Yet Another Star Trek Podcast - Ep 006: (TOS S01E04) The Naked Time

Episode Date: April 5, 2022

In this episode the gang watches Sulu take his shirt off and poke things with his little sword... a rapier of course! Sensually hosted by Majeed, the team take on "The Naked Time." Brad questions what he got himself into, and Drew gets excited in more than one way. Lose all sense of yourself and listen in on this wonderfully voiced episode! What did you think of "The Naked Time"? Drop us an email at [e-mail] and we'll discuss it on the air! Be sure to check out our website, social media, and join our Discord! Links for all are listed below: Website | Discord | Instagram | Twitter | TikTok | YouTube “Warp Speed” and "To the Stars" was written and performed by William Grobbelaar Music: https://soundcloud.com/williamgrobbelaarmusic Additional artwork by George Rateau: https://www.fiverr.com/georgerateau Past Sadness by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5024-past-sadness License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another episode of yet another Star Trek podcast. This is the podcast where three friends from two different states get together and we talk about Star Trek because we watch the episodes. Not together but we talk about the episodes together. History would want you to believe that maybe Star Trek-y nerds and Star Wars fans can't get along but we do. And we put our tips on society everywhere. We talk about Star Trek. To my left, in Connecticut, I have Drew who is the hardest working man in Star Trek and video game podcast. Drew, how are you doing, buddy? Man, I've been working so hard. Nobody works harder than me.

I agree. I agree. No one knows how much work you put into this, making a sound acceptable and great every single week. Thank you. Don't get all mushy this time. I'm blushing. I'm like, I'm actually blushing right now. I can tell. I have the camera on. Yes. She did. And to my right in a different state, have Brad. He's the only man who knows knock knock jokes and Farenki, Klingon, and Japanese.

Brad, how are you doing, buddy? Hey, Majid, how's it going there, man? I wish I had a knock-knock joke ready for you, but right now I'm a little tapped out. That's depressing. Our audience wants to hear knock-knock jokes in the foreign news. I want to hear the knock-knock joke in Ferenc, are you kidding me? Hey, guys, so I'm not sure if you're aware because you know, not everyone has the luxury like I do to work from home and sometimes browse the internet, but there was seven, Brunt, uh, Burner, Brunner House, LLC. And this is their first game,

um, I believe, and it looks pretty good. Have you guys seen it yet? Yeah, yeah, I took a look. Uh, I'm, I'm very interested. It has a very, um, to, to me, uh, Mass Effect type of vibe to it.

It was primarily cutscenes as far as the gameplay, where you can just react and make, you can choose which dialogue that you're using for the situation. Also kind of reminds me of, was it Detroit being human a little bit? I'm hoping that there's a little bit more to it. It's not just like a telltale type of game where you're going around through with the story, but it looks pretty good.

I'm pretty excited about it. I mean, as far as I'm aware, it's supposed to be a telltale type game. You know, and the guys from that are developing this came from telltale, you know, they were developing Telltale games previously. So it's got that DNA in it already. But I mean, like to what you're saying, Brad, you know, everything that we saw was was basically dialogue trees and, you know, in-game cutscenes, but it looks awesome. And the guy that they got to voice, Spock sounds pretty damn good. It was quite surprising. I mean, you could have done a better Spock impression. They didn't even try to come to you.

True. Yeah, I don't do voices very well. I've heard you do voices. It trusts me, accents. No boy. No. You can't do a Vulcan accent? No. Brad, can you? Is there even an actual accent in Vulcan? Is it just talking very logical? I think it's just talking logical.

That does not seem very logical, but you're sorry. Wait, what happened in Brad? Who was that? I'm, listen, I was, I was excited. So there were two trailers that I saw. I saw the official reveal trailer today. And I said, man, I can totally get behind this. And then I saw the seven minute trailer, the seven minute reveal. I'm okay.

I'm buying a day one. So. minute reveal. I'm okay. I'm buying a day one. So, so you're a day one Drew Majid you're kind of like I'll pass. I'll wait until Drew streams it and I'll play it that way. Just just watch him play the entire time. You can you help me choose my own adventure. Well it's at that point it would be a choose our own adventure. Well then when we're playing it together. All right, well, you can't play without me. OK. Does that sound right?

That sounds OK. Nobody can take that wrong. We'll play it together. You play with me. Yeah, that's fun. We're perfectly capable of adults that are going to play together. All right. ["Slow, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, What? More specifically, all right, not me in the sense that I'm naked recording this.

Please, just don't stand up because I don't want to see. Lier. More specifically, we're talking about the episode 6 of the very first season of the original series entitled The Naked Time. So this episode aired fourth. It was, I think we're courted. Okay, so it was the fourth to air, but the sixth. Um, okay, to be produced.

Correct. Thank you for the real time fact check. Technically, it's technically it would be the seventh produced if we're counting the cage. We never count the cage. The cage. Listen, I don't think we said it last week. We don't talk about the cage. So that's a strike. That's a strike. So we're back to that. We're back to strikes. We're back to strikes. We're back to the merits and you have one. I thought you could only give strikes to Brad.

I mean, I'm not mutually excuse. I'm capable of change. So all right, are you ready for this? It's about to be synopsis time. And let's turn the lights down real low. Let's get into a nice mood. I'm gonna go ahead and lower. All right, here we go.

