It's wedding season! Anika and Liz are looking at some of Star Trek's key wedding episodes, beginning with the one that launched season 2 of The Original Series and rewrote a lot of people's brain chemistry: "Amok Time". And in typical "Antimatter Pod does it Antimatter Pod's way" fashion, we're gonna talk about ... how great it is for the Spock/Chapel ship.  Why we're doing a wedding series: we love weddings, and we love how they can be used as a characterisation and worldbuilding tool Vulcans secretly live for the drama It does not do to dwell on the science and evolution behind pon farr and we should not have tried Liz is very concerned for the wellbeing of asexual Vulcans There's a lot of orientalism in our first glimpse of Vulcans and their culture, and modern Trek hasn't really walked that back We don't appreciate William Shatner enough (William Shatner did not pay us to say this) It's actually quite possible that McCoy and Chapel have never spoken outside of work Strange New Worlds has destroyed this episode and also Spock as a character Vulcans: we are an advanced and sophisticated cultureAlso Vulcans: please do not ask about the child marriages Kirk's infatuation with T'Pau is very important to us