This Week In Space Podcast Episode 187
An Inspired Enterprise – A History of Star Trek with Glen Swanson – YouTube
On Episode 187 of This Week In SpaceRod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Glen Swanson, author of the new Star Trek history book “Inspired Enterprise.”
From Gene Roddenberry’s original inspiration to working with Caltech, the RAND Corporation, and NASA; and on to the design of the good ship Enterprise itself (and the very popular AMT models that followed), this book provides everything you need to know to be a certified Trekker.
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About This Week In Space
Join Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Space.com as they tackle those questions and each week on Friday afternoons. You can subscribe today on your favorite podcatcher.
Rod Pyle is an author, journalist, television producer and Editor-in-Chief ofAd Astramagazine. He has written 18 books on space history, exploration, and development, includingSpace 2.0,Innovation the NASA Way,Interplanetary Robots,Blueprint for a Battlestar,Amazing Stories of the Space Age,First On the MoonandDestination Mars
In a previous life, Rod produced numerous documentaries and short films for The History Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He also worked in visual effects onStar Trek: Deep Space Nineand theBattlestar Galacticareboot, as well as various sci-fi TV pilots. His most recent TV credit was with the NatGeo documentary on Tom Wolfe’s iconic bookThe Right Stuff.
Responsible for Space.com’s editorial vision, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Space.com since 2019 and has covered space news and science for 18 years. He joined the Space.com team in 2001, first as an intern and soon after as a full-time spaceflight reporter covering human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night sky.
He became Space.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air talent has presented space stories on CNN, Fox News, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (yes, he earned the Space Exploration merit badge), a Space Camp veteran (4 times as a kid, once as an adult), and has taken the ultimate “vomit comet” ride while reporting on zero-gravity fires. Before joining Space.com, he served as a staff reporter for The Los Angeles Times covering city and education beats. He has journalism degrees from the University of Southern California and New York University.
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Published on:2025-11-22 19:26:00
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