The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► I believe steve is going to get his kid [TS]

00:00:02 ◼   ► on the show before i get mine on that's [TS]

00:00:04 ◼   ► amazing all eat it smells yeah seriously [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► the incomparable number 100 third be [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► march 2013 so Scott lay it on me [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► alright well so like I said there are [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► reason I have very different reasons for [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► liking different episodes and really I [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► just like all of the episodes but I [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► could really say that because that's [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► just lame and now that i'm rewatching in [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► order these episodes are fresh in my [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► mind so I the first one that picture [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► from the first season obviously I didn't [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► like where no man has gone before mostly [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► because Gary Mitchell oh yeah is a cool [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► character great great episode may or may [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► not appear in star trek into darkness so [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► weird weird uh looking because it's a [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► pilot so the uniforms are different [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► that's all [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► but but so tragic right that he's like [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► he's Kirk's best friend is basically [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► what we're told and because it's the [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► pilot episode you know [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► sure okay and then and then he gets a [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► little glowy eyes and and becomes the [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► murderous horrible killer best friend i [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► look forward to seeing more of you are [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► well and if the pilot we have our first [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► instance of the man who suddenly becomes [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► omnipotent yeah it's true and he has to [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► wear crazy silver a contact lenses ouch [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► aah when I watched it before I never [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► really correctly that you know they were [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► contact lenses now i'm watching it on [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► the blu-ray and it's very high [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► resolution and it is clear that those [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► things must have been incredibly painful [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► to wear their rotoscoped in some places [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► but not others because that scene where [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► where it fades out you can still see his [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► eyes and that's because the rotoscope [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► was still hair and made left it because [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► it was super creepy but yes even the [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► fade-out could not stop his eyes the [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► eyes are pretty creepy i have to say and [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► apparently he shared Gary Mitchell they [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► had contact lenses that they had to [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► where he can only wear them for a couple [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► minutes because they are excruciatingly [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► painful and he could see through a pin [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► holes so that's why you had to hold his [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► head back so he could see people which [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► is kind of course it also features the [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► tombstone of James are Kirk that [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► well it shows that Gary was not [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► omnipotent can certainly played a [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► practical joke and said that his middle [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► name was Roy and it wasn't also Sally [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► Kellerman is in that episode and she's [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► she's really great too [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► yes so that's fun episode i also like [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► Charlie X with the weird Charlie act the [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► weird [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► Charlie guy Anthony you know wishing [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► people the cornfield mentioned that [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► earlier and it ends recently [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► space seed course of course column is [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► introduced i watch that today to that [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► that is a good that it's a good episode [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► although the the sexism in that episode [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► was really awful i have to say because [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► they introduced Marla MacGyver's the the [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► historian and from the very first scene [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► she's basically terrible at her job and [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► all she wants to do is be in love with [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► the pretty man that they're thawing out [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► of the Botany Bay that's what historians [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► do [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► she's a heck of a painter though I said [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► to my family as I was watching it so [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► moral of this episode is don't let women [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► be officers on the spaceship [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► it's really good it's so bad so bad [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► great but but Montalban [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► I mean it's if you put you could tell [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► what episodes the writers of structure [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► to watched before they wrote star trek [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► to basically watch space seed and [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► corbomite maneuver and put them together [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► Montalban so good you almost believe [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► he's indian you almost well I mean they [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► don't know whether they change i think [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► at least they changed his hair he looks [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► could sort of like he could be siiick [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► until he speaks and then he's got his [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► his act normal accent rich Corinthian [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► accent but but but he's so great i mean [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► i say we i could see why you'd watch [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► that episode and say oh this is is is [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► Ricardo Montalban available because this [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► is what we should do this is said yeah I [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► remember my early days on the bustling [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► streets of Calcutta although the [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► potholes in that episode where where [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► where kirtle gives him a sure mr. [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► mysterious man who seemed vaguely [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► threatening read all of our technical [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► information and then later where he [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► where he convenes this whole like trial [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► only to say i'm dropping all the charges [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► were going to be me down to a planet [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► good luck [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► you tried to take over my sugar no hard [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► feelings because I think you're kinda [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► cool even though you tried to kill me [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► i'm giving you a planet seems weird have [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► a feeling that whole scenario probably [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► turned out okay though i'm sure it's out [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► of here it's just hard but we discussed [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► in the star trek to episode how most of [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► Starfleet crew seemed to be borderline [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► income [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► yeah it's it's just it's strange that [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► they get anything seats to fill seats to [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► fill study out 45 seems fine it'll be [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► fine [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► the historian is is just an example of [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► what it's like on most of the other [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► ships throughout the powerfully truth as [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► bumbling idiots [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► yeah going through uh let's see [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► Oh a taste of Armageddon i like because [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► when i was a kid it just blew my mouth [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► that they would have a the computers [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► fighting wars and then calculate [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► casualties and then people were just [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► willingly go into booths and I that's [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► good that's got a nice twilight zone [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► feel to it to the whole submitting to [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► death business [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► I'm glad you mentioned that Scott [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► because that is on my list very high up [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► and you know in some ways it's the [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► archetype star trek episode because you [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► know Kirk is supposed to not interfere [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► with other cultures and he totally just [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► then he whatever worldwide computer [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► controls your culture he will destroy it [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► legend I love that I that is one of my [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► certainly one of my top 5 a and it is [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► because of all the things that make the [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► original Star Trek break that it's got [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► the social commentary it's a very much a [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► cold war story i love the idea that [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► technology has allowed these people to [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► make war palatable and that Kirk comes [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► and basically says I'm going to break [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► your computer's if you want to kill each [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► other you're gonna have to actually kill [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► each other and he's so aghast by how [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► clean they made it and how they're just [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► going to send people to these this [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► horrific idea that the computers like [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► your number comes up and they just send [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► you to the disintegration chamber and [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► people go it's like well I'm a casualty [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► I've got to go and it's it's just it's [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► mind-blowing it's it's so great i mean [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► if i don't go people might actually die [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► yeah that and then so i'll just go and [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► then is going disintegrated and that and [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► that Kirk's reaction is basically this [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► is crap i I'm gonna go bro [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► I'm gonna break their society because I [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► can't allow this to continue as more or [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► less just a prime guideline in season 1 [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► prime suggestion but he's totally right [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► so it's got that it's got that's kind of [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► social twist about about nuclear war and [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► mutually assured destruction all of that [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► that's going on and and it's got i just [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► i love i love a taste of Armageddon it's [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► it's kirk at his best at saying you know [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► I don't care I don't care your society [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► stupid studies really stupid and I don't [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► screw it up and you're gonna have to [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► figure it out no we only don't mess with [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► the non stupid society I'm sorry yeah I [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► who am I to judge [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► alright Starfleet captain that's who i [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► am i'm gonna ask your computer society [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► stupid your hats or twice the stupid [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► yeah yeah bad hats but what Spock ones [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► one well we kid Landrieu we could lay [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► drew involved and all the other admitted [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► computer's been around here in norman [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► they kind of have that the whole off the [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► shoulder thing going in that episode 2 [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► it's the inventory ins and all of that [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► you know it's just like James Kirk is [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► tired of your crap he's gonna turn off [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► your computer and hey if you want to [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► fight you gotta fight like for real [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► that's enough to deal with it i love i [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► love that episode so I'm glad you [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► mentioned it Scott because I don't think [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► he gets enough credit [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► I i think i think we great episode it is [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► it is so awesome [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► yeah so good that i mock time we talked [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► about yet mirror mirror i love because [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► Spock is evil with the disappeared [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► Oh probably forgot to mention that one [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► the goatee so great of Captain Kirk has [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► a machine in his crib in his quarters [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► that lets you basically like find anyone [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► on the ship and make them disappear [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► which is awesome we should get into the [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► cornfield the space cornfield [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► yeah and it introduces the whole mirror [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► universe which is just going to thing [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► installed mine forever Syria did they [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► make it a little too much but I just [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► like any thing that happens in the [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► mirror her universe they make it [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► appropriately [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► did you know that there are whole [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► parallel universes where the American [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► flag has red stripes or the white [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► stripes shall be no worries II just [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► insane [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► I just love that episode because what's [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► not to love about that doesn't like it's [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► so great that Spock and spoke with the [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► beard that's like the evil duplicate has [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► a beard is no I think it's is the thing [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► because of the success yeah this is [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► another way that Star Trek is shaped by [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► society [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► i like the little twist there to where [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► there's the one character in the mirror [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► universe we don't know which is that [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► curse girlfriend who's his accomplice [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► and then at the very end she's been [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► assigned to the enterprise i love that [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► twist where it's like oh and now here's [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► your mirror this universe it's nice [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► that's interesting that the evil Kirk [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► can have a girlfriend but the good kirk [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► has the enterprise instead [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► that's right that's his girl yep only if [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► he were evil would he have a room in his [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► life for a woman that's an important [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► lesson for us all i think yeah and if [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► you talk about I talk about episodes [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► influential and the spin-offs later I [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► mean the Deep Space nine producers could [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► not get enough of the laminator of [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► mining this episode and and quite right [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► I've made it and made those are fun [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► episodes too so yeah I remember when [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► those came on i was so excited because [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► it's like oh yeah because i love that I [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► love that episode and in their [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► universities like you know we leave [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► mirror mirror and it's like Spock is [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► gonna basically overthrow everything and [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► make everything good which is great and [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► you FaceTime we learned that leads to [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► them being horribly destroyed because [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► they're weak then because they're nice [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► and yeah i mean that's great just to see [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► you know these characters this is in the [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► second season so you kind of the [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► characters are established and then the [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► picture because the opposite of what [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► they are so it's an interesting take on [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► it and apparently the prime directive [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► does not apply to parallel universes [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► either know he pretty much door except [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► that one does not apply it doesn't [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► really apply anywhere [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► yeah it's not a big believer in the [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► front directive is the prime directive [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► mentioned in the original series I just [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► yeah [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► oh I always really watching next-gen I [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► was just like I basically read it as [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► like in you know don't be late in [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► response to captain it's not not even [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► our prime directive is really that to [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► how often does it mention it is like you [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► know a while have half of those Rome / [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► Nazi / Chicago episodes are [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► are showing the the unwise miss of [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► violating the prime directive because [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► most of them were caused by some dude [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► from Starfleet I just feel like like [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► even if Kirk isn't big on it you think [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► like other people should be like xbox [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► and have a thing we say like I know you [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► do whatever you want but I'm required by [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► protocol remind you that the prime [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► directive you know now continue [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► Kurdistan believer [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► he'll give it lift lip service but when [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► he can when he can destroy the planet [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► there the computer that is dominating [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► the planet will do it [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► yeah you know so that becomes really [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► important when they're stuck in ancient [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► Rome for some reason it's well you have [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► to draw a line somewhere [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► yes well Scott ah well I way we did mock [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► these two episodes already but I do in [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► fact like a piece of the action and [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► patterns of course I like patterns of [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► force mostly because they're nazis in it [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► yeah and it's always fun to see ya Nazi [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► know you love that [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► how do we got scott once again going on [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► audio record for his patterns of force [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► is not about again planet the Nazis [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► makes it sound wacky and stupid but it's [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► at it it is this is it is very is always [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► kind of what it's about is a guy who [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► gets obsessed I mean you hear these [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► people that there were always people who [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► would say you know in this really [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► disturbing way like well you know Hitler [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► kind of have the right idea but it was [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► just a little misguided room he took it [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► too far if he just hadn't done all that [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► you know that you killing and all that [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► stuff the rest of it was good [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► the roads were nice yeah so John Gill in [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► patterns of force is that guy and he [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► tried his tries to work it out and no it [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► doesn't work it does not work it's [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► fundamentally evil it's not a bad and [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► he's like decrepit and dying and then [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► dead and uses a figurehead and its [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► really it's not it's not a bad episode [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► at all [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► no I like it yeah I mean I'd it does [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► kind of have a feel of hey look we have [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► these leftover Nazi Nazi uniform she [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► also wore to wasn't that long ago and [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► you know even even still I think it's a [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► pretty good and see my great you know [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► Kirk and Spock Spock wearing a helmet [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► the entire time to hide his ears natural [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► and piece of the action is just a comedy [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► episode like trouble I think I'd better [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► i think it's funnier than trouble with [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► tribbles i love the scene when he [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► distracts the gangsters by teaching them [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► for this Ben isn't [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► yes that's the whole reason i love this [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► episode except at night on thursday and [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► it would and vic tayback from alice is [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► in this episode one of the game's see [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► now it's always good to see mouth and [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► there's and Spock has a hat again and a [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► suit and a machine gun I'd advise you to [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► keep styling idea Curt bone full 90 yeah [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► I recall an important factor Nemo has an [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► SS uniform [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► alright in patterns of force but in a [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► piece of the action they're both done up [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► like like gangsters with the with the [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► pinstripe suits and all that and that's [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► right you know and so and super funny [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► and uh and Scotty has to translate [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► gangster speak into under Federation [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► speak heaters are all phasers are right [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► i love that I love piece of the action [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► the kid that like wants to be cut in for [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► a piece of the action when Kirk like [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► conspires with the kid to fake the kid [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► like hurting himself and so they can get [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► into the yeah it's that I love piece of [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► the action is great [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► that's one of my that's one of my favs [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► and it's and it's really it's underrated [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► because trouble with tribbles get all [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► the acclaim piece of the action just as [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► funny that's it's hard to be the trouble [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► with a gangster [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► it's your Vic tabak not as cuddly as a [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► triple it's true it's a but i will say [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► for patterns of force that you get not [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► only shirtless shirtless Kirk but [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► shirtless Spock [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► oh yes you do because they have to get [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► the little manacles off in the laser [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► that's right thing [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► the