Fireside 2.1 (https://fireside.fm) Temporal Investigations Blog https://www.temporalinvestigations.com/articles Mon, 05 Aug 2024 07:00:00 -0400 Temporal Investigations Blog en-us What's Your Favorite Star Trek Series? https://www.temporalinvestigations.com/articles/what-s-your-favorite-star-trek-series Mon, 05 Aug 2024 07:00:00 -0400 chad@chadkirchner.com 862e70d4-97df-4c74-9bff-2204d609ba5c Help us choose which series to start with! One of things I intend to do with the Temporal Investgations podcast is to do episode re-watches with my friends, while looking at each episode in the context in which it was filmed and when it aired, but also with a modern eye. Do the episodes still stand up? Were they good episodes then? But at the time of this positing, there are eleven different Star Trek shows that have aired (and more are in the works).

So I'm hoping to have your help! I've created a series of polls to help narrow down which are YOUR favorites so that the series we start with is the series you'll be most interested in. To help faciliate that process, I've created the polls on the Community tab of our YouTube channel? Why? Because YouTube will push community posts to more than just subscribers. It'll push it to people it thinks will be interested in the poll. You'll need a Google/YouTube account to participate this time, but as we grow we'll be able to try other was to get listener feedback and participation.

We'll do head-to-head polling in a double-elimination style to make it the fairest of the fair, and to make sure every series gets a shot at redemption. You can track the progress by viewing the bracket below.

For more methodology, we input all 12 different Star Trek series (we included Short Treks separately, as does Memory Alpha and Wikipedia) in debut order and randomized the order for seeding.

Vote Now In First Round

Note: Star Trek: Short Treks, Star Trek: Discovery, and Star Trek: Voyager all have a first-round bye. Technically, SNW and LD are in the second round, but since they're head-to-head we're including them now.

Each round will be considered complete when the respective poll receives at least 100 votes.

Good luck and happy voting! Thank you for your help!

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Welcome, Investigators! https://www.temporalinvestigations.com/articles/welcome Sun, 04 Aug 2024 15:00:00 -0400 chad@chadkirchner.com 70f6f3d8-7891-419b-886e-07f84d202b23 Welcome to Temporal Investigations, a new Star Trek-inspired podcast, blog, and YouTube channel! Hello, and I'd like to personally welcome you to Temporal Investigations. My name is Chad Kirchner and I'm the officer in charge around here. I've always wanted to do a Star Trek podcast, and now is as good of time as ever to do so! We're awash with new content, and there's a massive trove of back catalog stuff to cover. We'll do it all right here. If that sounds ambitious, you're right! While we'll focus on Star Trek, we won't be just recapping old episodes or movies. We'll talk about the cuture, the fandom, and everything that surrounds the science fiction franchise that launched in 1966.

"I guess you boys from Temporal Investigations are... always on time." - Jadzia Dax (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations")

That's one of my favorite quotes from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine because it shows that Jadzia Dax enjoys a good dad joke. And really, who doesn't enjoy a good dad joke? Also, there is so much time travel in Star Trek that there has to be an entire divison devoted to making sure people don't muck it all up. In future episodes, there's even timeships devoted to traveling and fixing the timeline. If that sounds like another franchise, you're also probably right.

Because there's such a back catalog of Trek to explore, the name Temporal Investigations makes sense. We'll talk about Trek's past, Trek's present, and Trek's future.

I hope you'll take the time to subscribe to the show by using the links above, and check back here regularly for news and updates. I'll also be recruiting friends and fellow Trekkies to come along on this journey with me. Above all, I'm interested in your feedback! You can use the Contact link above to send me a message directly.

I hope you enjoy and welcome aboard, investigator!

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