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GLP-FUN? The Enterprise beams aboard one of the most obnoxious characters in the history of the franchise along with some "beautiful women-hookers" in an episode that seems designed to drive Bryan and Kristen insane. But does this 60-year old piece of television manage to make a positive impression? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BECAUSE IT'S THERE? The Enterprise joyrides to an Earth-like planet and gets into trouble when the landing party begins to hallucinate thanks to the alien pollen. Is this humanity's best proving our mettle or Teddy Rooseveltesque adventuring where perhaps we shouldn't belong? Also, Archer brings his dog. Also, why wasn't this the second episode of the series? Bryan and Kristen try and fail to understand what happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For Star Trek's 60th, we're releasing new episodes on their original airdate. But for those we've already done, we're offering a repeat PLUS an episode of Enterprise to celebrate its 25th anniversary. KIRK'S TOXIC MASCULINITY is unleashed after a transporter accident involving mystery ore from a freezing planet splits him into his Negative Side and Positive Side. This mascara'd drunk sexually assaults Yeoman Rand. Meanwhile, the Positive Side winds up being the passive side and his inaction and softness begins to offend Mr. Spock!  It's an episode that only could've been written in the 1960s and it should come as no surprise that its general statement about the darkness inside every man comes from a Twlight Zone writer -- it's a very Twlight Zone message. For your consideration: Bryan and Kristen play Trek Marry Kill with it and see if the episode holds up despite sexual assault, a dog in a dragon costume, and an inexplicable storyline where the ship can't send down a shuttle to rescue Sulu & some redshirts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THE POLYWATER PROBLEM. The crew of the Enterprise begins to experience space madness after encountering some weird water cooked up on an ancient planet in the process of collapsing in on itself. Their deepest fears and most intense desires rise to the surface, and a plucky Irish crewmember seemingly strands them in a decaying orbit. Can Kirk & Spock get it together before the ship is thrown into oblivion? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IS SPACE BORING? That's what LITERALLY THE SECOND EPISODE OF ENTERPRISE wrestles with as the crew gets a little ornery waiting to run into some aliens. And then there's Hoshi Sato fretting about being in space at all AND feeling guilt about taking a slug off a planet only to watch it slowly die under Dr. Phlox's care. It's a bumpy start for the NX-01. Bryan and Kristen laugh, yell, and cough (Bryan is recovering from a cold) their way through the second episode of Enterprise EVER on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. We are part of Geekscape. Go to Geekscape.net to see our whole network of podcasts. We are produced and edited by Geekscape's Matt Kelly. Check out trekmarrykillpod.com on the web to see all of the TREKs, MARRYs, and KILLs we've handed out so far. And, if you're enjoying the show, consider rating and review us wherever you listen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Along with Star Trek's 60th anniversary, it's the 25th anniversary of Enterprise, and so we'll be covering some season 1 episodes from that show along with TOS. But first! If you didn't catch one of our very first episodes... alllllll the way back in 2022, here are Bryan and Kristen taking Enterprise out on its maiden voyage. THE FIRST PREQUEL to bear the name Star Trek, and it's incredible that so much of Enterprise has remained canon despite all the changes to the universe following the Chris Pine movies. Bryan and Kristen explore the big 2-hour premiere episode of the last Trek show of the Rick Berman era to see if Scott Bakula works as the first captain of a starship named Enterprise and if humanity's first adventure into deep space lives up to those adventures in the previous pilots.  Is this the greatest Star Trek pilot ever? Do you wish you could hop into a decontamination chamber with T'Pol or Trip? Of course, the biggest "controversy" of the show's four-season run was its theme song. Is "Faith of the Heart" a bop or a flop?  If you like this episode, consider rating us five stars and/or liking us wherever you listen. Our theme music is "70's Synth Funk Jam" by Phill_Dillow on Pixabay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All season long we'll be doing episodes from the first season of The Original Series. For those we've already done, we'll re-up them in the feed (as we're doing this week) and supplement with an episode of Enterprise (to celebrate its 25th anniversary) or other episodes. This week, listen to the second episode we ever did! How have Bryan and Kristen changed over the years? Listen and find out! A SECOND PILOT? Star Trek spent three seasons defying the odds, and it all started here in this second pilot, a rare occurrence by TV's standards even today. What did NBC see in this show? Why, the promise of action adventure and solid science fiction, of course. They get all that and more  with William Shatner as Captain James R. Kirk of the USS Enterprise and a script by novelist-turned-TV writer Samuel A. Peeples.  