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The Final Frontier Podcast Season 2, Episode 9: Did That Guy F--- The Cloud?

🚀 - Mention this podcast to receive 20% off your order in store: www.bogercabinetry.com 🚀 - Subscribe to Paramount+: https://paramountplus.qflm.net/c/5940... 🚀 - Welcome back to The Final Frontier Podcast — this week we’re tackling one of the weirdest (and most talked-about) Star Trek: The Original Series episodes: “Metamorphosis” (Season 2, Episode 9). Because this one hits different. We’ve got nine pages of notes, a ton of questions, and a whole lot to unpack: a shuttlecraft gets yanked out of space, an Earth-like planetoid blocks all tech, and a mysterious energy entity known only as “The Companion” refuses to let anyone leave. But the real curveball? The stranded survivor isn’t just any castaway… it’s Zephram Cochrane, the inventor of warp drive — and yes, the same Cochrane you know from Star Trek: First Contact. In this episode breakdown, we dig into: Why “Metamorphosis” feels unsettling even when it’s trying to be romantic The Galileo shuttlecraft returning (and why it feels like it has bad juju) Sukaro’s disease and how the episode uses “future medicine” as a ticking clock How the story handles love, loneliness, identity, and the ethics of what happens at the end The big continuity convo: Cochrane, Alpha Centauri vs Earth, and how later Trek threads the needle The behind-the-scenes tidbit about reshoots, the scarf, and what changed between takes And yeah… we’re going there: the consent/agency implications, the “is this what the writers intended?” moments, and why the resolution lands as either surprisingly heartfelt or deeply messy depending on how you read it. If you’ve ever watched “Metamorphosis” and thought: “I don’t know how I feel about this…” Same. Let’s talk it out. Drop a comment: Is the bigger issue here the ending itself… or that the episode doesn’t clarify enough what’s happening? And where does “Metamorphosis” rank for you among TOS’s strangest episodes? Next week: “Journey to Babel” — and we’re finally getting deep into Spock’s family lore. #startrek #tos #finalfrontierpodcast #metamorphosis #ZephramCochrane #StarTrekFirstContact #aretemedia #startrekpodcast #scifi #startrektos #trekkie