Trekkin' in the 90s: Recent Episodes
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Two friends pick a random episode from the Star Trek series The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, or Voyager and talk about it.
In this episode, we talk about the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Explorers" in which Ben and Jake go on an expedition in a primitive space craft to replicate a historical voyage made by ancient Bajorins. We'll talk about the relationship between Ben and Jake Sisko and the incredible chemistry the two actors have together. We'll also talk about some of the other things we like about the episode (the amazing 90s retro-mechanical-future design of the light-sail ship) and the things we didn't think worked quite as well (most of Julian Bashir's B-plot.)
Link and Emmy talk about the late Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where we meet Worf's brother (no, his other brother) and talk about the concept of the Prime Directive. They discus what they think is good and bad about Starfleet's golden rule. They also analyze the positions of both Picard (who seems to want to uphold the Prime Directive at all costs) and Nikolai (who thinks the Prime Directive shouldn't prevent them from saving a dying species) and where we think both of them undermine their arguments in some way.
It was a really thought provoking episode for us and we hope you'll enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed talking about it.
"Saints Preserve Us!" We take a break from the world of video games to launch a new Pilot that's all about Star Trek series from the 90s. In each episode, we'll take one episode from either The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, or Voyager, break it down and use it as a launch pad for for an interesting discussion about some topic related to the episode.
We're starting with an episode from what's arguably everyone's least favorite Trek of the three, Voyager. And we're starting with an episode that's not particularly well-liked with "Spirit Folk." While the episode is not great, it does give us a chance to explore the ways in which Star Trek has recognized the person-hood of artificial life forms and the ethics of using technology that seems capable of mass producing sentient beings at will.
This will be a new bi-weekly-ish series that will (hopefully) come out every other Monday. If you want to watch the episode we're discussing before listening to this, you'll want to look for season 6, episode 17 of Star Trek: Voyager. All of the Star Trek shows we'll be talking about are available on Netflix as of this episode being published.