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Laurie Ulster

@floobish.bsky.social

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Writer, copy editor, occasional TV producer. Editor at TrekMovie, All Access Star Trek podcast cohost, Canadian in NY. Author of Gilmore Girls Life Lessons (DK Books), part of the Trek Talks team, #binders www.laurieulster.com

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · Nov 16

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 3h

We have a gem of a podcast episode for you this week! We talked to #StarTrek writer Fred Bronson about writing for The Animated Series in the 1970s and for TNG after that. The man worked with Gene Roddenberry and has great stories.
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Podcast: All Access Goes Backward For “The Counter-Clock Incident” & Plays “The Game” With Fred Bronson

The Star Trek writer also talked about working with Gene Roddenberry and the joy of seeing Robert April in live-action on 'Strange New Worlds.'

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 22h

I could not be happier with this TOS food exploration!

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 1d

Why don't we just show him old footage of people celebrating in the streets of one of the "bad" cities (like after a sports championship win or something) and say the job is done and everyone is happy now? I mean, wouldn't that work? (Just put it on Fox News.)

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 1d

I want to know everything there is to know about being on MTM and that hilarious spanking scene with Ted Knight.

Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 1d

Where can I watch this forgotten episode?

Seven of Sixty Nine @internetperson69.bsky.social · 1d

They should've had a Halloween ep of Voyager where Tom Paris explains the ancient earth tradition of "trick or treat" to an incredulous Seven who says something like "that is an inefficient means of aquiring candy," & he makes a holodeck recreation of a suburb so the whole crew can trick or treat 🎃

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 1d

This doesn’t look scammy at all. I look forward to earning $700 for my one hour of work a day. And my housing subsidy!

Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 1d

It's coming in two weeks!

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, the incredibly competent and honest president promises that he's totally going to give us something that's much better and much cheaper than we already have? Golly, sign me up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 1d

This is the first time I’ve considered resubscribing to The NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! We are talking about Voyager for the most part. Got any Voyager questions? This is all to celebrate the show's 30th anniversary.

Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 1d

Join the Star Trek Family group on Facebook (www.facebook.com/groups/25867...), then look under the Events tab to find the Q&A. And please, if you can, donate to St. Jude's. (If you do so during the live event, you might win a Voyager prize!) (2/2)
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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 1d

Moderating one more Q&A for the Star Trek Family fan group's #StarTrekVoyager fundraiser for St. Jude's Children's Hospital. This Sunday at 7 PM ET, I'll be talking to the great and glorious David Livingston, director of more #StarTrek episodes than anyone else ever! To watch or participate... (1/2)

Directing The Journey - Star Trek Family Q&A with David Livingston, the most prolific director of Star Trek. Sunday, October 12 at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 1d

My friend @thatneilguy.bsky.social sent me this AI summary of an email I sent him. Normally not a fan of such things but this was accurate.

Regret holes are acknowledged. Family Affair is loved.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is obviously hateful, but for people indifferent to the hate, just a big waste of money. You have the Secretary of Transportation cheering the destruction of functional public infrastructure.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 2d

I think if you're a young, pregnant American citizen woman who shows up at an ER and gets treated, you are happy and don't give a shit what your insurance company is paying as long as you don't have to. You certainly don't care what other people are paying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 2d

Ha! I knew what you meant. And same! I really look forward to it.

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Judd @judda.bsky.social · 2d

Saw this Halloween display near our house and had to take a picture thinking of @doctorstardis.bsky.social

A front yard Halloween display with a tall, approximately 10 ft tall, staypuft marshmallow man with two Ghostbusters firting their proton packs at it.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 2d

Nah… A phaser should do the trick.

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 2d

Oh sure, you can laugh... you're not anywhere near the long squiggly bug. (If you were I'd have you show up in mirror universe gear to take care of it.)

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

She is not doing well

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Schiff: This is supposed to be an oversight hearing when dozens of prosecutors have been fired simply because they worked on cases investigating the former president.

Bondi: What about the fires in California? Are the riots in LA serious?

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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much! I confess I've been wanting to do a deep dive interview with Robbie for a long time. Means a lot that you liked it, and that you like our podcast! We have some great guests coming up.

Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed!

Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for this! 🖖

Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 2d

I go a little bit insane when it tells me something is wrong with the attention-getting underline but then drops the ball after that.