Episode 686- Paul's Super Summer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films 2026

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0:57 Series, Well, good evening, Trekkis and Trekkers around the Globe. It is Thursday, May fourteen, twenty twenty six. Welcome to episode six hundred and eighty six of Trek Talking and Beyond. I'm your most excellent host, Uncle Jim, And before we go too far, I want to go around the horn and introduce my incredible trek experts. We'll start off with Paul.

1:44 Paul is out in Portland. How you doing tonight, Paul. I'm okay, Uncle Jim, I am okay. I am looking forward to Thursday. I'm looking forward to escaping from reality today in our in our exciting topics. D jore So it should be a lot of fun. It will be always. We also have Eric eric is on Portland as well. Welcome to the show. Thanks man, TG. I T because I certainly needed it after the news cycle that we've had this week. So yeah, I'm so glad you guys are here and this is a great topic. Thanks Paul for suggesting this. And also from Portland we have our miracle worker David has got to be something in the water out there.

2:29 I don't know. Welcome to the show, David Good not from Portland, but didn't you. We have a very own V. Welcome to the Yes, I am I echo Eric sentiments. I look forward to this and I'm actually wanting to what was it in strange New Worlds to get in the well. We've had it several times where people are stuck in the transporter buffer, like for years and years? Can we can I do that until you know things are back to uh, you know some some semblance, Susan, I. Would really really like that transported in you. You know, I.

3:10 Got to congratulate you V because your your little clip that I put up on Starfleet Academy getting the l g B t Q A Plus award has gotten more views than any other clips that we put off the way because. My so, I definitely deserve a raise. Now, that's so. Cool, right, all right, we'll triple friend of mine shared it across. Multiple that's so because that friend of mine saw it on the Starfleet Academy Facebook page where people actually like Starfleet Academy and talk nicely about it. So yeah, that was that is so cool.

3:56 Yay, yep, you're you're the hottest. Congratulations. All right, I'm I'm hot. Yay. That's awesome. Yeah, I thought I thought you would like that. Oh. Absolutely. We also have with us Charles charless On in Las Vegas. How you doing tonight, Charles? Speaking of hot? Oh yeah. At least we're getting some win and a break from the triple digits for a couple of a few days. But it's also the chaos around. Here's the end of the school year, so we're all trying to basically get ready for shutting down the regular school year.

4:37 So that's a lot of chaos in itself. So I need these Thursdays to deal with that. Relax from that. Well, wet, we still got a couple more weeks at the school that I work at, so. Oh, we got we got another week and a half or a week blow over a week. And I just done a couple of show notes. May twenty eight, we're going to have Cecilia Lee on the podcast. And there she is. For those of you who don't remember who she is, there she is. She plays solo on Starfleet Academy and she's going to be joining us on the twenty eight, So you guys have your questions ready you don't want to miss that.

5:24 I'm looking forward to talking to somebody from Starfleet Academy and getting their input about it from all different sides. And what's cool about her is that she not only works in front of the camera but also behind the camera, so we can get a lot of different perspectives from her. So Cecilia Ly will be with us on May twenty eight, so please mark your calendar for that. It's going to be a lot of fun. And for those of you who don't remember, if you want to brush up on her, she appeared in the episodes Beta Test, Invite Us, Reflex and Syria Acclamation Mill, So if you want to see your character, check out those three episodes and you'll know everything you need to know about Cecilia Lee. How you guys can head over to Trek talkin dot com find all of our previous podcasts there so you never miss a show. There's a little microphone in the bottom corner.

6:19 Clip on that and leave us a message. Tell us how awesome V's clip was if you've seen it, tell us how wonderful Eric's backdrop is, or David's avocado pizza, whatever. Leave us a message and we will play it on the next podcast. You can also support us by getting a membership over on Facebook for only ninety nine cents and then you can see all these awesome videos that David's going to show us tonight, So please think about doing that. So with that out of the way, what is the topic for tonight's show? Well, I'm going to tell you Tonight's show is Paul Super Summer sci Fi Extrataganza, and we have a lot.

7:04 To talk about. It's gonna be great. We also have our fan shout outs, and that's where we think fans just like you around the globe for supporting us. We have our sci fi Birthdays as always, and what's going on around the Star Trek universe. Schatner says, what or does he? I don't know you'll have to wait and find out. So without any. Further ado, guys, let's dive right in and do some fan shout outs. What do you think, Eric, Let's do it man, I'm gonna spin that globe and put my finger down right in the UK. That's right from Cardiff UK. We're saying hello this week to Rob Collins, who's listening to us out there and sending us that nice little smiley face emoji.

7:50 Thanks Rob. We appreciate your support as well as a lot of support in the UK. It's always kind of nice to hear from our friends just across the pond. I'd also like to say say hello this week to Sualukan Harico who's saying that they are inside Vienna, Austria, Europe, sending that livelong and prosper hand. Thank you so much. So Alucan saying hello this week as well to Terry Wadelov who is from Cumrie and that is in Wales, so thank you so much for saying hello. And he sends us not one, not two, but one, two, three, four, five six Welsh flags. That's how well she is. Thanks Terry. And last but not least on my list, I'd like to say hello to Mario Enrique Bara Guzman, who's saying hello to us from Santiago, Chile, sending us that beautiful Chilean flag as well as that awesome livelong and prosper and I will say peace and long life to you, Mario V. I know you would like to say hello to some people as well.

8:49 Oh, yes, absolutely, Now I am back in the US. So the first hello and thank you goes out to Eddie Gibbons from who is in New Mexico. Next, Maxwell Tidwell from a very posh sounding Wilton Manors, Florida. So thank you Maxwell. Next to hello and thank you to rich Neil Miller. That's on the trying to think which coast west coast in Tacoma, Washington, Washington, Washington State, beautiful state. Just brains a lot, but that's okay. Next or last, but not least, Eric L. Simensky from Saint Louis, and that is in beautiful state of Missoura. As they say, right, that does it for me. Onto you, Charles, Oh, thank you.

9:48 The let's start off just a little south of me Auburn, Phoenix. Welcome Chris McDonald. Chris, I hope you're ready for the beat. And then from Lincoln, Nebraska in the middle of the country, let's welcome Chris p da Costa. Welcome Kirk, and part of the country. I'll be definitely visiting this summer in that area. In Los Angeles, welcome John R. Park so I want to spend a whole time in Anaheim again. And then from Maryland, welcome Larry Jones. So welcome Chris, Kirk, John and Larry, and I'll pass the megaphone over to Paul.

10:38 It's going to hurt spinning the globe again. Thanks Charles. We'll just grab one latitude in one hand and the lonchitudal line in the other. Because you know, we have Star Trek fans, science fiction fans, all kinds of fans planet wide. We just got them everywhere, and that's a lovely thing to see. So I almost like to make sure we go say hello to our friends in other realms on these conflicted states. So let's say hello to Jerry FH. Hassan. Jerry says, I live about an hour away from the Blue Plaque site for the birthplace of Scottie, which is lynnlith Go, UK. How about that? So that sounds fantastic. Jerry I didn't know that there was a blue plaque that we could visit, so I'm going to have to add that to my itinerary. So I'm excited to see that linlith Co. Sounds like it might be in Scotland, but I'm not sure because of the UK, so research abounds, my friend, I will get to the bottom of it. Moving over to inland of the continent a bit more, we're going to say so hello to So. I look in Hari chull is inside Vienna, Austria, deep in Europe, flashing in this piece above all else and long life go sign from deep in Vienna. So thank you. So I'll look in. It's great to hear that you're out there and supporting all things Vulcan phenomenal.

11:57 This I know is Scotland because I see the flag billowing with pride there Ailien Magee. I hope I'm doing justice the pronunciation of your name elite. It's from Loch Lomond in Scotland. Another Vulcan, the Fishonado there. There must be something going on there in Scotland. It could be the single malt that's bringing everyone such long a life. That is my hunch, right, being a big single malt fan myself, so looking forward to tasting the real thing sometime very soon. And finally for me, it's Leos Zlatnichik in Chechia and yet another one of these. I'm seeing so many vulcan emojis today, I'm practically feeling my ears as growing to a point and a big grin from Laos as well. So I just love the fact that you can go pretty much anywhere on planet Earth and find a Star Trek fan or a science fiction fan, something good to hold on to in these turbulent times where it seems like there's just no one can agree on anythod. So I like the fact that entertainment and science fiction can be unifying and positive force for us all, wouldn't you agree?

13:10 I'm gonna flash the sign and say absolutely. And I've got a couple of people on my list I want to say hello too. First of all, we're going to go to Boston, Massachusetts and say hello to Matt Hunter. And then we're gonna go all the way to New Jersey and say hello and thank you to Michael E. File and then we're gonna swing down to Orlando, Florida. We're gonna say hello, and thank you to Sean mcgil. Well, you appreciate your support. And last, but definitely not least, we want to say thank you to Kirk Willis who's in Illinois. And that, my friends, wraps up this week's fan shout out. You can be mentioned on our fan shout outs by visiting our Facebook page and Eric, what is our Facebook page?

13:55 Trek Talking and Beyond. You just go to Facebook and you type in Trek Talking and Beyond in the search bar and bam, get hit. Get you right there. Very easy, and you'll see the live along and prosper pinned right to the top of the page. Tell us where you're from, Lisa Emojis gets my attention. Look for heart next to your name, and that means you're going to be featured in a future fan shout out. Now this week, I have some polls. This was actually just something I threw up real quick because I wanted that a pall this week. So David, you know me like, no win what you thought about the show?

14:40 Then we try. To share your opinions with all of our minions out there. Because they listen worldwide. So tell us just what you think. Get together, we will all take Canar Robulin A. I love. Video. I love that so much. I mean, the song was good, but then the video. Way better perfect well, especially the the you know, especially Kermit the Frog. You know, I just uh, you know, I love the I love it when they switched to uh Spock and whoever the woman is both playing their musical instruments.

15:25 Yeah, I love the way to even up? Yes, exactly, Herbert was Herbert Herbert Herbert Herbert's episode. Yeah, alright, Eric, what was our full question this week? Yeah, so, our random pole question this week is kind of a fun one. It's which version of the start of Star Trek the original series do you prefer? And we're talking about sort of the original cuts versus the remastered versions when some of the graphics were redone and you know, cleaned up and that sort of stuff. So do you like seeing it in the OG format or do you like seeing the remastered version? And surprisingly, about two thirds of our pole responders said that they like the remasters, So sixty six percent of the remasters, thirty four percent to the originals. I guess it's not surprising.

