Jan. 22, 2025

Phasers Set To Stun: Trekxpectations - Stardate 12501.22

Phasers Set To Stun: Trekxpectations - Stardate 12501.22
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Space the Final Frontier. Join us for a bold conversation

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our prime directive to recap our favorite Star Trek shows,

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both new and old, to engage and debate about all

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things Trek. Prepare to energize with Phasers Set to Stunt.

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Phasers Set to Stun,

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where we continue to show our love for everything Star

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Trek in this ongoing series from a film by podcast

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which focuses on every quadrant of the expanding universe of

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Trek by covering television, animation, movies, directors, and much more.

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Plotting the course as always as your core Trek crew,

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I'm David.

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Burns, I'm Scott Hoffman, and I'm Wayne Whiten.

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In this episode, we are going to continue our Trek

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Spectations where we're going to share our expectations for the

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upcoming slate of Star Trek projects, both rumored and confirmed.

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We're gonna be talking about possibly coming soon to theaters,

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streaming platforms, as well as merchandise at other cool events

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happening across the universe. All right, let's get started, gentlemen.

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I know we're gonna be talking about this one in

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our next episode, a Phaser Setistan but we obviously need

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to mention it because it is in the world of

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Star Trek, and of course that is Star Trek Section

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thirty one that will be premiering on Friday, January twenty

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fourth on Paramount Plus, so rather really soon after this episode,

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so we'll be talking about it shortly. I know this

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is a what an espionage focused style film? That does

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that sound right? What I think this is gonna be?

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Yeah, you know, that's that's what they've been calling. It's

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something different for Star Trek.

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Yeah, it seems like, I mean, Section thirty one is

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kind of like they're their spy division almost teams, like

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there's aspects of like a heist, like it feels like

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there's flavors of Ocean's eleven in there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, And I know Michiel Yaal coming back playing Philippa again,

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who we know came from Star Trek Discovery, so it

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should be quite interesting. I think the trailer seems still

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kind of odd to me. It looks like something different

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for Star Trek, but hey, I'm open for it.

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That's what they're that's what they're wanting. Actually, yeah, yep.

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So I'm I'm willing to see it.

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And also during when I was looking for the research,

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because we had mentioned we were weren't certain about the

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time frame on this, I completely forgot that on her

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last appearance on Discovery she went back in time with

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the Guardian of Forever and we never did find out

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where she went. So that's where this this time difference,

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This takes place between Star Trek and Star Trek the

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next generation, which really is on explored territory for them.

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Wow, that could be quite interesting in my opinion.

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Yeah, there's some some hints that I've seen without spoiling

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too much, I know that there's some kind of mention

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of a connection with Captain Rachel Garrett. Yeah, Yesterday's Enterprise,

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and it looks like there's hints of like a seeing

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Georgio's family, like Georgia in the past, the mom and

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dad and things like that. So that'll be interesting to

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see how this hops around.

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Yeah, and you know something we mentioned recently on our

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the motion pictures that the Daltons, you know, we never

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really saw them again at Star Trek, and I just

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read that one of the characters is a Dalton in

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this series, so I'm yeah, I'm interested to see those.

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Yeah, if you look in the Catha AMDB, so it's

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not giving away anything. There is a young actress that

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is playing Georgia, so obviously they're going to go back

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to see her past.

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So I'll be interested to see where they plan to

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go from this. Like obviously, if it does well enough,

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there could be a sequel to it, obviously, but yeah,

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is there something else that opens up into Does it

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have any kind of connections to things like Starfleet Academy?

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Be interesting to see.

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Well, I know the producers had stated that, you know,

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the section thirty one that we saw in Discovery is

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very different from the section thirty one that we saw

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in d Space nine, and that this movie should explain

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why and how those differences came to be.

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Good, good, definite think the areas of Starchek that needs

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to be explored. So that's that's interesting. I'm excited for that.

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So something something different, something new, we need that exactly.

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Yeah, the franchise will benefit from doing something like that,

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I think.

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Yeah, Oh, I think so.

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And you know, this is great because you know, being

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the first streaming movie. I hope there's more coming. I

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hope they start trying new and different things like this,

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and I hope it's a good film. I'm looking forward to.

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Say, do you too. I wanted to be successful because

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that means we could get a lower decks film. Yes,

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please let this be successful. Everybody out there watch this,

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please please. Well that leads U s Gott. You kind of

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mentioned we're gonna talk about next and that's Starfleet Academy.

