June 3, 2026

Phasers Set To Stun: Star Trek TOS | The Man Trap | Charlie X | The Naked Time

Phasers Set To Stun: Star Trek TOS | The Man Trap | Charlie X | The Naked Time
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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; The Man Trap, Charlie X, and The Naked Time.

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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 and debate about all

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

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Welcome back to an all new episode of Phaser Set

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to Stun, where we continue to show our love for

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everything Star Trek in this ongoing series from a film

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by podcast which focuses on every system of the expanding

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Star Trek universe by covering television, movies, animation, directors, merchandise,

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and much much more. Plotting course on this voyage is

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your Core Trek crew. I'm Wayne Whiten, I'm David.

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Byrne, and I'm Scot Hoffin.

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And we're celebrating the upcoming sixtieth anniversary of our favorite

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series by continuing our trek into the nineteen sixties with

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not one, but three episodes from the first season of

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Star Trek, the original series, as we return to take

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a closer look at each episode in their canonical order.

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In the last two episodes of Phasers, we explored and

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examined both the first and second pilots for the series,

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and now we're finally getting into the run of the

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series with the first three regular episodes for season. Trekkies

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out there, just sit back and relax and enjoy our

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banter as we look at which episodes stand the ten

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past time and remain important. I would suggest you were

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but a paramount plus first and take a look at

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the episodes, then come back here and join us for

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this discussion. Our first episode of the night is The

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Man Trap, which was written by George Clayton Johnson, directed

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by Mark dan Ms and originally aired on September eighth,

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nineteen sixty six. David, why don't you give us the

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short summary of this episode?

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The Enterprise arrives at planet M one one three to

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conduct routine medical exams on archaeologist doctor Crator and his

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wife Nancy wants the lost love of doctor McCoy. But

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what begins as a simple is it quickly turns deadly

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as crewmembers start turning up mysteriously drained of life. With

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tensions rising in the body count growing, Kirk and his

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officers must unravel the truth behind the killings and confront

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the shape shifting minutes hiding in plain sight.

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All right, so let's just let's just get into it.

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What did we think about this episode? I mean, this

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is the first time we finally see our crew together,

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so what do you think.

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I mean, it's Star Trek already at its best in

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my opinion. You know, I'm already getting pulled into it,

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and I can see why they chose this to be

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the first episode over the pilot. You know, I definitely

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can see that. But it was nice to have to

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Seejora McCoy on the screen and here Ricoy finally say

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he's dead Jim. That can happen pretty quick in.

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This that's true. Yeah, it felt like it was taking

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a step further from kind of Twilight Zone kind of

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format with the is it the Salt Vampire? Yeah, yeah,

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a little bit more of like a sci fi monster

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kind of motif. Still kind of a head trippy kind

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of mystery in this one, but yeah, it seems like

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people are jelling together pretty well. There was one aspect

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that kind of felt confusing to me, and I don't

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know if maybe I was so I'm the first timer

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in this crew. When they first meet her, it seems

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like they're all so it's several guys standing around in

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the same room and to one person, she's Nancy to

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somebody else, she's somebody completely different. But are they all

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observing her at the same time.

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Yeah, they're just seeing a different female.

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That's it. She's getting into their mining.

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Okay, yeah, that's what was confusing me. I thought she

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was literally like shape shifting into the person. That's kind

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of like a mirror to what the person was thinking.

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But it's more like she's doing like a perception filter

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kind of thing.

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Correct, Yes, Okay, yeah, that makes a lot of I

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can see your confusion though, because it does come across

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It comes across on screens as a sort of a

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shape shifting type of thing. But it's supposed to be bad.

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It's supposed to be more of a mental perception thing.

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Okay, yeah, I know that they describe her at one

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point as a shape shifter, and I was like, but

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wait a second, that doesn't.

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No, it doesn't. And how about Spock being in the

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crop out of Nancy.

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She's oh man, Yeah, I mean I'm glad that we

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we finally now got that familiar Star Trek feel that

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that well, you know, really know and love. I mean,

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this this is a really, really good episode that it's

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probably one of my favorites of the first season. Definitely

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probably in my top twenty of the entire series. But

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you know, we have everybody here, but the most notable

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in is doctor McCoy. I mean, this is a great

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character piece for him right off the starts. I mean, no, ya,

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you know here we get a bit of a backstory

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right off, and then you know, it's very emotional because

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you know, the creature takes the form of you know,

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an old lover of his and he has to struggle

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with his emotions as well as you know, his his

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duty to Kirk in the enterprise. You know, all the

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three leads are in character here. You know, there's that

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that that familiar chemistry right off, right off the start,

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which kind of surprised me because I haven't seen this

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episode in probably oh gosh, two decades maybe, so I

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had to refresh myself. And it's it's interesting how such

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early state that they really do feel like their characters

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that you know, we knew over the years.

