So we have decided to work in a little Star Trek The Original Series. This is probably what started it all for us. Or was it this Antiques Roadshow Find? (Albuquerque, 2002: $1,500-$2,000, including original box) This may be the most pathetic merchandising (until the recent Shatner Stone episode). The signed Bruce Hyde (Riley) did not make air during the Minneapolis 2004 roadshow ($2-$4).
If you haven't already done so, you can download the show by subscribing to our podcast at the iTunes Music Store. Alternatively, you can download this week's episode directly from this URL:
The Naked Time (MP3)
The original idea was to do all the episodes in the order in which they aired, but it was not to be. Our recording of that first episode, The Man Trap, was lost for all time, due to a random quantum fluctuation affecting the spacetime continuum localized around the computer doing the recording.
Yes, that was it. Eddies in the spacetime continuum. (Is he, is he.....?)
Okay, what really happened was that the dork responsible for recording the commentary did not know what he was doing, though he was operating under an entirely opposite and incorrect assumption. (And just for the record, it was not the dork with headphones tied to his face, nor the dork who came up with the idea for this whole endeavor in the first place, but an entirely different dork that was responsible for this poor state of affairs.)
But now, all is well and we have tried to do another episode entirely. We are starting with The Naked Time. Not to be confused with the seekers of the fully functional, as in the TNG "Naked Now". We like it a lot. We hope you will too. You can very likely find this episode at your local video store or even public library, and if not, you can pick it up from amazon.com as one of 2 episodes (the second episode being, by a wildly spectacular and yet completely coincidental coincidence, The Man Trap) here:
Star Trek - The Original Series Vol. 3: The Man Trap/The Naked Time
or you can pick up the entire first season (which we will eventually be covering anyway) here:
Star Trek The Original Series - The Complete First Season
And don't worry. We haven't forgotten about the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. We will most definitely be commenting the rest of the episodes. But in the meantime, if you haven't read the book(s), you should. You just.....should. Totally worth your time. And rather than spoiling you for anything, reading the books will only make watching the show that much more fun. Again, you'll just have to trust us.
Keep Flying! (Yah, that's a hint.)
AB&D
Next up: We revisit The Man Trap. Probably.
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