This episode originally broadcast on July 19, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/07/binary-system-podcast-465-station-eleven-star-trek-lower-decks-and-picard/

First up this week we start with a spoileriffic recap of the Station Eleven bottle episode “The Severn City Airport,” where we find out how the Prophet became so intensely creepy, tho we’re still not sure how he ended up with The Book.

Then we jump to an equally spoileriffic recap of the second-to-last episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, where we get a little more info about the mystery ship that’s abducting people, and the reason why Mariner’s had a frikking death wish for the last few episodes. (We think there may be a pretty deep pull there, but of course we haven’t looked it up. Feel free to yell at us in the comments!)

Finally, Elizabeth has a brief (and slightly spoileriffic, natch) look at the final episode of Picard. TL:DR, it’s fine? Very nostalgic and fun, but the fact that it took her literally months to watch the whole season is not a good sign.

Plus some random tangents into stupid influencers, post-apocalyptic supermarket looting, and bad wigs.

This week’s outro is a clip from Liberation by Pamela Yuen.

Correction: friends of the podcast Hannah and Nathan have both pointed out Miranda gave Arthur a second copy of the book and that's how Tyler got one. Somehow we both completely forgot that happened.

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