TOS: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - "Trek Was Always Political" Episodes

About this episode

The episode explores the political themes in the Star Trek episode 'Let This Be Your Last Battlefield'.

Welcome to the first official public version of Starter Trek, where Tawny Newsome guides her friend Andrew Ti through the endless frontier of the Star Trek universe, along with their producer Jessie Earl. For our first batch of episodes, we explore some of the most overtly political episodes of Trek, starting with the subtlest of racial allegories, The Original Series episode "Let This Be Your Last Battlefield." Don't get any of that sticky makeup on you.  ▶Call us at: 323-389-7223 ▶Check out the crew's bonus shows at http://suboptimalpods.com . ▶YouTube - htt://www.youtube.com/@startertrek   ▶Subscribe to the audio podcast wherever you get your favorite podcasts: https://omny.fm/shows/startertrek ▶See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ▶A Fine Alpinist Ranch Production -  http://www.finealpinistranch.com   ✔ SOCIAL MEDIA ✔ ▶Twitter - https://x.com/yoisthisracist ▶Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/yoisthisracist/ ▶TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@suboptimalpods   ✔ CREDITS ✔ ▶Produced By Jessie Earl  ▶Edited by AJ McKeon ▶Original Music by Jay Israelson Suboptimal Premium Pods! : https://suboptimalpods.com/ Hosted on Acast. See…

People in this episode

Hosts: Tawny Newsome, Andrew Ti

Topics covered

• Star Trek
• political commentary
• racial allegories
• The Original Series
• media analysis
• comedy

Keywords

• Star Trek
• politics
• racial issues
• Tawny Newsome
• Andrew Ti
• comedy podcast
• The Original Series

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: A Fine Alpinist Ranch Production, YouTube, Omny Studio, Suboptimal Pods, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok

Books & works: Let This Be Your Last Battlefield, Star Trek

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