Podcasts about Ezri Dax

The guys do a live watch of the Fantastic 4 trailer and discuss their thoughts on it. Then they delve into the DS9 episode Field of Fire that was a send up to Silence of the Lambs starring Ezri Dax! They look at the story telling and the tech that mysteriously disappeared after this episode. #DeepSpaceNine #DS9 #Ezri #Fantastic4 #Scifi ---------------- Visit our site! https://www.thosescifiguys.com Buy Mack's latest book Hey Stranger here: https://a.co/d/6ZHZZMX Contact: Email: Thosescifiguys@gmail.com X: @thosescifiguys, @PSMcKay Facebook: Those Sci-Fi Guys Music courtesy of Camtasia and Ryan Scott Titled Get Your Ticket

The guys do a live watch of the Fantastic 4 trailer and discuss their thoughts on it. Then they delve into the DS9 episode Field of Fire that was a send up to Silence of the Lambs starring Ezri Dax! They look at the story telling and the tech that mysteriously disappeared after this episode. #DeepSpaceNine #DS9 #Ezri #Fantastic4 #Scifi ---------------- Visit our site! https://www.thosescifiguys.com Buy Mack's latest book Hey Stranger here: https://a.co/d/6ZHZZMX Contact: Email: Thosescifiguys@gmail.com X: @thosescifiguys, @PSMcKay Facebook: Those Sci-Fi Guys Music courtesy of Camtasia and Ryan Scott Titled Get Your Ticket

We're joined by Helen Sadler from the Flixwatcher podcast, to discuss the Indie Sci-Fi Horror sensation of 1997, Cube, starring Nicole de Boer, who essayed the role of Ezri Dax on Star trek: Deep Space Nine.   We discuss the budget limitations of the film and if it would have been better suited to a short film treatment while also praising the innovations of the practical effects and sets, highlight the political relevance of the film today, and debate the potentially problematic character of Kazan.   Get cubed and listen now.   As usual you can find SPOCKLIGHT on: TWITTER - @spocklightpod INSTAGRAM – @spocklightpod FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/spocklightpod/ EMAIL - spocklightpod@gmail.com Please Follow, like, share and all that good stuff.   You can find Helen @TheCatFilmFan on X, while more information about Flixwatcher (including their scoreboard discussed in the show) can be found at https://flixwatcher.tv/ Credit for our wonderful theme music goes to the incredibly talented, Adam Johnston's, you can find more of his work at - https://adamjohnstonuk.bandcamp.com/ Our beautiful artwork was created by Stephen Trumble, see more at http://www.stephentrumble.com 

It's time to draw some dots all over yourselves as Casual Trek's discussing Dax! This one's a Ko-Fi donor episode, so thanks Ben for the opportunity to talk about some more Trill shenanigans. We normally talk about three different shows but here we're looking at three different Dax hosts. There's also a weird sub-theme of muuuurder. In “Dax”, Jadzia's on trial for a murder that one of Dax's previous hosts may have done. We've got Odo in detective mode, a trial in Quark's bar and a gloriously disinterested judge. In “Equilibrium”, we delve into the dark past of Dax as Jadzia starts remembering things which none of her hosts have done. Oh no, she's got a Dark Passenger! It's Joran Dax! In “Field of Fire”, Ezri Dax investigates a murderer on DS9 and has to enlist Joran Dax to help her hunt them down. Joran takes the opportunity to oversell how much of a murderer he was, but we all have a fun time. Unless you're a murder victim, I guess. Just as a warning, there's some beeping on the audio as there was some building work going on. We also go on way too long about Davy Crockett and how little we know or care about him. It'll make sense when you get there. 00:02:48 Non-Star Trek Things: Fallout, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon 00:11:47 Deep Space Nine: Dax 00:43:20 Deep Space Nine: Equilibrium 01:07:47 Deep Space Nine: Field of Fire Talking points include: Venom, Spider-Man 3, Fallout (TV show & game), GTA, Rings of Power, Person of Interest, The 3DS, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Hyrule Warriors, Planet of the Bass explains later Mobile Suit Gundam series, the Mortal Kombat theme, Julian Bashir has creepy Xander Harris energy, Robbie Williams' career, X-Files style cover-ups, of all people MILES compares something to Lynch, all of the Wolverine revelations, X-Men: Deadly Genesis, all the Professor X mindwipes, Britney-mania, Phoenix Wright, Invader Zim, Hannibal, Joran Dax is the crypto bro of murders, BSG, Farscape, The Dark Half starring Anthony Michael Hall from The Breakfast Club, Kira's Karen Haircut, Odo's reading habits, Rear Window, Starfleet Poirot, No one British gives a crap about Davy Crockett. Oh, and occasionally Star Trek. Casual Trek is by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn and Miles Reid-Lobatto Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn Casual Trek is a part of the Nerd & Tie Network https://ko-fi.com/casualtrek Miles' blog: http://www.mareidlobatto.wordpress.com Charlie's blog: http://www.fakedtales.com

Today we start our series on the Mirror Universe & the Terrian Empire! We deep dive into several theories and cover all the following:  What exactly are those things in Star Trek canon?  How does the Prime & Mirror Universe intersect? & Interact?  What is the main benefit for us Trekies to have a Mirror U? What are the theories for how it was created?  We like to see our beloved characters be bad and wear a ton of leather (everyone side eye's Ezri Dax), while they slowly take over the Alpha Quadrant!  Join us as we embark on another excursion into podcasting excellence! 

Anthony and Laurie start with the biggest news of the week: A new Star Trek movie is in development! They go through the tidbits of information available and talk about director Toby Haynes, who directed the Trek-themed Black Mirror episode “USS Callister.” They also discuss Patrick Stewart's comment that a Picard movie is possibly in the works, William Shatner's thoughts on his Kirk being “erased,” and the departure of the TOS and TNG movies from Paramount+ to Max. They also talk about Jeri Ryan and Terry Matalas' Astra TV Award wins for Picard, episode titles and a premiere event for Star Trek: Discovery‘s final season, comments from Prodigy producers about the Janeway-Chakotay reunion coming in season 2, and the arrival of Ezri Dax in Star Trek Online. They wrap up with a final preview of Trek Talks 3 before the big event on Saturday.

Anthony and Laurie start with the biggest news of the week: A new Star Trek movie is in development! They go through the tidbits of information available and talk about director Toby Haynes, who directed the Trek-themed Black Mirror episode “USS Callister.” They also discuss Patrick Stewart's comment that a Picard movie is possibly in the works, William Shatner's thoughts on his Kirk being “erased,” and the departure of the TOS and TNG movies from Paramount+ to Max. They also talk about Jeri Ryan and Terry Matalas' Astra TV Award wins for Picard, episode titles and a premiere event for Star Trek: Discovery‘s final season, comments from Prodigy producers about the Janeway-Chakotay reunion coming in season 2, and the arrival of Ezri Dax in Star Trek Online. They wrap up with a final preview of Trek Talks 3 before the big event on Saturday.

Deep Space Nine inspired us as nonbinary people. On this episode the hosts (we're both nonbinary) delve into DS9 characters read through a nonbinary lens, especially Ezri Dax, Jadzia Dax, Odo and Pel, the Ferengi. Find out: Is it nonbinary to be a Bajoran hawk? Odo's “I can't get the ears right” is extremely trans.If you're a shapeshifter why not make yourself a cooler shirt? The limits of language and when making things awkward is the point.What we saw in this show as teens figuring out our identities Vs. what we see in it now as adults reflecting back. Catch all our past episodes of Deep Space Dive podcast: https://graphicpolicy.com/deep-space-dive/

Ryan and Brady and DS9 return to the well of parent trauma, but this story about Ezri Dax's real mom isn't quite as oddly compelling as the tale of Odo's fake dad. You know what is compelling, though? Miles O'Brien. He's in this one!

Fatheree and Dave are fast approaching the end of DEEP SPACE NINE. This week we kick off our season 7 discussions. Join us as we chat about the first 8 episodes of season 7. That's everything from the season's two-part opener and Ezri Dax introduction all the way up to the tragic war story, "The Siege of AR-558.” Lace up your cleats for baseball on the holosuite. Watch Kira defend Bajor's moon from Romulans. Sing to the glory of the final flight of Klingon warrior, Kor! All this an more as we sail the Great River!As always, available in both video and audio-only formats.Watch on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/live/kV3fyrcQFNM?feature=shareGet RSS feed:https://feeds.captivate.fm/tex-trek/Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tex-trek/id1495605753?uo=4Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6mdZ030Klldxwn7SSc5PKp?si=3BOqsbQER9Ssfppqk7lofQ&fbclid=IwAR1M1uH_xBE1lYWcwQocoDzjoVSsLmCgBt08TCEYAltwIH3MPC0S60bMCsEGoogle Podcasts:https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvMzM1MjY2NS9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVkJoin our Discord server:https://discord.gg/YXPeRyQh7ySupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/txtrekhttp://www.facebook.com/textrekhttp://twitter.com/TxTrekEmail: fathereeactual@tex-trek.com

