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Podcast: Trek Marry Kill
Episode: VOY: "Course: Oblivion" (s5e18) with Joshua Pruett (The Last Comics on Earth series, Doctor Who, Phineas and Ferb)
Description: CAMP OR CLASSIC? The Emmy-winning and New York Times-bestselling writer Joshua Pruett returns to walk Bryan through the high camp of one of Star Trek: Voyager's most tragic episodes in which the crew discovers that they are merely mimic goo that's now disintegrating because of an enhanced warp drive. Did Bryan Fuller and Nick Sagan have higher aims or were they locked into a nihilistic ending? And just how many members of the cast were in on the joke of playing up the ridiculousness of turning into puddles of goo? It's another BIG SWING for Star Trek...