Ship Full of Jerks Podcast
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Sci-Fi and Pop Culture Podcast hosted by @mark2000.bsky.social and @ryanthomasriddle.com. New episodes weekly at bit.ly/432XqQc
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SFA: Vitus Reflux and Pluribus
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 02/10/2026 · 1h 29m
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Empathy is the name of the game on our latest episode! Whether it’s a fungus that repeats your words back to you in #StarfleetAcademy: Vitus Reflux, or a virus turning humanity into a gentle hive mind in #Pluribus.
Empathy is the name of the game on our latest episode! Whether it’s a fungus that repeats your words back to you in #StarfleetAcademy: Vitus Reflux, or a virus turning humanity into a gentle hive mind in #Pluribus.
SFA: Vitus Reflux and Pluribus
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 02/10/2026 · 1h 29m
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February 10, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Empathy is the name of the game on our latest episode! Whether it’s a fungus that repeats your words back to you in #StarfleetAcademy: Vitus Reflux, or a virus turning humanity into a gentle hive mind in #Pluribus.
If you stuck around for this week‘s epilogue, we ranted about Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ use of SF geography. It‘s actually worse than we recalled. The Apes are on Bush St which has no cable car and doesn’t even point to the water. The Hyde line they’re on runs on the other side of Nob Hill
February 8, 2026 at 9:40 PM
If you stuck around for this week‘s epilogue, we ranted about Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ use of SF geography. It‘s actually worse than we recalled. The Apes are on Bush St which has no cable car and doesn’t even point to the water. The Hyde line they’re on runs on the other side of Nob Hill
Galaxy High could be seen as a proto #StarfleetAcademy. Two earthlings sent to a school with aliens taking weird, spacey classes. Set up like a John Hughes movie there’s nerds, jocks, bullies, gossips, and, of course, a makeover. The pilot ep is pretty well animated for 80’s Saturday morning fare.
Galaxy High School - EP01 Welcome to Galaxy High | English Dub | Full Episode
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February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Galaxy High could be seen as a proto #StarfleetAcademy. Two earthlings sent to a school with aliens taking weird, spacey classes. Set up like a John Hughes movie there’s nerds, jocks, bullies, gossips, and, of course, a makeover. The pilot ep is pretty well animated for 80’s Saturday morning fare.
Join The Jerks as we cut through the culture war bullshit to review the first two #StarfleetAcademy episodes. Check out our take on a Star Trek series that truly embraces optimism, multiculturalism, and the importance of the next generation while being darn sexy to boot!
SFA: Kids These Days Pass a Beta Test
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 02/03/2026 · 1h 8m
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February 3, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Join The Jerks as we cut through the culture war bullshit to review the first two #StarfleetAcademy episodes. Check out our take on a Star Trek series that truly embraces optimism, multiculturalism, and the importance of the next generation while being darn sexy to boot!
It’s Sub Rosa day, you say? We have an episode for that!
The Sehlat Who Lit the Sex Candle
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 11/04/2025 · 56m
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January 31, 2026 at 4:07 PM
It’s Sub Rosa day, you say? We have an episode for that!
Happy New Year all! Looking forward to talking Plur1bus, Starfleet Academy, and no less than three William Shatner movies in 2026!
January 1, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Happy New Year all! Looking forward to talking Plur1bus, Starfleet Academy, and no less than three William Shatner movies in 2026!
Cultural impact is people making allusions to the film. Projects being named after it. Short hand descriptions of scenes and characters that immediately relay emotional meaning. Homages in other media to recognizable moments. No one has Darmoked Avatar.
What is, then? Everyone says it has no cultural impact but no one can ever define what cultural impact IS
December 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Cultural impact is people making allusions to the film. Projects being named after it. Short hand descriptions of scenes and characters that immediately relay emotional meaning. Homages in other media to recognizable moments. No one has Darmoked Avatar.
Happy Birthday to one of the most impressive and elaborate special effects tech demos ever made. There still hasn't been a movie made that looks this good. Hear us discuss it here:
December 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Happy Birthday to one of the most impressive and elaborate special effects tech demos ever made. There still hasn't been a movie made that looks this good. Hear us discuss it here:
This week #SNW tisses the season to show us what Pike and Batel‘s happily ever after would have looked like in the finalé “New Life and New Civilizations”. Then we see how the little space station show that could did destiny, prophesy, and ultimate evil right in our Babylon Squared trilogy review.
New Life and New Civilizations
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 12/17/2025 · 1h 18m
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December 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This week #SNW tisses the season to show us what Pike and Batel‘s happily ever after would have looked like in the finalé “New Life and New Civilizations”. Then we see how the little space station show that could did destiny, prophesy, and ultimate evil right in our Babylon Squared trilogy review.
If you see this, re-post with your model of positive masculinity.
December 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
If you see this, re-post with your model of positive masculinity.
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This will come up on @shipfullofjerks.bsky.social this week, for reasons.
December 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This will come up on @shipfullofjerks.bsky.social this week, for reasons.
This week the Jerks are stranded on a deserted planet as we compare #SNW Terrarium to its progenitor “Enemy Mine”. And then we go back further and compare both to Jon Boorman’s “Hell in the Pacific”. But we won’t touch “None But the Brave” because 2 hours of Sinatra directing himself is not our jam.
Enemy Terrarium
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 12/09/2025 · 1h 12m
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December 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This week the Jerks are stranded on a deserted planet as we compare #SNW Terrarium to its progenitor “Enemy Mine”. And then we go back further and compare both to Jon Boorman’s “Hell in the Pacific”. But we won’t touch “None But the Brave” because 2 hours of Sinatra directing himself is not our jam.
