The Great Derelict

Welcome back to the Great Derelict Not a proper episode this week, because Andy has to finish a presentation for Navycon, but I thought it was a good opportunity to invite Eric Muirhead back to talk about what is NavyCon, and why you should check it out! You can register for Free Tickets here - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/navycon-2021-national-security-in-transition-tickets-152048698751 and visit...

Welcome back to theGreat Derelict! This week the Great Derelict is beaming to you as part of the Lawless Comic Con, and Andy is handing the keys to the Derelict over to Andy Turnbull from TF Nation for an interview with the Simon Furman man behind the highly influential Marvel UK comic series of The Transformers, and what elevated it from a comic originally just meant to sell toys, and the challen...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict! This week the Great Derelict is beaming to you as part of the Lawless Comic Con, and Andy is Joined by once again by Joanne Alexander and by very special guest and Godfather of British Comics Pat mills to talk about Marshal law and Pat's new comic Space Warp and where he see's the future of British Comic books. You can listen to more of Joanne on Banterflix  htt...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy it joined on by Darren and Bryan to take a look back at the history of the Halo franchise, which is 20 years old this year, what we liked, and our hopes of the future of the franchise You can find Darren on Twitter https://twitter.com/Sticklepunk And the Blackdog Podcast here - http://blackdogpodcast.com/ And you can find more of Andy and his other...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Elton to go over, and over and over Time Travel, both fictional and in physics, we discuss where it begins, and different types of Time Travel from Fixed points, time loops, multiverse theory and pre destination paradoxes We also talk about some of our favourite time travel films, and Primer The Episode of Horizion mentioned in the cas...

Welcome back to theGreat Derelict! This week Andy is Joined by Jim and Teressa to look at perhaps the single most influential science fiction film of all time, Fritz Lang's 1927 Masterpiece - Metropolis. Discussing the origins, themes and influences on everything from Batman to Blade Runner   and we also take a look at 2001's Anime 'Metropolis' to see if it is worthy of its illustrious name If you...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Anne-Marie Organ to discuss one of the best science fiction literary works of the past 20 years, the Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers, we have a general chat about the 4 books and give overall thoughts about the series, but in short, we really like them a lot and think you should check them out too You can find more from Anne-Marie on...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Peter Organ to have a quick chat about Buck Rogers in the 25th Century in preparation for Peter and Anne-Marie covering the late 70's cheesefest that is Glen A Larson show for the Borg Rogers Podcast You can find more from Peter on the Borgcast https://borgcast.libsyn.com/ and Borgcast Galactica and now Borg Rogers at http://galactica....

Welcome back to the Great Derelict! This week, Andy is joined by the Commodore Dan Decker to explore the messy and complex history of Robotech, an 80's cartoon that WASN'T just created to sell toys  See more about Robotech with Toy Galaxies fantastic series here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrIm5lYSdTQ Dan is on Twitter - https://twitter.com/dandeckr and you can listen to Bad Choices and Bour...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict! This week, Andy is forming a fellowship with Llama and Jo and going on an epic adventure to explore the world of the Lord of the Rings Jimmy Cauty's LOTR Poster is here - http://klf.de/home/jimmy-cauty-solo-projects/athena-posters/ You can find The Llama God on Twitter -  https://twitter.com/TheLlamaGod JoBot is -  https://twitter.com/jobot935 And Red carpet Tou...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Eric and Daria to try to understand just how does the Economy of Star Trek work? We don't just look at the Federation though, with some fascinating insights into Klingon and Cardassian Society and Economics and the Cultural Identity of the Ferrengi, Its a wild ride! Unfortunately there are some audio issues with the episode which I do...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Amber and Sean to take a look at the first MCU TV show 'Wandavision' and to see if it lived up to the expectations and how it relates to the films which have gone before and what clues it gives for where the characters will go next Contains spoilers for Wandavision and about the end of the Mandalorian  And you can find more of Andy and...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by VFX Guru Lee Stringer to talk about Models and CGI in Sci-fi, who over the course of his career has worked on shows such as Star Trek Voyager, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica as well as the directors cut update to Star Trek The Motion Picture, Serenity and Star Wars The Clone Wars. Lee discusses his work on those shows and gives us some...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Elton to discuss the last yea in Space, from Percy the Probe, to the Starships (although this was recorded before SN10) So pull up a Grav couch and listen to a pair of idiots gush over space stuff! You can find Elton on Twitter https://twitter.com/EltonMcManus And the Blackdog Podcast here - http://blackdogpodcast.com/ And you can find...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by the Medcalf Hologram to talk about Synthespians (not the Dr Who Novel) Virtual actors, face replacements and Digital doubles, de-aging and motion capture, and just how far away are we from a fully Synthetic Performer? Yes, we will talk about the Mandalorian, there will be spoilers You can find Lee on the Blackdog Podcast here -  http:/...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict Andy and the Great Derelict are joined by a force more formidable than the Daleks, Cylons and Borg combined: Geography Teachers!  Kit Rackley and Alistair Hamill join us for a discussion about Colonialism and Imperialism through the sci-fi lens. From Battlestar Galactica, through Star Trek and with a quick stop off to War of the Worlds  You can find more from Kit...

