🚀📚 Episode 46: BOOK TREK 📚🚀 🖖 We’re Boldly Going… Into the Books! Beam us up, book nerds! This week, The Spilled Ink and Coffee Show is going FULL TREKKIE! 🖖☕📚 We’re talking Star Trek books, characters, actors, favorite movies, favorite series, techno-babble, fan theories, and all the Trek we’ve been reading! And yes… we absolutely fan-fic our way through some of our favorite Trek thoughts. 😂 There are SO. MANY. STAR TREK. BOOKS. 🚀📚 So grab your coffee, engage the warp drive, and go boldly with us! 📚 What We Read 🖖 Tales from the Captain’s Table By Keith R. A. DeCandido Rachel gives this one ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3 stars! A collection that takes us behind the scenes—and into the stories—of some of Star Trek’s legendary captains. Naturally, we have THOUGHTS. Lots of them. 😂 🏳️🌈 It Rhymes with Takei By George Takei & Steven Scott Kasie gives this one ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 stars! This graphic memoir gives George Takei a chance to tell a deeply personal story about his life, identity, coming out, love, and the experiences that shaped him. It’s funny, heartfelt, honest, and absolutely worth talking about. 🚨 Redshirts By John Scalzi ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4 stars! And then there’s Redshirts—because somebody has to address the fact that the red-shirted crew members NEVER seem to make it home. 😂 John Scalzi’s Hugo Award-winning novel hilariously plays with the classic space-opera trope of the expendable crew member, turning the familiar Star Trek-style “redshirt” phenomenon into a wildly entertaining sci-fi adventure. And Rachel? Rachel is a TREK SUPERFAN. 🖖🚀 So you already know this episode gets a little… Trek Trek Trek. 🖖 Trek Talk We’re spilling the ink on: 🚀 Favorite Star Trek characters 🎬 Favorite Trek movies 📺 Favorite Trek series 🖖 Actors we love 🧠 Techno-babble we absolutely pretend to understand 📚 Trek books we’ve read 😂 Fan fiction, fan theories & our own Trek thoughts ☕ And, of course, plenty of laughs along the way! The Star Trek universe currently spans television, movies, animation, games, publishing, podcasts, and more—and the official franchise describes the universe as continuing to grow across all those formats. 🚀 Are You Ready to Beam Up? Whether you're a lifelong Trekkie, a casual fan, or someone who has absolutely no idea what “engage” means but enjoys a good book…THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU. So grab your coffee. Grab your favorite book. Set your phasers to FUN. We’re boldly going… are you? 🖖☕📚🚀 @GeorgeTakei @StarTrek @scalzi @jscalzi @jscalzi @scalzi @jscalzi #StarTrek #StarTrekBooks #BookPodcast #Bookish #BookRecommendations #SciFiBooks #SciFi #Trekkie #Trekker #Redshirts #GeorgeTakei #JohnScalzi #TheSpilledInkAndCoffeeShow
