Unedited, slightly incoherent, and mostly redundant, The Beige and The Bold Solo Sessions are episodes where I run through a show without Derek.

Can I "oof" this one? I already "oof"ed "Code of Honor"? Damn.

Unedited, slightly incoherent, and mostly redundant, The Beige and The Bold Solo Sessions are episodes where I run through a show without Derek.

Y'all are sleeping on this episode.

Have a blanket. This one is worth sleeping on.

Unedited, slightly incoherent, and mostly redundant, The Beige and The Bold Solo Sessions are episodes where I run through a show without Derek.

I go on, for the first time perhaps, about the relationship between Geordi and Yar and I wish both would have gotten more time for each other and with Picard. 

"This is happening" is something that I feel a lot while watching this episode. You've gotta ground yourself.

We're back!

We will be back for the Season Two Supplemental, then for Season Three after a short break.

And so our journeys have brought you, poor listener, to discussion of the Shatnerverse.  First, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens were the ghostwriters/collaborators/spinning-crap-into-clay-ers of the Shatnerverse. Michael Jan Friedman is one person who also wrote Star Trek books, but didn’t write these ASCII-compatible abortions so they’re in the clear. 

I apologize for besmirching your good name, sir.  

While we’re talking about Star Trek novel writers; Diane Duane is fantastic and Peter David is pretty cool. Duane wrote “Spock’s World,” and “Rihannsu,” which got frequently ripped off in TNG. 

David wrote “New Frontier,” which used a lot of characters, from the show, including Commander Shel–  We’ll get to it.  

Also Victor Milan wrote for both Star Trek and Battletech, so there’s a factoid for your next nerd party. 

I do kinda wanna see monthly issues of “Time and Bull****” now. I’d expect articles like, ‘This Android Just Disproved Scientific Consensus…Again,’ ‘Telepathy: What the Hell, Man?’ and ‘Lecture Series – Would You Rather: Jim Kirk’s Career or Introductory Temporal Mechanics.’  

There’s a single diamond in this rough that’s a flaw in Picard’s self-image and this episode could not care less about it. I’m furious about a missed opportunity to deconstruct Jean-Luc Picard.  

The fencing thing Derek is referencing is–I think–Choi vs Baldini in 2012. 

Underneath it all, “Skin of Evil” is a pretty straightforward episode. Again, I don’t know if authorial intent can be used to condemn a story that plays well, especially when it’s presaging internet phenomena in the earliest days of the Internet. 

Literally, the late eighties and early nineties were the years that the Internet was transitioning from research/military networks to public, commercial networks.  

And Derek was right about the IRC thing. I don’t know why I thought it was “IIRC” and not “IRC.” Also, the Charles Bronson films I was thinking of were the “Death Wish” series. Marina Sirtis was in the third one. I mentioned “The Executioner” or something which is a book series. The mix-up was because my dad loves both. 

Derek and I watch "Symbiosis" again, except this time to  make fun of pharma-douche Martin Skireli. Regular episodes of the  podcast continue next week with "We'll Always Have Paris."  

We do not endorse punching any particular persons in the face. Any  expressed desires to punch people--in their smug faces or otherwise--are  figurative expressions of mankind's collective disappointment and  frustration, not literal and not to be interpreted as a call to action.  

Specifically the action of extralegally pistoning your fist into the  soft, punchable face of bad people who deserve to be punched. 

We are not  endorsing that. 

We largely gloss over the conflation of junkies with addicts, the characterization of the Onarian culture, Frakes’ electrocuted acting, and the Picard/Crusher Prime Directive Elevator Ride of Logic-Bro Condescension. 

So much to unpack and we focused on the Brekkian’s slit-condom chic.  

Also, the guy from Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman was Horace, not Lowell. Don’t wanna get the Quinnhead fandom mad at me. 

“Symbiosis” is good for it’s time, but it feels a bit lacking. Deep Space Nine–coin drop–covered this all pretty well in “The Wire.” Were there other drug episodes in Star Trek that cover this better?  

Our talk about tropes, blocking, and narrative foibles is all pretty pedestrian for an extraordinary episode. Also Beverly Crusher’s credit score.  

We do gloss over the dangers of shortsighted capitalism and militarism that underlie this whole thing. We also skip the arbitrary disdain the audience is supposed to feel about the folks of Minos dealing arms to both sides in a war. 

Am I supposed to be outraged that they’re not taking sides in a war? I mean, I watch this show about the Prime Directive…