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Oct. 9, 2026

Episode 703- SNW: A Journey Through Season Four

Episode 703- SNW: A Journey Through Season Four
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In this episode of Trek Talking and Beyond, Uncle Jim and the hosts welcome back Paul from his holiday and dive into a recap of Season Four of Star Trek Strange New Worlds. They discuss their favorite moments, the differences in science fiction culture across various countries, and engage with their global fanbase through shout-outs. The conversation is filled with humor and camaraderie, reflecting the strong community surrounding Star Trek. In this segment, the hosts engage in a lively discussion about their favorite Star Trek characters, particularly focusing on the choices for first officer in a fictional poll. They delve into the character arcs of various figures, such as Saru and Riker, and share their thoughts on the recent season of Strange New Worlds. The conversation transitions into a recap of the season's episodes, highlighting the diverse styles and themes presented. Fan reactions are shared, revealing a mix of opinions and ratings, with many expressing disappointment over certain episodes. The hosts conclude by discussing their individual favorite and least favorite episodes, emphasizing the subjective nature of their critiques. In this segment, the hosts discuss the varying fan ratings for the latest season of Star Trek, highlighting the differences between individual episode scores and overall season ratings. They also explore the visual representation of the season through graphics and celebrate notable birthdays of actors within the Star Trek community. The conversation touches on the legacy of iconic characters, particularly Sigourney Weaver's impact on the sci-fi genre, and concludes with a fun Movie of the Week segment that adds a lighthearted touch to the discussion. In this episode, the hosts delve into a variety of classic horror and sci-fi films, particularly focusing on notable releases for the month of October. They discuss the significance of these films in pop culture, including the impact of horror classics and the evolution of sci-fi narratives. The conversation shifts to exciting news in the Star Trek universe, including upcoming projects and the announcement of Gates McFadden's comic book debut. The episode wraps up with a teaser for next week's discussion on the iconic film Forbidden Planet, highlighting its influence on the Star Trek franchise.
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Well, good evening, Trekkies and Trekkers around the globe. It's Thursday,

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October 8th, 2026. Welcome to episode 703 of Trek.

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Talk and Beyond. I'm your host, ex and host, Uncle Jim.

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And before we go too.

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Far, I want to go around and introduce my incredible,

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my awesome truck experts.

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We want to start off with Paul and welcome him back.

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How are you doing, Paul?

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Hey, friends.

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Good to be here.

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Yeah, I got a few miles under my belt.

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Saw a lot of amazing things this last.

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Couple of weeks on holiday. And it's great to be back. Yeah,

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delightful time. Delightful time.

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Yeah, we're going to have fun tonight. That's for sure.

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And let's stick out with the Portland theme and we'll

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swing over and see how Eric is doing tonight.

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I am doing pretty darn good. I, I'm excited about

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kind of doing like a, you know, summary show kind

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of thing. I always like the summary show at the

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end of the season, kind of like, you know, big thoughts,

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big 30,000 foot view things. And having Paul back for

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this is just in time as far as I'm concerned.

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So good to see you brother.

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Be careful what you wish for. That's all.

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Well, you know, everybody knows that if you are nothing

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else you are interesting on the air so.

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Oh that's very very kind of you i'll find a

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shilling or a pound to throw your way there you.

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Go throw at the six blocks between our houses.

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Right exactly you know i will say one thing i

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noticed in the uk that is surprising is that is

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so few like comic book shops and science fiction shops

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that Thought there'd be a lot more, you know, but yeah,

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they keep them on the down low and hidden if

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they are.

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Well, you know what's really interesting, Paul? When I was

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in Scandinavia, I was in Stockholm, Sweden, and everybody was like, oh,

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you've got to go to this science fiction bookstore. It's

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like the biggest science fiction bookstore in Sweden. And I

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was like, oh, my God, I really have to go, right,

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because I want to check this out. And obviously I'm

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interested in, like, absorbing the culture a little bit. So

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I thought I'll go to this comic book shop slash

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bookstore store. And I will find awesome Swedish science fiction

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that I've never read before. And I went in there

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and I talked to the people who worked there and

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they literally were like, there are no good Swedish science

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fiction authors. Everything here is American or European. So I

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just think that like Americans really have a lot of like,

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There's just a lot more science fiction here than there

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is in other parts of the world.

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Yeah, yeah. But I mean, people love the movies and

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the media everywhere. You'd think there'd be more, but I

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wandered into, you know, the chain Forbidden Planet, right? There's

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one in New York and one in London, and I

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went to the one in Edinburgh, right? I thought, oh,

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this will be the place to go in Edinburgh. And

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it was... almost felt generic. I'm like, this is just

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like any little, you know, whatever sci-fi shop I'd see

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in any city. It didn't have anything that really was

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captivating about it at all. But I'll tell you, London, though,

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is just movie location mania. It's just everywhere you step,

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it's like, this was in a movie, this was in

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a movie, this was in a movie.

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I love London. It's crazy.

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One of my favorite cities.

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I live there in a heartbeat. It's amazing. Did you

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leave business cards in all the bathrooms you visited?

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I was going to ask that too.

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Do you mean your OnlyFans account? Is that the one? No,

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that's the one. Yeah, I made sure to put those

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out wherever I went. A slip went into King Charles'

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back pocket when.

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He wasn't looking.

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He'll have to explain that later.

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What's this then?

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And sticking with our Portland theme tonight, we have our

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very own David.

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

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I'm pretty good, but I just want to say welcome back, Paul.

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We missed you.

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And I hope you didn't get too distracted by all

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the squirrels over there, so, you know.

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Yeah, there were some squirrels, but more of the wild animals.

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There's some wild animals that became very fun.

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Well, this should easily explain my easily distraction, so, you know.

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Well, you know, there's a lot to be distracted by.

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You've got to watch out for those werewolves in London.

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They're all over the place. Oh, man.

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It is werewolf season.

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Awesome.

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I'm going to swing out to Las Vegas and welcome

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Charles to the show tonight.

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How are you doing tonight, Charles?

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I'm doing good. This is the tail end of the

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heat wave. 99 today. By Monday, it will have dropped

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20 degrees. And we're welcoming Rachel to come in and

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drop lots of rain. The hurricane decided it didn't want

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to go to Hawaii. It wanted to make a right-hand

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turn and come up the... Mexican coast and up through

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California and the Vegas.

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Excellent. Excellent.

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And we saved the best for last. We're going to

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swing out to Virginia. We're going to see how V

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is doing tonight.

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Doing all right. Just trying to get used to my

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new technology still. So I don't know if Paul was,

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you weren't, you missed it when I have a laptop.

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That's why you can actually see my face now and

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you know, definition which like i.

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Told eric you got you got some new equipment uh.

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Sort of yeah yeah and i'm just trying to figure

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it out so that's a lot of fun but.

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Well your audio sounds remarkably clear i think your audio

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seems to be quite good yeah.

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I'm trying to say that you've been successfully assimilated yeah.

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Not exactly new technology but but.

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It's new to me how about that.

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Okay to me and uh.

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I got to tell you guys, I have one.

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More week left in rehab, and then I get to

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go back to work part-time next week, and then full-time

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the week after, which is cool. And one of the

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guys that's in rehab just moved out back to Vermont

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from Burbank, and he does comic books. And we were

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on the treadmill talking today, and of course, the Billy

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Joel song came on again, and we started talking about it,

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and the whole thing. the whole class wanted to hear

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the lyrics for the song. They all tuned into the podcast.

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They really liked the theme song, Eric, which is pretty cool.

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And Brian Vocalize likes it as well, so we must

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be on to something, right?

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We managed to pack a lot of lyrics in a

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little amount of time, just like Billy Joel.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, what do we have planned for you guys tonight? Well,

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tonight is going to be a Season 4 recap. Paul's

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going to breeze through the 10 episodes that we had

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the pleasure of viewing. And we're going to talk about

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the ups, the downs, our favorites, our least favorites, what

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we thought, where we'd like to see it go, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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We'll be truck talking. So you definitely want to hang

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out around that. If you missed last week's show, you

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can go to trucktalking.com and find them all there. If

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you want to relive Whitney's first show with us you

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can find it over there and Whitney will be back

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with us on the 29th for our spooky Halloween show

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We also have for you our fan shout-outs, as usual,

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and that's where we thank fans just like you around

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the globe for supporting our show. And what actors do

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you share a sci-fi birthday with? Find out in our

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sci-fi birthday segment. We've got some really, really heavy hitters tonight.

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And what's going on around the Star Trek universe? Guess

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who's writing their own Star Trek comic book? Geez, I'm

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pretty excited. You'll have to hang out to find out

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about that. And we have a little bit, a tiny bit.

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Of info on the new Star Trek movie.

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So without any further ado, let's dive into our fan shout-outs.

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And we'll let Eric get us started.

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Fan shout-outs, yeah. Fan shout-outs, yeah. Our very first fan

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shout-out goes out this week. To Yuri Bando, who is

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from Yokohama, Japan.

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Hi, Yuri.

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Thank you so much for saying hello to us. We

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do not get a ton of people saying hello from Japan,

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so we super appreciate the support from that amazing place.

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It's actually now that I've been to Scandinavia, it's now

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clicked up into my number one slot on the must-visit list.

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So next family trip, here we come. Also saying hello

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this week to Nick Rush. who uh hills from ponticlune

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is that how you pronounce that ponticlune in south wales

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uk that feels oh thanks paul uh for the thumbs

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up sending us that amazing what is that a flaming

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dollar bill or.

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Something that is the welsh that is the welsh flag

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which if you had a giant invigorator you would see

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it has a dragon on it.

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My dragon!

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It has a dragon on it.

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Oh my god, I have to look that up.

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Okay. Very cool. I apologize.

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It's just, it's a very tiny emoji, so I was

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not able to tell.

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What that was. Did you cut your finger and bleed

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on it? What happened? No.

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I'm going to look up that Welsh flag because that

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looks amazing. Thank you so much, Nick Rush, for saying

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hello to us. Also saying hello this week to Amin Benamar,

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who hails from Drome Provençal. No, Drome Provençal. Dude, I

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can't pronounce French. Help me out here, Paul. Is it

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Drome Provençal?

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Drome Provençal.

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Provençal.

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There we go. Provençal. As in provincial. Like the English

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word would be provincial. So Provençal.

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All right.

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Well, Amin, I apologize for massacring the name of the

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place where you live. You have to understand I am

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a stupid American who knows only my own language and

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a little bit of what I studied in high school.

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But that does not diminish my enthusiasm for our support

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from our French friends. So thank you so much for

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saying hello to us. And last but not least on

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my list, I would like to say hello this week

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to Nath James, who is from a place called Ellensmeerreport.com.

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On a little peninsula called the Weerle in the UK.

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With a double laughing, crying emoji. That apparently is funny,

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probably because it was mispronounced by me.

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Thanks, Nath.

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Is your first name James? I can't tell. It said

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Nath James. You could be James Nath or Nath James.

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I guess Nath is short for Nathaniel. That would be

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my guess.

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Nathaniel James?

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Oh, yeah.

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Or Nath.

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For some reason, but.

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Whenever you hear Nathaniel, he hears his mother calling after him. Nathaniel!

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Nathaniel!

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So he had to tweak it somehow. I don't know.

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Just guessing. You know what?

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It's as good a guess as any, so thanks Mr.

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Nath Nat Nathaniel James for saying hello to us. That

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was a disaster, V. Help me out.

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Make it better.

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Okay, sure. Okay, yeah. Sure, I'm the one to do that. Well,

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my first hello goes out to Wayne Rosencrantz. I don't

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know if there's a Guildenstern there somewhere, but anyway.

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Awesome.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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Because I'm such a nerd. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

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We had that. We read that in high school.

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Anyway, I love it.

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Wayne is very much alive. Thank goodness. From outside Philadelphia, P.A.,

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watched every episode of TOS as a high schooler, and

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haven't missed an episode of all the following shows. That's awesome.

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Second Generation in Worcester, Mass., doing their bit to keep

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the legacy going. So thank you, Wayne, for that. Next,

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I have a hello going out to James W. Smith

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from Edmonton. AB, and I'm sorry, I don't know what

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that means. Alberta.

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Alberta.

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Okay, very good. But I love Canada. Can I say that?

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You've got an awesome prime minister. But anyway, second generation,

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too young for the original, but definitely everything else, starting

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with Star Trek, the animated series. That's good, too. Next

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hello goes out to Rory Engels, who is from Iowa.

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Hello.

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And not too far from Riverside. So, but the question here, Rory,

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you're from Iowa, but do you work in outer space?

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So anyway, sorry. And next and certainly, or last but

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certainly not least, Jodi Kennedy from Northeast Ohio, second generation fan,

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grew up watching with my dad. That's great.

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All right. Flinging.

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The flaming megaphone to Charles.

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I love that we now have a flaming megaphone. It's

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become part of the podcast. Thank you, V, for that.

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You're welcome.

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Okay, David, thank you for the use of the engineering gloves.

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His microphone's a little bit too hot. Let's start off

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with a warm welcome to Carla Parker from Hot Springs, Arkansas.

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Been a tricky since TOS premiered. Welcome, Carla. Welcome, Darnell Collins.

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Top fan from Washington, D.C. Darnell, I'm sorry. Yeah, we

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know what things are going on in D.C. Welcome, Mark

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Roberts from Houston, Texas. As you put Texas in there,

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it's like, I think we've only got one Houston in

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the country, I hope. And last on my list, welcome

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Derek Hayes from Columbus, Ohio. Give us in the sunglasses

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and live long and prosper. I forgot, Daryl also gave

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us a flag and a live long and prosper as well.

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I'm not used to getting all these emojis. Paul, who's

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on your list? I pass you the microphone and the gloves.

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Thank you, Charles. I'm just going to take the microphone

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commando style. I'll abstain from the gloves. I'm going to

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go with Rob. Whoa.

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It's a good thing we can only see him from

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the chest up, people.

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Fortunately, no one is taking the microphone after me, so

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that's a good thing.

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Well, Uncle Jim is, so.

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Oh, is he really? Oh, that's right. He's covered in

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bacteria anyway.

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This one just got really spicy.

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He'll be fine. He's immune already. Let's say hello to

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our good pal Tony Crawford, sailing hailing frequencies from Warrington,

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Cheshire in England. We're off in the midst of the

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more westerly country there between Liverpool and Manchester. I was

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not really that far west recently myself there, Tony, but

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but definitely a spectacular part of the world that you

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live in. That's how I long to go back. Hello

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to our good pal, Lara Schneider, saying hello from Dusseldorf, Germany,

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over there on the main continent, where I aspire to

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get to very, very soon. And here's another place I

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came within spitting distance of, but I didn't quite make

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it to. Eilidh McKee is saying hello from Loch Lomond, Scotland.

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Loch Lomond is rather substantial from what I understand. One

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of the bigger freshwater lochs in all of Britain. A

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little bit more west of Edinburgh, where I was, but

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a really, really gorgeous, spectacular country. Absolutely amazing over there.

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If you ever are considering Scotland, friends, go. Go as

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soon as you can. It's absolutely amazing. So really great

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to see all these international fans. And then another continent

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on the other side of the planet, we're going to

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go over to Chile. where Nathie Vanessa is saying hello.

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And it seems like every single one of these folks,

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regardless of where they are, England, Germany, Scotland, Chile, they

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all have one thing in common. Well, they all have

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two things in common. They've all watched at least one

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episode of Star Trek in their life, and they're all

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busting out the Vulcan salute this week in their halo there.

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In their halo, or hello, or however you say it,

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when you're not recovering from jet lag.

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Halo!

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Hello! Or as they say in Scotland, hi-ya! You hear that?

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Oh, hi-ya.

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Nice.

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And Eilidh has got the Scottish flag proudly unfurled there

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as well. And I can see why. That is a

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magnificent country. Absolutely amazing. So lots of folks all over

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the planet share their enthusiasm for Star Trek, science fiction,

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and all things future-oriented. More positively oriented, dare I say.

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Wouldn't you concur, Uncle Jim?

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I absolutely agree, which is why I'm going to send

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out a huge hello and thank you to Mary Eastley-Smith,

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who's listening to us right now on M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I, right here

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in the United States of America. For those of you

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who can't spell, that's Mississippi.

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Thank you, Mary.

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We also want to say hello to Karen Teams, who's

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in Atlanta, Georgia. Feel bad for those Braves, Karen, but

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maybe next year. We also want to say hello to Bill.

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I don't really either, but it sounded like.

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I'm not really crying over the Yankees.

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Change your team name.

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Sorry.

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Anyways, we also want to say hello and thank you

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to Bill Busha, who's listening to us in Appleton, Wisconsin.

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And last but not least, Robin Brownholt in Massachusetts. And

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I can honestly say I feel bad for those Red Sox.

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You know what, me, as a Red Sox fan who

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watched their team completely implode at the end against the

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most hated enemy of all time, I will just say

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I instantly became a Tampa Bay fan.

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Yeah.

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And you know what else? Bill Boucher, who we just

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called out, are you familiar with that Vince Lombardi Steakhouse

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in Appleton? Because that place is amazing, and I love it,

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and I've been there many a time. So if you're

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in Appleton, Wisconsin, that's Eric's number one restaurant recommendation.

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Hey, Eric, you don't want to decloak yourself.

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I wasn't crying.

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I am cloaked. Yeah, you are.

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You're hidden.

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I don't know what's happening.

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This is just how the Invisible Man started, right? I know, dude.

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I don't know what's happening.

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So many technology issues.

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All right.

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Crazy, crazy.

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Oh, well, who the hell knows, right? So there you go.

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But if you guys would like to be mentioned in

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a future fan shout out please head over to our

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facebook page trek talking and beyond you'll see pinned to

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the top of the page live long and prosper all

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you need to do is click on that tell us

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where you're listening from As you can tell, if you

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leave emojis, it's going to catch my attention. If you

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see a heart next to your name from yours truly,

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Uncle Jim, then you've been chosen and you will be

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featured on a future fan shout-out. You can also become

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a subscriber for only 99 cents. And all these awesome pictures,

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like there's me and my good friend Ed Wynn. You

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can send us your pictures. And David, our miracle worker,

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will put them right up there on us. There's me

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with Mr. Saru at Trek Ponderoga a couple of years ago.

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We will get your pictures up here on the screen,

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so you will be forever immortalized as a fan of

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Trek Talk.

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And there we are.

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So, anyways, I'm waiting for Eric to come back before

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we move on to our next segment. But while we're

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waiting for Eric, I guess we can start off here.

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We'll just wait for Eric before we actually get to

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the main segment. But before we do that, while you're

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on our Facebook page as well, there's me as a gremlin.

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That was fun. Mm-hmm.

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We also do, I ask you guys poll questions and

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your opinions and stuff on the Facebook page. And one

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of the poll questions that I ask, well, we'll wait

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for Eric to get back. But I think before we

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do that, we need to hear the polling song, which

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David has.

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That's not the polling song.

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The polling song has changed.

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Yeah.

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There it is.

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Poland, Poland, Poland, you know we like knowing what you

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thought about the show and we try to share your

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opinions with all of our minions out there because they

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listen worldwide. So tell us just what you think and

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together we will all drink Canar and Romulan ale tonight.

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You know, now that we've had Muppets on Star Trek,

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the Kermit thing just feels natural.

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Mm-hmm.

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So we'll wait for Eric to actually get back and

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actually do the poll, but we'll discuss it here like

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we did last week. The poll question we had was,

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as captain of your starship, which in this case is

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the USS Sha-Ka-Ri from the best Star Trek movie.

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Ever, who would you choose as your first officer? So...

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Can we put that graphic up here? There we go.

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There's our graphic that was on our Facebook page that

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David was kind enough to make up for us.

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And we'll start off with V while we wait for Eric.

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Who would you choose as captain to be your first

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officer on your ship?

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Who would I choose as first officer? Well, on the poll,

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I chose Spock.

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Spock.

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I don't know. I got a thing for pointy-eared guys.

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He's related to sexy Cyborg.

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Yeah, that's true. That's true. Yeah, and I see he

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came in second. Like, last week, my choice was second, too. So,

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I don't know. But this is the dream team. But

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I would definitely have Spock.

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I'm sure Spock is going to pop up in another poll.

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I'm pretty sure that he will. So how about you, David?

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Who would you choose as your first officer?

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Well, kind of leaning toward either Saru or Riker, to

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be honest. They're both very loyal first officers, and I

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think loyalty is what I would look for in a.

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First officer if I had to pick. So they're kind

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of a tie for me.

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All right.

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That's cool. That's cool. Saru and Riker. How about you, Charles?

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Well, for one, I might go, too, because I said

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I've got a little bit of the Silver Fox look

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like he does with Rainer. But I'd also have to

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go with Riker just because he was always enjoying TNG

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those seven years with him up there. And then refusing

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to move on to his own ship because he always

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was there for his Nexo.

