Uncanny Treks: Recent Episodes
Bob and Matt
In this podcast, we explore the many different worlds of Star Trek, Babylon 5, Marvel, DC Comics, and everything in between.
Bob and Matt discuss "Days of Past Future", "A Force to Be Reckoned With", and "Rise of Apocalypse".
Bob and Matt discuss J.M. DeMatteis' continuation of the Spider-Man 94' animated series.
Bob and Matt discuss the final issues of H2sh Part 1 and the future for the Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee dumpster fire.
(Spoilers for this episode)
Current Comic Rankings:
- Fantastic Four #1-87(‘61) Jack Kirby & Stan Lee
- New X-Men (‘01)Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Phil Jimenez, & al.
- Fantastic 4 (‘09)Jon Hickman, Steve Epting, & al.
- Doom (‘24)Sanford Greene & Jon Hickman
- Fantastic 4 (‘02)Mark Waid, Mike Wieringo, & al.
- Boy Wonder (‘24) Juni Ba
- Fantastic 4 (‘89)Walt Simonson, Art Adams, & al.
- (New) Avengers & Secret Wars (‘13)Jon Hickman, Leinil Yu, Esad Ribić, & al.
- Archie v. Predator (‘15 & ‘19) Alex de Campi, Fernado Ruiz, & Robert Hack
- Batman: City of Madness (‘24)Christian Ward
- Ultimates Omniversal (‘15)Al Ewing, Kenneth Rocafort, Travel Foreman, & al.
- Aliens vs. Avengers (‘24)Jon Hickman & Esad Ribić
- DC & Sts of Gotham (‘06)Paul Dini, Dustin Nyguen, & al.
- Archie Punisher Batman (‘94)Lash, Buscema, Goldberg, O’Neil, Dixon, & al.
- Batman: Broken City (‘04)Azz & Eduardo Risso
- Gotham Y1 (‘23)Tom King & Phil Hester
- Suicide Sqaud: Get Joker! (‘22)Azz & Alex Maleev
- Mighty Avengers (‘13) Al Ewing, Greg Land, Luke Ross, & al.
- Legend of the Blue Marvel (‘08)Kevin Grevioux, Mat Broome, & Roberto Castro
- Black Panther (‘22)John Ridley, Germán Peralta, &c.
- Gotham City Sirens (‘09)Paul Dini, Guillem March, Peter Calloway, & al.
- Dr. Mid-Nite (‘99)Matt Wagner & John Snyder
- ∞ Gauntlet (‘91)Jim Starlin, George Pérez, & Ron Lim
- X-Men #1-19 (‘63)Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, & Werner Roth
- Avengers (‘63)Jack Kirby & Stan Lee
- Black Knight (‘21)Si Spurrier & Sergio Dávila
- Superman v. FF (‘99)Dan Jurgens & Art Thibert
- FF: 1234Grant Morrison & Jae Lee
- Werewolf by Night (‘23)Derek Landry & Fran Galán
- Avengers World (‘14)Nick Spencer, Jon Hickman, Stefano Caselli, & al.
- Batman: Hush(‘03) & H2sh (‘25)Jeph Loeb & Jim Lee
- Avengers AI (‘13)Sam Humphries & André Lima Araújo
- X-Men: Grand Design (‘19)Ed Piskor
- FF: Grand Design (‘19) Tom Scioli
- DC vs. AEW (‘26) Steve Orlando & Travis Mercer
- Gotham Knights (‘00)Devin Grayson, Roger Robinson, & al.
- Gotham Knights (‘02)Scott Beatty, Roger Robinson, & al.
- Gotham Knights (‘04)AJ Lieberman, Al Barrioneuvo, & al.
Bob and Matt discuss the third and final volume of Piskor's grand design for the X-Men.
Bob and Matt discuss X-Men Issues #55-66 from the epic collection entitled "The Sentinels Live".
Bob and Matt discuss X-Men issues #46-54 from the epic collection entitled "The Sentinels Live".
Bob and Matt discuss "The Coming of Galactus" which covers Fantastic Four issues #33-51 and Annual #3.
Bob and Matt discuss the first eight issues of the original Avengers run by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Master Plan of Dr. Doom" which includes issues #19-32 and two annuals.
Bob and Matt move into Al Ewing's next run with an extremely powerful team of heroes who have a goal of solving the impossible.
Bob and Matt revisit Spencer's Avengers World and Ewing's The Mighty Avengers to determine if their placement on our Uncanny Comics Continuum needs to be altered.
Bob and Matt switch gears, covering Kevin Grevioux's origin of the Blue Marvel in preparation for Mighty Avengers.
Bob and Matt continue their trek through Hickman's Avengers run with Avengers #43-44 and New Avengers #31-33.
Bob and Matt continue their trek through Hickman's Avengers run with Avengers #40-42 and New Avengers #29-30.
Bob and Matt continue their trek through Hickman's Avengers with Volume 6: Infinite Avengers.
Bob and Matt explore the first volume of Hickman's New Avengers entitled Everything Dies.
Bob and Matt complete their trek through Gotham City Sirens, covering the collected volume with issues #20-26.
Bob and Matt begin a trek into the very first Fantastic Four run written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Jack Kirby. This volume covers Fantastic Four issues #1-18.
Bob and Matt recap the highs and lows of Strange New Worlds Season 3. To futher support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks
Bob and Matt return to season 2 of Strange New Worlds to complete a missing recap. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "New Life and New Civilizations". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt continue their trek through Gotham City Sirens. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Terrarium". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the second volume of Gotham City Sirens. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Lake of Fire" and "Deadly Knights". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "4 1/2 Vulcans". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt continue their trek through Paul Dini's work with DC comics. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss John Ridley's third volume of Black Panther. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "What is Star Fleet?" To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss John Ridley's second volume of Black Panther. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss John Ridley's first volume of Black Panther. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Eyes of Wakanda. To Further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Through the Lens of Time". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the MCU's newest offering, Fantastic Four: First Steps. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the finale of Paul Dini's run on Batman: Streets of Gotham. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks,.