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Yeah, it's that comfortability, right, you feel you're at home

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with these characters and not seeing the theory is and

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so long, like why this already? I take up on

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things really quickie games, Oh, I remember this episode. There

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are still a few. I know we're gonna come up

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with it. I don't remember too well, but these earlier episodes.

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I forgot that all of these were piled on top

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of one another in season one, like I thought, like

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when I remember these episodes, they were scattered throughout the

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three seasons, but like, oh man, these are on top

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of one another. Okay, I guess I remember season one

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a lot better than I thought I did.

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Well, it might be like me too, these earlier episodes.

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It seems like like back in the eighties when we

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were watching it, they showed these more than they showed

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into the other ones. It seems like they were playing

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these like once a month or so. Maybe I remember, Yeah,

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these three episodes that we're talking about. I think I

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remember these three episodes more than any of the other

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ones from the season because I've seen them so many times.

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Yeah, that makes perfect sense, And that's probably the case,

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kind of like it with the PBS playing the same

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doctor who episodes over and over and over and over,

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so you would get the same the same episodes.

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Yeah, I get it exactly.

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Yeah, Yeah, that's probably why I thought that when my

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brother was watching The Doctor who like I would come

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into the room and I feel like the episodes were

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lasting forever. I was like, you've been watching this episode

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for like weeks.

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Our producer jeffand we'd agree with you on that. Probably

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to them.

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True now that this is this is a really good episode.

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Like you said, David, I can understand why they chose

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this as the start of the series rather than a

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few other ones. And they had their there had good reasons.

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It was very simple. Yep. But yep, good good start,

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good start, good characters.

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Yep. I agree.

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All right, So let's well, let's take a short break

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here right now, and then we'll get back with you

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to our second episode. Our second episode for tonight is

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Charlie X and this is written by Gene Roddenberry and

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Dc Fontana, directed by Lawrence Dubkin, and originally aired on

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September fifteenth, nineteen sixty six. Scott, you go ahead and

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give us your summary.

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A teenager who barely understand and how to live in

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his own world has reality shaping abilities that threaten the enterprise.

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Kirk and crew have to choose between helping him adapt

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and grow, or saving themselves and others from the power

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of Charlie X. That's about its short as the synopsis

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have ever done exactly. I thought it was a really

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interesting episode, but it seemed to have a lot of

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similarities to one of the previous episodes that we had

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talked about, right with the reality shaping aspect.

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Oh where no Man is going before? Yeah? Yeah, right, yeah, yeah.

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I was kind of waiting for the tinfoil contact lenses

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to come back. But as a first time where I

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thought it was interesting to watch the main character very

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early in it. They you get the sense that people

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are very uncomfortable around him and how awkward he is,

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and it was just kind of interesting what to it today.

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Like in the past, it may have seemed like, Oh,

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he's this super awkward kid, he's super weird, but now

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it kind of seems like he has I don't know,

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maybe that there are some other kind of issues going

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on with him. Aside from the fact that I think

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they had said her I got the impression that it

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was like he was kind of discovered and it taught

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himself how to speak and things like that.

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Is that right, Yeah, So I think that's what they

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were trying to get at.

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But kind of an awkward episode honestly.

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It it is. I mean, it's still entertaining. I still

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liked it, but I never realized and maybe I just

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wasn't paying too much attention, but I never realized how

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many times Kirk beats Spock at chess, because I remember

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he won was it in the cage or was it

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where no man goes before? I've got him mixed.

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Up where no man is going to be and then

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he wins here too.

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So I was like, wow, I guess Spock sucks at

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Jess and Kirka just keeps winning.

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Although in this one it seemed like Spot was kind

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of underestimating him he was and kind of giving him an.

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Open for it. Yeah, I don't know, maybe he lets

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him win.

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I don't know.

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That's why they played chess so much, because Spock just

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has a chip on his shoulder. He's like, I'm gonna

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beach at this time.

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I know it.

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I so sorry for Janis yeah episode. Oh I know, Janie, Yeah, yeah.

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I always found this this episode interesting. You know, I'm

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not going to say it's one of my favorites. This

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is that one episode that when it would air, when

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I turned the TV on and be on like, oh

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it's it's that episode having Yeah, yeah, but now you

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know it's it's been years and now that I've watched

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it again, you know this it really just has some

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interesting concepts. You know, it's there are some things in

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here that do stand out. It's not nearly as bad

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what I remembered. It's a very dark episode to be hones.

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I mean, you know, it's got a villain that's not

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really as clear cut as as most of the time.

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You know, you know, there's some pretty horrific things that happen.