light ya light bulb laser and it [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► work spoke is that good okay he's [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► MacGyver Vulcan my god that's got the [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► whole comedy bit with him standing on [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► Kirk's recently with back and say me who [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► tortured that's that's the episode also [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► where they stand the planet [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► I didn't I wasn't sure how that worked [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► but is that a row in in piece of the [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► action made likes done a whole city [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► block right yeah from space you know [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► no you're not yes you know maybe those [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► people they all have cancer now but it's [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► making you have answer yes they're [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► gangsters but what you mentioned a space [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► madness a lot in the first few episodes [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► of Star i just i go i remember that the [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► the stunning is conveniently green so [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► it's like you know it's just green light [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► all over the city block everyone [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► I sure that red light red light would be [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► bad in keeping with the gangster theme [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► the entire planet now has syphilis sorry [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► huh oops yeah minor side effect with the [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► stun setting of the enterprise phasers [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► that is a common side effect of of [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► Captain Kirk visiting places so and Kirk [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► goes syphilis frequently follows you [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► know basic stuff up space syphilis what [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► happens when the Federation comes and [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► declares prohibition over the whole [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► planet just shut down at us [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► oh by the way again talking about tropes [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► that are replayed later in korba might [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► maneuver they do the whole you will be [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► destroyed in 10 of your earth minutes [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► which I cannot at the time i'm sure it [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► was fine but I cannot listen to 10 of [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► your earth minutes without laughing now [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► you don't look for you know when you [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► have a villain you want them to do the [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► unit conversion for you yeah just it [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► looks really awkward if you die like [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► while you're doing the math on your [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► fingers to try and figure out how much [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► how many minutes is that inner 30 [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► minutes [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► yeah you will die in 17 orbits one [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► doctor who that was exactly it's like [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► the Daleks are not as as kind as as [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► Baylock isn't that they're like you will [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► be destroyed in 10 rels like what the [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► hell're rels is that second is that [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► minutes is that ours [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► I don't know converted for hang on let [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► me get on google yeah yeah they're not [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► known for this rights reserved 17 rails [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► in earth minutes your minutes are [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► irrelevant [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► sorry your earth minutes 4 minutes space [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► dollars [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► oh it's it's like it's like 40 years ok [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► I'm going then we've got time you go [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► right ahead with the seven rules okay [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► Scott what else [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► oh I didn't mention we mentioned Scotty [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► and so just a funny aside the first [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► episode where Scotty makes an appearance [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► i was watching with my wife and she said [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► who is that and I said that Scotty and [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► she said it does have a mustache like [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► okay it's scotty trust me movie Scotty [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► has a mustache movies gonna have lost [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► that is very large a TV show [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► Scotty they had clean shaven know much [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► for that mustache [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► yeah it's important it's like a [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► different guy [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► it's true I stolen web I I pic right [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► because I i liked the web and it also is [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► a callback it's called back in [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► enterprise [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► yes which I like so yeah I was again i [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► have always captured my attention when [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► Greg moss and I wrote our Star Trek The [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► Next Generation spec script in college [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► narrates it feat it featured yes i get i [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► said next generation spec script Steve [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► I'm I'm conceding we had the foliage [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► says that has the bad guys in our in our [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► script because the Tholian web was so [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► cool but they didn't like our script so [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► we had to wait until enterprise for them [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► to come back to steal your idea you [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► answer yeah that damn damn right [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► also uh I just I like the fact that Kirk [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► is presumed dead and everybody has to [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► like there's a really nice scene with [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► Spock and McCoy where they're basically [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► like talking about what they're going to [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► do now Kirk is dead and it's kind of [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► cool while and then of course all the [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► drama sapped away by Kirk appearing [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► floating ghost-like to curtail her while [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► she's wearing her underwear but goes Jim [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► up until then [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► yeah that's a normal thing yeah this [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► kirk you know as a his machine in his [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► quarters but matter her Kirk as a [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► machine that can make people disappear [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► regular cancer she that lets it project [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► his ghostly image and women's quarters [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► yeah that's my Kurt that would that [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► would be a good would you rather [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► actually haha and my final one we did [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► mention and it is heavy-handed and i [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► only like it because the Riddler isn't [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► it uh the Year last battlefield I just [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► enjoy a corsa question Frank Gorshin so [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► it gets a plus one for me [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► alright okay should I go I got my list [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► to Jason most of them have been taken [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► most of them but taking I've been [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► talking about the corbomite maneuver [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► there's something about it it's the [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► first episode after they shot the pilots [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► so it's trying to define what the show [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► is going to be their surprise surprising [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► amount of conversation about like [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► shipboard life but it's got Kirk at his [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► best right where he's just making things [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► up [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► ok like like post box [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► like well we lost the chess match [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► against it's over and we're all dead and [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► Kirk's like no not chess bak poker and [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► he's and he's like kayln frequencies [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► open we've invented a thing that's where [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► rubber and you're glue and everything [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► bounces off of us and sticks to you good [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► luck and you know cut it to her and this [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► giant species like tell us more about [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► your curve right Kirk thinkers and [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► request denied and Emily well will tell [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► you to a planet then it's so great that [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► he that skirt right he's he's thinking [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► him self out of these situations it's [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► why i say that starter to where he does [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► the whole thing with the prefix code I [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► feel like it's lifted right out of the [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► corbomite maneuver and of course then [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► you get this great ending where this [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► this alien that you've seen who looks [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► super scary but also like a puppet [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► because it's a puppet because he's an [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► alien on Star Trek is a puppet neatly [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► explains why the puppet is so poorly [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► pick that one watching when I was [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► watching that episode with my lady she [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► was like that is so clearly a puppet [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► think that's seriously wait for it and [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► wait for it once again audience you know [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► several steps ahead of the crowd [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► enterprise yeah you know it's a put not [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► not just a puppet a crudely meet action [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► without arms yeah really isn't the whole [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► corbomite gambit makes perfect sense [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► because baloch being worldly in the ways [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► of the universe surely knows that the [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► galaxy is ripe with people that have [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► ultimate power and continueth whatever [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► they want at a moment's notice sure to [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► show up all the time and Kirk might well [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► be one of the beings of pure energy [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► yeah corbomite exactly sounds like one [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► of these two lane guys that's that's [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► great that's so great so I like that [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► episode so weird but it's great [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► Scott mentioned a taste of Armageddon [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► love that a lot [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► we mentioned a mock time devil in the [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► dark city village forever i want to [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► mention the doomsday machine uh which is [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► a real action adventure thing it's got [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► William wyndham as Commodore Decker who [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► has a in a great like tragic moment he [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► beams his team he beams his crew down to [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► a planet so that he can defeat this [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► horrible machine and then the machine [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► destroys the planet and leaves him alone [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► so it's due [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► his entire crew to death and he's the [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► only survivor which is the opposite of [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► what a captain he thinks he's doing the [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► going down with the ship thing and it [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► drives him insane and so then he takes [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► command of the enterprise and and and [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► there's a lot of great stuff in the in [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► the remastered version where they [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► because they went back and tried to redo [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► all of the special effects and CGI and I [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► think they were pretty faithful and and [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► did a pretty good job actually I don't [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► have a star wars kind of problem with it [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► no I think they did it well but that [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► episode actually looks great with the [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► redone version because they couldn't [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► like their multiple ships and there's [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► you know and and in the old model stage [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► they couldn't do it and into in the in [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► the remastered version it looks great [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► it's fast-paced and windows performances [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► beeping he's he's he's crazy but it's [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► great it's i love that episode it's it's [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► a it's a real great fast-moving action [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► adventure he's obsessed he's insane [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► he's extremely well acted as Decker to [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► ya he really gives off kind of that mean [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► he seems like he's in control and yet [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► there's that kind of undercurrent of [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► this guy is going to do something insane [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► very shortly here it's much more subtle [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► than the acting you generally can't on [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► the air is right right and Kirk loses [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► command of a ship right which is the [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► worst thing for Kirk right whenever he [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► loses command of the ship that is he [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► he's really upset and decker outranks [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► him to basically says I'm gonna take [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► your ship and destroy it [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► you can't do anything about it may [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► finally you know relieve him of duty and [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► he steals a shuttlecraft and kills [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► himself and and in doing so provides the [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► way for the enterprise to survive as you [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► do and i love the idea too that there's [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► and this is this was lifted by star trek [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► for it's a very similar concept of Star [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► Trek for where there's a machine it's [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► coming from like outside the galaxy from [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► a race of beings you know beyond our [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► comprehension and like literally it's [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► just sort of like they left turned on [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► and it's now destroying us because they [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► weren't paying attention anymore and [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► it's sort of demonstrate for you know [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► that the machine that threatens earth is [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► very similar to that and I like that [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► it's kind of creepy that it's not an [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► alien race that's out to get us it's an [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► alien race that so it [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► advanced that their detritus will [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► completely destroy us and they don't [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► care because it's just like junk that [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► you know whatever let it go with 2nd [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► deal with it [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► yeah you're society's garbage over the [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► galaxy was like wow yeah that episode [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► was written by Norman Spinrad who is a [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► very good science fiction right yeah [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► yeah there's a lot of great scifi [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► writers wrote a theater sturgeon wrote a [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► bunch of like at least two star trek [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► episodes too so so you mentioned where [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► no man has gone before [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► balance of terror I like arena a lot [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► it's the Gorn yet to guide a lizard suit [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► but I like that they're at Vasquez rocks [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► the rock formation that's been in every [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► sci-fi movie and TV show of all time [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► ever but this is like the core of it [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► where Kirk asta that essentially the the [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► episode is being watched by the crew of [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► the enterprise which i also love that [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► like Spock and McCoy they're all on the [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► bridge watching Kirk as he does the [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► episode and commenting on it mystery [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► science theater style almost like if you [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► can find some coal and some diamonds [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► that's got it he spewed out without I i [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► do something about that i love i love [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► that and i'm also a sucker for episode [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► shot on location because so many of the [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► alien planets and start record the [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► Cyclorama things where it's the stand [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► stage and it's very it's like got a pink [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► sky and it's totally fake when it's not [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► it's the the hills just outside of Los [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► Angeles right well I love that it's it's [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► California or a soundstage that's all [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► they've got [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► yeah I love it I love it when it's when [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► it's the grapevine or bass rocks it [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► makes me sad when it's the pink sound [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► stage right yeah I'm so arena is good [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► journey to Babel which I mentioned with [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► with mark leonard as as as sorry xbox [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► father and Jane Wyatt as Amanda his [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► mother that's a fun episode because not [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► only do we get that the the Vulcan stuff [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► but there's this whole spy planes lots [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► of alien races and yeah there's like a [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► fake Andorian and liking guys [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► rather the Tellarites that the pig [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► aliens were were quite quarrelsome and [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► and the blue and torian's and like [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► little tiny guys who don't say anything [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► but drink lots of space alcohols [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► boos yeah uh and and there's that crazy [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► spaceship that's like just like a [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► pinpoint of light and it goes like warp [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► 10 but you but it's a it's on a suicide [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► mission and so let's get this kind of [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► spy feel + + this great series of [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► escalating jeopardy kind of things we're [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► sorry has a heart attack and he needs a [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► blood transfusion and only spot can give [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► it to him but then Kirk gets stabbed by [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► a spy and so Kirk a spot can't give up [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► command because he's now taking commands [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► Kirk's been incapacitated so then his [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► father is going to die so that Kirk [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► fakes being better it gets on the bridge [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► to send spot to go have the surgery and [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► then Kirk is calling Scotty to come take [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► over for him when the attack happens [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► it's this great sequence of all of these [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► things leading together that I really [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► love just as an action-adventure kind of [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► thing plus the whole detail like Spock's [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► relationship with his father and that [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► just i love i love that that's a DC [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► fontana special look that's a really [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► great episode and then the other two [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► that we haven't mentioned that i wanted [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► to bring up are the ultimate computer [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► which is great because it's all about [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► computers and technology replacing [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► workers which is fascinating [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► given that the time period it's [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► basically i've invented the computer [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► that can replace Captain Kirk [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► so let's remove his chair and put a [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► blinking computer in its place and of [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► course the computer goes horribly bad [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► and next attacking all the other star [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► ships and all that and there's dr. [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► daystrom who's a mad scientist to who [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► you know I've invented the m5 it's so [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► beautiful don't destroy my creation but [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► but in and watching it it blows me away [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► watching it now that that what what that [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► episode is really about is like you know [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► workers being replaced by technology [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► which is a really interesting thing and [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► and keeps happening [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► that's just part of the march of [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► technology and like when it one of the [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► machines better than humans at doing a [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► particular job at what happens to the [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► people who are replaced which again I [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► love the star trek tried to tackle [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► issues like that [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► de-stress backstory and that one is [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► really cool too because he's he's the [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► guy who peach too early and yeah there's [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► one thing I ever did could could measure [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► up to his earlier discoveries and right [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► you got a little reckless towards the [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► end because he was trying to do [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► something is as impressive as his [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► earlier try too hard and he realizes [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► finally but he's you know he's gone [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► horribly wrong and of course in the in [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► the store trying to to do some things [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► that are groundbreaking he's he's he's [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► black so you get that kind of like he's [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► the computed black computer genius which [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► is casting that's a bold casting [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► decision for 1968 which i think is cool [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► to not not until diehard we see another [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► one of his yeah that's right and [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► terminator 2 ok but but i love i love i [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► love that one and and again in the [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► remastered effects when they've got like [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► five different enterprise class ships [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► they don't have one model anymore in the [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► remaster effect so they can do some more [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► interesting things then then we only [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► have one look it's a ship and another [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► ship but they never see them at the same [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► time and then the other one i want to [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► mention is what are little girls made of [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► which is a more or it's an early first [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► season more creepy it's like a Christine [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► chapel episode kind of which is weird [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► but it's it's got a TED Cassidy as the [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► giant