June 29, 2025

Episode 644- Space 1999 Super Show

Episode 644- Space 1999 Super Show
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In this episode, Uncle Jim and his cohosts dive into the world of Space 1999, discussing its impact, characters, and episodes. They engage with fans through shout outs and polls, exploring the show's themes and its place in the sci-fi genre. The conversation flows from introductions to in-depth analysis, highlighting the unique aspects of Space 1999 and its legacy. In this engaging conversation, the hosts reflect on the nostalgic elements of classic sci-fi television, particularly focusing on 'Space 1999' and its impact on the genre. They discuss the evolution of the show, its memorable characters, and the technology depicted within it. The conversation also highlights notable guest stars who appeared in 'Space 1999' and their contributions to the series. As the discussion transitions, the hosts celebrate Star Trek birthdays and reminisce about the legacies of these iconic shows, while also looking forward to upcoming events in the Star Trek universe.

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Against Yap about the series series, this show.

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Series, Well, good evening trekkies and trekkers around the globe.

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Today is Thursday, June twenty six, twenty twenty five. Welcome

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to episode six hundred and forty four. Can you believe that?

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Eric six four?

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So many episodes?

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Incredible And you guys can find all of those episodes,

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well not all of them, the majority of them over

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at trek Talking dot com. So head on over there.

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There's a lot of great stuff there. I'm your most

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excellent host, Uncle Jim. Welcome to the podcast, and I'm

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going to go around and introduce you to my awesome

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trek experts. First of all, we have the man, the myth,

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the legend, our miracle, worker. He's out Portland, and there

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he is, of course we're talking about the man himself, David.

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Welcome to the show, David.

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Yeah.

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And also Outland, lots of troubles. I thought I thought

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those were like chocolate candies or something back there. And

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also for Portland, we have our very own Eric. How

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you doing tonight, Eric.

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I'm doing pretty good. I'm I'm wondering if David put

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like bouncy ball and triple into chat GPT and that's

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the AI image it gave him, because that's what it

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looks like. No, no, no, it's lovely. It's lovely. But I

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was just going to say so much like the Eagle one,

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I do feel like I'm being pulled towards the planet

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by a mysterious gravitational force beyond my control right now.

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So we'll have to see how that bodes for the show.

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It's a magnetic feel creative by all that nuclear waste

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that's under the surface.

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You know it might be Wait, what kind of waste, Jim,

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what kind of waste?

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It's nuclear? Nuclear?

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Nuclear, it's pronounced nuclear.

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It's the Texas pronunciation.

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It is also from Portland as well. You see a

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pattern going on here. Also from Portland. We have a

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very own toy guy himself, Paul. Welcome to the show.

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Paul, Thank you so much, my friend. Thank you guys.

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And if you would have told a young, I don't know,

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thirteen fourteen year old me that there would come a

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day when I would be on some kind of Finaglan

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computer radio broadcast show talking about what we're going to

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talk about tonight, I would have my mind would have

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been blown. It's just that it would be something that

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we would still be finding interesting and chatting about in

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depth tonight like we will. Is just it's kind of

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mind blowing. So I'm super excited and it's fun that

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we are going to do this.

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Absolutely and not I repeat, not from Portland, but from

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Las Vegas. We have our very own Charles. Welcome to

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the show. Charles.

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Hello all.

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Have a.

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Sorry conversation just threw me off there. Sorry, things are

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going well, as you noticed. Yes, I do have a

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not a triple on me. As a few fans know,

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it's Stitch Day because Stitches Experiment six. Because Stitches Experiment

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six to six.

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I did not know that. See that it's not only

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its educational yes, So may the Stitch be with you,

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oh boy, oh boy. While you guys over at trek

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talkin dot com, you'll find a link to the Patreon

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page where you can become a patron just like our

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newest member, Joe Saparrito. Joe, Welcome to our family, Joe.

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We really appreciate it, and I think all of you

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guys should head over to trek talkin dot com and

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become a patron just like Joe. On tonight's show, at

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the behest of Paul himself, this is our Space nineteen

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ninety nine super show. That's right, we're gonna be talking

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about Space nineteen ninety nine. We're gonna start with the pilot.

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We're gonna go through the catacombs. We don't know what

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kind of dust we're gonna kick uf. While we're down there,

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we have a couple of Space nineteen ninety nine polls

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which we're gonna have some fun with. We're gonna talk

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about some Space nineteen ninety nine guest stars, and maybe

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we'll see a toy or two. Who knows, you'll have

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to wait and see. So that's what we're going to

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be talking about tonight. But we also have our fans

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shout outs, and that's where we say thank you to

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fans just like you for listening to this podcast, and

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we have our birthdays, and if time permits, we do

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have a few Star Trek stories to get to. So,

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without further ado, so that we can dive right into

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our space nineteen ninety nine, I think we should do

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some fan shout outs. What do you think?

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Eric?

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Absolutely man?

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Okay, So you can head over to our Facebook page

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which is Truck Talking, and beyond you'll see the livelong

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and prosper pin to the top. Just tell us where

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you're from. Leave lots of emojis. It gets my attention.

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If you see a heart next to your name from

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yours truly, Uncle Jim, then you will be featured in

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a future fan shout out. Take it away, Eric, all.

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Right, I'm going to start out this week over in

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the amazing country of Belgium, and I'm pretty much going

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to stick to Western Europe myself. We're saying hello this

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week to Uriel Robert Elle delacour or who's saying hello

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to us from Belgium. Thank you Ouriel Robert so much

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for saying hello to us and for listening to our podcast.

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I hope you enjoy both our voices and our lovely

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video that David has put together for us. Also saying

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hello this week to Wayne at Till, who is hailing

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from England, sending us both that beautiful English flag as

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well as the Union Jack. Wayne, thank you so much

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for saying hello to us, and livelong and prosper to you, sir. Hello,

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as well to Ronier W. Bierman, who's saying hello to

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us from Mayer's Germany, sending us three livelong and prosper

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hands plus that German flag. Thank you so much for

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saying hello to us, Renier, very nice to hear from you.

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And last, but not least on my list, we head

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back to the UK and Sile Mack is saying hello

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to us from Wales and is that I'm Is that

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a Welsh flag there?

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It?

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Paul would probably?

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Now I do believe it is a Welsh flag.

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It's a Welsh flag. Now I know what a Welsh

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flag look like. Thank you for educating me, Sile so much.

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Apply to you, sir Charles. I imagine you would like

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to say hello to some people.

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Definitely start off with a warm welcome to Roxanne Waters

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from Washington State. Welcome Roxanne, top fan Jeffrey Wilson from Wooster, Ohio.

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Welcome Jeffrey, glad to see a top fan. Another top

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fan James Robinson from Lender, Texas. So two top two

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good top fans and Cad Gardner from Springfield, Missouri. Welcome

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Cat David, who's on your list?

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Yeah?

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Thanks Charles.

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I'd like to give a one welcome to ben Jack

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jack Ol from Los Angeles, where Trek were born. Cool

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one welcome to a top fan, Dan Boyle from North Province,

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Rhode Island, USA, and another warm welcome to another top fan,

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Mary Stefan from Pennsylvania. And last but not least, another

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warm welcome to another top fan from Luke Breuie from

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Quebec City, on.

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Or in Canada.

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I'm not exactly sure, but yeah, so Paul, who's on us?

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Thanks David. I'm going to head us back to other

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parts of the universe here, some in the lovely continent

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of Europe. This first top fan has a name that

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makes me think they're either a renowned psychic or perhaps

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a ship's councilor of some kind. But I'd like to

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give it up the top fan, Gloria Guidance in the

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Spectacular Province of Dijon, France and place I would very

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much like to go. And it's more than just mustard,

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isn't that right, Gloria, Absolutely so fantastic to hear from

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our friends on a Francis every now and then. Moving

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over to Senna in Germany and Lower Saxony near Hanover,

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it's Martina kas Is phoning in and saying hello. Always

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great to hear from folks. Wow. What an area steeped

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in history that you live in, Martina. Pretty amazing, absolutely astonishing.

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Things have been going on for a long time and

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you're part of the world. A lot of history there.

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One of our fans who is in Belgium now but

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living in Spain, Arian Seger's well, from Belgium originally but

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now living in Spain. There I go, I can read

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it can happen. And it's so sad that they abort

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the project Star Trek Park in Murcia. Okay, So apparently

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there was going to be a big Star Trek theme

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park there and it looks like they maybe ran out

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of some funding there. What I would recommend that you do,

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Arian is go to Venice, which isn't too far from you, Okay,

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and there's a guy named Jeff Bezos, Okay, who's having

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a big wedding there this weekend, and he's got more

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money than God and certainly has more money to know

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what to do with. And I think you'd like science fiction,

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so maybe you could get him to fund that theme

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park there. Mister Bezos, if you are hearing me right now,

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please help us out in Mercia where Arion needs that

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Star Trek theme park. Do you get going so personal?

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Play on your behalf their expat Belgian living in Spain.

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Thank you Arion for bringing that to our attention. Thank

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you for your attention to this matter. And finally for me,

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it's top fan. Big drum roll and estenis cruised in

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Nacimento from.

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The Arakahua state of Serapa, Brazilia.

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Oh man, do they know how to party down there?

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I'm telling you, what a magnificent country. Let's not forget home. Still,

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despite mankind's best intentions, still the largest rainforest on the planet,

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replete with all kinds of critters, some of whom have

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not even been identified species unknown in the incognita of

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the Brazilian rainforest. Man, I would love to see that

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with my own eyes someday. What an exciting place to live.

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So and tostay this. It is great to hear from you.

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Thank you for being a top fan, thank you for

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checking out our podcast and Facebook page, and thank you

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for expressing your enthusiasm for Star Trek. The one thing

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we know that can unite everybody, regardless of where you live.

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Pretty spectacular. Let's see you. Uncle Jim's got on his

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bandwagon this week, Uncle Jim, can you hear me, sir?

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Why? Thank you very much, Paul. Unfortunately I don't have

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any top fans, but I do want to give a

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huge shout out to Ellen Silber from Schenectady, New York.

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I also want to say hello and thank you to

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Richard Charboneau from Colorado Springs. Wish I knew some trekkies

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in my area. Well, well here's some of us. We're

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here on the podcast, so that's cool. We also want

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to say hello, thank you to Misty Mercer who's listening

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to us in Illinois, USA, and last but not least

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on my list, you guys know why he caught my attention.

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We want to say hello and thank you to Kurt

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Donnelly from Roswell, New Mexico, who sends us an alien head,

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and that's what got my attention, the little alien head.

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For you guys that are watching this video at home

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right now, you might see all these great pictures that

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are scrolling by. There's me, my wife and my daughter

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meeting Freddy Krueger at a convention. And all of these

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great pictures are sent in by awesome fans just like you, guys.

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So if you go over to our Facebook page Trek

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Talking and Beyond and tell us where you're listening from,

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you can send us a picture and it'll appear right

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there with all these awesome pictures that are scrolling by

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right now, So please do that. We would appreciate it.

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And now you know what time it is. It's time

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for our Star Trek polls and that means the poll.

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Song Linkolnpolyn you know me like no Win what you

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thought about the show? Then we try to share your

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opinions with all of our minions out there because they

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listen worldwide.

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So tell us just what you think.

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Get together we will alter Canara and robulin An.

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Every week, I try to come up with fun, informative, educational,

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ethical no I try to throw out some fans some

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questions that are just and uh, you may have noticed

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in our song, in our opening song that Eric managed

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to squeeze in Commander Koenig. Of course, he's from Space

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nineteen ninety nine, and the topic of tonight's show is

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is Space nineteen ninety nine? So I decided to throw

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out some Space nineteen ninety nine polls. So the first poll, well, anyways,

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you'll figure it out. You want to roll the video, David, yep,

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there airs all right, Well you guys saw.

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What I'm just thinking to myself, Well, now I have

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to watch season two.

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Let's amaze say guys, hey, guys, let's get the audience

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by let's show them the worst part for her. That

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was amazing.

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What are you talking about? Okay? So, uh so, Space

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nineteen ninety nine's second season episode, The metamorph introduced Maya,

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played by Catherine Shell. Do you think she improved the series?

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Yeah?

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And seventy seven percent of our responders said yes, So, man,

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I can't wait to see what it was before that.

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Twenty three percent said she ain't make it any better.

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But I have to say that I you know what,

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that was a totally different vibe from season one, which

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is the only Space nineteen ninety nine I've seen. But

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I'm into some super cheesy sci fi, so I might

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give it a shot.

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I gotta tell you. Have all you guys watched Buck

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Rogers when it was on TV. Oh yeah, Now, when

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you think of Buck Rogers, you probably think of how

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cool Hawkman was, right, yeah, sure, yeah, so you think

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Hawkman was so cool, But Hawkman is the only part

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of season two it's worth a crap. Okay, if you

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go back and watch season two, it's total crap. Yet

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you'll say to yourself, Hawkman was so cool.

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Well, he was like Boba fat Man. He was kind

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of like the Boba feta Buck Rogers. He was cool,

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and here's a badass.

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I put Maya in that category. I think Maya is

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just so cool. Yet Season two sucked, but she's the

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coolest part of it. And when you think of Space

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nineteen ninety nine, you think of Maya in the shape

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shifting Alien and what you don't really she's from season two,

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which really wasn't that good, but you remember her, and

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you know that's what I think about her character. I

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think she was a great character. She was cool, but

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not enough to save it, so I yeah.

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Well that commercial just made me want to watch season two.

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So what about you, Paul, What what did did Maya

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make season two any better for you?

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Well, here's the thing. Catherine Shell is delightful. Okay, she

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is a really decent actress. I think she's great. I

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first saw in like one of the mid mid run

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Pink Panther movies. I think that's what got her, got

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her this job. And she's really great. She still does

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the convention circuit right, goes out and signs people's uh

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memorabile and stuff. And she was the whole thing with

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season two. Just for a little bit of context, is

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the investors were concerned that it wasn't American enough of

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a show and that it wasn't like exciting enough, right,

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So they they brought in a guy who Star Trek

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fans should know by the name of Fred Freiburger.

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He's the same guy that they brought in to improve

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Star Trek in its magical third season, Right, And so

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a lot of the stuff he did to Star Trek

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to you know, zip up and make it more you know,

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also people in the living rooms will like it. He

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did the same thing with season two of Space nineteen

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ninety nine and gave it that really hyper caffeinated disco theme.

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And they brought in the character of Maya, and she's

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very fun and she's likable and stuff. But the I

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don't know that she helped the show though. To really

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address the question, I think that because she's just part

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of a lot of other things they did, and you know,

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the actors were trying their best, I think with what

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they had to work with, but you know, with you know, Okay,

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you jump across the screen and then we'll cut to

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a leopard, and it's like it's like something that we

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would have done in like, you know, a filmed class

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in the eighth grade. Right, it's not super great great

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through special effects. I mean, I think they were really

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getting goofy and a lot of the more you know esoteric,

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you know, you know two thousand and one asque sci

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fi from season one went by the wayside. So love Maya,

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love Catherine Schell. I don't think anything can help season.

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Two though, What about you?

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Charles answered this way, I'll let you know when I

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get a round of season two.

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I'm still in season one.

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That's fair enough, David. I know you and I chatted

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a little bit about this yesterday.

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Yeah, I'm I haven't seen season two either, so I

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was still kind of going through season one, but I

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don't know, I don't really have an opinion about this

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one in particular.

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So yeah, all right, cool, Well, our next question is

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going to require two, that's right, two videos, So David,

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why don't you run the first one?

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All right?

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Cool?

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Yep, here we go, ready hit it?

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All right, guys. That was the opening sequence from season

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one of Space nineteen ninety nine, and as Paul said,

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they revamped season two, and part of the revamping included

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changing the opening sequence. Of course, why wouldn't you so,

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David roll the season two intro please? All right, guys.

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So there you have it, the intro for season one,

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and they're revamped more modern intro for season two. So

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now that we've watched them both back to back, Eric,

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what is our theme? Quite as if people can't guess

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what our poll?

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Yeah, I mean, of the two seasons, what intro is

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your favorite? And so eighty one percent of our responders

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said that they like that season one intro better and

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only nineteen percent like that second season one better. And

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I'll say, Barbara Bayan's looking pretty foxy in that second

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season one, but the first season one is just so cool.

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I love the way that it switches between the epic

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orchestral music and the disco music, and of course doing

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the mission Impossible thing shows like all the things that

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are going to happen during the episode in those opening credits.

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That's awesome. That's totally awesome. So yeah, I'm way on

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the side of the Minions on this one. I think

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season one is way better.

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I think the the classic Barbara Bay Martin Landau head

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turning at the beginning.

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Of the they're just like and he looks towards her

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and then she looks back towards the cats. Just great.

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I love it classic. It's classic, and that disco music

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theme goes along with it on this episode with all

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the it's just it's classic.

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But they did something with Barbara Bain in that second

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season one. Man, she's like her hair's feathered or something.

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I don't even know. She looks really.

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Turning around and phasing the firing the phaser.

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It was totally a Han solo moments.

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Yeah, I got it. I gotta go with season one.

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I'm with Dominions on how about you, Paul, I'm.

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A season one guy completely, and like it's if folks

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are new to this whole concept and they're like, what

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are they talking about with this TV show? Right, we'll

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talk more about that, but almost like try to say, oh,

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this is just a rumor the season two even existed, Right,

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You don't really you don't really want to do that.

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Don't do that to yourself. No, no, no, no, no, it

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was actually it was a bad porn company that tried

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to pretend that there was a second season. You don't

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even go to anywhere near it, no clear browser clear it.

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But no, it's just it's it's it's goofy stuff, right,

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I mean, I just loved season one. Season one is

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just it had a little bit more of an epic

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vibe to it, you know, with uh, you know, we'll

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get more into details, but as far as opening music

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goes yet season one, Jerry Anderson's veteran composer Barry Gray

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was besides behind a lot of that music, and he

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gives it that you know, oomph, that gravitas at first,

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and then it just kind of explodes into contemporary, you know,

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craziness with the synthesizer. So It's really fun and it just,

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like Eric said, very mission impossible, showing you here's what

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you're going to see, you know, just to get you

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titillated for that episode that's going to come. It's like,

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and you knew that it was a Jerry Anders of production.

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One thing you would definitely get to see a lot

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of was explosions. Okay, this man loved explosions. Things would

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be exploding constantly.

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David, what about you?

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I definitely thought the one was much much better.

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I don't know why they changed it, but yeah, I'm

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with the minions on this One's one definitely.

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Way better, way, way way better. Well, Charles, you've got

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the caboose on this one. Buddy. Are you with the

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minions or against the minions?

