Star Trek Trivia Showdown: Mike vs Jay (Episode 1 of 2,873) 

Mike is slowly turning the studio into his own personal Star Trek Guantanamo bay.

The look on Jay’s face. He’s planning to win it all back by throwing Mike into a trivia show about weird sex-pervert movies.

Jay blink twice if they have your family hostage

I guess Jay hadn't been keeping up with the Cardassians

Jay gave a spectacular performance as Alex Kurtzman here.

Wow, an entire episode dedicated to bully Jay instead of Rich. They are truly breaking new ground

Now I’m just waiting for Jay to turn the tables in “Obscure sex pervert horror movie trivia”.

I can't believe Jay didn't know who was responsible for the Crystalline Entity's attack on the Omicron Theta colony world.

Jay actually knew all the answers but just hates single homeless mothers and children

And of course this will be the one episode that William Shatner decides to watch if he ever decides to give RLM another chance.

"What position did Kira hold" -Missionary This is worth a like all by itself.

Star Trek fans bullying a kid

Can we all just take a moment to applaud Rich Evans for his lack of mistakes while reading

One day Mike will be in a nursing home suffering from dementia, never saying a word. But occasionally a nurse will say something that triggers a memory and Mike will sit up and say "That's like the episode of TNG when..."

Jay realising he knew the answer to the Iggy Pop question is probably the most excited I've ever seen him.

Jay’s knowledge of Star Trek is still better than the writers from Discovery and Picard.

There are 2 times that Mike gives a wrong answer, both of those times he is clearly genuinely upset and it brings me joy

Mike doesn’t remember a movie he’s just watched, but remembers the Klingon dish best served alive, with pronunciation

Jay gets revenge on episode 2 which is all about obscure, sick, and weird horror films.

at the end of the day, Red Letter Media is really a story about 3 friends

I love how defensive Mike gets when he doesn’t get a question fully right

Now we need an episode that is just David Lynch trivia so Jay can have his moment.

Seeing Jay blink the Morse code for the word “Torture” was really impressive.

Doubling a negative score? Now THAT is the power of math.

You know our boy Rich built those podiums and damn he did great. We appreciate the work you're doing Rich.

One thing I've always admired about Rich is that he's managed to look the same level of "tired" for over a decade now.

You joke, but I am 100% on board for 2000+ episodes of this

There are MMA fights that aren't a quarter as brutal as these 25 minutes.

This is the only place where you can be bullied for NOT knowing a lot about Star Trek

Just wait until the next trivia is “obscure Italian slasher movies” or “weird creepy sex pervert movies”. Jay will be right at home 🤣

Jay finally feeling remorse for the endless string of single mothers in his wake.

Mike trying to suppress his laughter at Jay's missionary joke will always stay with me

Now they need to do a David Lynch trivia showdown for Jay

"I was thinking of HP Lovecraft's cat" "was it named spot?" *"nooooo..."* my sides

“The writers know as much about Star Trek... as Jay does.”

Mike's secret wish is for Shatner to see this and know the truth about his true love for ST.

Actually broke laughing at the idea of Robert Picardo phasing into existence and every time going "Whats up?!"

Next episode should be Mike vs Jay on weird, obscure 80s horror shlock films.

I'm surprised this wasn't just 25 minutes of Jay looking directly into the camera

I want to watch Jay's version of Star Trek, where a beer swilling Capt Janeway flies around with Han Solo trading coffee and fighting Spiderman.

Don't write Jay off just yet guys, he still has 2,872 episodes to catch back up!

"I was actually thinking about HP Lovecraft's cat's name" "Was it Spot?" "Nooooooooo"

Mike's frantic, insecure rambling over getting "The Melbourne" wrong is the least amount of acting he's ever done.

I love how Mike is the most miserable person ever unless Star Trek is involved. Seeing him happy just makes me happy.

"I wish Mike and Rich would just do a straight-up star trek trivia show!" [ONE FINGER ON THE MONKEY'S PAW CURLS]

I have to imagine Mike is filled with a pure, childlike joy during all this

Even with them clearly having this be a joke and not taking things seriously, they still pulled off a better game show than Doug Walker ever could.

I just noticed that Jay has the "red" podium. Foreshadowing.

Please do a Twin Peaks quiz show next. Mike's frustration is funnier and he will probably really care about losing.

I can't wait for Jay's revenge when they do a quiz show about 70s low budget obscure Italian sexploitation films

This just proves that Jay would make the PERFECT writer for "new" Abrams/Kurtzman Trek series.

This is why Shatner doesn’t want anything to do with Mike. Mike’s a bigger Star Trek fan than him

Please, everyone, do NOT send this Shatner, repeatedly. Mike's heart can't take it-

Next, they need to do an episode where they do trivia based around obscure, weirdo horror movies. Jay can't lose.

I love the fact that they could've made this a close competition between Mike and Rich, and instead used it to just make fun of Jay.

