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I'm not saying it's not cool, but still.\n\n![Spock2.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRNssQpr28JLQcVTcJfgWMjS6rRnCoSJoUoEM8r9LVitE/Spock2.jpg)\nThese nerds might know a lot about spaceships, but they don't know shit about gloryhole opereation\n\n\nA female beams aboard the Enterprise and knocks the entire crew out. When they wake up, everyone is fine. Everyone except Spock. Who now does not have a brain. So there’s that. They only have a certain amount of time before his body won’t work. Turns out he’s being used to power a planet or something dumb like that. McCoy uses some crazy contraption and uses the knowledge to put it back in. The women of the planet are pretty bummed they won’t have a brain to rule their planet. Kirk tells them that they’re going to have to make nice with the savage race of men who live on the surface. It’s all really weird. \n\nGood Trek?\n\nThis is supposed to be one of the worst episodes ever. And I'm almost bummed that it wasn't. 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His taste in movies was, for the most part, atrocious, but I kept on tuning in. Even when I moved away from Detroit I kept on listening online every Friday.\n\nMy favorite segments with Rod were always when he was a film reviewer first and a Christian second. Those were the ones I liked the best. Once he told Bob that a particular film contained a bunch of nobodies. To which Bob replied something along the lines that there are no nobodies because God knows every hair on their heads. Gross right. Rod said that God may love them but none of these people had any business being in a movie. I remember on a handful of occasions he'd pan one of those awful Kirk Cameron type movies made specifically to pander to Christians. Often, he'd say that even though there's nothing objectionable content-wise and that all the messages were good, the movie itself was very bad. I don't know why, but I loved hearing that. And I'm gonna miss it. Good luck out there, Rod!\n\nKnow what else Rod Gustafson wouldn't be able to recommend? This episode of Trek. It's Bread and Circuses. I'd call it a fucking mess, but Rod would never use that kind of language.\n\n**Recap:**\n\nThe crew is at a planet that is pre-warp and doesn't know about life on other planets. So they can't intervene. On account of the non-interference directive. They go down and it's a planet based on the principles of ancient Rome. It's even called Rome. They've had a bunch of leaders named Ceasar and they all speak English. Which nobody seems that surprised by. A bunch of horse shit ensues. A bunch of really terrible horse shit. One of their leaders is a former Federation captain. I don't remember if he was an actual Starfleet captain and I don't care. I'm not rewatching it. 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I'm not saying that a system that eliminated war doesn't have some strong points, but if it still has slavery and battle royalés, then maybe continue looking for a slightly more perfect planet.\n\n![Untitled6.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPRjaHWYogqkpuJ98mCwSVqQfxLYx89tQwwfjVfrUg8cK/Untitled6.jpeg)\n**I didn't even realize this was a Christmas episode**\n\nThis episode plays like a greatest hits. A bunch of other shit from better episodes is thrown into a blender and this is what we got. We've got a slave lady wearing tinfoil, we've got the crew busting out of jail cells, we've got a wine-swilling dandy, and overly long fight scenes. Speaking of which, of all the things that have come a long way since TOS aired fight choreography is definitely one of them. I don't understand why these have to be this bad. They're just so clumsy and goddamn are they also long. 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They find the ship and everyone has been reduced to crystals. Reduced to crystals most foul. They look at log entries and it turns out that they contracted some disease from the surface that turned them all to dust. Which is dumb. But whatever. The ship’s captain, Captain Tracy is down there. So they go to ask him what’s what. Because now the away party, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and some bag of shit redshirt all have the infection too. But if they’re on the planet’s surface the infection can’t get you. \n\n![Untitled1.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmfUFzJZ7senAwEPsPfJxTGmi6KsryvPJ2j22TbB7FxDJE/Untitled1.jpeg)\n*You hear that, PC police!*\n\nFine so far. They get down to the surface and they find Tracey. Who’s living with a tribe of folks called “Kohms.” The Kohms are at war with a group of savages called the “Yangs.” Kirk is worried that Tracey is violating the Prime Directive of non-interference. As he should be. Because he is. Tracey is trying to figure out why these folks live so long. I guess that the Kohms can live over a thousand years. Which is neat. He wants that secret. \n\n![Untitled3.