Originally Broadcast 2025/02/03: Sean and friend of the show Celeste join Casual Trek to recap a quarter each of this "film", and give their own pitches for a Section 31 film. To celebrate, Charlie and Miles have formed a ragtag band of bantering ne’er do wells including Cele from Celeste is Best and Sean from Famicom Dojo. They carry out a four-person relay recap, pitch their own versions of a Section 31 movie and try to say something good about it! 00:03:19 What Non-Star Trek Thing We’ve Been Enjoying: 00:09:18 Introduction to Section 31 00:18:51 Section 31 Recap 00:33:30 Section 31 Review 01:16:22 Saying something nice about Section 31 01:21:24 Miles’ Pitch 01:29:08 Cele’s Pitch 01:36:52 Sean’s Pitch 01:43:41 Charlie’s Pitch 01:57:52 Cele’s Wife’s Pitch Talking points include: Borderlands (video game), Guardians of the Galaxy, Creature Commandos, a nice Americano, scone and a book, Macross, Silo (film & books), Midnight Suns, The original Section 31 predicted how the Patriot Act would go down, SHIELD in the War on Terror Era, Babylon 5, Mass Effect 2, Battlestar Galactica, The Culture, X-Force (Cyclops’ and Wolverine’s), Hunger Games, 90’s Animated Cyclops, ‘meh’ should never be said in a Star Trek, “We have Tendi at home”, everyone looks like budget ‘someone else’, if this was on HBO Max then Zaslav would have killed it, The Drazi’s religious war, The Big Outdoor Fight, Rebel Moon, British versions of successful American sci-fi, is there anything original? Starbucks supervisor energy, an Oirish accent, a Pacey from Dawson’s Creek haircut, Agent for Harm, MST3K, Rogue One, Making Georgiou into Spike, referencing Lorca’s most unfortunate line in Discovery, Fifth Element, the sins of Joss Whedon’s writing, Dr Who, Suicide Squad, Torchwood, Celeste’s Harsh Truths™, The Franchise, Jessie Gender, this is a Roger Corman movie if he was an idiot as well as a thief, choking on a Manta Force, Garth of Izar, Gundam references, . Oh, and occasionally Star Trek. Pedant’s Corner: Silo came out in 2011, Fallout came out in 1997, A Boy and His Dog first appeared in 1969 Marvel’s Midnight Sons actually consisted of: Danny Ketch, Johnny Blaze, Blade, Frank Drake, Hannibal King, Morbius, Vengeance, Sam Buchanan, Victoria Montessi, Louise Hastings, Modred the Mystic and Jinx. In retrospect I can see why they went more mainstream. Amarie in Unification had four arms William Sadler is alive at time of editing Casual Trek is by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn and Miles Reid-Lobatto. Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. https://ko-fi.com/casualtrek Casual Trek is a part of the Nerd & Tie Network
