SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2009

Whoa! Didn't see that coming! At least those of us who haven't seen Star Trek didn't see that coming -- which is probably just one person (J.R.). The endurance of TNG season one is in its twilight. Even though these beginnings of TNG are, for the most part, a bit weak; we do discuss many risky positives. We had the death, the out of place foreshadowing episode and also the Wesley failing.
BTW, sorry about the lateness of this. Sure, we recorded this one a week ago and it's just going online now, but... well, no excuse. Hey! It gives you more of an excuse to listen live!
If you're curious about that AC/DC Star Trek parody we played in the middle of the podcast, you can download it (as well as a bunch more Star Trek parody songs) here:
http://www.christrocks.com/parody/
So go there even though the guy totally pimps out a different Star Trek podcast. Hopefully he's not pissed that we used his song without permission.
Remember to rate us and review us on iTunes (positively)! Keep the emails coming in: [email protected].
Podcast breakdown
00:00 -- Opening B.S.
08:40 -- "When the Bough Breaks"
16:55 -- "Home Soil"
23:50 -- "Coming of Age"
36:02 -- "Heart of Glory"
47:34 -- Interlude: "TNG" by Rick Moyer
49:00 -- "The Arsenal of Freedom"
1.01:14 -- "Symbiosis"
1.09:22 -- "Skin of Evil"
1.22:32 -- "Awards, rankings and all that other stuff at the end"
This podcast is dedicated in loving memory to Ricardo Montalban (1920-2009) and Denise Crosby's Star Trek career (1987-1988).

THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 2009

Things are looking better! We were able to cruise through eight first season episodes. We got lots of evil twins, lots of chicks and lots of chick flicky episodes! Plus we got the added bonus of lots of listener help.
Podcast breakdown:
00:00 -- Beginning stuff
06:37 -- "The Battle"
16:52 -- "Hide and Q"
30:14 -- "Haven"
38:17 -- "The Big Goodbye"
56:49 -- "Datalore"
1.08:36 -- "Angel One"
1.17:56 -- "11001001"
1.26:16 -- "Too Short a Season"
1.34:26 -- Awards, rankings and ending stuff

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2008

Provocative episode titles, fornication with robots, frozen orgies, skimpy napkin clothing, nude female cultures, hallucinating ballerinas, polygamy for property, oil rubdowns, gods that command love, virtual keggers and sex at the drop of a hat -- this podcast has everything a young teenage boy could ever want!
Podcast breakdown:
00:00 -- Intro
02:22 -- "The Naked Now"
17:27 -- "Code of Honor"
27:10 -- "The Last Outpost"
43:11 -- "Where No One Has Gone Before"
52:54 -- "Lonely Among Us"
1.05:15 -- "Justice"
1.18:35 -- Rankings, awards, outro, outtakes

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Alright, this is monu (wait for it) mental! Probably the most anticipated event in the history of this podcast happens right here in Podcast #19. We're speaking of course of finally getting to Star Trek: The Next Generation. Hopefully our "praise" of the show will appease the die-hards.
Podcast breakdown:
00:00 -- Opening b.s. (BYU, Rock Band)
05:19 -- TNG intro
11:07 -- Listener mail
15:20 -- Character overview
34:00 -- "Encounter at Farpoint"
54:25 -- Ten promising things about Next Gen
1:00:00 -- Ten things that suck about Next Gen
1:04:10 -- Ratings, trailer talk, outro, outtakes
Comments:
Jon used the word "campy" a lot during this discussion, when perhaps "cheesy" probably would have been a better word.
Another thing Jon forgot to mention was his confusion over why Q didn't harass any of the other Federation ships going to and from Farpoint every day.
This podcast is dedicated in loving memory to DeForest Kelley (1920-1999)

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Once again we enter the realm of "good even" Star Trek movies. This time the Enterprise goes to the Earth-like planet of '80s San Francisco. And we totally the hell finished posting this podcast on time.
Podcast breakdown:
00:00 -- Intros/hellos
01:29 -- Halloween wrap-up
05:41 -- Viewer mail
10:38 -- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home discussion
1.26:03 -- Awards
1.32:30 -- Preview of next podcast/goodbyes/outtakes
Comments:
One thing we forgot to mention was the true test of Spock's eventual humanity. It was saving Chekov's life -- the guy who screwed up everything in Star Trek II.
This podcast is dedicated in loving memory to Jane Wyatt (1910-2006).

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008

Sorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorry!
It took forever to post this, which is especially troublesome after the long break we took between 'casts. Please forgive us. The Halloween season is like Christmas to us, but more stressful.
Podcast breakdown:
00:00 -- Intro and Halloween discussion
04:15 -- Playing of the Halloween songs
11:50 -- Listener mail
17:30 -- EW Q&A
31:08 -- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock discussion
1.08:11 -- Awards/outros
Commentary/corrections:
Toward the end we mentioned that we were going to do another movie commentary with the movie Poltergeist and that we wanted all of you to join us. Well, you can't because inbetween the recording and production of this particular podcast, we went ahead and did the other one. Sorry.
One thing we forgot to mention is the continued ignorance of Kirk and his Vulcan knowledge. He didn't even know what a Vulcan katra was. He must have not taken his Federation cultural and aliens studies class very seriously.
We also said that we didn't know what Kirstie Alley did between Star Trek II and Cheers. How could we forget Runaway, the classic sci-fi film starring Magnum P.I. and KISS? That movie was actually the same year as STIII.
This podcast is dedicated in loving memory to Merritt Butrick (1959-1989).

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

This podcast is a DVD commentary of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. It will probably be funner to listen to it while watching the movie, but hopefully we've made it fun enough (and you've seen the most popular Star Trek movie enough) that it can be enjoyed without the visual accompaniment. This is also a "simul-podcast" with The Jon Madsen Movie Commentary Podcast
It's okay to cry.
Not too much of a sense to lay out the show rundown. Pretty much all of it is the commentary.
Likelihood of the events of this movie happening: 11,718,750,000,000 to one.
Comments/corrections: I think toward the end we wondered why they couldn't beam the Genesis away from the Reliant and shut it off manually. Well, thinking about in now, it seems like David says to Kirk that it couldn't be shut off, so that solves that. But then again, what poor sap were they planning on getting to activate the Genesis Device without getting totally nuked because he couldn't get away in time?
Next week we'll be back with a normal podcast about Star Trek III.
This podcast is dedicated in loving memory to Madlyn Rhue (1935-2003)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

And thus we begin the movie franchise with Star Trek: The Motion Picture (yes, thanks for actually informing us that it's a movie)!
Discussion of ST:TMP does not begin, however, without first wrapping up the original series with a list of awards that frankly and obviously weren't worked on very hard (but were still plenty humorous (or not -- maybe you just had to be there)).
Joining the talk about ST:TMP is our buddy Pete, whom you may recognize as the guy who went with Jon to the Star Trek Experience. Somehow, being on the podcast counted toward his community service.
Jon's "um" count: 44
Podcast breakdown:
:00 -- Intro
1:27 -- Rating the SocVis list
9:19 -- Random TOS favorites
26:53 -- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1.43:22 -- End/outtakes

Jon said ST:TMP was his sixth favorite Star Trek movie, Pete said it was his third favorite and J.R. said it was his second favorite (he's seen two).
Corrections/errors: There was a point where Jon said that we've been recording for an hour and 20 minutes when it was an hour and 40 minutes into the podcast. This can be explained by the fact that we (very obviously) recorded the first segment of random TOS awards after we recorded the discussion about the movie.
This podcast is dedicated in loving memory to Persis Khambatta (1950-1998).

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

It saddens us that this is our last original series podcast, but it should gladden you that we supersized it! We present well over two hours of JRWSTftft this time around. Included is our take on the last four episodes plus our best/worst picks of Season 3, PLUS our best/worst TOS picks of all time!
Jon is the one who said he was sick, but that's J.R. who's got the sniffles.
Jon's "um" count: 65
Podcast breakdown:
:00 -- Hellos and announcements
9:01 -- "The Cloud Minders"
20:23 -- "The Savage Curtain"
37:37 -- "All Our Yesterdays"
56:42 -- "Turnabout Intruder"
1.12:52 -- Podcast rankings
1.19:33 -- Season rankings
1.33:34 -- Worst episodes of TOS
1.43:04 -- Best episodes of TOS
2:03:45 -- Outro and outtakes

Email in your favorite Star Trek episodes.
Remember, we don't really hate children and we don't advocate eliminating them... yet... just kidding, but not really. No, seriously don't hurt kids. That's horrible.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2008

We're not lying. We can totally taste the end of Season 3.
For some strange reason neither of us mentioned how there was another episode about the Garden of Eden in this bunch. "The Way To Eden" is all about Eden and there's even a character named Adam who dies by eating fruit there. Why didn't we mention the Star Trek writers' fascination with Eden? Maybe because we already have five times.
Jon's "um" count: 43
Podcast breakdown:
:00 -- Beverly Washburn welcome/intro
7:02 -- Jon's report on the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas
18:36 -- Other announcements
20:41 -- "That Which Survives"
33:25 -- "Lights of Zetar"
40:20 -- "Requiem for Methuselah"
50:54 -- "The Way to Eden"
1.03:07 -- Chronology discussion
1.05:20 -- Rankings
1.09:57 -- Outro/outtakes

Everyone remember to email [email protected] and holler your input on what order we should do the movies. Right now we're planning on watching the first four movies and then switching to Next Generation. Would you rather we discuss all six original crew movies before tackling TNG?