Show #218: SVCC Report - Part 1

Episode 218 on MP3

Special Silicon Valley Comic Con Report!

Part 1: On our first day at the con, we report on Bill's appearance. Short version: it was good!

Parts 2 and 3 to follow!

 
 

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Show #217 - March 4

Episode 217 on MP3

Silicon Valley Comic Con! Coming up soon!

Nicholas Meyer and Rod Roddenberry join the new Trek series!
We discuss a wish list for the new series
Literary Festival 2016: To Boldly Go: What Star Trek tells us about the world
Bill kills it on Meredith Viera
Trek/Hamilton crossover!
Trek Talks

Listeners: When have you seen Shatner-influenced acting? Especially women who might be Shacting!



This is the image they chose for the "Guests" section of the SVCC website. Because of course.

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Show #216 - Feb. 14

Episode 216 on MP3

We are going to Silicon Valley Comic Con!
Reviews of Bill's book about Leonard here and here
And a good 2-part interview: Part 1 and Part 2
Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage - film clips and live music!
A long but fun audio interview with Bill at the Hollywood Reporter
Bryan Fuller is the show runner for new Trek
Galaxy Quest fan theory - Did it become a reality show?
Lots and lots and lots of SF/Fantasy in TV and movie development
But what about the Magicians? What do you think?
Competence Porn and why Kirk is actually very competent
Amazing Romance novels, and more about Chuck Tingle

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Show #215 - Jan 23

Episode 215 on MP3

Presents!

JK got a blessed Kirk candle and the Star Trek: Costumes book
Lene got a Star Trek puzzle!

Lene met Marc Okrand! He's gonna be on the show!
And he's producing a movie about Constructed Languages - Conlanging the film
A bit more about Axanar - you'll have to look at the cached version of the post
Bill's book about Leonard
Bill on My Little Pony?
Lene reviews Star Trek: New Visions, "Cry Vengeance", in which Spock says BRUSK
10 Things That Star Trek Got Right

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Show #214 - January 5

Episode 214 on MP3

Happy New Year!

CBS sues the makers of Star Trek Axanar
And here's what David Gerrold has to say about it
Amazing interview with Bill at The Vulture
What it's like to work with Bill (from a director)
Trek t-shirt contest at Threadless
The Roddenberry Vault! (on Facebook)
Ranking Trek series that never were



I'd vote for this! 

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Show #213 - December 2

Episode 213 on MP3

Kitty opens her present!
Rare Trek collectibles! And we have some of them!
Star Trek: Costumes - the book!
Trek holiday stuff at CafePress
And also at StarTrek.com
Bill Says Yes! to a Hallmark Christmas movie
Vic Mignogna is less than ideal
The Star Trek Scholarship!

 
This is a phone. Really.

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Show #212 - October 26

Episode 212 on MP3

Lots of reviews!

We're going to Silicon Valley Comic Con - with Bill! (March 18-20, 2016)
We review Murdoch Mysteries, with Bill as Mark Twain ("Marked Twain" oh ha ha)
Bill flirts like mad in a YahooTV in Australia interview, Sunrise
Bill gets a Voice Icon Award
JK reviews A Christmas Horror Story, in which Bill has a part as a DJ
A nice article in the New York Times about Star Trek: New Voyages
Bruce Hyde passed away :-(
Lene reviews Mudd's Women in San Francisco, with Leigh Crowe
We discuss The Martian, the book and movie
And we talk about The Autobiography of James T. Kirk


 
Bill looks adorable with glasses
 

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Show #211 - September 24

Episode 211 on MP3

Media and Etsy!

Trek cremation urn (ew)
Portraits by Frank Kelley Freas
Kirk drawing primer
Kirk - still the best captain
5 Things We Want To See in Star Trek Beyond
Star Trek Gummies!
Discussion about the Kobayashi Maru in Forbes!
And here's a link to JK's Kobayashi Maru story, "What Lies Within"
Etsy!

• This doesn't really look like him (Kirk in snail form)
  
• Saint Shatner candle
  
• K/S Glow Hearts - but why are they so ANGRY??
  
• I've never seen this book before! (and here's more info about it) 
• Check out the upper right corner of the painting 
• And by the same artist
• An "inspirational" wall hanging
• Trek Tea Bags!
• WHY? (Read the little story with it)

Kirk-not-Kirk by Freas

 
Captain Pankirk 

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Show #210 - Sept 1

Episode 210 on MP3

So much exciting stuff!

