Episode 101: Binars ‘High Five’ Edition

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Subspace Chatter

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ at NYCC: The Crew Facing Uncertainty & More Scoop From the Panel | Entertainment | bluemountaineagle.com

New Star Trek: Discovery season 4 trailer premieres at New York Comic Con — Daily Star Trek News

Robert Beltran Is Officially Returning to Star Trek as Chakotay on ‘Prodigy’ + More Casting News – TREKNEWS.NET | Your daily dose of Star Trek news and opinion

Star Trek Prodigy Clip: Mulgrew’s Janeway Returns NYCC 2021

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Wraps Production With Video Message to Fans

No time to visit Vulcan, Alberta, Canada this episode. We’ll check in with them again next time.

Here are links to 19 additional stories.broken out by series, movies and other categories. You’ll find everything from an article on how you can own a one-of-a-kind phaser rifle to one on houw “Star Trek” inspired one biotech company to create living human tissue. You can find it all over in the show notes for episode 101 over at the Topic is trek.com.

Star Trek: The Original Series

1. Star Trek: A Celebration Review: One of the most comprehensive deep-dives into the legacy of ‘The Original Series’ – TREKNEWS.NET
2. Star Trek: How Roddenberry Fixed TOS’ Mirror Universe (& Why His Changes Lasted)
3. Star Trek’s original one-of-a-kind phaser rifle is going up for auction – starting at $250,000 — Daily Star Trek News

Star Trek: Discovery

4. Jason Isaacs felt like a ‘vacuumed sausage’ in his Star Trek costume | Entertainment | insidenova.com

Star Trek: Picard

5. Star Trek: Picard’s Isa Briones on the mental health emphasis of season 2 — Daily Star Trek News
6. How Soji Is Different In Star Trek: Picard Season 2 | Screen Rant

Star Trek: Lower Decks

7. Star Trek: Lower Decks Reveals What Happens to Naughty Vulcans
8. Star Trek’s New Vulcans Homage Spock & Undiscovered Country Villain Valeris
9. Star Trek Lower Decks wej Duj/Three Ships Recap: Klingons, Vulcans
10. ‘Lower Decks’ finally resolves a huge Star Trek villain mystery [Exclusive]

Star trek: Prodigy

11. Star Trek: Prodigy will explain the franchise to total newcomers – Polygon

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

12. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Anson Mount Explains How the Series Will Excite Old School Fans

Star Trek books

13. What Do You Think Your Favorite Book or Movie Character Eats For Dinner? – The New York Times

Franchise-wide/Miscellaneous

14. McDermott: 90-year-old ‘Star Trek’ actor’s space flight evokes ideals America has lost | Kevin McDermott | stltoday.com
15. OSU professor to hold Star Trek themed lecture | kgw.com
16. How Star Trek inspired this biotech company to create living human tissues – The Globe and Mail

Actor Watch
NYCC: George Takei recalls being blamed for ‘attacking actors’ on Star Trek set

Away Mission

Nickelodeon’s Ramsey Naito expands role to add Paramount films animation and development — Daily Star Trek News

Main Mission

“First First Contact”

Written by Mike McMahan

Directed by Jason Zurek. 

Mini Synopsis: The Cerritos is assigned support duty on a first contact mission. But that simple task soon turns into a desperate attempt to rescue the crew of the USS Archimedes before it collides with a planet. Captain Freeman is offered a new ship. Rutherford must make an important decision.

Warpspeed Roundtable

What do you think will happen in Season 3 of “Lower Decks”?

End Of Show

It’s about time to refill the dilithium chamber and get on out of here. 

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