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmf6KDUR1S8q51qTNZnv9DXgnR2anphwgRYnUjnh4pipfF/Untitled3.jpeg)\n*Spock's watching Kirk get the shit kick out of him face is pretty great*\n\nTracey gets wise to Kirk getting wise to him and tries to put the kibosh on Kirk putting the kibosh on his longevity scheme. Long story short, there’s absolutely no secret to their longevity. They just live a long time. And also Yang is short for Yankee and Kohm is short for Communist. Which is the dumbest fucking reveal ever. And also also, they're now immune to the space infection so they can leave whenever they want. Tracey meets his maker and everyone recites the Pledge of Allegiance. Lame. \n\n**Good Trek?**\n\nNo. This was bad Trek. I thought the reveal at the end was about the dumbest shit I’d ever seen. I mean, come on. Not only does this planet’s history mirror Earth’s but it mirrors it so much that not only do they have the same slang terms for America and China, but they have the same identical flags? I call space shenanigans. \n\n![Untitled6.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmd2KTHQJL3qynFVKpQeLZnmmEiyBJ1K7SR8R4MFc7AK5E/Untitled6.jpeg)\n*Fuck you.* \n\nThere were good things going for it. I like the fact that Tracey went bananas searching for a fountain of youth that doesn’t exist. The problem is that the Federation already exists in such a state. They’ve just about solved most diseases. The life expectancy of the Federation would probably be about a thousand years if they weren’t running around in spaceships getting into trouble like a bunch of goddamn idiots. \n\n![Untitled7.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmddGhwzorepbjh7q8LKxPfM7SJZoMHkcXk1PRodqMnZSf/Untitled7.jpeg)\n*Try phasering this one*\n\nAlso, the score for when people are fighting is the worst. 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Soon as they get down there and are approached by two aliens who identify as Kelvans and tell them that they're being abducted and their ship is being stolen so they can take their ship to another galaxy. Abducted and having their ship used for a multigenerational trip back to their home galaxy most foul. The gang wants to fight back but these particular aliens have paralyzers that whenever they're used they nobody can move. Also, they can turn anyone into these small soft-rock like things that are easily crushed. As poor Yeoman Thompson learns the hard way when Kirk knocks out one of the aliens \n\n![Capture3.PNG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYtKjR2tiT81oHxnptuS3uBUNDszLMjVC46HdonTcsRWM/Capture3.PNG)\nHow is Kirk recording this log? He's sitting in a prison on the planet. Did they give him log equipment?\n\nRealizing they have no way to oppose these aliens, Kirk gives in. The aliens take over the ship and use it to travel to another galaxy, which is surprisingly close. 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Yeoman Thompson gets crushed to powder by the Kelvan leader, Rojan before our very eyes. That's a messed up way to start an episode that has an extended scene where Scotty gets hammered while playing a drinking game with an intergalactic being. But all in all, I liked it. \n\n![Capture7.PNG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTkqcUVV27fGzzC1qrXbJEMsUNxBQe8rdtiAucUwpct2u/Capture7.PNG)\nIt takes them like six minutes to reach the end of the galaxy. I'm calling shenanigans \n\nI think I've made this point before, but these aliens are using human bodies as a disguise. Their real form is a hundred tentacled creatures that I assume would look very different than us. How is it that she's attracted to Kirk? That doesn't make any sense. Even though she's now in a human body with human needs you'd think that she'd still be turned on by hundred tentacled dudes. Not doughy old Captain Kirk. I'm just saying that if I wake up tomorrow in the body of a hundred tentacled being I'm using one of those hundred tentacles to jackoff to normal human women. Just saying.  \n\n![Capture6.PNG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbSWCQZHKW3ipLyph5iLxsGw23KhinpbotBKa1sPJuKvP/Capture6.PNG)\nNext episode better be about everyone turning into lizards and having babies\n\nFrom Star Trek, you'd think that the only universal among literally every alien species we've met so far is that everyone loves a sick pair of tits. I'm not saying I disagree, but these aliens are from another galaxy. They're not even from the Milky Way and she knew that it would be best if she wore something that really put her bosom out there for the galaxy to see. And god bless her for it.  \n\nThe most surprising thing about this episode is that this dude makes it. The pretty lady gets crushed to dust, but this redshirt who actually attacked these aliens lives to fight another day. I'll be damned. 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