April 24, 2026

Episode 683- Comic Corner - Issue #1 of Starfleet Academy and Last Starship review

Episode 683- Comic Corner - Issue #1 of Starfleet Academy and Last Starship review
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On this episodem Comic Corner, Uncle Jim and his crew explore the latest in Star Trek comics, including reviews of Starfleet Academy and The Last Starship, with insights into art, storytelling, and connections to the broader Star Trek universe. Join us as we explore the latest in Star Trek comics, technology, and birthdays of iconic sci-fi figures. This episode features in-depth discussions on Starfleet Academy, Commander Jet Reno, and upcoming collectibles, along with special birthday tributes.



keywords: Star Trek comics, Starfleet Academy, The Last Starship, IDW, comic review, Star Trek universe, fan theories, art analysis, storytelling, sci-fi Star Trek, Starfleet Academy, Commander Jet Reno, sci-fi birthdays, Star Trek comics, Star Trek ornaments, Star Trek Resurgence, Tim Curry, George Takei, Hayden Christensen
key topics

  • Starfleet Academy issue 1 review
  • The Last Starship issue 1 review
  • Art and storytelling analysis
  • Connections to Star Trek universe and lore Starfleet Academy season 2 spoilers
  • Commander Jet Reno's warp command
  • Upcoming Star Trek ornaments from Hallmark
  • Star Trek Resurgence game delisting
  • Birthday tributes to sci-fi icons
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About the series to series now.

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Well, good evening, Treky's and trek is around the globe.

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Welcome to Trek Talking and Beyond. It's Thursday, April twenty fourth,

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twenty twenty six. Welcome to episode six hundred and eighty three.

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I'm your most excellent host, Uncle Jim. And before we

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dive right in, let's go around and say hello to

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the rest of my trucks firts. We're going to start

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off with Paul. Paul is out in Portland. How are

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you doing tonight?

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Paul doing well, sir. It's good to be here, a nice,

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cool afternoon here in the Pacific Northwest. So enjoying, enjoying things.

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Ready to do some of my gathering tonight and get

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ready to be the weekend.

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Yep, it's it's uh Friday's Eve, as we like to say,

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right Friday's Eve. And we also have from Portland our

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very own miracle worker David. How you doing tonight, David?

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And I'm excited for today's show show what's here happens?

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It's going to be fun. What long?

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Aren't they all? And also from Portland, it's got to

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be something in the water. We have Eric with us tonight.

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How you doing tonight?

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Eric?

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I am doing very well. There's definitely something in the

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water out here, and it's it's all good for you,

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for you.

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As long as you don't eat any of that moldy cheese,

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right David, Well, molde cheese is bad.

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With us, there is. We also have with us from

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Virginia our very own.

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Z You're all right?

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Not so cool here unfortunately, but glad to be here tonight.

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And last but not least, from Las Vegas, we have

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our very own Charles.

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How you doing tonight? Charles?

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I'm doing good.

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The wind finally slowed down, mostly so I can spend

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some time out in Studio.

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B excellent, excellent. If you did that here you get

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blown away or you get frostbite, pick one or the other.

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But if it was yesterday, I went to getting blown around, So.

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Yeah, I see the pond trees swaying there a little bit.

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But anyways, you guys, if you missed last week's podcast,

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man Walk, don't run to trek talkin dot com and

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listen to our interview with Doug Jones. It was fun,

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he was awesome and it was great or I haven't

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even a better suggestion for you if you would like

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to see the podcast, because David puts together these most

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excellent videos. If you'd like to see the videos, you

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fine too. You can enjoy it just as well, so

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thank you so much for being a fan. April thirtieth,

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which is next week at seven thirty, we are going

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to have Tara I'm sorry, Tara Rosseling with us. There

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she is on the screen. She played Terina, president of

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nel Bar on Start Trek Discovery and wife of mister Seru,

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and we talked to him a little bit about her

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last week. So check that out and come back next

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week and find out what she has to say about Doug.

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I think that's going to be a.

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Lot of fun.

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Tonight, Comic Corner is back. That's right, Comic Corner is back.

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We're going to be talking about Starfleet Academy Issue one

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and the last Starship issue number one and there they

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are on the screen and Starfleet Academy. They may be gone,

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but not forgotten, and we're going to talk about that

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to night. We also have our Fans shout outs, and

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that's where we go around the globe and say thank

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you to fans just like you for supporting this podcast.

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And you can find out what actor you share a

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sci fi birthday with on our sci Fi Birthday segment

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and what's going on around the Star Trek universalill have

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to hang out to find out. So without any further ado,

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let's dive into our fan shoutouts and Eric is going

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to get us started with that.

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Yes, sir. This week we start in Cheshire, England, and

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we say hello and thank you very much for listening

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to us. To Mark Cook, we appreciate your support out

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there in Cheshire, England. Wow, I can't believe how much

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support we have in the UK and general line, particularly

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in England. It's just really amazing. So thanks Mark for

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being part of our team out there saying hello this

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week as well to Marvin Daily from Trinidad and Tobago.

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That's right, that little tiny place out there in the Pacific.

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He actually, believe it or not, Marvin is not the

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first support that we have received from Trinidad and Tobago,

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so thank you so much to all of you who

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have checked in from that amazing part of the world.

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I'd also like to say hello this week to Gustavo

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Naranjo who's saying hello from Costa Rica and sending us

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that beautiful Costa Rican flag, Live Long and Prosperous sign.

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And I think what is a cool sort of emoji

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A little dude with glasses. He looks like he knows

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what's up. You know what I'm saying. Thanks Gustavo for

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supporting our podcast. And last but not least on my list,

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I'd like to say hello this week to Jose Benti

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Bentino Bentino from Brazil. Yes, that's right, he is from

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the city of Manaois in the Amazonas region of Brazil.

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Thanks Jose for supporting our podcast and for carrying our

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flag down there in South America. We really appreciate it. V.

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Who would you like to say hello to this?

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Thank you Eric.

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First off, Donnie Brady, who is saying hello to us

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from almost Heaven, West Virginia. Good song, by the way, beautiful,

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beautiful state. Next Robert hollis Is. We're giving a shout

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out to him because he is listening to us or

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watching us in Rome, Georgia. Next Chris Brown from Michigan.

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And last, but certainly not least, faith Marie Longo, who

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is all the way out on your side of the

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world on the East West coast, sorry, in beautiful San Diego, California.

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So hello and thank you to everyone. All right, Charles

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on to you, well.

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Thank you.

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The let's start off with the side of the world.

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Went over in Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome Karen Towns, Welcome Karen.

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And then of course from the home of Captain Kirk

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is Sue Harvey, because of course she's from Iowa. From Nebraska,

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we got kirkke Da Costa.

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Welcome Kurt, and over in my side of the world.

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And I wouldn't mind being there right now, Lindsay Stanley

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Owen from Newport Beach, California.

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Newport's got some beautiful beaches over.

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There, Paul, spend the globe and where are you going

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to end up?

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Oh?

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Thank you, Charles. Let's just grab a random latitudinal line

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here and see where we end up. Boy, it looks

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like we're going to pop over and say hello to

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our friend Maurzio Suarez, who lives in Bogata, Colombia, in

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South America. Phenomenal part of the world to live in. There,

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Mauricio sends up the Vulcan hand sign and says long

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life and prosperity for all. I like that version of

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the saying there, Mauricio, very cool, indeed, so thank you

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for the sentiment. It's great to hear from you, and

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I hope to visit your wonderful part of the world

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at some point myself. So hooray for Colombia. Over on

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the other continent. Let's go over to Malta in Europe

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and say hello to Joe Fennick. Malta is actually an

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archipelago nation if you're not familiar with that. It's an

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island nation midway between like Sicily and North Africa if

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memory serves there. So Malta is pretty amazing, has quite

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the interesting place in history. A lot of times doings

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on from the Moors were there, famous for its ancient

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burial chambers, quite interesting blaze, so definitely if you're in

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the neighborhood go check it out. Malta's pretty wild. Also

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like to say hello to our good friend Eric L.

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Stevens in Chile. We have a lot of folks in

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South America who like to listen to the podcasts and

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join us on our Facebook page. And then back over

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to Europe once again to a beautiful Bella Roma Italia.

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We have Gina daily Pauli saying hello to us, Italian

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flag blazing in the wind, sentiments equally festilled. So Gina,

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thanks for checking in with us. It's always nice to

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know that this science fiction fans across the globe, hopeful

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signed that perhaps we all can find some things to

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have in common and be enthusiastic about. Isn't that right,

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Uncle Jeff?

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Absolutely, Thank you so much, Paul.

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I want to start off by saying hello and thank

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you to Chris Tory, who says that he's from Maine

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in the United States, flashing us to Live long and prosper,

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and of course that's where Stephen king Hale's from. Thank

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you for listening to the podcast, Chris. I also want

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to say hello and thank you to Bill Busha. Then,

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thank you so much, Bill, and Robin brown Holt, who's

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in Massachu say this up in my stomping grounds. Thank you,

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Robin for being a fan. We appreciate it. And last,

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but not least, we want to say hello and thank

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you to Marie Jaikowski, who's listening to us right now

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in Connecticut. You can become fans on our fan shout

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out by heading over our Facebook page Truck Talking and beyond.

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You'll see the Livelong and Prosper post pin to the

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top of the page. Tell us where you're from, Lisa emojis.

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It gets my attention. If you see a heart next

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to your name from yours truly, then you've been chosen

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it and you will be featured on a fan shop

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for all of eternity.

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Right.

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So, uh, we had a good time last time with

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the name that band, so I thought we would try

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that again.

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So we did and uh yeah.

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Pick yeah, so David, Yeah, here we go. Okay, So

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this week's band is, of course a picture of the

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folks from Starfleet Academy, or at least four of the

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cast members. We've got Genesis and Sam and of course

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we've got Caleb and the guy whose name I always forget.

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What's his name again, I don't know, but I don't

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know either, the bully guy. The bully guy anyway.

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And the picture is so small I can't see who

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it is. I need electron microscope.

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Yeah, I just can't remember his name anyway. So that

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that's the picture that we're seeing. Yes, thank you, Darren. Yeah.

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So they're all in their kind of like you know,

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hoodie style, like grungy outfits from the planet there where

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they go looking for Klo's mom. And so we say,

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name this grunge band and top fan Dan CEO said

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Captain Geech and the Shrimp shack Shooters. I love it.

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I'm guessing that that's based on the corrugated metal behind them,

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has that shrimp shack kind of feel to it. I

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don't know, maybe not. Dan Dan Hall said New Catastrophe

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on the Block. Oh, it's like New Kids on the Block,

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but Catastrophe.

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I like that.

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Spin will be Tartar mag said Starfleet Mack like Fleetwood

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Mac get it? Thanks uh Darren mood Oh Schemong Singh

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said shanty Town. Oh, I kind of like that. That's

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got the you know, goes along with that quirdy Gate

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Medelnick sort of gruff look that they've got. Thanks to

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every mood. That one sounds good. I like that one.

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Faith fielding Weight said Rebel Scavenger. Wasn't that the name?

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Oh no, there was Scavenger's Rain and Rebel Moon Rebel Scavenger. Okay, yeah,

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I get it. Michelle Sparrow said The Runaways, Yes, already

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associated with another franchise, but I like it. Lex Metuluna

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said the self delets right on, and Michael Schernowski said

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Caleb and the Master debaters. All right, Well, thank you fans.

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There was a lot of creativity thrown into that one.

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I'm not sure how grungey they were, but that's okay.

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They were very creative.

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Too bad, not too bad, We have no we had

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better ones last week, but you know it was fun.

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Anyways. All right, guys, we're going to talk.

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About a comic corner ISSU number one of Starfleet Academy,

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and we're going to have Paul through a quick synopsis

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before we dive right in, So take to Mike Paul.

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I thank you Uncle Jim. Well, first of all, it's

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acknowledged our good pals over there at IDW Publishing who

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continue to keep star Trek alive and well with an

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ongoing series of different titles. And this is the absolute

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first issue number one of Starfleet Academy, filling in some

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of the gaps that we may have seen previously on

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the show. Here, this particular several issue run is going

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to be a storyline called Lost Contact. So we begin

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with Genesis Life and they have been doing something where

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they're practicing what's called she's doing like a log entry.

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Initially is we're not sure who she's contacting, but she's

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recounting what the consequences were after the fact. It was

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something we're about to see in this issue called Consequences

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of our Planetary Survey Simulation Exercise. So it's some kind

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of thing where they're put down on a plant in

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environmental suits and they have to practice a planetary surveillance

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with real time decision making on a planet called c

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K two, which apparently has been quite devastated after the

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burn and there's no life there, supposedly, just some questionable

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foliage and you know, vegetables and whatnot. And the first

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part of this supposed simulation that they occur is we

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supposedly get a warning, let them know that acid rain

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is coming down, right, But apparently that's not real acid rain.

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It's some kind of simulation that I guess they're experiencing

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through their suits. It's a little uncertain. One thing I

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did notice myself on this particular issue was it was

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a little challenging to follow because the art really looks

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nothing like the actor's likenesses on this show. For me,

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I found it a little difficult to tell one from

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the other because they're all in these very heavy environmental

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suits like you see on this screen there, right, And

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it's sometimes hard to tell the characters apart when they're

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covered up like that, right, and there's a character who's

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briefly referred to with some new one who's not part

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of the regular characters we're familiar with, Ensign Falaro. I

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don't know which one that even was, so it was

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confusing to me. All of a sudden, though, there's some

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kind of a sudden ozone storm, which I guess is

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like the old ion storm they used to have on

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an original series, right, and it disrupts all of their technology,

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so conveniently, the cadets cannot being back aboard the ship there,

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and they're stranded and forced to try to survive on

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this backwater planet, if you will. They can't bean back,

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and then all of a sudden, they see what appears

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to be an alien up in the hills in the distance,

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on a planet where there's supposed to be no life, right,

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And Genesis is kind of leading the brainstorming on this

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should we try to make first contact? What do we do?

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And so she tries to run off to communicate. I

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will also say that it was very difficult for me

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to tell what this alien really looked like, So maybe

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we're going to get a better reveal an issue too.

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But I've found a lot of kind of close up

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sketches of it or very distant sketches, so I don't

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really have a clear sense of what it is. I

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think it emanated some kind of a sound there, if

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I was following that correctly as the issue wraps up,

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because it ends very abruptly without a real cliffhammer, just

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the cadets stranded. I'm sure about the alien or what

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to do with the alien, though it seems from the

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speech going on there that they were all rendered potentially

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mute or unable to communicate because of this force field

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that the alien generated. It's really hard to say because

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it wasn't depicted visually in a way that I could follow,

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so it was more exposition kind of happening about all

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this stuff. So again a little rough for me as

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a first issue, and it seemed like maybe this was

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written or the art was done before they really had

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seen any episodes. I don't know, because just I don't

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or to make it would be weird to get the

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license to do a Starfleet Academy comic and not have

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the likeness rights for the actors. That would be odd

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to me and not usually how IDW rolls. But I

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had a very difficult time because they didn't really look

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like the cast members of the show. So for me,

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I don't know if I should give a letter grade

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now or do it or a number grade now or

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do it later. But a little unsatisfied. I would just say,

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you know, especially for a show we're hoping that we'll

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breathe some life into the show now that it's you know, facing,

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you know, eminent cancelation and falling off everyone's radar. I

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think the hope was that a good comic run could

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maybe juice it up, get things people excited about it again.

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But I didn't see that here. So what did other

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folks think?

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I agree with you completely, Paul, as far as IDW goes.

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I think this is probably next to that Deep Space

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nine issue that we reviewed quite a while ago. This

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issue I felt was not good. Like you said, the

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art didn't impress me. The characters don't look like the characters,

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which is odd for IDW because usually they're spot on.

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Maybe you're right, maybe they did this before the show aired.

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I'm not sure, but the characters don't. I mean, Genesis

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doesn't even have those little gold eyebrow I mean there's

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on her head. I mean, I was it was hard

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to figure out who was talking because I don't know

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that the characters were hard to distinguish. The artwork wasn't

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I think up to IDW usual standards, and the alien

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I agree it just the story didn't. I don't know,

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it didn't hold water for me.

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It didn't.

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It was hard to understand what was going on. I'm

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with you, Paul, one hundred percent. I mean I was

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very disappointed in because I love Starfleet Academy. I think

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it's one of the greatest shows. I think we're lucky

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to have it. But the comic I thought fell way

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short of the show. I mean, it could have been

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anybody on the planet. It didn't have that feel at all.

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So I'm with you, Paul, And for me, I think

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I'd have to give this one up a five. I

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think it could have been so much better artwork wise,

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story wise, so I'm gonna go with a five.

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So how about you, David.

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I'd have to agree with you guys as well. When

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I was reading it, I was having a hard time

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picturing the voices in my head of like what character

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was saying it, because for some odd reason, it was

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just like the artwork itself was like okay, who does

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that look like? And to me, I was actually really

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confused myself. I was like, yeah, it's a little tough

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for me to read, to be honest. Also, it was

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really short. When I was putting this together and everything,

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I was like, wow, that one by really quick. For

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some reason. I was only able to get like maybe

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twenty some pictures out of this, and I was just like, weird,

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you know, just is pretty much almost all of the

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pictures too, And it was just like huh, all right, well, yeah,

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so to me, this particular book, comic book kind of

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fell fell flat for me. So I mean, was it

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before the season one or after or doing maybe? I

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have no idea. It was just a little strange. So yeah,

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I might actually go with a four on this one.

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All right, So we got a four from David. How

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about you, child?

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I can understand, yeah, I can understand when we we

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put somebody on a ship and we don't expect somebody

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to come and to attack it, but to put a

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group onto a planet and then lose track of the

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something not being able to track the cadet. Let's get cadets,

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it's a little confusing. They put them on this thing

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and it's like, Okay, it's acid rain. Well, I'm confused

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whether it's real acid rain or simulate acid rain. That

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was confusing. At least some they lost contact with them.

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That was another confusing. Unless it's aliens somehow block them communications.

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It got a little strange what was going on with

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the story. I kind of agree with it. The story

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kind of fell flat. I think the story it's tagged

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April in the copyright. The copyright says April. I'm assuming

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this was made during the series.