16:20 I think the nice thing about the remasters is that they just some of the special effects are so much better and it kind of like takes you out of the moment less. I would bet that the people who like the originals are real nostalgia folks. You know, they sow it that way originally, and so that's the way that they just love it. And I would disparage neither of those opinions myself. Yeah, what are you guys? What about you, David? I'm curious. I'm actually I'm with the minions of Time because watching the original versus the remastered, the original was a little choppy for me when I was watching it through TV, and a lot of times the sound kind of cut off for me. It might have been just my TV that was watching it on. But to me, though, the remastered seemed to be more clear and more the sound quality got enhanced. So I think the remastered would be my vote on this one.

17:27 You're with dominions, yep? Anybody else? Well, I got a dog in this fight. I don't mind that admitting, you know, because I grew up watching endless syndicated reruns of the original series is endless, and so for me, it's just like I feel like the n grams of my brain are programmed to see those original shots right from how they were. And I don't have anything against the remastered. I think it's good that they can preserve some of the filmic elements, especial where it's shot for TV, right, and so they're restoring the original negative as much as possible for exhibition quality. But I am somebody who owns the one of those. There's a couple of Bluey releases that they did where you literally get both right. It's like, definitely you don't have to make their critical choice. Where you can go. You can watch it with the original special effects, which is going to be what I do, or you can go and watch the newer enhance special effects if you prefer that.

18:29 I just find it there a lot of times for the newer effects, they look like special effects do they they're you know, they did a pretty decent job, but they don't look as great as like modern special effects do. This is quite a few years ago, right, and so it kind of takes me out of the zone, right, because it doesn't look like the lighting is as sharp or convincing or some photorealistic as something you might see on say the Expands or something like that. Right, It's just not quite there or what they're doing on you know, show like The Mandalorian whatnot. So I'm gonna always stick with what I used to see when I was laying down on the carpet of my parents' living room, right, a good old black and white you know, ridiculous original series and nostalgia and just feelthy. So I think that's where I land.

19:16 Well, that's excellent because you're gonna start us off with Paul's extravaganza super. Sci fi show. So it's time to start already. It's that Yep, it's time already, and we've got the time. I wanted to leave enough time to make sure we can get to everything. Dave's got a lot of great videos and stuff to show us. And so without any further ado, guys, I'm going to pass the microphone over to Paul and he can get us started. Thank you, Uncle Jim, Thank you. I appreciate it. Friends. And so what are we talking about with this whole theme here tonight? Well, friends, it's May, the month of May, and as long back as I can remember, it's essentially the start of the summer movie season, and it is for it's the moviegoers equivalent of like opening Day for baseball fans. All right, that's how I think about it.

20:08 It's very exciting and as far back as most of us can remember, it's certainly when like the first Star Wars movie came out in May, right, blockbusters have always sort of jump started the summer movie season. All the kids are out of school, folks are a little bit more of a social looking for something to do. So going to the movie has becomes a much bigger deal. And the Hollywood blockbuster studios know this, and so they position a lot of their tent poles this time of year to come out. And this year has been a little unusual because we had every now and then you get a year where we get somebody comes in really early. Like the show Eric hosted a couple of weeks ago. We were talking about Project Hail Mary. For all intensive purposes, that's a summer movie. It's a huge, crowd pleasing blockbuster.

20:50 It's a big special effects extravaganza. But it kind of you know, sometimes we start early and it just the line blurs all the way through the year. But because we are checked talking and beyond tonight, we're going to try not just about like the top science fiction and fantasy movies we could look forward to this summer, we're going to go beyond summer and we're gonna close out the entire year. What are the ones we're going to see as we go into fall and the holiday season as well. So we're basically focusing on what we're gonna say, put a little bit more emphasis on the top ten science fiction and fantasy movie releases that are coming, But there may be a couple of others that will just sort of make passing reference to as well that I think you're worth noting. Basically, you just never know, and odds are friends. I will tell you this happens every year.

21:36 A movie will come out of the pack that no one was thinking about, no one ever heard of. Usually it's like August. It becomes like a sleeper no one had on their radar at all, and it captures the public's imagination, becomes a colossal hit or a big cult explosion. You just never know. So what comes the biggest hit that you're talking about all at the end of summer. We may not even talk about it today, so who the heck knows. But there's a lot of fun stuff to pepper this with a few trailers just to keep everybody interested. I think this is exciting because this is reminding me of like nineteen eighty two, the biggest summer I can ever remember at the movies, right, So, I think we're in for a lot of fun, a lot of cool things to discuss. So if you are having opinion trek experts, I want to hear it, let's talk about it. So number one first of all, and I know David's got the trailer queued up here. We'll watch about this. So I'm super excited being a Star Wars fan for the Mandalorian and Grogu that is hitting a week from tomorrow on May twenty first. I think it is.

22:35 I'm super excited one of the whatever that last Friday twenty seconds. I think it opens. I think it opens Thursday night. I think they're doing previous Thursday night on the twenty first. I got tickets for Friday. I'm super pumped for it. It's directed by John Fabreau. This is a big deal because we've seen a lot of times Star Wars movies start in the theater and end up on TV. This time, this is a product that's started on television and is making the jump to the box office. We've never seen that before. How will audiences react, David, Let's check out that trailer and we can get a glimpse of what's coming.

23:21 Hey never touched the buttons. I can use some information for this price. I'll tell you whatever you want. I'm looking for a hot close for the night. Thank you, thanksters, more criminals, Long live the Empire. We'll take out every bad guy in your deck of cards. This isn't about revenge.

24:02 It's about preventing another war. Strapping Supper, and then it will be before going into Hawn's way. Check your arm out. The kid will live centuries beyond me. I won't always be around. To protect him. Are you scared? You should be? Do we run? Where do we fight?

24:47 I like this scared? What are you waiting for? Let's save the rest for after dinner. M strapping that's awesome. What do we think?

25:30 I'm so I'm so excited about this. I just like, it just looks amazing. It looks it looks like it's got that Star Wars vibe right where it's like adventure. It looks funny, it looks high stakes at moments. I definitely recognized a couple of characters. I am terrible with remembering names. So I recognized somebody from Rebels. I think the purple dude is he from with the with the hat? No, not the sad guy, he's the other one I recognized. But the what's his name? Oh, Zeb, Yeah, so I recognized Zeb. And then I recognized the sift dude with the hat, which I don't know what his name. Is, but he's a bounty hunter named Embo, also from Really that's what it is. The Clone wars, right, mostly the Clone Wars on there, but he's he's he's a little gray area for me. I don't know if he's a bad guy in this or not. And then you know the multi armed guy at the diner, right, just like both of the night Martin Scorsese doing the voiceover work there, Marty.

26:29 I thought I recognized the voice was recognizable. Yeah, okay, it's. Get them whatever you want. You know, it's totally scor and I never would have thought I would like to see Sigourney Weaver in a Star Wars movie, but there's it's crazy, so I can't. I hope, I hope it's good. You think that you think of the. Same if you think this one is going to take their you think this is gonna take the Mota this one. I'll let people know if you're a Disneyland disney World fan, both parks Smugglers run. You get to fly the Millennium Falcon.

27:13 They're the twenty second. They short a brand new theme and we will see part of the original theme there. But the mission you're going after helping the Mandalorians. Cool and you get to pick where you want to go. Yeah, oh, I'm funny the summer to go to see because I want to see what they do with it. Yeah, Galaxy's Edge is of blast. I was there a couple of years ago and it's just unbelievable, so super superfused. You've never been, but this is really the kickoff of the summer season. I think, Yes, I'm very exciting for it. I think that the trailer where they showed the X wings, like the second you see that, you're just like, what.

27:55 I'm going You guys got they've got a drive in theater. H there's one on the other side of town from us here out of the east on the west side. There years though, because I just don't stay at that late brother. But the Dragon Snake is amazing looking. Once a year. We're gonna go to the drive to see this one. My wife and I went to see Devilworth product too, and they showed a different trailer. Than that one. Yeah, they showed a trailer with the Walkers which are right there, and y Wings and Sigourney Weaver flying a fighter and uh doing a voiceover. Cool man, Yeah cool. I'm super excited back to Star Wars and I think we have a show coming up in a couple of weeks. We're going to review this picture too, so hopefully didn't and we should probably go ahead.

28:46 David, do anyone else think that the sound the music for the track? Did it sound a little Superman to you? Now? It's the Mandalorian theme from from Ludwig Gornson, who's the same one from the show, right, and. He got the Razor crust. He's not flying around in the Naboo flight or anymore. Yeah, that's cool. I guess he's got yeah, yeah, same ship. Yeah, the old Razor had a yellow stripe line. It too, was just so old you couldn't see it, right, it's like all weathered up. Yeah, so they're like old military craft, like surplus. Engineer. A woman that built the Razorcraft. Yes, we should move on. Though, we should move on. We got a lot of movies to talk about tonight, guys.

29:28 So one that I think it's I'm just I'm just keep moving us along now. One We're not not gonna spend a lot of time on. But I know a lot of folks have a certain vint thing you gotta be interested in. Check it out. Is I think it opens in like two weeks. Is Masters of the Universe, Okay, which is I don't think we're gonna spend too much time on this. But a lot of folks remember going way back to the eighties. I bet green money that Uncle Jim was sitting in the box office with Dolph Lundgren and Frank Langela Eskeletor when that show came out. Yeah, absolutely so. Robert McNeil was in it as well. I know, good poll Man, a good pool. So, I mean, it looks pretty good from the trailers. It could do well.

30:10 It's very It has a real Guardians of the Galaxy vibe to it, I think is what they're going for, right, and so a movie like this for me is what I call review dependent, right. If it gets really good reviews and good word of mouth, I might go check it out because it looks like a lot of fun and I love movies with monsters in them. I've been that way my whole life. And you know, there's gonna be a lot of monsters in spaceships in Masters of Universe, and you know, skelet Or is the meme lord right until next time. So I'm curious, what do you guys think. Anybody gung ho Day One are gonna wait and see. I'm definitely I'm definitely gonna go see it. But it's not yeah, I mean it's not because I'm a huge he Man fan, but I do have friends who are big he Man collectors, and I have learned and appreciation.

30:58 There's a great he Man game, and I saw the trailer and I was kind of into, Yeah, like you said, the idea of great monsters, the idea of cool special effects. I'm the type of person who if the movie is cheesy but it entertains the heck out of me, then I'm all in. So yeah, I'll probably go see it while it's in the theater. I don't know if I'll be their Day one, but I definitely want to see it in the theater. If I can. They they've got to put a meme for that skelico guy, and that's got to be something a line of some sort, and you know, he's. I think that they have a chance to do really well because this is a picture of that. You know, folks were parents who grew up with their cartoon and now their parents they're gonna take their kids, and so you got a couple generations working together. So it could do really well well if it's a good movie.

