Podcast appearances and mentions of Brent Spiner

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Episode 124  Like many visual effects artists of a certain vintage, Jeff Okun didn't plan on a career in VFX. In fact, by his own account, he didn't even plan to work in film at all. "I'm a completely accidental human being," he told me with a chuckle. His ambitions began on a very different stage — as a stand-up comic — until a sharply atheistic routine delivered at home earned him a lifetime ban from performing in front of his parents. Instead, Okun's creative outlet took the form of magic tricks, homemade stunts, and Super 8 visual gags. “I would blow up model ships and fake fights in rush hour traffic,” he said, “and I'd be in the bushes filming with ketchup for blood.” All of this childhood chicanery ultimately gave way to a fascination with the trickery of movies — the kind of illusions you could only pull off with careful camera work, sleight-of-hand editing, and an appetite for mischief. Learning the Craft the Hard Way Okun's first job in film was with the legendary graphic designer and filmmaker Saul Bass. The experience was, in Okun's words, “awful,” but also profoundly formative. As Bass's gopher-turned-editor, Okun was thrown into the deep end. “I hated him,” he laughed. “But he taught me everything: editing, sound, post-production supervision, how to shoot, how to frame. It was a masterclass.” Working for Bass meant operating in a visually precise, effects-heavy style — layering camera moves, creating in-camera effects, and often relying on labor-intensive optical printing processes. When optical houses turned down Bass's business — too exacting, too expensive — Okun stepped in with cost-saving workarounds and pricing schemes that actually worked. “We doubled the budget, added a contingency, and somehow still landed exactly on target.”“By the end of it, I ended up loving the man,” Okun said. “Not because he gave me a break, but because he was so specific and difficult to please that when you did please him, it meant something. He learned how to prep lineup sheets, how to composite with interpositives, and how to break down 140-layer optical shots into manageable components. “I was just the fix-it guy. I didn't know what I was doing half the time. I still don't.” VFX by Way of Accident It wasn't long before optical houses and producers began calling on Okun when their films were in trouble. One fix led to another. His reputation grew as someone who could step into a crisis and calmly solve it — usually with a combination of ingenuity, humour, and brute-force trial and error. “I think Saul trained me to see puzzles. That's what it comes down to — seeing what's broken and putting it together in a way that works. Most of the time, it wasn't about having the right answer. It was about trying 50 wrong ones.” This kind of lateral thinking came into its own on films like Stargate (1994), where Okun — working with Jeff Kleiser and Diana Walczak's fledgling CG company — had to convince director Roland Emmerich that computer graphics were even worth attempting. “Roland didn't believe in CG. So we built the shot, made the CG glider deliberately less detailed to match the miniature footage. Showed it to him. He said, ‘Exactly — that's what I'm talking about. Miniatures are the way to go.' And we said, ‘Nope. All CG.' That's when he finally came around.” (Fun fact, VFX supervisor Jeff Okun was paid homage by Brent Spiner in Independence Day in the role of Dr. Brackish Okun. There's uh, a slight resemblance.) - Credit to Nofilmschool.comPenguins, Moose, and the Invisible Effect Okun is quick to point out he wasn't a Star Wars kid. In fact, he avoided the original film for weeks on principle — he doesn't do queues. But he did get a behind-the-scenes tour of ILM's original Van Nuys facility courtesy of Bass and George Lucas. There, he saw motion control rigs, Richard Edlund on his knees filming the crawl, Phil Tippett animating the chess game, and pyro tests in the parking lot. It was, he admits, a little magical — though it didn't change the fact that his creative allegiance remained with illusion, not spectacle. “My favourite effects are the invisible ones. I started out as a magician. The goal is to make people believe there's no trick. That's where the real artistry is.” Still, that didn't stop him from sneaking penguins and moose into the background of multiple films. He once gave a horse antlers in a Cameron Crowe movie. In Blood Diamond, he added a huge penguin family to a wide evacuation shot — no one noticed. “It's like the gorilla basketball video. You just don't see what you're not looking for.” The Shark That Ate Sam Perhaps his most famous — or infamous — contribution to pop culture came on Deep Blue Sea. Samuel L. Jackson had just delivered a particularly rough eight-page monologue, and Okun, unimpressed with the script, asked Jackson what he wanted to do. “He just said, ‘Kill me.' So I said, ‘If you make it to the front of the moon pool, I'll kill you.'” The surprise shark attack that interrupts Jackson mid-speech is now legendary. It wasn't in the script. “Renny Harlin didn't know until the day,” Okun said. “Sam did take after take but always got to the kill spot early. We cut the rest. I shot the elements. It was a massacre. We even had baby sharks pull him apart for fun.” The Changing Landscape Much of our conversation revolved around the changing realities of visual effects — the rise of AI, the complications of LED walls, and the shifting expectations from directors and studios. “People think VFX is just hitting the ‘do it right' button and then the ‘do it fast' button,” he said. “There's so little appreciation for how hard this stuff is, and we've done ourselves no favours by making it all invisible.” He sees today's VFX artists as increasingly anonymous — a shift he's spent much of his career trying to reverse, both through his own visibility and via his tenure at the Visual Effects Society. “We don't sell our artistry. We sell our software. You know the names of the DPs, but no one can name last year's VFX Oscar winners. That's not sustainable.” The Invisible War Stories At the end of our chat, Okun expressed a desire to tell more of the “true” stories of VFX — the screw-ups, the late-night fixes, the shots that weren't supposed to work. He wants more people to know that the chaos behind the curtain is often where the real creative breakthroughs happen. “It's always fun. That's the only reason I still do it. And when it's collaborative, when it's people bouncing ideas off each other, it's magical. That's when everyone forgets the pain and just remembers the movie.”All the Filmumentaries Links

Devil's Due (Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG), S4 E13) was recommended by IronBoomer, and he/him, who said: This episode is pure Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner at their best, and our guest actress of Marta Dubois is so much fun. While it ends up just being a legal drama and half-bottle episode, everyone is bringing their A-Game to this episode.Devil's Due first aired on February 4, 1991, written by story by Philip LaZebnik & William Douglas Lansford, teleplay by Philip LaZebnik, and directed by Tom BenkoA powerful mythic figure from a millennium ago returns to enslave a planet in accordance with a contract. However, Picard is convinced she is an opportunistic charlatan. Guest star Marta DuBois as Ardra.The Joy of Trek is hosted by Khaki & Kay, with editing & production by Chief Engineer Greg and music by Fox Amoore (Bandcamp | Bluesky)Send us your recommendations, or support us on Patreon.Find us at joyoftrek.com · Twitter · Facebook

Diane and Sean are out of their element as they discuss Star Trek: Generations. Episode music is, "Star Trek Generations Overture", by Dennis McCarthy from the OST.-  Our theme song is by Brushy One String-  Artwork by Marlaine LePage-  Why Do We Own This DVD?  Merch available at Teepublic-  Follow the show on social media:-  BlueSky: WhyDoWeOwnThisDVD-  IG: @whydoweownthisdvd- Tumblr: WhyDoWeOwnThisDVD-  Follow Sean's Plants on IG: @lookitmahplants- Watch Sean be bad at video games on TwitchSupport the show

Ground Hog day. National tater tot day. Entertainment from 2011.Baseball's National League formed, Mexican-American war ended, Polygraph used for 1st time. Todays birthdays - Graham Nash, Howard Bellamy, Farrah Fawcett, Brent Spiner, Christie Brinkley, Shakira. Chris Kyle died.Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/It's Ground Hog day - Jack HarmannTater Tot rapHold it against me - Britney SpearsSomewhere with you - Kenny ChesneyBirthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/Carrie Anne - The HolliesIf I said you had a beautiful body (would you hold it against me) - Bellamy BrothersLet your love flow - Bellamy BrothersCharlies Angels TV themeUptown girl - Billy JoelWhenever Wherever - ShakiraExit - Its not love - Dokkenhttps://coolcasts.cooolmedia.com/

Star Trek: Generations – Retrospective. Join hosts Trevor and Jason as they discuss the 1994 Box-Office hit with Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner and William Shatner Debate/Conversation Topic: An in-depth discussion of Star Trek: Generations, including detailed plot breakdown, historical relevance, critical reaction, and merchandising. Directed by David Carson. Plus much more, tune in now!  

It's time for my annual report on trans rep in movies and television! I dive into all recent media I saw in 2024 and cover the good, the bad, and the oh god not again. Features discussion of Ghostbusters Afterlife, I Saw the TV Glow, Lisa Frankenstein, Monkey Man, Next Goal Wins, The People's Joker, The Substance, Transformers One, and more! Writer, journalist, and filmmaker Jessie Earl returns to discuss Brent Spiner and taking care of yourself! If a trans falls in the woods... JESSIE EARL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JessieGender1 Bluesky: @jessiegender.bsky.social Identiteaze on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jessiegender-identiteaze Jumpgate podcast: https://councilofgeeks.libsyn.com TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/01/21/trans-representation-in-2024-media-part-1-movies/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Implicit Queerphobia, Bad Representation: Lovecraft Country, Bad Representation: Emilia Peréz, Transmedicalism REFERENCE MATERIAL ‘Monkey Man' Star Vipin Sharma on Playing a Trans Role in Dev Patel's Directorial Debut - https://variety.com/2024/film/news/monkey-man-vipin-sharma-trans-dev-patel-1235964874/ How Legendary Trans Soccer Player Jaiyah Saelua Made FIFA History - https://www.them.us/story/jaiyah-saelua-last-goal-wins-taika-waititi-film Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Twitter: @pendantweb Facebook: facebook.com/pendantaudio Tumblr: pendantaudio.tumblr.com YouTube: youtube.com/pendantproductions

Anthony and Laurie happily welcome Gates McFadden back to All Access Star Trek to talk about season 3 of her podcast, InvestiGates. She talks about her guests, the challenges of interviewing people you already know well, having to listen to yourself, the dangers of over-articulating when Brent Spiner is your guest, her thoughts on the chances of a Legacy series happening, and more. Happy holidays, and see you in 2025!

