EnterpriseSplaining - The podcast where we try to explain Star Trek: Enterprise to each other! We are bewildered by this show. We have questions - so many questions! Join Jamie, Bill, and Maria as they attempt to make sense of this 22-year-old show that represents one of the strangest chapters of Star Trek history.
Haven’t watched or don’t want to watch the show? No problem! At EnterpriseSplaining, we’ll do that work for you! Every week, one of us will watch an episode and explain it to the others - or try to. No Star Trek knowledge is necessary, although it might help? Who knows. This show is weird. Listen along as we try to uncover exactly what this show was trying to accomplish and what it ended up doing. Will this podcast be useful? Probably not! Will it change the world? UNLIKELY! Will they solve all of humanity’s problems through this exercise? ALMOST DEFINITELY NO. But we’ll have fun doing it and that’s really the point.
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Second Contact: Send in the Clones! (feat. Bethany Brookshire)
We’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 10 “Similitude,” now that Bill, Jamie, and our guest, science-writer Bethany Brookshire (https://linktr.ee/BeeBrookshire), have watched it and have strong opinions on why the clone-based ethical conundrum posed in this episode doesn’t work. And in our Mammary Alpha segment, Jamie does a deep dive into whether there are bathroom facilities in the NX-01 shuttlepods and what they must have smelled like when Malcolm and Trip were stuck in one together for three days.
A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before this one, “Send in the Clones!,” go listen to that first because this is a follow up to last week.
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1 Oct 2026
Send in the Clones! (feat. Bethany Brookshire)
We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 10 “Similitude,” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. An accident while testing the warp core puts Trip in a coma and the only way Phlox can save him is to grow a clone of him and harvest its brain matter. And that's just the first of a series of ethical conundrums that the crew has to deal with. Of course, Archer has a thoughtful and thorough analysis of the problem and... oh who am I kidding. All he really wants to do is save his bro. Join us as we attempt to navigate the truly wild complexities of this gordian knot of an episode.
Bethany Brookshire joins us to give us a little perspective on the fundamental dangers of cloning, growing up in two weeks, and why southern accents probably aren't genetic.
Rikermendations:
Bethany: The Murderbot Diaries (show and books)
Bill: Mountain Goats (tabletop game)
Jamie: A Man on the Inside
Maria: Ride or Die (TV show), plus remember Ted Lasso is back!
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EnterpriseSplaining is proud to be part of the ESO Network (https://esonetwork.com/).
The show is produced by K.O. Myers at Particulate Media (https://particulatemedia.com)
Follow us on BlueSky: @enterprisesplain (https://bsky.app/profile/enterprisesplain.bsky.social)
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24 Sept 2026
Second Contact: The Good, The Bad and the Skagly! (feat. Ryan Consell)
This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 9 “North Star,” now that Maria and Jamie have watched it. Also, we’re joined by Ryan Consell, author of the Stealing from Wizards (https://stealingfromwizards.com/) series!
We all agreed that this episode was trying to say… something, but what it was trying to say was weird! We also do a deep dive into the episode name “North Star” and whether it comes from the name of Frederick Douglas’ anti-slavery newspaper, as Memory Alpha claims, or if they actually stole it from a 90s made-for-tv movie of the same name.
A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before this one, “The Good, The Bad and the Skagly!,” go listen to that first because this is a follow up to last week.
We now have merch! Show your love for EnterpriseSplaining and the cutest beagle ever with a (https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-eso-broadcasting-network?ref_id=5204&ref_type=aff&utm_campaign=5204&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=The%2BESO%2BBroadcasting%2BNetwork)Porthos Appreciation Society (https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-eso-broadcasting-network?ref_id=5204&ref_type=aff&utm_campaign=5204&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=The%2BESO%2BBroadcasting%2BNetwork) shirt!
EnterpriseSplaining is proud to be part of the ESO Network (https://esonetwork.com/).
The show is produced by K.O. Myers at Particulate Media (https://particulatemedia.com)
Follow us on BlueSky: @enterprisesplain (https://bsky.app/profile/enterprisesplain.bsky.social)
Follow us on Instagram: @enterprisesplaining (https://www.instagram.com/enterprisesplaining/)
Like us on Facebook: EnterpriseSplaining (https://www.facebook.com/EnterpriseSplaining)
Send us an email: enterprisesplaining@gmail.com (mailto:enterprisesplaining@gmail.com)
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