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That's the next series that Paramount Plus is going to

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give us beyond strange new worlds. Obviously, I don't think

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we're gonna see this till next year, maybe even twenty

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twenty six.

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Yeah, probably, I would say that too, very early twenty

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two twenty six, Yeah, probably January, my guess.

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I think.

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So.

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I know they've already greenlit a second season, so obviously

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they see something in it, which is good. You know,

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I'm kind of odd that the season's not even out

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and you're a green leanding the second season. Yeah, so

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they obviously see something in it that you know, we

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don't know anything about yet. I know they've got a

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big cast already on it, and Holly Hunter and I

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know Robert Paccardo both have joined the cast of this,

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So I'm very intrigued of what's going to happen with

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this series. So they started filming this what in March

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of twenty twenty three or August summer twenty fourth, somewhere.

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In that neighborhood they've been working on for a little while. Yeah,

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and Jonathan Franks is directing episodes. The first two episodes

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of the series is directed by the producer himself, Alex Kurtzman.

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No, nice, Okay, cool? That should Yeah, I mean.

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They should have a broad appeal, I think to a

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variety of Star Trek fans, because, like I mentioned, Robert

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Priccardo would appeal to Voyager fans obviously, first contact fans, prodigy.

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I think he's got a toe dipped in that, yes.

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And then you've also got connections obviously with Discovery you've

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got Mary Wiseman, take Nataro odin Fair coming back. And

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then as far as big names, you've also got Tatiana

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Maslani and Paul Giamati. So they're not skimping on the

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Star Star telling.

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With No, they're not.

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And I think it was smart bringing in Robert Paccardo.

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I mean, one, I loved his character, I'm glad to

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see him. But you know, two, with this being a

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continuation of Discovery, there were a lot of Trekkis and

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fans that didn't really give Discovery a chance or kind

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of were turned off on it, and hopefully this his

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appearance in the series might bring some of them to

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watch it and hopefully like it.

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Yeah, so too, we shall see. I know it's ten episodes,

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I believe is the length of the season, so we

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should have a quite a lot to watch.

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Yeah, that is for sure.

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Well, we haven't really gotten much of the Academy of

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Life a few, you know, Crusher episodes and then things

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like that, so it'll be good to see how they

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kind of leap into this if it has to like

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infuse some new blood in the franchise pretty literally, and

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there's different places where it could split her off.

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Into We've talked about that before.

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Yeah, they've really wanted to do this. I mean, how

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many times did they mentioned they were going to do

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a starpleet Academy series over the years, so films, So

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finally they were getting Finally we're getting it.

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Yeah, it's about time. Speaking about about time, I cannot

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wait that we're going to get Strange New Worlds season three.

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They've not given us a date yet, assuming it's gonna

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be anywhere between April and May. I'm thinking I hope so,

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because I'm very excited to see where this goes because

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we led they left us with the cliffhanger on season

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two with battling the Gorn, so you know, some of

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our heroes were captured by them, and we got the

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lovely introduction of Montgomery Scott played by Martin Quinn, who

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did a fantastic job and I cannot wait to see

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what else he.

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Brings his character. I noticed that he's been promoted to cast,

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so uh, probably be in every episode.

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Good he needs to be because he was awesome.

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Yeah.

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Well, I mean and in Engineering, we only got the

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taste of Carol Kane.

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Yeah, she's coming back, super.

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I had also seen that, so season three is obviously

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coming back. It sounds like they have started production on

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season four.

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Yeah, yeah, that's right, which is I.

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Mean, that's that's great news.

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It's great to hear that we have, you know, more

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to come when we're anticipating the next big thing.

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Now, this has been a long time coming. It's been

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two years now since season two. Because of the strikes

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that they had, this is delayed hits, So I mean

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that was one heck, of a cliffhanger that we got

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with it.

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I love that.

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So this we're still yeah, we're still hanging. I can't

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wait to see what they do to solve that because

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I have no idea. You know, they've really showed very

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little or given very little about what this series is

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going to be, what the new season is going to be,

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surprisingly considering how close we are to the to release.

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But then they did that with season two. I mean

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they didn't announce the release date for the first episode

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until like, what was it, like a month before it

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it was you know, it's not surprising.

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Yeah, And what did you say as the release date

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of this They didn't say yet.

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We don't know this season, Okay, No, we just know

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it's coming this year sometime.

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Yeah, hopefully sooner than later. It's all that.

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Well, yeah, and hopefully they give us a little bit

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of I mean, obviously they give us a little bit

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of warning. But I'd kind of like to brush up

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on where we left off with last season, maybe without

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going back through the entire season, but just to kind of,

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you know, refresh before we kind of leap back into

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the action.

