The Complete J.R. Watches Star Trek For the First Time

MONDAY, MAY 25, 2015 It's time for another fun vacation away from Star Trek! This time we're accompanied by the absolutely radiant Audrey Hepburn in three movies that range from masterpiece to what's considered to be aggravatingly mixed levels of abhorrence. We decided to go ahead and look at the films in order of cinematic release. The journey begins in magnificent 1953 Rome with Greg...

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 Talk about Star Trek only slightly put us off course from our Star Wars and Daredevil talk. Only two eps this time, but both were pretty big. The title of this one has been banked for five podcasts, but we just needed the perfect Pon Farr situation to come up. Can't just throw around a perfect and gross title all willy-nilly (tee hee! willy.). Oh, and hey there's...

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015 First of all, today is J.R.'s birthday. Forgot to tell him so on the podcast even though it would have been about a week away when we recorded. Sorry bud! Second, the big event this time is that the Borg are back in a flagrant and obvious pandering fashion. We dismiss the superficial fan-service cash grab handily. Or do we? Also, we talk about that episode with the se...

SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2015 We start off with the Nimoy tribute that should have been on the last podcast, so rest easy knowing that. Looks like it's a perfect time for J.G. Hertzler to come and save  Enterprise ! Also, it's a perfect time for weird disembodied aliens! Time for Milford man Mayweather to have his own show! Is it also time for Archer to get captured again? Well, there's always...

MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015 Just so everyone knows, this podcast was recorded over 10 days ago, so Leonard Nimoy was still alive at the time. You may wonder why it wasn't mentioned during the show's discussion. Obviously, we'll pay our dues and shed our tears next time. We're still knee-deep in  Enterprise . We were both actually a bit up on this set even if listeners weren't. Well,...

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2015 Our attempts at recording through Google Hangouts are getting even more legendary. This one may have tipped the scales as far as non-Star Trek to Star Trek discussion goes. Once again, however, the Star Trek stuff is loaded toward the beginning so you can stop listening after we're done with that. Trick's on you though, because the next episode predictions (everybo...

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2014 Ugh. It's the 21st century and you wouldn't believe how many stupid variables there are nowdays for posting a stupid podcast. Things should be easier than they were when we started this thing. Alas, 'tis not the case. We did try a recording through the YouTube option of Google Hangouts, so the quality may sound a little more phone-y than usual in case you&#3...

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014 Yep, this one's late again. Hey, we're working with better hardware that picks up far more flaws. Give us a break. So where were we with Enterprise? Ah yes. Starting season 2. The Romulans are back. Well, they're "introduced" anyway. So does the Enterprise creative team pull off the introduction? We gotta keep in mind that they're handicapped by...

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 It took a long time to watch all these submarine movies. It took a long time to record this podcast. It took a long time to get around to posting this podcast. I'm not going to bore you with a long paragraph now. We took a break from Star Trek to hit up something sort of similar to Trek, in that it's a bunch of people in a metal tube floating through a space-like...

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014 Sorry everyone who emails in, but we did a sort of impromptu recording without sending out the notice email. Hopefully you don't mind too much if you're still listening. This is our first Enterprise season wrap-up and it's full of the mildest surprises ever. For instance, one episode made one of our top five and the same episode made the other one's bottom...

SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2014 This took a weekend longer to get live than I thought. Lots to speak of this week. What, with World Cup action, continued planning for Austin City Limits, chats with listeners and non-White Stripe music to go through it's amazing we got through it in under three hours. Most people would swim through this stuff like Michael Phelps, but we tend to wade through it like tha...

TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2014 Sorry for getting this in so late. My computer has had several adventures since recording. Anyway... boobs. In the face. Other stuff happens as we continue discussing Year One of  Enterprise . For example, there are hot worm women and bums (the cute ones, not the street ones). Podcast breakdown: 0:00 -- nuqneH (Angel's DS9 quiz, brat-tail fiasco, the sad tale of Tom) 14:2...

SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2014 I know a lot of you in the live chat were expecting the title of this podcast to something like "Sleeping Targhs Lie" or "Let Slip the Targhs of War" or maybe "Targh Day Afternoon." Couldn't decide between all those. I'm also kicking myself for not relating  Mars Attacks!  to the aliens in "Silent Enemy." Isn't it just like...

SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2014 We're neck-deep ensconced in  Enterprise . And the Vulcans are always bad. It's very weird. In the meantime, we can always count on shuttlecrafts falling through whatever "floor" they've landed on. This was a fun recording. We had Mark assigned to the hangout to keep us in line with random audible comments. We also had a return of the pop culture top f...

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014 Okay, we're committed now, because this is our second podcast devoted to  Enterprise.  So far, so good. Fingers crossed. It's not super terrible so far. The bold new journey is further emboldened by our crazy use of Google Hangout. We'll let you be the judge regarding the idea to just allow any listener to barge in at any time during the recording. By the way,...

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2014 This podcast takes on a whole new enterprise. Just a little heads up about what happened behind the scenes. We spent an hour trying to get Justin.tv to work (the problem was probably site maintenance) and finally switched over to Google Hangouts. The result was relatively successful. We'll obviously be working out a few kinks on this if it's an additional enterp...

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014 Strap yourself in as we review the last of what J.R. calls the "muffintop episodes" (which really formed a nice little completion complex context). On top of that we devote a bunch of time to scouring all of the  Voyager  episodes we watched for some great best/worst awards and demerits. Perhaps silliest of all, we also rank every single episode of  Voyager  we...

MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2013 Okay so just in time for Festivus, this is the first slew of "forgotten"  Voyager  episodes. That probably means we didn't have too much fun with these, right? RIGHT?! Well, when have Nazis turned down fun, though? But here's the real question. Will disease, loneliness and dinosaur scientists live up to the fun that the Nazis set such a very high standar...

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2013 For the first time in months, were back with a normal podcast. This isn't our last  Voyager  podcast, but we're discussing the last  Voyager  episode (in which Voyager limps its way across the finish line. Does the series live up to its hype? Okay, here's a better question: does the series live up to the constant stream of dislike our listeners have been th...

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2013 It took us a few weeks to finally do it, but here it is -- the DVD commentary of  Star Trek Into Darkness . The giddiness of the movie has worn off slightly, so a bit of criticism is expected. Interestingly, the two of us tend to disagree a bit more on these movie things, but the inevitable yelling match has yet to be recorded. BTW, Jon's voice is a bit louder than...

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 We start by talking about what Depeche Mode might play for their encore at the upcoming show. Don't be a saint and email in the setlist. Yes, we're well aware of the internet, but prefer not to know certain things until the actual time. No spoilers! So yeah, we watched these latest  Voyager  episodes sort of unsure which ones were "good" and which ones...

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2013 J.R. was tickled pink by the retro-futuristic fun of "Bride of Chaotica!" and the episodes in general were probably better than last time, but viewing these suckers makes it easy to see why  Voyager  really is the detritus of Star Trek. Boxing is never good on TV, but space boxing? Well, that tends to be even worse, isn't it? Hey, at least some more Starflee...

THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 Technically, these  Voyager  episodes are supposed to be the "good" ones, but we have a much funner time hearing about all the crazy episodes we're  not  watching. Andy Dick happens. Also iceberg planets, time travel (of course, duh-doy) and of course musical theory. The doctor is golden though. Especially when he's reshaping hundreds of years of history...

TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013 It's hot. Also, the listeners have more to say about these episodes than we do obviously. We tackle a couple of iconic  Voyager  episodes that gave us Seven of Nine as well as... a year of events that apparently never happened. Goodbye Kes. We hardly knew ye! All this and a lot of lovable Superman griping. Oh and then there's Scorpio. There's always Scorpio. Podca...

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013 We discuss "the worst" episode in all of Star Trek BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT!!! Is "Threshold" the worst though? Well, that's a matter of discussion and debate. And discussed and debated are things we therefore did! Hard! Also there were three other boring episodes in there too. Podcast breakdown: 0:00 -- nuqneH,  Arrested Development , future genre p...