Yet Another Star Trek Podcast - Ep 029: (TOS S01E16) The Galileo Seven

Episode Date: October 11, 2022

This week The Gang watches The Magnificent Seven, an action packed western... what... what do you mean I'm talking about the wrong thing? It says it right here, The Galileo Seven... wait... crap.  Hold on be right back...  Okay, The Gang watches an episode where a shuttle crashes, Kirk can't find them, some people die, yadda yadda yadda everyone ends up on the ship happy, the end! Be sure to check out our website, social media, and join our Discord! Links for all are listed below: Website | Discord | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | TikTok | YouTube Drop us an email at [e-mail]! “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

Good morning evening afternoon day. I don't really know what time. Welcome to yet another Star Trek podcast. I am Brad, your host for the time period. And as always, joining me are the two wonderfully foolish individuals, the man who is truly envious of Ensen Mounds hair, Magi. And Bob, an overall vibe. Oh, hello. Are you doing there, buddy? Hi. How's everything going there? It's going good.

It's going good. It's going good. I was wondering if you just came from a post-morning work out? Yeah, and I thought of why there aren't any bodybuilders in Starfleet. I mean, it would come in handy, right? I mean, they would probably have tough times fitting through the Jeffrey tubes.

Hmm. But they don't have to be in engineering, they could be in security. Then they can't fit it in the Jeffrey's tubes when an intruder comes on board. Who's Jeffrey? Jeffries tubes when an intruder comes on board. Who's Jeffrey?

Moving on. As always joining us drew the man who has the plan. The man with the most, how you doing there buddy? Dude, I don't know what you're talking about. I have no plan. I don't have the most anything. You have the most calves. Yeah, the most calves. Yeah, well, okay, I'll go with that. You have the most tolerance of me and G.

No, that's not true. That's debatable. Yeah. John, it's been, it's been about, about two weeks, a most for us. For since we've last talked, I know the lovely listeners probably just gone one week. What's new and shaken with you guys? Well, I just got back from vacation, which is pretty cool.

How was that buddy who did a weather turnout? Very well for you. Well, it was cloudy the entire time, which was disappointing, but in hindsight, I think it worked out for the best because we did a lot of outdoor activities. And I am prone to sunburn. And thankfully, when it's cloudy, the sunscreen does extra work for me. But there's no sunshine inside on hill though. It's always cloudy and fluffy. Yeah, but you could still get sunburn through the clouds. True. Very true.

But on the flip side, we did try to go see a sunrise up on Cadillac mountain in Maine, and it was cloudy, and then we tried to see a sunset cruise, and you know, Bar Harbor, and it was cloudy and foggy. So, you know, that didn't work out so well. But everything else about the trip was really wonderful. Did you go to London by chance? Maine. So it might have well been. London, literally. Yeah, yeah, Maine, England.

It was so bad. I don't even laugh at that. That was just bad. It was so bad. That's why I'm laughing. I'm laughing because it was terrible I'm laughing because you're terrible Worst so guys the the other day my wife and I were walking and we ended up coming across a straight

Kitten and and I swear to God, if we were not expecting a child, I would totally have just taken that cat home. I've already gone over to feed it twice, and it is the most friendliest kitten you'll ever meet. Well, now you have a cat. Another cat. Yeah. I mean, bouncing baby Brad would love a little bit another cat.

I didn't know it was. I wasn't aware there was a spawn point in Atlanta Clearly clearly But but I hey anybody any of our listeners Who know a good home please wait everybody's gonna listen to this until like after the baby after it's been adopted Never mind. I'm gonna find a home for the cat listeners. Don't worry You'll keep us updated the cat will be taking care of. This is gonna be something that you need to update a sign on a weekly basis now. More than likely you'll be me adopting the cat probably will end up be happy. I'm gonna

I'm going to be going after we record to feed the cat. That's that's my plan. This is why what happens though? Have you given the cat a name yet? Oh, yeah, it's it's called drusted. Oh, Cat then that's a horrible name It would that's the street we found it on It's also a nerdy name as well. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I mean this does I approve That you know it's my wife didn't get it true, but Bella was like, oh, that's really adorable. You're like, a turtle get it.

