Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Journey #198 - First Contact by Murray Leinster (X-Minus One)

An Earth rocket makes first contact with an alien space craft in deep space. Both desire a peaceful trade of ideas and technology, but neither can trust the other enough to risk the fate of their home planets.



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Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975). He was an award-winning fiction writer, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC. Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950–51), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.
Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space

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Sunday, June 16, 2024

Trekkin' Log #11 - Star Trek: Lower Decks S1 Eps 1-5

Join Marshal and Keith as they trek with the ensigns on the lower decks of the USS Cerritos, namely Beckett Mariner, Brad Boimler, D'Vana Tendi, and Sam Rutherford, as they face zombie attacks, milk spiders, drunken Klingons, terraforming goo, fights to the death, and love parasites.




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Timecode                  Episode Title

00:21:00                    "Second Contact"

00:29:28                     "Envoys"

00:36:55                     "Temporal Edict"

00:45:46                      "Moist Vessel"

00:54:00                      "Cupid's Errant Arrow"


















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Monday, June 10, 2024

Outfield Excursion #30 - Cat People (1942)

Irena Dubrovna, a newly married Serbian fashion illustrator, is obsessed with the idea that she is descended from an ancient tribe of Cat People who metamorphose into black panthers when aroused.






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Episode Art courtesy of Gino Moretto.

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