Enterprising Individuals

Get ready to risk it all as we come face to face with "Tacking Into the Wind!"

Author, editor, podcaster, and musician Keith DeCandido comes aboard this week to discuss an episode of Deep Space Nine that represents a culmination of years of patient and skillful storytelling in the Star Trek universe. Kira and crew stage a daring heist of Founder technology, while Worf resolves to restore the honor of the Klingon Empire, even if he has to spill blood in the process!

Along the way, Keith and I cover the awesomeness that is Kira Nerys, DS9 passing the Bechdel Test with flying colors, telling war stories in Roddenberry's future, the tragedy of Damar, and the Ezri we deserve but not the one we need right now. Plus, we talk about the Theiss Titillation Theory, Worf as the Lee Atwater of Klingon politics, getting Tarantino in your Trek, Discovery and Klingon boobage, Kal reps for Team Gowron, and Keith doesn't apologize for killing Mr. Homn!

What kind of a show brings you this much goodness? This one!

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This week, we bring you a little update from the world of Trek news, including two new casting announcements for Star Trek: Discovery! Plus, a review of the new Lost in Space, and a one-man jeremiad on the subject of "superproducers" . . . it makes sense in context.

This is the "Drake approves by pointing to it" of podcasts!

Check out this link about Discovery's newest engineer, Tig Notaro!
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Replicate yourself a tin foil hat and get ready to see the fnords as we overload our cortical implants to discuss "The Voyager Conspiracy!"

Writer, researcher, and teacher Dr. David A. Banks joins the show to talk about an episode of Voyager that sees Seven of Nine question everything she thinks she knows about her crewmates and the circumstances that brought them to the Delta Quadrant. Will she expose the lies that are hidden in plain sight . . . or is it all in her fevered mind?

It's an episode that challenges the idea that more data equals more insight, and also acts as a canny examination of mental illness. In our talk, David and I discuss the conspicuous absence of transhumanism in the world of Trek, how transporters could mean the death of social media, how net neutrality will disenfranchise marginalized populations, representations of neuroatypicality in sci-fi, and who decides what's "baseline human".

Plus, we explore having your cake and complaining about it, asking Alexa if you're a good captain, spinning prosaicism into profundity with TED, being a child of the '90s, and yelling at your boss on the Holodeck!

Listen in on The (Subspace) Conversation before Robert Mueller subpoenas us!

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Larry "Dr. Trek" Nemecek makes a house call to the show this week as we talk about the early days of Star Trek: The Next Generation and what it could have looked like without Gene Roddenberry's involvement. We also discuss Larry's NASA kid origins, the dream of getting to explore Roddenberry's archives, "writers vs. suits" in Chaos on the Bridge, and Larry gives us his thoughts about Star Trek: Discovery and the "next generation" of fans who are embracing it online.

Plus, Shatner lives, wedding bells, and the Picarpelganger is making toasts left and right! Here's to the finest listenership in podcasting!

Here's a link to the Trek Files episode where Larry and Dave Rossi talk about TNG's aborted first pitch!
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This week on Castperanto, the Esperanto podcast, it's the most notorious Esperanto film, Incubus! When a succubus sets her sights on a virtuous young soldier, she thinks she's got an easy catch. But, can she resist the seductive nature of love and virtue?

Hosts Aaron Coker and Jacob Gulliver take a long drink from this "Bergmanesque"(?) movie and discuss the film's perfume commercial cinematography, its "cursed" past, what lying to priests gets you, the Outer Limits, and a particularly angry goat!

Ĝuu la spektaklon!

Grab your lampshade and join the party this week as we look at an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that's a throwback in more ways than one: "The Schizoid Man!"

New York Times best-selling author and perennial guest David Mack is back on the show to talk about a problematic TNG entry that starts with a dirty grandpa and ends with targ underwear wrestling. From casual sexism, to marginalization, to troubling implications for the Soong family, this early bit of TNG fluff has it all . . . and that goes without mentioning forbidden May-December robot love, firing a warning shot across Diana Muldaur's bow, loose off-switch talk, and the Wall of Departed Writers!

But it's not all doom and gloom. We also talk about the influence of "Forbidden Planet" on modern sci-fi, extol the virtues of Cool Susie Plakson, answer whether Spock could mind meld with Data, take a glance at the TNG Writers' Bible, and Dave explains "above-the-line" and "below-the-line" credits!

