StarfleetComms Sci-fi Podcast

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel This is my review of Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel. A post-apocalyptic tale with a human feel. Video review of Station Eleven Station Eleven? What’s it all about?... The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S4E06 – Review: Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel appeared first on StarfleetComms.

Star Trek Discovery by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman This is my review of Star Trek Discovery by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman. Overall, this is a fresh look at the Star Trek franchise set... The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S4E05 – Review: Star Trek Discovery appeared first on StarfleetComms.

Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle This is my review of Footfall, a Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle novel from 1985. Overall, the story is of a race of elephant-like aliens from Alpha Centauri... The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S4E04 – Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle appeared first on StarfleetComms.

Star Wars Galaxies: Emulator This episode is a quick overview of the SWGEmu available over at www.swgemu.com where you can once again play Star Wars Galaxies while helping the project! Video overview of Star Wars Galaxies... The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S4E03 Star Wars Galaxies Emulator appeared first on StarfleetComms.

Review and overview of the Star Trek: New Horizons mod for Stellaris. Taking more risks, the intrepid CMDR Max Torps broadcasts another forbidden review to the sheeplike populace of the 33rd century. Inviting them to... The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S4E02 Star Trek: New Horizons appeared first on StarfleetComms.

We review These Final Hours. In season four of the podcast, we get right down to the nitty gritty. With no time to spare and on the run from the authorities, it’s our mission to... The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S4E01 These Final Hours appeared first on StarfleetComms.

Interview with Daz Scales, creator of the Darkwave universe! Darkwave: The Edge of the Storm is an independent film directed and produced by Daz Scales. You may have heard of him because of earlier work... The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S3E09 – Interview with Daz Scales, Darkwave Edge of the Storm appeared first on StarfleetComms.

Welcome to episode 8b! * We revisit The 100, briefly touching on seasons 1 and 2, and discuss the impact we felt during season 3 and critique some decisions the show runners may have made. In... The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S3E08b – The 100, Deadpool and The Secret World appeared first on StarfleetComms.

In this show we talk to Alan Joshua, author of The Shiva Syndrome and later discuss Dark Matter. Alan describes his creative writing process and we review Dark Matter Season One. The Shiva Syndrome by... The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S3E07 – The Shiva Syndrome and Dark Matter appeared first on StarfleetComms.

In this show we review Killjoys season one. Killjoys is a Canadian science fiction show based in a planetary system called The Quad. Teetering on the brink of a class war, our heroes who are members of a class of bounty hunter known as the RAC (Reclamation Apprehension Coalition ) start to unravel elements of their past as they confront a terrifying dystopian future. A word to the wise, Lissie Comte, Ciarán Maher and John Richardson are absolutely honest on this review. You may find our opinions differing from your own, please be aware this is normal human behaviour. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. You can buy Killjoys Season One from Amazon by following this link. Timeline 00:00 Introduction 01:11 Brief overview of setting 02:00 Overview of characters 07:15 A cliche wrapped in a trope surrounded by stereotypes – who can we be talking about? 12:30 Discussion on the setting (The Quad and the J-Star cluster) 16:30 Ciaran and Lissie in the head to head review standoff! Who will win? (Ding for valid, buzz for disagreed). 24:30 We like some stuff and want to know more about Level 6, Cline and Red 17. 26:45 Future Stuffs on the show. 32:00 Overall, what did we think, did we enjoy it and would you? 37:15 Cheerybye Flash poll on @SyfyUK series #Killjoys – please take part and comment – you'll get a mention in the podcast! — StarfleetComms (@StarfleetComms) April 5, 2016 You can watch and subscribe to StarfleetComms on YouTube or listen and subscribe to StarfleetComms on Stitcher Radio and Player FM! Please remember to vote and review us. Thank you very much for listening or watching our science fiction podcast We really appreciate that you took time out of your day to visit. Feel free to comment or contact us on social media such as our YouTube channel, Facebook, Twitter, Google +, use the contact form or email us using [email protected]<> We'd love to hear from you, your comments might even be on the show! Thank you for the podcast reviews! Your written podcast reviews encourage us and they help other people find the podcast. If you appreciate the podcast, please write your own review on iTunes, Stitcher or UK Podcasters! The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S3E06 – Killjoys season one review appeared first on StarfleetComms.