As the Enterprise probes the edge of the known galaxy, they encounter an energy field that gives Captain Kirk's best friend, Lt. Gary Mitchell, the power of a god. In order to save his ship, Kirk must choose between stranding his friend on a distant world or killing him.  Check this one out to hear how Bryan first saw it and why both he and Kristen think Gary Mitchell is a piece of sh**. ALERT! We use strong language when talking about Gary Mitchell!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOYS DON'T CRY in the 23rd century unless they have godlike powers like the ones a young man taken aboard the Enterprise possesses. Captain Kirk tries to teach him how to be a respectable man, until it becomes clear it's all about controlling his hormones. Do Bryan & Kristen grok an episode about a little twerp who torments the crew of the Enterprise because he's horny? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SALTY EX-GIRLFRIEND. The crew of the Enterprise are stalked by a being that just wants to suck the salt from them. It's the last of its kind, you see, and only wants to live. Is that sympathetic enough, or does the fact that it has taken the form of Dr. McCoy's ex that makes it more meaningful? Bryan and Kristen investigate the very first episode of Star Trek to air and on the occasion of its 60th anniversary (though, it aired a day early in Canada). Is Star Trek's first aired adventure a TREK, MARRY, or KILL? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SEASON FIVE BEGINS with Bryan & Kristen tying up some loose ends from last season including tiebreaker votes for the Strange New Worlds season finale, "New Life and New Civilizations," and "The Way to Eden" from The Original Series; but also, announcing the recipient of a Lower Decks Blu-ray box set as a thanks for their poetry. Then, they recount their summer, as Trek Marry Kill ventured to San Diego to host a panel at Comic-Con International. At STLV, the Inglorious Treksperts announced the Top 60 episodes of Star Trek of all-time -- how many are episodes we've MARRIED? And finally, a preview of the season ahead. Check out the Inglorious Treksperts episode listing Star Trek's Top 60! Check out the Ship Full of Jerks Podcast wherever you get your podcasts! Check out Enterprisesplaining wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SO MUCH SNARK in the pages of a 31-year old special edition issue of Entertainment Weekly focusing on the Star Trek franchise up to that point. Did the writers actually like the shows or did they hold them with a degree of ironic detachment to maintain some hipster credit? Bryan and Kristen complete their thumb-through of what wound up being a pretty formative bit of work for young Bryan. Do these TOS rankings hold up? Make sense? Does the wisdom of this crowd align with the Original Series viewers from the 25th anniversary, who put together a Viewers' Choice Marathon? (Read about that here: Star Trek Viewers Choice Marathon | Memory Alpha | Fandom) Listen and find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

*TREK MARRY KILL will be at San Diego Comic Con THIS SATURDAY! Check out TREK MARRY KILL LIVE! in the Neil Morgan Auditorium of the San Diego Central Library at 4pm!** GEN X GENERATION has got jokes about Star Trek: The Next Generation. After examining which episodes the Entertainment Weekly writers of 31 years ago thought were the best of the series, Bryan and Kristen explore the dated jokes & references and peccadillos of the staff. Were their rankings correct? Should their joke writing get them canceled? ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

**TREK MARRY KILL will be at San Diego Comic Con! Check out TREK MARRY KILL LIVE! in the Neil Morgan Auditorium of the San Diego Central Library on Saturday, July 25th at 4pm!** PRINT IS DEAD? Bryan and Kristen go to eBay to recollect a collector's edition of Entertainment Weekly from 1994/1995 about the Star Trek universe to that point. Its ambition? To rank all 303 (!) episodes of the franchise to date. Using the 30-40-30 formula, Bryan and Kristen go through what the writers at the time considered to be the TREKs, MARRYs, and KILLs. This week, part one of a two-part look at TNG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ALL GOOF THINGS... must come to an end and now it's time for Trek Marry Kill's journey through Lower Decks to wrap it all up. Bryan and Geekscape's Katie Hampton say goodbye to a show that has made them laugh, made them frustrated, and made them... friends? Or, at least, strong acquaintances? In any case, it's goodbye to Lower Decks AND this season of Trek Marry Kill -- but don't worry, we'll have a few special episodes dropping throughout the summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PURPLE PEOPLE NEEDER. Katie Hampton returns to begin to close the book on Trek Marry Kill's coverage of Star Trek: Lower Decks and in this pair of episodes, fans get the return of an important legacy character as well as one last look at the Cerritos command crew dealing with their own problems. The ultimate lesson from both episodes? We can't go through life alone. Community, sharing, teamwork -- they matter very much! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices