Episode guide
A Captain's Log: Season 5
26 episodes · premiered Mar 2, 2025
Season five consists of twenty six episodes beginning with the season premiere interview of Nana Visitor of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This season had the very first in-studio guest interview with Tom Morga, Chris Doyle, and J. Suzanne Rampe from Star Trek TNG, DS9, and Voyager join hosts Bryan and Lili. Typically all interviews are recorded remotely and displayed on viewscreen.
- Episode 1: Nana Visitor; Her family, Kira Nerys and Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek Mar 2, 2025 · 28m Bryan and Lili interview their biggest and most popular guest ever, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actress Nana Visitor. Visitor discusses her early family heritage and the Charisse vaudeville…
- Episode 2: Nana Visitor; Her family, Kira Nerys and Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek, Part 2 Mar 9, 2025 · 28m Nana is asked about sharing a cool story and memories of working with guest role actors as her favorites including Louise Fletcher, Aron Eisenberg, Marc Alaimo. The conversation shifts to…
- Episode 3: Sean Kenney - From an unforgettable face on a disfigured Pike to DePaul in Star Trek and beyond Mar 16, 2025 · 28m Actor/Producer Sean Kenney voices a preview of his book "Captain Pike Found Alive!", an autobiography of many memories and details of Kenney's journey. Bryan even replicates a copy of…
- Episode 4: Sean Kenney - From an unforgettable face on a disfigured Pike to DePaul in Star Trek and beyond, Part 2 Mar 23, 2025 · 28m Lili asks Sean what it was like working in the chair as Pike and working with Leonard Nimoy. Sean shares extensive memories of Nimoy rarely breaking character, and if he would it was only…
- Episode 5: Julie Caitlin Brown; The quadruple talent, Broadway, musician to sinister Star Trek and Babylon 5 roles Mar 30, 2025 · 28m Julie shares stories working for her first agency in Napa California and how she booked Dana Carvey, Paula Poundstone, and Bobcat Goldthwait. She speaks about the role of Vekor, the…
- Episode 6: Julie Caitlin Brown; The quadruple talent, Broadway, musician to sinister Star Trek and Babylon 5 roles, Part 2 Apr 6, 2025 · 28m Julie Caitlin Brown returns for the second part of her exclusive three-part interview starting with reminiscing about working with Ted Danson on Becker from the episode "He Said, She…
- Episode 7: Julie Caitlin Brown; The quadruple talent, Broadway, musician to sinister Star Trek and Babylon 5 roles, Part 3 Apr 13, 2025 · 28m A scene with Ty Kajada and Commander Sisco from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode "The Passenger" is showcased. Julie talks Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Gambit, Parts 1 and 2"…
- Episode 8: John Putch - Roles a plenty, two benzites, a federation journalist and the directors chair Apr 20, 2025 · 28m Bryan and Lili begin their interview with the multi-talented actor and director John Putch. John talks about beginning his acting career as a 5-year-old child under his mother, a prolific…
- Episode 9: John Putch - Roles a plenty, two benzites, a federation journalist and the directors chair, Part 2 Apr 27, 2025 · 28m Conclusion to the interview with John Putch. John speaks about returning to the Star Trek The Next Generation set as the same alien Benzite species, but this time as a character named…
- Episode 10: David Mack - Author, Scriptwriter, and Consultant for Star Trek's Finest Worlds May 4, 2025 · 28m David Mack is the interview guest joining Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox-Lim. Mack is the co-writer, with John J. Ordover, of two Star Trek: Deep Space nine episodes "Starship Down" and "It's…
- Episode 11: David Mack - Author, Scriptwriter, and Consultant for Star Trek's Finest Worlds, Part 2 May 11, 2025 · 28m Bryan and Lili ensure their guest David Mack is in good hands with the conclusion into part 2. The highlights of the Michelle Yeoh starring role in the recent Paramount Plus feature film…
- Episode 12: Star Trek stunt superlatives - Tom Morga, Chris Doyle, Suzanne Rampe Jun 1, 2025 · 28m A special in-person California studio interview with three Star Trek Stunt superlatives in Tom Morga, Chris Doyle, and Suzanne Rampe is the interview theme this week. Tom Morga talks about…