473
00:24:21.380 --> 00:24:25.170
All right. So we have a Riker. And how about you, Paul?

474
00:24:26.609 --> 00:24:29.779
Oh, Beverly Crusher, absolutely. Oh, sorry.

475
00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:30.960
That was last week, Paul.

476
00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:35.180
Sorry, I got to say that again.

477
00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:37.519
Sorry, we left the candles out, Paul.

478
00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:39.720
You know, if the power goes out on the bridge,

479
00:24:39.740 --> 00:24:43.190
you know, she can light a candle and there you go. No,

480
00:24:43.329 --> 00:24:45.309
I see the appeal of Rainer in myself. I think

481
00:24:45.329 --> 00:24:48.869
he's a badass, though I would have to go with Spock,

482
00:24:48.930 --> 00:24:53.559
though big conditional Spock. Original Series Spock, not Strange New

483
00:24:53.579 --> 00:24:56.180
World Spock, okay? Because that guy's just a train wreck.

484
00:24:56.430 --> 00:25:00.730
But Original Series Spock, I love because cool under pressure, doesn't,

485
00:25:00.869 --> 00:25:04.049
you know, ever panic. You need somebody who's a cool

486
00:25:04.069 --> 00:25:07.250
customer under fire, and that's going to be Spock. So

487
00:25:07.450 --> 00:25:09.910
Riker just gets too distracted, and he's got the whole

488
00:25:09.930 --> 00:25:14.569
trombone thing. So, you know, can't do it. Can't do it.

489
00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:15.339
So Spock for.

490
00:25:15.259 --> 00:25:15.680
Me, man.

491
00:25:15.700 --> 00:25:20.460
Original Series. Well, I'm with you, Paul. I really like Rainer.

492
00:25:21.190 --> 00:25:21.710
I really did.

493
00:25:21.750 --> 00:25:25.470
I thought Rayner really worked really well with Burnham. I

494
00:25:25.509 --> 00:25:30.109
really liked Rayner. But for me, I would go with Saru.

495
00:25:31.730 --> 00:25:35.670
I just, I really dig Saru. He's compassionate.

496
00:25:35.710 --> 00:25:38.259
He's smart. He's intelligent.

497
00:25:39.470 --> 00:25:42.759
He's extremely loyal. He hooked up with the hot folk

498
00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:46.700
and shit. I mean, I just, I really, really like Saru.

499
00:25:46.940 --> 00:25:50.319
And I like the arc that we saw him go

500
00:25:50.440 --> 00:25:53.400
on through Discovery, so I'm going to go with Saru.

501
00:25:54.079 --> 00:25:56.539
And Eric is... Have we heard from Eric? Is he

502
00:25:56.849 --> 00:25:57.849
close to getting back yet?

503
00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:00.750
Eric said he's having computer issues and he's rebooting.

504
00:26:00.769 --> 00:26:03.329
Yeah.

505
00:26:03.349 --> 00:26:03.430
Okay.

506
00:26:03.509 --> 00:26:05.329
Could be about another couple of minutes, I think.

507
00:26:06.329 --> 00:26:07.950
I think we dragged this segment out.

508
00:26:08.109 --> 00:26:09.029
We're ready to walk already.

509
00:26:11.609 --> 00:26:17.299
So, Paul, what was our question? You can fill in

510
00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:19.140
for Eric, because Eric filled in for you when you

511
00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:19.880
were gone.

512
00:26:19.940 --> 00:26:22.420
I'm happy to help, sir, wherever I can. Just pass

513
00:26:22.460 --> 00:26:23.799
me an oar, and I'm happy to row.

514
00:26:24.319 --> 00:26:26.819
So what was the question, and what did the fans

515
00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:29.069
say from bottom to top?

516
00:26:29.109 --> 00:26:31.190
Well, here's the thing. I'm going to go from bottom

517
00:26:31.210 --> 00:26:33.269
to top here for you. As captain of your ship,

518
00:26:33.329 --> 00:26:37.009
in this case the USS Shaqiri, who would you choose

519
00:26:37.089 --> 00:26:38.029
as your first officer?

520
00:26:38.769 --> 00:26:41.609
Coming in at 10th position, we had Raffi with 2%.

521
00:26:41.609 --> 00:26:45.630
At 9th place, we had Thok, Laura Thok, at 3%,

522
00:26:45.630 --> 00:26:48.869
who just disappeared somehow from Starfleet Academy.

523
00:26:48.890 --> 00:26:52.329
I would love to get her back. 8th position, Rainer,

524
00:26:52.390 --> 00:26:55.970
with 4% of the vote. 7th position, Kira, 6% of

525
00:26:56.130 --> 00:27:00.309
the vote. At 6th slot, we have 7, 7 of 9s.

526
00:27:00.339 --> 00:27:03.180
We're a lot of numbers, it's going to get very confusing.

527
00:27:03.380 --> 00:27:05.839
So Kira's number 7, you have number 6 of 7.

528
00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:08.880
And even to make it more confusing, Seven got 7%

529
00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:11.259
of the vote. So if you're not confused now, don't

530
00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:13.960
come to me. Don't come to me for math help.

531
00:27:14.119 --> 00:27:16.599
I won't be of any good to you. Fifth place

532
00:27:16.700 --> 00:27:21.329
was Una Chin-Riley at 8%. At fourth place, we had

533
00:27:21.529 --> 00:27:26.109
Uncle Jim's pick, Saru, with 10%. He's going to be

534
00:27:26.190 --> 00:27:28.349
busy banging his Vulcan wife. He's not going to be

535
00:27:28.410 --> 00:27:32.140
up on the bridge at all. I like him. He's

536
00:27:32.180 --> 00:27:35.799
got a gun to purple. I'm just calling it like

537
00:27:35.839 --> 00:27:39.900
it is. Which has been entirely too much censoring in

538
00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:44.029
the last two weeks. Restoring order. Third place to Paul.

539
00:27:44.049 --> 00:27:45.849
I don't know.

540
00:27:45.930 --> 00:27:47.150
Does she have her first officer?

541
00:27:47.170 --> 00:27:49.710
Does she ever have any experience doing that?

542
00:27:49.930 --> 00:27:56.450
Yeah, she's actually the first officer on the Enterprise because

543
00:27:56.470 --> 00:27:58.849
they need a Vulcan liaison right from the beginning.

544
00:27:58.869 --> 00:27:59.369
Okay.

545
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:01.420
He is the first officer.

546
00:28:01.859 --> 00:28:04.210
First officer in charge of Vaseline, right, as I recall.

547
00:28:04.230 --> 00:28:05.609
So there we go.

548
00:28:05.630 --> 00:28:06.309
Okay, good, good.

549
00:28:07.029 --> 00:28:09.849
And second place would be my pick, Spock. Now, are

550
00:28:09.890 --> 00:28:12.069
we all on common ground here? This is original series Spock,

551
00:28:12.109 --> 00:28:13.269
not Strange New Worlds Spock?

552
00:28:13.289 --> 00:28:14.230
No, no, no.

553
00:28:14.509 --> 00:28:21.460
Having met Ethan Peck, absolutely Strange New Worlds Spock, because he.

554
00:28:21.500 --> 00:28:22.099
Is smokin'..

555
00:28:23.769 --> 00:28:27.130
So you like a Vulcan who's very erratic and doesn't

556
00:28:27.150 --> 00:28:29.450
know what Ponfar is. He thinks it's every seven minutes,

557
00:28:29.529 --> 00:28:30.390
not every seven years.

558
00:28:30.930 --> 00:28:32.599
Hey, I'm okay with that.

559
00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:37.740
Okay. Just to make sure we're clear. Okay. And, ladies

560
00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:40.880
and gentlemen, coming in in first place, and who's officially

561
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:45.470
been given his enrollment papers for the USS Chakri, our

562
00:28:45.569 --> 00:28:48.230
first officer will be in number one position with 28%

563
00:28:48.230 --> 00:28:54.980
of the vote, Commander William Riker. Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun! Commence growing your

564
00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:58.460
beard immediately! Okay, there we are. And that was our

565
00:28:58.500 --> 00:29:01.640
wacky bowl segment, which I have managed to shamelessly steal

566
00:29:01.779 --> 00:29:04.529
from Eric, because he had technical difficulties.

567
00:29:04.549 --> 00:29:06.349
Eric is back though, which is good.

568
00:29:06.390 --> 00:29:10.269
So how is our crew for the USS Shaakiri shaping up, Eric?

569
00:29:10.309 --> 00:29:13.269
Well, the crew for the USS Shaakiri now has five

570
00:29:13.410 --> 00:29:16.490
members of the senior staff. We, of course, just today

571
00:29:16.650 --> 00:29:23.089
added Riker as the executive officer. Prior, we added Bones

572
00:29:23.289 --> 00:29:27.450
as our CMO, Scotty as our chief engineer, Odo as

573
00:29:27.529 --> 00:29:30.559
our chief of security, and of course, Tom Paris. He

574
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:35.259
flies the ship. At least this ship.

575
00:29:35.259 --> 00:29:36.299
Oh, Lord.

576
00:29:36.299 --> 00:29:39.259
Yes, he flies the ship.

577
00:29:39.259 --> 00:29:41.000
All right, guys.

578
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:43.559
So that's our polling question for this week. You guys

579
00:29:43.579 --> 00:29:45.819
can go to Trek Talking and Beyond.

580
00:29:46.019 --> 00:29:50.880
And David is putting together a new poll, which was...

581
00:29:51.710 --> 00:29:55.690
science officer, I think, right? I think it's science officer.

582
00:29:55.730 --> 00:29:57.710
So you guys can go.

583
00:29:57.769 --> 00:29:59.289
I think.

584
00:29:59.650 --> 00:30:02.950
It's science officer. You can vote for your science.

585
00:30:02.650 --> 00:30:06.289
Officer for the USS Shaqari, and we will read those

586
00:30:06.390 --> 00:30:11.470
poll results to you next week. And since Paul is gone,

587
00:30:11.529 --> 00:30:14.470
we're going to pile more onto him, because he missed

588
00:30:14.490 --> 00:30:14.849
so much.

589
00:30:14.869 --> 00:30:17.750
He's got a lot to make up for his absence, so.

590
00:30:18.490 --> 00:30:22.960
Paul is going to give us a Season 4 recap

591
00:30:23.019 --> 00:30:24.960
of each one of the 10 episodes in case you

592
00:30:24.980 --> 00:30:29.140
guys forgot. And David has put together a nice little

593
00:30:29.190 --> 00:30:31.230
slideshow to go along with that.

594
00:30:31.109 --> 00:30:32.150
To help you remember.

595
00:30:32.190 --> 00:30:36.000
So, Paul, take us away. All right. I'm going to be,

596
00:30:36.339 --> 00:30:38.529
try to be brief, right? And just kind of do

597
00:30:38.569 --> 00:30:40.269
like a little one or two sentence thing for each

598
00:30:40.289 --> 00:30:41.950
of these, because you don't want to hear this whole

599
00:30:41.970 --> 00:30:44.369
like lengthy thing. So we are talking about doing a

600
00:30:44.369 --> 00:30:46.569
review of the, you know, because a lot of us,

601
00:30:46.609 --> 00:30:48.859
our memories get a little fuzzy, right? And they're like, wow,

602
00:30:48.859 --> 00:30:51.119
10 episodes ago, what was that? So we have to

603
00:30:51.140 --> 00:30:54.819
kind of revamp and, you know, re-familiarize ourselves with everything

604
00:30:54.839 --> 00:30:57.799
we're going to talk about, right? So the very first episode,

605
00:30:57.859 --> 00:31:02.750
season one, or rather season four, episode one was Valas Marinaris, right?

606
00:31:03.230 --> 00:31:05.980
which sounds like it might be like an Italian, you know,

607
00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:09.279
baked dish, but it's actually like part of the Martian landscape.

608
00:31:09.539 --> 00:31:13.119
And in this premiere, Pike led the crew into this

609
00:31:13.220 --> 00:31:19.230
stellar storm and inadvertently sent the ship back 65 million years,

610
00:31:20.009 --> 00:31:23.430
where there was an amazing encounter with both citizens of

611
00:31:23.450 --> 00:31:27.160
the planet Mars and a Germanosaurus rex. It was a

612
00:31:27.259 --> 00:31:32.609
very cinematic episode. Well, we'll talk about it more, but

613
00:31:32.619 --> 00:31:35.509
that was basically what we were talking about, Palace of Aranas.

614
00:31:36.190 --> 00:31:39.670
Second episode, we took a left turn into the horror

615
00:31:39.710 --> 00:31:43.690
genre here with the Griffin incident, where Spock, La'an, and

616
00:31:44.210 --> 00:31:48.559
a young Kirk board a lost Federation ship, kind of

617
00:31:48.619 --> 00:31:52.900
the Mary Celeste of the Federation vessels, where a very

618
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:57.000
old mystery becomes a very horrific survival crisis. And a

619
00:31:57.769 --> 00:31:59.190
lot of people had a lot of different opinions on

620
00:31:59.210 --> 00:32:02.099
that one. So we're off to a pretty dramatic start

621
00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:05.920
with those first two episodes. Episode number three shifted tones

622
00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:08.240
into a little bit more of a comedic vein, you

623
00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:12.509
could say, in Human Best Friend, where a much-needed shore

624
00:32:12.549 --> 00:32:15.130
leave on a pleasure planet turned very dangerous when the

625
00:32:15.190 --> 00:32:20.829
crew's promised escape stops becoming a fun thing. And yeah,

626
00:32:21.259 --> 00:32:22.539
I think a lot of folks will have things to

627
00:32:22.579 --> 00:32:26.940
say about that episode. If you are feeling a little colorblind,

628
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:28.579
then you will probably feel right at home in a

629
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:33.250
case of Chiaroscuro, in which Unichin Riley is mistaken for

630
00:32:33.289 --> 00:32:37.509
a resistance leader and drawn into a struggle against Klingon occupation.

631
00:32:37.630 --> 00:32:42.150
A black-and-white film noir episode that generously tipped its hat

632
00:32:42.190 --> 00:32:47.829
to the classic Bogart picture Casablanca. Then things got really crazy,

633
00:32:47.950 --> 00:32:50.009
and we started, you know, you're seeing a pattern of

634
00:32:50.069 --> 00:32:55.710
different styles throughout the season, right? Different... Well, let's just

635
00:32:55.730 --> 00:33:00.000
say different styles, different takes on what's possible within an

636
00:33:00.619 --> 00:33:07.039
episode season. And we have Level 5 Transporter Accident. O-M-G.

637
00:33:07.740 --> 00:33:10.880
A transporter malfunction turns most of the crew into puppets

638
00:33:11.619 --> 00:33:15.349
while Mr. Spock fights to somehow reclaim control of the ship.

639
00:33:15.460 --> 00:33:18.089
And that takes us to the equator. We're at the

640
00:33:18.170 --> 00:33:23.799
halfway point of this episode. particular season, where folks were going,

641
00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:27.200
what is going on here on good old Star Trek Enterprise?

642
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:32.779
Strange new worlds. The next episode, though, was, I think,

643
00:33:32.819 --> 00:33:35.059
very interesting. A lot of folks had a good reaction

644
00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:38.089
to this. Off Hour, where the Enterprise fell into a

645
00:33:38.180 --> 00:33:43.210
slipstream that pushed them to a catastrophic warp threshold. Really

646
00:33:43.250 --> 00:33:46.809
exciting episode. A real ticking clock episode. A lot going

647
00:33:46.890 --> 00:33:50.269
on there. Then, tone shifted. You can get whiplash from

648
00:33:50.309 --> 00:33:52.710
the tone shifting, I think. as much as half of

649
00:33:52.730 --> 00:33:57.480
this season. Like chronotons through the hourglass, where a temporal

650
00:33:57.539 --> 00:34:03.400
anomaly trapped the crew inside a soap opera-like reality, while

651
00:34:03.480 --> 00:34:06.519
Pike confronts a life he lost. And of course, this

652
00:34:06.539 --> 00:34:09.039
is the episode that brought back the character of Trillane

653
00:34:10.010 --> 00:34:13.210
that we had previously seen in season three. Seen in

654
00:34:13.250 --> 00:34:15.650
season three. I'm still learning how to speak English again.

655
00:34:16.409 --> 00:34:20.969
So forgive me. And then... We had an episode that

656
00:34:20.989 --> 00:34:24.010
I think a lot of folks are quite well regarded,

657
00:34:24.329 --> 00:34:30.780
Orders of Magnitude, where Starfleet and a, in particular, high-ranking

658
00:34:30.820 --> 00:34:34.440
Starfleet officer commandeers the Enterprise for an alien pursuit that

659
00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:38.699
gets out of control far beyond its original orders of

660
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:42.139
intent while a large portion of the crew are dealing

661
00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:44.440
with their own situation in a cave full of Andorians

662
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:48.360
on the planet below. So we have that episode to

663
00:34:48.380 --> 00:34:50.960
consider as well. The penultimate episode coming in at the

664
00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:55.360
number nine slot was Once La'an a Time, where La'an

665
00:34:55.550 --> 00:35:01.809
enters a crazy fantasy world with wacky costumes and long-haired Vulcans,

666
00:35:01.889 --> 00:35:05.190
where the fairy tale becomes a personal test of courage

667
00:35:05.429 --> 00:35:09.039
and control. I missed that. hearing what everyone on this

668
00:35:09.059 --> 00:35:10.539
show thought of that episode.

669
00:35:10.619 --> 00:35:12.980
It was hilarious. And long-haired Vulcan.

670
00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:16.139
He was. So moral.

671
00:35:16.420 --> 00:35:19.659
Two words, Paul. Sexy cyborg.

672
00:35:20.389 --> 00:35:20.840
All right.

673
00:35:20.929 --> 00:35:23.429
Well, there you go.

674
00:35:23.570 --> 00:35:25.969
I don't like to deny anyone things and give them pleasure.

675
00:35:26.469 --> 00:35:31.369
Especially myself. But yeah, that was an episode I got

676
00:35:31.389 --> 00:35:34.369
the impression the scores weren't so high for that one, though. Maybe.

677
00:35:34.590 --> 00:35:36.409
So you guys can fill me in when we get

678
00:35:36.449 --> 00:35:41.500
around to taking turns talking. And then finally, the season finale,

679
00:35:41.619 --> 00:35:48.039
episode number 10, the nostalgia-evoking Tomorrow's Enterprise, where a temporal

680
00:35:48.179 --> 00:35:54.389
crisis regarding both white and black holes brings the Enterprise

681
00:35:54.510 --> 00:35:59.170
face-to-face with the future Kirk that he himself will one

682
00:35:59.210 --> 00:36:03.010
day inherit, and we get the dueling perspectives of now

683
00:36:03.170 --> 00:36:06.440
and then Uvura trying to make sense of it all

684
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:11.230
and prevent beloved Scotty from somehow perishing. So a very

685
00:36:11.349 --> 00:36:15.880
interesting tale there to wrap up the season. So I

686
00:36:15.909 --> 00:36:18.820
think one thing, you know, as we start to discuss further,

687
00:36:19.139 --> 00:36:22.380
for sure, it was a season of a lot of shifts, right?

688
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:26.179
A lot of people described it as a gimmick fatigue

689
00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:28.679
just because there was a lot of, you know, let's

690
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:30.840
do this style. Let's try this style. You know, like

691
00:36:30.900 --> 00:36:33.570
you just saw as we did black and white comedy Muppets.

692
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:38.480
soap opera, you know, a lot of different things there.

693
00:36:38.500 --> 00:36:42.400
At times, we're a little different, but, you know, that's

694
00:36:42.420 --> 00:36:47.170
just kind of a relatively subjective overview of the different

695
00:36:47.170 --> 00:36:50.309
10 episodes. What I'm really curious about, though, is what

696
00:36:50.349 --> 00:36:52.949
did most of our fans think of this season, right?

697
00:36:53.070 --> 00:36:56.050
I think my good friend Eric has got, he's got,

698
00:36:56.690 --> 00:36:58.409
I don't think it's a rectal thermometer, but he's got

699
00:36:58.429 --> 00:37:00.329
some kind of thermometer that he can use to take

700
00:37:00.369 --> 00:37:03.909
the temperature of our fans. Though sometimes it may be

701
00:37:03.949 --> 00:37:07.030
that kind. I'm not really sure. Eric, Set us straight, friend.

702
00:37:08.050 --> 00:37:14.050
Well, I will tell you that these scores are across

703
00:37:14.090 --> 00:37:16.829
the board here. So we're going to start with Brandon Anklum,

704
00:37:17.349 --> 00:37:23.000
who gave the season a 1. Get on with the future. Legacy, baby.