android ruck and it's it's gotta [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► with christine chapels old boyfriend [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► Roger Korby who is a man again a mad [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► scientist and he transfers his [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► consciousness into work into an android [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► body and they're down in caves and and [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► they try to make a duplicate of Kirk and [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► I had that has III that episode always [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► sticks with me is having some of like [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► the worst wardrobe f 0 cuz there's to [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► remember the android I i want to call [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► the dresses but that's not really fair [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► right there one there jumps and a [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► jumpsuit partial torso cover and this [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► yeah and then it right and they didn't [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► like the black and the green half black [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► half cream [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► yeah it's like everyone has slides a [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► gray yeah he's in monk's robes yeah you [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► know giant spooky guy but it's so it's [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► so like gothic and weird and Twilight [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► Zone II don't know [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► anything wheel with Kirk on it sure yeah [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► that's actually exactly [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► yes that excess was actually written by [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► robert bloch yes I'm not a psycho [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► yeah that's right and apparently also [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► the short stories upon which catspaw and [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► wolf in the fold yes sorry catspaw [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► interesting but uh but I like that I [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► like that episode because it is also one [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► of those episodes where it's mostly down [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► on the planet and it's kind of a you [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► know again it's it's like I said it's [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► that it's almost Twilight something it's [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► not about the ships and it's about it's [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► about we put these characters in this [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► weird situation where they're down in [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► these caves that are like go on forever [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► you get the sense and it's this android [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► like rock the android has been there for [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► thousands of years and was found by [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► Roger Korby and he remembers the old [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► ones which were this whatever the race [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► was that created them that has since [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► disappeared or died or turned into a [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► being of pure energy like you do on Star [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► Trek happens but but but but it's kind [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► of creepy that like you know the humans [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► are playing around with all this [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► technology and yet there's this big [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► hulking eight android who remembers back [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► when there were the really smart [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► creatures who built this place and you [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► guys are just fiddling around with their [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► leavings and I I i like that so I like [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► that episode and the ones that I don't [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► like so miri which is the planet that [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► looks exactly like Earth but isn't earth [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► and all the adults die but the kids are [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► alive don't do an episode with kids just [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► don't haha this kitchen like 25 year old [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► kid all I know that's that's true it's [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► like every extra from at any kind of [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► like 30 movie of like hey there [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► I don't know tell them Jim tell them Jim [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► telling Jim know blah blah blah [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► I i like i like the idea behind that one [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► a lot more than like the actual [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► execution [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► yeah that's right little children of the [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► corn creepy kids exist and the parents [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► are gone in some way it was [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► yeah it is is a nice idea and it was [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► actually mind a little better by Star [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► Trek a little bit later with the and the [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► children shall lead them right branches [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► which is also kind of a bad episode but [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► also slightly better in terms of you [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► know Mary Mary's got some creepy parts [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► of it because you know once you [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► over the fact that this isn't a planet [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► that's exactly like her if accept [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► whatever like they shot us get over that [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► uh the other day he got you know it's [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► it's it's I don't understand that it [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► makes no sense but but but is it is [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► creepy because it spoke post-apocalyptic [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► world and all that but it ends up being [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► I don't know it falls apart i don't i [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► don't like miri so much I I don't want [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► to sorry she's very nice but whatever I [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► the i put the alternative factor down on [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► my list of hate episodes [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► that's the one with Lazarus you may not [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► even remember this episode it's dunno [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► there's a there's a guy with a beard [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► named Lazarus and he's got a shadow has [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► there's the bad one in the good one but [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► that's it [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► so it turns out there's also another [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► Lazarus who's bad who's from a parallel [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► universe and they keep switching it's [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► terrible it's so terrible [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► it's not actually called Lazarus called [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► something else isn't it no it's called [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► Lazarus and anti Lazarus yeah they're [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► both Lazarus but yeah I think this is [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► one of the ones that i did not quite [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► stay away it's so bad it's so busy [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► people again planted the Nazis not as [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► bad as some of these other episodes [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► catspaw we mentioned so bad the empath [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► we mentioned terrible [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► Scott I'm sorry let that be your last [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► battlefield which is essentially the [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► same episode as the alternative factor i [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► love again i love the fact that star [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► star trek tried to do social commentary [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► but when it's literally one side of me [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► is black on the other side is white and [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► you the other side is black and one side [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► is white and therefore we must kill each [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► other [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► can't we all just get along man it's so [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► painful [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► we are the best cheese on all and so [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► preachy and will and literally it's like [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► I don't know what's going on there [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► yelling they're grappling now they're [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► not grappling anymore it's very much [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► like the alternative factor actually [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► it's it's kind of nonsensical and [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► preachy and I don't like sorry Frank [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► Gorshin yes that's good yeah I always [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► always took it the ridiculous premise [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► and I heavy-handed this [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► as a way of amplifying the ridiculous [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► make you know the ridiculous idea of [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► racism of racism is actually a few yes [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► so ridiculous that we will make this [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► ridiculous episode yes the episode is [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► just as terrible as racism miss ya [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► well put its that say it's very [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► successful because it's like racist and [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► then the last 2i have our again it's the [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► episode that you even forget exist that [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► which survives which is a third late [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► third season episode which has nothing [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► to command it's like a Cyclorama planet [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► and then there's this woman who appears [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► and kills people with the touch and it I [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► I whatever 40 years later I still don't [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► understand why there's a story there [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► it's a it's it's it's terrible and [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► nothing happens and in the end they like [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► shrugging like well some people died i [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► get it will go back to the ship [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► you know some days it's just a mission [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► you know you know you're gonna fill out [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► the reports redshirt thailand it you [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► know we got it I got a scan each planet [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► they're not all gonna be exciting if [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► you're going to talk about an episode [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► that has the like prototypical redshirts [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► dying [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► I mean I guess it's the whole I mean [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► right from from from the mantrap all the [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► way through that which survives you have [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► that but that which survives just [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► there's nothing it's it's the most [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► uninteresting star trek episode of all [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► time it's just nothing [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► it's awful it's just nothing blank [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► emptiness pointless and then and then on [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► the other extreme is the way to Eden [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► which is space hippies including [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► checkups girlfriend uh-huh and they come [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► we reach right and Spock places like [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► autoharp his Vulcan autoharp and there's [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► some singing and there's like a hippie [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► cult leader with big ears and it's a [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► person is yours [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► the sport no no no you given up this [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► side of paradise which is yeah not a bad [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► episode Spock hanging from the tree tree [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► with a big grin yeah yeah i know i have [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► had seen the way to eat another spoiler [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► is pretty blonde girlfriend know the way [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► to even know Steve you have so much to [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► look forward to I've [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► no way that is a that is yes it is space [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► hippies that's that's when you really [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► feel rejected technology but still on a [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► space yeah that that's where you that's [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► where it's like the Amish taking a cab [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► it's like that kinda it's it's time you [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► have to do it that's where you here if [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► the sixties knocking on the door of star [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► trek and said hey