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The publish it. That's the publishing date April was published. Well,

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and I now see that this is only going to

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be a This is only going to be a two

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issue comic I'm seeing according to what IDW has put out,

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So how do you two issues?

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I thought so much story too.

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I have to look it up on Amazon. I thought

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this was more than two issues. But I think they

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took a lot of individual freedom for the drawings. I

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don't think the artist really got the work on getting

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the drawing is done properly. But I'm going to agree

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with the guys on this one. I might go to

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I was thinking a seven. I might drop it to

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a six, but I think this one's kind of running

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a little short.

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Little apologies. Now I'm seeing a couple of a couple

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of other folks who are saying a five issue series,

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which is usually what you get from my DW. So

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I think that's probably more like it, unless they had

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a really negative response and maybe limited it to two.

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But I would imagine five. That's usually what they get.

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That's what I would expect. I mean, this is, like

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you guys said, this first issue seems like it's barely

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even a prologue. It's just the sort of a setup, right,

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so it's just a very little little.

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I'll look it up while the next person's going over it,

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but yeah, this one.

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Near all right? What about you V? What do you

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think about?

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Well, I'm relieved that you all are having difficulties or

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had difficulties with it, because I thought it.

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Was just me.

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I was just I could not follow, and also because

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I had that free link.

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As I was, I think I was mentioning to Charles earlier.

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I kept on getting interrupted by inappropriate, inappropriate requests from

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random people on WhatsApp or something like that.

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I don't know.

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So I'm trying to trying to figure this out and

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not doing and then getting interrupted by those weird ads

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or those weird you know whatever. So yeah, it was

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I don't understand. I just didn't understand it. And yeah,

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the the characters looked nothing like their real life counterparts,

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so it was it was very, very difficult to figure

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out what was going on. So I'm with the rest

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of you on that.

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It's like womp womp.

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Hopefully the next one is better, but I would give

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it a five as well.

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I'm just so.

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And maybe I don't know if they can improve the artwork.

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I mean, once they've established it, I don't is this

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what we're going to be stuck with for the next

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you know? However many issues because they need to have

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like a little name texts on the characters so we

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know who they are, because I just I don't recognize them.

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But anyway, all right, that's that's my take.

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All right, Eric, you got the caboose on this one, buddy,

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So wrap it all up and bring this crazy bag

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of snakes on home.

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Okay, Yeah, I mean I think a lot of people

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are commenting on coralai A Spoono's art when I went

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and I looked them up. The three issues so far

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where covers have been released of Starfleet Academy are the

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only thing on their resume, so I think we're probably

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looking at a new artist that IDW has brought on.

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I don't know who they are, but I will say

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that IDW does a particularly good job, I think of

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ensuring that women are well represented both as writers and

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as artists in their books. So I'm happy about that.

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I'm I'm assuming CHORALI is a woman.

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I'm not.

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I don't have any further knowledge of that, so I

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could be completely wrong. But the writer appears to be

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a woman and the colorist appears to be a woman,

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so you know, good representation in the people writing the book.

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I did get pulled into the cover, which I thought

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was beautiful, although I will admit that the likenesses weren't

472
00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:27.319
quite there. And you know, the cover is often a

473
00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:32.759
different artist from the from the book artist. There was

474
00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:37.400
no separate cover artists listed here, so I'm assuming it

475
00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:40.559
was also Coralai who did the cover, and I did

476
00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:43.680
think that that was a very beautiful piece of art,

477
00:28:43.880 --> 00:28:49.759
despite you know, the characters being relatively unrecognizable. I guess

478
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:51.720
as much as you guys are saying right now, So

479
00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:56.680
the book had a very familiar feeling. I feel like

480
00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:59.000
it was almost like the and I don't remember which

481
00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:02.000
episode it was, but there was a Starfleet Academy episode

482
00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:04.240
where they had kind of a competition that they had

483
00:29:04.279 --> 00:29:06.119
to do and they were all shooting at each other

484
00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:07.920
and stuff and they had to score points. Well it's

485
00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:11.759
it's essentially kind of a rehash of that kind of story,

486
00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:17.119
so not like super interesting as a story mechanism. And

487
00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:21.319
I don't think we hear from anybody except maybe what

488
00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:25.279
Akade Genesis, and maybe a couple of other people to

489
00:29:25.319 --> 00:29:28.599
owe the guy from the War College, but we don't

490
00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:30.079
really get a lot of dialogue from a lot of

491
00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:32.519
different characters. So whoever it was that said they were

492
00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:35.039
having a hard time hearing the voice of the character

493
00:29:35.079 --> 00:29:37.160
in the way that it was written, I would agree

494
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:43.480
with that. I had a similar experience. I always like

495
00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:46.160
a good trope here and there when it's funny, and

496
00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:47.960
so the fact that they couldn't be mount was great

497
00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:52.400
because that always happens because ion Storm right, there was

498
00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:54.680
a bit of bickering going on, which was kind of

499
00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:56.440
like the show, which I think is what turns some

500
00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:59.200
people off of Starfleet Academy. But I think among people

501
00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:01.240
of this age group and that sort of thing. It

502
00:30:01.279 --> 00:30:03.599
was very apropos and so I didn't mind the way

503
00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:07.559
that that was written. But the alien, I literally I

504
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:10.960
wrote down I didn't see the alien at first in

505
00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:13.119
the first panel in which they appear, so I was

506
00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:16.880
then super confused about when they started talking about the alien.

507
00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:19.839
I'm like, what are they talking about? What alien? And

508
00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:21.480
then I went back and I saw the little purple

509
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:27.480
guy in the corner. So I don't know, Man, not

510
00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:31.799
very interesting, just not very interesting. So I will say

511
00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:35.160
that I found the art itself to be very nice.

512
00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:37.799
I just don't think that the likenesses were that good.

513
00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:42.039
But I like the kind of watercolor like semi transparent style,

514
00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:44.880
and there were a lot of really cool like vibrant

515
00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:48.039
colors and stuff. And actually, as a comic, the panel

516
00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:50.680
layout was really interesting. You know, every single page had

517
00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:54.440
different kind of dynamic panel layouts that helped you kind

518
00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:57.960
of follow through the story. So, you know, it's absolutely

519
00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:02.319
not the worst comic I've ever read, was it? You know,

520
00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:05.359
was it the best? Was it the worst like Star

521
00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:08.519
Trek comic I've ever read? No, But it was right

522
00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:12.640
down there. So man, I wrote down five and then

523
00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:14.359
David gave it a four, and I always feel like

524
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:17.920
I have to offset David's score a little bit.

525
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:22.200
You're just so nice, Eric, you cannot be you have

526
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:24.440
to be nice. You're just a very nice person.

527
00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:27.680
Right, I'll give it, I'll give it a I'll reluctantly

528
00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:32.480
give it a five. But but that's because I'm I'm just.

529
00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:33.440
What do you want to get it?

530
00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:35.359
What do you want to I want to give it

531
00:31:35.480 --> 00:31:38.000
like a seven, but I can't even come close to

532
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:40.839
that because it just isn't of that caliber.

533
00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:41.039
Right.

534
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:43.640
We've read a lot of Star Trek comics on this podcast,

535
00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:45.680
and this one I think, David, you're right. I think

536
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.640
it is two to four pages shorter. I only count

537
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:51.599
twenty pages here, so typical comics are like twenty two

538
00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:55.759
to twenty four pages. So yeah, I just I don't know.

539
00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:58.279
I give it a five, and I wish it was better, man,

540
00:31:58.319 --> 00:32:02.559
because I did want the to be our next vehicle

541
00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:05.000
to staying in touch with these characters. Right, we love

542
00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:07.319
these characters. I know we have a whole season left,

543
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:09.440
but it's so disappointing to already know that they're going

544
00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:11.839
to be gone by the time season two starts. The

545
00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:15.480
timing of their cancelation announcement was just like it was

546
00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:20.200
almost like somebody did the what's it called when people

547
00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:22.319
like bet on when wars are going to start and stuff.

548
00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:24.240
It was almost like that kind of thing where they're

549
00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:27.759
just public. Yeah, it was like that was it was

550
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:30.759
like people were betting that Starfleet Academy was going to

551
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:33.000
get canceled and then they had to cancel it before

552
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:35.880
the second season even started anyway at this point, but

553
00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:37.920
that's what I give it a five.

554
00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:42.720
It's okay. I mean, they're doing better than I can draw,

555
00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:44.000
so technically.

556
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:45.519
Yeah, but you're not getting paid David.

557
00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:47.680
You know, I don't want to.

558
00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:50.519
Say everything that's really bad, pretty artist. I'm just saying, like,

559
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:53.160
you know, it's okay, but it's just like it was good.

560
00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:54.799
I just couldn't follow it or tell who was who,

561
00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:56.160
or follow the story.

562
00:32:56.240 --> 00:33:02.000
But I could tell I could tell who Genesis wise, yeah,

563
00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:03.680
but one other male characters.

564
00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:08.000
I was like, who, Well, and the thing that you

565
00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:11.079
and the thing that you guys said about the acid rain.

566
00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:14.920
I read this comic two or three times and I'm

567
00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:18.279
still completely confused about whether that was real or simulated.

568
00:33:18.440 --> 00:33:21.680
Like I just really can't even figure it out, and

569
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:23.720
I'm a smart guys.

570
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:29.799
Just was Jaden one of these was he with them

571
00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:30.480
on the planet?

572
00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:34.119
He was, but he never said a word he did.

573
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:36.359
He's like advocating. I think he's someone who's advocating that

574
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:40.079
they go hide, right and we should run away. But

575
00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:42.319
it's so difficult to tell who's new, and there's an

576
00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:44.880
extraneous character who's not even one of the regular characters.

577
00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:48.079
So it's just like, and he's popping up character.

578
00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:49.880
He's going to be the one that's going to die

579
00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:53.039
because we don't know who he is. So he's he's

580
00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:55.880
he's a bigatory red shirt as it were.

581
00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:01.279
Yeah, yeah, I never gave my but listening to Eric,

582
00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:02.759
it's like, I want to give it a five, but

583
00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:03.240
I can't.

584
00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:04.279
I got to give it a four.

585
00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:06.720
I just think it's so disappointing, right. It's just like

586
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:09.119
there's a lot of good storytelling out there and a

587
00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:11.719
lot of people who I think deserve a shot, and

588
00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:14.079
I just don't think that this is worthy of I.

589
00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:16.760
I would like to go on record saying I hope

590
00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:20.840
we do not continue reviewing this series. I would be

591
00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:23.519
very content to leave this at one. We dipped our

592
00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:25.320
toe in but there's a lot better stuff that we

593
00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:27.559
can be talking about than this story, which I don't

594
00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:32.440
think has any surprises in store for us.

595
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:36.920
It's disappointing, Paul, because id W usually is top notch.

596
00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:40.239
I love them, Yeah I do, but you know, everyone

597
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:41.719
shoots a blank every now and then.

598
00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:50.239
Right, Sorry, one is just a major Yeah, it's tough.

599
00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:52.280
It's a tough thing, but it's just yeah, it's just

600
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:54.840
And you know, I'm excited to move on to the

601
00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:57.559
next comic though, because I feel like that is the

602
00:34:58.000 --> 00:34:59.719
antidote that I need.

603
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:03.400
So, like, there's Genesis on the screen there and doesn't

604
00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:04.199
look anything like her.

605
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:08.000
It looks like it looks like some bimbo on Instagram.

606
00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:11.239
Hell is this looks like she looks like it almost

607
00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:14.000
like a Kardashian before, you know, and.

608
00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:17.119
She's like, Hi, my name is Jenitis and I don't

609
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:18.719
have any facial expressions at all.

610
00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:19.760
I'm just kind of a bank.

611
00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:25.559
Yeah that's not I'm sorry. And everybody looks the same

612
00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:28.800
they look everybody looks the same. And that cover is

613
00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:30.559
by the same artist. By the way. If you look

614
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:32.880
in the back does a cover gallery and it shows

615
00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:35.079
who did what, And the cover is the same person, right,

616
00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:37.599
I mean it's just a but yeah, it's just not

617
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:38.239
my bag?

618
00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:39.159
Can we go on?

619
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:41.320
Can we can we talk about that next one?

620
00:35:41.760 --> 00:35:45.320
What's the overall feel of the truck spurts on Starfleet

621
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:46.559
Academy issue number one?

622
00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:48.440
What did me give it?

623
00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:54.480
Five? Yeah?

624
00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:56.360
About a four point eight?

625
00:35:57.519 --> 00:35:57.760
Wow?

626
00:35:58.679 --> 00:35:59.679
Not even why.

627
00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:05.039
We have another issue number one to talk about the

628
00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:07.440
last starship and we're going to turn to Paul to

629
00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:10.320
give us a quick recap on this issue.

630
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:13.400
Ah, this is to me, I love the batting order

631
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:15.679
that we're going in tonight, folks, right because this one,

632
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:20.000
to me was I won't even hide my enthusiasm, right,

633
00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:23.119
this was very satisfying. This has been a very well

634
00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:26.000
received series. This first issue we're talking about tonight came

635
00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:30.280
out back in September of last year, okay, and there

636
00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:31.719
was a lot of buzz around it. People were kind

637
00:36:31.719 --> 00:36:33.719
of excited about it. And now I can kind of see,

638
00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:38.280
you know, the origins here Basically there's a prologue right,

639
00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:40.960
very much akin to like TV style set up. Right,

640
00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:43.920
We've got a new captain we don't know, Captain Delacourt

641
00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:48.639
Sato of the starship Sagan, obviously named after Carl Sagan right,

642
00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:52.400
and they are in this encounter with a bunch of

643
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:54.840
Gorn ships, right, and you're, oh, it's it under battle

644
00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:57.760
that we've seen many times before. Now this is a

645
00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:02.119
captain diplomatically trying to urge then to end their isolation

646
00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:06.679
and join the Federation. Whoa, and the Gorner depicted like

647
00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:08.880
old school tos Gorn by the way, too, which I

648
00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:09.880
found really interesting.

649
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:11.000
Right, And.

650
00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:14.280
We find out and we never really get a really

651
00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:16.400
deep explanation of this, and I don't care because it

652
00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:17.719
was so intriguing to me, and I'm sure we're going

653
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:19.599
to find out more about it and other issues. But

654
00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:22.440
on the ship they had a to me what looks

655
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:25.199
like the engineer who was a Tholian of some kind.

656
00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:27.199
Seemed to be the way the Thlians were depicted on

657
00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:31.159
the Enterprise, so his name was Acylic right, And anyhow,

658
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:34.519
the Gorner about to accept this proposal, but then they

659
00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:37.000
hear some kind of strange noise of thrumbing, right, and

660
00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:41.360
the entire delegation of Gorn ship explodes. All of their

661
00:37:41.400 --> 00:37:44.679
warp core detonates, as do all the warp drives on

662
00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:48.039
all of the Federation ships. And then the sayan the

663
00:37:48.039 --> 00:37:50.480
ship that Captain Delacourt and all of our characters are

664
00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:52.519
on it explodes.

665
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:54.320
Boom title.

666
00:37:54.519 --> 00:37:58.039
I mean, what a prologue, right, pretty exciting. Seventy two

667
00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:03.679
hours later, somehow, miraculously, Captain Sato is alive along with

668
00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:07.840
his first officer whose name is probably called Wowie. But

669
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:10.559
they's somehow been saved, and we find out that the

670
00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:14.280
thli An engineer Silik somehow was able to yank them

671
00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:16.800
out and at the last minute and put them in

672
00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:20.239
a transporter buffer on like a a torpedo and shoot

673
00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:22.280
them away from the ship. So he's manages to save

674
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:25.599
several members of the crew. As crazy as that sounds, right,

675
00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:28.400
there were particular ones that Silic felt needed to be saved,

676
00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:32.119
including the captain. So you know, a hair brake, hair

677
00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:34.159
raising escape, but a cool one.

678
00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:34.719
Right.

679
00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:37.639
So we find out that there was a series that

680
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:39.880
is really well done. And I want to point out

681
00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:42.159
something really quickly on here too, if this is not

682
00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:44.559
too difficult to see. We were talking about how hard

683
00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:46.840
it was to follow who was saying what, But on

684
00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:48.679
one of the first pages, if you can see here

685
00:38:49.239 --> 00:38:51.679
really closely, you see how there's like a color and

686
00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:56.079
a rank emblem next to every one of these little.

687
00:38:57.679 --> 00:38:57.960
Area.

688
00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:00.119
Seeing what I'm seeing there, guys, it's like, you know,

689
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:03.519
like pips. What a great way to tell who's speaking,

690
00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:06.360
right by identifying them with those like, you know, rank

691
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:08.960
insignias and colors and pips. I thought that was a

692
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:12.559
really great solution to the problem we've just seen in

693
00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:17.960
the previous comic. Anyhow, I digress slightly. Okay, we find

694
00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:19.639
out but on the next next page shows all these

695
00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:22.119
different starships kind of with their last transmissions. We find

696
00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:24.880
out that all of their trans di little team exploded,

697
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:27.920
and that is when we realized we are seeing the

698
00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:30.840
origin of the burn depicted as we never saw it

699
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:33.800
really on Discovery, Right, we found out about it kind

700
00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:36.320
of obliquely. Here we're finding we're living through it like

701
00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:38.920
it's an actual movie, right, which is really interesting the

702
00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:39.719
way it was depicted.

703
00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:39.960
Right.

704
00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:42.960
We find out that ninety six percent of Starfleet was lost,

705
00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:46.079
and we have a prominent scientist who's talking about he

706
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:49.760
predicts the end of Starfleet within a year. And Sato's

707
00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:52.599
very kirk like and sat that was a really interesting character.

708
00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:57.679
He's like part Bulkan, part Trill, part Andrian, part human.

709
00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:00.480
He's this wacky hybrid of all these different character teristics.

710
00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:03.800
It's really interesting to have a character who is a

711
00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:07.280
captain like that. I digress again. Anyhow, he says, I

712
00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:11.960
don't agree. We need to do something here to redeclare

713
00:40:12.199 --> 00:40:13.440
the life of the federation.

714
00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:14.000
He goes.

