Feb. 20, 2026

Episode 673- Starfleet Academy "Series Acclimation Mil" Discussion

Episode 673- Starfleet Academy "Series Acclimation Mil" Discussion
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In this episode, Uncle Jim and his crew explore the latest developments in Star Trek, focusing on the episode 'Series Acclimation Mil' from Starfleet Academy. Our experts discuss character development, thematic elements, and connections to classic series like Deep Space Nine, along with fan reactions and industry insights. In this episode, we explore the latest in Star Trek collectibles, celebrate notable birthdays of Star Trek actors, and discuss upcoming toy releases and industry insights. Join us for a deep dive into the world of Star Trek memorabilia and behind-the-scenes stories.
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Trekers Around the Globe's Thursday, February nineteen, twenty twenty six.

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Welcome to episode six hundred and seventy three. I am

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experiencing some technical difficulties on my end. In case you

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had it noticed, my internet is going in and out

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and in and out and in and out. So I

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don't know why, but we're gonnasevere. We're gonna press ahead.

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Damn the torpedo, full steam ahead. Anyway, it's without any

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further ado. On tonight's podcast, we're gonna be talking about

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last week's episode of Starfleet Academy, which was episode five.

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Serious acclamation Mill Sam. Okay, we're a little bit behind

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because we had an Adam nimoy on, but that's okay.

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We'll survive. I'm on the second at eight thirty.

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We're gonna have on this last show rescheduled Gabriellez with

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hell In from Star Trek Lower Down, so mark your

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calendars and join us to that. We also have tonight

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our band shout outs where we go around the world

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and we think that just like you out there for

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supporting our podcast, we have our fan reactions, our episode scores,

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what active the share our birthday with and are signed

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by Birthdays, and we have some Star Trek news what's

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going on around the stars universe.

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But before we dive into all of that, let me

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go around and introduce my awesome trucks. First. Let's start

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off with Paul. He's our toy guy. He's out Oregon.

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How you're doing, Paul.

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Doing all right? Doing all right? Ready for fun.

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It's gonna be a lot of fun. Our Cisco Sode

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as we want to call it. And also from Portland,

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we have Eric. How you doing tonight?

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Eric, I'm doing really good, Super excited to talk about

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this episode. Uh, miss and v You know, with only

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five of us, we feels like we're only five six

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of the way there, But I guess we'll have to

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make it happen.

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Huh.

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Yeah, we were testosterone fun.

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And also we have David with the show.

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David, I agree with everybody, we should all have fun

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tonight and freeze and freeze.

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We'll freeze off. Not from Portland, but for us. I

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guess we have our very own child job.

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I'm doing all right, trying to deal with the crazy weather,

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third storm of leftovers from California, lots of rain, snow

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in the mountains.

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Yeah, we'll expect the six to eight inches of snow tonight.

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I'm so excited background hog, I want to run over

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a I want to dive right in and get right

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to the show. Here as you can get over our

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Facebook page truck Talking and beyond and at the top

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to see a pin page Live long and prospers. Asking

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where you're listening from, all I need to do is

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go there. That's where you're listening from. These some emodies,

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lots of dancing emodies. Guess my attention a crossheart from

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yours truly, uncle Jim, and that means that you are

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going to feature in a fan shout it out, So Eric,

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would you like to get us started tonight?

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Would I ever? Our first fan shout out this week

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goes out to Michael kugeir Ukas kugur Ukas, who is

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from Athens Grease, one of my personal favorite cities on

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the planet. H Man. It's it's amazing how from anywhere

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in the city you can see the the acropolis, like

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the entire city is kind of organized around this one place.

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Michael says, resistance is futile. Well, but is it? Michael? Anyway,

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thanks for saying hi from Athens.

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Grease.

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Also saying hello to us this week is John van

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den Brook, who is hailing from Torquay in England. Live

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long and prosper everyone sending us that amazing emoji hansimple

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book and handsomble. Thanks John for saying hi to us.

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Also saying hello this week is Anya Schmidtz from Dusseldorf

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in Germany. Hi, Anya, thanks for saying and hello to us.

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And last, but not least on my list is Amen Benemar,

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who is hailing from Drome in Provencale. How do you

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say that? Help provencal Provin, Sally, Thank you. I knew

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you would know that.

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Thank you very much, Paul.

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That's in France, of course, I mean thank you so

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much for saying hello to us from France. And because

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we are missing v this week, Charles is going to

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be covering her Hello, So Charles, I passed this megaphone

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onto you.

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Thank you, Eric, And I'm not sure how this one

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got under her list.

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Welcome to Terrores Capoli Lopez from Mexico.

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Welcome, Welcome Chris B.

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Saul.

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I myself from Lowers Sackville, Nova Scotia. I'm a colder

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part of Canada. Welcome ter a teen Thames from Atlanta, Georgia.

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Welcome, Sorry about that, Wayne Royal.

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I'm in the Nahala Mountains in western Northern Carolina close

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to Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina. Welcome Dwayne. Welcome Faith,

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Marie Longo, San Dio, California. Second Generation. My mother was

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part of the letter writing campaign that started by Boje

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and John Tremble to save TOS. Welcome Faith. Welcome Wayne

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Rosencrass outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Watch every episode of TS

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A high schooler and haven't missed an episode of the

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following shows. Second Generation, Where's your Massachusetts doing her bit

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to keep the legacy going. Welcome James W. Smith from Abdington, Alberta, Canada.

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Second Generation too young for the original, but definitely everything else.

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Turning with Star Trek the animated series.

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And last time I lets welcome Mary Easily Smith's from Mississippi.

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Welcome all and pass this megaphone over to Paul.

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Thank you, Charles, appreciate it their first of all, Let's

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say hello to our friend Nick Rush, who is sending

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us greetings from Ponty Cloon in South Wales in the

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United Kingdom, a magical land where all kinds of enchantments

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are rumored to have taken place throughout time. Wales an

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amazing country. To be sure, you've got to get behind

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any municipality that hasn't drawed it on its flag.

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So I think that's pretty awesome.

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Live long and prosper to you. Nick Rush in beautiful Napoli, Naples, Valentina,

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Oreona is saying hello to us, Valentina. It's great to

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know that there are so many Star Treks brands sprinkled

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throughout Europe, in particular in your wonderful country. So that

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is wonderful news. Hello to Daniello gay Jick in somborg Daniello,

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Gai Jick. Great to hear from you, thanks for being

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a fan and being in a Star Trek enthusiast. And

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let's say also hello in beautiful La Plata, Argentina and

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Alia Veronica, d Go Muccio, gu Muccio living in an

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unnecessary Italian flavor. I'm gonna blame Valentina's overflow for that

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one there. And Argentina magnificent country, and wonderful to know

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that there are a triple threat of Star Trek fans there,

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given all those icons and emojis so great to hear

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from you. Wonderful always to see that there are Star

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Trek fans everywhere on the globe, as desparate as we

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may see them. Sometimes there's a lot that we have

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a domin which is absolutely fantastic. Thanks Global Citizens. On

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to you, Uncle Jim.

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Why, thank you so much, Paul.

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I want to start off by saying thank you so

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much the top fan, Kirksta who's listening to us in Nebraska.

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Thank you, Kirk, and thank you for being a top fan.

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We also want to say hello and thank you to

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Bill Busha who's in Appleton, Wisconsin, Chris Brown who's in Michigan,

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and another top fan, Joyce el Stanfield, who's in Manhattan,

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New York City. And that, my friends, wraps up our

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fan shout out support this week. If you'd like to

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So please please do that, all right, guys.

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So we're going to be talking about Starfleet Academy of

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the five series Acclamation Mill, and we're going to have

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Charles dive right in here and give us a little

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bit of a debt training before we get started.

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So take it away, Charles.

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Oh, thank you, Uncle Jim.

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This cadet training is stuff we can tie into other

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Star Trek or sci fi series to this episode. And

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why do I say sci fi because one of the

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first things that popped into my mind this one, I say,

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tied to the More Can Mindy series from seventies eight

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to eighty two, as work from Ork always reported back

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to his planet, as Sam is reporting back to her people.

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One incident I did find last mind I've forgotten about

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TNG's Tapestry season six episode fifteen where we find out

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how why Pericard has the artificial heart and little fight

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he got back when he was in Starfleet Academy, and.

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Then the reference left. Rest of these all reference in

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a DS nine.

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Where you can learn more about Captain Shooting Commander and

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Captain Benjamin Cisco, the Emissary. We learn a lot about

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Jake Cisco, we learn a lot about Dax and when we.

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Visit the Little Museum there you see a few references.

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To d S nine and the series the baseball, the

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orb that Sam visits the typewriter analy discussion with Cassidy.

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And they talk about Cassiw's with the relationship they.

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Had, so that this series you pretty much have to

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go back to a lot of d S nine to

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get a lot of history to it. I think Paul

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would love to talk about what happened in this episode

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when he turns his mike on.

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Sorry about that. I was just so riveted I lost

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track of what I was doing. Again, folks, we are

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talking about episode five of the first season of Start

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for the Academy on here, and in this particular episode,

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it's named after one of the characters, the first photonic

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member of Starfleet Academy series Acclamation Mill or Sam as

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she's more personally know. We don't really know exactly what

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that means or stands for yet, but this is a

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we're getting our first insight into all of these different

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characters in a series of episodes here, and this one

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really gives us a little bit more information about Sam,

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and it's a journey of her self discovery and awareness.

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While it's kind of dovetailing with her discovery about the

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legacy of the emissary of Commander Benjamin Cisco from Deep

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Space nine, because she's aligning that with herself being an

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emissary for her people as well and making those kind

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of correlations there. So I thought this is a terrific episode.

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It is really, as Charles intimated, this is a love

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letter to Deep Space nine. Very often it can be

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a bit of a redheaded stepchild, if you will. It's forgotten,

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it seems all too often, and people have not become

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as familiar with it as they could be with say

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Next Gen, for example. But it's really really a beautifully

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written and an extremely affectionate touchdown to the series. Here,

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Sam is working to understand her identity as a holographic

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or photonic being, and her general purpose has been to

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be an emissary for the creators of her homeworld a

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cask right. She becomes in this episode very quickly obsessed

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with the mystery of Benjamin Cisco's disappearance during the Dominion War.

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There's a lot of callbacks to Deep Space nine, who

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I took to be a Cardassian professor. Ela reveals down

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the road towards the series end, I'm sorry, folks, got

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to put this spoiler, and it's kind of a big

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one that she is the current host of the Dax

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Symbian and helps Sam by sharing a book written by

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Jake Cisco, and it's really great. So we learn by

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her studying about Cisco's disappearance. And what's great is I

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liked this, and I'm sure ericson have a lot of

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thoughts on this, because I know Eric's steeped in Deep

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Space nine lore and in particular some of the adjacent comics.

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They don't really tell you or give you a defenitive

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answer of the mystery of Benjamin Cisco, and I really

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like that. The fact that they kept a lot of

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that mystery alive. To me, that seemed really appropriate. There

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is a secondary plot about Chancellor kel Rec having a

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complete Neil Simon nervous breakdown, trying to prepare for this

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complex alien ritual to secure peace with some other equivalent

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person from another spacefaring species. Right, And they do this

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dress rehearsal dinner with jet Reno and the doctor that

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just devolves into complete nonsense. It's very funny from stuff there,

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but I didn't find that quite as rich and satisfying

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as the main plot with Sam, which was wonderful. I

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episode were finding your own path in fast, what other

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people may expect of you, dealing with the expectations of

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your parents and those who created you, and the importance

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of the individual experience. I thought the really really beautifully done.

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This episode is written by Star Trek alumnus Tawny Newsom,

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who also plays that Dex Kardassian instructor there of course

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veteran of Lower Decks and Strange Worlds, and she did

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a wonderful job of putting the screenplay together. I thought

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it was very fresh, inventive. Happy to say more about

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that later, but I just thought this was a really

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interesting show. I think that the actress who play Sam

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has been one of those ones who's just gotten a

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lot of resist stunts, I think initially from some of

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the fan quarters, not you know, being open to fresh faces,

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and I just thought she was absolutely charming in this

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episode and really a breath of fresh air and a

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real delight and help put a fresh face for anybody

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who sort of felt like an outsider was going into

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an academic or work environment for the first time. I

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thought she did a great job of humanizing that. And

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for somebody who's not a human being character who's photonic,

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if you will, I thought she was just enchanting and

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quite relatable. So for me, a really interesting episode. What

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do others think? How do we want to go through

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Next? Folks?

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First, we have to have every week on our Facebook

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page start talking, and beyond on Friday, what would be tomorrow,

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I'll post a post asking you guys are fans, to

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score the episode on a score one to ten, with

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ten being the best and if you want to share

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your opinion why you liked it, why you didn't, we

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do that and we will definitely read those comments on

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the show and we're going to have Eric talk about

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that right now.

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So take it away.

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Yes, Michael Wilson said eleven out of ten, even though

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I'm tempted to give it a deep space nine out

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of ten. So I'll tell you what, Michael will make

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it ten out of ten and put it in the numbers.

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Thank you very much. Jeff Massey gave it a nine

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point five out of ten. They gave sarroc lofton Avery

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book Brooks jobs paid a nice tribute. I'm not sure

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what I think. They're just saying a nice tribute to

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Avery Brooks. Nice to have sarrock lofton there, and they

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used the theme the DS nine theme during the credits.

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Was a little ticked that they had to use a

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motorcycle outfit in place of the DS nine uniforms and

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the week excuse for why they didn't use Brook's face,

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but that was probably just a financial issue. But other

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than that, it was great. So Jeff Massey's probably referencing

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that we don't see Avery Brooks face at all, and

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that is for licensing and royalty issues as far as

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I understand, So thanks Jeff.

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He's also retired from acting as well.

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I mean he's been and I think people are respecting

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his wishes right now. Which I think is awesome. James M.

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Johnson gave it an eight. Story was really nice homage

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to Cisco and DS nine. Only thing keeping it from

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a ten is too much silliness with the sim character.

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It was a little over the top. Thanks James. Rick

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Carter gave it an eight point five. It would have

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been higher had we seen images of Avery Brooks in

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addition to hearing his voice. But I laughed through most

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of the episode. Loved the Edgar Wright Scott Pilgrim vibes.

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They cried then cried seeing Sorock lofton and during Sam's

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understanding and the reveal about Tonny Newsom's character.

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Wow.

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Thanks Rick.

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Jordan Hawk said I have to give it a ten

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for then the nostalgia. This is a version of Star

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Trek that is not claiming to be anything but what

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it really is. It's giving us a glimpse into young

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adults and how they would have lived it out. This

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feels like the original series, all grown up. I love

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the playfulness and the humor. I truly believe this is

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how my Star Trek Academy experience would have went. I

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definitely would have put those plants in the military school.

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Lol.

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Thanks Jordan. I probably would have too. Patricia Anne Green

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eleven out of ten average down to ten. Loved it,

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especially Si Rock, the Avery Brooks vo and the DS

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nine theme outro. Character development is great. I'm looking forward

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to getting to know more of the characters. This is

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not the Star Trek that I grew up with, adult

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officers managing crisis in space already trained and experienced. This

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Star Trek is showing how those officers developed. Some of

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these characters will go on to be legends in their lifetimes.

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We get to see the beginnings, the recovery from the

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burn and the following isolation looks hopeful and isn't that

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what Star Trek is about? Hope for the future.

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Awesome?

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That was a great review, Patricia.

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Thanks.

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Cliff Dickinson gave it an A. I love Starfleet Academy.

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I don't care what others think. I think it's brilliant.

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I mean my forties grew up with the TNG in

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the and Voyager being my favorite trek. This one is

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great and Keith Danforth has a lot to say. I

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would say maybe a six and a half out of ten.

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The overall theme and execution surrounding the topic of the

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Cisco of Beijor was amazing and I could definitely see

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that Tawny knwsome writing this episode, knew the DS nine

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source material and Cadence for playing her role in it

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as well as driving that story between Cisco and Sam.

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The addition of Jake as well was an amazing touch.

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But the way the whole episode was then wrapped in

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this girly pop modern life of Me presentation, along with

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an extremely odd and somewhat out of place b story

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with the adults, threw off what could have been a

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much more tight, tighter and authentic old trek experience. Instead

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of doing all those silly bits, I would have liked

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to have seen Sam actually visit Beijor, maybe travel through

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the wormhole and try to contact the beings there herself,

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maybe meet other living descendants of the crew. There were

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some opportunities there to make it a very classic trek

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dilemma mystery that still fit the look and feel of

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this series with the students. That was a great review, Keith,

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thank you very much. Ian McMurray gave it a nine.

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The writing continues to impress. The ode to DS nine

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was long overdue. The more I watched this show, the

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more I like it, And last, but not least, Greg

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Gebhart said ten, with three exclamation points, Let Tawny write

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more episodes, three exclamation points. Been writing since nineteen seventy

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eight with TS reruns. This is a great show. Oh

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been watching? Sorry, I've been watching since nineteen seventy eight

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with TS reruns. This is a great show. Thanks Greg.

