- You can find MC Papa Raines on Instagram (@paparaines) and Facebook (facebook.com/paparainespresents).

- Find Papa Raines and the single, "Good At That One Thing" on Spotify and Apple Music. 

- Patrick's song pairing for this episode: "24 Hrs. to Live," by Mase (feat. The Lox, Black Rob, DMX).

- Grace’s song pairing for this episode: “War Pigs," by Ruthie Foster (Black Sabbath cover)

- Patrick's featured song is "Good At That One Thing," by Papa Raines, Old Tre, and Wes Critt.

Corrections:

• *shrug*

- Heather has an "online fan club on Patreon - Big Loud Love Club - that gathers for virtual workshops, classes, concerts, and community events "that help my amazing humans stay connected in a time of so much disconnection." 

- Heather is launching a Kickstarter soon to raise funds for two new albums, both of which are going to be made entirely by women. Head to heathermaemusic.com to keep up with that and all things Heather Mae. And don't forget to follow Heather on Instagram: @heathermaemusic

- To contact the National Domestic Violence hotline, dial 800-799-7233 or text START to 88788. Chat with someone in real time at www.thehotline.org and get connected with help and resources. You are not alone.

- Heather's song pairing for this episode: "Fight the Power," by Public Enemy

- Grace’s song pairing for this episode: “Highwayman” by The Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson).

- Heather's featured song is "Warrior," from her 2019 Glimmer album.

Corrections:

• No corrections?? Is that a first?

- Dave Madden has a Pop Rock/Yacht-Rock side project called Mr. Linen, with Andre Cantave and David Messier. Their album, Stay Cool, includes 9 original songs. Find out more and purchase one of a kind merch items at https://mrlinenmusic.com/.

- Dave’s song pairing for this episode: “Virtual Insanity” by Jamiroquai

- Grace’s song pairing for this episode: “Take the Power Back” by Rage Against the Machine.

- Dave's featured song is “Space Kung Fu” by Mr. Linen.

- Download the sheet music and mp3 for "O Landru: A Festival Hymn of the Body" by Dave Madden here. 

Corrections:

"Return of the Archons" was written by Boris Sobelman, but based on a story by Gene Roddenberry.

The Western town was built on a backlot in Culver City, California. The set was called "Town of Atlanta" and included an 1800s era city street, town square, and residential area. It was originally built for Gone With the Wind in 1939. It remained there for 20 years and was used for various projects before being dismantled.

Celia Rose Gooding plays Cadet Uhura on the new Star Trek series, Strange New Worlds. Gooding is not only a TV actress but also an award-winning Broadway star. She played Mary Frances "Frankie" Healy in the rock musical Jagged Little Pill, which won a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album. Gooding was also nominated for the 2020 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical at the age of 20, which made her one of the youngest nominees in that category

Nichelle Nichols started singing and dancing in her native Chicago. She toured the world as a singer in the Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton bands. Her first LP, Down to Earth, was released in 1967, piggybacking off the success of Star Trek. In 1991, she released Out of This World. She sings in two Original Series episodes, "Charlie X," and "The Conscience of the King."

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-Since the pandemic, the Sun Radio Foundation has given out over $130,000 back to local musicians and members of the community through the Sun Radio Recharge program, helping to pay musicians power bills and during Snowpacalypse helped members of the community with financial assistance. The Sun Radio Recharge program will help local area musicians in the month of August with gas cards.

-Find out more about Sun Radio, the Sun Radio Foundation, and the Sun Radio Recharge program at sunradio.com

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):

-Ben's song pairing for this episode: “Chimes Of Freedom" by The Byrds (written by Bob Dylan).

-Grace's song pairing for this episode: “My Attorney Bernie" by Dave Frishberg.

