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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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Welcome back to a new episode of 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 system of the expanding Star Trek
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Universe by covering television, movies, animation, directors, merchandise, and much
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much more. Cutting your course on this voyage is two
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thirds of your Core Trek crew. I'm Wayne Whited and
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I'm David BYRNS. And Scott is on special assignment for
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the week, probably somewhere lost in the Gamma Quadrant, but
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he'll be back for the next episode unless he gets
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captured or assimilated or eaten by a Gorn or whatever.
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But for us, it is once again time for a
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Trek Expectations episode where we look into the future and
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the new year twenty twenty six to be exact and
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see just what is in store in coming up for
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the Star Trek universe. And twenty twenty six is a
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big year for Star Trek as well as I'm sure
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most of you know. However, there might still be one
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or two people out there that need to be clued in,
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so David tell them what twenty twenty six is.
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I believe we're felibrady a big anniversary, and that's the
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sixtieth year anniversary for Star.
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Trek, that's right, And it's the sixtieth anniversary in Paramount
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and the various companies that license from them have a
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whole heaping of great stuff for us trekies young and
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old to enjoy, and we'll be talking about as much
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of it here. It's still early in the year, though,
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so I'm sure there'll be a lot of surprises in
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store for us. But we'll fill you in and what
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we know is coming throughout the year and a little
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bit into next year. So we'll start off with the
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two Paramount plus TV series that are upcoming. We've already
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seen one series that it aired earlier this year, Star
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Trek Starfleet Academy just completed its premier season last month.
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But next on the schedule is the fourth season of
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Star Trek Strange New Worlds. So we really don't know
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much about this sis. To be honest, at this point,
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Paramount is really good about keeping things tight lipped and
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very very secretive. So I'm good with that, and you yeah,
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I am too. Actually, you know, we we've enjoyed the
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last three seasons, and I think you know we're both
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looking forward to really seeing this fourth season. But what
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do we know? Do you do anything you found out
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that we know about this season? I know that is
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one thing they have revealed.
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Well, that's I'm assuming that would be the Muppet episode
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you're talking about, because they've kind of let that one
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out of the bag a little bit. And if we know,
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every season they give us some kind of weird and
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unusual episode, and clearly that's going.
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To be the one, I think, but who knows, Maybe
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there's nothing else out their sleeves.
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A Muppet episode. I'm you know, I'm actually excited to
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see that, but I'm I'm more than curious to figure
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out how they're going to how do you how would
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you put the how they how are they going to
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tie that into the annuity? How are they going to
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explain how their Muppets are what we're looking at? I
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I mean, anything can happen, I guess, I I don't know,
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and it's I'm curious to find out how they're gonna
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do this.
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need to be wrapped up. I know the season didn't
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exactly end on a cliffhanger, but we still got you know,
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we got still have two more years coming up, and
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so we've still got to see. We still got to
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see some stories such as I think the big one
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for me is Mebinga's storyline. We know where his endpoint is,
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that he'll still be on the Enterprise, but he's no
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longer Chief Engineer. And I think we've I mean, I
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don't know, but I think we've already seen the beginning
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of that with a few of his storylines. But I'm
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looking forward to what they do. I'm really wondering, you know,
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how what happens? You know, what exactly happened to him?
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Is it something something really bad? I don't, I don't know,
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and correct that you said chief Engineer. Did I say that,
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We'll shame on you.
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You might want to say that again.
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Yeah, No, he's not trying to take over Scottie's job. No,
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he's a chief medical officer, both just trying to take
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over his job. But other than that, they've, like I said,
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they haven't revealed very much. They have revealed the writers
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and directors that are working on the series, but it's
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pretty much the same ones that have been working on
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the series beforehand. I think Frank's has got just does
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he Is he doing one more episode?
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Or I thought he was done with Sure? I thought
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I thought Academy. Was he done?
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about them.
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ended season five? What filming? What about six months ago?
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it was around time.
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but I'm sure with the usual writers, directors that we've seen.
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it was pretty much the same people that we've seen
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over there. Nobody, nobody that I you know, stood out
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that I remembered. Hey, you know, they've never done anything before.
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could get more news on on this series, but uh
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there Paramount refuses to give anything. So all we can
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say is we really are anticipating looking forward to watching
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the fourth season of this come up, and it should.
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They haven't even given a release date on this, so
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this is all speculative on us. But I think what
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we we said, we were saying maybe like late summer.
