Strange New Pod | A Star Trek Podcast
@strangenewpod.com
A Star Trek Podcast🎙️exploring the past, present, and future of Trek with insight, humor, and heart.
Starfleet Academy has a rich legacy in the Star Trek Universe, but after nearly 60 years, the school finally takes the Center Seat. #starfleetacademy #paramountplus
January 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Starfleet Academy has a rich legacy in the Star Trek Universe, but after nearly 60 years, the school finally takes the Center Seat. #starfleetacademy #paramountplus
Class is now in session! The first two episodes of Star Trek Starfleet Academy are now streaming on @paramountplus.com! #starfleetacademy #paramountplus
January 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Class is now in session! The first two episodes of Star Trek Starfleet Academy are now streaming on @paramountplus.com! #starfleetacademy #paramountplus
Happy Birthday to Hannah Spear, who brought warmth, strength, and heart to Star Trek: Discovery as Siranna, Saru’s sister.
Her performance added real depth to Kaminar and to Saru’s story. Wishing her a wonderful birthday and continued success among the stars.
Her performance added real depth to Kaminar and to Saru’s story. Wishing her a wonderful birthday and continued success among the stars.
January 14, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Happy Birthday to Hannah Spear, who brought warmth, strength, and heart to Star Trek: Discovery as Siranna, Saru’s sister.
Her performance added real depth to Kaminar and to Saru’s story. Wishing her a wonderful birthday and continued success among the stars.
Her performance added real depth to Kaminar and to Saru’s story. Wishing her a wonderful birthday and continued success among the stars.
Remembering Barry Jenner on his birthday.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fans will always remember him for his powerful turn as Admiral William Ross, a steady hand in some of the Dominion War’s most pivotal moments. His presence brought weight, gravitas, and quiet humanity to every scene.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fans will always remember him for his powerful turn as Admiral William Ross, a steady hand in some of the Dominion War’s most pivotal moments. His presence brought weight, gravitas, and quiet humanity to every scene.
January 14, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Remembering Barry Jenner on his birthday.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fans will always remember him for his powerful turn as Admiral William Ross, a steady hand in some of the Dominion War’s most pivotal moments. His presence brought weight, gravitas, and quiet humanity to every scene.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fans will always remember him for his powerful turn as Admiral William Ross, a steady hand in some of the Dominion War’s most pivotal moments. His presence brought weight, gravitas, and quiet humanity to every scene.
Tomorrow!! A brand new class enters the halls of Starfleet Academy! The two episode premiere drops Thursday on Paramount Plus! #paramountplus #starfleetacademy
January 14, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Tomorrow!! A brand new class enters the halls of Starfleet Academy! The two episode premiere drops Thursday on Paramount Plus! #paramountplus #starfleetacademy
Happy Birthday to our friend @unamccormack.bsky.social, New York Times best selling author and one of the true greats of Star Trek novels.
Your stories have taken us deeper into these characters and this universe than we ever imagined. We are so grateful for your talent and heart!
Your stories have taken us deeper into these characters and this universe than we ever imagined. We are so grateful for your talent and heart!
January 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Happy Birthday to our friend @unamccormack.bsky.social, New York Times best selling author and one of the true greats of Star Trek novels.
Your stories have taken us deeper into these characters and this universe than we ever imagined. We are so grateful for your talent and heart!
Your stories have taken us deeper into these characters and this universe than we ever imagined. We are so grateful for your talent and heart!
January is looking pretty good if you’re a fan of Strange New Pod! Starfleet Academy premieres this Thursday, Alternative Space returns with a BIG interview as Amy chats with mcnavia, and Season 2 of our Star Trek Adventures actual play, Strange New Adventures: The Cries of Mars kicks off!
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 AM
January is looking pretty good if you’re a fan of Strange New Pod! Starfleet Academy premieres this Thursday, Alternative Space returns with a BIG interview as Amy chats with mcnavia, and Season 2 of our Star Trek Adventures actual play, Strange New Adventures: The Cries of Mars kicks off!
Happy Birthday Sam Richardson!
From bringing humor, heart, and unpredictability to Star Trek: Section 31, Sam adds a whole new spark to the darker corners of the Star Trek universe. Here’s to the laughs, the charm, and the chaos he brings to the final frontier.
From bringing humor, heart, and unpredictability to Star Trek: Section 31, Sam adds a whole new spark to the darker corners of the Star Trek universe. Here’s to the laughs, the charm, and the chaos he brings to the final frontier.
January 13, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Happy Birthday Sam Richardson!
From bringing humor, heart, and unpredictability to Star Trek: Section 31, Sam adds a whole new spark to the darker corners of the Star Trek universe. Here’s to the laughs, the charm, and the chaos he brings to the final frontier.
From bringing humor, heart, and unpredictability to Star Trek: Section 31, Sam adds a whole new spark to the darker corners of the Star Trek universe. Here’s to the laughs, the charm, and the chaos he brings to the final frontier.
Happy Birthday to Michelle Paradise, the brilliant showrunner and executive producer behind Star Trek: Discovery and the upcoming Starfleet Academy!
