A LOVE STORY? When Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Commissioner Nancy Hedford discover Zefram Cochrane is both still alive and under the influence of an electrical cloud that has fallen in love with him, it's just the setup for perhaps the deepest exploration of love in Star Trek history. 

Joining Bryan to discuss this BIG SWING from 1967 is Laurie Ulster from TrekMovie.com. Can she and Bryan agree on a final grade for this one?

Two podcast episodes to check out which Bryan references in the episode: 

1) The remastering of TOS for HD on Inglorious Treksperts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-re-making-of-star-trek-w-dave-rossi/id1439126593?i=1000477191844]
2) "Metamorphosis" director Ralph Senensky on the Scott Mantz Star Trek podcast, Enterprise Incidents [https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/32-metamorphosis/id1559296756?i=1000541023214]

TOS: "Metamorphosis" (s2e9) with Laurie Ulster from TrekMovie.com

There are 930 episodes of Star Trek. Some of them we love because they are a perfect combination of Star Trek ideas and human drama, some of them we like because they're just good examples of Star Trek, and the rest are ones we'll watch because why not? Star Trek is like pizza or sex: even when it's bad it's still good. 

Join Bryan and Kristen (and the occasional special guest) as they take the schoolyard game of F***, Marry, Kill and apply it to episodes from all 11 series asking specific questions like, "What part of the story will they teach at the Academy?" "What are the Best Trek Tropes in the episode?" "Worst Trek Tropes?" and many more in order to decide if an episode is one they'll TREK out again, MARRY because they'll cherish it for life, or KILL because it missed the mark. 

Keep track of our grades at www.trekmarrykillpod.com [https://www.trekmarrykillpod.com/]!

This show is not affiliated with Paramount, Viacom, CBS Television Studios, Roddenberry Entertainment, or Secret Hideout Productions. 

Our theme music is "70's Synth Funk Jam" by Phill_Dillow on Pixabay [https://pixabay.com/users/phill_dillow-16161775/?tab=audio].