Does Captain Picard have a son?! Rachel and Chris will find out! This is our free episode for April; please consider subscribing for hundreds of episodes of extra content!

This episode is re-goddamn-diculous. Nuff said!

Rachel watches the first part of the Deep Space 9 episode - The Emissary! Will she love it? Will she hate it? Will she fall asleep? Only one way to find out!

With Matt, we examine TNG’s attempt to make a gay episode - and what they accidentally did instead. Is this a pioneering exploration of gender and trans issues, an empathy-generating and meaningful allegory of queer oppression, or a too-late, too-safe and tragic attempt to appease gay fans? We recap the episode then dive into concepts, entertainment, sexiness and stupid experts. Do you agree with our ratings?

This week we're joined by anthropologist Professor Ben Auerbach to talk about a bunch of cool stuff in this very provocative episode! Ben has a special interest in eugenics and helps us to answer the question '‘does the eugenics presented in this episode make any sense?’ Spoiler alert - it doesn’t. Rachel and Chris disagree strongly about Troi’s love interest, the scores vary wildly this week about the entertainment value of the episode and more. Thank you to our producer Rafe Ball and to all our patreon supporters. For lots more Star Trek review episodes, our comments show and bonus content (this month, Rafe and Chris on Picard Season 2), join us at www.patreon.com/rachelwatchesstartrek

Revisit Captain Garrett with us as we flashback to our December '21 TNG episode 'Yesterday's Enterprise'. It has been a Patreon-only episode until now. Here it is for you! Join the crew on Patreon www.patreon.com/rachelwatchesstartrek

This month's free episode is our review and reactions to Unification 1. We look at concepts, entertainment, sexiness and stupid experts and see how Rachel did with her guesses as a first time viewer. Picard gets tough with the Klingons, Lenard gives the performance of a lifetime as a dying Sarek and Data gets a wig from Mot, in this classic Star Trek TNG episode!

This month’s free episode is the beloved TNG Season 5 classic ‘Darmok’. Picard is kidnapped by a Tamarian captain, to bond over an Arena-like situation in the universe’s wackiest language immersion programme. This one sneaked up on us and we made the mistake of watching it separately. Or was it fate? Rachel, when her tears fell!