Star Trek V and other Star Trek related items discussion. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is often considered one of the weakest films in the entire film franchise of Star Trek. Directed by William Shatner and opening on June 9th, 1989, the film is considered to be a disappointment. However, you cannot talk about The Final Frontier without bringing up other aspects of the franchise. In this episode of The Minnesota Star Trek Nerd Podcast, host Wes Huntington is joined by Keith Sedor from the Treksperts Roundtable Podcast and Brandon Cowles from the Kentucky Trekkie Videocast to discuss the Final Frontier and other aspects of the franchise. The computer also takes a rest day, because even she doesn't want to weigh in!

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Over the course of the Star Trek franchise, writers and producers intend to create new genres of spooky episode in order to evoke a scary feeling. In this episode of The Minnesota Star Trek Nerd Podcast, cryptkeeper host Wes Huntington brings aboard Robert Sharpe from Yorkshire to come up with "spooky" episodes of the franchise.

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Short Treks "Runaway" review. The first Short Trek episode, "Runaway" was released on Oct. 4th on CBS All Access and on Space in Canada. Unfortunately as of the recording, Netflix declined to air the Short Treks. The Minnesota Star Trek Nerd Podcast reviews the first of the Short Treks that stars Mary Wiseman as Ensign Sylvia Tilly and Yadira Guevara-Prip as Po, the runaway. In this episode, host Wes Huntington reviews the episode and reads fan feedback from the Positive Fans of Star Trek: Discovery Facebook group.

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Guilty pleasure episodes conclusion. These episodes of Star Trek have a love-hate relationship with the fandom, some are loved and some are hated. In this concluding episode of The Minnesota Star Trek Nerd Podcast detailing guilty pleasure episodes of Star Trek, host Wes Huntington is joined by Trek FM's Hayley Stoddart of its Standard Orbit podcast to go over episodes from The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.

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CBS commentary. CBS has owned the TV side of the Star Trek franchise since 2006, and since that time a lot of criticism has come out regarding how they treat fan productions or even promoting Star Trek: Discovery. In this potentially controversial Opinion Supplemental episode of the Minnesota Star Trek Nerd Podcast, host Wes Huntington attempts to put his own spin on how CBS has dealt with the franchise in the past 12 years it has owned it.

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Guilty pleasure episodes. These episodes of Star Trek have a love-hate relationship with the fandom, some are loved and some are hated. In this episode of The Minnesota Star Trek Nerd Podcast, host Wes Huntington gives you 11 episodes from Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise and one episode from Star Trek: Discovery. This is the first of a two-part episode that will resolve itself with a special guest on Friday, October 5th.

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The "Short Treks" mini-episodes. Announced back in July by Discovery co-creator Alex Kurtzman, these 10-15 minute Short Treks are meant to get subscribers back to CBS All Access as we approach the Season Two launch of Star Trek: Discovery. What will the podcast do? Tune in and find out on this episode of The Minnesota Star Trek Nerd Podcast.

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The Minnesota Star Trek Nerd Podcast has returned from the time-traveling era of the 1990s with its tenth opinion supplemental episode. In this episode, Wes attempts to give his own thoughts on the Kelvin Timeline film drama going between Chris Pine, Chris Hemsworth and Paramount Pictures and on a poll about the 1990s on the Facebook page.

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The Minnesota Star Trek Nerd Podcast concludes its 1990s nostalgia trip with this, the second part that began with episode 28. In this part, host Wes Huntington tells you his memories of five Nickelodeon shows that he distinctly remembers watching. Samples of those shows' theme music from those five shows are used, and are used for educational purposes and are the sole property of Nickelodeon. No Star Trek this episode, and Wes totally is sorry for not doing that.

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Growing up in the 1990s was a great time. In the world of real life, you had Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. In the world of entertainment, Star Trek had exploded in the 1990s, having four films and three TV series on during that decade. Also, in the world of entertainment, kids' cable channel Nickelodeon had exploded in popularity as well, generating many classic shows; some are being rebooted for the 21st century. In this, the first of a two-part episode of The Minnesota Star Trek Nerd Podcast, Wes Huntington explains what it was like to live in the 1990s.

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