Anthony and Laurie happily welcome Gates McFadden back to All Access Star Trek to talk about season 3 of her podcast, InvestiGates. She talks about her guests, the challenges of interviewing people you already know well, having to listen to yourself, the dangers of over-articulating when Brent Spiner is your guest, her thoughts on the chances of a Legacy series happening, and more. Happy holidays, and see you in 2025!

A spilt michelada traps Mariner, Tendi and T'Lyn in a time-dilated planet, turning their one-minute mission into a year-long journey. Jim and A.Ron make every second count as they discuss Brent Spiner's exciting return as Data, if beluga whales have a glass ceiling, and why you don't really want two chief science officers. Beam your feedback to startrek@baldmove.com. Hey there! Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts! Join the Club! Join the discussion: Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Star Trek Lower Decks Breakdown of 'Fully Dilated' In our latest episode of Make It So, A Star Trek Legacy Podcast on the Film Stories Podcast Network, Geoff Owen continues the coverage of Star Trek Lower Decks Season 5 with Brandi Jackola We dive into the details of Episode 7 titled 'Fully Dilated', discussing character developments, particularly Mariner and Tendi, and how they contrast with their past selves. We breakdown the comedic elements, particularly Rutherford and Boimler's mishaps, and the appearance of fan-favourite characters like Brent Spiner's Data. Join us as we explore the themes, character arcs, and where the series might be heading as it approaches its finale. 00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction 01:15 Lower Decks Season 5 Overview 02:37 Character Development: Mariner's Journey 04:32 Beards and Facial Hair in Star Trek 06:24 Episode Breakdown: Fully Dilated 21:33 Guest Characters and Cameos 25:00 Alternate Universes and Timelines 28:35 Connecting the Dots: Alternate Timelines and Universes 29:08 Data's Role and Tendi's Obsession 32:13 T'lyn's Talents and Tendi's Struggles 38:34 The Transporter Room Disaster 42:59 Tendi and T'lyn: A Resolution 45:55 The Future of the Crew and Series Speculations 51:22 Final Thoughts and Farewell Host/Editor Geoff Owen Guest Brandi Jackola Make It So on socials: https://linktr.ee/makeitso Film Stories Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warehouse 13 Fancast Lead Agent Shannon fight for a promotion from the B Team to the A Team and Agent Carolyn is adamant that today is not a good day to die while Janitor SP follows the ghosts of Agents past through the Warehouse. The Agents review and rewatch the Warehouse 13 season 4 ten episode and mid season finale S4E10 "We All Fall Down." The Agents determine that Shannon is NOT the smartest person in the room, assess if this episode was better or worse than the previous episode, compare and contrast Leena and Jink's deaths, worry about the state of the Dark Vault, say farewell to Brent Spiner's portrayal of Brother Adrian, how gullible the Orchid protectors were, discuss what neutralizing an artifact means, enlighten Shannon on the notable guest star, run down the episode's creative team, fawn over Saul Rubinek's acting, list of artifacts used, look into the history of the Sweating Sickness and Black Plague, and respond to more awesome feedback. Thank you so much for listening to our coverage of Warehouse 13. Artie's Attic: A Warehouse 13 Fancast will return in 2025. Email: warehouse13fancast@gmail.com X: https://www.x.com/syfygurl X: https://www.x.com/ocean363 Best place to find SP: http://www.GonnaGeek.com/discord All music and sound effect used on this episode were purchased on http://www.pond5.com Find more Artie's Attic content and other shows on the Lone Wolf Podcasts network at: http://www.lonewolfpodcasts.com LINKS DISCUSSED IN THE PODCAST EPISODE: 10 of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Craziest Cheat Meals: https://www.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/news/2020/1/the-rock-crazy-cheat-meals https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-rocks-cheat-meals Support Artie's Attic: A Warehouse 13 Fancast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/arties-attic-warehouse-13-fanc

Warehouse 13 Fancast Lead Agent Shannon gets to talk to a member of the Warehouse team she rarely talks to and Agent Carolyn watches the entire Harry Potter series while Janitor SP spends some time with cheerleaders all with the name of Heather. The Agents review and rewatch the Warehouse 13 season 4 fourth episode S4E04 "There's Always a Downside." The Agents discuss the episode artifacts, Hugo's hidden agendas, Warehouse 13 security, absent Internal Affairs, the episode's notable guest stars, Brent Spiner's acting range, what's really driving Brother Adrian, the cost of running a high school, trumpet requirements, Jink's new quest, and Pete's marble focus. The Agents also take a listener question about the metronome and a tv series recommendation. Stay after the credits for some bonus content. Thank you so much for listening to our coverage of Warehouse 13. Artie's Attic: A Warehouse 13 Fancast will release Thursday nights most weeks. Email: warehouse13fancast@gmail.com X: https://www.x.com/syfygurl X: https://www.x.com/ocean363 Best place to find SP: http://www.GonnaGeek.com/discord All music and sound effect used on this episode were purchased on http://www.pond5.com Find more Artie's Attic content and other shows on the Lone Wolf Podcasts network at: http://www.lonewolfpodcasts.com LINKS DISCUSSED IN THE PODCAST EPISODE: Largest Rube Goldberg Machine - Guinness World Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpLDfkLBJ0Q Hancock (2008): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448157/ Bee-Nado: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNhw1Tcposw Support Artie's Attic: A Warehouse 13 Fancast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/arties-attic-warehouse-13-fanc

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of Three & 1/2 Gentlemen, as they continue their mission to explore and review the sci-fi adventure 90's classic, Star Trek: First Contact, starring Patrick Stewart, Alfre Woodard, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton and directed by Jonathan Frakes. Many fans agree that First Contact, is one of the most beloved movies in the Star Trek franchise. The hosts pair the film with the Borg Queen Cocktail. So let's join the Enterprise as the hosts follow Captain Picard and his crew into battle to save the future in this exciting film. Come listen and follow us on Instagram @the.gentlemenpodcast and our website thegentlemenpodcast.com

The One Where it's Lore vs Data Are you looking for a podcast that talks exclusively about nuts? Then this is not the podcast for you! Haley and Sara return with another episode covering the 3rd Season of Picard. This episode, Dominion not only teases us with Tuvok, but it also showcases the talent of Brent Spiner as Data, Lore, B4 and more! What a ride. But that's not all we talk about! I give Haley a little recap of my trip to STLV and we of course talk other nonsense. So tune in and tune out and have a laugh with us as we talk Trek.

The One Where it's Lore vs Data Are you looking for a podcast that talks exclusively about nuts? Then this is not the podcast for you! Haley and Sara return with another episode covering the 3rd Season of Picard. This episode, Dominion not only teases us with Tuvok, but it also showcases the talent of Brent Spiner as Data, Lore, B4 and more! What a ride. But that's not all we talk about! I give Haley a little recap of my trip to STLV and we of course talk other nonsense. So tune in and tune out and have a laugh with us as we talk Trek.

Send us a Text Message.On our 87th episode we're looking back at the year 1996, a simpler time when humanity came together and made big hits out of unsophisticated and unabashedly emotional sci-fi adventures. We're talking Independence Day directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Mary McDonnell, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, Brent Spiner, Vivica A. Fox and Randy Quaid and Star Trek First Contact directed by Jonathan Frakes and starring Patrick Stewart, Frakes, Brent Spiner, Levar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden, Alfre Woodard, Alex Krige and James Cromwell.  I'm Gino Caputi and returning for the follow up to our sci fi 1994 episode which compared Emmerich's Stargate to the previous TNG Star Trek film subtitled Generations are  author/hypnotist Joe Field and Utah IT tech and reformed TNG superfan Burton Brown.  Gentlemen, welcome. Before we get into it, the synopses: The people of the planet Earth are utterly astonished and horrified when on July 2nd 1996, an enormous spacecraft, half the size of the moon, launches 10 city-sized spacecraft over the world's major cities which proceed to blow them to smithereens. It's up to President Tom Whitmore, Ace Fighter Pilot Captain Steve Hiller and MIT genius David Levinson to devise a plan on Independence Day to stop the alien army.  In Star Trek First Contact Captain Jean-Luc Picard's old foe the cybernetic Borg return to conquer the Federation once and for all by traveling back in time to the mid 21st Century to stop Warp Drive Pioneer Zefram Cochrane from making first contact with an advanced alien species. Picard and his brave crew of the brand new USS Enterprise E risk losing their ship and being stranded in the 21st Century forever when they follow the Borg into the past in order to thwart their nefarious plan.  Which film is the winner of the battle of the invincible aliens? Find out!  Follow the FFF Facebook page!https://www.facebook.com/groups/fabulousfilmandfriends Watch  on Youtubehttps://youtu.be/LbLkiV0XkGc

Wagon Train to the stars, INDEED! Worf gets cajoled into playing cowboy with Alexander in the holodeck program he wrote with Barclay (who's mentioned but doesn't appear.) Troi gets in on the fun as the mysterious stranger, but then it all goes wonky when Datas start breaking the computer systems all over the ship. Crusher's play gets corrupted by Data's poem, Picard's flute music sucks, and cat food is in all the replicators. Cat food? This Western-themed holodeck-gone-wrong episode is also a slice-of-life one, too. Cicero Holmes, host of Discovery Debrief, rejoins to shoot the shit on this Monte Cristo as Brent Spiner eats so much scenery he's in danger of losing his foot. Get in touch with us on BlueSky @ReEngageTNG.bsky.social!    Host: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG)  Special Guest: Cicero Holmes (@stubbystan on Twitter, host of Discovery Debrief) Panel: Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter), Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG), and Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG)  Audio Editor: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG) Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com Theme music: Ryan Marth   Next up is the s6e9 "The Quality of Life" hosted by Kate!