Plus, we explore Data's "bratty teen years", show a little Farscape love, and debut our pitch for Star Chef! He'll stab you with the correct fork!

Hurry! Touch and go down-warp this show (out of a wall) today!

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Keep up with the Soongs with Immortal Coil by Jeffrey Lang and Mack's The Persistence of Memory!
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We're back this week with more from sociology professors and Trek researchers John and Maria Jose Tenuto and the conversation ranges from the life and career of Ricardo Montalban, the transformation of a Viking superman into an Eastern tyrant, building a pop culture monument piece by piece, more Star Trek: Discovery talk, and a special appearance by Robert Rodriguez('s name)!

Thanks again to the Tenutos for sharing their work with us!

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He's a genetically-engineered superman, a temporal fugitive, and he can crush a phaser with his bare hands . . . given enough yoga-based preparation, of course. It's Khan Noonien Singh!

Sociology professors and Star Trek researchers Maria Jose and John Tenuto take us to school this week for a look at the Original Series episode that gave us Khan: "Space Seed"! John and Maria share their insights from researching the Roddenberry archives, charting the episode's path from concept to screen and how the show inspired Trek's most thrilling film entry, The Wrath of Khan!

During the show, we talk about the benefits of a budget and a deadline, WoK's origins as a TV movie, speculate who should be on the Mt. Rushmore of Star Trek history, unfold the complicated evolution of Khan from a Viking criminal to a Sikh overlord, call out Ricardo Montalban as a mensch, and contemplate our screenless future and the 20-year nostalgia cycles that bring our favorite things back to us as adults.

Plus, John pitches Khan as the "Joker" to Kirk's "Batman", Maria decodes the canny construction of Khan's couture, Kal worries Marla is straight crushin' on Hitler, and the whole ship is in love with the Nicest Tyrant!

Ride your pog to your job at the slap bracelet factory and listen to this show while you do it!

See Maria and John on Netflix in The Toys That Made Us!
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Check out more of Maria and John's in-depth research in their articles for StarTrek.com!
http://www.startrek.com/article/discoverys-coolest-deepest-cut-easter-eggs
http://www.startrek.com/article/space-seed-khan-forever-changed-vhs-releases

In fact, here's links to their six-part Space Seed series from the old startrek.com!
http://www.startrek.com/article/khan-was-almost-harald-ericsson
http://www.startrek.com/article/the-evolution-of-space-seed-part-2
http://www.startrek.com/article/guest-blog-the-evolution-of-space-seed-part-3
http://www.startrek.com/article/guest-blog-the-evolution-of-space-seed-part-4
http://www.startrek.com/article/guest-blog-the-evolution-of-space-seed-part-5
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Our latest supplemental episode is here to say goodbye to a treasured performer and to dive into the allegorical pool we filled last week when talking "Duet". Trek and social commentary have always gone hand in hand, and I break down some of Trek's best cautionary tales AND "Past Tense" San Francisco vs. modern-day San Fran. Trick question! Same.

Plus, a big announcement about a new live show at CONvergence this summer!

Here's a link to the Reddit post I mentioned
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Season Three of Enterprising Individuals takes a serious turn as we look at the tangle of thorns that is "Duet"!

New York Times best-selling author David R. George III returns to the show to talk about one of Deep Space Nine's (and Trek's) finest and most brutal episodes. Kira thinks she's captured a monster, but she learns that war and cruelty make victims of everyone. Our discussion touches upon the genius of Harris Yulin, the reality of history being edited by the victors, the importance of victim accounts, the practice of sin-eating, and the banality of evil. We also shift gears and talk about less somber topics, like Prussian valves and "proficient service", the drawbacks of acting like a jerk to your neighbors, the "Cardassian Monologue", Death and the Maiden, and Stabby Otis from Mayberry! Okay . . . slightly less somber.

Plus, Kal contemplates a career as a Trek fact researcher, Dave talks about some of his favorite films, the Benjamin Buttoning properties of volcanic vapors are discussed, there's a shout-out to Robert Shaw, and an update on a possible sighting of The Most Interesting Man in the World!

We're pulling for you, Clint Howard! One day at a time!

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