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I'm sort of in between. I do like.

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The simplified, more action look of.

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Seasons two's shots.

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Without the in this episode which teases so much the episode.

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But music wise, I'd much for preferred season one because

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I like the disc that says the sigh Disco seemed

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to it, so I love.

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The music in season one.

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I kind of like a little bit of how they

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don't do the teaser shot in season two.

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What's hilarious about season two is it's like there you

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could tell they're like really trying to make sure people

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watch the show, right, so they give you this really

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ridiculously expository, you know, explanation of the premise, massive nuclear

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explosion Earth, you know, moon blown out of orbit. It's like,

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in case you've never seen the show before, it's like

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they give you a fast catch up on the whole premise.

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It's like.

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It's like, we get it. Okay, we get it.

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I know.

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That'd be like Star Trek being like there's something called

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the Federation. There are ships that explore yeah everywhere, Yeah, everywhere,

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triples everywhere.

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The thing is, if you get a few episodes in,

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if you didn't care, it's the first couple of episodes,

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you don't quin undertown, what's going on with this moon base?

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That's true, you're probably tired of it by episode twenty

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of season two.

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All right, guys, so Occasion hadn't guessed this is our

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Space nineteen eighty nine super show. And we've discussed the

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addition of the metamorph We've already talked about which intro

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was better. So let's talk a little bit about the show.

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And we're going to turn that over to Paul, So

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take it away.

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Paul, Thanks Uncle Jim. Okay, friends, why are we talking

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about this show the Space nineteen ninety nine, nineteen eight nine.

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A lot of people who were, you know, fans of

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the podcast are like, I wasn't even born till after then,

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Why does they think nineteen ninety nine was far off

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in the future. Well, this show was made back in

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like nineteen seventy four, right, nineteen seventy five is when

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it first premiered, right, So it would be like if

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right now, we started a new show and we said

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it in the year you know, twothy fifty, Right, it

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sounds like it's sched far flong, right, and we've seen

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how little progress Man actually makes a quarter century. But

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you know, at the time, in the early to mid

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nineteen seventies, nineteen ninety nine seemed like it was way

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off down the road still, right, And so this I

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got to go back in time with me a little bit,

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especially folks who weren't around back in the early seventies,

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because when this show came out as science fiction fans,

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all we'd had for as long as you could remember

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was an endless diet of syndicated Star Trek reruns, and

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that was it. There was very little big science fiction

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at the time, right, I mean a couple movies every

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now and then, once in a blue moon there might

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be another TV series, but nothing had really It had

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just been Star Trek Star Trek syndicated on your local

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affiliate station forever. And keep in mind the Timeline friends. Okay,

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as at this point Star Wars didn't exist. Nobody he

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knew what the hell that was. We had no idea

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that that was coming down the road in just another

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year or two. Other than like the occasional vague reference

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in Starlog magazine, we had no clue. Right, So this

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thing came and it was at the time very exciting.

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It was the mastermind of behind these shows, a guy

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named Jerry Anderson, who those of us who grew up

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with any kind of British relations you learn pretty early

475
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:28.599
about Jerry Anderson shows because he was a British TV

476
00:30:28.680 --> 00:30:31.680
and presario in the sixties who did all of these

477
00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:34.680
puppet shows, right. And when I say puppet shows, I

478
00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:37.519
mean like shows that were science fiction shows, but instead

479
00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:41.480
of human beings, they would star marionettes, right, Shows like

480
00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:44.880
Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett. It's got of stuff. They were

481
00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:49.359
riffing off in Team America World Police, right, if you

482
00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:51.880
remember seeing that movie, it's all totally making fun of

483
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:55.960
Jerry Anderson movies because his whole thing was, yes, marionettes

484
00:30:56.039 --> 00:31:00.319
and incredibly cool vehicles that looked real that were really great,

485
00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:03.440
and that continues through Space nineteen ninety nine and every

486
00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:06.359
five minutes and another explosion. I mean, there was just

487
00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:09.799
this whole thing through all of his shows. And gradually,

488
00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:12.039
as they matured and got tired of doing the whole

489
00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:17.319
marionette thing forever, the Andersons got into doing live action shows,

490
00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:20.720
and they first did a show called UFO that also

491
00:31:20.839 --> 00:31:22.960
was a huge cult following that might be fun to

492
00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:26.920
do some time on someday, but it was great, And

493
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.240
initially they had planned to do a second season of UFO,

494
00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:33.960
but the powers that be with the purse strings got involved,

495
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:38.000
and so it eventually morphed from being a this you know,

496
00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:40.279
a second season of that show to being a completely

497
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:44.160
unique animal, which became Space nineteen ninety nine, and they

498
00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:47.039
got a lot of It may seem like a ludicrous premise, right,

499
00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:50.559
The moon is somehow blown out of Earth's orbit to

500
00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:52.960
go flying through the galaxy to meet a new planet

501
00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:55.400
every week, and it was kind of you know, at

502
00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:59.559
the best of the financiers. They wanted to make sure that,

503
00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:01.359
you know, everything had to be set on the Moon

504
00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:06.279
and with recurring characters, but you had to travel through space,

505
00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:09.279
and you had all these sets had already been built

506
00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:12.119
for Moon Base, right, and you had to travel through

507
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:16.039
space and see a different episode of the week, right,

508
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:18.519
different grace of aliens or a new threat every week.

509
00:32:18.519 --> 00:32:20.240
And so that's kind of where the premise was born.

510
00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:22.759
But for me, it was just it was super exciting

511
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:25.279
back then because we'd had nothing but Star Trek and Forever.

512
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:28.359
Here was a big budget show with familiar actors. We

513
00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:31.720
knew Martin Landau and Barbara Baine from Mission Impossible, and they,

514
00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:34.079
as we'll talk about later, they got some pretty big

515
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:36.880
talent as far as actors coming on here. So it

516
00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:39.839
was very exciting. And in the first season especially, it

517
00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:43.200
was a little bit more you know, a little ethereal sometimes,

518
00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:45.920
but science fiction, more along the lines of what you'd

519
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:47.799
think from like two thousand and one in terms of

520
00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:50.319
the look of it, and the special effects for the

521
00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:54.119
time were amazing. We had never seen special effects like

522
00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:59.000
this on TV before. We hadn't really you know, Battle

523
00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:02.799
Stargolactic wouldn't come wrong for years until after Star Wars, right,

524
00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:06.119
So nothing like that, nothing like that yet. So this

525
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:11.440
was really unique. The special effects were phenomenal. I you know,

526
00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:13.920
I'm going to give you a little peak of some

527
00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:16.480
of the stuff we can talk about here today. But yes, friends,

528
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:19.799
the first time ever there was merchandising. There were like

529
00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:24.920
paperback adaptations with cool like photo inserts to titillate you

530
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:27.920
to watch the episodes, right, which were amazing. So there

531
00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:33.319
was all this crazy stuff going. Yes, there were merchandise.

532
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:36.960
Yes there was Mattel getting into the fix. I believe

533
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:40.200
that Uncle Jim has something he's going to be showing

534
00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:43.359
us later about Mattel. But you actually were able to

535
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:47.839
get a Barbara Bain and Martin Landau action figure, which

536
00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:50.559
was amazing, you know, kind of that whole Migo style

537
00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:53.400
thing that Mittel was doing. So it was pretty crazy,

538
00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:55.160
and so for a couple of years there, it was

539
00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:58.440
just really exciting to have something brand new and really

540
00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:01.680
cool that not took the place of Star Trek but

541
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:04.079
just added to the science fiction universe. And as we

542
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:05.759
were going to see within the next couple of years,

543
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:09.159
science fiction was about to become more popular than we

544
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:14.599
had ever ever imagined. So pretty crazy. But it's a

545
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:16.400
goofy show in a lot of ways. A lot of

546
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:18.960
people sort of refer to it as a guilty pleasure.

547
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:20.760
But I will always have a huge funds for the

548
00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:24.320
show because of the time in my life when it aired.

549
00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:27.480
And I think it's just the look of it and

550
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:32.119
the stories and some of the stories and the designs

551
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:34.679
of the vehicles and the characters. Really, I think enduor

552
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:36.760
so I was really fond of it.

553
00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:41.320
I'll tell you I used to run home from school

554
00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:45.840
and on PBS we only have four channels back in

555
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:48.480
the day. This is how long ago this was. There

556
00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:53.119
was four channels, and PBS would show Space nineteen ninety nine,

557
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:55.719
and right after that would be Doctor Who. And I'm

558
00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:58.800
talking about the Tom Baker Doctor Who. That's how long

559
00:34:59.239 --> 00:34:59.639
this was.

560
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:05.320
Yeah, Baker, Baker was eighties. Baker was eighties. You're talking

561
00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:06.519
a doctor before that.

562
00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:11.360
Nope, I'm talking Tom Baker with the scarf. And I

563
00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:15.039
would watch Space nineteen ninety nine and Tom Baker as

564
00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:18.039
Doctor Who, and that's how I got my fix and

565
00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:20.760
one of the things I remember about Space nineteen ninety

566
00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:25.199
nine was the eagles, Like, weren't they cool? Or what?

567
00:35:26.719 --> 00:35:29.599
Loo look at them? How cool were the eagles? They

568
00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:33.480
could do everything. They had an interchangeable centerpiece that could

569
00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:38.400
come apart and do god knows whatever, you know, whatever

570
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:42.480
they needed for the episode, the eagle could do. And

571
00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:44.840
let me tell you, Alan Carter could crash an eagle

572
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:49.719
like nobody else could. I think every other episode he

573
00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:54.360
crashed an eagle. But so yeah, And I also remember

574
00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:57.760
you guys, like Paul was talking about Star Trek. One

575
00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:00.559
of the things that really caught my attention about Space

576
00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:06.119
nineteen ninety nine was the colors. Star Trek's space was

577
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:10.119
black with white stars, and that was it. But if

578
00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:13.119
you guys noticed the opening sequence that we showed of

579
00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:17.320
Space nineteen ninety nine, it's purple, it's blue, it's red.

580
00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:21.119
Space was full of color and full of life. And

581
00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:23.079
that was one of the things I remember when I

582
00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:26.960
was watching. Every planet wasn't the same. They were all

583
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:30.920
different and so and that funky music. Who could forget that?

584
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:35.000
It just was completely different than Star Trek in so

585
00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:41.920
many ways. And you know, it wasn't as popular as

586
00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:44.480
Star Trek because Star Trek was on every station every

587
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:48.360
night continuously. Space nineteen ninety nine I had to go

588
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:51.480
to PBS to watch it, so I didn't watch it

589
00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:53.679
as much as I watched Star Trek because it wasn't

590
00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:56.920
as available as Star Trek. But as Paul said, if

591
00:36:56.920 --> 00:36:59.079
you wanted to watch your sci fi, there wasn't much

592
00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:04.519
really out there. So that's that's my take on Space

593
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:09.440
nineteen ninety nine. Anybody else want to share a story too.

594
00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:11.800
I think the thing that maybe it was just because

595
00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:14.320
I was, you know, I don't know what, thirteen fourteen

596
00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:20.559
years old at the time, I found that it seemed

597
00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:22.079
like Space nineteen and nine. It was a little more

598
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:24.400
dangerous to being out of space, right, figure it sucked

599
00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:26.039
out an air lock or some monster was going to

600
00:37:26.079 --> 00:37:28.880
come after you or your your helmet would explode and

601
00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:31.559
you have explosive decompression. I mean, there was people were

602
00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:34.920
always getting killed on this show, pretty attention getting late,

603
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:36.480
right Is that a word? Can it be?

604
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:37.960
Oh?

605
00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:39.360
Yeah, for sure. I Mean that was one of the

606
00:37:39.400 --> 00:37:42.000
first things I noticed when I started watching this show, Paul,

607
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:46.119
was the fact that there were real stakes and the

608
00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:50.159
show has kind of a like a darker melancholy tone

609
00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:53.320
to it too. There's no comedy to speak of, like

610
00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:58.239
compared to the original Star Trek right, And I kept

611
00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:01.519
wondering if like major characters were going to get killed

612
00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:04.920
off on a regular basis. I came to find out

613
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:08.320
later about this whole episode order thing that didn't allow

614
00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:11.440
killing off of too many major characters. But but yeah,

615
00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:13.480
it seemed really dangerous.

616
00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:17.960
Yeah, and there was only three hundred and eleven people

617
00:38:18.039 --> 00:38:22.840
on Moon based Alpha as of the breakaway episode. I

618
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:26.639
didn't count how many people died, but I think their

619
00:38:26.679 --> 00:38:34.840
population was dwindling. Well, I would say, yeah, so you.

620
00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:37.639
Know, he went. I was trying to wonder, like about

621
00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:39.599
midway through the first season, I'm like, are they going

622
00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:42.199
to run out of eagles? Right right?

623
00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:44.760
And I was, so, I'm unclear on how many eagles

624
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:48.599
there were. There's the one episode where everybody kind of

625
00:38:48.639 --> 00:38:51.960
like goes crazy and they all fly the eagles away,

626
00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:54.880
and I think there's one shot that shows like maybe

627
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:58.800
eleven of them or so is there a good count

628
00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:00.239
on how many eagles they started with?

629
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:03.199
Have you seen the one episode it would be in

630
00:39:03.239 --> 00:39:05.119
season one where they show like the interior of the

631
00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:08.719
hangar like the underground hangar. Yeah, yeah, it's like there's

632
00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:12.360
gantries and stuff, and it's just surplised that there's tons

633
00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:14.719
of underground stuff, right, all the type of thing. But

634
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:16.480
I think the real answer to your question, Eric is

635
00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:20.599
however high they need the Commander Koenig says, that's the

636
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:21.800
eagles there are.

637
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:26.280
Yeah, you go twelve fourteen, you know.

638
00:39:26.599 --> 00:39:28.480
And you just bought it that there would be this,

639
00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:31.920
you know, endless number of them, right, but yeah they would.

640
00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:34.119
People were dying on the show and they were crashing

641
00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:39.360
stuff and all kinds of craziness. What happened? It's fun. Well,

642
00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:39.679
then that.

643
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:43.239
Morning to the Space nineteen ninety nine, I think it

644
00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:47.719
was Charles. Somebody posted the Space nineteen ninety nine archives

645
00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:49.880
in our chat and I went and I looked it up.

646
00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:54.559
Apparently they got all the minerals and everything they needed

647
00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:59.320
to build eagles from the Moon and they would build

648
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:03.440
them as he needed them. So I don't know how

649
00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:03.800
many of these.

650
00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:05.519
Wow, impressive, but.

651
00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:09.960
Was how they grew food without a sun in interstellar space.

652
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:15.480
But because because they had a hydroponic slab on the

653
00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:19.000
Moon based Alpha.

654
00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:21.199
I have had some amazing inertial dampeners to be able

655
00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:22.840
to be moving at that high rate.

656
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:24.920
Oh my gosh. Yeah, there's the one of those first

657
00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:27.840
couple of episodes where they shoot like light years away

658
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:30.559
and then at a moment's notice, And yeah.

659
00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:32.320
You just had to go That was the other show.

660
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:34.599
You just had to go with it, right, And and

661
00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:36.639
I think that's one of the reasons I'm so fond

662
00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:39.719
of season one. And when you compare them, you know,

663
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:42.000
you'll notice the differences. Yeah, you brought in Maya in

664
00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:45.880
season two, right, but the big difference was season one.

665
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:48.760
You had this guy named Professor Bergmann, right, and he

666
00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:52.480
was a very distinguished English actor named Barry Morse right.

667
00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:55.079
And so the fact that he was like a scientist, right,

668
00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:57.280
and was part of them, you know, the triad, you know,

669
00:40:57.360 --> 00:40:59.679
their equivalent of like Kirk Spock McCoy. You had a

670
00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:02.679
science and he would always make some kind of you know,

671
00:41:03.400 --> 00:41:06.760
kind of bullshit explanation for what they were having to

672
00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:08.840
do or experience, but he just said it in such

673
00:41:08.840 --> 00:41:13.760
a convincing way that you thought, well, that's probably true. Well,

674
00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:17.079
we just traveled to seven million light years John through

675
00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:21.280
a special drain opening I found in alpher sent jury

676
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:25.400
and somehow he could sell the most preposterous stuff and

677
00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:28.559
you buy it. Well, Professor Bergman and is like super big,

678
00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:32.639
like you know, Flared Bell bottom Pants says it's okay,

679
00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:35.320
so it must be true.

680
00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:37.840
So Charles, you were you were gonna say something.

681
00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:39.840
Yeah, well, I was going to say the fact that

682
00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:43.119
the number of red Shirts term red Shirts they had.

683
00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:49.800
But okay, Dark Episodes, I'll come back to it. But

684
00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:54.559
one of Paul's mentioned and I can understand it. It's

685
00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:58.400
Dragon's domain. But before we talk about that one.

686
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:06.920
I'm gonna talk about Voyager's return that Okay, this was

687
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:08.920
written in nineteen seventy five.

688
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:16.519
Voyager didn't launch till seventy seven, and yet this is

689
00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:21.039
the one that this is the same ship that.

690
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:25.800
Star Trek the motion picture talks about djer.

691
00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:30.480
Is Voyager won and for them to discover the ship

692
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:35.079
saying okay, this ship it launched seventy seven. They said

693
00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:39.000
it launched in eighty five, and then fifteen years later

694
00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:43.719
the ship was coming back and to be interacting with

695
00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:46.639
that what they did with the interaction with that ship and.

696
00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:51.840
The engine system that they use, which was.

697
00:42:57.320 --> 00:43:00.480
Drive, which is the one thing it's like it's a

698
00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:04.920
radioactive drive and it's like, wow, that's an interesting concept.

699
00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:11.159
But that was just an interesting episode of Okay, we're

700
00:43:11.159 --> 00:43:16.360
gonna take what's going to be if history that hadn't

701
00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:19.960
occurred yet and talk about this ship, and it's like, wow,

702
00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:24.920
that was an interesting projective of what Voyager would be

703
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:27.079
doing in the future.

704
00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:33.400
But as Eric said, dark.

705
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.760
And I think Paul might be a good discovery on

706
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:40.280
this dragon's domain.

707
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:43.280
That thing was dark.

708
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:44.760
That thing.

709
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:50.960
I can understand younger, younger fans getting nightmares from that one.

710
00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:55.960
Yeah. A bunch of years before Alien too, about three

711
00:43:56.039 --> 00:43:59.440
years before Alien, so we hadn't really had a scary monster,

712
00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:02.719
and outer space really better than what we had a

713
00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:05.519
degree like ever right, other.

714
00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:09.400
Than what you'd had in a twilight Zone, and even those.