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That gives us this week guys a combined fan score

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of eight point three. And I will say some very

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thorough and quite thoughtful reviews, so very nice.

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Ah wow, who wants to be our engineer? Who wants

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to get us started with?

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I get started? Well, sort of bookend this. So this

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was my absolute favorite episode of the season, so first

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and foremost, it does come out of the gate pretty

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hot and heavy with the graphics and the sort of

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fourth wall breaking style that he uses. It's almost like

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Sam is shooting a like a promo video that she's

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going to show to somebody else later about what Starfleet

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Academy is about, and because she's in college, and because

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it had the whole show kind of has that college vibe.

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I didn't mind that one bit, and I actually thought

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it was cute and I agree with I think it

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was Paul who said that Chris Brooks is freaking not

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only is she adorable, but she's an amazing actress in

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this one, and I think she really shows her range

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how she kind of like does a bunch of different

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things here. So just loved the beginning and it was

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okay with me. The idea that she's on this journey

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of self exploring was very appealing to me as well.

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Self exploration, though not necessarily being the Starfleet Academy part

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of it, but more of the you know, how do

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I interact with these people? The not the nuts and

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bolts of the academy, but more like the social interactions,

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learning about human beings.

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And that kind of stuff.

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I will say I found the aliens like her makers.

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I don't know why they had to use this kind

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of like menacing voice for them. It felt a little

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it felt like at any moment they were gonna flip

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and be evil or something. I don't know. So anyway,

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a little too much technology thrown into the makers interactions,

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things with the sound processing and stuff. Would just like

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to see that kind of brought.

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Down a little bit.

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But okay, so specifically the b story, I guess some

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people brought up the dinner thing. You know, that one

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was kind of in the grand scheme of things unnecessary.

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But I think that Star Trek always does a really

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always does its best when it has at least a

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couple of storylines going. And it didn't feel to me

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like the Sam one had enough, Like you want to

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be able to break away from her and tell different

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stories for a moment, and we get a little bit

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of that with some of the characters, but mostly this

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is a Sam episode and then the adult story episode

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with the practice dinner thing going on. Okay, let me

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see checking out my notes here. I don't want to

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talk about everything. One thing that okay, so I love

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seeing of course, Jake Cisco is great to see. Sarrock

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Loften brought back everybody's in agreement there. I thought it

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was cool to kind of understand that the recording of

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him that was made is the is the latest thing

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that we have. It was actually made post Picard, so

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it was made in like twenty four something. He's so

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Sorock Loten is now Jake Cisco is now the thing

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that bridges closest to our thirty second century from Picard,

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which I just think is kind of a neat little thing.

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How you know, Star Trek has chosen to kind of

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jump ahead and then fill in the timeline later. I

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expect we'll kind of continue as the years go by

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to sort of see the rest of that timeline filled in,

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and then I'll just say the reveal at the end

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with the Tawny Newsome is a Dax, I just thought

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it was great. I did think that Tawny's makeup was

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kind of heavy and sort of a little bit distracting,

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but I think that they kind of had to do

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that since she was already another character on Star Trek.

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It's like, you know, when they give Jeffrey Combs a

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different characters, throw him in some kind of heavy makeup

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to sort of allow him to act his way out

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of that. So so nice to see a trill. Nice

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to see another kind of what I took to be

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a mixed race character. She looks Cardassian, but her features

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are really soft, and you know, so I'm assuming there's

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kind of like a mixture of different races going on

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in there, which is the vision that Star Trek is

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kind of showing in this thirty second century world. Right,

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We've seen very few Jayden maybe pure Klingon, I think,

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but we've most people we see are of mixed race,

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which I think is kind of mirroring what we see

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in our world right now, which of course all good

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science fiction does. So there's probably more that I could

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say about this episode, but I'm gonna let it be there.

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I'll just say I absolutely loved it. It had a

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good rhythm to me. It was fifty eight minute runtime,

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which feels long, but all of these episodes have kind

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of been a little bit longer, and it feels like

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there's enough going on in the stories to like fill

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my attention for that full fifty eight minutes, so it

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doesn't it doesn't really matter.

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To me that it's not long.

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So I this is my favorite episode all season. So

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I'm just going to give this one a ten out

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of ten.

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A deep Space ten. As one of our fans.

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Said, yeah, yeah, and I mean I didn't. I'll kind

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of let others talk about some of the Deep Space

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nine stuff that has already been brought up. It's that

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the homages to Deep Space nine here amazing, right, especially

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if you're a fan, So, yeah, who wants it next?

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David? Do you want to jump in here?

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You know, yeah, so I can jump in.

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Uh yeah, so.

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Deep Base nine and you all know is my favorite series.

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This particular episode trying to pat the homage. I did

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enjoy seeing a lot of the the different uh like

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Captain Chicco's uniform. A lot of his is like, you know,

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the baseball that he had, all the other different types

476
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of relics of that time period that they had in

477
00:27:56.200 --> 00:28:00.519
the museum. However, there was one piece of museum artifact

478
00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:02.079
that I thought was kind of weird that they put

479
00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:07.640
in why Typewriter. I was like, was that something that

480
00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:10.039
Ben actually did or is that something that he was

481
00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:12.279
doing in his mind? Because I thought that was like

482
00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:13.839
in his actual mind.

483
00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:16.759
Was it was in his mind? But listen, it's it's

484
00:28:16.839 --> 00:28:19.680
kind of like the inner light, right, like Picard learned

485
00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:22.680
how to play the flute in his mind or in

486
00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:25.759
this like other reality.

487
00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:26.039
Or whatever world.

488
00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:28.599
Right, So I think it's like that, like Cisco came

489
00:28:28.680 --> 00:28:31.400
back from the Benny I always want to say, Benny Hill,

490
00:28:31.480 --> 00:28:35.480
what's his name? Benny darted from that, you know, from

491
00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:39.079
from Far Beyond the Stars from that episode, and then

492
00:28:39.079 --> 00:28:41.720
I would assume that he went to the antique shop

493
00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:44.799
and bought himself a typewriter, like that model of typewriter,

494
00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:47.200
right as like a memory piece.

495
00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:50.160
I could, I could see how that it worked. Yeah,

496
00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:53.279
So to me, that kind of took me out a

497
00:28:53.319 --> 00:28:55.599
little bit, but it brought me back in again as

498
00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:59.799
they were kind of like exploring, like like how Paul

499
00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:06.480
and you know, they didn't fully explain what happened to

500
00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:09.559
Benjamin Cicco, like it was kept the mystery, which I

501
00:29:09.640 --> 00:29:13.680
actually appreciate that too, and I actually liked that. So

502
00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:17.880
even though his every book face was like covered up

503
00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:21.799
in a lot of different places, I kind of don't

504
00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:23.680
understand why they did that. But at the same time,

505
00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:26.119
I know that he's retired and he probably has a

506
00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:29.039
lot of rights to his face beyond the show and stuff,

507
00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:35.039
So to me, I respect that. But to me, though

508
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:39.599
this particular episode, there was a lot of different changes

509
00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:45.079
that really didn't feel like it belonged in the episode,

510
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.559
like that whole bar scene where it was just like

511
00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:53.799
he was programming her to get drunk, and I'm like, Okay,

512
00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:57.480
it's just a little strange for me. That whole bar

513
00:29:57.880 --> 00:29:59.920
sequence just felt a little out of place for me.

514
00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:07.519
But going through the whole process of like figuring out

515
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:18.240
like the figuring out the uh Sam, Sam, what's her

516
00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:20.359
name again? What do they call it?

517
00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:21.359
That?

518
00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:27.079
Uh? The fact that she was an imita kind of

519
00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:32.440
made me a little intrigued about her character because now

520
00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:36.640
they can explore that further. And it was just like

521
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:43.880
the idea of her creators apparently who I actually thought

522
00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:48.480
were humans who created her because she looks human and

523
00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:50.680
I thought she was such a hologram, but I guess

524
00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:53.640
she's a different version of type of a hologram.

525
00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:56.880
So, David, in my opinion, they did a poor job

526
00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:00.400
up until now explaining this, So it wasn't until this

527
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:04.519
episode that I feel like I fully understood, like what

528
00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:08.200
her deal was. So, yeah, some other race out there

529
00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:13.480
in the galaxy created photonic beings who then rebelled against

530
00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:16.279
that race and went out and did their own thing.

531
00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:20.079
And so now those photonic beings that rebelled against their

532
00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:23.920
organic makers have made other photonic beings. And that's what

533
00:31:24.119 --> 00:31:30.720
Sam is because she's emissary to Starfleet, and Starfleet is

534
00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:34.519
like mixed race, but like mostly human human height, right, that.

535
00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:35.319
I can understand.

536
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:40.000
Yeah, But to me, the idea of this now is

537
00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:42.960
a thing that she's part of a different race kind

538
00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:46.039
of makes me wonder where you're going to take the

539
00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:51.359
character now. So I didn't like the beginning where the

540
00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:53.720
bubbles kept popping up. That took me out of it

541
00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:54.400
for some reason.

542
00:31:54.599 --> 00:31:56.480
But yeah, just me.

543
00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:04.039
But let's see what I did like the outro music

544
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:12.680
very uh uh nashell Aldrich for the Deepase nine series.

545
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:16.200
So yeah, but to me, I don't know, there's just

546
00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:19.200
something about this particular episode that just didn't resonate me

547
00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:20.519
with a lot of things. I had a lot of

548
00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:23.759
downsides to dish rather than upsides. But I'm gonna have

549
00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:29.039
to give this particular episode a I'm gonna go for

550
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:32.000
a six. I think that's why I'm gonna I'm gonna

551
00:32:33.480 --> 00:32:36.720
go for six and just go at it from there. Yeah,

552
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:38.200
who next is?

553
00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:40.960
Can I say something about the bar the drunk bar scene,

554
00:32:41.319 --> 00:32:44.880
just real quick? So I understand that the drunk bar

555
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:48.960
scene is uncomfortable for some folks because they don't sort

556
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:53.279
of get that. But I will tell you that for

557
00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:57.279
many people who go to college and kind of like

558
00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:59.759
make groups of friends at college and go out and

559
00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:02.759
have fun and like do things like that, one of

560
00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:07.119
the kind of things that like graduates your mind believe

561
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.440
it or not is doing things like getting drunk for

562
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:14.920
the first time and seeing what happens, or telling you know, uh,

563
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:17.400
getting in a weird situation for the first time and

564
00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:19.200
seeing what happens, the smoking power for the first time,

565
00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:21.160
seeing what and like this is how you kind of

566
00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:24.240
like figure out the world around you. So that's how

567
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:29.200
I read that that scene was like, okay, number one,

568
00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:31.920
Sam is like dung ho right, so she overdoes the

569
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:35.839
shots thing right away. She's like, I want it all girl, yep.

570
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:38.519
And then she which is of course, wait, like twelve

571
00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:41.039
shots at once would like put most people under the table.

572
00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:42.799
The fact that she was even able to function was

573
00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:45.759
kind of amazing, But like that was her trying to

574
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:49.799
explore her humanness to kind of the nth degree, which

575
00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:51.759
is something that you do in college as well. So

576
00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:53.680
that that was my personal take on it.

577
00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:59.480
Yeah, to me, I'll be quiet now, that whole felt

578
00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:04.039
a little awkward and it just didn't really fit the

579
00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:06.599
progress of the show. I guess I don't know.

580
00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:11.960
Oh well, well, I guess I guess I'll jump in

581
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:15.400
here because when the first time I watched the episode,

582
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:16.119
I didn't like it.

583
00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:18.599
I was right there with David.

584
00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:22.719
I was like, you know, steffleet Academy is a new show,

585
00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:26.280
we have new characters. Why are we wasting time on

586
00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:26.960
Deep Space?

587
00:34:27.079 --> 00:34:27.199
Now?

588
00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:30.599
It's it's we don't need to We know everything we

589
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:33.360
need to know about Deep Space nine. It's dead, it's gone,

590
00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:36.760
it's very let's move on. And I wasn't impressed. I

591
00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:39.679
was like, what an other waste of time? All the

592
00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:42.360
things they could have done, and they decided to do this.

593
00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:46.079
We got ten episodes and we wasted one on deep Space.

594
00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:50.320
Now this was my initial thought. No, I say initial

595
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:54.079
thought because after I watched it the first time and

596
00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:55.599
I was shaking my head, and I went to work

597
00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:58.119
the next day like I had to come home and

598
00:34:58.239 --> 00:34:58.880
watch it again.

599
00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:00.519
I do.

600
00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:02.719
I watched it the first time, and then I watched

601
00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:05.440
the second time and or the third time to review it.

602
00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:07.880
And I have to tell you, the second time and

603
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:11.159
I watched it, I enjoyed it much much more than

604
00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:12.039
I did the first time.

605
00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:18.079
And then the third time, I really enjoyed it much

606
00:35:18.199 --> 00:35:20.559
much more. I looked at it differently than I did

607
00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:21.320
the first time.

608
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:25.639
So I have to preface that because I think a

609
00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:28.239
lot of fans might watch it once and that's that's it.

610
00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:32.199
But I watched it more than once, and I was

611
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:35.239
looking at the Deep Space nine stuff from a different

612
00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:37.960
point of view than I was the first time I

613
00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:40.960
watched it. You know, she's the emissary, she's trying to

614
00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:42.920
make a connection. She connects to Cisco.

615
00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:44.280
You know.

616
00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:45.039
That was great.

617
00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:51.239
I loved seeing Jake there, and the reveal that Fawnie

618
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:55.920
Newsome is in actually Dax was awesome. The Deep Space

619
00:35:56.039 --> 00:36:01.039
nine music was awesome. I did not like the the

620
00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:06.039
fish ceremony thing. I thought that B plot wasn't needed

621
00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:10.519
at all. Was it funny, yeah, but it wasn't necessary.

622
00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:14.760
I'm correct. I think this is the first time that

623
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:18.440
Started Academy has actually done that where they have these

624
00:36:18.519 --> 00:36:22.159
A and B plot stuff running simultaneously. I don't remember

625
00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:26.440
them being like that, and it just felt like this

626
00:36:26.800 --> 00:36:28.760
plot was stuck in What.

627
00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:31.159
Do you talk about, Jim, Like, almost every episode of

628
00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:32.800
Star Trek has a B plot.

629
00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:37.679
Album not not not like this, like that pretty much

630
00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:41.400
every kind of narrative drama, television storytelling you can name.

631
00:36:41.400 --> 00:36:43.639
I mean, if you look at it and you sometimes

632
00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:47.000
it's wowed in more discreetly and so it doesn't seem

633
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:50.079
as overt as this one was, but it's it's storytelling

634
00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:53.559
one on one. There's always more than one plot happening guaranteed.

635
00:36:54.519 --> 00:36:58.400
Well, so then this B plot was very poorly written

636
00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:03.000
because it's it's jumped in my face and softly. The

637
00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:06.239
Academy hasn't been doing that. These plots of the episodes

638
00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:09.039
have all flowed seamlessly. This one, I was like, it

639
00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:11.480
just didn't fit. It didn't make sense to me to

640
00:37:11.559 --> 00:37:14.480
put that in there for what reason? So you know,

641
00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:19.960
there was that, But I did really like seeing Sam

642
00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:22.519
learn how to, how to drink, how to be a human.

643
00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:26.000
I like the relationship. I like the fact that that

644
00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:30.400
Remy throws up glitter. I thought like, that's a that's

645
00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:32.119
an interesting fact.

646
00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:36.599
And I'm like David. I did like the whimsical what.

647
00:37:36.679 --> 00:37:40.000
Do you call it, the little drying the crayons, that

648
00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:43.840
this is the type of thing at the beginning, I thought.

649
00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:46.360
I really liked the way it was started, where she

650
00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:49.400
was talking about all the different nicknames that she has.

651
00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:52.760
I thought that was clever. And also I also liked

652
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:57.960
the fact that we got to see a Kaleb and

653
00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:03.760
Trisma Tarima's relationship move a little bit forward. And I

654
00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:05.719
liked that it wasn't in your face. They kind of

655
00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:09.360
just moving it forward just enough so that we could

656
00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:11.119
know it's still going on and it's still there. And

657
00:38:11.119 --> 00:38:15.320
then the bar fight started, so you know there's that too.

658
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:20.760
But overall, I did enjoy it more the second and

659
00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:22.519
third time I viewed it. I was going to give

660
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:26.239
it a six like David, but after watching a couple

661
00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:30.239
more times, I really really enjoyed it, and I'm going

662
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:31.559
to bump my score up to a beat.

663
00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:34.599
So that's that's where I ended up.

664
00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:37.880
After being disappointed the first time I watched it, I

665
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:43.119
bumped it up to a So that's that's my take

666
00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:43.440
on it.

667
00:38:43.559 --> 00:38:45.920
And Charles, you want to jump in here next.

668
00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:49.559
It's okay m hm.

669
00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:53.519
As I mentioned before, I think it's a little bit

670
00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:58.559
that the bar scene did. I can understand the needing

671
00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:03.079
for the bar scene of its college life, but I

672
00:39:03.159 --> 00:39:06.719
think just the fights in it got a little overdone.

