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The Nextlander Watchcast 019: Star Trek: The Conscience of the King and Balance of Terror
🕑 Added 2022-11-07 17:30:07 +0000 UTCFor the month of November the Nextlander crew will be chewing through nothing but Star Trek, and we're kicking the month off with a Shakespearean murder mystery and a straight up submarine combat episode in The Conscience of the King, and Balance of Terror!
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.
(00:01:17) - Intro.
(00:03:22) - Our first episode of the week is one none of us had ever seen: The Conscience of the King!
(00:06:13) - Kodos? And the production history of the episode.
(00:13:12) - Launching into the plot.
(00:14:42) - Some musings on Roddenberry's vision of the future and Kirk's role.
(00:19:56) - Bye bye pillowcase face guy.
(00:21:34) - Kirk's kind of a dick in this one.
(00:23:12) - Somebody's bumping off witnesses, time to use the Irish guy as bait.
(00:28:36) - Time fo the captain to woo this 19-year-old. Meanwhile, Spock has figured it out.
(00:31:34) - Showdown between Kirk and Kodos (also the one and only double red alert).
(00:36:52) - Time to unmask our mass murderer in appropriately theatrical fashion.
(00:45:49) - Closing thoughts on Conscience of the King.
(00:49:55) - Break!
(00:50:20) - We're back and it's time for Balance of Terror! Here come the Romulans!
(00:53:58) - Some history of this banger episode.
(00:59:51) - Lt. Stiles, and a brief history of space racism.
(01:03:57) - The set-up for this latest Romulan conflict.
(01:08:55) - Thank god, a survivor! Surely we'll be able to rescue this poor soul in ti--oh, oh no.
(01:11:58) - As strong as this Romulan ship is, it's got some pretty serious weaknesses.
(01:14:23) - Seeing a Romulan for the very first time.
(01:20:14) - Meanwhile, on the opposing ship.
(01:25:24) - The cat-and-mouse game between Kirk and the commander.
(01:31:22) - The Final Showdown.
(01:36:39) - Well at least there was only one fatality. Let's quickly check to see wh--oh, oh no.
(01:39:15) - Final thoughts on the episode, and the mission of the Enterprise.
(01:43:04) - Outro.
Comments
Christopher Godwin
Star Trek Month ENGAGE! I was same as Alex, I dont ever remember seeing Conscience of the King before but BoT has always been a favourite. Not least thanks to Mark Lenard. Also FYI "Kang" is indeed a klingon and also shows up in DS9 & regarding the food cubes the only reference for taste I know is from Stargate SG1...
Matthew Tyas
Alex your intros to this series are the best thing! Absolutely hilarious