Yeah. Yeah, you have a cat now. Once you name a cat, the cat's ears. Yeah, you know, my wife was the one that named it, so I don't feel that bad. She named it, resident? Oh, yeah, she did, because it was this district that we found it on.

So it was like, hey, we're calling them it resident. Oh, gosh, it is this district we found it on so it was like hey, we're calling them Dresden. It was like, oh, okay. I guess that's a thing now. I guess that's now our cat apparently. That's what happened with Metro. I was sitting on the train heading in the Comic Con and I'm like I want that cat his name is Metro And then he was my cat. Yeah. Yeah. He was a kid. Shout out to GD for finding them. Shout out to Druver bringing food. Mm. Oh, it's right because you, Majid, you ended up texting Drew and you drew, you brought the

food for him. Right. And then I sent my wife a flood of photos and text messages about the cat and she had a corral, one of our friends, Bill, to help her out, go retrieve the cat. And they were expecting to have to like chase this cat around and try to wrangle him into the cage and everything. And he just comes walking right up to them

and rubbing out their legs. Yeah, yeah, Metro is real, real friendly. Yeah, that hasn't changed. No, it hasn't changed hasn't Dax though, that seems less than Friendly at times, so he's just not friendly with new people. I mean, I've known I thought I've known Dax for like 20 years Which is majeed like I am I've like Dax Dax back to my friend He's also not a he's not fan of Wayne either. I think there's a pattern here.

He calling my cat racist. I'm not calling you a cat racist. I didn't put a label on it. I feel like you are. I feel like you are. Oh, my send them to the cast like me. Gentlemen, shall we, shall we move on away from this wonderful cat topic and into the episode? Right. We'll stop talking about racist cats in true house. When you know, when you get a chance, what you should do is you should go on YouTube and look up racist coffee. When you get a chance, it is a hilarious video. You'll, you'll get a real kick out of it. Fine.

I'll watch that if you watch racist gift basket by Gabriel Glacias. I watched that last, actually this past weekend. Okay. That was that was hilarious. Did you watch the one where he brought his friend? Man, we're just B.S.A. Come on. Let's let's talk about the episode. Okay, just real quick, speaking of episode,

she hoaked premieres this week. And that that's it. Just just saying we're not starting another podcast. I'm sorry. I got a baby on the way, I can't deal with this. For baby on the way? You've never mentioned it on this podcast ever before. [♪ Music playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing We watched the Gallio 7, an action-packed non-stop thrill ride of a Wild West-style episode. Seven gunmen from a variety of backgrounds are brought together by a vengeful young widow

to protect her town from a private army of a destructive industrialist. Did we watch the same episode? Rukative industrialist. Did we watch the same episode? I, I, I may have accidentally watched the magnificent seven instead. Which one? The one with Chris Pratt? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That was also pretty bad.

Did, did, did I miss much with this episode, guys? Honestly, I don't even know what happened to you. But so I don't know what happened. All right, all right. You know what? I watched a few trailers. Maybe I could piece this together. Just wing it. Yeah, I'll wing it. Well, Denzel, I mean, Spock.

Spock, McCoy, Scotty, and four other expendable crew members ready a shuttle for a scientific expedition. Things go horribly wrong when they hit a rough patch in space, causing the Enterprise to lose track of them and the shuttle crashing onto a planet. Everyone faces a race against time, the Enterprise scrambles to find a way to get the team before they are forced to leave, and the way team struggles to stay alive on the dangerous planet. Kirk takes action and starts to give orders to help find the lost team. Commissioner Ferris starts to butt heads with Kirk and he constantly reminds him that

they are pressed for time. Kirk is clearly trying to play peacekeeper and does his best to reassure Ferris that they will leave Per schedule. Too bad Commissioner Ferris is nothing like Commissioner Bueller. Either of you guys get that one? No? Audience I hope I hope you you kind of appreciate that one. Bueller? It's beolar. Beolar. Beolar. Beolar. Isn't it, isn't it the saying when you have to explain your drill?