673
00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:08.679
The b scene.

674
00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:14.559
Did get a little overdone, But I think it's there

675
00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:17.519
was a little there's just a little bit of plot.

676
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:20.000
Line on that one, and I think the plot line

677
00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:21.079
on that one was.

678
00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:27.800
Why the leader of the military academy has such an

679
00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:32.920
anger against the Chancellor because he looks in things that

680
00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:39.199
he gave that she gave up on Starfleet. And so

681
00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:41.559
I do like that little bit of plot line to

682
00:39:41.679 --> 00:39:43.599
that one. Took a long way to get to that

683
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:51.280
point here, but I do like that point. One interesting

684
00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:56.119
thing we got to see about Sam was the fact, like, Okay,

685
00:39:57.079 --> 00:39:59.840
we realized one of the points Sam is not human

686
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:06.760
because Sam can't eat. But it's like, okay, do you

687
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:11.960
put do you put tomato in gumbo or not? And

688
00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:14.440
I thought that was an interesting debate. I was like, Okay,

689
00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:17.280
let's about all this food that they all this food

690
00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:21.800
that Cisco at the restaurant used to make and all

691
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:24.440
these different offerings, and it's like, okay.

692
00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:26.320
I don't know what this says, like, help me tell

693
00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:29.519
me what it's like. It's like, I like that point

694
00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:29.880
of view.

695
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:33.400
It's like, Okay, she needs her friends to help to

696
00:40:33.519 --> 00:40:37.719
realize what all this stuff, what's special about this food?

697
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:41.559
A little bit about the fact that she wants to

698
00:40:41.639 --> 00:40:46.000
be a little human. Eric said, well why was it?

699
00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:51.559
Why was her the person monitoring her so angry?

700
00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:54.679
And I think that was a little bit of a

701
00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:58.559
callback still, and I love the meme that somebody put

702
00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:04.559
out there where they had Morc and her both there

703
00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:07.400
recording to their emissary and.

704
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:14.880
It's like, yes, I love it, I love you into this,

705
00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:15.480
this is great.

706
00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:20.840
But that's but that's exactly reminded me. I loved watching

707
00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:25.000
Mark and Minnie in the episode. It always had always

708
00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:25.760
had to talk.

709
00:41:26.239 --> 00:41:30.599
Back to his planet to what happened, And I love

710
00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:31.280
that spot.

711
00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:36.559
Eric Hitcher, Mike, I think I get an echo, but

712
00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:40.280
I love that spot of Okay and.

713
00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:42.559
Orson.

714
00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:45.679
Somehow Orson comes to mind as the one he was

715
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:49.519
reporting to, And yeah, he did get angry sometimes.

716
00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:51.199
He really wanted to know what was going on?

717
00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:51.840
What what what?

718
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:56.360
Why are these humans acting this way? And I think

719
00:41:56.440 --> 00:42:00.280
that's a little bit of the reminisence of what her

720
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:04.280
guidance person was doing. Was he wanted to sit there

721
00:42:04.360 --> 00:42:07.599
and say, Okay, why are humans like this? Can we

722
00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:14.760
trust humans? Can we come back to them? So I

723
00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:17.400
like that part of the story of Okay. We get

724
00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:23.079
a little bit more idea of the society, and the

725
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:28.800
society is a very interesting, unique society who's been staying

726
00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:33.679
staying away from other societies and can they integrate back.

727
00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:42.960
So I like what they're doing with that part. Overall,

728
00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:53.679
this episode. Hard to decide on this. I kind of

729
00:42:53.760 --> 00:43:00.440
agree with Jim a little bit towards Eric. Think I'll

730
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:02.400
score this once it's a little bit higher because I

731
00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:07.000
do think that bringing Jake back and bringing the voice

732
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:10.960
is just go back. I think really was a great

733
00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:15.039
homage to d S nine. So why don't we score

734
00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:16.639
a d S nine?

735
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:22.719
Nice?

736
00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:24.719
All right?

737
00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:28.440
Paul's basically like it's it's I see that information wants

738
00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:30.280
to flow from him right now.

739
00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:39.440
Yeah, it's interesting. I'm having a very rasho man experience.

740
00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:42.400
I'm sure no one knows what I mean, but it's

741
00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:45.719
very strange how it's we can all watch the same

742
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:48.440
episode and have very different takes on it. It's quite

743
00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:52.320
interesting to me. Again, I really want to compliment the

744
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:55.840
actress Carise. It's Crease Brooks, right, I'm pretty sure I

745
00:43:55.960 --> 00:43:57.480
write to play Sam. I think she did a wonderful

746
00:43:57.559 --> 00:44:00.920
job here, and I predict we're going to see a

747
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:03.800
lot more of her because she displayed tremendous range in

748
00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:05.920
this role here, right, And you may not. I mean,

749
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:07.559
there seems a lot of people really like, you know,

750
00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:10.480
ohs too much silliness or whatever. And I don't like

751
00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:12.840
the cartoon balloons and whatnot, and it's just like it's

752
00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:15.559
it's again. It's like, you know, I admire the show

753
00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:18.079
for being able to push past some of the narrow

754
00:44:18.199 --> 00:44:21.840
confines that a lot of old school Star Trek fans

755
00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:23.960
want to impose upon it. Right, it's just like it's

756
00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:28.480
not rock you know, it's too silly, more seriousness, and

757
00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:32.079
I'm I applaud them going in the direction they're doing,

758
00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:34.159
being willing to try new things. This is what a

759
00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:36.239
lot of us were excited to see Discovery do, try

760
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:38.360
new things. I'm very happy to see them doing on

761
00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:38.840
this show.

762
00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:39.440
Right.

763
00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:42.239
They having to adhere to a lot of like, you know,

764
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:44.559
kind of young person tropes, if you will, But it

765
00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:46.880
also feels liberating in a lot of ways. And I

766
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:50.599
love the affection for Deep Space nine, for the idea

767
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:55.320
of Benjamin Cisco as a legendary person to live up

768
00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:57.760
to a lot of young people in this environment. I'm

769
00:44:57.800 --> 00:45:00.639
going to live up to the shadow of people who

770
00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:05.760
have expectations of them. Genesis Life, her father's an admiral. Right,

771
00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:10.239
you must be a captain. You cannot fail. Jaden Cragg, Right,

772
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:13.480
you must be a warrior. You cannot pursue your less

773
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:17.239
violent instincts, you know, all the idea of you know,

774
00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:21.159
living under the shadow of other people's expectations, right, and

775
00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:24.599
we're seeing Sam having to contend with that too. That's

776
00:45:24.599 --> 00:45:27.920
a very relatable, very human experience, right, and to see

777
00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:31.519
it depicted like this, I think is quite refreshing and

778
00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:34.559
engaging to me. I thought this is extremely well written

779
00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:38.079
by Tonny Newsome, with a lot of affection for both

780
00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:40.320
the new characters on the show and the old legacy

781
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:42.440
characters of Deep Saxe nine. So I think she'd a

782
00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:44.960
wonderful job. But she tends to really show up and

783
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:47.440
go to work, right. I mean, I've heard she's working

784
00:45:47.519 --> 00:45:50.679
on some other kind of Star Trek comedy series to

785
00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:52.920
some degree right now. So I'm glad she's doing a

786
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:56.239
lot of writing, because she's clearly not just as they say,

787
00:45:56.280 --> 00:45:58.639
a one trick pony. She shows up with multiple skills,

788
00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:01.280
and I think she's going to add a lot the

789
00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:03.519
more she can continue to work with. The franchise has

790
00:46:03.639 --> 00:46:07.079
solid ideas and a lot of understanding of character that

791
00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:10.039
she brings from her work, isn't it. And when a comedian,

792
00:46:10.119 --> 00:46:13.440
so she did a great job here. I should be applauded. No,

793
00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:18.639
one's talking about Jade and Cragg and his relationships with Kyle.

794
00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:20.119
I was going to see if you were going to

795
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.039
bring it up and if you was on my list.

796
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:25.519
Yeah, Jade's wearing a skirt when he goes to the bar,

797
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:29.320
and he is being quite receptive to the flirtations of

798
00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:32.119
war college pal Kyle and you know a lot friends.

799
00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:34.000
If you have an issue with that, I kind of

800
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:38.519
feel bad for you, all right, because it's and nothing's

801
00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:43.719
been overtly explained or suggested yet. It's just been very innocuous.

802
00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:45.920
But I think it's quite nice that they are willing

803
00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:52.079
to be an accepting open Uh. It's just you know,

804
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:54.039
can we have a little more of this in the world, please,

805
00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:58.280
you know, a little less vitteral, a little less intolerance,

806
00:46:58.679 --> 00:47:01.000
and then that's that's a future star Trek is trying to,

807
00:47:01.239 --> 00:47:04.159
you know, help us. Embrace is a more tolerant one,

808
00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:07.800
a more inclusive one. So I think it's great. Eric,

809
00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:09.519
would you like to add some more than that since

810
00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:11.280
we've brought this up just a little bit, I mean

811
00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:12.800
I found it quite delightful.

812
00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:14.960
Yeah, No, I mean they sort of teased the last

813
00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:16.920
episode and then this episode they took it a little

814
00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:19.920
bit further. And it's very it feels very innocent and

815
00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:22.599
exploratory to me right now, which is what college is

816
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:23.039
all about.

817
00:47:23.079 --> 00:47:23.280
Man.

818
00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:27.400
So yeah, I I dig it. And you know, if

819
00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:29.360
it turns out to be nothing, then great, and if

820
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:31.000
it turns out to be something, then great. You know,

821
00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:32.119
that's kind of how it's going to go.

822
00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:34.440
And it's sumparting a lot of trouble.

823
00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:41.000
They cannot be gay, it's not possible. It's just it's

824
00:47:41.119 --> 00:47:44.519
utterly ridiculous. What kind of idiots are writing this crap.

825
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:48.039
It's too well and it's just a bunch of bs.

826
00:47:48.159 --> 00:47:50.800
I I just cannot be involved with this some.

827
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:57.119
Titled satirizing right now. It's not actually saying ex actual feeling.

828
00:47:57.639 --> 00:48:00.280
This is Uncle Jim's attempt to show us what you know,

829
00:48:01.079 --> 00:48:04.719
you knowing folks are thinking because of her no offense

830
00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:07.800
to right people, but for God's sake, get a room.

831
00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:14.559
But yeah, stupid, I think it's great. I really, I

832
00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:17.239
really really do. I like the way that handling.

833
00:48:18.719 --> 00:48:20.239
And you know what's what I like about it is

834
00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:22.079
the fact that Kyle is with the war college, right,

835
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:24.599
and you would expect, like, oh, this whole dynamic beginning

836
00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:28.000
war college, we hate you because we're alpha fighting with

837
00:48:28.119 --> 00:48:31.440
weapons and violence and aggression. He's just like mine, it's Kyle,

838
00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:35.920
what are you doing? He's just like, this is friendly

839
00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:39.639
and he's does not have any interest in fighting. He's

840
00:48:39.760 --> 00:48:43.000
just like, you know it, Kyle means Kyle. It's kind

841
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:46.639
of an innocent and he's not shy about expressing himself.

842
00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:49.760
And I think that's again I keep bringing up this

843
00:48:49.880 --> 00:48:52.880
word for this episode. I just found it, I think, right,

844
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:55.199
I mean, we're in an environment and there's a lot

845
00:48:55.280 --> 00:48:58.719
of grim stuff happening, and I just find this this

846
00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:01.679
take on this series be just exactly what I need

847
00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:03.840
right now. I mean very lighthearted.

848
00:49:04.519 --> 00:49:07.960
Yeah, I mean, Paul, wouldn't you say like I would

849
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:11.320
say that this series, more than anything else that we've

850
00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:15.519
seen in recent years, has this like super return to

851
00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:20.880
optimism vibe to it. And it's really the entire series

852
00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:22.840
is refreshing as a result. And I don't know if

853
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:27.079
it's because it involves young people kind of discovering things,

854
00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:30.280
or if it's just the cast mix that they have,

855
00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:31.920
or if it's the writing or what is it, but

856
00:49:32.039 --> 00:49:33.519
it feels very optimistic to me.

857
00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:36.960
Yeah, I'm really enjoying it. And you know, and I

858
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:38.800
don't want to feel like I'm dumping all over the

859
00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:41.400
B store either, right with Holly Hunter, because she's great.

860
00:49:41.480 --> 00:49:42.760
I mean, she's a lot of good stuff in this.

861
00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:44.760
We see a lot more from her next week because

862
00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:46.840
we're running two weeks behind here, so we're talking about

863
00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:49.559
an episode from two weeks ago. But I think she,

864
00:49:49.719 --> 00:49:52.119
you know, takes a little moment and adds a lot

865
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:54.039
to it, right, I mean, they didn't give her a

866
00:49:54.039 --> 00:49:55.880
lot to work with, but I think she did a

867
00:49:56.119 --> 00:49:58.480
super fine job. And you know, I mean, I you know,

868
00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:01.119
if I think if they would have just let jet

869
00:50:01.239 --> 00:50:03.840
Reno and the doctor just I'd live for ten minutes.

870
00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:06.920
I like where they were going. And I think if

871
00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:08.400
they would have just said, Okay, just let them go

872
00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:11.400
crazy here and see what happened, They're just like, there's

873
00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:13.360
such hams, right, they cannot stop.

874
00:50:13.559 --> 00:50:15.519
So I imagine I'm sitting at the bar together, like,

875
00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:17.400
I think, the most.

876
00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:19.679
More of that stuff that we can do, and an

877
00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:24.199
unhinged you know doctor, Holy g mh doctor. Right these days,

878
00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:26.239
he's pretty much at the point where he's he said

879
00:50:26.280 --> 00:50:28.840
to his academy friends, you know, his students, I give

880
00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:31.239
not two shits what you think. And I'm like, he's

881
00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:34.239
he's gone, he's sort of done right, he's over. He's

882
00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:36.719
just he's a little bit more unfiltered than he used

883
00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:39.280
to be. And I really like that. So yeah, I

884
00:50:39.320 --> 00:50:41.239
think there was just way a lot of good stuff

885
00:50:41.280 --> 00:50:45.079
going on in this episode. I was very charmed by it.

886
00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:49.800
I feel obligated to give it a ten, just because

887
00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:54.880
I think it is really strong and necessary right now

888
00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:57.280
to have this kind of stuff going on. I like

889
00:50:57.400 --> 00:51:02.519
that folks behind the scenes, showrunners, you get so much

890
00:51:02.639 --> 00:51:07.199
complaint in recent startric series, especially discovers, like you know,

891
00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:10.599
from from folks who are really uncomfortable with progressive ideas

892
00:51:11.079 --> 00:51:14.280
and homosexuality and things like that. Are people of different

893
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:17.199
ethnic backgrounds, Well, don't hate us over ahead with it,

894
00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:19.320
you know, just you know, I don't lock it, you know.

895
00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:21.840
And they're all very worked up. You're like, oh, we're

896
00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:24.519
just like shoubling it at us, right, And it's almost

897
00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:27.119
like the show owners kind of listen to part of that,

898
00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:29.920
and I said, all right, we're not going to put

899
00:51:29.960 --> 00:51:32.920
attention towards it, but we're we're just gonna do it anyway.

900
00:51:33.039 --> 00:51:35.480
But we're certainly not going to like, you know, stay

901
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:38.000
our hand or we're just gonna not even identify. We

902
00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:39.760
just give it to you and it's there. It is,

903
00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:43.119
And it's just like Laura Thuck and Reno you know,

904
00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:45.639
probably gonna have a honeymoon at some point, right and

905
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:48.159
you know I'm there for it. But you know, it's

906
00:51:48.199 --> 00:51:49.079
just a matter of fact.

907
00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:49.559
It is.

908
00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:52.000
You know, we're not holding back. It's like this cling

909
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:54.960
out is probably my sexual and having a good time

910
00:51:55.079 --> 00:51:56.880
and we were in a skirt, so there it is.

911
00:51:56.960 --> 00:51:58.719
But you know, it's not like we're talking about it

912
00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:00.719
and making a big scene about it. Just there it is.

913
00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:04.199
And I think it's almost subversive the way that they are,

914
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:08.960
you know, kind of saying, okay, hostile negative fans, we

915
00:52:09.079 --> 00:52:11.880
hear you, and we don't hear you. And they're kind

916
00:52:11.880 --> 00:52:14.880
of moving forward with I think a little bit more confidence.

917
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:20.079
They're certainly not you know, gelding the show to appease

918
00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:26.039
you know, conservative fans, which is thank fricking God, right,

919
00:52:26.280 --> 00:52:28.679
or we would have nothing to even watch. So I'm

920
00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:31.960
really happy about that. No offense to anybody, but Jesus,

921
00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:35.960
you know, I mean, these people, these people take a

922
00:52:36.039 --> 00:52:39.039
lot of grief, you know, the fat shaming and all

923
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:41.280
the stuff. I mean, it's really tough. They're trying to

924
00:52:41.320 --> 00:52:44.159
make a show that's refreshing and positive and uplifting, and

925
00:52:44.239 --> 00:52:45.719
I think they're doing a hell of a good job,

926
00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:49.880
so tend for me excited to keep watching. Love what

927
00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:53.159
they're doing. More Tony Newsome, more Carise Brooks.

