Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

Join your Away Team as we slap on our dickie-bows, contemplate our next career opening galaxy-wide gyms, and decide that the Trek fandom is ultimately pretty great. Also, Leonard Nimoy directed a movie which flies directly in the face of the “odd number” Trek movie curse… I mean, it’s got both Walter Koenig in the most precious outfit one can imagine and Christopher Lloyd. How could you go wrong?

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

The time has come! Revel in your Away Team’s journey into the second Star Trek movie! Eris is a full-convert to the cult of Meyer, and they play another round of The Price is Right: Movie Budget Edition. Try not to stare at Montalbán’s boobies, if you please.

Just go ahead and listen to the episode. We loved it a lot. Z even liked it!

We’ll be taking our next airdate off to coordinate our viewing of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) with the upcoming Fathom Events screenings. In the meantime, watch this space for some Trek-related blogs coming soon!

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Your Away Team takes the super-secret wormhole from the beginning of Season 3 straight through to the first (and certainly most relatively expensive) of the Star Trek movies with 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. There are plenty of comparisons, as it turns out.

After spending some time staring at clouds, playing a few rounds of The Price Is Right (movie budget edition), and somehow descending into a war of words about the virtues of Tarzan (1999?) we are heartened by the looming threat of Khan ahead.

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Assignment: Earth/Spock's Brain

Your Away Team finishes season 2 with the backdoor pilot (and… ahem… Roddenberry’s best shot at trying to steal Doctor Who from the Brits) with “Assignment: Earth.” We then begin are harrowing journey through season 3 with the maligned, mocked, and marginal Spock’s Brain…

After which we make a fateful decision about the future of our journey through the final frontier. See you next time for the movies!

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The Ultimate Computer/Bread and Circuses

This week, your Away Team takes in the story of a computer James T. Kirk argues with, and an alien planet with a society modeled off of an old human culture…

…which hardly distinguishes it from the rest of The Original Series. Season 3 now looms over us like the specter of death!

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By Any Other Name/The Omega Glory

Well, the writing’s on the wall. With NBC right on the precipice of cancelling our beloved Star Trek, Roddenberry decides to go full Kurtz and give us the episode no one wanted, culminating in proud Canadian William Shatner looking at an American Flag as if it was wearing a miniskirt.

No, really. Also, we took a look at “By Any Other Name,” which most of us kinda liked.

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Return to Tomorrow/Patterns of Force

Fully vaccinated, your Away Team is back together in the same room for the first time in a year and a half! And they reunited just in time to witness (then wretch) James T. Kirk totally accept the argument that Nazi Germany was super-efficient and would have worked if given a chance! No, really. That’s what “Patterns of Force” is about. :Kif sigh:

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The Immunity Syndrome/A Private Little War

Doing cocaine? Bones answer to everything is “let them eat stimulants.” Also, The Original Series tries to (kinda, sorta, not really) tackle the quagmire of the Vietnam War. It doesn’t go great.

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The Gamesters of Triskelion/A Piece of the Action

Your away team mourns the fact that it will be a very long time indeed before they see any more tribbles. Sadly, the Gamesters of Try-skelly-en (if we're to believe Captain Kirk's pronunciation) is of no help at all. Then they spend more than a little bit of time marveling at Kirk’s unusually fuzzy hat.

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Wolf in the Fold/The Trouble with Tribbles

The time has come for Tribbles! We may not have a lot to say about the fan-favorite episode “The Trouble with Tribbles.” As it turns out, we were into it! “Wolf in the Fold” is another story, but at least Scotty was given his time to shine, er… be accused of murder.

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The Deadly Years/Obsession

Even the second season of The Original Series needed to hit a slump. We’re all just waiting for the Tribbles to show up (next time!). In the plus column though, we do get to hear Mac’s story about the time he accidentally wore women’s pants. Which does relate to one of these episodes. Sort of.

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Journey to Babel/Friday's Child

Your Away Team spends a goodly amount of time talking about and loving “Journey to Babel.” Seriously, Eris really liked the episode. Like, a lot. Tons. Also, “Friday’s Child” is here for some reason. :shrug: At least Julie Newmar will get us through this.

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I, Mudd/Metamorphosis

We are just as surprised as anyone else to learn we prefer spending time with Harry Mudd over Zefram Cochrane. We just—we didn’t see that coming. Also: why did it take Kirk and Bones so long to realize who Zefram Cochrane was?

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The Doomsday Machine/Catspaw

Prepared to be whisked away to a Moby Dick-like tale… except in space. Also with firey anuses. Don’t worry, though. We have a cream for that. Then we wallow in the only Halloween (or, for that matter, any holiday) themed episode of the franchise, with Catspaw.

We ended up preferring the fire anuses. And we’re not sorry.

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Mirror, Mirror/The Apple

Your Away Team spends a good long spell wondering just how sexy the Mirror Universe is. The answer? Between goatees, abs, and thigh sheaths? Very. They then hang their heads in disappointment as “The Apple” teaches us all to procreate and be capitalists… in a post-capitalism society. :checks notes: Yeah. There is red face. We’re not fans.

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Who Mourns for Adonais?/The Changeling

Your Away Team meets Zeus. He insists his name is Apollo, but we know better. After spending a spell on the ups and downs of costuming, we change gears and… :checks notes: Yep. Kirk blows up another computer by arguing with it.

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Operation -- Annihilate!/Amok Time

Your Away Team finishes up Season 1 of The Original Series with the symphony of punctuation that is “Operation — Annihilate!” We then move on to Spock’s wedding and a whole lot of world building. Also, Chekov and his adorable hair.

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The Alternative Factor/The City on the Edge of Forever

After immediately dismissing The Alternative Factor as perhaps the worst episode of all time (sorry, Spock’s Brain) the Away Team spend the majority of their time discussing the famous—and somewhat infamous—Harlan Ellison-penned “The City on the Edge of Forever.” Drugs! Time Travel! A surprising lack of sex! Different teleplay drafts and prolonged action with the Writer’s Guild of America! It’s all here.

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The Devil in the Dark/Errand of Mercy

Your Away Team continues their march through the first season of The Original Series. They meet Klingons for the first time, decide that—at minimum—their makeup needs a little work. We also pay a little visit to the Horta and sample Dr. McCoy’s secret guacamole. Eris marvels at Organian costumes! Z celebrates the gayness of The Devil in the Dark! Lora sympathizes with Spock having to do all the work while Bones and Kirk drink coffe from a Starbucks just off screen. And Mac… Well, Mac decided at some point he was a morning drive time DJ named DJ DJ DJ (The Double D, with another one added in there) and can’t quite seem to shake it off.

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A Taste of Armageddon/This Side of Paradise

We have a lot of thoughts about Spores, but even more thoughts about how Uhura can still do her job while Spored (tm) and the rest of the crew can’t handle their high. Meanwhile, we marvel at just how often Kirk will go to the well of solving dilemmas by absolutely wrecking a computer that is solely responsible for a civilization.

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