We discuss The Shannara Chronicles, Hyperion, XCOM-2 and The 100! Updating you on our recent Thunderclap campaign supporting The Expanse we question the commercial sense regarding late release dates in the UK of some shows. Moving on to happier times Lissie Comte, Ciarán Maher, Sean Woodward and John Richardson talk about the Shannara Chronicles as many of us have read the book and now we wonder what the TV adaptation is like. Getting our gamer heads on Ciarán reviews X-COM2 and to give us a more literary sense Sean reviews Hyperion which takes a lot of inspiration in the story telling style from The Canterbury Tales. We round up with an excited discussion on The 100 and generally conclude the TV adaptation is moving in the right direction… with one eye on the AI! A big thank you to all authors who have contacted us, we will be in touch soon! We’d also like to extend our gratitude to everyone who helped us with our campaign. Thank you! Make sure you follow us on the various social media links at the bottom of each page to get a say! You can buy The Shannara Chronicles, X-COM 2 , Hyperion and The 100 Season One from Amazon by following the links. Timeline 00:00 Introduction 00:00:45 The Expanse: We update you on the Thunderclap campaign we ran recently to prompt the powers that be to give us an air date for this show in the UK. Thank you to everyone who took part! Over 140,000 people reached! 06:33 The Shannara Chronicles: We talk about the SyFy show based on the book series by Terry Brooks. Amazed, we discover that this show, as well as the books, have a fine line between the genres of science fiction and fantasy. What do you think it is? 10:50 X-COM 2: Ciaran briefs us on X-COM 2 and shares with us his opinion on the game. Have you played it yet? What do you think? 17:05 Hyperion by Dan Simmons: Sean reviews Hyperion and looks at this Hugo Award winning novel from the aspect of a second read and reads an extract to give us a feel for the prose. 26:05 The 100: Lissie discusses the hit show “The 100” giving us a synopsis and we discuss favourite (and not so favourite) plot lines, characters and scenes. The 100 is based on the young adult books by Kass Morgan, we explore the differences between the books and the TV show. 44:30 Next episode – we hope to have one of our first author interviews and this will be with Dan Haight, author of Flotilla. 45:45 Cheerybye. You can watch and subscribe to StarfleetComms on YouTube or listen and subscribe to StarfleetComms on Stitcher Radio and Player FM! Please remember to vote and review us. Thank you very much for listening or watching our science fiction podcast We really appreciate that you took time out of your day to visit. Feel free to comment or contact us on social media such as our YouTube channel, Facebook, Twitter, Google +, use the contact form or email us using [email protected]<> We'd love to hear from you, your comments might even be on the show! Thank you for the podcast reviews! Your written podcast reviews encourage us and they help other people find the podcast. If you appreciate the podcast, please write your own review on iTunes, Stitcher or UK Podcasters! The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S3E05 – The 100 and The Shannara Chronicles appeared first on StarfleetComms.