Jessie Gender on Sexuality in Star Trek Jessie Earl is a Youtuber whose popular channel examines Star Trek in a very different light, or in some cases, with the lights turned out. Known to her fans as Jessie Gender, her videos range from Klingon anatomy, LGBTQ+, Transgender, and nonbinary representation in the franchise, and the way sex and sexuality is shown through all the series. In this conversation, no topic is too hot to handle, as we discuss the unusual way Jessie found her Star Trek fandom, how she discovered who she really was as a woman and how her experiences affect the type of videos she makes, how Jessie built her Youtube channel and transformed it into the success it is today, how she puts a video together including the meticulous research behind them and more on being a content creator. From there, it's onto Trek Talk as Jessie tells us why Riker is the most sexually positive character in all of Trek and what his sexuality is, Jadzia and Ezri Dax as the Trans metaphor, discussion on "The Outcast," the importance of "headcanon" and how it intersects with the LGBTQ community, balancing representation VS the conservative view on "wokeism," and a whole lot more! This is a don't miss episode that covers a wide range of topics, from the silly to serious, and will undoubtedly put a new perspective on how you watch Star Trek.  A reminder - Jessie had just had surgery done on her face, so her cheeks were a bit puffy from the recovery process, so if you're wondering why she sounds a bit funny, there's your answer! Check out Jessie's channel here - https://www.youtube.com/c/lostrekkieJessie's "Star Trek TNG – A Sexual Retrospective - https://youtu.be/j1Q8FUT_bz8 Check out the video version of this podcast on Youtube.com/nerdnewstoday every Sunday. Please subscribe to our channel and hit the notifications button to be updated when we go live or upload our next video! Trek Untold is sponsored by Triple-Fictionproductions.net, 3-D printing Star Trek and sci-fi-inspired prop replicas, dioramas, and accessories for cosplayers and action figures. Use code UNTOLD10 at checkout for 10% off all orders. Visit them at Triple-Fictionproductions.net.  Visit my Amazon shop to check out tons of Trek products and other things I enjoy - https://www.amazon.com/shop/thefightnerd View the Teespring store for Trek Untold gear & apparel - https://my-store-9204078.creator-spring.com Support Trek Untold by becoming a Patreon at Patreon.com/TrekUntold. Don't forget to subscribe to the show and leave a rating if you like us! Follow Trek Untold on Social Media Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/trekuntoldTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/trekuntoldFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/trekuntold Follow Nerd News Today on Social Media Twitter:  Twitter.com/NerdNews2Day Instagram: Instagram.com/NerdNewsToday Facebook: Facebook.com/NerdNewsToday Trek Untold is sponsored by Treksphere.com, powered by the RAGE Works Podcast Network, and affiliated with Nerd News Today.   The views expressed on air during Trek Untold do not represent the views of the RAGE Works staff, partners, or affiliates. 

Jessie Earl is a Youtuber whose popular channel examines Star Trek in a very different light, or in some cases, with the lights turned out. Known to her fans as Jessie Gender, her videos range from Klingon anatomy, LGBTQ+, Transgender, and nonbinary representation in the franchise, and the way sex and sexuality is shown through all the series. In this conversation, no topic is too hot to handle, as we discuss the unusual way Jessie found her Star Trek fandom, how she discovered who she really was as a woman and how her experiences affect the type of videos she makes, how Jessie built her Youtube channel and transformed it into the success it is today, how she puts a video together including the meticulous research behind them and more on being a content creator. From there, it's onto Trek Talk as Jessie tells us why Riker is the most sexually positive character in all of Trek and what his sexuality is, Jadzia and Ezri Dax as the Trans metaphor, discussion on "The Outcast," the importance of "headcanon" and how it intersects with the LGBTQ community, balancing representation VS the conservative view on "wokeism," and a whole lot more! This is a don't miss episode that covers a wide range of topics, from the silly to serious, and will undoubtedly put a new perspective on how you watch Star Trek.  A reminder - Jessie had just had surgery done on her face, so her cheeks were a bit puffy from the recovery process, so if you're wondering why she sounds a bit funny, there's your answer! Check out Jessie's channel here - https://www.youtube.com/c/lostrekkieJessie's "Star Trek TNG – A Sexual Retrospective - https://youtu.be/j1Q8FUT_bz8 Check out the video version of this podcast on Youtube.com/nerdnewstoday every Sunday. Please subscribe to our channel and hit the notifications button to be updated when we go live or upload our next video! Trek Untold is sponsored by Triple-Fictionproductions.net, 3-D printing Star Trek and sci-fi-inspired prop replicas, dioramas, and accessories for cosplayers and action figures. Use code UNTOLD10 at checkout for 10% off all orders. Visit them at Triple-Fictionproductions.net.  Visit my Amazon shop to check out tons of Trek products and other things I enjoy - https://www.amazon.com/shop/thefightnerd View the Teespring store for Trek Untold gear & apparel - https://my-store-9204078.creator-spring.com Support Trek Untold by becoming a Patreon at Patreon.com/TrekUntold. Don't forget to subscribe to the show and leave a rating if you like us! Follow Trek Untold on Social Media Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/trekuntoldTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/trekuntoldFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/trekuntold Follow Nerd News Today on Social Media Twitter: Twitter.com/NerdNews2DayInstagram: Instagram.com/NerdNewsTodayFacebook: Facebook.com/NerdNewsToday Trek Untold is sponsored by Treksphere.com, powered by the RAGE Works Podcast Network, and affiliated with Nerd News Today.

Season 7 continues! This week the episodes covered are "Afterimage" and "Take Me Out to the Holosuite". We talk the character of Ezri Dax. More specifically, was she even needed? Is it possible she was created out of spite? We also talk about how great Odo is as an umpire.

Dax is back on DS9 with a new body and a new name. We're joined by Jessie Gender to talk about Ezri Dax's character development, friendships and romantic relationships, memorable moments, and why her journey resonates with trans fans and many more. HOSTS Kennedy Sarah Jarrah GUEST Jessie Gender – @jessiegender EDITOR Jarrah Send us your feedback! Email: crew@womenatwarp.com Twitter/Instagram: @womenatwarp Facebook: http://facebook.com/womenatwarp Support the Show on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/womenatwarp Visit our TeePublic Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/womenatwarp

Dax is back on DS9 with a new body and a new name. We're joined by Jessie Gender to talk about Ezri Dax's character development, friendships and romantic relationships, memorable moments, and why her journey resonates with trans fans and many more. HOSTS Kennedy Sarah Jarrah GUEST Jessie Gender – @jessiegender EDITOR Jarrah Send us your feedback! Email: crew@womenatwarp.com Twitter/Instagram: @womenatwarp Facebook: http://facebook.com/womenatwarp Support the Show on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/womenatwarp Visit our TeePublic Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/womenatwarp

There's an outbreak of seemingly unconnected murders occurring on DS9. Ezri Dax is particularly attuned to figuring out the culprit when she communes with the darker side of her symbiont. Memories and melons explode when Field of Fire goes into the Mission Log. Sponsored by

There's an outbreak of seemingly unconnected murders occurring on DS9. Ezri Dax is particularly attuned to figuring out the culprit when she communes with the darker side of her symbiont. Memories and melons explode when Field of Fire goes into the Mission Log. Sponsored by

There's an outbreak of seemingly unconnected murders occurring on DS9. Ezri Dax is particularly attuned to figuring out the culprit when she communes with the darker side of her symbiont. Memories and melons explode when Field of Fire goes into the Mission Log. Sponsored by

Ezri Dax returns home only to find she can't go home again. There's her overbearing mother, her artistic brother and the other one. Oh hi, Chief O'Brien. Also, there's murder. Prodigal Daughter goes into the Mission Log. Sponsored by listeners like you -

Ezri Dax returns home only to find she can't go home again. There's her overbearing mother, her artistic brother and the other one. Oh hi, Chief O'Brien. Also, there's murder. Prodigal Daughter goes into the Mission Log. Sponsored by listeners like you -

Ezri Dax returns home only to find she can't go home again. There's her overbearing mother, her artistic brother and the other one. Oh hi, Chief O'Brien. Also, there's murder. Prodigal Daughter goes into the Mission Log. Sponsored by listeners like you -

Ezri Dax is having a difficult time acclimating to life on DS9. She might stay, she might go, and in the meantime she's got her hands full with the emotional and psychological needs of the people around her. Meet the new Dax, different from the old Dax, when Afterimage goes into the Mission Log. Sponsored by listeners like you -

Ezri Dax is having a difficult time acclimating to life on DS9. She might stay, she might go, and in the meantime she's got her hands full with the emotional and psychological needs of the people around her. Meet the new Dax, different from the old Dax, when Afterimage goes into the Mission Log. Sponsored by listeners like you -

Ezri Dax is having a difficult time acclimating to life on DS9. She might stay, she might go, and in the meantime she's got her hands full with the emotional and psychological needs of the people around her. Meet the new Dax, different from the old Dax, when Afterimage goes into the Mission Log. Sponsored by listeners like you -

When there is a murder mystery aboard Deep Space Nine, the mind immediately pictures Odo or Worf doing an in-depth investigation, and tracking down the killer. Instead, it's Ezri Dax who is tracking a killer that can kill without being in the same room with their prey. Because, of course it's Ezri. Join Paul, David, and Dr Bill as they watch another episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and explain the concept of Leave it to Beaver with Andrew Leyland.Feedback for this show can be sent to: listentotheprophets@gmail.comListen to the Prophets is a proud member of the Two True Freaks! (http://www.twotruefreaks.com/main.php) family of podcasts, the best place on the internet to find shows about Star Wars, Star Trek, Comics, Movies, and anything else that the modern geek could ever want. The show can be found on iTunes by searching for Two True Freaks Presents: Listen to the Prophets or it can be downloaded from the website directly here. And if you are downloading the show through iTunes, please be sure to leave a rating, hopefully a FIVE STAR RATING, because every rating we get helps people to know that the show is out there. Thanks for downloading, and come back next time and take some time to...LISTEN TO THE PROPHETS.

When there is a murder mystery aboard Deep Space Nine, the mind immediately pictures Odo or Worf doing an in-depth investigation, and tracking down the killer. Instead, it's Ezri Dax who is tracking a killer that can kill without being in the same room with their prey. Because, of course it's Ezri. Join Paul, David, and Dr Bill as they watch another episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and explain the concept of Leave it to Beaver with Andrew Leyland.Feedback for this show can be sent to: listentotheprophets@gmail.comListen to the Prophets is a proud member of the Two True Freaks! (http://www.twotruefreaks.com/main.php) family of podcasts, the best place on the internet to find shows about Star Wars, Star Trek, Comics, Movies, and anything else that the modern geek could ever want. The show can be found on iTunes by searching for Two True Freaks Presents: Listen to the Prophets or it can be downloaded from the website directly here. And if you are downloading the show through iTunes, please be sure to leave a rating, hopefully a FIVE STAR RATING, because every rating we get helps people to know that the show is out there. Thanks for downloading, and come back next time and take some time to...LISTEN TO THE PROPHETS.

