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Hosts: Techman16, StrangeKirk, Handy, Boomslang Guests: MadamStarGazer (67), Puttz (45), GeneralArk (34) List notable things: 0:47 - SK has Handy (lack of) energy 1:20 - Prediction of the ark falls flat; then we unlock the REAL Kira Nerys 3:12 - Kirk admits this is the most boring episode of Trek Talk, is that true? 9:21 - Tech asks Puttz about the direction of other content creators, with some hilarious insights 11:09 - Army-Navy Game! Everyone starts talking about college football 14:50 - Pivot to Star Trek content: Prodigy, Picard and Discovery 24:37 - The Orville reference with Isaac, good ol' Isaac 27:50 - Puttz compares Ripper to Dee Bradley Baker (Klaus from American Dad) 33:30 - COVID classes, taking classes online vs. in-person - education, it's important! 40:01 - Tech brings an analogy of wearing masks to spitting during a play called A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder 41:55 - GeneralArk joins because he was too bored listening 47:21 - Different Scopely teams working on different arcs... is that a thing? And remember...spread the hate! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trektalkpodcast/?hl=en Visit Trek Talk Discord: https://discord.gg/MKZZhK7CSA for more related Star Trek related content, and to interact with a greater Star Trek Fleet Command community. #STFC #StarTrek #StarTrekFleetCommand #TrekTalkwithTechandKirk

Hosts: Techman16, StrangeKirk, Handy, Boomslang Guests: JimmJones (34), Puttz (45) List notable things: 0:40 - Tech is a lovable host 2:00 - Handy is massively clicking and it's annoying; he's not playing STFC 3:35 - Is the content engaging to get Handy to play the game? 7:47 - Astro Colony shout-out 10:35 - Star Trek Prodigy talk; Handy admits he may watch it eventually 15:50 - Picard Season 3; hopefully they do the TNG crew justice 16:45 - Is Handy even shielded? 32:09 - Scopley, are you listening? Do Better 33:38 - Puttz comes in and offers perspective on company structures 40:24 - Is there a parasitic algorithm in STFC? 50:04 - Nerdy Puttz talks about his gameplay. 54:45 - Kanye west on Alex Jones reference. And remember...spread the hate! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trektalkpodcast/?hl=en Visit Trek Talk Discord: https://discord.gg/MKZZhK7CSA for more related Star Trek related content, and to interact with a greater Star Trek Fleet Command community. #STFC #StarTrek #StarTrekFleetCommand #TrekTalkwithTechandKirk

Hosts: Techman16, StrangeKirk, Handy, Boomslang Guests: DukeTalan, Puttz (45) List notable things: 0:47 - Handy and Kirk don't remember we have a new intro -- also they're ADHD to the max! 2:10 - A shout-out to our good friend Cook, even if his restaurant closed down. 2:35 - Weyoun talk, is he worth it? Lots of math nerd talk, English does not do well here. 12:31 - Automated defenses... what's that all about? 18:07 - Fake Overlord Corona, Fake Dark shout-out, then talking about Christmas trees. 25:17 - Re-swerving to Star Trek; prodigy lower decks and picard 35:00 - Orville reference! Season 3 is amazing. And remember...spread the hate! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trektalkpodcast/?hl=en Visit Trek Talk Discord: https://discord.gg/MKZZhK7CSA for more related Star Trek related content, and to interact with a greater Star Trek Fleet Command community. #STFC #StarTrek #StarTrekFleetCommand #TrekTalkwithTechandKirk

Hosts: Techman16, StrangeKirk, Handy, Boomslang Guests: DariusRex(34), swa4gger (20) List notable things: 1:12 - Opening talking about Space Job, the hilarious space comic part of Darkhorse 4:16 - A Star Trek Prodigy reference, nope no one watched it 4:54 - The Borg are scary again? That sounds awesome. 5:55 - Tech nerds out about light outside our galaxy in Discovery. 10:14 - Swa4gger comes in and saves Handy, double boosting Cheerio and Defiant 20:23 - The Darius truth about the Defiant regarding solo armadas. 37:45 - Amalgams, broken actian apexes - just frustrating loops 45:40 - Darius' tin foil hat theory time -- SMS spending on potential full pull on officers 51:40 - S34 Galaxy Chat culture, cross talk during incursions -- Fascinating social science on pre, during and post-pandemic servers 54:35 - Recapping the first part of the show, Handy's covid case and Space Job 58:06 - Star Trek Prodigy! And remember...spread the hate! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trektalkpodcast/?hl=en Visit Trek Talk Discord: https://discord.gg/MKZZhK7CSA for more related Star Trek related content, and to interact with a greater Star Trek Fleet Command community. #STFC #StarTrek #StarTrekFleetCommand #TrekTalkwithTechandKirk

