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Plain, Simple Tailors
Locutors of Trek is a thematically-driven, conversational approach to Star Trek in its diverse manifestations. From pen and ink to the silver screen, your hosts Dave and Davan AKA Plain, Simple Tailors share their interest in the science of Trek and love for all that lies out there, the Final Frontier.
Plain, Simple Tailors review the latest Star Trek comic book offerings from IDW.
The celebratory anthology book Star Trek #400.
And a book written by one of Davan’s favourite writer’s (Ryan North) Lower Deck’s #1!
Live Long and Podcast presents
Locutors of Trek: Trekle Trunk
Date of Podcast: September 16, 2022
Locutors of Trek: Trekle Trunk Series
THE LOCUTORS OF TREK
Davan Skelhorn, Dave Puxley
LIVE LONG AND PODCAST ORIGINALLY CREATED BY
Dave Mader and Jaemeel Robinson
A PROUD MEMBER OF THE UNITED FEDERATION OF PODCASTS,
A NETWORK FOUNDED BY
Dave Mader (Earth), Davan Skelhorn (Andoria), Jaemeel Robinson (Tellar), Chris Murphy (Vulcan)
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Davan Skelhorn
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Join Davan and the Dave’s he knows as they fire volley after volley of powerful verbal torpedoes at each other! Only the truths shall survive!
9 Star Trek Debates. No prior knowledge. Lots of fun!
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Laughter, they say, is the best medicine.
So - join Doctors Dave and Davan as we lead the revels and bring home the call-backs with a tour of our favourite funnies, from characters to situations to full-on funny episodes. We chart a course from the drôle to the absurd, trying to see whether there is a specifically Star Trek sense of humour.
Featuring: a review of the one-shot comic book "Star Trek: Ferengi - The Future Is Female"
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Join your Plain, Simple Tailors and guest Adam Woodward (Enterprise @ as they discuss three topics from our “Debate 9” series that needed a more in depth look.
Is “Today is a good day to die” a better warrior’s motto than “victory is life”?
Does Admiral power corrupt absolutely?
Does Deanna Troi commit malpractice due to her emotional boundary crossings with crewmembers?
Let’s launch a Class L Probe and find out!
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To practice our Tellarite culture most efficiently we’ve brought in Jody Simpson (Live Long and Podcast) to rattle sabres, argue, possibly even hurl a volley of insults or two with your Plain, Simple Tailors… in the “Be it resolved” style of course.
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Space: sine qua non of sentients, discrete in place and moment? Final frontier? Really, really, really, big? Topos of adventure, terror of tape-measures, tensor of time! Your Locutors make room for capacious dialogue in this assay at the Empyrian!
Plus: our Top 5 Planets we'd like to visit and rejoin Plain, Simple Tailors on the run!
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The Trouble with Trivia has returned with renewed determination from your Locutors to defeat the mighty champion Dave Mader! We are smart. Join us as we make answers go.
With Quiz Admiral: Ashley Millard
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This time we make first contact with friend of the show Michael Chan fresh off of his two appearances on the newest season of Star Trek: Discovery.
Michael is an actor, filmmaker, podcaster, and father so join us as we talk with him about these pursuits as well as the ultimate pursuit… being on Star Trek!
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In this new segment your Locutors are joined by recent “Debate 9” Champion Adam Woodward (Enterprise @ 8/Live Long and Podcast) to revisit some past debates that were left with much more to discuss!
Should Cardassia rebuild without outside interference? Would the Borg have defeated Starfleet had it not been for Q? And the classic debate is the Prime Directive a correct philosophy?
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In this edition of the Star Trek debate game with questionable rules the Locutors are joined by Adam Woodward (Enterprise @ 8/Live Long and Podcast). Great debates are had and perhaps even greater ideas!
*Davan’s microphone was having issues.
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Brunt! F. C. A. Is just one of the many Star Trek characters portrayed by the talented Jeffrey Combs. Your hosts go East to West and from Oxnard to DS9! From these many places we discuss the many faces of the talented actor, Jeffrey Combs!
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Tragedy stalks our star-crossed soundings in serial sci-fi. Misfortunes martial and material, downfalls diplomatic and dastardly, and the exigencies of existential entrapment all hound our steps as we try to tackle terrible travesties. Woe! Tribulation and trial. Enjoy!