All right, so. The crew of the Enterprise traveled to Si2000, a frozen wasteland of a planet where they will pick up a scientific party as they observe the plant's natural destruction. Ooh, Commander Spock and Lieutenant Joe Tormelon beam down to the planet. Upon arrival, they find the research team

dead by unknown causes. Joe reports that, Joe reports that he even found one team member frozen to death taking a shower of fully clothes. What a weirdo. Joe decides to take off his glove to itch his nose and take samples because why not? While his glove is off, some red liquid drips on his hand and of course Joe takes a good smell of it. No idea why Joe. Spock and Joe return to the Enterprise.

The senior crew of the Enterprise speculated on what could have caused the death of those researchers. Joe shortly begins to exhibit signs of distress as he sits in the mess hall. Without warning, he starts threatening Lieutenant Sulu at a butter knife. Ransin and Ravens stayed in that they don't belong in space. After struggling, Joe falls on the knife, exposing Sulu and Ragley to the strangest disease. That's right folks, he was cut by a butter knife. What a win. This is the sexiest I've ever heard anybody refer to a butter knife. Oh, it gets worse.

Makoid attempts to save Joe's life, but he never dies. What's the cause you may ask? He lost a will to live just like Pat May. We catch up on Sulu and Riley on the bridge. The two are clearly not in the mood to do their job. Sulu decides his ditch work leaving Riley alone to helm the ship. However, Riley decides to stay, but soon starts to appear intoxicated. Spock orders into the sick bay where he starts to hit on Nurse Chap. Kirk meets up with Spock in the bridge where they speculate on what could be happening

to the crew. Sulu bursts onto the bridge half naked. Ready to stab anyone with his little big sword known as rapier. Ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha We find out that Riley has made his way to engineering, walking himself and setting a ship with a collision course to the planet, leaving the crew 20 minutes to save the ship. More and more of the crew become intoxicated and infected as they struggle to save the ship from crash not to the planet. Meanwhile, while in sick bay, nurse Chappell exposed Spock to the virus and confesses her love for him. Eventually the crew takes back engineer from Raleigh, but he turned off the engine entirely. Scotty advised it would take 30 minutes

to do a proper restart much more time than they actually have. The crew quickly decided to do a proper restart, much more time than they actually have. The crew quickly decide to do a dangerous cold restart of the engines. Requiring Spock's help, but they are unable to find them. Thankfully, Wallace cures. McCoy finds a curative contagion. Kirk finds Spock crying in a room all by himself. He tries to get him to snap out of it by slapping him around a bit. And usually works for me.

After several hits, Spock shows Kirk the proper way to slap someone. Throwing him to the ground with one hit, y'all. After Spock manhandles Kirk literally, they are knocked to their senses and they start working to fix the ship. With moments of spare, the Enterprise starts the engine to coal and miraculous escape doom.

Spot quickly gets to the bridge, and the reason is not properly functioning. Oh, the crew finds that their ship is travel back in time by three days. Thus, discovering time travel. We leave Kirk and the crew wondering what they must do with this new knowledge. To sum up, gloves of falluses. Spock lays down a hammer on Kirk with one hit. In time travel is a happy accident, anybody can do it, if you can call restart engines improperly. I'm so glad I didn't read that before you said it. What an amazing episode. What a really good episode. I enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed this episode. What about you, True? What do you think about it? It was fine. After a synapses like that, you're just going to go with five? Well, Drew's sweating right now. He's real hot right now. He's his first priority. I'm spent. Oh my god. Yes. I mean, all right, here's the deal, right? And this is a conversation piece that was kind of going to hold on to until towards the end of the episode. But I guess I'll just kind of rip the bandaid off.

There is an episode of Star Trek, the next generation that does this almost 100% verbatim in the first season. It's called The Naked Now. And when the the first season in the next generation was being produced, they were kind of short on stories. There was a lot of stories from a canceled reboot of Star Trek or like they were calling it Star Trek phase two that they ended up reusing for next generation. And this is almost 100% identical in every possible way. Um, can I call dibs on hosting the naked now? Yeah, you can have it. I will I'm totally fine with that. It's going to take us four years to get there.

That's fine. I'll work on my sexy recap voice in the meantime. Excellent, excellent. So I'm watching this and I've seen the naked now probably a dozen times over the years and it's not a very good episode. And then I watched this one and I was kind of expecting it to be a little bit different and it wasn't. And that's not this one and I was kind of expecting it to be a little bit different and it wasn't. And that's not this episode's fault, but it just kind of think damaged the experience

for me. At the risk of spoilers, who took their shirt off and thought a wave and their sword around? There wasn't any sword waving, if I recall. So there was no ripped little Sulu running around the ship. Yeah, Sulu's ripped. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, he is he is jacked. But yeah, I think I remember reading somewhere initially, like they kind of wanted to do like a samurai sword or something different than the rapier. like a samurai sword or something different than the rapier? Was it too racist? I didn't know it was, but I don't know. I could just weren't, I read something like that somewhere.

But they wanted to go with the rapier. I mean, it made sense in the end when you kind of think about the swash buckling persona he took up. You know, it made sense. You know, he had his reasons for it. Um, you know, at least he didn't get stabbed with a butter knife. God, I can't believe that. Yeah, I know.

You know, I upset that made me. I, I don't, I don't yell at my TV on a weekly basis. I yelled at my TV. Hey, hey, it could have been a spoon. Could have been a spoon. A sport? A spot. No, a sport could actually hurt.

