July 7, 2026

Phasers Set To Stun: Star Trek TOS | Miri | Dagger of the Mind | The Corbomite Manuever

Phasers Set To Stun: Star Trek TOS | Miri | Dagger of the Mind | The Corbomite Manuever
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Season 7

On Phasers Set To Stun, we recognize the popularity of all things Star Trek, with a look at the television shows, animation, movies, and much more!

We're celebrating 60 years of Star Trek by warping back to the beginning to examine the original series! On this episode, Wayne, David, and Scott look back on three episodes that helped the series take shape; Miri, Dagger of the Mind, and The Corbomite Manuever!

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Space the Final Frontier. Join us for a bold conversation

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our prime directive to recap our favorite Star Trek shows,

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both new and old, to engage in debate about all

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things Trek. Prepare to energize with Phasers Set to Stunt.

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Phasers Set to Stunt,

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where we continue to show our love for everything Star

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Trek in this ongoing series from a film by a

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podcast that explores the expanding Trek universe by covering television, animation, movies, directors, merchandise,

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and so much more. Plotting the course as always as

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your Core Trek crew, I am.

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Scott Hofmanns and I'm Wayne White.

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And we're continuing our journey through the original series during

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the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of Star Trek by

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talking about three more episodes from season one of that

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original series. So let's get right into it by talking

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about episode number eight, Mirie, that originally aired on October

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twenty seventh, nineteen sixty six, directed by Vincent M.

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Mcavedy.

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Is that the right way to say it?

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Mcveedie mcafeity, sure, something like that.

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That's and written by Adrian Spies, So Dave take us

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down to the service of Marie and tell us what

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it's all about.

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Captain Kirk and the Enterprise respond to a mysterious SOS

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that draws them to a world that shouldn't exist, an

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exact duplicate of Earth. But it's only in having is

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our children survivors of a life prolongation experiment gone horribly wrong.

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The virus keeps them young for centuries into a puberty

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trigger's madness and death. When Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Yuman

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Rand beamed down, they contract the same disease and are

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given just seven days to discover a cure before they

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too It's the column, you know, I think we have

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already talked about this. All three of these episodes are

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not the greatest episodes, but I mean they're they're fun,

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they're entertaining, going wrong, but I mean Mayberry has seen

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better days.

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Okay, that's fair.

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I wonder if oh god, yeah.

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There's there's no best Score repair Shop.

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Worth and Barney Worth Indian Barney, because man, that town

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has gone to hell.

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Hey man, it's it's it's the grups that ruined it. Kidding,

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but yeah, this is the start of an interesting trope.

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This other Earth thing that they do where it's Earth

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based or like an Earth like setting that's familiar to

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viewers but alien to the to the crew. So, Wayne,

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what are your thoughts on this kind of this kind

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of trope that kind of starts here?

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Well?

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On that that confuses me to know when I don't.

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I mean, you know, it's obvious from those effect shots

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that it's some sort of like parallel Earth because it

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looks exactly the same. But nowhere in this episode is

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there any explanation for that. Now. I know years later

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they explained it one of the novels, but anyone back

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then had to be watching this and like, what the

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heck's going on here? You know, I just there. I

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just can't brush past, you know, this with with new explanation.

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I don't understand why it's like this. I mean, this

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seems like the obvious thing to explain. It would have

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been easy to do just just to throw away lines saying, hey,

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you know, this must be a parallel world or something

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that evolved similar to Earth, but nothing nothing.

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Subspace disturbance or something like that. Yeah, yeah, everything else

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is exactly the same as Earth.

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Really.

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Now, in that novel they explained it. By the way,

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the novel is called Forgotten History. It's a fantastic book.

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They explained it is a parallel Earth because you know,

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anybody looking out for that book. It's It's still definitely

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worth the read because it explains about the formation of

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the Department of Temporal Investigations and everything that Kirk messed up,

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and this is one of them. But yeah, I just

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can't get past that of this episode. But I do

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like the episode. Don't get me wrong. I think it's

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a rather creepy episode because of all the children, you know,

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but children creepy anyways.

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But the corn it's exactly what it felt like to me.

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This crapy man. Yeah, well especially with that feeling too.

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Yeah, and Michael Pollard as John and everything he's in.

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He's just a crazy weird dude, he really is. I

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mean I remember him as Hermann.

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Scrooged, which I loved him.

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Yeah, exactly, you know, but it's just like as soon

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as you see him and it's like, oh boy, this

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is gonna go weird, and it always does. Now, I

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will say. Kim Darby, who plays Mary I forgot she

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played Maddie and True Grit with John Wayne that's right.

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I didn't realize that I was watching this episode and

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I'm like, where have I seen her before?

