Enterprising Individuals

Get your long spoons ready this week as we sup with a whole host of devils! We take a look at the demonic and devilish in folklore from around the world and around the Alpha Quadrant!Plus, we've got an update on the CBS/Viacom merger, news about Takei and Nichols, Star Trek Land, and The Expanse! Want a review of Solo: A Star Wars Story? We've got one! Just sign on the dotted line...What ARE you going to do, bad boys? You haven't said yet.Look at the tangle of thorns that is the CBS/Viacom deal!http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/shari-redstone-cbs-lawsuit-national-amusements-1202823769/Here's the links to the books and comics mentioned on the show:Satan in America: The Devil We Knowhttps://amzn.to/2xwwyLULucifer (DC Comics)https://amzn.to/2JhSKOAThe Han Solo Adventureshttps://amzn.to/2L56QjzThe Han Solo Trilogyhttps://amzn.to/2L6ddmSThe Lando Calrissian Trilogyhttps://amzn.to/2J2g4wkParadise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Versionhttps://amzn.to/2xlSLMKPick up John Jackson Miller's Star Trek Prey Trilogy novels

Get ready to shout at, dance with, and sympathize for Old Scratch this week as we pay the "Devil's Due"!New York Times best-selling author John Jackson Miller returns to the show to discuss an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Picard must lawyer for his soul, ship, and crew against the comely, coiffed Adversary herself! But, not everything is as infernal as it seems and the people of Ventax II may be the victims of a millennia-long con!Over the course of the show, we discuss weaponized illusion, the social impact of fearing God (and the Devil), making lemonade out of bad circumstances, six degrees of Ardra, having 15 writers on a script, and why Picard sounds a lot like Kirk in this episode. Plus, we talk comics and Star Wars and Star Wars comics, how everything connects back to '80s procedural shows, needing a "guy in the chair", telling (again) the story of Dark Phoenix, John talks about how this episode inspired part of his Prey trilogy, and Kal makes a shaky connection to Watchmen! The cont

Ignite your sabers this week as we pay tribute to the other "Star" franchise, checking in on that galaxy far, far away and how it compares to Roddenberry's future! Plus, tales of the Taco Bell Light Menu, putting the Star Wars CCG beatdown on some grade-schoolers, and the hum of a lightsaber being the background noise of our collective childhood. Later, Ella Pearson of Generations Geek joins the show to talk Trek vs. Wars, Adam Savage being wrong (and orange), the cultural impact of Wars and Trek, Carrie Fisher, bun escalation, not being a Solo try-hard, and some Last Jedi hot goss! Listen up, we're only doing this once, then it's back to the Alpha Quadrant!Kathleen Kennedy, where's my "Lando in high school" show?!Follow Ella and Generations Geek on Twitter and check out generationsgeek.com!http://www.twitter.com/gondorgoldhttp://www.twitter.com/generationsgeekSave the galaxy (or rule it) with Star Wars: The Card Game from Fantasy Flight!https://amzn.to/2rQzGxbhttp://www.fantasyflightgames.comPick up John Jac

Dust off your arm capes and pull up your XXXXL corduroys as we go looking for "The Galileo Seven!" Star Wars Minute and ABCDevo host Pete the Retailer comes aboard this week to discuss the episode of Star Trek: the Original Series where Spock must take charge after a shuttle crash, and our favorite Human/Vulcan hybrid must decide what's worse: the giant cavemen outside or his increasingly hostile subordinates! It's like The Office except not funny and the accounting team are all killed.During our talk, we discuss the development of the character of Spock from TV to film, the limits of logical problem solving, the perils of assistant management, the return of competency porn, and the intersection of Trek and Wars. Plus, Fisher Price engine parts, Dom as the Spock of the Fast and Furious franchise, Chipmunk Punk, Elstree 1976, forcing Spock to eat pork, inappropriate bridge laughter, tweed lasers, Kal plays Obscure Celebrity Doppelgangers, and Pete invents The Thing With Two Minutes: going through The Thing Wit

Get high on Trek this week as we bring you huge updates about Star Trek: Discovery, new Star Trek movies, a little bit of crossing the streams as Trek debates Wars, a great deal on Star Trek books, AND Stephen Hawking!May the Trek be with you!Get more info on Trek/Wars: Visions of/for Humanity!https://www.facebook.com/events/169601323738482/Pick up John Jackson Miller's Prey Trilogy novels and Canto Bight on Amazon!https://amzn.to/2jqQJBnhttps://amzn.to/2rhwtqdhttps://amzn.to/2jnm0Fbhttps://amzn.to/2rgg7OjJoin our crew on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodClick through our Amazon link on enterprisingindividuals.com to support the show!http://www.enterprisingindividuals.comFollow us on Twitter and Facebook for Trek news and updates!http://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttp://www.facebook.com/eistpod

