Spoilers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Nerd. Its continuing mission to expand nerd horizons by engaging in weekly challenges. This week, the crew finds themselves face to face with the brand new offering of a beloved franchise: Star Trek Beyond. Will the Kelvin universe consume them? Fortnight’s Challenge: San Diego Comic…
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Episode 191: Requiem for a Red Shirt
Ashley Victoria Robinson and Jason Inman return just after releasing the very last episode of The Red Shirt Diaries EVER! We talk with them about making the second season, favorite moments, and what it’s like to have the project completed. Afterwards, we break down our DC love by talking about the current and potential future…
Episode 181: Boldly Going With Paul Peterson
To the surprise of no one, this week’s Talk Nerdy To Me is all about the prospect of the recently announced Star Trek show on CBS. Game designer Paul Peterson, creator of games such as Guillotine and Smash Up, talks about his gaming origins in Magic: The Gathering, staring a career and game design as…
Episode 152: Star Wars: The TEASER Awakens
Since JJ Abrams and the good folks at Disney decided to show us a sneak peek at Star Wars: The Force Awakens, we, too, thought it would be a fun idea to give you good people a teaser of our inevitable Star Wars: The Force Awakens episode coming this December as we all hail our new nerd overlord:…
Episode 151: Max Temkin, STEM and Star Trek
We got to sit down with one of the creators of Cards Against Humanity, Max Temkin, to talk about what the CAH crew are currently working on; the Science Pack of cards that is raising money for the Science Ambassador Scholarship to the board game show Tabletop Deathmatch. To Drew’s delight we hold an in-depth Star Trek conversation.…
Episode 145: Robots Mend Broke Hearts
This week we were forced say goodbye to the legendary Leonard Nimoy. As a pick-me-up to shake off the somber mood, the boys talk about one of their favorite new films, Big Hero Six!
Episode 140: U is for Unspeakable
Have we got some specials g-g-ghosts for you! James Ernest and Mike Selinker are here, creators of Unspeakable Words, a Cthulhu Mythos-based word game with a wildly popular Kickstarter for the Deluxe Edition. We talk a little Marvel and Star Trek 3 news before diving in headfirst into the world of table top gaming. And boy,…
Episode 131: Cracking Open the Red Shirt Diaries
The guys have some special guests for this week’s Nerdy News! Jason Inman and Ashley Victoria Robinson, creators of The Red Shirt Diaries, join Myles, Drew, and Patrick in discussing not only their show and the current Indiegogo campaign for Season 2, but the horrors of DEWITOS! Has the world gone mad!? Tune in.
Episode 83: Star Trek: The Animated Series – Shattnery
In this weeks episode, Mike, Drew, Myles, and Patrick go where no man has gone before… SATURDAY MORNING! We watched Star Trek: The Animated Series. This week’s challenge: (Courtesy of Ryan) Watch Star Trek: The Animated Series Next week’s challenge: (Courtesy of SirTwitch) Read Star Wars: Heir To The Empire
Episode 67: Fringe – Friends
In this week’s episode, Mike and Drew dabble with psychotropic drugs and parallel universes with Fringe. Talk Nerdy to Me: This week Mike and Drew get sneaky with Dishonored, talk Star Trek, The Hobbit, Assassin’s Creed 3, and PlayStation Plus This week’s challenge: (Courtesy of Bjorn) Watch select episodes of TV show Fringe! Next week’s challenge: (Courtesy of Sarah)…