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Show Notes This week we watch Bong Joon-Ho's dystopian masterpiece – no not that one, the other one – Snowpiercer. Chris Evans doesn't want to be a hero, and can he truly be if he know what people taste like? We argue yes, when the villain is capitalism, any man can be a hero. Tilda Swinton puts in a grounded and naturalistic performance (her words) and Allison Pill is just a delight while Kang-ho Song plays his normal hilarious druggie. Bong has an innate ability to entertain and make you laugh while spotlighting the horrors of society. This movie rocks and you need to watch it. Recommendations: The Straight Story (Disney+) and The Elephant Man (available in physical format only) Next up: Gone Girl (2014) (Hulu) Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/
Plug in and get ready to rock with us this month as Austin and Big T discuss the 2010 film, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.Grab some garlic bread and listen as we explore what this movie did well and share some of our favorite lines and scenes. We also talk about the conversion of a comic book to a movie, and Austin explains why this is his favorite film. So take a break from all that fighting and listen, then join us next month when we discuss another comic book-turned-movie, V for Vendetta. Write into us at layersoffilmpod@gmail.comFollow us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok: @layersoffilmpod
Una nueva experiencia de M. Night Shyamalan. Un padre y su hija adolescente asisten a un concierto de pop, donde se dan cuenta de que están en el centro de un evento oscuro y siniestro. La trampa es una película de comedia negra dirigida por M. Night Shyamalan quien además escribió el guion. Está protagonizada por Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills y Allison Pill. Episodio disponible en tu plataforma de podcast favorita. PLANETA TERROR es un podcast semanal en español dedicado al cine de horror/slasher/gore. Reseñas, noticias, rankings y discusión general desde el punto de vista de alguien cuyo “goal” en la vida es mudarse a Woodsboro, vivir en Elm Street y asistir al Campamento Crystal Lake. Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/planeta-terror-podcast/id1539867451 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/planetaterrorpod/ X https://x.com/planetaterrorpd?s=21&t=jiQBxnyCEsmbvNpY8pNnmg TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@planetaterrorpodcast?_t=8mVo66trbrJ&_r=1
In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we're going to crank up the Lady Raven and avoid the cops at all costs as we review M. Night Shyamalan's latest triller TRAP ... Music courtesy of Andrew Scott Bell and Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio For more Rewind of the Living Dead, visit our website or follow on social media:https://www.rewindofthelivingdead.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/rewindofdeadFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/rewindoflivingdeadInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewindoflivingdead/
Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month.Writer, programmer, and filmmaker Juan Barquin joins to explore the work of M. Night Shyamalan and his breakout feature, The Sixth Sense. Now somehwat underrated in Shyamalan's impressive oeuvre, even and especially by M. Night die-hards, the film is a patient, startling, and deeply human ghost story that also functions as gorgeous melodrama, introducing Shyamalan's career-long pet themes of parenthood, familial reconciliation, the beauty of otherness, and the power of love as a shelter from the terrors of modernity. A critical and commercial hit, The Sixth Sense became the second-highest grossing film of the extremely stacked 1999 box office (behind only Star Wars Episode I), and netted six Oscar nominations including Best Picture.We discuss the career of M Night Shyamalan, its peaks and valleys, and how his vision as an artist often places him at odds with cultural and critical trends. Then, we discuss the phenomenon that was/is The Sixth Sense, and how its power stems from far more than just its (very good) shocking twist ending. Finally, we discuss the filmmaker's singular humanity, and how his films reflect form and function aligning with profoundly personal vision, resulting in truly peerless work.Then, it's time for some TRAP talk, as we give our initial thoughts on Shyamalan's latest film TRAP, now in theaters. We discuss the incredible work of Josh Hartnett as a serial killer evading capture at a pop concert, the gorgeous cinematography from Thai visionary Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, and the film's many narrative surprises (some more effective than others).Follow Juan Barquin on Twitter.....Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish
Seth sits down with Matt Belenky to talk about the latest from M. Night Shyamalan, Trap! They discuss the connecting theme of Shyamalan's filmography, the similarities between Trap and Speed, the connection with The Parent Trap and where things start to leave the rails. Also: Seth. defends The Happening! Matt finds A Shadow of a Doubt! Shyamalan directing Shyamalan! Jean-Claude Van Damme! Check it out! Follow Matt on Twitter and check out his Trap review for Nighttide Magazine Register for our upcoming FREE live show For all of our bonus episodes check out our Patreon Patreon supporters help pick episodes, monthly themes and get access to all of our additional shows and our Patron exclusive Discord. It's only the price of a single cup of coffee ($5 a month!) Visit our website and send us an email! Follow Movie Friends on Twitter and Instagram You scrolled this far? That's impressive.
TRAP Trailer Reaction! M. Night Shyamalan | Josh Hartnett! Kathy, Amit @D54pod and Melanie @PardesiReviews react to thet trailer for TRAP, an upcoming American mystery thriller film directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan. The film stars Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Allison Pill. The plot revolves around a serial killer who attends a concert with his daughter only to realize the police have targeted him at the venue.#trap #mnightshyamalan #joshhartnett #trailerreactions Get early access to these reviews by joining Patreon or our YouTube channel! YouTube Membershiphttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvt8UhKoTahIIRGIwxzUVVA/joinPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/CinemondoPodcastJoin this channel to get access to fun perks like exclusive content and private Discord channel!:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvt8UhKoTahIIRGIwxzUVVA/joinOfficial Swag https://shop.spreadshirt.com/cinemondoNew videos daily!!Subscribe for the latest movie reviewshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvt8UhKoTahIIRGIwxzUVVA?sub_confirmation=1
We're back, sports fans! And speaking of sports fans, here's one for... the sports fans! This week on The CineMEH Podcast, Josh and Ryan are lacing up their skates and putting in their mouth guards for a rock'em, sock'em modern hockey cult classic, Goon! If you've ever earnestly asked yourself what the movie Slapshot would be like if it borrowed heavily from Rocky and had the humor of a 7th grade boy, then we've got a movie for you! Heavy on the violence and light on the actual hockey, Goon is the kind of crowd pleaser that overstays its welcome, but it brought beer so you're kind of okay with it. Josh and Ryan discuss the overblown crude humor, the surprisingly nuanced performance by Seann William Scott, and whether this movie takes itself too seriously, or not seriously enough. Welcome back, sports fans! Enjoy Season Four, Episode 1: Goon! Goon stars Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber, Allison Pill, Kim Coates and Jay Baruchel The CineMEH Podcast is a Slyjack Media, LLC production Like what you hear? Check out our other podcast, Morning Radio, TBD available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon and Google podcasts. Podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/morningradiotbd
Classically trained actor Nicholas Podany is quickly making a name for himself in the world of entertainment. Nicholas started his career on Broadway in the wildly successful play Harry Potter and The Cursed Child as Albus Potter. Nicholas will next be seen in the upcoming Apple TV+ series Hello Tomorrow! alongside Billy Crudup, Hank Azaria and Allison Pill. The series, which is set in a retro-future world, centers around a group of traveling salesmen hawking lunar timeshares. It will premiere in February of 2023.His other television credits include: the CW's Hart of Dixie and Netflix's Archive 81. Nicholas is also a singer songwriter, who served as a singer/bassist for the rock band Across Coves. The band has embarked on many tours across the country, opening for bands such as Maroon 5. Nicholas has also released four solo songs, including “Telling Myself” which was released in February 2020.Nicholas is a Juilliard graduate who currently resides in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lou @LouWSytsma Karen @Aleveria & Jesse @JesseJacksonDFW are taking a deep dive in Amaya as we discuss the first two episodes of the @hulu series Devs
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Sarah and Bonnie are headed to Toronto for a Marc Platt innovation that hits just about all the RomCom categories we have. Scott has to battle the evil exes if he is serious about Ramona, and we think he is up to the task. The cast, oh the cast for this one. We've got a vegan ex, a transmedia narrative, and loads of supporting characters we absolutely love. Come from Michael Cera; stay for Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Mae Whitman, Brie Larson, Allison Pill, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ellen Wong...
We kick off Pride Month 2022 with this Oscar-winning biopic directed by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting) which delves in the life of slain civil rights activist Harvey Milk who took the city of San Francisco AND the country by storm by becoming the first openly gay politician elected to major office in 1978. His story is both inspiring and touching, with much of the structure of this film and several highlights coming from the 1984 documentary of his life called “The Times of Harvey Milk” which also won the Best Documentary Oscar that year. Sean Penn stars in the 2008 film as the eponymous activist/politician from Woodmere, NY – he also won the Best Actor Oscar that year and is supported by an impressive cast including James Franco, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, Victor Garber, and Allison Pill. The documentary was directed by Rob Epstein and was narrated by Harvey Fierstein – both films are very informative along with being quite entertaining, let's delve into both!Host: Geoff Gershon Editors: Geoff and Ella GershonProducer: Marlene Gershonhttps://livingforthecinema.com/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Living-for-the-Cinema-Podcast-101167838847578Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/livingforthecinema/Letterboxd:https://letterboxd.com/Living4Cinema/
Ya lo saben, no nos gustó la segunda temporada de Picard, pero en esta primaver (ya verano) de Star Trek, nos debemos al público, y hacemos RE: seña de todo lo que sale. Pretendíamos evitar perder el tiempo en negatividad, pero no pudimos evitarlo, porque nos enroscamos. Pero bueno, al menos nos juntamos Carlitos, Mael, Eze, y MaGnUs y nos divertimos. Despues hicimos propuestas (pitches) de como nos hubiese gustado que fuera la temporada, y de spin-offs que desearíamos se hicieran. Con música de Li-Han Eliza Tseng & Ting-Li Lin (interpretando a Jeff Russo), Allison Pill (interpretando a Pat Benatar), y The Pixies. Escuchalo o bajalo de acá: http://bit.ly/perdidos484 Próximo programa: Ni El Loro - The Nines.
