Antimatter Pod

214. Spacebook Relationship Status (TOS 2.01)

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It's wedding season! Anika and Liz are looking at some of Star Trek's key wedding episodes, beginning with the one that launched season 2 of The Original Series and rewrote a lot of people's brain chemistry: "Amok Time".

And in typical "Antimatter Pod does it Antimatter Pod's way" fashion, we're gonna talk about ... how great it is for the Spock/Chapel ship. 

  • Why we're doing a wedding series: we love weddings, and we love how they can be used as a characterisation and worldbuilding tool
  • Vulcans secretly live for the drama
  • It does not do to dwell on the science and evolution behind pon farr and we should not have tried
  • Liz is very concerned for the wellbeing of asexual Vulcans
  • There's a lot of orientalism in our first glimpse of Vulcans and their culture, and modern Trek hasn't really walked that back
  • We don't appreciate William Shatner enough (William Shatner did not pay us to say this)
  • It's actually quite possible that McCoy and Chapel have never spoken outside of work
  • Strange New Worlds has destroyed this episode and also Spock as a character
  • Vulcans: we are an advanced and sophisticated culture
    • Also Vulcans: please do not ask about the child marriages
  • Kirk's infatuation with T'Pau is very important to us
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