Bob and Matt discuss "A Space Adventure Hour". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee's fourth chapter of H2sh. To futher support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com.uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Shuttle to Kenfori". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the Dan Jurgens' DC and Marvel crossover comic from the late nineties. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss James Gunn's newest Superman film. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Hegemony Pt.2" and "Wedding Bell Blues". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the third volume of Walter Simonson's run on Fantastic Four. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Lash's 1994 Archie vs. Punisher. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the second volume of Walter Simonson's run on Fantastic Four. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the sequel to Archie vs. Predator. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Alex de Campi's Archie vs. Predator. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the first volume of Walter Simonson's run on Fantastic Four. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the final two volumes of Mark Waid's run on Fantastic Four. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss Matt Wagner's 1999 Dr. Mid-Nite. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss Mark Waid's Fantastic Four: Hereafter. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss Paul Dini's "Hush Money" from the pages of Batman: Streets of Gotham and they review the third issue of Jeph Loeb's "Hush 2". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.comuncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss Mark Waid's Fantastic Four: Authoritative Action. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Mark Waid's Fantastic Four: Unthinkable. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Tom King's 2022 Gotham City: Year One. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Paul Dini's "Heart of Hush" and review the second issue of "Hush 2". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the first six issues of Scott Snyder's "Absolute Batman" and Jason Aaron's "Absolute Superman", along with the first seven issues of Kelly Thompson's "Absolute Wonder Woman". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt continue to discuss Paul Dini's run on Detective Comics with issues #840-845. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt continue Paul Dini's run on Detective Comics with issues #827-834. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the first five issues of Paul Dini's 2006 run on Detective Comics. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss A.J. Lieberman's run on Gotham Knights. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Scott Beatty's run on Gotham Knights. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www,patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt continue their coverage of Devin Grayson's run on Gotham Knights with issues 14-24. If you would like to support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Devin Grayson's run on Gotham Knights (2000). If you would like to support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt continue their discussion on Jeph Loeb's "Hush" and Brian Azzarello's "Broken City". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Jeph Loeb's "Hush" and Brian Azzarello's "Broken City". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Hero or Menace" and "If This Be My Destiny". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Duel with the Devil", "Scorpion Rising", and "Tangled Web". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss "Secret Identity Crisis", "Hitting the Big Time", and "The Unicorn Unleashed". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Amazing Fantasy" and "The Parker Luck". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks
Bob discusses the best films he watched in 2024. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob discusses the best TV of 2024. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Lower Decks season 5, season 1, and the series as a whole. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob discusses the worst TV he watched in 2024. If you would like to further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "The New Next Generation" and "No Small Parts". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Fissure Quest" and "Crisis Point". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Collywobbles" and "The Tourmaline Necklace". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Pirates of Orion", "Bem", "The Practical Joker", "Albatross", "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth", and "The Counter-Clock Incident". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Upper Decks" and "Veritas". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Fully Dilated" and "Much Ado About Boimler". If you would like to further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss "Of Gods and Angels" and "Terminal Provocations". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Ambergris Element", "The Slaver Weapon", "The Eye of the Beholder", and "The Jihad". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Empress" and "The World". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob explains what happens in Venom 3 to Matt. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Star Base 80?" and "Cupid's Errant Arrow". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "A Great Or Little Thing" and "The Hanged Man". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Top Hat" and "The Magician". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "A Farewell to Farms" and "Moist Vessel". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel" and "Temporal Edict". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss "Gold Summit" and "The High Priestess". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Dos Cerrito", "Shades of Green", "Second Contact", and "Envoys". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www,patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Homecoming" and "The Fool". Please support our podcast by visiting http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Cent'anni" and "The Tower". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Bliss" and "The Hermit". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Inside Man" and "The Lovers". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the DC Black Label book The Boy Wonder by Juni Ba. To further support our podcast, please consider visiting our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Max's newest offering, The Penguin, and revisit Nicolas Winding Refn's earlier work with Too Old to Die Young. To further support our podcast, please subscribe to our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks,
Bob and Matt discuss Brian Azzarello's DC Black Label story "Suicide Squad: Get Joker!" with art by Alex Maleev. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss all ten episodes of the entire first season of Batman: Caped Crusader. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Matt spoils Ryan Reynold's newest Deadpool film for Bob. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss all of the big announcements from Marvel and Star Trek at San Diego's Comic-Con. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Pierce the Heavens, Superman!" and "My Adventures with Supergirl". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the second season of Star Trek: Prodigy on Netflix. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Death of Clark Kent". To further support out podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Olsen's Eleven". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Machine Who Would Be Empire". If you would like to further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Most Eligible Superman" and mention the previous episode "Two Lanes Diverged". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Fullmetal Scientist". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "More Things In Heaven and Earth" and "Adventures with My Girlfriend". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "More Things In Heaven and Earth" and "Adventures with My Girlfriend". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt share the best and the worst of X-Men '97 Season 1. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss "Tolerance is Extinction Pt. 3". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Tolerance Is Extinction Pt. 2". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Tolerance Is Extinction Pt. 1". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Bright Eyes". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.com.
Bob and Matt discuss the first season of Fallout on Prime. To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks to subscribe to our Patreon Exclusive podcast "X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice".
Bob and Matt discuss "Lifedeath Pt. 2". To further support Uncanny Treks, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks and subscribe to our Patreon exclusive podcast "X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice". Season 1 is now available at the Morlock ($1) level.
Bob and Matt, after a long week of mourning, are finally able to discuss "Remember It". To further support our podcast, please subscribe to our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the most recent news concerning Lower Decks and upcoming Trek projects. To support our podcast, please consider subscribing to our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the fourth volume of Hickman's Future Foundation (2011). This episode covers FF #17-23.
Bob and Matt discuss "Motendo/Life-Death Pt. 1". To further support out podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks to subscribe to our Patreon exclusive podcast "X-Men '92 vs. Young Justice".
Bob and Matt discuss "Fire Made Flesh" and the first issue of the X-Men '97 tie in comic.
Bob and Matt discuss "To Me, My X-Men" and "Mutant Liberation Begins". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks and download our exclusive coverage of X-Men '92 vs. Young Justice.
Bob and Matt discuss the sixth volume of Hickman's legendary Fantastic Four run. This episode covers Fantastic Four #605.1, 605-611.
Bob and Matt discuss the episode titles and synopses of the upcoming X-Men '97 animated series. Spoiler Warning for fans who want to know absolutely nothing going in. Check out our X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice podcast at http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the third volume of Jonathan Hickman's Future Foundation. This episode covers issues #12-16.
Bob and Matt discuss the fifth volume of Hickman's legendary Fantastic Four run. This episode covers Fantastic Four #600-604.
Bob and Matt discuss what is technically volume 4.75 of Hickman's legendary Fantastic Four run. This episode covers Future Foundation issues #6-11
Bob and Matt discuss what is technically volume 4.5 of Hickman's legendary Fantastic Four run. This episode covers Future Foundation issues #1-5.
Bob and Matt discuss the fourth volume of Hickman's legendary Fantastic Four run. This episode covers Fantastic Four #583-588.
Bob and Matt discuss the third volume of Hickman's legendary Fantastic Four run. This episode covers Fantastic Four #579-582.
Bob and Matt discuss the second volume of Hickman's legendary Fantastic Four run. This episode covers Fantastic Four #575-578.
Bob and Matt discuss the first volume of Hickman's legendary Fantastic Four run. This episode covers Fantastic Four #570-574.
Bob and Matt discuss the final two first season episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series.
Bob and Matt discuss the best TV Bob watched in 2023...not necessarily TV produced in 2023.
Bob and Matt discuss the DC Universe Animated Original movie Batman- The Doom That Came to Gotham.
Bob and Matt discuss the MCU's most recent theatrical release and the now streaming Blue Beetle.
Bob and Matt discuss "Caves", "The Inner Fight", "The Magicks of Megas-Tu", and "Once Upon a Planet".
Bob and Matt discuss "Parth Ferengi's Hearth Place", "The Survivor", "A Few Badgeys More", and "The Infinite Vulcan".
Bob and Matt discuss "Empathological Fallacies" and "More Tribbles, More Troubles". They also briefly talk about the Very Short Trek "Holograms All the Way Down".
Bob and Matt discuss the most recent Werewolf by Night one-shot comic written by Derek Landy and and drawn by Fran Galan.