705
00:37:23.780 --> 00:37:24.219
P.S.

706
00:37:24.619 --> 00:37:26.420
Keep Academy. Short and sweet.

707
00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:27.300
Thanks, Brandon.

708
00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:31.599
Phil Butler-Whitney gave the season a 5. Season 1 was

709
00:37:31.619 --> 00:37:37.000
a 9. Season 2 was a 9. Season 3... was

710
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:41.920
a 3.5. Season 4 was a 5. Simply because a

711
00:37:41.940 --> 00:37:46.090
couple of episodes were really good. The rest were not

712
00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:49.119
the best. The Bad Admiral episode was the best of

713
00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:52.849
the season, orders of magnitude. So Phil liked that episode,

714
00:37:53.969 --> 00:37:55.389
but gave this season only a 5.

715
00:37:55.369 --> 00:37:56.409
Thanks, Phil.

716
00:37:57.469 --> 00:38:01.650
Jeffrey Lance, a top fan of ours, gave the season

717
00:38:01.670 --> 00:38:06.369
a 10. Best episode was the season finale.

718
00:38:06.409 --> 00:38:06.750
Worst?

719
00:38:07.590 --> 00:38:10.530
Didn't exist for me anyway. All right, Jeffrey was very

720
00:38:10.570 --> 00:38:14.159
enthusiastic that season. I love it. Sandy Ramirez gave the

721
00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:19.199
season a six. I hoped for more interstellar aliens. The

722
00:38:19.239 --> 00:38:24.460
best was the latest episode of Masterpiece, Tomorrow's Enterprise. Thanks, Sandy.

723
00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:29.900
Migro Do said that they loved the season and it

724
00:38:29.940 --> 00:38:33.949
will be missed since Enterprise... The best stuff for Trekkers,

725
00:38:34.030 --> 00:38:38.360
in my humble opinion, season eight. This is very hard

726
00:38:38.380 --> 00:38:44.739
to read. Season eight points. Best episode is two. Not

727
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:48.460
one episode went beyond my expectation.

728
00:38:48.579 --> 00:38:49.320
Well done, though.

729
00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.159
Afraid that six episodes in season five aren't enough.

730
00:38:53.550 --> 00:38:55.250
Yes. Is it six?

731
00:38:55.269 --> 00:38:57.429
Is that what we have? We have six episodes, yeah.

732
00:38:57.610 --> 00:38:59.510
I think many of us agree with that. So thank

733
00:38:59.530 --> 00:39:03.119
you so much. Jan Lee Grenville said five out of

734
00:39:03.179 --> 00:39:06.019
ten episodes were good in my humble opinion, so I

735
00:39:06.219 --> 00:39:10.679
give it a five. Aparna Yana said I want to

736
00:39:10.760 --> 00:39:16.630
give the season an 8.5 overall. Morgan Trotter, season one

737
00:39:16.730 --> 00:39:19.429
was a nine, season two was a seven, season three

738
00:39:19.449 --> 00:39:24.349
a five, season four a three. There are ten episodes

739
00:39:24.409 --> 00:39:28.110
in season five, er, sorry, there are ten episodes in

740
00:39:28.130 --> 00:39:32.949
season four, and only three were good. decent. John Barry

741
00:39:33.050 --> 00:39:35.880
gave the season a 1. I couldn't finish it. At

742
00:39:35.900 --> 00:39:37.539
the end of Season 2, I was ready to start

743
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:40.800
the conversation that it is better than Enterprise, and maybe

744
00:39:40.940 --> 00:39:44.210
even on the way to passing Voyager. And I couldn't

745
00:39:44.349 --> 00:39:48.110
even finish season four. Alex Jackson, a top fan, gave

746
00:39:48.179 --> 00:39:53.199
the season a definite eight. And Murilo Silva, a top fan,

747
00:39:53.260 --> 00:39:56.920
gave the season a nine with lots of enthusiastic emojis.

748
00:39:57.780 --> 00:40:01.320
And so you, the fans, have scored this season of

749
00:40:01.460 --> 00:40:07.829
Strange New Worlds a 6.5, which I believe is by

750
00:40:07.869 --> 00:40:09.630
far the lowest score that we've had for a Strange

751
00:40:09.650 --> 00:40:10.670
New Worlds season so far.

752
00:40:10.730 --> 00:40:17.119
So, yeah. Golly. Yeah, geez. Wow. Okay, 6.5. So, Bea,

753
00:40:18.119 --> 00:40:20.650
would you like to get us started?

754
00:40:20.670 --> 00:40:26.070
What was your favorite episode and your least favorite episode?

755
00:40:27.070 --> 00:40:31.570
I think, Bea, just because I am such a Muppets fan,

756
00:40:32.289 --> 00:40:39.000
the Level 5 transporter accident, because I mean, Pellia as

757
00:40:39.039 --> 00:40:42.449
a Muppet, oh my God, with the little little spaghetti

758
00:40:42.489 --> 00:40:48.650
hair and the itty bitty little feetses were just so cute. Yeah,

759
00:40:48.670 --> 00:40:51.190
that was that, that just was my favorite. I know

760
00:40:51.250 --> 00:40:54.610
it's some people might consider it cheesy, but I just,

761
00:40:54.710 --> 00:41:01.469
I love that one. Although I will say that tomorrow's dinner,

762
00:41:01.530 --> 00:41:01.900
what was it?

763
00:41:01.909 --> 00:41:02.349
Yes.

764
00:41:02.409 --> 00:41:06.610
Now I'm confused. Tomorrow's yesterday. The last one was absolutely epic.

765
00:41:06.650 --> 00:41:10.510
Cause that was so, I mean, it was like, so good.

766
00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:16.019
Star Trek. It was for all the complaints that people

767
00:41:16.059 --> 00:41:20.619
had over the season. That was as Star Trek as

768
00:41:20.659 --> 00:41:25.280
you could get. It was just absolutely brilliantly done. Least

769
00:41:25.409 --> 00:41:32.949
favorite would be I think the black.

770
00:41:31.190 --> 00:41:32.429
And white one.

771
00:41:32.449 --> 00:41:37.610
I just couldn't get into it and for me it

772
00:41:37.650 --> 00:41:42.789
was a little bit gimmicky but I've enjoyed it, and

773
00:41:43.510 --> 00:41:45.989
being able to meet at least one of the stars,

774
00:41:46.030 --> 00:41:51.329
you know, the sexy Cybok, aka Ethan Peck, that was

775
00:41:51.409 --> 00:41:56.800
really awesome. So that was the highlight. Last March was,

776
00:41:57.030 --> 00:42:00.460
this past March was the highlight, getting to meet a

777
00:42:00.500 --> 00:42:06.280
lot of Star Trek people. Overall, I think, I can't

778
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:10.260
remember what all my scores were, but I think overall

779
00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:13.460
I will give this season Wow, a solid eight.

780
00:42:13.659 --> 00:42:18.059
You know, I believe, Eric, not Eric Charles can confirm this,

781
00:42:18.099 --> 00:42:22.559
but I think that our perfect score of 10 was

782
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:26.639
the first time that all the truck spurts agreed on

783
00:42:26.699 --> 00:42:28.719
an episode and gave it a 10.

784
00:42:28.699 --> 00:42:32.929
I don't think that's ever happened before. Has it? No,

785
00:42:33.050 --> 00:42:34.449
I think we've had one.

786
00:42:34.550 --> 00:42:37.730
I think we've had at least one episode of perfect 10s.

787
00:42:38.929 --> 00:42:40.570
I'd have to go back in archives.

788
00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:45.309
I found a 9.9. We did have one.

789
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:50.699
Yeah, yeah. There you go. We all agree.

790
00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:52.219
You know what, Paul?

791
00:42:53.579 --> 00:42:56.199
What would you have scored that final episode? We all

792
00:42:56.260 --> 00:42:59.840
gave it a perfect 10. You missed that episode, so

793
00:42:59.860 --> 00:43:02.219
would you agree with us Trek experts and give it

794
00:43:02.260 --> 00:43:04.460
a 10, or would you bump it down a little bit?

795
00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:06.000
Just out of curiosity.

796
00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:07.820
We're talking about Tomorrow's Enterprise, right?

797
00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:08.679
Yes.

798
00:43:09.809 --> 00:43:12.530
Yeah, I would give it a seven, actually. I was

799
00:43:12.570 --> 00:43:14.469
not as fond of it as everyone else. I see

800
00:43:14.510 --> 00:43:18.699
the word masterpiece being bandied about quite a bit. I

801
00:43:18.739 --> 00:43:21.880
see what they were going for. I definitely appreciate the intent.

802
00:43:22.460 --> 00:43:25.019
I have no problem with Celia Rose Gooding's acting. I

803
00:43:25.059 --> 00:43:27.739
think she did a wonderful job. I liked a good

804
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:30.340
chunk of it. I was there for about 70% of

805
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:32.429
the episode, right? I would say where they were really

806
00:43:32.449 --> 00:43:35.670
doing a great job. But about 30% of the episode

807
00:43:36.090 --> 00:43:38.449
did not work for me. The whole space baby concept

808
00:43:38.530 --> 00:43:44.090
was just... not good and really poorly executed. And I just,

809
00:43:44.190 --> 00:43:45.889
just some basic, you know, we are talking about a

810
00:43:45.909 --> 00:43:47.949
science fiction show, right? Last time I checked, right? Star

811
00:43:47.969 --> 00:43:50.110
Trek is science fiction, I think.

812
00:43:50.150 --> 00:43:50.329
Right.

813
00:43:50.489 --> 00:43:52.820
And you can't just hang out on the edge of

814
00:43:52.860 --> 00:43:55.639
a black hole or a white hole or whatever it

815
00:43:55.659 --> 00:43:55.969
may be.

816
00:43:56.050 --> 00:43:56.260
Right.

817
00:43:56.300 --> 00:43:59.679
Because it's going to be sucking in any matter or

818
00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:02.130
light for light years. You know, you just can't do it.

819
00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:05.619
Planets would be sucked in any and all matter, any energy,

820
00:44:05.719 --> 00:44:07.380
anything like that. And they're just kind of hanging out

821
00:44:07.420 --> 00:44:10.150
like they're, you know, parked outside of an Arby's, right?

822
00:44:10.329 --> 00:44:13.309
And that's just not how space works, friends.

823
00:44:13.329 --> 00:44:13.750
I'm sorry.

824
00:44:13.769 --> 00:44:17.239
So to not have basic science in a science fiction

825
00:44:17.260 --> 00:44:20.480
show is kind of, to me, we start to move

826
00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:24.000
into unforgivable territory here. And I realize it's suspension of disbelief,

827
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:28.570
but that was just annoying to no end. And the whole,

828
00:44:29.070 --> 00:44:30.530
you know, how many times are you going to say

829
00:44:30.590 --> 00:44:32.929
space baby to get a joke? I was just like,

830
00:44:32.949 --> 00:44:36.420
this is just infantile. So I loved a lot of it.

831
00:44:36.510 --> 00:44:38.880
I loved the dynamic between the actors and stuff like that.

832
00:44:40.340 --> 00:44:42.480
And it just felt very repetitious. There was so much

833
00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:45.079
of Celia Rose Gooding talking to herself back and forth.

834
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:48.840
I think they were mining past really good episodes that were,

835
00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:52.519
in fact, masterpieces to try to conjure up the same vibe.

836
00:44:52.539 --> 00:44:54.619
But I did not get that from this. And so

837
00:44:54.639 --> 00:44:57.289
I don't mean to diminish anyone else's joy of it.

838
00:44:57.380 --> 00:45:01.550
It's just, for me, writing, writing, writing, writing. It's got

839
00:45:01.570 --> 00:45:04.550
to be really good writing. And I see people get excited.

840
00:45:04.570 --> 00:45:07.739
It's like, There's Lieutenant Morass, right? But it's that whole

841
00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:10.800
thing when you recognize something that makes you like it

842
00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:13.619
more than it maybe deserves to be. Because it's just

843
00:45:13.659 --> 00:45:17.920
like recognition is not writing, right? And so I've said

844
00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:19.460
that before and I say it all the time, right?

845
00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:21.360
But it's just because you recognize something in it that

846
00:45:21.380 --> 00:45:24.380
you liked in the school doesn't mean that there was

847
00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:26.480
good writing there. And in this case, there just was

848
00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:28.960
not in a lot of it. So 70% of it

849
00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:31.190
was good. Therefore, that translates into a 7.

850
00:45:31.179 --> 00:45:34.969
So that shoots down our perfect score from all of our...

851
00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:40.400
Trek Spurts. Paul played the David on that one, I guess.

852
00:45:41.119 --> 00:45:42.860
I'm just going to be honest.

853
00:45:45.300 --> 00:45:45.769
For me, wow.

854
00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:53.110
The black and white episode, no. Watched it once, never again.

855
00:45:55.349 --> 00:45:57.769
For me, the biggest reason is the fact that they

856
00:45:57.789 --> 00:46:02.280
could have really explored the character of Korv. What is

857
00:46:02.340 --> 00:46:06.559
it like to be on a Klingon-occupied planet, particularly Kor?

858
00:46:07.380 --> 00:46:11.880
And they missed the vote. Absolutely, totally missed the vote

859
00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:15.860
on that one. I wanted to see it in color

860
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:18.760
so I could cosplay as him, and we didn't. So

861
00:46:19.340 --> 00:46:25.210
for me, one of the episodes that I'd pass on

862
00:46:25.250 --> 00:46:28.449
was that one. The biggest disappointment for me, you guys

863
00:46:28.489 --> 00:46:34.130
already know, Sexy Saibot. I've been waiting and waiting and waiting,

864
00:46:34.530 --> 00:46:37.969
patiently waiting for the return of Cybok. I was so

865
00:46:38.050 --> 00:46:41.739
excited for the return of Cybok that Eric actually made

866
00:46:41.800 --> 00:46:42.809
a video about it.

867
00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:47.719
And then when I saw it, I was so disappointed and.

868
00:46:47.659 --> 00:46:52.719
Let down that I'll never recover from that. So those

869
00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:58.739
two episodes for me are just, no, sorry, passed. But

870
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:01.860
I think Off Hours was just phenomenal.

871
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:03.429
It was outstanding.

872
00:47:03.650 --> 00:47:07.230
That evil Admiral. I mean, would we put that Admiral

873
00:47:07.289 --> 00:47:09.170
on our evil Admirals list, Eric?

874
00:47:09.809 --> 00:47:13.250
Maybe. He was psycho.

875
00:47:15.250 --> 00:47:17.880
I mean, we had a really good discussion, I think,

876
00:47:17.909 --> 00:47:21.760
about the complexities of that Admiral's response to things. But yeah,

877
00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:25.400
generally speaking, he was out of line, I think.

878
00:47:25.420 --> 00:47:25.519
Yeah.

879
00:47:26.610 --> 00:47:30.969
Yeah, I really liked that episode a lot, seeing Kirk

880
00:47:31.050 --> 00:47:33.980
come closer to the man that we know he's destined

881
00:47:34.019 --> 00:47:34.480
to be.

882
00:47:35.460 --> 00:47:38.400
Excellent episode, just phenomenal.

883
00:47:40.019 --> 00:47:44.480
The last episode with Uhura talking to Spike, we just

884
00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:46.440
talked about this recently, so I won't spend a lot

885
00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:48.719
of time on it, but that was another one of

886
00:47:48.760 --> 00:47:49.619
my favorites.

887
00:47:50.679 --> 00:47:53.719
But not to take away.

888
00:47:53.739 --> 00:48:00.360
I'm trying to find positives. The stoner episode. Una singing Klingon. Just,

889
00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:06.880
you know, I enjoyed Una singing Klingon. Okay, so that's that.

890
00:48:08.260 --> 00:48:11.349
But overall, I think I would give this season 6.5,

891
00:48:11.329 --> 00:48:15.510
I think, for.

892
00:48:17.050 --> 00:48:17.190
Me.

893
00:48:17.210 --> 00:48:18.130
Maybe.

894
00:48:18.170 --> 00:48:18.369
Maybe.

895
00:48:24.809 --> 00:48:27.610
For me, the episodes, they were really either good or

896
00:48:27.630 --> 00:48:30.260
they were total crap. I mean, for me, they were

897
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:34.480
either really high or really low. I didn't like the gimmicks.

898
00:48:34.539 --> 00:48:36.639
I thought that they spent too much time giving us

899
00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:41.579
gimmicks and not enough time giving us solid stories, which

900
00:48:41.679 --> 00:48:44.699
they've proven they can do, but for some reason didn't

901
00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:48.260
want to. So that's what I've got to say, and

902
00:48:48.300 --> 00:48:51.820
I'm sticking to it. So there you have it. How

903
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:52.559
about you, David?

904
00:48:53.219 --> 00:48:53.460
Well.

905
00:48:54.590 --> 00:48:55.110
Uh, let's see.

906
00:48:55.320 --> 00:48:58.829
Okay, yeah, I think my least favorite episode would have

907
00:48:58.849 --> 00:49:06.210
probably been episode three. The stoner episode. That thing did

908
00:49:06.250 --> 00:49:08.250
not resonate with me very well at all.

909
00:49:12.510 --> 00:49:18.389
I enjoyed... Well, I didn't enjoy... Oh, what's that episode?

910
00:49:18.409 --> 00:49:19.150
The one where.

911
00:49:21.489 --> 00:49:24.880
Was it Off Hour? No, I can't remember.

912
00:49:26.860 --> 00:49:31.800
Anyway, so let's see, oh it's the soap opera one,

913
00:49:31.820 --> 00:49:34.550
that's right. I did not enjoy that one at all,

914
00:49:34.590 --> 00:49:38.250
so those would be my least favorites, for sure. I

915
00:49:38.269 --> 00:49:42.190
did actually enjoy quite of the other gimmicks. As far

916
00:49:42.230 --> 00:49:47.369
as everybody knows, I am a huge fantasy world fan,

917
00:49:47.429 --> 00:49:53.130
Lord of the Rings, whatnot. And I really enjoyed that

918
00:49:54.409 --> 00:50:02.409
once upon a time. Just because, of course, dragon. And

919
00:50:02.489 --> 00:50:05.730
I have to agree with V, I really enjoyed the Muppets.

920
00:50:06.420 --> 00:50:09.239
That one actually to me kind of brought out my

921
00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:10.699
childhood nostalgia.

922
00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:13.840
So that was really enjoyable.

923
00:50:14.590 --> 00:50:17.550
I did not enjoy Off Hour. I actually did not.

924
00:50:17.570 --> 00:50:21.949
I actually thought that episode was a little... But my

925
00:50:22.389 --> 00:50:26.949
all-time favorite would probably be up in the tier of

926
00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:27.800
either the.

927
00:50:32.539 --> 00:50:35.000
The Magnitude, I forgot the title of that one. The

928
00:50:35.320 --> 00:50:44.050
one with the evil admiral, I guess. The Black and

929
00:50:44.070 --> 00:50:47.550
White episode. I actually enjoyed all of those quite well

930
00:50:47.570 --> 00:50:52.230
and all for different reasons. But yeah, for me though,

931
00:50:52.630 --> 00:50:56.699
this particular, oh yeah, and I also did not like Sorry,

932
00:50:56.719 --> 00:50:58.449
there was one more I really didn't like. That was

933
00:50:58.510 --> 00:51:01.690
episode two. That was the horror one. But yeah, I'm

934
00:51:01.730 --> 00:51:07.670
not much of a horror fan. Overall though, because this

935
00:51:08.170 --> 00:51:12.369
season in particular had so many gimmicks and they sort

936
00:51:12.409 --> 00:51:14.889
of actually just kept going with what they were trying

937
00:51:14.909 --> 00:51:18.409
to do. And apparently I heard that they did not

938
00:51:18.530 --> 00:51:22.590
plan for season five. Apparently this last episode was a

939
00:51:23.090 --> 00:51:28.980
send-off for this crew. And they apparently somehow got an

940
00:51:29.059 --> 00:51:32.280
okay from Paramount that they were going to do a

941
00:51:32.300 --> 00:51:34.780
sixth episode just to try and finish off the arc.

942
00:51:35.679 --> 00:51:38.119
So to me, I was like, if this was really

943
00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:41.639
going to be the last episode, that would have been

944
00:51:41.739 --> 00:51:44.380
bad for the series.

945
00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:47.539
Are you sure that's not from one of your conspiracy websites, David?

946
00:51:48.340 --> 00:51:50.900
No, that's actually what I heard, that this was actually

947
00:51:50.940 --> 00:51:51.780
going to be their last.

948
00:51:51.820 --> 00:51:51.940
Yeah.

949
00:51:54.159 --> 00:51:57.719
Yeah, I think I'm gonna need some documentation, David, for that. Like,

950
00:51:57.780 --> 00:52:00.719
from a legit, you know, media source, like, variety.