While Gul Boket and Cmdr. Aster are finalizing a deal with the Karemma Commerce Authority, Dr. Tamura experiences debilitating visions. The Vulcan psychologist turns to Stafleet's Emergency Counseling Hologram, modeled after the one and only Ezri Dax. 

Episode 4: Family Series The Return of Kurn (Part 1) How much responsibility do we bear for our siblings? Does Richard Bashier get what he deserves? Should Worf have participated in the Mauk-to'Vor? Is Ben Sisko the best father in all of Star Trek? Ashlyna and Rhianna discuss this all in part one of the Deep Space Nine family series! SPOILER ALERT: The lives and families of The O'Briens, the House of Mogh, Dr. Bashier, Ezri Dax, and the Siskos. (Pretty much all of Deep Space Nine!) TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses childhood experimentation, family death, memory loss, childhood abandonment, and trauma. This episode is the fourth of our family series which will go through discussions of family for every Star Trek show, starting with The Original Series and ending with Lower Decks. How many siblings does Kira have? Listen to our episode next week, covering the themes of Family in part two of our Deep Space Nine series, to find out. DISCLAIMER: We do not own any of the rights to Star Trek or its affiliations. This content is for review only. Our intro, “Klingon Battle” was written by Jerry Goldsmith. Our outro, “Worf's Revenge” was written by Aurelio Voltaire. Rule of Acquisition #261: "A wealthy man can afford anything except a conscience." Please check out our Patreon and donate any amount per month to access exclusive episodes of trivia and reviews of every episode from the first season of Lower Decks. https://www.patreon.com/thedurassisterspodcast

