Trek Talk with Tech and Kirk

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Trek Talk - Episode 92 - Warez, Anime, Voyager, Discovery Jul 18, 2022

Show notes

Gary the Hate Camel presents a podcast with Tech, Kirk, Handy and Boom:

Hosts: Techman16, StrangeKirk, Handy
Guests: getfresh, MadamStarGazer (66), Griz95
Topics discussed:
0:00 - Appreciating people on Mother's Day!
0:45 - GetFresh has a broken leg, and him and Tech used to FanSub Japanese Anime. Why am I not surprised?
8:46 - Bringing it full circle, the moon on a dial tone!
10:16 - Only of games you already own and thus are licensed to play, of course!
12:36 - Bringing it full circle again, that's a full 720 degrees for the price of...well, nothing, we don't charge for this crap.
24:35 - Software copyright ends at 15 years.
27:16 - We only call this is a Star Trek podcast, we don't actually talk Star Trek.
28:07 - Picard talk.
35:28 - Characters whose entire identity is wrapped around their race or gender end up being 1 dimensional characters.
39:07 - Forcing things on people rather than just having it there and letting people consider it, turns people away.
40:59 - Klingon crystals, huzzah!!! Maybe it's like crystal meth?
43:36 - Acting is a skill, being an authentic member of a social group doesn't mean you can act.
48:05 - Discovery's sets also suck.
50:13 - SNW, Techman approves!
51:55 - We only whip it out every 7 years.
52:54 - What the heck did Discovery do to Klingons?!?
59:33 - New trek doesn't follow any consistency unlike how TOS to TNG to DS9 to Voyager had flow.
1:02:45 - There is vastly more Star Trek content than Star Wars, due to the volume of TV episodes, in terms of tracking continuity.
1:03:12 - Today I learned that Tom Paris is actually Nicholas Locarno from TNG.
1:05:14 - In Picard they don't mention the diseases name, because TNG owns that.
1:09:50 - Patrick Stewart's approximate age.
1:11:43 - Is STFC one of the free MMO's? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
1:13:11 - How the Borg are handled in Picard.
1:21:02 - Ways to kill people in Star Trek.
1:22:32 - How did species 8472 destroy the Borg so easily?
1:24:17 - Techman goes back to tentacles as we continue to deep dive on Picard.
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Trek Talk - Episode 91 - SNW, Orville, STFC Jul 05, 2022

Show notes

Gary the Hate Camel presents a podcast with Tech, Kirk, Handy and Boom:

Guests: MadamStarGazer (66), PoorCoercion (60), Stratalorian (9)

Topics Discussed:

0:00 - Introductions, work avoidance, and truck talk!

4:05 - Latest episode of SNW, and how Tech has missed classic Trek trope style shows.

6:37 - Don't murder children?

8:25 - The world isn't fair, and people suffer. But people generally do the best they can to help when they're able.

14:33 - We go overboard with greed.

17:45 - Some retcon problems.

23:04 - Pike's hair is going to need some management.

27:42 - "Building Star Trek" documentary, and some of the differences in modern versus the original.

34:16 - Where Handy draws the line, and Gorn swamp ass!

35:20 - Star Trek 2?

37:23 - Orville talk, the horror episode!

39:13 - Episode writer was Brannon Braga, which as everybody (nobody but Tech and Brannon) knows is a co-producer of a bunch of Star Trek shows.

39:56 - The dark is too dark! Now let's kill these crewmembers...

45:39 - Scott Grimes played Malloy, who cares about American Dad?!?

48:09 - STFC complaints (this could take a while), though the Holodeck is nice.

58:58 - Scopely customer service issues.

1:01:20 - PvP improvements.

1:04:30 - Yell at Scopely!

1:07:30 - Debate on the game, and if it's still fun, despite the gameplay.

1:18:30 - Are people spending more now than during Covid?

1:20:24 - Feedback from newer servers on spend, and game cost in general.

1:25:21 - STFC suffers from a lack of meaningful and engaging content at this point.

1:26:22 - STFC could implement interesting systems, like Officer or Ship modifications.

1:28:52 - Change gameplay so you can PvP or raid to complete some dailies.

1:30:50 - Taking materials may not fly.

1:33:36 - Game was more engaging without shields, but the game isn't PvP oriented.

1:40:00 - Player marketplace.

