143: Star Trek: Friday's Child and The Deadly Years

We're at the midseason finale point for our Star Trek season 2 Watchcasting, but before we take a one week break from the show we're here to try and make sense of two more episodes in Friday's Child and The Deadly Years!

CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 143: Star Trek: Friday's Child and The Deadly Years
(00:00:15) - Intro.
(00:01:35) - Just launching right into Friday's Child.
(00:06:34) - Our cast, and production notes.
(00:12:08) - The set-up for this episode: would you believe it revolves around mining rights?
(00:20:41) - Never get involved in Capellan politics.
(00:25:53) - What's going on with the ship during all this?
(00:30:43) - Racing through the California desert with a pregnant lady.
(00:36:24) - Three officers and a baby, and the final (terrible) confrontation.
(00:47:30) - The aftermath of whatever all this was.
(00:52:36) - Break!
(00:53:05) - We're back, and it's time for The Deadly Years!
(00:54:31) - Production notes, and cast talk.
(01:00:16) - The planet that makes you old.
(01:07:59) - The bodies and minds begin to fail.
(01:19:49) - Using the courts to get grandpa's car keys away from him.
(01:25:59) - This is not the man to be dealing with Romulans.
(01:34:54) - The juice that makes you young, and the Corbomite comeback.
(01:39:21) - Failing to learn a lesson.
(01:46:13) - Outro.

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