019 - Space Nazis

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?
• Understanding why TOS was cancelled
• Was TOS running out of ideas?
• A Next Generation actress
• Characters acting out of character
• Star Trek and the Apollo missions
• Other shows calling their shots
• Command structure on the Enterprise
• Risk vs. reward
• Scotty’s voice and linguistic talents
• Biblical connections?
• Plot devices vs. realism
• Fermi paradox
• Aliens and Mexican parliament
• A relative lack of surprise that Kirk and Spock dressed as Nazis
• Blues Brothers discussion
• Nazi imagery in the episode
• An episode we wanted to dislike
• Is there always a silver lining?
• Moral ambiguity and how shows are received