Podcasts about Zefram Cochrane

What if Vulcans beat Zefram Cochrane to first contact? T'Pol's tale of a 1957 Pennsylvania landing sparks debate. Dom Bettinelli, Father Jason Tyler, and Jimmy Akin unpack the truths and twists of Enterprise's “Carbon Creek.”

What if Vulcans beat Zefram Cochrane to first contact? T'Pol's tale of a 1957 Pennsylvania landing sparks debate. Dom Bettinelli, Father Jason Tyler, and Jimmy Akin unpack the truths and twists of Enterprise's “Carbon Creek.” The post Carbon Creek (ENT) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

29. Januar 1996: Eigentlich ist's ein spekulatives Ding der Unmöglichkeit, über Licht-, lächerliche und wahnsinnige Geschwindigkeit hinweg die Warp-10-Barriere zu durchbrechen und überall gleichzeitig zu sein, doch Tom vollbringt dieses Husarenstück, unternimmt unfreiwillige Evolution und reiht sich illuster ein… Orville Wright, Neil Armstrong, Zefram Cochrane, Thomas Eugene Paris und Lurchi, der Salamander. In Deutschland: Die Schwelle, auf VHS am 24. April 1997, ausgestrahlt am 5. Juli 1997.

Aww, maman! Some hot stuff heatin' up in Zefram Cochrane's innards as Kirk and his companions find out he been lettin' his companion all up in them guts! Energy clouds are revolting, maman. Until they take over Elinor Donahue... cause miss Ellie Walker is the finest lady druggist we ever did have in these parts, ain't that right, Barn? I mean maman. Episode Reviewed:Star Trek 2x02 - "Metamorphosis"Hosts:David C. RobersonEffie OpheldersNote: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues young Effie's first watch of Star Trek in production order. Guiding her on this journey: Dave, a stalwart fan of almost four decades who rewatches along with her, provides trivia, insights and the occasional excitement-stoking minor spoiler. Join Us:Site: http://startrekucast.comApple: http://bit.ly/StuCastSpotify: http://bit.ly/StarTrekUCastSpreaker: http://bit.ly/StuCastSpreaker"Power Restored" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

A LOVE STORY? When Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Commissioner Nancy Hedford discover Zefram Cochrane is both still alive and under the influence of an electrical cloud that has fallen in love with him, it's just the setup for perhaps the deepest exploration of love in Star Trek history. Joining Bryan to discuss this BIG SWING from 1967 is Laurie Ulster from TrekMovie.com. Can she and Bryan agree on a final grade for this one?Two podcast episodes to check out which Bryan references in the episode: 1) The remastering of TOS for HD on Inglorious Treksperts2) "Metamorphosis" director Ralph Senensky on the Scott Mantz Star Trek podcast, Enterprise Incidents

A few years ago, Star Trek Discovery posed the question "How do you want to be remembered in history? Along with the Wright brothers, Elon Musk, Zefram Cochrane?", which the British Government answered with "One of them, yeah. Also we love Star Trek Discovery because it's such a well written show". If that's not enough Bad Opinions for you, we also talk about The War On Drivers and play Comment or Commentariat.   Subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/praxiscast Watch streams: https://www.twitch.tv/praxiscast Buy shirts and mugs: https://praxiscast.teemill.com/ Follow us: https://bsky.app/profile/praxiscast.bsky.social   Cast: David - https://bsky.app/profile/sanitarynaptime.bsky.social Rob - https://bsky.app/profile/trufflehog.bsky.social James - https://bsky.app/profile/anarchonbury.bsky.social Jamie - https://bsky.app/profile/wizardcubes.bsky.social Alasdair - https://bsky.app/profile/ballistari.bsky.social

SIDE HUSTLE 9: FARMER HOGGETT'S VOYAGE HOME Travel across the cosmos and back in time this week with TGTPTU and the crews of two starships Enterprise. Special guest Martin Harries from the Film vs Film podcast joins Capt. Ken and his number one Thomas this week to boldly go where numerous podcasting Trekkies have gone before as they explore two Academy (Starfleet) Award-winning actor-directors:STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (1986) starring and directed by Leonard Nimoy in his second directorial contribution to the Star Trek movie franchise. Nimoy would subsequently direct the top-grossing film of the following year, Three Men and Baby, but first he got the opportunity to give his vision to the Trek franchise. The Voyage Home was a hit with the general public, promoting an environmental message of deep concern to Nimoy who didn't want violence if he was going to direct what most fans consider the end of an internal Trek trilogy that began with Wrath of Khan.STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT (1996) starring and directed by Jonathan Frakes in his feature debut as a director in this eighth Star Trek franchise film and the second for The Next Generation crew. Lighter on humor (but surprisingly also featuring a nuclear wessel), portions of First Contact are shot like a horror movie as The Borg (The Next Generation's eternal alien enemy) travel(s) back in time and infect(s) the crew aboard the Enterprise while the away team shakes a tail feather and drinks moonshine with the yet-to-be-legendary Zefram Cochrane portrayed by James Cromwell one year after playing Farmer Hoggett in Babe. “But what of Shatner?” serious nerds of film and fiends of the franchise might ask. Look, nerd/fiend, the ‘final frontier' might be a destination to boldly go, but it's a shit flick and gives credence to the cursed “odd number” Trek movies. We'd prefer to listen to 106 minutes of remixed whale song than suffer again through the trauma of Star Trek V: The Favored Nations Clause in Kirk's Contract (1989). So, in short, double dumbass on you.Now set headphones to stun and ready and prepare yourself for yammering speed and jettisoned opinions. May the force be with you.FILM VS FILM LINKS (it's so good): https://filmvsfilmpodcast.buzzsprout.com/THEME SONG BY: WEIRD A.I.Email: thegoodthepodandtheugly@gmail.comFacebook: https://m.facebook.com/TGTPTUInstagram: https://instagram.com/thegoodthepodandtheugly?igshid=um92md09kjg0Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegoodthepoda1YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6mI2plrgJu-TB95bbJCW-gBuzzsprout: https://thegoodthepodandtheugly.buzzsprout.com/Letterboxd (follow us!):Ken: Ken KoralJack: jackk1096

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When the Galileo Shuttlecraft is hijacked by an energy being, Kirk discovers Zefram Cochrane trapped on a planet with a jukebox that only plays Roy Orbison's "Ooby Dooby". Will our heroes be able to rescue this historical hero? Play along with our Starfleet Academy Cadet Challenge -- Share this episode using the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge on social media! Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your merch at threadless.com/humanisttrek Socials Mastodon Facebook Instagram Starfleet Officer maker by @marci_bloch

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Is Dr. Zefram Cochrane working at NASA? Well, apparently he should be. On April 5, 2063 Star Trek's fictional character Dr. Zefram Cochrane was the first human to travel faster than the speed of light. Maybe Star Trek's discovery of warp speed technology is closer than we think… Harold "Sonny" White the Director of Advanced Research & Development at Limitless Space Institute, joins me to discuss warp drive technology. Join us as we get rebelliously curious. The Limitless Space Institute is a non-profit organization, established in 2019. Their mission is to inspire and educate the next generation to travel beyond our solar system and to support the research and development of enabling technologies that will allow for interstellar human space exploration. *You can also watch Chrissy Newton's interview on YouTube at The Debrief. Follow Chrissy Newton: Instagram:@BeingChrissyNewton Twitter:@ChrissyNewton Facebook: Chrissy Newton Follow Us: Web: https://thedebrief.org/ Twitter: @Debriefmedia Facebook: The Debrief News Instagram:@TheDebriefmedia  

Super soldier Kevin Nealon evades the Enterprise, its crew, and planet prime minister Zefram Cochrane! That'll do, pig. Plus Getting to Know Dog Ramps, Trek Trivia, and more! Thanks for listening, hope you enjoy, and tell a friend! Follow us on twitter: @BesottedGeekPod Email the show: besottedgeek@gmail.com Check out our website: besottedgeek.com Buy some stuff: teepublic.com/user/besottedgeek  etsy.com/shop/untidyvenus, code “besotted” Support the show: patreon.com/besottedgeek Watch Stork suck at video games most weekdays 8:30am-ish EST: twitch.tv/besottedgeek & YouTube

On this special episode of The Random Redshirt Podcast, we celebrate First Contact Day! This "Pre-iversary" day is a fun way to celebrate the future First Contact Day in which Zefram Cochrane makes his first warp flight and subsequent first contact with the Vulcans on April 5th, 2063! So tune in to hear fun facts and trivia about First Contact Day as we share our thoughts of this future historic moment! You won't want to miss our very first podcast "special". --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Star Trek: First Contact with Erik Slader and Bryon Lockhart Happy First Contact Day to you and yours. If you're not listening to this on FCD, live long and prosper. We're finally seeing where The Federation began with Star Trek: First Contact. Joining us on our mission through time and space are long-time Trek fans: Erik Slader and Bryon Lockhart. Discuss the episode over at the Facebook group: The Reel Comic Heroes League of Citizens   Our guests were Erik Slader and Bryon Lockhart Erik: Epik Fails of History, Podcasters Assemble & 2 Young 4 This Trek Bryon: Marine Corps Movie Minute, Hamilton: Shot by Shot & Marvel Events Timeline   Our next movie review - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery   Twitter | Instagram | Website   Music from https://filmmusic.io: "Prelude and Action" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Music from https://filmmusic.io: "Deep Haze" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Intro/Outro by Matthew S Mendoza

The Borg are invading the Federation, and when their initial assault fails, they travel back to the past to sabotage Earth's first warp drive flight in hopes of preventing . . . First Contact! Yes, First Contact, when humanity came face to face with beings from another world. The Enterprise crew pursues the Borg to thwart their thwarting, and end up with a ship full of pesky cyborgs! While Riker, Geordi, and Troi work feverishly to make sure Zefram Cochrane makes his historic warp flight, Picard, Data, Crusher, and Worf battle the Borg! Remember when Star Trek, the franchise, made good movies? It's fuzzy, right? There were a couple gems in the mix of Star Trek franchise films… and luckily… this is one! It's First Contact, and it's our Next Gen crew versus the Borg! Listen as we lovingly revisit First Contact as part of our bonus re-watch. It's our Season Two-ender gift to you!

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Starship Down Hello Star Trek fans! Welcome to season 4, episode 6: Starship Down. This week we have an action packed episode where Sisko makes a risky decision putting the Defiant in crisis. When our crew is cut off from each, they scramble to save the ship from certain disaster! We have a lot of people on the ship that we've never seen before (spoiler, they're not all alive at the end of the episode) and we have special guest star James Cromwell NOT playing Zefram Cochrane. Starship Down Sisko takes the Defiant into the volatile atmosphere of a gas giant in attempt to rescue some Karemma from two Jem'Hadar cockroaches. And this decision proves costly when several crew members are quickly lost in a Jem'Hadar attack. Sisko suffers a potentially fatal head injury, Dax sucks in a lung full of a deadly gas and Worf is mean to some engineers. I mean come on, a lot is going on! What's this rebinge thing? It's a re-watch of a thing you've already seen but love to watch and talk about. We go deep with every episode, walking you through every scene and analyzing all of the characters and story lines. Please listen to some of our favorite episodes like Duet, The Wire or Second Skin and check out the previous episode, Rejoined. Next time... Join us next week for S4E7: Little Green Men! Be sure and join our Facebook group and Follow Rebinge It on Twitter! Email us at rebingeit@gmail.com.

Welcome to Rebinge Deep Space Nine S4E6: Starship Down.  Sisko takes the Defiant into the volatile atmosphere of a gas giant and everything goes vey badly.  Sisko hits his head and has to listen to sad Bajoran parables while dying.  Dax saves everyone else from dying but inhales deadly gas and ends up trapped in a tiny room with Bashir. And Worf is mean to some overly sensitive engineers.  We have guest star James Cromwell NOT playing Zefram Cochrane!Send us your feedback at rebingeit@gmail.com.