This episode 8 of Star Trek Discovery Season 3, Book is called back to his home planet Kwejian. Osyraa, leader of the Emerald Chain wants Ryn the Andorian back, and she'll do anything to get her hands on him. There were a lot of different strands running through this episode, so let's dive in and see what we can find in "The Sanctuary". Get my Sci-fi Christmas Short story "The Christmas Star Disaster" for 99 cents at https://books2read.com/christmasstar Get the prequel to Jewel of The Stars free at http://www.adamdavidcollings.com/free ----more---- Transcript Welcome to Nerd Heaven I’m Adam David Collings, the author of Jewel of The Stars And I am a nerd.   This is episode 45 of the Podcast.   And this is also the one year anniversary of Nerd Heaven. The first episode went live on the 6th of December 2019. In that episode, I talked about the Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode “Best of Both Worlds.” as part of my ‘what should you watch before Star Trek Picard’ series.   I can’t believe it’s been a whole year.  During this first year, we’ve covered the entire first season of Star Trek Picard, we’ve talked about the DC Extended Universe movies, from Man of Steel up to Shazam, we’ve occasionally dipped into Middle Earth for my Lord of The Rings Read, Walk and Watch series, and a few other little bits and pieces. It’s been quite a ride so far. And there’s plenty more to come. After we’re done with Star Trek Discovery season 3, I’m very excited to launch into our analysis of Stargate Universe.   So thank you to everyone who has listened to Nerd Heaven at any point during the last year. I appreciate the support, and I hope you’ve enjoyed my musings.   But today, we’re talking about Star Trek Discovery Season 3 Episode 8 “The Sanctuary.” The description on Memory Alpha reads “Burnham and the USS Discovery crew travel to Book’s home planet to help rescue it from Osyraa, the formidable leader of the Emerald Chain. Meanwhile, Stamets and Adira continue their search for valuable information on the origin of the Burn.”   The episode was written by Kenneth Lin & Brandon A. Schultz It was directed by Jonathan Frankes And it first aired on the 3rd of December 2020.   This episode has a lot of strands. There’s the main A plot involving Book’s planet, along with character pieces for a number of characters, and the continued investigation into the cause of the burn. Usually, I really like episodes like that, but in this case, I feel like the A  plot may not have been developed enough.   Georgiou is in sickbay getting checked out for her weird episodes, but she’s not cooperating. She outright says to Doctor Culbert, “I don’t need your help.” It makes me wonder why she’s here in the first place. Was she ordered to report to sickbay? Until now, only Michael knew of the severity of Georgiou’s condition. It’s all a bit confusing.   She’s trying to hide from her own fear of this problem by falling back on her Emperor Georgiou pattern. Making vague threats against Culbert, as if she were still in the mirror universe, and he was a subject that had displeased him. She’ll continue to do this throughout the whole episode. Sometimes it feels like a bit much. Culbert can see right through her. He knows she’s terrified.  Culbert manages to convince her to accept some help by describing how brain dysfunction will progress over time, but her outward attitude hasn’t changed. Her fake bravado is as see-through as my windows. But, I guess she can’t help but maintain it. She’s Emperor Georgiou.   Book’s home planet is called Kwejian. And he’s frantic about having to return there. His brother Kyheem has sent him a message through the courier network. And he wants Michael to go with him. He doesn’t know what’s going on. He doesn’t know why he needs to return home. He only knows it somehow involves Osyrra and the Emerald Chain. So it must have been a pretty vague message. But he hasn’t heard from his brother in 15 years, so he assumes it’s bad.   Apparently, there are transwarp tunnels around the galaxy, but using them is very dangerous. We’re not told why. This is something that needs to be explored more fully.   The first time I watched this episode, I had trouble following this particular plotline. The details came in so fast and frantic I just couldn’t take it all in.   So, the burn caused a shift in the orbit on Kwejian’s moon. This caused sea locusts to come out of the ocean and eat all their harvest. So the people were starving. I guess Kwjian is an agrarian world with little technology. I mean, you’d think they could plant crops further from the ocean. They have an entire planet, after all.   Anyway, they couldn’t solve this problem on their own, for whatever reason, so the Emerald Chain came along and promised to help. They had a humane way to send the locusts back into the sea. In exchange, the people of Kwejin had to give Osyrra their trance worms. (the same worms that Book has made a career of recovering and returning home)   This seems to be the way the chain operates.  They make reckless contact with pre-warp civilisations that have something they want. Vance is aware of 50 other systems in the same predicament. Vance doesn’t have enough ships to help them all and he doesn’t want to risk the spore drive on this.   These episodes all seem to fall into the same pattern lately. Michael goes to Vance with a mission she has some personal stake in. He refuses. Then Saru says something diplomatic and he agrees. It hasn’t bothered me until now, but this time, it’s starting to feel a little repetitive.  We check back in with Tolor, Osyraa’s nephew. And we get a glimpse of a Star Trek Picard era combadge. It has no meaning to the scene whatsoever, but, I’m a sucker for a familiar com badge, so … cool, I guess.   And we finally get to see Osyraa for the first time. She is played suitably menacingly by Janet Kidder, who interestingly, is the niece of the late Margot Kidder, famous for playing Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve. So that’s cool.   Osyraa is ticked off that Tolor lost Ryn. Which kinda surprises him. To Tolor, Ryn was just a nameless Andorian slave. But Osyraa has a very special interest in him.   The episode doesn’t outright say it, but we get the impression Osyraa killed her brother, Tolor’s father, in order to take control of the Emerald Chain. So it comes as no surprise that she’s willing to kill Tolor for his failure. She uses the tranceworms for overly dramatic executions. Apparently, they’re so-named because they mesmerise their prey before eating them. She promises he won’t feel a thing, but his screams suggest a different story.   Tilly is settling into her job as acting first officer. Saru is trying to come up with a catch-phrase to instruct the crew to carry out their orders. He says that “hit it” was Captain Pike’s. Well, .. Star Trek 2009 had him saying “punch it” and Discovery had him saying “hit it.” But if you look back at The Cage, Captain Pike was actually the first to say “Engage.” The current Star Trek writers seem to associate this word solely with Picard. But, “Engage” is not really a personal catchphrase. That’s the order captain’s give when they want to go to warp. Pike said it, Picard said it, and I’m sure Janeway and Sisko at least said it occasionally.   Now, Picard DID have a catch-phrase of his own. “Make it so.” That was used in a different context. He said that when he wanted his subordinates to carry out their orders.   This episode seems to be confusing those two concepts together. I guess it mildly amusing at times, but I found it all a little too meta for my liking.   So while Michael is distracted helping Book, Stamets and Adira have solved the mystery of the burn’s origin. It started in the Verubin Nebula. Apparently, combining the SP-19 data with the black boxes has revealed this. But … the Vulcan representative last week said that the SP-19 data conclusively proved that the burn started at Ni’var. This episode doesn’t address that. It doesn’t even mention it. They need to deal with this, or it becomes a massive plot hole. Somehow, I don’t think they’ll address it, sadly.   And there’s a transmission coming from that nebula. It’s the song everyone has been hearing. Interesting.   Apparently, Saru listens with his eyes, because as he’s intently listening to the music, his pupils dilate. He can hear something else coming from the nebula, in addition to the music. A federation distress signal.   Apparently, there is a third message as well, which Adira can decode by writing an algorithm. Stamets volunteers her.   And Adira tells him that she would prefer to be addressed as “they” rather than “she”. So I’ll follow the episode’s lead and refer to the character this way from now on.   Book explains that Kyheem is not his biological brother. “Brother is something we said, we felt,” he says. I’m really not sure what he means by this, but it appears to me that perhaps the two of them are maybe in a religious order or some sort together. Maybe not quite religious. It’s not well explained, but we’ll get to that later in the episode. But their relationship was damaged when Kyheem started hunting tranceworms for the chains, which obviously would have put them at odds.   It seems the nacelles aren't always detached. They can join and separate. They attach during spore jump and then detach after they arrive. Apparently, Discovery has a music room. Which makes sense. IT would be one of many recreation areas on the ship. I kinda like that there’s a place where the crew can just go and jam together.   Adira reveals to Stamets that Gray is not talking to them anymore. No idea why. This is interesting. We still don’t really understand what caused Gray to manifest like that in the first place, so understanding why it’s no longer happening will be difficult. But it’s clearly got Adira upset. Which is understandable.   But on top of that, Adira is really struggling with being joined and having all these memories of previous hosts. Ezri Dax went through a similar thing after she was joined. Waking up and not knowing who she was. In Ezri’s case, she wasn’t prepared for it.    Adira didn’t have any training either. The Trill offered it but they turned it down.  Stamets can’t really solve that problem, but he can spend time with Adira. So they play some music together. Apparently, Stammets can play piano. It’s a nice little scene.   So Ryn is recovered from his injuries, and is still onboard Discovery. I like when Tilly corrects his attitude and makes him show a little more respect for Saru’s rank. He wants to get off the ship. He says something very interesting. “Federation help always comes with strings.” Tilly is very quick to say “No it doesn’t.” But, of course, she only knows so much about the Federation of the 32nd century. Ryn is not the only character in this episode to express similar sentiments. So why does the Federation have this reputation, and is it in any way justified?   Saru is happy for Ryn to beam down to Kwejian, if that is his wish, but it may be a dangerous thing to do, given that Osyraa’s ship will be here in 15 minutes. And again, Ryn thinks the worst when Saruy says “however,” but he’s only looking out for Ryn’s interests.   The sea locusts are interesting. They float in the air with bladders like hot air balloons. It’s funny. I recently watched the first episode of a documentary on Netflix called Alien Worlds. The show uses a lot of imagination to speculate, based on observations of life on earth, what life on other planets might be like. There was a species in that first episode very much like these sea locusts. Of course, they were predators, whereas the sea locusts are herbivores. That’s the problem. They’re feeding on the people’s crops.   Given how many locusts there are, so far inland, the planet has apparently not had any repellent for weeks. Book can talk to them using his super nature powers. To be honest, I’d almost forgotten he had that ability. He seems to have a way to commune with other lifeforms. He can ask them to go, but it’s up to them if they agree.   These do, and they float away. But trying to convince all of them to retreat, on a planetary scale, is something that has eluded Kewjian’s scientists.   Book and Michael are in an area called the sanctuary. Not sure why. But it’s protected by a field that prevents sensors or transporters. So they’re completely on their own. Kyheem arrives with armed guards. He doesn’t look very welcoming of his brother, who he calls Tareckx. Apparently, Book changed his name at some point. So they’re led away at gunpoint.   Georgiou goes into sickbay for a scan. She seems a little more cooperative now. Both Culbert and Pollard are working on her. I really wish they’d just tell us who the chief medical officer on this blooming ship is. It’s so frustrating.   Anyway, Georgiou has one of her episodes while they’re scanning her, and everything goes a bit weird. The two doctors are pretty freaked out. And Georgiou’s face kind of… turns into a rough polygon model, like an early 90s computer game. My wife had a theory, that after her interrogation a few episodes back, Georgiou was replaced with a hologram. This visual effect would seem to be evidence for that theory, but it would have to be an insanely sophisticated hologram. One that could fool all the sensors on Discovery into thinking she was human. But .. this is the 32nd century. I dunno. But it seems that having an episode while in the scan is endangering her life. Pollard wants to stop but Culbert wants the data so they can diagnose her condition. It’s an ethical dilemma that is not explored at all. Which is a pity. But she wakes up and pulls out of the scan herself. So …. Was the scan completed or not? The episode doesn’t make that clear. But when Georgiou hacks into her medical records, she comes to the conclusion that she is dying. Culbert says it’s not that simple, we don’t hear anything more that is said between them.   So Kyheem’s job, officially, is to protect the tranceworms. But he’s doing the opposite.  And there’s a lot of bad blood between him and Book. Book left once his family started working with the Emerald Chain. So the reason Kyheem called Book here is that Osyraa wants Ryn. She’s stopped repelling the locusts and will only resume when they have over Ryn.   Saru notes the irony that the Orions are now enslaving so many people, given that many of them, particularly their females, were sold as slaves in the past. In reality, slavery is nothing new to the Orion people.   I like the actor that plays Kyheem. He does a great job. I’m not an acting expert, so I don’t think I can elaborate on that in any more detail, but I like his performance.   Osyraa wants to swap Book for Ryn, but Kyheem is hesitant to hand him over. So Osyraa threatens famine and starts shooting. Seriously, doesn’t this planet have replicators? And if they’re a pre-warp civilisation, how did Book leave? Where did he get his ship? Book IS human, more or less. He said so in episode 1. That makes me think this is a colony world.   At first I thought Osyraa was shooting up their crops, but it seems she is shooting the defense shield so she can beam Book up. But then, that will allow Discovery to beam him up too. It’s all a bit confusing.   Saru wants to know why Ryn is so important to Osyraa. But he refuses to answer. Until later in the episode when he’ll randomly decide to tell Tilly for no reason.   Saru is in a difficult situation. He’s under orders not to get into a shooting war with the Emerald Chain. Such an act will have repercussions for the entire Federation. But what choice does he have? Until Tilly comes up with an alternative. Fire on her from Book’s ship. Pretend it is under control of a pilot gone rogue, who will be severely punished. AT first, I thought she was suggesting herself, but then it becomes clear she’s setting up poor Detmer. That seems a pretty harsh thing to put Detmer through. It could be damaging to her career because you can bet Vance will want to know who fired.   Anyway, she gets to show off her piloting skills in a pretty impressive space battle, with a little help from Ryn. I think this will go a long way to helping her regain her confidence, as she proves to herself what she can do.   Detmer is now officially a character now, rather than just set dressing. It’s only taken two seasons. I’m really liking what they’re letting her do this season.   She’s successful. She damages Osyraa’s ship enough that Osytraa leaves the system. But she clearly blames the Federation for this, so did they really achieve anything by using Book’s ship instead of Discovery? I don’t think that makes a difference at all. Osyraa vows that the Federation will feel the full weight of the chain. And that’s worrying.   Kyheem just couldn’t bring himself to hand over his brother, after a great hand-to-hand fight scene. Now that Osyraa is gone, he faces the fact that his people will starve.   But Michael has a plan. Both Book and Kyheem have super magic nature powers. They’ll work together to ask as many locusts as possible to retreat to the ocean. And Discovery will use technobabble to amplify the signal across the whole planet.   There is definitely something that feels religious about their powers. The brothers use ritualised moments and chant in an alien language, using words like sacred and harmony. As they do this, their foreheads glow with some kind of glyph.   Tilly has a chat with Ryn. He’s worried about Osyraa’s retaliation. All his life, growing up, he was taught about how deceitful the Federation was. They were the boogeyman they scared their kids with.   So now, is when Ryn decides to reveal his secret. The one he told Saru that he couldn’t share. No idea why he couldn’t share, and no idea why he suddenly can now.   The emerald chain are running out of dilithium. I’m not sure why this should be a big secret. Dilithium is scarce. Everyone is running out. Also, apparently, Ryn is the only one who knows. That’s why Osyraa wanted him back, so he wouldn’t tell anybody. Which makes no sense. The minute Ryn escaped on a Federation starship, Osyraa should have considered this information compromised.    Book admits to Kyheem that although Kwejian is home, Discovery, and Starfleet, are where differences are being made, and he’s liking being around them, which definitely gets Michael to perk her ears up. He says there’s a story about why he calls himself Book. A story he doesn’t want to tell right now. Okay.   Anyway, he was serious about the Federation. He wants in. What that means exactly, I’m not sure. Is he wanting to join Starfleet? OR just stick around and help them as a civilian advisor? I guess next week will reveal that.   So that was The Sanctuary. There were a lot of parts I liked about it, but much of it didn’t hold well together for me. But it plays well into the larger story, so as always, it’ll be interesting to see where it’s all leading. I’m especially looking forward to them digging deeper into the burn, now they know where it originated. Next week’s episode is called Terra Firma Part 1. In this serialised age of story-telling, it’s not often that a show does a traditional two-parter, but I guess the next two episodes will be even more connected than usual.  It should be exciting.   Thanks again for sticking with Nerd Heaven over the last year. Have a piece of cake. Calories don’t count at a birthday party, right?   Don’t forget you can get my sci-fi Christmas short story, The Christmas Star Disaster on all the major ebook retailers for just 99 cents. And you can get the prequel to my Jewel of The Stars series, Fall of The HMAS Adelaide, for free, by signing up to my email list at adamdavidcollings.com/free   Have a great week. Live long and prosper.   Make it so. And happy birthday

