Last April, Anika and Liz each bought a copy of the June 1999 issue of the official Star Trek magazine.
Then we had … some other things to podcast about.
But we’ve finally opened it, and we’re talking about…
- Remember when we’d pay US$7.99 — or AU$15! — for a magazine that contained a couple of interviews, some facts we already knew about the Klingon Empire and a Bird-of-Prey pinup?
- The Kate Mulgrew interview:
- She does not talk about her relationship with Jeri Ryan (but we do)
- None of the other captains of this era had to talk about how work took them away from their kids — and Scott Bakula had a toddler when Enterprise started!
- (Hey, isn’t it cool that now Anson Mount can request and get paternity leave, and no one’s asking Sonequa Martin-Green how she balances motherhood with her career?)
- Putting the Janeway/Chakotay relationship on the backburner (and where they could end up in Prodigy — that’s us speculating, not Kate in 1999…)
- We try to picture Kate Mulgrew in the MCU and fail spectacularly
- Let’s all take a moment to send bad vibes to Liz’s grade 10 drama teacher
- Jason Alexander and the woke agenda
- 1999 NFTs
- Anika wants you to know that D. C. Fontana shipped Spock/Christine
- 25 years later, Tim Russ deserves an apology for the interview which closes the magazine