it's the 16-man pay [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► attention to us and it's so terrible so [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► terrible so those are the those are the [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► ones you know i love this show dearly [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► but there are some episodes that i find [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► it almost impossible to watch and the [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► way to Eden the empath i think is the [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► worst one I think that's even I think [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► that's the worst one [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► so that's why I was and what I can't [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► believe we didn't mention the enemy [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► within which is a not a bad episode [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► where Kirk gets split in two [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► yeah and i just watched it was also a [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► little dog little dog without before it [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► gets into little dog in a very bad [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► little costume yet for every pore space [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► dog wedding you deserve a little horn [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► strapped to your head you know [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► yeah it's just weird they just use it as [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► a prop people are carrying the dog for [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► no particular reason doesn't have a fine [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► name like is it do they claim it's [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► something else or no it's just like a [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► space dogs gonna warn they don't really [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► badly walking around Italy just found it [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► on the planet yeah so they took a test [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► let's experiment on it by beating it [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► through basic training don't I just if [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► you bring a Spacedock home like don't [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► bring it to the bridge they write and [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► killing the space dogs thing that [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► bothers me about the enemy within is [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► that is i'm not quite sure what it says [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► about gender politics and masculinity [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► I'm not sure I can endorse it for what [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► it says because it seems to suggest that [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► that totally masculine Kirk is a rapist [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► an alcoholic but also like bizarrely [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► flamboyant and over the top and then and [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► then other Kirk is he's wearing eyeliner [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► when he's Superman yeah some reason and [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► another Kirk is is strangely passive and [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► effeminate in a in a different way and [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► and can't get any management so I feel [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► like I feel like when Kirk is split into [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► you know both parts are kind of more of [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► kind of questionable in terms of but the [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► writer of the letter is certainly want [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► to counter [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► each other that they're have their habit [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► you guess the lesson is the Kirk is more [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► than the sum of his parts i guess so [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► it's not blessed be his parts are bad [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► I've got some questions about the gender [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► politics of of the enemy within [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► and one of our listeners in the chatroom [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► asked about the Galileo seven [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► I like that episode I didn't put on my [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► list but you know that's the whole you [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► know Spock has to deal with anti Vulcan [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► racism and also from somebody other than [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► bones for a change yeah so spot as deal [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► with anti Vulcan racism the the burdens [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► of command and also like abominable [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► snowman girl of people who throw big [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► rocks made out of a of plastic and it's [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► a lot to deal with that the shuttlecraft [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► and in the end Spock creates it doesn't [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► illogical thing and and for no good [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► reason and that it saves them which is [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► just like in your face block that logic [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► i like that i like so I like that [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► episode that's that's a really didn't [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► put on my list but that's a really [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► claustrophobic episode right there in [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► that there there's that short a small [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► amount of space outside the the [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► shuttlecraft and they're in the [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► shuttlecraft and meanwhile back on the [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► enterprise basically Kurt is kirk is [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► arguing with a diplomat or a bureaucrat [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► or something like he does [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► we gotta get to our next place that [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► happens like eight episodes where [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► there's a bureaucrat on the bridge was [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► like snap to it Kirk I got a thing in a [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► box that i need to take to a starbase [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► and I wanted there to yesterday so lose [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► the ship and Kirk's like you're not the [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► captain I'll tell you what I'm gonna [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► find my people first and that's right [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► tell you tell him Kirk you tell your dad [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► I don't know why that's a thing but [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► that's how you tell in the the one where [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► Kirk is duplicated which we were just [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► talking about the name escapes me the [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► enemy within the enemy isn't exactly [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► he's like let's just leave well I have [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► problems with the enemies and all [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► because you know Sulu and for people are [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► trapped in a super cool planet yeah and [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► they they check in with him every once [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► in a while and he's like oh it's like [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► negative 80 degrees and he's not wearing [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► he's wearing his regular uniform [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► yeah we should totally all be dead is [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► that is that the first appearance of [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► heating rocks with the phaser beam [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► yes that's yes yes that's which is very [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► cleverly beam down some blankets or do [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► they split into good blankets and [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► evil blanket it's worth a try to be down [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► heaters but they don't work good work [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► this one's got birds in it oh it's a bad [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► black the evil ones don't just don't use [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► the evil blankets people [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► yeah you know the evil blankets come [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► with with eyeliner their eyeliner and [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► smallpox [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► yeah Kirk was not in his native american [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► format that time Romero would all been [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► over pretty early i am Kira you're on [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► wow that's so starts the 30 to 40 [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► year-old perspect male perspective on [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► the series if you're interested [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► yes i would like to hear what you're [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► doing your feminine perspective on this [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► leaves a real series there's what [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► happens to be one right here who needs [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► to go to bed very soon so [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► hello hello hello hello [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► tell us what you like about Star Trek [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► well everything that is the correct [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► answer that's good [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► are there are there certain episodes [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► that you remember really liking well a [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► couple of them but one of my favorites [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► was the naked time [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► ok so why do you like that one well [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► mostly because when Sulu was short [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► lesson he was roaming the ship with a [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► sword and he was threatening to fight [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► the crew i really like that to where [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► he's like he's like laughing and and [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► dancing around with his sword ness no [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► shirt on and he's all sweaty he's like [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► yeah very excited about finding people [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► with this sword and all the people run [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► away from him because they are cowards [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► he's the only guy on the spaceship with [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► a sword that's really scary i don't want [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► to mess around with Sulu when he has a [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► sword [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► it's true it's true they could have [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► stunned him or something [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► you have other ones that you like well I [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► like the one where they're in a time [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► like Nazi Germany [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► alrighty to good choice because Nazis [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► are cool right but they're bad and they [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► have to be defeated [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► that's right but it's it's a complicated [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► relationship exactly and Spock and Kirk [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► at they're like walked up and they have [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► to like use the they make like a little [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► laser to get themselves out of the of [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► the prison right at any other any other [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► ones that you really like another one [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► that I really like is the one where [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► there's to kirks good and evil [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► we were just talking about that one and [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► that someone with there's the little dog [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► that turns into the like the good the [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► mean dog in the nice cool dog do you [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► have a you have a favorite character [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► well have a week a stinker who else [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► could a choice right now I like mr. [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► Spock but captain kirk is pretty great [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► yeah yeah so even though this show is [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► like really old it's like more than more [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► than 40 years old I you know it i think [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► it's really cool that you still that you [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► still like it and that you and your dad [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► are watching it [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► yeah it's interesting yeah it's [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► different from stuff that you see today [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► right but yeah there aren't any other [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► shows i think from 50 years ago [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► 45 years ago that people are still [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► watching today really like people your [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► age especially alright yeah there [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► anything that you don't like any of us [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► yeah what yeah what yeah what don't you [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► like [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► well some of the episode where they just [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► then in different places in time like [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► some of the ones where they're just one [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► of my least favorites was the end of [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► season two I think where they were [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► trying to make a spin-off oh yes [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► assignment earth with it with the with [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► the girl and the and the guy who's like [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► a spy and that and that black cat [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► yeah yeah the the star trek people [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► aren't in that very much [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► are there there's just like yeah very [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► confusing it's just yeah it's just [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► rubber Berta and Gary seven and the and [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► the rocket there's a lot of we keep [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► seeing the rocket a lot in that way [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► yeah and the cat little black cat okay [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► well that that's great i'm glad that you [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► could share your your your thoughts [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► about star trek with us on the podcast [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► that was really good thanks for thanks [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► for doing it [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► yeah and [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► staying up late Saturday night well [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► thank you for letting me talking thank [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► you for telling us about Star Trek and [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► how you like it that's good because [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► we're all old people so it's good to [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► hear what you want you think of it [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► whoo that was pretty awesome Steve yeah [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► yes yeah that was great i felt a new a [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► different perspective was necessary [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► since I think so i've been only my old [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► team young and team extremely young [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► yes keep your old to be slightly less [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► old and wow and I didn't actually young [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► yeah that's great that's great i love [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► this is watching them but like I said at [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► the beginning you know my kids have been [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► watching them at kind of over my [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► shoulder that they're like some stuff i [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► watch and they just they just blow past [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► with Star Trek they kind of stop and [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► watch it which is actually does amaze me [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► that that anything made that long ago [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► could still be even processed by people [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► born in the 21st century [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► it's true I don't know how it's possible [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► me neither [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► that's great so you have a few episodes [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► left right [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► you and your daughter yeah we've just [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► finished some of the day of the Dove I [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► think Oh which is the the entity aboard [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► ship that's causing the yeah mines gone [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► somewhere to to face the 40 non trapped [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► members of the Enterprise crew commander [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► Kor one of our what three great Klingon [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► commander necessarily it was fairly [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► non-war like actually in this [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► no no he's a he comes back in Deep Space [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► nine [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► you never know about this Klingons I [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► mean they go between your basic [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► wingard's slightly Clinton's or Klingons [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► yeah sometimes they're slightly brownish [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► and sometimes they're more brownish [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► sometimes they have weird eyebrow [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► sometimes they don't it they explain it [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► it's not worth getting a budget the [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► budget that was not the budget was not [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► you know the enterprise they explain why [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► the clans looking way they do and I i [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► prefer the explanation in deep space [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► nine where works is we do not speak of [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► just let it go [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► they are Klingons we do not speak of it [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► what is it is a little sad that the the [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► primary a competitive races with the [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► humans are smartly people they only [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► really differ in a really eyebrows for [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► the most part yes and ears sometimes you [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► have to have darker skin people aboard [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► the Enterprise [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► so that's not really a difference well [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► that's even in the trouble with tribbles [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► there's the Klingon that passes human [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► right you're right Tony that you get the [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► it's really brilliant right the art [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► Garvin is the easy clean and supplies [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► yeah yes because trouble don't like in [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► trouble [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► yes yeah that's that's the great thing [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► about troubles that's it that's it [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► they couldn't get the feeling that the [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► Klingons or the Clintons triples love [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► everybody except for Klingon but yeah [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► because they don't like eyebrows and [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► purposes [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► yeah that is the trouble with that is [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► they don't like long as they have hate [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► in their hearts for Klingons and that is [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► the trouble [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► shame on them horrible racist there's an [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► episode with a Klingon who's got a lumpy [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► head on one side of his body and then [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► not and then another one where it's [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► reversed and it's all about racism man [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► yeah I get it [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► yeah they really are the most hateful of [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► spaces bath implements center of brushes [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► yeah there are there a one of those [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► called the the global possible some kind [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► of pop thing there Lou fast group now [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► that's not a loofah sponge type deal [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► about the trip boys not a space loofah [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► Wow [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► now that's some sort of all you're wrong [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► and ok i attack called I apologize to [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► the race of triples [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► I'm sorry troubles now who's the racist [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► ones i know i know it yes who was on the [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► other ones move loofahs tribbles they [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► all look alike to me maybe you should [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► watch let that be your last battle Fagin [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► be your last battlefield who could tell [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► the difference between up a powderpuff [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► in a loofah I look a like to this guy I [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► know it's all the same [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► there's in is it there was an episode [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► that i was just watching today that said [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► it's space seed it's like well the the [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► people on the ship or from all the parts [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► of the world you know North America [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► Latin oriental I'm thinking oh no don't [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► try no but they don't know in the 23rd [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► century they don't know about your space [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► racism they are passed it man don't know [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► about taboo words because they're their [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► color to color blind society man unless [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► you get stranded on a planet with Spock [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► and then it's all out the window [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► oh yeah the Balkans know they well they [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► suck green-blooded you to be honest the [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► blue eyeshadow i think is what really [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► turns people off [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► that's true we're trying to fool his [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► it's box-yellow pallor appears to change [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► a lot from episode to episode they [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► didn't know what they were doing with I [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► yeah it was very early episodes he is [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► extremely yellowy except for his blue [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► eye shadow of course and then sort of [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► fluctuate and is and in in the cage [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► doesn't he have like kind of reddish or [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► even better area yeah I read about I am [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► unfortunately red-letter day boys [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► I think to predict what's bad girl [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► oh yeah by accident I'm not spotted it [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► was you know I are old yeah and that he [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► later does i am science podcast yeah i [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► read i don't know about him when I ever [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► these are not of my own fees [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► yeah out of my all of our Leonard in his [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► own right yes I mean yeah well or maybe [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► the ghost written i don't know but i [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► guess the earlier versions of Spock were [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► much more like demonic basically and he [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► had he had red face it a reddish tint [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► right and i think they wanted him [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► have a tail but probably that wasn't [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► explained all the yelling then do right [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► people were not big on that you so yeah [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► but then like you his best line in the [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► original pilot is they they beam away [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► they all get on the transporter beam but [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► only number one who is major Barrett and [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► the the yeoman the two women they beam [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► off because they're trying to find a [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► mate for for Captain Pike and all the [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► man are still there with their rifles [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► and as soon as that that moment happens [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► Spock steps forward and shouts the women [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► that's his big moment but women it's [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► funny I guess a commentary on the times [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► the fact that they they have this one [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► alien character on the bridge aboard [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► ship kind of like the key did the other [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► you know well that night in the woman [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► they couldn't make him completely Vulcan [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► had be half-human athol for people to be [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► able to still relate to him [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► well it's so in the original pilot it [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► was unclear whether it was half or not [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► he was just a guy with the point of [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► years but they had the the female first [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► officer right and they are great irony [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► is that that a space alien at on your [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► bridge crew sets to find a woman [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► second-in-command yeah we imagined they [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► got rid of her better helmets to worry [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► about they turned her into a blonde [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► nurse instead [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► ok you come a long way baby and the [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► voice of the computer and voice the [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► computer