Episode 643- COMIC CORNER Lower Decks issue 6-7 review

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1:34 I'm your most excellent host, Uncle Jim. Welcome to the podcast. Let me go around and introduced you to my awesome, awesome, awesome trucks Worth and we'll start out in the Las Vegas with Charles. How you doing tonight? Charles? Charles is doing good? Charles yeah, there we. Wrong his sorry mute button for the intro. I'm doing good, miss you guys last week, but I was having a blast in Disneyland and had cool Disneyland to come back to the warm weather. Gotta love it, gotta love it. And we're gonna swing over to Virginia. We're gonna say hello to v Welcome to the podcast.

2:19 Hello, Hello from warm and humid Virginia. Yeah, it's it's ninety four way up here in the green Mountains of Vermont, which is just crazy for us. Wrong, that's just wrong, that's just not. Right, not right at all. And now we're gonna spend it all the way around and I'm gonna go out to Portland because we have our triple play out there. We'll start off with our very own David how you doing, David. Well Milical Workers' personal log I'm now Hologram. The Doctor go by just a minute ago. Yeah, well apparently she's offline right now. So, and also from Portland, we have Eric, how you doing tonight?

3:03 Eric? Doing pretty good. I just finished abseiling the warp core and I'm feeling all worked. Out, you know, cool and wrapping everything up. In Portland, we have Paul the toy guy with us tonight. How you doing, Paul, I'm. Doing open Man, a little little sore who was out in the outside doing a lot of work today. So age catch you have to make but doing okay? Ready for some Trek Talking. I think so and beyond and we're yeah, we're going. To be going beyond next week. Next week we're going to take a look at Space nineteen ninety nine, So you guys definitely don't want to miss that. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. So before we get started, you guys can help us with the podcast by becoming a patron over in our Patreon page for only two dollars. That's right, one two dollars. Charles runs that for us, and go over there and have some fun. If you don't want to become a patron, you can just make a one time donation through PayPal, So please head over there and check it out. If you're looking to find any of our podcasts, you can go to trek talkin dot com and you'll find them all right there. So and a lot of other stuff too.

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6:01 Also saying hello this week to top fan Rachel Carr, who's hailing from Dublin, Ireland, sending us that beautiful Irish flag, and Rachel, we really appreciate your support. Top fan status, of course, means that you interact with us a ton on our Facebook page and we always appreciate that sort of interaction. You must like us cause you're there, you're doing stuff. Thanks for listening to the podcast. Also, hello this week to Luis Fernando Lopez, who's saying hello to us from Canoas in Brazil. We have actually a ton of support from Brazil for this podcast and we appreciate that. Perhaps Luis, you know others who have said hello to us, and we say hello to everybody in that beautiful country.

6:44 And last, but not least on my list, I'm gonna head back to the UK and say hello to Dave Burton who's saying hello to us from Essex in England. Charles, who would you like to say hello to? Oh? Thank you Eric. Maybe some sudden these people might know this person. Welcome to Lemia Julie Lysander, all Star contributor from Portland, Oregon. Welcome, and Lemia, Welcome to Holly Harris Londons Burke from Ohio. Welcome Thomas Drake, who's also a TRAP contributor from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. And last on my list, welcome to Tona de Forde Schult from southern Wisconsin. I got a friend I chat with from high school from Wisconsin.

7:50 Me who's on your list? All right? So from Burbank, California, sending a big Star Trek, Hello to William Hannafan. Then Doug Bates, who is a rising contributor from East Texas that it's hot out there today. Then Hendersonville, North Carolina. I actually know where that is, Duyanne Gillespie, so hello to you. And then last but certainly not least, from Texas, USA, Amy E. Wald. So it's onto you, Paul.

8:30 Thanks me. Well, we've got all clients of folks who are singing the You don't even find the right words the Star Trek this week. My brain is too much heat today, too much being outdoors. Let's go all the way over to the magical land of Malaysia, Okay, and say hello to our friend Lester Shong, who is giving us one of these livelong and prosper science there. There's a lot of crazy tectonic activity in You're part of the world right now, Lester. I know just down the road there's a big volcanic eruption. I believe it wasn't Mali this week, Do I have that right? Or Fiji?

9:11 But yeah, but big, big volcanic doing. So hopefully that's not something that you will be encountering, but you never know, so stay safe, keep watching the Star Trek. It's the safest way to be right and on the magical, rather challenged universe that is Airpin, Ukraine. We have our friend Maria Koblenko who's saying hello to us, hoping that calmer days are in store for you. Maria, I know it's been a very talenting few years for folks there, so hopefully that your vision of a happier future is undimmed would be my wish for you. Let's go over to a place that I would just I would do many many things to be able to go to this next country.

9:59 But we'd like to say hello to All Star contributor Michelle Wiley from Bardeen, Scotland in the United Kingdom. I have got Scotland on the brain lately, I really really do, so I'm very, very eager to get there Aberdeen. I'm sure there's a magnificent spot to live. Michelle, You've got your trophy there. You're an All Star, So thanks for checking in with us and being a fan of the show. And we never like to stay in the same continent for very long? Do we need to see pop scotching from one lat through to the next. So let's go to guy Nabo, Puerto Rico and say hello to our fan friend Juan le Bron, who is from guyan Nabo.

10:41 There so always great to see that there are Star Trek fans and fans of science fiction and this podcast all over the country, all over the planet, all over the galaxy. We have fans everywhere. So is there any continent that we have yet to hear from? Eric? You track these things, don't you. Wow, technically we have not yet heard from Antarctica, but we're working on it. Really Okay, so we can do about that, But penguins, that seems possible. Right about all the other ones? We just need someone from a science station. Yeah, okay, well we'll see what I can do. I will I will see if I can pull some strengths. Anyhow, let's pass this revolving globe over to our friend uncle Jim.

11:25 Why, thank you so much, Paul. I'm going to reach up on to my shelf full of shatners and I want to say hello and thank you to Rommy by Dottie, who's a top contributor from New York, New York, the Big Apple. Thank you for listening, Rommy, We appreciate it. I also want to say thank you to Michael Bardi, who's in upstate New York's in the Webster area. Webster area. I'm not familiar with where that is, but it doesn't matter. Thank you for being a fan. We also want to say hello and thank you to Janis West who's listening to us in Texas. That's our third Texas tonight. Wow, that's awesome. And last but not least, Michelle Chloe Muggleton who's from Lime Lake Machatis, New York, an hour outside of Buffalo, New York. Awesome. Thank you so much for being a fan. We appreciate that. If you guys would like to be a fan, head over to our Facebook page look for to Livelong and Prosper and tell us where you're from. And for those of you who are watching the video, if if you're one of our patrons, you'll see all these awesome pictures going by. There is me and my wife and my daughter meeting Robert England, which was a lot of fun. You can send us a picture and your picture can be right up there on the screen. As well, So please do that. Head over to trek Talking dot com and get that done.

12:39 All right, Well, now it's time for our star trek polls. You know what that means, Eric, That's right, we get to Poland's song. You know me like no Wind? What you thought this chow? Then we try to share your opinions with all of our minions out there because they listen World Wine. So tell us just what you think. Get together, we will all drink canar and romulin ale.

13:22 God, I just love that song. Got a heck of a voice does. But I heard you you should never mix romulin ale and canar because you'll have a heck of a hangover the next morning. Yes, the implication was that you will have romulin ale and I will have canar. But okay, probably, or you can drink canar with damar. There we go. Wine is what I'm leaning towards. You know that wine was just way harder to rhyme with, but I tried. That's true, that is true, But we got it in the theme song though we did that. We get all right, guys. On our Facebook page, you see we have a lot of top contributors and rising fans and whatnot. And you get those badges by earning points, and you earn points by posting on our Facebook page. And one of the ways that you can earn those points is taking place in our polls. Every week, I try to put up at least two poles, and then we collect those answers and we go over them on the podcast to see how you guys are Minions responded, So, David, you want to roll the tape of our first hole hitting it?

14:32 Well, would you feel back humidity of the pressure just dropped? I think the air is being modified. Not on my watch. This is your watch right now. And it's literally happening now. Can you not? Even if we can get down to the environmental controls, there might be a way to reverse this. Are you sure that's the best rock for this? Yes? No, yes, it's fine. It's a rock. Look, I'm just saying I think you should use the shale over there. Mom, It is the same thing. Just let me alone. Nothing, It's just maybe you'd want one with more of a points. Oh my god, why do you have the second guest? Every chance? I need to help you. I would if you would just let me do.

15:20 There. See the rock was fine? Yeah, Well, we could have gotten here faster. You're going a little fast. Don't you think you thought you want it fast? Not that fast. You're trying to get us killed here. Make sure you're gripping with both hands, you know. Okay, okay, you know what? Maybe I should just leap? Oh my god, will you just stop? I am good at this. Just trust me. I'm just looking out for you. Yeah, that's the whole problem. Mom. You treat me like a child. Well, if you would stop acting like a. Child and more like a mature crew member, then I would treat you accordingly. Oh you think I'm immature. You're the one trying to trick me into quitting. How is that mature? Yeah, that's what I thought, Carol.

16:01 You did not just call me Carols, Carol. Yes, the systems were still Onlinefected areas are saturated with carbon pollmer dust. We need parisine gas flood the ship, then trigger a reversion with radiation from the main deflector unless you think we should use a point to your rock. No, that's exactly what I was going to suggest. I'm just impressed you read my mission brief, didn't you. No? No, well, I mean maybe a little, but just ironically just so I could make fun of it. Okay, computer hit it, hitting it, all right?