Corrections:

• Bruce Maddox was played by Brian Brophy in Next Generation and by John Ales in Picard.
• I mistakenly said that the soft lighting treatment that Kirk's love interests receive in The Original Series is due to "gel lighting" (I meant to say, "gel lights.") This is incorrect. Gel lights provided the striking and colorful lighting used in The Original Series. But the soft focus that female love interests get was achieved with "thin layers of plastic, or diffusion filters,"  "placed before the lens for those shots." "No, as far as we know, Vaseline was not smeared on the lens. The technique came to be known as "The Gaussian Girl," named for the Gaussian blur." (Learn more here: https://www.metv.com/stories/ever-wonder-why-the-women-on-star-trek-appear-out-of-focus)
• The episode I mentioned where Scotty is on trial for murder is called "Wolf in the Fold" (TOS 2:14).
• The episode Ben mentioned, where the Doctor's holonovel is published without his permission is called "Author, Author" (VOY 7:20).
• Vulcans were referred to as Vulcanians as well in the first season of Star Trek. The terms were used interchangeably, until the simpler "Vulcan" won out. "Vulcanian" was heard in five episodes of The Original Series: "Mudd's Women," "Court Martial," "A Taste of Armageddon," "This Side of Paradise," and "Errand of Mercy."
• Leonard Nimoy was the only actor to star in all 80 episodes of The Original Series, including the first, unaired pilot, “The Cage.” William Shatner starred in all 79 episodes of the original series that aired on TV. “The Cage,” the first Star Trek pilot made, starred Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike and had a different bridge crew, with the exception of Spock.

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-Access to Jason's books, free music, and more is all at jasonweems.com.

-Pre-sales for Jason's forthcoming book, The Texas Barbecue Adventure Guide: A Road Trip Through the History and How-To of Lone Star 'Cue, will be available this fall. Copies will ship in time for the holidays.

-Jason's favorite current project is power naps and creative rejuvenation.

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. :-)

-Sarah’s website is the one-stop shop for tour dates, news, merch, and music, including The St. Buryan Sessions, a full-length live concert in the beautiful medieval church of St Buryan, just up the road from the rural cottage where she and her family live: sarahmcquaid.com.

-Each of the songs from The St. Buryan Sessions can be found on Sarah’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/sarahmcquaid

-Sarah is on Patreon! Become a patron for exclusive Sarah McQuaid content: patreon.com/sarahmcquaid

-Sarah is touring this summer! Sign up for her mailing list and never miss a show in your area.

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-Sarah’s song pairing for this episode: “Puff the Magic Dragon” by Peter, Paul and Mary

-Grace's song pairing for this episode: “Big Lizard” by The Dead Milkmen

-Sarah’s featured song is “The Tug of the Moon,” from The St. Buryan Sessions

Corrections:

• The book Sarah mentions, in the context of folk music traveling back and forth and both ways between the United States and the UK/Ireland is called Wayfaring Stranger, written by Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr
• “Ebb and Flow” is the name of the “pretty love song” on my second album, Two Birds, that was written in DADGAD.
• The origins of the “Riker Maneuver” (Riker chair maneuver): Jonathan Frakes had a back injury from moving furniture that made it hard to bend and get into chairs the normal way. So he started swinging his leg over the tops of chairs to sit down. Look this up on YouTube if you haven’t seen it. There’s a hilarious viral compilation video. Frakes’ back injury is also the reason for the famous “Riker Lean.” Frakes also thought it would be a hilarious and cocky thing for his character to do, and when no one called him out on it, he continued to do it. In his words: "That started in Ten Forward because the backs of the chairs were so low, it was easy. And then I thought, this is really a hotdog, @$$hole thing to do. Nobody's going to let me do this. And then nobody stopped me! It's such a cocky, unattractive, kind of bad cowboy move… Whoever did the YouTube compilation of Riker sits down, it went viral and was even more embarrassing, and made me strangely even more proud."
• Strange New Worlds premieres on Paramount Plus on May 5th!!
• The redshirts in this episode have indeed been featured in a well-circulated meme but Sarah is correct when she points out that several of the “red shirts” in this episode are wearing yellow. Here’s a link to the meme: https://ifunny.co/meme/kirk-spock-mccoy-and-ensign-ricky-are-beaming-down-to-x6x7hHnu5
• According to Memory Alpha, a fairly comprehensive online Star Trek wiki, the Metron at the end of the episode was played by Carole Shelyne and voiced by Vic Perrin. I couldn’t confirm that the Metron on the ship intercom’s is also voiced by Perrin so that remains an unanswered question.
• From Wikipedia’s entry on the Prime Directive: “The first filmed reference to the Prime Directive occurs in the first season TOS episode "The Return of the Archons" (1966), when Spock begins to caution Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise when he proposes to destroy a computer controlling an entire civilization.”
• The aliens I couldn’t think of, who brokered peace between humans and Klingons were the Organians. The treaty is called the Treaty of Organia or the Organian Peace Treaty. The episode is TOS 1:27, “Errand of Mercy.”
• The book Grace recommends is The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

-You can find tour dates, news, merch, and music, including Slaid's latest album, Ghost on the Car Radio, at Slaid's website: slaid.com or slaidcleaves.com (there's a new website coming soon- stay tuned for that).