928
00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:57.199
Please, if you guys are I've been posted on our

929
00:52:57.280 --> 00:53:00.599
Facebook page and I still might follow.

930
00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:06.920
Jaden Kareem Diane I think that's his name. I think

931
00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:11.280
that's his name, but yeah, that's him. I think that's him.

932
00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:14.880
He's allow him on Instagram and he has been taking

933
00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:17.800
so much Black in the Top and Star Trek fans

934
00:53:18.280 --> 00:53:22.920
over this, and he had the most eloquent response to

935
00:53:23.079 --> 00:53:27.679
that that I've ever seen, and I think I'm going

936
00:53:27.719 --> 00:53:29.719
to put it on our page because it sums up

937
00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:34.320
subtract absolutely perfectly. And the people that don't get it,

938
00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:37.719
the people that are so insulted and incensed over this

939
00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:43.440
whole thing, just don't understand it. And you know, I think,

940
00:53:43.559 --> 00:53:45.199
like Paul said, one of the one of the great

941
00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:49.239
things about it is that they're not hitting you over

942
00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:51.119
the head with it. All these people that are saying

943
00:53:51.400 --> 00:53:54.559
stuff like that they're forcing it down our throats. They're

944
00:53:54.599 --> 00:53:58.480
beating us over the head with it. Absolutely not true

945
00:53:58.719 --> 00:54:02.599
at all, not true it all. In fact, I think

946
00:54:02.679 --> 00:54:05.559
if you didn't really watch carefully, you might not even

947
00:54:05.639 --> 00:54:06.000
notice it.

948
00:54:06.079 --> 00:54:12.039
You might miss it. It's so subtly done so far.

949
00:54:13.159 --> 00:54:15.639
So you know, you guys should go check out his

950
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:19.360
Instagram page because and god, I was so disappointed when

951
00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:21.559
he wouldn't come out on the podcast. I would love

952
00:54:21.599 --> 00:54:24.119
to get this guy on the show and talk to him.

953
00:54:24.920 --> 00:54:28.039
He is an incredible dude. I think he's doing a

954
00:54:28.119 --> 00:54:33.400
great job with Jaden. So anyway, so Charles, what what

955
00:54:33.880 --> 00:54:36.119
do our Trucks Firsts have to say when compared to

956
00:54:36.239 --> 00:54:38.119
our fans on our Facebook.

957
00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:43.880
Page when we're almost in line with the fans. The

958
00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:47.920
fans gave this episode an eight point three and the

959
00:54:48.039 --> 00:54:49.679
host gave it an eight point six.

960
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:52.840
Wow.

961
00:54:54.559 --> 00:54:58.159
Wow, that is pretty much right, almost in touch with

962
00:54:58.280 --> 00:55:01.920
our fans. That's because it's talking has great fans. I

963
00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:06.360
gotta say that I think our things the best. I

964
00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:09.039
really didn't just saying that. Well, yeah, I am just

965
00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:12.199
saying it, but I think that we have some great fans.

966
00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:15.679
I really really do. I appreciate you guys, and I

967
00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:17.239
think I think you.

968
00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:21.519
Guys really shine when it comes to two Star Trek,

969
00:55:21.639 --> 00:55:26.199
So I appreciate that, all right, guys, So that pretty

970
00:55:26.280 --> 00:55:27.400
much wraps up all review.

971
00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:28.079
Next week.

972
00:55:28.159 --> 00:55:31.840
What was the name of that episode the Miriacky went, come,

973
00:55:31.960 --> 00:55:34.239
let's go, Come sail Away. What's the name of next

974
00:55:34.239 --> 00:55:39.159
week's last week's episode, Let's come, Let's fly.

975
00:55:40.800 --> 00:55:43.599
Believe it's come, Let's away. I believe it is.

976
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:44.039
That's it.

977
00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:45.400
That's it. That's it.

978
00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:48.159
We're going to talk about that one next week, so

979
00:55:48.679 --> 00:55:50.920
tune in for that. It's going to be a furious

980
00:55:51.079 --> 00:55:53.960
time see what I did with that, and we're gonna

981
00:55:53.960 --> 00:55:57.000
have a lot of fun. So it's time to move

982
00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:00.559
on to a Star Trek Birthdays. You know what that means?

983
00:56:01.079 --> 00:56:06.880
That means this, Why is this not working? What is

984
00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:08.119
wrong with this thing tonight?

985
00:56:29.920 --> 00:56:31.320
That was not a clean on song?

986
00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:34.840
Yeah, I don't know what's wrong on my internet tonight.

987
00:56:34.880 --> 00:56:38.039
It's just lagging, lagging, lagging. But did you guys see

988
00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:43.000
the video that it actually play? Okay, excellent? So guys,

989
00:56:43.039 --> 00:56:45.440
this is our Star Trek Birthdays and we always start

990
00:56:45.519 --> 00:56:47.679
off our start treks, well, our sci Fi birthdays. I'm

991
00:56:47.679 --> 00:56:51.039
sorry we changed it our sci fi birthdays by remembering

992
00:56:51.079 --> 00:56:54.039
those memories of our sci fi families, sadly enough, are

993
00:56:54.159 --> 00:56:55.000
no longer with us.

994
00:56:55.119 --> 00:56:59.039
And for that return, Yeah, Jim, good thing you corrected that,

995
00:56:59.159 --> 00:57:01.480
because we actually have two out of five this week

996
00:57:01.519 --> 00:57:04.400
that are not Star Trek related, but our Ci five related.

997
00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:08.440
Our first remembrance this week goes out to actress Susan Oliver,

998
00:57:10.519 --> 00:57:14.440
the actress that was the stage name of Charlotte Gurkey,

999
00:57:14.960 --> 00:57:17.400
a New York native who played Vina in the original

1000
00:57:17.480 --> 00:57:24.480
series pilot episode The Cage. And you know, interestingly, despite

1001
00:57:24.599 --> 00:57:27.239
the Orion dancing that we actually get in this episode,

1002
00:57:27.719 --> 00:57:31.360
she wasn't a dancer before playing Vina. She actually trained

1003
00:57:31.400 --> 00:57:35.280
with a choreographer every day of a week before beginning filming,

1004
00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:37.840
so she was like a quick study to get that

1005
00:57:38.039 --> 00:57:42.679
in there. In common with major Barrett Roddenberry, she also

1006
00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:46.000
worked as a tought subject for that Orion makeup, and

1007
00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:49.559
she said they tried many, many things until they finally

1008
00:57:49.599 --> 00:57:52.000
found what they wanted. There you go, So she had

1009
00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:53.800
to sit in the chair for I guess like days

1010
00:57:53.800 --> 00:57:57.599
at a time. Years later, she wanted to direct an

1011
00:57:57.639 --> 00:58:01.199
episode of the Next Generation I read, but never got

1012
00:58:01.239 --> 00:58:03.480
the chance. The response being that she didn't know enough

1013
00:58:03.519 --> 00:58:06.800
about visual effects. This despite the fact that a knowledge

1014
00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:09.639
of visual effects was not a director's requirement for the series.

1015
00:58:10.239 --> 00:58:14.400
Star Trek expert Larry Nemanchek has commented that Oliver could

1016
00:58:14.599 --> 00:58:17.159
very well have learned how to direct for the show

1017
00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:19.599
and been fine at doing so. So it sounds like

1018
00:58:19.679 --> 00:58:23.679
she wasn't given the opportunity that she probably was deserved.

1019
00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:27.159
But she did eventually receive an Emmy Award nomination for

1020
00:58:27.239 --> 00:58:30.679
her performance in the three hour nineteen seventy six NBC

1021
00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:35.679
television movie Amelia Earhart. So Happy Birthday to Susan Oliver.

1022
00:58:36.559 --> 00:58:39.280
Happy birthday as well to somebody who is near and

1023
00:58:39.360 --> 00:58:41.920
dear to my heart. Caesar Romero, of course, was the

1024
00:58:41.960 --> 00:58:45.440
American actor best known for his iconic portrayal of the

1025
00:58:45.559 --> 00:58:48.159
Joker in the nineteen sixty six to nineteen sixty eight

1026
00:58:48.239 --> 00:58:52.599
television series Batman. He was in twenty two episodes Back

1027
00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:55.599
in the Day. Listen, Caesar Romero is just one of

1028
00:58:55.639 --> 00:58:58.519
those names that I think almost everybody here in the

1029
00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:01.079
United States knows. He has over two hundred and three

1030
00:59:01.159 --> 00:59:05.760
acting credits on his IMDb page, spanning from nineteen thirty

1031
00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:09.719
three to nineteen ninety eight, so sixty five years of acting.

1032
00:59:10.280 --> 00:59:12.920
You can go through that and see how many just

1033
00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:16.679
amazing things he was involved with. In terms of volume

1034
00:59:16.760 --> 00:59:19.079
of work, you know, he was on fifty one episodes

1035
00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:23.639
of Falcon Crest in the mid eighties playing Peter Stavros.

1036
00:59:24.400 --> 00:59:27.719
He did do four episodes of Fantasy Island, of course

1037
00:59:27.760 --> 00:59:30.920
with Ricardo Montabon. And he did thirty six episodes of

1038
00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:33.559
a show called Passport to Danger back in the mid

1039
00:59:33.719 --> 00:59:37.199
nineteen fifties. But so many other great things. We're talking

1040
00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:40.239
Buck Rogers, Get Smart, Ocean's eleven, et cetera, et cetera,

1041
00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:43.280
et cetera. Thank you so much, Caesa Romero for being

1042
00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:45.719
my first joker that I ever got to see on

1043
00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:48.639
the live screen and for doing such a great job.

1044
00:59:48.800 --> 00:59:53.079
Happy birthday, Happy birthday. As well to Meg Gillespie Wiley,

1045
00:59:53.840 --> 00:59:56.679
the actress who played the Keeper in the first pilot

1046
00:59:57.239 --> 01:00:00.199
of the original series. Wiley had the honor of Tray

1047
01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:03.440
the first villain I guess they call them sort of

1048
01:00:03.559 --> 01:00:08.079
villain to ever chronologically appear on Star Trek over five decades,

1049
01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:12.599
would make around one hundred television guest appearances, including shows

1050
01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:16.079
like Twilight Zone, Untouchables, Adam's Family, and The Fugitive. She

1051
01:00:16.199 --> 01:00:18.599
can also be seen in a number of films, including

1052
01:00:18.639 --> 01:00:23.320
Alfred Hitchcock's nineteen sixty four thriller Marnie and the nineteen

1053
01:00:23.440 --> 01:00:27.719
seventy one cult action movie Vanishing Point. Happy Birthday to

1054
01:00:28.519 --> 01:00:32.599
Meg Wiley, Happy Birthday, as well going outside of Star

1055
01:00:32.679 --> 01:00:36.639
Trek to Jeremy Bullock, the British actor best known for

1056
01:00:36.719 --> 01:00:39.880
playing Boba Fette in Star Wars episode five, The Empire

1057
01:00:39.920 --> 01:00:44.880
Strikes Back, also myriad other incarnations of Star Wars, whether

1058
01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:49.159
they be video games, later movies, television series, et cetera.

1059
01:00:49.559 --> 01:00:54.039
One hundred and twelve IMDb credits, including mostly guest starring

1060
01:00:54.119 --> 01:00:56.760
in British television shows. When he's not doing Star Wars.

1061
01:00:57.679 --> 01:01:00.599
During the nineteen eighties, Jeremy played many roles on television

1062
01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:03.400
and on the stage in London's West End. He also

1063
01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:07.400
had two worldwide theater run tours covering the Middle East

1064
01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:10.800
and the Far East, and since the re release of

1065
01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:13.280
Star Wars in nineteen ninety seven, the interest in the

1066
01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:15.679
character of Boba fet has meant that Jeremy was invited

1067
01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:18.480
to many sci fi conventions and events all over the world.

1068
01:01:19.079 --> 01:01:22.639
His fan mail has increased fivefold, and this was before

1069
01:01:22.719 --> 01:01:24.519
we lost him back in twenty twenty. But his fan

1070
01:01:24.639 --> 01:01:27.800
mail had increased between the nineteen nineties and when we

1071
01:01:27.880 --> 01:01:30.119
lost him in twenty twenty fivefold, and he managed to

1072
01:01:30.159 --> 01:01:33.440
somehow reply to every single person who wrote him a

1073
01:01:33.519 --> 01:01:37.800
letter personally. So man, that's dedication. Thank you Jeremy Bullock

1074
01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:40.639
for being such a great Boba fet and for being

1075
01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:43.239
so engaged with your fans. I think that really means

1076
01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:45.679
a lot to people. And last but not least, on

1077
01:01:45.760 --> 01:01:48.639
our remembrance list this week, we have Peter Marco, the

1078
01:01:48.719 --> 01:01:53.199
actor who played Gaetano in the TOS first second first

1079
01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:58.239
season episode The Galileo seven. Marco had been active from

1080
01:01:58.280 --> 01:02:01.639
the early nineteen sixties to the nineteen seventies in acting.

1081
01:02:01.760 --> 01:02:04.119
Most of his known acting credits are guest appearances on

1082
01:02:04.199 --> 01:02:06.960
television shows such as The Outer Limits, Twelve o'clock High,

1083
01:02:07.519 --> 01:02:10.679
The Fugitive, and Mission Impossible. He also appeared in an

1084
01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:15.039
uncredited role in the nineteen sixty six film and American Dream,

1085
01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:19.480
and had a role in the nineteen seventy seven adult

1086
01:02:19.559 --> 01:02:24.639
movie The Capitol Hill Girls, also known as Political Pleasures.

1087
01:02:25.360 --> 01:02:31.400
Sounds Interesting. Paul or Peter Happy birthday to Peter Marco.

1088
01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:34.079
Perhaps there's more to see of him. We shall see,

1089
01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:40.079
moving past our remembrances. I'm going to pass this flaming

1090
01:02:40.159 --> 01:02:44.679
birthday candle over to the no over to Charles this week.

1091
01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:47.079
Oh thank you Eric.

1092
01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:49.480
And if I if I know and I was going

1093
01:02:49.519 --> 01:02:51.800
to have some of these birthdays, I would rearrange them

1094
01:02:51.800 --> 01:02:55.519
a little bit. That started as a Happy birthday to

1095
01:02:55.719 --> 01:02:56.719
Leslie Beavis.

1096
01:02:57.559 --> 01:02:59.039
I just who played.

1097
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:05.239
Yeah Rhon Naj in Star Trek D Space nine second

1098
01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:08.920
and third and fourth season episodes Homecoming, The abandon The

1099
01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:13.840
Broken Link portrayed a villain Commander Zircon in.

1100
01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:15.760
Spaceballs with Tim Ross.

1101
01:03:18.280 --> 01:03:23.679
Happy Birthday to Ellen Bry, actress who played Falaren in

1102
01:03:23.840 --> 01:03:30.079
ten g's sixtieson episode The Quality of Life. Happy Birthday

1103
01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:39.360
to Michael Ensign appeared as Kerala in TG's four season

1104
01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:44.559
episode First Contact, le y'all in DS nine's first season

1105
01:03:44.679 --> 01:03:51.280
episode The Forsaken and Tarkranian Bard in Voyagers third season

1106
01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:55.639
episode False Prophets and Are Rotten Enterprise the second season

1107
01:03:55.719 --> 01:03:57.360
episode Stigma.

1108
01:03:59.119 --> 01:04:01.679
Here Comes one of my I considered one of my

1109
01:04:01.760 --> 01:04:02.599
big birthdays.

1110
01:04:03.159 --> 01:04:08.400
A very happy birthday to Kirk Thatcher was the associate

1111
01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:14.159
producer in Star Trek for the Voyage Home, also playing

1112
01:04:14.199 --> 01:04:20.039
the direct assistant to Leonard Nimoy in the episode, and

1113
01:04:20.559 --> 01:04:24.400
is well known for playing the part as a music

1114
01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:27.920
blastic punk on the bus in the film. He's also

1115
01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:32.719
the Vulcan computer and a writer of His Questions, lending

1116
01:04:32.760 --> 01:04:40.920
its own name to Kari kin Va, and composed the

1117
01:04:41.039 --> 01:04:43.639
song I Hate You, which plays in the boombox in

1118
01:04:43.760 --> 01:04:50.639
the movie. Narrated the animated Star Trek short Check episode

1119
01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:56.199
at Threema and Dot returned as the Punk of the

1120
01:04:56.280 --> 01:05:01.159
bus in Star Trek episode Perkars a Watcher. Also looking

1121
01:05:01.199 --> 01:05:06.440
into his history, was spent some time as a puppeteer

1122
01:05:06.760 --> 01:05:12.159
for the Muppets and spend a little bit of time

1123
01:05:12.239 --> 01:05:18.119
working in ILM and did some design work including I

1124
01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:23.199
Believe It Was Star Wars episodes five and six.

