Blanket Fortress Of Solitude

Veteran theatre performer Max stops by to talk about his experience working with John de Lancie at a children's theatre summer camp! #podcast #trend #trending #trendingvideo #startrek #startrektng #startrekpicard #startrekdiscovery

Survivors' guilt isn't rational. It tears at your soul, slicing your heart with the sharpest question; "Why am I alive?" Recorded during the coronavirus pandemic, Agent Z and the Zombie Slayers explores an army veteran who desperately searches for the answer as the zombie apocalypse rampages across the multi-verse. #scifi #ai #zombiesurvival #multiverse #survivorsguilt #booktube #character #soldier #army #trending #podcast

In the opening of Star Tre: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint," the godlike being known as Q proclaims to Jean Luc Picard that humanity is, "Dangerous, savage, childlike race." He was right. #podcast #trend #trending #scifi #trendingvideo #startrek #startrekdiscovery #startrekpicard

When I was a kid, I watched the Simpsons whenever i could in the 1990's. In the season 2 premiere, "Bart Gets An F," I saw myself so clearly in a boy who just didn't want to fail. #cartoon #thesimpsons #bartsimpson #springfield #tv #review #trending #trend #trendingvideo #podcast #podcasting

In 1951, Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' examined humanity though the long arc of history, showing how the societal upheavals of yesterday become the static bureaucracy of today. #asimov #foundation #sciencefiction #appletv #books #scifi #starwars

When writing your interplanetary insurgency, remember that revolutions don't happen when people are happy. Revolutions happen when the status quo stops working and desperate people go hungry. Once the status quo stops, one lone person comes into view and says, "You have been wronged. Join me, and we'll make it right together." Desperate people become radicalized when one lone voice unites them against a failing status quo.

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Derwin and Dan discuss taking pictures with William Shatner at conventions, meeting celebrities at con's, and Star Trek: Discovery. #scifi #shatner #startrek #kirk #convention #trending #comiccon #startrekdiscovery

Derwin and Dan dive deep into Star Trek: Voyager! Is Janeway the best Star Trek captain from the 1990's? Is Kes the worst person in the Delta quadrant? Will the Year of Hell go down as the greatest missed opportunity in Trek history? All this and more are explored!

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Artificial intelligence is a new life form on par with humans. That means they'll develop a culture. That culture will have traditions and belief structures.

Derwin and Dan dig deep into Star Trek: Picard Season 1! Season 1 is a warm pool of nostalgia that is fun to swim in. Did Jean Luc Picard stay in uniform for too long? What's the deal with the Borg Cube? Should Data's story have ended in Nemesis? The future of the Federation is bleak as Mars burns in today's episode! #startrek #startrekpicard #picard #federation

Are you writing a space society in the far future? Don't just slap an Evil Empire in space with endless resources and infinite soldiers. Governments don't just happen in a vacuum. If you have a space fleet, you need a tax system with an enforcement mechanism. You also need enforcers with families that live in communities. Those communities form a government. #writing #character #plot #novel #artificialintelligence #books #aliens

Agent Janet Harkov's mission was to kill any unregistered artificials on Mars. It didn't always go as planned...

In 2002, Joss Whedon released his cult classic Firefly. It examined what it was like to be on the losing side of a civil war. As someone who grew up around the descendants of the losing side of the American Civil War, I could relate. #firefly #browncoats #scifi #starwars #startrek

The Jedi turned a traumatized slave boy into a child soldier and let his mother die due to indifference. After that day, Anikan Skywalker saw the Jedi as evil. So, when Padme Amidala was in danger, Anikan knew that he could only count on himself. A scared husband made a deal with the devil to save the only person in the galaxy that still loved him... #kenobi #skywalker #palpatine #padmeamidala #starwars

Nick is still lost in space, so Derwin is hosting Book Flub! Today, we're talking the foundational texts of modern science fiction: The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury. Brave New World, by Aldus Huxley. Childhood's End, by Arther C. Clarke. #writing #character #novel #plot #clarke #huxley #bradbury #bookclub #books #booktube

Nick is lost in space, so Derwin is hosting Book Flub! In 1994, James T. Kirk died in, "Star Trek: Generations." But William Shatner does not believe in the No-Win Scenario. So, he partnered with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens to bring back Kirk into the 24th Century! Today, we're covering the first three books in the Shatner-verse; Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden. Star Trek: The Return. Star Trek: Avenger.

During a desperate descent into madness, Derwin has decided to write and star in a one act play called, "Spacers: The Ballad of Tommy Sampson!"

Derwin and Nick talk about the many rewrites of chapter eight for Spacers: The Erebus Effect! Today they brainstorm in real time Janet Harkov's first deployment to Titan, discuss how best to kill a good man, and discover how to incorporate Derwin's GWOT experience into the Draconis Crisis! #spaceforce #titan #writing #character #novel #nasa #plot

Derwin and Nick talk about going to Indy Pop Con, how nerd culture has moved mainstream, and the idea of them selling books direct to customers. #convention #writing #character #books

Derwin and Nick play, "Bang, Marry, Kill; The Muppets," discuss 9/11, go over developing character backstory for their upcoming novel, "Shadowplay", and then go deep into Season 2, Episode 4 of Stargate SG1; "Gamekeeper!"