March 21, 2025

Episode 628- Andy Bray, Trek Sketches The Gorn

Episode 628- Andy Bray, Trek Sketches The Gorn

In this episode of Trek Talking and Beyond, Uncle Jim and his cohosts engage in lively discussions about the Star Trek universe, touching on themes such as the need for updates to the podcast's theme song, current events, and the importance of community engagement. They delve into the ethical implications of forcing peace, referencing the Organians from the original series, and explore the balance between humor and serious topics in their conversations. In this conversation, the participants delve into various themes surrounding Star Trek, including the implications of the Klingon peace treaty, the controversial governance model of Nazi Germany, and the role of humor in teaching and performance. Andy Bray shares his journey as Chekov, discussing his creative projects and aspirations for the future. The discussion is lively, with debates on morality, governance, and the importance of humor in education. In this lively conversation, the participants explore various aspects of Star Trek, particularly focusing on the Gorn and the upcoming seasons of Strange New Worlds. They share personal anecdotes, debate the evolution of the Gorn character, and discuss the creative process behind sketches that bring humor to the franchise. The dialogue is filled with laughter, insights into the fandom, and anticipation for future episodes, showcasing the deep connection fans have with the series. In this episode, the hosts engage in a lively discussion with Andy Bray about his contributions to Star Trek skits, the anticipation for upcoming Star Trek releases, and a heartfelt remembrance of Star Trek legends who have passed. They also celebrate various Star Trek birthdays and share exciting news about a new audio series focused on Khan, showcasing the ongoing evolution of the Star Trek universe. Let's see what's out there...ENGAGE!

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On this episode of Trek Talking, the hosts engage in lively discussions about the Star Trek universe, touching on themes such as, current events, and the importance of community engagement. They delve into the ethical implications of forcing peace, referencing the Organians from the original series, and explore the balance between humor and serious topics in their conversations. In this conversation, the participants delve into various themes surrounding Star Trek, including the implications of the Klingon peace treaty, the controversial governance model of Nazi Germany, and the role of humor in teaching and performance. Andy Bray shares his journey as Chekhov, discussing his creative projects and aspirations for the future. The discussion is lively, with debates on morality, governance, and the importance of humor in education. In this engaging conversation, the participants explore various aspects of Star Trek, particularly focusing on the Gorn and the upcoming seasons of Strange New Worlds. They share personal anecdotes, debate the evolution of the Gorn character, and discuss the creative process behind sketches that bring humor to the franchise. The dialogue is filled with laughter, insights into the fandom, and anticipation for future episodes, showcasing the deep connection fans have with the series. In this episode, the hosts engage in a lively discussion with Andy Bray about his contributions to Star Trek skits, the anticipation for upcoming Star Trek releases, and a heartfelt remembrance of Star Trek legends who have passed. They also celebrate various Star Trek birthdays and share exciting news about a new audio series focused on Khan, showcasing the ongoing evolution of the Star Trek universe. Let's see what's out there...ENGAGE!

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your phone, now me talking.

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I'm coming to your services.

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Now we talk.

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About the series. Come to see Loves Flowing Down.

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God, I love that theme song, Eric, It's just something

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about it, you know, it's jumping. I like the Dominion's

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part just gets me every single time.

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Oh that's on the next one, that's on the Poland song.

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How often do you guys have to update the theme song?

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Well, it's probably due for an update.

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I mean that version was probably done a couple of

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years ago, and it was when we were very Discovery focused,

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but after lower Decks had come out, so I don't know,

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it probably could do with it. It doesn't have any

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strange New World's references, for example.

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So yeah, Starfleet Academy's coming up to Well, we'll have

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to work on that anyways. Guys, it is Thursday, March twentieth,

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twenty twenty five. Welcome to episode six hundred and twenty

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eight of Trek Talk and six undred twenty eight. Wow

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Wow Wow. Before I go to following most excellent host,

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Uncle Jim, I want to go around the room and

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introduce my incredible truck Spurts to you. How we're going

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to start out with Eric? Eric is out in Portland.

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How you doing tonight?

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Eric?

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Doing pretty good, man, Just trying to comply with all

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the new DEI requirements here. So I've had to disinvite

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a bunch of friends from the podcast.

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I hear that.

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I hear that.

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Oh boy, we also have out in Portland, our very

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own Paul. How you doing tonight, Paul?

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I'm good man, I'm good Uncle Jim, and you can

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expect a grand total of zero compliance from me. Okay,

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and I will not be complying well with anyone, that's

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at all, because I know how to read the tea leaves.

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Last night, when that Pacocta space capsule crashed down, what

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greeted it? A pot of dolphins? Right. So the Age

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of Aquarius is coming down, baby.

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And the year five.

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match firing douchebags you come to the wrong sheriff. Now,

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I'll be complying with nothing. I'm you turn this mother down.

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I'll still be staying with friend.

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That's my hellodious.

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Well, I'm glad that you weren't one of the disinvited ones.

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Excellent, and sticking with our Portland theme, we have David,

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he's our miracle worker. How you doing tonight, David?

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Good?

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Pretty good? I got my uh trouble here? Who graduated

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from Starflats. That's pretty good.

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Well, that's a good thing. And we're gonna we're gonna

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head out of Portland and we're gonna jump all the

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way over to Las Vegas and we're gonna say hello

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to Charles. How you doing tonight, Charles? I'm doing good. Weather.

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this time. But no, but it's not swinging in the

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wind either. Always so long and thanks for the fish.

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And joining us tonight from the Great State of Tennessee,

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we have the one and only Andy Bray. How you

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doing tonight, Andy, doing well?

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Doing well? Well, It's only a matter of time before

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I have to evacuate the Great State of Tennessee for

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the Great Bunker in Canada. Oh, so today's news was

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Well nothing, thank you.

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Oh when Canada becomes part of the United States, will

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all be at home up there a we'll join GM

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Chris up there. So, guys, I urge you all to

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you want to see these sketches. They we've played played

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have our fans shout out segments, and that's where we

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our Trek talking community. We also have our Star Trek

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poll questions, like, you know, here's one for Paul, is

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it okay to force peace on people? And does Nazism

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offer a more efficient governmental system? Interesting? We're going to

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talk about those in our Star Trek polls. We also

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have our Star Trek birthdays. What Star Trek actor do

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you share a birthday with? And what's going on in

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the Star Trek universe. You know, Con is back in

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a manner of speaking, master re replica starships can put

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a Starship in the palm of your hand, What would

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a Klingon living next door look like to you? And

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what about those damn Red Shirts? So that's what we

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We're going to dive right into our fans shout outs

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right now, and for that we're going to turn to Eric,

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who's going to get us started. Take us away, Eric,

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Thanks Jim.

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This week we are spinning the globe over to a

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portion of the world that I think we're all thinking

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a lot about these days. From Irpin, Ukraine. We're saying

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hello this week to Maria Covalenko. Maria Covalenko, thank you

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so much for finding time in your schedule to interact

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with us on our Facebook page and for listening to

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the podcast. There's a have a lot going on over

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there right now, and I just cannot tell you how

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much we're all thinking about you and how much we

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really really appreciate you continuing to support the podcast in

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the midst of what I'm sure is plenty of turmoil.

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So Maria Covalenco, thank you so much and once again,

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livelong and prosper to you. We're also saying hello this

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week to Michelle Wiley, who is an all star contributor

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there in the UK, and we always appreciate lots of

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support from our friends across the pond. Michelle Wiley, thank

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you for listening to our podcast and for support us

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in the ways that you do. I'd like to say

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hello this week as well to Hannah Matalanen, who's saying

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hello to us from hell Sinky, Finland. Just coming this fall,

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I'm planning to trip over to Scandinavia. Myself and hell

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Sinky's on the list of potential destinations, So Hannah, I

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would love to, you know, see what you got going

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on over there. It seems pretty cool and I like

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the weather, and I like lots of seafood, which I'm

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sure you have plenty of. Thanks for saying hello to

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us this week, Hannah. And last but not least on

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hello to us from down under in Sydney, Australia, home

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of amazing architecture, amazing people, and all sorts of cool things.

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De Luiz, thank you so much for saying hello to

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us and for supporting our podcast from the other hemisphere.

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Charles going to pass this shout out Mike over to you, buddy.

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Thank you.

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Eric.

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Let's give a warm welcome to George Sheldon from North Carolina.

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Welcome George. I have a top contributor, Tom Drake from

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

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I hope it's warm up there over there.

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Tom. Welcome to Dwayne Gillespie from Hendersonville, North Carolina. I

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always think of Henderson and I think of another part

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of Las Vegas, but you're in North Carolina. At final

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end list, Welcome to William Hannathan from Burbank, California. I

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know that it should be nice over there in Burbank.

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I'd love to spend some time over to a little

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closer to Anaheim. So, David, who's on your list? Yeah?

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Thank Charles.

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I would like to give a warm welcome to an

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all star contributor from Portland, Oregon, USA. She says that

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the newest future province of Canada, and let's say that one.

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Welcome to Lamna, Julia Julie Lai Shandu.

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I think that's try to pronounce it.

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Next on my list is Holly Harris van buy Kirk

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from Ohio. And last on my list is a rising contributor,

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Doug Baits, who says Texas also known as the bad Land.

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Paul, who's on your list?

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Thanks David. Well, you know, all these American states are great,

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we live on a planet, not just a continent or

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not just a country. Right, So I think are a

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lot of other folks in other parts of the great

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sphere that is Earth are kind of shaking their heads

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these days, and so I like to make sure we

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have a segment that honors them and we salute them. So, hey,

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we do what we can to sort of tentatively steer

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into the future. A little you know, warp bubble here

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and there occasionally causes problems for us to welt Tron,

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but it helps us to know that you're out there

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and that your STARTRK enthusiasm is unflagging, my friend, So

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thanks for being a fan of the show. Hello also

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to Harisi Rangelova, who is a rising contributor from Sofia Bulgaria.

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Attempting to make a joke out of rising contributor, but

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there in a beautiful part of the world. Sofia Bulgaria

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absolutely amazing and I would love to go visit this

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fan because they live in a place I would absolutely

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if I went. I don't think I've come back. The

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magical land of Como, Italy. Absolutely gorgeous there, tine flag unfurled,

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you live Messimbiliano. Envy you there, sir, and going back

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to my family's home soil the old sod. It's Kevin

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William Hewitt in bear Regis, Dorset in England. So proof, friends,

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we have fans and start to enthusiasts all over the planet.

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So let's hope that some of that collective common sense

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can help unite us so that we continue and still

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be here when other arms of the franchise come along.

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Uncle Jim, I know you're chomping at the bit to

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to you know, say hello to some of your your

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your Kronos brethren.

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Man so much, take it away, absolutely, thank you so much. Paul,

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you want to start off by saying thank you to

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Michael Barbo. I can't read this. My eyes are so old.

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Here Barbary from upstate New York, in the Webster area,

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right where Susan Gidney grew up. You guys know who

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Susan Gidney was. Paul must know.

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Uh wasn't she Betsy Ross's lesbian roommate.

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the Enterprise engines. Oh that one, yeah, yeah, helped her

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pulsing in the engine.

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The character again on the gym. Maybe helped me out

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Oh my god, what was the character's name? Geez, I

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don't remember the characters. My brain is old. I remember

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it was, Uh, it was her, Yeah, that woman? All right? Yeah?

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What was her name? Charles? You gotta know, No, Charles

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doesn't know.

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Broms.

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I'm pretty sure. Because folks with this moner don't like it.

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If you leave it off, it's doctor le Bron, you

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We don't want to get in trouble. We also want

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Janis and I have a top contributor, Robbie by Dottie

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this is a big one here. We want to say

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you guys are never going to guess why she made

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I bet I can guess.

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movie A fist full of emojis?

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Yes, she's listening to us in port Writing, New Jersey, USA.

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Did you say explanation points? Did I hear that correctly?

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a rose, a heart? And what is that white one?

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Anyways, the way that if you want to get on

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and Patricia proved that with eleven of them. So thank

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you so much, Patricia. And she's a rising contributor, which

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means she's visiting our Facebook page, answering our polls and

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just basically interacting with us over there, which is absolutely awesome.

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If you would like to hear your name mentioned on

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a future fan shout out, then all you have to

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All right, it's time for our Star Trek polls.

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You know me like no win? What you thought about

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Then we try.

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To share your opinions with all of our minions out there.

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Because they listen worldwide.

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So tell us just what you think.

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Get together we will all drink Canara and robulin an.

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All right, guys over on our Facebook page. Every week

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I try to come up with fun and interesting polls.

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Some of them are just stupid and fun, and some

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And I have a couple of good ones this week

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that might be relevant to a few things that are happening.

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And Eric, would you like to get us started?

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Would I ever?

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Our first poll this week is going back to the

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original series. In the TS episode Errand of Mercy, the

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Organians force peace between the Klingons and the Federation. Did

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they have the right to force peace?

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And?

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Uh, you know, seventy five percent of our poll responders said,

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heck yeah, the Organians strong arm was the right thing

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to do, and only twenty five percent said Nope. I

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would rather have seen it done a different way. So,

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uh interesting, you know, pretty pretty forceful tactic.

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Well, a lot of people do it. Well, we'll let

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Andy start off on this. What do you think Andy

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did that? Do you Organians have the right to do that?

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Or should they have let the Federation and the Klingons

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do it themselves?

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I like this this episode is is that the episode

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we're diving into politics, We're asking the difficult questions. Luckily,

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that difficult question has an easy answer. If you have

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the power to force peace, you always force peace. It

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is better to force peace peacefully than to allow war

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to continue. So I am all for forcing peace peacefully.

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So Andy is with the seventy five percent? How about you?

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Eric?

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Well, you know, I'm I'm a little bit with Andy

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on this one because they didn't zap anybody, they didn't

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threaten anybody. They basically just kind of held them hostage

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and said, you know, y'all better get along. I don't

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exactly remember what their motivations were though, Why did they

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even do that?

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Because the mere thought of violence was so abhorrent to them,

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They found it just so distasteful, and at the end

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they're like, please leave, the very presence of creatures like

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you is just disgusting. Well they well, then in a lot.

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Of ways, that's not unlike you know, any sort of

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entity forcing their ideals on somebody else either.

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So, man, that's a tough one.

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I mean, the Klingons in the Federation did need somebody

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to kind of jumpstart the process.

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Did it work in the end? Uh?

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Well, marginally at So I guess my final answer is

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h overall, despite the fact that I think there was

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probably some good reasons to do it, and maybe the

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outcome was Okay, I don't know, forcing anybody to do anythings,

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not necessarily you know, within my favorite things for people

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to do. So I'm gonna say, no, no, it was

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not right for them to do it. So you're with

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a twenty five I'm with the twenty five percent.

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Wow, I am done by.

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This, Eric, par Okay, I can.

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I'm talking like a libertarian there there. That's where I'm

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You're gonna have to have a lot of talk with you.

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I'm gonna jump in here, and uh, you know, I

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got to agree with Eric. I gotta say I'm with

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Eric for the for the simple Okay, I agree with

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Andy's assessment that if you can stop mass killings and

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violence peacefully, you should.

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It's the right thing to do. However, however, I think

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the flip side of the coin is if you force

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people to be friends, they're not learning anything from that

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lesson because it wasn't earned. And if they don't learn

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how to accept each other for the way they are,

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then they haven't changed. And so I gotta go with

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Eric and the twenty five percent and say, no, the

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Organians shouldn't have done that, even though it turned out well,

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uh for the most part.

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So I would add a wrinkle to it. I mean,

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it was on Organian soil, true, or they had brought

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the war to them, that's true, extended past their planet,

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but the fighting was like centered on their planet, so

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that that kind of gives them an excuse to insert themselves.

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That's a good point.

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That's true. That's true, very.

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And everybody's right.

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And we don't know. Yeah, what does Chekhov say about

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that he was there?

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Russia, as you know, is known for peacekeeping, right, I

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don't know. I haven't read history in a while.

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I assume it, right, the biggest best lest phone conversation

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has ever happened in Russia. All right, Charles, what about you?

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Okay, so they put peace out, they were peaceful while

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they were on the planet. Did that piece last past

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the planet? I don't think so. I think klan Under

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still at war with the Veneration from another century or more,

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maybe not a cent.

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Years.

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It was still seventy years.

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Well, it was a sixty or seventy years, because you

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know TG happens eighty years after TS right in that rate,

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So yeah, well probably know you and I don't remember

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when Kiddimer happened.

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But that's about thirty years later, wasn't it.

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And yeah, something like that.

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Yeah, but I think we still had the Klingons challenging

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us and TNG until Wharf and they started doing a

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little more dealing with the Council.

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I think. I'm says the Organian peace treaty lasted one

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hundred years.

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What about Organia?

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That's about right, that's yeah, I mean start Trek six

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is kind of what really kicked us into peace with

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the Klingons, right, wasn't it.

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Yeah, but that wasn't forced by the Organians, I don't think.

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I think that was gor Khan and Spock that worked

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that out, right, Yeah, So what Charles are you Are

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you with the minions or against dominions? On this one?

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With Eric on the twenty five percenters, I think there's

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a point where forcing peace doesn't always work, and I

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don't think it worked outside the planet.

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All right, there you have it. So, uh, David, what

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about you? Are you with dominions or against dominions this week?

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Well, Pisa sounds good, but I don't think we're talking

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about that. Yeah, but I'm definitely gonna have to go

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with Andy on this one. I actually kind of agree

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with a lot of the different things you said, like

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the soil, I mean, just imagining having people come to

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your soil and bring war. I mean, what would you

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do so in a way if then, yeah, I would

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say that that's probably the right thing to do. I

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would have to say, I agree.

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Like that would never happen in today's world.

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Never.

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So is that decision here?

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Well, right now, it's it's going to be up to Paul.

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Paul is going to be the deciding factor here, all right.

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So if somebody comes over to your house and you're

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hosting a party and that person starts throwing up everywhere

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and you know, shitting on the carpet, right, I think

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you have the right to tell them to get the

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fuck out right. I really think that that is pretty

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much a universal concept, And if you listen to the

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Organians in this episode, that's the stance that they take.

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They're like, we find you human beings just disgusting in

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your violent barbarism, the fact that you would actually fight

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for your right to be violent. You're kind of revealing

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yourself as sort of the lowest of the low and

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the food chain, and that you're basically, you know, hitting

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coconuts with sticks is really about all you're qualified to

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be able to do. You're not an enlightened species, and

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they found it really off putting. So I think that, yeah,

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00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:36.319
I'm with the seventy five percent that says absolutely because

464
00:26:36.359 --> 00:26:41.559
if you're in defending your right to be a violent primitive, basically,

465
00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:43.920
you know, you lose all rights to join the rest

466
00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:45.519
of the enlightened world. Yeah, you can go ahead and

467
00:26:45.559 --> 00:26:47.720
be a violent primitive, go and do your thing, but

468
00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:50.519
the rest of the enlightened cosmos wants nothing to do

469
00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:53.200
with you, right, I mean, basically it's the same go

470
00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:55.799
back to day the ear stood still, right, That's how

471
00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:58.839
they evolved in that classic science fiction movie right, which

472
00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:03.400
they created a police force and to make sure that

473
00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:06.119
if you had a violent thought or if you behaved

474
00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:09.400
or expressed violence, that's it. You're done. And so they

475
00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:12.480
had a zero tolerance policy for violence whatsoever. And so

476
00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:15.839
that's how they attained their utopia. Childhood's End from Arthur C. Clark,

477
00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:18.559
the same idea, you're not smart enough to clean up

478
00:27:18.599 --> 00:27:20.720
your own mess, we'll clean it up for you because

479
00:27:20.759 --> 00:27:23.200
we're more evolved. So if you want to admit that

480
00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:27.400
you're a lesser evolved form of life, go for it.

481
00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:30.000
But I think we're seeing in the world we live

482
00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:33.039
in today that you know, we have already hope of evolving,

483
00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:35.559
we'd better like put down the sharp knives and sticks

484
00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:38.880
and start reading some more books and start behaving ourselves

485
00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:42.319
in a more enlightened way. And besides, as far as

486
00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:44.599
like did they have the right to force peace? The

487
00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:48.039
Organians have the non corporeal power to shape an entire

488
00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:49.880
planet to look like whatever they wanted to be. I'd

489
00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:51.720
say they have the right to do whatever they want,

490
00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:53.400
because I don't think anybody in the Federation is going

491
00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:54.720
to be able to keep light with that. So I

492
00:27:54.759 --> 00:27:57.480
think that they've earned the right to do whatever they

493
00:27:57.559 --> 00:28:01.680
care too. So I'm absolutely andy in the seventy five

494
00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:03.839
don't defend the right to be a dick.