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Well, she was in one of the halloweens, wasn't she.

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Yes, yeah, I can't remember which one.

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It wasn't one of the one of the later ones

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on one of the originals. Yeah, I want.

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To say part six. Maybe that sounds right, It could

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be similar that. But yeah, I mean it's a very

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strange episode. But no, I liked it. Don't get me wrong.

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It was entertaining, but yeah, the kids were creepy.

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Yeah, it's not one of the strongest episodes from the

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first season, but it's a memorable one. I will say that.

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Oh yeah, yeah.

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Well, and I think of the of the three is

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the first time viewer. This one is my least favorite,

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and it was. There was just some like the interactions

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between Kirk and Mary. Somebody should have been.

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Like, dude, a little little creepy, what are you doing?

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Little creepy?

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Back off?

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Yeah, yeah, the hell you're doing man?

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Well, especially that last kind of longing look he has

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and that the ending shot right before I was like,

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snap out of it, step out, come on, what are

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you doing?

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I wanted to bump bump hit him pretty much.

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Yeah, yeah, oh, very weird, very weird, but I mean

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well done. I think it was, you know, well paced,

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well written, good performances. Like you mentioned Michael Michael Pollard.

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It's it's hard not to see him as that guy unscooged,

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So it was an interesting callback to see him here.

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But yeah, very Lord of the Flies kind of vibe.

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You're very children with the corn kind of thing.

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Yeah, and it was weird because weren't they like, what

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were they like three hundred years old?

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But yet they were still like kids.

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Yeah, right somewhere okay, but they ate so slowly.

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But if that's the case, like.

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Where is all their food?

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They're almost out of it. I think they came up

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getting it, Like mentioned that they were almost out of food,

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but where were they getting it from?

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I mean like clothing, plumbing, Like.

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So many questions with this episode. It's ridiculus.

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Yeah, then the grubs show up and they're like, how

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do you like me?

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Now?

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You can't flush a toilet? Huh when you're hungry?

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Oh boy.

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Anyway, another interesting one. Yep, let's take our first break

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and when we come back, we'll get into number nine. Okay, listeners,

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welcome back. We're continuing our sixtieth anniversary trek through the

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first season of the original series, and I'll take us

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through the next one. Episode number nine is The Dagger

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of the Mind. It aired on November third, nineteen sixty six.

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This one also directed by Vincent mcavenie and written by

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Adrian Spies. In this episode, an escapee from a maximum

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prison facility sneaks onto Enterprise with a terrifying secret. He's

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one of many people brainwashed by a respected scientist that

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runs the prison. His mind bending technology is seen on

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the surface as a rehabilitation tool, which allows him to

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reshape memories and lead the subject high.

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Open to suggestion.

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Kirk beams down to investigate with doctor Helen Noel, a

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colleague and former love interest. As the two take a

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closer look at the mind tech, Kirk soon's become the

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scientist's latest unwilling subject. That's up to Spock and the

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crew to unravel the mystery of the prison and to

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break through the prison security to save their colleagues before

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they lose their minds and their lives. So, Dave, I

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know we were just talking the behind the scenes here.

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Not your favorite is this fair?

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No, it is not.

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It's just I don't know. It just it didn't sit

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with me right this this whole episode. I felt bored

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to this when believe it or not, you know, about

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three quarters the way through this, I realized I wasn't

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paying too much attention to it. I was doing something else,

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So I had to like bring my attention back to

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the episode. Maybe it was me, maybe it was the

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situation was in. I just wasn't in the mood to

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watch it. I don't know, it's an okay episode. I

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mean I've seen better, clearly, we probably all can admit that,

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but it was it was okay. I don't know. It's

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just sometimes when I'm watching the sixties episodes, it just

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just like want to crack up and just shake my head,

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like really, the whole karate chop to the back of

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the head, knock him out kind of thing. I'm like,

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really again, I mean, it's the sixties, Okay, I get it.

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We got to realize what time period we're going to

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kind of, But her name is doctor Noel? Really, can

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you not come up with a better name. I was

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waiting for her first thing to be Christmas, okay, and

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then and I guess the whole Kirk, you know, wanting

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to date all the women on the Enterprise, I guess,

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or whoever women he comes across, no matter their age, apparently,

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But I don't, I don't know. It just it just

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didn't settle with me, right in this and and then

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the whole Doctor Adams when when they find out what

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he's up to. Yeah, okay, cool, you know, and he

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got what he deserved at the end.

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Yeah, so oh, I'm okay with that.

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I don't know, it just it just wasn't it wasn't

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my thing.

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Sorry there.