1:42:00 - Ticketed events rewards are very meh.

1:45:01 - Handy refuses to talk shit about the alliances he hates.

1:47:18 - Tons of people get angry as fuck about this game, come talk about it!!! Then smack bases!

1:50:00 - Kick 'em while they're down!

1:51:16 - Sound cuts out, and resumes mid-discussion about strength of high level whales against low level ships.

1:53:52 - Combination level and power banding, to improve PvP!

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Trek Talk - Episode 90 - Gorn Retcon and Muting GC Jul 02, 2022

Show notes

Gary the Hate Camel presents a podcast with Tech, Kirk, Handy and Boom:

Guests: Linemen (34)

Topics Discussed:

00:08 - Handy is anger at lack of mentions!

00:41 - Strange New Worlds talk, the Gorn retcon, and casual fans.

09:54 - Gorn ship redesign.

13:23 - Back to SNW Episode 4 and bad science.

18:22 - Thoughts on Pike and Spock.

20:15 - Stargate SG1? What the heck is that?

22:25 - Noonien-Singh and ass wiping strategy.

27:21 - Kirk's wife is ruining the sexual event.

28:48 - Banging Selena Gomez in Asia (or South America) while getting stem cell treatment, and a quick trip down nipple placement lane.

32:58 - Awkward silence! And back to Discovery bashing, because why not?

34:37 - Rainforest in space, and a grown man fighting a Kangaroo.

35:15 - Techman16 played some STFC!

36:04 - Boomslang upon listening learns that on the PC Ripper's mod can turn off GC. Moments later, Boomslang has installed the PC version, then Ripper's mod, he has set GC to disabled! Now he is loading the game, checking for GC...and now quietly weeps a few tears of joy at the absolutely beautiful lack of GC!!!

38:09 - Blueprint recycling would be lovely!

43:52 - We have three loyal listeners! Just three, though.

45:05 - Linemen joins to give an update on life.

50:43 - Handy beats the recruitment drum!

53:19 - More endorsement for Strange New Worlds, seriously, watch it!

54:53 - What IS an Aenar?

55:40 - Star Trek: Enterprise, also worth watching!

58:55 - Tech is here to help!

59:03 - Why didn't Handy go watch big burly men? ...followed by way too much burly men talk.

1:04:40 - Kirk doesn't speak Polish.

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Trek Talk - Episode 89 - Strange New Worlds! Jun 30, 2022

Show notes

Gary the Hate Camel presents a podcast with Tech, Kirk, Handy and Boom:

Guests: ocmsrzr, Duke (45), vreddy (196), DreamWeaver (17)

Topics Discussed:

0:00 - Dive right in on Strange New Worlds.

1:04 - Let's talk about transporters!

9:40 - Tips and tricks with pattern buffers!

10:21 - TNG Where Scotty comes back, which is a good episode!

11:37 - Scotty (Doohan) says "Pad those numbers!" And you do what he tells you, because he's a badass.

16:24 - But the police CLEARLY solve crimes in 45 minutes, I've seen it on TV!

19:37 - More Discovery bashing, because it still deserves it. Always. Man, Discovery is awful!

21:54 - In DS9, Miles has to fight with current tech just due to the Federation/Cardassian difference, but in Discovery they go to the 32nd century and understand and integrate the new technology without issue, but we have to relearn between versions of Windows and Office!

25:15 - Back to Strange New Worlds, and Captain Pike talk!

27:02 - Where exactly do you think vocal chords are?

27:43 - Kirk will be in SNW Season 2.

31:57 - Learning from the Navy???

37:25 - Enterprise talk (Ocm loves the 18x's).

41:17 - Tuvok has failed to locate any fecal matter (where Spaceballs and Star Trek briefly, and beautifully, intersect).

42:55 - Actors avoid watching preceding material to keep it from influencing their performance, but shouldn't it influence your performance since that's the setting you're performing in?

45:16 - Ocm displays some early onset alzheimers, before pointing out how much Star Trek loves to throw in T&A for viewers.

47:17 - Ocm wishes Tuvok's T&A was shown less... Say-what-now-huh?

49:13 - SK can't get his mind off Tuvok in a sexy tight onesie.

50:35 - Been cross-dressing on the railroad, all the live-long day...

55:12 - 100th episode ideas?

