76. Mustard Hands
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The ‘mystical pregnancy’ trope is a bit of an overused one in genre fiction and Star Trek visits that well so many times we had options for which ones to highlight here.
The episode you all knew was coming is Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “The Child” where Troi gets pregnant with a cosmic entity. We also see puppies and the Enterprise dealing with a horrendous disease as a B plot. Star Trek: Voyager had so many episodes for this trope, but we picked “Elogium” where Kes’ body accidentally jumpstarts its mating process in some of the most grotesque ways possible. Oh, and Neelix wants everyone to know he was a bad boy before he met Kes. Finally Enterprise’s “Unexpected” has Trip head over to a freaky alien ship where he helps with their engines but gets mpregged in the process. You dirty dog, Trip!
Timecodes:
00:03:41 What Non-Star Trek Thing We’ve Been Enjoying
00:13:08 TNG: The Child
00:40:34 VOY: Elogium
01:12:11 ENT: Unexpected
And stick around to the end for a horrifying bonus feature!
Pedants Corner: The ‘modern’ V is from 2009, so it’s 16 years old. “A New Start” from Degrassi High was actually in 1989 and while it did air, they had to remove the characters fighting their way through anti-abortion picketers. Jarvis Cocker took the piss out of Michael Jackson in 1996, one year after Elogium.
Talking points include: Donna Troy’s Zombie Baby, Prometheus, V (old and new versions), Legion of Super-Heroes, Super Mario Kart World, GoldenEye, do NOT ask about Avengers issue 200, weird X-Men pregnancies, Charlie’s top tip for karaoke, PUPPIES!, Ian & Barbara, the crew as Wesley’s parents, Degrassi’s abortion storyline, Space: 1999, Charlie brings back that old ZX Spectrum/Commodore 64 rivalry, 1995 Michael Jackson is a rough sight, Michelle Pfieffer, Star Wars Episode One, Red Dwarf, “The Writer’s Barely Disguised Fetish”, Barbarella, Legz Akimbo, Prometheus, Battlestar Galactica (the new one), Attractive Doctors Who, Dune, mpreg, whether Chris Claremont has ever done an mpreg (he hasn’t), Quasar, Farscape, Quantum Leap, Chat Out of Hell, . Oh, and occasionally Star Trek.
Next time, we have another Jeffrey Combs Power Hour! I mean it’s us, so probably more like an hour and a half.
Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.
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