Spiffy: "Star Trek: Eras" 

If you're looking for an entertaining bit of Star Trek fan fiction, check out this spiffy "radio" drama, Star Trek: Eras, that some pals of ours put together. :-) The series as a whole has good scripts and music, resulting in a solid overall production, and the current episode, "Yours, Mines and Ours", isn't ruined too badly (I hope) by my Lame-Arse voicing of Dr. Navid Daystrom.

Yeah, Husband Mike and I are both in this episode, and frankly, my performance is Sucktacular. (Which is a bummer, 'cause I didn't think I did that horribly during the recording session, just Moderately Lousy.) Oh, in case you're confused when looking at the performer credits, Husband Mike and I are going by the stage names of "Anne and Johnathen Michaels". (Which reminds me; I really should get off my butt and write up a blurb for my bio.)

They're loading up the episode in chunks, so only Act 1 of YMO is currently available, and I think Husband Mike's character, Lt. Commander Serat (a Vulcan), won't show up until Act 3 (memory is foggy). Another fun bit: Our characters are married, too, so that made acting together even more enjoyable.

Anyhoo, iffin' you'd like some Trekish goodness, take a listen.

BTW: I noticed in the "Special Features" section, they listed "Outtakes" as coming soon. That should be interesting; we're wrackin' our noggins trying to figure out just what sorts of incriminating and/or embarrassing stuff we said that they could use against us. Oh, the humanity! :-P

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Oh, my stars! 

Aaaaiiieee! The waitin' is driving me nuts!

Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
Release Date: 31 July 2007

"Times change. Dangers remain. 10 years after he became President of the Interstellar Alliance, Sheridan prepares for a fateful Babylon 5 reunion that could prevent Earth's impending doom ... if he will also compromise his core principles."

Ah, I remember eagerly awaitin' each new episode when the series was still in production ... and unsuccessfully trying not to bawl at the moving finale. What impressed me the most about the whole deal was that, unlike the Trek franchise (which I also enjoy), Straczynski -- a self-professed atheist -- actually included religion (!) in his vision of the future.

The episode that grabbed my attention and made me realize that this wasn't your typical Trek-wannabe was "Believers", in which an alien couple refuses to allow lifesaving surgery for their dying son, due to their religious beliefs. The ending, which packed quite a wallop, was not a Trek-style, Everything's-All-Nice-And-Tidy one, and took me completely by surprise.

My favorite episode, however, was "Passing Through Gethsemane", because it featured a (human) religious order whose charism was to seek out and learn all the different names that all races have for God. Mercy, forgiveness, redemption ... that story had it all.

Anyhoo, 60 days and counting ...

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