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Build a Star Trek inspired prop with LCARS diagnostics, CO2/Humidity/Temperature graphs Guide: learn.adafruit.com/star-trek-data-dispenser This unit displays live CO₂, humidity, temperature and battery level as shaped colored bars that match the on-screen prop graphics. When CO₂ levels get too high, a haptic motor buzzes to alert you. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Shop for parts to build your own DIY projects http://adafru.it/3dprinting 3D Printing Projects Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOWD2dJNRIN46uhMCWvNOlbG 3D Hangout Show Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOVgpmWevin2slopw_A3-A8Y Layer by Layer CAD Tutorials Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOVsMp6nKnpjsXSQ45nxfORb Timelapse Tuesday Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOVagy3CktXsAAs4b153xpp_ Connect with Noe and Pedro on Social Media: Noe's Twitter / Instagram: @ecken Pedro's Twitter / Instagram: @videopixil ----------------------------------------- Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=3dprinting Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe Adafruit Monthly Deals & FREE Specials https://www.adafruit.com/free?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=3dprinting Join our weekly Show & Tell on G+ Hangouts On Air: http://adafru.it/showtell Watch our latest project videos: http://adafru.it/latest?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=3dprinting 3DThursday Posts: https://blog.adafruit.com/category/3d-printing?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=3dprinting New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=3dprinting Music by Dan Q https://soundcloud.com/adafruit -----------------------------------------
Long before The Next Generation brought LCARS to life or 3D printers made cosplay easier, Star Trek fans relied on one book to make the Enterprise feel real: The Starfleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph. In this week's episode, Larry Nemecek welcomes back Karen Schnaubelt, daughter of Franz Joseph, to mark the 50th anniversary of that seminal 1975 publication, just weeks after its surprise appearance atop the New York Times bestseller list. More than just a how-to guide for warp drives and turbo lifts, the Tech Manual became a cornerstone of Trek fandom and helped lay the foundation for the Star Trek revival that followed. Karen reflects on her father's unique journey from retired engineer to pop culture icon, how the Technical Manual grew out of lunch-hour sketches and club meetings, and what it was like watching fandom embrace a book that treated Star Trek like a living universe. Plus, Larry and Karen discuss how that very success may have stirred some tension in Gene Roddenberry's orbit. Documents and additional references: The New York Times Book Review – January 4, 1976 The Trek Files Season 14 on Memory Alpha All episodes and documents: The Trek Files on Memory Alpha Visit the Trekland site for behind-the-scenes access and exclusive merchandise. The conversation continues on Discord with live chats and the Roddenberry Podcasts community! Join today!
Long before The Next Generation brought LCARS to life or 3D printers made cosplay easier, Star Trek fans relied on one book to make the Enterprise feel real: The Starfleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph. In this week's episode, Larry Nemecek welcomes back Karen Schnaubelt, daughter of Franz Joseph, to mark the 50th anniversary of that seminal 1975 publication, just weeks after its surprise appearance atop the New York Times bestseller list. More than just a how-to guide for warp drives and turbo lifts, the Tech Manual became a cornerstone of Trek fandom and helped lay the foundation for the Star Trek revival that followed. Karen reflects on her father's unique journey from retired engineer to pop culture icon, how the Technical Manual grew out of lunch-hour sketches and club meetings, and what it was like watching fandom embrace a book that treated Star Trek like a living universe. Plus, Larry and Karen discuss how that very success may have stirred some tension in Gene Roddenberry's orbit. Documents and additional references: The New York Times Book Review – January 4, 1976 The Trek Files Season 14 on Memory Alpha All episodes and documents: The Trek Files on Memory Alpha Visit the Trekland site for behind-the-scenes access and exclusive merchandise. The conversation continues on Discord with live chats and the Roddenberry Podcasts community! Join today!
Long before The Next Generation brought LCARS to life or 3D printers made cosplay easier, Star Trek fans relied on one book to make the Enterprise feel real: The Starfleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph. In this week's episode, Larry Nemecek welcomes back Karen Schnaubelt, daughter of Franz Joseph, to mark the 50th anniversary of that seminal 1975 publication, just weeks after its surprise appearance atop the New York Times bestseller list. More than just a how-to guide for warp drives and turbo lifts, the Tech Manual became a cornerstone of Trek fandom and helped lay the foundation for the Star Trek revival that followed. Karen reflects on her father's unique journey from retired engineer to pop culture icon, how the Technical Manual grew out of lunch-hour sketches and club meetings, and what it was like watching fandom embrace a book that treated Star Trek like a living universe. Plus, Larry and Karen discuss how that very success may have stirred some tension in Gene Roddenberry's orbit. Documents and additional references: The New York Times Book Review – January 4, 1976 The Trek Files Season 14 on Memory Alpha All episodes and documents: The Trek Files on Memory Alpha Visit the Trekland site for behind-the-scenes access and exclusive merchandise. The conversation continues on Discord with live chats and the Roddenberry Podcasts community! Join today!
TFIYE Ep#199: Release The Kraken Bunnies! In this episode, hosts Tim Trotter and Nate Foo kick things off with casual banter about their recent woes, including health issues (Tim's skull pains and chiropractor visits, Nate's headaches), matching flat tires on his and his wife's car, extreme California heat (109°F), and AC repairs. Tim shares details on his upcoming mini-vacation to Great Wolf Lodge for water slides, while Nate vents about tire shop hassles and worn treads potentially voiding warranties. They compare road noise in Washington vs. California highways and mention quirky musical roads that play tunes like the William Tell Overture via speed berms. The conversation shifts to major life updates: Tim recounts a grueling week helping his mom prepare for an estate sale on her 35-acre property following his father's passing. He describes hauling massive amounts of accumulated items, including a full shipping container, prepper supplies, barns full of tools, knives, flashlights, old hard drives, MacBooks (like a PowerBook G3), and endless cables. He highlights the emotional and physical toll, plus discoveries like forgotten family ashes. Nate discusses his brother-in-law's dying PC, which has led to piecemeal part replacements, essentially building a new rig. He also reveals last-minute travel drama for PAX West in Seattle: his cousin's sudden divorce forced him to book expensive hotels near Sea-Tac. Nate mentions a side trip to Vancouver, WA, for a family birthday, and they note the coincidence of both being near Great Wolf Lodge areas (though not overlapping). They reflect on reaching Episode 199, teasing the milestone 200th next time, and how they've recorded ~150 episodes together. They geek out over 56K modems, recalling dial-up sounds, specs, and modern USB versions still sold for ~$40 on Amazon for fax needs. They reminisce about connection speeds rarely hitting 53K due to phone line limits. Star Trek App: Nate shares an iOS RSS reader called "Stars" styled after TNG's LCARS interface (beeps, boops included), which Tim already uses weekly. They tie it to Star Trek's influence on iPads. Smartphones & Hardware: Discussion on Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7 (now as thin as a regular phone when folded) and Flip; Nate plans to upgrade from his Z Fold 5 despite a center crease crack. They speculate on Apple's potential foldable (maybe an iPad Mini-like device or flip phone), rumors of an ultra-thin "iPhone Air," MagSafe changes, and a possible M4-powered Apple TV. Nate praises a $250 4TB Samsung Evo 870 SSD. Gaming & Apple: They lament Apple's slow gaming push, praising Digital Foundry's coverage of Mac performance (e.g., Cyberpunk on M1+ chips matching 30-series NVIDIA cards in efficiency). They dream of an Apple gaming console or updated Apple TV for titles like Death Stranding. The episode wraps with editing woes (Nate's Audacity setup vs. potential GarageBand switch) and family interruptions in Nate's studio. Clocking in shorter than usual, it's a mix of personal rants, tech nostalgia, and forward-looking gadget hype, ending on their signature "Get forked." This episode highlights the hosts' enduring friendship amid chaos, with plenty of laughs over shared absurdities like "kraken bunnies" (rabbits with papillomavirus horns). Join The Fork Family On Discord: https://discord.gg/CXrFKxR8uA Remember to give us a review on iTunes or wherever you downloaded this podcast from. And don't forget you can connect to us on social media with, at, on or through: Find all our stuff at Website: http://www.dynamicworksproductions.com/ Twitter Handle: @getforkedpod eMail Address: theforkinyourearpodcast@gmail.com iTunes Podcast Store Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dynamic-works-productions/id703318918?mt=2&i=319887887 If you would like to catch up with each of us personally Online Twitch/Twitter: Tim K.A. Trotter's Youtube ID: Dynamicworksproductions Tim K.A. Trotter's Twitter ID: Tim_T Tim K.A. Trotter's Twitch ID: Tim_KA_Trotter Nate's Twitter ID: natefoo Also remember to buy my Sc-Fi adventure book “The Citadel: Arrival by Tim K.A. Trotter” available right now on Amazon Kindle store & iTunes iBookstore for only $2.99 get a free preview download when you visit those stores, it's a short story only 160-190 pages depending on your screen size, again thats $2.99 on Amazon Kindle & iTunes iBookstore so buy book and support this show!
On this week's episode of WeeklyTrek, TrekCore's news podcast, host Alex Perry is joined by Marina Kravchuk to discuss all the latest Star Trek news. This week, Alex and his guest discuss the following stories from around the web: Deadline: Paramount's Movie Priorities Under New Skydance Owners Include ‘Top Gun 3', ‘Star Trek' & More; Execs Expound On Vision (10:37) Variety: How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Used a Murder Mystery to Pay Homage to Shatner, Roddenberry and the Original Series: ‘We Didn't Have Any Adult Supervision' (18:26) TrekMovie: Exclusive: Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise' Producer (27:40) TrekCore: Master Replicas Debuts New STAR TREK Light-Up LCARS Displays (35:22) In addition, stick around to hear Marina and Alex discuss whether they think, now the Skydance merger has closed, some kind of Star Trek announcement might be coming before the end of this year…maybe at New York Comic Con in October? *** Do you have a wish or theory you'd like to share on the show? Tweet to Alex at @WeeklyTrek, or email us with your thoughts about wishes, theories, or anything else about the latest in Star Trek news!
“We are fans too.” Sistas Fran and Tamia sit down with legendary Star Trek designers Michael and Denise Okuda—the creative minds behind LCARS, iconic starship displays, and so much more. In this heartfelt conversation, the Okudas share how their love for Trek—and deep respect for its fans—inspired decades of groundbreaking design. They're not just part of Star Trek history—they're fans too. And they've always wanted to get it right for the biggest Trekkies of all. Follow Michael & Denise Okuda: https://www.facebook.com/Michael.Denise.Okuda/about_profile_transparency/ Check out: The Roddenberry Archive https://archive.x.io/about/ The Roddenberry Vault: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series_-_The_Roddenberry_Vault Associate Producers: Sailor Marj, Karen Dramera, and Stephanie Baker Thank you to Dena Massenburg for our dope logo: @blackbeanz70 Music: “Poppin off the Rip” Artist: RAGE Source: YouTube Audio Library SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/syfysistas SUBSCRIBE > LIKE > SHARE: https://linktr.ee/syfysistas You can find the SyFy Sistas and our family of podcasts on The Trek Geeks Podcasts Network: https://trekgeeks.com FANSETS - Our pins... have character. Thank you to our friends at FanSets for being the presenting sponsor of the Trek Geeks Podcasts. Tune in to this episode to get an exclusive code and score 10% off your entire purchase! https://fansets.com STRANGER COMICS - THE BEST IN FANTASY COMICS! Tune in to this episode to get an exclusive code and score 10% off your entire purchase! http://www.strangercomics.com/
“We are fans too.” Sistas Fran and Tamia sit down with legendary Star Trek designers Michael and Denise Okuda—the creative minds behind LCARS, iconic starship displays, and so much more. In this heartfelt conversation, the Okudas share how their love for Trek—and deep respect for its fans—inspired decades of groundbreaking design. They're not just part of Star Trek history—they're fans too. And they've always wanted to get it right for the biggest Trekkies of all. Follow Michael & Denise Okuda: https://www.facebook.com/Michael.Denise.Okuda/about_profile_transparency/ Check out: The Roddenberry Archive https://archive.x.io/about/ The Roddenberry Vault: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series_-_The_Roddenberry_Vault Associate Producers: Sailor Marj, Karen Dramera, and Stephanie Baker Thank you to Dena Massenburg for our dope logo: @blackbeanz70 Music: “Poppin off the Rip” Artist: RAGE Source: YouTube Audio Library SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/syfysistas SUBSCRIBE > LIKE > SHARE: https://linktr.ee/syfysistas You can find the SyFy Sistas and our family of podcasts on The Trek Geeks Podcasts Network: https://trekgeeks.com FANSETS - Our pins... have character. Thank you to our friends at FanSets for being the presenting sponsor of the Trek Geeks Podcasts. Tune in to this episode to get an exclusive code and score 10% off your entire purchase! https://fansets.com STRANGER COMICS - THE BEST IN FANTASY COMICS! Tune in to this episode to get an exclusive code and score 10% off your entire purchase! http://www.strangercomics.com/
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Pack your bags! Because on this week's TrekRanks we are visiting your “Top 5 Dream Destinations” in Star Trek! It's the locations in the Trek universe where you want to visit or see in person or take a vacation, however you define your Prime Directive. Our expert LCARS panel of host Jim Moorhouse and guests Chris Burris and Craig Main cover everything from planets to space stations to museums across the Alpha, Gamma and Delta quadrant! Make sure your interplanetary travel documents are up to date for this fun episode of TrekRanks! Episode Rundown: Diagnostic Cycle: We get into the details of what is now an ongoing series of “destination” topics in TrekRanks, with Dream Destinations being the third in this new series. Prime Directive: Each guest on this week's panel reveals exactly how they narrowed down their list and made their final choices. The Order of Things: All the picks are revealed with the TrekRanks' original “Five words and a hashtag” summary, along with one episode that helps frame their choice. Secondary Systems: For a few extra picks that just missed our final list. Regeneration Cycle: The panel recaps their picks and we dissect some of the interesting statistical anomalies that arose from the discussion. Temporal Inversion: We flashback to a previous episode of TrekRanks and relay some of the feedback received from listeners. If you have your own picks you would like to relay to us, please hail us at 757-828-RANK (7265) and record your own personal TrekRanks log to let us know your Top 5 Dream Destinations. (Or you can record it yourself and just DM us @TrekRanks.com on Bluesky.) Your comments could be used as part of a Temporal Causality Loop on an upcoming episode (and might get you a chance to be a guest on a future episode, too). And don't forget to check out TrekRanks.com for our entire back catalog of episodes and a detailed rundown on every episode of Star Trek ever.
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This week's TrekRanks is all about the “Top 5 Crash Landings” in Star Trek as we attempt to to navigate our shuttle safely through some kind of magnetic disturbance in the atmosphere or through an ion storm or a weird orbital displacement shift - and guide our crew to safety. Our expert panel of host Jim Moorhouse and guests Paige Thatcher and Sebas de Toma steer us through every variation of crash landing in Trek, uncovering more than a few fun trends, tropes and surprises. Episode Rundown: Diagnostic Cycle: We break down all the different types of crash landing we've seen in Star Trek through the years and how they are represented in so many different ways. Prime Directive: Each guest on this week's LCARS panel relay exactly how they narrowed down their list and made their final choices. The Order of Things: All the picks are revealed with the usual TrekRanks' “Five words and a hashtag” summary, along with the single episode that best frames their choice. Secondary Systems: For a few extra picks that just missed our final list. Regeneration Cycle: The panel recaps their picks and we dissect some of the interesting statistical anomalies that arose from the discussion. Temporal Inversion: We flashback to a previous episode of TrekRanks and get into some of the feedback received from listeners. If you have your own picks you would like to relay to us, please hail us at 757-828-RANK (7265) and record your own personal TrekRanks log to let us know your Top 5 Crash Landings. (Or you can record it yourself and just DM us @TrekRanks.bksy.social on Bluesky.) Your comments could be used as part of a Temporal Causality Loop on an upcoming episode (and might get you a chance to be a guest on a future episode, too). And don't forget to check out TrekRanks.com for our entire back catalog of episodes and a detailed rundown on every episode of Star Trek ever.
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We are getting dark and dirty on this week's TrekRanks as we maneuver down some of Starfleet's back alleys to uncover the “Top 5 Treacherous Bastards” in the history of Star Trek. Our expert panel is packed with unsavory characters, including host Jim Moorhouse and guests Ryan Riddle and Michael Bentley, as they get into the underbelly of the influences that have motivated so many of our picks. This is a fun episode that also goes deep … into treachery! Episode Rundown: Diagnostic Cycle: We give a quick definition of “treacherous” and how that might compare to “traitorous.” (Note: they are basically the same thing.) Prime Directive: Each guest on this week's LCARS panel reveals exactly how they narrowed down their list and made their final choices. The Order of Things: All the picks are revealed with the TrekRanks' original “Five words and a hashtag” summary, along with one episode that helps frame their choice. Secondary Systems: For a few extra picks that just missed our final list. Regeneration Cycle: The panel recaps their picks and we dissect some of the interesting statistical anomalies that arose from the discussion. Temporal Inversion: We flashback to a previous episode of TrekRanks and relay some of the feedback received from listeners. If you have your own picks you would like to relay to us, please hail us at 757-828-RANK (7265) and record your own personal TrekRanks log to let us know your Top 5 Treacherous Bastards. (Or you can record it yourself and just DM us @TrekRanks.bksy.social on Bluesky.) Your comments could be used as part of a Temporal Causality Loop on an upcoming episode (and might get you a chance to be a guest on a future episode, too). And don't forget to check out TrekRanks.com for our entire back catalog of episodes and a detailed rundown on every episode of Star Trek ever.
