Ep 541 - Star Trek: Killing Time (1st Edition), by Della Van Hise (Bonus Episode)
Overdue
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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Killing Time is a classic Star Trek novel most notable for its "interesting" publication history. Della Van Hise was an OG fan fiction author who got the chance to bring her particular skills and interests to an official novel featuring Kirk, Spock, and a few other fan favorites.
Also, Andrew brought slides?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
| 0:10.5 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.3 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:42.4 | Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoot. |
| 0:46.5 | My name is Craig. |
| 0:47.5 | My name is Captain Andrews. |
| 0:49.7 | Welcome aboard, Ensign. |
| 0:52.6 | You're the Ensign. |
| 0:53.6 | I'm the Ensign. |
| 0:55.0 | What is an Ensign? |
| 0:56.0 | It's the lowest that's not like a student at Starfleet campus. |
| 1:00.2 | Crap. |
| 1:01.2 | You always have to do all the bad stuff. |
| 1:02.8 | I thought I'd make fun of you sometimes. |
| 1:04.8 | What are the different officers that I could aspire to be? |
| 1:08.2 | You could be a lieutenant. |
| 1:09.9 | You could be a lieutenant commander. |
| 1:11.8 | You could be a commander or a captain or an admiral. |
| 1:16.0 | I think there are a couple of the layers of admiral above that. |
| 1:18.9 | But admirals are almost exclusively evil. |
| 1:23.0 | You don't want to be one of those. |
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