BackTrekking returns again to look back at the real-world inspirations of classic Trek episodes!

We crawl up our own Jeffries tube this week when we watch the first Star Trek episode inspired *by* a Star Trek episode! Decades ago, light years away, but almost exactly the same episode as "The Naked Time" . . . it's "The Naked Now"!

On this episode, we discuss the original Star Trek "crazy gas" episode, where mutant water molecules infect the crew and cause them to experience their unexpressed fears and desires. And fencing. It's also an episode with some crunchy sci-fi elements, like matter-antimatter reactions, gravitational planetary collapse, and the crew getting drunk and inventing time travel and forgetting to tell anyone. Then, we move to the 24th century, where everyone is a lot hornier and programmed in multiple techniques. The ship is in the path of a deadly stellar fragment and Captain Wesley won't budge until he gets double dessert!

On this show, we talk about the very real-world anti-space sentiments poor Joe T. expresses, whether McCoy and Scotty were OK because they're career drunks, whether or not Sulu is a crappy swashbuckler, the evils of middle management, the USS Key Party, how every chief engineer pre-Geordi was a Scotty joke, deepfaking Picard, the importance of context in an orgy, 3D checkers, King Riley, Kal drops some truth about foil vs. epee, and Gooey straightens out some Zelda canon!

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