The Shuttlepod Show

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   E1. "How to Find Nuclear Wessels" with Walter Koenig

   Nov 27, 2022 · 72m

   The Voyage Begins Again! It's the first episode of our second season. Connor and Dominic go old school with legendary Star Trek Original Series icon Walter Koenig. After giggling about their summer breaks, they learn about Walter's journey, how the more things change for actors, the more they stay the same. Gain new insights into Star Trek's early struggles to be taken seriously by Network and Studio executives. The guys perhaps draw some parallels to their own series, Star Trek Enterprise. They discuss accents (we get a surprise visit by Chekov himself!), auditions. Deep dives into Star Trek's history. Erica gets some fan questions in. And more. It's a simple conversation episode with a real mensch. It's nice to be back.

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   E2. "Especially the Lies" with Andrew Robinson

   Dec 4, 2022 · 66m

   It's the second episode of our second season. Connor and Dominic talk some deep shop with Star Trek Deep Space Nine legend Andrew Robinson. A lot of actor good feels here. They discuss Andrew's life, his father a victim of WWII, his mother and her struggles thereafter. Acting school. Acting after school. Theater. Dirty Harry. How deciding that wanting to F*** Dr. Bashir made a character great. Erica gets some fan questions in and more importantly, dishes on growing up in Hartford, CT with Andy. Plus more. It's another conversation episode, this time with a real fake spy.

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   E3. "Canadians, Trills, de Boers, Oh My!" with Nicole de Boer

   Dec 11, 2022 · 72m

   It's the third episode of our second season. Connor, Dominic, and Erica vibe some real life friends chat with Star Trek Deep Space Nine's second Old Man (Ezri Dax) Nicole de Boer. A lot of chill and giggle going on. They discuss Nicole's life, her handsome liar father,, her mother and her Star Trek loving, all around great guy Step Dad. To acting school, or to not acting school. Early successes. Canadian made for TV movies. What it's like to join a show in its seventh season. Erica gets some fan questions in and re-introduces trivia, this time it's "How well do you know your guest" and the guys play for a Patreon Member. Plus more. It's another conversation episode, this time with a lovable Canadian born American.

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   E4. "The Sisko Kid" with Cirroc Lofton

   Dec 18, 2022 · 72m

   It's the fourth episode of our second season. Host Dominic Keating is home healing from injury. As such, Connor and Erica are joined by guest host, Producer Mark, to shoot the breeze with an actor we all watched grow up on Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Cirroc Lofton, beloved for his roll as Jake Sisko, son of Captain Sisko. "The kid from DS9" is all grown up and has a lot of terrific stories to tell. They discuss Cirroc's life, his first experiences as a child actor, his thoughts on growing up on Trek, and more. Trek conventions. Trek convention body guards. Launching a restaurant. Hosting his very successful podcast The 7th Rule, which he started with Deep Space Nine bestie, and real life great guy, the late Aron Eisenberg (Nog from DS9). Erica gets some fan questions in, we play Trek Trivia, and more. It's another conversation episode, this time with a real cool cat who happened to grow up a block from where we sat to talk.

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   E5. "Regardingg Henry" with Gregg Henry

   Jan 1, 2023 · 85m

   Happy New Year! Season 2, episode 5 is here. Our guy Dominic is still home taking it easy, recuperating. As such, Connor, Mark, and Erica talk some surprisingly insider baseball with the incredible journeyman actor Gregg Henry, known to the world for his roles in huge movies like Guardians of the Galaxy, Slither, Payback, etc., and for being in nearly every notable television show since the ‘80s — a great “been in everything” actor, he is better known to us Trek fans for his role as the Arkonian pilot notorious for shooting down Trip Tucker (Trinneer) and having one of those “we are enemies stuck on a planet and don’t understand each other” episodes in Enterprise episode “Dawn.” He also played Gallatin, the good hearted bad guy in Star Trek: Insurrection. Notably (for us), he ALSO played Sheriff Bourne in an episode of Firefly.

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   E6. "Deep Space Nana" with Nana Visitor

   Jan 8, 2023 · 101m

   Season 2, episode 6 is here. Our guy Dominic is still home, recuperating. Connor, Mark, and Erica talk with the amazing Nana Visitor, known to the world for her portrayal of Kira Nerys in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. We learn about Nana's childhood, a daughter of a "very theatrical family" in NYC. How she skipped out on Princeton to dance as a chorus girl, why she likes her hair, where her name "Visitor" came from and how much she loved playing Kira. She's writing a book about women in Trek. She's loving life and it shows. Wash has a new pot. Erica gets some fan questions in, Connor and Nana play for Patreon Member Lee Nickel in this week’s Star Trek Trivia, and Nana plays “Stuck on a Deserted Island with Connor Trinneer.”

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