16:44 So that was our clip, and Eric, what was our whole question? All right? On Star Trek Lower Decks, which of course was the source of that clip. Beckett Mariners serves aboard the USS Cerritos and her mother, Captain Freeman, is the captain. Do you think it's a good idea to have her serve under her mother's command? And well, first of all, it's hilarious, but yeah, sixty four percent of our responders said, yeah, it's a good idea. Why would I want to serve under mom? And thirty six percent of our responders said, no, servant under mom is a bad idea. I would say that this paradigm is probably one of the driving forces of Lower Decks, right, the whole interaction between those two.

17:26 So once again, it's kind of like it's convenient for the writing that they're there. Wasn't there some I feel like there was an episode of Lower Decks where they talk about this too, where they talk about how those two ended up on the same ship. I don't remember, maybe one of you guys remembers, but yeah, I think it's a great idea. Why not. Why not serve under mom makes it more hilarious. Well, V, you're dressed for the occasion. What do you think would you serve on your mom on a starship? Yeah? Well, I know in the very beginning that was the whole thing to keep bit secret that you know they were mother and daughter. In fact, Beckett is what kind of thing? What was there?

18:09 It was? That was her middle name. I want to say our Beckett Mariner. No, it's Beckett Mariner Freeman, I think, so she doesn't she doesn't take her user last name. And it was it was Boemler that finds out by accident because Captain Freeman wants him to because he's such a you know, goober and wants to wants to get points with the captain, so she asked him to watch after her daughter. So although in real life, of course, which you know, the military, uh definitely frowns upon that. So but I do like the dynamic because I think it's relatable to a lot of us moms with adult kids.

18:55 And you know, we've all said, you know, stop acting like a child. So that's that's my take. That's your take. How about you, David, what do you think would you serve under Mom on a starship if you could. Well, I believe all everybody will should be able to serve under some form of family member. You know, in my opinion, it kind of makes the workload more easier and it would be more funner. Okay, you grew up with that person in your whole life kind of thing, so they're kind of like your friend forever. But yeah, I actually kind of agree with the minion don is one. I think it was a good idea to have her on the ship.

19:40 So yeah, all right, how about you, Charles, Well, I think there's another story with here, because I think this was one of her last chances to stay and. Starfleet was to be put put on those sritos, because she's talked about the time she spent on DS nine. She's gotten several rank ups and then has gone back down sort of promotions. Demotions I think I gathered from the storylines happened more than once, and I think it was possibly Dad and put her there and the effect of hoping this is her last chance of staying in Starfleet before getting let go. So I think part of the reason that she's with Mom is to sit there and get that chance of keeping her as an officer, And this time she did go to Lieutenant JG. And she's keeping she kept it. So I think that's really the part of the issue to me, is the fact that she just has struggled being more than just a lower decker, and I think there was a chance of bumping up to getting her out of lower decks. So I agree with the minions on this one. I think it was a good idea to put her there, just to keep her from getting kicked out.

21:10 What about you, Paul, what do you think? Oh you're muted, buddy, Sorry the question those do you think it's a good idea having her serve under her mother's command? Well, again, it's a television show, right, and so you want to have this situation be whatever is the most funniest structurally, right. So of course, in reality, no one's going to want to do that. Oh maybe, David, apparently I would. I would, you know, pay giant sums of money. I don't have to avoid having served with my mother because there's just no way. No. Way, every Sorry, but it would have been just it got.

21:53 Us that that whole dynamic got us the sarcastic vulcan salute. You know, but it's just like you do whatever's funniest, right, you set things up. If it's a thriller, you do whatever is the most you know, exciting, right. So, yes, it's a good idea because it's the funniest idea. But it's just like, hopefully, when I look at this like it's reality, right, it's it's a fictional comedy, so it's a it's a weird. It's a weird. I don't know. Sometimes they don't understand the perspective, but that's just me. But yeah, it's a good idea because it's funny. Okay, so as we just saw in that rather lugubrious clip. But yeah, so I'm good with it. The minions are right. Well, I would never serve with my parents on a ship, but it works on lower decks, so that's a step in the right direction. All right, David, you ready hit us?

22:46 Brother, I'll simply kill someone else. Yeah, perhaps. It doesn't matter. Their blood will be on your hands too. Just you're only alternative data. Just a fire. Murder me, that's all you have to do. Go ahead, fire. If only you could feel rage over various death, if only you could feel and neat for revenge. Then maybe you could fire.

23:30 But you're just an android if you can't feel anything, can you. It's just another interesting intellectual puzzle for you, another of life's. Curiosities. I cannot permit this to continue. Program, will let me fire? You can't fire me? No, I'm reading a weapon in transit with Commander Data. It seems to have discharged, Sir, discharged on deactivating it.

24:21 Welcome back with your data. You're all right? Yes, Commander, Please arrange to have Keith as Faja taken into custody on charges of murder kidnapping. Fact, the rangements have already been made. A baron tea disruptor. It belongs to Faja. Mister O'Brien says the weapon was in a state of discharge. Perhaps something occurred during transport. Commander, all right, there's the clip. What's the question?

25:09 Eric? In the Next Generation episode The Most Toys, Data is kidnapped by Kivis Vajo, a collector of rare antiques, and put into his collection. Data has to stop him and points a disruptor at his captor, but its beamed back to the Enterprise as we just saw. Chief of Brian detects the weapon. Ha hing being discharged and deactivates it as a precaution. When asked about the discharged data suggests something may have occurred during transport. Do you think Data fired it? Ninety percent of our responders said yes, Data fired it. Ten percent said no. I say, Chief O'Brien is always right, so of course he fired it. I think the more interesting question is why did he fire it given that he does not have any emotion chip at this time? Did he calculate that it was the most logical decision to get rid of this guy? I think that's a very interesting question. We probably do a show about that. But yeah, in this case, he absolutely fired it, no question.

26:12 What about what do you think, Paul? Did he fire it or did it accidentally discharge and transport? Oh? Come on, I mean, I don't understand this question. I mean it's it's like a wrong right where don't questions come from? I mean, is this makes no sense at all? Chief o brian says, the weapon has been discharged, right, and uh, and so of course he did. I mean, do you think Data fired it? Well? Do you think itself? Did a magic teenie show up and fire it? You know, of course he did. It's I mean O'Brien said he did, he detected it. Day is just bullshitting with that excuse at the end. Oh maybe an accidentally discharge. Not please, it's just like not so yeah, this is I just find it ridiculous because it's not an ethical thing that it just it's it's nonsensical. I just I just don't get it. So of course he did. Of course he did do better.

27:05 What do you think do you think the Oh, absolutely he did. And can I say, for a moment, can we appreciate the absolute skill with which Brent Spiner could make very subtle changes in his face. He could say so much without saying a word. And I mean he does say he cannot let this continue anymore because that little creepy guy has just had killed the woman what was her name, Veria killed her basically in cold blood because she was trying to help data. And so I think it's his ethical subroutine or whatever you want to call it, that allowed him to try to end this guy forever. And then when he comes through, you know, back to the enterprise, Oh, I'm sorry, must have malfunctioned.

28:01 You know that, because it's always it's always something happens in transport, you know, that's what did it. But he yeah, he absolutely did, and that guy absolutely deserved it. Yeah, So I mean, what are the like I said, I think we could do a whole show about that, Like, what are the ethics of data making the decision to kill this person? Like what is it? Is it the idea that he's going to prevent future bad things that this guy does? And so but then also killing is always wrong? Right yeah or not? I don't know. I've like lately been on the fence about that. Wow.

28:43 I can think of a couple of exceptions every. Of saying things about saying things. You know, William Shatner, we're here as Kirk, he would have talked data into self destructing himself because he lied, you know. Yeah, I mean there there could be a logical conundrum there that would cause you know, a purely like nomad ish type thing to short circuit itself. But I mean we see that the data positronic goes beyond nomad, right, so like he's he's like way more complex. But yeah, yeah, absolutely, Jim possibly think. What do you think, David, was it a malfunction or was Well, let.

29:25 Me explain how transport it works not. Kidding a technical manual. There we go. So, yeah, I think there are grimlins in a buying computer, but I believe that. Yeah, he actually did fire, and then when he saw a command on the other side of that transport being, he's like, uh so he tried to, you know, talk himself out of it. But had data ever been known to lie? Well he can lie, Yeah, he can, he can absolutely lie. Yeah, Okay, well yeah, okay, he lied, he fired it.

30:07 Well you get the kaboos. Charles. Well, one thing we didn't mention on it. It wasn't an ordinary disruptor, I do remember where it was from. But it was also an illegal disruptor. So he was murdered. He murdered that one woman with a weapon that he shouldn't have possessed. So I think this is a season three so it's little early before the motion hip, but I think it's an early sign of data showing a little bit of ethics and emotion that what this, what this person was doing, was wrong, and that we do not We do know later on that all of his stuff, all of the collector's stuff, was sold off, including that fifty foot vulcan.

31:06 Yeah, we're not sure. Exactly. It's the and the spending time in prison or something else happened to him, so I'd be curious. We never know. That's an interesting thought. Actually, yeah, I saw from lower decks what happened that he. Lowers mentioned that I was an alien gun, right, So what if the power signature on that gun would always set to fire and so the transporter to kick it. As active.

31:46 Disruptors only got one setting, it doesn't it's not a phase or multi setting. Interesting theory, That's all I got said. Actually, I'm thinking of Star Trek first on Tech with Lilly and Picard when he takes the UH phaser away from her and said, if you had fired this, you would have killed me because it was on maximum, you know, the maximum said it's my first ray gun. That would have been funny if Data had. Said it's my first ray gun. M hm yep. Although I do believe that Klingon disruptors do have stun because Chekhov says so in Star Trek four. He says, I have to stun you, and he pushes the button and it is a squeak week week because of the radiation on the enterprise, So they must have a stunt. Setting or check off was just crazy.

