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Star Trek: Age of Discovery

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Star Trek: Age of Discovery

Star Trek: Age of Discovery is a fan podcast for the Star Trek Universe shows including Paramount + shows STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, STAR TREK: PICARD, STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS, STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, and coming soon, STAR TREK: PRODIGY and STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS.

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Star Trek: Discovery - April 2018 Update

April 05, 2018 14:43 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MB

During this period of time before the next season begins, we will provide updates on “Star Trek: Discovery” production news, convention appearances by Discovery cast and crew as well as any other pertinent information about the show. We are committed to producing a Discovery podcast each month until the show returns for its 2nd season in 2019. So, if you have not already done so, please subscribe to our podcast so you won’t miss any of our installments. EPISODE CREDITS: Produced and edited...

The Theme of Fear - A Special Star Trek Age of Discovery Episode

February 28, 2018 04:36 - 29 minutes - 27 MB

As promised, for this podcast we will take another look at the second half of Season 1 to take a deeper dive into the major themes and character developments of the series. Without question, the theme that stood out to us that served as the major spine of the series focused on how fears – whether real or perceived – play a critical role in how we choose to live our lives. Star Trek: Age of Discovery Star Trek: Age of Discovery is a fan podcast for the CBS All-Access show STAR TREK: DISCOV...

S1 Ep. 15 - 'Will You Take My Hand?'

February 13, 2018 13:58 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MB

As the newly appointed Captain of the Discovery, Mirror Georgiou is sent on a mission by the remaining Starfleet leadership to end the Federation-Klingon war, once and for all. She uses Stamets to jump the ship inside one of the vast caves of Qo'noS, the Klingon homeworld. Once there, Mirror Georgiou assembles an away team - consisting of Michael Burnham, Ash Tyler, and Cadet Tilly - to join her to supposedly plant a drone that would map critical military targets for the Federation. Burnham ...

S1 Ep. 14 - 'The War Without, The War Within'

February 06, 2018 14:28 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MB

The USS Discovery finds itself back in the prime universe nine months from the time they unexpectedly ended up in the Mirror universe. They are forcibly boarded by Federation officers and officials, including Admiral Katrina Cornwell and Ambassador Sarek. The Discovery crew learn the Klingons are winning the war having destroyed over 1/3 of the Federation fleet and taken over 20% of Federation territory. The Discovery’s Mirror counterparts, the ISS Discovery was destroyed by The Klingons soo...

S1 Ep. 13 - 'What's Past Is Prologue'

January 30, 2018 17:58 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB

Lorca frees his rebel followers, who have endured almost two years of torture in Agonizer chambers upon The Emperor’s ship. With Mirror Landry by his side, he finds Mirror Stamets hiding in his lab and forces him to flood several decks of the ship with a biochemical agent, killing most of the Emperor’s forces. Meanwhile, Burnham escapes the Emperor after she orders Michael to put in the brig. Michael manages to communicate with The Discovery, informing Saru of Lorca’s true identity. Saru tel...

S1 Ep. 12 - 'Vaulting Ambition'

January 23, 2018 15:55 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MB

In Episode 12, ‘Vaulting Ambition,’ we find ourselves still in the Mirror Universe with ever increasing danger. Michael Burnham and Captain Lorca are summoned to the Emperor’s Palace ship, the ISS Charon, to confront the Terran Emperor, a ruthless Mirror version of Captain Philippa Georgiou. She sentences Lorca to suffer unending pain for the remainder of his life in the Agonizer for the failed coup attempt he led. To celebrate his capture the Emperor invites Michael to dine with her on fres...

S1 Ep. 11 - 'The Wolf Inside'

January 16, 2018 11:41 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MB

Discovery remains trapped in the Mirror universe with Michael, Lorca, and Tyler still on the I.S.S. Shenzhou. They continue their masquerade in an effort to acquire information on the Federation starship U.S.S. Defiant so as to find a way back to the Prime universe. Michael receives orders from the Emperor to completely annihilate a rebel base camp housing the leader of the Resistance – a Klingon known only as Firewolf. Instead, in an effort to spare the rebels, Michael defies the order – sa...

S1 Ep. 10 - 'Despite Yourself'

January 09, 2018 03:33 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MB

The crew of the Discovery finds themselves in a mirror universe, similar to the one we were first introduced to in the famed “Mirror, Mirror” episode in the second season of TOS. This universe exists on the brutal rule of the Terran Empire – barbaric, xenophobic humans who use terror and brutality to oppress other beings who dare to challenge their power. Opposing the Terrans is a rebel alliance of Klingons, Romulans, and Andorians. We later learn that in this universe Tilly is the Captain o...

Characters of Color in Star Trek - A Special Star Trek Age of Discovery Episode

December 14, 2017 12:56 - 1 hour - 59.4 MB

Star Trek: Age of Discovery is a fan podcast for the CBS All-Access show STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. In this second special episode, we look at the treatment of people of color within the Star Trek universe. Primarily, we focus on the five live-action television series. As you know, the Original Series (TOS) was a groundbreaking cultural phenomenon of multicultural casting – not just in regular cast members, but also in the case of guest actors and those performing in supporting roles. The most ...

