The Enemy Below

And I think that this one is great because it's science fiction, but it pulls from stories that we're familiar with.

And, you know, people even during that time would have been familiar, uh, maybe more so with the submarine warfare movie because, you know, that was, you know, you had like the enemy below, you had run silent, run deep.

And I mean, these are just all films that that people would have known about and could have related this episode directly to.

Yeah, I mean, we chose this as a spotlight episode, not just because it's chock full of continuity and important to Star Trek.

I always have.

And I've seen most of his films, but that one's kind of slipped by me.

Yeah, I haven't seen The Enemy Below, which they accredit that film as influencing this particular episode.

So I didn't know anything about that.

conversation for me too to be fair yeah

I think I've seen it five times now it's never going to get old it's so fucking funny it's so funny Paul Thomas Anderson I think he's an incredible writer director anyway to me I think I probably only have the ruby blood ahead of this in his film homography I think it's amazing Then I watched a movie called The Enemy Below, which is starring Robert Mitchum.

So he plays this US, yeah, essentially a trend for sure.

So he plays this captain of this World War II era US Navy ship.

There's a movie.

called The Enemy Below.

Robert Mitchum is the destroyer captain.

Kurt Juergens is the Nazi U-boat captain.

And the Mutara Nebula is just an example.

And I completely forgot where it came from.

It came from The Enemy Below, which, by the way, trivia question, no one ever knows who directed The Enemy Below.

It was directed by Dick Powell.