31:42 And here's what I and I'm hoping that it is a good movie, Paul, because honestly, what I would love And I don't know if you saw this or not, but the New she Rah animated Show was an unbelievable animated series that I recommend to anybody. Uh And if this movie does well enough, I'm hoping that maybe they'd make a chira one as well. Okay, cool, Yeah, I think it's this kind of fantasy is really fun. I think people like it and the escapism factor. Man, given the world right now, we escapism is needed. So I'm curious to see how it does. But I want to keep us moving to the big tent pole releases of the summer On our list here because the next one on my list, in the number two spot for top ten, is a movie. I am frankly more excited about that, maybe even than the Mandalorian, just because of who's involved. This is for me, anything from the great, legendary, iconic Steven Spielberg behind the camera I get excited about.

32:41 Right. This is one of the greatest, not just greatest living filmmakers, but greatest filmmakers of all time, the man who invented the summer blockbuster right with like pictures like Jaws, And this is him returning back to the idea of a story about extraterrestrials, which he's not really done fully in this way since eighteen Close Encounters, So really going back to the Close Encounter as well is what it feels like here. But that's just the setup. Watch this trailer and tell me if you're not excited to check this out. What did you steal? Secrets? The data they paid me to protect?

33:26 Are they people? Good morning, Kansas City. Let's take a look at today. Let's let's today is today's. See Do you understand what she's saying? I hear it's chipper ash. You can't understand it? I care.

34:14 What's happening to me. People can start for the truth. I'm a part of it now. I'm just sorry. They need you a part of it too. Hello Jane, please. He let's see. This seventy nine year terror campaign of life has to end. What are you gonna do? Full disclosure to the whole world, That.

34:56 Truth will offend all established order across the entire world. Okay, m h. If you do this, there's no one doing it. Why would they do this? And the time is right, everything become clear. Whatever happened, don't you like?

35:43 Mm hmmm, Uncle Stevie still got it? Man chill. It's the first trailer I can remember in a while where I actually saw it in the movie theater and I did get goosebumps the first time I saw it. Looks so good. The main hero guy there has a real like James Holden kind of vibe to me, which I love people who are the whistleblowers in movies. That's just so cool, So I'm all about it. Yeah, and you got Emily Blunt and Peter Firth is like the bad guy looking like it, I would say, I mean, wow, I mean and there's so much talking to Zeitgeist now about like you know, UAPs and people seeing lots of strange things again, so it seems like the timing is really good for people to revisit this topic.

36:31 And I just think it looks amazing and there's just that sense of wonder that Steven Spielberg is really able to do. He conjures up awe of the unknown so well, right when you see the clouds rolling and you see light coming at you, and it's just he's just so great at that. So I'm is anyone else excited? Are you guys ready to see this? I mean, look at all the UFO stuff coming out of Washington right now. You think it's a coincidence. I think it's definitely going to drive interest for the movie absolutely. In fact, Steven Spielberg, I saw an interview with him where he actually said, people are going to see this movie differently in lieu of everything that's coming out right now. So we'll see.

37:13 But he's just he's he's a master craftsman. I mean, it's just like I can usually, I mean, the every movie I've seen of his, at some point I sit down and I watch it with the sound off, right, just because how he composes a shot and structures things and edits and visualizes the whole tableau. Is just really amazing. He's just such an amazing talented guy and so man for me, that's just that's absolutely day one picture. I cannot wait bit June June twelfth. But I really I'm really curious to see his take, and so just what a treat to have this so very excited. Well, see, he did Close Encounters ET the Closer day right, Well we haven't seen this one yet.

38:01 And you could argue that pictures like AI that he did a few years ago with really Joel Osmond is not really an ET movie. There's some ET's at the end, we think, but we're not really clear. But you know, he's really understanding minority report. He'd always a champion of science fiction and intelligent science fiction. Stevens Field. Greg is right, he just really is. And so for him to get in here, it's just like, and I think I'm going off memory here. I'm pretty sure it's David Kep who's the screenwriter who did Jurassic Park for him, who really knows how to like just grab the audience by lapels and not let go. Right, So I think this is going to be a phenomenal experience. So let's move on this next movie and I can spend much time on but it's gonna be a juggernaut, and there's no denying.

38:45 It comes out like a few days right after Disclosure Day Toy Story five, Right, did we need another toy story? I don't know if he did not, well, but still I have a young man in my household who will be shopping at the bit. He's already gone to be let me know. It's like I was ready to rock and roll and see this toy story, for it was an unexpected delight. I thought it was really good, and I just this is the real magic to the Pixar stories. I understand that in the back one of those toys is a like bedwetting alarm. I believe, so you never know, but I like the concept of this. This is the toys being threatened by digital media, right because all the kids are looking at their their screens and their iPads and no one's playing with toys anymore. So Lily Pad the villain is kind of, you know, a threat to the old fashioned values the toys have. So I think it's going to be really interesting to see. I you know, they don't need our help on this segment to you know, make five hundred million dollars. Believe me. I mean they're going to do just fine. But but I mean, do you guys have bonus for the Toy Story franchise?

39:50 Yeah? I do. I definitely grew up with Toy Story and I liked it. I like Pictuel in general. I like a lot of the movies. So Max are kind of excited to shoot it. One. Yeah, I guess it'd be really good. I can't. It's Toy Story. Two. There's the where they introduce Jesse David. There's the Sarah maclachlin song which she talks about being abandoned. I cannot watch that scene to this day and not burst into tears. I mean it is just yeah, fuck. I mean's like with like Finding dory Is and moments like that and Find Well, they just really know how to just evocal genuine emotion and they're very wonderful craftsmen and storytellers there at Pixars. So I I, you know, I don't want to give it a short shrift by not spending a lot of time on it, but I really want to focus on sci fi and fantasy but I just have a feeling this is going to be a delight, and so I can't wait to see what they pulong what.

40:39 If it's coming out again. This one is a little later in the month. This one is June nineteenth. Okay, June is like it every week, guys, there's something like, you know, okay, this is your weekend. You better have a good opening, right and at boom, you're You're kicked out right away and here comes the next contender. And that's just the way it is. About two weeks after Toy Story five, we're moving back over into the DC universe again. And we won't do a whole trailer on this one here because I think that we want to be sort of mindful of time. But this is June twenty six, and this is I don't know if folks went and saw James Gunn's Superman last year, I think pleasantly surprising, And James gott is now in charge of the DC universe and this is sort of his next opus. We had a brief peak at Supergirl at the end of that Superman movie. But the good news is what you're seeing on the screen right now, patrons, is the cover of the wonderful comic Supergirl, Woman of Tomorrow, which they based this movie on, And it's really a good story. It's very interesting. It does have a lot of Guardians of the Galaxy type moments to it as well, but it's very visionary and cool and it's a decent story.

41:59 And so if they stick to that comic, and I think it's the vibe I'm getting from James Gunny is he really likes fokes to stick to the comic a lot, they should do well. I don't know much about this actress. She's kind of an unknown Millie Alcock to me. I've not seen her in anything else other than this, So she's got a lot riding on her shoulders. There's a big cameo in here is Jason Momoa plays the Lobo character from comics. Lobo's got a lot of fans. So what do you all think? Are you Are you into it? Are you going? I just did you? Like? All I can say is can James Gunn either clone himself or be part of the Star Trek universe because he sounds like he you know, you know where you know what I mean? Yeah, he just seems like he cares about the the franchise and and you know, making it being true to the story.

42:54 Yeah, I'm I will say, I'm a little worried that if you're not if you haven't read this comic, or if you're not familiar with the Supergirl character. Really I'm a little worried that people are gonna go to the movies and expect to see a female Superman, you know what I mean. And like it's it's very clear. I mean, you don't have to read Woman of Tomorrow. It is a fantastic book and I absolutely recommend it, but you just have to know that you're getting a different kind of hero here. It's not quite antihero, but it's definitely somebody who's a little more humanized. And if it is humanized the way in which James Gunn humanized that last Superman movie, I'm probably gonna end up in tears at some point during this movie. Yeah, I'm probably.

43:42 I'm gonna go a chip on her shoulder. Man, you think a little bit, A little. Bit, Yeah, no, one hundred percent does. And the whole Like, I'm not gonna spoil anything in case they decide to go a different direction. I don't know if they show any origin story of her or anything in this movie, but like, just yeah, suffice to say that she's a very different kind of character from the boy scout Superman that we're all used to just the same. I one thing for me, Crypto. That's all I need to know. Yeah, I just I thought Crypto was going to kill Superman, but Crypto ended up being my favorite part of that movie. And with some of the trailer for this again over the weekend, and Crypto is in it quite a bit and I'm looking forward to seeing you know, Crypto, I love.

44:33 I think that I had a very open mind. I really want them to I'm always rooting for the movies to succeed, right, there's none of them I'm not. I want them to do well. I hope this works. You know, James Gunn's been a big I don't know if anyone else is watching Peacemaker over on HBO. That's another part of the DC universe. And if he gets away with Bloody Murder on that show, I mean it is just so good, delightful, and but you know, Bloody Murder and some pivotal social commentary as well. I mean, it really is. It's a thinking show and so this, you know, he gives. He's going to give you a lot of special effects and craziness and funny laughs, but something to chew on and think about too. And you know he's not going to keep his politics out of his superhero universe, right, Doing right matters to the guy.

45:19 It's just the same actwist who played in the end of Superman movie. I believe. So yeah, yeah, that was just like a cameo just to introduce her. Millie Alcock is her name? Okay, cool, So I'm leaving that one alone, but it's but yeah, I'm very curious. So onward, friends, onward, because the next one's a big one. If I told you there was a movie with Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Ann Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Zendaia Lupita Niango, Charlie Thorne, John Burnshal Elliott Page, Logan Marshall Green, John like Wuizano and me of goth you might think I was crazy, but no, this is basically again, I don't want to I don't want to almost I don't want to show the trailer because I just don't want to, like know too much anymore. Right, I feel like I've already known more than I want to see.

46:06 But this is the arguably one of the greatest living filmmakers of all time, Christopher Nolan, right, inarguably one of the most greatest filmmakers who basically blew us all away with Oppenheimer. Right, And he is going and doing a historical epic based on Homer's the Odyssey, which is incredible, right, I mean amazing to see what he does. This is the first movie ever shot entirely with Imax cameras, right, So I mean completely large format. He had Imax make cameras that they didn't have before so that he could use them on location that didn't make quite as much noise. So it's a phenomenal. You know, he's going to everything's on location. He's really averse to digital effects. He wants tangible, real effects. And this is a story that's going to involve the Cyclops, it's going to involve the trail Jian horse, It's going to involve all of these aspects of Greek myth and I'm very very curious to see what this is like. I'm you know, I wasn't a huge fan of Tenant, but other than that, I think Nolan's a fricking genius. Everything he touches is just brilliant. He's a He's quite a visionary. What do you guys think?

