• A Trekzone Conversation •
Beginning in September 2018, A Trekzone Conversation continues the five year history of podcasting from TREKZONE.org.
Featuring bite-size interviews with science fiction alumni, fans and real world scientists, A Trekzone Conversation aims to tell you a story or three you didn’t know.
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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.
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...
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!
Monday, October 5 2020
•Matt
Former Marvel author Glenn Dakin has penned a new booked called The Quibble with Tribbles: A Star Trek Nerd Search. The aim is to spot the continuity errors in our favourite Original Series scenes!
Friday, October 2 2020
•Matt
In the news this week, Jonathan Frakes is interviewed by Trekmovie and provides some details on Strange New Worlds, Discovery's third season and a musical Short Trek? Plus info on Trek IV and Destination Star Trek London.
Wednesday, September 30 2020
•Matt
A few weeks ago, Lee joined us for a chat about Lower Decks, the latest series in the Star Trek franchise. He wasn't a massive fan of the characters and really wanted to see some changes. Coincidentally, those changes were coming and in the weeks proceeding our episodes the show turned a corner for him.
Tuesday, September 29 2020
•Matt
It's Tuesday September 29 2020. This is Talkin' Science. Detailed images emerge of M-87's heart, a supermassive black hole, Artemis is on track for a return to the moon according to NASA and analysing archive data pays off for researchers... finding three salt water lakes on Mars.
Friday, September 25 2020
•Matt
This week we bring you the Emmy's Nod for Rene and D.C. Fontana, Patrick Stewart & Mark Hamill's Uber Eats commercial, details of Star Trek Tarot cards and give a shout out to Aaron Vanderkley's latest work.
Tuesday, September 22 2020
•Matt
It's Talkin' Science - back where it belongs on Tuesdays!
Monday, September 21 2020
•Matt
Netflix has finally updated their series page for Discovery, confirming an October 16 release. Meanwhile Picard won an Emmy for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup.
Friday, September 18 2020
•Matt
As we gear up for Discovery's third season, CBS All Access announces it's becoming Paramount+ in the new year. Meanwhile, The Mandalorian has swept the Creative Arts Emmys with five gongs - including one for an Aussie cinematographer.
Wednesday, September 16 2020
•Matt
We're Talkin' Science for another week here at Trekzone. Beam over and catch the week's science and space headlines...
Monday, September 14 2020
•Matt
It may not be out for the world, but we can still talk about it. Star Trek: Lower Decks is the second animated series to be released in the Star Trek franchise and it's putting a new spin on the 24th century...
Wednesday, September 9 2020
•Matt
A faint detection at Ligo and Virgo points to the formation of an intermediate mass black hole. Scientists analysing deep sea samples find evidence of supernova remnants. And the moon's get rusty, probably because of Earth's protective magnetotail...
Monday, September 7 2020
•Matt
In the beginning the large production companies sought to sell the streaming rights to their content to the highest bidder, but when they realised the power of being able to leverage audience metrics with advertisers they started striking out on their own.
Friday, September 4 2020
•Matt
Welcome to our second new podcast series in this premiere week on Trekzone. It's The News, your weekly bite size wrap up of science fiction production info.
Wednesday, September 2 2020
•Matt
New research out this week points to bacteria being able to survive the trip to Mars, and back plus the elements for building water may have been on Earth this whole time - not brought in by other meteorites. We're Talkin' Science.
Friday, August 28 2020
•Matt
In 2018 we premiered our next live action Star Trek fan film called Once More With Feeling. It "Trek-ifed" the heroic story of the Australian Navy's HMAS Sydney who valiantly fought a German raider in the Indian Ocean during the second world war. On today's livestream, we're taking you back to that fan film.
Wednesday, August 26 2020
•Matt
A tiny asteroid is on it's way as another one narrowly missed us and French scientists have managed to bounce a laser off the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Monday, August 24 2020
•Matt
Just before Nichelle Nichols retires after a stellar career, Renegades are giving her a fitting send off with Walter Koenig.
Friday, August 21 2020
•Matt
Join us for our first Themed Friday Live show..
Wednesday, August 19 2020
•Matt
It turns out Ceres is geologically active with a salty ocean beneath the surface... It's National Science Week and Brad and the team are posing for some satellite selfies.... and Crew-1 delayed again as NASA continues to pour over Demo-2's mission data.
Monday, August 17 2020
•Matt
Andrew Jarvis zooms into Trekzone on this edition of A Trekzone Conversation. Now, you might not recognise his name - but you'll know his and his teams work if you've seen the latest live action Star Trek series...
Saturday, August 15 2020
•Matt
As the Parkes Radio Telescope joins the national heritage list, SpaceX's Starship successfully flies and supernova '1987A' gives away a fascinating secret.
Friday, August 14 2020
•Matt
SpaceX has backed up their Crew Dragon success with the first flight of Starship... it flew, and landed, at their testing range in Texas.
Thursday, August 13 2020
•Matt
In 1987 a massive supernova erupted in the Large Magellanic Cloud.. now, it seems to have left behind a neutron star.
