In this episode we speak with the podcaster and super Star Trek fan Chris Lackey. He is one half of the amazing “Rachel Watches Star Trek” podcast.

Topics

• Always being a Star Trek fan
• Kirk and Spock fighting made little Chris cry
• The Video Cassette Recorder or VCR
• Someone in the house had Star Trek on and that’s how I started watching it
• “Water Cooler” TV is long gone
• Keighley UK
• Being Enterprise curious
• Star Trek is competing with The Wire and many other older and newer shows
• Is rewatching mandatory like homework?
• Admiral Toddman wears a yellow shirt
• Nightcrawler and BAMF
• The FASA Star Trek RPG
• Chris loves Gowron
• The DragonMeet con in the UK
• The Star Trek Experience
• Trek Profiles Episode 60 with Paul Mattingly
• The Rachel Watches Star Trek podcast
• Strange Studies of Strange Stories podcast
• Chris and Rachel’s episode rating system
• Medical professionals in Star Trek don’t seem to know any First Aid
• Public persona versus private crimes?
• The ship of Theseus but with people
• Keanu Reeves is totes fine with people having VR sex with him
• Do I know you, dear listener?
• Chris tries to get himself canceled during an extensive diatribe on Up the Long Ladder
• Honorary Star Trek title awarded: Assistant Supervisor of the New Atlantis Project
• From the Bonus Material
  • Reddit – Ask an American
  • The World’s Largest Thermometer in Baker, California
  • Mustache On or Off?
  • The Magic Garden show from WPIX in NYC
    • The Story Box song
    • The Chuckle Patch
  • Dinner versus Supper
  • Brontë Country is a thing
  • What’s your favorite Trek?
  • Game of Thrones vs. A Song of Ice and Fire
  • The Dune Dinner Scene
    • A discussion from Reddit
    • More on why the Dune dinner scene was cut
  • The Dune RPG
  • The Redshirts game

Episodes Discussed

• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
• Emergence TNG S7E23
• The Deadly Years TOS S2E11
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
• Galaxy’s Child TNG S4E16
• Second Chances TNG S6E24
• Up the Long Ladder TNG S2E18

Connect

• Find Chris’s podcast about classic horror genre fiction, Strange Studies of Strange Stories here
• Rachel Watches Star Trek is here
• Chris is on Twitter here

Support

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Acknowledgements

• Background photo by Tom Wheatley from Unsplash