495
00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:07.720
That that gives us a split decision between minions and

496
00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.440
non minions, and that brings us to our next funny

497
00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:13.440
how both these questions are TOOS episodes?

498
00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:15.000
Who picked these questions? Uncle Jim?

499
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:16.279
So yeah, who did that?

500
00:28:16.519 --> 00:28:16.759
Paul?

501
00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:19.880
All right? What's our next question? Eric?

502
00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:21.680
All right?

503
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:25.079
I think this one may have slightly less debate. We'll see,

504
00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:33.039
isn't THEOS episode learns of Force starting historian John gil

505
00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:37.519
who felt Nazism offered the best and most efficient government structure,

506
00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:42.759
modeled the ECHOS system after Nazi Germany? Do you agree

507
00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:47.720
with his decision? And a stunning zero percent of our

508
00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:50.200
responders agreed with his decision.

509
00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:50.240
And.

510
00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:56.599
Frank, they support Nazism.

511
00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:03.039
It's kind of not surprising anymore. I mean, you know,

512
00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:05.559
I think a couple of people did say yes, and

513
00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:07.720
Jim like booted him out of the Facebook group.

514
00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:11.599
Right, That's how we wait about Jim's going on.

515
00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:13.839
When he puts out a question like this. He's going

516
00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:17.599
on a fishing expedition, right, He's looking for the ponds.

517
00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:24.880
Come, yeah, so no, no secret here. I'm absolutely with dominions.

518
00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:28.640
It is not a good form of government.

519
00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:31.039
What about you, Paul?

520
00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:33.839
What about you?

521
00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:38.960
Paul? What about you? Critically about this? I'm very uh,

522
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:49.319
you know, I usually keep my opinions to myself. Can

523
00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:51.920
we maybe all agree that there could be a special

524
00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:55.759
you know, Eric like talks about the evil Admirals category, right,

525
00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:59.400
and and how about we make a special category most

526
00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:04.240
moronic Starfleet officer of all time. Surely John Gill I

527
00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:08.480
think qualifies for that. I mean, because he's all drugged

528
00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:10.519
up at the end of the episode, right, he is

529
00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:13.160
clearly being manipulated by you know more.

530
00:30:13.359 --> 00:30:18.359
You know, we talk about the universe's worst history or historian,

531
00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:18.759
wasn't he?

532
00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:24.920
I Mean I'm like, yeah, John Gill, Right, I don't

533
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:25.200
think that.

534
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:29.000
Idea was to introduce Nazism into any culture.

535
00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:32.680
I mean, come on, Gil, Yeah, it's basically you know,

536
00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:35.480
and and you know, the Reich stole like the ninety

537
00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:37.759
percent of their playbook from the Roman Empire, right, I

538
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:41.119
mean that's what they sort of thought they were, you know, evoking.

539
00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:44.319
And study at Starfleet Academy. And where where did he learn?

540
00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:49.519
What is the what is the what is the Roman

541
00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:53.640
Empire episode original series helped me out. Bredon Circus is right,

542
00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:57.039
John gil makes the guys in bredon Circuses look like

543
00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:00.880
geniuses in comparison, right, I mean, because it's like, well, okay,

544
00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:02.759
well we're at least got to the point where we're

545
00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:05.759
having you know, car commercials and television shows and everything

546
00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:09.000
like that. But they're doing nothing in John Gill's Nazi

547
00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:12.000
Germany except looking like they lost their way on the

548
00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:16.559
set to Hogan's heroes. I mean, it's just terrible. So

549
00:31:16.799 --> 00:31:21.000
no A fascists, Nazis go to hell, all of you.

550
00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:24.200
Well, I was sorry. That was an easy one. You know,

551
00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:25.920
I don't know where I come up with these questions.

552
00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:28.079
It must be from watching the news, I guess I

553
00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:28.400
don't know.

554
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:32.039
Then, the third question is about the episode where k

555
00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:47.400
went to an abortion clinic, and we want to all.

556
00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:44.039
Right, well, guys, I told you we were going to

557
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:47.279
have Andy Bray here checking in with Checkov, and here

558
00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:51.680
he is, and we're gonna check in with Checkov right now. Andy,

559
00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:53.200
you want to tell us a little bit about this

560
00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:56.000
skit where you got the idea and introduce it, and

561
00:31:56.039 --> 00:31:57.200
then we'll have David roll it.

562
00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:00.119
Well, this this skit. I got the idea for this

563
00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:05.319
gift from from from you guys. We were iring that

564
00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:08.240
the royalty checks are in the mail, I promised as

565
00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:10.799
soon as I start making money. But I was on

566
00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:14.680
this program doing a checking in with Chekhov where we

567
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:19.200
were dissecting Kirk's epic fight with the Gorn, and how

568
00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:23.240
Chekhov began to wonder whether or not Kirk's fight with

569
00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:26.319
the Gorn was getting a little bit blown out of proportion,

570
00:32:26.599 --> 00:32:31.319
that perhaps the the mythos surrounding this fight was more

571
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:36.960
fable than facts. And he decided, and and so in

572
00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:42.079
our our our episode together, I improvised a little uh

573
00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:48.000
checkof insult comic routine where he's bashing Kirk for fighting

574
00:32:48.519 --> 00:32:51.200
what he alleged to be an elderly Gorn. And then

575
00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:53.640
I decided, I think one of you guys mentioned that

576
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:55.960
it would make for a good Trek sketches, so I decided,

577
00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:58.480
oh yeah, it might actually, and I wrote it, I

578
00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:01.599
think in a day, and then it shortly afterwards, and

579
00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:04.440
premiered it with I think the second season of Strange

580
00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:08.480
New Worlds, because it has also involved Strange New World's Gorn.

581
00:33:09.079 --> 00:33:11.759
So I think that's enough introduction. This is basically check

582
00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:16.720
Doob's theory, his conspiracy theory as to the truth behind

583
00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:19.880
Captain Kirk's famous fight with the Gorn.

584
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:23.519
And before we go too far though, for fans that

585
00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:26.279
don't know who Andy Bray is and god forbid, I

586
00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:29.759
can't imagine that. But for those fans who don't know

587
00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:33.319
and don't understand what we're talking about with Chekov, why

588
00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:36.480
don't you tell our listeners a little bit about about

589
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:39.680
you and Chekov and where that all came from.

590
00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:44.440
Absolutely well, I'm born and raised in Miami. I lived

591
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:47.039
down Los Angeles for twenty two years. And one of

592
00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:49.079
the gigs I got to do in Los Angeles, if

593
00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:54.680
I can pan over without sending this all I got

594
00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:57.119
to do, I don't know how well you can see that.

595
00:33:57.200 --> 00:34:01.440
But that's Spock's brain at the improv in Los Angeles

596
00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:05.200
in Orange County, and that's the first ever official Paramount

597
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:09.280
Pictures produced stage production of a Star Trek and actual

598
00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:12.599
Star Trek episode. We did word for word Spock's Brain

599
00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:16.320
and because our director felt like it was a very

600
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:19.239
funny or at least primed to be very funny episode,

601
00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:22.599
as he says in an interview with upn at the time.

602
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:26.440
That tells you about when we did that twenty years ago,

603
00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:30.360
that he liked that episode. A lot of fans think

604
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:32.639
it's one of the worst episodes, but for his money,

605
00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:38.800
it's a fun, adventurous episode. But it's really perfect for

606
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:41.039
comedy because there's a lot of goofy stuff that goes

607
00:34:41.079 --> 00:34:43.559
on in it. So we played it straight word for

608
00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:46.280
word from the script, with the sound effects all of that,

609
00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:49.079
but we played it for laughs. And I got cast

610
00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:51.239
as Chekhov because I was twenty two years old at

611
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:53.239
the time, and I auditioned for it and I had

612
00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:56.199
my own little monkeys do going and he saw me

613
00:34:56.320 --> 00:34:58.199
and said, I don't know if you can do the accent,

614
00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:01.360
but you look like Chekhov. Got the part, And then

615
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:03.559
I went home and started sweating bullets because I could

616
00:35:03.639 --> 00:35:07.079
not do the accent. And I spent day after day,

617
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:12.159
hour after hour, watching all the episodes working on the accent,

618
00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:14.480
and finally I learned the trick to doing trick off

619
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:17.639
he's doing the Elvis Presley lip. Once he'll do that,

620
00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:20.840
you can do Chekhov, And we got to do. We

621
00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:23.639
did fourteen performances of it. Then we got to take

622
00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:26.880
it to Las Vegas at the big Las Vegas Convention.

623
00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:28.800
I think that was actually when the Las Vegas Convention

624
00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:31.559
was relatively new. They had just moved from Pasadena, and

625
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:34.639
as fate would have it, we performed on a Thursday night,

626
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:38.559
the same day that Walter Kanning was there, and I

627
00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:41.000
talked Walter and to come into the show. He sat

628
00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:45.119
front and center, which talk about nerve racking singing Walter

629
00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:49.760
Kanning sitting right in the front row of the audience,

630
00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:53.199
but he was gracious. Afterwards he came backstage, he said

631
00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:55.960
hi to everyone. He was so sweet, and I thought

632
00:35:56.039 --> 00:35:58.519
that was that. And then a couple months later I

633
00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:02.880
got emailed by Jack Marshall of Star Trek New Voyages,

634
00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:07.239
which was the big fan film back then in the ops,

635
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:10.159
and they told me that they wanted me to play

636
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:13.000
checkof their Young Chekhof that they were doing an episode

637
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:16.280
with Walter Kanig, and Walter Kaneing himself had recommended me

638
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:19.239
to play Young Chekhoff. And then from there I got

639
00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:22.039
to go to Walter's house rehearsing every week with him,

640
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:25.480
studying check Off with him, and then went up to

641
00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:28.639
upstate New York to shoot, which those fan film sets

642
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:33.039
have since become the Star Trek Museum in tae Kwonderroga.

643
00:36:33.159 --> 00:36:37.199
That's those sets that we filmed on and I got

644
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:40.320
to play checkoff opposite Walter kaneing both of us in

645
00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:45.440
uniform in the checkoff quarters, doing checkoff accents at each other.

646
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:49.440
It was really awesome. And from there I got to

647
00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:51.920
do an episode with George Takay and we did an

648
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:55.000
episode with Denise Crosby, and then I wrote a book

649
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:58.159
about it with John Lim who played Young Sulu, called

650
00:36:58.280 --> 00:37:00.840
Making Fake Star Trek, and we were second, and that

651
00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:02.840
one was about the Walter episode, and we were one

652
00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:06.440
called Making More Fake Star Trek about the George episode.

653
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:12.000
And in promoting it, we took it onto this podcast

654
00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:15.519
called Trek Talking, and that's where I met you all

655
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:18.559
and we had so much fun chatting and then uh

656
00:37:18.760 --> 00:37:22.320
doing check off there that you guys have been gracious

657
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.440
enough to keep bringing me back to to do my

658
00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:25.960
goofer little checkof accent.

659
00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:31.559
And so without that further Ado roll the tape, David,

660
00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:32.679
Let's let's see the gorn.

661
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:37.719
Welcome to the first episode of Starship Secrets. I'm your host,

662
00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:40.440
ensign Pavo Checkoff.

663
00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:44.960
Working check Off insin Babo Andre Bitch Enterprise navigator and

664
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:47.239
bargain Ben Davy Jones shut.

665
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:57.039
Up computer secrets. See Wendy, what in went did by

666
00:37:57.079 --> 00:37:59.039
a little HB agent from.

667
00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:17.760
Productory not a Russian invention.

668
00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:24.440
Now for the secrets. Last week, the Enterprise responded to

669
00:38:24.599 --> 00:38:29.639
a stress call from Cestis three a Gorn attack. For

670
00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:33.320
those unaware, this is a gorn.

671
00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:36.599
They are a.

672
00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:41.239
Fierce race of giant iguanas in Shiny Lingerie. Those who

673
00:38:41.320 --> 00:38:44.559
see them seldom live to tell the tale. So naturally.

674
00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:55.679
Ever since Keeptain Kirk fought and beat one, he's been unbearable, incorrigible.

675
00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:58.920
Like throwing alcohol at an engineer. Of course I watched

676
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:00.880
the fight with the rest of the crew. It was

677
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:03.719
broadcast sheep white, even in the boiler room where I work.

678
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:10.000
This being season one of our three season shift rotation,

679
00:39:11.559 --> 00:39:17.000
I'm not sure why they used that term secrets. It's

680
00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:21.280
been a week since kirkbeats Space Gumby, and still every

681
00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:26.719
time I pass him, Hey, Bobby Gorne Champ coming through,

682
00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:30.920
watch out for these phaser cannons. Pe poo poo poo pew.

683
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:33.760
I have to take the Jeffries too to work just

684
00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:39.239
to avoid him. So I did a little research secrets.

685
00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:43.519
It turns out when Christopher Pike was kipting of the Enterprise,

686
00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:46.960
he also had a run in with the Gordons. Wait,

687
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:50.599
gorns are just gorn, you know, like moose? Or is

688
00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:56.159
this a goosety situation? Does gorn become gern Gern? Anyway,

689
00:39:57.159 --> 00:39:59.599
I found that all the historical documents of Captain Pike's

690
00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:03.679
missions they were streaming on memory Alpha Plus. I haven't

691
00:40:03.719 --> 00:40:06.119
watched him yet, but I have a feeling that when

692
00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:09.199
we do, we will see that kitten Kirk was not

693
00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:12.679
the first human to beat the Gornseys. Let's watched together

694
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:25.119
while I drink this full glass of water. Holy Stanislavsky,

695
00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:25.800
what the hell.

696
00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:26.280
Is that thing?

697
00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:28.559
Was that a Gons's?

698
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:30.119
Oh?

699
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:33.800
That looks freaking terrifying. It looks like it the gack

700
00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:36.760
go gecko made it with an effing xenomorph. Oh, I

701
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:42.360
think I wet my sparkly space pants. No, no, no, no,

702
00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:44.559
that can't be the same thing that kept in Kirk

703
00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:49.280
fought He's going walked around like an arthuralic freaking Frankenstein.

704
00:40:52.199 --> 00:41:09.599
Can we see another clip? Computer? Holy freaking crap, did

705
00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:14.159
you see that their baby's burst out? Of that Spaceburp's back.

706
00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:17.480
Then they started running around the ship shooting insemination. Go

707
00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:20.840
to everybody like freaking multiple makes from silence on the lambs?

708
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:23.719
Do I admit for a moment that baby Gorn was

709
00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:28.760
kind of adorable until it started champing people's necks like

710
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:30.920
baby Yoda in need of an exorcist.

711
00:41:31.159 --> 00:41:35.159
I can't even believe what I'm seeing. It's like, omg oh,

712
00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:40.039
my Gorn. These are not the same Gorny's that Keptain

713
00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:48.880
Kirk fot this. He is not even in the same

714
00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:56.320
freaking ballpark. It's it's spawn of Satan. Maybe kirk'scorne was older,

715
00:41:56.800 --> 00:42:01.360
like a lot older, like some sort of centennarian, geriatric

716
00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:05.719
geezer Gorn. I'm talking nursing home cryptkeeper Gorn, the type

717
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:08.880
of Gordon who gets birthday shoutouts from Willard Scott at

718
00:42:08.920 --> 00:42:13.159
the Today Show. I'm talking old, shaky hands, take away

719
00:42:13.199 --> 00:42:15.559
his driver's license. He's a danger to himself and the

720
00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:22.079
community type Gorn. You know what this means. It means.

721
00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:25.519
For the past week, Captain Kirk has been openly bragging

722
00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:28.480
about committing senior abuse, and not only did he beat

723
00:42:28.559 --> 00:42:31.000
up on the Benny White of Gorns, but he shot

724
00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:34.519
it with a freaking rocket launcher. Bubbo. You should have

725
00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:37.480
seen it. I made this rocket launch with wheat, nothing

726
00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:41.239
but my Wheat's big deal. All the ingredients were laying

727
00:42:41.400 --> 00:42:44.960
right there, not exactly the world's hardest puzzle. Just PLoP

728
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:47.480
them in and light the fuse. Talk to me when

729
00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:50.159
you've built an Ike addresser. Not that he needed to

730
00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:53.880
blast that poor old woking dinosaur fossil two more minutes

731
00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:56.400
and it would have died of natural causes. I mean,

732
00:42:56.519 --> 00:42:59.679
come on, that old Gorn was so windied and exhausted.

733
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.800
You saw the way he was swinging his arms. Ah

734
00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:10.599
kirksto in his karate chopping. And meanwhile, this poor old

735
00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:13.800
pension their Gorn is moving like he's broken, swinging his

736
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:16.960
arms like some sort of old lady jazzer sizing in

737
00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:20.519
a rec center pool. Also, unlike Pike's terrifying Gorn, Kirk's

738
00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:23.800
over the hill Gorn had these shiny disco ball eyes.

739
00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:27.119
I think he had cataracts.

740
00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:27.880
Yep.

741
00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:31.360
The captain violently assaulted an elderly.

742
00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:34.039
Legally blind Gorn who was just one fall away from

743
00:43:34.079 --> 00:43:37.800
a Rascal mobility scooter and three PM yellow dinners, and

744
00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:40.719
then spent a week bragging about it like he just

745
00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:42.519
chaoed Ivan Drago.

746
00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:45.320
Suddenly everything that captain has ever said is called in

747
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:48.039
the question was he really born in Iowa or in

748
00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:50.880
a shuttlecraft in deep space? And is he really the

749
00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:53.639
only one who calls his brother George Sam? Or does

750
00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:58.840
literally everybody called George Sam? And his signature blonde hair?

751
00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:01.480
Is that even real or just a wig? He spoke

752
00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:03.840
from the ship's hair and makeup department.

753
00:44:03.519 --> 00:44:07.559
Working Kate Andrey Weig Babo check out famously more ladies

754
00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:09.719
wig for his first six or seven missions.

755
00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:13.280
Shut up, computer this He's totally my real hair.

756
00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:25.199
All right there, you guys have it now. You got

757
00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:29.639
to see it. So what do you think, Paul did

758
00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:31.679
any snail it? Did you do a good job?

759
00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:37.360
Great stuff? Man, it's very funny. I think you've you've

760
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:40.679
rupped your production values like a quantum level.

761
00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:40.960
Man.

762
00:44:41.119 --> 00:44:45.000
I mean, it's just hysterical. I just like you. You

763
00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:48.159
moved it at a really good fast clip, which is

764
00:44:48.199 --> 00:44:50.079
what I like, right, I mean to me, it's just

765
00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:52.000
like it really lends itself as you just got you know,

766
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:56.519
references and punchlines, you know, machine gun style, one after

767
00:44:56.599 --> 00:45:02.280
the other. So it's just a hilarious ginty iguana wearing lingerie.

768
00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:07.760
I mean, yes, wearing shiny lingerie.

769
00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:12.800
This is some great stick man. So I thoroughly enjoyed it,

770
00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:16.800
very very funny, and I just loved loved all the

771
00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:20.679
popping out, like multiple megs.

772
00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:27.000
Check Off really knows his pop. He's got a lot

773
00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:28.159
of references.

774
00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:30.920
Like really, man, he's on Instagram all day long, he's

775
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:35.280
picking up this stuff meme Lord and some checkof.

776
00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:37.519
So now, well else.

777
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:42.840
Gets that multiple Megs reference. I'm sorry, yeah, I'm if.

778
00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:47.480
They don't get it really missing. No, it is really fun,

779
00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:52.880
So thanks thanks for sharing. That was great, very thank you. Yeah,

780
00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:54.719
what about you, David? What'd you think about it?

781
00:45:55.199 --> 00:45:55.719
Did you like it?

782
00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:01.960
David David? I think David's muted.

783
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:08.800
I really enjoyed it. It was really fun. I especially

784
00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:11.599
liked when the O and G. I never for some

785
00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:13.239
reason got that connection with the Goring.

786
00:46:14.679 --> 00:46:18.800
I actually when I worked at Creation for a little while,

787
00:46:18.920 --> 00:46:20.920
I got them to create a shirt because I was

788
00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:24.239
their go to star trek merch guy, and I would

789
00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:28.519
often suggest ideas for shirts and omg is a shirt, omg,

790
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:32.760
oh my gorn is one that I suggested to them

791
00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:34.599
and they actually made them up. I don't know if

792
00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:37.159
they still sell them or not, but they made him

793
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:37.920
up while I was there.

794
00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:38.960
Cool.

795
00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:42.599
Yeah, it was really goot. I enjoyed it. Thank you

796
00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:43.039
for sharing.

