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Why The Borg… again? Terry Matalas explains. Star Trek: Legacy will be set up and ready to go when Picard wraps. Frakes talks bridge reunion and Strange New Worlds news…
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He’s recently collaborated on The Might of the Daleks fan film and won big at The 2022 Director’s Choice Awards… so what better time to get him on the show and ask what he’s up to?
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A coastal town in Western Australia gears up for a tourist influx as JUICE prepares to get it’s launch down to the second. Plus will Starship go orbital and a Japanese probe gets ready to make history.
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We’ve got three new releases and a breakdown of the winners at The Federation Files’ Director’s Choice Awards…
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A second coronal hole has been detected on the sun as Gilmour Space continues construction efforts at the Bowen Spaceport. Plus – NASA announces the Artemis 2 crew… our deep dive into the four person team who will take humanity back to lunar orbit next year. Who are they and what’s the Aussie connection?
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Where Is Kirk… it’s the question the Captain has asked. Meanwhile I’ll round up the headline news of the past week for Star Trek renewals and release dates and tease the forthcoming comic releases.
The post Star Trek Renewals, Releases and We’re Off To The Academy! appeared first on Trekzone.
80’s and 90’s Aussie kids will remember Ranger Stacey from Channel 7’s Agro’s Cartoon Connection and Channel 10’s Totally Wild. She dropped by to chat during the World Science Festival!
The post Ranger Stacey On Her (Not Over Yet) 30+ Year Career Entertaining and Educating Kids on TV! appeared first on Trekzone.
Dan Ilic is an Aussie comedian who has been spending his recent time creating his podcast A Rational Fear, in Brisbane for the World Science Festival we caught up with him to find out about that and his work as a panel moderator for conventions like the WSF…
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An Australian mission to study the Proxima Star System, Oumuamua’s odd propulsion, that leaky Soyuz and NASA’s plans to explore Titan. Plus, we take a quick dive into our week at the World Science Festival…
The post Oumuamua’s Hydrogen Propulsion, Studying Alpha Centauri and The Leaky Soyuz Returns… appeared first on Trekzone.
The James Webb Space Telescope has been smashing it out of the park with incredible data since it launched over a year ago. Armed with press passes and a desire to learn more from the scientists appearing on stage – we headed down to the World Science Festival in Southbank.
The post Diving Into Exoplanets with Drs Benjamin Pope & Jesse Christiansen at the World Science Festival appeared first on Trekzone.
NASA and Australia confirm a strategic lunar partnership, Gilmour Space signs on to get a leg up in orbit, revolutionising communication with satellites, has evidence of subsurface oceans been found orbiting Uranus? And Detailed Contingency plans being drafted at Virgin Orbit.
The post Australia’s Artemis Contribution As Uranus’ Moons May Have Subsurface Oceans appeared first on Trekzone.
Multiple releases, a teaser, a filming weekend and your first details of the 2023 Trekzone Fan Film Awards – this is Trekzone’s Fan Film Update… Catch up on each fan film now: Coming HomeSiren’s SongCaptain Roth’s Final MessageRed Sea Teaser
The post Siren’s Song; Coming Home; Captain Roth’s Final Message – Plenty To Sink Our Teeth Into… appeared first on Trekzone.
Fan Film releases, teases and behind the scenes action. From Potemkin, Intrepid, FS Film and more. Catch the releases mentioned in this edition:Starfleet Legends Act IIWhen Duty CallsCaptain Roth’s Final MessageStar Trek Venture Teaser
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Alec Peters has certainly become a polarising figure in the Star Trek Fan Film community since he pursued CBS and Paramount over copyright infringement back in 2016, and while a growing minority continue to openly support, and defend, him, there are others that want absolutely nothing to do with him. Unfortunately, there’s also a murky […]
The post “If You’re Not With Me, Then You’re Against Me” – The Sordid Saga of Alleged Bullying Surrounding Axanar appeared first on Trekzone.
From writing 1997’s Star Trek: Klingon Honour Guard story to experiencing the production of Star Trek: Continues, David Ellis is back with a story inspired by the Covid enforced video call lifestyle. A story that will tell us about the survivors of Wolf 359…
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An Aussie initiative to repair broken satellites, Crew 6 arrives, an asteroid fly by, China’s martian rover remains dormant and NASA agrees to launch Israel’s first space telescope.
The post Aussie Tech Aims Saving Satellites, Crew 6 Arrives, China and ESA Integration Tests and Asteroid 2011 AG5 appeared first on Trekzone.
Larry Nemecek beams in to share his thoughts as we begin the final chapter of Star Trek: Picard. There’s mild spoilers ahead for the first episode of season three, but once you’ve begun the adventure check in to our podcast!
The post Dr Trek’s Thoughts As We Begin The Final Chapter of Picard… appeared first on Trekzone.
Trek Shorts gets 2023 started. Two teasers, a new fan film player enters the ring, gag reel releases and Potemkin Pictures action.
The post “359” and “When Duty Calls” Are Coming While This Side of Morality, Behind The Scenes of Farragut Forward Are Out Now appeared first on Trekzone.
Stopping climate change… with moon dust? An X-Class Solar Flare, studying Venus, a Damaged Soyuz and strange spokes on Saturn.
The post Aurora Australis Shines Following An X-Class Solar Flare; As Russia Reveals What Damaged The Soyuz Capsule At The Space Station appeared first on Trekzone.
Picard’s Hollywood premiere. It seems like every influencer and Star Trek blogger except us has the first six episodes and spoiler free reviews and Prodigy’s heading our way this year it seems.
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We’ve held on to our last Fan Film January podcast until February because Gary and Randy gave Trekzone the opportunity to beam in to The Neutral Zone studio, and on to the bridge of the Dreadnought Dominion. This past weekend our intrepid fan film makers headed to Georgia to film their next fan film, and […]
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Moving in to UAP territory – what the US is telling the world about the Chinese balloon. Our last view of the green comet, rocket launches could be punching a new hole in the ozone and the James Webb Space Telescope stumbles upon an asteroid…
The post The Chinese Spy Balloon; James Webb Stumbles On A Main Belt Asteroid and The Green Comet Wows Us… appeared first on Trekzone.
Galaxy Queen’s out now, teases for four more fan films, Axanar shoots again – 14 months later – and I issue a correction.
The post New Releases, New Teases and Axanar Finally Does Something… appeared first on Trekzone.
For the first time in a year, and as we fast approach the end of Fan Film January, Radek Bělina beams in to chat about the year ahead for his team of fan film makers… EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to a huge oversight on my part, I had merged Radek and FS Film in the Czech […]
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Glen L. Wolfe beams in to discuss The Federation Files in 2023. Hear about their Jurassic Park fan film a little later in the chat, but we kick it off with a deep dive in to the Director’s Choice Awards…
The post The Federation Files Preps For The 2023 Director’s Choice Awards appeared first on Trekzone.
The Last of Us, The Bad Batch, Picard, Prodigy and Lower Decks… plus Eaglemoss developments and Sisko’s autobiography. Not a moment to lose, lets get in to this bite sized news update…
The post Eaglemoss Stock Bought; Bad Batch, Last of Us, Prodigy and Lower Decks appeared first on Trekzone.
China launches three secret satellites, we dive into the Milky Way’s supernova remnants, diverting lightning with lasers and an asteroid photobombs hubble!
The post China’s Secret Launch; A Lightning Rod Laser; Hubble Gets Photobombed And We Peer Into Distant Galaxies appeared first on Trekzone.
Dreadnought Dominion release a genre crossing epic, Galaxy Queen and Leviathan get previewed, Ambush has deleted scenes and we dip our toes in to audio drama… Catch each of the films in this Fan Film Update: Airplane! – https://youtu.be/Hn8jKvk1m2cGalaxy Queen Preview – https://youtu.be/zQl0vrA9AQkThe Space Between – https://youtu.be/HfBVCp-qulsLeviathan Preview – https://youtu.be/54U2cwduDfAAmbush’s Deleted Scenes – https://youtu.be/zOiTFq3b1nEMTM’s Axanar […]
The post A Genre Crossing Epic And We Preview Two New Fan Films appeared first on Trekzone.
One of the men behind Potemkin Pictures, Trekzone’s 2022 Fan Film Studio of the Year, Randy Landers beams in to discuss the year ahead for his collection of fan films. Including their fundraising drive now for a modest $3,000. Catch Room Service now: https://thetrek.zone/roomservice
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Orion Vehicle Manager Frank Lin beams in to give us the low down on what’s next for the first human rated spacecraft in fifty years to reach the Moon.
The post What’s Next For NASA’s Orion Spacecraft After The Successful Artemis 1? appeared first on Trekzone.
Gilmour Space gear up for two launches this year, we beam over to NASA to hear more about the Orion capsule as it’s heatshield is inspected. Virgin Orbit fails to fire and some incredible astronomical findings…
The post Gearing Up For More Australian Made Sovereign Launches as Virgin Orbit Fails to Fire in the UK… appeared first on Trekzone.
Samuel Cockings beams in to the new Trekzone virtual studio to give us the low down on what’s in store for Star Trek fan film fans this year from his epic anthology Trek Shorts…
The post What’s Ahead For Trek Shorts in 2023? appeared first on Trekzone.
The Bad Batch is back and it’s not just for the kids anymore… Picard and Prodigy hints, Nicholas Cage is a Trekkie and we catch up on some news from December… Welcome back to The News!
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Remembering Apollo 7’s Walter Cunningham, Skykraft Launches, a coronal mass ejection recorded, two lunar mission successes and we peer behind Sharpless 54…
The post Remembering Walter Cunningham As Artemis Returns Home And We Peer Behind A Nebula appeared first on Trekzone.
With special thanks to Nick and the team at Starship Intrepid, we’re taking you behind the scenes of their latest shoot to kick start Fan Film January on A Trekzone Conversation. Hear from the cast and crew who worked hard to produce something quite awesome, and get your first tease of whats to come this […]
The post Behind The Scenes of Starship Intrepid’s “Echoes” appeared first on Trekzone.
Potemkin smashes one million, three new fan films premiere to round out the new year, we look back at the year that was, preview Fan Film January and put a pencil around Monday July 10 2023.
The post Smashing One Million Views; Premieres Galore and The Year That Was : Trekzone’s Fan Film Update appeared first on Trekzone.
Join us as we take a look back at the year that was A Trekzone Conversation. The best interviews, the most fun you can have – all just before midnight Australian eastern daylight time! Plus, a surprise phone call from Matt’s Mum to liven up the count down to midnight.
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So many incredible discoveries made in the realm of science and space this year, milestones too for space travel both here and abroad. Join us as we look back on the biggest stories we covered this year on Talkin’ Science.
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She wrote TNG’s second season episode The Measure of a Man, introducing us to Bruce Maddox. And as that Starfleet scientist rose to prominence in Picard’s first season, we reached out to her for a chat about the growth of the character since that late 80’s episode…
The post That Time When We Met Melinda Snodgrass appeared first on Trekzone.
Southern Launch have announced today the pathway forward following the minor leak of oxidiser from VS02 yesterday. 8am Sunday the new launch window opens for VS03, which is the all-South Australian experimental payload mission. The Kestrel I rocket will go up, then come back down – all the while teams on the ground will be […]
The post Southern Launch ECO Test Update : VS02 Scrubbed; VS03 Steps Up – To Launch Sunday appeared first on Trekzone.
Southern Launch are gearing up for their second launch from the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex. On launch eve, and standing next to the launch pad, CEO and friend of the show Lloyd Damp gave us a few final thoughts ahead of a monumental day for the company tomorrow…
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Welcome to Talkin’ Science on location at the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex in South Australia… today, delayed launch, Artemis returns, a Canadian meteorite from the Oort cloud, meet the Peekaboo galaxy and scientists have achieved nuclear fusion.
The post Southern Launch “Go” As An Oort Cloud Mystery Deepens And We Meet The “Peekaboo Galaxy” appeared first on Trekzone.
