Enterprising Individuals

This week, writer, sex worker, and sex worker activist Maggie McNeill joins the show to talk about sex work in Star Trek. We've seen the Enterprise stop at its share of "pleasure planets" on Star Trek and no one bats an eye, which means that Risa either has the best roller coaster in the galaxy or the Federation is a lot cooler with sex work than our governments are in the 21st century. But how would sex work in a money-free society work? Are pleasure planets regulated by the government? Is there a horga'hn carver union? We answer (some) of these questions and more as we compare Trek's utopian views on pleasure with the tangled mess of laws and opinions in the 21st century.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a "UFP Vice" series to write!

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Open your copy of Ulysses and display your horga'hn as we go on a "Captain's Holiday"!

Editor and comics scribe Kevin Church is back on the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that gives the hardest working man in Starfleet a break. Captain Picard has been ordered to take some R&R on Risa and he's determined to not have any fun. But when a beautiful woman, a scheming Ferengi, and two time-travelers crash his vacation, he'll have to save the universe while off-the-clock and maybe have just a little fun in the process!

Ira Steven Behr may be Mr. DS9 (and Mr. Bluebeard), but he cut his teeth on TNG in the show's breakout 3rd season and delivered a fun and somewhat out-of-character romp for Captain Picard. The structure and tropes of noir fiction are what make it so enduring as a genre and with "Captain's Holiday", Behr proved that they could work in the 24th century, too, and revealed the romantic hero chops of Patrick Stewart in the process. On this episode, we talk about adding depth to the characters of TNG, the great rhythm in storytelling the show achieved as it developed, the brilliance of Patrick Stewart (and Max Grodenchik), finding new uses for time-travel, the realities of economy and sex work in the Federation, growing the show beyond Gene's original vision, and how this episode almost featured a pan-sexual orgy.

We also discuss using improvisational skills to develop your film franchise, the Amazing Chip Chalmers, "Ayyyy! I'm doing a Star Trek here!", making "extra Trek" aliens, bringing Ulysses to a sex planet, which women's blouse goes with your jodhpurs, Q's love for Picard, the awkwardness of 24th-century fun, Star Trek comic tie-ins, a little Dolly Parton talk, Kevin names Dr. McCoy the best character in fiction and Aaron wants to see him take on Batman!

We're fraught and excited at the same time!

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We're limping across the finish line this year, but we've got just enough power to give you one last look at this past season of Enterprising Individuals! This collection of the best moments and guests from 2019 is so good you'll forget it's all a clip show!

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This week, Alan Gratz is back on the show to explore the intersection between Star Trek and the works of William Shakespeare! Why do the characters on Star Trek love Shakespeare so much? How does each era of Trek approach Shakespeare differently? Why does the Enterprise have scenery flats onboard? "Lay on, Macduff, and damned be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'”

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Dust off your cloak and shine up your dagger as we examine "Improbable Cause" and "The Die is Cast"!

Author Alan Gratz returns to the show this week to discuss an epic Deep Space Nine two-parter that changes the game and proves that the Dominion are a foe not to be taken lightly. When Garak's tailor shop explodes unexpectedly, Odo goes searching for answers. But a case that seems open and shut leads to a dark turn for our humble tailor and the Romulan/Tal Shiar alliance will throw themselves at the Dominion while the Alpha Quadrant holds its breath!

DS9 took the TNG tradition of the nail-biting cliffhanger and transformed it into a new way to expand its storytelling by pulling the rug out from under its characters. By eliminating the Romulans and the Cardassians from the board, the writers of the show set the stage for the show's remaining seasons and their mad rush into war and calamity. On this episode, we talk about DS9's early forays and later mastery of serial storytelling, the necessity of Avery Brooks, constructing a two-parter last-minute, the cheap/fast/good continuum, the show's Shakespearean parallels, the true purpose of a villain, accidentally writing a "Best of" scene, and blowing up your own tailor shop.

We also discuss the majesty of Garak and the amazing Andrew Robinson, the Cardie cardigan, "growing the beard", getting your shine-box, being the MOST Paul Dooley, killin' Skeletor, following the latnium, "it's a trap!", Cardassian cosmetics, a little DS9 doc talk, Alan gets his mind blown Krull-style, and Aaron hates Eddington!

*shakes fist* EDDINGTON!!!!!!!!

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