47:19 I'm for it. I can't wait to see it. Yeah, I'm really into the hole mythology, and I am kind of curious to see you Now. I didn't realize there the Cyclops in there. I was like, huh, Okay, that's gotta be cool to see. But yeah, I'm actually really excited about life one. What is this be like a Class of the Titans type of deal. I think it's gonna be more like Spartacus Man or or Gladiator. Frankly, I think it'd be more like that. I mean, there's gonna be some special effects in it, but I think he's going for a more realistic take. And Spider Man's in there. Who can say, noticed Spider Man. Now a busy man the plague telemachas. So, I mean, we'll see how it works, we'll see how it plays the critics and stuff. I mean, word's going to be leaking out pretty soon. This picture slated for July seventeenth, so it's after the July fourth holiday break. But at that point, you know he's going to own for at least a week or two. He's going to own every large format screen. There is, every Imax screen. So I think a lot of people remember the phen Armie phen Armie. Wow, remember remember I remember the pH Armie. It was terrible.

48:35 Do you remember the phenomena that was Barbenheimer? Right? Okay, that is the poll that Alden has the box office, right, not just Barbie alone, But that was a long ass freaking movie and people showed up in droves. Isee it right. I think he just people recognized that it's him and Gira mol Del Toro Spielberg. These are some of the James Cameron, these are our greatest living filmmakers, right, And if Christopher Nolan puts his name on something, people are going to show up in droves and be very curious. So rooting for this big time. I hope it's a huge success. Nice. Speaking of Tom Holland and his very busy schedule and his friend now wife, Zendaya, they will be coming back to entertain us in just a couple of weeks after the Odyssey with our next picture, which I am super curious to hear everyone's thoughts on this.

49:26 Trailers a little long, but it's a crowd pleaser, and I think this is every time that we have seen mister Holland plays Spider Man, it's been a phenomenal connection with audiences. So why don't you pull the cord on that lawnmower there? Show us what we got at Tom Holland. I can't believe our first thing that might say, Jay, come on, pretend like you're not the happiest you've ever been in your entire life. I can't do it. Hi, my name is Peter Parker.

50:15 You don't remember me, but we used to know each other. Something bad was going to happen, and the only way to stop it was to make everyone forget about me. Because I'm not just Peter Parker. I'm Spider Man. Suit yourself, go home. And sometimes Spider Man has to do the hard thing, even if it breaks Peter Parker's heart.

50:58 What is happening to me? Oh excuse me, Doctor Banner, I need your help. Let you say, are nameless. If DNA is mutating would be enormously dangerous. Spiders have three life cycles. When between the cycles, it can't leave. The spit a vulnerable to threats. We are faced with a danger, but we can't control one we can't even see.

51:42 Stay out of my way. If you lose a kid, And for. Those spiders who make it through, it amounts to a kind of. Nice flowers. Oh their housewarming gift. I'm m J. I'm just a neighbor from across the hall, friendly neighbor. That's a pretty great bit of stick there at the end. Wow. Huge, I mean the filmmakers are making these movies for the big format large IMAX screens now, man, I mean, wow, it's just eye popping, eye popping. Agree, disagree?

52:33 Ah, it looks great. Yeah, we got brown nating. I'm there, We're there. What planning? I think that was Keith Keith David. Okay, it sounded like I'm pretty sure I Keith. David from the John Carpenter movies and stuff. I'm almost positive. Do we does this story? Do we know if this comes from a like a comic run? Do we know? I think about the Yeah, I think they've been doing a little bit of kind of mishmash from what I understand, and I there's a little bit that I from one arc that I believe is included, and they kind of hint at it. But I think there might be well, PD might be running into some mutations in his future.

53:20 Yeah, I mean. More than that. Yeah, okay, that's fair enough. I don't know too much about the Spider Man character, but I was interested with that whole. Like there are three life cycles, and I know there's like the egg and the Spider laying, and then the adult. And so if we've only been seeing the Spider ling up to this point, then I would assume that the adult is going to totally kick ass. So that would be really cool. Yeah, so he may he may be in for a bargain, but I love the whole. The charisma between him and MJ through these movies have been great, so it's it's a great bit at the end there. So I'm super excited to see it. I will definitely see this opening weekend, you know, just because a lot of times, the way things are now with social media, if you don't go open any weekend, the spoilers have come raining down on you, right, And so I don't want to. I don't want to have this blown for me. And it just looks so big and epic and exciting. I'm I'm super pumped. But I love the fact that they he's just you know, he's in a dangerous place, which is great.

54:19 You know. And sorry, I'm so I'm looking at this picture here. So is the woman with the red hair? Is that? Oh? Sorry? The picture changed? Is that gray. Sadie Sink? You mean? Yeah? Uh? Oh, I know that Sadie Sink right from Uh No, I know, but. I'm wondering about the chart. Do we know what that character? She's got a phoenix on her chest. Yeah, and that may be an aim adge. Brother, I'm not sure I like legit or not because she's she's if you go to the IMDb page for this movie. Okay, I know, but but here, hear me out. We gotta figure that out.

54:59 She's she's listed, well, she's listed on the credits without a character name, all right, which is suspicious first of all, And we know Sadie Sink is showing up in a movie we'll be talking about in a few minutes, Avengers Doomsday, as presumably one of the Avengers to be named later. So we'll talk more about that. But I think it could be. There's always a lot of cross polonyest ideas. Man, I don't think I should wish I knew if that image was AI or not. Yeah, it looked like a legit poster. So I mean, you know, we're we're working a very tight budget. Uncle Jim Mix's work very late, so you know we'd have to just so I'm gonna move on to this next one here because we have to keep us on time, because we're really running like crazy with this and having fun.

55:44 But there's a movie coming out at the end of August that I'm very excited about. I am just gonna basically not queue it up with other than saying I think this is for fans of the old Twilight Zone. This could be your jam. So and that's all I'm gonna say, David, older brother. What's happening to us?

56:32 I think. Our house, our neighborhood, our whole stream has moved. No, the hell is not even possible. Oh my god, run well. Intrigued, Frank.

57:33 I've never heard of this movie until I just saw the trailer and I'm there, I'm intrigued. I'm gonna see it for sure. And and it's J. J. Abrams, who loves to sort of release his inner Spielberg right, and he hasn't gotten behind it. He's not directing here, but he's producing it. So it's gonna have that vibe to it. Ann Hathaways and everything this summer she's in like The Odyssey and Devil Worst Product too. She's all over the place. And you know, you got Obi wan Kenobi. I mean, you're getting a pretty good batch of fos in here. And it it looks The director's David Robert McNeil, who did a really good horror picture called It Follows. I don't know folks who've seen It Follows or not, but it's really worth checking out. Creepy movie. Creepy movie. Yeah, very disturbing. He really gets under the skin of his characters and knows the old classics. I think he's evoking a lot of Rod Sterling type situations here. It feels like this neighborhood has been moved to some kind of primordial unknown. So I don't know what it is.

58:27 I just know that looked like a t rex chasing them. That's all I need to know. And I'm there, So. Yeah, it does look a little durastic, punky almost, but yeah. But what a fun promise, right, And it's just and it's everybody in a modern American audience can relate to what it what my neighborhood was suddenly in the middle of the Cretaceous period right. In my windows. So what do you think I mean, I think you know, I would probably this is kind of movie. It's like you ask yourself these days, right, we're dominated streaming universe. Right? Do I wait for all home? Very over? Do I go through it in the theater? And when you see an image like that, I'm going to the theater, right because I want to see the excitement of it, and it's just the collective juice of seeing it in a big room in the dark is really fun.

59:12 Yeah, it's gotta be interesting. I go. I would see it in a theater with a friend. If I had to go see it on my own in the theater, i'd probably just wait for video. Okay, Well I'm always game. Hit me up, brother, Yeah that's true. Actually, if we should go see it. Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, we're gonna heep moving keep moving here. Next one is a movie you may not have heard of, but has got a lot of heat behind the camera because this is a picture directed by Yes Ridley Scott, Big Ridley Scott, who can do whatever he wants. Right. He's doing a picture called The Dog stars, right, it's a post apocalyptic saga, and he's got an interesting cast in there. Second from the middle, it's Jacob Belordi, who I got to know from Frankenstein with Giramo del Toro last year. A pretty good actor, right, and then you've got Josh Brolin in there as well. I didn't want us to get through the trailer here. I think he just wanted to how to be on people's radar just because it's really Scott. How do you ignore the legend that is really Scott Given any great movies he's made, but he's also made, you know, every few movies he kind of doesn't quite hit the bull's eye anymore. So I don't know. I still admire the guy. He's a legend.

1:00:33 I still think he's one of our great living filmmakers. Absolutely the same breath as del Toro and Nolan and everyone else, you know, but just he just sometimes he just makes so many movies they can all be good, right, But I'm very curious about this. It had It really hit the trailer for me when I saw it had a real the Last of Us vibe, and it made me wonder. We just got through two seasons of that on HBO or people going to go to the theater to see The Last of Us is the theater is a movie, And you could say the same thing about The Mandalorian, right, So it's curious to see, but it definitely has a similar viot. Anyone else hear of this movie or interested in it. I've never heard of it before, but yeah, I don't know.

1:01:15 I mean I definitely heard of it and honestly was not interested. I mean, it involves post apocalyptic pandemic, just like you were saying very Last of Us, which I lost interested in halfway through the first season. So I'm probably gonna skip it. I really it could be awesome. It's freaking Ridley Scott. Dude. It's probably going to be an amazing movie. It just is not a topic I'm interested in. And I just feel like I lived through that already. So I'll watch it in like five or ten years on video and then I'll be like, why did I never see this in the theater? And again, it's one of those ones for me. It says there's a couple of really Scott movies where you look at the reviews you're like, oh, and you're probably you know, it's a review dependent, right, I mean, if it gets like four stars, five stars, I'm there. But you know, there was that movie he made couple of years ago with like Matt Damon and Kylo Wren. Sorry, I'm like facing on that.

1:02:08 That wasn't Elicium, was it. It was this now. It was like this medieval fighting, the Last Duel. I think it was called Okay, yeah, and I think it was the last Duel. Okay, I could be wrong, yeah Jones, Yeah, but it did not. It was just it was you know, it's like, you know, half hour good stuff and a lot of tvous stuff. So we'll see. But any I don't want to denigrate Ridley Scott because he's a genius. We're turning the corner because this picture Dog Stars is late August twenty eight. We're moving in the fall real quickly. This one got everybody on the show, I think, a little bit excited. When we saw the trailer for this, there was a lot of chatter about this. We were talking about James Gunn and the DCU universe. Let's go back there for a little bit and check out what's coming in this quick trailer looking into Gotham City in late October what do we got? Wow?

