The strike is over! After what seems like a lifetime, the 2023 writers strike came to an end and with it the request podcasts not do promotional work. Which means we can get back to talking about movies! We’re really excited, but also it’s been a tough year, so we decided to make one short episode talking about where we’re at, where we’re headed, and if you’re seeing this in your feed, what that means for the show you’re listening to. I promise, almost all of it is good news!

Also, as a thank you to everyone for supporting us, the newest voip recorded days before the strike began is now up free for everyone at patreon.com/abnormalmapping! You don’t have to, but while you’re there maybe think about subscribing? It truly helps us out a lot.

Until the next real episode, see you … out there!

We’re back! We’ve watched more Lower Decks and it’s fantastic, while reading a pretty interesting early Reeves-Stevens book that gives us the crunchy look at bad Starfleet beauracracy that we love.

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THIS MONTH’S BOOK
Prime Directive

NEXT TIME
Triangle: Imzadi II

We slide in under the closing Engineering door of the year to talk about Star Trek’s second foray into animation and the end (for now) of our Enterprise coverage as the Earth-Romulan war ends with a 600 page whimper. That was the thing we were building to? Sheesh. Good thing Lower Decks rules.

SPOILERS for all of Enterprise after our Lower Decks section!

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THIS MONTH’S BOOK
To Brave the Storm

NEXT TIME
The Prime Directive

We’re back to the past past with the next in the line of Enterprise relaunch books but also in the more present past of modern trek as we watched all of season 1 of Strange New Worlds and talk briefly about what it’s like to have new Star Trek on that’s just entertaining and good! The book is another story, but there sure is a lot to talk about! Also, we’ll be BACK SOON, as we announce one more SOS hopefully out by the end of the year, because we gotta know what happens in this war!

SPOILERS for Strange New Worlds end at 19:15, and everything after that assumes you know the end of Enterprise and all the books we’ve read up to this point, so good luck with that.

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THIS MONTH’S BOOK
The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor’s Wing

We’re back with an infamous book written in part by Armin Shimerman about how he had wished DS9 had addressed the way people treat the Ferengi in Star Trek. Absolutely a thing someone should have done. Does this book manage to tackle it with courage and conviction? Well, yeah. Mostly. Does it manage to stick talking about the racism inherent in Star Trek in a way that’s considered? Weeeeeellllll, that’s a complicated question. One we get into!

SPOILERS for some of Voyager’s world state, Picard’s premise, and DS9 broadly

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The Book
The 34th Rule

We’re back with another Enterprise book, but also Em’s been digging into some other parts of the Star Trek universe so look forward to a quick run down of the TNG relaunch books on this wild adventure into the nightmare world of space politics, space racism, space espionage, space romance, and anything else you could possibly append space to the front of! We’ll be back again, some day, we’ve finally gotten to the Romulan War we were promised!

SPOILERS for Enterprise, TNG, Discovery, and hell probably Picard too

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The Book
Kobayashi Maru

Nobody can say when the intrepid Trek fans returned to history, but that is really the question we’ve come to discuss. Who has constructed this history, and for what purposes? What if Section 31 is actually not that bad? What if Andorians truly are the most obnoxious Federation member group? All this and more as we once again dip into the world of Star Trek!

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The Book
The Good That Men Do

Pulled out of mothballs for one last mission, the intrepid crew of this ramshackle podcast are back to talk about an Enterprise book and the show as a whole. No other Trek news, but enjoy this microcosm of the whole show over the course of an hour. Someday we will probably return again!

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The Book
Last Full Measure

We’re back after a long hiatus to … enjoy the worst Star Trek movie ever made! Join us as we take the trek into darkness and come out the other side confused as to why you’d even build a warp core like that, why Khan is even a bad guy in this universe, and what anyone’s motivation actually is. Also, we talk about the trailers for both Discovery season 3 and Picard! Thank you everyone who has ever said you enjoyed this show. We will always be out there, ready to return when the time is right.

The Movie
Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek Discovery is finished (for now), and so are we (for now). Of all the souls we have met in our journeys, this was the most television.

In the penultimate episode of Discovery season 2, Tilly’s girlfriend returns, everyone gets a goodbye, everyone gets another goodbye, and nothing really happens. Sorry for a downer one, it will be over soon.

The article about the design of the Enterprise Em mentions: Design Secrets of Discovery’s New USS Enterprise Bridge