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'Beyond the Final Frontier' brings together three storied Star Trek veterans for an ongoing mission to celebrate the vast Trek universe. Host Rich Matthews, former senior editor and 20+year contributor to the official Star Trek Magazine and current Trekademic, is joined by his bridge crew: the renowned Ian Spelling, entertainment journalist who has covered Star Trek extensively since the late 1980s for the New York Times, Starlog Magazine, and the official Star Trek Communicator, before editing StarTrek.com for a decade, and Toby Weidmann, former editor of the official Star Trek Magazine, BAFTA comms wizard and launch editor of the official Walking Dead Magazine. Each episode, our trio shocase and discuss favorite episodes, themes, characters – everything Trek! – in depth, sharing insights from their decades of experience covering the franchise. From beloved moments to Trek history and developments in the modern era, plus occasional special guests joining the voyage... Grab your tricorder and prepare to beam aboard as we boldly go Beyond the Final Frontier!
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
64 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
47 episodes
since Sept. 1, 2025
episodic
explicit content
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In this episode of Beyond the Final Frontier, we go hunting for hidden gems as we count down our Top 7 underrated Star Trek episodes from across the franchise. From TOS to DISCO, we span the known universe in our selections - and will we manage to embody Gene Roddenberry's no-conflict vision of hum…
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This week on Beyond the Final Frontier, our intrepid Trek trio celebrate 25 years of Star Trek: Enterprise by counting down their top seven episodes of the NX-01's voyages. Expect fierce debates, a few rule-bending ties and one controversial number one... it would appear not everyone on the bridge …
This week on Beyond the Final Frontier our intrepid Trek trio review the second half of season four of Strange New Worlds and give their overall score of the entire fourth outing for Pike and crew - and it would appear hull integrity has been severely tested this time out of spacedock...beyondffpod…
This week on Beyond the Final Frontier our intrepid Trek trio pull on their fanciests outfits to pick the best of the best of Star Trek Starfleet uniforms. Do you know your skant from your monster maroon? Your jumpsuit from your dress duds? The boys warp through which series and movies have produce…
This week on Beyond the Final Frontier: Toby takes the chair and puts Rich and Ian on the spot about Star Trek fandom, fresh off the 60th anniversary convention in Las Vegas.
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This week on Beyond the Final Frontier: Rich, Ian and Toby mark 60 years since the first transmission of Star Trek: The Original Series with their top seven lines from TOS,.
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This week on Beyond the Final Frontier: Rich, Ian and Toby count down their seven favourite duos from across the whole Trek-verse – and one of them hobbles his own list with self-imposed restrictions before he's even started!
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This week on Beyond the Final Frontier: Rich, Ian and Toby give their mid-season verdict on Strange New Worlds season four, scoring the first five episodes out of 10 – and one of them divides the hosts more sharply than anything they've reviewed yet!
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This week on Beyond the Final Frontier: Rich, Ian and Toby step behind the camera to rank their Top 7 directors of Star Trek TV episodes – and one of them spends the entire episode racked with guilt over the stone-cold legend he left off his list (only for another host to crown that very man his nu…
This week on Beyond the Final Frontier: Rich, Ian and Toby head into the Trek subconscious to rank their Top 7 dreams, nightmares and fantasies – and immediately start arguing about what actually qualifies as one, disqualifying several stone-cold classics before a single pick has been made!
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