This week we discuss:
- The Tholian Web, Plato’s Stepchildren, and Wink of an Eye
- We continue last week’s debate and how Nate is wrong
- A traditional Star Trek episode
- Ratings with qualifiers
- Episode and series hero journeys
- Scotty the full-blown alcoholic?
- A weak spot in the episode?
- Explaining to the audience instead of the characters
- Grown-up storytelling
- Shatner stepping back in an episode
- Could this have been a TNG episode?
- Star Trek memorabilia at auction
- Scotty’s hair
- Another back-in-time episode
- First television inter-racial kiss, at least in the US
- Abbie wants internal consistency
- Subtle vs overt messaging in shows then and now
- Motor control vs mind control
- We can again see why the series was canceled
- Things that take us out of the story
- Inception and X-Men did it better
- Star Trek Customizable Card Game
- How the series was experienced in the late-1960s
- Cinematography
- Kirk’s coffee
- Why didn’t they harness the power when they had the antidote?
- Abbie is refusing to watch The Animated Series
- Star Trek graphic novel
- Getting rid of Kirk?
- Hanlon’s Razor?
- A Waffle House story
