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We're back in the Alpha Quadrant as we recap and review the last few weeks of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy , and yes we're still struggling with character names... Join us as we cover Julian's worst nightmare come true in S01E03 (00:17), taking a sharp upturn with the season's best hour so far (26:41), before finally finding out what happened to Benjamin Sisko (54:30), a question that definitely h...

We're back! And today we're talking about Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence . Join us as we champion the film as among Spielberg's greatest works and touch on its history as first a Stanley Kubrick project. And as always we dive into the real-world implications of the film's themes and world. We'll be back next Monday to catch up on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy .

In today's episode, we discuss the underrated classic that is Robert Zemeckis' Contact , as based on the novel by the great Carl Sagan. We discuss the enormous influence of Sagan, not only in science but for ourselves. We also get into the weeds on the real life Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and discuss the implications that first contact would have on our world. We hope you enj...

In this week's episode, we discuss the two-episode premiere of the new flagship Star Trek show, Starfleet Academy . We get straight into it with episode one (01:03), dissecting the ups and downs of the premiere and struggling to remember the names of several main characters, while also trying to figure out what the hell a tachyon is. We then get into episode two (34:27), our relief that this show...

Welcome to our new podcast! In this special launch episode we give a little introduction to ourselves, discuss our love of sci-fi, and look ahead to the premiere of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Enjoy!