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And I'm curious. I know Reese Darby is joining the

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cast as a guest, so I'm curious to who he's

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going to portray.

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I don't know. They haven't announced or said anything about

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his character.

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Some caves too, which is kind of a nice you know,

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let it be a surprise because.

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They haven't really said I mean, they really haven't said anything.

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I went and did research to see if anything was said,

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you know, new bits about this next season, and everything

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I found I mentioned on the last track expectations he did,

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so you know, they are really keeping this secret good.

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I'm glad. I don't want anything ruined for me. I

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love surprises, Like when Scotty popped up, I'm like, what, no,

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because I didn't see that coming, you know. I love that.

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Yeah, really well.

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And they're doing a good job of just like slowly

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kind of opening up the tap right and not flooding

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it with all these familiar characters. I think they're doing

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a fantastic job with the writing going in and do

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territories for sure, which we talked about before. But it's

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it's great to know there's another Star Trek series where

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you're eagerly anticipating its return and just knowing that you're

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gonna get great stuff.

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Absolutely now the next one we're going to talk about.

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Nothing really much has been mentioned about it, but I'm

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super excited about it because it sounds like it's gonna

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be the first live action comedy for Star Treks, and

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that's Toddy Newsom's series that she is working on with

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to be about. I saw a few comments that she

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they said it is going to take place in the

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twenty fifth century, which is you know where Picard takes place, obviously,

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that we keep writing it, and we keep turning things

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in and they keep saying please keep writing. So as

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long as they allow us to do that, and they

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don't say stop, close your computers and go home, we'll

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continue making it. And yeah, as long as they don't

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tell me please shut your lot in the sea, I

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will keep working on it. It's been such a joy.

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I love Justin Steinman with all my heart. I can't

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wait to hopefully keep doing it. So she seems pretty

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excited about it, and I love her from lower decks,

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so I cannot wait to see what she is going

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to bring to us and start trying.

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series is going to be great whatever it is.

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was fantastic in her character, but the contribution she's made

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to the show. I mean, if you ever watched The

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Ready Room with uh Oh Whedon, Whenever she's a guest

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shows has a lot of passion for it. Everybody talks

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about how big a fan she is, so you know

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that she has the chops. Hopefully there's characters from Lower

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Decks that can come and say, Hi, it would be great.

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To see hope.

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is that gave it says. The show has been described

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as a workplace comedy in the style of the office

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and parks and recreation. Can you imagine that in the

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world of Star Trek.

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That's that's that's shouting for a live action ransom debut. Yeah, say,

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you know they will. They have to, they have to,

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they have to. There's no way, there's no way.

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I cannot wait for that. So yeah, listeners, I hope

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you're just excited. Well for that one, I'm sure that's

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far down the road. We're probably going to see that

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through maybe twenty twenty seven, but who knows, who knows?

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But that cannot wait, cannot wait. It's good to see

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Star Trek is alive and well, do you guys agree?

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Because there was a timeframe that we were losing Star

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Trek and it was almost dead in the water. So

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I'm glad to see that it's coming back strong. So listeners,

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please watch this stuff so it's successful and Paramount keeps

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making more. Please we need it.

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lots of creative people behind the scenes, they're doing a

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fantastic job. Who knows what they're going to come up

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with next, You know there's gonna be I'm sure there's

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a lot more ideas coming.

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I think it's mentioning like I myself. I've got to

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admit I haven't watched that much of Prodigy, just because

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it hasn't seemed to fall into my radar. But I

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think based on what we've said about giving things a chance,

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I think it's really worthwhile to dive into it.

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It is you.

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If you're a fan of Classic Trek, obviously there's your

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you know, your comfort food. They always go back to

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or had the classic franchises and movies and whatnot. But

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give New Trek a chance whenever you can, because it

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only helps to further the franchise.

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really good. I love that second season, But then I

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was a big fan of Voyager. They didn't They haven't

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said whether they're going to do a third season, and

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we don't know.

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They haven't.

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No one's have mentioned anything, but it is possible and

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they did leave it open. I hope they do get

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a third season ready too.

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Yeah, season two is fantastic. When I agree with you,

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we need some more of that. I'm glad Netflix saved it.

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I really I am too. Yeah, so good. All right, Well,

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let's dive into the world of merchandise and events that's

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coming up with Star Trek. One of the things that

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I found interesting that I found was Universal fan Fest

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Nights that runs through April twenty fifth through May eighteenth.

