146: Star Trek: A Piece of the Action and The Immunity Syndrome

It's gangsters and space amoebas for this week's Star Trek Watchcast, as the crew beams down to Chicago II to meet with President Capone in A Piece of the Action, and the ship falls helplessly into an energy draining void in The Immunity Syndrome! CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 146: Star Trek: A Piece of the Action and The Immunity Syndrome (00:00:17) - Intro. (00:05:29) - Brad has a Star Trek uncle. (00:09:52) - The history behind A Piece of the Action. (00:20:04) - Let's talk about what is actually going on here. It's a gangster planet. (00:25:52) - Boss Okmyx. (00:29:35) - There are maybe a few too many escape attempt scenes for one episode. (00:35:13) - Jojo Krako's Bizzaro Adverture-o. (00:38:48) - The slow morphing of Kirk into gangster mode. (00:48:06) - That's a big stun setting, and is this really how we're leaving these people? (00:56:23) - Final thoughts. (00:57:34) - Break! (00:58:09) - We're back, and it's time for The Immunity Syndrome. (01:00:26) - There are basically no production notes for this episode. (01:06:00) - They're so, so tired, and that's before they meet the space void. (01:09:49) - The Intrepid goes down, and shore leave is cancelled. (01:13:40) - What killed the Intrepid. (01:17:09) - Some effects talk, and the nature of the peril the ship is under. (01:20:56) - Space amoeba. (01:24:45) - It's Bones vs. Spock in a scientific knockdown drag-out! (01:30:00) - Some very good tension as we fly through the space amoeba. (01:38:08) - Driving the Enterprise out of an exploding amoeba, and a weird final note. (01:45:04) - Final thoughts. (01:47:02) - Episodes for next week, and outro.