150: Star Trek: Bread and Circuses and Assignment: Earth
The finale of Star Trek Summer is upon us, and before we send the crew of the Enterprise on their merry way, we've got a final pair of adventures to get through! First up, yet another old-human-society-on-an-alien-planet-thing in Bread and Circuses, then we meet Assignment: Earth's Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln, two crazy kids in the 1960s who have to stop World War III while Kirk and Spock stand around watching.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 150: Star Trek: Bread and Circuses and Assignment: Earth
(00:00:33) - Intro.
(00:01:01) - Wasting no time at all launching straight into Bread and Circuses (and all the other Earth-like planet episodes).
(00:06:59) - Some of the fraught background of this episode's production.
(00:12:50) - Our penultimate guest cast.
(00:19:13) - Planet Rome.
(00:23:34) - Sun worshipers? They're more common than you think!
(00:30:36) - At least we get a properly slimy villain in this episode.
(00:37:50) - Sending Spock and Bones into the arena.
(00:41:13) - The tank is on E and we've still got almost 15 minutes left in the episode.
(00:49:08) - Are we really tacking a Jesus thing on here? Yes we are.
(00:51:55) - What happens to this planet after this? And final thoughts.
(00:55:00) - Break!
(00:55:28) - We're back, and it's time to head back home in Assignment: Earth!
(00:58:08) - The Star Trek Spin-Off Showcase!
(01:01:59) - Cast chat, wherein we learn of Teri Garr's distaste for Star Trek and its fans.
(01:05:23) - Brushing up against history.
(01:09:12) - Here comes Gary.
(01:16:34) - Gary has a mission (and a sick office).
(01:20:45) - Oh no, a normal human woman!
(01:24:46) - Here come Spock and Kirk to...stand around mostly?
(01:26:01) - Wacky antics ensue.
(01:29:00) - Gary climbs a rocket, Roberta messes with stuff.
(01:35:46) - Kirk and Spock crash into the final scene for just long enough to do something lightly important.
(01:40:25) - World War III is averted, but Gary Seven was never brought to series, so it all comes out in the wash.
(01:44:15) - Final thoughts.
(01:45:40) - Time for our favorites (and least favorites) of the season.
(01:57:56) - What we have coming up in September.
(02:01:30) - Outro.
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149: Star Trek: The Omega Glory and The Ultimate Computer
We've had a lot of splits on the Watchcast recently where we end up with a great Star Trek episode and a not-so-great Star Trek episode on the same podcast, but the gulf between great and not-so-great has never been greater than it is this week as we tackle The Omega Glory and The Ultimate Computer!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 149: Star Trek: The Omega Glory and The Ultimate Computer
(00:00:31) - Intro (and by intro, we mean trying to understand what the hell The Omega Glory is).
(00:11:46) - Alright, let's start tearing into this thing for real and figure out who's responsible.
(00:19:42) - What poor guest actors were subjected to this?
(00:24:07) - They had us in the first 15 minutes.
(00:29:21) - Talkin' Yang about the fountain of youth.
(00:37:55) - How long can we stretch this jail cell fight.
(00:43:00) - The snowball of stupid has officially started rolling down the hill.
(00:47:45) - Welcome to chunk four, the worst chunk of all.
(00:56:02) - A big dumb fist fight, Spock hypnotizes women now, and Kirk gives his history report.
(01:04:49) - Final thoughts, such as they are.
(01:08:25) - Break!
(01:08:55) - We're back, and we should talk about an episode that doesn't suck, The Ultimate Computer!
(01:10:11) - Production talk.
(01:12:59) - We've got a heck of a guest star for this one.
(01:17:36) - Launching into the unusually prescient plot.
(01:28:36) - The M5 is perfect. Tooooo perfect.
(01:34:04) - You put a brain in a computer?
(01:43:39) - Has a war games scenario on Star Trek ever not resulted in unexpected consequences?
(01:46:43) - Daystrom has gone bye-bye.
(01:50:01) - The last time Kirk talks a computer to death (this season).
(01:58:40) - Final thoughts.
(02:00:06) - Housekeeping for next week.
(02:03:09) - Outro.
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148: Star Trek: Patterns of Force and By Any Other Name
This week on the Watchcast the Star Trek crew pays a visit to a Nazi planet in Patterns of Force, and teaches some Andromedan aliens how to hold their liquor in By Any Other Name!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 148: Star Trek: Patterns of Force and By Any Other Name
(00:00:17) - Intro.
(00:01:00) - Launching right into our first episode, Patterns of Force!
(00:04:33) - Some historical context for this episode and its, uh, history.
