This Week in Trek

This Week in Trek Episode 228, “Star Trek: 5000”

News

Nicholas Meyer named as a consulting producer & staff writer for new CBS Trek. “Different Direction”

Trek Talks speaker series explores Star Trek’s influence on technology, science, society, culture and more. http://www.startrek.com/trek_talks

Pulaski Day is the first Monday in March. It’s a Chicago thing & that’s all I know about it.

Ten Forward:

Chris on Twitter: Surely by the 24th century there will be a cure for baldness. That means Picard choses to be bald, right?

A: Gene Roddenberry – By the 24th century we’ll no longer judge people by their appearance.

Star Trek in pop culture:

Survivor’s Remorse :: Six – A basketball player is discussing product endorsement deals with friends.

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Episode insight: TNG S2: Unnatural Selection

Character insight – Fitzpatrick

Subspace communications

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This Week in Trek Episode 227, “First lactose intolerant captain”

News

Tickets on sale for the Star Trek con in NYC

Axanar mess

Ten Forward:

Chris on Twitter: Which would u rather do, spend time in the holodeck with Lt. Barclay or visit Risa with Commander Riker?

Star Trek in pop culture:

Drop Dead Diva S6 E5

Episode insight: TNG S6: Starship Mine

Character insight – Damar

Subspace communications

Ken P.

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This Week in Trek Episode 226, “The Dead Sevens”

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

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This Week in Trek Episode 225, “Spock’s Log”

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.

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This Week in Trek Episode 224, “Be safe, make good choices”

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.

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Episode 223, “X-Files: The Next Generation”

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

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This Week in Trek Episode 222, “It’s lunchtime”

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

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This Week in Trek Episode 221, “Cat Trek”

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.

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Episode insight: ENT: Shuttlepod One

Character insight – Axanar

Subspace communications

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This Week in Trek Episode 220, “There’s always room for Squeeze”

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.

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