10. The Jeffrey Combs Power Hour
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It’s Jeff time! Jeffrey Combs has played roles in several different Trek shows, so when I first started putting together theme lists, a Jeffrey Combs Appreciation Episode was on the docket. Here we have him as a mad robot, an angry Andorian and a pair of cloned zealots of varying levels of faith.
Timecodes:
00:00 Opening
14:48 LDS: Where Pleasant Fountains Lie
36.40 ENT: The Andorian Incident
57:51 DS9: Treachery, Faith and The Great River
Talking points include: favourite Jeffs, ranking of Jeff names, Jeff Minter, Babylon 5, Justice League Unlimited, HP Hatecraft and Harlan Ellison, System Mastery, Questionable Content, The Three Jokers (ugh), The Young Ones, #iHunt, How Did This Get Made, Charlie’s personal role model Skeletor, Portal, Evil Computers in Mass Effect, Roxann Dawson director of “The Long Con” for Lost, Charlie describing a dalek but failing to describe an Andorian, X-Men (the 2000’s movie), GoldenEye & Half-Life levels, “what if The Empire was the good guys” people, Miles being a 1990’s nerd hipster, X-Files, Catch-22, The Del Boy Trotter of Space, Alan Rickman in Galaxy Quest, The Dead Zone TV show with Anthony Michael Hall from The Breakfast Club in it, Deepwater Black, Australian science fiction shows (not Deepwater Black), the Australian Ultraman show, alternative social media and becoming a fan of something obscure enough it can’t generate flamewars. Oh, and occasionally Star Trek. Miles mentioned about acts of arson in the Moulsescoomb council estate. While I never new anyone who did that, my brother was friends with a kid who set light to a newsagents in Whitehawk.
A clarification: Ed Sheeran was alive in 2001, he’d only have been ten years old
The rankings: Jeff Jef Jeph Geoff
Also, Miles has a blog.
Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn
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