This week I am joined by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss:
- Let that Be Your Last Battlefield, The Mark of Gideon, and That Which Survives
- The Trouble with Tribbles story
- Elaan of Troyius recap now that Abbie is back
- Overt messaging in shows
- Star Trek without Gene Roddenberry
- Is a good message enough to carry an episode?
- A Captain’s responsibility to keep the ship out of enemy hands
- Great Enterprise security
- The transporter as a weapon
- Nuclear codes in history
- Strangelove
- A good message – “Don’t hate”
- Terrible movies with heavy-handed messaging
- Watching people watch people on TV
- Episode context
- What is the call to action in this episode?
- Being extra-Spock
- Spock needs to be more precise
- Abbie gets attacked by a kitten
- The Tunguska Event
- Another callout to The Beginning of Infinity
- Limits on human knowledge?
- A victim of the medium at the time?
- The decline of the series
- Over Warp 14
- More multi-culturalism on the Enterprise
- A game plan to finish The Original Series
- Planning a Star Trek trivia challenge
- Looking ahead to The Next Generation
- Abbie fires some shots at DS9
- Nate throws down the gauntlet for the best episode ending in all of Star Trek
- A Star Trek producer spoke in my video production class in college
- Something about whales
