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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