't fail us.

Jack loads up Skype, and the enigmatic and inscrutable Sean and Sam emerge from the mist, flashing a complex series of lights and spraying him with hydrocarbons. Classic. Using math, and Chingy lyrics, Jack was able to translate these into audio signals and a podcast, and found out they were just talking about Species 10-C. There are orbs in that hyperfield!

Jaxilly is bouncing back to Picard again, and Picardigans Barm and Kevin Young are here for the wild ride as Picard and crew find themselves trapped in a world they never made! Thrill to what is now in retrospect the peak of excitement for Picard Season 2 as the boys talk joys, specifically of digital cats, Alison Pill monologues, Borg Queen Questions, Okinawa boners, Harveys, and of course, SKULLS, SKULLS, SKULLS! Engage!

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PICARD is back, and so is the PD Crew to talk about it/him. (PD Crew is Barm plus Reopening the Wormhole). They get right into this weirdness by mourning Zhaban, celebrating Sexy Irish Romulans, analyzing El-Aurian aging, pinning down Starfleet academy chronology, remembering Inception, and embracing Spanish technobabble. Never forget, Picard's a ROBOT.

Jaxilly is breaking down barriers with the help of Discovery holdouts Sam and Sean again (Jack's saviors)! Like our intrepid heroes on Discovery, the boys jump from topic to topic to get to the end of the episode. Notables include taking an immediate liking to this Hirai fellow, celebrating the return of Cronenberg, cringing at the increasingly uncomfortable relationship between Stamets and Adira, Picard Prognosticatin', Tarka Talk, the intersection of science and Final Fantasy, the joys of talking like Saru, a truly EPIC rant, and FENNEC. FUCKING. SHAND. Cross the barrier to FUN.

The Rios Bros. are crossin' the Rubicon to talk about Rubicon, apparently the 100th episode of the current age of Trek! To celebrate this momentous occasion, the boys start off by not knowing or recognizing this fact, delve into Crystal Tokyo, celebrate Nhan's return, count their Soongs, compare the character impressions, rally around a surprise winner, deliver their spot-on Sean Davis impersonations, and are unable to determine what the next episode is! Here's to another hundred!

Discovery is back, yay…? And so are Sean Davis (After the Credits) and Richard Dunham (Ghibli/Akira Minute), joining Jack to bask in the simple pleasures of Haz Mazaro, his many silly similes, and his unique KARMA BARGE. We're also talkin' Tarka, Oh Wow Owosekun, and the Federation's fantastic planning skills. Plus, we close The Book on Boba Fett. It's more fun than a containment unit of Tarkalian simians!

JAXILLY is back, and so is brother from another mother Barm, and brother of Ryan, Sean, to talk about the ninth episode of this CGI children's show! And you know what, hey, it ain't too bad. Join them as they talk about Zero going HAM, the impending (at the time) return of Discovery, what the least funny MCU movie is, original recipe Janeway and so much more. There's a terrible tragedy which befalls Sean in this episode!

JAXILLY is back, and so is brother from another mother Barm, and brother from another podcast, Kevin, to talk about the eighth episode of this CGI children's show! And you know what, hey, it ain't too bad. Join them as they talk paint-by-numbers kits, dish on video games , rank Kurtwood Smith's Star Trek characters, appreciate the best pause music ever, and much more. There's casual fun in this podcast!

JAXILLY is back, and so is brother from another mother Sean, and brother from the same mother, Sam to talk about the seventh episode of this CGI children's show! And you know what, hey, it ain't too bad. Join them as they talk about complex temporal mechanics never before seen in Trek, sine waves, 007 for some reason, video games, and so much more! There's temporal displacement in that podcast!

JAXILLY is back, and so is Ferengi brother Kregg Castillo to PROFIT from the sixth episode of this CGI children's show! And you know what, hey, it ain't too bad. Join them as they talk about having a great Ferengi back again, struggle to remember the treasure-hoarding kooky character from their childhoods, hear again about Jack's hyper-specific lighting preferences, engage in advertently time Barry talk, and get back into Rules of Acquisition! There's GREED in that nebula!

JAXILLY Prodigy Talk is back, and so is ape brother Geoff Clarke to dive DEEP into the fifth episode of this CGI children's show! And you know what, hey, it ain't too bad. Join them as they talk about names with wood, the joys of Japanese Seinfeld, bullying, the 2nd Episode of Boba Fett AGAIN, and, oh, yes, the four classic Trek characters appearing in the ep. They also assemble their own four-person Trek crews. There're Trek characters in that holodeck!