We start this week off by talking about playing Ratchet & Clank, UFC4, and Dark Souls Remaster of all things.  We then talk OnlyFans and Spence makes yet another questionable Amazon purchase, Sekiro and Ghost of Tsushima, soul-mates, TMNT: Shredder's Revenge (made by Tribute Games, published by DotEmu…  Rocksteady Studios had nothing to do with this one.),  Texas, Gene Roddenberry's vision, first contact was made by ZEFRAM COCHRANE (sorry, couldn't remember),  Spence gets scared, Star Trek TNG pod, first cars, RIP Marion, and Tom talks about how he met Jarvis Green. Links to all of our social media and email are at http://drugslikecoffee.transistor.fm

Tom Hanks as Zefram Cochrane? Seán Ferrick presents 10 Actors Who Turned Down Star Trek...ENJOY!Follow us on Twitter:@SeanFerrick@TrekCultureFr more awesome content, check out: whatculture.com/topic/star-trek See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, we're joined by the brilliant Sam (@never_seen_trek) to talk about TOS's Metamorphosis, in which Kirk and the gang are stranded on a planetoid with Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the Warp Drive, who then proceeds to fall in love with the Space Cloud that stole a woman's body. Honestly, I'm not sure it can be put better than that.

This week TV addicts Schmee and Riker review the pilot episode of the TV series Star Trek - Enterprise, “Broken Bow” (Netflix/Paramount+). This is the fourth Star Trek series pilot we have reviewed, preceded by Lower Decks, Discovery, and Picard. We discuss how well it did in defining the genre/conventions of the show, introducing its characters, how well it informed the series plot, and how well it hooked us to watch more. Follow us and let us know what you think! Twitter: @PilotsThePod | Facebook: www.facebook.com/PilotsThePodcast | Instagram: www.instagram.com/pilotsthepodcast/ Check out our website at www.PilotsThePodcast.com.

In this episode Mark talks about one of his favourite films and one of the best films of the "Star Trek" film franchise: the 1996 film "Star Trek: First Contact" directed by Jonathan Frakes. Set in the 24th Century, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (played by Patrick Stewart) is having nightmares about his experience six years before of being assimilated and transformed by a cybernetic alien race known as the Borg - during which he was given the identity "Locutus of Borg" and subsequently was forced to lead the Borg in an attack against his own Starfleet of starships with a mandate to eventually assimilate the entire population of Earth. Now, the Borg are threatening to assimilate the population of Earth once again - and after the Borg cube threatening Earth are eventually defeated by a Starfleet armada, with the assistance of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in command of the Federation starship USS Enterprise-E, the Borg launch a smaller vessel that travels into the past with the intention of assimilating the population of Earth in the 21st Century. Captain Picard and the Enterprise follow the Borg to the 21st Century and they discover that the Borg wish to stop the first official "First Contact" of humanity and an alien species - which, if successful, will usher in a profound new era of rejuvenation for the nuclear war stricken planet Earth and its human population, as well as inform them that they are not alone in the universe. Though thought to have been defeated, the Borg proceed to attempt to assimilate the Enterprise-E and its crew - which leads Captain Picard to engage the Borg in a face to face effort to defeat them before they can carry out the apparent goal of assimilating all of humanity; however, while on the surface of Earth, other members of the Enterprise-E crew assist Dr. Zefram Cochrane (played by James Cromwell) - the inventor of the first human spacecraft with a warp drive capable of travelling faster than light - in the launch of his ship "The Pheonix", which if successful will attract the attention of a nearby alien spacecraft and propel 21st Century humanity into the next generation of their evolution as a people and as a result secure the prospect of a future of prosperity that will spread throughout the galaxy. The incredible score of the film was composed by the late great Jerry Goldsmith. The film also stars Alice Krige, Alfre Woodard, Levar Burton, Brent Spiner, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Robert Picardo, Dwight Shultz, and Neal McDonough. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/markthepoet/message

Zach & Zo return to the future, to far reaches of space and then get time warped straight to the past (or the future past?). You'll get it when you listen in as we talk about Capt. Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise and geek out over the awesome space/time travel epic Star Trek: First Contact. www.backlookcinema.comEmail: fanmail@backlookcinema.comTwitter: @backlookcinemaFacebook: The Back Look Cinema Podcast Instagram: backlookcinemapodcast "Get the Groove" by Dave Miles from Zapsplat.com

A scientific team in the Arctic discovers two mysterious cyborgs, similar to those described by Zefram Cochrane. When they assimilate the scientists and move into space, Enterprise is called upon to find the cybernetic beings and stop them. In this episode of the podcast, Wes and Clay discuss "Regeneration" and the risks of bringing the Borg into a prequel series. Plus! The guys chat about T'Pol the skeptic, the more-is-less problem of the Borg, and action sequences done well. Are you looking for older episodes? Find this and every other episode at The Pensky Podcast! Thanks for listening. Stay connected: • https://thepenskyfile.com/links/ • e-mail: thepenskyfilevideo(at)gmail.com

Aunque no hayan traído a Silvester Stallone a la franquicia de Star Trek, todavía, su personaje de John Rambo en 'Acorralado' nos llega en algo más que el subtexto de este 'The Hunted', donde se aborda la reinserción de los soldados de guerra que regresan con sus traumas y molestan a la población civil tras haber cumplido la misión a la que se les envió. James Cromwell debuta también en Star Trek con un personaje mucho más soso que el celebérrimo Zefram Cochrane de 'Primer Contacto'. Por lo demás, el episodio consiste en Roga Danar, el supersoldado, escapando de la tripulación de la Enterprise durante todo el episodio. Y finalmente, tenemos a Picard, que nunca había estado tan contento de respetar la primera directriz.

Aunque no hayan traído a Silvester Stallone a la franquicia de Star Trek, todavía, su personaje de John Rambo en 'Acorralado' nos llega en algo más que el subtexto de este 'The Hunted', donde se aborda la reinserción de los soldados de guerra que regresan con sus traumas y molestan a la población civil tras haber cumplido la misión a la que se les envió. James Cromwell debuta también en Star Trek con un personaje mucho más soso que el celebérrimo Zefram Cochrane de 'Primer Contacto'. Por lo demás, el episodio consiste en Roga Danar, el supersoldado, escapando de la tripulación de la Enterprise durante todo el episodio. Y finalmente, tenemos a Picard, que nunca había estado tan contento de respetar la primera directriz.

Positively Trek 80: Book Club: FederationWhy not strive for that perfect world?  Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise are tasked with rescuing Zefram Cochrane, famed inventor of the warp drive. Caught up in a plot spanning centuries, the space exploration pioneer is the catalyst for an adventure that will reach into the 24th century and bring the two most famous crews of Starfleet history together for the first time! In this episode of the Positively Trek Book Club, hosts Bruce and Dan discuss the classic Star Trek novel Federation by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. We talk about Cochrane’s history, the mysterious Mr. Brack, the Optimum Movement and World War III, the two Enterprises brought together, the distant future, the role of the Guardian of Forever, and wrap up with our final thoughts and ratings. This was a truly fun conversation, and one of our best ever. We hope you enjoy our deep dive into this magnificent entry in the Star Trek literary universe! 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 Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4457-take-a-chance License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Connection from Previous Film: James Cromwell. The third, middle-est stop on the FIELD TRIP TO KING TOWN finds our team on death row with Kingpin, Justin Hammer, and that one guy from Elmo's World; but thankfully Zefram Cochrane is the warden, so they should get through it pretty fast! Tom rides the lightning; Josh doesn't get herpes; Dan wants to tell you about the King Initiative! Episode Sponsor: Rob's Custom PCs https://www.facebook.com/RobsCustomPCs/ Discord Link: https://discord.gg/Yyrg88q Recorded on 4 September 2020

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Jana Pochop wears many hats. Here's where to find her work online. Jana on PatreonJana, the solo artistJana's duo with Mark Addison, onetwothreescreamSocial Thinkery, Jana's project management services for artists and small business owners (social media, crowdfunding, etc.)Here's a link to the official Troubadours on Trek Spotify Playlist, where you can hear all the featured songs from every episode in one playlist (songs will be added as episodes air on Patreon):-Jana's song pairing for this episode: "Run Away With Me," by Carly Rae Jepsen.-Grace's song pairings for this episode: "Charlie Don't Surf" by The Clash and "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus.-Jana's featured song is: "18 Hours" (by onetwothreescream).For exclusive early access, and to download past episodes of "Troubadours on Trek," become a patron for as little as $3/month: www.patreon.com/gracepettisCorrections: Grace says "America doesn't exist anymore," in the Star Trek original series universe. This is not strictly accurate. It's more correct to say that the United States do exist, but not as an independent political nation, in the same way that it does today. The USA is a member-state of a global, unified government (United Earth), which is in turn a member planet of the United Federation of Planets (Vulcan and other planets are members).Grace also says, "Money doesn't exist." This isn't strictly true either. The economy of the Star Trek universe is a hotly debated and nuanced topic. "Credits" exist in Star Trek: a kind of monetary unit used within the Federation and Starfleet. It's not clear how credits are earned or given.  Some substances in Star Trek are rare and therefore valuable (dilithium, latinum, etc.), especially to other alien species, but they are not official currencies of Earth. In Star Trek, humans have evolved to pursue the betterment of the human race and personal development instead of the accumulation of wealth.The episode Grace can't think of is "Metamorphosis" (season 2, episode 9). (This is the first episode to feature Zefram Cochrane, creator of the warp drive, which leads to first contact with the Vulcans.)

Once again, the crew of the Enterprise is stranded on a rocky planet and we're forced to make sense of magical beings and late 60s decor. Featuring a couple of guest stars, including Cappy and Zefram Cochrane. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-measure-of-an-episode/message

The Galileo 3 (+1 annoying and dying diplomat) crash on a planet with a clown-poop jello mold and THE Zefram Cochrane! Wackiness ensues. Plus, Peacock gets booze, Stork gets beer, Themes, Rankings, Trek Trivia & more! Thanks for listening, hope you enjoy, and tell a friend! Follow us on twitter: @BesottedGeekPod Email the show: besottedgeek@gmail.com Check out our website: besottedgeek.com Buy some stuff: teepublic.com/user/besottedgeek Support the show: patreon.com/besottedgeek Watch Stork suck at video games: twitch.tv/besottedgeek

Happy First Contact Day...kind of.  One this day 43 years from now Zefram Cochrane will travel faster than light and attract the attention of Vulcans and that will forever change the direction of mankind as we enter the galactic stage. We hope you enjoy this special episode of the podcast as we talk with others about this day and how others celebrate this day in Star Trek fandom, along with a few other bits. How do you celebrate this day?  Let us through Hailing Frequencies.*I do not own the rights to Star Trek music, images, characters, or other properties.  Those reside with CBS/Viacom.Episodes will be released on the 7s (7, 17, and 27) with the next one being on April 7. Star Trek News and Development drops every week on Fridays on TRTV News.Make sure to like our page on Facebook, join our group, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter in the following ways: Instagram: @trtvpodTwitter @trtvpod | @chase_mckinneyJoin the podcast community and continue the discussion: You can also hail us by sending subspace communications the following ways:Email: trtvpod@gmail.comVoice only transmission (3-minute limit): 817-752-4757If you'd like to send us something please address it to: Lone Star Station PO BOX 2455Azle, TX 76098**We would love to hear about your origin story with Trek, reactions to the show, or whatever gets you to ENGAGE.If you'd like to support the show and get access to additional Star Trek content then hit us up at Patreon and support the show at Patreon.com/thesearethevoyages.

