Episode 171, "Phaser beam computers"
This Week in Trek: A Star Trek Podcast · Michael Gaines and Darrell Skeels
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Show Notes
News
Darrell is watching To Be Takei on Netflix.
Star Trek Continues Launches Kirkstarter 2.0 To Fund New Episodes
Ten Forward:
What DO those logos mean in the TOS insignias?
Star: Command - like “jason of”
Basketball (or atom / chemical / orbiting objects)
E is for engineering, styled to resemble a bolt
Lights of Zetar - Scotty has a basketball insignia on a red shirt.
Star Trek in pop culture:
Jobs. 2013. Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad. - This is the conversation between Jobs and Woz that named Apple Computer.
(Clip: 00:55)
Episode insight: DS9, S4: The Quickening
Character insight - Miles O'Brien
Subspace communications
Ken P.