Enterprising Individuals

We're experiencing a perfect moment in time this week as we slow down to enjoy the third TNG film: "Star Trek: Insurrection"!

Sasha Wood of Casually Comics returns to the show this week to discuss Michael Piller's uneven but endearing contribution to the TNG film series. The Enterprise discovers a remote planet of enlightened but defenseless race who is being victimized by the cruel Son'a. When the Federation forbids Picard to interfere, the captain and his crew will have to weigh their responsibility to Starfleet against the Ba'ku's right to exist!

The benevolence of the Federation and Starfleet are taken for granted in Star Trek storytelling, but it would be naïve to deny the parallels between Starfleet's mission of discovery and the adventurous (and often predatory) explorers of Earth's past. Coming on the heels of the action-packed "First Contact", "Insurrection" was an attempt to refocus the TNG film series on the complicated themes that made its television counterpart so engrossing, and even though it wasn't an unqualified success, the film continues Trek's tradition of holding a mirror up to human (and alien) nature. On this episode, we talk about the evolution of the character of the Federation, what we expect from Trek and Trek films, finding the right allusion, maintaining perspective in space, struggling to escape the "Roddenberry box", and the lengths that the powerful will go to to retain power.

We also discuss Trek "humor", the pre-warp vest/shirt combo, Rogaine and story ideas, "Heart of Lightness", Movie Picard, cutting the kiss, making your own bread, kids watching kids, sci-fi Angie, apt song usage, "Activate Logitechnology", drug-dealing gun-running alien friends, "Dougherty out.", the sexiest Star Trek movie(?), and a Brazil's worth of face-stretching!

Put that beard back on!

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It's a detour into mystery this week as we cross over with BackTrekking, our sister podcast where we examine the real-world inspirations behind your favorite Star Trek episodes!

Love and murder are in the cards as we investigate the stories of two mononymous and mysterious women: the 1944 film noir classic "Laura" and the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Aquiel"!

WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE FOR GROWN-UPS ON THIS EPISODE

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The Borg have set their cyborg sights on Earth and it's up to the crew of the Enterprise-E to travel through time to stop them. We're presenting our live panel about Star Trek: First Contact, recorded at the CONvergence convention in 2022, with featured guests Mikanhana, Mark McPherson, Rachel Traynham, and Blaze Ward!

On this episode, we talk about one of the Trek franchise's most beloved films and how it earned that esteem. Plus, we discuss moistened Borg, the "olden days", "pulp speed", Scorsese Trek, getting actors of gravitas, taking your ship's neck away, the pleasures of the (grafted) flesh, developing a sense of drama, doing Donahue, how the Borg *aren't* bees, and ice floeing yourself!

Assimilate this!

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This week, we say goodbye to the first lady of Star Trek, Nichelle Nichols, the actress behind Uhura as well as NASA ambassador and civil rights icon.

#RIPNichelleNichols

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Get ready to be inside joy this week as we finally reach the first TNG film: "Star Trek: Generations"!

Mikanhana of Sailor Noob and Just Enough Trope returns to the show this week to discuss the Next Generation crew's first foray onto the big screen. When the Enterprise-D responds to an innocent distress call, her crew finds themselves drawn into an interstellar conspiracy with a deadly purpose. Picard must literally race against time to save his crew and prevent more destruction and he'll need the help of a long "dead" Starfleet legend...Captain James T. Kirk!

The TOS series of films had its ups and downs, but it went out about as well as it possibly could with the excellent Star Trek VI. Now, it was a new crew's turn to take the reins. A crew who had proven popularity on the small screen but was yet untested at the box-office. What began as a possibly calculated move--the inclusion of former franchise star William Shatner in the film--became instead a unique and rewarding opportunity to let both franchises meet on-screen and to see the torch passed, from one generation to another. On this episode, we talk about familiar and yet unfamiliar sight of Next Gen on the big screen, the new cinematic look of TNG, the way the film captures the heart and the intellect of the series, the new facets of characters like Picard and Data, the poignant themes of change and loss, and why it's okay that your movie "feels like a long episode."

We also discuss TV shows and movies swapping roles, the birth of unhelpful criticism, the James Cameron sequel, thanking Melinda Snodgrass, the mystery of 47, getting Geordi an iPhone, hangin' with Nana, racing RedLetterMedia, the punchiest captain in Starfleet history, running out of Data stories, throwing women overboard, the Riker/Worf broship, Big Kirk Bi Energy, that Nexus sweet spot, Beef Jerky Sting, groundhog eggs, and saying goodbye to the D!

Hug your cat; you never know!

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This week, Ella Pearson of the Generations Geek podcast and Discoverage returns to the show to talk about the year in new Trek, from Lower Decks Season 2 to Strange New Worlds Season 1, we're talking about nearly a YEAR'S worth of new Trek shows!

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