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

0:01 Space the Final Frontier. Join us for a bold conversation our prime directive to recap our favorite Star Trek shows, both new and old, to engage and debate about all things Trek. Prepare to energize with Phasers Set to Stunt. Welcome back to an all new episode of Phaser Set to Stun, where we continue to show our love for everything Star Trek in this ongoing series from a film by podcast which focuses on every system of the expanding Star Trek universe by covering television, movies, animation, directors, merchandise, and much much more. Plotting course on this voyage is your Core Trek crew. I'm Wayne Whiten, I'm David.

1:04 Byrne, and I'm Scot Hoffin. And we're celebrating the upcoming sixtieth anniversary of our favorite series by continuing our trek into the nineteen sixties with not one, but three episodes from the first season of Star Trek, the original series, as we return to take a closer look at each episode in their canonical order. In the last two episodes of Phasers, we explored and examined both the first and second pilots for the series, and now we're finally getting into the run of the series with the first three regular episodes for season. Trekkies out there, just sit back and relax and enjoy our banter as we look at which episodes stand the ten past time and remain important. I would suggest you were but a paramount plus first and take a look at the episodes, then come back here and join us for this discussion. Our first episode of the night is The Man Trap, which was written by George Clayton Johnson, directed by Mark dan Ms and originally aired on September eighth, nineteen sixty six. David, why don't you give us the short summary of this episode?

2:08 The Enterprise arrives at planet M one one three to conduct routine medical exams on archaeologist doctor Crator and his wife Nancy wants the lost love of doctor McCoy. But what begins as a simple is it quickly turns deadly as crewmembers start turning up mysteriously drained of life. With tensions rising in the body count growing, Kirk and his officers must unravel the truth behind the killings and confront the shape shifting minutes hiding in plain sight. All right, so let's just let's just get into it. What did we think about this episode? I mean, this is the first time we finally see our crew together, so what do you think. I mean, it's Star Trek already at its best in my opinion. You know, I'm already getting pulled into it, and I can see why they chose this to be the first episode over the pilot. You know, I definitely can see that. But it was nice to have to Seejora McCoy on the screen and here Ricoy finally say he's dead Jim. That can happen pretty quick in.

3:04 This that's true. Yeah, it felt like it was taking a step further from kind of Twilight Zone kind of format with the is it the Salt Vampire? Yeah, yeah, a little bit more of like a sci fi monster kind of motif. Still kind of a head trippy kind of mystery in this one, but yeah, it seems like people are jelling together pretty well. There was one aspect that kind of felt confusing to me, and I don't know if maybe I was so I'm the first timer in this crew. When they first meet her, it seems like they're all so it's several guys standing around in the same room and to one person, she's Nancy to somebody else, she's somebody completely different. But are they all observing her at the same time.

3:56 Yeah, they're just seeing a different female. That's it. She's getting into their mining. Okay, yeah, that's what was confusing me. I thought she was literally like shape shifting into the person. That's kind of like a mirror to what the person was thinking. But it's more like she's doing like a perception filter kind of thing. Correct, Yes, Okay, yeah, that makes a lot of I can see your confusion though, because it does come across It comes across on screens as a sort of a shape shifting type of thing. But it's supposed to be bad. It's supposed to be more of a mental perception thing. Okay, yeah, I know that they describe her at one point as a shape shifter, and I was like, but wait a second, that doesn't.

4:37 No, it doesn't. And how about Spock being in the crop out of Nancy. She's oh man, Yeah, I mean I'm glad that we we finally now got that familiar Star Trek feel that that well, you know, really know and love. I mean, this this is a really, really good episode that it's probably one of my favorites of the first season. Definitely probably in my top twenty of the entire series. But you know, we have everybody here, but the most notable in is doctor McCoy. I mean, this is a great character piece for him right off the starts. I mean, no, ya, you know here we get a bit of a backstory right off, and then you know, it's very emotional because you know, the creature takes the form of you know, an old lover of his and he has to struggle with his emotions as well as you know, his his duty to Kirk in the enterprise. You know, all the three leads are in character here. You know, there's that that that familiar chemistry right off, right off the start, which kind of surprised me because I haven't seen this episode in probably oh gosh, two decades maybe, so I had to refresh myself. And it's it's interesting how such early state that they really do feel like their characters that you know, we knew over the years.

