Gorn With the Wind

Franky my dear, I don't give a rarr A literary podcast where we read tie-in novels and novelizations for fun.

Charlie Reads TOS: This Side of Paradise

Episode 24 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which Charlie explores the pros and cons of sentient space drugs.

05-09
14:03

Charlie Reads TOS: Space Seed

Episode 23 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which Charlie, as always, feels like the episode's conflict resolution was rather unStarfleet.

05-02
18:29

Charlie Reads TOS: A Taste of Armageddon

Episode 22 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which Charlie makes up a fictional person wronged by the Federation and gives them too much back story, but promises to also have a point.

04-25
15:28

Charlie Reads TOS: The Return of the Archons

Episode 21 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which Charlie doesn't realize until after writing the script that they shouldn't have even been there because of the prime directive/General Order 1.

04-11
26:50

Charlie Reads TOS: Tomorrow Is Yesterday (remix)

Episode 19 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. Remixed because fuck capitalism.  

03-27
13:43

Charlie Reads TOS: The Alternative Factor

Episode 20 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which Charlie writes fanfiction to work through their feelings.  

02-28
17:06

Charlie Reads TOS: Tomorrow Is Yesterday

Episode 19 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which Charlie criticizes Star Trek for being too meta.  

02-17
12:40

Charlie Reads TOS: The Squire of Gothos

Episode 18 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which I get academic and make Star Trek and Johannes Kepler's Somnium kiss.

02-09
19:31

Charlie Reads TOS: Arena

Episode 17 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In this one I let the 7 year old make Gorn noises.

01-31
11:30

Charlie Reads TOS: The Menagerie

Episode 16 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which Charlie focuses on the girl. (again) I highly recommend watching Jessie Gender's video: Sex in Star Trek: Exploring Gene Roddenberry's Sexual Frontier prior to listening to this episode. Translation of the intro song lyrics

01-11
19:56

Charlie Reads TOS: Shore Leave

Episode 15 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which we all don the muppet pasties.

01-02
12:15

Charlie Reads TOS: Court Martial

Episode 14 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which Charlie gets ¿overly? sarcastic.

12-27
17:09

Charlie Reads TOS: The Galileo Seven

Episode 13 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which Charlie figures out why people think Kirk and Spock would kiss.

12-20
18:29

Charlie Reads TOS: The Conscience of the King

Episode 12 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which Charlie has sympathy for historians trying to decypher what happened from unreliable records.

12-13
18:21

Charlie Reads TOS: Miri

Episode 11 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which Charlie ponders how long 300 years really is.

12-04
14:07

Charlie Reads TOS: Dagger of the Mind

Episode 10 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish. In which they wish that we weren't throwing around Shakespeare titles with such caprise.

11-29
11:45

Charlie Reads TOS: What Are Little Girls Made Of?

Episode 9 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish and in which Charlie postulates several answers to the titular question.

11-22
14:36

Charlie Reads TOS: Balance of Terror

Episode 8 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish and in which Charlie, for the first time, actually recommends that you read one of these.

11-15
16:12

Charlie Reads TOS: Charlie's Law

Episode 7 of Charlie's exploration of The Original Series guided by the 1991 25th Anniversary Edition novelizations of The Original Series written James Blish

11-08
16:37

Thomas Wilkerson

An odd idea that is quite endearing and a little silly. Brings a smile to my face to listen every month.

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