Superhero Time and That One Episode of Star Trek

In the second part of our “Socially Regressive Star Trek” month, after a quick break for a word from Krispy Kreme, we’re back with TNG’s The Outcast, which tries to use a genderless society to …well, ostensibly present some kind of positive message about issues of homosexuality, up until they seemed to chicken out at the end? Of course, 25 years after it was written, it ends up carrying quite a bit different meaning anyway. WARNING: Explicit language From the minds that brought you Superhero Time, the internet’s most offensive podcast about children’s TV shows, comes That One Episode of Star Trek. Because even when tokusatsu stops being fun, we can always rip Star Trek a new one.

In the second part of our “Socially Regressive Star Trek” month, after a quick break for a word from Krispy Kreme, we’re back with TNG’s The Outcast, which tries to use a genderless society to …well, ostensibly present some kind of positive message about issues of homosexuality, up until they seemed to chicken out at the end? Of course, 25 years after it was written, it ends up carrying quite a bit different meaning anyway. WARNING: Explicit language From the minds that brought you Superhero Time, the internet’s most offensive podcast about children’s TV shows, comes That One Episode of Star Trek. Because even when tokusatsu stops being fun, we can always rip Star Trek a new one.        

The Power Rangers movie from Lionsgate is, despite all reasonable expectations, a really enjoyable movie! And so, the original SHT cast is back together once again to talk about all the things we enjoyed, and the very few things we didn’t. It might be obvious, but I’ll warn you anyway: We spoil the hell out of the movie, so listen at your own peril! We are definitely absolutely not pranking again. Honest.

The Power Rangers movie from Lionsgate is, despite all reasonable expectations, a really enjoyable movie! And so, the original SHT cast is back together once again to talk about all the things we enjoyed, and the very few things we didn’t. It might be obvious, but I’ll warn you anyway: We spoil the hell out of the movie, so listen at your own peril! We are definitely absolutely not pranking again. Honest.        

If you don’t recall, Profit And Lace is the Deep Space Nine episode where Quark was given a temporary sex change procedure as a plot device. Your comfort level with this concept may vary - it certainly did among our cast. It’s a shame, too, because up to that point it had the framework of a potentially cool story, cause all of us pretty well dig DS9’s efforts to world-build the Ferengi. WARNING: Explicit language From the minds that brought you Superhero Time, the internet’s most offensive podcast about children’s TV shows, comes That One Episode of Star Trek. Because even when tokusatsu stops being fun, we can always rip Star Trek a new one.

If you don’t recall, Profit And Lace is the Deep Space Nine episode where Quark was given a temporary sex change procedure as a plot device. Your comfort level with this concept may vary - it certainly did among our cast. It’s a shame, too, because up to that point it had the framework of a potentially cool story, cause all of us pretty well dig DS9’s efforts to world-build the Ferengi. WARNING: Explicit language From the minds that brought you Superhero Time, the internet’s most offensive podcast about children’s TV shows, comes That One Episode of Star Trek. Because even when tokusatsu stops being fun, we can always rip Star Trek a new one.        

Power Rangers hit theatres finally, and surprising to all, it wasn’t awful! There’s actually some value in discussing and podcasting about it! We know our longtime, loyal listener would like to hear our thoughts about the Power Rangers movie, so in this special episode, the classic cast - minus Ken, who wouldn’t take his damn oil - has a nice chat about it. There won’t be any meaningful spoilers for Power Rangers here; it’s pretty new still, so we’ll save that for something more in depth later. And, sorry about the poorer-than-current-standard audio quality, it couldn’t be helped. The next podcast will be better. Unless we’re on it.

Power Rangers hit theatres finally, and surprising to all, it wasn’t awful! There’s actually some value in discussing and podcasting about it! We know our longtime, loyal listener would like to hear our thoughts about the Power Rangers movie, so in this special episode, the classic cast - minus Ken, who wouldn’t take his damn oil - has a nice chat about it. There won’t be any meaningful spoilers for Power Rangers here; it’s pretty new still, so we’ll save that for something more in depth later. And, sorry about the poorer-than-current-standard audio quality, it couldn’t be helped. The next podcast will be better. Unless we’re on it.        

We’re watching a Q episode! And we all like it a lot! Unfortunately for one among us, that makes it rather uninteresting to talk about. But the remainder of us seem to have no problem. Except when ExVee starts nitpicking the details of the episode’s use of orbital mechanics. WARNING: Explicit language From the minds that brought you Superhero Time, the internet’s most offensive podcast about children’s TV shows, comes That One Episode of Star Trek. Because even when tokusatsu stops being fun, we can always rip Star Trek a new one.

We’re watching a Q episode! And we all like it a lot! Unfortunately for one among us, that makes it rather uninteresting to talk about. But the remainder of us seem to have no problem. Except when ExVee starts nitpicking the details of the episode’s use of orbital mechanics. WARNING: Explicit language From the minds that brought you Superhero Time, the internet’s most offensive podcast about children’s TV shows, comes That One Episode of Star Trek. Because even when tokusatsu stops being fun, we can always rip Star Trek a new one.        

This week it’s Changeling Daddy Issues as Odo’s would-be father figure shows up to try to emotionally manipulate Odo in to coming back home. To the research center. To continue the expermients. On Odo. Why, with all these repressed issues being forced to the surface, there’s no way a shapeshifter wouldn’t suddenly have an averse reaction, is there? WARNING: Explicit language From the minds that brought you Superhero Time, the internet’s most offensive podcast about children’s TV shows, comes That One Episode of Star Trek. Because even when tokusatsu stops being fun, we can always rip Star Trek a new one.

This week it’s Changeling Daddy Issues as Odo’s would-be father figure shows up to try to emotionally manipulate Odo in to coming back home. To the research center. To continue the expermients. On Odo. Why, with all these repressed issues being forced to the surface, there’s no way a shapeshifter wouldn’t suddenly have an averse reaction, is there? WARNING: Explicit language From the minds that brought you Superhero Time, the internet’s most offensive podcast about children’s TV shows, comes That One Episode of Star Trek. Because even when tokusatsu stops being fun, we can always rip Star Trek a new one.        

HeyMickey picked a boring episode of Enterprise that misused what could have been a really fun an interesting examination of Vulcan culture, but instead decided to focus around an uncomfortable scene of non-consentual telepathy. Oh well, we’ve all made that mistake before. WARNING: Explicit language From the minds that brought you Superhero Time, the internet’s most offensive podcast about children’s TV shows, comes That One Episode of Star Trek. Because even when tokusatsu stops being fun, we can always rip Star Trek a new one.

HeyMickey picked a boring episode of Enterprise that misused what could have been a really fun an interesting examination of Vulcan culture, but instead decided to focus around an uncomfortable scene of non-consentual telepathy. Oh well, we’ve all made that mistake before. WARNING: Explicit language From the minds that brought you Superhero Time, the internet’s most offensive podcast about children’s TV shows, comes That One Episode of Star Trek. Because even when tokusatsu stops being fun, we can always rip Star Trek a new one.        

It’s been a long road, getting from there to here. But we’ve finally done it! We’ve podcasted about the entirety of Star Trek The Animated Series, as we talk this week about How Sharper Than A Serpent’s Tooth, and The Counterclock Incident, the final two episodes of TAS. Plus, we do our quarterly catch-up with BoccKob’s Twitter. Fun for the whole family! WARNING: Explicit language From the minds that brought you Superhero Time, the internet’s most offensive podcast about children’s TV shows, comes That One Episode of Star Trek. Because even when tokusatsu stops being fun, we can always rip Star Trek a new one.