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Is you know, they make the when he makes the

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crewman disappear, you know, like when he removes that woman's face,

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and you know, just making other people obey him. It's

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it's kind of terrifying because you know, Charlie's acting like

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an angry child but with unlimited power, and that's rather frightening.

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We've seen that. You know, it always reminded me of

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that episode with the Twilight Zone with Billy Moomey and

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it's where he's got all those powers and he's wishing

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him into the cornfield. Remember a lot of that that

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and you know how everyone is frightened around him because

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he he's very dangerous, very dangerous character that can't control

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his powers very well. But then on the flip side,

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he's also a very tragic character too. So I have

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a new appreciation for this episode. It's not nearly as

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bad as what I remember as being Oh it's that

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episode again.

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You know, this makes me realize. And I think we've

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discussed this before mid or maybe we did. Maybe we

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talked off Mike about it when we talked about the

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difference between Picard and Kirk. You know, Kirk is the

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guy who'll go in and fight, and Picard's more of

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the diplomat right in this situation at the end, you know,

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I like to think Picard would have probably fault for

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this kid at the end, Kirk is like Deuces, Buddy, Deuce's.

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Yeah, you're right. Yeah, yeah. It does give a lot

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of Q vibes off here again we mentioned that on

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on with Gary Mitchell, and here once again we get

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the the feeling a c So, yeah, I could see

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Picard bad in for Rhim.

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this one. Look what he did and look what he's

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going to do. I mean, I don't care what he

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pleads or what he does, saying that he's you know,

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won't do it again. Oh booll crap, you will too,

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you know, And Kirk saw that. Sorry, I'm not taking

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that chance with his crew or this ship or who

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knows if he gets somewhere else, and that's where he

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was going to. Was it a planet space station where

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a lot more people were at I mean, it would

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be limitless for him at that point. So you know,

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I'm with Kirk on this one.

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Well, I mean he destroyed that ship. Yeah, he destroyed

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that ship and killed everybody on there. I don't blame

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Kirk one bit about wanting to get rid of him.

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He's two dangerous.

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Well, there was a lot of like, you know, kind

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of passing the buck, right, Like the two that drop

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him off, they're like, good luck with this kid, everything's fine.

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Just don't look him in the eye or make him mad. Okay,

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bye the god. So they kept doing that like he Yeah,

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I don't I don't think, not necessarily any kind of malice,

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just with misunderstanding. He wouldn't have been able to know,

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you know, something inevitably would have made him very upset.

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And then what kind of you know, damage would he

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do with those powers? If anything, I would think that

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the you know, great wobbly green face would either have

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to strip him of his powers and allow him to

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kind of like mature and grow and get some emotional

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maturity before giving back his natural state, or take him

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back with them and let them help him mature in

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a safer space or less of a space that's kind

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of prone and to destruction. But I didn't think it

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was nicely the way that they ended that, with that

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very kind of solemn pan out to kind of let

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the weight of the decision kind of sit with the

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viewer knowing that they wouldn't get into the rest of it.

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Okay, I like that. I did think that that was

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a good ending for the episode. And our final episode

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for this evening is The Naked Time and this was

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written by John D. F Black, directed by Mark Daniels

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again and originally aired on September twenty ninth, nineteen sixty six.

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And I will give you the summary on this one.

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The USS Enterprise arrives on a doomed planet, SiGe two

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thousand to rescue a research team, but a strange contaminant

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in the planet's water infects the crew, causing reckless and

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irrational behavior that spreads rapidly through touch As chaos overtakes

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the ship and the Enterprise is pulled towards destruction in

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the planet's atmosphere. Captain Kirk, mister Spock, doctor McCoy, and

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Chief Engineer Scott struggle to regain control when McCoy develops

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a cure for the infection. Now, this is probably the

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most memorable episode that for me, that I remember the most,

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and that's really has stanned the test of time. I

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know this is considered on a lot of people's lists

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as they're one of their top ten episodes, including Gene

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Rodberry himself. But this this episode gives the chance for

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the cast to really shake it up, you know, to

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be kind of as outrageous as as they can be.

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You know. I love the fact that they're just you know,

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playing playing drunk on a lot of it's just it's

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a fun episode. But in my opinion of all of it,

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I think Spock gets some of the best bits, you know,

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really the way it to you know what weakens his

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his emotional barrier. All those suppressed feelings come out because

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his breakthrough in the briefing room, you know, where he

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admits that he's you know, lonely. It has always been

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one of my favorite moments in the first season. Definitely

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one of the most memorable Spock moments for me in

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the series.

