It's gangsters and space amoebas for this week's Star Trek Watchcast, as the crew beams down to Chicago II to meet with President Capone in A Piece of the Action, and the ship falls helplessly into an energy draining void in The Immunity Syndrome!

(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 146: Star Trek: A Piece of the Action and The Immunity Syndrome

(00:00:17) - Intro.

(00:05:29) - Brad has a Star Trek uncle.

(00:09:52) - The history behind A Piece of the Action.

(00:20:04) - Let's talk about what is actually going on here. It's a gangster planet.

(00:25:52) - Boss Okmyx.

(00:29:35) - There are maybe a few too many escape attempt scenes for one episode.

(00:35:13) - Jojo Krako's Bizzaro Adverture-o.

(00:38:48) - The slow morphing of Kirk into gangster mode.

(00:48:06) - That's a big stun setting, and is this really how we're leaving these people?

(00:56:23) - Final thoughts.

(00:57:34) - Break!

(00:58:09) - We're back, and it's time for The Immunity Syndrome.

(01:00:26) - There are basically no production notes for this episode.

(01:06:00) - They're so, so tired, and that's before they meet the space void.

(01:09:49) - The Intrepid goes down, and shore leave is cancelled.

(01:13:40) - What killed the Intrepid.

(01:17:09) - Some effects talk, and the nature of the peril the ship is under.

(01:20:56) - Space amoeba.

(01:24:45) - It's Bones vs. Spock in a scientific knockdown drag-out!

(01:30:00) - Some very good tension as we fly through the space amoeba.

(01:38:08) - Driving the Enterprise out of an exploding amoeba, and a weird final note.

(01:45:04) - Final thoughts.

(01:47:02) - Episodes for next week, and outro.