Starbase 217 started as just a group of friends who got together to watch sci-fi movies together. Eventually, three of those friends started a radio show on their local community radio station, WRFU LP-FM, where they basically had the same nerdy conversations they would have in their own living rooms anyway. Though it acquired a large and enthusiastic following of approximately two people, it sadly went off the air when its original hosts went their separate ways due to school and work. However, due to popular demand (well, we demanded it, and we like to think we're popular) it has been resurrected as a "podcast," the most buzzword-y audio-based Internet phenomenon of five years ago.