"Frame of Mind" Drinking Game

"Frame of Mind" wins for the season 6 drinking game! Watch the episode and abide by the "Riker" drinking game rules as outlined below:

General : "Open hailing frequencies" : 1
: Quotes : "Medical emergency" : 1
: : "Belay that order" : 1
: : "Energize" : 1
: : "Hell", "Damn" and other swearing. : 1
: : SEE ALSO: Riker's special swearing rules. :
: : "It's not like anything I've ever seen before": 1
: : "Impossible" : 1
: : "Impossible" while watching the "impossible" : 2
: : "Shut up, Wesley" : 3
: : "On screen" : 1
: : "Understood" : 1
: : "Set phasers on..." : 1
: : "Acknowledged" : 1
: : "Priority One" : 1
: : "Just a little more time...!" : 1
: : "Eastern/Western/Southern/Northern Continent" : 2
: : "The Klingon Home Planet" or other reference :
: : without actually giving it a name : 2

: Riker : Walks forward as if he's trying to knock an :
: Actions : imaginary door down with his forehead : 1
: : Demonstrates knowledge of a foreign language : 1
: : Swears/hurls an insult in a foreign language : 2
: : Thrusts his chin out with a smug look : 1
: : Stands with his feet more than 2 ft. apart :1 per ' beyond 2'
: : Pronounces a word in a way that does not match:
: : his heritage (e.g. charade=shur-AHD) : 2
: : Acts blatantly like Kirk : 1
: : Gets that annoying smirk on his face : 1
: : Gets the girl : 1
: : Gets the girl for no apparent reason : 2

ALSO: calling an audible here, but I think we should also count "The Riker Maneuver" which involves Riker putting his right leg up on Data's station with his crotch facing Data's face. That's worth 2 drinks.

We'll discuss the results next podcast. Be sure to send in YOUR results.

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Podcast 54: The Smell and Disappointment of the Hunt

Hunting is a metaphor for courtship right? Well none of the courtship in these episodes worked out at all in any of these episodes -- except for maybe Picard and Q.

Podcast breakdown:

0:00 -- nuqneH
15:30 -- "Aquiel"
28:47 -- "Face of the Enemy"
42:47 -- "Tapestry"
1.00:30 -- "Birthright, Part I"
1.05:30 -- "Birthright, Part II"
1.19:05 -- "Starship Mine"
1.36:20 -- Awards and rankings
2.01:14 -- Qapla' and outtakes

J.R.'s Rankings

6. "Aquiel"
5. "Birthright, Part I"
4. "Face of the Enemy"
3. "Birthright, Part II"
2. "Starship Mine"
1. "Tapestry"

Jon's Rankings

6. "Aquiel"
5. "Birthright, Part I"
4. "Face of the Enemy"
3. "Birthright, Part II"
2. "Starship Mine"
1. "Tapestry"

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Podcast 53: Holodeck or Kill-bot Factory?

All the holodeck episodes simply got in the way of our talking about the great episodes starring the MCP himself, David Warner. This one isn't quite the longest yet. Off by just a few seconds. Thanks to Tim and Tim for joining us!

Podcast breakdown:

0:00 -- nuqneH, happy birthday Pete, reading lists
5:13 -- Viewer mail
17:17 -- "Rascals"
34:30 -- "A Fistful of Datas"
48:41 -- "The Quality of Life"
1.03:15 -- "Chain of Command, Part I"
1.11:37 -- "Chain of Command, Part II"
1.41:20 -- "Ship in a Bottle"
1.59:26 -- Awards and rankings
2.15:36 -- Qapla'
2.17:15 -- Outtakes

Jon's Rankings

6. "Quality of Life"
5. "Rascals"
4. "Chain of Command, Part I"
3. "A Fistful of Datas"
2. "Ship in a Bottle"
1. "Chain of Command, Part II"

J.R.'s Rankings

6. "Quality of Life"
5. "Rascals"
4. "A Fistful of Datas"
3. "Ship in a Bottle"
2. "Chain of Command, Part I"
1. "Chain of Command, Part II"

A few notable watchy links:

From Elliot: Picard Flauting Danger
Here's one about Clemens
What the heck, here's another one. A Sherlock Holmes one.
Here's that sweaty saxophonist parody.
Aaaaand in case you're interested, here's the original scene from The Lost Boys.

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Podcast 52: Great Scotty!

Welcome back TNG! We had some weird weird weird audio issues with this one. It was like weird man. We're flirting with a new technology that allows us to record directly from skype and we're using the same technology to transmit directly to Ustream (Thanks to Trent and Tim W. for joining us!). Anyway at about the 36 minute mark we get caught in an energy transfer beam and then nothing is the same after that.

