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, guest starring Reanna Reid-Lobattto and a sample of Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn
Casual Trek is a part of the Nerd & Tie Network
Casual Trek’s Ko-Fi Page: https://ko-fi.com/casualtrek
Miles’ blog: http://www.mareidlobatto.wordpress.com
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