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Jan 26, 2014 Trek1701 Ep 3: Interview with Rick Sternbach, Part II In this second interview episode of the 'Trek1701' podcast Chris asks 'Star Trek' illustrator Rick Sternbach the most important question: Where are the toilets on the Enterprise? Aside from that they also discuss starships design, the 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Technical Manual. We also discuss what we would want to see in a new Trek TV series. This podcast is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network. Live Long And Prosper!! RN Ep 23: Random Rant about ‘Star Trek: Into Darkness’ > January 27th, 2014 Chris is flying solo for this episode and is ranting about his dislike for the most recent 'Star Trek' film.

Ep #2: To Boldly Go Where Other Podcasts Have Gone Before…   Chris Lockhart (chrisloc1701) is joined by Evan Hanson and Dave Kish. In this first ‘group’ episode of the podcast they discuss ‘Captain Picard’ (Patrick Stewart),   JJ Abram’s Star Trek movies and what we would want to see in a new Star Trek TV series. Then a Trek1701 Review on the film ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’, we discuss who is our favorite Trek Doctor? And also included in this episode is a segment on the ‘Top 100’ moments in Star Trek history (100-90). Be sure to leave an iTunes review. Any positive reviews help our standings on iTunes. If you want to contact the show send your e-mails to trek1701podcast@gmail.com You can also stream this podcast at www.trek1701.podbean.com This podcast is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network. 'Kapla' or rather “Qapla” (The standard Romanized Klingon spelling it is a noun meaning "success" or sometimes "absence of failure")....

Geek Fallout THE CAPTAINS TABLE: INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE PAPPY (THE GREEN GIRL) October 22nd, 2013 Chris interviews George Pappy about his upcoming documentary called 'The Green Girl', which is about the life and times of actress Susan Oliver who played 'The Green Girl' on the original Star Trek pilot. George updates us on the project and his latest fund raising campaign. Geek Fallout is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network.

Hey there friend, this is Chris Lockhart, also known as Chrisloc1701 and this is my 'Star Trek' themed blog. As you may be aware I have just started a podcast, based on my 'Random Nerdness' blog and it is ironically called 'The Random Nerdness Podcast', and we are part of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network. Well things are going great with the podcast, I and my fellow podcasters are having a blast with this new endeavour . But sacrifices must be made for progress and sadly this blog will be one of those sacrifices . I am going to continue to blog at Random Nerdness, so there will be Trek themed blog entries there from time to time, but this site will halt all blogging effective immediately . I appreciate you taking the time to check the site out, thanks for that! As I said I will still be out there talking 'Star Trek' so be sure to check out my other projects: The Random Nerdness Blog can be found at www.randomnerdness.blogspot.com The Random ...

Despite 'Babylon 5' not being in the Trek Universe, and in a way competition to Deep Space Nine, B5 has a special place in my heart. It was truly a great space sci-fi series that was way ahead of its time. It was a series that was definitely better than Star Trek: Voyager or Enterprise. Anyway for this weeks entry into the blog we have a sad one: On September 28, 2012, J. Michael Straczynski posted that O'Hare suffered a heart attack on September 23 and had remained in a coma until the 28th, when he died.   I was very sad to hear this. I was and still am a huge fan of the 'Babylon 5' series and I really enjoyed Michael O'Hare as Commander Sinclair. I remember when season 2 started being devastated that O'Hare would not be returning. I had no  Internet  back then and had no way of knowing Bruce Boxleitner would be replacing him on the series. He did make a brief return  appearance  in Season 2 but made a big splash in the 3rd season 2 part episode ...

A few months back the 'Nerd Lunch'  podcast  did an episode called 'Pop Culture Eraser' where they took one person and one thing from pop culture (TV series for example) and erased them from pop culture. What would the ramifications  be? This episode got me thinking of a couple things I would erase from Trek pop culture, and I of course am going to discuss it here:   Person to Erase from 'Trek' pop culture: Rick  Berman .   I agree, it is a gamble getting rid of  Berman  since  TNG  really got it's groove in season 3, the season he took over the reigns. Biggest thing for me is Rick  Berman  is an admitted Non-Trekker. He did not watch it growing up, did not watch it in  preparation  to work for Gene Roddenberry, he was simply a TV Producer, period. But had someone like Michael  Piller  been in charge, a man who seemed to have a firm grasp on what works and doesn't work for Star Trek, we m...

Hello friend and welcome back to the Trek1701 blog. for the next 5 blog entries I will be discussing my favourite Trek scenes, arranged in a Top 10 format.  Each entry will feature 2 scenes, counting down to my favourite Trek moment. I have included scenes from the movies and the television series. Here we go:     Picard sits upon the 'Captains Throne' on the bridge of the Enterprise D   #2- TNG : Guinan convincing Picard /Restoring history/Defending the Enterprise C 'Yesterdays Enterprise' is perhaps the best TNG episode they made in my opinion. Everything about this episode is great: time-line changed, Tasha is back: Troi and Worf are gone, the Enterprise and her crew are at war with the Klingon Empire, and only Guinan seems to know that things have changed, even though she is not sure herself. Whoopi Goldberg gave perhaps her best performance as Guinan in this episode, both her and Patrick Stewart were great together in this episode. G...