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We celebrate episode 200 of TrekRanks with perhaps the most wide-open topic in the history of our show. Which means we are covering more Star Trek ground than ever! This week we enter a stable temporal fissure to revisit many of the fun topics in our illustrious past with TrekRanks Potpourri 2.0 with host Jim Moorhouse and our expert panel of Alex Perry, Jenn Tifft and Abby Sommer. As you know, the TrekRanks catalog has no boundaries – from “Scenes in Trek” to “Abstract topics” to “Character Moments” and “Season Recaps” – and this week each member of our LCARS panel picks five of their favorite topics from our history to discuss (and, of course, make one episode pick for that topic as well). It's another standout entry of the most comprehensive, informative and consistently fun Star Trek podcast in the Alpha Quadrant. Episode Rundown: Diagnostic Cycle: Where we briefly get into the details of defining the show's specific topic. Prime Directive: Each guest on this week's panel reveals exactly how they narrowed down their list and made their final choices. The Order of Things: All the picks are revealed with the TrekRanks' original “Five words and a hashtag” summary, along with one episode that helps frame their choice. Secondary Systems: For a few extra picks that just missed our final list. Regeneration Cycle: The panel recaps their picks and we dissect some of the interesting statistical anomalies that arose from the discussion. If you have your own picks you would like to relay to us, please hail us at 757-828-RANK (7265) and record your own personal TrekRanks log to let us know your picks for TrekRanks Potpourri 2.0. (Or you can record it yourself and just DM us @TrekRanks.bksy.social on Bluesky.) Your comments could be used as part of a future Temporal Causality Loop on an upcoming episode (and might get you a chance to be a guest on a future episode, too). And don't forget to check out TrekRanks.com for our entire back catalog of episodes and a detailed rundown on every episode of Star Trek ever.
Mit GNOME und KDE wurde für viele schon das Jahr des Linux-Desktops eingeführt. Doch fernab des Mainstreams (zu dem auch XFCE, LXQt und Budgie zählen) gibt es weitere spannende Nischendesktops, die es wert sind, besprochen zu werden.
Computer Operations in StarfleetThere is a lot that goes on aboard starships and starbases that we never see. There is no question that one of the most important systems in Starfleet is the computer - it runs all systems and yet we never meet the team who are in charge of maintaining it. Who is the master/mistress of the LCARS? The trio reviews the many computer malfunctions in Trek, and why the IT department was surely ignored by the command team. Who is the ultimate commander of the computer?This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3169638/advertisement
SHOW and TELL 9/20/2023 1:23 Scott - espidf5 update 4:35 Jepler - New Unicomp Keyboard 7:33 PaintYourDragon - Noods tophat demo 10:12 JP - Revision to SynthIO fundamentals platform 13:13 - New NFC tag tutorial 15:44 - circuit board Lcars touchpad revision 18:33 Paul Cutler - Raspberry pi s3 matrix portal Music project 10:17 DJ Devon3 - 12 panel matrix display
Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is STILL going on about that Book he wrote with Eric, but this week is joined by Hye and Ste to talk about the art and design of the book, from the wonderful LCARS pages to Ste's fantastic paintings and logo You can find all the socials for the Book as well as the link to read it here: https://linktr.ee/Wolf359project You can find more from Hye here: https://www.explodinghye.com/ and the Ohniaka 3 Project here: https://www.theohniaka3project.com/ and Ste can be found here: https://www.steillustrates.com/ And you can find more of Andy here: https://linktr.ee/andy3e and his other casts over at Rogue Two Media - http://www.roguetwomedia.com/ - https://twitter.com/GreatDerelict - https://www.facebook.com/groups/GreatDerelict/
Demonstration of the image cycle and brightness controls for the Star Trek: Picard LCARS Enterprise-D panel. John Park Learn Guide coming soon. Note, all flicker is in camera, not visible in real life. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
Today,* We want to hear NIGHT BIRD!* LCARS panels explain everything!And we ask the question, "Would you love or hate your duplicate?"Contact The TNG PodcastSend us a direct message on Instagram or FacebookEmail us: info@thetngpodcast.comDrop us a 90 second voicemailThanks for listening! Live long and prosper!~ Shereese & AndreaPS. Consider supporting our podcast so we can keep making content about this show we all love!
JOHN PARK'S WORKSHOP LIVE 3/31/22 LCARS Panel @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
This week @adafruit we're making a modular case for TFT Feather and Stemma QT sensors. Prototyping a VU meter using a QtPy RP2040, NeoPixels and a PDM mic. Shop talk on using Display IO for Circuit Python to make LCARs inspired user interfaces. The timelapse this week is a potted cactus with hidden storage printed using special quantum filament from Matterhackers. It's gonna be magical! Learn Guide https://learn.adafruit.com/feather-tft-stemma-case/ YouTube Video https://youtu.be/nKFDXzp5-So TFT Feather ESP32-S2 https://www.adafruit.com/product/5300 Demo Code for TFT Feather https://gist.github.com/djecken/0b0666499bdfd85e75c96c03fa6a338b BMP280 Stemma QT https://www.adafruit.com/product/2651 Stemma QT Cables https://www.adafruit.com/product/4210 QT Py RP2040 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4900 BME680 Stemma QT Sensor https://www.adafruit.com/product/3660 1.5 OLED Stemma QT Display https://www.adafruit.com/product/4741 Adafruit LC709203F Lipo Battery Monitor https://www.adafruit.com/product/4712 Quantum Filament Matterhackers https://www.matterhackers.com/store/c/matterhackers-quantum-pla NeoTrellis Soundboard Project https://learn.adafruit.com/neotrellis-soundboard Timelapse Tuesday Cactus Caddy - CM Design https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/home/the-cactus-caddy https://youtu.be/hYYzFQ4E5Ig Community Makes https://cults3d.com/en/3d-printing/resinfordays-2 tusken staff https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5215011 usb crank remix https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/7260-raspberry-pi-zero-stand/comments#comment-137382 pi stand https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/7197-arcade-button-control-box/comments#makes arcade button box Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
This week @adafruit we're making a modular case for TFT Feather and Stemma QT sensors. Prototyping a VU meter using a QtPy RP2040, NeoPixels and a PDM mic. Shop talk on using Display IO for Circuit Python to make LCARs inspired user interfaces. The timelapse this week is a potted cactus with hidden storage printed using special quantum filament from Matterhackers. It's gonna be magical! Learn Guide https://learn.adafruit.com/feather-tft-stemma-case/ YouTube Video https://youtu.be/nKFDXzp5-So TFT Feather ESP32-S2 https://www.adafruit.com/product/5300 Demo Code for TFT Feather https://gist.github.com/djecken/0b0666499bdfd85e75c96c03fa6a338b BMP280 Stemma QT https://www.adafruit.com/product/2651 Stemma QT Cables https://www.adafruit.com/product/4210 QT Py RP2040 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4900 BME680 Stemma QT Sensor https://www.adafruit.com/product/3660 1.5 OLED Stemma QT Display https://www.adafruit.com/product/4741 Adafruit LC709203F Lipo Battery Monitor https://www.adafruit.com/product/4712 Quantum Filament Matterhackers https://www.matterhackers.com/store/c/matterhackers-quantum-pla Timelapse Tuesday Cactus Caddy - CM Design https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/home/the-cactus-caddy https://youtu.be/hYYzFQ4E5Ig Community Makes https://cults3d.com/en/3d-printing/resinfordays-2 tusken staff https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5215011 usb crank remix https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/7260-raspberry-pi-zero-stand/comments#comment-137382 pi stand https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/7197-arcade-button-control-box/comments#makes arcade button box Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
Can we live with openSUSE Tumbleweed? We try three different builds and prepare ourselves for our journey into SUSE land. Our setups, what we liked, and what we still need to figure out.
This week on Episode 526 of Priority One: the Next Generation of tours is in full swing at Ticonderoga, set photos from Picard Season 3, Star Trek Online gets spoOoOoOoky in their first Halloween special, and we review the latest episode of Lower Decks: "wej Duj"! TREK IT OUT Edited by Thomas Reynolds Touring the Next Generation in Ticonderoga By Elio Lleo Over the years, we've had the privilege of attending some phenomenal Star Trek themed events and exhibits [or seething with jealousy at it–Ed.], but few are as spectacular as what you'll find in the sleepy town of Ticonderoga, New York. You see, James Cawley–who grew to fame as an Elvis impersonator–is also a die-hard Trekkie. His passion was so great that he decided to rebuild the sets for The Original Series where an old retail store used to be. He didn't just want to build the Enterprise…he wanted to recreate the old Desilu Set. Closest we'll probably come to having a religious experience. Image: Star Trek Set Tours. Now, after 4 years of being open to the public, Cawley is expanding! As they work to acquire an adjacent building, Cawley and his team have begun diligently recreating the sets from The Next Generation. Local news station WCAX got a sneak peak of their progress: when speaking to reporter Cat Viglienzoni, Cawley explains he has all the original blueprints as well as a direct line to Star Trek's legendary creators Mike and Denise Okuda. Star Trek: Picard Producer's Sweet Sneak Peek Pics By Cat Hough If you've been following Star Trek: Picard executive producer and co-showrunner, Terry Matalas on Twitter, then you've seen the images he's been sharing from the set of the show. If you are not following him, then you may want to. Since Season 2 has wrapped filming, the images he posted are likely sneak peaks from season three–either way, they are definitely interesting. https://twitter.com/TerryMatalas/status/1442660363573465090?s=20 The images are all from what appears to be a Starfleet vessel from the late 24th century: the first image features the helm console for the ship, with Matalas noting the LCARS interface introduced on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Also of particular interest: the replicator display and table setting that includes a 24th-century Starfleet emblem and some new sci-fi cutlery. We still don't know what the second season holds, but we have been told that the Q storyline will wrap up in Season 2. It's also very likely that Jonathan Frakes will return to direct some episodes of Season 3. https://twitter.com/TerryMatalas/status/1445033217875070977?s=20 Episodic Season Habit (It Becomes Automatic) By Cat Hough Anson Mount recently spoke about Strange New Worlds, echoing Akiva Goldsman's description of the show: “we wanted our show to be more or less a throwback in every way we could... which meant more of an episodic structure. And so every episode is a distinct story...but the star of the show is the ship and the big idea of the week.” Bridge to Astrocartography, figure out why we keep getting lost in those eyes. Image: TrekMovie.com As we've also discussed on prior episodes, filming for Strange New Worlds was done using Augmented Reality and Mount also spoke about that experience, saying, “It's wild, man. Imagine an entire soundstage where the walls are all high-definition screens and there's a ceiling projection...it's really interesting to be in these environments because it's a whole other level of filmmaking than I've ever seen before.” A release date for Strange New Worlds has not been announced, yet. A big thanks to TrekMovie for sharing this exclusive interview from their coverage of Star Trek Day. Quick News Roundup Here are a few headlines that we didn't discuss but might interest you. In book news, the first novel in the Star Trek: Coda series has been released. This trilogy continues the adventures of characters from The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. The three books in the trilogy are Moments Asunder by Dayton Ward, The Ashes of Tomorrow by James Swallow, and Oblivion's Gate by David Mack. Moments Asunder is already available, with the two sequels following in October and November. The pre-order pages include synopses for the books, revealing a plot dealing in time travel. Plus, we got another glimpse at the upcoming Prodigy animated series. Nickelodeon recently tweeted a new trailer with the announcement that the show premieres on October 28. Finally, are you ready to take flight on a midlife crisis of cosmic proportions? Then you should definitely trek out the series idea from the creators of Saturday Night Live. This new show would be titled “Star Trek: Ego Quest,” following the voyages of the SS New Shepard and its crew of random weirdos. Its mission: to just...sort of fly around space goofing off in a ship that looks like a penis. https://youtu.be/XD66suMp3J4 STAR TREK GAMING NEWS Edited by Thomas Reynolds By the Spiking of My DPS, Something Wicked This Way Leaps By Rosco McQueen Replicate yourself a pumpkin spice raktajino and prepare to carve out a new experience in Star Trek Online: the MMO announced this week it will hold its first ever Halloween event! “Captains will find themselves transported to an ancient castle on Pyris VII. The classic aliens from the Original Series episode ‘Catspaw', the Old Ones, have returned once again to study humanity–but their plans have been disrupted by the Devidians!” Honestly the idea of redoing "Knowledge is Power" is scarier. Image: Cryptic Studios. The three week event will be a single activity, where playing the event TFO “Cat's Tale!” every 20 hours rewards you with the usual one daily progress token. After 14 days of progress you unlock the event rewards: the Transmuter Wand Universal Kit Module, the Old One Vanity Pet, with the first character receiving 25,000 Dilithium Ore, and 3 Featured Episode Reward Boxes. The Universal Kit Module - Transmuter Wand will transform your target into a sentient black cat, complete with Bad Luck Aura! The aura disables shields and most powers to nearby allies, who will flee in fear from the frightful feline. What every kid wants this Halloween, a subspace bubble wand. Image: Cryptic Studios. The event will be available on all platforms on October 13. An interesting note is that this will become a regular annual event, similar to First Contact Day. The article notes it begins with the one TFO, with plans to grow the event year-on-year with more content.
This week on Episode 526 of Priority One: the Next Generation of tours is in full swing at Ticonderoga, set photos from Picard Season 3, Star Trek Online gets spoOoOoOoky in their first Halloween special, and we review the latest episode of Lower Decks: "wej Duj"! TREK IT OUT Edited by Thomas Reynolds Touring the Next Generation in Ticonderoga By Elio Lleo Over the years, we've had the privilege of attending some phenomenal Star Trek themed events and exhibits [or seething with jealousy at it–Ed.], but few are as spectacular as what you'll find in the sleepy town of Ticonderoga, New York. You see, James Cawley–who grew to fame as an Elvis impersonator–is also a die-hard Trekkie. His passion was so great that he decided to rebuild the sets for The Original Series where an old retail store used to be. He didn't just want to build the Enterprise…he wanted to recreate the old Desilu Set. Closest we'll probably come to having a religious experience. Image: Star Trek Set Tours. Now, after 4 years of being open to the public, Cawley is expanding! As they work to acquire an adjacent building, Cawley and his team have begun diligently recreating the sets from The Next Generation. Local news station WCAX got a sneak peak of their progress: when speaking to reporter Cat Viglienzoni, Cawley explains he has all the original blueprints as well as a direct line to Star Trek's legendary creators Mike and Denise Okuda. Star Trek: Picard Producer's Sweet Sneak Peek Pics By Cat Hough If you've been following Star Trek: Picard executive producer and co-showrunner, Terry Matalas on Twitter, then you've seen the images he's been sharing from the set of the show. If you are not following him, then you may want to. Since Season 2 has wrapped filming, the images he posted are likely sneak peaks from season three–either way, they are definitely interesting. https://twitter.com/TerryMatalas/status/1442660363573465090?s=20 The images are all from what appears to be a Starfleet vessel from the late 24th century: the first image features the helm console for the ship, with Matalas noting the LCARS interface introduced on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Also of particular interest: the replicator display and table setting that includes a 24th-century Starfleet emblem and some new sci-fi cutlery. We still don't know what the second season holds, but we have been told that the Q storyline will wrap up in Season 2. It's also very likely that Jonathan Frakes will return to direct some episodes of Season 3. https://twitter.com/TerryMatalas/status/1445033217875070977?s=20 Episodic Season Habit (It Becomes Automatic) By Cat Hough Anson Mount recently spoke about Strange New Worlds, echoing Akiva Goldsman's description of the show: “we wanted our show to be more or less a throwback in every way we could... which meant more of an episodic structure. And so every episode is a distinct story...but the star of the show is the ship and the big idea of the week.” Bridge to Astrocartography, figure out why we keep getting lost in those eyes. Image: TrekMovie.com As we've also discussed on prior episodes, filming for Strange New Worlds was done using Augmented Reality and Mount also spoke about that experience, saying, “It's wild, man. Imagine an entire soundstage where the walls are all high-definition screens and there's a ceiling projection...it's really interesting to be in these environments because it's a whole other level of filmmaking than I've ever seen before.” A release date for Strange New Worlds has not been announced, yet. A big thanks to TrekMovie for sharing this exclusive interview from their coverage of Star Trek Day. Quick News Roundup Here are a few headlines that we didn't discuss but might interest you. In book news, the first novel in the Star Trek: Coda series has been released. This trilogy continues the adventures of characters from The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. The three books in the trilogy are Moments Asunder by Dayton Ward, The Ashes of Tomorrow by James Swallow, and Oblivion's Gate by David Mack. Moments Asunder is already available, with the two sequels following in October and November. The pre-order pages include synopses for the books, revealing a plot dealing in time travel. Plus, we got another glimpse at the upcoming Prodigy animated series. Nickelodeon recently tweeted a new trailer with the announcement that the show premieres on October 28. Finally, are you ready to take flight on a midlife crisis of cosmic proportions? Then you should definitely trek out the series idea from the creators of Saturday Night Live. This new show would be titled “Star Trek: Ego Quest,” following the voyages of the SS New Shepard and its crew of random weirdos. Its mission: to just...sort of fly around space goofing off in a ship that looks like a penis. https://youtu.be/XD66suMp3J4 STAR TREK GAMING NEWS Edited by Thomas Reynolds By the Spiking of My DPS, Something Wicked This Way Leaps By Rosco McQueen Replicate yourself a pumpkin spice raktajino and prepare to carve out a new experience in Star Trek Online: the MMO announced this week it will hold its first ever Halloween event! “Captains will find themselves transported to an ancient castle on Pyris VII. The classic aliens from the Original Series episode ‘Catspaw', the Old Ones, have returned once again to study humanity–but their plans have been disrupted by the Devidians!” Honestly the idea of redoing "Knowledge is Power" is scarier. Image: Cryptic Studios. The three week event will be a single activity, where playing the event TFO “Cat's Tale!” every 20 hours rewards you with the usual one daily progress token. After 14 days of progress you unlock the event rewards: the Transmuter Wand Universal Kit Module, the Old One Vanity Pet, with the first character receiving 25,000 Dilithium Ore, and 3 Featured Episode Reward Boxes. The Universal Kit Module - Transmuter Wand will transform your target into a sentient black cat, complete with Bad Luck Aura! The aura disables shields and most powers to nearby allies, who will flee in fear from the frightful feline. What every kid wants this Halloween, a subspace bubble wand. Image: Cryptic Studios. The event will be available on all platforms on October 13. An interesting note is that this will become a regular annual event, similar to First Contact Day. The article notes it begins with the one TFO, with plans to grow the event year-on-year with more content.
Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, while traversing the Argolis Cluster in the ship's shuttle - James, George, and Brandon chat about ships' LCARS interfaces, advancements in tactile input devices, and programmable matter, including where the future might be headed with such tech. All patrons of Ship-Talking's Patreon gain access to new episodes of 'Shuttle Scuttle' one week before their wide release here! Hailing frequencies are always open at www.shiptalkingpod.com or email hello@shiptalkingpod.com.
Howdy y'all! Come on ever & sit a spell with Trekkie Jim! Jim is a lifetime Trekkie who's earliest memories include watching TOS in the 1970s. Jim has been designing websites for over 20 years. His experience as a web designer & love for LCARS naturally led him to create a LCARS HTML website template, which is downloadable at http://thelcars.com. **************************** Bad Choices & Bourbon - by Dan Decker Twitter | YouTube | Patreon **************************** --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bcnb/message
Viele Websites kommen und gehen und viele Websites sehen auch ziemlich gleich aus. Umso mehr fällt dann eine Website auf, die es schon seit mehreren Jahrzehnten gibt und die so ganz anders aussieht, als die meisten, die man im Netz so findet.rnrnJens stellt mir seine LCARS Seite www.gtjlcars.de genauer vor. Als langjähriger Star Trek und LCARS Fan hat es sich Jens zur Aufgabe gemacht, uns LCARS sehr genau zu erklären. LCARS ist das Betriebssystem, was in den meisten Star Trek Produktionen seit TNG auf den Sternenflottenraumschiffen verwendet wird. In diesem Podcast erfahren wir alles über die Erfindung von LCARS, die Entwicklung, seine Unterschiede und Besonderheiten. Außerdem gehen wir natürlich auch auf die zahlreichen Angebote von Jens auf seiner GTJ-LCARS Website ein. rnrnAlles zu Jens:rnWebsite: https://www.gtjlcars.dernWas ist LCARS: https://www.gtjlcars.de/LCARSindex/was_ist_lcars.htmrnLCARS Schriftart: https://www.gtjlcars.de/LCARSindex/LCARSFONTS.htmrnLCARS Farbenlehre: https://www.gtjlcars.de/LCARSindex/Colorindex1.htmrnLCARS Excelvorlage: https://www.gtjlcars.de/EXCELIndex/Vorlagen.htmrnKFZ Kennzeichen: https://www.gtjlcars.de/Sonstigesindex/NCC1701_KFZ.htmrnFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/gtjlcarsrnrnWeiteres zu uns gibt es hier:rnrnWebsite: www.communicator.spacernUnser Star Trek Newsletter: newsletter.communicator.spacernInstagram: instagram.com/communicator.space/rnFacebook: facebook.com/StarTrekRadio/rnTwitter: twitter.com/startrekradio
Viele Websites kommen und gehen und viele Websites sehen auch ziemlich gleich aus. Umso mehr fällt dann eine Website auf, die es schon seit mehreren Jahrzehnten gibt und die so ganz anders aussieht, als die meisten, die man im Netz so findet. Jens stellt mir seine LCARS Seite www.gtjlcars.de genauer vor. Als langjähriger Star Trek und LCARS Fan hat es sich Jens zur Aufgabe gemacht, uns LCARS sehr genau zu erklären. LCARS ist das Betriebssystem, was in den meisten Star Trek Produktionen seit TNG auf den Sternenflottenraumschiffen verwendet wird. In diesem Podcast erfahren wir alles über die Erfindung von LCARS, die Entwicklung, seine Unterschiede und Besonderheiten. Außerdem gehen wir natürlich auch auf die zahlreichen Angebote von Jens auf seiner GTJ-LCARS Website ein. Alles zu Jens: Website: https://www.gtjlcars.de Was ist LCARS: https://www.gtjlcars.de/LCARSindex/was_ist_lcars.htm LCARS Schriftart: https://www.gtjlcars.de/LCARSindex/LCARSFONTS.htm LCARS Farbenlehre: https://www.gtjlcars.de/LCARSindex/Colorindex1.htm LCARS Excelvorlage: https://www.gtjlcars.de/EXCELIndex/Vorlagen.htm KFZ Kennzeichen: https://www.gtjlcars.de/Sonstigesindex/NCC1701_KFZ.htm Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gtjlcars Weiteres zu uns gibt es hier: Website: www.communicator.space Unser Star Trek Newsletter: newsletter.communicator.space Instagram: instagram.com/communicator.space/ Facebook: facebook.com/StarTrekRadio/ Twitter: twitter.com/startrekradio
The Star Trek starship you want to kiss and squeeze, errr we mean, she's a handsome lady. Adam Clery presents 10 Secrets Of The USS Cerritos You Need To Know...ENJOY!Follow us on Twitter:@AdamClery@TrekCultureFor more awesome content, check out: whatculture.com/topic/star-trek See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Hello Galaxy! Tonight we had a special guest in the studio to present a new intuitive tool allowing players to more easily plan their progression. Fellow Official Content Creator Fartasia is with us to discuss his new innovation, and how it came to be. The file is downloadable in our discord (link available from our website below) to download this new tool, or available directly in the LCARS 2.0 discord. This tool allows an easier planning process for the acquisition of next level materials, be it rares for primes, or even research. Listen for an in-depth analysis of the tool and how it can be utilized to help you plan and spend your hard earned resources and materials more efficiently. Plus some vague new insight into the next arc and our newest feature, the 5 min Community Q&A Blast! All this and more on today's show! Subscribe, share with your team, and ENJOY the show! Please visit our website for all things related to Talking Trek at www.talkingtrekstfc.online00:21:03 LCARS 2.0 Presents - Prime Mats Calculator01:07:56 Funny Commercial Break01:25:50 Peaks into Arc 201:52:50 Funny Commercial Break02:02:03 Community Q&A Blast
Positively Trek 69: Lower Decks Season 2 On the Way!Plus: Film News & Exciting New Trek Products This week on the Positively Trek podcast, hosts Dan and Bruce talk about all the week’s news from the world of Star Trek! We discuss a recent interview of Lower Decks showrunner Mike McMahan by YouTuber (and friend of the show) Ketwolski, a recent interview with Noah Hawley on his currently-on-hold Star Trek film, and talk about new products, including a snazzy LCARS dinnerware set, an elegant Star Trek: The Next Generation whisky decanter set, and a new model of the U.S.S. Voyager coming soon from Round 2 Models!NOTE FOR LOWER DECKS SPOILERS: Lower Decks discussion is from 03:25 - 12:55. Mike McMahan Shares New Updates on STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS Season 2: http://blog.trekcore.com/2020/12/mike-mcmahan-shares-new-updates-on-star-trek-lower-decks-season-2/ Noah Hawley: Paramount Pulled The Plug On His Star Trek Film “Very Close To Production”: https://trekmovie.com/2020/12/01/noah-hawley-paramount-pulled-the-plug-on-his-star-trek-film-very-close-to-production/ Drink and Dine in the 24th Century With Ukonic’s LCARS-Themed STAR TREK: TNG Dinnerware and Whiskey Set: http://blog.trekcore.com/2020/12/ukonic-star-trek-tng-lcars-computer-dinnerware/ Round 2 Announces new model kit: 1/1000 scale USS Voyager - Announced during YouTube Livestream: https://youtu.be/AfUcfvUuTk8?t=557 Show page: http://positivelytrek.libsyn.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/positively-trek/id1501468628 Twitter: http://twitter.com/positivelytrek Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PositivelyTrek Sunshine (version 2) by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4438-sunshine-version-2- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4457-take-a-chance License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Producer David Zappone gives an update on his Star Trek: Voyager documentary; there’s a new LCARS-style dining set making waves on social media; and a little Star Trek history. Support Daily Star Trek News on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dailystartreknews Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts For more great Star Trek podcasts: https://podcasts.roddenberry.com Website: https://www.dailystartreknews.com Email: info@dailystartreknews.com Twitter and Instagram: @dailytreknews
Producer David Zappone gives an update on his Star Trek: Voyager documentary; there's a new LCARS-style dining set making waves on social media; and a little Star Trek history. Support Daily Star Trek News on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dailystartreknews Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts For more great Star Trek podcasts: https://podcasts.roddenberry.com Website: https://www.dailystartreknews.com Email: info@dailystartreknews.com Twitter and Instagram: @dailytreknews
After a long wait, Star Trek Discovery is back. Michael Burnham has succeeded in saving the universe, but she now has to face the fact that the lift she knew is gone forever, and her friends aboard Discovery are nowhere to be found. Worse than that, she learns that the Federation is all but gone in this distant future. What's a Starfleet officer to do? It turns out, this new century might need Michael just as much as the previous one did. This is a good solid episode that opens the new season and promises an interesting and satisfying story. So let's geek out about it. -- Find my books at books2read.com/jewel books2read.com/jewel2 ------more---- Transacript Welcome to Nerd Heaven. I’m Adam David Collings, the author of Jewel of The Stars. And I am a nerd. This is episode 38 of the podcast. Today, we launch into something new and exciting. We’re covering the first episode of Star Trek Discovery season 3, and we’ll be doing weekly review analysis on each episode until the season is done. And welcome to my new timeslot. Back when I was covering Star Trek Picard season 1, I’d watch the episode Friday night, then watch it again Saturday morning, taking notes and scripting the podcast. Then I’d record, edit and publish by Saturday afternoon. It got pretty intense. This time, I plan to pace myself a little. I’ll be posted on Mondays, Australian time zone. Probably Monday morning. That just allows me a bit more time to get the episode together and get some other things done on the weekend. Today’’s episode is called That Hope is You. Part 1. The description on Memory Alpha reads Burnham navigates a strange, new galaxy, 930 years in her future, looking for the rest of the Discovery crew. (Season premiere) The episode was Written by Michelle Paradise, Jenny Lumet, & Alex Kurtzman It was Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi And it first aired on the 15th of October 2020 Make it so. The end of season 2 was a big game changer, liquifying the status quo of the series. Michael Burnhan and the USS Discovery flew into a wormhole taking them into the distant future. Further into Star Trek’s future than we’ve ever seen before. And that was an exciting prospect. So now, finally, we get to see what kind of world they emerge into. This gives the writers of the show the opportunity they’ve wanted all along, to create something brand new. To establish a completely unexplored era in the Star Trek universe. They must have had so much fun brainstorming ideas. Honestly, Star Trek Discovery should never have been set in the pre-Kirk 23rd century, given the kind of creative freedom they wanted. The writers finally realised this and used the second half of season 2 to set up this change. So … the very first scene shows us a bird, with a digital clock projected on its side. Okay. That’s different. Evidently, this is some kind of futuristic alarm clock projecting a hologram. I kinda like it. I’d wake up to that. We see a man wake up and leave his bed, which dissolves into a liquid state and disappear. The whole structure seems to be constructed from nanites. It’s very cool on screen. He cleans his teeth, and a desk and chair are created by the same nanite technology as his bed. The process repeats, giving us a sense that this man’s life is very very routine and predictable. He’s searching for signals, and he carries a case that bears a Starfleet logo (Oddly, it’s the early 23rd century logo with the split delta.) When The Next Generation first came out, they designed a whole new aesthetic for the technology. We got the beloved Okudagrams, often referred to as LCARS, although technically, LCARS is the library computer access retrieval system. Anyway, we all love that look. But for the 32nd century, they needed to similarly re-define the visual look of the Star Trek Universe. This nanite-based technology is both visually interesting and logical. It’s a believable extension from the replication and hologram technologies.We’ve heard the term “Particle Synthesis” from time to time in Star Trek. Arturis used it to fool the crew of Voyager into thinking his ship was Starfleet. Species 8472 also used it to re-created Starfleet Academy in the Delta Quadrant. I can’t help but wonder, is this an advanced form of particle synthesis? The name seems to fit what we see on screen. Later, we’ll see a control panel on a ship. Instead of okudagrams on a touch screen, we’ll see this same nanite technology creating displays and controls. So for the most part, it seems this has replaced the holographic controls we saw in Star Trek Picard. This technology actually reminds me of the Kryptronian technology in Man of Steel. That was kinda similar and also very cool. Anyway, you could argue that this doesn’t look like Star Trek, but honestly, it shouldn’t. We’re almost a thousand years beyond the world Burnham left, so I think they’ve done a great job. I like it. Then we cut to a space battle in orbit of an M-class planet. A spinning ship, maybe inspired by the jelly-fish ship in Star Trek 2009, is pursuing a character we’ll come to know as Cleavland Booker, or Book for short. It seems Book has stolen something from this rather ugly alien. I don’t recognise his species. But whatever it was, the aliens had stolen it first. Then the wormhole opens and Burnham emerges, in the red angle suit. No sign of Discovery yet. So is this planet Terralesium? That’s where Michael was expecting to emerge. I like the little shot of the CG bugs. I always enjoy seeing alien animals . Michael bounces off Book’s ship, causing them both to crash on this planet. A shield in the suit protects michael. The suit disengages from her, looking way too advanced for 23rd century tech, as always. She can’t reach Discovery on her communicator. The suit tells her she’s in the year 3188. She asks the computer if there are any signs of life. Her face holds so much emotion in that moment before it answers. Imagine if she’d failed. And finds herself alone, the only living being in a universe devoid of all sentient life. That was basically her mother’s life. But the computer confirms. There are multiple life signs on this planet. And she gives this great scream of relief, and victory. It’s a powerful performance from Senqua Martin-Green. It really makes me feel her emotions. She did it! She saved the universe!. Now, technically, she should already know she was successful. She emerged in the middle of a space battle between two ships. She knows someone is here, although, I guess those ships could have been AI controlled. In any case, I forgive it because it’s a wonderful moment. The wormhole is closing, so she has to send the final red signal back through it, letting Spock and Pike know that she arrived safely and successfully. The red angel suit flies off, on its last mission. The signal is sent and the suit explodes. This is important because it means Michael no longer has any way of getting back to the 23rd century. Her life, her entire world is gone. She’ll never see it again. And we get another beautiful outpouring of emotion. Before she can explore, let alone embrace, her new world, she needs to take a moment to mourn the loss of the old one. It’s really great stuff. All she has is her badge, a tricorder, phaser and ration pack. She clings to the one other thing she has. Her identity as a Starfleet officer. She doesn’t yet know just how meaningful and significant that will be. Now we have a new opening titles to discuss. There are no major changes. I suspected they might do a new arrangement of the music, to make it feel less connected to TOS, but the score is unchanged. As with season 2, some of the visuals have changed to reflect what is happening this season. The first big difference we notice is a huge collection of DOT-7 robots. Those were the things that popped out of the Enterprise Hull last season during the battle. Basically repair droids. Like R2D2. I Wasn’t a fan of this. Oh, they’re cool, but they felt out of place in Star Trek. That’s more of a Star Wars idea. It felt like they were trying a bit too hard there. Anyway, no idea what they’re showing up here. I guess they’ll have some significance this season. This captain’s chair from the Enterprise bridge is still present, which surprises me. I’d have thought that no longer relevant. Then we see a phaser. As usual, it pulls apart, but as it goes back together, it forms into a futuristic, possibly alien sidearm like we’ve never seen before. This shot makes the most sense it ever has. Then we see Book’s ship (I think). It doesn’t follow the traditional Starfleet design at all. No visible nacelles. But it’s constantly changing shape, like it has moving parts Reminds me of a transformer, actually. I don’t yet have a good sense of this ship. We see the new oval-shaped com badge. That won’t appear in this episode. And then the three badges on the transporter pad meld into the new shape. We get some beautiful vistas of this alien planet. They went and shot on location in Iceland for this. I love that. It makes such a difference. We occasionally got location shoots on Star Trek TV shows in the 90s, even in TOS, but I don’t think they ever went to another country just to film. That’s more of a movie-budget thing. Just another sign of the investment they’re making in this show. You can’t deny that CBS takes Star Trek very seriously at the moment. Anyway, it makes me want to go to Iceland, because this planet is both beautiful and exotic. Michael has found Book’s ship. And it can turn invisible. Is this just a cloaking device, or some relation to the particle synthesis tech? Watching this episode the second time, I’m picking up on a lot of foreshadowing of Book’s true nature that I didn’t notice the first time. Book thinks Michael is here to take his cargo. But he’s fiercely protecting it. It doesn’t belong to her. She tries to explain herself to him but he’s not interested in what she has to say. They get into a bit of a fist fight. Nicely done action. But the fight ends when she pulls her antique phaser. This is where we get our first hint related to the new nature of the universe. Book questions the wisdom of ripping space apart, to create artificial wormholes. He says “It wasn’t enough for you and the Gorn to destroy 2 light-years worth of subspace?” But ‘you’ I assume he means Starfleet. So something has happened to subspace, and it appears that both STarfleet and the Gorn were somehow responsible. We’ll talk more about this in a little bit. When Michael asks if this is Teralysium, he says, it’s “Hima.” So, is that just a new name for Teralysium, or a different planet? From evidence so far, I think it’s a different planet. But right now, Michael doesn’t know what sector, even what quadrant she’s in. I assume she’s somewhere in the alpha quadrant because of the races we meet here. Andorians, Orions, Tellarites, Lurians, and of course, humans. Anyway, she makes an impassioned plea. I’m all alone in the universe. I have to trust someone, and for better or worse, that’s you. We get a look at the interior of this ship. We see the particle control panels. Michael is as taken by them as I am. The dilithium re-crystaliser on his ship was damaged during impact. He can’t fly using quantum slipstream (another technology that Voyager toyed with on their quest to get home) without Benamite, which is apparently very rare. Tachyon solar cells are too slow. It seems there are a bunch of methods of interstellar travel in this time, but not many of them will work, due to lack of resources. What Book needs is dilithium for his warp drive. By now we can already tell this is not the super-advanced utopia we’ve glimpsed in the 29th century, nor the time-travel-obsessed 31st century. This is a time of shortage and challenge. And that’s when we meet Grudge, the cut. She’s sure to become a fan favourite. Michael points out she’s a very large cat. And Book replies