Oh the games we play! Patrick Devlin and Amy Nelson talk the purpose of games, real life and online gaming, and the harms and benefits of gaming through discussing TNG's "The Game" and DS9's "Move Along Home."

Second Life articles:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/14/second.life.divorce/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/nov/13/second-life-divorce

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Pluto’s Orbit
Tim Cooper
Kevin Parlagreco
Tom Elliot
Simon De Luca
Chrissie De Clerck-Szilagyi
Mahendran Radhakrishnan
Vera Bible
Justin Oser
Victor Gamboa
Greg Molumby
Kevin Scharf
Chris Tribuzio
Christopher Lutz
Thad Hait
Alexander Gates

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Spock tells us that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. Can we use this logic in determining the needs of an individual? Patrick and Amy discuss ENT's “Similitude” and VGR's “Tuvix," where both Sim and Tuvix have an overwhelming desire to live, yet their captains have different outcomes in mind for them.

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Pluto’s Orbit
Tim Cooper
Kevin Parlagreco
Tom Elliot
Simon De Luca
Chrissie De Clerck-Szilagyi
Mahendran Radhakrishnan
Vera Bible
Justin Oser
Victor Gamboa
Greg Molumby
Kevin Scharf
Chris Tribuzio
Christopher Lutz
Thad Hait
Alexander Gates

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Two young men were raised by fathers and families not their own. So what is their culture? Is it the culture they were raised in or the culture of their family history? Jono from TNG's “Suddenly Human” and Rugal from DS9's “Cardassians” face similar difficulties in answering this question. Pat and Amy discuss the ideas of nature vs. nurture and compare and contrast the two episodes.

*Please forgive the audio quality of this episode. Due to unforeseen circumstances a power surge blew out Patrick's microphone input on his mother board during recording, and its effect wasn’t discovered until after recording had ended.

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Cole Sebastian Towns
Tim Cooper
Kevin Parlagreco
Tom Elliot
Simon De Luca
Chrissie De Clerck-Szilagyi
Mahendran Radhakrishnan
Vera Bible
Justin Oser
Victor Gamboa
Greg Molumby
Kevin Scharf
Chris Tribuzio
Christopher Lutz
Thad Hait

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Pat and Amy are excited to start a new series, Taking It From the Top! They'll be looking at the series premieres of each Star Trek series in in-universe chronological order and discussing all the elements that make for a good pilot. This week, ENT's "Broken Bow."

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Kevin Parlagreco
Tim Cooper
Tom Elliot
Simon De Luca
Cole Sebastian Towns
Mahendran Radhakrishnan
Chrissie De Clerck-Szilagyi
Vera Bible
Justin Oser
Victor Gamboa
Greg Molumby
Chris Tribuzio
Christopher Lutz
Kevin Scharf
Paul McHale

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Technology now permeates our lives, but does it continue into the afterlife? Can we
save ourselves within a computer program? Star Trek seems to think so. Amy and Ken
discuss TNG's "11001001" and "The Inner Light," VGR's "Memorial," and DSC's "An Obol for Charon" to see how downloading a computer program changes a civilization and its history.

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Kevin Parlagreco
Tim Cooper
Tom Elliot
Simon De Luca
Cole Sebastian Towns
Chrissie De Clerck-Szilagyi
Vera Bible
Justin Oser
Victor Gamboa
Greg Molumby
Chris Tribuzio
Christopher Lutz
Kevin Scharf
Paul McHale

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It only took two years for Amy to finish her rewatch of Deep Space 9 and she has some questions. Thankfully, Ken and Zach were around to answer them. We highlight characters, storylines, and favorite moments of this series all the while trying hard to not compare it to TNG, which is still Amy’s favorite Star Trek series.

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Kevin Parlagreco
Tom Elliot
Chrissie De Clerck-Szilagyi
Victor Gamboa
Justin Oser

Join Patrick Devlin and Amy Nelson as they discuss TOS' “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield," DS9's “Far Beyond The Stars,” and ENT's “Detained” and “North Star," relating these episodes to the current events of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc. is a worldwide organization in the US, UK and Canada. Founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, their mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted in black communities by the state and vigilantes.

Unitarian Universalists College of Social Justice study on White Supremacy: https://uucsj.org/study-guide/legacies-of-systemic-injustice/white-supremacy/

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Kevin Parlagreco
Tom Elliot

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It’s only human nature to wonder what might have been and in the realm of sci-fi, we get to explore this idea. Join Amy Nelson and Patrick Devlin as they discuss the reasons why one would want to create a fake family, how it could be done, and if we would create our own fake family given different situations. Episodes discussed are ENT's "Oasis," TNG's "The Survivors," DS9's "Shadowplay," and VGR's "Real Life."

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Kevin Parlagreco
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Amy Nelson and guest Brandon Shea-Mutala discuss the exciting announcement of the new Star Trek series, Strange New Worlds! This series is a direct response to the overwhelmingly positive fan reaction to Anson Mount as Captain Pike, Ethan Peck as Spock and Rebecca Romijn as Number One. We compare Discovery and Picard to what might happen in this new series.

Strange New World Announcement: https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-anson-mount-rebecca-romijn-ethan-peck-cbs-all-access

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Mind probes are a questionable technique used to torture and inflict pain. In TNG's “Frame of Mind” and DS9's Hard Time respectively, both Riker and O’Brien must deal with the impact of these mind altering realities as they try to adjust back to real life. In this episode of All Good Things, Amy and Kevin Parlagreco discuss using such devices in the crime and punishment, the barriers the mind introduces when protecting to protect itself, and recognize the strength in being vulnerable and allowing yourself to heal from trauma.

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Kevin Parlagreco
Tom Elliot

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