797
00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:43.440
Thank you.

798
00:46:44.119 --> 00:46:46.199
Yeah, I should have I forgot the intro. This part

799
00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:50.079
of my resume was was the jump from promoting the

800
00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:54.760
book to doing trek sketches. Basically, I think COVID happened.

801
00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:57.440
I was locked indoors, I was bored, and I missed

802
00:46:57.559 --> 00:47:00.639
acting as well. So I decided I had had a friend.

803
00:47:01.719 --> 00:47:04.679
I have a friend on Instagram who does these restaurant

804
00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:11.079
bistro on Instagram, and he does because he works at

805
00:47:11.079 --> 00:47:13.159
a restaurant, or at least he used to. He might

806
00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:17.360
not anymore, but he started doing sketch comedy based on

807
00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:19.760
what he knew, which was working at a restaurant, and

808
00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:22.199
became very popular and very funny. So I thought, you know,

809
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:25.079
I love doing sketch comedy. I trained at the Groundlings.

810
00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:28.079
I used to do sketch comedy on stage. I used

811
00:47:28.119 --> 00:47:30.880
to do back when YouTube was a new thing. I

812
00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:34.079
did some sketch comedy on that when I thought watching

813
00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:38.519
video on your computer this I'll never take off and

814
00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:42.320
then shows me why I'm not a millionaire. But I

815
00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:45.760
missed acting, and I missed writing sketches, and I missed

816
00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:48.199
performing sketches. So I thought, I want to start doing

817
00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:51.239
sketch comedy. But I don't want to just do general

818
00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:53.760
sketch comedy. I want to do something that I feel

819
00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:56.440
like I can directly speak to. And then I've got

820
00:47:56.519 --> 00:47:59.599
a well of stuff that I can just churn up

821
00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:01.679
and create. And so I thought Star Trek. I'm a

822
00:48:01.719 --> 00:48:05.000
big old Star Trek nerd. I love Star Trek to death.

823
00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:08.199
Why don't I start doing a Star Trek sketch comedy.

824
00:48:08.719 --> 00:48:13.199
And I think about the same time, Lower Decks was

825
00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:17.719
just coming into being, and so they were proved positive

826
00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:20.639
that you could do a very comedic spin on Star Trek.

827
00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:24.159
And there's so much in the Star Trek universe. I mean,

828
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:27.079
I've done sketches with Chekhov, but I've also done sketches

829
00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:31.519
with Starship Builders, one called Starship Prepare, which is all

830
00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:34.760
about the poor slubs wearing yellow helmets who have to

831
00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:38.320
repair the enterprise every time it gets destroyed or almost destroyed.

832
00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:41.800
I did a sketch called kling On Vacation about a

833
00:48:41.920 --> 00:48:47.119
married bickering couple on Kronos, and then I've done sketches

834
00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:51.800
about first contact gone wrong because of two of Country Bumpkins,

835
00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:55.480
and I did a sketch in the Calvin Universe about

836
00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:00.880
lens flares. My most recent one was a check off

837
00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:04.920
version of Christmas Vacation, So and I know this one

838
00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:09.400
is Uncle Jim's favorite, probably because and like Paul, you

839
00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:13.800
were saying that you were complimenting my my pacing and

840
00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:16.000
and everything. That's one thing I've been I really enjoy

841
00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:18.400
about doing this is each time I do it, and

842
00:49:18.639 --> 00:49:20.840
I'm not trying toot my own horn because I look

843
00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:23.920
back up the earlier ones. I'm like, h But one

844
00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:26.639
of the benefits of doing something more than once is

845
00:49:26.679 --> 00:49:28.880
you get better at it. And so I've gotten better

846
00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:31.159
at editing, I've gotten better at writing, I've gotten better

847
00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:34.360
at green screen and even like little things like photoshopping,

848
00:49:34.679 --> 00:49:38.400
like in this sketch you can see the the different

849
00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:40.280
kind of stuff stuff that I started with In the

850
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:43.199
first check Off Christmas special, I started kind of playing

851
00:49:43.239 --> 00:49:46.320
around with doing cutaway still images with lots of funny

852
00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:48.639
stuff in it, and this one I really got to

853
00:49:48.760 --> 00:49:51.320
really perfect that with the driver's license, which was a

854
00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:53.519
lot of work, but I think turned out really well.

855
00:49:53.800 --> 00:49:54.119
And with.

856
00:49:56.960 --> 00:50:01.559
Kirk wearing his Gorn Star t shirt and with girls

857
00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:05.719
and with check Off in the boiler room, and that

858
00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:07.639
to me is some of the most fun I have

859
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:10.880
doing these sketches. I really enjoy the writing process. I

860
00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:13.280
really enjoy the acting process, although that's kind of the

861
00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:15.400
most nerve wracking because then the director in me is

862
00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:19.039
never satisfied with the actor in me. But my favorite

863
00:50:19.079 --> 00:50:22.719
part is the editing process. And part of that process

864
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:27.280
is the putting together the images, building those either whether

865
00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:30.440
it's video images or building those still images. And then

866
00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:33.079
the video image is something I started getting better at

867
00:50:33.159 --> 00:50:36.199
with lens flares and then Christmas Vacation where I actually

868
00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:40.480
put in that one. There is a burning fireplace in

869
00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:43.880
the middle of Chekhov's quarters and I figured out how

870
00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:46.760
to do that, And so for my money, that's that's

871
00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:49.199
probably the most fun I have doing these, is just

872
00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:53.480
figuring out how to get better each time and just

873
00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:55.360
what I can tweak about the process.

874
00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:00.840
Andy, are you working on any new truck sketches that

875
00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:04.199
you can give us some input on a little teaser

876
00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:05.440
I have.

877
00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:08.559
I've got a bunch of them written and ready to go.

878
00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:11.679
But of you guys know, I've I went back to school.

879
00:51:11.880 --> 00:51:16.800
I'm at etsu East Tennessee State University studying to become

880
00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:20.840
a teacher, and so that has taken up a lot

881
00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:23.840
of my time. And in this summer I go, I graduate.

882
00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:26.280
This spring, I get my BA, and then I go

883
00:51:26.440 --> 00:51:28.840
straight into the master's program. So I am going to

884
00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:33.360
be neck deep in schooling. But I have written some stuff,

885
00:51:33.519 --> 00:51:35.559
and I'm just as soon as I find the time

886
00:51:35.639 --> 00:51:37.400
to film it and as soon as I get rid

887
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:42.159
of some non checkoff attire. I've got a check off

888
00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:44.559
one loaded up. I've got a couple of checkof ones.

889
00:51:44.559 --> 00:51:47.239
I've got one where he's doing balloon animals. I'm not

890
00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:50.440
satisfied with that one yet, so that one might need

891
00:51:50.519 --> 00:51:53.360
to be reworked. That's one of the tricks to these

892
00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:57.440
is to just not just writing it, but rewriting it,

893
00:51:57.599 --> 00:52:00.119
and rewriting it and rewriting it and polish it it

894
00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:02.719
and stepping away for a month and then coming back

895
00:52:03.079 --> 00:52:05.480
and seeing, oh God, that joke is awful, Oh that

896
00:52:05.639 --> 00:52:07.840
joke doesn't land, Oh that one's not bad, and then

897
00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:10.719
polishing it and polishing and polishing it until I get

898
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:12.880
a script that it's like, ooh, I'm ready to shoot this,

899
00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:15.599
And I've got a couple that I'm sort of ready on.

900
00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:20.199
There's one called twelve Angry Cues, which is all about

901
00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:26.639
we saw the courtroom in an encounter at farpoint. We

902
00:52:26.719 --> 00:52:29.280
saw the outcome of the trial of Humanity, but we

903
00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:33.039
didn't see the jury deliberation. So I'm going to do

904
00:52:33.239 --> 00:52:37.719
the twelve Cues in the jury room deciding the fate

905
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:40.440
of Humanity. Then that's going to be a challenge because

906
00:52:40.440 --> 00:52:43.519
that I'm going to be playing twelve plus parts in that.

907
00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:47.239
The checkoff Christmas Vacation one, I played a lot of parts,

908
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:50.119
but nowhere near this many parts, So that's going to

909
00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:53.159
be a little bit of a challenge. And then I've

910
00:52:53.199 --> 00:52:55.840
got another check off one that I'm super excited about.

911
00:52:57.360 --> 00:52:59.639
It doesn't quite have a name yet. I've gone back

912
00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:01.559
and forth with a couple of names, but it's kind

913
00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:06.400
of check off Searches for Spock or Chekov Search for Spock,

914
00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:10.719
and it has to do with the events of Search

915
00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:15.800
for Spock and sometime travel. We get to see movie

916
00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:21.519
era Chekov interacting with ts eras checkof but it doesn't

917
00:53:21.559 --> 00:53:24.559
go as he might have hoped. And I won't give

918
00:53:24.599 --> 00:53:26.800
away the big reveal on that, but I think you

919
00:53:26.840 --> 00:53:29.440
guys will get a kick out of it. And it's

920
00:53:29.480 --> 00:53:32.280
also what's holding me up on that one. And you'll

921
00:53:32.320 --> 00:53:33.760
know what I what I mean when I when I

922
00:53:34.199 --> 00:53:39.400
premiere it. And then I've got another one that that

923
00:53:39.639 --> 00:53:41.480
is not yet written, but it's just a brain child.

924
00:53:41.519 --> 00:53:43.679
I want to. I want to revisit the married couple,

925
00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:47.119
the bickering married couple who went to Kronos, and this

926
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:51.679
time I want to take them to Kardassia Prime. And

927
00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:54.639
then if you, if you remember what happened to the

928
00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:59.559
husband Gary in that one, things did work out too well.

929
00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:02.079
From he he was not enjoying Kronos as much as

930
00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:06.119
his wife, and and Kardasia Prime proves to be less

931
00:54:06.159 --> 00:54:10.840
appealing to him. I mean, think, think Picard, think Miles

932
00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:12.840
of Brian, and then you'll get an idea where that

933
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:13.360
one's headed.

934
00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:16.920
Are we are we gonna get to see your son

935
00:54:17.159 --> 00:54:19.119
and any more of these like we did in the

936
00:54:19.239 --> 00:54:21.920
Chekhov's Christmas, Well.

937
00:54:21.920 --> 00:54:24.119
We we might, we might. I could always bring back

938
00:54:24.199 --> 00:54:27.480
Anton Chekhov. I've promised my other son that he's gonna

939
00:54:27.519 --> 00:54:29.079
be in one of them, so he's probably gonna be

940
00:54:29.199 --> 00:54:33.119
in the twelve Angry Cues as in as a child Q.

941
00:54:39.159 --> 00:54:41.239
A child Q interesting?

942
00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:44.800
So what man, you just love editing?

943
00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:49.239
That's gonna be It is gonna be. Yeah, I know,

944
00:54:49.719 --> 00:54:51.760
I know. I'm really setting myself up for that one.

945
00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:54.639
I mean, and it's not just twelve qu's. There's gonna

946
00:54:54.639 --> 00:54:57.519
be some rotation going on and then some other stuff.

947
00:54:57.559 --> 00:55:01.239
So it's gonna be a lot. I mean, just the

948
00:55:01.360 --> 00:55:05.000
costuming alone and the kind of hair and makeup and

949
00:55:05.119 --> 00:55:07.760
then the setups. I'm gonna have to storyboard that one

950
00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:10.199
because I had when I did the checkof one with

951
00:55:10.360 --> 00:55:15.400
the checkoff's mom and his dad and his cousin Ediski.

952
00:55:16.519 --> 00:55:18.480
I had to figure out how to shoot it so

953
00:55:18.599 --> 00:55:21.440
that the eye lines would all make sense. So it's like, okay,

954
00:55:21.599 --> 00:55:24.800
I'm Pavo, Now I gotta look this way when I'm

955
00:55:24.840 --> 00:55:27.480
talking to my dad, this way when I'm talking to

956
00:55:27.639 --> 00:55:30.760
my mom, and this way when I'm talking to cousin Edisky,

957
00:55:31.079 --> 00:55:33.760
and this way when I'm talking to Anton, and then

958
00:55:33.880 --> 00:55:35.960
remember all that and then figure out, okay, well, if

959
00:55:36.079 --> 00:55:40.199
Pavo's standing here now when I'm playing Papa check off,

960
00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:42.599
I'm here, So now we're all my eye lines. And

961
00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:44.400
I had to put up little pieces of tape around

962
00:55:44.440 --> 00:55:47.519
my office and then try to remember all that. And

963
00:55:47.599 --> 00:55:51.800
then the real challenging was was shooting the big wide

964
00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:53.679
shot for that one so that I could have all

965
00:55:53.719 --> 00:55:55.920
the checkofs standing next to each other, and then timing

966
00:55:55.960 --> 00:56:00.480
it so that, okay, now Pavo leaves, now the Mom leaves,

967
00:56:00.519 --> 00:56:02.679
now the Dan leaves, and able to put it all

968
00:56:02.719 --> 00:56:04.920
together so that it all works in the scene that

969
00:56:05.079 --> 00:56:06.840
here they are all standing next to each other, and

970
00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:09.320
here they are, you know, these two leaving, and now

971
00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:11.280
this one leaving, and now this one leaving, and then

972
00:56:11.320 --> 00:56:14.320
it all works, and that's gonna be a lot of

973
00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:17.639
twelve angry cue. Although I discovered some things in shooting

974
00:56:17.639 --> 00:56:19.920
that I figured out how to take a green screen

975
00:56:19.960 --> 00:56:23.360
of just myself in one shot, a second shot of

976
00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:25.320
me is another character and put them in the same

977
00:56:25.400 --> 00:56:28.440
shot so that I can actually interact in one shot

978
00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:32.440
without having to cut back and forth. That was weird.

979
00:56:32.559 --> 00:56:33.840
Doud anyone else see balloons?

980
00:56:34.199 --> 00:56:35.639
Yeah, I'm seeing balloons here.

981
00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:40.000
I wonder if I said something that sat off.

982
00:56:44.519 --> 00:56:52.400
I don't know what the hell that was balloon generating.

983
00:56:55.480 --> 00:56:57.360
I think I know the answer to this, Andy, but

984
00:56:57.440 --> 00:56:59.760
I'm gonna ask you anyway, how much of your humor

985
00:56:59.840 --> 00:57:01.119
do you use when you're a teacher.

986
00:57:02.519 --> 00:57:04.039
I want to use some of the time. I mean,

987
00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:07.280
I want to be able to be personable with the

988
00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:10.880
students and to be you know, at the same time,

989
00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:13.679
I want to talk, use my experience, use my my

990
00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:17.039
my age and I know how and be the more

991
00:57:17.159 --> 00:57:20.159
mature person in the room with a bunch of teenagers.

992
00:57:20.239 --> 00:57:22.400
But I do want to be personable, and I do

993
00:57:22.519 --> 00:57:26.559
want to uh talk to them on a level that's

994
00:57:26.599 --> 00:57:30.400
not condescending, and that's also not too aloof and far

995
00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:33.039
removed that they're just bored out of their minds. Because

996
00:57:33.360 --> 00:57:35.880
my goal is to be a theater teacher. I'm also

997
00:57:36.079 --> 00:57:38.840
minoring in English. I can teach English too, but theater

998
00:57:38.920 --> 00:57:41.239
is something I'm passionate about and that I love and

999
00:57:41.360 --> 00:57:43.519
that's fun for me, so it should be fun for

1000
00:57:43.639 --> 00:57:45.079
them as well. And I want to be able to

1001
00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:47.519
talk to them in an excited way about it and

1002
00:57:47.679 --> 00:57:49.679
and and in the you know, a funny way that

1003
00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:54.599
is appropriate, but but fun and engaging. It's probably.

1004
00:57:56.360 --> 00:57:58.440
I think you should follow those instincts man, because I

1005
00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:01.480
mean there's just most students, right, especially like in performing arts. There,

1006
00:58:01.480 --> 00:58:02.960
I was like, oh, it's gonna be some guy who

1007
00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:08.039
abstractly knows the theater but doesn't doesn't act themselves right,

1008
00:58:08.079 --> 00:58:09.519
and it's gonna be trying to tell us what to

1009
00:58:09.599 --> 00:58:11.559
do right. And then they they're their wish is that

1010
00:58:11.599 --> 00:58:14.519
they get somebody who actually is funny and who performs right,

1011
00:58:14.599 --> 00:58:17.480
because then they got rapport and they'll go anywhere you

1012
00:58:17.599 --> 00:58:17.960
take them.

1013
00:58:18.039 --> 00:58:18.639
Man, So.

1014
00:58:20.280 --> 00:58:22.719
You'll be great. I can just I think you'll you

1015
00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:25.000
just seem like you would be a phenomenal theater teacher.

1016
00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:26.159
Thank you well.

1017
00:58:26.199 --> 00:58:27.800
One of the angles I want to take with them

1018
00:58:27.840 --> 00:58:30.480
as well as is, you know the the don't do

1019
00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:33.400
what I did and I learned from my mistakes how

1020
00:58:33.480 --> 00:58:36.840
I failed out of Hollywood, and you know, make it

1021
00:58:37.159 --> 00:58:39.320
because it's one of the things as an actor when

1022
00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:41.679
you go into auditions and it's like, oh my god,

1023
00:58:41.840 --> 00:58:45.320
my entire life is on the line and you bring

1024
00:58:45.400 --> 00:58:47.840
it up to this level. And I did that so

1025
00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:50.360
many times. And it's better if if you just I

1026
00:58:50.440 --> 00:58:52.679
want to take the gas out of it and make it.

1027
00:58:53.519 --> 00:58:56.159
You know you're gonna fail, You're gonna screw up. You're

1028
00:58:56.199 --> 00:58:59.519
gonna have bad auditions. Every comedian who goes on stage

1029
00:58:59.559 --> 00:59:02.920
says the best thing for a stand up comedian is

1030
00:59:03.000 --> 00:59:06.159
to bomb, because then they see it's not the end

1031
00:59:06.199 --> 00:59:09.760
of the world. They bomb, they get booed, they have

1032
00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:13.559
a horrible set, and life goes on. And it's the

1033
00:59:13.599 --> 00:59:18.000
same thing with auditioning. I auditioned for jj Abrams Star

1034
00:59:18.119 --> 00:59:24.000
Trek because of the New Voyages, the fan film I did.

1035
00:59:24.079 --> 00:59:26.320
I had tape of myself playing Checkof, and I didn't

1036
00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:29.440
audition for Checkoff. She had already cast Anton. He was

1037
00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:32.239
the first person she casts. Even before she started casting,

1038
00:59:32.360 --> 00:59:34.280
she had him in mind. So I never had a

1039
00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:36.239
chance at Checkof. And I was too old for what

1040
00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:38.679
they were looking for at that point. Anyways. I think

1041
00:59:38.719 --> 00:59:42.280
I was twenty five at that point, so old in Hollywood.

1042
00:59:42.880 --> 00:59:48.039
But I had because it's Star Trek, and I love

1043
00:59:48.119 --> 00:59:50.159
Star Trek so much, and because it's big budget, and

1044
00:59:50.239 --> 00:59:54.239
because it's it's paramount. Walking onto the lot and seeing

1045
00:59:54.320 --> 00:59:57.880
the blue parking lot and where they shot Star Trek

1046
00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:01.440
for the whale back drop and the and walking into

1047
01:00:01.559 --> 01:00:05.400
her office, and I had gotten myself so wound up

1048
01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:07.880
and wanted it so bad. And that's the thing. You

1049
01:00:08.119 --> 01:00:10.880
never should walk into an audition wanting it, even when

1050
01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:13.360
you want it. You shouldn't walk into an audition wanting it.

1051
01:00:13.440 --> 01:00:15.320
You just do your best and you move on to

1052
01:00:15.400 --> 01:00:18.760
the next one. And she was on my side too.

1053
01:00:18.880 --> 01:00:21.280
April Webster was the casting director, and as soon as

1054
01:00:21.320 --> 01:00:23.639
I walked in, because I had sent her tape of me,

1055
01:00:23.880 --> 01:00:27.400
and I'd sent her tape of George Walter endorsing me,

1056
01:00:28.039 --> 01:00:32.559
and so when I walked in, she recognized me and

1057
01:00:32.760 --> 01:00:35.920
she started speaking to me with a Russian accent, which

1058
01:00:36.039 --> 01:00:38.679
is that should have been a huge weight off my

1059
01:00:38.840 --> 01:00:42.719
shoulder instead, then she said something that's suddenly like the

1060
01:00:42.800 --> 01:00:45.440
weights dropped right back on my shoulder. She said, ah,

1061
01:00:45.599 --> 01:00:47.960
but you cut your hair off because I no longer

1062
01:00:48.039 --> 01:00:50.000
had the check off too. I had cut it short

1063
01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:51.920
because I had finished doing new voyages. And as soon

1064
01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:56.360
as she said that, I went, no, what have I done?