Hosts: Techman16, StrangeKirk, Handy, Boomslang Guests: DariusRex(34), RCPutz (45) List notable things: 1:15 - Pepperidge Farms remembers when S34 did not have any 40 eclipse epic armadas for months. 2:45 - Outsourcing model for everything FTW. 3:45 - What Scopely outsourced call centers sound like. 7:05 - The Explorer Strike Team, with dogs and kids in the background. 13:35 - Pon's captain maneuver, the most interesting maneuver in the world 26:58 - Damar is broken just as bad as ST Ortegas 31:21 - Space Job comic shoutout 32:10 - Pivoting to Pokemon games 43:39 - Playing console games and selling hardware 47:30 - The Soviet Union was the only country to land probes on Venus 50:00 - Launching a ship to Europa, the mooon, would be very interesting to see what it has to offer 54:38 - Putz comes by and talks chemical reactions 58:09 - The polarization of Faith of the Heart! 1:04:30 - Insulin, the Healthcare System, Pharmacies, Medicare And remember...spread the hate! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trektalkpodcast/?hl=en Visit Trek Talk Discord: https://discord.gg/MKZZhK7CSA for more related Star Trek related content, and to interact with a greater Star Trek Fleet Command community. #STFC #StarTrek #StarTrekFleetCommand #TrekTalkwithTechandKirk

Hosts: Techman16, StrangeKirk, Handy, Boomslang Guests: vreddy (196), BeardedWaffle (45) List notable things: 2:08 - Tech makes Tea, Earl Gray, Hot! 2:35 - Review of DS9 Part 2 Arc... Spoiler Alert - Armadas! 5:09 - SK loves the BJ Faction Store (let's be honest, who doesn't love BJs?) 10:15 - Boom can be satisfied by the rewards at least 15:32 - Introduction of the Strike Team Interceptor crew 18:22 - Just spending money on the officer... Dukat spend was insane, and yet you don't get any secondary benefit from buying packs 28:55 - In the midst of Dukat spending, Tech is still trying to unlock Picard - Heroic Syndicate Advacement also is expensive 30:13 - Vreddy drops even though he's COVID-positive 33:17 - You're ridiculous! HonchoWaffle. 36:33 - And back to Dukat, where just purchasing officers is just ridiculous. 43:22 - Shout out to Boilon, Krakens and Cthulus 46:26 - How games actually die, lack of parity, when you're switching the business model from pay-to-play to pay-to-win 50:41 - Crazy amounts of points necessary to complete events, especially for 50+ And remember...spread the hate! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trektalkpodcast/?hl=en Visit Trek Talk Discord: https://discord.gg/MKZZhK7CSA for more related Star Trek related content, and to interact with a greater Star Trek Fleet Command community. #STFC #StarTrek #StarTrekFleetCommand #TrekTalkwithTechandKirk

Hosts: Techman16, StrangeKirk, Handy, Boomslang Guests: Boilon (MSF), GeneralArk (34), ProfessorPuttz (45) List notable things: 1:10 - Introducing Boilon, a content creator for Marvel Strike Force, who talks about Fridays are release blog days for MSF and Scopely has issues everyday in STFC. 2:17 - More success from leaving the content creator program... listen up other content creators 4:45 - Excellent analogy to how Scopely runs their games, look at Looney Tunes. 7:29 - Always a way to beat other characters even if they spend tons of $$ in MSF. 10:00 - Premium currency and how to get characters for free. However STFC has too many paywalls. 15:45 - STFC spending to get characters vs. getting them for free. Night and day what you can achieve with a little extra $$ 25:00 - The amount of time and stuff to do is ridiculous as it seems compared to MSF. 30:58 - Real comparisons between MSF and Star Trek Timelines. Gameplay is limited in MSF based on the amount of energy available. 33:45 - How often do things get fucked up in MSF? Spoiler alert: we are not alone. 40:32 - Boilon on what got him kicked out of the content creator program. 50:52 - Kirk talks about Prime Harvester Pack... Boom's favorite pack in the whole game. 59:20 - New terminology describing the variety of spenders... whales, kraken and cthulus. Also, does scopely have problems with the English language? 1:05:48 - The need for testing? Nope, not at all; the Gaila story 1:13:43 - No way, MSF has divisive content creators. 1:18:27 - Scopely has webstores for all games, just to make more money and the ScopelyIDs. And remember...spread the hate! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trektalkpodcast/?hl=en Visit Trek Talk Discord: https://discord.gg/MKZZhK7CSA for more related Star Trek related content, and to interact with a greater Star Trek Fleet Command community. #STFC #StarTrek #StarTrekFleetCommand #TrekTalkwithTechandKirk

