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September 19, 2014 Trae Dorn Batman, Batmobile, Episode VII, jj abrams, millenium falcon, Star Wars, Zack Snyder

There’s an Actual Batmobile on J.J. Abrams’s Millenium Falcon

J.J. Abrams, director of Star Wars Episode VII, got into a little bit of Star Wars vs. DC Comics one-upsmanship

September 19, 2014 Celeste Startwin Bruce Timm, DCAU, Justice League

Bruce Timm Doing a new Justice League Cartoon for Machinima

We love the Bruce Timm DC animated universe here at Nerd &Tie. It probably features the best versions of several

September 18, 2014 Celeste Startwin Anime, Musicals, Samurai 7, Seven Samurai, Weird

The Samurai 7 Musical is Coming for Some Reason

Anyone else watch Samurai 7? It was this kinda trippy anime adaptation of the classic Kurosawa film, Seven Samurai with

September 18, 2014 Trae Dorn Deadpool, FOX, Marvel

“Deadpool” Film ACTUALLY HAPPENING!

Deadpool is a remarkably popular character in Marvel comics, yet beyond his appearance in the so-awful-it-was-largely-retconned-away Wolverine Origins film, he’s

3DO to Go The Mega-Blog Video Games

September 18, 2014 Trae Dorn Samurai Shodown, Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: 3DO to Go – Samurai Shodown

I almost forgot to post this today, but hey — it’s still Thursday. On this installment of Throwback Thursday, we

September 18, 2014 Trae Dorn Matt Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Matt Smith joins the cast of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”

THR is reporting that Matt Smith will be playing Mr. Collins in the forthcoming adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and

Convention News The Mega-Blog

September 17, 2014 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, GaymerX

GaymerX Kickstarter Hits its Goal

GaymerX is putting together their third convention (rebranded as “GX3: Everyone Games”), and to do so they’ve been running a

September 17, 2014 Trae Dorn Amazon, Patrick Warburton, The Tick

“The Tick” TV Relaunch May Be Darker Than Previous Series

Talking Movieweb, Patrick Warburton hinted that the new incarnation of The Tick TV show that’s being developed for Amazon may

September 16, 2014 Trae Dorn Powers, PSN

First look at PSN’s “Powers” Adaptation

USA Today has posted the first official image of Sharlto Copley and Susan Heyward as the characters Christian and Deena

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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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