About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of completing Star Trek: The Original Series, focusing on the episodes Spock's Brain and The Enterprise Incident.

One season is all that stands between us and our years-long goal of completing Star Trek: The Original Series. Yes, that season might be uniquely bad by series standards, but we are determined to push through any deep hurting that may result in order to achieve our goal. First up, an all-timer dumb-dumb episode in Spock's Brain, and the surprisingly solid The Enterprise Incident. CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 182: Star Trek: Spock's Brain and The Enterprise Incident (00:00:17) - Intro. (00:03:45) - Why season 3 is Like This. (00:16:24) - Launching into this season of hell with Spock's Brain. (00:22:40) - Who made this episode, and why is it in this state. (00:27:52) - Pressing the "make everyone fall down" button so you can steal a brain. (00:37:27) - The horrors of the caveman planet. (00:41:37) - RoboSpock. (00:51:27) - I...KNOW...EVERYTHIIIIIING! (00:58:30) - They saved Spock's brain. (01:03:05) - Break! (01:03:32) - We're back, and it's onto The Enterprise Incident. (01:15:16) - The creatives involved in this episode, and the real life naval event that inspired the episode. (01:23:00) - Veering into the Neutral Zone like a road rage incident…

People in this episode

Host: The Nextlander Watchcast

Topics covered

• Star Trek
• The Original Series
• Season 3
• Spock's Brain
• The Enterprise Incident
• Romulans
• Vulcan

Keywords

• Star Trek
• Spock's Brain
• The Enterprise Incident
• Season 3
• Romulans
• Vulcan
• TV podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Star Trek: Spock's Brain, The Enterprise Incident

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