In the fourth episode of Star Trek Discovery Season 3, Forget Me Not, we pay a visit to the Trill homeworld, only seen once before in the DS9 episode Equilibrium. There, Adira hopes to find a way to connect with the memories of her symbiont. Meanwhile, Saru tries to help the crew deal with the emotional issues they're facing since leaving their lives behind. This episode had some fantastic character moments, and I'm loving the way they're developing Detmer's character. It was also wonderful to see Trill again. ----more---- Transcript Welcome to Nerd Heaven I’m Adam David Collings, the author of Jewel of The Stars And I am a nerd   This is episode 40 of the podcast.   Today we’re looking at the fourth episode of Star Trek Discovery season 3. For Me Not.   The description on Memory Alpha reads  Burnham and Adira visit the Trill homeworld while Saru's efforts on the Discovery to help the crew reconnect yield surprises.   It was written by Alan McElroy & Chris Silvestri & Anthony Maranville It was Directed by Hanelle M. Culpepper And it first aired on the 5th of November 2020.   Make it so.   This episode follows a fairly classic Trek structure. There’s an A plot and a b plot. But in this case, both are connected to the ongoing serialised plot arc of the show.   To be honest, my favourite part of the episode was not the Trill stuff, as awesome as it was to see a familiar Trek race come back, a DS9 race no less, it was the B plot that dealt with all the emotional baggage the crew are facing as they adjust to their new reality. It was done very well.   And that’s actually where the episode begins.   We get a log entry from Doctor Culbert. The visit to earth has been a reality check for the crew  and it’s all starting to hit them, just how little they have to hold on to. When they first arrived, it was all frantic survival. But now they’ve had time to live with it for a bit, and the reality is starting to set in. They’ve left everything behind. Everyone they ever loved. Everything that was familiar. The personal moments we use to define ourselves. They’ve jumped past all of that. They all feel lost and disconnected. Culvert is in a unique situation to understand, with all the weird stuff he’s gone through, and overcome. He knows something is going on with Detmer. He saw it back in episode 2. But she’s not yet willing to admit that she needs his help.   A mantra has arisen among the crew. “When we find the Federation.” some find comfort in that. But not all.   I’m really glad they took the time in this episode to acknowledge all of this. It’s important for believable characters. They can’t just go on as if their lives haven’t been turned upside down. We’re seeing the truth of what a big sacrifice it was that they made.   Now, here’s the big problem. I’ve touched on this a little in previous episodes, but there are so many crew members on the ship. And not just our main characters, who know Michael well and really care for her, but all the extras. The little guys. People like Gene who was cleaning Leeland’s remains out of the spore chamber, or the no-names we pass in the hallway in this episode. How well did these people know Michael? Well enough for them all to willingly give up their entire lives, their families, to go into the future with her? I’m sorry, but I find that pretty unbelievable.  The truth is, we should have had a small group of people come along, who had a close relationship with Michael. And maybe a couple of others who had nothing to leave behind. We should have a crew that is barely adequate to keep the ship running. We should be scrambling to find new crew members to come aboard and help. Not only would that add some extra tension to the show, it would be a whole lot more believable. It seems that practically the entire crew of Discovery came to the future. And I just can’t buy that.   And we’re reminded that Adira’s trill symbiont has the knowledge to help them find Starfleet headquarters. But because she’s human, she can’t properly access those memories.   Looking at Adira’s scan, the symbiont seems way too big, but that’s a minor nitpick, and there’s a bunch of ways to explain it. But it looks like what a trill symbiont should look like.   Adira doesn’t remember how she got the symbiont. In fact, she remembers waking up a year ago in an escape pod. Before that nothing. Does she mean literally nothing? As in, no knowledge of her life before the symbiont? I think she does. But there are some things bleeding through, like the ability to make a great Bajoran Hasperat.   They have a quick discussion, but all agree pretty quickly that the best option is to go to Trill. There’s no guarantee the Trill will help, but if they do nothing, nothing changes anyway.   So they arrive and ask for medical help for a host and its symbiont. The commissioner is delighted to help. The symbionts are very important to trill society. They always have been.  They carry the memories of their people. The population was decimated by the burn. It’s not immediately clear whether he’s talking about the host population, the symbiont population, or both.   Saru wants Stammets to investigate an alternative way to make the spore drive work, other than plugging himself into it. This makes a lot of logical sense. With the dilithium shortage in the galaxy, the spore drive is more important than ever. And if anything were to happen to Stammets, like it almost did, they’d no longer have any way to use it.   Stammets is immediately defensive about this. I’m not entirely sure why. I guess he sees the spore drive as his private domain. The science behind it was his baby. And it’s not like he didn’t try to find other ways of navigating it before they found the tardigrade. But as Saru points out, there’s been 900 years of technological improvement. Tilly brings up her dark matter idea, that she first started exploring last season. Stammets thinks it's a dead end and is surprisingly closed to talking about it. He won’t even give Tilly the time of day to explain her idea. I guess we just put this down to emotional stress from his recent injury, and the general stress that they’re all under, having left their whole life behind.   Michael is so much more human this year. It’s like she’s completely left behind all of her Vulcan upbringing. Sonequa Martin-Green is playing her very very differently. I’m wondering if the writers decided that the whole raised on Vulcan thing was a bad idea and are trying to move on from it.   She definitely laughs and smiles a whole lot more. Sometimes, it’s actually a little unsettling, to be honest. But on balance, I think I like this new Burnham more than the old one.   Culbert wants Michael to accompany Adira to the surface of trill. He thinks she'll be more helpful as a companion than he will, because this isn’t a medical problem. Adira needs the guidance of somebody who has gone through a traumatic life change. (which of course, he has as well. Culbert is at least as qualified as Michael, if not more, in that regard.)   I’m not sure why they can’t both go. But of course, the real reason is that Michael is the lead character of the show, so they have to make sure she is involved in everything. But Michael does a good job of helping Adira. I do like it when Culbert tells her she’s a responsibility hoarder. That’s true, although I think at least part of the fault there lies on the writers, not on her personally.   Adira doesn’t want to let anyone down. There’s a lot riding on this knowledge that Tal has.   But the big question is, why the heck are they flying down in a shuttle instead of beaming down? There is no reason given, and I can see no logical reason at all. It’s so odd that it really draws attention to itself.   Anyway, it’s nice to see that some former-Federation worlds like Earth and Trill are still idyllic. Trill is beautiful. I love the blue grass and the flying fish. Little moments like that add so much to the show for me. The wonder they bring is one of the big things I love about Star Trek.   Michael and Adira meet the Trill bigwigs. And they’re very shocked to learn the trill host is human. Very shocked. When asked to speak her names, Adira can only say her own name. She doesn’t know the names of her previous hosts. Michael explains that Adira can’t access the symbiant’s memories. They should probably have led with that.   Vos says there hasn’t been a single recorded example of a successful joining between a symbiont and a non-trill. So ….. Are we ignoring the TNG episode, The Host, then? I’m not saying that’s not a valid option? I mean, I think last week my words were that the episode is probably best forgotten, because of how it doesn’t match up with anything done in DS9.   But there’s another way to look at it. He says “successful joining.” We could potentially argue that Riker’s joining was not entirely successful. I mean, I’m pretty sure the symbiont completely supplanted Riker’s personality. It wasn’t a true blending. Adira isn’t experiencing a true blending either. But in her case, it’s the symbiont that is kind of the silent partner here. I think they kind of left it open for us to decide whether we want to acknowledge the TNG episode or not.   Adira says “the symbiant is part of me.” An idea that almost offends the Trill. She doesn’t fully appreciate what it means to host a symbiont. She doesn’t understand the responsibility. The honour. The subtleties of how they see the relationship. But of course she doesn’t. How could she? So, “it’s part of me,” is probably an understandable way for her to interpret it, from her limited perspective.   Anyway, Vos immediately calls Adira an abomination, and demands that they be separated, which would, of course, kill the host. The Federation has no say here anymore, so Trill law takes precedence. So would Trill law really support this? Maybe. They do seem to value the life of the symbiont higher than they value the life of a host.   Guardian Xi explains that the burn decimated the population. Specifically, the host population. It seems Trill is now experiencing a shortage of viable hosts. Which is interesting, because back in the 24th century, it was the other way around. The demand for a symbiont was so high that they had to artificially inflate the requirements to be viable for joining. He sees this as an opportunity. Adira could be the future. If they considered looking beyond the Trill to see other species as potential hosts, it could solve a lot of problems.   Leader Pav won’t support a forced separation, but she sees this joining as an aberration and so won’t help Adira either. She demands that they leave immediately.   It’s not entirely unbelievable the Trill would act this way. We know they have strongly-held ideals when it comes to the symbionts. For example, they have a very strong taboo against hosts getting involved romantically with somebody they were with in a previous host. Their value and even their spirituality are all centered around this relationship between symbiont and host. It’s okay to feel uncomfortable when you encounter something that doesn’t line up with your worldview, but the important thing is to maintain your compassion. And that’s what Vos, and to a lesser extent Pav are doing. It’s easy to forget, in situations like to forget that there are real people with real feelings on the other end. It’s okay for people to disagree on what they believe is right, but you can’t lose your compassion.   But Vos isn’t even willing to let them leave. He sets them up to be killed. He won’t let the symbiont go. Burnham sorts them out with little trouble. And then Xi turns up, offering to help, against orders. He leads them to the caves. Anyway, Culbert takes his concerns about the crew to the captain. Medically, they’re fine, but emotionally, everyone is suffering. Stress levels are very high. Saru sympathises but he needs a concrete way to help his crew.  The heart of the problem is that they need to feel connected.   So Saru does what he often does. He asks the computer for ideas. He’s not impressed with anything it’s spitting out. And then, something very weird happens. The computer screen flashes with something red, and then it starts speaking in a much more human-sounding voice. It laughs. And suggests humour is what the crew needs. A good laugh. And it’s not wrong. Laughter has known healing properties and benefits. But what’s going on with the computer? My immediate thought was, is this the beginning of the Artificial Intelligence we saw in Discovery’s computer in the Short Trek episode Calypso? I think there’s a good chance that is the case. Anyway, the computer offers some logical options. Things that I’m surprised Saru didn’t think of without the computer’s help. Actually. He’s a bit skeptical and asks the computer to run a diagnostic on itself. But he takes the suggestions on board. Back on Trill, they arrive at the caves. We’ve seen these caves before, on Deep Space Nine. This is where they keep the symbionts. The guardians are responsible for taking care of them. They swim around in pools and communicate with one another through electrical impulses.   