My latest podcast can be found http://www.trekmate.org.uk/the-hunted-tng-s3-e11-the-battle-bridge/ and feedback can be left on the trekmate forums http://forum.trekmatefamily.com/2015/10/the-hunted-tng-s3-e11-review-the-battle-bridge/ While the Enterprise-D is reviewing a seemingly idyllic planet’s application for...
I recorded another podcast the other week it can be found http://www.trekmate.org.uk/upper-pylon-2-1-x-09-the-passenger/ and feedback about it can be left on the trekmate forums http://forum.trekmatefamily.com/2015/07/thoughts-on-up2s-the-passenger-or-vantika-x-33/ This week on Upper Pylon 2, we are joined by our first...
I am going to take a break this week from talking about technology to talk about Star Trek. I have just listened to a podcast where they consider this list of great Star Trek Characters. I am now going to try and come up with my own top 25 characters. Here we go. Spock. My number one star trek character is Spock....
n the film Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan Spock sacrifices himself to save the Enterprise from destruction. What follows is a very moving funeral scene and his coffin is launched into space. McCoy tells Kirk that he is not dead as long as we remember him. Yesterday the actor Leonard Nimoy passed away and millions of...
The podcast I recorded the other week has been released, why not have a listen by heading over to trekmate.org.uk and comment on their forums This week Sina, Chris and Paul welcome Simon Foster, Trek Mate’s News Editor, to do discuss his Desert Island Trek choices. Paul becomes Firbob, or AntiFirbob, or…something like...
For a while now I have been listening to podcasts. For those that don’t know a podcast is an audio file that you can download and listen to, usually about a topic you are interested in. The topics that interest me are obviously Star Trek, Science and Technology and IT stuff. I mainly listen to them in the car when I am...
Let’s continue looking at a database schema for storing details of every Star Trek Episode. If you are new to databases, a schema is just the design of the structure of the database. We have three tables, Episode, EpisodeWriter and Writer. See my last post for more details of these. It has been suggested that a slight...
My last post proved quite popular so I am wondering if I can combine a post about IT and Star Trek. Years ago I used to have lists of Star Trek episodes, which included such information like original air date, production number, episode title and brief description. One thing that was hard to keep track of was how many...
As a break from my usual topics I am going to talk about what I did over the weekend. I am a huge star trek fan, so me and my wife Laura went to Destination Star Trek, a convention held in London. This is a picture of us in costume, my wife created a tribble costume (A tribble is an alien race that just consists of a...