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August 8, 2014 Trae Dorn Haven, Syfy

Haven Season 5 Gets Premiere Date

Haven, Syfy’s supernatural drama, finally has a date for coming back. Cast member Eric Balfour tweeted out the following yesterday:

Celeste is Best The Mega-Blog

August 7, 2014 Trae Dorn CLAMP, Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: Nick Izumi Takes on CLAMP

This Throwback Thursday we’re going back into the archives of The Nick Izumi Show. Why? Because I like The Nick

August 7, 2014 Trae Dorn Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczysnki, JMS

J. Michael Straczysnki Planning Babylon 5 Reboot

One of the things we missed in the information blast that is San Diego Comic Con was that J. Michael

August 7, 2014 Trae Dorn Arrested Development, Netflix

‘Arrested Development’ Season 5: Not If, But When.

While Arrested Development may very well be one of the best shows that most of America ignored, it has done

August 6, 2014 Celeste Startwin Batman v Superman, Captain America 3, DC Carnival of Sadness, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel

Batman and Superman Moving over for Captain America in 2016, DC Announces Release Dates for 9 More Films

In a move that shouldn’t surprise anyone after seeing the box-office for Guardians of the Galaxy, DC has officially moved

August 6, 2014 Trae Dorn Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel

Let Chris Pratt take you on a Cribs-style tour of the Milano

We always say the more Guardians of the Galaxy the better here at Nerd & Tie — so needless to

August 6, 2014 Trae Dorn Batman, Batman v Superman, DC, Superman

Some plot to ‘Batman v. Superman’ leaked, surprisingly some of it even makes sense!

We finally now have a bit more plot detail trickling out about Batman v. Superman, the sequel to last year’s

August 6, 2014 Trae Dorn Ami Angelwings, Darkchylde, Escher Girls, Randy Queen

Artist Randy Queen Abusing DMCA to Silence Critic

More than a few of you may be familiar with Escher Girls, a blog that (with a good does of

August 5, 2014 Trae Dorn A Wrinkle in Time, Disney, Frozen

Frozen’s Jennifer Lee adapting ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ for Disney

If I had to pick one of the strangest books from my childhood, one of them would most likely be

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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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