TNG: Encounter at Farpoint (S1, E1)

Encounter at Farpoint (S1, E1)

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Your Away Team flashes foward to the future of the 24th Century and joins Jean-Luc Picard and crew in the 2-hour series premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The show may have a ways to go (they do have a long journey ahead of them, and many of their missions will be far more interesting…) but there’s plenty to like here, and the future is looking bright here on The Holodeck is Broken.

Also, during our commercial break, Captain Lora and First Officer Mac celebrate ten years of marriage by renewing their vows in a traditional—not informal, and there is a difference—Klingon ceremony, because of course they did.

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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

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The Away Team finishes up with the Original Series crew, and boy do, they go out on top. They talk about anti-racism, tracking devices, the mind-boggling continuity of digital clocks, and our excitement for our upcoming re-watch of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Yes, we'll watch “Code of Honor.” No, we're not thrilled about it, either.

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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

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Not all Star Trek films are created equal—even by God himself. Thus, your indefatigable away team endures 1989’s Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Even Mac can’t defend this one. But, courage, The Undiscovered Country awaits!

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

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Whales! Whales? Whaleswhaleswhaleswhales.

Ahem.

Join your Away Team as we go searching for Nooclear Wessels, Transparent Aluminum, and vintage VCR repair in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). Eddie Murphy, what are you doing here?

Not that this is what the movie is *about*, but Bones is a good doctor this time around. Who knew?

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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

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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)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

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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)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

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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

Assignment: Earth/Spock's Brain

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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

The Ultimate Computer/Bread and Circuses

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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

By Any Other Name/The Omega Glory

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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

Return to Tomorrow/Patterns of Force

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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

The Immunity Syndrome/A Private Little War

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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

The Gamesters of Triskelion/A Piece of the Action

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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

Wolf in the Fold/The Trouble with Tribbles

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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

The Deadly Years/Obsession

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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

Journey to Babel/Friday's Child

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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

I, Mudd/Metamorphosis

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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

The Doomsday Machine/Catspaw

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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

Mirror, Mirror/The Apple

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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

Who Mourns For Adonais?/The Changeling

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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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