Welcome to Trekzone’s Fan Film Updates. The bite size podcast catching you up on the latest Star Trek fan film news… it’s a bit of a quiet week… but we’ll relive the Trek Shorts cast party, our watch parties for Starship Intrepid and These Are The Voyages … plus there’s a new fan film to […]
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The beginning of 2020 was a great time to be a scifi fan. Not only was it the 25th anniversary of Voyager, but we had new seasons of Doctor Who and Star Trek: Picard to watch. On this flashback podcast we gather our thoughts with Australian TV producer Rob McKnight…
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Trekzone stalwart Larry Nemecek beamed in at the start of 2020 to chat about the first few episodes of Star Trek: Picard… lets flash back to That Time When now…
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Back at the start of 2020 – just before Covid took over the world – it was a time of celebration … twenty five years since Voyager premiered. And what better way to celebrate then to chat with TrekFM’s Chris Jones…
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Journey back to the start of 2020 and That Time When Matt caught up with Nick Cook about Starship Intrepid… how far we’ve come!
The post That Time When Starship Intrepid Powered Ahead appeared first on Trekzone.
Today – four premieres, a crowd funding update, another fake new release from can’t make a fan film land and a plug for Trekzone TV.
The post Loads of New Releases; Trek Shorts Finishes With Sam Optimistic appeared first on Trekzone.
Welcome to Talkin’ Science… your bite sized wrap of the latest science and space headlines. Coming up today from red giant supernovas to remote WA radio telescopes painting a map of the night sky, attempting to answer to question of why the sky is blue and Gilmour Space partner with Macquarie University.
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Welcome to Trekzone’s Fan Film Update. The bite size podcast catching you up on the latest Star Trek fan film news. Today – three big releases, catching up on a Star Trek fan film world first, a fan favourite returns to production and another continues trying to be relevant by passing off old content as […]
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Star Trek is awesome. Books are awesome. Put them together and you have a subset of our franchise. And then when you throw in kids books, to help young minds grow and learn, you get an epic merging of those two things… Today, Dr Erin MacDonald and Robb Pearlman beam in to discuss their new […]
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This is your bite size podcast catching you up on the latest science fiction production info… coming up today, the continued fall from grace for Vic Mignogna, teases for Prodigy and Andor, a few comic first looks and Zoe Saldana weighs in on the delayed Star Trek 4 movie. Lets dive in. Catch Trekmovie’s Borg […]
The post Previewing The Next Star Trek: Prodigy; New Comics; Andor’s Final Triple and Vic Mignogna Booted From Unauthorised Signing Session appeared first on Trekzone.
Welcome to Trekzone’s Fan Film Update. The bite size podcast catching you up on the latest Star Trek fan film news. Today, a couple of releases, a couple of ratings updates and we check in with Trek Shorts’ ambitious Indiegogo campaign… how close to 31,000 pounds are they? Let’s dive in.
The post Get Ready For Time Heist; And Say G’Day To New Fan Films : Trekzone’s Fan Film Update appeared first on Trekzone.
It’s week 44 of 2022, this is Talkin’ Science … catching you up on the months biggest stories with Dr Brad Tucker. Australia signs on to a Japanese sample return mission. In 2029, we’ll have the first ever samples from Phobos. The largest massive impact crater in sixteen years has been found on Mars and […]
The post We’re Heading To Phobos And There’s A “Planet Killer” On The Loose appeared first on Trekzone.
Welcome to Talkin’ Science… the bite sized version. Coming up today a round up of the latest science and space headlines over the past week and a bit. From the Martian core, to methane producing microbes, dust rings around distant stars, a nesting binary and using tree rings to learn about radiation storms.
The post Early Mars’ Microbes; Mars’ Core; Martian Meteorite Impacts and Tree Rings Help Identify Radiation Event appeared first on Trekzone.
It’s a pretty good week to be a Star Trek fan film supporter like us, two new films are preparing to drop, Sam Cockings has released another Trek Short and is now crowd funding for the rest of the collection and we’ve met a new group making content! Dive in to this Fan Film Update […]
The post Trek Shorts Releases New Film; Starts Crowd Funding Drive As More Fan Films Gear Up For Release appeared first on Trekzone.
Back in 2019 Larry Nemecek beamed in to chat about the anniversary of Star Trek’s first frames being captured on film… we flash back to That Time When… Catch up on the full podcast now!
The post That Time When We Celebrated Star Trek’s Anniversary! appeared first on Trekzone.
Samuel Cockings’ latest addition to his Trek Shorts collection is Duty Calls featuring UK YouTuber Emma Thorne. Released last week, it’s clocked up 30,000 views – the fastest of any fan film this year. Let’s have A Trekzone Conversation about it!
The post Duty Calls For Emma Thorne : We Chat With the Newest Addition To Trek Shorts! appeared first on Trekzone.
We nudged an asteroid out of the way, leaving a trail of destruction 10,000km’s long. Meanwhile SpaceX is drafting a proposal to give Hubble an orbital boost and VIrgin Orbit signs up with Wagner Corporation to build LauncherOne facilities in Toowoomba…
The post DART Successfully Crashes; SpaceX Wants To Save Hubble and Virgin Orbit’s Coming To Australia! appeared first on Trekzone.
Ever wanted to get your Aussie built cubesat into low-Earth orbit, but didn’t want to ship it overseas? Well good news! Gilmour Space have announced their rideshare launch Caravan-1 will lift off in late 2024… Meanwhile researchers across Earth have been studying Mars, from human ability to disembark the spacecraft, farming vegetables and finding water […]
The post Gilmour Space Announces A Caravan To Low-Earth Orbit! appeared first on Trekzone.
It’s been a good weekend to be a Star Trek fan film aficionado. Two films dropped within hours of each other, one introducing us to a new regular on the Trek Shorts roster and the other continuing the tales of the Starship Deimos. Lets dive into the week of Fan Film News…
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She’s brought Nurse Chapel into the modern era of Star Trek in the best way, Australia’s Jess Bush was home in Brisbane for Oz Comic Con and we sat down with her to dive in to Star Trek, Home and Away and more…
The post Making Nurse Chapel Her Own : Jess Bush Beams In! appeared first on Trekzone.
Artemis update, Martian discoveries, Fast Radio bursts and more… lets get into the week’s Talkin’ Science…
The post Artemis Ready To Fly Again; Starship Gearing Up And Martian Discoveries appeared first on Trekzone.
This is Trekzone’s Fan Film Update… Farragut Forward updates us again, Potemkin tries Vegemite, Starship Intrepid films and we dive into some ratings…
The post Farragut Integrates Sets; Potemkin Tries Vegemite and Starship Intrepid Films! appeared first on Trekzone.
Welcome to Fan Film Update. As you know, Trekzone’s home to Star Trek fan films done right, so I’m incredibly thrilled to be able to wrap up the week’s news in this bite size podcast. Plenty of news to sink our teeth into as we continue our massive Vegas or Bust coverage as I record […]
The post A New UK Collaboration; A New Star Trek Fan Film and Fan Film Awards That Honour Loyalty appeared first on Trekzone.
James Kerwin, film writer, director and one of the creative forces behind Star Trek: Continues, beams in from the 56 Year mission tour to break down his panel, the experience at Bally’s and Star Trek’s journey from Gene Roddenberry’s helmsmanship to the current custodians.
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She’s a 90’s Trekkie who grew up on TNG and Enterprise before being called upon to form the crew on the Discovery bridge before being called for duty on Strange New Worlds as well. Avaah Blackwell picks up the mantle of Star Trek Background Performer…
The post Continuing the “Background Performer” Star Trek Tradition : Avaah Blackwell Beams In appeared first on Trekzone.
We got to know her as Leeta on Deep Space Nine but Chase has become such a powerful force since her time on Deep Space Nine that we just had to take the time to chat right at the end of the 56 Year Mission Tour…
The post From Leeta and Fan Films to Kids Mental Health : Chase Masterson Beams In appeared first on Trekzone.
She was the right hand to Gene Coon, the man who heralded Star Trek from it’s infancy, during those formative years. And while Gene passed away in 1973 we can learn about those years through today’s guest, Ms Ande Richardson-Kindryd. A huge thanks to Larry Nemecek for introducing us to Ande and for co-ordinating this […]
The post Working on Star Trek : Ande Richardson-Kindryd on Gene Coon, Nichelle Nichols and More… appeared first on Trekzone.
As NASA engineers attempt to troubleshoot the fuel leak that’s nixed two Artemis launch attempts in a week – we wait for word on the next attempt to get the program on track. Meanwhile, Hubble’s successor makes three key exoplanet findings just months after coming on-line. An oceanic world, a sandy cloud covered world and […]
The post Artemis, James Webb’s Exoplanet Discoveries and The Solar Parker Record appeared first on Trekzone.
Today, Sam Cockings beams over an exclusive pic. Axanar gets booted from Kickstarter, we update the ratings for a few productions and catch up on a Trekzone Fan Film Award prize pack unboxing.
The post Axanar Gets Booted; Your Exclusive First Look At The Next Trek Short; And Ratings Updates appeared first on Trekzone.
Friend of the show Larry Nemecek begins our STLV coverage for 2022, as we beam in from the Trekzone studio. Dive into the convention and chat with special guest Ben Robinson from Eaglemoss!
The post #STLV : Dr Trek Begins Our Coverage And Dives Into The 56 Year Mission In Vegas appeared first on Trekzone.
It’s another edition of Trekzone’s Fan Film Updates. Get the latest on Starship Intrepid, Avalon Universe, Loreley Productions, The Rift, The Icarus Incident and Outraged!
The post Starship Intrepid Films; Loreley’s New Production And Updates on More! appeared first on Trekzone.
Almost fifty years since the final Saturn V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, NASA is set to make their triumphant return to the moon with Artemis I. While uncrewed, this first flight of the Space Launch System will mark the beginning of a new chapter in human spaceflight.
The post LIVE: Humanity Returns to the Moon; Artemis I Lifts Off appeared first on Trekzone.
As scientists use a new supercomputer to detail a supernovae remnant, researchers think they’ve cracked the way to make Iron on Mars and NASA announces landing site candidates for the first crewed Artemis mission that will land on the lunar surface.
The post Making Metal on Mars; Artemis III Landing Sites and More Talkin’ Science appeared first on Trekzone.
It’s time to check in with the movers and shakers of Star Trek fan films. From the Avalon Universe’s latest crowd funding effort to Starship Farragut’s new sets under construction and ratings updates for The Rift, Beyond The Sun and more.
The post Avalon Reaches 42% Funded; Starship Farragut’s New Sets & More appeared first on Trekzone.
It’s not as boring as it sounds! And as Artemis I prepares to prove that we can return to the Moon, it’s about to become even more relevant… catch up on That Time When we learnt about Space Law…
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Samuel Cockings beams in with a preview for his next Star Trek fan film – part of the Trek Shorts series. Get your exclusive first look on this edition of A Trekzone Conversation!
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It’s a jam packed edition of the Talkin’ Science headlines today… Matt’s got details of Artemis’ early roll out to the launch pad, new technology for Australia’s Siding Springs and Hawaii’s Gemini Observatories and a new understanding of super cooled ice could help the Europa Clipper mission…
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We’re all about keeping up with Fan Films Done Right here at Trekzone, and after six years of featuring them on A Trekzone Conversation it’s time we dedicate a regular podcast to the very latest happenings. It’s our third bite sized podcast to launch in the last eighteen months… it’s Fan Film Updates.
The post From The Neutral Zone To Potemkin Pictures, In The Avalon Universe and Across The Trek Shorts : Trekzone’s New Podcast Kicks Off! appeared first on Trekzone.
This is The News from Trekzone. Your bite sized podcast catching you up on the latest science fiction production info. From Picard to Strange New Worlds, Andor to Stargate and The 56 Year Mission Tour … it’s all here in this edition…
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As we round out a sombre week here at Trekzone, lets flash back to That Time When Larry Nemecek beamed in to reflect on the passing of D.C. Fontana in December 2019.