57:09 - Getting older sucks.

1:00:10 - There is also a Crazy/Stupid scale in addition to the Crazy/Hot scale.

1:01:43 - Being well traveled doesn't always make you well traveled, and then back to the Crazy/Stupid scale.

1:06:26 - SK has not had good luck with 9's and 10's.

1:07:53 - Never date someone who is only dating you for one reason.

1:11:12 - Thoughts on splitting the show up.

1:20:12 - Split the show between STFC Talk and Trek Talk?

1:21:50 - We're not going to record Trash Talk because it will lose authenticity.

1:27:19 - The Afterparty, and how a lot of people become more comfortable talking when not being recorded.

1:28:54 - DreamWeaver joins to give some feedback as a fellow podcaster.

1:31:02 - How does DJ do it?!?

1:34:48 - DJ is a very focused conversationalist, so he is good at running a very informational, entertaining, and structured show.

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Trek Talk - Episode 88 - Fan Service, Anime, Picard and Turf Wars Jun 12, 2022

Show notes

Gary the Hate Camel presents a podcast with Tech, Kirk, Handy and Boom:

Guests: ocmsrzr, Tolstoy (45), DariusRex (34), MadamStarGazer (66)

Topics Discussed:

0:20 - Boom is again trying to shovel things into his mouth.

1:43 - Ocm calls Tolstoy Tolstory, while trying to compliment him.

2:24 - Picard talk.

6:16 - Techman explains what "fan service" actually means, and I'm a fan!

6:53 - Anime talk!!! And Ocm lets slip that he has kids! Also he's a giant nerd, but we all knew that, his anger could only be explained by "nerd rage".

11:57 - The age of consent...

12:43 - Back to Picard, and conventions!

26:56 - Latest Server 34 drama, and bringing a server to it's knees. Server 34 gets the best nutcases!

33:32 - When Boom is amused by the size of your ego, you know you are seriously in love with yourself.

36:30 - Subtle dig at Evil? ;-)

40:05 - Whales, and how the moral of Ocm's stories always comes down to "be grateful I don't decide to kill you".

45:59 - Bank on hate, always. And another "Tolstory" from Ocm.

49:03 - Whales go wild when their alliance doesn't have their back, and sometimes it can feel that way unintentionally.

1:01:00 - How Scopley messed up the Turf Wars design.

1:04:50 - Whale competition is fun for whales.

1:07:42 - Alliance armada drama will drive people INSANE.

1:11:00 - You do NOT have a right to an armada.

1:23:48 - Recruit through strength, and comport yourself positively.

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Trek Talk - Episode 87 - Discovery, DS9, STFC Cerritos Jun 11, 2022

Show notes

Gary the Hate Camel presents a podcast with Tech, Kirk and Handy:

Guests: ocmsrzr, boomslang, Tolstoy (45), DariusRex, DonaldTrump, Parzival (34), MadamStarGazer (66)

Topics Discussed:

0:11 - Shout-out to ItsJustSomeRandomGuy

2:15 - Techman has been put on Hard (Aggressive) ROE by the FDA

3:58 - Star Trek talk! We still hate Discovery. :P

5:17 - Dead people's emotions becomes magical space dust!!! Put down the crack pipe Discovery writers!

6:04 - We all fangirl over perhaps the single best Star Trek episode ever: Deep Space 9 Season 6, Episode 19, "In the Pale Moonlight." Watch DS9 if you haven't, and definitely don't just try to watch this episode as a 1-off, you need to see all of DS9.

7:25 - Dyson sphere? That's that thing that lets the Dyson vacuum swivel, right?

8:38 - More tentacles, what is with the tentacles?!?

10:11 - Cerritos and new officers breakdown, because sometimes we actually talk STFC!

24:01 - Not all officers are created equal.

41:32 - STFC crewing: this game is so simple!!!

43:32 - Coward Wars, aka Turf Wars.

48:35 - Theorycrafting on server merges.

51:52 - Cerritos cash grab.

1:01:42 - New content is just increasing the divide between regular players and whales.

1:08:31 - Is the game population overall growing or declining?

1:11:45 - MCRN player (Crashem) is, in fact, not dead.

1:20:17 - Pick the right house if you're going to go check on someone...

