Rachel Watches Star Trek

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On this episode we’re joined by Professor Ben Auerbach, PhD, who works in biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, and anatomy in the Department of Anthropology at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He has a special interest in eugenics and helps us to answer the question '‘does the eugenics presented in this episode make any sense?’.

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Some comments from our Patreon supporters:

Ruth Dunmire - It's not, strictly, a metaphor, but "Beam me up, Scotty" is a phrase that tells a story that everyone understands--at least in Western culture. Even my 98-year-old mum knew what that means.

Peter Larsen - An author I follow has a son with autism who communicates almost entirely via song lyrics and dialogue from TV. He can make his needs known, but only because his parents have spent his entire life learning the context of the quotes. So there are people out there who communicate like this, but it doesn't work very well for a society where people might assign different meanings to the same phrase.

Jake Wilson - It's impossible for us to infer the complexity of their language, just as it is for someone reading the Chinese/Japanese 'alphabet' to infer the meaning of the character for sun/light/masculinity/etc by looking at the brush strokes and figuring out what they depict. And impossible, without education, to know that placing it next to the character that represents the concept of harmonious natural balance creates a name that sounds nothing like the characters individually.

Our free episode of the month for November is the horror genre epic ‘All Those Who Wander’ - our last free episode of Strange New Worlds.

We're back on the new old Enterprise as we get some post-Halloween scares. In space, no one can hear you scream!

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This month on Patreon:

TNG episode ‘The Host’, where Bev falls in love with a Trill and kisses Riker.

Strange New Worlds episode ‘A Quality of Mercy’ - the season finale.

Wrap-up special on Season 1 of SNW, and a limerick themed Star Trek game

TNG episode ‘The Mind’s Eye’ where a body double goes to Risa instead of poor LaForge.