Season four finally starts proper after last week's bizarre opener. First up, the crew goes "Home" and does a take on TNG's "Family" if it was a slog and had really bad lessons woven into it. After that: it's part one of what will be multiple three-parters in the final season of "Enterprise" as Brent Spiner guest stars as one of his own ancestors to take us to the "Borderland"! Also this week: fun with umlauts, big square heads, and Tuvok! [timestamps: Home: 01:18; Borderland: 45:55; Mr. Vulcan: 1:11:50] [dance on over to the tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/sshbpodcast/754390653323100160/character-spotlight-tuvok?source=share]

THIS VOYAGE, the Treksperts MARK A. ALTMAN (author, The Fifty Year Mission, writer/producer, Pandora, Agent X, The Librarians, writer/producer Free Enterprise), DAREN DOCHTERMAN (associate producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition) and ASHLEY E. MILLER (showrunner; DOTA: Dragon's Blood, writer, X-Men: First Class, Thor) are joined by ole yellow eyes himself, BRENT SPINER, as we discuss his remarkable career, the life death and life of Data and download all the deets on your favorite android. Who knows, he0- might even sing a song or two... **Join us on our new INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS DISCORD Channel at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/7kgmJSExeh⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ SUBSCRIBE TO TREKSPERTS PLUS TODAY... and get every episode of INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS and our new podcast, INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS presents DECK 78 along with additional bonus content and surprises all season long. For more details, visit trekkspertsplus.com. Don't miss us as the TREKSPERTS INGLORIOUS TOUR 2024 LIVE TOUR continues as we beam down to San Diego Comic-Con, Galaxycon Raleigh, STLV - Trek To Vegas, Galaxycon San Jose, CA and many more this year!  For more information, go to galaxycon.com, creationent.com and comic-con.org. Learn all that is learnable about Star Trek in Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross' THE FIFTY-YEAR MISSION, available in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from St. Maritn's Press.  Follow Inglorious Treksperts at @inglorioustrek on Twitter, Facebook and at @inglorioustreksperts on Instagram. And now follow the Treksperts Briefing Room at @trekspertsBR, an entirely separate Twitter & Instagram feed. "Mark A. Altman is the world's foremost Trekspert" - Los Angeles Times #StarTrek #TOS #TAS #TNG #DS9 #VOY #ENT #DISCO #PICARD #LLAP #comics #IDW #Marvel #DC #GoldKey #Discovery #DeepSpaceNine #STTMP #StarWars  #CaptainPike #StrangeNewWorlds #55YearTour  #casting #ST55 #StarTrek55 #TheCage #StrangeNewWorlds #SNW #Voyager #Janeway #Enterprise #TheSearchForSpock #StarTrekIII #BSG #TMP #Trekkies #Alien #Aliens #DavidFincher #BestofTrek #EnterpriseIncidents #IDW #comics #DS9 #DeepSpaceNine #PicardSeason3 #StarTrekPicard #Picard #Borg #PicardSeason3 #StarTrekPicard 

It's All Been Trekked Before #372  Season 12, Episode 33  Star Trek: The Next Generation #7.17 "Masks"      Jeffrey from Meta Trek returns, who loves the concept but not the execution. Stephen unfavorably compares it to TOS. Jimmy-Jerome applauds Spiner and Stewart's commitment.  Jeffrey's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/MetaTrek   Edited by Jerome Wetzel, with assistance from Resound.fm   It's All Been Trekked Before is produced by IABD Presents entertainment network. http://iabdpresents.com Please support us at http://pateron.com/iabd Follow us on social media @IABDPresents and https://www.facebook.com/ItsAllBeenTrekkedBefore 

Send us a Text Message.On this episode of Fabulous Film and Friends we are looking back at two middling, lackluster sci-fi adventures from 1994 that have mysteriously stood the test of time: Stargate, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Kurt Russell, James Spader, John Diehl, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors, Erick Avari, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, Leon Rippey, French Stewart, and Djimon Hounsou, which was released in October of ‘94 then Star Trek: Generations which was released a month later, was directed by David Carson and starred Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Levar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFaddon, Malcolm McDowell, Walter Koenig, James Doohan and William Shatner.  I'm Gino Caputi your host, and back for more, especially if Star Trek is to be discussed I have series regular and IT tech Burton Brown, and representing the fresh eyes of the younger, non-cynical generation, author hypnotherapist Joe Field.  The synopses: In Stargate, a crack squad of US Special Forces led by Colonel Jack O'Neill with an assist from archeologist Dr. Daniel Jackson travel through a mysterious circular dimensional portal that was discovered in Giza Egypt in 1928 and kept a secret by the military until the mysteries of the portal could be unlocked. Once on the other side, Jackson and O'Neil discover they are on the planet Abydos with a culture very similar to ancient Egypt. There they befriend the locals and do battle with the god Ra, revealed to be an alien who has enslaved humans on this planet and is intent on destroying the human race on Earth through the Stargate.  In Star Trek Generations a single-minded, pleasure-seeking and murderous Dr. Tholian Soran attempts to destroy an entire solar system in order to get back into a heaven-like, temporal portal in the universe called The Nexus. It is up to the crew of the Starship Enterprise D, led by Captain Jean Luc Picard to stop Soran. Unfortunately, Picard proves to be too weak for the task and finds his ship and crew destroyed, the mission failed and he himself is trapped in the Nexus. Except…Captain James T. Kirk is also in the Nexus having landed in it 78 years earlier the Enterprise B encountered The Nexus on a rescue mission. Picard and Kirk join forces, leave the Nexus and stop Soran through the power of team work.  San Francisco Chronicle Film Critic Mick LaSalle, when summarizing the 1994 Year in Film wrote, “In 20 years will anyone still be watching Stargate? Or Star Trek Generations?”  I agreed with him wholeheartedly that these films were nothing but forgettable, but here we 30 years later and are still watching these works. Add to that, Stargate has had five spinoff  TV series on the subject and they're still planning cinematic reboots. Star Trek Generations was listed implausibly as a one of the great epics in the 2004 book Epic movies and will forever be remembered as the film that killed off Captain Kirk.  So, the burning question is WHY have these films endured?  Find out! The Youtube Version:https://youtu.be/K-irgi8Vp88 Follow the FFF Facebook page!https://www.facebook.com/groups/fabulousfilmandfriends 

Today is our Independence Day! And it's the start of June Doom III: Revenge of the Doom, where we dive into apocalyptic movies. First order of destruction: alien invasion! From Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, Brent Spiner, Adam Baldwin, and about a billion other people. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegenxfiles/support

It's All Been Trekked Before #370  Season 12, Episode 31  Star Trek: The Next Generation #7.16 "Thine Own Self"      Jeffrey from Meta Trek joins Stephen and Jimmy-Jerome to talk character development, budgeting issues, and more.  Jeffrey's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/MetaTrek   Edited by Jerome Wetzel, with assistance from Resound.fm   It's All Been Trekked Before is produced by IABD Presents entertainment network. http://iabdpresents.com Please support us at http://pateron.com/iabd Follow us on social media @IABDPresents and https://www.facebook.com/ItsAllBeenTrekkedBefore 

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is as good an action movie as has been made.  Charlize Theron is a large part of that.  So, we get Anya Taylor-Joy as young Furiosa in a prequel film to Mad Max: Fury Road in Furisa: A Mad Max Saga.  ...And it's very good, probably even great.   0:10:45 - Box Office and upcoming releases. 0:17:45 *** What's Streaming  *** AMAZON INDEPENDENCE DAY, Dir. Roland Emmerich – Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia, Randy Quaid, James Rebhorn, Harvey Fierstein, Adam Baldwin, Brent Spiner, Vivica A Fox, Harry Connick Jr. Mae Whitman, 1996. FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR, Dir. Randal Kleiser - Paul Reubens, Cliff de Young, Veronica Cartwright, Sarah Jessica Parker, 1986. 0:22:00 - Trailers:  LATE BLOOMERS – Karen Gillan, Feature. REVERSE THE CURSE – Logan-Marshall Green, David Duchovny, Feature. TRIGGER WARNING – Jessica Alba, Feature.   0:28:14 - FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA, Dir. George Miller  ( Grayson 8 / Roger 8 )   Hosted, produced and mixed by Grayson Maxwell and Roger Stillion.  Also hosted by Christopher Boughan.  Music by Chad Wall. Quality Assurance by Anthony Emmett. Visit the new Youtube channel, "For the Love of Cinema" to follow and support our short video discussions.  Please give a like and subscribe if you enjoy it.   Follow the show on Twitter @lovecinemapod and check out the Facebook page for updates.  Rate, subscribe and leave a comment or two.  Every Little bit helps.  Send us an email to fortheloveofcinemapodcast@gmail.com

Finish your chess match then listen this month as Austin and Big T talk about the 1996 sci-fi action film, Independence Day. Join us as we discuss some of our favorite scenes  and the most ridiculous parts of the film. We also talk about the financial success of this movie as well as ask ourselves, “What is the central message of this film?”So grab your headset and tune in, then join us next month when we discuss the 2020 drama comedy Minari. Write into us at layersoffilmpod@gmail.comFollow us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok: @layersoffilmpod

