Best ShipTalking Podcast Podcasts (2024)

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10 years into K8s; when is a problem worth solving? Ken Ahrens - Speedscale 34:39

2M ago34:39

34:39

In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined with Ken Ahrens, CEO and Founder of Speedscale. Kubernetes is turning 10 this summer and we dig into how the ecosystem has been evolving. Learn more from Ken as he walks through his journey on: * Don't forget the fundamentals * 10 Years into K8s, what is still challenging * Enthusiasm, a very important ski…

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From Code to Culture: Matt Anger's Odyssey in Software Engineering at DoorDash 35:42

2M ago35:42

35:42

Explore the ins and outs of software engineering and organizational culture in the ShipTalk Podcast. In this episode, Dewan Ahmed, a Principal Developer Advocate at Harness, engages in a compelling conversation with Matt Anger, a Senior Staff Engineer at DoorDash. In this insightful discussion, Matt reflects on his career, from a fresh graduate to …

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Starting an SRE Practice in a Critical Industry - Vlad Ukis - Siemens Healthineers 34:41

5M ago34:41

34:41

Welcome to the latest season of ShipTalk! In this episode, we get to talk to Dr. Vlad Ukis, Head of R&D for Siemens Healthineers and author of Establishing SRE Foundations. We cover several great topics from starting and scaling an SRE function in a healthcare/regulated industry to how to go about renegotiating your SLOs. * Road to SaaS * How to re…

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ShipTalk - S02E08 - Home automation, the remote worker to manager gap, and living in an RV - Scott Lee - Arch Mortgage Insurance Company 29:50

11M ago29:50

29:50

In this episode of ShipTalk, Arch Mortgage Insurance Company's Head of Infrastructure and Operations, Scott Lee, discusses his home automation solution, deep dives into the massive gap between remote workers and their managers, and share a story about that one time he lived in an RV for 18 months with his wife and 2 dogs. Introductions Just for fun…

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ShipTalk - S02E07 - Cloud Native DevOps in Financial Services, Croatian magic, and health education for kids - Bijit Ghosh - Deutsche Bank 16:28

11M ago16:28

16:28

In this episode of ShipTalk, Deutsche Bank's Head of Cloud Engineering , Bijit Ghosh, takes us on a culinary journey to Croatia, discusses cloud native adoption and cultural change in the high stakes world of financial services, and brings us all home for meal time with the Ghosh family. Introductions Just for fun #1 - Bijit's favorite travel desti…

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ShipTalk - S02E06 - Its All About the People - Imposter Syndrome - Deserted Island Foods 11:25

11M ago11:25

11:25

In this episode of ShipTalk, our host Jim Hirschauer interviews many of the speakers from the WTF is SRE conference and discusses the many life lessons they express. This episode is packed with important lessons to help you interact with your co-workers and to succeed in life in general. The crew also has some fun discussing foods for a deserted is…

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ShipTalk - A new word for techies, using your observability data lake to do good, and some HEMA-toma inducing sword play - Hilliary Lipsig - Red Hat 24:44

1y ago24:44

24:44

By Jim Hirschauer / Hilliary Lipsig

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ShipTalk - The value of IDP at AWS, the $1M cellular outage, and the most useless beer cooler ever - Kyle Shelton - Consultant to Toyota Racing 25:12

1y ago25:12

25:12

In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Kyle Shelton tells us about his experience using and building developer platforms to enhance the developer experience. He also shares his favorite hobby and cautionary tale about a preventable outage that cost ~$1M ... ouch! Be sure to check out Kyle blog site at https://chaoskyle.com/ Introductions Ju…

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ShipTalk - A "Civ tech tree" for SREs, the M-word, and a new unit of measure called "Micro-Jacksons" - Steve McGhee - DevRel at Google 20:10

1y ago20:10

20:10

In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Steve McGhee shares tells us about a new open-source project that helps SREs understand which capabilities are required to achieve increasing levels of reliability (the nines). He also shares some interesting stories about misadventures with user files and how Google handled the news that Michael Jacks…

