020 - Team America, Galactic Police

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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