To Baldly Go

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030 - The Animated Series

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This week, Nate and I discuss:

  • The Emmy-award winning Star Trek: The Animated Series

  • Stopped rating the episodes

  • Less than the sum of its parts?

  • A bad series

  • Animated Series as punishments

  • Spaceships and aliens

  • Target demographics

  • Shortcomings of TAS

  • No Chekov

  • The great episode of TAS – a top episode for the franchise to this point

  • Political implications of airing certain episodes

  • Is TAS canon?

  • Life support belts

  • Kirk was the Devil’s advocate?

  • Missing charm and disjointed dialogue

  • Unrealized potential

  • What non-Star-Trek fans think Star Trek is

  • Felt like the Gorn fight from Arena

  • TAS trivia

  • Nate’s Star Trek models

  • Star Trek production guide

  • Looking ahead to Next Generation

  • Planning future podcast discussions and watch order

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004 - A most annoying emotional episode

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Welcome to Episode 4 of the To Baldly Go Podcast, in which I continue my mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations.  To Baldly Go where many have gone before…

I have started with Star Trek: The Original Series in an attempt to understand why people love the show as much as they do, and just maybe come to like it myself.

In this week’s episode, I am again joined by Abbie and Nate and we discuss:

  • Our completely individual and subjective rating systems to grade each episode

  • Star Trek: The Original Series episodes – Mudd’s Women and What Are Little Girls Made Of?

  • Catfishing in the ‘60s

  • Links between The Original Series and Next Generation

  • Starfleet hasn’t been referenced yet?

  • You either believe in yourself or you don’t.  Confidence is the ultimate beauty

  • A perfect segue to the next episode

  • A major disagreement

  • Antagonism toward androids somehow turns into Data on the bridge?

  • The Ship of Theseus

  • Are androids a threat to humanity?

  • HP Lovecraft connections

  • What was available to watch in the 1960s vs. today

  • Revisiting our scores for the first few episodes

Until next time –

Never give up!  Never surrender!

000 - What am I doing and what do I already know?

Welcome to Episode 0 of the To Baldly Go Podcast, in which I prepare for my journey through the Star Trek franchise.

In this initial episode, I explain the genesis of this project:

  • My embarrassing first contribution to a Star Trek discussion

  • What I hope to learn and gain from this endeavor

  • Some random stuff I know about Star Trek having never really watched much beyond some of the newer movies and the first season of Picard

If you are also new to Star Trek, join me as I watch through for the first time, starting at the beginning, in an attempt to learn what it is that people love so much about these shows and movies.

If you are a certified Trekkie, live vicariously through me as I experience the voyages of the Starship Enterprise and crew for the first time, and maybe even join your ranks.

Until next time, remember -

Never give up! Never surrender!