Casual Trek
Charlie is a lifelong X-Men fan. Miles is a lifelong Doctor Who fan. If ANYONE can objectively rank every single episode of Star Trek on a big list, it’s gotta be the two people who think that Star Trek is “Pretty Decent.” (Citation Needed)
Casual Trek updates every fortnight.
Hosts: Charlie Etheridge-Nunn and Miles Reid-Lobatto
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Charlie is a lifelong X-Men fan.
Miles is a lifelong Doctor Who fan.
If ANYONE can objectively rank every single episode of Star Trek on a big list, it’s gotta be the people who think that Star Trek’s ‘Pretty Decent.’
(Citation Needed.)
Moopsy!
As Lower Decks is back for the last time, we’re looking at three animated Star Trek episodes, specifically ones about strange creatures.
The Eye of the Beholder brings us weird dopey-looking elephant slug things who are actually more evolved than humans!
A Tribble Called Quest brings us all kinds of mutant tribbles including a bizarre horrible Tribble with a face! Ugh…
I Have No Bones, Yet I Must Scream brings us an adorable monster in Moopsy, who may have done one or two things wrong.
Moopsy!
00:03:55 What Non-Star Trek Thing We’ve Been Enjoying: Still Wakes the Deep, Kew Gardens’ Halloween Trail
00:09:58 Star Trek: The Animated Series “The Eye of the Beholder”
00:35:37 Star Trek: Prodigy “A Tribble Called Quest”
00:56:03 Star Trek: Lower Decks “I Have No Bones, Yet I Must Scream”
Talking points include: Pokémon, which Pokémon wore sunglasses the best? Dave Willis, Still Wakes the Deep, big ups to The Chinese Room, Alien Isolation, Kew Gardens, Merry Xmas Everyone, that song from X-Men Apocalypse or whatever one it was, Charlie tries to remember X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Roger Dean album covers, sand trouts in Dune, that one Flight of the Conchords song where a leg gets eaten, Play-Doh, Morph, vast, desolate landscapes, does The Federation still have Timpsons? You don’t put the Scottish in a zoo, space zoos, Equilibrium, at some point Charlie should watch Star Trek, dunking on Chakotay, picking up a story partway through, Peter David’s weird universal Majel Barrett thing, X-Men, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, Todd in the Shadows, Miles gets angry at Charlie, the show and himself for having to listen to Oliver Anthony Music, Anthony Michael Hall, self-destructive insubordination at work, bones and teeth aren’t the same thing, Charlie’s childhood rabbit and the little bunny gulag, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Nolan North, Vegeta & Goku workforce dynamics, trying to stop from having any Big Bang Theory rants, can you tell Charlie’s vamping for time because he forgot who wrote I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream? The Spoony Experiment, Awesomed by Comics, Miles was right to be a despairing heap on a men’s room floor given the election results. Oh, and occasionally Star Trek.
Pedant’s Corner:
While I don’t recall Karate Kid being in a zoo in The Legion of Super-Heroes, there was a tragic story about Beast Boy of Lallor dying defending a girl from a zoo animal.
The fish that nibble you in those baths are not piranhas. DO NOT have piranhas nibble your feet.
Oliver Anthony Music has since given up music, I assume it was pressure from us at Casual Trek.
Peter Pan isn’t killed in the holodeck, but Robin Hood
Official Moopsy Plush: https://www.masterreplicas.com/products/star-trek-lower-desks-moopsy-plush-10inch
Casual Trek is by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn and Miles Reid-Lobatto
Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn
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