In a giant sized podcast season premiere, Bob and Matt cover the first three episodes of the fourth season of Lower Decks, along with the first three episodes of the 1973 Star Trek: The Animated Series.
Bob and Matt discuss "Kiss Kiss Fall in a Portal". To support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "My Adventures with Mad Science". To support out podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Unnatural Alliances" and "Those Old Scientists". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "You Will Believe a Man Can Lie". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Who am I?" and "Lost in Translation". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Let's Go to Ivo Tower, You Say". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Karate Kid" and "Charades". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "My Interview with Superman". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Max's latest Superman offering. If you would like to further support our channel and gain access to our Patreon exclusive podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Chained Lightning" and "Among the Lotus Eaters". To support our podcast, please visit our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the 2019 film Ad Astra starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. If you would like to support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Man from the Edge of Tomorrow-Part 2" and "Ad Astra per Aspera". To support our podcast, please visit our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Man from the Edge of Tomorrow- Part 1" and "The Broken Circle". To support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob refuses to see The Flash, so Matt reviews and spoils the film for him. To support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss the next 10 issues of the LoS animated series tie in comics. If you would like to support our podcast, please visit http://www,patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the first six issues of LoS animated series tie in comics. If you would like to support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt come to the conclusion that Cocaine Bear is a modern day Goldilocks and the Three Bears. To further support our podcast, please subscribe to our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the final three episodes of Copenhagen Cowboy. If you would like to support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Last Generation". To support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Vox". If you would like to support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Dominion" and "Surrender". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks and listen to our Patreon exclusive show X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice.
Bob and Matt discuss "The Bounty". If you would like to support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the similarities between the short film, La Jetee (the Jetty), and the Bruce Willis time travel film 12 Monkeys. If you would like to support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks and download our exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice.
Bob and Matt discuss "Imposters" and "Dragon Palace". If you would like to support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks and listen to our coverage of X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice.
Bob and Matt discuss "No Win Scenario". If you would like to support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "17 Seconds" and "Vengeance is My Name". Please support our podcast at http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss "Disengaged". If you would like to support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss the premiere episode of Picard Season 3, which Bob only agreed to cover if Matt watched Copenhagen Cowboy. To support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Babylon 5 S3E5 and DS9 S3E6. To further support our podcast and receive exclusive content, please visit our Patreon at http://www,patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss Babylon 5 S3E4 and DS9 S4E5. To further support our podcast and receive exclusive content, please subscribe to our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.
Bob and Matt discuss B5 S2E3 and DS9 S4e4. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss the season finale of Picard. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss B5 S2E2 and DS9 S4e3. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss "Hide & Seek". To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss "Monsters" and "Mercy". To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss B5S3E1 and DS9S4E1-2. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of B5 Season 2. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss "2 of 1". To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss "Goldfish Problem". To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss "Fly Me to the Moon"
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Bob and Matt provide a recap of everything they liked and disliked in Season 3. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss "Watcher". To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss B5 S2E22 and DS9 S3E26. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob is forced to listen to Matt recount the plot of Matt Reeves' "The Batman". To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
SPOILERS for the Discovery Season 4 finale. Bob and Matt discuss "Assimilation". To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss B5 S2E21 and DS9 S3E25. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss the second episode of Picard season 2. If you like what you hear, please head over to https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks and subscribe at the $5 tier to receive a new episode every week. Thank you for supporting our work!
Bob and Matt discuss B5 S2E20 and DS9 S3E24. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss the first episode of Picard season 2. If you like what you hear, please head over to https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks and subscribe at the $5 tier to receive a new episode every week. Thank you for supporting our work!
Bob and Matt discuss B5 S2E19 and DS9 S3E23. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss S2E18 of Babylon 5 (chronological order) and S3E22 of DS9. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss season 1 of Peacemaker. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt discuss S2E16 of Babylon 5 and S3E20 & S3E21 of DS9. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Bob and Matt would like to share the first episode of their new podcasting endeavor. If you like what you hear, please head over to https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks and subscribe at the $5 tier to receive a new episode every week. Thank you for supporting our work!
Bob and Matt would like to share the first chapter in their latest podcast endeavor. If you are interested in listening to more, please head over to https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks and subscribe at the $5 tier to receive a new episode each week. Thank you for supporting our work!
Bob and Matt discuss S2E15 of Babylon 5 and S3E18 of DS9. To support Uncanny Treks, to keep B5 vs. DS9 on course, and to get your Patreon exclusive podcast X-Men 92 vs. Young Justice, please support us for as little as $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/Uncannytreks
Matt defends Garibaldi's "Down Below" disguise, while Bob gets deep into the philosophy of Effective Altruism.
All Alone in the Night S2E11 (15 Feb 95) vs. Heart of Stone S2E14 (6 Feb 95)
-The Shadows ate our episode on GROPOS vs. Life Support. Sorry folks! Thankfully they weren’t very good episodes
-Matt got Fire in the Sky (1993) vibes off Sheridan’s abduction
-We both get big Twin Peaks vibes off Sheridan’s vision
-We both love James Ellroy’s LA cop novels. Bob also loves Walter Mosley’s LA & James Sallis’s New Orleans PI novels
Coming of Shadows S2E9 (1 Feb 95) vs. Past Tense S3E11-2 (2-9 Jan 95)
-The Hugos recognize both science fiction & fantasy
-Bob sees both G’Kar & Mollari as being somewhat Falstaffian characters
-Emperor Turhan is played by the famous Austro-Turkish actor Turhan Bey, nicknamed Turkish Delight in 40s Hollywood who returned to US tv in the 90s, including playing a Russian on an early seaQuest DSV
-One of the many things that’s cringey about The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe is someone selling their soul for Turkish Delight
-Prime Minister Malachi is played by Jewish-American actor Malachi Thorne who also played False Face in the 60s Batman show, the Judge on the early 90s Batman cartoon, a gorilla in Batman Beyond, the Talosian keeper in the very first Star Trek ep, the commodore in the original series clipshow episode of that first episode, & a Romulan senator on TNG
-Matt & Bob discuss their reluctance to revisit the 60s Batman show & the good things they’ve heard about the Batman ‘66 comic
-If you want Roman intrigue, Bob always recommends I, Claudius (1976) &, for Venetian intrigue, Don’t Look Now (1973)
-Bob admires Brendan Fraser’s mullet in Doom Patrol
-Matt torments Bob w/ Robert Frost
-Bob wants to be buried w/ both the Little Red Book (1964) & the Rules of Acquisition (1995)
-The cop Vin is played by Dick Miller, he voiced a gangster in Mask of the Phantasm & played the newsstand vendor in Picard’s Dixon Hill program on TNG
-Bob has been deeply disgusted by Michael Shellenberger’s book tour & how he wants to expel the homeless from SF
-The best entry book on Trotskyism is Ernest Mandel Trotsky: A Study in the Dynamic of his Thought (1979)
-Pt2 references the greatest director’s credit of all time in The Wild Bunch (1969)
-Pt2 has Ron Howard’s brother as the guy who steals Dax’s combadge, his 2nd of 4 Trek appearances & only 1 as a human, the first being Balok in one of the first original series episodes, the third being a Ferangi in Enterprise, & the 4th being an Orion drug dealer late in Disco S1
Soul Mates S2E8 (14 Dec 94) vs. Fascination S3E10 (28 Nov 94)
-Bob continues to recommend the Thomas Pynchon-esque dramedy Lodge 49 (2018-9)
-One of the best books on Carnival is Joseph Roach Cities of the Dead (1996)
-Matt recommends the comic Batman: Long Halloween (1997), but Bob disagrees & just says go with the film The Godfather (1972), which Long Halloween shamelessly rips off
Race thru Dark Places S2E7(25 Jan 95) vs. Defiant S3E9 (21 Nov 94)
-A couple of cool alternative history novels that incorporate modern technology in Underground Railroad narratives are Colson Whitehead Underground Railroad (2016) & Ishmael Reed Flight to Canada (1976). Bob read the Whitehead after our recording & digs it. He hasn’t read the Reed yet but really digs his Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969) & Mumbo Jumbo (1977)
-The group telepathy scene does seem to anticipate JMS’s concerns in Sense8 (2015-8)
-Bob’s ranking of Riker guest spots: Voyager, Lower Decks, Deep Space 9, Picard, & Enterprise
Spider in the Web S2E6 (7 Dec 94) vs. Meridian S3E8 (14 Nov 94)
-Bob hasn’t watched much of either Parks & Rec or Brooklyn 9-9
-Bob strongly recommends the AMC show Lodge 49
-The voices of Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, Ra’s al Ghul, & the Judge from Batman: The Animated Series all show up on B5, & the voice of Riddler shows up on DS9.
