Academic Trek

Welcome back to Academic Trek!

We have been on a bit of a 'life' induced hiatus but are back with a bang with today's interview with Dr Christopher Nunn of Grennwich University.

We discuss Chris' teaching, the new iterations of Trek and a couple of classic episodes:

TNG episode 'Yesterday's Enterprise' and DS9 two parter ' Way of the Warrior'

We also talk about Voyager's 'Living Witness'

Hope you enjoy it.

Today i talk to Leigh McKagen about imperialism in Star Trek: Voyager

We talk a lot about Janeway as well as Seven of Nine and Neelix.

The theme music is 'Resistance is Futile' by the Beverley Crushers - You can find them on Bandcamp

You can find Leigh on Twitter: @leighmckagen

You can find the podcast on Twitter: @academictrek47

I hope you enjoy the show!

Today I speak to Rick Webb about his essay The Economics of Star Trek: The Proto-Post Scarcity Economy

We discuss how the economics of Star Trek work.

You can find Rick on Twitter: @rickwebb

The theme tune is 'Resistance is Futile' by the Beverley Crushers and you can find them on Bandcamp

The pod is on Twitter: @academictrek47

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Today I talk to Jacob Held about the Ferengi and Business Ethics. We discuss what the Ferengi can tell us about our own economic and business models. How Quark changes through the series and the role that Rom plays alongside Quark.

The intro music is 'Resistance is Futile' by the Beverley Crushers, you can find them on Twitter and Bandcamp.

You can find Academic Trek on Twitter: @academictrek47 and on Facebook: @academictrek

I hope you enjoy the episode.

Today I talk to Greg Garcia, an historian and teacher.

We discuss how he uses trek in his teaching and his thoughts on trek in general

You can find Greg on Twitter: @trekteachers and YouTube: Trek Historian

The intro music is 'Resistance is Futile' by the Beverley Crushers from their new album 'Sick Bay'

You can find them on Band Camp

You can follow the pod on Twitter: @academictrek47

Thank you for listening!

Today I talk to Ina Rae Hark about her essay Occupied Space: The Contested Habitation of Terok Nor/Deep Space Nine

We discuss the theme of occupation running through Deep Space 9 

We have new intro music!

The track is 'Resistance is Fultile' by the Beverley Crushers from their new album 'Sick Bay'

You can find them on Bandcamp

https://thebeverlycrushers.bandcamp.com/

Follow the podcast on Twitter @academictrek47 

Thanks for listening!

In this episode I talk to Murray Leeder.

We discuss one of the big questions in the fandom: Is it trek?

We also discuss Star Trek Generations 

You can follow the pod on twitter: @academictrek47 and on facebook: @academictrek

Welcome to Academic Trek! a Star Trek podcast focussing on academic research into Star Trek. We will be talking to researchers who work in the field of Star Trek.

Look out for our first episode soon!

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