{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"189: Star Trek: The Tholian Web and Plato's Stepchildren","description":"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.\n\nCHAPTERS:\n\n(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 189: Star Trek: The Tholian Web and Plato's Stepchildren\n(00:00:21) - Intro.\n(00:01:44) - Starting things off with The Tholian Web.\n(00:09:22) - The folks behind this episode, and various production notes.\n(00:21:27) - Who doesn't love a Starship where everyone's dead?\n(00:29:18) - Transporter chicanery, and Kirk's...dead...question mark?\n(00:33:00) - Time for Chekov's weekly freakout, though he's not alone this time.\n(00:35:21) - And here come the Tholians\n(00:42:38) - Spock and Bones are at each other's throats, and man screams during funeral.\n(00:51:46) - The ectoplasmic captain.\n(00:57:22) - Not sure we fully grasp how any of this stuff at the end worked.\n(01:00:56) - Somehow, Kirk returned.\n(01:04:41) - Break!\n(01:05:05) - We're back, and it's time for Plato's Stepchildren, such as they are.\n(01:07:15) - Production background.\n(01:20:49) - Get me off this Greek planet.\n(01:32:00) - Humiliating improv exercises IN SPACE!\n(01:36:34) - Breaking Spock.\n(01:40:34) - THAT'S how they got the mind powers?!?\n(01:44:46) - Let's get uncomfortable for a while.\n(01:49:36) - A taste of your own mind control.\n(01:56:51) - Final thoughts, and housekeeping for next week's episodes.\n(01:59:11) - Outro.","author_name":"The Nextlander Watchcast","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5117047-the-nextlander-watchcast","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43816810/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}