Andy Poulastides Podcasts

Welcome aboard the Great Derelict! This week Andy is honoured to welcome back Gillian, Satai of the grey council as we take a rather unexpected but very welcomed return to Babylon 5 with the surprise animated movie 'The Road Home' We talk about the story, the cast old and new and what the film might mean for the future of Babylon 5 You can find Gil…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is Joined by Charlotte as we Boldly go where no-ones has ever returned before, to re-evaluate one of the most divisive Star Trek films of all time, Into Darkness and ask if its really as bad as I remember? You can find Charlotte here: https://twitter.com/CXWoolrychPhoto and https://www.charlottewool…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is STILL going on about that Book he wrote with Eric, but this week is joined by Hye and Ste to talk about the art and design of the book, from the wonderful LCARS pages to Ste's fantastic paintings and logo You can find all the socials for the Book as well as the link to read it here: https://linkt…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict In this slightly self serving episode Andy is joined by Eric to talk about the book they have just released 'We Have Engaged the Borg: The Oral history of the Battle of Wolf 359' You can find all the socials for the Book as well as the link to read it here: https://linktr.ee/Wolf359project You can find Eric on Twi…

Oye Beltalowda and Welcome back aboard the Great Derelict! This week Andy is interviewing Andy at the Lawless Comic Con to talk about his career and most importantly his new series The Expanse Dragons Tooth, a sequel comic to the Expanse. You can find Andy on Twitter here: http://www.andydiggle.com/ And be sure to follow Lawless here: https://lawle…

Welcome back aboard the Great Derelict! This week the Andy is reconvening the Admiralty and is joined by Hye and the Llama God to take a look at Picard S3 and ask is it any good or at the very least was it better than Season 1 and 2? You can find the Llama god on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheLlamaGod You can find Hye on Twitter: https://twitter.c…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict! So after an unintended extended hiatus (sorry was galavanting) I return with the episode i asked you all to contribute to before I left so there wouldn't be a gap in the schedule, don't you just love it when things like that all line up? Anyway enjoy a wonderful selection of music from you my lovely listeners And…

Welcome back aboard the Great Derelict! This week Andy is joined by Claude Berube the Director of the US Naval Academy Museum to take a look at the Starfleet Museum shown in Star Trek Picard Season 3 We look at how it compared to current museums and some of the challenges it might face and why you shouldn't leave sensitive equipment on historic shi…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy after 10 years of podcasting finally decides to speak to an expert and is joined by Rob Valentine to talk about Audio Dramas (not Audio books) You can find Rob on twitter here: https://twitter.com/MrRobValentine And you can find more of Andy here: https://linktr.ee/andy3e and his other casts over at…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is still messing around with Multiverses and is joined by Steve Lacey to try and get a handle on this Kang fellow and what it means for the MCU going forward Beware spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania You can find Steve on the Birdapp: https://twitter.com/quizlacey and the Fantasicast her…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict In this timeline Andy overslept so he was late to his geography GCSE and so Jim and Elton were his co-hosts on Space Dock Jury! wibbly wobbly timey wimey They have come back to discuss the genre of Alternate History and how it connects to Sci-Fi You can find Jim at Hypnogoria :- https://www.hypnogoria.com/ And Elt…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Ness as they take a deep dive look at the 2006 Masterpiece ‘Children of Men’ Ness can be found on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thixotropic And you can find more of Andy on Mastodon - https://mastodon.social/@Andy3E and his other casts over at Rogue Two Media - http://www.roguetwomedia.…

Welcome back aboard the Great Derelict! This week Andy has noticed the atmosphere onboard the Derelict is 39.1 °C, with 92% humidity, 102 kPa atmospheric pressure, and trace amounts of tetryon particle which can only mean one thing! his heating bill is going to be through the roof! Also Hye has come to visit to talk about everything they can think …

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week, Andy is joined by Sampo as we dive into the world of dark glasses, conspiracy theories and never asking for this as we look at Deus Ex, from the original in 2000 to a hopeful sequel to mankind divided coming sometime we hope! You can hear Sampo feedback on the Borgcast https://borgcast.libsyn.com/ You c…

Welcome back the Great Derelict This week Andy is wintering at the Narrative Labyrinth so he's taken over Rachelle's recording studio to take a look ahead to some of the Sci-Fi sows we can look forward to in 2023. You can find Rachelle on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/StrangeRachelle and the Narrative Labyrinth here: https://thenarrativelabyrin…

Welcome back aboard the Great Derelict! This week Andy and Llama are on Program for a look back at the recent Star Wars series Andor, We take a look at how the show shows us the mundanity of evil present in the Empire, why Swimming lessons are important even in a galaxy far far away, and how 2 corpos trying to shake down a guy outside a bar ultimat…