It’s a little confusing what they’re trying to do, at first. Adira hops into the pool. At first, I assumed they planned to have Tal communicate with the other symbionts in the pool. But then, that wouldn’t accomplish anything, because the symbionts couldn’t pass along the knowledge they learn. What they’d really need to do would be to get another joined trill in there so the two symbionts could talk through electrical impulses, and then the other host could report on what was discussed. But, they don’t have another joined trill. We know that the guardians do not join.   What they’re really trying to do here is get Tal and Adira to communicate with one another. The hope is that here, in this natural habitat for symbionts, that connections will form. They have a device that will track her isoboramine levels.  This is a nice callback. Isoboramine is a neural transmitter in trill physiology. It enables the communication between symbiant and host. If levels get below 40% the symbiont will be removed, as to remain would be a great danger to both. But Adira is human. Her body would not produce isoboramine. So I guess, it must be generated by the symbiont. The funny thing is, the device doesn’t just have a readout or an alarm or something. No, when levels get low the grass cracks. That’s pretty strangely old-school.   There’s a fantastic scene on Discovery. Saru hosts a special meal with his senior officers, and those he works most closely with. A way to show them his appreciation for what they’ve done to get them this far, but also for them to come to terms with what they’ve lost. You’ll notice that the mythical chief engineer and chief medical officer still don’t show. After two full seasons, we still don’t know who they are. They should be in staff meetings, and they should be here now. I’ll be honest. This REALLY bugs me. A lot. It’s interesting that Doctor Culbert is here, but we know he isn’t the chief medical officer. At least, he wasn’t in season 1. Maybe he’s been promoted to that position, which would make him higher ranked than Doctor Pollard, who isn’t even at this table. It’s very annoying.   Anyway, I said this is a fantastic scene. And it is. It’s full of wonderful character moments.  It gets a little amusing when they start trying to come up with haikus, following Georgiou’s lead. It’s a nice scene that shows the camaraderie between the characters. It reminds me of that great scene in Avengers Age of Ultron when they were all joking trying to lift Thor’s hammer. Things turn decidedly dark when they ask Detmer to do one. And she keeps blabbering about Stammet’s blood. It makes everyone very uncomfortable, especially Stammets, and Culbert. It’s so terribly uncomfortable. It’s great. What I love about this scene is they’re finally developing Detmer as a charter. Remember back in season 1, when none of us could even remember the names of any bridge crew? I still don’t remember many of their names, but Detmer is one they’re really trying to develop. And we find that Emily Coutts is a really good actor, because the writers are finally giving her something to do. About bloomin’ time. We get a lot of insight into what she’s going through by what she says here. She’s feeling crushed under the responsibility of having the entire crew’s lives in her hands when she flies the ship. Specifically when she has to fly the ship under difficult circumstances, like going through the wormhole, or escaping from that parasitic ice. The argument between her and Stammets is so powerfully performed by the two actors. I love it so much.   Soon the conflict spreads and Tilly asks them if they think they have the market cornered on pain. And while this is not at all how Saru was hoping this would go, stuff is starting to come out. Stuff that needs to be dealt with. Some deep hurts.  Once half the table have left, it becomes obvious that the meal is over, and Saru is left alone. Poor Saru. You can’t help but feel for him. Adira’s Isoboramine levels are dropping. And she’s convulsing. That’s when Pav and Vos arrive. Vos is still being pretty unreasonable. Pav is not happy, but she’s starting to find that compassion. She allows Michael into the pool, even though she’s not Trill, to try to help Adira.   They use a neural stabiliser to help Michael communicate, mentally, with Adira. It looks like they’re standing in a big void filled with little tentacles. Michael quickly realises that the threads are like the threads of memory. That’s the symbiont trying to connect with her. It wants her to remember. She has to let the tentacles connect. It’s all kinda symbolic and in her mind. So the threats connect and Adira is taken back into a memory she has forgotten.   We meet Gray, Adira’s old boyfriend, who is a Trill. They were together on a generation ship, trying to find traces of the Federation. Gray was receiving a symbiont. Gray was a cello player. Adira is hesitant to follow through with the memory, she senses there is pain ahead. She has to open the gift, symbolic of continuing the memory, because that’s what happened in the memory, She gave a gift to Gray. It’s a quilt with stories of moments from their relationship sewn into it.   And then, in the midst of that happy moment, the ship is hit by something. Gray is badly injured. He’s gonna die. His biggest regret is that the symbiont will be lost. It will survive if removed from Gray and put into a new host. But there’s no other host available. So Adira says she’ll take it. Even though she’s not Trill. The medical robot performs the surgery. And that’s how Adira ended up in an escape pod with a symbiont and no memory of how it happened.   By accepting this memory and assimilating it back into her conscientiousness, the connections finally form, and she is able to access the symbiont’s mind. She and Burnham see all the other hosts. Several of them are Starfleet officers, in various different uniforms. One of them is from the Star Trek Picard era, which was really cool to see. There’s a pale blue uniform we’ve never seen before, and another, worn by Admiral Senna. That is clearly the current Starfleet uniform of this era. It’s quite unique. Very different to any other Starfleet uniform we’ve seen before, which makes sense for the time. It looks a bit more military. A bit more naval. I don’t mind it. But we get our first proper look at the new oval-shaped comm badge. We’d only seen it in blurry screenshots from trailers until now. It looks pretty good, actually. I like it.   Senna confirms that while a human joining is unusual, Tal accepts her as well. And Adira is reunited with Gray, who appears along with all the other hosts.   Michael thanks the Admiral for his message, which gave her hope. But she doesn’t ask about Starfleet. I found it so frustrating. I was practically yelling at the TV, “Ask him where Starfleet headquarters is.” it would only have taken a few seconds to ask. But she doesn’t. I mean, this is one of the primary reasons they went through all of this. Not the only reason. They wanted to help Adira too, but this information is vital. And she doesn’t ask. It’s not fully clear from the show at this moment, that Adira will now be able to access all of Tal’s memory, but I guess that was the implication.    Still, if it were me, I’d have asked him if I had the chance, just in case.   When Adira emerges, able to recite the nAMES of all of her former hosts, all Trill are all convinced. Even Vos says “we were wrong.” I found the character arc of these Trill to be a bit short and sudden. And Vos, especially, came around too far too quickly. He was willing to murder Adira a few minutes ago. Now he says “we were wrong.” It might have worked a little better if he had remained of the opinion that joining symbionts with non-human hosts was not generally a good idea, but agreed that Adira was deserving of their help, but Pav fully embraced the idea of non-trill hosts, as Xi already had. I dunno, I just think that would have added a little extra subtlety and depth to the whole thing. But the way they did it was okay.   Pav wants to mentor her, in her new role as a host, which wouldn’t be a bad idea, but Adira feels she is meant to remain on Discovery, and spread the message that the symbionts are a gift for everyone. Pav is even open to rejoining the Federation, should Discovery find them. It’s all wrapped up a little too neatly with a bow on top.   Anyway, Tilly comes to Saru to console him after the disastrous dinner. Captain Pike made connecting with the crew seem so effortless. But then, Pike had been captain for a long time. Saru is still very new to the job. But I laughed out loud when Tilly said “This just looked like a Tuesday at my house growing up.” Stammets also comes in to try to make amends with the Captain and Tilly. He’s finally ready to listen to Tilly’s ideas, and truly show her how much her help means to him.   And another fantastic moment occurs when Detmer goes to see Culbert in sick bay and admits that she’s not okay. She needs help. It was hard for her to admit. She’s ready to take him up on that talk. At first, I was worried that they were wrapping up Detmer’s problems too quickly, but that’s probably not the case. Her healing is going to take a long time. I think this is just the next stage. Hopefully they’ll continue to do a good job of exploring this, because I’m loving seeing Detmer turned into a person, and not just the “aye Captain” parrot.   But the crew are all called to the shuttle bay for a surprise. It’s a comedy film festival. Very old-school type humour. Very slapstick. I love Linus handing out popcorn. Then Detmer turns around and sees Stammets. And it’s a very awkward moment for her. How does she make amends for what she said to him earlier. And while her face is locked in anxiety and anguish, his unfolds into a smile. And their confrontation turns into a hug. That moment melted my heart and nearly broke me.   Saru and Cubert talk about how helpful this has been. “We just had to begin by admitting that we’re not fine,” Culvert says. “We’re not, are we,” asks Saru. “No. But we’ll get there.” Saru speculates. The sphere data was sent to discovery to protect it. They have done that. They’ve given up their entire lives to protect it. Now, it’s trying to return the favour. It is merging with their computer and trying to protect them. It seems pretty clear that my theory about this being the birth of the Zora AI in Calypso is correct. During that scene, the computer was voiced by two different actors. Annabelle Wallis, who played Zora in Calypso, and Julianne Grossman, who usually voices the computer. Interesting.   Senna knew the algorithm to find Starfleet headquarters and Adira has done the maths. They have coordinates. And she starts playing the cello, something both she and Gray picked up from a former host.   The episode closes with a little twist. Gray appears with Adira like a hallucination. A ghost, distinct from the others. Adira hasn’t told anyone about this yet. Gray doesn’t know why this is happening. There is precedent for something like this. Ezri Dax once performed a ritual that pulled the memories and consciousness of one of her former hosts out in a similar way. She could converse with him, but nobody else could see him. Adira hasn’t performed any ritual, but nothing about this joining has been normal. It’ll be interesting to see where this leads.   Another good episode of Discovery. It’ll be exciting to see next week whether they can locate Starfleet headquarters. I wonder what they’ll find when they get there. It should be interesting.   If you’re enjoying this podcast, please consider writing a review wherever you listen, or subscribing, if you’re watching it on youTube. Can you believe I’ve almost been doing this show for a year? I released my very first episode on the 6th of December. In one month, we’ll have to do something to celebrate the first birthday of Nerd Heaven.   Anyway, that’s all for now. I’ll see you next week for the episode “Die Trying.” Have a great week. Live long and prosper. Make it so.

