Gary Anderson, Star Trek: Age of Discovery, Addell Austin Anderson
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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 Classic Star Trek series, Paramount + shows STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, STAR TREK: PICARD, STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS, and Netflix's STAR TREK: PRODIGY.
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Email the show at startrekaod@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter at @StarTrekAoD and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/StarTrekAoD/. Visit our website at http://startrekaod.net, where we offer additional articles on Star Trek canon, interesting sidebar issues, and aspects of the show.
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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 Classic Star Trek series, Paramount + shows STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, STAR TREK: PICARD, STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS, and Netflix's STAR TREK: PRODIGY.
Subscribe to Star Trek: Age of Discovery in Apple Podcast by CLICKING HERE. Also, the show is available on Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, and iHeartRADIO.
Email the show at startrekaod@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter at @StarTrekAoD and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/StarTrekAoD/. Visit our website at http://startrekaod.net, where we offer additional articles on Star Trek canon, interesting sidebar issues, and aspects of the show.
The long-anticipated Star Trek project has finally arrived. "Star Trek: Section 31" has more lives than a cat. We've been waiting for this project since 2018. But is it any good? Listen and find out as we review the first Star Trek streaming movie.
Addell and Gary preview "Star Trek: Section 31," the new Star Trek film. We’ll help you prepare for the film with a brief history of Section 31 in the Star Trek universe, share descriptions of the movie's main characters, and identify a few of our favorite Section 31 episodes. We’ll end the podcast with the latest Star Trek news.
In the series finale, creator Mike McMahan and director Megan Lloyd craft a fitting ending to the season five arc and the adventures of this particular crew of the USS Cerritos.
In the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, we get a cornucopia of surprises and plot twists that don't disappoint. "Fissure Quest" is the best, most imaginative, and most entertaining episode of Season Five. We are confronted with the mystery of the dimensional fissures, but with answers, we could have never imagined. Let's not spoil your enjoyment by revealing too many details.
Mike McMahan delivers us another signature TNG trope with "Upper Decks." Wrapped in an anthology episode, five vignettes follow the lives of select bridge crew members - Captain Freeman, Commander Ransom, Lieutenant Shax, Commander Billups, and Dr. T’Ana - through their day aboard the Cerritos. This quintet of tales incorporates even more tropes (an alien invasion, space cows, performance of a one-man show, a devolved crew member, witnessing a birthing ceremony, engineering disasters, Bajoran trauma, etc.)
It's two reviews in one! In "Of Gods and Angles," Mariner teams up with a troubled ensign while the Cerritos is holding peace talks between two civilizations. Then, with "Fully Dilated," an undercover mission to a pre-warp society where the planetary core creates a spacetime differential resulting in time dilation. For every second on the Cerritos, a week will pass for the away team on the surface.
The Cerritos deviate to the infamous Starbase 80 to fix their navigational system or spend the next 700 years on impulse getting home. Captain Freeman is troubled knowing that her alternate dimension doppelganger was reassigned to their Starbase 80 as punishment for some failure of leadership. It inspires her to make sure this trip goes well. Unfortunately, the crew, including Boimler, gets infected by a mysterious disease. Mariner believes it was caused by "the curse of Starbase 80."
In "A Farewell to Farms," Mariner and Boimler travel to the Klingon homeworld, Qo'noS, where they look up Ma'ah, a once-honored Klingon warrior now living a mundane life on his family's farm. They attempt to help him reclaim his lost rank and the command of a Klingon Battlecruiser despite the opposition of the Oversight Committee. The B-plot takes place on the Cerritos. Captain Freeman and her crew try to handle a touchy diplomatic crisis involving Dr. Migleemo and two visiting Klowahkan dignitaries who are food critics with exceptionally high standards.
Mariner, T’Lyn, Tendi, and Rutherford embark on a mission to capture a nanite cluster menacing the Cosmic Duchess, a massive cruise starship. Unexpectedly, Jennifer joins them, seemingly unaware that she and Mariner broke up some time ago. At the same time, Boimler joins Ransom and Billups on an undercover assignment to retrieve an Admiral who has gone AWOL. The mission is impaired by Boimler's fear that Ransom will put him in dangerous situations.
Star Trek: Lower Decks kicks off Season Five with a double-header. In "Dos Cerritos," a spatial anomaly forces the Cerritos crew to come face-to-face with their faces when Mariner, Boimler, and Rutherford enter an alternate universe where they encounter their doppelgangers. In "Shades of Green," Tendi races to end a conflict with blue-skinned Orions while Boimler and Mariner help a planet of capitalists to convert into a post-scarcity society.
