Strange New Takes

The Enterprise continues it's 5 year mission in animated form and encounters a 300 million year old lifeform. We review the pilot to the second Star Trek series and give you our Strange New Takes!

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We're starting a new series doing recaps of every Star Trek pilot, going chronologically through each series. This week we start with The Original Series and talk about its two pilots, The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before. While the stories are interesting, both episodes are filled with incredibly overt sexism which can overshadow a viewing today.

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A tiny science vessel stranded on the other side of the galaxy starts its journey home with devastating losses and ends it with moral bankruptcy. Equinox's surface dilemma might be an easy one to judge but this two-parter presents many other inflection points which are harder to navigate.

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Measure of a Man tops a lot of people's lists of where to start watching Star Trek. We dissect the core moral dilemma and try to tackle the questions in this classic courtroom trial drama episode.

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Travel to 2024 with Sisko, Bashir and Dax as they encounter the "Sanctuary Districts" created to house the unemployed and unhoused. We discuss the moral dilemmas in this episode.

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Do you save the species dying of a horrible genetic disease? Or do you let evolution help the oppressed second species come out on top? We face our toughest moral dilemma yet in Dear Doctor and we're split about the ethical course of action to take.

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McCoy goes back in time and changes the course of history. Kirk must set the timeline right by letting a woman die. Was he right to let it happen? Were there alternatives? We discuss that and more in this week's episode in our Moral Dilemmas Series.

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Drumhead explores several different questions. When does suspicion turn to paranoid delusion? When does security trump personal liberties? Join us as we discuss Picard's moral stand in Drumhead.

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Widely regarded as one of Trek's best episodes, we grapple with the ethical question at the heart of In The Pale Moonlight and speculate about whether it would be a good episode to introduce someone to Star Trek.

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There may not be new Trek, but there are Strange New Takes! Today we start a new series of retro recaps focused on our favorite moral dilemma episodes. First up it's the episode of Voyager that divides opinion like no other: Tuvix. Is Janeway a murderer? Or a compassionate Captain who knows the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? And "at what point did he become an individual, and not a transporter accident?" We explore that plus much more in our retro review!

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