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It was the mid 2000’s. Enterprise had just teased us with the Romulan War building before UPN pulled the plug. Cue fans like Lee Gartrell to make their own Star Trek… and he picked up the torch to explore those dark times following the founding of the Federation…
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Space X’s Dragon Crew Trunk Drops Into a Sheep Farm in Southern New South Wales. Look Up and Live. The chance of a casualty event from falling rocket debris is now at ten per cent over the next decade… and Russia heads for the airlock. Roscosmos announces they’re leaving the International Space Station… ending two […]
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Nichelle Nichols, Bernard Cribbins, David Warner and Paul Sorvino have died in the past week. Plus Shatner’s feud with new Trek, Terry Matalas teases Picard season three, Frakes wants in on one of the new series and will we see DS9 characters again soon?
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Welcome back to That Time When… the podcast where we take you back through the Trekzone archive and bring you episodes you might’ve missed. On this edition, catch up on our chats with Deborah Ann Woll annd Amy Acker.
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Project Runabout has launched from Dreadnought Dominion. Co-creators Randy Wrenn and Gary Davis beam in to chat about this exciting spin off to their Star Trek Fan Film.
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We’ve got a trio of launch stories headlining this week’s Talkin’ Sciennce. Plus details about Chinan’s latest space junk addition and some pretty cool research projects back here on Earth.
The post Artemis, Southern Launch and SpIRIT Are All Ready For Launch Over The Next 9 Months appeared first on Trekzone.
San Diego Comic Con is the place for pop culture fans to get together and share their passion. It’s also a launch pad for many franchises to promote their upcoming lineups… for the first time in two years, SDCC was held in person and we’ve got your full wrap.
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Larry Nemecek – Doctor Trek – is here to dive into the ten episode masterpiece that is Anson Mount’s hair styling… or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. However you look at it, we’re thrilled to be chatting about the first season of the fifth Star Trek series in as many years…
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Strap in folks, we have our first full colour image from the James Webb Space Telescope and she’s a beauty. Plus we dive into Equatorial Launch’s two launches from the past week and more on this edition of the Talkin’ Science headlines.
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Trekzone’s 19th birthday. Strange New Worlds and Kenobi wrap their seasons, SNW & Lower Decks nominations at The Hollywood Critics Awards, a new clip for Lower Decks season three, San Diego Comic Con is back and what we’re watching in the Trekzone office… On this edition of The News…
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We’re expanding our Fan Films Done Right offering here at Trekzone following our hugely successful Fan Film Awards – live and free last month. Meet Billy Swanson. He’s helming the latest fan film to hit the scene… Starship Caliborn.
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It’s week 26 of 2022, this is Talkin’ Science … Scrubbed by weather, Equatorial Launch’s next sounding rocket lift off on hold as unseasonal weather takes hold in Arnhem Land – but we look back at the historic first flight from and look ahead to the next two. The Chinese rocket booster that crashed into […]
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Just a few months on from his smash hit The Next Generation Animated – Justin T. Lee is back with another hit on his hands – Voyager gets the Filmation treatment… and Justin’s here to dive into it…
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In December the samples captured by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 mission landed back to Earth. Now, the secrets locked away inside reveal tantalising clues about the early solar system. Dr Jonti Horner beams in to explain…
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It’s week 22 of twenty twenty two, this is Talkin’ Science … catching you up on the months biggest stories with Dr Brad Tucker. Boeing lands safely, completing the final – delayed – testing of Starliner. Solar power generated in space is gaining momentum to light the way forward on Earth… and five of the […]
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Henry Gibbens was part of the team that brought Yorktown to life, after decades of the live action 8mm film sitting stored on a shelf and while the Herculean editing efforts of John Atkin aren’t to be ignored, the visual effects team pulled off an incredible stylistic challenge…
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Hold on everyone, we are just days away from revealing the winner of the coveted award for Fan Film of the Year. One more prize to give out before then though, that of Best Actor… And the last award to dive into before our live and free gala event – The Fan Film of the […]
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The incredibly talented folks who put together these fan films that we’re honouring on this live stream, and the dozens more out there that just missed the cut are what this next award is all about. It’s the best executive producer or producer – the ones whose passion drive the success you’ve seen on display […]
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Music is the critical link in making us feel a story and ensure that we don’t miss any of the cues the characters are trying to lay down for us. As such, it’s only fitting that we recognise those who put together the scores for the fan films of the past twelve months. Plus, in […]
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As a general rule of thumb, every good Star Trek story has to be set on – or near – a starship. The hero ships of the ages include the Enterprise, the Defiant, Voyager and of course Discovery… In the fan film world, where CGI budgets are very limited, we often don’t get to see […]
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Editing is the critical next step in any production following the writing and filming. And Star Trek fan films have no shortage of fans giving it a red hot crack at telling the stories they’re friends and colleagues have crafted. Through the golden age of Star Trek fan films a decade ago, several fans obtained […]
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We’ve waited 37 months … but finally we are just a handful (and a bit) days away from the return of the smash SciFi hit The Orville for her third season. Co-Producer Tom Costantino beams in once again to chat with Matt.
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With 3 weeks to go until the live and free gala event of The 2022 Trekzone Fan Film Awards, we’re devoting Monday’s to finding out a little more about the nominees in each of our fourteen categories. On this episode lets look at Best Collaboration and the Best Re-imagined Characters from the past twelve months […]
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We’re an incredibly lucky bunch of Star Trek fans right now, with five series in production. We’ve just been witness to the second season of Picard, and the very beginning of Strange New Worlds. Larry Nemecek – Doctor Trek himself – is beaming in to dive into all that and more on this Trekzone Conversation. […]
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We’re deep into preparations for The 2022 Trekzone Fan Film Awards, which will be held live and free on our YouTube channel June 8 from 2.30pm AEST. Join us on this edition of the show as we dive into the nominees for Best Space Villain and Best Gag Reel.
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Here are the fifty seven nominees across fifteen categories that make up The 2022 Trekzone Fan Film Awards. No entry fees, no cheap prizes – just a good ol’ fashioned live awards show coming up… for now, catch the nominees.
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It’s been an smash hit since it was released a few weeks ago, now the creator of The Next Generation: The Animated Series beams in to Trekzone to explain all about the creative process and his love for Star Trek!
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As we gear up to mark 2, 000 days since Alec Peters settled his lawsuit with then CBS and Paramount, we’re looking at the continued missteps made towards getting the infamous fan film released sometime this year, apparently. Mike Bawden, one time PR man for Alec and Axanar, beams in for a rare podcast interview […]
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Robb Pearlman and Justin Hoffman beam in to plug their forthcoming book – The Star Trek Book of Friendship. From Kirk and Spock, Janeway and Seven, Wesley and Data – Robb and Justin sit down and chat about the enduring power of friendship in this special book, coming on May 10…
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Aaron Vanderkley joins us live to introduce his next Star Trek fan film, ahead of announcing film three… An isolationist planet declares a humanitarian crisis as a virus ravages through its population. Starfleet steps in to help find a cure and instead uncovers a larger conspiracy more deadly than the virus itself.
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With his own One Small Step and Intrepid’s Pursuit of a Dream in which he directed and co-wrote released this month – it’s time to check in with Sam Cockings on the latest Star Trek fan film news…
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We’re live with Axamonitor’s Carlos Pedraza to break down the news this morning that Alec’s lawyer – Mike Mehrman – has quit citing a conflict of interest…
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We’re live with a complete reading of the 110 page emergency motion for expedited discovery just filed in the Superior Court of Forsyth County as Plaintiffs Alec Peters and Axanar Productions Inc sue Paul Jenkins and Meta Studios LLC.
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It’s week thirteen of twenty twenty two, this is Talkin’ Science. Gilmour Space awarded a fifty two million dollar grant to boost space manufacturing. New evidence suggesting research stations are big polluters. And cracking the solar wind secret – just how does the sun get hotter the further away you get?
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As Australia emerges from the Covid slumber of the past 24 months, Supanova got back into full swing in their first Melbourne outing in that long. A packed house ventured into the Melbourne Showgrounds across the March weekend in 2022. Our crew was in the main exhibition hall where Georgina Haig gave us some time […]
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It’s week twelve of twenty twenty two, this is Talkin’ Science. A collaboration between Western Sydney university and the US Air Force sees world-first camera tech yield results on the Space Station.. An Artificial Intelligence proof of concept in the Western Australian desert for meteorite hunting. And stratospheric changes identified following the black summer bushfires…
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He’s the prolific Aussie actor with starring roles in The Lord of the Rings, Fringe, Sleepy Hollow and now Star Trek: Prodigy. Hear from John Noble on this Trekzone Conversation! We begin Supanova week here on Trekzone…
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Sanctions on Russia cast doubt over several multi national space projects, including a direct threat against the Space Station. The US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom sign up to a new space defense pact. And at home, the federal government has committed tens of millions of dollars to building three […]
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In 2019, as we started ramping up podcast output we started embracing other science fiction series – and were extremely thrilled to welcome one of the creatives behind Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville to the show…
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In 2019 both Gary O’Brien and Nick Cook had updates to share about their respective #StarTrek #FanFilm projects… relive those details now on this edition of That Time When…
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It’s 2022’s seventh week, this is Talkin’ Science… Southern Launch firm their partnership with a German rocket maker for launches at Whaler’s Way. SpaceX announces the Polaris Program to forge new pathways for crewed spaceflight, and Starship’s ultimate goal and researchers at RMIT have discovered a new way to detect plastic on remote beaches in […]
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Flashing back to 2019 when we caught up with Professor Tamara Davis as exciting new discoveries were being made about gravitational waves…
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As NASA announces it’ll crash land the space station in eight years, astronomers reveal their discovery of a trojan asteroid orbiting in a Lagrange Point and for the first time more astronomers have discovered a lonely black hole…
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Radek Bělina beams in to Trekzone to give us the low down of the Star Trek Fan Films he and a group of friends have been producing since 2015…
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Back to 2019 we investigated the Star Trek Rumour Mill, and whether those other YouTubers who peddle in rumour and suggestion are worthy of being on the air… Catch up on our two part Rumour Mill deep dive, with Midnight’s Edge and Ketwolski now.
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Stars aren’t just inhabiting our universe – it turns out they’re major contributors to it. From hydrogen and helium produced in the big bang, to all of the heavier elements produced by stars. Two new papers published this month shed light on how the youngest generation of stars will stop contributing those heavy elements to […]
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Southern Launch release footage from their maiden test launch attempt in September. Something’s releasing giant bursts of energy three times an hour and radio astronomers are baffled. And the hydrotermal springs in Costa Rica could hold clues to how life might’ve evolved on Mars.
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Aaron Vanderkley kicks off our 2022 season as he beams in with an exclusive first look at his next Star Trek fan film Outbreak. An isolationist planet sends out a call for help as a virus ravages it’s population. What our Starfleet crew discover is something far more sinister…
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What an incredible year we’ve had, despite all the problems on Earth. We produced 350 video podcasts across the 365 days of the year, spent time learning about science and space and even science fiction and Star Trek Fan Films. It’s been an incredible journey – and here are a sample of podcasts you might’ve […]
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2021 saw us launch an extension of Talkin’ Science – giving time to the newsmakers in science and space… and we learnt about everything from phosphine to boson particles, radio telescopes to science museums and everything in between…
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Dr Brad’s beaming in one last time in 2021 – with a look back on the top 10 stories of the year…
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Rounding out our look back at our bite sized STLV interviews with the wonderful Olivia d’Abo. We talk teenage Q, The Clone Wars and more in this awesome final installment in Trekzone’s first international trip… Catch the interview in full right here.
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Decades in the making, billions over budget and with a namesake controversy in tow, the James Webb Space Telescope has launched and is on it’s way to an orbit far away from Earthly interference. The great folks at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex were the first ones to hear from humanities latest space telescope…
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Continuing our look back at our Star Trek Las Vegas trip with multiple guest star Glenn Morshower… Catch the interview in full right here.
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Dr Trek’s our final guest for 2021, beaming in to deep dive on all things Prodigy season one and Discovery season four.