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Trek Talk - Episode 86 - Discovery Season 4 Review and Server 34 Peace May 28, 2022

Show notes

Gary the Hate Camel presents a podcast with Tech, Kirk and Handy:

Guests: ocmsrzr, l3g3ndaryDAD, Tolstoy, WhiskeyWoman (45), vreddy (196)

Topics Discussed:

0:23 - Welcome back Handy, it's been a while!!!

1:16 - LegendaryDad is introduced!

1:32 - LegendaryDad can no longer take it and quietly ejects.

1:37 - Techman's masochist side comes out, and he gleefully tortures us with Discovery.

2:05 - Handy asks LegendaryDad if he's seen Discovery's latest season, unaware LegendaryDad has already bravely run away.

2:26 - Techman rants about Discovery, starting with some positives (even Discovery can do something right sometimes).

7:33 - Ocm believes Discovery's AI is Marvin!

... Ok guys, seriously, if you don't know the bravely ran away reference watch 'Monty Python And The Quest For The Holy Grail', and if you don't know the Marvin reference of a sad AI then watch 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. Y'all are killing me.

13:24 - Ocm lies, claiming he can compromise. Or, how to deal with sentient AI's taking control of your ship.

17:13 - Discovery has a lot of fluff! Also...we're still f*cking talking about Discovery. Why?!?

18:10 - Some DS9 and Voyager talk.

20:36 - Battlestar Galactica enters the chat.

22:20 - Is Discovery significantly less relatable?

26:41 - Stargate: Atlantis enters the chat.

28:40 - Sounds like a know-it-all...

34:10 - Reality check, and moving on from talking about Trek shows.

34:21 - Peace has infected S34, and must be eradicated at all costs!

35:33 - It got pretty personal with the S34 conflict, how did that get quashed?

37:35 - Craig cuts out, yet again, because apparently Craig hates us. F*ck you Craig, f*ck you.

38:54 - We do act like adults. Just most adults are pieces of shit.

49:02 - So, ultimately, there's peace in S34.

51:34 - Big raiding discussion, including raiding Incho! Rom hate..?

1:16:10 - Still talking about raiding, now regarding the Amalgam and Treasury and the economy issue.

1:25:03 - Ultimately, we'll likely see Scopely make additional attempts to nerf the Amalgam on raiding huge bases.

1:26:34 - April Fool's Day fun on S45, war for all!!!

1:32:36 - Techman's current game experience regarding going to level 53.

1:36:33 - Ocm tells us if his parsteel generates ran for a full year and he got all the resources they generated, instead of the warehouse capping it, he wouldn't get enough tritanium to upgrade his dilithium vault. Not enough TRITANIUM from his PARSTEEL generators.

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Trek Talk - Episode 85 - Star Trek Picard Review, Prodigy, Lower Decks May 23, 2022

Show notes

Gary the Hate Camel presents a podcast with Tech, Kirk and Handy:

Guests: boomslang (45) MadamStarGazer (66), vreddy (196)

Topics Discussed:

0:00 - Welcome to dog talk! Sorry, you missed it, join the live show next time!

1:06 - Wherefor art thou Gigga-o?

8:43 - Some people just need to be banned.

8:57 - We do the show just to do it.

11:11 - Sometimes, people are assholes.

18:28 - If you want victory, kill miners!

24:30 - Picard "Plot Friction". Get it, it's like "Pulp Fiction" but "Plot Friction". No, it's nothing like "Pulp Fiction", stop judging me!

33:47 - Looking forward to Strange New Worlds!

..... - But we go right back to serious Picard plot issues.

42:17 - Guinan is one of those shotgun wielding pacifists!

46:35 - Lower Decks is worth the watch, just push through the first episode or two.

49:08 - Why are the turning Bond, Terminator, etc into women? Why not give women their own original heroes instead of feeding them rehashed scraps?

52:52 - Back to Picard plot holes, and evil ICE.

55:53 - Assimilate the G-spot with extreme prejudice!

1:03:33 - *Crickets*

1:04:29 - A little bit of Star Trek Prodigy talk.

1:06:06 - Why older Star Trek was better.

1:09:13 - Old men yell at clouds.

1:10:47 - Kirk begins to make a point, and the audio fails at 1:11:07.

1:11:07 - We dive into the economy, emotional maturity, and bullying.

1:15:24 - Does anything positive come out of social media?