Get ready to risk it all as we come face to face with "Tacking Into the Wind!" Author, editor, podcaster, and musician Keith DeCandido comes aboard this week to discuss an episode of Deep Space Nine that represents a culmination of years of patient and skillful storytelling in the Star Trek universe. Kira and crew stage a daring heist of Founder technology, while Worf resolves to restore the honor of the Klingon Empire, even if he has to spill blood in the process!Along the way, Keith and I cover the awesomeness that is Kira Nerys, DS9 passing the Bechdel Test with flying colors, telling war stories in Roddenberry's future, the tragedy of Damar, and the Ezri we deserve but not the one we need right now. Plus, we talk about the Theiss Titillation Theory, Worf as the Lee Atwater of Klingon politics, getting Tarantino in your Trek, Discovery and Klingon boobage, Kal reps for Team Gowron, and Keith doesn't apologize for killing Mr. Homn!What kind of a show brings you this much goodness? This one!Find out more abo

This week, we bring you a little update from the world of Trek news, including two new casting announcements for Star Trek: Discovery! Plus, a review of the new Lost in Space, and a one-man jeremiad on the subject of "superproducers" . . . it makes sense in context.This is the "Drake approves by pointing to it" of podcasts!Check out this link about Discovery's newest engineer, Tig Notaro!https://www.gq.com/story/tig-notaro-stages-of-griefPick up Star Trek: Discovery novels on Amazon!https://amzn.to/2HfZMz4https://amzn.to/2HNHfeDhttps://amzn.to/2HfZsQSJoin our crew on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodClick through our Amazon link on enterprisingindividuals.com to support the show!http://www.enterprisingindividuals.comFollow us on Twitter and Facebook for Trek news and updates!http://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttp://www.facebook.com/eistpod

Replicate yourself a tin foil hat and get ready to see the fnords as we overload our cortical implants to discuss "The Voyager Conspiracy!" Writer, researcher, and teacher Dr. David A. Banks joins the show to talk about an episode of Voyager that sees Seven of Nine question everything she thinks she knows about her crewmates and the circumstances that brought them to the Delta Quadrant. Will she expose the lies that are hidden in plain sight . . . or is it all in her fevered mind?It's an episode that challenges the idea that more data equals more insight, and also acts as a canny examination of mental illness. In our talk, David and I discuss the conspicuous absence of transhumanism in the world of Trek, how transporters could mean the death of social media, how net neutrality will disenfranchise marginalized populations, representations of neuroatypicality in sci-fi, and who decides what's "baseline human".Plus, we explore having your cake and complaining about it, asking Alexa if you're a good captain, spin

Larry "Dr. Trek" Nemecek makes a house call to the show this week as we talk about the early days of Star Trek: The Next Generation and what it could have looked like without Gene Roddenberry's involvement. We also discuss Larry's NASA kid origins, the dream of getting to explore Roddenberry's archives, "writers vs. suits" in Chaos on the Bridge, and Larry gives us his thoughts about Star Trek: Discovery and the "next generation" of fans who are embracing it online.Plus, Shatner lives, wedding bells, and the Picarpelganger is making toasts left and right! Here's to the finest listenership in podcasting!Here's a link to the Trek Files episode where Larry and Dave Rossi talk about TNG's aborted first pitch!http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6253655/height/360/width/640/theme/standard-mini/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/Listen to the Trek Files for more on the documents of Trek!http://podcasts.roddenberry.com/Check out Larry's books on Amazon!https:

This week on Castperanto, the Esperanto podcast, it's the most notorious Esperanto film, Incubus! When a succubus sets her sights on a virtuous young soldier, she thinks she's got an easy catch. But, can she resist the seductive nature of love and virtue?Hosts Aaron Coker and Jacob Gulliver take a long drink from this "Bergmanesque"(?) movie and discuss the film's perfume commercial cinematography, its "cursed" past, what lying to priests gets you, the Outer Limits, and a particularly angry goat!Ĝuu la spektaklon!

Grab your lampshade and join the party this week as we look at an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that's a throwback in more ways than one: "The Schizoid Man!"New York Times best-selling author and perennial guest David Mack is back on the show to talk about a problematic TNG entry that starts with a dirty grandpa and ends with targ underwear wrestling. From casual sexism, to marginalization, to troubling implications for the Soong family, this early bit of TNG fluff has it all . . . and that goes without mentioning forbidden May-December robot love, firing a warning shot across Diana Muldaur's bow, loose off-switch talk, and the Wall of Departed Writers!But it's not all doom and gloom. We also talk about the influence of "Forbidden Planet" on modern sci-fi, extol the virtues of Cool Susie Plakson, answer whether Spock could mind meld with Data, take a glance at the TNG Writers' Bible, and Dave explains "above-the-line" and "below-the-line" credits!Plus, we explore Data's "bratty teen years", show a

We're back this week with more from sociology professors and Trek researchers John and Maria Jose Tenuto and the conversation ranges from the life and career of Ricardo Montalban, the transformation of a Viking superman into an Eastern tyrant, building a pop culture monument piece by piece, more Star Trek: Discovery talk, and a special appearance by Robert Rodriguez('s name)! Thanks again to the Tenutos for sharing their work with us!Join our crew on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodClick through our Amazon link on enterprisingindividuals.com to support the show!http://www.enterprisingindividuals.comFollow us on Twitter and Facebook for Trek news and updates!http://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttp://www.facebook.com/eistpod