715
00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:11.400
Weren't Yeah, yeah, And all of a sudden, this was in,

716
00:44:11.519 --> 00:44:14.639
like you know, in your living room, scary and and

717
00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:18.280
you know, I mean, without getting too graphic, I mean,

718
00:44:18.280 --> 00:44:21.159
what this they find a monster, you know, this one

719
00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:24.239
character does, and what that monster does to people, it's

720
00:44:24.280 --> 00:44:26.880
pretty horrific. I mean, it really was. And they did

721
00:44:26.920 --> 00:44:29.840
not shirk. And it's just if you're a young teen

722
00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:32.239
seeing that stuff. I remember, I was just like, oh man,

723
00:44:32.280 --> 00:44:34.119
it was just like blue mind. I mean, I didn't

724
00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:36.360
see a lot of graphic monsters other than like, you know,

725
00:44:36.599 --> 00:44:40.239
the occasional you know, Christopher Lee Dracula movie, you know,

726
00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:42.679
or something like that. I hadn't or Godzilla, right, but

727
00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:44.800
to see a monster that's doing this to people, I mean,

728
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:48.239
like you know, like like eating them like corn on

729
00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:50.280
the cob. I mean, my god, it was just like

730
00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:53.920
I was not prepared, friends, I was damaged.

731
00:44:55.800 --> 00:44:57.599
Well, you know, one of the things that I remember

732
00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:02.000
is why would you put windows that open on a

733
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:07.480
moon base? I mean, like, why would you want to

734
00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:11.440
open a window to outside? That was one of the things.

735
00:45:11.519 --> 00:45:14.599
Why would you put glass windows of all things on

736
00:45:14.719 --> 00:45:19.519
a station? You know, that was kind of weird. And yeah,

737
00:45:19.719 --> 00:45:25.519
is there oxygen in the catacombs under the of the moon?

738
00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:28.079
You know, how could that be?

739
00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:31.320
Well they, I mean it's weird. They I don't think

740
00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:33.960
they knew this at the time, but they found there.

741
00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:37.039
It does sound like recent sciences, you know, we haven't

742
00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:39.360
actually been there yet, but they've been able to identify

743
00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:43.239
what looks like polar ice in parts of the lunar surface.

744
00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:46.800
And I know there's some scientists believe that it's possible

745
00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:49.400
to convert that into like oxygen at some point. I

746
00:45:49.400 --> 00:45:51.639
don't know how likely or real that is, but it

747
00:45:51.679 --> 00:45:54.159
sounds like there's potential for it, or if there was

748
00:45:54.239 --> 00:46:00.440
like underground frozen lakes or frozen ice or something like that.

749
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:04.239
But it's something that's different than the you know, asteroid

750
00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:09.039
scarred surface possible. Well, it's super easy to suspend this

751
00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:11.280
belief for that given all the other and.

752
00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:14.039
It's very realistic too, to just imagine that they dug

753
00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:15.920
out a bunch of tunnels and pumped full air. I mean,

754
00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:19.239
that's not that's not the most like fantastical thing that

755
00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:20.920
happens on the show. I don't think.

756
00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:23.159
Yeah, it's easier for me to believe that than like

757
00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:24.920
it's easy to get up in the morning and get

758
00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:28.400
into your shirt. By having a single difference on your ear,

759
00:46:29.119 --> 00:46:31.159
I'd be like, my boss would be like, have you

760
00:46:31.199 --> 00:46:33.079
showed up for work yet? I'm like, no, I'm still

761
00:46:33.079 --> 00:46:37.119
trying to get the shirt on. It's like, it's the

762
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:39.960
weirdest thing. But they had such a look to it, man,

763
00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:41.800
it was great, you know, And I got to just

764
00:46:41.840 --> 00:46:45.280
throw this out. Our co host v was not able

765
00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:47.960
to be with us tonight, so be our thoughts are

766
00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:54.000
with you. But the found a hilariously amazing clip of

767
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:57.280
an interview with the Anderson's where they talk about some

768
00:46:57.320 --> 00:46:59.199
of the stuff how the show came into being and

769
00:46:59.199 --> 00:47:02.280
some of the challenges they faced. And it is hilarious

770
00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:04.840
because they're like so unfiltered, right, I mean, they have

771
00:47:04.920 --> 00:47:07.559
no problem being catty about anybody. It was one of

772
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:10.280
the most illuminating things I've ever seen on the show.

773
00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:12.960
So check that out if you ever have a chance, folks.

774
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:14.679
It's we can try to see if we can put

775
00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:17.280
the clip up maybe to post it if that's possible.

776
00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:19.960
But it's hilariously, it was just fascinating.

777
00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:24.519
So Paul, let's let's uh, we've we've jumped all over

778
00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:25.320
the place, but.

779
00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:28.280
For that, yeah, I haven't even got general thoughts on

780
00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:28.840
the show yet.

781
00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:35.480
I'm a train route that weren't born or have never

782
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:38.960
seen it. Why don't we start with Breakaway and talk

783
00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:41.199
about that one to set up? Well, we should have

784
00:47:41.199 --> 00:47:45.920
done that first. Why don't you set us up with Breakaway?

785
00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:48.760
All right? Man? So it's basically it's just like as

786
00:47:48.800 --> 00:47:52.440
we saw in the preview for season two, right, it's

787
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:55.320
the year nineteen ninety nine, and we're doing space travel, right.

788
00:47:55.400 --> 00:47:58.960
And at this point, mankind has established a permanent base

789
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:01.880
on the Moon, moon Base Alpha, right, and it's a

790
00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:05.400
huge installation. It's got you know, dozens of these space

791
00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:12.000
ships that are there, right, and just craziness, right, three

792
00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:15.039
hundred and some odd people that are living on this

793
00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:17.519
moon base. Right. But one of the things we're doing

794
00:48:17.559 --> 00:48:19.679
on the Moon is we are storing all of our

795
00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:23.599
nuclear waste there in these disposal areas, right. So it's

796
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:27.039
not on the because apparently nuclear power has become very

797
00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:30.119
popular and we you know, we want to make sure

798
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:32.119
the Earth is okay, And so they store all the

799
00:48:32.199 --> 00:48:36.840
nuclear waste on the Moon and these containments. But something

800
00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:39.960
goes wrong in good old Michael Crichton's style, right, and

801
00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:44.360
it's something always has to go wrong, right, And basically,

802
00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:47.920
through some fancy pants science explanation I won't bother to

803
00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:53.119
get into, the nuclear waste goes super critical and there's

804
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:57.239
a massive explosion that basically acts like an engine and

805
00:48:57.480 --> 00:49:02.639
pushes Moon out of Earth orbit, sending it hurdling through

806
00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:06.360
the Cosmos on a series of adventures right from week

807
00:49:06.400 --> 00:49:08.880
to week, where they will be the traveling Moon will

808
00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:13.280
pass through you know, apparently there's another galaxy or solar

809
00:49:13.320 --> 00:49:17.280
system every you know, ten miles beyond Pluto apparently is

810
00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:20.039
the science lesson I took from the show. And that's

811
00:49:20.079 --> 00:49:22.719
basically the Senate, right, And so basically, you know, there's

812
00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:27.159
Commander Koenigg who's the stern leader, and there's doctor Russell,

813
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:32.519
his Helena Russell his sometime you know, friends with benefits

814
00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:35.719
and sometimes chief medical Officer. And then there's Professor Bergman

815
00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:42.079
who's the scientist, and you know, Scotch swizzling man of reason.

816
00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:46.679
But that's basically so, Eric, why don't you embellish what

817
00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:50.280
I've not as you're a little newer to the space

818
00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:54.360
nineteen Oh yeah, let's let's hear your take on it. Man,

819
00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:56.119
I'm supposed to crust the old veteran thic.

820
00:49:56.440 --> 00:49:59.280
Yeah, I mean, I so the show would have come

821
00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:04.119
out when I was two, so I definitely did not

822
00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:08.559
watch it back then. I started watching it probably about

823
00:50:08.599 --> 00:50:12.159
six months ago or so, at the behest of Paul,

824
00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:14.280
who said it was an incredible show and I should

825
00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:17.960
watch it, and so I started watching it. And I'll

826
00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:20.920
say that I have been pleasantly surprised with how much

827
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:23.400
I've liked it in general, so I haven't seen any

828
00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:28.480
season two, but right from the get go, the very

829
00:50:28.519 --> 00:50:32.320
first thing I noticed was its similarities in both style

830
00:50:32.719 --> 00:50:35.760
and pacing to two thousand and one A Space Odyssey.

831
00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:40.480
You mentioned that before. I as a huge fan of

832
00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:43.519
that movie. I just kind of noticed that it had

833
00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:46.400
a little bit of a slower pace to it. People

834
00:50:46.440 --> 00:50:50.679
were intentional with the way that the character interactions took place.

835
00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:55.599
Things were subtle. You know, you don't get big, like

836
00:50:55.920 --> 00:50:58.480
big moves too much, but somebody might say something by

837
00:50:58.519 --> 00:51:01.760
just putting a hand on somebody's shoulder or you know,

838
00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:05.199
doing subtle things. So that part of it I really

839
00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:07.760
liked because immediately I was like, oh, yeah, that makes

840
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:10.480
a lot of sense. You know, nineteen sixty eight was

841
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:14.719
two thousand and one, seven years later, six seven years later,

842
00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:19.360
they're using that as kind of their their touchstone. I

843
00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:21.960
will say, if I had seen this as a kid,

844
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:26.679
I would have probably gone a little nuts over the

845
00:51:27.960 --> 00:51:30.480
what I call the timey wiminess of it all, because

846
00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:33.400
there's like some there's some distance things that don't really

847
00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:36.599
scientifically make sense. There's some like timing things that don't

848
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:40.239
really make sense. I am completely willing these days to

849
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:43.800
suspend disbelief and just like ignore that stuff and enjoy

850
00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:45.960
the show for what it is. But I think my

851
00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:50.239
super scientifically minded, like young self would have maybe gotten

852
00:51:50.280 --> 00:51:52.239
caught up in the minutia of that. So I'm actually

853
00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:55.719
glad that I didn't see it until I was more

854
00:51:55.719 --> 00:51:59.960
of an adult. I'll say, as Jim was just taught

855
00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:02.679
me about, I thought the Eagles were awesome. It's a

856
00:52:02.679 --> 00:52:07.679
great space ship design, the whole like massive trust thing

857
00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:13.320
with interchangeable parts, modular design. I really really dug that.

858
00:52:14.480 --> 00:52:16.360
And I already talked a little bit about the tone

859
00:52:16.519 --> 00:52:18.360
of the show, the fact that it had a little

860
00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:25.159
bit of a melancholy darkness to it, you know, as

861
00:52:25.199 --> 00:52:28.000
an adult, I'm watching it knowing that it's a British

862
00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:31.639
science fiction show, despite the fact that it stars American

863
00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:35.159
actors who I now understand got their parts. We'll talk

864
00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:37.719
about this during remembrances too, but kind of got there

865
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:41.360
those parts during downturns in their career, and they actually

866
00:52:41.400 --> 00:52:45.000
moved over to Great Britain in order to work on

867
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:47.880
the show, and that even wasn't the kind of like

868
00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:50.599
renaissance of their career necessarily because it was only a

869
00:52:50.599 --> 00:52:54.920
couple of seasons worth of work, but I kind of

870
00:52:54.920 --> 00:52:58.119
get that, like melancholy nature of British television sort of

871
00:52:58.119 --> 00:53:02.000
working its way into this too, so so I can

872
00:53:02.199 --> 00:53:09.000
I can appreciate that. I will say that unlike Star

873
00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:11.280
Trek was, which has a tendency to kind of like

874
00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:17.119
set up a problem, come up with some technobabble to

875
00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:19.679
kind of solve the problem, and then everything's kind of

876
00:53:19.679 --> 00:53:21.719
fine at the end of the episode, this show feels

877
00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:25.280
really different to me. It feels like, you know, bad

878
00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:30.880
stuff happens, people may or may not die, and at

879
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:33.760
the end of it, it's it doesn't feel like everything

880
00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:35.880
kind of goes back to normal, which is I guess

881
00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:40.760
why the discussion of the ordering of the episodes is

882
00:53:40.760 --> 00:53:42.440
so fascinating to me. So I brought this up in

883
00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:46.840
our private chat. But uh, you know, I watched this

884
00:53:46.920 --> 00:53:50.519
on Amazon Prime, and Amazon Prime has the episodes in

885
00:53:50.559 --> 00:53:54.719
a in a certain order, which I understand is the

886
00:53:54.760 --> 00:53:59.760
same order that the DVDs have the episodes. But if

887
00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:04.719
you google episode order, they're totally different, like they're all

888
00:54:05.239 --> 00:54:08.719
they're all mixed up, and you know, I mean, we're

889
00:54:08.719 --> 00:54:12.079
talking to the era of episodic television where you know,

890
00:54:12.400 --> 00:54:15.559
thing doesn't. Things don't necessarily carry through from one episode

891
00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:18.119
to the next. They're meant to be viewed as twenty

892
00:54:18.159 --> 00:54:23.639
four different little mini movies during season one. But the

893
00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:26.760
fact is that actually some things do change along the way.

894
00:54:26.840 --> 00:54:29.760
And so anyway, I had to kind of get my

895
00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:32.320
my story straight with that, and Paul posted a fantastic

896
00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:34.559
article which we could probably share on our Facebook page

897
00:54:34.599 --> 00:54:38.320
two that kind of describes the nature of the ordering

898
00:54:38.360 --> 00:54:41.920
of the episodes and you know why, in some ways

899
00:54:41.920 --> 00:54:46.800
it doesn't really matter except for a couple of exceptions

900
00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:47.920
to that, to that.

901
00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:56.480
Rule, Commissioner Simmons, Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, So yeah, I

902
00:54:56.800 --> 00:54:58.280
the acting is kind of reserved.

903
00:54:58.320 --> 00:55:01.880
I will say that I find Martin Landau's performance as

904
00:55:03.039 --> 00:55:06.960
as John Koenig to be To me, it has a

905
00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:09.840
little bit of a like William Shatner element to it.

906
00:55:09.920 --> 00:55:13.159
He had he kind of has like really intentional hand gestures.

907
00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:15.360
Sometimes you could tell that he was being directed to

908
00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:21.440
like do certain things with his hands, and so it

909
00:55:21.519 --> 00:55:24.400
felt like there are some parts of that that I'm

910
00:55:24.519 --> 00:55:27.159
kind of like feel just a little plastic and unnatural

911
00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:30.079
to me. I mean, I'm just digging into like critical

912
00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:33.440
minutia here, but like as a person who has watched

913
00:55:33.440 --> 00:55:35.840
it a lot of science fiction by the time of

914
00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:38.679
my adult life, that's something that I noticed. I'm like, oh,

915
00:55:38.679 --> 00:55:41.639
that was kind of an unnatural hand gesture, but I

916
00:55:41.719 --> 00:55:44.519
get it. It's consistent throughout that first season. He kind

917
00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:48.239
of makes the same sort of gestures he speaks, you know,

918
00:55:48.320 --> 00:55:50.960
William Shatner esque way, where he kind of like has

919
00:55:51.000 --> 00:55:52.840
bursts of speech and then has a little pause and

920
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:55.519
then another burst of speech and a little pause. I

921
00:55:55.519 --> 00:55:58.840
don't I don't mind that one bit. I did really

922
00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:02.039
really appreciate the very variety in the types of episodes

923
00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:03.920
that you get in that first season. You got some

924
00:56:04.119 --> 00:56:09.039
like metaphysical stuff, You've got some like science y stuff,

925
00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:13.920
You've got some action adventure, you've got some horror kind

926
00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:18.800
of like mixed in there. So in that twenty six episodes,

927
00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:23.519
you know, they're not all bangers, but but there's a

928
00:56:23.559 --> 00:56:25.639
lot of bangers in there, and there's just a lot

929
00:56:25.679 --> 00:56:29.320
of variety to enjoy. So I've spoken for a long time,

930
00:56:29.440 --> 00:56:31.320
but that were those are kind of my thoughts on

931
00:56:31.320 --> 00:56:35.960
the show overall. I really really like this first season, especially,

932
00:56:36.559 --> 00:56:39.239
I've watched three quarters of the episodes. I've got a

933
00:56:39.239 --> 00:56:43.000
few more to watch to finish up the season, and

934
00:56:43.039 --> 00:56:45.199
that trailer that we just watched makes me want to

935
00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:47.800
watch season two so much so I'm probably gonna watch

936
00:56:47.840 --> 00:56:50.320
that too, despite what people tell me.

937
00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:56.880
I'm curious to hear what David thought. Being the young

938
00:56:56.960 --> 00:57:00.400
one amongst us, I know he didn't get a chance

939
00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:02.880
to watch all of them. We talked a little bit yesterday,

940
00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:04.760
but he did watch quite a few of them. What

941
00:57:04.760 --> 00:57:05.599
did you think, David.

942
00:57:06.440 --> 00:57:09.880
I'm just happy to be on the show Man, But yeah,

943
00:57:10.199 --> 00:57:17.239
I saw the first one, which was the opening, and

944
00:57:17.519 --> 00:57:21.119
I I was okay. I did have to notice, though,

945
00:57:21.159 --> 00:57:23.199
that zipper that you guys were mentioning about how to

946
00:57:23.199 --> 00:57:25.840
get into. I didn't know that was the only direction

947
00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:28.400
you could get to shoot on. I thought there was

948
00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:30.559
a like a zipper in the back for some reason,

949
00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:35.280
but I guess that that's it. I did like the

950
00:57:35.320 --> 00:57:38.039
coloration though that they had, like the indication of what

951
00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:40.840
fuel they belonging to. They're different, like kind of like

952
00:57:41.119 --> 00:57:41.760
die trek there.

953
00:57:42.679 --> 00:57:47.039
But yeah, other than that, let's see here.

954
00:57:48.400 --> 00:57:52.400
I saw the other one that looks like it kind

955
00:57:52.440 --> 00:57:56.960
of ripped the story off of the cage where they

956
00:57:57.000 --> 00:58:00.480
went to like Alvishentaria, I guess, and they they were

957
00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:05.360
like picturing giving people imaginations about like what was real

958
00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:07.719
and what wasn't. I think it was like called the

959
00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:11.480
death Machine or something like that. And so then at

960
00:58:11.480 --> 00:58:14.639
the very end they revealed that it all didn't really happen,

961
00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:17.360
but it could have happened if you guys went distrection

962
00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:18.719
with your violent.

963
00:58:18.480 --> 00:58:21.760
Nature kind of thing. I was like, okay, but.