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Yeah, this is this is one of those classic episodes

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of Star Trek that anybody who has seen the original

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series will immediately recognize this at least, you know, Suela

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coming out with the sword shirtless. Yeah, you know, everybody

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knows that scene and knows what episode that's from. Again. Yeah,

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so again, you're going back to that classic Trek already,

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and we're only four episodes into the season for crying

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out Loud, So it's like, man, they're already you know,

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setting that standard or Star Trek. I mean back then

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you didn't realize it, but today you do. So you're

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already seeing a lot of that in Scott, getting to

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see him, you know, in his prime right here. You know,

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you're already going to see him coming to the rescue

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of the ship and the crew and having that pressure

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put on him, you know, to get it fixed or

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get it done before it's too late. So we're already

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getting to see that here with him. So the crew

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is already starting to find their groove, find their spots

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that we all know today. So yeah, I really like

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this episode. And I know within the next generation is

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the Naked now, which is kind of and you know,

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this episode basically, but the seeing them is drunk is

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hysterical for one thing, because you know, overacting at times,

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but hey, it's okay, it's the sixties. What do you expect?

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Oh yeah, you know, but there are some things in

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this episode like what a bowling alley? What? So if

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I had to turn my head on that one a

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little bit. But getting to see Nurse Chapel, you know,

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Michelle Barrett finally joining the crew, very excited about that

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because how much we turned the cage. Granted she's playing

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a different character obviously, Nurse Chapel, but getting to see

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that character, you know, come to the show is very

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exciting and already getting to see that spark between her

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and Spock, so you know, that was kind of interesting,

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you know. So overall I love this episode.

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As the resident first timer who was seeing this after

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seeing Strange New Worlds. That Spock Nurse Chapel dynamic was

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particularly interesting to see and you can see how that

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that's kind of the DNA for what we would be

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seeing there. I thought she had a great performance in

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this one. I thought George DeKay seemed like he was

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having the most fun on set. He's certainly the best

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in shape. Sorry literally William Shatner, but like when you

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compare the two, you know, shirtless scenes, he's he's buff man.

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Although apparently as much as he's in defensing, he doesn't

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know how to analot. Like I preshed himself on the

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point end, it was like, yeah, it's a foil, so

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use it all the time. You didn't show that's okay,

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but yeah it was. It was a lot of great

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dramatic ring from uh Lendon Memoy. I love the fact

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that it brings out his conflicted nature, and I think

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it's great that they're doing that early, because otherwise it

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would make him seem like he doesn't have emotion, that

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he's very robotic, that he's very closed off. But seeing

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the conflict really come out here, I think was a

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was a great choice.

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Another think I'd like to with with the when it

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gets on your scan, how people are trying to wipe

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it off and you get that what is it like

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a rattlesnake sound or whatever the hell that that sound.

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That they use that weird sound.

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Yeah, that really weird sound, but it's just it was

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really unique. I like that and getting to see doctor

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McCoy come to the rescue too. And here's one thing,

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one point I want to make here. So when Doctor

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McCoy got recasted for the JJ Abrams stuff, I don't

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know about you guys, but I threw I was not

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very excited about seeing a new doctor McCoy because I

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knew nobody, nobody could equal to fourth Kelly, no matter

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who it was. But I'm glad I was wrong because

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Carl Urban was perfect as doctor McCoy. And the reason

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I'm bringing this up is because when you're watching this episode,

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I'm telling you what, you could put Carl Urban in

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that spot as doctor McCoy and you could not tell

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the difference. You could not.

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Yeah, because he did that.

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That's a good job.

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Yeah he did. Yeah. Yeah. You know it's funny that

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you also brought up when you brought up the the

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Abrams series. This is something I never realized is in

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these early episodes, you notice how flirty, uh, your hero

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was with Spock, and a few few of the scenes,

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you know that that was really taken off there in

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the Abrams films, but I never realized I had an

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origin right here and in these early episodes forgot about that.

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I didn't either. Yeah, you're right watching the Jay Brims,

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so you're like, what what's going on here? This? This

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isn't right, this is this is not Star Trek. Then

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you watch this. Oh wait a minute, I stand corrected.

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Episode four. Yeah, all right, anything else to talk about

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in about these three episodes before we move on.

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I do just thinking when Dave you brought up the

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Naked Now, the kind of the parallels to this, Like

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we didn't even cover Naked Now when we went through

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the starter tracks because we were.

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Like, well, there was a reason we didn't like that.

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But it's just kind of interesting.

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It almost makes me want to go watch that episode

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to see like, well, what did they get wrong there?

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But then I remember, yeah, oh no, don't do it, Scott,

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don't do.

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No, don't do it. Just remember it's the data gets

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late episode.

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So yep, great, now Jeff's gonna go watch it.

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Oh. On that note, we're going to take another short

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break so you can marinate in those images and we'll

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be back right after these messages. All right, we're back,

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and now that we've given our opinions on the three,

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let's take a look at the characters themselves. Which characters

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do you think shine the most in these episodes? Scott,

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you start off.