Picard and Guinan get Interviewed, Kore finds freedom, Rios discovers there are four cakes, the FBI guy has been touched by a Vulcan, Seven and Raffi go analog, And when a babe in a tattered red dress shows up, you have to wonder, am I dreaming or is this a nightmare? -Brought to you by Section 31- 00:00 Episode 120 00:30 There Are Four Cakes!!!! 00:57 Heather Likes Cake 02:00 Infinite Diversity in Infinite Flavors 02:30 NO KIDS!!! 02:50 NO ADULTS!? 03:45 Patreon Guests on the show? 04:00 Favorite Cake 06:30 Holodeck Humor 06:50 How you doin'? 09:00 Comments HR would comment about 09:40 Thanks Patreons! https://patreon.com/starfleetunderground 10:00 Doing Multiple Tribbles at Once 10:45 Birthdays 11:44 News: HoloPortation https://nypost.com/2022/04/18/a-doctor-holoported-onto-the-international-space-station-like-star-trek/ 12:15 Cleaning Filters 14:30 2 Pac in space? 14:59 Paley Center Strange New Worlds Takeover https://blog.trekcore.com/2022/04/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-exhibit-paley-center-nyc/ 15:43 The Con Crud Strikes Back! 16:16 Wil Wheaton is a TIMELORD! https://trekmovie.com/2022/04/22/wil-wheaton-has-post-nemesis-wesley-headcanon-and-a-detailed-star-trek-lower-decks-pitch/ 18:30 Orbital's Doctor Who https://youtu.be/-H_o6ncUz3g 14:40 Khan Mini Series Script? https://trekmovie.com/2022/04/20/nicholas-meyer-says-ceti-alpha-v-star-trek-mini-series-about-khan-is-still-just-sitting-there/ 20:00 Jason Momoa. 20:30 Strange New Things...? 21:00 Strange New Worlds first 5 episode synopsis https://trekcentral.net/strange-new-worlds-episode-titles-details-revealed/ 23:30 Star Trek: Picard S2E8 - "Mercy" 24:04 Teaser - "A 2-Minute Finish" 24:50 A Poor-Man's Mulder vs. Guinan 25:50 Is that camera unplugged? 27:00 Do it in the dark 28:00 Can you hear me? 29:00 Super-Off The Books 29:49 Act I - "Jurati - The Angel of Mercy" 32:10 She likes the heavy metal, man 32:50 "Somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy" - Men At Work 33:30 She literally ghosted him. Permanently 33:50 Now I'm gonna be late for work 34:40 She Darth Vader'd her 35:15 The Ripped-Up Dress 36:20 Imperfect Metals 37:56 The Video Game with Q in it is Star Trek: Borg 38:20 Freedom 39:00 Remembering Assimilation 40:30 Tasting Assimilation 41:45 Act II - "You want this cake? I want it!" https://youtu.be/5PJddmfesaA 44:25 Q Is Dying? 45:00 I'm trying to Vaporize you right now! 45:40 Being on the Threshold of the Unknowable 46:20 Death: The Final Frontier 47:00 Sounds like getting anal...old 47:47 Humans are all trapped in the past 49:45 Rios's Statement 50:40 Rios's Kissing Moment 51:00 Poly Amorous 51:45 10 Years in the Future 53:00 Temporal Police? They quit 53:25 Act III - "Guardians of the Galaxy" 55:00 I Am From The Future 56:30 That's how they fingered me 58:58 Young Blood 59:59 Horror Movie Guinan 1:01:00 Exchange of Truth 1:01:30 Touched by Vulcans 1:02:00 Freedom!!! 1:03:00 Adam Soong: Incel 1:04:15 Kore Bounces 1:05:20 New York Subways 1:07:00 Jurati vs Soong 1:08:00 Allison Pill is amazing 1:08:25 It's the batteries 1:09:07 Act IV - "Fork In The Road" 1:10:50 Mercenary Assimilation 1:11:20 What's in the Box? 1:14:12 This is only gonna sting for a moment 1:14:30 My Nanoprobes Bring All the Boys to the Yard Thanks for listening! Now on Patreon! https://patreon.com/starfleetunderground Email: thecollective@starfleetunderground.com Website: starfleetunderground.com Twitter: twitter.com/StarfleetUnderG Instagram: instagram.com/starfleetunderground Facebook: facebook.com/starfleetunderground YouTube: www.youtube.com/Qtsy16 #StarTrek #StarTrekPicard Explicit
Join us as we chat all things episode 3 of Picard season 2! Allison Pill takes us on a face journey, what would your mirror universe self be like, we need to talk about Kevin, Adrienne and Sophia have very different opinions on Picard's new doctor and very different opinions on time travel destinations, and we're just gonna pretend certain parts of this episode didn't happen, right? Follow us on social media: Twitter @wheresbeverly Instagram @wheresbev, and wheresbeverly@gmail.com
In this episode, James is once again joined by Josh and John to talk all things Picard S2 episode 3 "Assimilation". They cover the tragic loss, what the show is saying about our current times, the amazing acting by Allison Pill, and much more. Plus we end the show discussing the recent announcement that Captain Kirk has been cast and will be apart of Strange New Worlds season 2.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is back in theaters for its 10th anniversary! We reviewed the film directed by Edgar Wright and starring Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Allison Pill, Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Chris Evans and Jason Schwartzman. Spotify: https://bit.ly/SoManySequels-Spotify Apple: https://bit.ly/SoManySequels-iOS YouTube: http://bit.ly/SoManySequels-YouTube #ScottPilgrim #MovieReview #Netflix --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
One of our most highly requested episodes is LIVE! Just in time for the theatrical re-release, it's Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Is the character of Scott kinda the worst? Isn't the soundtrack amazing? And listen to us rant about some of the other 2010 releases that made more moneyScott Pilgrim Vs. The World - Release date: August 13, 2010- Budget: $85M- Box office: $48.1M- Estimated loss: $20M- Director: Edgar Wright- Starring: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Allison Pill, Aubrey Plaza, Brandon Routh, Jason SchwartzmanNEXT WEEK: We're joined by the hilarious Niles Abston to talk about 1999's ambitious prison epic/comedy LIFE
Ayushi was born in India but spent her childhood in Nigeria and moved to South Africa with her family at the age of 13. After growing up near the East Rand of Johannesburg, she moved to LA, and the rest, is history! The year 2020 saw Ayushi making her American television debut, as the alien character “PEL” on CBS’s TV series – ‘STAR TREK : PICARD’, alongside Sir Patrick Stewart and Allison Pill. Chhabra's role in the first season of the show was a major departure from previous work and required her to go through hours of intense hair and make-up to transform her into the character of a pregnant Romulan (alien).
Ayushi was born in India but spent her childhood in Nigeria and moved to South Africa with her family at the age of 13. After growing up near the East Rand of Johannesburg, she moved to LA, and the rest, is history! The year 2020 saw Ayushi making her American television debut, as the alien character “PEL” on CBS's TV series – ‘STAR TREK : PICARD', alongside Sir Patrick Stewart and Allison Pill. Chhabra's role in the first season of the show was a major departure from previous work and required her to go through hours of intense hair and make-up to transform her into the character of a pregnant Romulan (alien).
Alex and Jack this week cover a 2014 horror comedy movie about zombie children that is handled about as well as one could expect. This star studded comedy cast is led by Elijah Wood but features Rainn Wilson, Allison Pill, that guy from LOST tripping on mushrooms, Leigh Whannel, and Kenneth from 30 Rock! Join us to find out if this horror comedy succeeds in either genre! Intro music by Alex BrinkmanOutro music is I Kill Children by Dead Kennedys
Allison Pill in DEVS says, "All Coldplay Albums? Boring. Boning on the Moon? Destiny." Fiona's a perfect 10, Jeff Rosenstock and Car Seat Headrest keep transmitting grunge in their communities, and we take last episode's mildly successful gimmick and run it into the ground with a 90's rock tournament bracket.
Well, this was unexpected. Guest Patrick McMillan has the gang watch the 2004 Lindsay Lohan vehicle "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen," which has everyone flabbergasted in the pod's longest episode to date. The over-direction paired with Lohan's lifeless performance makes for a truly awe-inspiring piece of trash. From sped up chase sequences, MacBook Pro orchestras, Dance Dance Revolution battles, to Lindsay Lohan (or Lola) becoming a Sim in a pop-up book, there is wayyy too much to cover about this 90-minute film. It's another ridiculous and hilarious episode of "You'll Probably Hate This."Our pain is your pleasure. Subscribe to the pod and rate/review us on Apple Podcasts!Connect with us on IG! @yphtpod
Sometimes we talk about TV too! This one is the new FX miniseries starring Nick Offerman and Allison Pill, written and directed by Alex Garland. It's no secret that Michael and Abe have been smitten so far by Garland's work, but does his recent attempt to break into the world of the small screen work? Figured this would be a great companion podcast with our other Frame Rate about Predestination that came out earlier this week. Michael wrote an intro song for y'all at the beginning of the episode! Abe wonders why. Also, if knowing there wasn't free will would change his actions... Abe wonders a lot of things. We decided to make this public and free for all because we're pretty cool guys. Also, tune into our twitch channel tomorrow at 7pm PST for a bunch of comedians trying to one-up each others' jokes for you: our illustrious beans. Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans
As Clearly Canadian III: The Domination continues, we're talking about the existential comedy Zoom, starring Allison Pill and Gael Garcia Bernal play creator and creation in a wildly imaginative story of doubt, self-discovery, fake breasts, fake penises, and a whole lot of trippy stuff that you have to see to believe. . .