964
00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:26.039
Let's see the other one I saw was the Dragon's Domain,

965
00:58:26.079 --> 00:58:30.480
because I understand you guys were like super horrified watching that,

966
00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:33.599
and I'm like, yeah, I can see how that could

967
00:58:33.679 --> 00:58:38.079
really mess with people. The mine seen it at a

968
00:58:38.119 --> 00:58:39.000
young age.

969
00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:40.480
I'm like, I don't know.

970
00:58:40.880 --> 00:58:42.440
To me though, when I would watch it, I was like,

971
00:58:42.840 --> 00:58:47.760
this doesn't seem that scared. Then Jim told me that,

972
00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:49.320
you know, if you were like ten years old, it

973
00:58:49.360 --> 00:58:53.639
probably would have gotted the pants off you. But but

974
00:58:53.840 --> 00:58:56.440
other than that, yeah, I.

975
00:58:56.039 --> 00:58:59.880
Didn't really, I don't know. I mean, it was interesting.

976
00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:05.079
I enjoyed some of the the story and the dialogue

977
00:59:05.079 --> 00:59:07.320
that they had and the little.

978
00:59:08.599 --> 00:59:11.199
What do they call that, the you know, technobabble that

979
00:59:11.280 --> 00:59:14.760
that got going on in the show. But other than

980
00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:15.440
that it was.

981
00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:19.159
Uh, I know, I guess the way I would put

982
00:59:19.159 --> 00:59:23.239
it is space ninety nine. Well, space ninety nine, so

983
00:59:24.280 --> 00:59:27.880
it is what it is, I guess, But yeah, I

984
00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:28.199
don't know.

985
00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:30.360
We are we giving a number for this at all?

986
00:59:32.960 --> 00:59:33.800
Nine point nine.

987
00:59:34.840 --> 00:59:35.440
There you go.

988
00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:40.400
For Paul, Well, Charles, you get to bring up the

989
00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:42.480
caboos on this one, buddy. What do you think space

990
00:59:42.559 --> 00:59:43.960
nineteen ninety nine? Yeah, your name?

991
00:59:44.880 --> 00:59:49.280
Well, Okay, I look at the show and I get

992
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:57.840
remnant ideas from other seventy shows that kind of come

993
00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:01.280
to mind. When I see this woman Lee being you

994
01:00:01.280 --> 01:00:04.440
show me the commercial for season two, It's like, Okay,

995
01:00:04.480 --> 01:00:06.400
where's that biotic sound I should hear?

996
01:00:08.760 --> 01:00:10.239
Because that's exactly what I said.

997
01:00:10.440 --> 01:00:13.000
I see her doing that, It's like, Okay, that looks

998
01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:14.840
like something like Steve Austin would do.

999
01:00:16.400 --> 01:00:20.800
Which that's that series.

1000
01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:27.440
Even a little bit of bast Arcalactica I think almost

1001
01:00:27.480 --> 01:00:33.280
appeared in this episode, even though that was still years

1002
01:00:33.280 --> 01:00:35.880
down the line. Paul mentioned it was the only sci

1003
01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:39.559
fi It's like, well, I think, as Jim mentioned, there

1004
01:00:39.599 --> 01:00:42.519
was one other sci fi program kind of going with it,

1005
01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:47.639
and that was Doctor Who. But in the States, we

1006
01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:53.199
weren't getting a lot of Doctor Who either. That was

1007
01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:56.760
British sci Fi, which got a lot bigger later.

1008
01:00:58.320 --> 01:01:00.719
Even so was Space nineteen Ninetynine. I mean it was

1009
01:01:00.760 --> 01:01:02.880
broadcast in the US because you guys both saw it

1010
01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:08.719
when it was on right, probably Abs, I'm not, but

1011
01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:11.400
like these these other two guys saw it like as

1012
01:01:11.400 --> 01:01:12.320
it came out.

1013
01:01:12.519 --> 01:01:14.679
They didn't have like a network deal, right, They couldn't

1014
01:01:14.679 --> 01:01:16.639
get it hooked up with like if like a like

1015
01:01:16.639 --> 01:01:18.519
a like say, for example, like if you had an

1016
01:01:18.519 --> 01:01:21.679
ABC affiliate, right, they wouldn't show it during prime time.

1017
01:01:21.760 --> 01:01:24.159
They might show it at some weird time like Sunday

1018
01:01:24.199 --> 01:01:27.119
afternoon at four or something, right, And so it was

1019
01:01:27.159 --> 01:01:29.679
basically kind of you know, they couldn't really crack a

1020
01:01:29.719 --> 01:01:31.480
network deal, and that's what they were trying to do,

1021
01:01:31.559 --> 01:01:35.719
was rejiggering everything for season two. Right, But it was

1022
01:01:35.760 --> 01:01:40.000
basically in the oddest market hodgepodge ever, like Jim seeing

1023
01:01:40.039 --> 01:01:42.960
it on PBS, right, I never even knew that it

1024
01:01:43.039 --> 01:01:45.639
showed on PBS before we got it out here. I think,

1025
01:01:45.719 --> 01:01:48.440
like the ABC affiliate and like Sunday afternoons or something.

1026
01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:50.880
It was just crazy. So it was those all over

1027
01:01:50.920 --> 01:01:52.960
the place and very random which made it really hard

1028
01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:54.960
to be successful because it was like you couldn't really

1029
01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:57.639
get the ratings on it, and it was like word

1030
01:01:57.639 --> 01:02:00.440
of mouth. It's like, well my friend and IDAH host

1031
01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:02.360
saw it like at a different time than I did.

1032
01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:07.239
So it just it was you challenging weird era. Like

1033
01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:09.760
Jim said, you know, we didn't have cable back then. Man,

1034
01:02:09.880 --> 01:02:12.159
it was like if you were lucky, you had four channels,

1035
01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:16.440
that's it. Well, I would say, I never knew if

1036
01:02:16.440 --> 01:02:17.880
you had to come back and play again.

1037
01:02:18.280 --> 01:02:21.599
Yeah, well for me it was five hole channels. We

1038
01:02:21.719 --> 01:02:25.679
had the three public channels, we had PBS, and we

1039
01:02:25.760 --> 01:02:27.559
had one independent.

1040
01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:30.360
And so.

1041
01:02:32.599 --> 01:02:35.639
I remember watching a few episodes of Doctor Who Tom

1042
01:02:35.760 --> 01:02:39.760
Baker era on PBS. It would be Saturday afternoons, after

1043
01:02:39.880 --> 01:02:43.719
Saturday Morning cartoons. It was like a day it was

1044
01:02:43.800 --> 01:02:46.760
too hot to go out or too wet to go out.

1045
01:02:47.719 --> 01:02:50.159
He might stay home and watch all TV. And that's

1046
01:02:50.159 --> 01:02:54.679
where you get to see some of this stuff. Yes,

1047
01:02:54.800 --> 01:02:58.159
but you know, but I look at it. But you

1048
01:02:58.239 --> 01:03:01.119
mentioned age, Paul, it was like, oh, I'm as in

1049
01:03:01.239 --> 01:03:05.440
my early teens. I would have been about seven eight

1050
01:03:05.559 --> 01:03:11.760
when this came out, so I probably just didn't catch

1051
01:03:11.840 --> 01:03:14.599
onto it back then, but I realized, oh yeah, but

1052
01:03:14.719 --> 01:03:19.480
then Star Wars came out, that whole realm of sci

1053
01:03:19.559 --> 01:03:21.639
fi came out, and all of a sudden, I got

1054
01:03:21.880 --> 01:03:24.880
heavy and really liking a lot of sci fi.

1055
01:03:27.719 --> 01:03:30.920
It's amazing. I think shows like this really helped me

1056
01:03:31.159 --> 01:03:37.639
understand why Star Wars was as successful as it was,

1057
01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:41.920
because that is built to be kid friendly, right, It's

1058
01:03:42.119 --> 01:03:46.760
like it's built to have very simple good versus bad,

1059
01:03:47.519 --> 01:03:52.159
lots of spaceships, lots of lasers, like there's not I'm

1060
01:03:52.199 --> 01:03:54.239
not poo pooing Star Wars at all, but it's very

1061
01:03:54.400 --> 01:03:56.440
simple compared to a lot of the things that we

1062
01:03:56.639 --> 01:03:59.199
see in both Star Trek ands This nineteen ninety nine

1063
01:03:59.199 --> 01:04:02.559
and apply in terms of character interaction, in terms of writing,

1064
01:04:03.039 --> 01:04:06.239
like yeah, so the fact that that was my intro

1065
01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:09.400
to side. I always tell people, I feel like you start, well,

1066
01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:12.199
maybe not everybody, many people start on Star Wars and

1067
01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:14.719
then they grow into some of these other shows because

1068
01:04:14.719 --> 01:04:17.360
they they crave something more, you know, than just.

1069
01:04:19.079 --> 01:04:21.920
I don't know exactly it start never.

1070
01:04:22.199 --> 01:04:26.000
Never got the reboot, like Galactica God, like Star Trek got.

1071
01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:29.679
I think Space nineteen ninety nine is overdue for a

1072
01:04:29.760 --> 01:04:33.760
rebirth to be discovered by the general public. But before

1073
01:04:33.800 --> 01:04:36.360
we go too far, we've been talking a lot about

1074
01:04:36.440 --> 01:04:40.400
season one and season two. Season two long they got

1075
01:04:40.519 --> 01:04:43.639
rid of doctor Bergman. Where did he go? He just disappeared.

1076
01:04:43.760 --> 01:04:46.599
That's too bad because he's my favorite character from season one.

1077
01:04:46.679 --> 01:04:50.360
He's like the old stage that everybody's always asking advisive, where.

1078
01:04:50.199 --> 01:04:52.599
Did he go? Paul? I don't remember what happened to him.

1079
01:04:52.599 --> 01:04:54.360
He just wasn't there, did they?

1080
01:04:54.599 --> 01:04:57.880
I think they They never really were super specific. I

1081
01:04:57.960 --> 01:05:00.199
think there was one I don't remember, which was a

1082
01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:03.079
bit a vague reference to him dying right, like, oh,

1083
01:05:03.159 --> 01:05:06.039
because he was older or something and some accident. But

1084
01:05:06.159 --> 01:05:08.519
it's super super vague. I don't even know if they

1085
01:05:08.599 --> 01:05:11.440
even really addressed it right. It was just like, you know,

1086
01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:14.519
we kind of just we It's just like, well, let's

1087
01:05:14.559 --> 01:05:16.559
get to the let's get to the babe, and how

1088
01:05:17.039 --> 01:05:18.159
sure can we make our skirt?

1089
01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:18.599
That was.

1090
01:05:20.119 --> 01:05:22.960
Maya, Yeah, and it is a pretty good pilot, I

1091
01:05:23.039 --> 01:05:26.519
have to say for season two where they introduce Maya

1092
01:05:26.760 --> 01:05:29.079
where you know, you'll talk about this later Uncle Jim

1093
01:05:29.119 --> 01:05:32.320
with Brian Pleasant, but they put together a pretty good

1094
01:05:32.360 --> 01:05:34.719
reboot with that it's pretty fun. But it's just like,

1095
01:05:34.800 --> 01:05:36.920
you know, would have really very Morse is a great actor,

1096
01:05:37.119 --> 01:05:39.880
like Eric said, right, and it's just it's kind of

1097
01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:42.320
left a big void hard to fill, you know, because

1098
01:05:42.320 --> 01:05:43.280
he had more gravitas.

1099
01:05:43.760 --> 01:05:49.760
Yeah. So season two introduced a new security officer whose

1100
01:05:49.880 --> 01:05:54.320
name escapes me right now, Tony Verdeshi, Yes, Tony, and

1101
01:05:55.840 --> 01:05:59.280
he was involved with Maya, right, they had a relationship. Yea,

1102
01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:04.079
they did, they did. They changed the uniforms, they got

1103
01:06:04.159 --> 01:06:08.960
the jacket right, which they didn't have in season one,

1104
01:06:09.840 --> 01:06:12.039
and they all wore a patch on the chest of

1105
01:06:12.079 --> 01:06:17.840
their uniform. I don't know what that was about, because

1106
01:06:17.920 --> 01:06:20.960
patches look cool, they look cool, they look cool.

1107
01:06:21.000 --> 01:06:23.880
It was literally it, man, It's like, oh, Apollo astronauts

1108
01:06:23.880 --> 01:06:26.039
all have their patches, we should all have patches too.

1109
01:06:26.199 --> 01:06:28.480
So it was just, you know, it was crazy.

1110
01:06:28.559 --> 01:06:32.039
It was just you know, hodgepodge Man and Space nineteen

1111
01:06:32.119 --> 01:06:36.320
ninety nine had the phasers that had four triggers. You guys,

1112
01:06:36.360 --> 01:06:38.760
remember you could hold it up and there was four

1113
01:06:38.920 --> 01:06:42.960
individual Uh were they called phasers, Paul, I don't remember.

1114
01:06:44.039 --> 01:06:47.119
They were on the show on Space nineteen ninety nine.

1115
01:06:47.199 --> 01:06:48.480
Were they lasers? Phasers?

1116
01:06:49.239 --> 01:06:51.800
Oh, uncle Jim, I'm so glad you asked. It could

1117
01:06:51.960 --> 01:06:54.440
be better timing than you asked, because what we're talking about,

1118
01:06:58.880 --> 01:07:01.800
all right, and this is the side arm of anybody

1119
01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:04.440
on moon Base Alpha, okay, And so you hold this

1120
01:07:04.559 --> 01:07:06.760
and you shoot it at your enemy, right, But most

1121
01:07:06.840 --> 01:07:09.079
importantly you have to make sure that you have the

1122
01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:13.719
correct setting because you have the option to stun. But

1123
01:07:13.840 --> 01:07:16.320
if things get really dicey, as they do in deep space,

1124
01:07:16.840 --> 01:07:22.199
sometimes you have to kill, okay, And so don't accidentally

1125
01:07:22.239 --> 01:07:24.559
try to stun somebody when the kill settings on, because

1126
01:07:24.679 --> 01:07:26.719
you know, and of course with the aliens, they'd run

1127
01:07:26.760 --> 01:07:30.800
into half the time they'd kill and nothing would happen, right,

1128
01:07:31.039 --> 01:07:34.119
because they're magically impervious. So they had that. And then

1129
01:07:34.159 --> 01:07:36.880
everybody had a thing called the calm lock that I'm

1130
01:07:36.880 --> 01:07:37.519
sure you've seen.

1131
01:07:37.599 --> 01:07:37.719
Right.

1132
01:07:38.280 --> 01:07:41.400
This is like your way of getting around and opening doors. Right,

1133
01:07:41.480 --> 01:07:43.280
You beam a little signal and go on there to

1134
01:07:43.360 --> 01:07:46.599
have your identification badge on there, right, and it would

1135
01:07:46.639 --> 01:07:50.360
have like a TV screen which was really cool, right, So,

1136
01:07:50.559 --> 01:07:53.960
like you know, it was like early version of like FaceTime. Right,

1137
01:07:54.320 --> 01:07:56.840
doctor Russell, why are you not wearing your pants?

1138
01:07:57.000 --> 01:07:57.159
You know?

1139
01:07:57.320 --> 01:07:59.239
You could like check and see what's going on with

1140
01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:02.519
your comrades there, and they would use those to get

1141
01:08:02.519 --> 01:08:04.480
around the moon base and you can call their little

1142
01:08:04.480 --> 01:08:06.960
phone number and do whatever needed to do. So that's

1143
01:08:07.000 --> 01:08:09.920
the good tech of space nineteen ninety nine.

1144
01:08:10.440 --> 01:08:14.760
Yep, absolutely, So season two did have some changes. I

1145
01:08:14.880 --> 01:08:18.399
think they changed the tone of the show. They kind

1146
01:08:18.439 --> 01:08:22.600
of went in a different direction from season one, and

1147
01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:25.880
it got a little bit weirder in season two. I

1148
01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:28.199
would say, hey, I don't want to ruin too much

1149
01:08:28.279 --> 01:08:32.279
for Eric, who hasn't seen season two yet. But there

1150
01:08:32.319 --> 01:08:34.960
are some good episodes in season two, But overall, I

1151
01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:38.960
think season one is better for sure. But I think

1152
01:08:40.680 --> 01:08:43.399
I think are we is this? Are we doing something here?

1153
01:08:43.880 --> 01:08:45.520
No, I'm trying to get my camera to photo. I

1154
01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:47.439
don't know why my cameras out of focus. Oh there

1155
01:08:47.439 --> 01:08:49.000
it goes. Sorry.

1156
01:08:50.279 --> 01:08:53.359
I think I think Eric was a flashback.

1157
01:08:54.439 --> 01:08:56.079
I felt weird doing it, but I didn't know how

1158
01:08:56.079 --> 01:09:02.800
to get my camera to focus. It's like these guys

1159
01:09:02.840 --> 01:09:04.079
won't mind if I do something weird.

1160
01:09:06.560 --> 01:09:11.560
That was as good time as any. So David run

1161
01:09:11.680 --> 01:09:17.399
the first clip. Please, here we go for the Eagle.

1162
01:09:19.079 --> 01:09:22.039
Okay, you want to skip ahead, Yeah, let's let's.

1163
01:09:22.760 --> 01:09:25.760
Let's get the Eagle in here, since Paul was showing

1164
01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:31.600
us some cool stuff. Are is the Eagle.

1165
01:09:39.239 --> 01:09:43.880
This is Space nineteen ninety nine Eagle one spaceship control.

1166
01:09:43.960 --> 01:09:44.640
We havent.

1167
01:09:45.039 --> 01:09:48.239
You can jettison the comfort and engines then link them up.

1168
01:09:48.720 --> 01:09:54.039
It's Minie Eagle one in visual contact control it and

1169
01:09:54.119 --> 01:09:56.600
the Eagle one rescue phase is complete.

1170
01:09:57.159 --> 01:09:57.920
You're what not?

1171
01:09:58.119 --> 01:10:01.840
You're in Space nineteen I need spaceship comes with three

1172
01:10:01.920 --> 01:10:02.399
inch figures.

1173
01:10:02.439 --> 01:10:04.319
Assembly required you from a tow.

1174
01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:06.520
Ooh dramatic.

1175
01:10:07.039 --> 01:10:09.079
I mean that was pretty clod That thing's big, man

1176
01:10:09.239 --> 01:10:10.600
I ship.