Featuring: Our Top 5 times Star Trek made us cry.
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The most trouble filled Star Trek trivia returns with a Champions Edition. All 3 previous winners are back to find out who is the most championy(?)
Plus, new host Quiz Admiral Ashley Millard makes her debut!
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Join us for the next edition of Debate 9 where Davan will be joined by two new contestants and notable podcasters: Jeff Mader from Live Long and Podcast and Brian Babineau from the EDH Wrecked podcast!
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In this episode your Locutors talk technical about the medical devices of Trek, delve into doctorial dilemmas, and ask themselves "should you look a man in the brain before erasing his memories?"
Featuring: Top 5 Doctor moments in Star Trek.
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Join us as the two Dave’s find out if they have Klingon hearts beating in their chests. Glory is theirs for the taking if they can impress and appease our Klingon host! Qapla’!
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Davan interviews Andre about his art, acting, pro wrestling, and podcasting ahead of their new collaboration on a podcast called "X-Rated: The X-Men Animated Review Show!" Plus Davan and Andre do a complete review of 1997 Paramount/Marvel DS9 comic series!
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Welcome to “The Writer’s Room” where three writers make episode pitches to our Editor-in-Chief for season 1 of a Star Trek series called Star Trek: Saga taking place shortly after the conclusion of the Dominion War! Join us as collaboration ensues!
*mic issue gets resolved after about 4 minutes
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In this episode we invite you to share some time with your Tailors while we embrace the relationships in Star Trek. Enemies, frienemies, and foes collide while others search for Par'Mach in all the right places!
Featuring: Our Top 5 "relationships we wanted to see more of in Star Trek!"
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What is truth? Weaving through a consideration of Andrew J. Robinson's 2000 novel A Stitch in Time, we consider the life, work, and spirit of Elim Garak, the Locutors delve deep into Cardassian psychology, history and culture. From the ashes and dust project the possibilities of imaginatively entering the space of the other - and holding one's own.
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Mr. Scott beams in to host our first ON SCREEN version of "The Trouble with Trivia." Joining us as a contestant is Dave Mader from Live Long and Podcast!
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Plain, Simple Tailors had a quick jam from the Tailorshop! Their variations on a couple of Vic Fontaine standards "It's Only a Paper Moon" and "Fly Me To The Moon" as well as an original song "Less About More." Davan forgets a bridge, Dave empties his pockets and searches for a pick mid-song... Classic Tailors chaos and calamity!
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The Locutors have launched a live stream brand entitled ON SCREEN! In this first instalment, we welcome Dave Mader from Live Long and Podcast for a game of DeBate 9! An anomalous time of technical difficulties, off the cuff topics, losing count, laughs and ultimately debate ensues. Hey, you don't get to Warp 5 without crashing a few shuttles! Join us.
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Tacking into the winds of change, your Locutors stick their oars in and offer up, with a controlled and systematic hand on the tiller, a tour of the cybernetic. Positronics pop, punk and Pondsmithian fill out our reflections. All this, driven home with a healthy dose of Mr. Scott's principled presence in another round of debates!
Featuring: Our second Debate 9 segment!
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This week the Locutors get their house in order! Working from venerable economic conceptions from Plato to Marx to Keynes, the Locutors try to evaluate the logic of commerce, put a price tag on an economy of experience and harmonize the productive forces of our understanding in the attempt to explore the post-scarcity future.
Featuring: The second lesson in Avoiding Eternal Destitution for Hoomans!
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Deus meus, miserere me! This week your favourite Locutors dig into the ways in which spirituality and religion play into the Trek milieu. Be still our Klingon hearts! From the Prophets to the Founders, we take a leap of faith to survey the highways and byways of religion in Star Trek. And the Tailors go on tour!
Featuring: Another edition of Rename, Simple Tailors!
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In this episode, Davan brings a thesis of a sort to the ready room table about the great Captain Kathryn Janeway. Of all the Captains we have seen did Janeway start on the shakiest foundation? Did she commit herself, above all else, to be the one who can avoid catastrophe and fail? Or despite these things, did she achieve more and excel further than any other would have in her place? Join the Locutors as they discuss these questions and more!
