As the Enterprise recovers from a nasty pandemic, we learn that Spock has a terminal case. Only one drug in the galaxy can save him, but when Orion pirates intercept the marijuana shipment, Kirk makes an offer they (almost) can’t refuse in order to save his friend.
Star Trek meets Mission Impossible this week as Kirk and Spock join the cast of a heist movie, “ONE OF OUR CUNEIFORM TABLETS IS MISSING!” Will they recover the lost ark and keep the peace in the Middle East?
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?