-Slaid is back in the studio, making his first album in five years with producer Scrappy Jud Newcomb. This will be Slaid's third album with Newcomb.

-Slaid is back on tour! Tour dates start on the west coast in March and new dates are added all the time on his website. Sign up for the mailing list to stay in the know. He's not on social media much, but you can reach him through the website.

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):

-Slaid's song pairing for this episode: "Is It Like Today?" by Eliza Gilkyson and the original version of "Is It Like Today?" by World Party (Karl Wallinger of The Waterboys)

-Grace's song pairing for this episode: “War” by The Temptations

-Slaid's featured song is "If I Had a Heart," from his latest album, Ghost on the Car Radio.

Corrections:

• The two factions in "The Omega Glory" (TOS 2:23) are the "Kohms" and the "Yangs" (I said "Kahns" in this recording instead of "Kohms").
• "Balance of Terror" (TOS 1:14) gets its name from the expression that refers to the nuclear arms race of the Cold War. But this episode is not about mutually assured destruction, per se. If I'm missing any other Star Trek episodes that tackle the subject, let me know!
• It's "The Man in the High Castle," not "Man in the High Tower," and it is indeed based on the novel of the same name, written by Philip K. Dick.
• Slaid is entirely correct about Star Trek's Nielson ratings in the 60's. When Star Trek aired on NBC, its ratings were low, and the network cancelled it in its third season. It's useful to keep in mind, however, that at the time the vast majority of TV viewers were watching only three broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, or NBC. So even a show with "low ratings" in the 60's would have commanded a much larger audience than a show with "low ratings" today. So it's kind of hard to make comparisons today. But its true that Star Trek didn't really become the hit show that it is today with its cult following and influence on popular culture until the 70's, when it was in syndication.
• Is Q, and the coinciding Q Continuum, immortal? The much loved character Q, from Star Trek: Next Generation is an omnipotent being with the ability to control time and space at will. Q is part of a collective, the Q Continuum, which exists in another dimension not accessible or understandable to humans. Q is not a benevolent being. He is better described as bored than benevolent. Although he has a fascination with Picard and with humanity and its historical outcomes, he is at times antagonistic and arbitrarily cruel. Trelane, the antagonist of this episode, "The Squire of Gothos," is a precursor to Q. The question of whether or not Q can decline or die has been recently raised as a possible plot line in the newest season of Star Trek: Picard, currently airing on Paramount Plus.

-Ruby Dice’s latest EP, Denim Disco, produced by Andrew Troubadour (of the Greyhounds) and recorded in Austin, is available on her website and everywhere fine digital music is sold and streamed. Another EP, Wild Ones is also available now. Her upcoming single, “Can’t Behave,” written about women’s rights in Texas, will be released March 31st. Come celebrate that release at a big party at Sagebrush in Austin, Texas, March 31st. Ruby’s on the bill and all the proceeds from that event will go to sending women out of state to get medical care, in partnership with Fund Texas Choice.

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):

-(Ruby forgot to choose a song pairing. If she sends me one later, I'll add it here!)

-Grace's song pairing for this episode: “Galileo” by the Indigo Girls.

-Ruby Dice's featured songs are "Think Free" and "Yellow T-Shirt," from her 2021 Denim Disco EP and 2020 Wild Ones EP, respectively.

Corrections:

• The Galileo (registration NCC-1701/7) was a class F shuttlecraft. The complement on a Constitution class starship like the Enterprise would have been typically four total shuttlecraft. So the “/7” designation is not in reference to the total number of shuttlecraft aboard, as I thought.
• The Janeway/Chakotay get stranded on a planet together episode is called “Resolutions” (VOY 2:25).
• The Janeway/Paris lizard babies episode is “Threshold” (VOY 2:15).