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ShipTalk - Heavy Rock, Netflix vs. Google, Continuous Resiliency, and a Lost City - a conversation with Adrian Cockcroft 27:29

1y ago27:29

27:29

In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Adrian Cockcroft shares his thoughts on "the 5th accelerate metric" - reliability - and the State of DevOps, using error budgets, and how to achieve continuous reliability. He shares some interesting stories about the differences between Netflix and Google, as well as some personal stories to boot. Int…

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ShipTalk - Lean into pipelines for speed, efficiency, and reliability - Bryan Finster - Defense Unicorns 20:46

1y ago20:46

20:46

In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Bryan Finster discusses how to ensure reliability and resiliency across the SDLC by making everything part of the pipeline. Introductions Just for fun #1 - Bryan's favorite hobby Main topic - Leaning into delivery pipelines to ensure reliability and resiliency while creating efficiencies. Just for fun …

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ShipTalk - Don't Let Efficiency Nuke Your Reliability - Matt Schillerstrom - Harness 14:48

1y ago14:48

14:48

In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Matt Schillerstrom shares stories from his time working in reliability at a nuclear power plant and at Target. We've changed up the format of ShipTalk to include some sections that are just for fun... Introductions Just for fun #1 - 1 truth and 1 lie Main topic - The impact of efficiency initiatives an…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #32 (Andorian Ships) 10:11

2y ago10:11

10:11

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, everyone's favourite (or at least second favourite!) Andorian Noah Averbach-Katz (who plays Ryn in Discovery) returns for one final shuttle journey in this set to talk about Andorian Ships with James and Brandon. All patrons of Ship-Talking's Patreon g…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #31 (Assimilate This) 10:36

2y ago10:36

10:36

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, Noah Averbach-Katz (who plays Ryn in Discovery) returns alongside George and James to discuss Borg ships. Listen in as they all get geometric! All patrons of Ship-Talking's Patreon gain access to new episodes of 'Shuttle Scuttle' one week before their …

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #30 (Shields Up!) 9:33

2y ago9:33

9:33

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, Brandon and James are joined once again by the awesome and very-blue-but-only-in-colour Noah Averbach-Katz (who plays Ryn in Discovery). Between practice sorties in their shuttle, the lads discuss the various shield effects seen throughout the franchis…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #29 (Talking Type 1) 14:33

2y ago14:33

14:33

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, friend-of-the-pod Noah Averbach-Katz (who plays Ryn in Discovery) returns to show to chat with James and George about the Type 1 shuttlecraft... but as they quickly discover, this class of shuttle doesn't actually exist so they discuss something much m…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #28 (The Big D) 9:46

2y ago9:46

9:46

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, James, Alex, and George are on an away mission and during it have a discussion about the great boat of the sky: the Galaxy-class (otherwise known as The Big D... the big Enterprise-D, of course...). All patrons of Ship-Talking's Patreon gain access to …

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #27 (Trek’s Next 5-Year Mission) 9:49

2y ago9:49

9:49

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, James pilots the shuttle on a short journey alongside Alex and George. During their trip, they discuss what they each hope to see come from Trek over the next five years and what some recent events could be hinting at... All patrons of Ship-Talking's P…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #26 (Relation-Ships III) 13:04

2+ y ago13:04

13:04

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, we return to everyone's favourite ships-inspired game show: RELATION-SHIPSsssss... George once again takes the shuttle's helm to run the game and James and Brandon are the contestants as they guess which ship belongs to each dating profile. Listen alon…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #25 (Reporting Damage Reports) 9:50

2+ y ago9:50

9:50

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, James, Alex, and George chat about how Trek has portrayed ship damage throughout the franchise and some behind-the-scenes tidbits around a couple of the more famous damage sequences. All patrons of Ship-Talking's Patreon gain access to new episodes of …

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #24 (Warping Out of 2021) 10:23