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Yeah, I mean it's interesting when you talk about like

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the final fate of doctor Adams. It made me think

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of the there's a G. I. Joe episode with like

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a face swapping device or something like that. Oh, there's

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somebody who's left with it on and there's this like

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horrifying scream that she's just left the blank faceless thing.

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Always good to drop a G I. Joe reference.

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But yeah, doctor Noel didn't seem to be the most

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scientific or professional medical or at all person we've seen there. Yeah,

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Like the first suggestion is you're hungry, okay, great, and

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then he says something a little bit more out there

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so that we know that it that it actually works

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now instead of having him uh break into I'm a

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little teapot short and stout every time she says there

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were Christmas or something. She decides to can talk to

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this elaborate tale of them getting it on in the past,

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And I'm just gonna like, that's a that's a very

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extreme end of that spectrum to go down, Like, I

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don't think it's what he had in mind. It wasn't

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until like change it. So his name is, you know, uh,

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doctor Purple or something like that, like maybe a little less.

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Before wait, before you you give your what you talked

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about this it can we also talk about something else

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that really bothers me in this episode. So we talked

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about an episode already where we're like where the shuttle at?

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Why did they just use the shuttle to go down

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and get them so in this episode, so Spock is

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able to beam right inside. Why didn't Kirk and Noil

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beam right inside.

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At the beginning?

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Right inside in doctor Adam's uh complex, remember they beamed

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outside and they had to go down the elevator. Okay,

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they they lowered the shield so they could beam down

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so it doesn't make any sense.

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But wasn't that was that Kirk and Noel as invited

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guests the first time?

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Yeah? But so what did they beam inside?

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Why didn't have to go through this whole charade of

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an elevator and everything.

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I don't know, because doctor Adams likes drama, I guess.

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Apparently, I don't know.

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Sorry, were good, No, No, I understand, And it was

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actually some behind the scenes thing that made that kind

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of conflicated. It makes no sense. But I'm really surprised

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that both you guys's reaction because I thought this was

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probably one of those underrated episodes from the first season.

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I actually liked it. Of the three episodes we're talking about,

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this is probably my favorite.

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Oh believe.

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And it's just it's because there's no aliens, no space battles.

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It's basically just a psychological thriller, you know. I like that,

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And I think, what's his name, Morgan Woodward. It was fantastic.

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It's a great guest star. He does a wonder wonderful

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uh you know attempt here of you know, with the

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urgency and the tension that this episode builds up. I

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just I just like how unsettled this episode made me

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feel it's just it's it's creepy that the neural nebulized

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or neutralizers is just a very creepy device, and it

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really just raises a lot of questions about you know,

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authority and control of a person's mind. I like that.

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I like these type of psychological episodes of Star Trek

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do It's it's not one of the most famous episodes,

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I admit that, but I still think it's a really

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good example, early example of Star Trek doing good science fiction.

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That's just how I feel. And we can in mind

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meld for the first time too, so you.

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Know, yes, I thought that was kind of interesting to

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learn that they they came up with it as an

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alternative to hypnosis.

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Yeah, I read that, let's try to.

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Like legitimize that as a medical procedure. That's very interesting.

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I had no idea that's where it came from.

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Yeah. Yeah. The reason they went down that Vader David

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is because Roddenberry wanted a brand new matte painting where

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they could beam into that, and the other producer said, no, no,

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that costs too much to save money, so they used

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an old matte painting, but he added the elevator sequence

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for just for the hell of it. It didn't make

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any sense. He just did it because he was upset

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with the other producer making changing is what he.

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Wanted to do a new painting.

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Okay, I do think the standout performance is Doctor van Gelder,

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And I like the way that his character was written

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because at first it seems like he's going to be dangerous,

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he's going to start taking people out, he's going to

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be violent, but he was really just desperate the entire time.

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He had a ref Yeah, yeah, I liked him.

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He was good.

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Yeah, So I think that's that's a good twist on

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that kind of idea. And yeah, I'm really hoping that

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they went ahead and dismantled the device instead of just

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taking it to section thirty one and see how they

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could repla hit it. It also felt like something where

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they needed to do a little bit of a red con.

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Like with all that had been done to Kirk, I

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think he would have probably wanted to say, before you

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unplug this thing, take out the batteries and totally shut

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it down, can you maybe get in there and undo

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whatever had been done? Like I wonder if there was

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any kind of undue procedure probably not for like you know, Ohel.

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That's not how sixties TV works. After your sixty episode

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or sixty minutes of the episode, everything's fine next week exactly.

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McCoy takes out a blue pill and he's like, there

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you go. Yeah, that'll take care of it. Yeah, yeah, Well,

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definitely definitely a very psychological episode.

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Like you said it was.

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I didn't even notice there were any kind of aliens

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to speak of. I hadn't even noticed it until then.

