CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 146: Star Trek: A Piece of the Action and The Immunity Syndrome
(00:00:17) - Intro.
(00:05:29) - Brad has a Star Trek uncle.
(00:09:52) - The history behind A Piece of the Action.
(00:20:04) - Let's talk about what is actually going on here. It's a gangster planet.
(00:25:52) - Boss Okmyx.
(00:29:35) - There are maybe a few too many escape attempt scenes for one episode.
(00:35:13) - Jojo Krako's Bizzaro Adverture-o.
(00:38:48) - The slow morphing of Kirk into gangster mode.
(00:48:06) - That's a big stun setting, and is this really how we're leaving these people?
(00:56:23) - Final thoughts.
(00:57:34) - Break!
(00:58:09) - We're back, and it's time for The Immunity Syndrome.
(01:00:26) - There are basically no production notes for this episode.
(01:06:00) - They're so, so tired, and that's before they meet the space void.
(01:09:49) - The Intrepid goes down, and shore leave is cancelled.
(01:13:40) - What killed the Intrepid.
(01:17:09) - Some effects talk, and the nature of the peril the ship is under.
(01:20:56) - Space amoeba.
(01:24:45) - It's Bones vs. Spock in a scientific knockdown drag-out!
(01:30:00) - Some very good tension as we fly through the space amoeba.
(01:38:08) - Driving the Enterprise out of an exploding amoeba, and a weird final note.
(01:45:04) - Final thoughts.
(01:47:02) - Episodes for next week, and outro.
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