715
00:40:14.119 --> 00:40:16.280
He suggests they build a new ship, and that that

716
00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:19.039
new ship be powered not by di lithium but by

717
00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:23.880
transwarp drive, which gets everyone's attention, right. And then because

718
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:26.320
transwarp drive will make you think of one particular thing,

719
00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:29.000
all of a sudden, in this conference with the few

720
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:33.679
remaining captains that are there, there's this levitating Boorg appears,

721
00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:37.079
and it's a new kind of Borg from what we've

722
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:41.559
seen before, but it is Agnes Picard Fans, it is

723
00:40:41.679 --> 00:40:44.800
Agnes Girarti, and she explains that there's no longer the

724
00:40:44.800 --> 00:40:49.280
Board Collective as such, but the Borg cooperative. She's a

725
00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:51.320
new kind of Borg, right, and she wants to be

726
00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:55.119
the new flagship's engineer to operate the transwarp drive and

727
00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:58.679
also get access to something that is a particular specimen

728
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:02.079
on Daystream Station that we may be have glimpsed previously.

729
00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:05.519
And she says, I'm here to pay a very old

730
00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:09.920
debt Captain Sodo and everyone else agrees. Then we have

731
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:13.960
this montage of this new ship being built from mothbald

732
00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:17.400
old prototypes and other salvage vessels, which is declared in

733
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:21.400
a beautiful two page spread as to the uss Omega,

734
00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:26.719
very very cool Klingon officer of Balkis is doing a

735
00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:30.480
sad journal entry about the interrupted path of life and grief.

736
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:33.840
In this conversation with Hannah. They are both also the

737
00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:38.000
other two I believe officers who were rescued by that

738
00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:42.840
engineer from the destruction of the Sagan, right, And she's

739
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.920
having this conversation she feels very lost, and then we

740
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:49.599
cut away over to today Strom station and we have

741
00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:53.480
borg Agnes in there looking around something called Project Phoenix,

742
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:57.119
very interestingly names, and she says, I hear you met

743
00:41:57.159 --> 00:42:00.199
God once and came out on top, and that I

744
00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:02.480
knew when he read that, Uncle Jim would be just

745
00:42:02.639 --> 00:42:07.960
quivering having a moment, right, Because it's a phenomenal Star

746
00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:11.280
Trek five reference done well. It was just like wow,

747
00:42:11.320 --> 00:42:14.159
wait to integrate that, And you know, I just thought

748
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:17.599
the writing was just really top drawer in this comic

749
00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:20.159
all the way through. So she's read there to resurrect

750
00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:23.880
James T. Kerr, which is incredible, Right, some other version

751
00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:25.360
of him that we don't yet know about in this

752
00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:30.679
Project Phoenix. It ends with a Klingon woman named Hashet,

753
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:35.440
daughter of Kuta, and she is explaining while she's brutally

754
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:39.719
murdering another Klingon with canon Aker Purple Blood, that they

755
00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:42.719
have walked the red path of peace before. Right, this

756
00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:46.280
is something that we heard Balkis talking about in our journal,

757
00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:49.000
this red path of peace right, and says our ancient

758
00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:51.960
myths have been weaponized against us to make us compliant,

759
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.800
and now we walk a new path, a black path,

760
00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:59.920
with the promise of the Federation's end. So this Hashet

761
00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:05.360
is some kind of vengeful cult leading Klingon who's out

762
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:07.639
for blood, doesn't want to see the Federation come back together,

763
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:10.239
wants to go a different direction. And that's where this

764
00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:14.039
first issue left us. I thought this was like a banquet. Frankly,

765
00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:17.480
from my perspective, I thought this was an extremely good issue.

766
00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:20.239
There's nothing about it I didn't like. I thought the

767
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:23.480
art was outstanding. It was really crisp, but it really

768
00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:27.800
evoked the heyday of Golden comics, right when there was

769
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:31.360
just really beautifully defined art, but a lot of sense

770
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:35.719
of good use of panels to create dynamic storytelling. I

771
00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:38.079
thought the writing was really sharp. I love the fact

772
00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:41.000
that they were able to reference a lot of things

773
00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:44.559
like Star Trek five and Agnes Girarti from Picard and

774
00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:46.719
all these things like that that normally I would be like,

775
00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:49.400
oh wow, what fan service nonsense, But it was done

776
00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:53.039
in such a really cool way and really interesting and

777
00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:54.400
just an effective writing.

778
00:43:55.119 --> 00:43:56.000
Look at that art.

779
00:43:56.039 --> 00:43:57.679
And if you're no One I have a Patreon, you

780
00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:00.679
can't see this. But the art is really sharp, it's bold,

781
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:05.119
it's vivid, it's really you're never confused about who's talking,

782
00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:08.000
and things move at a really good clip, and there's

783
00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:11.519
a lot of great surprises and reveals that happen in here.

784
00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:14.480
I thought that this is, from my money, probably one

785
00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:16.239
of the best Star Trek comics I've read in the

786
00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:19.880
last few years. This is what I've kind of built

787
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:23.159
up and haven't kept up with since the first couple

788
00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:25.000
of issues came out. So I'm really excited that I

789
00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:27.199
don't know yet how this is all going to fold out,

790
00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:29.199
but I'm excited as heck to go back and reread

791
00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:31.840
all these To me, this is I DW Star Trek

792
00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:34.519
at its best. I was really really engineered and engaged

793
00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:36.440
by this. I'm giving it a ten because I just

794
00:44:36.519 --> 00:44:36.960
loved it.

795
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:38.719
Well.

796
00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:41.000
I gotta say, Paul, you.

797
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:47.880
Look at our Look at that art, Uncle Jim. That's

798
00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:49.199
I mean, it's wonderful.

799
00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:55.599
So bringing back Borg Jardi as we called her I

800
00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:56.159
was great.

801
00:44:56.599 --> 00:45:03.199
And having the the Borg U, the more friendly, helpful

802
00:45:03.239 --> 00:45:08.679
borg cooperative I thought was awesome. I had my doubts.

803
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:10.519
I didn't read this when it first came out. And

804
00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:12.880
look at that do you guys recognize that clean out

805
00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:17.039
on the screen right there? That's a Discovery claimant, which

806
00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:21.559
I thought was awesome that they actually showed us a

807
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:22.719
Discovery clean out.

808
00:45:23.239 --> 00:45:24.320
But back to the story.

809
00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:27.679
The reason why I didn't read this when it first

810
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:31.400
came out is the whole Captain Kirk angle. I'm like,

811
00:45:31.519 --> 00:45:35.119
do we need it? What could Kirk possibly bring to this?

812
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:38.280
He's an ancient character. Do we really need him? And

813
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:42.920
I thought, just a bunch of fans service, So I'm

814
00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:46.199
kind of leary about the Kirk thing. But other than that,

815
00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:48.880
I thought the artwork was great. It was your typical

816
00:45:48.920 --> 00:45:51.440
I d W quality, as you can see here on

817
00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:55.599
the screen. The references were great, star Trek five awesome,

818
00:45:56.239 --> 00:46:00.360
you know, all the references to Star Trek for cardboard

819
00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:04.559
in particular. This is what IDW does best, is right here.

820
00:46:05.559 --> 00:46:08.599
So I'm right there with Paul. But I'm a little

821
00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:11.920
leiriy of Kirk things. I can't I can't go. I

822
00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:13.599
should give it an eleven.

823
00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:15.639
Just for I think you got it.

824
00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:17.800
Are you let me just ask you this before you

825
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:18.480
give you a grade?

826
00:46:18.599 --> 00:46:18.960
Okay?

827
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:21.519
Are you intrigued by the way this Kirk thing was

828
00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:23.800
introduced in this issue because we don't know how he's

829
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:25.960
going to service yet what he's going His purpose is

830
00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:30.199
ARTI clearly has a purpose for him, and I was, oh,

831
00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:32.159
I'm I don't know how that's going to pan out.

832
00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:34.800
I may hate it, but I'm really intrigued by how

833
00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:36.960
the setup was delivered, the fact that you know, the

834
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:39.719
board comes back and she's has for some mysterious purpose,

835
00:46:40.159 --> 00:46:44.639
very terminator there with the way he's resurrecting right. It's

836
00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:46.719
just I was intrigued by it, even if it is

837
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:49.079
a weird thing. We're go Kirk again, But I didn't

838
00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:51.480
get that feeling at all from this intro. I was

839
00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:54.400
really intrigued by it, So if you were intrigued by it,

840
00:46:55.320 --> 00:46:56.320
you know, be generous.

841
00:46:56.400 --> 00:47:00.679
Jim Well, I mean if they mentioned him on to card,

842
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:03.280
I mean they actually zoomed in on his casket, well

843
00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:04.360
not his casket his.

844
00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:06.400
But on this very same thing, Dave strim station.

845
00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:09.519
Yeah, yeah, wherever he was being stored. They made a

846
00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:15.079
point of showing him to us on the episode. So yeah, okay,

847
00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:20.639
but I'm honestly sick of her, I really I am.

848
00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:24.480
I want to see something different. But he did right

849
00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:28.199
in direct starts to five, and they did mention it

850
00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:32.039
in the issue. You know. All in all, I can't

851
00:47:32.079 --> 00:47:34.559
go with the ten, but I can go with an

852
00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:35.480
eight point five.

853
00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.079
Could it have been better if they redirected the code

854
00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:40.119
instead of cook.

855
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:43.599
Or the attack triple? That was that was.

856
00:47:43.559 --> 00:47:48.000
There and you got it.

857
00:47:48.039 --> 00:47:49.559
I mean I like to give him points too for

858
00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:52.400
having such an unusual captain. I mean, such a really

859
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:56.119
you know, a real you know, he's an one, He's

860
00:47:56.119 --> 00:47:59.280
a one man idick. I mean, he's totally he's every

861
00:47:59.360 --> 00:48:01.679
kind of like species altogether. I means to be a

862
00:48:01.719 --> 00:48:04.400
man of that country. He's all country, and he seemed

863
00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:07.559
somehow unique to me and not just like some you know,

864
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:10.679
pastiche of things we've seen before. It was something fresh

865
00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:12.000
about him and I really liked it.

866
00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:17.679
So Eric, this this Tholian character, Is this the same

867
00:48:17.800 --> 00:48:22.719
Tholian that we saw that was rescued ah in the

868
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:26.039
last comic book that we reviewed who joined the fleet?

869
00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:31.559
A different different Tholian. But good thinking back to the

870
00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:34.159
last time that we reviewed this, and we are not

871
00:48:34.280 --> 00:48:36.639
this particular comic, but the last comic that we had

872
00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:39.920
a Thalian in, and the integration of Atholian as the

873
00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:43.519
engineer of the ship here was really cool. But yeah,

874
00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:44.880
different characters.

875
00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:48.119
Okay, different because if I couldn't remember, but I do

876
00:48:48.199 --> 00:48:51.920
remember that that particular Tholian character joined Starfleet.

877
00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:55.320
Yep. Yeah, and I think it. I think it like

878
00:48:55.840 --> 00:48:59.000
it propagates a whole series of Tholians, you know, now

879
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:01.159
serving in Starfleet. So I think this is just one

880
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:03.800
of those people who are now serving in Starfleet as

881
00:49:03.840 --> 00:49:06.079
part of the Thillian Federation alliance.

882
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:11.159
Cool? Cool, all right, So David, you want to dive

883
00:49:11.199 --> 00:49:12.039
in here next?

884
00:49:12.599 --> 00:49:19.840
Yeah. So, as I was reading this, I was actually

885
00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:25.039
kind of intwigged with how the story prologue actually started out,

886
00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:26.960
and I was thinking, oh, yeah, cool, they're going to

887
00:49:26.960 --> 00:49:29.320
be bringing the going into the Federation, and all of

888
00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:31.440
a sudden, big boom happened. I was like, oh no,

889
00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:35.400
and then they just said it was that the whole Bone.

890
00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:37.320
And you guys know me, I'm not really too big

891
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:41.000
on the whole Bone story plot, but I'm actually kind

892
00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:44.960
of digging this particular series. I've already read a couple

893
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:50.760
of the other comics beyond one, so I actually got

894
00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:58.519
into the take of the story when it comes to

895
00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:03.239
what the explanation of how the Federation handled themselves after

896
00:50:03.280 --> 00:50:07.159
the buron. So to me, I kind of brought my

897
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:09.719
score down because of the Bone. But then they brought

898
00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:16.079
in all these you know, the fan uh pleasing, uh noshalgic.

899
00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:20.639
I guess you could call it, uh the idea of just, uh,

900
00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:25.360
what's going on lately with Star Trekt now, since we

901
00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:27.760
have a lot of things canceled and it sounds like

902
00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:30.639
there might not be any future Star Tract shows for

903
00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:33.199
a while, comics is really the only one that we

904
00:50:33.199 --> 00:50:35.559
can really kind of lean on at the moment. So

905
00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:38.519
to me, I'm just kind of like, yeah, this is

906
00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:41.840
this is a really good story. It's pretty interesting. The

907
00:50:41.880 --> 00:50:46.119
fact that they were talking about the Red Path. I

908
00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:48.400
can't remember what that comic book book was called, but

909
00:50:48.599 --> 00:50:52.239
I think Eric remembers, uh, the whole Red Path with

910
00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:54.320
that whole thing that was going on with the other

911
00:50:54.360 --> 00:50:56.960
comic books that they were talking about. Do you remember

912
00:50:56.960 --> 00:50:57.480
that at all.

913
00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:04.719
Yeah, Yeah, that was part of of the the Discovery series,

914
00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:07.480
the Defiant, the Defiant series.

915
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:13.960
The Fiend, Yes, Defiant, and I can't remember the other book, yeah, the.

916
00:51:14.039 --> 00:51:16.760
Define and the regular Star Trek book. Yeah, they when they.

917
00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:20.119
Were in that sense it's taking place at the bone.

918
00:51:20.639 --> 00:51:22.880
The Defiant was like in the past when it was

919
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:29.000
like Red directing Fico, if I remember correctly correctly.

920
00:51:29.679 --> 00:51:32.400
Well, the Red Path from those comics was from back

921
00:51:32.440 --> 00:51:35.440
in the like uh you know, just post next generation.

922
00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:37.880
So the fact that they used the same term now

923
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:39.800
in the thirty second century, I think is new.

924
00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:42.360
Yeah. And so now that it sounds like they're changing

925
00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:44.159
the name from the Red Path to the Black Path,

926
00:51:44.559 --> 00:51:45.280
it sounds.

927
00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:47.000
I think it's two It could be two different things.

928
00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:48.960
I mean that was Yeah, we could talk.

929
00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:54.719
About that anyway. So I enjoyed some of the Lincoln

930
00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:59.400
with other comic books that we covered, and to me,

931
00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:02.440
I act we enjoyed this, but I was gonna give

932
00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:07.480
it an like a eight point something like eight point six,

933
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:11.360
but since the bone came around, I was like, oh no,

934
00:52:12.119 --> 00:52:16.679
so I'm gonna probably just for the sake of the bog,

935
00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:23.119
I'm gonna give it a seven of thee. Yeah, Dad,

936
00:52:23.159 --> 00:52:25.639
that's much going for it. But it's actually really intriguing,

937
00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:27.000
so we'll see what it goes.

938
00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:28.559
I love it.

939
00:52:28.800 --> 00:52:32.960
I love it all right, So, uh, Charles, you want

940
00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:35.519
to dive in here and take the rein so to speak?

941
00:52:36.360 --> 00:52:36.880
All right.

942
00:52:38.079 --> 00:52:42.760
I had pre ordered the series and then never just

943
00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:45.880
sat looked at it. I've been so busy I have

944
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:49.239
been caught catching up on my comics series, so I'd

945
00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:54.239
forgotten what this one was about. So I just pulled

946
00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:56.920
it out and said, okay, I go with book one.

947
00:52:57.440 --> 00:53:00.480
It's like, okay, we're on board this ship. And I

948
00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:04.000
was a look confused at the beginning. It's like, okay,

949
00:53:04.079 --> 00:53:08.679
I've got a crew I don't recognize I thought the soling.

950
00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:09.000
For a moment.

951
00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:11.039
At one point, I thought the throwing was an enemy.

952
00:53:11.960 --> 00:53:16.639
Now realizing always the engineer that makes sense was kind

953
00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:18.960
of reading and skimming at the same time and didn't

954
00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:23.480
really capture the whole story. But then as I read,

955
00:53:23.519 --> 00:53:25.360
and it's like, all of a sudden, it's like, okay,

956
00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:30.639
there's this big event the ship is destroyed, and then

957
00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:31.119
we get the.

958
00:53:31.079 --> 00:53:33.159
Title plate Last Starfier.

959
00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:36.760
It's like, okay, this reminds me of a TV episode

960
00:53:36.760 --> 00:53:40.119
where it's like okay, you get the prologue and the

961
00:53:40.159 --> 00:53:46.079
opener and it's like okay, I'm okay, what's going on

962
00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:50.239
with this story? And then we go to the transmission

963
00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:54.159
page where talked about what happened to all these ships,

964
00:53:55.559 --> 00:54:00.679
and it's like, oh, it's the burn. Now I understand

965
00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:04.320
what's going on. We're dealing with post burn. It's like, okay,

966
00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:09.119
I think that's a good spot to really discuss. As

967
00:54:09.119 --> 00:54:12.119
we say the Tholian. I think the Tholian was from

968
00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:19.760
Year four and that was the tos Era. But I

969
00:54:19.880 --> 00:54:22.559
like the idea of them bringing that Tholian type, that

970
00:54:23.159 --> 00:54:27.400
type of Tholian back because he used the same same

971
00:54:27.519 --> 00:54:33.119
drawing style from that series and that was I.

972
00:54:33.159 --> 00:54:34.000
Like that series.

973
00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:38.880
So we get in discussing what we do and I thought, okay,

974
00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:45.239
transwarp drive interesting, and then we had this creature come down.

975
00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:46.199
It's like okay.

976
00:54:46.239 --> 00:54:50.920
In Green, it's like okay, this doesn't quite remind me

977
00:54:51.199 --> 00:54:57.360
of traditional Borg. And when I look at it, realized

978
00:54:57.559 --> 00:55:04.320
the face like, oh that's Agnes. Okay, we're actually going

979
00:55:04.360 --> 00:55:10.360
to tie this into Bercar season two because so much

980
00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:13.519
for card they kind of wanted to get they wrote it.

981
00:55:14.320 --> 00:55:15.960
Then a lot of people kind of wanted to sit

982
00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:16.880
there and say, well.

