Sci-Fi Malady

This week, Scott got lost in the Stargate, which meant Thomas and Rage had to fill in. However, thanks to distortion from the gate, we also lost half of our episode. However, the most important parts were mostly mentioned, except for Rage’s soapbox about how he doesn’t like Ancient Aliens. Ruk closes it out and we come to the conclusion that yes, this was a good movie.

We’re kicking off this month with one of my fav new directors, Denis Villanueva of Dune and Blade Runner 2049 fame. He is proving to be quite a great sci-fi director and this film, even as part of his earlier work, proves it. Also, once again we’re discussing time travel.

All this month, we’ll be reviewing films about Earth’s first contact with aliens. It will also be the first time in a long time that Rage as had contact with pants.

We are finishing up Trekkin’ into the New Year with, surprise, another time travel related episode. Hey, hey, hey don’t run yet. This one is unique in that Harry Kim gets to act. You heard me, act. He’s not a block of wood the whole time. The actor got to show us his talents thanks to LeVar Burton’s directing. So take a look, at this hook, Harry Kim act.

After a year spent trapped into time due to the Malady Ray, thanks Scott, Ethan has returned to as a guest on sci-fi Malady. In honor of his historic trip, we decided it would be fitting to watch Year of Hell. This is Voyager as it should have been.

Be sure to catch Ethan on his podcast, Drive Back the Night, which can be found here.

https://andromedaseries.podbean.com/

Also, check out his guest runs on the Wannabe Critic page

https://www.youtube.com/c/thewannabecritic/about

Scott just loves to dunk on Janeway. This week, he shows again how horrible she is by forcibly removing the memories from their holographic doctor before he loses it and risks the future healthcare of the crew. Scott is clearly not an adopter of Vulcan ideology.

We’re kicking off Trekkin into the New Year with our season two episode, Tuvix, in which the transporter creates a brunfly. I guess they had to do this story at some point. As as aside, we are sorry we sound like we are in an echo chamber this week. But, we assure you that the discussion was great!

In the past, the hardest part of this month was narrowing down our top four episodes of this installment of Trek. This year, it’s narrowing down the least worst. Tune in this month to Trekkin’ into the New Year with Voyager. Oh boy!

Normally, we wrap up the year with a review episode. This year, we’re doing something different. In the spirit of the season of gifts, we’re talking about the sci-fi toys that shaped us as kids. Thomas and Rage are joined by two members of the Youtube toy community, Luke Reynolds of Reynold’s Reviews and Dave of Vintage Toy Rush to discuss sci-fi toy lines of the 80s and modern toy collecting in general. Check out the links below to their channels.

https://www.youtube.com/c/ReynoldsReviews-

https://www.youtube.com/c/VintageToyRush

So just because something is better doesn’t mean it is also good. That is the situation with the 2010 version of Romero’s 1973 film, “The Crazies.” Was it better? By most measures yes. But, does that make it good? Give a listen and you decide.