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It’s our second last show of the year and we’ve got a round up of the latest bite size science and space news making headlines over the past couple of weeks…
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He’s the film maker that burst onto the Star Trek Fan Film scene a couple of years ago … going on to make a name for himself as the publisher of quality work. But most recently, Josh Irwin has come under attack for supporting Alec Peters and Axanar, so he’s beaming in to explain…
The post Supporting Alec : Joshua Irwin on Avalon’s Involvement with Axanar appeared first on Trekzone.
Continuing our look back at our Star Trek Las Vegas trip with the man whose character will forever be an Ensign… Mr Garrett Wang! Catch the interview in full right here.
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In 2003 Murriyang, the Parkes Radio Telescope, discovered a binary pulsar system. These two long decayed stars now strobe the cosmos with regular electromagnetic radiation. Using these bursts, an international team studied the pair over sixteen years to prove Einstein’s theory of general relativity right…
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Continuing our look back at our Star Trek Las Vegas trip, this is That Time When we sat down with John de Lancie… Catch the interview in full right here.
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Queensland rocket company Gilmour Space has seen incredible growth this year and are gearing up for their first launch from the Bowen Launch Complex next year. CEO Adam Gilmour takes 10 minutes to chat with us about where they’re heading…
The post Powering Ahead to 2022 : Gilmour Space’s Big Year Ahead appeared first on Trekzone.
Dr Lilli Sun at the ANU is co-leading a study within the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, postulating the unseen matter making up the universe. We know something has to be out there and gravitational waves may just help us crack the mystery… Note: Lilli has contacted Trekzone to advise that her comment about the mass of boson […]
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After forty eight episodes, this is our final regular show for 2021. On the show, Nissan is teaming up with the Japanese Space Agency to build a lunar rover. A new space manufacturing hub has been announced for Adelaide… and NASA’s latest space telescope set to study black holes…
The post Nissan’s Lunar Rover; Adelaide’s Space Hub and Peering Into Black Holes and Neutron Stars with IXPE appeared first on Trekzone.
PhD candidate Jennifer Hardwick is leading a research team into understanding the Fall relation – the correlation between stars and the galaxies in which they live…
The post Arecibo Lives On : How Astronomers Are Using The Lost Dish To Study Galaxies appeared first on Trekzone.
Continuing our look back at our Star Trek Las Vegas trip, we’re spending some time with the Mum of the convention – Robin Curtis. Catch the interview in full right here.
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Gary Davis of Dreadnought Dominion is beaming in to Trekzone to update us on the year that was for them, and to plug their new fan film that’s been out for a couple of weeks – The More Things Change…
The post Gary Davis And Team Ask Whether The More Things Change… In Their Latest Installment appeared first on Trekzone.
Two of the driving forces for Star Trek Fan Films in the UK got together recently to produce a character piece for Captain Hunter of the Starship Intrepid…
The post In Pursuit of a Dream… How Sam Cockings’ Directing Led To A Hunter Character Piece for Starship Intrepid appeared first on Trekzone.
NASA’s LCDR launches to prove the laser communication concept | Exoplanet Cannonball, an ball of rock filled with iron is orbiting a red dwarf. | And the closest supermassive black holes that will collide soon have been discovered.. It’s all here in our 150th, and second last of the season, episode of Talkin’ Science with […]
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Continuing our look back at our Star Trek Las Vegas trip, we’re chatting with Robert O’Reilly in this hilarious interview… Catch the interview in full right here.
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Continuing our look back at our Star Trek Las Vegas trip, this is That Time When we had a chat with Shazad about Ash Tyler, Voq and the future… Catch the interview in full right here.
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We’re kicking off our look back at our time at Star Trek Las Vegas with Rekha Sharma, Commander Landry in the first Discovery season… Catch the interview in full right here.
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As we power ahead to the end of 2021, we’re Talkin’ Science with Dr Brad. This week – Aussie astronauts are about to become a thing, Earth Observing gets a boost, with a 10 year plan from our Space Agency and on the lookout for bushfires, how a new mission could aid authorities – and […]
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The epic Vegas or Bust tour kicks off in our flashback series – July 2019… before Covid19 was a thing… we were living large in Vegas at what would be the final official Star Trek convention. Our first episode on the trip saw us learn about the Gaaayyys in Space!
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Talkin’ Science co-host Dr Brad Tucker introduced us to Liz Landau, a story teller at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, back in mid-2019… we spoke to her about the Artemis program coming up, and how these crewed missions will be different to Apollo…
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As the world still reels from the bombshell announcement of Discovery disappearing from Netflix, the Art Director’s Guild announce they’ve bestowed lifetime achievement awards on Mike and Denise Okuda and we’ve gotten our first glimpse at the upcoming 4K UHD remaster of TMP!
The post Discovery Pulled; The Okuda’s Recognised and A New Look Motion Picture? appeared first on Trekzone.
It’s the 47th week of 2021 and NASA is gearing up to launch the DART mission, an Aussie company joins the global fight to tackle space junk and ASTRA reaches orbit with their seventh launch! Catch our chat with Hypersonix here.
The post DART Set To Fly; Dealing with Space Junk and Making It To Orbit For The First Time appeared first on Trekzone.
In our second episode looking at science fiction visual effects, Jason Zimmerman – supervisor on Discovery – called in to the show to discuss all of the visual effects glory in the series…
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Over two big episodes in 2019 we gained an inisght into the visual effects processes on two of the big science fiction productions – this is That Time When we learnt about the visual effects of The Orville…
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In a special, solo, edition of Talkin’ Science Matt brings you the latest in the world of science and space. We’ve got everything covered in a bite sized podcast – from Russia’s anti-satellite test that sent space debris flying to astronomers finding a baby black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud to NASA delaying landing […]
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He couldn’t make into space as a NASA astronaut, but he did work for the American space agency for many years as an engineer before co-founding Planet Labs. Now he’s a few weeks back from a trip on Blue Origin’s second flight, with William Shatner as a co passenger…
The post Flying to Space With Captain Kirk : Chris Boshuizen on His Blue Origin Journey appeared first on Trekzone.
Professor Simon Driver beams in to explain how AESOP will help the European Space Agency’s VISTA and 4MOST telescopes survey over two million galaxies looking for more information on dark matter…
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As we gear up for Discovery’s return with her fourth season this week, we learnt that the Paramount theme park in China is moving forward, Transformers takes over Star Trek’s film release slot pushing Trek back and David Nevins teases Strange New Worlds coming in the US spring…
The post Discovery and Strange New Worlds Tidbits; Paramount Theme Park and Film Delay appeared first on Trekzone.
Tony Todd called in to the show back in 2019 and we got talking about his work, and his time on Axanar…
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During our first week of Talkin’ Science in April 2019 the world was granted a rare insight into the actual look of Sagittarius A – the black hole at the center of our galaxy…
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Scientists have presented the largest number of gravitational wave detections to date. The Hubble team gets one science instrument running again, as they continue troubleshooting the glitch. And Crew-2 returns as Crew-3 embarks on their 6 month stay in orbit… Guest co-host Thomas Crow is back for this week’s Talkin’ Science..
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“It’s a big universe out there” Meet Darren Hann, science fiction fan film maker from Newfoundland, Canada. He’s just announced a new Star Trek fan film that’s set to premiere in 7 months centering on a very familiar character…
The post A New Captain Garth : Darren Hann on His Fan Film appeared first on Trekzone.
It turns out the alien communication detected from Proxima Centauri in 2019 was interference from here on Earth… Dr Danny Price, part of the SETI team beams in to explain further…
The post It Wasn’t Aliens… Dr Danny Price On What We Heard From Poxima Centauri appeared first on Trekzone.
As we returned to covering Axanar in 2019, Christian Gossett beamed in to lament what could’ve been if Alec had’ve listened…
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As 2019 began, we started expanding our offering here at Trekzone. Flash back with us now to That Time When Rob McKnight beamed in to discuss Doctor Who.
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Built from the ground up by some smart people at Curtin University in Perth, cubesat Binar-1 was launched into orbit from the Space Station last week and has phoned home to say everything is alright!
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We’ve got special guest co-host Thomas Crow with us for this edition of Talkin’ Science. We’ll be catching up on Crew 3’s launch delay, find out the depth of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter and learn more about the massive solar flare that erupted last week…
The post It Wasn’t Aliens; A Medical Delay for Crew 3 & A Massive Solar Flare : Talkin’ Science appeared first on Trekzone.
After almost three years we’ve been treated to the premiere of Star Trek: Prodigy. Larry Nemecek, Dr Trek himself, is here to analyse and look ahead…
The post The Kids Are In Charge… Larry Nemecek Dives Into Prodigy appeared first on Trekzone.
Before there was Talkin’ Science – our weekly look at the science and space news making headlines – Dr Brad Tucker beamed in at the start of 2019 to give us the low down on some exciting happenings…
The post That Time When We Learnt That Science Never Sleeps appeared first on Trekzone.
The new head of Paramount Pictures has been talking extensively about Star Trek, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror finally held the 46th annual Saturn Awards – where Star Trek picked up three gongs and almost three years since it was first announced, Prodigy has launched with a double episode with reasonable fanfare […]
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At the end of 2018 we stepped away from the Axanar story, but when we returned at the beginning of 2019… we discovered nothing much had changed – certainly no film had been produced. Regular contributor and authority on the real facts of the fan film, Carlos Pedraza beamed in… Catch this podcast in full […]
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Astronomers have found the future of our sun, a really old white dwarf thats switching on and off, the first extra galactic exoplanet has been found and Blue Origin’s plans to build its own space station by the end of the decade..
The post A White Dwarf; An Extragalactic Exoplanet and Blue Origin’s Space Station appeared first on Trekzone.
Dan Reynolds is here to give us the low down on The Federation Files – the first new addition to our Fan Films Done Right category in over 2 years!
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Sam Cockings has become a regular on Trekzone, appearing as part of our effort to feature Star Trek Fan Films Done Right. At the end of 2018 he beamed in from his office in the UK to give us the low down of Convergence – at the time, his latest film… Catch this podcast in […]
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Take a trip back to That Time When James Kerwin beamed in to chat about the biggest Star Trek fan film of them all… months before he’d get a panel together for us in our biggest podcast ever! Catch this podcast in full from the archive right here.
The post That Time When We Reflected on Star Trek: Continues with James Kerwin appeared first on Trekzone.
Radio astronomy is entering the fray when it comes to finding exoplanets, with new research postulating that radio signals from red dwarf stars are actually the magnetic interaction with their atmospheres…
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In part two, Rob details his departure from Axanar, and laments on what could’ve been if Alec had’ve trusted those around him to make the continuation of the Axanar story. Catch Part One here.
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Australia set to join an elite club, when we build a lunar rover for Artemis, an intermittent radio signal from the centre of the Milky Way has been discovered by Aussie astronomers and a Jupiter-like exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf gives us a glimpse at our future… It’s all here in a jam packed Talkin’ […]
The post Australia Gears Up To Build A Lunar Rover, An Intermittent Radio Signal From The Centre of the Milky Way and Peering Into Our Solar System’s Future… appeared first on Trekzone.
Back when Ray Tesi acquired the former Star Trek: Continues sets, there was some controversy – there still is… this is That Time When he beamed in to explain a little more about it, and what his thoughts were. Catch this podcast in full from the archive right here.
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We were lucky enough to sit down with Dom for a second time a couple of years back at Supanova in Brisbane. This is That Time When we spoke back stage… Catch this podcast in full from the archive right here.
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The long awaited arrival of Robert Meyer Burnett on Trekzone comes at a time when Alec Peters rejects us for being too biased (read: revealing the truth.) In this first act of a two part interview Rob has a few things to say… including his background in film making and where it all began for […]
The post From Editing to Directing Then Being Sued By Axanar : Rob Burnett On His Time With The Fan Film appeared first on Trekzone.
