In this episode we speak with TrekTok creator and Star Trek fan Navya
Topics
- TikTok TrekTok
- The Reading Rainbow Connection
- The Streaming Renaissance
- The “Home of Most Star Trek” in the streaming world
- Tee Shirts and the failure of the Normies to recognize
- Navya’s T’Pring cosplay
- The Normies failed again to recognize
- In search of… Star Trek fans
- Section 31: Love it or hate it?
- Deltan speculation
- Starfleet Academy speculation – my guest is worried
- What the suits might be thinking…
- The metrics of a streaming show are a mystery
- Cancellation consternation
- The novel Julia, a retelling of 1984
- Prodigy’s Kobayashi: How they did it
- Peanut Hamper Resolution?
- Thoughts for T’Pol
- Humor in Discovery
- The old days when we got two random episodes on a tape
- On being the child of immigrant parents
- Space dinosaurs… it’s crazy
- Lizard People Theory
- Honorary Star Trek title awarded: Chief Food Technologist on Sherman’s Planet
Episodes Discussed
- The Cage (TOS, Pilot)
- Kobayashi PRO S1E06
- A Mathematically Perfect Redemption LDS S3E07
- Past Tense DS9 S3E11 & S3E12
- Fusion ENT S1E17
- Choose your Pain DSC S1E05
- Cogenitor ENT S2E22
- Doctor Bashir, I Presume DS9 S5E16
- Distant Origin VOY S3E23
Connect
- Talk with Navya on TikTok
- Her Instagram is here
- Blue Sky @thatgirlayvan.bsky.social
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Acknowledgements
- Would you like to write some Kobayashi Maru lightning round questions? If you’d like to submit some for possible inclusion on the show, you can send me a message via Twitter or email me. I give some suggestions on good questions here.
- Background photo by Cedric Letsch on Unsplash