5:50 Yeah, it's that comfortability, right, you feel you're at home with these characters and not seeing the theory is and so long, like why this already? I take up on things really quickie games, Oh, I remember this episode. There are still a few. I know we're gonna come up with it. I don't remember too well, but these earlier episodes. I forgot that all of these were piled on top of one another in season one, like I thought, like when I remember these episodes, they were scattered throughout the three seasons, but like, oh man, these are on top of one another. Okay, I guess I remember season one a lot better than I thought I did. Well, it might be like me too, these earlier episodes. It seems like like back in the eighties when we were watching it, they showed these more than they showed into the other ones. It seems like they were playing these like once a month or so. Maybe I remember, Yeah, these three episodes that we're talking about. I think I remember these three episodes more than any of the other ones from the season because I've seen them so many times.

6:43 Yeah, that makes perfect sense, And that's probably the case, kind of like it with the PBS playing the same doctor who episodes over and over and over and over, so you would get the same the same episodes. Yeah, I get it exactly. Yeah, Yeah, that's probably why I thought that when my brother was watching The Doctor who like I would come into the room and I feel like the episodes were lasting forever. I was like, you've been watching this episode for like weeks. Our producer jeffand we'd agree with you on that. Probably to them. True now that this is this is a really good episode. Like you said, David, I can understand why they chose this as the start of the series rather than a few other ones. And they had their there had good reasons.

7:24 It was very simple. Yep. But yep, good good start, good start, good characters. Yep. I agree. All right, So let's well, let's take a short break here right now, and then we'll get back with you to our second episode. Our second episode for tonight is Charlie X and this is written by Gene Roddenberry and Dc Fontana, directed by Lawrence Dubkin, and originally aired on September fifteenth, nineteen sixty six. Scott, you go ahead and give us your summary. A teenager who barely understand and how to live in his own world has reality shaping abilities that threaten the enterprise.

8:04 Kirk and crew have to choose between helping him adapt and grow, or saving themselves and others from the power of Charlie X. That's about its short as the synopsis have ever done exactly. I thought it was a really interesting episode, but it seemed to have a lot of similarities to one of the previous episodes that we had talked about, right with the reality shaping aspect. Oh where no Man is going before? Yeah? Yeah, right, yeah, yeah. I was kind of waiting for the tinfoil contact lenses to come back. But as a first time where I thought it was interesting to watch the main character very early in it. They you get the sense that people are very uncomfortable around him and how awkward he is, and it was just kind of interesting what to it today.

9:01 Like in the past, it may have seemed like, Oh, he's this super awkward kid, he's super weird, but now it kind of seems like he has I don't know, maybe that there are some other kind of issues going on with him. Aside from the fact that I think they had said her I got the impression that it was like he was kind of discovered and it taught himself how to speak and things like that. Is that right, Yeah, So I think that's what they were trying to get at. But kind of an awkward episode honestly. It it is. I mean, it's still entertaining. I still liked it, but I never realized and maybe I just wasn't paying too much attention, but I never realized how many times Kirk beats Spock at chess, because I remember he won was it in the cage or was it where no man goes before? I've got him mixed.

9:51 Up where no man is going to be and then he wins here too. So I was like, wow, I guess Spock sucks at Jess and Kirka just keeps winning. Although in this one it seemed like Spot was kind of underestimating him he was and kind of giving him an. Open for it. Yeah, I don't know, maybe he lets him win. I don't know. That's why they played chess so much, because Spock just has a chip on his shoulder. He's like, I'm gonna beach at this time. I know it. I so sorry for Janis yeah episode. Oh I know, Janie, Yeah, yeah. I always found this this episode interesting. You know, I'm not going to say it's one of my favorites. This is that one episode that when it would air, when I turned the TV on and be on like, oh it's it's that episode having Yeah, yeah, but now you know it's it's been years and now that I've watched it again, you know this it really just has some interesting concepts. You know, it's there are some things in here that do stand out. It's not nearly as bad what I remembered. It's a very dark episode to be hones.