Welcome back the Great Derelict This week Andy has quite literally JUST finished re-watching Interstellar and by some amazing co-incidence Rachel has arrived to have a chat about it, come and see what we think about Christopher Nolans 2014 Masterpiece as we ask: is it long enough? or could it use another 30 mins? and Would Spielberg have made a bet…

Welcome back aboard the Great Derelict! This week Eli returns and has brought Inigo to give Andy an introduction to Sci-Fi from South Asia. From Koi... Mil Gaya to PK an Love Story 2050 Inigo and Eli give us a little taste at some of the best Sci-fi films to come out of Bollywood. You can find more from Inigo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/inigio_…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict Its another Interlude!, probably the best one yet but what do you think? Featuring Contributions from Elton: https://twitter.com/EltonMcManus Jeff: AMO: https://twitter.com/bOrgCastAMO Rachel: https://twitter.com/StrangeRachelle Zoe: https://twitter.com/Zoe_On_The_Go Eddie: https://twitter.com/FoodAndCosplay Dave:…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week, Andy is having the Derelict fumigated to deal with a nasty Xenomorph infestation and since no-one has stopped him yet we're doing another Interlude, normal service will be resumed next week...or will it? Featuring Contributions from Ethan Murray - https://twitter.com/PieMan70 Ol - https://twitter.com/Ol…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Brandon as they take to the karaoke bar of the Great Derelict to do a duet of Phil Collins 1989 classic ‘Another Day in Paradise’… wait, no, no I’m being told what we are actually doing is taking a look at the Federation and asking if it really is the Paradise those time traveling Starf…

Welcome back the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Zoe and somehow Rachel has returned! We're taking a look at everyones favourite princes, rebel leader and general Leia Organa, her journey through the films and legacy, how intertwined the character is with Carrie Fisher and the future of the character since her death. You can find Rachell…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict Tonight Andy is discussing the Federation with Eric the Starfleet Historian, no not that Federation, but the Totalitarian State from Starship Troopers, We discuss the problematic themes in the Robert A. Heinlein novel and if some of Paul Verhoeven satirical dissection was lost amongst the Bugs, Blood and Beautiful…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week where we're going you wont need eyes....because its audio only! Join Andy, Ness and Will as they take a look at 1997's 'Event Horizon as we take a look as this Cult Classic to see if it still stands up You can find Will on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Wyrm201 and his Podcast with Zarich - https://nerdga…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy will ride eternal on the Fury Road with Aunty Daria and Lord Humongous (or Darren to his friends) to look back at the history of the Road Warrior - Mad Max which should help us all get ready for when prices his £2 a litre and we all have to start wearing leather chaps (sometime round December at thi…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week the temporal storms emanating from the Blackhole have been particularly bad meaning that no shuttles have been able to make it to the Derelict, plus Andy has been feeling nostalgic for the old days of Space Dock Jury and the Minisodes, so heres a Minisode about less being more You can find more of Andy a…

Pilot Attend! Your mission this week is to Join Andy (Alpha 1) and he is joined by wingman Murray in Alpha 2, Menace with an Ursa Bryan as Red 4, and absolutely not planing to sneak of in the middle of the battle to salvage some Alien wreck and flog it at the local space mart the dream Space Pirate Medcalf! We're talking about Space sims, From Elit…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week, Andy is joined by Kit and Anne-marie, and making their official Podcast debut Quinn to discuss the tale of Topa on the Orville, from the conception of the Moclans as a punchline about single sexed species, to one of the most nuanced and best realised family units in all of Sci-Fi. You can find more from…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is in rarefied company as he is joined by Bill Krause aka Admiral Buck to talk about designing the latest Hero ship for a Star Trek show, the USS Titan-A from Picard Season 3 We discuss his work as a builder of fan models, marrying head Canon into his designs and how it feels to join the likes of Ma…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by a pair of Mega City Ones finest to talk about Dredd as the film turns 10. Judge Pal aka Dave Wynn, and Michael Van Kesteren, prop maker extraordinaire who worked on the film as concept designer (he made the guns) We talk about the expectations on the film, why it was important that Dred…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict Rise and Shine Mr Freeman Rise and Shine, This week Andy, Lee and Elton continue their discussion on Half Life looking at the highly anticipated sequel Half Life 2 and discussion Valve’s fear of the Number 3, and what the future of the franchise holds with the release of Half Life Alyx Join us next week for the fi…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Lee and Elton as they board the Black Mesa Transit system to the Sector C test labs for the first of a Trilogy of casts looking at Half Life and its impact on Science Fiction in this first part we look at the original game from 1998 and remember Crowbars, Monsters hunting by sound and G…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week, Andy is accepting the inevitability that sooner of later Fast and Furious will become a Sci-Fi, and so with the help of Peter and Anne-Marie we'll finally get to the bottom, of just what is Family? From The Robinsons in Lost In Space to the House of Martok in DS9 to the #PolyAmBeltaFam in the Expanse. W…

