Wrapping up our 11th season, The Trek Files is proud to welcome Walter Koenig to the show to look back at his own involvement in Star Trek TAS as a writer. Stay tuned for the revelations about Walter’s pitch (and subsequent rejection) from TNG, shared here for the first time!

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If five years in the Delta Quadrant wasn’t lonely enough, Voyager now finds itself in a region of space with no stars, no planets, no light. Janeway is reclusive and the quadrant’s worst garbagemen show up when Night falls on the Mission Log.

Design and effects legend Doug Drexler drops by Mission Log: The Orville to talk about his contributions across multiple science-fiction series. Plus, special guest appearance by Beaker the parrot! Thanks to everyone who joined us on Virtual Trek Con 5.

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Gene-ology’s travels with The Man From Texas conclude as we examine Gene Roddenberry’s second unmade script for this unrealized series, “Exile”, before we embark upon our coverage of Have Gun — Will Travel.

Guest starring Cody Banning as Sam Houston, Robert Parson as Secretary Burnett, and Earl Green as Major Barrington

There’s a lot of fan crossover between Star Trek and author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. In fact, the world’s first consulting detective makes a few cameos in our favorite science fiction series. Robert Stek and Monica Schmidt are Star Trek fans who also happen to belong to The Baker Street Irregulars, America’s preeminent Sherlock Holmes society. They joined me to talk about Sherlock and Star Trek.

In part 2, we observe Brent Spiner (Data) and Daniel Davis’ (Moriarty) performances and deduce why there is so much fan crossover between the two properties.

Robert Stek

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In this Mission Log: Prodigy supplemental, Char and Marina talk to “the Julia Child of science,” Dr. Erin Macdonald. She serves as the science advisor to Prodigy, the Trek universe at large, and more.

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From unlikely beginnings – a character created to introduce music videos to UK audiences – sprang a trailblazing, underappreciated #cyberpunk chapter in American genre TV.  Sci-Fi 5 reloads Max Headroom into your memory.

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Written by Shane Vaughn

Hosted by Ryan Myers

Music by Devin Curry