Science fiction writer Scott Pearson and cohost Ella Pearson welcome actor Noah Averbach-Katz, Star Trek: Discovery’s Ryn the Andorian, who regales us with stories of growing up with a Trekkie mom, his (mis)adventures with Grudge the cat, working with his wife Mary “Tilly” Wiseman, and more geeky goodness.

61. Interview: Noah Averbach-Katz

Science fiction writer Scott Pearson and cohost Ella Pearson welcome astrophysicist, teacher, writer, and, last but not least, science consultant for the Star Trek Universe Erin Macdonald to talk about gravity waves, Star Trek tattoos, science consulting, and, for our older listeners, her favorite Scotch whisky.

62. Interview: Erin Macdonald

Science fiction writer Scott Pearson and cohost Ella Pearson welcome author Christopher D. Abbott to discuss Sherlock Holmes on screen and in books not by Arthur Conan Doyle, including Abbott's own Watson Chronicles series of novellas. The game's afoot!

63. Holmes Beyond Doyle (with Christopher D. Abbott)

Science fiction writer and editor Scott Pearson and cohost Ella Pearson welcome author Jim Johnson, lifelong Star Trek fan, three-time Star Trek: Strange New Worlds winner, and project manager of the Star Trek Adventures role-playing game to talk about—you guessed it—Star Trek (and plenty of other geeky things)!

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64. Interview: Jim Johnson

Science fiction writer Scott Pearson and cohost Ella Pearson discuss what they’ve been up to in 2022—spoilers: conventions and moving—and why this is the first time they’ve gotten around to recording an episode all year!

Segments
01:55 We’ve Been Remiss
02:50 Star Trek: Mission Chicago
04:33 The Famous Tom Paris Plate
05:55 Meeting Trek People
09:15 Ella Moves House
09:44 San Francisco
10:53 Thrillerfest
14:38 Hello, COVID
15:25 Scott Moves House
18:27 Shore Leave featuring John Billingsley
24:57 A Moment of Silence for Dave Galanter
25:43 San Diego Comic Con
39:10 Twin Cities Con featuring Elijah Wood and Sean Astin
45:13 Interlude: Jared Padaleki
46:01 Then There’s Sean Astin
49:26 Shameless Self-Promotion: Tales of the Weird World War
53:37 Final Thoughts

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65. 2022 Wrap - Up

AKA "The Hound of the Geeks": We dive into Sherlock Holmes, starting with the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and continuing through several of the actors who have portrayed the iconic detective, including Peter Cushing, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey Jr., Benedict Cumberbatch, and Jonny Lee Miller. —October 2012

2. Sherlock Holmes in Film & TV

AKA "The Day the Geek Stood Still": We discuss seeing the Star Wars special edition for the first time, Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, our favorite movie and TV soundtracks, and loving Firefly even though we haven’t yet watched Serenity. —December 2012

4. Star Wars, An Unexpected Journey & More

AKA "Forbidden Geek": We welcome Star Trek and Doctor Who novelist Una McCormack, a New York Times bestselling author, as our first guest and discuss Trek, fan fiction, Who, other British TV shows, and more in a special double-length episode. And this is just part one of two! —January 2013

5. Interview: Una McCormack, Pt. 1

AKA "King Geek": We compare and contrast the 1933, 1976, and 2005 King Kong movies, plus a little bit about the King Kong X-Box game (based on the 2005 version) and other King Kong movies. —March 2013

7. King Kong Movies

AKA "Destination Geek": We interview our very special guest Thomas D. Jones, astronaut, scientist, and Star Trek fan. Tom tells us about being aboard the space shuttle and his view of the future of NASA. Plus, listener questions for Tom from Facebook. —April 2013

8. Interview: Astronaut Thomas D. Jones

AKA "Into Geekness": We talk about Star Trek Into Darkness, which we saw in 3-D at the midnight premiere, because we’re geeky like that. We compare and contrast with the first JJ Trek movie and discuss the whole Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan situation. —May 2013

9. Star Trek Into Darkness

AKA "Geek Story": We interview John Frazier, longtime employee of the website ThinkGeek. Because we want all their things. Find out how Fraize became a mad scientist and gadget wrangler. —June 2013

10. Interview: Think Geek’s John Frazier

AKA "Sinbad and the Eye of the Geek": We talk about Ray Harryhausen’s Sinbad movies: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. Because stop motion animation rules! —July 2013

11. Harryhausen’s Sinbad Movies

AKA "Lord of the Geeks": We interview Paul Simpson of Sci-Fi Bulletin, consummate genre journalist, editor, and writer. Coauthor (with Brian J. Robb) of Middle-earth Envisioned: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings: On Screen, On Stage, and Beyond and Who at 50: Celebrating Five Decades of Doctor Who. —September 2013

13. Interview: Paul Simpson

AKA "Robin Geek": We discuss various versions of everyone’s favorite outlaw, Robin Hood, including The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938 Warner Bros. film), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955–1959 British TV series), and Robin Hood (2006–2009 British TV series). —November 2013

14. Robin Hood in Film & TV

AKA "Geeky About Gravity": We welcome back astronaut Thomas D. Jones to talk about the film Gravity and learn what the film got right and wrong about the low Earth orbit setting from someone who has actually worked in space just like in the movie. —December 2013

15. An Astronaut Reviews Gravity

AKA "Ashes and Shadows and Monsters, Oh My!": We talk with author Ilsa J. Bick about her young adult books including the post-apocalyptic Ashes trilogy, Ashes, Shadows, and Monsters, as well as her contributions to Star Trek literature and other media-tie in books. Plus anything else geeky we can think of. —March 2014