Hosts: Techman16, StrangeKirk, Handy, Boomslang Guests: Sloterer (34), Misty (26) List notable things: 1:20 - We're trying to do Tuesday arcfall shows once a month.  We're...working on it.  :P 3:15 - Dukat thing...and how the Strike Teams are pushing people to build different ships.  Now let's talk Strike Teams in general!  ...and not make fun of SK for talking about Romulan faction building Battleships being weird, when that's their ship type.  ;-) 10:56 - Slot joins to chat about solo armadas and what ships to build, including considering mats. 17:30 - Every battleship, everything I dooooo....oh yeah, I do it for...uhh...hull health.  If you get this, you're old and nerdy like me. 19:35 - Kirk can kill more Interceptors in his Battleship than he can in his Explorer. 23:12 - In the 40's you can get extra sourcing for Explorers due to the ISS Jellyfish, and ship talk! Hint: Tribune wrecks. 30:11 - What about Hemmer?  He is awesome for grinding in DDS!  But PMC still owns in lower levels. 36:19 - SNW Uhura is good for Borg Probes! 37:46 - Usually, if you're placed in handcuffs in the back of a police car, you're going to jail. 39:30 - Picard season 3 trailer thoughts, and fat robots (ok, ok, android...but I had a rhyme going!). Also watch Season 2 of Picard, it gets better in the final episode I'm told. 50:49 - An owl mating with an exocomp is TRULY haunting... 53:39 - Some of the upcoming timeframes for Star Trek show releases. 55:37 - Woah-ah-oh black Betty, Am-al-gam! Woah-ah-oh black Betty, Am-al-gam! 58:55 - Server 34 check-in with Techman, to see how life is. Actian hostiles... 1:00:28 - Picard series speculation, Chang's daughter? Nepotism, or meaningful, YOU decide! Techman is not excited. Also we talk about odd android features. 1:05:25 - Misty likes the Borg in Picard season 2, and Tech doesn't like how lazy writing impacts shows. And remember...spread the hate! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trektalkpodcast/?hl=en Visit Trek Talk Discord: https://discord.gg/MKZZhK7CSA for more related Star Trek related content, and to interact with a greater Star Trek Fleet Command community. #STFC #StarTrek #StarTrekFleetCommand #TrekTalkwithTechandKirk

Hosts: Techman16, StrangeKirk, Handy, Boomslang Guests: ShieldMaiden, MightyMouse23 (45), shakeybaitshop, JimmJones, DonaldTrump, TwistedEvil (34) List notable things: 0:00 - Techman is out sick, and Boomslang...who even cares where he is? Handy and Kirk wrap up the show, home run guys!  Home run! 0:30 - Handy goes mad with power and clears the stage. 1:33 - StrangeKirk has finally completed Picard season 2 (spoilers). 5:16 - StrangeKirk has a virtual prostate exam. 7:42 - Get your friends on our Discord! We're seeing a lot more censorship on the official STFC Discord, so come here and speak your mind. 10:20 - What's the new drama on S34? 14:27 - Aaaaaand then shit just gets weird. 23:37 - Gul'Dukat pack, and how some of us feel about buying versus auctions. 33:22 - Hurricane powered STFC! 39:21 - Some interesting takes on ST Ortegas... 40:36 - Incursions talk, and it wasn't S45 that said there's a bracket of sorts, the Dev Old Man said in a Q&A that they were trying to face off winners versus winners (though it's not absolute). And S34 folk again bragging about how they finally won an incursions. 45:58 - SM is shocked we won because they are confused by what server they're on. 48:07 - Handy wants to touch on things. Hmmm. Are servers getting along better since incursions? 49:54 - Is territory stuff going to become a thing again? 51:27 - Handy is quitting if they keep adding new ships and things to grind. It's too much!!! We could do some better things... 55:52 - There's a bit of a tribal knowledge issue, with so much to do and knowing what you should even be working on. And remember...spread the hate! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trektalkpodcast/?hl=en Visit Trek Talk Discord: https://discord.gg/MKZZhK7CSA for more related Star Trek related content, and to interact with a greater Star Trek Fleet Command community. #STFC #StarTrek #StarTrekFleetCommand #TrekTalkwithTechandKirk

