July 19, 2025 • 9 mins
ICYMI: ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Mark Rahner’s review on the debut of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3’ AND the fallout surrounding CBS’ decision to eliminate ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ in The Rahner Report - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Mark talks pontificates about pop culture, ron and Report with
Mark Ronner k.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
IF I am six forty. It's time for the Runner
Report with Mark Ronner. Tonight we're going to talk about
Star Trek's Strange New world Season three. It's a little
weird how the original Star Trek cranked out seventy eight
hour long episodes in just three years, but that's how
TV was back then. Star Trek Strange New Worlds just
started its third short, ten episode season, and there was
a nearly two year gap between the second and third season.
(00:52):
I forgot where it left off. Lots of fans have
been waiting for the first two episodes of season three.
There on the Paramount Plus app right now here is
a little bit of the trailer.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Someone said, space is dark and cold. Our job is
to bring light, bring warmth, bring life to wherever we go.
Is this a hit it situation?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
That's whatever kind of adventure we want it to be.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
This crew is a team the finest Starfleet has to offer.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Indeed, if it's possible, they don't know about us, they
know about us.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
There is evil in this universe yours, there is good time.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
The choices you make a not sure they are yours
to make and yours to live with.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I think that's plenty. You get the idea. Star Trek's
Strange New World Worlds is my favorite of all the spinoffs,
and to be completely honest, I never liked any of
the others. All Right. I like the animated series because
it had a lot of the same talent from the
old main show and was way too weird and intellectual
for kids in the seventies and also for adults now.
In fact, let's have some of the music from that
(02:05):
to add drama and excitement to what I'm saying. Let's
try this. Oh yeah, now we're cooking. Just turn this
down a little. That makes every single thing better. Now,
even if you like Strange New Worlds, you got to
look the other way on plenty of stuff. It's set
before the time of the original, but the ship and
everything else look far more advanced. Your mileage may vary
(02:28):
on the young Kirk in the show. There's never gonna
be another William Shatner, so you run into this problem
of having an actor doing an impression or not like
they more or less do with Young Spock and Young
Scottie Spock. Let's just move on. They change some well
known stuff from the old show, in this case the Gorn,
which are the aliens from the last season Cliffhanger and
the first episode of the season three. Remember the original
(02:51):
series episode Arena where Kirk fights a Gorn. It's essentially
a space lizard man okay, looks like a guy in
a rubber suit who moves like one of the sleek
Stacks from Land to the Lost. Ever since I moved
to La, I've been planning to go to Vasquez Rocks
where they filmed that and get a photo like Tim
Kirk after he rolls the Boulder down on the Gorn,
which doesn't do anything to the Gorn. The new ones
(03:12):
are far more reptilian, less humanoid, move faster, crawl on
walls and stuff. You might as well call them something different,
but we're just gonna keep moving. And the first new
episode of this third season, some crew members are trapped
on the Gorn mothership being digested in pod things, which
they get out of by poking their hands through the
pod things. Captain Pike and the Enterprise are attacked by
(03:35):
a lot of little Gorn fighter ships and Pike's girlfriends
infected with a Gorn parasite baby thing and might die
from it. There's a ton of future tech mumbo jumbo dialogue,
but it's a fun episode plenty attention. The second episode,
also strip Minds I mean, is inspired by another original
series episode, Remember what Are Little Girls Made Of? That's
(03:56):
the one where Nurse Chapel meets her old ex mentor
with benefits, Rush Korby on a planet with Kirk and
Korby's really turned into a number two. That's the old one.
In the new Strange, New World's version, they go back
to Chapel's initial time with Korby and it's played for
romantic comedy, with a younger, hotter dude playing Korby and
a heartbroken spot Reese Darby, the New England comic actor,
(04:18):
is a fun guest star, and the episode also riffs
on another great old original episode called The Squire of
Got Those And I'm not going to spoil it any
further than that. What I'm saying is they mashed up
two old episodes together and did some fan fiction. It's
all watchable, but even the best episodes of Strange New
Worlds mainly remind me of the better Original ones. At
least these guys know those shows well enough to riff
(04:38):
on them. I guess Strange New World's a great look
and show, and I don't understand why it's not on
the actual network instead of just the Paramount Plus streaming app.
Wait which app? Paramount Plus? Oh? Okay continue, But it's
a Paramount show, and as we've been discussing, they aren't
exactly known at this point for their stellar decision making.
