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Trek experts Dan and Barry discuss a variety of Trek topics, often with special guests! We want to share our love of the Star Trek universe, and celebrate how it has touched our lives. We also cover news and reviews of all new Star Trek shows and films!
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Positively Trek 300: Ctrl-Alt-Delete The Universe Star Trek #32 & Star Trek: Omega Lore has complete control of the universe, but his rule is nearly at an end as Captain Sisko and his compatriots are close to turning the tables on the megalomaniacal android! Plus: when all is said and done, how does IDW wrap up the interconnected Star Trek and Star…
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Positively Trek 299: We’re All Pike Now! The End of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Has Been Announced In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Captain Christopher Pike knows his future and the fate that awaits him. Now, as Star Trek fans, we are in a similar position having been told that the end is coming for Strange New Worlds! In this episode of Positiv…
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Positively Trek 298: Shaxs Ain’t Subtle, Either! Star Trek: Defiant #27 & Lore War: Shaxs’ Worst Day The Lore War crossover event continues! In this episode of Positively Trek, hosts Dan and Brandi discuss two comics: Star Trek: Defiant #27 (Lore War Part 4 of 5), and Star Trek: Lore War: Shaxs’ Worst Day, a one-shot that, quite frankly, should be …
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Positively Trek 297: Support Your Local Convention! The Mile Zero Fan Summit in Grimshaw, Alberta Star Trek and Star Wars fans can be found everywhere, and we mean everywhere! It doesn’t matter if you’re from one of the largest cities in the world or from a small farming community in rural Alberta, we guarantee that someone you know or see in your …
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Positively Trek 296: Lore War Continues! Star Trek: Defiant #26 & Star Trek #31: Lore War Parts 2 & 3 The universe has been completely upended by the villainous android Lore, and only Benjamin Sisko and Emperor Kahless are aware of it! Together, they must assemble a group of heroes to overthrow the maniacal Lore and his brother Data and remind ever…
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Positively Trek 295: Playing My Favourite Songs Strange New Worlds: Toward the Night with author James Swallow! In this episode of Positively Trek, we finally have a new novel to talk about and an author to interview! Dan Gunther welcomes back Bruce Gibson to discuss the new novel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Towards the Night. Joining us is the …
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Positively Trek 294: From Star Trek’s Worst to Star Trek’s Best “And the Children Shall Lead” and “The City on the Edge of Forever” In this episode of Positively Trek, hosts Dan and Barry take their cues from one of Dan’s favourite new podcasts: The Best Worst from hosts Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink. In their new show, they talk about the worst an…
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Positively Trek 293: Lore Ain’t Subtle Star Trek: Lore War #1 The big Star Trek comic crossover of 2025 is underway! Lore has rewritten reality, and our heroes find themselves scattered across the galaxy, all in service to their god: Lore! In this episode of Positively Trek, Dan Gunther is joined by comic co-host Brandi Jackola to discuss Star Trek…
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Positively Trek 292: 19th Century Technobabble Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World As Star Trek fans, we often see our favourite franchise reflected in books, films, and other media that isn’t, strictly speaking, “Star Trek.” One such example is the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, adapted from the Captain Jack…
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Positively Trek 291: But Is It Canon? Star Trek: Khan - Trek’s New Audio Drama In this episode of Positively Trek, host Dan Gunther welcomes Bruce Gibson back for a discussion about the upcoming original Star Trek audio drama: Star Trek: Khan, starring Lost’s Naveen Andrews as the genetically-engineered tyrant! We talk about the synopsis, writers, …
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Positively Trek 290: Of Course There’s a View of the Golden Gate Bridge! Everything We Know about Star Trek: Starfleet Academy So Far Star Trek: Starfleet Academy just wrapped filming on its first season, so we felt this was a good time to go over everything we know about the newest addition to the Star Trek universe. In this episode of Positively …
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Positively Trek 289: Look on the Bright Side! Let’s Say Something Nice About Trek We Don’t Like This is Positively Trek, so we figure we should live up to our name! In this episode, hosts Dan and Barry are straining the limits of our positivity in order to say something nice about Star Trek episodes and films that we don’t really like. Some of them…
