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Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating -- and special guest, director James L. Conway -- watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Judgment".
 
Archer's arrest by the Klingons brings him face to face with Kolos, played by Deep Space Nine veteran ... J.G. Hertzler! This is Enterprise's homage to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, so if you guess what happens at the end, it just means you're an OG fan. At least no one gets kicked in the knee-genitals this time.

Each week in The D-Con Chamber, we boldly revisit Star Trek: Enterprise through behind-the-scenes stories, watch-along commentaries, and c...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating -- and special guest, director David Livingston -- watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "The Crossing".

Enterprise gets swallowed whole by a massive alien ship whose incorporeal inhabitants start taking the crew for joyrides. Wisp-Malcolm is on the prowl for a meaningful experience, while Wisp-Trip gets the best meal of his life. Time is ticking until First Contact becomes First Assimilation!

Each week in The D-Con Chamber, we boldly revisit Star Trek: Enterprise through behind-the-scenes stories, watch-along commentaries, and conversations with the people whose lives were forever changed by the franchise. Whether they...

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Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Canamar".
Trip and Archer learn that getting arrested is easy, getting un-arrested is surprisingly difficult, and prison jumpsuits really aren't anyone's color. It's Canamar: Con Air in space (minus the Nic Cage hair)!
 
Each week in The D-Con Chamber, we boldly revisit Star Trek: Enterprise through behind-the-scenes stories, watch-along commentaries, and conversations with the people whose lives were forever changed by the franchise. Whether they are breaking down classic episodes or welcoming special guests from across the T...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Future Tense".

The Tholians, the Suliban, and the Enterprise duke it out over a bigger-on-the-inside piece of Temporal Cold War tech, containing a really long ladder and one (1) dead boi. It's Groundhog Day in the D-Con Chamber... in more ways than one!

Each week in The D-Con Chamber, we boldly revisit Star Trek: Enterprise through behind-the-scenes stories, watch-along commentaries, and conversations with the people whose lives were forever changed by the franchise. Whether they are breaking down classic episodes or welcoming special guests from across the Trek...

Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer -- and special guest, Mr. Jeff Combs himself -- watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Cease Fire".

We're so lucky to have Jeff in for this Shran-centric episode, where the groundwork is laid for the special and enduring relationship between Shran and Archer. We come across the Andorians in a territorial dispute with the Vulcans, which escalates to the point that Shran calls upon his Captain buddy to negotiate a truce. But when Archer's shuttle is shot down with Ambassador Soval inside, the fingers are pointed every which way while the wounded away team negotiates...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating -- and special guest, director David Livingston -- watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Stigma".  

It's an early 2000s ambitious AIDS allegory centered on T'Pol, who is facing ostracization from the Vulcan High Command after contracting Pa'nar Syndrome, a neurological condition transmitted solely by a stigmatized minority: those who can mind meld. We follow Archer and Phlox as they fight against systemic prejudice to protect T'Pol's position on the ship. Humanity once again proves itself more tolerant than the Vulcans... *sips tea*

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Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Dawn". 

Or as we're calling it: Darmok Part II: Electric Boogaloo!

After crash-landing on a freezing planet with an alien who wants him dead, Trip is forced into the world’s angriest survival camping trip. Somewhere between the hypothermia, mutual hatred, and inability to communicate, the two slowly stumble toward understanding, proving once again that Star Trek loves putting people in life-threatening situations to teach them tolerance.

Each week in The D-Con Chamber, we boldly revisit Star Trek: Enterprise through behind-the-scenes stories, watch-along commentaries, and con...

Marvin Rush joins us this week on The D-Con Chamber for a wide-ranging conversation about his extraordinary career behind the camera.

Best known to Trek fans for helping define the look of The Next Generation era and for directing episodes like Voyager’s “The Thaw” and Enterprise’s “In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II” and “Terra Prime,” Marvin opens up to Connor and Dominic in a way that surprised even us. What starts as a conversation about cinematography quickly turns into stories about the people, pressures, creative decisions, and strange moments that shaped decades of television history.

