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Between the Seasons 1 and 2
This week is pure behind the scenes goodness. We discuss the buyout of Desilu by Paramount. We discuss the tension on Gene Coon which led to his leaving. And we discuss a bit about the publicity tour that Shatner and Nimoy went on all. Back next week with Bread and Circuses!
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The Trouble with Tribbles
This week! Ken talks about a fan fiction he wrote. The writer discusses Roddenberry’s “Meddling” as he calls it and thinks it why this episode works so much better than it could have. We discuss comedy in Star Trek and how to use it and Matt Makes a case for Star Trek VI as his…
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TOS: I, MUDD
This week! The return of Mudd. Matt discusses the sad spoiler in the title despite it being written before spoilers were a thing. More behind the scenes drama. Spock is funny again. Matt talk about logic problems that throw him for a loop. All this and much more! Or listen on ITUNES: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-brothers-trek-podcast/id1293977925?mt=2
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TOS: The Apple
This Week! The APPLE! We discuss right at the beginning how boring space travel would probably be. Ken discusses the problem between realism and drama. We discuss the weird sexual politics both on and off the screen during this episode. Robert Justman and Spock have some snappy comebacks. We discuss how unsafe television effects were…
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TOS: The Changeling
This week! We introduce a new important member of the production crew, we talk about Swahili and Uhura. DC Fonatana’s dislike of this script, how Nomad gets left a lone alot, the importance of Nomad as a character, how the force of 90 torpedoes sounds like it might be too much, and we discuss Astro-cartography…