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Star Trek: The Original Series - S01E15 - Shore Leave

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Star Trek. The final frontier. These are the podcasts of three enthusiastic nerds. In Star Trek: The Original Series “Shore Leave,” the Enterprise crew beams down for some much-needed R&R and ends up dodging their own daydreams. Sulu’s obsession with antique weapons resurfaces, and Jim, A.Ron, and Talitha debate two key questions: how many Talithas does it take to beat a tiger, and who in their right mind would want fantasies this dangerous? (00:00:40) - Captain’s Log (00:05:56) - Commendations (00:31:19) - Court Martials (00:51:43) - Tricorder Readings (00:58:43) - Pulling Rank Bruce Mars and the Self-Realization Fellowship Beam your feedback to [email protected]. You can check out Talitha's YouTube Channel here! Follow along on Talitha's insta as she posts about upcoming projects 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! 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

Captain's Log, star date 3025.

0:12.0

Point three.

0:15.0

We are orbiting a non-inhabited planet in the Amacron Delta region.

0:19.0

A planet remarkably like Earth or how we remember

0:22.3

Earth to be. Park-like, beautiful, green, flowers, trees, green lawn, quiet and restful. Almost

0:31.5

too good to be true. Sir, I don't see your name in any of the shore parties.

0:36.6

The crew of the Enterprise desperately needs a break.

0:40.6

All Kirk wants is a back massage from Spock.

0:43.6

Spock tells Kirk that what he really needs is shore leave.

0:47.8

Meanwhile, McCoy and Sulu explore Southern California, I mean the planet.

0:52.2

And there's nothing bothersome, no animals, no clouds,

0:55.2

no people, not even a bug. It's a paradise for people easily annoyed like McCoy. But then

1:00.6

much to his bewilderment, a giant rabbit followed by a little girl darts into the bushes.

1:06.4

McCoy slack-jawed follows them, and so begins the march of public domain characters. Spock explains how

1:14.2

the Vulcan mind cannot contemplate the idea of shore leave. McCoy calls up to the enterprise to

1:19.3

report his rabbit sighting, and Kirk dismisses it as a ploy to get him to take some shore leave.

1:23.9

But Spock uses Kirk's concern for his crew to get him to self-diagnose as exhausted.

1:28.3

So Kirk transports down to the surface where McCoy shows him some big old bunny prints.

1:34.3

In response, Kirk cancels shore leave for the rest of the crew until they figure out what's going on.

1:39.3

Sulu fires off a collectible revolver he found under a rock, immediately decimating its value.

1:45.4

While investigating the bunny, Kirk tells McCoy about his academy nemesis, Finnegan, who materializes

1:51.0

and clocks the captain with a sucker punch. Before the fight can resolve, Barrows heard screaming,

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