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The Nextlander Watchcast 006: Star Trek: The Enemy Within and Mudd's Women
🕑 Added 2022-08-08 16:00:08 +0000 UTCAs we return to the world of Star Trek, we tackle a pair of episodes that truly represent the highs and lows of this series, as we experience some top flight Shatner-brand hambone acting, meet a swarthy Irish pimp, and take note of more than a few red flags about how early ST treated its women characters.
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(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.
(00:00:19) - Intro.
(00:01:48) - R.I.P. Nichelle Nichols.
(00:03:36) - Kicking things off with The Enemy Within.
(00:04:03) - Vinny thought this was a Mirror Universe episode.
(00:06:19) - This ain't mirror Kirk. It's just plain Evil Kirk. Thanks, transporter!
(00:10:14) - Some background on the episode.
(00:12:10) - Vinny senses some recurring themes in these early episodes.
(00:13:51) - That sure is a clean good/evil split.
(00:16:40) - Poor Sulu.
(00:18:34) - Evil Kirk is up to no good. Poor Yeoman Rand.
(00:22:13) - I'M CAPTAIN KIRK. Also, some more tech talk.
(00:24:19) - The McCoy death stare.
(00:25:03) - It's all going wrong and Kirk can't figure out what to do.
(00:28:23) - A really bad Spock line, and the human-centric writing of the series.
(00:30:07) - Well, we figured out how to put Kirk back together, but it might kill him!
(00:32:45) - All's well that ends well, right?
(00:36:08) - Break!
(00:36:30) - We are back, and talkin' Mudd's Women.
(00:37:18) - Some background on the episode.
(00:39:15) - Time to meet Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
(00:40:02) - Vinny has one note from the last episode he forgot to mention.
(00:40:45) - Back to Mudd.
(00:43:15) - He's a hustler, baby. And he's gotta get these women some husbands!
(00:47:01) - The prevalence of the Rigel system.
(00:48:06) - Just three lonely guys on a planet mining crystals.
(00:54:31) - Let's talk about VENUS DRUGS.
(00:58:26) - Things are getting buckwild on this mining planet.
(01:01:22) - Ah, marital bliss.
(01:02:34) - Remember ladies, you've just gotta believe in yourself.
(01:05:39) - Vinny ain't so sure about these episodes. None of us are, really.
(01:13:19) - Outro
Comments
Christopher Godwin
Loving this podcast. First time I've watched Mudds Women the whole way through because Im watching along with the podcast. Previously Ive gotten part way through then felt I had to just move on. One note however this *is* the first "He's dead Jim" Previously Mccoy has said "He's dead" but this was the first outing of the full quote. I laughed when I heard McCoy say it. With regards to the Federation: In cannon, from later seasons, the federation exists in this stardate, however, in terms of production the federation is not yet mentioned, only Starfleet is spoken about and is often implied to be an Earth organisation rather than part of some federation.
Matt Fox
I finally, finally have a reason to go through these episodes. Their absence has always been this irksome hole in my pop culture knowledge but I've never really had the desire to sit down and actually watch them. I loved TNG, got a little into DS9, but the original series has always been this black sheep. Thank you for giving me, and other fellows, at least some kind of reason to watch them. If you keep this up, going through the whole original series and into TNG, I will be very happy. Also, because I'm basically sick to death of video games, but love your commentary. It's a good reason to stick around, support you guys, and get something other than, "Oh look! Another game has been delayed for twenty years."
