Episode 69: Tiny Little Life Forms

Subspace Chatter

• Star Trek: Voyager’s Garrett Wang nearly killed a Star Wars icon
• Film and TV production to resume in Los Angeles County after COVID-19 health order modification — Daily Star Trek News
• ‘Star Trek: Picard’: Season 2, More Starfleet Teased by Akiva Goldsman | IndieWire
• The Odd Way Star Trek Fans Were Almost Reintroduced To Patrick Stewart’s Picard In Spinoff – CINEMABLEND
• Why Simon Pegg Was ‘Irked’ To Be Offered Scotty In Star Trek – CINEMABLEND
• Watch Recordings Of Live Virtual Panels With Stars Of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation,’ ‘Discovery,’ And ‘DS9’ – TrekMovie.com
• FaceApp Gender Swaps Make A Come Back With “Star Wars” And “Star Trek” Variations | Know Your Meme
  • Female version of the heroes of “Star wars” and “star trek” surprised fans | Smotri
  • Star Trek fans use FaceApp to swap genders of franchise characters / Boing Boing
    

34  additional stories we did not have time to cover, including articles about 

1. Star Trek Insurrection: Not Even The Filmmakers Understood The TNG Movie
2. Every Vorta — Including Every Weyoun — Ranked
3. University Dean, TV Science Consultant Teaches Biology with a Star Trek Flair
4. Patrick Stewart Is Ready To Take More Risks For ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 2 – TrekMovie.com
5. Star Trek’s Jonathan Frakes wishes he had been on the manned SpaceX launch
6. Star Trek: Picard producer Bernardin announces “second wave” of The Plague Nerdalogues, including Ahmed Best (Jar Jar Binks) as Jean-Luc Picard — Daily Star Trek News
7. This STAR TREK: TNG Supercut is Some Kind of Hilarious – Nerdist
8. Star Trek: 10 Secrets Of Deep Space 9 You Need To Know
9. Star Trek TOS’ Best Episode Originally Had Space Pirates & 9-Foot Aliens
10. Star Trek: 10 Species Wronged By Starfleet | ScreenRant
11. Star Trek: 10 Weirdest One-Off Senior Staff Romances | ScreenRant
12. Jonathan Frakes And Denise Crosby Can’t See Star Trek: TNG’s Racially Charged “Code of Honor” Playing Now – TrekMovie.com
13. Star Trek Picard Season 2: Jonathan Frakes Hopes To Return As Captain Riker
14. The (First) Final Frontier: The Enduring Appeal of Star Trek and The Moral Imagination  |  Ricochet
15. Jonathan Frakes hopes Captain Riker will return in Star Trek: Picard season 2 — Daily Star Trek News
16. Mel Winkler, Devil in a Blue Dress actor and Star Trek: Voyager’s Jack Hayes, has passed away, age 78 — Daily Star Trek News
17. CBS considering making James Kirk bisexual in new Star Trek series
18. ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Voice Actor Talks “Deep Cut” Jokes For Trekkies, With Work On Season 2 Underway – TrekMovie.com
19. Build This Mini Star Trek TNG Computer
20. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 2 theory could solve a 26-year Jean-Luc mystery
21. 10 Times Captain Picard Earned His Own Day
22. Review: Movies On Glass Star Trek Alien Races Barware Line Will Have You Drinking Like A Warrior – TrekMovie.com
23. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Director on Collaborating with Patrick Stewart – Variety
24. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ EP Promises More Exploration Of Starfleet In Season 2, And Maybe More Brent Spiner Too – TrekMovie.com
25. Star Trek: 10 Species That Have Changed Over The Franchise
26. How The Next Generation Came Close to Hitting One LGBTQ+ Milestone
27. Star Trek: Picard Star Patrick Stewart Details Gene Roddenberry Was Not His Biggest Fan – Bounding Into Comics
28. Star Trek: We deserve to see Number One’s story on Strange New Worlds
29. Watch: Wilson Cruz On How Dying Made Culber A Better Doctor In ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 3 – TrekMovie.com
30. See how Star Trek: Picard’s big reveal was built in CG layers – CNET
31. ‘Best of Both Worlds’ 30 years later: How Star Trek changed the Borg
32. 10 Women in Command Who Paved the Way for Kathryn Janeway
33. ViacomCBS CEO Bakish hopes to attract younger audiences with CBS All Access “super service” transformation — Daily Star Trek News
34. Star Trek: DS9’s Defiant Failed Its True Mission | Screen Rant

In Vulcan, Alberta, Canada news:

• Canada History: June 10, 1995: Live long and prosper! – RCI | English

Main Mission

We’re continuing our  review of “Star Trek: The Animated Series.” with episodes 9, 10 and 11 from Season One.

• “Once Upon A Planet” written by Chuck Menville and Len Janson
  First aired on November 3, 1973
• “Mudd’s Passion” written by Stephen Kandel
  First aired on November 10, 1973
• “The Terratin Incident” written by Paul Schneider
  First aired on November 17, 1973

Warp Speed Round Table

Last time around we asked “”How would we know if it was a Vendorian impersonating you?”

This time around…”Rename some classic Trek episodes, with the idea that the crew is now tiny.”

Time to refill the dilithium chamber and try to warp on out of here. 

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