Episode 644- Space 1999 Super Show

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1:07 Series, Well, good evening trekkies and trekkers around the globe. Today is Thursday, June twenty six, twenty twenty five. Welcome to episode six hundred and forty four. Can you believe that? Eric six four? So many episodes? Incredible And you guys can find all of those episodes, well not all of them, the majority of them over at trek Talking dot com. So head on over there. There's a lot of great stuff there. I'm your most excellent host, Uncle Jim. Welcome to the podcast, and I'm going to go around and introduce you to my awesome trek experts. First of all, we have the man, the myth, the legend, our miracle, worker. He's out Portland, and there he is, of course we're talking about the man himself, David.

2:04 Welcome to the show, David. Yeah. And also Outland, lots of troubles. I thought I thought those were like chocolate candies or something back there. And also for Portland, we have our very own Eric. How you doing tonight, Eric. I'm doing pretty good. I'm I'm wondering if David put like bouncy ball and triple into chat GPT and that's the AI image it gave him, because that's what it looks like. No, no, no, it's lovely. It's lovely. But I was just going to say so much like the Eagle one, I do feel like I'm being pulled towards the planet by a mysterious gravitational force beyond my control right now.

2:57 So we'll have to see how that bodes for the show. It's a magnetic feel creative by all that nuclear waste that's under the surface. You know it might be Wait, what kind of waste, Jim, what kind of waste? It's nuclear? Nuclear? Nuclear, it's pronounced nuclear. It's the Texas pronunciation. It is also from Portland as well. You see a pattern going on here. Also from Portland. We have a very own toy guy himself, Paul. Welcome to the show. Paul, Thank you so much, my friend. Thank you guys. And if you would have told a young, I don't know, thirteen fourteen year old me that there would come a day when I would be on some kind of Finaglan computer radio broadcast show talking about what we're going to talk about tonight, I would have my mind would have been blown. It's just that it would be something that we would still be finding interesting and chatting about in depth tonight like we will. Is just it's kind of mind blowing. So I'm super excited and it's fun that we are going to do this.

4:00 Absolutely and not I repeat, not from Portland, but from Las Vegas. We have our very own Charles. Welcome to the show. Charles. Hello all. Have a. Sorry conversation just threw me off there. Sorry, things are going well, as you noticed. Yes, I do have a not a triple on me. As a few fans know, it's Stitch Day because Stitches Experiment six. Because Stitches Experiment six to six.

4:44 I did not know that. See that it's not only its educational yes, So may the Stitch be with you, oh boy, oh boy. While you guys over at trek talkin dot com, you'll find a link to the Patreon page where you can become a patron just like our newest member, Joe Saparrito. Joe, Welcome to our family, Joe. We really appreciate it, and I think all of you guys should head over to trek talkin dot com and become a patron just like Joe. On tonight's show, at the behest of Paul himself, this is our Space nineteen ninety nine super show. That's right, we're gonna be talking about Space nineteen ninety nine. We're gonna start with the pilot.

5:40 We're gonna go through the catacombs. We don't know what kind of dust we're gonna kick uf. While we're down there, we have a couple of Space nineteen ninety nine polls which we're gonna have some fun with. We're gonna talk about some Space nineteen ninety nine guest stars, and maybe we'll see a toy or two. Who knows, you'll have to wait and see. So that's what we're going to be talking about tonight. But we also have our fans shout outs, and that's where we say thank you to fans just like you for listening to this podcast, and we have our birthdays, and if time permits, we do have a few Star Trek stories to get to. So, without further ado, so that we can dive right into our space nineteen ninety nine, I think we should do some fan shout outs. What do you think?

6:27 Eric? Absolutely man? Okay, So you can head over to our Facebook page which is Truck Talking, and beyond you'll see the livelong and prosper pin to the top. Just tell us where you're from. Leave lots of emojis. It gets my attention. If you see a heart next to your name from yours truly, Uncle Jim, then you will be featured in a future fan shout out. Take it away, Eric, all. Right, I'm going to start out this week over in the amazing country of Belgium, and I'm pretty much going to stick to Western Europe myself. We're saying hello this week to Uriel Robert Elle delacour or who's saying hello to us from Belgium. Thank you Ouriel Robert so much for saying hello to us and for listening to our podcast.

7:08 I hope you enjoy both our voices and our lovely video that David has put together for us. Also saying hello this week to Wayne at Till, who is hailing from England, sending us both that beautiful English flag as well as the Union Jack. Wayne, thank you so much for saying hello to us, and livelong and prosper to you, sir. Hello, as well to Ronier W. Bierman, who's saying hello to us from Mayer's Germany, sending us three livelong and prosper hands plus that German flag. Thank you so much for saying hello to us, Renier, very nice to hear from you. And last, but not least on my list, we head back to the UK and Sile Mack is saying hello to us from Wales and is that I'm Is that a Welsh flag there?

7:54 It? Paul would probably? Now I do believe it is a Welsh flag. It's a Welsh flag. Now I know what a Welsh flag look like. Thank you for educating me, Sile so much. Apply to you, sir Charles. I imagine you would like to say hello to some people. Definitely start off with a warm welcome to Roxanne Waters from Washington State. Welcome Roxanne, top fan Jeffrey Wilson from Wooster, Ohio. Welcome Jeffrey, glad to see a top fan. Another top fan James Robinson from Lender, Texas. So two top two good top fans and Cad Gardner from Springfield, Missouri. Welcome Cat David, who's on your list?

8:44 Yeah? Thanks Charles. I'd like to give a one welcome to ben Jack jack Ol from Los Angeles, where Trek were born. Cool one welcome to a top fan, Dan Boyle from North Province, Rhode Island, USA, and another warm welcome to another top fan, Mary Stefan from Pennsylvania. And last but not least, another warm welcome to another top fan from Luke Breuie from Quebec City, on. Or in Canada. I'm not exactly sure, but yeah, so Paul, who's on us?

9:27 Thanks David. I'm going to head us back to other parts of the universe here, some in the lovely continent of Europe. This first top fan has a name that makes me think they're either a renowned psychic or perhaps a ship's councilor of some kind. But I'd like to give it up the top fan, Gloria Guidance in the Spectacular Province of Dijon, France and place I would very much like to go. And it's more than just mustard, isn't that right, Gloria, Absolutely so fantastic to hear from our friends on a Francis every now and then. Moving over to Senna in Germany and Lower Saxony near Hanover, it's Martina kas Is phoning in and saying hello. Always great to hear from folks. Wow. What an area steeped in history that you live in, Martina. Pretty amazing, absolutely astonishing.

10:20 Things have been going on for a long time and you're part of the world. A lot of history there. One of our fans who is in Belgium now but living in Spain, Arian Seger's well, from Belgium originally but now living in Spain. There I go, I can read it can happen. And it's so sad that they abort the project Star Trek Park in Murcia. Okay, So apparently there was going to be a big Star Trek theme park there and it looks like they maybe ran out of some funding there. What I would recommend that you do, Arian is go to Venice, which isn't too far from you, Okay, and there's a guy named Jeff Bezos, Okay, who's having a big wedding there this weekend, and he's got more money than God and certainly has more money to know what to do with. And I think you'd like science fiction, so maybe you could get him to fund that theme park there. Mister Bezos, if you are hearing me right now, please help us out in Mercia where Arion needs that Star Trek theme park. Do you get going so personal?

11:16 Play on your behalf their expat Belgian living in Spain. Thank you Arion for bringing that to our attention. Thank you for your attention to this matter. And finally for me, it's top fan. Big drum roll and estenis cruised in Nacimento from. The Arakahua state of Serapa, Brazilia. Oh man, do they know how to party down there? I'm telling you, what a magnificent country. Let's not forget home. Still, despite mankind's best intentions, still the largest rainforest on the planet, replete with all kinds of critters, some of whom have not even been identified species unknown in the incognita of the Brazilian rainforest. Man, I would love to see that with my own eyes someday. What an exciting place to live.

12:07 So and tostay this. It is great to hear from you. Thank you for being a top fan, thank you for checking out our podcast and Facebook page, and thank you for expressing your enthusiasm for Star Trek. The one thing we know that can unite everybody, regardless of where you live. Pretty spectacular. Let's see you. Uncle Jim's got on his bandwagon this week, Uncle Jim, can you hear me, sir? Why? Thank you very much, Paul. Unfortunately I don't have any top fans, but I do want to give a huge shout out to Ellen Silber from Schenectady, New York. I also want to say hello and thank you to Richard Charboneau from Colorado Springs. Wish I knew some trekkies in my area. Well, well here's some of us. We're here on the podcast, so that's cool. We also want to say hello, thank you to Misty Mercer who's listening to us in Illinois, USA, and last but not least on my list, you guys know why he caught my attention.

13:10 We want to say hello and thank you to Kurt Donnelly from Roswell, New Mexico, who sends us an alien head, and that's what got my attention, the little alien head. For you guys that are watching this video at home right now, you might see all these great pictures that are scrolling by. There's me, my wife and my daughter meeting Freddy Krueger at a convention. And all of these great pictures are sent in by awesome fans just like you, guys. So if you go over to our Facebook page Trek Talking and Beyond and tell us where you're listening from, you can send us a picture and it'll appear right there with all these awesome pictures that are scrolling by right now, So please do that. We would appreciate it.

13:51 And now you know what time it is. It's time for our Star Trek polls and that means the poll. Song Linkolnpolyn you know me like no Win what you thought about the show? Then we try to share your opinions with all of our minions out there because they listen worldwide. So tell us just what you think. Get together we will alter Canara and robulin An.

14:35 All right, if you guys head over to our Facebook page. Every week, I try to come up with fun, informative, educational, ethical no I try to throw out some fans some questions that are just and uh, you may have noticed in our song, in our opening song that Eric managed to squeeze in Commander Koenig. Of course, he's from Space nineteen ninety nine, and the topic of tonight's show is is Space nineteen ninety nine? So I decided to throw out some Space nineteen ninety nine polls. So the first poll, well, anyways, you'll figure it out. You want to roll the video, David, yep, there airs all right, Well you guys saw.

