-Sarah’s website is the one-stop shop for tour dates, news, merch, and music, including The St. Buryan Sessions, a full-length live concert in the beautiful medieval church of St Buryan, just up the road from the rural cottage where she and her family live: sarahmcquaid.com.
-Each of the songs from The St. Buryan Sessions can be found on Sarah’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/sarahmcquaid
-Sarah is on Patreon! Become a patron for exclusive Sarah McQuaid content: patreon.com/sarahmcquaid
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Here's a link to the official Troubadours on Trek Spotify Playlist, where you can hear all the featured songs from every episode in one playlist (songs will be added as episodes air on Patreon):
-Sarah’s song pairing for this episode: “Puff the Magic Dragon” by Peter, Paul and Mary
-Grace's song pairing for this episode: “Big Lizard” by The Dead Milkmen
-Sarah’s featured song is “The Tug of the Moon,” from The St. Buryan Sessions
Corrections:
- The book Sarah mentions, in the context of folk music traveling back and forth and both ways between the United States and the UK/Ireland is called Wayfaring Stranger, written by Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr
- “Ebb and Flow” is the name of the “pretty love song” on my second album, Two Birds, that was written in DADGAD.
- The origins of the “Riker Maneuver” (Riker chair maneuver): Jonathan Frakes had a back injury from moving furniture that made it hard to bend and get into chairs the normal way. So he started swinging his leg over the tops of chairs to sit down. Look this up on YouTube if you haven’t seen it. There’s a hilarious viral compilation video. Frakes’ back injury is also the reason for the famous “Riker Lean.” Frakes also thought it would be a hilarious and cocky thing for his character to do, and when no one called him out on it, he continued to do it. In his words: "That started in Ten Forward because the backs of the chairs were so low, it was easy. And then I thought, this is really a hotdog, @$$hole thing to do. Nobody's going to let me do this. And then nobody stopped me! It's such a cocky, unattractive, kind of bad cowboy move… Whoever did the YouTube compilation of Riker sits down, it went viral and was even more embarrassing, and made me strangely even more proud."
- Strange New Worlds premieres on Paramount Plus on May 5th!!
- The redshirts in this episode have indeed been featured in a well-circulated meme but Sarah is correct when she points out that several of the “red shirts” in this episode are wearing yellow. Here’s a link to the meme: https://ifunny.co/meme/kirk-spock-mccoy-and-ensign-ricky-are-beaming-down-to-x6x7hHnu5
- According to Memory Alpha, a fairly comprehensive online Star Trek wiki, the Metron at the end of the episode was played by Carole Shelyne and voiced by Vic Perrin. I couldn’t confirm that the Metron on the ship intercom’s is also voiced by Perrin so that remains an unanswered question.
- From Wikipedia’s entry on the Prime Directive: “The first filmed reference to the Prime Directive occurs in the first season TOS episode "The Return of the Archons" (1966), when Spock begins to caution Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise when he proposes to destroy a computer controlling an entire civilization.”
- The aliens I couldn’t think of, who brokered peace between humans and Klingons were the Organians. The treaty is called the Treaty of Organia or the Organian Peace Treaty. The episode is TOS 1:27, “Errand of Mercy.”
- The book Grace recommends is The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
