SPOILER ALERT In our Season 1 Wrap-Up Extravaganza, Dan & Bill are joined by special guest Ken Ray from Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast to talk about the Star Trek: Discovery’s entire first season. We’ll look at some favorite moments from the season, discuss what we think the show might have done differently,…
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THE EMISSARY Father. Starfleet Captain. The Emissary of the Prophets. Benjamin Sisko is perhaps the most complex of the Starship Captains, and this week, we’ll take a long look at why he’s one of our favorite characters in all of Star Trek! Plus, product news, an update on Five Year Mission’s YEAR 4 album, and…
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For Episode 7, Shashank and Barry get the distinguished pleasure to speak with Manu Saadia, author of ‘Trekonomics’. This is the essential book on the discussion of what a 24th Century economy would really look like, socially, politically, and, of course, economically. Manu’s book also challenges contemporary views on scarcity and offers changes to our…
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THE PLAY’S THE THING 4,000 people. That’s how many were executed at the directive of Governor Kodos of the failed Tarsus IV after a fungus destroyed most of the colony’s food supply leaving 8,000 colonists to starve to death. Kodos ordered the deaths of the 4,000 so the other 4,000 colonists might live. Among those…
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SPOILER ALERT The first season finale of Star Trek: Discovery bring us to the Klingon homeworld and a battle with our own principles! This week we’ll break down Episode 15, “Will You Take My Hand” as we discover how this epic first season draws to a close. Returning to Discovering Trek to join us in…
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SPOILER ALERT The fourteenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery finds us in the midst of a war with the Klingons that is not going well. Join us for “The War Without, the War Within” as we find out just how far the Federation will go to win. Joining us to examine this episode is Kevin…
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BEFORE THE PRIME DIRECTIVE This week, we examine an episode that foreshadows Starfleet’s Prime Directive! “Dear Doctor” was the thirteenth episode of Enterprise (later to be renamed Star Trek: Enterprise) and it presented an interesting dilemma for the Chief Medical Officer and Captain of the NX-01. It’s an episode that presents our characters with changing…
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In this episode, Shashank and Barry delve deep into the message of environmentalism in Star Trek: The Voyage Home. Here we discuss the implications of the now 30+ year-old movie to our environmental situation today, how to approach the different challenges we face, and some the things that both Shashank and Barry have applied to…
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SPOILER ALERT The thirteenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery concludes our trip into the Mirror Universe! Join us for “What’s Past is Prologue” as we discover exactly what Gabriel Lorca is up to! Joining Dan as guest co-host this week is our friend Barry DeFord from PoliTreks on The Tricorder Transmissions Network of podcasts. Joining…
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SPOILER ALERT The twelfth episode of Star Trek: Discovery continues the adventure in the Mirror Universe! Join us for “Vaulting Ambition” as we learn more about the Terran Emperor! We’ll examine this episode with our friends Elizabeth Ho from the Netflix Original Series, “Disjointed,” and Ira Heinichen, the author of the Starstuff trilogy and the…
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