16:14 What I'm just thinking to myself, Well, now I have to watch season two. Let's amaze say guys, hey, guys, let's get the audience by let's show them the worst part for her. That was amazing. What are you talking about? Okay? So, uh so, Space nineteen ninety nine's second season episode, The metamorph introduced Maya, played by Catherine Shell. Do you think she improved the series? Yeah? And seventy seven percent of our responders said yes, So, man, I can't wait to see what it was before that. Twenty three percent said she ain't make it any better.

16:56 But I have to say that I you know what, that was a totally different vibe from season one, which is the only Space nineteen ninety nine I've seen. But I'm into some super cheesy sci fi, so I might give it a shot. I gotta tell you. Have all you guys watched Buck Rogers when it was on TV. Oh yeah, Now, when you think of Buck Rogers, you probably think of how cool Hawkman was, right, yeah, sure, yeah, so you think Hawkman was so cool, But Hawkman is the only part of season two it's worth a crap. Okay, if you go back and watch season two, it's total crap. Yet you'll say to yourself, Hawkman was so cool.

17:39 Well, he was like Boba fat Man. He was kind of like the Boba feta Buck Rogers. He was cool, and here's a badass. I put Maya in that category. I think Maya is just so cool. Yet Season two sucked, but she's the coolest part of it. And when you think of Space nineteen ninety nine, you think of Maya in the shape shifting Alien and what you don't really she's from season two, which really wasn't that good, but you remember her, and you know that's what I think about her character. I think she was a great character. She was cool, but not enough to save it, so I yeah. Well that commercial just made me want to watch season two. So what about you, Paul, What what did did Maya make season two any better for you?

18:23 Well, here's the thing. Catherine Shell is delightful. Okay, she is a really decent actress. I think she's great. I first saw in like one of the mid mid run Pink Panther movies. I think that's what got her, got her this job. And she's really great. She still does the convention circuit right, goes out and signs people's uh memorabile and stuff. And she was the whole thing with season two. Just for a little bit of context, is the investors were concerned that it wasn't American enough of a show and that it wasn't like exciting enough, right, So they they brought in a guy who Star Trek fans should know by the name of Fred Freiburger. Right. He's the same guy that they brought in to improve Star Trek in its magical third season, Right, And so a lot of the stuff he did to Star Trek to you know, zip up and make it more you know, also people in the living rooms will like it. He did the same thing with season two of Space nineteen ninety nine and gave it that really hyper caffeinated disco theme.

19:24 And they brought in the character of Maya, and she's very fun and she's likable and stuff. But the I don't know that she helped the show though. To really address the question, I think that because she's just part of a lot of other things they did, and you know, the actors were trying their best, I think with what they had to work with, but you know, with you know, Okay, you jump across the screen and then we'll cut to a leopard, and it's like it's like something that we would have done in like, you know, a filmed class in the eighth grade. Right, it's not super great great through special effects. I mean, I think they were really getting goofy and a lot of the more you know esoteric, you know, you know two thousand and one asque sci fi from season one went by the wayside. So love Maya, love Catherine Schell. I don't think anything can help season.

20:14 Two though, What about you? Charles answered this way, I'll let you know when I get a round of season two. I'm still in season one. That's fair enough, David. I know you and I chatted a little bit about this yesterday. Yeah, I'm I haven't seen season two either, so I was still kind of going through season one, but I don't know, I don't really have an opinion about this one in particular. So yeah, all right, cool, Well, our next question is going to require two, that's right, two videos, So David, why don't you run the first one?

20:58 All right? Cool? Yep, here we go, ready hit it?

22:10 All right, guys. That was the opening sequence from season one of Space nineteen ninety nine, and as Paul said, they revamped season two, and part of the revamping included changing the opening sequence. Of course, why wouldn't you so, David roll the season two intro please? All right, guys.

23:16 So there you have it, the intro for season one, and they're revamped more modern intro for season two. So now that we've watched them both back to back, Eric, what is our theme? Quite as if people can't guess what our poll? Yeah, I mean, of the two seasons, what intro is your favorite? And so eighty one percent of our responders said that they like that season one intro better and only nineteen percent like that second season one better. And I'll say, Barbara Bayan's looking pretty foxy in that second season one, but the first season one is just so cool. I love the way that it switches between the epic orchestral music and the disco music, and of course doing the mission Impossible thing shows like all the things that are going to happen during the episode in those opening credits.

24:03 That's awesome. That's totally awesome. So yeah, I'm way on the side of the Minions on this one. I think season one is way better. I think the the classic Barbara Bay Martin Landau head turning at the beginning. Of the they're just like and he looks towards her and then she looks back towards the cats. Just great. I love it classic. It's classic, and that disco music theme goes along with it on this episode with all the it's just it's classic. But they did something with Barbara Bain in that second season one. Man, she's like her hair's feathered or something. I don't even know. She looks really. Turning around and phasing the firing the phaser. It was totally a Han solo moments. Yeah, I got it. I gotta go with season one.

24:47 I'm with Dominions on how about you, Paul, I'm. A season one guy completely, and like it's if folks are new to this whole concept and they're like, what are they talking about with this TV show? Right, we'll talk more about that, but almost like try to say, oh, this is just a rumor the season two even existed, Right, You don't really you don't really want to do that. Don't do that to yourself. No, no, no, no, no, it was actually it was a bad porn company that tried to pretend that there was a second season. You don't even go to anywhere near it, no clear browser clear it. But no, it's just it's it's it's goofy stuff, right, I mean, I just loved season one. Season one is just it had a little bit more of an epic vibe to it, you know, with uh, you know, we'll get more into details, but as far as opening music goes yet season one, Jerry Anderson's veteran composer Barry Gray was besides behind a lot of that music, and he gives it that you know, oomph, that gravitas at first, and then it just kind of explodes into contemporary, you know, craziness with the synthesizer. So It's really fun and it just, like Eric said, very mission impossible, showing you here's what you're going to see, you know, just to get you titillated for that episode that's going to come. It's like, and you knew that it was a Jerry Anders of production.

26:02 One thing you would definitely get to see a lot of was explosions. Okay, this man loved explosions. Things would be exploding constantly. David, what about you? I definitely thought the one was much much better. I don't know why they changed it, but yeah, I'm with the minions on this One's one definitely. Way better, way, way way better. Well, Charles, you've got the caboose on this one. Buddy. Are you with the minions or against the minions? I'm sort of in between. I do like. The simplified, more action look of.

26:45 Seasons two's shots. Without the in this episode which teases so much the episode. But music wise, I'd much for preferred season one because I like the disc that says the sigh Disco seemed to it, so I love. The music in season one. I kind of like a little bit of how they don't do the teaser shot in season two. What's hilarious about season two is it's like there you could tell they're like really trying to make sure people watch the show, right, so they give you this really ridiculously expository, you know, explanation of the premise, massive nuclear explosion Earth, you know, moon blown out of orbit. It's like, in case you've never seen the show before, it's like they give you a fast catch up on the whole premise.

27:36 It's like. It's like, we get it. Okay, we get it. I know. That'd be like Star Trek being like there's something called the Federation. There are ships that explore yeah everywhere, Yeah, everywhere, triples everywhere. The thing is, if you get a few episodes in, if you didn't care, it's the first couple of episodes, you don't quin undertown, what's going on with this moon base? That's true, you're probably tired of it by episode twenty of season two. All right, guys, so Occasion hadn't guessed this is our Space nineteen eighty nine super show. And we've discussed the addition of the metamorph We've already talked about which intro was better. So let's talk a little bit about the show.

28:29 And we're going to turn that over to Paul, So take it away. Paul, Thanks Uncle Jim. Okay, friends, why are we talking about this show the Space nineteen ninety nine, nineteen eight nine. A lot of people who were, you know, fans of the podcast are like, I wasn't even born till after then, Why does they think nineteen ninety nine was far off in the future. Well, this show was made back in like nineteen seventy four, right, nineteen seventy five is when it first premiered, right, So it would be like if right now, we started a new show and we said it in the year you know, twothy fifty, Right, it sounds like it's sched far flong, right, and we've seen how little progress Man actually makes a quarter century. But you know, at the time, in the early to mid nineteen seventies, nineteen ninety nine seemed like it was way off down the road still, right, And so this I got to go back in time with me a little bit, especially folks who weren't around back in the early seventies, because when this show came out as science fiction fans, all we'd had for as long as you could remember was an endless diet of syndicated Star Trek reruns, and that was it. There was very little big science fiction at the time, right, I mean a couple movies every now and then, once in a blue moon there might be another TV series, but nothing had really It had just been Star Trek Star Trek syndicated on your local affiliate station forever. And keep in mind the Timeline friends. Okay, as at this point Star Wars didn't exist. Nobody he

30:00 knew what the hell that was. We had no idea that that was coming down the road in just another year or two. Other than like the occasional vague reference in Starlog magazine, we had no clue. Right, So this thing came and it was at the time very exciting. It was the mastermind of behind these shows, a guy named Jerry Anderson, who those of us who grew up with any kind of British relations you learn pretty early about Jerry Anderson shows because he was a British TV and presario in the sixties who did all of these puppet shows, right. And when I say puppet shows, I mean like shows that were science fiction shows, but instead of human beings, they would star marionettes, right, Shows like Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett. It's got of stuff. They were riffing off in Team America World Police, right, if you remember seeing that movie, it's all totally making fun of Jerry Anderson movies because his whole thing was, yes, marionettes and incredibly cool vehicles that looked real that were really great, and that continues through Space nineteen ninety nine and every five minutes and another explosion. I mean, there was just this whole thing through all of his shows. And gradually, as they matured and got tired of doing the whole marionette thing forever, the Andersons got into doing live action shows, and they first did a show called UFO that also was a huge cult following that might be fun to do some time on someday, but it was great, And initially they had planned to do a second season of UFO,

31:31 but the powers that be with the purse strings got involved, and so it eventually morphed from being a this you know, a second season of that show to being a completely unique animal, which became Space nineteen ninety nine, and they got a lot of It may seem like a ludicrous premise, right, The moon is somehow blown out of Earth's orbit to go flying through the galaxy to meet a new planet every week, and it was kind of you know, at the best of the financiers. They wanted to make sure that, you know, everything had to be set on the Moon and with recurring characters, but you had to travel through space, and you had all these sets had already been built for Moon Base, right, and you had to travel through space and see a different episode of the week, right, different grace of aliens or a new threat every week.

