[PODCAST] Priority One Podcast 302 | Disco Inferno

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Greetings, Captains! You’re listening to EPISODE 302 OF PRIORITY ONE PODCAST, your weekly report on all things Star Trek! Recorded LIVE on Thursday, January 19th, 2017 and available for download or streaming on Monday, January 23rd, at PriorityOnePodcast.com!



This week, we Trek Out a new documentary in the works all about Star Trek Deep Space 9, and we’ve got the good news and the bad news about Star Trek Discovery. In Star Trek Online news, we’ve got details on the new Lukari Restoration Initiative, and there’s a new YouTube series using Star Trek Online to show us around some of the most iconic locations in Star Trek. Finally, our science adviser Dr. Robert Hurt is back with another report from the Astrometrics Lab.

And as always, before we wrap up the show, we’ll open hailing frequencies for your incoming messages!


TOPICS DISCUSSED

• Trek It Out
  • New asteroid has been named after Wil Wheaton
  • Ira Steven Behr (DS9 showrunner) is producing a new Star Trek Deep Space 9 documentary
  • Sarek has been cast for Discovery, but the premiere has been postponed with no new date
• Star Trek Online News
  • Lukari Restoration Initiative details
  • Cryptic Facebook livestream for Season 12: Reckoning
  • Just how much of known Trek space does STO cover?
  • New YouTube series: Semper Exploro by Ketwolski
  • Xbox Live introduces FREEdom rewards focussing on Free-to-Play titles
• Astrometrics Report
  • New research shows that our galaxy’s black hole is spewing “spitballs”
  • “The Science Behind The Expanse” panel

THIS WEEK’S COMMUNITY QUESTION

• What would you hope is discussed and/or addressed in a DS9 documentary?

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tylermaxwell

What would you hope is discussed and/or addressed in a DS9 documentary?
This might just be my own impression, but I've wondered why Deep Space Nine seems to be less prolific among fans compared to the other Trek shows it aired with (The Next Generation and Voyager). Arguably, it has some of the deepest and most interesting storytelling in all of Trek, and yet DS9 never seemed to gain as much traction among the mainstream or the diehard Trekkie audiences as its contemporaries. I'd like to hear Behr-and-company's thoughts on this, and maybe how that played into their decisions for the show in the later seasons.

Also, maybe something on the deviations that 'some' folks might conclude are things that the Great Bird (Gene Roddenberry) would have never done with Trek, including the highly spiritual nature of some of the episodes, the Federation going to war in later seasons, as well as the morally gray, sometimes maybe even wrong actions taken by the main characters. Are these things (as well as similar facets in subsequent series) an evolution of Trek storytelling that should continue in the future, or are some of them things that run totally counter to its core ideals and be discarded in favor of more 'traditional' Trek tales?

The 'Unreleased Discovery '
*Strikes a 'Khaan' pose* "CBSSSSSS!!!!!"

*sigh* Yeah, can't really put a positive spin on this. "Take all the time that you need" I suppose, but as I'd hope would be obvious, the more time this takes, the more fans' patience will run thin and probably divert their interests elsewhere.