The Story So Far - A Special Star Trek Age of Discovery Episode

November 30, 2017 00:12 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB

In this special episode of Star Trek: Age of Discovery Gary and Addell reexamine the first nine episodes of Season One. We break down the show's overarching themes, analysis of the main characters, and significant plot points, including some that may not have been given sufficient attention earlier. Star Trek: Age of Discovery is a fan podcast for the CBS All-Access show STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. Email the show at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @StarTrekAoD and on Facebook at ht...

S1 Ep. 9 - 'Into the Forest I Go'

November 14, 2017 19:22 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MB

Picking up from the previous episode, the Klingon Kol is in route to the planet Pahvo intent on killing anyone he finds. Admiral Terral orders the Discovery to retreat to the nearest star base. Captain Lorca seems to comply with the order while attempting to figure out another way to identify the cloaked ship. The crew of the Discovery devises a plan to place two sensors on the Sarcophagus that will allow them to map the cloaking grid. Tyler and Burnham serve as the away team to set the sen...

S1 Ep. 8 - 'Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum'

November 07, 2017 11:24 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MB

As the episode opened we find the U.S.S. Gargarin engaged in a fierce battle with several Klingon Birds of Prey using the cloaking technology. The Discovery joins the battle attacking but finds itself less than prepared. An inexperienced Tactical Officer appears wholly incompetent as he is too slow to target and fire on the enemy vessels. Just then, Kol decloaks the Sarcophagus Ship an delivers several fatal phaser shots weakening the ship’s shields. In a last ditch effort to protect the Gar...

S1 Ep. 7 - 'Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad'

November 01, 2017 03:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MB

Gary and Addell discuss Episode Seven, 'Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad.' The episode features the return of Harcourt Fenton “Harry” Mudd – the nefarious con artist Captain Lorca left behind on a Klingon prison ship during the fifth episode, “Choose Your Pain.” As you may recall, Mudd makes good on his promise to escape and exact revenge on Lorca for abandoning him. Hiding inside a Gormagander – basically a space whale - and using a time crystal, he to create a 30-minute temporal loop i...

S1 Ep. 6 - 'Lethe'

October 24, 2017 22:45 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MB

Sarek and a Vulcan assistant embark on a secret mission to meet with Klingons representing two Houses that have recently broken away from Kol. The effort is intended to initiate a peace settlement with the Federation. However, Sarek’s travelling companion turns out to be a Vulcan logic extremist committed to sabotaging the mission and killing Sarek. A force field saves his life but he is severely wounded and rendered unconscious. On the Discovery Michael feels Sarek's distress through the Ka...

S1 Ep. 5 - 'Choose Your Pain'

October 17, 2017 23:09 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MB

Gary and Addell discuss the fifth episode, "Choose Your Pain." Seven months since the beginning of the Federation-Klingon War. After participating in a strategy session with Starfleet Command, Captain Lorca is captured by the Klingons as he shuttles back to Discovery. Thrown into a cell he meets Harry Mudd, a not-so-honest Terran and a young Starfleet lieutenant Ash Tyler, the lone survivor of the U.S.S. Yeager, one of the Federation starships destroyed during the Battle at the Binary Stars...

S1 Ep. 4 - 'The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry'

October 10, 2017 22:00 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MB

Gary and Addell discuss Episode 4, "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry." Lorca assigns Burnham to study the creature from the Glenn, dubbed a Tardigrade, to find a way to use its biology as a weapon. Starfleet orders Discovery to the dilithium mining colony Corvan II, which is under Klingon attack. Stamets is reluctant to make such a long jump using the spores, and when the drive is activated the ship nearly collides with a star. Lorca sends Commander Landry to keep Burnham's ...

S1 Ep. 3 - 'Context is for Kings'

October 04, 2017 01:54 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB

Six months into her sentence, Burnham is on an unexpected prison transfer when an emergency forces her shuttle to be rescued by the USS Discovery. Spending several days on the ship, Burnham is ordered by its captain, the mysterious Gabriel Lorca, to assist with a scientific assignment. Burnham overhears Lieutenant Paul Stamets, an astromycologist who is leading the assignment, discuss an upcoming experiment with a colleague serving on another starship; Lorca is soon informed of an incident o...

S1 Ep. 2 - 'The Vulcan Hello,' & 'Battle at the Binary Stars'

September 26, 2017 18:52 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MB

Gary and Addell review the two-part premiere, "The Vulcan Hello" and "Battle at the Binary Stars." Investigating a damaged satellite near a binary star system on the edge of Federation space, the crew members of the USS Shenzhou discover an object obscured from their sensors. After First Officer Michael Burnham volunteers to investigate the object, she finds an ancient, carved vessel. She is attacked by a Klingon, and when trying to escape, she accidentally kills him. A group of Klingons mo...

S1 Ep. 1 - Introduction to Age of Discovery

September 18, 2017 19:34 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MB

Star Trek: Age of Discovery is a fan podcast for the CBS All-Access show STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. Email the show at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter at @StarTrekAoD and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/StarTrekAoD/. Visit our website at https://webeblack.wordpress.com where we offer additional articles on Star Trek canon, interesting sidebar issues and aspects of the show. EPISODE CREDITS: Produced and edited by Gary Anderson   LINKS Website: startrekaod.net Be sure to f...

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