59. Sex Ghost – Coast to Coast
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It’s Halloween time again! Put on your sexy Star Trek costume and make sure you’re fully in control of your faculties because you might not be entirely you in there!
This time, our Casual Explorers decided to explore some of the many psychic and or energy beings who can just pop inside your flesh and blood as easy as a pair of boots.
In Enterprise’s ‘Observer Effect,’ Trip and Hoshi get sick off Klingon rubbish while Travis and Reed get possessed by one very eager energy being and one who is basically #quietquitting, in Deep Space Nine’s ‘The Assignment,’ O’Brien’s life is once more a living hell when his wife gets taken over by the Pah’Wraiths and Rom struggles to make friends at work and finally, we round it off with our main event, Dr. Beverly Crusher’s adventures with sex-ghosts who live in candles ‘Sub Rosa’ and Charlie and Miles find themselves watching one of Star Trek’s worst-ranked episodes and ask the most important question, ’Do the Scottish know there’s a Scotland in Space?’ Honestly, it’s much more fun to watch Troi get heavily involved in talking about Crusher’s sex dreams than it ever is to have to engage in discussions on the ethics of terrorism as we did last episode. If you or anyone else is showing signs of possession, please don’t come to us for help, Google it. Or ask us on Ko-Fi.
Episodes Discussed: ENT: Observer Effect (12:25), DS9: The Assignment (42:12) and TNG: Sub Rosa (01:13:40)
SHOW NOTES: The FULL English Breakfast, Miles forgot to do his Crypt-Keeper Schtick this Halloween, he also has opinions on the Halloween series of films, the Leprechaun films, Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, Jailhouse Rock’s surprising appearance on the charts and a quick diversion into British music magazine the NME, Let Me Love You is possibly the WORST song we’ve had to listen to for the show (you win this round, Sheeran!) Miles admits to his dark past as a ‘Nice Guy’ The Andromeda Strain, You gotta feel sorry for Klingon Plumbers, quiet-quitting Energy Beings, the Organians have gone all The Good Place with their criteria for success, how this would have ended if this were either an episode of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits, the Spice Girls, Charlie DOES know songs that weren’t featured on Rock Band thank you very much, Miles takes a break from bitching about Starbucks to bitch about the Hilton, Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5 are ripping each-other, Bashir and O’Brien being sitcom scamps, Rom trying to make friends, ‘Things can Only Get Better’ is a song that’ll forever be thought as an anthem for Neo-Liberal malaise, Sunshine, Charlie recommends a horror film,Scream, Bryan Adams, Sting & Rod Stewart as alternate Three Musketeers, Have YOU ever told a boss about a sexual fantasy? Marina Sirtis’ accent slips a lot, ‘The Innocents’, Charlie’s RPG of the week ‘The Between,’ would Ronin have had to seduce Wesley Crusher? Despite it’s female audience Star Trek always has a Male Gaze on the Cosmos, SF complaining about romance and sexuality, the SCOTTISH PLANET, the fact there’s a church leads us to wonder if the Abrahamic Religions are still practised and worshipped in the often-secular Star Trek, consent in ‘Sub Rosa’ comparing to consent in ‘Plato’s Stepchildren,’
PEDANTS CORNER: It’s Busta Rhymes who kung-fu’d Michael Myers in Halloween Resurrection, The Defiant actually came first with Deep Space Nine’s Season 3 in 1994 Babylon 5 introduced the White Star in Season 3 in 1995. Although, when talking about Doctor Who, I didn’t think to consider that some of the more legitimate arguments against the Doctor being more sexual as a being has felt like the show’s Ace-Erasure to fans who see the Doctor as an all-too-rare example of positive Asexual Representation)
Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.
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