11:00 I mean, you know, it's got a villain that's not really as clear cut as as most of the time. You know, you know, there's some pretty horrific things that happen. Is you know, they make the when he makes the crewman disappear, you know, like when he removes that woman's face, and you know, just making other people obey him. It's it's kind of terrifying because you know, Charlie's acting like an angry child but with unlimited power, and that's rather frightening. We've seen that. You know, it always reminded me of that episode with the Twilight Zone with Billy Moomey and it's where he's got all those powers and he's wishing him into the cornfield. Remember a lot of that that and you know how everyone is frightened around him because he he's very dangerous, very dangerous character that can't control his powers very well. But then on the flip side, he's also a very tragic character too. So I have a new appreciation for this episode. It's not nearly as bad as what I remember as being Oh it's that episode again.

11:58 You know, this makes me realize. And I think we've discussed this before mid or maybe we did. Maybe we talked off Mike about it when we talked about the difference between Picard and Kirk. You know, Kirk is the guy who'll go in and fight, and Picard's more of the diplomat right in this situation at the end, you know, I like to think Picard would have probably fault for this kid at the end, Kirk is like Deuces, Buddy, Deuce's. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, yeah. It does give a lot of Q vibes off here again we mentioned that on on with Gary Mitchell, and here once again we get the the feeling a c So, yeah, I could see Picard bad in for Rhim.

12:40 Oh yeah, but I mean I sided with Kirk on this one. Look what he did and look what he's going to do. I mean, I don't care what he pleads or what he does, saying that he's you know, won't do it again. Oh booll crap, you will too, you know, And Kirk saw that. Sorry, I'm not taking that chance with his crew or this ship or who knows if he gets somewhere else, and that's where he was going to. Was it a planet space station where a lot more people were at I mean, it would be limitless for him at that point. So you know, I'm with Kirk on this one. Well, I mean he destroyed that ship. Yeah, he destroyed that ship and killed everybody on there. I don't blame Kirk one bit about wanting to get rid of him. He's two dangerous. Well, there was a lot of like, you know, kind of passing the buck, right, Like the two that drop him off, they're like, good luck with this kid, everything's fine.

13:28 Just don't look him in the eye or make him mad. Okay, bye the god. So they kept doing that like he Yeah, I don't I don't think, not necessarily any kind of malice, just with misunderstanding. He wouldn't have been able to know, you know, something inevitably would have made him very upset. And then what kind of you know, damage would he do with those powers? If anything, I would think that the you know, great wobbly green face would either have to strip him of his powers and allow him to kind of like mature and grow and get some emotional maturity before giving back his natural state, or take him back with them and let them help him mature in a safer space or less of a space that's kind of prone and to destruction. But I didn't think it was nicely the way that they ended that, with that very kind of solemn pan out to kind of let the weight of the decision kind of sit with the viewer knowing that they wouldn't get into the rest of it.

14:28 Okay, I like that. I did think that that was a good ending for the episode. And our final episode for this evening is The Naked Time and this was written by John D. F Black, directed by Mark Daniels again and originally aired on September twenty ninth, nineteen sixty six. And I will give you the summary on this one. The USS Enterprise arrives on a doomed planet, SiGe two thousand to rescue a research team, but a strange contaminant in the planet's water infects the crew, causing reckless and irrational behavior that spreads rapidly through touch As chaos overtakes the ship and the Enterprise is pulled towards destruction in the planet's atmosphere. Captain Kirk, mister Spock, doctor McCoy, and Chief Engineer Scott struggle to regain control when McCoy develops a cure for the infection. Now, this is probably the most memorable episode that for me, that I remember the most, and that's really has stanned the test of time. I know this is considered on a lot of people's lists as they're one of their top ten episodes, including Gene Rodberry himself. But this this episode gives the chance for the cast to really shake it up, you know, to be kind of as outrageous as as they can be.

15:51 You know. I love the fact that they're just you know, playing playing drunk on a lot of it's just it's a fun episode. But in my opinion of all of it, I think Spock gets some of the best bits, you know, really the way it to you know what weakens his his emotional barrier. All those suppressed feelings come out because his breakthrough in the briefing room, you know, where he admits that he's you know, lonely. It has always been one of my favorite moments in the first season. Definitely one of the most memorable Spock moments for me in the series. Yeah, this is this is one of those classic episodes of Star Trek that anybody who has seen the original series will immediately recognize this at least, you know, Suela coming out with the sword shirtless. Yeah, you know, everybody knows that scene and knows what episode that's from. Again. Yeah, so again, you're going back to that classic Trek already, and we're only four episodes into the season for crying out Loud, So it's like, man, they're already you know, setting that standard or Star Trek. I mean back then you didn't realize it, but today you do. So you're already seeing a lot of that in Scott, getting to see him, you know, in his prime right here. You know, you're already going to see him coming to the rescue of the ship and the crew and having that pressure put on him, you know, to get it fixed or get it done before it's too late. So we're already getting to see that here with him. So the crew is already starting to find their groove, find their spots

