Temporal Culture War
Episodes
Too Sexy For This Episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about season 2, episode 12 "The Catwalk" and the week of December 18, 2002. Another one that gets soooooo close. They almost k...
Wait, Is That Padma?
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are watching season 2, episode 11 "Precious Cargo" and the week(s) of December 4th and 11th, 2002. The music? BAD! This episode? Bad! Pad...
Go To Sleep, Sleepy Girl. It's Sleepytime.
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This we're talking about Season 2, Episode 8 "Vanishing Point," and the week of November 27, 2002! It's sort of a TCW After Dark edition so we are ma...
T'Bottle Episode
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Say it. It feels good to say. This week: Season 2, Episode 9 "Singularity" and the week of November 20, 2002! Weirdly: A good episode of the show Star...
PREVIEW: Femme Fatale (2002)
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Is Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale a bad movie? No. Is it a good movie? Harder to say, but it was definitely interesting! So hit up a you're favorite su...
Human After All
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week Clayton and Mattie talk about episode 8 of season two, "The Communicator" and the week of November 13, 2002! This one has a hilarious Trip s...
Eternal Sunshine of the Vulcan Mind
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We are BACK from hiatus!!!! And we're talking about the week of November 6th, 2002, and the seventh episode of season two which is of course called "t...
PREVIEW: Ghost Ship (2002)
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SEA EVIL!!!!!!! Are you sea-ing evil? Well, we did! We threatened to watch GHOST SHIP (2002) and then we watched GHOST SHIP (2002). We demand you stop...
Are you Seven Samurai'ing me right now?
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're talking about season 2, episode 6 "Marauders," and the week of October 30, 2002. Reach for the sky, and hand over the deuterium!!!! E...
The Long, Dark, Night of the Sickbay (with Jenna Stoeber)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are joined by friend of the show and medical lube replacer Jenna Stoeber, and we talk about season 2, episode 5 "A Night in Sickbay," and...
Warp Plasma Can't Melt Station Beams
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
(By the way, this is the NORMAL speed version, sorry for the goof up!)This week we're talking about season 2, episode 4: "Dead Stop," and the week of ...
They Never Really Got to Eat Breakfast
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we spend a lot of time talking about Jackie Chan's The Tuxedo (2002) but then also Enterprise season 2 episode 3 "Minefield" and the week of...
PREVIEW: Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are here with a BONUS(!) episode that you can listen to on our Patreon. We make Trek Podcast HERSTORY by being the first ones ever to tal...
Up on Carbon Creek, She Sends Me
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about Season 2 episode 1, "Carbon Creek," and the week of September 25, 2002! Listen to Mattie get really mad thinking about A...
Take My Sky, Please! with Joshua Rivera
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We did it! We made it to season two, where things are, well, not so good still. We've got a loooot of culture to cover between the seasons of the show...
This Weak's Episode
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are talking about the season one FINALE, "Shockwave Part 1" and the week of May 22, 2002. We're here, Mr. Clayton, at the end of all thin...
The Magician's Code
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We don't want to alarm anyone, but it's been broken. The norms are dead! The magicians are rioting!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Society is over!This week it's episod...
PREVIEW: JASON X (2002)
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode, Clayton and Mattie watch the movie that killed the Jason franchise, 2001 (but really 2002)'s JASON X. Star Trek casting synchro...
Luizi's Mansion
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On May 8th, 2002, Star Trek: Enterprise aired not one, but two episodes in a single night. This wasn't a big deal at the time, but decades later, the ...
All T'Pologies
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
PROTIP: Blast the theme song at 1.5 speed. It rips! Mattie gets to yell about Lagaan! We debut a brand-new STINGER! This week we're talking about Seas...
Get Gooey
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Okay. There's a lot of cum talk in this one. But it's not our fault. Blame Season 1, Episode 22 of Enterprise "Vox Sola," and the week of May 1, 2002...
Planet Guantanamo
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's episode 21 of season 1: "Detained" and the week of April 24, 2002. We've got THREE weeks of "stuff" to cover this week. Which: turns ou...