32:18 And so that's kind of where the premise was born. But for me, it was just it was super exciting back then because we'd had nothing but Star Trek and Forever. Here was a big budget show with familiar actors. We knew Martin Landau and Barbara Baine from Mission Impossible, and they, as we'll talk about later, they got some pretty big talent as far as actors coming on here. So it was very exciting. And in the first season especially, it was a little bit more you know, a little ethereal sometimes, but science fiction, more along the lines of what you'd think from like two thousand and one in terms of the look of it, and the special effects for the time were amazing. We had never seen special effects like this on TV before. We hadn't really you know, Battle Stargolactic wouldn't come wrong for years until after Star Wars, right, So nothing like that, nothing like that yet. So this was really unique. The special effects were phenomenal. I you know, I'm going to give you a little peak of some of the stuff we can talk about here today. But yes, friends, the first time ever there was merchandising. There were like paperback adaptations with cool like photo inserts to titillate you to watch the episodes, right, which were amazing. So there was all this crazy stuff going. Yes, there were merchandise.

33:33 Yes there was Mattel getting into the fix. I believe that Uncle Jim has something he's going to be showing us later about Mattel. But you actually were able to get a Barbara Bain and Martin Landau action figure, which was amazing, you know, kind of that whole Migo style thing that Mittel was doing. So it was pretty crazy, and so for a couple of years there, it was just really exciting to have something brand new and really cool that not took the place of Star Trek but just added to the science fiction universe. And as we were going to see within the next couple of years, science fiction was about to become more popular than we had ever ever imagined. So pretty crazy. But it's a goofy show in a lot of ways. A lot of people sort of refer to it as a guilty pleasure.

34:19 But I will always have a huge funds for the show because of the time in my life when it aired. And I think it's just the look of it and the stories and some of the stories and the designs of the vehicles and the characters. Really, I think enduor so I was really fond of it. I'll tell you I used to run home from school and on PBS we only have four channels back in the day. This is how long ago this was. There was four channels, and PBS would show Space nineteen ninety nine, and right after that would be Doctor Who. And I'm talking about the Tom Baker Doctor Who. That's how long this was.

35:00 Yeah, Baker, Baker was eighties. Baker was eighties. You're talking a doctor before that. Nope, I'm talking Tom Baker with the scarf. And I would watch Space nineteen ninety nine and Tom Baker as Doctor Who, and that's how I got my fix and one of the things I remember about Space nineteen ninety nine was the eagles, Like, weren't they cool? Or what? Loo look at them? How cool were the eagles? They could do everything. They had an interchangeable centerpiece that could come apart and do god knows whatever, you know, whatever they needed for the episode, the eagle could do. And let me tell you, Alan Carter could crash an eagle like nobody else could. I think every other episode he crashed an eagle. But so yeah, And I also remember you guys, like Paul was talking about Star Trek. One of the things that really caught my attention about Space nineteen ninety nine was the colors. Star Trek's space was black with white stars, and that was it. But if you guys noticed the opening sequence that we showed of Space nineteen ninety nine, it's purple, it's blue, it's red.

36:18 Space was full of color and full of life. And that was one of the things I remember when I was watching. Every planet wasn't the same. They were all different and so and that funky music. Who could forget that? It just was completely different than Star Trek in so many ways. And you know, it wasn't as popular as Star Trek because Star Trek was on every station every night continuously. Space nineteen ninety nine I had to go to PBS to watch it, so I didn't watch it as much as I watched Star Trek because it wasn't as available as Star Trek. But as Paul said, if you wanted to watch your sci fi, there wasn't much really out there. So that's that's my take on Space nineteen ninety nine. Anybody else want to share a story too.

37:10 I think the thing that maybe it was just because I was, you know, I don't know what, thirteen fourteen years old at the time, I found that it seemed like Space nineteen and nine. It was a little more dangerous to being out of space, right, figure it sucked out an air lock or some monster was going to come after you or your your helmet would explode and you have explosive decompression. I mean, there was people were always getting killed on this show, pretty attention getting late, right Is that a word? Can it be? Oh? Yeah, for sure. I Mean that was one of the first things I noticed when I started watching this show, Paul, was the fact that there were real stakes and the show has kind of a like a darker melancholy tone to it too. There's no comedy to speak of, like compared to the original Star Trek right, And I kept wondering if like major characters were going to get killed off on a regular basis. I came to find out later about this whole episode order thing that didn't allow killing off of too many major characters. But but yeah, it seemed really dangerous.

38:14 Yeah, and there was only three hundred and eleven people on Moon based Alpha as of the breakaway episode. I didn't count how many people died, but I think their population was dwindling. Well, I would say, yeah, so you. Know, he went. I was trying to wonder, like about midway through the first season, I'm like, are they going to run out of eagles? Right right? And I was, so, I'm unclear on how many eagles there were. There's the one episode where everybody kind of like goes crazy and they all fly the eagles away, and I think there's one shot that shows like maybe eleven of them or so is there a good count on how many eagles they started with?

39:00 Have you seen the one episode it would be in season one where they show like the interior of the hangar like the underground hangar. Yeah, yeah, it's like there's gantries and stuff, and it's just surplised that there's tons of underground stuff, right, all the type of thing. But I think the real answer to your question, Eric is however high they need the Commander Koenig says, that's the eagles there are. Yeah, you go twelve fourteen, you know. And you just bought it that there would be this, you know, endless number of them, right, but yeah they would. People were dying on the show and they were crashing stuff and all kinds of craziness. What happened? It's fun. Well, then that. Morning to the Space nineteen ninety nine, I think it was Charles. Somebody posted the Space nineteen ninety nine archives in our chat and I went and I looked it up.

39:50 Apparently they got all the minerals and everything they needed to build eagles from the Moon and they would build them as he needed them. So I don't know how many of these. Wow, impressive, but. Was how they grew food without a sun in interstellar space. But because because they had a hydroponic slab on the Moon based Alpha. I have had some amazing inertial dampeners to be able to be moving at that high rate. Oh my gosh. Yeah, there's the one of those first couple of episodes where they shoot like light years away and then at a moment's notice, And yeah.

40:30 You just had to go That was the other show. You just had to go with it, right, And and I think that's one of the reasons I'm so fond of season one. And when you compare them, you know, you'll notice the differences. Yeah, you brought in Maya in season two, right, but the big difference was season one. You had this guy named Professor Bergmann, right, and he was a very distinguished English actor named Barry Morse right. And so the fact that he was like a scientist, right, and was part of them, you know, the triad, you know, their equivalent of like Kirk Spock McCoy. You had a science and he would always make some kind of you know, kind of bullshit explanation for what they were having to do or experience, but he just said it in such a convincing way that you thought, well, that's probably true. Well, we just traveled to seven million light years John through a special drain opening I found in alpher sent jury and somehow he could sell the most preposterous stuff and you buy it. Well, Professor Bergman and is like super big, like you know, Flared Bell bottom Pants says it's okay, so it must be true.

41:36 So Charles, you were you were gonna say something. Yeah, well, I was going to say the fact that the number of red Shirts term red Shirts they had. But okay, Dark Episodes, I'll come back to it. But one of Paul's mentioned and I can understand it. It's Dragon's domain. But before we talk about that one. I'm gonna talk about Voyager's return that Okay, this was written in nineteen seventy five. Voyager didn't launch till seventy seven, and yet this is the one that this is the same ship that.

42:22 Star Trek the motion picture talks about djer. Is Voyager won and for them to discover the ship saying okay, this ship it launched seventy seven. They said it launched in eighty five, and then fifteen years later the ship was coming back and to be interacting with that what they did with the interaction with that ship and. The engine system that they use, which was. Drive, which is the one thing it's like it's a radioactive drive and it's like, wow, that's an interesting concept.

43:05 But that was just an interesting episode of Okay, we're gonna take what's going to be if history that hadn't occurred yet and talk about this ship, and it's like, wow, that was an interesting projective of what Voyager would be doing in the future. But as Eric said, dark. And I think Paul might be a good discovery on this dragon's domain. That thing was dark. That thing. I can understand younger, younger fans getting nightmares from that one.

43:51 Yeah. A bunch of years before Alien too, about three years before Alien, so we hadn't really had a scary monster, and outer space really better than what we had a degree like ever right, other. Than what you'd had in a twilight Zone, and even those. Weren't Yeah, yeah, And all of a sudden, this was in, like you know, in your living room, scary and and you know, I mean, without getting too graphic, I mean, what this they find a monster, you know, this one character does, and what that monster does to people, it's pretty horrific. I mean, it really was. And they did not shirk. And it's just if you're a young teen seeing that stuff. I remember, I was just like, oh man, it was just like blue mind. I mean, I didn't see a lot of graphic monsters other than like, you know, the occasional you know, Christopher Lee Dracula movie, you know, or something like that. I hadn't or Godzilla, right, but to see a monster that's doing this to people, I mean, like you know, like like eating them like corn on the cob. I mean, my god, it was just like I was not prepared, friends, I was damaged.

44:55 Well, you know, one of the things that I remember is why would you put windows that open on a moon base? I mean, like, why would you want to open a window to outside? That was one of the things. Why would you put glass windows of all things on a station? You know, that was kind of weird. And yeah, is there oxygen in the catacombs under the of the moon? You know, how could that be? Well they, I mean it's weird. They I don't think they knew this at the time, but they found there. It does sound like recent sciences, you know, we haven't actually been there yet, but they've been able to identify what looks like polar ice in parts of the lunar surface.

45:43 And I know there's some scientists believe that it's possible to convert that into like oxygen at some point. I don't know how likely or real that is, but it sounds like there's potential for it, or if there was like underground frozen lakes or frozen ice or something like that. But it's something that's different than the you know, asteroid scarred surface possible. Well, it's super easy to suspend this belief for that given all the other and. It's very realistic too, to just imagine that they dug out a bunch of tunnels and pumped full air. I mean, that's not that's not the most like fantastical thing that happens on the show. I don't think. Yeah, it's easier for me to believe that than like it's easy to get up in the morning and get into your shirt. By having a single difference on your ear, I'd be like, my boss would be like, have you showed up for work yet? I'm like, no, I'm still trying to get the shirt on. It's like, it's the weirdest thing. But they had such a look to it, man, it was great, you know, And I got to just throw this out. Our co host v was not able to be with us tonight, so be our thoughts are with you. But the found a hilariously amazing clip of an interview with the Anderson's where they talk about some of the stuff how the show came into being and some of the challenges they faced. And it is hilarious because they're like so unfiltered, right, I mean, they have no problem being catty about anybody. It was one of the most illuminating things I've ever seen on the show.

