192: Star Trek: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield and The Mark of Gideon

This week's Watchcast brings us to a famous (or infamous) episode from Star Trek's later run in the blunt-as-a-hammer racism parable Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. Also this week is The Mark of Gideon, which is an episode of Star Trek, and that's about the most you can say for it.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 192: Star Trek: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield and The Mark of Gideon
(00:00:17) - Intro, which is actually just us launching us straight into Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
(00:08:24) - Production notes for this episode.
(00:23:27) - Getting into the set-up for the plot.
(00:27:33) - An invisible ship, a Batman villain, and 50,000 years of running around the galaxy.
(00:36:41) - Another alien that can just kind of do whatever, and blowing up the ship.
(00:44:00) - Lokai spreads his message to the rank and file, and Bele continues to be an asshole.
(00:53:18) - There's a great, tragic ending in here somewhere if you squint hard enough.
(00:59:33) - Break!
(00:59:52) - We're back, and it's time to talk about The Mark of Gideon, such as it is.
(01:03:15) - Who's behind this one.
(01:10:37) - An abandoned Enterprise could be kind of a haunting idea, if it had been done any way but this.
(01:17:57) - Alex really needs to talk about this dumb virus plan ahead of schedule.
(01:26:15) - Bopping around the other parts of the plot.
(01:38:47) - Final thoughts, and housekeeping for next week's episodes.
(01:42:47) - Outro.