A Captain's Log: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of A Captain's Log Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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Nana Visitor; Her family, Kira Nerys and Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek
Mar 2, 2025
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 va
Nana Visitor; Her family, Kira Nerys and Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek, Part 2
Mar 9, 2025
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 sh
Sean Kenney - From an unforgettable face on a disfigured Pike to DePaul in Star Trek and beyond
Mar 16, 2025
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
Sean Kenney - From an unforgettable face on a disfigured Pike to DePaul in Star Trek and beyond, Part 2
Mar 23, 2025
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 w
Julie Caitlin Brown; The quadruple talent, Broadway, musician to sinister Star Trek and Babylon 5 roles
Mar 30, 2025
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, th
Julie Caitlin Brown; The quadruple talent, Broadway, musician to sinister Star Trek and Babylon 5 roles, Part 2
Apr 6, 2025
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, S
Julie Caitlin Brown; The quadruple talent, Broadway, musician to sinister Star Trek and Babylon 5 roles, Part 3
Apr 13, 2025
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 an
John Putch - Roles a plenty, two benzites, a federation journalist and the directors chair
Apr 20, 2025
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 p
John Putch - Roles a plenty, two benzites, a federation journalist and the directors chair, Part 2
Apr 27, 2025
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 na
David Mack - Author, Scriptwriter, and Consultant for Star Trek's Finest Worlds
May 4, 2025
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
David Mack - Author, Scriptwriter, and Consultant for Star Trek's Finest Worlds, Part 2
May 11, 2025
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 featur
Star Trek stunt superlatives - Tom Morga, Chris Doyle, Suzanne Rampe
Jun 1, 2025
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 tal
Star Trek stunt superlatives - Tom Morga, Chris Doyle, Suzanne Rampe, Part 2
Jun 8, 2025
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
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 car
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 re
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 fa
Kay Bess - Star Trek: Picard La Sirena voice and beyond
Jul 6, 2025
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 dia
Kay Bess - Star Trek: Picard La Sirena voice and beyond, Part 2
Jul 13, 2025
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
Lou Wagner - Hollywood hero from Planet of the Apes to CHiPs and Star Trek's spinoffs
Jul 20, 2025
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 (K
Bobby Clark - stuntman, stunt actor - Gorn to Trek
Jul 27, 2025
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 Califo
Bobby Clark - stuntman, stunt actor - Gorn to Trek, Part 2
Aug 3, 2025
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 epi
Sage Arrindell: Shaping a career in Star Trek and beyond
Aug 24, 2025
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
Charles Picerni, Jr. - Stuntman, Stunt actor, Stunt Coordinator and second unit director
Aug 31, 2025
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 re
Charles Picerni, Senior and Junior; A family of stunt work in Star Trek and Hollywood, Part 2
Sep 7, 2025
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
Julie Ann Johnson; Stuntwoman, Charlie's Angeles, Hollywood stunts plus a single 1960's Star Trek experience
Sep 14, 2025
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
Gilbert Combs; Award winning fire stunts, car chase stunts, Hollywood stuntman, stunt actor, and coordinator
Sep 21, 2025
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 in