020 - Team America, Galactic Police

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 – By Any Other Name, The Omega Glory, and The Ultimate Computer Interstellar from the perspective of the other planets Callbacks to earlier episodes What I’ve come to expect from Star Trek, but does that mean they’re running out of ideas? Kirk, the man-whore What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be living? Life is more than just elements, but without the elements, there is no life Some Brazilian Jiu Jitsu analysis Episodes starting a lot stronger than they finish Was this propaganda? Subtlety vs heavy-handedness A successful letter-writing campaign A brief history lesson about The Scorpions Seeing more recurring story lines and trends Negative views on technology? Saying “Thank you” to Alexa In real life we make the same mistakes and tell the same stories over and over again Different experience between binge watching and watching weekly over the course of many years Similar shows, books, and movies released around the same time Will the AI conversation actually change?  Has the conversation surrounding AI changed in the past 60 years?