32:43 I don't know, what does your research that for us? I do some research, David, you be demand all right, guys. So that wraps up our poll questions and now we're going to get right into the meat and potatoes up tonight's podcast and that Star Trek Lower Decks issued number six and seven. Take it away, Paul. Okay, So what we do on these particular episodes, friends, is we do a comic corner just to frame things a little bit, So we basically review things that we've been reading from IDW Starter comic series, and we've been over the last month or so, maybe a little bit before that, we've been doing the Lower Deck series from IDW and got to give it up for issue number six that we're going to start off with talking with here tonight. Terrific cover, very very fun. I thought they did a great job on that. Written by Ryan North, art by Jack Lawrence. So there's your credits here, and we're continuing on right from where we left off at the previous issue number five and the Cerritos Lower Deckers.

33:47 They've jumped through the chromouth B portal. Send us to where we can have the most effect on history, they asked, and they end up sitting there on the deck of the Titanic, which hilariously none of them have ever heard of, which is kind of a fun thing there. So and this oddly garbed figure with some kind of identity cloaking fabric bumps into them, and then very quickly they encounter period costumed versions of all of the senior officers right, which we've got going on there, very reminiscent for me all our times errow, where it's got that kind of pseudo Victorian kind of vibe to it. So they all get together and they realize they're gonna have to sort of, you know, combine forces, and somebody is traveling through time, messing with key events and then going on to the next one. So they decide to let the lower deckers join the bridge officers on their mission identify who this person is, stop them, and save the timeline basically, and it's explained we're following her taki on trail, which is probably one of the worst pickup lines ever, And they decide to.

35:00 Are you admitting. But yeah, I couldn't help notice your take on frail is you know, quite hot today. So let's go have some romy lane a little bit more so, Yeah, I heard on frail that it's just screaming to be a commented on. Anyhow, this TAKEI on trail from this broad is leading them to the prehistoric area, and so that's where they're going to go, right, So they decide to not do any of the actions that cause anomalies that so often happen in various other time travel scenarios, like accidentally forgetting your fall's office, that kind of thing that cause anomalies. So they they go to the like I think it's the Cretaceous period if I remember correctly, and they come upon this time traveler and decide that they've got a laser cannon with them, right, and they're like, oh, what's going on? So they decide the best thing to do is to beam this person and their weapon up into the car Go Bay as a way of kind of containing them. And they find out that this person is a mysterious time problem causing stranger is none other than.

36:10 Getting alert spoiler alert, okay, And so it's like one of those you know, oh my god, you are my father kind of moments. And so this Beckett Mariner reveals that Kenny Rutherford to Lynn, and Boemler all died on some away mission on this specific date, and this time traveling Beckett Mariner has been trying to go back in time and save them repeatedly, but no matter what, they keep dying. So she had basically an existential crisis and what is defined in the comic as temporal psychosis from you know, getting your brain scrambled from traveling through time too many times. And she decides that if the universe doesn't care what she wants, then same to your universe. And so she's been going hither and yoning things up just because it's fun, right, So that's kind of her whole. She was going to use this phaser canon of hers to vaporize the asteroid that hit prehistoric Earth and destroyed the dinosaurs, which would in theory, prevent humans from ever evolving or existing. So that's pretty cool plan. I got to say there, Becket Mariner.

37:20 I mean that's really like like like let's wipe out all of mankind from what they even got a chance to like, you know, become mankind. So I was like, wow, wait to pull the plug, my friend. So pretty cool. But to Lynn posits that because this Beckett Mariner has intersected with her own past. It must therefore be changed and altered both past events and herself. So in theory, she just by revealing herself she may have solved her problem. Time traveling Mariner disappears, fading out, and that is the end of issue number six, which concludes on that exciting note there, do we want to talk about this or were going to.

38:04 Just go on and discuss now, because it's a fundamentally different story from the next one. It is. It is okay, cool, excellent, Eric, Why don't you begetting sir? Okay? Yes, So the first six issues of the Lower Deck comic, of course written by Ryan North. As Paul just reminded us, I always like to talk about how much I like Ryan North. He is a great writer. I have constantly enjoyed his little footnotes. They give you extra flavor. It's like two comics in one. Unfortunately, this is the last issue that Ryan North wrote, and number seven has a completely different writer. I think this is a great conclusion to this arc. I really enjoyed this comic.

38:49 There are a whole bunch of good little equippeds here and there. You know it, It ends a little bit abruptly with the future Mariner just removing her time inhibitor and sort of disappearing instantly. But does it need to be does it? You lost your audio there, buddy? You repeat what you just said? Just yes? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Now? Yeah? Extolling the virtues of Ryan North, I was saying that I generally really like this comic. I was also saying that, uh, you know, perhaps it ends just a little bit abruptly in that she just sort of removes her time inhibiting thing and she just kind of disappears. But I think that's okay. I don't think the story needed any more complex resolution than that, because let's be clear, Lower Decks is not about like the high concepts necessarily, it's about the laughs, right, and I think this comic has plenty of laughs in it. All the footnotes are hilarious. I love things like all ships ever do our float and sync?

39:56 You know? There's the one comment about how the one page of the comic is all just a summary of the last one, and it's like, if you're the type of person who likes quick summaries, congratulations, we just gave you one. I think we learn in this comic that to Anna is an ancestor of Spock, which is a great recall back to episodes of of dext Generation where where Data talks about being related to Sherlock Holmes. The scenes here with Shacks being pissed and bounding on the table are absolutely hilarious and my perhaps my favorite Mariner line because I think the lower decks is added. But these comics in particular are at their best when they break that fourth wall, and I'm a huge fan of anything that breaks the fourth wall. I just love bringing the audience directly into the story, making them part of the story. And she has that one line where she says the narrative is more important than whatever the hell that is. Like you you understand, girl, You understand. So I loved this issue. I thought the first six issues here, written by Ryan North, were generally a really fun story that had an overall arc to it. So yeah, I don't know where i'd put this one number wise, but if I was to give the whole first six issue arc of this comic a number, I'd give it a nine.

41:21 It was fantastic. It felt just like the show I read the comics in the voices of the show characters and I generally have no complaints. So, yeah, who's next, Why don't we have v jump in here? She's got the uniform on. Yeah, that's right, got the uniform. Yeah, I would agree. This was a really good episode. And when you think about it, Mariner was just trying to make things right because she lost her friends, which kind of reminds me a little bit of what was the Voyager. Wasn't that the episode Year of Hell where that man was trying to he was yeah, the cred of Yeah, and he was just he was trying to bring back his wife and every time it changed things, but not enough and he uh just could never get back to that right time frame. And then of course when I saw the that one frame with where they referenced City on the Edge of Forever, it's like, oh, with Kerk kissing Edith Keeler, that just that was like, oh no, and thinking about because that was the whole thing with what was the line where McCoy says, you know, do you know what you've done? When he lets because he has to let Edith, you know, get killed, because that's just the way it had to be. And Spock says he knows, doctor, he knows so yep, we do crazy things for love.

42:57 I suppose change entire time lines. Yeah, sure, why not? So what about you, David, you recommend this one to our our minions? Yes, yeah, I really enjoyed this one, especially the fact that they were on the Titanic, and uh I liked how especially like this image right here, As you guys can see, he has a trie quarter inside a book, and that book was called Things that you find Interesting to read. Just little things like that that you can pick up on this comic that it was just really funny. Also, when Mayna reveals herself, you can see in the background that the doctor was handing a gold Latin bo over two facts because I guess they made a bet to find out who it was. And just a little thing that you can pick up on longest a particular comic book that was really quite funny. But yeah, I really enjoyed this. I thought it was great. I really liked the line that Mariana named the t Rex, so I thought that was pretty cool. And uh yeah, for a longer time, I kept thinking it might have been Billip.

44:16 What if the doctor was right? You know? So I guess I owe my gold plus latinum so somebody, but uh yeah, I over all I think this comic book gets a nine for me. Yeah, I really enjoy it, and I think other people will too. Excellent. What about you, Charles. A couple of the characters we have the board meeting. I love how you you feel like you're there with the characters Dot doctor Tianas. We talked about this before. She starts swearing in the meeting and it's like, that's oh, I want to be like my ancestors, Like yeah, but that's Zad the type of character she is. When Shacks had a temper tantrump, like, but that Shacks as we see just in the screen that Shacks, that's how he is.

45:13 He kind of apologized the first time. The second time's like, no, I'm not apologizing. We should have been doing some of this stuff already. Oh. Not only did we have flashbacks of the West the he's the action with McCoy leaving his tri chorder and then they can't Kirk falling in love. But I love the spinning circling around the sun and it's like, yeah, that wasn't the TST version. That was Star Trek four and how they go through that range interpretations where they sit there and say, okay, we're gonna go into hallucinations and say, yeah, but that was what they didn't Star Trek four and to me that which is such a such a fabulous tie into Star Trek four.

46:26 And just. Okay, let's try something different instead of sitting there doing the same thing over and over. Let's try something different. Let's try for another way of capturing this person using a little bit of phaser fire, and we detect the phaser fire. We're just gonna beam the whole area up. And I think that was a. Good idea and they were able to capture and find out who this person was. And then we end up unique back at doing her cat doing her personal law, which she doesn't always tend to do. But it's like it was nice to see her put together a log and I think for this storyline here, for these two this two story arc, they did a good job with this story arc. I really was enjoying what they did with this part, and really I think I recommend this issue, especially this pair five and six. Five and six was a great story, and I think seven is gonna go into a great story as well.