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And nobody does the the the white eye, you know,

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shocked look like doctor vang Geller, like it was all

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like you had to probably stay asleep for a couple

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of weeks just to rest his eyes.

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Don't they have something that would realize that he's in

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that box in the beginning. Wouldn't the Enterprise detect a

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life form me?

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You would think so, since I had like fun, you should.

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Yeah, man, I don't know.

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So he thinks about this episode, just letting things go,

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getting lazy their Enterprise crew.

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Well, hopefully the next one does better with you, Dave. Well,

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let's take a quick break, one last one, and then

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when we come back, we'll talk about the last of

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our trek trifecta Welcome back again, listeners, as we continue

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running through the first season of the original series with

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episode number ten, The corbu Mite Maneuver, first aired November tenth,

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nineteen sixty six, directed by Joseph Sargent and written by

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Jerry Sole Wayne help us to navigate what this episode

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is all about.

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While conducting a star mapping mission, the USS Enterprise encounters

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a mysterious cube and a massive vessel from the First Federation,

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whose commander Baylock threatens to destroy the ship for trespassing

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and destroying a border marker. Captain Kirk bluffs Baylock with

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a fatitious substance called Quortamite, then out maneuvers a smaller

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alien tug that attempts to tow the Enterprise deeper into

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Federation space. After boarding the disabled Dussel, Kurt McCoy and Cruman,

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Lieutenant Bailey discovered that Baylock's frightening appearance was just a

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puppet and the real Baylock, a childlike alien genius, reveals

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the encounter was just a test of the Humanities character

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and invites Bailey to remain as an ambassador. Now I

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like this episode too. You know, this is actually the

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first episode that they filmed right after they filmed where

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no man has gone before. And this is actually the

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first time that Deforce Kelly, Michelle Nichols, and Grace Lee

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Whitney joined the cast, and you can really tell that

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this is out of places. There's a lot of things

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that's going on in this episode. You can see that

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they haven't quite you know, it's not like the rest

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of the series, especially with you know, your her is

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wearing what she wearing gold instead of red. Yeah. Yeah,

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But I like this episode mainly because it does a

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really good job of showing exactly why Kirk makes such

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a great captain. You know, he's everything he does, he

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doesn't panty, he doesn't start shooting. He just kind of

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thinks his way out of the situation. And if it's

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that the whole bluff, it's just it's the best example

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of Star Trek solving a problem with intelligence and diplomacy,

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which is what Star Trek is all is about it.

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They've always they forced that down your throat, so that's

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what Star Trek is rather than just you know, shoot

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him up. It's it's a good episode and and it's

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a great great Kirk episode keeps you guessing all the

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way through you know, I think it's probably one of

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the most memorable from the first season for me. I

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think I've seen it probably one hundred times. They've played

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it so much and and reruns over the years. But

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it's always fun to watch. I enjoy it. Love the ending.

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No, it's I forgot we got Clint Howard this early

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in season one already. I thought he was later on.

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It was really off the bat, and I thought Clint

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Howard was awesome.

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This who we've met Wayne he was, he was, He's awesome.

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We have He's great.

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He's a great guy.

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But No, I like the twist of the ending and

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stuff like that. I like that you don't see the

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Ali into what like the last what ten minutes of

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the episode. And I like that mystery that this episode

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carried because you're you, You're really pulled into the crew

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of the Enterprise. You want to know what's going on.

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Why are they being attacked like this and being threatened

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to be blown up and that kind of thing.

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And you're right.

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I like kirk on how he figures his way.

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Out of this.

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You know, uh, Spock Mintion's chest, but then he comes

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up with poker. You know he's going he's going to

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try to bluff him. U you know he does. He

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does a really good job of that with the corp

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of Mine, and it really showed the talent that Kirk has.

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And why he is the captain of the Enterprise. So

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I thought it was a really good episode.

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Yeah, as a first timer, I'll go ahead and say

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this is one of my favorite episodes of the series

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so far. What stood out to me that there there

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were a couple of one liners from Spock specifically, and

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it to me stood out because the dialogue in the

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banter is super smooth. It's crisp, and it's timing and

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it's full of personality, like we don't quite get Chekhov,

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but the rest of the crew all seemed to be

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gelling together really well. I loved seeing Sulhu in the

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pilot seat and it felt the most familiar to me

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as as far as like the crew that I'm used

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to seeing in the movies. They're the crew Dynamics.

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So yeah, I was.

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I was really impressed with that.

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Something that also surprised me is that the the the

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actor playing Bailey was Anthony call and not the professor

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from Gilligan's Island.

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He looks like I could not shake it.

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I could that be the.