(A bit of echo on Dave's vocals and mic bumping, but we have fixed sound issues going forward. Thank you for your understanding)
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A Supercut of the comedic and musical stylings of Plain, Simple Tailors with added material! Join the Tailors as they bumble their way around DS9 while trying to impress their hero, the one and only Vic Fontaine!
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In this episode the Locutors evaluate evil and inspect the illegal all while under cloak so as not to be studied back by the topic of the day. Criminality. No matter how far flung the future it follows along at pace and hides in the dark alleys of the cosmos. Luckily, the Locutors have their phasers set on flashlight! Also, Plain, Simple Tailors find time to contemplate their next move.
Featuring: Our Top 5 Criminals of Star Trek!
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Politics addresses our shared concern to live together. In this episode, the Locutors consider the foundations of the United Federation of Planets, its developing reach and the challenges, both internal and external, in pursuit of realizing its fundamental values.
Featuring: Mr. Scott makes his return for Trek Trivia Take Two!
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - thus speaks ancient Rome, in tones both Terran and alien can comprehend. From the bloodlust and glory seeking of Klingon martial culture, to the sophisticated realpolitik of Romulus and Cardassia Prime - and whether the Borg can even be said to wage war, or something altogether different - your Locutors trace the path of conflict through the Milky Way.
Featuring: our Top 5 warriors of Star Trek!
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In this our third Supplemental, the Locutors discuss decks 1 through 7 but no higher as this episode is all about Lower Decks! We're getting buddy buddy with Beckett and Boymler while competing for T-88's with Tendi and Rutherford! Ignore the cat in the coat and join us!
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The sanctum of the simulacral, the vestibule of verisimilitude, convection of co-implicated technologies and tool of the Imaginaut and the Gazetteer of the Galaxy - it's the Holodeck! Step right up and take trip to the tech, talk, and trivia with your very own Locutors of Decks!
Featuring: A premiere edition of Debate 9!
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Justice - universal right of access to fair and expedient decision? Performative and productive of the people's need for stability? A clash of legal mettle, and the truth the spoils of war? The Locutors have good times talking about hard time, working their way from San Fran to Rura Penthe - and even further afield - as they adjudicate this point.
Featuring: our dream crew compositions.
*audio quality not the best for this episode... our apologies.
The Locutors talk turkey on taxonomy, bilateral symmetry, and the evolution of species in Trek canon. The deep history of the Alpha and Beta quadrants comes into the discussion, as well as a consideration of life more generally, when the terms of experience defy and confound existing taxonomies, conceptual and cultural. Plus Plain, Simple Tailors sneak into Vic's lounge for some on-site practice!
Featuring: our Top 5 unseen characters/species that we would like to see!
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In this our second supplemental entry to the podcast log, we examine the life, death and future of Jean-Luc Picard. We also discuss the new Picard series. Dave holds back tears. But there are only blue skies between us and the stars. Join Us!
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This week Mr. Scott (no relation) uses his patented (pending) space-time transporter to beam in and host The Trouble With Trivia for us. Albeit an episode late as he's still working out bugs in the chrono-matrix. Then Dave and Davan discuss the more prominent cultures of Star Trek.
Featuring: The Trouble with Trivia
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Locutors of Trek takes a magic carpet tour of the many ways of getting around in Star Trek. From the trusty(?) transporter to the anti-matter-matter annihilation which winds up in Warp Drive. Plus: Plain, Simple Tailors stop by Vic's again to jam.
Featuring: our Top 5 Starship class designs!
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In the first instalment of our supplemental, shorter episodes, Dave and Davan discuss the artistic pinnacle of Deep Space Nine, "Far Beyond the Stars." Dave builds an argument around his favourite philosophical metaphor - the kaleidoscope. Approaching it from a number of angles, from the aesthetic to the ethical, your hosts unpack the dream - and its dreamer.
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Dave and Davan embark on a Kemocite infused journey through the time travel of Trek! While trying to escape a time loop at warp velocity!
Featuring: our Top 5 single appearance characters, a comic book review and Davan tries to rescue Dave from eternal destitution!
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Hailing Frequencies Open! Our first episode wends its way through introductions, mission statements and more before turning to the day's consideration: communication. From film to first contact, we dig deep into the importance and the many manifestations of communication in Star Trek.
Featuring: we play a game of Rename, Simple Tailors, translate the dialogue in “Darmok” and sing a song!
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