We also spe...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "The Catwalk". This is a tightly-written Sussman/Strong episode that sees the whole crew of the Enterprise, some alien refugees, and a number of resident animals (including dear Porthos) take refuge in the crawlspace that runs the length of each nacelle. Dealing with the massive radiation storm in space would be bad enough, but if the alien militia trying to take over Enterprise doesn't destroy them all, their cabin fever will!

Each week in The D-Con Chamber, we boldly revisit Star Trek: Enterprise through behind-the-scenes stories, watch-along commentaries, and...

Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Precious Cargo". It's Enterprise's take on "The African Queen", guest starring Padma Lakshmi, of "Top Chef" fame. Trip finds out that the cargo is a kidnapped royal heir, and a hectic rescue-romance ensues, culminating in an actual swamp. But you won't catch Connor in that marshy water twice... not if his ears have anything to say about it!

Each week in The D-Con Chamber, we boldly revisit Star Trek: Enterprise through behind-the-scenes stories, watch-along commentaries, and conversations with the people whose lives were forever changed by the franchise. Whether...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Vanishing Point", joined by the episode's director, David Straiton. It's Linda Park's time to shine as, ironically, Hoshi gradually fades away in this half-horror, half-mystery. Will the translator end up losing her voice forever, and be spoken of in hushed tones as the next Cyrus Ramsey? (To be sure, as Trek transporter mishaps go, this one is actually one of the less gruesome...)

Each week in The D-Con Chamber, we boldly revisit Star Trek: Enterprise through behind-the-scenes stories, watch-along commentaries, and conversations with the people whose lives were forever...

Vince Deadrick, Jr. is in the chair this week, a man whom Connor and Dominic know best as the stunt coordinator for all four seasons of Enterprise, and the primary stunt double for Scott Bakula. He's a man who's had more thn 50 years in the business, and has recently been honored for his massive contribution to film and television by the Children and Family Emmy Awards. You've seen him -- even if you didn't know it -- in The Six Million Dollar Man, the original Battlestar Galactica, Romancing the Stone, MacGyver, Titanic, The Big Lebowski, Iron Man... among the...

Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Singularity", joined by the episode's writer, Chris Black. REED ALERT!!! Enterprise is approaching a black hole that's part of a trinary star system, but who's got time for that when there are chairs to zhuzh, dishes to perfect, prologues to write, and crewmen to lobotomize?? Join us for T'Pol's point of view when as she lives her worst nightmare -- literally being the only sane one on this starship.

Each week in The D-Con Chamber, we boldly revisit Star Trek: Enterprise through behind-the-scenes stories, watch-along commentaries, and conversations with...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "The Communicator", joined by the episode's writer, André Bormanis. Back in Enterprise time, the fledgling ideas behind the Prime Directive get put to the test when Malcolm loses his communicator on a pre-warp planet. In a race against time before he and Archer are executed, the crew launches a daring rescue in a Suliban cell ship. Trip's arm and a civilization's innocence are the major casualties in this endeavor!

Each week in The D-Con Chamber, we boldly revisit Star Trek: Enterprise through behind-the-scenes stories, watch-along commentaries, and conversations with t...

Robert Picardo joins Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating for a wide-ranging conversation, with particular emphasis on his latest return as The Doctor in Starfleet Academy. He now serves as Chief Medical Officer on the USS Athena, centuries older, more experienced, and still evolving in unexpected ways. Bob reflects on stepping back into the role at this stage of his career, what has changed, what hasn’t, and how the character fits into a very different era of Star Trek.

This conversation was recorded just one day after the announcement that Starfleet Academy will conclude with its second season, so...

Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer -- and special guest star, director David Livingston -- watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "The Seventh". T'Pol has some unfinished super-secret Vulcan business to attend to, and no one is safe, least of all Bruce Davison! We're honored to have David with us to offer his unique insights into what happened behind the scenes - fire! snow! stunts! Just don't mention the focus pulling!

Each week in The D-Con Chamber, we boldly revisit Star Trek: Enterprise through behind-the-scenes stories, watch-along commentaries, and conversations with the people whose lives were forever changed by the franchise...