This week on Priority One --- Season 1 of Star Trek Picard is over and now the post-season interviews are all over the net -- including interviews with the showrunners; in Star Trek Online, First Contact Day is around the corner and STO has started teasing event information -- we’re also joined by Star Trek Online’s Senior Content Designer, Ryon Levitt to chat about creating engaging missions for players… And of course -- in On Screen, we dive into the two-part finale of Star Trek Picard, Season 1. 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: Would you be excited to see Brent Spiner return as a Soong? AND CQ: Will you be getting your hands on the D’Quarka?... the new T6 D’Kora Update. TREK IT OUT by Jake Morgan Goldsman and Chabon Talk Picard “Star Trek: Picard” aired its final episode of season 1, “Et in Arcadia Ego: Part 2”, last week. We’ll get into what took place on Screen later in the show, but for now let’s have a look behind the scenes. The Hollywood Reporter chatted up Picard series one showrunner Michael Chabon and Executive Producer Akiva Goldsman to hear more from the men behind the curtain. Be warned, spoilers incoming. The pair cleared up confusion about the original plan for the length of Picard’s run, with Chabon saying ”We didn't decide to do this to the character from a place of we didn't want to have future seasons or anything like that. From the original plan for the show, even though our original outline changed significantly to what you eventually saw, the plan — and Sir Patrick's plan from the beginning — was ‘let's tell more stories with Picard.’” Chabon discussed the serialization of Picard, and how it is received by Star Trek fans, saying "You really have to ‘bingewatch' the whole thing in ten episodes. And it's a tricky thing because of the whole episodic versus serialized way we watch things, and how especially Star Trek audiences are sort of trained [to expect] more of that episodic, mission-of-the-week structure. And that's not what this show is." Finally, Chabon touched on the challenges of writing Picard Season 2, saying "First, it's got to be good, right? It has to be focused on Picard but have room for all the other characters. It's never going to be just a show about the crew of a starship that's part of Starfleet and everyone's wearing uniforms and they're flying around, encountering alien life and weird planets. Those are the challenges we face going into season two, and I'm so excited about the story we've come up with." Akiva Goldsman WAS there, we promise. To read some of what he had to say, as well as Chabon’s thoughts on bringing back Jeri Ryan, trek out the show notes. He was there. Variety Talks with Michael Chabon While we promise there was a quote from Akiva Goldsman in the previous article, we guaranteed there isn’t any to follow. Chabon soloed with Variety and discussed Star Trek feedback, serialization, and the subtle inclusion of the LGBTQ community in Picard Chabon told Variety that he read the conversations, critiques, and reviews of Star Trek - both new and old. He even went so far as to look up old Usenet boards focused on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager, and was surprised to learn that fan reaction wasn’t so dissimilar thirty years ago. There was a certain demographic Chabon didn’t mind upsetting //QUOTE//”To the extent that I was aware of the kind of toxic fandom, the anti-SJW, you know, sad little corner of fandom — you just disregard that. Sometimes you’re motivated to have things simply because it’s possibly going to piss off or provoke people who seem to have missed the memo about just what exactly “Star Trek” is and always has been all about.”//END QUOTE// When considering fan discomfort in a darker Star Trek tone, and more broadly serialization, Chabon said //QUOTE//”It’s a little weird for me, too. [...] I can feel this deep wiring in my brain that wants “Star Trek” to be episodic. I can remember how odd it felt watching those serialized episodes of “Deep Space Nine.” I wasn’t entirely sure I liked it then, either. It was so far ahead of its time. [...] It felt appropriate, I respected it, and I understood it — and it made me uncomfortable as a “Star Trek” fan.”//END QUOTE// Chabon also discussed a perceived lack of LGBTQ inclusion in Star Trek Picard, indicating it WAS there if you looked close enough //QUOTE//”We’re doing it in an organic way — what feels organic to me. [...] In Raffi’s scene where she calls into Starfleet to try to get access for them to the Artifact [...], the implication is there too in their relationship. But she doesn’t ever say, “I’m going to call this woman that I used to go out with,” and she doesn’t say, “Hey, remember me. I used to be your girlfriend.”//END QUOTE// This article is LONG, and offers insight into Chabon’s least favorite social media outlet, what Picard looks like going into season 2, and how Chabon is handling the pandemic. Follow the link in our show notes to trek it out. Patrick Stewart Recalls Uniform Mishaps What’s Picard without Picard? The Hollywood Reporter sat down with the Picard portrayer and Executive Producer - Sir Patrick Stewart -  to talk Picard, uniforms, and Kirk? In regards to filming the poignant final meeting of Picard and Data in “Et in Arcadia Ego: Part 2”, Stewart said "I was looking forward to it, not just because I get to work with my friend Brent (Spiner) again, but because the content of the scene was so serious, given that Picard — he knew this would probably be the last time he would ever see his friend." The interview took a decidedly reminiscent tone when Stewart recalled being “Quite cross” when refused one of his uniform costumes following the filming of TNG’s “All Good Things”, but was later gifted the threads on a late night talk show appearance. Stewart jests "I often tease my wife that I will one day wake her up one morning wearing that uniform, since she grew up watching The Next Generation with her family" Sir Patrick ends the interview recalling the filming of Kirk’s death scene in Star Trek: Generations "It was an extremely potent moment, I have to say. Working with Bill, and being present when Captain Kirk finally came to an end. It was a great privilege." Spiner is done as Data What would Picard be without Data...oh...right. Well - This week, TV Guide interviewed the 71-year old Spiner to talk his many roles in Star Trek Spiner had glowing things to say about his last meeting with Sir Patrick’s Picard, telling TV Guide ”I think there's something really profound about what Michael [Chabon] wrote for Data to say about those things that are fleeting, that mortality is what makes us human, and those things that mean the most to us never last forever. [...] It felt very much like we were doing Next Generation. There was something very familiar about it and kind of natural that we should be sitting there having that conversation.” Spiner, who has said on countless occasions that he would not reprise his role as Data, repeated that sentiment ”I wouldn't really entertain the idea of doing it again because I just don't think it would be realistic. So it seemed right to me to give him this more gentle sendoff, and it seemed right to me in the context of the entire season of Picard and what Picard himself had been experiencing because of the loss of Data. I think it allows him to feel okay about it too. So it seemed like the right thing to do.” That doesn’t mean that Spiner is done with Star Trek though. When asked about possibly portraying Alton Soong again, Spiner said ”Absolutely. I love working with all of the people on the show. The new cast is fantastic. Obviously, to still be working with Patrick is a dream. Now there's a character that could conceivably go on and continue, so of course I'd love to.” Star Trek Online and Gaming News by Shane Hoover First Contact Day: Now With More Borg! Star Trek Online has posted the announcement for this year’s First Contact Day celebration event! The updated event, which runs from April 2nd through April 23rd, will include new mission content along with the annual Phoenix rocket launch contest. For the first time, players will have the opportunity to step back in time to April 4th, 2063, the day before the historic date when Zefram Cochrane took humanity’s first warp flight. Under the direction of temporal agent Daniels, we’ll team up with Seven of Nine to find and reverse changes to the timeline that The Borg have made…. All in an effort to finish what they attempted to do in the film -- Star Trek First Contact. By completing either the new mission or the Phoenix Rocket Launch contest for a total of 14 days, players will earn the usual First Contact Day event bundle and a brand new Universal Console, The Temporal Vortex Probe.  This console provides passive bonuses to Exotic Damage and Temporal Operative Bridge Officer ability cooldowns, along with a turn rate bonus scaled by Auxiliary Power. When activated, the console launches a probe which opens a Temporal Vortex that travels toward a target’s location, inflicting damage and slowing enemy ships.  The event also includes the new standard Zen buyout and Bonus Dilithium payout options. For each day of progress, players will also have their choice of 17 new uniform badges. The badges teased so far in Kael’s Twitter post included Trill, Ferengi, Liberated Borg, and IDIC among several others. Kael also noted a couple of quality of life updates to the event. Quark’s Marauder Star Trek Online has also just announced the addition of a new Tier 6 ship to the Infinity Lockbox.  Along with adding the Kelvin Divergence lockbox prizes into the Infinity box, they’ve added a brand new Tier 6 Ferengi Marauder named after Quark himself.  The T6 Quark Marauder is a welcome T6 update to the T5 Ferengi D’Kora, including Commander Engineering/Miracle Worker and Lieutenant Commander Science/Miracle Worker specialist seating. The ship carries a 5/3 weapons layout, a 9 degrees-per-second turn rate, and the extra Universal console slot common to Miracle worker ships. Naturally, like all Ferengi vessels, it also includes a built-in Dabo table, Bank terminal, and Exchange terminal. To see the full specs of the new ship, Trek out the blog link in our show notes! EVENTS Late last week, Star Trek Online announced an immediate 3 week event, from March 26th through April 16th. Acknowledging that /QUOTE/ we’re all feeling the crush of being at home right now /ENDQUOTE/, the special event will reward 50% bonuses to content that rewards Fleet or Reputation marks. So, while you’re looking for something to pass the time stuck at home, maybe now’s the chance to finish those Tier 6 Reputations you’ve been grinding away at. PRIORITY ONE ARMADA NEWS Join us for TFO Thursday - each Thursday we team up with other Armada members to earn marks and dilithium.  Mirror Month!   Other Gaming News Timelines Hybrid Faction/Galaxy Event Re-Run For our viewers who play Star Trek Timelines, this week sees the re-run of DS9’s baseball themed “The Galactic Series” as a hybrid faction/galaxy event. The event features special crew like Niners Ezri, Martian Quark, Nurse Garland and Niners Rom. Variants of these crew, along with crew possessing the Athlete trait, will receive bonuses during the event.