47:10 So check that out if you ever have a chance, folks. It's we can try to see if we can put the clip up maybe to post it if that's possible. But it's hilariously, it was just fascinating. So Paul, let's let's uh, we've we've jumped all over the place, but. For that, yeah, I haven't even got general thoughts on the show yet. I'm a train route that weren't born or have never seen it. Why don't we start with Breakaway and talk about that one to set up? Well, we should have done that first. Why don't you set us up with Breakaway? All right? Man? So it's basically it's just like as we saw in the preview for season two, right, it's the year nineteen ninety nine, and we're doing space travel, right.

47:55 And at this point, mankind has established a permanent base on the Moon, moon Base Alpha, right, and it's a huge installation. It's got you know, dozens of these space ships that are there, right, and just craziness, right, three hundred and some odd people that are living on this moon base. Right. But one of the things we're doing on the Moon is we are storing all of our nuclear waste there in these disposal areas, right. So it's not on the because apparently nuclear power has become very popular and we you know, we want to make sure the Earth is okay, And so they store all the nuclear waste on the Moon and these containments. But something goes wrong in good old Michael Crichton's style, right, and it's something always has to go wrong, right, And basically, through some fancy pants science explanation I won't bother to get into, the nuclear waste goes super critical and there's a massive explosion that basically acts like an engine and pushes Moon out of Earth orbit, sending it hurdling through the Cosmos on a series of adventures right from week to week, where they will be the traveling Moon will pass through you know, apparently there's another galaxy or solar system every you know, ten miles beyond Pluto apparently is the science lesson I took from the show. And that's basically the Senate, right, And so basically, you know, there's Commander Koenigg who's the stern leader, and there's doctor Russell,

49:27 his Helena Russell his sometime you know, friends with benefits and sometimes chief medical Officer. And then there's Professor Bergman who's the scientist, and you know, Scotch swizzling man of reason. But that's basically so, Eric, why don't you embellish what I've not as you're a little newer to the space nineteen Oh yeah, let's let's hear your take on it. Man, I'm supposed to crust the old veteran thic. Yeah, I mean, I so the show would have come out when I was two, so I definitely did not watch it back then. I started watching it probably about six months ago or so, at the behest of Paul, who said it was an incredible show and I should watch it, and so I started watching it. And I'll say that I have been pleasantly surprised with how much I've liked it in general, so I haven't seen any season two, but right from the get go, the very first thing I noticed was its similarities in both style and pacing to two thousand and one A Space Odyssey.

50:36 You mentioned that before. I as a huge fan of that movie. I just kind of noticed that it had a little bit of a slower pace to it. People were intentional with the way that the character interactions took place. Things were subtle. You know, you don't get big, like big moves too much, but somebody might say something by just putting a hand on somebody's shoulder or you know, doing subtle things. So that part of it I really liked because immediately I was like, oh, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. You know, nineteen sixty eight was two thousand and one, seven years later, six seven years later, they're using that as kind of their their touchstone. I will say, if I had seen this as a kid, I would have probably gone a little nuts over the what I call the timey wiminess of it all, because there's like some there's some distance things that don't really scientifically make sense. There's some like timing things that don't really make sense. I am completely willing these days to suspend disbelief and just like ignore that stuff and enjoy the show for what it is. But I think my super scientifically minded, like young self would have maybe gotten caught up in the minutia of that. So I'm actually glad that I didn't see it until I was more of an adult. I'll say, as Jim was just taught me about, I thought the Eagles were awesome. It's a great space ship design, the whole like massive trust thing

52:07 with interchangeable parts, modular design. I really really dug that. And I already talked a little bit about the tone of the show, the fact that it had a little bit of a melancholy darkness to it, you know, as an adult, I'm watching it knowing that it's a British science fiction show, despite the fact that it stars American actors who I now understand got their parts. We'll talk about this during remembrances too, but kind of got there those parts during downturns in their career, and they actually moved over to Great Britain in order to work on the show, and that even wasn't the kind of like renaissance of their career necessarily because it was only a couple of seasons worth of work, but I kind of get that, like melancholy nature of British television sort of working its way into this too, so so I can I can appreciate that. I will say that unlike Star Trek was, which has a tendency to kind of like set up a problem, come up with some technobabble to kind of solve the problem, and then everything's kind of fine at the end of the episode, this show feels really different to me. It feels like, you know, bad stuff happens, people may or may not die, and at the end of it, it's it doesn't feel like everything kind of goes back to normal, which is I guess why the discussion of the ordering of the episodes is

53:40 so fascinating to me. So I brought this up in our private chat. But uh, you know, I watched this on Amazon Prime, and Amazon Prime has the episodes in a in a certain order, which I understand is the same order that the DVDs have the episodes. But if you google episode order, they're totally different, like they're all they're all mixed up, and you know, I mean, we're talking to the era of episodic television where you know, thing doesn't. Things don't necessarily carry through from one episode to the next. They're meant to be viewed as twenty four different little mini movies during season one. But the fact is that actually some things do change along the way.

54:26 And so anyway, I had to kind of get my my story straight with that, and Paul posted a fantastic article which we could probably share on our Facebook page two that kind of describes the nature of the ordering of the episodes and you know why, in some ways it doesn't really matter except for a couple of exceptions to that, to that. Rule, Commissioner Simmons, Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, So yeah, I the acting is kind of reserved. I will say that I find Martin Landau's performance as as John Koenig to be To me, it has a little bit of a like William Shatner element to it.

55:09 He had he kind of has like really intentional hand gestures. Sometimes you could tell that he was being directed to like do certain things with his hands, and so it felt like there are some parts of that that I'm kind of like feel just a little plastic and unnatural to me. I mean, I'm just digging into like critical minutia here, but like as a person who has watched it a lot of science fiction by the time of my adult life, that's something that I noticed. I'm like, oh, that was kind of an unnatural hand gesture, but I get it. It's consistent throughout that first season. He kind of makes the same sort of gestures he speaks, you know, William Shatner esque way, where he kind of like has bursts of speech and then has a little pause and then another burst of speech and a little pause. I don't I don't mind that one bit. I did really really appreciate the very variety in the types of episodes that you get in that first season. You got some like metaphysical stuff, You've got some like science y stuff, You've got some action adventure, you've got some horror kind of like mixed in there. So in that twenty six episodes, you know, they're not all bangers, but but there's a lot of bangers in there, and there's just a lot of variety to enjoy. So I've spoken for a long time, but that were those are kind of my thoughts on the show overall. I really really like this first season, especially, I've watched three quarters of the episodes. I've got a few more to watch to finish up the season, and

56:43 that trailer that we just watched makes me want to watch season two so much so I'm probably gonna watch that too, despite what people tell me. I'm curious to hear what David thought. Being the young one amongst us, I know he didn't get a chance to watch all of them. We talked a little bit yesterday, but he did watch quite a few of them. What did you think, David. I'm just happy to be on the show Man, But yeah, I saw the first one, which was the opening, and I I was okay. I did have to notice, though, that zipper that you guys were mentioning about how to get into. I didn't know that was the only direction you could get to shoot on. I thought there was a like a zipper in the back for some reason, but I guess that that's it. I did like the coloration though that they had, like the indication of what fuel they belonging to. They're different, like kind of like die trek there.

57:42 But yeah, other than that, let's see here. I saw the other one that looks like it kind of ripped the story off of the cage where they went to like Alvishentaria, I guess, and they they were like picturing giving people imaginations about like what was real and what wasn't. I think it was like called the death Machine or something like that. And so then at the very end they revealed that it all didn't really happen, but it could have happened if you guys went distrection with your violent. Nature kind of thing. I was like, okay, but.

58:23 Let's see the other one I saw was the Dragon's Domain, because I understand you guys were like super horrified watching that, and I'm like, yeah, I can see how that could really mess with people. The mine seen it at a young age. I'm like, I don't know. To me though, when I would watch it, I was like, this doesn't seem that scared. Then Jim told me that, you know, if you were like ten years old, it probably would have gotted the pants off you. But but other than that, yeah, I. Didn't really, I don't know. I mean, it was interesting. I enjoyed some of the the story and the dialogue that they had and the little.

59:08 What do they call that, the you know, technobabble that that got going on in the show. But other than that it was. Uh, I know, I guess the way I would put it is space ninety nine. Well, space ninety nine, so it is what it is, I guess, But yeah, I don't know. We are we giving a number for this at all? Nine point nine. There you go. For Paul, Well, Charles, you get to bring up the caboos on this one, buddy. What do you think space nineteen ninety nine? Yeah, your name? Well, Okay, I look at the show and I get remnant ideas from other seventy shows that kind of come to mind. When I see this woman Lee being you show me the commercial for season two, It's like, Okay, where's that biotic sound I should hear?

1:00:08 Because that's exactly what I said. I see her doing that, It's like, Okay, that looks like something like Steve Austin would do. Which that's that series. Even a little bit of bast Arcalactica I think almost appeared in this episode, even though that was still years down the line. Paul mentioned it was the only sci fi It's like, well, I think, as Jim mentioned, there was one other sci fi program kind of going with it, and that was Doctor Who. But in the States, we weren't getting a lot of Doctor Who either. That was British sci Fi, which got a lot bigger later.

1:00:58 Even so was Space nineteen Ninetynine. I mean it was broadcast in the US because you guys both saw it when it was on right, probably Abs, I'm not, but like these these other two guys saw it like as it came out. They didn't have like a network deal, right, They couldn't get it hooked up with like if like a like a like say, for example, like if you had an ABC affiliate, right, they wouldn't show it during prime time. They might show it at some weird time like Sunday afternoon at four or something, right, And so it was basically kind of you know, they couldn't really crack a network deal, and that's what they were trying to do, was rejiggering everything for season two. Right, But it was basically in the oddest market hodgepodge ever, like Jim seeing it on PBS, right, I never even knew that it showed on PBS before we got it out here. I think, like the ABC affiliate and like Sunday afternoons or something.

