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Into the Spockiverse

7 April 2023 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

TREK TALK: Though they recorded before First Contact Day actually happened, our hosts have been thinking and watching a lot of Star Trek recently and give their takes on the state of the franchise before the (any?) announcements that may have happened this week.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“Disco McCoy” (8 April 2022): Our episode about last year’s First Contact Day.

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
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Vectors of Bad Decisions

17 February 2023 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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MAKE IT SO: Andrew is excited for Picard, season 3 despite it being a bit divisive among the fandom.

BAJOR FIRST: With D. Bethel finishing up season 1 of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Andrew encouraged him to watch the first three episodes of season 2 as they all work together to tell a story of coups, insurrections, and political extremism. Fun stuff.

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
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Mighty Morphin’ Paranormal Rangers

11 November 2022 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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TWITTER STILL SUCKS: Our hosts take a second to check in on the state of Twitter, recently purchased by billionaire, Elon Musk, and all the strange changes that have been made to the service.

TOS VS. TNG: D. Bethel briefly returns to Star Trek by watching the last original series movie/first Next Generation movie, Star Trek: Generations. It’s…fine.

RELEVANT LINKS:

The trailer for the “documentary” about the “discovery” of Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum game.

https://youtu.be/yhPCJB-uTyk

“Twitter Comes Tumblr-ing Down.” Comic Lab, 10 November 2022. The episode of the excellent Comic Lab podcast (with Brad Guigar and Dave Kellett) where they thoroughly investigate the fall––and fallout––of Twitter.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“Alien Control Party” (22 January 2016): Where our hosts discuss previous Digital Eclipse ports in their discussion about archiving old video games.
“Aggressive Modulation” (04 November 2022): Where our hosts reflect on, and analyze, the legacy of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
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“Yakety Sax” by Boots Randolph

Disco McCoy

8 April 2022 Invisible Editor Comments 1 comment

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FIRST CONTACT DAY: April 5 is celebrated by Star Trek fans as “First Contact Day.” While the day is fictional, the celebration is real as Paramount releases a bunch of Star Trek news, sneak peeks, and trailers. Our hosts dive into all the news that’s fit to beam up.

RELEVANT LINKS:

The cast announcement video for Picard, season 3:

D. Bethel will be at the return of Sacramento’s CrockerCon next week, on Thursday, April 14! Find more information here:

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
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Televisionatic

28 January 2022 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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STAR TREK CORNER: D. Bethel is still getting excited about Star Trek: The Next Generation, so our hosts spend some time discussing the end of TNG‘s season 3 and the start of season 4.

NEWS CRUISE: With all the news coming out in the last few weeks, our hosts decide to skim over a handful over them, including Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard; an indie developer complaining about there being too many indie games; and comics writer, Tom Taylor, taking on Comics Gate head-on.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Sharf, Zack. “Robert Pattinson Will Turn to ‘Arthouse Porn’ If Batman Goes Badly.” Indie Wire, Indie Wire Media, 25 Dec. 2019.
Tom Taylor’s thread on Twitter about ComicsGaters’ comments on his book, Superman: Son of Kal El:

Wow.
Stick around for the end of this. It's worth it.
Today, I woke up to piles of strangers in my mentions attacking the sales of Superman: Son of Kal-El issue #6 and celebrating the failure of our comic… 🧵 pic.twitter.com/Xa2zrI87yl
— Tom Taylor (@TomTaylorMade) January 25, 2022

Jeff Vogel’s Twitter thread about indie games:

So pointing out the world doesn't actually need 10000 new indie games a year on Steam will make some people super angry.

Note: that's almost 300 games a day.

Suggestion: Think I'm wrong? Prove it by going out and actually trying 1% of those games. (Yeah, I didn't think so.)
— Jeff Vogel (@spiderwebsoft) January 24, 2022

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“The Finest in Lottery Scratcher Technology” (16 March 2018): Where D. Bethel discusses Tom Taylor’s run on Marvel’s All-New Wolverine.
“Starfleet First” (31 January 2020): Where Andrew shares his reactions to the first episode of Picard.

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FEATURED MUSIC:

“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
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Beware the Harp Ladies

10 September 2021 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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HAPPY STAR TREK DAY: This week, 8 September to be specific, the world celebrated Star Trek Day. With one of our hosts being an avowed and public Star Trek fan, our hosts discuss the ways they decided to celebrate: Andrew watched all the exciting announcements and trailers from the Paramount+ Star Trek Day Celebration event while D. Bethel coincidentally started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation not more than a week ago and is enjoying every minute of it so far.

RELEVANT LINKS:

The trailer for season 2 of Picard:

The “Meet the Cast” trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds:

Trailer for the new animated series, Star Trek: Prodigy:

https://youtu.be/EBE7d8sH5Rg

Asplund, Andrew. “News Blast: Star Trek Fan Films.” A Website [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes, 23 June 2016.
- Where Andrew covered the strange legal journey of fan films of the beloved franchise.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“Crow Hat” (31 July 2015): Where Andrew and D. Bethel watch and discuss the pilot episode(s) for Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Encounter at Farpoint.”
“Butt Magic” (16 October 2020): Where Andrew discussed his joy having watched the first season of the hit adult animated series, Star Trek: The Lower Decks.

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FEATURED MUSIC:

“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
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Films in Quarries

18 June 2021 Invisible Editor Comments 2 comments

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WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew dives into the strange patchwork origin of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers while D. Bethel is pleasantly surprised by the Netflix series, Sweet Tooth, an adaptation of Dan’s favorite recent comic series by Jeff Lemire.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“The Space Dog and Bacchus Show” (21 August 2014): Where Andrew interviews indie game developer, Kai Cambra.
“It’s Not Crude, It’s Savage” (08 January 2016): Where Andrew and D. Bethel confront the famous sub vs. dub debate.
“Starfleet First” (31 January 2020): Where Andrew shares his thoughts on the first episode of the Paramount+ original show, Picard.
“I Am the State” (26 February 2021): Where D. Bethel rails against Nintendo and its apparent bias against Metroid.

RELEVANT LINKS:

“Boasts of Bethel: Getting to the Point“: Where D. Bethel discusses his thoughts about what makes a good adaptation; also, the audio version can be found in the 19 June 2014 episode, “Premature Clapulation.”
Trailer for Picard season 2 for Paramount+:

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
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Starfleet First

31 January 2020 Invisible Editor Comments 1 comment

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WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew talks about becoming enraptured by the first episode of the new CBS All Access series, Star Trek: Picard while D. Bethel enjoys the poignant but strange end to a creative team’s long run on Batman with the DC Comics’ Black Label series, Batman: Last Knight on Earth by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo.

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FEATURED MUSIC:

“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)