Enterprising Individuals

Your mission this week, if you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate and seduce the enemy for "The Enterprise Incident"!Editor and comics scribe Kevin Church joins the show this week for a look at an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series that sees our upright heroes involved in dastardly deeds. The Romulans have improved their cloaking technology and it's up to the crew of the Enterprise to stage a space heist in the hope of obtaining military secrets. But, can Kirk keep his new ears on straight long enough to get the device, and can Spock keep the Romulan commander in the dark about his true intentions without losing his half-human heart in the process?The crew find themselves in a "Mission: Impossible"-esque predicament this episode, as their usual weapons of tact and phasers are replaced with some very un-Starfleet guile and deception. During our discussion, we talk about the real life international crisis that inspired the episode, the the staff changes behind the scenes that caused Trek's third seaso

This week, we celebrate Avengers: Endgame and comics in general by checking out Marvel Star Trek comics! Join us for a look at Star Trek Unlimited and a quick run-through of Trek on the comic page!#saruligansGet "Captain Saru", our favorite Kelpian, on Amazon!https://amzn.to/2ZED9OxGet your DS9 doc tickets!https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=GOAwjpQg908Suit up with our Trek T-shirts!https://www.teepublic.com/user/justenoughtropeJoin our crew on Patreon and get access to our new Voyager recaps!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodClick through our Amazon link on enterprisingindividuals.com to support the show!http://www.enterprisingindividuals.comhttps://www.amazon.com/?tag=jet01-20&linkCode=ezFollow us on Twitter and Facebook for Trek news and updates!http://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttp://www.facebook.com/eistpod

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “Such Sweet Sorrow, Pt. 2” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

Get ready to sing some royalty-free tunes as we warm up our pipes for "Virtuoso"!Comedian, writer, and podcaster Asterios Kokkinos joins the show this week for a look at an episode of Star Trek: Voyager that explores the nature of humanity, artistic expression, and working on the railroad. The Doctor becomes a singing sensation when the crew meets a race that has never before heard music. As his fame increases and his captain expresses her reservations, the Doctor must decide if being human means following your dreams or fulfilling your responsibilities.Voyager gets its own "Measure of a Man" in this episode, and both the Doctor's responsibility to the crew and the crew's responsibility to him as a sentient being are weighed in the balance. During our discussion, we talk about why ethical dilemmas are so entertaining and how sci-fi makes them more palatable, the "AI trolley car problem", how far the egalitarian nature of the Federation extends, whether an unjust deed can be considered moral, how the Doctor is

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “Such Sweet Sorrow” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

This week, we take a break from the grind as Mikanhana from the Just Enough Trope podcast is back to help break down the recent Trek news! We've got takes on images of the upcoming Disco finale, a beardless Spock, the theatrical release of the DS9 doc, Sonequa Martin-Greene's new movie role, and pushing a Chief O'Brien statue down the stairs!We also talk about how to spot bad Photoshop, the secret to a good Ryan Gosling impression, Shatner the Twitter Monster, #justice4keiko, we say goodbye to Vonda N. McIntyre, Kal goes coo coo for Dave and Buster's Star Trek VR game, and Mika is looking for a young Elliot Gould-type!Bad Photoshop is my superpower!Follow Just Enough Trope on Facebook and Twitter!http://www.facebook.com/justenoughtropehttp://www.twitter.com/justenoughtropeGet Vonda's book, The Entropy Effect, on Amazon!https://amzn.to/2GeauYYGet your DS9 doc tickets!https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=GOAwjpQg908Suit up with our Trek T-shirts!https://www.teepublic.com/user/justenoughtropeJoin

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “Through the Valley of Shadows” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation!

Turn down your lights (where applicable) because DS9 is going noir for "Necessary Evil"!Existence is Futile hosts heelmary and Gooey Fame join the show this week for a look at an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that takes us back to the Cardassian Occupation, where talk is cheap and lives are even cheaper. Odo has been called to Terok Nor by the Prefect of Bajor, Gul Dukat, to investigate the death of a Bajoran shopkeeper under suspicious circumstances. Meanwhile on DS9, a vicious attack on Quark leads Odo to reopen his old case, and to look deeper into the involvement of a young freedom fighter named Kira Nerys!Having "Space Cop" Odo on the show is a great excuse for a hard-boiled detective yarn, and this episode hits every trope in the noir canon, from the femme fatale, to the private eye inner monologue, to the seedy bartender, and a Macguffin everyone's chasing. During our discussion, we talk about the ambitious dual-timeline structure of the episode, DS9's similarity to post-WWII Europe, Odo as the

We can hardly believe it but it's our LAST EPISODE of The Podpadopoulos Cast and our last episode of Webster! For 6 years and 150 episodes, we've followed the adventures of Webster Long and his loving foster parents, George and Katherine Papadopoulos, but all good things must come to an end and we've reached the series finale, "Webtrek!"But the Four Tops aren't singing just yet, and we've got a bit of business to take care of before we say goodbye to George, Ma'am, and Web. We've got our Top 5 Webster episode pics, we've got one last trivia prize to hand out, and we spend a little time speculating on a seventh season of Webster before we take a look without leaping into the LAST EVER episode of this fantastic show!It's bittersweet but we've come this far! Like Uncle Phil would say, "That's entertainment!"Please consider supporting the Dreamcatcher Charitable Foundation!https://www.dcfund.ca/Get your Webster DVDs on Amazon!https://amzn.to/2HQRHoIFollow us on Twitter!http://www.twitter.com/podpadopoulosThanks a

