Podcast 8: My Middle Name Is Not Orville

Finally after a good month's absence we're back with this token episode. No actual episodes of Trek are mentioned, but as promised, we do elaborate on two Trek-themed Futurama episodes and rattle on about some of the work Shatner and Nimoy did in the 70s. Strangely, we take up the same amount of time talking about these episodes as the episodes' actual length.

:40 -- Apologies/theories about short supply of Season 3
6:00 -- Shatner's rendition of "Rocket Man"
8:43 -- Nimoy's rendition of "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"
13:37 -- "Sabotaage"
15:11 -- "Why Must I Be a Crustacean In Love?"
27:05 -- "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
39:18 -- End and outro

Arrghh! In writing up the chronology I'm now remembering that Janine Garafalo references the pronunciation of "sabotage" in Mystery Men and we didn't talk about it. Arrghh!

Next time we're finally tapping Season 3!

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futurama break

In lieu of the ongoing scarcity of TOS Season Three discs at Blockbuster.com and J.R.'s dislike for watching Star Trek online, we may be discussing the following episodes of Trek-related Futurama.

"Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?"
"Where No Fan Has Gone Before"

Right-click and download them before the folks at 20th Century Fox take the blog down!

The first one is a .mov file, which is a better quality than the second which is .mp4. You can, however, watch the .mp4 on your iPod! How exciting and futuristic!

Podcast 7.5: Bonus Audio From Jon

We mentioned on the last cast that due to technical difficulties we had to re-record much of it. We actually got Jon's audio, but not J.R.'s. Just for fun, I'm posting up the Jon audio that we wound up not using (minus all the pauses). We pretty much covered all the same stuff again in the podcast, so there's really not much reason to even listen to this unless you love the nasally sound of Jon's voice (like I do, which is weird since my voice is horrendous). Anyway, I just didn't want to throw the audio away, so here it is.

TOS Season Two Breakdown

Scroll down! Blogger issues.

J.R.'s Top Three	Jon's Top Three
3. "Journey to Babel"	3. "Obsession"
2. "Mirror, Mirror"	2. "Mirror, Mirror"
1. "Amok Time"	1. "Bread and Circuses"
J.R.'s Bottom Four	Jon's Bottom Four
23. "Friday's Child"	23. "Assignment: Earth"
24. "The Omega Glory"	24. "The Changeling"
25. "A Private Little War"	25. "The Omega Glory"
26. "The Trouble With Tribbles"	26. "Friday's Child"

Apologies to Julie Newmar.

Podcast 7: Romans and Nazis and Commies and Bears Oh My!

Because we had so many alternate Earth history planets to discuss, this one went twice as long as they usually go.


We also had to re-record some of the podcast again because of technical reasons. Ugh. We can't wait until computers are intelligent enough to just do our podcasts for us. Anyway, Season Two is in the bag! Now all we have left to do is the lame Star Trek season and all the movies (half of which are pretty good) and the lame series (Next Generation).

One minor correction in this podcast that I noticed: I said that "Bread and Circuses" was the only episode that made reference to actually speaking English. Of course "Space Seed" makes that point as well. I don't know where my head was.

Also, it should be noted that I almost disagreed with J.R. about the end of the same episode. He said that because the Enterprise didn't interfere, nothing changed on the oppressive planet. I made a point that they witnessed some kind of Christianity blossoming on the planet which would lead to a change in regime. Obviously, however, this change had nothing to do with the Enterprise and would have happened on the planet regardless. So in actuality, there was no major change due to the events of this episode.

Breakdown:

1:56 -- "A Private Little War"
12:59 -- "Return to Tomorrow"
20:28 -- "Patterns of Force"
28:40 -- "By Any Other Name"
36:45 -- "The Omega Glory"
44:38 -- "The Ultimate Computer"
1.03:54 -- "Bread and Circuses"
1.17:44 -- "Assignment: Earth"
1.29:13 -- Faves and season wrap-up
1.45:15 -- End/outtakes

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inexplicable wall kick

... at :06.