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Sep 16, 2026

Captain's Slog with Lieutenants Mark & Eddie

Captain's Slog with Lieutenants Mark & Eddie

Episode 074: The Best of Both Worlds (Part 2)

Sep 16 · 3 Mentions

Mark O'NeillHOST
18:16
But
Eddie EdwardsHOST
18:17
something that they do that I think is genuinely quite genius, and it's so clever that thinking about the timeline, it was surely completely unintentional, is that they do not show you the Battle of Wolf 359 in Star Trek The Next Generation, but they slowly start showing you it for the rest of time in every other show, which I think is fantastic.
Mark O'NeillHOST
18:43
The first time we get a look into what it was like to be in the Battle of War 359 is the pilot episode of DS9.
Mark O'NeillHOST
18:53
Because when they turned up at the place where the fight had happened and see all those dead ships broken to fire, I did immediately think, oh, Cisco's dead wife's there.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
19:22
Well, you can sort of do that now.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
19:24
There's enough Star Trek space simulators.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
19:31
that you can set to auto I think it can be done I think you can find I think I've watched it I actually think there's a YouTube video online of a guy taking you through the major beats of Wolf 359 with graphics in the style of like a Ken Burns documentary if I haven't seen that make someone do that
Mark O'NeillHOST
19:54
They list off three ships as being, like, dead.
Games My Mom Found

Games My Mom Found

Star Trek The Next Generation: Best of Both Worlds (TV 36) - GMMF

Sep 16 · 2 Mentions

Peter Bingham-PankratzPANELIST
13:26
Locutus is too smart or their ship is too powerful.
Peter Bingham-PankratzPANELIST
13:29
So they have to, the cube goes on and it fights the battle and it intercepts the Federation fleet at Wolf 359, which is a very famous battle in Star Trek lore.
Peter Bingham-PankratzPANELIST
13:39
And it's very much referenced throughout the series.
Peter Bingham-PankratzPANELIST
13:43
I mean, it's

35 MINS LATER

speaker_0PANELIST
49:09
Let's talk about
Peter Bingham-PankratzPANELIST
49:10
that.
Peter Bingham-PankratzPANELIST
49:10
The first episode of DSpace9, if you haven't watched it, for those out there, it shows the Battle of Wolf 359 at the very beginning.
Peter Bingham-PankratzPANELIST
49:18
And the captain, Captain Benjamin Sisko, loses his wife.
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Flying Saucers are Real-Donald Keyhoe

Sep 12 · 8 Mentions

Roger MelinNARRATOR
271:38
The greatest obstacle to reaching far-distant planet is the time required.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
271:45
In the Project Saucer study of space travel, Wolf 359 was named as the nearest star likely to have possibly inhabited areas.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
271:56
Wolf 359 is eight light-years from the Earth.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
272:01
The limiting speed in space, according to Einstein's law, would be just under the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
272:13
At this speed, Einstein states, matter is converted into energy.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
272:19
It is a ridiculous assumption, but even if atomic power or some force such as cosmic rays made an approach to that speed possible, it would still take eight years to reach Wolf 359.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
272:35
The round trip would take sixteen.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
272:39
There have been a few scientists who dispute Einstein's law, though no one has disproved it.

Unknown podcast

The Terrifying Truth About Alpha Centauri

Sep 4 · 40 Mentions

speaker_0NARRATOR
2:00
Alpha Centauri B is its companion, a slightly smaller orange star orbiting alongside it.
speaker_0NARRATOR
2:07
Together these two stars circle each other once every roughly 80 years, bound by mutual gravity into a binary pair that from Earth's southern hemisphere appears to the naked eye as a single bright point of light.
speaker_0NARRATOR
2:21
But there is a third member of this family and it is the one that matters most to this story.
speaker_0NARRATOR
2:26
Orbiting the central pair at an enormous distance is a tiny, dim, red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri.

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speaker_0NARRATOR
12:32
They obliterate them.
speaker_0NARRATOR
12:34
25 trillion miles exists in a realm of numbers where intuition simply switches off.
speaker_0NARRATOR
12:40
The Alpha Centauri system, all three of its stars, orbits the centre of the Milky Way galaxy just as our Sun does.
speaker_0NARRATOR
12:47
Both systems travel at roughly similar speeds through galactic space.

Unknown podcast

The Energy Wall That Makes Interstellar Travel IMPOSSIBLE

Sep 4 · 1 Mention

speaker_4NARRATOR
6:04
Barnard's star lies roughly 6 light years away.
speaker_4NARRATOR
6:07
Wolf 359 sits almost 8 light years out.
speaker_4NARRATOR
6:12
Sirius, the brightest star in our sky, is approximately 8.6 light years distant.
speaker_4NARRATOR
6:18
Ross 128 is about 11 light years away.

