Enterprising Individuals

Your mission this week, if you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate and seduce the enemy for "The Enterprise Incident"!

Editor and comics scribe Kevin Church joins the show this week for a look at an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series that sees our upright heroes involved in dastardly deeds. The Romulans have improved their cloaking technology and it's up to the crew of the Enterprise to stage a space heist in the hope of obtaining military secrets. But, can Kirk keep his new ears on straight long enough to get the device, and can Spock keep the Romulan commander in the dark about his true intentions without losing his half-human heart in the process?

The crew find themselves in a "Mission: Impossible"-esque predicament this episode, as their usual weapons of tact and phasers are replaced with some very un-Starfleet guile and deception. During our discussion, we talk about the real life international crisis that inspired the episode, the the staff changes behind the scenes that caused Trek's third season to stumble, seeing the showrunner as the "gamemaster", respecting your audience through judicious editing, the lighting brilliance of Jerry Finnerman, how women saved Star Trek, the rare temperament of prop professionals, and balancing moral drama with blowin' things up real good.

We also talk about Chekov losing his head, poisoning kittens, a "season of bangers", getting a job via Gene Coon's nicotine addiction, the Loneliest Reman, putting clothes ON to seduce someone, and Kevin tells his Ken Ralston story. Plus, we do a lot of speculation about the upcoming Picard show and how it will deal with the Romulan refugee crisis, as well as the upcoming Section 31 show and the kinds of cloak-and-dagger tales you can tell in an egalitarian, benevolent society.

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This week, we celebrate Avengers: Endgame and comics in general by checking out Marvel Star Trek comics! Join us for a look at Star Trek Unlimited and a quick run-through of Trek on the comic page!

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Get ready to sing some royalty-free tunes as we warm up our pipes for "Virtuoso"!

Comedian, writer, and podcaster Asterios Kokkinos joins the show this week for a look at an episode of Star Trek: Voyager that explores the nature of humanity, artistic expression, and working on the railroad. The Doctor becomes a singing sensation when the crew meets a race that has never before heard music. As his fame increases and his captain expresses her reservations, the Doctor must decide if being human means following your dreams or fulfilling your responsibilities.

Voyager gets its own "Measure of a Man" in this episode, and both the Doctor's responsibility to the crew and the crew's responsibility to him as a sentient being are weighed in the balance. During our discussion, we talk about why ethical dilemmas are so entertaining and how sci-fi makes them more palatable, the "AI trolley car problem", how far the egalitarian nature of the Federation extends, whether an unjust deed can be considered moral, how the Doctor is the opposite of Data, and why Trek's problems are about us and not the future.

We also talk about what to do if your toaster makes a toaster, proving you can play the sax, Nintendo in the woods, the Doctor drawing boobs, the Napster planet, the "Musical Prime directive", Voyager as The Breakfast Club in space, Delta Quadrant trap music, Aaron wants to know how long you wait to introduce someone to the DMB, and Asterios compares Neelix to Han Solo!

What the hell does Harry Kim do, anyway?

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This week, we take a break from the grind as Mikanhana from the Just Enough Trope podcast is back to help break down the recent Trek news! We've got takes on images of the upcoming Disco finale, a beardless Spock, the theatrical release of the DS9 doc, Sonequa Martin-Greene's new movie role, and pushing a Chief O'Brien statue down the stairs!

We also talk about how to spot bad Photoshop, the secret to a good Ryan Gosling impression, Shatner the Twitter Monster, #justice4keiko, we say goodbye to Vonda N. McIntyre, Kal goes coo coo for Dave and Buster's Star Trek VR game, and Mika is looking for a young Elliot Gould-type!

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Turn down your lights (where applicable) because DS9 is going noir for "Necessary Evil"!

Existence is Futile hosts heelmary and Gooey Fame join the show this week for a look at an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that takes us back to the Cardassian Occupation, where talk is cheap and lives are even cheaper. Odo has been called to Terok Nor by the Prefect of Bajor, Gul Dukat, to investigate the death of a Bajoran shopkeeper under suspicious circumstances. Meanwhile on DS9, a vicious attack on Quark leads Odo to reopen his old case, and to look deeper into the involvement of a young freedom fighter named Kira Nerys!

Having "Space Cop" Odo on the show is a great excuse for a hard-boiled detective yarn, and this episode hits every trope in the noir canon, from the femme fatale, to the private eye inner monologue, to the seedy bartender, and a Macguffin everyone's chasing. During our discussion, we talk about the ambitious dual-timeline structure of the episode, DS9's similarity to post-WWII Europe, Odo as the tragic and less funny Data, the seeds of evil in Dukat, seeing your "hero" characters act treacherously, the seductiveness of authority, how a lack of redemption is sometimes part of the story, and how far the Ferengi have come since "The Last Outpost".

We also talk about how this is a tough but educational episode for a DS9 first-timer, how holodecks are for baseball and sex, giving the Ligonians a second chance, Riker's "bone", son of Groppler, #metooing Quark, being the "nice" concentration camp guard, a villain's obsession with the hero's purity, making a DS9 fan out of heelmary, Aaron wants more DARK MELODICA, and Gooey won't stop bringing up Admiral Jameson!

Are these kind of thoughts appropriate for a Star Trek podcast? I don't care...

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We can hardly believe it but it's our LAST EPISODE of The Podpadopoulos Cast and our last episode of Webster! For 6 years and 150 episodes, we've followed the adventures of Webster Long and his loving foster parents, George and Katherine Papadopoulos, but all good things must come to an end and we've reached the series finale, "Webtrek!"

But the Four Tops aren't singing just yet, and we've got a bit of business to take care of before we say goodbye to George, Ma'am, and Web. We've got our Top 5 Webster episode pics, we've got one last trivia prize to hand out, and we spend a little time speculating on a seventh season of Webster before we take a look without leaping into the LAST EVER episode of this fantastic show!

It's bittersweet but we've come this far! Like Uncle Phil would say, "That's entertainment!"

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