In this episode we speak with Star Trek fan and Online Role-player Amens. She’s a long-time fan who is changing her name to match her Star Trek persona and has been very active in the online Trek Twitter RP community.
Topics
- Is “Amens” really my guest’s name?
- Terrified by Balok
- 50-foot Spock awaits you in TAS
- Avoiding spoilers
- Star Trek: The Collectible Card Game
- Making your own props
- Padd Production Process
- Amens’ Real-Life Brother needs to seek Jamaharon
- Future plans for Props
- Self-taught prop-making
- The challenges of the Borg Eye Implant from the Picard Show
- Uniform collections
- Mission: Chicago recollections
- STLV predictions
- Churros
- Star Trek Role Play Twitter: Federation News Network Twitter
- Amens’ Dream Uniform
- Theme Park Twitter
- The genesis of Ensign Amens
- The podcast has a purpose?
- Who is a Star Trek fan? Are there rules? Limits?
- Carrying groceries at Waldbaum’s
- RP Twitter has rules
- The “in-universe” origin story of the Ensign Amens character
- Alaska had 4 channels
- Giving up on Voyager on the first go
- The EMH was inappropriate
- Fortress Ovum is under attack!
- Errata: JG Hertzler teaches how to “wax on, wax off.”
- Toby the Targ – more details needed
- Errata: Toby the Targ is mentioned a second time in Voyager and is mentioned in Lower Decks
- “Where’s your cortical node, buddy?”
- Seven deserved a uniform
- “I have an excellent bedside manner.”
- Time travel doesn’t have to make sense in the show
- Weyoun vs. Weyoun
- Honorary Star Trek title awarded: Assistant Starship Design Engineer at Tranquility Base
Episodes Discussed
- Caretaker VOY S1E01
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Movie)
- Generations (Movie)
- Someone to Watch Over Me VOY S5E21
- Tsunkatse VOY S6E15
- Stardust City Rag PIC S1E05
- Relativity VOY S5E24
- Treachery, Faith, and the Great River DS9 S7E06
Connect
- Check out Amens’ main Twitter account here
- The role-play “Ensign Amens” account is here
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Acknowledgements
- Background photo by John Jacobson on Unsplash
