Enterprising Individuals

Get into uniform this week as we take a look at the sartorial styles of 23rd century Starfleet! Plus, a look at Fox's The Orville, we look at the virtue of uncool Trek, and we order you to get your copy of Desperate Hours, the new Star Trek: Discovery tie-in novel! This is so cool!

Enterprising Individuals: now 100% Mickey Rourke-free!

Hie thee to Amazon for your copy of Desperate Hours!
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Here's a nice interview with Mack Attack about writing Desperate Hours
https://www.inverse.com/article/36074-desperate-hours-david-mack-star-trek-discovery-canon-tos-the-cage

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We don't always talk about The Corbomite Maneuver, but when we do, it's on this episode! New York Times and USA Today best-selling author David R. George III joins the show to talk about the first non-pilot episode of Star Trek, and along the way, we discuss how Trek became Trek, the inclusiveness of Trek's future, what it takes to command a starship, and the search for the unknown!

Plus, we discuss the show's humanistic principles in a military sci-fi setting, we share mutual love for a good countdown, we talk deus ex devices, and Dave gives us insight into the process of developing a Star Trek script while I try to convince him that The Most Interesting Man in the World is in this episode!

Take all that, add Clint Howard and three fingers of tranya, pour into your ears and enjoy!

Go to Amazon to pre-order David's new Star Trek novel, Original Sin, available on September 26th!
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Inna gadda your vida with us this week as we put the pedal down on that ol' time Star Trek! It's wedding news and lawsuit blues and Jason Isaacs's views as we run down the Trek stories of the day. Plus, a talk with Ben Harrison and Adam Pranica of the Greatest Generation as they embark on their Premature Assimilation Tour! And, we get you ready for the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery and we detail our plans to exploit it! All to the tune of a church organ playing Jerry Goldsmith's greatest hits!

Iron Butterfly in the sky, we can go twice as high!

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Something's up with Starfleet Command this week as Picard and crew try to uncover a "Conspiracy"! Author Marc D. Giller joins us for a look at an episode that is somewhat of a departure from what we've come to expect from Trek (read: head pinata filled with meat spiders). We delve into this dark Next Gen episode to find out the value of being Gene's buddy, the connection between the bluegills and the Trill, the lack of cyberpunk in Next Gen, inflicting Lwaxana Troi on us, reverse engineering punchlines, and A MAN'S HEAD BLOWS UP!

Plus, we say hello to the galaxy's most happy-go-lucky would-be conquerors, the stop-motion parasites, and wonder about their conviviality in the face of death, their love of mealworms, drama, and drama involving mealworms, and A MAN'S HEAD BLOWS UP!

Add a dash of Michael "The Hills Have Eyes" Berryman, and you've got a recipe for an episode where A MAN'S HEAD BLOWS UP!

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Gamble it all with us this week as we bring you news from the Las Vegas Star Trek convention! We've got stories from the 30th anniversary Next Generation panel, Gene vs. Patrick, and new Discovery tie-in media! And speaking of Discovery, we've got tales from the set and tales from out of school from the mouth of departed showrunner Bryan Fuller!

Plus, tune in for a huge announcement about our upcoming Star Trek: Discovery coverage!

Face it, listener! You hit the jackpot!

Pre-order Mack's new discovery novel here!
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Hilarity ensues this week as the Pon Farr drives us back to Vulcan for "Amok Time"! Author Dave Galanter joins us for a look at the first episode of Star Trek's second season and quite possibly, the best episode of all time. Along the way, we discuss the genius of Theodore Sturgeon, the enduring bond between Kirk and Spock, the universality of Spock's struggle, the troubling "ethnocentrism" of the Vulcan people, and which weapon to choose for your first koon-ut-kal-if-fee!

Plus, we talk Vulcan PDA, getting Nurse Chapel's hopes up, the Vulcan version of Jerry Springer, looking at baby pictures of your fiancee, Kaliban tells his Walter Koenig bathroom story, and Dave tries to convince us that Star Trek V never happened!

This episode is all that and a bowl of plomeek soup on the wall!

Check out Dave's Spock novel, Troublesome Minds!
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Head to Patreon to hear our live Wrath of Khan episode recorded at CONvergence 2017!
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Dream a little dream with us this week as we report all the bombshell...er, photon torpedo news announcements about star Trek: Discovery from this year's San Diego Comic Con! We've got casting announcements, story developments, new characters, and more! Plus, I share my Discovery dreams, I give my best guess of the upcoming discovery's plot, and I fervently wish a Chuck Cunningham on a beloved character! Discover this show today! #RIPUSSEuropa

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Get taken to church this week as New York Times best-selling author John Jackson Miller joins the show just in time to bear witness to "Rightful Heir"! The bumpy-headed Jesus of Qo'nos past, Kahless, has returned to our realm and he begins a movement that will leave Worf trapped between the religion of his people and the politics of the Empire! It's a heady, thought-provoking episode, where we discuss running out of dream jobs, Jurassic Worf, the similarities of tie-in fiction and religious canon, what Chris Hardwick's like in real life, and when it was exactly that TNG "grew the beard".

Add in some references to TV Tropes, classic Battlestar Galactica, the Six Million Dollar Man, and more than a little Star Wars talk and you've got an episode that still technically counts as being about Star Trek! Qapla'!

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The power of positivity returns as we're back from CONvergence 2017 with a whole new load of Star Trek: Discovery news! Plus, a reflection on the inviolability of "canon", a CBS All Access sales pitch, some good news about Armin Shimerman, and the return of a familiar, hostile face! Listen today! "Timelines"!

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Get your entertainment here this week as New York Times best-selling author Dayton Ward joins us for a look at the most Star Trek episode to ever Star Trek, "Arena"! It's a battle for survival as we discuss Star Trek on the playground, the "Trek episode starter kit", how NOT to learn self-defense, accidental plagiarism, space diplomacy American-style, "warts" as a feature and not a bug, and a superfluous Nabokov reference!

Add a few Vasquez Rocks and the components of gunpowder and you've got a recipe for an explosively entertaining show! Listen today!

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Enterprising Individuals will be LIVE at CONvergence 2017!
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