Hosts: Techman16, StrangeKirk, Handy, Boomslang Guests: MadameStargazer (66), AnDraste (45) List notable things: 01:28 - Madame be trolling with her sarc! 05:25 - What do you have to do to get a permanent chat ban? 06:45 - Kirk causing problems with the married ladies 07:48 - Disturbed players on S34, S45, S66 13:31 - “S45 discord is a dumpster fire” 14:45 - Breaking News!!! Server 34 is actually winning 17:22 - “Takeaway from S26, they don’t know which crews to use” 21:08 - How do you make it to lvl 50 and not know what which crews to make 22:40 - Raiding during Incursions, base humping 23:56 - PSA: Full synergy Strike Team won’t compete with La’an, Una and Charvanek 24:39 - Credit to s26 for not trash talking 27:11 - Soggy is such a tool 30:01 - Phoenix will destroy Handy! 34:36 - Diplomacy packs are convenient, surprised Scopely hasn’t done it sooner 36:42 - We need to get ScarletFire on Trek Talk 42:33 - Thanks for listening  And remember...spread the hate! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trektalkpodcast/?hl=en Visit Trek Talk Discord: https://discord.gg/MKZZhK7CSA for more related Star Trek related content, and to interact with a greater Star Trek Fleet Command community. #STFC #StarTrek #StarTrekFleetCommand #TrekTalkwithTechandKirk

Hosts: Techman16, StrangeKirk, Handy, Boomslang Guests: RisingPhoenix (14), DragonKeeper (52), MollyWeasley (21), DarkRaven (26), DonaldTrump, GeneralArk (34) List notable things: 02:00 - Defiant adjustment by Scopely 02:40 - Coming Soon - Starbase speculation! 05:12 - Handy sucked the wind out of the room. Bored and needs reminded to show up. 06:20 - Starbase being used as armadas 07:03 - Strike Team as Station Defense 07:31 - How to counter the Strike Team 07:44 - Tal is pretty OP 08:32 - DragonKeeper hating on Battleships 09:39 - StrangeKirk sticking up for the Uncommon Severius 10:18 - Noone has fully tiered up Strike Team 10:49 - Here we edited something juicy that we CANNOT put out on a recorded line. Guess you should have been there huh? 10:57 - Incursions, s45 vs s40, what do we know about s40? 11:49 - s52 vs s55, s21 vs s29, s34 vs s26 the unknown enemies  13:10 - Excited about Incursions, it keeps Boomslang in the game 15:02 - Able to punch up now, dynamic pvp'ing (Mantis) 17:00 - Cerritos is such a niche ship 17:46 - Let's talk about the Retribution Ship 19:20 - StrangeKirk thinks Mantis isn't sustainable for pvp 21:01 - How many tetryons to cloak a Sanctus? 22:01 - Key Talk. He cloaks at every TC 23:46 - Tetryons versus Tachyons 25:17 - Max synergy crew with Severius, posted in Trek Talk 25:47 - Strike Team on a Sarc, "Does anyone even use Sarcs anymore?" 27:31 - Techman16 disgusted with Sarc's firing pattern 27:57 - Sarc is single biggest waste of time and money in this game 28:47 - "Sarc is a walking victim" 29:03 - StrangeKirk says the Mantis is a non-issue for pvp. Boomslang disagrees, pvp users love the Mantis 32:03 - Key takes the mantis hits during TCs 33:42 - Inch/Boomslang says g5s are lackluster, g5 ships really stick to the triangle 37:59 - Everybody fanboying Federation ships 39:08 - Each level Romulan ship does better than Federation, above G3 41:04 - Offering another event for Sisko, DS9 Auction doubly messed up 44:57 - ST La'an how bad do you want it? $$$ 49:44 - New Research Queue, who needs 4 Queues? 51:15 - Starbase Research, why are they "coming soon"? 54:33 - Techman16 tries to skip over Lower Decks 54:55 - Techman16 and his wifeůhave alone time. 55:57 - Orville getting pretty heavy. Get through the first 3 Seasons of DS9, then it's on. 57:41 - Boimler completely losses it, Lower Decks.  Boomslang and Handy tickled over Lower Decks. Light with a lot of callbacks. Lower Decks similar to Futurama.  1:01:13 - Voice is "Higgy" from The Boys or Huey? The Boys talk. 1:03:33 - Season 3 of Picard, coming out in February '23 1:04:42 - DarkRaven from s26, relaxed about Incursions 1:05:30 - s34 is on point with the shield discipline, hoping s40 has stockpiles and doesn't shield 1:06:28 - s26 is all about farming. TruckingChick is on S26 1:08:49 - Boomslang vouches for s34's shield discipline. 1:09:29 - Techman16 explains why s45 won against s34 it's about population size! 1:10:32 - Scoring mechanic in Incursions, took away PVE aspect 1:16:42 - Scanning is the worst, cull out those low-level systems. 1:20:38 - DarkRaven with more on s26 1:23:03 - So many trash talkers!  Boomslang likes 'em and MollyWeasley disapproves. And remember...spread the hate! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trektalkpodcast/?hl=en Visit Trek Talk Discord: https://discord.gg/MKZZhK7CSA for more related Star Trek related content, and to interact with a greater Star Trek Fleet Command community. #STFC #StarTrek #StarTrekFleetCommand #TrekTalkwithTechandKirk

