The Brothers Trek Podcast

This Week: The Underrated (??) Spock's Brain. Matt wonders if not using the word brain may have made this episode better. Ken suggests that some of the ideas of this episode are before their time. Why would Gene Coon produce a stinker like this? All this and more!!!!

This Week! Matt talks about box office failures and how the composition of this episode shows it, Ken compares this episode to a mummy

movie. Matt worries about the PTSD that many of the characters will have to endure, while Ken then sums up some Jung and Freud for us. All this and more!

This week! Matt makes jokes Ken doesn't think are funny. Ken draws on history for parallels in this story and Matt recalls the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas. All this and more!

This week! We talk about using similar ideas from one episode to the next and if it's a good thing, we talk again about the Disney movie Smith!, how Playboy in the 60's could get you an acting career, and we discuss how small pox made the Native Americans look even more primitive. All this and more!!

This week: Matt sometimes says Klingen. *Shrug emoji* Ken elaborates on hidden storyline in this episode. We discuss a darkened Enterprise Bridge and Matt does a sometimes good sometimes bad Kirk in the episode. Plus our regular recap and review and Spock's brother Sperk.

This Week we qare back with the start of Season 3. We discuss telepathy in Star Trek, Aliens of Star Trek, how time travel might make you uncouth. Spock keeps forgetting who's in charge of all this. Until he doesn't. ANNNDDD we discuss the cheap price they produced this episode at. All this and so much more!!

It's Lucille Ball week as we discuss the new documentary and new movie starting Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem. We take Lucy through her career and marriage to Desi.

We talk about Desilu's formation and how Lucy became sole runner of the studio which produced Star Trek.

After the first half hour we discuss the the write-in campaing that kept Trek on the air, Nimoy's requests, and we discuss a new Star Trek preview and how Picard used Star Trek: Online to find new types of shifts. All this and more!!!

This week: 2001 A Space Odyssey. We discuss THE movie that influences Lots of Sci-Fi to come including the Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Wars. We discuss the Lynchian mood of the end of this film with a toe dip into Season Three of Twin Peaks.

Matt talks about how this movie is full of the things he usually hates but yet succeed in this movie. We discuss parallels of 2001 to Star Trek:TMP all the while Ken describes the movie as an art piece.

This week: It's a quick overview of the politics, pop culture and television of 1968. This week discuss the Rural Purge of television and what this means for the medium.

We discuss the the Vietnam and how TV brought that to life for audiences of the sixties. And we discuss why Matlock and Murder She Wrote were so popular in the 90's and we somehow always bring back to Trek.

All this and much more!

This week: Ken loves the episode, Matt is less sure. Ken discusses ideology while Matt pokes holes. There's also a lot of laughter in this episode on both sides.

Ken reminds us to never underestimate the fountain of youth, a recurring Trek trope. We also discuss the many different ways people enjoy content and we bring up Lower Decks a couple of times. All this an much more!