Enterprising Individuals

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This week, Mikanhana of the Just Enough Trope and Sailor Noob podcasts is back on the show to round up the latest Trek news! We've got updates on the many Trek shows currently in production/development, plus an update on the Star Trek movies we could see very soon!

Michelle Yeoh is the new Ted Danson!

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There's vultures, vultures everywhere this week as we calculate "Profit and Loss"!

Musician and podcaster Gooey Fame returns to the show to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that bears more than a passing resemblance to the classic 1942 film "Casablanca". When Quark's old flame arrives on the station, he wants nothing more than to rekindle their love. But when a Cardassian agent arrives to take her into custody, Quark will have to decide between his selfish desires and her freedom . . . if Garak doesn't kill her first!

Trek often finds inspiration in stories from other media and "Casablanca" is a tale of war and loss that feels right at home in the universe of DS9. On BackTrekking, we look for the inspirations behind classic episodes of Trek and compare them with the works that inspired them. On this episode, we talk about the human heart in conflict with itself, the flexible morality of the characters on DS9 and in Casablanca, how Trek can be a setting, why Trek characters are never corrupted by convenience, pushing characters outside of the box they were created in, patriotism in Trek, and the complications of seeing yourself as the hero.

We also discuss Gears of Trek, kissing Squiggy goodbye, scaring motorists, making Woody Allen into a Bogart, Tasha Yar's aunt, letting your female leads down, mansplaining WWII, Garak icing guys, the "Marseillaise moment", warp trains and squid ships, trading lipstick, and a Cloak and Dagger reference!

Let's let the weird little bald guys get some!

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This week, Mark LaCroix of the Nice Games Club podcast joins the show to talk about Star Trek and video games! For a series with phaser and ships and Klingons, you would think there'd be more memorable Trek games, but Star Trek still seems to lag behind other sci-fi properties. We talk about the state of the industry, what goes into a good game, and if Star Trek will ever get its video game pièce de résistance!

#StarTrekMinecraft

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We are talking LIVE about the #LowerDecks episode “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

We're asking big questions about love, sex, and identity as we consider "The Host"!

Writer, podcaster, and YouTuber Matt Baume joins the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that presents a personal and ethical dilemma for Beverly. Doctor Crusher has fallen in love with visiting diplomat Odan. But when Odan is revealed to be a symbiotic creature and is implanted into Riker, Beverly will have to decide if her new relationship is worth the cost of one of her oldest friendships!

The liberal future of Star Trek was created in our idealistic but often short-sighted present and many times even our favorite utopia isn't as progressive as we'd like it to be. In "The Host", Beverly is presented with an almost unbearable burden: to remain in love with someone who not only swaps bodies but identities and genders as well. It's presented as an unsolvable sci-fi problem, but in reality, people coming out or transitioning is something we don't need space aliens to write stories about. All too often, the protectors of "Gene's legacy" stood in the way of real representation on Trek and making Gene's true dream, the dream of infinite diversity, something inconvenient and undesirable. On this episode, we talk about how the Trill stand in for LGBTQ representation, how Trek has lagged behind, why it's important to see queer people on TV, loving who you want, getting "trapped" in your well-intentioned metaphor, what it is that we love when we love, the way that Trek presents sex, and being "limited in ability to love".

We also discuss the fight for marriage equality, being a positive critic, the "gatekeepers" of Trek, media being a Queer 101, "Where's the bisexuals?", the Enterprise salon, the "Great Man Theory of TNG", Odan is party Trill, debasing the Library of Congress, the Book of Telepathic Consent, Cool Riker, locking the holodeck door, and Nurse Ogawa!

Oh, you kids!

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Connor Speak aka "the Rocketman" returns to the show this week to examine the politics of Star Trek. The Federation may be all wine and roses, but who's pruning the thorns and squishing the grapes. Is a government like the UFP completely fictional, or can we get a little slice of utopia here on Earth? We can't promise you a definitive answer, but we think we're asking the right questions!

CW: sexual assault

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