1177
01:10:10.760 --> 01:10:12.600
I had that toy and it had to be two

1178
01:10:12.640 --> 01:10:15.279
to two and a half feet. It blew away the

1179
01:10:15.359 --> 01:10:18.279
Millennium Falcon. Let me tell you it was the coolest

1180
01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:22.840
toy a and it predated the Millennium Falcon by by

1181
01:10:22.920 --> 01:10:27.520
a number of you, I might add, I remember, I

1182
01:10:27.600 --> 01:10:30.840
don't remember what the figures were, Paul that came with it. Uh.

1183
01:10:31.319 --> 01:10:33.680
They had little like three or four inch figures that

1184
01:10:33.760 --> 01:10:36.279
were specific to the ship, right, that were just kind

1185
01:10:36.319 --> 01:10:38.600
of almost like they almost looked like the old like

1186
01:10:38.720 --> 01:10:41.199
you know, plastic toy soldiers. Right. They were just in

1187
01:10:41.279 --> 01:10:44.640
their space. Yeah, they weren't frozen, they weren't articulated or

1188
01:10:44.640 --> 01:10:48.239
anything like that, right. But Mattel, who at the time

1189
01:10:48.840 --> 01:10:53.199
released that uh released that ship right, which was huge.

1190
01:10:53.239 --> 01:10:55.279
I mean, there was nothing like it. It was just amazing.

1191
01:10:55.520 --> 01:10:57.199
And what's really funny, man, is it's like if you

1192
01:10:57.279 --> 01:11:03.239
go back and look at like the great Ralph mcquory, right,

1193
01:11:03.319 --> 01:11:06.760
who did the production design for Star Wars, right, and

1194
01:11:06.800 --> 01:11:08.680
you go look at all of his production art for

1195
01:11:08.760 --> 01:11:13.119
Star Wars right, the early versions of the Millennium Falcon

1196
01:11:13.199 --> 01:11:16.600
that he sketched out, it looks uncannily like the Eagle,

1197
01:11:16.720 --> 01:11:19.479
I mean crazy, and they sort of almost got, uh,

1198
01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:21.119
maybe we should you know, and then they got to

1199
01:11:21.119 --> 01:11:23.079
look at the eagle look like and they're like, we

1200
01:11:23.119 --> 01:11:25.359
should maybe change some things, and sort of the Falcon

1201
01:11:25.399 --> 01:11:27.800
as we know it now was was born, but it

1202
01:11:27.960 --> 01:11:30.439
was just uncanny how much it looked like that. And

1203
01:11:30.520 --> 01:11:33.399
then Mattel was also making these figures that were more

1204
01:11:33.520 --> 01:11:36.399
like you know, the mego type figures. And now it's

1205
01:11:36.520 --> 01:11:39.760
kind of fun because there's a lot more adult collector

1206
01:11:39.840 --> 01:11:42.520
stuff that's finally been licensed in the last like ten

1207
01:11:42.600 --> 01:11:44.920
years or so. Because they get ships like this, you

1208
01:11:45.039 --> 01:11:47.319
get more realistic action figures that look like you know,

1209
01:11:47.640 --> 01:11:50.760
the astronauts, that have really good details to them that

1210
01:11:50.800 --> 01:11:54.920
are super fun. You know, you can take off Elma,

1211
01:11:55.159 --> 01:11:57.560
you know, and they're more designed for like the you know,

1212
01:11:57.760 --> 01:12:01.399
modern adult collector. And you can even get crazy esoteric

1213
01:12:01.479 --> 01:12:06.680
stuff like you know, Tony Chillini's Ultra Probe, right, so

1214
01:12:07.000 --> 01:12:10.159
like the Dragon's Domain ship. So there's a lot more

1215
01:12:10.199 --> 01:12:13.680
stuff now for you know, uh, you know collectors who

1216
01:12:13.760 --> 01:12:22.560
vexed their spouses, uh to take advantage of home. So

1217
01:12:22.640 --> 01:12:24.399
it's like, hold on now, I'm not doing anything. I'm

1218
01:12:24.399 --> 01:12:28.560
just walking the bank. I'm fine, But yeah, this is

1219
01:12:28.680 --> 01:12:30.479
a lot. It's like, I think, finally it's like they

1220
01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:32.560
realize that there is a lot of nostalgia and it's

1221
01:12:32.600 --> 01:12:35.560
a weird show because it was way more popular in

1222
01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:39.039
the UK than it was here in the States, right,

1223
01:12:39.079 --> 01:12:41.279
but if you go to England, you're you're not you're

1224
01:12:41.279 --> 01:12:44.560
a little bit more uh recognized with the love of

1225
01:12:44.600 --> 01:12:47.119
the show. But I'm envious of you, uncle Jim for

1226
01:12:47.199 --> 01:12:49.399
having the Big the Big Eagle though, because I always

1227
01:12:49.439 --> 01:12:52.239
coveted that and it was just preposterous and I couldn't

1228
01:12:52.239 --> 01:12:53.479
get my parents to pony up for it.

1229
01:12:53.760 --> 01:12:56.079
I gotta I gotta tell you what happened to the Eagle.

1230
01:12:56.159 --> 01:13:00.239
It was very sad, very sad story. But once Star

1231
01:13:00.279 --> 01:13:04.800
Wars came out and the Millennium Falcon, we filled up

1232
01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:10.000
the Eagle with fire crackers, Carter crashed it for the

1233
01:13:10.239 --> 01:13:13.079
final time, and that it didn't survive.

1234
01:13:16.239 --> 01:13:18.319
But it is well, what a way to go. That

1235
01:13:18.399 --> 01:13:20.479
seems epic inappropriate though, I mean.

1236
01:13:20.840 --> 01:13:24.079
It seems like an opening credits scene right there at.

1237
01:13:24.159 --> 01:13:29.800
Doing that, man, that Eagle was awesome. But wait, there's more,

1238
01:13:30.680 --> 01:13:32.640
David roll clip number two.

1239
01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:35.319
Okay, let me get it.

1240
01:13:35.319 --> 01:13:35.760
Shut up.

1241
01:13:35.800 --> 01:13:37.239
I didn't realize ahead.

1242
01:13:38.239 --> 01:13:41.239
Well, you gotta be prepared, if you know, we never

1243
01:13:41.359 --> 01:13:44.279
know where we're gonna go when we start down the journey.

1244
01:13:44.840 --> 01:13:57.079
Here we go, you get you gotta play.

1245
01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:01.840
Play okay, something off?

1246
01:14:02.159 --> 01:14:09.119
Hold on, it's not wanting It worked during our test.

1247
01:14:10.039 --> 01:14:11.800
Yeah, okay, hold one second.

1248
01:14:12.119 --> 01:14:17.359
Oh well, oh no.

1249
01:14:21.359 --> 01:14:25.439
You're in space nineteen ninety nine with the crew of

1250
01:14:25.800 --> 01:14:32.279
Moon based Alpha Command Center. Commander Koenig, doctor Russell, Professor

1251
01:14:32.399 --> 01:14:39.520
Bergman Alien shipun writer astro flash computer confirms enemy attack red.

1252
01:14:39.359 --> 01:14:44.920
Alerts The astro flash network.

1253
01:14:44.680 --> 01:14:51.600
Beams in the alien's position less ready Eagle fire, the

1254
01:14:51.840 --> 01:14:54.720
enemy ship retreats, return Alpha.

1255
01:14:57.840 --> 01:15:01.520
Space nineteen ninety nine, moon Base Alpha Command Center, and

1256
01:15:01.880 --> 01:15:06.359
astro flash computer comes with the Commander, doctor, and professor

1257
01:15:07.079 --> 01:15:10.279
only from Mattel, that.

1258
01:15:10.399 --> 01:15:14.119
Thing looks awesome, astro flash computer. I think we need

1259
01:15:14.199 --> 01:15:14.600
one of those.

1260
01:15:14.840 --> 01:15:16.880
Was that a term that they used on the show.

1261
01:15:16.920 --> 01:15:17.720
I don't remember that.

1262
01:15:18.600 --> 01:15:22.640
I'm sure don't remember it being No, but this pre

1263
01:15:22.800 --> 01:15:26.359
dates Star Wars, like Paul said, this was all pre

1264
01:15:26.560 --> 01:15:30.720
Star Wars. Yep, So Mattel was actually onto something before

1265
01:15:31.560 --> 01:15:36.079
Star Wars, and Paul, I never had the astro flash

1266
01:15:36.159 --> 01:15:38.600
computer place that. I only had the Eagle. Did you

1267
01:15:38.760 --> 01:15:39.560
ever have that one?

1268
01:15:40.439 --> 01:15:42.279
No? No, I never did. I never never had that.

1269
01:15:42.399 --> 01:15:45.159
I was busy chasing down, you know, to get I

1270
01:15:45.199 --> 01:15:47.520
think six million dollar man Figgers at the time. Right.

1271
01:15:47.640 --> 01:15:51.119
So, but I so I do have a question though.

1272
01:15:51.239 --> 01:15:54.319
So in all of the season one episodes that I

1273
01:15:55.000 --> 01:15:59.880
have watched so far, the Eagles have threatened to fire

1274
01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:05.439
upon people, but they have never actually fired weapons on anybody.

1275
01:16:06.880 --> 01:16:09.720
Presumably they have weapons, and presumably at some point they

1276
01:16:09.760 --> 01:16:10.239
fire them.

1277
01:16:11.399 --> 01:16:18.239
Season two, remember I think I remember season one they're

1278
01:16:18.359 --> 01:16:22.920
fighting some enemy and I think they actually fired looked

1279
01:16:23.000 --> 01:16:24.680
like lasers out of the ships.

1280
01:16:26.359 --> 01:16:28.760
Where does the laser come out of the ship front?

1281
01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:32.720
There's actually I think it comes out of somewhere like

1282
01:16:32.880 --> 01:16:33.920
below below there.

1283
01:16:34.079 --> 01:16:37.000
Okay, got it. I think I just have like skipped

1284
01:16:37.000 --> 01:16:38.640
around and watched a bunch of episodes, and I guess

1285
01:16:38.640 --> 01:16:40.680
I just missed all the ones where they actually fire.

1286
01:16:44.199 --> 01:16:46.840
That you see in one of the episodes. I think

1287
01:16:46.920 --> 01:16:47.920
you'll see them color.

1288
01:16:49.600 --> 01:16:51.880
I think you'll see them fighting in war games.

1289
01:16:53.760 --> 01:16:55.960
Okay, I haven't seen that one yet, got it?

1290
01:16:56.000 --> 01:16:59.760
And I remember correctly, Moon Based Alpha has laser turrets

1291
01:16:59.800 --> 01:17:02.439
as well that are meant to deflect asteroids or something.

1292
01:17:03.039 --> 01:17:06.399
And oh, get this, Okay, not only that in season two.

1293
01:17:06.600 --> 01:17:08.920
This is one of the most badass things in season two. Right,

1294
01:17:08.960 --> 01:17:11.119
there's this huge ship is coming to attack them, right,

1295
01:17:11.159 --> 01:17:14.439
and all of a sudden, Konig makes some command and

1296
01:17:14.600 --> 01:17:18.000
turns out they've had like freaking laser tanks, right, it's

1297
01:17:18.039 --> 01:17:21.920
hidden around and they deploy these huge tanks man with

1298
01:17:22.119 --> 01:17:24.199
lasers on them, and there's like three different kinds and

1299
01:17:24.239 --> 01:17:26.800
it was just like, oh man, and the special effects

1300
01:17:26.800 --> 01:17:30.079
were so cool. Man, they were like laser tanks. We've

1301
01:17:30.159 --> 01:17:32.560
been hiding those Konig. It was just great and they

1302
01:17:32.600 --> 01:17:35.399
were so cool. So that's that's the best part of

1303
01:17:35.520 --> 01:17:38.079
Stetton Maya is the best part of season two. Yeah,

1304
01:17:40.119 --> 01:17:41.840
it's like, damn, where's my model of that?

1305
01:17:42.880 --> 01:17:48.399
They never heard that toy? All right, so we're gonna

1306
01:17:48.840 --> 01:17:52.800
mess with David's head even more. I went back. I

1307
01:17:52.880 --> 01:17:55.439
went back. There's been a lot of guest stars on

1308
01:17:55.520 --> 01:17:58.479
Space nineteen ninety nine, so it was hard for me

1309
01:17:58.600 --> 01:18:01.399
to break it down. But I went back and I

1310
01:18:01.479 --> 01:18:03.960
looked up the IMBD and I pulled out what I

1311
01:18:04.199 --> 01:18:07.720
consider to be some of the most notable people that

1312
01:18:07.840 --> 01:18:11.399
appeared on Space nineteen ninety nine to what your whistle

1313
01:18:11.479 --> 01:18:13.000
a little bit, So you guys can look for these

1314
01:18:13.039 --> 01:18:17.439
particular episodes if you feel so inclined, And I just

1315
01:18:17.720 --> 01:18:19.800
threw them out there. So Eric, I think I threw

1316
01:18:19.880 --> 01:18:20.600
the first one at you.

1317
01:18:25.079 --> 01:18:32.039
I think, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, here it is, okay, Yes,

1318
01:18:32.600 --> 01:18:36.840
I see Joan Collins mission from Mission of the Dariens.

1319
01:18:37.239 --> 01:18:40.800
Most famous for her role in American soap Dynasty, the

1320
01:18:40.880 --> 01:18:43.319
variety of roles played by Joan Collins is much more

1321
01:18:43.359 --> 01:18:49.159
diverse than many realize. Snickers Averts notwithstanding, not only did

1322
01:18:49.239 --> 01:18:52.600
she once play Fred Flintstone's mother in law, but in

1323
01:18:52.680 --> 01:18:54.840
the last ten years alone, she has appeared in both

1324
01:18:54.880 --> 01:19:00.399
Aga Christity, Agatha Christie's Marple and Footballers Why I don't

1325
01:19:00.399 --> 01:19:03.680
know when this article is written. Likewise, it is unsurprising

1326
01:19:03.760 --> 01:19:06.199
that Space nineteen ninety nine, in which she played the

1327
01:19:06.479 --> 01:19:12.800
essentially cannibalistic Darien Kara, wasn't he wasn't Oh, wasn't her

1328
01:19:12.840 --> 01:19:14.920
first foray into the world of science fiction. Back in

1329
01:19:14.960 --> 01:19:17.920
the sixties. She had previously appeared in the acclaimed Star

1330
01:19:18.239 --> 01:19:21.439
Trek episode City on the Edge of Forever as Edith Keeler.

1331
01:19:21.960 --> 01:19:25.000
Far from the only woman to be romanced by Captain

1332
01:19:25.039 --> 01:19:28.359
James T. Kirk, she is, however, the only one who

1333
01:19:28.439 --> 01:19:33.039
many believe he ever truly loved Josh.

1334
01:19:34.159 --> 01:19:34.800
We'll see about that.

1335
01:19:35.399 --> 01:19:39.479
Well, yeah, strange in the World season three or four.

1336
01:19:40.239 --> 01:19:44.640
Well, define love will right right.

1337
01:19:48.319 --> 01:19:50.479
Right on and Paul gets the next one.

1338
01:19:51.000 --> 01:19:52.800
Yeah, that's a great episode too. A mission of the

1339
01:19:52.880 --> 01:19:56.439
Darians is great. Julian Glover check out that mug okay,

1340
01:19:56.560 --> 01:20:00.399
and I think science fiction fans will definitely wreck. This

1341
01:20:00.560 --> 01:20:02.760
is a cat who is no stranger to call TV.

1342
01:20:03.199 --> 01:20:06.479
Julian Glover's made all kinds of guest appearances throughout the

1343
01:20:06.560 --> 01:20:10.399
sixties in such classic shows as two of my favorites,

1344
01:20:10.640 --> 01:20:14.680
The Saint and the Avengers. Okay, not the Marvel Avengers,

1345
01:20:14.720 --> 01:20:16.439
no no, no, no, no no no, I'm talking about

1346
01:20:16.439 --> 01:20:20.600
the British Avengers Jonathan Steed and Emma Peel. That's what

1347
01:20:20.720 --> 01:20:23.520
I'm talking about, right, And he was often a bad

1348
01:20:23.640 --> 01:20:26.840
guy on those shows, right, two great spy shows. He's

1349
01:20:26.920 --> 01:20:31.560
also twice able to appear on Doctor Who, first as

1350
01:20:31.680 --> 01:20:35.520
Richard the Lionheart, and again about you know twelve fourteen

1351
01:20:35.560 --> 01:20:39.479
years later as a bug eyed alien Scaroff. And again

1352
01:20:39.600 --> 01:20:42.479
this is in the Tom Baker era of the serial,

1353
01:20:42.520 --> 01:20:45.239
which also had an appearance from Catherine Schell. Just to

1354
01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:47.840
close the loop there a little bit now. In Space

1355
01:20:47.920 --> 01:20:52.239
nineteen ninety nine, Julian Glover played jarakh Okay and he

1356
01:20:52.600 --> 01:20:55.239
is an alien who's in search of not just a

1357
01:20:55.479 --> 01:21:00.600
home but also a body to live in. Oh I

1358
01:21:00.680 --> 01:21:04.640
hope he doesn't cover yours. And in movies he's appeared

1359
01:21:04.680 --> 01:21:09.399
in all kinds of eighties classics, right Indiana Jones and

1360
01:21:09.479 --> 01:21:12.920
The Last Crusade right as the guy who's you know,

1361
01:21:13.119 --> 01:21:17.640
funding the mission who wants that recipe for immortality and

1362
01:21:17.960 --> 01:21:22.399
of course, Empire strikes back, General Viers right leading the

1363
01:21:22.560 --> 01:21:26.520
Atat attack on haw that's General vis right. The Empire

1364
01:21:26.560 --> 01:21:29.039
strikes back. For your eyes only where he faced up

1365
01:21:29.079 --> 01:21:34.640
against Roger Moore is bond vilin Cristados, And for about

1366
01:21:35.000 --> 01:21:37.640
good five or six years he was a regular on

1367
01:21:37.880 --> 01:21:44.359
Game of Thrones as Grandmeister Piscel, perhaps the only character

1368
01:21:44.560 --> 01:21:47.840
to somehow manage to avoid getting killed and have some

1369
01:21:48.000 --> 01:21:50.960
measure of consistency throughout all of his different times on

1370
01:21:51.079 --> 01:21:55.279
the various years on that show, because you know, people

1371
01:21:55.399 --> 01:21:57.920
did seem to meet with untimely ends on Game of Thrones.

1372
01:21:57.960 --> 01:22:02.039
So a real legend the genre, film and television. Really

1373
01:22:02.119 --> 01:22:04.119
cool to be able to see him on here. So

1374
01:22:04.680 --> 01:22:09.880
again Julian Glover from the episode Alpha Child and Jim

1375
01:22:09.960 --> 01:22:10.399
what you got.

