Enterprising Individuals

We're eating both sides of the whale this week as we dive into the most unique entry in the Trek film franchise: "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home"!Comedian and podcaster Asterios Kokkinos returns to the show to discuss the Trek film that lets the TOS show their comedic chops. Kirk and his mutinous crew return to Earth to face judgment only to find the planet under siege from a mysterious and powerful probe. To save humanity, they'll have to travel back to our civilization's darkest and most savage era: the 1980s!Being a film about time-travelling astronauts looking for whales and plexiglass, Star Trek IV is absurd on its face. But Trek manages to communicate a deeper and more relevant environmental message as the crew of the Enterprise stumbles through the San Francisco of their past, and only the veteran talents of the Original Series cast could make their journey so funny and relatable. On this episode, we talk about the daring decision to make a Trek comedy, the classic '80s sci-fi films of the decade, findi