Spoon is quite impressive. All right. Look, I don't want to get too far off base here. Do they have sports on Star Trek? True. Do sports exist? I'd like to think that they've evolved beyond the need for sports. I really don't know. You know, I come to you with this stuff because I don't know and I'm too lazy to look it up. I ask you, you're my inside track. I have nothing for you. I'm gonna say yes. I'm gonna say yes. All right, thank you.

See, even if you make something up, I'm totally there for it. All right. Brad, what do you think, buddy? Of this episode. In that the sports. and drew a bride what do you think, and this episode, and that's sports

I like drew have seen the naked now but I do feel that I have a different perspective from my experience with that I from whatever call of the naked now in comparison to this, I actually enjoyed this one better. To me, this was, well, I think maybe because it was newer in the sense I haven't seen this actual episode before, that was more appealing. The overall feel and flow, it was more comical than anything. The taking the glove off, getting the, was like red goo, probably blood.

Um, on to the guys, he had been touching his nose. I was like, yep, there it goes. That's the spread of COVID. I mean, all right, listen, to be fair, to be fair to, uh, to, to, to Joe. He didn't know. All he knew is that his hand was itchy. Joe knew enough not to pull off his freaking. He's he's in a biological suit like preventive suits.

Also, I've read that shit. Can we talk about how shitty those suits are if you could just stick your hand up inside the hood? Oh, I know. Like what happened to the seals on these stamps? I know. Right. Well, you have to get your beer into your Siu one way, right? I suppose. I will say, Brad, as you were we're talking about your preference for this episode over the TNG one, I was going through the memory alpha of the naked now and holy crap. Is that episode a dumpster fire? I mean, it's, it is, it's worse. It's worse. Yeah.

Absolutely. Like I'm just, I'm just like scrolling through it and I'm seeing like photos of all like the different things that are happening. And it's reminding me of how bad it is and how identical it is. See, now that's setting an expectation for me. That's, that's, that's basically making me like, maybe I don't want to watch this.'s that's I feel you'll forget about it by time we get to it I'm gonna I'm gonna forget about it tomorrow right I feel like with this this episode in comparison to the naked now the naked now really tried to push uh a different perspective of like looking how crazy people were going whereas this was just trying to perspective of like looking how crazy people were going, whereas this was just trying to

process a story and actually push things along and actually seemed like there was some and some kind of sense to it. I enjoyed it though. I think the episode did a very good job. It had some questionable moments of course, but overall I enjoyed it. I enjoyed messing with my wife on it. She's like, hey, what are you doing? I said, I'm watching naked time. And there's this audible pause that you, that you're gonna get from your spouse. When you say something stupid and confusing

that they have to kind of reboot their brains. So everything that I say to my spouse is, yeah, pretty much. Right. So I'm, she's like, Hey, what are you doing? I was watching, I'm watching the naked time. And there's silence is a good three or four second silence. And that's how I know if I'm breaking, if I've broken her or not, depending on how long there's a glitch, right? So it depends on how long the silence was. So I know that with a three or more second delay

between responses, I've effectively broken her. So kudos. Yay. I can break my wife. You know what? I don't know if that sounds right, but. It's just, let's lead into it. I'm, yeah, it's fine.

She probably won't need us unless it's gonna. Yeah, just cross cross your fingers like unlike your boss, right? Your boss may hear this. No, I'll never hear it. No, you only you only you only shared the link with them, right? Yes. Yeah, do you want to retract any of your earlier statements about scrolling the internet and working? No.'re... No, I cut that cut that. Give me, give me, give me, give me. I, uh, I, I listen.

I enjoyed the episode. I, I guess it makes sense that it was what the sixth overall produced. Um, because, ooh. So, something. Yes. It's just, we don't count the cage. All right, well, I'm not going to remember that math. So it's the seventh produced fine fine fine. Look, it's somebody else already

mathed it out for me. I can just look at the article. God, I hate math. We don't eat math in Star Shrek, right? We have Excel spreadsheet. They do the math for us. Exactly. So a couple of things I loved was one.

We have an assembled crew, right? So we had Sulu, we had bones, we had Scotty, we had Yeh-Hurah, we had Spock, we had Kirk. Like the main cast was there, were we missing anybody? Check off. Check off. Check off is not in the season though. Yes.

This is going to the season two. Right, yeah. So this is it, this is our crew, right? For this season, yeah. Ah, it's great. It, listen, it felt good. It, it, it, it, we finally got to the point where, well, I got to the point where I'm like, oh, hey, look, I know those guys.

They were, they were rebooted by JJ Abrams and Lensflish. That's, that's, that will forever be the way you react to this, isn't it? It's, these are the people that were rebooted. Yeah, no, totally. Yeah. This is, this is it. This is, is it. I'm certain I'm positive. I'm not the only one that's going to feel this way because we know we have friends. We have mutual friends.

Outside of us three, we have other friends, by the way, guys. Just so you might know, we have other friends. There are other friends that were introduced to the world of Star Trek by JJ Abrams. So I'm certain that they wouldn't, when they watch naked time, naked time. When they watch naked time, they're going to be like, oh wow, look, hey, no one got naked.

