Strange New Worlds: A Science & Star Trek Podcast
Episodes
Episode 37.5: BONUS! The Trial Never Ends
26 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode of Strange New Worlds, Dr. Peter Gao helps Michael prepare for his PhD thesis defense and reminisces about his own Star Trek–t...
Episode 37: Predicting the Future
05 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Harriet Brettle In Episode 37, Michael asks first-year Caltech planetary science graduate student Harriet Brettle, "Can science fiction predic...
Episode 36: Burnham's Breakfast
22 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Jon Wong In Episode 36, Michael brings aboard his brother, Jon Wong, to talk about diet and nutrition and critique the breakfast that Burnham ...
Episode 35: Shadows & Symmetries
15 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Desun Oka In Episode 35, Michael and Desun Oka chat about Star Trek: Discovery's bonus scene featuring Section 31, clandestine organizations i...
Episode 34: Polarize the Hull Plating
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Dr. Pushkar Kopparla In Episode 34, Michael invites Dr. Pushkar Kopparla to speculate on what "polarize the hull plating" means and explain ho...
Episode 33: What Life Does
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Dr. Stuart Bartlett In Episode 33, Michael and Elise continue their discussion about the origin and nature of life by bringing in Dr. Stuart B...
Episode 32: Q's Little Pond of Goo
17 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 32, Michael and Elise watch TNG: "All Good Things..." and discuss different theories for the origin of life. Follow us on Twitter! Elise: ...
Episode 31: Mirror Lorca's Wild Adventure Ship
03 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Cecilia Sanders, Shreyas Vissapragada, & Dr. James T. Keane In Episode 31, Michael recaps Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 by hosting a roundtab...
Episode 30: Titan, an Organic Chemist's Paradise
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Dr. Morgan Cable In Episode 30, Michael sits down with NASA JPL's Dr. Morgan Cable to talk about the exotic chemistry on Saturn's moon Titan a...
Episode 29: Sketching Pluto & Sketchy Captains
03 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Dr. James T. Keane & Dr. Peter Gao In Episode 29, Michael and Elise are joined by Dr. James T. Keane & Dr. Peter Gao to talk about James' sci...
Episode 28: Many Ways to Be Alive
28 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 28, Michael and Elise use TOS: "The Devil in the Dark" and "The Tholian Web" to spark a discussion about Earth's subsurface biosphere and s...
Episode 27: Tales from Pluto
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Dr. Peter Gao In Episode 27, Michael opens a subspace channel to Dr. Peter Gao, who recently gave a talk at the 38th New Horizons Science Team...
Episode 26: The Drake Equation
21 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 26, Michael and Elise rewatch VOY: "Future's End" and discuss the Drake equation and SETI as they appear in Star Trek and in reality. Mike...
Episode 25: Mars: Astronomy & Culture
12 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 25, Michael is rejoined by Elise Cutts to talk about Mars: Astronomy & Culture, an exhibition at ArtCenter College of Design. Did you know ...
Episode 24: Swamps, Sinkers, & Stamets
06 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Dr. Peter Gao In Episode 24, Michael catches up with Dr. Peter Gao at the AGU Fall Meeting to recap the conference and the first nine episodes...
Episode 23: The First Messenger
16 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Qicheng Zhang In Episode 23 of Strange New Worlds, Michael chats with Qicheng Zhang about ʻOumuamua, the first interstellar asteroid ever det...
Episode 22: Habitable Worlds
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Dr. Sarah Brothers & Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman In Episode 20, Michael sits down with Dr. Sarah Brothers & Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman at the Ha...
Episode 21: Captain Georgiou Cosplay
28 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Cecilia Leung For Halloween, Cecilia Leung dressed up as Captain Phillipa Georgiou: https://twitter.com/CelestialCess/status/92578727658767974...
Episode 20: The Away Mission
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Nathan Stein & Alistair Hayden In Episode 20, Michael sits down with Nathan Stein and Alistair Hayden to hear the true tale of their geologic...
Episode 19: Probing Giant Planets
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Professor Jonathan Fortney In Episode 19, Michael interviews Professor Jonathan Fortney about how we know what's inside of giant planets both ...