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Time is wrong. No, maybe he's from another earth or

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something like that. But he also did a great job

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in this. It's another first for Spock, first time he

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says his fascinating catchphrase I think right, and I just

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maybe kind of giggle when they were first being pursued

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by the I T C logo from The Muppet Show

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or the Microsoft Windows logo was attacking them, and it just,

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I don't know, it seemed to be it had a

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different kind of discomfort, you know. With with Mary it

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was a little bit of the creepiness of these you know,

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kids that don't age. With deggor the mind, he was

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the psychological level. But with this one, it felt like

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they were kind of caught in a spider's web, like

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it's this uncomfortable, inescapable thing. Aside from the fact that

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that puppet, that puppet scrippy as hell. Yeah, I'm pretty

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convinced that I saw that when I was a kid,

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and I was just like, oh no, no, no, turn

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that way off.

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Well, it's like.

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That if you caught the end credits to every episode

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of Star Trek, you definitely saw it, because you did

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every episode exactly.

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No, how cool was that shot of the bridge from

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high up at the beginning. I was up into the

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air and looked down.

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I wish they'd do that more.

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I know I did too. I thought that was really

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unique shot. And and the fact that this was early on,

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why didn't they do that more?

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You know, I agree, it's true.

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And when you were speaking about Spot, sorry, why didn't

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mean to cut you off when you're speaking about Spot?

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I thought it was hysterical when when mister Baisie Bailey

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was getting upset and I don't read your voice.

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Mister Bailey, whoa man?

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And it was also nice to get a little bit

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of Ted Cassidy back in here Baylox's puppet.

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Yeah, oh, I forgot about that. I forget he was

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that was him? Yeah yeah.

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And like you mentioned, very young Clint Howard, Wow, very

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young who apparently hated the Groupe Juice.

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I also want to, oh, yeah, bring up that if

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if anyone's watching this for the first time, or if

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you haven't seen this in years, watch three mastered version.

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Because the original special effects are rather clunky, the Masters

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did a phenomenal job at putting new visual effects on

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this episode. It's it's much better.

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That was good to know.

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How how weird was it though, when he starts talking

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and it's at a guy's voice and not a kid's voice.

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How weird was that?

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Yeah?

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And it was just the sink was just off enough

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to make him pretty apparent that that was that way.

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But yeah, especially that laugh. That laugh was kind of chilling.

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I know, Okay, whatever.

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Yep, Well, Dally, we've talked about our core three episodes.

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Let's talk about which crew member shine the most, Dave,

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who stands out to you most?

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So I picked on the episode quite a bit, and

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that's obviously the second episode, but I'm gonna go with

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doctor McCoy because he shows like remarkable strength throughout all

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three episodes, but it's in Dagger of the Mine where

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his resolve truly shines. You know, he stands firm in

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defense of doctor Vingelder when no one else will listen,

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refusing to dismiss the man's desperate please even when he

473
00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:34.960
when it puts him at odds with Kirk, McCoy doesn't

474
00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:38.279
back down. His medical instincts, his integrity, and his compassion

475
00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:40.160
drive him to challenge the captain and fight.

476
00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:43.200
For the truth. I really like McCoy.

477
00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:46.720
I mean, I've always been a fan of him, but

478
00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:48.680
the more I watch it now that I'm growing up

479
00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:52.480
and I'm an adult, I look back now and I

480
00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:54.960
just I really love that character and what Theforce Kelly

481
00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:55.920
had really done with it.

482
00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:57.680
And I mean, I know we can all agree with

483
00:24:57.680 --> 00:24:58.960
that now looking in hindsight.

484
00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:02.039
Yeah, but I mean when you think about it, I

485
00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:04.359
think we kind of mentioned about doctor McCoy. I don't know,

486
00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:06.480
was the last episode of the episode before that on

487
00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:09.960
how much doctor McCoy shined, And here here he's doing

488
00:25:09.960 --> 00:25:15.440
it again. I just never realized what he brought to

489
00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:17.079
the Enterprise and brought to the show. I mean, I

490
00:25:17.079 --> 00:25:19.119
guess I should recognize that more since I've seen the

491
00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:21.200
movies and stuff like that. But going back and revisiting this,

492
00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:24.480
it really you really see.

493
00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:25.359
That or is it just me?

494
00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:28.079
No, it's it's right, It's true.

495
00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:31.720
Yeah, I think it's fair. I mean when I was younger,

496
00:25:31.799 --> 00:25:33.119
I used to see him as just kind of this

497
00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:34.759
like grumpy curmudgeon.

498
00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:36.720
Yeah, exactly right, But.

