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Home of the annual livestream telethon inspired by Star Trek to benefit Hollywood Food Coalition.

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📍 Save the date: Saturday, April 25, 2026 and join the Trek Talks 🖖 Star Trek family as we have a blast while helping @hofoco.org!

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September 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Why do Jonathan Frakes, Kitty Swink, Armin Shimerman, Juan Carlos Coto, and John Billingsley walk in@pancan.bsky.social PurpleStride every year? Find out in this David Livingston-filmed video (JB is there in spirit). The walk is TODAY, so please march, donate, or share: purplestride.org/TeamTrek
April 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“I know that the first line of my obituary will be Star Trek. And I guess, maybe 30 years ago, that would've sounded like a complaint but now I think it is a celebration.” - @robertpicardo.bsky.social #TrekTalks4
April 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
“There I was on the bridge the first day....I felt this was going to be my home. I felt Janeway resided within me...I thought this will be a good fit and if we're allowed to settle in, we can go to the Delta Quadrant." @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social and @robertpicardo.bsky.social on #TrekTalks4
April 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
DS9 Past Tense writer @roberthewittwolfe.bsky.social reflects on big events portrayed in the media now vs in the 90's "In the 90's there was still objective truth and objective truth made a difference in the world. When an event was on the news, at least people would agree it was true." #TrekTalks4
April 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
“Simply being able to provide the need for their dietary restrictions or preferences creates trust...For 80% of the people that come, this is their one opportunity in the day to be heard and not stepped over." - Blaire Bercy of @hofoco.org during Past Tense panel hosted by @larrynemecek.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
"There were all these homeless people lying on the grass and people were walking by, stepping over them, not looking at them and it just hit me at that moment...something was very, very wrong." -Ira Steven Behr on the origins of DS9's "Past Tense"
#TrekTalks4
April 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"It's about service in the way that Starfleet ideally is. That's what the best of Starfleet is about. That's the attitude I encounter at the Hollywood Food Coalition.”

@lkk.bsky.social reflects on her experience volunteering at @hofoco.org #TrekTalks4
April 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“Sitting down with Jeri...everything was okay. That was Jeri to me. And it was a lesson I hope I can incorporate more into my own life.” - David Livingston

“Never once did you see Jeri complain, or panic under stress. Never once." - Brannon Braga
April 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"Every show runner creates a different culture. Jeri created a safe space for creativity and was just so great at it."

"Jeri was so, so welcoming and nurturing. She embraced you."

Some of the reflections during the Jeri Taylor Tribute panel hosted by @floobish.bsky.social #TrekTalks4
April 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"Being able to communicate the legacy of Discovery...and being able to do that through a position of Black love and Black excellence...that was really important to us from the beginning. I felt that it was poetry." - Sonequa Martin-Green #TrekTalks4
April 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"My family didn't know I was out when I got this show. And going through this character was really figuring out my own gender identity." - Blu del Barrio #TrekTalks4
April 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Speaking of her own journey in recovery, @sistatamia.bsky.social asks "How free do you wanna be?" and if acting is a pathway to personal freedom - Mary Chieffo reflects on how playing L'Rell paralleled her own journey to feeling free #TrekTalks4
April 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"Am I working hard enough to be my best self? People on this show inspired me to do it. It's why I miss them so much. We brought that out in each other." - @wilsoncruz.bsky.social on the Disco Reunion panel moderated by @sistatamia.bsky.social of @syfysistas.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"The word family does come up a lot and we've all referred to each other as family. And even the fandom out there – the broader family...we're an immediate family within the larger family reunion." - @actordougjones.bsky.social Disco Reunion Panel at #TrekTalks4
April 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Goosebumps!

"Friendship", "Hope", "Belonging", "Diversity" - Star Trek authors reflect on the importance of Star Trek and Star Trek Literature during the Author's Panel at #TrekTalks4
April 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
@dattico.bsky.social on writing the Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko Autobiography "I had the voices, but my main concern was the voice of Avery Brooks because it was so distinct. I watched Pale Moonlight 2 or 3 back to back." #TrekTalks4
April 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
@4terryfarrell.bsky.social reflects on the Bell Riots of episode "Past Tense" and parallels to today: “Feeding our people is ground zero.” during the Sustainability & Diversity in Aerospace moderated by @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"We're in a golden age right now where science fiction and the reality of space exploration are coming together to accelerate to use of space to solve for Earth" @drsianproctor.bsky.social reflects during the Sustainability & Diversity in Aerospace Panel moderated by @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"That's your hate and vitriol. That's yours to deal with not mine. And in all of these cruel (comments) that's yours not the person it's aimed at. That's yours to deal with" - @nanavisitor.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
@nanavisitor.bsky.social reflects on her interview with Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti causing a change in her phrasing of gender roles "You are not 'helping' me in the kitchen. This is OUR kitchen. Seems like a silly thing – but saying helping means it's MY responsibility but your choice."
April 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Sue Kisenwether of Women At Warp interviews @nanavisitor.bsky.social about her book "Open a Channel: A Women's Trek" Reflecting on past problematic Trek, "It was caught in the culture of its time, but with the glasses we have now, it's so useful. It breaks us free from a trance." #TrekTalks4
April 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"Representation is important. We're not doing the thing every other media company is doing which is a swing to the Right. We're staying true to the roots that have always been in #StarTrek since the 60's – tolerance inclusion and love" – @tawnynewsome.bsky.social #TrekTalks4
April 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Interested in Voice Acting!? Here is some advice from the cast of Lower Decks itself! "Give credence and respect to this other human being, or creature or monster you are trying to create." - Dawnn Lewis #TrekTalks4
April 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"It's wish fulfillment, they are fans of being in Starfleet! It's the dream of being on a Starfleet ship and speak how we speak and hang out with your friends!" - @mikemcmahan.bsky.social reflects on the heart of Lower Decks during #TrekTalks4
April 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM