The Measure of an Episode: Star Trek Edition

The Measure of an Episode
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Jonathan and Paul embark on a thirteen-and-a-half-year mission, combing through all 703 episodes of Star Trek to discover what makes Star Trek “Star Trek”, and not just good TV. Or great TV. Or really, really bad TV. They subject their well-honed criteria to one randomly selected episode at a time.

  1. 09/17/2024

    179: Discovery Season 4

    Prepare for a huge revelation! And it's not what you think. 0:00 - Latency 0:30 - infidelity vs high fidelity 0:59 - intro 1:10 - dating this episode 1:20 - criteria 2:00 - the start of a joke 2:16 - the punchline of a joke 2:39 - the reference of a joke 3:05 - Austin Powers syndrome (comment if you get THIS reference) 5:43 - Oh look, Burnham is right 6:08 - why argue with Michael? 6:29 - DEEP Star Trek cut 7:09 - Oh look, Burnham is right 7:44 - Nothing says sci-fi like talking heads 9:06 - Forget it's Star Trek and it's good! 10:38 - Trek, Wars, is anything new? 11:39 - When is Star Trek not Star Trek? 12:46 - What makes Star Trek Star Trek? 13:18 - Solving a problem, for sure 13:36 - Having time to mull it over as well 14:50 - Problem to solve AND time to solve it 16:22 - Not adrenaline, but still riveting 17:45 - Presenting the solution but not 18:46 - Proper sci-fi? Proper Star Trek? 20:33 - Alternate script ideas 21:09 - when ambience becomes superliminal (Simpsons) 22:10 - Even Poker feels Star Wars 23:02 - Barrier Galactica (Battlestar Galactica) 26:16 - our first payoff! 26:42 - is this right? Comment below! 27:07 - how wrong are we on this? This feels wrong in retrospect 27:44 - how popular is Earth pop culture of the '50s? (Gilligan's Island) 28:28 - colloquial ignorance 29:59 - dating references (Gambit) 31:20 - are we... changing our criteria?? 32:00 - We are! 32:27 - More deliberation? 33:29 - Watching the process! Trust the process! 34:01 - Rewriting Criteria 2 34:59 - DMA details (Corodite - He-Man) 35:17 - actual sci-fi vs technobabble 35:48 - Lack of discovery in Discovery 36:50 - Specifying Criteria 2 38:18 - Final Verdict, Bub 38:49 - Still a better love story than Twilight (Twilight) 39:24 - Star Wars tangent 40:14 - Jumping from a certain point of view 41:09 - inertial dampeners 42:22 - outro 42:32 - Paul loves to leave these insensitive water-toeing 43:00 - there was supposed to be a LONG pause here Agree? Disagree? Shoot us a line at TheMeasureOfAnEpisode@gmail.com Please consider supporting the show on Patreon.

  2. 07/29/2024

    178: Discovery Season 3

    We spend some time trying to figure out what the Red Sphere is. Agree? Disagree? Shoot us a line at TheMeasureOfAnEpisode@gmail.com Please consider supporting the show on Patreon.

  3. 07/17/2024

    177: Discovery Season 2

    Seek out new plot lines on the USS Ambivalence. Agree? Disagree? Shoot us a line at TheMeasureOfAnEpisode@gmail.com Please consider supporting the show on Patreon.

  4. 07/15/2024

    176: Discovery Season 1

    We watched the whole season, and we've never been more surprised. Agree? Disagree? Shoot us a line at TheMeasureOfAnEpisode@gmail.com Please consider supporting the show on Patreon.

  5. 06/09/2024

    175: Strange New Worlds S2E10 "Hegemony"

    /həˈjemənē,ˈhejəˌmōnē/ I think that settles everything. Agree? Disagree? Shoot us a line at TheMeasureOfAnEpisode@gmail.com Please consider supporting the show on Patreon.

  6. 03/04/2024

    174: Strange New Worlds S2E09 "Subspace Rhapsody"

    We miss Hemmer. And a big THANK YOU to Jeremy. You'll hear why. Agree? Disagree? Shoot us a line at TheMeasureOfAnEpisode@gmail.com Please consider supporting the show on Patreon.

  7. 02/11/2024

    173: Strange New Worlds S2E8 “Under the Cloak of War”

    At least now we know what the story behind the super juice is.

  8. 02/09/2024

    172: Picard S3E10 “The Last Generation”

    Jupiter is much bigger than it looks.

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Jonathan and Paul embark on a thirteen-and-a-half-year mission, combing through all 703 episodes of Star Trek to discover what makes Star Trek “Star Trek”, and not just good TV. Or great TV. Or really, really bad TV. They subject their well-honed criteria to one randomly selected episode at a time.

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