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Hi, this is Dana Steven Slate's movie critic here with the Slate Spoiler Special podcast on Star Trek Into Darkness, the new JJ Abrams Star Trek movie.

And joining me in the Slate studio in New York is Brian Louder.

Hello, Brian.

Hello.

You are the editorial assistant for culture at Slate.

That's right.

And you're a longtime Trek fan.

Would you qualify yourself as one?

Yeah, I'm definitely not Matt Euclesias level of trekiness.

But I grew up on Voyager and

have gone back and watched most of the old series and a number of the movies.

So Voyager was your entry point?

That's right.

Yeah, I grew up sort of when that was on television and followed it very closely.

You're making me feel like I was definitely born during the Johnson administration.

Yeah, yeah.

So we are actually recording this

spoiler after the fact, a week after the movie came out and the review came out by popular demand,

because a lot of people wrote to me saying, why are you not spoiling Star Trek? It ended up

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