We’re just eleven weeks from the end of the year, and on today’s Talkin’ Science – the first potential exoplanet to orbit three stars – a trinary star system – has been found. Lucy’s mission to a half dozen asteroids set for launch this weekend. And it appears that Pluto’s atmosphere is disappearing…
The post A Trinary Star System Yields A Planet; Lucy Prepares for Launch and The Case of Pluto’s Disappearing Atmosphere… appeared first on Trekzone.
As we learn a little more about Discovery’s fourth season, William Shatner says he’s terrified ahead of launch with Blue Origin, Nana Visitor talks about her book… And Alec Peters tells Trekzone he fears for his life as he refuses to put his side of the story forward.
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Jim Moorehouse beamed on to the bridge of the NX-01 and fired the phasers in Malcolm Reed’s absence. This is That Time When his voice beamed in to Trekzone to talk about it… Catch this podcast in full from the archive right here.
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Flashing back to That Time When Mark Naccarato beamed in to Trekzone to give us an update on his Star Trek fan film, and it’s surprising Aussie connection… Catch this podcast in full from the archive right here.
The post That Time When We Learnt About The Romulan War appeared first on Trekzone.
We’re thrilled to welcome a panel of guests to the show for this special edition of A Trekzone Conversation. James Kerwin, Larry Nemecek, Todd Haberkorn and Chris Doohan beam in to reflect on the legacy of one of the giant Star Trek Fan Films- Star Trek Continues…
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Captain Kirk is set to take flight, with William Shatner aboard Blue Origin. NASA’s InSight Lander records a 4.5 magnitude Marsquake for over an hour! And a new theory postulates the moon’s origin story…
The post Our Captain, In Orbit : As InSight Records A 90 Minute Marsquake! appeared first on Trekzone.
As exclusively revealed by Trekzone in the last week, Prodigy is premiering on Australia’s version of Paramount+ later this year. Plus Discovery is getting a free to air premiere too – on 10Bold. We’ve also got details of new grant money awarded by our Moon to Mars Initiative and there might be hope in the […]
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He was a friend of Alec Peters before Axanar was even an idea, but things quickly turned sour when Dean Newbury started opening his eyes about Alec Peters and the way he conducted himself… This is Dean’s story of joining, then leaving Axanar.
The post From Friend to Colleague to Hater : Dean Newbury’s Axanar Journey appeared first on Trekzone.
We now have official, and exclusive, word that Prodigy will be premiering on the ViacomCBS streaming platform recently relaunched in Australia, following recent news that it’ll be headling the European offering when that launches next year. Trekzone has exclusive details in this special edition of The News…
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He’s taking the leap from visual effects production for others to creating his own Star Trek fan films. Trekyards’ Sam Cockings is back on Trekzone with your exclusive first look at his next project. Plus, we also dive into his directorial debut for Starship Intrepid…
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Dr Matt Roth from Mt Stromlo has discovered the origins of gamma rays after studying old Hubble data and observations from the Fermi Gamma Ray Observatory. It’s unlocked a key part of our understanding of the universe.
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Axamonitor Editor Carlos Pedraza is back on Trekzone to discuss the recent events at Creation’s 55 Year Mission Tour in Vegas and Dragon Con in Atlanta. The later convention saw a confrontation between Shawn O’Halloran and Alec Peters where one person was charged, another was served with a temporary restraining order and everyone was left […]
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Only a handful of severe earthquakes have rocked Australia in the past 100 years, from Meckering in Western Australia to Newcastle in New South Wales and the Northern Territory as well. USC’s Dr Adrian McCallum beams in to discuss yesterday’s Mansfield Earthquake…
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It’s time for another edition of Talkin’ Science. Dr Brad and Matt have details of studies into China’s lunar samples, Inspiration 4’s return to Earth, a Russian film crew heading to the space station and a new discovery about black holes…
The post Inspiration 4 Returns to Earth as A New Calculation Shows Black Holes Will Shrink appeared first on Trekzone.
Professor Deanne Fisher and an international team have discovered what happens during stellar formation… and where heavier elements come from…
The post Star Formation is “Dirty” Work – As New Research Proves appeared first on Trekzone.
Lee Sargent was drawing a Star Trek image every day back in 2018, this is That Time When we caught up with him to see how he was going…
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It’s the thirty fifth week of 2021 and today we’re talkin Perseverance successfully drilling for rocks the second time round, the Federal Aviation Administration in the US grounding Virgin Galactic and the Russian modules on the space station are starting to show their age…
The post Jeopardising The Space Station as Perseverance Gets It’s First Sample appeared first on Trekzone.
Annie Wesching has been announced as the latest actress to play the Borg Queen, she’ll be starring across seasons two and three of Picard, which has just wrapped filming the second season and the crew are now moving into production of the third.
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Two SciFi heavyweights are joining the cast of Prodigy in an antagonistic fashion, Star Trek Day is coming on September 8, new name – same great content … welcome Star Trek Explorer! Plus a sneak peek at the Voyager retrospective documentary.
The post Star Trek Day Is Coming Plus Prodigy’s Villians Announced… appeared first on Trekzone.
It’s the 34th week of 2021 and NASA’s new space telescope clears it’s final testing and is now ready for launch. An asteroid has been discovered orbiting the Sun, closer than Mercury and a new class of exoplanets could be our ticket to finding extra terrestial life…
The post Move Over Mercury – There’s A New Closest Object! appeared first on Trekzone.
Following the release of our second fan film, the first in the Star Trek era, our visual effects guru Sam Cockings beamed in to chat about his work… Catch this interview in full by beaming over to the original watch page!
The post That Time When We Learnt About The VFX of Once More With Feeling appeared first on Trekzone.
Macquarie University’s Doctor Christian Schwab developed a new kind of spectrometer that brings solar systems into sharper focus to aid in the discovery of smaller exoplanets. On this episode, we learn more about NEID.
The post Tuning In To Exoplanets : A New Spectrometer Aims To Find More Planets Out There appeared first on Trekzone.
At the recent 55 Year Mission convention in Las Vegas, Alec Peters was live streaming when Shawn O’Halloran’s son approached his booth wearing a Duck mask. What happened next beggars belief… Our unbiased coverage of Axanar is available in a handy YouTube playlist.
The post Hayden O’Halloran on The Duckman Incident In Vegas appeared first on Trekzone.
We started our podcasting journey with Rod in 2013, and as we crossed over one hundred episodes he beamed in again to catch up and talk about The Mission Log podcast… Catch this interview in full now by beaming over to the original watch page.
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It’s the thirty third week of 2021 and Russian space junk likely caused the loss of a Chinese satellite. Fifteen years on since the textbooks were changed – why does debate still stalk Pluto? And China’s martian rover completes it’s primary mission..
The post A Chinese Satellite Taken Out By Russian Space Junk As The Zurhong Rover Completes It’s Mission appeared first on Trekzone.
It’s now official that Discovery has wrapped on season four as Robert Beltran confirms he’s lending his voice to Star Trek: Prodigy. Meanwhile, NASA celebrates what would’ve been Gene Roddenberry’s 100th birthday with a message beamed into deep space…
The post Discovery Wraps; Celebrating Gene’s 100th and Is Chakotay Back on Trek? appeared first on Trekzone.
It’s an innovative concept that’ll help astronauts use ground penetrating radar to effectively search below the surface as we reach out to the stars in the years ahead. MAPrad is a tenth the size of current generation ground radar, scanning twice as deep in something the size of a backpack – at this stage!
The post From the Moon to Mars : A Mini Radar To Help Astronauts appeared first on Trekzone.
We spoke with Alec Peters in 2016 at the height of his legal battle with CBS and Paramount. Since then, we’ve not been granted another interview… until today. Supporter of Alec and Axanar, Reece Watkins, beams in to share his thoughts on the fan film production that has divided so many in the niche of […]
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It’s the thirty third week of 2021 and we’ve got details of SpaceX being contracted to launch a billboard into space, but not to hit us with ads from the sky… Perseverance came up empty in it’s first attempt to collect a Martian sample and NASA’s facing the very real problem of their next gen […]
The post Space Ads, Perseverance Misses The Mark and Spacesuit Delays : Talkin’ Science appeared first on Trekzone.
In one of our last Trekzone Spotlight podcasts, Ben Sorensen beamed in. He’s one of the emcees for Supanova and he joined us to chat about working the convention and co-ordinating the panel discusses of the headline acts… Catch this interview in full now, right here!
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A new theory postulates that the slowing of Earth’s rotation in it’s younger years contributed to increased oxygenation of the atmosphere, thus helping more complex life to evolve. We’re joined by one of the scientists who formulated the theory on this Talkin’ Science Interview.
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It’s the game that developed over several years and eventually shipped, providing more Axanar content then Alec Peters could maanage. But when Ad Astra Games’ Ken Burnside discovered the real truth about Axanar, he cancelled the game and moved on with his life. In typical Alec Peters style, he didn’t like that and branded Ken […]
The post No Longer In Alec’s Orbit : Ken Burnside on Squadron Strike: Axanar appeared first on Trekzone.
It’s the 32nd week of 2021.. and we’ve got details of the shocking moment Kepler caught the end of a massive yellow star… an x-ray image of black hole V404 Cygni captures rings of material being shot out… and Virgin Galactic put tickets up for grabs for their next spaceflights.
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While we focus on a few regulars for Fan Films Done Right, we’re always looking for others doing the right thing. Potemkin Pictures is one such group and this is That Time When we met them… Catch this interview in full now, right here!
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We’re just a few days away from the second season of Lower Decks hitting Paramount+ in the States and Amazon Prime in the rest of the world. Meanwhile in live action Star Trek, production on Discovery continues as we hear reports of the writers room getting back together for a fifth season. And Alex Kurtzman […]
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It’s one of Saturn’s largest moons, visited by Cassini in 2014. Now, new analysis suggests the subsurface ocean could be home to primitive life thanks to the geothermal activity we can see in the form of huge geyers shooting up from the southern polar region. Join us for a Talkin’ Science Quick Take.
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We’re just days away from the return of Lower Decks to Paramount+, we’re learning more about Prodigy as it’s series premiere gets closer and Alex Kurtzman gets another five years at the helm of the Star Trek franchise. It’s a big week of Trek production news, worthy of it’s own podcast. Dr Trek’s here to […]
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It’s the thirty first week of 2021.. Light has been detected bouncing off a black hole, proving Einstein right again… the new Russian module sent the Space Station spinning in a hair raising hour for the twenty year old outpost and Rocket Lab returns to flight two months after a catastrophic failure to launch.
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As we started broadening our interests in 2018 we checked in with Professor Tamara Davis to learn about the recent discoveries of gravitational waves, what they are and how they’ll shape our understanding of the universe… You can catch this interview in full by clicking here and diving into the Trekzone archive!
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Back in 2018 on our Perth roadtrip we checked in with Aaron Vanderkley and company as they shot The Fall of Starbase One… this is That Time When… You can catch this interview in full by clicking here and diving into the Trekzone archive!
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As the cold war starts to heat up amongst former associates of Alec Peters, Trekzone returns to the never-launched Star Trek fan film. On this edition, one time loyal supporter Steven Mayhew beams in to explain how his love for the film brought him right into the inner circle of the Axanar faithful…
The post Opening Up About Axanar : Steven Mayhew on His Journey Out From The Trollhunters appeared first on Trekzone.
Welcome to another edition of Talkin’ Science, it’s the 29th week of 2021 and the first image of a Saturn-like planet – an exoplanet forming moons in a ring. Marsquakes offer a unique insight into the structure and core of Mars – and it is pretty different than Earth. Plus Boeing’s CST Starliner will have […]
The post Starliner Gears Up For Test Number 2, As We Peer Into A Forming Solar System : Talkin’ Science appeared first on Trekzone.
