Earth Station Trek

That's the question: "Is Star Trek Dying?" According to Robert Kazinsky, who played Zeph in the Section 31 film, it is -- and he says he's heard that directly from the boss's mouth. So what do we think? Is it true? A couple years ago when we were getting Star Trek for almost a full calendar year, things were looking quite positive. Has that changed? What's the state of fandom now? Has streaming helped or hurt the franchise? If it i...

This week the EARTH STATION TREK crew discusses filler episodes. According to Alex Kurtzman, the advantage of doing 10 episodes per season in Modern Trek is that you eliminate filler episodes - those that fall in between the classics in order to get your season to its 22 - 26 episode order. But "fillers" have their place too! We'll talk about what each of us considers to be filler eps, some of our favorites from the past, and wheth...

This week the EARTH STATION TREK crew breaks down the new trailer for Season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! We're going to feed the data into the Enterprise computer bank and analyze it frame by frame (okay, it may not be that thorough but close to it!). We'll use the information at hand to form an educated hypothesis (i.e. speculate widely) about what is in store in the coming season for Pike and his crew. Definitely join us ...

This week the EARTH STATION TREK crew sat down with Sandra Gimpel live at Stellar Fest! Sandra told us about her incredible sixty-year career as a stuntwoman, beginning with Lost in Space and Star Trek! She was the salt vampire! She was a Talosian! She was Bill Mumy's stunt person on Lost in Space! Sandra's career is full of fascinating stories- check it out!

If you'd like more stories from Sandy, check out her book, Stuntlady: Fal...

This week we take a look at some of our favorite recurring Star Trek characters - those characters who add color, depth and dimension to the various shows. They may be antagonists, they may be comic relief, they may flesh out the various Starfleet crews, or they may be extreme outliers. Whomever or whatever they are, the Trekverse would be a much duller place without them!

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This week we examine what it really means to be Vulcan, and we have questions. Are their native passions and aggressions actually worse than human emotions? Are Vulcans "superior" to us, have they handicapped themselves by adapting Logic, can they even function without suppressing who they are? We will explore these questions and more, keeping in mind the ultimate question of our own humanity and what it means to be human.

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We Trek fans talk a lot about Gene Roddenberry's vision for Star Trek. But what is that vision, and how does it still fit with our world today? Has Trek drifted from Gene's vision of a more perfect future with things like Section 31 and actions by Sisko, Archer, others? Is that a good and necessary or bad thing overall to adjust his vision with the times? This should prove to be a lively discussion.

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This week the Earth Station Trek crew once again ponders the Star Trek multiverse to look at the roads the franchise didn't travel! We also discuss the recent announcement about the Star Trek: Khan audio miniseries, the untimely passing of Roberto Orci, and take a look back at This Week in Trek!

Earth Station Trek is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber.

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Time. Space. Reality. It's more than a linear path. It's a prism of endless possibility. Where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities, creating alternate worlds from the ones you know. We are the hosts of Earth Station Trek. We will be your guide into the alternate realities of the Trekverse. Follow us and ponder the question . . . "What if?" This week we explore events that could have happened differently in Star T...

Genesis II (1973) and Planet Earth (1974) were made-for-television films/pilots written and produced by Gene Roddenberry. We'll be discussing the Star Trek connections in the films as well as looking at them as Gene Roddenberry's post-Star Trek contributions to televised science fiction!

Earth Station Trek is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber.

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On tonight's show we celebrate a big milestone -- our 200th EPISODE!! First, we'll talk about some of the changes that have happened in the world of Star Trek over the course of the past 200 weeks, then we'll get into how doing this podcast has affected our opinions of Star Trek over the past few years.

THEN -- you're going to get your first preview of our new book, THE EARTH STATION TREK GUIDE TO STAR TREK! We're very excited to f...

This week the EARTH STATION TREK crew has the pleasure of chatting with Deep Space Nine writer MARK O'CONNELL! He'll be talking about his four produced stories-- which include "Second Sight" (Season 2), "Meridian" (Season 3), "For the Cause" (Season 4) and "Who Mourns For Morn?" (Season 6) -- and maybe tell us a little about some of his other ideas he pitched for the show. Find out what it was like working on Trek in the 90s!

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This week the EARTH STATION CREW tackles the big questions! What is canon? Does continuity even matter in a multiverse where time travel is possible? How big does a discrepancy need to be before it is considered a different universe? We'll tackle all of that and more!

Earth Station Trek is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber.

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2024 was quite a year for Star Trek with a whopping 40 episodes across three series! This week the EARTH STATION TREK crew takes a look back at all the Star Trek episodes from the past year. We each do a countdown of our Top 5 episodes, and then we reveal the overall collective scores to reveal the 100% Official EST Top 10 of 2024! How will 2024 stack up? Tune in to find out!

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This week the EARTH STATION TREK crew is joined once again by Matt and Elaine Sweatman from Elaine and Matt Watch TV, this time to review Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4! Find out what our favorite and least favorite episodes of the season are, how the season stacks up against the rest of TNG and Star Trek, and who the MVP of the season is!

Earth Station Trek is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Fa...