Sun, Mar 17, 2024
4th season premiere. Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox-Lim return to hosting with a preview on the final season of Star Trek: Discovery plus a discussion on The New Starfleet Academy series with unconfirmed predictions and wishes that Discovery's red head fan favorite Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman) be involved. Also, a new scientific and tie-in segment is introduced called "Tractor Beam Me!" The interviewed guest this week is Robert Della Santina, nicknamed as "Bobby D," who was a golden era, child actor, who voiced Junior alongside Virginia Payne on the famous "Ma Perkins" radio show. Also, as a child, he worked with Jack Lemmon, Rod Steiger, and Anne Bancroft. Bobby "D" discusses being placed in a 400-day training program at Directors guild (DGA) plus working as an assistant Director and other crew on hit TV series "Dynasty", "Charlies Angels", "Love Boat", "Heart to Heart". Bobby discusses his affinity for Aaron Spelling and the fascinating growth of Assistant Director Les Landau who moved on to work as a frequent director on Star Trek: The Next Generation in a Star Trek production story. Bobby "D" talks about working tirelessly as Unit Production Manager for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's seven season's with an intricately detailed story about Terry Farrell who played Dax . "Bobby D," served as Line Producer for DS9's first two seasons later becoming the full-time Line Producer at the start of season three. At the start of the fourth season, he was elevated to Coordinating Producer on DS9.
Sun, Mar 24, 2024
Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox-Lim review season two of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds into a deep dive of analysis on the first set of subject matter which includes their clear-cut favorite episode "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow". Carl Kocis, lifelong Trekkie, and writer on the talk show "A Captain's Log", is behind the deep analysis of Strange New Worlds, ending partway through the season two review on the crossover episode "Those Old Scientist". Bryan and Lili continue the second part of their interview with Star Trek Deep Space Nine Unit Production manager and Line Producer Robert della Santina. Bobby "D" discusses how to resolve staying on schedule moving from around Griffith Park and Los Angeles back to sounds stages, even with DS9 not being a heavy on-location show in comparison to the program "Hart to Hart." Bobby "D" Discusses a Kira Nerys scenes in the watery, forest area where originally the scene began shooting on-location outside and moved to a sound stage seamlessly thanks to Herman Zimmerman. Discussions on further a tie-in DS9 "Battle Lines" story is corroborated from Bobby "D" when he asked Dennis Madalone about the time to wrap shooting for the day instead of asking the usual director Paul Lynch. Perspectives on how a production manager knows schedule timing is on or off plus the hard work put in on a set and the pay-offs are shared. Numerous stories are shared along with DS9 tales centering on director David Carson and character Benjamin Sisko.
Sun, Mar 31, 2024
Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox-Lim welcome Joanna Ferbrache in their new science in Star Trek segment titled "Tractor Beam me!" 2-time Emmy Award nominated make-up artist on Star Trek Doug Drexler, who has also won an academy award for Dick Tracy discusses his work on Dick Tracy and on Star Trek: The Motion picture and Next Generation. To start he praises Dick Smith and Geoffrey Mandel. Doug discusses originally owning a Manhattan, NY based Star Trek store called Federation Trading Post. Then in 1979, where he and Geoffrey Mandel, both flew from New York City to L.A. in an attempt to sneak onto the sound stages of Paramount having no connections. Bob Justman is fondly remembered and referred to as being the second-most important person on Star Trek with connections that were integral to his success being: Adventures of Superman as an AD with George Reeves. Plus, Justman was remembered for doing a Disney Space series and the Outer Limits. Drexler looks back on working his first Star Trek official moments with Mike Minor and Lee Cole at Paramount Pictures. The discussion continues talking about Doug's memories of enjoying Data's daughter named Lal with the makeup and evolution plus The Westmore's kind of invented Hollywood makeup among other stories about Star Trek: The next Generation.
