BackTrekking returns again to look back at the real-world inspirations of classic Trek episodes!

Star Trek helped popularize the time loop story, beating Groundhog Day to press by almost a year, and the idea of our characters locked in a repeating set of events has repeated itself in the various Star Trek series. Enter "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", where it's Discovery's turn to live, die, and repeat. "Magic" itself came in the wake of "Edge of Tomorrow", an underappreciated action sci-fi flick about Tom Cruise going from coward zero to wartime hero by dying over and over and over and...

It's another seeming endless episode as we return from a break to talk about how EoT went from manga to the big screen, seeing Tom Cruise be bad at something, the slow-motion pushup felt around the world, how "Magic" makes vulnerability its greatest strength, finally getting to know the Disco crew, 100%ing the Mudd level, and having the same musical tastes as Alex Kurtzman.

We've also got a little bit of Switch talk, we try to peel back the layers of the Walter Mosely flap, Gooey's living that AMC Stubs life, and Kal is losing it over Emily Blunt!

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