PEL Presents PMP#42: Star Trek Lives Long and Prospers (Intermittently)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In light of Star Trek: Picard, Brian, Erica, Mark, and Drew Jackson discuss our most philosophical sci-fi franchise. What makes a Trek story? How do you world-build over generations? How did Picard measure up? Plus Trek vs. Wars and step-children like The Orville and Galaxy Quest.

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0:00.0	This is pretty much pop a culture podcast making nutritive paste out of the sludge of entertainment.
0:13.6	Today we're talking about the Star Trek franchise, including the recent CBS 10-part series
0:18.7	Big Card.
0:19.7	I'm Mark Linsomire, chucking random items from the replicator into the neutral zone.
0:24.1	I'm Erica Spires, happy to join you tonight and drinking red wine.
0:28.2	Cold.
0:29.2	It's not supposed to be, but unfortunately it is right now.
0:32.0	And I am Brian Hurt and I am wearing 15 pieces of science fiction convention flair for
0:36.2	today's show.
0:37.2	I'll talk about that in a minute.
0:39.3	Who's joining us today?
0:40.3	This is Drew Jackson.
0:42.8	First time long time and I am among other things Erica Spires has won and I'm a huge
0:47.3	trekky.
0:48.3	Well, at least you got them in some order, those two things.
0:53.0	So before we start talking about Star Trek, you know, everything's been canceled because
0:57.2	of Oh, no reason.
0:58.7	And among everything canceled are all the science fiction conventions.
1:01.6	And there's a con going on online right now called consolation.
1:05.7	That's their little, it was the con that was canceled before it began.
1:09.8	And so I actually went ahead and bought my badge on Etsy.
1:13.3	This is my non attendee badge.
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