Episode 554 Promo - Woke Trek? (w/ Wyatt Cenac & Josh Olson)
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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After four years, the original Trek Chat crew reconvenes to talk about the newest addition to the Star Trek franchise: Starfleet Academy. The show has attracted criticism from Trekkies for being "too woke" and out-of-step with the spirit of Star Trek. But does this critique actually hold up? Comedian & actor Wyatt Cenac returns alongside screenwriter and prolific podcaster Josh Olson for the sprawling Star Trek episode at least one of you has been asking for for years. (Recorded before we started a war with Iran. We'll get back to business shortly. Enjoy this brief respite from the world).
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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| 0:00.0 | It had been so long since the Star Trek movie that it did feel like, okay, it carries people along a little bit. But I remember every time we got introduced to a character that we knew, I mean, that scene where Chris Pine, Captain Kirk is like on the motorcycle, like driving through the fields of wherever. It is like 20th century vehicle. And like I feel like he like ends up pulling up and like hopping on a ship late or something. Do you know what I mean? And he rips his helmet off and we see him. And like, I feel like he, like, pulling up and, like, hopping on a ship late or something. |
| 0:22.3 | Do you know what I mean? |
| 0:22.8 | And he rips his helmet off and we see him. |
| 0:24.3 | He looks, he looked, he was, it was so well cast. |
| 0:28.5 | He just had that perfect Kirkian swagger. |
| 0:31.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.9 | Every reveal, it felt so true to the spirit of Star Trek that it was like, I remember I saw my ex, |
| 0:40.3 | that was the day my mom and my ex-fiance met and we all went to see the Star Trek movie together. |
| 0:45.0 | He was a Trekkie. |
| 0:45.9 | Big part of the reason why I was about to commit to this person. |
| 0:52.5 | 75%. |
| 0:53.3 | Girls, think long and hard before you consider marrying someone largely because of how |
| 0:59.0 | big a trekking they are. |
| 1:02.6 | We all watched the Star Trek movie together, also with my brother at the Kipps Bay Theater |
| 1:06.9 | in Manhattan. |
| 1:08.9 | And there was no conversation about him and our lives and my new boyfriend and the |
| 1:14.0 | promise of it. We were all just, we went to a neighboring bar and we talked Star Trek for like the |
| 1:19.0 | next three hours. We were tingling. It was so good. Sure. But we were also starved for Star Trek at that time. I think that's also a big part of it. |
| 1:30.8 | We were starved for it and starved for it to get that kind of big budget special effects treatment that you were seeing in Star Wars at the time. |
| 1:40.4 | And in other, you know, as the DC and Marvel franchises were starting to get |
| 1:45.6 | going. So it's not to say that there wasn't excitement. I just feel like there is a level of |
| 1:53.7 | vitriol and I think especially in Elon Musk's rage cage that is always going to be a little bit dismissive and reluctant to it. |
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