Enterprising Individuals

We are talking LIVE about the #LowerDecks episode "Cupid’s Errant Arrow”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

This week, comedy writer JM McNab joins the show to talk about comedy in Star Trek and why seeking out new life isn't always a laugh riot. During the discussion, we talk about letting the air out of the franchise, what constitutes "punching down", being a fish out of '50s water, the loving parody of "Chief O'Brien At Work", Planet Scotland, Sh*t My Captain Says, open mic night in the mess hall, "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot Take", and whether or not Bev's sex ghost holds a cure for cancer!

The clown can stay but the Ferengi in the gorilla suit has to go!

Listen to JM's podcast "Rewatchability" and check out his other work!
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http://www.twitter.com/jmmcnabagain
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-the-daily-zeitgeist-28516718/

Here's some links to what we discussed on the show:
Star Trek Experience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDMk8DO4wJ4
Riker's software commercial (and grin gif source)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN6mp5hVSSc
TNG IS AVAILABLE ON VHS!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAUKRLELGvc
The Captains documentary
https://www.cracked.com/article_28467_everyone-needs-to-see-william-shatners-cringey-star-trek-doc.html

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We are talking LIVE about the #LowerDecks episode "Moist Vessel”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

Pull on your worst sweater and get ready to save the day again as we play "The Game"!

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente returns to the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that gives the Wesley Crusher we didn't know we wanted. A new pleasure-inducing video game is quickly becoming everyone's favorite shipboard pastime. But when the game is revealed to be a sinister plot to take over the Federation, Wesley and Robin will have to outwit the adults take back the ship!

Wesley Crusher may be everyone's favorite Trek punching bag, but in reality he's one of the franchise's most interesting characters. For a show that's all about going boldly, we meet him at an age of uncertainty and fear and we see him grow into a character with his own self-created sense of moral integrity. He's someone with all the gifts of the Federation's best citizens, and yet he bravely rejects the path that he seems destined to take, military service for an organization whose values he questions.. I mean, how many genius Trek characters drop out of college to cruise the galaxy with their laid-back alien mentor? On this episode, we talk about what's behind Wesley hate, the way Wesley bridged the gap between child and adult viewers in TNG's early days, the idea of Wesley as Gene's avatar in Trek, the strangely Puritan morals on display in the episode, the way that Trek tries to push against Roddenberry's original mission statement, and the joy that is Robin Lefler.

We also discuss dealing with your problematic faves, putting video games on trial, LESLIE Crusher, the "big gets" for early TNG, a gamut of "O faces", synthaheroin, magical realism, being horny for chocolate, the persistence of Sadie Hawkins, "Stay dorky, stay alive", fooling the censors with sci-fi, Trek's obsession with having a 9/11, post-bang levels of intimacy, some Picard talk, some Pike talk, a Eurovision update, the Hugos controversy 2020 edition, somehow even MORE Mass Effect talk, and Prester John, too!

Thanks to Cat's Star Trek-loving brother for choosing this episode!

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We are talking LIVE about the #LowerDecks episode "Temporal Edict”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

This week, Dr. Ethan Siegel joins the show to talk about his book "Treknology", science outreach, finding your path, and the principles behind the Trek tech we could make in the 21st century!

Risa, here I come!

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Hold tight to what's yours as we examine the "The Void"!

Astrophysicist, science consultant, and voice actress Dr. Erin Macdonald returns to the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Voyager that reaffirms the crew's commitment to the ideal of the Federation. When the Voyager becomes trapped in a pocket dimension, she's set upon by desperate scavengers. But, Captain Janeway hatches a plan to turn enemies into allies and makes a last-ditch attempt to get her crew back to normal space!

Voyager's most important theme was the idea that, no matter the obstacle or the desperateness of the scenario, cooperation (and not competition) was always the best solution. Throughout their journey through the Delta Quadrant, the crew of Voyager was often tempted to take the easy route, to exploit other societies to achieve their goal of finally getting home, but their dedication to the principles of the Federation, the tenets of peaceful coexistence and benevolence over belligerence, was always their greatest strength. On this episode, we talk about how this 7th season episode re-litigates the most elemental of Trek's tropes, we discuss the scientific principles underlying Trek's technology and phenomena, call out the way that Trek shows employ the scientific method with fictional physics, examine the gap between "hard" and "soft" sci-fi, examine real-life stellar voids, and wonder about the effects of oblivion on the human psyche.

We also discuss subspace as the ultimate go-to, "Mrs. Columbo", murder grandpas, a universe of "That Guys", being more "sci" than "fi", why aliens are such jerks, knowing when to break the rules, making music on your phone, "once a Maquis...", a little Babylon 5 talk, a LOT of Mass Effect talk, "firm cheese sci-fi", Kal pitches his Starfleet Admiralty show, and Erin talks about advising on some questionable sci-fi premises!

It's like . . . how much more black could it be?

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This week, we go to the 24th century as Fred Love returns to the show to run an introductory game of Star Trek Adventures! Kal, Alan, and Josh beam into the world of the the Galaxy-class USS Venture, assigned to patrol the chaotic Shackleton Expanse. When disaster strikes the ship, they'll have to use their wits, guts, and Starfleet training to save the day!

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