186: 186: Star Trek: The Paradise Syndrome and And the Children Shall Lead

About this episode

Star Trek Summer is officially back on the menu, folks! We're once again joined by our compatriot Brad Shoemaker to continue our journey through the original series' third season soldiers on. And this week that journey meets one of its toughest challenges yet in the execrable episodes The Paradise Syndrome, and And the Children Shall Lead. CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 186: Star Trek: The Paradise Syndrome and And the Children Shall Lead (00:00:23) - Intro. (00:06:12) - Launching straight into The Paradise Syndrome. (00:12:33) - ANOTHER planet full of random humans? (00:20:02) - Kirk gets zapped with the head empty beam. (00:25:53) - You're a handsome devil, you're our god now. (00:30:25) - Burning out your engines to move an asteroid like a centimeter. (00:34:31) - Kirk's so happy. (00:38:51) - Moonwalking back to the planet and discovering alien music. (00:40:35) - It's god time. (00:44:08) - Mind melding your way out of your bad life choices. (00:51:23) - Break! (00:51:46) - We're back, And the Children Shall Lead...us to this very bad episode. (00:55:10) - The somewhat, uh, unconventional casting choices. (01:03:36) - We're not dunking on this becaus