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Watching ENEMY MINE for the first time in years and seeing the queer subtext all over it!
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Watching ENEMY MINE for the first time in years and seeing the queer subtext all over it!
Where did Joseph Shuster and Jerry Siegel fall in the “Clark vs Superman” argument? To them there was no difference between them beyond the jobs they took on under those names. Hear our whole discussion on the topic here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Where did Joseph Shuster and Jerry Siegel fall in the “Clark vs Superman” argument? To them there was no difference between them beyond the jobs they took on under those names. Hear our whole discussion on the topic here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Hear our discussion of Lost Highway here!
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Hear our discussion of Lost Highway here!
You heard our review of the 2025 movie "Weapons", but what did Madisynn think of it?
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
You heard our review of the 2025 movie "Weapons", but what did Madisynn think of it?
In our review of "Four and a Half Vulcans" we talk about the possibility of saltpeter being put in the Enterprise's food synthesizer. This is an old urban legend mostly about the US army, but has also been spread around college campuses.
Saltpeter in the Military
Does the U.S. Army secretly feed new recruits saltpeter in order to suppress their sexual urges?
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November 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In our review of "Four and a Half Vulcans" we talk about the possibility of saltpeter being put in the Enterprise's food synthesizer. This is an old urban legend mostly about the US army, but has also been spread around college campuses.
#SNW Four and a Half Vulcans polarized fans before it even aired. We compare its views on genetic determinism and multi cultural heritage to that of the Superman franchise. Who does the “torn between two worlds” theme better?
4.5 Vulcans and One Superman
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 11/18/2025 · 1h 10m
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November 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
#SNW Four and a Half Vulcans polarized fans before it even aired. We compare its views on genetic determinism and multi cultural heritage to that of the Superman franchise. Who does the “torn between two worlds” theme better?
We talked about why I, Borg makes such a great Borg story and how it only makes sense if the Borg don’t assimilate people in the second half of this episode. #TNGsunnight
Ryan and Mark catch a Shuttle to Kenfori... or is it Kenifor? We figure that out along with how to rank Doctor M'Benga's many ethics violations in our latest #SNW review. Then we discuss our favorite Space zombies, the Borg!
To Catch A Shuttle to Kenfori
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 10/14/2025 · 56m
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November 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
We talked about why I, Borg makes such a great Borg story and how it only makes sense if the Borg don’t assimilate people in the second half of this episode. #TNGsunnight
This is the thesis of the last 7 episodes of this podcast.
What's your unpopular star trek opinion?
Pike peaked in DISCO S2.
Pike peaked in DISCO S2.
What's your unpopular star trek opinion?
As much as I think Nana Visitor was great, Michelle Forbes should have taken the job on Deep Space Nine.
As much as I think Nana Visitor was great, Michelle Forbes should have taken the job on Deep Space Nine.
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is the thesis of the last 7 episodes of this podcast.
Our music composer, Fluffy, is putting all her work up on youtube in convenient playlist form!
I haven't felt like working on novembeat for the last few days but on the plus side I've made a lot of progress on reuploading my music catalog to YouTube in a self-administered way. I'm super proud of the visualizer I built for Refactor, for example, all in FFmpeg! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Refactor - YouTube
Album released 2015/06/14
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November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Our music composer, Fluffy, is putting all her work up on youtube in convenient playlist form!
#SNW documentary style episode “What is Starfleet” is less Ken Burns and more Project Veritas. We talk its journalistic merits as well as what side of a conflict should be scrutinize more. Then our discussion of the 2025 film Weapons goes from addiction to school shootings to… the housing crisis?
What is Starfleet — Weapons or Explorers?
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 11/11/2025 · 1h 17m
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November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
#SNW documentary style episode “What is Starfleet” is less Ken Burns and more Project Veritas. We talk its journalistic merits as well as what side of a conflict should be scrutinize more. Then our discussion of the 2025 film Weapons goes from addiction to school shootings to… the housing crisis?
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I wax screenwriting with Stratword’s Patrick Pierre and explain why reading bad screenplays makes you a better writer. #ScriptSky #Screenwriter #Screenwriting #WritingCommunity
Why Reading BAD Scripts Makes You a Better Writer
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November 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I wax screenwriting with Stratword’s Patrick Pierre and explain why reading bad screenplays makes you a better writer. #ScriptSky #Screenwriter #Screenwriting #WritingCommunity
Our latest episode tries to figure out what “empathy for the enemy“ means for Captain Pike in the best JT Kirk story since TOS in #SNW “The Sehlat Who Ate its Tail”. Then it’s erotic ghost story time as Beverly Crusher explores being an spectrosexual in TNG’s classic bodice ripping romp, Sub Rosa!
The Sehlat Who Lit the Sex Candle
Podcast Episode · Ship Full of Jerks · 11/04/2025 · 56m
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November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Our latest episode tries to figure out what “empathy for the enemy“ means for Captain Pike in the best JT Kirk story since TOS in #SNW “The Sehlat Who Ate its Tail”. Then it’s erotic ghost story time as Beverly Crusher explores being an spectrosexual in TNG’s classic bodice ripping romp, Sub Rosa!
TK Bellows wears an interesting and anachronistic pair of glasses in “A Space Adventure Hour”. They’re S9 frames, also known as “birth control frames”. From 1990 to 2012 they were standard military issue to navy and army recruits. Saddam Hussein was given a pair when he was captured in 2003.
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
TK Bellows wears an interesting and anachronistic pair of glasses in “A Space Adventure Hour”. They’re S9 frames, also known as “birth control frames”. From 1990 to 2012 they were standard military issue to navy and army recruits. Saddam Hussein was given a pair when he was captured in 2003.