94. Press F to Pay Respects

About this episode

The episode discusses the portrayal of red shirt deaths in various Star Trek episodes and their impact on the narrative.

Casual Trek’s month celebrating Red Shirts continues as we have a look at Star Trek episodes which have thrown away the lives of extras in order to raise the stakes. In “The Apple”, we get the highest red shirt body count as a planet wants people to die which is sad, as they won’t get to live long enough to see the most D&D cartoon-looking cave mouth ever! In “The Bonding” one extra dies, which hits everyone really hard, especially her son and The Boy, who went through this before. Finally “Now the Battle to the Strong” gives Miles another opportunity to sing the M.A.S.H. theme tune as Bashir and Jake Sisko encounter the horrors of war! Timecodes: 00:01:26 What Non-Star Trek Thing We’ve Been Enjoying: Disney’s Pixar’s Hoppers & Pokopia 00:12:40 Star Trek: The Original Series “The Apple” 00:47:12 Star Trek: The Next Generation “The Bonding” 01:20:25 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Now the Battle to the Strong” Talking points include: Miles is not a fan of imperialist colonialism, Disney’s Pixar’s Hoppers is NOT Avatar, the Watership Down experience, traumatic cartoons, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where it’s all Saw Traps, Charlie does NOT have a Pokopia problem…

Topics covered

• Star Trek episodes
• red shirts
• character deaths
• colonialism
• trauma in media
• Dungeons & Dragons
• animated adaptations

Keywords

• Star Trek
• red shirts
• The Apple
• The Bonding
• Now the Battle to the Strong
• Disney
• Pixar
• trauma
• colonialism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Disney, Pixar

Books & works: Star Trek, The Apple, The Bonding, Now the Battle to the Strong, Watership Down, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dr Who, Space: 1999

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