Generations Geek

Science fiction writer Scott Pearson and cohost Ella Pearson discuss what they’ve been up to in 2022—spoilers: conventions and moving—and why this is the first time they’ve gotten around to recording an episode all year!

Segments

01:55 We’ve Been Remiss

02:50 Star Trek: Mission Chicago

04:33 The Famous Tom Paris Plate

05:55 Meeting Trek People

09:15 Ella Moves House

09:44 San Francisco

10:53 Thrillerfest

14:38 Hello, COVID

15:25 Scott Moves House

18:27 Shore Leave featuring John Billingsley

24:57 A Moment of Silence for Dave Galanter

25:43 San Diego Comic Con

39:10 Twin Cities Con featuring Elijah Wood and Sean Astin

45:13 Interlude: Jared Padaleki

46:01 Then There’s Sean Astin

49:26 Shameless Self-Promotion: Tales of the Weird World War

53:37 Final Thoughts

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Science fiction writer and editor Scott Pearson and cohost Ella Pearson welcome author Jim Johnson, lifelong Star Trek fan, three-time Star Trek: Strange New Worlds winner, and project manager of the Star Trek Adventures role-playing game to talk about—you guessed it—Star Trek (and plenty of other geeky things)!

Science fiction writer Scott Pearson and cohost Ella Pearson welcome author Christopher D. Abbott to discuss Sherlock Holmes on screen and in books not by Arthur Conan Doyle, including Abbott's own Watson Chronicles series of novellas. The game's afoot!

Science fiction writer Scott Pearson and cohost Ella Pearson welcome astrophysicist, teacher, writer, and, last but not least, science consultant for the Star Trek Universe Erin Macdonald to talk about gravity waves, Star Trek tattoos, science consulting, and, for our older listeners, her favorite Scotch whisky.

Science fiction writer Scott Pearson and cohost Ella Pearson welcome actor Noah Averbach-Katz, Star Trek: Discovery’s Ryn the Andorian, who regales us with stories of growing up with a Trekkie mom, his (mis)adventures with Grudge the cat, working with his wife Mary “Tilly” Wiseman, and more geeky goodness.

Science fiction writer and editor Scott Pearson and cohost Ella Pearson return to the dystopian world of Katniss, discussing the second film in the four-film adaptation of the Suzanne Collins book trilogy. Hunger Games fan Ella guides her newbie dad through his first viewing of the movie, doing her best to remind him of the character names he forgets.

Ella introduces her dad to the dystopian world of Katniss through the first film adaptation of the Suzanne Collins trilogy. Although Ella has read all the books and seen all the movies multiple times, Dad-half has neither read nor watched any of them. We discuss the film and Ella fills in details from the books.

Ella puts the “geek” in “theatre geek” as she tells us about multiple visits to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London for a variety of plays by, well, Harold Pinter. Among the cavalcade of British actors of stage and screen she saw performing were Charlie “Daredevil” Cox, Martin “Watson/Bilbo” Freeman, Rupert “Lestrade” Graves, and Tom “Loki” Hiddleston! But wait, there’s more! At theatres other than the Pinter, she had a chance to see Arthur “Rory” Darvill and Hayley “Agent Carter” Atwell! Scott also chimes in with his own adventures seeing geek actors on stage.

Ella walks us through Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds: The Immersive Experience, an interactive, virtual-reality version of the classic rock opera! Can an American college student survive the Martian invasion with the help of some new British friends? Tune in and find out. And look up episode 23, wherein we discussed the 1938 radio version of The War of the Worlds, the 1953 movie, the 2005 movie remake, and more, including the musical version.

Ella Skypes in from London to tell us about geeky adventures in Scotland visiting places that inspired J. K. Rowling while she was beginning the Harry Potter series. Then we get an in-depth report on the Making of Harry Potter exhibit at the Warner Bros. Studio in Watford. Finally, Ella regales us with her rather surprise trip to the theatre to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child live on stage at the historic Palace Theatre in London!