The incomparable, number 129, February 2013.

Podcasting, the final frontier.

These are the voyages of the podcast Incomparable.

It's continuing mission to explore strange new books,

to seek out new films and new television shows,

to boldly go where no podcast has gone before.

Music Hi, everybody.

It is time for another edition of The Incomparable.

And, as you might guess, we're here to talk about the original Star Trek.

Oh, wait a minute.

Were you doing Voyager instead, Steve?

I'm in the wrong room, apparently.

I was here for episode one.

This is a fascinating collection we've got because I think we've got some people who take Star Trek back to their earliest days and then other people who've come to it and spend a lot of time with it more recently.

For me, it's funny.

I'm always amazed when people like Dan Moran and John Syracuse to talk about how they can't really remember life before Star Wars.

And as somebody who was born in 1970, which meant that when I started watching television as a child was just when Star Trek, the original series, was becoming incredibly popular in syndication.

It was on every day.

Yes, that was life before Star Wars.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

It was on every day at 5 o'clock on Channel 2 from San Francisco, and I watched it to the point where I can't remember life without Star Trek

and I actually can't remember life before I knew basically every Star Trek episode by heart.

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