He's a genetically-engineered superman, a temporal fugitive, and he can crush a phaser with his bare hands . . . given enough yoga-based preparation, of course. It's Khan Noonien Singh!Sociology professors and Star Trek researchers Maria Jose and John Tenuto take us to school this week for a look at the Original Series episode that gave us Khan: "Space Seed"! John and Maria share their insights from researching the Roddenberry archives, charting the episode's path from concept to screen and how the show inspired Trek's most thrilling film entry, The Wrath of Khan!During the show, we talk about the benefits of a budget and a deadline, WoK's origins as a TV movie, speculate who should be on the Mt. Rushmore of Star Trek history, unfold the complicated evolution of Khan from a Viking criminal to a Sikh overlord, call out Ricardo Montalban as a mensch, and contemplate our screenless future and the 20-year nostalgia cycles that bring our favorite things back to us as adults.Plus, John pitches Khan as the "Joker" t

Our latest supplemental episode is here to say goodbye to a treasured performer and to dive into the allegorical pool we filled last week when talking "Duet". Trek and social commentary have always gone hand in hand, and I break down some of Trek's best cautionary tales AND "Past Tense" San Francisco vs. modern-day San Fran. Trick question! Same.Plus, a big announcement about a new live show at CONvergence this summer!Here's a link to the Reddit post I mentionedhttps://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/81was2/in_1995_this_is_what_star_trek_deep_space_9/Click through our Amazon link on enterprisingindividuals.com to support the show!http://www.enterprisingindividuals.comFollow us on Twitter and Facebook for Trek news and updates!http://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttp://www.facebook.com/eistpod

Season Three of Enterprising Individuals takes a serious turn as we look at the tangle of thorns that is "Duet"!New York Times best-selling author David R. George III returns to the show to talk about one of Deep Space Nine's (and Trek's) finest and most brutal episodes. Kira thinks she's captured a monster, but she learns that war and cruelty make victims of everyone. Our discussion touches upon the genius of Harris Yulin, the reality of history being edited by the victors, the importance of victim accounts, the practice of sin-eating, and the banality of evil. We also shift gears and talk about less somber topics, like Prussian valves and "proficient service", the drawbacks of acting like a jerk to your neighbors, the "Cardassian Monologue", Death and the Maiden, and Stabby Otis from Mayberry! Okay . . . slightly less somber.Plus, Kal contemplates a career as a Trek fact researcher, Dave talks about some of his favorite films, the Benjamin Buttoning properties of volcanic vapors are discussed, there's a sho

Enterprising individuals is back for 2018 and our first order of business is breaking down Star Trek: Discovery, complete with mild spoilers!Then, we take a look a the Original Series's much-maligned third season and see if we can't give it a second . . . er, third chance! And finally, we say good by to the leathery legend Jason Isaacs for our final "Isaac's Antics!"Seriously, Les. Call me about my Magnum pitch!Check out These Are the Voyages on Amazon!http://amzn.to/2sLgL9EFollow Gordon Purcell on Facebook!https://www.facebook.com/gordon.purcellHere's that fake science article Alan recommended!https://io9.gizmodo.com/fake-research-paper-based-on-star-trek-voyagers-worst-1823034838Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for Trek news and updates!http://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttp://www.facebook.com/eistpod

Season Three of Enterprising Individuals is off and running as we try to break out of “The Tholian Web”!Comics artist Gordon Purcell joins the show to talk about an episode that’s a ray of light in a dark sector of interspace, Star Trek’s turd, er . . . third season. Along the way, we discuss the trials of Trek’s third season, including less money, losing staff, mismanagement, and the one-two-three punch of Laugh-In, Jerry Lewis, and Minnie Pearl. Plus we get a feel of those silver lamé space suits, ask ourselves what Gilligan’s Island fans call themselves, explore the connections to the Mirror Universe, dismissing Uhura, and SPACE! MADNESS!Plus, Gordon talks about getting his start in comics and working with John de Lancie, Kal posits Tang as a possible universal panacea and admires the steely nerves of Dr. McCoy, and we take a slight detour into Spock’s Brain!Don’t wait until we’re dead to play this episode! Listen now!Check out Gordon’s work in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Omnibus, and follow him on

We're talking LIVE about the Season One finale episode of Star Trek: Discovery, "Will You Take My Hand?"! Tweet to us at #discoverage at the show and join the chat in our Spreaker page! Guests: Alan Gratz, Ella Pearson

We're talking LIVE about the fourteenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery, "The War Without, The War Within"! Tweet to us at #discoverage at the show and join the chat in our Spreaker page! Guests: Ella Pearson

We're talking LIVE about the thirteenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery, "What's Past is Prologue"! Tweet to us at #discoverage at the show and join the chat in our Spreaker page! Guests: Scott Pearson, Ella Pearson