499
00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:38.720
Now you kind of see the practicality he has that

500
00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:40.880
kind of I mean, it's going to be kind of

501
00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:44.160
a weird comparison. To Hans So though, but the person

502
00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:46.240
that's kind of taken the series down a peg and

503
00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:48.920
kind of looking at it from a practical point of view,

504
00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:53.240
a little bit of cynicism. I don't know. I think

505
00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:56.440
I think it's really necessary for the for the dynamic. Yeah,

506
00:25:56.559 --> 00:25:59.200
it is, well, Wayne, who did you choose who showed

507
00:25:59.240 --> 00:25:59.599
the most?

508
00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:02.319
Well? You know, it was hard to choose because each

509
00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:05.599
episode a different person shining. But like I mentioned before,

510
00:26:05.799 --> 00:26:08.759
I'm going to choose Captain Kirk because of the way

511
00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:11.759
he handled and treated that problem in the Corbinine maneuver.

512
00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:14.359
I just have to give it to him. I mean,

513
00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:18.039
the entire episode of Alves abound his ability to remain

514
00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:23.880
calm under pressure, weigh difficult decisions, and ultimately he outthought

515
00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:28.920
his opponent, which is what makes a good captain. It's

516
00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:31.799
just one of the defining moments of that character in

517
00:26:31.839 --> 00:26:34.839
my opinion. It's not just you know, he doesn't have

518
00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:39.119
it's not aggression. He's creative, he's confident as captain. But

519
00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:43.519
because if someone wants a single episode that demonstrates why

520
00:26:43.640 --> 00:26:47.160
Kirk is the best captain, why he is so famous

521
00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:49.720
in Starfleet, that's the one, and so that's why I

522
00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:50.720
chose him.

523
00:26:50.839 --> 00:26:53.000
Yeah, it's good really about you, Scott.

524
00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:57.200
Well, for me, it's Szulu in the Corpora Light maneuver.

525
00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:02.519
Not only for his piloting skills, you know, staying cool

526
00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:04.519
under pressure, because like I said before, it was a

527
00:27:04.599 --> 00:27:07.680
very uncomfortable kind of scenario wherever you fly there there

528
00:27:07.680 --> 00:27:11.799
are but more for his support of his co pilot.

529
00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:16.359
Bailey does those several instances where he'd you know, kind

530
00:27:16.359 --> 00:27:17.960
of nudge him or kind of reach over and hit

531
00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:22.599
the controls for him. Very supportive bridge member, and I

532
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:25.480
just thought that was a good thing to see, aside

533
00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:27.519
from the fact that I just, you know, hope you

534
00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:30.039
get some some time off after.

535
00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:32.799
This, because he definitely don to just paycheck. Yeah.

536
00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:36.160
Well, if you could be anyone in these three episodes, Wayne,

537
00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:36.759
who would.

538
00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:39.720
It be again? I think I'm gonna choose Captain Kirk Guy.

539
00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:41.240
He just seems to do well in all three of

540
00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:44.599
these episodes. He's in top form. He faces all his

541
00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:47.400
problems and overcomes them, and he just seems to come

542
00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:50.400
out of the episodes, out of the situations better than before.

543
00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:54.279
Just really shows why the Enterprise is the best in

544
00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:57.559
the fleet, the one that everyone remembers still talks about

545
00:27:57.559 --> 00:28:00.720
centuries later and what you know, I'm not usually a

546
00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:03.240
command type person. I just wouldn't mind being in his

547
00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:05.680
boots for those three adventures. So he seemed like a

548
00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:07.319
lot of fun, a lot of a lot of interesting

549
00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:08.440
stuff happening.

550
00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:12.920
Well except for the mind being device yet.

551
00:28:13.640 --> 00:28:15.720
Yeah, but he came out of that episode better in

552
00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:19.119
my opinion. You know, he learnt something, so you know,

553
00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:21.359
why not, Dave?

554
00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:22.000
What about you?

555
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:24.920
So I'm gonna I'm gonna pull a cart like Wayne

556
00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:27.200
does from time to time. Here I'm going with Baylock.

557
00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:32.480
Oh my god, yeah, you know, because come on, man

558
00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:34.839
all by himself. I mean, yeah, he looks like a kid,

559
00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:37.519
but he's still not uh and he was able to,

560
00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:41.039
you know, go against the Enterprise like he did, and

561
00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:44.680
you know, almost destroyed the Enterprise for crying out loud

562
00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:46.400
and then turns out to be he's just really cool

563
00:28:46.440 --> 00:28:49.200
alien who just wants to have some fun, you know.

564
00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:52.480
So I would love to be that character.

565
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:52.839
Just for that.

566
00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:55.160
But you got to drink that juice. I don't know.

567
00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:56.400
I don't know if I could drink that juice or not.

568
00:28:57.039 --> 00:28:59.240
Maybe the window, Yeah, I don't think. I don't think

569
00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:01.160
i'd want to be Bailt like I'd always be hitting

570
00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:02.119
the frames.

