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The Nextlander Watchcast 021: Star Trek: The Squire of Gothos and Arena
🕑 Added 2022-11-21 17:30:02 +0000 UTCThis week's Watchcast is packed to the gills with omnipotent beings, sudden disappearances, and man-on-man (and man-on-lizard) combat as we take on the Star Trek episodes The Squire of Gothos, and Arena!
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, and some Twin Peaks talk.
(00:04:53) - Onto Star Trek and our first episode, The Squire of Gothos!
(00:06:45) - Our man Trelane, and his similarities to Q.
(00:09:09) - Some additional production notes about the episode.
(00:10:05) - Trelane! Stop this crazy planet!
(00:14:46) - Trelane sucks at math, and so do the writers.
(00:17:38) - Our first galactic cosplayer.
(00:20:11) - A racist British person? Will wonders never cease.
(00:23:27) - A good old fashioned duel, followed by a starship getting chased around by a planet.
(00:26:58) - A good old fashioned hunting of a man for sport.
(00:31:37) - This ending is so ridiculous. The good kind of ridiculous.
(00:37:24) - A couple of remaining questions.
(00:42:47) - Wrapping up on The Squire of Gothos.
(00:45:09) - Break!
(00:45:38) - We're back, and it's time to enter the Arena!
(00:49:48) - Some production notes on Arena, and the hearing damage given to the principal cast.
(00:57:20) - Kirk's on a mission of bloodlust.
(01:04:03) - Time to do MORTAL KOMBAT.
(01:09:18) - If only Kirk could remember 9th grade science class!
(01:13:38) - James Kirk is the original MacGyver.
(01:16:29) - And here comes the Metron!
(01:20:01) - Talking a little about the prevalence of God beings in Star Trek, and the state of the space frontier.
(01:22:37) - Final thoughts on Arena and the Gorn.
(01:26:52) - Outro.
Comments
neuroflare
Squire looks exactly like Randy Pitchford, he's even a magician after a fashion. Coincidence?
Christopher Godwin
talking about similar plots appearing so close together the SAME rock formation appears in 3 of the last 4 episodes.
swiftdraw
I think it was Voyager that had thr episode where the crew had to deal with Q’s son.
