This Week in Trek: A Star Trek Podcast

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Episode 17, Stardate 1111.01, "Temporal Inbreeding" Nov 01, 2011

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News:
Treknews.net will be updating their list of awesome Star Trek podcasts, and we'll be on it!
Portuguese site reports that the new enemies in Star Trek 2 will be Klingons.
Be a red shirt in an upcoming comic!

Ten Forward:
We play a voice message that we forgot to last week.
Where has Star Trek NOT gone yet?

Star Trek in pop culture:
New medical scanner

Episode Insight:
DS9's "Trouble and Tribble-ations"

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Collectables:
Darrell has phaser replicas and Mike has Star Trek Giant Poster Books

Episode 16, Stardate 1110.25, "Major (not emperor) Kira" Oct 25, 2011

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News: Star Trek 2 is "imminent"

Ten Forward: Why do you dress up for cons?

Trek in pop culture: Mythbusters

Episode insight: DS9's "Duet"

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Collectables: Vulcan ears and Trek on film

Episode 15, Stardate 1110.18, "Finish him!" Oct 18, 2011

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Thanks to Cameron for the generous donation!

News:
Seth MacFarlane wants to reboot Trek (who doesn't?)
Hallmark had a limited edition TOS Defiant ornament for NY Comicon.
Spiner and Wheaton on The Big Bang Theory. Was it a big bang?

Ten Forward:
What if aliens really did contact us?

Star Trek in Pop Culture:
Farscape, Family Matters, Friends, and an old McDonalds Happy Meal commercial.

Episode Insight: "The Tholian Web"

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Collecting Trek

Episode 14, Stardate 1110.11, "Loving the alien" Oct 11, 2011

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News:
Leonard Nimoy does his last convention appearance.
Wil Wheaton and Brent Spiner on "The Big Bang Theory" this week.

Ten Forward: Deflectors again! We nail it this time.

Trek in pop culture: Family Guy

Episode Insight: TNG's "First Contact"

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Bloopers

Episode 13, Stardate 1110.06, "They were yummy!" Oct 06, 2011

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News:

Star Trek TNG coming to Blu-Ray in 2012!
Wil Wheaton and Brent Spiner on The Big Bang Theory soon

Ten Forward: Good and bad technobabble

Star Trek in pop culture:
Ren & Stimpy
Frasier

Episode insight: Cold Station 12/The Augments

Bloopers

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Episode 12, Stardate 1109.27, "Planet Shrek" Sep 27, 2011

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Thanks to our sponsor today @ahscott

News:
Star Trek: Enterprise turns 10 this week.
Hallmark Star Trek ornaments are in stores now.
Shatner on Star Wars vs. Star Trek.
Star Trek Exhibition opens at the St. Louis Science museum in October.
Charlie Sheen roasted by Shatner.

Ten Forward: How do you navigate a starship?

Star Trek in pop culture: Wayne's World

Episode insight: Enterprise's "Borderland"

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Bloopers: Enterprise

Episode 11, Stardate 1109.20, "This podcast goes to warp 11" Sep 20, 2011

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DS9 coming to Netflix streaming on Oct. 1
JJ Abrams signed for Star Trek 2
Leonard Nimoy helps open the Emmys

Ten Forward: How DO you build a starship?

Star Trek in pop culture: World of Warcraft

Episode Synopsis: TOS' Assignment: Earth

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Bloopers

Episode 10, Stardate 1109.13, "We must be #1 if you're listening to us" Sep 13, 2011

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News:
Star Trek's 45 - big or bust?
"Trek Nation" premieres on Nov. 30
"The Captains" to be released on DVD Oct. 4

Ten Forward:
Were transporters misused in Star Trek, or a properly used tool?

Episode insight: TNG's "The Nth Degree"

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Bloopers

Episode 9, Stardate 1109.6, "Timba, his barf spewing" Sep 06, 2011

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Timba, his barf spewing

News:
45th anniversary mosaic from fanmosaics.com
Star Trek Online going free-to-play before the end of the year
Interview with Bjo Trimble on startrek.com about saving Star Trek

Episode insight: TNG's episode "Relics"

What happens to your soul in a transporter accident?

Bloopers! ST 2009 and Voyager

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Episode 8, Stardate 1108.25, "And my other brother Darrell" Aug 25, 2011

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Special Guest - Tom Merritt from TWiT!

News:
New Star Trek series being pitched to CBS. Will it work? Wil it even see the light of day? Maybe not, but it has an interesting premise.

Episode Insight:
"Far Beyond the Stars" from Deep Space Nine season 6.

Ten Forward:
With Tom as our guest, we asked how Star Trek has influenced him over the years.

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