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June 23, 2025 112 mins
This Wagon Train to the Stars keeps rolling right along as we continue our way through Star Trek season 2, and this week we've got two episodes on fairly different ends of the quality spectrum in The Apple, and The Doomsday Machine.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 140: Star Trek: The Apple and The Doomsday Machine
(00:00:14) - Intro.
(00:02:37) - Let's kick things off by reckoning with The Apple.
(00:08:31) - Who is responsible for this?
(00:12:32) - Our guest stars this week, and a brief note on saucer separation.
(00:18:22) - A paradise planet that is anything but.
(00:21:19) - How are we imperiling the ship this week?
(00:24:05) - Boxing Akuta, and a brief aside about Kirk's tunic.
(00:28:36) - Vaal is really stupid looking, and Chekov's a creep for some reason.
(00:36:11) - First comes love, then comes the skull cavings.
(00:41:23) - Spock gets one in the back, and it's time to waste Vaal.
(00:47:14) - Final thoughts.
(00:48:58) - Break!
(00:49:29) - We're back, and it's time for The Doomsday Machine!
(00:51:08) - Talking about the changes to the special effects, and musings about galaxies.
(00:57:52) - Production background and cast talk.
(01:05:30) - Kicking things off with a derelict ship, and a long diatribe about transporters.
(01:14:47) - Our first look at the titular tube of doom.
(01:18:03) - Maybe bringing Decker to the Enterprise was a bit of an error.
(01:27:40) - How to destroy a world destroyer (and yet another transporter diatribe).
(01:43:22) - The epilogue, and final thoughts.
(01:49:02) - Next week's episodes, and outro.

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