The Final Frontier Podcast Season 2, Episode 3: My Son, The Robot

🚀 - Save 40% or more on your kitchen or bathroom cabinets: https://www.bogercabinetry.com/📺 - Subscribe to Paramount+ and get your first week free: https://paramountplus.qflm.net/GKnjLL📱 - Visit our website: https://aretemedia.org/The Enterprise just met the pettiest genocide probe in Starfleet history 😂In this episode of The Final Frontier Podcast, we dive into Star Trek: The Original Series – Season 2, Episode 3 “The Changeling” and break down everything from Nomad’s murderous perfectionism to Kirk’s insane talent for talking computers into killing themselves… again.We cover:Why Nomad feels like the unholy love child of HAL 9000, a Dalek, and a grumpy RoombaThe episode’s wild body count and how it doubles our redshirt casualty counter to 8Whether this might be one of the earliest versions of the “logic the AI into self-destructing” tropeThe absolutely bonkers decision to wipe Uhura’s memory and then “reboot” her with basically hooked-on-phonicsHow TOS accidentally predicted wireless earbuds, tablets, and flash memory–style data cartridgesSpock flirting with a murder robot (and vice versa) plus Nomad’s deeply sexist “that unit is a woman” momentThe ethics of AI, sentience, consent… and why Nomad totally fails the Turing testStar Trek’s ongoing obsession with Kirk vs. computers and why he’s now 4-for-4 in “talking a machine to death”You’ll also hear:A shoutout to Bogar Cabinetry and our running gag sponsorship from Paramount+Tangents into Heavy Metal & Heavy Metal 2000, Doctor Who, Metropolis, Terrifier 3, and even Reading RainbowA mini linguistics nerd-out on English vs. Spanish vs. French vs. Japanese, and why English is such a chaotic messIf you’re into:🖖 Classic Star Trek TOS🧠 Nerdy breakdowns of sci-fi logic, AI, and continuity💀 Redshirt tracking and bad-guy body counts🤣 Dick jokes, deep cuts, and meta humor…this is absolutely your episode.👉 Watch along on Paramount+, then hit play and hang out with us in the Final Frontier!Drop a comment with:Your favorite killer computer / rogue AI in Star TrekWhether “The Changeling” is underrated, overrated, or just “problematical” 😉Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and “subscribe long and prosper” – it may not be medically proven, but it definitely can’t hurt.#startrektos #startrektos #thechangeling #finalfrontierpodcast #startrekpodcast #scifipodcast #paramountplus #captainkirk #spock #uhura #scotty #redshirts #aretemedia #tos #startrekseries #thefinalfrontierpodcast #thefinalfrontier #trekkie