Thomas wakes up beaten up in someone else's room, Alice and Alpha are nowhere to be seen, and he doesn't remember where they were supposed to meet up.Thanks to @KeylligraphyInk for the logo design.  The tracks used in this episode are Enemy Spotted by Jess who you can find on twitter @ Roadkill_Ghost and Without You (Instrumental) by Forget the Whale which is from Freemusicarchive.org and are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)Masks is by Magpie Games, you can find them hereFind Us Online:Twitter: www.twitter.com/dicefiendsDiscord: https://discord.gg/j54FrbhTwitch: www.twitch.tv/thedicefiendsCast and Crew:GM: ShannonSavior: MattNoire: Chell About Us: Welcome to Dice Fiends, we are an actual play podcast that runs games in over a dozen systems with a rotating and diverse cast of players. But one thing's for certain: whether we're powered by the apocalypse or grabbing as many d6's as we can hold in shadowrun: We're fiends for the sounds of rolling dice. You can find us every other Wednesday on Itunes, Spotify, or wherever you get good podcasts

It's my adventure at FanExpo Cleveland! Chatting with Star Trek star, Brent Spiner, actor Ethan Suplee (Mallrats, My Name Is Earl), iconic voice actor Fred Tatasciore (Star Wars, New Looney Tunes), FanExpo's Jerry Milani, and a SUPER announcement from the Siegel & Shuster Society about Cleveland's tribute to Superman!FanExpo logo TM & copyright © FanExpo […]

Zak went to Galaxy Con Richmond. He got to check out panels from Picard season 3 show runner, Terry Matalas. Data himself, Brent Spiner. And the Captain himself, William Shatner! He also got to go to the premier of You Can Call Me Bill, and share his thoughts. All that and more! #startrek #startrektng #startrekpicard #picard #data #williamshatner #captainkirk #convention #galaxycon  Social Media: Instagram/Tik Tok- Thrillmepodnet Facebook- Thrill Me Podcast RAZE ENERY: Get 15% off your online purchase with the promo code: THRILLME Website: https://reppsports.com/?rfsn=7467439.bee858&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=7467439.bee858 Patreon: Thrill Me Podcast Network Links: https://linktr.ee/thrillmepodnet Tee Public Store: T-Shirts by Thrill Me Podcast Network | TeePublic Amazon Unlimited 4 months  Free link: https://www.amazon.com/music/unlimited/?tag=haunterspodca-20&ref_=dmm_acq_asc_inf_us_haunterspodca-20_pbdd

Zak went to Galaxy Con Richmond. He got to check out panels from Picard season 3 show runner, Terry Matalas. Data himself, Brent Spiner. And the Captain himself, William Shatner! He also got to go to the premier of You Can Call Me Bill, and share his thoughts. All that and more! #startrek #startrektng #startrekpicard #picard #data #williamshatner #captainkirk #convention #galaxycon  Social Media: Instagram/Tik Tok- Thrillmepodnet Facebook- Thrill Me Podcast RAZE ENERY: Get 15% off your online purchase with the promo code: THRILLME Website: https://reppsports.com/?rfsn=7467439.bee858&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=7467439.bee858 Patreon: Thrill Me Podcast Network Links: https://linktr.ee/thrillmepodnet Tee Public Store: T-Shirts by Thrill Me Podcast Network | TeePublic Amazon Unlimited 4 months  Free link: https://www.amazon.com/music/unlimited/?tag=haunterspodca-20&ref_=dmm_acq_asc_inf_us_haunterspodca-20_pbdd