there are you [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► that's true I horribly screechy voice of [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► a computer [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► yes still computer yeah computers [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► Kirkwood's kill exactly [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► yeah we could do a whole separate [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► episode on technology in Star Trek the [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► original series [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► oh it's fascinating they got a lot right [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► i mean a communicator you know it's not [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► it doesn't go into space but it's a [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► little flip out like foam me thing kind [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► of but they have all the little bubble [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► switches that get flipped which I'll [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► I'll makes me laugh it's like to do this [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► complicated thing any like flip switches [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► group [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► alright captain got it one-on-one but of [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► the thing that actually amuses me the [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► most of all the technology and star trek [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► is the it is the the fact that they [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► couldn't conceive of a network of shared [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► storage of a computer storage so they've [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► got these powerful computers that [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► reactor voice command and that there are [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► databases and all of that is we take for [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► granted now but i think was really smart [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► on their part and yet they have this [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► real connection to like tapes and record [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► tapes and you here's a little those look [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► at their tiny right there [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► they're like little memory cards locks [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► and plastic which is cool because again [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► that's really forward thinking that [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► there's think these record tapes but but [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► they're not there's still sneakernet [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► right and and they couldn't get over [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► that to be like if only we could network [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► guys together somehow [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► yeah like--on he says like it will [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► recoil tie you into RR record tapes like [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► oh you're so close to just use some [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► clothes which is interesting because [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► there are apparently like seven or eight [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► places aboard the ship where you can [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► take control of the controls and lock [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► out the rest of the controls engineer is [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► the best place bearing is the best [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► player there's nobody down there except [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► Scotty and the singles leading squad so [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► yeah I didn't wander off a log [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► it's the rest of engineering they stare [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► at things and then when the ship lurches [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► they all fall one and then they lead to [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► the other self it that's their sole [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► purpose the computer really runs the [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► ship those guys are therefore honestly [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► the bar to entry for the engineering [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► degrees really gone downhill the only [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► 3rd century it's true all these [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► computers yeah yeah it's all automated [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► those guys are just their market time [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► yeah that's friend waiting to be shot [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► because there were red shirts scotch [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► whisky is it his purpose is to claim [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► that things can't be done while doing [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► them [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► yeah that's right this is impossible [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► yeah then we're done with that beautiful [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► go right i mean that with that would [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► which was played up in in the episode of [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► next generation where he saw and what [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► else Geordie you didn't tell him how [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► long would really take two chill people [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► that don't do that you can you never be [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► you'll never get a reputation it as a [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► miracle that you gotta say no it'll take [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► months to do that I fixed it [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► honestly there's one one person aboard [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► ship that should be concerned about [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► being replaced by a computer it's that [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► dude [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► yeah fair enough major Barrett [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► Roddenberry could very easily say that [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► the engines can't take much more of this [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► captain [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► well Steve I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► say do I have to flip a switch and say [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► hailing frequencies open [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► Oh hailing frequencies open hailing [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► frequencies important thank God you were [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► here her it was great that they cast [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► michelle nichols and she was by all [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► accounts it an inspirational figure but [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► especially early on in the show they [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► didn't really have anything for her to [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► do later she doesn't have a lot of [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► biting the back of her hand when [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► something is terrifying [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► yeah but she just did a lot of she was [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► like running the phones she was the [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► receptionist on the enterprise which is [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► not a big step forward [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► does she in fact do the keening whale [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► that accompanies the beginning credits [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► or is that someone oh that's someone [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► else's because I heard her i think it [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► was the the Space Shuttle farewell [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► ceremony and she was standing there at [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► the podium has a speaker at that and she [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► began by doing that there is a great [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► photo of michelle nichols and Barack [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► Obama both doing the Vulcan salute in [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► the Oval Office wow that's worth it [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► worth of you that's just one of those [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► things like I cannot believe I am [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► looking at this picture means of the [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► President of the United States and [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► Lieutenant over a both giving me the [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► live long and prosper salute [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► I don't know yes the Romulan candidate [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► yes yeah well really as if anybody [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► hasn't seen the John Hodgman bit where [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► he is at the the Washington press corps [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► dinner a couple years ago and does a [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► whole bit about how the Nerds inherit [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► the earth and and essentially what he's [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► saying is is a Obama you you're a [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► gigantic nerd right you understand all [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► these references i'm giving you at one [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► point he mentions the Vulcan hand salute [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► and Obama unprompted other than that [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► just does it and judgment is beside [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► himself like he doesn't know what to say [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► he's like I can't believe that just [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► happened oh it's it's worth looking on [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► YouTube it's a it's a it's a really [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► funny bit [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► alright I think we're I think we've [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► beaten this [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► this is like an eight-part episode now [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► maybe but like Star Trek i think is [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► what's become the star trek sucks [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► basically it's not that good star wars [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► is totally better and i think we already [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► know is the great importance of star [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► trek with without which it's doubtful we [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► would ever gotten the ballot of Bilbo [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► Baggins [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► oh that isn't certainly for later Gary [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► to every things that you made it to like [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► removed from your memory and then other [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► people just hit you in the face with a [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► little i prefer Leonard boys recording [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► of I had a hammer pero I had a hammer [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► actually a highly illogically quite a [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► good child highly illogical that way he [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► combs his hair so so before we go one [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► last thing I wanted to say because we [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► talk about Star Wars and Star Trek and [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► and the end the battle between [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► and the end the battle between [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► people who love Star Wars and people [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► love star trek and I I like Star Wars a [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► lot I a lot and it just wasn't the [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► formative thing that Star Trek was for [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► me but the one thing I'll say about [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► where Star Trek cast the advantage is [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► that Star Trek as a television series [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► allowed you to spend a whole lot more [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► time with the characters the original [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► series as well as all the all the [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► spin-offs that have happened and the one [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► thing about Star Trek coming back as a [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► movie franchise which I think JJ Abrams [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► dinner did a great job of revitalizing [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► it i love seeing those characters that [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► the original series characters again and [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► young because all the movies were about [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► them being old so having be young and [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► setting out in the first adventures i [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► think is great but the fact is with [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► these movies you know you see two hours [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► and then four years later you get two [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► more hours and there's something to be [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► said for the time that Star Trek was [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► able to take on TV to spend with these [TS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► characters and that's something Star [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► Wars you know Star Wars as great as it [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► is [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► that's three movies with with Leia and [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► Luke and Han Solo and that's all we got [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► less than six hours in total in the TV [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► special rights less than six hours and [TS]

01:01:09 ◼   ► then of course our podcast which were [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► about 20 hours and this one which is [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► nearing that yeah so so I i think that [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► is Star Trek's great advantage which its [TS]

01:01:19 ◼   ► losing as a movie franchise which is why [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► I hope eventually they will go back to [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► TV with some form of it because you know [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► there's somethings TV does better than [TS]