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DSC nominated for Peabody Award in the entertainment category to “honor the most powerful, enlightening and invigorating stories in television, radio and digital media. Other nominees: Better Call Saul, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. TNG won a Peabody award in 1988 for "The Big Goodbye" (Holodeck, Dixon Hill).

DSC Season 2 began filming yesterday!

Jonathan Frakes will direct ep 2 & 10.

Many ask who will play Spock, but he wasn't the first officer in "The Cage", that was Number One played by Majel Barrett.

Chief Engineer Denise Reno of the USS Hiawatha, played by Tig Notaro!

Last week Amazon started selling exclusive DS9 shirts. They've now done the same with TNG.

Ten Forward:

Chris on Twitter: Which TOS character (Scotty, Uhura, Chekov or Sulu) deserved to have more screen time and backstory better told?

Star Trek in pop culture:

The Middleman (2008) S01E12 The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome

Last week in Trek

Episode insight: VOY: Bride of Chaotica

Character insight - Enabran Tain