This week on Priority One --- Season 1 of Star Trek Picard is over and now the post-season interviews are all over the net -- including interviews with the showrunners; in Star Trek Online, First Contact Day is around the corner and STO has started teasing event information -- we're also joined by Star Trek Online's Senior Content Designer, Ryon Levitt to chat about creating engaging missions for players… And of course -- in On Screen, we dive into the two-part finale of Star Trek Picard, Season 1. 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: Would you be excited to see Brent Spiner return as a Soong? AND CQ: Will you be getting your hands on the D'Quarka?... the new T6 D'Kora Update. TREK IT OUT by Jake Morgan Goldsman and Chabon Talk Picard “Star Trek: Picard” aired its final episode of season 1, “Et in Arcadia Ego: Part 2”, last week. We'll get into what took place on Screen later in the show, but for now let's have a look behind the scenes. The Hollywood Reporter chatted up Picard series one showrunner Michael Chabon and Executive Producer Akiva Goldsman to hear more from the men behind the curtain. Be warned, spoilers incoming. The pair cleared up confusion about the original plan for the length of Picard's run, with Chabon saying ”We didn't decide to do this to the character from a place of we didn't want to have future seasons or anything like that. From the original plan for the show, even though our original outline changed significantly to what you eventually saw, the plan — and Sir Patrick's plan from the beginning — was ‘let's tell more stories with Picard.'” Chabon discussed the serialization of Picard, and how it is received by Star Trek fans, saying "You really have to ‘bingewatch' the whole thing in ten episodes. And it's a tricky thing because of the whole episodic versus serialized way we watch things, and how especially Star Trek audiences are sort of trained [to expect] more of that episodic, mission-of-the-week structure. And that's not what this show is." Finally, Chabon touched on the challenges of writing Picard Season 2, saying "First, it's got to be good, right? It has to be focused on Picard but have room for all the other characters. It's never going to be just a show about the crew of a starship that's part of Starfleet and everyone's wearing uniforms and they're flying around, encountering alien life and weird planets. Those are the challenges we face going into season two, and I'm so excited about the story we've come up with." Akiva Goldsman WAS there, we promise. To read some of what he had to say, as well as Chabon's thoughts on bringing back Jeri Ryan, trek out the show notes. He was there. Variety Talks with Michael Chabon While we promise there was a quote from Akiva Goldsman in the previous article, we guaranteed there isn't any to follow. Chabon soloed with Variety and discussed Star Trek feedback, serialization, and the subtle inclusion of the LGBTQ community in Picard Chabon told Variety that he read the conversations, critiques, and reviews of Star Trek - both new and old. He even went so far as to look up old Usenet boards focused on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager, and was surprised to learn that fan reaction wasn't so dissimilar thirty years ago. There was a certain demographic Chabon didn't mind upsetting //QUOTE//”To the extent that I was aware of the kind of toxic fandom, the anti-SJW, you know, sad little corner of fandom — you just disregard that. Sometimes you're motivated to have things simply because it's possibly going to piss off or provoke people who seem to have missed the memo about just what exactly “Star Trek” is and always has been all about.”//END QUOTE// When considering fan discomfort in a darker Star Trek tone, and more broadly serialization, Chabon said //QUOTE//”It's a little weird for me, too. [...] I can feel this deep wiring in my brain that wants “Star Trek” to be episodic. I can remember how odd it felt watching those serialized episodes of “Deep Space Nine.” I wasn't entirely sure I liked it then, either. It was so far ahead of its time. [...] It felt appropriate, I respected it, and I understood it — and it made me uncomfortable as a “Star Trek” fan.”//END QUOTE// Chabon also discussed a perceived lack of LGBTQ inclusion in Star Trek Picard, indicating it WAS there if you looked close enough //QUOTE//”We're doing it in an organic way — what feels organic to me. [...] In Raffi's scene where she calls into Starfleet to try to get access for them to the Artifact [...], the implication is there too in their relationship. But she doesn't ever say, “I'm going to call this woman that I used to go out with,” and she doesn't say, “Hey, remember me. I used to be your girlfriend.”//END QUOTE// This article is LONG, and offers insight into Chabon's least favorite social media outlet, what Picard looks like going into season 2, and how Chabon is handling the pandemic. Follow the link in our show notes to trek it out. Patrick Stewart Recalls Uniform Mishaps What's Picard without Picard? The Hollywood Reporter sat down with the Picard portrayer and Executive Producer - Sir Patrick Stewart -  to talk Picard, uniforms, and Kirk? In regards to filming the poignant final meeting of Picard and Data in “Et in Arcadia Ego: Part 2”, Stewart said "I was looking forward to it, not just because I get to work with my friend Brent (Spiner) again, but because the content of the scene was so serious, given that Picard — he knew this would probably be the last time he would ever see his friend." The interview took a decidedly reminiscent tone when Stewart recalled being “Quite cross” when refused one of his uniform costumes following the filming of TNG's “All Good Things”, but was later gifted the threads on a late night talk show appearance. Stewart jests "I often tease my wife that I will one day wake her up one morning wearing that uniform, since she grew up watching The Next Generation with her family" Sir Patrick ends the interview recalling the filming of Kirk's death scene in Star Trek: Generations "It was an extremely potent moment, I have to say. Working with Bill, and being present when Captain Kirk finally came to an end. It was a great privilege." Spiner is done as Data What would Picard be without Data...oh...right. Well - This week, TV Guide interviewed the 71-year old Spiner to talk his many roles in Star Trek Spiner had glowing things to say about his last meeting with Sir Patrick's Picard, telling TV Guide ”I think there's something really profound about what Michael [Chabon] wrote for Data to say about those things that are fleeting, that mortality is what makes us human, and those things that mean the most to us never last forever. [...] It felt very much like we were doing Next Generation. There was something very familiar about it and kind of natural that we should be sitting there having that conversation.” Spiner, who has said on countless occasions that he would not reprise his role as Data, repeated that sentiment ”I wouldn't really entertain the idea of doing it again because I just don't think it would be realistic. So it seemed right to me to give him this more gentle sendoff, and it seemed right to me in the context of the entire season of Picard and what Picard himself had been experiencing because of the loss of Data. I think it allows him to feel okay about it too. So it seemed like the right thing to do.” That doesn't mean that Spiner is done with Star Trek though. When asked about possibly portraying Alton Soong again, Spiner said ”Absolutely. I love working with all of the people on the show. The new cast is fantastic. Obviously, to still be working with Patrick is a dream. Now there's a character that could conceivably go on and continue, so of course I'd love to.” Star Trek Online and Gaming News by Shane Hoover First Contact Day: Now With More Borg! Star Trek Online has posted the announcement for this year's First Contact Day celebration event! The updated event, which runs from April 2nd through April 23rd, will include new mission content along with the annual Phoenix rocket launch contest. For the first time, players will have the opportunity to step back in time to April 4th, 2063, the day before the historic date when Zefram Cochrane took humanity's first warp flight. Under the direction of temporal agent Daniels, we'll team up with Seven of Nine to find and reverse changes to the timeline that The Borg have made…. All in an effort to finish what they attempted to do in the film -- Star Trek First Contact. By completing either the new mission or the Phoenix Rocket Launch contest for a total of 14 days, players will earn the usual First Contact Day event bundle and a brand new Universal Console, The Temporal Vortex Probe.  This console provides passive bonuses to Exotic Damage and Temporal Operative Bridge Officer ability cooldowns, along with a turn rate bonus scaled by Auxiliary Power. When activated, the console launches a probe which opens a Temporal Vortex that travels toward a target's location, inflicting damage and slowing enemy ships.  The event also includes the new standard Zen buyout and Bonus Dilithium payout options. For each day of progress, players will also have their choice of 17 new uniform badges. The badges teased so far in Kael's Twitter post included Trill, Ferengi, Liberated Borg, and IDIC among several others. Kael also noted a couple of quality of life updates to the event. Quark's Marauder Star Trek Online has also just announced the addition of a new Tier 6 ship to the Infinity Lockbox.  Along with adding the Kelvin Divergence lockbox prizes into the Infinity box, they've added a brand new Tier 6 Ferengi Marauder named after Quark himself.  The T6 Quark Marauder is a welcome T6 update to the T5 Ferengi D'Kora, including Commander Engineering/Miracle Worker and Lieutenant Commander Science/Miracle Worker specialist seating. The ship carries a 5/3 weapons layout, a 9 degrees-per-second turn rate, and the extra Universal console slot common to Miracle worker ships. Naturally, like all Ferengi vessels, it also includes a built-in Dabo table, Bank terminal, and Exchange terminal. To see the full specs of the new ship, Trek out the blog link in our show notes! EVENTS Late last week, Star Trek Online announced an immediate 3 week event, from March 26th through April 16th. Acknowledging that /QUOTE/ we're all feeling the crush of being at home right now /ENDQUOTE/, the special event will reward 50% bonuses to content that rewards Fleet or Reputation marks. So, while you're looking for something to pass the time stuck at home, maybe now's the chance to finish those Tier 6 Reputations you've been grinding away at. PRIORITY ONE ARMADA NEWS Join us for TFO Thursday - each Thursday we team up with other Armada members to earn marks and dilithium.  Mirror Month!   Other Gaming News Timelines Hybrid Faction/Galaxy Event Re-Run For our viewers who play Star Trek Timelines, this week sees the re-run of DS9's baseball themed “The Galactic Series” as a hybrid faction/galaxy event. The event features special crew like Niners Ezri, Martian Quark, Nurse Garland and Niners Rom. Variants of these crew, along with crew possessing the Athlete trait, will receive bonuses during the event.

John Serpico of ImprovBoston and True Tales of the Illuminati joins us to talk about one of his childhood faves: The Last Starfighter!Image Description: A space car that is actually not modeled after the car from Back to the Future (because that wouldn't come out for another year!) has just pulled up in the night time next to a neon sign for a trailer court. Here's John's hazy summary:"The movie revolves around a young man (let's call him Lance) who obsessively played a video game (called The Last Starfighter, I think) in his small town. I think he lived in an RV park, and everything in that RV park had this deeply 80s brown to it. If I remember right, it kind of looked like Zefram Cochrane's compound from Star Trek First Contact. So he played this game a ton, eventually beat it, and was then immediately recruited by a space military to pilot an experimental fighter in their war against some faceless enemy with a weird name like The Globs or The Zoms or something. I am deliberately not going to Wikipedia. It turns out that the video game was secretly a recruiting tool for this space military, and Lance is the best in... the UNIVERSE! So off he goes into space. On Earth, the space military replaces Lance with a robot so that his girlfriend and family don't know he's gone. Why the space military would send a robot instead of just having the guy write a note saying "A friend of mine in another state needs me and I'll be back in two weeks" I'll never know. Probably for the laughs. Anyway, the guy trains on how to fly the real fighter and his mentor is a dude that looks like The Thing from Fantastic Four. Eventually, it's time for the battle with The Blorps and eventually the guy has to hit a big red button and execute a maneuver called "The Death Blossom," which makes his fighter spin around like a gyroscope and shoot lasers wildly in every direction. Apparently you needed to search the galaxy for a person capable of deftly hitting a red button. Galaxy is saved, Lance goes home. Robot Lance... does... something? Starts a detective agency? Turns into a robot dog? Nods knowingly and fades away like a Jedi? Something like that. But yeah, The Last Starfighter."Was he right? Sort of! We dive deep in this one, which turns out to be a rollercoaster of shifting opinions and film tones! This was a pioneer of CGI! Annnnnd like most pioneers of tech, it looks really dated 35 years after the fact. John says the movie doesn't really make sense, and hated it upon rewatching, but Julia and Geoffrey talk him around into … not hating it? Maybe? Many of the lessons are surprisingly wholesome! Like:1) You can play video games and still be a well-adjusted non-dork!2) You can work really hard and then end up going off to have epic adventures and saving the earth, and your whole community could actually be supportive of this plan and even want you to be happy!3) If you are a woman, maybe it is okay sometimes to not be forced into a caretaker role forever, and instead have some adventures of your own in space! 4) Younger siblings who see their older siblings' decapitated heads will be totally fine and not traumatized by it! (okay, maybe that last one is a stretch…)If you're having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We're also on Patreon if that's your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we're @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

John Serpico of ImprovBoston and True Tales of the Illuminati joins us to talk about one of his childhood faves: The Last Starfighter!Image Description: A space car that is actually not modeled after the car from Back to the Future (because that wouldn’t come out for another year!) has just pulled up in the night time next to a neon sign for a trailer court. Here’s John’s hazy summary:"The movie revolves around a young man (let's call him Lance) who obsessively played a video game (called The Last Starfighter, I think) in his small town. I think he lived in an RV park, and everything in that RV park had this deeply 80s brown to it. If I remember right, it kind of looked like Zefram Cochrane's compound from Star Trek First Contact. So he played this game a ton, eventually beat it, and was then immediately recruited by a space military to pilot an experimental fighter in their war against some faceless enemy with a weird name like The Globs or The Zoms or something. I am deliberately not going to Wikipedia. It turns out that the video game was secretly a recruiting tool for this space military, and Lance is the best in... the UNIVERSE! So off he goes into space. On Earth, the space military replaces Lance with a robot so that his girlfriend and family don't know he's gone. Why the space military would send a robot instead of just having the guy write a note saying "A friend of mine in another state needs me and I'll be back in two weeks" I'll never know. Probably for the laughs. Anyway, the guy trains on how to fly the real fighter and his mentor is a dude that looks like The Thing from Fantastic Four. Eventually, it's time for the battle with The Blorps and eventually the guy has to hit a big red button and execute a maneuver called "The Death Blossom," which makes his fighter spin around like a gyroscope and shoot lasers wildly in every direction. Apparently you needed to search the galaxy for a person capable of deftly hitting a red button. Galaxy is saved, Lance goes home. Robot Lance... does... something? Starts a detective agency? Turns into a robot dog? Nods knowingly and fades away like a Jedi? Something like that. But yeah, The Last Starfighter."Was he right? Sort of! We dive deep in this one, which turns out to be a rollercoaster of shifting opinions and film tones! This was a pioneer of CGI! Annnnnd like most pioneers of tech, it looks really dated 35 years after the fact. John says the movie doesn’t really make sense, and hated it upon rewatching, but Julia and Geoffrey talk him around into … not hating it? Maybe? Many of the lessons are surprisingly wholesome! Like:1) You can play video games and still be a well-adjusted non-dork!2) You can work really hard and then end up going off to have epic adventures and saving the earth, and your whole community could actually be supportive of this plan and even want you to be happy!3) If you are a woman, maybe it is okay sometimes to not be forced into a caretaker role forever, and instead have some adventures of your own in space! 4) Younger siblings who see their older siblings’ decapitated heads will be totally fine and not traumatized by it! (okay, maybe that last one is a stretch…)If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

