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Episode 93: John Concagh

In this episode we speak with the prolific author and historian in training John Concagh about his Star Trek fandom.

Casual photo of John Concagh
John Concagh

Topics

  • The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
  • Star Trek led to crimes
  • Pandemic Star Trek acceleration
  • Not a completionism by choice
  • Viewing order options
  • The weekly podcasting slog
  • The premise of Voyager… did it work?
  • Podcasting origins… blame Olivia
  • The I Quit Star Trek podcast
  • My guest likes talking about bad episodes, it makes him like the good ones even more
  • The Edge of Midnight writing project
  • Blame the barber
  • Historical Fan Non-Fiction Fiction
  • Being Federation Robert K Massie
  • History is narrative and Star Trek needed that, according to my guest
  • Creating new canon
  • My guest says which episode used canon the best…
  • Synthesizing the whole show
  • Convention talk
  • Destination Star Trek opinions
  • The STLV circus
  • John C is immune because he’s half Canadian
  • About Tranquility Press, and “Fan Non-Fiction”
  • The Ohniaka III Project
  • What’s the backbone of the Trek fanfic community? K/S of course
  • Organia or bust!
  • Collection materials
  • The rebirth of the FASA Starship Combat game and another resource too
  • Appreciating John M. Ford’s world-building
  • Schmigadoon!
  • Election weirdness in the Federation
  • Morality is at the heart of some good episodes
  • How TNG and DS9 might handle scenarios differently 
  • Unabashed love for early TNG
  • Ron Jones appreciation 
  • “Your mileage may vary on the Spirk issue”
  • John C feels that there are only a few villains who can match JLP
  • Star Trek: Crew
  • Trek Comics are under appreciated 
  • You can hear the music
  • The Platonic Ideal of a Trek episode
  • Decker ideations
  • Gene was a good salesman
  • 1968
  • The power of a good story
  • Honorary Star Trek title awarded: Lecturer in Military History at Starfleet Academy 

Episodes

  • The Final Reflection (Novel, 1984)
  • Errand of Mercy TOS S1E27 
  • Duet DS9 S1E19
  • Encounter at Farpoint TNG S1E01 & S1E02
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Movie, 1984)
  • The Defector TNG S3E10
  • Star Trek: Crew (IDW Comic, 2009)
  • The Doomsday Machine TOS S2E06

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Acknowledgements

Would you like to write some Kobayashi Maru lightning round questions? If you’d like to submit some for possible inclusion on the show, you can send me a message via Twitter or email me. I give some suggestions on good questions here.

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