571
00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:05.240
Yeah.

572
00:29:05.240 --> 00:29:08.519
For me, it was Sulu again, just because it seems like,

573
00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:11.279
even though it was a high stakes situation, there's a

574
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:14.759
lot of pressure. It put his spilot, his piloting skills

575
00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:16.440
to the test, and it seems like he would have had.

576
00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:16.960
A lot of fun with that.

577
00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:20.759
So I'll be Sulu, who's comfortably behind the chair and

578
00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:25.839
not you know, in the room with that puppet. All right, well,

579
00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:29.920
let's move on to our phaser facts before we go

580
00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:32.519
to Wayne Dave. Anything you going to share?

581
00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:35.160
Just a couple of things.

582
00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:37.400
I know, the girl that held with held Kirk as

583
00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:39.240
he rushes into the lab with his daughter.

584
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:40.680
His men were daughter.

585
00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:47.480
Actually in the episode of the Merry episode, Uh, it

586
00:29:47.559 --> 00:29:49.759
was one of the few episodes where no Red Shirts

587
00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:50.519
get killed.

588
00:29:50.359 --> 00:29:53.039
By the way, Oh, I never noticed that, you're right.

589
00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:56.880
And then during the filming of Dagger of the Mind,

590
00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:59.559
that's when WILLIAMS. Shattner was pulled away from soundstage and

591
00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:02.480
went record the studio where he did in two takes

592
00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:05.240
the famous where Newman has gone before monologue.

593
00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:12.839
Oh wow, interesting, yep.

594
00:30:09.640 --> 00:30:11.880
That Wayne, What else do you have for us?

595
00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:12.319
Oh?

596
00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:15.000
I got that a little bit. But let's of course

597
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:19.240
start talking about the directors. The director both Mary and Dagger,

598
00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:22.400
the mine which is Vincent mcgividy. Well, he was a

599
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:25.440
very prolific director on television, worked on The Man from

600
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:28.559
Uncle Murder. She wrote Magnum p I. He was one

601
00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:31.359
of the producers of Colombo and even directed the on

602
00:30:31.559 --> 00:30:35.279
used pilot for the seventies Wonder Woman TV series. But

603
00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:38.799
he was best known as a Disney director. He directed

604
00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:42.119
The Million Dollar Duck and Herbie Goes Bananas. The Watcher

605
00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:44.720
in the Woods is another one that he directed. Now

606
00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:48.480
the director of the Corbinet maneuver, Just the Sergeant was

607
00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:51.039
a four time Emmy Award winner and directed episodes of

608
00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:55.079
Gun Smoke, Bonanza, and The Invaders. But he directed many films.

609
00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:59.839
Some of them included Colossus, The Four Bid Project, which

610
00:30:59.880 --> 00:31:02.160
was used as an episode of Mystery Science Theater during

611
00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:05.440
this night season in a really good episode watch at Hilarios.

612
00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:08.319
But he also directed Jaws, The Revenge, which won him

613
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:12.759
a Rousie Award, and the biopic of MacArthur, which has

614
00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:17.039
an amazing Jerry Goldsmith's score. Another good film, long one,

615
00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:22.440
but good film. Oh what about the writers? Okay, first off.

616
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.279
We had Adrian Spies who wrote Mary. This is the

617
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:28.680
only episode of Star Trek that he ever wrote, but

618
00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:30.680
he did write for a lot of other TV series

619
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:34.000
like Wagon Trained, Doctor Kildair, Hawaii fi O, T J. Hooker,

620
00:31:35.039 --> 00:31:38.640
the writer of Dagger the Mind Shiman Winstelberg is one

621
00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:42.000
of the very few rare writers that also worked on

622
00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:45.640
the Irwin Allen TV series. He wrote episodes of The

623
00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:47.279
Time Tunnel, which is the botto of the Sea, and

624
00:31:47.319 --> 00:31:49.880
he wrote both pilots and the first five episodes of

625
00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:53.880
Lost in Space. He would also contribute a script to

626
00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:56.799
the never produced Star Trek Phase two series in the

627
00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:01.240
later seventies called Lord Bobby's Session. It's an interesting script.

628
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:04.599
He also wrote for Combat, another show that I love,

629
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:08.119
and then the writer of the Corbinet Maneuver, Jerry Soul,

630
00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:11.839
worked heavily on television. He wrote a lot of Twilight

631
00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:13.960
Zone and The Outer Limits and The Invaders, but he

632
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:17.319
was mostly a novelist. They wrote twenty twenty novels in

633
00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:21.200
his lifetime. Now. The name of the planet in Miry

634
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:24.720
was never named in the episode, or in fact, it

635
00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:28.079
wasn't even named until twenty twenty, when the planet was

636
00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:32.799
identified on a star chart is being called Mary in

637
00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:35.759
the second episode of the first season of Star Trek Picard.