Star Trek First Contact is my favourite Star Trek movie. It was a wonderful way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of our beloved franchise. In this video, I geek out with delight over the movie, and yes, I point out a couple of things that could have been even better. Join me as I review the 10 episodes and movies that you should watch before Star Trek Picard. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AdamDavidCollings ----more---- Transcript Welcome to Nerd Heaven.I’m Adam David Collins, the author of Jewel of The StarsAnd I am a nerd. This is episode 6 of the podcast, and we’re continuing our look at the 10 episodes and movies you should check out before watching Star Trek Picard, which goes live late January. Today, we’re looking at Star Trek First Contact. The IMDB description for this movie readsThe Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth’s first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.And this movie first appeared in cinemas on the 13th of November 1996, which was in the UK, prior to the american release on the 22nd of November. Here in Australia, we didn’t get it until the 28th. Let’s do it. This is my favourite Star Trek movie. It came out during the year of the 30th anniversary of Star Trek. What an awesome year that was. We got Trials and Tribble-ations, which was amazing. We get this movie, which was amazing, and we got Flashback over on voyager, which was really good. There are some nice 30th anniversary tidbits in this movie that link it to other Star Trek shows. We’ll cover them as we get to them. Let’s start by saying that the music in this movie is incredible. Jerry Goldsmith composed a hauntingly beautiful theme for First Contact.I always sit through the opening credits just to listen to it. Plus, the names slowly coming into focus looks pretty cool. Nice little callback at the start, seeing Picard in his TNG uniform for the flashback to Best of Both Worlds. That pull back shot gives us a sense of the vastness of the Borg ship. And as Picard wakes from his nightmare, we get our first glimpse of the new TNG movie-era uniforms. This is my favourite Star Trek uniform. It looks so cool. I really want one. Picard is still having nightmare about his assimilation. I image, after going through something like that, the nightmare would never stop. Of course it’s implied that the nightmare is caused by the proximity of the Borg ship.You gotta wonder what made the Borg decide to send another shop to assimilate Earth at this moment. Clearly, they still think one cube is enough. And then we get another first. Our first glimpse at the new USS Enterprise, NCC 1701-E.The last Enterprise was destroyed in the previous movie, Star Trek Generations.The Enterprise E looks fantastic. Sleeker, meaner than the D. Of course, I also loved the D. But this new Enterprise was made for the big screen, and it fills it beautifully. Gorgeous image of a nebula behind the ship, too. Do you think Starfleet’s reluctance to let Picard anywhere near the Borg is more related to his previous assimilation, or his handling of the Hugh situation? Either way, it’s a foolish decision. No one knows the Borg better than Picard. The voice effect used for the Borg collective in this movie is creepier than in the TV show. I love the bridge of the Enterprise E. Those little screens for Picard, Riker, and Troi, the little corner desks for Data and Hawke. Fantastic production design. And that Borg cube. So much more detailed than the model used on the TV show. And here’s a first connection to other Star Trek. The Defiant from Deep Space Nine has joined the fight against the Borg. Obviously. This ship was designed to fight the Borg. It was likely one of the weapons shelby was working on prior to Best of both Worlds. Remember, those new weapons that weren’t ready yet. The Defiant gives us the perfect opportunity to bring Worf into the story, who was a series regular on Deep Space Nine at this time. I love the holographic viewscreen on the Enterprise E. I wish they’d continued to use that effect in subsequent movies. Picard can still hear the Borg in his head. Surprising, since he no longer has any implants. But given how hard it was for the doctor to remove all of Seven’s implants in Voyager, let’s assume maybe there’s still a little something in there.He gets some inside information on a weak spot that allows them to destroy the cube. This seems a little problematic. Remember, Borg cubes are extremely redundant. They shouldn’t have weak spots like that that cause the whole thing to blow up. I mean, this isn’t the blooming death star.But, they need to keep the story moving. The Borg need an excuse to time travel into the past.This, of course, makes absolutely no sense.First, if the Borg simple go back in time and assimilate species when they were vulnerable, why not just do that to begin with. But there’s a bigger problem. What do the Borg gain by assimilating a broken earth that is still recovering from world war 3? Their technology is useless. Biologically, humans are that different to many other species. It makes zero sense for the Borg to want to assimilate 21st century earth.So, the very premise here is filled with plot holes.But, I forgive them, because this movie is awesome. What do you want from me? So the Borg and the Enterprise arrive on my 85th birthday. And you better believe, when I turn 85, I’ll be making a pilgrimage to Montana, USA to meet the Vulcans.But I digress.Interestingly, 2063 is also the 100th anniversary of Star Trek. First Contact presents us with a very different Zephram Cochrane that we are used to, from his appearance in the original series.He’s not the amazing historical figure that starfleet puts on a pedestal. One of the first things we hear him say is “I sure as hell am not going up there sober.”Surprise surprise, Cochrane was human. This is a theme through the whole movie. We have a tendency to venerate great men and women from history, and I’m not saying we shouldn’t, but, these people were human just like us, with the same flaws and emotions. They burped and broke wind just like we do. James Cromwell and Alfre Goodard are both great as Cochrane and lily. Woodward is especially awesome as lily. The enterprise destroys the Borg sphere. Again, it all seems too easy. I remember thinking, the first time I saw this, they had 2 Borg ships, and they’re both destroyed. We’re not even 30 minutes into this movie. So much for a movie about the Borg.Of course, seeing the enterprise slowly get turned into a Borg ship ended up being much more compelling. So, it’s all good. I love time travel stories, especially if they are internally consistent.We’d never seen the TNG crew interact with present day. This was as close as we’d get. This was kind of TNG’s Star Trek 4. I also like the new engineering set for the Enterprise E, with that massive warp core. The idea of tunring a left-over nuclear missile into Earth’s first warp-speed ship is symbolic. And kinda cool. The sickbay on the Enterprise E looks very much like the Voyager sickbay. This was probably just a cost-saving choice to re-use an existing set, but in my mind, back in the day, it was a deliberate creative choice, to make the two newer ships, Enterprise E and Voyager, look alike.And now we get our next link to other Star Trek. And this is brilliantly done. Crusher needs a diversion to get every away from sickbay before the Borg break in, so, of course, they activate the Enterprise EMH, brilliantly played by Robert Picardo from Voyager. I love this scene. I always have. Obviously the enterprise sickbay would have an EMH. They simply don’t use it because they have a medical staff. If you count Zephram Cochrane as a TOS reference, then this movie has now included cameos of ships and characters from all the other Star Trek shows that existed at the time. Troi’s character doesn’t get a lot to do in this movie. In the previous movie, she had some fantastic scenes where she actually got to be a counselor. Here, she’s mainly relegated to comic relief. Still, Marina Sirtis does a good job of it. The emotion chip is put to good use in this story.And despite Data initially being quite annoying (deliberately so) I thought it was used effectively back in Generations as well. It was very thematic in that movie.And it plays an important part in First Contact as well. It’s interesting to know that data can de-activate the chip. Don’t you wish you could simply turn off your emotions sometimes. It would be handy. And now we get our first proper look at the Borg in their new big-screen, bigger budget glory. They look fantastic. So much detail. The chalky skin that looks like makeup is replaced with slimy pasty skin that looks a lot more realistic. The costumes are more detailed. And the Borg represent many different species. There are Klingon Borg, Cardassian Borg, Bolian Borg. If you look closely, you’ll notice all sorts of species. The Borg visual effects for things like their personal force field have also been updated. This is the first time we see the use of assimilation tubules.The assimilation process has always been a bit of a mystery. But here we see the injection of nano-probes (not specifically mentioned in this movie, but explored later in voyager). There’s a chilling moment when an assimilated crew member asks Picard for help.Picard shoots him dead.They don’t have the resources or the ability to surgically disconnect and restore each assimilated crew member right now, and Picard knows from personal experience, that it’s better to die than be a Borg drone. Riker and Troi explain the Roddenberry philosophy to Cochrane. Tomorrow morning, earth will make first contact with aliens after his successful warp test. Within a few decades, war, poverty,disease are all erased. This makes First Contact a very Star Trek show, again cementing it’s place as a 30th anniversary celebration movie. Picard meets Lily. I really like the friendship that develops between them.Picard manages to convince her that he really is from the future.I have to say I really like that when the window opens, and they see earth, they’re over Australia.Yeah! And we meet the Borg queen for the first time. The visual effect of her coming down from the ceiling is fantastic. The Borg queen is a really interesting concept.In a way, she contradicts what the Borg have been established to be.She refers to herself as I. Saying I am the Borg.Here’s the way I’ve always thought of her.She is the central hub of the Borg.Up until now, we’ve always assumed the Borg collective was a peer-to-peer network, but now it seems they are a client-server network. The queen is the server. You could say that the collective consciousness is her consciousness.This is not really what was previously established, but it’s interesting.I think that the Borg work better without the queen.But I think they felt a movie must have a villain that audiences can relate to. And I do admit that the Borg queen fits this bill very well. Alice Krige plays her brilliantly.There’s a lot about the queen that doesn’t make sense. She was on the Borg cube that was destroyed in best of both worlds. The same biological organism. But that ship was destroyed. And after she dies here, we’ll see her again in Voyager.Her explanation for this is “You’ve become small. You humans think in this three-dimensional terms”, which is a total cop-out. This is writer slang for “I don’t have an explanation for this that makes sense.” Picard gives Lily the ridiculous line about there being no money in the 24th century. Everyone works to better themselves and the rest of humanity.Which is total nonsense, of course. A system like that cannot work.The biggest issue I see is the unwanted jobs. Who cleans the toilets? Sure, in the Star Trek world, I would work hard writing books or exploring space, all in an effort to better myself and humanity. But who does the menial jobs that nobody wants? What motivates people to take that on? And we know that people do these menial jobs, it’s not all just robots, because Rom works waste extraction, literally wading in sewage, on deep space nine.Anyway. The holodeck scene is FANTASTIC.It ties us all the way back to TNG season 1, where Picard used to play Dixon Hill on the holodeck. But Dixon Hill never looked this good, with massive sets, heaps of extras and exciting action set pieces.I love it.The idea to use a holographic tommy gun to kill the Borg is very clever. Bullets are not something they’ll have adapted to. We see first hand just how much hurt and pain Picard still has buried, as he continues to pump the Borg full of bullets, long after it’s dead.It’s all come back to the forefront for him, like it was yesterday.And the carelessness when he says “this drone was ensign lynch.”I understand. In his mind, this is not ensign lynch. This is a drone.But still. This scene is really powerful. Nice little cameo from Reg Barclay. It doesn’t make a heap of sense that so many people from the enterprise d wind up on the enterprise e. Not just the senior staff, but people like Nurse Ogawa and Barclay. But, it’s nice to see them so whatever. Cochrane is finding it very difficult to live up to the celebrity everyone keeps telling him he’ll have.His discomfort make sense. Who could live up to that kind of hero worship.But at the same time, given his importance in their world, I understand the hero worship. This is the first time we see the new space suits, which will come back again in Voyager.The battle on the hull near the deflector dish is fantastic. Slow, but awesome. It’s pretty unique. But Worf’s line “Assimilate this” is cheesy and feels like it’s out of a really bad action movie parody.Also, why is his voice distorted? He sounds like a robot. Data’s assimilation is interesting. Usually, they add cybernetic implants into biological beings. But here, they’re adding biological elements to a cybernetic being. They do like the mixture.There’s a whole lot of manipulation going on here.The queen reactivates his emotion chip, which makes him a LOT easier to manipulate. Cochrane is a far cry from the historical figure they all talk about, but, as he gets older, he will become more like that figure. There’s some fantastic drama between Picard and Worf on the bridge.Worf accuses Picard of allowing his personal experiences with the Borg to influence his judgement.And of course that’s influencing his judgement. How could it not?The scene between Picard and Lily in the conference room is amazing and powerful.Alfre Woodard and Patrick Stewart are incredible. This scene gives me so many chills.And there’s lots of thematic stuff in here too.Lily helps Picard realise that he’s being motivated by revenge and hate.And so he changes his plan. When they’re preparing the evacuate the enterprise, Picard says “see you on Gravette island.”I’ve tried googling this, to see if it’s a real place.I came up empty.But I have a head canon about this. I imagine that Gravette is an island that remains unpopulated through most of human history. And that Starfleet has standing orders that any crew who get stranded in earth’s past are to set themselves up there and stay out of history’s way.I think that would make a good TV show actually. Gravette Island, about a Starfleet crew making a new life on present day Earth. Of course, something would have to entice them out of hiding to interact with the rest of the world, or there’d be no storyBut I’m getting quite off topic now. I love how Zephram Cochrane can’t take off without his music.The Pheonix looks great. The perfect mix of old-fashioned real world space program, and the star trek future.I remember geeking out that the bussard collectors at the front of the nacelles resembled those on the original series enterprise. Does Picard really mean it when he offers to become Gorg again, in order to free Data?I have to think that he does.But, how could he possibly be willing to go through that again.That’s self-sacrifice. That’s friendship.But to willingly go into that living hell? It like how the Phoenix takes a few minutes to accelerate up to warp 1.The climactic battle in engineering has some awesome visual effects, included the death of the queen.The Borg shouldn’t really explode when the queen dies, but it kinda works for the movie. The flight of the phoenix, and the landing of the alien ship are full of the sense of wonder that Star Trek is sometimes known for.I remember sitting on the edge of my seat in the cinema, thinking “please be the Vulcans. Please be the Vulcans.”It had to be.I read that the design of the Vulcan ship was based on real-world descriptions of UFOs.The implied idea being that Vulcans had previously visited earth discreetly. So there you have it. My favourite Star Trek movie.It’s got some little flaws, but there’s so much good stuff they’re easy to forgive. Do you think we’ll see the Borg Queen again in Star Trek Picard? Will they acknowledge her? It’ll be interesting to find out. Next time, we delve into the origin of another character that is returning for Picard. Seven of Nine.I’ll see you for my favourite episode of Star Trek Voyager.Scorpion. Live long and prosper.Make it so.