1376
01:22:11.119 --> 01:22:14.239
Well, for those of you who remember Star Wars, you

1377
01:22:14.279 --> 01:22:16.479
remember with the guy that wore black and he had

1378
01:22:16.520 --> 01:22:23.000
an asthma, he breathed really heavy. Well we're talking about

1379
01:22:23.279 --> 01:22:26.479
David Prows himself, and there he is right there from

1380
01:22:26.680 --> 01:22:29.720
This Space nineteen ninety nine episode the Beta Cloud, and

1381
01:22:29.800 --> 01:22:32.199
of course he was the cloud. Well in this case

1382
01:22:32.239 --> 01:22:35.079
he's the alien, but there he is. He was off

1383
01:22:35.159 --> 01:22:38.439
the cast in roles that required the height of six

1384
01:22:38.560 --> 01:22:41.000
point or six foot six, which is what he was.

1385
01:22:41.399 --> 01:22:44.880
David Prows's career is notable for the characters which required

1386
01:22:45.000 --> 01:22:49.920
intimidating presence, such as Darth Vader. This ranged from Bodyguards

1387
01:22:50.000 --> 01:22:53.119
and a clockwork Orange and the Hitchcock's Guide to the

1388
01:22:53.159 --> 01:22:56.720
Galaxy TV series to perhaps the most famous villain in

1389
01:22:56.920 --> 01:23:01.399
cinematic history. We already talked about Darth Vader. This list

1390
01:23:01.560 --> 01:23:05.640
also includes the Deadly Cloud Creature, who boarded Moon based

1391
01:23:05.680 --> 01:23:08.960
Alpha with the sole purpose of taking the vital life

1392
01:23:09.039 --> 01:23:13.359
support system. He was also a bodybuilder and he won

1393
01:23:13.399 --> 01:23:18.680
the British Heavyweight Weightlifting Championship three years running. And there

1394
01:23:18.720 --> 01:23:22.520
he is. You can't tell that that's him, but yeah,

1395
01:23:23.319 --> 01:23:26.640
that's him. And I'm going to continue on because we're

1396
01:23:26.680 --> 01:23:29.640
on the Star Wars kick here, so let's stick with

1397
01:23:29.840 --> 01:23:33.479
Star Wars. And the next person that we have that

1398
01:23:33.560 --> 01:23:36.880
appeared on Space ninety nine and also Star Wars is there.

1399
01:23:36.880 --> 01:23:39.760
He is Peter Cushing And of course he played Graham

1400
01:23:39.840 --> 01:23:44.520
Off Tarkin in Star Wars. And this is a picture

1401
01:23:44.600 --> 01:23:48.720
from the nineteen ninety nine episode The Missing Link. An

1402
01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:51.680
actor most famous for his various roles in many hammer

1403
01:23:51.760 --> 01:23:56.520
House of horror films is perhaps that of Abram van Helsing,

1404
01:23:57.000 --> 01:23:59.960
which was the most frequent character. His portrayals of Schrlock

1405
01:24:00.159 --> 01:24:04.359
Holmes also endeared him to both film and television audiences alike,

1406
01:24:04.720 --> 01:24:07.800
and although often overlooked, he also played the role of

1407
01:24:08.000 --> 01:24:12.000
Doctor Who and the two spinoff feature films which helped

1408
01:24:13.039 --> 01:24:17.680
Dallekmania sweep the globe throughout the sixties. Ever the Curious

1409
01:24:17.720 --> 01:24:21.119
Scientists in Space nineteen ninety nine, he played the golden

1410
01:24:21.199 --> 01:24:24.880
hued Hron and there he is describing himself as human

1411
01:24:25.199 --> 01:24:29.279
but raping the benefits of an extra two million years

1412
01:24:29.319 --> 01:24:33.279
of evolution. He is the zenight anthropologist who intends to

1413
01:24:33.399 --> 01:24:38.680
keep Commander Koenig permanently captive and study him. Dunt dunt dah.

1414
01:24:38.960 --> 01:24:43.600
What an evil evil plot? Charles, Who's on your list?

1415
01:24:43.640 --> 01:24:45.600
Of Space nineteen ninety nine? Notable?

1416
01:24:46.640 --> 01:24:47.039
Okay?

1417
01:24:47.319 --> 01:24:47.680
I have.

1418
01:24:49.159 --> 01:24:55.000
Pierre Throken from the dor Cons. Despite being the first

1419
01:24:55.159 --> 01:24:57.800
actor to play a role as Robin Hood on TV,

1420
01:24:58.680 --> 01:25:03.760
Patrick is unnighably the most famous for playing the second

1421
01:25:03.920 --> 01:25:08.960
incarnation of the Doctor after initial three years running, in

1422
01:25:09.199 --> 01:25:12.399
fact returning to The Doctor Who three more times to

1423
01:25:12.520 --> 01:25:15.880
its run. His final appearance as a role in nineteen

1424
01:25:15.920 --> 01:25:21.479
eighty five, the opposite of the compassionate doc time Lord. However,

1425
01:25:21.640 --> 01:25:26.119
as the archon leader of the Dorkans, he was willing

1426
01:25:26.359 --> 01:25:31.319
to kill Maya to ensure its own immortality. On the

1427
01:25:31.399 --> 01:25:36.439
silver screen, he also appeared in The Omega alongside Gregory Peck,

1428
01:25:36.600 --> 01:25:41.600
as well as two classic Ray Harry Housen ventures, Jason

1429
01:25:41.720 --> 01:25:44.880
the Argonauts and Sidbe and the Eye of the Tiger.

1430
01:25:46.359 --> 01:25:49.680
He continued to act until his death in nineteen eighty seven,

1431
01:25:50.319 --> 01:25:52.760
and in one of his last appearances was in the

1432
01:25:52.800 --> 01:25:55.079
pilot episode of Spector Morse.

1433
01:25:58.279 --> 01:26:00.399
He was the priest in the Omen who got the

1434
01:26:01.359 --> 01:26:02.600
weather Vane pailed at it.

1435
01:26:03.039 --> 01:26:04.600
Yeah, that was a cool scene.

1436
01:26:05.920 --> 01:26:09.199
Or whatever. It was, the big lightning rod. It is great.

1437
01:26:10.239 --> 01:26:13.840
And I've got the next one here And Paul mentioned

1438
01:26:13.880 --> 01:26:16.720
this in the areas right there, you guys should be

1439
01:26:16.760 --> 01:26:19.079
able to tell who he is. He's got the same

1440
01:26:19.199 --> 01:26:22.039
face right there. Of course he doesn't have the wings

1441
01:26:22.079 --> 01:26:25.560
in this picture. But we're talking Brian Brested, who in

1442
01:26:25.640 --> 01:26:29.159
this particular scene was Maya's father and the metamorph. But

1443
01:26:29.239 --> 01:26:34.600
he also played in Death's Other Domain, The British Act. Oh,

1444
01:26:34.720 --> 01:26:36.279
and I also got to throw in there. If you

1445
01:26:36.359 --> 01:26:41.279
guys read the Patrick Storart make it so booked. He

1446
01:26:41.479 --> 01:26:43.479
was good friends with Patrick Storart. They went to the

1447
01:26:43.520 --> 01:26:47.640
same school and studied acting together, so he has a

1448
01:26:47.840 --> 01:26:51.560
tie to Star Trek indirectly through Patrick Stewart. A British

1449
01:26:51.640 --> 01:26:54.720
actor of the highest magnitude, Brian Brestt is one about

1450
01:26:54.800 --> 01:26:58.439
only a handful to appear in Space nineteen ninety nine

1451
01:26:58.840 --> 01:27:02.439
as two separate care char firstly as an eight hundred

1452
01:27:02.479 --> 01:27:05.920
year old survivor of the nineteen eighty six Uranus expedition

1453
01:27:06.520 --> 01:27:11.399
doctor Cabot Rowland, Hi Leah, and Leah just jumped up

1454
01:27:11.399 --> 01:27:14.439
here to say hello to everybody. He then returned at

1455
01:27:14.439 --> 01:27:17.439
the beginning of the following season as Maya's father, the

1456
01:27:17.600 --> 01:27:21.359
aptly named Mentor, and that same year was also cast

1457
01:27:21.399 --> 01:27:23.920
in the lead role in Jerry Anderson's Pilot for The

1458
01:27:24.039 --> 01:27:28.279
Day After Tomorrow, three year roles which are hardly surprising

1459
01:27:28.399 --> 01:27:31.279
for someone who loves space so much that he also

1460
01:27:31.399 --> 01:27:36.159
completed eight hundred hours of space training in Moscow. This

1461
01:27:36.319 --> 01:27:38.760
is just one of his many accomplishments away from his

1462
01:27:38.880 --> 01:27:42.520
acting career, however, as he has also made three attempts

1463
01:27:42.520 --> 01:27:46.039
at climbing Mount Effors. He's the oldest person ever reached

1464
01:27:46.079 --> 01:27:49.439
the North Pole on foot and also the official shouts

1465
01:27:49.479 --> 01:27:53.640
person of the University of York's Douglas Adams Society. For me,

1466
01:27:54.720 --> 01:27:59.880
he'll always be known from flash Ah as a Prince

1467
01:28:00.159 --> 01:28:04.800
Boldham with the wings his hawkman were awesome, don't you think, Paul.

1468
01:28:05.880 --> 01:28:08.439
Oh yeah, absolutely, he's great. He's just you know, so

1469
01:28:08.560 --> 01:28:11.720
much energy with Brian Blessed, He's just amazing, you know,

1470
01:28:12.079 --> 01:28:16.720
still out there, real gregarious, effusive dude. He was in

1471
01:28:16.960 --> 01:28:20.520
uh a fan of Kenneth Brono's Henry the Fifth. He's

1472
01:28:20.560 --> 01:28:23.279
got a great part in the Fifth too, and and

1473
01:28:23.399 --> 01:28:25.600
then Brono's Hamlet. So he's a he's a he's a

1474
01:28:25.720 --> 01:28:29.680
real you know, one of those classically trained Shakespearean actors

1475
01:28:29.720 --> 01:28:33.039
who just commands every scene he's in. He's just a delight,

1476
01:28:33.439 --> 01:28:34.520
really really charismatic.

1477
01:28:39.960 --> 01:28:41.800
And you've got you've got the last to Paul.

1478
01:28:41.840 --> 01:28:43.760
I put these all right, I'll move in. I'll move

1479
01:28:43.800 --> 01:28:46.399
into the next stage here, guys. Sorry, I was like reminiscing.

1480
01:28:46.520 --> 01:28:48.159
I put in there just for you.

1481
01:28:49.399 --> 01:28:52.880
Thanks, Brodectly. Well, it's not often that you get to

1482
01:28:52.880 --> 01:28:54.960
talk about one of your your Heroes and Your Legends,

1483
01:28:55.159 --> 01:28:59.439
And this was only the fifth episode to be produced

1484
01:28:59.479 --> 01:29:04.199
of spacenineteen ninety nine, right, and they cast inarguably the

1485
01:29:04.239 --> 01:29:06.399
most iconic British actor ever to grace the screen, the

1486
01:29:06.439 --> 01:29:11.640
Great Christopher Lee, recognized by none other than the Guinness

1487
01:29:11.680 --> 01:29:14.000
Book of World Records as having the most screen credits

1488
01:29:14.039 --> 01:29:17.640
for any living actor, okay, a record which included his

1489
01:29:17.800 --> 01:29:22.399
portrayal here of Captain Xantor, leader of a small group

1490
01:29:22.479 --> 01:29:25.800
of Caldoreans that are heading to Earth after their own

1491
01:29:25.840 --> 01:29:29.920
planet became sterile, rising to fame with starring turns as

1492
01:29:29.960 --> 01:29:35.479
Frankenstein's Creature and the and Dracula in the Hammer horror films,

1493
01:29:36.000 --> 01:29:39.840
although unlike Cushing, it was his villainous rules which often

1494
01:29:39.920 --> 01:29:44.119
became his most successful Count Dracula of course leaning the pack,

1495
01:29:44.960 --> 01:29:47.880
something which continued for more than fifty years with films

1496
01:29:47.920 --> 01:29:50.880
such as The wicker Man, Oh, the wicker Man is

1497
01:29:51.079 --> 01:29:54.840
so good, It's such a great horror film, Gremlin's Two,

1498
01:29:56.479 --> 01:29:59.439
and then he later appeared as of course Saramon in

1499
01:29:59.680 --> 01:30:03.319
Peter Jackson's Middle Earth trilogies Lord of the Ring. So

1500
01:30:03.560 --> 01:30:07.039
really really phenomenal actor there he was in nineteen forty

1501
01:30:07.079 --> 01:30:11.399
one for Steven Spielberg. He also forged a kind of

1502
01:30:11.560 --> 01:30:15.640
late in life but successful singing career combining opera and

1503
01:30:15.800 --> 01:30:19.760
heavy metal, believe it or not, and in twenty thirteen

1504
01:30:19.840 --> 01:30:23.239
became the oldest living artist to editor America's Billboard Music

1505
01:30:23.359 --> 01:30:26.920
Charts at the age of ninety one. Mind blown. A

1506
01:30:27.039 --> 01:30:32.439
real interesting life this guy had widely considered his was

1507
01:30:32.560 --> 01:30:39.159
related to Ian Fleming, who created James Bond and Christopher

1508
01:30:39.239 --> 01:30:44.680
Lee's exploits as an intelligence operative or World War Two.

1509
01:30:45.000 --> 01:30:49.319
Apparently we're a big inspiration for Ian Fleming creating the

1510
01:30:49.439 --> 01:30:52.000
James Bond character, and that's the kind of stuff this

1511
01:30:52.119 --> 01:30:55.399
guy was involved in. So an absolute legend. Really cool

1512
01:30:55.439 --> 01:30:57.680
to be able to see him on Space nineteen ninety

1513
01:30:57.760 --> 01:30:59.800
nine as well, and we're going to talk about a

1514
01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:05.479
series regular on the show, the Inimitable Nick Tate. This

1515
01:31:05.720 --> 01:31:09.000
guy is still going around like WonderFest every year and

1516
01:31:10.239 --> 01:31:14.119
conventions all over the place. Genial, likable guy, and you

1517
01:31:14.119 --> 01:31:16.119
can see him in all different kinds of shows. He

1518
01:31:16.319 --> 01:31:21.000
was at several big parts on Lost, the TV show.

1519
01:31:21.079 --> 01:31:23.479
He was in an episode of Star Trek The Next

1520
01:31:23.560 --> 01:31:25.560
Generation we'll talk about, but.

1521
01:31:25.680 --> 01:31:28.880
He played the Great Eagle pilot Alan Carter, Moon based

1522
01:31:28.920 --> 01:31:33.079
office chief ego pilot and the only person on Alpha

1523
01:31:33.119 --> 01:31:36.840
to have actually seen the nuclear explosions from space that

1524
01:31:37.000 --> 01:31:39.159
ripped Moon from its orbit and hurled it into deep

1525
01:31:39.199 --> 01:31:40.720
Space because he was up there in an Eagle at

1526
01:31:40.760 --> 01:31:41.000
the time.

1527
01:31:41.920 --> 01:31:44.279
He's been in two different episodes of Star Trek. The

1528
01:31:44.359 --> 01:31:48.760
first was in Next genere he played again another shuttle

1529
01:31:48.800 --> 01:31:53.239
pilot that's an insurance risk, right there, Captain Durgo in

1530
01:31:53.479 --> 01:31:56.680
the Next Gen fourth season episode Final Mission, which is

1531
01:31:56.760 --> 01:32:00.239
great and oddly enough, yes, he crashes the shuttle. Just

1532
01:32:00.319 --> 01:32:04.000
got to be a tip of that to Alan Carter.

1533
01:32:04.159 --> 01:32:07.279
And then in his second appearance, he played Liam Bilbie

1534
01:32:07.399 --> 01:32:12.640
in the Deep Space nine six season episode Honor among Thieves.

1535
01:32:12.800 --> 01:32:17.000
So really, really fun to be able to Alan Carter

1536
01:32:17.199 --> 01:32:20.760
was in all of the episodes for both seasons, the

1537
01:32:20.840 --> 01:32:23.439
great Nick Tape, very charismatic and fun. He was sort

1538
01:32:23.479 --> 01:32:26.239
of the you know, almost a Han solo role in

1539
01:32:26.279 --> 01:32:28.359
a way, just getting in there and doing all the

1540
01:32:28.439 --> 01:32:32.479
action stuff and flying in the midst of anything. Never

1541
01:32:32.520 --> 01:32:37.119
wanted to turn his back on an encounter. So real great,

1542
01:32:37.720 --> 01:32:40.319
So hooray. It's been so fun to be able to

1543
01:32:40.359 --> 01:32:42.760
talk about space nineteen ninety nine. Guys, I never thought

1544
01:32:42.800 --> 01:32:46.239
we'd be doing this, But what a treat I think

1545
01:32:46.279 --> 01:32:46.479
it was.

1546
01:32:46.640 --> 01:32:48.079
I think it was fun. I think it went well.

1547
01:32:48.600 --> 01:32:51.039
Yeah, in did Phase nine episode? Did he try to

1548
01:32:51.079 --> 01:32:52.000
steal us subtle?

1549
01:32:55.439 --> 01:32:57.760
It's possible. Possible.

1550
01:32:57.920 --> 01:33:01.479
Yeah, I'd have to ask my Deep Space nine expert Eric.

1551
01:33:02.800 --> 01:33:05.039
Yeah, I thought I might get asked about that. I'm

1552
01:33:05.199 --> 01:33:07.560
having a hard time to remembering the specifics of that

1553
01:33:07.720 --> 01:33:08.960
episode right now, darn it.

1554
01:33:10.800 --> 01:33:12.840
Well, I just you know, it's it's really fun. It's

1555
01:33:12.880 --> 01:33:15.720
just like for folks who have been watching listening to

1556
01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:16.720
our show and they're like, what the hell are you

1557
01:33:16.800 --> 01:33:18.199
talking about. I mean, I'll tell you one thing that's

1558
01:33:18.239 --> 01:33:21.079
really great is this is one of those shows that

1559
01:33:21.159 --> 01:33:24.239
has been really well restored and probably looks better now

1560
01:33:24.279 --> 01:33:25.520
when you look at it than it ever did in

1561
01:33:25.600 --> 01:33:27.840
nineteen seventy five. I mean, it's just, you know, it's

1562
01:33:27.920 --> 01:33:30.359
a They do a pretty good job of restoring these

1563
01:33:30.399 --> 01:33:35.039
old cult shows, and they generally are really fun to

1564
01:33:35.439 --> 01:33:37.439
go back and take a look at and just appreciate

1565
01:33:37.479 --> 01:33:40.520
its place. You know, someone's gonna look cheesy, for sure,

1566
01:33:40.760 --> 01:33:44.960
someone's going to be like, eye rollingly incomprehensible and stretch

1567
01:33:45.039 --> 01:33:48.359
your you know, suspension of disbelief, but just you know,

1568
01:33:48.520 --> 01:33:51.000
put it in its place, you know, in the history

1569
01:33:51.039 --> 01:33:54.640
of science fiction. I think it deserves a place of renowned.

