This past week Matt has been doing the podcast rounds for his new movies. Here are two good ones that were really interesting.

WTF Podcast with Marc Maron - Matt Damon
https://youtu.be/xRbyG-nrJg8

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard - Matt Damon
https://youtu.be/4KOsmZvgqdc

I think I could probably disable Dax Shepard long enough to bundle Kristen Bell into the back of a jeep and make my escape.

Maybe I should construct an animatronic trojan hippopotamus that shoots tranquillizer darts through its nostrils.

I do love her. And I will wear Dax's face skin as a mask in order to consumate my love for her.

Thanks, bud!
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*promote both the ever adorable KB, but also the funnies.

she's dating a Dax. Hey, that's my name

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*Promote (yeah, I know Siftbot, I know) as WB isn't picking it up as a feature movie, but the director, Kevin Tancharoen, will do a 10 part webisode series. Filming starts in February. Jai White is still playing Dax, but no word on if any of the other cast will be returning such as Jerri Ryan.

DS9 was slow to start so those who watched and bailed early missed what I feel was the best series. At first I was worried about everything being located on one space station that didn't go anywhere but I think the producers realized it as well.
They did everything they could to jumpstart the series and they succeeded!
Shaving Sisco's head and giving him a new look, Bringing in Worf, Expanding on Odo the Changelings, The defiant (the only federation ship with a cloaking device), Dax was a great Character, even once they had to change symbionts.

DS9 had the deepest character development out of any Star Trek series:
Sisko, Odo, Dax (1&2), Worf, Miles, Quark, Bashir, Kira, Garak and a dynamic supporting cast Gul Dukat, Nog, Rom, Gowron, Lwaxana Troi, Martok, Vash, Leeta, Jake Sisko, the Grand Nagus. The Changelings, Cardasians, Klingons, Bajorans, Humans, Ferengi, the Jem'Hadar...

The ongoing storyline with the war and the occupation gave a great overall setting for the episode stories. It kept serving the characters to us in new ways and let us see into the characters in more depth. I think it was the series with the most mature story line and had the most layers. It was war, intrigue, humor, alliances, secrets, threats, doom, development, exploration and more...

Um, so ya, I voted for DS9

TNG is some of the best episodic sci-fi TV ever. No story arc, and yet managed to grow the characters over time, and be able to tackle ethics every week, and present it in a fresh way every time. I've seen nothing like it before or since.

DS:9 was pretty damned good too, even if it was a Trek rip off of Babylon 5, it was a pretty enthralling one once they really committed to a Dominion-heavy story arc in the latter half of the series. The non-arc episode where Sisko, Bashir, and Dax get sent to the early 21st century and are thrown into a nascent concentration camp for poor people is on par with the best of anything TNG had to offer.

Voyager was basically 100% crap except for a handful of episodes.

Enterprise was a really cool idea, but it lacked a unifying vision which hurt it badly. The last season was pretty good, and the 2-part Mirror universe episodes were some of the best Trek ever.

The old series has always seemed almost intolerably dated to me. I've never really gotten hooked into any of the episodes like I did with the other series.

The even-numbered movies have been pretty good, though Nemesis (10) was awfully bland.

Here's hoping the latest Trek movie breaks the odd-number curse.

Xax > Dax. I prefer to walk a mile in the shoes of the CUSTOMER.

I agree with the description of soothing.

Sometimes we get so busy caught up in our lives - always running around, always on the go - that we forget to slow down and enjoy.

Once or twice a month on my day off, I take the bus downtown. I bring my MP3 player with two albums of Dax Johnson loaded on it (piano music with no vocals) and I wander downtown. I pop into bookstores, tea shops, etc and just meander. One of the spots that I like to eat is a little bagel shop facing the street near a busy market. I sit, eat, relax, and people watch. Sometimes it is interesting to step back, to step outside, and watch snippets of people's lives. It allows you to view the situation without any included drama. And the fun part of trying to dissect them psychologically. Of course it is just a short glimpse into a person's life, but it is fun (at least for me) and does build your awareness for observing those little ticks... those facial and physical mannerisms that give away our inner workings.

And being observant is a great tool for fighting the battle to not lose your ability to empathize. It is very easy to start losing that ability in a world of impersonal and/or fake interaction. A world in which the TV and internet reign.

This movie is intense. There are war movies and then there's Kubrick's war movies.

"You are an idealist and I pity you as I would the village idiot. We're fighting a war, Dax, a war that we've got to win. Those men didn't fight, so they were shot. You bring charges against General Mireau, so I insist that he answer them. Wherein have I done wrong?"

"Because you don't know the answer to that question, I pity you."

Kubrick, ever the idealist.

Dunno. I liked the old-style intro and outro with the theme-related songs better.

And may I be the first to say: mmmm, Fuzzy Felt Dax...
What?

congrats, dax, that monster rocks!