Our next mission takes us to a little-traveled portion of the galaxy between the Sagittarius Arm and Orion Arm of the galaxy, where a gravitational anomaly has sent the Enterprise while also crippling it and leaving it potentially stranded. The only hope that the Enterprise crew has is to try and locate the needed supplies, negotiate for their acquisition, and survive an unstable star, all without overturning a carefully-balanced and insular civilization that is both advanced and backward.

Rob and Butch turned out to be pretty impressed with Lee Corey's only Star Trek Novel, "The Abode of Life." Give us a listen and see if you agree!

Rob and Butch have been life long Star Trek fans, and have enjoyed watching and reading Star Trek since 1984. But this summer, August 5-10, they took their wives to Las Vegas and attended their first-ever Star Trek convention, which just so happened to be the 60th Anniversary year since the first broadcast of Star Trek. As a result, the convention was well-attended, with over 6,000 attendees and nearly 200 guests from all across the Star Trek universe and timeline.

The primary goal was to see the stars who are oldest, and thus are least likely to attend future conferences - William Shatner, George Takei, and Walter Koenig. Alas, Koenig was a late scratch, but we got to see the other two, hear their presentations, and get our picture taken with them. While we were at it, we met all sorts of other Trek personae - actors from all of the series, writers of episodes and novels, production staff, and even a couple of our favorite Star Trek podcasters.

Give us a listen and see how it compared to your STLV experience, or maybe get inspired to attend next year!

We are back on mission at Star Trek CineMcCollough, going way back to the earliest days of the Pocket Books novels for number four, "The Covenant of the Crown." Written by Howard Weinstein - this is our second book review for Weinstein, who also wrote Deep Domain, after becoming famous for having a story produced for The Animated Series in 1974 when he was just 19 years old (!!!), Weinstein this time delivers us a tale of a dynasty in exile for eighteen years from a critically important planet that is also contested by the Klingons. It has a familiar feel to it, but isn't that what we like about watching reruns of Star Trek?

Tune in to our podcast episode and find out what we though of Weinstein's first novel!