2+ y ago10:23

10:23

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, James pilots the shuttle and takes George and Brandon on an away mission down memory lane. The gents look back at all the great sh*p content from the franchise that was seen throughout 2021, and give some initial hopes for the coming year. All patrons …

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #23 (Ships in Animation) 11:37

2+ y ago11:37

11:37

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, Brandon and Robbie are still live in-person on Starbase 33 (aka Dublin, Ireland) to continue their chat during their visit together - this time talking about ships that appear in animated shows, including Lower Decks and Prodigy. All patrons of Ship-Ta…

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[Ship-Talking x Hero Collector] Ships of the Trek Universe #10 (2399 Romulan Warbird) 13:02

2+ y ago13:02

13:02

Welcome to the latest episode of the collaboration podcast between Ship-Talking and Hero Collector! For this episode, which was recorded live at Destination Star Trek 2021 in London last month, Brandon is joined once again by Hero Collector's Ben Robinson and John Ainsworth. While on stage, the gents discussed the 2399 Romulan Warbird, including de…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #22 (Discussing Disco) 11:09

2+ y ago11:09

11:09

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, Robbie takes the ship's shuttle to visit Brandon live in-person on Starbase 33 (aka Dublin, Ireland) where the two recorded a chat about their experience watching Discovery's season 4 premiere together... oh, and of course all the new ship p*rn that ca…

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[Ship-Talking Podcast] Episode 29: Hero Collector LIVE 35:52

2+ y ago35:52

35:52

Recorded in front of a live audience from the Voyager stage at Destination Star Trek London 2021, Brandon hosted this episode and was joined by Hero Collector's Ben Robinson and John Ainsworth. They chat all about the process of bringing ships seen on screen (or not...) into our hands, behind-the-scenes secrets, and much more! Very soon, our patron…

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[Ship-Talking x Hero Collector] Ships of the Trek Universe #9 (Section 31 Deimos-class Ship) 13:09

2+ y ago13:09

13:09

Welcome to the latest episode of the collaboration podcast between Ship-Talking and Hero Collector! For this episode, special guest Ryan Dening from North Front Studio joins Brandon and Hero Collector's Ben Robinson. Ryan is a production/concept illustrator who worked on the ships from the first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery and stopped by to…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #21 (LIVE from Destination Star Trek London) 11:45

2+ y ago11:45

11:45

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this very special episode, [almost (we missed you, Alex!)] the entire Pod team reports back on their away mission to Destination Star Trek London - LIVE from the convention floor. Before they board the shuttle back to the ship, each crew member shares highlights of …

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[Ship-Talking x Hero Collector] Ships of the Trek Universe - Holiday Bonus Episode (Borg Cube Advent Calendar) 21:56

2+ y ago21:56

21:56

Welcome to a special holiday bonus episode of the collaboration podcast between Ship-Talking and Hero Collector! The Pod's Community Manager James gets in the holiday spirit alongside Hero Collector's Ben Robinson as they sit by a fire in the holodeck to chat about this year's Borg Cube Advent Calendar. Not only do they discuss insights behind the …

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #20 (Like Father, Like Son) 11:54

2+ y ago11:54

11:54

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, a very special visitor is shuttled from the ship back to his home planet, and during the journey with him, Brandon discusses the inspiration and impact that Trek and the original Constitution-class have played in both of their lives... have tissues to …

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #19 (That Burning, Romulan Sensation) 10:07

2+ y ago10:07

10:07

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, Alex takes the shuttle's helm and asks James and Brandon for their thoughts and theories around how 'The Burn' may or may not have affected Romulan ships when the incident occurred during the late 3060s. All patrons of Ship-Talking's Patreon gain acces…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #18 (Registering Registries) 11:42

2+ y ago11:42

11:42

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, one of the Pod's very own 'lower deckers' Ryan aka "TheTrekspert" is escorted by Brandon and Robbie in the ship's shuttle on its way to drop off Ryan at Quark's on DS9 for a pub quiz - during the journey, ship registries (e.g. NCC-1701, NCC-74656, etc.…

