To Baldly Go

In this episode Abbie, Nate, and I discuss:

• Final seven episodes of The Original Series
• Another episode it feels like we’ve seen before
• Fairy Tale by Stephen King
• Abbie wanted to DNF episodes
• Creepy, ick factor
• Valentine’s Day Star Trek episode
• Worst episode of The Original Series
• DC Fontana
• Qualified ratings – a “Season 3” Seven
• Mixed messaging
• Space Lincoln
• Anti-war, but winning a war at all costs
• A real, not real Abraham Li...

This week I am joined by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss:

• Let that Be Your Last Battlefield, The Mark of Gideon, and That Which Survives
• The Trouble with Tribbles story
• Elaan of Troyius recap now that Abbie is back
• Overt messaging in shows
• Star Trek without Gene Roddenberry
• Is a good message enough to carry an episode?
• A Captain’s responsibility to keep the ship out of enemy hands
• Great Enterprise security
• ...

This week we discuss:

• The Empath, Elaan of Troyius, and Whom Gods Destroy
• Star Trek: Saw
• What do you do if you have limited resources and can’t save everyone?
• Low-percentage vs no-percentage
• Intellect alone is not sufficient
• Kirk acting in slow motion?
• Book recommendation – Shadow Divers – don’t get the bends!
• Star Trek’s Helen of Troy?
• Stories about things that the stories aren’t about
• Elaan hit first
• Tony Soprano is a bad pe...

This week we discuss:

• The Tholian Web, Plato’s Stepchildren, and Wink of an Eye
• We continue last week’s debate and how Nate is wrong
• A traditional Star Trek episode
• Ratings with qualifiers
• Episode and series hero journeys
• Scotty the full-blown alcoholic?
• A weak spot in the episode?
• Explaining to the audience instead of the characters
• Grown-up storytelling
• Shatner stepping back in an episode
• Could this have been a TNG episode?
• ...

In this episode, we discuss:

• Spectre of the Gun, The Day of the Dove, and For the World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky
• Budget issues during Season 3?
• Nate is over the non-spacey episodes
• Some bourbon discussion
• Klingons with swords
• Nate rejects the premise of the episode
• Nate nearly rage quits the podcast over the IMDB rating
• I claim victory in the discussion
• We’ve seen this episode before
• A Star Trek Sith Lord
• Who is pu...

In this episode, we discuss:

• Abbie and I had an opportunity to watch Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and a Q&A session with William Shatner
• For a 92-year-old man, Shatner was ranting and raving and moving around pretty well
• An education in COPD and lung disease
• The impact of the Actors’ Strike on the show
• Stories about bow hunting and pranks on DeForest Kelley
• Getting pulled over dressed as Captain Kirk
• No shit, Shatner!
• S...

In this episode, we discuss:

• The Paradise Syndrome, And the Children Shall Lead, and Is There in Truth no Beauty?
• Star Trek: Renegades
• Other TV discussion
• The worst episode yet?
• Was life in the past better than life today? Life without Advil…
• House spoilers
• Tahiti Syndrome
• Differences between cultural appropriation and cultural assimilation
• Greek mythology
• Kirk’s fear
• We decide on an episode title
• Without followers, evil canno...

In this week’s episode, we discuss:

• Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Spock’s Brain, and The Enterprise Incident
• The movie worked a lot better on a big TV than The Original Series
• Strong opening to the movie
• Klingons look and seem very different
• Enterprise porn
• Remastered version of the movie – probably looked better on my TV at home than it would have in the theater
• Characters felt different
• What somebody who doesn’t know anythi...

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 final two episodes of Season 2: Bread and Circuses and Assignment: Earth
• Abbie is over The Original Series
• More episodes we feel like we’ve seen before
• Prime Directive
• Kirk’s character judging abilities
• Parallel development vs Earth influence
• Religious references
• Dropping the things that work...

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 – By Any Other Name, The Omega Glory, and The Ultimate Computer
• Interstellar from the perspective of the other planets
• Callbacks to earlier episodes
• What I’ve come to expect from Star Trek, but does that mean they’re running out of...

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
• ...

Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast.

I am joined again this week by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate as we discuss:

• The next 3 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series – The Gamesters of Triskelion, A Piece of the Action, and The Immunity Syndrome
• First – my homework to rewatch The Trouble with Tribbles
• I can see why The Trouble with Tribbles is a favorite episode for many
• Does “more fun” mean “better”...

Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast.

I am joined again this week by my wife Abbie and our friend Nate as we discuss:

• The next 3 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series – Obsession, Wolf in the Fold, and The Trouble with Tribbles
• Drinking Minnesota beer in Northeast Florida
• A good, forgettable episode
• PTSD in Star Trek
• Personal log vs Captain’s log
• Kirk is quite the dynamic character
• The Farragut
• Moby Dick
...

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 embarr...

Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast.

I am joined again this week by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss:

• The next 3 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series – Catspaw, I Mudd, and Metamorphosis
• Probably the weakest set of episodes yet
• Going over Abbie’s low bar for this series
• Nate almost didn’t finish the episode
• A Star Trek episode? Or a Halloween special with Star Trek characters?
• Not th...

An evil crew, paradise, and a destructive intergalactic space worm.  All this and more in this week’s episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast!

I am joined, as usual, this week by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss:

• The next 3 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series – Mirror Mirror, The Apple, and The Doomsday Machine
• Is this the “darkest timeline”?
• Another parallel universe episode
• Gene Roddenberry’s vision (ho...

The worst episode of the season, the best episode of the season, and The Crazies in Space.  This, and more in this week’s episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast.

I am joined again this week by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss:

• Star Trek: The Original Series episodes: The Alternative Factor, The City on the Edge of Forever, and Operation – Annihilate!
• We hit the whole spectrum of episodes this week
• An interesting...