Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast.
I am joined again by my wife Abbie and our friend Nate as we discuss:
- The next 3 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series – Journey to Babel, Friday’s Child, and The Deadly Years
- Starting with the last episode
- Aging the characters, compared to reality
- Are we aging differently now? Or is it a social construct?
- A good leader surrounds himself with good people
- Don’t embarrass the boss
- Budgetary constraints and command
- Trying to do the right thing, but not knowing how to do it
- Stockton or Stocker?
- The Beginning of Infinity
- How does the Neutral Zone work?
- The return of Corbomite
- Watching on a phone instead of a TV making the series more palatable?
- A better episode if made today?
- Earliest-born Star Trek actor – born in 1882!!
- A murder mystery on the Enterprise
- Sarek – a character with depth that I don’t realize
- Additional episode context and how these episodes are received
- Orions? Or Gorn?
- Lack of recurring characters
- Genetic espionage
- Strange episode titles
- A strong start and a slow, weak finish
- We’ve seen this episode before
- Good music
- The Godmother of Star Trek
- Who punched first?
- Reactions to Chekov’s Russia claims
- Computing in the 1960s, Teletype, and how technologically forward-looking we can be
- Technological inspiration from Star Trek
- Chick Fil-a vs Raisin’ Canes
- Thumbnails for next week’s episodes
- Thinkgeek.com
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