19. Interview: Ilsa J. Bick

AKA "S.H.I.E.L.D. Takes Over the World": As the first season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. wraps up, we talk about the ever-expanding world of S.H.I.E.L.D. as seen in the Marvel movies and TV shows, covering the “Is Coulson dead or isn’t he?” question and other links between the show and movie continuity. —June 2014

21. S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1

AKA "The Making of the Making of 2001": We welcome guest Piers Bizony, author of the new book The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and associate producer of the 2001 documentary (that’s the year it was released, really) 2001: The Making of a Myth. We discuss our love of the classic film and the colossal effort behind his definitive book of the movie masterpiece. —June 2014

22. Interview: Piers Bizony on 2001

AKA "Sizzler on Comics": We welcome author, actor, geek-about-town, and comic book historian Alan “Sizzler” Kistler to talk comic books, comic book movies, and more geeky things about comic books. Plus, tales from San Diego Comic-Con 2014. —August 2014

24. Interview: Alan Kistler on Comic Books

We discuss our current state of geekiness, including what shows we’re watching, what books we’re reading, what movies we’re seeing, and whatever else contributes to the geekosity that fills our lives. Plus, the first Generations Geek Public Service Announcement: “Wear your seatbelts.” Totally serious, kids. —November 2014

26. A Potpourri of Geekery

AKA "It’s All About That Cape": We welcome New York Times bestselling author Daniel Wallace to talk about his latest book, Star Wars: The Imperial Handbook, as well as his other bestselling Star Wars, Marvel, and DC titles. Superheroes, super-villians, Darth Vader…it’s all about that cape. —December 2014

27. Interview: Daniel Wallace

AKA "Gaslight Geeks": We talk with author Carrie Patel about her steampunkish first novel, The Buried Life, and other geeky things that she does, like working on computer games for Obsidian Entertainment. —March 2015

30. Interview: Carrie Patel

AKA "The Ape is Back in Town": We check out the new movie Kong: Skull Island and compare it to Godzilla (2014) and previous Kong movies. Before you listen to this episode, check out Episode 7, “King Geek,” when we discussed the 1933, 1976, and 2005 King Kong movies. —June 2017

42. Kong: Skull Island

AKA "The A2s Always Were a Bit Twitchy": Our multipart review of the Alien series continues with James Cameron’s classic 1986 sequel Aliens, where we’re strongly reminded you should always listen to Ripley. —January 2018

45. Aliens

AKA "The Doctor is the Monster": For part one of a two-part interview, urban fantasy author Melissa F. Olson drops by to discuss Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein during its 200th anniversary year. Plus, Ella and I talk about visiting the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour and then do a mini review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. —July 2018

48. Frankenstein at 200 (with Melissa F. Olson)

AKA "Man on the Moon": Science fiction writer William Leisner stops by and we review the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man and compare it with a couple of classic space-program movies: The Right Stuff and Apollo 13. Part one of a two-part visit. Plus, Ella Skypes in to chat about a Doctor Who season premiere party in London! —November 2018

50. First Man (with William Leisner)

AKA "An American Geek in London": Ella Skypes in from London to tell us about her geeky adventures across the UK! First, a day trip to Oxford to see the Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth exhibit of original J.R.R. Tolkien artwork, then a weekend in Birmingham for Destination Star Trek, with tales of various Trek actors, including the Shat himself, William Shatner. Plus, Ella interviews Mo, aka @soundofcosplay, who does an amazing cosplay of Star Trek: Discovery’s Paul Stamets. —December 2018

51. Destination Star Trek & More

Ella Skypes in from London to tell us about geeky adventures in Scotland visiting places that inspired J. K. Rowling while she was beginning the Harry Potter series. Then we get an in-depth report on the Making of Harry Potter exhibit at the Warner Bros. Studio in Watford. Finally, Ella regales us with her rather surprise trip to the theatre to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child live on stage at the historic Palace Theatre in London!

56. All Aboard the Hogwarts Express

Ella walks us through Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds: The Immersive Experience, an interactive, virtual-reality version of the classic rock opera! Can an American college student survive the Martian invasion with the help of some new British friends? Tune in and find out. And look up episode 23, wherein we discussed the 1938 radio version of The War of the Worlds, the 1953 movie, the 2005 movie remake, and more, including the musical version.

57. The Immersive War of the Worlds

Ella puts the “geek” in “theatre geek” as she tells us about multiple visits to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London for a variety of plays by, well, Harold Pinter. Among the cavalcade of British actors of stage and screen she saw performing were Charlie “Daredevil” Cox, Martin “Watson/Bilbo” Freeman, Rupert “Lestrade” Graves, and Tom “Loki” Hiddleston! But wait, there’s more! At theatres other than the Pinter, she had a chance to see Arthur “Rory” Darvill and Hayley “Agent Carter” Atwell! Scott also chimes in with his own adventures seeing geek actors on stage.

58. Geek Actors Live on Stage

Ella introduces her dad to the dystopian world of Katniss through the first film adaptation of the Suzanne Collins trilogy. Although Ella has read all the books and seen all the movies multiple times, Dad-half has neither read nor watched any of them. We discuss the film and Ella fills in details from the books.

59. The Hunger Games

Science fiction writer and editor Scott Pearson and cohost Ella Pearson return to the dystopian world of Katniss, discussing the second film in the four-film adaptation of the Suzanne Collins book trilogy. Hunger Games fan Ella guides her newbie dad through his first viewing of the movie, doing her best to remind him of the character names he forgets.

60. Catching Fire

Generations Geek is a more-or-less family-friendly pop culture podcast hosted by sci-fi writer and editor Scott Pearson and his recent-college-graduate daughter, Ella, as they discuss geeky television, movies, books, comic books, games, and more. They also interview geeky guests from New York Times-bestselling authors to screenwriters to astronauts!

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