PREVIEW: "Isaac and Ishmael"
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We watched the West Wing 9/11 episode. We did it. This way lies madness....on the Patreon!
Her Name is T'Pol. Her Name is T'Pol. Her Name is T'Pol.
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking about Season 1, Episode 20 "Oasis," and the week of April 3, 2002. Odo is in this one! What else is happening in it? Well, not...
Worthless Gold
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Mattie and Clayton talk about episode 19 of season 1: "ACQUISITION" and the week of March 27, 2002. The news is a bummer but it's an incred...
The Least Dangerous Game
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're talking season 1, episode 18 "Rogue Planet" and the week of March 20, 2001. The episode's a clunker but we get to talk about the "Ice...
PREVIEW: The Musketeer (2001)
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For our inaugural entry in 2001 canon of "huh, that movie came out?" we scoured the Internet for the most popular movie of September 7th, 2001, the la...
My Mind to Your Mind
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Clayton and Mattie watch episode 17 of season 1, "Fusion," and talk about February 27, 2001. Please enter our new and experimental mind mel...
Bottlepisode One
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where could Enterprise S1E16 "Shuttlepod One" be taking place? Well, we find out, as well as what was going on in the culture the week of February 13,...
DO YOU HAVE SHRAN IN YOUR HEART?
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shran fans rejoice! We discuss the season 1 episode "Shadows of P'Jem" and baby? Daddy (Shran) is home (in the episode!!!) Meanwhile in 2001, the New ...
BONUS PREVIEW: Galaxy Quest
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Head on over to our Patreon and listen to the whole thing! Just one dollar a month!We take a journey back to the heady days of the late 90s: Stuart Li...
Don't Show Me the Targ. Please.
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Mattie and Clayton talk about season 1 episode 14 "Sleeping Dogs," in which some Klingons...do something?? while their ship sinks into some...
There Should Be a Directive for That
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Clayton and Mattie talk about culture the week of January 23, 2002 and S1E13: Dear Doctor. We talk about the madness that occurred over the...
Silent Chewing
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Clayton and Mattie talk about culture the week of January 16, 2002 and S1E12: Silent Enemy. The crew is besieged by a mysterious and danger...
PREVIEW: Star Trek: First Contact
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
(Hey everyone we're BACK from our little hiatus (sorry) with a BONUS EPISODE and our NEW (cheap) Patreon! Head over to Temporalculturewar.com to hear ...
Time is on Our Side
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We delve into some beautiful Dreamcast commercials where planes crash into buildings, Also the Enterprise gang meets the most important man they'll ev...
More Like "UNfortunate Episode."
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mattie and Clayton talk about Thanksgiving 2001 and the beautiful floats (and people) therein. They also dive into Enterprise S1E10, "Fortunate Son" a...
A Guy's Face Gets Ripped Off and That Was Cool At Least
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mattie and Clayton dive into more of November 2001 and also Enterprise S1e9: "Civilization," yet another slog where they only try to figure out how to...
Angry All the Time
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about S1E8: "Breaking the Ice" and also the deep evil of SHALLOW HAL.
It's SHRANNING TIME with John deBary
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Enterprise Aficionado (and also author and cocktail expert) John deBary to talk about the first (?) pretty good episode of Star Trek:...
Oh Say, Can You See?
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2001 America, everyone goes insane with patriotism. Meanwhile, aboard the Enterprise NX-01, they're on a dumb planet where everyone is a moron and ...
Get in the Wiggly Ship, Tucker
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A "quiet week" in American history in 2001, and a weirdly okay episode of Enterprise! They go to a wacky ship with kooky air and also maybe shag carpe...
A remembrance of the non-canonical 9/11 West Wing episode
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yes, that really happened. Also, we talk about Season 1, Episode 4: "Strange New World."
SCUBA is the "Cellar Door" of Acronyms
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 1, Episode 3: "Fight or Flight."Enterprise actually manages to be worse this week, but we have a nice discussion about acronyms thanks to, what...
"Pilot"
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Clayton and Mattie set off on their Star Trek: Enterprise journey with the crew of the Enterprise NX-01. Captain Archer, the other guy. T'Pol. The oth...