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The Nextlander Watchcast 004: Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before and The Naked Time
🕑 Added 2022-07-25 16:01:07 +0000 UTCIt's time to return to our Star Trek watching ways to check out the wildly dramatic pilot episode Where No Man Has Gone Before, and the just plain wild episode (and Vinny's current favorite) The Naked Time!
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.
(00:00:33) - Intro.
(00:02:46) - Launching into Where No Man Has Gone Before.
(00:05:46) - Some historical info about the episode.
(00:12:47) - Locating this series in the larger Star Trek timeline.
(00:14:33) - This week's guest stars!
(00:16:39) - Kicking off the plot for realsies.
(00:17:58) - Flying into the magical space barrier causes some complications! Who'da thunk?
(00:19:35) - Freaky eye stuff.
(00:21:06) - Espers? Espers!
(00:22:04) - Gary's becoming a god.
(00:24:08) - A little about the Enterprise sound design.
(00:25:27) - Some differences in cinematography in this pilot compared with the rest of the series.
(00:25:53) - Back to Gary's increasing godliness.
(00:27:20) - What do you do when you've got a god on your spaceship? Plus some Spock notes.
(00:30:36) - Some less-than-futuristic objects hanging around the ol' Enterprise.
(00:32:22) - Time to check out Gary's new home planet. It sucks there! Also check out this cool gun. And even more Spock talk.
(00:36:52) - Gary going full Magneto.
(00:39:47) - Gary gets got.
(00:44:51) - Final thoughts on the episode.
(00:47:07) - Break!
(00:47:26) - We're back, and talking The Naked Time.
(00:54:16) - Some history for the episode, and the spotty history of time travel in Star Trek.
(00:57:57) - This is a pretty good lookin' episode!
(01:00:13) - Bluntly stating the One Thing this disease does to each person.
(01:03:05) - It's a race against time not to crash the ship into the damn planet.
(01:06:37) - Kirk and Spock start going haywire.
(01:14:02) - Time to implode some engines.
(01:18:52) - Vinny has some questions about time travel.
(01:21:25) - There is a growing "admiration" for James Kirk among our co-watchers.
(01:24:42) - Outro
Comments
Blacklab
The Naked Time is my jam.
Chris Fallins
So you know, the Watchcast videos are under three separate tags here on Patreon.