47:41 Well. I'll take up the caboose here. I gotta say I enjoyed this story as well. I would give this one a nine. You guys have pretty much touched on everything. But I do want to say the floating head scene from Star Trek four, I thought it was hilarious because the Star Trek four, it was just like a quick heads flying through the crowds put in the comic book. Here, they're all commenting on each other. It's like, oh, you look, you look impressive or whatever they you know, to Len's making comments as as their heads are floating through the clouds, you know, like Star Trek four. I thought that was that was great. I enjoyed that. So yeah, you guys pretty much touched on everything, and I recommend this issue and I'm going to give it a nine. So Paul, you want to take it away and start us off with our next adventure.

48:28 Sure, I just throw my own two cents in here, just for fun too. I thought these were generally pretty good. Some of the issues a little stronger than others, I think for the most part. But I think that if you like lower decks, you're probably gonna like this comic series quite at that. I do think that it ended on a really strong note with this last series. I just thought that that whole idea of you know, going in preventing the the evolution of man from the prehistoric era, which is actually kind of a bit of a nod to the finale Next Gen all good things because if you remember, at one point, Picard finds himself in like a prehistoric era right where there's an anomaly in the distant past that prevents the emergence of life on Earth from ever happening. So I thought that was kind of a cool guy in there. So overall, I think I would give the comic series like an eight for this run of issues one through six, so and then we'll start a new series now with issue seven. So I think it was good stuff. And like I said, if you like, if you like the Lower Deck series, you're probably be really going to enjoy this. So let's talk about issue seven, where we shift gears into a new story arc here and as you can see telegraphed on the cover again, this is written by Tim Sheridan now taking over the writing duties for this issue, and art by Robbie Cook. We're starting what looks like it's going to be the beginning of a mom daughter, Captain Freeman Mariner story share flashback arc if this first issue is

50:03 any indication, right. So also, as Eric intimated, this is the first issue without those little bottom of the pages sides or footnotes, right, and the reason that being also perhaps we'll see those again, but in this issue we're not seeing them because the bulk of those are sides and footnotes. Those are Mariner's sides, those are Mariner's perspectives pretty consistently, and this issue is largely from Carol Freeman's point of view, So you wouldn't have those asides here because it's got a different focus, a different character that we're mainly hanging out with. So that's I think largely why we do it. My guess is if there is a we switch over again in a future issue to Carol Freeman talking about Mariner, my guess is those footnotes will return. But we'll see if I'm right. Any we started off there where we're seeing that the lower deckers have this tradition of field day right and doing crazy shit, where Marener and Boemler are starting off by doing what to me, it looks like Jeffrey's tube surfing, and I've interpreting that correctly. It's that's what I got. And there's other zany activities that sound even riskier, like airlock roulette going on there and then and things finally get out of hand when Marener and Boiler repelling down the warp core, which is just ridiculous, right, But so all these antics get Maren in trouble with Captain Freeman, and he's like protesting, you didn't understand what it's like being a lower decker. Oh,

51:36 don't die, right, because then Carol flashes us back to fifteen years ago when and soon Carol Freeman was serving aboard the USS Illinois, right, and we find out that she was a lower decker herself. Who the thunk it? Right? And the ship is getting visited by Oh I can hear Eric's heartbeat sing from over here, right, I really truly can, because they're being visited by doctor Pulaski. Oh my god, Eric, you're gonna have to go first when we start talking about this, because you're the king of all doctor Pulaski fans. So Freeman and her lower deckers are assigned to assist doctor Pulaski with these experiments that she's conducting, right, and so this of course makes them roll their eyes and they want nothing to do with it.

52:25 So Carol Freeman, very much like something her daughter would do, attempts to sneak out late at night and go to the holodeck because she wants to do this crazy skiing program that she's been involved in, right, but she gets intercepted by Pulaski. She started to do a site to site transport, right, but somehow she gets snapped out of the site to site transport and does not make it to the Holodck. Instead, doctor Pulaski pulls her into sick Bay and hilariously and sin Freeman keeps mispronouncing her name instead of doctor Pilaski. At one point she's doctor Houseki, which I thought was great, doctor Kapowski, And there's a very weird interaction there between the two of them. And then the next day, all of a sudden, the ship was confronting a Romulan warbird, and Freeman is a had been doing this whole thing to try to avoid getting intercepted by Pulaski again, and in the course of doing that, she rewired the site to site transport us through the auxiliary phaser. Oh no, which now is a big deal because there's a war bird showing up right, and suddenly that extraneous system of the auxiliary phaser array is very important, and because of that, the senior bridge officers are beamed off the bridge. Who knows where, we don't know. And Freeman is about to take command because she would be next in line to do that, except she is thwarted from taking command because she is suddenly usurped dramatically in full panel fashion by that's right, friends, it is true

54:00 acting Captain Paul Laski to be continued. So that is my summary of issue seven. I thought this was a great start to a new story arc. It's funny because they're so similar. I kept getting when I'm reading Carol Freeman's antics right on the USS Illinois. I can't had to remind myself this isn't bugging man, this is Carol Freeman, because she's acting just like her, and some of her dialogue is even similar, right, So it's just it takes a little getting used to because it is so similar, and you have to kind of fuck yourself and going up. No, this is a flashback Carol Freeman doing her thing right there, very very similar but you do have to remind yourself of that. But I thought this was generally a pretty funny thing. I like the humor of bringing in Pulaski, who's kind of oft in the butt of jokes for stuff, but having her be front center and even taking command.

54:53 We'll see what that looks like. So I think a great start, a fun issue. I think we're off to the races. So I would give this issue a good solid eight. But you know, we don't really care what I think. We really want to hear what Eric thinks, because this is a doctor Pulaski issue. So my friend, I know that you're you're you're chopping at the bit. Let's hear it. Well. Well, I was very excited to see Pulaski in this issue, no question. She is one of the most underrated doctors ever in Star Trek, and she's often poo pooed, and I don't think she deserves a poop poo one bit. I think this comic does a little bit of kind. Of like playing with that whole concept because they sometimes poopoo heard just a little bit. But first and foremost, I'll say that I thought it was hilarious when there's a bunch of a crew are in you know, the cargo bay, and they're talking about all of the things that they've heard about why Pulaski got kicked off the Enterprise, and it was just like, well, I heard that, you know, this happened, and I heard the android got her fired, and I heard that you had you know, gatesmac fad and tied up in a corner and all this kind of stuff. So so all of that stuff was was pretty darn funny. The issue kind of starts out a little bit rough, like the first couple of pages before they bring in Pulaski. I think I was having a moment where I was just instantly missing Ryan North's writing.

56:25 It felt like it took a second for it to kind of like get going. And maybe maybe that's true just because it was the beginning of a new arc. I don't know. I'm also just like a ridiculous Ryan North fan, so I probably was just like, yeah, he's not on the show anywhere on the issue anymore. I'm upset about it. But then once they brought Pulaski and I started liking it a little bit more. I like it when they use big words that I don't know. I learned the word up sailing, which is why I used that at the during my intro today, and I didn't realize that it was a different type of rope dissension versus repelling. They were not repelling Paul, they were sailing. Uh. The Internet says it's a synonym. So there you go.

57:06 I think it's like anyway, who knows, who knows? The Internet's probably right. I don't want to miss the chance to ask you this. How do you what do you think of the way she was drawn? You know? I mean, do they capture her? Not so much? I mean I I think there there are like faces that she makes where I feel like they capture her. So when they do the head on view, I don't think they capture her. But there's the one also when they're in the cargo bay when she's kind of like in semi profile that I think they did a good job of capturing her. I think they didn't. Maybe they were also making her look like a younger version of Pulaski, right because this is years. Ago, so okay, so I'm like, what, it's a little.

57:51 Young looking and and I guess I gave them a little bit of levity with that, given that it's a story from the past. But I off the top of my head, I can't remember how far ahead of like next generation lower decks is supposed to be. They have that math offhand. Is it in the same kind of general era? Is it just like a few years ahead of next generation? Anyway? I kept thinking it a couple of years before picards, so definitely out there. Okay, TNG hit twenty three sixty four to twenty three seventy lower dicks charged to twenty three. Eighty Okay, so it's like ten years. So maybe they should have made her look a little bit older because it would have only been five years or so past next generation. Then that they're showing fifteen years ago in Crito's time. So yeah, I mean, I would say, Paul I thought the hair was great. They could have made her look a little bit older, I guess given the exact timeline. But there's that one sort of semi profile view that I thought was particularly good. I love that the that the ship that that Carol Freeman used to be on as an ambassador class, because you know, that's we've been we talk a lot about the Enterprise, see and how we haven't seen enough of it, so it's cool to have another ambassador class that's important in the Star Trek lexicon. And you know, the mispronunciations were pretty funny.

59:18 They I mean, I guess it was funny that they kept coming up over and over again. But that was the moment where I was like, are they just making fun of Pulaski? And of course I'm a little defensive of Polaskies. I was like, yes, it's hilarious, but are you just making fun of wor. I don't know, maybe it's funny. So uh So, my overall take on it was that I really liked the concept of the story. It feels to me like the writer hasn't quite captured. The feel of all of the characters yet. But also we're just getting started, so maybe, you know, I'll give them a chance to kind of like use multiple characters voice and that kind of stuff. Also, there's a little bit of the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in this entire concept of her mom being just like Mariner, So you know, for whatever, that's where I don't know, I'm not sure if I like that or not, or if I do like it, I don't know.