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In this week's episode, I rate the movies and TV shows I shaw in Winter 2024. This week's coupon is for the audiobook of GHOST IN THE PACT as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of GHOST IN THE PACT for 50% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code: MARCHEXILE The coupon code is valid through April 5th, 2024, so if you find yourself needing an audiobook to leap into spring, we've got one ready for you! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 192 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is March 15th, 2024, The Ides of March, which we're traditionally told to beware, and today we are looking at my Movie and TV Review Roundup for Winter 2024. Before we do that, we will do Coupon of the Week, an update on my current writing projects, and our Question of the Week. So first up, Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon is for the audiobook of Ghost in the Pact, as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook for Ghost in the Pact for 50% off at my Payhip store with this coupon: MARCHEXILE and that is spelled MARCHEXILE. As always, the coupon code will be in the show notes. This coupon code is valid through April the 5th 2024. So if you find yourself needing an audiobook on this Ides of March, we've got one ready for you. So an update on my current writing projects. I am about 56% of the way through the first edit of Ghost in the Veils. That means the book should be on track to come out before Easter (which is at the end of March this year), if all goes well. I'm also 40,000 words into Wizard Thief, so hopefully that will come out before too much longer after Ghost in the Veils. I'm 11,000 words into Cloak of Titans. So that is where we're at with my current writing projects. 00:01:19 Question of the Week Now on to our new feature: Question of the Week. This week's question is inspired by the fact that I've spent a lot of the last few weeks setting up my new computer and getting it configured properly. So the question is: what is the first computer you ever used? No wrong answers, obviously. Joachim says his first personal computer was an Atari 1040 ST with 1 MB of RAM. I participated in the “religious war” with the Amiga 500 users, which was better and looked down at the MS-DOS PCs, which only has 640 kilobytes of RAM. Justin says: my first computer was a Timex Sinclair. It had two kilobytes of RAM and I forked out $50 for the 16 KB RAM extender module. The manual that comes with it says you will never need this much memory. I use a cassette tape recorder/player to record more programs and it ran a 300 baud. Todd says his first computer was in 1994. I purchased a 486 DX 2 8 megabytes of RAM for use in school. I believe the hard drive was about 250 MB. The monitor weighed a ton. I wrote a bunch of machine code and played Wolfenstein 3D like crazy. Tarun says in 1993 it was a 386 with four megawatts of RAM with Windows 3.1. I played a lot of Prince of Persia and got bad grades in school. Then the computer was locked up. In my educational defense, I did do some Pascal programming. AM says: my first computer was an Apple IIe at school. Getting to play Number Munchers or Oregon Trail on it was some kind of behavioral reward (and a very effective one at that). William says his first computer was a Macintosh SE in my parent's home office, though “using” is an overstatement since all I did was play a few simple preinstalled games. I also have fond memories of playing the original King's Quest with said parents and something like a Compaq Portable. Rich says Commodore 64 with cassette drive. Didn't have cassette the first day. Spent the whole day punching in code for a blackjack game. My sister walks into the room to turn the computer off, erasing everything. That is a bummer. Juana says: a Gateway. My whole family came to gawk at it, and me setting it up! It had 120 megabytes of RAM. Twice what was the ones that used in the college computer lab! I thought I was set for life. Venus says Commodore Vic20. We played Radar Rat Race and Mom gave us a stack of computer magazines and tape recorder, so we played every game that was in the magazines at the time after we typed in the programs and saved them to the tapes. You are the first person outside my family that ever heard also had one. More on that later. Cheryl says: we got our first computer in the early ‘90s: an Amstrad with an AWA printer. I was doing courses for work, so I needed something to print the assignments, but we also played games on it: Wolfenstein, Lemmings, and Stock Markets. They're the only ones I can remember. Craig says: Apple IIe. I'm oldish. With dot matrix printer and handheld modem, dial-up Internet access, the one you had the dial phone into the holding cradle after you called it in. Tracy says: at college we used the TRS80s. I think she may win the award for oldest computer mentioned in this topic. And Perry says: IBM PC clone at school, a friend's family had a Commodore 64. Our first family computer was a Commodore 128. For myself, I had the same first computer as Venus earlier in the thread. That would be a Commodore Vic20. It had 20 kilobytes of RAM and the Word file for the rough draft of Ghosts in the Veils, which I'm editing right now, is 355 kilobytes in size. So to load the Microsoft Word document of Ghosts in the Veils in Microsoft Word format, I would need about 18 different Commodore Vic 20 computers. That's like 1 computer per chapter and a half. So it is amusing to see how computer technology has changed quite a bit over time. 00:04:56 Winter 2024 Movie/TV Review Roundup Now to our main topic. We are inching closer to spring, so I think it's time for my Winter 2024 Movie Review Roundup. I got a Paramount Plus subscription to watch the Frasier reboot and since Paramount owns Star Trek and the Frasier reboot was only 10 episodes long, I ended up watching a chunk of modern Star Trek this winter. This was a new-ish experience because the last new Star Trek I watched was Star Trek Beyond way back in 2016. That was only eight years ago, but it's been a very eventful eight years, you know? I did watch a lot of Star Trek back in the 1990s. If you had held a gun to my head and demanded, you know, if I consider myself a Trekkie, I would say no, because I think Gene Roddenberry's socialist/utopian vision for the Federation that he put into Star Trek is fundamentally kind of goofy. The shows and movies were at their best when they stayed away from it or subverted it, like how the Federation can only be a utopia because Starfleet seems to have a Black Ops section that does all the unsanctioned dirty work and regularly runs amuck. Or like how Starfleet seems to have an actual mad science division that cooks up all kinds of nasty stuff. So anyway, these are the movies and shows I watched in Winter 2024, and as always, my ratings are wholly subjective and based on nothing more rigorous than my own opinions. We will go through these in order from least favorite to most favorite. So the first movie I watched was Now You See Me, which came out in 2013. Last year, I compared Adam Sandler's Murder Mystery movie to a C- student, but a fun C- student who everyone likes for his great parties and goes on to have a successful career as a regional sales manager. By contrast, Now You See Me is the sort of moody art student who always wears a black porkpie hat and thinks of himself or herself as deep and complicated, but in fact, they're just confusing. This is an apt comparison for this movie. Anyway, the plot centers around four sketchy magicians who are recruited by a mysterious organization called The Eye to carry out a series of high-profile heists using stage magic. I have to admit, that concept sounds even more ridiculous as I said the previous sentence. Anyway, after the first heist, the magicians become fugitives from the FBI but keep carrying on shows, sometimes staying ahead of law enforcement. The trouble is that nothing they do makes very much sense, and it all falls apart if you think about it for more than two seconds. Additionally, the movie overall feels very choppy since they rushed from scene to scene very quickly. The actors all gave very good performances that were entertaining to watch, but honestly, that was about the only thing the movie had going for it. Overall grade: D- Next up is The Marvels, which came out in 2023. This movie was logically incoherent, but actually rather charming and funny. It kind of reminds me of those ‘70s or ‘80s style science fiction movies that don't make much sense, though The Marvels was much lighter in tone than anything that came out in the science fiction space in the ‘60s or ‘70s. The movie got a bad rap because it didn't make back its budget, and apparently Disney rather shamefully threw the director under the bus. But to be fair, the budget for The Marvels was an enormous $274,000,000. To put this into context, the top three movies of 2023 (Barbie, Super Mario Brothers, and Oppenheimer) combined had a total budget across these three movies of $350 million, and together they grossed something like 15 times more than The Marvels did. Anyway, the plot picks up from the end of Ms. Marvel when Kamala Khan, Captain Marvel, and Monica Rambeau discover that their superpowers have become entangled. This means that if two of them use their powers at the same time, all three of them switch places randomly. This makes for a rather excellent fight scene earlier in the movie when the three characters don't know what's going on and are randomly teleporting between three different battles, much to the frequently amusing confusion of all participants. Once things settle down, Captain Marvel and her new friends realize that an old enemy of Captain Marvel is harvesting resources from worlds she cares about. So it's up to them to save Earth from this old enemy's vengeance. I have to admit, the plot of the movie didn't actually make much sense, but it was overall much funnier than Ant-Man 3 and Secret Invasion. The best thing about the movie was Kamala Khan and her family. Kamala, Monica, and Captain Marvel also had an entertaining dynamic together and the planet of space musicals was also pretty funny. I think the movie's biggest, unconquerable weakness was that it was the 33rd Marvel movie. There are all sorts of theories of why the movie didn't perform at the box office: superhero genre fatigue, everyone knew it would be on Disney Plus eventually, the lasting effects of COVID on movie theaters and the movie business, Disney throwing the director under the bus, Disney inserting itself into the US Cultural Wars, etcetera. All those reasons are subjective and subject to personal interpretation. What I think is objectively quantifiable is that The Marvels is the sequel to a lot of different Marvel stuff: The Avengers movie, Wandavision, Captain Marvel, the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, Secret Invasion, and Thor: Love and Thunder. That's like 50 to 60 plus hours of stuff to watch to fully understand the emotional significance of all the various characters in The Marvels. 50 to 60 hours of watching sounds like almost an entire entire semester's worth of homework assignments at this point. As someone who has written a lot of long series, I know that you lose some of the audience from book to book. I think that's ultimately why The Marvels didn't make back its budget. The Marvel movies as a series have just gone on too long and are just too interconnected. Ultimately, I am grateful to The Marvels. Realizing and understanding the concept of Marvel Continuity Lockout Syndrome helped me decide to write something new that wasn't a sequel or even connected to anything else I had written, which eventually led to Rivah Half-Elven and Half-Elven Thief. Overall grade: B- Our next movie is My Man Godfrey, which came out all the way back in 1936. This movie is considered the progenitor or one of the progenitors of the screwball comedy genre. A homeless man named Godfrey is living in a trash dump in New York, though despite his circumstances, Godfrey remained sharp and quick on his feet. One night, a wealthy woman named Cornelia approaches him and offers $5 if he'll come with her. Godfrey is naturally suspicious, but Cornelia assures him that she only needs to take him to a hotel to win a scavenger hunt by finding a forgotten man, which was a term President Roosevelt used to describe people who have been ruined by the Great Depression and then forgotten by the government. I have to admit, Cornelia immediately reminded me of the way the more obnoxious YouTubers and TikTokers will sometimes pay homeless people to participate in dance challenges and suchlike. King Solomon was indeed right when he said that there is nothing new under the sun and what has been done before will be done again. Anyway, Godfrey is offended by Cornell's imperious manner but after he sees Cornelia bullying her kindly but none too bright younger sister Irene, Godfrey decides he'll go with Irene so she can win. A grateful Irene offers him a job as the family's butler. At his first day at work, Godfrey very soon realizes the reason the family has gone through so many butlers: they are all certified certifiably and comedically insane. In addition to these other problems, Cornelia is harboring a massive grudge against Godfrey for losing the scavenger hunt and wants payback. Wacky hijinks ensue. Fortunately, Godfrey has some hidden depths that he will need, which include being much smarter than his employers. Admittedly, this is not hard. 1936 was towards the second half of the Great Depression in the United States, so obviously the movie has more than a bit of social commentary. The characters joked that prosperity is just around the corner and wonder where they can find that corner. The rich characters are uniformly portrayed as some combination of frivolous, clueless, or malicious. I think the movie was pretty funny, if sharply so, but the big weakness was that the male and female leads were so clearly unsuited for each other but got together at the end of the movie simply because it was the end of the movie. Still, it was definitely worth watching because you can see how this movie influenced many other movies after it. I definitely recommend watching it with captions if possible, because while human nature has not changed in the last 90 years, sound technology has in fact improved quite a bit. Overall grade: B. Next up is Charade, which came out in 1963. This is a sort of romantic comedy, sort of thriller that has Audrey Hepburn playing Regina, an American living in Paris who is in the process of getting divorced from her husband. When she returns to Paris, she learns that her husband was murdered in her absence and it turns out that he was in possession of $250,000 he stole from the US government during World War II. Regina had no idea about any of this, but the US government thinks that she has the money stashed away somewhere. It turns out that her late husband also betrayed the men he worked with to steal the money and they're convinced that she has the money as well, and they're going to get it from Regina regardless of what they have to do. Regina's only ally in this mess is a mysterious man calling himself Peter Joshua (played by Cary Grant), who may or may not be one of the other thieves operating under an assumed identity. I liked this movie, but I think it had two structural problems. First, Regina wasn't all that bright, though she did get smarter as the movie went on, probably out of sheer necessity. Second, it had some severe mood whiplash. The movie couldn't decide if he was a lighthearted romantic comedy or gritty thriller, though finally snapped into focus as a pretty good thriller in the last third of the movie. Amusing tidbit: Cary Grant only agreed to do the movie if Audrey Hepburn's character would be the one chasing his character in their romance, since he thought their age gap would be inappropriate otherwise, because he was so much older than Hepburn at the time of filming. Overall grade: B+ Next up is the new Frasier series from 2023. I admit I had very, very low expectations for this, but it was considerably better than I thought it would be. My low expectations came partly because the original show was so good. Some seasons were stronger than others, of course, but the show had some absolute masterpieces of sitcom comedy throughout its entire run. Some of this was because I think the 2020s are a much more humorless and dour age than the 1990s, so I had my doubts whether the new show could be funny at all. Fortunately, my doubts were misplaced. The new Frasier is actually pretty good. It's interesting that the show's generational dynamic has been flipped on its head. In the original show, the pretentious Frasier lived with his working-class father. 20 years later, it's now Frasier who lives with his son Freddie, who dropped out of Harvard to become a firefighter and consciously rejected his father's love of intellectualism and cultural elitism. The inversion of the original dynamic works quite well. It has some moments of genuine comedy because, like his father before him, Freddie is more like his father than he realizes. The show also avoided the pitfall of bringing back legacy characters that Disney and Lucasfilm stumbled into with Star Wars and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Disney brought back legacy characters like Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones but made them into sad, old losers. Frasier, by contrast, while frequently an unsympathetic comedy protagonist who brings his own misfortunes onto his own head, is most definitely not a sad old loser. He's famous, respected, and wealthy enough that he can afford to buy an apartment building in Boston at the drop of a hat. If you know anything about the United States, you know that the East Coast is the most expensive area of the of the country. Despite that, he remains the same well-meaning buffoon that he always was, the sort of man who, as a colleague aptly says, always goes that extra, ill-advised mile. There's a story that when Ricky Gervais was advising the creators of the American version of The Office, one of his chief pieces of advice was that Michael Scott could not be as incompetent as David Brent was in the original UK version of the show. American culture, Mr. Gervais said, was generally much less forgiving of incompetence than British culture. I thought of this as I watched Frasier because all the characters were in fact extremely competent at their jobs. Even Frasier himself, when he finally gets out of his own way, is a very good psychiatrist and teacher. Anyway, the show was funny and I think it deserves a second season. We'll see if that happens or not. Overall grade: A- Next up is Star Trek: Lower Decks Seasons One through Four, which came out from between 2020 and 2023. As I mentioned earlier, I ended up subscribing to Paramount Plus for a month after I watched Frasier, so I decided to watch Star Trek Lower Decks, since I'm forever seeing clips of that show turning up on social media. Lower Decks is a pitch perfect, affectionate parody of Star Trek from the point of view of four relatively hapless ensigns on the Cerritos, one of Starfleet's somewhat less prestigious ships. We have the self-sabotaging rebel Mariner, the insecure and ambitious Boimler, the enthusiastic science girl Tendi, and cheerful engineer Rutherford, who nonetheless has a dark and mysterious past that he can't remember. Season Four also adds T'Lyn, a Vulcan whose mild expressions of carefully measured annoyance make her a dangerous loose cannon by Vulcan standards. The show is hilarious because it makes fun of Star Trek tropes while wholeheartedly embracing them. The ensigns run into a lot of insane computers, random space anomalies, rubber forehead aliens, and other Star Trek tropes, including the grand and venerable Star Trek tradition of the Insane Admiral. Starfleet officers always seem to go off the deep end when they get promoted to Starfleet Command. The senior officers are also varying degrees of insane and drama generators. Starfleet, from the point of view of the Cerritos crew, is a vast bureaucratic organization that veers between ineffective idealism, blatant careerism, and whatever crazy project the Insane Admiral of the Week is pursuing. Yet since American sitcom characters have to be competent (like we just talked about above with Frasier), when the crisis really kicks into high gear, the Cerritos crew can pull itself together and save the galaxy with the best of them. I did like how the show grows from an affectionate parody to its own thing, with all the characters experiencing struggles and personal growth in their arcs. I liked it enough that when the 5th season of Lower Decks comes out, I'll subscribe to another month of Paramount Plus (assuming Paramount Plus still exists and hasn't been brought up by Warner Brothers or Skydance or something). Overall grade: A- Next up is Predator, which came out in 1987. When Carl Weathers died in early February of 2024, I realized I had never actually got around to seeing Predator. So I did and I'm glad that I watched it. Predator was an excellent blending of thriller, science fiction, and horror. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Dutch, who commands a team of operators who do Black Ops work for the CIA. Since it's 1987, the CIA is up to its traditional shenanigans in Central America and Dutch is dispatched to help out his old friend Dillon (played by Carl Weathers), who has been ostensibly assigned to rescue a Pro-American cabinet minister from rebel guerrillas in the jungle. Since this is the CIA, naturally there is more than the mission than is apparent on the surface. However, the mission quickly becomes irrelevant when Dutch and his team realize they are being hunted by an unknown creature with capabilities unlike anything they have ever seen before. It turns out the creature is the Predator, an alien hunter who comes to Earth and takes human skulls as trophies. Soon the movie turns into a death match duel between Dutch and the Predator. The movie did a very good job of showing the Predator's capabilities such as stealth, heat vision, and his shoulder laser without explicitly spelling them out for the audience. It was a very well put together piece of storytelling and it is of course the source of the famous Internet meme of a muscular white arm gripping a muscular black arm and also Schwarzenegger's famous line of “Get to the choppa!” Also to quote a famous Internet meme, if you had a nickel for every future governor of a US state who is in this movie, you would have two nickels, which is not a lot, but even two is pretty weird, right? Overall grade: A. Now for the favorite thing I saw in winter 2024. That honor goes to Star Trek: Picard Season Three, which came out in 2023. Honestly, this was so much better than I thought it was going to be. I thought I would watch one or two episodes and then give up. Instead I watched the whole thing in like two days over the New Year's holiday. I watched the first episode of Picard Season One way back in 2020 was free on YouTube, but I didn't like it enough to subscribe to CBS All Access (or whatever the heck it was back then). The first episode also seemed more ponderous and dour in the sort of 21st century realistic prestige television snooze fest than I really wanted to watch. But Season Three of the show got high reviews from people whose opinions I generally respect when it came out in early 2023. Since I had Paramount Plus for a month because of Frasier, I decided to give it a go. I'm glad I did. How to describe the plot? You may remember that back in summer 2023, I watched the Battleship movie. Battleship is objectively a bad movie, but it does have one interesting subplot that would make a good movie all on its own. When space aliens imprison most of the US Navy, a bunch of retired veterans take a decommissioned battleship out to war to save the day. This basically is the plot of Picard Season 3. The plot kicks off when Doctor Crusher contacts Admiral Picard after they have not spoken for twenty years. Apparently, Picard had a son named Jack with Crusher that she never told him about and mysterious assailants are trying to kidnap Jack. On the original show, Picard and Crusher definitely gave off the vibe that they probably got romantic whenever they were alone in the elevator together. The fact that Doctor Crusher got pregnant with Picard's son is not all that surprising. Picard had always been adamant about his desire not to start a family and given that any son of the legendary Captain Picard would be a target for his equally legendary enemies, Crusher decided to keep the boy a secret. Picard, understandably, is shocked by the news, but teams up with his former first officer, Captain Riker, to rescue his son. Jack has an extensive Robin Hood-esque criminal history, so it seems that his misdeeds might have caught up to him. It turns out that deadly weapon is locked in Jack's DNA and the people pursuing him aren't merely criminals but powerful enemies intent on destroying Starfleet and the Federation. Jack Crusher's DNA will give them a weapon to do it, which means it's up to the crew of The Enterprise to save the galaxy one last time. This was ten episodes, but it was very, very tightly plotted, with not many wasted moments. Sometimes you see movies that seem like they should have been streaming shows, and sometimes streaming shows seem like they really should have been cut down to movie length. But Picard's Season Three does a good job of telling a tense story that we've been impossible either in a movie or the old days of network television. The show very quickly plunges into the crisis and keeps moving from new tension to new tension. The gradual reveal where Picard at first feels guilty that he has to ask his friends to help rescue his estranged son and ex-girlfriend like he's living his own personal version of some trashy daytime TV show, only to slowly realize that something much more dangerous and much, much bigger than his personal problems is happening, was put together well. The show was also another good example of how to bring back legacy characters right. All the characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation are older and have been knocked around by life or suffered personal tragedies, but none of them are sad old losers like in a Disney or Lucasfilm project. The new and supporting characters were also great. Seven of Nine returns as the first officer to Captain Shaw, a by the book officer who thinks Picard and Riker are dangerous mavericks. He has a point. Shaw turns out to be extremely competent in a crisis. Amanda Plummer was great as Vadic, a scenery chewing villain who has very good reasons to hate Starfleet and the Federation. Vadic's love of spinning directly in her command chair was a great homage to Amanda Plummer's late father, Christopher Plummer, who played a villain with a similar tic way back in Star Trek VI in the ‘90s. It is also great how the show wrapped up some of the dangling plot threads from the ‘90s, like Picard's strained relationship with his former mentee Commander Ro Laren or the brief return of Elizabeth Shelby, Riker's former First Officer. A few people have complained that Worf is now a pacifist, but he's a Klingon pacifist, which basically means he'll attempt negotiation before cutting off your head, but he is still probably going to cut off your head. Less Conan the Barbarian, more serene Warrior Monk. I think Data had an excellent ending to his character arc, which started with his character's very first appearance way back in the ‘80s and Brent Spiner did a good job of portraying Data's fractured personalities and then how they achieved unity. I'd say the weakest point of the show was how consistently dumb Starfleet command is. The plot hinged around Starfleet gathering its entire fleet together for a celebration and then putting all those ships under a remote control system, which seems both exceptionally stupid and very convenient for the bad guys. But to be fair, this is Starfleet, an organization whose high command regularly spits out insane Admirals and also has an unsanctioned Black Ops/Mad Science division that it can't control, so it definitely fits within the overall context of Star Trek. I mean, that's like half the premise of Lower Decks. And if you've ever worked for a large governmental, military, healthcare, or educational institution, you understand. We all know that working in a large institution under leaders who are either insane or dumb isn't exactly an anomaly in the human experience. I mean, the Roman Empire circa 190 A.D. was the most powerful institution on the planet and the Empire's maximum leader liked to spend his time LARPing as a gladiator in the Coliseum. Anyway, the emotional payoff at the end of Picard Season Three was very satisfying, and how the show wrapped up a lot of threads from Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager was pretty great. It's like the people who were in charge of Season Three of Picard watched the Star Wars sequel trilogy and thought, you know, we can do better and then they did. Overall grade: A So those are the movies and TV shows I watched in Winter 2024. If you're looking for something to watch, hopefully one of them sounds like it will catch your interest. That's it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform or choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