983
00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:18.840
This didn't happen, it didn't really happen.

984
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:24.639
No, it's admitting this did really did really happen, and

985
00:55:24.679 --> 00:55:27.639
this is part of an entity because of what happened.

986
00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:31.920
This is part of the Borg that survived, whereas the

987
00:55:31.960 --> 00:55:38.199
boarg Queen in that era didn't survive. So I thought, okay,

988
00:55:38.239 --> 00:55:43.519
this is going to get interesting. And then it's like, okay,

989
00:55:43.639 --> 00:55:49.639
she's going they're going to go to Daystrm. And I

990
00:55:49.679 --> 00:55:53.960
was trying to remember when Daystrom was restricted and I

991
00:55:54.079 --> 00:55:56.760
think that was season three that.

992
00:55:56.440 --> 00:55:59.360
That when they went to Daystrm.

993
00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:02.599
If anybody corrected me, but I think it was season

994
00:56:02.760 --> 00:56:07.480
three they did that, and we did see several tie

995
00:56:07.519 --> 00:56:08.280
ins to.

996
00:56:10.280 --> 00:56:20.280
Legacy series and seeing Kirk. So when she goes.

997
00:56:20.119 --> 00:56:30.199
Through and creates its entity bringing it back and it's like, okay,

998
00:56:30.239 --> 00:56:33.039
you've spoken with God. Well, okay, we think we know

999
00:56:33.199 --> 00:56:35.960
who this is, but they're not going to tell us

1000
00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:36.559
who it is.

1001
00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:39.320
We get to see shots of.

1002
00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:43.239
Who it really is in some of the some of

1003
00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:47.239
the teasershells after, but we only get to see a

1004
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:50.440
side of you, and we're not positive it's him.

1005
00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:54.119
But I like the use of the.

1006
00:56:55.920 --> 00:57:01.960
Klingon language in Red and that takes us back over

1007
00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:07.119
to Star Trek and Defiant, which I did like where

1008
00:57:07.159 --> 00:57:09.920
they put the Klingon language in red and it's like, Okay,

1009
00:57:09.920 --> 00:57:14.719
this is translated from Klingon. It's not spoken languag, it's

1010
00:57:14.760 --> 00:57:18.039
not it is the true Klingon language being said.

1011
00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:23.440
And the Red Path kind of reminds me of.

1012
00:57:23.239 --> 00:57:27.679
That Star Trek series, so I think they're taking some

1013
00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:33.079
ideas from that start that series two, which I kind

1014
00:57:33.079 --> 00:57:36.360
of liked that idea. It's like, Okay, we're incorporating bringing

1015
00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:44.639
in stuff from tos from the season from the year

1016
00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:49.000
four comic or was it year five might have been

1017
00:57:49.079 --> 00:57:52.239
Year five for bringing in some of that, bringing all

1018
00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:59.360
kinds of IDW stuff together, bringing in Star Trek five,

1019
00:57:59.480 --> 00:58:05.280
bringing in Bricard season two and three. I like where

1020
00:58:05.280 --> 00:58:07.360
they're kind of Timely's in there and it's like, Okay,

1021
00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:12.840
this caught my attention. I'm not puzzitive where we're going

1022
00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:15.880
with it. We're not quite at ten yet, but you've

1023
00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:19.880
got my attention and I definitely will grab Since I've

1024
00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:23.840
already got all the current issues in my library, I

1025
00:58:23.920 --> 00:58:26.440
just need to get them. I'm going to go back

1026
00:58:26.480 --> 00:58:29.840
and probably reread the series and see where the series

1027
00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:30.320
takes is.

1028
00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:31.920
But I'm looking to see what they.

1029
00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:36.599
Do with it because they left us a big question

1030
00:58:36.760 --> 00:58:43.519
mark from Okay, the burn happened and Discovery it's like, okay,

1031
00:58:43.840 --> 00:58:46.800
where's we've got this big hole that we did we

1032
00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:50.719
have that we never answered what happened during the burn?

1033
00:58:51.880 --> 00:58:53.960
I think this is going to give us some details

1034
00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:58.079
of maybe what did happen with the burn? And I

1035
00:58:58.199 --> 00:59:02.079
want to know those details. So I'm going to go

1036
00:59:02.119 --> 00:59:05.960
with a nine point five. It's not quite a ten yet,

1037
00:59:06.039 --> 00:59:08.559
but it's working its way to being a ten.

1038
00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:13.840
You're going to follow up Charles's.

1039
00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:20.119
Yeah, well, I definitely like nine point five. Yeah, I

1040
00:59:20.159 --> 00:59:24.320
definitely like this one better than Starfleet Academy. Like there,

1041
00:59:24.400 --> 00:59:27.440
that's that is absolutely recognizable as Kirk.

1042
00:59:28.079 --> 00:59:28.360
Now.

1043
00:59:29.559 --> 00:59:32.800
The only thing I forget how did because the last

1044
00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:35.960
time I remember seeing Kirk was you know when he

1045
00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:38.239
gets killed at the end in.

1046
00:59:39.760 --> 00:59:41.079
What's it called Generations?

1047
00:59:41.840 --> 00:59:44.639
Yeah, so how does his body get do they like

1048
00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:50.000
retrieve him or I somehow missed that part? Where where

1049
00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:51.119
do they get his hat?

1050
00:59:51.960 --> 00:59:54.960
I think the I think the implication from some of

1051
00:59:55.000 --> 00:59:57.079
the other stuff that we've seen on the screen was

1052
00:59:57.119 --> 01:00:00.360
that they retrieved his body and they put it in

1053
01:00:00.519 --> 01:00:05.320
stasis or or at least put his remains at the

1054
01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:09.280
Daystrum Institute. And we see that in in Star Trek

1055
01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:14.079
card right, Well, I vaguely yeah, or is it in

1056
01:00:14.559 --> 01:00:15.199
or is it in.

1057
01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:20.880
The It's in season three, so I have yeah, but

1058
01:00:20.920 --> 01:00:23.519
it's but it's very vague, right. They wisely didn't give

1059
01:00:23.559 --> 01:00:24.000
us a lot.

1060
01:00:23.880 --> 01:00:25.639
Of I haven't gotten.

1061
01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:31.480
Behind, I haven't gotten to Pericard season three. But uh,

1062
01:00:31.719 --> 01:00:35.840
it's that that captain that is a combination of four

1063
01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:40.320
different different aliens. But he's just got if I can,

1064
01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:43.800
if I'm looking at the image of him, he's got

1065
01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:46.559
the blue skin, but he's got the white hair. But

1066
01:00:46.639 --> 01:00:51.719
he's got like this killer stashing going on. So, you know,

1067
01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:56.639
very stylish. But I think I'm I I definitely need

1068
01:00:56.679 --> 01:01:02.920
to buy the issues on Amazon or wherever because the

1069
01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:06.840
interruptions with that yes again the inappropriate.

1070
01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:07.760
Yeah.

1071
01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:10.199
I mean, dude, if you're gonna if you're gonna pirate comics,

1072
01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:12.760
you're gonna have to deal with weird internet stuff.

1073
01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:14.039
So just I will.

1074
01:01:14.960 --> 01:01:17.840
Yeah, may I recommend you find your local comic book

1075
01:01:17.920 --> 01:01:24.280
shop and get a physical copy.

1076
01:01:21.639 --> 01:01:24.360
Or I don't think we someplace you can't get it.

1077
01:01:24.400 --> 01:01:26.800
I don't think we Amazon.

1078
01:01:27.519 --> 01:01:30.280
I don't think we have a comic book store anywhere

1079
01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:31.880
around here. I'm not sure I have to.

1080
01:01:32.679 --> 01:01:34.800
I don't know. But anyway, Yeah, this.

1081
01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:40.119
Is is is that he does have a stash going on, right, he.

1082
01:01:40.119 --> 01:01:42.199
Does have a serious that's great.

1083
01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:47.360
So I just like, I know, I know, it's like okay,

1084
01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:51.760
but yeah, he is definitely that that's very interesting.

1085
01:01:51.880 --> 01:01:53.679
But I look forward to.

1086
01:01:54.280 --> 01:01:58.360
Yeah, he's got that seventies marblee, right, I mean he

1087
01:01:58.519 --> 01:02:01.079
totally evokes like you know, like you know, like you

1088
01:02:01.320 --> 01:02:04.159
doctor Strange or read Richard's kind of a thing, right,

1089
01:02:04.599 --> 01:02:06.360
but you know in that latter era.

1090
01:02:06.360 --> 01:02:08.679
Right, I don't know, I just I just think it

1091
01:02:08.719 --> 01:02:11.599
was to me it was just awfully suspicious that they've

1092
01:02:11.639 --> 01:02:14.559
got the gore and to say, hey, join the federation, kaboom.

1093
01:02:15.159 --> 01:02:17.039
I don't know, that just seems a little bit.

1094
01:02:18.440 --> 01:02:23.599
A little bit odd that that that all happened, but okay, yeah,

1095
01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:28.199
so I'm definitely going to get the non pirated versions

1096
01:02:29.400 --> 01:02:34.559
and be able to actually focus on them, so I will.

1097
01:02:34.679 --> 01:02:36.880
I guess I'll give it a nine.

1098
01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:44.000
All right, Well, there you go. You're gonna follow up.

1099
01:02:43.920 --> 01:02:51.679
These nine uh yeah, okay, Well, so I was so

1100
01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:56.440
excited to actually start reviewing this, uh this series. They're

1101
01:02:56.480 --> 01:02:59.440
currently up to issue number six with this series, and

1102
01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:01.599
it's such a good series that I really hope we

1103
01:03:01.639 --> 01:03:06.320
do get a chance to review future issues because to me,

1104
01:03:06.440 --> 01:03:08.320
this is just kind of the beginning of a really

1105
01:03:08.360 --> 01:03:11.679
good story. And when it first started, I was a

1106
01:03:11.679 --> 01:03:15.719
little taken aback because it reminded me a little bit

1107
01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:22.920
too much of a not awesome novel written by William

1108
01:03:22.960 --> 01:03:26.920
Shatner called The Return. And I don't know if anybody

1109
01:03:26.960 --> 01:03:30.519
ever read The Return other than me, but essentially, the

1110
01:03:30.559 --> 01:03:33.639
plot of the book is that the Borg and the

1111
01:03:33.760 --> 01:03:38.519
Romulans team up to destroy the Federation, and they resurrect

1112
01:03:38.639 --> 01:03:44.000
Kirk as their kind of like perfect weapon against the Federation.

1113
01:03:44.239 --> 01:03:47.800
So it's, you know, it's an interesting book that was

1114
01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:50.480
written by Shatner as a result of the way that

1115
01:03:50.559 --> 01:03:54.159
he died in Star Trek generations because he never liked

1116
01:03:54.239 --> 01:03:56.440
the fact that he died on a bridge. And so

1117
01:03:56.559 --> 01:03:58.719
when he got the you know, when he got the

1118
01:03:58.840 --> 01:04:01.840
chance to like write this book book which then does

1119
01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:05.440
also bring Card into it and like you know, does

1120
01:04:05.440 --> 01:04:08.440
a cross generational thing, it was his kind of Okay,

1121
01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:10.280
this is my answer to the terrible way that I

1122
01:04:10.320 --> 01:04:12.760
had to go out in generations, and I'll write this

1123
01:04:14.280 --> 01:04:22.320
terrible book instead. Anyway, right off the right off the Batman.

1124
01:04:22.679 --> 01:04:25.280
I well, first of all, when I picked up this book,

1125
01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:26.599
and this is one thing that you kind of get

1126
01:04:26.639 --> 01:04:29.760
in the physical copies, right, the book was hefty, and

1127
01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:33.360
it was a couple it's like a dollar more expensive

1128
01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:35.159
than the other comics, and it's because it's a little

1129
01:04:35.159 --> 01:04:38.079
bit longer, which I think is totally awesome, gives us

1130
01:04:38.079 --> 01:04:43.239
a little bit more content. The art was something that

1131
01:04:43.320 --> 01:04:45.840
I hadn't seen before. It has this real kind of

1132
01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:50.400
like rough style to it that has these real thick,

1133
01:04:50.519 --> 01:04:52.559
kind of dark lines. In a lot of ways, it

1134
01:04:52.639 --> 01:04:55.000
kind of harkened back for me to some like old

1135
01:04:55.039 --> 01:04:58.039
Todd McFarlane stuff back when he started Image Comics and

1136
01:04:58.159 --> 01:05:01.360
was doing the Spawn comics and just use like really

1137
01:05:01.400 --> 01:05:06.480
heavy dark lines to kind of depict like rough you know,

1138
01:05:07.039 --> 01:05:09.519
alley ways or whatever. And of course we're in.

1139
01:05:09.519 --> 01:05:12.679
A post miller too, a little bit of Frank.

1140
01:05:12.760 --> 01:05:18.320
Absolutely a perfect example. Yes, And so that's perfect for

1141
01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:20.239
the story that we're telling her here, right, because we're

1142
01:05:20.480 --> 01:05:23.599
we witness as Paul was saying, we witnessed the burn here,

1143
01:05:23.719 --> 01:05:26.000
and then we see the aftermath of it. And I,

1144
01:05:26.400 --> 01:05:28.440
you know, I knew the burn was bad. It didn't

1145
01:05:28.519 --> 01:05:32.440
quite clock to me that ninety six percent of Starfleet

1146
01:05:32.639 --> 01:05:36.599
was destroyed. So that was that was kind of intense.

1147
01:05:38.079 --> 01:05:41.679
But the artist here is Adrian Bonilla, and when I

1148
01:05:41.719 --> 01:05:43.800
looked them up, they had just a ton of stuff,

1149
01:05:43.920 --> 01:05:46.480
a lot of like Doctor Strange comics and other stuff

1150
01:05:46.519 --> 01:05:48.880
in their lexicon. So I think we're dealing with an

1151
01:05:48.920 --> 01:05:51.559
artist here who has you know, been around the way,

1152
01:05:52.199 --> 01:05:54.159
knows how to depict people, knows how.

1153
01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:57.079
To Paul was absolutely spot on.

1154
01:05:57.360 --> 01:05:59.800
It reminds me of the Marvel comics that came out

1155
01:06:00.119 --> 01:06:01.760
after Star Trek the motion picture.

1156
01:06:03.639 --> 01:06:07.960
Yeah. Particularly the design. Yeah, particularly the design of our

1157
01:06:08.280 --> 01:06:11.440
of our of our good captain here, who has very

1158
01:06:11.519 --> 01:06:14.559
kind of like gamor or flavorings to him, right with

1159
01:06:14.599 --> 01:06:18.199
the pointy ears and and that kind of stuff. But uh,

1160
01:06:18.760 --> 01:06:21.079
but the thing that nobody's talked about yet, which I

1161
01:06:21.079 --> 01:06:22.960
think is so cool about him is his last name.

1162
01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:27.840
It's Sato, right, so he presumably is a is an

1163
01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:32.039
ancestor of Hoshi Sato, is my guess. So anyway, I

1164
01:06:32.159 --> 01:06:34.840
love not that there's only one line of Sato's, and

1165
01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:37.079
I want to be careful to you know, there's there

1166
01:06:37.079 --> 01:06:41.920
are multiple lines of Sato's. They don't necessarily nothing Star Trek, right,

1167
01:06:41.960 --> 01:06:44.079
but nothing accidental in Star Trek. So I just wanted

1168
01:06:44.079 --> 01:06:46.719
to acknowledge that last name and the connection all the

1169
01:06:46.719 --> 01:06:49.000
way back to Star Trek Enterprise and the inventor of

1170
01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:53.000
the Universal Translator. So yeah, thank you very much for

1171
01:06:53.119 --> 01:06:56.960
doing that. The introduction of Gerardi I thought, or borg YARDI,

1172
01:06:57.719 --> 01:07:00.280
whatever we like to call her, I thought, I thought

1173
01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:04.079
it was fantastic. I loved bringing her into it and

1174
01:07:04.119 --> 01:07:06.920
the fact that she is kind of a cooperative now

1175
01:07:06.960 --> 01:07:11.920
and not a collective I have. Unfortunately in this case

1176
01:07:12.039 --> 01:07:12.840
read ahead.

1177
01:07:12.880 --> 01:07:13.039
You know.

1178
01:07:13.119 --> 01:07:14.960
I keep up with the Star Trek comics like if

1179
01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:17.320
it's if it comes out, I'm reading it like within

1180
01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:18.840
a couple of days of it coming out, So I've

1181
01:07:18.880 --> 01:07:21.679
read all the way through issue number six, and I

1182
01:07:21.719 --> 01:07:25.000
think as a result, I liked this issue even more

1183
01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:27.199
having read ahead. So you guys have a lot to

1184
01:07:27.239 --> 01:07:29.599
look forward to, because as we read future issues, I

1185
01:07:29.599 --> 01:07:31.480
think you can go back and you can read this

1186
01:07:31.480 --> 01:07:33.719
one and be like, oh man, that was actually really cool.

1187
01:07:34.480 --> 01:07:38.079
Can I ask you a question without spoiling anything. Yes,

1188
01:07:39.679 --> 01:07:42.760
do we find out why his first officer's name is Wowie?

1189
01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:51.039
I will say there is. It's no spoiler to say

1190
01:07:51.079 --> 01:07:55.519
we don't find out why his name is Wowie, but

1191
01:07:55.519 --> 01:07:58.440
but we do get a little bit more Wowie, So

1192
01:07:58.559 --> 01:07:59.039
that's good.

1193
01:08:00.039 --> 01:08:03.079
It was so there was such an odd like Normally

1194
01:08:03.119 --> 01:08:04.880
I would find that kind of thing so tone deaf

1195
01:08:04.920 --> 01:08:07.039
and glaring. I would just be like put off by it.

1196
01:08:07.079 --> 01:08:09.159
But I could not find it in myself to get

1197
01:08:09.199 --> 01:08:10.639
put off by anything in this comic.

1198
01:08:10.719 --> 01:08:11.960
I just it was cool.

1199
01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:20.319
I have a twin named Salie.

1200
01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:21.279
Maybe why not?