that she has a thyroid condition. This is kinda weird. My wife tells me Grudge is a Mancoon, which are naturally a very large breed of cat. So …. What put this thyroid line in there. I wonder if that’s going to become significant at some point during the season. Michael hopes she can trade her antique equipment for dilithium. If she helps him get off the planet, maybe he’ll help her try to contact Discovery. Then some more gorgeous location shots of a waterfall and moss-encrusted rocks. So good. Time for some exposition, so Michael, and the viewers, can learn a little about the state of the galaxy. We learn that the Federation is gone, which is shocking news to Michael. How can the Federation be gone? What is the Star Trek universe without the Federation? Apparently, there are some true believers out there that still believe in its ideals. But not Book. He’s a courier. Out for himself. At this point in the episode, he seems like a bit of a Han Solo type. But we may challenge that assumption later on. Book doesn’t know all the details, but the Federation collapsed a long time ago, after the burn. The burn was the day the galaxy took a hard left. Everyone has been doing a lot of speculating, since this line was revealed in the trailer. The most popular theory, by far, is that it was caused by an explosion of Omega Particles. Omega PArticles disrupt subspace. If one goes off, a large area around it will become so damaged that warp drive is impossible in that region. Fans surmised that omega explosions have made warp drive impossible, in this time. So everyone is cut off from everyone else. This made a lot of sense, and explained why Discovery’s spore drive would come in so handy. What Book says is “Dilithium. One day most of it just went boom. Dilithium is the heart of every warp-capable ship The Federation weren’t sure what happened or why,but after a while they just weren’t around anymore. So what we’re seeing doesn’t quite seem to fit the omega particle theory. Warp drive is still possible, and we’ll see it used later this episode. The problem is that Dilithium is very very rare (but not so rare that Book can’t get his hands on some before the episode is done.) But he did mention damage to subspace in a 2-lightyear radius. And THAT sounds like omega. We’ll also learn later that people in this region of space cannot scan very far out. This all seems a bit muddy at the moment. We don’t get a full picture of what the real state of things is in this episode. But I’m starting to worry that they’ve taken the concept of the omega particle, but complicated it way more than was necessary. Kind alike what they did with Voq in season 1. The idea of surgically altering someone to look like another species is a very common Star Trek Trop, as far back as the original series. But the show complicated the whole thing with Voq so much that to this day, fans are still trying to get their heads around exactly what happened. They made it more complex than it needed to be. Hopefully this won’t be a similar thing. Sonequa is doing a lot of really good face acting in this episode. She portrays so much emotion without saying a word. It’s awesome. They arrive at a city. A massive city. When they try to enter the mercantile, some kind of market, they scan Book and Michael. IT seems everyone in this time has some kind of technology embedded in their forearm. Reminds me a lot of the omni-tool in Mass Effect, actually. Because Michael isn’t from this time, she doesn’t have one, so they won’t let her in. I guess it’s like trying to enter a country without a passport, or trying to get a job without a social security number, or as we have in Australia, a Tax File Number. But whoever runs this place is convinced that what Michael carries could be valuable. Michael sees people using a site-to-site transporter, or as she calls it, a portable transporter. This technology existed, but was rare in the time of Voyager. It’ll be just like a toothbrush in this time. And that’s when Book betrays Michael. He frames her as a bank robber and steals her equipment. Seems he’ll need more than just the tricorder to afford the dilithium he needs. The Andorian and Orion security officers drug Michael to make her talk. It really does feel like the wild west out here. It’s funny, but the current creative team behind Star Trek really do want to make Star Trek feel more wild west. Emphasis on the wild. Star Trek Picard took us out of the safe comfortable Federation worlds into dingy places where morals were lower and danger lurked around every corner. Places where the peace is kept by Fenris Rangers because there’s nobody else to do it. It all felt a bit more Star Wars-ish to me. That’s feeling like a trend. Anyway, it makes a lot more sense here, because a world without the Federation or Starfleet is basically gonna be like the wild west of Star Wars. Michael’s reaction to the drug is mildly amusing. I do love the line when she says “I have a friend with red hair. You cannot give this to her.” It’s funny. This drug basically turns Michael into Tilly. So imagine what it would turn Tilly into. The new round phasers are kinda cool. Michael certainly likes them, her appreciation enhanced in her drugged state. As much as I don’t endorse the use of drugs in any way, it’s kind of nice to see a more playful side of Burnham. She’s really letting her hair down, so to speak. I’m realising now, just how much of her vulcan conditioning she still clings to most of the time. In the end, Michael has to steal the dilithium because Book can’t buy it. And then we learn that Book has a site-to-site transporter. And so begins a game of cat and mouse and they beam away, and are quickly followed by the guards, only to beam somewhere else again. It’s a great way to show off more of this wonderful location. And we notice that not all the guards are Andorian and Orion. There’s a Lurian among them. You know, one of Morn’s mates. The lurian is bald, just like Morn, which is interesting, because we learned, in Deep Space Nine, that most Lurians have hair. Morn lost all of his because he was storing liquid latinum in his second stomach. I think this is a case of “it would be more correct for this lurian to have hair, but who wants to see that? We want to see the familiar bald look because it gives us nostalgia for Deep Space Nine, and Morn in particular. So I’m okay with it. Afterall, who says other Lurians can’t lose their hair? There are plenty of bald humans in the world. Then we’re introduced to Book’s super power. He speaks in an alien language, that sounds somewhat like Hebrew, a glyph glows on his forehead, and a plant grows out of the water. The plant produces a substance that can heal Michael’s wounds. Book says that what he was doing was “something like” praying. He seems to have a connection to nature. We’ll see him use it to command an animal later on. Book has figured out that Michael is a time traveller. He doesn’t know how she got her hands on what brought her here, but we learn that all temporal technology was destroyed and outlawed after the temporal wars. Nice to get some closure of that temporal cold war thing from Enterprise. Because we are further forward into the future than the time Agent Daniels came from. This is important because if time-travel was still prevalent, then our heroes could return home. But this was always meant to be a one-way trip for the sake of the story. They get back to the ship but the guards have tracked them down again. When the Andorian says “What good is a courier who lets his cargo get stolen” and the dodgy bloke says “I’m the best runner in the galaxy”, it sounded very reminiscent of Han Solo. But then he gets shot. These guards want Book’s cargo. Book relenets and opens his cargo hold. There’s an animal in the3re. A giant slug thing, When they let it out, it eats the guards. What exactly were they thinking? Why would you come here to take possession of a dangerous animal, but have no way to contain it? Anyway, after eating the guards, it swallows Michael. But Book uses his magic powers again and convinces the slug, which he calls Molly, to vomit her back out. I don’t really have any opinion on Book’s powers yet, because I just don’t know enough about them. Anway, Molly seems very friendly now. So they’re now flying through space at warp speed. We’ve come to realise the truth of Book’s mission. He’s not just a courier. He’s an environmentalist. He’s rescuing these animals, endangered species, and returning them to their homeworld. I like the red trees on the transworm planet. It’s a simple thing but it makes a place look suitably alien. Now that his job is done, Book knows somebody who might be able to help Michael find her ship. He takes her to see that guy from the very beginning of the episode. Remember him? He lives on an old Federation relay station. The guy’s name is Sahil. Michael is excited to meet him, but he’s in awe to meet her. He can’t find Discovery. But we learn there are two Federation ships out there. So not all is completely gone. But Sahil can’t scan beyond several sectors. Long range sensors failed decades ago. On first viewing, I thought this was a widespread problem in the universe, but now, I Think it’s just because the long range sensors on this space station are damaged. So maybe this is not related to the burn after all. But he says he imagines it is the same for all others, so who knows. It seems Discovery either landed somewhere a long way away, or it hasn’t arrived yet. IT could arrive tomorrow, or in a thousand years. Sahil explains that he’s not a commissioned officer. Several generations of his family have run this facility, but when Sahil took over, there was nobody left to swear him in. But what about the two other ships out there? Couldn't he ask them? Anyway, for 40 years, he’s been waiting for a genuine Starfleet office to come. Michael is that hope. Sahil doesn't know how much of the federation still exists, but he does his own little part to keep the dream of it alive. And that’s when Michael hangs the flag for him. Only a commissioned officer may raise it. This episode seems to be using the terms Federation and Starfleet interchangeably. But they’re not the same thing. Very closely related, of course, but Starfleet and The Federation are two distinct things. The Federation is a political alliance of worlds. Starfleet is their scientific, exploration and military service. So, while she hasn’t yet found her friends, Michael has a new purpose. She commissions Sahil. Together, they will seek out others and help to rebuild the dream of the Federation. So let’s examine this new world we find ourselves in. The utopia of the Federation is gone. In its place we now have a somewhat dystopian future. It seems they like to do that a lot. Discovery Season 1 plunged us into war with the Klingons. Our characters had to fight to get their utopia back. Then Picard season 1 turned Starfleert somewhat dystopian by having them be corrupt, due to certain influences. And now Discovery season 3 and yet again given us a Star Trek dystopia. It’s starting to feel like alex Kurtzman and his team really like dystopia, and are not actually that enamoured with the traditional utopian view of Star Trek. Deep Space Nine actually pushed back against the utopia a bit, and in my opinion did it more effectively than anything else has since. There are those out there who are not fans of this trend. I can understand that. I’m not particularly bothered, but I’m definitely noticing a trend. One question people like to ask is “What would Gene Roddenberry think? I’m convinced he wouldn’t have liked Star Trek Picard. He was always against Starfleet being portrayed in a negative light. I believe he didn’t even like what they did in Star Trek VI. But you know what, I suspect he’d have liked this. Why? Because of another show he created called Andromeda. It followed a similar plot to this. An officer from a great utopian alliance was thrust into the future where his government no longer existed. He strove to re-build it. And that’s the essence of what we’re seeing here. A determination to re-build the ideals of the Federation. There’s a whole lot of optimism to it. And that concludes the first episode of season 3. I enjoyed it. There’s a lot we still don’t know. But I’m excited that our heroes have a whole new Star Trek universe to explore, and I’m looking forward to exploring it with them. I suspect this is going to be a good season. It’s the first one that has been produced without massive disruption behind the scenes in the writers’ room, so that alone is promising. I like Book. He’s a cool character and I’m looking forward to seeing his arc across the season. Don’t forget, I have a book series out called Jewel of The Stars. It follows the passengers and crew of a cruise ship in space, boldly travelling through unexplored space, after Earth fell to an alien occupation. Just like the crew of Discovery, they’re all on their own. You can read the first book completely free on Wattpad, or get it wherever eBooks are sold for 99 cents. It’s also in paperback. I’m working on edits to book 3, but I’ve been a bit delayed because my day job has really been kicking my butt lately. But hopefully that’s mostly over, and I can get on with life again. I’ll see you again next week, when we discuss the second episode of Discovery season 3, which strangely enough, is not called That Hope is You Part 2, it’s called Far From Home. Catch you then. Live long and prosper. Make it so.
This week, Katharine Trendacosta of the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins the show to talk about data rights, intellectual property, and digital free speech in Star Trek and our own world.. On the episode, we talk about the EFF's efforts to create a Star Trek future and not a Mirror Universe one, how the Federation protects the digital rights of its citizens, IP law of the future, the obsolescence of ownership in a digital future, why security experts are Luddites, the Aeneid and the Divine Comedy as fan fic, punching up on CBS, the biometric Bill of Rights, Dukat's Internet Off-Switch, and why LCARS *must* be open-source.Look at this podcast!Follow Katharine on Twitter and learn more about the EFF!https://twitter.com/k_trendacostahttp://www.eff.orgAccept your mission and sign up for Trek the Vote!http://trekthe.votehttps://twitter.com/trekthevotehttps://www.facebook.com/trekthevoteCommunicate with us on Facebook and Twitter and the Just Enough Trope Discord!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttp://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttps://discord.gg/APk2cCyJoin our crew on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2
This week, Katharine Trendacosta of the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins the show to talk about data rights, intellectual property, and digital free speech in Star Trek and our own world.. On the episode, we talk about the EFF's efforts to create a Star Trek future and not a Mirror Universe one, how the Federation protects the digital rights of its citizens, IP law of the future, the obsolescence of ownership in a digital future, why security experts are Luddites, the Aeneid and the Divine Comedy as fan fic, punching up on CBS, the biometric Bill of Rights, Dukat's Internet Off-Switch, and why LCARS *must* be open-source.Look at this podcast!Follow Katharine on Twitter and learn more about the EFF!https://twitter.com/k_trendacostahttp://www.eff.orgAccept your mission and sign up for Trek the Vote!http://trekthe.votehttps://twitter.com/trekthevotehttps://www.facebook.com/trekthevoteCommunicate with us on Facebook and Twitter and the Just Enough Trope Discord!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttp://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttps://discord.gg/APk2cCyJoin our crew on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2
Zachary Quinto helps launch the Kindness Initiative at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, a Star Trek fan builds a working a LCARS-style display, plus instructions so you can make one yourself as well, and I've got the next week of virtual Star Trek events! Today's Daily Star Trek News is sponsored by Podcorn. Connect directly with brands and start monetizing your podcast today at podcorn.com. Support Daily Star Trek News on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dailystartreknews Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts For more great Star Trek podcasts: https://podcasts.roddenberry.com Website: https://www.dailystartreknews.com Email: info@dailystartreknews.com Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @dailytreknews
Zachary Quinto helps launch the Kindness Initiative at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, a Star Trek fan builds a working a LCARS-style display, plus instructions so you can make one yourself as well, and I’ve got the next week of virtual Star Trek events! Today’s Daily Star Trek News is sponsored by Podcorn. Connect directly with brands and start monetizing your podcast today at podcorn.com. Support Daily Star Trek News on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dailystartreknews Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts For more great Star Trek podcasts: https://podcasts.roddenberry.com Website: https://www.dailystartreknews.com Email: info@dailystartreknews.com Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @dailytreknews
Good evening galaxy! Tonight was an action packed and information filled show. We begin the show with the recap from the last episode promising the best systems to grind rep, for all three factions! Then Fartasia from LCARS 2.0 shows up and gives us all a lesson in Warp Range, Distance, Speed, and Research. Why can your horizon navigate Dark Space? Why can't your horizon get to Lakeside? Why can a fortunate get to Barnards Star? FIND OUT NOW! And get some new commands to use within LCARS 2.0 that have greatly improved the convenience of searching our galaxy for specific items. Plus stupid news, much silliness, and the launch of our new giveaway game, Talking Trek: Battleship! Get the guesses, and update your downloadable gameboard! Please share with the community, subscribe to the show, and ENJOY the listen! Get all the links needed for everything on the show by visiting our website at http://www.talkingtrekstfc.online And join the discord for your chance to play and win your share of hundreds of thousands of various game currency by joining the discord! Link on the site! Battleship is underway!
Hello Hello galaxy! Welcome back for another episode of Talking Trek! We had a great time last night on the show and had some good discussion about when and when not to defend a base, how to accumulate points on your servers leaderboards, and even touched on and relayed statements regarding the community's LCARS services, and why you shouldn't panic! Plus we finally completed our Easter giveaway and made several folks winners! Plus all the normal fun in addition. Miss a Show, Miss a Lot! Please share this podcast with your teams, subscribe on your favorite platform, and most importantly, ENJOY the show!————————————————Find all the links you need AND MORE at our newly redesigned website! Become a Patron, Shop with Amazon, Find new products in our merch store, join our discord, and so much more by visiting http://www.talkingtrekstfc.online
Hey Galaxy! Hope everyone is staying safe and had a wonderful weekend. We took to the airwaves to do some much needed clarification surrounding the CoW event, and the math that was discussed regarding research on the last show. Talking Trek teamed up with the guys at LCARS to develop a new tool to help you based on your progress in the game! Plus, how healthy is your alliance? CoW gives you a temperature of your alliance and perhaps even is giving you an indicator of your status heading into what could be a very action packed couple of months regarding the long awaited Server Merges. Plus, stupid news, a Deal or No Deal giveaway and so much more. Share, Subscribe, and ENJOY the show! ———————————————— Visit our website at www.talkingtrekstfc.online for links to our Discord to join the live tapings, as well as links to our merch store and more!!
