Episode 171, "Phaser beam computers"

Published: Jan. 20, 2015, 8:59 p.m.

News\n
Darrell is watching To Be Takei on Netflix. \n
Star Trek Continues Launches Kirkstarter 2.0 To Fund New Episodes

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Ten Forward:\n
What DO those logos mean in the TOS insignias?\n
Star: Command - like \u201cjason of\u201d\n
Basketball (or atom / chemical / orbiting objects)\n
E is for engineering, styled to resemble a bolt\n
Lights of Zetar - Scotty has a basketball insignia on a red shirt.

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Star Trek in pop culture: \n
Jobs. 2013. Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad. - This is the conversation between Jobs and Woz that named Apple Computer.\n
(Clip: 00:55)

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Episode insight: DS9, S4: The Quickening

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Character insight - Miles O'Brien

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Subspace communications

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Ken P.