Talosian
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Search complete. 5 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Talosian".
Sep 11, 2026
John SiuntresHOST
And then because this was the end of the Captain Pike story in the menagerie, They manipulated the footage.
John SiuntresHOST
Then, no, now Veena is young again, Pike is young again, and they're together, and you got the Talosian and her voiceover, or his voiceover, even though it was an old lady playing the male Talosian.
John SiuntresHOST
But, no, so,
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Charles KelsoHOST
Yeah.
Charles KelsoHOST
The thing that jumped out at me is, I mean, when we first met Pike in the cage, you know, when he was obviously the Talosians were offering this world of illusion.
Charles KelsoHOST
And when he was leaving and Venus stayed behind because she was so scarred and everything.
Charles KelsoHOST
And they said, you know, she has a fantasy and you have reality.
Dave SchillingGUEST
And the idea of it being the true last episode of Star Trek is a nice fantasy notion.
Dave SchillingGUEST
It's sort of like if I've been captured by the Talosians and they give me a fantasy, the fantasy is that Turnabout Intruder doesn't exist.
Clay KellerHOST
All right.
Clay KellerHOST
Dave not vetoing.
Cameron HarrisonHOST
But if you want to tell an episode about people coming to terms with emotions they're keeping buried, you want something to bring that out.
Cameron HarrisonHOST
And whether it's a musical where people are now singing out secrets that they should be holding in, or whether it's some sort of mind control, or whether it's the Talosian pulling the image of Julia out of Pike's head, I mean... having a Q entity come in and rile things up.
Cameron HarrisonHOST
Like when I was rewatching this, the first 15 minutes, I'm like, this is a sci-fi episode.
Cameron HarrisonHOST
You got a character.
Charles KelsoHOST
But now-
Keith JohnsonHOST
'Cause of Talosians
Charles KelsoHOST
... and I didn't like this, this is one of my nitpicks-
Alan SeilerHOST
Uh