Listen to Episode 99: Elevated Actors.
What’s that? Levitated actors? Well…it is the month of All Hallow’s Eve, and lots of people do like to experiment with the darker arts during this time of the year. It’s not all that difficult to imagine the Starbase crew gathering around the conference room table for a quick session of “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board” before heading off for the…wait, what? Oh. Elevated actors. Right. Perhaps the Bajoran shouldn’t try to listen to the episode while still wearing ear plugs. It’s just…Dave does snore a bit loudly.
Anyway. As we were saying, the Starbase crew join together to summon the spirit of io9’s list of the 10 Science Fiction and Fantasy Actors Who Make Everything Better. The resident Kanadian even makes a rare public appearance for this episode (we swear, he’s gone so Hollywood ever since that three-picture deal on the life and loves of Big Dawg).
First on the list, the crew spend a little time (and by a little, we really mean practically half of the episode) catching up with each other, traveling down tangential paths such as happenings at the September Toronto Meet-Up in which much is revealed, including secrets about the special guest, Jonathan Bloody Wilkinson, from The Greatest Events in Sporting History podcast and possible crimes committed on foreign soil by some from the American contingent.
(The Bajoran gives her word that she was on her best behavior while under the watchful eye of the Canadians. She cannot, however, vouch for her Beloved. But that’s a story for another podcast to tell.)
From there, Kennedy takes us on a tour of the genre movies that he’s seen recently and the one that gets his vote as best movie of the year and what gets his vote as meh movie of the year. He’s also been reading a lot of the comics from the recent DC Universe reboot. Which ones are worthy? Which ones are worthless? And which one does the Admiral want to check out without pants? (And, no, we’re not specifying which kind of pants…or who might be without them.)
The Bajoran then pulls a bit of a time-traveling trick by discussing her “recent” purchase of a book that she’s somehow already reviewed here at the Starbase blog. Rather than gushing discussing it even more, let’s simply enjoy this…random screen capture of Worf and a security detail:
Yep. Totally random. Just like this link to a random Twitter feed that we think you all should follow.
At this point, the Admiral goes all professor on listeners and actually gives a homework assignment. Of course, it’s fun homework in which he asks for horror movie recommendations (yes, we were shocked as well). The two most recommended movies will be chosen, viewed by all Starbase personnel, and then discussed for this year’s Halloween episode. So start your recommending, listeners!
Discussion switches to NASA’s announcement about how they’re going to get our asses to Mars. Maybe. By the 2030s. Possibly. If they don’t liquefy us first.
The Admiral and Kennedy then babble about some kind of Tribble-shitterific shared hallucination they’ve been having. The Bajoran missed this portion of the show due to unexpected lens flare-induced blindness. All was fine, however, by the time the conversation shifted to the Trek tease for the 2012 Bluray release of TNG in time for the imminent year-long 25th anniversary celebration.
We then launch into the heart of our topic, which the Admiral introduces in a rather…inimitable way. Who’s on the list? Who isn’t and should be? Could one of them be “a cock in a frock on a rock”? Or perhaps the sexily mustachioed man below?
You’ll just have to listen to find out.
Meanwhile, take a gander at this random and completely unrelated photo of the two Daxes trying their hardest to break the space-time continuum:
No, it really has nothing to do with this episode. This is just what happens when the Bajoran tries to write show notes at 1 in the morning. Enjoy.
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/ October 9, 2011I’ve been Daxified 🙂