Star Trek Youtubers: The Good, The Mehh And The Ugly

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Star Trek Youtubers: The Good, The Mehh And The Ugly


I know this is kinda random, but there is something I want to talk about: Star Trek youtubers.  There are many, from different parts of the world and different walks of life.  Some are good, some are mehh, and some are absolutely toxic.


The Good

(in no particular order)

Trekyards

"Captain" Stuart Foley (from Canada) and "Commander" Samuel Cockings (from the UK) discuss Star Trek episodes, tech, and primarily ships.  Generally pretty good material, although they did become apologists for Discovery amid all the fan backlash when it first came out.

Venom Geek Media

A smaller channel, focuses on ships (from an in universe perspective) and Star Trek battle/war history.  Very high production quality videos.  Full disclosure: I am a paid member of this channel.

Certifiably Ingame

Another small channel, Star Trek Online game play videos, as well as high quality documentary style videos on a variety of Trek topics.

Orange River

Small channel with polished, professional documentary videos on Star Trek topics, from mapping the journey of the original Enterprise in TOS to exploring various alien species and factions.

Rowan J Coleman

A Scottish youtuber who does long form opinion and retrospective videos, including his Star Trek Retrospective series, covering TOS all the way to Star Trek Beyond.

Steve Shives

Good, if often long discussion and retrospective videos, with a decidedly left-leaning slant.


The Mehhh

Triangulum Audio Studios

A Canadian-based channel, mostly in-universe perspective short documentaries about ships, space stations, etc.  Occasionally covers other Trek topics.  I do take issue with the fact that despite his reminder every video that "all information relayed should be taken with a grain of stardust and just considered a little bit of Star Trek fun" he tends to play canon gatekeeper in the comment sections, virtually attacking myself when I pointed out something that he called non canon that is in fact considered canon.  

Jesse Gender

Jesse Earl, a transgendered Trek youtuber who does reviews, retrospectives and opinion videos on a variety of Trek topics, usually with a slant toward LGBTQ representation.

Sci-Finatics

Nick Hallam, an Australian youtuber who does reviews and news updates mostly regarding new trek.  Not a fan of this one, his videos are ok, but his constant glowing approval of anything and everything Trek good or bad is a bit irritating to me.  That said he does agree with the general consensus that Star Trek: Section 31 is bad.

Lore Reloaded

Documentary-style videos on anything Trek, from ships to uniforms to plotlines.  Good production quality, but often quite opinionated, i would even go so far as too say "blow hard".  Also Lore Reloaded has a tendency to whine and complain and display attitude when people mention errors in his lore videos in the comments (as is to be expected because duhhh...it's youtube).  

The Templin Institute and Spacedock

I'm lumping these two channels together because their content is essentially the same: in-universe perspective short-form documentaries about ships, space stations, planets, etc. from Star Trek and other sci-fi franchises.


The Ugly

Any of the more toxic "fans" who poo-poo anything new trek and incessantly complain and whine about canon and Kurtzman, among other things.  MechaRandom42, Doomcock, Nerdrotic, and any other Star Trek focused "fandom menace" youtubers.

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