The Empath

Episode 153

Friday 9 May 2025

In the middle distance, Kirk, Spock, Bones and a beautiful but completely passive woman are walking past a row of perspex tubes into a dark void. Watching them, their backs to us, are two tall aliens with domed, hairless heads with visible buttock cleavage at the base of their skulls.

Star Trek: The Original Series

Series 3, Episode 12

Stardate: 5121.5

First broadcast on Friday 6 December 1968

A series of urgent production catastrophes this week, as we arrive at Paramount Studios with no set, no lines for our female guest star, and a script with no story and no plot. Can these omnipotent bum-headed aliens help us out?

Episode 153: The Empath

Recorded on Tuesday 6 May 2025 · Download (73.7 MB)

Star Trek: The Original Series

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