The Nexus #70 - "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" / "Deja Q"
Added 2022-06-26 22:41:50 +0000 UTCIt's our monthly trip through Star Trek history and this time we're chatting about two 'sodes that are pretty much neck-and-neck quality-wise!
First up on TOS, it's the obnoxiously titled, "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" Originally airing back on October 18, 1968, this episode has Spock wearing a hilarious visor so he doesn't go insane, the Enterprise crew being forbidden to look at some ugly guy that lives in a box, the boys being unprofessional at a work dinner, and Diana Muldaur respawning as Dr. Miranda Jones, a scientist competing with Spock for a job!
Then over on TNG, it's the wildly entertaining Deja Q! First delighting audiences on February 3, 1990, this episode features the return of beloved mischief maker, Q, played by total legend John de Lancie, as well as the Enterprise crew trying to save a planet of lazily designed gleep glops from getting totally annihilated by a huge asteroid, Q streaking on the bridge, Riker turning down a couple of magical babes, and a surprise cameo from L.A. Law's Corbin Bernsen as "Q2"!
The Nexus is a WHM podcast where the guys futilely go through two Star Trek series at the same time. Thank you so much for continuing to support this weird thing we do—we couldn't do it without you!
Cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
Don’t you guys remember covering the Merrick Butler episode?!
Kahless
2024-09-17 12:28:37 +0000 UTCOne of the most famous episodes of all, The City on the Edge of Forever, featured a drug addicted crewman in Harlan Ellison’s original script. It was changed to McCoy accidentally injecting himself with something.
Craig
2022-07-01 13:47:47 +0000 UTCThey asked why we never see space drugs in Star Trek and all I can think is how quickly we’ve forgotten Raffi and her Snakeleaf addiction in season 1 of Picard.
Tim Randolph jr
2022-06-30 07:07:54 +0000 UTCApparently they had to use a lot of wide shots in the Q is back scene because the cast was barely able to keep it together while de Lancie was hamming it up
Jethro Gulner
2022-06-29 18:16:03 +0000 UTCThere's part of me that likes the tone in three person episodes. Like it's not about a specific person but I feel in most episodes there's a lot of elbowing to try and get riffs in over each other
G Goldhar
2022-06-27 17:28:52 +0000 UTCThere is a TNG drug episode and you guys already covered it: Symbiosis (S1E22). As you guys said, it's laden with the 90s DARE style approach and even has a really awkward after school special moment where Yar explains to Wesley why people become addicted and why drugs are bad.
Brian Macdonald
2022-06-27 17:06:21 +0000 UTCAw, that's a bummer. ☹
Justine Prudhomme
2022-06-27 15:56:50 +0000 UTCThe missed opportunity of Q as a baby is staggering considering how TNG had to sometimes scrape for storylines. They would just have to come up with the title "Look, Q's Talking" and it would write itself.
Mark Ibarra
2022-06-27 14:23:12 +0000 UTCAccording to Jenny Nicholson, John deLancie is quite the asshole IRL
Andrew Dean
2022-06-27 10:16:01 +0000 UTCProdigy has a Medusan cast member and theyre portrayed as a crazy psychic cloud that drives you insane trying to comprehend it.
Jenny Ibrahim
2022-06-27 02:20:00 +0000 UTC
