Finally! A genuinely funny commercial! Johnson Rods! Haha! (I guess we’ve thrown the aforementioned “family friendly” format into the solar converters! Yeah baby yeah!) But … then you follow it up with a political skit lacking any humor whatsoever? There’s a clear desire to go into more formatted scriptwork, so why not do one show monthly directly to podcast that could be entirely an audio presentation? I think it’d be pretty damn cool!

Hey, hey, hey! LUV the debate format! Why not have a once-monthly ‘Council of Great Relevance’ debate? There’s SO MUCH in fandom that could work in this format, but I think you’d have to open it up to greater participants who actually might have greater expertise or understanding in other areas. Batman vs Superman … Marvel vs DC … Sci Fi Original Programming vs any other station’s original science fiction programming … Trek vs Star Wars … ET vs Species … Robocop vs WallE … Firefly vs anything vastly superior anyway … So much opportunity, and a great format worth listening to! The SFS League Smackdown … ha! This debate could’ve had some much better questions, though … why not ‘forum’ this kind of an idea in advance to get some input via groupthink? If we’re really plotting out these show themes in advance, wouldn’t it make sense to draw from a greater collective? Just a suggestion there …

Great debate guys! Good format, master debaters;-), and good arguments. Too bad political debates don’t go this well. Going along with Edward Lee maybe there needs to be a forum of some sort. Perhaps a Galactic Hall style debate in which Casey can solicit questions from listeners then pick the ones he likes best and present these to the panel.

What no one ever mentions about Trek is that even though it’s all one “Trek” branded franchise, Star Trek died with Kirk in 1994. I read around that time in TV guide that Rick Berman had a bust of Roddenberry on his desk and he kept the eyes covered. Berman wanted to make Trek more “realistic” (a modern SCIFI term for darker and more violent) and we wanted to step away from the formula. What did that get us? DS9, Voyager, Enterprise some of the worst TV SciFi around. Oh yeah and that movie with F. Murray Abraham where Riker flew the Enterprise with a 70’s era Atari joystick.
It’s like when Coke became new coke. It sucked so bad coke had to go back to it’s original “classic” formula. Unfortunately, the half-wits at Paramount threw the classic Trek recipe away… and have no illusions JJ Abrams version is going to be that soft drink that has a container similar to Coke but just says “Cola”.

All that said, until Edward James Olmos or Nathan Fillion rocks it out with a Masterpiece as great as Common People they shall all be swept aside by the awesomeness that is the Shat!

K-X lubricant…seriously? Dick jokes? What are you guys, 12 years old? What’s next, gas giant fart jokes? Have to say I am disappointed. Scifi has enough trouble being taken seriously as a genre. Using sophomoric humor doesn’t help.

Beware the Zookeeper.

Hey guys,
Just got around to listening to this Great Trek Debate. I did like the format as the conversation moved quickly and it really spoke to my inner geek..okay, not so much with the inner part, but it did give a somewhat legitimate feeling to a topic that has been ridiculed in the past.
I do think that even with the occasional bad actor and a few less than stellar episodes, the trek universe has stood the test of time. Randy calls it a gateway drug but without that gateway, how would all those kids get their geek started.

If you watch “How Star Trek Changed The World”, as many of you probably have, you can really get an idea of how influencial the show has been on the real world but I think that the real value lies in how influencial it has been on sci-fi fans who have watched with awe at the future human race which could be capable of doing so much.

The skits are (mostly) painful, but I agree that the dork humor (penis envy) worked just fine.