Starship Excelsior: A Star Trek Fan Audio Drama
A Star Trek fan audio drama set aboard the newest Starship Excelsior.
Excelsior Productions · James Heaney
Show overview
Starship Excelsior: A Star Trek Fan Audio Drama has been publishing since 2007, and across the 19 years since has built a catalogue of 63 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 55 hours of audio in total. Releases follow an irregular cadence, with the show now in its 6th season.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 25 min and 1h 17m — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Fiction show.
The show is still active — the most recent episode landed 2 months ago, though releases have slowed compared with earlier in the run. The busiest year was 2010, with 6 episodes published. Published by James Heaney.
From the publisher
The Federation has opened the far reaches of the galaxy to exploration, with the Starship Excelsior as its standard-bearer. These are her stories. Find special episodes and bonus material at starshipexcelsior.com.
Latest Episodes
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S6 Ep 13Sank to Grief
One still lives who remembers The Song That Was Shattered. (The Chronicles of Vyris)(1 April 2026)
S6 Ep 11Commentary: The Investigation
bonusAudio commentary about the Season 2 premiere with James Heaney and Mike Hennessy. Not the worst! (Audio Commentary #8)(26 December 2025)
S6 Ep 12Smell the Ashes
Seventeen years after the Wasting put him in a coma, Excelsior helmsman Jack Helder wakes up to a changed galaxy. (The Odyssey, Episode VII)(22 August 2025)
S6 Ep 10The Speech That Lies at the Center of His Soul
In prison, L remembers. (The Odyssey, Episode VI)(31 December 2024)
S6 Ep 9The Witness
Yubari protects a young witness from the Orion Syndicate. (The Odyssey, Episode V)(22 July 2024)
S6 Ep 8Afters
Underwood defends his old friend. (The Odyssey, Side Quest I)(26 December 2023)
S6 Ep 7The Fire In Which We Burn
The stranded Excelsior crew frays under the pressure of the ancient past. (The Odyssey, Episode IV, Part II)(18 September 2023)
S6 Ep 6Saudade
The ship: critically damaged. The date: very, very wrong. (The Odyssey, Episode IV, Part I)(20 May 2023)
S6 Ep 5The Unpardonable Sin
First, cast out the plank from your own eye. (The Odyssey, Episode III)(26 October 2022)
S6 Ep 4Bound to the Starless Midnight
They say that Romulus was born in fire. But they were wrong. Romulus was born... in silence. (The Odyssey, Episode II)(30 June 2022)
S6 Ep 3Dream of Disobedience
Two objectors to the Zero way of life face trial for incitement. (The Fall of Kinjalis, Part II)(18 January 2022)
S6 Ep 2Dream of Disembodiment
Triassa shows Janath the Mindhome -- and how a certain species came to final woe. (The Fall of Kinjalis, Part I)(26 December 2021)
S6 Ep 1Wires and Lights in a Box
Two very different ships are converging on Parudon Six. Why? (The Odyssey, Episode I)(26 August 2021)
S5 Ep 14...And Bear Witness
Returning home from their two-year mission of exploration, the crew learns that war has broken out in the Perenalthorias Union. (The Round Table, Episode V)(24 March 2021)
S5 Ep 13Excelsior Biographies: Alcar Dovan
You've heard hints of Alcar Dovan's history throughout the series. But let's hear it from him. (The 2020 Boxing Day Special)(26 December 2020)
S5 Ep 12Listen
Alcar Dovan becomes unstuck in space. (The Round Table, Episode IV)(2 October 2020)
S5 Ep 11Shakedown
Four years before the Excelsior visits Valandria, General Isaac Brahms returns the U.S.S. Renegade from its shakedown cruise. (The Round Table, Episode !)(1 June 2020)
S5 Ep 10Nurturing Life
Centaurus Foods is home of the most beloved baby-food brands in the League of Forty Systems. So why do its employees keep disappearing? (Assignment: Universe, Episode S5EA)(3 April 2020)
S5 Ep 9All Men Lie
The Excelsior crew gathers for another of Lt. Lorhrok's secret parties. (The Round Table, Episode )(14 February 2020)
S5 Ep 8The Committee Archives
A year of windows into the day-to-day life of the Committee to Save the Galaxy -- Parker, Cox, Underwood, Masterson, and the suspicious Captain Kel -- as they try to preserve the Sword of Damocles aboard the Starship Voltaire. (The Round Table, Side Project)(26 December 2019)