I get it now. It's kind of a bad joke. Listen, if we have to explain the drill, he just cut it out of the episode. I thought we were still on a magnificent seven kick. I didn't realize we had switched. Honestly, he's totally all over the place with this one. Oh boy. Brad, yeah. Oh, totally all over the place with this one. Oh boy. Brad, yeah, listen, Brad has,

the Brad has the focus of a, I don't know, what's the opposite of John Wick? John Wick's dog. Oh, that's too soon. No, no, no, you got, I feel like I'm that dog from up where it's like squirrel Me where no, it's not true. I like that dog Everybody likes that dog

You're saying you don't like me. I got it. I got all right All right, jump move moving on spot takes point and begins to rally the crew behind his Vulcan logic The away team worked towards repairing the ship, but right off the bat we know things are not going to go well when we learn that the fuel reserves are low and three people have to stay behind once the ship is repaired. When Spock is questioned about who will stay behind. He advises that he will be the one to decide to stay and go because of course logic dictates. This goes well as much as a fart in church. That stinger is not really sitting well with anybody.

Spock is really thrown, was, his weight around in this one. Can we go back to the farting church thing, Brad? Can we, uh, you want, you want to, you want to talk about that? You want to, I feel like, I feel like you're, you're excited. Um, that's something that you, you hope for. No, you put a church every week. No, you just don't no you put a church every week. No You just don't send a church type You drink coffee to a straw

Yeah, I'm no drew Mark Freddich. No, no, no No mark that for it. You didn't keep that I don't want that for any you didn't keep that I'm sorry this isn't the first time this isn't the first time. No, it's not the first time you my my my butt back for it And you did it all the way off my back Well while the team works on repairing the shuttle one of the expendable crew members is scouting out the misty devoured planet and is killed by a giant monkey guy with glasses in a spear. I think he had glasses. I wasn't really

entirely sure like the picture I saw. It looked like he had glasses, guys. Can we talk about that costume for a moment? like he had glasses, guys. Can we talk about that costume for a moment? That was like Harry and the Henderson's meshed up with some sort of horribly bad, just wool coped. That was, oh my God. That was just a hairy guy.

Yeah, that was Majeed without his shirt on. I'm, I know, I'm naturally hairless and you know this. Even my legs are oddly hairless. It's the weirdest thing is like oh my daughter says hey Did you the you shave? Oh my gnom just naturally hairless you're welcome? I know what I'm gonna stop right now. Let's move on. I don't remember where I'm at Harry guy and the bad costume All right cool the crew of the enterprise guy in the bad costume. Alright cool. The crew of the Enterprise identify a possible planet and send it away team finding to find

the missing shuttlecraft. Sadly, Commissioner Ferris is a commissioner. I can't remember who's it. I don't know. Some dude named Ferris is really being a pain in the behind. Do spakele. Really being like, yo guys, I'm tapping my watch here. We gotta get going.

I don't even remember why he wanted to get going. Like that was how insignificant this guy was for me. It was just a ticket clock to a piece, I'm a jeep. It did not appease me. It did listen. It did not appease me. It did the opposite of appeasing.

What's the opposite of appeasing? Displeased satisfied. I'm gonna go with droos because It's true. Magi your jerk. There are anyways. By the way, the The away team is attacked a few more times by these spear-chucking monsters, killing one more of those four expendable crew members. At one point, Skydie plays with electricity, trying to scare away the monsters from the ship. I want to comment on that electricity scene, guys. That thing looked like real live electrical wires that he was handling, and was like holding a live wire. I swear it did not look like special effects and if there was kudos to them, but otherwise he could have been killed.