-Edgar Rice Burroughs’s John Carter stars in the first planetary romance novel series
-David K. Johnson has written a good history of the Lavender Scare
-Jessica Walters played Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development
-The review of Ready Player 1 in ep 199 of Chapo Trap House is the only RP1 content you need
-Matt recommends the Neal Stephenson novel Snow Crash
-James Shigeta plays a Japanese-American detective in the Sam Fuller noir Crimson Kimono & a Vietnamese president in seaQuest DSV
-Twin Peaks is one example of US media paranoia of Asian businesspeople in the 80s & 90s
Long Dark S2E5 (30 Nov 94) vs. Civil Defense S3E7 (7 Nov 94)
-Dwight Schultz also played Howling Mad in A-Team & Barclay in TNG
-Jerry Doyle & Dwight Schultz both hosted rightwing radio shows, Schultz sometimes guesthosted for Doyle & Michael Savage, & Doyle’s show took Savage’s show’s slot. For the funniest account of Savage & his son, see ep 249 of the amazing podcast Grubstakers
-Bob hates on the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy franchise
Distant Star S2E4 (23 Nov 94) vs. Abandoned S3E6 (31 Oct 94)
-Bob & Matt failed to make any references beyond their usual Trek, Babylon 5, & Twin Peaks this week, so they’ll just include a link to the video, a preview of their upcoming Patreon campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQI8VA4Iayo
Geometry of Shadows S2E3 (16 Nov 94) vs. 2nd Skin S3E5 (24 Oct 94)
-Technomages don’t reappear in B5 but do play a big role in the spinoff Crusade (1999) & a novel trilogy (2001)
-Much to Bob’s distaste, Lord of the Rings & Power Rangers come up
-Michael Ansara plays the technomage as well as Kang in TOS & DS9 & Mr. Freeze in Batman TAS
-René Descartes entertains questions about the first principles of reason & the possibility of deception & error in Discourse on the Method (1637) & Meditations on 1st Philosophy (1641)
-Philip K. Dick’s narratives often engage w/ questions of Cartesian doubt, for example Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) & the film adaptation Blade Runner (1982) & “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (1966) & the film adaptation Total Recall (1990)
-Bob’s example of Cartesian doubt this time is the Hitchcock thriller The Lady Vanishes (1938)
-Matt makes grim Purge & Jonathan Swift references
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Bob and Matt discuss the announcement of Babylon 5 returning on the CW Network.
Price of Peace (comic Dec 94-Mar 95) vs. Equilibrium S3E4 (17 Oct 94)
-Bob vaguely paraphrases the opening line of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Cask of Amontillado’
-Matt & Bob references the post-Vietnam & X-Files vibes of the Earth Alliance govt. okaying the Minbari mindwipe of Sinclair
-Bob recommends skipping issues #5-10 of the first run of Babylon 5 comics, Matt recommends skipping issues #2-10
-The assassination plot seems very inspired by Oliver Stone’s film JFK (1991)
-The artist for issue #1-2, & 4, Israeli Mike Netzer, drew a Batman/Green Arrow graphic novel Matt & Bob read as kids, Poison Tomorrow (1992) as well as a 1978 Legion of Super-Heroes back-up where Mon-El fights the Khunds that Bob likes very much in Superboy & the Legion #236
-The fill-in artist for #3, Colombian Carlos Garzón, apparently mainly worked on Marvel Star Wars & DC Star Trek comics.
-The artist for #11 is Englishman John Ridgway, who did several fill-ins on the best run of the Spectre, John Ostrander’s in the early 90s
-Matt & Bob say Cypher sounds like a badass 90s superhero name, but in fairness it is the mutant name of the least badass 80s member of the New Mutants
-Bob makes the connections between the Siskos, beets, & black Louisianan cuisine to great Chew artist Rob Guillory
-Bob & Matt debate the meaning & entailments of the concept thirst
Revelations S2E3 (11 Nov 94) vs. House of Quark S3E3 (10 Oct 94)
-Matt & Bob debate whether Batman should be motivated by guilt in the same way as Spider-Man
-Matt connects Delenn’s post-cocoon skin condition to Greyscale in Game of Thrones
-Bob references June Lockhart from last season of Babylon 5 & the original Lost in Space
-Bob is fatigued of cliched recitings of W.B. Yeats & T.S. Eliot poetry
Points of Departure S2E1 (2 Nov 94) vs. The Search p1-2 S3E1-2 (26 Sep & 3 Oct 94)
-This week Matt & Bob are too excited to introduce the season premieres by name
-Matt no-sells Bob’s reference to the variety show Soul Train (1971-2006); in retaliation Bob no-sells Matt’s reference to the Borat franchise
Chrysalis S1E22 (3 Oct 94) vs. The Jem’Hadar S2E26 (12 Jun 94)
-Matt & Bob recorded a podcast episode on the penultimate television episodes of B5 S1 & DS9 S2, but Matt blacked out for 24 hours and lost all memory of "Legacies" and "Tribunal". He also keeps having flashbacks of torture and probing.