951
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:04.860
Yeah. So, either way, I mean, I'm just saying that

952
00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:08.599
for the purpose of scoring this season, though, because of

953
00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:13.199
all the gimmicks, I'm actually gonna be giving this either...

954
00:52:12.659 --> 00:52:14.980
I'm gonna probably have to go in the middle here.

955
00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:17.900
I'm gonna give it a 3.5. It was really all

956
00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:19.119
not that good for me.

957
00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:20.840
All the other seasons were great.

958
00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:24.610
I really enjoyed, I was hoping for the fourth season

959
00:52:24.659 --> 00:52:26.449
when the first episode came out. I was like, wow,

960
00:52:26.489 --> 00:52:27.670
this is really good, and we're going to have a

961
00:52:27.690 --> 00:52:29.389
great season. And all of a sudden, gimmick after gimmick

962
00:52:29.449 --> 00:52:30.250
after gimmick after gimmick.

963
00:52:30.269 --> 00:52:34.030
I was like, whoa. So, yeah, it was a really

964
00:52:34.130 --> 00:52:35.969
rough ride. But, yeah, 3.5 for me.

965
00:52:36.190 --> 00:52:41.250
All right. Eric, you going to follow up a 3.5, buddy? Sure, man.

966
00:52:42.550 --> 00:52:43.010
Yeah.

967
00:52:43.250 --> 00:52:45.349
I mean, what a roller coaster. I think I mentioned

968
00:52:45.369 --> 00:52:50.179
this a few episodes into the season this year. where

969
00:52:50.219 --> 00:52:54.880
I said that they broke my trust. I had this

970
00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:59.179
trust that the folks at Paramount knew what they were

971
00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:01.610
doing with Star Trek, that they were making awesome Star Trek.

972
00:53:01.650 --> 00:53:03.610
I was a huge fan of Discovery. Did it always

973
00:53:03.929 --> 00:53:06.409
hit the mark? No, but overall it was pretty good.

974
00:53:07.150 --> 00:53:11.329
Strange New Worlds so far has been excellent. And this

975
00:53:11.369 --> 00:53:14.670
season was just really, really solidly up and down for me.

976
00:53:14.690 --> 00:53:18.889
It was, what did Paul call it, like whiplash, right?

977
00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:23.880
I was getting whiplash the entire season. The first episode

978
00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:26.960
I thought was really good. I just didn't like the

979
00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:29.519
punching of the dinosaur in the face by La'an, and

980
00:53:29.659 --> 00:53:32.139
I will stand by the fact that I still think

981
00:53:32.159 --> 00:53:35.239
they did La'an dirty over the whole season. I was

982
00:53:35.360 --> 00:53:38.320
very unsatisfied with the way that they kind of resolved

983
00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:40.780
her whole story throughout the season as one of my

984
00:53:40.820 --> 00:53:44.590
favorite characters. They started bad with her, and they ended

985
00:53:44.630 --> 00:53:48.929
bad with her, so I just hated her story arc

986
00:53:49.030 --> 00:53:52.809
the whole season, honestly. But that first episode otherwise was

987
00:53:52.909 --> 00:53:55.389
really cool. And it was really cool to have a

988
00:53:56.210 --> 00:53:59.530
time travel episode that meant something, right? Where the Enterprise

989
00:53:59.650 --> 00:54:04.420
crew is completely engaged in real life history. That's the

990
00:54:04.460 --> 00:54:06.460
type of awesome Star Trek that I want to see.

991
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:09.179
I want to see that Star Trek could be a

992
00:54:09.219 --> 00:54:12.320
possibility in my life. And that's one of the things

993
00:54:12.340 --> 00:54:14.099
that I've always loved about it as a kid, right?

994
00:54:14.139 --> 00:54:16.900
I don't want dark Star Trek. I don't want Star

995
00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:20.750
Trek that looks at the The complicated side of human beings. No,

996
00:54:20.789 --> 00:54:23.889
I want an optimistic Star Trek. So anyway, I liked

997
00:54:24.030 --> 00:54:26.380
the whole story of the Martians and all that kind

998
00:54:26.400 --> 00:54:29.480
of stuff in that first episode. Griffin incident, by far

999
00:54:29.559 --> 00:54:32.940
my least favorite episode of Star Trek, probably of all time.

1000
00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:36.199
I hated that. I give it a zero. I never, ever,

1001
00:54:36.320 --> 00:54:38.559
ever want to see another episode of Star Trek ever

1002
00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:41.820
again like that. Human best friend? I actually, you know,

1003
00:54:41.860 --> 00:54:45.219
buddy episode? I'm in. And then it was gimmick after gimmick,

1004
00:54:45.260 --> 00:54:47.639
like everybody's been kind of saying. So, you know, I

1005
00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:49.579
could go through each and every one. Like, I don't

1006
00:54:49.639 --> 00:54:50.800
mind the Casablanca thing.

1007
00:54:50.840 --> 00:54:51.619
That was okay.

1008
00:54:52.219 --> 00:54:54.760
There was stuff about the puppets I liked. There was

1009
00:54:54.780 --> 00:54:57.500
stuff about several other episodes that I liked. But I

1010
00:54:57.559 --> 00:55:01.340
think overall, if I was to say what's my absolute

1011
00:55:01.400 --> 00:55:04.090
favorite episode of the season, it's really a toss up

1012
00:55:04.110 --> 00:55:06.409
for me. And I know I have to pick one.

1013
00:55:08.590 --> 00:55:10.650
I'll tell you what the toss-up is first, and then

1014
00:55:10.670 --> 00:55:12.510
I'll tell you which one I ultimately am going to pick.

1015
00:55:12.530 --> 00:55:16.710
The toss-up is between Episode 8, Orders of Magnitude, which

1016
00:55:16.769 --> 00:55:20.949
was the bad Merle story, which I just thought was fantastic.

1017
00:55:21.469 --> 00:55:24.429
It was very well acted. I did have a few

1018
00:55:24.489 --> 00:55:32.059
criticisms on that one, but overall, just very impressive. And

1019
00:55:32.099 --> 00:55:34.659
then Tomorrow's Enterprise, the last episode, I liked it quite

1020
00:55:34.699 --> 00:55:38.489
a bit, so I will say that my favorite episode

1021
00:55:38.730 --> 00:55:40.989
of the season, I can't get away from the Admirals, man.

1022
00:55:41.070 --> 00:55:43.969
So episode eight, Orders of Magnitude, I think was my

1023
00:55:44.130 --> 00:55:48.269
absolute favorite of the season. It was just such a

1024
00:55:48.349 --> 00:55:53.869
solid acting performance, such a solid, you know, moral quandary,

1025
00:55:54.130 --> 00:55:57.590
which I am always interested in related to Star Trek.

1026
00:55:57.889 --> 00:55:59.539
So, yeah.

1027
00:56:00.099 --> 00:56:02.760
But, you know, like the best of the season was

1028
00:56:02.820 --> 00:56:06.340
like one peak, right? And so much of the season

1029
00:56:06.389 --> 00:56:08.469
was subpar. So I know that I have to give

1030
00:56:08.530 --> 00:56:11.809
the whole season kind of an overall score. And I'll

1031
00:56:11.829 --> 00:56:16.650
just say that based on the whiplash, based on the

1032
00:56:16.909 --> 00:56:21.170
obviously gimmicky nature of things, which you either had to

1033
00:56:21.250 --> 00:56:23.570
buy into at the very beginning and be okay with,

1034
00:56:23.670 --> 00:56:25.489
or you had to be frustrated by, and I think

1035
00:56:25.670 --> 00:56:28.610
most of us were frustrated by it. And based on

1036
00:56:29.469 --> 00:56:31.329
The fact that just some of the writing, as Paul

1037
00:56:31.349 --> 00:56:35.309
was saying, I find writing to be a very important

1038
00:56:35.389 --> 00:56:37.429
aspect of these shows as well. And so much of

1039
00:56:37.489 --> 00:56:41.369
it was substandard. I'm going to give the season overall

1040
00:56:41.389 --> 00:56:41.949
a 5.

1041
00:56:41.949 --> 00:56:42.489
5.0.

1042
00:56:42.489 --> 00:56:47.380
I can't go much higher than that. I don't think

1043
00:56:47.400 --> 00:56:50.280
I'm going to recommend this season to many of my friends,

1044
00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:55.139
which is unfortunate. But there's probably three episodes. The first episode,

1045
00:56:55.219 --> 00:56:57.659
episode 8, and the last one that I might actually recommend.

1046
00:56:58.320 --> 00:56:59.460
recommend to friends in the future.

1047
00:57:00.619 --> 00:57:00.960
There you go.

1048
00:57:01.260 --> 00:57:01.699
All right.

1049
00:57:01.900 --> 00:57:02.219
That's me.

1050
00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:02.460
All right.

1051
00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:03.159
There you have it.

1052
00:57:03.639 --> 00:57:07.389
Eric has spoken and now we're going to have Charles

1053
00:57:07.670 --> 00:57:11.590
take the flaming microphone and do his thing.

1054
00:57:11.610 --> 00:57:13.809
Okay.

1055
00:57:14.789 --> 00:57:18.510
To answer his Jim question, which changed with Paul's score in.

1056
00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:20.619
The past.

1057
00:57:20.679 --> 00:57:22.340
Only for that one episode though, right?

1058
00:57:22.380 --> 00:57:22.550
No, no.

1059
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:24.420
I haven't scored the season. No, no.

1060
00:57:24.619 --> 00:57:27.000
I said that adjusted last week's score.

1061
00:57:28.050 --> 00:57:28.769
Okay, got it.

1062
00:57:29.050 --> 00:57:32.409
Our score, which was a 10, is now a 9.6.

1063
00:57:32.409 --> 00:57:35.769
Jim asked the question, have we ever scored 10s or so?

1064
00:57:36.949 --> 00:57:40.050
Starfleet Academy, The Life and the Stars did get a

1065
00:57:40.030 --> 00:57:44.210
10 from the hosts. Strange New World, This Old Scientist

1066
00:57:44.250 --> 00:57:49.070
got a 9.99 from the hosts. And Subspace Rhapsody did

1067
00:57:49.110 --> 00:57:52.090
get a 10 from the hosts. So 10s are possible.

1068
00:57:52.769 --> 00:57:54.550
Or near 10s are possible.

1069
00:57:54.869 --> 00:57:55.269
Okay.

1070
00:57:56.050 --> 00:57:58.190
An easy way for me to look at what I

1071
00:57:58.269 --> 00:58:01.409
liked and what I didn't like is I keep track

1072
00:58:01.449 --> 00:58:04.769
of scores. And it's obvious when I look at my sheet,

1073
00:58:05.130 --> 00:58:09.469
my top episode was Tomorrow's Enterprise. That was the one

1074
00:58:09.489 --> 00:58:13.170
that got a 10. At 9.5, the first episode and

1075
00:58:14.429 --> 00:58:22.829
the Muppets episode. both got a 9.5 from me. So

1076
00:58:22.869 --> 00:58:26.030
those were strong episodes for me. I loved the going

1077
00:58:26.090 --> 00:58:28.969
back in the past and I enjoyed seeing the Muppets.

1078
00:58:29.230 --> 00:58:33.199
Least favorite was a tie between the black and white

1079
00:58:34.219 --> 00:58:37.000
and Off Hours. Both of them had a six from

1080
00:58:37.059 --> 00:58:40.639
me because I just didn't like the Casablanca themed one.

1081
00:58:42.179 --> 00:58:44.519
And Bad Admiral just didn't excite me.

1082
00:58:44.719 --> 00:58:45.380
No, excuse me.

1083
00:58:45.820 --> 00:58:49.110
It wasn't Bad Admiral. It was the soap opera episode.

1084
00:58:49.980 --> 00:58:54.409
I'm getting my episodes mixed up. Lycomitons, that one I

1085
00:58:54.489 --> 00:58:57.989
did not like. That one got the six. Yeah, Orders

1086
00:58:58.030 --> 00:59:00.289
of Magnitude had a lot of higher score on that one.

1087
00:59:01.010 --> 00:59:03.309
I did not like the concept of throwing a soap

1088
00:59:03.409 --> 00:59:06.210
opera in. We didn't need a Q episode in the

1089
00:59:06.230 --> 00:59:09.599
middle of this season. Originally in scoring, I would have

1090
00:59:09.619 --> 00:59:14.340
given this, originally in my scoring, I'd given this season 8.1

1091
00:59:14.340 --> 00:59:18.610
total when I did it through my 10 episodes. but

1092
00:59:18.650 --> 00:59:20.190
I think I'm going to drop it down a little

1093
00:59:20.250 --> 00:59:22.789
bit and put it at seven. This episode had some

1094
00:59:22.849 --> 00:59:24.769
high points, but had some low points.

1095
00:59:24.929 --> 00:59:28.230
All right, so we have a seven from Charles, and Paul,

1096
00:59:28.260 --> 00:59:30.380
you get to pull up the caboose on this and

1097
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:31.500
wrap it all up.

1098
00:59:32.320 --> 00:59:34.639
Okay, sorry about that. Okay, great. I just want to

1099
00:59:34.659 --> 00:59:38.400
make sure I'm not missing anything. So yeah, there were

1100
00:59:38.420 --> 00:59:40.739
some good points in this season, for sure. It's really

1101
00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:43.760
interesting to see how some people can have totally different

1102
00:59:43.780 --> 00:59:46.880
points of view on the same episode. Fascinating how people will...

1103
00:59:47.550 --> 00:59:51.349
digest and perceive art. It's really interesting how subjective it is.

1104
00:59:51.409 --> 00:59:54.070
I find it really interesting as we discuss this stuff.

1105
00:59:55.150 --> 00:59:56.610
But I think we all agree it was a very

1106
00:59:56.679 --> 01:00:00.320
erratic season, right? And there were a lot of gimmick

1107
01:00:00.360 --> 01:00:03.860
fatigue going on here, for sure. So for me, there

1108
01:00:03.880 --> 01:00:06.460
were really three episodes I was really high on that

1109
01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:10.579
I thought represented, you know, really all pistons firing, right?

1110
01:00:10.679 --> 01:00:14.460
Everything was working really well. The premiere, Vows of Marinaris,

1111
01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:18.300
Off Hour, which was... incredibly well directed, and then Orders

1112
01:00:18.340 --> 01:00:22.010
of Magnitude with the Starfleet Admiral. I think those were really,

1113
01:00:22.050 --> 01:00:24.989
really top flight episodes. But that's three out of ten

1114
01:00:25.670 --> 01:00:28.409
for me, right? There were things I liked about Tomorrow's Enterprise,

1115
01:00:28.449 --> 01:00:31.500
but it just wasn't, you know, it didn't stick the

1116
01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:35.400
landing for me. So three out of ten is not

1117
01:00:35.440 --> 01:00:37.909
so great, right? I feel like I want to be

1118
01:00:37.929 --> 01:00:41.719
generous and give it a five, right? But I also

1119
01:00:41.780 --> 01:00:44.159
feel like they need to get a message, right? That

1120
01:00:44.239 --> 01:00:46.340
this kind of shit just doesn't fly. And that they,

1121
01:00:46.380 --> 01:00:49.920
you know, this, you know, whim of the week would

1122
01:00:49.940 --> 01:00:52.579
be how I would describe it, is a lot of

1123
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:58.719
really undisciplined juvenile storytelling happened this year, right? And it

1124
01:00:58.739 --> 01:01:01.019
was really by people who seemed like they didn't even

1125
01:01:01.039 --> 01:01:04.880
have a clue what science fiction was. So I think

1126
01:01:04.920 --> 01:01:07.159
they need to get one on the nose for that, right?

1127
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:09.800
And sorry, you're going to get a swap with a newspaper.

1128
01:01:09.940 --> 01:01:11.619
So I've got to be honest and give it the

1129
01:01:11.639 --> 01:01:14.460
season as a whole. Without a question, this is the

1130
01:01:14.500 --> 01:01:16.920
worst season of the show. I don't think anyone's going

1131
01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:19.360
to debate that. This has been a very erratic season.

1132
01:01:19.380 --> 01:01:24.159
They have screwed up constantly. I feel bad for the actors.

1133
01:01:26.440 --> 01:01:30.699
And they're doing their best, but the writer's room needs

1134
01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:34.380
to get a purge and purge that shit. And I

1135
01:01:34.420 --> 01:01:38.670
hope that different folks are managing the narrative for the

1136
01:01:38.750 --> 01:01:42.159
final season, season five. So we'll see. But yeah, I'm

1137
01:01:42.199 --> 01:01:44.059
going to go on and give the season as a

1138
01:01:44.099 --> 01:01:47.500
whole a four. Reluctantly. I wish I didn't have to,

1139
01:01:47.559 --> 01:01:50.320
but you know, it's, you know, when there's only three

1140
01:01:50.340 --> 01:01:53.260
good episodes out of 10, sorry, you know, a four

1141
01:01:53.300 --> 01:01:53.989
is the best I can get.

1142
01:01:54.170 --> 01:01:58.030
All right. So overall, Charles, out of the Trek spurts,

1143
01:01:58.250 --> 01:02:00.269
stack up with our Facebook.

1144
01:02:00.690 --> 01:02:01.769
Okay.

1145
01:02:02.010 --> 01:02:03.090
Give me a moment.

1146
01:02:03.090 --> 01:02:08.210
6.5 was the fan total from just saying what you

1147
01:02:08.230 --> 01:02:12.250
think of the season in general. The hosts originally would

1148
01:02:12.269 --> 01:02:16.829
have given the season a 7.4, as when they decided

1149
01:02:16.889 --> 01:02:21.429
to go through the entire season, it dropped to a 5.7.

1150
01:02:21.429 --> 01:02:24.510
So the fans liked it a little bit better than

1151
01:02:24.570 --> 01:02:27.320
we did. Fans liked it a little bit better, but

1152
01:02:27.380 --> 01:02:28.050
not by much.

1153
01:02:28.070 --> 01:02:30.400
So we're in the ballpark. Yeah.

1154
01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:34.059
And what do you guys think about this awesome graphic

1155
01:02:34.079 --> 01:02:37.179
that's up on the screen? David did an excellent job

1156
01:02:37.239 --> 01:02:40.579
trying to capture the entire season in one picture, don't

1157
01:02:40.619 --> 01:02:40.900
you think?

1158
01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:43.679
Yeah, that's cool.

1159
01:02:43.699 --> 01:02:46.280
I love it. I think it did an excellent job

1160
01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:49.219
with that. I like the T-Rex. I like the dragon.

1161
01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:53.619
I like Trillane on the side with the Q hanging

1162
01:02:53.679 --> 01:02:54.679
out up there in the corner.

1163
01:02:54.699 --> 01:02:56.449
I think it did a good job.

1164
01:02:56.880 --> 01:02:58.460
And V's Pelea puppet is there.

1165
01:02:58.480 --> 01:02:59.179
Oh, yes.

1166
01:02:59.239 --> 01:03:08.010
Yes, thank you. That's so cute. I don't know why.

1167
01:03:08.480 --> 01:03:11.639
Thank you. I hope they make, I don't know if

1168
01:03:11.659 --> 01:03:15.480
they're going to make one of her, but I just have.

1169
01:03:15.360 --> 01:03:15.940
To have that.

1170
01:03:16.079 --> 01:03:16.800
That's so cute.

1171
01:03:17.039 --> 01:03:19.760
Well, and, you know, V, I kind of feel similarly

1172
01:03:19.900 --> 01:03:22.440
where I feel like that last episode was rated at

1173
01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:25.179
least one or two points higher for me just because

1174
01:03:25.389 --> 01:03:30.440
of the fire-breathing dragon, like, breathing fire into the shields

1175
01:03:30.539 --> 01:03:32.340
of the Enterprise, which was too cool.

1176
01:03:32.519 --> 01:03:33.159
Pretty cool.

1177
01:03:34.659 --> 01:03:35.989
Yep. So there you have it, guys.

1178
01:03:36.030 --> 01:03:39.570
That's what the Treks first thought about season four of

1179
01:03:39.670 --> 01:03:40.730
Spring of New Worlds.

1180
01:03:41.289 --> 01:03:44.969
Now it's time to roll on to some Star Trek birthdays.

1181
01:03:45.170 --> 01:03:47.050
All right, Grumpy Wharf, we hear that.

1182
01:03:47.590 --> 01:03:53.460
So in an attempt to shorten the show a little bit...

1183
01:03:54.659 --> 01:03:55.559
This was a hard.

1184
01:03:55.380 --> 01:03:57.500
Week for me because there's so many heavy hitters.

1185
01:03:57.559 --> 01:04:00.579
When you get to the birthdays, there are some doozies

1186
01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:01.980
I just could not overlook.

