Jason Snell

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14,638 appearances 23 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4d ago

Jason Snell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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MacBreak Weekly (Audio) · MBW 1041: SHAME - Apple's $2,000 Foldable iPhone: Will Users Make the Leap? · 9 Sep 2026 podcast

And the fact is, if if they had held out like even another year, Star Trek's audience was actually kind of huge, especially it was young and it was well educated. voice-verified

Mm-hmm. voice-verified

But it was a little too early for them to for for that to have taken hold as the way you sold commercials on TV. voice-verified

And um the and there's some great books called These Are the Voyages that tell the detailed stories of the voice-verified

Making of the original Star Trek. voice-verified

And a little known fact is that uh mostly they didn't make a fourth season of Star Trek because NBC was tired of Gene Roddenberry, who was just insufferable. voice-verified

And I mean, it's seriously like he was insufferable. voice-verified

He totally like dropped out of the production of the third season, so it had and and he drove away all the talented people who had written the first two years. voice-verified

So third season is kind of lousy. voice-verified

But you know what? voice-verified

But in hindsight, if they had if they had gone on and made like a couple more seasons of Star Trek the original series, I don't think there were ever would have been a Star Trek after that. voice-verified

I think that the the cult we got the moment that this weird three season show became a thing that sixty years later they're still making and talking about. voice-verified

So, you know, you can't you don't wanna step on that butterfly. voice-verified

Um but it was yeah, it it was more popular than voice-verified

then I think we we're told the stories we're told about it are because it was just super popular in some areas of the culture. voice-verified

And yeah, if it had been literally five years later it would have been a hit because they would have said everybody who's watching this is young and uh well educated and you know It was a cult hit. voice-verified

It was a cult. voice-verified

It was. voice-verified

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