It’s Halloween, so it’s time for spooky episodes of Star Trek! There are some ominous cucumber sandwiches, some salt and a lot of air vents this year!
The Man Trap gives us the classic TOS villain of the Salt Vampire and some shapeshifting shenanigans. There’s also an amazing glove puppet plant.
Dead Stop has a brightly-lit rest stop with offers that are too good to be true. Including why it was on ‘spookiest Star Trek episode’ listicles.
Persistence of Vision brings us some horror in the Delta Quadrant as it looks like Janeway’s losing her mind. The characters and sandwiches from her Gothic novel holodeck program are appearing in the real world!
10:22 - The Man Trap (TOS)
37:58 - Dead Stop (Enterprise)
1:05:02 - Persistence of Vision (Voyager)
Miles guested on Breakfast in the Ruins where he talked about some more of James Herbert’s rat books!
https://breakfastintheruins.podbean.com/e/halloween-special-2023-james-herbert-s-domain/
Talking points include: James Herbert, Classic Dr Who, Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense, Rupert & The Frog Song, The Wicked + The Divine, Yellow Submarine, paintballing, Werewolf, Doctor Zachary Smith, Seth MacFarlane, Logan’s Run, The Mountain Goats, Lost, Robson & Jerome, PJ & Duncan, Todd in the Shadows’ review of From Justin to Kelly, Cube, The OC, Miami Vice, some Cube 2: Hypercube action, space in Star Trek is Warhammer terrifying, Stargate Universe, Dead Space, Mariah Carey has traumatised us both, Bothans, Mass Effect 2 Relationship Choices and a budget Colin Firth. Oh, and occasionally Star Trek.
Pedants Corner:
Miles should have said Series One, not Season One of Dr Who, but he was having fun and that level of pedantry is more Charlie’s thing
Miles was right, Sunshine Superman is indeed a DC Comics character
Charlie means that Seth MacFarlane might have gone back in time in a Trials and Tribble-ations way, not a Trouble with Tribbles way
Apparently Harry Kim’s girlfriend Libby is actually real. Who knew?
Charlie has now seen Taylor Swift: Eras and it was very good.
Casual Trek is by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn and Miles Reid-Lobatto
Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn
Casual Trek is a part of the Nerd & Tie Network
https://ko-fi.com/casualtrek
Miles’ blog: http://www.mareidlobatto.wordpress.com
Charlie’s blog: http://www.fakedtales.com
