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Alienating the Audience — 170 episodes

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The Friendly Hivemind of Pluribus

2

This is How the World Ends: Apocalypse in Science Fiction

3

"Scream" meets "The Truman Show": The Cabin in the Woods

4

Let's Argue About the Prime Directive

5

The Last Starfighter

6

Women Can Electrocute You

7

Time Loops

8

Holy Space Capitalism of the Feringi

9

Cheating with a Sexbot

10

"Alien" is Dudes Afraid of Getting Knocked Up

11

A Canticle for Leibowitz

12

A. I. As Monkeypaw Slaves

13

A Clockwork Orange's Secret Extra Chapter

14

Faster Than Light Travel in Sci-Fi

15

Stay Your Age Right Now Forever

16

All The Gods Suck, Except "Circe"

17

"1984" According to Julia

18

The Zen of Robots

19

Much Ado About Garak

20

Doublethinking George Orwell's 1984

21

Why Picard's Last Season Is So Much Better Than The Others

22

Super-Intelligent Spiders And A Sleeper Ship: Children of Time

23

The Corporate Dystopia of Jennifer Government

24

There Are Infinite You's in the Multiverse

25

Escaping the Truman Show

26

Snowcrash Created the Metaverse

27

Shrinkage!

28

Meeting Celebrities at Sci-Fi Conventions

29

Soylent Green is People!

30

The Hilarious Fantasy of Terry Pratchett

31

Strange New Worlds is the Star Trek We Deserve!

32

Trapped In John Malkovich

33

Reproduction in the Final Frontier

34

Intergalactic Politics in "The Expanse"

35

Nixon Selling Pizza on the Moon

36

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

37

If You Leave the Holodeck On Too Long...

38

Peacemaker is the Ultimate Loserhero

39

Send in the Clones

40

The Ineffable Planet of Sentient Goo

41

Rick And Morty is Hilarious Nihilism

42

The Fifth Element Is Teenage Scifi

43

Irritating Vulcans in "Enterprise"

44

Lady Terror in "Don't Worry, Darling"

45

Jesuits in Space!

46

The Sith are Emo Fascists

47

"They Live" is fear of Reagonomics

48

If Sociopaths Had Super Powers: The Boys

49

But What if We Swapped Brains?

50

Only You Can Save JFK - Stephen King's "11/22/63"

51

How Time Travel Works in "Interstellar"

52

Every Single Star Trek Android, in Erratic, Sloppy Order

53

Dark Side of "Moon"

54

Why the Jedi Order Failed

55

Maoists and Space Aliens

56

The Mirror Universe in Star Trek

57

"Her" is the Ultimate Breakup Film

58

Dilbert Meets Orwell in "Severance"

59

Only Watch "Flash Gordon" on Acid

60

Hollywood Sermonizing vs. Good Storytelling

61

Andor Loves Public Choice Theory

62

Moriarty on a Starship

63

"The Prisoner" is Deliciously Campy

64

How to Write Kickass Science Fiction

65

"The Whistler"

66

Of Goblins and Autism

67

Scottish Starfleet Draft Picks

68

Animatronic Humans of the Apocalypse

69

"The Singularity Comes For Home Office Equipment"

70

Franchise Fatigue

71

The Forever War

72

Humanity is Underrated: the Deathworld Series

73

Keeping up with the Cardassians

74

Waterworld is an Aquatic Western

75

What Makes a Terrible Sidekick

76

Plot Holes!

77

It's Time to Watch Babylon 5

78

Children of Men

79

We Are Legion, We Are Bob

80

The Giant Universe of Doctor Who

81

Jordan Morris on Satire in a Dome

82

Los Angeles is Hideous

83

False Memories in Science Fiction

84

Logan's Run is Afraid of Baby Boomers

85

M. R. Carey on Hopeful Dystopias

86

The Bioethics of "Gattaca"

87

Andy Weir on "Project Hail Mary"

88

Jedi Warriors and Islamic Mysticism

89

Kurt Vonnegut Hated War

90

Galaxy Quest is the Greatest Sci-fi Comedy, Ever

91

The Time-Backwards Robot Monster

92

Darth Vader is a 19th Century Supervillain

93

Watchmen Part 2: The Greenwood Massacre

94

Watchmen's Fake Psychic Squid Attack

95

Are We Living in "Demolition Man"?

