Star Trek and Shakespeare, Part I.

The play's the thing, whether on the stage of the Globe Theatre in sixteenth-century London or aboard a twenty-third-century starship. In The Original Series episode "The Conscience of the King," Captain Kirk and his crew play host to a troupe of Shakespearean actors hiding a terrible secret. But the Karidian Company of Players offer only the first of many interpretations of the Bard's plays within the Complete Works of Trek.

In the first act of a two-part episode of Primitive Culture devoted to the Man from Stratford, hosts Duncan Barrett and Tony Black look at the original Enterprise crew's brushes with Shakespeare, from echoes of The Tempest in the rejected pilot episode "The Cage" all the way through to the wild rantings of General Chang in The Undiscovered Country, 26 years later.

Chapters Intro (00:00:00) The Undiscovered Country (00:02:04) "The Conscience of the King" (00:18:11) Captains Logs as Soliloquies (00:25:20) More Shakespearean Treks in TOS (00:29:06) The Tempest as the Birth of Science Fiction (00:30:30) Born Sexy Yesterday, with a Horse (00:41:21) Closing (00:45:45)

Hosts Duncan Barrett and Tony Black Production Tony Black (Editor) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) Norman C. Lao (Associate Producer) Amy Nelson (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Patreon Manager)