1:04:00 Right, I'm so excited about this movie. I don't know why. Like I'm not even a super horror guy. Paul's way more of a horror guy than I am. But this trailer, the way that this was put together, with the like zooming in on his face the entire time, and the cuts that they were making, the editing alone looks crazy good. And I'm so excited about this. Plus I just finished watching The Penguin, which was fantastic, which is part of the Batman universe. Right, so yeah, very excited about this one. Despite the fact that it's horror. Well it's it's horror, but it's also kind of like it's an interesting, like dark noirre look at another corner of the DC Gotham universe. There's yeah. Yeah, and the animated series Clay Face got to bring out my toys whenever I can, right, But he was a great character on the show. He was an actor who became like addicted to some kind of face cream, except the face cream like got him all mutated. They became like, you know, like a horrific version of the T one thousand who could morph into like whatever, freaking you know, obstacle you wanted to become a hammer and crush you. We could.

1:05:06 He could turn into just about anything because he was just constantly able to remake his visage. But it was like this, you know, tortured story of like this actor who got screwed up. And I don't know if they're taking the same approach with the movie here or not, but I'm super curious to find out. It looks really interesting to me. I want to echo what Eric was saying about the Penguin. Penguin was a really good series. I don't know if folks check that out or not, but really good. I just thought it was an extremely well done show. And this looks like it's a companion piece in that same dark corner of Gotham City. So all I got to say is I lost my appetite in my PIECEA now.

1:05:49 It's too much stringy cheese. Yeah. So it's, you know, right around the corner from Halloween when this opens. So it's a position. Well, we'll see what happens. A couple of the movies. I want to mention real quick before we get to our next trailers and stuff. Getting to wrapping things up. Don't have a trailer for this one because they don't really have a full trailer yet, they just have a couple of images. But November sixth, mark your calendars. Godzilla minus zero. Did anybody else in the show see Godzilla minus one? Of course I went on opening night. Yeah, so yeah, tell us Godzilla minus won. A movie we should know about? Is that a movie these new Godzilla like? Godzilla minus one was the best Godzilla movie I've ever seen, and I have seen probably fifteen Godzilla movies like over the course of my lifetime. And Godzilla minus one was so good.

1:06:40 The story was fantastic, the monster was amazing. It was like emotionally relatable. Part of it were shot, part of it was shot in very interesting ways that kind of pulled you right into the story. I mean, it was beautiful to look at. So I am very excited about this. The only downside that I this movie and I can't figure. I'm not gonna say I'm not going to see it because of this, but I've heard that Godzilla has a gun for the first time. That feels weird to me. But that's what I've heard. I don't know, man, that's that's that seems preposterous to me. I can't even as well. But I'm not one to spout things that I haven't researched a little bit.

1:07:23 So oh, I know, if the trailer ends with this image of him like by the Statue of Liberty, presimply comes to New York, which is exciting. I don't know if there'll be other k you with this, like on the Apple te Apple Monarch series, because it's kind of a different aspect of Godzilla, different, you know, not the same franchise, right, these are like But what Eric was saying, if you have not seen Godzilla Minus one, the first one, you really should. It is amazing cinema. It's cinema. That's the thing is. That's what I was gonna say, is that you could take out the fact that it has Godzilla. And granted it does, and he's the main character, but it's just a beautiful movie. And atmospheric, poignant. Godzilla was born out of Japan's reckoning with the atomic bomb, and he's a symbol. Godzilla is he's a symbol for the destruction perpetrated on the population by the aid BOP, right, and so that is very much woe went into these movies here. Godzilla is like a metaphor, and all I know is that this new movie is set two years after Minus one and I will be there opening day. That's all so pretty cool.

1:08:30 Moving on again, another franchise that doesn't need our help to make money. But you know, if you're a fan of the Hunger Games franchise, there's a big Hunger Games picture coming out just before Thanksgiving Sunrise on the Reaping, and I've lost track of how many of these they've made at this point, but it's a November twentieth new installment in this dysopian science fiction franchise. A lot of interesting people in the cast. For sure, Finds has been in there quite a bit. We've got Jesse Plemmons, who I will frankly go out of my way to see anything Jesse Plemons is, and if he's one of the greatest living actors right now, phenomenal dude. So with those two guys in there, you certainly got my attention. I've missed a bunch of these Hunger Game movies, though I'm not really following the franchise super intently. Anybody else super into.

1:09:26 This, any big fansbody to get in the first book couldn't get past the first few pages. M okay, all right, So we mentioned it in passing just because it is a big picture on the horizon, especially as you turn the corner into November December. That's really the big climax of the annual movie going season, right where the big guns come out and duel over the holiday break right, and it's like Summer movie Season part two, which is why we kind of included here. And we're right down to the end of the line here. We I got like about three more pictures to talk about and will be all done. No real big trailer that is a legit trailer that shows you a lot has emerged for this one yet. But we have to mention Avengers dooms Day, okay, which were the seeds of which were planted because we Marvel really kind of, you know, steamrolled out of craziness with all too many TV shows, movies not connecting with people. They want to reset and they're hoping that Avengers Doomsday will do this. They brought in the opening salvo of this reimagining and return of the big MCU pictures was last year with Fantastic Four, which was great. Fantastic four was really really good, and there's a little you know Capper scene at the end there of Fantastic Four where we see, okay, doctor Doom is being brought in. It was always one of the Fantastic Four's nemesis, right. And the big news is they've got Iron Man is dead supposedly, but they've resurrected Robert

1:10:57 Downey Jr. To play a different role in the MCU where he'll play Victor von Doom slash Doctor Doom. Right. And also, this movie is heavily because I believe Eric is going to expound upon momentarily. Is heavily rumored to be reintroducing the old school Patrick Stewart X Men crew. And I think that that fantastic boar X Men and the MCU guys like Captain America and Thor all together and want picture fighting multiple villains. I mean, will they do really great? I don't know. And I'd like to hear Eric's thoughts.

1:11:38 Is Eric there? Yeah? Sorry, I just I skipped out for a second there, but I think I can. Can you guys hear me? Okay, yeah, I share the toilet flushing It's okay, Yeah, that's okay. Yeah. So so I. I will say so when I first heard that Robert Downey Junior was going to play Doctor Doom. I I kind of rolled my eyes a little bit. I'm not gonna lie, but that was because we got that information. I don't even know, Paul. Was it a year ago, a year and a half, like, it feels like it was a very long time ago. A couple of comic cons ago, right, A couple of. Comic cons ago. And so there's been a lot of time for this story to develop. And now I'm realizing that ai picture or not, I swear to God, if that picture that we saw for Spider Man is true to form, then that what was the actress's name, sorry.

1:12:26 Paul, Sadie Sadie Sick? Then she would be playing Jeene Gray. And if you don't know who she is, she's like one of the main X men, right's the she's the wife of Psyclops, well depending on where you are in the story, but like but also like one of the most powerful psionic mutants on the planet and in fact, like frankly more powerful than Professor X at some points in the comics. And she becomes this character called the Phoenix, And I saw that phoenix on her chest and got really excited for Spider Man, So yeah, you start bringing X Men into things. The other thing that I really like about this movie is that Doc Doom is one of those like Batman, who has no innate superpowers. Doctor Doom also has no innate superpowers. He's just one of the smartest people on the planet. And so he beats you with his brain. He beats you with the technology that he can build because of his brain. He beats you with the way that he tricks to you and causes you to like harm yourself. So all of those things, plus the X Men get me really interested in seeing this movie.

1:13:25 And plus it has been a minute since we've gotten to see a cool like Marvel movie. So you throw in the X Men, and you throw in Doctor Doom, and I'm. In, Yeah, I'm super excited. I mean, the last really big picture we saw was like Black Panther Returned to Wakanda was pretty big. I think a lot of people have missed it, though, and they you know, they didn't go because Chadwick Boseman wasn't Black Panther anymore, right, But I think it was a good picture. But a lot of these last ones, they've tried thunderbolts for example, it's good, but do you need to run out and see in theater if you can? You know, Thunderbolts I think was okay. So I got a question. Patrick Krewitt is going to be in next movie? I'm assuming, so didn't he retire or are they going to shoot you him? And I think that he and we don't know yet that he is for that. Again, no trailer yet. They haven't really completely dropped trow yet, David, So we don't really know what they're hanging right, but we we have a lot of theories and rumors, and I think it might be smart for them to uh to hold off revealing too much because it does build a lot of anticipation and there's been no real leaks. But we think if they're going to have the you know, the the old X Men crew, you would have to have Patrick Stewart in there, right, But then what about it begs the question what about Hugh Jackman is Wolverine? Right? It's like there's this whole multiverse thing happening, right, So there's a lot of colliding overviews, so you don't necessarily have to have all the actors from everything. If the multiverse is involved, you can reassemble everything in a new way and bring everyone together in a fresh take. So that

1:14:57 gives him a little bit of freedom. And you listed, at least on the IMDb page. Of interest, I think are the fact that Chris Evans is apparently back as Steve Rogers. I don't know if that's in a flashback or as part of the movie. But moreover, I love the Beast character from The X Men. He's kind of this like his body's binge and all while he's a mutant, right, so his body is he's like this blue scientist guy who swings around like a like an ape. But it's just super duper smart. But the reason I bring him up in this movie is that he's being played by Kelsey Grammer. So who did he did is in one of the other movies. Right exactly? Yep, So they're bringing him back as. He's like, he's like a really aggressive hurry. That's McCoy, right, So it's it's super fun man. But it's just a lot of people are rumored to be in this movie.

1:15:48 I mean it's gonna be I think we're gonna get a little hint of it when we go see Spider Man. We're gonna get you know, a little you know, expect post credit scenes anytime you go to a Marvel movie, right like Spider Man, don't you leave watch it till the very very very very very end of the credits, and we'll probably get some scenes that set up what we're going to see for this and the only reason and I think this will movie will do well. Right, they open on December eighteenth, But we have an issue here, okay, because there's a lot of excitement around this movie, but there's a lot of excitement around another movie that opens on the same day, And that other movie that opens on that same day as Avengers Doomsday, has already front loaded and captured every single large format Imax screen in the country, And so it's tough because are you gonna go see I think people will Frankly, I think they'll see both. I really do they give a barb and himer here. I think people will go see this. And Disney's trying to market they have some new fancy technology that isn't really technology, it's just kind of like, you know, stuff.

1:16:54 So we'll see. But the thing is, it's a crazy day, December eighteenth. On that same day, a movie people will go out of their minds for is opening and David, let's show people what that movie is. Mm hmm. If we have a girl, oh we name her. Her name speak a Nemo. She need to be strong like her mother. What I could support?

1:17:40 I would name him leto mm hmm. So he would have to wisdom of his grandfather. Or feeds on it. So dee, my shoot deep who listening? And your sneak to dear. Uh more? I fight? I didn't each more enemies. My back, Gosh, gifty and sneak.

1:18:24 I'm doing the best I can to protect my family. Listen, how did father do it? Your father never started. A war, did.