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I would say, going back to what I was just saying,

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Spock in the Naked Time, I think shine the most,

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not only in his you know, the struggles is he

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come out, but his you know the fact that he's

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able to keep somewhat of a grip and try and

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kind of collect himself and get his composure to be

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able to help the ship. When he sees Kirk start

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to go out of control, it kind of doubles his resolve.

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So I think it's a lot of interesting aspects of

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his character.

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Dave, what don't you no?

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I'm with young this. I wasn't sure until I got

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to this episode of The Naked Time, I don't know

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who I'm gonna pick. But then once I saw what

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Leonard Nimoy does, you know, with with the weeping and

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all that stuff, which apparently was him he came up

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with that that was not in the script. That made

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me have much more respect for not only Leonard Nimoy,

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but for the Spock character as well. And you know,

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getting to see him in the other episodes is what

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a strong character he is and the lack of emotions

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that she should have, but how the friendship of him

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and Kirk are just continuing to develop throughout, you know,

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so quickly in this series. But Spock really is the

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one that everybody leans on. He really is, and getting

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to see him in this episode be showing that emotional

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side of himself that you don't get to see yet. Granted,

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you know, again this is only the fourth episode of

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Star Trek, but you know, getting to see that side

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of Spock is just always amazes me, even going back

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and rewatching again knowing his character, you know, having seen

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him in all three seasons and all the movie, all

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that stuff, getting to feed that development of his character

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getting stronger and stronger. But Lennonimoy's performance and with spectacular

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what about.

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You, Wayne, Yeah, I mean it was a toss up

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between Spock and McCoy and Kirk, and but I'm gonna

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go with the new kid on the block, doctor McCoy,

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because right from the start he feels like a fully

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developed character, which it really surprises me, like he's been

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there all the time, you know, in the Man trap

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he has. He has the weight of everyone's life on

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his hands, you knows, having that emotional connection he has

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with the carters and all the danger that he's facing,

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you know, but he's thinking of the safety of the

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crew and all the human lives involved. And then in

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Charlie X. You know, all the other crews are frightened

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at Charlie, but he sees the boy in his fragile

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emotional state and he really feels compassioned for him and

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tries to understand them rather than just you know, condemning

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00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:56.759
him like the other you know, members of the crew are.

470
00:24:57.279 --> 00:24:59.079
And then you got in the naked time. You know,

471
00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:03.240
he's got an other dangerous problem to deal with. This

472
00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:06.680
one's pretty straightforward though in affection. It tries him physically

473
00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:08.920
and emotionally, but he's the first one to realize that,

474
00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:13.000
you know, there is something obviously affecting the crew, and

475
00:25:13.079 --> 00:25:16.519
of course he works his magic to overcome it. Three episodes,

476
00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.599
he's quickly become like the final piece of that try

477
00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:23.599
at the kirk Spock McCoy, I love him. I mean

478
00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:27.119
we've love him right from the beginning, Doctor McCoy for me,

479
00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:30.680
good choice, all right, if you had any choice to

480
00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:33.440
be any of these characters that appeared in the three episodes,

481
00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:36.839
which one would it be and why, David, I'm.

482
00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:39.359
Going to go with Scott on this because he, for one,

483
00:25:39.440 --> 00:25:42.079
he's never an harmed way and as usual, comes through

484
00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:44.319
the rest of here for the crew and this ship,

485
00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:49.079
which againly shows how much they lean on him. You know,

486
00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:51.920
I've always been a big fan of mister Scott, and

487
00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:56.119
getting to see him already in his prime excites me.

488
00:25:56.279 --> 00:26:00.359
James Youhan is just spectacular in that role, and I

489
00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.079
just I just love seeing that dynamic of him, Kirk

490
00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:05.039
already going to him like get you know, you got

491
00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:07.559
to get this now, we're gonna die, like two minutes,

492
00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:10.440
come on, now, get on it. Yeah, And of course

493
00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:12.519
he pulls through. Of course he does, because that that's

494
00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:15.880
who he is, and you know that, Yeah, it's it's

495
00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:17.880
mister Scott. Scott, what about you?

496
00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:21.240
Yeah, I'll agree with you, mister Scott. In Naked Time,

497
00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:24.799
there was a moment I was thinking of saying, O'reiley,

498
00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:28.960
just if I could, you know, pick better songs because

499
00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:32.400
he just seemed to have a wonderful time. But yeah,

500
00:26:32.519 --> 00:26:37.039
mister Scott, I love the fact that he's so aware

501
00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:40.000
of the fact that, like, I could cut through this

502
00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:43.480
wall without thinking about the safety factors, but I could

503
00:26:43.480 --> 00:26:47.039
also find another way to blow up the ship first, right,

504
00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:49.720
So it's it's part of his character where he's like,

505
00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:52.359
you know, I'm working as fast as I can, trying

506
00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:54.960
to be a miracle worker and trying to pull it out.