Hello There Welcome back to the Great Derelict where this week Andy is joined by Alan and Joanne as they take a look at all the upcoming Star Wars shows announced in December 2020 and discuss what we are looking forward too, what we would like to see and which of the Mikkelsen brothers was in Hannibal You can listen to more of Joanne on Banterflix  https://banterflix.com/category/podcast/ and Talk...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by author (and occasional miniatures artist) Gav Thorpe to discuss the grim darkness of the future from the grim darkness of the present as we discuss the worlds of Warhammer 40k (and a bit of 30k)  From the Sweeping epic of the Fall of Horus, to trading pronouns on an Imperator Titan , and he might admit to helping me nobble the scores o...

Welcome to the first Great Derelict of 2021! RESET THE CLOCK! Today we are cancelling the apocalypse! This week Andy is Joined by screenwriter and show creator Debbie Moon to discuss why everything is better with giant robots and Kaiju! You can find Debbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DebbieBMoon And you can find more of Andy and his other casts over at Rogue Two Media -  http://www.roguetwomed...

Welcome to a slightly self indulgent Great Derelict Traditionally in the run up to Christmas, I often like to catch up with friends at the pub and we exchange cards, drink and just chat about whatever geekery is on our minds, well since we couldn't do that this year, I decided to grab my former co-hosts and to record it, So if you fancy listening to 3 bearded blokes chat about Picard, Discovery, M...

Welcome back to a Symphonic Great Derelict! This week Andy is Joined once again by Jim Moon this time in his capacity as lead conductor of the Eldritch Light Orchestra to Discuss the Synthesiser and how it has shaped what we think of as sound of Sci-Fi for over 50 years and Jim gets to show off some of his toys too You can find Jim at Hypnogoria:- http://www.hypnogoria.com And the Eldritch Light O...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy has spared no expense and is inviting paleocatalogist Christian Honoré and Chaos Theorist Elton McManus to view the newly opened Dinosaur Petting zoo aboard the Great Derelict Looking back at a franchise that was 65 million years in the making, the impact the film had on our lives and on both Film-Making and Paleontology And of course we ask, what...

Welcome back aboard the Great Derelict! This week Andy is joined by Claude Berube - The Director of the US Naval Academy Museum to take a look at the history of Starfleet and how it compared to the History of the US Navy, and they try to answer the question: Is Starfleet a Military Organisation?  You can find more of Claude on the Preble Hall Podcast about Naval History here -https://podcasts.appl...

Welcome aboard the Great Derelict! This week Andy is joined by Oliver to look at Sports in the future (or a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away) from Post apocalyptic gladiatorial games, to the mystic arts of Anbo-jyutsu! The Wacky Races Fury Road can be found here - https://imgur.com/gallery/3OIXq You can find Oliver on Twitter  https://twitter.com/oliver_monk and  http://percytrollcast.blogs...

Welcome back to the Great Derelict! In this Reaper sized episode Andy is join in the lift to the top of the council spire by Urdnot Lee and Jen Vakarian to look back over our favourite games on the citadel, Mass Effect, reminiscing from the first game which came out in 2007, (13 years ago!) through the action of Mass Effect 2 and the Emotion and controversy of Mass Effect 3, we also look forward t...