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.

Little Rascals and Trek? Well, it IS us—and Subspace Comms

I have been slow to share!

Our good friends Charity and Chris—now they of the Bye Bye Robot licensed fine art Star Trek  prints—just had me on with Teras of GeekNationTours to talk up our Hollywood2Vegas Trek film site tour in August at Subspace Communique .. and as usual, our convo wandered all over Trekland.... in a good way.

But Spanky McFarland?

Yep, and much more... take a listen/download here. It's been up a couple days.

Chris did his usual interview-driving best, and the topics came thick and fast. I even found out Teras really WASN'T a poser!  I hope you take a listen to our Austin friends, and check out their many other great sessions with Trekland notables of all stripes at their site archive.

'Bye Bye Robot': CBS turned my buds loose with a Trek art license!

It's not often that I get to watch the genesis of a Star Trek licensee from close up—but this week I'm feeling a little like a god-parent.

You know: having had nothing to to do with the conception or carriage, but honored to know the parents, be hit up for a little advice (very little) and be around at the delivery ... winding up with a title that's all glory and no responsibility!

So it is I'm thrilled to see the birth this week of a whole raft of LICENSED Star Trek limited-edition fine art prints as the debut offerings from Bye Bye Robot—otherwise known as Charity Wood, who with husband Chris is already well known as the Trek news blog and podcast Subspace Communiques. We've met and hung out several times on the con circuit the past couple years, and I'm really stoked for them as they launch this new endeavor. As Chris tells me: "We're devoted Trek fans and we're excited to be bringing an original take on iconic imagery." And with a license, they are fans actually empowered to do cool yet professional fine art by CBS/Paramount.

Charity also has some non-Trek, non-franchise original pieces as well in a series she calls AquaMARINE, with more variety on the way—but all her work is done in a technique she calls Pas de Lignes, which literally translated from French means “No Lines”; in effect, built up from a black rather than white foundation.

"It’s a modern style I’ve been working in for many years," she says on the site. "You can think of it as painting in reverse. I begin on a black canvas so the black “lines” you see are actually unpainted areas…not 'outlines.' Another way of thinking of it is that I paint everywhere except the 'lines'.” And they are available in a variety of sizes and options befitting fine art pieces designed to last, in Giclee, or museum-quality archival inks and acid-free cotton.

Charity just told me another news flash that's not up yet: "Along with bringing additional artists' work to the site, we're in the process of offering a line of original stickers."

I hope you have seen the launch news all over, like trekmovie.com and startrek.com, but here's my take from a front-row seat with both Charity and Chris. The first Trek topics are great choices to harness Charity's textured, color-splashed process to the max—but it is a business, and she artfully scores there as well.

Thinking for as broad a market audience as possible, the 1960s Enterprise is iconic and cool, of course—a familiar form to all, no matter what token Planet Hell cave set you may have been hiding away in. In a different way, I think the Gorn offers a surprise, even for those whose world orbits in a universe of mundanes; the reptiloid guy is eye-catching even if you've never even heard of Cestus III  or Bobby Clark. These are both on canvas, including the two views of the Big E.


But the unusual vertical "triptych" format for the tribbles panel on paper, is, I think, doubly perfect for the legit fan with an professional day-job office full of walls or halls to brighten up—and wants to do it both subtly and playfully. I can so see those furrballs in a Treklander engineer's office or doctor's waiting room. Who can argue with the perky hues? it will be fun to watch which visitors and patrons catch on to not only the tribbles joke, but the main Starfleet tri-palette behind them—and how long it takes...

So, good luck, Charity, Chris and Bye Bye Robot (no relation to that other Star Trek robot guy, as she shares the story behind the name on their site.) Everybody go take a look! Aside from online sales, they intend to be at a number of conventions this year, including Vegas Khhaaann in August, of course—as well as Comipalooza in Houston May 25-27, and Austin Wizardworld Comic-Con Oct. 26-28... and more to come.

Meanwhile, I'll be waiting patiently on my Tellarite Gav (or Grolst?) print in the next batch!

Catch us on these new podcasts—and LIVE on Trekradio tomorrow!

Remember this? We had a heckuva time geekin' out on all things Trekland with author Dayton Ward, Jarred "Hey Star Trek" Formby and Damon "Geek Fights" Shaw—all thanks to Chris and Charity Wood hosting us in a wackydoodle wide-raning trek geeksters' roundtable in the "Life After Trek" podcast series over at their Subspace Communiques news site.

Well, now the concluding Part 2 marathon is now up, in which we cover JJTrek '09 and Enterprise and look to the future ... " The FUUUU-ture!" (Hope the false, forced vibrato came out.)

You should also take a listen to Slice of Sci-Fi when Michael Mennenga & crew had my (ahem) extended soapbox of a visit to talk about The Con of Wrath and what's up with what this sci-fi summer. (If time is short, we start at @ 9:20).  If you must demand your geek insight be of the sighted variety, they now offer the shows on YouTube—though I am but an enigmatic cypher and a logo, of course.

And coming up—an HOUR tomorrow, Sat. July 2, on live Internet global radio at noon Pacific/ 3 p.m. Eastern  at trekradio.net!

Whew.