1201
01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:27.560
Yeah? So I loved the way that this whole comic

1202
01:08:27.680 --> 01:08:29.359
sort of moved, you know the way that it had

1203
01:08:29.359 --> 01:08:31.000
that kind of you guys have already talked about the

1204
01:08:31.039 --> 01:08:34.319
sort of pre credit uh intro and then boom the

1205
01:08:34.359 --> 01:08:36.439
ship blows up. I thought it was really clever to

1206
01:08:36.439 --> 01:08:39.640
have the transporter buffer be the escape mechanism. You know,

1207
01:08:39.680 --> 01:08:42.359
that feels very thirty second century to me, So I

1208
01:08:42.399 --> 01:08:47.079
I totally dug on that. You get a couple of

1209
01:08:47.159 --> 01:08:50.319
sides of Sato because you see him like captaining and

1210
01:08:50.399 --> 01:08:52.239
his ship blowing up and stuff, and then you see

1211
01:08:52.279 --> 01:08:55.840
him in the aftermath, much like Perk or Pike would

1212
01:08:55.920 --> 01:08:59.319
sort of mope in the aftermath of a failure. I

1213
01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:01.760
think we get that same thing with Sato here in

1214
01:09:01.840 --> 01:09:05.840
this comic, which I really like, the kind of tos callback,

1215
01:09:05.920 --> 01:09:10.560
you know, Ould School Marvel callback to that. So yeah,

1216
01:09:10.640 --> 01:09:13.880
I'm I'm kind of with Paul Mann. I really like

1217
01:09:13.920 --> 01:09:16.920
I read a lot of comics, and not every comic

1218
01:09:17.359 --> 01:09:20.880
kind of starts out running from the get go, and

1219
01:09:20.960 --> 01:09:23.560
to me, this one pushed all the buttons. It had

1220
01:09:23.680 --> 01:09:27.840
fantastic art, it had really good writing, It had interesting

1221
01:09:28.800 --> 01:09:32.000
ways of telling a story in an era that we

1222
01:09:32.039 --> 01:09:35.880
only have a limited amount of information about from you know,

1223
01:09:36.560 --> 01:09:39.079
from Starfleet Academy and then from our later seasons of

1224
01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:43.159
Star Trek Discovery. So I thought it was fantastic. I

1225
01:09:43.199 --> 01:09:45.399
will also say that it's not a spoiler to say

1226
01:09:45.399 --> 01:09:47.039
that I think you guys are going to continue to

1227
01:09:47.159 --> 01:09:49.840
like this series. It's the best series that's come out

1228
01:09:49.880 --> 01:09:52.720
in Star Trek Comics in my opinion since the big

1229
01:09:52.760 --> 01:09:56.720
crossover between the Star Trek Comics slash Defiant Comics where

1230
01:09:56.760 --> 01:09:59.000
they were doing the Red Paths stuff and that sort

1231
01:09:59.000 --> 01:10:02.319
of thing, which was also a fan tasting series. Uh

1232
01:10:02.720 --> 01:10:06.119
so yeah, I pretty much perfect. I mean, I can't

1233
01:10:06.119 --> 01:10:08.800
imagine a better first comic than this one. So I'm

1234
01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:09.479
going to give it a ten.

1235
01:10:10.439 --> 01:10:10.720
Wow.

1236
01:10:12.720 --> 01:10:17.239
Yeah baby, So Charles, where does that put the truck

1237
01:10:17.319 --> 01:10:18.960
Spurts on this issue?

1238
01:10:20.119 --> 01:10:25.439
Well, that's definitely a jump from the four point eight

1239
01:10:25.880 --> 01:10:28.880
for the Effort for the other issue to a nine

1240
01:10:28.960 --> 01:10:33.359
point two on this one. The trucks Burg should definitely

1241
01:10:33.439 --> 01:10:34.319
high on this one.

1242
01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:38.079
I'll tell you. The resurrection of Kirk in this series

1243
01:10:38.279 --> 01:10:39.960
is better than the one that you.

1244
01:10:39.920 --> 01:10:43.119
Get in the return is he is he naked right there?

1245
01:10:44.319 --> 01:10:45.840
It's kind of of.

1246
01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:48.199
Course he just got blasted.

1247
01:10:48.520 --> 01:10:52.600
Although d I mean that scene in the Terminator, you

1248
01:10:52.640 --> 01:10:57.560
know where he uh he lands on Earth or whatever,

1249
01:10:57.600 --> 01:10:59.520
because I saw that in the movie theater and it's

1250
01:10:59.640 --> 01:11:02.640
like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the buff.

1251
01:11:02.760 --> 01:11:03.760
It's like, oh my god.

1252
01:11:04.039 --> 01:11:04.359
Yeah.

1253
01:11:04.560 --> 01:11:07.399
So Anyway, you know.

1254
01:11:07.479 --> 01:11:10.279
One thing that I think bears like for those people

1255
01:11:10.319 --> 01:11:12.960
who are into Star Trek technology and stuff, there's one

1256
01:11:12.960 --> 01:11:15.079
thing that comes up occasionally, and it comes up in

1257
01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:16.600
this comic, and so I just want to touch on

1258
01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:19.439
it real quick in case anybody listening to this podcast cares.

1259
01:11:20.239 --> 01:11:23.560
So despite the fact that in the original series we

1260
01:11:23.640 --> 01:11:26.439
had Star Trek three, where of course we explore the

1261
01:11:26.479 --> 01:11:30.560
idea of transwarp and they go all colored and googly

1262
01:11:30.600 --> 01:11:33.199
and time dilaty and that kind of stuff in that movie,

1263
01:11:33.680 --> 01:11:37.439
that is a different type of transwarp from the transworp

1264
01:11:37.479 --> 01:11:40.079
that we're talking about. When it comes to Borg transwarp,

1265
01:11:40.159 --> 01:11:44.479
right tos transwarp was a way to like travel faster

1266
01:11:44.640 --> 01:11:47.800
than warp could travel, but kind of in the same

1267
01:11:47.840 --> 01:11:51.119
way within some sort of bubble within normal space. Borg

1268
01:11:51.239 --> 01:11:55.079
transwarp is there are these conduits that exist all over

1269
01:11:55.119 --> 01:11:57.479
the universe and we can use them to get places

1270
01:11:57.520 --> 01:11:58.119
that we're going.

1271
01:11:58.560 --> 01:12:00.880
So anyway, well, I think that I think that's interesting,

1272
01:12:01.000 --> 01:12:04.359
and I think there that's sort of I sort of

1273
01:12:04.399 --> 01:12:08.119
believe that there's there's more to this universe than we

1274
01:12:08.439 --> 01:12:13.399
have any clue. So if there are real Borg warp conduits.

1275
01:12:13.439 --> 01:12:17.760
I would not be surprised at all, just saying mm hmmm.

1276
01:12:18.920 --> 01:12:19.119
Yeah.

1277
01:12:24.720 --> 01:12:26.800
When they were talking about the twins whip, I actually

1278
01:12:26.840 --> 01:12:30.159
thought they were talking about the TST warp. I was like,

1279
01:12:30.640 --> 01:12:32.239
didn't it also take that with them?

1280
01:12:32.239 --> 01:12:35.880
But not to be not to be confused from Voyager

1281
01:12:36.039 --> 01:12:37.079
and the slip stream.

1282
01:12:38.520 --> 01:12:43.119
Slipstream, Yeah, also another way to travel outside and well,

1283
01:12:43.159 --> 01:12:45.319
and they bring that up at the beginning of Discovery

1284
01:12:45.359 --> 01:12:47.279
season three, which when you get there you'll see v

1285
01:12:47.479 --> 01:12:49.800
but they talk about all of the alternative ways that

1286
01:12:49.880 --> 01:12:52.560
the universe explored, traveling faster than light. When dial with

1287
01:12:52.640 --> 01:12:53.359
Fine blew up.

1288
01:12:53.479 --> 01:12:55.640
All right, cool, So now they're going to have to

1289
01:12:55.680 --> 01:12:58.680
convert to hyperspace hyper drive yep.

1290
01:13:00.199 --> 01:13:00.479
For you.

1291
01:13:01.680 --> 01:13:05.520
All right, guys, Well, that wraps up our comic corner.

1292
01:13:05.600 --> 01:13:09.560
Hard to believe, but it's over. But that's okay because

1293
01:13:09.800 --> 01:13:13.479
we're not done yet. We have some sci fi birthdays

1294
01:13:14.039 --> 01:13:16.720
to talk about, and we've got some pretty good ones

1295
01:13:16.760 --> 01:13:21.680
you definitely don't want to miss. So David roll the

1296
01:13:21.760 --> 01:13:46.600
tape that was not a song. All right, guys, this

1297
01:13:46.720 --> 01:13:48.680
is the part of the show where we have our

1298
01:13:48.800 --> 01:13:51.800
sci fi birthdays, and normally we would start off with

1299
01:13:51.880 --> 01:13:56.479
our remembrances and go to Eric. But unfortunately or fortunately,

1300
01:13:56.600 --> 01:13:58.880
depending on how you want to look at it, we

1301
01:13:58.920 --> 01:13:59.840
don't have any.

1302
01:14:00.159 --> 01:14:01.800
So Eric is going to do so.

1303
01:14:02.520 --> 01:14:05.800
Actually, uncle Jim, can I just have one remembrance really

1304
01:14:05.840 --> 01:14:06.399
really quick?

1305
01:14:08.640 --> 01:14:08.960
Yeah.

1306
01:14:09.000 --> 01:14:12.680
So we recently lost Sid Croft. That's why I'm wearing

1307
01:14:12.720 --> 01:14:15.199
this T shirt. I met him last year at Galaxy

1308
01:14:15.279 --> 01:14:18.880
Con Richmond and they give these t shirts to people

1309
01:14:18.960 --> 01:14:21.640
who got choked up and cried like I did.

1310
01:14:23.239 --> 01:14:24.800
I wish I'd gotten a picture with him.

1311
01:14:24.840 --> 01:14:27.960
But he and his brother Sid created so many wonderful,

1312
01:14:27.960 --> 01:14:30.439
wacky shows, you know, hr pub and stuff.

1313
01:14:30.840 --> 01:14:33.159
But the sci fi connection is.

1314
01:14:33.079 --> 01:14:36.960
That they worked on They were on the Land of

1315
01:14:37.000 --> 01:14:40.079
the Lost, which had the slee stacks and that has

1316
01:14:40.159 --> 01:14:43.640
the connection with David Gerald, who wrote Trouble with Trible.

1317
01:14:43.800 --> 01:14:44.600
So there you go.

1318
01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:48.760
So Sidcroft was ninety five years young.

1319
01:14:49.520 --> 01:14:50.039
He was.

1320
01:14:50.800 --> 01:14:53.039
He and his brother created so many shows that were

1321
01:14:53.399 --> 01:14:57.760
a big part of my you know, quiet, shy, lonely,

1322
01:14:58.520 --> 01:15:04.359
you know, childhood. So thank you, thank you Sid for

1323
01:15:04.439 --> 01:15:05.279
all all you did.

1324
01:15:05.399 --> 01:15:10.000
So did Okay, so.

1325
01:15:11.520 --> 01:15:22.439
Remembrance, Yeah that was great, Thank you very much.

1326
01:15:22.840 --> 01:15:28.600
Yes, I get I don't And Jim, not only did

1327
01:15:28.640 --> 01:15:30.960
you give me living people, but you start me out

1328
01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:33.880
with a total rock star here. I would like to

1329
01:15:33.880 --> 01:15:38.800
say a great happy birthday to David John Tennant. That's right.

1330
01:15:38.920 --> 01:15:41.920
He's widely considered one of the greatest stage and screen

1331
01:15:42.039 --> 01:15:46.399
actors of his generation, both in his native Scotland and internationally.

1332
01:15:46.560 --> 01:15:50.880
David Tennant was born David John McDonald in West Lothian, Scotland,

1333
01:15:51.439 --> 01:15:55.600
to Esdale Helen McLeod and Sandy McDonald, who was a

1334
01:15:55.600 --> 01:16:01.880
Presbyterian minister is of Scottish and Ooster Dissent. When he

1335
01:16:01.920 --> 01:16:03.680
was only three or four years old, he decided to

1336
01:16:03.720 --> 01:16:07.119
become an actor, and guess what. He was inspired by

1337
01:16:07.159 --> 01:16:11.239
his love of Doctor Who and When Chanel. Years later,

1338
01:16:11.279 --> 01:16:13.079
in two thousand and five, he would get his wish,

1339
01:16:13.159 --> 01:16:16.520
taking over playing the Doctor from Christopher eccleston and continuing

1340
01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:20.159
the first grade Doctor Who revival of the twenty first century.

1341
01:16:20.520 --> 01:16:23.159
Of course, we also salute him for playing at Bartamus

1342
01:16:23.159 --> 01:16:26.560
Crouch Junior in the Harry Potter movie Goblet of Fire

1343
01:16:27.279 --> 01:16:31.159
and Kevin Thompson Slash Kilgrave and Jessica Jones, where I

1344
01:16:31.199 --> 01:16:35.159
thought he was just fantastic, of course, among many many

1345
01:16:35.159 --> 01:16:39.479
other roles. So David Tennant, you are such a cool guy.

1346
01:16:39.760 --> 01:16:41.920
Everybody loves you as doctor Who and in all of

1347
01:16:41.920 --> 01:16:44.359
the other things that you do, and your hair is

1348
01:16:44.439 --> 01:16:47.960
freaking amazing. So happy birthday to you, sir. May you

1349
01:16:48.039 --> 01:16:51.239
have many, many more. Happy birthday as well to Brennan

1350
01:16:51.279 --> 01:16:54.800
bess Here, the actor who played the medical hologram Eli

1351
01:16:55.079 --> 01:16:59.560
in Discovery third season episodes Die Trying and There Is

1352
01:16:59.680 --> 01:17:03.319
a There. You got a little Discovery alumni. Happy birthday, Brendan.

1353
01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:06.960
Happy birthday as well to Ashley Judd, the actress who

1354
01:17:06.960 --> 01:17:10.640
played Robin Leffler and the TNG fifth season episodes Darmock

1355
01:17:10.760 --> 01:17:14.760
and The Game. Born in Granada Hills, California, daughter of

1356
01:17:14.760 --> 01:17:17.720
course of Naomi Judd and half sister to Wanona Judd.

1357
01:17:17.720 --> 01:17:20.640
Her mother and half sister formed the well known country

1358
01:17:20.680 --> 01:17:26.399
in Western duo The Juds Well and Man. She was

1359
01:17:26.439 --> 01:17:28.680
so good in this episode, and I really liked her,

1360
01:17:28.680 --> 01:17:30.479
and she's just so darn cute that I wish they

1361
01:17:30.479 --> 01:17:32.439
would have given her a little bit more Star Trek work,

1362
01:17:32.479 --> 01:17:36.159
but alas we only get her in two episodes. So

1363
01:17:36.680 --> 01:17:41.640
happy birthday to Ashley Judd. Happy birthday to Noah averbach Katz,

1364
01:17:41.720 --> 01:17:45.000
who played Rinn in the Star Trek Discovery third season

1365
01:17:45.000 --> 01:17:50.159
episodes Scavengers, The Sanctuary and There Is a Tide. Raised

1366
01:17:50.199 --> 01:17:55.079
in Fairfax, Marin County, California, Averbach Cats often attended Star

1367
01:17:55.119 --> 01:17:58.680
Trek conventions as a child with his Treky mother, and

1368
01:17:58.720 --> 01:18:01.279
in fact, we had him on the podcast and he

1369
01:18:01.439 --> 01:18:04.399
was an awesome, awesome guest. He was so fun to

1370
01:18:04.439 --> 01:18:07.119
talk to. We talked all about what it was like

1371
01:18:07.159 --> 01:18:12.960
to be and tenniless and Dorian to where all of

1372
01:18:13.000 --> 01:18:15.159
that makeup, and he was just a real who to

1373
01:18:15.199 --> 01:18:18.199
hang out with. So very nice to be able to

1374
01:18:18.239 --> 01:18:22.840
celebrate your birthday. No happy birthday to you, Happy birthday

1375
01:18:22.840 --> 01:18:25.920
as well. To Michael Forrest, the actor who played Apollo

1376
01:18:26.159 --> 01:18:29.720
in The Star Trek the original series second second season

1377
01:18:29.800 --> 01:18:34.159
episode who Mourns for Adonus. Born in North Dakota and

1378
01:18:34.199 --> 01:18:36.520
grew up in Seattle. His work outside of Star Trek

1379
01:18:36.600 --> 01:18:41.600
includes over one hundred films and seventy five television guest roles.

1380
01:18:41.640 --> 01:18:47.079
As many folks from this era, kind of test was

1381
01:18:47.479 --> 01:18:50.119
very frequent, but I thought it was really cool to

1382
01:18:50.119 --> 01:18:52.239
see him reappear and we've got a great picture here

1383
01:18:52.720 --> 01:18:56.880
in Star Trek continues the fans series afterward and I

1384
01:18:56.920 --> 01:18:58.520
saw his face and I was like, wait a second,

1385
01:18:58.520 --> 01:19:01.720
he looks really familiar, and of course it's the same guy.

1386
01:19:01.960 --> 01:19:06.720
So happy birthday to Michael Forrest. And last, but not least,

1387
01:19:07.079 --> 01:19:10.680
I'd like to wish happy birthday to John Joseph Nicholson.

1388
01:19:11.039 --> 01:19:16.640
That's right, Jack, Jack himself. The American retired actor and filmmaker.

1389
01:19:17.159 --> 01:19:19.800
Nicholson is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors

1390
01:19:19.840 --> 01:19:23.359
of the twentieth century, often playing charismatic rebels fighting against

1391
01:19:23.359 --> 01:19:26.760
the social structure. Over his five decade long career, he

1392
01:19:26.840 --> 01:19:31.840
received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, three British Academy

1393
01:19:31.920 --> 01:19:37.079
Film Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award.

