Tuesday, November 24 2020
•Matt
As China launches it's Changy'e 5 lunar sample mission, Rocket Labs recovers it's first booster and the NSF decide to condemn the Arecibo dish after it was deemed too unsafe to repair.
Monday, November 23 2020
•Matt
Lee Sargent is back to Talk Trek once again just before the sixth episode was released. We've got a couple nits to pick, and some credit where it's due. What's to come? We speculate on this edition of A Trekzone Conversation
Friday, November 20 2020
•Matt
A collection of early 2010-era docos by William Shatner have been compiled into a BluRay set, ready for Christmas stocking stuffing. Meanwhile IDW Publishing release their first Voyager comic mini-series, Anson Mount joins METI - aiming to contact ET and LeVar Burton thanks fans for championing him as the new host of Jeopardy...
Thursday, November 19 2020
•Matt
Tracking the Ferengi Aramut across several sectors of space, the Enterprise learns that he didn't smuggle the Romulan creatures, instead he acquired them as part of a trade with a secluded colony on the planet Frigis. With the aid of the Garidian refugees, Riker and an away team beam to the planets surface and attempt to find The Lawgiver's Fifth Scroll...
Wednesday, November 18 2020
•Matt
Larry Nemecek's back on Trekzone as we countdown the days until the sixth installment of Star Trek: Discovery's epic third season. They've jumped 900 years into the future to save the galaxy from the sphere data only to discover a shattered utopia in the Federation.
Tuesday, November 17 2020
•Matt
Crew-1 blasts off from the cape as SpaceX helps NASA officially get back to launching from American soil over ten years after the shuttle retired. Scientists now theorise the mysterious dark matter hangs out at the outer edges of spiral galaxies - not the center. And new theories about Hawking Radiation as new research suggests something of you would survive an encounter with a black hole.
Monday, November 16 2020
•Matt
Left with more questions than answers at Cymkoe, the Enterprise is tasked with finding a missing Federation scientist on the arboreal world Morassia. What the away team uncover, however, is a potential smuggling operation involving a Ferengi bringing in Romulan animals...
Friday, November 13 2020
•Matt
ViacomCBS CEO delivered a huge confidence boost to the numerous Star Trek production teams, essentially promoting the series as a tentpole for the forthcoming rebranding of CBS All Access and global launch of Paramount+. Meanwhile, on the Fox lot, The Orville production kicks off again in December and plans to honour Leonard Nimoy gain family support in Boston.
Thursday, November 12 2020
•Matt
After rescuing the Garidian refugees, the Enterprise receives a distress call from Cymkoe IV, their orbital research facility has been attacked by an unknown alien vessel and their life support is critical...
Wednesday, November 11 2020
•Matt
Scientists now estimate that half of all sun-like stars have Earth-like planets, now we hope they've had similar evolutionary paths and have complex life on them. Lunar's twin - astronomers now believe an asteroid hiding behind Mars and first found more than 20 years ago, is a long lost relative of our moon. And snagging a magnetar, a super dense neutron star, during a recent fast radio burst... how they did it may surprise you.
Tuesday, November 10 2020
•Matt
We're not slowing down before Christmas, which is only six weeks away! Instead, we're going to get you in that festive mood with more of the Trekzone content you love. Continuing the week with the start of our second playthrough - #StarTrek #TheNextGeneration A Final Unity. This one is a lot of fun, come with us on the journey.
Monday, November 9 2020
•Matt
Marc Cushman's These Are The Voyages novels detailing the early years of Star Trek have been revised and re-released. We received some advanced copies almost a year ago and tucked them away in our bookcase. That was until a few weeks when Doug posted about the great read that they are, and we got to talking about them, the enduring franchise of Star Trek and more in this edition of A Trekzone Conversation...
Friday, November 6 2020
•Matt
We're diving into the minutiae of Star Trek: Discovery on this edition of Trekzone's The News.
Wednesday, November 4 2020
•Matt
After fifteen episodes, we're finally able to bring you our uncut playthrough of 2001's Star Trek: Away Team. We're playing this one with NO commentary.