Welcome back aboard the Great Derelict! This week Andy has to pay a visit to HR and so is joined by Michaela to discuss some of the examples of good, but mostly bad HR practices we see in Sci-Fi From non accessible Starship Bridges, to discrimination on the Jedi Council, and if Kane should have been entitled to paternity leave after giving 'birth' …

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is on the Grid taking on the MCP with fellow Programs Lee and Dave to talk about the 1982 Classic film Tron From its impact on us growing up, to how it revolutionised visual effects and the magnificent musical scores of both Tron and Legacy, and what we would like to see from a potential Tron 3 You …

Welcome back aboard the Great Derelict! This week Andy is joined by Claude Berube to pick up where they left off when discussing if Starfleet is a Military or not and asking Just how big does your Space Navy have to be? We look at Starfleet, the Imperial Navy from SW, the Colonial fleet from BSG and what can we learn from real Naval History and wha…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict! This week Andy will be joining Jim Moon aboard the Nautilus as we travel deep into the mind of Alan Moore and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic series You can find Jim at Hypnogoria:- http://www.hypnogoria.com and Jim is also on the Blackdog Podcast - http://blackdogpodcast.com And Jess Nevins Annotatio…

Welcome back to a very different Great Derelict This week, Andy is still recovering from Spicy Flu, and the world is still on fire (figuratively and literally) so seemed like a good opportunity to take another interlude (it had been like 3 months since the last one after all, and still haven't been cancelled!) Featuring Contributions from Daria - h…

Welcome Back to the Great Derelict This week Andy has covid, and so Seán and John are locking him in the airlock and will not be breaking quarantine procedure (we've all see how that ends) But while they are here they get together over the intercom to talk all about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, what they liked, what could be better, our hopes for…

Hello There This week Andy is joined by Amber, Zoe and Rachel to discuss Obi-wan Kenobi and to look at the Trauma’s he and many of the characters are dealing with. Is the Jedi order responsible for his decisions, What drove Reva to the Inquisitors, and who is Vader Really speaking to in his final confrontation with his former master? You can find m…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Lee who is so very tired, and doesn't trust anyone as they draw some blood and dip in a hot needle to discuss John Carpenters 1982 classic 'The Thing' From gushing over the amazing practical effects, to wondering just why did he hire Ennio Morricone to compose the score if he wanted to …

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week’s planned Obi-wan episode has been delayed due to leaves on the line, so Murray has arrived with a replacement podcast as we take a look at how do you get around in the future, if you DON’T own the fastest hunk of Junk in the Galaxy!? We ponder just what does the Empire and the federation have in common …

Welcome back to the Great Derelict! This week Andy is Joined by Eddie as they dive into the vast an infinite net in search of their ghosts as we look at the Seminal 1995 anime, Ghost in the Shell. We look at how the film explores Identity, its influence on cinema and the nature of self (so we keep it light!) You can hear more from Eddie here: https…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Peter Hong from the Star Trek Book Club and Michelle Pirraglia, to discuss the Star Trek Coda Trilogy there are spoilers for the whole trilogy throughout, and some discussion about other Trek books and Picard Season 2 You can find more from Peter on Twitter: - https://twitter.com/petert…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict With Pride month upon us and every evil corporation throughout the multiverse flying a rainbow flag, Andy is joined by Kit, Zoë and Rachel to give some recommendations of good Queer Sci-Fi. We talk about why representation is important and what we would like to see in the future for LGBTQIA+ representation in Sci-…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Elton to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Stephen Spielbergs ‘Minority Report’ We discuss if pre-crime is ethical, how accurate do we think its depiction of the future is, and if action scenes in Lexus factories are really practical. We will also be donning tinfoil hats You can find …

Welcome back to the Great Derelict This week Andy is joined by Annie to talk about the Space Coast Guard in K B Wagers 'NeoG' series, described as 'The Expanse meets the Battle Room in Enders Game' We take a look at the world and how diverse the cast is, and how does Leroy Jenkins fit into this world. You can find more from Annie on Twitter: https:…

Welcome back to a very different Great Derelict This week, Andy is skiving off from doing a proper episode, and so we take another brief interlude to listen to some of the music suggestions from you the listeners, or as Martin has dubbed it - Derelict Island Discs Featuring Contributions from Lee - https://twitter.com/BlackdogPodcast Drew - https:/…

nuqneH! Its time to light the citronella candles, swap out the red lightbulbs and light some incense because this week things are going distinctly Klingon on the Great Derelict Andy is join by Eric of the House Muirhead as we discuss everything Klingon! From their origins as racist proxies for the Soviet Union, to one of the most complex and fleshe…

Welcome back to the Great Derelict! This week Andy is joined by Su and Joanne to take a look at the upcoming Lawless Comic Con, a celebration of British comics! We talk about the guests who will be attending and get excited about Brian Bolland, we discuss the range of Panels including Action Comics and Dr Who and a little bit of Thunderbirds, and w…