Hello friend and welcome back to the Trek1701 blog. for the next 5 blog entries I will be discussing my favourite Trek scenes, arranged in a Top 10 format.  Each entry will feature 2 scenes, counting down to my favourite Trek moment. I have included scenes from the movies and the television series. Here we go:     #4- TNG : The Defector: Picard   owns Tomalok / Admiral Jarok speech This is perhaps my favourite Romulan episode ever. A Romulan defector crosses the line and Picard must debate what he should do: Cross the Neutral zone to stop a war, or perhaps to start one? The Enterprise and defector Admiral Jarok were set up and the Enterprise is at the mercy of 2 Romulan warbirds commanded by Commander Tomalok , played brilliantly by the late Andreas Katsulas (Babylon 5's ' G'Kar '). Picard refuses to surrender hi ship and very calm and cooly reveals his ace up his sleeve: Cloaked Klingon Warships at his command surrounding the romulan ships....

Hello friend and welcome back to the Trek1701 blog. for the next 5 blog entries I will be discussing my favourite Trek scenes, arranged in a Top 10 format.  Each entry will feature 2 scenes, counting down to my favourite Trek moment. I have included scenes from the movies and the television series. Here we go:     #6-  TNG : "There are Four lights"!/  Jellico  making enemies Picard  is replaced as Captain of the Enterprise by Captain Edward  Jellico , and  Picard  is captured while on a secret mission for  starfleet  into  Cardassian  space.  Picard  is tortured by  Gul   Madred  while back on Enterprise  Jellico  is pissing everyone off who crosses his path. Patrick Stewart gives perhaps his best performance as he plays a man who is both mentally and physically tortured. "There are Four lights" is perhaps one of the most famous  Picard  lines to be...

  Hello friend and welcome back to the Trek1701 blog. For the next 5 blog entries I will be discussing my favourite Trek scenes, arranged in a Top 10 format.  Each entry will feature 2 scenes, counting down to my favourite Trek moment. I have included scenes from the movies and the television series. Here we go:     #8- TOS : Kirk allows true love to die/ "Lets get the hell out of here" Kirk travels back in time to 1930's Earth and finds perhaps his one true love in Edith Keeler (Joan Collins). Then he learns from Spock that Edith Keeler must die in order to restore the future from which they came. Kirk lets her get hit by a car, holding McCoy back as he tries to save her, and allows his love to die in order to save billions. Very heavy stuff here folks, would you allow the love of your life die in order to save lives? This episode was written by sci- fi writing legend Harlan Ellison, and is perhaps the greatest episode of Star Trek ever made,...

Hello friend and welcome back to the Trek1701 blog. for the next 5 blog entries I will be discussing my favourite Trek scenes, arranged in a Top 10 format.  Each entry will feature 2 scenes, counting down to my favourite Trek moment. I have included scenes from the movies and the television series. Here we go:   #10- Star Trek VI: "To Be Or Not To Be"/Enterprise gets pummelled !! I love the final battle scene from Star Trek 6. Christopher Plummer is such a great actor and it was great seeing him playing the final villain the original crew would face together before going into retirement. The cloaked Klingon bird-of-prey does severe damage to the ship and Sulu's ship when they come to their aid. All while Christopher Plummer is reciting Shakespeare. And to see Spock and McCoy working together to get a gas sniffing torpedo on line , and General Chang (Christopher Plummer ) ultimately saying "To Be Or Not To Be"... then Sulu and kirk ordering the destr...

Recently on the 'Nerd Lunch' podcast they guys discussed the TNG films 'Insurrection' and 'Nemesis'. For those of you who are reading this and have not listened to 'Nerd Lunch' I highly recommend you do. It is a great podcast that I must listen to every week. CT, Jeeg and Pax are really cool guys and they have put together a great show. I made a guest appearance on episode #28 of Nerd Lunch where we discussed (you guessed it) Star Trek. check them out on iTunes. Anyway listening to their discussion on the last 2 TNG films inspired me to write a commentary blog post about them.     - With 'Nemesis' they were really trying to recreate 'Wrath Of Khan' (Data dying: Spock dying, enemy out for vengeance Shinzon/Khan). Also the idea of a ship that can fire while cloaked was stolen from Star Trek VI. If they wanted to do a vengeance story why not simply have 'Lore' be reassembled by foolish star fleet techs, then he goes afte...

Part I: My Pre -Discussion Of 'Babylon 5'    Shortly after the launch of DS 9 in the spring of 1993 there was a TV movie that made it's premiere, and it was called 'Babylon 5'. To be honest I was not impressed. The story was bad, the make-up looked terrible and and special effects were not even close to being as good as DS 9. Despite all this the movie was enough to convince someone at Warner Brothers to invest in a TV season and in January 1994 'Babylon 5' the TV series was born.       They really cleaned up the TV series from what the TV movie had been. the special effects, although not DS 9 quality were a lot better. B5 was one of the first space series to use all digital f x , which really made them pioneers in the field. As the series progressed the special effects got pretty solid and looked good, but the first few season did not look as good as their DS 9 counterpart.  The make up got better for the series, especial...

