To Baldly Go

020 - Team America, Galactic Police

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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 ideas?
  • Kirk, the man-whore
  • What does it mean to be human?
  • What does it mean to be living?
  • Life is more than just elements, but without the elements, there is no life
  • Some Brazilian Jiu Jitsu analysis
  • Episodes starting a lot stronger than they finish
  • Was this propaganda?
  • Subtlety vs heavy-handedness
  • A successful letter-writing campaign
  • A brief history lesson about The Scorpions
  • Seeing more recurring story lines and trends
  • Negative views on technology?
  • Saying “Thank you” to Alexa
  • In real life we make the same mistakes and tell the same stories over and over again
  • Different experience between binge watching and watching weekly over the course of many years
  • Similar shows, books, and movies released around the same time
  • Will the AI conversation actually change?  Has the conversation surrounding AI changed in the past 60 years?
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    To Baldly GoBy Aaron Emery