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We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrekPicard episode "Et in Arcadia Ego Part 2”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

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We're hitting the old familiar places this week as we revisit "It's Only a Paper Moon"!New York Times bestselling author David Mack returns to the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that explores one man's struggle to come to terms with loss and fear. Nog has survived the Siege of Ar-558 but at the cost of his leg and his self-confidence. When he turns to the holodeck for escape, he'll find that Vic Fontaine is more than just a singing hologram and that the key to life isn't winning or losing but choosing to continue playing the game.When Aron Eisenberg passed away in 2019, the world didn't just lose a husband and father and friend to many Star Trek fans; it also lost a performer of surprising depth and passion. Aron was a man who had experienced tragedy in his own life and when called upon to portray Nog's suffering, he imbued the role with an honest emotion that makes this one of DS9's finest hours. Not to be outdone, veteran performer James Darren brings his charm and musica

We are talking LIVE about the #Picard episode "Broken Pieces”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

This week, Mikanhana of the Just Enough Trope podcast is back on board to round up the latest Trek news! We've got stories about engagements, birth announcements, casting news, corporate sales, financial turmoil, and tropical cruises! Plus, we talk about SETI@Home shutting down, throwing up coffee, coronavirus cancellations, Picard, rolling an "Elnor", backup Doctors, crazy Canadian confidence, Badmiral Jon Hamm, ripped Simon Pegg, and being all about the Benjamin (Sisko)!What does God need with a knuckle sandwich?Follow the Just Enough Trope podcast on Twitter and check out the show!http://www.twitter.com/justenoughtropehttp://www.justenoughtrope.comGet Una McCormack's new Picard novel, "The Last Best Hope"!https://amzn.to/2vTOGzECheck out the newest member of the Just Enough Trope family, Sailor Noob!http://www.twitter.com/noob_sailorCommunicate with us on Facebook and Twitter and the Just Enough Trope Discord!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttp://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttps://discord.gg/APk2cCyJoin our cr

We are talking LIVE about the #Picard episode "Nepenthe”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

Grab your remote control and get ready for pain and delight as we go looking for "Spock's Brain"!Novelist William Leisner returns to the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series that has become emblematic of the low points of TOS. When a lady in go-go boots puts the whammy on the Enterprise, the crew wakes up to find Spock's cranium empty. Now, Kirk must take a cave elevator ride to the center of a cold world ruled by even colder women to rescue the cerebrum of his first officer and friend!The third season of TOS was met with budget cuts, a creative brain drain, and the defection to greener pastures of the show's creator, Gene Roddenberry. But it's perhaps the absence of former showrunner and head writer Gene L. Coon that was the biggest blow to Star Trek's credibility. Coon was a gifted and versatile writer and he knew that Star Trek needed the occasional comedic touch to counteract its often leaden didacticism. Unfortunately, Coon had left the show by the start of Trek's wobbly

We are talking LIVE about the #Picard episode "The Impossible Box”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!trek, Picard, startrek, startrekpicard, discoverage

We're taking a different path this week as we feature a special episode of the BackTrekking podcast, hosted by Ka1iban and Gooey Fame! BackTrekking examines the real-world inspirations behind classic Trek episodes and this week we're putting the 1992 classic film "The Crying Game" up against the Voyager two-parter "Scorpion, Pts. 1 & 2"!You already know the story. There's a scorpion that needs a ride and a frog willing to oblige. Halfway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog and they both start to drown, but they also have enough time for one last exchange:Frog: Why would you sting me? You've killed us both!Scorpion: I can't help it; it's in my nature.Are we all slaves to our nature? Or does that only apply to arachnids who need to bum a lift somewhere? That's the question debated by the two pieces of media we're looking at today. "The Crying Game" is a 1992 film about LGBTQ culture in '90s London that was directed by a straight man and features a nominally straight male protagonist. "Scorpion" i

We are talking LIVE about the #Picard episode "Stardust City Rag”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress!

Prepare to remodulate your phaser frequencies as we go for a ride with "Scorpion, Pts. 1 & 2"!Author, teacher, and community activist Kelli Fitzpatrick joins the show this week to discuss a pair of Star Trek: Voyager episodes that see Captain Janeway contemplating a deal with a devil she knows in order to defeat a much more terrifying enemy. Voyager's journey back to the Alpha Quadrant has finally crossed into Borg space and the crew must decide whether to press forward or give up their quest to return home. But the Borg have their appendages full with an invasion from another dimension, and Species 8472 could spell the end for Voyager, the Borg, and the entire galaxy!The fourth season of every Star Trek show starts with a bang, and Voyager is no exception. Janeway and crew are faced with a near-undefeatable enemy in Species 8472, not to mention thousands of Borg or the intractable moral quandary of restoring Seven of Nine's humanity. "Scorpion" has our characters fighting tooth-and-nail with enemies and

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrekPicard episode "Absolute Candor”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress! w/@dave_galanter

This week, writer, sex worker, and sex worker activist Maggie McNeill joins the show to talk about sex work in Star Trek. We've seen the Enterprise stop at its share of "pleasure planets" on Star Trek and no one bats an eye, which means that Risa either has the best roller coaster in the galaxy or the Federation is a lot cooler with sex work than our governments are in the 21st century. But how would sex work in a money-free society work? Are pleasure planets regulated by the government? Is there a horga'hn carver union? We answer (some) of these questions and more as we compare Trek's utopian views on pleasure with the tangled mess of laws and opinions in the 21st century.Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a "UFP Vice" series to write!Follow Maggie on Twitter and check out her other work!http://www.twitter.com/maggie_mcneillhttps://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/https://amzn.to/3bA7Z0Bhttps://reason.com/2020/02/01/how-the-war-on-sex-work-crushes-underprivileged-women/Learn more about the economy of the Federatio

We are talking the #StarTrekPicard premiere "The End is the Beginning” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

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Open your copy of Ulysses and display your horga'hn as we go on a "Captain's Holiday"!Editor and comics scribe Kevin Church is back on the show this week to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that gives the hardest working man in Starfleet a break. Captain Picard has been ordered to take some R&R on Risa and he's determined to not have any fun. But when a beautiful woman, a scheming Ferengi, and two time-travelers crash his vacation, he'll have to save the universe while off-the-clock and maybe have just a little fun in the process!Ira Steven Behr may be Mr. DS9 (and Mr. Bluebeard), but he cut his teeth on TNG in the show's breakout 3rd season and delivered a fun and somewhat out-of-character romp for Captain Picard. The structure and tropes of noir fiction are what make it so enduring as a genre and with "Captain's Holiday", Behr proved that they could work in the 24th century, too, and revealed the romantic hero chops of Patrick Stewart in the process. On this episode, we talk about ad

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery #ShortTreks "Children of Mars” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery #ShortTreks "The Girl Who Made the Stars” and “Ephraim and Dot” LIVE! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

We're limping across the finish line this year, but we've got just enough power to give you one last look at this past season of Enterprising Individuals! This collection of the best moments and guests from 2019 is so good you'll forget it's all a clip show!Happy Holidays!Help support the show when you shop on Amazon!https://www.amazon.com/?tag=jet01-20&linkCode=ezPlease consider donating to DC Fontana's preferred charities!https://www.humanesociety.org/https://bestfriends.org/https://www.afi.com/Check out the newest member of the Just Enough Trope family, Sailor Noob!http://www.twitter.com/noob_sailorGet jolly with us on Facebook and Twitter and the Just Enough Trope Discord!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttp://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttps://discord.gg/UeytGNPBuy us a refit on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2