17:21 that we all know today. So yeah, I really like this episode. And I know within the next generation is the Naked now, which is kind of and you know, this episode basically, but the seeing them is drunk is hysterical for one thing, because you know, overacting at times, but hey, it's okay, it's the sixties. What do you expect? Oh yeah, you know, but there are some things in this episode like what a bowling alley? What? So if I had to turn my head on that one a little bit. But getting to see Nurse Chapel, you know, Michelle Barrett finally joining the crew, very excited about that because how much we turned the cage. Granted she's playing a different character obviously, Nurse Chapel, but getting to see that character, you know, come to the show is very exciting and already getting to see that spark between her and Spock, so you know, that was kind of interesting, you know. So overall I love this episode.

18:18 As the resident first timer who was seeing this after seeing Strange New Worlds. That Spock Nurse Chapel dynamic was particularly interesting to see and you can see how that that's kind of the DNA for what we would be seeing there. I thought she had a great performance in this one. I thought George DeKay seemed like he was having the most fun on set. He's certainly the best in shape. Sorry literally William Shatner, but like when you compare the two, you know, shirtless scenes, he's he's buff man. Although apparently as much as he's in defensing, he doesn't know how to analot. Like I preshed himself on the point end, it was like, yeah, it's a foil, so use it all the time. You didn't show that's okay, but yeah it was. It was a lot of great dramatic ring from uh Lendon Memoy. I love the fact that it brings out his conflicted nature, and I think it's great that they're doing that early, because otherwise it would make him seem like he doesn't have emotion, that he's very robotic, that he's very closed off. But seeing the conflict really come out here, I think was a was a great choice.

19:31 Another think I'd like to with with the when it gets on your scan, how people are trying to wipe it off and you get that what is it like a rattlesnake sound or whatever the hell that that sound. That they use that weird sound. Yeah, that really weird sound, but it's just it was really unique. I like that and getting to see doctor McCoy come to the rescue too. And here's one thing, one point I want to make here. So when Doctor McCoy got recasted for the JJ Abrams stuff, I don't know about you guys, but I threw I was not very excited about seeing a new doctor McCoy because I knew nobody, nobody could equal to fourth Kelly, no matter who it was. But I'm glad I was wrong because Carl Urban was perfect as doctor McCoy. And the reason I'm bringing this up is because when you're watching this episode, I'm telling you what, you could put Carl Urban in that spot as doctor McCoy and you could not tell the difference. You could not.

20:29 Yeah, because he did that. That's a good job. Yeah he did. Yeah. Yeah. You know it's funny that you also brought up when you brought up the the Abrams series. This is something I never realized is in these early episodes, you notice how flirty, uh, your hero was with Spock, and a few few of the scenes, you know that that was really taken off there in the Abrams films, but I never realized I had an origin right here and in these early episodes forgot about that. I didn't either. Yeah, you're right watching the Jay Brims, so you're like, what what's going on here? This? This isn't right, this is this is not Star Trek. Then you watch this. Oh wait a minute, I stand corrected.

21:10 Episode four. Yeah, all right, anything else to talk about in about these three episodes before we move on. I do just thinking when Dave you brought up the Naked Now, the kind of the parallels to this, Like we didn't even cover Naked Now when we went through the starter tracks because we were. Like, well, there was a reason we didn't like that. But it's just kind of interesting. It almost makes me want to go watch that episode to see like, well, what did they get wrong there? But then I remember, yeah, oh no, don't do it, Scott, don't do. No, don't do it. Just remember it's the data gets late episode. So yep, great, now Jeff's gonna go watch it.

21:51 Oh. On that note, we're going to take another short break so you can marinate in those images and we'll be back right after these messages. All right, we're back, and now that we've given our opinions on the three, let's take a look at the characters themselves. Which characters do you think shine the most in these episodes? Scott, you start off. I would say, going back to what I was just saying, Spock in the Naked Time, I think shine the most, not only in his you know, the struggles is he come out, but his you know the fact that he's able to keep somewhat of a grip and try and kind of collect himself and get his composure to be able to help the ship. When he sees Kirk start to go out of control, it kind of doubles his resolve.