1065
01:00:57.639 --> 01:00:58.320
Anxiety?

1066
01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:01.360
And then I was in my head and then I

1067
01:01:02.480 --> 01:01:04.440
but still she was friendly as could be, and then

1068
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:06.599
she gave me the script, which I had done the

1069
01:01:06.679 --> 01:01:09.039
right thing. I showed up early to the audition so

1070
01:01:09.079 --> 01:01:12.079
I could take this the sides outside because I didn't

1071
01:01:12.159 --> 01:01:14.039
know what they were. They didn't give them ahead of time,

1072
01:01:14.280 --> 01:01:16.360
and it wasn't anything from the movie. It was I

1073
01:01:16.400 --> 01:01:18.800
think they had pulled it from old Star Trek episodes

1074
01:01:18.800 --> 01:01:20.920
and it was just like Shielded seventy percent kind of stuff.

1075
01:01:21.239 --> 01:01:22.920
But I had taken the time to study it and

1076
01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:26.440
then go and sign in and familiarize myself with it.

1077
01:01:26.920 --> 01:01:28.760
But as soon as she said that, I started getting

1078
01:01:28.800 --> 01:01:30.960
in my head. And then I looked at the camera

1079
01:01:31.039 --> 01:01:33.159
and then thought, wait, should I look at the camera

1080
01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:36.320
or should I look at her? Oh god, I should

1081
01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:38.239
ask her. But I shouldn't ask her because if I

1082
01:01:38.280 --> 01:01:40.599
ask her, she's gonna think, who is this amateur asking

1083
01:01:40.679 --> 01:01:42.480
me where he should look? And so I said, I'll

1084
01:01:42.559 --> 01:01:44.960
just look at the camera. And then I suddenly thought,

1085
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:46.880
oh my god, I'm looking straight at the camera. This

1086
01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:50.480
is all wrong, and I'm doing my audition. And now

1087
01:01:50.639 --> 01:01:53.360
it was probably fine, but in my head, I was

1088
01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:57.320
just awful, ripped, and I killed myself in that audition.

1089
01:01:57.800 --> 01:02:01.559
And I didn't get the part. Surprisingly, But that's the

1090
01:02:01.639 --> 01:02:04.440
other thing. I may not have gotten the part for

1091
01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:08.400
any number of reasons. I may have been too short,

1092
01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:11.719
I may have looked too young. I mean I was

1093
01:02:11.760 --> 01:02:14.760
twenty five then I'm sure I looked like I was fifteen.

1094
01:02:15.239 --> 01:02:17.840
And if I had had the hair, maybe they had

1095
01:02:17.880 --> 01:02:19.360
put me. They would have put me in the back

1096
01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:22.360
and just so you know, you could have that sixties

1097
01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:25.840
hair in the background, just for like an Easter egg.

1098
01:02:26.920 --> 01:02:30.760
But I had stupidly said no to doing background work

1099
01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:32.679
because they asked on the sign and sheet. I was like,

1100
01:02:33.559 --> 01:02:38.280
of course not, I'm mono only dude, if I have rules,

1101
01:02:39.159 --> 01:02:41.440
I need lines to be on camera. And then of

1102
01:02:41.519 --> 01:02:44.239
course I kicked myself ever since or doing that. But

1103
01:02:44.519 --> 01:02:46.719
I might have just been too short, or it might

1104
01:02:46.760 --> 01:02:49.440
have been my thirteen year old sounding voice that didn't

1105
01:02:49.440 --> 01:02:50.039
get me the part.

1106
01:02:50.159 --> 01:02:54.000
So or maybe there's a bunch of theater students out

1107
01:02:54.039 --> 01:02:57.599
there two years in the future who were really needing you, right,

1108
01:02:57.719 --> 01:02:59.800
and they you haven't met them yet, right, So.

1109
01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:04.000
A lot of reasons, brother, they get them into Star

1110
01:03:04.159 --> 01:03:11.000
Trek fourteen. So but but that's the kind of thing,

1111
01:03:11.039 --> 01:03:12.639
and that's the kind of approach I'd like to take

1112
01:03:12.719 --> 01:03:16.519
to teaching acting. Is like that, you know, it's it's fun,

1113
01:03:16.559 --> 01:03:18.199
it's great, but it's not the end of the world.

1114
01:03:18.519 --> 01:03:20.320
The important part is that you enjoy it. And here's

1115
01:03:20.679 --> 01:03:23.800
how I screwed up, you know, on any number of occasions.

1116
01:03:23.880 --> 01:03:27.320
And there's is time I stared at Jim Carrey for

1117
01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:30.800
too long, the time I nearly lost my ship, meeting

1118
01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:36.159
Steven Spielberg, and any number of embarrassing stories that I'd

1119
01:03:36.239 --> 01:03:37.039
like to share with them.

1120
01:03:40.119 --> 01:03:42.239
Andy, do you have any plans of coming back up

1121
01:03:42.280 --> 01:03:44.320
the ty Kona Roga to the original set tour.

1122
01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:48.599
I haven't been invited yet. I don't know James Cawley

1123
01:03:48.639 --> 01:03:51.760
wants to invite me. I don't think he loved how

1124
01:03:51.840 --> 01:03:56.039
I depicted him in the book, and I think that

1125
01:03:56.159 --> 01:03:58.400
might be part of the reason. Although I've heard it

1126
01:03:58.440 --> 01:04:00.400
from a number of sources, the way John and I

1127
01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:03.440
depicted him, we were told by people who were there,

1128
01:04:03.480 --> 01:04:06.920
it's like, don't let anybody say anything. That's the way

1129
01:04:07.000 --> 01:04:11.480
it was. So he wasn't brought he didn't come off

1130
01:04:11.639 --> 01:04:17.039
super flattering. But I think it was a realistic portrayal,

1131
01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:18.960
and we've been told by other people that it was

1132
01:04:19.000 --> 01:04:21.880
a realistic portrayal. But that might be keeping me from

1133
01:04:22.199 --> 01:04:23.400
getting invited up there.

1134
01:04:24.559 --> 01:04:25.760
Well, I'll have to talk to him.

1135
01:04:26.440 --> 01:04:28.800
Well, I don't mention the book.

1136
01:04:29.719 --> 01:04:31.440
I go up there Jim's gonna go up there like

1137
01:04:31.519 --> 01:04:36.880
Tony Soprano. You gotta get any back here.

1138
01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:42.360
Eric invited me, I'd be happy to go up there.

1139
01:04:43.039 --> 01:04:45.039
You know all the pictures you saw during the fan

1140
01:04:45.159 --> 01:04:47.119
shout outs. Eric was up there with me a couple

1141
01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:49.920
of years ago, and we had a lot of fun,

1142
01:04:50.519 --> 01:04:51.199
a lot of fun.

1143
01:04:51.679 --> 01:04:53.360
Yeah, it's a little bit of a of a hike

1144
01:04:53.440 --> 01:04:55.519
to get up there from Tennessee, but I wouldn't mind

1145
01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:55.800
doing it.

1146
01:04:56.360 --> 01:04:59.920
Well, it is from here too, but it is fun.

1147
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:01.480
It is an experience for sure.

1148
01:05:01.840 --> 01:05:02.079
Yeah.

1149
01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:04.320
Yeah, Well, I'm sure my dad would get a kick

1150
01:05:04.360 --> 01:05:07.079
out of seeing my family, my boys.

1151
01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:08.960
Yeah.

1152
01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:10.800
I just wanted to jump in.

1153
01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:15.119
I want to jump in and talk to Andy about

1154
01:05:15.199 --> 01:05:18.039
saying about the fact. I remember that show, and I

1155
01:05:18.079 --> 01:05:20.639
remember who all was on there, but we were we

1156
01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:23.679
were sitting there, it's like, okay, we've got the just

1157
01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:28.079
we've got the Strange day World's Gorn, we got the

1158
01:05:28.159 --> 01:05:33.000
tars Gorn. It's like how had be to the same gorn.

1159
01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:39.239
And we sat there and gain it and we started debating.

1160
01:05:38.920 --> 01:05:40.079
It, and it was.

1161
01:05:43.559 --> 01:05:45.000
Well, I was just gonna say my theory. I don't

1162
01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:46.639
know if you were about to say that, but My

1163
01:05:46.840 --> 01:05:49.320
theory was that there's different species of Gordon on the

1164
01:05:49.400 --> 01:05:50.000
same planet.

1165
01:05:52.239 --> 01:05:54.039
Yes, that was weird, that's hard.

1166
01:05:54.880 --> 01:05:57.119
That was that podcast, and that was we were debating

1167
01:05:57.159 --> 01:06:00.239
about how they were different Goren. It was like, it's

1168
01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:02.360
either different Gorn or an older Gorn.

1169
01:06:03.239 --> 01:06:03.679
How are they?

1170
01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:09.199
How is Straaser World so different from tos And it

1171
01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:11.719
was just funny that you took that whole idea and

1172
01:06:11.960 --> 01:06:12.960
made a skin out of it.

1173
01:06:14.800 --> 01:06:16.840
Well, well, I mean, you guys had had me on

1174
01:06:17.079 --> 01:06:19.360
to discuss the Gorn and this was before the second

1175
01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:21.480
Gorn episode of Strange in the World. This was just

1176
01:06:21.559 --> 01:06:24.079
after the baby Gorn episode, and this was before we

1177
01:06:24.199 --> 01:06:28.440
got adolescent spacesuit Gorn. But yeah, you guys had me

1178
01:06:28.519 --> 01:06:30.199
on and that was my two cents. But then you

1179
01:06:30.239 --> 01:06:32.440
also asked Checkof for his two cents, and old check

1180
01:06:32.480 --> 01:06:35.079
Off his very opinion. He has a lot of time

1181
01:06:35.199 --> 01:06:37.920
to just game and think about things in the broiler room,

1182
01:06:39.199 --> 01:06:41.360
and so he really let Kirk have it because he

1183
01:06:42.079 --> 01:06:44.280
it was news to him that there are scary Gorn

1184
01:06:44.320 --> 01:06:46.280
out there. He thought all the Gorn were just really

1185
01:06:46.400 --> 01:06:50.719
slow moving elderly Gorn. And so that was a fun

1186
01:06:50.800 --> 01:06:55.480
little improvised I mean, I had some notes, but mostly

1187
01:06:55.559 --> 01:06:59.920
improvised check off, check in, and and yeah, and then

1188
01:07:00.440 --> 01:07:02.119
I forget which one of you said I should turn

1189
01:07:02.159 --> 01:07:04.159
it into a sketch, and I just got to thinking

1190
01:07:04.199 --> 01:07:06.719
about it. That would be a fun sketch. And I

1191
01:07:06.840 --> 01:07:09.559
know Uncle Jim loves and I saw him laughing at

1192
01:07:09.639 --> 01:07:14.400
it down started shaking like his house was falling into

1193
01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:14.880
the ground.

1194
01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:18.440
That's just that's one of the best. When I'm watching it,

1195
01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:22.320
I'm remembering the conversations that we had on the podcast,

1196
01:07:22.440 --> 01:07:26.280
and then I'm seeing it on screen. You know, it's

1197
01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:31.679
it's it's great. It's great. You know when you talk

1198
01:07:31.719 --> 01:07:34.719
about something and then all of a sudden someone brings

1199
01:07:34.719 --> 01:07:38.000
it to life, you know. Yeah, yeah, pretty cool actually.

1200
01:07:39.280 --> 01:07:41.400
So I also the other reason why I wanted to

1201
01:07:41.480 --> 01:07:44.199
have you on Andy is we're still waiting for Strange

1202
01:07:44.280 --> 01:07:46.920
New World. It's been what two years, Paul, I know,

1203
01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:48.840
it's been a long time.

1204
01:07:48.880 --> 01:07:50.800
Something like that. Yeah, you know, but I mean they're

1205
01:07:50.840 --> 01:07:54.840
cranking up season four now. They even started season three, Aaron,

1206
01:07:54.920 --> 01:07:56.920
So I mean, it's good. It'll be around, right, so

1207
01:07:57.320 --> 01:07:58.280
I have something to look forward to.

1208
01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:01.519
So we're waiting to find out how Pike escapes the

1209
01:08:01.599 --> 01:08:04.480
Gorn so maybe we'll see another Gorn skit. Who knows.

1210
01:08:04.920 --> 01:08:07.239
Oh, you know, they'll be in the first episode because

1211
01:08:07.280 --> 01:08:09.760
the last season had such a cliffhanger with the Gorn, right,

1212
01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:11.079
they gotta have that being there.

1213
01:08:11.119 --> 01:08:12.920
Maybe we'll see the adult.

1214
01:08:14.159 --> 01:08:18.720
Yeah, maybe they get this version of their metallic lingerie.

1215
01:08:18.880 --> 01:08:23.079
Maybe we'll get that, right, Yeah, maybe the same thing

1216
01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:25.640
that happened to the Gorn to make them different on

1217
01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:28.079
this show. It's the same thing that you know that

1218
01:08:28.199 --> 01:08:31.880
happened to like the old school tos Klingons and the

1219
01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:34.760
Ridgeheads from you know, Next Gen maybe mutation.

1220
01:08:35.239 --> 01:08:40.159
Right, So they just stopped taking their medicine and the room.

1221
01:08:40.439 --> 01:08:42.520
Stop taking them at Foreman, Man, you're gonna you know,

1222
01:08:42.560 --> 01:08:45.119
your insulin is gonna go crazy. So you gotta just.

1223
01:08:47.319 --> 01:08:50.680
August twenty August twenty twenty three that we saw our

1224
01:08:50.840 --> 01:08:53.359
last Strange World a year and a half.

1225
01:08:55.600 --> 01:08:58.840
Wow, I'm sure the same, may Or June. That's what

1226
01:08:58.880 --> 01:09:02.359
I'm That's what I'm predicting, right, And I think.

1227
01:09:02.279 --> 01:09:05.039
The reason why they're they're filming four already is because

1228
01:09:05.039 --> 01:09:08.199
I think they want season four going for the sixtieth anniversary.

1229
01:09:08.680 --> 01:09:10.520
I'm sure they're going to have a sixtieth episode. I

1230
01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:14.039
was just rewatching flashback, uh, and I was thinking about, Wow,

1231
01:09:14.439 --> 01:09:16.079
now that we've got Star Trek on the air again,

1232
01:09:16.159 --> 01:09:19.800
we could have a sixtieth anniversary episode of Strange the

1233
01:09:19.880 --> 01:09:23.279
Worlds and maybe a sixtieth anniversary of a Starfleet Academy.

1234
01:09:24.279 --> 01:09:26.039
What do you think of the episode? When they did

1235
01:09:26.159 --> 01:09:28.319
they brought over the Strange World cats and they did

1236
01:09:28.399 --> 01:09:32.680
the merge right with lower decks or no, you were

1237
01:09:32.880 --> 01:09:37.239
about the lower decks guys onto scient episode. I thought

1238
01:09:37.279 --> 01:09:40.000
that was amazing. It was so well done. They did

1239
01:09:40.039 --> 01:09:40.600
a great job.

1240
01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:43.119
I love lower decks. Lower Decks to me is just

1241
01:09:43.479 --> 01:09:46.600
such great. Not only is it such inside jokes, like

1242
01:09:46.760 --> 01:09:50.079
so so deep in the grass kind of jokes like

1243
01:09:50.279 --> 01:09:53.800
for US hardcore fans, but it's so filled with love

1244
01:09:53.880 --> 01:09:56.119
for Star Trek. Well at the same time being very

1245
01:09:56.239 --> 01:09:59.520
funny and very entertaining and strange New world I think

1246
01:09:59.600 --> 01:10:03.279
is just brilliance and I'm in retro, but also it

1247
01:10:03.399 --> 01:10:09.279
feels fresh and new and they are just so ballsy.

1248
01:10:09.560 --> 01:10:12.640
They swing for the fences and they take chances like

1249
01:10:12.840 --> 01:10:16.399
no trick I've ever seen take chances. I mean, certainly

1250
01:10:16.800 --> 01:10:18.960
you know, chance to dump on Berman a little bit,

1251
01:10:19.000 --> 01:10:22.479
but Berman, what would never allow these kind of chances

1252
01:10:22.560 --> 01:10:23.159
that they take.

1253
01:10:23.479 --> 01:10:27.640
You do a musical episode, right, no way, no way?

1254
01:10:28.960 --> 01:10:31.119
And and Strange New Worlds just the fact that they're

1255
01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:34.239
willing to go there, and so far it's all landed

1256
01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:36.039
as just icing on the cake.

1257
01:10:38.800 --> 01:10:42.239
Absolutely, and I'm looking forward to the Gorn. I want

1258
01:10:42.279 --> 01:10:45.880
to see Pavel check Off show up on on Strange

1259
01:10:45.960 --> 01:10:49.079
New Worlds and deal with the Gorn the right way.

1260
01:10:49.000 --> 01:10:52.159
To do it. I thought you were going to ask

1261
01:10:52.199 --> 01:10:54.039
for Pavel to show up here. I was gonna get

1262
01:10:54.039 --> 01:10:55.399
ready to shout for him.

1263
01:10:55.520 --> 01:10:58.800
If he's in the vicinity, he's uh, he's in the

1264
01:10:58.840 --> 01:10:59.439
boiler room.

1265
01:11:00.159 --> 01:11:01.000
Do you want me to check?

1266
01:11:01.680 --> 01:11:04.399
See? Is he there? Is he around?

1267
01:11:05.680 --> 01:11:11.399
Bababo's the guys, you know what? He might have his

1268
01:11:11.479 --> 01:11:13.119
headphones on. Let me let me let me go check

1269
01:11:13.119 --> 01:11:18.600
and see if I'm mean, find the guys. No, not

1270
01:11:18.720 --> 01:11:24.079
the Backstreet boy, the guys. Yeah, you remember to tell

1271
01:11:24.199 --> 01:11:27.439
you about the door and all that. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1272
01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:30.760
those guys change.

1273
01:11:34.600 --> 01:11:35.920
There's guys you know.

1274
01:11:36.079 --> 01:11:37.960
Oh, my hair is a little messed up today.

1275
01:11:38.039 --> 01:11:41.600
Oh it was all over the places.

1276
01:11:42.600 --> 01:11:44.520
I didn't know you were a member of Spinal Tap.

1277
01:11:45.520 --> 01:11:47.920
Absolutely, Spinal tap.

1278
01:11:47.880 --> 01:11:50.880
Is Life's a Russian band.

1279
01:11:52.000 --> 01:11:54.920
Absolutely everyone knows spinal Tapping was a Russian in Winted,

1280
01:11:55.760 --> 01:11:57.479
Russian in Winch, and it was in Winted by a

1281
01:11:57.600 --> 01:11:59.600
little lady with a really long needle.

1282
01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:04.960
So, Paula, what do you think about the gorn?

1283
01:12:06.119 --> 01:12:09.720
Oh, the gorns? Is it the gorn? The gorns is

1284
01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:13.159
the Gornsey's the Gourn? I think it's even remember how

1285
01:12:13.239 --> 01:12:16.720
it goes the gorn. Oh, they're very I mean, if

1286
01:12:16.760 --> 01:12:20.640
you hear Captain Kirk saying they're very fearsome. But as

1287
01:12:20.720 --> 01:12:24.520
we both know, his gorn was like ready to start

1288
01:12:24.560 --> 01:12:28.600
accepting social security. I think I saw his gorn in

1289
01:12:28.800 --> 01:12:32.720
line at AARP trying to get a subscription. I assume

1290
01:12:32.760 --> 01:12:34.399
there's a line for that. I don't know. I'm not

1291
01:12:34.479 --> 01:12:37.760
old enough yet. He's gorn. It takes out false teeth

1292
01:12:37.800 --> 01:12:40.159
and puts it in a jar next to where it sleeps.

1293
01:12:40.800 --> 01:12:44.560
And then Captain Pike's gorne. Did you see those things? Oh,

1294
01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:49.039
my goodness, gracious rushing devil. Those things are like the

1295
01:12:49.119 --> 01:12:52.000
little Grimlins from Grimlins if they were scary.

1296
01:12:52.479 --> 01:12:58.079
Ooh, well, it's too bad that mister Sulhu wasn't there

1297
01:12:58.199 --> 01:12:58.439
with you.