Episode 18: The Chemistry & Clouds of Hot Jupiters
04 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Maria Steinrück & Peter Gao At the 2017 Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Provo Utah, Michael interviews Maria Steinrück & Peter G...
Episode 17: Dark & Edgy
08 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Elise Cutts In Episode 17, Michael opens a channel to Edinburgh to discuss the first three episodes of Star Trek: Discovery with Elise Cutts. ...
Episode 16: The Real V'gers
03 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Jamie Sue Rankin In Episode 16, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of NASA's Voyager mission to the outer Solar System and beyond with a chat w...
Episode 15: Discovering Discovery
27 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Peter Gao, Desun Oka, Aida Behmard, Shreyas Vissapragada, and Cecilia Sanders Our minute-old thoughts on the first two episodes of Star Trek:...
Episode 14: It's a Colorful Universe
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: James Keane & Peter Gao In Episode 14, we talk about The Art of Planetary Science, what gives planets their colors, and offer our final thoug...
Episode 13: How Pluto Followed Its Heart
19 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: James Keane & Peter Gao In Episode 13, Michael sits down with James Keane and Peter Gao to talk about the quickly rotating planet in VOY: "Bl...
Episode 12.5: BONUS! The Wrath of Khan 35th Anniversary
12 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode of Strange New Worlds, Michael recaps his experience seeing Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan during its 35th-anniversary screenin...
Episode 12: Droning On
10 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Nathan Stein In Episode 12, Mike and Elise interview Nathan Stein about his adventure to a remote Caribbean island to study microbial mats usi...
Episode 11: Stories from Estonia
30 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Mari-Liis Aru, Philippe Nauny, Umesh Bhat, Aswin Manohar In Episode 11, Michael brings back stories and clips from his recent trip to Estonia...
Episode 10: Feeling Science
25 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 10, Mike and Elise speak to Jane Liu about her master's thesis on the role of emotions in science and science communication.
Episode 9: What's a Biosignature?, Part 2
15 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of our discussion with Cecilia Sanders, we learn more about her research on chemosynthetic life forms and discuss how Star Trek's tricorde...
Episode 8.5: BONUS! George Takei & Tim Russ at the JANM
06 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode of Strange New Worlds, Mike and Elise take you on an away mission to the Japanese American National Museum in LA.
Episode 8: What's a Biosignature?, Part 1
27 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Cecilia Sanders In Episode 8, Mike and Elise chat with Cecilia Sanders about how to look for signs of life in the universe.
Episode 7: History Is a Lie, Part 2
21 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 7, Mike, Elise, and Desun look towards the future of humanity and of Star Trek from a historian's point of view.
Episode 6: History Is a Lie, Part 1
15 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 6, Mike and Elise speak with historian Desun Oka about the historical context from which Star Trek emerged.
Episode 5: Captain Bioreactor (I'm Not Quite Sure What Antibodies Had to Do with It)
09 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 5, Mike and Elise bring aboard Heidi Klumpe to investigate the disappearance of Klingon cranial ridges in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode...
Episode 4: Disks Galore
04 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 4, Michael and Elise bring in Christopher Spalding to talk about the binary disks in the Star Trek: Discovery trailer as well as astrophysi...
Episode 3: The Star Hunter
23 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 3, Michael hails Erika Carlson to discuss systems with more than one star, how they're discovered, how they form, and the real triple star ...
Episode 2: How to Find a Strange New World
20 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 2, we talk to Dr. Courtney Dressing about the frontiers of exoplanetary astronomy. Erratum: [6:47] The reference for the first discovery o...
Episode 1: The Mystic Ship
16 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 1 of Strange New Worlds, Michael Wong and Elise Cutts sit down with Dr. Peter Gao and discuss the Star Trek: Discovery trailer (released Ma...
Episode 0: Introduction
08 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 0, Michael introduces the mission of Strange New Worlds and beams in a co-host!
Episode –1: Announcement
07 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Strange New Worlds Episode –1 Announcement