Hello Galaxy! We continue our research into the Vidar and how to use this powerful new ship against the invading Borg. As the f2p acquisition of the Vidar approaches, you will be equipped with all the information you need to be effective against Borg probes as you finish Arc 2! Plus we get a surprise visit from LCARS creator, Fartasia talking about new projects you can find coming soon within the LCARS discord (https://discord.gg/HwyxQ2S) Plus Beat the Torpedo makes another winner and qualifies someone else for the opportunity to win a Warship coming up in March! All this and more in this episode! Share, Subscribe, and ENJOY the show!!!————————————————Visit our website at www.talkingtrekstfc.online for links to our Discord to join the live tapings, as well as links to our merch store and more!!
Jean Luc Picard finally takes command of a new ship and crew in the third episode of Star Trek Picard. Join me for a detailed review and analysis of this episode. This one feels more Star Trek than the previous two. The plot is beginning to heat up. Plus, the return of Hugh, and revelations about Dahj and Soji that raise many more questions than they answer. There's a lot going on in this episode. Geek out with me! ----more---- Welcome to Nerd Heaven. I’m Adam David Collings, the author of Jewel of The Stars, and I am a nerd. This is episode 13 of the podcast. Today, we’re talking about the third episode of Star Trek Picard, titled The End is The Beginning. First of all, though, I have to apologise for something. In the last two episodes, I’ve been saying Akiva Goldsmith, but the man’s name is actually Akiva Goldsman. So, sorry about that. I realised my mistake while listening to other podcasts on the show. You know your eyes sometimes just see what they think is there, rather than what is really there. Okay. Onto this week’s episode. The description on Memory Alpha reads Completely unaware of her special nature, Soji continues her work and captures the attention of the Borg cube research project's executive director. After rehashing past events with a reluctant Raffi, Picard seeks others willing to join his search for Bruce Maddox, including pilot and former Starfleet officer Cristóbal Rios. This episode was written by Michael Chabon and James Duff It was directed by Hanelle M. Culpepper And it first aired on the 6th of February 2020. And as Picard said for the first time this episode, Engage! Well there's certainly a lot of cool stuff happening in this episode. And this is definitely the most Star Trek feeling episode we’ve had so far. First of all, do you remember last week, when I was disappointed that Picard’s old com badge made the wrong sound when he tapped it? Well, in the “Previously on Star Trek Picard” bit, they changed it to make the correct sound. But then, later in this episode, it makes the wrong sound again. What’s that about? Anyway, let’s talk about the story. We get a few quick flashbacks of the attack on Mars yet again, and then we cut to earth. It’s still 14 years ago, and we see Admiral Picard. Inm Uniform! It’s a uniform we haven’t seen before, except in the comics. I gotta say it’s a thrill to see Picard in Starfleet uniform again, even if it isn’t the familiar uniform from the TNG movies. Jean Luc has been presenting his plan to Starfleet command. The rescue fleet is gone, but there are still options. Using reserve duty officers and mothballed ships they could still mount a rescue. Not as significant as the originally planned rescue, but it’s something. But if they used synthetic labour, it would be far less reduced. His first officer, Rafi Mussiker is keen to know how it went. We’re seeing a very different Rafi here. She still has her starfleet optimism. Her idealism. But it’s about to be crushed. They said no. As Picard says, half of them never wanted to help the Romulans in the first place. (something I still find a little hard to believe). We learn a little more about the situation with synthetic lifeforms. Not only is the development of new synths banned, but all current synthetic lifeforms must be dismantled. This seems like quite an overreaction, but again, I can kind of see where Starfleet are coming from. They need to be very careful to prevent a tragedy like this from happening again. But what they really need to do is understand what caused it. They say it was a fatal flaw in the unit’s operating systems. But, in that case, you find the bug and you fix it. You don’t say “all computers must now be dismantled.” I’m a computer programmer. I do this for a living. As rafi says, something smells off about all this. It seems like there is a conspiracy at the highest levels pushing for this overreaction. Could they even be responsible for programming the synths to attack in the first place? That’s a trope we’ve seen in Star Trek before. This also explains why B4 was dismantled. Rafi thinks the tal shiar are behind it, but Picard makes a very logical point. Why would the Romulans do something to sabotage their own rescue efforts. It doesn’t make sense. Weird question, why is Rafi, Picard’s first officer, therefore, a command officer, wearing yellow? Commodore Oh last week made sense. She’s head of Starfleet Security. It’s been established they wear yellow. But Rafi? Picard’s departure from Starfleet is seen in a different light through this flashback. He didn’t just run away in a childish tantrum. He asked them to accept his rescue plan, or accept his resignation. To his shock, they accepted his resignation. And now we learn why present day raffi is so angry with Picard. He gave up. Ironically, just like starfleet did. Raffi holds Picard accountable for the same thing Picard holds starfleet accountable for. In Picard’s mind, there is really nothing more he can do. Offering his resignation was his last hope. Now, without Starfleet, he’s out of options. But Rafi’s not ready to give up. She wants to find a way. Somehow. Who is right? Clearly Rafi didn’t succeed. But if Picard had kept trying with her, could they have succeeded? We’ll never know. Back in the present, Picard makes the same request to Rafi he made to Starfleet. I need a ship and crew to go find Bruce Maddox. And she gives him the same answer. And then…...she smokes. She puts a flow off some plant she calls snake leaf, puts it in some kind of electronic cigarette thing, and she smokes. Honestly, this pulled me out of the story even more than the swear word last week. Gene Roddenberry had a very strict rule as far back as the original series in the 60s. Nobody smokes in the 23rd century. As I’ve said, I don’t always agree with Rodenberry’s rules, but I credit this one as why the original Star Trek has been as timeless as it is (old fashioned looking sets no withstanding). Smoking was very common in the 60s, but much less so now. If you’d had Captain Kirk puffing on a cigarette on the bridge of the enterprise, it would have firmly rooted the show in the 60s, and would feel very wrong today. Kirk did smoke briefly in Star Trek 6, to keep warm on Rure Penthe, and it pulled me out of the story then as well. And later in this episode we see Rios chewing on a cigar. I know Raffi has been through a lot. Character-wise, it’s a realistic move. Anywhere else, it would add an element of gritty realism. But I’m starting to think that Star Trek exists in it’s own little reality. Does realism actually feel unrealistic in Star Trek? I’ve always though I wanted realistic Star Trek, but the F bomb and now the smoking have me wondering, DO I really want realism in Star Trek? Emotional realism from the characters, absolutely. But touches like this? I’m not sure. I guess I need to keep thinking about it. But speaking of that character emotional realism, I’m loving what they’re doing with Rafi. She’s carrying 14 years worth of hurt and rage. But why, at the end of the 24th century, where money and poverty don’t exists, is Rafi living in what she describes as an embarrassing hovel? I can only assume it’s by choice. She’s sealed herself off like a hermit as Vasquez Rocks. Yes, for the first time, this iconic star trek location is being used as itself, not as an alien planet. She burns picard with a scathing truth. It might have been nice to hear from you, and not just because you need me to hook you up with a ship and pilot. I’m loving character scenes like this in the new show. This scene in particular is effective. Beautiful writing and acting. Patrick Stewart is a phenomenal actor. We all know that. So, he kind of needs to be surrounded by other good actors, or else it really shows. Michelle Hurd seems to be up to the task. She can carry a scene with Stewart very well. Now we get to meet Hugh for the first time. We knew he would be in the show, but this is his introduction. We learn that he’s the director of the Romulan borg reclamation project. But what lead him here? The last time we saw him was in Descent. He was leading a small group of Borg who had been disconnected from the continuum and regained their individuality. Where’s he been up to all these years. Where are the others he was leading? How did he get involved in this Romulan project? We’re still to learn all this. And I’m hoping we will at some point. Hugh is very impressed with Soji, the way she speaks to the drones in their own language. She has respect and compassion for the ex borg. Apparently this is rare. Hugh tells us that ex borg are among the most despised people in the galaxy. Which is interesting because Picard is an ex borg. I think the difference is that he doesn’t look like a nex borg. He was reclaimed much sooner than most, so all of his visible implants were able to be fully removed. So Hugh is allowing Soji to interview someone called Ramdha. She’s a romulan ex borg. And this is weird. Soji has seen her dossier from before she was assimilated. Hugh is shocked by this. Soji says, “I find if I ask people for help they’re happy to give it.” So….does soji have some kind of android powers of persuasion? I suspect this is something we’ll come back to. Picard has already figured out that the Federation has to be complicit for the Tal Shiar to be operating so openly on Earth. Raffi saw Romulan connections 14 years ago. Picard didn’t believe her then. She claims to have concrete evidence that a high ranking starfleet official allowed the attack on mars to go forward, in order to stop the rescue mission going forward. That’s…... pretty heavy. Raffi refuses to help Picard on this mission, but she does offer to connect him with a pilot. That’s the depth of their relationship, even though she currently hates him. I like this because it shows that Picard has that same sense of family with Raffi that he had with Riker and all the others on the Enterprise. We didn’t get to see it develop, but it’s there. And that makes sense. Picard had a life during all those years he wasn’t on our screens. Raffi is new to us but she sure isn’t new to Jean Luc. The show sells this well, and so we’re willing to just accept raffi as if we’d always known her. Picard does form strong family bonds with those he works closely with. When he was younger, he didn’t show it as openinly, but it was still there. And then, we see Commodore Oh wearing sunglasses. Have you ever seen something more comical? More out of place? Ok. Realistically, in the 24th century, you still need a way to shade your eyes in the bright sun. Makes sense. But seeing a starfleet officer wearing present day sunnies, and a vulcan at that. It’s not wrong, it just pulled me out of the story again, much like the swearing and the smoking. It’s weird isn’t it. The realism touches seem to be having the opposite effect on me. That’s really strange. Although, memory alpha reminds us that vulcans have inner eyelids that make sunglasses unnecessary, based on an episode of enterprise. But I’m still suspecting that Oh is Romulan, even though everyone, including Picard, believes she is vulcan. So is this some clever foreshadowing? This is interesting. Hugh says he’s come to see patient 4822 stroke 2. I have the subtitles on so I know how to spell things. Looking at the way it’s written, I’d pronounce that as slash 2, not stroke 2. I’ve never heard anyone pronounce the slash character as stroke. Is that an American thing? Anyway When romulans are assimilated, and then reclaimed, they seem to lose their minds. All the romulan former drones have severe mental illness. That’s fascinating. Is that a peculiarity of romulan Physiology? That’s fascinating, but also, very sad. It means that if a Romulan is assimilated by the borg, they’re never coming back. Even if they are restored, they’ll never be the same again. Although that contradicts the voyager episode Unity. I’m sure there were Romulan ex borg in that episode. I’d have to re-watch it to be certain. I love the scene when Picard calls Rafi. You’re doing the research, aren’t you? No I’m sending you all I have on Bruce Maddox. I don’t want it. Carry on. That really amused me. That’s character-based humour done the right way. Then we get our first look at the new ship, and we meet Santiago Cebrera’s character. Rios. I love how it plays the TNG theme when Picard first breams aboard the ship. He probably hasn’t set foot on a starship in 14 years. I love that Rios has an EMH. Makes perfect sense that after 20 years they’d be so common that everyone would have on on their ship. This is the perfect situation for one. Little ship with minimal crew. Rios isn’t gonna hire a doctor to travel with him in case he needs one occasionally. A holographic doctor would be a bit like a microwave. Something everybody has, and nobody can remember how we ever lived without them. It’s also logical that his EMH looks like him. By now this is a mature technology. Of course you’d be able to skin your EMH with a custom appearance and personality that you find agreeable. It’s possibly telling of rios’s character that his choice is to have holographic representations of himself, with various different accents. Let’s talk a little about Rios’s ship. On the outside, it doesn’t look very star trek at all, in design. Based on the trailers, I didn’t think the inside looked very star trek either, but now that I’m seeing details from various angles, I’m noticing little touches like the navigation thing at the from between the two forward stations, just like on Kirk’s Enterprise. And I think I can even see some LCARS on one of the consoles. This ship has elements that root it in the Star Trek universe, while still feeling very fresh and new. We get hints of a rich backstory for Rios. He was the XO of a starfleet ship called the ibn Majid, named after an Arabian navigator and cartographer from the 1400s. It strikes me how little I know of non western history. Apparently, the ibn Majid ws erased from official starfleet records, kind of like the Discovery. Rios served a grand heroic captain, who died horribly. Somebody we know, I wonder? Clearly they’re hinting at something significant in the past there, and I can’t wait to learn what it’s all about. Raffi locates Maddox on a place called freecloud. Looks like a casino. I wonder if we’ll see some Ferengi when we get there! Wouldn’t it be interesting if Quard had moved up in the world. I’d love to see him. We need some more deep space nine references in Picard. DS9 was always my favourite. Anyway, I noticed the text Gorn Egg on the screen as she’s researching. Significant? Judging by her facial expression, the name Freecloud has great emotional significance to Raffi, and clearly negative emotions. I love the emergency navigation hologram fanboying all over Picard. He name drops some important references to the past. The Q continuum, Picard’s role as arbiter of succession. Cool stuff. This show seems to handle fan service better than any other show I’ve seen. It does it right, in a way that feels completely natural. There’s a nice touching scene between Picard and Laris. I’m gonna miss Laris and Zhuban just as much as Picard will. I hope we see them again as the season goes on. I chuckled quite a bit when Hugh called Soji a know it all. Lots of characters in Star Trek are knit alls, if we’re really honest, but I don’t think anybody has ever been called out on it before. There’s a whole lot of interesting stuff going on between soji and Ramhda. Cool cultural details about false doors on Romulan houses. Stuff about romulan mythology. I don’t know what it all means, yet. Ramdha knows about soji. She is one of the twins. One lives and one dies. She says she recognises Soji from tomorrow. What on earth is that about? Are we hinting at time travel? This interesting. But we don’t get any answers in this episode. There’s a whole mystery about what caused this borg cube to die. And it seems it has something to do with ramdha’s ship, the last ship assimilated by the cube. I’m hungry to learn more about this, too. There’s another great action scene as Romulan comandos invade chateu picard. I like how they acknowledge Picard needs protecting. He’s not a young man anymore. But this doesn’t diminish him in any way. And then Agnes Jurati is forced to kill a romulan to save them all. She is clearly shaken up by this. Of course she is. She’s not a soldier. Taking a life takes a huge toll on people. The episode doesn’t take a lot of time to really delve into the emotional impact this will have on her. I hope they continue to give this time to develop over future episodes. It should haunt her. The romulan forehead ridges in this show are a lot subtler than they were in TNG. So much so that at first I thought those were just creases in the actor’s face that plays zhuban. But apparently, it’s northerners that have the ridges. In episode 1, I thought it was an overloading disruptor that killed dahj, but I have to agree with everyone else now, it seems these zhat vash Romulans spit some kind of acid. There is clearly more to learn about Dahj and Soji. The romulan fear of them seems to be much more than a generic hatred of androids. Two romulans refer to her as the destroyer. Interesting. Soji contacts her “mother” just like Dahj did. The mother lies to soji about dahj being okay. I'm pretty certain the mother doesn’t exist, but is just a part of the girls’ programming. And just like dahj, soji gets flashes of knowledge that she shouldn’t have. Risso is back on the cube, and no longer disguised as a human. Not sure why. She and Narak are … strangely intimate for brother and sister. All the talk of Rios being expensive to hire, and Agnes earning her keep, is kinda of strange in a world where we know they have no money. That never made any sense anyway. I have to imagine that people like Rios probably interact outside of the federation a lot, so they use money. But where is Picard getting the money to pay for Rios’s services? I’m living the longer transporter effect, that we saw when Picard and Laris beamed into Dahj’s apartment, and also on Rios’s ship. It’s very reminiscent of the tng transporter, just updated. I’m really liking Agnes. Her youthful innocence helps balance out the world-weary characters like Raffi and Rios. Raffi still doesn’t want to join Picard’s mission,but she wants to ride with them to freecloud, for reasons she won’t disclose. Interesting. So Picard has a new crew. They’re a motley lot. It’s going to be an interesting ride. And then….he says it. Picard says “engage”. And as the TNG theme swells in all its wonderful glory, the ship jumps to warp. I’ve watched that scene 3 times and I still get goosebumps. Now, it’s star trek! I love it. No doubt, there will be people who say it’s taken too long to get to this point. But i’m going to disagree with that. I’ve enjoyed the slow burn, taking time to let Picard get to this point on Earth. Exploring setting and character. But this all makes good sense, and the reason is story structure. Remember, we’ve been told this show is a 10 hour movie. Another way to look at it, is it’s a novel on TV in 10 chapters. The episodes of this show are made in chunks of 3. A collection of 3 episodes are all directed by the same person. These first 3 were directed by Hanelle M Culpepper. The next 3 will be directed by Jonathan Frakes. Akiva Goldsman described these first three as act 1 of the story. In story structure, act 1 takes us up to the first plot point at the 25 percent mark of the book, and that’s roughly where we are now. Something significant happens and at the 25% mark, the character reacts to it, and will spend the rest of the story reacting to it. This is the moment when the protagonist really engages with the plot. They have a mission they’re all in. The next quarter of the story will be quite different. Picard is actively on the case. I’m really enjoying Star Trek Picard so far, and I’m excited for the next part of the story. Bring it on, mate. Well, it’s time for an update on my walk to mordor. I’ve walked 71.1 kms so far. I’ve had my encounter with the black rider, and I’ve met the elves. My next milestone is the edge of farmer maggot’s field, which I’ll hit in 27kms. I need to get out and have another significant walk this weekend. There have been days this last week I’ve been too busy to fit in my working and afternoon walks. I still haven’t read the third Star Trek Picard countdown comic book, but I’ll endeavour to be able to talk about that next week. Don’t forget, if you like Star Trek, which you must, because you’ve listened this far, I think you’ll also love my Jewel of The Stars series. My setting has drawn significant inspiration from Star Trek, and there’s a real boldly going kind of feel to it, even though these people are hardly starfleet. They’re the crew and passengers of a cruise ship that can no longer return home. So there’s a bit of battlestar galactica going on in there as well. You can get book 1 for just 99 cents at all the popular ebook retailers, and it’s also available in print if you prefer that. Also, if you’ve been enjoying my in-depth discussions on Star Trek Picard, why not shout me a hot chocolate. Just go to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AdamDavidCollings I’ll see you next week when we geek out over episode 4 of Picard, titled “Absolute Candor” Until then Live long and prosper Make it so