It's the second-last episode of Star Trek Picard season 1. And all the threads have now come together. A show like this lives and dies on the payoffs to its mysteries and mythology. And I feel that Star Trek Picard is doing pretty well in that regard. What do you think? This episode manages to be quite thematic and thought-provoking while still leading up to the grant finale. Let's dig deep into this show. ----more---- Transcript Welcome to Nerd Heaven I’m Adam David Collings The author of Jewel of the stars And I am a nerd This is episode 19 of the podcast Today, we’re talking about the 9th episode of Star Trek Picard. Et in Arcadia Ego Part 1. Et? Et? I want to say et because in French, e t is pronounced et. It means and. But the rest of the title is in english. So I don’t know what’s going on with this title. Anyway, it’s the first Star Trek episode title that’s had Part 1 in it for a very very long time. Voyager was probably the last show to do it. Actually, I think Enterprise used the same title with parts 1 and 2 for the two-parter In A Mirror Darkly. Anyway, This is the second last episode of season 1. Can you believe it? The description on memory alpha reads Following an unconventional and dangerous transit, Picard and the crew finally arrive at Soji's home world, Coppelius. However, with Romulan warbirds on their tail, their arrival brings only greater danger as the crew discovers more than expected about the planet's inhabitants. The teleplay for this episode was by Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman. The story was by Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman & Akiva Goldsman The episode was directed by Akiva Golsman And it first aired on the 19th of March 2020. Make it so. In story structure, the second plot point takes place at the 75 percent mark of the book or film. It comes just after the darkest moment, when all hope seems lost. IT signifies the protagonist setting off for the final showdown, heading toward the climax, and it signals the beginning of act 3. The end of last week’s episode felt very much like the second plot point, and it’s showing up in roughly the right place. So this is act 3. After a harrowing trip through a borg transwarp conduit, the La Sierrena arrives at Soji’s homeworld. A planet called Coppelius. Agnes is still wandering the ship and asks “Am I still under arrest?” I’m still kinda shocked that they’ve brought her here to the synth homeworld. I know she says she’s turned over a new leaf, but honestly, this is a risk I wouldn't be taking. She killed the man she loved in order to prevent the creation of new synths. Now she says she won’t harm the synths themselves. I wouldn’t be taking any chances with her. If I were in Picard’s shoes, I’d have continued to DS12 to drop her off. Or, if the urgency of the situation didn’t allow it, which is how Picard ultimately felt, I’d be keeping Angus under close guard. Just in case. Anyway, Narak shows up and they have a nice little space battle. They manage to get in a lucky shot, which gives them a nice moment to discuss the morality of rescuing your enemies, but it turns out to be a bit of a ruse. They really don’t stand a chance against Narak’s advanced fighter. But, surprise, a honking big borg cube comes out of the corridor. I cheered out loud when this happened. Seven!. But the cube doesn’t even have a chance to be awesome. The orchids are really cool. A bunch of giant space-faring flowers come up and swallow the ships. This was really cool. This is Star Trek. This is the kind of wondrous thing you find at a strange new world. So the flowers drag the ships down to the surface in a visual and audio extravaganza that rivals any big screen movie I’ve seen. I was a little skeptical about the flowers bringing down the cube, but there were several attached to it, and it’s not operating at peak efficiency. They mention later that the flowers are not used to bringing down something so big. It was a bit of a shame though, because seeing something as terrifying as a borg cube coming to the rescue is a new idea that I was looking forward to. But we’ll see later. That cube ‘aint going anywhere ever again. Picard chooses this moment to exhibit symptoms of his dementia. Just briefly. We get a nice little scene with Agnes, doing her medical thing. It was nice to see and hear the old TNG tricorder. Agnes knows about his condition. The acting between these two is amazing in this scene. The way Allison Pill makes her mouth quiver with emotion. I have no idea how actors do that kind of thing, but I’m somewhat in awe of it. So Picard tells the whole truth to his crew. Raffi’s face when she hears Picard’s prognosis is terminal is subtle but heartbreaking. They seem to be going out of their way to avoid using the words irumodic syndrome. I don’t know why, but to be honest, it’s kind of annoying me. They’re clearly drawing from All Good Things, so for goodness, just say it and get it over with. And on that, we have yet to hear Picard say “Make it so” even once on this show. That’s Picard’s most iconic catchphrase. And, putting that into the script would not be an easter egg. It would not be fan service. It would be remaining consistent with his character. When Picard seeks options and recommendations from his crew, which has happened a number of times in this show, the words he always chooses to communicate his agreement, and instruct them to proceed is “Make it so.” The whole thing is very glaring by its absence. It’s like they’re deliberately trying to avoid using it for some reason. I’ll be disappointed if he doesn’t say it next week. But, I don’t want them to just shove it in there either. There have been missed opportunities to use it naturally in the past. Anyway, moving on. Soji is pretty sure her fellow synths don’t hate biological lifeforms. But I love Rios’s line. They crashed my ship without even asking. That feels a little biased to me. The surface of the planet looks really cool. Rock formations. Alien plants. It’s a nice mix of the familiar but beautiful, which is live action, and the unusual, which is CG. So they’re off to rescue Hugh and Elnor first. Of course, what they find is Seven and Elnor. The reunion between Elnor and Picard is very nice. And there’s a nice final send-off for Hugh and Picard and Seven talk about the loss together. So they’ve established the xbs are okay. There’s nothing Picard can do for them. But Raffi and Rios are able to use the Borg sensors to determine the Romulan fleet is 2 days away, and it’s massive. It’s time to take Soji home to her settlement. Honestly I’m not sure why Seven and Elnor are staying behind. I mean, Seven came all this way specifically to help Picard. Picard says the xbs need protection more than him. Which frankly seems an absurd statement to me. But they’re gonna try to get defensive systems online. I suspect the borg cube may end up being a refuge from the Romulans next week. It’s feeling like they really haven’t used Elnor’s character to his full potential. He’s barely spent any time with Picard and the La Sirena crew. We spent an entire episode recruiting him. I don’t think that’s paid off as well as it should have. Anyway, off to the settlement. Which looks pretty cool. A very nice place to live. The synths that live here have tinted skin and yellow eyes like Data. They don’t look as human as Soji. And their skimpy outfits make this look a little like an episode of TOS. They also speak more like Data. As if they have a less advanced emotional program than Soji. Again, more like Data. The crew are welcomed into the facility. But Soji has to give the bad news. The Romulans are coming and the synths don’t have anywhere near enough orchids. And then the big surprise. Brent Spiner appears. As himself. Fully human with no de-aging. Turns out he’s playing Dr. Altan Inigo Soon, the son of Dr. Noonian Soong. It seems every male Soong, of any generation, looks just like Brent Spiner. But it was a cool way to bring him back onto the show. It seems reasonable to me that Soong had a biological son. We know he had a wife. And it makes sense the son would be this old. I mean, Soon was over a hundred when we saw him die in TNG. Altan’s mother can’t have been Juliana Soong, because she didn’t marry Noonian until he was living and working on omicron theta. So I’d say Altan was the product of a previous relationship. Probably long out of the picard by the time Data and Lore were being created. So then a more android-looking version of Soji reveals herself, first to Picard, and then to everyone else. This is Sutra, Jana’s sister. It seems that there are a number of different models, and many copies of each model, but always in sibling pairs. If you’re thinking this all sounds very familiar, you’ve probably seen Battlestar Galactica. The more I think about it, the more paralleles I see. And let’s just acknowledge that now, we have Agnes walking around mixing with these synths. Risky business if you ask me. And yes, we’ll learn some information soon that may alleviate some of the anxiety, but they don’t know that information yet. If I were the synths, I’d be pretty angry that Picard had brought this person into their midst. And this is where Sutra makes quite a jump, mentally, to a theory she has very little evidence to support. But it makes sense, and it’s really interesting. She theories that the admonition was never intended for organic minds. We’ve seen how it drives many insane. It’s not the nature of the content as such, it’s more of an incompatibility. Which I like, because it seems a lot more believable. I mean, we’re gonna see the full contents of the admonition shortly. Dunno about you, but it didn’t make me want to commit suicide. So this is fascinating stuff. The theory is that Agnes was driven somewhat insane by the admonition, and that’s why she killed Maddox. But now the madness is leaving her, and she’s getting back to being her old selse. This doesn’t exactly justify her crime, but insanity is a legal defense used. Agnes wasn’t in her own right mind when she did what she did. Which means she’s not entirely to blame. Which means, she is less of a risk now. Ok. I’m with that. Not sure how Sutra made that leap, but the conclusion is logical and makes sense of a lot of stuff in the show. Sutra theories that the admonition was intended for synthetic minds. And this is where it gets a bit weird. Sutra is fascinated with Vulcan culture. And she has taught herself how to mind meld. And that’s absurd. Mind melding is not just a skill you can learn. The mind meld is a biological thing. The vulcan brain has telepathic abilities. This is linked in some way to their sense of touch. Now, can I conceive that an artificial brain could be constructed to simulate the same telepathic functions of the organic Vulcan brain? I suppose so. But Bruce and Altan would have had to have constructed her specifically that way from the beginning. She can’t just decide she likes vulcan culture and teach herself. I’m afraid I don’t buy that. Not one tiny bit. But I’m just going to have to accept it, as silly as I think it is. It does solve a story problem. They can’t afford a big detour to take Sutra to the grief world. And she needs to be able to see the admonition somehow. But Rios is against this. As he says, “Agnes is just starting to get over this.” He’s worried, and legitimately so, that this mind meld, forcing Agnes to relive the admonition again, could re-trigger her madness. Not only would that be bad for Agnes, but it could make her a danger to the synths, once again. He’s right to warn caution here. But Agnes feels the synths have a right to know, and this information