I wonder if that was part of the remastering too. Oh God, oh man, the remastering made me furious. Like I hated the opening sequence with the shuttlecraft and then leaving the ship. Yeah Yeah, that was pretty bad. I think it looked like an IKEA set room like when you go to IKEA and they kind of like dress the rooms That shuttle looked like that. They couldn't even stand up properly You know what's even more infuriating? I don't want to dive into this too much because you haven't finished your summary yet, but more infuriating. I don't want to dive into this too much because you haven't finished your summary yet. But the CGI on the remaster, like this remaster was put out in 2007, but Babylon 5 had better CGI in the 90s. I know. I know. Anyway, I'm sorry. No, last of the

star, last starfighter man had better CGI from the 80s. What's the last off there? From the 80s, you'd never seen it. Anyways. I'll just ask Frank. It's time. Oh, he'll tell you all about it. Yeah, he will. He'll tell no. With time being up, the crew of the enterprise

unable to find the away team, Kirk gives the order to pack up and be on their way. Unfortunately, that is roughly around the time when the away team was attacked and having two less crew members apparently made all the difference so they were able to find a way to repair the ship and take off the planet in the nick of time. Spock makes a radical decision to blow the fuel cells and have a last ditch effort to save the away team. The curve then to prize C's the blowing up of their fuel reserves and was like, there's

the shuttlecraft, let's save them and they'd be them all on board. Once on board, the crew rallied behind Spock to bring up how his decision to blow the fuel reserves was more human than logical, giving themselves a hardy good laugh. To sum up this episode, those spear-trucking monsters have better aim than stormtroopers. Spock is getting more human than he would like to admit. And sometimes, it's best to ignore those who died in the episode and just give a good hearty belly laugh. And free-stream.

Oh. Guys, that episode, we got a good laugh at the end. I didn't. Yeah. I didn't. You missed a memo like, you didn't laugh, I didn't. You missed the memo, like, yes, you did you didn't you didn't laugh. I can tell. I you're you're you're Mr. Spock.

I get it. I am. I'm not going to poop all over this episode. It's the drink coffee out of the box. It kills me every single time. Sorry. That's my last. My laugh.

You shouldn't done that to make me laugh. Don't make eye contact. Oh, God. Listen, I'm not going to poop who all those episodes. I'm not going to try to poop who all those episodes. So if I do just hit me with a do just hit me with a scratch or the mayor. But no, I this episode, man, it was rough for me. It was I'm not sure if you guys felt the same exact way. Not particularly. No, it was it to me wasn't like a bad episode. And it was very. It's very reminisce, it was reminiscing. Oh, God, gotta can't talk.

Remind me a lot of Shoreleaf in the sense that a lot happened, but yet nothing happened. Oh, I mean, at least McCoy died in Shoreleaf. We got that contrast. We did get two other crew members who died though. Yeah, there was a crew member at the very beginning who looked like me and I said, oh my God. Is that me?

And I had the rewind, I had the pause, but it wasn't me. Because you know, how would that work? I'm not Brad, I don't bend the lights. I think I'm pretty sure that guy was a bit taller than you. Honestly, every guy is a bit taller than you. Honestly, every guy is a bit taller than me. Hahaha. [♪ Music playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in I don't want to bash the episode. I want to bash the remaster. Because like that, we've seen some of the CGI so far. And to me, I think was... This is probably one of the first episodes that was the...

It felt the longest CGI was added. And that I would honestly was so much more frustrated with that. I would have rather than just left the classic stuff. Yeah, I mean, I appreciate the intentions with the remaster of these episodes, but I really don't think that it's worked out for the better overall. And this is a prime example of that.

