The Measure of an Episode: Star Trek Edition

The Measure of an Episode: Star Trek Edition

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  • 179: Discovery Season 4

    Prepare for a huge revelation! And it's not what you think.

    0:00 - Latency

    0:30 - infidelity vs high fidelity

    0:59 - intro

    1:10 - dating this episode

    1:20 - criteria

    2:00 - the start of a joke

    2:16 - the punchline of a joke

    2:39 - the reference of a joke

    3:05 - Austin Powers syndrome (comment if you get THIS reference)

    5:43 - Oh look, Burnham is right

    6:08 - why argue with Michael?

    6:29 - DEEP Star Trek cut

    7:09 - Oh look, Burnham is right

    7:44 - Nothing says sci-fi like talking heads

    9:06 - Forget it's Star Trek and it's good!

    10:38 - Trek, Wars, is anything new?

    11:39 - When is Star Trek not Star Trek?

    12:46 - What makes Star Trek Star Trek?

    13:18 - Solving a problem, for sure

    13:36 - Having time to mull it over as well

    14:50 - Problem to solve AND time to solve it

    16:22 - Not adrenaline, but still riveting

    17:45 - Presenting the solution but not

    18:46 - Proper sci-fi? Proper Star Trek?

    20:33 - Alternate script ideas

    21:09 - when ambience becomes superliminal (Simpsons)

    22:10 - Even Poker feels Star Wars

    23:02 - Barrier Galactica (Battlestar Galactica)

    26:16 - our first payoff!

    26:42 - is this right? Comment below!

    27:07 - how wrong are we on this? This feels wrong in retrospect

    27:44 - how popular is Earth pop culture of the '50s? (Gilligan's Island)

    28:28 - colloquial ignorance

    29:59 - dating references (Gambit)

    31:20 - are we... changing our criteria??

    32:00 - We are!

    32:27 - More deliberation?

    33:29 - Watching the process! Trust the process!

    34:01 - Rewriting Criteria 2

    34:59 - DMA details (Corodite - He-Man)

    35:17 - actual sci-fi vs technobabble

    35:48 - Lack of discovery in Discovery

    36:50 - Specifying Criteria 2

    38:18 - Final Verdict, Bub

    38:49 - Still a better love story than Twilight (Twilight)

    39:24 - Star Wars tangent

    40:14 - Jumping from a certain point of view

    41:09 - inertial dampeners

    42:22 - outro

    42:32 - Paul loves to leave these insensitive water-toeing

    43:00 - there was supposed to be a LONG pause here

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Jonathan and Paul embark on a thirteen-and-a-half-year mission, combing through all 703 episodes of Star Trek to discover what makes Star Trek “Star Trek”, and not just good TV. Or great TV. Or…