Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast.
As usual, I am joined by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss:
- The next 3 episodes of season 2 of Star Trek: The Original Series – A Private Little War, Return to Tomorrow, and Patterns of Force
- What was the message of this episode? Do they even know?
- TV makeup and High Definition
- We don’t like Gene Roddenberry episodes?
- Understanding why TOS was cancelled
- Was TOS running out of ideas?
- A Next Generation actress
- Characters acting out of character
- Star Trek and the Apollo missions
- Other shows calling their shots
- Command structure on the Enterprise
- Risk vs. reward
- Scotty’s voice and linguistic talents
- Biblical connections?
- Plot devices vs. realism
- Fermi paradox
- Aliens and Mexican parliament
- A relative lack of surprise that Kirk and Spock dressed as Nazis
- Blues Brothers discussion
- Nazi imagery in the episode
- An episode we wanted to dislike
- Is there always a silver lining?
- Moral ambiguity and how shows are received
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