We are pleased to announce that, thanks to some heroic last-minute efforts, we have resumed our tradition of releasing a vignette on the day after Christmas!
Today's episode is a 15-minute show called, "Afters." You can get it now at www.StarshipExcelsior.com and wherever podcasts are found. (It may take a few hours to get distributed into every podcast feed.)
Happy Boxing Day!
Housekeeping notes:
1. the transcript for "The Fire In Which We Burn" is now posted on the website, on the Episodes page.
2. The first draft of our next episode, tentative title "The Witness," by Lyndsey Werner, is complete and undergoing revisions. We hope to have it in recording soon. (It's 4+ months from recording to release, to give you a sense of the timeline.)
...3. We are planning a Boxing Day vignette this year.
Tiny Trek trivia:
In our new episode, "The Fire In Which We Burn," there's a discussion of how and why a ship might hit Warp 13, even though the warp scale traditionally only goes up to Warp 10.
In the Next Generation episode "All Good Things," set in 2395, the U.S.S. Pasteur and U.S.S. Enterprise-D both go to Warp 13.
...In the Excelsior timeline, it is now 2390, a decade after the final event in the classic canon (Star Trek: Nemesis), and 2395 is coming up quickly, so this discussion is our little hat-tip explaining how the Pasteur and Enterprise can go so darn fast.
It's because Lt. Jordyn Elbrun discovered the weirdness of ancient subspace and the Daystrom Institute had to recalibrate the whole warp scale!
Little, un-ostentatious connections like that, that don't derail the episode for more casual fans, are kind of our bread and butter. 