Month: May 2017

In this podcast episode I discuss my big take aways from the first Discovery trailer.

If you have not see it yet, here is the link to Trekmovie’s screen cap breakdown.

Also, if you have not read my piece on the implications of Sonequa Martin-Green’s Commander Burnham being the lead character but NOT the captain, check it out here.

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In this episode:

• A return to the Trekian theme of absolute power corrupting absolutely, this time with a hormonal teen
• Some interesting world-building tidbits: our first non-Enterprise Earth ship
• Discussion of the studio conflict with Roddenberry over ship-board versus planet-based stories (Spoiler Alert: Roddenberry won)
• The first Trek episode written by a woman: D.C. Fontana

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In this Episode:

• An explanation of why Spock became the most iconic Trek character
• Why this episode is the one of the most consequential episodes of the Trek franchise
• How Spock invented time travel, and how Star Trek might have become Time Trek
• Kirk, Spock and Queer Theory–because why not?

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