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I killed Captain Kirk
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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Jan 18, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Looking back on the half-century-long legacy of Star Trek, including six television series and 13 feature films. First, Slate cultural critic Marissa Martinelli tells Kurt about the new TV show, “Star Trek: Discovery.” Writer and producer Ronald D. Moore reveals his childhood fascination with Star Trek and his later experiences as a writer for the show. Linguist Arika Okrent explains the fictional Klingon language. Finally, we hear about how the make-believe products on the show inspired inventors to make them real, and how the Enterprise starship prop from the original series came to be displayed so prominently in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jan 18, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Remembering Ultra-American Musician Leon Russell: Leon Russell passed away last week — he was 74. During the 1970s, he forged a musical career unlike almost anyone else’s before or since: an ultra-American mix of country, blues, gospel, and rock n’ roll, collaborating with musicians from all those genre by Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen