This Week in Trek: A Star Trek Podcast

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Episode 226, "The Dead Sevens" Feb 17, 2016

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News
NASA’s Star Trek Replicator Challenge Asks You To Design the Future of Space Food tinyurl.com/h4tyztj [CLIP] 1:10
Anovos TOS uniforms S1 & 2 preorder $180. $224.95 after March 15.

Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: For each actor in TOS, what do u think their best acting role was outside of Trek?

Star Trek in pop culture:
Lloyd the Conquerer (2011) A comedy about Larpers. One shows up dressed as Spock.
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Episode insight: VOY S5: Relativity

Character insight - Ensign Russell

Subspace communications

Episode 225, "Spock's Log" Feb 11, 2016

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News
CBS Trek: Bryan Fuller to be show runner
Casting
The TOS Enterprise filming model is in mid-restoration. All apart, being re-enforced with new internal metal framing.
Science nerds: gravity waves detected

Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: Would having Q in a TNG movie be a good or bad idea? Is Q a better fit for TV rather than a movie?

Star Trek in pop culture:
Gilmore Girls, S1, E19
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Episode insight: TOS: The Squire of Gothos

Character insight - Hadley

Subspace communications

Ken P.

Episode 224, "Be safe, make good choices" Feb 02, 2016

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Special guest Ashely V. Robinson from "The Red Shirt Diaries" joins us!

News
Star Trek Academy at the Intrepid Air and Space museum
Enterprise restoration at the Smithsonian

Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: Finally watched Galaxy Quest for the first time. Do you consider that movie a parody of Trek and its fans?

Star Trek in pop culture:
The Simpsons, "Star Trek XII: So Very Tired"

Episode insight: Enterprise, "Strange New World" S1

Character insight - Ensign Williams from "The Red Shirt Diaries".

Subspace communications

Ken P.

Episode 223, "X-Files: The Next Generation" Jan 26, 2016

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News
Star Trek TV Shows Leaving Amazon Video on February 15 disq.us/931wda. Netflix next? Moving everything to CBS All Access?
X-Files
Final Red Shirt Diaries (or is it?)
Axanar had nothing to do with it!
http://www.startrekmissions.com/

Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: What were your thoughts when you found out that Whoopi Goldberg was going to be a cast member in TNG?

Star Trek in pop culture:
The Simpsons. S23, E17 “Them, Robot” Mr Burns replaces the entire staff of the power plant with robots that only work, never talk. In this clip, Homer activates a hidden conversation mode in one of the robots.
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Episode insight: DS9: The House of Quark

Character insight - Broik

Subspace communications

Episode 222, "It's lunchtime" Jan 19, 2016

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News
A new Red Shirt Diaries is out! Operation: Annihilate!
There’s still hope for the Star Trek: TAS soundtrack
50th anniversary soundtrack - voted by you!

Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: Do u think it will help or hurt the next Trek TV series if it had the next version of the starship Enterprise in it?

Star Trek in pop culture:
- Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness (Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper and John Barrowman), The Empty Child
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Episode insight: TNG: The Schizoid Man

Character insight - Martinez

Subspace communications

Episode 221, "Cat Trek" Jan 12, 2016

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News
Red Shirt Diaries!
If it takes 6 months to film a season of TV, then they must already be well underway with New CBS Trek pre-production.

Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: When TOS first aired, did you ever wonder why Captain Kirk didn't have any chest hair?

Star Trek in pop culture:
Ted 2. A car with Ted & friends is driving along and almost runs over Darth Vader, A storm trooper and Obi Wan Kenobi.
00:28

Episode insight: ENT: Shuttlepod One

Character insight - Axanar

Subspace communications

Episode 220, "There's always room for Squeeze" Jan 06, 2016

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News
http://trekmovie.com/2015/12/30/usps-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary-with-star-trek-stamps-in-2016/
Axanar lawsuit
200 5 ¼” floppies of Gene Roddenberry’s found, decoded & read.
No William Shatner in STar Trek: Beyond
Red Shirt Diaries!

Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: Would you like to see a starship computer have a personality? Something like Jarvis in the Ironman movies.

Star Trek in pop culture:
The Simpsons, S10, E22: When the mayor flees, the smartest minds in Springfield take over the government - including Comic Book Guy.
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Episode insight: VOY: S6 Tsunkatse

Character insight - Martok

Subspace communications

Ken P.

Episode 219, "Airports are dirty" Jan 03, 2016

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Special guest host Sunshine Reardon fills in for Darrell this week.

News
United States Post Office shows off new Star Trek stamps for 2016.

Star Trek in pop culture:
Doctor Who - "Mister Spock"

Episode insight: TAS: Pirates of Orion

Subspace communications

Episode 218, "Star Trek gets everywhere" Dec 22, 2015

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News
This Week in Trek - as mentioned on MSNBC.
Justin Lin confirms there are no Klingons in Beyond.
Both Simon Pegg & Justin Lin say the trailer doesn’t represent the film well.
Quinton Terentino on The Nerdist - what he thought about the 2nd JJ movie. Sent by Karl.
[CLIP] 00:56 He also goes on to say City on the Edge & Yesterday’s Enterprise would make great movies.
New Red Shirt Diaries!

Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: I have a feeling that if the next Trek movie tanks, the TV series will get cancelled. What do u think?

Star Trek in pop culture:
The Luck of the Irish. 2001. A Disney Channel original movie. The main character is turning into a leprechaun with pointed ears.
00:07

Episode insight: DS9: Sanctuary. S2

Character insight - Janeway

Subspace communications

Episode 217, "Enterprise destruction porn" Dec 15, 2015

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News
No Beyond Trek trailer for SW 3D IMAX.
Red Shirt Diaries - This Side of Paradise. Needed an episode where the bridge was empty - Darrell suggested this one.

Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: Do u think better stories can be written for Trek if the starship captain was single or married?

Star Trek in pop culture:
The Simpsons S5: Rosebud (Mr Burns)
00:07

Episode insight: TNG S1: Home Soil

Character insight - Star Trek/Star Wars crossovers

Subspace communications

Ken P.

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