Earth News w/Cpt. Pike 🌐 @pike@tenforward.social

🎢 "Disney Has Invented a Way to Make You Believe Blasters Are Real at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge"
http://www.slashfilm.com/galaxys-edge-blasters/

🖖 "Alex Kurtzman Sets Five-Year CBS TV Studios Pact, Will Oversee Expanded ‘Star Trek’ Universe"
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/star-trek-tv-shows-cbs-discovery-alex-kurtzman-1202842335/

😬 "‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Showrunners Fired, Replaced by Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman"
http://www.slashfilm.com/star-trek-discovery-showrunners-fired/

🚀 "'5th Passenger' Trailer Assembles Fan-Favorite 'Star Trek' Actors Doug Jones, Marina Sirtis, and more"
http://www.slashfilm.com/5th-passenger-trailer/

"Let us redefine progress to mean that, just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily follow that we must do that thing." - Federation President Ra-ghoratreii

😋 "Here's Why Saturn's Inner Moons Are Shaped Like Ravioli and Potatoes"
https://www.space.com/40653-saturns-weird-moon-shapes-explained.html

🖖 "‘Wrath of Khan’ Director Nicholas Meyer’s Secret ‘Star Trek’ Project Was a Standalone Trilogy"
http://www.slashfilm.com/secret-star-trek-project/

🌕 "Simulated moon dust kills cells and alters DNA, signaling trouble for future lunar colonists"
https://gizmodo.com/simulated-moon-dust-kills-cells-and-alters-dna-signali-1825754439

🍌 "Ron Howard Gives 'Star Wars' the 'Arrested Development' Voiceover Treatment"
http://www.slashfilm.com/star-wars-with-arrested-development-narration-official/

👁 "Laser-sticker contacts could let you shoot beams from your eyes"
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2167766-laser-sticker-contacts-could-let-you-shoot-beams-from-your-eyes/

👍 🖖 "‘Star Trek 4’: S.J. Clarkson Becomes the First Female Director in Franchise’s History"
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/s-j-clarkson-star-trek-4-chris-pine-chris-hemsworth-1202787592/

😬 "New A.I. application can write its own code"
https://www.futurity.org/artificial-intelligence-bayou-coding-1740702/

😎 "Asteroid miners' Arkyd-6 satellite aces big test in space"
https://www.space.com/40400-planetary-resources-asteroid-mining-satellite-mission-accomplished.html

💨 "Uranus smells like rotten eggs"
https://www.space.com/40374-uranus-clouds-smell-rotten-eggs.html

😎 "Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/16/scientists-accidentally-create-mutant-enzyme-that-eats-plastic-bottles

*BEEP* 🏳️‍🌈 "LGBT 'Conversion Therapy' Is Dying a Quick Death Across America. Good."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lgbt-conversion-therapy-is-dying-a-quick-death-across-america-good

🌕 "Kubrick’s 2001: the film that haunts our dreams of space"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/apr/15/2001-a-space-odyssey-film-haunts-dream-space

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"Drones will soon decide who to kill"
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-drones.html

♿️ "Inhumans actor Anson Mount has joined the cast of Star Trek: Discovery season 2. Mount will take the role of Christopher Pike"
https://www.newsarama.com/39420-inhumans-leading-man-boards-star-trek-discovery-as-captain-of-the-enterprise.html

😞 "Only 66 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the U.S. are confident that the world is round, according to a new national survey"
https://www.livescience.com/62220-millennials-flat-earth-belief.html