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The Nextlander Watchcast 024: Star Trek: The Return of the Archons and Space Seed
🕑 Added 2022-12-12 17:45:02 +0000 UTCWe've only got one Star Trek episode this month, but folks, it is a doozy! First up is another classic Hollywood backlot episode in The Return of the Archons, and then Ricardo Montalbán makes his terrifying debut as Khan Noonien Singh in Space Seed!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate in versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:14) - Intro.
(00:02:10) - Khan will have to wait, as our first episode is The Return of the Archons!
(00:03:49) - The set-up for the episode.
(00:06:41) - Getting into the production history and cast.
(00:10:09) - Is this a human planet? Are there aliens here? What's going on?
(00:12:12) - A festival! How lovely, what do you d--Oh, oh no.
(00:15:28) - Still trying to make sense of the lore here.
(00:19:29) - Whatever these people are, they do not like interlopers.
(00:24:31) - It's absorbin' time, baby.
(00:29:13) - What exactly are these rebels even doing? What is their plan?
(00:32:38) - Finally, the big reveal.
(00:41:19) - Discussing the nature of Landru, and of people.
(00:48:06) - Break!
(00:48:30) - Khan Noonien Singh has entered the Trek-verse.
(00:52:10) - The set-up for Space Seed, and the Eugenics Wars.
(00:57:27) - Some production history of the episode.
(01:05:30) - Vinny's shameful admission.
(01:10:13) - We keep getting distracted talking about Khan. Let's get into what actually happens in the episode.
(01:19:58) - Sure he's a dictator, but he sure did make the trains run on time!
(01:23:21) - Everyone's on to Khan.
(01:27:30) - Khan's plan goes into action.
(01:33:06) - Kirk, buddy, what are you doing here?!?
(01:40:24) - Final thoughts on Space Seed and villains in the Trek-verse.
(01:45:59) - Outro.
Comments
Michael Bach
Watchcast is so awesome. Love all the behind the scenes stuff Alex talks about.
Eric W
The trope is called "Famous, Famous, Fictional". Star Trek is kind of a prominent example of taking advantage of this trope. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamousFamousFictional
