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The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 141: Star Trek: Catspaw and I, Mudd
🕑 Added 2025-06-24 01:21:14 +0000 UTCOn this week's Watchcast Star Trek gets proper goofy as we tackle the distinctly Halloween-flavored episode, Catspaw, as well as the return of swarthy space scumbag Harry Mudd in I, Mudd!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 141: Star Trek: Catspaw and I, Mudd.
(00:00:14) - Intro.
(00:02:13) - Leading things off with the first of our two very silly episodes today, Catspaw!
(00:06:36) - Before we talk too much about the ending, let's talk about who made Catspaw.
(00:13:08) - Beaming down to a Scooby Doo planet.
(00:20:06) - Wizards and dungeons and whatnot.
(00:28:48) - Finally, Catgirls have arrived in Star Trek.
(00:37:56) - GIANT CAT GIANT CAT GIANT CAT
(00:43:03) - Smoking pipe cleaner puppets.
(00:48:53) - Final thoughts.
(00:50:08) - Break!
(00:50:33) - We're back, and it's time to get stuck in the Mudd.
(00:53:39) - Production and cast talk.
(00:59:57) - Androids hijacking the Enterprise.
(01:05:47) - King Mudd.
(01:12:04) - The many temptations of the Enterprise crew.
(01:16:20) - The animatronic battleaxe, and the crew needs to figure out how to outsmart these androids.
(01:24:33) - Death by improv exercises.
(01:29:30) - Mudd's horrible fate.
(01:32:43) - Final thoughts.
(01:44:14) - Next week's episodes, and outro.
Comments
Christopher Godwin
As far as Vinnys comments about Starfleet having to send people to tidy up after Kirk, "Lower Decks" is all about that
Blacklab
David Gerrold also wrote an excellent book called “The Man Who Folded Himself”.
Nic Fontaine
There is a singular instance of Romulans and Klingons boinking in the latter half of TNG. And DS9 gets into mixed non-human species offspring. Rare, but it does happen!
Victor Boman
Futurama does indeed make fun of destroying a machine with a logic paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8797KEI24VQ&ab_channel=DontYouWorryAboutQuotes
