A CAT AND MOUSE GAME The guys sit down to talk about this song from the Year Two album, and the TOS episode that inspired it! DON’T FORGET Five Year Mission is a band writing a song based on every episode of Star Trek TOS. You can find out more about and buy all of…
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BUT FIRST THE TRANYA It was the third hour of Star Trek ever produced, and it’s considered among the best of The Original Series. “The Corbomite Manuever” was also the episode that launched Bill’s Star Trek fandom in the mid-1970’s as the first episode he ever saw. This week, we’ll examine this classic episode of…
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TWO THOUSAND QUATLOOS! What better way to kick off the week of STLV than to focus on some high stakes gambling! This week we look at the classic TOS episode, The Gamesters of Triskelion! Drill Thralls, pain collars, Providers, and lots of wagering highlight this second season installment. It’s an episode we’ve been watching as…
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IT TAKES A VILLAGE No one does it alone. Not even “The Great Bird of the Galaxy.” The idea was Gene Roddenberry’s, but it took an amazing group of people to help make it a reality. This week, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Turnabout Intruder–the last episode of The Original Series–we look at The…
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NO KILL I Essential Star Trek. Almost everyone has their own definition, but almost every Trek fan believes that this episode should be on that list–and we agree completely. “The Devil in the Dark” tells a story that speaks to the very heart of Star Trek and was some of the best science fiction produced…
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A ROYAL FIZZBIN It’s one of the all-time great comedic episodes of Star Trek and the perfect send off in to Convention Week! Tomorrow, we’re on our way to Star Trek Las Vegas but today we’re detouring at Sigma Iotia II to collect “A Piece of the Action.” One of the things that Star Trek…
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THE PLAY’S THE THING 4,000 people. That’s how many were executed at the directive of Governor Kodos of the failed Tarsus IV after a fungus destroyed most of the colony’s food supply leaving 8,000 colonists to starve to death. Kodos ordered the deaths of the 4,000 so the other 4,000 colonists might live. Among those…
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A HILARIOUS CROSSOVER! We listen to a lot of podcasts. One of the ones we found last year was a fast-paced and energetic show called, “Two Guys One Trek.” It’s the journey of two friends through TOS: one who has seen it before, and the other who had seen every Trek series BUT the original….
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GENERAL ORDER #1 It’s the most far-reaching concept in all of Star Trek–Starfleet’s Prime Directive of non-interference in other cultures! Every crew has had to contend with it in some form and, at times, even defy this guiding principle. In this week’s episode, Dan and Bill will discuss some of the finer points of the Prime…
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WHERE IT ALL BEGAN! Many of our listeners have made it clear that they LOVE our See-It or Skip-It episodes. We love doing them, so this week we decided to do something that may ruffle a few Tarkelian Bat feathers! We are going to give our take on Season 1 of the show that started…
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