Star Trek Picard has released its first episode - Remembrance. And I'm here to dig deep and talk about it. After giving a brief spoiler-free review, I dig deep and discuss the episode in detail. Remembrance is an emotionally satisfying journey into the later life of Jean-Luc Picard. It maintains a beautiful balance between old and new. There is plenty of nostalgia for die-hard Star Trek fans, but everything is there for a reason. The story being told is new and will feel satisfying to newcomers to the franchise. ----more---- Welcome to Nerd Heaven. I’m Adam David Collings, the author of Jewel of The Stars. And I am a nerd Can you believe it? We’re finally here. The first episode of Star Trek Picard has released! It’s out in the wild and we’ve seen it. I’ll admit I found it kinda hard to concentrate on work yesterday, knowing it was available and just waiting for me to watch it, but I muddled through. So today, we’re talking about Remembrance, the first episode of Star Trek Picard. The description on IMDB is At the end of the 24th Century, and 14 years after his retirement from Starfleet, Jean-Luc Picard is living a quiet life on his vineyard, Chateau Picard. When he is sought out by a mysterious young woman, Dahj, in need of his help, he soon realizes she may have personal connections to his own past. This teleplay was written by Akiva Goldsmith and James Duff Story by Akiva Goldsmith, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman and James Duff Directed by Hanelle M Culpepper And first aired on the 23rd of January 2020. Make it so Before I go deep into this episode, I thought I’d share a few spoiler-free thoughts. I loved this episodes. It was a delight to watch. It was lovingly crafted with exquisite attention to detail. The episode maintained a near perfect balance between the old and the new. There was a lot of nostalgia in this episode, but the story wasn’t chained to it. It wasn’t indulgent. The episode told a fresh and new story with a much-loved character. That’s not to say that the nostalgic elements weren’t integral to the plot. Everything was there for a reason. But I think a non-star trek fan could sit down and watch this, apart from perhaps a little disorientation from a dream sequence, and not just follow the story, but feel like they’ve had a satisfying experience. The story builds slowly, giving itself time to really focus on character. So if you’re on the fence about checking this show out, let me wholeheartedly recommend it to you.This is one of the good ones. I signed up for a new streaming service so I could watch this. I don’t regret that decision. From here on we’re going full spoilers, so if you haven’t seen this episode, stop listening, and go watch Star Trek Picard. The episode opens with a dream sequence. But the very beginning is a couple of beautiful shots of nebulae with the song Blue Skies playing in the background. This provides a beautiful link to the very last time we saw Picard on screen at the end of Star Trek Nemesis, when he was in his ready room, and B4 started to sing the song. It’s also very emotionally evocative of Data, because he sang that song at Riker and Troi’s wedding. But to Picard, that song represents the hope that maybe a part of Data survived in B4. A hope that he desperately wants to be true. And then we see the Enterprise D. In all her glory. And she looks beautiful. This dream sequence is all a bit messed up, which is exactly how dreams are. Picard and Data are on the Enterprise D, but Data is in his Enterprise E uniform. Picard is old and wearing civilian clothing. And then suddenly, they’re not in a nebula, they’re in orbit of Mars. Picard was an admiral, in command of the Verity when Mars was attacked. I’m sure you’ve had dreams like this. I know I have. This is probably the most realistic dream sequence I’ve ever seen in a movie or TV show. I kinda wish these scenes had not been spoiled in the trailer. I would have wet myself if I hadn’t known they were coming. I imagine the conversation Picard has with Data about his tell was probably a real conversation they had at some point. Or perhaps, Picard did notice Data’s tell but never spoke about it. We can’t really know. But dreams do pull on real stuff from our lives. And then we’re in the present, meting Number One, who we’ve all fallen in love with in the trailers. Right? Looking at Picard during the TNG era, I never really saw him as a pet person. But now, living his retirement on Earth, I can see it. His whole life Picard has been surrounded by people that depend on him. Now, he’s alone, with only his two Romulan friends for company. It makes sense to me that he would want a pet. I know the choice of a pit-bull was due to Patrick Stewart’s passion for the breed, but it works for me. And people mellow as they get older. It’s a thrill to be back here at the Picard vineyard. It brings back memories of the episodes Family and All Good Things. Then we switch to Boston, which looks pretty cool. Did you notice the big glowing Ferengi symbol on one of the high-rises? I just did as I paused. That’s cool. Of course the Ferengi would have a business presence on Earth. By the way 99 percent of this episode is set on Earth. It’s rare that we get a really good look at 24th-century earth, and I’m loving it. Yes, I want to get out into space, but I do enjoy seeing beauty of earthin Star Trek’s future. I always have, and we get to see it so rarely. So we’re introduced to Dahj for the first time. She’s at the highpoint of her life. She’s just been accepted into the daystrom institute, and she’s very much in love with her boyfriend. You know that happiness isn’t gonna hang around for long, right? By the way, we get a few instances in this episode of 21st century colloquialisms. Dahj actually calls her boyfriend “Dude”. And then he says “that’s pretty cool”. This feels really out of place in the 24th century. But at the same time, it lends a sense of realism. So I think I can accept it, but, maybe “dude” is a step too far for me. Then the masked figures bean in and kill the boyfriend. This scene feels genuinely dangerous. I’m feeling the same fear that Dahj is feeling. The music, the editing, the acting, it all just feels thrilling. Compare this to action scenes on The Next Generation, and they become laughable. This show is much more sci-fi drama than sci-fi action, but when the need arises, they do action, and they do it well. This scene is a little dis-orienting. Dahk is very much the viewpoint character here. She doesn’t know what’s going on, and we experience that through her eyes. And we’re just as shocked as she is when she suddenly goes all terminator and kills the intruders. The emotional realism when she runs to her boyfriend’s dead body is perfect, and again, much better than what we saw in most of TNG. Now we have a brand new opening credit sequence to talk about. I’d heard this described as rather “James Bond-ish” which isn’t a bad descriptor, but I’d just say it feels very much like the opening credits of a modern TV show. Very artistic. Lots of images, representing different things. The sky cracks into pieces at the start, and then those pieces fill in a whole in Picard’s face at the end like a jigsaw puzzle. I’m not sure what that is meant to be symbolic of yet, but it does feel very symbolic. I think a lot of what we’re seeing will make more sense as the season goes on. But it all looks great. They’ve followed the same kind of mould as Star Trek Discovery, in that all the guest star, written by etc credits that you’d traditionally see after the credits, overlaid on the story, are in the title sequence, so there are no words on the story itself. The music is very sedate. Fitting for the show I think. Not very memorable, melodically, which again, is kinda modern. It takes a while to develop an affinity for these modern themes, I feel. It certainly doesn’t move me like, the theme from The Crown, for instance, but it’s nice music. I’ll report back on this as the show goes on. And just as Discovery gave a nod to the TOS theme at the end, this music gives a nod to the TNG theme at the end. And also, notice rather than the traditional “Based upon Star Trek Created by Gene Roddenberry” it says “Based upon Star Trek The Next Generation created by Gene Roddenberry. Nice touch, showing us that they really are all-in for the particular Star Trek that made me a hard-core fan. I like the location they used for chateau Picard. It’s not the same as what we’ve seen before, but it’s beautiful, and it works. And then Picard speaks french to number one in a rather cute scene that show he’s just like our cat. He loves to hunt birds and them them into the house. It’s nice to finally hear Picard speak french. I enjoyed that touch. So meet Laris and Zhaban. Two Romulans that live and work at Chateau Picard. If you haven’t read the Star Trek Picard Comics, then this might be really confusing to you. We first meet these characters on a Romulan colony world which Admiral Picard has come to help evacuate. They’re former Tal Shiar operatives that worked with Picard and have obviously becomes his friends. I’m still waiting for book 3 to come out so I don’t understand all the backstory of how they came to be here, but I at least know them. This must be a little disorienting for those who haven’t read the comic. The way they’re doing Romulan eyebrows is a little different on this show. I don’t really mind it. Helps distinguish Romulans from Vulcans. Alex Kurtzman has promised that we’ll see some TNG style Romulans in the show, with the v-shpaed forehead ridge. Canonising the fact that some Romulans have them and some don’t. Makes sense to me. Afte their ancestors left Vulcan, they undoubtedly intermarried with some other species. Plus, there are variations among humans, so across a vast star empire, it makes sense there would be variations among Romulans too. The replicator looks cool. Very similar to the TNG replicators. The effect suggests the object is being built up molecule by molecule like an advanced 3d printer. It doesn’t quite fit with the established understanding of how they work, which is more akin to transporter technology, but it looks cool. Maybe they’ve found this is a more efficient way of doing it. And notice that the computer interfaces on this show are very reminiscent of the LCARS okudagrams used inthe Berman era. The sound effects too. The aesthetic of this show all feels like a logical extrapolation of the berman era 20 years on. Replicators, transporters, shuttles. And we learn that Picard is now having his earl gray decaffinated. Interesting. As I understand, people often sleep less as they get older. (either that or they sleep all the time). But I can imagine that as a 94 year old (yes, that’s Picard’s age) he may have found reason to adust his favourite beverage slightly. I love how Laris mothers Picard. Very amusing. The TV interview is an effective way to get out quite a lot of exposition in a dramatic way. This show is introducing us to a brand new era in the Star Trek universe, and we’ve got quite a lot of catch up on. The interview scene pulls double duty, getting this information across, but also showing a lot of Picard’s character. Very nicely done. I loved the little images of Picard from the past. Two from the TV series, and two from the movies. And we learn that since retirement, Picard has been writing history books. He left his day job to become an author. A man after my own heart. This brings us to the supernova that destroyed Romulus, which, of course, connects us to the narrative of JJ Abram’s Star Trek 2009 movie, co-written by Alex Kurtzman. We’ve always known that this even took place in the original prime timeline, in which TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager all took place. When nero and spock were pulled into the singularity and thrust back to the 23rd century, they created the new timeline in which those Kelvin movies are set. But now, we get to see the ongoing consequences that event had on the prime timeline, which I think is really cool. That was a massive event. Liken it to 911 but even that falls short. We learn that when it happened, some in the Federation opposed helping the Romulans. Feeling the resources of the Federation could be put to better use than helping a former enemy. Now this is really interesting. I’ll be honest. I have a hard time buying that. First of all, this is Star Trek. Resources are basically limitless. But let’s put that aside because that never really made a lot of sense anyway. We’re talking about the potential extinction of an entire sentient species. This is the Federation. Do-gooders of the galaxy. And I don’t mean that with derision. The federation is a very moral organisation which values compassion and peace. If it were the Jem Hadar, at the height of the Dominion War, I could maybe buy it more. But the Romulans? Let’s not forget they were our allies during the war. And relations only improved after the whole Shinzon incident in Nemesis. I don’t think the Romulans posed any significant threat to the Federation at this point. Could anyone in the Federation really not look with compassion on a former enemy and help save them. Of course, in the real world, people have many different opinions on issues, so again, this adds a greater sense of realism to the Star Trek universe, so I’m with that. But even in the real world, let's say Russia, who were once considered the enemies of the western world. If some natural disaster was going to destroy eastern europe, and a western country had some means of saving them, would anybody argue against helping those people? Civilians? Children? But then I realise I think the writers are trying to connect this with the real-world issue of refugees, which has been a hot-button topic for a number of years, in many countries. Don’t worry, I’m not going to divert into real world politics. So I guess there could be debate and disagreement in the Federation council regarding this. I also very much buy that Jean Luc Picard would want to help those in need, regardless of who they were. And while physical resources such as food as ships are near limitless due to replicator technology, the availability of habitable planets to house that many Romulan citizens would be a very real concern. I do like when the interviewer says “Romulan lives” And Picard replies “No. Lives.” And this is where we learn about the attack on Mars. A group of rogue synths (androids) attacked Mars and destroyed the rescue armada (there’s that word again) being constructed at Utopia Planitia. This has me worried for Gerdi. He was at Utopia Planitia in charge of that construction project. Is he still alive. Man, I hope so. There were two major consequences of this attack. Firstly, it destroyed Starfleet’s ability to evacuate those Romulans. The fleet they were building was gone. Second, the Federation placed a ban on the development of synthetic or artificial life forms. I’m not sure why we have to introduce this new term, synthetic, into Star Trek Lore. What’s wrong with Android? Although we’ll get into more of this later. But the real reason Picard resigned from Starfleet is that they went back on their decision to help the Romulans. They didn’t rescue them. This is a complex issue and we don’t know all the facts. But with that rescue fleet destroyed, did they even have the ability to help? On one hand, no. I mean, if their existing fleet was sufficient for the job, they wouldn't have been building new ships in the first place. They probably couldn’t have rescued everyone as they had planned to do, but I am sure they could have rescued someone. But it seems they just gave up. They became inwardly focussed, mourning the loss of the many many who died on Mars. I can understand Picard resigning over this. “It was no longer Starfleet”, Picard passionately says. He likens the rescue of the Romulans to Dunkirk, where allied forces retreated from France into England during world war 2. All of this just feels like it’s adding some gritty realism to the Star Trek universe, which I’m with. Then Dahj comes to Picard at his estate. She saw his interview, but something in her mind flashed like lightning and told her to seek him out. That she’d be safe with him. This is the big msyery of episode one. I love how Picard responds to her. This werid stranger turns up in his front yard and starts crying. He immediately responds to her with compassion. He takes her into his home. Most importantly, he listens. That’s Jean-Luc Picard. Picard was always a compassionate man, but as he’s mellowed with age, I think he’s become much more empathetic. He becomes even more, someone we’d all like to know. At this point, I’m already wondering if she is synthetic. But she’s bleeding, so she can’t be, right? Then we get our second dream sequence, and we’re treating to Data and Picard int their original TNG uniforms. Yay. Data is painting, which is something he’s always been known for. Picard’s mind is trying to tell him something. Something he isn’t yet willing to consciously admit. The visual similarity between Dahj, and Data’s daughter, from the TNG episode The Offspring, is hard to ignore. I really liked the way they used Data in this episode. My theory was always that Data wsa a hallucination, a sign of Picard’s developing Irumodic Syndrome. I’m still not completely discounting that as a possibility for the future, but his appearances here have all been in dreams. It has been done in a way that feels natural to me. So Picard goes off to the Starfleet archives to investigate. And as we get our first real hint of Star-Trekiness, or at least, of Starfleet-iness, we hear hints of the TNG theme (which, of course, is actually the theme from Star Trek The Motion Picture, credited that way in the end credits, by the way). I like the holographic index in the archives. Given the prevalence of holographic technology in the 24th century, it makes perfect sense to me that an archive would have a holographic librarian. This is the scene the fans have been waiting for. From the moment we first hear that Door whoosh sound, the show allows us to really dwell, for a moment, in unadulterated nostalgia. But in a way that again feels completely natural. And if you were new to Star Trek, you’d just think, ok , this is some old things of Picards. But to us, every item in this room holds meaning, brings back memories. We see his model of the Stargazer from his ready room on the Enterprise. A klingon batleth and daktag. And notice, these are the original designs, not the re-designs from Discovery, which, I suppose, were simply 23rd century equivalents. We also see the book that was displayed in his ready room. Shakespear? Probably. There’s a model of the Enterprise E, The Captain Picard day banner, models of the captain’s yacht, and Enterprise D. What else did you spot? So the reason Picard came here was to see a painting Data gave him. It looks like Dahj. Data called it Daughter. So….this was a painting of Lal? Dahj calls her mum, further confirming that she is human. But when her mum tells her to go back to Picard, even though Dahj never mentioned that, we have doubts again. Who and what is this girl? The floating holographic interface doesn’t look very TNG, but i’m cool with that. Remember back in the DS9 episode, The visitor, was set somewhere around this time, and Bashir remarks to Dax about how he doesn’t know how they ever manage dusing 2d interfaces. This is a natural progression of 24th century technology. We see a few Starfleet uniforms in the background. We don’t get a really good look at them. I’m sure we’ll see more in subsequent