News from Comic Con At Home sees us learn more about Star Trek: Prodigy and the second season of Lower Decks. Plus Anson Mount joins other cast and crew celebrating the end of principal photography for Strange New Worlds. All that, and Robert Duncan McNeill has revealed he’s trying to fit Picard into his busy […]
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Following a chance introduction, Paul Jenkins saw an opportunity to help a struggling Star Trek fan film come to fruition. What would transpire over the proceeding years led him to tackle the hugely complex toxic fan culture rife across many franchises with a documentary. Our guest today is locked in a legal battle with Alec […]
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A 13 billion year old hypernova has been found by a team of Aussie astronomers at the Siding Springs observatory. The star had an iron-to-hydrogen ratio around 3,000 times lower than the Sun, suggesting it formed relatively close to the big bang itself..
The post Discovering A Hypernova : Professor Gary Da Costa on this Very Exciting Find appeared first on Trekzone.
In this the 28th week of 2021… Jeff Bezos and company make it to orbit and back again… Another rare insight into a supermassive black hole.. and astronomers find a teardrop-shaped star in a binary system.
The post Bezos Flies, We See Another Supermassive Black Hole and Find A Teardrop Shaped Star : Trekzone’s Talkin’ Science appeared first on Trekzone.
It’s another installment of Trekzone’s The News – catch details of Discovery’s wrapping of season four filming, Strange New Worlds sending a crew to New Mexico for VFX shots and the new Star Trek movie has a director!
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Following Aaron’s announcement of his latest #StarTrek #FanFilm, Outbreak, we thought it fitting to recap on the niche of a niche with this flashback to when Carlos Pedraza joined Matt from our LA studio… Catch the first of the three part look at From There to Here right now.
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It was taking up to forty days for Australians to receive Earth Observing Data, now with the launch of Nova Sar 1 – that’s been dramatically cut down to around an hour. The CSIRO’s Dr Amy Parker beams in to explain why … and how!
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He’s back on the channel to announce another fan film, incredibly without needing millions of dollars or large warehouses. We’re thrilled to have Aaron Vanderkley back to tell us all about Outbreak – A Star Trek Fan Film.
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It’s been almost five years since we met Ray, when he acquired the then Star Trek: Continues soundstage. He’s turned it into a place where fan film makers can come and make their shorts for the fun of it. But, some folks aren’t happy about that and think he’s impeding on James Cawley’s licensed Ticonderoga […]
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The headlines in this the twenty seventh week of 2021.. They Made It. Richard Branson and the crew on Unity 22 make it to sub orbital space, successfully completing an almost two decade long ambition. A Hypernova Discovery from the very early universe… and four Rogue Planets found out in the cold depths, seperated from […]
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Talkin’ Science Fest wraps up today with an exclusive interview with Southern Launch’s CEO Lloyd Damp. A few weeks ago they were given approval for three launches from their new complex in Whalers Way, South Australia…
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We’re back up at The Dish for this edition of Talkin’ Science Fest… John Sarkissian has beamed in to give us the low down on everything Parkes – Murriyang – is doing, and has done in it’s sixty year life…
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We’ve been to Tidbinbilla in the past, but never inside the operations center – until now. Team Leader Richard Stephenson is our guide as we continue Talkin’ Science Fest.
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Questacon has become the peak science education center in Australia, home to many fantastic exhibitions that can pack up into a truck and travel around the country. It’s seen over ten million people through it’s turnstiles since it opened in it’s permanent home in 1988, we’re thrilled to learn more as we continue Talkin’ Science […]
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It’s the 26th week of 2021.. A long period comet hundreds of kilometers in diameter is heading to the inner solar system… not one… but two discoveries of the most extreme reaction in the universe – black holes gobbling up neutron stars… and doing the space laundry, NASA and Procter and Gamble are teaming up […]
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We’re kicking off Talkin’ Science Fest – a week long celebration of Australian space and science achievements – with the first of two parts looking at The Dish, the Parkes Radio Telescope. Last year it was honoured with the name Murriyang by the Wiradjuri people.
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Simon Pegg has been tapped for a renewed effort to get Galaxy Quest to the small screen as the co-CEO of Creation Entertainment speaks with the Trek Geeks about the upcoming 55 year mission convention in Vegas and Bad Batch viewers might’ve been delightfully surprised by this week’s guest star. It’s The News for 2021’s […]
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We’re familiar with the desert planet Tatooine from Star Wars, the childhood home of Anakin Skywalker and location of that amazing shot of Luke Skywalker look beyond his Uncle’s moisture farm as the twin suns set … but did you know that astronomers have found real Tatooines out there, planets living in binary star system. […]
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As we continue to prepare Talkin’ Science fest, catch up on That Time When Adam Rains beamed in to chat about his PhD research studying exoplanets. You can catch this interview in full right now.
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As we continue to build up to Talkin’ Science fest, flash back with us to July 2018 and hear from Dr Brad about the formation of the Aussie Space Agency. You can catch this interview in full right now.
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As we prepare for Talkin’ Science Fest, flash back with us and learn about the formation of planetary systems – research that Eloise Birchall was studying when she beamed in for a chat in 2019. You can catch this interview in full right here.
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It’s this the twenty fifth week of 2021 and we’re here to bring you the latest in science and space… including flipping exoplanet thinking … who can see Earth? Is Venus Volcanically Active? New research from decades old data says yes. And a new kind of supernova has been discovered…
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The Voyager Documentary has gotten underway in a Los Angeles studio with a funky holodeck set. Meanwhile, and as tipped by Trekzone, Lower Decks will headline Paramount+ when it launches in Latin America in September … with the second season premiering the same day as 10 All Access rebrands in Australia.
The post The Voyager Doco Gets Underway; Lower Decks Confirmed for Paramount+ and Kurtzman Talks Helming Trek appeared first on Trekzone.
Embarrassingly for Axanar, we can run this 2018 chat with Carlos Pedraza about the state of the Star Trek fan film and it’s still pretty much all still relevant… Catch this interview in full now.
The post That Time When We Assessed The State of Axanar in 2018 appeared first on Trekzone.
Professor Warwick Bowen led a team of researchers to discovering how to make quantum entangled light work for microscopic analysis. It’s the next step in microscopy, and it’s been discovered right here in Brisbane!
The post Getting Microscopic : A Quantum Entangled Microscope is Born! appeared first on Trekzone.
He’d just acquired the Star Trek: Continues sets after the production had folded. They would eventually become The Neutral Zone studios and Ray joined Matt for a chat about the thrill of owning his own sets! Catch this interview in full now.
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We’re focusing on China today…. so lets get the headlines in this…the twenty fourth week of 2021.. China launches 3 astronauts to spend three months in orbit.. NASA seeks more money as China’s space program ramps up and China and Russia announce their moon base plans to rival Artemis…
The post Focusing on China’s Space Program – As They Launch Astronauts for the First Time in Five Years appeared first on Trekzone.
We’re continuing our dive through the Talkin’ Trek mini series here on That Time When, in a special edition Larry Nemecek – Doctor Trek himself – beamed in to analyse the first season of Picard… Catch this interview in full now.
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It’s a bumper news cycle, as we gear up for all the Star Trek to come back. We’ve got a breakdown of the latest Picard trailer, the new images for Prodigy and Tig Notaro commenting on Jett Reno. Plus exclusive details of new Star Trek Fleet Command content!
The post Star Trek: Picard Season Two Trailer Breakdown : Prodigy Images & Reno’s Appearances appeared first on Trekzone.
Lets flash back to That Time When we filmed a broader overview of Supanova on the Gold Coast. Catch our trip to Goldnova in full now.
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Lets set the stage, Discovery was nine episodes old and we’d just entered that brief hiatus before the rest of the series. Now good friend of the show, Trek Geek Dan, beamed in to dissect the beginning of “new Trek”. Catch this interview in full now.
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Associate Professor Neeraj Sharma led a team of UNSW researchers who stumbled upon a “thermally stable material” made up of several elements, which could have wide ranging applications from spacecraft to medicine…
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We’re thrilled to bring you Robert Wolfe who has beamed in for a chat about his career spanning Star Trek, Andromeda, The Dresden Files and more…
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We’re continuing our look back on the Talkin’ Trek series, as we eagerly await all the new Star Trek that will befall us very soon. On this edition of That Time When, lets chat Lower Decks… Catch this interview in full now.
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Here are the headlines in this the 23rd week of 2021.. It might be possible to reach another star system in a few decades after a major scientific breakthrough at the ANU. Exo moons orbiting free floating planets may well have liquid water and the European Union is gearing up to launch it’s first wooden […]
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Star Trek: Prodigy has unveiled it’s voice cast, first look images and character details in a press release from the official site. Meanwhile, over on the live action shows, we’ve learnt some new info by scouring social media as LGBTQ+ members of the Discovery cast took part in Outfest last weekend and Eaglemoss is getting […]
The post Our First Look at Prodigy as Eaglemoss Unveil A Borg Cube Advent Calendar! appeared first on Trekzone.
Back before the lawsuit that changed Star Trek fan film making – April 2016 to be exact – Axanar was an ambitious project that was starting to creep beyond the scope of it’s goals. Alec Peters agreed to beam in for a chat, before realising that we weren’t going to take everything he said at […]
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He became one of the most famous background actors in the Stargate universe, every year adding a new chevron to his rank… Gary Jones was in Australia for Supanova and we got to chat with him. Catch this interview in full now!
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Professor Andrew Hopkins from Macquarie University beams in to explore the research he and a team of astronomers around the world have just released detailing previously though radio-quiet zones in the Scorpio cluster … the galactic plane.
The post Studying the Galactic Plane : Professor Andrew Hopkins on Ground Breaking Research appeared first on Trekzone.
He’s a noted Star Trek audio book producer who got an unsolicited communication from Alec Peters one day who begged for his help in working on the audio adaption of the Axanar screenplay. Emmett Plant beams in to explain how that came about, and what he thinks of the Star Trek fan film…
The post Soliciting Work : How Emmett Plant Got Caught Up In Axanar appeared first on Trekzone.
On this Talkin’ Science – We’re off to Venus, NASA announces two missions to our other planetary neighbour… SpaceX and Axiom Space agree to fly 3 more private astronaut missions to the space station and Jeff Bezos and his brother are going on the first Blue Origin flight.
The post We’re Heading Back to Venus as the Bezos Brothers Announce They’ll be Riding New Shepard to Space appeared first on Trekzone.
At the start of our 2019 season and one of the first few Talkin’ Trek podcasts, Lee and Matt discussed Short Treks… Catch this Talkin’ Trek in full here.
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Following MGM’s sale to Amazon for a few billion dollars, rumours swirl about ViacomCBS teaming up with the Peacock. Meanwhile, we’ve got the wrap of Star Trek teases from various outlets and CTV confirms they’ll pickup Prodigy and Strange New Worlds when they release. Plus we’ll detail an Aussie Cubesat’s delayed journey to the Space […]
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Alice Krige was in Perth back in 2013 for the Revelation Film Festival – her movie Hail Caesar was premiering – and she gave us some time to chat about her appearance as The Borg Queen in First Contact… Catch this interview in full now.
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In Melbourne for Oz Comic Con back in 2014, Jeffrey Combs gave us some time to chat about his Star Trek work in one of our early episodes… Catch this interview in full now.
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We’re thrilled to be out of the studio for this Talkin’ Science episode. Hypersonix’s Michael Smart sits down with Matt at the University of Queensland to discuss their scramjet engine which is currently going through rigorous testing and will be powered by green hydrogen provided by BOC.
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For just on a decade, Dr Sarah Pearce has been leading the Space Science division at the CSIRO – Australia’s science agency. Now she’s moving over to the Australian arm of the international Square Kilometer Array.
The post Dr Sarah Pearce on Leading Australia’s Contribution to the Square Kilometer Array appeared first on Trekzone.
As the most detailed map of the universe is revealed, we’ve learnt that the Milky Way isn’t unusual and Curiosity has snapped some pretty cool cloud formations on Mars…
The post Martian Clouds, A Detailed Universe Map and We’re Not Unusual appeared first on Trekzone.
Lee Sargent wrapped up the 2019 season with three podcasts covering the movies. Catch this edition of Talkin’ Trek in full.
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As Mike McMahan teases the forthcoming season of Lower Decks, Star Trek Online kicks off it’s new season for PC… Hypersonix successfully tests their scramjet engine and the Queensland government announces it’s commitment to Abbot Point as a Gilmour Space launch site.
