🖖🏼 Star Trek's Bold New Missions & Surprising Origin Story

🖖🏼 From Discovery to Lower Decks to Strange New Worlds and beyond: Guests Kurt Ho and Eric V. join the Ricks to discuss ComicCon 2024's Hall H announcements about what's next for Star Trek—and why the good ship Enterprise wouldn't have ever left the ground without…Lucille Ball? Brought to you by Taskin, the first name in ultra-stylish, premium-quality travel gear for 🛩-setters everywhere. 👐🏻Shop now and save 30% with promo code R&RTAKE30 at TaskinSF.com: ow.ly/Vh6M30r9EpF👐🏻 IN THIS EPISODE 🚀 Star Trek: Fifty-eight years young and going stronger than ever (at 00:30) 👽 Kurt Ho and Eric V. join the Ricks to talk about Trek's Hall H takeover (01:17) 📢 Announcements on Lower Deck, Starfleet Academy, and Section 31 (01:20) 👁️‍🗨️ Star Struck: Rick M. sings his status report on Strange New Worlds (02:29) 🪐 Taking risks: What makes Strange New Worlds so great (03:00) 🎬 Pike, Uhura, Chapel, Spock, Scotty & M'benga finally get their due (04:09) 🧑🏻‍🦰 For the love of Lucy: Why Star Trek fans owe thanks to Lucille Ball (05:56) ⌛️ Cool–but who the hell is Lucille Ball? An explainer for Gens Z & Alpha (7:04) 🎥 Bold broad: Starring in a Top 10 TV show, running a major studio (08:31) 🧠 Too "cerebral"—how Lucy put her vision where her mouth was (09:00) 📺 How Desi Arnaz invented the sitcom—and syndication (10:11) 🛸 Beam us up, Scotty: We don't want to miss Season Six (10:34)