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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 tri
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Recent episodes include "BFF#49: Top 7 Holodeck Episodes on Star Trek!" (19 October 2026, 64 minutes), "BFF#47: Enterprise @ 25! Our Top 7 Star Trek ENT eps!" (5 October 2026, 64 minutes), and "BFF#46, Strange New Worlds S4 REVIEW!" (28 September 2026, 55 minutes).
Beyond the Final Frontier - A Star Trek Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 61 minutes across 45 episodes.
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Episode #49
In this episode of Beyond the Final Frontier, we step into the holodeck (and the holosuite) as we count down our Top 7 holodeck episodes from across the franchise. From TNG to Lower Decks, we take in Moriarty’s fight...
Episode #47
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...
Episode #46
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...
Episode #45
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...
Episode #42
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...
Episode #41
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...
Beyond the Final Frontier - A Star Trek Podcast
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...
Episode #38
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...
Episode #38
This week on Beyond the Final Frontier : On the eve of Star Trek's biggest 60th birthday party at the Rio in Las Vegas, Rich and Ian pack their tricorders for Sin City and our trio mark the occasion by welcoming back...
Episode #37
This week on Beyond the Final Frontier: Rich, Ian and Toby beam into the Kelvin Universe to tackle J.J. Abrams' big-screen reboot trilogy – Star Trek (2009), Into Darkness and Beyond – debating the good, the bad and the...
Episode #36
This week on Beyond the Final Frontier: Rich, Ian and Toby rank their favourite two-part Star Trek episodes — no season premieres, no finales, and a "part one and two" rule that gets stretched, bent, and openly mutinied...
Episode #35
This week on Beyond the Final Frontier : Rich, Ian and Toby turn to the dark side and count down their favourite villains from across the Star Trek TV-verse – small-screen baddies only, so the film-only foes (no Kruge...
Episode #34
This week on Beyond the Final Frontier podcast: Rich, Ian and Toby get tuneful – and call in some actual musical backup – as they count down the greatest main title themes in all of Star Trek, the fanfares, marches and...
Episode #33
This week on Beyond the Final Frontier podcast: Rich, Ian and Toby brace for impact as they count down their Top 7 Shocks and Twists in all of Star Trek – the heel-turns, gut-punches and out-of-nowhere deaths and...
Episode #32
This week on Beyond the Final Frontier podcast: Rich, Ian and Toby go cerebral as they count down their Top 7 Big Ideas in Star Trek — the lofty, philosophical, occasionally pretentious notions that separate Trek from...
Episode #31
This week on Beyond the Final Frontier podcast: Rich, Ian and Toby roll out the red carpet for two very special guests, as Armin Shimerman and Kitty Swink beam aboard to talk careers, Quark's lobes, and a cause close to...
Episode #30
This week on Beyond the Final Frontier podcast: Rich, Ian and Toby bring the pew pews as they rank their Top 7 Star Trek Space Battles , from photon torpedo skirmishes to fleet-shaking showdowns. Expect a few...
Episode #29
Lock in coordinates and engage! BFF welcomes a special guest as Rich, Ian and Toby are joined by Trekker extraordinaire Sean Ferrick of Trek Culture ( youtube.com/@TrekCulture)...
Episode #28
Engage! Rich, Ian and Toby tackle one of Star Trek 's most enduring obsessions in a tech-heavy episode, ranking their top seven pieces of Trek tech from across the entire franchise – plus beaming over to the London...
Episode #27
We're back, baby! Rich, Ian and Toby launch season two of Beyond the Final Frontier with a double-header: a candid post-mortem on the cancellation of Starfleet Academy , and a full ranking of every season-two opener...
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