And B, that's our crew, right? That's Sulu, that's Scotty, that's everyone, that's the crew, right? That's at Sulu, that's that's Scotty, that's that's everyone. That's the whole crew. And there's some they're gonna have that instant connection the same way I did. Drew, Drew, could we replace Majid with somebody who's never seen the reboot? Like, can we just get another new person? Because then we don't have to deal with that anymore. I have tenure. Majid was the only one that was stupid enough to sign up to do a podcast with me, so we're kind of stuck with them. Listen, it's you who are stuck with me now. Negative time.

I gotta find it. I gotta edit in like sexy music every single time you say the words, negative time sexy. Listen, you see that? I'm gonna say it more. That's going to be the entire episode just fill the music. Right. I'll even try to find a way to say it in a different language for you. Is it for Anki, Klingon or Japanese?

Oh my gosh. Listen, don't tell me. You know what? I'm going to do it. I'm going to find a way to do it. Brad, you may have to teach me how to speak Klingon, Faringi in Japanese. I can't even speak English properly sometimes. That's fair.

You know what? I'll ask Google Google Google knows. I'm sure Google knows how to speak Faringi. Actually, I think Google Translate does Klingon. I'm sure Google knows how to speak for in key. Actually, I think Google translate does cling on. It was a surprise me. Maybe we'll have to find out. I'm not going to find out now. I'm to I'm going to forget to find out. No, I'm good. I'm not. No. Another thing we have about this episode,

Kirk's shirt got ripped again. I just keep, I just should start keeping like a running tally. I have many times the shirt gets ripped. Uh, can you add it to your, uh, Excel spreadsheet? Um, yes. Can we just, can we just like go with like every episode? Cause that is how many times? No, it hasn't been every episode. Has it? Oh my God, it has been.

And by the way, he gets knocked around by Spock a lot. Like he gets knocked around like a rag doll. Well, when you say a lot, it's more of like, Spock man handles Kirk and it's just like, it's over. Yeah. Speaking of Spock though, we got a couple of firsts, we have a kind of an insight and some teases to how Spock's physiology works.

So he has a very high pulse, green blood, and what was the other fact that bones mentioned to Spock about his condition, his vitals. I don't remember. That's fine. I said I was going to write it down. I said, don't forget to write it down. And I forgot to write it down. That's fine. I said I was going to write it down. I said, don't forget to write it down. And I forgot to write it down.

That's fine. It's fine. I'm looking, I'm trying to see if I can find anything in the memory alpha. Yeah. That's fine. Well, you do that. There's no Joe. Joe had some demands when he was holding the engineering room hostage

Did you did you happen to catch any of these these stupid commands the these stupid orders and Demands that he wanted as the as the new cap in the ship This man wanted double the ice cream that that is I think a demand I think we can all get behind no, no, it's not That that is I think a demand. I think we can all get behind. No, no, it's not Because beat you do not want double ice. Okay, you know what? Less for you more for me The beat sounds good. Beat seasons coming up every day. It's a cheat day Man, hey, just so you know, Majid round is still a shape That's fair. I mean you're not wrong and

That's fair. I mean, you're not wrong. And, you're not wrong. But listen, you don't get abs like Sulu having double the ice cream. It's true. You don't get abs like Sulu having any ice cream. Right. There's also a good chance that after Drostokai put a shirt back on, he immediately just rated the food table. He's probably starting himself. Right, he's starting himself. Yeah, like a week. Right, to film these, what I'm assuming is two or three days of him without a shirt on. That whole, I got it by the way, by the time the episode ended, and I had to

read the synopsis for today, I got it. I got what day Naked time. Actually means. It's the stripping away of their morals, right? Interbitants. Right, so it's stripping away with their inhibitions, making them naked. I'm not gonna edit it in any music there.

Naked time. But no, I totally got it. Like everyone had their, their inhibition stripped away, like having that third tequila shot. Um, three. Listen, I need one. I'm a lightweight. I don't. Sheep date.

Excellent. Oh, you're basically what happens when Doc Brown takes that one shot and then back to the future. Yeah. It's such a deep cut reference. It's such a deep cut reference and I'm told me they're for it. I'm just going to pass out. Like how many of you? How many is he had?

One. He said it the entire night. Oh, nice, nice reference, Brad. I'm gonna take away one of your demarrads. That's not very. Well, no, he, I, listen. Retro-rect, you know, take my demarrads away. No, this is, Brad, Brad is at a negative way.

Come to demarrads. Oh, god. Yeah, this episode, this episode. This episode, you're positive at a, I'm the merits. So, where'd it go, Brad? Don't mess it up. I, um, I really like the episode though and I'm, I know there's going to be a low. I know there's going to be the one episode coming up in season one that's going to be a low. I know there's going to be the one episode coming up in season one that's going to be like, oh God,

this is horrible. This is so bad. I wanted to ask you guys about Spock and his emotional breakdown that he had. Now, Majeed, like, what is your impression of Spock's emotions? Like, what do you, what do you understand about that? That he has them. But he had to go to school to suppress them because his mother is human. Right.

And his father's course, Falcon. My understanding is, it goes a little beyond that. It's not that Vulcans don't have the emotions, but they're more severe, I guess you would say, right Brad, they're more intense than human emotions, so they need to be trained on how to control them and they use logic to do that. Is that accurate? Yeah, that's from what I remember of the, like of all the TNG and DS9 and Voyager.