MASAKA IS SLEEPY! Writer-Director-Actor Thomas Tulak joins Bryan to discuss one of the most extreme examples of writing, directing, and acting in all of Star Trek history. Is Brent Spiner up to the task of playing multiple characters from an entire civilization? Is Patrick Stewart sleepwalking through his performance or does he manage to act just enough in this one to not be shown up by the 12 errant palm fronds production brought in to decorate the Enterprise sets after the ship starts to transform into an alien sun god/dess's palace? Listen and find out!And you can watch Thomas Tulak's feature film, Who Dunt Dunt Dunnit?:: The Movie, RIGHT NOW on Tubi. https://tubitv.com/movies/100013396/who-dunt-dunt-dunnitIf you're enjoying the show, consider rating us five stars on whatever platform you use to listen to podcasts.

TVC 639.3a: Greg and Ed discuss the Kino Lorber special edition Blu-ray release of The Questor Tapes (1974), the made-for-TV movie starring Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell, John Vernon, Walter Koenig, and Dana Wynter that is also known among Gene Roddenberry aficionados as one of the best pilots that Roddenberry ever made, but which never went to series. Topics this segment include how the Questor character served as a prototype for Data, the android that Brent Spiner eventually played on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anthony and Laurie start with the news about Picard’s big night at the Saturn Awards. We dig new revelations about recent shelved Star Trek movies including Noah Hawley revealing his Trek film would have starred Cate Blanchett and Rami Malek. And Tony talked to Danai Gurira about almost being in the Star Trek 4 movie with Chris Hemsworth. The podcasters catch up on the upcoming release of season 4 of Lower Decks and the Star Trek spatial experience on Apple Vision Pro, and William Shatner's thoughts on an AI version of Captain Kirk. Then they dig into Tony's interviews at the recent Saturn Awards. We have audio with Doug Jones about season 4 of Discovery, Paul Wesley about Kirk’s evolution into season 3 of Strange New Worlds, Tawny Newsome on season 5 of Lower Decks and season 1 of Starfleet Academy. Jeri Ryan, Terry Matalas, and Michelle Hurd talk about season 3 of Picard and the chances of returning in Star Trek: Legacy, as do TNG stars Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, and Wil Wheaton. Tony also talked to Nicolas Cage about his desire to be in Star Trek and Gremlins star Zach Galligan about guest starring in Voyager.  