1298
01:12:59.720 --> 01:13:03.039
You knows what the auto tune a little bit. I

1299
01:13:03.079 --> 01:13:03.920
didn't quite catch that.

1300
01:13:04.359 --> 01:13:09.560
Yeah, your buddy, who's my buddy? Sulu?

1301
01:13:10.479 --> 01:13:17.600
Oh right, Sula, Sul Sulu, Sulu Sulu, mister, Oh Pablo,

1302
01:13:17.760 --> 01:13:21.079
La la la la la, oh Pablo. Look at the

1303
01:13:21.159 --> 01:13:24.399
picture of my daughter. Isn't she the most precious thing?

1304
01:13:24.600 --> 01:13:24.840
Ever?

1305
01:13:25.319 --> 01:13:28.760
One day she'll be a helmsman like her papa. Oh,

1306
01:13:28.880 --> 01:13:33.079
give me a break. Like having kids as difficult. Captain

1307
01:13:33.199 --> 01:13:37.159
Kirk has one. He doesn't even visit the thing. Anyone

1308
01:13:37.279 --> 01:13:41.520
can have children's but oh you hear Suel talk about

1309
01:13:41.560 --> 01:13:44.399
it all. Look at the picture of my daughter. Isn't

1310
01:13:44.439 --> 01:13:50.720
she so precious? Okay, we get it already. I don't

1311
01:13:50.720 --> 01:13:53.560
think Sulo would have helped with the garden anyways. Well

1312
01:13:53.600 --> 01:13:55.720
he might have. He has a sword. Actually, that would

1313
01:13:55.720 --> 01:13:58.960
have been really useful. I take it back. I should

1314
01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:00.319
have had the captain helping him him out.

1315
01:14:02.039 --> 01:14:03.359
It might have turned out differently.

1316
01:14:04.359 --> 01:14:07.600
Absolutely. Instead of running around the desert looking for pebbles

1317
01:14:07.640 --> 01:14:10.840
to stick inside a little what would you call that,

1318
01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:14.640
like a tube, like a half tube, Like instead of

1319
01:14:14.720 --> 01:14:16.800
putting dirt in a tube, we had to just stabbed

1320
01:14:16.840 --> 01:14:19.960
the guy in his his his eyes, his crystal ball

1321
01:14:20.039 --> 01:14:25.239
disco eyes. What's with that? Anyways? How can you see

1322
01:14:25.319 --> 01:14:25.520
that that?

1323
01:14:25.720 --> 01:14:28.439
He's like spider eyes on a lizard? Whoever saw that

1324
01:14:28.520 --> 01:14:33.039
on the lizard and anything? That's how he would have

1325
01:14:33.119 --> 01:14:35.399
beat Kirk. I think if looking into the sun it

1326
01:14:35.399 --> 01:14:38.359
would have blinded him. It would have been like multiple

1327
01:14:38.439 --> 01:14:41.079
flashlights just shooting out of his eyes right into the

1328
01:14:41.159 --> 01:14:41.840
Kipten's eyes.

1329
01:14:42.840 --> 01:14:47.279
He should have done that, It wasn't in the script. No.

1330
01:14:48.039 --> 01:14:49.960
By the way, you guys liking this stink.

1331
01:14:54.640 --> 01:14:56.399
Facial hair definitely goes up to eleven.

1332
01:14:56.920 --> 01:15:01.920
Yeah, it's got have a princess bride thing going on,

1333
01:15:02.279 --> 01:15:03.680
is what I'm kept from it?

1334
01:15:07.279 --> 01:15:07.399
Right?

1335
01:15:07.640 --> 01:15:11.399
Oh? Yes, Well, I I did this because we were

1336
01:15:11.479 --> 01:15:14.680
having Porthos Day on the Enterprise, and and I thought

1337
01:15:14.800 --> 01:15:17.439
it was about one of the three Musketeers and said

1338
01:15:17.439 --> 01:15:21.800
he was about the Archer's Prize Eagle. So I show

1339
01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:25.159
up looking like a jerk. Of course, Sulu laughing his

1340
01:15:25.279 --> 01:15:27.720
ass off. He knew the whole time, and he didn't

1341
01:15:27.760 --> 01:15:32.439
say anything. He let me grow out this facial disaster,

1342
01:15:32.680 --> 01:15:34.239
and he never said a word.

1343
01:15:35.920 --> 01:15:38.359
That's irresponsible.

1344
01:15:39.039 --> 01:15:47.840
Instead I walk in and say, oh damn youel Sulu.

1345
01:15:51.880 --> 01:15:53.920
Every day with Sulu is like a prank show on

1346
01:15:53.960 --> 01:15:54.600
the Enterprise.

1347
01:15:57.039 --> 01:15:59.479
Poor guy, poor guy.

1348
01:16:00.239 --> 01:16:02.600
Well, I think it's uh, you may have the upper

1349
01:16:02.680 --> 01:16:05.520
hand though, Checkov, because we've seen into the future and

1350
01:16:05.600 --> 01:16:08.479
I don't think Sulu ever makes admiral, but I think

1351
01:16:08.600 --> 01:16:11.359
you do if I remember correctly.

1352
01:16:11.640 --> 01:16:15.279
Well, there you go. Absolutely, I'm all for that. Take

1353
01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:16.199
that tea car.

1354
01:16:18.920 --> 01:16:24.920
Also correctly, Uh, your son becomes president of the Federation

1355
01:16:25.079 --> 01:16:27.479
as well, so he doesn't even need to be a helmsman.

1356
01:16:28.359 --> 01:16:31.159
Nice and I'm happy to be the hanger on dad,

1357
01:16:31.479 --> 01:16:34.720
the really old man just walking around the the what

1358
01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:36.720
is it like a Federation white house?

1359
01:16:36.760 --> 01:16:36.800
What?

1360
01:16:36.960 --> 01:16:37.000
What?

1361
01:16:37.439 --> 01:16:41.000
What would they have the Federation white House. We'll just

1362
01:16:41.079 --> 01:16:43.359
call it that in Paris, France, and maybe it's in

1363
01:16:43.399 --> 01:16:45.600
the Eiffel Tower. I'm gonna assume that's where the President

1364
01:16:45.640 --> 01:16:47.359
of the Federation leads at the very teep of the

1365
01:16:47.399 --> 01:16:50.000
Eiffel Tower. Now, I'll just be in my bathrobe and

1366
01:16:50.079 --> 01:16:54.079
my slippers walking around saying, hey, preis son, how's it going,

1367
01:16:54.720 --> 01:16:57.479
you know, bathrobe slapping around because I'm old and I

1368
01:16:57.600 --> 01:17:00.199
don't care. And then he's he has to work, worry

1369
01:17:00.279 --> 01:17:02.119
with all this stuff that's going on, Like oh no,

1370
01:17:02.880 --> 01:17:05.199
the borg are taking over all the young kids and

1371
01:17:05.359 --> 01:17:08.560
killing off the sheeps. Someone call an old man, and

1372
01:17:08.640 --> 01:17:11.680
I'm gonna say, no way, I'm retired. I'm just gonna

1373
01:17:11.720 --> 01:17:14.800
watch my soap operas. That's the plan, anyways.

1374
01:17:16.359 --> 01:17:18.800
Now that's a good plan. That's a really good plan.

1375
01:17:20.439 --> 01:17:20.840
I hope.

1376
01:17:20.880 --> 01:17:23.000
I mean, we'll see. Who knows if it'll actually happen.

1377
01:17:24.920 --> 01:17:26.720
Well, we can wish, we can hope.

1378
01:17:27.680 --> 01:17:29.119
It sounds believable enough.

1379
01:17:29.840 --> 01:17:31.840
I like it. I think it. I think it'd be

1380
01:17:31.840 --> 01:17:36.319
a good deal, be a good truck sketch, definitely.

1381
01:17:36.680 --> 01:17:38.439
I don't know what I'm doing with these hair is

1382
01:17:39.199 --> 01:17:44.960
out of control. Today. I'm trying to decide who I look.

1383
01:17:45.000 --> 01:17:48.680
Do I look like Jamie Farr? If I put on

1384
01:17:48.760 --> 01:17:50.319
a dress, would I look like Jamie Farr?

1385
01:17:52.199 --> 01:17:54.039
You could be looked like one of the Gornsey's and

1386
01:17:54.079 --> 01:17:54.359
they're a.

1387
01:17:54.319 --> 01:18:01.119
Little ingerie that that would be fun. That's what I'm

1388
01:18:01.159 --> 01:18:03.279
gonna wear when my son is president. I'll just walk

1389
01:18:03.319 --> 01:18:07.239
around in shiny lingerie. And it's like, hey, I'm old,

1390
01:18:07.359 --> 01:18:10.079
I'm senile. What what can I do? You can't be

1391
01:18:10.199 --> 01:18:13.159
upset with me? I'm where am I the top of

1392
01:18:13.199 --> 01:18:15.880
the Eiffel Tower I'm confused. This is all very new

1393
01:18:15.960 --> 01:18:16.760
and strange to me.

1394
01:18:19.520 --> 01:18:22.039
I heard shy Lingerie's a Russian inns.

1395
01:18:24.119 --> 01:18:27.279
Was invented by a very fancy lady from Leningrad.

1396
01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:34.800
Oh boy, Well, as usual, we have a we have

1397
01:18:34.920 --> 01:18:38.600
a fun time checking in with Checkov. Absolutely, it's always

1398
01:18:38.600 --> 01:18:39.920
fun to catch up with Chekov.

1399
01:18:42.239 --> 01:18:46.039
And was in a boiler room just shoveling coal. This

1400
01:18:46.199 --> 01:18:49.760
is kind of my one release. I wish they would

1401
01:18:49.840 --> 01:18:52.840
let me go back to the navigation station. But until then,

1402
01:18:53.520 --> 01:18:56.279
I shovel the coal, and I shoveled the coal, and

1403
01:18:56.399 --> 01:18:59.760
I shovel the coal, and I swear to God, I

1404
01:19:00.039 --> 01:19:02.880
don't think starships use cold, but they have me shoveling

1405
01:19:02.960 --> 01:19:06.359
it anyways, And thank you guys for letting me get

1406
01:19:06.399 --> 01:19:08.479
out of there, even for a brief moment.

1407
01:19:09.760 --> 01:19:12.960
Anytime check off, You're always welcome on trek talking buddy.

1408
01:19:13.159 --> 01:19:15.800
Don't send me back, don't let me go back there.

1409
01:19:17.640 --> 01:19:18.439
I won't go back.

1410
01:19:19.960 --> 01:19:24.239
I won't go back. And I get sweat stains and

1411
01:19:25.159 --> 01:19:29.920
my mustache keeps lighting on fire so bad. It's so

1412
01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:30.680
bad in there.

1413
01:19:33.079 --> 01:19:34.079
Someone's gotta do it.

1414
01:19:34.720 --> 01:19:38.560
I guess, at least I have these, said the Alpha

1415
01:19:38.640 --> 01:19:40.840
five worms I put in my ear, it makes me

1416
01:19:41.000 --> 01:19:41.960
forget everything.

1417
01:19:45.119 --> 01:19:47.199
Don't worry. We'll get you some.

1418
01:19:49.319 --> 01:19:53.279
Oh that'll be perfect. Ah, all right, well I'm gonna

1419
01:19:53.319 --> 01:19:55.840
go now. I've got some shiny lingerie I'm gonna put on,

1420
01:19:55.960 --> 01:19:58.199
and I'm gonna wander into the boiler room because I

1421
01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:00.239
don't know where I am right now because as in

1422
01:20:00.279 --> 01:20:03.560
the worms are wrapping around my cerebral cortex.

1423
01:20:06.119 --> 01:20:13.399
Take it, bye, guys, checking in with Checkov. What a

1424
01:20:13.479 --> 01:20:16.520
guy gotta go shovel at coal for Captain Kirk.

1425
01:20:18.439 --> 01:20:20.840
I hope he doesn't keep Andy down there with him.

1426
01:20:20.840 --> 01:20:26.760
I mean, Andy's kind of a nice guy. I'm not sure. Yeah, okay, Wow,

1427
01:20:27.079 --> 01:20:28.479
worried you were stuck in the boiler room.

1428
01:20:28.600 --> 01:20:30.359
We thought you'd be shoveling coal with Pavel.

1429
01:20:31.479 --> 01:20:33.319
Luckily I stay out of the boiler room. It's hot

1430
01:20:33.399 --> 01:20:35.840
in there and it smells like Russian ass. So I

1431
01:20:37.079 --> 01:20:40.720
behind him. He just had me hold his shovel by

1432
01:20:40.800 --> 01:20:41.159
the door.

1433
01:20:43.920 --> 01:20:45.079
That's like one cass.

1434
01:20:46.960 --> 01:20:49.720
It kind of you if you if you ever boiled

1435
01:20:49.800 --> 01:20:54.760
vodka until it just disappears into nothing and like that.

1436
01:20:56.720 --> 01:21:01.720
Oh boy, Well, well, Andy, we had a lot of

1437
01:21:01.800 --> 01:21:04.600
fun talking with you tonight, and I really enjoyed revisiting

1438
01:21:04.640 --> 01:21:07.359
the Goran sketch. That is actually one of my favorites.

1439
01:21:07.399 --> 01:21:10.680
I love that skit, Thank you, Thank You.

1440
01:21:10.960 --> 01:21:11.960
I have blast as well.

1441
01:21:12.479 --> 01:21:17.039
I think it's fantastic, one of the best, although the

1442
01:21:17.119 --> 01:21:21.520
Christmas Vacation one, that one's really funny too, thank you.

1443
01:21:21.640 --> 01:21:24.319
That one's my personal favorite. But like I said, each

1444
01:21:24.439 --> 01:21:27.079
one I can see where I've gotten better, and so

1445
01:21:27.520 --> 01:21:30.520
I've got like there's pride in it as it goes along.

1446
01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:33.600
I'm sure the next one out at least that's the goal.

1447
01:21:33.680 --> 01:21:36.720
I want to surpass each one with the newest one.

1448
01:21:36.840 --> 01:21:38.800
And so when I when I feel like I've done that,

1449
01:21:39.720 --> 01:21:41.359
I feel like I put a feather in my cap.

1450
01:21:41.520 --> 01:21:44.479
And so that right now is my favorite one. And

1451
01:21:44.640 --> 01:21:46.880
it's got my son in it, and it's got check

1452
01:21:46.920 --> 01:21:49.239
Off and Checkoff's parents. So I had a blast doing

1453
01:21:49.319 --> 01:21:51.800
that one too. So if anyone wants to check it out,

1454
01:21:52.119 --> 01:21:56.439
check out check Off Christmas Vacation. You can go see

1455
01:21:56.479 --> 01:22:00.359
him on my YouTube channel that's at the Andy Bray

1456
01:22:00.640 --> 01:22:03.640
on YouTube. I'm also on Facebook at the Andy Bray.

1457
01:22:04.039 --> 01:22:09.600
I'm on Twitter, Instagram, Blue Sky Threads at the Andy Bray,

1458
01:22:09.800 --> 01:22:13.800
and I've got stuff there but probably just jumping onto

1459
01:22:13.800 --> 01:22:15.720
YouTube for them. You can find them all there, all

1460
01:22:15.760 --> 01:22:18.880
my Trek sketches, and I have a blast making them,

1461
01:22:19.079 --> 01:22:21.640
and so I just I love putting them out there

1462
01:22:21.680 --> 01:22:23.920
for other Star Trek fans to find and discover and

1463
01:22:24.039 --> 01:22:26.199
just maybe have a blast watching them too, because it's

1464
01:22:26.319 --> 01:22:29.079
just it's goofy Star Trek stuff that makes me laugh,

1465
01:22:29.119 --> 01:22:30.479
and I hope it makes y'all laugh too.

1466
01:22:31.359 --> 01:22:33.199
Now, when you premiere your next one, I hope we're

1467
01:22:33.239 --> 01:22:34.720
going to be right there on your list and we

1468
01:22:34.760 --> 01:22:37.239
can experience it together now that we have this new

1469
01:22:37.319 --> 01:22:38.159
video format.

1470
01:22:39.239 --> 01:22:41.520
In fact, I was thinking about that. I thought it

1471
01:22:41.640 --> 01:22:43.399
might be fun, and I mean, this is a while

1472
01:22:43.479 --> 01:22:45.039
down the road. I don't know when I'm gonna get

1473
01:22:45.039 --> 01:22:48.800
a film it, but I could probably. I know that

1474
01:22:48.880 --> 01:22:54.279
YouTube allows you to launch videos first as a as

1475
01:22:54.319 --> 01:22:59.239
a share link only thing, so I thought I could

1476
01:22:59.359 --> 01:23:03.960
possibly premiere my next Trek sketches exclusively on this show

1477
01:23:05.359 --> 01:23:07.760
and make this show the only place you can watch

1478
01:23:07.840 --> 01:23:10.600
it for about a week or so before it premiere

1479
01:23:10.680 --> 01:23:13.039
is worldwide, So that might be.

1480
01:23:16.279 --> 01:23:18.359
So what do you think? What do you think about

1481
01:23:18.399 --> 01:23:21.279
this new the new studio and the new format, And

1482
01:23:21.439 --> 01:23:23.720
you like it better than the old one.

1483
01:23:24.680 --> 01:23:25.279
I do, I do.

1484
01:23:25.439 --> 01:23:27.319
I mean, I have to put clothes on for this one.

1485
01:23:27.439 --> 01:23:30.520
But I do enjoy getting to see you guys, and

1486
01:23:31.159 --> 01:23:34.960
I like being able to to when I do premiere

1487
01:23:34.960 --> 01:23:37.359
a sketch not have to explain the visual gags that

1488
01:23:37.479 --> 01:23:38.279
nobody can see.

1489
01:23:40.399 --> 01:23:42.359
That one was way better with video, by the way.

1490
01:23:42.840 --> 01:23:44.880
Yeah for sure.

1491
01:23:48.079 --> 01:23:49.079
Wow, when you just listen to.

1492
01:23:49.079 --> 01:23:51.000
The audio, there are those moments when you're doing just

1493
01:23:51.079 --> 01:23:52.960
the visual gag and there's just silence.

1494
01:23:55.239 --> 01:23:58.279
Totally. I know something cool is happening right now, but

1495
01:23:58.319 --> 01:23:58.920
I'm not sure what.

1496
01:24:00.640 --> 01:24:00.760
Now.

1497
01:24:00.840 --> 01:24:03.920
You can see it live? Is it live or is

1498
01:24:03.960 --> 01:24:09.159
it memory? X. So I'm looking forward to the next

1499
01:24:09.520 --> 01:24:12.159
Trek skit, Andy, And you're always welcome here. You're part

1500
01:24:12.199 --> 01:24:13.319
of the Trek Talking family.

1501
01:24:13.840 --> 01:24:14.880
Thank you, appreciated.

1502
01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:17.640
I always he is ready. We'll get you on here.

1503
01:24:17.680 --> 01:24:20.479
And anytime, anytime you have some free time, when we

1504
01:24:20.560 --> 01:24:22.479
get new Star Trek and you want to come on

1505
01:24:22.600 --> 01:24:24.680
with us and chat about the new episode, you're always

1506
01:24:24.720 --> 01:24:26.039
welcome to do that with us as well.

1507
01:24:26.880 --> 01:24:27.000
Well.

1508
01:24:27.079 --> 01:24:29.319
Certainly, once Strange New Worlds comes back, we got to

1509
01:24:29.319 --> 01:24:30.760
talk about them garn some more.

1510
01:24:31.479 --> 01:24:35.359
Yeah, yeah, definitely for that. Yeah, well, well, i'll get

1511
01:24:35.399 --> 01:24:37.319
you a link and you can join us when when

1512
01:24:37.359 --> 01:24:40.119
it premieres, Like I think Paul's right, I think June

1513
01:24:40.520 --> 01:24:41.119
May or June.

1514
01:24:41.640 --> 01:24:44.359
That feels right. That's what it's mostly premiered. I think

1515
01:24:44.560 --> 01:24:46.520
is the last couple of scenes. I think premiered in May,

1516
01:24:46.560 --> 01:24:49.399
because I remember I made that sketch with the goal

1517
01:24:49.560 --> 01:24:53.640
of premiering it in time for a May release, because

1518
01:24:53.680 --> 01:24:56.760
that's when that second season came out, was May, and

1519
01:24:56.840 --> 01:24:59.399
I think that had mirrored the first season, which also

1520
01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:01.039
came out in May. So I kind of had a

1521
01:25:01.199 --> 01:25:04.079
rough idea when I started making that one of when

1522
01:25:04.119 --> 01:25:05.720
it would come out. I don't know if they'd announced

1523
01:25:05.720 --> 01:25:06.079
it yet.

