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Welcome to another episode of the To Baldly Go Podcast.
As usual, I am joined by my wife, Abbie, and our friend Nate, as we discuss:
- The next 3 episodes of season 2 of Star Trek: The Original Series – By Any Other Name, The Omega Glory, and The Ultimate Computer
- Interstellar from the perspective of the other planets
- Callbacks to earlier episodes
- What I’ve come to expect from Star Trek, but does that mean they’re running out of ideas?
- Kirk, the man-whore
- What does it mean to be human?
- What does it mean to be living?
- Life is more than just elements, but without the elements, there is no life
- Some Brazilian Jiu Jitsu analysis
- Episodes starting a lot stronger than they finish
- Was this propaganda?
- Subtlety vs heavy-handedness
- A successful letter-writing campaign
- A brief history lesson about The Scorpions
- Seeing more recurring story lines and trends
- Negative views on technology?
- Saying “Thank you” to Alexa
- In real life we make the same mistakes and tell the same stories over and over again
- Different experience between binge watching and watching weekly over the course of many years
- Similar shows, books, and movies released around the same time
- Will the AI conversation actually change? Has the conversation surrounding AI changed in the past 60 years?
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