I wax screenwriting with Stratword’s Patrick Pierre and explain why reading bad screenplays makes you a better writer. #ScriptSky #Screenwriter #Screenwriting #WritingCommunity

Our latest episode tries to figure out what “empathy for the enemy“ means for Captain Pike in the best JT Kirk story since TOS in #SNW “The Sehlat Who Ate its Tail”. Then it’s erotic ghost story time as Beverly Crusher explores being an spectrosexual in TNG’s classic bodice ripping romp, Sub Rosa!

TK Bellows wears an interesting and anachronistic pair of glasses in “A Space Adventure Hour”. They’re S9 frames, also known as “birth control frames”. From 1990 to 2012 they were standard military issue to navy and army recruits. Saddam Hussein was given a pair when he was captured in 2003.

Here's something I noticed on my rewatch of "Shuttle to Kenfori". The Klingon transmission ↖️ uses and old fan made alphabet created by Geoffrey Mandel for the "U.S.S. Enterprise Officer's Manual" published in 1980 ↗️ instead of "pIqaD"↙️ which has been the official Klingon alphabet since TMP.↘️

Anyone else notice Christina Chong talks into the bottom of her communicator like a smartphone in speaker phone mode? ↖️↗️ Ethan Peck ↙️ and Celia Rose Gooding ↘️ hold it the traditional way.

For some reason #SNW “Through the Lens of Time“ gave us the giggles. Is Roger Korby the worst archeologist ever? Is Ensign Gamble the ultimate rookie cop? After we contain ourselves we talk about Star Trek as a genre leaping format and if Strange New Worlds has been succeeding at that tradition.

Curious about that book TK Bellows was chasing in “A Space Adventure Hour”? For real life Gene Roddenberry it was “Pretty Maids All in a Row” which was filmed and released in 1971. You don’t have to watch this stinker because our own @mark2000.bsky.social reviewed it for @trekmovie.bsky.social. 1/

@stobiesgalaxy.bsky.social what’s the chance we can get you to come on our show so we can convince you Kirk and Spock are more than just close roommates that do, in fact, smooch. 😉

had a great time guesting on this Star Trek podcast, chatting about the eternal popularity of Spirk, and how Strange New Worlds is backtracking on queer representation.

Is #SNW “A Space Adventure Hour” a loving send up or a mean spirited swipe at Star Trek’s roots. We hash that out first between us jerks and then with special guest Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@gavia.bsky.social) who begs us to ask “Why is Strange New Worlds So Obsessed With Giving Spock a Girlfriend”.

As part of learning how to be an individual, Hugh has been taught how to take selfies

The plot to Shuttle to Kenfori in a nut shell.

Ryan and Mark catch a Shuttle to Kenfori... or is it Kenifor? We figure that out along with how to rank Doctor M'Benga's many ethics violations in our latest #SNW review. Then we discuss our favorite Space zombies, the Borg!

Every season of SNW has to have a Spock high jinks episode, and this one came sooner than expected in Wedding Bell Blues. We'll discuss why Spock is only allowed to be funny in silly episodes and how disturbingly one sided Pike/Batel is. Then we'll tell you what we're binging lately!

We're starting a new run of episodes reviewing this season of SNW. This week we take on the conclusion to Hegemony. Then Ryan watched Murderbot and Mark watched Alien:Earth but neither of us wanted to sit through the other. So, we spoil them for each other while discussing their similar themes!

If you’re in the San Diego Area, I’ll be giving a presentation on “Fandom for Fame: How to Use What You Love to Get the Right Attention” at @filamcreatorcon.bsky.social this Saturday at the Chula Vista Library. Check it out and all the other rad Pinoy creators. #FIlAmCreatives #FilAm #ScriptSky

Sharing a BTS shot from The Black Hole we’ve never seen before. This is from the utterly flawless meteor in the hallway scene. Shocking that it was done on plain old blue screen.

I'm going to have to discuss "This is Starfleet" with @ryanthomasriddle.com before reading any takes on it. I don't want any of my mixed reactions to be explained or backed up before I can vent them at him first.

We were so young then...

Yup. “Battlefield” is a classic alllivesmatter story. We talked about this two years ago. The idea that Kirk would have drinks with the oppressor is insane.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier premiered 36 years ago today with a plot so exciting they had to put seatbelts in the theater. It’s also the only movie in the franchise with no clear theme. Listen to our review where we try to figure out what the mountain means.

Kick off pride month by revisiting our amazing Spirk discussion with guests Don and Catherine. We talk about the history of slash fiction, Roddenberry’s relationship with slash authors, and a little known Nimoy produced film where he plays a gay man in prison.

The Black Hole (1979): USS Cygnus into the meteor storm, art by Peter Ellenshaw

Let’s say your robot says “you can’t unscramble eggs” and “a good offense is the best defense”. Would you then understand he wants you to use the Cygnus’s probe ship to escape now that your own ship has been destroyed? We feel like we’d die trying to figure it out.

Anthony Perkins’ performance in The Black Hole is extremely unsettling. He’s nervous throughout, especially when he meets Reinhardt. The chemistry between the two is unmissable. Perkins downright falls in love and mostly seems worried others will notice. Here’s a thread of his best horny faces:

Most of the time the Palomino's holographic display was done in camera. In the first pic you can see the projection hitting Earnest Borgnine's arm and casting a shadow ↙️. In the second pic it's clear the effect was composited in during post and a matte was cut around Joseph Bottom's body↘️.

