Positively Trek

Positively Trek 116: Picard Season 2 Trailer, Prodigy Details, and More! What a Week for Star Trek News! We were surprised with a ton of Star Trek news this week, starting with the info on Star Trek: Prodigy early in the week. Then, Captain Picard Day came, and with it, a brand-new trailer for season two of Star Trek: Picard !In this episode of Positively Trek , hosts Bruce and Dan weigh in on all...

Positively Trek 115: The Great Starship Showdown! Which is the Best Star Trek Starship? It’s finally time to decide the winner of our latest giveaway! In this episode of Positively Trek , hosts Dan and Bruce decide which listener gave the best defense of why their pick is the best starship in the Star Trek universe! The winner gets one copy of Star Trek: Shipyards: The Borg and Delta Quadrant: Akr...

Positively Trek 114: Book Club: Weaker Than ManStar Trek: Year Five: Issues 13 to 19 We’re taking a break from novels this week to catch up on the Star Trek: Year Five on-going story! From badmiral shenanigans and populist criminal presidential candidates to Gary Seven and global pandemics, these stories have it all! In this episode of the Positively Trek Book Club , hosts Dan and Bruce are discus...

Positively Trek 113: Controversial Star Trek OpinionsWith Special Guest Bill Smith of Trek Geeks! We all have them: opinions about Star Trek that go against the commonly-held view of fandom. Maybe it’s a character you love whom everyone else hates. Or an episode that you dislike that’s loved by every other fan you meet! If it’s a contentious opinion, we want to discuss it! In this episode of Posit...

Positively Trek 112: Star Trek’s Best Friendships! Who Are the Best of Pals? Star Trek has shown us many examples of strong and caring friendships over the many years that the various shows have been on the air. In this episode of Positively Trek , hosts Dan and Bruce talk about their favorite friendships from the 55-year history of the franchise we love so much! Star Trek S**tposting on Facebook...

Positively Trek 111: Book Club: WonderlandsWith Special Guest Una McCormack! When Star Trek: Discovery ’s third season debuted, Michael Burnham found herself down the rabbit hole in a strange, unfamiliar world. However, the U.S.S. Discovery , right behind her in the wormhole, was nowhere to be found. Along with unlikely allies and surprising foes, Burnham must make her way in this disturbing and d...

Positively Trek 110: New Comic Series, Discovery Season 4 Update, and More! Plus: Section 31 “Rumblings” & Discovery Costume Design In this week’s episode of Positively Trek , hosts Bruce and Dan bring you all the week’s news from the Star Trek universe, including the announcement of a new 13-part comic series from IDW, featuring the dastardly machinations of the mirror-universe Jean-Luc Picar...

Positively Trek 109: Lower Decks Blu-Ray Spectacular! Plus: Win a Copy of The Lower Decks Season One Blu-Ray! It’s May 18th, and Star Trek: Lower Decks season one is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray! In this episode of Positively Trek , hosts Dan and Bruce discuss all of the special features of the newest addition to our Star Trek home video collection. Thank you to CBS for providing us with a rev...

Positively Trek 108: Book Club: The Art of the ImpossibleLike Christine Chapel, but More Lwaxana-ish The Betreka Nebula Incident: an eighteen-year cold war between the Cardassian Union and the Klingon Empire. The tale of the conflict over the planet Raknal V that nearly plunged the quadrant into war is finally told! In this episode of the Positively Trek Book Club , hosts Dan and Bruce discuss The...

Positively Trek 107: Too Many Ships for Just One BookBen Robinson: Shipyards: The Delta Quadrant Volume One In their seven years traversing the Delta Quadrant, the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager encountered many species and their starships. From the fearsome vessels of the Borg Collective to the participants of the Antarian Trans-Stellar Rally, there are so many ships to explore in the Delta Quadrant....

Positively Trek 106: Happy Moogie’s Day! The Mothers of Star Trek The true unsung heroes of our lives (and of Star Trek ) are mothers! This weekend, we celebrate Mother’s Day, and we here at Positively Trek felt it was only fitting to talk a bit about our favorite Star Trek mothers. Join hosts Dan and Bruce in their discussion of Trek motherhood. Do you have a favorite Trek mom? Let us know! In th...

Positively Trek 105: Book Club: MetamorphosisMy Other Brother Darryl For all of his existence, Lt. Commander Data has had one wish: to be human. However, when he is finally presented with the chance, will he find that being flesh and blood is all it’s cracked up to be? The first “Giant Novel”! This week on the Positively Trek Book Club , hosts Bruce and Dan are talking about an early Star Trek: Th...

