Bonus Ep: The Improvised Star Trek Into Darkness
Improvised Star Trek
USS Sisyphus
4.9 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week Improvised Star Trek participated in TrekMate's 24-Hour Podathon. To do our part to raise money for Amnesty International and the Watford General Hospital Special Care Baby Unit, we improvised an entire episode live on-air, complete with special effects and soundtrack courtesy of Dan Granata on the soundboard. Please enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Nick Wagner. Today's special bonus content is actually a full episode. It is the first episode we ever performed live on air, which was only possible with the great assistance and technical genius of Dan Granada, who ran the soundboard sound effects and such for us. |
| 0:19.2 | Well, thank you. I can't take much credit. I was genetically enhanced, like Julian |
| 0:23.7 | Bashir. And yes, it was done all live. All the sound effects were cued live, and all the |
| 0:29.5 | underscoring was queued live, which was an adventure in and of itself, and also terrifying. |
| 0:33.7 | You'll hear me request suggestions for the title of this episode, and the title that was suggested over the chat room was Star Trek Into the Darkness, into Darkness, which it was clear, and I will say this as being someone in the room, that there was about half the people in the room had seen the recent news |
| 0:55.0 | that that was the announced title for JJ Abrams' second Star Trek movie. |
| 0:59.9 | Nick was not in that half of the room, but in true improv style, took it, and we went with it. |
| 1:06.8 | We went with it, and we got there first, so screw you, JJ. |
| 1:15.6 | Star Trek into darkness is we got there first. So screw you, JJ. Star Trek Into Darkness is we got there first. Yes, this was as part of the Trekmate 24-hour pot-a-thon, which they're doing to raise money for Amnesty International and the Watford General Hospital Special Care Baby Unit, which is my favorite |
| 1:29.7 | law and order. |
| 1:31.6 | There's still time to donate to those great causes, so if you are against political oppression |
| 1:37.1 | and four babies, then please go ahead and do that. |
| 1:40.9 | Now you can go to trekmate.org. |
| 1:43.3 | And look for the link to the 24-hour pot-athon. The information is on that page. go ahead and do that. Now you can go to trekmate.org.uk. |
| 1:46.5 | And look for the link to the 24-hour pot-thon. |
| 1:48.2 | And the information is on that page. |
| 1:54.8 | And if you are for political oppression and against babies, then fuck you, we don't do comedy for you. |
| 1:56.7 | I don't even know why you like Star Trek. |
| 1:57.6 | Enjoy. Okay. |
| 1:58.3 | So I'll tell you what. |
| 1:59.6 | Shall we cut straight to the chat room and see if they can come up with |
| 2:04.4 | an episode title? |
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