1:00:17 Maybe it's cool so I was a little more lukewarm on this issue than I wanted to be, but I would still give it a solid seven. I mean, it was funny and in that Pulaski that in and of itself is worth at least two points for me. Well said my friend, Well said, what do you think, David? Yeah, this episode was a little slow on my end, and like Eric was saying that it's just the beginning of a new toy ark. So oh, I didn't enjoy it as much as I did in the next issue. But this one in particular was just laying at groundwork.

1:01:02 I'm not as much the biggest fan of Ascate with Pulaski, but uh, I'm pretty sure quite a few. But uh to me, which wasn't as exciting. But to me, yeah, this one had its own mysteries, like just image right here as you can see what a kind of experiments. I don't even know if they kind of gone into that whole thing, but yeah, they just they just swung in because Red Alert came through right after this scene, and it was just like the womulant war bird showed up. So I was like, okay, just getting a little bit better now. But other than that, it was just you know, it was okay, it picked my interest to point where because I actually accidentally read the next issue thinking that we were going to be reviewing it. Because I totally forgot that we were going to be reviewing number six, I was like, Okay, wait a minute, which one are we reviewing? So yeah, but knowing what happened, I'm not gonna give too much away. But I really enjoyed this particular comic region, and I would have to say, I'm going to be giving it in eight.

1:02:14 Eight. That's still impressive. That's still impressive. So yeah, I enjoyed this one too. Seeing the Ambassador class squaring off against a war bird was pretty cool. PULASKI, So I love the line. Was it Beckett? Was it Boemler? I remember? I think it was. I don't know. Says that she took command of the Enterprise, crashed it into a space deck, destroyed it, and Q had to undo it. So nobody ever knew what happened because Q fixed it. So I thought that was hilarious. And yet and yet they know enough to tell the story. Love. Yeah, there was no survivors. Well, if there was no survivors, how do you know what happened, but I thought that was great. And later on they bring that same thing up again. They're like, well, I don't know any Q that can save us if you crash the ship. There was another line like that in there, which I absolutely enjoyed.

1:03:06 But yeah, I'm this was This was a solid story. It was a lot of fun, and it was nice to see uh an episode focused on someone other than Mariner, in this case her mother, which was fun. I love the Andorian first officer. It was just a lot of fun. So yeah, I'm gonna go with this in honor of Paul. I'm gonna go with a seven point eight because Paul loves those decimals. Not seven. It's good seven point eight granular. All right, what do you think, Charles Well? I was looking at looking at my digital copy. It's like the verse five pages just with Formula and Beckett.

1:03:53 It wasn't okay, just Beckett being herself as usual. And then to talk with Mom. I love how it leads into Mom having a flashback and I've been the one talking about before. It's like, I like backstories, and this is the first time. It's like, oh, we get to see Carol Freeman's backstory, and we always assume she was just a real well, well put together officer, and she always seems to be doing it things mostly by the book that I just couldn't picture her as a lower decker that was doing the same thing her daughter did.

1:04:47 Look, do you think this means that Mariner is destined to be a put together captain? I think she could be on a way becoming a good captain because I think I see this one, I thinks, giving me the idea I'm seeing a lot of Mom. I'm seeing a lot of Beckett in Mom. Well maybe we can see a lot of Mom and Beckett too, so but you just kind of find ways of being lazy and being a lower decker and oh, I'm out a uniform while I'm out a uniform when I was off busy on the holidayck instead of sleeping when I should have been, which was interesting. So she tried to sneak off again later on and find out she's getting put off to transport to Sick Bay because Pulaski's putting a curve you in place. And I love the scene where it's like, oh, I'm studying something, or what are you studying? Laski psychosis. It's like, and you see her in this, they love this, saying, oh them, the coming hold on spontaneous lighting as we got to get her just in specific lighting for her, it's like, yeah, that's that's that's a lower deck thing. And Carol singing. It's like, okay,

1:06:19 I got to sit there and bypass this thing is so Alaska can't capture me. So she's fooling around with the transport buffer and the process wires it through the theay to the phaser bank and they use phaser banks, and that all of a sudden takes away in the bridge crew except for those people who happen to have had a transport inhibitor on them. Well, I find out, well who else might have either had that inhibitor or was blocked out from being beamed off with Bulaski. But does she admit she's never been a happened before, She's never led the ship. And that just leaves me like I'm in the center seat now. It's like, okay, now I want to see issue eight. And when I first read this, it's like Okay, I read the issue and it's like, okay, this is going to be one of Eric's favorite and then I got to issue eight and it's like, oh, issue eight hasn't come out yet. I want to see what happens. So it's reading it back again today and it's like, oh, read issue eight, darn it, I'm on my kindle. I haven't downloaded h yet. And then got distracted, so it's like, Okay, I'm getting back to reading eight coming up. But I think they picked a good story because it's always been focused on lower deckers and this time, no, we're going to follow on

1:07:51 Carol being a lower decker, and I like that storyline. I want to see where they take it. Definitely starting off a little that picked up a good speed to a seven point five. All right, V can you hear us? Yes? I can can you hear me? Absolutely so? Yeah, I guess it was lower decks issue. Yeah, sorry, but I got my power went out, and now we got another thunderstorm rolling in. Yeay. Uh No. I liked it. Uh. I was not expecting to see Pulaski. And if anybody said this already, because I couldn't hear you because I was, you know, offline. I like the way they drew her because they gave her that horrible perm that she had her hair was in that terrible perm that she had to have on the show. And also her outfit because she had if I don't know if you noticed that Pulaski were a slightly different outfit.

1:08:49 She had the blue top, but it was a little bit longer, and then she had like pants, didn't have tights. Wasn't all you know, sexy and all that, But was she Do you think that her being misnamed do you think that had anything to do? Was that a sort of a dig like when she called, you know on TNG she called him data and say Data Data, what's the difference? Like one is my name, the other is not. So do you think that's what that was when they were calling her the wrong name? I think it could have been. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought it was great because I do want to see the I want to see how Carol becomes you know, Captain Freeman and how she gets out of her uh you know, reminds you of Mariner and see what see what her arc is going to be.

1:09:43 So I thought I thought it was really good. I like that I missed the little notes at the bottom, but I like that they I guess they do what they're going to do it with all of them where they the issue starts with Badgie, because you know you gotta gotta have Badgie and everything at the very beginning, So I would give it a probably, I don't know when. Eight, let's be generous. Eight. All right, Well, that wraps up our review of lower decks six and seven. You're ready to do some Star Trek birthdays, Eric, all right, let me click queue up our birthday song.

1:10:42 That was not a clean one song. All right, guys, we like to start off our Star Trek birthdays by remembering those members of our Star Trek family who, sadly enough, are no longer with us, and for that we turned to Eric. Yeah, Jim, We've got a bunch of remembrances this week, unfortunately, and some new ones we'll talk about during news. But our first rememberance this week goes to Dennis c Ott, the actor and stuntman who appeared in two Star Trek films. Ott's first Star Trek film appearance was in Star Trek three, The Search for Spock, in which he played a klingon His second was as an alien in Star Trek sixth The Undiscovered Country. That particular alien, as I remember keeping his genitals in his knees. According to Ott, who stood six foot eleven two point one meters, his proudest moment was when actor William Shatner told him You're one of the only tall people in this town who can actually act.

1:11:38 Thanks Bill. He appeared in several movies, mostly in bit parts, but because of his six foot eleven height, he's always easy to spot things he might have seen him in. Otherwise Our Police Academy six City under Siege from nineteen eighty nine. He was in Roadhouse, that fantastic Patrick Swazey movie from eighty nine, The Doors movie from ninety one, and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey also from ninety one. Unfortunately, dennisee Ot was lost to AIDS. He found out he had it in nineteen ninety and he was lost in nineteen ninety four. He was only thirty six years old. So happy birthday to Dennessee. We miss you man. Happy birthday as well to Percy Rodriguez, the Canadian actor of Afro Portuguese descent who played Commodore Stone in the TS first season episode Court Martial. As such, he was the first black actor to play a flag officer on Star Trek.

1:12:32 His portrayal as Commander Stone in Star Trek was also considered groundbreaking for the time, portraying an authoritarian black officer in military command of white subordinates. Several years after his appearance on Star Trek, Rodriguez worked on another Gene Roddenberry product project, the failed TV pilot for Genesis two. His breakout role occurred in nineteen sixty eight, when he portrayed a neurosurgeon named Harry Miles in the prime TV soap opera Peyton Place. He also appeared in various other things, including Roots, Next Generation and television shows like Sanford and Son, Good Times, What's Happening, and The Jeffersons. He was also known for lending his rich, authoritative voice to the narration of a number of film trailers, notably Jim nineteen seventy five summer blockbuster Jaws. Yes, he was the guy with the voice during that trailer, So Percy Rodriguez blazing trails all over the place and lending that amazing voice to important things that we still remember to today. Lost back in two thousand and seven at the age of eighty nine years old. Happy Birthday, Percy, Happy Birthdays, Well to cal Bolder the American actor and author who played the role of Keel in the TOS second season episode Friday's Child.

1:13:52 He spent fourteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department before becoming an actor. That led to four movies and twenty years so television roles before he retired from acting at the end of the nineteen sixties. His big movie role was probably the role of Igor in the memorably bad film Jesse James Meets the Daughter of Frankenstein. I haven't seen it, but it sounds amazing. He' stelf published the novel Last Reunion under his birthdame E C. Craver, as well Happy Birthday to cal Boulder, Happy Birthday as well to William Newman, the actor from Chicago, Illinois who played Calin Tross in the Next Generation four season episode The Host. Through the fifties and sixties, he served in the Armed Forces and became a teacher in English. He made his film debut in Brubaker in nineteen eighty, which also, of course starred Robert Redford, and was in a couple other movies with actors like Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lang.

