Uncanny Treks

Bob and Matt discuss the most recent episode of Lower Decks.

Bob and Matt discuss the ups and downs of DS9 Season 2.

Bob and Matt recap season 1 of Babylon 5.

Bob and Matt discuss the latest episode of Lower Decks.

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

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

Bob and Matt discuss Lower Decks S2E3.

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)

Bob and Matt discuss Season 2 Episode 2 of Lower Decks.

Bob and Matt review The Suicide Squad.