1524
01:25:10.640 --> 01:25:13.359
Well, at any rate, Andy, we'd love to have you

1525
01:25:13.479 --> 01:25:17.560
back on again. You're always welcome here. And I really

1526
01:25:17.680 --> 01:25:20.399
enjoyed the Gorn sketch. I thought it was you know,

1527
01:25:20.560 --> 01:25:23.000
I was still laughing my ass off. It was that funny.

1528
01:25:23.239 --> 01:25:24.279
I really enjoyed it.

1529
01:25:24.840 --> 01:25:28.840
And enjoyed too because on the old show, you guys

1530
01:25:28.840 --> 01:25:31.239
will mute it, so I don't hear any laughter, and

1531
01:25:31.319 --> 01:25:35.159
it's just crickets the entire sketch. People my voice.

1532
01:25:37.159 --> 01:25:39.880
I hear my dying right now. I can't tell.

1533
01:25:42.760 --> 01:25:47.359
All that anxiety, April Webster, it's all coming back here.

1534
01:25:48.399 --> 01:25:50.920
While each of you muted yourself, I was like, great,

1535
01:25:51.039 --> 01:25:53.800
there goes the laugh track. I could see.

1536
01:25:57.000 --> 01:25:59.279
All right, next premiere will leave the audio on. I

1537
01:25:59.439 --> 01:26:02.560
like that idea. Yeah, the laugh track. That's good.

1538
01:26:02.720 --> 01:26:04.640
Yeah, we'll be the laugh track on the next one.

1539
01:26:07.359 --> 01:26:09.199
And now nobody will laugh the next one.

1540
01:26:12.680 --> 01:26:15.399
Yeah, what happened to the Gornsey's? Are the Gorners or

1541
01:26:15.439 --> 01:26:21.600
their girn that's it?

1542
01:26:22.520 --> 01:26:22.840
All right?

1543
01:26:22.920 --> 01:26:25.199
Well, thank you so much, Andy, We appreciate it, and

1544
01:26:25.239 --> 01:26:28.720
you're always welcome. Have a good one, live long and

1545
01:26:28.800 --> 01:26:36.880
project care man. All right, guys, that was the Andy Bray.

1546
01:26:36.960 --> 01:26:41.399
Please head over to his Facebook page, to his Instagram page,

1547
01:26:41.640 --> 01:26:45.119
anywhere and check out the Trek sketches. And with that,

1548
01:26:45.399 --> 01:27:07.439
it's time for our Star Trek Birthdays. Laur that was

1549
01:27:07.520 --> 01:27:11.359
not a Clinton song, Okay. Every week we start off

1550
01:27:11.399 --> 01:27:13.960
our Star Trek Birthdays by remembering those members of our

1551
01:27:14.000 --> 01:27:17.159
Star Trek family who, sadly enough, final longer with us,

1552
01:27:17.399 --> 01:27:19.399
and for that we turned to Eric.

1553
01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:20.399
Yeah, Jim.

1554
01:27:20.479 --> 01:27:22.239
This week we're going to remember six members of our

1555
01:27:22.279 --> 01:27:25.239
Star Trek community who have gone before us. The first

1556
01:27:25.439 --> 01:27:28.960
is actor Lawrence Tierney. Lawrence Tierney was the actor who

1557
01:27:29.000 --> 01:27:33.199
appeared as Cyrus Redblock in the Next Generation first season

1558
01:27:33.279 --> 01:27:36.760
episode The Big Goodbye. He also played the Regent of

1559
01:27:36.960 --> 01:27:40.840
Palomar in the Deep Space nine fifth season episode Business

1560
01:27:41.039 --> 01:27:44.479
as Usual. You can see his face there. You probably

1561
01:27:44.560 --> 01:27:47.920
recognize him as mostly being known for playing tough guy

1562
01:27:48.079 --> 01:27:52.279
roles throughout the nineteen forties, primarily mobsters and hardened criminals.

1563
01:27:52.880 --> 01:27:55.279
Star Trek of course, kept him right there. He first

1564
01:27:55.279 --> 01:27:58.880
acquired recognition for his portrayal of the vicious gangster John

1565
01:27:59.000 --> 01:28:03.319
Dellinger in The Night teen forty five film Dillinger, and

1566
01:28:03.439 --> 01:28:09.000
that actually sort of type casting really reduced him to

1567
01:28:09.920 --> 01:28:12.800
only being able to play those roles, which was unfortunate.

1568
01:28:13.239 --> 01:28:16.039
And then he had some personal stuff happen where he

1569
01:28:16.199 --> 01:28:19.439
had some well publicized off screen brushes with the law,

1570
01:28:19.960 --> 01:28:24.279
and those altercations damaged his career and he just you know,

1571
01:28:24.479 --> 01:28:26.399
was pretty limited in what he could do along the way.

1572
01:28:26.439 --> 01:28:29.119
But I will say that he was an excellent bad

1573
01:28:29.239 --> 01:28:33.039
guy and excellent gangster. Some real talent in there. And

1574
01:28:33.159 --> 01:28:36.439
Lawrence Tierney would have had a birthday just March fifteenth.

1575
01:28:36.520 --> 01:28:39.039
He was born in the year nineteen nineteen we lost

1576
01:28:39.159 --> 01:28:42.880
him back in two thousand and two. Happy Birthday, Lawrence Tierney,

1577
01:28:43.760 --> 01:28:46.880
Happy birthday as well to Walter Jack Gotel. He's the

1578
01:28:46.920 --> 01:28:50.439
actor who portrayed Kurt Mandel in the Next Generation first

1579
01:28:50.479 --> 01:28:54.439
season episode Home Soil. He was born in Bond, Germany,

1580
01:28:54.520 --> 01:28:56.720
and his most famous role was playing the part of

1581
01:28:56.880 --> 01:28:59.960
General Gogel, the head of the KGB, in six film

1582
01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:03.399
of the James Bond series from nineteen seventy seven to

1583
01:29:03.640 --> 01:29:07.079
nineteen eighty seven. He also played a supporting role in

1584
01:29:07.079 --> 01:29:09.479
the nineteen eighty four mini series The Scarlet and the

1585
01:29:09.600 --> 01:29:10.359
Black as the.

1586
01:29:10.600 --> 01:29:13.079
S S General Max Helm.

1587
01:29:14.359 --> 01:29:16.880
So you know, also maybe a little bit typecast during

1588
01:29:16.920 --> 01:29:19.920
his days, but he did also get to show up

1589
01:29:19.960 --> 01:29:22.079
on The X Files back in the day in the

1590
01:29:22.279 --> 01:29:25.880
season three episode The paper Clip, of Course, playing an

1591
01:29:25.960 --> 01:29:32.119
ex Nazi scientist Victor Klemper. So talented actor typecast A

1592
01:29:32.159 --> 01:29:36.560
little bit lost him back in nineteen ninety seven. Walter

1593
01:29:36.720 --> 01:29:39.640
Jack gotew would have had a birthday also on March fifteenth.

1594
01:29:39.680 --> 01:29:43.760
Happy Birthday. Happy birthday as well to Norman Stewart. He's

1595
01:29:43.800 --> 01:29:47.399
the actor who played a Vulcan culinar master in Star

1596
01:29:47.520 --> 01:29:50.720
Trek the motion picture. This film is his last known

1597
01:29:50.920 --> 01:29:54.319
on screen appearance, and he had just a couple of others.

1598
01:29:54.800 --> 01:29:57.039
In the late sixties. He was in Ice Station, Zebra

1599
01:29:57.560 --> 01:30:01.840
and Point Blank from nineteen sixty seven. He worked beside

1600
01:30:02.000 --> 01:30:07.159
on screen acting His excuse me. He worked beside his

1601
01:30:07.439 --> 01:30:11.439
on screen acting career primarily as a dialogue coach and

1602
01:30:11.600 --> 01:30:14.199
supervisor in the film business, so a lot of behind

1603
01:30:14.239 --> 01:30:18.199
the scenes stuff. Norman Stewart aged eighty nine years old

1604
01:30:18.279 --> 01:30:21.119
back in nineteen ninety eight when I had a birthday

1605
01:30:21.199 --> 01:30:25.520
on March sixteenth. Happy Birthday, Norman, Happy Birthday. As well

1606
01:30:25.640 --> 01:30:29.600
to Tig Andrews, the actor who played the Klingon Cross

1607
01:30:29.800 --> 01:30:34.119
in the TOS second season episode Friday's Child, the pre

1608
01:30:34.279 --> 01:30:37.920
bumpy Headed Klingons. Andrews had about a dozen movie roles

1609
01:30:38.000 --> 01:30:40.720
and fifty television guest appearances to his credit, but he's

1610
01:30:40.720 --> 01:30:43.920
probably best known for his Emmy Award and Golden Globe

1611
01:30:44.000 --> 01:30:47.680
nominated regular role as police Captain Adam Greer on The

1612
01:30:47.800 --> 01:30:53.159
Mod Squad, starring plenty of other star Trek folks, including

1613
01:30:53.640 --> 01:30:55.800
Clarence Williams. The third who we are going to talk

1614
01:30:55.840 --> 01:30:59.800
about in more detail in a future show. He is

1615
01:31:00.079 --> 01:31:03.760
of Syrian descent and was a graduate of the American

1616
01:31:04.000 --> 01:31:08.079
of Dramatic Arts School in New York. And his television

1617
01:31:08.159 --> 01:31:10.239
career was kind of all over the place, like I said,

1618
01:31:10.319 --> 01:31:13.359
fifty television guest star appearances, so you can actually see

1619
01:31:13.399 --> 01:31:16.000
his face show up quite a bit in shows from

1620
01:31:16.039 --> 01:31:21.199
the fifties and sixties and even into the eighties. And

1621
01:31:21.319 --> 01:31:24.920
he eventually retired in nineteen ninety after guest starring in

1622
01:31:24.960 --> 01:31:29.199
an episode of Murder. She wrote, So Tig Andrews, Happy

1623
01:31:29.239 --> 01:31:35.640
birthday to him birthday March nineteenth, nineteen twenty. Happy birthday

1624
01:31:35.640 --> 01:31:40.319
as well to Jim hagen Beggs if people know him

1625
01:31:40.359 --> 01:31:44.000
has Hagen. He was a North Irish born Canadian actor,

1626
01:31:44.119 --> 01:31:47.520
and his acting career began with the appearance as Hanson

1627
01:31:47.720 --> 01:31:52.039
in the first three season the first season episode of

1628
01:31:52.520 --> 01:31:55.239
Star Trek. He later appeared in small parts in several

1629
01:31:55.319 --> 01:32:00.960
other television series, including Poltergeist, The Legacy, Millennium and Seven Days.

1630
01:32:01.319 --> 01:32:04.279
Appeared in several movies along the way, including nineteen ninety

1631
01:32:04.319 --> 01:32:08.520
six's version of The Titanic as well. So Hagen Beggs

1632
01:32:08.960 --> 01:32:12.760
born March nineteenth, nineteen thirty seven lost back in twenty sixteen,

1633
01:32:13.399 --> 01:32:16.279
Happy Birthday to him, and last but not least on

1634
01:32:16.399 --> 01:32:19.800
my remembrance list. This week, we're remembering actress Karen Steele.

1635
01:32:20.119 --> 01:32:23.640
She's the Hawaiian born model turned actress whose career ran

1636
01:32:23.720 --> 01:32:26.600
from the early nineteen fifties to the early nineteen seventies.

1637
01:32:27.119 --> 01:32:31.039
She played Eve Mikuron in the TOS first season episode

1638
01:32:31.199 --> 01:32:35.079
MUDs Women. You probably recognize her face there. She's a

1639
01:32:35.159 --> 01:32:40.239
former cover girl and model and was one of the

1640
01:32:40.279 --> 01:32:43.800
most strikingly beautiful actresses to ever work in film and

1641
01:32:43.880 --> 01:32:47.680
television by some people's standards. She made sixteen movies, the

1642
01:32:47.720 --> 01:32:51.199
most famous of which is probably Marty from nineteen fifty five,

1643
01:32:51.680 --> 01:32:55.399
and about fifty television guest appearances, usually playing tough, hard

1644
01:32:55.479 --> 01:32:59.119
boiled characters, believe it or not. Like many actresses, as

1645
01:32:59.159 --> 01:33:02.319
she got older, she turned to television commercials for income

1646
01:33:02.760 --> 01:33:07.560
and eventually became involved in charitable causes and community service. Unfortunately,

1647
01:33:07.600 --> 01:33:10.119
we lost her to cancer back in nineteen eighty eight.

1648
01:33:10.560 --> 01:33:15.000
Her birthday is March twentieth, nineteen thirty one. Happy birthday

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01:33:15.520 --> 01:33:18.640
to actress Karen Steele. Now, you guys does it for

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01:33:18.800 --> 01:33:20.840
our remembrances this week, So I'm going to pass this

1651
01:33:21.000 --> 01:33:23.119
flaming birthday candle over to.

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01:33:23.199 --> 01:33:26.359
Charles, Thank you, Eric, I got quite a few to

1653
01:33:26.439 --> 01:33:30.600
go through. Let's start off with a Happy birthday to

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01:33:30.800 --> 01:33:35.720
Penny Johnson Gerald, actress who played Cassidy Yates and DS

1655
01:33:35.880 --> 01:33:45.680
nine and Gobora and TG's seven season episode Homeward. Jim

1656
01:33:45.880 --> 01:33:48.079
just popped in, but I guess we could still mention

1657
01:33:48.239 --> 01:33:50.800
the fact that she was in an other sci fi

1658
01:33:51.039 --> 01:33:57.960
show that we were in someone enjoying back on Fox.

1659
01:34:00.119 --> 01:34:05.239
Happy birthday to kat Sawyer, young actress who played Karina

1660
01:34:05.560 --> 01:34:09.359
in Star Trek Vages six season episode blank Of and I.

1661
01:34:11.600 --> 01:34:14.520
Havy Birthday Jacqueline Schultz, who.

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01:34:14.439 --> 01:34:20.239
Played Jessica Sloan in DS nine seven season episode Extreme Measure.

1663
01:34:23.439 --> 01:34:30.119
Happy birthday to Anna Katrina Swiss, actress who played Vendida

1664
01:34:31.159 --> 01:34:36.520
Ennis in TG's fre season episode Avon. This was her

1665
01:34:36.600 --> 01:34:41.479
first te television appearance see later. She later played a

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01:34:41.640 --> 01:34:48.520
Vulcan scientist council member in Star Trek. Happy birthday to

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01:34:49.079 --> 01:34:55.399
Abby Bremmel, actress would played Perseus in Star Trek Enterprises

1668
01:34:55.439 --> 01:35:00.119
four season episode Borderland, Cold Station twelve and Augment Yes.

1669
01:35:02.199 --> 01:35:07.039
Happy birthday to Vanessa Williams, singer and actress who played

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01:35:08.039 --> 01:35:13.119
Aaron Horndus in DS nine's fifty is an episode he

1671
01:35:13.359 --> 01:35:17.680
who Is Without Sin? Then I got left with a

1672
01:35:17.760 --> 01:35:19.039
couple of big birthdays.

1673
01:35:21.199 --> 01:35:24.479
This actor comes from Walla, Washington.

1674
01:35:25.359 --> 01:35:30.000
Best known for playing Commander Charles Tucker, the Third on

1675
01:35:30.159 --> 01:35:34.279
Star Trek Enterprise. He received two Saturn Award nominations for

1676
01:35:34.359 --> 01:35:38.119
his Academy Award in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Film

1677
01:35:38.199 --> 01:35:45.920
transformance as Tucker. A very happy birthday to Connortonier and

1678
01:35:46.119 --> 01:35:49.359
last on my list, I want to talk about this

1679
01:35:49.520 --> 01:35:54.560
guy and another show. Happy birthday and from when I

1680
01:35:54.640 --> 01:35:59.399
think I read happy birthday and Happy anniversary to John d.

1681
01:35:59.600 --> 01:36:07.279
Lands See, American actress, director, producer, writer, educator, sailor, voice, actor, artist,

1682
01:36:07.960 --> 01:36:12.640
and comedian best known for playing Q in Startup, Connect Generation,

1683
01:36:13.319 --> 01:36:16.960
Deep Space nine, Voyager, Lower Decks and Bricard.

1684
01:36:19.520 --> 01:36:20.680
So many do you wanna?

1685
01:36:21.239 --> 01:36:22.920
Do you want to hear my John Delancy story?

1686
01:36:23.479 --> 01:36:23.760
Sure?

1687
01:36:24.399 --> 01:36:26.720
Absolutely, I got to.

1688
01:36:27.000 --> 01:36:29.680
I got to pee next to him in a bathroom once.

1689
01:36:34.479 --> 01:36:37.159
Yeah, that that sounds I was to him.

1690
01:36:38.640 --> 01:36:40.279
We are now awaited and.

1691
01:36:45.119 --> 01:36:49.359
It's Eric has never washed his pants since. Never.

1692
01:36:49.840 --> 01:36:52.119
Never, Just in case there was a little Delancey splash

1693
01:36:52.199 --> 01:36:52.520
on there.

1694
01:36:55.079 --> 01:37:00.640
I've I have seen him on on panels many times.

1695
01:37:01.359 --> 01:37:05.399
I still think the most memorable panel I saw was

1696
01:37:05.560 --> 01:37:10.000
Q and Q two on stage, and those two were

1697
01:37:10.119 --> 01:37:11.920
just a funny pair to see.

1698
01:37:14.760 --> 01:37:16.720
But John had just done so much.

1699
01:37:16.880 --> 01:37:22.199
So much great work with Q. He just he got

1700
01:37:22.279 --> 01:37:23.960
that character, and I think I'm not sure if they

1701
01:37:24.039 --> 01:37:27.560
ever thought about actually playing him so many times, but

1702
01:37:27.720 --> 01:37:33.119
yet he just was over and over as an Emesis too,

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01:37:33.199 --> 01:37:40.640
Percard and the Enterprise. And definitely have very special birthday

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01:37:40.680 --> 01:37:45.119
to John. And now I'll take this flaming candle and pause,

1705
01:37:45.199 --> 01:37:46.199
pass it over to Paul.

1706
01:37:49.000 --> 01:37:52.560
Thanks Charles, appreciate it, my friend. Okay, we continue our

1707
01:37:52.680 --> 01:37:55.359
birthday celebrations for this time of the year, and let's

1708
01:37:55.399 --> 01:37:59.880
give it up for Tania Lemani, actress and dancer who

1709
01:38:00.079 --> 01:38:05.199
played Kara in the original series episode Wolf in the Fold.

1710
01:38:05.760 --> 01:38:11.119
Awesome bit of Scotty focused serial killer action there, written

1711
01:38:11.199 --> 01:38:15.439
by the great Robert Block. But Tenaya Leamani, Happy birthday

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01:38:15.520 --> 01:38:20.279
to you. Looks like you did, gets smarked amongst other

1713
01:38:20.399 --> 01:38:24.520
things there, and of course that well regarded fan film

1714
01:38:24.600 --> 01:38:28.159
star Trek of Gods and Men as well, So happy birthday,

1715
01:38:28.359 --> 01:38:31.880
very nice to see you. Happy birthday. Also to keeping

1716
01:38:31.920 --> 01:38:35.520
it in the original series lineup here friends to Leslie Parrish,

1717
01:38:36.079 --> 01:38:40.039
actress who played Carolyn Palamus in second seasons who mourns

1718
01:38:40.119 --> 01:38:43.920
for Adonis going for the Greek gods there, and you

1719
01:38:44.159 --> 01:38:48.479
can see that she was also a staple of sixty television,

1720
01:38:48.520 --> 01:38:53.840
including turns on Mannix and the Adam West Batman. You

1721
01:38:53.880 --> 01:38:57.399
can see her there with mister Freese, so one of

1722
01:38:57.439 --> 01:39:01.680
the many iterations of mister Freeze. There. So excellent resume

1723
01:39:01.840 --> 01:39:04.640
going on there and the Logan's Run the TV series.

1724
01:39:04.840 --> 01:39:06.359
A lot of people forget that there was a TV

1725
01:39:06.479 --> 01:39:09.960
series from Logan's Run, but pretty entertaining. So happy birthday

1726
01:39:10.000 --> 01:39:14.079
to you, Leslie Parrish. Let's move over to Next Gen

1727
01:39:14.199 --> 01:39:17.640
for a bit and say happy birthday to Brian Brophy.