1:01:48 It was just crazy. So it was those all over the place and very random which made it really hard to be successful because it was like you couldn't really get the ratings on it, and it was like word of mouth. It's like, well my friend and IDAH host saw it like at a different time than I did. So it just it was you challenging weird era. Like Jim said, you know, we didn't have cable back then. Man, it was like if you were lucky, you had four channels, that's it. Well, I would say, I never knew if you had to come back and play again. Yeah, well for me it was five hole channels. We had the three public channels, we had PBS, and we had one independent.

1:02:29 And so. I remember watching a few episodes of Doctor Who Tom Baker era on PBS. It would be Saturday afternoons, after Saturday Morning cartoons. It was like a day it was too hot to go out or too wet to go out. He might stay home and watch all TV. And that's where you get to see some of this stuff. Yes, but you know, but I look at it. But you mentioned age, Paul, it was like, oh, I'm as in my early teens. I would have been about seven eight when this came out, so I probably just didn't catch onto it back then, but I realized, oh yeah, but then Star Wars came out, that whole realm of sci fi came out, and all of a sudden, I got heavy and really liking a lot of sci fi.

1:03:27 It's amazing. I think shows like this really helped me understand why Star Wars was as successful as it was, because that is built to be kid friendly, right, It's like it's built to have very simple good versus bad, lots of spaceships, lots of lasers, like there's not I'm not poo pooing Star Wars at all, but it's very simple compared to a lot of the things that we see in both Star Trek ands This nineteen ninety nine and apply in terms of character interaction, in terms of writing, like yeah, so the fact that that was my intro to side. I always tell people, I feel like you start, well, maybe not everybody, many people start on Star Wars and then they grow into some of these other shows because they they crave something more, you know, than just.

1:04:19 I don't know exactly it start never. Never got the reboot, like Galactica God, like Star Trek got. I think Space nineteen ninety nine is overdue for a rebirth to be discovered by the general public. But before we go too far, we've been talking a lot about season one and season two. Season two long they got rid of doctor Bergman. Where did he go? He just disappeared. That's too bad because he's my favorite character from season one. He's like the old stage that everybody's always asking advisive, where. Did he go? Paul? I don't remember what happened to him. He just wasn't there, did they? I think they They never really were super specific. I think there was one I don't remember, which was a bit a vague reference to him dying right, like, oh, because he was older or something and some accident. But it's super super vague. I don't even know if they even really addressed it right. It was just like, you know, we kind of just we It's just like, well, let's get to the let's get to the babe, and how sure can we make our skirt?

1:05:18 That was. Maya, Yeah, and it is a pretty good pilot, I have to say for season two where they introduce Maya where you know, you'll talk about this later Uncle Jim with Brian Pleasant, but they put together a pretty good reboot with that it's pretty fun. But it's just like, you know, would have really very Morse is a great actor, like Eric said, right, and it's just it's kind of left a big void hard to fill, you know, because he had more gravitas. Yeah. So season two introduced a new security officer whose name escapes me right now, Tony Verdeshi, Yes, Tony, and he was involved with Maya, right, they had a relationship. Yea, they did, they did. They changed the uniforms, they got the jacket right, which they didn't have in season one, and they all wore a patch on the chest of their uniform. I don't know what that was about, because patches look cool, they look cool, they look cool.

1:06:21 It was literally it, man, It's like, oh, Apollo astronauts all have their patches, we should all have patches too. So it was just, you know, it was crazy. It was just you know, hodgepodge Man and Space nineteen ninety nine had the phasers that had four triggers. You guys, remember you could hold it up and there was four individual Uh were they called phasers, Paul, I don't remember. They were on the show on Space nineteen ninety nine. Were they lasers? Phasers? Oh, uncle Jim, I'm so glad you asked. It could be better timing than you asked, because what we're talking about, all right, and this is the side arm of anybody on moon Base Alpha, okay, And so you hold this and you shoot it at your enemy, right, But most importantly you have to make sure that you have the correct setting because you have the option to stun. But if things get really dicey, as they do in deep space, sometimes you have to kill, okay, And so don't accidentally try to stun somebody when the kill settings on, because you know, and of course with the aliens, they'd run into half the time they'd kill and nothing would happen, right, because they're magically impervious. So they had that. And then everybody had a thing called the calm lock that I'm sure you've seen.

1:07:37 Right. This is like your way of getting around and opening doors. Right, You beam a little signal and go on there to have your identification badge on there, right, and it would have like a TV screen which was really cool, right, So, like you know, it was like early version of like FaceTime. Right, doctor Russell, why are you not wearing your pants? You know? You could like check and see what's going on with your comrades there, and they would use those to get around the moon base and you can call their little phone number and do whatever needed to do. So that's the good tech of space nineteen ninety nine. Yep, absolutely, So season two did have some changes. I think they changed the tone of the show. They kind of went in a different direction from season one, and it got a little bit weirder in season two. I would say, hey, I don't want to ruin too much for Eric, who hasn't seen season two yet. But there are some good episodes in season two, But overall, I think season one is better for sure. But I think I think are we is this? Are we doing something here?

1:08:43 No, I'm trying to get my camera to photo. I don't know why my cameras out of focus. Oh there it goes. Sorry. I think I think Eric was a flashback. I felt weird doing it, but I didn't know how to get my camera to focus. It's like these guys won't mind if I do something weird. That was as good time as any. So David run the first clip. Please, here we go for the Eagle. Okay, you want to skip ahead, Yeah, let's let's. Let's get the Eagle in here, since Paul was showing us some cool stuff. Are is the Eagle.

1:09:39 This is Space nineteen ninety nine Eagle one spaceship control. We havent. You can jettison the comfort and engines then link them up. It's Minie Eagle one in visual contact control it and the Eagle one rescue phase is complete. You're what not? You're in Space nineteen I need spaceship comes with three inch figures. Assembly required you from a tow. Ooh dramatic. I mean that was pretty clod That thing's big, man I ship. I had that toy and it had to be two to two and a half feet. It blew away the Millennium Falcon. Let me tell you it was the coolest toy a and it predated the Millennium Falcon by by a number of you, I might add, I remember, I don't remember what the figures were, Paul that came with it. Uh.

1:10:31 They had little like three or four inch figures that were specific to the ship, right, that were just kind of almost like they almost looked like the old like you know, plastic toy soldiers. Right. They were just in their space. Yeah, they weren't frozen, they weren't articulated or anything like that, right. But Mattel, who at the time released that uh released that ship right, which was huge. I mean, there was nothing like it. It was just amazing. And what's really funny, man, is it's like if you go back and look at like the great Ralph mcquory, right, who did the production design for Star Wars, right, and you go look at all of his production art for Star Wars right, the early versions of the Millennium Falcon that he sketched out, it looks uncannily like the Eagle, I mean crazy, and they sort of almost got, uh, maybe we should you know, and then they got to look at the eagle look like and they're like, we should maybe change some things, and sort of the Falcon as we know it now was was born, but it was just uncanny how much it looked like that. And then Mattel was also making these figures that were more like you know, the mego type figures. And now it's kind of fun because there's a lot more adult collector stuff that's finally been licensed in the last like ten years or so. Because they get ships like this, you get more realistic action figures that look like you know, the astronauts, that have really good details to them that are super fun. You know, you can take off Elma, you know, and they're more designed for like the you know, modern adult collector. And you can even get crazy esoteric

1:12:01 stuff like you know, Tony Chillini's Ultra Probe, right, so like the Dragon's Domain ship. So there's a lot more stuff now for you know, uh, you know collectors who vexed their spouses, uh to take advantage of home. So it's like, hold on now, I'm not doing anything. I'm just walking the bank. I'm fine, But yeah, this is a lot. It's like, I think, finally it's like they realize that there is a lot of nostalgia and it's a weird show because it was way more popular in the UK than it was here in the States, right, but if you go to England, you're you're not you're a little bit more uh recognized with the love of the show. But I'm envious of you, uncle Jim for having the Big the Big Eagle though, because I always coveted that and it was just preposterous and I couldn't get my parents to pony up for it.

1:12:53 I gotta I gotta tell you what happened to the Eagle. It was very sad, very sad story. But once Star Wars came out and the Millennium Falcon, we filled up the Eagle with fire crackers, Carter crashed it for the final time, and that it didn't survive. But it is well, what a way to go. That seems epic inappropriate though, I mean. It seems like an opening credits scene right there at. Doing that, man, that Eagle was awesome. But wait, there's more, David roll clip number two. Okay, let me get it.

1:13:35 Shut up. I didn't realize ahead. Well, you gotta be prepared, if you know, we never know where we're gonna go when we start down the journey. Here we go, you get you gotta play. Play okay, something off? Hold on, it's not wanting It worked during our test. Yeah, okay, hold one second. Oh well, oh no.

1:14:21 You're in space nineteen ninety nine with the crew of Moon based Alpha Command Center. Commander Koenig, doctor Russell, Professor Bergman Alien shipun writer astro flash computer confirms enemy attack red. Alerts The astro flash network. Beams in the alien's position less ready Eagle fire, the enemy ship retreats, return Alpha. Space nineteen ninety nine, moon Base Alpha Command Center, and astro flash computer comes with the Commander, doctor, and professor only from Mattel, that.

1:15:10 Thing looks awesome, astro flash computer. I think we need one of those. Was that a term that they used on the show. I don't remember that. I'm sure don't remember it being No, but this pre dates Star Wars, like Paul said, this was all pre Star Wars. Yep, So Mattel was actually onto something before Star Wars, and Paul, I never had the astro flash computer place that. I only had the Eagle. Did you ever have that one? No? No, I never did. I never never had that. I was busy chasing down, you know, to get I think six million dollar man Figgers at the time. Right. So, but I so I do have a question though.

1:15:51 So in all of the season one episodes that I have watched so far, the Eagles have threatened to fire upon people, but they have never actually fired weapons on anybody. Presumably they have weapons, and presumably at some point they fire them. Season two, remember I think I remember season one they're fighting some enemy and I think they actually fired looked like lasers out of the ships. Where does the laser come out of the ship front? There's actually I think it comes out of somewhere like below below there.

