Talk Trek

The Talk Trek crew is beaming to Vegas for the big Star Trek Convention 09!  Join Njord4 (aka Erik), Damien the Newpowersoulman and Pete "the Vegas Lovin'" Vontresc as they cover all the fun in Vegas... including a scheduled photo opp with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy!Here's a rundown of all the scheduled events we'll be reporting on - click here. Get inside the convention with Talk Trek on Twitter!  Please email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  Check out our Blog for convention pics, videos and more!  We'd love to hear from you. Live Long and Talk Trek!!!

Turn up your tri-corders and set your communicators to voice mail, Talk Trek is hailing you for adventure!  The Enterprise becomes involved in a local power struggle on planet Capella IV, where the Klingons want mining rights. If you like the good Doctor Leonard H. McCoy, you'll love this Bones-rich episode.  But beware!  Even if you dislike Klingons, please do not be tempted to shoot them on-sight... especially if they have friends with knife-frisbees. You can now follow Talk Trek on Twitter! Some products and ideas mentioned in this episode are as follows: Alaska - our sponsorKnife FrisbeeTeerSconesMonoceros Ring Mike Mangione - music Please email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  Check out our Blog if you have time as well!  We'd love to hear from you. Live Long and Talk Trek!!!

Who's ready for a journey?!?!  I know the Star Trek crew is, so I'm sure the Talk Trek crew is...  However, what kind of a journey will it be?  Let us find out!As the Enterprise comes under attack on the way to a diplomatic conference on Babel, one of the alien dignitaries is murdered, and Spock's sick father Sarek is the only suspect. Some products and ideas mentioned in this episode are as follows:Swimming Pools - our sponsorRight AscensionSpock's Teddy BearPulsarSurreptitiousBlood TypesPlease email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  Check out our Blog if you have time as well!  We'd love to hear from you.Live Long and Talk Trek!!!

Talk Trek brings you a post-Super Bowl/pre-Spring Training podcast that's sure to delight you!  Join the Talk Trek crew on an isolated asteroid, where Kirk finds Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the warp drive, who has been missing for 150 years!  Some products and ideas mentioned in this episode are as follows:Slowly-cooked rabbit - our sponsorValkyrieTJ HookerProject ConstellationZefram CochraneThe Four LovesPlease email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  Check out our Blog if you have time as well!  We'd love to hear from you.Live Long and Talk Trek!!!

The indomitable Harcourt Fenton Mudd returns - and with a new trick up his sleeve!  Will Harry Mudd use his pompous accent to finally thwart the Enterprise crew or will Capt. James T. Kirk save the day yet again?  Join us for another Talk Trek adventure and we will find out together!Harry Mudd, now ruler of a planet of androids, captures the Enterprise and attempts to imprison Kirk for revenge.Some products and ideas mentioned in this episode are as follows:Whole carrots - our sponsorView-MasterMale prostitutesNorman ConquestBulbous mass of glowing liquid gasPlease email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  Check out our Blog if you have time as well!  We'd love to hear from you.Live Long and Talk Trek!!!

Follow us, if you dare, on an adventure that's out of this world... and on another!  Will the Enterprise crew survive its close encounter with the strange kind?  Its witches, black cats, zombies, missing fingers, skeletons, castles, Spock, Kirk, McCoy and the Talk Trek boys (with special guest baby girl) all rolled into an hour of fun!Some products and ideas mentioned in this episode are as follows:A black cat sitting in a window - SponsorFive empty beer bottles with no beer - Co-sponsorDry iceZombiesSusan PowterPlease email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  Check out our Blog if you have time as well!  We'd love to hear from you.Live Long and Talk Trek!!!

A favorite of many, The Doomsday Machine has arrived (albeit a few days late).  This episode is ripe with weapons of mass destruction, Commodores who pull rank, and antiproton beams.  Can Kirk save the densely populated Rigel system before the planet killer has his way with the crew?Join us as the Enterprise discovers a superweapon capable of destroying entire planets, and a Commodore, whose crew was killed by the machine, jeopardizes the crew on a crazed mission of revenge!!!Some products and ideas mentioned in this episode are as follows:Thai food and Orange Juice - Our sponsorCommodore (rank)The Caine MutinyPoints of sailMÃnage à troisVendetta (Peter David novel)Please email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  We'd love to hear from you.Live Long and Talk Trek!!!

May Talk Trek be one of the first podcasts to bid you a Happy New Year! And what better way to usher in 2009 than with Episode 34 - The Apple?  The Enterprise crew discovers an Eden-like paradise on Gamma Trianguli VI, controlled by a machine that is revered by the local humanoid primitives as a god.  Some products and ideas mentioned in this episode are as follows:      Kosuke Fukudome - Our sponsor     Talk Trek Blog - Our Blog     Crack     This Island Earth - a movie Pete mentioned     LovePlease email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  We'd love to hear from you.Live Long and Talk Trek!!!