507
00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:57.599
I think I just think he has a lot of

508
00:26:58.440 --> 00:27:03.240
composure in that one. Plus, he doesn't have his face

509
00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:08.920
blinked off, and he's not turned into an iguana, and yeah,

510
00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:12.319
he's not getting mashed up by Charlie X. So I'll

511
00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:14.039
go with mister Stutt. Wayne, what about you.

512
00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:20.720
Sorry, I'm gonna choose Charlie X.

513
00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:24.880
Oh Man, but I avoid Wayne.

514
00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:28.000
I mean, first of all, it would be great to

515
00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:31.680
be young again, but didn't also have those like godlike powers. Yeah,

516
00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:34.720
I'm I'm not certain, but I think I would have

517
00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:37.519
a better chance to Controlingam than Charlie did. Yeah. Really,

518
00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:39.960
but that the idea is having those powers is just

519
00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:42.559
mind blowing. You know, I could have done so much

520
00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:44.799
more than Charlie did in this episode, you know, rather

521
00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:46.960
than his stupid little pranks. Heck, I could have just

522
00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:50.680
wished Captain kirk Away and become Captain of the Enterprise.

523
00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:52.880
You know, he he wasted his chance, and if I

524
00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:54.960
was him, I would have got what I deserve with

525
00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:56.599
those powers. And that's why I want to be him.

526
00:27:57.599 --> 00:28:00.720
I want to point out I want to something here.

527
00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:03.519
First off, you guys me, Wayne made fun of me

528
00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:06.319
when I picked the villain a while and now here

529
00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:09.880
Wayne is picking a villain even worse because this guy

530
00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:12.680
could do anything and and killed anybody wish him away

531
00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:15.880
like they're nothing. Wow, Wayne, I don't know how I

532
00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:16.960
feel about you anymore.

533
00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:18.920
Well, I just remember, don't cross me.

534
00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:21.880
I don't know. Just in case, I'm gonna say that

535
00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:28.559
Wayne has a great answer, because okay, I'm back. Thank god.

536
00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:34.519
They just say, yes, that's a great Wayne, great idea. Yeah,

537
00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:34.960
good joys.

538
00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:41.279
All right now, I'm we're going to go to my

539
00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:44.519
favorite parts when it comes to watch these episodes, where

540
00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:47.680
I dive deep into the episode and the production and

541
00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:51.920
enlighten you with some interesting facts. But first, David and stop,

542
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:55.079
did you happen to find any interesting facts that you spotted?

543
00:28:57.559 --> 00:28:59.359
I mean, I know we'll throw for the man trap

544
00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:03.079
before the red uniform instead of that gold one for

545
00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:05.920
the first time. So, uh, that was exciting to see.

546
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:09.000
I believe of him. Correct, the this is the USS

547
00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:12.079
Enterprise that is in the Air and Space Museum in Washington.

548
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:11.960
D C.

549
00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:12.839
Is that correct?

550
00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:15.200
Yeah? The larger model is good.

551
00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:19.359
Yeah, the larger model. Yeah, yeah, I think I mentioned

552
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:20.960
this and already. This is the first time he says

553
00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:28.400
he's dead Gym, which becomes a famous line that McCoy uses. Yeah, Wayne,

554
00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:30.519
please enlighten us because we know how excited you are

555
00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:31.079
about this stuff.

556
00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:34.039
So did you have any Scott get before I start.

557
00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:35.640
You get right into it.

558
00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:40.000
You gotta starts listening to Well, well we have three

559
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:40.720
episode What do.

560
00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:43.039
You say is is very wise? Wayne?

561
00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:46.000
I again, I don't want to be in ia. So

562
00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:47.480
there is something I want to bring up though, real

563
00:29:47.559 --> 00:29:52.240
quick before you go. I thought the Enterprise only had

564
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:55.079
like two hundred crew members, but Kirk says it has

565
00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:56.119
four hundred and twenty eight.

566
00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:59.240
That that was the two hundred one was went Pike.

567
00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:01.720
Okay, so that's what it was. The cage was two hundreds,

568
00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:02.440
so they just changed.

569
00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:05.880
Yeah, k Kirk has a lot more people on clearly

570
00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:10.359
double the crew. I don't know why. Yeah, okay, all right,

571
00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:13.119
all right, let's go, but let's start off by talking

572
00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:17.559
to the directors. Mark Daniels was a very familiar name

573
00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:20.559
at Desilu. He directed the first season of I Love

574
00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:24.720
Lucy for them, and he's actually credited for Zis, suggesting

575
00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:27.279
Vivian Vance for the role of Ethel, as well as

576
00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:30.240
developing that three camera technique that was used in the

577
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.400
series have pretty much become standard for all future sitcoms.

