Episode 80: Programmable Chatter

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• The Federation Strikes Back
• Anson Mount keeps his eyes on the skies
• We put a new spin on our episode recaps

Subspace Chatter

• Star Wars Name-Drops Star Trek’s Kirk and Spock | Screen Rant
• Evan Evagora affirms January filming for Star Trek: Picard, says he’s “so excited” to get back to work and see everyone — Daily Star Trek News
• Star Trek captain Anson Mount joins group dedicated to searching for alien life
• Star Trek Universe TV Shows Nominated For 7 Critics Choice Super Awards – TrekMovie.com
• Herb Solow Dead: Producer Brought ‘Star Trek’ to NBC – Variety

No new Trek-related news to report out of Vulcan, Alberta, Canada. But our thoughts go out to the good people of Vulcan, as they continue to struggle with COVID. Things will eventually get back to normal. And when they do, we’ll be here to report on, and poke fun at, all the Trek activities that take place in Vulcan.

94 additional stories, including everything from Zachary Quinto admitting he is totally down with performing a wedding ceremony dressed as Spock, to great Star Trek holiday gifts.

1. Star Trek News: Franchise to get Legacy Award at event and more
2. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Voyager Easter egg just changed series canon
3. There Can Be No Turning Back: How I Learned to Love DS9
4. Listen to “Inside Star Trek,” a behind-the-scenes LP from 1976 | Boing Boing
5. How Does She Juggle ‘Star Trek,’ A Podcast And 4-Year-Old Twins? Don’t Ask Tig Notaro
6. Star Trek: Discovery Doesn’t Need the Federation with Saru as Captain
7. Star Trek Theory: How Adira Can Talk To Gray | Screen Rant
8. Star Trek’s Dreams of Unification Mirror Our Own
9. How Star Trek: First Contact’s Time Travel Works – CINEMABLEND
10. WATCH: Moments of Star Trek: Discovery — The New Federation | Star Trek
11. Star Trek Fandom: Fabulous Trek art from talented artists
12. The Quarantine Stream: Over 50 Years After it Aired, ‘Star Trek’ Remains One of the Greatest TV Shows of All Time – /Film
13. Top streaming shows this week: ‘Mandalorian,’ ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ – Business Insider
14. A new fan film called Star Trek: First Frontier has debuted online
15. Star Trek Online Announces Changes To Loadouts – MMO Bomb
16. WATCH: Star Trek: Discovery — The Details On The New Props Of Season 3 | Star Trek
17. Star Trek: Why Picard, Sisko and Archer Deserve Their Own Monuments
18. Star Trek’s Space-Traveling Tardigrades Live Long And Prosper After Second Circuit Affirms Non-Infringement Of Video Game Copyright – Intellectual Property – United States
19. Star Trek: 3 animated series that would work better than Lower Decks
20. Exclusive Star Trek gifts are abundant at this online shop
21. Trek Culture gives 10 reasons why Kathryn Janeway is best in Star Trek
22. Review: Eaglemoss Takes Control With XL USS Discovery And Section 31 Station Models – TrekMovie.com
23. Malcolm McDowell got death threats for killing Captain Kirk | People | martinsvillebulletin.com
24. STAR TREK’s Brent Spiner Has a Feud with LeVar Burton in Hilarious Short Film BRENTWOOD — GeekTyrant
25. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ borrows a brilliant idea from ‘The Next Generation’
26. Star Trek Discovery Season 3’s Many Voyager Parallels Explained
27. Star Trek: Discovery’s Rachael Ancheril Dishes on Nhan’s Big Moment
28. Star Trek Discovery Theory: What Section 31 Did To Emperor Georgiou
29. ‘Star Trek’ Set Television History in 1968 With First Interracial Kiss
30. Three Theories About Kovich And What’s Next For Georgiou On ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ And Beyond – TrekMovie.com
31. How Star Trek: Discovery Has Changed the Federation and Starfleet | Den of Geek
32. Star Trek’s Wil Wheaton Says Acting Is Now “Traumatic” After His Childhood
33. Comic Book Preview – Star Trek: Voyager – Seven’s Reckoning #1
34. Star Trek fans cheer as Miles O’Brien (but not that one) covers SpaceX launch for CNN — Daily Star Trek News
35. The over-the-top space fashions of Star Trek: TOS | Boing Boing
36. Star Trek Magazine features the bridge crew from Discovery in their November issue — Daily Star Trek News
37. Star Trek: How DS9 Saved Jake Sisko From Wesley Crusher’s Fate
38. Star Trek Discovery Theory: How The Music Could Have Caused The Burn
39. Review: Return To The Delta Quadrant For ‘Star Trek: Voyager – Seven’s Reckoning’ Part 1 – TrekMovie.com
40. Simon Pegg Ends Feud with Quentin Tarantino Over ‘Star Trek’ | IndieWire
41. Star Trek: Voyager – A Celebration; Exclusive Excerpt
