Enterprising Individuals

We're eating both sides of the whale this week as we dive into the most unique entry in the Trek film franchise: "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home"!Comedian and podcaster Asterios Kokkinos returns to the show to discuss the Trek film that lets the TOS show their comedic chops. Kirk and his mutinous crew return to Earth to face judgment only to find the planet under siege from a mysterious and powerful probe. To save humanity, they'll have to travel back to our civilization's darkest and most savage era: the 1980s!Being a film about time-travelling astronauts looking for whales and plexiglass, Star Trek IV is absurd on its face. But Trek manages to communicate a deeper and more relevant environmental message as the crew of the Enterprise stumbles through the San Francisco of their past, and only the veteran talents of the Original Series cast could make their journey so funny and relatable. On this episode, we talk about the daring decision to make a Trek comedy, the classic '80s sci-fi films of the decade, findi

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On the eve of Mission Chicago, Gooey Fame of Virtual Theater and Mikanhana of Sailor Noob join the show for our definitive rankings of the Star Trek films!Follow Virtual Theater and Sailor Noob on Twitter!https://twitter.com/virtualtheaterxhttps://twitter.com/noob_sailorFind out the stories behind your favorite Trek episodes with BackTrekking!http://www.twitter.com/backtrekkingCommunicate with us on Facebook and Twitter and the Just Enough Trope Discord!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttp://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttps://discord.gg/ATMBeUDJoin our crew on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2

We choose the danger this week as we look at the film that gave new life to the Star Trek film franchise: "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock"!New York Times bestselling author David Mack returns to the show to discuss the unfairly maligned sequel to "Wrath of Khan" and why it deserves more respect. After returning to Earth from Genesis, Kirk feels deeply the loss of his friend Captain Spock. But when Spock's father Sarek requests that Spock's body be recovered, Kirk and his crew will risk their careers, their reputations, and their lives to see their friend become whole once more! As the third film in the franchise, "The Search for Spock" is often lumped in with the "odd Trek films are bad" cliché, but that viewpoint overlooks both the important contributions the film makes to Trek's future and the skill and care with which it was created. The Klingons that fans would come to know and love have their origins here, as does the Klingon language, many original ship and tech designs, and the deep mysticism of t

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrekPicard episode “Watcher”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress! #startrek

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrekPicard episode “Assimilation”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress! #startrek

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrekDiscovery episode “Coming Home”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress! #startrek

We're taking a closer look this week at the life and work of Star Trek writer and director Nicholas Meyer with a review of his memoir "The View From the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood"!Follow Just Enough Trope on Twitter and catch up on the podcast!https://twitter.com/justenoughtropehttps://www.justenoughtrope.comFind out the stories behind your favorite Trek episodes with BackTrekking!http://www.twitter.com/backtrekkingCommunicate with us on Facebook and Twitter and the Just Enough Trope Discord!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttp://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttps://discord.gg/ATMBeUDJoin our crew on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrekPicard episode “Penance”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress! #startrek

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrekDiscovery episode “Species Ten-C”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress! #startrek

From Hell's heart, we take a stab this week at encompassing the excellence of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"!New York Times and USA Today best-selling author David R. George III returns to the show to discuss the sequel to "The Motion Picture" and many fans' pick for the best Star Trek film. As he turns 50, Admiral Kirk has resigned himself to the fact that his days of space-faring danger are behind him. But when an old flame asks for his help recovering a dangerous experiment, he'll learn that danger isn't through with him and that some debts can never be repaid. "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" wasn't exactly a failure, but Paramount had no interest in spending another $45 million dollars while dealing with Gene Roddenberry. So instead, they spent $12 million dollars and hired TV producer Harve Bennett to make the sequel to the first film. Eventually, Bennett hired novelist, screenwriter, and Trek virgin Nicholas Meyer to direct (and later write) the film. Meyer envisioned Star Trek II as a rollicking nav

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrekPicard episode “The Star Gazer”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress! #startrek

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We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrekDiscovery episode “The Galactic Barrier”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress! #startrek

This week, we're putting the utopia of the Federation to the test! Mildred aka ThoughtSlime joins the show to talk about a leftist vision of a better tomorrow and whether or not the world of Star Trek measures up. I'm the main guy of this whole place!Follow Just Enough Trope on Twitter and catch up on the podcast!https://twitter.com/justenoughtropehttps://www.justenoughtrope.comFind out the stories behind your favorite Trek episodes with BackTrekking!http://www.twitter.com/backtrekkingCommunicate with us on Facebook and Twitter and the Just Enough Trope Discord!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttp://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttps://discord.gg/ATMBeUDJoin our crew on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrekDiscovery episode “Rubicon”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress! #startrek

Enterprising Individuals is back with an all-new season as we begin the human adventure with "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"!Pete the Retailer of Star Wars Minute and ABCD: TOS returns to the show to discuss the film that launched Star Trek on the big screen! A mysterious and deadly probe is rapidly approaching Earth and Admiral James T. Kirk and the refit starship Enterprise are the Federation's only hope. Can Kirk mend fences with his scattered crew and solve the riddle of V'Ger or will humanity be destroyed by the very thing it came to space to find?"Star Trek" died in 1969, but like a lot of its dauntless characters, it refused to stay dead. The success of the Original Series in re-runs and the rising profile of sci-fi in '70s cinema made a Trek feature possibly inevitable but practically a herculean task. How best to translate the cerebral thrills of the show into a box-office success? And would a viewing public that had become accustomed to space opera accept a film that tasked its audience to question

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrekDiscovery episode “All In”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress! #startrek

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrekProdigy mid-season finale “A Moral Star, Part 2”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress! #startrek

We are talking LIVE about the #StarTrekProdigy episode “A Moral Star, Part 1”! Tweet at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join our conversation currently in progress! #startrek