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New Star Trek Podcast Launch: Beyond the Final Frontier

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A new STAR TREK podcast launches, hosted by  die-hard Trekkies Rich Matthews, Ian Spelling and Toby Weidmann... Join die-hard Star Trek veterans Rich Matthews , Ian Spelling and Toby Weidmann as they embark on an ongoing mission to explore and celebrate the strange new worlds of the vast Star Trek universe in an original podcast, Beyond the Final Frontier (BFF).  As three entertainment journalists who have written about Star Trek for decades, Rich, Ian and Toby are bringing their extensive geek universe experience, longtime camaraderie and in-depth behind-the-scenes knowledge to the podcast world. Each Beyond the Final Frontier mission will see our trio explore a unique topic from across the Trek -verse, discussing everything from their personal favourite stories, characters and themes to the ongoing cultural impact of the science fiction phenom.  Expect deep-dives into beloved moments in Star Trek history, extensive breakdowns of developments in the modern era and ...

We're Battling Internet Demons!

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downthetubes.net is a big site, but we never realised, until recently, just how big – and that's causing us problems. Apparently we've reached some sort of file number limit that's making posting news items on the site an absolute slog. So, to get around this while we enter the final phase of a behind-the-scenes upgrade, news items will run on this blog first and will be imported to downthetubes later. Apologies for giving our loyal readers a bit of a runaround, but we don't want to get behind bringing yout the best of the comic news, and I don't want to lose any more hair than I already have when images fail to upload or a post fails to publish! John Freeman Publisher, Crucible Comic Press