This week I am joined by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss:

• Let that Be Your Last Battlefield, The Mark of Gideon, and That Which Survives
• The Trouble with Tribbles story
• Elaan of Troyius recap now that Abbie is back
• Overt messaging in shows
• Star Trek without Gene Roddenberry
• Is a good message enough to carry an episode?
• A Captain’s responsibility to keep the ship out of enemy hands
• Great Enterprise security
• The transporter as a weapon
• Nuclear codes in history
• Strangelove
• A good message – “Don’t hate”
• Terrible movies with heavy-handed messaging
• Watching people watch people on TV
• Episode context
• What is the call to action in this episode?
• Being extra-Spock
• Spock needs to be more precise
• Abbie gets attacked by a kitten
• The Tunguska Event
• Another callout to The Beginning of Infinity
• Limits on human knowledge?
• A victim of the medium at the time?
• The decline of the series
• Over Warp 14
• More multi-culturalism on the Enterprise
• A game plan to finish The Original Series
• Planning a Star Trek trivia challenge
• Looking ahead to The Next Generation
• Abbie fires some shots at DS9
• Nate throws down the gauntlet for the best episode ending in all of Star Trek
• A Star Trek producer spoke in my video production class in college
• Something about whales