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[Ship-Talking x Hero Collector] Ships of the Trek Universe #8 (Romulan Flagship) 13:41

2+ y ago13:41

13:41

Welcome to the latest episode of the collaboration podcast between Ship-Talking and Hero Collector! Brandon is joined in this episode once again by both Ben Robinson and John Ainsworth from Hero Collector to talk about the Romulan Flagship that was seen on-screen during the season one finale of Star Trek: Picard. They discuss her insights and desig…

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[Ship-Talking Podcast] Episode 28: Thomas Marrone 45:50

2+ y ago45:50

45:50

Thomas Marrone finally gets his solo episode! It is a crime it took us this long; but, we're finally glad to have one of our best-friends of the Pod and Lead Ship Designer on Star Trek Online all to ourselves to talk about ship design, bringing ships to life in STO, and a whole lot of other sh*p. An expanded chat with Thomas is exclusively availabl…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #17 (The Excelsior Class: The Crown of the Great Experiment) 8:39

2+ y ago8:39

8:39

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, George leads an away mission and is joined aboard the ship's shuttle by James and Robbie - during the journey, they discuss the crown jewel herself: The Excelsior Class. All patrons of Ship-Talking's Patreon gain access to new episodes of 'Shuttle Scut…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #16 (Stations of the Line) 10:27

2+ y ago10:27

10:27

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, Robbie guides the shuttle on a cargo run to Empok Nor with George and Brandon in tow. While enroute, the lads talk about the various stations seen throughout the Trek universe, including those within Federation and beyond. All patrons of Ship-Talking's…

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[Ship-Talking Podcast] Episode 27: Rob Bonchune (Part 2) 37:00

2+ y ago37:00

37:00

The rest of Rob Bonchune's chat takes place in this episode, alongside the return of Ship-Talking Pod founder Robbie! As a reminder: Rob is an Emmy-award winning Trek VFX legend who is most known for his CGI/VFX ship work on DS9, Voyager & Enterprise. During this half of the chat, we talk about this work as well as the amazing ship art renders he's…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #15 (ShipCon2021 with Mark Rademaker) 10:53

2+ y ago10:53

10:53

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle', which was recorded in front of a live audience during last month's 'Ship-Talking Pod LIVE' show that Patrons can attend. Alex and Brandon took the ship's shuttle out for a spin to ShipCon2021 where they had a chance to talk sh*p with two friends of the Pod: Designer of…

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[Ship-Talking x Hero Collector] Ships of the Trek Universe #7 ft. John Eaves (Wallenberg-class Tug) 18:19

2+ y ago18:19

18:19

Welcome to the latest episode of the collaboration podcast between Ship-Talking and Hero Collector! Special guest & legendary Ship Designer John Eaves joins this episode alongside Brandon and Ben to talk about Starfleet's Wallenberg-class Tug from season one of Star Trek: Picard. In addition to insights for this ship, the gents also talk about the …

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #14 (What Breed of Starship is That?) 11:18

2+ y ago11:18

11:18

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, you learn about what we were about to discover at the end of the last episode (spoilers: Robbie squealed when we sent him our report), as well as our thoughts on which dog breeds best represent select ship classes. Do you agree with Alex, Brandon, and …

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[Ship-Talking Podcast] Episode 26: Rob Bonchune (Part 1) 43:14

2+ y ago43:14

43:14

Emmy-award winning Trek VFX legend Rob Bonchune makes his Ship-Talking Pod debut in an epic chat with Brandon and James that was so long, we're splitting it over this and the next episode. While Rob is most known for his CGI/VFX ship work on DS9, Voyager & Enterprise, he is still creating amazing ship renders today that are curated worldwide. Part …

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #13 (LCARS Beyond) 10:08

2+ y ago10:08

10:08

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, while traversing the Argolis Cluster in the ship's shuttle - James, George, and Brandon chat about ships' LCARS interfaces, advancements in tactile input devices, and programmable matter, including where the future might be headed with such tech. All p…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #12 (Relation-Ships II) 9:58