1:25:02 - Might as well talk some STFC, eh? How about them button clicks?!

1:36:48 - Homework is to watch Season 4 of Discovery. I have opted for an F in this class.

1:39:30 - Resistance is futile...

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Trek Talk - Episode 84 - Random Game Ideas, AOL Chatrooms and Khan May 22, 2022

Show notes

Gary the Hate Camel presents a podcast with Tech, Kirk and Handy:

Guests: cDub, boomslang, Tolstoy (45), Inchoate, DariusRex, DonaldTrump (34), PoorCoercion (60), GigaTime (20), vreddy (196)

Topics Discussed:

0:00 - Wait, is this thing on? No intro, just straight into randomness!

1:43 - Just shut the fuck up.

2:04 - I knew it, I'm surrounded by Assholes! That's right, a Spaceballs reference two weeks in a row!

5:25 - If you have GERD or any other reflux issue, our apologies, skip this.

5:55 - CDub wants a D'vorce.

8:12 - Officer presets; too little, too late. No below decks makes it Charles Barkley "turrible".

11:08 - Treasury talk! *groan*

19:17 - That damn 1500 hostile cap, can't Scopely take it's damn medicine?!? Bipolar as fuck!

23:42 - Scopely COULD create a test server the community would use to find bugs, but don't.

26:52 - Scopely economics.

30:14 - We love it when we get more mining along with mining, right? Riiiight?

31:19 - Discord diplomacy.

41:29 - Remember that time you did that thing? Server 34 does, and they will keep the screenshots for eternity! (dee-da-dee, datur-dadur)

49:42 - Have to put the emotional masturbation in check...

57:46 - If Scopely releases a Server Move Prime Pack so anyone can move... S34 would be a ghost town, D'vor's at dawn!

1:01:38 - A 1997 AOL chatroom at 1am, but with ships!

1:05:49 - I can stop anytime I want! Also my phone is dying, hand me my tablet.

1:18:45 - Enjoy the game how YOU want, and give us all the leaderboards!

1:35:55 - Nintendo controllers! AKA Scopely doesn't add things when you get access to the resources ahead of time...

1:43:35 - And it's GigaTime.

1:46:48 - How do you grow an alliance? Well, I know they say it's a good fertilizer, but DEFINITELY don't shit on it.

1:50:17 - How is it Scopely never learns?

1:54:29 - For crying out loud, get Khan!

1:58:39 - The recording cuts out. :(

2:02:18 - No, no Boom did NOT have a fun time editing this. :P

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Trek Talk - Episode 83 - Picard's Tentacles May 09, 2022

Show notes

Gary the Hate Camel presents a podcast with Tech, Kirk and Handy:

Guests: boomslang (45), MadamStarGazer (66)

Topics Discussed:

0:52 - Picard! The tentacles, I mean tech, of the future!

2:25 - Borg subterfuge, because like fertilizer, Picard wants to try to grow things from bullshit.

6:12 - Sorry to the children, and a big moment of honesty from Handy.

10:30 - At least it's not Discovery.

10:53 - We don't censor you, display your ignorant fuckwittedness in all it's glory, but don't break the Discord TOS or you'll be gone.

15:58 - Handy power trips again!

22:18 - Let's talk Server 34 some more!

23:37 - Audience "participation".

26:25 - Why is Dark involved in the war between NONA and MBD?

30:24 - Circle jerk, YAY!!!

36:18 - What to do if you truly want peace.

44:20 - Tech says he's going to talk for Smooth, but I don't hear him carrying on both sides of a conversation, seems suspect!

56:36 - StrangeKirk leaving NONA?!?

1:02:20 - Dark lacks accountability.

1:08:42 - Some of these people were the MOST toxic people. Get it? MOST toxic... Is this thing on?

1:09:39 - Who are these bad apples? Also, apparently power means privilege, who knew?!?

1:14:46 - STFC is a social experiment.

1:19:18 - Congratulations to MadamStarGazer on being the head moderator.

1:19:53 - Trek Talk the flamethrower! If you don't get this Spaceballs reference, I pity you.

1:22:41 - Raise your hand and come on the show!!!

1:23:23 - Trek Talk OnlyFans, this is the REAL monetization effort!

1:25:47 - If you want to host panels to discuss things like crewing, gameplay, etc, reach out!!!

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