A Trek podcast sampler—using me as the common point

As I started to say last week:  I've been negligent to post all the new/young or excellent/established podcasts that have had me on in recent weeks, and to sing their praises.

For starters, here's a batch of links to the episodes of good pods that have invited me on since I last shared some last fall..what with all the Stellar Cartography, Star Trek Continues, Geek Nation "LA2Vegas" Tour and other Trekland madness going on. Sorry to podbomb you with so many at once!


Now, no two are just alike: some of their formats offer news or other guests too, so sampling a few is a great way to run the buffet and find the Trek host and show attitude that fits you … or even two or three or seven. Podcasting of all topics is a booming field, the Trek shows especially—some are one-offs, some part of a "network" and some building their own. But almost no one is making any pennies from it. Like so much of Trekland, these host-producer guys and gals are all in for the love and passion of living Trek in a new and different way, interacting with friends—and even strangers!

It's now a huge part of our get-your-fix answer to Trek addiction today without a new series every week.

For starters, last weekend's live shows are now archived for downloading: both All Things Trek Ep. 136 and the Jeff-Trek three-ring circus marathon!  ... and now today the new TrekMate video version of Ep. 76 (or the less-scary regular audio pod). But then also there's this wacky widespread bunch (many of which are available on iTunes):

—Sunday G&T Supplemental (just Friday) with Terry Lynn Schull, Nick "Gettysburg 7" Minecci and Michael Midieros

—Treks in Sci-Fi Ep. 477 (no, really) with host Rico Dostie, 2/21/14

—Sci-Fi Diner  Ep. 197 with host Scott Herzog, 2/14/14

—Trek1701 Ep. 7 of 2/28/14 with host Chris Lockhart, discussing Dr. McCoy, De Kelley and Karl Urban ... plus Ep. 5 on ST Continues and Ep. 4 re: things Trekland AND Enterprise series history.

—The Rusted Robot Ep. 8 , 2/1/14, with hosts Shawn and Brigitte Vanderloo—more Canucks!

—TREKCAST Ep. 106 from Jan. 20,  the original and newly rebooted, done in-studio Jan. with David Ivy (but alas missing co-host Darren Benjamin)

—Tribbles in Ecstasy Ep. 95  with host Xander et al, Nov. 23, and then Ep. 100 with Michele Specht! and host Kudzu, Jan. 10

—The Warp 5 podcast Ep. 24 of Jan. 9, covering Enterprise Season 3, with trek.fm host Chris Jones

—Earth Station One (ESO) Ep. 195 with host Bobby Nash, Jan. 2

—The Delta Quadrant Nov. 14 for an Insurrection insight recap special

—Keep On Trekkin' Ep. 23, Nov. 20,  with host "Don Burrito" Shaffer LIVE on Jan.10 over Holosuite Media

—GeekEZ Ep. 14, Dec. 9, with hosts Adam Ihle and Xander Hayes on Holosuite Media


—3 Drunk Geeks Ep. 43 of Dec. 4, with hosts James Laird, Neil Picard and Nick Grover 

—Subspace Communique's "Life After Trek" Ep. 25 on Oct. 17, with good buddy Chris Wood and Bye Bye Robot's Charity Wood as hosts.

 
Whoa…. that's a lot. I need to do this update more often! But it does show the diversity that's out there—and just in TREK Podcasting!

See what you think of them.

We're LIVE this Saturday on Internet radio...twice!

UPDATE: If you missed them, these live shows with yours truly last week are now up as downloadable podcast archives: All Things Trek Ep. 136  and The Jeff-Trek marathon show!



 
The new Trek Tour of LA2Vegas film sites... the latest Star Trek Continues episode and what's coming next ... that cool "Stellar Cartography"… the T-Trunk, of course … and finally, just about anything that's hot in Trek trends and topics …. commercial or thematic.

Tantalizing topics? Well, if you and I never got to cross paths at a convention, why not get on and talk/listen with me LIVE tomorrow—Saturday afternoon/evening, Feb. 22—over Internet radio.

TWICE.

First up, try me at 1 p.m. Pacific/4 p.m. Eastern on "All Things Trek" with host Oren, Grace and Deyvid over Trekradio.net. You can interact with the show live in the Trekradio chatroom there… and for now you can share this huge poster on Facebook!

And right after—mind the gap, grab a bite and a cold one!—I'll be on live at 2:30 pm PT/5:30 pm ET on the "JeffTrek" show over NBD Media. You can call in live for at least an hour—maybe two?—at 914-338-0314, with the enthusiastic Jeff Ferguson and co-host Mr. Goodnight.

And for a shout-out a week early: I'll also be on live on CAMERA for an hour or more next Friday, Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. PT/ 6 p.m. ET on UK-based Trek Mate —another show where you can pop in live to join in, either via the comments box under the streaming video at that YouTube link, or tweeting with the hashtag #TrekMateLive.

All of these live shows will be archived as podcasts you can download later, too… so while we're on that subject:

I've been negligent to thank a heap of other podcasters who have great shows and been kind enough to have me on in this busy season after the release of ST Continues and "Stellar Cartography". They want to talk about my stuff, but in almost each one, the varying personalities of the hosts and co-hosts means we also veer off into current-day Trek talk and topics as well.... the franchise future, how old Trek fandom compares to fandom today, goofy aspects of old fandom that SHAPE new fandom ... and where to put your energy if you want "new" official Trek.