1:16:34 Okay, got it. I think I just have like skipped around and watched a bunch of episodes, and I guess I just missed all the ones where they actually fire. That you see in one of the episodes. I think you'll see them color. I think you'll see them fighting in war games. Okay, I haven't seen that one yet, got it? And I remember correctly, Moon Based Alpha has laser turrets as well that are meant to deflect asteroids or something. And oh, get this, Okay, not only that in season two. This is one of the most badass things in season two. Right, there's this huge ship is coming to attack them, right, and all of a sudden, Konig makes some command and turns out they've had like freaking laser tanks, right, it's hidden around and they deploy these huge tanks man with lasers on them, and there's like three different kinds and it was just like, oh man, and the special effects were so cool. Man, they were like laser tanks. We've been hiding those Konig. It was just great and they were so cool. So that's that's the best part of Stetton Maya is the best part of season two. Yeah, it's like, damn, where's my model of that?

1:17:42 They never heard that toy? All right, so we're gonna mess with David's head even more. I went back. I went back. There's been a lot of guest stars on Space nineteen ninety nine, so it was hard for me to break it down. But I went back and I looked up the IMBD and I pulled out what I consider to be some of the most notable people that appeared on Space nineteen ninety nine to what your whistle a little bit, So you guys can look for these particular episodes if you feel so inclined, And I just threw them out there. So Eric, I think I threw the first one at you.

1:18:25 I think, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, here it is, okay, Yes, I see Joan Collins mission from Mission of the Dariens. Most famous for her role in American soap Dynasty, the variety of roles played by Joan Collins is much more diverse than many realize. Snickers Averts notwithstanding, not only did she once play Fred Flintstone's mother in law, but in the last ten years alone, she has appeared in both Aga Christity, Agatha Christie's Marple and Footballers Why I don't know when this article is written. Likewise, it is unsurprising that Space nineteen ninety nine, in which she played the essentially cannibalistic Darien Kara, wasn't he wasn't Oh, wasn't her first foray into the world of science fiction. Back in the sixties. She had previously appeared in the acclaimed Star Trek episode City on the Edge of Forever as Edith Keeler.

1:19:21 Far from the only woman to be romanced by Captain James T. Kirk, she is, however, the only one who many believe he ever truly loved Josh. We'll see about that. Well, yeah, strange in the World season three or four. Well, define love will right right. Right on and Paul gets the next one. Yeah, that's a great episode too. A mission of the Darians is great. Julian Glover check out that mug okay, and I think science fiction fans will definitely wreck. This is a cat who is no stranger to call TV.

1:20:03 Julian Glover's made all kinds of guest appearances throughout the sixties in such classic shows as two of my favorites, The Saint and the Avengers. Okay, not the Marvel Avengers, no no, no, no, no no no, I'm talking about the British Avengers Jonathan Steed and Emma Peel. That's what I'm talking about, right, And he was often a bad guy on those shows, right, two great spy shows. He's also twice able to appear on Doctor Who, first as Richard the Lionheart, and again about you know twelve fourteen years later as a bug eyed alien Scaroff. And again this is in the Tom Baker era of the serial, which also had an appearance from Catherine Schell. Just to close the loop there a little bit now. In Space nineteen ninety nine, Julian Glover played jarakh Okay and he is an alien who's in search of not just a home but also a body to live in. Oh I hope he doesn't cover yours. And in movies he's appeared in all kinds of eighties classics, right Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade right as the guy who's you know, funding the mission who wants that recipe for immortality and of course, Empire strikes back, General Viers right leading the Atat attack on haw that's General vis right. The Empire strikes back. For your eyes only where he faced up against Roger Moore is bond vilin Cristados, And for about

1:21:35 good five or six years he was a regular on Game of Thrones as Grandmeister Piscel, perhaps the only character to somehow manage to avoid getting killed and have some measure of consistency throughout all of his different times on the various years on that show, because you know, people did seem to meet with untimely ends on Game of Thrones. So a real legend the genre, film and television. Really cool to be able to see him on here. So again Julian Glover from the episode Alpha Child and Jim what you got. Well, for those of you who remember Star Wars, you remember with the guy that wore black and he had an asthma, he breathed really heavy. Well we're talking about David Prows himself, and there he is right there from This Space nineteen ninety nine episode the Beta Cloud, and of course he was the cloud. Well in this case he's the alien, but there he is. He was off the cast in roles that required the height of six point or six foot six, which is what he was.

1:22:41 David Prows's career is notable for the characters which required intimidating presence, such as Darth Vader. This ranged from Bodyguards and a clockwork Orange and the Hitchcock's Guide to the Galaxy TV series to perhaps the most famous villain in cinematic history. We already talked about Darth Vader. This list also includes the Deadly Cloud Creature, who boarded Moon based Alpha with the sole purpose of taking the vital life support system. He was also a bodybuilder and he won the British Heavyweight Weightlifting Championship three years running. And there he is. You can't tell that that's him, but yeah, that's him. And I'm going to continue on because we're on the Star Wars kick here, so let's stick with Star Wars. And the next person that we have that appeared on Space ninety nine and also Star Wars is there.

1:23:36 He is Peter Cushing And of course he played Graham Off Tarkin in Star Wars. And this is a picture from the nineteen ninety nine episode The Missing Link. An actor most famous for his various roles in many hammer House of horror films is perhaps that of Abram van Helsing, which was the most frequent character. His portrayals of Schrlock Holmes also endeared him to both film and television audiences alike, and although often overlooked, he also played the role of Doctor Who and the two spinoff feature films which helped Dallekmania sweep the globe throughout the sixties. Ever the Curious Scientists in Space nineteen ninety nine, he played the golden hued Hron and there he is describing himself as human but raping the benefits of an extra two million years of evolution. He is the zenight anthropologist who intends to keep Commander Koenig permanently captive and study him. Dunt dunt dah.

1:24:38 What an evil evil plot? Charles, Who's on your list? Of Space nineteen ninety nine? Notable? Okay? I have. Pierre Throken from the dor Cons. Despite being the first actor to play a role as Robin Hood on TV, Patrick is unnighably the most famous for playing the second incarnation of the Doctor after initial three years running, in fact returning to The Doctor Who three more times to its run. His final appearance as a role in nineteen eighty five, the opposite of the compassionate doc time Lord. However, as the archon leader of the Dorkans, he was willing to kill Maya to ensure its own immortality. On the silver screen, he also appeared in The Omega alongside Gregory Peck, as well as two classic Ray Harry Housen ventures, Jason the Argonauts and Sidbe and the Eye of the Tiger.

1:25:46 He continued to act until his death in nineteen eighty seven, and in one of his last appearances was in the pilot episode of Spector Morse. He was the priest in the Omen who got the weather Vane pailed at it. Yeah, that was a cool scene. Or whatever. It was, the big lightning rod. It is great. And I've got the next one here And Paul mentioned this in the areas right there, you guys should be able to tell who he is. He's got the same face right there. Of course he doesn't have the wings in this picture. But we're talking Brian Brested, who in this particular scene was Maya's father and the metamorph. But he also played in Death's Other Domain, The British Act. Oh, and I also got to throw in there. If you guys read the Patrick Storart make it so booked. He was good friends with Patrick Storart. They went to the same school and studied acting together, so he has a tie to Star Trek indirectly through Patrick Stewart. A British actor of the highest magnitude, Brian Brestt is one about only a handful to appear in Space nineteen ninety nine as two separate care char firstly as an eight hundred year old survivor of the nineteen eighty six Uranus expedition doctor Cabot Rowland, Hi Leah, and Leah just jumped up here to say hello to everybody. He then returned at the beginning of the following season as Maya's father, the

1:27:17 aptly named Mentor, and that same year was also cast in the lead role in Jerry Anderson's Pilot for The Day After Tomorrow, three year roles which are hardly surprising for someone who loves space so much that he also completed eight hundred hours of space training in Moscow. This is just one of his many accomplishments away from his acting career, however, as he has also made three attempts at climbing Mount Effors. He's the oldest person ever reached the North Pole on foot and also the official shouts person of the University of York's Douglas Adams Society. For me, he'll always be known from flash Ah as a Prince Boldham with the wings his hawkman were awesome, don't you think, Paul.

1:28:05 Oh yeah, absolutely, he's great. He's just you know, so much energy with Brian Blessed, He's just amazing, you know, still out there, real gregarious, effusive dude. He was in uh a fan of Kenneth Brono's Henry the Fifth. He's got a great part in the Fifth too, and and then Brono's Hamlet. So he's a he's a he's a real you know, one of those classically trained Shakespearean actors who just commands every scene he's in. He's just a delight, really really charismatic. And you've got you've got the last to Paul. I put these all right, I'll move in. I'll move into the next stage here, guys. Sorry, I was like reminiscing.

1:28:46 I put in there just for you. Thanks, Brodectly. Well, it's not often that you get to talk about one of your your Heroes and Your Legends, And this was only the fifth episode to be produced of spacenineteen ninety nine, right, and they cast inarguably the most iconic British actor ever to grace the screen, the Great Christopher Lee, recognized by none other than the Guinness Book of World Records as having the most screen credits for any living actor, okay, a record which included his portrayal here of Captain Xantor, leader of a small group of Caldoreans that are heading to Earth after their own planet became sterile, rising to fame with starring turns as Frankenstein's Creature and the and Dracula in the Hammer horror films, although unlike Cushing, it was his villainous rules which often became his most successful Count Dracula of course leaning the pack, something which continued for more than fifty years with films such as The wicker Man, Oh, the wicker Man is so good, It's such a great horror film, Gremlin's Two, and then he later appeared as of course Saramon in Peter Jackson's Middle Earth trilogies Lord of the Ring. So really really phenomenal actor there he was in nineteen forty one for Steven Spielberg. He also forged a kind of late in life but successful singing career combining opera and heavy metal, believe it or not, and in twenty thirteen

1:30:19 became the oldest living artist to editor America's Billboard Music Charts at the age of ninety one. Mind blown. A real interesting life this guy had widely considered his was related to Ian Fleming, who created James Bond and Christopher Lee's exploits as an intelligence operative or World War Two. Apparently we're a big inspiration for Ian Fleming creating the James Bond character, and that's the kind of stuff this guy was involved in. So an absolute legend. Really cool to be able to see him on Space nineteen ninety nine as well, and we're going to talk about a series regular on the show, the Inimitable Nick Tate. This guy is still going around like WonderFest every year and conventions all over the place. Genial, likable guy, and you can see him in all different kinds of shows. He was at several big parts on Lost, the TV show.