As the crew of DS9 gets used to Ezri Dax, Ryan and Brady discuss claustrophobia, coping mechanisms, Worf being a big old jerk, and how the Trill can be one of the most interesting AND most difficult alien races to engage with on Star Trek.

Topic: Star Trek Tutorial We've been talking alot about fantasy and wrestling, and figured we needed to get back hard in to Nerdy stuff.  Thus, one of the most popular fantasy topics, I present Star Trek.   Tutorial Broad-scope of Star Trek, not in-depth. Created by Gene RoddenberryOriginally pitched as “Wagon Train to the stars.”Each episode was meant to work on to levels, one of morality and one of suspenseful adventure stories. Trekkie or Trekker = Star Trek Fan Things to know:Enterprise is main ShipStarfleet is like united nations: Peaceful, Diplomatic, Explorers, multiple Alien RacesKlingons = bad, but not all the timeSymbol for Starfleet is the Starfleet Delta, it changes through out time.Many gadgets and inventions made their way to real life (iPads, Cellphones, wireless communicators, Alexa/Google home)Uniforms have a purpose, which shows ranks and which division you are withCaptains = Main Character Enterprise (22nd Century)•The Original Series (1966–1969) on CBS A bit more in the vein of “Wagon Train to the Stars”. Very Episodic Campy to a Fault at times o William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk o Leonard Nimoy as Spock o DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy o James Doohan as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott o Nichelle Nichols as Uhura o George Takei as Hikaru Sulu o Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov Still popular in syndication for nearly two decades Considered ground breaking for multi-racial cast Tackled some civil rights issues Popularized Fan conventions & Fan Fiction •The Animated Series (1973–1974) on CBS Reprised a majority of the Cast Not well received by Many Trek fans Considered non-Canon Movies 1-6 based on Original Cast Modern Series (23rd Century)• The Next Generation (1987–1994) on Independent channels Created because the Movies did so well, but Paying William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy would be costly, so new unknown cast = cheaper to produce Created to continue longevity of franchise. o Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard o Jonathan Frakes as Commander William Riker o Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi o Michael Dorn as Worf o Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher o LeVar Burton as chief engineer Geordi La Forge o Brent Spiner as Data o Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Reintroduced Star Trek to Modern audience, popularized many races that would play rolls in later series Episodic in Nature, but many episode would have themes/character returning to reprise conflicts Popularized the Season Ending Cliffhanger Movies 7-10 Based off TNG Cast • Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) on Independent channels Created as Star Trek was BIG o Avery Brooks as Commander/Captain Benjamin Sisko o Nana Visitor as Major/Colonel Kira Nerys o René Auberjonois as Odo o Armin Shimerman as Quark as Bar o Alexander Siddig as Lieutenant Julian Bashir o Terry Farrell as Lieutenant/Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax o Nicole de Boer as Ezri Dax o Michael Dorn as Commander Worf as o Colm Meaney as Chief Miles O'Brien o Cirroc Lofton as Jake Sisko Episodes are more Serialized than Episodic Instead of a traveling ship, set in a stationary star base, allowing writers to create more compelling and dramatic character interactions/Interpersonal Conflics. Mix of Religious and Science conflicts Shows a full scale War from eyes of Starfleet No Movies were made • Voyager (1995–2001) on UPN Created with the intention of starting a new network/tv channel. Paramount wanted two series running at the same time o Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway o Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay o Tim Russ as Lieutenant commander Tuvok o Robert Duncan McNeill as Lieutenant Tom Paris o Roxann Dawson as B'Elanna Torres as Chief engineer o Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim o Robert Picardo as The Doctor o Ethan Phillips as Neelix o Jennifer Lien as Kes o Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine Created with intention of giving writers new stuff to play with, recreating the feeling of Original Series Introduced new creatures and continued intrapersonal conflicts Decisive amongst fans Episodic in nature, wonky with continuity First series to use fully CGI ships/effects Before Original Series• Enterprise (2001–2005) 22nd Century on UPN Paramount wanted more Star Trek, but Creators wanted to do something simpler Decided to focus on Pre-Starfleet and Federation o Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer o Jolene Blalock as T'Pol o Connor Trinneer as Charles "Trip" Tucker III o Dominic Keating as Malcolm Reed o Linda Park as Hoshi Sato o Anthony Montgomery as Travis Mayweather o John Billingsley as Travis Mayweather Decisive amongst fans/critics for its place in continuity Tries to explain future events/characters (Klingons) Considered campy and bland compared to other Star Trek Affairs Seasons 1 and 2 are episodic, 3 & 4 are more Serialized Very unhappy ending • Star Trek Reboot Movies Rebooted in 2009 after Paramount broke away from CBS Directed by J.J. Abrams Movies Include: Star Trek, Into Darkness, Beyond o Chris Pine as James T. Kirk o Zachary Quinto as Spock o Leonard Nimoy as Spock Prime o Zoe Saldana as Nyota Uhura o Simon Pegg as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott o John Cho as Hikaru Sulu o Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov Set in alternate timeline where events didn’t act out quite the same way. Added more Humor, Action, and much needed Glitz and Glamour to Star Trek. New Cast well received, introduction of Leonard Nimoy was welcome addition • Discovery (2017–present) 21st Century on CBS Considered a prequel to The Original Series, Takes place on USS Discovery First new Tv series since Enterprise ended in 2005 o Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham o Doug Jones as Saru o Shazad Latif as Voq / Ash Tyler o Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets o Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly o Jason Isaacs as Gabriel Lorca o Wilson Cruz as Hugh Culber o Anson Mount as Christopher Pike First time focus on 1st Officer and not Captain Carries over design style from Star Trek Movies Ship is considered a proto-type and uses a space drive that can go anywhere ReviewStar Trek TNGOffspring, Season 3, Episode, 16The Pegasus, Season 7, Episode 12The Drumhead, Season 4, Episode 21Tapestry, Season 6, Episode 15The Inner Light, Season 5, Episode 25

Welcome to another episode of 10Backward. This episode, we are talking about the role of the Counselor on Star Trek. We’re joined by Dr Alice Turland, as we examine three episodes, Hollow Pursuits, Hero Worship and Afterimage to see how the approaches taken by Troi and Ezri Dax compare to the real world techniques.

We learn a little something about Ben Sisko's origin. OH, and it's time to spend more time with that "Ezri Dax" that showed up at the end of last episode. Research:  Website coming soon. Ezri: No stumbling out the gate on this one. Would we have still preferred some stunt casting?  What was the thinking behind another Nicole De Boer's casting?  What does Quark actually contribute?  Never apologize, even if you're Worf?  Has Star Trek and DS9 been missing counselors since TNG?  What if they'd actually gender shifted Dax?  Admiral Ham Scully?    An appreciation of techbobabble.  Good ol' desert scenes. James loves ‘em.   How does Brock Peters feel? Damar drinks kanar. Is he unhappy? (yes). What is the environmental impact of destroying part of a solar system? Should there be protests?  Mercury? We got no respect for ya.  Is Admiral Ross not supportive enough of Kira?  Vic gets replaced with a Mike Hammer refence for this episode. Quark hears about gagh whilst in a klingon coffee shop.  Does Sisko's orb vision of Benny Russell cheapen “Far Beyond the Stars”? Last Temptation of the Emissary?  Good pacing and a plan comes together.  Finally figuring out where Sisko's specialness comes from. Is he a god, or just the tool of gods? -Sorry, noncorporeal wormhole aliens.  How did all the plots relate to each other, or did they at all?  Who dies offscreen?  Let us know what you think! 917 408 3898 and support the show at patreon.com/kickersofelves

Here is the Red Shirts equivalent of "the lost episode," namely, the episode I forgot to publish way back in July 2018! Big Sexy and I continue our discussion of the game-changing Trek episode. We opine on whether DS9 was more deserving of the big screen treatment than TNG, and the addition of Ezri Dax later in the series, among other topics, and Captain Qstorm ponders the Shakesperean theatrical acting style of the one and only Avery Brooks! Enjoy this lost episode from the archives that is finally seeing the light of day! And find every episode and podcast of THE RED SHIRTS here: Facebook Twitter YouTube  And on Instagram @redshirts1701!

50 years of Star Trek, one giant special! Will Star Trek: Waypoint Special #1 go where no comic has gone before? Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! STAR TREK WAYPOINT SPECIAL #1 Writers: Various Artists: Various Publisher: IDW Publishing Cover Price: $7.99 Release Date: December 12, 2018 The anthology series spanning 50 years of Star Trek returns in this oversized annual! These weird and wonderful stories-set during the Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and more-expand on rarely explored corners of the universe or provide closure for long-forgotten plot threads. But they all remind us of why we love Trek. This volume features your favorite characters, including Data, Q, and Ezri Dax, handled by the top creators of today and the future!  [su_quote cite="Matthew's Thoughts"]I think that the pricetag is a bit steep for what we get, but what we get is a lot of fun. It's some of your favorite Star Trek folks and also Ezri! [/su_quote][su_quote cite="Stephen's Thoughts"]Four Star Trek stories for $8.00? You could do worse. There is something here for every Star Trek fan, including Spot's butthole! [/su_quote]

50 years of Star Trek, one giant special! Will Star Trek: Waypoint Special #1 go where no comic has gone before? Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! STAR TREK WAYPOINT SPECIAL #1 Writers: Various Artists: Various Publisher: IDW Publishing Cover Price: $7.99 Release Date: December 12, 2018 The anthology series spanning 50 years of Star Trek returns in this oversized annual! These weird and wonderful stories-set during the Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and more-expand on rarely explored corners of the universe or provide closure for long-forgotten plot threads. But they all remind us of why we love Trek. This volume features your favorite characters, including Data, Q, and Ezri Dax, handled by the top creators of today and the future!  [su_quote cite="Matthew's Thoughts"]I think that the pricetag is a bit steep for what we get, but what we get is a lot of fun. It's some of your favorite Star Trek folks and also Ezri! [/su_quote][su_quote cite="Stephen's Thoughts"]Four Star Trek stories for $8.00? You could do worse. There is something here for every Star Trek fan, including Spot's butthole! [/su_quote]

Deep Space 9's Ezri Dax, Nicole DeBoer is here to answer your questions LIVE!

A Ferengi copes with his PTSD by retreating inside a holosuite program of 1960’s Earth, because on Deep Space Nine, apparently even a hologram is a better therapist than Ezri Dax. Plus, we’re back to spoiling Discovery and The Orville! WARNING: Explicit language From the minds that brought you Superhero Time, the internet’s most offensive... The post Superhero Time Presents: That One Episode Of Star Trek “It’s Only A Paper Moon -or- PTSDS9” appeared first on Radio Free Cybertron.