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On their website, they say, are you ready to boldly

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go where no one has gone before? It is Universal

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Fan fest nights, which is kind of similar to their

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Halloween Horror nights that they do like in the Fall.

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Apparently they've got some kind of themed immersive journey aboard

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the USS Enterprise. D oh so yes, so it's the

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next generation crew. So clearly this is going to be

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something to behold and I cannot wait to see what

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that is.

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Oh yeah, that sounds fantastic.

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Yeah, so wouldn't it be great if they take a

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cue from and I know it can't be Maybe it's immersive,

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but the smugglers run millennium experience, Oh my gosh. Yeah,

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able to like you know, hit certain buttons and a

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certain sequence make things actually happen.

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Maybe there's the falling rocks that come from the ceiling.

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I never know.

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We could only hope that would be the case. That's

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for sure.

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You have to like tilt to the side, til to

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the other side because there's turbulence.

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Would be all over that for sure. The other thing

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that I found absolutely amazing, you know, guys, I have

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I did not realize that Lego has never done any

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Star Trek stuff.

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I think the closest we got was the Creole line.

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The Creole line, correct, they haven't have that, I know

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never You're right, Wow, that's really surprising.

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Playmobile had something recently they have.

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But Lego is diving into the world of Star Trek

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this year and they are starting it off with a

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big bang. There is set one zero, three, five six.

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It's going to have three thousand, six hundred pieces, so

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it's gonna be a pretty good size of the Lego set.

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And it is of the Enterprise D and it comes

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with the card Riker Wharf, Jordy Doctor Crusher, Wesley Crusher,

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Troy Guynan and data along with his cat spot.

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Interesting.

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So release it does, and I will be buying this

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without question. Release date is Black Friday of this year,

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twenty twenty five, so right before Christmas. I'm sure it'll

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be a hefty price, There's no doubt about it, because.

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You've got plenty of time to save your money after

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that though.

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Yes, but I will be buying this one. Guys, I

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don't know about you, but I will be on it.

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Well.

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A couple of interesting ways they can go about this,

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aside from just put the thing out there, that'd be fantastic.

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What have they just randomized a certain Star Trek alien

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in different sets, right, Obviously you'd have to have consistency

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for mass production, but it would be great to do so,

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and that there's a there's a fleet obviously of characters

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they could put into chase bags.

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If they wanted to little minifigures.

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I would know that what else have you guys got?

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Well in the world of action figures, it sounds like

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Nasell is coming back into the action figure line with

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a brand new approach. They've been ret revitalizing a lot

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of lines recently, like Sectors and biker mice from Mars

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and with Star Trek they're making the similar kind of

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deep cut approach. So Naseel founder Brian volk Weiss was

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at New York Comicon and unleashed what they planned to do,

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which is going to include all the series from Toos

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to Enterprise and all the feature films all the way

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up through Nemesis. They don't want to get into the

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same core characters that always get figures, so we won't

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get tons of datas or picards or writers or right right,

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they're going for the ones that are never rarely seen,

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starting with one of so the first four it's going

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to be a six to seven inch action figure line.

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One of Jeff Johnson's favorites, Ronnie Cox as Captain Edward

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Jelligo from Chaining Command.

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No word on.

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Whether he has the extra four arm extensions to recreate

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the following from the High Rizon RoboCop.

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But we'll have to see all that.

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Over that, we'll be talking about Star Trek two, The

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Wrath of Khan Soon and from there we get Peter Preston,

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Scotty's nephew. We're also getting Valchris from Star Trek three

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and Captain Rachel Garrett from Yesterday's Enterprise.

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Yeah, those have never been released then you know those characters.

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Yep, they're going to keep the first wave of going

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with Mirror Jonathan Archer, Captain Hikaru Sulu, the Vorida Administrator. Wait,

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which would be interesting. You probably should have like a

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multi pack of those and low redecks and Voyager fans

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will be happy to see that two X is getting

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justice in the form of getting an action figure finally, finally, ye,

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no word on whether it comes with you know, two

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spare figures.

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We're going to just split it back apart.

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But they're also listening to the fans. So if you've

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got ideas for who you want to see in the

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expanding product line, send your suggestions to Star Trek Ideas

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at the Cell Company dot com.

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Wait anything, what do you got?

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Yeah? I want to talk about the ongoing Star Trek

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comics series that are being released by IDW. They've got

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quite a few great stories, great comics series that's being released.

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The first one is simply titled Star Trek. This is

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their main series. Issue twenty eight was released recently on

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Art's going to be released on January twenty seventh, and

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twenty nine on February nineteenth. This has been a fantastic series.