Podcast breakdown:

0:00 -- nuqneH, NCAA tournament, listener picks
7:03 -- Viewer mail
14:50 -- "Time's Arrow Pt. 2"
32:11 -- "Realm of Fear"
41:08 -- "Man of the People"
53:25 -- "Relics"
1.09:20 -- "Schisms"
1.22:07 -- "True Q"
1.37:29 -- Awards and rankings
1.51:24 -- Qapla'
1.53:44 -- Outtakes

J.R.'s Rankings

6. "Man of the People"
5. "Realm of Fear"
4. "Time's Arrow Pt. 2"
3. "Schisms"
2. "True Q"
1. "Relics"

Jon's Rankings

6. "Realm of Fear"
5. "Time's Arrow Pt. 2"
4. "Schisms"
3. "Man of the People"
2. "True Q"
1. "Relics"

Here are Tim's Star Trek related Youtube links!

NSFW (sweary!) Next Gen re-dub:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=414TmP12WAU
Pop-song re-dub with Star Wars stuff and Enterprise bridge at the end:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJRMwdmFYWg
NSFW (weird stuff!) Kirk/Spock slash fiction NIN music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uxTpyCdriY

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Podcast 51: Kirk Sure Gets Beat Up A Lot

Alright, if you've been hesitating in your downloading of these silly Star Trek podcasts, you're in luck! THIS is the one you can probably listen to because THIS is the one where we do a live commentary of the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie from 2009 -- and you saw THAT movie and probably really really liked it!

Yes, we realize we already talked about this movie way back in podcast 30, but hey, who's complaining? We did the work -- and you get the reward... unless you hate hearing us talk... which we suppose could be very likely. Then again, you probably wouldn't have read this far into the podcast description.

Podcast breakdown:

Pretty much the whole time we're just doing the live DVD commentary of Star Trek (2009).

Jon's Rankings

1. Star Trek

J.R.'s Rankings

1. Star Trek

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Podcast 50: Golden Podcast -- 88 Years in 44 Minutes

Milestone achieved! We know we said a few podcasts ago that if we made it to 50 we were probably going to give some stuff away to listeners -- but obviously that didn't happen. Everyone hold out for Podcast 100! Anyway, besides discussing some great episodes (some would say the best episode ever) the results of the season 5 drinking game are revealed! PLUS we had our BIG season 5 wrap-up. BIG! Is season 5 the greatest TNG season ever? Listen!

Podcast breakdown:

0:00 -- nuqneH
3:33 -- Viewer mail
14:22 -- Non-Lost conversation
15:08 -- "The Inner Light"
39:45 -- "Time's Arrow Pt. 1"
1.08:30 -- Podcast awards and rankings
1.16:57 -- Quick TOS/TNG comparison
1.20:00 -- Season 5 awards
1.43:33 -- Season 5 rankings
1.56:47 -- Qapla'
1.59:19 -- Outtakes

J.R.'s Rankings

2. "Time's Arrow Pt. 1"
1. "The Inner Light"

Jon's Rankings

2. "Time's Arrow Pt. 1"
1. "The Inner Light"

Season 5 awards and rankings SPOILERS!

Best Planet
J.R.: Kataan
Jon: Valt Minor

Worst Planet
J.R.: The planet in "The Silicon Avatar" that gets shaved (Melona IV)
Jon: Moab IV

Best Guest Star
J.R.: Leonard Nimoy
Jon: Leonard Nimoy (honorable mention: Jonathan Del Arco)

Worst Guest Star
J.R.: Majel Barrett
Jon: Matt Frewer

Worst Villain
J.R.: Mudbathing Lwaxana Troi
Jon: Naked Lwaxana Troi

Best Villain
J.R.: The reality of waking up on the Enterprise after spending your entire life in your mind on a planet that actually died 1000 years ago
Jon: Mind raping

Worst Technology
J.R.: Romulan humanoid phasing
Jon: Federation tachyon net

Best Technology
J.R.: Worf's Frankenstein legs from "Ethics"
Jon: The amnesia ray from "Conundrum" (honorable mentions: Data's phase discriminator, Magic non-phasing boots of Ro, Geordi and that Romulan who went through the wall)

Most unproved crew member
J.R.: Deanna Troi
Jon: William Riker (dis-honorable mention: Guinan)

Most improved crew member
J.R.: Jean-Luc Picard
Jon: Jean-Luc Picard

Worst use of hot chick budget
J.R.: Majel Barrett
Jon: Katherine Moffat

Best use of hot chick budget
J.R.: Famke Janssen (Honerable mention: Ashley Judd)
Jon: Ashley Judd (Silver: Famke Janssen, Bronze: Walker Brandt)

22nd through 26th best episodes of season

J.R.:
22. "The Masterpiece Society"
23. "The Game"
24. "Imaginary Friend"
25. "Hero Worship"
26. "Cost of Living"
(Honorable mention: "Violations")

Jon
22. "A Matter of Time"
23. "Imaginary Friend"
24. "New Ground"
25. "Hero Worship"
26. "Cost of Living"
(Honorable mention: "Unification pt. 1")

Best episodes of the season

J.R.
5. "Cause and Effect"
4. "I, Borg"
3. "Unification pt. 2"
2. "Conundrum"
1. "The Inner Light"

Jon
5. "The Game"
4. "I, Borg"
3. "Cause and Effect"
2. "Conundrum"
1. "The Inner Light"
(Honorable mention: "Darmok"

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