- Episode 13: Star Trek stunt superlatives - Tom Morga, Chris Doyle, Suzanne Rampe, Part 2 Jun 8, 2025 · 28m Bryan and Lili summarize the amazing stunt careers of their in-studio guests starting with how Chris Doyle has been everywhere in film and TV in Hollywood appearing specifically in three…
- Episode 14: Tommy Hinkley, from off Broadway to Hollywood and beyond with a memorable Star Trek stop Jun 15, 2025 Interview guest Tommy Hinkley is opening up the discussion with his off-Broadway beginnings in New York. The progression of his career on the opposite coast shifts to his early career…
- Episode 15: Tommy Hinkley, from off Broadway to Hollywood and beyond with a memorable Star Trek stop, Part 2 Jun 22, 2025 Conclusion to the two-part interview with Tommy Hinkley. Tommy continues his memories in the 1994 film Star Trek: Generations, on board the U.S.S. Enterprise-B ship he and other reporters…
- Episode 16: John D. Adams - Award winning Artist, Star Trek column writer, story-editor Jun 29, 2025 Adams discusses his more recent work as a freelance writer, specializing in personal interviews with artists and actors. He discusses his work for the highly acclaimed Star Trek fan…
- Episode 17: Kay Bess - Star Trek: Picard La Sirena voice and beyond Jul 6, 2025 · 28m Kay Bess, La Sirena's computer voice in Star Trek Picard, discusses her career from USC drama studies to voicing sci-fi franchises, HGTV's Property Brothers, and recording Trek dialogue…
- Episode 18: Kay Bess - Star Trek: Picard La Sirena voice and beyond, Part 2 Jul 13, 2025 · 28m Kay talks about her time after season one of Picard, shifting to a different style delivery, feeling she was being re-auditioned for the change ion Show Runners going into season 2…
- Episode 19: Lou Wagner - Hollywood hero from Planet of the Apes to CHiPs and Star Trek's spinoffs Jul 20, 2025 · 28m Lou Wagner joins Bryan, the Ambassador to the fans, and Commander Lili for an interview on the viewscreen. Wagner talks about playing the role of Lucius, the teen nephew of Zira (Kim…
- Episode 20: Bobby Clark - stuntman, stunt actor - Gorn to Trek Jul 27, 2025 · 28m Bobby Clark, known for his stunt work in westerns, particularly the TV series Gunsmoke and Rawhide, talks about his start into the performing industry stepping on a Pasadena California…
- Episode 21: Bobby Clark - stuntman, stunt actor - Gorn to Trek, Part 2 Aug 3, 2025 · 28m Clark discusses his work as the Gorn in the episode "Arena", also as the Betan Rioter in "Return of the Archons", Chekov's henchman guard who gets phasered into oblivion in the episode…
- Episode 22: Sage Arrindell: Shaping a career in Star Trek and beyond Aug 24, 2025 · 27m Sage played Rukiya in three first season episodes of the hit Paramount Plus series. Sage talks about the support she has from her mother, acting at a very young age, and flying to Winnipeg…
- Episode 23: Charles Picerni, Jr. - Stuntman, Stunt actor, Stunt Coordinator and second unit director Aug 31, 2025 · 28m Chuck speaks at great lengths about being Paramount's youngest Stunt Coordinator on the over $120 million-dollar profitable film "The Hunt for Red October". Prior to this, Chuck references…
- Episode 24: Charles Picerni, Senior and Junior; A family of stunt work in Star Trek and Hollywood, Part 2 Sep 7, 2025 · 28m Chuck Picerni Jr. is back for a second week; however, this time his father Charlie Picerni is also in on the interview as Bryan and Lili welcome both the father and son duo in the top…
- Episode 25: Julie Ann Johnson; Stuntwoman, Charlie's Angeles, Hollywood stunts plus a single 1960's Star Trek experience Sep 14, 2025 · 28m Julie Ann Johnson has a story or two about stunt doubling in that red skant miniskirt Starfleet uniform for the great actress Celeste Yarnall, who actually wore Grace Lee Whitney's red…
- Episode 26: Gilbert Combs; Award winning fire stunts, car chase stunts, Hollywood stuntman, stunt actor, and coordinator Sep 21, 2025 · 28m Gilbert Combs, joins Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox-Lim for a season finale interview talking stunts in Hollywood, his awards and his two appearances in the Star Trek franchise. Born into a…