It just, it looked like a bad video game. Yeah, quite frankly. I remember like Star Trek Voyager was out like I think right before this and the Star Trek Voyager had so much better CGI. I guess they I feel like they just didn't want to take the time or the budget for it and they were just like, no, we'll just slap some stuff together Yeah, I mean they maybe we've already grabbed it from a video game or something It's because Marvel needed all of the VFX artists to work on she hook

I haven't seen yet, so we'll it comes out Thursday. You're fine. Oh, okay cool. Well then hey Brad That CGI looks bad. What day do you think it is? Today, that's fair. That's good. I mean I should technically correct. Yeah, which is the best kind of correct. Yeah That's fine. I'll out Question for you. What she Hulk? Are you familiar with Hulk? The green guy, the big green guy Hulk Hogan? That's fair. That's

Let me tell you something brother Are you familiar with the big green guy as smashes things in Marvel movies? Green giant. He doesn't, he doesn't like vegetables. Do you know who Lou for ignoise? He has a bodybuilder. Yeah. So just picture him, but green.

And that's the whole rip shorts with no shirt on. So green, but like GD and the gym. Yeah, I wish. He's at least six feet tall to the moon. Anyway, so it's the Hulk's cousin. Who happens to be a sheep? Okay. How did she get like the powers?

It was a blood transfusion. In the comics, it was due to a, she was sick, and Bruce gave her some of the blood. And I don't know if they're going to do the same as I think in the show. It was accidental in the show they said. So we'll see. I think in the comics, he knew the risk.

In the show they just said it's an accident. I think I'm getting he knew the risk and the show that he says an accident. I think I'm getting tired of all the Disney Marvel Star Wars TV shows. I'm getting kind of exhausted from all that stuff. You know, I think I took us too far off course. Let's get back to Star Trek. No, but you know, we can definitely pivot back to Star Trek because with Brad's comments, they're also milking the Star Trek property. Like they...

Oh, not as... It's not as bad as the other stuff. Did they have a gorn show coming out, according to the truth? Wait, what? That was... Hang on, he didn't see it. He didn't see it.

You couldn't get him. You couldn't get him. He didn't see it. It was a joke. It was a joke on Reddit. It's not real. There is no corn show. This thing Brad was all there for it by the way. He's like, that's the best episode. There were, you know, they had episode titles that they published like born with the wind. That's right. They did do

Picard. I anyways, we're getting way off track gentlemen. So, so, whoa, with the whole purpose of this episode being in a way team trying to do some sort of scientific expedition, they crash and there's a race against time. To me, the whole, the episode was a whole felt like it was lacking like a major plot point driver that that do whole episode was based upon the crash and there was really no nothing else that kind of pushed it other than A we got to leave which to me is also a little unrealistic where it's like if a shouldercraft crashed, like the enterprise would probably context our fleet to get some sort of other ship to at least come in instead or to pick up this commissioner guy. Well, I mean, we're starting to see the holes

in a lot of the plot points of the original series episodes. You know, they're very basic, broad brush strokes with not a lot of detail filled in. And I think kind of hamper some of these episodes, you know, there's a lot of classics that are just top to bottom excellent. And those are the ones that are fleshed out. And unfortunately, this is maybe not one of those episodes that's as fleshed out, you know, there's just, you know, one problem to address and just a very loose ticking clock trying to force things along and you know really not a lot going on.

Micheede, how about you? How did you find that that taking talk in this episode? Was it too forced for you? Because I knew you mentioned that this episode didn't really resonate with you. Honestly, I was it was torture for me. I was on my phone once at a time. Was it just it was a really that like not interesting? Yeah, it was not attention grabbing to me at all. Like, if you asked me about this episode in a day or two, I couldn't tell you anything. Other than the guy that I thought was me for five seconds. Um, I mean, I wasn't, my attention wasn't held 100% of the time either. I was multitasking as well.

But I don't think I would go as far as, uh, you know, as Majid has gone with his feelings on it. So what I guess through was one of the things that you, you enjoyed about this episode. Well, I, I think it was kind of interesting to show how Spock's brain works when the situation is in front of him. You know, he's trying to address everything logically and, you know, find the mathematics of the situation to a fault. You know, and we're seeing the crew rebel against him for that very reason. It's like, yeah, we get that you want to do the right thing and save as many people as possible, but you're removing the human equation from the situation. And that doesn't really resonate with crew members.