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “Perpetual Infinity” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation! w/ guest @soundofcosplay

Pull on your skant and replicate a pile of Demerol as we look at the enduring vision and appeal of TNG! Writer and "Behind the Bastards" host Robert Evans joins the show to talk about Star Trek: The Next Generation and how it still hits the spot, over 30 years past its debut. We talk about Robert's sci-fi past, the optimism at the heart of TNG and Trek, leaning into your permissive utopia vis-a-vis more sex and drugs, the themes future Treks should be covering, the state of journalism in the 24th century, Herzog's cry for "adequate images", and how Trek can get us out of the predicament we're in.Plus, we discuss the dearth of sci-fi comedy, why mankind built cities to throw bigger parties, whether utopian art is any good, the state of the sex toy market in the 24th century, "Rolling with Troi", the perils of a new boss, silent orphans in dark rooms, Aaron wonders if TNG is an alternate universe, and Robert remembers mowing lawns for the Emprah!Picard better be dropkickin' some dudes in his new show!Catch up w

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “The Red Angel” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation! w/ guest @mikanhana of @JustEnoughTrope

Farpoint is CANCELLED because we're being tested by "All Good Things..."!New York Times and USA Today best-selling author David R. George III is back on the show this week for a look at the finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a tour de force, feature-length episode that celebrates the genius and success of the series it concludes. Captain Picard is mysteriously travelling through the past, present, and future, taking him from the Enterprise-D's very first mission to the seeming last days of his life. But when Q appears to deliver the Continuum's final, damning verdict for humanity, the Enterprises of three eras must cooperate to save the galaxy and the future of humanity among the stars!Any show that experienced the kind of extended creative and critical success that Next Generation did could be forgiven for limping across the finish line or seeing its inspiration run dry. However, the Hugo Award-winning "All Good Things..." stands as one of the series's finest entries, putting the capstone on a show th

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “Project Daedalus” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation! w/ guest @bleisner

Get ready to jump beyond the red line as we look at the fabric of the Trek universe! Warp drive expert and "Tattooed Gravity Queen" Dr. Erin Macdonald joins the show to talk about the astrophysics of Star Trek, the power needed for warp drive (all of it), the importance of female representation in sci-fi, the "Scully effect", the resilience of relativity, the mystery of dark matter and dark energy, and Dr. Macdonald weighs in on the science behind some classic Trek episodes!Plus, we discuss why your high school physics teacher lied to you, staying away from squishy science, non-delicious spaghetti, wormholes and where to find them, the multidisciplinary genius(?) of Zefram Cochrane, ripping space like a shirt, the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle, how DS9 aims time travel right at your heart, and we get lost trying to remember the plot of Interstellar!Kugelblitz!Follow Dr. Erin on Twitter!http://www.twitter.com/drerinmacCheck out Dr. Erin's website for her appearances and catch her on YouTube!https://www.er

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “If Memory Serves” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation! w/ guest @tyranicus of @deltaflyerpod

Sharpen up your Zefram Cochrane statue as we take a stab at "Twilight"!Peter Aidan Byrne of Trek vs. Trek joins the show this week for our first episode about Star Trek: Enterprise, a series with a shaky reputation but a solid entry in "Twilight". Archer wakes up with a bad haircut and a Groundhog Day dilemma . . . or is that 50 First Dates? I can't remember. Meanwhile, Earth is cinders, humanity is nearly extinct, Porthos has hip dysplasia, and only one thing can put things right where they once went wrong. Either these time parasites go or we do!Enterprise tends to be seen as something of a failure, as if the Trek franchise was scraping the bottom of the barrel like a ravenous alien played by Mick Fleetwood. But it's episodes like this, which showcase the bravery of our heroes, the storytelling skills of sci-fi veterans, and the plain weirdo cool of Trek at its best that make a case for Enterprise as a flawed but bright jewel in the crown of the franchise. During our discussion, we talk about the history an

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “Light and Shadows” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation! w/ guest @mikanhana of @justenoughtrope!

Get ready to "U" your "topia" as we look at the evolved world of the Trek universe! Lyta Gold of Current Affairs joins the show to talk about the world of Trek, the brutality of Discovery, the self-conscious "wokeness" of the Federation, and where the "light" of Discovery is!Plus, we discuss the connection of God and Shakespeare, a spa day for Burnham, the S (ocialism) word in Trek, Section 31, the cinematic theory behind zombies and vampires, Worf's bad time on Sex Planet, just how many showers and hot meals we are from anarchy, soft dystopia, Kal capes for the Culture, and Lyta wants to know what that Discovery scene is all about?So, all the lawyers are dead, right?Follow Lyta on Twitter!http://www.twitter.com/fluttersnipeRead Lyta's article on the first season of Star Trek: Discovery!https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/the-dismal-frontierRead Brianna's treatise on space dystopias!https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/the-regrettable-decline-of-space-utopiasSuit up with our Trek T-shirts!https://www.tee

We are talking the #StarTrekDiscovery episode, “The Sound of Thunder” LIVE! Tweet to the show at @eistpod with the hashtag #discoverage to join the conversation! w/ guest @SoundOfCosplay!