Like the one with the whales, it's the conclusion of the Sam, Sean and Jack spend around four hours phasering the shit trilogy that just kind of happened this season as they close out the weird artificial "mid-season finale" of Disco. Sean gets his wish, as Stamets and David Cronenberg get into it over AI. Meanwhile, your boys are getting into it over Tarka, timespace and free will, Marvel comics, Boba Fett and so much more. It's as explosive as an isolytic weapon!

In this episode of Jack's Silly Little Friendly Neighborhood Star Trek Discovery, Short Treks, Picard, Lower Decks & Prodigy Podcast, the first in nearly a month, Sam Stovold and Sean Davis join Jack to offer their timely opinions on Stormy Weather, the sixth episode of Season 4 of Discovery (which ended three weeks ago) and the premiere of The Book of Boba Fett (which ended two months ago). Enjoy.

Sean Davis and Sam are BACK to talk about The Examples, in this brave new Tilly-free world. But when T'Kuvma writes out a Tilly, he writes in a TARKA. Join us as we dish on this mysterious new asshole, offer up some cool theories, ask the BIG Cronenberg Questions, do some extremely topical Hawkeye talk (Talkeye?), discuss our own names and finish off with an in-depth discussion of the Koopalings! Replicate some mashed DMA potatoes, throw on some Johnny Cash quietly in the background and prepare for FUN.

Jack and Sean (After the Credits) get together to talk about Tilly's last hurrah! They're also talkin' Final Fantasy plottin', racism, BSG, how this episode is weirdly reminiscent of Revenge of the Sith, whether director John Ottman is the same guy who scored X2, international Pepsi sales, and so much more. They then celebrate Tilly the only way they know how: through a long drunken discussion of the intersection of linguistics, human perception, cognition, time-space, and religion. Godspeed, Tilly!

Jack chooses to podcast with Barm, Sean Davis (After the Credits) and his Akira Minute cohost, Richard Dunham! They're talkin' about shit, like Yoda, Chingy's love, Tilly's teeth, the Jabronians, Micheal's mom, nunjas, and so much more. Choose to live by choosing to listen!

"Anomaly" is the 54th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the second episode of the third season. The episode was written by co-producer Mike Sussman and directed by David Straiton, his fifth for the show. Set in the 22nd century, the series follows the adventures of the first Starfleet starship Enterprise, registration NX-01. Season three of Enterprise features an ongoing story following an attack on Earth by previously unknown aliens called the Xindi. In this episode, the Enterprise is attacked by an Osaarian vessel, and in pursuit they discover that the aliens have information on the Xindi which they must retrieve to help them on their mission.

Disco Season 4 coverage finally begins, and in the best way possible! With another round of the Jack stupidly lost his audio game. Fortunately, it's Sam to the rescue as he and Jack hop back in to record new audio to awkwardly mesh with Sean and Barm (and a certain hop-on)'s audio, making this episode simultaneously a discussion and a reaction, two months old and also a week old, nonsensical and yet penetrating. An overly complicated but fitfully intriguing mess; truly worthy of the name Discovery! We're back!

JAXILLY is back in 2022, and so is ape brother Geoff Clarke to dive DEEP into the fourth episode of this CGI children's show! And you know what, hey, it ain't too bad. Join them as they talk about shitty Steven Segal novels, the joys of Japanese Seinfeld, CGI vines and so much more! WARNING: Due to Jack being a bonehead, half of his audio is gone. In an audacious experiment, he attempts to record new audio to match the Geoff recording. The sheer fucking HUBRIS. There are apes in that nebula!

JUST in time for Christmas 2021, George Lucas sits down for a fascinating Yuletide chat with Continuity Carlos.

JAXILLY is back again, and so is brother from another mother, Barm, and cohost from another podcast Kevin Young, in cat boots to dive DEEP into the third episode of this CGI children's show! And you know what, hey, it ain't too bad. Join them as they talk ALL about the future of ST profanity, the fun of Janeway, the scariness of CGI Janeway, Romance language superlatives, whether any kids are actually watching or care about this, and establish Bond Talk as a feature! There's Kevin and Barm in that wormhole/M Class Planet!

JAXILLY is back again, and so is brother from another mother, Barm, in cat boots to dive DEEP into the second episode of this CGI children's show! And you know what, hey, it ain't too bad. Join them as they talk ALL about gorgeous CGI food, Medusan gender-bending, Tellarite features, Denethor and sons, Trek tunes, the fun of Janeway, and whether any kids are actually watching or care about this! There's Barm in that nebula!

JAXILLY is finally back, and so are the Super Rios Bros., in cat boots to dive DEEP into the pilot of this CGI children's show! And you know what, hey, it ain't too bad. Join them as they talk ALL about kid TREK vs. Kid Wars, Medusan gender-bending, Tellarite features, Denethors and McPoyles, Trek tunes, their more nuanced feelings about Voyager, and so much more, including the on-air inaugural tasting of Rios' beloved Aguardiente! There are finally podcasts in that nebula!