could be the key to solving the whole mystery. So the mind meld goes ahead. Again, some great acting from Alison Pill. She’s terrified to live through this again. So now we finally get the whole truth behind all of this. And it’s a bit of a twist. Organic life is fragile and impermanent. As it advances, organics seek perfection, and that perfection drives them to create synthetic life. But they always end up fearing that synthetic life and feeling threatened by it. Which leads to conflict. Inevitably, this will lead to conflict. The big mysterious force out there does not come to wipe out races to prevent them from creating synthetic life, as the Zhat Vash believed. No, they are an alliance of synthetic life. They wipe out races to protect the synthetics. The admonition wasn’t a warning to organics. It was a promise of help to synthetics. That’s really interesting. At this point, I feel like everything has come together. It all makes good sense. A show like this lives and dies on the payoffs of its mysteries and mythology. And I feel that Star Trek Picard is doing a good job with it’s payoffs. So well done to the team. A couple of little thoughts about the admonition message itself. First. Why all the starfleet imagery. We see Data’s face. Starfleet logos. Even an image of the Mars attack. Obviously, the ancient race couldn’t have known about these things when they created the message. But perhaps it's because they tailor the message. I mean, they’re still out there. Monitoring. Adding new relevant imagery to the message. Except what we’re seeing here came from the grief world 14 years ago. The mars attack hadn’t happened yet. So are we saying these synths can see the future. Personally, I think this is just a bit of sloppiness on the part of the show, choosing visual symbolism to aid the story-telling at the expense of in-universe believability. I really don’t think there's any time travel or seeing into the future going on. Second thing. The way they show a human aging from a child to an old man was very impressive visual effects. And the shot of the fox dying and rotting away to nothing was impressive but kinda of gross and disturbing. Do they timelapse film a real dead animal? I dunno. But it kind of made me uncomfortable. It’s cool that Altan made android butterflies because he missed them. We have a nice conversation between Agnus and Altan. Altan makes it clear that he is not dismissing her crime. The loss of Bruce Maddox is a tragedy. Not just because human life is precious, and the death of any human being is a tragedy, but because his was a great mind, that could have done so much more. And she extinguished that. Perhaps her insanity defense means she’s not guilty of murder as such, but she still owes a debt. They both know it. Altan offers her a chance to repay her debt. He shows Agnus what he’s been working on. It’s not entirely clear. We see a synthetic body. Is it an android, or is it biological like Soji? Not sure. Agnes calls it a golem. The world golem comes from Jewish folklore. It is an anthropomorphic creature made out of clay, animated and brought to life by magic. She then starts talking about mind transfer. It seems Altan has created an empty shell of a body, into which he plans to transfer a living mind. Apparently, Altan was the body guy, and Maddox dealt with what Altan calls substrates. Now I’m wondering, whose mind is gonna end up in that thing by the end of this show? I think Altan is planning it for himself. Perhaps because of his age. Maybe he too is dying. He says he recently regained an interest in mind transfer, along with a sense of urgency. His father, Doctor Noonian Soong, also worked on mind transfer and successfully transferred his wife’s mind into an android body at the time of her death. This android, Data’s mother, continued to live, believing that she was a human, rather than an android with all the memories and feelings of that deceased human. Data discovered the truth about this, and chose not to tell his mother what she really was. I wonder if she’s still out there. Sutra has a worrying plan. I understand where she’s coming from. All they have to defend themselves from the Romulan fleet is a few space flowers, an old man and his friends. They won’t last more than a few minutes. And I can’t argue with that. She wants to contact the alliance of synthetic life. Get them to come in and “bring hell” as Agnus put it last week. Wipe out the Romulans. Except, I don’t think they’ll stop there. They’ll wipe out all organic life in the alpha quadrant. Soji has an alternate plan. Repair the La Sirena and flee this world before the Romulans get here. Apparently there’s room in that little ship for the whole colony of synths. Sutra believes they will never be safe as long as the Zhat Vash is out there. Again, she’s probably right about that. But it doesn’t justify what she’s planning to do. She’s operating from cold logic. She lacks Soji’s humanity. And then Narak shows up. They found him and brought him in. It was cool that we got to see spot 2. An artificial cat. Again, I’m asking, is it a robotic cat, or did they manufacture it biologically, like Soji? This leads to a nice moment between Rios and Agnus. It shows that there really is still a spark of something between these two. It’s actually kind of sweet. We also get a nice scene between Raffi and Picard. She has finally, fully forgiven him for all that went on 14 years ago. We get a sense of just how close these two are. She means every bit to him as much as Riker, or Deanna, or Geordi does. There’s a really awkward moment between them as Raffi says she loves her. Picard shows a lot of growth as he manages to let himself say it back to her. Picard has never been one to express emotions to his crew. Heck, it took him seven years just to join his crewmates in their weekly poker game. I find Picard’s character arc very satisfying. I feel we’re seeing the fulfilment of an arc that began all the way back in Encounter at Farpoint. And that’s awesome. Also, I don’t read any hint of a romantic aspect to what these two are sharing. They love each other as close friends. That’s a thing. Rios and Raffi are off to repair their ship with a magic repair device. I believe this is the last we see of them this episode. Jean-Luc is unable to get a message through to Starfleet. That’s annoying. But it’s not like Clancy can’t figure out where he’s gone. She’s already got a squadron on its way to DS12 to help him. Let’s just hope Picard was smart enough to give her the coordinates of the planet before he set off without the squadron. I love how Narak is judging the synths on their treatment of him as a prisoner, and when Saga asks him how Romulans treat their prisoners, he says “Let’s change the subject.” There are two races you don’t want to be a prisoner of in the Star Trek universe. Cardassians, and Romulans. I also like that Soji is having none of Narak’s talk. He’s not gonna smooth talk her back into trusting him again. That would be a huge disservice to her character. As soon as the camera zooms in on her bird broach, we know it’s gonna be the weapon that kills her. Not only is Soji not trusting Narak. She’s very seriously considering killing him. She seeks Picard’s council. And we have an interesting conversation about the morality of killing, and the logic of sacrifice. He’s not an idiot. He is concerned about what she might be considering. Picard isn’t interested in having an academic philosophical debate. He wants to know what they’re really talking about. Sutra has a plan. And it makes sense. She knows her idea of calling the synth alliance is gonna be a hard sell. So she needs a way to convince her brothers and sisters. So she lets Narak go, makes it look like he escaped and killed Saga. Just another reason for the siblings to believe that organics cannot be trusted. When villains talk about sacrifice in stories, they’re always talking about someone else. But the true meaning of sacrifice is paying that cost yourself. Self-sacrifice. The one who suffers the loss is the one making the sacrifice. Both Soji and Sutra are considering “sacrificing” the life of another for what they consider to be the greater good. For Soji, she’s thinking of killing Narak. For Sutra, she lets her sister Saga die. Who actually carried out the murder? Her or Narak? It doesn’t really matter. Ultimately, Saga’s metaphorical blood is in Sutra's hands. The difference between Sutra and Soji is that Sutra carried out her plan. Soji is still wrestling with the ethics of hers. And then it’s too late. Everyone would have been better off if Soji had killed Narak (well, everyone except Narak) but does that justify it morally? Personally, I’d say no. But you can see Soji’s regret that she didn’t act sooner. Sop Sutra makes a speech to her people. The organics came here and now we have lost another sister. Notice how she puts all organics in one big basket. Narak and Picard are the same. They’re both organics. Organics are not to be trusted. This is the very definition of prejudice. It’s interesting to see the show demonstrating this prejudice from both sides, the Zhat Vash and the synths. I feel like all the themes that this show has explored are all converging at this moment. It’s really quite well done. And Altan Soong is siding with his synthetic children. He even helped Sutra create the beacon to contact the synth alliance. I wonder, does he believe he will be spared? Because it’s pretty obvious Sutra thinks that all organic life must be exterminated. Altan is right about one thing, though. Picard can’t guarantee that the Federation will listen to him. If anything, what sutra is planning to do will make the Federation fear synths even more. In a way, Picard is probably viewing these synths as his second chance to succeed, after he failed to help the Romulans. But soji says “we can’t be your means of redemption. We’re too busy trying to survive. So Picard is placed under house arrest. They agree to let Agnes go free with the promise that she will protect them as a mother protects her children. She would die for them. And now I get it. I’m certain that Altan wants to transfer into his synthetic body, so as to survive the coming apocalypse. They won’t kill him if he’s a synth too. Agnes will help him do that. But what about her? She’ll die too, unless she’s in a synth body. Meanwhile, Rios, Raffi, Enor and Seven are free, able to still help. But then so is Narak. And the Romulan fleet is 24 hours from the planet. Things are getting exciting. I’m very interested to see how it will play out next week, in the season finale. All in all, another great episode. I’m continuing to love this show. I haven’t hit any more milestones in my walk to Mordor since last episode. I’ve been a bit distracted, but I’ve still managed to go for my morning walk some days. The world is kind of crazy right now, isn’t it? The company I work for has decreed that everyone works from home until further notice. Which of course is business as usual for me as I work from home by choice anyway. I know a lot of schools in other countries have closed. Here in australia, our schools are largely staying open, but we’ve got school holidays coming up in a few weeks. The scariest thing locally is that we’ll soon be heading into our winter, and Tasmania has pretty cold winters, so people are going to be more vulnerable to disease. Anyway, stay hopeful. As Picard would say, don’t give in to fear. Don’t panic buy toilet paper or food. Just get what you need and then there’ll be enough for everybody. I’ll catch you next week for the season finale of Star Trek Picard. Live long and prosper. Make it so.
