This Week! It's the Immunity Syndrome. Ken deep dives into Star Trek as either Hard or Soft Science. Since this episode is the final episode with director Peveny Matt talks about how actors changed in the 60's due to Method acting from where they once were. We discuss summer reruns. We debate the idea that Vulcans can feel the deaths of Vulcans across the galaxy. Is it possible? And then we discuss Sybock cause why not? All this and so much more! Give this great episode a listen.

This week! Gamesters or Gamers? Matt discovers the oft referenced quatloos. Matt harps on the fact this 'B' story doesn't hold it's own. Another rumor gets floated that the the show is on it's way off the air. Bones discusses a transporter malfunction that Scott will use in a few decades to end up in TNG. Matt gets a little sassy with the dialogue, while Ken disagrees and enjoys some of it! All this and more!

This week! We discuss SDCC news! And how excited we are for that PIcard show. We then pick up where we left off with A Private Little War and it's Recap! Is it sex or is it medicine? Blonde hair = good guy== Dark hair = Bad guy or gal. These aren't flint-lock rifles they are muskets! And Matt sings some Hamlton while Ken fills in some back informatin from the Federalist papers that and more in this extra wide double cab of an episode!

This week! Ken talks in depthly about the Vietnam allergory. I mean totally. It's a lot but all fascinating. Matt tells us Twiggy had a sitcom. Which then sets Ken off on a conversation about art and just being entertained by what you are watching. All this and so much more! And Look for Part 2 next week!

Happy Fourth of July weekend to those of you in the States. THIS WEEK! We discuss a most amazing and layered episode. Family intrigue, political intrigue and sassy Vulcans. This episode has it all. We discuss some DC Fontana lore about Spock. Would Amanda really blurt all that important young Spock information like that? And finally, Ken hears Matt make a mistake when discussing a drug not a jug and Ken Spends 5 minutes laughing at it. All this much more!

This week! Matt says "One of the best shows of us I edited in a while. Great discussion." We talk about what 1960's Rome might look like. We discuss what slavery was in times of ancient Greece and Rome and how modern conviences led to the end of the household servants. Ken tells us his about some Barbarians of ancient times. Ken blows Matt's mind by telling him that this show contains some slams against NBC. All this and way more!

This week is pure behind the scenes goodness. We discuss the buyout of Desilu by Paramount. We discuss the tension on Gene Coon which led to his leaving. And we discuss a bit about the publicity tour that Shatner and Nimoy went on all. Back next week with Bread and Circuses!

Happy memorial Day weekend! This week! Ken talks about a fan fiction he wrote. The writer discusses Roddenberry's "Meddling" as he calls it and thinks it why this episode works so much better than it could have. We discuss comedy in Star Trek and how to use it and Matt Makes a case for Star Trek VI as his favorite movie and why it works so well. We talk a little about Koloth and William Campbell, and it's interesting to note how SOME people feel this episode isn't TREK worthy at all and most people feel this is essential TREK. All this and more!

This week! The return of Mudd. Matt discusses the sad spoiler in the title despite it being written before spoilers were a thing. More behind the scenes drama. Spock is funny again. Matt talk about logic problems that throw him for a loop. All this and much more!

This Week! The APPLE! We discuss right at the beginning how boring space travel would probably be. Ken discusses the problem between realism and drama. We discuss the weird sexual politics both on and off the screen during this episode. Robert Justman and Spock have some snappy comebacks. We discuss how unsafe television effects were in the 60's, and Ken rewrites some They Might Be Giants on the fly to fit this episode.