Frequently Asked Questions

Are you a podcast? 

We meet weekly in front of a LIVE digital audience. We record a show that we archive as an audio podcast and a video archive. 

What kind of Star Trek show is this?

Trek Table is a little like Sports Center meets a Quiz show, with lots of Improv and a sashay of Ru Paul’s Drag Race while sitting around the table having tea or a bowl of salad to hear women of color’s thoughts, opinions and insights on Star Trek Discovery. It’s a ritual. So we hold space. We breathe together. We laugh and sometimes, we have Star Trek fights - with our phasers set on stun.  

Our weekly ritual is joyfully watching Star Trek Discovery. In May 2021 we finished our Season 1 of the Trek Table.   In June 2021 started our deep dive into Season 2 and completed the final episode on 10/10/21. You can find our season 3 Recap HERE Join us on 11/14/21 when Trek Table comes back to discuss our theories and own hype for Star Trek Discovery Season 4.

Does one have to be a Star Trek nerd to enjoy or even comprehend Trek Table?

Trek Table welcomes all levels of Trek fandom. Some of our Trek Table hosts identify as Star Trek Femme, Star Trek Light, others come from a generational Star Trek family.  We also welcome thoughts from our LIVE digital audience in the chat. Trek Table Questions are posed to all of the Trek Table assembled that day (our hosts & our chat). Additionally, at various moments in the show Trek Table hosts engage with the live chat directly. This also allows multiple layers and different kinds of women of color Star Trek fans (and our allies) to engage in the chat. 

WHICH STAR TREK SHOW ARE YOU WATCHING? 

Trek Table began out of our showrunner’s desire to talk to other women of color about Star Trek and specifically, Star Trek Discovery! We’re watching Star Trek Discovery because of Michael Burnham, Dr. Hugh Culber, Captain Georgiou, Cadet Sylvia Tilly, Lt. Joan Owosuken, Commander Landry, Commander Sa’ru and more. We watch because we love seeing a Black woman scientist as the lead of a show. We are intrigued by her story as a human raised culturally as a Vulcan and her found family amongst her Malayasian Star Fleet Captain and mentor and the journey to family with the Discovery crew. We watch because we are here for queer love and and seeing the growth of our favorite Space Daddies. We’re here because Star Trek Discovery is a show that more closely resonates with some of our lived experiences than with other Star Trek shows or movies that we love.

 Originally released in 2017 on CBS All Access, you can stream Star Trek Discovery now on Paramount +. Star Trek Discovery is the first in a sibling set of the new generation of Star Trek Television shows like Picard, Lower Decks, and the forthcoming Strange New Worlds and Section 31.

Who are your sponsors?

Trek Table is currently independently produced with technical support and staff from Outside In Theatre.

Trek Table is not affiliated or sponsored by CBS or Paramount.  Unlike any other moment in Trek fandom - Star Trek fans can explore the television narrative cannon like never before. Want to follow a rabbit hole into all the Mirror Universe episodes you can find across everyone of the TV shows? Well, go and watch each one!! It’s so exciting to feel like Star Trek is more available than ever before.  

How do you find your hosts and guests?

Showrunner Alison De La Cruz started gathering the Trek Table together through friends and loose networks. If you would like to introduce us to a potential host, including yourself, please feel free to email us at info@trektable.com