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Episode 13 – Space Seed


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Space Seed
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Let’s Talk Spoilers

* The show is so big, Jessica needed 11 sentences for her synopsis
* Ok, not much spoilers for this episode but there will be tons when we get to The Next Generation




Let’s Talk Episode

* Khan!!!!
* Does Jessica love or hate the episode. She still can’t decide.
* Maybe the worst choreographed TOS fight so far.
* How evil Khan actually is.
* Film and Television Icon, Ricardo Montaban.
* Kirk did WHAT with Khan!!!???
* Seriously, what do you do with Khan? How do you deal with him? What would you have done?
* Were the writers as clever as it seems? Jury is still out.
* Why didn’t Kirk use McGivers as a spy?




Jessica's Rating for Space Seed
3 of 5 waxed latin Khan chests




Let’s Talk Trek

* Star Trek has 13 Movies (so far)
* How the un-produced TV series, Star Trek: Phase 2 became Star Trek: The Motion Picture
* Wrath of Khan explores our heroes getting older
* The new movies, Andy’s shares his opinions and he’s not pulling punches
* Jessica argues for Star Trek “the way it WAS”! and Andy does the dance of joy!




Space Seed

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Let’s Talk Next Week
We'll be closing out The Original Series with the Animated Series, so for next week, we will be watching two episodes:

Yesteryear (season 1, episode 2) and The Lorelei Signal (season 1, episode 4)



Andy Recommends
Popcorn and a movie marathon for December.

- Star Trek: The Motion Picture

- STII: The Wrath of Khan*

- STIII: The Search for Spock

- ST:IV: The Voyage Home

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- ST:VI: The Undiscovered Country*
*STII and STVI will be Bonus Episodes coming soon. Both are a great supplement to our Trek.

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