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Welcome to Enchantment of Eternity. I’m Marc, and I’m on a mission to analyze every episode of the Star Trek Franchise. I started with The Original Series, and then moved on to The Next Generation, and now I’m covering Deep Space Nine and Voyager in order of airdate. It’s my mission statement to always give my honest opinion on each and every episode regardless of what the popular opinion is, so sometimes I have some hot takes. I prefer character based stories. I try to analyze the writing, acting, cinematography, and music of each episode, with emphasis on the writing. I explore themes and commentaries on the episode and give my opinion on whether or not it works, as well as explore some behind the scenes tidbits and trivia, and share my personal experience with the episode. We also hear from my patreon supporters and what they think of the episode. So check me out and give it a listen.

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Join me as I cover this episode that is not so good, where sociopathic aliens with telekinetic powers torture Kirk and Spock and ridiculous and boring ways for nearly the whole run of the episode, yawn. But it does feature one of the first interracial kisses on television so there is that.

Originally uploaded to youtube on May 18th, 2023

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Originally uploaded to youtube on May 18th, 2023