Anthony and Laurie start with the news about Picard’s big night at the Saturn Awards. We dig new revelations about recent shelved Star Trek movies including Noah Hawley revealing his Trek film would have starred Cate Blanchett and Rami Malek. And Tony talked to Danai Gurira about almost being in the Star Trek 4 movie with Chris Hemsworth. The podcasters catch up on the upcoming release of season 4 of Lower Decks and the Star Trek spatial experience on Apple Vision Pro, and William Shatner's thoughts on an AI version of Captain Kirk. Then they dig into Tony's interviews at the recent Saturn Awards. We have audio with Doug Jones about season 4 of Discovery, Paul Wesley about Kirk’s evolution into season 3 of Strange New Worlds, Tawny Newsome on season 5 of Lower Decks and season 1 of Starfleet Academy. Jeri Ryan, Terry Matalas, and Michelle Hurd talk about season 3 of Picard and the chances of returning in Star Trek: Legacy, as do TNG stars Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, and Wil Wheaton. Tony also talked to Nicolas Cage about his desire to be in Star Trek and Gremlins star Zach Galligan about guest starring in Voyager.  

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THIS VOYAGE, our holiday special celebration continues with the TOP 10 STAR TREK ALIENS EVER as our super-sized TREKPSERTS HOLIDAY COUNTDOWN continues with SPECIAL GUEST JOHN BILLINGSLEY.   The beloved annual tradition brings back all of Shatner's elves, MARK A. ALTMAN (author, The Fifty Year Mission, showrunner, Pandora, writer/producer Agent X, The Librarians, writer/producer Free Enterprise), DAREN DOCHTERMAN (associate producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition, concept designer: Master & Commander, Westworld) and ASHLEY E. MILLER (showrunner; DOTA: Dragon's Blood, writer, X-Men: First Class, Thor) are joined by ROBERT MEYER BURNETT  (host, The Burnettwork) and special guest JOHN BILLINGSLEY (Dr. Phlox, Star Trek Enterprise) to bring you their Trekspertise in the seventh installment of ten epic Top 10 lists for this 2023's INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS HOLIDAY SPECIALS! DON'T MISS our special TREKSPERTS HOLIDAY TREAT... a BONUS EPISODE with BRENT SPINER, JONATHAN FRAKES, TODD STASHWICK & TERRY MATALAS as we celebrate PICARD'S TREK LEGACY. Now Available!!! SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO TREKSPERTS PLUS... and get every episode of INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS and our subscriber only sister podcast, DECK 78, along with additional bonus content and surprises all season long including 2024's Treksperts Screening Room. For more details, visit trekkspertsplus.com.  Learn all that is learnable about Star Trek in Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross' THE FIFTY-YEAR MISSION, available in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from St. Maritn's Press. And if you're a James Bond fan, don't miss NOBODY DOES IT BETTER, in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from Forge Books. And don't miss SECRETS OF THE FORCE, the definitive unauthorized, uncensored oral history of STAR WARS, now available in hardcover, digital and audio!!  Follow Inglorious Treksperts at @inglorioustrek on Twitter, Facebook, Blue Sky and at @inglorioustreksperts on Instagram and Threads. And now follow the Treksperts Briefing Room at @trekspertsBR, an entirely separate Twitter & Instagram feed.  Email us at trekspertsplus@gmail.com "Mark A. Altman is the world's foremost Trekspert" - Los Angeles Times #StarTrek #TOS #TAS #TNG #DS9 #VOY #ENT #DISCO #PICARD #LLAP #comics #IDW #Marvel #DC #GoldKey #Discovery #DeepSpaceNine #STTMP #StarWars  #CaptainPike #StrangeNewWorlds #55YearTour  #casting #ST55 #StarTrek55 

This week on Myopia Movies, we start Hofftober Month and enter the Nexus! We watched Star Trek: Generations, one more Christmas movie this season. Yes, I curated the whole month, and yes Star Trek is fantastic.  How will Star Trek: Generations hold up? Host: Nic Panel: Daniel, Nur, and Keiko.   Directed by David Carson Starring Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Malcolm McDowell, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Alan Ruck  

RING IN THE NEW YEAR THIS VOYAGE as we celebrate the holidays with the TOP 10 STAR TREK MUSIC EVER as our super-sized TREKPSERTS HOLIDAY COUNTDOWN continues.  The beloved annual tradition brings back all of Shatner's elves, MARK A. ALTMAN (author, The Fifty Year Mission, showrunner, Pandora, writer/producer Agent X, The Librarians, writer/producer Free Enterprise), DAREN DOCHTERMAN (associate producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition, concept designer: Master & Commander, Westworld) and ASHLEY E. MILLER (showrunner; DOTA: Dragon's Blood, writer, X-Men: First Class, Thor) are joined by ROBERT MEYER BURNETT  (host, The Burnettwork) to bring you the sixth installment of ten epic Top 10 lists for this 2023's INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS HOLIDAY SPECIALS! DON"T MISS our special TREKSPERTS HOLIDAY TREAT... a BONUS EPISODE with BRENT SPINER, JONATHAN FRAKES, TODD STASHWICK & TERRY MATALAS as we celebrate PICARD'S TREK LEGACY. Now Available!!! SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO TREKSPERTS PLUS... and get every episode of INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS and our subscriber only sister podcast, DECK 78, along with additional bonus content and surprises all season long including 2024's Treksperts Screening Room. For more details, visit trekkspertsplus.com.  Learn all that is learnable about Star Trek in Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross' THE FIFTY-YEAR MISSION, available in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from St. Maritn's Press. And if you're a James Bond fan, don't miss NOBODY DOES IT BETTER, in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from Forge Books. And don't miss SECRETS OF THE FORCE, the definitive unauthorized, uncensored oral history of STAR WARS, now available in hardcover, digital and audio!!  Follow Inglorious Treksperts at @inglorioustrek on Twitter, Facebook, Blue Sky and at @inglorioustreksperts on Instagram and Threads. And now follow the Treksperts Briefing Room at @trekspertsBR, an entirely separate Twitter & Instagram feed.  Email us at trekspertsplus@gmail.com "Mark A. Altman is the world's foremost Trekspert" - Los Angeles Times #StarTrek #TOS #TAS #TNG #DS9 #VOY #ENT #DISCO #PICARD #LLAP #comics #IDW #Marvel #DC #GoldKey #Discovery #DeepSpaceNine #STTMP #StarWars  #CaptainPike #StrangeNewWorlds #55YearTour  #casting #ST55 #StarTrek55

IT'S BEGINNING TO FEEL A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS THIS VOYAGE as we celebrate the holidays with the TOP 10 STAR TREK POP CULTURE MOMENTS EVER as our super-sized TREKPSERTS HOLIDAY COUNTDOWN continues.  The beloved annual tradition brings back all of Shatner's elves, MARK A. ALTMAN (author, The Fifty Year Mission, showrunner, Pandora, writer/producer Agent X, The Librarians, writer/producer Free Enterprise), DAREN DOCHTERMAN (associate producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition, concept designer: Master & Commander, Westworld) and ASHLEY E. MILLER (showrunner; DOTA: Dragon's Blood, writer, X-Men: First Class, Thor) are joined by ROBERT MEYER BURNETT  (host, The Burnettwork) to bring you the fifth installment of ten epic Top 10 lists for this 2023's INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS HOLIDAY SPECIALS! DON"T MISS our special TREKSPERTS HOLIDAY TREAT... a BONUS EPISODE with BRENT SPINER, JONATHAN FRAKES, TODD STASHWICK & TERRY MATALAS as we celebrate PICARD'S TREK LEGACY. Now Available!!! SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO TREKSPERTS PLUS... and get every episode of INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS and our subscriber only sister podcast, DECK 78, along with additional bonus content and surprises all season long including 2024's Treksperts Screening Room. For more details, visit trekkspertsplus.com.  Learn all that is learnable about Star Trek in Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross' THE FIFTY-YEAR MISSION, available in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from St. Maritn's Press. And if you're a James Bond fan, don't miss NOBODY DOES IT BETTER, in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from Forge Books. And don't miss SECRETS OF THE FORCE, the definitive unauthorized, uncensored oral history of STAR WARS, now available in hardcover, digital and audio!!  Follow Inglorious Treksperts at @inglorioustrek on Twitter, Facebook, Blue Sky and at @inglorioustreksperts on Instagram and Threads. And now follow the Treksperts Briefing Room at @trekspertsBR, an entirely separate Twitter & Instagram feed.  Email us at trekspertsplus@gmail.com "Mark A. Altman is the world's foremost Trekspert" - Los Angeles Times #StarTrek #TOS #TAS #TNG #DS9 #VOY #ENT #DISCO #PICARD #LLAP #comics #IDW #Marvel #DC #GoldKey #Discovery #DeepSpaceNine #STTMP #StarWars  #CaptainPike #StrangeNewWorlds #55YearTour  #casting #ST55 #StarTrek55 #TheCage #StrangeNewWorlds #SNW #Voyager #Janeway #Enterprise #TheSearchForSpock #StarTrekIII #BSG #TMP #BestofTrek #EnterpriseIncidents #IDW #comics #DS9 #DeepSpaceNine #TerryFarrell #NanaVisitor #PicardSeason3 #StarTrekPicard #Picard #Borg #PicardSeason3 #StarTrekPicard #M5 #TrueFoodKitchen #Andor #PIcardSeason3 #trekspertsplus.com #HolidaySpecials #10x10

THIS VOYAGE, it's a special holiday treat just for you as we celebrate PICARD'S TREK LEGACY w/ BRENT SPINER, JONATHAN FRAKES, TODD STASHWICK and showruner TERRY MATALAS and look back at Picard's miraculous Season 3 and look forward to what could be its enduring legacy. Join hosts MARK A. ALTMAN (author, The Fifty Year Mission, showrunner, Pandora, writer/producer Agent X, The Librarians, writer/producer Free Enterprise), DAREN DOCHTERMAN (associate producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition, concept designer: Master & Commander, Westworld) and ASHLEY E. MILLER (showrunner; DOTA: Dragon's Blood, writer, X-Men: First Class, Thor) as they deliver another engaging conversation about the success of Star Trek: Picard and what it can mean for the future with its creator and biggest stars. SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO TREKSPERTS PLUS... and get every episode of INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS and our subscriber only sister podcast, DECK 78, along with additional bonus content and surprises all season long including 2024's Treksperts Screening Room. For more details, visit trekkspertsplus.com.  Learn all that is learnable about Star Trek in Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross' THE FIFTY-YEAR MISSION, available in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from St. Maritn's Press. And if you're a James Bond fan, don't miss NOBODY DOES IT BETTER, in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from Forge Books. And don't miss SECRETS OF THE FORCE, the definitive unauthorized, uncensored oral history of STAR WARS, now available in hardcover, digital and audio!!  Follow Inglorious Treksperts at @inglorioustrek on Twitter, Facebook, Blue Sky and at @inglorioustreksperts on Instagram and Threads. And now follow the Treksperts Briefing Room at @trekspertsBR, an entirely separate Twitter & Instagram feed.  Email us at trekspertsplus@gmail.com "Mark A. Altman is the world's foremost Trekspert" - Los Angeles Times #StarTrek #TOS #TAS #TNG #DS9 #VOY #ENT #DISCO #PICARD #LLAP #comics #IDW #Marvel #DC #GoldKey #Discovery #DeepSpaceNine #STTMP #StarWars  #CaptainPike #StrangeNewWorlds #55YearTour  #casting #ST55 #StarTrek55 #TheCage #StrangeNewWorlds #SNW #Voyager #Janeway #Enterprise #TheSearchForSpock #StarTrekIII #BSG #TMP #BestofTrek #EnterpriseIncidents #IDW #comics #DS9 #DeepSpaceNine #TerryFarrell #NanaVisitor #PicardSeason3 #StarTrekPicard #Picard #Borg #PicardSeason3 #StarTrekPicard #M5 #TrueFoodKitchen #Andor #PIcardSeason3 #trekspertsplus.com #HolidaySpecials #10x10 #StarTrekLegacy

IT'S BEGINNING TO FEEL A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS THIS VOYAGE as we celebrate the holidays with the TOP 10 STAR TREK MERCHANDISE EVER as our super-sized TREKPSERTS HOLIDAY COUNTDOWN continues.  The beloved annual tradition brings back all of Shatner's elves, MARK A. ALTMAN (author, The Fifty Year Mission, showrunner, Pandora, writer/producer Agent X, The Librarians, writer/producer Free Enterprise), DAREN DOCHTERMAN (associate producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition, concept designer: Master & Commander, Westworld) and ASHLEY E. MILLER (showrunner; DOTA: Dragon's Blood, writer, X-Men: First Class, Thor) are joined by ROBERT MEYER BURNETT  (host, The Burnettwork) to bring you the fourth installment of ten epic Top 10 lists for this 2023's INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS HOLIDAY SPECIALS! THIS MONDAY: a special TREKSPERTS HOLIDAY TREAT... a BONUS EPISODE with BRENT SPINER, JONATHAN FRAKES, TODD STASHWICK & TERRY MATALAS as we celebrate PICARD'S TREK LEGACY. Available Monday!! SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO TREKSPERTS PLUS... and get every episode of INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS and our subscriber only sister podcast, DECK 78, along with additional bonus content and surprises all season long including 2024's Treksperts Screening Room. For more details, visit trekkspertsplus.com.  Learn all that is learnable about Star Trek in Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross' THE FIFTY-YEAR MISSION, available in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from St. Maritn's Press. And if you're a James Bond fan, don't miss NOBODY DOES IT BETTER, in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from Forge Books. And don't miss SECRETS OF THE FORCE, the definitive unauthorized, uncensored oral history of STAR WARS, now available in hardcover, digital and audio!!  Follow Inglorious Treksperts at @inglorioustrek on Twitter, Facebook, Blue Sky and at @inglorioustreksperts on Instagram and Threads. And now follow the Treksperts Briefing Room at @trekspertsBR, an entirely separate Twitter & Instagram feed.  Email us at trekspertsplus@gmail.com "Mark A. Altman is the world's foremost Trekspert" - Los Angeles Times #StarTrek #TOS #TAS #TNG #DS9 #VOY #ENT #DISCO #PICARD #LLAP #comics #IDW #Marvel #DC #GoldKey #Discovery #DeepSpaceNine #STTMP #StarWars  #CaptainPike #StrangeNewWorlds #55YearTour  #casting #ST55 #StarTrek55 #TheCage #StrangeNewWorlds #SNW #Voyager #Janeway #Enterprise #TheSearchForSpock #StarTrekIII #BSG #TMP #BestofTrek #EnterpriseIncidents #IDW #comics #DS9 #DeepSpaceNine #TerryFarrell #NanaVisitor #PicardSeason3 #StarTrekPicard #Picard #Borg #PicardSeason3 #StarTrekPicard #M5 #TrueFoodKitchen #Andor #PIcardSeason3 #trekspertsplus.com #HolidaySpecials #10x10

On Tuesday's show: Fort Bend ISD's board of trustees met last night amid ongoing questions over why it's sent the district's superintendent into early retirement. We review what we have – and haven't learned – since this all became public at last week's board meeting.  Also this hour: We're doomed – but we can be okay with it, says author David Gessner. He shares why in his book, A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World. Then, we revisit our 2021 conversation with actor and Houston native Brent Spiner, who's best known for playing Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation. And, ahead of the Houston Symphony's annual performance of Handel's Messiah, we learn how the piece has become a holiday staple even though only one section of this very large work is actually centered on Christmas and the nativity. And the most famous part, the Hallelujah chorus, isn't even part of that section.

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Data gets a not-so-secret admirer in the form a little kid saved from a Federation research ship in the middle of a dark cluster. Timothy loves that android life so much that he pretends to be a poseur positronic lifeform to cope with his parents' death and everybody else on the ship. He says it was attacked but then things get weird. Thankfully Troi gets to do more counseling and the kid actor, Joshua Harris, is pretty badass playing off Brent Spiner in this episode directed by Patrick Stewart.   Get in touch with us on BlueSky @ReEngageTNG.bsky.social!    Host: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG)  Panel: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG), Kate Jaeger (@jaegerlicious on Twitter and IG), and Jimmie G (@thejimmieg on IG & Twitter) Audio Editor: Greg Tito (Gregtito.com, @GregTito on Bluesky, @gregtito on Twitter, @greg_tito on IG)  Logo artwork: @mojojojo_97 on Twitter, mojo97.com Theme music: Ryan Marth   Next up is s5e12 "Violations" hosted by Jimmie!

Frank and Tim have a pleasant chat about a pleasant film: Marvel's The Marvels. Cheers! Beers of the Week Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale Black Hog Octoberfest

Journey alongside Saul Rubinek, a remarkable actor whose career spans iconic films such as "Unforgiven" and underrated gems like "Dick." Explore his dynamic talents in hit series like "Warehouse 13" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation," as well as his involvement in the captivating single-shot Shoah feature, "Shttl." Saul's enduring passion for acting shines through in every role, making him a true legend in both film and television.   Recorded prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike.   My guest, Saul Rubinek, and I discuss: Saul Rubinek's play, "All in the Telling," delves deeper into his family story, building on the groundwork laid by the play and documentary, "So Many Miracles," which he was encouraged to pursue by a friend. Born in a refugee camp during the Holocaust, Saul's parents were saved by Polish farmers before settling in Montreal, Canada. Saul discusses his role as a Nazi hunter in the Amazon series "Hunters," his involvement in Project Paperclip, and his experience working with Al Pacino. "True Romance," now a cult classic, initially flopped upon release. In "Dick," a forgotten Richard Nixon/Watergate comedy, Saul played the role of Henry Kissinger, a classic yet overlooked comedy gem. "Shttl," a single-shot Shoah feature shot in Ukraine prior to the war, offers a glimpse into life in Jewish Ghettos, which have since been destroyed. Saul shares anecdotes and unique experiences from working with Clint Eastwood on the set of "Unforgiven" plus some great stories about screenwriter David Peoples.  Discussing "Warehouse 13," Saul highlights what makes it a great show and expresses his hopes for a revival. Saul's friendship with Brent Spiner and the tragic story behind how he landed his iconic role on an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" are revealed. Saul provides valuable insights into the life of an actor and much more during our conversation.   You're going to love my conversation with Saul Rubinek IMDB Twitter Instagram   Follow Jeff Dwoskin (host): Jeff Dwoskin on Twitter The Jeff Dwoskin Show podcast on Twitter Podcast website Podcast on Instagram Join my mailing list Buy me a coffee (support the show) Subscribe to my Youtube channel (watch Crossing the Streams!) Yes, the show used to be called Live from Detroit: The Jeff Dwoskin Show Love the books I talk about on the show? Here is my Amazon store to shop.

Takin' the show on the road to Cincinnati Comic Expo! It's my chats with Star Trek's Brent Spiner, Muppet cartoonist Guy Gilchrist, and the man who brought Spider-Man and the cast of Saturday Night Live together, comics icon Bob Hall!CCE logo TM & copyright © Cincinnati Comic Expo Cincinnati Comic ExpoGuy Gilchrist's websiteBob Hall's websiteSubscribe […]

Brent Spiner (Star Trek, Independence Day) joins us this week to drop some bombs about a certain someone's return from the dead in Picard Season 3. Brent shares how he feels about being recognized (mostly) for a single character as Data in Star Trek - and later gets into the weeds on what his experience with the android has been like over the last few decades. We also talk about lessons learned from Joe DiMaggio, how he beat himself out for a Saturn Award, and tons of stories from his other roles in Night Court, Master of Disguise, and more! Thank you to our sponsors: ❤️ Betterhelp: https://betterhelp.com/inside