1187
01:04:02.099 --> 01:04:06.699
So, yeah, they're there. And as usual, we're going to turn.

1188
01:04:06.500 --> 01:04:09.219
On the flaming birthday candle over to Eric.

1189
01:04:09.829 --> 01:04:12.550
And Eric is going to start off with our remembrances.

1190
01:04:12.630 --> 01:04:13.710
So take it away, Eric.

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01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:17.780
Jim, this week we are remembering four members of our

1192
01:04:17.820 --> 01:04:20.030
Star Trek community who have gone before us. The first

1193
01:04:20.130 --> 01:04:24.530
is actress Madeline Rue, born Madeline Solomon. She, of course,

1194
01:04:24.570 --> 01:04:28.530
was the prolific character actress who played Lieutenant Marla McGivers

1195
01:04:28.710 --> 01:04:32.449
in the TLS first season episode, Space Seed. She made

1196
01:04:32.570 --> 01:04:36.480
over a hundred appearances on television, including appearances on Have Gun,

1197
01:04:36.519 --> 01:04:41.039
Will Travel, The Untouchables, Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-0, The Man from Uncle,

1198
01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:46.030
Mission Impossible, Starsky and Hutch. She was actually in Bonanza

1199
01:04:46.170 --> 01:04:49.210
one time with Ricardo Montalban as well.

1200
01:04:49.769 --> 01:04:50.030
Yeah.

1201
01:04:50.389 --> 01:04:54.739
And in fact, they reunited a second time on Fantasy Island.

1202
01:04:55.719 --> 01:04:57.940
So she had a lot of little connections with him.

1203
01:04:58.380 --> 01:05:02.519
But in 1977, she was unfortunately diagnosed with multiple sclerosis

1204
01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:08.409
and was reportedly eventually using a cane and then crutches

1205
01:05:08.469 --> 01:05:11.090
and then a wheelchair. But she did remain a strong

1206
01:05:11.230 --> 01:05:19.039
advocate for folks from that community as she faded. So

1207
01:05:19.440 --> 01:05:21.539
we lost her back in 2003 at the age of

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01:05:21.539 --> 01:05:25.940
68 years old. Happy birthday to Madeline Rue, our original

1209
01:05:26.039 --> 01:05:32.280
Madeline McGivers. Marla McGivers, sorry. Happy birthday as well to

1210
01:05:32.340 --> 01:05:40.639
Persis Kambada, the Indian model, actress who played Ileah. and

1211
01:05:40.659 --> 01:05:44.019
the Aaliyah Probe, or Aaliyah, Aaliyah, I believe, from the

1212
01:05:44.079 --> 01:05:47.920
motion picture. Kambada was born in Mumbai, India, to a

1213
01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:51.219
middle-class Parsi family, and she started her career at the

1214
01:05:51.300 --> 01:05:53.579
very young age of 13 years old when she was

1215
01:05:53.619 --> 01:05:58.429
hired for advertisements for soap brands. After photos of her,

1216
01:05:58.510 --> 01:06:03.610
taken accidentally by a famous photographer, became popular. A little

1217
01:06:03.630 --> 01:06:05.710
bit weird, but then by the age of 17, she

1218
01:06:05.730 --> 01:06:11.570
was named Miss India. and participated in that year's Miss

1219
01:06:11.690 --> 01:06:16.309
Universe pageant. However, she was unable to find success in

1220
01:06:16.349 --> 01:06:20.070
the Bollywood industry, and so she eventually would move to

1221
01:06:20.239 --> 01:06:25.780
the U.S., where she started looking for other options. Actually,

1222
01:06:25.800 --> 01:06:29.880
her role in the motion picture led to other roles

1223
01:06:29.940 --> 01:06:35.010
in films like Nighthawks, Megaforce, and Warrior of the Lost

1224
01:06:35.090 --> 01:06:38.489
World from 1985. However, she never really found that, like,

1225
01:06:38.829 --> 01:06:42.260
real success that she was looking for or probably deserved.

1226
01:06:43.389 --> 01:06:45.659
And we unfortunately lost her at a very young age,

1227
01:06:45.739 --> 01:06:50.420
only 49 years old back in 1998. Happy birthday to

1228
01:06:50.460 --> 01:06:55.059
Persis Kamata. Happy birthday as well to John Hoyt, the

1229
01:06:55.280 --> 01:06:58.460
veteran actor of film, television, and theater who portrayed our

1230
01:06:58.559 --> 01:07:03.030
original Phil Boyce. That's right, the guy with the martinis, right?

1231
01:07:03.869 --> 01:07:07.150
In the TOS first pilot. The Cage, he was born

1232
01:07:07.269 --> 01:07:11.789
John MacArthur. Hoistrad in Bronxville, New York. He worked as

1233
01:07:11.869 --> 01:07:15.659
a teacher of history as well as a stand-up comedian

1234
01:07:15.719 --> 01:07:20.739
before joining Orson Welles Mercury Theater in 1937, which really

1235
01:07:20.800 --> 01:07:24.340
launched his acting career, which I just think is such

1236
01:07:24.380 --> 01:07:30.139
a cool story. His career moved on to Broadway, where

1237
01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:32.380
he became very popular in a lot of productions of

1238
01:07:32.400 --> 01:07:35.360
the time, all the way through the 40s and then

1239
01:07:35.500 --> 01:07:39.760
into the 50s. He was in the musical Maggie, after

1240
01:07:39.800 --> 01:07:43.309
which he moved then into movie and television. So one

1241
01:07:43.329 --> 01:07:46.889
of these guys who really kind of followed that, you know,

1242
01:07:47.070 --> 01:07:52.809
theater to television sort of continuum. His credits are really

1243
01:07:52.949 --> 01:07:57.360
too numerous to mention, but suffice to say, I really

1244
01:07:57.420 --> 01:07:59.400
love Phil Boyce, and I love that they brought him

1245
01:07:59.440 --> 01:08:02.599
back as a character on Strange New Worlds. I loved

1246
01:08:02.639 --> 01:08:07.719
his portable martini station. He was absolutely... as far as

1247
01:08:07.760 --> 01:08:12.239
I'm concerned, from the cage, what I'll call a proto-Bones.

1248
01:08:12.860 --> 01:08:15.780
It was before we actually had Leonard McCoy, but he

1249
01:08:15.969 --> 01:08:19.890
kind of had that grumpy demeanor, but yet also was

1250
01:08:19.909 --> 01:08:24.329
going to be your best friend. So I really hope,

1251
01:08:25.029 --> 01:08:26.710
I don't know that they will, but it would be

1252
01:08:26.850 --> 01:08:29.189
really cool to have them explore that character just a

1253
01:08:29.229 --> 01:08:31.670
little bit more in Strange New Worlds. Of course, that's

1254
01:08:31.689 --> 01:08:33.939
already in the can, so it doesn't matter what I

1255
01:08:33.989 --> 01:08:37.340
think about that. But John Hoyt did a fantastic... job

1256
01:08:37.439 --> 01:08:39.159
in star trek and all of the other things that

1257
01:08:39.189 --> 01:08:42.130
he did throughout his career so happy birthday to john

1258
01:08:42.189 --> 01:08:45.369
hoyt and last but not least we will say happy

1259
01:08:45.409 --> 01:08:50.670
birthday to yes donald pleasance outside of the world of

1260
01:08:50.729 --> 01:08:53.310
star trek he of course is the english actor best

1261
01:08:53.350 --> 01:08:59.829
known for his bald head and intense staring eyes the

1262
01:08:59.970 --> 01:09:04.600
villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film, You

1263
01:09:04.649 --> 01:09:09.340
Only Live Twice. He of course was in THX 1138,

1264
01:09:09.340 --> 01:09:13.979
that really weird Spielberg film from way back in the day.

1265
01:09:14.659 --> 01:09:18.520
Best known as the psychiatrist, Dr. Samuel Loomis in Halloween.

1266
01:09:19.119 --> 01:09:21.600
and four of his sequels, a role for which he

1267
01:09:21.619 --> 01:09:25.500
was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actor. He

1268
01:09:25.539 --> 01:09:28.899
collaborated with Halloween director John Carpenter twice more as the

1269
01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:31.819
President of the United States in Escape from New York

1270
01:09:32.439 --> 01:09:36.350
and as the Priest in Prince of Darkness. This guy,

1271
01:09:36.449 --> 01:09:38.489
I mean, look at him. You know that look, right?

1272
01:09:38.890 --> 01:09:42.029
I always remember him from You Only Live Twice. What

1273
01:09:42.050 --> 01:09:43.470
a stroke in the kitty, right?

1274
01:09:44.229 --> 01:09:44.369
So.

1275
01:09:45.619 --> 01:09:49.079
really cool looking actor, really cool, like bit parts that he,

1276
01:09:49.260 --> 01:09:52.859
not bit parts, really cool characters that he played that

1277
01:09:52.880 --> 01:09:56.880
had a very strong kind of presence to them from,

1278
01:09:56.899 --> 01:09:59.390
you know, escape from New York to the great escape

1279
01:09:59.529 --> 01:10:03.409
to his appearances on the twilight zone. Happy birthday to

1280
01:10:03.489 --> 01:10:08.770
Donald Pleasance. Unfortunately lost all the way back in 1995.

1281
01:10:08.770 --> 01:10:11.430
And that does it this week for our remembrances. And

1282
01:10:11.489 --> 01:10:14.069
so I will pass the actual flaming birthday candle, the

1283
01:10:14.109 --> 01:10:15.130
original flaming thing.

1284
01:10:17.149 --> 01:10:17.630
Over to V.

1285
01:10:20.850 --> 01:10:23.449
You know what, V? All of the stuff can be flaming, though.

1286
01:10:23.489 --> 01:10:24.810
It's okay. It doesn't matter.

1287
01:10:24.829 --> 01:10:24.909
Sure.

1288
01:10:27.970 --> 01:10:28.380
All right.

1289
01:10:29.109 --> 01:10:32.539
So, got to be serious here. My first happy birthday

1290
01:10:32.579 --> 01:10:37.960
goes out to Duncan Regehr, who is the Canadian actor, writer,

1291
01:10:38.060 --> 01:10:41.279
and artist who played, we were just talking about this earlier,

1292
01:10:41.300 --> 01:10:46.579
Ronan in Star Trek TNG seventh season episode Sub Rosa.

1293
01:10:47.289 --> 01:10:50.029
So here's the sexy space ghost.

1294
01:10:52.109 --> 01:10:53.970
The instigator of the candle.

1295
01:10:53.989 --> 01:10:55.430
Uh-huh. Yeah.

1296
01:10:56.979 --> 01:10:59.479
And I don't know how I probably knew this and

1297
01:10:59.560 --> 01:11:02.460
forgot it, but I did not know that I didn't

1298
01:11:02.479 --> 01:11:05.340
make the connection that he was the one who played

1299
01:11:05.380 --> 01:11:09.659
the recurring role of Shakar Adon in Star Trek Deep

1300
01:11:09.699 --> 01:11:16.060
Space Nine, appearing in three episodes, Shakar, Crossfire, and The Begotten.

1301
01:11:17.090 --> 01:11:23.189
So happy birthday to the sexy space ghost. Next, happy birthday.

1302
01:11:23.210 --> 01:11:25.449
Who then was also a sexy Bajoran, I guess.

1303
01:11:25.489 --> 01:11:26.760
Well, yeah, sexy Bajoran.

1304
01:11:26.779 --> 01:11:27.300
That's right.

1305
01:11:27.359 --> 01:11:32.460
Yes, yes, that is true. That is true. But yeah,

1306
01:11:32.479 --> 01:11:37.840
he was sexier as the space ghost. But anyway. Happy

1307
01:11:37.880 --> 01:11:41.710
birthday goes out to Dale Wibley. He is the actor

1308
01:11:41.770 --> 01:11:47.729
who played Kyle Djokovic in Starfleet Academy. Next, happy birthday

1309
01:11:47.829 --> 01:11:51.810
to Todd Bryant, who is a stuntman. I see why

1310
01:11:51.850 --> 01:11:56.819
Jim put this in here. Stuntman, stunt actor, and occasional

1311
01:11:57.020 --> 01:12:00.340
actor who appeared in three Star Trek films and was

1312
01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:04.460
the stunt double for Ron Perlman in Star Trek Nemesis.

1313
01:12:04.979 --> 01:12:09.359
But he is best known as Captain Claw. In some

1314
01:12:09.399 --> 01:12:13.939
movie that I've never heard of, but it's apparently, you know,

1315
01:12:14.020 --> 01:12:16.039
Star Trek V, The Final Frontier.

1316
01:12:16.100 --> 01:12:16.479
I don't know.

1317
01:12:16.500 --> 01:12:17.239
I've never seen it.

1318
01:12:17.279 --> 01:12:17.880
That was awesome.

1319
01:12:19.020 --> 01:12:20.380
Yeah.

1320
01:12:21.100 --> 01:12:22.640
Some people say it's good, but I don't know.

1321
01:12:22.720 --> 01:12:23.039
Anyway.

1322
01:12:23.439 --> 01:12:26.100
I mean, I will say that that picture in the

1323
01:12:26.140 --> 01:12:29.500
upper left-hand corner of Klaue and Vixus, though, is pretty

1324
01:12:29.579 --> 01:12:32.220
classic Star Trek. Yeah. Whether you like the movie or not,

1325
01:12:32.300 --> 01:12:35.140
that picture right there is very classic Star Trek. And

1326
01:12:35.180 --> 01:12:37.850
we've talked to Vixus on this podcast, which is really.

1327
01:12:37.779 --> 01:12:38.699
Awesome, too. Cool.

1328
01:12:39.350 --> 01:12:39.689
Cool.

1329
01:12:40.649 --> 01:12:45.260
Now, happy birthday goes out to somebody who I just

1330
01:12:45.399 --> 01:12:52.020
absolutely adore, Avery Brooks. He is an accomplished stage television

1331
01:12:52.579 --> 01:12:57.020
and film actor, best known for his role as Benjamin

1332
01:12:57.100 --> 01:13:01.609
Sisko in DS9. He is the only actor to appear

1333
01:13:01.750 --> 01:13:08.159
in all 173 episodes of the series. and has also

1334
01:13:08.220 --> 01:13:13.420
directed several episodes. In addition, he played Benny Russell in

1335
01:13:13.439 --> 01:13:17.630
the episodes Far Beyond the Stars, one of my favorites

1336
01:13:17.649 --> 01:13:22.449
because it's just so heart-wrenching, and Shadows and Symbols. I

1337
01:13:23.609 --> 01:13:27.510
also liked him in In the Pale Moonlight, where he

1338
01:13:27.609 --> 01:13:32.770
can live with his decisions. He also voiced Sisko in

1339
01:13:32.810 --> 01:13:38.359
the games DS9 Harbinger and Star Trek Legacy. And having

1340
01:13:38.439 --> 01:13:44.119
met Sirach Lofton, who played Jake Sisko last year, the

1341
01:13:44.159 --> 01:13:48.199
cool thing is, is that since the show, because Sirach

1342
01:13:48.220 --> 01:13:52.380
was 14 when he started, and they still talk every

1343
01:13:52.420 --> 01:13:55.659
single day on the phone. So they've got that connection

1344
01:13:55.699 --> 01:13:58.319
because they played father and son on the show. And

1345
01:13:58.340 --> 01:14:02.380
they've got a connection, I think, that's close as a

1346
01:14:02.420 --> 01:14:06.340
real father and son. So I thought that was awesome. Anyway,

1347
01:14:06.359 --> 01:14:12.029
that is... Those are my birthday people, so flaming birthday candle.

1348
01:14:12.689 --> 01:14:16.470
Excuse me. This is like flaming.

1349
01:14:17.289 --> 01:14:17.890
This is great.

1350
01:14:18.090 --> 01:14:20.369
I don't know what that was.

1351
01:14:21.170 --> 01:14:22.430
I'm going through puberty.

1352
01:14:22.449 --> 01:14:25.829
I don't know what that was.

1353
01:14:26.210 --> 01:14:26.949
That was great.

1354
01:14:27.149 --> 01:14:30.409
I love it. V's got a mouthful of birthday cake

1355
01:14:30.430 --> 01:14:31.409
or something. I don't know.

1356
01:14:33.789 --> 01:14:35.850
I choked on the birthday candle.

1357
01:14:36.029 --> 01:14:39.430
Audience, you decide. What's going on with V? I don't know.

1358
01:14:39.729 --> 01:14:43.859
You guys gotta hold on to your butts, though.

1359
01:14:44.079 --> 01:14:47.300
I'm pretty sure we have the content for next week's

1360
01:14:47.380 --> 01:14:56.199
poll now, though. What is V choking on? There she goes,

1361
01:14:56.239 --> 01:14:58.000
bubbling out of frame.

1362
01:14:58.300 --> 01:14:59.000
We've lost her.

1363
01:14:59.020 --> 01:15:01.710
Thank you, V.

1364
01:15:03.199 --> 01:15:06.829
I will take the mic in very serious transitional style here.

1365
01:15:06.930 --> 01:15:07.770
Thank you. Thank you.

1366
01:15:07.869 --> 01:15:08.409
Please do.

1367
01:15:09.810 --> 01:15:15.930
You may move on to your book, guys.

1368
01:15:16.850 --> 01:15:19.100
Paul has got some of the best coming up here.

1369
01:15:19.140 --> 01:15:22.300
Okay. I am ready to continue. Are we all right?

1370
01:15:22.579 --> 01:15:23.579
All right. Everyone is good.

1371
01:15:23.600 --> 01:15:25.000
Well, that's debatable, but yes.

1372
01:15:25.260 --> 01:15:29.220
Oh, yeah. I'm still waiting for some labs to come back,

1373
01:15:29.279 --> 01:15:30.060
but we'll find out.

1374
01:15:30.180 --> 01:15:30.619
Okay?

1375
01:15:30.680 --> 01:15:31.810
So, first of all.

1376
01:15:31.819 --> 01:15:32.729
Pop the chalupa.

1377
01:15:33.600 --> 01:15:37.829
Let's say happy birthday to some of my fellow October

1378
01:15:37.869 --> 01:15:41.270
birthday folks, the greatest folks of all time, of course,

1379
01:15:41.310 --> 01:15:45.989
from this month. The great Lena Headey, okay? Born in

1380
01:15:46.050 --> 01:15:51.069
Bermuda to English parents, Lena Headey is, of course, infamous,

1381
01:15:51.310 --> 01:15:58.220
iconically known as Queen Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones,

1382
01:15:58.279 --> 01:16:02.550
one of the great villainous matriarchs of All time. I mean,

1383
01:16:02.569 --> 01:16:05.789
that is a role that will never go away. I mean, amazing.

1384
01:16:05.949 --> 01:16:08.430
Just absolutely awesome work that she did there. Really, really

1385
01:16:08.470 --> 01:16:12.390
complicated and interesting stuff. Going back a way, she was

1386
01:16:12.430 --> 01:16:15.220
also played Sarah Connor in the very seldom referred to

1387
01:16:15.260 --> 01:16:20.640
television series Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles. Let's try that again.

1388
01:16:21.560 --> 01:16:24.619
Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles. That's not easy to say.

1389
01:16:25.319 --> 01:16:27.039
Which is, if you've never seen it, you really should

1390
01:16:27.060 --> 01:16:29.220
because it kicks all kinds of ass and it's very,

1391
01:16:29.239 --> 01:16:33.470
very good. TV series there. In the movie Dread with

1392
01:16:33.529 --> 01:16:37.510
Carl Urban, she was the villain in that show as well.

1393
01:16:38.109 --> 01:16:41.119
Mama Madrigal, if I recall. But really, really interesting there.

1394
01:16:41.460 --> 01:16:44.000
And she was nominated for a Saturn Award for her

1395
01:16:44.039 --> 01:16:49.279
portrayal of Gorgo, Queen of Sparta, in the phenomenal Frank

1396
01:16:49.340 --> 01:16:55.970
Miller comic adaptation of 300, directed by Zack Snyder. One

1397
01:16:55.989 --> 01:16:59.050
of the first things that Zack exploded onto the screen with.

1398
01:16:59.470 --> 01:17:04.149
So She's very cool. She's a signing machine. She was

1399
01:17:04.189 --> 01:17:07.609
just at Rose City Comic Con here doing signing. There's

1400
01:17:07.630 --> 01:17:10.750
a giant line to saddle up to her, right? Because

1401
01:17:10.930 --> 01:17:12.310
look at all the stuff she's been in. I mean,

1402
01:17:12.329 --> 01:17:15.569
she's just a, she's an icon. So very cool. Happy birthday,

1403
01:17:15.710 --> 01:17:19.979
Lena Headey. And wonderful to celebrate you. Happy birthday to

1404
01:17:20.029 --> 01:17:24.800
Pamela Hensley, American actress and author. Of course, those fans

1405
01:17:24.899 --> 01:17:27.760
of Buck Rogers in the 25th century will remember her.

