Credits

Responsibilities

Lucy is our editor. Melissa transcribes the episodes. Gregory is webmaven.

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Music

Our theme is “Let’s Pretend” by Josh Woodward, available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Art

The webpage art is taken from public-domain NASA sources. Our album art uses “Cylinder Interior” by Rick Guidice, part of the space colony summer studies commissioned by NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University.

Typefaces

Our body text is Atkinson Hyperlegible from the Braille Institute. Our heading text is Radio Canada from CBC/Radio-Canada. Our logotype is Odibee Sans from James Barnard.

Tools

Before the Future Came was recorded and edited with Audacity. It was transcribed with Otter. Our site runs on WordPress and Seriously Simple Podcasting, using the Coldbox WordPress theme by mirucon. Art was edited with the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

S01E07. Crisis Points

These graphics are mindblowing! Gregory brings “Crisis Point,” the ninth episode of season one of Lower Decks, written by Ben Rodgers and directed by Bob Suarez; and “Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus,” the eighth episode of season three, written by Ben Rodgers and directed by Michael Mullen. Like “Subspace Rhapsody,” these episodes engage in a specific genre: here, the action movie....

S01E06b. Programming Note and New Listener Recommendations

There’s no episode for July 2024, but we offer some recommendations for new listeners about some of our favorite pre-Star-Trek episodes. We’ll return in August with Lower Decks S01E09, “Crisis Point,” written by Ben Rodgers and directed by Bob Suarez, and S03E08, “Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus,” written by Ben Rodgers and directed by Michael Mullen.

S01E06. Subspace Rhapsody

It might be time to change our paradigm. Lucy brings “Subspace Rhapsody,” the ninth episode of season two of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, written by Dana Horgan and Bill Wolkoff and directed by Dermott Downs. Like “Sarek,” this episode has the crew overwhelmed by their emotions and forced to express them in unproductive ways. We discuss connection, authenticity, and...

S01E05. Sarek

Bedlam! Melissa brings “Sarek,” the 23rd episode of season three of Star Trek: The Next Generation, written by Peter S. Beagle and directed by Les Landau. Like “The Sword of Kahless,” this episode features a recurring character coming to terms with the end of his career. We talk about illness, aging, dignity, honesty, gender, and violence. We also discuss everyday...

S01E04. The Sword of Kahless

Let this moment be remembered! Gregory brings “The Sword of Kahless,” the ninth episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, written by Hans Beimler and Richard Danus and directed by LeVar Burton. Like the Discovery premiere, this episode is concerned with the legacy of the Klingon cultural figure Kahless. We discuss ancient fallen societies, philosophical skepticism,...

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