Uncanny Treks

Uncanny Treks

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Uncanny Treks episodes

  • Babylon 5 vs. Deep Space Nine- "Points of Departure" vs. "The Search"

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    Points of Departure S2E1 (2 Nov 94) vs. The Search p1-2 S3E1-2 (26 Sep & 3 Oct 94)

    -This week Matt & Bob are too excited to introduce the season premieres by name

    -Matt no-sells Bob’s reference to the variety show Soul Train (1971-2006); in retaliation Bob no-sells Matt’s reference to the Borat franchise

    43 min
  • Bonus Episode: Titans S3 E1-4

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    Bob and Matt discuss the first four episodes of Titans Season 3 on HBO Max.

    29 min
  • Babylon 5 vs. Deep Space Nine-"Chysalis" vs. "The Jem'Hadar"

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    Chrysalis S1E22 (3 Oct 94) vs. The Jem’Hadar S2E26 (12 Jun 94)

    -Matt & Bob recorded a podcast episode on the penultimate television episodes of B5 S1 & DS9 S2, but Matt blacked out for 24 hours and lost all memory of "Legacies" and "Tribunal". He also keeps having flashbacks of torture and probing.

    -Bob’s favorite Faustian narratives are Christopher Marlowe Dr. Faustus (1592), Goethe Faust Pt. 1 (1808), Lord Byron Manfred (1817), Herman Melville Moby-Dick (1851), & Oscar Wilde Dorian Gray (1891)

    -Bob speculates that B5 may be the first show to tell a whole narrative across multiple seasons, in contrast to a show like Wiseguy (1987-90) that did multi-episode arcs or more improvisational soap opera like Dallas (1978-91), Crime Story (1986-8), Twin Peaks (1990-1)

    -Bob speculates that Harry Potter may be responsible for younger millennials’ and zoomers’ love for bildungsromans, in stark contrast to our elder millennial bitterness

    -Bob does like the new but sadly canceled Twilight Zone (2019-20)

    -Matt namechecks Banshee from the X-Men & Bob talks fondly about the Stepford Cuckoos’ disquiet that they lack telekinesis

    -Matt fails his Voight-Kampff test for Galaxy-class starship empathy

    -Bob, a UAW member, thinks highly of this radio episode on UAW president Walter Reuther’s death https://player.fm/series/history-conspiracy-podcast/the-death-of-walter-reuther-from-the-dave-emory-archives but not so highly of this podcast episode on Sen. Paul Wellstone’s death https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-strange-death-of-senator-paul-wellstone/id1235651909?i=1000501700367

    -Bob hopes Black Lightning (2018-21) allowed Cress Wiliams to be as haughty in that role as he is as Talak’talan

    -Bob lies & says we’re covering the B5 comic Price of Peace next, but, instead, we held off a couple of weeks on the comic & did the B5 S2 premiere & 2part DS9 S3 premiere next

    1 hr 3 min
  • Babylon 5 vs. Deep Space Nine- "TKO" vs. "Collaborator"

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    TKO S1E20 (25 May 94) vs. Collaborator S2E24 (22 May 94)

    -Matt & Bob debate whether we’d be better off w/ the Mutai or The Purge franchise

    -Theodore Bikel also played Worf’s foster father in The Next Generation

    -Matt’s favorite boxing movies are Rocky (1976), Raging Bull (1980), & Pulp Fiction (1994). Bob’s are The Set-up (1949), Raging Bull, & Creed (2015)

    -Matt’s favorite martial arts movies are Drunken Master (1978) & Mortal Kombat (1995). Bob’s are both 1978 Shaw Bros films: 36th Chamber of Shaolin & 5 Deadly Venoms

    -Bob embarrassingly forgot that Johnny Blaze is a nom de guerre of Method Man

    -Twin Peaks & Sopranos are the best dream shows

    -Matt & Bob both co-sign that Danny McBride’s HBO comedies are the great examples of contemporary southern realism

    -Matt harasses Bob for not watching Logan (2017)

    41 min

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