The Measure of a Fan

06/06/2024

We have released a new episode! We look at Into the Forest I Go, a pretty good episode to finish of Discovery’s first part of its first season. Wherever you listen to podcasts.

31/05/2024

Excellent news for us! The new Starfleet Academy show is set after Discovery! We can just whack it on the end of the timeline. Phew!

Starfleet Academy will not take place in Trek's "contemporary" late-24th-century era, but Discovery's 32nd century–and for very good reason.

29/05/2024

It has been a second, but we dropped a new episode today! We look at Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum, as Discovery thunders towards its mid-season break! An away mission! Boring Klingons! Some action! What does Star Trek do? We’ve got it all. Wherever you listen to podcasts.

24/04/2024

24/04/2024

It’s new episode day! PJ, Mat and Eliot get stuck in a time loop with the Discovery. There’s a lot more Bee Gees than you might expect. Wherever you get your podcasts.

22/04/2024

Who wore it better? Michael Burnham, or Fleabag’s sister, Claire?

18/04/2024

Who wants to see Werner Herzog get shot mid-interview? We talked about it on our most recent episode, and now you can watch it.

Film director Werner Herzog is shot and wounded by an air rifle whilst conducting an interview with film critic and broadcaster Mark Kermode."Far from the ha...

17/04/2024

Hello friends! We are back, with a look at Lethe, from Discovery season 1! Mind melds, grizzly men, drive by shootings, Rocket Man, and more, in this very silly episode of our podcast.

16/03/2024

We recorded a new episode today (finally). Already can’t remember what made PJ pull this face.

28/02/2024

New episode! We look at Choose Your Pain, as Lorca gets taken prisoner, and meets a sort of familiar character. But that doesn’t matter. What does matter is we might be developing a crush on Wilson Cruz. Wherever you get your podcasts.

16/02/2024

This week, on our podcast, we looked at the Discovery episode The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For the Lamb’s Cry, in which Jason Isaacs, as Captain Lorca, references Elon Musk. It’s a reference that hasn’t aged well, as we discussed. But this meme we found says it much better.

Apologies, we couldn’t locate who originally created the meme to credit them.

14/02/2024

The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry! Or so we’re told. Great scenes on the Discovery! Really boring Klingon scenes! This episode has it all! And we talked an out it! Wherever you get your podcasts.

14/02/2024

Hey folks. Our new episode has dropped today, but we uploaded the wrong file. Sorry. The ensign responsible has been fed to a Salt Vampire. We have corrected it, and the right version is now on Spotify, but it might take a little while longer for other podcast apps to update fully. Thank you!

07/02/2024

It’s new episode day! Two weeks in a row? Who are we? We look at Context is for Kings, and Eliot gets very confused about which ships are the Enterprise, and which ones aren’t. Wherever you get your podcasts.

06/02/2024

Hey folks! If you subscribe to our Patreon, the video version of our latest episode, about Context is for Kings, is out now! Everyone else, it will be in your podcast apps tomorrow morning.

https://patreon.com/measurefanpod

31/01/2024

A new episode of our show dropped today! We look at Battle of the Binary Stars, the second half of Star Trek Discovery’s opening salvo! Starfleet and the Klingon Empire go to war, Klingons are really dull, and a waste of Michelle Yeoh. Wherever you get your podcasts.

30/01/2024

Hello! We last released an episode in December. We were worried we wouldn’t get an episode out in January, but we just made it! Our look at Discovery episode 2, Battle at the Binary Stars, is out now as a video on Patreon, and will be in your podcast apps tomorrow!

06/12/2023

It’s finally here! Our 100th (somehow) episode! And quite by chance, the very first episode of Star Trek: Discovery! We say The Vulcan Hello to the beginning of the modern era of Star Trek! Is it an era Eliot will get on board with? Only one way to find out. Listen wherever you get your podcast.

29/11/2023

We apologise folks. We’re very aware that it’s two weeks now without an episode. Editing is a challenge currently, but we’re still plugging away. Releases will be sporadic in December, but we’re hoping to get back on track in 2024.

15/11/2023

A new episode dropped today! We watch The Trouble With Edward, a Short Trek that gives Eliot his first exposure to Tribbles! Plus, H Jon Benjamin, CDT, HE, and educational trips. Wherever you get your podcasts.

09/11/2023

On our most recent episode, we talked about the time Pizza Hut did an advert in Klingon. Here it is. Anyone still got one of these cups?

An old Pizza-Hut commercial . . . for KLINGONS!Qapla'!

08/11/2023

It’s new episode day, and a milestone for our little show! Andy Clift joins us for the original Star Trek pilot episode, The Cage! It’s the most important thing we’ve looked at so far. We treat it with the decorum it deserves. Well, ish. Wherever you get your podcasts.

07/11/2023

Our latest episode is up early, in unedited video form, on our Patreon! Andy Clift joins us to discuss Star Trek’s original pilot episode, The Cage! The regular episode will be up on your podcast feeds tomorrow.

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07/11/2023

PJ cheated on us with another Star Trek show. But if you enjoy our wafflings, you should check it out.

Tim and Andy return, this time with special guest, PJ Montgomery from the Measure of the Fan, for episode #32 of Deep Space Nine, Armageddon Game. FULL UNCUT...

26/10/2023

Mat and PJ were at a work thing all day yesterday, so we couldn’t tell you about our new episode, but it dropped on your podcast app of choice! Here is talk about the Short Trek, Q&A! It’s Spock! For the first time we watch an episode with Spock in it! And it doesn’t feel as momentous as it should.

18/10/2023

Our new episode is out today! We look at the Short Treks episode, The Brightest Star, and meet Saru for the first time! Wherever you get your podcasts.

11/10/2023

We’re back! Our fifth season begins today, as we look at our first Short Trek! It’s animated, so we brought in an animator to help us. Dani Abram joins us to look at The Girl Who Made the Stars, a very Star Trek retelling of a classic folk tale! Wherever you get your podcasts.

10/10/2023

An extra treat! Eliot’s put in a guest appearance on another show, where he watched his first episode of Deep Space Nine! And still managed to be mean to PJ. Check out our friends at The Replimat, and see Eliot break them.

Tim and Andy return for episode #28 of Deep Space Nine, Second Sight. This week they are joined by special guest, Eliot Red, one-third of The Measure of a Fa...

10/10/2023

The first episode of our new series drops tomorrow! But, if you want to get the episode early, and in video form, it’s available on our Patreon right now! Join us, plus special guest Dani Abram, as we watch The Girl Who Made the Stars! patreon.com/measurefanpod

30/09/2023

We’re about to record another episode, with another brilliant guest for our next season. And this is about an episode that we’ve been excited to talk about for a while. Should be a good one!