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Positively Trek 288: Georgiou and the Gang Star Trek: Section 31 Reviewed! (Spoilers!) The first Star Trek film in nearly nine years has finally been released: Star Trek: Section 31, starring Michelle Yeoh. In this episode of Positively Trek, hosts Barry and Dan break down the film. We share what we liked, what we didn’t like, and give our overall …
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Positively Trek 287: The State of Star Trek in 2025 What’s Coming This Year and When In this episode of Positively Trek, hosts Dan and Barry take a look back at the year 2024: what we got from Star Trek on television and in print, and our thoughts on the year that was. But now, we have a new year to look at! From the first Star Trek film release si…
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Positively Trek 286: Book Club: Political Wisecracks and Political Cats Strange New Worlds: Asylum with author Una McCormack! While November 5th, 2024 will be remembered for many things, it also saw the release of a new Star Trek novel! And we are very lucky, in this special episode of Positively Trek, to have the author on the show to discuss it! …
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Positively Trek 285: Nana Visitor Joins Us to Talk About Her New Book! Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek We are so thrilled to welcome Kira Nerys herself, Nana Visitor, to Positively Trek to talk about her amazing new book, Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek! In this very special episode, hosts Dan Gunther and Brandi Jackola welcome …
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Positively Trek 284: Book Club - Logic Without Empathy is Illogical Strange New Worlds: The Scorpius Run While investigating uncharted space in the Scorpius constellation, the U.S.S. Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike is captured by a megalomaniacal dictator named Zyphyx. He forces the Enterprise crew to take part in an inters…
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Positively Trek 283: The First Week of September, 2024 The Week Everything Changed - “Past Tense” Parts 1 & 2 It’s the morning of Monday, September 3rd. Podcasters Dan and Barry have decided to record Positively Trek in the early morning hours before work. However, they don’t realize that events have taken place thousands of kilometers away that wi…
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Positively Trek 282: Star Trek in the Wild Making Trek Connections in Unexpected Places Sometimes as Star Trek fans, it can feel like we’re all alone in our fandom. Certainly, online spaces have changed this quite a bit, but in our day-to-day lives, it often feels like we are the only Star Trek fan around. But then, the unexpected happens and you m…
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Positively Trek 281: Book Club: Martha Landon Does Do a Judo Flip Greg Cox - Lost to Eternity In 1986, Dr. Gillian Taylor of the Cetacean Institute in Sausalito, California, seemingly disappeared off the face of the Earth. In 2024, a true crime podcaster tries to get to the bottom of the nearly 40 year-old cold case. In 2268, a missing scientist th…
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Positively Trek 280: The Stars Go To the Stars! Actors We’d Like to See on Star Trek (And a Few We’d Like to See Back!) With nearly 1000 episodes and films over the course of nearly 60 years, there have been scores of actors who have appeared in Star Trek, both before and after they “made it big.” But there is always room for more! In this episode …
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Positively Trek 279: Book Club: Why Can’t We Have the Bajoran Orb of Candy Canes? Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Echoes The V’Ger incident has left Kirk in command of the U.S.S. Enterprise, shirking his responsibilities back at Starfleet Command to remain aboard the ship for her shakedown cruise. The cruise is interrupted by the sudden appearance o…
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Positively Trek 278: Beautiful Star Trek Starships Our Favorites, and the People who Designed Them Over the past 58 years, Star Trek has presented us with a gorgeous vision of the future. A huge part of that Trek aesthetic is the design of the starships that carry their crews boldly to the stars. From the very beginning with Matt Jefferies’ iconic …
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Positively Trek 277: Book Club: Curiosity Killed the Cat … But Satisfaction Brought it Back! Star Trek: Celebrations While the Star Trek universe has recently made great strides in pushing the current societal boundaries of representation and inclusion, it hasn’t always done so. However, with the current slate of new Star Trek shows since the debut…
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Positively Trek 276: 20 New Episodes of Must-Watch Star Trek! Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 is Out Now Dan is flying solo in this episode of Positively Trek with a quick update episode this week as we wanted to encourage everyone to watch the new season of Star Trek: Prodigy that just dropped! Trust me: it’s more than just a kid’s show, and it deserv…
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