55. Kill God with a Fucking Rock!
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It’s the fiftieth numbered episode (Network note: We’d numbered it as 55, but Miles and Charlie don’t always tell us ahead of time when an episode is getting a number or not), but! Do our brave and casual explorers want to do something special? Do they want to drastically alter the podcast’s format and mission statement (Miles is still holding out for #blakesboys), not particually, but they’re interested in when Star Trek’s done it! Join them as they finally talk about Star Trek The Original Series’ second attempt at securing a series as we meet Captain James “R.” Kirk as he goes ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before’ and proceeds to meet our first Godlike being who needs a swift beating. Then, in Discovery’s ‘That Hope is You Part 1’ we heard into the 32nd Century, but discover that Star Wars-style wretched hives of scum and villainy still exist, but we finally get a chance to make the Ship’s Cat actually pull his weight around here. Finally to round it all off, we watch ‘Star Trek: Picard’s’ second season opener ‘The Stargazer’, and even technical problems with the call can’t stop us from realising that the show has some problems with repeating itself. Will there be drastic podcast changes in the future? If Miles doesn’t stop trying to make #blakesboys a thing, possibly!
TIMECODES:
13:10 TOS: Where No Man Has Gone Before
41:11 DSC: That Hope is You- Part 1
??:?? PIC: The Stargazer
TECHNICAL NOTES: We have a escalating series of technical issues during both the ‘Discovery’ and ‘Picard’ portions of the episode, we did our best to put together what we could and we apologize for the inconvenience.
TALKING POINTS INCLUDE: The New-52, the UNIT era of Doctor Who, first world aspiring writer problems, The Dark Knight Returns, Miles feels like he makes a point and Charlie utterly proves him wrong (this is Miles writing the notes), Severance, Miles getting two entirely different shows mixed up, Miles does NOT want the Confederacy marching up his road, Gary Mitchell and Kelso, we hardly knew ya, where ‘The Cage’ and ‘No-Man’ are different and where does one work over the other, Kirk’s stunt-double, defeating gods with a humble f*****g boulder to their entire body, the different uniforms, Roddenberry’s horny casting premises, Spock’s shouting again, Big Kirk Nerd, we go on a pretty lengthy digression about Star Wars… for some reason that’s totally unrelated to the episode of Discovery, never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem, Miles makes a reference to ‘Blake’s 7’ that he feels is utterly valid, Michael Burnham getting to change and evolve, Book, Grudge and the Ship’s Cat list, Covid-era SFX, the moment that makes both Miles and Charlie tear up, how Discovery advances the technology of Star Trek and how difficult it is on SF TV to make the far-future believable while not being silly, We Don’t Talk About Bruno and a quick digression into Disney films, people wanting to ride Admiral Picard’s Sexy Bald Head, Picard really shouldn’t be having a midlife crisis in his 90s, Star Trek Captains just don’t do personal lives, where Season 2 and Season 3 of Picard really have some noticeable similarities, Charlie still doesn’t care for Elnor, John DeLancie is always a delight, there’s a lot of smoking weirdness in Picard, we do actually like stuff about Picard honest, honest, honest, awkward personal drama on the Bridge, would Picard smoke a pipe? Secret +2!
PEDANT’S CORNER: Eastenders isn’t a sitcom, it’s a soap opera that makes Game of Thrones look like the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. Severance and Succession are two different shows MILES
Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.
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