First, we wrap up the weekend at Fort Collins Comic Con. Then, when KSM become the zoo animals, we revisit our discussion from the very first Star Trek episode “The Cage”. Are zoos a net good? What of animal autonomy? Will Becca ever recover from hitting that groundhog?
If that time capsule your class did in 1987 was opened in a billion years, what would they think of your polaroid picture from your summer vacation to Gatorland, some poisoned raw meat, and a Bop It!?
When Kirk and Spock are medically converted to fish people, they discover a whole civilization of fish people in danger of quakes. The Youngs and the Olds have different ideas about a lot of things, and their solution to their differences is not something we expected from Saturday morning / after school special style television!
When the Enterprise falls into the coat pocket of the universe, astrophysics Ph.D. Erin Macdonald beams up to debunk the junk and make us laugh! Will we successfully network a Mac and a PC? Does Scotty have a box of old cables and adapters? Will this episode of Star Trek: The Afterschool Special get us all to set aside our differences and get along already?
When “Honey, I Shrunk the Enterprise Crew” kicks off, they discover a civilization in need. What’s a teeny tiny species gotta do to get some attention ’round here!?
When Harry Mudd shows back up with a love potion, will Spock and Chapel finally hook up? Isn’t it somewhat frightening how much like a certain former US President Mudd is like? What crazy scheme will he cook up next?
When the Enterprise returns to the Shore Leave planet to find its caretaker dead and the computer not on the fritz but seemingly sentient, will the crew strand Landru-Sphinctertron 3000 on the planet or help it reach its freedom?
This week Star Trek asks, “What if what humans thought were witches and devils were actually aliens?” If some people are simply innately driven and motivated by fear, how do we leverage our own humanism to meet them where they are and drive society forward instead of backward?
When the Enterprise finds itself in the “Little Shop of Horrors” universe, Sarah and Allie create a new Pokémon and take on racial supremacy.