Death Bracket (TOS S1E14)
Greatest Trek: New Star Trek Reviewed
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
When the Entrepreneur gets off course with a theatre troupe, the real reason for the diversion is the lead actor might be Trogdor. But after the last remaining witnesses are eliminated one by one, Captain Kirk’s interest in the young daughter of Karidian ends in another theatrical tragedy. When do you get “the executioner” added to your name? How many colony survivors are rocking full face? Who might sneak into a Sesame Street impression? It’s the episode that introduces a new first-time segment!
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| 0:00.0 | Here's to the finest crew in Starfleet. |
| 0:03.2 | Thank you, Scott. You heard it? |
| 0:05.5 | Captain James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise. |
| 0:10.8 | Captain James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. |
| 0:13.8 | Enterprise. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to Greatest Trek, the new Star Trek podcast that's currently watching episodes of Star Trek the original series |
| 0:22.4 | until new Star Trek comes back. I'm Ben Harrison. I'm Adam Cranica. |
| 0:28.3 | How are doing today, bud? My legs are hurting. I've said this long ago. Is this because you |
| 0:34.8 | dropped something on your toe or is it? For Miriam reasons. Is it spreading? |
| 0:40.1 | I played an entire round of tournament golf this morning walking around. And I also famously |
| 0:45.9 | podcast standing up and peeking behind the pod. This is our second of two episodes we're recording |
| 0:52.0 | today. So I've sat down today for maybe just a couple |
| 0:58.3 | of minutes since waking up. Don't bury the lead. How'd you do in the tourney? Tied for second. |
| 1:04.7 | Hey! Best I've ever finished in a golf tournament. I started playing tournament golf again |
| 1:10.0 | after taking a break because |
| 1:11.2 | it made me not like golf, but now I'm back. |
| 1:14.8 | Congratulations, bud. Yeah, I think that's the best I finished in a tournament in this club, |
| 1:20.0 | so it felt pretty good. That rules. Well, I want to rip through this fucking episode, this |
| 1:26.0 | trite little episode so that we can get you into a state of repose, my friend. |
| 1:32.9 | It's like I'm not allowed to. |
| 1:34.8 | Like, I'm standing next to my chair. |
| 1:39.3 | Honestly, if there was ever a visual summary of like my psychopathy, |
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