26. How Much Brien?

It’s Miles’ birthday and we’re here to celebrate it with a thematic episode of Casual Trek. And you know what? It’s also Charlie’s birthday, so we’re going to celebrate both hosts with a special episode dedicated to some of the most memorable Mileses and Charlies in Star Trek! Miles O’Brien is a fantastic member of not one but two crews in Star Trek and we’ll get to see both those incarnations here, with The Wounded bringing us some reminders of O’Brien’s military history. He also gets into some engineering hijinks helping out a lizard man in Captive Pursuit. Charlie X is a complete dirtbag and we’re better off only having the one episode with him in. We do get to see the Enterprise’s gym and some sick moves from Kirk as he proves how much better he is than this 29 year old teenage boy. Timecodes:<br /> 16:03 TNG – The Wounded<br /> 37:52 TOS – Charlie X<br /> 1:09:36 DS9 – Captive Pursuit Talking points include: Charlie Brown, Miles “Tails” Prower, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, My Adventures with Superman, Deep Kandor Lore, Smallville, Ultraman Blazar, People Just Do Nothing, Zammo and his Smack Habit, MASH, Dan Dare, The Beatles, Doctor Who, X-Men (Chuck Austen era), close-up magic (the hobby of creeps), The Twilight Zone, Third Rock from the Sun, Dawson’s Creek, Marvel’s The Beyonder, Zapp Brannigan, the sad legacy of D-Ream, Glee, Charlie Can’t Tell Bryan Adams Tracks Apart, Q Anon Anonymous’ episode on Jim Caveziel, V, having a lovely walk to Lewes… oh, and occasionally Star Trek. Pedant’s Corner: Sadly Bryan Adams didn’t do any more movie songs for swashbuckling 90’s movies. O’Brien is a verb now. Translation guide: “The Nick” = jail [ Additional Show Notes ] Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog. [ Support this show on Ko-fi ] Subscribe to this Podcast: Apple PodcastsGoogle Podcasts