1394
01:19:37.560 --> 01:19:39.560
I don't think there's a person alive who hasn't seen

1395
01:19:39.600 --> 01:19:42.560
a Jack Nicholson movie that they didn't love. And I've

1396
01:19:42.680 --> 01:19:45.960
in particular, just been thinking a lot about his portrayal

1397
01:19:46.079 --> 01:19:48.760
as the Joker from the nineteen eighty nine Batman movie,

1398
01:19:48.800 --> 01:19:53.640
which started the whole superhero movie genre. And it's just

1399
01:19:53.720 --> 01:19:55.760
cool to have him as kind of like the template

1400
01:19:56.119 --> 01:19:58.000
for one of the greatest villains of all time in

1401
01:19:58.000 --> 01:20:02.720
one of the og superhero movies that's out there, Jack Nicholson,

1402
01:20:03.239 --> 01:20:06.640
one of the best. Happy birthday to you, sir uh

1403
01:20:07.359 --> 01:20:11.319
and I love that you're still alive and kicking, and

1404
01:20:11.359 --> 01:20:14.359
I'm gonna past I'm gonna now. I don't know how

1405
01:20:14.399 --> 01:20:17.039
to I don't know how to like give people accolades

1406
01:20:17.039 --> 01:20:18.720
who are still alive. I feel like I could say

1407
01:20:18.720 --> 01:20:21.159
whatever I want about people who are gone, but if

1408
01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:23.520
they may ever hear this, I want to be like Jack,

1409
01:20:23.680 --> 01:20:24.439
I love you, dude.

1410
01:20:25.239 --> 01:20:26.079
We handed to Paul.

1411
01:20:28.079 --> 01:20:31.159
Let's hand it to Paul. Yes, because we're almost out

1412
01:20:31.159 --> 01:20:32.479
of time, because Paul has to leave early.

1413
01:20:32.520 --> 01:20:35.359
Paul, why don't you go to Scoot So I'm just

1414
01:20:35.399 --> 01:20:39.760
gonna jump batting order here real quickly, guys, Yeah, okay,

1415
01:20:39.840 --> 01:20:45.800
real quick. Happy birthday to a living legend, Sean Bean.

1416
01:20:47.000 --> 01:20:53.000
One does not simply read Sean Bean's birthday writings. It's

1417
01:20:53.039 --> 01:20:57.119
simply not done. Of course. This is a distinguished English

1418
01:20:57.119 --> 01:21:03.039
actor celebrated for his phenomenal versatility up across stage, film television,

1419
01:21:03.960 --> 01:21:07.840
recently known of course for playing Ned Stark House Stark

1420
01:21:07.880 --> 01:21:12.079
Patriarch on Game of Thrones, and of course the iconic

1421
01:21:12.680 --> 01:21:18.039
pincushioned by Orc Arrows Boramir in the Fellowship of the

1422
01:21:18.159 --> 01:21:22.760
Ring and a wonderful series of British films called Sharp's

1423
01:21:23.119 --> 01:21:25.279
Rifles that you should check out, a whole series of

1424
01:21:25.279 --> 01:21:29.119
different films with that character. He's a swashbuckling, sometimes villain,

1425
01:21:29.239 --> 01:21:32.560
sometimes hero. You gotta love Sean Bean. And let's not

1426
01:21:32.640 --> 01:21:37.359
forget his turn in GoldenEye, the first Pierce Brosnan picture

1427
01:21:38.119 --> 01:21:40.439
where you played a very morally ambiguous character. I'll just

1428
01:21:40.520 --> 01:21:43.640
leave it at that, but love Sean Bean. He's absolutely phenomenal,

1429
01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:48.000
real presence. Happy Birthday goes out to comedic legend. Rick

1430
01:21:48.119 --> 01:21:52.359
moranis a Canadian actor and comedian and of course writer

1431
01:21:52.439 --> 01:21:56.720
who's been burst on the scene from the Canadian sketch

1432
01:21:56.720 --> 01:22:00.279
comedy series Second City back in the early eighties. His

1433
01:22:00.359 --> 01:22:04.119
film credits include Streets of Fire, Strange Brew Ghostbusters and

1434
01:22:04.119 --> 01:22:08.279
its sequel, Ghostbusters, Too Little, Jean Pah, Horrors, Spaceballs, Honey

1435
01:22:08.279 --> 01:22:10.800
and I Shrunk the Kids, flint Stones, and he came

1436
01:22:10.840 --> 01:22:16.000
out of semi retirement to do his reprise his role

1437
01:22:16.039 --> 01:22:19.560
of Direk Helmets in Spaceballs, the new one that we'll

1438
01:22:19.560 --> 01:22:21.920
be seeing sometime in the twenty twenty seven. So very

1439
01:22:21.920 --> 01:22:24.159
cool to know that Rick came back to that. That's

1440
01:22:24.199 --> 01:22:28.560
pretty pretty awesome Happy Birthday to original series luminary Eleanor

1441
01:22:28.680 --> 01:22:33.319
Donna Hue, American actress who played Nancy Hedford and also

1442
01:22:33.439 --> 01:22:37.239
the companion when the Anthony merged with Nancy Headrid in

1443
01:22:37.279 --> 01:22:40.880
the second season episode Metamorphosis. Okay, this is the original

1444
01:22:41.000 --> 01:22:45.039
zephyrm cochrane episode, right, So a very cool piece and

1445
01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:49.479
star Tark history for you, Eleanor Donahue. Very interesting show

1446
01:22:49.600 --> 01:22:55.119
for sure. Happy Birthday did the great charismatic epic. Tim

1447
01:22:55.199 --> 01:22:59.640
Curry English Emmy Award winning English actor and singer. Of course,

1448
01:23:00.399 --> 01:23:04.199
most recently generations of pegged him for his role in

1449
01:23:04.239 --> 01:23:07.560
the eighties as Pennywise, the clown from the first iteration

1450
01:23:07.640 --> 01:23:12.000
of it. He was a penal coonist on Earth two.

1451
01:23:12.760 --> 01:23:15.920
Of course, in Ridley Scott's legend he was a phenomenal

1452
01:23:16.000 --> 01:23:19.479
iteration of darkness. We wore like sixty pounds of makeup,

1453
01:23:19.600 --> 01:23:21.439
unbelievable visual depiction.

1454
01:23:21.520 --> 01:23:21.720
There.

1455
01:23:22.640 --> 01:23:25.239
He was in Hunter Red October with Sean Connery. The

1456
01:23:25.319 --> 01:23:28.039
list goes on and on and on. The great comedy

1457
01:23:28.079 --> 01:23:32.680
Clue and of course the ever iconic doctor Frank Andferter

1458
01:23:33.079 --> 01:23:35.479
from the film musical The Rocky Horror Pictures.

1459
01:23:35.479 --> 01:23:41.800
Now so such a fan, such an influential character on

1460
01:23:42.000 --> 01:23:45.720
so many people throughout the time. Absolutely, like I just

1461
01:23:46.520 --> 01:23:49.079
I can't. If he had done nothing else and all

1462
01:23:49.119 --> 01:23:51.560
he did was Frank and Furter, it would have been enough.

1463
01:23:51.880 --> 01:23:55.640
And yet my son, my son alter a period. My

1464
01:23:56.079 --> 01:23:58.720
kid watches movies that he likes over and over and

1465
01:23:58.720 --> 01:24:01.079
over again like crazy, right, And there was a year

1466
01:24:01.159 --> 01:24:04.279
where he was absolutely obsessed with Up a Treasure Island. Okay,

1467
01:24:04.359 --> 01:24:07.319
And I mentioned this because Tim Curry is like long

1468
01:24:07.399 --> 01:24:11.600
John Silver and that movie, and he's phenomenal. He's absolutely

1469
01:24:11.640 --> 01:24:13.960
it's just like he managed to take We could have

1470
01:24:14.000 --> 01:24:16.319
just been a knockoff job for a lot of actors,

1471
01:24:16.600 --> 01:24:19.479
and he just breathes all kinds of intense life and

1472
01:24:20.640 --> 01:24:24.159
charisma and is amazing stuff. So Tim Curry, anytime you

1473
01:24:24.279 --> 01:24:26.039
had a chance to see him work, he's just he

1474
01:24:26.159 --> 01:24:30.239
delivers like is no Tomorrow. Is just so phenomenal. It's

1475
01:24:30.279 --> 01:24:33.359
just it just does it his own way and still

1476
01:24:33.399 --> 01:24:36.199
out there. Absolutely, and not to mention all of his

1477
01:24:36.279 --> 01:24:38.880
voiceover work, which is prodigious, he's done quite a bit.

1478
01:24:39.239 --> 01:24:41.399
So Tim Curry, we love you and wish you all

1479
01:24:41.439 --> 01:24:44.439
the long life and good health. So there we have

1480
01:24:44.680 --> 01:24:48.920
that Speaking of luminaries, let's say hello to Hayden Christiansen,

1481
01:24:49.680 --> 01:24:54.920
absolutely legendary Canadian actor who portrayed Anakin Skywalker as a

1482
01:24:54.960 --> 01:24:57.319
grown man in Star Wars episode two, Attack of the

1483
01:24:57.359 --> 01:25:00.960
Clones and episode three Revenge of the Sith. Came back

1484
01:25:01.000 --> 01:25:04.399
for the Obi Wan Kenobi series recently on Disney Plus,

1485
01:25:06.359 --> 01:25:10.720
briefly in the Force Awakens Rise of Skywalker Star Wars Rebels,

1486
01:25:10.760 --> 01:25:14.720
not all Hayden Christensen, but mostly Hayden Christensen, and certainly

1487
01:25:14.720 --> 01:25:18.159
in the live action depictions there, the dude has lost

1488
01:25:18.199 --> 01:25:22.239
none of his lightsaber wielding abilities and is often just

1489
01:25:22.840 --> 01:25:26.680
way faster and more in depth stunt people themselves. He's

1490
01:25:26.720 --> 01:25:29.159
just crazy and a real great guy at con still is.

1491
01:25:29.159 --> 01:25:31.720
If you get a chance to meet him, definitely do

1492
01:25:32.600 --> 01:25:35.479
Happy Birthday to somebody I had the brief pleasure of meeting,

1493
01:25:35.600 --> 01:25:39.479
very very briefly a long time ago, lovely Bronica Cartwright,

1494
01:25:40.600 --> 01:25:45.319
who was in the original Ridley Scott Alien the First

1495
01:25:45.319 --> 01:25:48.760
One right as Lambert a Right, and then went on

1496
01:25:48.840 --> 01:25:52.159
to depict the character again in Alien Isolation, the video game.

1497
01:25:52.520 --> 01:25:56.520
She's done a ton of great work, amazing two movies

1498
01:25:56.560 --> 01:25:58.199
that if you've got to check it out. If you've

1499
01:25:58.239 --> 01:26:00.800
never seen Veronica Carr right, there's so much work of

1500
01:26:00.840 --> 01:26:04.119
hers you could just go forever watching. But check her

1501
01:26:04.159 --> 01:26:06.960
out in the Philip Kaufman reimagining of an Invasion of

1502
01:26:06.960 --> 01:26:10.920
the Body Snatchers with Leonard Nye Mooy, which is absolutely

1503
01:26:11.039 --> 01:26:14.800
top tier science fiction. If you've never seen it, you

1504
01:26:14.880 --> 01:26:18.680
are missing out. Vasion of the Body Snatches, Donald Sutherland,

1505
01:26:19.119 --> 01:26:21.960
Lenardie Moy and the luminous Veronica gar You will not

1506
01:26:22.000 --> 01:26:23.800
be sorry. And just even if you never want to

1507
01:26:23.800 --> 01:26:27.079
see this movie, Eric, just a couple of minutes ago

1508
01:26:27.199 --> 01:26:30.720
mentioned Jack Nicholson, go check out The Wizard of east

1509
01:26:31.319 --> 01:26:34.199
The Wizards. I'm losing my mind, The Witches of east

1510
01:26:40.159 --> 01:26:43.560
the Witches of east Wick. Okay, what Veronica Cartwright had

1511
01:26:43.600 --> 01:26:46.680
to do now that film and I got to jump

1512
01:26:46.680 --> 01:26:49.000
off really quickly. But what she had went through and

1513
01:26:49.000 --> 01:26:51.640
did in that film, no spoilers. Watch it you will.

1514
01:26:52.880 --> 01:26:55.960
You won't believe it. It's crazy, but she's absolutely heroic

1515
01:26:56.039 --> 01:26:58.399
and does a lot of cool things. Happy birthday to

1516
01:26:58.479 --> 01:27:04.000
rock and roll maniac Iggy Pop. Absolutely phenomenal legendary icon

1517
01:27:04.279 --> 01:27:07.720
songwriter and sometimes actor who showed up in at least

1518
01:27:07.720 --> 01:27:10.720
one giant Carpenter movie. I believe he was in Prince

1519
01:27:10.720 --> 01:27:12.399
of Darkness if I'm not mistaken. We were talking about

1520
01:27:12.399 --> 01:27:14.680
that a couple of weeks ago. And played as Yelgrun

1521
01:27:14.760 --> 01:27:18.199
in Deep Space nine, sixteenth episode, season episode of The

1522
01:27:18.199 --> 01:27:21.520
Magnificent FORENGI there he is underneath all that crazy garb

1523
01:27:21.600 --> 01:27:26.039
there And finally, the man who invented body capture motion

1524
01:27:26.199 --> 01:27:31.039
capture acting. Give it up to the phenomenal Andy Circus. Okay,

1525
01:27:31.319 --> 01:27:36.000
absolutely amazing English actor and filmmaker. Basically originated motion capture

1526
01:27:36.239 --> 01:27:38.800
acting and teaches it to others and a ton of

1527
01:27:38.840 --> 01:27:41.760
voice work, but of course will be in film history

1528
01:27:41.800 --> 01:27:45.640
forever for embodying the legendary Gollum in the Lord of

1529
01:27:45.640 --> 01:27:49.439
the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit movie as well. He

1530
01:27:49.479 --> 01:27:53.600
did the King Kong motion capture work. Played Caesar in

1531
01:27:53.720 --> 01:27:56.560
the Plan of the Apes reboot movies, which is amazing

1532
01:27:56.640 --> 01:27:59.560
work if you've not seen it. He's Great Supreme Leader

1533
01:27:59.640 --> 01:28:03.159
Snow in the Star Wars trilogy, The Force Awakens and

1534
01:28:03.199 --> 01:28:07.479
The Last Jedi and go check him out. In the

1535
01:28:07.520 --> 01:28:11.119
first season of and Or on Disney Plus. That is

1536
01:28:11.119 --> 01:28:13.840
one of the most brilliant television series that we have

1537
01:28:13.920 --> 01:28:17.000
been blessed to get, blessed to get in the last

1538
01:28:17.039 --> 01:28:21.800
few years. His role as an Imperial prisoner in season one. Wow,

1539
01:28:22.000 --> 01:28:24.720
I mean it is just amazing, phenomenal work. So he's

1540
01:28:24.760 --> 01:28:28.199
a living legend. Absolutely great. Thanks for letting me jump

1541
01:28:28.199 --> 01:28:31.720
in here and cut the line tonight, guys really appreciate it.

1542
01:28:31.760 --> 01:28:33.880
Sorry after leave, but I'm going to turn the birthday

1543
01:28:34.239 --> 01:28:39.039
Roulett Wheel over to our own luminary the the You've

1544
01:28:39.079 --> 01:28:41.840
got some other people that you propped up Birthday, so.

1545
01:28:42.039 --> 01:28:46.600
You will see you next week, Paul real Quick Iggy Pop.

1546
01:28:46.840 --> 01:28:51.640
When I met armand Shimmerman at Galaxy Con last month,

1547
01:28:52.000 --> 01:28:56.199
I asked him about that episode The Magnificence Frankie, and

1548
01:28:56.239 --> 01:29:00.159
I asked if it was really interesting to work with

1549
01:29:00.159 --> 01:29:03.720
with Iggy Pop, and he said that Iggy was super

1550
01:29:03.880 --> 01:29:09.119
nervous about being on the show. You know, Ira Stephen

1551
01:29:09.159 --> 01:29:11.800
Bear was a huge fan, so he got him on

1552
01:29:12.000 --> 01:29:14.640
the show and he was so nervous and they had

1553
01:29:14.640 --> 01:29:18.880
to wait several hours before the filming started. So Armann

1554
01:29:19.000 --> 01:29:22.520
was telling me how the actress who played Moogie that

1555
01:29:22.680 --> 01:29:28.840
was Cecily Adams. Somehow she became the Iggy's handler so

1556
01:29:28.920 --> 01:29:32.640
to speak, and was like talking him down from the edge,

1557
01:29:32.640 --> 01:29:35.319
so to speak, before he had to go on. But

1558
01:29:35.359 --> 01:29:38.359
whatever she did, it worked because he was fantastic in that.

1559
01:29:38.640 --> 01:29:43.359
So that's my Eggy story. So let me say a

1560
01:29:43.560 --> 01:29:50.640
happy birthday to Robert Hooks. He Playedmorrow in Star Trek three,

1561
01:29:50.960 --> 01:29:54.199
The Search for Spock, and he was originally set to

1562
01:29:54.239 --> 01:29:57.399
reprise his role in Star Trek four, The Voyage Home,

1563
01:29:58.079 --> 01:30:01.840
but became unavailable. That's a shame because he was really

1564
01:30:01.880 --> 01:30:07.840
good in that. Next, Happy Birthday to Peter Slutsker, former

1565
01:30:07.920 --> 01:30:12.239
actor who appeared as four different characters in episodes of

1566
01:30:13.199 --> 01:30:18.319
TNG and Voyager. In all three of his TNG appearances,

1567
01:30:18.399 --> 01:30:24.199
he portrayed for Rangi. Next day, Happy Birthday goes to

1568
01:30:24.520 --> 01:30:29.159
Elizabeth Lindsay. She's the actress who played Louisa Kim in

1569
01:30:29.279 --> 01:30:35.039
The Star Trek TNG first season episode Home Soil. She

1570
01:30:35.159 --> 01:30:39.000
was born in Oahu, Hawaii, and in nineteen seventy eight

1571
01:30:39.199 --> 01:30:43.600
was named Miss Hawaii and represented her state in the

1572
01:30:43.640 --> 01:30:49.479
Miss America pageant. Next, let's raise a glass of Tronia

1573
01:30:49.760 --> 01:30:56.359
to Clint Howard. He played Baylock in TLS first season

1574
01:30:56.479 --> 01:31:02.359
episode The Corbamite Maneuver. He was Grady in DS nine

1575
01:31:02.439 --> 01:31:08.319
third season episode Past Tense Part two, Muck in Enterprise

1576
01:31:08.439 --> 01:31:13.800
first season episode Acquisition, I Love this A creepy, A

1577
01:31:13.840 --> 01:31:19.640
creepy Oriyan in Discovery first season episode Will You Take

1578
01:31:19.760 --> 01:31:24.479
My Hand? And Buck Martinez in Strange New World second

1579
01:31:24.560 --> 01:31:28.159
season episode Under the Cloak of War. And of course

1580
01:31:28.800 --> 01:31:34.399
his brother is Ron Howard. We know Ron Howard, so

1581
01:31:34.600 --> 01:31:37.760
happy birthday to you, Clint. He was also in the

1582
01:31:37.800 --> 01:31:39.640
show that I watched as a kid, Gentle Ben.