1728
01:39:18.239 --> 01:39:22.079
Brian Brofy is the actor who portrayed the character Bruce

1729
01:39:22.319 --> 01:39:25.359
Maddox in What for My Money is probably one of

1730
01:39:25.399 --> 01:39:28.640
the all time greatest episodes of Next Gen, certainly one

1731
01:39:28.640 --> 01:39:32.159
of the best of season two. The Measure of a Man.

1732
01:39:32.640 --> 01:39:37.600
That is science fiction writing done well. It is about something,

1733
01:39:38.199 --> 01:39:42.680
and he's great because he's a very much agon and

1734
01:39:42.760 --> 01:39:45.640
antagonist you love to hate in that episode, right, but

1735
01:39:45.800 --> 01:39:47.640
by the end of it, it's like he's kind of

1736
01:39:48.159 --> 01:39:51.359
coming around and his thinking has changed somewhat because of

1737
01:39:51.439 --> 01:39:54.600
his experiences. It's really interesting performance and he did a

1738
01:39:55.159 --> 01:39:58.680
remarkable job there, so really really great. He's also able

1739
01:39:58.720 --> 01:40:02.159
to say that he's got the Shawshank redemption on his

1740
01:40:02.319 --> 01:40:04.560
list of credits, which is a pretty spectacular thing to

1741
01:40:04.640 --> 01:40:08.199
be able to say. So, Brian Brophy, we salute you, sir.

1742
01:40:09.600 --> 01:40:12.239
Let's keep in Next Gen forbid and say happy birthday

1743
01:40:12.319 --> 01:40:18.159
to actor, playwright, and screenwriter Robert shankin Okay, very Cool,

1744
01:40:18.680 --> 01:40:22.880
who played Lieutenant Commander Remick in the Next Generation first

1745
01:40:22.920 --> 01:40:30.199
season episodes Coming of Age and that classic pulpy episode

1746
01:40:30.279 --> 01:40:33.920
that I think still demands a sequel. Right a Conspiracy,

1747
01:40:34.119 --> 01:40:37.760
I think is a terrific underrated episode, super over the

1748
01:40:37.880 --> 01:40:40.039
top with special effects. But I always thought that I

1749
01:40:40.039 --> 01:40:44.399
would love to see them do with this episode in

1750
01:40:44.520 --> 01:40:48.279
the feature film universe, what Wrath of Khan did with

1751
01:40:48.359 --> 01:40:51.039
Space Seed, right, because it ended on a really interesting

1752
01:40:51.159 --> 01:40:53.800
note and it never was resolved. I've never seen anyone

1753
01:40:53.880 --> 01:40:56.800
deal with what happened, but the intimation is that someday

1754
01:40:57.119 --> 01:40:59.960
it might happen, and I think a good screenwriter could

1755
01:41:00.000 --> 01:41:03.239
find something fun to do with that. So very cool,

1756
01:41:03.560 --> 01:41:06.680
boy does a Commander Lieutenant Commander Remitt.

1757
01:41:06.760 --> 01:41:06.800
Go.

1758
01:41:08.000 --> 01:41:09.520
What an exit that character made.

1759
01:41:09.640 --> 01:41:09.760
Man.

1760
01:41:09.880 --> 01:41:10.800
So if you don't know what I'm.

1761
01:41:10.600 --> 01:41:16.880
Talking about, yeah, make good everybody else, Like I was

1762
01:41:16.920 --> 01:41:19.720
gonna say, the most violent moment in all of Star Trek.

1763
01:41:20.720 --> 01:41:23.039
Yeah, and it makes a good segue to somebody else.

1764
01:41:23.039 --> 01:41:24.520
I'm gonna do a happy birthday on here in a

1765
01:41:24.600 --> 01:41:27.640
minute too. So well, who could I be talking about?

1766
01:41:28.439 --> 01:41:30.960
But before we get to that, let's uh somebody who

1767
01:41:31.079 --> 01:41:32.960
has never been in Star Trek before, but it is

1768
01:41:33.000 --> 01:41:35.039
about to discover what it's like to be a Star

1769
01:41:35.119 --> 01:41:38.319
Trek luminary from which there was no escape. And we

1770
01:41:38.399 --> 01:41:44.880
are talking about the great Holly Hunter. Okay, absolutely spectacular performer.

1771
01:41:45.800 --> 01:41:47.720
I just about blue a gasket when I heard that

1772
01:41:47.840 --> 01:41:51.159
she had been cast as the Chancellor in the new

1773
01:41:51.560 --> 01:41:56.760
starf Starfleet Academy series, which is amazing, so really really

1774
01:41:56.840 --> 01:42:02.279
cool news there. She's got serious acting chops, hardcore just

1775
01:42:02.439 --> 01:42:05.600
done if you she can do you know, extreme drama,

1776
01:42:06.359 --> 01:42:10.600
and she can do phenomenal comedy. I think Raising Arizona

1777
01:42:10.760 --> 01:42:12.840
was the first thing I remember seeing Olly Hunder and

1778
01:42:12.960 --> 01:42:17.960
she's just dynamite, really really great. I don't understand why

1779
01:42:18.000 --> 01:42:21.920
they never cast her to play Laris starling in subsequent

1780
01:42:22.000 --> 01:42:24.960
Hannibal Lecture movies, because she's like, you know, ready to go.

1781
01:42:25.159 --> 01:42:26.840
I mean, she's she's perfect.

1782
01:42:27.720 --> 01:42:28.880
Her voice all day long.

1783
01:42:29.000 --> 01:42:31.720
Yeah, I don't know, she's really cool. I love the

1784
01:42:31.800 --> 01:42:34.439
idea that she's going to be the chancellor of the Academy,

1785
01:42:34.520 --> 01:42:38.600
so she's you know, definitely, the fact that they're recruiting

1786
01:42:38.680 --> 01:42:41.119
her for that show has crossed for optimism, so we

1787
01:42:41.199 --> 01:42:42.800
get a waiting year. It sounds like to see it,

1788
01:42:42.920 --> 01:42:46.920
but super excited for it. Phenomenal talent. We salute you,

1789
01:42:47.000 --> 01:42:50.800
Holly Hutter, and welcome to the Star Trek universe. And

1790
01:42:51.279 --> 01:42:55.880
speaking of folks who've got great creds who just like

1791
01:42:56.159 --> 01:42:57.720
you know, I mean, you could sit here and just

1792
01:42:57.800 --> 01:43:00.840
do a whole show about them. Big fan of the

1793
01:43:01.000 --> 01:43:06.039
legendary Brad Dorriff, Okay, who were acknowledging for his work

1794
01:43:06.319 --> 01:43:10.520
on Voyager second and thursdayson episodes Meld Basics Part one

1795
01:43:10.560 --> 01:43:13.039
and Basics Part two where he played lawn suitor in

1796
01:43:13.199 --> 01:43:16.079
those episodes. There. But if you don't know who Brad

1797
01:43:16.159 --> 01:43:19.199
Dorriff is, where the hell have you been? I mean,

1798
01:43:19.359 --> 01:43:23.319
my god, Grima worm tongue in Lord of the Rings

1799
01:43:23.640 --> 01:43:26.399
I mean my god. He was Bit on The X Files,

1800
01:43:26.439 --> 01:43:31.000
he's the voice of Chucky. He was in with Nicholson

1801
01:43:31.039 --> 01:43:32.760
and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He was on

1802
01:43:32.840 --> 01:43:36.079
Babylon Five, he was in David Lynch's Dune. I mean,

1803
01:43:36.159 --> 01:43:42.399
my god. This guy's got such credits. Phenomenal, phenomenal performer,

1804
01:43:44.359 --> 01:43:48.399
very much married to genre work. Does a huge amount

1805
01:43:48.399 --> 01:43:51.880
of genre work, right, science fiction and horror, but just

1806
01:43:52.000 --> 01:43:54.680
very prolific and very talented, and just if he's one

1807
01:43:54.680 --> 01:43:56.640
of those folks that if he's in it, you know

1808
01:43:56.720 --> 01:43:58.079
he's going to show up and he's going to do

1809
01:43:58.159 --> 01:44:01.079
good work. So we salute you, Brad Dorff. You're an

1810
01:44:01.119 --> 01:44:03.680
incredible performer, and it's great that you're in the Star

1811
01:44:03.720 --> 01:44:07.119
Trek universe. Do more. Why is he not? Hey? Strange

1812
01:44:07.159 --> 01:44:10.760
New World's casting directors cast this guy put him in

1813
01:44:10.840 --> 01:44:12.880
something on the show so we can see him again, right,

1814
01:44:12.960 --> 01:44:15.920
because we miss having you in Star Trek. You know,

1815
01:44:16.199 --> 01:44:19.279
we really really do. Boys is a long time ago.

1816
01:44:19.560 --> 01:44:22.039
I mean, Boyger maybe coming back in some new iteration.

1817
01:44:22.159 --> 01:44:24.319
We don't know, but I would love to see Brad

1818
01:44:24.359 --> 01:44:29.479
Dorff and something else. A great guy. And finally, for me, Wow.

1819
01:44:29.680 --> 01:44:31.560
I never it never occurred to me that this would

1820
01:44:31.600 --> 01:44:33.279
be a cat that we're talking about being part of

1821
01:44:33.319 --> 01:44:35.920
Star Trek. I mean it, I just shook my head,

1822
01:44:36.000 --> 01:44:37.680
right because for a while, we're like, oh, you know,

1823
01:44:38.079 --> 01:44:39.800
these different people that you think you're gonna, you know,

1824
01:44:40.319 --> 01:44:42.159
maybe be part of Star Trek, you know, like Quentin

1825
01:44:42.199 --> 01:44:45.600
Tarantino type thing. But when I turned on Star Trek

1826
01:44:45.680 --> 01:44:47.720
and I saw that, oh my god, in an acting

1827
01:44:47.840 --> 01:44:53.000
role they had cast legendary director David Cronenberg, I just

1828
01:44:53.039 --> 01:44:56.439
could not believe what was going on. Blew my mind

1829
01:44:56.560 --> 01:44:59.920
because this cat, I mean people talk about about direct

1830
01:45:00.159 --> 01:45:02.720
is with the unique vision that is just kind of

1831
01:45:02.920 --> 01:45:07.239
beyond where regular Hollywood is. David Lynch comes to mind,

1832
01:45:07.279 --> 01:45:10.520
because we just lost David Lynch recently, but there's very

1833
01:45:10.560 --> 01:45:14.000
few directors who live in that ethereal firmament, and David

1834
01:45:14.079 --> 01:45:18.520
Cronenberg is one of them. Okay, I mean absolutely phenomenal.

1835
01:45:19.199 --> 01:45:23.039
Now we're here to acknowledge him for being an actor

1836
01:45:24.399 --> 01:45:28.840
in playing the character of Kovich in through third, fourth,

1837
01:45:28.880 --> 01:45:32.520
and fifth seasons of Discovery right the Mysterious Operative. You

1838
01:45:32.600 --> 01:45:34.600
don't really learn who he is until the very very

1839
01:45:34.760 --> 01:45:37.800
end of the series, but it was a really interesting portrayal.

1840
01:45:38.880 --> 01:45:39.000
Right.

1841
01:45:39.119 --> 01:45:43.119
He fit in beautifully in that future star Trek Timeline,

1842
01:45:43.159 --> 01:45:46.479
I thought, because he is very otherworldly. David Cronenberg, right,

1843
01:45:46.840 --> 01:45:51.760
Canadian director, screenwriter and sometimes actor. My god, if you

1844
01:45:51.800 --> 01:45:54.000
don't know David Cronenberg, you're merely missing out if you

1845
01:45:54.119 --> 01:45:56.159
only know him from this and you've never seen his films.

1846
01:45:56.239 --> 01:45:59.520
I mean, going back into the seventies, this guy just

1847
01:45:59.600 --> 01:46:02.560
did an an amazing body of work, pictures like Rabbit

1848
01:46:03.000 --> 01:46:07.000
the Brood and of course, going back to the conspiracy reference,

1849
01:46:07.079 --> 01:46:10.840
we're talking about Scanners, right, because that character met with

1850
01:46:10.920 --> 01:46:16.039
a very serious scanner's demise. Videodrome The Dead Zone, for

1851
01:46:16.159 --> 01:46:18.239
my money, one of the best Stephen King adaptations of

1852
01:46:18.319 --> 01:46:23.239
all time, right, The Fly with Jeff Goldblum. I mean,

1853
01:46:23.439 --> 01:46:26.840
this cat just is in everything, right. I mean, he's

1854
01:46:26.920 --> 01:46:31.560
just a really great visionary director, plays you know, to

1855
01:46:31.680 --> 01:46:36.199
his own drummer, right, not necessarily somebody who like pulls

1856
01:46:36.279 --> 01:46:39.399
back and let's make it more commercial. You know, Cronenberg

1857
01:46:39.560 --> 01:46:41.920
drives totally off road, right and goes his own way

1858
01:46:42.439 --> 01:46:44.560
and sees things that no one else sees. So it's

1859
01:46:44.560 --> 01:46:47.600
a real treat to have David Cronenberg showing up on

1860
01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:50.600
an episode of Star Trek. Will we see him again?

1861
01:46:51.079 --> 01:46:53.840
Anything's possible. I mean, you know, you have to sort

1862
01:46:53.840 --> 01:46:58.920
of from the amount of casting ven diagrams we're seeing

1863
01:46:59.000 --> 01:47:03.399
with Starfleet Academy, We're seeing a lot of Discovery characters

1864
01:47:03.520 --> 01:47:08.399
pop over there on Starfleet Academy from Discovery, So who knows,

1865
01:47:08.600 --> 01:47:11.640
maybe we'll see some iteration of this character there again.

1866
01:47:12.359 --> 01:47:14.199
If they can get him, they'd be crazy not to

1867
01:47:14.560 --> 01:47:17.800
that'd be my advice. So you're a legend, David Cronenberg,

1868
01:47:17.880 --> 01:47:21.319
and your vision is just unsurpassed. So great to be

1869
01:47:21.359 --> 01:47:23.720
able to acknowledge you, and it's exciting that you're part

1870
01:47:23.760 --> 01:47:26.159
of Star Trek. So happy birthday to all of our

1871
01:47:26.840 --> 01:47:30.960
March celebrants. And I'm going to pass this sucker over

1872
01:47:31.039 --> 01:47:32.680
to uncle Jim Well.

1873
01:47:32.680 --> 01:47:35.279
I thank you so much, Paul. And just to remind everybody,

1874
01:47:36.199 --> 01:47:41.039
Coovich was actually Daniels from Star Trek Enterprise. So he's

1875
01:47:41.079 --> 01:47:44.439
been hanging out. Yeah, he's been hanging out on Enterprise.

1876
01:47:44.880 --> 01:47:47.359
What's the incentive to watch the show now, Jim, geez.

1877
01:47:47.159 --> 01:47:48.479
For how long it's all over?

1878
01:47:48.680 --> 01:47:52.600
I mean, I think he's been on every single Enterprise

1879
01:47:52.680 --> 01:47:56.800
since Enterprise was Enterprise. So he's been around a long time,

1880
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so we might see him again. Anyways, I've got lingons,

1881
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Klingons and klingons. Does that shock you, guys? Bet? Because

1882
01:48:05.159 --> 01:48:09.520
everyone wants to touch my batlet, so particularly this first klingon.

1883
01:48:10.159 --> 01:48:10.279
Uh.

1884
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We want to say happy birthday and called lah to

1885
01:48:15.159 --> 01:48:18.880
Faith Minton. And she was a stunt actress who appears

1886
01:48:19.000 --> 01:48:23.439
as the female lustful Klingon in the TNG first season

1887
01:48:23.520 --> 01:48:25.760
episode Hide and que And there she is right there,

1888
01:48:26.279 --> 01:48:29.199
crawling around on the floor in her little body suit warf,

1889
01:48:29.239 --> 01:48:32.039
beating the crap out of her the whole nine yards.

1890
01:48:32.079 --> 01:48:34.880
I mean, uh, she was the first female Klingon we

1891
01:48:34.960 --> 01:48:38.399
see on TNG, and uh, there she is. It's a

1892
01:48:38.560 --> 01:48:43.439
lustful cling On. Happy birthday to Faith Milton. We also

1893
01:48:43.520 --> 01:48:47.159
want to say happy birthday to Granville Van Dunson, who

1894
01:48:47.239 --> 01:48:50.319
played the Klingon magistrate and Star Trek Enterprise second season

1895
01:48:50.399 --> 01:48:54.239
episode Judgment and the Andrian general in the third season

1896
01:48:54.319 --> 01:48:57.720
episode The Proving Ground. And there there he is, in

1897
01:48:57.800 --> 01:49:00.399
all of his glory with his electric ball all there

1898
01:49:00.479 --> 01:49:03.199
and his little tentacles waving around. Happy.

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01:49:03.520 --> 01:49:05.520
I think that's your next uh, that's your next thing.

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Now that you've got the battleft, you need the klingon

1901
01:49:07.840 --> 01:49:11.880
gavel man on the table and have it spark every

1902
01:49:11.920 --> 01:49:13.000
time it spark.

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01:49:13.039 --> 01:49:16.319
I think you're right. And uh yeah, And actually that

1904
01:49:16.439 --> 01:49:20.960
episode Judgment was a phenomenal episode. And oddly enough, my

1905
01:49:21.159 --> 01:49:26.560
next klingon was in that episode. Uh, this particular cling on.

1906
01:49:27.119 --> 01:49:29.359
This guy has been more than a klingon, but I

1907
01:49:29.560 --> 01:49:33.199
think he's best known as a one, a klingon that

1908
01:49:33.319 --> 01:49:38.680
most people don't see eye to eye with for a

1909
01:49:38.720 --> 01:49:42.880
good one. So we want to say happy birthday and

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01:49:44.159 --> 01:49:47.680
to the one and only J. G. Hertzler. He's an

1911
01:49:47.680 --> 01:49:51.239
actor from Savannah, Georgia. He's one of only five actors

1912
01:49:51.279 --> 01:49:54.760
to play seven or more different characters in the Star

1913
01:49:54.880 --> 01:49:59.119
Trek franchise. But he's best known as playing General Martok

1914
01:49:59.640 --> 01:50:04.279
Force season of Star Trek Deep Space nine, and he

1915
01:50:04.439 --> 01:50:08.239
played He also played in uh Judgment. He was the

1916
01:50:08.439 --> 01:50:14.199
defending Klingon of Archer in that episode, which I think

1917
01:50:14.279 --> 01:50:19.119
is one of enterprises hot episodes if you haven't seen it, Judgment.

1918
01:50:19.600 --> 01:50:25.439
So happy birthday to JG. Hertzler and Jim that that

1919
01:50:25.560 --> 01:50:26.319
wraps up our.

1920
01:50:26.239 --> 01:50:31.720
Bert before you continue. One thing to remember, just be

1921
01:50:31.880 --> 01:50:36.239
careful getting him on a podcast, especially with another fellow

1922
01:50:36.319 --> 01:50:38.520
kling on, because.

1923
01:50:38.840 --> 01:50:43.119
Nobody's going to get a word in edge wise, no

1924
01:50:43.279 --> 01:50:44.399
think we talked for an hour.

1925
01:50:45.680 --> 01:50:49.920
No now, Robert O'Reilly and j G Hertzler pretty much

1926
01:50:50.159 --> 01:50:56.600
hijacked the podcast for a whole hour, a whole hour

1927
01:50:56.920 --> 01:50:59.680
in fact, funny story about j G. I got the

1928
01:50:59.800 --> 01:51:03.880
hell channel. He just went on and on. I got

1929
01:51:03.960 --> 01:51:06.880
to host his panel at Treuk Long Island at their

1930
01:51:06.920 --> 01:51:11.560
first convention, and he hijacked the whole show and talked

1931
01:51:11.560 --> 01:51:15.760
about gun control and some highway that runs through Scotland

1932
01:51:16.239 --> 01:51:18.680
and I just kind of sat there and couldn't get

1933
01:51:18.680 --> 01:51:22.119
a word in at all because he just went off

1934
01:51:22.159 --> 01:51:24.880
on a tangent. That's what JAG likes to do. So

1935
01:51:25.000 --> 01:51:28.039
happy birthday. And what's not on this list is he

1936
01:51:28.199 --> 01:51:33.239
was also on lower decks. So happy birthday. And now

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it's time for our star Trek news.

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Priority one message from Starfleet coming in on secured channel.

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Incoming transmission enter authorization code command codes verified.

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Define parameters of program.

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Level nine authorization required.

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Specifying parameters, Transfer updata is complete.

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01:51:58.800 --> 01:52:04.000
Alert All right, Eric, you get to start us off

1944
01:52:04.039 --> 01:52:05.760
with our first news story of the evening.

