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Huh. Wait what? Picard is good now?

Yeah, that’s right. All those other podcasts and shows are lying to you. We’re the only source you can trust on NuTrek. NO. We’re not a cult. How dare you.

Here we go on about what works in episodes 3 and 4 of Star Trek: Picard season 3. How does the show finally use what previous seasons refused to acknowledge about the universe? Just what is the relationship between technobabble and melodrama? How prurient can we be about our extracurricular activities?

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Emergency Episode of The Rules of Acquisition

Did you catch the latest episode of DS9? No? You’re not caught up on Star Trek: Lower Decks? The Station, Quark, Kira, and some gamma quadrant aliens all showed up. Time to pull the RoA out of the box and dust it off.

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Picard is Dead; Long Live Picard

The end of everything. Or is it? We get our final criticisms out on what Star Trek: Picard did in this final episode and what we might think of how they built these new characters and killed some old ones.

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Talking Picard from the Coronavirus Capital

Picard gets eaten by a flower and talks to some synths. Back in NYC and Jersey, your hosts podcast to keep from going crazy while isolated at home. Heed the Admonition and maintain social distance.

What that harkened back to classic Trek did Wade and Glen like in this episode, and what is Sean so mad about?  

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Corona Happens Fast – Take Care of Yourselves

On the patreon you’ll find extended discussion about the Corona virus situation’s impact on our lives.

The full talk is half an hour on the American failed state, isolation, parenting, and how things are for James in Covid-19 ground zero California, and Wade in NYC.

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Also coming soon, we talk Devs and Alex Garland.

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Dark Times and Sunny Nepenthe

Losses are suffered.  Things get DARK. And hey, SOME of us watched a TV show this week. We have pretty nice things to say about the Riker/Troi storyline of Star Trek: Picard this week.  We just have to survive the rest. 

Everybody’s sick. Uh oh.

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We’ve Listened to Your Feedback and There’s No Winning

Is Star Trek: Picard putting itself in an impossible situation by requiring viewers have a familiarity with TNG while also aching to appeal to new viewers of “prestige” style television in a way that betrays the “real” trekkers?
This week the podcast is both dumber and more insightful than it’s ever been. Benny Scheckner is woefully uninformed and craving to be trolled. After some initial inanity, Kristin from Montreal finally provides the insight of a well informed Star Trek fan that some of you listeners have been craving.

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Talking to You About Joe Pera Talks to You

How does an Adult Swim show hit the same notes that James wants from Star Trek? 

Check out Joe Pera Talks to You over here: http://www.adultswim.com/videos/joe-pera-talks-with-you

The full conversation can be heard over the Kickers of Elves Patreon:

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Brutally Stardust City Dragging

What did Star Trek: Picard do our beloved Star Trek in the Seven of Nine themed episode Stardust City Rag? Is it ok that we still ended up liking this episode? Though kicking it off by fridge-ing a character is kind of a dick move, even if we aren’t actually that invested in Icheb.

Easter eggs are discussed.
Glen has some questions about the economics of Borg reclamation, and Sean is having none of it.  

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