-Bob’s favorite Faustian narratives are Christopher Marlowe Dr. Faustus (1592), Goethe Faust Pt. 1 (1808), Lord Byron Manfred (1817), Herman Melville Moby-Dick (1851), & Oscar Wilde Dorian Gray (1891)
-Bob speculates that B5may be the first show to tell a whole narrative across multiple seasons, in contrast to a show like Wiseguy (1987-90) that did multi-episode arcs or more improvisational soap opera like Dallas (1978-91), Crime Story (1986-8), Twin Peaks (1990-1)
-Bob speculates that Harry Potter may be responsible for younger millennials’ and zoomers’ love for bildungsromans, in stark contrast to our elder millennial bitterness
-Bob does like the new but sadly canceled Twilight Zone (2019-20)
-Matt namechecks Banshee from the X-Men & Bob talks fondly about the Stepford Cuckoos’ disquiet that they lack telekinesis
-Matt fails his Voight-Kampff test for Galaxy-class starship empathy
-Bob, a UAW member, thinks highly of this radio episode on UAW president Walter Reuther’s death https://player.fm/series/history-conspiracy-podcast/the-death-of-walter-reuther-from-the-dave-emory-archives but not so highly of this podcast episode on Sen. Paul Wellstone’s death https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-strange-death-of-senator-paul-wellstone/id1235651909?i=1000501700367
-Bob hopes Black Lightning (2018-21) allowed Cress Wiliams to be as haughty in that role as he is as Talak’talan
-Bob lies & says we’re covering the B5 comic Price of Peace next, but, instead, we held off a couple of weeks on the comic & did the B5 S2 premiere & 2part DS9 S3 premiere next
TKO S1E20 (25 May 94) vs. Collaborator S2E24 (22 May 94)
-Matt & Bob debate whether we’d be better off w/ the Mutai or The Purge franchise
-Theodore Bikel also played Worf’s foster father in The Next Generation
-Matt’s favorite boxing movies are Rocky (1976), Raging Bull (1980), & Pulp Fiction (1994). Bob’s are The Set-up (1949), Raging Bull, & Creed (2015)
-Matt’s favorite martial arts movies are Drunken Master (1978) & Mortal Kombat (1995). Bob’s are both 1978 Shaw Bros films: 36th Chamber of Shaolin & 5 Deadly Venoms
-Bob embarrassingly forgot that Johnny Blaze is a nom de guerre of Method Man
-Twin Peaks & Sopranos are the best dream shows
-Matt & Bob both co-sign that Danny McBride’s HBO comedies are the great examples of contemporary southern realism
-Matt harasses Bob for not watching Logan (2017)
Quality of Mercy S1E19 (17 Aug 94) vs. Crossover S2E23 (15 May 94)
-Matt maybe coins a phrase for a common sf trope: hardluck telepathy, examples from the X-Men include: Jean Grey, Emma Frost, Betsy Braddock, Kwannon, David Haller, Xi’an Coy Manh, Dani Moonstar, Quentin Quire, David Alleyne, & Stepford Cuckoos
-Matt educates Bob on ‘Cult of Personality’
-All the talk of spacing puts Bob in mind of the famous hard sf tale ’Cold Equations’, although it’s arguably a bit ridiculous & pretty sexist
-Magneto gets mindwiped in the climax of Fatal Attractions (1993)
-Bob was foolishly misremembering the concept of Wolverine’s adamantium skeleton as being introduced in Weapon X (1991), but it was much earlier in Proteus Saga (1979), although Wolverine’s unbreakable bones were alluded to before
-June Lockhart played Dr. Maureen Robinson in the original Lost in Space (1965-8) & Dr. Rosen in this episode; sadly, there’s no reunion with Bill Mumy
-The best popular book on M4A is Tim Faust Health Justice Now: Single Payer & What Comes Next (2019)
-Bob references Sigmund Freud's very short essay “Medusa’s Head” (1922). The best & funnest popular introduction to psychoanalysis is Slavoj Žižek Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (1991)
-Bob & Matt compare the many episodes, comics, & novels set in the Mirror Universe
-Bob again waxes nostalgic about Diane Duane Star Trek novels
-Bob praises the Star Trek comics crossovers w/ Planet of the Apes (2015) & Legion of Super-Heroes (2012) & condemns the Dr. Who crossover (2012)
-Matt references an Odo retcon in the David Mack Section 31 novel Disavowed (2014)
-Great if controversial movies involving slavery include Burn! (1969), Mandingo (1975), Drum (1976), Django Unchained (2012), 12 Yrs a Slave (2013), Aferim! (2015),& Free State of Jones (2016)
Babylon² S1E18(10 Aug 94) vs. The Wire S2E22 (8 May 94)
-3 interesting superhero examples of the unstuck in time trope in Captain America: Reborn (2009-10), Batman: Return of Bruce Wayne (2010), & Infinite Avengers (2014)
-Matt gets Yaphet Kotto in Alien (1979) vibes from Garibaldi
-Matt gets Labyrinth (1986) vibes from Zathras
-Bob gets Tom Waits “What’s He Building?” (1999) vibes off Delenn
-Bob’s favorite Flying Dutchman narrative is the William Hope Hodgson weird novel Ghost Pirates (1909), available on Librivox
-Bob is very discontent w/ the climax of Fantastic 4: Grand Design (2019)
-Matt & Bob are relieved we didn’t get the Kira equivalent of Batman: Venom (1991)
A Voice in the Wilderness- Part 2 S1E17 (3 Aug 94) vs. Maquis p1-2 S2E20-1 (24 Apr & 1 May 94)
-Bob gets annoyed at Matt’s spurious Star Wars Death Star references
-Ron Canada played the crooked chief of LA police in The Shield (2002-8)
-There’s a very good 2017 episode of The Dig interviewing Aziz Rana’ about his book 2 Faces of American Freedom (2014) on US settler colonialism
-Bob’s about to start watching the short-lived, Thomas Pynchon-esque dramedy Lodge 49 (2018-9) that also features Bertila Damas
A Voice in the Wilderness p1 S1E16 (20 Jul 94) vs. Blood Oath S2E19 (27 Mar 94)
-Kor, Koloth, Kang, Curzon, & Sulu’s backstory w/ the Albino is explored in the Michael Martin & Andy Mangels Excelsior novel Forged in Fire (2007)
-Before TNG, in the Star Trek paracanon, Klingons were more like TNG Romulans, careful strategists, & Romulans were more like TNG Klingons, honor-bound warriors. For the essential Klingon TOS novel, see John Ford Final Reflection (1984), &, for the essential Romulan TOS novels, see the 5 Diane Duane novels from the 80s & 00s
-The failed Uncle Ruckus film kickstarter campaign was in 2013. A revival of the Boondocks is supposed to premiere on HBO MAX in 2022.