You may be aware if you've been listening, they paid
(05:00):
a sixteen million dollar settlement in a nuisance suit from
President Trump over an edited sixty minutes interview of Kamala Harris,
which is nowhere near as egregious as the kind of
stuff that routinely appears on Fox News and elsewhere. Paramount
wants a merger to go through with another big company
called sky Dance, and they need the FCC's approval for that.
You may also recall that Sixty Minutes, also a Paramount
(05:22):
CBS show, has had issues related to editorial independence, and
an executive producer left there recently, and Paramount canceled the
Late Show with Stephen Colbert Their statement claims it was
purely a financial decision, but no one believes that for
a second. Colbert is by far number one in the
ratings in his time slot. He also recently called that
(05:43):
sixteen million dollar settlement a bribe on the air, and
has mocked Trump relentlessly over the years. You don't have
to be a media consultant to know that if you
want to make a bride accusation go away, that ain't
the way to do it, but it is an outstanding
way to make it spread everywhere. Really fat It's like
the streisand effect if Barbara streisand We're trying to get
(06:04):
a huge business deal approved by silencing a popular satirist.
What I'm saying is that CBS, which runs The Late
Show and Star Trek Strange New world is a mess.
And I started this digression wondering why Strange New Worlds
is only on the Paramount plus app. What I'm thinking
is CBS might cease to exist before long because Paramount's
so poorly run, and maybe they at least have the
(06:24):
foresight to build up the streaming app. First abandoned Ship,
get to the escape pods and all that. I'm just
telling you as a journalist that it doesn't pass the
smell test. It looks exactly like Colbert is being canceled
for political reasons and not the reasons Paramount gave. That's it.
I don't like being lied to, no matter who's doing
the line. And there's another thing. We've always had some
versions of the court jester in our culture who could
(06:47):
mock kings and speak truth to power without fearing his
head getting separated from his body. Colbert is won in
a long line of those. You might not watch or
agree with him, or think he's funny, I'm just telling
you he's part of that tradition, and I bet there's
some you've liked. I'd ask what you think of Greg
Guttfield if he was canceled to a peace president Biden,
But I'm talking about comedians. The point is, it seems
(07:10):
like a linesman crossed you. Like that. The latest on
this situation is that the Writers Guild of America has
called for Paramount to be investigated for bribery by the
New York State Attorney General following that cancelation of Colbert,
Variety reports. The Labor Union says it has significant concerns
the move may have been intended to bribe President Trump
into sanctioning Paramount's pending acquisition by sky Dance. There you
(07:32):
have it. Senators, including Schiff and Warren are demanding answers
now about the situation too, And that's the genius outfit
in charge of Star Trek. As I was saying, I
like Anson Mount as Captain Pike, which was a role
originated by Jeffrey Hunter. Pike's a different sort of captain
who represents a different kind of masculinity for a different
(07:52):
time than the mid sixties. He doesn't have all the answers.
He gets them from his team. He cooks for his officers,
He's got a steady girlfriend he gets emotional about, as
opposed to Kirk's space jigglow Stick. It's refreshing and I
wish the episodes focused more on Pike, but it's a
different kind of show. It's also too informal. I don't
like everyone calling each other by the first names instead
(08:13):
of lieutenant or ansign. Erica doesn't seem right for essentially
a naval adventure in space, but we're going to keep moving.
God to admit, I'm also not crazy about Spock being
such a needy emotional weakling. I genuinely think we're still
just beginning to appreciate what Leonard Nimoy brought to that role,
and he wasn't even the first choice. Imagine if Martin
(08:33):
Landau from Mission Impossible had accepted it when they offered
it to him first. Illogical. Here's the bottom line. I'm
going to keep watching Strange New Worlds until I have
to bail, like I did with Star Trek Discovery after
maybe less than two seasons, because what I didn't like
about that started to outweigh what I liked. Strange New
Worlds has been renewed through season five and the reportedly
(08:53):
in production on season four now, which means that after
five seasons, probably still with some space between them, will
still have maybe fifty episodes compared to the original seventy
eight and three. This is the only example of American
productivity I can think of that's actually gone down. I'm
telling you, the United Federation of Planets could learn a
thing or two from Mokay Crank out more shows. That's
(09:16):
your runner report.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Look, Martin Landau may have not landed the Spock role,
but he did get Space nineteen ninety nine, so it
turned out Okay, I'm not a huge fan of that show,
but I absolutely love the old Mission Impossibles that he
was in. Fair Enough, fair Enough, IM six forty live everywhere,
I heart radio app and there is an aroma of
pizza in the studio.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I did not condone that I don't know what you're
talking about and you can't see anything on my camera.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Mark talks pontificates about pop culture, ron and Report with
Mark Ronner k.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
IF I am six forty. It's time for the Runner
Report with Mark Ronner. Tonight we're going to talk about
Star Trek's Strange New world Season three. It's a little
weird how the original Star Trek cranked out seventy eight
hour long episodes in just three years, but that's how
TV was back then. Star Trek Strange New Worlds just
started its third short, ten episode season, and there was
a nearly two year gap between the second and third season.