Thank you for boldly taking Trek into new eras, new voices, and new frontiers. Here’s to more stories, more heart, and more warp speed adventures.
Thank you for boldly taking Trek into new eras, new voices, and new frontiers. Here’s to more stories, more heart, and more warp speed adventures.
January 12, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Happy Birthday to Michelle Paradise, the brilliant showrunner and executive producer behind Star Trek: Discovery and the upcoming Starfleet Academy!
Thank you for boldly taking Trek into new eras, new voices, and new frontiers. Here’s to more stories, more heart, and more warp speed adventures.
Thank you for boldly taking Trek into new eras, new voices, and new frontiers. Here’s to more stories, more heart, and more warp speed adventures.
🚨THURSDAY PREMIERE LIVESTREAM🚨
Join the SNP Crew for their review and deep dive of the Star Trek Starfleet Academy series premiere, “Kids These Days!” LIVE this Thursday at 9:30 PM ET over on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/live/F8Pzo1J...
Join the SNP Crew for their review and deep dive of the Star Trek Starfleet Academy series premiere, “Kids These Days!” LIVE this Thursday at 9:30 PM ET over on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/live/F8Pzo1J...
January 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
🚨THURSDAY PREMIERE LIVESTREAM🚨
Join the SNP Crew for their review and deep dive of the Star Trek Starfleet Academy series premiere, “Kids These Days!” LIVE this Thursday at 9:30 PM ET over on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/live/F8Pzo1J...
Join the SNP Crew for their review and deep dive of the Star Trek Starfleet Academy series premiere, “Kids These Days!” LIVE this Thursday at 9:30 PM ET over on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/live/F8Pzo1J...
Happy Birthday to Janet Kidder, the unforgettable Osyraa, leader of the Emerald Chain on Star Trek: Discovery!
Cool, calculating, and commanding every scene she was in, Osyraa became one of Discovery’s most compelling villains. Wishing Janet a fantastic day full of celebration!
Cool, calculating, and commanding every scene she was in, Osyraa became one of Discovery’s most compelling villains. Wishing Janet a fantastic day full of celebration!
January 12, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Happy Birthday to Janet Kidder, the unforgettable Osyraa, leader of the Emerald Chain on Star Trek: Discovery!
Cool, calculating, and commanding every scene she was in, Osyraa became one of Discovery’s most compelling villains. Wishing Janet a fantastic day full of celebration!
Cool, calculating, and commanding every scene she was in, Osyraa became one of Discovery’s most compelling villains. Wishing Janet a fantastic day full of celebration!
Happy Birthday to Omari Hardwick! 🎉
From his powerful presence to his role in Star Trek: Section 31, he brings intensity, depth, and undeniable charisma to the final frontier. Here’s to boldly going another year stronger.
From his powerful presence to his role in Star Trek: Section 31, he brings intensity, depth, and undeniable charisma to the final frontier. Here’s to boldly going another year stronger.
January 9, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Happy Birthday to Omari Hardwick! 🎉
From his powerful presence to his role in Star Trek: Section 31, he brings intensity, depth, and undeniable charisma to the final frontier. Here’s to boldly going another year stronger.
From his powerful presence to his role in Star Trek: Section 31, he brings intensity, depth, and undeniable charisma to the final frontier. Here’s to boldly going another year stronger.
🚨NEW EPISODE DROP🚨
Join the SNP Crew for their Starfleet Academy Wants and Don’t Wants episode, featuring your mailbag! Available now on YouTube and wherever you find your podcasts!
YT: www.youtube.com/live/PRQi6-W...
Web: www.strangenewpod.com/starfleet-ac...
Join the SNP Crew for their Starfleet Academy Wants and Don’t Wants episode, featuring your mailbag! Available now on YouTube and wherever you find your podcasts!
YT: www.youtube.com/live/PRQi6-W...
Web: www.strangenewpod.com/starfleet-ac...
January 9, 2026 at 3:20 PM
🚨NEW EPISODE DROP🚨
Join the SNP Crew for their Starfleet Academy Wants and Don’t Wants episode, featuring your mailbag! Available now on YouTube and wherever you find your podcasts!
YT: www.youtube.com/live/PRQi6-W...
Web: www.strangenewpod.com/starfleet-ac...
Join the SNP Crew for their Starfleet Academy Wants and Don’t Wants episode, featuring your mailbag! Available now on YouTube and wherever you find your podcasts!
YT: www.youtube.com/live/PRQi6-W...
Web: www.strangenewpod.com/starfleet-ac...
Who’s prepared for Federation economics? Temporal Mechanics? We’re going to Starfleet Academy in ONE WEEK! #starfleetacademy #paramountplus #startrek
January 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Who’s prepared for Federation economics? Temporal Mechanics? We’re going to Starfleet Academy in ONE WEEK! #starfleetacademy #paramountplus #startrek
Happy Birthday Michelle Forbes!
From her unforgettable turn as Ensign Ro Laren on Star Trek: The Next Generation and later Star Trek Picard, Michelle Forbes brought grit, heart, and moral complexity to the final frontier. Ro challenged Starfleet and helped shape some of TNG’s most powerful stories.