Positively Trek 104: Worf Would Never Grunt Like ThatStar Trek: Legends with Mike Johnson In this episode of Positively Trek , hosts Bruce and Dan are joined by Mike Johnson, writer of many of IDW’s Star Trek comics and one of the minds behind the new mobile game, Star Trek: Legends . We talk about his role in the development of the game, the idea to use the Nexus as a main driver of the plot, the...

Positively Trek 103: Alex Kurtzman on the Blurring Line Between Film and TelevisionWhat Does This Mean for the Future of Star Trek? Alex Kurtzman recently made some comments about the continuing evolution of film and television, highlighting the fact that the separation between the two is much less apparent now that it has been in the past. In this episode of Positively Trek , hosts Dan and Bruce...

Positively Trek 102: Book Club: SurvivorsKeeping Data Regular Lieutenant Tasha Yar was a character who didn’t get much of a chance to shine. Lasting not quite an entire season, Denise Crosby elected to leave the show before the end of season one. While the true potential of the character went unrealized on screen, one author took it upon herself to tell her story. In this episode of the Positively...

Positively Trek 101: An Overload of Trek News on First Contact Day! Picard, Discovery, Lower Decks Trailers, & Prodigy Janeway! We have SO MUCH NEWS to report this week! Join hosts Bruce and Dan on this week’s Positively Trek as we break down all the stories from First Contact Day as well as a myriad of other news stories from the past week! Top stories include a win for Discovery at the GLAAD...

Positively Trek 100: So Much to Celebrate! Our 100th Episode on First Contact Day! We made it! 100 episodes! In this very special episode of Positively Trek, hosts Dan and Bruce are joined by Damien Devlin, YouTube’s “The Irish Trekkie,” to discuss the film Star Trek: First Contact , which unbelievably turns 25 years old this year! Join us to celebrate First Contact Day as well as our 100th episod...

Positively Trek 99: Book Club: One Constant StarWait, Which Captain Sulu Was That Again? The voyages of the Enterprise-B continue as Captain Demora Sulu and her crew confront a mysterious device on the surface of an unknown world that leaves one crewman missing and the first officer critically injured. When the captain herself disappears, the crew must rely on Admiral John Harriman, who may ultima...

Positively Trek 98: Hanelle Culpepper Honored for Star Trek: PicardPlus: Voyager Doc Update & More This week’s Star Trek news includes a NAACP Image Award win for Hanelle Culpepper for directing Star Trek: Picard , tidbits about Star Trek: Discovery ’s fourth season from Anthony Rapp, an update on the Voyager documentary To the Journey , and a trailer for season one of Star Trek: Lower Decks o...

Positively Trek 97: Funko Pops, Books, and More! Plus: Boston Honors Leonard Nimoy We’ve got some new Trek merchandise for the collectors in our audience, including some new Funko Pops and a couple of quirky books from Robb Pearlman. In other news, Jonathan Frakes and Armin Shimerman are teaming up to tackle a cause near and dear to their hearts, and the city of Boston honors one of its favorite s...

Positively Trek 96: Book Club: Serpents Among the RuinsHarriman’s “In the Pale Moonlight” Episode The voyages of the Enterprise-B are some of the biggest unknowns in the Star Trek universe. Besides the fateful first voyage at the beginning of Star Trek: Generations , almost nothing is known about the trials and tribulations of the third Federation starship to bear the name Enterprise . What a perf...

Positively Trek 95: Casting Announcements for Strange New Worlds! Plus: We’re One Year Old! The big news this week is that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has officially begun production, along with the announcement of five new series regulars besides Pike, Spock, and Number One! We also have news about a Star Trek film pitch by Nicholas Meyer, director of The Wrath of Khan , a new docuseries all ab...

Positively Trek 94: A New Trek Film Script On the Way? Plus: Lower Decks on Blu-Ray & Voyager Doc Fundraising Success! Paramount Plus is here! What do we think about it? We also have some (sigh) new Star Trek movie news. However, we’re a little more optimistic this time around! We also report on Lower Decks coming to DVD and Blu-Ray, as well as amazing success for the Voyager documentary fundr...

Positively Trek 93: Book Club: The Needs of the ManyWith Special Guest: Author Michael A. Martin In 2010, the Star Trek community was eagerly anticipating the launch of Star Trek Online , the Trek universe’s first MMORPG (massively multiplayer online game). To tie into this next chapter of the Star Trek universe, the publishers of Trek novels produced a special tie-in to the game chronicling “The...

Positively Trek 92: First Look At Star Trek: Prodigy Characters! Plus: News About Section 31 Series While we didn’t get a surprise new series announcement at the ViacomCBS Investor’s Presentation, Star Trek fans were still delighted with their first real look at the new Nickelodeon series, Star Trek: Prodigy ! In this episode of Positively Trek , hosts Bruce and Dan ruminate on the character desig...