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- Star Trek WATCH: Creative Arts Emmy Award Video Honoring Trek
- Here’s the other photo. Shatner must have taken this one
- CBS being sued for ‘stealing’ Star Trek Discovery plot from video game | Metro News
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- Understanding the Star Trek: Discovery Plagiarism Allegations – Plagiarism Today
- Star Trek “What We Left Behind” World Premiere Set
- Frank Serafine, ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Tron’ Sound Editor/Designer, Dies at 65 – IMDb
- UFOP: StarBase 118, a Star Trek Play-By-E-Mail RPG
- The “Universal Translator” Is Real – But Is It Too Late? – YouTube
- Les Moonves Resigns From CBS, Star Trek Merger Up in Air – /Film
- Teleportation ‘will soon be possible’: Expert reveals Star Trek tech ‘will become REALITY’ | Daily Star
- Beam me up: UF astronomer discovers planet with Vulcan ties
Additional stories we did not have time to cover
- UPDATED: Picard Show Executive Producer Michael Chabon Reveals His Star Trek Galactic Map Briefing – TrekMovie.com
- Futuristic electronic glasses help Sarasota woman see again
- Trek Theatre returns to Corvallis | Local | gazettetimes.com
- William Shatner is going to be at that Star Trek set tour in Ticonderoga | All Over Albany
- ‘Star Trek: Short Treks’ Gets ‘Rick and Morty’ Writer
- ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’: Two Spocks Meet in Unproduced Episode Outline
- Star Trek: 11 Last-Minute Changes That Saved TNG (And 9 That Hurt It)
- August 31, 2018 San Francisco Giants – Star Trek Giants Starfleet Command Badge Hat – Stadium Giveaway Exchange
- ‘That isn’t for me’: William Shatner says he’s done with ‘Star Trek’ | Toronto Sun
- Karl Urban Confident ‘Star Trek 4’ Negotiations Will Be Resolved, Production Set For U.K. – TrekMovie.com
- First Look At December Star Trek Comics, Plus A Hint Of Something “Huge” Coming From IDW In 2019 – TrekMovie.com
- William Shatner Regrets Directing Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
- Star Trek Discovery: The Official Companion – TrekToday
- ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Cast Tease Juicy Storyline For Spock And More In Season 2 – TrekMovie.com
- ‘Star Trek: Discovery’: Could Season 2’s Spock Mystery Connect to the Kelvin Timeline?
- Boldly Going: We Review the Second Star Trek Mission Crate
- Star Trek Alum Panel (Wang, Koenig, de Lancie, Phillips) – Dragon Con 2018 > Fandom Spotlite
- ‘Black Mirror’ Producers Hope “USS Callister” Is Seen As Homage To ‘Star Trek’ – Open To Spin-off Series – TrekMovie.com
- What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Genetics and Evolution | Duke Today
- William Shatner Reveals Why Kirk Died in Star Trek: Generations
- Captain Pike ‘won’t be trusted’ in Star Trek: Discovery season 2 | Metro News
- ‘Star Trek 4’ NOT Canceled Over Chris Pine, Chris Hemsworth Salary Dispute, Despite Report
- CBS now lets All Access users download Star Trek: Discovery for offline viewing on mobile – The Verge
- We might know the exact year the Star Trek Picard show takes place in – and it’s heading into uncharted territory | GamesRadar+
Main Mission
This week we continue our “Trek Time Travel Lookback” series by talking about “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock,” which opened on June 1, 1984.
- What are you recollection of attending/first seeing The Search for Spock?
- All the secrecy surrounding Spock. Is he alive?
- Directed by Leonard Nimoy, written by Harve Bennett
- We learn about the “katra” and the Fal-tor-Pan
- The return of Sarek
- Reverend Jim as a Klingon.
- A new Saavik.
- Two more deaths in Kirk’s family.
- And ending and a cliffhanger.
Warp Speed Round Table
Follow-up on our question from our live show: “Who would you cast to appear as the larger-than-life Lwaxana?” or our live show: “Should Reginald Barclay be given a Shuttle Pod or sent out the airlock?”
This week,
The Question: You walk onto a used car lot and there are four salespeople. Which of these would you choose, and why?
- Harry Mudd
- Cyrano Jones
- Garek
- Q
Kreg’s Big TNG discovery
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