96

If An Insane Asylum Was an Entire Planet

97

Mad Max Has the Best Barbarians

98

Why "The Mandalorian" Works

99

Deadly Sex Objects in The Stepford Wives

100

Vagabonding: Two Santas for Life Day

101

The Villainess from "Ex Machina"

102

The Future of Humanity Involves Gene Upgrades and Cyborgs

103

The Alternate History Where Nazis Won

104

Vagabonding: The Voyage Home (for Ska)

105

The Last Policeman

106

The Philosophy of "The Matrix"

107

"The Road" is the Ultimate Dystopia

108

A Million Steve Jobs and the Future of AI

109

Gays in Starfleet

110

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

111

The Black Hole - Movie Club

112

Assemble Your Own Star Trek Series

113

Vagabonding: The Lizard Man of Staten Island

114

Philip K. Dick Is About Broken People (And Robots)

115

Vagabonding: Return to the Fembot Homeworld

116

How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse

117

Vagabonding: The Return of Nick

118

How They Made Mystery Science Theater 3000

119

Vagabonding: The Wrath of Nick (Comedy)

120

Vagabonding: Nick and Heaton meet the Spacehead god (Comedy)

121

Vagabonding: Nick and Heaton go to Narnia

122

Vagabonding: Heaton Gets Totally Recalled (Comedy)

123

Vagabonding: Hot Detroit! (Comedy)

124

Philosophy in the Delta Quadrant – Star Trek: Voyager

125

Why We Love Supervillains

126

Vagabonding: Murder Accusations (Comedy Sketch)

127

Let's Fight About "The Undiscovered Country"

128

Religion's Two Treatments in Science Fiction

129

V'ger, Sybok, and Whales! Star Trek's Least-Appreciated Films

130

The Mythology of Star Wars

131

Should We Be Worried About the Lack of Aliens?

132

Star Trek Conspiracy Theories include "The Transporter is a Murder Box"

133

We Can Freeze You: How Cryonics Works

134

Battlestar Galactica & The War On Terror

135

Is Life Worth Living in a Perfect Utopia?

136

Turns Out, We're All Probably Martians

137

How to Build a Giant Robot

138

Twenty Years After the Zombie Apocalypse

139

Deep Space Nine is About Outsiders

140

Buddhism, Optimism, and Black Mirror

141

Marry Bop Kill: Star Trek (Live Show)

142

How to Make Money on Mars

143

Pitch Us On Stargate!

144

Starfleet Draft Picks (Live Show)

145

Nano Robots Aren't Trying to Kill You

146

The First Modern Zombie Novel

147

Hugh Howey on Making an Entertaining Apocalypse

148

Understand Every Scifi Hero through Dungeons & Dragons

149

If We Met Aliens Could We Even Communicate?

150

Who To Kill or Not Kill if You've Got a Time Machine

151

How Midichlorians and Harry Potter's Wizard Genes Work

152

Stop What You're Doing and Watch "Picard"

153

How to Build a Colony Ship

154

The Meaning of Spock

155

When Darwin Meets Star Trek

156

Let's Argue About "The Rise of Skywalker"

157

Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?

158

The Tarkin Doctrine and Imperial Apologists

159

Robert Heinlein: Individualism and Free Love on the Moon!

160

Reptoid Aliens Shouldn't Have Nipples

161

The Ethics of Holodeck Sex Romps and AI in Star Trek

162

Isaac Asimov's Robots are Smarter than Whales

163

The Twilight Zone's Nostalgic Cold War Bunker

164

P1 What Bladerunner Is Actually About

165

P2 The Economics of "Dune"

166

P3 Cold War Kirk vs. Picard the Moral Relativist

167

P4 The Politics of Star Wars

168

P5 Varys is the best Game of Thrones character

169

P6 Regarding Batman's Political Affiliation

170

P7 Star Trek vs. The Orville