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July 18, 2024 111 mins

The worst episode of the season, the best episode of the season, and The Crazies in Space.  This, and more in this week’s episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast.

I am joined again this week by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss:

  • Star Trek: The Original Series episodes: The Alternative Factor, The City on the Edge of Forever, and Operation – Annihilate!
  • We hit the whole spectrum of episodes this week
  • An interesting topic with terrible execution
  • Discussing earlier dumb episodes
  • Tim the Enchanter
  • The “high water mark” for Star Trek
  • Pacifism at the right time
  • Sacrifice for the greater good
  • Gene Roddenberry’s vision for the future
  • 11.22.63
  • Spock’s primitive understanding of science
  • A similar episode today would be a jump back to 1986
  • Back to the Future, the 1993 edition with Metallica
  • Foreshadowing that we all missed
  • Are difficult decisions easier when we don’t know the affected people?
  • How was The City on the Edge of Forever received in the ‘60s?
  • Did ChatGPT get this one wrong?
  • What differences would we have seen if Edith Keeler hadn’t died?
  • First Contact discussion
  • I talk about the wrong episode
  • Another episode that is better than its title might indicate
  • All of the elements of a good episode
  • Kirk will not accept a no-win scenario
  • McCoy doesn’t have the disposition for command
  • Kirk with a Kodos’ decision to make
  • McCoy struggles with Spock’s idea of triage
  • Fake Kirk’s shitty moustache
  • Boogers? Or poorly cooked eggs?
  • Lessons of the Horta did not transfer
  • Plot holes from script changes?
  • Kirk’s nephew is nowhere to be seen
  • Levity at the end didn’t match the tone of the episode
  • We have reached the end of Season 1
  • “10”-rated seasons of other shows
  • The experiment has been a success
  • While the show has more depth than just spaceships and aliens, there are still spaceships and aliens
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