Tag: Star Trek

Categories
Greetings and Felicitations

John Champion and MissionLogPodcast.com, Part 2-The Journey Continues


Welcome to the Greetings and Felicitations, a podcast where I explore topics which might not seem to be directly related to compliance but clearly influence our profession. In this episode, I conclude a two-part series with John Champion, one of the founders of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. John’s original mission was to do a podcast on every episode of Star Trek, beginning with TOS, TAS, the movies, TNG, DS9, Voyager and beyond. It began in 2012 as a 14-year odyssey and has only grown in length. In this Part 2, we take up the Star Trek story at TNG and bring it forward to the present day.  Highlights include:

  1. The uneven start of TNG and how the show found its footing.
  2. The Trek Files and Dr. Trek himself, Larry Nemecek.
  3. A new generation takes over from Gene Roddenberry and the original creative team.
  4. DS9-a town on the frontier.
  5. A new Star Trek in the 21st century.
  6. Picard-Seasons 1 & 2.
  7. Star Trek-a show for its time and for all time.

Resources
MissionLogPodcast.com
Roddenberry Entertainment

Categories
Greetings and Felicitations

John Champion and MissionLogPodcast.com, Part 1-The Journey Begins

Welcome to the Greetings and Felicitations, a podcast where I explore topics which might not seem to be directly related to compliance but clearly influence our profession. In this episode, I begin a two-part series with John Champion, one of the founders of MissionLogPodcast.com. John’s original mission was to do a podcast on every episode of Star Trek, beginning with TOS, TAS, the movies, TNG, DS9, Voyager and beyond. It began as a 14-year odyssey and has only grown in length. In this Part 1, we take up the founding of  MissionLogPodcast.com and John’s work with his original co-host Ken Ray to explore the morals, messages and meanings of Star Trek up to TNG. Highlights include:

1. The vision of Rod Roddenberry and Roddenberry Entertainment for Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast.
2. Start of the podcast and working through TOS.
3. Some of the hidden gems in TAS.
4. The movies.
5. The work of Dorothy (DC) Fontana
6. The David Gerrold interview.
Resources
MissionLogPodcast.com
Roddenberry Entertainment

Categories
Popcorn and Compliance

Star Trek III-The Search for Spock

In this podcast series, recovering screenwriter (and Mr. Monitor) Jay Rosen and Tom (the Compliance Evangelist) indulge in passion for the movies by looking at them through the lens of compliance. Jay is a contemporary movie fan and I am more of a classic movie maven so we present a well-rounded view of the movie fandom. If you want to indulge in your love for the movies with two guys who are passionate about Hollywood and get some ideas for your compliance program, this is the podcast series for you. For this  offering, we consider the Star Trek III-The Search for Spock.

Some of the highlights include:

Ø  How and why did this movie has such operatic themes?

Ø  Can you separate the soul from the mind?

Ø  What are some of the leadership lessons? Tom has five.

1. What is your one rule?
2. What is risk and how do you assess it?
3. Never carry a swagger stick or any other affecting accoutrement of leadership.
4. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
5. If you include your senior management in your decision making, they will be more invested in the outcome.

Ø  How did one short scene with Uhuru (Nichelle Nichols) explain the scope of her entertainment career?

Ø  How did Ronald Reagan make a related appearance in this movie?

 Tom gives the movie a full bucket and ½ of Popcorn and a medium sized Diet Coke. Jay gives the movie a full bucket of fresh popcorn with Milk Duds mixed in.

Join us again where in our next episode of Popcorn and Compliance, we consider Star Trek IV-The Voyage Home.

Categories
Trekking Through Compliance

Trekking Through Compliance-Episode 9-Dagger of the Mind


In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Dagger of the Mind which aired on November 3, 1966, Star Date 2715.1.
The Enterprise makes a supply run to planet Tantalus V, a colony where the criminally insane are confined for treatment. The facility’s director is Dr. Tristan Adams, a psychiatrist famous for advocating more humane treatment of such patients. After the Enterprise delivers supplies and receives cargo from Tantalus, a man emerges from the container taken aboard and assaults a technician. Reaching the bridge, the intruder demands asylum, but Spock subdues him with a Vulcan nerve pinch. In sickbay, the intruder identifies himself as Simon van Gelder, and a computer check reveals that he is not a patient, but Dr. Adams’ assistant.
On the Enterprise van Gelder becomes increasingly frantic, warning that the landing party is in danger. Spock learns that the neural neutralizer can empty a mind of thoughts, leaving only an unbearable feeling of loneliness and that Adams has been using it on inmates and staff to gain total control of their minds.
Kirk decides to test the neutralizer on himself, with Noel at the controls. Adams appears, overpowers Noel, seizes the controls, increases the neutralizer’s intensity, and proceeds to convince Kirk that he has been madly in love with Noel for years. Adams inadvertently reactivates the neural neutralizer, emptying his mind completely, killing him. Back on the Enterprise, Kirk is informed that van Gelder has destroyed the neural neutralizer. McCoy is surprised that loneliness could be lethal, but Kirk, after his experience, is not.

Compliance Takeaways:
  1. Be careful at Christmas parties.
  2. How do you test new protocols?
  3. How you treat your direct reports is critical for your success as a CCO.
Resources
Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein for Daggerof the Mind
MissionLogPodcast.com-Daggerof the Mind
Categories
Trekking Through Compliance

Trekking Through Compliance: Episode 63 – For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

 

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode   For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky which aired on November 1, 1968, Star Date Unknown.

McCoy calls Kirk to sickbay and informs him that the ship’s Chief Medical Officer (himself) has contracted an incurable fatal disease called xenopolycythemia and has only one year to live. However, McCoy assures Kirk that he will still be able to do his job until the end.

Suddenly, the Enterprise is attacked and diverts and determines their point of origin, an asteroid 200 km in diameter, which is actually a nuclear-powered spaceship on a collision course with planet Daran V. The inhabitants do not know that they are on a spaceship, except for one old man who had climbed a mountain when he was young and intones “For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky.” After uttering this, the oracle punishes the old man with death by means of a subcutaneous “instrument of obedience.”

They are able to put the ship back on course. They also discover databanks of the Fabrini containing a great deal of medical knowledge, including the cure for McCoy’s xenopolycythemia.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     How do you manage?

2.     Executives having skin in compliance.

3.     As a compliance professional, do you have empathy?

Resources

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein

MissionLogPodcast.com

Memory Alpha