
The Final Frontier Minute 72: Where Does The Pain Go?
In which McCoy reveals something worse than his father's death, Sybok demands that McCoy releases his pain, and we notice something outside...
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The podcast where we talk about the Star Trek films, one minute at a time... and spare our wives from having to listen to us, again.

In which McCoy reveals something worse than his father's death, Sybok demands that McCoy releases his pain, and we notice something outside...

In which McCoy turns off his father's life support, and Chris continues his obsession over lighting choices in this scene...

In which McCoy relives the suffering of his father on his deathbed, Sybok keeps popping into the scene, and Chris finds yet another thing to...

In which we discuss if Kirk and Spock can see what is behind McCoy, where is Sybok storing all the pain, how haunting this minute is and Chr...

In which we do not discuss the theology of this episode; heaven, eden, vorta vor, but we do discuss the reality of the situation, how McCoy...

In which we discuss the galaxy, exploration and man's limitations, the sick bay attendent just sitting by himself, the hierarchy of the crew...

In which Sybok monologues, and Dave has an epiphany about what makes the movie work for him...

In which our heroes call for help, and we spiral out of control trying to figure out how galactic coordinates work...

In which Spock holds Kirk and McCoy, Sulu makes a polite request, and our heroes ascend the turboshaft, again and again and again...

In which we discuss Sulu rescuing Scotty, the Army of Light having humanity, Chris building Star Trek The Playground, and Spock flying in fr...

In which we discuss what exactly is a Jeffries tube, Scotty looking like he just got out of bed, Chris and Dave disagreeing on the design ch...

In which we discuss Star Trek bring extremely lazy, the Morse Code trope, the special effects team lets us down with horrible props in the b...

In which we learn Sybok's destination is Sha Ka Ree, Kirk scoffs at the notion, and we discuss the Great Barrier and its appearances in Star...

In which Sybok begins his announcement, we see multiple reactions from the crew, and we discuss the odd camera angles used in this minute...

In which Kirk gets a shock from the brig, Spock drops a humble brag, and we discuss montage scenes in Star Trek...

In which we discuss Kirk making faces and mumbling to himself, Chekov acting a bit out of character, the complete ineptitude of the bridge c...

In which we discuss the how they are playing characitures of themselves, Spock has kept his past a secret from Kirk, the book continues to f...

In which we discuss Sulu and Uhura's pain, how do you actually get around in the Enterprise, the son's of Sarek, and whether or not Kirk's a...

In which Sybok orders folks to be thrown in the brig, Spock refuses to help Sybok, and we discuss which is scarier - a bullet or a phaser...

In which Kirk bounces from shuttle to shuttle, Spock gets the drop on Sybok, and we discuss whether Kirk's "Shoot him!" is an order or not.....

In which Sybok gets to the potato gun first, Kirk gives up for a moment, the brawl begins, and we discuss audio decisions in movie making...

In which we discuss how Sulu is "manually" bringing in the shuttle, the awful set design of the cargo bay, ILM not doing the special affects...

In which we talk about the sound effects being from other movies, getting nostalgic about older movies, the difference (for the better) in t...

In which we discuss if Sybok is really a threat, if Korrd talks for the first time in this minute, why didn't the Enterprise have contigenci...

In which Scotty and Chekov prepare for an attack, Sybok insists on continuing to the Enterprise, and we discuss the intricacies of how stars...

In which Scotty monitors Galileo's approach, Klaa and Vixis prepare to attack the Enterprise, and we discuss the quality differences of all...

In which Sybok states he has more violations to commit, Kirk clarifies that HE is captain of the Enterprise, and we discuss how much Sybok h...

In which we discuss how we finally figure out who the mysterious stranger is, question whether the Vulcan language is as popular as Klingon,...

In which we discuss the decision to bring the shuttle down, where cat people breath from, Trivia Zone, and is the guy from the Six Flags com...

In which we see some cool action cliché of two big dudes setting up a big gun, a real cat fight, water pool?? and Chris really coming to ter...

In which the battle at Paradise City rages, "Captain" Chekov demands a surrender, and Spock takes a crack at bringing down a semu...

\In which the Federation strike team make it through the gates of Paradise City, Spock locates the hostages, and the rescue begins...

In which Uhura lures away the bad guys with a fan dance, and we discuss this infamous, but problematic, scene...

In which negotiations continue, Kirk comes up with a plan, and we wonder why everyone is so obsessed with the Klingons in this movie...

In which Command Force X start their landing, "Captain" Chekov begins negotiations with the mysterious stranger, and we go on quite a few ta...

In which Scotty appears to be fixing EVERYTHING by himself, Kirk makes the call to do things the old fashioned way, and we discuss how Comma...

In which we discuss more about this revolutionary, Vulcans and emotion, Spock learning how to be Jim's friend again and we learn so much mor...

In which we discuss how much Dave loves this set location, Spock "feeling" sorrow, forbidden Vulcan knowledge, sharing forbidden Vulcan secr...

In which we discuss what parlay means, who is holding the camera and where is it, Kirk stereotyping Vulcans, and we take another trip to the...

In which Kirk gives up on his log book, the hostage tape is played, and we speculate about how Starfleet manages their data storage infrastr...

In which Kirk misses his old chair, Klaa makes plans to become the greatest Klingon warrior, and we speculate about the bounty the Klingon's...

In which Kirk accepts their new orders, Scotty gets caught eavesdropping, and we discuss McCoy as the possible origin of captain's ready roo...

In which we discuss Harve Bennett getting some screen time, Kirk's shirt branding deal, the new touch panels, and Chris has no love for Kirk...

In which we discuss whether people refer to this as the Enterprise A, what the people in the shuttlebay are really doing, minimal Spock resp...

In which we are let down by the quote from John Masefield, the new fangled screens that Scotty is using - bridging the gap between TOS and N...

In which Uhura interrupts the campout, we get the Enterprise "hero shot", and we realize how badly we would have done in college literature....

In which the crew of the Okrona receive a request from Klingon High Command, Captain Klaa makes a decision to cause trouble, and Kirk's shor...

In which the Pioneer 10 space probe is found, Captain Klaa makes his big entrance, and we discuss mixing our science fiction with science re...

In which we discuss the ending of campfire week, Dave does not like McCoy right now, Spock being different and not in a good way, and the Tr...

In which we discuss row, row, row your boat, getting drunk on Star Trek, Shatner getting advice from a worker on set, and Chris gets a Trivi...