1:31:21 He was in an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation we'll talk about, but. He played the Great Eagle pilot Alan Carter, Moon based office chief ego pilot and the only person on Alpha to have actually seen the nuclear explosions from space that ripped Moon from its orbit and hurled it into deep Space because he was up there in an Eagle at the time. He's been in two different episodes of Star Trek. The first was in Next genere he played again another shuttle pilot that's an insurance risk, right there, Captain Durgo in the Next Gen fourth season episode Final Mission, which is great and oddly enough, yes, he crashes the shuttle. Just got to be a tip of that to Alan Carter.

1:32:04 And then in his second appearance, he played Liam Bilbie in the Deep Space nine six season episode Honor among Thieves. So really, really fun to be able to Alan Carter was in all of the episodes for both seasons, the great Nick Tape, very charismatic and fun. He was sort of the you know, almost a Han solo role in a way, just getting in there and doing all the action stuff and flying in the midst of anything. Never wanted to turn his back on an encounter. So real great, So hooray. It's been so fun to be able to talk about space nineteen ninety nine. Guys, I never thought we'd be doing this, But what a treat I think it was.

1:32:46 I think it was fun. I think it went well. Yeah, in did Phase nine episode? Did he try to steal us subtle? It's possible. Possible. Yeah, I'd have to ask my Deep Space nine expert Eric. Yeah, I thought I might get asked about that. I'm having a hard time to remembering the specifics of that episode right now, darn it. Well, I just you know, it's it's really fun. It's just like for folks who have been watching listening to our show and they're like, what the hell are you talking about. I mean, I'll tell you one thing that's really great is this is one of those shows that has been really well restored and probably looks better now when you look at it than it ever did in nineteen seventy five. I mean, it's just, you know, it's a They do a pretty good job of restoring these old cult shows, and they generally are really fun to go back and take a look at and just appreciate its place. You know, someone's gonna look cheesy, for sure, someone's going to be like, eye rollingly incomprehensible and stretch your you know, suspension of disbelief, but just you know, put it in its place, you know, in the history of science fiction. I think it deserves a place of renowned.

1:33:54 So it was really pretty cool and for me, very personally fun to be able to recommend to talk about the show because I really remember it finally from my youth. It definitely deserves a reboot, a remake, or a movie of its own. It's the time has come. It's overdue. So Space nineteen ninety nine. There you have it, all right, you know what time it is now? It's nine. For our Star Trek birthdays.

1:34:38 That was not a Clinton song. Mister Wharf says that every week, but we still love him. So every week we like to go through our Star Trek birthdays and so you can find out who you share a birthday with. And we always turned to Eric to start off with our remembrances so we can fondly remember those members of our family who are no longer with us. Take it away, Eric, Yeah, and Jim. In a rare moment, we are going to first celebrate somebody who was not on Star Trek, but who we've been talking about all night long, The Great actor Martin Landau born June twentieth, nineteen thirty eight. We lost him back in twenty seventeen. I have written a lot of stuff about him here, but I'm going to paraphrase, because this man's depth and breadth of stuff in his lexicon of acting is really incredible. I'll start by telling you that I found it interesting that, at age seventeen, he was actually hired by the New York Daily News to work in the promotions department before he became an actor, and he was a staff cartoonist and illustrator. He worked there for five years, so he started in the kind of like newspapery cartoon world, but his real ambition was to move on to acting, and in nineteen fifty one, he made his stage debut in Detective Story at the Peaks Island Playhouse in Peaks Island, Maine, and he also made his first off Broadway debut that first that same year, in First Love. Landau acted during the nineteen fifties in

1:36:14 Many Many Things, Lots of stage acting along the Way. In nineteen sixty three, he played memorable roles in the science fiction anthology series The Outer Limits and The Thing That I Think Really Got him known. Somebody is making a ton of background noise right now. The thing that made him really, really well known in the eyes of the public was his role, of course in nineteen sixty six, when he was in Mission Impossible. That's the one that made him famous. He was originally not meant to be a regular on the series, which also of course starred his wife of the time, Barbara Bain, but his character rol In Hand was supposed to only make occasional, reoccurring appearances, but he became so popular they decided to keep him on the show. I think that was fantastic. His career eventually kind of went through some dips and some changes and stuff. Of course Bace nineteen ninety nine. From nineteen seventy five nineteen seventy six, the early eighties were kind of tough for him, but then he had a big renaissance of his in his career in the late nineteen eighties and into the nineteen nineties. The thing that I remember well, many things I remember seeing him, but I remember him being Bella Lagosi in.

1:37:27 Ed Wood. He was of course in Sleepy Hollow. Lots of other things from that era. So Martin Landau does have his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. You should go check it out. It's been really fun to talk about him all night, and unfortunately we did lose him about eight years ago or so. So happy birthday and lots of love and remembrances going out to the great Martin Landau. Happy birthday as well to David L. Lander, the actor who played the Frangi tactician in The Star Trek Nestration's second season episode Peak Performance. Of course, you may recognize him from other roles right His most famous role as absolutely as Andrew Squiggy Squigman that Michael McKean's Lenny Kosnowski on Lavernon Shirley from nineteen seventy six through nineteen eighty two. He in fact did a ton of work with Michael McKean. They both went to school together and Carnegie Mellon. They did tons of television shows, television movies together. They actually released an album in nineteen eighty called Lenny and the squig Tones. I feel like I need to go check that out. And then, of course he did do some work without Michael McKean along the way, on shows like The Bob Newhart Show, Barney Miller, Highway to Heaven, Head of the Class, and the Nanny. Eventually, in his later career went into voiceover roles, and unfortunately,

1:38:57 in nineteen eighty four he was diagnosed with multiple scolurosis, but he became kind of a spokesman for that disease and went around touring talking about it. In two thousand and two, he published his autobiography called Falling Down Laughing How Squiggy caught multiple sclerosis and didn't tell nobody. Just really really endearing. What a fun actor who's very recognizable from that era of television. David L. Lander would have had a birthday on June twenty second. He was born in nineteen forty seven. Happy birthday, David. And last of my remembrance list is actor George Murdoch, the actor who portrayed God in Star Trek five The Final Frontier. He also portrayed Jp Hanson in The Next Generation third and four season episodes The Best of Both Worlds and Best of Both Worlds Part Two. In the pre production of The Final Frontier, director William Shatter had originally planned to cast Murdoch for the role of Cord, but when Charles Cooper read for the role. Murdoch was recast for the role of God, so we could have had a very different cling on. Murdoch is probably best known by fans for two reoccurring roles as Lieutenant Ben Scanlon, the acerbic international affairs officer on Barney Miller, and as the overstressed and bitter doctor Salek on the original Battlestar Galactica. He was also in an episode of Seinfeld as a Russian writer Elaine works to get for her publishing house employer.

1:40:26 He also appeared on a couple of other television series along the way. George Murdoch would have had a birthday June twenty fifth. He was born in nineteen thirty. Happy birthday, George Murdoch, and that everybody does it for our remembrances. So I will pass this flaming birthday candle onto my good friend Charles. Oh thank you, Eric. Let's start with our Happy birthday to Marcy Lafferty, actress who play Chief DeFalco in Star Trek the motion picture. Lafferty was married to William Shatner from nineteen seven three into their divorce in nineteen ninety four. Happy birthday, John Wheeler, actress who made his major television debut debut as Gab in the TOS episode The Return Journey to baball as we get to see him and all that makeup Happy Birthdater Lindsey Ridgeway, actress who portrayed Cispirilla and Star Trek Voyagers second season episode Cold Fire. It's a child actress, Paul who's on your list.

1:41:43 Thank you, Charles well First of all, let's go back to the original series for a bit and let's given up to luminary Marriott Hartley, Emmy Award winning actress who played a Zerabeth in that memorable third season episode All Our Yesterday's I think definitely one of the better third season episodes for sure, really interesting series of scenes between her and Spack in that particular episode. There so definitely a good one to check out. You haven't seen it for a while. Excited to say this next one. This is a live wire guy for sure, the great Peter Weller who can really mix it up with an audience at a fan event. Let me tell you it's a very smart individual. Veteran actor who we acknowledge in Star Trek for playing John Frederick Paxton in Enterprise fourth season episodes Demons and Tara Prime, and then he came back to the Star Trek universe to the feature film franchise to play Alexander Marcus. I believe falls underneath the evil admiral category if I'm not evil, but brings some really good gravitas. I think he's one of the coolest things about intra darkness, Frank, and he's got the starship to prove it really, really great. But of course, you know, if you're a genre fan, forever may vex him to no end. I know, Peter Weller, but alex Murphys Murphy

1:43:17 OCP Officer from RoboCop right, I mean, that is just like one of the greatest roles ever and at least one sequel, perhaps even more that it was featured in there. But he's a really interesting cat. Peter Weller is and you may sometimes be amazed to see him listed as doctor Peter Weller and you're like, what is that? Is he going to take out my gallbladder? What's going on? No? No, no, no, friends, He's a very multifaceted individual, and he actually has a doctorate a PhD. An Italian Renaissance art history and Roman history. So this is a very cerebral cat and he's also taught both literature and fine arts up at Syracuse University, so is a very academic individual there. And I don't want to forget. Another cult film that is a big favorite of a lot of science fiction fans is The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai. Right, that's another terrific picture there as well. So a really great dude, and just nice to see that he's got his tenter hooks all through the Star Trek franchise there.

1:44:26 So very very cool and surprisingly you must look beneath the prosthesis to see this gentleman. But let's give it up for rock and roll legend Mick Fleetwood Okay, drummer of the legendary musical group Fleetwood Mac. He had a cameo part underneath all that crazy costuming as an Antedian dignitary in the Next Gen second season episode Manhunt. Very very cool to know that he's in there. I guess sometimes if you're a Star Trek fan, you'll just do whatever role you can get to get on the show, and I think that might be part of the case there. So very very cool to see all these folks who show up in different aspects of Star Trek Boy, Does Uncle Jim have a good one to on oor next someone we've been lucky enough to spend some time with, right, Uncle Jim.