A Ferengi copes with his PTSD by retreating inside a holosuite program of 1960’s Earth, because on Deep Space Nine, apparently even a hologram is a better therapist than Ezri Dax. Plus, we’re back to spoiling Discovery and The Orville! WARNING: Explicit language From the minds that brought you Superhero Time, the internet’s most offensive... The post Superhero Time Presents: That One Episode Of Star Trek “It’s Only A Paper Moon -or- PTSDS9” appeared first on Radio Free Cybertron.

"Q-Less" (DS9) - Angelica Bastién, essayist and writer, joins Scott to discuss DS9’s “Q-Less” (S1E7). Topics include how the Klingons have had enough time in the limelight, Ezri Dax (not appearing this in episode), and how terrible Wesley Crusher is (who also doesn’t appear in this episode). Fair warning, this episode of Random Trek features some red alerts. You’ve been warned. Host Scott McNulty with Angelica Jade Bastién.

The great and glorious Second Cavalcade of Guests may be over, but Deep Space Stein RAGES on.  In this fourth installment, our fancy craft beer supply is low, but our spirits remain high (and drunk). Take a trip with the core Reopening the Wormhole crew to beautiful New Sydney to chill with Ezri Dax and her family, help O’Brien solve an unsavory Bilby-related mystery, and examine Norvo’s paaaaaiiiiin.  Get ready to hear the name Norvo a lot, because we sure love saying it.  Along the way, we’ll also reveal what planet Malcolm McDowell is actually from and what relation he has, if any, to Ewan McGregor, Denis Lawson and Alexander Siddig, how this episode would compare to some sort of Flintstones/Jetsons crossover (but NOT The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones), the proper way to spell Thadial Bokar (oh, wait, whoops), let you puzzle over what “grillville” actually means, and so much more.  Like talking about how we feel about the episode and stuff.  It’s the thrilling conclusion of Deep Space Stein that you won’t want to miss!  Keep it grillville, y’all.

Hey, it’s another Ezri episode! “Field of Fire” features the return of Joran Dax in a weird murder mystery episode. Then, in “Chimera”, the show does its version of a gay rights episode. iTunes Google Play RSS

DS9 seems really invested in making Ezri a character, so they give us a dysfunctional family backstory in “Prodigal Daughter”. Then, we say goodbye to the Mirror Universe with “The Emperor’s New Cloak.” iTunes Google Play RSS

After introducing Ezri Dax in last week’s, two-parter, DS9 gives us a bit more with her, in “Afterimage”. Then, in “Take Me Out to the Holosuite”, a baseball game results in learning and growing. Hey, it’s like this is a television show, or something! iTunes Google Play RSS

DS9 7x1 / 7x2. Find out your mom's a wormhole alien and meet Ezri Dax in this installment of From There to Here: The Star Trek 50th Anniversary Rewatch from Trek.fm. Chapters Image in the Sand (00:01:17)  Shadows and Symbols (00:08:29) Hosts Mike Schindler and Lee Hutchison ProductionMike Schindler (Editor and Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Charlynn Schmiedt (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) Norman C. Lao (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager)

"Prodigal Daughter" - Mikah Sargent, senior editor at Mobile Nations and podcaster (Integrate, Cartoon Cast, and Disruption joins Scott to discuss DS9’s Prodigal Daughter (S7E11). During the final season of a complicated arc driven show it makes sense to pause and examine the home life of Ezri Dax, right? Scott speculates that the entire Star Trek universe economy revolves around mining, and the brief moments of seeing the rest of the cast are discussed, as is the disturbing lack of Australians in this episode. Host Scott McNulty with Mikah Sargent.

It's Only a Paper Moon. Events in Star Trek—even tragic ones—rarely have lasting consequences. Deep Space Nine changed that with arcs that took place during the Dominion War. In particular, in the final season, Nog's injuries in battle led to a deep exploration of the lasting impact of a single moment in time—and they did it with the usual DS9 mix of serious commentary and humor. In this episode of The Ready Room, we're joined by Zachary Fruhling and Matthew Rushing to discuss Nog's retreat to the holosuite, his struggle to come to terms with the physical and emotional damage of his experiences in “The Siege of AR-558,” and the counseling tag-team of Ezri Dax and Vic Fontaine who brought him back to reality. In our news segment, we discuss additional shooting (reported as reshoots by most media) for Star Trek Beyond, a special agreement between CBS and Paramount that dictated a six-month post-film waiting period for Star Trek's return to TV, and Rod Roddenberry joining the new series as Executive Producer. News Star Trek Beyond Reshoots (00:04:19) CBS-Paramount Agreement (00:12:44) Rod Roddenberry EP (00:26:24) Feature: It's Only a Paper Moon Synopsis and Initial Thoughts (00:34:46) Nog's PTSD (00:45:49) Counselor Ezri (00:56:25) Counselor Vic (01:09:15) The Original Concept (01:24:26) The Literary Universe Connection (01:36:21) Final Thoughts (01:37:27) Listener Feedback and Closing (01:44:54) Hosts C Bryan Jones and Zachary Fruhling Guest Matthew Rushing Production C Bryan Jones (Editor and Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Norman C. Lao (Executive Producer) Charlynn Schmiedt (Executive Producer) Renee Roberts (Associate Producer) Zachary Fruhling (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Will Nguyen (Content Manager)

It's a special JAPAN EDITION of Reopening the Wormhole this week and oh BOY does the gang run into technical difficulties during recording! Fortunately, our spirits remain high, as we've got a real fun one to talk about in Shadows and Symbols, our first season 7 episode. Join us as we welcome Ezri Dax to the show, go in-depth about three generations of Siskos, analyze space blockades, talk about Bajoran mysticism and so much more.

Trill: Unjoined. The Deep Space Nine book Unity left the Trill people shaken to their very core with the revelation that the parasites were actually somehow related the symbionts. With the planet in turmoil, Julian Bashir and Ezri Dax travel to Trill in hopes of unraveling the mystery of the parasites and bringing peace to a planet on the brink of civil war.  In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Matthew Rushing and Dan Gunther navigate the deep philosophical waters of Trill: Unjoined. We discuss the world building, a society of secrets, Star Trek genetics gone wrong, the universe being grey, class warfare, history, Julian and Ezri and wrap up with our ratings.  In the news we remind everyone that David Mack's Seekers 3: Long Shot is now available.    Hosts Matthew Rushing and Dan Gunther   Editor and Producer  Matthew Rushing  Richard Marquez   Executive Producers Norman C. Lao and C Bryan Jones   Associate Producers Will Nguyen Ken Tripp   Production Manager Richard Marquez   Content Manager Will Nguyen   News Seekers 3 is Out! (00:02:50)   Feature: Trill: Unjoined Worlds of DS9 (00:04:33) The World Building (00:06:11) A Society of Secrets (00:12:13) Star Trek Genetics Gone Wrong (00:20:22) The Universe is Grey (00:24:05) Class Warfare (00:28:16) History (00:37:55) Julian and Ezri (00:43:15) Ratings (00:49:58) Wrapping Up (00:52:16)   Send us your feedback! Twitter: @trekfm Facebook: http://facebook.com/trekfm Voicemail: http://www.speakpipe.com/trekfm Contact Form: http://www.trek.fm/contact Visit the Trek.fm website at http://trek.fm/ Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.com/trekfm Goodreads: Goodreads Group    Support the Network!   Become a Trek.fm Patron on Patreon and help us keep our shows coming to you every week. We have great perks for you at http://patreon.com/trekfm

This week, Sina, Paul and Scott discuss John Jackson Miller’s first full length Star Trek novel, Takedown.  In this book, which continues from The Fall series we discussed last year (but is a stand alone book), Admiral Will Riker goes rogue (don’t all admirals do this?), and  Jean Luc Picard and Ezri Dax have to […]

Ezri Dax. Normally when an actor decides to leave a show early, it doesn't turn out well. It means either the death of a beloved character or an almost always-failed attempt to continue the role with a different face. When Terry Farrell left DS9, however, the writers seized the moment and used the twist to tell Dax stories that weren't possible with Jadzia. While it took many fans a while to warm up to Ezri (some may still be trying) it all turned out well in the end. In this episode of The Orb, Matthew Rushing and Christopher Jones take a close look at the new face—and old worm—in town, and how Nicole deBoer's portrayal of a counselor who was unsure of herself was the perfect fit for DS9.

This week Sina and Michael continue their journey through the epic 5 book mini series Star Trek: The Fall with a conversation with New York Times best selling author David Mack. In this episode, Sina and Michael discuss the evolution of Julian Bashir and Ezri Dax, not only in “A Ceremony of Losses,” but also […]

Una McCormack. The complex storylines of Deep Space Nine are the perfect playground for Una McCormack, an author who carries a PhD in sociology into her approach to Star Trek. Beginning with the short story “Face Value” in the collection Prophecy and Change, Una has explored Cardassia, the repurcussions of “In the Pale Moonlight,” and even played with Ezri Dax in the continuing Star Trek universe. In this episode of Literary Treks we’re joined by Una to discuss why Deep Space Nine is her favourite series, how she got involved in writing Star Trek, bringing female characters to the forefront, and the intricacies of freedom and how we are all interconnected. In our news segment we look at three new omnibuses coming from Pocket Books: Typhon Pact: The Khitomer Accords; The Original Series: The Continuing Missions; and Destiny: The Complete Saga. We also cover IDW’s Star Trek: The Next Generation Omnibus and Star Trek: The Newspaper Strips, Volume 1, the covers for Countdown to Darkness, the Star Trek 100-page Winter Spectacular comic, and we talk in-depth about the first three issues of Brannon Braga’s HIVE.

This week In The Wilderness the boys have a chat about Ezri Dax,watch Field of Fire and look at a really stupid collectable. All this and Fez gets a brand new segment.