episodes. We know from the trailers that Picard will go to Starfleet headquarters. So I’ll talk about them when we get a closer look. At this point, Picard has figured it out. She knows what Dahj is. He tells her all about Data. He believes Dahj is a synthetic. It all makes sense when he lays out the evidence. All her memories of her childhood and family, are implanted. But Picard doesn’t belittle those memories. He calls them beautiful. He refers to Dahj as something that is lovingly and deliberately created. And I really like that. And although he doesn’t fully understand the nature of the connection, after all, Lal died, Picard is at a point where he is willing to consider Dahj as family. You are dear to me, he says.I will never leave you. I’m loving this stuff. This is emotional. It’s great character drama, and as a parent, I’m connecting with it strongly. At the same time, at this point I’m dying to understand the mystery. Did data secretly build a second Dahj back in the day? One that survived? Or is it something else? Then we switch into thriller mode again. First of all, I love how Picard is struggling up the stairs. OF course he is. Even with 24th century medicine, he’s in his 90s. I like that the show allows Picard to be old. How many shows do we get with elderly heroes like this? This action scene is fantastic. I feel like I’m watching a big screen action movie. Brilliantly done. When Dahj does a superman jump, we’re left with little doubt that Picard is right about her. But what’s with that bleeding? Let’s talk about the new transporter effect. I don’t mind it. It’s still somewhat reminiscent of the TNG transporter effect. But it’s very quick. Again, I can buy that. It seems a logical advance that would occur in the technology.The sound effect still has hints of the old sound, but perhaps sounds a little too hologrammy to me. But I’m with it. This is a new era with a new aesthetic. But that aesthetic doesn’t feel like it came out of nowhere. And then the big shock that I did NOT see coming. The romulan puts his disruptor on overload. It explodes. And Dahj dies. I thought she was gonna be a major character in this show, and she didn’t make it to th end of the first episode. That was shocking. And she Isa Briones played her death wonderfully. The fear on her face. The horror as she realised she was about to die. That hit me. Not to mention Picard’s reaction. Now we need to talk about something. Dahj has been experiencing and expressing a lot of emotion. She didn’t even know she was an android. Data, as we know, was incapable of feeling emotions, at least until he installed the emotion chip that Soong developed later in life. So this android is more advanced than data. Remember, also, though, that Lal was able to experience emotions, or at least a reasonable simulation of them just before she died. That was explained as a glitch in her positronic brain. Anyway, this is something to keep in mind. Somebody has the ability to create android with emotion. When he wakes up, Picard has a character growth moment, as he realises he hasn’t been living, he’s been waiting to die. I wonder if he remembers at this moment, a conversation he once had with James T. Kirk, about making a difference. So he heads off to the Daystrom institute to talk to an expert about whether one can make an android out of flesh and blood. And can I just point out how awesome all of the sets on this show look. Brilliant. And here we meet another main cast member of this show. Doctor Agnus Jurati. She’s the expert. She says a flash and blood android was in their sights, but a sentient one, not for a thousand years. This kind of makes sense. A body is just a body. The impressive thing about an android like data was not the mechanical arms and legs. It was the brain. The mind. When it comes to creating life, that’s the hard bit. That’s the bit that matters. The mind. And potentially, the soul. I can buy that in the 24th century, that can manipulate biological matter to an extent that they can create a body out of bio matter. One that would bleed, like a true biological organism. But creating a positronic brain like Data’s is something only one person ever achieved. Doctor Noonian Soong. And nobody has ever been able to duplicate his work. This is why I think maybe the word synthetic could work. Because it’s more than just android. It’s talking about synthetically created biological organisms with robotic brains. And now we learn the fate of B5. He’s been disassembled and put in a drawer at the Daystrom Institute. I wonder why they dismantled him. Jurati tells us what we already knew, that B5 is an inferior copy of Data. And we learn that sadly, Data’s neural network didn’t take in B4’s primitive brain. Almost all of it was lost. And then we get an exciting name drop. Bruce Maddox, from the TNG episode Measure of a Man. Maddox was trying to follow up on Soong’s work. He wanted to dismantle Data to learn more so he could create more soong-type androids. Data refused, believing the procedure too dangerous, as Maddox needed more research. That, of course, lead to the court case where Data’s rights as a sentient life form were established. Data and Maddox continued to keep in contact over the years. He’s occasionally mentioned in TNG. It seems he kept working and eventually recruited Doctor Jurati. They came close to succeeding, and then mars happened, and the ban on the creation of synths. That understandably crushed him. He was no longer allowed to finish his life’s work. The guy was a jerk in TNG when we first met him, but I’m feeling sympathy for him now. Will we see him in a future episode. Man, I hope so. Let’s talk about this ban on creating synths. As I understand, we’re not talking about taking away anything from synths that already exist. We’re talking about making it illegal to create more. Was this an over-reaction? Possibly. Picard certainly thinks so. But I can understand the feat that drove that decision. To this day, nobody knows why those synths attacked mars. You can’t blame an entire race for something done by a finite number. Obviously. But at the same time, we’re not talking about people. We’re talking about machines. And probably not even sentient machines, as they’re still trying to crack that nut. Created by technology. Created by flawed imperfect humans. Was there some kind of failure of glitch in the technology that lead to this tragedy? We don’t know. I’m not sure where I stand on this issue right now, but I can see both sides. Maddox disappeared after the ban. Even Jurati doesn’t know where he went. Because nobody is clever enough to duplicate Soong’s work, any new sentient android would have to be created from data Jurati then tells us about the theory of fractal neuronic cloning. Maddox believed all that data was could be re-created from a single positronic neuron. Kind lof like re-created a human from a strand of DNA in one of its cells. So the theory is that Maddox created Dahj using this method, and modelled her appearance after the painting of Lal. They’re created in pairs. Twins. Why this is the case, I don’t know. The episode doesn’t do a good job of explaining that. I can’t see a logical reason why the technology would require you to make two. Hopefully this will be explained more in future episodes. And as Picard comes to the conclusion that there is another one out there somewhere, we leave him, as the episode cuts away from Earth for the last scene. But now, it seems, Picard has a goal. A mission. This will guide us logically into the plot of episode 2, and perhaps, the entire season. The new Romulan ship looks pretty cool. Very birdlike. The voice we hear as it flies by sounds very Klingon to me, but I assume it’s supposed to be Romulan. This new location is referred to as the “Romulan Reclamation Site.” What that means, we have no idea. We briefly meet another major character, a Romulan named Narek. And then we meets Doctor Soji Asher. Who looks exactly like Dahj. The twin! I think she’s a psychologist. We get a little backstory about Narek. He had a brother that he lost recently. There’s not a lot to say about this. We don’t know what part this character will play in the show. It’s essentially a cameo. And that brings me to something about this show. This very much feels like a story about Jean-Luc Picard. There are other characters around him, of course, and they’re important, but this is much less an ensemble show than any other Star Trek. Most of the cast, we haven’t actually met yet. They tried to do that with Discovery, but Discovery can’t quite decide whether it’s the story of Michael Burnham, or a kind of lower decks ensemble show. I get the impression this show is much more certain of its identity. And as the camera zooms out, in a shot reminiscent of Star Trek First Contact, we learn tat this Romlan Reclamation Site is actually a damaged Borg cube. Interesting! The credits mention somebody played a tellarite. I missed that. I haven’t talked much about the music, so let me just say that I really liked it, and I think it fits the show well. It’s a lot less generic than the berman-era music, which I know a lot of people complain about, but there are a few hints of TNG-era music. I thought I heard a hint of something from Generations. So that was the first episode of Star Trek Picard. Let’s go into some summary thoughts about the episode. In short, I loved almost everything about it. I loved the tone. I loved the aesthetic. I loved the character focus. In a way, this show is giving us the equivalent of what the movies gave us for TOS. There was quite a big gap between the original series and the original movies. Not so with TNG. They were filming the final episode, and then practically the next day there were filming the first movie. In a way that was good because we saw continuity. We travelled with these characters from Encounter at Farpoint through the Nemesis. But we didn’t get to grow old with the characters like we did with Kirk, Spock and Bones. We saw them grow and change. Become old. We saw the world around them change. The look and feel of the original movies and very different than that of the original series. But Star Trek Picard is giving us that opportunity with the Next Generation characters, and potentially, with Voyager and DS9 as well. We know Seven of Nine is returning. I live in hope that we’ll see someone from Deep Space Nine at some point during the planned 3 seasons of this show. And honestly, after Picard ends, I hope we get more of this era. I’ve been wanting to return to the 24th century for about 20 years. And I can’t believe it’s finally happened. We’re getting to see a future for my favourite era of Star Trek, the Berman era. If you’re coming to this, looking for TNG, you’re not going to find it. They’ve told us that all along. This isn’t planet of the week. They haven’t even left Earth yet. The creators described this as a ten hour movie. If that’s not the kind of thing you like, you might be disappointed, but I love this kind of thing. So I’m really pumped and I can’t wait for next week so I can have another helping of Star Trek Picard. What about you? What did you think of the show? Feel free to leave me a comment wherever you’re listening to this. (or watching) So what other nerdy stuff is happening in my life? Well, I recently started walking to Mordor. You see, I’m quite overweight. My job involves sitting at a computer all day, and most of my other interests also involve sitting at a computer. So, that’s really very unhealthy. I need to move a lot more during the day. I thought a fun, nerdy way to motivate me to exercise more, (you’kow, other than not dying) would be to retract Frodo and Sam’s journey from the shire to Mordor to destroy the one ring. I’ve got the Walk to Mordor app on my phone, which has all the distances calculated, with various milestones along the way, from the story. Whenever I go for a walk, I log the distance and it fells me how far I have to go. I started at Bag end, and I’ve just passed through Tookland. In about 35 kilometers, I’ll have an encounter with the black rider. You remember that scene in the movie where they hid under the log with the black rider looming over them. It was terrifying. That’s in my future. Anyway, it seems to be working. I’m finding myself wanting to go for walks. And as I do, I imagine myself on an epic quest through fantastical countryside. The imagination is a powerful thing, and it’s interesting the tricks you can play on your own brain. I’ll keep you up to date on my progress through middle earth in future podcasts. But for now, I’m gonna say goodbye, until next time, when we meet with our friend Jean-Luc once again. Have a great week. Live long and prosper. Make it so.
Sad news today, December 3rd. Yesterday, we lost Star Trek giant D.C. Fontana. She passed away peacefully at the age of 80, reportedly after a short illness.As a young girl of 11, Dorothy Catherine Fontana decided she wanted to become a novelist. After getting an Associate Degree as an Executive Secretarial major at Fairleigh Dickinson University, she worked her way up through the typing pool to quickly become the secretary to Samuel Peeples of Screen Gems, then to producer Del Reisman of the Lieutenant where she met and became secretary to that show’s creator Gene Roddenberry.Roddenberry encouraged her writing, and in 1964, she published her first novel, a western Brazos River.After The Lieutenant was canceled, Roddenberry started work on Star Trek, and Fontana came with him. She worked on it since the beginning of development. Associate producer Robert H. Justman encouraged Roddenberry to give her more writing tasks, and Roddenberry assigned her the job of writing the teleplay for an idea he had called "The Day Charlie Became God"—the premise of which she wrote into her reworked script for the episode that became "Charlie X". Other Original Series episodes she had a hand in writing or re-writing:"Tomorrow is Yesterday", "This Side of Paradise", "Friday’s Child", "Journey to Babel", "By Any Other Name", "The Ultimate Computer", "The Enterprise Incident", "That Which Survives", and "The Way to Eden" among others…When Steve Carabatsos, the story editor, left the production midway through the first season, she became the new story editor. At the age of 27, Fontana was the youngest story editor in Hollywood at the time, and also one of the few female staff writers. She left the story editor position before the third season went into production: "I had told Gene Roddenberry that I did not wish to continue on Star Trek as story editor because I wanted to freelance and write for other series. I did, however, want to continue to do scripts for Star Trek. Gene was agreeable to this, and I was given a contract in February of 1968 which called for a guarantee of three scripts, with an option for three more. Whenever anyone has asked why I chose to leave Star Trek's story editorship, I have always given this reply." However, Fontana was very unhappy with the rewrites done on her third season scripts, including "The Enterprise Incident" and "The Way to Eden" (originally submitted as "Joanna" by Fontana, featuring Doctor McCoy's daughter). She was unhappy with the way Roddenberry re-wrote the episodes they wrote together. She used the pseudonym "J. Michael Bingham" for "The Naked Now", as she was especially unhappy with the episode.Another of Fontana's contributions to The Original Series was her discovery and introduction to Gene Roddenberry of costume designer William Ware Theiss. She was an active contributor to the officially endorsed fanzine Inside Star Trek, for which she conducted interviews with several key production staffers, most notably the one with Theiss, the only published one on record.Over the years, she maintained a working relationship with Roddenberry, serving as his assistant on The Questor Tapes, Genesis II, and was hired as story editor and associate producer on Star Trek: The Animated Series. "Yesteryear".She would also work on The Fantastic Journey, Logan’s Run, Six Million Dollar Man, Buck Rogers of the 25th Century, The Waltons, and finally back to Star Trek where she worked up the initial concept for the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation: “Encounter at Farpoint” earning a Hugo Award nomination, co-invented the "LCARS" concept, and wrote four other episodes of the season, “The Naked Now”, “Lonely Among Us”, “Too Short a Season”, and “Heart of Glory”, before departing (along with all the Original Series production staff) due to the meddlings of Roddenberry's lawyer, Leonard Maizlish.She also returned to write DS9: "Dax", her last “canon” involvement with Star Trek, in which a great deal of Jadzia Dax' backstory was fleshed out. She would also go on to write for Babylon 5, Earth: Final Conflict, and then wrote the stories of the video games Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury (unreleased), Star Trek: Bridge Commander, Star Trek: Legacy and Star Trek: Tactical Assault all with Derek Chester, and an episode of the fan production Star Trek: New Voyages, the episode "To Serve All My Days" in 2006, on which she worked alongside Jack Treviño and Ethan H. Calk. FictionShe wrote the Star Trek novel “Vulcan's Glory” (1989) and the IDW comic series “Star Trek: Year Four - The Enterprise Experiment”.Leonard Nimoy credited her for expanding Vulcan culture within Star Trek. As Star Trek fans, we owe a tremendous debt to D.C. Fontana. Without her, Star Trek might never have been as successful as it ultimately has been. If you doubt, realize that gene Roddenberry understood it himself. It’s why he kept asking her back and making her story editor and associate producer. She got it. She got it enough to craft integral backstories for, time-tested fictional characters and cultures. She was a bad ass and a trailblazer for other women. Most recently, she worked as a senior lecturer at the American Film Institute, where she mentored aspiring screenwriters, producers, and directors. She is survived by her husband, Oscar-winning visual effects cinematographer Dennis Skotak, and her family asks for memorial donations to be made to the Humane Society, the Best Friends Animal Society, or to the American Film Institute.Until next time, go watch or read something D.C. Fontana had a hand in, and do like Dorothy: Live long. Prosper. Sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._C._Fontanahttps://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/D.C._Fontanahttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284894/Music from https://filmmusic.io"Canon in D Major" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
