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Episode 79: Giant Space Creatures (SNW 3×07 What is Starfleet?)

Episode 79: Giant Space Creatures (SNW 3×07 What is Starfleet?)

Update: 2025-08-27
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Kevin and Rob dodge oddly insistent questions about what it's like to kill a person in order to discuss the relative merits of "What is Starfleet?" (SNW). Inspired by this episode's "space dragon", they revisit a couple of other giant space creatures of episodes past, in "Datalore" and "Silicon Avatar" (TNG), and "Tin Man" (TNG).

SNW 3×07 What is Starfleet?


Giant space creatures

TNG 1×01/02 Encounter at Farpoint


TNG 1×13 Datalore

Crystalline Entity

Lore


TNG 5×04 Silicon Avatar

Whale probe


TNG 3×20 Tin Man

Gomtuu


Ron Jones’ score for Datalore on Apple Music

TOS 2×19 The Immunity Syndrome

TOS 2×18 Obsession

  • (00:00 ) - Episode 79: Giant Space Creatures (SNW 3×07 What is Starfleet?)

  • (00:44 ) - SNW 3×07 What is Starfleet?

  • (16:57 ) - Giant space creatures

  • (17:42 ) - TNG 1×13 Datalore

  • (22:43 ) - TNG 5×04 Silicon Avatar

  • (30:33 ) - TNG 3×20 Tin Man


Music: Distänt Mind, Brigitte Handley
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Episode 79: Giant Space Creatures (SNW 3×07 What is Starfleet?)

Episode 79: Giant Space Creatures (SNW 3×07 What is Starfleet?)

Kevin Yank & Rob Lloyd