The post Lower Decks Teases; New Star Trek Online Season & QLD Space News! appeared first on Trekzone.
Doug Drexler came back to the show to tell us about working to produce twenty six episodes of Star Trek every year in a two part chat in 2018. Catch this interview in full now.
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This is That Time When The 8-Bit Guy beamed in for a chat about his journey to full time YouTubing… Catch this interview in full now.
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On a reheated edition of Talkin’ Science Thursday, we’re flashing back to November 2019 – and our chat with Northrop Grumman mere days before the maiden flight of their new Antares 230 series rocket… Catch this interview in full now…
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As Virgin Galactic celebrates it’s third flight, and first from New Mexico, Australia’s Air Force officially launches Space Division and Dr Brad and Matt preview this week’s Total Lunar Eclipse.
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This is That Time When Lee Sargent beamed in and we were Talkin’ Trek : Star Trek: Enterprise. Catch the full Talkin’ Science here.
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As Discovery’s writers reach the end of season four, Shazad Latif alludes to rumours of Section 31 and we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Voyager’s return!
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Tidbinbilla is home to sprawling fields of sheep paddocks, but that doesn’t bother the team at Canberra’s Deep Space Tracking Station … they prefer their neighbours to be quiet on the radio frequencies – because it helps them be one third of NASA’s Deep Space Communication Network. This is That Time When we visited them […]
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On the penultimate episode of SciFi Weekly in 2016 we drove down to the Australian National University and checked in with a few researchers to learn about what they were doing. Catch this full episode now.
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It was their twentieth launch of the Electron rocket. Unfortunately for only the third time the entire payload and second stage was lost due to an anomaly. Jonathan McDowell, space launch and activities commentator is back to discuss what this means.
The post Second Stage Failure : Jonathan McDowell Comments On Rocketlabs’ “Anomaly” appeared first on Trekzone.
Seth MacFarlane’s smash hit comedy/drama/science fiction epic The Orville is returning for a third season on Hulu really soon… they’ve spent almost eighteen months in production thanks to Covid, but the end is near. Director and Producer Jon Cassar beams in to chat about his thirty plus year career and dish some info from the […]
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As China’s lander touches down in the Utopia Planitia basin on Mars, a Russian film announces it’ll be racing to film on the Space Station against Tom Cruise’s project and we get an audio sample of what Voyager One is hearing out past the heliosphere…
The post Voyager One Hears A Hum as China Lands on Mars and A Very Different Space Race Begins… appeared first on Trekzone.
Lee Sargent beamed in across 2019 to Talk Trek with Matt, here’s That Time When they talked about Voyager… Catch up on the full chat from Talkin’ Trek here.
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As Kate Mulgrew plugs her new series Mr Mercedes, she spills some beans about the opening of Prodigy. Meanwhile Mike McMahan dishes some dirt on Lower Decks’ second season and we’ve got a convention round up now that vaccines are becoming a widespread thing…
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We’re continuing our retrospective on Talkin’ Trek – the series of podcasts from 2019 where Lee Sargent and Matt dived into the entire franchise. Don’t forget – you can catch this Talkin’ Trek installment in full here.
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Earlier this week OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s asteroid sample return mission, successfully “pushed off” from Bennu to begin it’s thirty month journey home. Project Scientist Jason Dworkin beams back into Trekzone to update us on the mission progress.
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He’s worked on Discovery since season one, having played a part in the Gormagander, the Tardigrade and the epic battle of the season two finale. Now Fausto Tejeda is beaming into Trekzone to discuss that work, and tease the upcoming fourth season…
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We’re Talkin’ Science in week 18 of 2021… Dr Brad’s here with details of Blue Origin’s auction of a seat on their forthcoming New Shepard lunch – someone will get to go to the edge of space! Meanwhile, Axiom Space is gearing up for their launch of a private crew to the Space Station and […]
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We were live this morning as the booster stage of China’s latest Long March 5B to launch returned to Earth. Space archaeologist Professor Alice Gorman, spaceflight commentator Jonathan Gorman and Space Law expert Duncan Blake were our expert guests as we presented a 6 hour marathon waiting for the return of the rocket body.
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He’s a Trek author who sadly passed away last year, this is That Time When we met him for a chat about his work, Star Trek in general … and his encounter with Axanar’s Alec Peters.. Catch this interview in full here.
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We’re taking you through the archive of Trekzone with these podcasts, bringing you interviews and episodes you might’ve missed and pointing you in the direction of the full chat. This is That Time When We First Met Rod Roddenberry… Catch this interview in full here.
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Nick Swainston is our guest on this edition of Talkin’ Science. With the help of some machine learning and a good pair of analytical eyes he discovered what’s been called Nick’s Pulsar from observations at the Murchison Widefield Array…
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We’re back with another edition of The Trekzone Variety Show following a very exciting triple episode premiere of the next Star Wars series – The Bad Batch. Keeley and Matt dive into spoilers, easter eggs, casting announcements and where we think we’re heading on this edition…
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Remembering Michael. Apollo 11’s command module pilot Michael Collins passes away age 90. Extending Ingenuity. The Martian helicopter gets a mission extensions and new directive to aid it’s rover sibling and doomsday prepping, NASA’s regular fire drill for asteroid impact takes place again. It’s the eighteenth week of 2021.
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We’re continuing our look back at Talkin’ Trek – the 2019 series of podcasts with Lee Sargent as we analyse the Star Trek franchise. Catch the full podcasts here, here and here.
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It’s week 18 2021, and we’ve got your Star Trek news headlines in a bite zie podcast. Hear details about Picard from John de Lancie and LeVar Burton, is Section 31 happening? And Crew 1 returns home after five months in orbit!
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Matt calls him the three greatest names in television, some fans call him MacGyver, to yet others he’s Jack O’Neill (with two L’s!) All we know is, he’s Richard Dean Anderson and this is That Time When we met him at Oz Comic Con. Catch this interview in full now!
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He was one fifth of the Mythbusters, Sulu on Star Trek: Continues. A widely admired and loved man who was passionate and determined. Sadly, a brain aneurysm took his life way too soon last year.This is That Time When we sat down with Grant Imahara in 2014 at Supanova Brisbane. Catch this interview in full […]
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Recently new analysis of Pioneer data from Venus indicated the presence of pphosphine in the atmosphere. That’s usually a precursor to life, but as Dr McKemmish explains – there’s actually a few more things involved…
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Keeley’s back for another Variety Show, we’re wrapping up Falcon & The Winter Soldier – and looking ahead to The Bad Batch!
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As Perseverance works to convert carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere to oxygen in a critical experiment for future crewed missions, Ingenuity flies again – further and longer than the first time. And we’re now tracking in near-real time two hundred pieces of space debris classed as “super spreaders” Those stories, and the headlines on […]
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We’re taking a look back at our 2019 series of podcasts with Lee Sargent, providing a series by series retrospective on Star Trek. This is The Animated Adventures… Catch this interview in full now.
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Another busy News podcast here at Trekzone, as we wrap up Supanova Week. A “Zone A” member on Discovery has been identified as a close contact to a Covid positive case, LeVar Burton gets the call up from Jeopardy and Michael Dorn is back as Worf for a Star Trek game.
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Continuing Supanova Week here at Trekzone with That Time When We Met Torri Higginson – in Brisbane for the pop culture convention. Catch this interview in full now.
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It’s been a big week here at Trekzone as we bring you our usual fare of a podcast a day, while on the road at the first Supanova convention since the pandemic bit hard in April last year. This is That Time When we met Walter Koenig at Supanova Gold Coast in 2015… A reminder […]
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Astronomers are keen to find these intermediate mass black holes – aka Goldilocks Black Holes – because they’re believed to be the missing link to understand how super massive black holes exist in the relatively short life span of the Universe… One thing everyone can agree on – it’s a really cool discovery…
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According to Wikipedia, he’s Australia’s most prolific comic book illustrator. He’s also a regular at Supanova and loved by thousands of fans – many of whom follow him around the country to various conventions. Matt got to sit down with him for a chat about bouncing back from 2020…
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As Ingenuity flies for just under forty seconds on Mars, President Biden pledges another $1.5 billion to the NASA coffers, former Shuttle Commander Pamela Melroy receives a nomination to the Deputy NASA Administrator post, SpaceX’s Starship is chosen to land Artemis on the Moon and a partnership here in Brisbane will lead to the countries […]
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Across 2019 illustrator and friend of the show, Lee Sargent, beamed in for a series of podcasts about Star Trek. This is That Time When Lee beamed in to talk The Original Series… Be sure to catch this interview in full now…
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Supanova Week starts now… While the Strange New Worlds production office handles a Covid case in the guest cast, we’re hearing rumours again of a new Star Trek movie. Plus Sydney start up Spiral Blue have been given payload space on an upcoming launch to get some cool new technology into orbit.
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We're flashing back to That Time When We Met David Mack, acclaimed author whose has written in the 24, Farscape and Star Trek universes.
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It’s a comet that has the astronomical community. Is it from beyond our solar system? Is it made up of pebbles or something finer? Join Matt as he chats with Rok Nezic and Olivier Hainaut who were part of the two separate teams…
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As a seven year project to build a space debris hunting laser at Mount Stromlo comes to fruition, we celebrate 60 years since Yuri Gagarin and 40 years since the Space Shuttle first flew…
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We’re flashing back to That Time When we met author Dayton Ward, as we kick off a fortnight of looking at the literature of Star Trek. Catch this interview in full by clicking here.
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So much awesomeness was packed into Monday’s First Contact Day panels, so we’re taking six minutes to give you what you need to know, including our easter egg breakdown of the Picard season two trailer!
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Bill and Dan, The Trek Geeks, are back on Trekzone to help us wrap up all the juicy tidbits we learnt from Paramount+’s First Contact Day panels…
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On this Talkin’ Science – Australia will have it’s own space command next year, joining other world powers in orbit. Astronomers have gotten a pretty good view of 2I/Borisov, as it tracks towards our Sun and new research says that we’re living in a galactic sweet spot, giving exoplanet hunters some good parameters in finding […]
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Michael Davis AO beams in to chat about the Aussie Space Forum that took place in Adelaide last week.
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It’s The News from Trekzone. On this edition, Paramount+ is gearing up for three hours of panels about Star Trek, To The Journey gets funded – the highest total for a crowdfunded doco – and John Eaves gets recognised for his work.
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Dr Graham Walker loves his job and he loves teaching others about science too. It’s all part of his outreach program that’s taken him to Africa, Asia and even right here in our own backyard. But what is about SciComm that’s so engaging? Lets find out!
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We’ve been checking in to Supanova since 2013, meeting the guests they bring to our shores for the fans. Now as 2021 rolls on, and with Covid-19 relatively under control in Australia, we check in with the founder of the pop culture convention to see how they’re managing to get going again…
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We’re following three pretty big stories this week on Talkin’ Science. As Japan launches a space junk hunter, French wine that spent a year on the space station gets taste tested and Southern Launch Australia get a license to launch from their Koonibba Launch Facility.
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Join Matt and Keeley, together in the same room for the first time, for the rootenist tootenist Variety Show you’re likely to see. We’re diving into the first two eps of Falcon & The Winter Soldier and also celebrating sixteen years of NuWho… Keeley picked the title…
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Continuing our Star Trek: Enterprise theme, flashback with us to one of our first podcasts and That Time When we met Anthony Montgomery.
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Hanelle Culpepper wins for directing Picard’s pilot, 455 Films announces the name for the “Voyager Doco” plus the City of Boston announces Leonard Nimoy Day and Southern Launch gets Australia’s first launch facility license..
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Continuing a Star Trek: Enterprise theme on That Time When, catch up on our first meeting with Malcolm Reed himself, Dominic Keating.
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Dr Luke Daly at the University of Glasgow led a recovery team to a very rare and precious carbonaceous chondrite meteorite. The Global Fireball Oversatory managed to guide the team to a radius of 400 meters to allow for a very fast recovery - maintaining the purity of the specimen.