Galaxy Quest could be coming back to TV!
Kitty reviews Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Ladies of Kirk made the Kickstarter goal!
Bill's first internet chat in 1995!
Star Trek Memories based on Bill's book
New Trek game - Star Trek Timelines! This one sounds good!
Bill and Leonard wreck a CNN interview!
Lene reviews Star Trek: Renegades


Who would you cast in a new Galaxy Quest?

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Show #209 - August 16

Episode 209 on MP3

Cruises, newses, and more!

Star Trek: The Cruise! We might go (or not)
We answer listener question! What performance would you choose to prove that Bill isn't a ham?
(And here's Sunbeam's TNG story, Anybody Night at Oscar's Egyptian Cabaret)
Fan-made video for Common People!
Sarai reviews Wrath of Khan!
Redshirts in The Apple
Star Trek Philosophers
A great look at AI and Star Trek too
Ladies of Kirk Kickstarter!
And here's a link to Kissing Captain Kirk stories by Lyra
Susan Sackett's Inside Trek
Lene is doing the Star Trek class! Sign up!

Nona! 
 
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Show #208 - July 21

Episode 208 on MP3

News of Bill and Comic-Con!

We review Chaos on the Bridge
Bill's "cinematic comic book", Man O War
Bill does an hour of QnA at Comic-Con
Bill reads The Autobiography of James T. Kirk, featuring rock climbing and horseback riding
Bill and I: Building William Shatner's Belle Reve Ranch by Dalan Smith
Win a walk on role in the Star Trek Beyond movie
See the TOS crew in DS9 uniforms


What do we think? Yea? Nay? Holy Cats?

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Show #207 - June 25

Episode 207 on MP3

We're back!

Bill's on a new reality show! Better Late Than Never on NBC
A fan pitches his series, Star Trek Uncharted, to Paramount!
Brown Bag Wine Tasting with Wil Wheaton!
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk
Star Trek garden gnomes!
Trek laptop bag and fanny pack!
Lene reviews Star Trek: 25th Anniversary game
Adam Savage builds Kirk's chair from the Enterprise bridge!
One of the bottom-feeder books on Amazon: William Shatner: Unauthorized and Uncensored 
Peter Shatner makes his local paper - and gets his Twitter account suspended!
Bill thought the IRS Trek video was a waste of taxpayer dollars (and so did we)

 
 

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Show #206 - May 19

Episode 206 on MP3

Review of Doctor for the Enterprise
Ex Machina the movie is a lot like Requiem for Methuselah
Sarai reviews Journey to Babel
Bill's custom motorcycle
Pub quizzes with Geeks Who Drink!
2016 Chicago Creation Con with Bill - we're going!
25th Anniversary Star Trek Game!
JK reviews Badfic Love, the play
And here's a link to My Immortal
Lene reviews the comic book Star Trek New Visions: Time's Echo

 
 

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Show #205 - April 30

Episode 205 on MP3

Lene's prezzie: Amazing Stories comic book! The Doctor and the Enterprise
Router in the shape of the Enterprise
Unbelievable!!!! the movie
Bill's writing a book about Leonard
A sideways elevator, at last
George Takei's web show
The Etsy Segment!

• This is amusing
• Who is this? Not Jim!
• Who is THIS? Still not Jim!
• Dot-Matrix Kirk
• Do Not Want
• A film bookmark!
• Kirk model!
• A tenuous Shatner association, but kinda cool
• A sharp-dressed Kirk
• Hooker's a GOOD COP!

And a discussion about tropes in fanfic - K/S first time scenarios
JK's Big List of K/S Cliches!


DO NOT WANT

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Show #204 - March 24

Episode 204 on MP3

Happy Shatmoy!
It's also Talk Like William Shatner Day! (Kevin Pollak celebrated the second year)
Sarai reviews "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
Trek Crap! Precious Moments in Trek form
Trek Non-Crap! Enterprise Sushi Set! And The Enterprise Flying Disc!
Make a Spock Quilt
Bill and Barbara Wodehouse - Bill says "STAY"
Star Trek OPERA!
Bill on Circus of the Stars setting himself on FIRE
Star Trek Theme Park! In Jordan! Why is there a Stargate?
And a Paramount Park in Spain!
George Takei has an IndieGoGo project
Harve Bennett passed away



WHY


STAY

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Show #203 - March 1

Episode 203 on MP3

We remember Leonard Nimoy

Bill and Leonard interview each other on Access Hollywood
A great New Yorker piece on Leonard
NPR piece remembering Leonard
Leonard in the Bruno Mars video for the Lazy Song
Star Trek Communicator Dog Bag Dispenser
A Star Trek cuckoo clock
Retro Mego toys - Mirror, Mirror style!
How the 3rd season of Trek went wrong
Sarai does more movie reviews! Amok Time and Trouble with Tribbles
A short radio play of OKCupid messages

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Show #202 - February 2

Episode 202 on MP3

Happy New Year!

