Bonus Picard: The Artificial Tango 1: We’ll Always Have Laris
Interphase: A Star Trek Universe Podcast
Release Date: 03/10/2022
Bonus Picard: The Artificial Tango 1: We’ll Always Have Laris
Interphase: A Star Trek Universe Podcast
“The Star Gazer” Following the events of Season 1, Picard returns to his life in France with the flame of love unexpectedly flickering in the vineyard. But when his connection to the Romulan Laris comes up against internal defenses, and Starfleet presents him with a mystery, Picard sets out on a journey of personal exploration that leads him to encounters with old friends. In this episode of The Artificial Tango, our rebranded dedicated Star Trek: Picard podcast that carries forward the flame from The Line, hosts C Bryan Jones and Matthew Rushing discuss the start of Season 2, digging into...
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3: The Iliad vs. The Odyssey
Interphase: A Star Trek Universe Podcast
Serialization in Star Trek. When it comes to discussion of serialization in Star Trek, Deep Space Nine is the go-to series—at least prior to Discovery and Picard. The Original Series was famously episodic, and The Next Generation, for the most part, followed that same pattern. DS9 itself barely moved away from the model in its first season, but then things started to change. By the time Voyager came along, the winds of serialization were blowing. But how do these two Next Generation spinoffs compare when it comes to story and character threads that span the seasons? In this episode of...
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2: Through Fresh Eyes
Interphase: A Star Trek Universe Podcast
Watching TOS for the first time, in 2020. For many of us, the five-year mission of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and the crew of the USS Enterprise is what hooked us on Star Trek and made us lifelong fans. But there are many who have never seen The Original Series, and still others who are just now finding Star Trek itself for the first time. What is it like to watch those episodes from the 1960s with modern eyes and sensibilities, without decades of seeing the mythos be built layer by layer, and the approach to storytelling evolve with the times? Can the expectations of today be set aside to allow the...
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1: What Color Is Romulan Zima?
Interphase: A Star Trek Universe Podcast
Lower Decks pre-launch speculation. Starfleet is preparing to become animated once again in the new CBS All Access series Star Trek: Lower Decks. Mike McMahan, writer and producer of the Cartoon Network animated comedy series Rick and Morty and creator of the Hulu animated series Solar Opposites, is introducing us to the people who really make a starship run. Apart from two 2019 installments of Short Treks—“Ephraim and Dot” and “The Girl Who Made the Stars”—Lower Decks marks the first “cartoon” incarnation of the franchise since Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–74) and...
info_outline“The Star Gazer”
Following the events of Season 1, Picard returns to his life in France with the flame of love unexpectedly flickering in the vineyard. But when his connection to the Romulan Laris comes up against internal defenses, and Starfleet presents him with a mystery, Picard sets out on a journey of personal exploration that leads him to encounters with old friends.
In this episode of The Artificial Tango, our rebranded dedicated Star Trek: Picard podcast that carries forward the flame from The Line, hosts C Bryan Jones and Matthew Rushing discuss the start of Season 2, digging into Picard as a character, his connection to Laris, how Seven on Nine serves as a mirror to Picard, how the story sets up a hopeful Federation worth saving, and how the characters transition from the story of Season 1. We also speculate on where the upcoming adventure in Los Angeles might take us.
Note: This episode is being published as a joint episode of Interphase, our Star Trek Universe podcast, and The Artificial Tango, with Interphase being used to introduce the name change and transition of The Line.
Hosts
C Bryan Jones and Matthew Rushing
Production
C Bryan Jones (Editor and Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Cornelia Reutner (Associate Producer)