This is my favourite podcast. It features two contestants who are minor celebrities and asks them for three topics outside their field of work in which they are experts in, and then crafts a trivia quiz for them. Finally they bring in an expert to evaluate their responses, and the show is able to get some amazing experts who are a joy to listen to and usually the response from the contestent meeting the expert is incredibly wholesome.
This episode features Tim Russ so I thought the TenForward community might like it. There also some additional Star Trek trivia and personalities even during the part of the episode that features the other contestant Amber Nelson.
Tim Russ’s three topics are - Astronomy, Alien invasion movies of the 1950s and 60s, and World War II. You can find out more about why Tim was intereted in these topics.
Also noteable quote from the episide: “I think Tim might be the center of the universe!”
Got me looking up Tim Russ’s age, born in 1956 already!
Found what I think is the Trek “Class of '56”
Kim Catrall: Valeris in ST VI. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kim_Cattrall
Gary Cole: Leonardo da Vinci in ST:LD. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gary_Cole
Bruce Greenwood: Pike in Kelvin ST. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bruce_Greenwood
Richard Kind: Doopler emissary in ST:LD. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Richard_Kind
Alan Ruck: John Harriman in ST: Generations. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Alan_Ruck
Tim Russ: Tuvok in ST:VOY, inter al. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tim_Russ
Yeah, Tim states in the podcast that he’s been an Astronomer for 35 years! It’s weird to see that the “Next Generation” of Star Trek actors are getting up there now.
He just didn’t strike me as already in his forties when VOY was running.
And the fact that the guy who ditched high school with Ferris Bueller is turning 69 in two months… what the actual F???