(00:52):
I forgot where it left off. Lots of fans have
been waiting for the first two episodes of season three.
There on the Paramount Plus app right now here is
a little bit of the trailer.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Someone said, space is dark and cold. Our job is
to bring light, bring warmth, bring life to wherever we go.
Is this a hit it situation?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
That's whatever kind of adventure we want it to be.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
This crew is a team the finest Starfleet has to offer.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Indeed, if it's possible, they don't know about us, they
know about us.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
There is evil in this universe yours, there is good time.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
The choices you make a not sure they are yours
to make and yours to live with.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I think that's plenty. You get the idea. Star Trek's
Strange New World Worlds is my favorite of all the spinoffs,
and to be completely honest, I never liked any of
the others. All Right. I like the animated series because
it had a lot of the same talent from the
old main show and was way too weird and intellectual
for kids in the seventies and also for adults now.
In fact, let's have some of the music from that
(02:05):
to add drama and excitement to what I'm saying. Let's
try this. Oh yeah, now we're cooking. Just turn this
down a little. That makes every single thing better. Now,
even if you like Strange New Worlds, you got to
look the other way on plenty of stuff. It's set
before the time of the original, but the ship and
everything else look far more advanced. Your mileage may vary
(02:28):
on the young Kirk in the show. There's never gonna
be another William Shatner, so you run into this problem
of having an actor doing an impression or not like
they more or less do with Young Spock and Young
Scottie Spock. Let's just move on. They change some well
known stuff from the old show, in this case the Gorn,
which are the aliens from the last season Cliffhanger and
the first episode of the season three. Remember the original
(02:51):
series episode Arena where Kirk fights a Gorn. It's essentially
a space lizard man okay, looks like a guy in
a rubber suit who moves like one of the sleek
Stacks from Land to the Lost. Ever since I moved
to La, I've been planning to go to Vasquez Rocks
where they filmed that and get a photo like Tim
Kirk after he rolls the Boulder down on the Gorn,
which doesn't do anything to the Gorn. The new ones
(03:12):
are far more reptilian, less humanoid, move faster, crawl on
walls and stuff. You might as well call them something different,
but we're just gonna keep moving. And the first new
episode of this third season, some crew members are trapped
on the Gorn mothership being digested in pod things, which
they get out of by poking their hands through the
pod things. Captain Pike and the Enterprise are attacked by
(03:35):
a lot of little Gorn fighter ships and Pike's girlfriends
infected with a Gorn parasite baby thing and might die
from it. There's a ton of future tech mumbo jumbo dialogue,
but it's a fun episode plenty attention. The second episode,
also strip Minds I mean, is inspired by another original
series episode, Remember what Are Little Girls Made Of? That's
(03:56):
the one where Nurse Chapel meets her old ex mentor
with benefits, Rush Korby on a planet with Kirk and
Korby's really turned into a number two. That's the old one.
In the new Strange, New World's version, they go back
to Chapel's initial time with Korby and it's played for
romantic comedy, with a younger, hotter dude playing Korby and
a heartbroken spot Reese Darby, the New England comic actor,
(04:18):
is a fun guest star, and the episode also riffs
on another great old original episode called The Squire of
Got Those And I'm not going to spoil it any
further than that. What I'm saying is they mashed up
two old episodes together and did some fan fiction. It's
all watchable, but even the best episodes of Strange New
Worlds mainly remind me of the better Original ones. At
least these guys know those shows well enough to riff
(04:38):
on them. I guess Strange New World's a great look
and show, and I don't understand why it's not on
the actual network instead of just the Paramount Plus streaming app.
Wait which app? Paramount Plus? Oh? Okay continue, But it's
a Paramount show, and as we've been discussing, they aren't
exactly known at this point for their stellar decision making.
