Klingon Honor, Cursed CGI Targs & THAT Decon Chamber | TREKNOPOD Ep. 65

Popcorn buckets, cursed CGI targs, and the most awkward Decon Chamber scene in Star Trek history. 🖖 In this episode of Treknopod, Captain Shoff, Captain Vactor, and Captain Linda dive into Star Trek: Enterprise – Season 1, Episode 14: “Sleeping Dogs” (original air date January 30, 2002).

We talk about:
• Whether “Sleeping Dogs” is actually a good Klingon episode… or just “perfectly cromulent”
• The infamous Decon Chamber scene with T’Pol & Hoshi (sex appeal vs storytelling)
• Malcolm’s mysterious cold and whether it means anything to the plot at all
• The ethics of “let sleeping dogs lie” vs Archer interfering with Klingon “honor”
• That painful CGI targ and what it says about Enterprise-era VFX
• Grapplers vs tractor beams, early Starfleet tech, and why Enterprise sometimes feels like low-tech Trek

Along the way we:
• Roast the Star Wars Holiday Special (and debate whether it’s “so bad it’s good”)
• Imagine getting spoilers from your physics professor and why spoilers deserve their own corner of hell
• Talk Klingon language, Duolingo, and whether today is a good day… for pie 🥧
• Share what we’re all working on:
• Vactor’s Green Lantern mini-bios on ‪@ThisComicCooks‬ (TikTok & YouTube)
• ‪@lindapaiges‬ 10K on TikTok and teasing a big Trek project 👀
• Shoff’s guest spot on Trekcommendations and his obsession with Star Trek LEGO    • 🖖 Trekommendations | Episode 10 – Rebricka...  

Next week, we continue our Star Trek: Enterprise rewatch with “Shadows of P’Jem” – a follow-up to “The Andorian Incident” and the glorious return of Jeffrey Combs as Shran. 🫡

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