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May 24, 2015 Trae Dorn Age of Ultron, Anime Central, AnimeCon.org, Avengers 2, black widow, CBS, Chrono LC, Colossal, Con Scene, Conventions, DC, Godzilla, Marvel, Ryan Kopf, Sony, Supergirl, The Craft, Toho

Episode 48 – Unauthorized Likeness

https://archive.org/download/episode41a/episode48.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSOn this episode we got up early and

May 23, 2015 Trae Dorn El Rey Network, Kung Fury

‘Kung Fury’ Will Air on El Rey Network

We’ve known for a while that Kung Fury was aiming for a May 28th release. The half hour long martial

May 22, 2015 Trae Dorn CBS, DC, Supergirl

‘Supergirl’ Pilot Leaked Online

All of us here at Nerd & Tie have been pretty hyped up about the new Supergirl TV series coming

May 22, 2015 Trae Dorn Greg Grunberg, Heroes, Heroes Reborn

‘Heroes: Reborn’ Will Include Greg Grunberg’s Matt Parkman

Heroes: Reborn, the bizarre revival of NBC’s Heroes, has another former cast member to add to the roster: Greg Grunberg.

May 21, 2015 Trae Dorn Cooties, trailer

First ‘Cooties’ Trailer Released

What do you get when Glee‘s Ian Brennan and the Saw series’s Leigh Whannell cowrite a film? Well, you get

May 21, 2015 Trae Dorn Anne Hathaway, Colossal, Godzilla, Mazinger Z, Nacho Vigalondo, Toho

Toho Suing Over Anne Hathaway Film ‘Colossal’

Director Nacho Vigalondo is currently trying to shop around his film Colossal, which is about a woman (played by Anne

May 20, 2015 Trae Dorn Paramount, Simon Pegg, Star Trek, Star Trek 3, Star Trek 3ish, Star Trek Beyond

Star Trek 3ish Has a Title

Simon Pegg, apparently forgetting that he exists in a culture where everything he says will be dissected at length, made

May 19, 2015 Trae Dorn Luc Besson, Valerian

Luc Besson’s ‘Valerian’ Will Be Released in 2017

Luc Besson (the director behind The Fifth Element, La Femme Nikita and a whole mess of other must see films

Convention News The Mega-Blog

May 18, 2015 Trae Dorn Anime Central, Anime Midwest, AnimeCon.org, Chrono LC, Con Scene, Conventions, Ryan Kopf

Banned From Anime Central, AnimeCon.org Plasters Area With Anime Midwest Ads

Anime Central, one of the oldest Anime cons in the midwest, concluded Sunday afternoon. While the exhibit hall had a

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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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