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February 25, 2016 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Yourminicon

YourMiniCon Cancels Four More Conventions

Last month we reported that convention startup YourMiniCon had cancelled six of their twelve planned conventions. Well, things aren’t looking

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February 24, 2016 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Uriel Brena, Wine Country Comic Con

Why is Wine Country Comic Con Using a Fake Account to Spam Facebook?

Like many other first year conventions, Wine Country Comic Con (April 23-24, Santa Rosa, CA) is trying to promote as

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February 23, 2016 Trae Dorn Con Scene, ConQuesT, Conventions, Harassment

ConQuesT and Why Harassment Policies Need Follow Through

On Saturday, Mark Oshiro detailed the negative experiences he had as a guest at last year’s ConQuesT on Facebook. Oshiro

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February 22, 2016 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, We Are ALL SF

‘We Are ALL SF’ Convention Cutting Costs, Dropping Guests

The convention We Are ALL SF has been off to a rough start in their inaugural event’s planning. After only

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February 16, 2016 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Katsucon

Dear Congoers of America: Please Don’t Trash Con Hotels

So Katsucon was held this last weekend in National Harbor, MD, and the Gaylord Resort and Convention Center is a

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February 10, 2016 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, TCE2, Titletown Comic and Entertainment Expo

Titletown Comic & Entertainment Expo Officially Dead

We’ve been following the saga of Titletown Comic & Entertainment Expo (TCE2) for a while. The convention was plagued with

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February 9, 2016 Trae Dorn C2E2, Con Scene, Conventions, Eric Pearce, Harassment, Katsucon, Ron Ladao, Uchicon, We Are Cosplay

The State of Convention Safety and Harassment in 2016

One of the things I’ve been happiest to see over the last half-decade is that the convention scene is finally

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February 1, 2016 Trae Dorn 2050, Con Scene, Conventions, Daytona 2050

So Last Fall’s Daytona 2050 Was Kind of a Mess, Huh

Daytona 2050 was a first year convention that was held this last fall in Daytona Beach, FL. Apparently, it was

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January 26, 2016 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Star Trek, Star Trek: Mission New York

New York Convention Planned for Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary

Star Trek turns fifty years old this year, so it should be no surprise that (with the franchise’s long history

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Strum your sitar and prepare to launch all Eagles as Miles and Charlie once more become the Space Scamps as they make a second trip to the moon for three more episodes of Gerry Anderson’s ‘Event Horizon meets Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ show Space 1999. Miles is now worried he has created a monster by showing Charlie this show, and in doing so they get to talk about psychedelic trippiness and Kano’s obsession with Computer in ‘Black Sun,’ Christopher Lee (although he’s totally phoning it in) and the dispatch of a weaselly middle manager in ‘Earthbound,’ and then with ‘The Troubled Spirit’ Halloween comes a little early and it’s probably more spooky than whatever we’ll end up doing for our Halloween episode…

EPISODES DISCUSSED:
00:11:32 Black Sun
00:34:20 Earthbound
00:58:40 The Troubled Spirit

Talking Points Include: More Space 1999, Death Stranding, a trip to Scotland, the science is impossible, Moon Base Alpha’s limited resources, British Pessimism vs. American Gung-Ho, Gene Roddenberry would never, Hard SF has a tendency to go full magic weirdness, Bohemian Rhapsody deserves it’s rep, Christopher Lee is phoning it in, Simmons is the David Brent in Space, cowardly heroes, our brave explorers enjoying shouting MMMMUUUUUUUUTAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNT like in ‘Mission of the Darians,’ Charlie repeats a Johnny Byrne joke from the last episode, awesome sitar music this is the most Halloween episode we’ve done for the show, a wicked burn from Charlie’s old teacher Mr. Jafferji, is Moonbase Alpha a liminal space? M. Night Shyamalan films and surprisingly… some Star Trek.

[ Additional Show Notes ]

Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.

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