Sun, Apr 7, 2024
Host Lili Fox-Lim seems convinced Bryan Kreutz is perhaps an Aenar, considering he's a peacemaker and can read her mind. 2-time Emmy Award nominated make-up artist on Star Trek Doug Drexler, concludes his discussion on Star Trek explaining that the Enterprise had an aerial view of walking through wreckage in a unique set and art moment he was involved with. Drexler also discusses that DS9 was mostly graphics for him, but he did branch out into some prop and set design, makeup, art and even acting in scenes on the show are other contributions he made to Star Trek. Lili asks Doug about "Transfigurations" on Star Trek: The Next Generation where Drexler wore a Starfleet uniform. Drexler responds memorably that the skintight spandex outfits on TNG that he wore made it so transparent you could see coins in your pocket if you had them. Drexler talks about his appearance in the Enterprise finale along with Dave Rossi and Manny Coto titled "These Are the Voyages..." Plus, Drexler speaks to his involvement in Star Trek Enterprise and how Trip dying wasn't to his liking, Bryan and Lili agree. The interview shifts back to Star Trek: Next Generation where Doug received two Emmy Award nominations as "Makeup Artist", the last one in 1993 for "The Inner Light", but more specifically in 1990 for the episode "Allegiance". Drexler responds how John Caglione wasn't available to help do makeup on the Jeff Rector and Jerry Rector twins for these abducting aliens makeup having to do them both in the same day. Doug discusses a humorous story about how he had to fix actor John de Lancie's rear end makeup on the actual set in front of crew with director Les Landau making this an unforgettable story during the episode "Deja Q" plus many more stories about Dan Curry, Enterprise and the film Dick Tracy.
Sun, Apr 14, 2024
Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox-Lim first do a "Tractor Beam me!" challenge with Joanna Ferbrache in a phaser's origin story. Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox-Lim interview Tanya Lemani, but Like Lili Fox-Lim, Tanya Lemani is a tri-lingual entertainer who speaks English, Russian and Persian fluently. Commonly referred to as the Jack-the Ripper episode, Tanya Lemani danced into the hearts of Star Trek viewers including Kirk, McCoy, and Scotty among the Argelian's as she tells Bryan and Lili stories from her appearance in 1967's "Wolf in the Fold" episode. Tanya also talks about being hired as a location manager working behind the camera later in her career. At the forefront of her discussion in Television and film in Hollywood Tanya also shares moments from her extensive guest roles in series like "The Man from Uncle", "Get Smart", "I Dream of Jeannie" and more.
Sun, Apr 21, 2024
Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox-Lim continue their interview Tanya Lemani in part two. Before the interview resumes, news is revealed that in October 2024, there will be an Elvis cruise to Hawaii with Tanya Lemani as a featured guest. Tanya looks back on working and having lots of fun with Bob Hope on set stating, "He never stopped telling jokes, he was cracking jokes in between shows, in the show, before and after, and all the time." He was lots of fun to work with. She performed with Bob Hope on stage with the vets at Christmas time. Tanya reveals a detailed story about her hero movie star as Rod Taylor. Tanya also discusses being on the set and in the makeup room where she saw Elvis. Tanya further discusses stories about Elvis and how he came to one of her live shows. Tanya talks about the original dress she wore from the Star Trek episode she appeared in "Wolf in the Fold" and signing autographs while wearing a costume dress. Tanya also talks about doing Photo Ops among the Star trek fans who are crazy, in a polite way, and dressed in costumes from the Star Trek show.
Sun, Apr 28, 2024
Bryan and Lili tease there's a mid-season Star Trek: Discovery climax. The segment "Tractor Beam me!" brings Joanna Ferbrache back on the viewscreen to reveal Geordi LaForge's visor provided him the gift of sight and the science behind this Trek technology at its pinnacle. Bryan boisterously states, "This is going to be an intellectually charged interview with André Bormanis". Star Trek Science Consultant, writer, and producer André Bormanis is interviewed in this part one of two discussion. Andre reveals that it wasn't until high school that he got into astronomy the writers influenced him were Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clark, and Carl Sagan to become very interested in the physics of astronomy. Lili presses André with a poignant place in time of André's Star Trek beginnings that it was a rather unique entry into Star Trek: The Next Generation's final season in 1993 for him as the "Science Consultant." André talks about how he replaced Naren Shankar, the previous consultant who was hired as a writer. The conversation with André continues with him talking about hitting it off over the phone with Jeri Taylor, a supervising producer on TNG at the time, after interviewing Andrea Jeri invited him to go out to L.A. to officially meet Michael Pillar, Brannon Braga, Ira Steven Bear, and Ronald D. Moore. Andrea talks about how Star Trek: Voyager was being created while Star Trek: The Next Generation was winding down plus he discusses having a smaller boutique Lit agency get him into Trek.
