37 episodes
Ship Full of Jerks Ryan Thomas Riddle and Mark Farinas
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5.0 • 8 Ratings
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A podcast exploring the farthest reaches of science fiction and pop culture in a casual conversation between old friends.
Writer/Artist Mark Farinas is the creator of the STAR TREK WEBCOMIC, a fan comic based on Roddenberry's space odyssey. Ryan Thomas Riddle is an award-winning journalist and Trekkie who works with FACT TREK to bust the myths surrounding the making of the original STAR TREK.
Each week, we discuss what genres are streaming to our TVs, look back with retro reviews, and let you know what we are fanning over.
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Legend of The Whistlespeak
This week, the Jerks learn how to whistle in the latest episode of STAR TREK DISCOVERY. The Jerks then get an emergency call from Starfleet Command about a massive cloud approaching Earth, and they're the only ones in range. Yep, we're going after V'Ger in our new series of retrospectives on the original STAR TREK films. And we wrap it all up with a discussion on series finales.
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Of Teledildonics and Space Butt Plugs...
This week, it's a STAR TREK DISCOVERY threesome as we catch up on the recent episodes. It's a week of thrills and Trills... but there be no Tribble in sight. A'right, strap in, Black Alert and let's fly!
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Dr. Ben Song Found Home
This week, the Jerks are back after an extended shore leave! Don't worry. We've sobered up from our trip to Argelius, and now we're looking at the first two episodes of STAR TREK DISCOVERY's fifth and final season. And we take one final leap with Dr. Ben Song... but will he find home?
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The One With The Goblin Song
This week, the Jerks debate whether singing goblins are cringe in Ncuti Gatwa's first full adventure as The Doctor. Then, we discuss whether Scavengers Reign sticks the landing. Finally, we introduce a new segment called "Bad Take of the Week."
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The Meep Vs. The Moopsy... FIGHT!
The Jerks return for their third season with a journey in the TARDIS once again as we breakdown the first three new Russell T. Davies DOCTOR WHO specials. Finally, what we're fanning over in the New Year.
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Dick Laurent is Dead
This week, the Jerks time slips with Loki to find his real glorious purpose. Then, we discuss how the original STAR TREK bungles its race relations metaphor episode. Finally, we get freaky dicky with some David Lynch's phantasmic of neo-noir terror in LOST HIGHWAY.
Customer Reviews
This show is the goods.
Catching up with this series is too much fun; I’m hearing commentary about issues that barely registered with me after watching an episode of, say, Picard.
I was already a fan of other work by these two gentlemen, and now I have the pleasure of hearing genuinely high-level criticism of current shows that mean a lot to me. Even the few things I’ve disagreed with them about thus far make me wish I was up to the challenge of palavering with the likes of them.
So good.
Great discussion!
Love hearing you guys discuss this stuff. It’s always compelling to hear critical views of things we love so dearly!
One thing I’ll add to the discussion, specifically in response to the trepidation over the Borg as the villain yet again. I think the idea that the Borg’s only defeat has ever really come from the Federation makes it perfectly reasonable that they would adapt their assimilations to biology vs. just technology. In the era of CRISPR, I love that they’re blurring the lines of what is a “technological” assimilation by altering DNA. I just wish we’d had more than 1/2 of an episode to explore that.
Why Geordi is at the fleet museum
So far I’ve enjoyed the few episodes I’ve listened to and unfortunately not smart enough to make this comment directly related to the episode but my thought is Geordi requested the Fleet Museum. After all his adventures I believe he was ready to throttle down for his family plus he’s in charge of getting all of the classic antique ships up to snuff for display…I could see an engineer of his quality being content working on and refurbishing historical ships…also I think Star Fleet wanted him in charge of the Enterprise D reconstruction