I remember that coming up multiple times, it's more intense as far as, like, if you feel anger, you really feel anger. That's why when they get aggressive, they get really aggressive. Yeah. So, I mean, how did you like that scene, you know, where he's kind of like analyzing his emotions

and trying to control them? It wasn't at all cheesy, man. It was like, you know, he was breaking down. He was talking about his mother and how much he said he loved this mother, right? And he also said he respected his father because, you know, what father does want to be told, hey, dad, I really respect you. I think it really showed a, I mean, I hate to say humanizing element to the character. While we're really early on into the series, it does give people a better understanding of the character and potentially ability to connect with him more.

At least from my perspective, it makes it less foreign than what some people may have experienced when they were viewing them in earlier episodes. Right. And you also have that context with McCoy talking about his anatomy being completely different too, you know. about his anatomy being completely different too. You have McCoy saying he's an alien, but then he's connecting with us on this level with about his emotions. Yeah, good writing. I think that the way that was devised for Spock

really benefited the character overall, it gave us a better connection with them. Yeah, I would agree. I thought it was a nice touch and it humanized him in a positive way. I don't think he seemed weak or anything. He just seemed like he was out of control. Well, he was having, you know, I guess that's also showing you because he was infected. Can we call it Star Trek COVID?

Can we say that? Maybe, maybe you don't call it Star Trek COVID? Can we say that? Maybe we don't call it Star Trek COVID, but we'll call it the naked time disease. So it was showing how it affected him on a different level than it would affect Kirk. Because Kirk, man, we Kirk got it bad. Well, like each of them kind of really were impacted differently. Kirk, you had Sulu was really swashbuckling, you know, the pirate. And then you had like, what was it Riley? Who was like drunk?

Who was a Joe? who was like drunk? Who was it Joe? Joe was like kind of crazy when insane. Yeah. Joe was a coward. And yeah, Nurse Chapel, like she, she was impacted differently. And so like each of them were impacted their own ways. And I think to me, the whole disease itself

doesn't really specifically attach on to anything specific like they don't all get angry, they don't all get intoxicated so to speak. So is it potentially that the whole disease goes to the weakest or so maybe so strongest or so maybe so strongest inhibition that needs to be revealed and that's what their their weakest point is. I don't know because on what level does the Sulu really want to be a swashbuckety hero though? Well, I think there would be more of a metaphor if anything. Okay, I mean, they're kind of swashbuckling heroes already by being out in space. You know, adventurous.

I mean, there's a lot of comparisons to Starfleet and the Starships to actual Navy vessels. Yeah, I got that early on. You know, people used to compare Star track to Navy command. I'm like, okay, cool. That makes sense. Ensign, right? They have ensigns on Navy ships. Mm-hmm. I blew so. Right. I don't know much about Navy. Yeah, I don't know. I like legitimate military rankings very well. And didn't, uh, didn't Kirk call someone a sailor once? Probably, but I mean, he could have been just like that one's a president. Hey, sailor, come on over here. You know,

I mean, it's naked time. Naked. You do better. I've been practicing. It's like week. I'm proud to send you it. Sorry, because I knew that I wouldn't have to say it a couple of times, so I figured I'd give you a show. I wish the listeners could see Brad's face right now. Yeah, Brad, for the listener, who can't see Brad right now? He's sweating, he's red, he's fanning himself. I guess the comparison we made to the Gaines big avoy meme and Giff where he's

fanning himself from wanted. She's like that except with a more facial hair. Man. I'll just go with it. There you go. A naked time. So Kirk, Kirk wanted to live happily ever after, right? Did I understand his desire? Right? He had this amazingly beautiful Yemen on his right hand or left hand wherever. And he can never act

on it because he's the captain. But he always wants to, but he exhibits this level of self-control, is that the best way to understand what Kirk wanted? That's certainly what's implied. Like he is aware of how attractive she is and he is all about that, but he is a professional. Yeah.

Yeah. I won't lie, the more I see Kirk kind of do his thing, the more of a case I can make saying that Kirk is probably my favorite captain. You know, I mean, obviously we have a card and we have Pike and I guess Janeway. Yeah. Janeway says go. There's a lot of captains to go through.

But I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that Kirk is your favorite. I mean, you've seen enough of other things to make a judgment based on what you've seen. Yeah. Yeah. And a lot of people would back you up with that. I mean, Kirk's great. I mean, don't get me wrong. He's great I he's a leader. He is a good leader

You know, he puts his crew and the ship first and foremost and he seeks out answers when there's a problem You know, he demands solutions. He demands excellence. Yeah, but he does so in a way that People respect him. It's not like that boss that is just yelling at everybody to get results. Do you better? Yeah, exactly.

I thought you were going to say that Kirk is the captain that was sacrificing his entire crew to get something done. Like waves and waves of his own men. I mean, maybe in the early episodes, I think Kirk really isn't the brand again of Star Trek. I'm pretty sure. Listen, it doesn't matter. Drew drops a feature on my reference. I'm probably laughing my butt off.

I'm not sure if you heard it earlier when I was talking about the rapier sword. He's like, ha ha ha ha ha ha. I heard it just to say it not to respond. It's so hard for me to keep a straight face because of him. This is why I love you, buddy. Love you too, man. I love you too, Brad. Don't worry. It's okay. I'll forgive you.