1125
01:05:25.119 --> 01:05:29.039
So interesting career for Kirk. Very Happy birthday to him.

1126
01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:34.599
Happy birthday to Andrew Robinson, best known for portraying Ellen

1127
01:05:34.719 --> 01:05:38.320
Garrick in DS nine. He also provided the voice of

1128
01:05:38.440 --> 01:05:42.280
Garrick in the video game series Star Trek d Space nine,

1129
01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:46.239
The Fallen and Star Trek Online, and wrote a novel,

1130
01:05:46.280 --> 01:05:50.760
A Stitch in Time, which He also narrated the audio

1131
01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:51.800
version of that book.

1132
01:05:54.480 --> 01:05:57.039
Another good one for me in my non sci fi.

1133
01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:03.719
Happy Birthday to Christopher Michaelson, English actor, best known for

1134
01:06:04.320 --> 01:06:10.000
her work in various social realist television dramas, and best

1135
01:06:10.119 --> 01:06:14.960
known as The Ninth Doctor and the Doctor Who series

1136
01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:16.840
only had Christopher.

1137
01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:19.320
For a year in the series, but.

1138
01:06:21.400 --> 01:06:24.079
He came back in two thousand and five when they

1139
01:06:24.159 --> 01:06:27.440
went through the Doctor Who reboot.

1140
01:06:28.679 --> 01:06:30.119
Because they were.

1141
01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:34.159
Waiting for Tenant and Tennant couldn't come in till two

1142
01:06:34.199 --> 01:06:38.800
thousand and six, so we spent a year with him,

1143
01:06:39.599 --> 01:06:44.320
and he made excellent Doctor. He brought some very powerful

1144
01:06:44.480 --> 01:06:50.159
episodes and really gave us a good basis for the Doctor.

1145
01:06:49.960 --> 01:06:52.559
For Tenant to come over and take over. Wouldn't you agree?

1146
01:06:52.679 --> 01:06:52.840
Eric?

1147
01:06:54.840 --> 01:06:57.079
Absolutely? I was going to say, I was going to

1148
01:06:57.159 --> 01:06:59.199
make a joke that probably only you and I would

1149
01:06:59.239 --> 01:07:00.679
get Charles, But I was going to say that his

1150
01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:06.159
portrayal of the Doctor was fantastic. It's one of his

1151
01:07:06.840 --> 01:07:10.440
lines that he would say, is the Ninth Doctor. Yeah, anyway,

1152
01:07:11.239 --> 01:07:13.599
he's the guy. So I was not a classic Doctor

1153
01:07:13.599 --> 01:07:16.559
Who fan, and I fell in love with Doctor Who

1154
01:07:16.639 --> 01:07:19.199
because of Christopher Eggleston and I actually love the way

1155
01:07:19.239 --> 01:07:21.280
that he portrayed the character. It kind of like had

1156
01:07:21.639 --> 01:07:23.559
he had this leather jacket thing going on, right, so

1157
01:07:23.599 --> 01:07:26.480
he has like this gritty edge to him, and plus

1158
01:07:26.559 --> 01:07:33.599
he's British and he's kind of like somewhat uh affronting

1159
01:07:33.960 --> 01:07:34.599
is that the word.

1160
01:07:34.840 --> 01:07:37.719
Like, he's just very aggressive with the way he communicates

1161
01:07:37.719 --> 01:07:39.840
at the beginning of the series, and so he kind

1162
01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:41.639
of have to be like WHOA, Okay, I get.

1163
01:07:41.519 --> 01:07:45.719
It anyway, scar Yeah, where is the star?

1164
01:07:46.400 --> 01:07:48.360
Well, he's got the jacket. You know, need a scarf.

1165
01:07:48.360 --> 01:07:49.639
When he got a jacket that beautiful.

1166
01:07:51.880 --> 01:07:55.920
Only one doctor had a scarf. Only one doctor was in.

1167
01:07:56.320 --> 01:07:58.840
He was in the the very first twenty eight days

1168
01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:03.360
later too know that you should. He's gonna heavy in

1169
01:08:03.480 --> 01:08:04.679
that picture and he's.

1170
01:08:07.320 --> 01:08:09.840
Well, as I always sit there and tell people, it's like,

1171
01:08:10.440 --> 01:08:14.199
Baker was my first doctor, but Eccleson's the one that

1172
01:08:14.320 --> 01:08:16.479
brought me back to Doctor Who.

1173
01:08:17.880 --> 01:08:20.279
And Eric, I'll understand this one.

1174
01:08:20.760 --> 01:08:23.720
One of my favorite line, one of my favorite lines

1175
01:08:24.920 --> 01:08:27.560
from the Christopher Eccleson era.

1176
01:08:30.039 --> 01:08:37.760
Is a line are you my mommy? Oh that that's

1177
01:08:37.800 --> 01:08:40.279
a creepy but such a great episode.

1178
01:08:41.920 --> 01:08:43.920
Children in gas Masks that's all I'll.

1179
01:08:43.800 --> 01:08:49.800
Say, yes, yeah, well you.

1180
01:08:52.319 --> 01:08:56.640
Yeah, ah, and final on my list, so we can

1181
01:08:56.680 --> 01:08:59.199
move over to Paul because I know he's itching over there.

1182
01:09:00.039 --> 01:09:04.560
Happy birthday to Zach Gillian, who played David Gentry in

1183
01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:08.760
Voyagers Fitz Is an Episode into the Flesh. He's best

1184
01:09:08.840 --> 01:09:15.680
known for playing Billy Peltzer in the Gremlins movie and

1185
01:09:15.800 --> 01:09:17.960
now Our Fastest Yes.

1186
01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:23.560
What are the three rule to number one?

1187
01:09:25.119 --> 01:09:30.319
Don't feed him after midnight, don't get them wet, don't

1188
01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:31.039
get them wet?

1189
01:09:31.119 --> 01:09:33.960
And I can't think of number three. I can't remember

1190
01:09:34.079 --> 01:09:34.560
number three?

1191
01:09:34.800 --> 01:09:35.720
Is it loud noises?

1192
01:09:38.960 --> 01:09:44.560
How about your David? David knows, David knows everything. No,

1193
01:09:46.560 --> 01:09:48.920
your hand, The answer is not the Queen's.

1194
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Don't play loud music.

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01:09:54.319 --> 01:10:00.960
Eric, Yeah, I know, well, I remember it mostly because

1196
01:10:01.039 --> 01:10:04.119
Gizmo has that Gizmo that's his name, right, he's like

1197
01:10:04.239 --> 01:10:08.079
bright light, bright light right, so it's like from bright

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01:10:08.159 --> 01:10:08.720
lights right.

1199
01:10:16.520 --> 01:10:23.319
Okay, he that will happen on occasion.

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01:10:23.520 --> 01:10:24.760
Here's a flaming candle.

1201
01:10:26.199 --> 01:10:30.760
Oh, thank you, Charles. All I can say is that's

1202
01:10:32.520 --> 01:10:39.520
that's my commentary, birth and night. Yeah, okay, it's focus friends, focus.

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01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:42.239
First of all, Happy birthday goes out to the legendary

1204
01:10:42.319 --> 01:10:46.840
Pernilla August, Swedish actress who we acknowledge in sci fi

1205
01:10:47.039 --> 01:10:51.319
fandom for playing the role of Smi Skywalker in The

1206
01:10:51.399 --> 01:10:56.479
Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. Of course, Skywalker

1207
01:10:56.680 --> 01:11:04.199
is the mother of Anakin Skywalker slave and portrayed in

1208
01:11:04.279 --> 01:11:08.239
the show right later portrayed another version of the same

1209
01:11:08.359 --> 01:11:11.159
character on the Clone Wars TV series. So great to

1210
01:11:11.279 --> 01:11:19.399
see her. Any Bergmann fans out there, probably Fannie and Alexander, anybody, no, No,

1211
01:11:19.479 --> 01:11:22.159
I guess not, but Fornella August, of course, has a

1212
01:11:22.199 --> 01:11:25.439
long history of foreign films as well, prior to being

1213
01:11:26.359 --> 01:11:30.560
mainstreamed over in the lucasfilm universe. So happy birthday to

1214
01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:35.960
you for Noella August. Happy birthday goes out to Neil McDonald,

1215
01:11:36.520 --> 01:11:41.319
very cool cat who came out in Star Trek First

1216
01:11:41.479 --> 01:11:43.600
Contact in a big way. I thought they were going

1217
01:11:43.640 --> 01:11:46.319
to do a lot more with his character, Lieutenant Hawk,

1218
01:11:47.119 --> 01:11:49.000
first time we'd ever seen that character. They were sort

1219
01:11:49.039 --> 01:11:52.439
of positioning him I thought to be a mainstay, a

1220
01:11:52.560 --> 01:11:56.399
new character, but his time on the Enterprise was short

1221
01:11:56.479 --> 01:11:59.800
lived at the hands of the Borg he was known

1222
01:11:59.880 --> 01:12:03.119
for or his one of his early roles The Band

1223
01:12:03.199 --> 01:12:05.319
of Brothers on HBO. I don't know if anyone's seen

1224
01:12:05.399 --> 01:12:12.800
that show, but tremendous miniseries Desperate Housewives, Minority Report, Walking Tall,

1225
01:12:12.920 --> 01:12:15.560
Flags of Our Fathers in the fourth season erow so

1226
01:12:16.119 --> 01:12:18.880
you see him. I'm pretty sure he has done a

1227
01:12:18.920 --> 01:12:21.760
lot of other stuff on FX as well, but real

1228
01:12:23.479 --> 01:12:28.520
visually arresting character, really cool actor. So happy birthday, Neil McDonough.

1229
01:12:28.640 --> 01:12:31.039
We'll keep an eye out for you. Happy birthday to

1230
01:12:31.119 --> 01:12:35.000
Caroline Blakeston, British actress who played the original Man Mathma,

1231
01:12:35.920 --> 01:12:38.720
leader of the Rebel Alliance way back in Star Wars

1232
01:12:38.800 --> 01:12:42.880
episode six, Return of the Jedi. Of course, that character

1233
01:12:43.199 --> 01:12:47.680
is come back to prominence from another actor on courtesy

1234
01:12:47.720 --> 01:12:51.359
of robe Ie and and Or So great to see

1235
01:12:51.399 --> 01:12:54.159
the legacy of Man Mathma. We'll keeping it alive there

1236
01:12:54.279 --> 01:12:59.359
for you, Caroline. Happy birthday to the hilarious, outrageous Simon Pegg,

1237
01:12:59.560 --> 01:13:04.479
super NERD fan, English actor, writer and comedian who portrayed,

1238
01:13:04.640 --> 01:13:07.640
of course, Montgomery Scott in Star Trek, Get a Darkness,

1239
01:13:07.720 --> 01:13:12.439
Star Trek and Star Trek Beyond the JJ era and

1240
01:13:13.079 --> 01:13:16.399
together with Doug Young, also helped write the screenplay for

1241
01:13:16.520 --> 01:13:19.560
Star Trek Beyond as well. Let's not forget that he's

1242
01:13:19.640 --> 01:13:23.039
known for starring in and creating a lot of great

1243
01:13:23.520 --> 01:13:27.119
British comedies, including the cult series Space. I don't have

1244
01:13:27.159 --> 01:13:30.520
a lot of folks who've seen Spaced before, but of

1245
01:13:30.680 --> 01:13:34.520
course the Edgar Wright Cornetto trilogy would be what I

1246
01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:38.399
think most folks think of. The hilarious Sean of the Dead,

1247
01:13:39.960 --> 01:13:43.319
World's End and a movie I cannot avoid watching if

1248
01:13:43.319 --> 01:13:45.439
it's ever of access to it. Right in the middle

1249
01:13:45.439 --> 01:13:47.760
of that trilogy, Hot Fuzz, Oh my god, that is

1250
01:13:47.800 --> 01:13:48.920
the funniest damn thing.

1251
01:13:48.840 --> 01:13:49.479
Of all time.

1252
01:13:50.039 --> 01:13:52.239
And he is just great in that is everyone on

1253
01:13:52.359 --> 01:13:53.640
this show seen Hot Fuzz.

1254
01:13:54.000 --> 01:13:55.039
I have seen Hot Fuzz.

1255
01:13:55.479 --> 01:14:01.640
Okay time it's just bladder exploding. It is so hilarious.

1256
01:14:01.840 --> 01:14:03.720
It is just the best. I mean, I love Seanna

1257
01:14:03.760 --> 01:14:05.760
the Dead too, but it's nothing about half buzz Man.

1258
01:14:05.840 --> 01:14:08.920
That's just it's just such a send up of like

1259
01:14:09.399 --> 01:14:11.119
action movies and point Break and whatnot.

1260
01:14:11.359 --> 01:14:11.800
The best.

1261
01:14:12.359 --> 01:14:17.720
Happy birthday to Sherry Jackson, who played Andrea in the

1262
01:14:17.960 --> 01:14:20.920
original series first season episode Water Little Girls Made Up.

1263
01:14:22.199 --> 01:14:24.920
She was known for a role as Terry Williams on

1264
01:14:25.000 --> 01:14:27.079
Make Room for Daddy back in the mid to late

1265
01:14:27.159 --> 01:14:31.600
fifties and appeared in two episodes of Batman. Who knows

1266
01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:33.600
if that was with Caesar Romaro or not, but.

1267
01:14:33.760 --> 01:14:34.840
Sherry Jackson.

1268
01:14:36.279 --> 01:14:39.159
With the Riddler. Yeah, yeah, I had to mention Eric.

1269
01:14:39.800 --> 01:14:44.600
Great thing about Caesar Romero, right, it was a daring move.

1270
01:14:44.840 --> 01:14:46.880
They offered him the job, right, say, hey, you gotta

1271
01:14:46.920 --> 01:14:50.119
shave your mustache. Caesar, Oh, put the right.

1272
01:14:50.159 --> 01:14:51.199
But they maked up over it.

1273
01:14:51.640 --> 01:14:53.760
Yeah, he said, we sent you out of your mind.

1274
01:14:53.800 --> 01:14:55.920
I'm Caesar Romar. I'm not changing my mustache for you.

1275
01:14:56.079 --> 01:14:56.560
Go to house.

1276
01:14:58.640 --> 01:15:02.680
And in nineteen six he's SDTV, you can't really see it,

1277
01:15:02.840 --> 01:15:04.920
but nowadays you can see that.

1278
01:15:05.000 --> 01:15:07.840
They make it over the He just said, you drew

1279
01:15:07.880 --> 01:15:10.600
a line in the SATs. I'm not sure. Believe me.

1280
01:15:10.880 --> 01:15:11.720
You take the mustache.

1281
01:15:12.319 --> 01:15:16.399
It's great. I just love that so much. Let's segue

1282
01:15:16.600 --> 01:15:22.720
from Sherry Jackson to another actress. Here to Denise Richard's

1283
01:15:23.680 --> 01:15:26.119
actress and model, who rose to prominence with the Paul

1284
01:15:26.199 --> 01:15:32.600
Verhoban film Starship Troopers and the thriller Wild Things, which

1285
01:15:32.640 --> 01:15:35.840
a lot of folks have seen as well. She's also

1286
01:15:36.439 --> 01:15:40.079
been in a Bond picture. I'm pretty sure it was

1287
01:15:40.239 --> 01:15:43.600
Tomorrow Never Dies if I'm not mistaken. It's one of

1288
01:15:43.640 --> 01:15:46.199
the it's one of those mid ones with Pierce there.

1289
01:15:46.319 --> 01:15:52.359
She's played a scientist named Christmas Jones. If you can

1290
01:15:52.600 --> 01:15:55.920
believe that the world is not enough, If the world

1291
01:15:56.000 --> 01:15:58.119
is not enough, thank you, my friend, thank you. And

1292
01:15:58.359 --> 01:16:00.800
although there's a pun with her character name that I

1293
01:16:00.880 --> 01:16:02.800
will leave for you to discover on your own.

1294
01:16:02.920 --> 01:16:04.600
But all right, I remember that.

1295
01:16:05.199 --> 01:16:08.560
Yeah, I'm gonna say anything.

1296
01:16:09.279 --> 01:16:11.960
I'm not either, but everyone's googling frantically.

1297
01:16:12.119 --> 01:16:12.399
Yeah I know.

1298
01:16:12.880 --> 01:16:15.840
But but yeah, she's done a lot of great stuff.

1299
01:16:15.880 --> 01:16:18.000
I mean, the Starship Troopers is so fun. My god,

1300
01:16:18.159 --> 01:16:20.560
it's just you know, really, you know.

1301
01:16:20.720 --> 01:16:25.159
A rare occurrence of in my opinion, where the movie

1302
01:16:25.279 --> 01:16:27.439
is even better than the book. Like the book, the

1303
01:16:27.520 --> 01:16:29.920
book is really good, but there's something special about the

1304
01:16:29.960 --> 01:16:34.640
way they executed the movie and brought a brought the

1305
01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:39.079
like they translated the ridiculousness that the soldiers feel in

1306
01:16:39.159 --> 01:16:42.479
the book into actual ridiculousness in the movie in a

1307
01:16:42.560 --> 01:16:43.760
really effective way.

