This week's Watchcast brings us to one of the few bright spots in this final Star Trek season in The Tholian Web. Also this week is Plato's Stepchildren, a historically significant episode that is certainly unpredictable, if nothing else.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 189: Star Trek: The Tholian Web and Plato's Stepchildren
(00:00:21) - Intro.
(00:01:44) - Starting things off with The Tholian Web.
(00:09:22) - The folks behind this episode, and various production notes.
(00:21:27) - Who doesn't love a Starship where everyone's dead?
(00:29:18) - Transporter chicanery, and Kirk's...dead...question mark?
(00:33:00) - Time for Chekov's weekly freakout, though he's not alone this time.
(00:35:21) - And here come the Tholians
(00:42:38) - Spock and Bones are at each other's throats, and man screams during funeral.
(00:51:46) - The ectoplasmic captain.
(00:57:22) - Not sure we fully grasp how any of this stuff at the end worked.
(01:00:56) - Somehow, Kirk returned.
(01:04:41) - Break!
(01:05:05) - We're back, and it's time for Plato's Stepchildren, such as they are.
(01:07:15) - Production background.
(01:20:49) - Get me off this Greek planet.
(01:32:00) - Humiliating improv exercises IN SPACE!
(01:36:34) - Breaking Spock.
(01:40:34) - THAT'S how they got the mind powers?!?
(01:44:46) - Let's get uncomfortable for a while.
(01:49:36) - A taste of your own mind control.
(01:56:51) - Final thoughts, and housekeeping for next week's episodes.
(01:59:11) - Outro.