1583
01:31:40.039 --> 01:31:42.680
Anybody remembers that, Oh.

1584
01:31:42.560 --> 01:31:46.640
Yeah, yeah, for sure, I kind of. You know, this

1585
01:31:46.960 --> 01:31:49.000
just reminds me of the We haven't had a show

1586
01:31:49.039 --> 01:31:52.680
where we've talked about Ryan, and I feel like that

1587
01:31:52.760 --> 01:31:55.880
would be a really good idea because the Discovery o

1588
01:31:55.960 --> 01:31:58.479
Ryan's are very different from the Enterprise Ryans, which are

1589
01:31:58.600 --> 01:32:00.399
very different from the Toshire.

1590
01:32:00.520 --> 01:32:04.119
Are they different from the what about the lower Decks Orions?

1591
01:32:05.920 --> 01:32:06.239
Yeah?

1592
01:32:06.319 --> 01:32:10.039
Well, the Lower Decks Orions are actually a good combination

1593
01:32:10.239 --> 01:32:14.239
of the of the Enterprise Ryan's, which are kind of

1594
01:32:14.239 --> 01:32:16.640
like the tough, ling, rough and tumble kind of guys.

1595
01:32:17.039 --> 01:32:20.000
And then I feel like their own unique blend of tender.

1596
01:32:19.800 --> 01:32:22.079
Yeah, which I love. Tendy is one She is one

1597
01:32:22.079 --> 01:32:25.960
of my favorite characters. She's just awesome. So yeah, that's

1598
01:32:25.960 --> 01:32:30.279
that's a good idea. So next, I've got a Happy

1599
01:32:30.319 --> 01:32:35.159
Birthday going out to Kate Vernon. She is the actress

1600
01:32:35.199 --> 01:32:39.079
who played a member of Species eight four seven to two,

1601
01:32:39.880 --> 01:32:46.279
impersonating Commander Valerie Archer. Hmmm, any relation in Voyager fifth

1602
01:32:46.319 --> 01:32:51.000
season episode in the Flesh. I never could understand how

1603
01:32:51.199 --> 01:32:53.640
they because they had to give themselves shots to stay

1604
01:32:53.640 --> 01:32:56.920
in their human form. But how does that big creepy

1605
01:32:57.159 --> 01:33:00.560
Species eight four seven to two compact into a human?

1606
01:33:00.640 --> 01:33:02.680
I don't understand anyway.

1607
01:33:04.039 --> 01:33:07.479
She also played I mean, it's the it's the it's

1608
01:33:07.520 --> 01:33:10.560
the Odo syndrome, right, Like, how does Odo transform from

1609
01:33:10.560 --> 01:33:12.720
something bucket sized into something?

1610
01:33:12.840 --> 01:33:13.039
Yeah?

1611
01:33:13.119 --> 01:33:16.199
And how come he could just I know, because he

1612
01:33:16.239 --> 01:33:18.720
could never do he couldn't get his face right. But

1613
01:33:18.880 --> 01:33:22.359
he could be a Tarkalian hawk, you know, I don't

1614
01:33:22.399 --> 01:33:23.479
know anyway.

1615
01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:26.800
And and and a whole bunch of other changelings could

1616
01:33:26.800 --> 01:33:28.359
do perfect Yeah, Yeah.

1617
01:33:28.319 --> 01:33:31.479
I know, I don't Yeah, I know, I still, I mean,

1618
01:33:31.520 --> 01:33:32.399
you love Odo.

1619
01:33:32.479 --> 01:33:33.239
He was awesome.

1620
01:33:33.880 --> 01:33:34.560
I love Odo.

1621
01:33:34.800 --> 01:33:41.880
Yeah, And so Kate also played Ellen Tie on Battlestar Galactica. Next,

1622
01:33:41.960 --> 01:33:46.199
Happy Birthday goes out to Rod Loomis. He played Paul

1623
01:33:46.359 --> 01:33:52.640
Mannheim in TNG first season episode Will Always Have Paris.

1624
01:33:53.560 --> 01:33:55.800
He began his acting career while he was in the

1625
01:33:55.920 --> 01:34:01.479
US Army. He's best known for playing Sigmund Foyd. Oh,

1626
01:34:01.560 --> 01:34:06.000
I didn't, okay, because I watched Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Okay,

1627
01:34:06.279 --> 01:34:09.079
just connection because I watched that movie, and so he

1628
01:34:09.199 --> 01:34:10.359
was Sigmund Freud.

1629
01:34:11.560 --> 01:34:15.359
So that's awesome. And uh hmm.

1630
01:34:15.199 --> 01:34:15.479
Hey v.

1631
01:34:17.760 --> 01:34:26.600
Party on Okay, excellent you're just talking about Yeah, well,

1632
01:34:26.600 --> 01:34:27.560
I party on this.

1633
01:34:27.840 --> 01:34:31.279
I thought that was Wayne Firl Wayne sty on Earth.

1634
01:34:31.399 --> 01:34:34.800
I don't know anyway, and then and wasn't George Carlin

1635
01:34:34.880 --> 01:34:42.039
in that as well? And I think so anyway, yeah, yeah, anyway, okay, sorry,

1636
01:34:42.359 --> 01:34:45.239
I'm tired. My brain isn't uh uh you know.

1637
01:34:45.359 --> 01:34:47.239
Anyway. Uh So, last but.

1638
01:34:47.159 --> 01:34:57.279
Not least, Happy birthday to the Yeah yeah, okay, yeah,

1639
01:34:57.920 --> 01:34:58.319
I don't know.

1640
01:34:58.399 --> 01:34:59.800
Probably I haven't. It's been a long time.

1641
01:34:59.840 --> 01:35:01.479
So as I watched it, all I know is that

1642
01:35:01.560 --> 01:35:06.880
I just laughed, you know, like like a loon in that.

1643
01:35:06.880 --> 01:35:11.520
That was such a funny movie. So anyway, uh, Happy

1644
01:35:11.560 --> 01:35:16.199
birthday to Jeffrey Dean Morgan. He played the Zindy Reptilian

1645
01:35:16.840 --> 01:35:22.600
Damn Ron in Enterprise third season episode Carpenter Street and

1646
01:35:22.600 --> 01:35:27.760
those that Zindi Reptilian boy. That's one scary character. He's

1647
01:35:27.760 --> 01:35:32.520
best known for his role as Megan Smith in The Walking.

1648
01:35:32.239 --> 01:35:34.840
Dead and Dead City.

1649
01:35:35.600 --> 01:35:38.800
I never watch The Walking Dead because zombies terrify me.

1650
01:35:39.960 --> 01:35:43.239
All right, So who has the next birth? Who do

1651
01:35:43.279 --> 01:35:45.119
I throw the flaming birthday candle?

1652
01:35:45.159 --> 01:35:45.319
Too?

1653
01:35:48.199 --> 01:35:51.640
Well, you would throw it to Jim, But let's let's

1654
01:35:51.640 --> 01:35:56.640
set the record straight. William Sad sad birth death in

1655
01:36:01.960 --> 01:36:04.960
It's just very important that we said that record straight.

1656
01:36:05.319 --> 01:36:16.560
All right, carry on, all right, I've.

1657
01:36:13.760 --> 01:36:15.000
Got a couple for you here.

1658
01:36:15.520 --> 01:36:19.079
I've got some Klingons and some non Klingons, so that's

1659
01:36:19.119 --> 01:36:21.600
pretty cool. I want to start off by saying happy

1660
01:36:21.680 --> 01:36:25.760
birthday to Lisa Lessio, who played the role of Ensign

1661
01:36:25.840 --> 01:36:29.720
Merril Paris in The Voyager seventh season episode End Game.

1662
01:36:29.880 --> 01:36:32.760
She also reprised the role as Meryl Paris and Star

1663
01:36:32.840 --> 01:36:37.000
Trek Online in the game's ten season Happy Birthday.

1664
01:36:37.199 --> 01:36:40.279
And in the comics and in the comics.

1665
01:36:40.600 --> 01:36:43.800
Okay, and I also want to say a happy birthday

1666
01:36:44.199 --> 01:36:47.199
to David Keeley, the actor, a musician who played General

1667
01:36:47.439 --> 01:36:52.199
Oval Wochot and Star Trek Starkley Academy first season episode

1668
01:36:52.479 --> 01:36:57.439
Box and excelso excellent, excellent episode. If you're one of

1669
01:36:57.439 --> 01:37:01.560
those idiots that didn't wantch Starkley Academy for whatever reason,

1670
01:37:02.039 --> 01:37:06.680
watch that episode. Absolutely phenomenal. I also want to say

1671
01:37:06.680 --> 01:37:10.159
Happy birthday to Ian Alexander, American actor and twitch streamer

1672
01:37:10.199 --> 01:37:12.920
who played Gray Tall in the third and four seasons

1673
01:37:13.239 --> 01:37:18.119
of Star Trek Discovery. They are transgender, non binary and

1674
01:37:18.239 --> 01:37:23.880
trans masculine. Using him, he and them they as pronouns.

1675
01:37:24.079 --> 01:37:29.840
Happy birthday to Ian Alexander. And last, but not least,

1676
01:37:30.119 --> 01:37:32.039
let's see Charles, Charles, are.

1677
01:37:31.920 --> 01:37:32.640
You still with us?

1678
01:37:32.720 --> 01:37:33.159
Charles?

1679
01:37:34.920 --> 01:37:35.680
I'm still here.

1680
01:37:41.319 --> 01:37:43.039
Why don't you take this last one for me?

1681
01:37:44.279 --> 01:37:45.199
All right?

1682
01:37:46.079 --> 01:37:49.159
Okay, you're gonna hit me with the big one. That's

1683
01:37:49.239 --> 01:37:56.119
just a very big. Happy birthday to George Dakai Japans

1684
01:37:56.119 --> 01:37:59.720
American actress, best known for his role as hakiras Zulu

1685
01:38:00.399 --> 01:38:04.560
Star Trek franchise, appeared in fifty one of seventy nine

1686
01:38:04.640 --> 01:38:05.680
TuS episodes.

1687
01:38:06.399 --> 01:38:07.600
He later voice.

1688
01:38:07.319 --> 01:38:11.119
Sulu in the anime series and the first Chick Star

1689
01:38:11.199 --> 01:38:15.680
Trek Star Trek Motion Pictures, as well as Voyager's third

1690
01:38:15.720 --> 01:38:23.960
season episode Flashback. George is a fun person. George is

1691
01:38:24.000 --> 01:38:27.239
a fun person to see on stage, trap panels, and

1692
01:38:27.319 --> 01:38:31.359
George is a very heavy activist. He's been very strong

1693
01:38:31.760 --> 01:38:37.079
activists on Facebook for many years, as he inherited the

1694
01:38:37.159 --> 01:38:41.119
term of the phrase uncle George.

1695
01:38:41.560 --> 01:38:44.560
And a couple of three funny books.

1696
01:38:45.960 --> 01:38:48.840
Yeah, if you ever forget to how to pronounce his name,

1697
01:38:49.359 --> 01:38:52.159
the title of one of his books can help you out.

1698
01:38:52.800 --> 01:38:55.720
The title of the book is it rhymes is gay?

1699
01:38:56.600 --> 01:38:57.840
So George.

1700
01:39:00.119 --> 01:39:00.560
Remember that?

1701
01:39:00.760 --> 01:39:07.039
Yep, So it's not kai, it's to pay he also yeah,

1702
01:39:07.159 --> 01:39:11.039
he also he also wrote the fantastic book they called

1703
01:39:11.079 --> 01:39:13.760
Us Enemy, which is a great graphic novel all about

1704
01:39:13.760 --> 01:39:18.199
his childhood experiences in Japanese and ternment camps in San Francisco.

1705
01:39:18.800 --> 01:39:21.760
So he's definitely somebody I would love to me.

1706
01:39:21.920 --> 01:39:24.920
He very podcast, by the way.

1707
01:39:24.840 --> 01:39:26.520
Yeah, we did, we did.

1708
01:39:26.960 --> 01:39:32.800
In fact, his uh, in fact, I think his his

1709
01:39:32.880 --> 01:39:36.680
work with his audio book re talked about that also

1710
01:39:36.920 --> 01:39:38.000
is fascinating.

1711
01:39:39.319 --> 01:39:40.920
And I think there's a there was a stage but

1712
01:39:41.079 --> 01:39:44.680
this stage play about his about his experience, I think,

1713
01:39:45.520 --> 01:39:49.520
if I'm not mistaken, it was a musical.

1714
01:39:49.640 --> 01:39:57.880
Yeah, yeah, it was elitial. Yes, Yes, the title of

1715
01:39:57.920 --> 01:40:00.600
the musical and I was fortunate enough to he adhering

1716
01:40:01.399 --> 01:40:05.640
and it was very very It was just a really

1717
01:40:05.680 --> 01:40:06.199
good show.

1718
01:40:07.920 --> 01:40:11.880
So I have a George story to tell you, guys,

1719
01:40:12.199 --> 01:40:18.920
course story our uncle George. So for those of you

1720
01:40:18.960 --> 01:40:23.520
who don't know George is he's big in politics. And

1721
01:40:25.079 --> 01:40:30.199
there's a college Detroit RPI College and they were having

1722
01:40:30.640 --> 01:40:35.239
a political conference and one of their head stars was

1723
01:40:35.319 --> 01:40:38.640
George and he was there to talk about political activism

1724
01:40:38.760 --> 01:40:41.119
and really boring crap that I don't care about.

1725
01:40:41.119 --> 01:40:43.800
But this is missus solo and this was what this

1726
01:40:43.920 --> 01:40:44.800
was right back.

1727
01:40:44.600 --> 01:40:56.560
Around nineteen ninety two, ninety well, yeah, well anyways, it

1728
01:40:56.600 --> 01:40:58.159
doesn't matter that day, it's not important.

1729
01:40:58.399 --> 01:41:02.000
It was right around uh star truck six ninety one.

1730
01:41:02.239 --> 01:41:05.800
And so I dressed up as a Klingon and we all,

1731
01:41:05.880 --> 01:41:07.880
there was four of us, and we all dressed up

1732
01:41:07.920 --> 01:41:09.600
and we went and we sat right in the front row.

1733
01:41:09.640 --> 01:41:12.239
We got there really early, and all the people were

1734
01:41:12.239 --> 01:41:15.319
like looking at us, like you know, we had three heads,

1735
01:41:15.479 --> 01:41:19.920
like well, I was a Klingon. So they introduced him

1736
01:41:19.960 --> 01:41:21.960
and George comes out on stage and he comes up

1737
01:41:21.960 --> 01:41:24.079
to the podium and he looks around and he looks

1738
01:41:24.159 --> 01:41:27.000
right at the four of us and he's there for

1739
01:41:27.039 --> 01:41:31.119
a political symposium and he starts off with the Vulcan

1740
01:41:31.439 --> 01:41:35.079
salute and he says, before I start, there's.

1741
01:41:34.920 --> 01:41:36.680
A couple of people in the front row that I

1742
01:41:36.720 --> 01:41:37.720
think have a question.

1743
01:41:38.359 --> 01:41:42.119
And we asked him about Star Trek six, and he

1744
01:41:42.159 --> 01:41:43.880
talked to us about Star Trek and he said to

1745
01:41:43.880 --> 01:41:46.239
everybody that no matter where we goes, Star Trek follows

1746
01:41:46.319 --> 01:41:49.680
him everywhere. He always takes the time to acknowledge Star Trek,

1747
01:41:49.760 --> 01:41:53.159
which I thought was awesome. We sat through the whole

1748
01:41:53.199 --> 01:41:55.560
boring symposium and I fell asleep.

1749
01:41:55.680 --> 01:41:57.159
It was boring as hell.

1750
01:41:57.359 --> 01:42:00.079
But after it was over, we had a chance to

1751
01:42:00.079 --> 01:42:02.279
meet him and I had a Star Trek six poster

1752
01:42:02.600 --> 01:42:04.880
which I'm looking at right now on my wall, and

1753
01:42:04.960 --> 01:42:08.159
he signed it to Jim some of my best friends.

1754
01:42:08.279 --> 01:42:13.840
Awesome and that was my joy story.

1755
01:42:13.960 --> 01:42:17.439
Awesome guy, super friendly, incredible, love him.

1756
01:42:17.720 --> 01:42:21.479
He's great, all right. So that will have sup our

1757
01:42:21.520 --> 01:42:24.920
sci fi birthdays. And now it's time for some Star

1758
01:42:25.000 --> 01:42:50.199
Trek news. It is awesome.

1759
01:42:51.399 --> 01:42:53.520
It's very It kind of gets my heart pump and

1760
01:42:53.560 --> 01:42:55.600
every time I watch it it makes me excited.

1761
01:42:55.720 --> 01:42:56.279
It is good.

1762
01:42:56.560 --> 01:42:59.680
It really is good. We don't have a shot I

1763
01:42:59.720 --> 01:43:03.800
say it this week, but Eric is going to get

1764
01:43:03.880 --> 01:43:05.680
us started anyways.

1765
01:43:07.479 --> 01:43:12.239
Okay, yes, we are starting with a fantastic article about

1766
01:43:12.239 --> 01:43:16.840
Commander jet Reno. Commander jet Reno's quirky warp command steals

1767
01:43:16.880 --> 01:43:21.319
the show in Star Trek Starfleet Academy. Star Trek Starfleet

1768
01:43:21.319 --> 01:43:25.119
Academy introduced the latest and one of the best warp commands,

1769
01:43:25.119 --> 01:43:29.399
but it wasn't said by Captain Nalaake. Captain's warp commands

1770
01:43:29.399 --> 01:43:31.680
have become a staple of Star Trek since Jean Luke

1771
01:43:31.720 --> 01:43:36.560
Picard popularized Engage on Star Trek. The next generation Star

1772
01:43:36.600 --> 01:43:40.479
Trek on Paramount Plus's series placed a new emphasis on

1773
01:43:40.520 --> 01:43:44.800
how captain orders their starship jumped to warp, from Captain

1774
01:43:44.920 --> 01:43:49.079
Michael Burnham's let's fly on Star Trek Discovery to Captain

1775
01:43:49.119 --> 01:43:53.199
Christopher Pike's hit it on Star Trek's strange New Worlds.