638
00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:39.880
The episode Mary is the only episode in which Yoman

639
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:42.480
janis Ran actually gets to leave the Enterprise on any

640
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:45.440
away mission. That's a pity, super she didn't get to

641
00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:45.839
do more.

642
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:46.559
Yeah, no kidding.

643
00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:50.920
Yeah. Now there's a mention to the Christmas party being

644
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:53.480
held in the Science Lab in the episode Daggers of

645
00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:56.079
the Mine. That is really rare for Star Trek to

646
00:32:56.119 --> 00:32:59.279
mention the holidays, and Christmas wouldn't be brought up again

647
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:04.279
in any of the series until Star Trek Generations and now. Yeah,

648
00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:06.440
I don't know why they don't. They just don't talk

649
00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:09.920
about holidays ever. Now Spock tells doctor McCoy that he

650
00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:13.799
never used a mind meld on a human before. Well,

651
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:16.960
Vulcans definitely do, lie because we've seen him do it

652
00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:21.480
three times so far on Strange New Worlds and yep,

653
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:24.559
the Corbonite Maneuver is also the first time we ever

654
00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:29.640
see the Enterprise fires phasers. We also mentioned the drink

655
00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:33.920
that Baylock gives Kirk that was actually grapefruit juice. Clint

656
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:37.079
Howard hated greate fruit juice and he had a hard

657
00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:39.799
time having to smile and actually like it. Clint, I

658
00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:46.079
don't blame you so do I disgusting now. In the

659
00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:50.240
original version of the Corbonite maneuver, when Sulu announces that

660
00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:53.079
they have one minute left, the camera then shows a

661
00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:55.960
shot of the clock which starts counting down from two minutes.

662
00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:01.160
A little bit of continuity era, but once again, I said,

663
00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:04.359
watch the remastered version. They fixed that with this one.

664
00:34:06.319 --> 00:34:10.119
Yeah Mary was one of the one of four episodes

665
00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:13.280
of the original series that the BBC chose to ban

666
00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:16.880
and refuse to air in England for decades due to

667
00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:21.599
and I quote the unpleasant subjects of madness, torture, sadism

668
00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:24.920
and disease. This ban would be lifted finally in the

669
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:28.079
nineteen nineties when England would first see these these four

670
00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:33.880
episodes and finally, Yeah Dagger the mine was even parodied

671
00:34:33.880 --> 00:34:36.159
on an episode of South Park during its second season.

672
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:39.719
The creators of the series based an entire plot of

673
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:43.119
it on this episode of Star Trek. If you're looking

674
00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:46.039
for the episodes titled Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the

675
00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:53.840
Fatty Foods slightly different title Yeah, which had nothing to

676
00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:55.880
do with the episode. By the way, they like said,

677
00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:58.719
the episode is based on this story. They just were

678
00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:06.119
ticked off at Rodger Ebert decided to Yeah, yeah.

679
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:07.760
That's fun. Well thanks Wayne.

680
00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:11.719
Guys, it's hard to believe that WORL only ten episodes

681
00:35:11.719 --> 00:35:14.480
into the series. I know there is so much more

682
00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:14.920
to go.

683
00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:17.280
But it is along back then, buddy, they were long.

684
00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:21.679
Yeah, it's crazy.

685
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:22.679
Well, I'm looking forward to.

686
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:24.639
The next set.

687
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:26.079
Well, thank you, Dave and Wayne.

688
00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:30.679
Yeah, I always on this trek. Yeah, it's nice revisiting

689
00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:32.840
these old episodes. Some of them I haven't seen in decades.

690
00:35:33.719 --> 00:35:36.159
I feel like I'm finally checking off like a bucket

691
00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:37.920
list of TV shows that I can say, all right,

692
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:39.480
I've watched some of these. I don't have to watch

693
00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:44.880
Maria ever again. But and thank you listeners for joining

694
00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:47.840
us again. What do you think of the original series

695
00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:50.360
as we start to talk through it? Anything you would

696
00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:52.679
change anything that we were saying that changes how you

697
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:55.599
watch it? And what are you doing to celebrate the

698
00:35:55.639 --> 00:35:59.039
sixtieth anniversary? Let us know and remember to check us

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701
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704
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705
00:36:17.800 --> 00:36:20.199
Like I said, it's been a pleasure as always talking

706
00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:22.920
with you about our love for a trek. For all

707
00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:24.760
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709
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710
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711
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Set to stunt Bump bump, hit him, Bump Pump