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The Star Trek episode that gives you two universes for the price of one now has two ways to entertain you for the price of … well, what it says up there. Pretty cheap, really.
The Contrived Space Storm of the Week hurls Kirk and company into a nightmare parallel dimension. Yeah, the savagery and oppression are pretty rough, but get an eyeful of those evil uniforms! It's as though millions of fashion designers cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. Though Shatner doesn't seem to mind the scanty outfits on the women. God love him.
And now, thanks to PS Productions, not only can you enjoy the episode itself, you can laugh along with it, too. Join Paul Golba and Shane Tourtellotte as they reflect humorously* on this classic episode.
*The management wish it to be known that Shane will be getting the full Agony Booth treatment for making that pun. You're welcome.
Another entertaining treatment for Star Trek material
I guess something about Star Trek brings out the best in riffers. Maybe it's because they've had 40 years-worth of reruns to practice riffing on, so they have plenty of ideas what to say. I'm a bit disappointed that no one pointed out that we have this dramatically different universe with dramatically different rules of behavior, and yet somehow there's an enterprise with the EXACT SAME set of characters on it. None of their parents were killed due to the brutality of the empire, no one ended up promoted to some different space ship. Nope, they're all there on the alternate-universe Enterprise. ___p___ But this iRiff was very entertaining with a good variety of riffs. I still have a problem keeping a riff like this in sync with a TV episode that I've bought through the iTunes store, but I'm assuming that's a problem with the extra DRM that apple adds to those episodes. I've had the same problem with almost all iRiffs that I've tried to sync to an iTunes-store episode. These iRiffs might be the thing that finally convinces me to buy a DVD-set of the remastered Original Series!