2+ y ago9:58

9:58

Content warning: This episode includes adult situations and language, including sci-fictional diseases and several (Enterprise-)F-bombs. Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, your favorite Scuttle returns... this time, George put together dating profile head…

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[Ship-Talking x Hero Collector] Ships of the Trek Universe #5/6 (Romulan Vessel & Narek’s Snakehead) 15:01

2+ y ago15:01

15:01

Welcome to the latest episode of the collaboration podcast between Ship-Talking and Hero Collector! Ben Robinson and John Ainsworth from Hero Collector return to join Brandon for a double-header episode to discuss two ships: the Romulan Vessel and Narek’s Snakehead -- both of which appeared in the first season of Star Trek: Picard. Along with some …

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #11 (The Miranda Class: An Oldie But Goodie?) 10:04

2+ y ago10:04

10:04

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, James leads an away mission and is joined aboard the ship's shuttle by Alex and George - during the journey, they discuss the future-antique that is The Miranda Class. All patrons of Ship-Talking's Patreon gain access to new episodes of 'Shuttle Scuttl…

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[Ship-Talking Podcast] Episode 25: ‘Ship Model Makers’ Roundtable 37:58

2+ y ago37:58

37:58

Ten Forward has been booked by us once again for another Trek-ships roundtable discussion, this time surrounding what goes into making physical models of ships. Pod Veterans & Expert Model Makers Bill Krause and James Jacob welcome Rising Newcomer Jeff Folck as they all chat together about their craft, experience making models, and much more sh*p. …

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[Ship-Talking x Hero Collector] Ships of the Trek Universe #4 (Seven of Nine's Fenris Ranger Ship) 13:37

2+ y ago13:37

13:37

Welcome to the latest episode of the collaboration podcast between Ship-Talking and Hero Collector! Brandon is joined in this episode once again by both Ben Robinson and John Ainsworth from Hero Collector to give a peek behind the curtain at a ship we only saw briefly during the first season of Star Trek: Picard: Seven of Nine's Fenris Ranger ship.…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #10 (Thomas Marrone on 25th Century Ship Design) 15:38

2+ y ago15:38

15:38

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle', which was recorded in front of a live audience during last month's 'Ship-Talking Pod LIVE' show that our Patrons on Patreon can attend! During their shuttle journey, the team had a surprise holographic guest join in the discussion: Lead Starship Artist on Star Trek Onl…

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[Ship-Talking Podcast] Episode 24: 'Ships in Games' Roundtable 48:18

2+ y ago48:18

48:18

In this episode, Alex and James are joined in Ten Forward by special guest Game Developer Matt Kazan for our next roundtable chat all about Trek games that feature ships. They each touch on their dream Trek game, discuss the development of the 2013 'Into Darkness' tie-in (which Matt worked on), and much more. An expanded roundtable chat is exclusiv…

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[Ship-Talking Presents] Shuttle Scuttle #9 (Apple of the Captain’s Eye with Noah AK) 10:21

2+ y ago10:21

10:21

Welcome to the latest episode of our pod-within-a-pod series: 'Shuttle Scuttle'! In this episode, Noah Averbach-Katz (the actor who played Ryn on Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery) returns to chat with James and Brandon about which captain/ship combo they would each choose to serve under and what role they'd take on. All patrons of Ship-Talking's Pa…

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[Ship-Talking x Hero Collector] Ships of the Trek Universe #3 (Romulan Bird-of-Prey) 11:47

3y ago11:47

11:47

Welcome to the latest episode of the collaboration podcast between Ship-Talking and Hero Collector! For this one, Brandon is joined by both Ben Robinson and John Ainsworth from Hero Collector to chat about the antique Romulan Bird-of-Prey that showed up during season 1 of Star Trek: Picard. The discussion includes ship insights and behind-the-scene…

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