In the final episode of this retrospective on Star Trek: Discovery, we look at the series' fifth season. Dr. Kovich assigns Captain Burnham and the crew a top-secret Red Directive mission. He wants them to investigate an ancient Romulan science vessel. It soon turns into a race across the galaxy against two couriers known as Moll and L'ak. They stole a Romulan puzzle box containing a journal linked to 24th-century scientists searching for Progenitor technology, which was used to seed life across the galaxy. Burnham must assemble a galactic map to locate the technology while keeping Moll and L'ak from beating her to the next clue.
In Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery, the crew faces a powerful cosmic threat causing catastrophic destruction across the galaxy known as the Dark Matter Anomaly or the DMA. This phenomenon destroys Kwejian, Book's home planet, taking his family, culture, and hope from him. Captain Burnham, now five months into her leadership role, must lead her crew on a mission to investigate the Anomaly while managing the political and diplomatic fallout from the events of the Burn.
In Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, Michael and the crew of the USS Discovery travel 930 years into the future, and the 3188 they encounter is not what they expected. The Federation is in a much-weakened state. A catastrophic event known as "The Burn" has eliminated nearly all of the dilithium supply. The loss of the critical resource for faster-than-light travel has crippled interstellar travel and plunged the galaxy into chaos. Saru and Michael must lead the crew on a mission to reconnect the fractured remnants of the Federation and solve the mystery of The Burn.
Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery had the crew facing a mysterious and dangerous new threat tied to a series of puzzling signals scattered across the galaxy. Captain Christopher Pike of the USS Enterprise temporarily takes command of the Discovery after a distress call and leads the investigation into these "red bursts." Also during this season, Saru and the Kelpien species go through a life-changing transformation, we're introduced to a younger Spock, a return to Talos IV, and presented by a threatening AI presence. All of this makes for an exciting sophomore season of Star Trek's first streaming series.
Today, we kick off a five-episode series for our podcast. We're going to look back at Star Trek: Discovery. The show was the prompt for all of the Star Trek franchise’s current generation of success. We’ll examine the structure and components of Star Trek: Discovery season by season. Each week, we’ll thoroughly analyze the show’s achievements, challenges, and controversies. This week we tackle Season One. Enjoy.
It's a special treat to release this Prodigy Season Two finale episode on September 8, 2024, the 58th anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek. Star Trek: Prodigy is the most authentic sequel to the spirit of the Original Series. It embodies the themes of adventure, hope, and discovery, and We hope you enjoy our analysis of "Ouroboros."
The episode includes some Star Trek news, including Paramount's Star Trek Day activities. Enjoy!
"Brink" and "Touch of Grey" tie up several things nicely while including some strong character development with an exciting adventure, especially for the Protostar crew. In "Brink," war looms between the Federation and Solum. Gwyn leads the cadets on an undercover mission to gather intelligence and rescue Ilthuran. In "Touch of Grey," Janeway devises a plan to liberate her crew from Asencia's prison, where they're trapped with an angry Loom.
"Ascension" delivers a heart-pounding two-parter filled with a new set of challenges to the crews of Voyager and the Protostar. The lives of Chakotay, Janeway, and the cadets are endangered when a forgotten enemy suddenly resurfaces with a surprising new power-draining weapon. Will Gwyn and Dal's quest to close the time loop be achieved or will the Loom return to fix things their way?
In "A Tribble Called Quest," while harvesting bosonite on a barren world, the crew encounters aggressive, genetically modified tribbles—and the Klingon scientist who created them. In "Cracked Mirror," the Protostar's reunion with Voyager has unexpected side effects, bouncing the crew between alternate realities—including the mirror universe.
When the cadets find Chakotay, he is a bitter and resigned man. Marooned for ten years on the planet - Ysida. Since the death of his first officer – Adreek, Chakotay has spent much of that time alone. His only companion is the Protostar’s hologram, Janeway. But the arrival of Dal, Gwyn, Rok, Zero, Jankom, Murf, and Ma’jel changes everything. Through their inspirational modeling of hope, they can fix Chakotay. If not for their sake, for his.
Star Trek: Age of Discovery
Star Trek: Age of Discovery is a fan podcast for the Star Trek Universe shows, including Classic Star Trek series, Paramount + shows STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, STAR TREK: PICARD, STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS, and Netflix's STAR TREK: PRODIGY.
Subscribe to Star Trek: Age of Discovery in Apple Podcast by CLICKING HERE. Also, the show is available on Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, and iHeartRADIO.
Email the show at startrekaod@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter at @StarTrekAoD and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/StarTrekAoD/. Visit our website at http://startrekaod.net, where we offer additional articles on Star Trek canon, interesting sidebar issues, and aspects of the show.
