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The Nextlander Watchcast 002: Star Trek: The Man Trap and Charlie X
🕑 Added 2022-07-11 16:00:08 +0000 UTCIt's time for the Nextlander gang to begin their five year (if they're lucky) journey into their first series rewatch in Star Trek: The Original Series. We kick things off with a pair of episodes about lonely beings with terrifying powers.
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.
(00:00:37) - Intro
(00:01:40) - Our histories with Star Trek
(00:03:35) - Why we opted not to watch The Cage as of yet, and some early history of the series.
(00:07:28) - The series' progressive bonafides, and some lore history.
(00:12:58) - Launching into The Man Trap.
(00:16:41) - The perception of James T. Kirk.
(00:19:55) - The Man Trap's monster of the week.
(00:24:40) - Janice Rand deserves better.
(00:25:29) - Back to the salty monster, and some Federation lore discussion.
(00:28:46) - It's like Mad Men in space (derogatory)!
(00:31:17) - The hand plant (and a shithead puppeteer).
(00:32:36) - Vulcan blood, bulky communicators, and the original bridge design.
(00:36:31) - Wrapping up The Man Trap.
(00:38:00) - Spock and Uhura.
(00:41:51) - Not a great first go at first contact!
(00:43:53) - Break!
(00:44:07) - Onto Charlie X
(00:45:46) - Thasians? Thasians!
(00:47:50) - A couple of early Vinny observations.
(00:50:03) - Charlie was bad, even as a child everyone could tell.
(00:52:03) - This ship needs an HR department, and nobody wants to be Charlie's father figure.
(00:54:12) - You really suck at this parental guidance thing, Kirk!
(00:55:48) - A legendary scene (no, not that one, the other one).
(00:58:29) - And now for the OTHER legendary scene.
(01:02:30) - Things escalate quickly.
(01:06:02) - How the hell does this sensory overload trick even work?
(01:07:18) - And heeeereeeee coooooome the Thaaaaaaasians!
(01:10:18) - Are the Thasians like a Q?
(01:13:16) - This was a dark one! Sometimes Star Trek throws dark.
(01:14:58) - How's Vinny feeling after these first two episodes?
(01:17:10) - Outro
Comments
Christopher Godwin
Was excited for this since you guys announced it. Been a trekkie as long as I can remember so it's really interesting to hear Vinny's introduction to the franchise from a new outside perspective. Oh and when Vinny said "I don't think Kirk is a very good captain, he loses like four crew in one mission..." Yeah, there is a reason Zapp Brannigan in Futurama was based on Kirk :D
nextlander
Yup! All our series rewatch episodes will be 2-3 episodes at a time depending on the show, though we might do single episode ones if it's a big one that warrants extra attention.
Short Shocks with Kevin Lenaghan
This is fantastic! Inspired me to do a watchalong (watch-along?) of TOS! Will it be two episodes every fortnight?