42. In Star Trek: Voyager – A Celebration, Hero Collector goes behind the scenes for the series’ 25th anniversary — Daily Star Trek News
43. Did Star Trek: Year Five Just Diss a Beloved TOS Actor?
44. Stellar Star Trek Gifts to Add to Your Holiday Cart
45. Learning to Love and Accept Through Star Trek
46. Sir Patrick Stewart and Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry to be honored with Young Artist Academy special merit awards — Daily Star Trek News
47. Star Trek: Discovery newcomer Noah Averbach-Katz is living a Trekkie’s dream, and he’s got video to prove it — Daily Star Trek News
48. 5 of the best Star Trek tweets this week, from fun to history
49. Star Trek Universe TV Shows Nominated For 7 Critics Choice Super Awards – TrekMovie.com
50. Moments of Star Trek: Discovery — Off The Book | Star Trek
51. Local Star Trek celeb featured in one of 15 items in Advocacy Center auction | 14850
52. Watching First Contact In the Worst Possible Timeline
53. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Easter egg teases a wild ‘TNG’ time-travel twist
54. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ borrows from ‘The Running Man’ in season 3, episode 6 ‘Scavengers’ | Space
55. Star Trek To Receive Legacy Award at Critics Choice Super Awards
56. Star Trek: Discovery | Ensign Tilly Is Not A Cat Person (S3, E6)
57. Star Trek: Voyager: Here’s your chance to win Kate Mulgrew’s autograph
58. First Look At February 2021 Star Trek Comics From IDW – TrekMovie.com
59. Herb Solow Dead: Producer Brought ‘Star Trek’ to NBC – Variety
60. Star Trek: ‘Burnham Goes Rogue’ Has Become Discovery’s ‘They Shut Down the X-Files’
61. Star Trek: Discovery Continues A Running Deep Space 9 Joke
62. Zachary Quinto would officiate a wedding as Spock for the right price
63. Star Trek: Discovery Reveals an Old Federation Enemy is Now an Ally
64. Video: TrekCulture’s 10 biggest mistakes hits the nail on the head
65. How The Haunting of Bly Manor Connects To Star Trek: TNG’s Worst Episode
66. Star Trek: Voyager’s Seven of Nine Tests Her Humanity in New Comic
67. Herbert F. Solow, A Founding Father Of Star Trek, Dies At 89 – TrekMovie.com
68. Herb Solow Dead: Exec Who Developed Original ‘Star Trek’, ‘Mission: Impossible’ – Deadline
69. Herbert F. Solow obituary, exec who sold Star Trek to NBC dies at 89
70. Star Trek: Discovery: Easter Eggs and References in Season 3, Episode 6, “Scavengers”
71. Star Trek: DS9: Alexander Siddig hated his character changes in season 5
72. Star Trek: 10 Unpopular Opinions About Enterprise (According To Reddit)
73. Applications for the Television Academy Foundation’s Star Trek Command Training Program 2021 are now open — Daily Star Trek News
74. Star Trek Discovery: Who Will Be the New Number One? | CBR
75. Watch: ‘Animaniacs’ Reboot Pokes Fun At Star Trek Reboot – TrekMovie.com
76. Star Trek Voyager’s “Endgame” Repeated A Season 5 Episode (But Worse)
77. Star Trek: A Queer History Of The Franchise | Screen Rant
78. David Ajala Has Definitely Seen Your Fanart
79. Preview Star Trek: Discovery 3×07 “Unification III” with suspiciously few stills and another starship tribute — Daily Star Trek News
80. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 3 just broke a major rule of movie canon
81. Star Trek producer Herb Solow created the iconic Captain’s Log plot device
82. The Legacy of Zefram Cochrane
83. Star Trek for beginners: Where to start with the final frontier – CNET
84. Star Trek: The Original Series: A Contest of Principles — Exclusive Excerpt
85. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 2 release date: Star teases a killer TNG crossover
86. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Reread — Rules of Accusation | Tor.com
87. Deep Space Nine Still Had a Melora Problem — But We Shouldn’t
88. Star Trek’s Most Breathtaking and Consequential Battles
89. Vulcans and Romulans: A Primer on Unification
90. Star Trek Beyond: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Kalara
91. Star Trek didn’t make William Shatner rich, he tells ‘crazy’ fan – CNET
92. Star Trek: Discovery Drops Another Major Clue About the Burn
93. Star Trek Timeline: Everything That Happened After Picard Before Discovery Season 3
94. Star Trek: Discovery Has Holodecks Now

Main Mission

This week we’re talking about episodes 6, 7 and 8 of “Star Trek: Discovery,” Season 3. 

Warp Speed Round Table

This time around…

If you were the Captain of the Discovery, what would your catchphrase be?

End Of Show

Time to refill the dilithium chamber and try to warp on out of here. 

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