1:14:54 Lots of stuff on his resume, Mosquito Coast, Funny Farm, Monkey Shines, Hero, Missus, Doubtfire, Leprechaun, The Stand, and Tom and Huck, a bunch of TV two, including some soaps and that sort of stuff. Among his last known acting roles was the horror film Shadow Dead Riot from two thousand and six, and episodes of Days of Our Lives. William Newman Happy Birthday to You Lost Back in twenty fifteen at the age of eighty years old. Happy Birthday as well to Richard Durr. The actor who made two appearances on Star Trek the original series as two different flag officers. He played Commodore Barstow in the first season episode The Alternative Factor and Admiral Fitzgerald in the third season episode The Mark of Gideon. He was a highly intelligent gentleman, graduated from his local high school at the young age of sixteen years old, went into World War Two, did some military duty along the way, eventually became an actor.

1:15:57 Was the star of the nineteen fifty one science fiction classic Win Worlds Collide. He was also in three in the Attic, The Drowning Pool, American Jigglow, and Firefox The Helicopter Movie Not The Helicopter Show. He also appeared in TV series such as Perry Mason, Outer Limits, Mani, Starsky and Hutch, Project, Ufo, Taxi Dallas, and Barnaby Jones. Happy birthday to Richard Durr. Happy birthday to John Warburton, the British born actor who played the Romulan Centurion in the TS first season episode Balance of Terror. Born in Liverpool, England, he was an actor known for Cavalcade, Saratoga Trunk and Secret File Hollywood. He made numerous appearances in a bunch of Western movies back in the day, and his motion picture credits are not vast but have some cool things like Charlie Chan's Greatest Case, Confidential Agent, The Valley of Decision from the Terrace, and King Rat, which I've never even heard of, but that also sounds amazing. Happy birthday to John Warburton, lost all the way back in nineteen eighty one. Happy birthday as well to Kiya Luke, the Chinese born American actor played Governor Donald Cory as well as Fleet Captain Garth in the TOS third season episode Whom Gods Destroy. Luke was briefly considered for a bunch of cool roles. Don't know if you know this or not, but he may have been our original doctor Noonian Sung in the Next Generation four season episode Brothers. Of course,

1:17:30 that went to Brent Spiner. Eventually, he was a celebrated artist who became a naturalized citizen in nineteen forty four. He made movies like The Painted Veil, which was his debut. He was also known, and I know that Paul knows this, for portraying Kato in the original Green Hornet film shorts of the nineteen forties, and for his role as Master Poe in the nineteen seventies television series Kung Fu. He was reportedly also considered and I found this fascinating, didn't know this before now for the role of Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Trek episode four, A New Hope, But the role, of course went to Sir Elec Guinness, providing a very different take on the character from what was originally conceived. He played the role of Mister Wing in the nineteen eighty four John Dante film Gremlins and in nineteen ninety sequel Gremlins Two. One of the most recognized voice roles of his was providing the voice of Zoltar in the hit anime film Battle of the Planets. Kiya Luke lost all the way back in nineteen ninety one, but he was eighty six years old, so he had a pretty good long life. Happy Birthday to Kia Luke and last, but not least on our remembrance list this week guys is actor Robert Ellenstein, the actor, theater director, and acting teacher who portrayed the Federation President in Star Trek for the Voyage Home. He later appeared without the beard as Van Miller in the Next Generation first season

1:19:02 episode Haven of Course. A longtime friend of Star Trek four director and co star Leonard Nimoy. Both Ellenstein and Nimoy were early members of the Company of Angels, the oldest non nonprofit repertory theater in Los Angeles. He had a career spanning over four decades, and he appeared in at least fourteen films, five made for TV movies and specials, and nearly one hundred television programs. He's also noted for his extensive stage work, including numerous Los Angeles productions. He portrayed over one hundred stage roles and also directed numerous plays along the way, a titan of acting in both theater, television, and movies. Robert Ellenstein was lost in twenty ten at the age of eighty seven years old. Happy birthday to Robert and that, gents and ladies, does it for our remembrances this week. So I am going to pass this flaming birthday candle over to Ti Charles.

1:20:01 Thank you. Rick. Let's start with a very happy birthday to Shannon phil actress would play Cito Jacks and TNG's fifth and seventh season episodes First. Duty and Lower Decks, and reenacted her character and Lower Decks fourth season episode Old Friend's New Planets. Happy birthday to Fred TuS Corey, who voice Shacks and Lower Decks. Yep with that actor even reading the comics, which you're still reading those comics as Shacks, not just a character.

1:20:48 Birthday two stand up comic actor and comedian who appeared as a comedian in the episode The Outrageous So Hannah. Happy birthday to Joe Piscopoe. Happy birthday to Linda Fornson, actress who played Galla Cott in Star Trek's Nection Race in Sixteeson episode The Chase Ivy. Birthday Challa hours Da, the actress who played President Lorita Leader Relocan in the fourth and fifth season EPI seasons of Star Trek and Jim Knows Me and let's do a little beyond. A very happy birthday Judy Whittaker, English actress best known for her roles A thirteenth Doctor and doctor who We love you, Jody Love Jody. Yes, Oh, who's on your list?

1:21:57 Thank you? Charles Well, we got all kinds of folks with birthday is going on right now, so let's get to it, shall we. First of all, let's say Happy birthday to Clifton Collins, junior Emmy Award nominated actor who played i L in Star Trek at two thousand and nine. If you will, so very cool there, Happy birthday to William Lucking. William Lucking was the actor who played Furol in Deep Space nine episodes The Darkness and the Light and Ties of Blood and Water, and also played Harad sar Over on Enterprise in the fourth season episode Bound. Always cool to see that these actors who were in one more than one spoke with the franchise. It's like, you know, definitely got some busy agents getting your work there, which is very cool. Excited to be able to say Happy Birthday to the great John Show, who, of course portrayed Hikaru Sulu in the J. J Abrams pictures Star Trek from two thousand and nine, Star Trek at the Darkness and Star Trek Beyond. Will we ever get another one?

1:22:59 Will we ever get to see John Show be Sulu again? I kind of hope. So. I think that it seems very, very very challenging for Paramount to get a Star Trek motion picture off the ground. I do not understand it. Everybody else seems to know how to green light picture. You pick a good screenplay and you pay some people. It's not that hard. That's really all there is doing a lot of it is having convictions in terms of knowing what you're doing and knowing what you want, not. Waffling that the rub there. Perhaps you should have a strong point of view. Maybe that's a good qualification for a producer, I would say, But that's just one man's opinion. Anyhow, it's been no manahama, nahamanahama years. As we've got a Star Trek movie. John Show is gonna have to play like Sulu's grandfather at this rate. I mean, you know what I'm saying. I mean come on, don't be really cool. But yeah, I mean, why not, we'll do a time travel thing or whatever.

1:23:56 But it's just like, let's get let's get the thing going here. It's just like it's kind of at this point, you know, I know that I would use the phrase laughingstock, but you know, but still it's it's kind of embarrassing considering the you know, how much other franchises are producing content. But I digress, so just ignore me. Fifteen years to say happy birthday to Alan Van Sprang. Okay, he an idiot actor who portrayed Leland in the second season of Star Trek Discovery. Very very cool. Then oh this next one though, this one's all other fine birthday folks, but this one gets me excited because I just think the guy's a legend. Okay. I'm a big fan of the incredibly prolific British actor Malcolm McDowell, who, of course, in Starture Generations played doctor Stolian Soren, the man responsible for killing James T. Kirk. Yes from Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Malcol macnowell is, I would say a legend of course. He burst onto the scene in Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange portraying villainous Drew Alex in nineteen seventy one, and to come out of the gate in a Stanley Kubrick movie, and especially one that was as just pivotally shocking and unpredictable as that one was. If you've never seen Clockwork Orange, can I just look into the camera and say, what

1:25:27 is wrong with you? That's so good? I mean, it is just it is. It is groundbreaking, and it becomes a little bit more relevant every year, unfortunately. But fantastic film. Big Kubrick fan, and I just think it's a remarkable role there. But my personal favorite, I just always any chance I have to talk about this picture, I can't stay away from. It is a much kinder, gentler. Malcolm McDowell starred in one of my all time favorite films, Nicholas Myers Time after Time, where he portrayed HD Wells. This is one of those movies that a lot of people have not seen.

1:26:07 Have you seen this? Be? What? No? I have not, and I'm sorry to say I have not seen a Clockwork Orange either, so I will hide my head in shame. It's okay, it's kind of dark. It's kind of dark, but I know what I'm moving that well is delightful and enchanting and suspenseful. Seek out time after time. I'm always amazed the number of people that have never seen it. It is absolutely remarkable and it's a really it's a side of Malcolm McDowell you don't normally get to see. And it's just you're entertainment and enchantment. I just love this picture. And it's directed and written by the great Nicholas Meyer, who we were lucky enough to have on this show. And it's just a it's a love letter to the imagination. Big fan of this picture. And again, happy birthday, Malcolm McDowell. There's any chance to celebrate you, we will take advantage of because I just think you're a legend and very very cool. Let's go to current iterations of Star Trek. We will be in a few four weeks we will be feasting our eyes once again on the great Carol Kane, Emmy Award winning actress who plays Pelia and joining up on the second season of Star Trek, Change New worlds, causing all kinds of antics, very antiic driven character. Of course, Calcaine is a legend.

