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Starbase Indy Podcast

On the Starbase Indy Podcast we talk to and about people who are inspired by Star Trek and science fiction to work towards a hopeful future in the real world. Many of our guests have been or will be presenters at the live Starbase Indy convention, which brings together fans, creators, academics, and scientists to celebrate, educate, and connect. Learn more about the live event and the mission at www.starbaseindy.org

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46:48

Exploring New Worlds through Faith

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2025/05/12

What does the role of faith have in common with the role of science fiction? Both explore reasons, and ways the world does or could function. Listen to experts discuss more similarities and differences.

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51:20

Exploring New Worlds Through AI

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2025/05/12

Listen as Dr. James McGrath and Dr. Ankur Gupta discuss the ways AI (or, more accurately the large language models that are being advertised as AI) help us to explore new worlds.

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56:09

Exploring New Worlds through Language

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2025/03/31

Enjoy this conversation on how created language communities use language to expand what we understand about invented cultures. How does one create an alien language? What grammatical tricks can be used to indicate a vastly different culture? How do you balance the desire to create an alien language with the need to have touchpoints that human audiences will understand? What does language teach us about a culture?

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51:45

Exploring New Worlds through Science Fiction

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2025/02/26

Listen to Julia Whitehead (Director of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum), Max Gollier (Tour guide for the Bradbury Museum) and Dr. Barrett Caldwell (Professor of Engineering) discuss the impact Science Fiction literature has had on our world.

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59:45

Exploring New Worlds -Literally

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2025/02/18

Listen to two experts in human space flight talk about what human space flight has taught us about the nature of humanity.

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54:17

Exploring New Worlds Through Comedy

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2025/02/12

Discussion of how comedy reflects our humanity, and the impact it has on the people who create and perform comedy.

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54:17

Exploring New Worlds Through Voice

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2025/02/05

Listen to Bonnie Gordon and Nick Ramey talk about their work performing characters and conveying information through the power of the human voice.

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46:58

Commanding Starfleet with Fleet Admiral Anthony Scott

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2024/09/15

Anthony Scott has been a part of fandom for many years, and is currently Fleet Admiral of Starfleet Command. We talk about how fandom has enriched his life.

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37:37

Vulcan Calligraphy with T'kay

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2024/07/29

The Vulcartist, who's taken the name of a Vulcan trickster character, talks about her art, as well as linguistics and the importance of science fiction.

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48:11

Entering the Star Trek Universe

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2024/07/09

Derek Tyler Attico has won the Star Trek short fiction contest more than once, and recently published The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko. We talk with him about how his writing practice, the universes he's written in, and how his writing connects to his passion for justice.

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50:42

The Science of Science Fiction

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2024/03/04

What does our favorite science fiction get right about the universe as we know it, and what does it get wrong? Listen to Rufus Cochran, Dr. Mohamed Noor, and Dr. Paul Kwiat as they talk about artificial intelligence, quantum computing, the nature of evolution, and other places science intersects with our favorite science fiction.

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01:03:10

Writing Diverse Worlds

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2024/02/26

All of fiction, and especially science fiction, revolves around balancing the need to make characters believable. Science fiction adds in an additional challenge - creating characters who are different from what the readers expect, sometimes in surprising ways. Listen to Dr. Mohamed Noor, Maurice Broaddus, John Scalzi, and Dr. James McGrath discuss their work in creating worlds that capture our imagination and our attention.

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50:18

Protopia vs Utopia

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2024/02/19

When we talk about a hopeful future, Utopia is often the word that comes to mind. Is that the vision we should be striving for, though? Is it even possible to create a state in which everything is perfect? Importantly, is it possible to make things perfect for everyone? Or are utopias for some inevitably created out of suffering for others?The word Protopia refers to a vision of of the future in which today is better than yesterday, at least a little bit. In the article coining the word, futurist

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24:21

Afrofuturism: Building a Hopeful Future in Indianapolis

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2024/02/11

Afrofuturism is about not only critiquing the present, but working towards a future that we all want to experience. While some of the live session recording was lost, this episode captures the second half of the conversation, and includes information about the history of Indianapolis, how the Khprew Institute is working towards shaping the future, and why so many science fiction stories include just a little sprinkle of eugenics in their flavoring.

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52:54

AI and the Nature of Truth

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2024/02/05

AI is often depicted as a way to find answers to questions. Is this the same as finding truth? Are our current AI technologies structured to find truth? Or are they designed to do something different, and how does that affect their functionality and how they are (and how they should be) used? This episode was recorded during our live event in November of 2023, and is a part of our series on the Humanities of Artificial Intelligence. This series was awarded an Action Grant by Indiana Humanities,

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51:28

AI, Sentience, and the Rights of Robots

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2024/02/05

AI isn't sentient -at least not yet. But what would it mean to our systems if that changed? When would (and when should) our legal system begin to recognize the rights of non-human intelligence? What would that change for humans, and for other intelligent beings? This episode was recorded during our live event in November of 2023, and is a part of our series on the Humanities of Artificial Intelligence. This series was awarded an Action Grant by Indiana Humanities, and received support from the

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54:42

The Ethics of Machine Learning

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2024/02/05

Machine learning holds great potential - but also comes with some significant ethical challenges. Listen to experts discuss the technology, and the ethical concerns it creates. This episode was recorded during our live event in November of 2023, and is a part of our series on the Humanities of Artificial Intelligence. This series was awarded an Action Grant by Indiana Humanities, and received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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53:26

AI In Fact and Fiction

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2024/02/05

AI has been the subject of literature since William Grove’s novel The Wreck of the World in 1889, and in cinema since 1927’s Metropolis. Everyone alive has grown up with the idea of artificial intelligence - with those ideas having varying degrees of similarity to actual technology. Star Trek has contributed significantly to these fictional depictions of AI,. We explore these contributions in this pane with both Star Trek and technology experts. This episode was recorded during our live event in

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54:05

A Whirlwind Tour of AI

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2024/02/05

What are the first things we think about when someone says Artificial Intelligence? Many of us think of general AIs, like Data, Marvin, or the Cylons. Maybe we think about ChatGPT, Dall-E, or Midjourney. Do you think about Google Maps? How your characters move in a video game? What about the ranking algorithms of Netflix and YouTube? Chances are you’re carrying two or three devices at least partially designed by AI on your person. AI is so ubiquitous we often don’t realize when we’re using it. This

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01:00:00

Xenocosmetology and the Meaning of Life

Starbase Indy Podcast ·

2023/12/03

This interview is a two-fer, with both the FABULOUS Cosmetologist (and Starbase Indy regular) Moxie Ann Magnus, and the brilliance behind her, Brantley Moate. The conversation ranges from the Kobyashi Hairdo challenge Moxie passed to graduate from Starfleet Academy, to the nature of Captain Kirk's coiffure, to the purpose of joy and kindness in the world. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed having the conversation.

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