Fucking losing it at 10:52 when Rich starts saying "correct" before Mike can even answer

Was actually expecting all of jays questions to be softballs and all of mikes questions to be related to Picard and discovery

Mike's laugh when Jay said 'Missionary' made me spit my water

Next episode: Josh hosts a trivia show about the works of David Lynch as Jay annihilates Mike into a state of nonexistence.

Fun fact: This is RedLetterMedia's 666th video upload

I appreciate Christopher Nolan for going out if his way and directing this episode

Dang, all the celebrities are getting their own game shows. Even the illustrious Rich Evans.

Rich: "What show ruined Star Trek?" Mike: "Star Trek: Discovery". Jay: "Star Trek: Picard". Rich: "I can accept both of those answers".

The 'Lore' question making a spectacular come back, and coming from Jay, is simply glorious

I love how this stupid little skit has more production value and creativity than the Nostalgia Critic's failure of a game show that they had to crowdfund

Jesus, Jay. Even Mike got these, and he hallucinated Yoda doing a thong dance.

18:45 "What Klingon dish is best served-" JAY: "Revenge!" I DIED HERE

"I don't know what the fuck that means" No truer words have been said by Jay Bauman.

I love the idea that Mike wears Star Trek costumes in his day to day life and the normal clothes he wears in videos are the dressing up.

When a RLM sarcastic joke trivia show looks better then nostalgia critics "this will be my best material ever" trivia show...

I don't know what's better, Jay giving answers he knows are wrong starting halfway through, or Mike being upset when he misses a question with a lead of $50,000.

I see a bright future for Jay working on Discovery or Picard. He seems eminently qualified to be a writer for future seasons.

Can we get a trivia show on obscure weirdo horror movies so Jay can flex *his* knowledge?

Can't decide what's more funny: Mike knowing every answer or Jay's terribly wrong guesses.

Jay really showing off his comedic timing. He even got Mike to laugh a couple of times.

Everyone talking about how Jay's getting bullied, but just you wait. He makes a comeback in Episode 1,774 while Rich is drunk and Mike is on life support and trying to buzz in from the hospital on a 56k modem.

“Revenge” $100k for Jay in bonus points for that answer alone. It’s the wrong answer, but it’s a great wrong answer.

I absolutely hate how many of these I got right... And still lost to Mike...

Whenever Jay gets an answer correct, it fills me with this sense of pride and happiness.

I think there is no sweeter feeling in life than watching Mike and Rich genuinely smile and applaud when Jay gets a Star Trek question right. It's like two older brothers in college showing pride for their little brother who had to repeat sophomore year.

I like how they invested just enough to make the stands and put up a gray curtain, but they didn't have anywhere for Rich to put the answered question cards so he just throws them on the floor.

Maybe if they continue doing these Star Trek themed episodes Shatner will finally realize that Jay is the biggest Star Trek fan of them all.

Thought, "I'd totally watch Rich and Mike do Star Trek trivia against each other" then realized that is not what it was, and was even more excited.

This video reminded me of the time my wife and her friend "met" Robert Picardo, the emergency medical hologram from _Voyager._ In the emergency room. My wife's friend was having some kind of pain and my wife drove him to the ER. A con was in town. While they were waiting, in comes Robert Picardo. My wife is a pretty big Trekkie, so she recognized him immediately. My wife is also very polite and would never have accosted him in such a place, but she also has *zero* poker face, so the moment she saw him, she turned to her friend and giggled "Please state the nature of the medical emergency!" She was trying to whisper, but was too excited and also laughing at her own joke, so it came out much too loud. Picardo apparently heard her, because he went up to the desk and asked if there was somewhere he could wait in private. My wife was mortified.

Did Jay only agree to this to get an Inland Empire ReView

If only he'd listened to Mike when he was trying to prepare Jay for this for all these years..

I love how you can tell this wasn't entirely rehearsed and Mike actually knows every answer.

"H.P. Lovecraft's cat" ... another epic drop by Jay after his famous "get excited for next product" the mad man did it again, fam

Holy fuck this is genius, I get so much pleasure out of watching Jay try to answer these

The HP Lovecraft's cat had me dying of laughter.

You know, this reminds me of this one Star trek the original series' episode where kirk, uhura, and chekov are forced to play a game to entertain slavemasters

Even though Jay lost the game, I feel sorry for Mike.

Love how Mike invents the judges as if to elicit a ray of hope, then immediately has them say no.

I like how Jay is practically already laughing as soon as they ask the first question

Looking forward to the Star Wars episode to see who correctly answers that Darth Vader's helmet was polished with "Woodoo hide".

The host is too competent to be the real Rich Evans. It must be an emergency Rich Evans hologram.

This bit literally had one joke and I couldn't have enjoyed it more.

The lack of attention to Rich's Pac-Man suit is criminal.

Now I want to see a legit Star Trek trivia showdown between Mike and Rich with Jay reading the questions and mispronouncing everything.

"Can all the questions be about Iggy Pop??" Jay's enthusiasm is contagious