This week on "Star Trek: Picard" - The crew of La Sirena arrive at Soji's homeworld Coppelius, warn them of the impending Romulan attack, and uncover secrets. Join Erik and the two Michaels as they talk about "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1" - the 9th episode of "Star Trek: Picard." Which geeks disliked this episode? What did they think of a particular returning actor? Again... how is Allison Pill so good in every episode!? And how does this ramp up for the season finale? Find out on Geeks with Kids. What did you think of the latest episode Picard? Beam us a note at podcast@geekswithkids.ca or www.geekswithkids.ca Instagram: www.instagram.com/geekswithkids/ Twitter: twitter.com/geekswithkidscn Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/GeeksWithKidsPodcast/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCGBX7Iwb1KBQK_2wEjEpa7w iHeartRADIO: www.iheart.com/podcast/256-geeks-with-kids-31155162/ Twitch: www.twitch.tv/geekswithkids Tumblr: geekswithkids.tumblr.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/geekswithkids/message
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This week on "Star Trek: Picard" - Picard and Soji return to the La Sirena, Raffi tries to figure out a mystery in Rios' past, Jurati deals with her past demons, and Seven of Nine and Elnor try to reclaim the Artifact. Join Erik and the two Michaels as they talk about "Broken Pieces" - the 8th episode of "Star Trek: Picard." Which plot thread begin weaving together? Which hologram is their favourite? How is Allison Pill so good in every episode!? And who wants to see more of Seven as the Borg queen? Find out on Geeks with Kids. What did you think of the latest episode Picard? Beam us a note at podcast@geekswithkids.ca or www.geekswithkids.ca Instagram: www.instagram.com/geekswithkids/ Twitter: twitter.com/geekswithkidscn Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/GeeksWithKidsPodcast/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCGBX7Iwb1KBQK_2wEjEpa7w iHeartRADIO: www.iheart.com/podcast/256-geeks-with-kids-31155162/ Twitch: www.twitch.tv/geekswithkids Tumblr: geekswithkids.tumblr.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/geekswithkids/message
This week on Priority One, we Trek Out Star Trek's New York Comic con offerings, before heading to the Paley Center Red Carpet for interviews with the cast of Star Trek: Discovery! In Star Trek Gaming, #TrekOut the in-game events for Star Trek Online and the latest updated to Star Trek Fleet Command. Then, we look On Screen for our review of the latest Short Trek, "Q&A." Later, we hear from you in feedback! Of course, as always, before we wrap up the show, we'll open hailing frequencies for your incoming messages Let us know on social media like Facebook, Twitter, or by visiting our website! This Weeks Community Questions Are: What was your favorite piece of Star Trek news from New York? Was it the trailers, the release dates, the newest Short Trek? AND Now that the new STO Patrol UI has had a little time to settle in, how do you feel about the new system and the new Patrols? TREK IT OUT by Jake Morgan New York Comic Con - Star Trek: Discovery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8wy08KcdI4 If you wanna wake up in a city that doesn't sleep - then you go to New York City. BUT if you want to start spreading the news - well - you ALSO go to New York City. That's exactly what Star Trek's Discovery and Picard teams did for the Star Trek Universe panel, hitting Madison Square Garden on Saturday October 5th. At 1PM Eastern, Discovery's producers and stars, including Michelle Paradise, Heather Kadin, Alex Kurtzman, Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Mary Wiseman, Anthony Rapp, Wilson Cruz, and David Ajala, took over the Hulu theater at Madison Square Garden. While the team was - predictably - tight-lipped, they did shed a little light on Discovery's romp 930 years into the future. Series lead Sonequa Martin-Greene gave insight into the direction of the season, saying “That's what so exciting about season 3 is that when we jump to this future that is full of uncertainty, like we've all been saying. We have to grapple with how that's going to affect how we see ourselves, and then how we're going to navigate this. And sometimes it's ugly, and uncomfortable, and inconvenient, and hurtful - but duty calls.” Trek rookie, David Ajala, told the Madison Square Garden audience that we'll meet his character, Book, straight away ”Cleveland Booker, you'll meet in the first episode. You'll see early interactions between Cleveland Booker and Michael Burnham. It's slightly unorthodox but very exciting” New York Comic Con - Star Trek: Discovery Teaser Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ec8WnBHes But that's not all! The Discovery team brought a goodie for the NYCC crowd - Discovery's FIRST Season 3 Teaser Trailer! The one minute and ten second video, which ends by promising the new season in 2020, can be found in our show notes! Red Carpet Interviews From Paleyfest We caught up with several of these Trek Stars at PaleyFest NY during a Red Carpet event! Let's TrekOut our follow-up questions for Doug Jones, Sonequa Martin-Green, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, and Wilson Cruz! A huge thanks to Sue from Women At Warp for rushing to the Paley Center after a panel at the Javits Center to back me up on these interviews!! Be sure to #TrekOut their latest episode featuring an interview with Kate Mulgrew! New York Comic Con - Star Trek: Short Treks But that's STILL not all! Kurtzman referenced short treks, then said “Last season, obviously we had Captain Pike and Spock and Number One, and that was an incredible - I think - journey for everybody. And we heard you loud and clear how beloved those characters were and are, and so we did a bunch of Short Treks with them. The first one is actually dropping this very moment. It's LIVE right NOW.” And it did. But we'll discuss that in ON SCREEN! A schedule was also released for the remaining five Short Treks. Following the already released episode titled “Q&A”, … and will continue on October 10th with “The Trouble with Edward", November 14th with “Ask Not”, December 12th with “The Girl Who Made the Stars" and "Ephraim and Dot”, and will end on January 9th with “Children of Mars”. At the end of the trailer for “Q&A”, fans cheered and, as seems to be the case EVERY time Spock, Pike, and Number One are referenced, there were calls for a Pike-led series with a response from kurtzman saying “Yeah. I love that idea. We'll bring it to the board” New York Comic Con - Star Trek: Picard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FySrgrKJguE About 45 minutes into the panel, the Discovery team was tagged out by the Picard cast and crew. Kirsten Beyer, Hanelle Culpepper, Heather Kadin, Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Alex Kurtzman, Sir Patrick Stewart, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, Allison Pill, Harry Treadway, and Evan Evagora took the stage - and said less about what's to come in “Star Trek: Picard” than the Discovery team did of their show. The plot and characters of the highly anticipated series are under lock-and-key, but Sir Patrick brought goodies of his own - “Star Trek: Picard's” SECOND trailer! The team did spend a good deal of time sharing their memories of the show's genesis. Originally, brainstormed to be a #ShortTrek featuring Picard, it immediately grew into something bigger. But, according to Akiva Goldsman it was a hard no from Stewart. Alex Kurtzman: “Patrick walked in the room and was very reserved and gracious, as always, but very unsure.” Akiva Goldsman: “Wait No No. He wasn't unsure. He was sure. He said no.” Alex Kurtzman: “He was sure about saying no. He was positively negative about the whole thing.” Akiva Goldsman: “Yeah that was a No. I know a no.” Later, Stewart spoke about the importance of ensemble --- and how, this cast truly came together … saying “Well, you have used the word that has been most important to me since an April day in 1987. I looked on every aspect of Next Generation as being ensemble based. And in fact that has been very much an indicator of where I was in my career. That the ensembles that I've worked with whether they were in the theater, or film, or television have always been, to me, like another character. What the ensemble actually amounts to. And so I think when we first met and talked in those early discussions it was my use of that word as the ensemble and the uniting of the group. Because here we sit. Well I can only speak personally, kind of in love with these people on my left...and of course the people on the right too. And that's where the ensemble element comes from and it's very important.” Perhaps the most telling piece of the creative process they shared was about how they did not want this to be a TNG reunion show. Every character, every choice they made, had to influence and propel the story forward. “A big concern was we did not want it to be, and especially Patrick did not want it to be a TNG reunion show. And I think what you can even tell from the trailer, and what you'll definitely tell when you watch the series is, we only brought people back if their story really mattered to the story we were telling. We didn't want it to be like ‘Whoop, and then over here is Riker', you know, because I don't think the fans would have appreciated that either. And it was really important to Patrick, who obviously has long-standing, deep relationships with these people, that also if we're going to go to them and say ‘join a show that's called Picard' that we give them something significant to do. And I think that you'll see that each one of them has a pivotal emotional story to tell in our ten episodes.” Star Trek Online and Gaming News by Shane Hoover Events The Mycelial Crisis Hits Consoles Star Trek Online: Awakening, along with the new Event UI, Patrol UI, and new Patrols launches on Consoles October 15th. The Mycelial Crisis Event brings with it all of the rewards we've discussed on the show previously, like the T6 Elachi Qulash Frigate, 8 Elachi Crescent Wave Disruptor weapon packs, daily scaling Bonus Dilithium, and more. The Kobayashi Maru Returns to PC The Kobayashi Maru is stranded and in danger… again! From October 17th through November 7th, Captains above level 50 on PC can participate in this Featured TFO Event. Working with a team of 5 players, complete at least three levels per day of this TFO to earn daily progress. Complete 14 days of progress to unlock the Event prize - a Kobayashi Maru Resupply Beacon Device. Details of the device have yet to be announced. Priority One Armada News This week in Armada news - a couple more fleets, Alpha and Gamma are getting close to finalizing their Tier V upgrades to their colony holdings. Congrats to those fleets! Also, we have regular events, like TFO Tuesday and special events - like the Halloween Costume Contest - where we are giving away some pretty cool prizes Weekly Top Tip Today's tip can help take some frustration out of a TFO that can be difficult for newer players or uncoordinated teams, specifically the Tzenkethi Front TFO. The initial objective of the TFO is straightforward: destroy some Tzenkethi battleships to steal their Protomatter bomb devices. Next, you must carry the bomb to within range of one of five Tzenkethi mobile bases and activate the device without being interrupted. This is where the object can become frustrating if you're not prepared to work as a team. Even a single hit from a Tzenkethi enemy will interrupt your activation of the bomb device, making it a long and difficult slog to clear all five bases. But here's how you can be a hero to your next Tzenkethi Front team. Before entering the TFO, equip one of these to your build: the Tethered Non-Baryonic Asteroid ship trait, the Graviton Displacer universal console, or the Tractor Beam Repulsor power with a Graga Mal duty officer to change the repulsor into a pull effect. When your teammate picks up the bomb device, just escort them to the mobile base, trigger your equipped power of choice, and drag the enemy ships a safe distance away until the base is destroyed. You'll want to ensure that you've built your ship with enough toughness to handle any concentrated fire thrown by pulling a group of enemies close to you, of course. Step three, bask in the gratitude of teammates who appreciate your strategic thinking! As a bonus, similar tactics can prove useful in other TFOs like Gravity Kills or Operation Riposte. Give it a try! Other Gaming News Star Trek Fleet Command Armadas Early this week, the Star Trek Fleet Command social media outlets dropped a new video teasing the release of the Armada feature in the month of October. And within the game itself, details of the new system were outlined in patch 8.0 release notes. According to the patch notes, “Players use an Armada to band together with members of their Alliance to form a greater force that is capable of taking on tougher enemies.” These new enemies appear as Armada Targets within level 20 and higher star systems. They can only be attacked by Armadas, not solo players, and are immune to many combat bonuses and abilities. Defeat these Armada Hostiles to earn Armada Credits and upgrade your Armada Control Center. Leveling up the Control Center will unlock improved rewards in the Alliance store. Beware, though, because as you gather your Armada forces to attack the Armada Target, another Armada could arrive to attack you and take the Target for themselves. For full details, check the release notes in the in-game news system.
This week on Priority One, we Trek Out Star Trek’s New York Comic con offerings, before heading to the Paley Center Red Carpet for interviews with the cast of Star Trek: Discovery! In Star Trek Gaming, #TrekOut the in-game events for Star Trek Online and the latest updated to Star Trek Fleet Command. Then, we look On Screen for our review of the latest Short Trek, "Q&A." Later, we hear from you in feedback! Of course, as always, before we wrap up the show, we’ll open hailing frequencies for your incoming messages Let us know on social media like Facebook, Twitter, or by visiting our website! This Weeks Community Questions Are: What was your favorite piece of Star Trek news from New York? Was it the trailers, the release dates, the newest Short Trek? AND Now that the new STO Patrol UI has had a little time to settle in, how do you feel about the new system and the new Patrols? TREK IT OUT by Jake Morgan New York Comic Con - Star Trek: Discovery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8wy08KcdI4 If you wanna wake up in a city that doesn't sleep - then you go to New York City. BUT if you want to start spreading the news - well - you ALSO go to New York City. That’s exactly what Star Trek’s Discovery and Picard teams did for the Star Trek Universe panel, hitting Madison Square Garden on Saturday October 5th. At 1PM Eastern, Discovery’s producers and stars, including Michelle Paradise, Heather Kadin, Alex Kurtzman, Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Mary Wiseman, Anthony Rapp, Wilson Cruz, and David Ajala, took over the Hulu theater at Madison Square Garden. While the team was - predictably - tight-lipped, they did shed a little light on Discovery’s romp 930 years into the future. Series lead Sonequa Martin-Greene gave insight into the direction of the season, saying “That’s what so exciting about season 3 is that when we jump to this future that is full of uncertainty, like we’ve all been saying. We have to grapple with how that’s going to affect how we see ourselves, and then how we’re going to navigate this. And sometimes it’s ugly, and uncomfortable, and inconvenient, and hurtful - but duty calls.” Trek rookie, David Ajala, told the Madison Square Garden audience that we’ll meet his character, Book, straight away ”Cleveland Booker, you’ll meet in the first episode. You’ll see early interactions between Cleveland Booker and Michael Burnham. It’s slightly unorthodox but very exciting” New York Comic Con - Star Trek: Discovery Teaser Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ec8WnBHes But that’s not all! The Discovery team brought a goodie for the NYCC crowd - Discovery’s FIRST Season 3 Teaser Trailer! The one minute and ten second video, which ends by promising the new season in 2020, can be found in our show notes! Red Carpet Interviews From Paleyfest We caught up with several of these Trek Stars at PaleyFest NY during a Red Carpet event! Let’s TrekOut our follow-up questions for Doug Jones, Sonequa Martin-Green, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, and Wilson Cruz! A huge thanks to Sue from Women At Warp for rushing to the Paley Center after a panel at the Javits Center to back me up on these interviews!! Be sure to #TrekOut their latest episode featuring an interview with Kate Mulgrew! New York Comic Con - Star Trek: Short Treks But that’s STILL not all! Kurtzman referenced short treks, then said “Last season, obviously we had Captain Pike and Spock and Number One, and that was an incredible - I think - journey for everybody. And we heard you loud and clear how beloved those characters were and are, and so we did a bunch of Short Treks with them. The first one is actually dropping this very moment. It’s LIVE right NOW.” And it did. But we’ll discuss that in ON SCREEN! A schedule was also released for the remaining five Short Treks. Following the already released episode titled “Q&A”, … and will continue on October 10th with “The Trouble with Edward", November 14th with “Ask Not”, December 12th with “The Girl Who Made the Stars" and "Ephraim and Dot”, and will end on January 9th with “Children of Mars”. At the end of the trailer for “Q&A”, fans cheered and, as seems to be the case EVERY time Spock, Pike, and Number One are referenced, there were calls for a Pike-led series with a response from kurtzman saying “Yeah. I love that idea. We’ll bring it to the board” New York Comic Con - Star Trek: Picard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FySrgrKJguE About 45 minutes into the panel, the Discovery team was tagged out by the Picard cast and crew. Kirsten Beyer, Hanelle Culpepper, Heather Kadin, Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Alex Kurtzman, Sir Patrick Stewart, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, Allison Pill, Harry Treadway, and Evan Evagora took the stage - and said less about what’s to come in “Star Trek: Picard” than the Discovery team did of their show. The plot and characters of the highly anticipated series are under lock-and-key, but Sir Patrick brought goodies of his own - “Star Trek: Picard’s” SECOND trailer! The team did spend a good deal of time sharing their memories of the show’s genesis. Originally, brainstormed to be a #ShortTrek featuring Picard, it immediately grew into something bigger. But, according to Akiva Goldsman it was a hard no from Stewart. Alex Kurtzman: “Patrick walked in the room and was very reserved and gracious, as always, but very unsure.” Akiva Goldsman: “Wait No No. He wasn’t unsure. He was sure. He said no.” Alex Kurtzman: “He was sure about saying no. He was positively negative about the whole thing.” Akiva Goldsman: “Yeah that was a No. I know a no.” Later, Stewart spoke about the importance of ensemble --- and how, this cast truly came together … saying “Well, you have used the word that has been most important to me since an April day in 1987. I looked on every aspect of Next Generation as being ensemble based. And in fact that has been very much an indicator of where I was in my career. That the ensembles that I’ve worked with whether they were in the theater, or film, or television have always been, to me, like another character. What the ensemble actually amounts to. And so I think when we first met and talked in those early discussions it was my use of that word as the ensemble and the uniting of the group. Because here we sit. Well I can only speak personally, kind of in love with these people on my left...and of course the people on the right too. And that’s where the ensemble element comes from and it’s very important.” Perhaps the most telling piece of the creative process they shared was about how they did not want this to be a TNG reunion show. Every character, every choice they made, had to influence and propel the story forward. “A big concern was we did not want it to be, and especially Patrick did not want it to be a TNG reunion show. And I think what you can even tell from the trailer, and what you’ll definitely tell when you watch the series is, we only brought people back if their story really mattered to the story we were telling. We didn’t want it to be like ‘Whoop, and then over here is Riker’, you know, because I don’t think the fans would have appreciated that either. And it was really important to Patrick, who obviously has long-standing, deep relationships with these people, that also if we’re going to go to them and say ‘join a show that’s called Picard’ that we give them something significant to do. And I think that you’ll see that each one of them has a pivotal emotional story to tell in our ten episodes.” Star Trek Online and Gaming News by Shane Hoover Events The Mycelial Crisis Hits Consoles Star Trek Online: Awakening, along with the new Event UI, Patrol UI, and new Patrols launches on Consoles October 15th. The Mycelial Crisis Event brings with it all of the rewards we’ve discussed on the show previously, like the T6 Elachi Qulash Frigate, 8 Elachi Crescent Wave Disruptor weapon packs, daily scaling Bonus Dilithium, and more. The Kobayashi Maru Returns to PC The Kobayashi Maru is stranded and in danger… again! From October 17th through November 7th, Captains above level 50 on PC can participate in this Featured TFO Event. Working with a team of 5 players, complete at least three levels per day of this TFO to earn daily progress. Complete 14 days of progress to unlock the Event prize - a Kobayashi Maru Resupply Beacon Device. Details of the device have yet to be announced. Priority One Armada News This week in Armada news - a couple more fleets, Alpha and Gamma are getting close to finalizing their Tier V upgrades to their colony holdings. Congrats to those fleets! Also, we have regular events, like TFO Tuesday and special events - like the Halloween Costume Contest - where we are giving away some pretty cool prizes Weekly Top Tip Today’s tip can help take some frustration out of a TFO that can be difficult for newer players or uncoordinated teams, specifically the Tzenkethi Front TFO. The initial objective of the TFO is straightforward: destroy some Tzenkethi battleships to steal their Protomatter bomb devices. Next, you must carry the bomb to within range of one of five Tzenkethi mobile bases and activate the device without being interrupted. This is where the object can become frustrating if you’re not prepared to work as a team. Even a single hit from a Tzenkethi enemy will interrupt your activation of the bomb device, making it a long and difficult slog to clear all five bases. But here’s how you can be a hero to your next Tzenkethi Front team. Before entering the TFO, equip one of these to your build: the Tethered Non-Baryonic Asteroid ship trait, the Graviton Displacer universal console, or the Tractor Beam Repulsor power with a Graga Mal duty officer to change the repulsor into a pull effect. When your teammate picks up the bomb device, just escort them to the mobile base, trigger your equipped power of choice, and drag the enemy ships a safe distance away until the base is destroyed. You’ll want to ensure that you’ve built your ship with enough toughness to handle any concentrated fire thrown by pulling a group of enemies close to you, of course. Step three, bask in the gratitude of teammates who appreciate your strategic thinking! As a bonus, similar tactics can prove useful in other TFOs like Gravity Kills or Operation Riposte. Give it a try! Other Gaming News Star Trek Fleet Command Armadas Early this week, the Star Trek Fleet Command social media outlets dropped a new video teasing the release of the Armada feature in the month of October. And within the game itself, details of the new system were outlined in patch 8.0 release notes. According to the patch notes, “Players use an Armada to band together with members of their Alliance to form a greater force that is capable of taking on tougher enemies.” These new enemies appear as Armada Targets within level 20 and higher star systems. They can only be attacked by Armadas, not solo players, and are immune to many combat bonuses and abilities. Defeat these Armada Hostiles to earn Armada Credits and upgrade your Armada Control Center. Leveling up the Control Center will unlock improved rewards in the Alliance store. Beware, though, because as you gather your Armada forces to attack the Armada Target, another Armada could arrive to attack you and take the Target for themselves. For full details, check the release notes in the in-game news system.
