It’s time for Casual Trek and oh no… Earth’s been infiltrated by aliens!
Thanks to the generosity of Ko-Fi donor Cheryl, we’re talking about aliens on Earth. We’ve got a Chakotay episode of DS9 where he might well bone down with a Species 8472. Also what the fuck is Pon’Far night?
Then we’ve got the story of the real First Contact in Enterprise, with a cosy story about Vulcans living among us.
Then we get decidedly un-cosy as Enterprise embraces the War on Terror era derangements of America and suffers from a bit of the old xenophobia just in time for our ship to get home. We also get some manpain from Captain Archer and Trip being encouraged to disrupt a Vulcan wedding.
13:53 Voyager “In the Flesh”
43:40 Enterprise “Carbon Creek”
1:13:45 Enterprise “Home”
Talking points include: X-Files, They Live, Jaws, Yahoo Serious, Rabbit Proof Fence, Are Australian filmmakers alright?, Waking Fright, Muriel’s Wedding, the Australian Ultraman Show, knifey spoony, Wanderhome, Holly by Stephen King, Classic Dr Who, Pink Floyd, Battlestar Galactica (2004), My Favourite Martian, X-Treme X-Men, Space: Above and Beyond, Lost, Quantum Leap, a horrific hypothetical Only Fools & Horses: The Nest Generation, The Truman Show, Dan O’Bannon, Coldplay, buskers, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Riverdale, Twilight Zone, 52, Quantum Leap, Lord of the Rings, whatever happened to Robbie Williams?, that time Dr Samuel Beckett never returned home, Halo, Anakin Skywalker at a good event, a case of the Jack Bauers, quiet issues of X-Men, The Graduate, Manpain in Modern Dr Who. Oh, and occasionally Star Trek.
Pedant’s Corner:
Dan O’Bannon wrote Dark Star & Alien, but Rockne O’Bannon made Farscape
The Thanksgiving issue of Uncanny X-Men was 308
Yes I know T’Pol’s mum is T’Les, but in the moment T’Mum sounded better
Casual Trek is by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn and Miles Reid-Lobatto
Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn
Casual Trek is a part of the Nerd & Tie Network
https://ko-fi.com/casualtrek
Miles’ blog: http://www.mareidlobatto.wordpress.com
Charlie’s blog: http://www.fakedtales.com