1:19:12 I'm not afraid to die, but I must not die. Yet. Man, absolute madness. I'm there anyone else with me? I barely speaks Yeah, I mean yeah, so if you so. Anyway, So this is doing three right. There have been two movies before at this point. If you're not familiar with the Frank Herbert original series, there's six original books that these three movies cover the first two books. So this movie is essentially the telling of the story of the second book, Dune Messiah, which takes place like it's like fifteen years or so after the original Dune. And there's a lot of story stuff in here. People. If you are into space opera, if you are into like big pieces on a giant chessboard being moved at a time and them like moving the way that civilizations develop, that's the kind of movie that this is going to be.

1:20:35 It looks so good. I love the fact that we get more of the Fremen, like they're such a great, you know, part of the Dune kind of just overall ethos and remember that, well not remember, but if you haven't read the books, at this point, Paula Trades, like our Paul Little Treats is the emperor, right, and he's got conspiracy coming at him from all different sides, and he's using his Fremen like wife and techniques to kind of like combat those along the way. And they introduce I don't want to give too much away, but they introduce what I what becomes in the Dune book series. One of the most interesting set of characters the Talasu.

1:21:17 And I'm so excited to see them in this movie because we've never seen them in any other film adaptation before. And I'm just like losing my mind because they are literally where the whole end of that six book series goes. And I'm so excited. And we may get a look at the Guild Navigators in here for the first time too. So it's a lot of theorizing about that. All I know is, you know, they got every large format screen in the country nailed down. I mean, they locked that in with Imax early, and so this is going to be such an event. I mean, I cannot. I mean, and Paul's kind of the villain really, he's morphing because these movies reflect life and politics and what goes on in history, right, and war comes out of a lot of manipulation and greed. And you know, the spice is basically you know, the petroleum products, right, Yeah, he controls the spice, controls the universe. I mean, Frank Herbert's very much an environmental politician in terms of the story. These stories are constructed with great myth and theology woven into them as well. That's Robert Pattinson with that blonde hair, Believe it or not, it's crazy. Yeah, it's just an amazing cast. We talked a couple of times during this segment tonight about the greatest living filmmakers out there without question, Dennie Villeneu is one of the most splendid epic Every shot of his movies is like a painting. He's just a magnificent auto. I cannot wait to see this movie.

1:22:47 It's going to be something really special. And the fact that we get that Avengers in the same week, Holy moly. So there's Christmas right there on a package with a ball on. It's a lot. So is everyone kind of communally excited for this? Other Dune zelots? Besides Eric, not too much on. My end care for any of the Dune movies. So wow, Okay, yeah, I thought it for a Sune movie and I was like, wow, this is taking a really long time. It felt really slow for me for some reason. Not its like, but yeah, I'm not into the Dune too much. Okay, Okay, well, you know, I just we're all different, right, We got to enjoy, enjoy, and some people enjoy things I cannot fathom. And I just know that I absolutely love these pictures and they're brilliantly lensed, and I just can't wait to see more of the craft of filmmaking that than he has got to offer. I got one more picture. I just want to throw out there, and this is kind of a capper here. As a director, Robert Eggers likes to give you a morbid Christmas present every year, seemingly. The last time he did it was with Nose Faratu, and he's back this year again to do He's already done a a ton of different things.

1:24:03 He's the same guy directed The Witch, Right loves Horror, did a great Viking picture called Northman if you haven't seen it. He's a real amazing visual stylist, right, I mean he really even if you don't like his pictures. I wasn't a huge nosh Ratu fan, but man, it's well shot, it's beautifully composed, a great cinematography, and I'm sure that will be the case here with his take Underwear Wolf, which is him doing a werewolf saga on that myth set in medieval Britain. So kind of creepy crazy. I don't know why you don't open this on Halloween, Robert Eggers. It seems like you probably triple your box office. But a lot of people go to the movies on Christmas Dame, so who knows. But that's the last one on our list here today, friends, just an extra one to mention if going through this tallly of movies that are coming out this year, it doesn't get you excited to go back to the movie theater. I don't know what will. So it's really fun to be able to present this list and to chat about it and what we have. And I don't know if we want to just move right along, uncle Jim to what do you have next on your plate? But this was fun to do.

1:25:11 I'm ready to pop some popcorn. I'm ready to dive in and enjoy the rest of the movies that come out this year. Thanks friends, Absolutely. Super sci fi summer extravagance. All right, well, David, were ready to dive into some sci fi birthdays. Let's do it to him? Mountain do it.

1:25:51 That was not a clean song. All right, guys, this is the part of our show where you get to find out what sci fi person you may share a birthday with. And for that we like to start off with the members of our five family who were no longer with us, and for that we turned air. Yeah, Jim. This week we start our remembrances by honoring David Hurst, the actor who played Ambassador Hoden in the TOS third season episode The Mark of Gideon. He lived to be the ripe old age of ninety three years old and was originally born to a German Jewish family and at twelve years old moved to Ireland as part of the Kinder Transport program and then eventually in the fifties moved to the United States became a famous actor, and it's just such a cool story. If you want to read more about his story, you should go check it out. It involves a lot of moving around the world and kind of like taking advantage of opportunities. And then interestingly, toward the end of his life, he returned to German in the ninety Germany in the nineties, and he eventually retired from acting in two thousand and unfortunately we lost him in twenty nineteen. Like I said, at the age of ninety.

1:27:01 Three years old. So happy birthday to David Hurst, a very well traveled and very talented actor. Happy birthday as well this week to Stephen First. Not a Star Trek actor, but he is an actor and director. He played Vercato in all five seasons of Babylon Five and in the TV movie Third Space. Best known for his roles as Kent Flounder Dorfmann in the comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House and Elliott Axelrod in St Elsewhere. Stephen first not star Trek. Also kind of hard to believe that he is gone at this point. We lost him all the way back in twenty seventeen. Happy birthday to Stephen. Happy birthday as well to somebody. I never thought we'd be saying happy birthday too on the show, but I love it. Happy Birthday to the Fred Astaire. Yeah, Fred Astaire, that's right, the American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer and presenter talk about Quintuple Threat. His last on screet dance on screen dance was actually as an alien prince on the original Battlestar Galactica episode The Man with the Nine Lives. He was eighty years old and he did it because his grandchildren wanted to watch the show. So I just love that Fred Astaire ties into science fiction. But of course he's just incredibly talented. If you haven't seen any Fredastair movies, you need to go watch some Singing in the Rain as one of my top ten movies of all time.

1:28:28 So yeah, just. Very talented man, and I love that he intersects with science fiction. Happy Birthday to Fred Astaire. Happy birthday as well to Michael G. Haggerty, the actor who appeared as the Klingon larg in the Next Generation fifth season episode Redemption two and as sco Ran the Barconian Blacksmith in the seventh Seen season episode Thine own Self. Haggarty also appeared as the bartender Mesca in a Star Trek video game called Star Trek kling On. I don't know if you ever played that one, David, but apparently he was in that as well. But he's probably best known for his frequent appearances as the building superintendent mister Trieger on Friends, and I watched a lot of Friends back in the day, so I definitely know him from that. Other appearances include films like Dick Tracy and Red Heat and Wayne's World, and a bunch of other things along the way. He also had dozens of appearances on various television dramas and sitcoms throughout the early two thousands, so a face I'm sure you recognize. Happy birthday to Michael G. Haggerty. Lost back in twenty twenty two. Happy Birthday to Benjamin Lum, the actor who portrayed Assistant Chief engineer Jim Shimoda in the Next Generation first season episode The Naked Now. Benjamin was an educator and then became known for stage and screen before headed to Los Angeles to continue his career.

1:29:50 He was an active member of the East West Players in Los Angeles and was a character actor known for roles like the Mailman, an episode of Seinfeld. I actually finnily remember that episode, but he was also in another Forty eight Hours and The Wizard of Speed and Time from nineteen eighty eight. We lost him way too early. He was only forty eight years old when we lost him. So Happy birthday to Benjamin Lum. Happy birthday as well to Kevin Peter Hall, the actor who portrayed the Caledonian diplomat and negotiater Layor in the Next Generation third season episode The Price. Hall earlier had actually been considered for two TNG cast roles. He was considered for Data and for Jordie LaForge along the Way, but I guess they figured out seven foot two inches tall. Maybe he didn't fit what they wanted for either of those characters. He was one of the tallest actors to ever perform in any Star trek movie or television series. His enormous stature landed him numerous roles in films as monsters or aliens, such as Harry the sask Watch in the nineteen eighty seven movie Harry and the Hendersons. But probably best known and I think most beloved by I'm sure our tre experts here was the fact that he was the Predator in nineteen eighty seven science fiction action film movie Predator and its sequel Predator Too from nineteen ninety. Unfortunately, we lost him just a year later. He contracted AIDS through

1:31:23 a blood transfusion and was lost at thirty five years old. Because it was the early nineties, man, we didn't know what to do with that stuff yet. So tragic loss, way way too early. But very talented actor, and of course his stature was something special. So happy birthday to Kevin Peter Hall. Happy birthday as well to Jones Swift, the actress who played Aurelian Kirk in the Next Excuse Me original series first season episode Operation Annihilate. She made several appearances on television series such as The Lucy Show and The Jack Benny Program. She also made guest appearances on I Spy Bewitched, which was one of my favorite rerun shows as a kid, and then did a couple other things with Lucille Ball. She was featured in Jerry Lewis's The Patsy Movie from nineteen sixty four and The Family Jewels from nineteen sixty five. Happy Birthday to Joanes Swift, and last but not least, on our remembrance list, we say happy birthday to William O'Connell, the actor who played Thelev in the TS second season episode Journey to Babel.

1:32:29 He was an actor best known for Any Which Way but Loose from nineteen seventy eight, The Outlaw Josie Wales from nineteen seventy six, and Paint Your Wagon from nineteen sixty nine, as well as a variety of other movie and television guest appearances along the way. In nineteen seventy one, he co starred with Peter Broco and Gary Wahlberg on The Odd Couple episode A Taste of Money, and in nineteen seventy four, That's Right, he got to co star with William Shatner on television. He's best known or not best known, but his last known on screen acting appearances was in a nineteen ninety one made for TV movie called The Haunted with George D. Wallace. So Happy birthday to William O'Connell, lost just a couple of years ago, January twenty twenty four, at ninety four years old, And that, folks does it for our remembrances.

1:33:20 Right, thank you so much to ask. My first Happy Birthday goes out to one of my favorite Star Trek characters, played by Salomy Jens. She's best known for her portrayal as the female changeling in DS nine and she was always saying poor Odo because Odo, you know anyway, Ellen, I was that unfortunate scene where Odo tried to teach her about relationships between humanoids and that was like you so anyway. She previously appeared as the ancient Humanoid in the TNG sixth season episode The Chase.

