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Breaking Bread with Starfleet Officers

Positively Trek - June 20, 2024 07:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 274: Breaking Bread with Starfleet Officers Food and Drink in the Star Trek Universe Throughout its 58-year history, food and drink has played a significant role in the Star Trek universe. Food can be a cultural touchstone, from the Klingons and their gagh, bloodwine, and rokeg...

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Highlander and Male Meaning-Making

Philosophers In Space - June 17, 2024 21:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 218 ratings
One pod. One post. One shtick. One hole. One golden take on masculinity. (it's a kind of madness) One shaft shaped sword that shows the way. No moral man would want to play. (it's a kind of madness) That bs misogyny inside your mind. Is just patriarchy making you blind. (it's a kind of m...

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Book Club: The Story We Didn’t Know We Wanted

Positively Trek - June 13, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 273: Book Club: The Story We Didn’t Know We Wanted Dayton Ward: Pliable Truths When Star Trek: Deep Space Nine hit our television screens in 1993, we were introduced to the planet Bajor, the end of the Cardassian Occupation, and a cast of colorful characters that were very diff...

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One Last Time… Let’s Fly

Positively Trek - June 06, 2024 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 272: One Last Time… Let’s Fly Star Trek: Discovery’s Final Episode: “Life, Itself” After five seasons, this flagship show of the new era of Star Trek has come to an end. Star Trek: Discovery ushered in a renaissance of the Star Trek Universe, and we are very sad to see it go. J...

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Men and Schrodinger's Rapist

Philosophers In Space - June 05, 2024 21:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 218 ratings
What is there to say about Men? A movie so pregnant with ideas it's practically bursting at the orifices with symbols coated in fresh nightmare fuel. Been sitting on this gem a long time and the bear vs. men discourse gave us the perfect context. So, get ready for the most us content ever as we ...

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Fallout and Laboratories of Democracy

Philosophers In Space - May 22, 2024 17:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 218 ratings
Welcome to the Void Vault, the best of all possible vaults! You're so lucky you were born into this vault, especially because you can't leave. But why would you, everything in this vault is totally fine, you are absolutely NOT a test subject for some undisclosed social psychology experiment, esp...

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Officer, Widower, Father, Mentor, Emissary

Positively Trek - May 16, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 271: Officer, Widower, Father, Mentor, Emissary Benjamin Sisko: A Deep Dive In the 90s, the question in Trek fandom invariably was: Kirk or Picard? After watching seven seasons of Deep Space Nine, I knew what my answer was: Sisko. Beginning in season one, this commander took a ...

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Downsizing and Altruisms

Philosophers In Space - May 06, 2024 10:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 218 ratings
If you think about it, on the downsizing principles this is like a years worth of content, and two sentences is endless show notes. Or something, I dunno, the scaling doesn't really make any sense, much like the conceptual map surrounding altruism. Enjoy! Downsizing: https://www.imdb.com/title...

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Book Club: They Sure Like Writing for Garak!

Positively Trek - May 03, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 270: Book Club: They Sure Like Writing for Garak! Star Trek Explorer Presents: “The Mission” and Other Stories - Part 2/2 Back in episode 264, we took a look at the first 7 short stories that make up the collection Star Trek Explorer Presents: “The Mission” and Other Stories. A...

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Dune pt 2

Philosophers In Space - April 23, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 218 ratings
Once again, IT IS THE LEGEND! We return to the desert planet to train another faithful, and we're not stopping till we've made everyone super depressed again about the horrors of colonialism but also the horrors of de-colonialism. It's horrors all the way down folks! Enjoy, and stay tuned for Du...

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The Vibe That Is Data

Positively Trek - April 19, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 269: The Vibe That Is Data Part 2: Data in Nemesis, Picard, and Beyond… Warning: This episode contains spoilers for all three seasons of Star Trek: Picard, as well as minor spoilers for the first episode of Star Trek: Discovery’s fifth and final season. Data is one of the most...

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The Pod Generation and Naturalness

Philosophers In Space - April 08, 2024 21:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 218 ratings
Dear listeners, there are few joys as wonderful as providing y'all with unknown little gems filled with quirky body horror and a deep commitment to the bit. This movie made my transhumanist orifices quiver with joy. Enjoy our discussion of the extremely mid concept that is "naturalness". The P...

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Two Geeks & No Plan

Trek Geeks: A Star Trek Podcast - April 05, 2024 21:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
The All-Outtake Episode! 2023 was a sad, sad year. The traditional year-end Outtakes Super Edit didn't happen as planned and the dozen of Trek Geeks fans everywhere were crestfallen that their holidays suddenly had no meaning whatsoever. Bill and Dan have decided to make up for it this week ...

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Discovery: “Red Directive” & “Under the Twin Moons” REVIEWED

Positively Trek - April 04, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 268: “Red Directive” & “Under the Twin Moons” REVIEWED Warning for SPOILERS! It’s been a very long wait since the end of season four of Star Trek: Discovery, but the wait is finally over. The first two episodes of Discovery’s fifth and final season have premiered, and Dan Gunth...

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Book Club: Morn’s Little Partner in Crime

Positively Trek - March 28, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 267: Book Club: Morn’s Little Partner in Crime Deep Space Nine: The Dog of War At the height of the Dominion War, Deep Space Nine receives an unexpected guest: a priceless purebred corgi, which Quark names Latinum. Along with the adorable canine comes a mysterious Borg componen...

