V'Ger Please!

V'Ger Please! is a long-running Star Trek rewatch show with the energy of two fans arguing at the end of a convention hallway. It is fast, detailed, and proudly ungroomed. Recent episodes center on Deep Space Nine season four, with special attention to The Way of the Warrior, The Visitor, Hippocratic Oath, Indiscretion, Rejoined, and Starship Down. The show does not treat those episodes as sealed museum pieces. It opens them up, complains about the joints, praises the load-bearing scenes, and asks what a smarter version might have done instead. Worf's arrival becomes a discussion about moving a developed character into a grayer ensemble. Klingon politics become a way to talk about violence, self-justification, and the absence of clean authority. Jadzia Dax is praised when she meddles in other people's business and criticized when an episode wastes the tools it already has. A Defiant bridge layout can turn into a miniature argument about command, production design, and why the regular station crew sometimes feels wrong in those seats. That is the show's main pleasure: small observations keep widening until they become franchise criticism. It is funny, but not soft. It mocks theme music changes, clumsy plotting, fan reactions, and its own deliberately grating production choices. It also keeps a side door open for adjacent nerd business. There are riffs on Voyager Across the Unknown, Starfleet Academy watch-alongs, mid-90s games, Tank Girl, Reanimator, and Hellraiser because Trek connections are treated less like a boundary than a permission slip. The pacing is conversational rather than tidy. One voice may run with an argument for a long stretch while the other redirects, objects, or throws a sharper joke into the gears. The result is not beginner-friendly background noise. It is for listeners who know the names, remember the arcs, and enjoy hearing an episode interrogated by people who still clearly care. When the show likes something, it can luxuriate in the details. When it dislikes something, it usually wants to rebuild it, not merely dismiss it.