Tag: Star Trek

Siskoid has only ever run one of the tabletop Star Trek RPGs, so he calls in Ryan Blake, who’s played the rest, for a good honest talk about each one’s positives and negatives, and about the Trek role-playing experience. It’s not your garden variety space opera, you know! And the game must reflect that.

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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 “The Big Goodbye”, starring Patrick Stewart; “Star Trek: Generations” by David Carson, starring William Shatner.

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Gimme That Star Trek presents a sample of each game’s look, starting with the FASA game:

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Siskoid welcomes Kill All Monsters’ Michael May to the show to discuss Star Trek’s campiest and goofiest, with an eye towards their role in the show’s popularity and longevity. In other words, do we NEED “Spock’s Brain”? Listen and judge for yourselves.

Listen to Episode 27 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 “Spock’s Brain”, starring Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan and DeForest Kelley; and “The Way to Eden”, starring Jack Napier and Deborah Downey.

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From plain, simple tailors to scuzzy Guls, the Cardassians are one of Star Trek’s most intriguing and well-developed races. Now Siskoid welcomes Radio vs. the Martians’ Mike Gillis into the fold to draw a full portrait of this complex culture. Who are they? What do they mean in the broader Star Trek context? And how did they evolve over time?

Listen to Episode 26 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 Deep Space Nine (“What You Leave Behind”, “Tacking Into the Wind”, “The Way of the Warrior”, and “Sacrifice of Angels”), starring Andrew Robinson, Siddig el Fadil, Nina Visitor, Armin Shimerman, and Marc Alaimo.

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Siskoid goes way overboard again and reviews half of Star Trek: The Next Generation, with guests pitching in with additional material. From Encounter at Farpoint to Devil’s Due, buckle in and engage!

Listen to Episode 25 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.

Contributions by: Ryan Daly, Mark Baker-Wright, Shagg Matthews, Gene Hendricks, Andy Kapellusch, Carlos Mucha, Derek William Crabbe, Rob Kelly, Adam Ackerman, Fred Melanson, Ryan Blake, Xum Yukinori, Nathaniel Wayne, Kurt Onstad, Allen W. Wright. Mike Peacock, and David Ace Guttierez.

Bonus clips from: “Gene Roddenberry Star Trek: The Next Generation Pre Air Interview”; “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, starring Patrick Stewart, DeForest Kelley, Denise Crosby, Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, Stanley Kamel, Douglas Warhit, Majel Barrett, Gary Armagnac, Karen Montgomery, Carolyn McCormick, Clayton Rohner, Gates MacFadden, Wil Weaton, Robert Schenkkan, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Diana Muldaur, William Campbell, William Morgan Sheppard, Whoopi Goldberg, Noble Willingham, Christopher Collins, Barrie Ingham, Rosalyn Landor, Susan Gibney, John de Lancie, Craig Richard Nelson, Jennifer Hetrick, Dwight Schultz, LeVar Burton, Jeremy Kemp, Chad Allen, Suzie Plakson, and Colm Meany; Siri; and Doctor Who’s “The Five Doctors”, starring Paul Jerricho.

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As the 1970s became the 1980s, Marvel Comic published an 18-issue series set in Star Trek’s Motion Picture era. Today, it is not often recalled fondly, but Siskoid and special guest Xum Yukinori insist on reexamining it, using one of its worst stories and one of its best to best to give you a good sense of what it was really like.

Listen to Episode 24 below!

Relevant images and further credits at: Gimme That Star Trek ep.24 Supplemental

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Highlights from issue 16 (by Martin Pasko, Luke McDonnell, Gene Day, and Sal Trapani) and 18 (by J.M DeMatteis, Joe Brozowski and Sal Trepani):

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Who would you choose as your Doctor if you served in Starfleet? Who has the best bedside manner? Who’s most useful on an away team? Who do you trust most with your health, both physical and mental? Siskoid welcomes Mike Peacock into the fold to evaluate your favorite Chief Medical Officers from the world of Star Trek and discuss health professionals in the 22nd through 24th centuries!

Listen to Episode 23 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 The Next Generation’s “Déjà Q”, starring Gates MacFadden and John de Lancie, “Ethics”, starring Gates MacFadden, and “The Battle”, starring Diana Muldaur; “The King of Bedside Manor” by the Barenaked Ladies; Star Trek The Animated Series’ “The Pirates of Orion”, starring DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy; Star Trek The Next Generation’s; Star Trek Deep Space Nine’s “Emissary”, starring Siddig el Fadil and Nana Visitor; “Star Trek: Voyager”, starring Robert Picardo; Enterprise’s “The Breach”, starring Henry Stram and John Billingsley.

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Siskoid and oHOTmu or NOT’s Amelie Montour grab the Star Trek Cookbook and prepare a three-course meal before your very… uhm… ears! It’s a Star Trek cooking show in podcast form, no replicators, all fresh ingredients! So whether in the mess hall, Ten-Forward, or Quark’s, sit down, relax, and let us tickle your eardrums and your taste buds…

Listen to Episode 22 below!

Relevant images and further credits at: Gimme That Star Trek ep.22 Supplemental

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Recipes and results from our day of cooking, all thanks to the Star Trek Cookbook, by Ethan Phillips and William J. Birnes:

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