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In April 2014, Oz Comic Con gave us time to sit down with Connor Trinneer to chat about Enterprise and Stargate Atlantis. Catch this interview in full by clicking here.
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Paramount+ released a short video this week confirming production was underway on Strange New Worlds, and showing us five new faces joining the crew. Meanwhile the Voyager doco has cracked a million dollars in donations, new Trek books and NASA successfully test fired an SLS engine!
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He's the man behind everyone's favourite naughty worded captioned GIFs on the internet... but just how did Swear Trek get started? Find out on this Trekzone Conversation when Aaron Reynolds beams in...
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Deadly Science was founded by Corey Tutt, the 2020 NSW Young Person of the Year, to meet the demand for STEM resources in remote Australian schools - and to show First Nations children that they too can be part of STEM.
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Cosmonauts have fixed a leak in one of the oldest modules on the Space Station. Russia and China sign up to build their own station in lunar orbit and dust found in the Chicxulub Crater confirms the cause of the dinosaur extinction.
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We’re flashing back to Oz Comic Con Melbourne on this edition, That Time When we met Constable Odo himself, the amazing René Auberjonois. Catch this interview in full by clicking here.
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We’re flashing back through the archive of Trekzone to That Time When we met Nana Visitor who was in Perth for Oz Comic Con. Catch this interview in full by clicking here.
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As The History Channel announces a new documentary series focusing on Star Trek, in time for the franchises 55th anniversary, Nicholas Meyer speaks about his Trek movie pitch, just days after Paramount taps a writer to get started, Kate Mulgrew talks Prodigy and the Aussie Space Agency announces it's third initiative to aid Artemis.
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Dr Adam Stevens beams in to discuss new research pointing to bigger galaxies gobbling up the star forming gas in their neighbouring smaller galaxies…
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Three years since our last foray into Star Trek fan films, we're back with an anthology series of 13 short stories.
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Win a free trip to the moon… you'll just need to convince a Japanese billionaire you're worth it. A newly discovered exo planet could help us understand life and we may finally understand the moon beam excited by solar photons which was first discovered in 90's.
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In the epic series final of WandaVision almost everything ties together, but we're left with some pondering about Blank Vision, Pietro and what's next for Wanda Maximoff. Plus, we take a quick recap of Superman & Lois, the next series we're covering on The Trekzone Variety Show!
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From Stargate to Dark Matter, and science fiction in between, producer and show runner of some of our favourite shows is our flashback on this edition of That Time When.
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As Paramount+ launches for the United States, Discovery and Picard receive more award nominations, Robert Duncan McNeill plots his campaign to bring Captain Proton out of the holodeck and a super computer facility in Western Australia announces The Quokka!
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PhD student Marcus Lower beams in to Trekzone to chat about the mega Neutron Stars called Magnetars on this Talkin' Science Interview.
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The awesome Perth film maker, Aaron Vanderkley, is back on Trekzone to update us on Beyond the Sun - his return to Star Trek fan films.
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What a show this week, Dr Brad and Matt dive into black holes, a lot of black holes. Not only is one seemingly responsible for shredding a star but scientists believe they've found a nest of small ones.
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We're four weeks in to The Trekzone Variety Show, and eight weeks in to WandaVision… so many reveals, so many plot twists and turns. Brother and sister duo, Matt and Keeley, dive into it all.
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Lets take you back to That Time When we met Star Trek Continues' Captain Kirk at Sydney's Supanova Expo.
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A big week of scifi news, we've got details on Paramount+, Disney+, Star Trek: Prodigy, the Voyager doco and Aussie space weather tracking.
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Dr Matt Owers led a study of over 13, 000 galaxies to further our understanding of the construct of the universe. The findings led to some incredible discoveries that have already been published, but now the complete survey has been released.
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Ben Robinson is the man behind the Star Trek, Doctor Who, 007, The Orville, Battlestar Galactica, Marvel and DC collections at Eaglemoss. He’s giving us peek behind the curtain, revealing a little of the magic that makes the great company tick.
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Perseverance lands and begins it's mission to explore the red planet. The European Space Agency is on the hunt for new astronauts, eleven years since it's last search. And the first black hole ever discovered is bigger than thought, thanks to Aussie astronomers.
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It's The Trekzone Variety Show where we're wrapping up episode seven of WandaVision with all it's incredible twists and turns.
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Our third of three flashback eps, following "Where Are They Now January" takes us to the first time we met the other awesome fan film producer named Gary - Gary Davis! He and his friends make Dreadnought Dominion, and this is That Time When we First Met Gary.
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Join Trekzone as we bring you our unique take on space missions in a Talkin' Science livestream. Matt chats with Dr Brad Tucker, Glen Nagle and Professor David Flannery about this very exciting NASA mission.
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Noah Averbach-Katz, Discovery's Ryn, is our very special guest.
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Plenty of news around Mars at the moment, plus NASA sets launch windows for two critical missions and scientists have found another planetoid in the outer solar system!
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Following "Where Are They Now January" - lets go back with "The Beginning in February" with this second of three flashbacks to That Time When we met a Fan Film Producer. On this ep - That Time When We First Met Aaron Vanderkley!
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Plenty of burning questions as the brother and sister duo discuss this weeks ep of WandaVision.
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While Scopeify releases a new game for the web, Star Trek Magazine's been chatting with Trek showrunner Michelle Paradise, music maestro Jeff Russo and more!
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Professor Flannery is working with the Perseverance team, which is due to land on the Red Planet next week.
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Lets continue catching up with the go-to guy for Star Trek fan film visual effects, Mr Sam Cockings.
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SpaceX ups the ante, over 3,000 galaxies get a phsical and there's about to be a traffic jam at the red planet!
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Having just caught up with Gary O'Brien recently - lets take you back to That Time When we traced The Holy Core from Idea to Premiere.
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Welcome to The Trekzone Variety Show! Brother and sister duo Matt and Keeley are going to be diving into every other science fiction and fantasy franchsie that piques their interest in this new regular slot.
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We've got another bite sized News podcast for you. Tune in to catch the latest on Star Trek's nods at the NAACP Image Awards, Jeri Ryan confirming filming delayed on Picard and a Nichelle Nichols doco focusing on her work at NASA in 70's gets a downloadable release date!
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He's fast become the go-to guy for Star Trek fan film visual effects on a really tight budget. Self taught and full of confidence, Sam turns Trekkie dreams into reality.
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At the height of Star Trek: Picard's first season, we hailed writer Melinda Snodgrass to have a chat about the character she created in Bruce Maddox who was a central character of that season.
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Talkin' Science is back for it's third season on Trekzone, and what a blockbuster show we have to open. Dr Brad's back with details of Axiom Space and SpaceX's bold bid to launch an all private crew to the Space Station, SpaceX's mammoth satellite launch a few weeks ago and as President Biden settles into the Oval Office, it appears Space Force is here to stay.
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Kicking off "Sam Cockings week" here at Trekzone is That Time When we caught up with the fan film CGI guru and Trekyards host about his fan film.
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A few years back we were invited to the World Science Fair, which had traveled out of New York for the first time. Attending the event in South Brisbane was Australia's only astronaut, Dr Andy Thomas.
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A huge week in science fiction production news, with Discovery's nomination for Outstanding Television Drama at the GLAAD Awards, Voyager's main cast musing about guest stars that could've been and Babylon 5's six year remastering process completing.
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Luke Sparke's Occupation Rainfall continues the story he told in Occupation, an indie science fiction movie made right here in Australia that made it big on Netflix. Now, as we near the sequel's premiere the director and producer beams in for a chat.
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Our last flip through the contact list brings us Gary O'Brien, the creator of Chance Encounter and The Holy Core. He's got a new project, and you'll hear about it on this edition of A Trekzone Conversation.
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The Discovery cast have been talking up their next season, Patrick Stewart has been talking up Picard's second outing, ViacomCBS confirm the arrival of Paramount+ and The Trekzone Variety Show is announced.
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Lee Sargent is back on Trekzone in 2021 with his insights into all sorts of science fiction that we're treated with. Today, we dive into the masterful second season of The Mandalorian...
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Our third check in with Star Trek fan film makers sees us calling up Dundee local Nick Cook who, as we find out, is continuing his Starship Intrepid adventures with new work in the pipeline.
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Here at That Time When - it's not all going to be past interviews, we're also going to take you back to Talkin' Science, News and Trekzone Plays episodes that really deserve another watch - in our opinion! Today - That Time When We Played Star Trek: The Next Generation A Final Unity.
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Way back in the early days of Trekzone we'd travel to Supanova and, with their help of their awesome PR guy, get to meet their guests backstage. On this edition, That Time When We Met Joe Flanigan...
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On this edition of Trekzone's The News, we dive into the Star Trek hiatus as the 23rd straight week of new episodes falls into our rear view mirror. Meanwhile Lucasfilm Games announces a retro comeback, Aaron Vanderkley reveals the cast for his forthcoming Voyager-era #StarTrek #FanFilm and we dive into a tidbit of science and space headlines...
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Star Trek: Discovery has just wrapped another season and for the first time this year Dr Trek joins Matt to dissect the third season and that finale.
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He's the lead actor and co-creator of Dreadnought Dominion, throughout the last few years he's put pen to paper and film to shutter on several Star Trek fan films, and he's our guest today as we continue asking "Where Are They Now?"
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Another great "get" that Supanova gave us was the time Anson Mount called us to say g'day. This one was a thrill because season two had just wrapped and Pike was all anyone could talk about.
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Back in 2019 - before that thing disrupted everything we do, Supanova put on a cracking convention in Brisbane. While waiting for interviews at the signing table, Jason Isaacs pulled Matt aside and spoke about his time as Lorca.
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Resident Whovian Rob McKnight is back on Trekzone for a special January dive into all things SciFi. He wasn't a fan of this outing, despite being hyped to catch it, and he explains why on this edition of A Trekzone Conversation.
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He's the Perth filmmaker who rose to fame with his five part Enterprise-era fan films... now, to kick off our "Where Are They Now" January podcasts, Aaron Vanderkley is back with details of his 3 part Voyager-era films.
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On this edition, we're taking you back to the beginning of our podcasting adventure - and the first time we met Doug Drexler.
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A big final week for our news podcast. General Yeager passed away, The Orville recommenced filming on it's third season and a new Aussie SciFi epic dropped it's trailer. Those stories, and a look ahead to our 2021 on this edition of The News.
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Orville Producer Tom Costantino is back as our final guest of 2020 to update us on working through the Covid19 pandemic to create the third season of the hit Seth MacFarlane show.
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On this edition of Talkin' Science. Hayabusa's sample capsule returns to Earth in a triumph for the Japanese Space Agency. December's night skies set to put on a show - with the Geminid meteor shower and the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn coming up.
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The Japanese Space Agency aims to complete it's near-Earth asteroid sample mission with the landing of the precious cargo in the remote South Australian area of Woomera.
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The BBC releases the trailer for the forthcoming Doctor Who New Years special, Titan Publishing releases a teaser for issue 78 of their Star Trek magazine, Creation Entertainment invites 85 Star Trek alumni and alumnae to their SciFi Summits across the US summer and we tease Trekzone in 2021!
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Hayabusa-2's mission control announced yesterday that they're ready for orbital insertion with just a few days to go until it drops off the sample capsule. Meanwhile new research indicates long term astronauts are at risk of rapid ageing and a quartet of radio telescopes have discovered we're a little closer to the centre of the galaxy.
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Adjunct Professor David Flannery is our guest this week as we gear up for the return of Hayabusa-2. With the Japanese mission leading NASA's Osiris-REx and Perseverance Rover as well as China's Changy'e 5, what can samples returned from around the solar system tell us?
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We remember the Father of Star Trek who has passed away. Plus we have details on new comics to be released in February, Jack's back on Doctor Who and your first look at the new Trekzone podcasts kicking off January 1.
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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.
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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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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We're diving into the minutiae of Star Trek: Discovery on this edition of Trekzone's The News.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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