Second Officer Slog

Second Officer Slog is a monthly Star Trek book club celebrating the wild, sprawling, dubiously canon extended universe of our favorite TV sci-fi series so you don't have to! Life long Trek nerds M and Jackson dive into the minutia of treaties, techno-babble, and Bajoran independence starting from the DS9 novel relaunch and headed where no book club has gone before.

Intended for people who've never cracked a single Trek book, we're talking about the best and worst that universe has to offer through book summaries, episode revisits, and more!

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Second Officer Slog 039: Discovery S02E01 "Brother"
Second Officer Slog 039: Discovery S02E01 "Brother"

Discovery is back, and so are we! With the Enterprise out of commission, King Cop himself Christopher Pike is here to usher in a new era of fun space adventure. Does he succeed? Well, it’s only the pilot, but so far we’ve definitely ruffled a few feathers. Please enjoy the return of our weekly Discovery recaps!

Second Officer Slog 038: Short Treks 2

Short Treks are back! This is the week Discovery season 2 starts! The train never stops and we’re climbing on and not letting go. Please enjoy as we talk about the best and worst of Star Trek short films this week, and prep for the weeks ahead.

This Week's Episodes
DIS S00E03 - “The Brightest Star”
DIS S00E04 - “The Escape Artist”

Next Week's Episodes
DIS S02E01 - “Brother”

Second Officer Slog 037: Fear Itself
Second Officer Slog 037: Fear Itself

The ramp up to Discovery season 2 continues as we take on the third Discovery book and discover that the boy is all right as we spend a very bad day with everyone’s scared anxiety friend Saru! Tholians, imperialism, racial dynamics of the Federation and more define what might be the best Discovery book yet! Please sit back and enjoy the lost adventures of Georgiou and the Shenzhou with us!

This Month's Book
Fear Itself by James Swallow

This Month's Episodes
TOS S1E21 - “Tomorrow Is Yesterday”
TOS S2E06 - “The Doomsday Machine”
Second Officer Slog 036: Short Treks 1 and 2

We’re back at the end of the year with one short episode about two short episodes of Star Trek trying to sell you on keeping your CBS All Access account going during the lean months where there is no Star Trek. They did not succeed, but we’re going to talk about the shorts anyway, giving them the good old Star Trek critique like anything else. Please join us in this short, silly episode!

This Month's Episodes
DIS S00E01 - “Runaway”
DIS S00E02 - “Calypso”