Denise Crosby joins Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer on a very special Star Trek Cruise episode of The D-Con Chamber, recorded live on the Caribbean Sea. With the ship rocking beneath us, Denise had a full theater hanging on every word as she shared stories that spanned her remarkable life and career, from Star Trek and beyond. Effortlessly charming and with tales to fill three lifetimes, we wish we could have spoken for hours.

Each week in The D-Con Chamber, we boldly revisit Star Trek: Enterprise through behind-the-scenes stories, watch-along commentaries, and conversations with the people whose lives...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Marauders". The desert gear gets another opportunity to shine in this David and Goliath battle over the right to deuterium. The Klingons learn a hard lesson here: teach a man to build a fire, and he will be warm for the night. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

Each week in The D-Con Chamber, we boldly revisit Star Trek: Enterprise through behind-the-scenes stories, watch-along commentaries, and conversations with the people whose lives were forever changed by the franchise. Whether...

Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "A Night in Sickbay". Some of you love it, and some of you love to hate it! There's a mad dash to save Porthos and Archer is getting increasingly antsy... and horny. Along the way, we have a funeral in the rain, a bat caper, Freudian (Pillarian?) slips, and a human centipede of decon chamber delight. What's not to like, really?

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and...

Paul Giamatti is an actor's actor, and someone we have admired for a very long time, even before he joined the annals of Trek as Nus(topher??) Braka in "Starfleet Academy". We were so lucky to get him in the Chamber this week, where we chinwagged a bit about his life and career, from Yale and beyond, and got to pick his brain a bit about the new show.

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts...

Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Dead Stop". After the skirmish with the Romulans in the last episode, the NX-01 is dead in the water. Incredibly conveniently, there's a repair station nearby. It sounds like Roxann Dawson and only wants a pound of flesh...

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and professional journeys have been affected by the franchise, we sit down and dive deep with a new friend, laughing...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Minefield". Finally, Malcolm gets his turn at the Captain's table... and it's almost the last thing he ever does! Will Archer save his poor impaled armory officer before the Romulans blow them out of the water? Well, T'Pol doesn't seem to mind either way...

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and professional journeys have been affected by the franchise, we sit down and dive...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Carbon Creek". It's the untold tale of First Contact... or is it just a story? Jolene Blalock takes center stage as T'Mir, her own ancestor, in a quaint 1950s coal mining town.

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and professional journeys have been affected by the franchise, we sit down and dive deep with a new friend, laughing and learning from their stories. Sit...

Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Shockwave, Part II", the premiere of Season 2 of Enterprise. It's up to Archer and Daniels to save Enterprise from being menaced by their Suliban foes... and they do it from the future, with some copper wire and good old fashioned drop kicks!

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and professional journeys have been affected by the franchise, we sit down and dive deep with...

Season 3 finale! Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer, with special guest Michael Dorn, watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Shockwave, Part 1", the finale of Season 1 of Enterprise. It's a doozy of an episode, ratcheting up the stakes of the Time War, and heralding the return of sinister favorites Silik and "Future Guy", along with the enigmatic Agent Daniels. Seems as though plucking Archer out of the timeline was a major flap of the butterfly's wings...

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating, with special guest Michael Dorn, watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Two Days and Two Nights". Michael directed just this one episode of Enterprise, and it was a doozy! Join the crew on their trip to Risa, where everything is not as idyllic as it first seems. We end by speaking to Michael about his upcoming film "Life 2.0", starring himself, Marina Sirtis, and Michelle Hurd, with a little cameo by our one and only Dominic Keating.

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating welcome guest Robert Beltran into the D-Con Chamber this week. Our audience will know him well as the steadfast executive officer of the Starship Voyager on its 7 year expedition home. We take our own trip through his career, traversing that cult classic film "Eating Raoul", his impressive stage oeuvre, and the process of landing the role of Captain Janeway's number one.  

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and p...

Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Desert Crossing". They're joined by a special guest, director David Straiton, a seasoned television director who goes way back with the guys. David's level of insight, both of this episode and in the art of tv/film making in general, is out of this world - not to be missed! Let's revisit the highlights of this desert romp, including guest star Clancy Brown and the logistics of filming in the desert dunes.

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Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Fallen Hero". It's a harrowing battle to Warp 5 as the ship takes on a disgraced Vulcan diplomat who (surprise, surprise) is hiding something from her human defenders. If they can get through this, a new chapter in human-Vulcan relations awaits...