These are all great shows that are worth the podcast download habit, if you are so inclined. And if not—why not try it out? A great way to pass the commute, the jog... the ironing slog.

In fact, with all the Trek attention on Star Trek Continues and "Stellar Cartography", for starters… and with the LA2Vegas Trek tour coming up … I've been on a slew of other shows in recent weeks—and then negligent  to post them. I'll make up for that tomorrow! 

AFTER you take a shot at the live shows.

Trekland on pods: Doomsday, McCoy, and the Tour

Whoa—now it's the last TWO months that have been a blur...

But one thing that's easy to do no matter how intense the "day job" gets is a friendly little blog interview when Trek is the subject... and Trekland, too.

Shame on me, for I've been remiss in sharing when some of the best Trek and sci-fi podcasts have been good to have me on ... at times with Teras Cassidy of Geek Nation Tours and our second annual Hollywood2Vegas Trek film site tour just before the Creation Vegas con. It's been a flurry.

In all of these we talk about not just the new Trek Tour for 2013, but also what's going on in Trek at large—according to what the hosts bounce off us—and I even wax poetic about esotrekica (yes, that is now a word). Because we turned over another generation in fandom the past couple years, in case you didn't know. In fact, you may have been part of the turnover (okay, I'll stop talking about you, now).

Of course, if you're already a fan or subscriber of these fine pods, you know this already—and if you're not much of a podcast downloader yet, here's your entree. They make a great way to spend a jog or a long commute or an interminable airflight. The hot air in mine alone is enough to start a balloon ride with.

Trekland got even more global than the Internet when UK-based Colin HIggins at Trek News & VIews over trek.fm had me on just today in Ep. 66 to talk about my fave "The Doomsday Machine" with Lou Costanza of The Lou Trek Show, plus explain how I came to be wearing McCoy garb in Georgia last month, and saying things like "Well, it's damn peculiar, Jim." And other Trekland stuff.

Then, Teras joined me to be grilled by Terilynn and "@Gettysburg7" NIck re: a lot of Trekness on their G&T Show for my beardless McCoy experience, the JJ "defection" to Star Wars (whoooo cares?) ... plus the Tour—and even a shoutout to 1701 Pennsylvania Ave on YouTube (you're welcome, Pony and Ralph!) ... Steve & Co. had us on as well for a new Tour Tart entry on the tasty menu at Sci-Fi DIner, Ep. 162B ... and Tom Cruz and Risa of STOked Radio over trekradio.net went way beyond the realm of Star Trek Online gaming for a trifecta of guests on Ep. 27 (the 41:30 mark; or download only here) where we went on about forgotten true fans, the upside of having no Trek TV (blossoming fandom), the future of the "next" Trek TV show, the fun of playing McCoy and of course the Tour—along with Teras, AND Mr. Enterprise-D Non-Profit Restoration & Museum himself, Huston Huddleston, and his project.

Which is all pretty cool considering I haven't even told YOU gentle readers about my Kingsland, GA experience as Bones... much less the Secret Project that's kept me from posting and vidchatting more with you here at TREKLAND... including today's Oscar guest post at startrek.com.

And more podcasts coming up quick ...

Servin' up secrets and Star Trek sass at SciFiDiner: pod's up now!

The summer con season is bearing down, the noise of Star Trek rumors and rigamarole is in the air ... so it just seemed the right time to stop in for a heapin' helpin' of fun at the SciFiDiner this week.  The podcast is now up!

Actually, Scott and Miles invited me in, of course, so many thanks to them for letting us rant on and on about everything... and spill a few secrets I probably should not have.

So, stop in at their site and take a listen to Ep. 96. Or download it, subscribe, RSS, whatever...

And let those crazy proprietors Scott and Miles at the Diner know how you like the menu this week. (It never hurts to "like" their Facebook page, either!)

Big week: Hear Sci-fi Diner & see you in Plano/Dallas!

Hey gang--the ever-cool Scott and Mike had me on for my first visit over at SciFi Diner this week, and we obviously had way too much fun pod-talking what's up with Trekland these days.

So much fun, in fact, that they have threatened to have me back...! (Grab it at the link above, of course, or get SciFi Diner on iTunes.)

 
And then... Well, if you find yourself anywhere near North Texas THIS weekend and have a week to kill before the Super Bowl, pay attention:

My mutley male mug joins the otherwise heavenly lineup with Nichelle Nichols and a raft of ladies for the next Sci-Fi Days convention honoring "Women of Sci-Fi."  It's at the Plano Center, and Dr. Daryl Frazetti is there with his irrestible fandom academics along with a couple other male holdouts...

But mostly we're inundated with the lovely likes of Morena Baccarin of Firefly and V, BSG's Tricia Helfer and Katee Sackhoff, Stargate Universe's Alaina Huffman, and more!   Looking forward to the wall-to-wall coverage from Chris and Charity at Subspace Communiques, as well.

I really hope all of you who gave us such a great response in October are up to it again—this time WITH my "Between the Cracks" show in store!