1308
01:16:44.039 --> 01:16:46.359
Yeah. It was great because Paul Verhogan was right off

1309
01:16:46.399 --> 01:16:48.680
a RoboCop, right, so it was super hot, and they

1310
01:16:48.680 --> 01:16:50.760
would let him do whatever he wanted, right because he

1311
01:16:50.960 --> 01:16:53.199
was in a rare position where it's just like you've

1312
01:16:53.199 --> 01:16:56.039
got this reputation and your your last picture was so big,

1313
01:16:56.119 --> 01:16:59.039
so they're like, oh, okay, so no one really thought

1314
01:16:59.079 --> 01:17:02.119
to censor him where her tail is instincts. He just

1315
01:17:02.199 --> 01:17:10.000
went nuts and there's a lot of political satire and started.

1316
01:17:11.560 --> 01:17:16.319
So it's it's good stuff. So uh, back to Star Trek.

1317
01:17:16.520 --> 01:17:19.560
Happy Birthday to Andrea and Droum, actress and models. Played

1318
01:17:19.600 --> 01:17:23.840
Yeoman Smith in a very creative name in first season

1319
01:17:23.880 --> 01:17:26.159
episode where no man has gone before. She's the one

1320
01:17:26.199 --> 01:17:30.920
who's like hiding behind Gary Mitchell's protective forearm as they

1321
01:17:31.199 --> 01:17:35.359
crossed the galaxy barrier. Don't worry, I will let the

1322
01:17:35.439 --> 01:17:38.560
barrier get you. The Yeoman meeting in my quarters late,

1323
01:17:39.000 --> 01:17:43.920
I mean, it's it's kind of a thankless but but yeah. Still,

1324
01:17:44.319 --> 01:17:46.319
you know, when you're early Star Trek, she was one

1325
01:17:46.359 --> 01:17:48.479
of those faces you saw. I think probably the character

1326
01:17:48.560 --> 01:17:53.399
eventually morphed into Yeoman Rad. Happy birthday to you and

1327
01:17:55.039 --> 01:17:58.239
Happy Birthday. Got to just hit the brakes because this

1328
01:17:58.399 --> 01:18:02.000
is a big one for me. The great LeVar Burton,

1329
01:18:03.920 --> 01:18:07.039
phenomenal character and we're so lucky that he's part of

1330
01:18:07.079 --> 01:18:09.359
the Star Trek universal the amount of heart he brought

1331
01:18:09.760 --> 01:18:14.560
to Jordie LaForge in the Next Generation, and his enduring

1332
01:18:14.680 --> 01:18:17.399
friendship with Data. I just love that dynamic those two

1333
01:18:17.479 --> 01:18:21.640
created so much. He gets a lot of dismissal because

1334
01:18:21.680 --> 01:18:25.880
of the eye appliance that he wears, right so you

1335
01:18:25.920 --> 01:18:29.239
don't really see his eyes throughout Next Gen that much.

1336
01:18:29.319 --> 01:18:32.680
But the work and the character building that he that

1337
01:18:32.840 --> 01:18:35.800
he did, and the amount of enthusiasm and heart, and

1338
01:18:36.319 --> 01:18:40.119
I've just heard of, just dreamed of individuals that got

1339
01:18:40.199 --> 01:18:45.800
into engineering professions because of his portrayal of Jordie Laford's

1340
01:18:46.199 --> 01:18:48.560
right there, tons and tons of people were inspired by him.

1341
01:18:49.000 --> 01:18:54.039
But he's a bright light for literacy and the civil

1342
01:18:54.159 --> 01:18:59.359
rights and illumination and enlightenment. Frankly, that's that's who LeVar

1343
01:18:59.479 --> 01:19:02.520
Burton is is. Of course, he portrayed the role of

1344
01:19:02.760 --> 01:19:07.199
Kunta Kinte on the original mini series Roots. For almost

1345
01:19:07.319 --> 01:19:10.319
twenty some odd years, he was host of Reading Rainbow

1346
01:19:10.760 --> 01:19:13.479
and was so responsible for so many young people discovering

1347
01:19:13.560 --> 01:19:16.079
reading and the love of words and storytelling. I mean,

1348
01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:19.960
what an incredible gift he gave to the planet with

1349
01:19:20.079 --> 01:19:24.760
his service on that show. He's received twelve Daytime Emmy

1350
01:19:24.840 --> 01:19:30.439
Awards and a Peabody Award for his service as host

1351
01:19:30.520 --> 01:19:33.159
and executive producer of Reading Rainbow. One of the great,

1352
01:19:34.000 --> 01:19:38.600
absolutely legendary human being and a role model that everyone

1353
01:19:38.640 --> 01:19:40.760
should look up to. So we love you, LeVar Burton.

1354
01:19:40.800 --> 01:19:42.840
Please come on the show. I don't love to talk

1355
01:19:42.880 --> 01:19:45.640
to you for like six hours. What a great guy, though,

1356
01:19:45.760 --> 01:19:48.239
absolutely amazing. So I don't know how I topped out

1357
01:19:48.319 --> 01:19:49.319
Uncle Jim, but good luck.

1358
01:19:53.079 --> 01:19:57.319
That's a tough one. I'm gonna try, though, So I

1359
01:19:57.600 --> 01:20:00.880
like to do the playing ons, so let's get right

1360
01:20:00.920 --> 01:20:01.680
to it. What do you say?

1361
01:20:02.439 --> 01:20:05.640
So first we want to say happy birthday and kapla

1362
01:20:06.359 --> 01:20:11.640
to Nancy Youngblood. There she is right there and she

1363
01:20:11.800 --> 01:20:15.000
played to Len and the Voyager third season episode Displaced

1364
01:20:15.399 --> 01:20:19.119
in Kolana in Deep Space nine, seven season episode once

1365
01:20:19.239 --> 01:20:24.399
More Onto the Breach. I remember correctly, she went off

1366
01:20:24.560 --> 01:20:25.720
with the Corps.

1367
01:20:25.920 --> 01:20:26.520
I think.

1368
01:20:28.000 --> 01:20:30.840
On the Rotarian when he tried to regain his honor

1369
01:20:31.319 --> 01:20:34.079
and held off half the Dominion Fleet by himself. If

1370
01:20:34.119 --> 01:20:38.520
if I got the right episode, so happy birthday to

1371
01:20:38.680 --> 01:20:43.720
Nancy Youngbloe. She went to Stovercore with honor. And next

1372
01:20:43.800 --> 01:20:47.600
we want to say kaplaw and the happy birthday to

1373
01:20:47.720 --> 01:20:51.640
Matthias Hughes, who played a Klingon General and starts for

1374
01:20:51.760 --> 01:20:54.279
five The Final Frontier one of the best moves I'm sorry,

1375
01:20:54.319 --> 01:20:57.000
wait wait, I made a mistake and Star Trek six

1376
01:20:57.560 --> 01:21:01.560
The Undiscovered Country. Among his acting resume on films such

1377
01:21:01.600 --> 01:21:05.560
as No Retreat, No Surrender, to Raging Thunder and The

1378
01:21:05.640 --> 01:21:06.680
Evil Leading Role and.

1379
01:21:06.840 --> 01:21:08.279
I come in these.

1380
01:21:08.800 --> 01:21:15.119
Happy birthday, Mathias Hughes, and last on my list, not

1381
01:21:15.279 --> 01:21:19.399
a Klingon. We want to say happy birthday to Jerry O'Connell.

1382
01:21:19.880 --> 01:21:23.039
He's the American actor who voices Commander Jack Ransom and

1383
01:21:23.119 --> 01:21:26.520
Star Trek Lower Decks. He's also married to a meta romain,

1384
01:21:26.680 --> 01:21:28.680
of course, who was number one win to Chin Riley

1385
01:21:29.359 --> 01:21:32.399
on Star Trek Extrange New World. And I think he's

1386
01:21:32.439 --> 01:21:35.199
best known for his co starring role with Will Wheaton

1387
01:21:35.760 --> 01:21:39.520
and Stand By Me Excellent movie and just incredible movie,

1388
01:21:40.439 --> 01:21:43.279
and of course as Quinn Mallory in the sci fi

1389
01:21:43.479 --> 01:21:49.600
series Sliders, and that my Friends wraps up our Star

1390
01:21:49.720 --> 01:21:54.800
Trek birthdays. Happy birthday to everybody. And do we have

1391
01:21:54.880 --> 01:21:58.800
Timphus of Star Trek News, Guys, yeah, we do, we do,

1392
01:21:58.960 --> 01:22:01.279
we do, we do. So I'm going to start off,

1393
01:22:01.399 --> 01:22:05.159
and we don't have a Star Trek news intro. Unfortunately,

1394
01:22:10.680 --> 01:22:11.239
it's just in.

1395
01:22:11.399 --> 01:22:13.439
Klingons can be gay or heterosexual.

1396
01:22:13.680 --> 01:22:15.800
It's time for our news report from Uncle Jim.

1397
01:22:16.920 --> 01:22:17.880
It doesn't really matter.

1398
01:22:19.960 --> 01:22:24.000
I don't have to come up with a Scarfrik news guy.

1399
01:22:24.439 --> 01:22:28.119
The first news I'm going to jump in here.

1400
01:22:28.479 --> 01:22:32.079
Michelle Yo became the first Malaysian honored with a Hollywood

1401
01:22:32.239 --> 01:22:37.039
Walk Thing Star. And there she is right there, the awesome,

1402
01:22:37.279 --> 01:22:41.760
the lovely, the incredible Michelle Yo from Star Trek, Discovery,

1403
01:22:42.439 --> 01:22:45.399
Oscar winning at christ Michelle Yoe was honored with her

1404
01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:49.800
very own star. I'm a Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hollywood

1405
01:22:49.840 --> 01:22:53.560
Chamber of Commerce is probably welcome Actress Michelle Yo. The

1406
01:22:53.640 --> 01:22:56.720
Hollywood Walk of Fame, said producer, and my team is

1407
01:22:57.520 --> 01:23:02.880
Michelle's extraordinary talent, great and groundbreaking career have left an

1408
01:23:02.880 --> 01:23:07.560
indelible mark on the entertainment industry. Her star honors a

1409
01:23:07.680 --> 01:23:14.039
trailblazer whose work continues to inspire audiences worldwide. On top

1410
01:23:14.119 --> 01:23:18.960
of that, Yo was showing her experimental side and Sandawara,

1411
01:23:19.479 --> 01:23:23.520
a short film directed by Sean Baker shot entirely on

1412
01:23:23.760 --> 01:23:28.520
iPhones at a Malaysian night market. She takes on five

1413
01:23:28.680 --> 01:23:32.239
different roles in that film. I never imagined in a

1414
01:23:32.319 --> 01:23:37.439
girl from Malaysia who loved discipline, dance and dreaming without limits,

1415
01:23:37.760 --> 01:23:41.039
which travels so far through my stories my past a

1416
01:23:41.159 --> 01:23:47.479
cross languages and cultures, continence and genres, sometimes gracefully, sometimes

1417
01:23:47.479 --> 01:23:51.760
a little painfully, but always guided by curiosity and deep

1418
01:23:51.960 --> 01:23:56.760
faith in the cinema. She said, congratulations to Michelle Yo,

1419
01:23:57.399 --> 01:24:01.800
I'm your star on the Hollywood Walking I think that

1420
01:24:01.880 --> 01:24:04.800
we are so lucky as Star Trek fans to have

1421
01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:08.239
her in our Star Trek family. I'm not seen a

1422
01:24:08.319 --> 01:24:11.079
Star Trek discovery. When she kicks Loka in the face

1423
01:24:11.159 --> 01:24:15.119
when he's standing behind her is still amongst my all

1424
01:24:15.279 --> 01:24:19.239
time favorite fight scene that we've ever seen on Star Trek.

1425
01:24:19.800 --> 01:24:25.359
She is incredible. Congratulations to Michelle. Yeah, and there's some

1426
01:24:25.520 --> 01:24:28.399
great pictures of her getting the star and she also

1427
01:24:28.640 --> 01:24:33.399
dedicated it to her family. So congratulations to Michelle. Yell, okay,

1428
01:24:33.680 --> 01:24:35.600
V you want to take the next one?

1429
01:24:36.399 --> 01:24:41.319
Okay? I guess Eric, as our Deep Space nine fan,

1430
01:24:41.399 --> 01:24:42.399
you want to take the next one.

1431
01:24:42.800 --> 01:24:43.039
Sure.

1432
01:24:44.479 --> 01:24:48.479
So this is a great article wherein Avery Brooks gave

1433
01:24:48.640 --> 01:24:53.359
his blessing to Starfleet Academy's Big Cisco episode, It's Safe

1434
01:24:53.399 --> 01:24:57.600
to call Star Trek Starfleet, Academy's episode series Acclamation Mill,

1435
01:24:57.880 --> 01:25:01.319
a massive tribute to both Deep Space nine and Avery

1436
01:25:01.359 --> 01:25:06.079
Brooks beloved character Captain Benjamin Cisco. Episode writer Tony K.

1437
01:25:06.079 --> 01:25:09.800
Newsome explains how the episode came out. She said, I

1438
01:25:09.920 --> 01:25:12.720
was pretty adamant that for this episode, it was our

1439
01:25:12.840 --> 01:25:16.159
job to make this an homage, a celebration, a really

1440
01:25:16.720 --> 01:25:21.119
big and a really and really a bit of a

1441
01:25:21.319 --> 01:25:23.319
correction there we go, and really a bit of a

1442
01:25:23.399 --> 01:25:26.399
correction for what I feel has been an oversight in

1443
01:25:26.479 --> 01:25:29.800
a lot of modern Trek. We haven't talked nearly enough

1444
01:25:29.840 --> 01:25:32.560
about the Ciscos, about Benjamin Cisco, or about how the

1445
01:25:32.600 --> 01:25:36.119
show Deep Space nine occurred at all, despite it being

1446
01:25:36.199 --> 01:25:38.399
a massive addition to our canon.

1447
01:25:38.520 --> 01:25:39.600
So I was pretty adamant.

1448
01:25:39.920 --> 01:25:42.640
I'd say I was frothing at the mouth some days

1449
01:25:42.640 --> 01:25:46.239
about how important this was. So if anyone thought it

1450
01:25:46.359 --> 01:25:51.159
was too much canon, they shared those details among themselves.

1451
01:25:51.960 --> 01:25:54.640
Sarack and I were on the phone and at lunches

1452
01:25:54.680 --> 01:25:56.920
for months and months and months and months trying to

1453
01:25:56.960 --> 01:25:59.439
figure out how we could get this done, says Newsome

1454
01:25:59.520 --> 01:26:03.640
of working with lofton getting the episode made with such

1455
01:26:03.800 --> 01:26:07.279
a gargantuan feat and I have had so many partners

1456
01:26:07.359 --> 01:26:11.319
locked arm in arm in battle between co showrunners Naga

1457
01:26:11.399 --> 01:26:19.000
Landu and Alex Kurtzman, Sarak executive producer Aaron Bairns. Don't

1458
01:26:19.000 --> 01:26:20.680
even know where to start, but all I can tell

1459
01:26:20.720 --> 01:26:23.560
you is that it was seemingly so impossible to be

1460
01:26:23.600 --> 01:26:26.119
able to address the hugeness of the Cisco story with

1461
01:26:26.239 --> 01:26:29.520
some of the limitations that we have because of canon,

1462
01:26:30.000 --> 01:26:32.840
some of the limitations we have because of available actors,

1463
01:26:33.319 --> 01:26:37.199
and we really just wanted to honor the man, Avery Brooks.

1464
01:26:38.159 --> 01:26:40.960
Brooks was a presence behind the scenes where he approved

1465
01:26:41.079 --> 01:26:44.039
of the episode nearly every step of the way. Though

1466
01:26:44.079 --> 01:26:47.560
Brooks doesn't make a physical cameo, we do hear Cisco's

1467
01:26:47.640 --> 01:26:51.279
voice toward the end of the episode. Interestingly, that audio

1468
01:26:51.359 --> 01:26:53.720
clip wasn't taken from DS nine, but came from a

1469
01:26:53.840 --> 01:26:57.640
more personal source quote that is, a private recording that

1470
01:26:57.760 --> 01:27:00.880
belonged to mister Brooks that he very gracious allowed us

1471
01:27:00.960 --> 01:27:05.680
to use. Newsom reveals. She revealed that regarding the audio

1472
01:27:05.800 --> 01:27:08.479
that was taken from Brooks to spoken word album here,

1473
01:27:09.399 --> 01:27:12.079
I still get chills thinking about how it came to

1474
01:27:12.199 --> 01:27:15.680
be because I was very anxious asking him for anything.