1406
01:17:28.170 --> 01:17:33.069
as Princess Ardala with her wildly eccentric costumes that she

1407
01:17:33.100 --> 01:17:35.960
would wear. Sometimes they would give her like a roll

1408
01:17:35.979 --> 01:17:38.939
of scotch tape and say, here is your costume, Miss Hensley,

1409
01:17:39.159 --> 01:17:41.939
go to town. And it's really almost kind of like that.

1410
01:17:41.960 --> 01:17:44.229
I'm sure Uncle Jim will know what I'm talking about.

1411
01:17:46.329 --> 01:17:48.670
And also played C.J. Parsons on a show called Matt

1412
01:17:48.710 --> 01:17:52.859
Houston that I very dimly remember. And it was made

1413
01:17:52.880 --> 01:17:56.300
appearances in both Rollerball and a little scene Doc Savage

1414
01:17:56.359 --> 01:18:00.239
picture and a thriller called Double Exposure that memory serves

1415
01:18:00.260 --> 01:18:03.840
was very much second cousin to Eyes of Laura Mars.

1416
01:18:03.859 --> 01:18:05.859
I don't know if people remember that old Faye Dunaway

1417
01:18:05.880 --> 01:18:09.340
picture with Tommy Lee Jones, but similar content there. But anyhow,

1418
01:18:09.380 --> 01:18:12.319
Pamela Hensley done a lot of cool stuff. It's also

1419
01:18:12.340 --> 01:18:14.220
an author. Check her out. And if you have not

1420
01:18:14.260 --> 01:18:18.439
watched Buck Rogers in the 25th century, you probably should

1421
01:18:18.850 --> 01:18:22.189
because it's pretty fun and good stuff. No one's rebooted

1422
01:18:22.210 --> 01:18:24.109
that yet. I would think somebody would be trying to

1423
01:18:24.130 --> 01:18:27.930
give that the same rebooting treatment that Battlestar got. And

1424
01:18:27.949 --> 01:18:29.130
it seems like it would be rife.

1425
01:18:30.130 --> 01:18:33.289
What's the general story of Buck Rogers? I will admit

1426
01:18:33.329 --> 01:18:34.630
to not knowing anything about it.

1427
01:18:34.630 --> 01:18:36.350
All right, friend. Well, you know, I'll give it the

1428
01:18:36.390 --> 01:18:39.649
TV show version as opposed to the classic comic strip version, right?

1429
01:18:39.670 --> 01:18:42.170
But he's like a test pilot or an astronaut or

1430
01:18:42.189 --> 01:18:46.369
something like that, right? And there's an accident, of course,

1431
01:18:46.430 --> 01:18:49.189
and he's somehow frozen in cryogenic freeze, right?

1432
01:18:49.270 --> 01:18:49.899
He wakes up.

1433
01:18:50.140 --> 01:18:54.060
Up after a disaster four centuries later, right? In the

1434
01:18:54.239 --> 01:18:57.159
25th century, right? And he's a man out of time.

1435
01:18:58.119 --> 01:19:00.819
Rip Van Winkle, he's, you know, all that stuff, right?

1436
01:19:00.979 --> 01:19:03.340
And he's a man out of time, so he's kind of,

1437
01:19:03.420 --> 01:19:07.890
they perceive him as like the, you know, knuckle-dragging ape man, right?

1438
01:19:07.970 --> 01:19:10.409
But But he's got street smarts that they don't have

1439
01:19:10.430 --> 01:19:11.550
in the 20th century.

1440
01:19:11.710 --> 01:19:12.109
Cool.

1441
01:19:12.449 --> 01:19:15.460
And away with the ladies to boot, right? So he's

1442
01:19:15.520 --> 01:19:19.779
just perfectly suited to, you know, dominate and become a hero.

1443
01:19:19.800 --> 01:19:21.340
He's like Flash Gordon, basically.

1444
01:19:21.380 --> 01:19:23.840
I see why Jim likes this show. Yeah, that makes sense.

1445
01:19:24.520 --> 01:19:27.590
And, you know, some of it is really bad because

1446
01:19:27.609 --> 01:19:30.649
does it ever look like early 80s TV? I mean,

1447
01:19:30.710 --> 01:19:34.520
it really, really, really does, right? It does not. Even

1448
01:19:34.560 --> 01:19:38.050
more than Battlestar did. It's lit like TV. Like, whoa,

1449
01:19:38.109 --> 01:19:41.670
turn down the Klieg lights, guys. But, you know, there's

1450
01:19:41.710 --> 01:19:44.470
something just charming about it. And it's got some really good...

1451
01:19:45.569 --> 01:19:47.829
They kept going. They kept doing more stories and a

1452
01:19:47.850 --> 01:19:51.489
lot of the effects. Go check out Buck Rogers' spaceship.

1453
01:19:51.770 --> 01:19:53.840
Just his fighter craft that he would use. It was

1454
01:19:53.899 --> 01:19:56.920
really cool. And when they brought in the Hawkman, that's

1455
01:19:56.939 --> 01:19:58.460
when I really liked it. I was ready for a

1456
01:19:58.460 --> 01:19:59.239
whole series.

1457
01:19:59.000 --> 01:19:59.500
About the Hawkman.

1458
01:19:59.600 --> 01:20:01.300
It was badass. Sorry, I digress.

1459
01:20:01.319 --> 01:20:02.880
Buck Rogers' Hawkman right now.

1460
01:20:03.460 --> 01:20:05.659
Yeah, yeah, he was cool. He looked like a bird, right?

1461
01:20:05.720 --> 01:20:08.279
But he had this bird girlfriend, too, and they were

1462
01:20:08.300 --> 01:20:11.189
just kind of kicked ass. I haven't watched one in forever,

1463
01:20:11.229 --> 01:20:14.189
but it was a lot of fun. But really goofy

1464
01:20:14.350 --> 01:20:18.109
and with that synthesizer soundtrack that just kind of makes

1465
01:20:18.130 --> 01:20:21.069
you cringe when you're watching porn when you're really not.

1466
01:20:22.609 --> 01:20:24.789
I was a kid when I watched that. I didn't

1467
01:20:24.989 --> 01:20:27.220
connect that.

1468
01:20:28.140 --> 01:20:28.920
I mean, you know.

1469
01:20:29.670 --> 01:20:32.930
It's pretty crazy, but I think you've got to have

1470
01:20:32.949 --> 01:20:34.850
a pretty hard heart not to have a soft spot

1471
01:20:34.880 --> 01:20:38.060
for Buck Rogers. It was just really entertaining and fun

1472
01:20:38.119 --> 01:20:38.899
and tweaky.

1473
01:20:38.579 --> 01:20:39.920
The robot and stuff.

1474
01:20:40.680 --> 01:20:42.899
Those are fun times, man. It was a weird time

1475
01:20:42.920 --> 01:20:47.279
for science fiction in the late 70s, early 80s and stuff.

1476
01:20:47.340 --> 01:20:47.979
It was crazy.

1477
01:20:49.880 --> 01:20:50.239
Good stuff.

1478
01:20:50.260 --> 01:20:52.939
Check it out. We'll talk about it on the show sometime. Okay.

1479
01:20:53.279 --> 01:20:55.119
Got a couple winners here coming up. Look out.

1480
01:20:55.899 --> 01:20:57.340
The Luminous. Amazing.

1481
01:20:58.060 --> 01:21:03.899
Absolutely glorious. Karen Allen, American film television stage actress who

1482
01:21:03.979 --> 01:21:08.619
made her film debut in the phenomenally successful John Landis

1483
01:21:08.699 --> 01:21:13.579
comedy Animal House. And it just exploded a few years

1484
01:21:13.619 --> 01:21:17.569
later when she portrayed Marion Ravenwood, a classic character, with

1485
01:21:17.609 --> 01:21:20.590
Harrison Ford in Steven Spielberg's Raiders.

1486
01:21:20.470 --> 01:21:21.909
Of the Lost Ark.

1487
01:21:22.050 --> 01:21:25.850
Kablammo! She just was amazing. And, you know, she'd only

1488
01:21:25.869 --> 01:21:27.869
been in a couple pictures before, and she just, like,

1489
01:21:27.989 --> 01:21:30.060
it was... Everyone just fell in love with her. She

1490
01:21:30.100 --> 01:21:33.060
was remarkable. She won a Saturn Award for Best Actress.

1491
01:21:33.600 --> 01:21:35.560
And she's always kind of had a soft spot for

1492
01:21:35.600 --> 01:21:39.460
genre work, right? She hooked up with John Carpenter, did

1493
01:21:39.479 --> 01:21:43.199
a wonderful picture called Starman with Jeff Bridges that is really,

1494
01:21:43.270 --> 01:21:46.489
really good. Nailed another Saturn Award for that one, for

1495
01:21:46.550 --> 01:21:48.869
Best Actress, right? And then came back a few years

1496
01:21:48.909 --> 01:21:52.210
later to play Marian Ravenwood again in Indiana Jones and

1497
01:21:52.229 --> 01:21:54.850
the Crystal Skull and Indiana Jones and the Battle of Destiny.

1498
01:21:54.869 --> 01:21:57.720
So you can still see her working today. A lovely

1499
01:21:57.760 --> 01:22:00.619
human being. But if you've never seen those other pictures,

1500
01:22:01.260 --> 01:22:03.819
like if you've never seen Starman ever, or you've never

1501
01:22:03.850 --> 01:22:06.729
seen Starman, I run into people who've never seen Outlaws.

1502
01:22:06.810 --> 01:22:10.310
Oh my God. It's just, it's wildly inappropriate all over

1503
01:22:10.329 --> 01:22:13.270
the place, but it's hilarious. It's a classic comedy. I mean,

1504
01:22:13.289 --> 01:22:15.270
John Landis was just so good.

1505
01:22:15.350 --> 01:22:18.760
I can never look at mashed potatoes the same way.

1506
01:22:20.119 --> 01:22:22.960
My favorite is Belushi and the guitar in the stairwell, right?

1507
01:22:23.539 --> 01:22:25.380
It just smashes it directly.

1508
01:22:25.899 --> 01:22:26.239
Sorry.

1509
01:22:27.020 --> 01:22:36.560
She's the best. But very irreverent, very much iconoclastic, anti-frat movie. Tremendously.

1510
01:22:37.140 --> 01:22:37.800
Highly recommend it.

1511
01:22:38.119 --> 01:22:38.600
Moving on.

1512
01:22:38.899 --> 01:22:42.149
Happy birthday, Karen Allen. We love you. Happy birthday to

1513
01:22:42.189 --> 01:22:49.029
Carol Daniels, stuntwoman and actress who played Zora in the

1514
01:22:49.050 --> 01:22:51.789
original series third season episode, The Savage Curtain, which I

1515
01:22:51.850 --> 01:22:56.500
am a big fan of. Kick-ass, right? She's Worked as

1516
01:22:56.579 --> 01:22:59.539
a stand-in briefly on the original pilot, The Cage, as well.

1517
01:22:59.579 --> 01:23:02.550
But she was just one of that rogues gallery of infamous,

1518
01:23:02.930 --> 01:23:07.069
you know, supervillains that Yarnack and the other Excalibians put

1519
01:23:07.109 --> 01:23:09.510
together to fight the original series crew there. Look at

1520
01:23:09.529 --> 01:23:11.579
her there. She looks like a Klingon witch. I mean,

1521
01:23:11.600 --> 01:23:14.279
she looks like terrifying. She was supposed to have done

1522
01:23:14.300 --> 01:23:17.260
these terrible, dark experimentations on people, right?

1523
01:23:17.279 --> 01:23:17.439
Yeah.

1524
01:23:18.189 --> 01:23:20.939
Super secret little bit of trivia there. If you zero

1525
01:23:21.029 --> 01:23:24.279
in on that Colonel Green there with her in the,

1526
01:23:24.300 --> 01:23:29.720
you know, blindingly red uniform. Years later, that exact same

1527
01:23:29.960 --> 01:23:34.779
red uniform was cannibalized and recycled and used as Robin

1528
01:23:34.810 --> 01:23:37.989
Williams' Mork uniform on Morgan. So just a little bit

1529
01:23:38.149 --> 01:23:41.909
of movie costume trivia for you folks out there. Don't

1530
01:23:41.949 --> 01:23:43.829
take my word for it. Look it up on the

1531
01:23:43.890 --> 01:23:49.260
Internet because the Internet sucks. never lies, of course. But anyhow,

1532
01:23:49.659 --> 01:23:51.159
I would read a whole comic or watch a whole

1533
01:23:51.199 --> 01:23:54.140
thing about Zora. She looks scary as hell. And you

1534
01:23:54.159 --> 01:23:56.859
got to love those eyebrows. So rock and roll, Carol Daniels.

1535
01:23:57.239 --> 01:23:58.079
We're still here for you.

1536
01:23:58.460 --> 01:23:58.899
Do more.

1537
01:23:59.340 --> 01:24:00.840
Okay. And then this, now I'm going to get all

1538
01:24:00.859 --> 01:24:03.859
crazy because I got like the greatest, you know, what

1539
01:24:03.920 --> 01:24:07.180
a welcome home present this one is. Because I get

1540
01:24:07.220 --> 01:24:11.359
a chance to wish happy birthday to the legendary Sigourney Weaver,

1541
01:24:12.319 --> 01:24:17.199
born October 8, Academy Award-nominated American actress and film producer,

1542
01:24:18.079 --> 01:24:22.319
the Sci-Fi Queen is how she's awesomely referred to across

1543
01:24:22.399 --> 01:24:26.930
so many pop culture spheres of fandom, I cannot even start, right?

1544
01:24:27.010 --> 01:24:31.609
She was just groundbreaking, okay, way back in 1979 for

1545
01:24:31.649 --> 01:24:34.710
Ridley Scott, where she portrayed the first iteration of the

1546
01:24:34.750 --> 01:24:40.149
character of Ellen Ripley and kick-started the Alien franchise. Also,

1547
01:24:40.250 --> 01:24:43.649
what is that blinding white? What is that? What just happened?

1548
01:24:44.130 --> 01:24:46.060
Stay on Sigourney. I don't want to stop looking at her.

1549
01:24:46.289 --> 01:24:47.050
That was weird.

1550
01:24:47.829 --> 01:24:50.949
Amazing, yeah. That was like a supernova there. But there

1551
01:24:50.970 --> 01:24:54.630
were not a lot of really gutsy female heroic protagonists

1552
01:24:54.710 --> 01:24:57.430
until Alien, right? And she just rewrote the book on

1553
01:24:57.449 --> 01:24:59.909
that shit, right? She was just great. And all of

1554
01:24:59.949 --> 01:25:03.069
a sudden, Hollywood copycatting that it is, just, you know,

1555
01:25:03.109 --> 01:25:06.310
strong women, strong women. But, you know, she put her

1556
01:25:06.350 --> 01:25:08.989
foot down first, right? I would say, you know, in

1557
01:25:09.020 --> 01:25:11.300
a lot of instances, and really, you know, kind of

1558
01:25:11.380 --> 01:25:15.489
started the modern trend of the... the, you know, hard-ass

1559
01:25:16.090 --> 01:25:21.229
techno prisoners heroine. Just amazing role. Also, when she came

1560
01:25:21.270 --> 01:25:25.500
back in Alien, right, for James Cameron, it was the

1561
01:25:25.539 --> 01:25:29.239
first time that an actor in a science fiction role

1562
01:25:29.380 --> 01:25:32.520
got nominated for an Academy Award. She was nominated for

1563
01:25:32.539 --> 01:25:35.539
an Academy Award for Aliens for her phenomenal follow-up work

1564
01:25:35.579 --> 01:25:38.180
in that, which is just unbelievable. I mean, we talk

1565
01:25:38.199 --> 01:25:39.699
about that on the show a lot because it's just

1566
01:25:39.810 --> 01:25:42.210
absolutely freaking brilliant. But she got an Academy Award for

1567
01:25:42.250 --> 01:25:44.289
that and it almost never happened to a science fiction

1568
01:25:44.829 --> 01:25:51.069
movie ever until her. So absolutely redefining, role-breaking in every

1569
01:25:51.100 --> 01:25:54.340
single way. I mean, she's just a pioneer in sci-fi

1570
01:25:54.380 --> 01:25:58.340
and action pictures and then does comedy as well. Dana

1571
01:25:58.380 --> 01:26:02.140
Barrett in Ghostbusters, right? I mean, hilarious. There is no Dana,

1572
01:26:02.239 --> 01:26:06.439
only Zool. I mean, it's just the best. Just hilarious, right?

1573
01:26:07.340 --> 01:26:11.100
Of course, there's haunted cellist Dana Barrett in couple of

1574
01:26:11.119 --> 01:26:15.789
different versions of Ghostbusters there and then moved on again

1575
01:26:15.970 --> 01:26:19.310
continuing to work with James Cameron to play Dr. Grace

1576
01:26:19.430 --> 01:26:23.390
Augustine and also the character Kiri in Avatar and Avatar

1577
01:26:23.409 --> 01:26:26.050
Way of Water and then the Avatar most recent one

1578
01:26:26.630 --> 01:26:29.560
Avatar How Long Is This Movie which I think was

1579
01:26:29.600 --> 01:26:31.300
the name of the third one, right? I'm pretty sure

1580
01:26:31.319 --> 01:26:33.340
that was the first one. Yes, it was.

1581
01:26:33.380 --> 01:26:34.119
How long was this movie?

1582
01:26:34.180 --> 01:26:37.779
Why is everything smoky? But she's great. Anything with Scootney

1583
01:26:37.800 --> 01:26:40.899
Weaver is awesome. If you go back and check out

1584
01:26:42.840 --> 01:26:46.859
Finding Dory, she's the voice of the Marine Science Institute,

1585
01:26:46.920 --> 01:26:50.859
that kind of reassuring academic voice. Welcome to the Aquatic Center, right?

1586
01:26:50.880 --> 01:26:53.880
She's just phenomenal, shows up in all kinds of different things.

1587
01:26:54.199 --> 01:26:59.229
There's an awesome thriller called Copycat, where she plays a

1588
01:26:59.329 --> 01:27:04.449
psychologist who's being tormented by a serial killer. Awesome thriller

1589
01:27:04.489 --> 01:27:06.869
with Holly Hunter. If you want to see Sigourney Weaver, really,

1590
01:27:07.090 --> 01:27:09.149
tear it up. Go check out that picture. But she's

1591
01:27:09.170 --> 01:27:12.810
just a freaking gem, right? And, of course, just recently

1592
01:27:12.890 --> 01:27:15.310
graced a Star Wars universe. She wasn't doing enough Star

1593
01:27:15.329 --> 01:27:18.640
Wars stuff. She was just in The Mandalorian and Grogu

1594
01:27:18.850 --> 01:27:23.489
as a freaking, you know, rebellion colonel, you know, of

1595
01:27:23.560 --> 01:27:26.220
the New Republic Rebellion.

1596
01:27:26.260 --> 01:27:27.319
She was just amazing.

1597
01:27:27.359 --> 01:27:30.279
So you can never get enough Sigourney Weaver. She's just

1598
01:27:30.300 --> 01:27:35.289
an absolute treasure. Always. You know, she's like really tall, too.

1599
01:27:35.369 --> 01:27:39.510
She's like over 60 tall and and just a class act. Right.

1600
01:27:40.029 --> 01:27:41.909
Really just a class act. And one of those people that,

1601
01:27:41.930 --> 01:27:45.609
you know, it does not hide her affection for science fiction.

1602
01:27:45.649 --> 01:27:49.199
So I just think she's phenomenal and just the greatest

1603
01:27:49.239 --> 01:27:52.039
thing ever. So thrilled to be able to wish Sigourney

1604
01:27:52.079 --> 01:27:56.739
Weaver a happy birthday and many, many more. Right. And now.

1605
01:27:57.420 --> 01:27:59.600
friends oh my god i've missed this segment on the

1606
01:27:59.619 --> 01:28:01.119
show because one of my favorites because i never know

1607
01:28:01.140 --> 01:28:02.899
what i'm gonna get because it's all good right but

1608
01:28:02.939 --> 01:28:08.350
uncle jim is gonna titulate us with what might be

1609
01:28:08.569 --> 01:28:13.329
potentially a revealing a snapshot of his movie of the

1610
01:28:13.390 --> 01:28:17.130
week so uncle jim are you positioned you have your

1611
01:28:17.170 --> 01:28:21.069
hands on the accelerator on the interocitor if you will.

1612
01:28:22.260 --> 01:28:24.479
Movie of the week. Movie of the week.

1613
01:28:24.619 --> 01:28:27.560
We don't have a theme because we have to sleep,

1614
01:28:27.659 --> 01:28:29.199
but movie of the week.