1570
01:33:54.720 --> 01:33:57.560
So it was really pretty cool and for me, very

1571
01:33:57.600 --> 01:33:59.880
personally fun to be able to recommend to talk about

1572
01:33:59.880 --> 01:34:02.760
the show because I really remember it finally from my youth.

1573
01:34:03.600 --> 01:34:07.079
It definitely deserves a reboot, a remake, or a movie

1574
01:34:07.239 --> 01:34:10.199
of its own. It's the time has come. It's overdue.

1575
01:34:10.920 --> 01:34:15.000
So Space nineteen ninety nine. There you have it, all right,

1576
01:34:15.319 --> 01:34:17.159
you know what time it is now? It's nine. For

1577
01:34:17.319 --> 01:34:19.239
our Star Trek birthdays.

1578
01:34:38.840 --> 01:34:40.239
That was not a Clinton song.

1579
01:34:41.079 --> 01:34:43.439
Mister Wharf says that every week, but we still love him.

1580
01:34:43.960 --> 01:34:45.920
So every week we like to go through our Star

1581
01:34:46.000 --> 01:34:49.119
Trek birthdays and so you can find out who you

1582
01:34:49.199 --> 01:34:51.680
share a birthday with. And we always turned to Eric

1583
01:34:51.800 --> 01:34:54.439
to start off with our remembrances so we can fondly

1584
01:34:54.520 --> 01:34:57.119
remember those members of our family who are no longer

1585
01:34:57.199 --> 01:35:00.720
with us. Take it away, Eric, Yeah, and Jim.

1586
01:35:00.920 --> 01:35:04.119
In a rare moment, we are going to first celebrate

1587
01:35:04.199 --> 01:35:06.119
somebody who was not on Star Trek, but who we've

1588
01:35:06.159 --> 01:35:09.920
been talking about all night long, The Great actor Martin

1589
01:35:10.079 --> 01:35:14.359
Landau born June twentieth, nineteen thirty eight. We lost him

1590
01:35:14.439 --> 01:35:18.159
back in twenty seventeen. I have written a lot of

1591
01:35:18.239 --> 01:35:21.199
stuff about him here, but I'm going to paraphrase, because

1592
01:35:21.279 --> 01:35:26.560
this man's depth and breadth of stuff in his lexicon

1593
01:35:26.720 --> 01:35:29.960
of acting is really incredible. I'll start by telling you

1594
01:35:30.199 --> 01:35:34.439
that I found it interesting that, at age seventeen, he

1595
01:35:34.640 --> 01:35:36.840
was actually hired by the New York Daily News to

1596
01:35:36.920 --> 01:35:41.399
work in the promotions department before he became an actor,

1597
01:35:41.600 --> 01:35:44.880
and he was a staff cartoonist and illustrator. He worked

1598
01:35:44.920 --> 01:35:48.199
there for five years, so he started in the kind

1599
01:35:48.239 --> 01:35:53.199
of like newspapery cartoon world, but his real ambition was

1600
01:35:53.319 --> 01:35:55.640
to move on to acting, and in nineteen fifty one,

1601
01:35:55.760 --> 01:35:59.560
he made his stage debut in Detective Story at the

1602
01:35:59.640 --> 01:36:04.319
Peaks Island Playhouse in Peaks Island, Maine, and he also

1603
01:36:04.399 --> 01:36:08.479
made his first off Broadway debut that first that same year,

1604
01:36:08.680 --> 01:36:14.159
in First Love. Landau acted during the nineteen fifties in

1605
01:36:14.319 --> 01:36:17.560
Many Many Things, Lots of stage acting along the Way.

1606
01:36:19.119 --> 01:36:22.000
In nineteen sixty three, he played memorable roles in the

1607
01:36:22.079 --> 01:36:26.880
science fiction anthology series The Outer Limits and The Thing

1608
01:36:26.960 --> 01:36:31.159
That I Think Really Got him known. Somebody is making

1609
01:36:31.199 --> 01:36:34.239
a ton of background noise right now. The thing that

1610
01:36:34.359 --> 01:36:36.600
made him really, really well known in the eyes of

1611
01:36:36.680 --> 01:36:39.479
the public was his role, of course in nineteen sixty six,

1612
01:36:39.560 --> 01:36:42.720
when he was in Mission Impossible. That's the one that

1613
01:36:42.840 --> 01:36:45.720
made him famous. He was originally not meant to be

1614
01:36:45.800 --> 01:36:48.600
a regular on the series, which also of course starred

1615
01:36:48.640 --> 01:36:51.720
his wife of the time, Barbara Bain, but his character

1616
01:36:51.920 --> 01:36:55.319
rol In Hand was supposed to only make occasional, reoccurring appearances,

1617
01:36:55.439 --> 01:36:57.800
but he became so popular they decided to keep him

1618
01:36:57.800 --> 01:37:00.600
on the show. I think that was fantastic. His career

1619
01:37:00.680 --> 01:37:03.520
eventually kind of went through some dips and some changes

1620
01:37:03.600 --> 01:37:06.039
and stuff. Of course Bace nineteen ninety nine. From nineteen

1621
01:37:06.079 --> 01:37:10.840
seventy five nineteen seventy six, the early eighties were kind

1622
01:37:10.880 --> 01:37:12.600
of tough for him, but then he had a big

1623
01:37:12.800 --> 01:37:16.319
renaissance of his in his career in the late nineteen

1624
01:37:16.399 --> 01:37:19.199
eighties and into the nineteen nineties. The thing that I

1625
01:37:19.359 --> 01:37:22.520
remember well, many things I remember seeing him, but I

1626
01:37:22.640 --> 01:37:25.479
remember him being Bella Lagosi in.

1627
01:37:27.119 --> 01:37:27.560
Ed Wood.

1628
01:37:28.600 --> 01:37:32.680
He was of course in Sleepy Hollow. Lots of other

1629
01:37:32.760 --> 01:37:35.880
things from that era. So Martin Landau does have his

1630
01:37:36.000 --> 01:37:39.000
own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. You should

1631
01:37:39.000 --> 01:37:41.760
go check it out. It's been really fun to talk

1632
01:37:41.800 --> 01:37:45.279
about him all night, and unfortunately we did lose him

1633
01:37:45.359 --> 01:37:48.960
about eight years ago or so. So happy birthday and

1634
01:37:49.119 --> 01:37:51.960
lots of love and remembrances going out to the great

1635
01:37:52.039 --> 01:37:56.439
Martin Landau. Happy birthday as well to David L. Lander,

1636
01:37:56.640 --> 01:37:59.239
the actor who played the Frangi tactician in The Star

1637
01:37:59.359 --> 01:38:04.319
Trek Nestration's second season episode Peak Performance. Of course, you

1638
01:38:04.479 --> 01:38:07.920
may recognize him from other roles right His most famous

1639
01:38:08.000 --> 01:38:13.359
role as absolutely as Andrew Squiggy Squigman that Michael McKean's

1640
01:38:13.840 --> 01:38:17.960
Lenny Kosnowski on Lavernon Shirley from nineteen seventy six through

1641
01:38:18.079 --> 01:38:21.840
nineteen eighty two. He in fact did a ton of

1642
01:38:22.000 --> 01:38:25.279
work with Michael McKean. They both went to school together

1643
01:38:25.359 --> 01:38:29.920
and Carnegie Mellon. They did tons of television shows, television

1644
01:38:30.000 --> 01:38:34.319
movies together. They actually released an album in nineteen eighty

1645
01:38:34.600 --> 01:38:39.880
called Lenny and the squig Tones. I feel like I

1646
01:38:39.960 --> 01:38:42.680
need to go check that out. And then, of course

1647
01:38:42.720 --> 01:38:45.199
he did do some work without Michael McKean along the way,

1648
01:38:45.720 --> 01:38:48.399
on shows like The Bob Newhart Show, Barney Miller, Highway

1649
01:38:48.399 --> 01:38:53.119
to Heaven, Head of the Class, and the Nanny. Eventually,

1650
01:38:53.199 --> 01:38:57.279
in his later career went into voiceover roles, and unfortunately,

1651
01:38:57.439 --> 01:39:00.439
in nineteen eighty four he was diagnosed with multiple scolurosis,

1652
01:39:00.520 --> 01:39:03.199
but he became kind of a spokesman for that disease

1653
01:39:03.279 --> 01:39:06.880
and went around touring talking about it. In two thousand

1654
01:39:06.880 --> 01:39:10.600
and two, he published his autobiography called Falling Down Laughing

1655
01:39:10.760 --> 01:39:17.079
How Squiggy caught multiple sclerosis and didn't tell nobody. Just

1656
01:39:17.239 --> 01:39:22.319
really really endearing. What a fun actor who's very recognizable

1657
01:39:22.560 --> 01:39:25.880
from that era of television. David L. Lander would have

1658
01:39:25.920 --> 01:39:28.159
had a birthday on June twenty second. He was born

1659
01:39:28.159 --> 01:39:31.000
in nineteen forty seven. Happy birthday, David. And last of

1660
01:39:31.079 --> 01:39:34.720
my remembrance list is actor George Murdoch, the actor who

1661
01:39:34.800 --> 01:39:39.359
portrayed God in Star Trek five The Final Frontier. He

1662
01:39:39.479 --> 01:39:42.800
also portrayed Jp Hanson in The Next Generation third and

1663
01:39:42.920 --> 01:39:45.960
four season episodes The Best of Both Worlds and Best

1664
01:39:46.039 --> 01:39:49.760
of Both Worlds Part Two. In the pre production of

1665
01:39:49.840 --> 01:39:52.880
The Final Frontier, director William Shatter had originally planned to

1666
01:39:52.920 --> 01:39:56.439
cast Murdoch for the role of Cord, but when Charles

1667
01:39:56.520 --> 01:39:58.760
Cooper read for the role. Murdoch was recast for the

1668
01:39:58.880 --> 01:40:01.279
role of God, so we could have had a very

1669
01:40:01.279 --> 01:40:04.720
different cling on. Murdoch is probably best known by fans

1670
01:40:04.840 --> 01:40:09.960
for two reoccurring roles as Lieutenant Ben Scanlon, the acerbic

1671
01:40:10.119 --> 01:40:14.199
international affairs officer on Barney Miller, and as the overstressed

1672
01:40:14.239 --> 01:40:19.000
and bitter doctor Salek on the original Battlestar Galactica. He

1673
01:40:19.119 --> 01:40:21.880
was also in an episode of Seinfeld as a Russian

1674
01:40:22.039 --> 01:40:25.560
writer Elaine works to get for her publishing house employer.

1675
01:40:26.640 --> 01:40:29.279
He also appeared on a couple of other television series

1676
01:40:29.399 --> 01:40:32.159
along the way. George Murdoch would have had a birthday

1677
01:40:32.279 --> 01:40:36.520
June twenty fifth. He was born in nineteen thirty. Happy birthday,

1678
01:40:36.600 --> 01:40:40.079
George Murdoch, and that everybody does it for our remembrances.

1679
01:40:40.159 --> 01:40:43.159
So I will pass this flaming birthday candle onto my

1680
01:40:43.239 --> 01:40:44.319
good friend Charles.

1681
01:40:44.840 --> 01:40:45.920
Oh thank you, Eric.

1682
01:40:46.920 --> 01:40:51.199
Let's start with our Happy birthday to Marcy Lafferty, actress

1683
01:40:51.199 --> 01:40:56.000
who play Chief DeFalco in Star Trek the motion picture.

1684
01:40:56.760 --> 01:41:00.520
Lafferty was married to William Shatner from nineteen seven three

1685
01:41:00.560 --> 01:41:07.680
into their divorce in nineteen ninety four. Happy birthday, John Wheeler,

1686
01:41:08.600 --> 01:41:13.079
actress who made his major television debut debut as Gab

1687
01:41:13.520 --> 01:41:19.640
in the TOS episode The Return Journey to baball as

1688
01:41:19.680 --> 01:41:23.319
we get to see him and all that makeup Happy

1689
01:41:23.359 --> 01:41:30.640
Birthdater Lindsey Ridgeway, actress who portrayed Cispirilla and Star Trek

1690
01:41:30.720 --> 01:41:37.439
Voyagers second season episode Cold Fire. It's a child actress,

1691
01:41:38.720 --> 01:41:40.279
Paul who's on your list.

1692
01:41:43.079 --> 01:41:45.279
Thank you, Charles well First of all, let's go back

1693
01:41:45.279 --> 01:41:47.680
to the original series for a bit and let's given

1694
01:41:47.760 --> 01:41:53.359
up to luminary Marriott Hartley, Emmy Award winning actress who

1695
01:41:53.439 --> 01:41:57.479
played a Zerabeth in that memorable third season episode All

1696
01:41:57.600 --> 01:42:00.399
Our Yesterday's I think definitely one of the better third

1697
01:42:00.439 --> 01:42:04.239
season episodes for sure, really interesting series of scenes between

1698
01:42:04.800 --> 01:42:08.279
her and Spack in that particular episode. There so definitely

1699
01:42:08.680 --> 01:42:10.359
a good one to check out. You haven't seen it

1700
01:42:10.399 --> 01:42:13.479
for a while. Excited to say this next one. This

1701
01:42:13.640 --> 01:42:16.760
is a live wire guy for sure, the great Peter

1702
01:42:17.039 --> 01:42:19.760
Weller who can really mix it up with an audience

1703
01:42:19.880 --> 01:42:24.159
at a fan event. Let me tell you it's a

1704
01:42:24.319 --> 01:42:28.399
very smart individual. Veteran actor who we acknowledge in Star

1705
01:42:28.479 --> 01:42:33.079
Trek for playing John Frederick Paxton in Enterprise fourth season

1706
01:42:33.159 --> 01:42:37.920
episodes Demons and Tara Prime, and then he came back

1707
01:42:38.600 --> 01:42:43.000
to the Star Trek universe to the feature film franchise

1708
01:42:43.119 --> 01:42:48.319
to play Alexander Marcus. I believe falls underneath the evil

1709
01:42:48.399 --> 01:42:55.760
admiral category if I'm not evil, but brings some really

1710
01:42:55.840 --> 01:42:58.720
good gravitas. I think he's one of the coolest things

1711
01:42:58.720 --> 01:43:02.439
about intra darkness, Frank, and he's got the starship to

1712
01:43:02.520 --> 01:43:05.960
prove it really, really great. But of course, you know,

1713
01:43:06.640 --> 01:43:12.119
if you're a genre fan, forever may vex him to

1714
01:43:12.239 --> 01:43:16.760
no end. I know, Peter Weller, but alex Murphys Murphy

1715
01:43:17.279 --> 01:43:21.439
OCP Officer from RoboCop right, I mean, that is just

1716
01:43:21.560 --> 01:43:26.439
like one of the greatest roles ever and at least

1717
01:43:26.680 --> 01:43:30.560
one sequel, perhaps even more that it was featured in there.

1718
01:43:30.640 --> 01:43:34.279
But he's a really interesting cat. Peter Weller is and

1719
01:43:35.319 --> 01:43:37.840
you may sometimes be amazed to see him listed as

1720
01:43:38.000 --> 01:43:40.239
doctor Peter Weller and you're like, what is that? Is

1721
01:43:40.279 --> 01:43:42.119
he going to take out my gallbladder? What's going on?

1722
01:43:42.840 --> 01:43:42.880
No?

1723
01:43:43.079 --> 01:43:46.359
No, no, no, friends, He's a very multifaceted individual, and

1724
01:43:46.840 --> 01:43:52.520
he actually has a doctorate a PhD. An Italian Renaissance

1725
01:43:53.039 --> 01:43:57.640
art history and Roman history. So this is a very

1726
01:43:57.880 --> 01:44:02.359
cerebral cat and he's also taught both literature and fine

1727
01:44:02.479 --> 01:44:07.960
arts up at Syracuse University, so is a very academic

1728
01:44:08.039 --> 01:44:11.239
individual there. And I don't want to forget. Another cult

1729
01:44:11.319 --> 01:44:13.680
film that is a big favorite of a lot of

1730
01:44:13.720 --> 01:44:17.640
science fiction fans is The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai. Right,

1731
01:44:17.840 --> 01:44:20.640
that's another terrific picture there as well. So a really

1732
01:44:20.680 --> 01:44:23.199
great dude, and just nice to see that he's got

1733
01:44:23.279 --> 01:44:26.520
his tenter hooks all through the Star Trek franchise there.

1734
01:44:26.680 --> 01:44:30.600
So very very cool and surprisingly you must look beneath

1735
01:44:30.640 --> 01:44:33.159
the prosthesis to see this gentleman. But let's give it

1736
01:44:33.279 --> 01:44:39.039
up for rock and roll legend Mick Fleetwood Okay, drummer

1737
01:44:39.479 --> 01:44:42.680
of the legendary musical group Fleetwood Mac. He had a

1738
01:44:42.760 --> 01:44:47.760
cameo part underneath all that crazy costuming as an Antedian

1739
01:44:47.840 --> 01:44:53.279
dignitary in the Next Gen second season episode Manhunt. Very

1740
01:44:53.439 --> 01:44:55.760
very cool to know that he's in there. I guess

1741
01:44:55.840 --> 01:44:58.359
sometimes if you're a Star Trek fan, you'll just do

1742
01:44:58.560 --> 01:45:00.840
whatever role you can get to get on the show,

1743
01:45:00.920 --> 01:45:02.920
and I think that might be part of the case there.

1744
01:45:03.079 --> 01:45:05.960
So very very cool to see all these folks who

1745
01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:10.000
show up in different aspects of Star Trek Boy, Does

1746
01:45:10.119 --> 01:45:12.560
Uncle Jim have a good one to on oor next

1747
01:45:13.800 --> 01:45:16.479
someone we've been lucky enough to spend some time with, right,

1748
01:45:16.600 --> 01:45:17.039
Uncle Jim.

1749
01:45:20.439 --> 01:45:26.800
I'm sorry I was muted. Absolutely yeah. I saved the

1750
01:45:26.880 --> 01:45:30.640
Klingons for myself. And now you guys aren't going to

1751
01:45:30.680 --> 01:45:32.920
think of this guy as a Klingon, but he was.