1:45:20 I'm sorry I was muted. Absolutely yeah. I saved the Klingons for myself. And now you guys aren't going to think of this guy as a Klingon, but he was. He did play a Klingon on Deep Space nine. Of course we had him on the podcast as well. We want to say happy birthday to the great Tim Russ and there he is. You guys can go over to trek talka dot com and you can check out our interview with Tim Ross. It was a lot of funny. Was a great guy. He's best known for his portrayal of Lieutenant Commander Tubac on Star Trek Voyager. He reprised the role on Star Trek Picard's season three and he also directed the Voyager fourth season episode Living Witness. He was also in Star Trek Generations and on Voyager. In the episode Flashback, we find out that he's the one that brings Captain Sulu is tea that teacup that doesn't survive.

1:46:18 That was him. But for me Spaceballs, he ain't found shit he's still looking there. He is Melbrooks Spaceballs. Spaceball's Part two is coming out. Maybe Tim Russ will find something in that second movie. Who knows, So Happy birthday to Tim Russ. And I have one that's not on the list because I just found out about it today. I don't know how I missed it when I was putting the list together, so we don't have a picture, but we want to say Happy birthday to Jesse James Kytel, who have played Captain Angel on Star Trek's Strange New Worlds Serene Squall episode. And I have to mention that because that's the episode that introduces us to the back of cyboch and hopefully they'll go somewhere with that. I can only hope and pray. So Happy birthday to Jesse James Kayitel, Captain Angel from the Serene Squad episode of Star trek Strange New Worlds and presumed lover of Sybock.

1:47:24 We don't know, but that's what we're presuming. So Happy birthday Jesse James Kaititel. And that wraps up our birthdays. There wasn't that many. I trimmed them down quite a bit because I wanted to talk about Space nineteen ninety nine as much as we could. I wanted to give it a full show, so I cut out a lot of birthdays. To do that. And yeah, so that's why we didn't have a lot this week. And now it's time for some Star Trek news and we definitely got to come up with a new video today. If I already one met hit from Starfleet coming in on secure. Channel, incoming transmission enter authorization.

1:48:06 Code, command codes verified, Define parameters of program level nine, authorization required. Specified parameters. Transfer updata is complete, A black alert, A blank alert. All right, So Eric, you get to start off with our first news story of the week, and I think it's a fun one. It is a fun one, Jim, and it is a remembrance of twenty years ago, remembering the day Star Trek legend William Shatner crooned my Way to Star Wars creator George Lucas. Attendees at the thirty third Annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Awards ceremony honored Star Wars creator George Lucas got a surprise from the final Frontier win of all people, William Shatner, Star Trek's original captain Kirk arrived on stage to open the festivities. It happened on June nineteenth, two thousand and five, and it remains an indelible moment of entertainment. Galaxies colliding. Shatner basked in the moment, giving a remarkable Shatnerian performance. He hammed it up, smiled broadly, joked about his hair, comparing it to the honorees, iconic follicles, and yes sang. Shatner then elicited chuckles with his opening line, Star Trek changed Everything. He then cracked, aren't these Star

1:49:37 Trek conventions wonderful? And from there Shatner engaged in his signature talk sing Warbling, delivering a Star Wars themed reimagining a Frank Sinatra's song My Way that even made an amusing dig at Howard the Duck and Infamous Lucas produced box office and critical dud, although I would say cult classic. At this point, it builds to a crescendo, with stormtroopers forming a kick line and dancing with Shatner in the middle before they carry him away. Of course, Shatner gets in the last word, putting a Star Trek spin on his egnace on his exit live Long and prosper George, Well, live Long, you already prospered enough. That's a great video.

1:50:22 I think you could find it on YouTube if I remember correctly. Yeah, I was going to play when I found that story, I was going to actually show the video, but like I said, I tried to trim the show down to its bare minimum so we could talk about space nineteen ninety nine. I was originally going to have David play that quick video because watching Shatner do this it was hilarious. But you guys can find it on YouTube. That's where I found it. Well, yeah, hard, hard to believe it's been twenty years already. That's amazing. Yeah, and we got to remember there's a lot of fans out there that might not have seen it or don't remember it, so check it out. It's definitely definitely something worth watching. I think it's up there with the Get a Life skip from Saturday Night Lives. You know, Shatner at his best. All right, and Paul, I think I think you're wrapping us up with our Star Trek news this week.

1:51:21 All right, man, let's move from the past of science fiction into what we have coming that we can look forward to very very soon. Killian Omer Sullivan says his Roger Corby has a smidge of darkness in Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season three. Something new for season three of Star Trek Strange New Worlds is the addition of Irish actor Killian O'Sullivan in a recurring guest role as doctor Roger Corby, a character from the original series episode What Are Little Girls Made Of played by Michael Strong. In that Star Trek episode, we learned that Corby and Christine Chappell had been engaged to be married, and in season two Range New Worlds, Christine Chappel was approved for a fellowship with doctor Corby. The actor talked about how his version of the character differs from what we saw in the original Star Trek. It's still Lauga Krby, but before he goes mad and tries to turn everyone into androids.

1:52:16 But something made Korby that way. Maybe he has a smidge of that darkness in him already. But even from just the audition process, it was going to be different, like what Jess Bush did with Nurse Chapel informed how different Korby was going to be. I'm a huge treky, so just being around it was mad. I mean, my first scene on my first day was walking down the hallway and the enterprise was fucked. That's crazy, so extremely inspiring, and getting a role in something that you've always wanted to be a part of is doubly inspiring. Now, I'm just nervous about it coming out and will Korby resonate with people, will they like my performance in the show. But I'm excited to see this season of Star Trek that I get to be a part of. Also, just to see season three. I mean, I know what happens, I've read all the scripts, but I'm just excited to see it all come together. And friends, as a reminder, you don't have to wait very long because season three of Strange New World's debuts in just a few short days with a double feature episode on July seventeenth, So you are going to get to find out and get a big hit. We've got a little bit of a dry spot without Fresh Trek for a while, so we're about to slake our thirst with a two fisted episode.

1:53:31 Cannot wait, all right, thank you so much, Paul and guys. That wraps up our show. So yeah, I just want to say right now that we're not going to be having a show next week because here in the United States that falls on the fourth of July weekend, actually July third. But I will be up at camp, and now that we do the podcast with a video, my WiFi at camp is not good enough to sort video. If we were doing the old podcast with audio, I would chance it. Actually we have done it from camp with the audio, but the video I don't think I can do it from camp. So there will be no show next week. So go out, eat some hot dogs, go to some fireworks if it doesn't rain, and have a good time guys, and we will be back on the tenth. I think it's a tenth. So just take a little vacation and we will be back. But that gives you a lot of time to go to trek talkin dot com and check out some of our older shows.

1:54:36 Check out the Tim Russ interview or Bruce Horrick, which was a lot of fun. So we won't be around. So I want to take this opportunity to say thank you so much to David for pulling up all those videos and making everything work out, making our birthdays, you know, enjoyable. Thank you so much, David. Yeah, it's been a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun, and of course thank you so much to Eric for hanging out with us tonight and Trek talking. Thank you so much, Eric, Absolutely I had a great time. And thank you so much to Paul for suggesting this show. It was delightful to hear both you and Jim talk about your memories of Space nineteen ninety nine. It was a lot of fun for sure, and of course we got to say thank you to Charles for hanging out and Trek talking with us. Thank you, Charles.

1:55:24 I was going to say the same thing Eric did. Thank you Paul for introducing me to Space nineteen ninety nine. It adds more fi sci fi to my realm right now. Which I need, so thank you, yes, and thank you so much to Paul to not only hanging out and nineteen ninety nine talking with us, but for introducing the idea of space nineteen ninety nine and making this whole show positible. Thank you so much, Paul. It was such a treat friends. I was to be able to revel in something that has been my own little weird nerdish, you know, fondness for a long time that people are like, what when you mentioned it to like, what are you talking about? So it was really fun to be able to visit this and to spread the word and get folks to talk about it. It's it's just what a treat. So Uncle Jim, thank you for being up for this. It was really fun for me to get to do this and just to hear that every It's just fun for me to hear everybody watching episodes and seeing them for the first time, to like Dear Charles talking about Voyager's return or Eric talking about Dragon's domain. It's it's a trip, man. So it's fun to, you know, to keep some of this stuff alive and you know that some of these creations still have some mileageit them. So what a treat. Thank you well.

1:56:43 Speaking of keeping things alive and what a treat. Paul also recommended our next show, which will be on July tenth, and we're going to talk about We're going to go all the way back and talk about what I think, who I think is the best Superman Christopher Reeves, and we're going to talk about the original Superman movie nineteen seventy nine, classic soundtrack, classic actors, three versions of the same movie, and we're going to talk about that on the tenth, So brush up on your classic OG. I don't know what you would call it, because it's I would call it OG Superman because I think that was the first Superman that they made as a movie.

1:57:27 Yeah, yeah, I believe a man can fly exactly. That was. That was That was such a great timeleline. This was movie before thor before Captain America, before anything. We had Superman. So tune in on the tenth and help us celebrate Superman. So, and this is in preparation, I believe for the release of the new movie. Is it not the following day? Is that what it is? It's within a couple of days and then a couple there's some early screenings. I think Amazon's hosting some early screenings that same week. But it's like, you know, it depends on where are and what's what you can get into. So, but I think it's gonna be a it's gonna be a big hit. I have a hunch. I'm super excited about it. You know, a lot of loving here. You know, it's gonna be the I'm just I'm just I just I don't know. I go back and I watched the old Christopher Eve one, and it's just I still get chills during some of those scenes. It's really fun.

1:58:20 And we will more than likely we'll show the trailer for the new movie and we'll share our thoughts on you know, what we think about the movie because we wouldn't have seen it yet. So that gives you guys something to look forward to on July tenth, after you come back from all your celebrations and your fireworks, your hot dogs, your apple pie, your chevrolets, whatever, and you can come back Chevrolets dismantling. You're dismantling the patriarchy. So I'll be good American value right there. So yeah, so I'm your most excellent host, Uncle Jim saying, please, everybody be good to each other and stay safe. Remember Archer fans are the best fans. Good Night, everybody along and prosper All stations ready for departure, sir, some problem, Riker.

1:59:16 I'm just hoping this isn't the usual way our missions will go, sir. Oh, no, number one. I'm sure most will be much more interesting. Let's see what's out there. Ego one, Lift off the Game, Alan get Away from the Control