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.

I really am alive! Give the podcast thing a try, and see

(UPDATE: An erroneous link to The Lou Trek Show episode at first posting has now been corrected.)

While we scramble to get Trekland HQ back up in ship-shape, er, shape... and I once again say "Next year!" to a DragonCon visit ... I wanted to let you know I've not toally been off the radar—and perhaps introduce you to to the fun world of podcasts, if you're a newbie to all that.

Yes, three different Trek podcast series have had me on just since the Vegas Khhaaaan koncluded.

Once again, by show of hands with our Vegas audience, I got it that a lot of them in the smaller theater were not big podcast fans—which is exactly why so many of the friendly rival series were on hand at the Khhaaann, to convert new listener-downloaders. They did a hella job both covering the con's events, planned and unplanned, and also sponsoring the appearance of Huston's New Starship non-profit bridge museum project.

So, take a taste here—each of these three had me in various capacities: some about my projects, some to help them out, and some just to shoot the interstellar breeze regarding Trek:

Just up Friday, Lou Costanzo and Brian Baker had me on for the 201st edition (wow) of the Lou Trek Show, and we talked about all things Trekland—INCLUDING a sneak peek at some news of a new project I haven't formally announced yet! You can see Lou Trek Show's Ep. 201 with me here, complete with all the reference sidebar links... or grab it off iTunes or RSS. LouTrek is in the Trek Mate Network of podcasts and posts a new show most every Friday.

In a different style, host Jon Park and a bevy of panelists pummelled me on live radio with questions from all over Trek via their fans and each other for Keep On Trekkin's Episode 10, "An Evening With Larry Nemecek." My apologies to them as a family change in plans took me away after only 40 minutes, but I promise to make it up to all of them, including Bishop, FullBack and the lovely Kestra, among many more. Keep On Trekkin' is a member show of True Podcast Media where it airs live every Friday at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT over Black Star Radio, then is remastered and ready for download the next Tuesday at the show site, iTunes, and Stitcher.

Finally, it was an honor for Roddenberry's celebrated Mission Log Podcast to have me on as moderator for the Vegas panel/Q&A about the series, which followed on (no break!) in the small theater right after my own Trekland fan forum on "the State of the Trek." That Aug. 9 session was recorded and posted as a Supplemental, Episode 55A: "John and Ken Play the Rio" (look for the fifth show icon-link at far right). It was an honor and a privilege to help John Champion and Ken Ray with their rare annual face-to-face meeting, and to highlight this acclaimed in-depth series and its plans. For our Vegas special, listen and/or download here—and just look for # 055A. Mission Log is part of the Nerdist Network, with regular episode centric shows, in aired order, up each Thursday; they just hit Season 3 and posted "Spock's Brain." (No, seriously.).

Don't forget you can also grab all of these great podcast series and keep up via their Twitter feeds and/or Facebook pages, natch. I mean, it IS 2013.

And that ain't all for me. Be listening for a couple more coming up soon: I'll be a guest of the always-raucous Terry and NIck of the Sunday G&T Show, plus a "Desert Island Trek" segment of TrekMate's 10Forward podcast —more great series you should give a try.