1475
01:27:15.880 --> 01:27:18.840
Because this man has given so much of his artistry,

1476
01:27:18.960 --> 01:27:23.119
his life and himself to this franchise. He very graciously

1477
01:27:23.279 --> 01:27:26.039
allowed us to have this. I made them put in

1478
01:27:26.279 --> 01:27:31.119
Careese aka Sam saying some version of I can live

1479
01:27:31.199 --> 01:27:34.199
with it, Newsom says, regarding a variation of one of

1480
01:27:34.279 --> 01:27:37.680
Cisco's most impactful lines. And someone who kept doing a

1481
01:27:37.800 --> 01:27:40.079
version of the script later kept taking it out, and

1482
01:27:40.159 --> 01:27:42.600
I kept putting it back in, probably seven or eight times,

1483
01:27:42.640 --> 01:27:49.039
and finally it made it to the final filming. So yeah, lovely,

1484
01:27:49.960 --> 01:27:52.920
lovely kind of insight into the fact I didn't realize

1485
01:27:53.039 --> 01:27:56.880
that Avery Brooks had been involved in the episode. I

1486
01:27:56.920 --> 01:27:58.319
think that's really super cool.

1487
01:27:58.800 --> 01:27:59.880
Yeah I didn't know that either.

1488
01:28:00.560 --> 01:28:04.920
Yeah, so great article, So Paul.

1489
01:28:06.359 --> 01:28:09.960
Brother respect I mean, amazing, right, absolutely fantastic.

1490
01:28:10.199 --> 01:28:13.439
Yeah all right, yeah, this is a poll story all

1491
01:28:13.520 --> 01:28:16.239
the way. I did this one specifically for Paul.

1492
01:28:16.880 --> 01:28:22.279
So all right, yeah, well I know, uncle Jim this

1493
01:28:22.439 --> 01:28:26.159
we've been talking about the upcoming uh Star Trek toys

1494
01:28:26.199 --> 01:28:30.600
from Brian Volkweis's cell company here. None of them made

1495
01:28:30.640 --> 01:28:33.000
it yet a lot of uh so waiting for them

1496
01:28:33.039 --> 01:28:36.119
the first a lot of uphill battles. The the man's

1497
01:28:36.159 --> 01:28:38.039
been coping with you, So let's find out how things

1498
01:28:38.079 --> 01:28:41.640
are progressing. Because we just came off of toy Fair

1499
01:28:41.760 --> 01:28:44.800
right last weekend. So while we're still waiting to actually

1500
01:28:44.880 --> 01:28:47.800
get some of Nacelle's new Star Trek action figures and

1501
01:28:48.479 --> 01:28:51.960
all their weird and wonderful deep cuts with the figure choices,

1502
01:28:52.199 --> 01:28:55.119
the company hasn't been afraid about teasing its big plans

1503
01:28:55.159 --> 01:28:59.039
for the future of the line from even more out

1504
01:28:59.079 --> 01:29:02.000
There Figures, and I can give you some more news

1505
01:29:02.039 --> 01:29:04.439
about this one when I'm done with the story, if

1506
01:29:04.680 --> 01:29:07.560
anyone's curious, because I have the inside Skinny.

1507
01:29:07.680 --> 01:29:11.199
Wait, inside Skinny Heck, yeah, okay, I'll.

1508
01:29:12.199 --> 01:29:14.760
Dog hear that page, Luke, and I'll be right there.

1509
01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:16.439
It's folded, all right.

1510
01:29:17.560 --> 01:29:19.840
But from even more out there Figures to plans for

1511
01:29:19.880 --> 01:29:22.920
a Celibratory sixtieth anniversary way purely inspired by the crew

1512
01:29:22.960 --> 01:29:24.760
of the original series. This plan to look forward to.

1513
01:29:25.319 --> 01:29:28.960
But if you're especially interested in the latter, its biggest

1514
01:29:29.039 --> 01:29:32.520
plan yet is right up your alley, friends, because Nacella

1515
01:29:32.640 --> 01:29:39.319
is planning a collectible build a bridge series of many

1516
01:29:40.279 --> 01:29:43.520
displays to accompanying line of action figures, starting off with

1517
01:29:43.600 --> 01:29:46.800
the classic Bridge of the USS Enterprise from an original

1518
01:29:46.960 --> 01:29:50.840
Star Trek Unbelievable so one ten scale right to fit

1519
01:29:50.920 --> 01:29:53.159
with the upcoming action figure series. The series will be

1520
01:29:53.199 --> 01:30:00.399
available across twelve individual releases representing individual stations along the

1521
01:30:02.399 --> 01:30:06.439
console stations of the Enterprise Bridge, from science to communication

1522
01:30:06.720 --> 01:30:10.319
to the central consoles for navigation and of course, the

1523
01:30:10.600 --> 01:30:13.920
Captain's chare. Each display can either be used on its

1524
01:30:13.960 --> 01:30:17.880
own to highlight individual figures which are sold separately, or

1525
01:30:18.039 --> 01:30:22.199
interlocked to create a complete circular diorama of the bridge,

1526
01:30:22.279 --> 01:30:24.920
approximately forty inches in diameter.

1527
01:30:25.560 --> 01:30:29.600
That's like my entire my entire wind in diameter.

1528
01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:32.319
Yeah, because you're seven inch figure, right, like six seven

1529
01:30:32.359 --> 01:30:35.800
inches like that scale, and it's going to be it's

1530
01:30:35.800 --> 01:30:38.079
going to be in the space for this. I can't

1531
01:30:38.079 --> 01:30:40.560
wait to see. I have a bridge. I'm not going

1532
01:30:40.640 --> 01:30:44.399
to get that. No, sorry, Bryan, I have a I

1533
01:30:44.520 --> 01:30:47.079
have a Playmate scale bridge. I'll put some pictures in

1534
01:30:47.119 --> 01:30:50.039
the chat on it. But it's it's edit I mean,

1535
01:30:50.199 --> 01:30:51.239
so I'm.

1536
01:30:51.079 --> 01:30:55.560
Sorry, no, no, no, like so these pieces, so twelve

1537
01:30:55.760 --> 01:30:57.840
individual slices of bridge.

1538
01:30:57.920 --> 01:31:01.319
So what David, actually that picture you had at the

1539
01:31:01.359 --> 01:31:03.119
beginning of Oh yeah, do you have a way to

1540
01:31:03.319 --> 01:31:04.960
the blueprint? Yeah? Can you go backwards?

1541
01:31:05.159 --> 01:31:05.319
Yeah?

1542
01:31:05.439 --> 01:31:05.600
Yeah?

1543
01:31:05.720 --> 01:31:07.960
Yeah? So the picture like how big a seven inch

1544
01:31:08.039 --> 01:31:09.239
figure is sitting in that chair?

1545
01:31:09.520 --> 01:31:09.640
Right?

1546
01:31:10.239 --> 01:31:13.199
And mind you, lights and sounds illuminated, right, So this

1547
01:31:13.319 --> 01:31:16.039
is gonna be electronic. You know, this is gonna be crazy.

1548
01:31:16.239 --> 01:31:18.159
It's like, is this like a couple of hundred bucks

1549
01:31:18.199 --> 01:31:20.279
per piece or like, I'm.

1550
01:31:20.119 --> 01:31:24.920
Guessing he's probably gonna have to charge like probably eight sessions.

1551
01:31:25.039 --> 01:31:27.520
I'm guessing at least fifty bucks a pop, lights and sounds,

1552
01:31:27.560 --> 01:31:28.079
maybe more.

1553
01:31:28.600 --> 01:31:28.920
I don't know.

1554
01:31:29.119 --> 01:31:31.560
I've heard I've heard around fifty dollars each.

1555
01:31:32.479 --> 01:31:33.600
Oh is that okay?

1556
01:31:34.119 --> 01:31:34.840
Yeah, that's more.

1557
01:31:36.039 --> 01:31:38.800
Comes to fruition anyhow, Let me wrap this up because

1558
01:31:38.840 --> 01:31:41.560
you know it's okay, but he is each section is

1559
01:31:41.560 --> 01:31:43.840
gonna have lights and sounds, right, so the spots viewer

1560
01:31:43.920 --> 01:31:46.079
would have in theory light coming up from it and

1561
01:31:46.119 --> 01:31:48.520
the sound of like the scanners and things that you hear, right,

1562
01:31:48.640 --> 01:31:51.920
and all that stuff, which is just delightful, really really cool.

1563
01:31:52.800 --> 01:31:55.960
Replicating classic Star Trek background effects to bring your display

1564
01:31:56.000 --> 01:31:58.239
to life has got to be a view screen, right,

1565
01:31:58.359 --> 01:32:01.520
So with interchangeable stuff that you have there, right, all

1566
01:32:01.600 --> 01:32:06.680
that stuff there is pretty cool from Nasseelle CEO Brian Volkweis,

1567
01:32:06.840 --> 01:32:11.079
who's all over social media and who maybe once or

1568
01:32:11.359 --> 01:32:13.520
thirty times mentioned would love to get on the show.

1569
01:32:14.920 --> 01:32:18.680
Maybe in the brief history of Nissell Toys, the build

1570
01:32:18.720 --> 01:32:21.399
a Bridge place. It is our most ambitious project yet,

1571
01:32:21.840 --> 01:32:25.479
said cel of Nassell Brian Volkweiss, in a press release

1572
01:32:26.079 --> 01:32:30.840
launching during Star Trek's sixtieth anniversary. That's this year. It's

1573
01:32:30.880 --> 01:32:33.479
a tribute to the ship that started it all. While

1574
01:32:33.560 --> 01:32:38.000
nacellas currently staying quiet about how much individual display will cost. Charles,

1575
01:32:38.039 --> 01:32:40.960
you're supposed to keep quiet about that day on the

1576
01:32:41.079 --> 01:32:44.520
icebread jowls. The company has confirmed that it will take

1577
01:32:44.600 --> 01:32:48.640
fans a while to actually complete The Vultaire rom Bandak

1578
01:32:48.760 --> 01:32:52.439
launches sometime later this year. It's rollout on a monthly

1579
01:32:52.520 --> 01:32:55.159
pre order basis, meaning it will take at least twelve

1580
01:32:55.199 --> 01:32:58.359
months that's called a year for the entire set to

1581
01:32:58.439 --> 01:33:03.760
be completed. Wow, so a big epic deal. So here's

1582
01:33:03.800 --> 01:33:11.520
the deal. Previous appearances at don't look doesn't look anybody

1583
01:33:11.560 --> 01:33:16.520
wants to do about this, But on previous appearances on

1584
01:33:16.640 --> 01:33:21.119
social media, right, and previous sneak peaks of the figures. Right,

1585
01:33:21.199 --> 01:33:23.600
you know, we get this big wave coming. I think

1586
01:33:23.640 --> 01:33:26.159
it's Wave three, right, that's going to show all the

1587
01:33:26.199 --> 01:33:29.720
original series cast members, right, So kirks back everyone like that, right?

1588
01:33:29.800 --> 01:33:33.159
And there was you know, the whole original Bridge crew, right,

1589
01:33:33.800 --> 01:33:38.319
and there was an unidentified mystery two pack. And people

1590
01:33:38.359 --> 01:33:40.399
have been driving themselves crazy trying to figure out what

1591
01:33:40.479 --> 01:33:41.239
that two pac is.

1592
01:33:41.439 --> 01:33:41.600
Right?

1593
01:33:42.000 --> 01:33:45.119
Would it be Kirk and Spock with leripas, would it

1594
01:33:45.239 --> 01:33:49.840
be you know, Christopher Pike and Pipe a wheelchair?

1595
01:33:49.960 --> 01:33:52.239
A lot of theorizing, right, I think of Garret Smith

1596
01:33:52.319 --> 01:33:53.479
and Yeomen Smith.

1597
01:33:54.279 --> 01:34:00.319
Well, platonic friends on the Bridge, they have it. But

1598
01:34:00.560 --> 01:34:03.279
actually I just happened to get from a very reliable

1599
01:34:03.359 --> 01:34:07.920
source today I can now on this podcast reveal what

1600
01:34:08.039 --> 01:34:12.239
that tupac is going to be. Oh, and I can

1601
01:34:12.279 --> 01:34:15.119
tell you one of the accessories. Is it type?

1602
01:34:15.119 --> 01:34:17.960
It's going to be checkof and s from Starship five

1603
01:34:17.960 --> 01:34:18.680
to Final Fait?

1604
01:34:18.880 --> 01:34:21.279
Is it typewriter? Is it going to be a Deep

1605
01:34:21.319 --> 01:34:22.239
Space nine themed one?

1606
01:34:22.760 --> 01:34:25.520
No, it is actually going to be action figures of.

1607
01:34:27.720 --> 01:34:30.479
The Doctor, Gene.

1608
01:34:30.279 --> 01:34:32.159
Roddenberry and Lucille Ball.

1609
01:34:32.760 --> 01:34:32.800
What.

1610
01:34:35.960 --> 01:34:40.159
Yeah, honoring the genesis and creation of star Trek itself,

1611
01:34:40.960 --> 01:34:44.760
where she was congratulating him on actually getting it together

1612
01:34:44.800 --> 01:34:48.239
and making it happen to It is a Roddenberry figure.

1613
01:34:48.359 --> 01:34:50.479
It is a Lucille Ball figure. With any luck, when

1614
01:34:50.479 --> 01:34:52.119
we're back on the show next week, we'll be able

1615
01:34:52.159 --> 01:34:56.680
to get some imagery of that. I can send out

1616
01:34:56.720 --> 01:35:00.800
a YouTube clip where I got some pretty good intel

1617
01:35:00.920 --> 01:35:04.119
on this thing, so I'll share it with everybody after

1618
01:35:04.159 --> 01:35:06.680
the show. But this is just broke just today, just

1619
01:35:07.199 --> 01:35:11.359
about a couple hours before the show. So pretty exciting.

1620
01:35:11.479 --> 01:35:15.000
I hope all this stuff comes to fruition. Brian Volkweiss

1621
01:35:15.119 --> 01:35:17.000
is a showman. He gets out there and he starts

1622
01:35:17.079 --> 01:35:20.079
talking right, and then he runs into all these problems

1623
01:35:20.199 --> 01:35:22.760
with you know, the issues with the shipping and things

1624
01:35:22.840 --> 01:35:25.439
coming from China. I mean it's been delayed, delayed, the

1625
01:35:25.520 --> 01:35:28.720
lay and delayed. So for me, it's just building up anticipation.

1626
01:35:28.880 --> 01:35:30.800
I'm excited about it. I wish I had the space

1627
01:35:30.880 --> 01:35:33.279
for a bridge like that. Brian, Oh my god. Yeah,

1628
01:35:33.439 --> 01:35:35.560
Uncle Jim. Ever starts paying us, maybe I'll move into

1629
01:35:35.560 --> 01:35:39.319
a bigger house. I'll tell that to tell you. But

1630
01:35:39.439 --> 01:35:42.520
it's pretty exciting and he's definitely bringing a lot of

1631
01:35:43.199 --> 01:35:46.800
fresh enthusiasm to start try collecting. But enough of Mayak,

1632
01:35:46.920 --> 01:35:50.399
and let's move on to Eric, who I think there's

1633
01:35:50.439 --> 01:35:52.880
a captain you're fond of. I just can't remember which one.

1634
01:35:54.199 --> 01:36:00.520
Maybe, Yes, Well, Paul, we have a very very exciting

1635
01:36:00.560 --> 01:36:03.039
story here that I'm happy to read. And I love

1636
01:36:03.079 --> 01:36:05.319
that picture that we're seeing right now. Kate mulgrew and

1637
01:36:05.359 --> 01:36:09.000
Holly Hunter just chilling with one another. Kate Mulgrew defends

1638
01:36:09.079 --> 01:36:16.039
Starfleet Academy and Captain Ak from disrespectful online attacks Star Trek.

1639
01:36:16.399 --> 01:36:20.359
Starfleet Academy ignited a lot of discussion amongst.

1640
01:36:21.600 --> 01:36:25.760
Wait, wait, are there disrespectful Star Trek fans? That are

1641
01:36:26.600 --> 01:36:33.920
people on social media? Really?

1642
01:36:34.800 --> 01:36:35.000
Yeah?

1643
01:36:35.159 --> 01:36:38.359
Believe it or not, Jim, believe it or not. Hard

1644
01:36:38.399 --> 01:36:41.720
to believe. But but the good news is that, uh,

1645
01:36:42.000 --> 01:36:43.720
you know a lot of us just kind of move on.

1646
01:36:44.279 --> 01:36:45.960
I think it was a Paul who was saying that

1647
01:36:46.119 --> 01:36:49.159
or something somebody was saying, how you know, Star Trek

1648
01:36:49.239 --> 01:36:50.920
just sort of moves on, And that's what Kate mulgrew

1649
01:36:51.000 --> 01:36:57.119
was saying, move along. You know, that was a weird

1650
01:36:57.239 --> 01:37:00.239
left turn there, David all Right, Star Trek, star Pleet

1651
01:37:00.319 --> 01:37:04.199
Academy has certainly ignited a lot of discussion amongst fans

1652
01:37:04.239 --> 01:37:08.199
and critics. Holly Hunter's captain ake has been one of

1653
01:37:08.239 --> 01:37:11.960
the active topics, especially her quirky ways, like the way

1654
01:37:12.000 --> 01:37:15.199
she sits in that chair and the Oscar winning actress's

1655
01:37:15.359 --> 01:37:19.239
unique style of delivery. One such online critic found himself

1656
01:37:19.279 --> 01:37:23.239
getting a clap back when he invoked Star Trek's first

1657
01:37:23.319 --> 01:37:28.439
female captain from Kate mulgrew herself. In a Facebook comment thread.

