HeyJaredCasual Trek - A Star Trek Recap and Ranking Podcast
Charlie is a lifelong X-Men fan.Miles is a lifelong Doctor Who fan.If ANYONE can objectively rank every single episode of Star Trek on a big list, it’s gotta be the people who think that Star Trek’s ‘Pretty Decent.’(Citation Needed.)
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Claremont's Star Trek: Alexander Rozhenko Has a Good Day (opens the original)
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Casual Trek read Chris Claremont’s epic graphic novel Debt of Honour a few years ago, now it’s time to check out the sequel story, set in the era of Star Trek: The Next Generation! Claremont’s adopted Jame Finney from Shore Leave as his favourite Star Trek character and she quickly becomes the cast’s favourite, too! He also gives Alexander the one good day he will ever have. In addition, we’ve got stories about when Ro Laren did a bad thing, and how Kelsey Grammar’s a real grouch. 05:13 What Non
Disney's Black Hole: What if a Bin Was Annoying? (opens the original)
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Welcome to an episode of Casual Trek which is the equivalent of a teacher wheeling the television into the classroom. We’re finally looking at Disney’s first ever PG movie, the weirdly horrific Black Hole. A spaceship’s crew investigates the strangely empty abandoned ship which has been observing cosmic phenomenon. No, it’s not Event Horizon, it’s Black Hole, straddling the era of classic rocketship fiction and Star Wars type stories. There’s a robot bin who’s really annoying and somehow one of
Star Trek X Twin Peaks: Put Your Hand in the Box (opens the original)
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It is happening again.Miles and Charlie serve themselves some coffee and a damn fine slice of pie to talk about Twin Peaks as we’ve had some crossover between one of the lads' favourite TV shows and the one they choose to divide their lives podcasting. With that in mind they’re discussing episodes of Star Trek where Twin Peaks regulars have appeared. We’re back TNG Season One with ‘Haven’ as Lwaxana Troi’s giant servant Mr. Homn (played by Carel Struycken who also plays a giant in Twin Peaks, co
Casual Trek Classic: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (opens the original)
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We’re on holiday and/or having various life issues going on, so here’s a classic episode to help prime you for our upcoming Black Hole episode! Yes, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released almost a fortnight before Disney’s The Black Hole and frankly, ate its lunch. Charlie and Miles re-examine Star Trek: The Motion Picture, discovering whether it’s actually good (it is), the great soundtrack, special effects and Bones’ disco jumpsuit! They also watch The Changeling, where Kirk gets a weird m
I Have No Archons and I Must Scream (opens the original)
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All Hail Computer Overlord! Our casual adventurers have been tasked by the benevolent Computer Overlord to watch three episodes of Star Trek featuring societies run by computers to make sure Computer Overlord isn’t offended. In ‘Return of the Archons’, Kirk and the Gang are here for the Festival and for the first time, we get to see Captain Kirk talk a computer to death, then we return YET AGAIN to season One of TNG as Wesley and some of the Enterprise kids get kidnapped by an ancient civilisati
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