578
00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:36.240
You'll hear his name pop up quite a few times

579
00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:39.920
in future episodes. Plus he even wrote an episode of

580
00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:43.839
the animated Spirit series called One of Our Planets Is Missing.

581
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:48.400
The other director, Lawrence Dobkin, was an actor who appeared

582
00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:51.000
in many TV shows over the course of four decades.

583
00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:53.880
Charlie X was the only episode of Star Trek that

584
00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:56.759
he would direct, but he would return to the franchise

585
00:30:56.839 --> 00:30:59.880
in nineteen ninety one to play the Klingon Ambassador Kel

586
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:03.440
in The Star Trek the next generation episode The Mind's Eye.

587
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:07.960
Now switching to writers George Clayton Johnson, who wrote The

588
00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:10.960
Man Trap. He had an incredible career, including episodes of

589
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:13.359
The Twilight Zone like Kick the Can and The Four

590
00:31:13.359 --> 00:31:15.599
of Us Are Dying, as well as the script for

591
00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:20.079
the original film Oceans eleven and the novel Logan's Run,

592
00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:23.720
which the film was based on. DC Fontana, the writer

593
00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:26.519
of Charlie X, is another familiar name to Star Trek.

594
00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:30.200
She wrote ten episodes of the original series, an episode

595
00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:32.680
of the animated series, five episodes of Star Trek The

596
00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:36.240
Next Generation, including the pilot Encountered at Farpoint, and even

597
00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:39.039
one episode of Deep Space nine, as well as various

598
00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:42.680
Star Trek novels and comics. She even wrote three episodes

599
00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:46.519
of Babylon five. The writer of The Naked Time, John D.

600
00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:49.680
F Black, also wrote two episodes of the Next Generation

601
00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:52.720
during its first season. Now, as we said, The Man

602
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:55.119
Trap was the very first episode of Star Trek to air,

603
00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:58.000
and it was chosen because it was just a straightforward

604
00:31:58.039 --> 00:32:01.039
story of or anything else. Plus had a monster, which

605
00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:05.079
you know they wanted a monster. Talking to the Man Trap,

606
00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:08.359
actor Alfred Ryder, who played Robert Carter, had suffered a

607
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:11.519
severe injury to his right arm just prior to filming,

608
00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:15.319
but pain he was having he continued to perform his

609
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:19.519
role without complaining at all. The Man Trap is the

610
00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:22.799
only episode of the original series where we see doctor

611
00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:27.680
McCoy's quarters. And here this I thought was a continuity era.

612
00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:30.480
But they actually fix this because Spock mentions that Vulcan

613
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:33.279
has no moon. He mixed a very point of over that.

614
00:32:33.880 --> 00:32:37.160
But in the animated series episode yesterdayear there's clearly a

615
00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:39.720
moon in the sky. I thought he was wrong, this

616
00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:41.799
was wrong, but I guess there was an episode of

617
00:32:41.880 --> 00:32:46.079
Strange New World's Charads which we even went over. It

618
00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:49.079
cleared it up. Vulcan has a twin planet, therefore it

619
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:55.640
is not a moon now. Charlie XX was originally supposed

620
00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:58.480
to air later in the season, but since it had

621
00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:01.119
very little visual effects, it was completed ahead of time

622
00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:04.279
and moved up to second in the schedule. This is

623
00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:08.039
why Kirk mentions that it's Thanksgiving back on Earth, because

624
00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:12.759
the episode was supposed to air in late November. Now

625
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:16.799
this is the United Federation of Planets hasn't yet been

626
00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:19.920
established in Star Trek, and in most of these episodes

627
00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:24.559
is called the United Earth Space Probe Agency. The series

628
00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:27.559
Star Trek Enterprise with retcon this is an earlier version

629
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:29.920
of the Federation, and its logo was seen both in

630
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:32.480
Star Trek Voyager and in Star Trek Strange New Worlds.

631
00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:37.000
This is interesting though the Naked time is the only

632
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:43.279
original series episode where the three primary female crew members you, Heah, Chapel,

633
00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:47.359
and Rand are together, though they didn't appear together again

634
00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:48.759
until Star Trek Motion Picture.

635
00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:50.160
Now.

636
00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:52.960
We mentioned before, and I'm going to bring this up again,

637
00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:55.599
The Naked Time is one of those rare original series

638
00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:58.880
episodes to get a direct sequel. The second episode of

639
00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:02.799
the Next Generation was entire Naked Now see Captain Picard

640
00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:04.880
and the crew of the Enterprise D get infected with

641
00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:07.119
the same infection and are forced to go into the

642
00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:10.360
ship's historical logs to retrieve the antidet. That's all you

643
00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:13.199
need to know. Don't go watch it, all right, But however,

644
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:17.599
Star Trek Lowered Decks also references the Naked Time in

645
00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:21.519
the episode I excreat Us as one of the training simulations,

646
00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:24.840
but the computer interprets it quite literally, making all the

647
00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:28.559
crew very crazy and very very naked. You can go

648
00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:31.719
watch that one. That's a good episode. And then to

649
00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:35.159
end with a weird bit of trivia. In the film

650
00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:38.440
X Men Days of Future Pasted, Hank McCoy, the X

651
00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:40.159
Men known as the Beast, can be seen watching The

652
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:44.280
Naked Time on his TV in his office. That's right,

653
00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:47.639
all right, to finish off. Anything else you'd like to

654
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:52.000
say about these three episodes before we move on to conclude. No,

655
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:54.159
I mean what is your what was your opinion? Do

656
00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:56.039
you think Star Trek is off to a good start?

657
00:34:56.639 --> 00:34:59.760
Of course they do. I mean clearly, this is why

658
00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:02.840
it's off so fast. Back then in the sixties it

659
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:07.280
was you know, fresh for television. Again, thanks to uh

660
00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:10.320
Luci Oball for bringing that for us because we wouldn't

661
00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:12.119
have this with Doctor which I know we've mentioned before.

662
00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:15.960
But yeah, I mean you've already see that it's capturing

663
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:17.960
the audiences. I mean you got to think about this.

664
00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:22.559
In the six sixty six, right, you didn't really have

665
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:25.199
these things on TV except for like the Twilight Zone.

666
00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:28.639
So I mean this is like new territory and very

667
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:31.199
exciting to get to know these characters. And we're only

668
00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:34.320
four episodes into the season and we're already seeing so

669
00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:38.519
much going on, so many cool stories that I mean

670
00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:42.559
the audience had to be excited to find out more. So, Yeah,

671
00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:44.480
I think it's off to great start.

672
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:47.519
Yeah, as a first time or I'll say that I'm

673
00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:52.599
I'm already invested. I mean obviously i am, because I

674
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:57.599
do a podcast. This thing I mean, Jeff pays me

675
00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:01.519
pretty well to do it what it pays everything excited.

676
00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:05.199
Let's get commercial. No, I mean, I think they're doing

677
00:36:05.239 --> 00:36:06.920
a great job. Like you bring up Twilight Zone and

678
00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:09.320
that comes to mind for me quite a bit. It's

679
00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:15.599
almost like the Twilight Zone with continuity and a storyline

680
00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:18.360
that builds around a core crew. So it's kind of

681
00:36:18.519 --> 00:36:22.079
like a starship that's flying through different kind of Twilight

682
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:25.480
Zone based scenarios and as they're doing so, they're kind

683
00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:28.920
of building on this crew that we're getting to know,

684
00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:31.639
and they're expanding this universe that we live with them

685
00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:35.239
all set within you know, what's supposed to be our

686
00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:37.639
known galaxy, So it's kind of like our own future

687
00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:41.519
getting to see it expanding so many different kind of ways.

688
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:47.840
Hopefully ours doesn't involve space AsSalt vampires and you know,

689
00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:52.119
Charlie x wayIn like creatures that are going to turn

690
00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:55.719
us into faceless equal oness. But yeah, I think they're

691
00:36:55.719 --> 00:36:57.639
doing a good job of set the right kind of

692
00:36:57.719 --> 00:36:59.639
rhythm and have the right kind of kind of show

693
00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:00.239
that we want to see.

694
00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:03.920
Yeah, I mean, it's trying to see it with the

695
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:06.880
eyes of someone from the nineteen sixties. There wasn't much

696
00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:09.119
on television. I think What was Lost in Space was

697
00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:12.480
starting its second season when these episodes aired and Twilight

698
00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:14.599
zoned and ended. But there the Outer Limits was on.

699
00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:18.119
But that was pretty much it. And this had to

700
00:37:18.159 --> 00:37:22.760
be quite a surprise, a shock because you know, we've

701
00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.719
never seen anything like this on television before. So it

702
00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:28.760
was a good start, good strong start for the series.

703
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:32.280
You can see why it became very successful and later on,

704
00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:35.840
you know, all right, that's it for this week's episode,

705
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:38.679
A Phaser Set to Stun and I look back at

706
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:42.360
the continuing voyages of the original Starship Enterprise. Of course,

707
00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:44.800
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Set to Stun. Book reviews where we go through each

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ones to pick up and which ones should beam out

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Let me know what you think about the books that

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we review and which ones are your favorite. Thank you

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David and Scott for joining me and the listeners for

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another fascinating discussion.

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Welcome dep Thank you.

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Next time, we'll be looking back at three more episodes

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from the very beginnings of the Star Trek universe, The

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Enemy Within, Mugs Woman, and what our Little Girls are

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