104: Tim Russ – It’s Tim Time!
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Everyone, who’s YOUR favourite Tim? If you said Tim Russ, then THIS is the show for you as Casual Trek goes ‘Tim Time’ with three episodes featuring Tim Russ (including two of his Star Trek bit parts before landing the role of Tuvok in Voyager!)
The first episode is ‘Starship Mine’ where Patrick Stewart (RIP) gets to go Full-JL when a Die-Hard takes place on the Enterprise while everyone else in the case has to deal with small talk, blink and you might miss Tim Russ, then in DS9’s ‘Invasive Procedures,’ Tim Russ plays a Klingon has part of a team ready to help a Trill Incel do a classic Symbiote-Heist on Dax and it almost goes Die-Hard and then finally, in Voyager’s ‘Riddles,’ we get to see Tim Russ as Tuvok undergo a shocking transformation… actually liking Neelix!
Episodes discussed: Starship Mine (15:09) Invasive Procedures (47:34) and Riddles (01:17:44)
Topics Discussed: The novels of Shirley Jackson, Superpocket Evercade, Pong- better or worse than Elden Ring, is Data just making fun of Hutch, Hutch is unmourned, TNG is far more cavalier than Red Shirt deaths than TOS, the many murders of Jean-Luc Picard, how are the makers of Die Hard NOT suing? Patrick Stewart wanting to be an action hero, Picard definitely shot a guy in the dick, superheroes who are cavalier about murder, who would be the best and worst at a Die Hard? Mariah Carey, Paramount’s boring ads, Trill Incels, this almost counts as a Patricia Tallman themed episode, Tim does Good Klingon, the DS9 Crew would be great doing a Die Hard, is this the first time we get some Bald Sisko atittude? Charlie is obsessed with Picard’s saddle, do you think there’s a new replicator smell? Best O-Face in all of TV? If we wrote Star Trek, the Dax symbiote would be an Eraserhead baby, Charlie! Riddle Time! Ethan Phillips once again something to work with, Roxann Dawson’s first directed episode, Tuvok has definatly threatened legal action in case Tuvix is mentioned, Harry Kim’s best day, has there ever been a multiversal incarnation of Cyclops for whom life has never sucked?Pedants Corner: The Poddington Peas was a British cartoon about sentient peas who lived in the garden, what’s that about the British not being well? 80s UK Arcade Machines took 10p or 20p coins for the most part.
SPECIAL NOTE: We don’t talk about the sad news regarding Walter Koenig or Patrick Stewart as we’ve recorded quite a way ahead of time. We’ll be covering them in the near future.
Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.
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