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Here's a link to the official Troubadours on Trek Spotify Playlist, where you can hear all the featured songs from every episode in one playlist (songs will be added as episodes air on Patreon):

-Jason's song pairing for this episode: “I’m Comin’ Home” by Robert Earl Keen (and not, as we both thought, by Pat Green).

-Grace's song pairing for this episode: “Let’s Do the Time Warp" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

-Jason's featured song is “Star Crossed Lovers.”

Corrections:

• The Enterprise visits Earth (albeit in the past) in exactly two episodes of the Original Series: "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and "Assignment: Earth."
• Some real world slingshotting: Apollo 13, which launched in 1970, three years after this episode of Star Trek aired, failed in the sense that the crew was unable to land on the moon. It was successful in the sense that the crew made it back to Earth, by "slingshotting" around the moon to then crash-land in the Pacific Ocean.
• The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, a Russian astronaut who successfully completed her mission in 1963. The USSR did not send another woman until 1982. The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, in 1983. Ride is also the first out, queer astronaut to go to space.  The "Mercury 13" were a group of thirteen female American pilots. In 1959, they chose to undergo the same tests as male astronauts, under the supervision of NASA staff. In spite of performing as well or better than male pilots, the women were never actually afforded the opportunity to become astronauts. The program was privately funded and the idea of female astronauts was not accepted by either NASA or the general public at the time. Some studies have suggested that female bodies are better suited to long term space travel than male bodies but discrimination toward female astronauts persists in the global community. Nichelle Nichols is directly responsible for recruiting the first astronauts of color and female astronauts into the US space program, including Sally Ride. In 1992, Mae Jemison, inspired by Nichelle Nichols and her Star Trek character, Uhura, became the first woman of color in space.
• "I'm Comin' Home," Jason's song pick, is by Robert Earl Keen, not Pat Green. What can we say? Their names rhyme and we got mixed up. :-)