Sun, May 5, 2024
A conclusion to the interview with Star Trek Science Consultant, writer, and producer André Bormanis. Bryan and Lili ask André about the third overall Star Trek: Voyager episode titled "Parallax" where the story needed a particle beam, and André would look at what it does in the story and prescribe the right kind of particle beam in the case of the "cracked" event horizon. André take the interview through the step-by-step process on how he approaches a science level into episodes even where he's done the Teleplay and science pieces. André talks about his respect for the writers in their science literacy, logic skills. Even if writers didn't have technical science background, they knew the difference between sci-fi and fantasy. In addition to talking about the science approach then pitch in the writer's room to Jeri Taylor, André talks about his very first episode he wrote completely on his own in a script for Star Trek: Voyager titled "Waking Moments" plus Kenneth Biller's involvement. A discussion around favorite moments for André Bormanis surrounding the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Desert Crossing" working on this with Brannon Braga is discussed. Moving up the ranks in Enterprise as a producer is a point of conversation as well as talking about how André expresses that the DS9 sets were amazing and seeing the Voyager and Enterprise sets under construction.
Sun, May 12, 2024
Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox-Lim welcome Bonnie Gordon for a two-part interview. Bonnie Gordon showcases some of her voices. She articulates that voice acting gives her tons of freedom to try all different types of characters. Bonnie talks about being cast in a 1920s radio play called Tales of the Extraordinary. Bonnie talks about her time in 2014 on the ABC Network reality show called "Quest." set in a fantasy realm complete with characters and creatures that would be perfectly at home in any fantasy tale adventure. Gordon goes on to say her reality series is better than the reboot because it was adults and the first show of its kind while being shot by the same producers of Lord of the Rings. Creating her own character Bonnie Gordon discusses the very popular the Star Trek Table-top role-playing game (TTRPG) show using Star Trek adventures. She says they're all up on YouTube and about four hours long. Being a voice actor and a Trekkie, she called everyone she knew to try and get on the new animated show Star Trek: Prodigy and gives a shout out to the Hageman brothers, Dan and Kevin. Gordon talks about pulling every string she could just to get an audition including auditioning for a lead role. Being a huge fan of "Mama Troi", Bonnie discusses in great detail her USS Protostar Starfleet ship's computer voice is very different from Majel Barrett's. Furthermore, she initially asked if she was to mimic Barrett's and they said "no". Bonnie states she can't wait for people to see season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy on Netflix. She says it's so good. Now that they made it to Starfleet, it can now be more like Star Trek.
Sun, May 19, 2024
Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox-Lim beam up one of the many voices of Star Trek: Prodigy, Bonnie Gordon. Bonnie voices the Federation starship USS Protostar's ship computer, plus a multitude of other roles in the Netflix series, and mountains of other acting gigs, including video game voices. Bonnie gives props to the writer's room on a longer than expected scene she had in Star Trek: Prodigy opposite Kate Mulgrew's character Admiral Janeway. Bonnie further expands the Brenari species originally seen in Star Trek: Voyager's 5th season episode titled "Counterpoint". Lili goes on to say to Bonnie she's in a way, reprising the role of a young telepathic refugee Brenari child from a freighter saved by Janeway's Voyager. Bonnie's character the Brenari who's now a Federation Ensign opposite Kate Mulgrew's Admiral Janeway is a true gem story and highlight of discussion from the Prodigy season one finale episode "Supernova." Bonnie goes on to say your voice is an instrument. "One of the best jobs I've ever had". Bonnie refers to her past when she moved to Vegas to be a part of the iconic and historical Star Trek The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton. Bonnie states she was a brunette in Starfleet there as a character. Bonnie talks about how it is surreal being on the other side of Star Trek now. Because she said "I went from fan to fandom." Gordon also talks about her December 2023 singing along in a band called The Roddenberies, fondly named after Gene Roddenberries namesake. The interview wraps with Bryan asking a tough, but valid question, about Bonnie Gordon's standing up for fellow redhead curvy girl Mary Wiseman under Hollywood's size standards for women on television and how people connected with Tilly. Plus, she goes on to say women saw people in Starfleet and finally saw someone who could fit in her outfits and how Mary Wiseman is such an incredible person.
