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The Incomparable Mothership

130: And the Children Shall Lead

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2013

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Disconnect the intelligent computer that runs your entire planetary society, because it’s time for the second half of our discussion of the original “Star Trek.” What do today’s kids think of this nearly 50-year-old show? We ponder the gender politics of splitting Captain Kirk (and a little dog in a weird costume) into good and evil halves. And what about the low standards of the Enterprise’s Engineering department? Please listen: It will only take 71 of your Earth minutes! (Part 2 of 2.)

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0:00.0

I can't believe Steve is going to get his kid on the show before I get mine on.

0:04.0

That's amazing.

0:05.7

Eat it, smell.

0:06.5

Yeah.

0:06.8

Seriously.

0:21.6

So, Scott, lay it on me.

0:26.6

All right. Well, so like I said, there are reasons, I have very different reasons for liking different episodes. And really, I just like all of the episodes, but I couldn't really say that because that's just lame.

0:38.4

And now that I'm rewatching in order, these episodes are fresh in my mind.

0:43.1

So the first ones that I've picked are from the first season, obviously.

0:46.7

I did like where No Man has gone before, mostly because Gary Mitchell is a cool character.

0:52.5

Great, great episode.

0:53.7

May or may not appear in Star Trek Into Darkness.

0:56.2

So, so weird, weird looking because it's a pilot, so the uniforms are different.

1:02.0

Yeah, it's just odd.

1:02.8

But, but so tragic, right?

1:04.5

He's like, he's Kirk's best friend is basically what we're told.

1:07.9

And because it's a pilot episode, you know, sure, okay. And then,

1:11.4

and then he gets a little glowy eyes and, uh, and becomes some murderous, horrible killer.

1:18.0

Kirk's best friend, I look forward to seeing more of you. Oh, well. And in the pilot, we have our

1:22.0

first instance of the man who suddenly becomes omnipotent. Yeah. It's true. And, uh, he has to

1:27.3

wear crazy silver, uh,otent. Yeah. It's true. And he has to wear crazy silver contact lenses, which when I watched it before,

1:33.4

never really occurred to me that, you know, they were contact lenses.

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