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This week we share our memories of actor and writer Walter Koenig. We’ll be taking a look back at his whole career as a writer for shows like Star Trek: The Animated Series and Land of the Lost, to his iconic roles as Pavel Chekov on Star Trek: The Original Series and Alfred Bester on […]The post Remembering Walter Koenig – Earth Station Trek – Episode 288 appeared first on The ESO Network.

This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 12 “Chosen Realm,” now that Bill and Maria have watched this episode which is actually a thinly veiled metaphor about fundamentalist Islamic terrorism which irresponsibly promotes myths about Islam at a time when islamaphobia in the US was at its […]The post Second Contact: Goodness Gracious Great...

This week we’re MONKEEING AROUND with the episode “Find the Monkees” (aka “The Audition”)! Our ‘You May Also Like’ recommendation this week is The Hubbell Benson All-Stars! by Michael Lynch! Check it out on Bandcamp! Monkeeing Around is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber. #monkees #findthemonkees #HubbellBensonAllStars #michaellynchThe post Find The Monkees (aka The...

Cigar Nerds Podcast: True Believer. This week we’re heading to Africa with James Reece, talking about season 2 of The Terminal List. Its been a long wait but man it was worth it. In science we talking about flying cop cars, nuclear spaceships, and rule breaking is contagious. In Nerd News we talk about Lords […]The post Cigar Nerds Podcast: True Believer appeared first on The ESO Network.

Author Todd Berliner joins The Tales From Hollywoodland Podcast to discuss his book, Hollywood Renegade: Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, and the Making of a Masterpiece. Discover the story behind Elaine May’s unconventional filmmaking and the enduring appeal of Mikey and Nicky, starring Peter Falk and John Cassavetes. Berliner’s book examines the film’s troubled production […]The post Todd Berliner...

Flopcast episode 757! While poking around a comic book shop a few months ago, we found an odd 1986 schoolbook called Superstars of Country. The idea was to teach reading skills to the children using profiles of country music artists. Did it work? Probably not, but in ’86 we were all too busy with Hands […]The post Flopcast 757: Coward of the Country Superstars appeared first on The ESO Network.

Jim looks at a classic cult film from 1986 – “Critters,” written and directed by Stephen Herek and starring Dee Wallace, M Emmett Walsh, Billy Bush, Scott Grimes, Nadie van der Velde, Don Keith Opper, Lin Shaye, Billy Zane, Ethan Phillips, and Terrence Mann. Alien prisoners that resemble Tribbles with teeth escape incarceration on an […]The post Critters | Episode 541 appeared first on The ESO...

What if you took H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror mythology and gave it to the people his racism would have excluded from his stories? That is Lovecraft Country – Misha Green’s extraordinary 2020 HBO series that follows Atticus Freeman and his family across 1950s Jim Crow America where the sundown towns and white supremacist secret societies […]The post You just try to cherish them, overlook their...

The Star Trek franchise was graced by one of the greatest actors in modern times — Sir Patrick Stewart, who passed away on October 28. We will be remembering him in this week’s EST: his enormous impact on Star Trek, his other film and television roles, his stage work, his humanitarianism, and more. Have a […]The post Remembering Patrick Stewart – Earth Station Trek – Episode 287 appeared first on...

The Cosmic Pizza Podcast brings you Episode 113: Walter Koenig & Sir Patrick Stewart. With the recent news of the deaths of Walter Koenig and Sir Patrick Stewart the Cosmic Pizza Podcast pays tribute to these two amazing people and the memories we have of them. What are your thoughts on this episode? Let us […]The post Cosmic Pizza Podcast Ep113 – Walter Koenig & Sir Patrick Stewart...