-The Psi Corps novel Bob intends to eventually read is Gregory Keyes Fate of Bester (1999)
-Matt & Bob reference Twin Peaks S3 The Return (2017), Catholic Twin Peaks aka Mare of Easttown (2021), Dexter (2006-13), & The Killing (2011-4)
-Matt & Bob ponder the 2-part storytelling in a variety of cartoons
-Bob connects the tropes of Halloween (2018), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), & Terminator Dark Fate (2019)
Eyes S1E15 (13 Jul 94) vs. Profit & Loss S2E18 (20 Mar 94)
-Bob misspoke & references the great Hong Kong film trilogy Infernal Affairs (2002-3) remade into Marty Scorsese’s The Departed (2006)
-There have been 236 Friends episodes (1994-2004) & 154 It’s always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005-) episodes so far. Bob stupidly misremembers Always Sunny episode title formats
-Matt dubs Jeffrey Combs the Stan Lee of tv sf
-Matt & Bob long for a rematch between The Rock & 7 of 9 in Picard S2
-Bob hates on Star Trek & Babylon 5 prequel novels, Matt hates on Arthurian parallels
-Pavlovian conditioning is not to be mistaken with Pavel Chekov
-Bob’s favorite book on climate change is Christian Parenti Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change & the New Geography of Violence (2011)
-The Time for My Stories (2021) podcast did an interesting episode on Dallas (1978-91)
-Ivanova has a dream with a Twin Peaks vibe
Grail S1E14 (6 Jul 94) vs. Playing God S2E17 (27 Feb 94)
-Matt commences his ritual of torturing Bob by reminding him of Friends: The Reunion (2021)
-Bob has been reading the Thanos v2 (2017-8) series, which has story arcs by Jeff Lemire/Mike Deodato & Donny Cates/Geoff Shaw & includes the conceit that Thanos tortures random people on earth, confident the Avengers won’t notice
-Blowback S2 (2021) about US-Cuba relations is the best podcast of the year
-Richard Poe did the audiobook for one of the great US novels, Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian (1985)
-Diane Duane’s excellent Star Trek novels include Wounded Sky (1983), My Enemy, My Ally (1984), Spock’s World (1988), & Dark Mirror (1993)
--For a recent critique of meritocracy, see Daniel Markovits Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, & Devours the Elite (2019) & a critical interview with the author on The Genn [Loury] Show
-Christy Marx, creator of Jem & the Holograms (1985-8), wrote this B5 episode
-For some reason Bob goes to The Practice (19997-2004) as the pinnacle of 90s network tv drama, probably because he finds lawyers more interesting than doctors
-Bob feels like Tolkein is a bigger influence on B5 than Arthurian legend, but there are many overt Arthurian references in B5 & the spin-off Crusade (1999)
-Matt & Bob rhapsodize about David Warner’s long career in & out of Trek
-William Sanderson plays the hotelier Farnum on the great Deadwood (2004-6)
-The B5 novel Kathryn Drennan To Dream in the City of Sorrows (1997) is set on Minbar
Signs & Portents S1E13 (18 May 94) vs. Necessary Evil S2E8 (14 Nov 93)
-The opening of ‘Necessary Evil’ has big film noir or gothic melodrama vibes like Wuthering Heights (1939), Rebecca (1940), The Letter (1940), Casablanca (1942), Jane Eyre (1943), Mildred Pierce (1945), or Secret beyond the Door (1947)
-Bob retells a maybe apocryphal story of confusion on the set of the film noir The Big Sleep (1946) between 3 of 20th century US’s great artists: Howard Hawks, William Faulkner, & Raymond Chandler
-An amazing loose depiction of a drunk Faulkner in Hollywood is the Coen brothers’ film Barton Fink (1991)
-Odo apes some lines from the great detective show Columbo (1971-8, 89-2003)
-The best book on femmes fatales is Mary Ann Doane Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis (1991)
By Any Means Necessary S1E12 (11 May 94) vs. Rules of Acquisition S2E7 (6 Nov 93)
-The best contemporary US & UK books on labor strategy from organizers are Jane McAlevey Raising Expectations & Raising Hell (2012), No Shortcuts (2016), A Collective Bargain (2020), Shaun Richman Tell the Bosses We’re Coming (2020), & Len McCluskey Why You Should Be a Trade Unionist (2020)
-For an an account of the recent wave of red state teachers’ strikes, see Eric Blanc Red State Revolt (2019)
-Other interesting labor union episodes or seasons of tv include Deep Space 9 S4 ‘Bar Association’ (1996), The Wire S2 (2003), Battlestar Galactica S3 ‘Dirty Hands’ (2007), & Snowpiercer S1 (2020)
-For some interesting books on cross-dressing in different historical narratives, see Marjorie Garber Vested Interests: Cross-dressing & Cultural Anxiety (1991), The Female Marine & Related Works: Narratives of Cross-Dressing & Urban Vice in US Early Republic (1998) ed. Daniel Cohen, & Heather Humann Gender Bending in Detective Fiction (2017)
-Fascinating works of cross-dressing on stage & screen include William Shakespeare 12th Night (1601), Thomases Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girl (1611), Billy Wilder Some Like It Hot (1959), & Tim Burton Ed Wood (1994)
Survivors S1E11 (4 May 94) vs. Cardassians S2E5 (24 Oct 93)
-Garibaldi’s, Sinclair’s, & the Shadows’ backstory are further explored in a very bad arc of the Babylon 5 DC comic, Shadows Past & Present (1996)
-The classic contemporary critique of NAFTA is the Ralph Nader edited collection Case against Free Trade: GATT, NAFTA, & the Globalization of Corporate Power (1993) that includes contributions from Jerry Brown, Wendell Berry, & occasional sf writer Margret Atwood
-On FDR’s selectively vague & historic 1932 campaign, see Donald Ritchie Electing FDR: New Deal Campaign of 1932 (2007)
-Matt & Bob talk again about Andrew Robinson’s backstory novel for Garak, Stitch in Time (2000)
-For the further adventures of Rugal, see Una McCormack Never-ending Sacrifice (2009)
-Garibaldi’s & Kemmer’s emotional incest energy reminded Bob of the much better Arthur Miller tragedy View from the Bridge (1955)
Believers S1E10 (27 Apr 94) vs. Invasive Procedures S2E4 (17 Oct 93)
-We were happy to recognize John Glover who played Lionel Luthor & voiced the Riddler on Batman: The Animated Series & Tim Russ who played Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager
-The Trill issues raised in this episode callback to our prior discussion: https://rss.com/podcasts/b5ds9/174686/
-Some of the implications about the Trill symbiote selection process being suspect are also present in Star Trek: Discovery Season 3
--For a recent critique of meritocracy, see Daniel Markovits Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, & Devours the Elite (2019) & a critical interview with the author on The Genn [Loury] Show
Deathwalker S1E9 (20 Apr 94) vs. The Homecoming- The Circle- The Siege S2 E1-3(26 Sep, 3 Oct, 10 Oct 93)
-A quick consult of the Babylon Project wiki says the only two major Earth Alliance wars before the series Babylon 5 began were the Dilgar War (2230-2) & the Earth-Minbari War (2245-8), although we later vaguely learn of something called the Canal Wars, which don’t sound like a major interstellar war & may’ve occurred between Earth Alliance & Mars separatists
-League of Non-aligned Worlds, according to the Babylon Project wiki, has an average of 14 members, although that often fluctuates, but they are limited to 10 ambassadors w/ a collective single vote (although in Bob’s memory it seems like sometimes the League only gets to use their vote as a tiebreaker when there’s a deadlock among the 5 major powers) on the Babylon 5 Advisory Council. The entry doesn’t give any sense of the League’s history prior to it being invaded by the Dilgar in 2230
-Frank Langella’s roles include Skeletor in Masters of the Universe (1987) & the kindly Soviet spymaster Gabriel in The Americans (2013-8)
Sky Full of Stars S1E8 (16 Mar 94) vs. In the Hands of the Prophets S1 E20, Finale (20 Jun 93)