What did you take away from Kirk's speech to Spock? Brad what do you think about it? I could tell where he was trying to get. And the question that I kind of was wondering was that was it truly him speaking as mine because of the virus would he have said the same thing in in if he was like a sober individual would he have said the exact same thing. I think it did try to bring the story forward and get spock of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time to get a lot of time genuine in the sense that it really wanted to show his feelings and how he was feeling towards his commander. I hope we get more moments like this where you know we we peel back the onion of who Kirk is and who Spock is. Honestly I could

care less about the other ones. I kind of want to see how far this rabbit hole goes with the personalities of Spock and Kirk. I mean, at the core, the show is really about Kirk Spock and McCoy and the three of them. And the rest of the cast is just kind of supporting, you know. All right. Yeah.

You know, it really does become about their friendship as the show goes on. I'm totally there for it. Yeah. I'm ready. So is this a, is this the cliffhanger ending? It felt like a cliffhanger ending. Like I completely expect the to be continued. Like, you know, we get a continuation of the implications

behind this time travel. As far as I'm aware, no, it's not a cliffhank. I am so disappointed. I did find that it was probably, that was very unexpected to just randomly throw that shit in there. We're just like, hey, we traveled three days into the past.

Now we're we early. It was. Now we'll be early. I mean, there was no real point to it. It just kind of randomly shows up. So we, so we have, however many episodes, 20 or so episodes left in the season. Are you guys trying to tell me that there's no consequence for this, this time travel. Like this is it. Oh, they go back in time.

Not, I don't remember if this season. Yeah, but I mean, consequence wise, like this episode is over. And now we are moving on to the next one. Okay, that, that pisses next one. Okay, that... That pisses me off. That I am. On a scale of one to piss off, I'm very pissed off. Like that is...

That's not good. Be prepared to be more pissed offly. I mean, like, look, it's 1966. What do you want? Continuity? Come on. Yeah. Yeah, no, totally. you want continuity come on? Yeah Yeah, no totally I want continuity and Brian, what do you mean I'm gonna be pissed off later? What are you gonna do?

There will be other episodes that will fosters you. Oh, okay I thought you were gonna like say something or send me something after this That was gonna upset me. Okay, I'm glad we clean this up Did you guys catch, uh, Christian Chapel, as played by Major Barrett? I did catch that. Awesome. She played number one in the original pilot,

the cage, which we do not talk about. We don't talk about the cage. We do not talk about the cage. Major Barrett, of course, Major Barrett Roddenberry, Star Trek Royalty. I did. I was, uh,ar Roddenberry, Star Trek Royalty. I did. I was actually pretty happy to see her back in the show. I really did like her character number one better, only because I felt that that would have

had more substance to her as an actor, actress I should say, but I was pleasantly surprised to just see Chapel in there. Yeah, I mean, we'll see her again. You know, it's it's certainly not the end of Christine Chapel, but yeah, I think this is her first appearance as that character if I'm not mistaken. I'm pretty sure it was. Yeah. I totally know. But the listener might not. What was the other character? Yeoman Rand. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Which character are you talking about? Chapel. Yeah. She was a doctor. Oh, a mental baritone. So she, she was married to Gene Roddenberry for starters.

Um, she played, uh, number one in the original pilot. And later on in next generation, she provided the computer voice, uh, for all of, uh, next generation, all the federation ships in deep space nine and, uh, Voyager and what a cushy job. Um was also Lux wanted Troy the mother of the anatory Aha, so I totally know but the listener may not Who is Luxembourg in the anotroy We'll get there in a couple years, buddy.

Okay. Sorry, sorry listener. Drew doesn't want to go that deep into spoilers. You'll have to find out the Luxembourg Troy is later. So I am while I was doing research, I research, I have research, I call it research. On this episode I found the fun fact. Drew, you are a lower a fun fact. So love fun facts. Can you, can you strap your butt into your chair for this one? Totally strapped. Okay, so We are recording today is March 8th, 2022

on this day in 1966 Gene Roddenberry holds a screening of the original and the original series episode of Where no man has gone before. This is for a future group of Star Trek writers including Richard Mathson. Now this is where the fun part comes in.

Richard Mathson wrote the next episode that we're going to watch called The Enemy Within. Boom. I've peaked. I've peaked. I've peaked. There's no better fun fact I'm ever gonna get. So enjoy it. Just know that I did actual work for today's hosting. Instead of just practicing sultry voices,

I actually did research. So I'm proud of you. So I'm impressed. It means a lot to me, Brad. That's one less demer for you. That's you're right. I'm in a net. Yeah, net positive right now. Yeah. Yeah, no, totally. How does he, how does he get less? He gave me a hard felt compliment. I drew his, it's like the first episode you got to Merit and then He gave me a heartfelt compliment.

I drew, is this like the first episode you got to Mer, and then therefore I got two Paul Nipollis. Yes, okay. Brad's on his way back. You can totally learn from Brad. All right, so you know, do better. I'm looking forward to the next episode, man. So I have a question. Yes. Because, man, I've been thinking Star Trek podcast all week dedicated.

Make it time. If you had to choose one former or one current Star Trek or Star Ship captain to be a guest on this podcast, who would it be? Does it have to be a captain? Yes, for the sake of this question, yeah, does it have to be a captain, like for an entire, like, run of the show or can it be like a captain from like one episode? Captain, who may have had, like, another rank.

That's fine. As long as he was a captain of a starship at some point on a show. As long as the captain won up his riker. Riker? Yeah. Okay. All right.

