Podcast # 458 - "Affliction"

Rico · October 13, 2013, 09:52:21 AM

Covered this 4th season Enterprise episode called "Affliction" today on the show. Did a short, spoiler-free review of "Gravity." Also covered some of the recent news for "Star Wars", Trek and other genre shows & films. Have a new musical segment from Vartok too (thanks Mr. V.). Enjoy the cast everyone!

Podcast Notes: http://treksinscifi.com/podcast_notes/?p=3128

http://www.treksinscifi.com/podcasts/TreksinSciFi_458_Affliction.mp3

Rico · October 13, 2013, 10:37:57 AM

Promo for this Enterprise episode.

ENT 4x15 'Affliction' Trailer

Bromptonboy · October 14, 2013, 04:11:46 AM

Loaded up.

Praxis · October 15, 2013, 05:24:00 PM

Enjoyed it, thanks Rico! I agree, I love that they addressed the forehead ridges issue. They did a great job with it. Aah, so behind on movies. I so badly want to see Gravity.

billybob476 · October 16, 2013, 04:04:16 AM

Early in the show you mention Chase Masterson will be in something called R.U.R Genesis. This is based on a very interesting Sci if play from the 1920s by Karel Capek. I read it in high school, r.u.r. Stands for Rossum's Universal Robots. The play is relevant because it actually introduced the term "robot" to the English language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.

Rico · October 16, 2013, 05:51:42 AM

Had no idea it was based on something that old. I did watch the video with Chase. It's more of a trailer but is fun. You can see it on YouTube.

WillEagle · October 24, 2013, 08:45:46 AM

I also liked how this episode explained the ridges issue. There are also a couple of books covering this issue.

Feathers · October 27, 2013, 01:18:49 AM

I'm running a couple of weeks behind at the moment so I'm halfway through this now. Rather nicely, my On Demand rematch of a Enterprise reached this point this week too so I've actually seen it quite recently.

Enjoying the podcast so far and I loved the fact that the show went to the bother of trying to explain the ridges (or lack thereof). Such an attempt is bound to have a few believability issues but I give them full marks for what was a very good attempt to bring this into canon.

Feathers · October 27, 2013, 01:41:14 AM

As a brief follow up, why on earth did they have the pulsing 'warp rods' on the bridge of the Columbia? I thought that was a really strange set decision.

Rico · October 27, 2013, 04:12:23 AM

Quote from: Feathers on October 27, 2013, 01:41:14 AM
As a brief follow up, why on earth did they have the pulsing 'warp rods' on the bridge of the Columbia? I thought that was a really strange set decision.

My only thought was to make the bridge obviously different from Enterprise.