First Contacts with Anson Mount and Dr. Doug Vakoch
Star Trek: The Pod Directive
Star Trek
4.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Anson Mount (Discovery and Strange New Worlds) and Dr. Doug Vakoch make first contact with Paul and Tawny in their first appearance on The Pod Directive! Together, our guests walk listeners through METI's mission and what we Earthlings can and should expect from the First Contacts that might just happen in our own lifetimes! Celebrate First Contact Day with this chat that presents the perfect mix of science and science-fiction that us Star Trek fans are known to love.
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| 0:33.3 | Oh, hello. We didn't see you there. Welcome to Star Trek the Pod Directive. My name is Paul F. Tompkins. |
| 0:40.0 | And my name is Tony Newsom. This is the official Star Trek podcast, and we are its official hosts. And we have an official episode for you right now. It's all very above board. |
| 0:52.4 | Yes, this is very above board. |
| 0:55.7 | This is an official episode. |
| 0:59.5 | It's not one of those, you know, non-canon episodes of this podcast. |
| 1:03.5 | Did you know this podcast has canon episodes and non-canic episodes? Yeah, even though it's not narrative, it absolutely has canonical episodes. |
| 1:07.2 | There are some episodes that are done by fans who are impersonating us. |
| 1:10.6 | Those are welcome, of course. You can submit your fan-recorded podcasts to Santa Claus, the North Pole. Yep. He receives all correspondence for podcasts. Did you know that? Any fan mail you need to send, goes through Santa Claus. It's just because they've figured out the mail distribution system. |
| 1:28.8 | They've had a lot of time to work it out. |
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