You may be aware if you've been listening, they paid
(05:00):
a sixteen million dollar settlement in a nuisance suit from
President Trump over an edited sixty minutes interview of Kamala Harris,
which is nowhere near as egregious as the kind of
stuff that routinely appears on Fox News and elsewhere. Paramount
wants a merger to go through with another big company
called sky Dance, and they need the FCC's approval for that.
You may also recall that Sixty Minutes, also a Paramount
(05:22):
CBS show, has had issues related to editorial independence, and
an executive producer left there recently, and Paramount canceled the
Late Show with Stephen Colbert Their statement claims it was
purely a financial decision, but no one believes that for
a second. Colbert is by far number one in the
ratings in his time slot. He also recently called that
(05:43):
sixteen million dollar settlement a bribe on the air, and
has mocked Trump relentlessly over the years. You don't have
to be a media consultant to know that if you
want to make a bride accusation go away, that ain't
the way to do it, but it is an outstanding
way to make it spread everywhere. Really fat It's like
the streisand effect if Barbara streisand We're trying to get
(06:04):
a huge business deal approved by silencing a popular satirist.
What I'm saying is that CBS, which runs The Late
Show and Star Trek Strange New world is a mess.
And I started this digression wondering why Strange New Worlds
is only on the Paramount plus app. What I'm thinking
is CBS might cease to exist before long because Paramount's
so poorly run, and maybe they at least have the
(06:24):
foresight to build up the streaming app. First abandoned Ship,
get to the escape pods and all that. I'm just
telling you as a journalist that it doesn't pass the
smell test. It looks exactly like Colbert is being canceled
for political reasons and not the reasons Paramount gave. That's it.
I don't like being lied to, no matter who's doing
the line. And there's another thing. We've always had some
versions of the court jester in our culture who could
(06:47):
mock kings and speak truth to power without fearing his
head getting separated from his body. Colbert is won in
a long line of those. You might not watch or
agree with him, or think he's funny, I'm just telling
you he's part of that tradition, and I bet there's
some you've liked. I'd ask what you think of Greg
Guttfield if he was canceled to a peace president Biden,
But I'm talking about comedians. The point is, it seems
(07:10):
like a linesman crossed you. Like that. The latest on
this situation is that the Writers Guild of America has
called for Paramount to be investigated for bribery by the
New York State Attorney General following that cancelation of Colbert,
Variety reports. The Labor Union says it has significant concerns
the move may have been intended to bribe President Trump
into sanctioning Paramount's pending acquisition by sky Dance. There you
(07:32):
have it. Senators, including Schiff and Warren are demanding answers
now about the situation too, And that's the genius outfit
in charge of Star Trek. As I was saying, I
like Anson Mount as Captain Pike, which was a role
originated by Jeffrey Hunter. Pike's a different sort of captain
who represents a different kind of masculinity for a different
(07:52):
time than the mid sixties. He doesn't have all the answers.
He gets them from his team. He cooks for his officers,
He's got a steady girlfriend he gets emotional about, as
opposed to Kirk's space jigglow Stick. It's refreshing and I
wish the episodes focused more on Pike, but it's a
different kind of show. It's also too informal. I don't
like everyone calling each other by the first names instead
(08:13):
of lieutenant or ansign. Erica doesn't seem right for essentially
a naval adventure in space, but we're going to keep moving.
God to admit, I'm also not crazy about Spock being
such a needy emotional weakling. I genuinely think we're still
just beginning to appreciate what Leonard Nimoy brought to that role,
and he wasn't even the first choice. Imagine if Martin
(08:33):
Landau from Mission Impossible had accepted it when they offered
it to him first. Illogical. Here's the bottom line. I'm
going to keep watching Strange New Worlds until I have
to bail, like I did with Star Trek Discovery after
maybe less than two seasons, because what I didn't like
about that started to outweigh what I liked. Strange New
Worlds has been renewed through season five and the reportedly
(08:53):
in production on season four now, which means that after
five seasons, probably still with some space between them, will
still have maybe fifty episodes compared to the original seventy
eight and three. This is the only example of American
productivity I can think of that's actually gone down. I'm
telling you, the United Federation of Planets could learn a
thing or two from Mokay Crank out more shows. That's
(09:16):
your runner report.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Look, Martin Landau may have not landed the Spock role,
but he did get Space nineteen ninety nine, so it
turned out Okay, I'm not a huge fan of that show,
but I absolutely love the old Mission Impossibles that he
was in. Fair Enough, fair Enough, IM six forty live everywhere,
I heart radio app and there is an aroma of
pizza in the studio.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I did not condone that I don't know what you're
talking about and you can't see anything on my camera.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
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