1945
01:52:06.680 --> 01:52:08.600
I'm so excited about this one, Jim, and I know

1946
01:52:08.800 --> 01:52:11.319
Charles is too, as we are both lovers of audio

1947
01:52:11.399 --> 01:52:15.359
books and audio dramas, and I'm pretty sure we all

1948
01:52:15.439 --> 01:52:20.279
love the character of Khan. Naveen Andrews Andren Schmidt were

1949
01:52:20.439 --> 01:52:25.119
cast in Star Trek Khan. Production has wrapped on recording

1950
01:52:25.239 --> 01:52:29.199
for the previously announced Star Trek Khan, an all new

1951
01:52:29.279 --> 01:52:33.560
scripted audio series expanding the Star Trek Universe. Star Trek Cohn.

1952
01:52:34.039 --> 01:52:38.119
Lead voice cast includes Navin Andrews from Lost as the

1953
01:52:38.399 --> 01:52:42.199
iconic khn and Ren Schmidt from For All Mankind as

1954
01:52:42.399 --> 01:52:45.960
Marlon mcgivers. The exciting expansion of the Star Trek universe

1955
01:52:46.000 --> 01:52:49.239
will explore the dramatic, untold events that unfolded in the

1956
01:52:49.359 --> 01:52:54.079
desolate world of SETI Alpha five after Captain Kirk marooned

1957
01:52:54.239 --> 01:52:58.000
Khan and his followers there, paving the way for the

1958
01:52:58.279 --> 01:52:59.720
iconic clash in Star Trek.

1959
01:53:00.680 --> 01:53:01.479
The Wrath of Khan.

1960
01:53:02.159 --> 01:53:05.239
Star Trek Khan will be available for streaming on all

1961
01:53:05.439 --> 01:53:10.079
major podcast platforms later this year. History remembers con Noonian

1962
01:53:10.119 --> 01:53:12.760
seeing as a villain, the product of a failed attempt

1963
01:53:12.800 --> 01:53:16.439
to perfect humanity through genetic engineering, whose quest to avenge

1964
01:53:16.520 --> 01:53:20.920
himself on Admiral James T. Kirk led to unimaginable tragedy

1965
01:53:21.000 --> 01:53:24.079
and loss, But the truth has been buried for too

1966
01:53:24.199 --> 01:53:27.319
long beneath the sands of SETI Alpha vive. How did

1967
01:53:27.399 --> 01:53:31.680
Con go from a beneficent beneficent is that a word

1968
01:53:32.479 --> 01:53:36.520
tyrant and superhuman visionary with a new world at his fingertips?

1969
01:53:36.560 --> 01:53:40.720
To the monster that we all know so well recently unearthed?

1970
01:53:41.119 --> 01:53:43.920
The rest of CON's story will finally be told in

1971
01:53:44.039 --> 01:53:48.000
Star Trek Khan. In this highly anticipated audio series, Navin

1972
01:53:48.039 --> 01:53:50.880
Andrews takes on the role of the iconic villain Khan,

1973
01:53:51.520 --> 01:53:55.199
exploring his complex psyche and the depths of his anger, ambition,

1974
01:53:55.720 --> 01:53:59.600
and pain. Alongside him, Ren Schmidt is set to play

1975
01:53:59.680 --> 01:54:03.520
luten At Marlon mcgivers, a former Starfleet historian who followed

1976
01:54:03.600 --> 01:54:07.840
Con into exile on SETI Alpha five. Additional cast will

1977
01:54:07.880 --> 01:54:10.920
be announced at a later date. In this highly anticipated

1978
01:54:10.920 --> 01:54:13.760
audio series, Oh this is a repeat here Da da

1979
01:54:13.840 --> 01:54:16.439
da da da. So we're all very excited about this.

1980
01:54:16.560 --> 01:54:20.760
Star Trek Con is produced by CBS's I podcast Productions, Inc.

1981
01:54:21.239 --> 01:54:27.000
CBS Studios Podcasting, Arm Secret Hideout, and Roden Berry Entertainment.

1982
01:54:28.039 --> 01:54:28.279
Wow.

1983
01:54:28.680 --> 01:54:31.560
Yeah, I'm super excited about this. I was a big fan,

1984
01:54:31.760 --> 01:54:33.399
of course, not only of CON, but they made some

1985
01:54:33.479 --> 01:54:36.600
great comics back in the day. Con Ruling in Hell

1986
01:54:36.760 --> 01:54:39.279
in particular is one of my favorites. That takes place

1987
01:54:39.359 --> 01:54:42.319
on SETI Alpha five, which I'm hoping is where they're

1988
01:54:42.359 --> 01:54:44.800
grabbing some of this stuff for this audio drama from,

1989
01:54:44.920 --> 01:54:48.159
because I think there was some really interesting interactions, particularly

1990
01:54:48.199 --> 01:54:51.000
between Marlon mcgivers and Con, that were explored in that

1991
01:54:51.319 --> 01:54:54.399
comic book. Can't wait to listen to it, really can't.

1992
01:54:54.640 --> 01:54:56.760
So you gotta get We gotta get those two on

1993
01:54:56.840 --> 01:55:02.960
the show. That would be a Smith's for all mankind. Right,

1994
01:55:03.119 --> 01:55:05.399
She's amazing, she's a serious.

1995
01:55:05.760 --> 01:55:08.399
That show is so good, and her character on that

1996
01:55:08.560 --> 01:55:12.319
show is so like together and Thevine's great.

1997
01:55:12.359 --> 01:55:13.920
Yeah. I mean, if we could get them both to

1998
01:55:14.079 --> 01:55:15.880
promote the show, get them on here and let them

1999
01:55:15.920 --> 01:55:18.279
know we're you know, more interested in like audio because

2000
01:55:18.279 --> 01:55:22.279
we're podcast right, so you know that, that would be phenomenal.

2001
01:55:22.520 --> 01:55:24.720
I would be maybe we can get access to hearing

2002
01:55:24.760 --> 01:55:29.439
them somehow before they drop or something. But that's a

2003
01:55:29.560 --> 01:55:31.720
that's a that sounds really promising.

2004
01:55:32.520 --> 01:55:38.880
Let's make it happen, all right. Our next story is Kurt,

2005
01:55:38.960 --> 01:55:39.760
Thanks thanks, Jim.

2006
01:55:39.960 --> 01:55:42.640
We have faith in you. So, Paul, what do you

2007
01:55:42.680 --> 01:55:43.520
want to share with us now?

2008
01:55:43.920 --> 01:55:46.520
Well, you know, I kind of am slightly addicted to

2009
01:55:47.399 --> 01:55:51.079
small pieces of plastic in one form or another. So

2010
01:55:51.439 --> 01:55:53.920
you know, I gotta, I gotta do my toy segment

2011
01:55:54.000 --> 01:55:56.520
if I can. So let's talk about We just recently

2012
01:55:56.560 --> 01:55:59.239
had a special show where we chatted it up with

2013
01:55:59.640 --> 01:56:05.199
the Ben Robinson from Master Replicas. Right, and man never sleeps.

2014
01:56:05.279 --> 01:56:05.399
Right.

2015
01:56:05.520 --> 01:56:08.920
So, Master Replicas and Paramount are collaborating on a brand

2016
01:56:09.000 --> 01:56:13.479
new Star Trek collection. Right. Master Replicas has the license

2017
01:56:13.520 --> 01:56:16.680
from Paramount Consumer Products, and they've announced something called the

2018
01:56:16.760 --> 01:56:21.439
Star Trek Starship's Library. Okay, it's a new series of

2019
01:56:21.520 --> 01:56:25.359
reference books that comes each book with a four to

2020
01:56:25.479 --> 01:56:29.479
five inch long modelship and the collection launches this coming

2021
01:56:29.640 --> 01:56:32.880
July this summer. Pre orders you can jump on there

2022
01:56:32.960 --> 01:56:38.479
right now and secure your first editions of these. This

2023
01:56:38.640 --> 01:56:41.399
series is going to provide collectors with an in depth

2024
01:56:41.760 --> 01:56:44.720
reference book to some of the most iconic historic Star

2025
01:56:44.800 --> 01:56:48.439
Trek ships, while also offering us the opportunity to build

2026
01:56:48.920 --> 01:56:51.680
to hold the models accompanying them, you know, up in

2027
01:56:51.760 --> 01:56:53.680
your hands and look at them in the tactile way.

2028
01:56:54.560 --> 01:56:59.920
They've made palm sized models back when Master Replicas was Eagle,

2029
01:57:00.399 --> 01:57:03.600
so this is not their first time doing this quality.

2030
01:57:04.800 --> 01:57:07.399
Come on, let's see visual there, Eric, there you go, Yeah,

2031
01:57:07.479 --> 01:57:09.479
there we go in a price See if I'm met

2032
01:57:09.760 --> 01:57:13.359
squinting correctly? Right, The quality is really good on these, right,

2033
01:57:13.399 --> 01:57:16.079
they're very very you know, some die cast and abs

2034
01:57:16.119 --> 01:57:19.439
plastic together they work really really well. So they're great,

2035
01:57:20.199 --> 01:57:22.479
about four or five inches long depending on the ship.

2036
01:57:22.560 --> 01:57:26.319
Right there, die cast metal and resin they've been made with.

2037
01:57:26.840 --> 01:57:29.439
And this is the nice thing about Ben Robinson, right

2038
01:57:29.520 --> 01:57:32.600
as he insists on careful reverence to the original visual

2039
01:57:32.640 --> 01:57:36.359
effects models from the shows, and then they're very well

2040
01:57:36.439 --> 01:57:39.000
painted to be as accurate as possible. Right, not a

2041
01:57:39.079 --> 01:57:42.720
lot of QC issues there. Each model is going to

2042
01:57:42.720 --> 01:57:45.640
come with a specially designed stand, as Eric just demonstrated,

2043
01:57:45.680 --> 01:57:47.760
that can be combined with the book to create a display.

2044
01:57:48.800 --> 01:57:51.279
The books will cover each ship in detail, with annotated

2045
01:57:51.359 --> 01:57:55.560
plan views of the exterior and in service, history of

2046
01:57:55.600 --> 01:57:57.640
their place in the Star Trek universe, and behind the

2047
01:57:57.640 --> 01:58:00.760
scenes account of the ship's appearances in the franchise, along

2048
01:58:00.800 --> 01:58:03.319
with information about how and why it was created, with

2049
01:58:03.600 --> 01:58:08.000
new interviews with the creators. So here's the first three

2050
01:58:08.039 --> 01:58:11.600
books and models that accompany them that will be released

2051
01:58:11.720 --> 01:58:17.479
this coming summer shipping before July. Fingers crossed of course,

2052
01:58:17.760 --> 01:58:21.119
the USS Enterprise and CC one seven O one, but

2053
01:58:21.239 --> 01:58:23.720
it's the strange New World's version as we see right

2054
01:58:23.800 --> 01:58:27.640
here right, so a little bit more of the heavy

2055
01:58:28.279 --> 01:58:32.439
gray aesthetic to it, but really really cool. The USS

2056
01:58:32.600 --> 01:58:36.279
Cerritos from lower decks. I don't know that they've done

2057
01:58:36.319 --> 01:58:38.760
a Cerritos in this scale.

2058
01:58:38.880 --> 01:58:43.039
Actually they didn't excel They did not in the smaller scales.

2059
01:58:44.359 --> 01:58:46.479
Yeah, it's those Excels. They take up a lot of

2060
01:58:46.520 --> 01:58:50.039
space quick man. I'm like, they really do. They're beautiful though.

2061
01:58:50.119 --> 01:58:55.520
It's so great. And then the USS Discovery from the

2062
01:58:55.600 --> 01:58:59.960
Discovery series earlier seasons one and two version there as well,

2063
01:59:00.119 --> 01:59:03.359
which of course is my fave. So that's fantastic. And

2064
01:59:03.439 --> 01:59:07.319
then every quarter more ships will follow. Darren Epstein the

2065
01:59:07.920 --> 01:59:11.840
EVP over their Global Master replicas. Lets us know that

2066
01:59:11.920 --> 01:59:14.399
they are thrilled to continue their journey with Star Trek,

2067
01:59:14.840 --> 01:59:16.760
bringing a range of ships with books to market that

2068
01:59:16.840 --> 01:59:18.960
we know will really resonate with fans who love this

2069
01:59:19.239 --> 01:59:22.760
franchise of who that is all of us yes, so

2070
01:59:23.039 --> 01:59:25.079
good stuff, and you know, you have a lot of

2071
01:59:25.119 --> 01:59:28.479
swag coming out every year. But I feel pretty solid

2072
01:59:28.800 --> 01:59:31.640
recommending pretty much anything. Master replicas twist their stamp on.

2073
01:59:31.760 --> 01:59:36.560
They're doing things like the cards Ta Glass right now,

2074
01:59:36.680 --> 01:59:40.880
you can get you can get like the original series era,

2075
01:59:41.159 --> 01:59:44.039
like styrofoam coffee cup, like from Trouble with Troubles right.

2076
01:59:44.079 --> 01:59:45.479
I mean, they do a lot of good stuff and

2077
01:59:45.560 --> 01:59:48.960
it's very they're filthy to the source. Material is always

2078
01:59:48.960 --> 01:59:52.119
really high. So that's pretty exciting. And that's it for

2079
01:59:52.199 --> 01:59:55.199
that update. So that carries us out so pretty cool.

2080
01:59:59.319 --> 02:00:03.039
Tims muted, No, I was my my my dog is here,

2081
02:00:03.159 --> 02:00:06.159
Les here barking and akin. So we don't want to

2082
02:00:06.199 --> 02:00:10.680
hear that, do we? Definitely not? Well, guys, what did

2083
02:00:10.680 --> 02:00:12.720
you think about Andy Bray checking in with check Off?

2084
02:00:18.760 --> 02:00:21.640
His ability to sort of vamp and be funny for

2085
02:00:21.760 --> 02:00:23.720
long periods of time always amazes me.

2086
02:00:24.199 --> 02:00:26.319
I just wish he had a little more energy. You know,

2087
02:00:26.520 --> 02:00:30.880
he's just very sick. He did.

2088
02:00:31.000 --> 02:00:32.720
I think my laptop would just melt.

2089
02:00:33.760 --> 02:00:36.880
Yeah, it's like it's like a human cartoon man. It's

2090
02:00:37.000 --> 02:00:42.399
just great. Yeah, it's just you know, he's he's got

2091
02:00:42.479 --> 02:00:45.760
such reverence for everything. Right, He's like really knows the material.

2092
02:00:46.000 --> 02:00:48.359
You just think it. You know, he's an idea factory, right,

2093
02:00:48.439 --> 02:00:51.319
and he's got all this great stuff. Uh yeah, he's

2094
02:00:51.319 --> 02:00:53.920
a really good guest tonight. Really fun to talk to him.

2095
02:00:54.319 --> 02:00:56.439
I think he does if they haven't had the opportunity

2096
02:00:56.520 --> 02:01:00.479
to read that reading Fake Star Trek or eating Making

2097
02:01:00.520 --> 02:01:04.039
Fake Star Trek book yet, I recommend that to all

2098
02:01:04.279 --> 02:01:07.000
Star Trek fans because what you get is you get

2099
02:01:07.079 --> 02:01:10.840
like a fans perspective on what it's like to suddenly

2100
02:01:10.960 --> 02:01:15.560
be thrust into the maw of real Star Trek stuff,

2101
02:01:15.800 --> 02:01:18.279
and like kind of how he talked tonight about how

2102
02:01:18.319 --> 02:01:21.039
overwhelming that can sometimes be and how he just kind

2103
02:01:21.079 --> 02:01:22.840
of like has these moments of being a deer in

2104
02:01:22.880 --> 02:01:25.399
the headlights. I think that book kind of explores that

2105
02:01:25.600 --> 02:01:29.439
just a little bit more. It's really a great book, absolutely.

2106
02:01:30.279 --> 02:01:32.720
So I want to let you guys know that next

2107
02:01:32.800 --> 02:01:35.000
week we're going to be doing the first of our

2108
02:01:35.199 --> 02:01:41.039
retro flashbacks, and Eric, being our resident Voyager specialist, has

2109
02:01:41.159 --> 02:01:43.520
chosen one of his favorite Voyager episodes. We're going to

2110
02:01:43.520 --> 02:01:46.000
go back and take a look at Message in a Bottle.

2111
02:01:46.560 --> 02:01:48.960
So that'll be next week. I want to take an

2112
02:01:48.960 --> 02:01:51.680
opportunity to say thank you not only to Andy Bray

2113
02:01:51.760 --> 02:01:54.640
for sharing the Gorn video with us, but for joining

2114
02:01:54.720 --> 02:01:56.960
us as well. So thank you very much to Andy.

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And I also want to say thank you to Eric

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for hanging out in trek talking with us tonight. Thank

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02:02:00.720 --> 02:02:01.319
you so much.

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Eric.

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Absolutely a blast as always, guys.

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And of course thank you to Charles Palm Trees and

2121
02:02:07.560 --> 02:02:10.399
all for hanging out with us. Thank you, Charles. Thank you.

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02:02:10.600 --> 02:02:12.800
Always a fun show and we get Andy on there,

2123
02:02:12.840 --> 02:02:17.600
it's even better. Yeah, stay in my seat and not

2124
02:02:17.800 --> 02:02:18.960
roll on the floor laughing.

2125
02:02:21.439 --> 02:02:22.880
I almost did a couple of times.

2126
02:02:23.560 --> 02:02:23.720
Yea.

2127
02:02:24.399 --> 02:02:26.920
And of course thank you to David, our miracle worker

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02:02:27.000 --> 02:02:31.000
for the great, great, great visual effects that we see

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02:02:31.039 --> 02:02:32.439
on the show tonight. Thank you David.

2130
02:02:32.880 --> 02:02:33.359
You're welcome.

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02:02:33.399 --> 02:02:35.439
It's been really fun. I had a lot of fun

2132
02:02:35.479 --> 02:02:39.000
talking to Andy and trying not to mess up on

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02:02:39.159 --> 02:02:40.479
the slideshow show.

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02:02:40.520 --> 02:02:41.239
But it was great.

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02:02:42.319 --> 02:02:44.840
Nope, you did a great job as always. And last,

2136
02:02:44.920 --> 02:02:46.680
but definitely not least, we want to say thank you

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02:02:46.760 --> 02:02:48.640
so much to Paul for hanging out and trek talking

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02:02:48.720 --> 02:02:49.960
with us. It was fun as always.

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02:02:50.760 --> 02:02:52.880
We had a lot of fun tonight, friends, good show,

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02:02:53.000 --> 02:02:54.920
and it was really nice of Andy to come by.

2141
02:02:55.319 --> 02:02:58.840
It's fun to see what gets unleashed out of his imagination,

2142
02:02:59.119 --> 02:03:01.159
so a lot of fun spending time with him.

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02:03:01.720 --> 02:03:03.560
Yeah, I've been trying to get Andy on for a while,

2144
02:03:03.640 --> 02:03:05.520
but you heard how busy he is and he only

2145
02:03:05.560 --> 02:03:08.800
had one free weekend. Like I said, next weekend is

2146
02:03:08.840 --> 02:03:12.239
going to be flashback. I'm going to talk about Voyager

2147
02:03:12.760 --> 02:03:15.479
and then we're going to do a great Performances episode

2148
02:03:15.479 --> 02:03:16.960
of Star Trek and that's where each one of us

2149
02:03:17.039 --> 02:03:19.960
pick some of our favorite characters from each one of

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02:03:20.000 --> 02:03:22.560
the shows and we'll spend a couple of minutes sharing

2151
02:03:22.640 --> 02:03:25.239
that with you and talking about it. So that's in

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02:03:25.359 --> 02:03:28.439
the future as well. I'm your most excellent host, Uncle

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02:03:28.520 --> 02:03:31.319
Jim saying thank you so much for joining us and

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02:03:31.800 --> 02:03:34.840
Star Trek fans are the best fans. You better believe that.

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02:03:35.319 --> 02:03:40.119
Thank you for being a fan. Hailing frequencies are closed,

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02:03:40.479 --> 02:03:43.640
good night, everybody belong and Frosty.

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02:03:46.760 --> 02:03:47.680
Ready for departures.

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02:03:51.479 --> 02:03:54.560
Some problem right, just hoping this isn't the usual way

2159
02:03:54.600 --> 02:03:58.479
our missions will go so oh no, but well I'm

2160
02:03:58.479 --> 02:03:59.920
sure most will be much more than.

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02:04:04.279 --> 02:04:04.399
Then.

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See what's out there.

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Again?

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H
Andy Bray