Auf https://www.quora.com/I-am-looking-for-the-Star-Trek-phonetic-alphabet-Anyone-have-it findet man folgendes phonetisches Star-Trek-Alphabet: A is for augmentations, which are illegal. B is for Barclay, the officer who stutters. C is for Chuckles, the worst first officer in the fleet. D is for Data, Starfleet’s licenced Pinocchio imitation, and the reason you’re not allowed to mistreat certain holographic doctors. E is for Enterprise, the name Starfleet gives to the ships we like the best. F is for Ferengi, the only species you’re officially allowed to be horribly racist about. G is for Guinan, Starfleet’s official Whoopi Goldberg vehicle. H is for “hi, how are you doing?”, which is the only way you’re allowed to respond to an attack. I is for ‘iso’, which, for a laugh, was the only measurement prefix we made available to the crew of the Starship Voyager. J is for Janeway, an infamous war criminal. K is for kiloquad, which is how we measure computer memory without it instantly being outclassed by 300 year old technology. L is for LaForge, Starfleet’s primary technobabble distributor. M is for military, the thing we are not. Remember that during our next war, please. N is for neutrino, the particle we use when we can’t think of an explanation for something. O is for orphans, who finally felt lucky for once after we started sending kids into space with their parents. P is for Picard, the baldest captain. Q is for Q, the trans-dimensional cuntwaffle. R is for Regula, the only class of space station Starfleet has ever commissioned besides Spacedock. S is for Starfleet. You were paying attention at the Academy, right? T is for tetryon, the particle we use when we’ve used neutrino too many times in one sentence. U is for universal translator, the thing that makes other people make sense without making sense itself. V is for Voyager, the ship that came back despite our best efforts. W is for Weyoun, whom Starfleet Intelligence believes to be an immortal god-like being that’s been masquerading as various different individuals throughout history. Please report all sightings to your superior officer immediately and maintain a safe distance. X is for Xindi, which was apparently a very important civilisation at one point yet nobody’s ever mentioned them for some reason. Y is for Yamato, which only existed so that we could have a crack at blowing up the Enterprise. Z is for Zefram Cochrane, our lord and drunken saviour. Danke dafür! Schreibt uns doch einfach mal irgendwas: www.discoverypanel.de Oder auf Social Media: Twitter: @PanelDiscovery Instagram: @DiscoveryPanel Facebook: @DiscoveryPodcast Email: info@discoverypanel.de Oder ruft uns an oder schickt uns Nachrichten auf WhatsApp unter: 02291/UKTAUK2 https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/discovery-panel/id1287128600

Fan encounters in Star Trek and beyond. For Star Trek fans, conventions offer a rare chance to get up close and personal with their heroes—whether that means snapping a selfie, getting an autograph, or buying them a drink at the bar. But Star Trek’s characters aren’t immune to the power of celebrity themselves. Many, in fact, find themselves distinctly star-struck in the presence of their own role models. Sometimes the experience can be disillusioning, as in the case of Zefram Cochrane in First Contact. The legendary inventor warp drive turned out to be less the bold pioneer of an enlightened age and more a lecherous drunk with a bad attitude. On the Holodeck, however, such encounters can be managed with less risk of disappointment, hence the appearances of such real-life luminaries as Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton, and even Stephen Hawking. In this special episode of Primitive Culture, recorded live at the Destination Star Trek convention in Birmingham, England, host Duncan Barrett is joined by five fellow Trekkies for a look at Star Trek’s fan encounters. We consider how our heroes’ own fanboy and fangirl moments offer a glimpse into their personalities, why Star Trek invests so much time in historical figures—real and fictitious—and how our expectations of the actors we encounter at conventions are colored by the characters they portray on screen. Chapters Intro (00:00:00) Heroes on the Holodeck (00:09:02) Lower Decks (00:17:15) Celebrity Cameos (00:23:43) Host Duncan Barrett Guests Drew Barker, Murray Christison, Dana Kazim, Ben Keeling, and Terry Parsons Production Duncan Barrett (Producer, Editor) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) Tony Black (Associate Producer) Clara Cook (Associate Producer) Norman C. Lao (Associate Producer) Amy Nelson (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Patreon Manager)

Egy elhagyatott égitesten tölti mindennapjait a civilizációnkból kivonult Zefram Cochrane, akinek az emberiség a térhajtómű kifejlesztését köszönheti. A 150 éve halottnak hitt férfit egy testetlen élőlény tartja fiatalon, aki ráadásul sem őt, sem az eltérített Galileo legénységét nem szeretné elengedni. Amikor a kommunikáció során kiderül, hogy az idegen lény nőnemű, Cochrane számára is világos lesz, hogy kettejük kapcsolata több mint szimbiózis. Aktuális adásunkban a ’Metamorfózis’ című epizódról beszélgetünk. Rövid hírszekció: • A Star Trek: Discovery idén három Saturn-díjat zsebelt be: a produkció a "Legjobb streaming science fiction, akció & fantasy sorozat" kategóriában kapott díjat, Doug Jones a "Legjobb színész streaming produkcióban" kategóriában, Sonequa Martin-Green pedig a "Legjobb színésznő streaming produkcióban" mezőnyében vehette át az elismerést. A sorozat maszk és makeup csapata ráadásul egy Emmy-díjat is nyert. • Az NBC is beindítja a Peacock nevű streaming platformját, aminek egyik zászlóshajója lehet a másodszorra újraértelmezett Battlestar Galactica. A sorozatért Sam Esmail, a Mr. Robot alkotója lesz a felelős. A kibeszélő tartalmából: • A kiégett alkoholista és az új világok iránt lelkesedő fiatalember: Zefram Cochrane személye a Kapcsolatfelvétel mozifilmben és az eredeti sorozatban. • Kirk szerint a nemek univerzális fogalmak a világegyetemben, az igazi szerelem pedig csak emberi formában valósulhat meg a Társ számára: pillanatnyi megoldás a problémára, vagy mély meggyőződés, ami túlságosan emberléptékű formában írja le az univerzumot? • Ralph Senensky az epizód kiváló megvalósítása miatt bekerült az eredeti sorozat állandó rendezői közé, George Duning pedig a felejthetetlen zenéjével biztosított magának helyet a visszatérő komponisták között. • Nancy Hedford a korábbi nagykövetekhez és civil vendégekhez hasonlóan szintén követelőző természetet kapott: a megváltást számára is a szerelem hozza el, de vajon mi lesz a háborúban álló civilizációkkal?

Jenny and Jeff bend light and time to travel across the known galaxy to bring you a knowledge drop on Warp Drive. Zefram Cochrane, first contact, and faster than light travel! Take a bite out of the warp burrito and join us for Episode 2!

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A negyedik Star Trek: Discovery epizód kibeszélője (The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry). A cselekményen kívül az alábbi témákra is kitérünk: Hogyan állítható elő az egyenruha?; Főcím: Star Trek hagyományok és televíziós trendek; Klingon kultúra: Mi fér bele a klingon erkölcsbe?; Elon Musk a hiányzó láncszem a Wright-fivérek és Zefram Cochrane között?; Visszatérő szópárbajok Stamets és Lorca között: tudós vs. katona; A medveállatka motivációi; A hét mémje: váratlan forgómozgások spóraugrás közben.

