305: Star Trek First Contact

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Tv & Film, Arts, Film History, Visual Arts

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate First Contact Day in Star Trek by recording a movie retrospective on 1996's Star Trek First Contact. This Geek History Lesson was recorded LIVE on Youtube, and you can watch the recording here if you prefer video over audio: https://youtu.be/DEDH_Pg6EL8 Order Jason's book - SUPER SOLDIERS! It's about superheroes that also served in the military! Grab your copy here: https://amzn.to/2Cn2vGC GET OUR RECOMMENDED READING from this episode here: http://geekhistorylesson.com/recommendedreading Follow the show on TWITTER - https://twitter.com/GHLPodcast Make sure to visit our Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/geekhistorylesson You can find Ashley at https://twitter.com/AshleyVRobinson and Jason at https://twitter.comJawiin. Thanks for showing up to class today. Class dismissed!

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0:00.0	On BBC A
0:02.0	I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me
0:06.0	I'm pregnant
0:08.0	drudges go easy I'm pregnant women
0:10.0	I've had all my electricity that's all
0:12.0	don't think I should even be in here.
0:14.0	A new series of the Bafter Award winning time.
0:18.0	You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you Starring Jody Whitaker, Tamara Lawrence and Bella Ramsey. Time. Watch on BBC
0:29.4	I Player. Hello. Hello everyone and welcome to Geek History
0:45.0	I am Jason no I'm not Patrick Stewart in the I am Ashley Victoria Robinson. Welcome to your Mind University because you have stumbled onto the live
0:57.6	Podcast where we take one character construct or Star Trek film from popular culture and teach you everything you need to know about them in about an hour and we're kind of doing that today.
1:07.0	Yeah, so today is April 5th. Now actually many people might not know about this fake pop culture holiday out there but what is the importance in science fiction of the date of April 5th the day that we are recording this?
1:22.0	Oh, so you go weaving's birthday.
1:24.6	That is not what we're talking about at all.
1:26.5	It is also First Contact Day, which in 2063 is when the Vulcans are coming to Bozeman, Montana to make first
1:36.6	contact with the humans and we're gonna be there. Yes. Now this of course happens
1:41.6	in a movie called Star Trek First Contact and because today is April 5th and because today I think people are looking for a little bit of happiness things to celebrate you know because the world is
1:53.0	currently on lockdown at the time you know we thought this would be a perfect way
1:57.6	to do there are basically our first ever geek History lesson live stream.
2:03.6	So if you are watching us live right now on YouTube,
2:06.7	you want to say hello and thank you for watching.
2:08.7	And if you're listening to this far, far into the future
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