About this episode

The Spocklight crew discusses the highs and lows of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 with guest Sophie Petzal.

The Spocklight crew are joined once again by Screenwriter, Sophie Petzal, to discuss the highs and lows of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, picking apart the genre hopping format, the show's politics, the season's big death and the controversy surrounding Four-and-a-half-Vulcans. As usual you can find SPOCKLIGHT on: X - @spocklightpod INSTAGRAM – @spocklightpod BLUESKY - @spocklightpod.bsky.social FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/spocklightpod/ EMAIL - spocklightpod@gmail.com Please Follow, like, share and all that good stuff. Credit for our wonderful theme music goes to the incredibly talented, Adam Johnston’s, you can find more of his work at - https://adamjohnstonuk.bandcamp.com/ Our beautiful artwork was created by Stephen Trumble, see more on Instagram @stephentrumbleanimation

People in this episode

Host: Spocklight

Guest: Sophie Petzal

Topics covered

• Star Trek
• Season 3
• spoilers
• genre hopping
• politics
• character death
• controversy

Keywords

• Star Trek
• Strange New Worlds
• Sophie Petzal
• season 3
• spoiler special
• genre hopping
• politics
• character death

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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