SciFi Weekly

Following a very successful road trip to Australia's capital, I've decided to wrap production of SciFi Weekly and focus on The Trekzone Spotlight. It's become too time consuming to produce, present, edit and market weekly production with new and engaging content and the weekly deadline is just too much to handle on my own.

Get your thinking caps on for this edition of SciFi Weekly as I meet Dr. Anton Wallner, Dr. Geoff Campbell and Dr. Brad Tucker who are leading their research fields with some ground breaking work.

Dr. Anton Wallner is trying to understand the effect of supernovae on terrestrial life, Dr. Geoff Campbell is working on quantum information and Dr. Brad Tucker is working with the Kepler Space Telescope to find black holes and planets orbiting other stars.

We're on the road for three weeks for SciFi Weekly - this week is my visit to the Ironfest Medieval Festival, held in Lithgow NSW in April. From knights to cosplayers to battle re-enactments... it was all there and it was exciting!

Lots to cover in this final edition of SciFi Weekly for this 'season.'

The 501st Legion is the biggest Star Wars fan club in the world, and the Redback Garrison is Queensland's troop. They held a T20 cricket match on the weekend to celebrate 'Pink Stumps Day' ... an annual charity event to support the McGrath Foundation's drive to cure breast cancer. Also in this edition, my chat with Tim Russ, how to enter the Wrath of Gems competition and the Star Trek: Horizon trailer.

Some big headlines in Trek this week, Bryan Fuller (screen writer for DS9 VOY, EP for Pushing Daisies and Hannibal) has been confirmed as the executive producer of the new Star Trek TV series. Michael Hinman from 1701news.com joins me to discuss that and other Trek related news. PLUS! A teaser of the new Star Trek: Horizon fan film, my chat last year with Dominic Keating AND your chance to win in Star Trek: Wrath of Gems!

Larry Nemecek is an authority on all things Star Trek, having been an editor at STARTREK.COM during it's prime, contributing to the Star Trek Communicator magazine and more recently starring as McCoy in a fan fiction production. Larry sat down for a chat for the first of the more regular podcasts back in 2013.

Being the son of Gene Roddenberry is certainly no easy task, just ask Rod Roddenberry who joined me from LA for a chat to celebrate ten years of TREKZONE.org. Rod spoke candidly about his childhood, and his work to continue his father's legacy. This is another interview from the archives.

Doug is an all round great guy, having worked in many departments during TNG, DS9 and ENT including make up and visual effects. Back in 2013, for the tenth birthday of TREKZONE.org, he sat down for a chat about his career.

In 2015 the Star Trek family lost three members, Leonard Nimoy, Maurice Hurley and Harve Bennett. While you may not know Maurice and Harve, you certainly know their work... Maurice was show runner for TNG's first two seasons and Harve was tasked with producing the second to fourth movies. I caught up with Larry last year to chat about their legacy.