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October 1, 2014 Trae Dorn Tetris

It’s Not a Joke, the Tetris Movie is Coming

In news that hurts my brain, the BBC is reporting that a film adaptation of the video game “Tetris” is

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Yvette Nicole Brown leaving “Community”

Community has lost a third member of the original Greendale Seven, as Yvette Nicole Brown will not be joining the

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DC Licenses Sexist as Hell T-Shirts, Admits to Screwing Up

The Carnival of Sadness takes many forms. Sometimes its made of cotton! This one speaks for itself. Take a look

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Marvel and the Jack Kirby Estate Have Come to Terms

This last Friday, the family of Comic Book Legend Jack Kirby and Marvel Comic released a joint statement saying that

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So we’re all familiar with Bradley Cooper’s vocal performance from this year’s Guardians of the Galaxy, but between animation and

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Clerks 3 is happening… but should it?

So many are reporting that Kevin Smith has finally secured funding to make Clerks 3 (due to either the success

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SNL’s “Upcoming Marvel Movies” Are Pretty Funny

So Chris Pratt hosted Saturday Night Live on the season opener this weekend, so of course they decided to poke

September 26, 2014 Trae Dorn Kim Stanley Robinson, Mars Trilogy, Red Mars, SpikeTV

Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Mars” Trilogy Being Adapted For TV

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars series of books is being turned into a TV series by SpikeTV with Vince Gerardis (best

September 25, 2014 Pher Sturz alien, michael fassbender, prometheus, ridley scott

Ridley Scott Talks Prometheus 2, Offers No Xenomorphs

I hope none of you were looking forward to some sweet alien action in Prometheus 2: Adventure Time with Shaw

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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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