1658
01:37:28.600 --> 01:37:31.479
One user jumped in with a crude critique, referring to

1659
01:37:31.680 --> 01:37:37.760
Captain Ak as Captain mumbles and suggesting Captain Janeway should

1660
01:37:38.520 --> 01:37:41.199
I hate to even say this? Should bitch slap her?

1661
01:37:41.760 --> 01:37:41.800
What?

1662
01:37:42.800 --> 01:37:42.960
Well?

1663
01:37:43.000 --> 01:37:45.600
This didn't go over well with the actress who played Janeway.

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01:37:45.720 --> 01:37:49.000
Kate mulgrew herself, with her verified account, jumped in with

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01:37:49.079 --> 01:37:53.680
a message on the contrary, sending you and every other

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01:37:53.880 --> 01:37:59.159
distress could trialodite who insults my fellow captain and Starfleet

1667
01:37:59.239 --> 01:38:03.439
offerers to the brig where you belong. Keep Jane Way's

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01:38:03.560 --> 01:38:06.159
good name out of it. Holy shit that woman can

1669
01:38:06.279 --> 01:38:09.159
throw down. She signed off with a bit of stern

1670
01:38:10.000 --> 01:38:14.920
Jane waynesque dismissed. Mulgrew knows a thing or two about

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01:38:14.960 --> 01:38:18.680
what it's like for an actress to coming under criticism

1672
01:38:18.760 --> 01:38:21.199
after taking on a role of a starfleet captain. Right,

1673
01:38:21.479 --> 01:38:23.520
she faced a lot of heat back in the day

1674
01:38:24.000 --> 01:38:26.640
when she was having none of it. She was seen

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01:38:26.760 --> 01:38:29.680
conferring and poosing with Holly Hunter in this photo that

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01:38:29.720 --> 01:38:32.319
we're showing right now on the blue carpet at the

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01:38:32.359 --> 01:38:35.479
premiere event and again in the theater where the screening was,

1678
01:38:36.000 --> 01:38:38.359
so it's no surprise that she would step up to

1679
01:38:38.520 --> 01:38:42.399
defend Hunter, and of course you know by proxy Captain Ak.

1680
01:38:43.079 --> 01:38:46.119
Holly Hunter's distinct style of speaking is primarily due to

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01:38:46.319 --> 01:38:49.880
hearing loss in her left ear after a childhood case

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01:38:50.000 --> 01:38:53.399
of the mumps, something she has overcome through her celebrated

1683
01:38:53.520 --> 01:38:57.119
and award winning career. As for the way Captain AKA

1684
01:38:57.319 --> 01:39:01.479
lounges in the captain's chair of the uss's, the actress says,

1685
01:39:02.520 --> 01:39:05.560
initially it did come from the image of water that

1686
01:39:05.640 --> 01:39:08.039
I wanted her to be kind of a fluid character.

1687
01:39:08.439 --> 01:39:11.119
I wanted to have a kind of feline thing in

1688
01:39:11.239 --> 01:39:15.159
the physical world. As for Alk liking to go barefoot,

1689
01:39:15.479 --> 01:39:19.479
Hunter said that was quote something that Alex Kurtzman had

1690
01:39:19.479 --> 01:39:21.760
put in the script that I just loved and it

1691
01:39:21.840 --> 01:39:24.239
kind of snowballed from there. When I got on set,

1692
01:39:24.560 --> 01:39:28.439
I saw how adventurous the furniture could be. For me,

1693
01:39:29.640 --> 01:39:32.000
that's a great article that kind of like spans both

1694
01:39:32.079 --> 01:39:38.760
the Kate Mulgrew like, uh, stop being such a misogynistic jerk,

1695
01:39:38.880 --> 01:39:42.920
kind of like commentary and also you know, Holly Hunter

1696
01:39:43.000 --> 01:39:46.439
getting a chance to comment on ake. I personally love

1697
01:39:46.520 --> 01:39:49.479
her kind of like mellow style.

1698
01:39:49.840 --> 01:39:50.039
You know.

1699
01:39:50.239 --> 01:39:53.239
I feel like, if you were the chancellor of a

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01:39:54.680 --> 01:39:59.159
school that was being restarted after one hundred and fifty years, girl,

1701
01:39:59.199 --> 01:40:01.880
you better be flat because if you are not, you

1702
01:40:02.000 --> 01:40:04.000
are just going to get run over by these kids.

1703
01:40:04.600 --> 01:40:07.119
So her style is perfect for me for this, for

1704
01:40:07.239 --> 01:40:11.840
this series, right article I love.

1705
01:40:12.800 --> 01:40:15.399
I love what she brings to the role and even

1706
01:40:15.800 --> 01:40:19.800
even the fish scene when she started talking British. Uh,

1707
01:40:20.279 --> 01:40:21.319
this woman can bring it.

1708
01:40:21.560 --> 01:40:24.359
She sounds really good and and Jim, let me let

1709
01:40:24.439 --> 01:40:27.399
me just say that. Like also, the thing that really

1710
01:40:27.479 --> 01:40:31.039
struck me about this was I wasn't even aware that

1711
01:40:31.279 --> 01:40:34.680
people were making fun of the way that she talked

1712
01:40:34.760 --> 01:40:37.520
until I read this article. And to me, that's like

1713
01:40:37.680 --> 01:40:41.920
the lowest of the low, Like you're going to evaluate

1714
01:40:42.000 --> 01:40:46.000
a series based on the way that somebody like speaks

1715
01:40:46.039 --> 01:40:48.479
their lines because you don't like the way their mouth

1716
01:40:48.560 --> 01:40:51.840
looks or the way that they, you know, have a

1717
01:40:51.960 --> 01:40:55.279
little tiny bit of a lisp or something like, come on, guys,

1718
01:40:56.319 --> 01:40:58.399
that's not very itch at all.

1719
01:41:00.279 --> 01:41:03.279
Well it's like what, you know, what the hell gay Klingons,

1720
01:41:03.279 --> 01:41:06.079
Give me a break. I already talk about that. But

1721
01:41:06.279 --> 01:41:10.000
I love Holly Hunter. I think she she can act

1722
01:41:10.159 --> 01:41:13.680
with a look, you know, just you know, the way

1723
01:41:13.760 --> 01:41:17.199
she looks, just the way she crinkles her mouth. I mean,

1724
01:41:17.319 --> 01:41:20.359
she is an incredible actress and we are very fortunate

1725
01:41:21.000 --> 01:41:22.720
to have her. I would love to see her and

1726
01:41:22.800 --> 01:41:25.199
Michelle Yo in a scene together. I think they could

1727
01:41:25.279 --> 01:41:28.560
really chew it, chew up the scenery together. You know.

1728
01:41:28.640 --> 01:41:30.520
One thing I really like about her is that she's

1729
01:41:30.640 --> 01:41:35.920
like this very tiny person and in scenes you kind

1730
01:41:35.960 --> 01:41:39.479
of they're they're allowing us to see what a tiny

1731
01:41:39.520 --> 01:41:42.319
amount of space she takes up, and yet her her

1732
01:41:42.399 --> 01:41:45.159
personality and the gravitass that she brings to a scene

1733
01:41:45.239 --> 01:41:48.119
is so much bigger than her physical manifestation in the scene.

1734
01:41:48.239 --> 01:41:50.520
I just I love that about her. You know, every

1735
01:41:50.560 --> 01:41:52.479
time she looks up at somebody like when she looks

1736
01:41:52.560 --> 01:41:55.039
up at Caleb. I mean, I don't know how tall

1737
01:41:55.079 --> 01:41:56.560
Caleb is, but he's got to be like.

1738
01:41:57.399 --> 01:42:00.960
Six to two, say lord taller. You know when she's

1739
01:42:01.000 --> 01:42:03.520
looking up at him, she's literally like looking vertically.

1740
01:42:07.239 --> 01:42:10.159
Yeah, there's a there's a picture of her with Jingden

1741
01:42:10.279 --> 01:42:14.199
from episode four I think it was, and yeah, she's

1742
01:42:14.279 --> 01:42:17.159
literally it looks like, you know, he's on a ladder.

1743
01:42:17.279 --> 01:42:18.520
She's staring up at him.

1744
01:42:20.119 --> 01:42:23.319
She's she's a very dainty, petite little thing, but I

1745
01:42:23.520 --> 01:42:25.159
I have a feeling she can put you in your

1746
01:42:25.199 --> 01:42:29.159
place and a heart. No, she's I think that the

1747
01:42:29.319 --> 01:42:34.079
casting was incredible for Starfleet Academy, and I think she's awesome.

1748
01:42:34.119 --> 01:42:40.520
And Kate Maulgrew is incredibly awesome. Yeah, so guys, uh,

1749
01:42:41.359 --> 01:42:45.640
that's pretty much wraps it up for this week. I'm

1750
01:42:45.720 --> 01:42:48.479
kind of missing V. We were ending a little bit,

1751
01:42:48.640 --> 01:42:50.439
a little bit share here because we didn't have V.

1752
01:42:51.520 --> 01:42:55.399
Unfortunately, our whole rhythms off. Jim, Yeah, we're off.

1753
01:42:56.840 --> 01:43:03.720
To parade here. That's okay, no big deal. So, like

1754
01:43:03.800 --> 01:43:06.039
I said, next week, we're gonna have a lot of fun.

1755
01:43:06.039 --> 01:43:08.039
It's gonna be a fast and furious.

1756
01:43:10.000 --> 01:43:12.920
And you want to join us. On Monday second.

1757
01:43:13.680 --> 01:43:16.079
And I guess that's pretty much it, unless anyone wants

1758
01:43:16.119 --> 01:43:19.479
to add anything or throw something in it that we

1759
01:43:19.600 --> 01:43:20.439
missed during the show.

1760
01:43:21.359 --> 01:43:24.479
Yes, no, maybe kinda sort of Okay.

1761
01:43:24.560 --> 01:43:25.159
I think we're good.

1762
01:43:25.720 --> 01:43:26.800
I think we're covering all of that.

1763
01:43:27.680 --> 01:43:29.600
I want to take this opportunity to say thank you

1764
01:43:29.720 --> 01:43:32.680
so much to Paul for hanging out and Shrek talking

1765
01:43:32.800 --> 01:43:35.880
with us tonight and sharing his enthusiasm or start.

1766
01:43:38.760 --> 01:43:42.279
And and just really it's it's really great to have

1767
01:43:43.720 --> 01:43:48.239
just such a so pleased with Strangford Academy. You know,

1768
01:43:48.359 --> 01:43:49.960
it's just really fun to be able to get together

1769
01:43:50.000 --> 01:43:51.920
and talk about it each week and each new episode

1770
01:43:51.960 --> 01:43:57.640
comes out. I think it's gonna have a good, good life.

1771
01:43:57.680 --> 01:43:59.239
It's friend to share it all and to be on

1772
01:43:59.399 --> 01:44:01.840
to it and compare outes. You be enjoying it.

1773
01:44:03.520 --> 01:44:05.840
I'm right there with you, right there with you.

1774
01:44:06.279 --> 01:44:09.880
Had this much fun talking Star Truck probably since Discovery

1775
01:44:10.000 --> 01:44:13.079
season one when we first saw Star Trek.

1776
01:44:13.720 --> 01:44:15.720
Of course, thank you so much to Eric hanging out

1777
01:44:15.720 --> 01:44:18.359
and Shrek talking with us as well. Thank you so much. Eric.

1778
01:44:19.119 --> 01:44:21.680
Yeah, for sure, so happy that the joy is back,

1779
01:44:21.760 --> 01:44:25.520
the optimism is back. I love following the exploits of

1780
01:44:25.560 --> 01:44:26.960
these young lings.

1781
01:44:28.520 --> 01:44:29.199
It's really fun.

1782
01:44:30.520 --> 01:44:35.000
I like that cross over there the young Yeah, of

1783
01:44:35.079 --> 01:44:36.760
course you want to say thank you to David for

1784
01:44:36.880 --> 01:44:40.640
the awesome videos that we've been seeing and is behind

1785
01:44:40.720 --> 01:44:42.560
the scenes wizardry he is.

1786
01:44:45.079 --> 01:44:45.760
Thank you, David.

1787
01:44:46.399 --> 01:44:48.680
Yeah, it's been a lot of fun. I'm excited to

1788
01:44:49.479 --> 01:44:53.760
continue and see what else Star Trek and Beyond brings

1789
01:44:54.000 --> 01:44:58.359
with the videos and all the other stuff I can

1790
01:44:58.439 --> 01:44:59.880
put together for all of youers.

1791
01:45:01.239 --> 01:45:03.960
Well, I do, honest, I will let you guys in

1792
01:45:04.079 --> 01:45:06.479
on a little something. We only have four episodes of

1793
01:45:06.520 --> 01:45:12.880
Starting Academy then we're going to be in The Beyond again.

1794
01:45:13.520 --> 01:45:15.680
And one of the show ideas I've been kicking around,

1795
01:45:15.720 --> 01:45:18.800
which it will be a lot of fun, is I

1796
01:45:18.920 --> 01:45:21.840
want to do interviews with the truck spirts.

1797
01:45:22.800 --> 01:45:25.479
Uh you know while we're here, why you know what

1798
01:45:25.640 --> 01:45:28.640
what what brought us to Starshik and uh you know,

1799
01:45:29.079 --> 01:45:29.840
we'll start.

1800
01:45:29.560 --> 01:45:31.760
Off the first show with me as a special guest

1801
01:45:32.000 --> 01:45:36.279
and you guys can interview me, and then then we

1802
01:45:36.359 --> 01:45:36.680
got to be.

1803
01:45:37.000 --> 01:45:39.000
Like, so, Jim, what's the deal with starting five?

1804
01:45:42.840 --> 01:45:42.960
Is it?

1805
01:45:43.840 --> 01:45:44.000
Is it?

1806
01:45:48.600 --> 01:45:53.640
There's a I think we'll move on.

1807
01:45:55.680 --> 01:45:58.560
And then we'll do David and then we'll do and Paul,

1808
01:45:58.760 --> 01:46:01.039
we'll see the last because you can give us four

1809
01:46:01.079 --> 01:46:09.319
of this incredible factory and yeah, we'll have some fun

1810
01:46:09.399 --> 01:46:11.159
with that, all right, guys, And we want to take

1811
01:46:11.199 --> 01:46:12.960
this opportunity to say thank you so much for Child

1812
01:46:13.079 --> 01:46:14.640
hanging out and truck talking with us as well.

1813
01:46:14.840 --> 01:46:15.840
Thank you so much. Child.

1814
01:46:16.920 --> 01:46:20.039
Oh always a blast. Birthdays was fun this week.

1815
01:46:21.920 --> 01:46:23.640
Yeah. I try to. I try to pick birthdays that

1816
01:46:23.680 --> 01:46:25.960
I think you guys will enjoy. I try to. I

1817
01:46:26.079 --> 01:46:27.960
want to kind of keep it to six and keep

1818
01:46:28.000 --> 01:46:29.800
it to ones that I think you guys will like.

1819
01:46:30.000 --> 01:46:33.079
And now that we're moving beyond, I can include Star Wars,

1820
01:46:33.199 --> 01:46:35.079
Doctor Who, that kind of stuff, So I hope you

1821
01:46:35.159 --> 01:46:36.560
guys are liking that as well.

1822
01:46:37.319 --> 01:46:40.079
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1823
01:46:40.159 --> 01:46:40.920
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1824
01:46:41.560 --> 01:46:43.520
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1825
01:46:43.680 --> 01:46:46.760
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1826
01:46:46.840 --> 01:46:48.640
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1827
01:46:48.720 --> 01:46:50.960
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1828
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1830
01:46:57.159 --> 01:47:04.520
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1831
01:47:04.640 --> 01:47:06.880
Uncle Jim, and I gotta tell you they're already setting

1832
01:47:06.920 --> 01:47:09.920
the close schools here in Vermont. School that I work

1833
01:47:10.000 --> 01:47:14.520
at already is doing early dismissal tomorrow because of the snowstorm.

1834
01:47:14.640 --> 01:47:16.880
So we'll see what happens when I wake up in

1835
01:47:16.920 --> 01:47:21.359
the morning. The joys of living in Vermont anyways. Please

1836
01:47:21.439 --> 01:47:24.720
everybody stay safe and be good to each other. Alien

1837
01:47:24.800 --> 01:47:30.319
frequencies are closed. Good night, everybody, Good night, Good nights people.

1838
01:47:30.680 --> 01:47:36.079
No no, no, no, I had warp.

1839
01:47:36.960 --> 01:47:38.960
Warp heading sir.

1840
01:47:43.640 --> 01:47:44.279
Out there.

1841
01:47:47.199 --> 01:48:47.600
That a way. Joys Clap