But it is Star Trek adjacent.
Today I'm going to post about my current favorite podcast!
Hosted by Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner, Dropping Names with Brent and Jonny takes place in a warm and comfy library/den set where these vets of Star Trek: The Next Generation sit around and bullshit with each other and engage in friendly chats with people they know.
This is NOT a Star Trek podcast but yeah, Star Trek stuff comes up.
Hell, their first guest was Levar Burton so yeah, Trek ain't too far away.
The "Dropping Names" in the title is a challenge for Brent, Jonny and their guests to drop as many names of famous people as they can into their conversations.
Sitting on a table next to Frakes is a bell which he rings every time someone drops the name of a notable actor, director, writer, relatively famous person they personally know and/or have worked with.
Frakes thinks the bell is funny as hell.
Spiner is somewhat annoyed by it.
I tend to agree with Spiner because Brent and Jonny know a LOT of famous people. So that's a lot of bell ringing.
But Frake's joyful reaction to Spiner's annoyance is amusing.
I realize Dropping Names may not be for you, that these free wheeling discussions may be too insular, too "inside baseball" to be interesting to everyone.
Brent Spiner was in this play with that actress who was in a movie with some guy who once co-starred with the guest in a TV episode directed by Jonathan Frakes. Stuff like that.
And Brent, Jonny and guests are too gracious and cordial to drop any real tea on anyone. Everyone on this show is still actively working on something somewhere in the entertainment industry and can ill afford to burn any bridges.
When Joel McHale was a guest, they couldn't bring themselve to trash talk Joel's former Community star Chevy Chase. And no one in Hollywood likes Chevy Chase so if there was anyone to talk shit about, it's him.
Other than a reluctance to expose any real dirt or juicy gossip, these discussions are mostly candid and usually a lot of fun. To me, anyway.
So that is that for this side trek from StarTrekking.
Next week, we're up to season 5 of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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