Continuing last weeks topic. I listen to the 'Nerd Lunch'  podcast  and one of their franchise topics is 'Give That Guy some Work' where they discuss great actors from TV and film who have not been seen in anything for a while. Got me thinking about some great Trek actors who are wonderful and I would like to see them in something again.   Brent  Spiner : I think Brent  Spiner  needs to be in more. That guy is a  mu lti -talented actor who I think if given a chance could d anything. I could see him doing a slap-stick comedy like 'The Naked Gun' where he could play a Leslie  Nielson -type character or a serious psychological thriller like John  Lithgow  did in 'Raising Cain'.  Spiner  would be awesome in either capacity. I got the chance to meet  Spiner  this  April  at the 2012 Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo. he was a very nice guy and very cool towards my son, asking him what his name was. W...

I listen to the 'Nerd Lunch' podcast and one of their franchise topics is 'Give That Guy some Work' where they discuss great actors from TV and film who have not been seen in anything for a while. Got me thinking about some great Trek actors who are wonderful and I would like to see them in something again.   Matt Frewer: I met Trek guest star Matt Frewer summer 2011 at the Calgary Expo and he was a great guy to meet. He played 'Rasmussen' in a 5th season TNG episode. He actually is a busy guy for work, but I'd like to see him in something like 'Dexter' or 'Breaking Bad', or better yet 'Game Of Thrones'.  I loved his 90's comedy show 'Doctor, Doctor' and the drama 'Psi Factor' in the 90's. Awesome actor who needs to be included more on big projects.   At the 2011 Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo I caught a Matt Frewer panel. Frewer is best known as 80's icon 'Max Headroom', but bein...

As I write this it is my hope someone involved in the creation of the new Trek series will read this idea and (hopefully) use it. My idea for a new series is this:   Star Trek: Light In Darkness   Section 32 on board the USS Yorktown travels the known Galaxy in secret undertaking missions needed for the protection of the Federation and it's allies. This will see the Yorktown travel everywhere from inside the former  Romulan  Empire, to the Klingon Empire, all the way to Deep Space 9 where it will travel to the Gamma  Quadrant  to determine if there is a Dominion conspiracy to destroy the Federation. Aside from  DS 9 we could possibly see Captain  Riker  and the USS Titan make an  appearance , as well as other guest stars from  TNG ,  DS 9 and Voyager.   I want to call it 'Light In Darkness' as this is a dark time for the Federation as the galaxy seems to be in turmoil. Also I wanted to get away from callin...

  As I write this it is my hope someone involved in the creation of the new Trek series will read this idea and (hopefully) use it. My idea for a new series is this:   Star Trek: Light In Darkness   Section 32: a new  Starfleet   Intelligence  Task Force that answers to Admiral  Janeway  and/or Captain  Worf . ( Janeway  and  Worf  would not be series regulars, but would guest star from time to time on the show). Going with people they trust or people they know capable of running Section 32 the way it needs to be run the new  Intelligence  Unit breaks down as follows:     Main Characters:   - General Thomas William  Riker : Section 32's Field Leader. He  receives  the orders from  Starfleet  Command and carries them out. He also is considered Captain of Section 32's prototype stealth/cloak ship: The USS Yorktown. (The Yorktown is what Gene Rodden...

Hey there friends this is Chris with another Weekly Pick, and this will be a 2 week pick as next weekend I will be busy attending a family reunion. My pick this week is for a great Canadian program called 'North of 60'. It is in my opinion the best drama ever filmed in Canada. It aired in the 90's and lasted 5 seasons and had 4 TV movies. The series was about the life and times in a North West Territories native community called 'Lynx River', but it was in fact filmed in my home province of Alberta. It was required weekly viewing in my home. The reason why I am making this my Weekly Pick is because this past weekend while attending my friends wedding I actually got to meet one of the stars of that series. Dakota House, also known as 'Teevee Tenia' on the series was there and I got the chance to meet him and talk his ear off. I had had several alcoholic beverages at that point and I talked his ear off for probably 1-2 hours. He was very nice and a pleasure...

As I write this it is my hope someone involved in the creation of the new Trek series will read this idea and (hopefully) use it. My idea for a new series is this:   Star Trek: Light In Darkness   *Assuming it is filmed for a fall 2013 release it would be set in the 24 th  century in 'real time' taking place 12 years after the end of Star Trek: Voyager, 11 years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis and after the destruction of Romulus as depicted in the 2009 'Star Trek' reboot film. The year would be approximately 2390.   Events prior to start of series:   - Chancellor  Martok  was  assassinated  by his son  Drex  in personal combat following  Martoks  refusal to invade the  Romulan  Empire following the destruction of their  homeworld  and moon Remus, the power base  of the entire  Romulan  Empire (Star Trek, 2009 film). Chancellor  Drex  ignores the urging ...