We are back guest hosting Trek Marry Kill this week! This time we dissect "The Way to Eden" for its takes on entitled white men, superbugs, and, of course, counter culture. Will we reach or are we total Herberts? Listen and find out!
And we can assure you we are medically unfit to do so.
Really amazing cast. It’s shocking Jessie Mei Li hasn’t been in more stuff since.
*cough*shadowandbone*cough*
A Black Lois Lane, front and center in this poster for DAILY PLANET, my stunt pilot. The background is the paper coming off the presses. Behind here is Clark Kent.
Happy Superman Day! Lois and Clark were the reasons I became an award-winning journalist.
I used my experience to write a more journalism, Lois-centric Superman TV pilot, DAILY PLANET. More ethics, less heroics. It made the 2023 STUNT LIST. Read here: www.ryanthomasriddle.com#stunt-list-s...
A black and white photo of Wood.
Action Comics #484 (1978). The cover by José Luis García-López teases the story "Superman Takes a Wife!" It shows Superman flying and holding Lois, who is wearing a wedding dress. Wood colored this cover.
Artist and very prolific colorist Tatjana Wood. #SupermanDay
The episode of Star Trek about Doctor Crusher's ghost sex candle is actually one of the best Star Trek episodes because of how it honours old hammer horror tropes and styles, and in this essay I will...
That Jerk @mark2000.bsky.social used this one-off medical device for a poster urging folks to get vaccinated.
Also, get vaccinated. It’s honorable.
Dr. Manhattan sitting like The Little Prince on a desolate Mars.
“I am tired for these studio executives. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their development hell.”
Ah yes, the “Fuck or die” battle where Spock overcomes Pon Farr by choking Jim out after giving him a boob window!
Something we mention in this week's review of SFA’s “Ko’Zeine,” which gives similar vibes. Well, without the choking out.
Best Star Trek captain.
Wrong answers only
They said wrong answers! Beltalowda!
Fairly easy with Worf as security chief.
San Pedro News-Pilot, April 17, 1980.
"Star Trek" beauty Persis Khambatta has been asked—and has turned down the chance—to be Shelley Hack's replacement on "Charlie's Angels." "It is a dying show. It won't last more than another year, and it would be a bad move for me to make," she says.
Newark Star-Ledger, April 17, 1967.
From Gene Roddenberry of Star Trek:
"You know it's a good feeling to have NBC come to us, after all the fights we have had, and say 'do what you want next season.' It's times like this that they realize we're not just guys in moccasins wandering around the set."
So that’s the “personal relaxation light” Picard mentions at the start of “1100101”!
Wrist communicators were also considered for TNG
The Jerks are very fond of the DC era of STAR TREK comics. These are all good issues!
Listen to Ryan passionately state how Nicholas Meyer tasked him with Kirk and the film’s climax.
He chases the writer/director round the moons of Nibia and round the Anteras malestorm and round perditions flame…
Next Week’s podcast will have the Jerks jumping onto a few car hoods with T.J. Hooker. Prepare yourself for @mark2000.bsky.social's epic rant on this 80s piece of copganda!
But will it reveal or superseed @ryanthomasriddle.com's TWOK rant! (Link to that episode in 🧵)
All Star Trek: The Next Generation fans should watch Chaos on the Bridge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZRW...
Even the 1967 Leaf STAR TREK cards has a little #Spirk in them. Spock will never leave Jim behind.
That’s @michellehurd.bsky.social, aka STAR TREK’s Raffi Musiker or Detective Monique Jeffries on SVU if ya old skool, as Fire there!
You can listen to our thoughts on Macht’s performance and THE TENTH LEVEL in our latest episode.
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Macht might’ve not wanted to spend the rest of his career speaking to actors in rubber masks, but he did put one on for BABYLON 5.
In the episode, “A Day in the Strife,” Macht is Counselor N’Far, a Centauri-appointed lacky sent to replace the ousted G’Kar as Narn’s ambassador.
4/5
Despite not taking the center seat, Macht would appear on STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE as Bajoran General Krim.
Here you get a sense of his line reading cadence… would that have suited Captain Picard? Is this how he’d perform the role? Or would he have done it differently?
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