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March 4, 2015 Trae Dorn Independence Day, Independence Day 2, Jeff Goldblum, Jessie Usher, Liam Hemsworth

‘Independence Day 2’ Has Its Leads

So the long-in-development but finally happening Independence Day 2 (or as I like to obnoxiously refer to it as “ID4-2“)

March 4, 2015 Trae Dorn Age of Ultron, Avengers, Avengers 2, Marvel, Paul Bettany, trailer

The Third ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Trailer Gives Us a Glimpse of The Vision

The third full length trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron is here, and it’s pretty cool. Besides being able to

March 4, 2015 Trae Dorn Community, Six Seasons and a Movie, trailer, Yahoo Screen, Yahoo!

The Full ‘Community’ Season 6 Trailer

So we all know that Community Season 6 is almost upon us, so it makes sense that Yahoo! Screen would

March 3, 2015 Trae Dorn AMC, Grantville GA, the walking dead

You Could Own A Real Town From ‘The Walking Dead’

Ever wanted to buy the entire downtown of a small Georgia town that was featured in an episode of The

March 3, 2015 Trae Dorn CW, iZombie, Rob Thomas, trailer

The New ‘iZombie’ Trailer Makes It Look Ten Kinds of Awesome

iZombie is the newest series from Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas. Based off the Vertigo comic, it tells the story

March 3, 2015 Trae Dorn Dragon Ball Z, Frieza, The Resurrection of F

There’s Controversy Over Frieza’s New Look In DBZ… and this is 2015, right?

I’m only asking to make sure that it’s 2015, because I’m back in a world where there’s a new trailer

March 2, 2015 Trae Dorn mediajunkie, My Immortal, No Boys Dorm

‘(My) Immortal’ Creators Working On New Web Series ‘No Boys Dorm’

I don’t think we’ve made it a secret how fond we are of the (My) Immortal web series ’round these

March 2, 2015 Trae Dorn Lost in Space

“Lost in Space” to Receive HD Blu-Ray Release

Okay, so this news is actually a full month old, but it’s news to us here at Nerd & Tie,

March 2, 2015 Trae Dorn alien, Alien 5, Neill Blomkamp

Neill Blomkamp’s Fifth ‘Alien’ Film Won’t Undo ‘Alien 3’ and ‘Alien: Resurrection’ After All

We’ve known for a little while that Neill Blomkamp was working on a new Alien film, with Ridley Scott producing.

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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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