To Baldly Go

This episode we discuss:

• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Didn’t go full Captain Planet
• Nate surprised by his rating
• Felt like a long episode
• Ralph Winter – producer
• Chekov in 1980s San Francisco
• The pitfalls of knowing there is more to come
• Plot holes
• No butterfly effect?
• Different timelines?
• A Commander Random sighting
• Plot devices vs. realistic story progress
• Star Trek: Movie Memories – by William Shatner
• Sulu’s lost movie mom...

In this episode we discuss:

• No more Animated Series
• Enjoying the dialogue more upon second viewing
• How Abbie remembers Star Trek
• Two years thinking Spock was dead
• Leonard Nimoy directs
• Curse of the odd-numbered Star Trek films
• Choppy scenes missing the emotional, dramatic effect
• Another Yeoman Rand-om sighting
• Sacrificing the Enterprise
• Krug – the Klingon John Wick?
• A compelling villain
• Extra-Kirk
• What happened to Spock’s body...

This week, Nate and I discuss:

• The Emmy-award winning Star Trek: The Animated Series
• Stopped rating the episodes
• Less than the sum of its parts?
• A bad series
• Animated Series as punishments
• Spaceships and aliens
• Target demographics
• Shortcomings of TAS
• No Chekov
• The great episode of TAS – a top episode for the franchise to this point
• Political implications of airing certain episodes
• Is TAS canon?
• Life support belts
• Kirk was the ...

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...