Though I am deeply grateful that there is no cliffhanger.

In a season of genre experimentation they couldn’t decide whether to end with a Doctor Who episode or a Doctor Strange episode, so why not both?

As I’ve written elsewhere: By “time-traveling doctor,” Pelia was clearly referring to that time she did drugs with McCoy in the 1930s!

Thanks for doing these so quickly! These are always one of the first things I seek out to read after watching an episode.

What I always wanted was someone to rearrange all the clips into chronological order. I don’t know why but it bothers me that they skip around.

• The one time I got to see Gene Roddenberry speak, he had brought along a blooper reel, which I think was fairly common to show at Star Trek conventions in the late 1970s, early 1980s?
• The Greatest Trek podcast mentioned that “TK” in the name TK Bellows is clearly an homage to the publishing term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_come_(publishing)
• The Greatest Trek also felt that the Uhura assistance to Scotty was a nod to her caregiving of him in Star Trek 5 (bringing him dinner while working, going on shore leave together)

I forgot about Gene Roddenberry’s sideburns in the 1970s. Hmm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Roddenberry#/media/File:Gene_Roddenberry_crop.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#/media/File:Isaac_and_Janet_Asimov.jpg

Anson Mount’s sideburns were a clear homage to Isaac Asimov.

Why didn’t they just put Batel in the medical transporter’s pattern buffer, like M’Benga did with his daughter?

I found it humorous that Clem is also a Lower Decker in his society!

I love this! Now you need to do an analysis like this one on Star Trek and the Bechdel-Wallace test!

I realize you’re not trying to predict quality, just personal enjoyability, but I do wonder how it relates to quality.

I actually think it might be slightly more predictive of the quality of a show overall than of individual episodes. But both ST:TOS and ST:TNG have many great captain-centric episodes that I’m not sure if it is predictive of episode quality particularly.

Great suggestion! Everyone remembers the Gorn, but the Metrons are fairly representative of the incredibly advanced aliens typical of TOS (like the Organians, Thasians, or Providers).

I think I’d suggest a planet-of-the-week episode. From TOS, “This Side of Paradise” or “A Taste of Armageddon.” From TNG, maybe “Who Watches the Watchers” or “Up the Long Ladder.”

I hang out at my local game store once a week. I’ve timed the following playlist to fit the commute!

• Status Report
• How Would That Feel
• I’m Ready
• I’m the X
• We are One
• Subspace End Credit Medley

I felt like Freeman included Rutherford because his “gee whiz! lookee there!” naïveté added to her misdirection.

Very clever! And thorough. Thanks for posting this analysis.

“Spectre of the Gun” has a pretty surreal set and I could easily imagine it as a play.

TOS “The Empath”

Egads this is hard! I got two lines in and gave up. Free to anyone who wants to continue:

Captain Pike, Number One, emotional Spock, Talos IV,

Alien zoo, laser overload, General Order 7,

Great site! Alexander Siddig was on the first episode of Foundation, btw.