Landru Has Taken the Wheel (TOS S1E22)
Greatest Trek: New Star Trek Reviewed
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
When scouting a mixed-genre planet, Sulu calls for emergency beam out and arrives back on the Entrepreneur looking very refractory. But after Kirk and Spock raid the costume closet and head down to check things out, they meet members of the resistance and break into the server room to confront Landru. Which weird subreddits have entered the algorithim? How many ways can Reger be pronounced? What does a preschool do to tell all the L’Andrews apart? It’s the episode that’s rebranding adult underwear.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's to the finest crew in Starfleet. |
| 0:03.2 | Mr. McCoy, Scott, you heard it? |
| 0:05.4 | You should have one. |
| 0:06.8 | 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, this old Enterprise. |
| 0:18.5 | The show, we're going back into the the vault and talking about the old Star Trek |
| 0:24.1 | until the new Star Trek returns. I'm Ben Harris. I'm Adam Pranica. Do you have a vault at home |
| 0:30.8 | where you keep your, your like, deeds and titles if your house ever burned down not that I'm telling you about that's what |
| 0:39.9 | we're supposed to have right when you reach a certain age you're supposed to have a safe I saw a guy |
| 0:46.4 | I was watching some spy movie I can't even remember what it was but some guy like like moved |
| 0:52.6 | the the hamper aside in his closet and stepped on the floor and it like |
| 0:57.3 | it was one of those like kachunk kachunk spring loaded floor pieces that if you push it in it opens |
| 1:04.8 | and then there's a safe under that and then like because this was a mystery safe like they didn't have the combination or anything, they had to bust it open, right? |
| 1:14.7 | Flamethrowers, pickaxes, blow torches. You see it all the time in the algorithm, but like, how often do you think people move into a new home and then, like, find a safe and the previous homeowner doesn't tell them |
| 1:28.3 | about it or give them a combination or anything. |
| 1:31.0 | Well, you know the famous story about my dad finding lockboxes in the ductwork in our house |
| 1:37.6 | when I was in high school. |
| 1:39.5 | Why don't you summarize that story? |
| 1:41.6 | I'm pretty sure I've told it on the show before. |
| 1:43.5 | But yeah, money, guns, |
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