The Watchcast is back and the Star Trek watching has officially resumed! And for our first week back at it, we've got a pair of wild and unpredictable episodes in the Moby Dick riff Obsession, and the spooky alien serial murder yarn Wolf in the Fold!



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(00:00:00 ) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 144: Star Trek: Obsession and Wolf in the Fold

(00:01:12 ) - Intro.

(00:04:31 ) - Kicking things off with Obsession.

(00:07:50 ) - What there is to say about this episode's production.

(00:14:01 ) - An away mission, a conspicuous number of redshirts, and a sickly sweet death cloud.

(00:20:48 ) - Say hello to Ensign Plot Device.

(00:27:31 ) - The vampire cloud ain't scary like it oughta be.

(00:32:28 ) - He's obsessed! Obsessed we tells ya!

(00:35:37 ) - Spock gives the kid a pep talk, then the Enterprise has a gas problem.

(00:41:23 ) - What is this final act?

(00:48:56 ) - Final thoughts.

(00:51:45 ) - Break!

(00:52:12 ) - We're back, and it's time to meet Saucy Jack in Wolf in the Fold!

(00:54:25 ) - Production and cast talk.

(01:07:23 ) - Welcome to Space Morocco.

(01:10:37 ) - Scotty resents women for some reason?

(01:14:56 ) - The other players in this mystery.

(01:19:56 ) - You had a mind-scanning tricorder this whole time?!?

(01:22:36 ) - What IS actually happening during these murders?

(01:26:45 ) - Nothing good ever happens at a seance.

(01:31:08 ) - 20 minutes of talking to a computer.

(01:41:18 ) - It's time for a psychedelic psycho murdering alien freakout.

(01:49:27 ) - We're just beaming guys into space now.

(01:53:08 ) - Final thoughts.

(01:54:30 ) - Housekeeping for next week, and outro.