Unknown podcast

The Terrifying Truth About What Lies Beyond Our Solar System

Sep 4 · 1 Mention

speaker_4NARRATOR
111:27
A candidate super-Earth in a potentially habitable orbit around Barnard's star was announced in 2018, but has not been confirmed with high confidence.
speaker_4NARRATOR
111:37
Wolf 359 at approximately 7.78 light-years is a Type M6 red dwarf of such extreme magnetic activity that it was the source of one of the most energetically intense stellar flares ever directly.
speaker_4NARRATOR
111:56
The census of stars within 15 light-years of the Sun contains approximately 56 stellar systems, hosting approximately 67 individual stars and brown dwarfs.
speaker_4NARRATOR
112:08
Of these, approximately 45 are red dwarfs of type M, 5 are orange dwarfs of type K, Two, the Sun and Alpha Centauri A, are yellow dwarfs of type G.

Unknown podcast

The Terrifying Truth About Interstellar Space

Sep 4 · 1 Mention

speaker_2NARRATOR
97:22
Barnard's Star at five point nine six light-years is the next nearest single star.
speaker_2NARRATOR
97:27
Wolf 359 at seven point eight six light-years, Lalande two one one eight five at eight point three one, Sirius at eight point six.
speaker_2NARRATOR
97:41
Each additional light year of distance does not simply add a proportional amount of travel time.
speaker_2NARRATOR
97:47
It compounds every challenge simultaneously.

Unknown podcast

Why We_ve Never Seen Most of Our Closest Stars Has a Disturbing Answer

Sep 1 · 6 Mentions

speaker_2NARRATOR
14:52
Then the list gets worse.
speaker_2NARRATOR
14:53
Wolf 359, discovered in 1917 by the German astronomer Max Wolf, sits 7.8, 6 light-years from Earth.
speaker_2NARRATOR
15:04
This tiny red dwarf is a flare star in the constellation Leo, capable of sudden, violent bursts of ultraviolet and X-ray radiation that can briefly multiply its brightness by several times before it fades back to obscurity within minutes.
speaker_2NARRATOR
15:20
Its baseline apparent magnitude is 13.5. To understand how faint that is, remember that the dimmest star visible to the naked eye is around magnitude 6.
speaker_2NARRATOR
15:30
Magnitude 13.5 is roughly 1000 times fainter than that threshold.
speaker_2NARRATOR
15:35
Wolf 359 is so dim that early 20th century telescopes struggle to observe it consistently, despite the fact that it is one of the closest stars in the entire galaxy to our solar system.
speaker_2NARRATOR
15:48
This star sits less than eight light years away.
speaker_2NARRATOR
15:51
Light from Wolf 359 reaches your planet in less time than it takes a child to finish elementary school, and you cannot see it.

Unknown podcast

The Invisible Distance Between Solar Systems Is Worse Than You Think

Sep 1 · 3 Mentions

speaker_6NARRATOR
19:04
That is roughly 35 trillion miles.
speaker_6NARRATOR
19:07
Wolf 359 is at approximately 7.9 light years, about 46 trillion miles.
speaker_6NARRATOR
19:09
Lalande 21185 is at approximately 8.3 light years.
speaker_6NARRATOR
19:21
Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, the one that looks so close and so bold, sits at roughly 8.6 light years, more than 50 trillion miles away.

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speaker_6NARRATOR
35:54
Planets have been confirmed around Barnard's Star as recently as 2024 and 2025, with at least four small worlds now identified, all of them too close to the star to sit in the habitable zone.
speaker_6NARRATOR
36:06
A complete planetary system, confirmed to exist, sitting six light years away and we knew nothing about its worlds until last year.
speaker_6NARRATOR
36:16
After Barnard's Star, the next known objects are the brown dwarf binary Lumen-16, at approximately 6.5 light-years, discovered only in 2013, then a sub-brown dwarf at roughly 7.5 light-years, then wolf 359 at approximately 7.9 light-years, then la-land 21-1-85 at about 8.3 light-years, then Sirius at approximately 8.6 light-years.
speaker_6NARRATOR
36:44
Each system sits farther out.

Unknown podcast

How Long Will It Really Take Us To Travel One Light Year

Sep 1 · 1 Mention

speaker_2NARRATOR
90:21
The binary system of Lumen 16 is approximately six and a half.
speaker_2NARRATOR
90:25
Wolf 359 is nearly eight.
speaker_2NARRATOR
90:28
Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, is 8.6 light years away.
speaker_2NARRATOR
90:34
These are our closest cosmic neighbors, and every single one of them requires multiple light years to reach.

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