1:27:25 She was on Taxi was spectacular and the Princess Bride has done tons and tons of work over the years. Is just a great comedian and hilarious and enchanting performer, so always wonderful to get to see her. I'm very curious to see what you and the writers do with this character in the upcoming season. I think, I'm just curious to see. I don't know that you've been utilized to the full extent of your very formidable talents in this game, so I'm hoping that they get a chance to let you dial deeper. I think would be great. So really look forward to seeing her regardless. And finally, for me, another legend, one of the most phenomenal humans can think of, is give it up. Give it up please in a big way for Zoe Saldana. Okay, I am just a huge admirer of everything that Zoe Saldana has done. Phenomenal talent. I think one of the best actresses working out there right now. She of course, we're acknowledging her for playing Ouvo in the two thousand and nine Abram Star Trek and subsequently in Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond. I think no stretch at all to say she's wanted highlights for those films every time she Joiced Saldana shows up to work, okay, and she is just phenomenal, and she has just basically owns science fiction in this current period of filmmaking. Right. She

1:28:57 has been in multiple Avatar movie these okay as Natiri, multiple Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers movies as Gomora, right. I mean, she is just unbelievable, really really impressive, tremendous actress. I don't know if everyone had a chance to see her in Amelia Perez where she won the Oscar this year, but she's dynamite picture. I think the movie got a bad rap for all kinds of reasons, but Zoe Saldana is just stunningly good in it, really really great. So man again, I would really like to see this cast come back and do another Star Trek movie. And you know, if it's only one more, great but go out with a bang. You know, you got such a talented bunch of actors there, it seems a waste to let them slip through your fingers. So paramount worse noverre We're wondering, how can you have the option to work with Zoe Saldana and letting and let it go. I don't get it.

1:29:57 It seems to me anyhow. That's my celebration. I'm thrilled to be able to tip our hats here in the middle of June to all these fabulous birthday celebrates. And we'll see who Uncle Jim's got on his birthday plate. Uncle Jim, take it away. Baby, Thank you, Paul. I usually pick all the Klingons for myself, but unfortunately we don't have any Klingons. But I've got the next best thing. I've got a gunch of awesome women on my list. First of all, the first Captain, we want to say happy birthday to Adam Marris. She was born on June thirteenth. The actors who played her Nandez and the Enterprise fourth season episodes Home a Flction and Divergence, And there she is. And she technically is our first Captain because she served on NXO two.

1:30:47 So happy birthday to Adam Marris. And now we've got a couple of Curtises that are not related. First, we want to say happy birthday to Kelly Curtis, born on June seventeenth. She's the actor who played Starta and DS nine's fifth season episode cap Their Pursuit. She's the older sister of Jamie Lee hurt As, who appeared in Star Trek Section thirty one, and the daughter of film stars Tony Curtis and Janet Lee and of course you know who they are. So happy birthday to Kelly Curtis and another awesome Curtis on our list of no relation, Robin Curtis, born on this June fifteenth. She was on our podcast not too long ago. She's the actors who played Savag and Star Trek three, The Search for Spot and Star Trek four The Voyage Home. She also played Talara on the TNG seven season episodes Gambit Part One and Gambit Part two. And that My Friends wraps up our Star Trek birthdays. And now it's time for some Star Trek news.

1:31:54 I'm gonna turn it over to Eric. Eric, take it away, buddy. Well, unfortunately we're starting our news this week with a bit of a remembrance, a new remembrance, and in fact, we just talked about this episode not more than a few months ago. Harris Yulin, the actor who perpetually played the bad guy, is unfortunately gone at eighty seven years Old Harris Ullen, veteran actor whose work included appearances in Scarface, Training Day, and Star Trek, Deep Space Nine died June tenth, twenty twenty five, of cardiac arrest in New York City, at the age of eighty seven. Spanning nearly one hundred and fifty roles from nineteen seventy to twenty twenty four, Eulan's work never made him a household name, yet it earned him an Emmy Award nomination in nineteen ninety six for his appearance on the sitcom Fraser, and made him recognizable to film buffs and television fans across several generations.

1:32:56 In addition to landmarks like Scarface and Training Day, Eulin was in movies such as Ghostbusters two, Clear and Present Danger, and The Million Dollar Hotel. Perhaps more prominent was his television work, which included popular shows of several eras Kojak and Little House on the Prairie in the nineteen seventies, Cagney and Lacy in the nineteen eighties, Star Trek, Deep Space Nine in the nineteen nineties, and in the twenty first century, The X Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Law and Order, Veep, Ozark and many others. He was also a well traveled stage actor, performing in Ireland and on Broadway and productions of The Diary Van Frank, Death of a Salesman and others. To Star Trek fans, Harris Eulen will always be Amon Maritza from the Deep Space nine episode Duet, perhaps in my opinion, one of the best episodes of Deep Space nine and probably one of the top ten episode of Star Trek ever in all time.

1:34:02 That role was unbelievable. I just really respect this man's body of work, and it's too bad that we lost him. I guess it happens to us all. But I'm just so glad that there's so much out there that we can always go back and watch again and remember this important and influential actor. Harris Ewlen lost just a couple of days ago, well almost a week ago now, on June tenth of this year. So that does it for that story? V Why don't just set us up for a little bit of a happier thing, all right? Well, if I can add real quick. Malcolm McDowell is also the uncle of Alexander Sadig, who played Doctor Bisher and Jamie Lee Curtis is married to Christopher Guest, who might know from you know, this is Spinal Tap and all those great movies. So just how to put the So we have some exciting news, and I wonder what the age limit is because I want to do this.

1:35:06 Star Trek's Starfleet Academy becomes real with Nachelle Nichols Space Camp. So Nachelle Nichols the original Ohura. The Space Camp opens its doors in January twenty twenty six, and it's the closest thing to a real life Starfleet Academy as seen in Star Trek. Inspired by the legacy of Nachelle Nichols, who played the iconic Lieutenant Niota o'hura on Star Trek the original series, Nachelle Nickels Space Camp is committed to giving young women in an education and future careers in steam science, technology, engineering, arts, and math, impacting their lives for the better. Nachelle Nickels Space Camp also represents Star Trek's philosophy of idic infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Nachelle Nickels Space Camp is a partnership between the Naschelle Nichols Foundation and the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

1:36:12 Since nineteen eighty two, the US Space and Rocket Center has been a globally recognized program that mirrors the intensive training of NASA astronauts, emphasizing teamwork and leadership, and fueling the dreams of future space explorers. Nachelle Nickels Space Camp is open to young minds from all fifty States territories and over one hundred and fifty foreign countries, reflecting the diversity and inclusivity of Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets. Michelle Nickels Space Camp is a three day program combining established astronaut training including zero G and space suits, with topics like Mars columnation and the possibility to our possibility to contact intelligent alien life. Michelle Nickelspace Camp post programs for a wide array of space enthusiasts, including learning about space, aviation and robotics. Students will work as a team and confront mission scenarios that require dynamic problem solving and critical thinking, developing twenty first century learning skills applicable to real life workplaces and everyday life. That sounds fantastic and I'm too old, but I hope lots of kids go into that program.

1:37:43 All right now, Jim, you've got something to tell us about. Yeah, thank you so much. VI. Michelle Yo Star Treks Section thirty one performance nominated for Critics Choice Super Award January. Star Trek Section thirty one was a franchise's first Foray industry movies, arriving with mixed reactions from the media and fans, but Star Michelle Yo did receive some praise for her performance, and she just picked up another accolade to form an award nomination. The Critic Choice Association announced the nominees for the annual Critics Choice Super Awards, honor in the year's finest and Genre Fiction, which includes categories like superhero, science fiction, fantasy, for an action. For this year, there was only a single nomination for the Star Trek franchise. Michelle Yo picked up the nod for Best Actress in a Science Fiction Fantasy Series, Limited Series or Made for TV Movie for her performance as Philippa Georgeou, reprising her role as the former Terran emperor from Star Trek Discovery for the streaming movie.

1:38:51 While Section thirty one struggled with mostly negative reviews, the nomination demonstrates Michelle Yo, as her fans amongst critics. This isn't a big surprise, as her trophy shelf includes many prestigious awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She previously won as Critics Choice Super Award in twenty twenty three for her leading role in the film Everything Everywhere, All at Once. Section thirty one did hit the Nielsen's Top ten list for three weeks. Star Trek executive producer Alex Kurtzman has expressed hopes that it could be the first of a series of streaming Star Trek movies, but so far there is no word on any other streaming movie project going into development.

1:39:42 How unfortunate for us. And with that, wait, we have one more thing to discuss, David roll the tape. Maybe here we go, There we go. Maybe maybe.

1:41:29 After forty years, we asked what do the fans want? But instead we're making this movie. May the Schwartz be with you. So I wanted to end the show with that because I saw it and I was like, this can't be real. But it's real. So I just I can't wow. I am so excited for this movie. We don't we don't we don't have John Candy anymore unfortunately, so Barf won't be around unless they'll be casting. But Paul, what do you think are you looking forward to this one?

1:42:15 Yeah? I mean this is like one of those trailers, man, where it's like, you know, I mean, it's a it's a deal trailer. It's like we have a deal, we're kind of got a green light. I mean, you know, let's you know, I don't like to get too excited till we actually have a product. Right, It's just like I'm hoping it happens. You know, it could happen, probably will happen, but you know, it's a little early to get too excited because this is just this is pa. They don't they're not making the movie yet. You know, there was no scrip there. You know, they have a pitch and they're they're hopeful. Right. It's good to stay hopeful, you know. So I'm hoping that it's good. I mean, I don't think it would be really hard to make a better one than the first. You know, there's a lot of it's it's you know, it's fun to look back at it with nostalgia, right, But I mean I think they could do better. And it's it's I think we all can you know, who knows what they'll be riffing on. I mean, they had like thirty eight years of new science fiction to parody since then, right, so I think that you know, they had a very narrow lens to to parody. Right, we had like one, maybe two Star Wars movies when Spaceballs came down. So now I mean I got, you know, decades worth of other genre stuff to riff so they could really get So we'll see what they do. I mean, I hope they try something fresh, and I wish them the best. You know, there's hoping it's a success and that actually comes together.

1:43:38 What do you think, Eric, Well, you know, I generally speaking, I do enjoy mel Brooks humor. I'm probably one of the few people on the planet who's actually enjoyed watching History of the World Part two, which has been the television show that was just made in the last few years. Here. You know, it's a certain brand of humor, man, and either like it or you hate it. There are very few people who just sort of like it. You know, I'm in the like it camp, don't. I don't mind how over the top and ridiculous it is. So I didn't realize that there wasn't a script or anything, that this was more of a pitch thing. But you know, I mean, who's not this man like, for lack of a better term, is kind of on deaf store at this point, So who's not gonna like this?

1:44:30 Make the movie? I will go and watch it. I will likely enjoy it. Have I gone back and watched Spaceballs like fourteen times? No, but I've probably seen it half a dozen times, and every once in a while it's kind of fun to go back and revisit. So yeah, yeah, I'm totally excited about this, and and I'll follow mel Brooks wherever he wants to take us, honestly. And we did have Tim Russ on the podcast not too long ago, and he was in Spaceballs with that famous scene when they say combed the desert and he says we ain't found shit. That was Tim rust So yeah.

1:45:11 That was like the one thing he didn't want to talk about. The one thing he wanted to talk about. I asked him about go figure. Yeah, he was just like, this is what. I have to ask about Spaceballs. Yeah. I went to see Spaceballs at the movie theater with my wife, my girlfriend Karen. I loved it. I absolutely I loved at the beginning when the Star Destroyer flies over and they're playing the Jaws music and it just goes on and on and on. Everyone in the theater is just cracking up, and it's just I love the movie. I love the movie, and I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it. Just the tone of the trailer when they're listening. There's been thirty seven Star Wars movies who were prequels. One was a sequel.

1:45:56 That trailer. That was the first time I'd seen that trailer, and it was freakinghilarious. Let's not forget the alien movies, with four Predator movies who technically are an alien movies included. I mean, the whole trailer just set the tone for what I think the movie's going to be, and there's so much that they can pull from. I'm really looking forward to seeing it and I hope they do a great job. And uh yeah, I hadn't seen the trailer yet either, So that's why I wanted to show it here for you guys, because I know a lot of people missed it when they dropped it. So what do you think? V did you see the original space Ball as you looking forward to this one? Well, it's been it's been a long time since I saw it. I actually did see the trailer for Baseballs too.

1:46:38 I thought it was hilarious. And I've seen some talk on you know, online, and a lot of people don't want bar free casts because John Candy was just a comedic genius, and so they said they want to have like a memorial of him where they have like, didn't he have like a collar or something, just have his little collar, you know, with a underneath his picture or something like that. So I I, you know, and I doubt I was going to say didn't realize that Tim rust was because I've seen clips of him saying, you know, that's you know, I was. I was t vaking in Star Trek Voyage journal people can ask me, is about base polls where he didn't find shit? Yeah, so I'm guessing he's not going to reprise that role in the movie.

1:47:29 No. There's a funny He did a TikTok video of that and he's sitting at a cat box with a with a comb and he's combing through the little box and he looks up me and says I ain't found shit. So he makes fun of his own appearance as well. What about it? What about it? Charles against Baseball? I did see the preview, and I'm gonna give it a chance. Like Eric, well a little bit like Eric. Unlike Eric. I tried to watch his Toy of the World Part two and realized some of the comedy comedy just isn't quite making it to the new century.

1:48:15 It's got an edge, man, it's got a hard edge. It's still got the class, it's still got the classic comedy to it. Which and I'm a mel Brooks fan. Blazing Saddles his The World Part one were great movies when they came out. Curious to see what he does with this one, and I will see it. I will definitely go and watch it, because yep, I'm a Spaceballs fan. Well, David, we're probably putting you on the spot because I don't think you were born when Spaceballs came out, but you might have caught it on TV at some point or rented the video.

1:48:57 When did it come out? Now, I'm curious. I didn't actually look then. I'm not that young. I got gray now. But who doesn't like a good spoof? I mean I like Young Frankenstein. That was one of my favorite movies growing up. H And you know, speaking of poofs, has anybody seen thumb Wars? Yep, that Thumb Those are pretty good spoof beIN off of all sorts of different types of TV shows and whatnot. But yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I did see the original space Ball and I thought it was a really hilarious and I haven't seen it in a long time, but yeah, I'm I'm excited about it and seeing what they can do.

1:49:46 We'll probably talk about it on this very podcast, which it comes out a long long time from now. All right, guys, Well that wraps up our podcast for this week. H Paul, What are we going to be talking about next week? Buddy tantalize our viewers. Well, friends, if you think you know science fiction, and do you think that it's either column A or Column B, Star Wars or Star Trek, guess what, there's a whole column ce that you don't even know about. And we're going to dive into the wackiness of legendary cult British science fiction phenomenon. That is, if you need a dose of the seventies, Do we have a dose of the seventies for you. We are going deep into Space nineteen ninety nine next week, okay, and we're going to talk a little bit about season one, not so much about season two, but we'll probably talk about it a lot.

1:50:40 But it's unique, very much to quote what Eric just said a few minutes ago in another context, you either really like it or you really really don't. And it's a thing of its era, frankly, but it features the great Martin Landau and Barbara Vain, Barry Morris and released you're gonna see some of the most groundbreaking special effects ever, this from like the early seventies. So look forward to it. Check it out. We'll have some fun clips on here. And I just love this crazy show. It's a train wrecord times, but man is it fun. And it's definitely a product of its era. So if you're ready to talk seventies science fiction, show up next week and we'll knock your socks off with this thing.

1:51:25 It's great. So there you go. This is our Beyond, our Star Trek Beyond. We're going beyond. So a lot of people don't remember, they've never seen it, they've never watched it, they don't know about Jerry Anderson. Right, So this is this is especially I am hitting in Morse code button to all of our global fans in the UK and beyond, because over there, Space nineteen ninety is a big deal. I happen to know in particular, Italy is exploding for some reason. I'm not really sure why. Italy is shock full of Space nineteeney nine fans. It is huge over there. They have ridiculou list conventions. It's nuts. But we're gonna talk some British sci fi next week and have a lot of fun talking about it and hopefully a lot of laughs because I think we could use it. So there we go.

1:52:11 Absolutely, And you guys probably noticed I snuck in a special birthday just for Charles and Eric this week. I threw that in there because we reviewed those episodes on this very podcast. We reviewed the Jody Whitaker doctor Who. So hey, if you ever want to talk about and shoot take Gottla episodes. Man, I'm all about filling time with some new doctor who. We just might do that. We just might do that, all right, guys, Well, that wraps up the podcast. I'm your most excellent host, Uncle Jim, and I want to say thank you, and good night to Charles for hanging out in trek talking with us. Tony, thank you so much.

1:52:51 Carol, Oh, thank you. It's always fun talking trek and lower decks lower. Lower decks, low word deck both. So the the I T the it T woman that worked at the school that I'm working at, is a huge star Treks fan. And every time we see each other in the hallways, I'm going to shout out to Whitney. She gives me the Bulkan salute, the sarcastic so U, which is always fun. And thank you so much t V for hanging out and trek talking with us. Thank you so much for all right. Always a pleasure. And again I can't do it, but I like at the end where she goes, she goes like that when she has.

1:53:38 The Klingons. Uh, what did the Klingons say? Live short and die without honor, live long and die without the lower decks? Klingons had a different. Same thing. The gem hadar s victory is life? Yeah? What did the anyways, And I want to say thank you so much for Paul for hanging out with us and trek talking and recommending space nineteen ninety nine. Thank you Paul. Oh, it's gonna be fun. We're gonna get crazy. Beyond is a good place to. Be, especially now. And thank you so much to Eric for hanging out in Trek talking with us. Thank you so much. Eric. Absolutely, I had a great time tonight. And I have been watching Space nineteen ninety nine for the last month and I am all in, buddy, so I'm super excited to talk about it next week.

1:54:23 I'm Dragon's Domain. I just watched that episode last night. Yeah. All I can say about Dragon's Domain oh my yeah. I oh, we'll go more next week. But the paralysis that that invaded. Yeah, thanks for thanks for giving me sleepless nights. Yeah, memorably disturbing, man, I'll tell you. Yeah. And I want to say thank you so much to David for all the work you do with all the video clips and the birthdays and everything. Thank you so much, David. You're welcome and miracle worker transmission out.

1:55:05 That's right, And as I said, I'm your most excellent host. Uncle Jim saying everybody please stay safe and be good to each other. Remember Star Trek fans are the best fans. You better believe that hailing frequencies are closed good night everybody. I'm long and prosper long and prosper. All visions. I'm ready for departure, Sir. Some problem RCA, just hoping this isn't the usual way of missions will go, sir. Oh, no, number one. I'm sure most will be much more interesting.

1:55:45 Let's see what's up there. Engage