This week, we Trek Out Star Trek's presence at San Diego Comic Con! Discovery, Short Treks, Lower Decks...Picard. All of it! Of course, as always, before we wrap up the show, we'll open hailing frequencies for your incoming messages! TREK IT OUT by Jake Morgan Discovery and Short Treks This is it. San Diego Comic Con. The biggest pop culture convention. In. The. World. And Star Trek was there in FULL force. On Saturday, July 20th, Star Trek's creative teams and on-screen talent took over the vaunted “Hall H” for an hour and a half, and gave us a taste of what's to come from our favorite franchise! First to take the stage was the Star Trek: Discovery team, including showrunner Michelle Paradise, Star Trek Franchise Lead Alex Kurtzman, Executive Producer Heather Kadin, Series Lead Sonequa Martin-Green, and series newcomer David Ajala. Kurtzman started the season 3 discussion by saying “So there will be lots of huge changes in season three. There will be things you recognize, there will be things you don't recognize. Part of the fun of it is that we get to honor canon but shake it up hugely. We're not erasing anything, so please don't worry about that. It's all still what it was” Kurtzman also discussed Discovery's newest character, “Book”. “His full name is Cleveland Booker and he will be a character who isn't exactly what you expect right away. When they get to the other side of the wormhole, they have big problems. In fact, even getting to find each other may be really difficult, because they may not have actually landed in the same place.” After announcing the addition of SIX new Short Treks, the panel released a one minute and forty-two second trailer that featured Anson Mount's Christopher Pike, a “Fascinating” Turbolift ride with Number One and Ensign Spock, and tribbles galore. Kurtzman explained that there will be THREE Short Trek's that include Pike, Number One, and Spock, two animated featurettes, and a Prequel to “Star Trek: Picard” that takes about 15 years prior to the series start. Finally, Alex Kurtzman teased a possible Pike series by saying “There's obviously been a lot of speculation about whether Pike and Number One and Spock would get there own show. So I guess my question to you guys is, do you want them to get their own show? [FANS CHEERING] Okay, we'll think about it.” Star Trek: Lower Decks Next to hit the stage was the team from Star Trek's upcoming animated-comedy - Star Trek: Lower Decks. During the panel, moderated by series regular Jerry O'Connell, Mike McMahon described the time frame of the show, saying “It takes place in 2380, so it's right after “Nemesis”, Voyager is back.I'm a TNG guy, I really wanted to do it like that” McMahon, with the help of panelists and series stars Tawny Newsome and Jack Quad, described the uptight Ensign Boimler and the Devil-May-Care Ensign Mariner saying “Boimler and Mariner are often given the same jobs and go about it in totally different ways.”. Of the newly-graduated-Medical Ensign Tandi, McMahon says “there's no gross alien illness that she's not just absolutely thrilled to be dealing with”. McMahon goes on to compare engineering Ensign Rutherford to another famous TNG engineer “like Geordie LaForge, he is amazing at engineering stuff, but unlike Geordie LaForge he DOES NOT solve the problems by the end of every episode” Finally, McMahon discusses the California-Class U.S.S. Cerritos' command crew “It was important to me that our ship felt like it was a real operating ship in Starfleet, and that there were characters in the ship, Senior officers, who consider it to be their show - even though it's not” Star Trek: Picard SDCC Panel Last, but certainly not least, the production team and cast of the upcoming “Star Trek: Picard” took the stage, and they did not disappoint. During their forty minute panel, the team discussed the highly anticipated series.. Sir Patrick Stewart and Alex Kurtzman reiterated points regarding Stewart's return to the character and the difference in tone between Picard and Discovery, with Producer Heather Kadin referring to Picard as more “Lyrical and Grounded” than Discovery. The cast could not say much about their roles, but most agreed with Allison Pill, who plays Dr. Agnes Jurati “think the really interesting thing about this cast as a whole is everybody here is pretty broken, in terms of their character, in very interesting ways and different to a lot of what we've seen. There's just a lot of lonely sad sacks.” Then, Sir Patrick Stewart introduced the series first full-length trailer. The excitement in Hall H was so high, they had to play it twice. In the two minute and nine second presentation, a conflicted Picard recalls the sacrifice of Commander Data and admits that, despite trying, he does not feel that he belongs on the family vineyard. A young woman -Dahj - approaches Picard in need of help, and the former Starfleet officer feels drawn to do so. We are introduced to the cast of the series with bits of action, a possible Borg experimentation facility, a Borg cube, and the ominous proclamation that “She's the end of all, she's the destroyer”. As the action slows, Star Trek: Voyager's 7 of 9 - portrayed by Jeri Ryan - asks Jean-Luc Picard if he's there to save the Galaxy. In the final scene, Picard is holding a hand of cards. He looks up and says “I don't want the game to end”, and it is revealed that Picard is speaking to Commander Data, who replies “I can see that Captain”. Following the trailer, Jeri Ryan, Brent Spiner, and “Star Trek: The Next Generation's” Hugh of Borg - John Del Arco - joined the panel. In responding to a question regarding his return to the iconic role of Data, Brent Spiner replied “The possibility of standing next to Patrick on a set again was just more I could say no to. And I had to consider the fans as well. To think that this was going to happen, and there was a possibility that I might be there - there was no way I could refuse that. Of course I had to be there.”. But Stewart and Spiner will not be the only Next Gen Alumni to appear on the upcoming series. Show-Runner Michael Chabon said “The joy on Patrick's face on the days when we've had returning cast members, and in particular one whose name came up earlier - but I just want to mention is a part of “Star Trek: Picard” - not only having directed 2 episodes, but will be returning along with Marina Sirtis, and that is Jonathan Frakes” Picard After The Panel With TV Line While the news that dropped on the stage of Hall H was HUGE, some of the clarifications after the panel were equally interesting. In a ten minute interview with TV Line, the cast shed some light on what we saw and heard. John Del Arco, the actor who played the Borg “Hugh” in “Decent”, confirmed Hugh's status. “I can confirm to you that I'm still a part Borg, and that I am a developed human version of the last time I saw [Picard]. As they're leaving the planet [In “Decent, Part II”], I say ‘well what are we going to do now, we have no leader?' and Picard says ‘I don't think that's true'. So the implication being, in TNG, I ended up with this colony of Borg. And all I can say is that he has developed further in his leadership capacities.” Brent Spiner also cleared up any confusion about who he'll be playing in the upcoming series. When asked if he was indeed playing Data, not B4, Spiner elaborated “Correct, although i think in that draw is B4. But Data is indeed on the show. I spoke to Alex Kutzman about this morning to be able to say that, not to lead you down a path, but he isn't in every episode. He makes some appearances, but he is IN THE SHOW in other ways” Sir Patrick spoke about his thoughts on more of his Star Trek: The Next Generation costars joining him on Picard. Stewart was clear that he did not want to remake TNG, and said “I know that our lovely fanbase were hoping that they would see the crew of the Enterprise all back. But no, that's NEVER going to happen, but there are encounters - some of which have been shot, some of which are only still in the planning stage. But hopefully we will have more than one season and there will be other opportunities. And apart from the principal cast of Next Generation, there were other characters that we encountered at different times who also might show up again”Finally, Stewart teased a return to the TNG uniform, saying “I did strongly make the point that I did not want to be in a uniform. At all. And I spoke strongly about that, and I have just made myself look slightly foolish by insisting that in the end of next week's work, I will be in a uniform [...] It's a flashback, and I said in order for this to have the right kind of context, I need to be in a uniform.”
