To Baldly Go

This week: A tribute to Scott Adams Where No One Has Gone Before, Lonely Among Us, Justice Abbie realizes how annoying Wesley is Similar to The Original Series, but different enough Thoughts and prayers to get home What is the time range of this iteration of the Enterprise? Curiosity Stoic philosophy Self-proclaimed experts and hubris Confidence without arrogance A body-swap episode?  No way! Sher...

In this episode: The Naked Now, Code of Honor, The Last Outpost I feel like we’ve seen this before An homage? Gregg’s 9s and 10s and his one problem with the series Gregg doesn’t like Wesley Stories are more refined Too early to have a “different characters” episode? Visionary vs executor Aaron’s Data moment Feeling like Original Series episodes Issues with Tasha Yar Even bad Star Trek is still gr...

In this episode: The premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation – Encounter at Farpoint Joined by my old friend, Gregg Gregg’s background with Star Trek Felt like a pilot episode, but overall good Original Series comparisons Star Trek feel with a much bigger scope A hopeful future with a bleak near-term view Gregg rates a 9 and says it can only go up from here Nate’s old technical manuals Next Gen...

This episode we discuss: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Didn’t go full Captain Planet Nate surprised by his rating Felt like a long episode Ralph Winter – producer Chekov in 1980s San Francisco The pitfalls of knowing there is more to come Plot holes No butterfly effect? Different timelines? A Commander Random sighting Plot devices vs. realistic story progress Star Trek: Movie Memories – by William...

In this episode we discuss: No more Animated Series Enjoying the dialogue more upon second viewing How Abbie remembers Star Trek Two years thinking Spock was dead Leonard Nimoy directs Curse of the odd-numbered Star Trek films Choppy scenes missing the emotional, dramatic effect Another Yeoman Rand-om sighting Sacrificing the Enterprise Krug – the Klingon John Wick? A compelling villain Extra-Kirk...

This week, Nate and I discuss: The Emmy-award winning Star Trek: The Animated Series Stopped rating the episodes Less than the sum of its parts? A bad series Animated Series as punishments Spaceships and aliens Target demographics Shortcomings of TAS No Chekov The great episode of TAS – a top episode for the franchise to this point Political implications of airing certain episodes Is TAS canon? Li...

In this episode Abbie, Nate, and I discuss: Final seven episodes of The Original Series Another episode it feels like we’ve seen before Fairy Tale by Stephen King Abbie wanted to DNF episodes Creepy, ick factor Valentine’s Day Star Trek episode Worst episode of The Original Series DC Fontana Qualified ratings – a “Season 3” Seven Mixed messaging Space Lincoln Anti-war, but winning a war at all cos...

This week I am joined by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss: Let that Be Your Last Battlefield, The Mark of Gideon, and That Which Survives The Trouble with Tribbles story Elaan of Troyius recap now that Abbie is back Overt messaging in shows Star Trek without Gene Roddenberry Is a good message enough to carry an episode? A Captain’s responsibility to keep the ship out of enemy ha...

This week we discuss: The Empath, Elaan of Troyius, and Whom Gods Destroy Star Trek: Saw What do you do if you have limited resources and can’t save everyone? Low-percentage vs no-percentage Intellect alone is not sufficient Kirk acting in slow motion? Book recommendation – Shadow Divers – don’t get the bends! Star Trek’s Helen of Troy? Stories about things that the stories aren’t about Elaan hit...

This week we discuss: The Tholian Web, Plato’s Stepchildren, and Wink of an Eye We continue last week’s debate and how Nate is wrong A traditional Star Trek episode Ratings with qualifiers Episode and series hero journeys Scotty the full-blown alcoholic? A weak spot in the episode? Explaining to the audience instead of the characters Grown-up storytelling Shatner stepping back in an episode Could...

In this episode, we discuss: Spectre of the Gun, The Day of the Dove, and For the World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky Budget issues during Season 3? Nate is over the non-spacey episodes Some bourbon discussion Klingons with swords Nate rejects the premise of the episode Nate nearly rage quits the podcast over the IMDB rating I claim victory in the discussion We’ve seen this episode before A...