-René Descartes entertains questions about the first principles of reason & the possibility of deception & error in Discourse on the Method (1637) & Meditations on 1st Philosophy (1641)
-Philip K. Dick’s narratives often engage w/ questions of Cartesian doubt, for example Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) & the film adaptation Blade Runner (1982) & “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (1966) & the film adaptation Total Recall (1990)
-If you want more info on the RFK assanination & conspiracies around it, check out the excellent podcast season RFK Tapes (2018)
The War Prayer S1 E7 (9 Mar 94) vs. Duet S1 E19 (13 Jun 93)
-”War Prayer” (1905) is a Mark Twain prose poem, originating from his disgust about the Spanish-US war & US occupation of the Philippines
-Upon rewatching, G’Kar is inciting a crowd of Narn, Minbari, Drazi, & presumably other species from the League of Non-Aligned Worlds that Bob didn’t recognize. Pointedly, no Centauri are in the crowd
-The new delegate to the League was Mila Shar of Abba IV
-Harris Yulin is famous for playing the hanging judge in Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
-The great 90s cop show famous for its interrogation scenes is Homicide (1993-99)
-The summary of the Andrew Robinson novel Stitch in Time (2000) about Garak’s pre-history makes it sound like Garak’s role in the Cardassian occupation of Bajor was minimal, with him being forced to work as a plain, simple tailor by Dukat for revenge. The Dafydd ab Hugh novel Courageous (1999) seems to have flashbacks on what Winn Adami did during the Cardassian occupation. Bob was mistaken about the Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens trilogy Millenium (2000), which seems like an alternate universe narrative. The Terok Nor trilogy (2008) seems to cover the whole history of the Bajoran occupation & the final novel, S.D. Perry & Britta Dennison Dawn of the Eagles,seems to partially cover Odo’s time as security chief on Terok Nor when, according to the Memory Beta summary of the novel, he was an active collaborator w/ Kira & the Bajoran resistance against the Cardassian occupation. Bob read the Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch novel Vectors (1999) when it came out, which deals w/ the Cardassian occupation, but Bob cannot remember any details about this disease novel other than the presence of Dr. Pulaski from the Next Generation & Odo
-Although the paracanon of the novels seem to dispute this, we speculated that Odo’s role as security chief under the Cardassian occupation was similar to Claude Rains’s character as a Vichy French policeman in the great film Casablanca (1942)
-For an in-depth history of nazis fleeing to Latin America, see the podcast TrueAnon’s 5-part Spider Network series (2020, episodes 66, 74, 83, 87, & 89). For science-fictional treatments of the same topic, see the film Boys from Brazil (1978) & the comic Manhattan Projects (2012-6)
Mind War S1 E6 (2 Mar 94) v. The Forsaken S1 E17 (23 May 93)
-The great rabbit is on the lawn in Donnie Darko (2001)
-Walter Koeing played navigator Chekov in seasons 2 & 3 of the original Star Trek (1966-69) & guest starred in the Baywatch spoof Son of the Beach (2000-2)
-Koeing’s parents were Russian Jewish immigrants from Lithuania to Chicago
-Alfred Bester is a great golden age sf writer who wrote the novels Demolished Man (1953) (a version of Dostoevsky Crime & Punishment [1866] but w/ telepathy) & Stars My Destination (1956) (a version of Dumas Count of Monte Cristo [1844] but w/ teleportation)
-Alfred Bester’s work on the original Green Lantern spanned 1943-7
-The scale of the Sigma 957 walker reminds Bob of the weird fiction of H.P. Lovecraft & Matt of the DC comics character Spectre (the best Spectre run, by John Ostrander & Tom Mandrake, ran 1992-8)
-JMS wrote about 2 dozen episodes of the cartoon Real Ghostbusters (1986-91). His better comics runs include his run on Thor (2007-9) & the early part of his run on Amazing Spider-Man (2001-7) while the worst stuff include his runs onBrave & the Bold (2009-10) & Superman (2010-5)
-Matt’s subsequent browsing confirmed that Digipets premiered in ‘97
-Bajoran Militia uniform colors are command red, security brown, operations gray, & engineering green/gray
-Bester’s salute is a reference to the all-time great English show The Prisoner (1967-8), influential on both Babylon 5 & Twin Peaks S3: The Return (2017)
B5 S1 E5 Parliament of Dreams ( 25 Feb 94) v DS9 S1 E13 Battle Lines (25 Apr 93)
-Baruch Spinoza is a Dutch philosopher of Portugese Jewish ancestry, famous for his pantheist (or crypto-atheist) metaphysics & ethics & really influential on later continental European philosophy
-Screwball comedies are a romantic comedy subgenre prominent from the 1930s to mid 60s, famous for witty banter & the battle of the sexes. Classic examples include The Awful Truth (1937), His Girl Friday (1940), & Some Like It Hot (1959)
-Bill Mumy played in 3 Twilight Zone episodes: ‘Long Distance Call’ & ‘It’s a Good Life’ (both 1961) & ‘In Praise of Pip’ (1963) and Will Robinson in Lost in Space (1965-8) along with Jonathan Harris as the wonderfully queer and archly English Dr. Smith
-Mumy co-created the Nickelodeon kids show Space Cases (1996-97) w/ Peter David, famous for his runs on the Marvel comic X-Factor (1990-3, 2005-15) & for creating the new Star Trek novel series New Frontier (1997-2015). Space Cases bears some visual similarities to the forthcoming kids cartoon Star Trek: Prodigy (2021-)
-The great Hong Kong action director John Woo did direct a failed Lost in Space reboot pilot for the WB in 2004, & the sets were sold to the already running Battlestar Galactica reboot (2003-9)
-The much more successful Netflix Lost in Space reboot (2018-21) has Mumy briefly play a Dr. Smith whose identity is assumed by a confidence artist played by the excellent Parker Posey
-’Battle Lines’ gives Matt vibes from the great postapocalyptic film series Mad Max
-Jonathan Banks is most known for his roles on the crime shows Wiseguy (1987-90), Breaking Bad (2008-13), & Better Call Saul (2015-22)
-Our 2nd homage to The Godfather (1972), this time from Babylon 5
-The best books on Star Trek & economics are French economist Manu Saadia Trekonomics & Peter Frase 4 Futures: Life after Capitalism (both 2016)
B5 S1 E4 Infection (18 Feb 94) v DS9 S1E11 Nagus (21 Mar 93)
-Ikarrian infections recalls in various ways the Star Trek: Next Generation antagonists the Borg, the role of evil AI in the original Trek (“Return of the Archons” [1967] & “Ultimate Computer” [1968] are 2 of the most prominent), the Phalanx in X-Men comics (they’re first big story Phalanx Covenant came out a few months after this episode, the Black Panther antagonist Klaw (debuted 1966), & the Terminator (1st 2 films came out in 1984 & 1991)
-DC Comics published an 11-issue B5 comic series (1994-95). The first arc, Price of Peace, was published in a trade paperback, & we will probably cover it on the show between S1 & 2 of B5. The second arc, Shadows Past & Present, explores the backstory of how Garibaldi & Sinclair meet. It isn’t good, folks. In 1998 DC republished a 3-issue B5 mini called In Valen’s Name, which takes place in B5 S4, we might cover that. DC’s interest in B5 comics may have stemmed from its long swath of publishing Trek comics (1984-96)
-David McCallum was one of the leads of the excellent English series Sapphire & Steel (1979-82). The other 2 charismatic characters from Sapphire & Steel, beside the leads, were Lead & Silver. The finale of Sapphire & Steel influenced Twin Peaks Season 3: The Return (2017)
-Mark Fisher, one of our great theorists & horror media critics, writes about Sapphire & Steel in his Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (2014), although his posthumous The Weird & the Eerie (2017) is also relevant.