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and professional journeys have been affected by the franchise, we sit down and dive deep with a new...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Vox Sola", where the NX-01 is boarded by mysterious goop that quickly takes the Captain and Trip hostage. Can Hoshi learn to communicate with this 'lone voice' before Malcolm blows it to smithereens?

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and professional journeys have been affected by the franchise, we sit down and dive deep with a new friend, laughing and learning from their stories...

Rick Berman and Brannon Braga are in the studio today with us to celebrate our two-hander, Shuttlepod One, from Enterprise's season 1. As two of the creative architects of Star Trek: Enterprise, they shared candid reflections and untold stories from their time shaping the series -- and the other shows of legacy Trek.

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and professional journeys have been affected by the franchise, we sit down and dive deep...

Dominic Keating and Connor Trinner watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Detained". They're joined by special guest Jeff Lewis, now a producer and filmmaker, but back in the day, an acclaimed make-up artist who made sure Dominic and Connor looked their best every day. You can thank him for turning Dom into a Suliban! Let's revisit this thought-provoking romp, which features Dean Stockwell as a decidedly non-holographic prison warden.

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal...

Dominic Keating and Connor Trinner watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Oasis", where not everything is as it seems on this felled ship... We also pay tribute to the stars of this installment, René Auberjonois and Annie Wersching.

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and professional journeys have been affected by the franchise, we sit down and dive deep with a new friend, laughing and learning from their stories. Sit back, grab a drink, and j...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Acquisition", joined by Ethan Phillips, everyone's favorite Talaxian... or in this case, Ferengi! Pull up your blue underwear because we're taking back the ship... and whatever you do, do NOT put Porthos in a box!

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and professional journeys have been affected by the franchise, we sit down and dive deep with a new friend, laughing and learning from...

In celebration of Walter Koenig's 89th birthday, let’s join Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating in Walter’s “man cave” of collectables and memorabilia. We’re also joined by executive producer Dave Tabb, a man who knows quite a lot about the joy of collections, having amassed his own impressive array himself. Together we all take a trip through Walter’s wing of wonders, and down the halcyon paths of memory lane.

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists...

Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Rogue Planet", clash with alien hunters, and ponder The Song of Wandering Aengus.

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and professional journeys have been affected by the franchise, we sit down and dive deep with a new friend, laughing and learning from their stories. Sit back, grab a drink, and join our hosts, Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer, as we get geeky in The...

Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Fusion", joined by Enterprise writer Phyllis Strong.

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and professional journeys have been affected by the franchise, we sit down and dive deep with a new friend, laughing and learning from their stories. Sit back, grab a drink, and join our hosts, Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer, as we get geeky in The D-Con Chamber.

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Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer revisit Star Trek: Enterprise's pivotal episode "Shadows of P'Jem", and they're joined by the legendary Jeff Combs (Shran himself)! They share behind-the-scenes memories, laugh through some wild takes, and reflect on the Vulcan-Andorian tensions that shaped early Enterprise lore.

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and professional journeys have been affected by the franchise, we sit down and dive deep with a new friend, laughing and learning from...

We’re kicking off Season 3 with a comedy legend and sci‑fi favorite. Tim Allen joins Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer for a wide‑ranging conversation about Galaxy Quest lore, finding the line between parody and homage, and what it was like working alongside Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, and the rest of that unforgettable cast. We also rewind to the early days of Home Improvement and stand-up, and look ahead to Tim’s return to network TV with Shifting Gears. Along the way he gets candid about craft, shifting from comedy to drama on set, and the lessons that stick after de...

This week’s rewatch brings high stakes, heavy tension, and some very cranky Klingons. We're talking 'Sleeping Dogs.' *And don't forget - we'll be taking a short hiatus. But fear not! We won't be gone long. Until our return, Nanu Nanu, friends.

Each week, we explore and celebrate the lives that the Star Trek universe has forever changed. From former and future cast and crew members to celebrities, scientists, and astronauts whose personal and professional journeys have been affected by the franchise, we sit down and dive deep with a new friend, laughing and learning from their st...