rich 1.0 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. The Nextlander Watchcast https://audioboom.com/channels/5117047-the-nextlander-watchcast Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43816810/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8947376/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>