We discuss Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Expanse Looking at the hype years before the film and taking you on a journey to the moment you step outside the cinema, Lissie Comte, Ciarán Maher, Sean Woodward and John Richardson discuss the new Star Wars film and later in the show are introduced to the excellent new Syfy series entitled The Expanse. We reached out to you and via various media you told us how much (or how little) you enjoyed Star Wars: The Force Awakens… thank you to everyone who took part. Make sure you follow us on the various social media links at the bottom of each page to get a say! You can buy Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Expanse (REGION ONE) from Amazon by following the links. If you don’t have a multi-region DVD player and are based in another region, Leviathan Wakes: Book 1 of the Expanse is available from Amazon. Timeline 00:00 Introduction 01:30 Star Wars: The Force Awakens This bit is where we discuss the hype surrounding the film and find we all have amazingly different recollections of the plans made after the release of the original trilogy, shocking revelations about Darth Vadar and speculation partly based on external interviews with George Lucas and trailer reaction while acknowledging his input into the creative industries. George Lucas doesn’t use the Internet George Lucas: All you do is get criticised Darth Vadar to be resurrected 15:45 Star Wars: The Force Awakens The viewing experience, how did we all feel? We discuss the different scenes and our own reactions discovering a stark difference in opinion between those watching the series in chapter order versus release order and bring up plenty of different points. 28:02 Massive spoiler. Stop listening if you haven’t seen the movie. The discussion on the film experience continues. Solo, Ben and Chewbacca  29:29 Star Wars: The Force Awakens How did you feel after you had watched the entire movie? Was it all you could expect and more? We discuss our own experiences and also the criticisms levelled that we found on-line: 40 Unforgivable Plot Holes – and a further 20. The we try to science the film, chaos ensues. Balance in the Force is restored and we discuss visual effects. 43:07 Star Wars: The Force Awakens We now look to the future developments from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. #rememberalderaan 48:25 The Expanse SyFy channel in the USA are currently broadcasting this hit show featuring a deeply engaging storyline and Newtonian Physics that we think will appeal to all sci-fi fans including those who love hard sci-fi. We’d love this to be available in the UK. Please contact SyFyUK and ask them to provide an update on it’s availability! Tweet them! @syfyuk @NBCUniversal When will #theexpanse be available in the UK? #starfleetcomms 54:42 Nine Worlds A brief shout out to the Nine Worlds sci-fi convention in London 12th-14th August 2016. #maytheforcebewithyou #staygeeky #cheerybye You can watch and subscribe to StarfleetComms on YouTube or listen and subscribe to StarfleetComms on Stitcher Radio and Player FM! Please remember to vote and review us. Thank you very much for listening or watching our science fiction podcast We really appreciate that you took time out of your day to visit. Feel free to comment or contact us on social media such as our YouTube channel, Facebook, Twitter, Google +, use the contact form or email us using [email protected]<> We'd love to hear from you, your comments might even be on the show! Thank you for the podcast reviews! Your written podcast reviews encourage us and they help other people find the podcast. If you appreciate the podcast, please write your own review on iTunes, Stitcher or UK Podcasters! The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S3E04 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Expanse appeared first on StarfleetComms.

The Holiday episode of the StarfleetComms Science Fiction Podcast! It’s certainly a busy time at StarfleetComms Towers! We welcome Ciarán Maher to the crew and well and truly sheep-dip him in a Star Trek discussion revolving around the new series announced a few weeks back. We reached out to you our glorious listeners and asked for feedback on what you thought this new series should look like. You certainly didn’t disappoint and we discuss all of your ideas, thank you so much to you all. Timeline 00:00 Introduction John Richardson, Sean Woodward and Ciarán Maher say, “Hi”. 01:31 The new Star Trek series, What should it look like? Your feedback and polls results give us plenty to talk about – check them out in full here: https://plus.google.com/collection/0Wlpx Thank you once again. Some mentioned are: “Loscia * Bernie a grass roots Movement I’d like to see it take place on a real science ship. Get back to the deep space exploration, you don’t need to have a new race on every episode if you make the planet interesting enough.” “Daniel Nation I’ve seen a lot of talk about how Star Trek isn’t relevant anymore because people don’t care about discovery anymore, they only care about survival… So the notion of them going out to find new lifeforms and civilizations is no longer relevant… I think they have a point… but Star Trek has always been on the side of educating people that there are always more things to discover and with discovery and acceptance of other cultures and people we ensure a brighter tomorrow. Apparently in our current climate… Star Trek appears out of touch… but with the right writer… there has to be a way to bridge it all and bring Star Trek up to date and relevant.” We discuss what time frame this should be in, what setting, whether there should be more alien looking aliens and the true nature of Trek and the relationship between the antagonists and our real world issues. 26:03 Star Trek: Beyond. We cut through the speculation and try to come up with a theory on what this film will look like only to create more speculation. But it’s ours so we like it and remain largely hopeful, especially with regard to the interview with Simon Pegg. 36:37 Star Wars: The Force Awakens – A very brief and spoiler free general discussion. Don’t worry. You can watch and subscribe to StarfleetComms on YouTube or listen and subscribe to StarfleetComms on Stitcher Radio and Player FM! Please remember to vote and review us. Thank you very much for listening or watching our science fiction podcast We really appreciate that you took time out of your day to visit. Feel free to comment or contact us on social media such as our YouTube channel, Facebook, Twitter, Google +, use the contact form or email us using [email protected]<> We'd love to hear from you, your comments might even be on the show! Thank you for the podcast reviews! Your written podcast reviews encourage us and they help other people find the podcast. If you appreciate the podcast, please write your own review on iTunes, Stitcher or UK Podcasters! The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S3E03 – Star Trek – the new series and Beyond appeared first on StarfleetComms.

