"I'll give you credit for your vast knowledge but your circuits would just short out if you were confronted with a truly original mystery."

Well well well. Back to the 'ol holodeck. Back the phantasy room. Back to the crazy computer world making machine. This week Adam and Al cover, "Elementary, Dear Data"; in which, Dr. Racist Against Robots Pulaski challenges Data to solve a mystery. After calling him a fraud numerous times she gets kidnapped by a sentient Professor Moriarty. Oh, yeah, Data is Sherlock Holmes. Geordi is Watson. The dudes in the Valley enjoyed it!

NOTE: Adam reads from a synopsis of an episode from the Memory Alpha Star Trek Wiki and we just wanted to cite that here.

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"Considering the marvelous complexity of the universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that, matter, energy, gravitation, time, dimension, I believe that our existence must be more than either of these philosophies."

Woah, folks. This one is a hot one that is coming in hot. Silence is having lease in a place and it is going to get wild for the crew of the Starship Enterprise. This week, Adam and Al cover Star Trek TNG S2 EP 2, "Where Silence Has Lease." Picard and the crew run into a massive space hole (heh heh heh...hole) and as is usually the case with these things, they end up inside that hole! Turns out is just another case of an advanced life form making sure humans are super evil. The results may shock you.

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"Last night while I slept… something, which I can only describe as a presence, entered my body."

Welcome to Trek in the Valley Season 5. Like every season before this one, we are starting with the first episode of a season of Star Trek. I this case, Star Trek: TNG S2 EP 1, "The Child." We, your intrepid hosts Adam and Al, have a fun time talking about what is ultimately a mid/goofy episode of TNG. Oh and Content Warning: Troi gets assaulted by an alien presence and we talk about it.

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Happy Holidays From Adam and Al at Trek in the Valley!

Adam here. I just wanted to drop into your feed to say that we are not back up and running with a remote set up since Al departed Los Angeles County! We are both chomping at whatever people chomp at to get back to it. We look forward to coming back at the end of the year or the beginning of 2026 with Star Trek: TNG Season 2.

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“Homemaker; must have been some kind of construction work.”

Ohhh folks, this week the dudes in the Valley cover the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, "The Neutral Zone". Remember the big bad bugs from last week? Well, forget about them! One of the original big bad aliens is back in this sector, the ROMULANS. Those old goofballs from probably our favorite episode of ToS, "Balance of Terror" are back to solve a space mystery that is affecting both Romulan and Federation Space. They conclude that they need to take a firmer stance on the border of the NZ.

Also, Al has moved so the podcast is switching to 100% remote. Trying to keep the delay between seasons to a minimum, and we will hope to do the traditional season wrap up episode. Things are in flux but we are transitioning to a new era for the pod and we are stoked about it.

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"You don't understand. We mean you no harm. We seek peaceful co-existence!"

This week, the dudes in the Valley cover the absolutely amazing Star Trek: TNG episode, "Conspiracy"; in which the producers introduce a big bad that never gets mentioned ever again in the life the of the series. Also, the practical effects in this episode go so much harder than anyone would ever expect at the time. Enjoy it!

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"You're wonderful, and am I that transparent?"

This week the crew deals with an old sci-fi standard, time skips! In "We'll Always Have Paris", Picard's path crosses with the one that got away. This episode is a heartfelt Picard character building episode with a bit of time jumping madness. Adam and Al have a lot of fun talking about it and they are big fans of multiple Datas!

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“My thoughts are not for Tasha, but for myself. I keep thinking how empty it will be without her presence. Did I miss the point?” “No you didn’t, Data, you got it.”

This episode was an absolute stunner when it first aired and honestly, it holds up! This week Adam and Al cover "Skin of Evil" where we meet one of Trek's most dangerous and petulant villains yet in Armus.

Also, we get a main character death at the end of Act I for reasons both on screen and off!

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