Friday, September 26, 2008

Podcast 16: Revenge of Nicholas Meyer

This podcast is a DVD commentary of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. It will probably be funner to listen to it while watching the movie, but hopefully we've made it fun enough (and you've seen the most popular Star Trek movie enough) that it can be enjoyed without the visual accompaniment. This is also a "simul-podcast" with The Jon Madsen Movie Commentary Podcast

It's okay to cry.

Not too much of a sense to lay out the show rundown. Pretty much all of it is the commentary.

Likelihood of the events of this movie happening: 11,718,750,000,000 to one.

Comments/corrections: I think toward the end we wondered why they couldn't beam the Genesis away from the Reliant and shut it off manually. Well, thinking about in now, it seems like David says to Kirk that it couldn't be shut off, so that solves that. But then again, what poor sap were they planning on getting to activate the Genesis Device without getting totally nuked because he couldn't get away in time?

Next week we'll be back with a normal podcast about Star Trek III.

This podcast is dedicated in loving memory to Madlyn Rhue (1935-2003)

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Ilea in an old school Trek uniform!


Sorry, the quality is a bit low because it was taken from video. My favorite part is the cute little baby bow she has on her bald head.

Monday, September 22, 2008

a little youtubery for podcast 16

It starts making sense at about the 1:30 mark.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Podcast 15: Have a Nice Decade!


And thus we begin the movie franchise with Star Trek: The Motion Picture (yes, thanks for actually informing us that it's a movie)!

Discussion of ST:TMP does not begin, however, without first wrapping up the original series with a list of awards that frankly and obviously weren't worked on very hard (but were still plenty humorous (or not -- maybe you just had to be there)).

Joining the talk about ST:TMP is our buddy Pete, whom you may recognize as the guy who went with Jon to the Star Trek Experience. Somehow, being on the podcast counted toward his community service.

Jon's "um" count: 44

Podcast breakdown:

:00 -- Intro
1:27 -- Rating the SocVis list
9:19 -- Random TOS favorites
26:53 -- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1.43:22 -- End/outtakes

Rankings:

J.R.
1. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Jon
1. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Pete
1. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Okay, fine. That was a lame set of rankings since we only officially discussed one movie. To be fair, Jon said ST:TMP was his sixth favorite Star Trek movie, Pete said it was his third favorite and J.R. said it was his second favorite (he's seen two).

Corrections/errors: There was a point where Jon said that we've been recording for an hour and 20 minutes when it was an hour and 40 minutes into the podcast. This can be explained by the fact that we (very obviously) recorded the first segment of random TOS awards after we recorded the discussion about the movie.

This podcast is dedicated in loving memory to Persis Khambatta (1950-1998).

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Podcast 14: Adios TOS!


It saddens us that this is our last original series podcast, but it should gladden you that we supersized it! We present well over two hours of JRWSTftft this time around. Included is our take on the last four episodes plus our best/worst picks of Season 3, PLUS our best/worst TOS picks of all time!

Jon is the one who said he was sick, but that's J.R. who's got the sniffles.

Jon's "um" count: 65

Podcast breakdown:

:00 -- Hellos and announcements
9:01 -- "The Cloud Minders"
20:23 -- "The Savage Curtain"
37:37 -- "All Our Yesterdays"
56:42 -- "Turnabout Intruder"
1.12:52 -- Podcast rankings
1.19:33 -- Season rankings
1.33:34 -- Worst episodes of TOS
1.43:04 -- Best episodes of TOS
2:03:45 -- Outro and outtakes

Rankings:

J.R.
4. "Turnabout Intruder"
3. "The Cloud Minders"
2. "The Savage Curtain"
1. "All Our Yesterdays"

Jon
4. "The Cloud Minders"
3. "Turnabout Intruder"
2. "The Savage Curtain"
1. "All Our Yesterdays"

We would have listed the rankings from the season and entire series here too, but then you'd have even less reason to actually listen to the podcast. Just listen to the podcast!

Email in your favorite Star Trek episodes.

Remember, we don't really hate children and we don't advocate eliminating them... yet... just kidding, but not really. No, seriously don't hurt kids. That's horrible.

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