22:49 So I think it's a lot of interesting aspects of his character. Dave, what don't you no? I'm with young this. I wasn't sure until I got to this episode of The Naked Time, I don't know who I'm gonna pick. But then once I saw what Leonard Nimoy does, you know, with with the weeping and all that stuff, which apparently was him he came up with that that was not in the script. That made me have much more respect for not only Leonard Nimoy, but for the Spock character as well. And you know, getting to see him in the other episodes is what a strong character he is and the lack of emotions that she should have, but how the friendship of him and Kirk are just continuing to develop throughout, you know, so quickly in this series. But Spock really is the one that everybody leans on. He really is, and getting to see him in this episode be showing that emotional side of himself that you don't get to see yet. Granted, you know, again this is only the fourth episode of Star Trek, but you know, getting to see that side of Spock is just always amazes me, even going back and rewatching again knowing his character, you know, having seen him in all three seasons and all the movie, all that stuff, getting to feed that development of his character getting stronger and stronger. But Lennonimoy's performance and with spectacular what about.

24:08 You, Wayne, Yeah, I mean it was a toss up between Spock and McCoy and Kirk, and but I'm gonna go with the new kid on the block, doctor McCoy, because right from the start he feels like a fully developed character, which it really surprises me, like he's been there all the time, you know, in the Man trap he has. He has the weight of everyone's life on his hands, you knows, having that emotional connection he has with the carters and all the danger that he's facing, you know, but he's thinking of the safety of the crew and all the human lives involved. And then in Charlie X. You know, all the other crews are frightened at Charlie, but he sees the boy in his fragile emotional state and he really feels compassioned for him and tries to understand them rather than just you know, condemning him like the other you know, members of the crew are.

24:57 And then you got in the naked time. You know, he's got an other dangerous problem to deal with. This one's pretty straightforward though in affection. It tries him physically and emotionally, but he's the first one to realize that, you know, there is something obviously affecting the crew, and of course he works his magic to overcome it. Three episodes, he's quickly become like the final piece of that try at the kirk Spock McCoy, I love him. I mean we've love him right from the beginning, Doctor McCoy for me, good choice, all right, if you had any choice to be any of these characters that appeared in the three episodes, which one would it be and why, David, I'm. Going to go with Scott on this because he, for one, he's never an harmed way and as usual, comes through the rest of here for the crew and this ship, which againly shows how much they lean on him. You know, I've always been a big fan of mister Scott, and getting to see him already in his prime excites me.

25:56 James Youhan is just spectacular in that role, and I just I just love seeing that dynamic of him, Kirk already going to him like get you know, you got to get this now, we're gonna die, like two minutes, come on, now, get on it. Yeah, And of course he pulls through. Of course he does, because that that's who he is, and you know that, Yeah, it's it's mister Scott. Scott, what about you? Yeah, I'll agree with you, mister Scott. In Naked Time, there was a moment I was thinking of saying, O'reiley, just if I could, you know, pick better songs because he just seemed to have a wonderful time. But yeah, mister Scott, I love the fact that he's so aware of the fact that, like, I could cut through this wall without thinking about the safety factors, but I could also find another way to blow up the ship first, right, So it's it's part of his character where he's like, you know, I'm working as fast as I can, trying to be a miracle worker and trying to pull it out.

26:56 I think I just think he has a lot of composure in that one. Plus, he doesn't have his face blinked off, and he's not turned into an iguana, and yeah, he's not getting mashed up by Charlie X. So I'll go with mister Stutt. Wayne, what about you. Sorry, I'm gonna choose Charlie X. Oh Man, but I avoid Wayne. I mean, first of all, it would be great to be young again, but didn't also have those like godlike powers. Yeah, I'm I'm not certain, but I think I would have a better chance to Controlingam than Charlie did. Yeah. Really, but that the idea is having those powers is just mind blowing. You know, I could have done so much more than Charlie did in this episode, you know, rather than his stupid little pranks. Heck, I could have just wished Captain kirk Away and become Captain of the Enterprise.

27:50 You know, he he wasted his chance, and if I was him, I would have got what I deserve with those powers. And that's why I want to be him. I want to point out I want to something here. First off, you guys me, Wayne made fun of me when I picked the villain a while and now here Wayne is picking a villain even worse because this guy could do anything and and killed anybody wish him away like they're nothing. Wow, Wayne, I don't know how I feel about you anymore. Well, I just remember, don't cross me. I don't know. Just in case, I'm gonna say that Wayne has a great answer, because okay, I'm back. Thank god. They just say, yes, that's a great Wayne, great idea. Yeah, good joys.

28:38 All right now, I'm we're going to go to my favorite parts when it comes to watch these episodes, where I dive deep into the episode and the production and enlighten you with some interesting facts. But first, David and stop, did you happen to find any interesting facts that you spotted? I mean, I know we'll throw for the man trap before the red uniform instead of that gold one for the first time. So, uh, that was exciting to see. I believe of him. Correct, the this is the USS Enterprise that is in the Air and Space Museum in Washington. D C. Is that correct? Yeah? The larger model is good. Yeah, the larger model. Yeah, yeah, I think I mentioned this and already. This is the first time he says he's dead Gym, which becomes a famous line that McCoy uses. Yeah, Wayne, please enlighten us because we know how excited you are about this stuff.

29:31 So did you have any Scott get before I start. You get right into it. You gotta starts listening to Well, well we have three episode What do. You say is is very wise? Wayne? I again, I don't want to be in ia. So there is something I want to bring up though, real quick before you go. I thought the Enterprise only had like two hundred crew members, but Kirk says it has four hundred and twenty eight. That that was the two hundred one was went Pike. Okay, so that's what it was. The cage was two hundreds, so they just changed. Yeah, k Kirk has a lot more people on clearly double the crew. I don't know why. Yeah, okay, all right, all right, let's go, but let's start off by talking to the directors. Mark Daniels was a very familiar name at Desilu. He directed the first season of I Love Lucy for them, and he's actually credited for Zis, suggesting Vivian Vance for the role of Ethel, as well as developing that three camera technique that was used in the series have pretty much become standard for all future sitcoms.

30:34 You'll hear his name pop up quite a few times in future episodes. Plus he even wrote an episode of the animated Spirit series called One of Our Planets Is Missing. The other director, Lawrence Dobkin, was an actor who appeared in many TV shows over the course of four decades. Charlie X was the only episode of Star Trek that he would direct, but he would return to the franchise in nineteen ninety one to play the Klingon Ambassador Kel in The Star Trek the next generation episode The Mind's Eye. Now switching to writers George Clayton Johnson, who wrote The Man Trap. He had an incredible career, including episodes of The Twilight Zone like Kick the Can and The Four of Us Are Dying, as well as the script for the original film Oceans eleven and the novel Logan's Run, which the film was based on. DC Fontana, the writer of Charlie X, is another familiar name to Star Trek.

31:27 She wrote ten episodes of the original series, an episode of the animated series, five episodes of Star Trek The Next Generation, including the pilot Encountered at Farpoint, and even one episode of Deep Space nine, as well as various Star Trek novels and comics. She even wrote three episodes of Babylon five. The writer of The Naked Time, John D. F Black, also wrote two episodes of the Next Generation during its first season. Now, as we said, The Man Trap was the very first episode of Star Trek to air, and it was chosen because it was just a straightforward story of or anything else. Plus had a monster, which you know they wanted a monster. Talking to the Man Trap, actor Alfred Ryder, who played Robert Carter, had suffered a severe injury to his right arm just prior to filming, but pain he was having he continued to perform his role without complaining at all. The Man Trap is the only episode of the original series where we see doctor McCoy's quarters. And here this I thought was a continuity era.

32:27 But they actually fix this because Spock mentions that Vulcan has no moon. He mixed a very point of over that. But in the animated series episode yesterdayear there's clearly a moon in the sky. I thought he was wrong, this was wrong, but I guess there was an episode of Strange New World's Charads which we even went over. It cleared it up. Vulcan has a twin planet, therefore it is not a moon now. Charlie XX was originally supposed to air later in the season, but since it had very little visual effects, it was completed ahead of time and moved up to second in the schedule. This is why Kirk mentions that it's Thanksgiving back on Earth, because the episode was supposed to air in late November. Now this is the United Federation of Planets hasn't yet been established in Star Trek, and in most of these episodes is called the United Earth Space Probe Agency. The series Star Trek Enterprise with retcon this is an earlier version of the Federation, and its logo was seen both in Star Trek Voyager and in Star Trek Strange New Worlds.