1:34:09 So Happy birthday to sala May. I don't know if she does the dance of seven Vales, but she's got a cool name. Next, Happy Birthday to Brian J. Cousins. He appeared in two episodes of Star Trek Next Generation and an episode of Star Trek Enterprise. Appeared as Perham in TNG The Next Phase Crosis in Descent and Descent Part two and Paul Tani in Enterprise the Catwalk. Next, Happy Birthday goes out to Gregory Beecroft.

1:34:49 Now. He is the former actor who played Mickey de in TNG second season episode The Royal and in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is best known for as Anthony Tony Rearden in Guiding Light. Next, Happy Birthday goes out to Amy Hill, who voiced doctor Jago in Star Trek Prodigy first season episode Masquerade. She was born in Deadwood, South Dakota, to a Japanese mother and a Finnish American father. Next, Happy Birthday to Jessica Hendra. She played Dejar in DS nine third season episode Destiny. Hendra is married to actor Kurt Fuller.

1:35:44 I don't know if she was the if she was the Cardassian who told remember when she was with because there were the three of them. I think if that's the one I'm thinking of. And she told O'Brien that she was quite fertile in could provide him with multiple children. That was a good scene. Yeah, yeah. Next Nancy Howard. She is an actress, screenwriter, producer, and director who played ensign Samantha Wildman in eight seasons of Voyager or eight episode Sorry, and she of course is the mother of Naomi Wildman, who is in that show a lot as well. Next April Grace, she portrayed Maggie Hubbell in five episodes of the fourth and fifth seasons of TNG. She reprised her role for DS nine first season episode Emissary. Grace later played Admiral Sally Whitley in the Star Trek Picard second season episode The Stargazer. Next happy birthday goes out to Jennifer Hettrick, who played the recurring role of Vosh in TNG third and fourth season episodes Captain's Holiday and Cupid, and in the DS nine first season episode q Less and last but not least,

1:37:15 setting out a happy birthday to Sam Anderson, who played the assistant manager of the hotel in TNG second season episode The Royale. He's known for being in Forrest Gump, Members of an Invisible Man, and Water for Elephants. All right, passing the flaming birthday candle onto. Pol thank you for very kind of you. Friend. Well, first of all, let's say happy birthday to Garth Pillsbury, former actor who played Wilson in original series second season episode Mirror Mirror and played a trog Light prisoner in the third season episode of The Cloud Minders and Charles, if you get that episode where we're comparing societal relevance to past Trek episodes, I think I'm gonna probably want to talk about the Cloud Minders because to me, that's one that doesn't get the emphasis it should. So I think that a lot to say on that subject. So just planting a seed for a future show. Happy birthday to David clennan American actor who played a doctor Krell most as the medical consultant program Beta Won in Voyager's fifth season episode Nothing Human. A diart political activist, he's well known for his hands on approach in politics. I like your styles. We need more of that. Oh be

1:38:50 still my foolish heart. Rosario Dawson, Happy birthday. We're talking about former Jedi padawan Ahsoka Tano used to be joined at the hit right snips to Anakin Skywalker, and then we're talking about the current iteration of the where she first appeared on The Mandalorian Show on Disney Plus second season as Ahsoca and got her own and then book A Boba Fett followed up there and that it was our own Ahsoka series, which just this week it was announced will be a drop in season two, the first part of twenty twenty seven, so we still have a few months to wait for that one, unfortunately, but I suspect it will be well worth it. Ahsoka was a really cool show, and it's great to see a character that began an animation evolved into a live action portrayal.

1:39:40 So if you've not watched Ahsoka, it's really worth your time. It's outstanding. Bear in mind, Marvel fan. She also appears as Claire Temple in the Daredevil series as well. So Ahsoka is great, really really cool. Love your work, Rosario Dawson. Eighties fans always recognize those piercing blue eyes at Meg Foster, who played Onaya in the Deep Space nine and fourth season episode The Muse. She appeared as Evil Lynn in that movie we were talking about earlier, Dolph Lundren's Masters of the Universe and as Holly and John Carpenter As They Live, one of the all time greatest cult movies of all time. And since she has a starring role in Cagney and Lacey, but she wasn't Cagney or Lacey, so I have to look that up here because I'm like, I've been questioning the editing here because I don't know if I would call it a starring role. But we shall see my research hat will have to come on later.

1:40:35 But that is not time daily, nor is it the other one. Yeah, well, yeah, thank you, thank you eighties eighties oracle v. I appreciate that that is your newest nickname. Now you can stop clapping your arms. You are eighties Aurle pull it out of her hat at a moment's notice. Happy birthday, shameless plug for They Live. If you've never seen They Live, you should. You should see it now. It's amazing consumed. Anyhow, I'll moving on. Happy birthday to Sonya Son, American actress who played Gabrielle Burnham the second, third, and fourth seasons of Star Trek Discovery. Would you say she is the matriarch of the Bourmin clan? Perhaps, I would say, and I believe so on your son, but I'm remembering correctly. My eyes are too small to screen to see the screen, but I believe came to prominence on the wire. Yeah, there we go, Yeah, she was on the wire. I remember her. She was amazing, really really cool. You never watched The Wire yet? What are you eaven doing? I can you call yourself a serious television fan? What's wrong with you? You should be binging that sucker as soon as you can. Everybody came out of the world, so.

1:41:46 We're just your Wi Fi only. Oh well, well, get yourself an old Landline buddy and check it out. But The Wire is some of the best TV ever. I mean, every season is different, so you don't know if you don't like one season, you just go on to the next one. Anyhow, it's a great honor to be able to wish a happy birthday to this luminary, this absolutely splendid actor who I'm a huge fan of. Iranian actress shore Agda Shlou, who is just a lover's leasure, a pleasure. She's amazing, Okay, I've seen her so many pictures over the years. We on Star Trek, we acknowledged and she played Commodore Paris and Star Trek beyond the motion pictures side of the franchise there.

1:42:30 But in the late seventies she split during the Iranian Revolution and started working as an actor. And she's amazing. She has a voice that sounds like she smoked like thirty eight packs of cigarettes. I mean, it's just amazing. But somehow she still manages to be as impactful as hell. And if you have not seen her in her recurring role as a United Nations Chancellor Christian Abbasarella on sci fi channels and Amazon's The Expanse, wow, are you miss sing out on a science fiction icon? She wore every episode she would wear an amazing costume. And one of my favorite drinking games is you you have to take a drink every time that Christian.

1:43:15 I mean, it's just I just have to tell you, not only is this character in the books written to be just incredibly filthy mouth, but just delivers it in such a convincing way, just like I can't believe these words are coming out of this woman's mouth. Yeah, she's just amazing. I mean, she's just so on and she's just she's Secretary General. I got her, I got her role. The Leader of Earth. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, the costume she wore, and and it's not just the costumes, it's the bearing she comports herself with as she is out there. She just is amazing and then she's just looking should be in the middle of this big, important meeting with people from various part What's wrong with you?

1:43:59 You know she tear him apart. Yeah, she's amazing. I just don't think there's any role she can't play. She's a master, masterful performer. Moving on, do more work, more sure, We love your work. Richard Riley a prolific character actor who appeared as but Ti in Uh the Wonderful Classic Next Gen episode fifth season's Inner Light, shamous on the six season Voarger episodes fair Haven and Spirit Folk, Spirit Folk, and Jeremy Lucas in the Enterprise four season episodes Cold Station twelve and the Augments. Personal favorites of Chuck Sport Eric two of the best episodes of all Enterprise, but I'm not mistaken.

1:44:44 Absolutely ye. For you, Oh excellent, excellent. Eric is our is our resident Enterprise savant. If there's anything you ever need to know about Enterprise, just you know, ask Garret. He'll tell you. So can we go. I am surprised, surprised to see this gentleman here sometimes, but yes he is. He's an amazing actor. I'm a big fan. The legendary book line. Harvey Kaitel, known for his amazing acting performances and just name it and that accent. But there's no mistake in it, right, super intense. Anybody here seen Bad Lieutenant? Anyone know Bad Lieutenant?

1:45:28 Oh? Yeah, absolutely movie I think I ever saw. I think, yeah, it's crazy if you don't know what I'm talking about. What I'm trying to think. He's in the Piano with Holly Hunter. Yes, with Holly Hunter. Yes, okay, yes, yes, that's. For Yes, he is absolutely with Holly Hunter. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, he's really great. I mean he suffers, no fools. He's not always easy to work with, believe it or not. If you're in Apocalypse Now fan, right, we think it was no Martin Sheen, right, But in the early days of that picture, it was Harvey Cartel and we played Captain Willard and they had a disagreement. They didn't see the character the same way and he and France's part of ways. But he was the original Captain Willard. And Apocalypse Now. Yeah, pictures like Bugsy where he got an Academy Award nomination there, and then the big, you know, debut Quentin Tarantino movie Reservoir Dogs, where he's a freaking star mister White. Okay, I mean he's just amazing, amazing, he's great. He's just so so fantastic.

1:46:37 See he says something like it's ten minutes away, I'll be there in five or something. That's that's that's pulp that's his pulp fiction role where he's like, you know the that's right, yeah, yeah, sorry, all right, gentlemen. We got a lot of blood to clean up, so you get cleaning. You've got a problem, Yeah, just do it. You know. It's just like, you know, maybe ten minutes. He's great, And then we honoring for science fic because he was in this movie. I can't believe we still that this movie merits a fred opening song is astonishing. The legendary ship storm that is Saturn three. Okay, it was one of the worst dance fiction movies of all freaking time. And you know, disgrazia to Harvey Cartel. They dubbed it because the director and he they didn't see the same point of view and things No one seems to see things about you do, Harvey?

1:47:26 Why is that? But he was dubbed by British actor. British actor if she will, Roy daughtris who I know, Eric will remember his commissioner simmons On Space nineteen ninety nine. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, he was like in Amideis he was Wolfgang's father and Amadeus as well. But yeah, they didn't like the fact that he thought. Tris. Know his daughter is Karen and she was a child star in a lot of Disney movies and uh har Harry Potter, Mary Poppins. Yeah, but anyway, and I saw.

1:48:07 Her, what would you be, go. On, I'm having us. Something I'm coming to works. It's not as well as I don't know what to do, but anyhow, I would pay. Okay, I would you know, here's what I would do. I'll make it. Make a deal with whoever owns the rights of Saturay three. I'll watch it again if you undub Harvey and we let me hear Harvey's original performance. Okay, then I'll watch Saturday three again. I would do that for you because I love Harvey Cartel. I think he's a treasure and I like you just the way you are, Harvey.