I do find it kind of strange that we keep going back to this disobedient crew though. Like it seems like every episode, there's somebody that's just not following orders and you know rejecting the orders that are given whether it's from the captain or or Spock or anybody else. That part's getting a little old. that parts getting a little old Yeah, I think they they rely upon that for a lot of conflict points in the episode because it's I feel they could have done without it to your point is like it could have been an episode and you know the people could have died still With them following orders actually now I'm talking about I think it would have been better if they did it that way because then that would have showed Spock like you know the consequences of his orders, right?

But it to me it's it's more of they they have a Idea of what happens and then they write around that idea Yeah, that seems to be the case like Like, it's a situation where it's, what if X happened? And then let's come up with all these different, you know, plot points to, you know, revolve around that. And it doesn't always pan out, in my opinion. No, unfortunately, it doesn't. Some things, I think, in some previous episodes, it does a little bit better because they have more substance around it, but this is just more of a

Hey, we have an episode taking taking clock and then Then that's it and I I think we've hit that lull in the season because it you know you and I we've had experience with previous Star Trek series and we can tell when they have like Like they're just kind of making episodes to make episodes Yeah to fill out this season rather than bring more substance to it and to me I think that's kind of where we're at at the moment. Yeah, I'm gonna be kind of just hitting moments of brilliance scattered throughout just pockets of Boring kind of just hitting moments of brilliance scattered throughout just pockets of boring. Yeah, I think unfortunately I think we're really out that because it's... there could be so much more towards their actual pushing as the actual story, but there is no substance in this. There's no like underlying thing When we come from episodes such as like balance of terror and then we go to shore leave and then the gallows

Seven it's such a drop in quality and in writing and in actually I think I think they're looking more towards Trying to have a variety of different episodes because this is a I would say more of an action filled if you could call it action filled because it's like more or spence Spence I'd probably say more because you're not sure like already gonna die who's gonna survive all this planet There are a few episodes I'm looking forward to coming up

Number 18, which is Arena. Core Martial, which is 20. And Space seed, which I think is the first appearance of Ricardo Montabon as a ton. Yep. So those should be actually coming around the corner. Pretty clear. 18 1820 and 22 Next one we have the

wire of Goat those gothos yeah, we're goat so so we're not going by the production schedule. We're going by the I think the release schedule and I'm pretty sure 17 is is is squire of gothos goat is And I'm pretty sure 17 is is is the square of gothos goethos Yeah, so we got square gothos next arena Tomorrow was yesterday court Marshall Return of the arcons I never even heard of that one and then space seed so it gets space seeds a few weeks out of sequence so So So Drew you know, it's funny with Squire, the Squire of Guthos. I know zero information of that episode.

However, I know one of the characters, like it's a very memorable character shows up in this from from several scenes, like I've seen it in like video games. And I'm so intrigued to see what this episode is. If it's actually going to be entertaining or if it's just going to be another flop. Yeah, I'm kind of the same boat too. I didn't realize until you had mentioned it, but yeah, I'm not familiar with the episode itself, but I am familiar with one of the or the main antagonist so it would be interesting I mean this is you know this whole

experiment that we're going through right now with this show has been fun kind of seeing you know all these different things that are legendary in the Star Trek mythos and whether or not they still hold up and some of them do some of them don't you know. I can quite easily see this being the episode that we just watched the Ikeleo 7 is just being one of those episodes it's so forgotten by most. Yes, there really wasn't much Your drive on that what a cool title though the Galileo 7 like I really love the title of this I was excited. I mean I've offered a flight to us as the Bradford 3 Nice Nice, I mean it reminds was it um 12 angry men is there was a movie where the title kind of interested,

like always intrigued me, magnificent seven, the Bradford three. We could be, we could catch. When they kind of do things like that, it always kind of intrigues me to just like always is going to be about like, what's the conflict. I kind of feel like they're trying to do a play between that type of style where it's like a conflict between the seven. It just really didn't move much though.

