A Discovery Home Companion has returned from being cancelled. We ain’t no Garrison Keeler or Jeffrey Toobin!
But wait what is going on here? Wade, Glen and Sean have watched the season three opener, and… have overall positive things to say about Star Trek Discovery? What the…
For everyone who thought we don’t know a good time and were gonna hate on Disco no matter what: Hey, if they make a good show we’ll say so!
But hey, we’re not total fanboys yet. WE GOT SOME NOTES.
This season of Lower Decks is over, which means it’s time to retire “Under the Bridge.” No overdoses are expected, but then there’s always Star Trek: Discovery coming up, so who knows if we’ll get a killer dose of Trek or not.
In the final podcast of the season, we finally get the show we wanted, and realize which of us is the Boimler and who is the Mariner style “agent of chaos.”
Catch up on all the episodes this season, and be on the lookout for what’s next for Star Trek Resignation. It might not be all that long of a wait!
If you’re caught up on Lower Decks or not, it’s a great time to jump on Under the Bridge. For the first time in over five years of being in the other room from Wade, Joanie Baczewski joins to give more opinions on Star Trek from someone who doesn’t really know much about Star Trek. The episode after that also dropped this week and is pretty fun.
What the hell, man. What’s with yet another name change? Seriously. Ok, here’s the straight goss: I was getting tired of “rebranding” this and changing the name every time a new Star Trek show aired – From A Discovery Home Companion to Can’t Picardly Wait to whatever this is- and then what, change the feed back to “DiscoHome”? Sure, I could just put up a new feed, but then you’d have to find it all over again, and who wants that? Also: I’m cheap. A bold choice was made to try and settle on a single, unchanging, name for the Discovery Home/Picardly Waiting/ The Next Thing feed. Days of bickering ensued. So much thought and navel gazing happened until nothing made sense, like spelling a word over and over again until even the correct way looks ridiculous and wrong. Nerves and friendships were frayed. Nothing was resolved. Finally “Star Trek Resignation” slipped out like a wet fart, and we were simply too weak to fight for anything better. We resigned ourselves to nitpicking and criticism, and just let it happen- Hey, sounds like a Star Trek Podcast to me!
But we’re talking about Lower Decks! What does Resignation have to do with that? Another dumb name we just couldn’t resist came about, so we’re also calling our Lower Decks podcast Under the Bridge. “Are you High? But the feed is Star Trek Resignation,” you say, angrily. Don’t overthink it. Think of “Under the Bridge” like a subtitle if you have to. Resign yourself to it; like how Glen, Sean, and I resigned ourselves to talking about Star Trek; or else resign completely from these new Star Trek shows podcasts, like James and Hugh did.
Are you a regular visitor to this site, but not any of the other places where Kickers of Elves content appears? Are you sad and confused by the lack of updates? Well hey, we haven’t gone anywhere!
Wade, James and Hugh have been keeping track of Hell World and life in the time of Corona over at the Kickers of Elves Patreon
The Rules of Acquisition has been irregularly posting “The RoA Remix” to all the regular places that RSS feed shows up.
and get ready for more Trek content soon over at Can’t Picardly Disco Home or whatever it is we’re calling that this week.
The end of everything. Or is it? We get our final criticisms out on what Star Trek: Picard did in this final episode and what we might think of how they built these new characters and killed some old ones.
Picard gets eaten by a flower and talks to some synths. Back in NYC and Jersey, your hosts podcast to keep from going crazy while isolated at home. Heed the Admonition and maintain social distance.
What that harkened back to classic Trek did Wade and Glen like in this episode, and what is Sean so mad about?
On the patreon you’ll find extended discussion about the Corona virus situation’s impact on our lives.
The full talk is half an hour on the American failed state, isolation, parenting, and how things are for James in Covid-19 ground zero California, and Wade in NYC.
Losses are suffered. Things get DARK. And hey, SOME of us watched a TV show this week. We have pretty nice things to say about the Riker/Troi storyline of Star Trek: Picard this week. We just have to survive the rest.
Is Star Trek: Picard putting itself in an impossible situation by requiring viewers have a familiarity with TNG while also aching to appeal to new viewers of “prestige” style television in a way that betrays the “real” trekkers? This week the podcast is both dumber and more insightful than it’s ever been. Benny Scheckner is woefully uninformed and craving to be trolled. After some initial inanity, Kristin from Montreal finally provides the insight of a well informed Star Trek fan that some of you listeners have been craving.