Hosts: Techman16, StrangeKirk, Handy, Boomslang Guests: Smooth, DonaldTrump (34), MadamStarGazer (66) Topics Discussed: 00:29 - StrangeKirk crosses the line 01:08 - Handy binged every episode of Lower Decks 01:56 - Smooth only watched the first season 02:36 - StrangeKirk wants to talk about the death of cable TV 04:06 - In 10 years we won’t even have landline phones 05:39 - Smooth thinks everyone on the show needs Adderall 05:52 - Back to Lower Decks. Recap of latest episode. *Spoilers 08:18 - Episode really resonated with Techman16 09:01 - Being the CULT Admiral blows 09:50 - Boom loves being Admiral 10:42 - Breakdown of the Fleet Admiral position on S45 for *E 11:31 - How does Smooth like dealing with Key going into TCs? 12:06 - Key’s nighttime activities on S34 14:17 - What Key says is absurd and adolescent 15:37 - No one wants to upset high lvl players, so they let them run amok 16:09 - The world ain’t a fair place 16:20 - Culture shifted in DARK a year ago. From raiding/having fun to prioritizing having bigger players. 19:33 - Why we don’t want power players to be ostracized. Going rogue… 20:00 - Treating all players the same, regardless of size. 21:49 - Some players just want to be a dick. Usually it’s a Whale. 24:11 - Chef (S34) can really derail some MFs games… if you have the time, dedication, and the patience… you can do some damage as a rogue 24:47 - Key has it out for Incho. 26:21 - Difference in playstyle. Key is a bully and only respects power. 29:58 - Key teaches shield discipline to StrangeKirk and Techman16 30:58 - Strategizing about Incursions 32:24 - StrangeKirk is taking credit for it. He was FIRST to say our ROE overengineering made the server soft. 33:12 - The amount of crybabies has grown exponentially 34:00 - DARK said it was ok to steal raids 35:35 - Did Africanus participate during last Incursions? 36:21 - S34 has good shield discipline 37:52 - Incursions – S34 vs S20, Who will get the first win? 38:05 - Celebrities in S20, Rev Deuce and Capt Mark 39:11 - Pairing us with EU and APEX Servers 39:56 - Leadership needs to get people to put up shields 40:26 - Alliance Rep Lock, 1.5M 41:05 - Only 1 way out of CULT 41:41 - MikeHoncho (lvl 57 player) gave his account to BeardedWaffle (S45) 42:47 - Smooth stayed at a Holiday Inn Express 43:42 - Prodigy returns in October 45:25 - Is S45 matched with S49 AGAIN?! Bye Week? 46:34 - S34 wants a Bye Week, disheartened with current standing of 0-3 49:13 - People need to pvp on the other server…points matter 49:52 - S45 has half the population than S39 50:10 - Handy points out that S45 is militant and makes the game miserable for those who can’t defend themselves. 51:04 - Techman16 continues to point out how small S45 is 53:02 - What is Scopely’s population threshold per server? 53:43 - Detailed rundown on Miles O’Brien abilities 56:31 - Looking forward to more Strike Team Officers 57:02 - Battleship Strike Team 1:02:25 - Gaila got nerfed 1:03:28 - For higher level ops, new Armada crews don’t matter…(Smooth) 1:04:03 - Back to Miles O’Brien… And remember...spread the hate! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trektalkpodcast/?hl=en Visit Trek Talk Discord: https://discord.gg/MKZZhK7CSA for more related Star Trek related content, and to interact with a greater Star Trek Fleet Command community. #STFC #StarTrek #StarTrekFleetCommand #TrekTalkwithTechandKirk