1615
01:28:29.579 --> 01:28:31.810
Just tell me what you need, people, and I will

1616
01:28:31.859 --> 01:28:32.609
make the song.

1617
01:28:33.310 --> 01:28:35.010
It needs to be 70s. It's got to have a

1618
01:28:35.069 --> 01:28:38.109
70s vibe to it. It's got to have a 70s vibe.

1619
01:28:38.430 --> 01:28:42.060
Go porn. We need a musical episode.

1620
01:28:42.180 --> 01:28:44.560
Yeah, we definitely need the 70s music. Yeah, for sure.

1621
01:29:00.140 --> 01:29:04.319
So for birthdays, actors aren't the only ones that have birthdays.

1622
01:29:04.430 --> 01:29:08.329
Movies also have birthdays. So I decided to shake things

1623
01:29:08.390 --> 01:29:10.409
up a little bit. I decided to stick with it.

1624
01:29:10.510 --> 01:29:14.050
So every week, movies come and go, and I try

1625
01:29:14.069 --> 01:29:16.180
to pick the ones that are relevant to the show.

1626
01:29:17.109 --> 01:29:18.979
We talk about them a little bit, and then I

1627
01:29:18.979 --> 01:29:21.279
pick the movie that I think you should definitely check

1628
01:29:21.399 --> 01:29:23.819
out if you haven't seen it or you missed it

1629
01:29:23.840 --> 01:29:24.479
or you haven't seen.

1630
01:29:24.359 --> 01:29:26.399
It in a while. So first on our list.

1631
01:29:27.050 --> 01:29:34.119
We have Salem's Lot, which was released on October 3rd, 2024.

1632
01:29:34.119 --> 01:29:37.680
It's a supernatural horror film written and directed by Gary Dumbrin,

1633
01:29:38.140 --> 01:29:42.239
based on Stephen King's 1975 sophomore novel, preceded by the

1634
01:29:42.239 --> 01:29:48.899
1979 and 2004 television miniseries. Author Ben Mears returns to

1635
01:29:48.909 --> 01:29:54.220
his childhood hometown of Jerusalem's Lot, Salem's Lot, in Maine,

1636
01:29:54.479 --> 01:29:58.060
where else, to find inspiration for his new book. He

1637
01:29:58.100 --> 01:30:02.729
specifically wants to investigate the abandoned Marston house from his past,

1638
01:30:03.050 --> 01:30:06.369
only to discover that the small town is being preyed

1639
01:30:06.430 --> 01:30:12.479
upon by an ancient, bloodthirsty vampire. So there you have it.

1640
01:30:12.989 --> 01:30:17.369
This is the only theatrical version of Salem's Lot. It

1641
01:30:17.409 --> 01:30:22.399
originally came out on Cinemax or HBO Max on October 3rd,

1642
01:30:22.449 --> 01:30:25.189
but then was released in the movie theaters on October 11th,

1643
01:30:25.220 --> 01:30:27.899
being the only version of Salem's Lot to get a

1644
01:30:27.939 --> 01:30:30.180
big screen preview.

1645
01:30:31.000 --> 01:30:31.779
All right, next.

1646
01:30:31.939 --> 01:30:33.840
And I just watched this the other day, matter of fact.

1647
01:30:33.880 --> 01:30:37.159
So next up on the list is a real classic.

1648
01:30:37.800 --> 01:30:41.039
We have the original Night of the Living Dead.

1649
01:30:41.729 --> 01:30:45.510
It was released on October 4th, 1968.

1650
01:30:45.510 --> 01:30:50.569
American zombie horror film directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero,

1651
01:30:50.630 --> 01:30:51.930
written by George A.

1652
01:30:51.970 --> 01:30:52.470
Romero.

1653
01:30:52.890 --> 01:30:58.149
The independent film's ensemble cast includes Dwayne Jones, Judith O'Day,

1654
01:30:58.229 --> 01:31:02.130
Marilyn Eastman, Carl Hardman, Judith Ridley, and Keith Wayne as

1655
01:31:02.170 --> 01:31:04.770
a group of people trapped in a farmhouse in rural

1656
01:31:04.850 --> 01:31:11.770
Pennsylvania under assault by flesh-eating, reanimated corpses. Although the monsters

1657
01:31:11.789 --> 01:31:15.239
that appear in the film are referred to as ghouls,

1658
01:31:15.720 --> 01:31:21.079
they are credited with popularizing the modern portrayal of zombies

1659
01:31:21.600 --> 01:31:22.579
in popular culture.

1660
01:31:22.640 --> 01:31:24.939
I just watched this movie the other day as.

1661
01:31:24.600 --> 01:31:32.329
Well, so there you have it. Night of the Living Dead, 1968. Next,

1662
01:31:32.909 --> 01:31:34.630
and then you might notice we're doing a lot of

1663
01:31:34.649 --> 01:31:36.649
horror movies because it's October.

1664
01:31:36.840 --> 01:31:42.979
It's horror movie season, so... We have, it's just, all right.

1665
01:31:43.399 --> 01:31:48.880
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, guys. Dun, dun, dun. Was

1666
01:31:48.920 --> 01:31:50.279
released on October 4th, 1978.

1667
01:31:50.279 --> 01:31:55.130
It's an American independent parody film produced by J.

1668
01:31:55.170 --> 01:31:55.949
Stephen Peace.

1669
01:31:56.630 --> 01:32:01.270
And directed by John DiBello. UFOs, Bigfoots, communists, the government

1670
01:32:01.329 --> 01:32:05.380
was swiftly dealt with many crises, but can it survive

1671
01:32:05.439 --> 01:32:10.420
the diabolical attack of the killer tomatoes? Just when you

1672
01:32:10.479 --> 01:32:12.800
thought it was safe to go back in the supermarket,

1673
01:32:13.279 --> 01:32:17.159
you're face to face with terror so bold, so frightening,

1674
01:32:17.500 --> 01:32:21.800
it has never been seen on screen before or since.

1675
01:32:22.460 --> 01:32:24.510
Attack of the killer tomatoes.

1676
01:32:25.779 --> 01:32:28.399
And that's all I got to say about that one.

1677
01:32:29.239 --> 01:32:29.659
All right.

1678
01:32:30.149 --> 01:32:36.149
The next one, the Philadelphia Experiment. It was released on

1679
01:32:36.229 --> 01:32:39.949
October 5th, 1984. It was an American alleged event that

1680
01:32:40.010 --> 01:32:44.050
claimed to have been witnessed by an ex-merchant Marine named

1681
01:32:44.109 --> 01:32:49.090
Carl Allen at the United States Naval Philadelphia Shipyard.

1682
01:32:48.590 --> 01:32:50.850
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States.

1683
01:32:51.510 --> 01:32:56.909
Sometime around October 28, 1943, Allen described an experiment where

1684
01:32:56.930 --> 01:32:59.609
the U.S. Navy attempted to make a destroyer escort the

1685
01:32:59.760 --> 01:33:02.640
USS Elbridge disappear.

1686
01:33:02.399 --> 01:33:07.300
And the bizarre results that followed. And Nancy Allen from

1687
01:33:07.340 --> 01:33:10.779
Robocop is in this one as well. Okay.

1688
01:33:11.380 --> 01:33:14.380
Next on the list, we have Night of the Leapass.

1689
01:33:14.399 --> 01:33:19.159
It was released on October 4th, 1972. It's an American

1690
01:33:19.199 --> 01:33:23.159
sci-fi horror film produced by A.C. Lyle and directed by

1691
01:33:23.270 --> 01:33:23.979
William F.

1692
01:33:24.189 --> 01:33:24.850
Claxton.

1693
01:33:25.250 --> 01:33:29.130
Telling the story how Dr. Elgin Clark, played by DeForest Kelly,

1694
01:33:29.609 --> 01:33:36.270
sporting an extremely orange turtleneck, helped Roy, played by Stuart Whitman,

1695
01:33:36.470 --> 01:33:41.460
and Jerry, played by Janet Leigh, along with rancher Cole Hillman,

1696
01:33:41.479 --> 01:33:44.630
played by Roya Calhoun, to save the world, or a

1697
01:33:45.050 --> 01:33:48.329
small town in Arizona anyways, from a herd.

1698
01:33:48.109 --> 01:33:51.170
Of giant killer bunny rabbits.

1699
01:33:51.909 --> 01:33:56.609
Jim, I have literally never heard of this movie before,

1700
01:33:56.630 --> 01:34:00.569
and I'm so excited to watch it because it looks

1701
01:34:01.069 --> 01:34:04.359
totally ridiculous. I love the guy with the shovel. He's like,

1702
01:34:04.699 --> 01:34:07.560
about to fuck some shit up with some shovels.

1703
01:34:08.279 --> 01:34:12.449
It is a lot of dollhouses made of particle board

1704
01:34:12.649 --> 01:34:17.090
and balsa wood and rabbits jumping through them and extreme

1705
01:34:17.130 --> 01:34:20.189
close-ups of the rabbit. And they look about as terrifying as,

1706
01:34:20.310 --> 01:34:21.229
I don't know, a rabbit.

1707
01:34:22.270 --> 01:34:23.220
I love that.

1708
01:34:23.260 --> 01:34:25.619
And at one point, there's ketchup on the rabbit's tongue.

1709
01:34:25.659 --> 01:34:29.239
Monty Python, holy grail.

1710
01:34:29.279 --> 01:34:33.180
The rabbit. Poor DeForest Kelly. Poor Janet Leigh. Oh my god,

1711
01:34:33.199 --> 01:34:36.229
how the mighty of pollen.

1712
01:34:36.270 --> 01:34:39.890
I'm just thinking of the uh the rabbit in uh

1713
01:34:40.470 --> 01:34:42.489
uh money python holy grail wait.

1714
01:34:43.949 --> 01:34:47.869
What's that what's a lepus lepus is that like a

1715
01:34:48.109 --> 01:34:51.689
like a like a lycanthrope like a like a some

1716
01:34:51.729 --> 01:34:52.050
type of.

1717
01:34:52.029 --> 01:34:57.159
We're getting into like your bio your uh you know.

1718
01:34:56.850 --> 01:35:00.140
Basically any kind of any kind of rabbit or hair

1719
01:35:00.220 --> 01:35:03.989
is a rabbit right basically okay that you know It's

1720
01:35:04.050 --> 01:35:07.109
also like in the constellations, it was like a rabbit-shaped

1721
01:35:07.170 --> 01:35:11.109
constellation someplace. So Leporus, I think it was. Giant killer bunnies.

1722
01:35:12.449 --> 01:35:15.630
I'm 100% going to watch this movie. I love the

1723
01:35:15.649 --> 01:35:15.909
whole idea.

1724
01:35:16.409 --> 01:35:19.449
The whole experiment gone wrong, basically.

1725
01:35:19.510 --> 01:35:20.649
Yeah.

1726
01:35:20.729 --> 01:35:21.590
Sounds amazing.

1727
01:35:22.289 --> 01:35:24.729
Yeah, it's up there with a packet of killer tomatoes.

1728
01:35:25.470 --> 01:35:25.770
Yeah.

1729
01:35:25.909 --> 01:35:28.909
Next on my list, and I was glad this one

1730
01:35:28.930 --> 01:35:31.909
came up because we have a new miniseries to look

1731
01:35:31.949 --> 01:35:35.789
forward to as well. We have Blade Runner 2049. It

1732
01:35:36.310 --> 01:35:40.689
was released on October 6, 2017. It's an American neo-North

1733
01:35:40.750 --> 01:35:44.210
science fiction film sequel to Blade Runner from 1982. The

1734
01:35:44.829 --> 01:35:48.020
film stars Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, who reprises his

1735
01:35:48.060 --> 01:35:51.899
role as Rick Deckard, with Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista,

1736
01:35:52.020 --> 01:35:55.600
and Jared Leto in supporting roles. Set 30 years after

1737
01:35:55.619 --> 01:35:59.399
the original, the story depicts a replicant Blade Runner, Kay,

1738
01:35:59.800 --> 01:36:03.140
discovering the remains of a once-pregnant replicant. To prevent a

1739
01:36:03.180 --> 01:36:07.119
possible war between species, Kay is secretly tasked with finding

1740
01:36:07.140 --> 01:36:11.960
the child and destroying all evidence related to it. Blade

1741
01:36:11.979 --> 01:36:15.800
Runner 2049, and that sounds like the new series might

1742
01:36:15.819 --> 01:36:19.399
be a continuation of that, with the awesome Michelle Yeoh,

1743
01:36:19.880 --> 01:36:22.340
who kicks a guy in the head who's standing behind.

1744
01:36:22.060 --> 01:36:26.399
Her, so amazing to me on Star Trek Discovery. So yeah,

1745
01:36:26.539 --> 01:36:29.010
Blade Runner 2049.

1746
01:36:29.010 --> 01:36:34.229
And last on my list of movies released today, actually,

1747
01:36:34.569 --> 01:36:38.310
Demolition Man was released on October 8, 1993. It's an

1748
01:36:38.350 --> 01:36:43.979
American science fiction action film. It stars Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes,

1749
01:36:44.100 --> 01:36:45.180
and Sandra Bullock.

1750
01:36:45.760 --> 01:36:46.760
Nigel Harthorne.

1751
01:36:47.250 --> 01:36:50.810
Stallone plays John Spartan, a risk-taking police officer with a

1752
01:36:50.850 --> 01:36:55.010
reputation for causing destruction while carrying out his work. After

1753
01:36:55.050 --> 01:36:58.409
a failed attempt to rescue hostages from evil crime lord

1754
01:36:58.510 --> 01:37:02.109
Simon Phoenix, played by Wesley Snipes, they are both sentenced

1755
01:37:02.140 --> 01:37:09.060
to be cryogenically frozen in 1996. In 2032, Phoenix escapes,

1756
01:37:09.500 --> 01:37:13.979
and the authorities awaken Spartan to help capture him. So

1757
01:37:14.079 --> 01:37:18.619
those were the notable movies released on this week throughout time.

1758
01:37:19.140 --> 01:37:21.380
What movie did I pick that I'm gonna recommend that

1759
01:37:21.420 --> 01:37:24.899
you guys either check out or, if you haven't seen

1760
01:37:24.920 --> 01:37:26.119
it in a while, revisit?

1761
01:37:26.140 --> 01:37:28.890
David, roll the tape.

1762
01:37:29.439 --> 01:37:30.890
And it's not The Whore of the Lepus.

1763
01:37:31.729 --> 01:37:32.300
No, it's not.

1764
01:37:36.350 --> 01:37:37.949
Replicants are like any other machine.

1765
01:37:37.970 --> 01:37:43.810
They're either a benefit or a hazard.

1766
01:37:44.460 --> 01:37:47.930
If they're a benefit, it's not my problem. Thank you.

1767
01:38:35.300 --> 01:38:41.560
I had your job once. I was good at.

1768
01:38:46.170 --> 01:38:46.350
It.

1769
01:38:48.189 --> 01:38:49.109
Things were simpler then.

1770
01:39:09.609 --> 01:39:10.409
Yep, that was the end of it.

1771
01:39:11.470 --> 01:39:11.829
Yeah.

1772
01:39:13.289 --> 01:39:15.609
Jim is muted. Nobody can hear him.

1773
01:39:16.289 --> 01:39:16.609
Whoops.

1774
01:39:17.590 --> 01:39:20.180
That was Uncle Jim's movie pick of the week. Check

1775
01:39:20.239 --> 01:39:22.699
out Blade Runner 2049 if you missed it or if

1776
01:39:22.739 --> 01:39:24.359
you haven't seen it in a while and get prepared

1777
01:39:24.399 --> 01:39:30.279
for the new six-episode miniseries starring Michelle Yeoh, which is coming.

1778
01:39:30.100 --> 01:39:33.810
Out relatively soon. All right, guys, that wraps up Uncle

1779
01:39:33.829 --> 01:39:35.229
Jim's movie pick of the week.

1780
01:39:35.840 --> 01:39:37.920
Now it's time for some Star Trek news, which we

1781
01:39:37.939 --> 01:39:38.260
do have.

1782
01:39:38.220 --> 01:39:39.279
A theme song for.

1783
01:39:39.300 --> 01:39:43.479
Okay, it's time for our Star Trek news, obviously. And Eric,

1784
01:39:43.939 --> 01:39:46.810
that's our first story. Just a little teaser, not much.

1785
01:39:48.390 --> 01:39:51.789
Yes, a little bit of something something, but it has

1786
01:39:51.850 --> 01:39:55.149
been a long while since I have had to steal

1787
01:39:55.229 --> 01:40:00.630
myself before reading a news story because this one gets

1788
01:40:00.750 --> 01:40:01.670
my hackles up.

1789
01:40:01.630 --> 01:40:02.109
A little bit.

1790
01:40:03.470 --> 01:40:08.149
The new Star Trek movie, yes. is the darkest Goldstein

1791
01:40:08.210 --> 01:40:13.270
and Dally have ever written. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis

1792
01:40:13.310 --> 01:40:17.739
Dally's upcoming Star Trek film is not a comedy. The

1793
01:40:17.779 --> 01:40:22.199
writing and directing duo behind the 2023 hit film Dungeons

1794
01:40:22.359 --> 01:40:25.539
and Dragons, Honor Among Thieves, which, by the way, was awesome,

1795
01:40:26.020 --> 01:40:29.119
were tasked with helming a new Star Trek movie back

1796
01:40:29.159 --> 01:40:33.079
in November 2025. And Dally also said in a new

1797
01:40:33.119 --> 01:40:36.670
interview that it is awesome. probably our darkest film that

1798
01:40:36.710 --> 01:40:42.489
we've ever written. There is our sensibility in it, Dali continued,

1799
01:40:42.649 --> 01:40:45.649
and we do find levity, but it's in the characters

1800
01:40:45.689 --> 01:40:49.260
who find humor in even the darkest moments, which is

1801
01:40:49.399 --> 01:40:52.779
just true to real life. You want it to be

1802
01:40:52.800 --> 01:40:56.479
a fun watch, Goldstein added, doesn't mean you're laughing your

1803
01:40:56.500 --> 01:40:59.100
head off. It just means you're in it and you're

1804
01:40:59.119 --> 01:41:02.859
enjoying it. Dali also confirmed that their Star Trek movie

1805
01:41:02.939 --> 01:41:06.300
is set in the future with a brand new character

1806
01:41:06.720 --> 01:41:09.760
or brand new characters and does not take place in

1807
01:41:09.819 --> 01:41:13.460
JJ Abrams, Kelvin timeline. It will take place further along

1808
01:41:13.500 --> 01:41:15.779
in the future than where we left off in the

1809
01:41:15.819 --> 01:41:19.069
last star Trek feature film. And it is not in

1810
01:41:19.109 --> 01:41:20.289
the 32nd century.

1811
01:41:21.289 --> 01:41:21.930
It's tribbles.

1812
01:41:22.229 --> 01:41:26.270
It's all tribbles. The whole movie Goldstein joked. Paramount has

1813
01:41:26.289 --> 01:41:29.399
emphasized that this project is a priority for the studio

1814
01:41:29.460 --> 01:41:33.220
signaling a strong commitment to revitalizing the franchise and While

1815
01:41:33.260 --> 01:41:36.369
the movie is actively in development, no official release date

1816
01:41:36.409 --> 01:41:45.649
has been set. A realistic release could be sometime in 2028. Friends,

1817
01:41:46.289 --> 01:41:48.649
I would just like to offer my own personal opinion

1818
01:41:48.689 --> 01:41:51.310
because Jim gifted me with the reading of this article

1819
01:41:51.350 --> 01:41:55.819
and I will just say that for me, Dark Star

1820
01:41:55.880 --> 01:41:59.060
Trek is not what I need right now. And I

1821
01:41:59.140 --> 01:42:04.890
am not excited about the prospect of star trek at

1822
01:42:04.970 --> 01:42:12.180
all so man i really hope it's good because darkness

1823
01:42:12.239 --> 01:42:17.739
is not what i need all right paul i'm exhausted

1824
01:42:17.779 --> 01:42:19.560
reading that story can you pick me up.

1825
01:42:19.500 --> 01:42:23.029
At all absolutely you know and it could just be

1826
01:42:23.050 --> 01:42:25.229
that they're you know these these interviews are like the

1827
01:42:25.310 --> 01:42:27.689
snippet right it could be totally wildly out of context

1828
01:42:27.729 --> 01:42:30.420
right because and maybe they we're sat down and did

1829
01:42:30.439 --> 01:42:34.550
this interview after watching like the, you know, ridiculous, you know,

1830
01:42:35.569 --> 01:42:37.350
comedic episode of strange new worlds.

1831
01:42:37.369 --> 01:42:37.510
Right.