From her unforgettable turn as Ensign Ro Laren on Star Trek: The Next Generation and later Star Trek Picard, Michelle Forbes brought grit, heart, and moral complexity to the final frontier. Ro challenged Starfleet and helped shape some of TNG’s most powerful stories.
January 8, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Happy Birthday Michelle Forbes!
From her unforgettable turn as Ensign Ro Laren on Star Trek: The Next Generation and later Star Trek Picard, Michelle Forbes brought grit, heart, and moral complexity to the final frontier. Ro challenged Starfleet and helped shape some of TNG’s most powerful stories.
From her unforgettable turn as Ensign Ro Laren on Star Trek: The Next Generation and later Star Trek Picard, Michelle Forbes brought grit, heart, and moral complexity to the final frontier. Ro challenged Starfleet and helped shape some of TNG’s most powerful stories.
Today we remember Gene L. Coon, born on this day, a visionary writer and producer who helped define Star Trek.
He introduced the Klingons, expanded the Federation, and brought moral depth and wit to The Original Series, shaping the Trek universe we still love today.
Live long and prosper.
He introduced the Klingons, expanded the Federation, and brought moral depth and wit to The Original Series, shaping the Trek universe we still love today.
Live long and prosper.
January 7, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Today we remember Gene L. Coon, born on this day, a visionary writer and producer who helped define Star Trek.
He introduced the Klingons, expanded the Federation, and brought moral depth and wit to The Original Series, shaping the Trek universe we still love today.
Live long and prosper.
He introduced the Klingons, expanded the Federation, and brought moral depth and wit to The Original Series, shaping the Trek universe we still love today.
Live long and prosper.
Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau introducing the Starfleet Academy premiere in this beautiful venue! #starfleetacademy
January 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau introducing the Starfleet Academy premiere in this beautiful venue! #starfleetacademy
WITH THE BELT!
January 7, 2026 at 12:35 AM
WITH THE BELT!
We finally made a premiere together!!! At the Museum of Natural History for the Starfleet Academy premiere!
January 6, 2026 at 11:41 PM
We finally made a premiere together!!! At the Museum of Natural History for the Starfleet Academy premiere!
Guess I’m declaring for command? About to catch the express to San Francisco…I mean Manhattan for the Starfleet Academy premiere! Sound off if we will see you there!
January 6, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Guess I’m declaring for command? About to catch the express to San Francisco…I mean Manhattan for the Starfleet Academy premiere! Sound off if we will see you there!
Happy birthday to dammitcarl, the voice of Kayshon on Star Trek: Lower Decks! 🎉 From Tamarian metaphors to absolute Lower Decks chaos, Carl brings big Starfleet energy every time Kayshon opens his mouth. Shaka, when the cake was cut.
January 6, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Happy birthday to dammitcarl, the voice of Kayshon on Star Trek: Lower Decks! 🎉 From Tamarian metaphors to absolute Lower Decks chaos, Carl brings big Starfleet energy every time Kayshon opens his mouth. Shaka, when the cake was cut.
🚨LIVESTREAM THURSDAY🚨
It’s our first live show of 2026! Join the Crew AND YOUR answers for what you want and don’t want from Starfleet Academy! Love this Thursday on YouTube, 9:30 PM ET!
www.youtube.com/live/PRQi6-W...
It’s our first live show of 2026! Join the Crew AND YOUR answers for what you want and don’t want from Starfleet Academy! Love this Thursday on YouTube, 9:30 PM ET!
www.youtube.com/live/PRQi6-W...
January 5, 2026 at 3:31 PM
🚨LIVESTREAM THURSDAY🚨
It’s our first live show of 2026! Join the Crew AND YOUR answers for what you want and don’t want from Starfleet Academy! Love this Thursday on YouTube, 9:30 PM ET!
www.youtube.com/live/PRQi6-W...
It’s our first live show of 2026! Join the Crew AND YOUR answers for what you want and don’t want from Starfleet Academy! Love this Thursday on YouTube, 9:30 PM ET!
www.youtube.com/live/PRQi6-W...
On this day, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine premiered and proved the Final Frontier could be deeper, darker, and more human. With complex characters, hard choices, and a station that became home, DS9 challenged Star Trek’s ideals and made them stronger. Still one of the boldest journeys in the galaxy.
January 3, 2026 at 8:06 PM
On this day, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine premiered and proved the Final Frontier could be deeper, darker, and more human. With complex characters, hard choices, and a station that became home, DS9 challenged Star Trek’s ideals and made them stronger. Still one of the boldest journeys in the galaxy.
Happy New Year from the entire SNP Team and Collective!
January 1, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Happy New Year from the entire SNP Team and Collective!
Happy Birthday to Joseph Lee, who played Lt. Matthew Mura on Star Trek: Picard. Wishing him a fantastic day and continued success across the stars and beyond.
December 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Happy Birthday to Joseph Lee, who played Lt. Matthew Mura on Star Trek: Picard. Wishing him a fantastic day and continued success across the stars and beyond.