I guess one of the highlights for this episode for me was the man in the monkey suit. Like it just was, it was a guy in a, I remember seeing like one clip where it's like it looked like he had glasses on and it was just so so hilarious. Respectual effects from that era. I mean, if you couldn't see what he was going to kill, I mean, you know, you were glasses. Nobody fought you for it. You know, let I mean, you know, you were glasses. Nobody fall to you for it. You know, let him live, brass, let him live. I, I will, I will. I mean, he probably needs better prescription

because the way they, they're throwing those spears and we're not doing too well. I mean, but, gee, how about you, buddy? What was one of the highlights for this episode for you? When it ended. But jeede, how about you buddy? What was one of the highlights for this episode for you when it ended? Well speaking of the ending what about that that ending there?

Ignoring the two crew members that died and then just doing a good old belly laugh with Spock is in like you know realizing that he made an Emotional decision. This is why in a couple of episodes, Kirk's gonna be court marshals because of the amount of lives that he's lost in a ship under his command. And he just laughing on the rights. Right. Again, in my head, Canon, this whole series is one recount of Kirk's in-net leadership.

And he's being court-martial for his actions. It did feel weird though with the laugh at the end, right? Like, that just felt so out of place and so unusual. Yeah. It felt like it's supposed to be like the end of a sitcom. But nothing of this episode was funny. The trauma was funny. I guess. I mean, they could have just ended on the line where they're like, you know, saying about

how Spock did something human and he's just straight face says no. That Kirk just like shakes his head smiles and then gives the order to depart or whatever, you know, like there were much better ways to do that. Oh, completely. It felt so forced. Yeah. Yeah, it really did. Oh, I'm sorry, it wasn't glasses.

You were just wearing a mask. I found a picture of the actual monster on memory alpha. And it's pretty horrific. These monsters are pretty horrific. Well, those monsters are pretty horrific. It's like sash watch, man. Yeah. Well, I mean, if, you know, you had that much hair, just like Jean does, and you'd be pretty worried about that. I mean, I have a lot of hair in certain places, not everywhere. So with the webcam says, buddy, that's fair. I need not sure. Uh, that's not what the webcam says, buddy. That's fair.

I need a haircut. And there's also a picture on memory alpha of Scotty electrocuting the ship. It looks like he's holding some sort of like torch welder. And I'm just like, that can't be safe. Like, if they're actually like, oh man, like, I don't know, like, back then, when they were doing special effects,

they didn't really carry in a lot of circumstances. So wouldn't surprise me if they just like, hey, here's some rubber gloves, hold this. They didn't have any sort of safety measures on set, you know? Not like what we do do nowadays if I'm not mistaken James doing like fought in wars and stuff so like this is nothing like didn't he like lose part of his thumb or something yeah he's he's missing like part of one of his fingers or something yeah so yeah he he was a he fought in World War two. So, you know, doing this little shindig with

this electrical thing is probably no big deal to him. Let me tell you something, lady. I don't know. I was a bad Scotty impression. That was real bad. Does he ever say, lady? I, I, so he's a pirate now? you guys are worse than I am Sorry gentlemen anything else you want to talk about this episode because this is this is becoming another Another short leave where we've covered everything within like what 10 minutes it felt yeah pretty much I mean this this really not a lot going on here. I'm sure we've had more going on in this. It did.

Well, just more chaos. I kind of wish they'd time travel so this episode never happened. Well, you may get your wish in a future episode, Mj. Is that a spoiler on their bread? Well, they do time travel in future episodes. With a time crystal. We don't talk about time crystals.

