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January 19, 2015 Trae Dorn Chris Carter, David Duchovny, FOX, Gillian Anderson, The X-Files, X-Files

Fox Wants To Bring Back ‘The X-Files’

According to recent reports, Fox is trying to bring back the X-files. The term “reboot” has been thrown around a

January 17, 2015 Pher Sturz Hey we have a Taylor Swift tag now, Lt. Snorkel, Shake it Off, Taylor Swift

For Your Saturday, Here’s Trae Singing Shake It Off

Since it’s Saturday night, I’m assuming you’re all partying right now. Maybe with a particularly cool and attractive person. Time

January 16, 2015 Trae Dorn Heroes, Heroes Reborn, NBC, Zachary Levi

Zachary Levi to star in ‘Heroes Reborn’

So we all remember that Heroes is getting revived as the miniseries Heroes Reborn, right? Right? Anyone? Well, it is.

January 16, 2015 Trae Dorn Poltergeist, Poltergeist 3D, remake

A 3D ‘Poltergeist’ Remake – Y’know, For Kids!

So it’s been known for a while that a Poltergeist remake is in the works. This isn’t so much a

January 15, 2015 Celeste Startwin Casting, DC Carnival of Sadness, Rick Flag, Tom Hardy

Tom Hardy Leaves the Carnival of Sadness Early.

Suicide Squad is already looking to recast a character as Tom Hardy is backing out for reasons that have not

January 15, 2015 Trae Dorn Avengers, Avengers 3, Marvel, Sony, Spider-Man

Rumor: Spider-Man in Avengers 3?

This comes from Latino Review (so take it with a huge, boulder sized grain of salt), but there’s a chance

January 15, 2015 Trae Dorn CW, DC, Devon Graye, Flash, Mark Hamill, The Flash

CW’s “The Flash” Casts Another Trickster

Back in December, it was announced that on CW’s The Flash Mark Hamill would reprise the role of Trickster (who

January 14, 2015 Trae Dorn Escape From New York, FOX

Fox Picks Up Rights To ‘Escape From New York’

While there had been previous rumors about a remake of Escape From New York, we finally have something actually concrete.

January 14, 2015 Trae Dorn Community, Six Seasons and a Movie, Yahoo Screen, Yahoo!

“Community” Returns March 17th!

Community, one of the best TV shows to ever fire its show runner, re-hire its show runner, get cancelled, and

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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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