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some we're assuming, yeah, assuming it would be around that
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same time. So a few more months, maybe we'll learn
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a few few bits more till then, but don't bet
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on it. Yeah I do.
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I mean to jump a little bit.
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end of season five, and is it Kayie Mirrikkami who
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is cast as Zulu for the end of season five,
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the Kirk era that we know.
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Marcus coming up in an episode. I don't know if
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it's in season four or season five, but they said
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that is a possibility from what I have heard, But
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did hear something some talk about that. I think maybe
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one of the producers may have mentioned it that it's possible. Yeah,
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in the Academy days, so but I don't remember ever
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saying that he never saw her after that, so it's
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very possible. I don't know, curious that would actually be
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kind of even neat storyline. I think it was at
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least for one episode, because we know we're going to
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see Kirk a lot more over the next.
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Seasons, and I'm sure we're going to get some more
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great episodes interactions between Kirk and Spock and mister Scott.
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Come on you there has to be coming up.
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Oh oh yeah, oh definitely, they probably you'll see last
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season they did one specifically and they'll probably do have
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another one this season that has them come together and
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you know, solve something or a mission on something.
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wrapping Klingons, or I will wrap myself out.
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No, I think that the experiment they've tried, that done it,
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and it's it's time to move on.
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I expect that probably this will be the last of
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their experimental episodes. I don't really see them doing one
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in a sixth season episode or season like they have
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at season five. Yeah, I agree. So all right, Well,
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the second series that will be airing is actually not
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airing until the year later, but that'll be a season
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two of Starfleet Academy. Now, like I said, season one
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just ended and I think for the most part, we
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really enjoyed it. Do you agree with that? Oh?
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that we uh recorded earlier this year, reviewing each one
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of the episodes, and I think with only I think
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there was one episode where which I considered a miss,
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but the rest of them, rest of them I absolutely loved.
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you know, they've they've wrapped filming and they've not revealed
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hardly anything with the exception that Paul Giovanni's on in
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the in the season, but and that they're going to
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be trying some different stuff. That that's about it, that
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they've really said about about it. You know, I wish
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we could give you more information. The only the only
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downside is, yes, the series has been canceled at the bummer.
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I think that that's a big mistake, big mistake and Paramount.
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I just don't know what's going on with Paramount right now.
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Nobody does. I think we'll talk about a little about
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that that later, but you know, I two seasons is
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not enough to let let a series flourish.
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I think the days of Kurtzmen are done because my
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understanding is he had already greenlit for season three, but
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and said, nope, never mind, we're done. So it's hard
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to say, you know, and it's a real shame too.
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I don't wait, I don't know if you saw some
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of the comments from Robert Riccardo about an idea he
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had for season three that he had took to Kurtzman,
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and Kurtzman said that he thought it was a fantastic idea,
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and he says it sounds like a great episode for
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season three. In this interview, Robert Riccardo was saying, remember
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in the Voyager episode Living Witness, when the doctor's backup
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program was discovered seven hundred years in the future, and
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then he goes off in the end helping people. Well,
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I wanted to meet any voyager. Well, I wanted to
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meet my voyager, back up my old self and be
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as I looked at forty one and play off myself
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at seventy one or off too. So I wanted to
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play opposite my younger self and basically have my younger
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felt ruthfully and felt my older felf on wanting to aid.
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I think that would remember a very interesting episode. I do.
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and yeah, that would have been fantastic. Yeah, it's that
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kind of makes me even more sad. There is. I mean,
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there's quite an uproar of the fans trying to get
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this series greenlited. I know there's a petition going around.
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It's actually made quite a few They got quite a
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few signatures in that I can't remember the exact number.
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I know they had twenty five thousand recently, but I
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don't think it'll matter. I don't think it'll make much
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difference because of the stuff that we don't know going
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on in the background of Paramount. But you know, yeah,
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it's it's kind of sad. But we do have one
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more season coming up next year, and it'll probably air
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early in the year. I mean, this one started in
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one February anywhere, and it'll probably start again, so you know,
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we got that to look forward to, and I'm I'm
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excited for it. I'm really excited to see what they've
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got coming for their second year.
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to the end of it, but we won't get to
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see anymore.
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Sadly, no, no, But you know, that's it in terms
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of the film television projects for Star Trek during its
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sixtieth anniversary, at least as far as we know. Yeah,
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you know, you would think that we would hurt something
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if they were doing anything else. I'm really surprised that