StarfleetComms Podcast goes to the movies! We take on Ridley Scott’s Prometheus and a great short called Spectrum by Cody James Ong and Joshua Tendero Some would say that reviews on Prometheus would be a little late in the day but not us! There are very polarised views regarding this film that John Richardson and Sean Woodward discuss in depth with some opinion provided by Darrin Olson, Zak Starlord, Iain Sheridan and Trevor Marsh. Thanks guys! For that discussion, see here: https://plus.google.com/+Starfleetcomms/posts/3eu9GHWPiR8 You can buy Prometheus from Amazon by following this link. Timeline of Episode Two 00:00 Introduction 01:15 Prometheus: Plot summary. Warning there are spoilers from this point on, 02:04 Prometheus: We perform a no holds barred review of the film using the synopsis and taking into account both criticisms and praise which takes us on a surprisingly theological journey, links with the Dogon, holograms you can touch, quarantine procedures gone wrong, crazy crew capers, pirate treasure hunts in Nova Scotia and a possible theory around the medical pod settings. An entertaining and in many cases beautiful film nonetheless. Check out Sean’s information around the influences of HP Lovecraft  on HR Giger. 39:46 Spectrum by Cody James Ong and Joshua Tendero. We review this short film about a boy trying to escape alien abduction and explore the psyche of today with that of yesterday. Are alien abductions a modern version of the faerie rings of the fey? The next episode is all about the new series of Star Trek planned by CBS. We want to know what you’d like to see. Maybe you want a change from the Enterprise? Maybe there’s not enough alien looking aliens? Let us know! Contact us on any of the channels listed, comment on this episode or leave a voice mail. Fly safe out there! You can watch and subscribe to StarfleetComms on YouTube or listen and subscribe to StarfleetComms on Stitcher Radio and Player FM! Please remember to vote and review us. Thank you very much for listening or watching our science fiction podcast We really appreciate that you took time out of your day to visit. Feel free to comment or contact us on social media such as our YouTube channel, Facebook, Twitter, Google +, use the contact form or email us using [email protected]<> We'd love to hear from you, your comments might even be on the show! Thank you for the podcast reviews! Your written podcast reviews encourage us and they help other people find the podcast. If you appreciate the podcast, please write your own review on iTunes, Stitcher or UK Podcasters! The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S3E02 – Prometheus appeared first on StarfleetComms.

Show notes for the episode! Welcome to the third iteration of the StarfleetComms Podcast as promised. Unshackled from talking about one game only or indeed being a purely gaming related podcast our scope has widened to include all things science fiction. However we remain somewhat true to our roots for this episode, staying within familiar territory by discussing our recent experience at Fantasticon (Science Fiction and Fantasy Con in Hull, which was awesome) and the newly confirmed date for Elite Meet which is a social gathering for players of Elite and their friends. We then move on to science fiction book reviews, namely The First Exoplanet by TJ Sedgewick and Neuromancer by William Gibson then discuss some TV news before rounding off with a return to the writing scene and a brief mention for the Festival of Drabbles ran by Michael Brookes. You can buy The First Exoplanet by TJ Sedgewick and Neuromancer by William Gibson by following the links. Timeline 00:00 Introduction 01:11 Events: Fantasticon, our experience there. Elite Meet, date confirmed by Mike Snoswell. 06:18 Book Reviews: The First Exoplanet TJ Sedgewick, Neuromancer and The Peripheral by William Gibson 25:21 Video/film news: We discuss the newly proposed Star Trek TV series and ask ourselves some questions about Dr Who. Is it as good as we’d hoped? 33:01 Writing Blotter: We talk about the Festival of Drabbles 2015 held by Michael Brookes. Details at thecultofme.blogspot.com You can watch and subscribe to StarfleetComms on YouTube or listen and subscribe to StarfleetComms on Stitcher Radio and Player FM! Please remember to vote and review us. Thank you very much for listening or watching our science fiction podcast We really appreciate that you took time out of your day to visit. Feel free to comment or contact us on social media such as our YouTube channel, Facebook, Twitter, Google +, use the contact form or email us using [email protected]<> We'd love to hear from you, your comments might even be on the show! Thank you for the podcast reviews! Your written podcast reviews encourage us and they help other people find the podcast. If you appreciate the podcast, please write your own review on iTunes, Stitcher or UK Podcasters! The post StarfleetComms Podcast: S3E01- Fantasticon 2015 appeared first on StarfleetComms.