Standard Orbit: A Star Trek Original Series Podcast

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• Setting a Course

  October 24, 2026 · 43 min

  “The Naked Time” 60th-anniversary reflections. Arriving at Psi 2000 to pick up a team of scientists from the dying planet, the Enterprise finds everyone already dead, frozen at their posts in a station where someone switched off life…

• Wrestling With Thoughts on God

  October 17, 2026 · 51 min

  “Where No Man Has Gone Before” 60th-anniversary reflections On a mission to the edge of the galaxy, the Enterprise recovers the disaster recorder of the SS Valiant, an Earth ship lost two centuries earlier. Its final entries point to a…

• Check Yes If You Like Me

  October 6, 2026 · 49 min

  “Charlie X” 60th-anniversary reflections While investigating the planet Thasus, the crew of the Antares takes in a young crash survivor who had been stranded alone for 14 years. The boy, Charlie Evans, is then transferred to the Enterprise…

• It Just Throws You In

  September 23, 2026 · 53 min

  Star Trek and “The Man Trap” 60th-anniversary reflections Six decades ago, Gene Roddenberry invited the world on a wagon trail to the stars with a salty start that would lead to one of the greatest storytelling adventures of all time. As…

• Consequences of Leadership

  November 16, 2020 · 1 hr 0 min

  Kirk as captain. Among Starfleet captains, Kirk certainly had his own style. Were the long-term effects considered during the decision-making process, or were they off-the-cuff style decisions? How was the crew affected by the choices of…

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