-The leather aesthetic was big in the first X-Men film trilogy (2000-6) & Grant Morrison’s New X-Men run (2001-4)
-Quark’s reception of a petitioner is an homage to the opening scene of The Godfather (1972)
-Ironic given his portrayal of a capitalist patriarch, Wallace Shawn is also a socialist playwright & his monologue play The Fever (1990) is a particularly harsh presentation. The podcast Proles of the Round Table has an excellent version of the play.
-Scenes of learning to read in primary or secondary languages or awakening to the power of the written word are an important trope of Afro-American literature, for example in Frederick Douglass & Richard Wright autobiographies Octavia Butler Dawn (1987) sf novel
B5 S1 E3 Born to the Purple (9 Feb 94) v DS9 S1 E8 Dax (13 Feb 93)
-For more about metaphysical questions of identity, consult the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entries on ‘identity’, ‘personal identity’, ‘identity over time’, & ‘relative identity’
-For a recent critique of meritocracy, see Daniel Markovits Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, & Devours the Elite (2019) & a critical interview with the author on The Genn [Loury] Show
-Trills factor heavily into Star Trek: Discovery S3 (2020-1) & the new space opera novel that has shaped Bob’s understanding of the Trill as an integrated consciousness is Arkady Martine Memory Called Empire (2019)
“Long Black Veil” is a famous country ballad originally performed by Lefty Frizzell (1959) similar to the plot of “Dax”. The ballad has also been covered by Joan Baez (1963), Johnny Cash (1965), & al.
-Italian actress Fabiana Udenio is best known for roles in Austin Powers (1997) & Jane the Virgin (2014-9)
-The use of Quark’s bar as a courtroom recalled similar scenarios in westerns like Man who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) & Deadwood (2004-6)
-Other, better Star Trek episodes involving legal proceedings are Next Generation episodes “Measure of a Man” (1989) & “Drumhead” (1991) & the Voyager episode “Death Wish” (1996)
-DS9 returns to questions of murder & the Dax symbiote in “Equillibrium” (1994)
B5 S1 E2 Soul Hunter (2 Feb 94) v DS9 S1 E7 Q-Less (8 Feb 93)
-Bob misidentifies the year for “Soul Hunter”; it’s actually 94
-Sf writer Isaac Asimov is most famous for his Robot (1950-6) & Foundation (1951-3) trilogies
-Bob continues his streak of being one year off on airdates, Bladerunner is actually 82 (it came out on the same day as John Carpenter’s The Thing, remarkably)
-Q appears in 10 episodes across almost every season of Next Generation, Vash appears in the Next Gen episodes “Captain’s Holiday” (1990) & “Qpid” (1991)
-Two of the best studies that explore the triangulating dynamics of desire are René Girard Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure (1961) & Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Between Men: English Literature & Male Homosocial Desire (1985)
-Harry Mudd has appeared in 2 original Trek episodes, 1 animated Trek episode, 2 Discovery episodes, & 1 Short Trek
-The new space opera novel that has shaped Bob’s understanding of the Trill as an integrated consciousness is Arkady Martine Memory Called Empire (2019)
-Prof. Moriarty tries to murder by exsanguination in Sherlock Holmes & the Secret Weapon (1943)
-Twin Peaks S3: The Return (2017) is the best thing to air on tv since the moon landing
-The best cocoons in pop culture are spun by the kaiju Mothra
-N’Grath does seem to only appear in B5 S1. His ancestor Zorak debuted in 1966 & returned for Space Ghost: Coast to Coast in 1994
In this bonus episode, Bob and Matt discuss the trailers that dropped on First Contact Day.
B5 S1 E1 Midnight on the Firing Line (26 Jan 94) v DS9 S1 E3 Past Prologue (11 Jan 93)
-Lursa & B’Etor appeared in the Next Generation episodes “Redemption” (1991) & “Birthright” (1994) & movie Generations (1994)
-Andrew Robinson, the great actor who plays plain & simple Garak, published the novel Stitch in Time (2000), which fills in Garak’s backstory & was published as the last numbered DS9 novel shortly after the end of the tv series. The novel would be very influential on the DS9 relaunch novels (2001-17) that continued the story after the tv series’ end
Babylon 5: The Gathering (22 Feb 93) v DS9 S1 E1-2 Emissary (4 Jan 93)
-We weren’t wild about Tamlyn Tomita’s performance as Lt. Cdr. Takashima, but we love her as Commodore Oh in Star Trek: Picard (2020)
-Johnny Sekka who played Dr. Kyle was a Senegalese-born Gambian actor famous from the London theater scene
-Dr. Kyle’s & Ms. Alexander’s openings of Ambassador Kosh’s encounter suit reminded us of scenes in the films Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), & Pulp Fiction (1994)
-A fantastic early use of Medusa in sf is Catherine Moore tale “Shambleau” (Weird Tales 1933), and the other famous weird fiction writer referenced is H.P. Lovecraft, known for his Cthulhu Mythos (1917-35)
-The amazing DS9 dream episode w/ Sisko as 50s sf writer is “Far beyond the Stars” (1998)
-The early Next Generation episodes w/ crossovers to the original Star Trekseries we reference are “Encounter at Farpoint” (1987), “Sarek” (1990), “Unification” (1991), & “Relics” (1992)
-Colm Meaney’s post-DS9 work includes Intermission (2003) & Hell on Wheels (2011-6), René Auberjonois’s post-DS9 work includes Boston Legal (2004-8), & the great Michelle Forbes appeared as Ro Laren in 8 episodes of Next Gen S5-7 (1991-4)
-For more on the historical specificity of antisemitism, see the political economist Moishe Postone essay “The Holocaust & the Trajectory of the C20” (2003)
-DS9 premiered in Jan 93, B5 in Feb 93, & X-Files in Sep 93
-Delenn’s rings have big Green Lantern Corps or the Mandarin (Iron Man antagonist) energy
-Afrofuturist novelist & sf critic Samuel Delany seizes on descriptions of doors as an example of the techniques of sf language in prose fiction late in his essay “About 5,750 Words” (1968)
Introductory episode:
-Even as 90s kids, we weren’t clear on the differences between Babylon 5 (1993-9), Stargate SG-1 (1997-2008), & Farscape (1999-2004)
-The aborted B5 computer game was developed by Sierra, the company famous for King’s Quest (1980-2016) & Space Quest (1986-95)
-B5 S1-4 was on PTEN, B5 S5, most of the latter tv movies, & the spinoff series Crusade (1999) were on TNT
-Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-93) is a big touchstone for both of us, Matt likes “The Inner Light” (1992) episode, Captain Riker’s adventures continue in the fun Titan novels (2005-17), but the proliferation of new Trek tv series set after the movie Nemesis (2002) have led to the announcement of a Coda trilogy of novels (2021) to end the extensive novel series that had continued the Next Gen, DS9, Voyager, & Titan crews’ adventures
-The first DS9 console game was Crossroads of Time (1995)
-As kids we both played the Star Trek 25th Anniversary computer game (1992) & the sequel Judgement Rites (1993)
-The B5 S2 episode Bob references is “Distant Star” (1994)