All right. All right. All right. What about you Brad, same riker? No, I would go with Avery Brooks, Cisco. So I totally know who Cisco is for the listener. Cisco is the captain on DS9 deep space. All right. What a good, what a great choice. Cisco. He was a he, right? Cisco. He was a yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He Cisco was a great captain. That's a great choice

I'm gonna I'm gonna have to say I'm gonna have to say William Shatner man so I'm gonna have to say William Shatner and It just so happens that William Shatner was in Connecticut at a deli. Yeah this past week. I saw that. It was a deli that I've actually been to. How come you didn't go? Which, which deli did it? Is that rain's deli in Vernon? Oh, I know. My buddy will lives up that way.

And we've been there a few times. It's excellent, excellent deli. I've, I grew up around that area too. So I'm really good. Shout out to Vernon, deli, rain, rain, rain, rain, deli. Shout out to Vernon Deli. Rain. Rain's Deli. Rain's Deli.

Shout out to Rain's Deli. In Vernon, Connecticut. In Vernon, Connecticut. I saw the post and I'm like, oh my God. Yay, William Schadener. And I thought, man, it'll be a little great to have him as a guest. You know, we can't. I don't know if we can afford.

He doesn't do, he doesn't do podcasts. Listen, he wanted the space. Yeah, he, like, so, like, he's got more important things to do than our podcast. Right. Listen, I probably can't afford him. I probably can't afford any of the original cast, but I would, I would open up an only fan just to,

just to get enough funding to, to get one of these guys in the show. I would, I would do that for you guys. I'm going to, I'm going to take a screenshot of his Twitter bio where it says no podcasts. Oh, man, I thought you're going to end that differently and do a screenshot. Something else. Okay. All right. So he doesn't do it. So I guess next would be John Lupacard, right?

Patrick Stewart. Have you even like watched an episode with him as Captain? Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. Totally. What was that episode like? He said make it so and the crew, they did stuff because he said.

I feel like you saw a meme, and that's what your baseline is. Oh, that was an episode where he was, he was face-pombing, and there was a guy playing a trumpet. I saw that episode. A beam. And you're using that as your description. Okay. I saw another episode where he was yelling with his hand in the air and saying, what the hell or how the hell? Have you seen an episode that wasn't a meme? That's, uh, that's one to merit.

Yes! All is right in the world. There is balance. You, uh, you pushed me. I tried. Uh, so if we had to expand a little on that question, what former or current cast me, would you want to have as a guest? You. Put me podcast me.

No, if you had to have a current, let me rephrase the question. If you have to have another current or former star or guest star of Star Trek as a guest on our podcast. Who would you choose? Right there. Wow. I get it. I totally get it. I get it because of the beard. You guys are alike. You guys have something common. The deep voice. The big calves. I told you I don't have a deep voice. You have big calves.

I have massive calves. Yeah, so does so does Riker. And he's a dancer, right? He's a he's like stage and screen. I don't know. I've seen him sing. Does he sing on on TNG? No. All right, so don't know. I've seen him sing. Does he sing on TNG? No.

All right. So do you know who I'm talking about, right? Let's care. Yeah, they got the beard. Right. He had like a deep cut V. Yeah, in one episode. I have to make sure I say shirt after deep cut V

because that could be disastrous. What about you, Brad? Star Trek cast member, current performer, who would you want on the show here with us? Probably Brett Spinner, Data Spiner. Spiner? Yeah, I think. I've seen him spin. Spent.

Oh, Brett, I love that guy. That guy is great as data. Probably one of my favorite characters of all time. I would, I would happen to say, Will Wheaton. Will Wheaton just seems like the kind of guy that you would want to go to the bar with and just kind of hang out. Oh, totally. I would buy that guy five to 10 bars of beers. If you bought him a bar, he'd be okay.

Yeah, I'm fine with bar two. That would be, uh, a lot of beers. Yeah, my wife would be like, Hey, where's that down payment for the house and, Let it be a seven. My wife would be like, hey, where is that down payment for the house? And shit, sweetheart, I'm sorry. Well, honey, I bought, will we eat in a bar? Well, why can't we'll eat in by his own bar? Well, mind your business. That's why just like that.

Right. I got you, buddy. I'll have you back on that. So if Picard, Kirk, Riker, and Data, walk into a bar, who is able to get a date easier? Who's leaving that bar with a date? That's actually a tough question. Yeah, I'd like to see Kirk and and Riker go right here go at it. But both of those guys were ladies men Kirk and

Riker yeah yeah I'm gonna tell you is Picard it's the voice. Who doesn't who doesn't love Picard's voice who doesn't love Patrick Stewart's voice nobody that's who Wait what wait who doesn't wait who doesn't not wait who doesn't You broke me Listen anything that Patrick Stewart has voiced Ridiculous or not it, it's been iconic. So remember, he does the voice over in Ted, right? He does the narrator.

And he's an American dad as the CIA director. They got him to say like the most ridiculous things. And it sounds iconic coming out of Patrick Stewart. So I'm going to say Picard gets the ladies. Right, who are you gonna say? I can call her the Riker, man. Go on the Riker? What is with you guys in Riker?

He's wonderful. He's wonderful. He's wonderful. I totally saw a TNG. I just went over like four episodes with you. What does TNG say before? The next generation. Oh, you got it. I'm proud of you. I'm so proud of you.

