@HalloranIllustrations
Totally part of my top 5 episodes of the animated series. This show never came off to me as a cartoon on Saturday mornings, but a serious science fiction series and this episode totally sends that message.
@ramonaflowers5052
Congratulations on 100 review episodes! I'm glad it was a good episode from the animated series. The fact that it was animated let them create settings and aliens that could never have been done in live action on a television show budget. I wish there was a new modern animated Star Trek series that wasn't geared for kids, or a comedy, and could focus on imaginative sci fi concepts with serious stories.
@dracomusca
Congratulations on your 100th episode of Retro Review! I know from my own attempt at doing a podcast about ST Enterprise, it takes a lot of commitment and time. Great job! I'm always happy to see a new episode.
@yeenmachine206
Glad to see that one of my favorite episodes of TAS here
@TinyGamerAlec
Have a great holiday season, Steve! Your political videos have been bringing me and a friend closer together lately as we prepare escape routes for friends in red states, and your Trek videos are always interesting and well-reasoned even when we don't agree. Love your work.
@vilisig2002
Another angle of interpretation that occurred to me as I watched your recap: the idea of "children" being independent and rejecting the condescending and threatening authority could also apply to indigenous people and their relationship to colonial powers. Colonial rhetoric often positions indigenous people are childlike: uneducated, uncivilized, innnocent, or guilty but don't understand how or why they are guilty... And uses the alleged childishness as an excuse to control and oppress them.
@jonathonalsop2120
Happy 100 to us all. Thanks for these Steve.
@ShikiKiryu
If I remember right, Walking Bear was a name given to Russel Bate's father or a close member of his family, which he chose to use to honour their memory in the show. Trekspertise did quite an interesting breakdown and run through of this episode and also a couple of interviews with Bates included. He talks about his writing inspirations for this episode and the other TAS story he wrote and the frustrations at lack of Native American representation, the disrespect and dismissal of their cultures in media which is often sadly still the case.
@molin1
TAS one of the few shows where, just looking at a still image, my mind is instantly filled with the background music from the scene. Probably because it's literally always the same music, but still.
@ShinGallon
I've been saying it for years, Star Trek TAS is far better than it's reputation. At it's best it's actually pretty good Trek, and at it's worst it's still light-years better than Code of Honor.
@Scerttle
Happy 100, enjoy the two week break!
@Waffletigercat
I genuinely like this episode. Kukulkan looks awesome, and actually winds up being a bit sympathetic. I like that it satirizes some racially-derived tropes, too.
@tjzambonischwartz
"While kukulkan continues kvetching with captain Kirk..." Nicely done there.
@notavailable2590
I like how the 90s gave us both Stargate (What If The Gods Were Aliens, And Also Jerks), and Xena (What If The Gods Were Real, And Also Jerks).
@TammyBeth1015
I'm surprised all over again every time I see it how nice the exterior shots of the Enterprise were in TAS
@torenatkinson1986
Walking Bear would have been an appropriate addition to Strange New Worlds.
@peterferber1527
Beautiful work, and congrats on doing one-hundred podcasts in this framework. You make it look easy; and I have to say that having tried and failed to make videos on simpler content: It Ain't Easy. Bravo!
@larrybliss8330
I saw this episode when it first ran and I was not impressed. I was into hard sci-fi at the time and thought the premise was dumb. This review, however, has shown me its strengths and how very Star Trek it is. Thanks, Steve...
@thegneech
Always like seeing the animated series get some respect. :)
@GSBarlev