Quizmasters Lee & Marc ask each other their favorite trivia questions of the week and mull over an alphabetical Rate My Question submission from Team Captain Kristin! Questions Round One FLORIDA MAN - In 2016, a Florida Man was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after throwing what through a drive-through window? CURRENT EVENTS - Who is the current attorney general of the United States? MYTHOLOGY - What wolf-like creature in Norse mythology, who shares a name with the infamous werewolf leader from the Harry Potter series, is the son of Loki and is foretold to kill the god Odin during the events of Ragnarok? FOOD - The food item aubergine in the UK is called what in the United States? SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Which famous actor/comedian auditioned for the 1980 season of SNL, and was rejected in favor of Charlie Rocket? TELEVISION - In which TV show would you find a tavern and restaurant called The Boar's Nest? Round Two * CURRENT EVENTS - Zuzana Caputova has become what central European country's first female president, along with the youngest? * HISTORY - In ancient Rome, what did people use as mouthwash? * STAR TREK - In the Star Trek universe, Zefram Cochrane was the first human to create what? * HOCKEY HISTORY - In the early days of hockey, what was used as a hockey puck? * TELEVISION - On what TV series would you find actors such as Austin St. John, Walter Emanuel Jones and David Yost? * MUSIC - What three singers performed the song "All for Love" the theme song to the 1993 film The Three Musketeers? Final Questions POP CULTURE - Emily Grant Hutchings claimed that her 1917 novel Jap Herron was dictated by Mark Twain's spirit posthumously through which device, trademarked by Parker Brothers and is still manufactured today? POLISH FOOD - A dish made of fermented and fresh cabbage and cooked with pork, venison and other meats is called Bigos in traditional Polish fare, but is typically referred to by what sporting nickname in English speaking countries? CHEMISTRY HISTORY - The chemical lutetium is named after the latin name for the capital city of what European country? Rate My Question "How many countries start with the letter 'R', and what are they?" submitted by Kristin Missed Corrections "There are 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet which I only know because Lee has asked two questions about it at 3 Pepper!" - submitted by Kristin (note: there are actually 13, more info in the episode!) Weekly Wrap-up April 1, 2019 @ 3 Pepper Burrito Co. – The Wet Boiz (115 pts.) April 3, 2019 @ Bury Me Brewing Co. – Team Hackerspace (74 pts.) Upcoming LIVE Know Nonsense Trivia Challenges April 8, 2019 – Special April Fools Trivia - Downtown Fort Myers, FL – 7:30 PM @ 3 Pepper Burrito Co. April 10, 2019 – Fort Myers, FL – 7:00 PM @ Bury Me Brewing Co. April 11, 2019 – Cape Coral, FL – 7:30 PM @ No. 3 Craft Brews & Beer Bar Thank you Thanks to our supporters on Patreon. Thank you, Quizdaddies – Tommy (The Electric Mud) and Tim (Pat's Garden Service) Thank you, Team Captains – Kristen & Fletcher Thank you, Proverbial Lightkeepers – Sarah, Brina, Karly, Kristopher, Josh, Gil, Sheri, Shaun, Lucas and Max Thank you, Rumplesnailtskins – Nick, Mike J., Mike C. If you'd like to support the podcast and gain access to bonus content, please visit http://theknowno.com and click "Support."

Get ready to jump beyond the red line as we look at the fabric of the Trek universe! Warp drive expert and "Tattooed Gravity Queen" Dr. Erin Macdonald joins the show to talk about the astrophysics of Star Trek, the power needed for warp drive (all of it), the importance of female representation in sci-fi, the "Scully effect", the resilience of relativity, the mystery of dark matter and dark energy, and Dr. Macdonald weighs in on the science behind some classic Trek episodes!Plus, we discuss why your high school physics teacher lied to you, staying away from squishy science, non-delicious spaghetti, wormholes and where to find them, the multidisciplinary genius(?) of Zefram Cochrane, ripping space like a shirt, the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle, how DS9 aims time travel right at your heart, and we get lost trying to remember the plot of Interstellar!Kugelblitz!Follow Dr. Erin on Twitter!http://www.twitter.com/drerinmacCheck out Dr. Erin's website for her appearances and catch her on YouTube!https://www.erinpmacdonald.com/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbwsk0IjHe2IFMyj0cNeflARead up on science and physics in Trek!The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence krausshttps://amzn.to/2CdQPG8Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kakuhttps://amzn.to/2XTl1j1Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive by Ethan Siegelhttps://amzn.to/2u4BTG4Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swanhttps://amzn.to/2Uz0374Suit up with our Trek T-shirts!https://www.teepublic.com/user/justenoughtropeJoin our crew on Patreon and get access to our new Voyager recaps!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodClick through our Amazon link on enterprisingindividuals.com to support the show!http://www.enterprisingindividuals.comhttps://www.amazon.com/?tag=jet01-20&linkCode=ezFollow us on Twitter and Facebook for Trek news and updates!http://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttp://www.facebook.com/eistpod

Get ready to jump beyond the red line as we look at the fabric of the Trek universe! Warp drive expert and "Tattooed Gravity Queen" Dr. Erin Macdonald joins the show to talk about the astrophysics of Star Trek, the power needed for warp drive (all of it), the importance of female representation in sci-fi, the "Scully effect", the resilience of relativity, the mystery of dark matter and dark energy, and Dr. Macdonald weighs in on the science behind some classic Trek episodes!Plus, we discuss why your high school physics teacher lied to you, staying away from squishy science, non-delicious spaghetti, wormholes and where to find them, the multidisciplinary genius(?) of Zefram Cochrane, ripping space like a shirt, the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle, how DS9 aims time travel right at your heart, and we get lost trying to remember the plot of Interstellar!Kugelblitz!Follow Dr. Erin on Twitter!http://www.twitter.com/drerinmacCheck out Dr. Erin's website for her appearances and catch her on YouTube!https://www.erinpmacdonald.com/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbwsk0IjHe2IFMyj0cNeflARead up on science and physics in Trek!The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence krausshttps://amzn.to/2CdQPG8Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kakuhttps://amzn.to/2XTl1j1Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive by Ethan Siegelhttps://amzn.to/2u4BTG4Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swanhttps://amzn.to/2Uz0374Suit up with our Trek T-shirts!https://www.teepublic.com/user/justenoughtropeJoin our crew on Patreon and get access to our new Voyager recaps!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodClick through our Amazon link on enterprisingindividuals.com to support the show!http://www.enterprisingindividuals.comhttps://www.amazon.com/?tag=jet01-20&linkCode=ezFollow us on Twitter and Facebook for Trek news and updates!http://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttp://www.facebook.com/eistpod

Sharpen up your Zefram Cochrane statue as we take a stab at "Twilight"!Peter Aidan Byrne of Trek vs. Trek joins the show this week for our first episode about Star Trek: Enterprise, a series with a shaky reputation but a solid entry in "Twilight". Archer wakes up with a bad haircut and a Groundhog Day dilemma . . . or is that 50 First Dates? I can't remember. Meanwhile, Earth is cinders, humanity is nearly extinct, Porthos has hip dysplasia, and only one thing can put things right where they once went wrong. Either these time parasites go or we do!Enterprise tends to be seen as something of a failure, as if the Trek franchise was scraping the bottom of the barrel like a ravenous alien played by Mick Fleetwood. But it's episodes like this, which showcase the bravery of our heroes, the storytelling skills of sci-fi veterans, and the plain weirdo cool of Trek at its best that make a case for Enterprise as a flawed but bright jewel in the crown of the franchise. During our discussion, we talk about the history and development of Enterprise, how serialization finally won out in Trek, the Enterprise "purges", how the death of the VCR may have killed '00s Trek, the real life inspiration behind Archer's memory loss, how the episode is a metaphor for senescence and care-giving, what 24th century art might be like, and how fiction is more frivolous and necessary than ever.We also talk about the episode's Wrath of Khan parallels, returning the Rosemary's Baby PADD to Blockbuster, Loud Cop and LOUDER COP, Gunfight at the NX-01 Corral, the evolution of the Federation's mores over two-and-a-half centuries, peeking ahead with time travel, blowing Archer's head off, Richard Crenna's kid, we confess exactly when we dipped on Trek, Peter recoils from the entitlement of 22nd century humanity, and Aaron makes another Farscape reference!Gotta keep up with the Shasta McNastys!Read Peter's excellent Trek essays and his other content on the web!http://www.trekvstrek.comhttp://www.peteraidanbyrne.comFollow Trek vs. Trek on Twitter!https://twitter.com/trekvstrekGet our Trek T-shirts on Teepublic!https://www.teepublic.com/user/justenoughtropeDiscuss VCR programming with us on Facebook and Twitter and our Facebook group!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/eistpod/http://www.twitter.com/eistpodBuy us mystery orange juice on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2

Sharpen up your Zefram Cochrane statue as we take a stab at "Twilight"!Peter Aidan Byrne of Trek vs. Trek joins the show this week for our first episode about Star Trek: Enterprise, a series with a shaky reputation but a solid entry in "Twilight". Archer wakes up with a bad haircut and a Groundhog Day dilemma . . . or is that 50 First Dates? I can't remember. Meanwhile, Earth is cinders, humanity is nearly extinct, Porthos has hip dysplasia, and only one thing can put things right where they once went wrong. Either these time parasites go or we do!Enterprise tends to be seen as something of a failure, as if the Trek franchise was scraping the bottom of the barrel like a ravenous alien played by Mick Fleetwood. But it's episodes like this, which showcase the bravery of our heroes, the storytelling skills of sci-fi veterans, and the plain weirdo cool of Trek at its best that make a case for Enterprise as a flawed but bright jewel in the crown of the franchise. During our discussion, we talk about the history and development of Enterprise, how serialization finally won out in Trek, the Enterprise "purges", how the death of the VCR may have killed '00s Trek, the real life inspiration behind Archer's memory loss, how the episode is a metaphor for senescence and care-giving, what 24th century art might be like, and how fiction is more frivolous and necessary than ever.We also talk about the episode's Wrath of Khan parallels, returning the Rosemary's Baby PADD to Blockbuster, Loud Cop and LOUDER COP, Gunfight at the NX-01 Corral, the evolution of the Federation's mores over two-and-a-half centuries, peeking ahead with time travel, blowing Archer's head off, Richard Crenna's kid, we confess exactly when we dipped on Trek, Peter recoils from the entitlement of 22nd century humanity, and Aaron makes another Farscape reference!Gotta keep up with the Shasta McNastys!Read Peter's excellent Trek essays and his other content on the web!http://www.trekvstrek.comhttp://www.peteraidanbyrne.comFollow Trek vs. Trek on Twitter!https://twitter.com/trekvstrekGet our Trek T-shirts on Teepublic!https://www.teepublic.com/user/justenoughtropeDiscuss VCR programming with us on Facebook and Twitter and our Facebook group!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/eistpod/http://www.twitter.com/eistpodBuy us mystery orange juice on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2

Sorry about the audio in this one! We cover a few DIS bits of news regarding Captain Pike and Jonathan Frakes and then jump right into the movie. We pick apart the trouble with time travel and Zach shares his theory of the Dynamic Stability of Time. Later, we discuss what Star Trek may have looked like if Tom Hanks had played the role of Zefram Cochrane. Somehow, Xenon, Girl of the 21st century, makes her Why The Trek reference debut.

Season 2, Episode 10 It's All Been Trekked Before #48   TOS "Metamorphosis”      Stephen, Keith, and Jimmy-Jerome discuss the episode of classic Trek that introduces us to the inventor of the wrap drive, Zefram Cochrane! No, this has nothing to do with Kafka.    It's All Been Trekked Before is produced by IABD Presents entertainment network.   http://iabdpresents.com   Please support us at http://pateron.com/iabd   Follow us on social media @IABDPresents

In this episode, we decide to break the ice and watch the Star Trek movie First Contact. Is global thermonuclear war a necessary prerequisite for realizing the utopian vision of Star Trek? How did a Titan II ICBM help humanity go where no man has gone before? Why did Zefram Cochrane get a statue before Lily Sloane? Tim, Gabe, and special guest Manu Saadia (author of Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek) answer these questions and more. You can follow Manu Saadia on Twitter @Trekonomics. We greatly enjoyed his book, Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek (May 2016). (Tim edit on 9/18: There was an encoding error in the original podcast file. It should be fixed now) Before we get noticed by some Vulcans, we recommend checking out: -F. White, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, 1998 -Disaster at Silo 7, TV Movie,1988 -Command and Control, Documentary, 2016 -Peter Brannen, The Ends of the World: : Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions, June 2017 -The Next Generation, “The Best of Both Worlds,” Season 3, Episode 26, June 1990 Also check out the sources below to learn more about the subjects in this episode – you can also access these links on our website, SuperCriticalPodcast.com. Thanks to TrekCore.com for some of the sound effects used in this episode. We aim to have at least one new episode every month. Let us know what you think about the podcast and any ideas you may have about future episodes and guests by reaching out at on iTunes, Twitter @NuclearPodcast, GooglePlay Music, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio, Facebook, SuperCriticalPodcast@gmail.com, and YouTube. Enjoy!

本期节目录制于20160718，主播：深思|CrazyEMH 对第13期「从星联扯到没有人到过的地方」开启的星联话题进行了一些补充，如建立历史，入会制度（入邦制度？）等，后面我们还提到了星球大战与星际迷航两家的恩怨。 02:35 1960年代美国反文化运动 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s 05:50 勘误：「Superior ability breeds superior ambition. 」并非列宁所说 06:35 Eastern Coalition http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Eastern_Coalition 08:01 一些重要时间点： 三战2026-2053 http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/World_War_III 2063年，Zefram Cochrane测试搭载曲速引擎的凤凰号(Phoenix) Enterprise NX-01启航于2151年 09:16 知乎：为什么美国国会禁止 NASA 与中国航天部门合作？ https://www.zhihu.com/question/39428833 17:10 Romulan drone ship http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Romulan_drone_ship 21:27 Coalition of Planets http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Coalition_of_Planets 21:50 Terra Prime, Terra愿意是特拉女神，是大地女神，故此词根跟大地相关，如terrestrial（adj. 地球的） http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Terra_Prime 28:15 庇护人制度，准确的说应是 Arbitration（仲裁） http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Arbitration 29:10 《银河飞龙技术手册》(Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual) https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Next-Generation-Technical/dp/0671704273 《星际迷航：联邦星舰进取号完全图解》(Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise Owners' Workshop Manual) https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-U-S-S-Enterprise-Haynes/dp/1451621299 30:18 能量金字塔：能量在一条食物链内逐级流动时的传递效率大约只有10%～20% http://baike.baidu.com/view/824192.htm 39:33 聊下星战与星迷之间的恩恩怨怨：《星战迷友》 Fanboys (2009) 40:37 有必要给大龄听众解释下「团饭」，毕竟我(CrazyEMH)也是最近才知道：饭即fan，团饭，意为喜欢某组合里所有成员，而不是只喜欢组合中的某一位 43:45 毕加索的蓝色时期(Picasso's Blue Period)：1901-1904期间其画作多用蓝色 46:05 C3-Penis Face and R2-Dickhead. Kirk-loving Spock suckers 51:33 口误：星际迷航定档9月2日，不是8月，而星际迷航超越星辰官方网站startrekmovie.com现在（20160722）还没挂出中国大陆上映日期 http://www.startrekmovie.com/_apps/releasedates/release-dates.html 52:11 Sulu成同性恋了 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/george-takei-reacts-gay-sulu-909154 55:44 美国海斯法典 59:21 主播深思的青海湖之旅 勘误：阿里暗夜保护区并非尼泊尔边境 1:06:35 节目的最后是本期节目的代班主播人工智能的乱入 http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal ●本台反馈● Email: subspacesignal@qq.com, All frequencies open. 新浪微博：迷于星际迷航播客

本期节目录制于20160718，主播：深思|CrazyEMH 对第13期「从星联扯到没有人到过的地方」开启的星联话题进行了一些补充，如建立历史，入会制度（入邦制度？）等，后面我们还提到了星球大战与星际迷航两家的恩怨。 02:35 1960年代美国反文化运动 05:50 勘误：「Superior ability breeds superior ambition. 」并非列宁所说 06:35 Eastern Coalition 08:01 一些重要时间点： 三战2026-2053 2063年，Zefram Cochrane测试搭载曲速引擎的凤凰号( Phoenix) Enterprise NX-01启航于2151年 09:16 知乎：为什么美国国会禁止 NASA 与中国航天部门合作？ 17:10 Romulan drone ship 21:27 Coalition of Planets 21:50 Terra Prime, Terra愿意是特拉女神，是大地女神，故此词根跟大地相关，如terrestrial（adj. 地球的） 28:15 庇护人制度，准确的说应是 Arbitration（仲裁） 29:10 《银河飞龙技术手册》(Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual) 《星际迷航：联邦星舰进取号完全图解》(Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise Owners' Workshop Manual) 30:18 能量金字塔：能量在一条食物链内逐级流动时的传递效率大约只有10%～20% 39:33 聊下星战与星迷之间的恩恩怨怨：《星战迷友》 Fanboys (2009) 40:37 有必要给大龄听众解释下「团饭」，毕竟我(CrazyEMH)也是最近才知道：饭即fan，团饭，意为喜欢某组合里所有成员，而不是只喜欢组合中的某一位 43:45 毕加索的蓝色时期(Picasso's Blue Period)：1901-1904期间其画作多用蓝色 46:05 C3-Penis Face and R2-Dickhead. Kirk-loving Spock suckers 51:33 口误：星际迷航定档9月2日，不是8月，而星际迷航超越星辰官方网站startrekmovie.com现在（20160722）还没挂出中国大陆上映日期 52:11 Sulu成同性恋了 55:44 美国海斯法典 59:21 主播深思的青海湖之旅 勘误：阿里暗夜保护区并非尼泊尔边境 1:06:35 节目的最后是本期节目的代班主播人工智能的乱入 ##●本台反馈● Email: subspacesignal@qq.com, All frequencies open. 新浪微博：迷于星际迷航播客

Finally, Star Trek gets as cool as us!  We’ll Explain.  With the 50th anniversary, there’s more crap to buy.  Also, did Zefram Cochrane get too drunk and get hauled off to the slammer?   Finally, our crew returns from this week’s away mission where we join Spock on a Vulcan version of Old Yeller. All this and more, on the Starboard Power Coupling Podcast - a Star Trek Podcast you hope doesn’t fail.

Hey, it’s time to check in with our old friends from Star Trek: The Next Generation! Watch Picard as he freaks out over the Borg for some reason! Watch Zefram Cochrane as he invents warp drive with no materials or staff in the middle of a mining camp in post-war Montana! Listen as Trekabout’s affection for ...

Debate: Is Starfleet Military or Exploration? There are fan arguments that have been debated since Star Trek: The Next Generation first aired on television - Who is the better Enterprise captain? Which starship would win in a fight? Is Starfleet a military or exploratory organization? Earl Grey tackles this last question for this week's episode and attempts to explore (or militarize!) the answer.Phillip moderates the debate that examines the origins of Starfleet in the 22nd and 23rd Century, as well as how it is portrayed in the 24th century. Darren powers up the phaser array and loads the torpedo tubes for his arguments that Starfleet is a military organization. From its use of naval ranks, a chain of command, weapons, patrols of Federation space, and the use of Starfleet personnel as soldiers in the "bloody, bloody" Cardassian War, we see an organization that is similar to the armed services of the 21st Century. Daniel, Mr. Blue Shirt himself, explains how Starfleet is a futuristic NASA, with its focus on scientific missions, a Starfleet Academy that instructs its people on science and enginnering principles, and how its mantra is literally to "explore strange, new worlds."Join this episode of Earl Grey, as these #BridgeMates name drop Zefram Cochrane at the drop of a tequila glass in order to prove their points, and finally put to rest whether Starfleet is a military or exploratory organization.HostsDaniel Proulx, Phillip Gilfus, & Darren MoserEditor / ProducerDarren MoserExecutive ProducersNorman C. Lao, Matthew Rushing, & C Bryan Jones Production Manager Richard Marquez   Content Manager Will Nguyen ChaptersThe Fan Debate (00:03:13)Bolian Contingent (00:06:57) 24th Century Starfleet/TNG (00:09:23) 23rd Century Starfleet (00:20:27)Military Starlet (00:23:54) Exploration Starfleet (00:35:30)Admirals? (00:48:27) Final Thoughts (00:50:70) Send us your feedback! Twitter: @trekfm Facebook: http://facebook.com/trekfm Voicemail: http://www.speakpipe.com/trekfm Contact Form: http://www.trek.fm/contact Visit the Trek.fm website at http://trek.fm/ Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.com/trekfm Support the Network! Become a Trek.fm Patron on Patreon and help us keep our shows coming to you every week. We have great perks for you at http://patreon.com/trekfm

Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy meet a regenerated Zefram Cochrane and his gaseous companion ("Metamorphosis"). Spock deals with daddy issues, Kirk is stabbed in the back, and The Enterprise comes under attack all while delivering delegates to a conference ("Journey to Babel"). And the show closes with Dan and Mike discussing more Doctor Who / Star Trek crossovers because Dan and Mike. Please visit our Patreon page at patreon.com/edge.

Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy meet a regenerated Zefram Cochrane and his gaseous companion ("Metamorphosis"). Spock deals with daddy issues, Kirk is stabbed in the back, and The Enterprise comes under attack all while delivering delegates to a conference ("Journey to Babel"). And the show closes with Dan and Mike discussing more Doctor Who / Star Trek crossovers because Dan and Mike. Please visit our Patreon page at patreon.com/edge.

Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy meet a regenerated Zefram Cochrane and his gaseous companion ("Metamorphosis"). Spock deals with daddy issues, Kirk is stabbed in the back, and The Enterprise comes under attack all while delivering delegates to a conference ("Journey to Babel"). And the show closes with Dan and Mike discussing more Doctor Who / Star Trek crossovers because Dan and Mike. Please visit our Patreon page at patreon.com/edge.

Captain Picard and his crew pursue the Borg back in time to stop them from preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. They also make sure that Zefram Cochrane makes his famous maiden flight at warp speed. - imdb

The NX Program. Although Enterprise falls earlier on the timeline, it owes much of its premise to The Next Generation. Specifically, its central non-living character—the Warp Five engine—was born of the film First Contact and the work of Zefram Cochrane. Captain Archer's father, Henry, worked with Dr. Cochrane, and this would shape much of Jonathan's view of space exploration and the Vulcans. After two decades of development on the engine itself, the NX Program—which would marry the engine with a starship—began in the early 2140s. A decade later, the Enterprise was launched. In this episode of Warp Five, we're joined by Earl Grey's Daniel Proulx to discuss the role Archer played in the development of the NX-01, the parallels between the NX Program and 1960s NASA, the role of the Vulcans, and how TNG and the Phoenix laid the foundation for the events we see in "First Flight" and for the Enterprise itself.

First Contact. After the release of Generations, TNG fans got their next dose of big screen adventure in 1996's First Contact. With an all new ship and uniforms, the crew is once again faced with an invasion by their biggest foe. In this episode of Earl Grey, hosts Phillip Gilfus, Darren Moser, and Daniel Proulx discuss this heavily praised film. From the Enterprise-E and Zefram Cochrane to the Borg and beyond. Prepare to be assimilated!

T'Pol. Enterprise was set up to recapture the triumvirate of The Original Series; and having a Vulcan in that mix was only logical. In a pre-launch interview in Star Trek Communicator, Larry Nemecek described it this way: "Stoic rationality with a dose of paternal arrogance. The character of Sub-Commander T'Pol embodies everything humans have come to feel about Vulcans in the short span since Zefram Cochrane and first contact." And that's just who she was—at first. But over the course of four seasons T'Pol became so much more, shifting from the world of her Vulcan roots to that of her human crewmates. In this episode of Warp Five hosts Christopher Jones and Kate Walsh take a close look at T'Pol, the process of casting Jolene Blalock, the challenges of recapturing Vulcan, the key turning points on her journey, and some of our favourite T'Pol moments.

Talk Trek brings you a post-Super Bowl/pre-Spring Training podcast that’s sure to delight you!  Join the Talk Trek crew on an isolated asteroid, where Kirk finds Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the warp drive, who has been missing for 150 years! Some products and ideas mentioned in this episode are as follows: Slowly-cooked rabbit – our […]