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Episode 57- Star Trek: Lower Decks- S4, E1-3

SmorgasBorg: A Star Trek Universe Podcast - March 25, 2024 22:30 - 1 hour
We're baaaaccckkkk!!!!!! Who knows for how long, but we're here to talk about the first three episodes of Lower Decks season 4!

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Monolith and Viral Memetics

Philosophers In Space - March 22, 2024 13:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 218 ratings
Listeners, have we got a story for you. Two Lovecraftian podcasters so far up their own allegorical asses they do a podcast about a movie about a podcaster doing a Lovecraft. It's meta all the way down folks, so naturally we're talking memetics and the ethics of content creation. Enjoy! Monoli...

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He’s Already More Human Than Human

Positively Trek - March 21, 2024 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 266: He’s Already More Human Than Human Data: Part One When Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered in 1987, Star Trek fans were given an entire new cast of characters to love. One character in particular proved to be extremely popular: the sentient android, Lt. Commander Data...

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Book Club: Seven of Nine Knows Her Name!

Positively Trek - March 14, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 265: Book Club: Seven of Nine Knows Her Name! Picard: Firewall with David Mack & Guest Host Jessie Gender  In this episode of the Positively Trek Book Club, Dan Gunther and guest host Jessie Gender welcome David Mack to the show to discuss his new novel, Star Trek: Picard: Fire...

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Sense8 and TERFs

Philosophers In Space - March 08, 2024 23:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 218 ratings
We're keeping the theme going from Barbie with some weird mind connection gender stuff! We discuss the first two episodes of Sense8 and what they show us about the philosophy of TERFs, how that might be different from gender critical, and what the future is that TERFs seem to want. Enjoy! Sens...

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In Memoriam: Kenneth Mitchell

Trek Geeks: A Star Trek Podcast - March 06, 2024 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
Our scheduled episode of Trek Geeks has been pre-empted for a discussion on the life and career of Kenneth Mitchell who passed away on February 24, 2024 at the age of 49.

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Book Club: Did Anyone Have Android Pulaski on Their Bingo Card?

Positively Trek - February 29, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 264: Book Club: Did Anyone Have Android Pulaski on Their Bingo Card? Star Trek Explorer Presents: “The Mission” and Other Stories - Part 1 of 2 We here at the Positively Trek Book Club pride ourselves on covering every new Star Trek novel that is released. However, the releases...

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Barbie

Philosophers In Space - February 23, 2024 15:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 218 ratings
Is Barbie really a Barbie girl? And in what way is this really a Barbie world? How do we assess whether life in plastic really is fantastic, not to mention the questionable principles of consent inherent in the idea that you can undress her everywhere. Most importantly, is Barbie feminist, and i...

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Future Imperfect

Trek Geeks: A Star Trek Podcast - February 22, 2024 23:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
The Flagship returns! (We know--we're pretty excited, too.) Bill and Dan take on the Season 4 NextGen episode, "Future Imperfect," where CAPTAIN Will Riker has lost 16 years of his memory, has to complete peace negotiations with the Romulans, and...oh...did we mention he happens to have a son ...

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Just Waiting for that Kelvan Invasion…

Positively Trek - February 22, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 263: Just Waiting for that Kelvan Invasion… Our Favorite Star Trek Storylines Begging for a Follow-up Over the many years that Star Trek has been on the air, in one form or another, numerous storylines have been shown to us. And many of these stories have begged for follow-ups ...

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Book Club: The Red Path

Positively Trek - February 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 262: Book Club: The Red Path Star Trek #7-10 plus 2023 Annual The mission to stop Kahless on his mad quest to kill the gods continues! But first… Sisko on trial! In this episode of the Positively Trek Book Club, hosts Dan and Brandi discuss the second hardcover omnibus collect...

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The Enduring Personality of James T. Kirk

Positively Trek - February 09, 2024 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 261: The Enduring Personality of James T. Kirk A 60s Icon Through a 21st Century Lens “Space… The Final Frontier.” With those four words, the voice of Captain James T. Kirk echoes through the minds of Star Trek fans everywhere. Our first peek into the Star Trek universe showed ...

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Spectre of the Gun

Trek Geeks: A Star Trek Podcast - February 02, 2024 17:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
Back in the Saddle Again   (See, this is a Western episode and "Back in the Saddle" is a song sung by a cowb...never mind.)   Some might say that it's been a long road gettin' from there to here. They might also say it's been a long time, but our time is finally near.   Well, that time i...

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Children of Memory and Objective Personhood pt.1

Philosophers In Space - February 02, 2024 12:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 218 ratings
We're childish, we sorta have memories. What more do you need?! This book, you need this book. Holy birdbrains, a beautiful third installment in easily one of the best sci-fi series of all time. Meet our new friends the "uplifted" corvids and learn about the mystery of Imir as we learn about the...

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Book Club: Defiant - Volume 1

Positively Trek - February 01, 2024 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Positively Trek 260: Book Club: Defiant - Volume 1 Worf and Crew Take On the Godkiller! After just 5 issues of IDW’s flagship Star Trek comic series, a spinoff was born! Worf’s frustration with Sisko’s tactics have led him to steal the U.S.S. Defiant and lead a “Dirty Dozen” style crew of misf...