To Baldly Go

026 - Kirk is Grits


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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?
  • Star Trek memorabilia at auction
  • Scotty’s hair
  • Another back-in-time episode
  • First television inter-racial kiss, at least in the US
  • Abbie wants internal consistency
  • Subtle vs overt messaging in shows then and now
  • Motor control vs mind control
  • We can again see why the series was canceled
  • Things that take us out of the story
  • Inception and X-Men did it better
  • Star Trek Customizable Card Game
  • How the series was experienced in the late-1960s
  • Cinematography
  • Kirk’s coffee
  • Why didn’t they harness the power when they had the antidote?
  • Abbie is refusing to watch The Animated Series
  • Star Trek graphic novel
  • Getting rid of Kirk?
  • Hanlon’s Razor?
  • A Waffle House story
  • ...more
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    To Baldly GoBy Aaron Emery