Kregg and Jack do their thing again, where they get plastered and talk about Star Wars. Sorry for everyone who's waiting for Prodigy talk, don't worry, IT'S COMING. But YOU'LL be coming multiple times as you hear EIGHTEEN rankings and NINE Japanese titles as these two drunk Star Wars and cartoon fans indulge themselves. Hey, we gotta rub one out to Star Wars in between two seasons of Trek toons! It's the hentai-way or the highway, at least until we get to the Janeway. Force to tomo ni aran koto.

The Super Rios Brothers enter Stovold'kor to get drunker than Cristobal Rios on his third bottle of aguardiente to talk about the latest Trek book wackiness from John Jackson Miller, and boy do they accomplish that as they read this tragicomic tale of Benzites, Miradorns, Iotians, and more wacky Trek characters who you never imagined would be in a story together. CLASSIC PICARD. iViva Rios!

It's finally here, for the five or so you out there who care, but you'll find out it was WORTH THE WAIT to hear Barm, Sean Davis and Richard Dunham (plus a few surprise pop-ons [you're gonna get some pop-ons/offs]) chat about the action/beluga/Sonia Gomez-packed Season 2 Cliffhanger of Lower Decks. THRILL to talk of the rubber ducky room, airport lit authors of the 90s and aughts, Liam Neeson's problem, and so much more! FREE FREEMAN

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For this homage to a bunch of classic Star Trek scenes with some new material, Jack has assembled a team of classic guests with one new one! Occasional emailer Michelle Ugalde beams aboard to gibbering madness, and FUN! For better or worse (only Michelle knows for sure!) she gets the ultimate Jaxilly experience and to her credit proves herself to be as silly as anyone in this megasized drunken Star Trek lovefest! This is one holochamber you're not gonna want to come out of!

Sean and Barm are down near where those pleasant "mosaic'ed" fountains lie doing their usual routine on Jack's deck, because IT WORKS, dammit. It's like he gets off on being podcasting. What gets Jack going? Try talking about well… porn, trying to remember the names of minor characters from LOST, Rick and Morty and DARK, AGAIN, guacamole and ramen, some trademark Big Sean Ideas, the evolution of Mariner and Boims, and yes, YES, YES! JEFFREY COMBS! Cum on in, the water's fine.

It's Reopening the Wormhole week up in this bitch, as RTW cohosts Sam and Kevin reunite with Jack to talk PAKLED PLANET SHENANIGANS, beloved anomalies, slugs and SCORPIONS and the RED SHIRTS. The best way to kick off such a discussion is with an extended review of the work of Kurtwood Smith, before circling back to Kzintis, Ape Pokemon, Jack's first taste of Hard Seltzer, his embarrassing Kiwi accent, and the works of Frank Miller. The only thing that's missing is Spider-Man 2! GET OVER HERE!

It's a Starbase-sized episode as Jack calls back Barm, Sean, and Sam to talk about a really fun Lower Decks ep just jam-packed with Trek deep cuts, a heartwarming email section, and then close out with some Trailer-Sailin' and news talk about SNW, Prodigy, Picard Season 2 and all the other crazy crap that came out on Star Trek day. You'll also hear the boys consciously changing their dialects, giving you some AMAZING drink recipes, appreciating Richard Kind and talking skants, skants, SKANTS! SHUT UP!

Jack (cohost of the APECAST!) gets so excited about the meeting of the classic ape-like Mugatos with villainous laser-whippin' Ferengis that he has to call Ferengi expert Kregg (obviously!), Barm (as you do) and brother Sam (why not?) to go absolutely APESHIT over this wacky adventure. In the spirit of the episode, they have plenty of pronunciation problems of their own, while talking the Kzinti, Stephen King, Dark, Australian Tellarites, REFERENCES, What If…, Shang-Chi, and just about every movie currently in theaters. It's as sexually arousing as watching two Mugatus go at it.

Sean Davis is back to talk Lower Decks and the return (in very different ways) of both Tom Paris and Shaxs with Jack and Barm, but not before they try to remember any time Tom Cruise has died in a movie. After that, it's on to discussing some great Tendi/Mariner material, our feelings on the Shaxs revival, , separating our feelings on Voyager and Tom Paris, the implications of the Pakled threat, mayonnaise as the instigator of the only conflict between Japan and America, and touching tales of the early days of the Jack/Barm alliance. The listener's joy from this will EASILY power a FULL-SIZE Dyson Sphere.