In this episode, we struggle to stay on the topic we meant to talk about; Season 3 TNG's 'The Offspring' (SPOILERS: Data becomes a daddy for about 42 minutes) and Season 5 DS9's 'The Begotten'. Totally not the same story, why would you say that? Odo not only becomes a quasi-parent, he also resolves his daddy issues. Totes not the same.
As we ended up talking about a wide variety of things, we'll try to ensure that there's actually show notes if there's anything you want to find out more about. That Enterprise D sim? You'll want to see that. Fiona is already saving for the VR headset specifically for that.
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Another lengthy episode! We have a lot to say about everybody's favourite Trek (TNG onwards, anyway) scoundrel - Q. And a few other things, which brings us to a very important show note: there's swearing in this one. A lot of swearing. If this is something you don't care to listen to, that's okay - skip the bit between 1hr 39mins and 1hr 47mins (and about 30 seconds).
We were interrupted about midway through, so there's an unavoidable break. Fiona's neighbour has a dog that doesn't like to be left alone, as you may hear later in the show. Speaking of hearing and Fiona, if you don't skip the sweary bit, you'll have the dubious pleasure of hearing how loud (and incoherent) she can get when provoked. Otherwise she's her usual barely audible self. Still working on that.
Finally, we finish off with a quote quiz between AB and Fiona. If you have any suggestions for quotes or questions, email them to angeltwopodcast@gmail.com and be sure to mark them 'FAO Sophie' in the title bar.
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While Fiona is far more audible this time, I also forgot to close the window, so sorry about the traffic noises. Won't do that again, unless there's a fire while recording, in which case traffic will be the last thing on all our minds. And my crossfade sucks almost as badly as Angel One. Still, like TNG, I may radically improve in about 2 years. You'll have to sit through some howlers until then, but I'll eventually pull it together and present you with the audio equivalent of The Offspring (Leonard John Crowfoot reference FTW!) and you'll be so glad you did*.
*Aspiration, not contractually binding.
The obvious place for us to go to is Angel One. Spoiler: it SUCKS.
We discuss how badly this episode sucks at great length, and more importantly, why it sucks so badly that Fiona rolled her eyes so hard at it, she fell out her chair. Trufax.
The format of the episode might be different to episode one; this is because Fiona - once safely seated again - is learning all kinds of audio trickery (and may even start using said trickery in the actual podcast sometime), so please give her feedback on whether or not it sucks as hard as an episode of TNG from 1987. Also, yes. She's still really, really quiet. It might actually be her, not the microphone. I also hate referring to myself in the 3rd person.
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Settle in with your cup of Earl Grey (hot), raktajino, Saurian brandy, or... well, it's green?
This is a long one!
We are AB Silvera, Sophie Norman and Fiona, and we're Star Trek obsessives fans. (Sorry, Sophie!) We're also feminists. Who loooove to talk about Star Trek. You won't know us from anything, unless you stalk us on twitter, in which case - hi Mum!
In this episode, we discuss our personal histories with Trek, and episodes we watched just before recording, which will hopefully give you an inkling about the course we're charting in our adventure. What do you mean, go over the Soliton Wave? Pah!
A note on the sound quality and editing: Fiona is doing this (she's the one who sat too far away from the microphone so is quite quiet) and is mostly learning from YouTube tutorials. At least my eyebrows are on fleek, right? In the 24th century, I'd be in a blue uniform, not a gold one. Hopefully this will become less obvious over time!
Music for our show is by our lovely friend Sandy and our logo is by our friend Kat (who is up to her eyeballs in the most beautiful PhD I've ever seen). Seriously, we have amazing and talented friends!
Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy!
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