{"id":4926,"date":"2011-04-13T06:45:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T10:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=4926"},"modified":"2011-04-12T22:45:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T02:45:33","slug":"star-trek-first-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/13\/star-trek-first-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Up: Star Trek First Contact Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I consider myself a pretty big <em>Star Trek<\/em> fan.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen most of the TV episodes, all the movies, and read quite a few of the novels and comics.\u00a0 However, I don&#8217;t hold a candle to the guys over at <a title=\"Two True Freaks\" href=\"http:\/\/twotruefreaks.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Two True Freaks<\/a>!\u00a0 These fellas really know their <em>Star Trek!<\/em> This month they were kind enough to invite me on their show to discuss my favorite Next Generation film, <em>Star Trek: First Contact<\/em>.\u00a0 Chris and I had a great time bantering back and forth on the merits and challenges with this film.\u00a0 Download the episode and give it a listen!\u00a0 Be sure to hang around to the end to hear my true feelings about Chris.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twotruefreaks.libsyn.com\/episode-184-star-trek-monthly-monday-29\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Two True Freaks Star Trek Monthly Monday - First Contact\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/STMM29pic.jpg\" alt=\"Two True Freaks Star Trek Monthly Monday - First Contact\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is the description of the episode from <a title=\"Two True Freaks: Star Trek Monthly Monday\" href=\"http:\/\/twotruefreaks.libsyn.com\/episode-184-star-trek-monthly-monday-29\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">their website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scott was busy becoming an official MONORAIL PILOT so Chris invited The Irredeemable Shag to sit in on this special episode focusing on Star Trek: First Contact, the first full Next Generation movie! This is Shag&#8217;s first Star Trek episode on Two True Freaks and his enthusiasm shows! Stick around to the end to see exactly how enthusiastic he can get! Continuity issues are hashed out, Oobie Doobie gets played, a Borg Gorn is proposed and so much more!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My thanks to Chris (and Scott) for letting me appear on their show!\u00a0 I love me some Star Trek and this was a blast to record!\u00a0  Be sure to check out <a title=\"Two True Freaks\" href=\"http:\/\/twotruefreaks.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Two True Freaks<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-4926\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/13\/star-trek-first-contact\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on 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Yes I do!\u00a0 In fact, I was fortunate enough to guest-star on two fantastic podcasts discussing Doctor Who recently!\u00a0 Two True Freaks and Better in the Dark both invited me to discuss my favorite show recently and coincidentally both podcasts were released this week!\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Doctor Who&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Two True Freaks Doctor Who Podcast!","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/twotruefreaks_drwho.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3252,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/23\/empire-strikes-back-by-miller-simonson-byrne-and-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":4926,"position":1},"title":"Empire Strikes Back by Miller, Simonson, Byrne, and more","date":"April 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by Frank Miller, John Byrne, Terry Austin, Walt Simonson, Michael Golden, Fred Hembeck, Marie Severin, Marshall Rogers, Joe Jusko, and Bob Layton.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 How cool is that?!?!?\u00a0 Check it out below. I've wrapped up my Star Wars Resume coverage for now, but I just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by Frank Miller","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/starwars_frankmiller.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":179,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/20\/star-trek-new-movie-lots-of-pics\/","url_meta":{"origin":4926,"position":2},"title":"Star Trek New Movie &#8211; Lots of Pics","date":"October 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The new Star Trek movie is coming, whether you like it or not! And this time they are aiming to make Star Trek cool.\u00a0 Hard to believe, I know.\u00a0 Directing and producing this new Star Trek film is J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias, Fringe, Cloverfield), so there is a good chance\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Entertainment Weekly Cover","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.firstshowing.net\/img2\/startrek-EWcover-FL-Oct-01-HQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":82,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/05\/star-trek-comic-book-better-than-i-expected\/","url_meta":{"origin":4926,"position":3},"title":"John Byrne Star Trek comic &#8230; better than I expected","date":"June 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Surprisingly, John Byrne's recent comic book, \"Star Trek:\u00a0 Assignment Earth\" #1 was actually enjoyable.\u00a0 While I'm not a huge devotee of Star Trek TOS (\"The Original Series\" for those of you not in the know... geez), I do remember the episode \"Assignment: Earth\" with Gary Seven (Robert Lansing), Isis the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4338,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/07\/listen-up-star-wars-marvel-comics-plif\/","url_meta":{"origin":4926,"position":4},"title":"Listen Up: Star Wars Marvel Comics&#8230; Plif!","date":"October 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Do you love the old Star Wars comics from Marvel?\u00a0 Then you need to check out Two True Freaks Star Wars Monthly Mondays! Hosts Scott Gardner and Chris Honeywell were kind enough to invite me to join them for Star Wars Monthly Monday #24 (Two True Freaks episode #144). In\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Star Wars Monthly Monday #24 - Plif","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/swmm24.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2007,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/30\/star-trek-enterprise-wallpapers\/","url_meta":{"origin":4926,"position":5},"title":"Star Trek Enterprise Wallpapers","date":"September 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm in a Star Trek mood.\u00a0 Here are some cool wallpapers featuring our favorite Starfleet ships.\u00a0 I don't claim ownership of any of these images, they were simply found while surfing.\u00a0 Click on the images to enlarge. The original Enterprise, circa TOS.\u00a0 NCC-1701 The replacement Enterprise, circa Star Trek V.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;movies&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/enterprise-tos_s.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4926"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4932,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions\/4932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}