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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And my name is Joe McCormick.

Welcome to Star Trek Week right here on Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

Yesterday was Star Trek Day, so-called, because Star Trek, the original series, debuted on September 8th, way back in 1966.

And the episode in question was The Man Trap, which sounds maybe like it's going to be some sort of a dating-based episode, but it's not. It is really more of a like a horror-flavored creature feature episode.

I thought it would be about a trap, like a literal trap.

It really doesn't, is there a trap in it?

I don't recall one.

I think the title, the title goes back to earlier stages of the script I'm to understand,

where like the basic ideas that there would be some sort of an alien creature that was

using various illusion-based deceptions that were essentially

a series of traps.

But this is actually the episode that we're going to be talking about on the podcast today.

Now, I got to go full disclosure for all of Star Trek Week.

I think, Rob, you're more of a trekkey than I am.

I'm not like anti-Star Trek. I've always liked Star Trek. I just, for whatever reason, never got deep into it like a lot of people do. I think you have maybe watched, like, a lot of the next generation at least or something. Yeah, I was definitely a next generation kid. I would watch it every night on cable at like 9 p.m. before I went to sleep. So I watched tons of next generation, quite a lot of Deep Space 9, and then various films.

Yeah. But in terms of watching the original series is just really only one or two episodes, three or four episodes, tops that I had ever seen,

uh, that just wasn't part of my Star Trek diet. Yeah, I, I've seen a lot less than you.

I've seen like four or five episodes of the original series. I watched all of the first season of

the next generation, which I have to understand is not necessarily the cream of the crop.

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