Priority One Podcast 271 | Featuring Steve Ricossa

Greetings, Captains! You’re listening to EPISODE 271 OF PRIORITY ONE PODCAST, your weekly report on all things Star Trek! Available for download or streaming on Monday, May 23rd, 2016 at PriorityOnePodcast.com!

This week we’re Trekking Out the origin of the Klingon language, and we’re also looking at a new device that promises to be a real-life universal translator. In Star Trek Online news, we’re getting you caught up on the latest events, and Executive Producer Steve Ricossa, aka Salami Inferno, joins us to talk about the console launch, Agents of Yesterday and MORE. Later, our Science Advisor, Dr Robert Hurt, brings us the latest report from the Astrometrics Lab.

As usual, before we wrap up the show, we’ll open hailing frequencies for your incoming messages.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

• Trek It Out
  • The BBC interviews Marc Okrand, the developer of the Klingon language
  • Waverly Labs Pilot smart earpiece – a real-life universal translator?
  • New Star Trek TV series teaser trailer (see embedded video below)
  • Bryan Fuller’s tweet about “Easter eggs” re the new TV teaser
• Star Trek Online News
  • Crystalline Cataclysm Event
  • Agents of Yesterday tutorial mission: The Taurean Affair
  • Agents of Yesterday mission: Shadow of Cestus
  • Star Trek Online Release Notes: May 19th, 2016
• Astrometrics Report
  • Light Echoes Give Clues to Protoplanetary Disk (via spitzer.caltech.edu)

This week’s Community Questions:

• Should CBS and Paramount be able to claim a copyright for the Klingon language?
• What did you think about the new Star Trek TV series teaser?

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