019 - Space Nazis

Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast. As usual, I am joined by my wife, Abbie, and our friend, Nate, as we discuss: The next 3 episodes of season 2 of Star Trek: The Original Series – A Private Little War, Return to Tomorrow, and Patterns of Force What was the message of this episode? Do they even know? TV makeup and High Definition We don’t like Gene Roddenberry episodes? Understanding why TOS was cancelled Was TOS running out of ideas? A Next Generation actress Characters acting out of character Star Trek and the Apollo missions Other shows calling their shots Command structure on the Enterprise Risk vs. reward Scotty’s voice and linguistic talents Biblical connections? Plot devices vs. realism Fermi paradox Aliens and Mexican parliament A relative lack of surprise that Kirk and Spock dressed as Nazis Blues Brothers discussion Nazi imagery in the episode An episode we wanted to dislike Is there always a silver lining? Moral ambiguity and how shows are received