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September 11, 2017 Trae Dorn

Believe It or Not, They’re Still Trying to Remake ‘Greatest American Hero’

We last heard about an attempt to remake classic 80s superhero comedy Greatest American Hero back in 2015, but even

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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)!

Grab your popcorn, take a sledgehammer to your 80s pan and scan VHS (Disclaimer: Casual Trek endorses Physical Media, just, just not pan and scan) and climb into your favourite beep-chair as Casual Trek goes to the movies In Search of Spock for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock! But, we have a little B-Feature before we hit our A-Picture and so we’re also covering the other time a member of the Enterprise stole the Enterprise because the needs of the one, outweighed the needs of the many: The Menagerie. Was it a clever way to reuse the unaired pilot of Star Trek- ‘The Cage’ (See Episode 1 of this show) or a clever way to scrimp on some gold-pressed latinum for a series that was more expensive than it looked.

Then, we go all in on The Search for Spock, as the Casual Trek crew won’t stop raving about Christopher Lloyd’s turn as a baddie. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, but sometimes, the needs of the few is to be rated and reviewed on all good podcatchers and apps!

CONTENT WARNING: We talk about some very ableist tropes from a piece of 60s television.

Timecodes:
12:22 TOS: The Menagerie
49:03 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Talking Points Include: Miles pimps his latest appearance on ‘Breakfast in the Ruins,’ Taskmaster, DragonBall, 2000ad and the Judge Dredd movies, Miles talks about Dan Dare, The Rolling Stones, Zager & Evans, our crew talk about attending our first gigs, Did Spock just kill a guy? How The Menagerie completely rewrites the message and meaning of The Cage, 60s ableism, Pike’s gloopy make-up job, how Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has made The Cage REALLY weird, Tendi from Lower Decks would not be happy with the portrayal of Orions, Duran Duran (Wild Boys) Some of the many, many, many classic Genre Films of 1984 (and Miles didn’t even mention the film adaptation of 1984 which came out that same year), oh, and also Repo Man. Despite his love of Buckaroo Banzai, you see Miles remember in real time that Christopher Lloyd also appears in that film. Casual Trek does not advocate underage drinking, but at least try for better than white wine. PAN AND SCAN IS THE DEVIL. Ponn Farr, David’s death, Shatner CAN act, Utopia still needs dive bars, Bones has a Top-Five Dive Bar list, the Bones/Spock fusion, Mr. Adventure is dead now, he died in the cupboard, words Miles never thought he would ever say on this show “Pallette-Swapped Adric,” Kruge is a great villain, we’re just going to talk about him a lot, better Magnificent Seven in Space films than Rebel Moon. James Horner, Does Spock’s Return cheapen death? Miles confuses lighting with colour, and what do Christopher Lloyd and Patrick Troughton have in common?

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Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.

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