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June 16, 2015 Trae Dorn kickstarter, Shenmue, Shenmue 3

Hell Officially Frozen Over, Shenmue 3 Announced

There are a handful of things which have always been my go to “never gonna happen” metaphors. I mean sure,

June 15, 2015 Trae Dorn EarthBound, EarthBound Beginnings, Mother, Nintendo

‘Mother’ Finally Coming to the US as ‘EarthBound Beginnings’

Most of the people who read this blog are at the very least vaguely familiar with the classic Super Nintendo

June 15, 2015 Trae Dorn Sharknado, Sharknado 3, Syfy

The Trailer For ‘Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!’ is Here, Because Why Not?

Sharknado movies just sort of keep happening it seems. Mostly because people like you and me turn on Syfy every

June 12, 2015 Trae Dorn FOX, Nimona, Noelle Stevenson, Patrick Osborne

Fox Options ‘Nimona’ For an Animated Film

Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona started out as a webcomic, turned into her senior thesis, earned Stevenson multiple awards, and now is

June 11, 2015 Trae Dorn Chiwetel Ejiofor, Doctor Strange, Marvel

Chiwetel Ejiofor Will Play Baron Mordo in ‘Doctor Strange’

We’ve known for a while that Chiwetel Ejiofor was cast in Marvel’s forthcoming adaptation of Doctor Strange, but it’s been

June 11, 2015 Trae Dorn Christopher Lee

Legendary Actor, Complete Bad Ass Christopher Lee Dead at 93

The Telegraph is reporting that legendary British actor Christopher Lee passed away Sunday morning. Lee had an amazing career. He

June 11, 2015 Trae Dorn Chris Hemsworth, Ghostbusters, Paul Feig, Sony

Chris Hemsworth Cast in Paul Feig’s ‘Ghostbusters’

We’ve known for a while who the leads will be in Paul Feig’s gender-swapped reboot of Ghostbusters, but there’s been

Convention News The Mega-Blog

June 10, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, DashCon, EmotiCon, Tumblr

DashCon Isn’t Coming Back, DashCon 2015 Tumblr a Hoax

DashCon may go down as, at the very least, the most well known disaster con of a generation. It was

June 10, 2015 Trae Dorn CBS, DC, Supergirl

‘Supergirl’ Gets a Premiere Date

Supergirl is probably one of the most anticipated shows this fall around Nerd & Tie, and can you blame us?

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We make a bunch of podcasts at Nerd & Tie, we know it’s hard to keep up with all of them. So, with that in mind, we’ve decided to make a feed of all of them (well minus two)!

Do you hear the siren song of synergy?

That means we’ve got a brand new Star Trek show on the horizon and Miles and Charlie want in. With Star Trek: Starfleet Academy on the horizon, our brave lads are going to squeeze back into their school uniforms and try to remember how school works as they approach three episodes of Star Trek which deal with students at SFA.

In The First Duty, Wesley “THE BOY” Crusher gets in with a guy who looks nothing like Tom Paris and is really too invested in being with the cool kids for someone who helped saved the galaxy at least three times. Then, Jake and Nog end up on a ship with a bunch of cadets forced to grow up too fast in The Valiant and Nog drinks the kool-aid of a wanna be Kurtz just out of short trousers. Then we head into the 32nd Century as Tilly and Adira have to debate what’s worse, dealing with energy absorbing creatures on an ice-planet or dealing with a bunch of angsty kids with emotional baggage? Oh, and Michael Burnham helps save the Federation.

Again. Don’t forget to do your homework!

EPISODES DISCUSSED: The First Duty (6:50), The Valiant (35:42) and All is Possible (01:01:08)

TALKING POINTS: Grange Hill, the novels of John Darnielle, Mario Galaxy, Frollo from Disney’s Hunchback never gets invited to Villain hangouts, Wesley Crusher never pulled, Nick Locarno vs. Tom Paris, the two types of Starfleet Academy students, the absence of Wesley’s Mum, ‘The First Duty’ being the inverse of the typical Wesley Crusher plot, Worf’s son Alex isn’t allowed on the bridge, Nog and Worf are incredibly very similar characters, Miles gets to talk about both one of his favourite anime Mobile Suit Gundam AND his favourite novel Slaughterhouse 5, the illusion of glory in war, bye-bye Tilly, damn covid-lockdown-inspired emotional baggage, our honest feelings about the upcoming Starfleet Academy show, Michael Burnham has to do something every episode, why is David Cronenberg NOT the villain?

PEDANTS CORNER: Charlie has started playing Mario 2: The Lost Levels, the Genesis music video Miles can’t remember is ‘I Can’t Dance’ by Genesis.

[ Additional Show Notes ]

Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.

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