Enterprising Individuals

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrek Discovery episode “Die Trying”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

This week, Josh Zelikovitz of Star Trek and the Jews joins the show to talk about Jews and Judaism in the Star Trek franchise. So many of the actors, writer, and creators behind Star Trek have been Jewish and yet Trek has never featured an explicitly Jewish character. On the show, we talk about depicting religion in a secular future, the Jewish coding of Trek elements, Gene Roddenberry's strained relationship with Jews and faith, the Jewish creators behind classic and modern Trek, how Bajorans are the Swiss Army knife of depicting oppression, B'Elanna as a secular Jew on Voyager, "Jackie Marks", Ashkenormativity, and yes, the Ferengi.

Qapla' and l'chaim!

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We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrek Discovery episode “Forget Me Not”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

Pick up a horga'hn and put down those pamphlets as we head to Risa to check out "Let He Who Is Without Sin..."!

Fandom Forecasts host and meteorologist Katie Nickolaou joins the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that had a mixed reception among fans but presents a fascinating look at the sexual mores of the 24th century. When Dax drags Worf to the pleasure planet Risa for a sun and fun-filled vacation, he's resolved to be miserable the entire time. But when a cadre of malcontents seek to ruin the fun, Worf will have to choose between his love for Dax and his desire to rain on everyone's parade!

The world of Trek is remarkable and desirable not just because they've eliminated things like class struggle or inclement weather, but because the world of the Federation is one in which people of all race, class, orientation, and temperament can coexist peacefully. The broadcast standards of TV limit the depth of exploration that any given Trek series can make into the intimate lives of its heroes, but episodes like "Let He Who..." show us that the future can be a better place AND you can still argue with your significant other over petty things and that is (weirdly) reassuring. On this episode, we discuss the "open-mindedness" of the Federation's future, the depiction of "pleasure planets" throughout the franchise, the uncanny hospitality of Risians, the ways in which a future civilization could control their weather, the stumbling progress of Trek's depiction of sex and relationships, the perils of shooting on location, and the ways in which Trek provides an inviting forum for discussion of social issues.

We also discuss fighting pamphlet guys at the starport, winning a date with Chase Masterson, a SEVEN Million Dollar Man, happy Karens, waiting for Risa to show up on Disco, the one biome planet, decorating with weather, cracked ribs ≠ sexy, "smashin' the bowl", Worf's "world of cardboard" speech, doin' a Geostorm, getting caught "Ghosting", going full sex farce, phaser Easy Mode, Katie shares her experiences stormchasing, and a long-overdue tribute to Rene Auberjonois!

Red space at night, Starfleet's delight!

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We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrek Discovery episode “People of Earth”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

This week, Mark A. Altman joins the show to talk about his life with Trek, including Free Enterprise, The Fifty-Year Mission, and Inglorious Treksperts, plus his CW series Pandora, watching TOS on an 11" black and white screen, being a nerd who got inside Hollywood, writing the definitive Galactica 1980 text, and poetry of episode titles, and how a rerun of Star Trek II got us Star Trek VI!

Plus, we've got an interview with Peter Kaczmarczyk, president of the Captain Janeway Bloomington Collective about Bloomington's new monument to Janeway and Kate Mulgrew!

This means something!

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We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrek Discovery episode “Far From Home”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

The cons are closed but our annual live panel is open for business as we host a virtual round table discussion of the much-maligned Star Trek: Nemesis, with featured guests Jen Dallman, Ella Pearson, Gooey Fame, and Thad Hait!

Join us for a look at a Star Trek "film" that was hampered from the start, with a shrinking budget, way too many storylines, and a director who'd never seen Star Trek! We do our best to find the good in the last, tired effort of the TNG crew to find continuing success at the box office and *one more* reason why Worf is even there. Along the way, we talk about the dangers of infecting a pre-dune buggy society, space nosferatu, a hard stance against back hair, pre-jacked Hardy, a million knives, ramming it hard and backing it out, Shinzaway and Shinzo, psychic Ouija power, and having your pizza and root beer night RUINED!

Don't worry, Hell is dark...and Star Trek: Nemesis is playing on a loop!

Do yourself a favor and check out the work of our fabulous guests!
Jen Dallmann - instagram.com/rosemarysladiespodcast
Ella Pearson - twitter.com/generationsgeek
Gooey Fame - twitter.com/gooeyfame
Thad Hait - twitter.com/tyranicus

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We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrek Discovery episode “That Hope Is You. Part 1”! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

This week, Katharine Trendacosta of the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins the show to talk about data rights, intellectual property, and digital free speech in Star Trek and our own world.. On the episode, we talk about the EFF's efforts to create a Star Trek future and not a Mirror Universe one, how the Federation protects the digital rights of its citizens, IP law of the future, the obsolescence of ownership in a digital future, why security experts are Luddites, the Aeneid and the Divine Comedy as fan fic, punching up on CBS, the biometric Bill of Rights, Dukat's Internet Off-Switch, and why LCARS *must* be open-source.

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