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Humanist Trek Adventures Episode 2: Infinite Combinations, Part 2

Humanist Trek Adventures Episode 2: Infinite Combinations, Part 2

With evacuations of the cloud city above Kizomic VI complicated by interdimensional beings hunting for food, the crew of the Hood continue evacuation efforts while trying to make contact with the alien species.

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Humanist Trek Adventures Episode 2: Infinite Combinations, Part 2

With evacuations of the cloud city above Kizomic VI complicated by interdimensional beings hunting for food, the crew of the Hood continue evacuation efforts while trying to make contact with the alien species.
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Humanist Trek Adventures Episode 2: Infinite Combinations, Part 1

After a less than stellar performance investigating the Almighty Algorhythm, the USS Hood receives a 911 call from Kizomic VI. As the floating city of Cressida is under attack from creatures of unknown origin, the crew punches the Hood to plaid in order to evacuate the colonists.
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Humanist Trek Adventures Episode 1: Puzzling the Will

While waiting for TNG to return, President of the Continuummm and Game Daddy Bruce leads us through the first episode of Star Trek: Adventures (2nd ed. Starter Set), "Puzzling the Will". It's been a many years since Sarah or Allie have played a TTRPG, and this one is definitely on par with early seasons of Star Trek. Join Captain (or Commodore, if we forget) Nella Xen and Commander Xanthus th'Raviq on their first mission as the USS Hood (or Challenger, if we forget) is sucked into a massive alien construct.

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Sarah Ray

Producer / Host

Sarah Ray


Sarah Ray (she/her) is a transgender atheist woman. She came to humanism out of the “angry atheist” phase on seeing a need for secular communities to focus our energy into productive, positive impacts in our world. Sarah is an endorsed Humanist Celebrant and Vice President of The Humanist Society, Support Group Leader with Recovering from Religion, and co-founded the Atheist Community of Polk County (now the Humanist Community of Polk County), She has produced and hosted the “SarahTalk Podcast” since 2015 and “Freethought in Florida” from 2020-2021.

Allie Ashmead

Host

Allie Ashmead

Allie Ashmead (she/her) is a humanist who grew up in rural Virginia. She has been in the IT industry for nearly 30 years and has spent her career doing business analysis, supporting SaaS systems, and building cloud solutions to manage data. She actively supports many humanist organizations, has done volunteer work in her local community, and was co-host on the podcast and YouTube show “Freethought in Florida”. Relocated to Aurora, Colorado in recent years with her two cats, Rax and Mr. Digsby, she’s also a fluid abstract artist. She is a die-hard Star Trek fan, and sci-fi fan in general.

Becca Ray

Starfleet Academy Instructor

Becca Ray

Becca Ray (she/her) joins the show each week to stump Sarah and Allie with a trivia question about the episode.

Becca is also the Program Assistant at the American Humanist Association. Before joining the AHA, Becca was a Director and Co-Founder of The Atheist Community of Polk County, where she and her team developed various community outreach programs. She also served as an Assistant State Director for American Atheists for the state of Florida.

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Each week, Cadet Instructor Becca challenges Sarah & Allie with a trivia question about the current episode (we are not doing so hot here).  You can play along, too!  Share out the episode with your answer to the week’s question and use the hashtag #StarfleetChallenge and we’ll pick our favorite for bragging rights.  It doesn’t necessarily have to be the correct answer – NO GOOGLING! – we might pick the funniest or most outrageous answer, because it’s our show and we do what we want.

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