189: Star Trek: The Tholian Web and Plato's Stepchildren

This week's Watchcast brings us to one of the few bright spots in this final Star Trek season in The Tholian Web. Also this week is Plato's Stepchildren, a historically significant episode that is certainly unpredictable, if nothing else.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 189: Star Trek: The Tholian Web and Plato's Stepchildren
(00:00:21) - Intro.
(00:01:44) - Starting things off with The Tholian Web.
(00:09:22) - The folks behind this episode, and various production notes.
(00:21:27) - Who doesn't love a Starship where everyone's dead?
(00:29:18) - Transporter chicanery, and Kirk's...dead...question mark?
(00:33:00) - Time for Chekov's weekly freakout, though he's not alone this time.
(00:35:21) - And here come the Tholians
(00:42:38) - Spock and Bones are at each other's throats, and man screams during funeral.
(00:51:46) - The ectoplasmic captain.
(00:57:22) - Not sure we fully grasp how any of this stuff at the end worked.
(01:00:56) - Somehow, Kirk returned.
(01:04:41) - Break!
(01:05:05) - We're back, and it's time for Plato's Stepchildren, such as they are.
(01:07:15) - Production background.
(01:20:49) - Get me off this Greek planet.
(01:32:00) - Humiliating improv exercises IN SPACE!
(01:36:34) - Breaking Spock.
(01:40:34) - THAT'S how they got the mind powers?!?
(01:44:46) - Let's get uncomfortable for a while.
(01:49:36) - A taste of your own mind control.
(01:56:51) - Final thoughts, and housekeeping for next week's episodes.
(01:59:11) - Outro.