(00:13:45) - Who is responsible for all of this?
(00:19:13) - Cast chat.
(00:23:36) - How did we wind up on Nazi planet?
(00:32:27) - Here's that shirtless Spock you ordered.
(00:37:19) - Clonking our way out of Nazi HQ, then hooking up with the rebellion.
(00:44:22) - Crashing the Nazi party.
(00:49:23) - The Fuhrer has gone bye-bye.
(00:53:02) - Slapping that Fuhrer back to consciousness.
(00:57:05) - Recall the nukes! We're undoing all of this!
(01:03:48) - Final thoughts.
(01:05:58) - Break!
(01:06:25) - We're back, and it's time for By Any Other Name!
(01:10:56) - Production history and cast talk.
(01:22:05) - Whoops, we walked into a trap by some conquerin' aliens.
(01:31:36) - Please do not crush Yeoman Cube.
(01:37:51) - What is flower?
(01:41:49) - Breaching the galactic barrier.
(01:46:08) - Traversing the galactic void, and exploring all these human sensations.
(01:57:01) - Solving this the only way humans know how: with a fistfight.
(02:02:34) - Final thoughts.
(02:06:15) - Next week's episodes.
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147: Star Trek: A Private Little War and Return to Tomorrow
We're in the home stretch of Star Trek's second season, and on deck we have the extraordinarily blunt Vietnam War parable A Private Little War, and the body swapping saga of Return to Tomorrow!
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 147: Star Trek: A Private Little War and Return to Tomorrow
(00:00:54) - Intro.
(00:06:21) - Kicking things off with A Private Little War and its development history.
(00:14:27) - Our cavalcade of guest stars this week.
(00:26:11) - Launching into the episode proper.
(00:36:15) - Kirk get's Mugato'd, then he gets ensorcelled.
(00:41:10) - How did these guys get these guns?
(00:45:25) - Wrapping up the Spock plot.
(00:48:34) - Tying this as tightly as you can to the Vietnam War without strangling it in the process.
(00:53:02) - Nona's wants, such as they are. And the blondes get guns.
(00:57:15) - This ending is a damn mess.
(01:00:48) - Final thoughts.
(01:03:53) - Break!
(01:04:18) - We're back, and it's time for Return to Tomorrow!
(01:09:50) - A VERY special guest star, and her lasting impact on Trek.
(01:16:32) - What's up with the big booming voice?
(01:21:49) - Beaming through thousands of miles of solid rock to hang with some orbs.
(01:28:40) - Would you put your brain in a robot body? Would you put that brain's energy in your own body?
(01:33:22) - Time to let the orbs ponder us, so to speak.
(01:44:56) - The mad dash to the conclusion.
(01:48:25) - Into oblivion.
(01:52:13) - Final thoughts, and our upcoming episodes.
(01:55:37) - Outro.
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146: Star Trek: A Piece of the Action and The Immunity Syndrome
It's gangsters and space amoebas for this week's Star Trek Watchcast, as the crew beams down to Chicago II to meet with President Capone in A Piece of the Action, and the ship falls helplessly into an energy draining void in The Immunity Syndrome!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 146: Star Trek: A Piece of the Action and The Immunity Syndrome
(00:00:17) - Intro.
(00:05:29) - Brad has a Star Trek uncle.
(00:09:52) - The history behind A Piece of the Action.
(00:20:04) - Let's talk about what is actually going on here. It's a gangster planet.
(00:25:52) - Boss Okmyx.
(00:29:35) - There are maybe a few too many escape attempt scenes for one episode.
(00:35:13) - Jojo Krako's Bizzaro Adverture-o.
(00:38:48) - The slow morphing of Kirk into gangster mode.
(00:48:06) - That's a big stun setting, and is this really how we're leaving these people?
(00:56:23) - Final thoughts.
(00:57:34) - Break!
(00:58:09) - We're back, and it's time for The Immunity Syndrome.
(01:00:26) - There are basically no production notes for this episode.
(01:06:00) - They're so, so tired, and that's before they meet the space void.
(01:09:49) - The Intrepid goes down, and shore leave is cancelled.
(01:13:40) - What killed the Intrepid.
(01:17:09) - Some effects talk, and the nature of the peril the ship is under.
(01:20:56) - Space amoeba.
(01:24:45) - It's Bones vs. Spock in a scientific knockdown drag-out!
(01:30:00) - Some very good tension as we fly through the space amoeba.
(01:38:08) - Driving the Enterprise out of an exploding amoeba, and a weird final note.
(01:45:04) - Final thoughts.
(01:47:02) - Episodes for next week, and outro.
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