Presents! Astronauts, holiday lights, books, dragon socks!
Trek beer koozies - another media conquered
Lene's book review - Galaxy Quest (the "juvenile" edition)
20 things you might not know about Galaxy Quest (Mental Floss)
New Trek bobbleheads! And they're not terrible!
Trek gingerbread! And another media conquered!
Bill doing narration for The Clangers
Andrew Troy Keller rides again - and a fan site
How Star Wars Ruined Star Trek
Why the next Star Trek should be a TV series
The worst of fandom?

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Show 201 - December 23

Episode 201 on MP3

Happy Shatmas!

We review the last episode of The Shatner Project
Lene went to Creation Con in SF!
Spock Vegas! pic with Bill
Bill will appear in Haven
Bill's Kickstarter for his book "Catch Me Up"
Captain Kirk goes to space on the Orion!
Will Chaos on the Bridge be on BBC America?
eBay Trek crap!

• a working tricorder
• Spock socks
• a statue of Bill's horse
• press photo of Bill at the haunted playground
• crazy Impulse poster
• a photo of Bill pontificating
• a Galaxy Quest ornament
• a Thermian movie costume
• a Galaxy Quest painting by Jack Davis
• a Galaxy Quest paperback

Jerome Bixby's Mirror Mirror ebook
These Are The Voyages Season 3

Have you guys found any new Trek Xmas crap?

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Show #200 - November 9

Episode 200 on MP3

OUR 200th SHOW!!

A blast from the past! We revisit our very first episode!
Thoughts on types of fandoms
The Shatner Project on the DIY network
A greeting from Maynard!
Star Trek in Cinerama 
Marjorie visits us!
The Truth About Kirk and Spock by LT
Dear Miss Lovelorn by JK
Buy the Chicks Dig Gaming book! Lene is in it!

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Show #199 - October 16

Episode 199 on MP3

With great hotness comes great responsibility!

Presents! A book and a cube!

Spock helmet!
New Trek crap - another Kirk bank
Bill on CNBC - Why?
Brown Bag Wine Tasting: Misha Collins, LeVar Burton, Tom Foran
Sex Toys For Men
VW commercial with Bill and Leonard
A lovely photo of Bill and Liz
NASA will send your name to Mars!
The Shatner Project! Oct 23rd!
Jan Hooks in the Sweeney Sisters (featuring Bill)

 
Robert Culp? Ty Burrell? Michael Shannon?

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The Spock Helmet

From my post on Tumblr.

 

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Show #198 - October 8

Episode 198 on MP3

A Very Long List!

Show 200 coming up soon! SEND US IDEAS
Rumors about Trek 3, the POS
Bill photobombs TNG reunion selfie -and here's video of some of the panel
Memories of early Trek conventions at Fan Lore: "Reminisce with me"
Star Trek oven mitt
Sarai recaps Star Trek Continues Ep 3
IDW will print Trek comics in chronological order
Would Kirk have been a good lover?
Vintage Nimoy interview (from Maynard)
"Why Atheists need Captain Kirk" nonsense from NPR
The most feminist moments in sci-fi history



Unhappy Bill is unhappy

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Show #197 - September 15

Episode 197 on MP3

So much to talk about!

Comments from listeners!
Vintage "Victorian"  portraits of Kirk and Spock on Etsy
Bill's documentary Chaos on the Bridge is on Canadian HBO
Bill's ice bucket challenge (and Patrick Stewart's)
New Trek bobbleheads - Mike Ditka and Mr. Burns
Arlene Martel passed away
GISHWHES report - here's the Team Shatner Tumblr, and Bill's blog about it
Our review of Bill's appearance in Rookie Blue (Season 3, Episode 1)

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Show #196 - September 1

Episode 196 on MP3

Galaxy Quest - the Oral History
At Home in the Universe - 1999 documentary about Bill
Bill/Kirk as a father figure
Kirk et al having a slapfight
TJ Hooker is one of the op 5 police procedural police dramas
City on the Edge of Forever is a comic
JK reviews Lev Grossman's The Magician's Land
Chris Pratt as Kirk?


Wow, you ARE pretty!

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