This kind of depth of field without a split diopter? Robert Wise, eat your heart out.

Robert McCall, who painted the famous 2001: A Space Odyssey poster, was initially the art director for The Black Hole. His Cygnus design is the basis of the final design. He was replaced 6 weeks in with Peter Ellenshaw. But he wasn’t mad. Please don’t put in the magazine that he got mad.

Joseph Bottoms, who played Charlie Pizer in the Black Hole, won a “New Star of the Year” Golden Globe for the miniseries “The Dove”. But according to google image search he’s most famous for a photo spread he did for the New York entertainment magazine “After Dark”. Happy Friday!

Although much of The Black Hole was shot on blue screen, many of it's outer space footage was not. To avoid matte lines on the complex ships they were filmed them in front of an enormous hand-painted backdrop with thousands of backlit holes punched in it for the stars.

It's curious to see how various print versions of The Black Hole handled its weirder scenes. Anthony Perkin's evisceration is so graphic ↖️ no one adapts it accurately. In all cases he's lasered – by Reinhardt in the Whitman comic ↗️, and by Maximilian in the Kirby strip ↙️ and Alan Dean Foster novel ↘️

The Black Hole was the very first science fiction I encountered as a kid through the Disney record book. I didn't see the movie itself until years later. Perkins and Borgnine's characters were a shock because they're airbrushed out the the book's pics, probably because of their violent deaths.

New episode is up! We take on Disney's 1979 sci-fi epic "The Black Hole", one of the most impressive showcases of special effect wizardry ever put on screen. We'll explore Anthony Perkin's nervous submissive schtick, Yvette Mimieux as window dressing, Robert Forster as a Roddenberry hero, and more!

Just finished editing tomorrow’s episode of @shipfullofjerks.bsky.social and my brain has been completely taken over by a certain John Barry score. But not one of the ones you’re thinking of…

This week the Jerks beg you to stop calling Section 31 "the CIA" as they finally review the Star Trek streaming movie of the same name. Next we talk about why Section 31 the agency is not just cynical but utterly dystopic. Finally, to lighten things up, we tell you what we're actually fanning over.

New episode beaming down: What happens when you have writer @hannibaltabu.bsky.social on to talk about the Acolyte? An hour long discussion on the police, AI, child violence in media, and the myth of the Old Republic. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Who would win in a fight? The Meep or Moopsy! Well, we may never know. But we do know one thing — we're back, baby! The Jerks start season three by discussing Russell T. Davies return to #DoctorWho! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

New episode alert! The Jerks get lost in the highway of the sacred timeline. Wild that the series ended with Loki trapped in the David Lynch film LOST HIGHWAY! Now that's a twist. Or is it? J/K but we do talk Loki and Lynch plus Star Trek TOS. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2PPx...

New episode drop! This week, the Jerks throwdown with the Lower Deckers against Nick Locarno! Then we face body horrors with #ScavengersReign. Finally, what we're fanning over! #StarTrekLowerDecks #TrekTuesday Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

New Episode Alert! This week, we praise @mikemcmahan.bsky.social again as a f'ing genius. Four seasons and he drops a Mariner bomb with a Sito chaser. Plus, the Jerks quantum leap from reboot to reboot. #TrekTuesday #StarTrekLowerDecks Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

New Episode Alert! This week, the Jerks go spelunking with the Lower Deckers. Then, we track down He Who Remains with Loki. Finally, what to do about art featuring He Who is Problematic. #StarTrekLowerDecks #Loki Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

New Episode Alert! This week, the Jerks go spelunking with the Lower Deckers. Then, we track down He Who Remains with Loki. Finally, what to do about art featuring He Who is Problematic. #StarTrekLowerDecks #Loki Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

JERK ALERT! New episode drop! This week, it's the Good, the Bad, and the Badgey with Star Trek Lower Decks. Then, @hannibaltabu.bsky.social beams aboard to discuss Star Wars Rebels Season 5... we mean, Ahsoka. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

NEW EPISODE ALERT! This week, the Jerks try to wrangle some horny Betazoid visitors. And end up sloshed on Ferenginar. Then we sober up to defend season 1 of #StarTrekTNG. Yes, we were sober! #TrekTuesday #StarTrekLowerDecks #podcast Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Holy smokes!

New episode alert! Brace yourselves for a discussion of Orion Hump Dungeons and creepy Betazoid Gift Boxes. Those things give us the heebie-jeebies! Finally, return to the Third Age with #Babylon5TheRoadHome. #StarTrekLowerDecks #TrekTuesday Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

This week, the Jerks keep us connected with #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds' two light-hearted episodes, revealing their favorite numbers from #SubspaceRhapsody! Spoiler Alert: we loved the musical and the #LowerDecks crossover. https://tinyurl.com/5ahjwr79

This week, @hesbianspock and @MlNDMELD of Twitter beam aboard to discuss the steamy handshake of Kirk and Spock's first canonical meeting. We also get into the history of Slash and #Spirk. #StarTrek #SNW https://open.spotify.com/episode/3jWcYdYcuQXEI3odlyzRUo?si=cZkpUS_mRTOdYpN6H61Xkg