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Siskoid and the Irredeemable Shagg discuss their passion for the Star Trek Collectible Card Game – how it works, what their favorite elements are, and how it made them the geeks they are, including the secret origin of Siskoid!

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Remember the controversy about Enterprise’s designs looking too advanced to be precursors to The Original Series’? Well so’s your phone! Siskoid meets Ruth and Darrin Sutherland of the RAD Adventures Network to talk about the show’s aesthetic and whether or not knee jerks were right or wrong, back then and indeed, today, between Discovery and Strange New Worlds pushing things further.

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Credits:
“Star Trek Theme” by Alexander Courage, with the Irredeemable Shagg on vocals. End theme: “Deep Space Nine Theme” by Dennis McCarthy.

Bonus clips from: Enterprise’s “Broken Bow”, starring Scott Bakula, Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating.

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Bolians. The blue glue that holds Starfleet together. Some are service providers, some are officers, and a few even get lines. And yet there’s a ton of lore about these Federation members. Siskoid plays one in a role-playing game, and he’s invited his GameMaster Ryan Blake back on the show to help dissect the people of Bolarus IX, their biology, culture, and impact on the TNG era.

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Credits:
“Star Trek Theme” by Alexander Courage, with the Irredeemable Shagg on vocals. End theme: “Deep Space Nine Theme” by Dennis McCarthy.

Bonus clips from: Star Trek The Next Generation’s “Schisms”, starring Ken Thorley and Michael Dorn, and “Ensign Ro”, starring Ken Thorley and Patrick Stewart.

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It’s experiment time! Siskoid and Derek William Crabbe re-imagine Original Series episodes as Kelvin timeline stories! What will they learn about the innate qualities of the Reboot franchise?

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The comics cover Derek crafted and mentioned is available HERE.

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Credits:
“Star Trek Theme” by Alexander Courage, with the Irredeemable Shagg on vocals. End theme: “Deep Space Nine Theme” by Dennis McCarthy.

Bonus clips from: “Star Trek” by J.J. Abrams, starring Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and Chris Pine; and “Star Trek Beyond” by Justin Lin, starring Zoe Saldana.

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Military expert Mike Lacroix is back on the show, this time to talk about insubordination and mutiny, what they mean in a real world context, and how they are translated to the screen in Star Trek, with plenty of examples that will make you wonder what kind of ship Starfleet is running! But can the problems be explained away? I guess that’s Siskoid’s job!

Listen to Episode 42 below!

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Credits:
“Star Trek Theme” by Alexander Courage, with the Irredeemable Shagg on vocals. End theme: “Deep Space Nine Theme” by Dennis McCarthy.

Bonus clips from: Star Trek Lower Decks’ “Second Contact”, starring Dawnn Lewis, Jack Quaid and Phil LaMarr; “Star Trek: First Contact” by Jonathan Frakes, starring Michael Dorn; Star Trek The Next Generation’s “Gambit II”, starring Brent Spiner and Michael Dorn; TNG’s “Redemption II”, starring Timothy Carhart and Brent Spiner; Star Trek’s “Amok Time”, starring Leonard Nimoy; “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” by Leonard Nimoy, starring William Shatner; and The Orville’s “New Dimensions”, starring Adrianne Palicki.

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From the Original Series to Star Trek: Picard, Siskoid and Scott X trace the history of androids and the story-telling strategies used to make them mirrors held up to humanity. What are androids, what do they mean, and what’s the next step in their evolution? Plus, Star Trek News and your feedback from the previous episode.

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Credits:
“Star Trek Theme” by Alexander Courage, with the Irredeemable Shagg on vocals. End theme: “Deep Space Nine Theme” by Dennis McCarthy.

Bonus clips from: Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “Encounter at Farpoint” starring Brent Spiner, “The Offspring” starring Brent Spiner and Hallie Todd; Star Trek’s “Requiem for Methuselah” starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, “I, Mudd” starring Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley; and Star Trek: Picard’s “Et in Arcadia Ego: Part 2” starring Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner.

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In the early weeks of the quarantine, Siskoid took part in an online “table read” of a Star Trek: The Next Generation script. He recorded it, in case. Now he invites the instigator of that activity, Clo Armani, to talk about – and present the audio of – the experience. Also starring Michael Bauble Plourde, Maxime Haché, Zero Hour Strikes’ Bass, and oHOTmu or NOT’s Elyse, Isabel, Nath and Amélie!

Listen to Episode 40 below!

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Credits:
“Star Trek Theme” by Alexander Courage, with the Irredeemable Shagg on vocals. End theme: “Deep Space Nine Theme” by Dennis McCarthy.

Bonus clips from: “Reading Rainbow”, starring LeVar Burton; and Star Trek: The Next Generation incidental score by Ron Jones.

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LET’S AGAIN GET READY TO RUMMMBLLLLLLLLE (AGAINNN)!!!!!! Gimme That Star Trek pits 64 Trek ALIEN RACES AND CULTURES from across all series in a bracket fight decided by five panelists – Derek William Crabbe, Kurt Onstad, Cory Drew, Ryan Blake, and Siskoid! Their task: Decide each bracketed fight until the greatest Star Trek aliens of all time stand alone! Who will it be? Grab your bracket sheet HERE to follow along, and may the best alien race win!

Listen to Episode 39 below!

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Credits:
“Star Trek Theme” by Alexander Courage, with the Irredeemable Shagg on vocals. End theme: “Deep Space Nine Theme” by Dennis McCarthy.

Bonus clips from: Star Trek’s “The Gamesters of Triskelion” featuring Bartell LaRue, Walker Edmiston and Robert Johnson; Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “The Chase”, starring Salome Jens and Linda Thorson; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s “The Way of the Warrior”, starring Robert O’Reilly and Michael Dorn, “Image in the Sand”, starring Jeffrey Combs and Casey Biggs, and “Destiny”, starring Terry Farrel and Armin Shimmerman; “Star Trek Fight Music” by Gerald Fried; “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” by Nicholas Meyer, starring George Takei; and “REDACTED Anthem” by Volker L. Holz.

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It’s coming! A near-future episode of Gimme That Star Trek will pit 64 Trek races and cultures from across all series in a bracket fight decided by five panelists. And YOU can win Fire and Water merch if you guess the most slots correctly! The minisode lays out the rules and answers some questions.

Check out the bracket sheet, logistical rules, and credits for the episode HERE!

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