1752
01:45:33.039 --> 01:45:36.680
He did play a Klingon on Deep Space nine. Of

1753
01:45:36.840 --> 01:45:39.600
course we had him on the podcast as well. We

1754
01:45:39.680 --> 01:45:42.760
want to say happy birthday to the great Tim Russ

1755
01:45:43.039 --> 01:45:45.840
and there he is. You guys can go over to

1756
01:45:45.920 --> 01:45:48.399
trek talka dot com and you can check out our

1757
01:45:48.479 --> 01:45:50.199
interview with Tim Ross. It was a lot of funny.

1758
01:45:50.319 --> 01:45:53.199
Was a great guy. He's best known for his portrayal

1759
01:45:53.279 --> 01:45:57.840
of Lieutenant Commander Tubac on Star Trek Voyager. He reprised

1760
01:45:57.840 --> 01:46:00.640
the role on Star Trek Picard's season three and he

1761
01:46:00.800 --> 01:46:06.000
also directed the Voyager fourth season episode Living Witness. He

1762
01:46:06.159 --> 01:46:10.000
was also in Star Trek Generations and on Voyager. In

1763
01:46:10.039 --> 01:46:12.880
the episode Flashback, we find out that he's the one

1764
01:46:12.960 --> 01:46:17.520
that brings Captain Sulu is tea that teacup that doesn't survive.

1765
01:46:18.159 --> 01:46:22.399
That was him. But for me Spaceballs, he ain't found

1766
01:46:22.520 --> 01:46:27.600
shit he's still looking there. He is Melbrooks Spaceballs. Spaceball's

1767
01:46:27.640 --> 01:46:30.800
Part two is coming out. Maybe Tim Russ will find

1768
01:46:30.920 --> 01:46:35.439
something in that second movie. Who knows, So Happy birthday

1769
01:46:36.000 --> 01:46:38.640
to Tim Russ. And I have one that's not on

1770
01:46:38.760 --> 01:46:42.039
the list because I just found out about it today.

1771
01:46:42.039 --> 01:46:43.319
I don't know how I missed it when I was

1772
01:46:43.399 --> 01:46:46.000
putting the list together, so we don't have a picture,

1773
01:46:46.439 --> 01:46:50.279
but we want to say Happy birthday to Jesse James Kytel,

1774
01:46:50.640 --> 01:46:55.079
who have played Captain Angel on Star Trek's Strange New

1775
01:46:55.199 --> 01:46:59.840
Worlds Serene Squall episode. And I have to mention that

1776
01:47:00.239 --> 01:47:04.560
because that's the episode that introduces us to the back

1777
01:47:04.640 --> 01:47:09.479
of cyboch and hopefully they'll go somewhere with that. I

1778
01:47:09.600 --> 01:47:13.319
can only hope and pray. So Happy birthday to Jesse

1779
01:47:13.640 --> 01:47:17.800
James Kayitel, Captain Angel from the Serene Squad episode of

1780
01:47:17.880 --> 01:47:23.279
Star trek Strange New Worlds and presumed lover of Sybock.

1781
01:47:24.560 --> 01:47:26.760
We don't know, but that's what we're presuming. So Happy

1782
01:47:27.279 --> 01:47:31.520
birthday Jesse James Kaititel. And that wraps up our birthdays.

1783
01:47:31.520 --> 01:47:35.239
There wasn't that many. I trimmed them down quite a

1784
01:47:35.319 --> 01:47:38.159
bit because I wanted to talk about Space nineteen ninety

1785
01:47:38.239 --> 01:47:40.560
nine as much as we could. I wanted to give

1786
01:47:40.600 --> 01:47:43.079
it a full show, so I cut out a lot

1787
01:47:43.119 --> 01:47:44.159
of birthdays.

1788
01:47:43.720 --> 01:47:44.199
To do that.

1789
01:47:45.239 --> 01:47:48.159
And yeah, so that's why we didn't have a lot

1790
01:47:48.640 --> 01:47:52.560
this week. And now it's time for some Star Trek

1791
01:47:52.880 --> 01:47:57.680
news and we definitely got to come up with a

1792
01:47:57.760 --> 01:47:59.079
new video today.

1793
01:47:59.079 --> 01:48:01.439
If I already one met hit from Starfleet coming in

1794
01:48:01.600 --> 01:48:02.600
on secure.

1795
01:48:02.319 --> 01:48:07.039
Channel, incoming transmission enter authorization.

1796
01:48:06.640 --> 01:48:13.319
Code, command codes verified, Define parameters of program level nine,

1797
01:48:13.479 --> 01:48:15.319
authorization required.

1798
01:48:15.000 --> 01:48:22.159
Specified parameters. Transfer updata is complete, A black alert, A

1799
01:48:22.199 --> 01:48:22.880
blank alert.

1800
01:48:24.000 --> 01:48:27.479
All right, So Eric, you get to start off with

1801
01:48:27.600 --> 01:48:30.600
our first news story of the week, and I think

1802
01:48:30.640 --> 01:48:31.399
it's a fun one.

1803
01:48:32.279 --> 01:48:34.880
It is a fun one, Jim, and it is a

1804
01:48:35.079 --> 01:48:39.199
remembrance of twenty years ago, remembering the day Star Trek

1805
01:48:39.319 --> 01:48:44.079
legend William Shatner crooned my Way to Star Wars creator

1806
01:48:44.359 --> 01:48:48.479
George Lucas. Attendees at the thirty third Annual American Film

1807
01:48:48.560 --> 01:48:52.520
Institute Life Achievement Awards ceremony honored Star Wars creator George

1808
01:48:52.560 --> 01:48:56.359
Lucas got a surprise from the final Frontier win of

1809
01:48:56.399 --> 01:49:00.600
all people, William Shatner, Star Trek's original captain Kirk arrived

1810
01:49:00.720 --> 01:49:04.800
on stage to open the festivities. It happened on June nineteenth,

1811
01:49:05.439 --> 01:49:08.520
two thousand and five, and it remains an indelible moment

1812
01:49:08.640 --> 01:49:15.239
of entertainment. Galaxies colliding. Shatner basked in the moment, giving

1813
01:49:15.279 --> 01:49:20.560
a remarkable Shatnerian performance. He hammed it up, smiled broadly,

1814
01:49:21.239 --> 01:49:25.199
joked about his hair, comparing it to the honorees, iconic follicles,

1815
01:49:25.319 --> 01:49:32.000
and yes sang. Shatner then elicited chuckles with his opening line,

1816
01:49:32.640 --> 01:49:37.079
Star Trek changed Everything. He then cracked, aren't these Star

1817
01:49:37.159 --> 01:49:41.560
Trek conventions wonderful? And from there Shatner engaged in his

1818
01:49:41.680 --> 01:49:47.399
signature talk sing Warbling, delivering a Star Wars themed reimagining

1819
01:49:47.520 --> 01:49:50.640
a Frank Sinatra's song My Way that even made an

1820
01:49:50.680 --> 01:49:55.680
amusing dig at Howard the Duck and Infamous Lucas produced

1821
01:49:55.760 --> 01:49:59.079
box office and critical dud, although I would say cult classic.

1822
01:49:59.119 --> 01:50:02.680
At this point, it builds to a crescendo, with stormtroopers

1823
01:50:02.760 --> 01:50:05.079
forming a kick line and dancing with Shatner in the

1824
01:50:05.119 --> 01:50:08.800
middle before they carry him away. Of course, Shatner gets

1825
01:50:08.840 --> 01:50:11.359
in the last word, putting a Star Trek spin on

1826
01:50:11.479 --> 01:50:16.279
his egnace on his exit live Long and prosper George, Well,

1827
01:50:16.600 --> 01:50:22.159
live Long, you already prospered enough. That's a great video.

1828
01:50:22.279 --> 01:50:24.159
I think you could find it on YouTube if I

1829
01:50:24.600 --> 01:50:25.479
remember correctly.

1830
01:50:27.199 --> 01:50:30.880
Yeah, I was going to play when I found that story,

1831
01:50:31.119 --> 01:50:33.640
I was going to actually show the video, but like

1832
01:50:33.760 --> 01:50:36.279
I said, I tried to trim the show down to

1833
01:50:36.600 --> 01:50:39.880
its bare minimum so we could talk about space nineteen

1834
01:50:39.960 --> 01:50:43.319
ninety nine. I was originally going to have David play

1835
01:50:43.399 --> 01:50:47.479
that quick video because watching Shatner do this it was hilarious.

1836
01:50:48.279 --> 01:50:50.560
But you guys can find it on YouTube. That's where

1837
01:50:50.600 --> 01:50:51.159
I found it.

1838
01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:54.159
Well, yeah, hard, hard to believe it's been twenty years already.

1839
01:50:54.199 --> 01:50:54.760
That's amazing.

1840
01:50:55.239 --> 01:50:57.359
Yeah, and we got to remember there's a lot of

1841
01:50:57.399 --> 01:50:59.560
fans out there that might not have seen it or

1842
01:50:59.640 --> 01:51:04.199
don't remember it, so check it out. It's definitely definitely

1843
01:51:04.239 --> 01:51:06.960
something worth watching. I think it's up there with the

1844
01:51:07.119 --> 01:51:10.600
Get a Life skip from Saturday Night Lives. You know,

1845
01:51:11.079 --> 01:51:16.720
Shatner at his best. All right, and Paul, I think

1846
01:51:17.560 --> 01:51:19.560
I think you're wrapping us up with our Star Trek

1847
01:51:19.680 --> 01:51:20.319
news this week.

1848
01:51:21.000 --> 01:51:23.439
All right, man, let's move from the past of science

1849
01:51:23.479 --> 01:51:25.479
fiction into what we have coming that we can look

1850
01:51:25.520 --> 01:51:29.760
forward to very very soon. Killian Omer Sullivan says his

1851
01:51:29.960 --> 01:51:32.760
Roger Corby has a smidge of darkness in Star Trek

1852
01:51:32.920 --> 01:51:36.800
Strange New Worlds Season three. Something new for season three

1853
01:51:36.880 --> 01:51:39.600
of Star Trek Strange New Worlds is the addition of

1854
01:51:39.720 --> 01:51:43.039
Irish actor Killian O'Sullivan in a recurring guest role as

1855
01:51:43.479 --> 01:51:47.640
doctor Roger Corby, a character from the original series episode

1856
01:51:47.720 --> 01:51:51.239
What Are Little Girls Made Of played by Michael Strong.

1857
01:51:51.960 --> 01:51:55.000
In that Star Trek episode, we learned that Corby and

1858
01:51:55.199 --> 01:51:58.840
Christine Chappell had been engaged to be married, and in

1859
01:51:58.960 --> 01:52:02.520
season two Range New Worlds, Christine Chappel was approved for

1860
01:52:02.600 --> 01:52:07.720
a fellowship with doctor Corby. The actor talked about how

1861
01:52:07.760 --> 01:52:09.880
his version of the character differs from what we saw

1862
01:52:09.920 --> 01:52:13.119
in the original Star Trek. It's still Lauga Krby, but

1863
01:52:13.239 --> 01:52:16.000
before he goes mad and tries to turn everyone into androids.

1864
01:52:16.800 --> 01:52:19.279
But something made Korby that way. Maybe he has a

1865
01:52:19.319 --> 01:52:21.960
smidge of that darkness in him already. But even from

1866
01:52:22.079 --> 01:52:24.600
just the audition process, it was going to be different,

1867
01:52:25.239 --> 01:52:28.319
like what Jess Bush did with Nurse Chapel informed how

1868
01:52:28.399 --> 01:52:31.279
different Korby was going to be. I'm a huge treky,

1869
01:52:31.399 --> 01:52:33.800
so just being around it was mad. I mean, my

1870
01:52:33.920 --> 01:52:35.920
first scene on my first day was walking down the

1871
01:52:36.000 --> 01:52:40.760
hallway and the enterprise was fucked. That's crazy, so extremely inspiring,

1872
01:52:41.760 --> 01:52:44.079
and getting a role in something that you've always wanted

1873
01:52:44.119 --> 01:52:47.239
to be a part of is doubly inspiring. Now, I'm

1874
01:52:47.279 --> 01:52:49.640
just nervous about it coming out and will Korby resonate

1875
01:52:49.680 --> 01:52:52.239
with people, will they like my performance in the show.

1876
01:52:52.680 --> 01:52:54.800
But I'm excited to see this season of Star Trek

1877
01:52:54.880 --> 01:52:57.199
that I get to be a part of. Also, just

1878
01:52:57.279 --> 01:53:00.479
to see season three. I mean, I know what happens,

1879
01:53:00.479 --> 01:53:02.680
I've read all the scripts, but I'm just excited to

1880
01:53:02.720 --> 01:53:07.159
see it all come together. And friends, as a reminder,

1881
01:53:07.680 --> 01:53:10.680
you don't have to wait very long because season three

1882
01:53:10.960 --> 01:53:14.359
of Strange New World's debuts in just a few short

1883
01:53:14.479 --> 01:53:20.199
days with a double feature episode on July seventeenth, So

1884
01:53:20.479 --> 01:53:22.920
you are going to get to find out and get

1885
01:53:22.960 --> 01:53:25.359
a big hit. We've got a little bit of a

1886
01:53:25.479 --> 01:53:28.000
dry spot without Fresh Trek for a while, so we're

1887
01:53:28.039 --> 01:53:31.239
about to slake our thirst with a two fisted episode.

1888
01:53:31.680 --> 01:53:37.880
Cannot wait, all right, thank you so much, Paul and guys.

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That wraps up our show. So yeah, I just want

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to say right now that we're not going to be

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having a show next week because here in the United

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States that falls on the fourth of July weekend, actually

1893
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July third. But I will be up at camp, and

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now that we do the podcast with a video, my

1895
01:53:57.520 --> 01:54:00.800
WiFi at camp is not good enough to sort video.

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If we were doing the old podcast with audio, I

1897
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would chance it. Actually we have done it from camp

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01:54:06.800 --> 01:54:09.920
with the audio, but the video I don't think I

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can do it from camp. So there will be no

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show next week. So go out, eat some hot dogs,

1901
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go to some fireworks if it doesn't rain, and have

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a good time guys, and we will be back on

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the tenth. I think it's a tenth. So just take

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a little vacation and we will be back. But that

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gives you a lot of time to go to trek

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01:54:33.359 --> 01:54:35.680
talkin dot com and check out some of our older shows.

1907
01:54:36.359 --> 01:54:39.560
Check out the Tim Russ interview or Bruce Horrick, which

1908
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was a lot of fun. So we won't be around.

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So I want to take this opportunity to say thank

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you so much to David for pulling up all those

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videos and making everything work out, making our birthdays, you know, enjoyable.

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Thank you so much, David.

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Yeah, it's been a lot of fun.

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It was a lot of fun, and of course thank

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you so much to Eric for hanging out with us

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tonight and Trek talking.

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Thank you so much, Eric, Absolutely I had a great time.

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And thank you so much to Paul for suggesting this show.

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It was delightful to hear both you and Jim talk

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about your memories of Space nineteen ninety nine.

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It was a lot of fun for sure, and of

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course we got to say thank you to Charles for

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hanging out and Trek talking with us. Thank you, Charles.

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I was going to say the same thing Eric did.

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Thank you Paul for introducing me to Space nineteen ninety nine.

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It adds more fi sci fi to my realm right now.

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Which I need, so thank you, yes, and thank you

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so much to Paul to not only hanging out and

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nineteen ninety nine talking with us, but for introducing the

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idea of space nineteen ninety nine and making this whole

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show positible. Thank you so much, Paul.

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It was such a treat friends. I was to be

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able to revel in something that has been my own

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little weird nerdish, you know, fondness for a long time

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that people are like, what when you mentioned it to like,

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what are you talking about? So it was really fun

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to be able to visit this and to spread the

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word and get folks to talk about it. It's it's

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just what a treat. So Uncle Jim, thank you for

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being up for this. It was really fun for me

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to get to do this and just to hear that

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every It's just fun for me to hear everybody watching

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episodes and seeing them for the first time, to like

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Dear Charles talking about Voyager's return or Eric talking about

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Dragon's domain. It's it's a trip, man. So it's fun to,

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you know, to keep some of this stuff alive and

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you know that some of these creations still have some

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mileageit them. So what a treat. Thank you well.

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Speaking of keeping things alive and what a treat. Paul

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also recommended our next show, which will be on July tenth,

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and we're going to talk about We're going to go

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all the way back and talk about what I think,

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who I think is the best Superman Christopher Reeves, and

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we're going to talk about the original Superman movie nineteen

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seventy nine, classic soundtrack, classic actors, three versions of the

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same movie, and we're going to talk about that on

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the tenth, So brush up on your classic OG. I

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don't know what you would call it, because it's I

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would call it OG Superman because I think that was

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the first Superman that they made as a movie.

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Yeah, yeah, I believe a man can fly exactly.

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That was.

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That was That was such a great timeleline.

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This was movie before thor before Captain America, before anything.

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We had Superman. So tune in on the tenth and

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help us celebrate Superman.

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So, and this is in preparation, I believe for the

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release of the new movie. Is it not the following day?

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Is that what it is?

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It's within a couple of days and then a couple

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there's some early screenings. I think Amazon's hosting some early

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screenings that same week. But it's like, you know, it

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depends on where are and what's what you can get into. So,

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but I think it's gonna be a it's gonna be

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a big hit. I have a hunch. I'm super excited

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about it. You know, a lot of loving here. You know,

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it's gonna be the I'm just I'm just I just

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I don't know. I go back and I watched the

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old Christopher Eve one, and it's just I still get

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chills during some of those scenes. It's really fun.

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And we will more than likely we'll show the trailer

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for the new movie and we'll share our thoughts on

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you know, what we think about the movie because we

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wouldn't have seen it yet. So that gives you guys

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01:58:31.319 --> 01:58:33.640
something to look forward to on July tenth, after you

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come back from all your celebrations and your fireworks, your

1987
01:58:37.279 --> 01:58:42.279
hot dogs, your apple pie, your chevrolets, whatever, and you

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01:58:42.359 --> 01:58:46.000
can come back Chevrolets dismantling.

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You're dismantling the patriarchy.

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So I'll be good American value right there.

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So yeah, so I'm your most excellent host, Uncle Jim saying, please,

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everybody be good to each other and stay safe. Remember

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Archer fans are the best fans. Good Night, everybody along

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and prosper All stations ready for departure, sir, some problem, Riker.

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I'm just hoping this isn't the usual way our missions

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will go, sir.

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Oh, no, number one.

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I'm sure most will be much more interesting. Let's see

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what's out there. Ego one, Lift off the Game, Alan

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get Away from the Control