49. I’m Sorry, I Can’t Do That, B’Elanna
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Check your software and make-sure to update your anti-viral software because our Casual Explorers are looking at times when Artifical Intelligence went ‘Wibbly.’ In the first episode, Voyager’s ‘Dreadnought,’ Torres deals with a super-intelligent missile from her past. Then in Discovery’s ‘Stormy Weather,’ we do some exploration in a dark abyss while the Discovery’s sentient computer struggles with self-doubt about her own skills and talents (and gurl, same). And then, Miles has to endure ‘A Mathmatically Perfect Redemption’ and has to deal with his most hated Lower Decks character and consistently get their name wrong. On a completely seperate tangent, Peanut Hamper is the damn worst. No connection. Honest. We didn’t use AI to write these show notes.
Timecodes:
00:09:15 – VOY: Dreadnought
00:37:51 – DIS: Stormy Weather
01:04:17 – LDS: A Mathmatically Perfect Redemption
Talking Points Include: Paranoia, Iain M. Banks’ Culture spaceship names, the movies of Roger Corman, CabinCon, the Infamous Starbucks Gary, early Voyager forgetting The Doctor matters, making fun of British Prime Ministers, Kes getting stuff to do, Voyager’s juggling subplots, Voyager’s bad reputation in the Delta Quadrant, Delta Quadrant being wasted world-building, war-crimes, Dark Star, more 2000 AD talk with Rogue Trooper, British Beavis and Butthead, large gentlemen struggling to put on jeans Miles and Charlie’s utter resignation with Ed Sheeran, big expanses of nothing, Miles is very behind on Discovery even though he does a Star Trek Podcast, Discovery’s honest earnestness, New Battlestar Galactica, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy doing things several decades earlier than Discoery, the Short Trek- Calypso, Miles and Charlie talk about never truly growing up and how that can be toxic, Rick and Morty’s lineage in Star Trek Lower Decks, robot/owl Rule 34, Peanut Hamper being the damn worse and why Arnold Judas Rimmer might be one of the greatest characters in all of Science-Fiction TV.
Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.
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