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Episode 173, "Spoonus III"
This Week in Trek: A Star Trek Podcast
English - February 03, 2015 21:21 - 1 hour - 35.7 MB - ★★★★ - 112 ratingsTV & Film star trek trek picard riker troi kirk spock mccoy scotty enterprise Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
News
Filming to begin April 15, 2015.
Bryan Cranston (WW BB) in talks to be the bad guy.
Original TOS phaser prop expected to fetch $60,000 at auction Feb 21. Liveauctioneers.com. $40,000 opening bid. “Midgrade, 1 of 2 surviving” I know there are 2 heroes and 2 or more midgrades and stunt versions. Several nice costumes too.
Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: In your opinion, what are three items that any die hard Trek fan must have?
Star Trek in pop culture:
Casper: A Spirited Beginning. 1997. Steve Guttenberg, Lori Loughlin, Rodney Dangerfield. In this clip, the kid is welcoming a woman to the house and being all friendly. She picks up a picture of him as a Klingon & this happens.
(Clip: 00:11)
Episode insight: TNG S7: Parallels
Character insight - Saavik
Subspace communications
Ken P.