This week on Priority One --- We trek out Toronto’s newest Admiral, who’s coming and going at CBS Interactive, George Takei’s early attempts at LGBTQ representation, and then Klingon’s get frozen? In Star Trek gaming, holograms have feelings too, Shalenak debriefs the players on Destination, and console captains get the Franklin! Of course, as always, before we wrap up the show, we’ll open hailing frequencies for your incoming messages Let us know on social media like Facebook, Twitter, or by visiting our website! This Weeks Community Questions Are: CQ: CQ: What do you think of “Let it Go” in Klingon? Do you another favorite Klingon Pop Warrior song? AND CQ: Would you like Snoop Dogg to voice a character in Star Trek Online? If so, would he be a Starfleet Admiral, Klingon General, or Romulan Agent? Tell us. TREK IT OUT by Jake Morgan Mayor Tory Beams Into a Toronto School, Discovery Style Mayor’s log, stardate 47634.44. I find myself on a planet that is demonstrating - peculiar - customs. It appears the children, and in some cases adults, dress in costumes. Then they approach dwellings and ask for tricks or treats. In every case, treats are distributed, though more study may be required. Trick or Treat! This past week, many people around the world celebrated All Hallows Eve - or Halloween! If YOU celebrated by dressing as your favorite Star Trek character, then you weren’t alone. Toronto Mayor John Tory donned a blue Discovery Admiral Uniform while visiting school children this year, later explaining his motivation to the just-happened-to-be-there news crew. ”This is the uniform of a Star Trek Admiral. It is really in tribute to the show Star Trek, which a lot of people of course are very familiar with through all of its generations. But also people may not know that Star Trek: Discovery, which is the present series on television, is being produced here in Toronto. And they’ve made a huge contribution to the success of our film and television industry. They’ve spent more than 250 million dollars in Toronto. They’ve created 4000 jobs in the three seasons that they’ve been here. So it was my pleasure to be able to put on one of the Star Trek admirals uniforms.” The Motion Picture Association of Canada released an infographic of Star Trek’s impact on the Ontario economy, which included the creation of 4,199 local jobs and $257 million spent in local production costs! For a link to the interview and infographic, trek out the show notes! CBS Interactive CEO Jim Lanzone Leaves His Post Regardless of your feelings about CBS ALL ACCESS, or Star Trek’s residing on the platform, there is no denying CBS’s forward-thinking approach in instituting the service. Now the man in charge of overseeing the launch of the Video-On-Demand service, CBS Interactive CEO Jim Lanzone, is bidding the company adieu. On Monday November 4th, news outlets reported the 48 year-old Lanzone, who’s contract with CBS expires at the end of 2019, will leave CBS Interactive to become an executive-in-residence at Benchmark Capital. Filling the role of CEO will be former Chief Operating Officer of CBS Interactive, Marc DeBevoise. In a statement, Lanzone said ”It's been an honor to lead the CBS Interactive team for nearly nine years, and I’m thrilled that Marc will seamlessly continue the great work we’ve done together. Marc was one of the first executives I hired back in 2011, and he has been central to our digital transformation of CBS ever since. We've been planning this transition together since early in the year, and I know our team is in great hands going forward.” George Takei Explains Lack of LGBTQ Representation in TOS George Takei is an icon. Whether he is spouting his famous “OH, MYYY”,creating a presence on social media, raising awareness about the internment of Japanese Americans by the US government during World War II, acting as a leader for the LGBTQ community, or portraying Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, it’s clear that Mr.Takei is tireless....and he always has been. In an interview with PBS Newshour, Takei praised the original Star Trek for its bravery and diversity before recalling a conversation with Gene Roddenberry regarding the series tackling “the gay issue”. Takei said he stole a quiet moment with Roddenberry at a pool party, offering his suggestion as a liberal rather than a gay man, because he “was too closeted then”. “I said, You know, we’ve dealt with almost every social issue. Every civil rights, human rights issue and the gay issue is another important one. Have you ever considered addressing that? And he said, ‘you know you’re right.I’d like to do that but’, he said, ‘I’m walking a tightrope. The interracial kiss was very controversial [...], and so I’ve got to keep the show on to tell the stories that I’m telling which aren’t being dramatized metaphorically on any other show. I’ve got to keep the show on. And that, as you say, may be a bridge too far’” “Let it Go” + Klingon = Awesome With fire and steel did the gods forge the Klingon heart. So fiercely did it beat, so loud was the sound, that the gods cried out "On this day we have brought forth the strongest heart in all the heavens. None can stand before it without trembling at its strength. But then the Klingon heart weakened, its steady rhythm faltered and the gods said, "Why do you weaken so? We have made you the strongest in all of creation." And the heart said... ...The kids asked to watch Disney’s “Frozen” again. But fret not Brothers and Sister, for we have a hero - Jen Usellis, The Klingon Pop Warrior! Highlighted on Nerdist.com, The Warrior/Singer demonstrates how to make “Let it Go”, the song heard round-the-world, new-ish again. Take the diddy, originally performed by Idina Menzel, throw it in a blender, add a heavy dose of throaty Klingon pronunciation, and pour it into our Star Trekgoblets...no ice required! The four minute and twenty six second song is a little more folksy - and a LOT more aggressive - than the original release, but it is no less beautiful! If you can’t get enough of popular songs in Klingon, be sure to follow our link to the Klingon Pop Warriors YouTube page! Star Trek Online and Gaming News by Anthony Cox Teaser Video from Star Trek Destination Stamets and the Doctor Meet in New Lore Story Fiction Star Trek Online Community Manager, Mike “Ambassador Kael” Fatum, has posted a new fiction blog. In this story titled, “Doctor’s Orders”, the newly created hologram Stamets meets with another member of Starfleet that has some insight into his current “condition.” The Doctor from Star Trek Voyager counsels Stamets on his newfound consciousness and existing in a foreign time period. We encourage you to trek out this new story by following the link in our show notes. Destination Star Trek Birmingham Debrief with Shalenak Star Trek Online’s European Community Manager, Shalenak, wrote up a wonderful reflection on his first convention as a Community Manager. He details many of the activities and announcements the STO Away Team were involved with over the weekend. Along with a few anecdotes including a luggage theft. To read Shalenak’s full Destination Star Trek Birmingham debrief, trek out the show notes. Console Captains can Now Command the USS Franklin The Tier 6 Ship promotion has returned to the R&D packs on console this week and now includes the new Freedom-class Exploration Frigate. Otherwise known as the USS Franklin starship from Star Trek Beyond. From now until November 14th when you purchase an R&D pack from the C-store you will receive either 10 Lobi Crystals or a Special Requisition Choice Pack for a Tier 6 ship. All of the previously ships are available along with the new Freedom-class. EVENTS PC: Tribble Notes According to the new events tab in Star Trek Online, the next Featured TFO event will be Into the Breach. And according to the newest Tribble server update, the new 14-day reward looks to be a Universal Console. The Voth Power Subcore, which gives a passive increase to Shield Hit Points, an increase to Shield Resistance, and when activated summons Voth Combat pets, deals Plasma damage over time, and ends with a Kinetic damage core breach. Completing the 14-day progress will also reward players with 3 Featured Reward Boxes and 50,000 dilithium. Participating in this event should also continue your progress towards the Free Tier 6 ship coupon. As with the Mycelial Crisis event, you will have also have a choice in how you complete the daily progress. Needing 28 total progress for completion, participating in the TFO: Into the Breach will give you 2 progress while completing the Voth Encounters patrol will give you 1 progress each time. You can only earn a maximum of 2 progress per day. As of this recording, Cryptic has not officially announced this event, it says in the events tab that it will run from November 12th until December 3rd. PRIORITY ONE ARMADA NEWS Do you play STO on Playstation and want to get involved? The Priority One Armada Playstation has some openings in Senior Staff for anyone that wants to help out fellow fleetmates. Reach out to us on our website priorityonearmada.com if you are interested. Thanks so much to all our members - and don’t forget that the House of Martok fleet is even closer to its first Tier V Colony upgrade - so keep filling those projects! WEEKLY TOP TIP One of the most wonderful things about Star Trek Online is its ability to immerse us into the universe of Star Trek. Nothing accomplishes this more than the LCARS user interface with which we use to interact with the game. When you create a character and choose a faction you’re also choosing the LCARS style for that Faction. And sometimes it may not quite fit the theme you’re going for with that character, or you may just like a certain style of LCARS better. Well, you can, in fact, change the LCARS color palette. You can not only choose from the other LCARS faction palettes but also from specific races like Remans, Orions, Gorn, specific versions from TNG or Voyager, and even from classic versions of the Federation and Klingon palette. There is also an option to disable the Red Alert mode so the interface stays the theme colors when going into battle. But who would want to do that? This gives you some options when creating new characters or to spice up the experience on your trusty main character. You can find these settings in the options menu under “Basic” on PC and under “Options” then “Options” again on consoles. Other Gaming News Does Snoop Dogg STO? During the first episode of Netflix’s new Cardi B led singing competition, twitter user @justinhall spotted something trek-tacular. While guest judge Snoop Dogg was giving Cardi B a tour of his LA home, they walk past a wall-sized mural of an intergalactic space battle between Star Trek and Star Wars spaceships. And if you Star Trek Online players thought some of the images look familiar, well, you would be right. The Star Trek Online Twitter account confirmed in a reply that some of the starship images were in fact concept art for the game. Namely an STO variant fo the Sovereign-class. In the Tweet Star Trek Online asked if Snoop Dogg played the game and invited him on their live stream. Trekizzle bizzle, f’shnizzle.
This week on Priority One --- We trek out Toronto's newest Admiral, who's coming and going at CBS Interactive, George Takei's early attempts at LGBTQ representation, and then Klingon's get frozen? In Star Trek gaming, holograms have feelings too, Shalenak debriefs the players on Destination, and console captains get the Franklin! Of course, as always, before we wrap up the show, we'll open hailing frequencies for your incoming messages Let us know on social media like Facebook, Twitter, or by visiting our website! This Weeks Community Questions Are: CQ: CQ: What do you think of “Let it Go” in Klingon? Do you another favorite Klingon Pop Warrior song? AND CQ: Would you like Snoop Dogg to voice a character in Star Trek Online? If so, would he be a Starfleet Admiral, Klingon General, or Romulan Agent? Tell us. TREK IT OUT by Jake Morgan Mayor Tory Beams Into a Toronto School, Discovery Style Mayor's log, stardate 47634.44. I find myself on a planet that is demonstrating - peculiar - customs. It appears the children, and in some cases adults, dress in costumes. Then they approach dwellings and ask for tricks or treats. In every case, treats are distributed, though more study may be required. Trick or Treat! This past week, many people around the world celebrated All Hallows Eve - or Halloween! If YOU celebrated by dressing as your favorite Star Trek character, then you weren't alone. Toronto Mayor John Tory donned a blue Discovery Admiral Uniform while visiting school children this year, later explaining his motivation to the just-happened-to-be-there news crew. ”This is the uniform of a Star Trek Admiral. It is really in tribute to the show Star Trek, which a lot of people of course are very familiar with through all of its generations. But also people may not know that Star Trek: Discovery, which is the present series on television, is being produced here in Toronto. And they've made a huge contribution to the success of our film and television industry. They've spent more than 250 million dollars in Toronto. They've created 4000 jobs in the three seasons that they've been here. So it was my pleasure to be able to put on one of the Star Trek admirals uniforms.” The Motion Picture Association of Canada released an infographic of Star Trek's impact on the Ontario economy, which included the creation of 4,199 local jobs and $257 million spent in local production costs! For a link to the interview and infographic, trek out the show notes! CBS Interactive CEO Jim Lanzone Leaves His Post Regardless of your feelings about CBS ALL ACCESS, or Star Trek's residing on the platform, there is no denying CBS's forward-thinking approach in instituting the service. Now the man in charge of overseeing the launch of the Video-On-Demand service, CBS Interactive CEO Jim Lanzone, is bidding the company adieu. On Monday November 4th, news outlets reported the 48 year-old Lanzone, who's contract with CBS expires at the end of 2019, will leave CBS Interactive to become an executive-in-residence at Benchmark Capital. Filling the role of CEO will be former Chief Operating Officer of CBS Interactive, Marc DeBevoise. In a statement, Lanzone said ”It's been an honor to lead the CBS Interactive team for nearly nine years, and I'm thrilled that Marc will seamlessly continue the great work we've done together. Marc was one of the first executives I hired back in 2011, and he has been central to our digital transformation of CBS ever since. We've been planning this transition together since early in the year, and I know our team is in great hands going forward.” George Takei Explains Lack of LGBTQ Representation in TOS George Takei is an icon. Whether he is spouting his famous “OH, MYYY”,creating a presence on social media, raising awareness about the internment of Japanese Americans by the US government during World War II, acting as a leader for the LGBTQ community, or portraying Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, it's clear that Mr.Takei is tireless....and he always has been. In an interview with PBS Newshour, Takei praised the original Star Trek for its bravery and diversity before recalling a conversation with Gene Roddenberry regarding the series tackling “the gay issue”. Takei said he stole a quiet moment with Roddenberry at a pool party, offering his suggestion as a liberal rather than a gay man, because he “was too closeted then”. “I said, You know, we've dealt with almost every social issue. Every civil rights, human rights issue and the gay issue is another important one. Have you ever considered addressing that? And he said, ‘you know you're right.I'd like to do that but', he said, ‘I'm walking a tightrope. The interracial kiss was very controversial [...], and so I've got to keep the show on to tell the stories that I'm telling which aren't being dramatized metaphorically on any other show. I've got to keep the show on. And that, as you say, may be a bridge too far'” “Let it Go” + Klingon = Awesome With fire and steel did the gods forge the Klingon heart. So fiercely did it beat, so loud was the sound, that the gods cried out "On this day we have brought forth the strongest heart in all the heavens. None can stand before it without trembling at its strength. But then the Klingon heart weakened, its steady rhythm faltered and the gods said, "Why do you weaken so? We have made you the strongest in all of creation." And the heart said... ...The kids asked to watch Disney's “Frozen” again. But fret not Brothers and Sister, for we have a hero - Jen Usellis, The Klingon Pop Warrior! Highlighted on Nerdist.com, The Warrior/Singer demonstrates how to make “Let it Go”, the song heard round-the-world, new-ish again. Take the diddy, originally performed by Idina Menzel, throw it in a blender, add a heavy dose of throaty Klingon pronunciation, and pour it into our Star Trekgoblets...no ice required! The four minute and twenty six second song is a little more folksy - and a LOT more aggressive - than the original release, but it is no less beautiful! If you can't get enough of popular songs in Klingon, be sure to follow our link to the Klingon Pop Warriors YouTube page! Star Trek Online and Gaming News by Anthony Cox Teaser Video from Star Trek Destination Stamets and the Doctor Meet in New Lore Story Fiction Star Trek Online Community Manager, Mike “Ambassador Kael” Fatum, has posted a new fiction blog. In this story titled, “Doctor's Orders”, the newly created hologram Stamets meets with another member of Starfleet that has some insight into his current “condition.” The Doctor from Star Trek Voyager counsels Stamets on his newfound consciousness and existing in a foreign time period. We encourage you to trek out this new story by following the link in our show notes. Destination Star Trek Birmingham Debrief with Shalenak Star Trek Online's European Community Manager, Shalenak, wrote up a wonderful reflection on his first convention as a Community Manager. He details many of the activities and announcements the STO Away Team were involved with over the weekend. Along with a few anecdotes including a luggage theft. To read Shalenak's full Destination Star Trek Birmingham debrief, trek out the show notes. Console Captains can Now Command the USS Franklin The Tier 6 Ship promotion has returned to the R&D packs on console this week and now includes the new Freedom-class Exploration Frigate. Otherwise known as the USS Franklin starship from Star Trek Beyond. From now until November 14th when you purchase an R&D pack from the C-store you will receive either 10 Lobi Crystals or a Special Requisition Choice Pack for a Tier 6 ship. All of the previously ships are available along with the new Freedom-class. EVENTS PC: Tribble Notes According to the new events tab in Star Trek Online, the next Featured TFO event will be Into the Breach. And according to the newest Tribble server update, the new 14-day reward looks to be a Universal Console. The Voth Power Subcore, which gives a passive increase to Shield Hit Points, an increase to Shield Resistance, and when activated summons Voth Combat pets, deals Plasma damage over time, and ends with a Kinetic damage core breach. Completing the 14-day progress will also reward players with 3 Featured Reward Boxes and 50,000 dilithium. Participating in this event should also continue your progress towards the Free Tier 6 ship coupon. As with the Mycelial Crisis event, you will have also have a choice in how you complete the daily progress. Needing 28 total progress for completion, participating in the TFO: Into the Breach will give you 2 progress while completing the Voth Encounters patrol will give you 1 progress each time. You can only earn a maximum of 2 progress per day. As of this recording, Cryptic has not officially announced this event, it says in the events tab that it will run from November 12th until December 3rd. PRIORITY ONE ARMADA NEWS Do you play STO on Playstation and want to get involved? The Priority One Armada Playstation has some openings in Senior Staff for anyone that wants to help out fellow fleetmates. Reach out to us on our website priorityonearmada.com if you are interested. Thanks so much to all our members - and don't forget that the House of Martok fleet is even closer to its first Tier V Colony upgrade - so keep filling those projects! WEEKLY TOP TIP One of the most wonderful things about Star Trek Online is its ability to immerse us into the universe of Star Trek. Nothing accomplishes this more than the LCARS user interface with which we use to interact with the game. When you create a character and choose a faction you're also choosing the LCARS style for that Faction. And sometimes it may not quite fit the theme you're going for with that character, or you may just like a certain style of LCARS better. Well, you can, in fact, change the LCARS color palette. You can not only choose from the other LCARS faction palettes but also from specific races like Remans, Orions, Gorn, specific versions from TNG or Voyager, and even from classic versions of the Federation and Klingon palette. There is also an option to disable the Red Alert mode so the interface stays the theme colors when going into battle. But who would want to do that? This gives you some options when creating new characters or to spice up the experience on your trusty main character. You can find these settings in the options menu under “Basic” on PC and under “Options” then “Options” again on consoles. Other Gaming News Does Snoop Dogg STO? During the first episode of Netflix's new Cardi B led singing competition, twitter user @justinhall spotted something trek-tacular. While guest judge Snoop Dogg was giving Cardi B a tour of his LA home, they walk past a wall-sized mural of an intergalactic space battle between Star Trek and Star Wars spaceships. And if you Star Trek Online players thought some of the images look familiar, well, you would be right. The Star Trek Online Twitter account confirmed in a reply that some of the starship images were in fact concept art for the game. Namely an STO variant fo the Sovereign-class. In the Tweet Star Trek Online asked if Snoop Dogg played the game and invited him on their live stream. Trekizzle bizzle, f'shnizzle.
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When the Romulan scout vessel Pi failwhales straight into Galorndon Core, what's a pair of Romulans to do? If you're Bochra and Patahk, the Bashir and O'Brien of the Romulan Empire, you self-destruct the ship to cover your shame and update your dating profile on OK Pon-Farr. Will Bochra get lucky in love with the USS Hood's Lt. Robinson? Will Patahk die with a bad case of dry mouth? How much whiskey helps transporter chiefs cope with post-LCARS patch day transporter mishaps? Grab a synthehol cold one and pop in some earbuds, because the Brothers Weems are here to answer all those questions you didn't plan on asking!
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