Tuesday, November 3 2020
•Matt
New research indicates the Milky Way - and other galaxies - experienced a growth spurt and matured in their childhood... we get up close with asteroid Psyche, the iron rich asteroid is the next target of our exploration of the solar systems leftover chunks ... and good news for osiris-rex, the sample hatch is closed and the spacecraft can return to Earth with it's precious cargo intact.
Monday, November 2 2020
•Matt
It's been close on five years since we first heard the name Axanar, and there's still been no follow up to the critically acclaimed Prelude to Axanar. Probably because all of the key players moved on long ago and one man continues to suckle from the teet of generous and loyal followers. Axamonitor's Carlos Pedraza is back for our second part of this catch up.
Friday, October 30 2020
•Matt
As Kathryn Janeway receives a monument in her future birthplace, Hero Collector release details about three books and we learn about the next Picard tie in novel!
Friday, October 30 2020
•Matt
We're restarting our final mission on Vulcan after researching exactly what we need to do! In this bumper episode we're phasering our way through to the Vulcan temple.
Wednesday, October 28 2020
•Matt
We're staying on Vulcan for the final two missions of 2001's Star Trek: Away Team... but we're not quite at the final episode of our freshman season of Trekzone Plays.
Tuesday, October 27 2020
•Matt
Data from a telescope mounted to 747 indicates water on the Moon, Kate Rubins votes from low Earth orbit - but it's a complicated and detailed process to record her ballot legally and Osiris-REx tags asteroid Bennu.
Monday, October 26 2020
•Matt
Carlos Pedraza beams in for A Trekzone Conversation to bring us up to speed on the latest developments with the so called Star Trek fan production Axanar. It turns out Alec is breaching his settlement with CBS with pretty much everything he's doing.
Friday, October 23 2020
•Matt
Royal Mail in the UK have released Star Trek stamps, Kurtzman talks Discovery season four and McMahan talks Lower Decks season two. It's Trekzone's bite size news podcast - The News!
Tuesday, October 20 2020
•Matt
Several countries sign on to NASA's Artemis Accords, a new study suggests the moon helped Earth survive the sun's teenage years and a very close call for two bits of space junk over Antarctica.
Friday, October 16 2020
•Matt
As Network 10 holds it's annual upfronts, confirming Paramount+ for down under, Kurtzman speaks with SFX magazine for Discovery's return - detailing his hopes for the film franchise to return to continuity with TV. Plus, details of Virtual Trek Con 2 happening now and STLV becomes The 55-Year Mission back at the Rio but in August next year.
Thursday, October 15 2020
•Matt
Following information retrieved on the Borg cube, we've found the Warden base on Vulcan. An away team has been dispatched to access the information needed.
Wednesday, October 14 2020
•Matt
NASA preps Osiris-REx to land on an asteroid, super habitable exoplanets postulated and Dr Brad and his team discover the closest star to be gobbled up by a black hole....
Tuesday, October 13 2020
•Matt
NASA preps Osiris-REx to land on an asteroid, super habitable exoplanets postulated and Dr Brad and his team discover the closest star to be gobbled up by a black hole. Those stories - plus the headlines - on this edition of Talkin' Science.
Monday, October 12 2020
•Matt
Southern Launch Australia is one of a bunch of companies pioneering the Aussie Space Industry and they're gearing up for a massive 2021. Launch director Alexander Linossier joins Matt for a chat about what the future holds for this Aussie company.
Friday, October 9 2020
•Matt
A virtual panel overnight for NYCC has revealed the lead of "Nick Trek" - aka Prodigy. Kate Mulgrew returns to the franchise as Kathryn Janeway, notably a Captain... but is that just the role she made famous? We're also covering the season finale of Lower Decks, in spectacular fashion, and a Trekkie-themed Joe Biden event coming up...
Thursday, October 8 2020
•Matt
We're responding to one of the many distress calls from ships and stations across Federation space.
Thursday, October 8 2020
•Matt
We pick up the action right after the last mission, with our away team scattered across a Borg cube. Following a successful rescue, we head back to Chetzia III and the Warden Base where they are attempting to manufacture more contagion.
Tuesday, October 6 2020
•Matt
Astronauts on the space station are working hard to identify the source of a leak as astronomers here on Earth have found a supermassive black hole munching on six galaxies and Mars is at it's closest point to Earth for a decade and a half!