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You know, if you're a fan of Star Trek, any

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of the series, you should check this out. Simple story.

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You know, something or someone is going around the universe

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killing the gods, and the prophets have returned Benjamin Cisco

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to take care of this. Starfleet has given him a ship,

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the USS Theseus and allowed him to pick his own crew,

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and he's chose Data, Beverly Crusher, Tom Parris, Montgomery Scott,

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and Harry Kim to assist him in this mission. It's

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been a great series. It's continuing on throughout the rest

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of the year, and it also has a companion series

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called Star Trek Defiant, which is following the same storyline,

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but this time it's with Wharf on the Defiant and

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he's got with him most of the crew of Deep

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Space nine given their old captain Cisco a hand. Plus

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they just this just started. We've got the Star Trek

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Lower Decks comic. You know that series is ended and

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if you love it this, you'll love this comic book.

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Very similar in style, the art is similar to the

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animation and great and funny comic with its next issue,

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which is issue four, is being released on February twelfth,

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and then later this year, we've got a crossover event

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for Star Trek and all the series called Lore War

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Number one. It will show us a universe rebuilt on

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Lore's image. Oh jeez, yeah, he's won and taken over

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the universe and we'll have to see well how they

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managed to get out of that. But that will hit

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stores on April second.

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Check it out.

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Sounds good. Well, any any interesting conventions you guys see

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that's coming around the country. As you know, we're the

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con mans. We love going to conventions.

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Well, you know a lot of the conventions there's always

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Star Trek guests, I know, around here in the Midwest.

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William Shatner's making appeance affectly every convention, but I think

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the big one for our listeners on the West Coast

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is the Las Vegas Convention, which they have every year.

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This is a huge convention. Last year had over one

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hundred Star Trek guests, including the entire cast everyone from

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Strange New Worlds was there. I'm JN I just yeah,

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I know. And they've just now started to announce it.

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It's going to take place on August sixth through the

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tenth of this year and at the Rio Las Vegas Hotel.

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And so far they've announced William Shatner, of course, but

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he's being joined by Kate Mulgrew, Jerry Ryan, and Roxanne Dawson.

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And I mean over the next few months you'll see

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dozens and dozens of great Star Trek guests coming there.

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Will Michael dorm be there because he's avoiding us.

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He was there last year, and we know we need

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him to come over to this side of the country.

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I know, come on, LaVar Burton, Michael Dorn, we need

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you on the eathide over here at Ohio, you know, Kentucky, wherever,

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Come on, come close any what you're around here.

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I would also love to see like Strange New World's cast.

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Oh yeahs, like fantastic Tonny Newsome.

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I would love to meet you.

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That's face Another one. All right, guys, what about Star

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Trek Legacy seems to be kind of dead in the water.

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What do you think.

475
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Well, I wouldn't call it dead. I would call it

476
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on pause. I really do think we will see this series,

477
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just not right away. I think we'll probably we'll probably

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hear something about it, maybe in the next year or two.

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But I wouldn't I would say twenty twenty seven be

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my guess. But I really do have confidence that Paramount

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will listen to the fans. They know we want it.

482
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We heard that they actually offered Jerry Ryan a series,

483
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but it wasn't what she was wanting. She wants Star

484
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Trek Legacy, and she told them no unless they give

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her this. I think they'll they'll give it to her eventually.

486
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I hope so, because it seems it's writing itself basically.

487
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Oh.

488
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Yeah, you're going to get a lot of yours, Paramount,

489
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But I promise you so give it to us. We

490
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will be happy with it. I promise.

491
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I wouldn't be surprised if we start. Once we start

492
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getting some of the new series, like Strange New World's

493
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coming back now for Downe with Section thirty one, hopefully

494
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then we'll get some news that they're getting into production,

495
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because that's that seems like the next logical thing.

496
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Yeah, yeah, I think they're going to wait until Strange

497
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New Worlds is spinning down, which we all know it's

498
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only gonna last five years because that's where what Paramount does.

499
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Five years.

500
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Well, you know, next year, fourth season, they'll be considering

501
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their fifth it'll be winding down, and that's when they'll

502
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announce Legacy.

503
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Yeah.

504
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Oh, you're probably right on that. I'm betting that's what

505
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they're waiting for him wrap up Strange New Worlds and

506
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then we'll move into a new series with Legacy. Yeah okay,

507
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I'm okay with that, maam so I am too. Yeah yeah,

508
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all right. So, as always, we want to thank our

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