The Incomparable Mothership #800 January 16, 2026
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Draft Science

After 800 episodes, we are in serious danger of repeating ourselves, but that never stopped us before. Some of our most prolific panelists fulfill the prophesy and draft Incomparable drafts. Jason begs them to give him new ideas, because after 800, he’s almost run out. And we use our powers for good and evil to mark classic episodes for deletion.

Listen to this episode (1 hour, 34 minutes)

Show Notes

Draft a draft (it culminates)

  • Monty: 158/159 Film Festival II
  • Annette: 695 Toy Draft
  • Moises: 100 Who Cares What We Think?
  • David: 535 Muppet Draft
  • Erika: 192 Robots
  • Kathy: 388 TV Theme Songs
  • Dan: 329 Travesty Draft
  • Shelly: 553 Bad Best Picture
  • Jason: 479 Saturday Morning Draft

Suggest a made-up holiday or summer theme

  • Monty: Crossovermas
  • Annette: Cage Fight Club / Cage Match
  • Moises: Franktoberfest or Franksgiving
  • David: Summer of Spies
  • Erika: Summer of Sun / Summer of Summer
  • Kathy: Streepstakes
  • Dan: Every Version of Blade Runner
  • Shelly: Decade of Disasters
  • Jason: Valentine’s Day romcoms / F’sgiving / Summer of Kaiju

Suggest a topic for a future episode

  • Monty: Lawnmower Man/Lawnmower Man 2
  • Annette: Heated Rivalry
  • Moises: Defeat the Fantasy RPG Final Battle Draft
  • David: Network
  • Erika: Tank Girl
  • Kathy: Best First Role of famous actor draft, Books from your Childhood
  • Dan: Mario Kart Tournament
  • Shelly: Content you think somebody who is not SF/F native would enjoy/help get started

Draft an episode you’d like to delete from the Incomparable archive

  • Monty: 222 - Forcegiving
  • Annette: 33 - Real Genius
  • Moises: 22 - Stephen Fry (Does Not Appear)
  • David: 139 - Wrinkle in Time
  • Erika: 269 - Crazy Ivan
  • Kathy: 382 - It’s a Wonderful Life / 202 2014 Hugos
  • Dan: 58 - Greyskull Anonymous
  • Shelly: 325 - Monster Mash
  • Jason: 124/125 LOTR episode since we could do it properly (we could anyway)