You asked for it, we delivered!  The winner of our Listener's Choice lotto is Daniel N!  But don't we all really win since N's pick was Yesterday's Enterprise?  Get a taste of Talk Trek: The Next Generation today! A temporal rift opens, and the USS Enterprise-C emerges, changing the timeline into a reality where the Federation is in a bitter war with the Klingon Empire. The only one on USS Enterprise-D that realizes that something is not right is Guinan, and she must help return the Enterprise-C to its proper time in order to save themselves.  The Talk Trek crew dedicates this episode to Majel Barrett-Roddenberry who died on December 18, 2008. Some products and ideas mentioned in this episode are as follows: Ground lamb - Our sponsorTalk Trek Blog - Our blogShooter McGavinVashStar Trek dubbed in German Please email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  We'd love to hear from you.Live Long and Talk Trek!!!

Oh, how much do we love parallel universes?  Let us count the ways... Bearded Spocks... Wonderfully dressed Uhuras...  Vixens with beauty...  I'm sure we could all live in this new reality.  Or could we?  In Mirror, Mirror, a transporter malfunction sends Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura into a parallel universe, where in lieu of the Federation, a despotic Earth-centered galactic empire exists!Join us as we boldly enter this new reality with its new rules and new dress!  There shall be no agonizer strong enough to stop us!Some products and ideas mentioned in this episode are as follows:Wollersheim Winery Wine List - Our sponsorTo Serve All My Days - Walter Koenig stars in Star Trek Phase IIThe Arthur C. Clarke FoundationHaggis RecipesAmerican Sailing AssociationLondon & Paris Etiquette Finishing SchoolHomo LogicusViagraSpace PenisPlease email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  We'd love to hear from you.Live Long and Talk Trek!!!

Talk Trek returns from a retirement it should have never taken!    The good ship Enterprise has a close-encounter with Nomad, an ancient interstellar probe from Earth that has somehow mutated into a powerful trophy-shaped machine bent on sterilizing whole planets that do not meet its standards of perfection. What can the unit Kirk do to stop Nomad from destroying all humanity?  Please email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  We'd love to hear from you. Live Long and Talk Trek!

From the bottom of the hearts of the Talk Trek crew, we are so terribly sorry about the inexcusable absence of new Talk Trek episodes.  It has been nearly four months since our latest release.  However, we are getting ready to rear back and fire into the winter months with tons full of new episodes.Stay tuned...  In two days (Thursday, 8PM CST), the new episode will be revealed.  Episode 32 - The Changeling will be released.Another update:  The winner of this year's Listener's Choice episode is "Yesterday's Enterprise."  Congrats to Daniel N... as his name was the one we pulled from the hat!Happy Holidays to everyone!  Thanks so much for being on the wagon during our time of withdrawal...Live Long and Talk Trek -

Dear Listeners -We are terribly sorry for the delay.  Perhaps "Who Mourns for AdonaÃs?" is such a great episode from the original series that we had to spend so much time getting the podcast right.  Yeah... that sounds like a good excuse!  :)In any event, we are back.  Stay tuned for a steady stream of podcasts from now on (until we take our next break)!So, please come with us as we invest our minds in Greek mythology and learn about the true Apollo.  Was he really a god?  Or was he just trying to score with the new blonde chick on the planet?Listen and find out!  Please email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  We'd love to hear from you. Don't forget to check out the Talk Trek Blog at http://blog.TalkTrek.com! Live Long and Talk Trek!

Talk Trek takes you maximum warp speed into the second mighty season of Star Trek!  Throwing soup at nurses? Demanding PTO? Taking over the ship? Is it that time of the month for Spock?... or maybe it's that time of the ancient Vulcan mating cycle!  It's mate or die for our favorite Vulcan!Things really run Amok when Spock's bride-to-be demands Spock fight-to-the-death for her! And chooses Kirk to be his opponent! Will Spock go too far? Pon farr!Please email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  We'd love to hear from you. Don't forget to check out our new Talk Trek Blog at http://blog.TalkTrek.com. Live Long and Talk Trek!

Listen in on our first audio newsletter!  Though Clankfu is on shore leave, Njord4, NewPowerSoilMan (sic), and the Von discuss a few items of interest:Unveiling of the Listener's ChoiceTalk Trek Blog (http://blog.talktrek.com)Upcoming Star Trek convention in Las VegasiTunes ratings! Please email us at TalkTrek@gmail.com and vote for us at PodcastAlley.com!  We'd love to hear from you. Live Long and Talk Trek!