Is that how you time travel? Drew, anything you want to comment on, sir? No, I'm ready to give my score. All right. So this was a very interesting episode and not necessarily in the good way. So Drew I'll start with you buddy. Where did you fall in this episode? You know I don't think I was as negative about it as it sounds. Certainly not one of the finest episodes of Star Trek.

And there are some questionable decisions made with the writing and characterization of Spock and how the crew reacted to him. But I did find it to be an entertaining episode overall. If it were on TV and I'm surfing through the channels, if I caught it midway through, I'd probably let it play out I'd leave it on. I don't think I would turn it off But I wouldn't go out of my way to find this episode and rewatch it either and I'll think there's really anything of substance there That's necessary to revisit so That's gonna lead me to a six

Wow I'm assuming Magi that's a little bit of a higher score than you had anticipated. Yeah, double. It's double what I was thinking. Well, really, so then what where you're where you're sure to have three. Three. Really? Three. Wow. Like, so I had more fun sending you memes about the episode. And what did I say? I think when they landed and Spock was handing out orders, I expected the dialogue to be you and you, put on each record to go explore the planet.

No, leave the faceers, just go. So just to clarify, you liked it less than the cage. That was, so you liked the cage more than this episode. So at least with the cage, I was off my phone. This one, I had no interest. Even my wife was like, what is this? The only other episode that you gave this low of a score was what are little girls made of.

I think part of that was also a bad title. That title was very deceiving. What I find interesting here is how basically our scores for Galileo 7 and Shoreleaver are essentially juxtaposed. Was that word mean? Well, I gave Shoreleaver 4, you gave it a 7. I gave Galileo 7 a 6, you gave it a 3.

So kind of flip flop there, buddy. I mean, 1's a six, one's a seven. But the difference between the two is the same. It's a four point spread. I don't know numbers or a three point spread. I think with this episode, I was a little bit more... I was more entertained with Shoreleave than I was with this episode um however it wasn't it wasn't an episode to your point through that that I absolutely hated it wasn't anything that I found offensive it wasn't

something that I felt was quite out just really bad um overall I think it could have been done better in several areas. There were definitely moments that kind of like WTF, uh, the whole like laughing at the end was like, why are they doing that? It felt like they're trying to do a sitcom of sorts. Have you never left through the pain before? You just sometimes have to do it. However, with that said, it wasn't bad. I'm at a six for this one. Wow. Brad feels equally strong about bad episodes.

So, yeah, it wasn't, again, to me, it wasn't really that bad. Could have been better better could've been worse I Can't think of how the episode could be worse They could have been racist You could have included Nazis they could have just could have drank coffee from a straw. My cup's too far. I can't drink from it in front of me anymore.

This show needs more car urban. That's it. You can make anything better. Just put car urban. That's true. We do the Carltonton I thought you said car Wait car urban car urban I thought you tried to say carbon but like stumbled over your words Listen I had I had to

Like car in it's Fred car barbin carbs Maybe from a bread, carb, arbon, carbs. Kind of love carbs. Gentlemen, anything else we want to discuss or cover before we go into the next week's episode? No, the fastest we get away from this pile of 2020 garbage. The better. Well, you may regret those words after you see the next

episode. Then again, you may not. You may actually be very, very thrilled that you said those things. I don't really know. But we will know next week when we meet to discuss next week's episode, the Squire ofothos. The enterprise is captured by Trilin, the childish ruler of Trilin. Trilin. Trilin. Trilin. Trilin. Whatever. Trilin. Trilin. Trilin. Got it. Trilin. Am I hosting this one? Yes, yes you are. All right, good. So Drew, you better get that right. Alright, good. So Drew, you better get that right. I will. Well folks, as always, thanks for tuning in.

Take care. Bye. Bye. Love you. Drink coffee from a straw. Thanks for listening to yet another Star Trek podcast. We're a part of the retro sessions network. This episode was recorded on August 16, 2022, in his hosted by Brad, Drew, and Magi. This episode was edited by Drew, because you know, he's the master of all things editing.

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