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Baldly Go - A Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Podcast - S02E08 - Under the Cloak of War

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Bald Move

After Shows, Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

It is a right of passage for each sci-fi series to do a “war” episode. Ortegas is not happy about the ship’s new guest, the guest being the Klingon war criminal Rah. Known as the “Butcher”, Rah’s presence on the Enterprise triggers PTSD in Dr. M’Benga. Get to know more of M’Benga’s backstory in this excellently written episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Beam your feedback to startrek@baldmove.com. Hey there! Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts, for just $5 a month! Join the Club! Join the discussion: Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Baldigo, the officially unofficial podcast for everything Star Trek, except the animated

0:20.5

series, Voyager, Enterprise, Prodigy and Discovery, I think that's everything.

0:26.4

The animated series, get that shit out of here, and the one in my podcast, actually, I've

0:33.1

seen the M.A. series, so oh, well, then I'm going to take off the list. Great. Mark it

0:37.8

off. We are here. I'm Jim. You're Aaron. You know, Aaron. Yes. We're here to talk season

0:44.0

two episode eight of Strange New Worlds under the Cloak of War. Aaron, where do you stand

0:51.7

on justice? You know, what is justice? What works for the most amount of people? I thought

1:05.2

this was a great episode. Yeah. And it was fighting because like one of my least favorite

1:09.6

things, it used to be my favorite. I love the Good War episode in a science fiction series.

1:14.9

And I grew up and learned that most of these war things are literally shit that happened

1:20.3

in like, I don't know, the Napoleonic War, that these people learned about in a semester

1:27.6

in college and just filed off out of serial numbers, gave everyone a phaser. You see bayonet

1:31.8

charges and shit in some of these things. And I'm like, come on. So like, I got a little

1:38.8

nervous when, oh, we're going to do a map. We're going to do a combat episode because

1:43.4

you see why in binga and nurse chapel are so traumatized. But then they took it to like

1:48.8

a mash direction, which I thought was kind of interesting. Like seeing Starfleet tree,

1:53.8

you know, people triage, these war wounds. And then they had like, you know, what I can

1:59.0

only describe as a pretty twisty entertaining. The plot point that ultimately did a lot

2:06.7

to kind of like flesh out in binga's character and made him into like a top tier badass

2:12.6

on this show now. Um, I, I really enjoyed this episode. I thought it was great. Love

2:17.7

the guest star. Love seeing bunny Colvin from the wire. Yeah. I was like, man, this guy

2:23.5

looks familiar. Yeah. Sometimes it's hard to tell under the turtle, the turtle shell.

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