It's gangsters and space amoebas for this week's Star Trek Watchcast, as the crew beams down to Chicago II to meet with President Capone in A Piece of the Action, and the ship falls helplessly into an energy draining void in The Immunity Syndrome!



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(00:00:00 ) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 146: Star Trek: A Piece of the Action and The Immunity Syndrome

(00:00:17 ) - Intro.

(00:05:29 ) - Brad has a Star Trek uncle.

(00:09:52 ) - The history behind A Piece of the Action.

(00:20:04 ) - Let's talk about what is actually going on here. It's a gangster planet.

(00:25:52 ) - Boss Okmyx.

(00:29:35 ) - There are maybe a few too many escape attempt scenes for one episode.

(00:35:13 ) - Jojo Krako's Bizzaro Adverture-o.

(00:38:48 ) - The slow morphing of Kirk into gangster mode.

(00:48:06 ) - That's a big stun setting, and is this really how we're leaving these people?

(00:56:23 ) - Final thoughts.

(00:57:34 ) - Break!

(00:58:09 ) - We're back, and it's time for The Immunity Syndrome.

(01:00:26 ) - There are basically no production notes for this episode.

(01:06:00 ) - They're so, so tired, and that's before they meet the space void.

(01:09:49 ) - The Intrepid goes down, and shore leave is cancelled.

(01:13:40 ) - What killed the Intrepid.

(01:17:09 ) - Some effects talk, and the nature of the peril the ship is under.

(01:20:56 ) - Space amoeba.

(01:24:45 ) - It's Bones vs. Spock in a scientific knockdown drag-out!

(01:30:00 ) - Some very good tension as we fly through the space amoeba.

(01:38:08 ) - Driving the Enterprise out of an exploding amoeba, and a weird final note.

(01:45:04 ) - Final thoughts.

(01:47:02 ) - Episodes for next week, and outro.