The lads are on the road again, recording live from a tarmac between flights. They have a gay-ol’-time chatting about Broadway musical revivals, the fate of the remaining NASA shuttles, and upcoming feature films coming to the big screen (and the VERY BIG screen); all the while trying not to get killed in between the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Star Trek’
Puddle-Jumpin’
Posted: 21st April 2012 by J. Marcus in PodcastTags: Battleship, Blu Ray, Broadway, Dark Shadows, Ernest Borgnine, IMAX, Kirk Douglas, Musicals, NASA, Space Shuttle Enterprise, Star Trek, Tim Burton, Total Recall (2012), Toy Story, UP!, USS Intrepid
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The Greatest Tragedy in Star Trek History
Posted: 17th April 2012 by J. Marcus in Science FictionTags: Las Vegas, Star Trek
In January 1998, Star Trek: The Experience opened its doors in the Las Vegas Hilton. One part museum, one part ride, one part casino, one part food court, the attraction was supposed to offer visitors the ultimate Star Trek experience. People could walk through Deep Space Nine’s Promenade, grab a drink at Quark’s, walk onto the […]
How Not To Make Television
Posted: 11th March 2012 by J. Marcus in TelevisionTags: Angel, Bones, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Cheers, Family Matters, Frasier, Knight Rider, Perfect Strangers, Star Trek, The Finder
I just finished watching this week’s episode of The Finder on my DVR. I like the show a lot. It’s about a guy who feels an obsessive need to find things for people. So, every week, he helps someone find something or someone that has gone missing. As with most shows, he has his friends that […]
The Menagerie
Posted: 25th February 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, PodcastTags: Bullitt, Commando, Die Hard 2, Dirty Harry, Eddie Murphy, Ernest Borgnine, Game of Thrones, Jean Claude Van Damme, Legionnaire, Serenity, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superman, Sylvester Stallone, The Big Sleep, The Lord of the RIngs, The Shining, Touch of Evil
The Podwits are back in the cage after being in the wild for Borgnine Night and decide to tackle the troubling world of Hollywood! Can the celebrated Wits of Pod remember how to steer a podcast? Will Gooshie put the show on the air? Luckily you won’t have to wait until next week… JUST PRESS […]
A Lost STAR TREK Episode Surfaces… [UPDATED]
Posted: 24th February 2012 by J. Marcus in Books, Science Fiction, TelevisionTags: Gene L. Coon, Gene Roddenberry, Milton Berle, Norman Spinrad, Star Trek
In my opinion, one of the all-time greatest episodes of the original Star Trek was called “The Doomsday Machine.” Written by Norman Spinrad, it stands as one of the most ambitious entries in the program’s 79-episode run. A new take on Moby Dick (a running theme in the franchise’s history), the episode set the bar very high when it came to […]
Creamy Goodness
Posted: 4th February 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Comic Books, Food, Podcast, Science FictionTags: Avengers, Avery Brooks, Ben & Jerry's, Cologne, Ernest Borgnine, Henry Cavill, Ice Cream, Patrick Stewart, Reader Mailbag, Star Trek, Superman, Thelonious Monk, William Shatner
In this week’s podcast, J. and Dion give tons of free lip service to a damned fine brand of ice cream, Brian decides to play the part of Godot, J. dips into the reader mailbag once again and the boys nearly break their backs picking up all the names being dropped. Hilarity abounds on another […]
Shatner to Takei: “Drop Dead”
Posted: 10th January 2012 by J. Marcus in Celebrities, NewsTags: Carrie Fisher, George Takei, Shatfish, Star Trek, Star Wars, William Shatner
OK, so that headline was about as irresponsible as the one I cribbed it from, but the sentiment still stands as the Shatfish debacle just got serious.
The British Are Coming!!!
Posted: 8th January 2012 by J. Marcus in Film, Science FictionTags: Benedict Cumberbatch, Doctor Who, JJ Abrams, Noel Clarke, Sherlock, Star Trek
It’s one thing that our TV is slowly being adapted from British television, or that our movies and TV shows are slowly being taken over by British actors/actresses, now they’ve set their sights on the Final Frontier. And you know what? I couldn’t be happier!
What No Man Has Seen Before…
Posted: 31st December 2011 by J. Marcus in Science Fiction, TelevisionTags: Star Trek
Everyone knows the story. Gene Roddenberry shot “The Cage” as the pilot for a new show called Star Trek. It starred Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike and was deemed “too cerebral” by the network. In a rather unheard-of move at the time, Roddenberry was given the chance to try again. This time, “Where No […]