This week, we Trek Out Star Trek’s presence at San Diego Comic Con! Discovery, Short Treks, Lower Decks...Picard. All of it! Of course, as always, before we wrap up the show, we’ll open hailing frequencies for your incoming messages! TREK IT OUT by Jake Morgan Discovery and Short Treks This is it. San Diego Comic Con. The biggest pop culture convention. In. The. World. And Star Trek was there in FULL force. On Saturday, July 20th, Star Trek’s creative teams and on-screen talent took over the vaunted “Hall H” for an hour and a half, and gave us a taste of what’s to come from our favorite franchise! First to take the stage was the Star Trek: Discovery team, including showrunner Michelle Paradise, Star Trek Franchise Lead Alex Kurtzman, Executive Producer Heather Kadin, Series Lead Sonequa Martin-Green, and series newcomer David Ajala. Kurtzman started the season 3 discussion by saying “So there will be lots of huge changes in season three. There will be things you recognize, there will be things you don’t recognize. Part of the fun of it is that we get to honor canon but shake it up hugely. We’re not erasing anything, so please don’t worry about that. It’s all still what it was” Kurtzman also discussed Discovery’s newest character, “Book”. “His full name is Cleveland Booker and he will be a character who isn’t exactly what you expect right away. When they get to the other side of the wormhole, they have big problems. In fact, even getting to find each other may be really difficult, because they may not have actually landed in the same place.” After announcing the addition of SIX new Short Treks, the panel released a one minute and forty-two second trailer that featured Anson Mount’s Christopher Pike, a “Fascinating” Turbolift ride with Number One and Ensign Spock, and tribbles galore. Kurtzman explained that there will be THREE Short Trek’s that include Pike, Number One, and Spock, two animated featurettes, and a Prequel to “Star Trek: Picard” that takes about 15 years prior to the series start. Finally, Alex Kurtzman teased a possible Pike series by saying “There’s obviously been a lot of speculation about whether Pike and Number One and Spock would get there own show. So I guess my question to you guys is, do you want them to get their own show? [FANS CHEERING] Okay, we’ll think about it.” Star Trek: Lower Decks Next to hit the stage was the team from Star Trek’s upcoming animated-comedy - Star Trek: Lower Decks. During the panel, moderated by series regular Jerry O’Connell, Mike McMahon described the time frame of the show, saying “It takes place in 2380, so it’s right after “Nemesis”, Voyager is back.I’m a TNG guy, I really wanted to do it like that” McMahon, with the help of panelists and series stars Tawny Newsome and Jack Quad, described the uptight Ensign Boimler and the Devil-May-Care Ensign Mariner saying “Boimler and Mariner are often given the same jobs and go about it in totally different ways.”. Of the newly-graduated-Medical Ensign Tandi, McMahon says “there’s no gross alien illness that she’s not just absolutely thrilled to be dealing with”. McMahon goes on to compare engineering Ensign Rutherford to another famous TNG engineer “like Geordie LaForge, he is amazing at engineering stuff, but unlike Geordie LaForge he DOES NOT solve the problems by the end of every episode” Finally, McMahon discusses the California-Class U.S.S. Cerritos’ command crew “It was important to me that our ship felt like it was a real operating ship in Starfleet, and that there were characters in the ship, Senior officers, who consider it to be their show - even though it’s not” Star Trek: Picard SDCC Panel Last, but certainly not least, the production team and cast of the upcoming “Star Trek: Picard” took the stage, and they did not disappoint. During their forty minute panel, the team discussed the highly anticipated series.. Sir Patrick Stewart and Alex Kurtzman reiterated points regarding Stewart’s return to the character and the difference in tone between Picard and Discovery, with Producer Heather Kadin referring to Picard as more “Lyrical and Grounded” than Discovery. The cast could not say much about their roles, but most agreed with Allison Pill, who plays Dr. Agnes Jurati “think the really interesting thing about this cast as a whole is everybody here is pretty broken, in terms of their character, in very interesting ways and different to a lot of what we’ve seen. There’s just a lot of lonely sad sacks.” Then, Sir Patrick Stewart introduced the series first full-length trailer. The excitement in Hall H was so high, they had to play it twice. In the two minute and nine second presentation, a conflicted Picard recalls the sacrifice of Commander Data and admits that, despite trying, he does not feel that he belongs on the family vineyard. A young woman -Dahj - approaches Picard in need of help, and the former Starfleet officer feels drawn to do so. We are introduced to the cast of the series with bits of action, a possible Borg experimentation facility, a Borg cube, and the ominous proclamation that “She’s the end of all, she’s the destroyer”. As the action slows, Star Trek: Voyager’s 7 of 9 - portrayed by Jeri Ryan - asks Jean-Luc Picard if he’s there to save the Galaxy. In the final scene, Picard is holding a hand of cards. He looks up and says “I don’t want the game to end”, and it is revealed that Picard is speaking to Commander Data, who replies “I can see that Captain”. Following the trailer, Jeri Ryan, Brent Spiner, and “Star Trek: The Next Generation’s” Hugh of Borg - John Del Arco - joined the panel. In responding to a question regarding his return to the iconic role of Data, Brent Spiner replied “The possibility of standing next to Patrick on a set again was just more I could say no to. And I had to consider the fans as well. To think that this was going to happen, and there was a possibility that I might be there - there was no way I could refuse that. Of course I had to be there.”. But Stewart and Spiner will not be the only Next Gen Alumni to appear on the upcoming series. Show-Runner Michael Chabon said “The joy on Patrick’s face on the days when we’ve had returning cast members, and in particular one whose name came up earlier - but I just want to mention is a part of “Star Trek: Picard” - not only having directed 2 episodes, but will be returning along with Marina Sirtis, and that is Jonathan Frakes” Picard After The Panel With TV Line While the news that dropped on the stage of Hall H was HUGE, some of the clarifications after the panel were equally interesting. In a ten minute interview with TV Line, the cast shed some light on what we saw and heard. John Del Arco, the actor who played the Borg “Hugh” in “Decent”, confirmed Hugh’s status. “I can confirm to you that I’m still a part Borg, and that I am a developed human version of the last time I saw [Picard]. As they’re leaving the planet [In “Decent, Part II”], I say ‘well what are we going to do now, we have no leader?’ and Picard says ‘I don’t think that’s true’. So the implication being, in TNG, I ended up with this colony of Borg. And all I can say is that he has developed further in his leadership capacities.” Brent Spiner also cleared up any confusion about who he’ll be playing in the upcoming series. When asked if he was indeed playing Data, not B4, Spiner elaborated “Correct, although i think in that draw is B4. But Data is indeed on the show. I spoke to Alex Kutzman about this morning to be able to say that, not to lead you down a path, but he isn’t in every episode. He makes some appearances, but he is IN THE SHOW in other ways” Sir Patrick spoke about his thoughts on more of his Star Trek: The Next Generation costars joining him on Picard. Stewart was clear that he did not want to remake TNG, and said “I know that our lovely fanbase were hoping that they would see the crew of the Enterprise all back. But no, that’s NEVER going to happen, but there are encounters - some of which have been shot, some of which are only still in the planning stage. But hopefully we will have more than one season and there will be other opportunities. And apart from the principal cast of Next Generation, there were other characters that we encountered at different times who also might show up again”Finally, Stewart teased a return to the TNG uniform, saying “I did strongly make the point that I did not want to be in a uniform. At all. And I spoke strongly about that, and I have just made myself look slightly foolish by insisting that in the end of next week’s work, I will be in a uniform [...] It’s a flashback, and I said in order for this to have the right kind of context, I need to be in a uniform.”
The girls have returned with some more killer 2000s content!! Today the girls discuss Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen in all its delightful quirkiness and ridiculousness. Audrey and Helen discuss the heinous practice of open auditions, what makes a good boy butt, and Queen Carol Kane. Get ready to LOL at the sheer silliness of it all! ALSO, whoever rated this movie low enough for it to have a 13% on Rotten Tomatoes is seriously disturbed...THANK YOU to Sami Kelly for our adorable cover art and Nicklaus Martin for our killer theme song!Helen: @helenmanganaroAudrey: @audpen@y2kcastWHAT WOULD YOU LIKE US TO DISCUSS?? Send us a DM, we'd love your input!
Berkreviews.com Movie Club episode 074 - Milk (2008) Jonathan (@berkreviews) and Corey (@coreyrstarr) continue the month of June and the theme of LBGTQ+ movies with Gus Van Sants 2008 film, Milk. The movie stars Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, James Franco, Diego Luna, and Allison Pill. It's a biopic about Harvey Milk, which Jonathan knew almost nothing about. The two really enjoyed the movie and go into details as to why in the spoiler section. Next episode - My Own Private Idaho (1991) By coincidence, Jonathan picked another Gus Van Sant film for the next episode of Movie Club. My Own Private Idaho (1991) starring Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix. It is available to watch on iTunes, Vudu, Amazon, or wherever you can digitally stream. Email your thoughts on this film, Milk, or the podcast to contact@berkreviews.com and share the episodes! SUPPORT BERKREVIEWS.COM Subscribe at Patreon – http://www.patreon.com/berkreview One time donation @ Berkreviews.com and click the donate butt --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/berkreviewscom-moviecasts/support
I don't like it when tv titles give me orders. I'll be afraid of the dark if I goddamn want to be. I just choose not to be. Independent of any outside orders. In this episode, Allison Pill continues to believe that her insane wife is seeing clowns. Until she realizes she's insane. Then right back into believing her. It's a vicious circle, folks. Despite this sarcastic tone, this is my favorite episode of the last 5 seasons. Yes, it's been a bit of a dry spell for success for AHS. www.LIWstudios.com
I don't like it when tv titles give me orders. I'll be afraid of the dark if I goddamn want to be. I just choose not to be. Independent of any outside orders. In this episode, Allison Pill continues to believe that her insane wife is seeing clowns. Until she realizes she's insane. Then right back into believing her. It's a vicious circle, folks. Despite this sarcastic tone, this is my favorite episode of the last 5 seasons. Yes, it's been a bit of a dry spell for success for AHS. www.LIWstudios.com
Oh, Heavenly Dog! This week's episode features two terrific comics and is otherwise delightful and fantastic. First of all, the hilarious ANDY KINDLER is here to make Julie cry off her eye makeup with laughter. Learn what Andy's mom said about Joe Paterno, what Andy said in Montreal this year that ruffled comedy feathers, and how Todd Solondz's last name is pronounced. Then, ADIRA AMRAM, curly-tressed musical comedic dyamo is here to tell us what it was like growing up on a farm, selling cheese, gravitating toward leotards, and naming a cat something very special. Also, Billy Bush's stupid vacation story, the dumb lady who brought her kid to yoga, a spooky story about a haunted hotel, and Allison Pill's herky jerky acting choices on THE NEWSROOM. Plus--Hitler! Sausalito! The Jets! Scientology! And the pros of being A Plain Girl. What a wonderful show for you and me...and baby makes three!
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