In this episode, we discuss: Abbie and I had an opportunity to watch Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and a Q&A session with William Shatner For a 92-year-old man, Shatner was ranting and raving and moving around pretty well An education in COPD and lung disease The impact of the Actors’ Strike on the show Stories about bow hunting and pranks on DeForest Kelley Getting pulled over dressed as Ca...

In this episode, we discuss: The Paradise Syndrome, And the Children Shall Lead, and Is There in Truth no Beauty? Star Trek: Renegades Other TV discussion The worst episode yet? Was life in the past better than life today? Life without Advil… House spoilers Tahiti Syndrome Differences between cultural appropriation and cultural assimilation Greek mythology Kirk’s fear We decide on an episode title...

In this week’s episode, we discuss: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Spock’s Brain, and The Enterprise Incident The movie worked a lot better on a big TV than The Original Series Strong opening to the movie Klingons look and seem very different Enterprise porn Remastered version of the movie – probably looked better on my TV at home than it would have in the theater Characters felt different What so...

Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast. As usual, I am joined by my wife, Abbie, and our friend Nate, as we discuss: The final two episodes of Season 2: Bread and Circuses and Assignment: Earth Abbie is over The Original Series More episodes we feel like we’ve seen before Prime Directive Kirk’s character judging abilities Parallel development vs Earth influence Religious references...

Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast. As usual, I am joined by my wife, Abbie, and our friend Nate, as we discuss: The next 3 episodes of season 2 of Star Trek: The Original Series – By Any Other Name, The Omega Glory, and The Ultimate Computer Interstellar from the perspective of the other planets Callbacks to earlier episodes What I’ve come to expect from Star Trek, but does th...

Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast. As usual, I am joined by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss: The next 3 episodes of season 2 of Star Trek: The Original Series – A Private Little War, Return to Tomorrow, and Patterns of Force What was the message of this episode? Do they even know? TV makeup and High Definition We don’t like Gene Roddenberry episodes? Unders...

Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast. I am joined again this week by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate as we discuss: The next 3 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series – The Gamesters of Triskelion, A Piece of the Action, and The Immunity Syndrome First – my homework to rewatch The Trouble with Tribbles I can see why The Trouble with Tribbles is a favorite episode for many...

Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast. I am joined again this week by my wife Abbie and our friend Nate as we discuss: The next 3 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series – Obsession, Wolf in the Fold, and The Trouble with Tribbles Drinking Minnesota beer in Northeast Florida A good, forgettable episode PTSD in Star Trek Personal log vs Captain’s log Kirk is quite the dynamic ch...

Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast. I am joined again by my wife Abbie and our friend Nate as we discuss: The next 3 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series – Journey to Babel, Friday’s Child, and The Deadly Years Starting with the last episode Aging the characters, compared to reality Are we aging differently now? Or is it a social construct? A good leader surrounds himself...

Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast. I am joined again this week by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss: The next 3 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series – Catspaw, I Mudd, and Metamorphosis Probably the weakest set of episodes yet Going over Abbie’s low bar for this series Nate almost didn’t finish the episode A Star Trek episode? Or a Halloween special wit...

An evil crew, paradise, and a destructive intergalactic space worm.  All this and more in this week’s episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast! I am joined, as usual, this week by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss: The next 3 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series – Mirror Mirror, The Apple, and The Doomsday Machine Is this the “darkest timeline”? Another parallel universe episode...

Vulcan biology.  The worst episode yet.  And some Irish folklore. Thank you for joining us for all this and more on this week’s episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast.  As usual, I am joined this week by my wife Abbie and our friend Nate as we discuss the next 3 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series -  Amok Time Who Mourns for Adonais? The Changeling

The worst episode of the season, the best episode of the season, and The Crazies in Space.  This, and more in this week’s episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast. I am joined again this week by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss: Star Trek: The Original Series episodes: The Alternative Factor, The City on the Edge of Forever, and Operation – Annihilate! We hit the whole spectrum of ep...

Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast.  As usual, I am joined again this week by my wife, Abbie, and our friend Nate as we discuss the next three episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series... This Side of Paradise The Devil in the Dark, and Errand of Mercy