To Baldly Go

028 - Racism, Overpopulation, and a Russian History Lesson

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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
  • The transporter as a weapon
  • Nuclear codes in history
  • Strangelove
  • A good message – “Don’t hate”
  • Terrible movies with heavy-handed messaging
  • Watching people watch people on TV
  • Episode context
  • What is the call to action in this episode?
  • Being extra-Spock
  • Spock needs to be more precise
  • Abbie gets attacked by a kitten
  • The Tunguska Event
  • Another callout to The Beginning of Infinity
  • Limits on human knowledge?
  • A victim of the medium at the time?
  • The decline of the series
  • Over Warp 14
  • More multi-culturalism on the Enterprise
  • A game plan to finish The Original Series
  • Planning a Star Trek trivia challenge
  • Looking ahead to The Next Generation
  • Abbie fires some shots at DS9
  • Nate throws down the gauntlet for the best episode ending in all of Star Trek
  • A Star Trek producer spoke in my video production class in college
  • Something about whales
    • ...more
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    To Baldly GoBy Aaron Emery