Episode 108: The Cat’s Mee-OW!

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Subspace Chatter

• Star Trek lines up new Starfleet TV series with classic twist
• Star Trek Community Remembers VFX Pioneer Douglas Trumbull, ‘Picard’ Will Name A Ship In His Honor – TrekMovie.com
• ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Teaser Poster, ‘Khan’ Connection, And More Details Revealed [UPDATED] – TrekMovie.com
• Vintage Military Portraits of Star Trek TOS Characters

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Here are links to additional stories.broken out by series, movies and other categories. Just go over to the show notes for episode 108, over at The Topic is Trek.com

Star Trek: The Original Series

• Why Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics to Star Trek: TOS theme song
• Star Trek: Why Kirk Wore A Wrap-Around Uniform (And Sideways Badge)

Star Trek: Picard

• Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Poster Reveals the Return of Q
• Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Trailer 2 | Rotten Tomatoes TV – YouTube
• Star Trek Picard Season 2: Why 2024 Is a Dark Time to Revist
• Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Will Be Its Last, Confirms Patrick Stewart
• ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Showrunners Explain How Q’s Time Travel Turns Season 2 Into A “Wild Ride” – TrekMovie.com
• Picard boss teases game-changing Star Trek ideas in season 3

Star trek: Prodigy

• Star Trek canon just rebooted an essential piece of warp drive technology
• WATCH: Star Trek: Prodigy Explained – Warp Core | Star Trek
• Star Trek: Prodigy | Kate Mulgrew On Believing In Yourself (S1, E8) | Paramount+ – YouTube
• ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Producers And Cast Explain Stardates And More From “Time Amok” – TrekMovie.com
• How Star Trek: Prodigy Transitioned From Star Wars-Like to Proper Trek | Den of Geek
• Star Trek: Prodigy’s Twist Ending Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means | Den of Geek

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (premiering May 5, 2022)

• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Confirms a Major Wrath of Khan Connection

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

• Star Trek: The Motion Picture 4k Director’s Edition Remaster Reveals New Images

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

• Star Trek tribute mission to fly on ULA’s Vulcan inaugural launch – SpaceNews

Untitled Star Trek movie [premiering June 9, 2023]

• Simon Pegg Says He’s Waiting For News On Star Trek 4

Star Trek books, audio books and DVDs

• Listen to an Exclusive Excerpt From Audio Drama Star Trek: Picard: No Man’s Land

Star Trek video games/board games

• Star Trek Online Adds Kate Mulgrew as Janeway and Mirror Janeway in Shadow’s Advance

Star Trek toys/collectibles/other merchandise

• USS Titan Kicks Off Hero Collector’s ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Starship Model Collection – TrekMovie.com

• Hallmark gives sneak peeks of 2022 Star Trek Collection lineup — Daily Star Trek News

Star Trek Comics/graphic novels/magazines

• Star Trek: Ferengi Announced

Star Trek related science news

• Star Trek tribute mission to fly on ULA’s Vulcan inaugural launch – SpaceNews
• Hubble captures image of galaxies resembling ‘Star Trek’ spaceship

Franchise-wide/Miscellaneous

• Star Trek Warp Jumps (1979-2021) – YouTube
• “The Lost Era” Uniform Timeline – Star Trek Costume Guide – YouTube
• Star Trek fan constructs tricorder from Voyager TV series | SYFY WIRE
• Every upcoming Star Trek show and movie, ranked by anticipation
• Star Trek: Was Spock Almost on the Grassy Knoll for JFK’s Assassination?
• ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ And ‘Lower Decks’ Nominated For 4 Golden Reel Sound Editing Awards – TrekMovie.com
• Star Trek screenwriter David Gerrold awarded Robert A. Heinlein Award for science fiction — Daily Star Trek News
• Star Trek Original Series Set Tours – Most Accurate Set Reproduction!
• 5 ‘Star Trek’ Shows Aren’t Yet Peak Trek, Paramount Plus Exec Says – Variety
• More Star Trek treasures up for grabs in upcoming Heritage Auctions event — Daily Star Trek News

Convention news/fandom

Actor Watch

• LeVar Burton Reflects on ‘Roots’ and ‘Star Trek: Next Generation’ Anniversaries (Exclusive) | Entertainment Tonight
• Doug Jones: First Ever “Chair Award” | Local 706
• Shang-Chi Michelle Yeoh Destin Daniel Cretton American Born Chinese Disney+ – Deadline

Oui articles

• How Mary Wiseman Went From Star Trek Skeptic to Fan Favorite
• Cover Star Tig Notaro Is Blazing a Path Between Comedy and Tragedy
• How Star Trek Helped ‘Discovery’ Star Emily Coutts Come Out
• Star Trek’s Blu del Barrio & Ian Alexander: Transgalactic Heroes

Main Mission

Star Trek: Prodigy

“A Moral Star, Parts 1 & 2”

Written by the entire writer’s room: (Kevin & Dan Hageman, Julie Benson, Shawna Benson, Lisa Schultz Boyd, Nikhil S. Jayaram, Diandra Pendleton-Thompson, Chad Quandt, Aaron J. Waltke)

Star Trek: Discovery

“All In”

Written by Sean Cochran

Directed by Christopher J. Byrne and Jen McGowan

Warp Speed Round Table

Playmates Toys Reveals Its Initial 2022 Lineup of Star Trek Figures Based On Classic and Current Series Characters | Business Wire

Is Khan overused when it comes to classic Trek?

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

End Of Show

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

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