1:48:50 I don't care what everyone else says, so fuck them. Is this a Christian os opera? I would say, you know. And finally, for me, this is kind of a big one. It's got a big deal because I just freaking I feel like this guy changed my life in a lot of ways, in a really positive way. Today, here's the birthday of the legendary icon, George freaking Lucas. Amazing okay, brilliant creator, or as C three Po would say, oh, the maker, you right, is absolutely the maker, the man who came up phenomena. Everyone just thinks Star Wars, right, But if you've never watched American Graffiti, what is wrong with You? That is one of the best movies of all time. It's just phenomenal and you get to see like young Harrison Ford and young you know, Ron Howard, all these people when they were just coming up in a very autobiographical picture that George Lucas wrote and directed. So, you know, amazing legacy. He's got a whole museum of the Arts that's opening in Los Angeles' fall. It's going to have a huge Star Wars exhibit the prequels. He's just had his hand in so many different things. He's a force for good, Okay, I mean he really is.

1:49:54 He's championed education and enlightenment and entertainment in every aspect of his doing. He's a tremendous dude at a time when I think our world really was in dire need of mythology and mythos and magic and remembering what fairy tales were. George Lucas figured out a way to remind us again of those things due to his enduring fondness for myth and he's just an absolute living legend, forever entering our minds. And I'm just a huge admirer of your work, sir, so thank you so much for creating what you created, and amazing, amazing from the galaxy far far away, we salute you, sir, so, thank you for everything.

1:50:42 And I'm going to pass my birthday flame thrower over to Uncle Jim. We're trying to. Let's not forget Howard the Duck. How could you forget Howard the Duck. I'm easily, I'm not easily, yeah, rather simply yeah, and shall do so again. All right, Well, well, I only have two birthdays and unfortunately no Klingons, so I want to start off by saying happy birthday too. Gina Phillips. She's an actress from Miami Beach, Florida, who portrayed Varis Saul in the DS nine first season episode The story Teller, And there she is on the screen with Jake and I and you know the big one for me. I think I mentioned this a couple of shows ago. I took my wife, then my girlfriend in high school, on our first date to see Tron. And yes, she's still married to me, and I'll pull it out and watch it once a year.

1:51:40 She still hates it, but she's still with me, so I must have done something right. I want to say happy birthday to Bruce foxwriter himself, American actor and science fiction suspense writer, known for his dual role as character Alan Bradley and Tron in the classic Awesome movie and There It Is on the Screen Tron. He also reprised the role in the twenty ten sequel Tron Legacy two and the animated series Tron The Uprising. He's also known as John Sheridan from Babone will always be Tron to me. He fights for the users. All right, guys, that finishes up our Star Trek birthdays. We're gonna move on to our Star Trek News role to tape.

1:52:28 David. Okay, Okay, god, I just I love the video. All right, So here we go. I think Eric's gonna start us with a classic segment. Yeah, we often start with our favorite segment, Shatner says, this time in a apparently a big Star Trek event quote sets the course for San Diego Comic Con twenty twenty six. But perhaps without William Shatner, could fans get their first look at a new Star Trek film and or series at this year San Diego Comic Con. It is unclear if that's going to happen, but there's a big Star Trek event planned for a Saturday night, according to William Shatner. The iconic Captain Kirk actor revealed the news while attending this month's Comic Con Liverpool. Shatner said, in fact, there's a meeting in San Diego, at a big convention in San Diego where a lot of people go, a lot of programs go to promote themselves, and on a Saturday night there's a big Star Trek event and they've invited me, and I can't go because I'm busy,

1:53:59 and it's like, too bad. I'm sorry about that. It certainly sounds like Shatner speaking about San Diego Comic Con, which means the Saturday night in question is July twenty fifth. Shatner was also asked during the interview if the upcoming Star Trek event is like another convention, and it's obviously not, the actor replied by saying, well, it's bigger than that. I mean all the shows. The Star Trek actor continues to stay very active and downright busy making the rounds on the convention circuit. So Shatner missing San Diego Comic Con seems odd since it's the biggest such gathering of the year. In fact, he's due at the Motor City Comic Con this weekend May sixteenth and seventeenth, and his Star Trek two the Wrath of Con screenings just added new dates for this fall. So whatever Shatner has planned which conflicts with him attending San Diego Comic Con must be quite important. I'm very excited about the potential for a big announcement at this year's DCC. I'm sure it's going to be related to Strange New Worlds. But it was kind of fun to hear Shatner just comment on the fact that he can't go this year. So that does it for our Shatner says, what segment.

1:55:14 Isn't that about the same time that Strange New world gets released? Yeah, it's right in that same zone for sure. So I'm sure it's going to throw up at that convention. Yeah, for sure. You know he does love it. Okay, Well that does it for our William Shatner segments. I'm going to pass the elogy. Why is this ninety seven percent Rotten Tomatoes series unavailable to stream? Hmm? What could be behind this?

1:55:55 I don't know. El Purnell has conquered television over the last five years, but it's a crime that one of her finest TV series isn't available to stream. The twenty nine year old British actress was part of Showtime's acclaim thriller series Yellowjackets before starring in the prime video sensation Fallout. Meanwhile, there is no streaming home for Ella Purnell's animated saga Star Trek Prodigy The Class. The cast included Ella as Gwindala, Brett Gray as Doll Rell, and John Noble as the villainous Diviner. Star Trek Prodigy also featured Kate Mulgroo reprising Star Trek Voyager's Admiral Catherine Janeway and Hologram Janeway. Shockingly, Paramount Plus abruptly canceled Star Trek Prodigy in twenty twenty three, during production of season two. That sounds familiar, doesn't it, and all episodes were purged from the streaming service. Outrage fans launched a campaign to save the Star Trek Prodigy, with Netflix picking up both seasons. Star Trek Prodigy Season one twenty episodes premiered on Netflix in December twenty twenty three, and season two followed with twenty new episodes in July

1:57:26 twenty twenty four. But as of December thirty first, twenty twenty five, Star Trek Prodigy no longer has a streaming home. Unfortunately, it did not return to Paramount Plus after exiting Netflix. Despite Paramount Plus touting itself as the home of Star Trek Prodigy is the only Star Trek series not available on paramount streaming service. The lack of streaming availability God I Can't Talk Tonight book is especially perplexing considering the cast. Its cast treatment by Paramount Plus and Netflix is egregious, especially when considering the stellar quality of the CGI animated series.

1:58:17 Prodigy boast to combined ninety seven percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with season one rated at ninety four percent and season two earning a perfect one hundred percent and again shockingly, Paramount Plus never fully explained why it canceled Star Trek Prodigy, but it was reportedly a combination of gosh, where we heard this before, low streaming numbers and belt tightening as Paramount Global prepared to be sold to sky Dance Media. Tragically, there is also no end in sight to Star Trek Prodigies steaming streaming of both. I'm not drunk, I promise you. I just can't talk tonight. I am not drunk. No, there's not any Yeah, no, there's not They're not five. They're not five. Em to you on the floor anyway. Every other, yeah, every other Star Treks series and movies is available to stream on Paramount Plus, and the fact that Prodigy isn't is simply unfair and wrong.

1:59:34 It's especially self defeating considering Prodigy. I can't even say Prodigy is crucial. Mission is to add new lifelong officionados of Star Treks. Excuse me, aging fan base. We're not aging, we're aged less. How about that? There you go? All right, Golly, Paramount Plus has a that's a pattern, isn't it anyway? In that special All right? Yes, church lady, so. Well guys, believe it or not, that's the end of another show. No, Paul, Super sci Fi Extravaganza was a hit.

2:00:21 We'll have to do it again. Yeah, we should probably do. I think I'm going to be I think I'm going to be busy washing my hair or you know, watching my dog, watching my watching my dog too. Can we reviewed point one? Oh my god? Yeah, it's yeah, yeah. I mean so it's like every way it goes like, you want to watch a character of this movie. Final, I'll watch Party. You want to watch a Paraplaic movie, final, watch Logan's Run, You want to watch you know, uh movie, I'll watch anything matter. It's just like, but please maybe watch this movie again?

2:01:03 So bad? Right? Oh god. I got to say thank you to Paul for putting this all together. It was pretty quick and I think it came out really well. Thank you for Oh. I love the chance to dive in. Man, We're you know, beat trek Dog going to beyond? Right? And what's more beyond than scientiction? Movies? And I just I love movies more than anything. It's just my thing and it's so much fun to have an excuse to talk about them with everybody and get excited for what's coming, because it's good to have exciting things to look forward to in life. So thank you all. This was fun and. Speaking and looking forward. Don't forget to join us on the twenty eighth because Celia Lee is going to be with us and she played Zoo on Star Treks Starfleet Academy season one. You definitely don't want to miss that. That's going to be a lot of fun, so please check that out. I also want to say thank you to David putting together all these awesome videos and working a hornor as you do on the show.

2:01:55 Thank you, David, It's been a lot of fun. I can't wait till next time. Speaking of which, there will not be a podcast next week. We're going to take a little vacation. David won't be with us, so we wish him well, but we'll be back on the twenty eighth with Cicia. Please mark your calendars. Also, thank you to me for hanging out. Thank you so much for waving your arms. I have to look it up, but I think the twenty eighth is I think that marks a year since I've been on the podcast. Didn't I start at the end of May. Wow? Wow, So wa.

2:02:37 Wow. Yes, I'm going to We're kicking off with a Starfleet actor on your anniversary. Get a cake. Cool. Yeah, we'll bring the canar and avocado. That's so great, the canar. And of course, thank you so much to Chop also hanging out Andrek talking with us tonight. Thank you, Charles. Oh, thank you. I got me a knowing what's coming up this summer. I got a couple of movies. I may look at. Some good stuff for sure. And of course, last but not at least, thank you so much to Eric for hanging out Andrek talking with us tonight.

2:03:19 Thank you, Eric, absolutely, and thank you to Paul for pointing out how much time I'm going to spend in the movie theater this summer. Happy to oblige you, brother. No educational, don't forget Saturn three. Don't forget Saturn three. I'd rather talk about Outland. You remember Outland? Sean Conner. Okay, all right, no, that's okay, all right. Outland. He's like a Marshall. It's like an alien movie, except with no one, no monsters.

2:04:02 It's kind of like a better version of yea Sean Connery. Nothing like that's crazy? What little there is? Yeah, yeah, and he's he's as I recall, I haven't seen the picture in a well he's also quite as well. So yeah, words here you know, you know, uh. Yeah, yeah, it's like was like such a midnight stoner movie.

2:04:47 I cannot even tell you that was such. It was like for years you'd look at the news. I don't know if you remember newspapers, but it always had the cheap ad midnight movie this week and to be the College, and it was Ard forever Ard and Dark Stars. They were like forever midnight move just like everyone has just been. Very no thanks, I got my. I would love to. Yes, absolutely, you're gonna get your your meeting meet up with Patton Oswald for your weed by.

2:05:34 And uh I'm your most excellent host. Uncle Jim saying to everybody, please stay safe and be good to each other. Remember Star Trek fans are the best fans. Tailing frequencies are closed. Good night, everybody, good night, and thank you. M hm Let's fly Really h