Sun, May 26, 2024
Bryan and Lili welcome Star Trek: Original series actor Garth Pillsbury for a two-part interview with the Hollywood based actor. Pillsbury is a classically trained actor, appearing in two episodes of the original Star Trek series, "Mirror, Mirror" and "The Cloud Minders". Garth talks about his early childhood moving around the U.S. His mother, who was into arts and sculpting, early TV roles particularly "The F.B.I." TV series roles he played and the ABC network series "The Invaders. Garth talks about the audition leading up to playing the role of Wilson in "Mirror, Mirror" and discusses why William Shatner didn't want him "punching" him during a scene.
Sun, Jun 2, 2024
A Conclusion in the second part interview with Hollywood based actor and photographer Garth Pillsbury. Garth was well-known for his role as Wilson in the episode "Mirror, Mirror" from Star Trek the Original Series and also appearing in "The Cloud Minders" third season Star Trek episode, which he discusses in great detail as his more favorite role with more lines of dialogue. Garth talks about being a celebrity, even though he never thought of himself as one, and going to the conventions signing pictures. Pillsbury discusses the film he was in, Malibu High, as a drive-in style B film where guys and girls would go there to make out. Also, he shares stories from his time as a photographer to find something else to make a living, while working for LAPD. Pillsbury winds down his stories talking about a Kevin Costner film he was in when Costner was starting out and stories of his time with Robert Mitchum.
Sun, Jun 9, 2024
Tara Rosling discusses her early days in Vancouver, her theater career, including the Shaw festival and traveling to Chicago. Rosling talks about her time with Alice Krige and the 1998 film "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three". Rosling gets into detailed stories about landing the recurring Vulcan role T'Rina on Star Trek Discovery plus more. She also discusses her time working with actor Doug Jones, getting a mold and fitting before even knowing the role she was playing on the Star Trek Discovery series. Part one of a two-part interview.
Sun, Jun 16, 2024
Conclusion to the interview with Star Trek: Discovery actress Tara Rosling. Bryan and Lili do a traditional Vulcan Thresh-tor kashek meditation technique and decide to talk mind melds further. Star Trek news is discussed and revealed on new Season 2 Star Trek: Prodigy episodes with a date for release. Tara Rosling talks about prosthetic ears both Vulcan and Kellerun referencing her cast mate Callum Keith Rennie along with an interesting set of stories about her character T'Rina and Doug Jones Saru. A Discussion about Tara's upcoming directing at the Shaw Festival Theatre and her green eco-friendly business are also parts of the interview conversation.
Sun, Jun 23, 2024
Bryan and Lili are interviewed by Starfleet Captain Chip asking their favorite episode for each of the eleven Star Trek series. As both Bryan and Lili are inseparable while always in agreement as hosts, this episode showcases their own Utopian style positive Star Trek talk and candor towards the best of the Trek franchise. Bryan and Lili add a few episodes they both have their own different favorites. Some of the episodes, not all, a part of the top 11 that are discussed are as follows: "Life, Itself" from Star Trek: Discovery, "Crisis Point" from Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Nepenthe" and "The Last Generation" from Star Trek: Picard, "Masquerade" from the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, "A Quality of Mercy" and "Those Old Scientists" from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Lili is promoted to a full commander formally with a smile for Bryan at her side as a nod to the fictional Star Trek universe on this talk show in-universe style promotion speech.
