Larry Nemecek’s Trek Land

[Timofnine]

Watched part 1 and then wasn't allowed to watch part 2! (I was a nasty kid, apparently, and my parents used tv bans as punishment)

So you had the psychological trauma of believing that childhood hero Picard had been assimilated and lost to the Borg, until you were allowed to watch part 2? How did you eventually watch part 2?

I have never seen Star Wars, but would you say that the transition of Picard to Locutus is similar to the Skywalker to Darth Vader story? I am sorry if this is a stupid question, I am just curious.

 

[Dukhat]

I’ll ask him next week if you want? Or you could ask yourself.

Well, if you're already going to be on the podcast, and don't mind asking him my question, I'd be fine with that

 

[Timofnine]

Well, if you're already going to be on the podcast, and don't mind asking him my question, I'd be fine with that

You have given me a mission, and I shall succeed.

 

[NCC-73515]

So you had the psychological trauma of believing that childhood hero Picard had been assimilated and lost to the Borg, until you were allowed to watch part 2? How did you eventually watch part 2?

I asked if he remains a Borg, and they told me he ends up back in his ready room with just a few patches left on his face. Finally saw it later on a rerun.

 

[fireproof78]

How/where did you first watch Best of Both Worlds? Apparently the writers did not even plan it out! They wrote part one and had no idea how to finish the story, part two did seem like a bit of an anti climax to me at the time though, a bit of a rush job after boxing themselves in to a corner?

More a matter of they didn't know if Stewart would be back, so left it open that if Picard was killed Riker could step in. Since Stewart came back, they had to succeed in rescuing him so they couldn't just destroy the Cube. Minorly anticlimactic, but only in so far as I was expecting a big boom at the beginning, based on what my friends told me.

As an episode it's fine, average for TNG.

 

[Firebird]

I love his podcast, The Trek Files. Super highly recommended for some interesting dives into Trek production history.

The Trek Files has at times been super frustrating for me. There is an enormous amount of material in the Roddenberry archive that illuminates how TOS, TMP, and TNG were created, and yet he's gone over the same TOS season 3 script progress memo multiple times, and have spent several episodes on old pieces of fan mail.

 

[Timofnine]

The Trek Files has at times been super frustrating for me. There is an enormous amount of material in the Roddenberry archive that illuminates how TOS, TMP, and TNG were created, and yet he's gone over the same TOS season 3 script progress memo multiple times, and have spent several episodes on old pieces of fan mail.

That’s probably because Larry is not being asked the questions that you are interested in, so you should ask him about the things that you want to know in the chat. Discussion is driven from the audience interaction usually. It’s basically a Q&A…

Live episode on now, btw.

 

[BillJ]

I get all my nerd shit here, if Nemecek wants to share he can come type up a post.

 

[fireproof78]

I get all my nerd shit here, if Nemecek wants to share he can come type up a post.

I like this idea. Invite him here! Let him hock his wares to us poor plebes here. Wouldn't that be fun

 

[Timofnine]

Doug Drexler special guest tonight, btw. Shall I ask them both?

 

[fireproof78]

Doug Drexler special guest tonight, btw. Shall I ask them both?

I would welcome them hear rather than being afraid of going on YT. It used to be such a nice neighborhood.

 

[Firebird]

That’s probably because Larry is not being asked the questions that you are interested in, so you should ask him about the things that you want to know in the chat. Discussion is driven from the audience interaction usually. It’s basically a Q&A…

Live episode on now, btw.

The Trek Files podcast doesn’t have an interactive portion, unless you count the Facebook page. Are you instead thinking of Trekland?

 

[Timofnine]

The Trek Files podcast doesn’t have an interactive portion, unless you count the Facebook page. Are you instead thinking of Trekland?

Yes, I am thinking of Trekland. But my point still stands, you could ask him any of the things that you are interested in on Trekland. The show lasts about 3 hours and sometimes Larry runs out of things to talk about and rambles as a result to fill the time, so I am sure that he would appreciate your input as it would give him cool things to talk about.

 

[Dukhat]

Yes, I am thinking of Trekland. But my point still stands, you could ask him any of the things that you are interested in on Trekland. The show lasts about 3 hours and sometimes Larry runs out of things to talk about and rambles as a result to fill the time, so I am sure that he would appreciate your input as it would give him cool things to talk about.

Did you ever ask Larry my question?

 

[Timofnine]

Did you ever ask Larry my question?

Yes, I did. I have made a clip of your question (which I asked on your behalf) which includes his answer.

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It is mentioned that some of the kit bash models may have been published in the Star Trek Fact Files (which I have in storage), so I will look through them at some point and see what I can find but this may take some time…. If you cannot watch this video for whatever reason let me know and I will summarise.

 

[Dukhat]

Yes, I did. I have made a clip of your question (which I asked on your behalf) which includes his answer.