33:34 This is interesting though the Naked time is the only original series episode where the three primary female crew members you, Heah, Chapel, and Rand are together, though they didn't appear together again until Star Trek Motion Picture. Now. We mentioned before, and I'm going to bring this up again, The Naked Time is one of those rare original series episodes to get a direct sequel. The second episode of the Next Generation was entire Naked Now see Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise D get infected with the same infection and are forced to go into the ship's historical logs to retrieve the antidet. That's all you need to know. Don't go watch it, all right, But however, Star Trek Lowered Decks also references the Naked Time in the episode I excreat Us as one of the training simulations, but the computer interprets it quite literally, making all the crew very crazy and very very naked. You can go watch that one. That's a good episode. And then to end with a weird bit of trivia. In the film X Men Days of Future Pasted, Hank McCoy, the X Men known as the Beast, can be seen watching The Naked Time on his TV in his office. That's right, all right, to finish off. Anything else you'd like to say about these three episodes before we move on to conclude. No, I mean what is your what was your opinion? Do you think Star Trek is off to a good start?

34:56 Of course they do. I mean clearly, this is why it's off so fast. Back then in the sixties it was you know, fresh for television. Again, thanks to uh Luci Oball for bringing that for us because we wouldn't have this with Doctor which I know we've mentioned before. But yeah, I mean you've already see that it's capturing the audiences. I mean you got to think about this. In the six sixty six, right, you didn't really have these things on TV except for like the Twilight Zone. So I mean this is like new territory and very exciting to get to know these characters. And we're only four episodes into the season and we're already seeing so much going on, so many cool stories that I mean the audience had to be excited to find out more. So, Yeah, I think it's off to great start.

35:44 Yeah, as a first time or I'll say that I'm I'm already invested. I mean obviously i am, because I do a podcast. This thing I mean, Jeff pays me pretty well to do it what it pays everything excited. Let's get commercial. No, I mean, I think they're doing a great job. Like you bring up Twilight Zone and that comes to mind for me quite a bit. It's almost like the Twilight Zone with continuity and a storyline that builds around a core crew. So it's kind of like a starship that's flying through different kind of Twilight Zone based scenarios and as they're doing so, they're kind of building on this crew that we're getting to know, and they're expanding this universe that we live with them all set within you know, what's supposed to be our known galaxy, So it's kind of like our own future getting to see it expanding so many different kind of ways.

36:42 Hopefully ours doesn't involve space AsSalt vampires and you know, Charlie x wayIn like creatures that are going to turn us into faceless equal oness. But yeah, I think they're doing a good job of set the right kind of rhythm and have the right kind of kind of show that we want to see. Yeah, I mean, it's trying to see it with the eyes of someone from the nineteen sixties. There wasn't much on television. I think What was Lost in Space was starting its second season when these episodes aired and Twilight zoned and ended. But there the Outer Limits was on. But that was pretty much it. And this had to be quite a surprise, a shock because you know, we've never seen anything like this on television before. So it was a good start, good strong start for the series.

37:28 You can see why it became very successful and later on, you know, all right, that's it for this week's episode, A Phaser Set to Stun and I look back at the continuing voyages of the original Starship Enterprise. Of course, you can email us at a Film by Podcasts at gmail dot com, find us online at a film by podcast dot com, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and x and if you're looking for exclusive content or swag, you can join our Patreon and find out what gyms are hidden within. And in case she didn't know, A Film Buy and Phaser Set to Stun are now on YouTube. You can find many of our episodes, both old and new, on our to go to our website at a film by Podcast dot com and click on the articles tab at the top of the page to find our Phaser Set to Stun. Book reviews where we go through each Star Trek novel, old and new to tell you which ones to pick up and which ones should beam out into space. There should be a new one up on the website very soon, so please go and check that out.

38:27 Let me know what you think about the books that we review and which ones are your favorite. Thank you David and Scott for joining me and the listeners for another fascinating discussion. Welcome dep Thank you. Next time, we'll be looking back at three more episodes from the very beginnings of the Star Trek universe, The Enemy Within, Mugs Woman, and what our Little Girls are made of. Until then, keep watching those original series episodes and we hope to have you back here for Phasers Set to Stun. Captain, I cannot change the law of the physics. O