Sun, Jun 30, 2024
Phil Morris, a veteran of Hollywood acting and son of the former Mission Impossible star Greg Morris, joins Bryan and Lili for an exclusive 2-part interview. Phil talks about playing a small child background role in the Star Trek 1966 episode "Miri". Morris also discusses playing an engineer trainee on the bridge of Admiral Kirk's Enterprise on the 1984 film Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock. Plus, Morris talks about his two roles, one as a Klingon named Thopok and one as a Jem' Hadar on Star Trek Deep Space Nine and John Kelly the 21st century Astronaut on Star Trek Voyager.
Sun, Jul 7, 2024
Lili fondly points out that BK and herself are the greatest Star Trek duo in the universe hosting this show about the greatest franchise, Star Trek. Lili is tested to keep her streak going of correct "Tractor Beam Me!" Segment answers on course for no correction. The second part of their Phil Morris interview continues with a discussion on the Jem'Hadar named Remata'Klan in the DS9 episode titled "Rocks and Shoals." Compared to the Klingon Thopok on DS9, where both species required heavy makeup. The conversation continues the remembrance of one of the hottest days in Los Angeles County history where a Deep Space Nine episode with Phil Morris present talks about his experience and how it fuels his acting. The discussion shifts to Phil Morris playing the part of Attorney at Law, Jackie Chiles in Seinfeld. Also, how he auditioned along with seeing Michael Dorn audition for the role at CBS Radford-studio-center, where the Seinfeld series was filmed. Also, talks of a Seinfeld spin-off with the character of Jackie Chiles. The interview is rounded out Bryan Kreutz asking Phil Morris if he were asked to make a return to Star Trek, what kind of role would be your ideal part if you got to pick and is there a specific story-line you'd like to tell or be a part of.
Sun, Jul 21, 2024
Los Angeles native Ricardo F. Delgado joins hosts Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox Film for an exclusive two part interview. Delgado made his mark on prolific art and design of Deep Space Nine and the film Star Trek: First contact in the 1990's and discusses this in great detail. Delgado is a Storyboard Artist, Visual Development, Storyboard, Concept Artist, Writer, Production Design, Character Designer talking about his early days on Ghostbusters: The Animated Series at DIC and G.I. Joe in the early 1990's across the street from Paramount. Ricardo talks about Ralph Mcquarrie and how he ultimately made his way to Paramount starting with a phone call with Jim Magdaleno on Star Trek: The Next Generation then interviews and stories about meeting Richard James and Herman Zimmerman.
Sun, Jul 28, 2024
In this second part conclusion to the interview with Ricardo F. Delgado Bryan and Lili delve deeper into the fascinating world of art illustrations in the early stages of production design and more in their interstellar exploration of Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: First Contact and more in Hollywood. Before welcoming back Ricardo, Lili gets a huge reaction from Bryan with her whimsical words of wisdom to include five consecutive DS9 episode titles in one descriptive phrase about Delgado. Delgado talks about the DS9 pilot "Emissary", Paramount Stage 17 which was exclusively the promenade that Delgado had a hand in designing and baseball items on Sisko's desk. As a lesson learned about curves costing more budget money, Delgado talks about how the Miradorn starship seen in the DS9 first season episode "Vortex", as the final design, does not look like what he drew. Additionally, Delgado talks about development items he did as an "Early idea guy" for the film Star Trek: First Contact plus doing a version of the Borg cube obelisk. Lastly, the conversation shifts to Delgado's work on Hollywood big budget films like "X-Men Origins: Wolverine", "Men in Black", "Species", and "How to Train Your Dragon".
Sun, Aug 4, 2024
Bryan lightheartedly compliments Lili on her Vulcan at heart and sound mind but can't seem to find points on her ears with her hair even pinned back. The Star Trek news reveals William Shatner has been asked to return to his iconic Captain Kirk role with a proposition of a de-aging technology and news also comes with a condition that Shatner states he would only appear in Trek again if it wasn't a cameo. Andrew Probert joins Lili and Bryan for an interview discussing his start into illustration and art at a young age. Probert shares stories of getting out of the Navy, meeting his wife, then attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Probert talks about his days of working on the hit series Battlestar Galactica beginning in 1978 as a Production Illustrator. Plus, the conversation shifts to Probert transitioning to the big screen as a major contributor on Star Trek: Phase II's successor, Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979 with his iconic designs, Gene Roddenberry and more.