Anika and Liz, very much against their better judgement, watch The Puppet Episode. Yes, it’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ “Level Five Transporter Accident”, and we are using words like “I regret having a Star Trek podcast” and “it’s a crime against humanity”.
- Hey, it’s not as offensive as “Four and a Half Vulcans”
- Anika talks about the ancient art of puppetry, commedia dell’arte and Punch and Judy
- This episode does not understand the point of the “leave one human and the rest of the characters are played by Muppets” meme
- In fairness, it also does not understand why Muppets are funny
- The “joke” about Pike’s chair
- This is the third episode of the season where Spock is seeing things
- Spock: what is wrong with this allegedly grown man
- “My girlfriend has been having a hard time and I did not reach out to support her, why did she break up with me?”
- “So all of that happened for no reason.”
- La’an the reverse Pinocchio (not even the first woman in SNW who aspires to become an object!)
- Liz got so irate she gestured violently and knocked over her water bottle. We are not good at podcasting. We are sorry.
Manchild instrumental by Janette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcpU4-auc54; song by S. Carpenter, A. Allen and J. Antonoff