About this episode

The episode explores whether Nathan can be convinced to prefer Jean-Luc Picard over James T. Kirk through selected episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Space. The final frontier, and the setting for innumerable science fiction books, movies, TV shows, and video games. Space being such a vast and, as far as we know, blank canvas makes it the perfect medium upon which to project stories about ourselves and our place in the universe, a fact of which many properties have taken full advantage, but perhaps none more memorably than Star Trek. Despite the Federation’s first appearance predating the end of the Cold War by decades, this legendary sci-fi franchise is not unknown to Magellans at the Movies. We actually dove into Star Trek a few episodes ago, putting our two cents towards that oldest and most heated of nerd debates: Kirk or Picard? If you listened to that episode, you’ll know that Star Trek novice Nathan ultimately voted Kirk, having gone into it without much experience of Jean-Luc Picard, a bias Elliot wishes to resolve here and now! That’s right, Trekkies, in today’s slightly unusual podcast, we’ll be tacking a coda onto our Enterprise captain contest by seeing if Nathan can be brought to the Picard side through three (count ‘em!) handpicked episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The tense political thrills of The…

Topics covered

• Star Trek
• science fiction
• TV shows
• character study
• debate
• cultural impact

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