That's another Demarit, without you, mate. You're back at zero. Oh, well, hey, you know what? Even so, even so, I'm not negative as right now. There's still time time they're still time Don't yet Was there anything else that you guys wanted to you know playing out about the episode? naked naked time

All right, you what was I bread? You hit the nail in the head. Are you trying to do my sexy voice? Yeah, all right What was that Brad you Hit the nail in the head are you trying to do my sexy voice? No, I can't do that. All right some of the Demerat Told you it's all you You know I guess this is I supposed to be. Brize always carrying negative demarrads. And because Judah had made fun of me, I'll take away a demarrad from Drew. Woo!

Yeah! Yeah. All is right with the world again. I feel weightless off my shoulders. Those are those beautiful, beautiful shoulders. Yes, sir, shoulder, daddy. All right, guys, so before we close this up, for the sake of our Excel spreadsheet,

where would you rate this episode compared to everything when I compared to but on a scale of one to 10 what would you rate this episode I think looking at the episode as a whole it was a solid six for me. It it wasn't absolutely trash was an horrible wasn't absolutely trash, it wasn't horrible, it was a dumpster fire, it entertained me, made me laugh my ass off on several key points. But I think the reason why I didn't get any higher was primarily because that random last bit of, we time traveled at the end kind of blurb that made absolutely no sense to me at all. But overall solid six. For the listener at home, the part that Brian was laughing about was when Spock was crying.

Just so it was. Hey, I'm not that much. Come on. Drew, what about you, buddy? And a skill of one to ten, where you, uh, where you put this. Drew, what about you buddy? And a skill of one to 10, where you, uh, where you put this. Oh, man, yeah, I, I mean, the, uh, the time travel stuff was kind of ridiculous. So that's going to deduct some, some points right off the bat. I mean, this is, this is a better than the average, uh, episode for the most part. But then you kind of have that, you know, oh, we're going so fast. We're going backwards.

Huh? You've never, wait, you've never oh, we're going so fast, we're going backwards. Huh? You've never, wait, you've never done that? No. You should try one day. It's fine. I will, I will have to. Yeah. In order to try that.

But yeah, I mean, like, I think we got some nice dialogue between, you know, Spock and McCoy. And especially when they're talking about his vital signs, you kind of get a little bit insight into their history of kind of just taking shots at each other play fully back and forth. Plus we all got some insight into Spock's like real emotions and how he has to kind of deal with controlling those.

We got some insight into some of the crew's deepest, darkest secrets. But like at the end of the day, like I have to try to figure out whether or not I would leave this on if I was looking through the channels and maybe, maybe not, it kind of depends on the mood of men. So I think that's going to land me at about a five. Okay, I can respect that. I'm going to give this one an eight. No, I'm sorry. Give it one a seven. Misleading title aside. I thought this was a solid entry. And this is the kind of episode that keeps me hooked. This is the kind of thing I expect to see. Episodes

deep into a show where we start breaking down what makes these characters tick. Right? So by stripping away their inhibitions, we get a deeper understanding of, you know, why character X is doing, you know, anything, you know, what their motivations are. We have a fully, mostly, fully assembled a fully, mostly fully assembled original series crew, right, with the exception of a check-off. And we have more shirt-terry from Kirk. You know, this is the kind of episode that will keep me, you know, enthralled. And again, I'm waiting for that one where I'm going to be like, okay, I don't want to do this anymore. But apparently that happens in season three according to what Brad Rubin for me.

Yeah. Well, I mean, look, I think that we're going to have some of our most fun with those episodes quite honestly. I hope so. Those those really bad episodes that will encounter inevitably, like those are going to be those really bad episodes that will encounter inevitably, like those are gonna be the fun ones to review. In my opinion. Yeah, I was reading on, I think it was memory alpha. The show's budget was dramatically slashed, which resulted in lower quality episodes overall,

which in turn hurts ratings, and then leads to the cancellation. So there's obviously a cause and effect there. But I think we're going to keep rolling with the hits in the meantime, right? At least through next episode, which the one we were watching next is called next is called the enemy within. It doesn't work so well. It does. The century, the, the solitude voice is over. Yeah. All right.

So the next episode we're going to watch is called the enemy within in this episode, a transport of malfunctions, but it's Captain Kirk and the two people, one good and one evil. And neither of them are capable functioning separately, just like me on a Monday morning. But I don't know, this one sounds good, you know, it sounds solid. I, who doesn't love a good evil twin story? Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen this one, but this one is fairly famous, you know, I mean, you've seen probably a number of memes come from it, you know, the two curks kind of like squaring off. It's almost like the spider man's pointing at each other.

Oh my god. Do we have a Kirk pointing at each other meme? I don't think so necessarily, but yeah, I mean, I'm excited to see how this all shakes out. I might be able to make one a Kirk points in each other meme. That'd be cool. Maybe. We'll see. Yeah. All right. Other than that, man, I'm excited.

Listen, I love you guys, and it's real fun. Do this with you every week. And I hope you guys are having as even just half the amount of fun that I am. Oh, definitely. All right. So until next week, good night everyone. Good night everybody.

It's naked time. Mm. Mm. Naked time. I'm not doing it. Thanks for listening to yet another Star Trek podcast. We're a part of the Red Throw Sessions Network. This episode was reported on March 8, 2022, and is hosted by Brad, Drew, and me, Majeed. As always, three time and boy Gittu Champion Drew edits the episode to make a sound.

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