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The finale of Star Trek Picard season 1 is here! Our Star Trek Club shares thoughts and feelings about how the first season wrapped up, the season as a whole, and what we want from season 2. We are excited to announce that next week we will be diving into Star Trek Discovery from the very beginning, so be sure to watch the premiere episode ‘The Vulcan Hello’ as your Star Trek homework!

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This week on the Space Nerds podcast: SPACE NEWS: (starts at 9:52) Interstellar Comet 21/Borisov may have come to our solar system to die! Learn more in the article from sciencealert.com: https://www.sciencealert.com/interstellar-comet-2i-borisov-seems-to-have-come-here-only-to-die BLACK MIRROR: (Starts at 14:48) Our episode by episode journey through Black Mirror continues! This week we face the horror of a cartoon character running for elected office in ‘The Waldo Moment,’ before Jon Hamm conditions our digital consciousness in ‘White Christmas.’ As usual, Black Mirror leads us into examining our own society with some real talk about the Black Lives Matter movement and living in an actual dystopia. BONUS: Alexandria and Jesse share their current gaming obsessions as they escape to the virtual world during the Covid-19 pandemic, in this new episode of the Space Nerds Patroncast! https://www.patreon.com/posts/35867862

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Our Star Trek club dives into part one of the Star Trek Picard season 1 finale. We ask how many Soongs is too many Soongs, throw some love on space orchids, and debate our split opinions over the episode’s quality.

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This week on the Space Nerds podcast: SPACE NEWS: (Starts at 2:03) Andi beams in to discuss the possibility that the building blocks of matter may experience consciousness, as reported at Futurism.com: https://futurism.com/professor-claims-electrons-quarks-experience-consciousness LOST IN SPACE: (Starts at 39:38) Andi and Jesse share their mostly spoiler-free thoughts on Netflix’s Lost in Space second season.DOUG SPACE NINE: (Starts at 50:03) We continue our episode by episode journey through Star Trek Deep Space Nine with the first season episodes ‘The Nagus’ and ‘Vortex.’ As usual, Doug and Jesse’s opinions differ wildly on the quality of the episodes, plus we get thoroughly sidetracked by Discovery season 1 and having sex with holograms.

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The Space Nerds Star Trek Club discusses Star Trek Picard episode 8, ‘Broken Pieces.’ We parse through the massive info dump in this episode, discussing the motivations of the Zhat Vash, a room full of holograms, Queen Seven of Nine and more.

Connect with the Space Nerds Star Trek Club on Twitter or Instagram: Jesse: https://twitter.com/spacenerdjesse Doug: https://twitter.com/DouglasWFail Sarah: https://www.instagram.com/saraha_cha_cha Andi: https://www.instagram.com/andialhadeff The modern Star Trek renaissance is happening on CBS All Access! To sign up and support this podcast at the same time, click this link: https://cbsallaccess.qflm.net/XjMYG YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/jessemercuryscifi PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/spacenerdspodcast DISCORD: https://discord.gg/H94mQWZ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/jessemercuryscifi CONTACT: [email protected] WEBSITE: https://www.jessemercury.com

This week on the Space Nerds podcast: SPACE NEWS: (starts at 10:18) Jayne and Jesse recently reported on the sudden dimming of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, and now scientists believe they can explain the phenomenon. Learn more in an article from Space.com: https://www.space.com/betelgeuse-star-dimming-just-dust.html FIREFLY: (starts at 20:55) We continue our journey through the Firefly ‘verse with episode 9, Ariel. Simon embraces crime with an elaborate caper to steal medical supplies while simultaneously breaking in to a core planet medical facility to scan River’s brain, and Jayne Cobb betrays the crew in this fantastic episode. We discuss the story development, production value and emotional character moments that make this episode a classic, as well as the extreme creepiness of the blue handed men.

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This week on the Space Nerds podcast: SPACE NEWS: (Starts at 2:00) A new spacecraft is heading towards the center of our solar system to study the sun closer than ever before. Dubbed the Solar Orbiter, this probe will observe the sun’s polar regions which have never been seen directly. Doug, Jayne and Andi join us to discuss this article from The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/8/21120233/solar-orbiter-spacecraft-nasa-esa-mission-sun-poles STAR WARS CLUB: (Starts at 14:40) Our Star Wars Club reassembles to discuss season 1 of the new Disney+ show, The Mandalorian. We gush over Baby Yoda, look under Din Djarin’s helmet and debate whether or not Boba Fett made a secret appearance. Now that Star Wars has produced a Western, we discuss what other genres we’d like to see incorporated into the Star Wars universe. We also hypothesize about what will appear in season 2, and get sidetracked by Cowboys and Aliens. Featuring Be Russell, Jennie Krantz, Douglas Gale and Jesse Mercury.

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The Space Nerds Star Trek Club gushes over episode 7 of Star Trek Picard, ‘Nepenthe.’ We chat about Troi and Riker’s new life with the adventurous Kestra, the fate of Hugh and Elnor on the Borg cube, Aunty Raffi and the motivations of Dr. Jurati. We get sidetracked when Doug reveals how much he likes the final episode of Enterprise.

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This week on the Space Nerds podcast: Alexandria, Doug, Jayne and Jesse are all together for a special discussion of HBO’s Watchmen!SPACE NEWS: (starts at 1:55) NASA’s genetically engineered mice designed to teach us about living in zero gravity have returned from space! Read the original article from Futurism.com: https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-muscular-mice-return-earth-space WATCHMEN: (Starts at 16:16) The Space Nerds crew goes gaga for Watchmen, breaking down everything we loved about HBO’s groundbreaking series.We also recorded a Patroncast about our favorite movies, which you can find here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34573211

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Star Trek Club assembles to discuss episode 6 of Picard, ‘The Impossible Box’. We spend quality time with Hugh, dream big with Soji, and channel our inner Locutus. We also take a trip through the Delta Quadrant with our Voyager homework, the infamous ‘Threshold.’

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