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It is mentioned that some of the kit bash models may have been published in the Star Trek Fact Files (which I have in storage), so I will look through them at some point and see what I can find but this may take some time…. If you cannot watch this video for whatever reason let me know and I will summarise.

Thanks for asking him my question, and I hope he does indeed make a kitbash slideshow in the near future. When he mentions the ‘Columbia’ that was used in PIC, I think he meant the Centaur that was used in PRO. The only known DS9 kitbashes that were published in the Fact Files were the Centaur and the tug, and the Centaur was woefully inaccurate to the studio model. It was that inaccurate version that was seen in PRO.

 

[Dukhat]

Yes, I did. I have made a clip of your question (which I asked on your behalf) which includes his answer.

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It is mentioned that some of the kit bash models may have been published in the Star Trek Fact Files (which I have in storage), so I will look through them at some point and see what I can find but this may take some time…. If you cannot watch this video for whatever reason let me know and I will summarise.

Did Larry ever show photos of any models?

 

[bonestech]

The Trek Files has at times been super frustrating for me. There is an enormous amount of material in the Roddenberry archive that illuminates how TOS, TMP, and TNG were created, and yet he's gone over the same TOS season 3 script progress memo multiple times, and have spent several episodes on old pieces of fan mail.

Hey Firebird! Believe it or not, I *just* stumbled into this thread and have been fascinated by this two-year-old convo— which already feels ancient. Was intrigued by your frustration/critique— not sure what we've ever gone back to more than twice, and even then with a different guest to get a different perspective— but now I'm curious to know what it was.

Just to say also, the show is about Gene's unseen files, whether they concern TOS, TNG, the movies or from Majel's era ... or his college speeches from the Guru Gene era, or interviews, his pre-Trek work. Or personal life at any time.

All from the POV that even if not an actual Trek show memo/story/letter/photo/blueprint, it affected or relfected his life — and so ultimately offered insight into Trek and/or its longterm DNA. And with the years passing and the culture shifting now, younger viewers may not always have context for pre-cellphone,pre-Internet, pre-million-channel causes for the lanbdscape. (BTW: Sorry you don't care for the "annual" fan mail show— we and most viewers always have a hoot with it,—but I try to make fans of other eras human and show what passion looked like in the "stamps & paper" days. At least it's only one epsiode a season, so you can easily skip it. But thanks for watching enough to be frustrated. Can I call you a Trekofile?

 

[bonestech]

Hey Firebird! Believe it or not, I *just* stumbled into this thread and have been fascinated by this two-year-old convo— which already feels ancient. Was intrigued by your frustration/critique— not sure what we've ever gone back to more than twice, and even then with a different guest to get a different perspective— but now I'm curious to know what it was.

Just to say also, the show is about Gene's unseen files, whether they concern TOS, TNG, the movies or from Majel's era ... or his college speeches from the Guru Gene era, or interviews, his pre-Trek work. Or personal life at any time.

All from the POV that even if not an actual Trek show memo/story/letter/photo/blueprint, it affected or relfected his life — and so ultimately offered insight into Trek and/or its longterm DNA. And with the years passing and the culture shifting now, younger viewers may not always have context for pre-cellphone,pre-Internet, pre-million-channel causes for the lanbdscape. (BTW: Sorry you don't care for the "annual" fan mail show— we and most viewers always have a hoot with it,—but I try to make fans of other eras human and show what passion looked like in the "stamps & paper" days. At least it's only one epsiode a season, so you can easily skip it. But thanks for watching enough to be frustrated. Can I call you a Trekofile?

This is Larry, BTW. Just realized that might not be clear, but that's my ancient Trek BBS handle there.

 

[bonestech]

Hello, Thread from 2023:
I'm crossing the Temporal Date Line to let yo know that
a) I just came across this thread, and I'm amazed (And this explains much, TimOfNine )
b) Now that we have moved and my archives are all started to be in one place and accessible, I may just go hunt all my Kitbash Navy slides and see what I truly have that's never been unseen
and most of all
c) Thanks all for your Trekland Tuesdays LIVE interest— the liveshow stays up with ALL the added chat after topic, but the edited theme-only edition is up 3-4 days later by weekend
c.1 ) AND that we've had more and more guests on in recent months
c.2) AND ditto for The Trek Files, and to say the whole series is now easily searchable thanks to a partnership and an expanded page on Memory Alpha with audio player, documents of the week, guest listed— all easily scrollable, and with hot links back into MA.
c.3) AND TTF finally has a decent community on Discord,m where I do an TTF-focused Trekofiles Tonight on the Mission Log Discord LIVE platform (as a Roddenberry podcast). That however is at midnight UK time, every other Monday, sorry — it was a compromised time slot all around. You access witht eh $1.month MIssion Log Patreon (and get ALL the Roddenberry podcast community and live streams, not just TTF).

Sorry to drop all that *kablooooie*...but I was so shocked and tickled to find this thread. It needed an update. Even if no one kept it going. Trek well!