1776
01:43:53.760 --> 01:43:58.399
Star Trek Picard Season three's finale even left Captain seven

1777
01:43:58.479 --> 01:44:01.880
of nine's warp command as an open question when she

1778
01:44:01.960 --> 01:44:06.479
took command of the USS Enterprise G which absolutely drove

1779
01:44:06.880 --> 01:44:14.319
most of us who require completionism but bananas. Our Treks

1780
01:44:14.319 --> 01:44:18.119
Starfleet Academy Season one finale gave Star Trek's coolest new

1781
01:44:18.119 --> 01:44:21.800
warp command to Commander Jet Reno instead of Captain Ake.

1782
01:44:22.000 --> 01:44:24.479
Reno stepped up to the take command of the USS

1783
01:44:24.520 --> 01:44:30.359
Athena and Starfleet Academy's cadets, leading the mission to rescue

1784
01:44:30.399 --> 01:44:33.199
Captain Ak and bring down news bracas O makeup forty

1785
01:44:33.199 --> 01:44:39.680
seven minds. Commander Reno's quippi warp command is now show

1786
01:44:39.720 --> 01:44:44.039
me Pretty streaks of Light. It perfectly suits jets rye

1787
01:44:44.159 --> 01:44:46.760
and direct sense of humor, and her background is a

1788
01:44:46.800 --> 01:44:50.840
Starfleet engineer. Now show me pretty streaks of Light perfectly

1789
01:44:50.840 --> 01:44:53.319
conveys the sense of wonder of a starship jumping to

1790
01:44:53.359 --> 01:44:56.479
warp speed and what being at warp looks like through

1791
01:44:56.680 --> 01:44:59.840
a view screen. Even though Reno is quickly was quick

1792
01:45:00.119 --> 01:45:02.920
remind the cadess that she is not a captain, Jet

1793
01:45:03.039 --> 01:45:06.520
still came equipped with her own warp command perfectly suited

1794
01:45:06.520 --> 01:45:10.640
to her. Jet may not have the official rank or

1795
01:45:10.680 --> 01:45:14.399
want it, but she conducted herself like a great starship

1796
01:45:14.479 --> 01:45:18.760
captain in Star star Trek, Starfleet Academy.

1797
01:45:19.319 --> 01:45:19.640
It was.

1798
01:45:20.039 --> 01:45:21.199
It was such a fun moment.

1799
01:45:21.439 --> 01:45:23.359
I I love that when she said that.

1800
01:45:23.800 --> 01:45:28.560
I think we all enjoyed it. A bit, yeah for sure.

1801
01:45:29.119 --> 01:45:33.560
So so yeah, there you go. That's that's our Commander

1802
01:45:33.600 --> 01:45:36.199
Jet Reno story. So V do you have more?

1803
01:45:36.600 --> 01:45:36.920
Yes?

1804
01:45:36.920 --> 01:45:41.399
Actually I do a little bit bittersweet because because we

1805
01:45:41.439 --> 01:45:46.960
know what's happening to Starfleet anyway. Starfleet Academy showrunners tease

1806
01:45:47.079 --> 01:45:50.800
Lansonite's Nalla's family in season two.

1807
01:45:51.479 --> 01:45:52.840
So Academy Award.

1808
01:45:52.520 --> 01:45:56.199
Winner Holly Hunter knocked her portrayal of Nala Ak out

1809
01:45:56.199 --> 01:46:00.439
of the park in season one of Star Trek Starfleet Academy.

1810
01:46:00.920 --> 01:46:04.439
Absolutely she did. However, fans didn't get to know much

1811
01:46:04.479 --> 01:46:08.520
about the Chancellor and the Captain's backstory, except that she

1812
01:46:08.880 --> 01:46:12.319
felt guilty about separating Caleb Mehr and his mother for

1813
01:46:12.439 --> 01:46:17.920
fifteen years. Nala will take center stage during season two.

1814
01:46:18.880 --> 01:46:22.520
New characters will introduce new problems in season two, and

1815
01:46:22.600 --> 01:46:26.039
those problems are going to ripple through our cadets and

1816
01:46:26.119 --> 01:46:29.000
it's going to shake things up a bit, Kurtzman said.

1817
01:46:29.760 --> 01:46:33.920
Co showrunner Noga Landau added, we go deep on Nala

1818
01:46:34.039 --> 01:46:37.880
in season two. Also, Holly Hunter in season two, it's

1819
01:46:38.000 --> 01:46:42.359
like an acting dream. Landa possibly dropped the biggest season

1820
01:46:42.399 --> 01:46:47.039
two spoiler yet when she said Lanthanites are fun Lanthanites

1821
01:46:47.159 --> 01:46:50.840
are a fun ride for those who aren't familiar with

1822
01:46:51.399 --> 01:46:55.920
Hunter's character. Nala Ake is half human, half Lanthanite, and

1823
01:46:56.000 --> 01:47:00.119
the latter allows her to live an almost limitless life.

1824
01:47:00.399 --> 01:47:04.279
In Starfleet Academy Season one, Nala is four hundred and

1825
01:47:04.359 --> 01:47:09.439
twenty two years old. However, Pellia, who is strictly land

1826
01:47:09.520 --> 01:47:12.800
Tonight and appears in Strange New Worlds, is five thousand

1827
01:47:13.079 --> 01:47:15.479
years old. And I think she was a roadie for

1828
01:47:15.560 --> 01:47:16.560
the Dead, wasn't she.

1829
01:47:18.479 --> 01:47:19.520
Anyway?

1830
01:47:19.439 --> 01:47:23.359
Yeah, I know that was a fantastic Yes, she does yep,

1831
01:47:23.479 --> 01:47:26.000
uh huh, she absolutely does.

1832
01:47:29.239 --> 01:47:29.319
Ye.

1833
01:47:30.600 --> 01:47:35.479
So anyway, Chrisman added, I'm very excited about a particular

1834
01:47:35.560 --> 01:47:39.760
new character that's being introduced in the second season and

1835
01:47:39.800 --> 01:47:43.039
then the way that the ripple effects of that character's

1836
01:47:43.199 --> 01:47:45.920
arrival play out through the.

1837
01:47:45.840 --> 01:47:47.840
Entirety of the season.

1838
01:47:49.479 --> 01:47:52.960
So again, rather bittersweet because we know that season two

1839
01:47:53.039 --> 01:47:57.279
is going to be end which I still am grappling with,

1840
01:47:57.520 --> 01:47:59.640
but you know, it is what it is.

1841
01:48:02.479 --> 01:48:04.359
Hey, let me ask you guys a question.

1842
01:48:04.960 --> 01:48:07.800
Would you like to talk to somebody from Starfleet Academy

1843
01:48:07.920 --> 01:48:08.680
on this podcast?

1844
01:48:08.680 --> 01:48:09.399
Absolutely?

1845
01:48:11.600 --> 01:48:13.439
Of course?

1846
01:48:14.319 --> 01:48:19.039
All right, Well I've got some pokers, yeah, and I'm

1847
01:48:19.039 --> 01:48:22.119
not gonna say anything, but we may be talking to

1848
01:48:22.159 --> 01:48:24.479
someone from Starfleet Academy who.

1849
01:48:25.880 --> 01:48:26.920
I'm want to leave that out there.

1850
01:48:27.880 --> 01:48:31.000
No, you gotta at least give us a hint.

1851
01:48:33.680 --> 01:48:37.279
Well, if I shouldn't, Oh, if we could.

1852
01:48:37.079 --> 01:48:39.479
If we could talk to her, I would absolutely lose

1853
01:48:39.520 --> 01:48:45.520
my mind because she is fantastic and I like her

1854
01:48:45.720 --> 01:48:48.479
wokeyest of the woke that is, you know, the whole

1855
01:48:48.520 --> 01:48:52.039
thing that she said to hit back at all the

1856
01:48:52.199 --> 01:48:54.079
you know, unkind people out there.

1857
01:48:55.199 --> 01:48:56.840
Yep, she's fantastic.

1858
01:48:57.680 --> 01:49:03.640
I've have emailed the uh, the agents in question, and

1859
01:49:03.840 --> 01:49:06.840
I'm waiting to hear back whether or not it's possible

1860
01:49:06.960 --> 01:49:07.720
or she's interested.

1861
01:49:07.800 --> 01:49:09.079
So we'll see hopefully.

1862
01:49:09.119 --> 01:49:16.680
Yeah, yeah, all right, I think that Charles might be

1863
01:49:16.760 --> 01:49:17.199
up next.

1864
01:49:18.560 --> 01:49:22.640
Yes, And I'm glad Jim held off this one till

1865
01:49:22.680 --> 01:49:27.399
this week because we're announcing the release of the latest

1866
01:49:27.479 --> 01:49:33.199
Star Trek ornaments and Sci Fi ornaments from the Hallmark

1867
01:49:33.279 --> 01:49:37.399
Keepsake Dream Book. Of course, I'm glad he held off

1868
01:49:37.439 --> 01:49:40.760
till this week because it wasn't until Monday when I

1869
01:49:40.840 --> 01:49:45.880
got my copy. The official copy comes out to Hallmark

1870
01:49:45.960 --> 01:49:51.159
stores tomorrow. I finally got to look at the book

1871
01:49:51.239 --> 01:49:56.439
beforehand that time of the year, Hallmarked annual Dream Book

1872
01:49:56.600 --> 01:50:00.199
Ornament catalog is out and usual Star Trek is part

1873
01:50:00.239 --> 01:50:04.000
of the mix. Hallmark has un unveiled five new Keepsake

1874
01:50:04.159 --> 01:50:09.039
ortengeits for this year's holiday festival, not including any convention

1875
01:50:09.159 --> 01:50:13.760
exclusive releases may announced later this year. The start off

1876
01:50:13.840 --> 01:50:17.439
the Big Original Series selection for Tooth twenty twenty six

1877
01:50:18.079 --> 01:50:20.560
is a rigial issue with one of Hallmark of the

1878
01:50:20.600 --> 01:50:25.680
Star Trek ornaments, the Shuttle Galileo original released in nineteen

1879
01:50:25.800 --> 01:50:30.800
ninety two. The reissue includes the same Leonard Nimoy voice

1880
01:50:30.840 --> 01:50:34.079
clip as the classic edition, along with audio from The

1881
01:50:34.119 --> 01:50:39.439
Gallows The Gallows seven episodes. It is now battery powered,

1882
01:50:41.479 --> 01:50:44.359
I must since the older Shuttle is no longer compatible

1883
01:50:44.359 --> 01:50:47.760
with the modern light string. The Galley will come in

1884
01:50:47.840 --> 01:50:53.880
July for forty three dollars. Also coming in July are

1885
01:50:53.920 --> 01:50:57.600
two Star Trek ships, the USS three To's from the

1886
01:50:57.640 --> 01:51:01.600
Star Trek Lower decks and a metal version of the

1887
01:51:01.680 --> 01:51:05.520
USS Enterprise g from Star Trek. For cards fan have

1888
01:51:05.640 --> 01:51:10.479
long waited for, the Sritos ornament and the California Starship

1889
01:51:10.520 --> 01:51:13.760
replica at a price will be thirty four and the

1890
01:51:13.800 --> 01:51:18.960
Mental Enterprise following the titan Ay Convention exclusive Enterprise g

1891
01:51:19.199 --> 01:51:22.520
POSH release in twenty twenty five, will be available for

1892
01:51:22.520 --> 01:51:27.880
forty three well starch. The annual character figure they'll be

1893
01:51:28.359 --> 01:51:33.039
will be Jed Bush version of Nurse Christine Chapel from

1894
01:51:33.079 --> 01:51:37.159
Star Trek Strange New World. Her tiny likeness of Nurse

1895
01:51:37.239 --> 01:51:42.279
Chapel will available in October for twenty four. A long

1896
01:51:42.520 --> 01:51:46.520
after last year's Star Trek Arcade game ornament is no

1897
01:51:46.640 --> 01:51:50.800
surprise at Hallmark's going back to replicate another classic Star

1898
01:51:50.920 --> 01:51:55.000
Trek products from decades past. This time it's a nineteen

1899
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sixty eight ATM Mister Smock model kit Cheekley called Space

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Serpent Attack and the Hallmark Catalog. This hilarious homage is

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a licensed product from yesteryear and will be available on

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October for thirty seven. Now, as I go through some

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of the lists, I want.

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To get that one. I'm looking forward to that one.

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I remember that model kit.

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I do vaguely remember that model kit popping up.

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So I think, now, Jim, Jim, we're not done.

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I'm still not done.

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Now, Jim want to include Star Trek only. Of course,

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I threw in some sci fi pictures and the clips

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in there.

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We will have from Star Wars.

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You're actually going to get the tie fighter attack scene

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from Luke and at han Han they're going to be

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actually magic and actually doing some voices from the actual one.

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We're also going to get another Luke.

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An R two D.

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Two and quite a few characters coming in from the

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Star Wars series.

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Of course, that little picture that's popping up there, I

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say strictly for Eric, it's a shy. Eric might be

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able to pronounce that for me, but that's the shy.

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Yes shi hallu. That's the sandworm from Dune.

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Yeah, so we actually have a shy. We actually have

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a sandworm coming in in July. Also in October we

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will get a Colonial Viper.

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For thirty dollars, and this reminds me more of looking.

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Like the classic Viper, not the Battlestar series, So I'm

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kind of looking forward to that one coming out. But

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definitely I'm thinking this is a good catalog this year.

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And for those that are Disney fans, the last couple

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of years they went back and we're working on the

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Haunted Mansion.

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Well this year they kind of read my mind and

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are going.

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To come up with come of the key creatures from

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Pirates of the Caribbean, and this series is just like

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the Star Wars. The Star Wars and the Star Trek

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ones we saw where you heard voices from the actual movie.

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These are actual voices from the actual ride. So it's

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gonna be another good year for Ornaments. This Friday, you

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can start looking, you can check your stories out and

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find the book, and those that can pre order can

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start doing their wish lists. And in July the first

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release will come out, and in October the second release

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will come out, and I will definitely be hitting up

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putting out my wish list for a bunch of bunch

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this year.

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That we're going to have David jump in here next

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because he specifically requested that he wanted to do this

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story and I want to get it in here before

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we run out of town.

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So David, please take the hike.

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This is talking about the Star Trek Resurgeons game. It

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isn't going to live long and prosper. It's being delisted

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from Steam around three years on from release. Stytrak Resurgeons,

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the telltale Styal Trek game, which came out back in

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twenty twenty three, is set to be delifted from Steam.

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Behold developers Dramatic Labs have been upfront about the region

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it's going being pulled. Our license to distribute Star Trek

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Resurgence had come to an end, so the game will

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no longer be offered for sale, they wrote in a

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Steam post. Continuing on, existing customers can continue to access

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the game via the Steam Library thanks to everyone who

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was able to enjoy the game live, long and prosper

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They don't look to have been any concrete date given

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as to win the game be polled, and it's still

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seemingly on sale as of writing, so if you want it,

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best grab it asap. Resurgence only arrives on Steam in May,

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for having launched on the Epic Store for PC folks

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when it first debuted in May the previous year. Having

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taken a quick look at the Epic listening, I can't

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immediately see any de listening notifications there, but the language

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Dramatic Labs have used in the Steam post points to

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a total pulling, and that's kind of sad, But I mean,

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you know, as long as you can play, it's actually

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a really fun game. I enjoyed it from beginning to end,

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and I don't know, it'd be kind of fun to

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maybe talk about it on the podcast one of the Day,

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but you know.

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Yes, it was the one that had the comic that

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was that had the comic book tie in where we

1983
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did review the comics that led up to the comic

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book to the video game.

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I think it's a bit odd though, that a company

1986
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would put out a Star Trek game without securing the

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license for Star Trek. It's kind of odd that that

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would happen.

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But no, they did secure it. They only secured it

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for a couple of years, so it's a limited term thing.

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But once you buy it, once you buy it.

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But our time has come to an end, but that's

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okay because next week, same Bat time, same BAT channel,

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we'll have Parah Roslin with us, so you guys don't

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want to miss that. And I want to take an

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opportunity to say thank you so much to Paul for

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hanging out in Trek talking with us. He had to

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run early, but thank you so much, Paul, And of

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course thank you to David for Chrek talking with us

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and putting together these awesome videos that you guys can see.

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If you head over to our Facebook page and get

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a ninety nine cent subscription, you can watch the video

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rather than just listen to it, so please think about

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doing that.

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Thank you, Thank you, David.

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Yeah, it's been fun.

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And thank you so much to Charles as well for

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hanging out in Shrek talking with us to thank you, Charles.

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Oh track oh, talking Trek is always fun. And talking

2010
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about the comics. Yeah, I think we get good good chance.

2011
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You're really getting deep in these comics.

2012
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I agree, I agree, And of course thank you to

2013
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Be for hanging out in Shruck talking with us as well.

2014
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And not yes, that's right.

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Yeah, you know I was not an Andorian tonight.

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That's just weird. That's weird. It is just so weird

2017
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that that happens. But I don't know whatever I.

2018
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I really if I'm going to be, if I'm going

2019
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to be anything, I want to be green so I

2020
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can be one of those, you know, Orion's so yeah,

2021
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mistress of the Winter Constellation like Kendy.

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There you go, Yeah, there you go.

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And of course, thank you so much to Eric for

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hanging out in Shrek talking with us tonight.

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Thank you, Eric.

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Yeah, absolutely, it's fun to get back into comics tonight.

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I had a good time.

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It was fun for sure, and I'm your most host

2029
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excellent HO to Uncle Jim saying.

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Party party on guard, party, on guard, party on guards.

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I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy.

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Yeah, And I just want to remind everybody to please

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stay safe and be good to each other.

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Hailing frequencies are closed.

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Everybody them long and prosper and spraying what heading, sir?

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Oh?

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There that a way?

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Who