1832
01:42:37.529 --> 01:42:38.890
And they were just trying to say, Hey, we're not

1833
01:42:38.930 --> 01:42:41.590
doing that. Right. And, you know, it could be, you know,

1834
01:42:42.569 --> 01:42:43.770
casting along in the shadow.

1835
01:42:44.029 --> 01:42:45.840
Context is king is what you're saying.

1836
01:42:45.960 --> 01:42:46.439
Exactly.

1837
01:42:46.479 --> 01:42:46.739
Exactly.

1838
01:42:46.760 --> 01:42:48.960
You know, personally, I'll believe it when I see it

1839
01:42:49.079 --> 01:42:50.939
because this is just, Hey, we wrote a script and

1840
01:42:50.979 --> 01:42:51.739
maybe it'll get made.

1841
01:42:51.840 --> 01:42:52.060
Right.

1842
01:42:52.220 --> 01:42:54.960
I mean, you know, I'm wondering that's track record.

1843
01:42:55.680 --> 01:42:58.300
I'm wondering if they were referencing Dark as in, like,

1844
01:42:58.460 --> 01:43:01.619
Game of Thrones-style Dark, where characters are getting killed off

1845
01:43:01.699 --> 01:43:04.300
and everything looks bleak. But to me, I don't know.

1846
01:43:04.520 --> 01:43:05.159
Kind of interesting.

1847
01:43:05.180 --> 01:43:06.460
Yeah, it's tough, because you've got a whole bunch of

1848
01:43:06.500 --> 01:43:08.640
new characters that nobody has invested in with this, right?

1849
01:43:08.659 --> 01:43:10.319
So they want to try to have a clean slate.

1850
01:43:10.460 --> 01:43:13.819
Maybe it'll work, but, you know, until there is film rolling,

1851
01:43:14.119 --> 01:43:17.199
you know, don't hold your breath, right? Because this is just,

1852
01:43:17.300 --> 01:43:19.579
it could easily just get shelved. I mean, and they

1853
01:43:19.619 --> 01:43:22.300
go off and do something else, because, you know, Allison's

1854
01:43:22.340 --> 01:43:26.720
got money, right? So they, and, but... don't necessarily have

1855
01:43:26.760 --> 01:43:28.880
a real clue what Star Trek is. So to be

1856
01:43:28.920 --> 01:43:31.909
continued would be like, so don't, you know, maybe this

1857
01:43:31.930 --> 01:43:33.989
will happen. I wouldn't say. All I know is, Eric,

1858
01:43:34.729 --> 01:43:39.569
your new story can't hold a candle to the one

1859
01:43:39.609 --> 01:43:40.649
I'm about to read.

1860
01:43:40.810 --> 01:43:43.949
Oops. I see what you did there.

1861
01:43:43.979 --> 01:43:48.859
Because, Frank, Star Trek The Next Generation's Gates McFadden is

1862
01:43:48.880 --> 01:43:51.859
going to write a Dr. Crusher comic book. And all

1863
01:43:51.920 --> 01:43:55.390
I can say is, where's my lobster bib? Gates McFadden

1864
01:43:55.470 --> 01:43:59.029
is penning the limited comic series Star Trek Crusher with

1865
01:43:59.270 --> 01:44:03.369
IDW Comics Publishing. The comic, which also hails from artist

1866
01:44:03.430 --> 01:44:06.810
Megan Levens and colorist Charlie Kishore, is set to debut

1867
01:44:07.180 --> 01:44:09.909
in summer 2027, just a few months down the road.

1868
01:44:10.399 --> 01:44:15.199
This marks McFadden's comic book writing debut. And the series

1869
01:44:15.220 --> 01:44:16.720
is going to bridge the gap between the end of

1870
01:44:16.739 --> 01:44:22.000
the movie Star Trek Nemesis and season three of Star

1871
01:44:22.020 --> 01:44:25.699
Trek Picard. It's such an honor to return to Starfleet

1872
01:44:25.720 --> 01:44:28.539
and expand Beverly Crusher's storyline in a whole new way,

1873
01:44:28.619 --> 01:44:32.600
says McFadden. I've spent years bringing the worlds of other

1874
01:44:32.659 --> 01:44:35.409
great writers to life in Beverly's shoes, so it's inspiring

1875
01:44:36.010 --> 01:44:38.970
and thrilling to now be the one sculpting a new

1876
01:44:39.029 --> 01:44:42.250
chapter in this fabulous character saga. I'm excited for Star

1877
01:44:42.270 --> 01:44:44.369
Trek fans to read this comic, and I'm so grateful

1878
01:44:44.409 --> 01:44:47.649
for their continued support. The announcement of the comic book

1879
01:44:47.670 --> 01:44:51.069
comes as the Star Trek franchise is celebrating its 60th anniversary.

1880
01:44:51.890 --> 01:44:56.350
David Jonas, I think it must be David Jonas, IDW

1881
01:44:56.399 --> 01:44:59.439
CEO said, We are so fortunate to have Gates McFadden

1882
01:44:59.600 --> 01:45:02.039
beam into the world of comics and reprise her role

1883
01:45:02.060 --> 01:45:05.079
of Beverly Crusher, but this time as the writer. There's

1884
01:45:05.119 --> 01:45:08.000
a 20-year gap in the fan-favorite character's story. Who better

1885
01:45:08.020 --> 01:45:11.250
to tell it than Beverly Crusher herself? So this is apparently,

1886
01:45:11.310 --> 01:45:13.850
I'm guessing, going to be, you know, we learned about

1887
01:45:13.909 --> 01:45:16.470
Jack Crusher in season three, right? So this is going

1888
01:45:16.489 --> 01:45:22.960
to be... everything leading up to that. Jack Crusher's conception, stories, Picard, love, things,

1889
01:45:23.340 --> 01:45:26.489
all that stuff. So, but it's very cool. I mean,

1890
01:45:26.510 --> 01:45:29.189
it's great that they got her to do it. She's

1891
01:45:29.229 --> 01:45:33.869
just terrific, right? I mean, the praises that we heard

1892
01:45:33.890 --> 01:45:38.100
from here from our Nassau pal. Wow. I mean, everybody

1893
01:45:38.140 --> 01:45:41.130
loves Gates McFadden and she's a class act. So, Cannot

1894
01:45:41.170 --> 01:45:44.529
wait to see this. Looks really, really exciting. So very,

1895
01:45:44.550 --> 01:45:45.310
very cool.

1896
01:45:45.329 --> 01:45:49.069
Is she going to use the Ronin candle on Picard?

1897
01:45:50.729 --> 01:45:52.020
I hope so, man. We'll see.

1898
01:45:52.029 --> 01:45:54.140
Who knows?

1899
01:45:54.420 --> 01:45:56.579
Yeah, they are holding hands, as you can see right there.

1900
01:45:57.100 --> 01:46:02.140
Yeah. So we'll see. But she's got a sense of humor,

1901
01:46:02.380 --> 01:46:06.100
and she's very, very smart. So I'm excited to see

1902
01:46:06.119 --> 01:46:08.199
what she does here. But I think it's a really great,

1903
01:46:09.149 --> 01:46:11.369
Move to recruit her and, you know, got to give

1904
01:46:11.390 --> 01:46:13.560
it up to IDW. They just keep cranking them out, man.

1905
01:46:13.579 --> 01:46:17.220
They have the brand new Star Trek comic that just

1906
01:46:17.260 --> 01:46:19.300
hit a couple of weeks ago with Seven of Nine

1907
01:46:19.380 --> 01:46:22.079
as captain. New Star Trek number one. So it's a

1908
01:46:22.100 --> 01:46:25.779
whole new Star Trek series for folks to get in

1909
01:46:25.850 --> 01:46:27.750
on the ground floor. It's a huge issue, too. I

1910
01:46:27.789 --> 01:46:30.760
was like, good Lord, this is enormous. So there's a

1911
01:46:30.920 --> 01:46:32.800
lot of Star Trek comics coming out from that.

1912
01:46:32.840 --> 01:46:35.460
Yeah, Paul, I would just like to echo what you're

1913
01:46:35.500 --> 01:46:40.060
saying right now, because if you're feeling trepidation or a

1914
01:46:40.100 --> 01:46:43.000
little bit of anxiety about the end of Strange New Worlds,

1915
01:46:44.119 --> 01:46:46.579
do seek out the comics, because there is a lot

1916
01:46:46.619 --> 01:46:48.939
of good stuff out there. There's new stuff coming out,

1917
01:46:48.960 --> 01:46:52.399
but more importantly, I think there has been really good stuff,

1918
01:46:52.720 --> 01:46:54.819
like amazing stuff that's come out in the last, like,

1919
01:46:55.949 --> 01:46:58.489
year or two so don't be afraid to talk to

1920
01:46:58.510 --> 01:47:02.949
your local comic shop you know get the 411 from

1921
01:47:02.989 --> 01:47:06.069
the folks who run the front desk there because they

1922
01:47:06.109 --> 01:47:08.729
probably have read it and they probably know and there

1923
01:47:08.750 --> 01:47:11.149
are plenty of Star Trek titles that you will be

1924
01:47:12.409 --> 01:47:18.020
absolutely thrilled to help carry you through this this drought

1925
01:47:18.479 --> 01:47:20.060
that we're in so to speak.

1926
01:47:20.800 --> 01:47:24.140
No it's true I don't even know how long it's

1927
01:47:24.220 --> 01:47:27.819
been Yeah. Eric, that IDW's had the license. It's been

1928
01:47:27.840 --> 01:47:29.869
at least, what, 20 years, would you say?

1929
01:47:29.920 --> 01:47:32.539
Yeah, I was going to say 15, 20 years, yeah,

1930
01:47:32.560 --> 01:47:32.960
for sure.

1931
01:47:33.199 --> 01:47:34.779
Yeah, it's awesome.

1932
01:47:34.810 --> 01:47:36.729
Way back to the Kelvin timeline stuff.

1933
01:47:37.430 --> 01:47:40.090
Yeah, and they've had a lot of really good different

1934
01:47:40.130 --> 01:47:45.229
titles that they've had. That one title that's been out recently,

1935
01:47:45.350 --> 01:47:48.189
the title's... Charles, what's the one that we're... Is it

1936
01:47:48.229 --> 01:47:48.899
Last Starship?

1937
01:47:48.909 --> 01:47:49.600
Is that what I'm thinking?

1938
01:47:49.619 --> 01:47:50.880
Oh, The Last Starship. That's the one.

1939
01:47:50.899 --> 01:47:52.199
Last Starship. Yeah.

1940
01:47:52.260 --> 01:47:53.239
Last Starship.

1941
01:47:53.319 --> 01:47:53.500
Yeah.

1942
01:47:53.520 --> 01:47:53.659
Yeah.

1943
01:47:54.649 --> 01:47:58.829
Title yeah it's so good i mean it's really well

1944
01:47:58.890 --> 01:48:00.810
i mean i bet you about writing all the time

1945
01:48:00.850 --> 01:48:03.479
but last starship is well written i mean it's as

1946
01:48:03.520 --> 01:48:06.119
good as any you know any of the best series

1947
01:48:06.199 --> 01:48:10.539
it's just really dynamic and interesting that covers a lot

1948
01:48:10.579 --> 01:48:14.689
of stuff uh that we've seen hinted at in the

1949
01:48:15.390 --> 01:48:17.710
series on paramount plus but i think they go deeper

1950
01:48:17.750 --> 01:48:21.000
and make it more compelling i'm really it's not quite

1951
01:48:21.039 --> 01:48:23.239
wrapped up yet, but man, it's good. If you haven't

1952
01:48:23.439 --> 01:48:26.319
read it yet, seek it out. So they're really up

1953
01:48:26.340 --> 01:48:31.300
to good things there. So I would support them. It's

1954
01:48:31.340 --> 01:48:33.600
a chance for us to see stories that they never

1955
01:48:33.619 --> 01:48:34.609
got around to making for.

1956
01:48:36.659 --> 01:48:39.619
The show right and but that they can continue off

1957
01:48:39.699 --> 01:48:42.380
in this ultimate realm this way it's really great so

1958
01:48:43.220 --> 01:48:44.539
kudos to IDW.

1959
01:48:45.420 --> 01:48:47.760
Oh that annual they just had was a good one

1960
01:48:47.819 --> 01:48:50.899
too couple of stories I could have left off but

1961
01:48:51.420 --> 01:48:53.859
many of those annual stories were good this time too.

1962
01:48:53.779 --> 01:48:56.579
Yeah and it was like packed to the gills.

1963
01:48:56.300 --> 01:49:00.189
Yeah it was thick oh I know I read on

1964
01:49:00.239 --> 01:49:02.930
my I read it on I read on a Kindle

1965
01:49:02.989 --> 01:49:06.859
Fire and it's like boy this book is thick This

1966
01:49:06.960 --> 01:49:08.739
one just went on for a while.

1967
01:49:08.800 --> 01:49:09.159
Yeah.

1968
01:49:10.149 --> 01:49:11.010
Yeah.

1969
01:49:11.090 --> 01:49:13.310
But they do a really good job. And I think they,

1970
01:49:13.909 --> 01:49:15.970
I like it because they really support a lot of

1971
01:49:16.029 --> 01:49:18.369
different points of view and they don't just have like, okay, well,

1972
01:49:18.409 --> 01:49:20.289
this is how we do it. Like they allow a

1973
01:49:20.350 --> 01:49:22.489
lot of different types of things there. They're very forward

1974
01:49:22.529 --> 01:49:27.270
thinking and IDW and, and they, they, they're shamelessly love

1975
01:49:27.289 --> 01:49:30.109
Star Trek. So here's, here's to more of that. And

1976
01:49:30.310 --> 01:49:33.800
so very cool. Now all Jim's got to do, Jim,

1977
01:49:34.060 --> 01:49:35.380
you got one mission.

1978
01:49:35.979 --> 01:49:36.180
Okay?

1979
01:49:36.199 --> 01:49:37.279
And I think you know what it is.

1980
01:49:38.039 --> 01:49:39.050
Yeah, I think so.

1981
01:49:39.100 --> 01:49:43.630
Well, I can reach out to him on the show.

1982
01:49:44.069 --> 01:49:46.210
Yes, please.

1983
01:49:46.390 --> 01:49:49.109
I'll bring the candles and we'll just do our thing.

1984
01:49:49.630 --> 01:49:51.810
See if JK is available and he wants to come

1985
01:49:51.869 --> 01:49:52.649
on and chat with us.

1986
01:49:52.689 --> 01:49:56.340
We've had him on before. Not recently, but it's been

1987
01:49:56.359 --> 01:49:56.760
a while.

1988
01:49:57.520 --> 01:49:59.699
And see if JK wants to come back on and

1989
01:49:59.739 --> 01:50:02.689
chat with us about IDW happens, for sure.

1990
01:50:02.770 --> 01:50:03.090
Cool.

1991
01:50:03.170 --> 01:50:03.869
Yeah, it'd be great.

1992
01:50:04.029 --> 01:50:07.989
I'm not sure if he's been doing a whole lot

1993
01:50:08.300 --> 01:50:09.699
of IDW lately.

1994
01:50:11.020 --> 01:50:15.100
Not for a while. I'll reach out. I'll find out.

1995
01:50:15.220 --> 01:50:20.119
I did meet Gates back in September and she is,

1996
01:50:20.359 --> 01:50:23.279
oh my god, in real life, she's just absolutely gorgeous.

1997
01:50:23.319 --> 01:50:27.699
She's just pure class. Just absolutely beautiful.

1998
01:50:27.770 --> 01:50:27.979
Yeah.

1999
01:50:29.289 --> 01:50:31.350
I would love to get her on the show.

2000
01:50:32.149 --> 01:50:34.560
Yeah, and funny as hell, too. She's really clever.

2001
01:50:34.649 --> 01:50:37.300
As long as you burn the candle with her, that's,

2002
01:50:37.520 --> 01:50:41.039
you know, burn the candle with both.

2003
01:50:42.220 --> 01:50:42.319
Ends.

2004
01:50:42.359 --> 01:50:44.319
Well, this is a fun show tonight, man. That's all

2005
01:50:44.340 --> 01:50:45.300
I know. This is great.

2006
01:50:46.380 --> 01:50:50.359
Well, guys, next week we're going to be talking about

2007
01:50:50.399 --> 01:50:53.300
a movie that I watched for the first time today.

2008
01:50:54.319 --> 01:50:57.300
And that's going to be Forbidden Planet next week. We're

2009
01:50:57.340 --> 01:50:58.020
going to go.

2010
01:50:57.880 --> 01:51:00.279
Beyond Star Trek and we're going to talk about the

2011
01:51:00.319 --> 01:51:01.680
Forbidden Planet.

2012
01:51:02.000 --> 01:51:06.460
And if you guys have not seen that movie, watch it.

2013
01:51:07.899 --> 01:51:10.149
I'm watching the movie and I'm thinking, oh, they stole

2014
01:51:10.170 --> 01:51:12.130
that from Star Trek. They stole that from Star Trek.

2015
01:51:12.170 --> 01:51:13.890
They stole that from Star Trek. But this movie came

2016
01:51:13.949 --> 01:51:17.369
out before Star Trek, so it's the.

2017
01:51:17.149 --> 01:51:20.670
Other way around. Exactly. This is 1956 and Forbidden Planet

2018
01:51:20.710 --> 01:51:25.279
was a huge MGM blockbuster in CinemaScope and back when

2019
01:51:25.300 --> 01:51:27.760
Leslie Nielsen was a dramatic actor right not even a

2020
01:51:27.760 --> 01:51:31.310
comedian and there would it is the template for Star

2021
01:51:31.329 --> 01:51:32.869
Trek I mean if you watch it you will see

2022
01:51:32.909 --> 01:51:35.369
that just about everything you know in terms of like

2023
01:51:35.529 --> 01:51:40.430
story idea dynamics of the crew everything was let down

2024
01:51:40.489 --> 01:51:43.710
here and you know the basic components of it came

2025
01:51:43.750 --> 01:51:47.500
from Forbidden Planet so it'll be really fascinating to compare

2026
01:51:47.619 --> 01:51:50.399
and discuss and but if you've never seen it wow

2027
01:51:50.420 --> 01:51:52.260
you're in for a treat it's really.

2028
01:51:52.039 --> 01:51:55.359
Amazing It was a lot of fun. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

2029
01:51:55.359 --> 01:51:57.020
We're going to talk about that next week. You can

2030
01:51:57.060 --> 01:52:00.979
see what all the truck sports thought about Forbidden Planet.

2031
01:52:01.840 --> 01:52:04.350
And that wraps up our show for this week. Guys,

2032
01:52:04.770 --> 01:52:07.289
we got to let you guys go, but we'll be

2033
01:52:07.329 --> 01:52:10.270
back again next week. Same bat time, same bat channel.

2034
01:52:10.710 --> 01:52:12.970
I want to say thank you so much to our

2035
01:52:13.010 --> 01:52:15.680
miracle worker, David, for hanging out with us tonight and

2036
01:52:15.720 --> 01:52:17.260
making these awesome videos for us.

2037
01:52:17.319 --> 01:52:17.939
Thank you, David.

2038
01:52:18.600 --> 01:52:21.180
Yeah, you're very welcome. I can't wait to watch the

2039
01:52:21.220 --> 01:52:21.920
forbidden movie.

2040
01:52:23.420 --> 01:52:23.899
It was good.

2041
01:52:24.140 --> 01:52:24.579
It was good.

2042
01:52:25.340 --> 01:52:27.010
I also want to say thank you to V for

2043
01:52:27.060 --> 01:52:29.109
hanging out and not being blue tonight.

2044
01:52:29.149 --> 01:52:32.529
Yeah, not being blue, just not being able to talk and,

2045
01:52:33.050 --> 01:52:36.229
you know, all that stuff. So always good to be here.

2046
01:52:36.289 --> 01:52:41.310
But thanks for the laugh. It really, I'm able to just,

2047
01:52:41.390 --> 01:52:45.630
you know, lose my mind in front of everybody. So

2048
01:52:45.890 --> 01:52:46.609
let's make it a poll.

2049
01:52:47.850 --> 01:52:52.369
We'll have a poll next week about it. And, of course,

2050
01:52:52.430 --> 01:52:54.449
thank you to Charles for hanging out in Shrek, talking

2051
01:52:54.470 --> 01:52:57.029
with us as well. Thank you so much, Charles. Oh,

2052
01:52:57.069 --> 01:52:57.750
thank you.

2053
01:52:57.930 --> 01:53:00.170
Recap is always fun and lots of Trek.

2054
01:53:00.229 --> 01:53:02.979
Lots of Trek, for sure. And, of course, thank you

2055
01:53:02.989 --> 01:53:04.420
to Paul and welcome back.

2056
01:53:06.020 --> 01:53:08.520
Thanks, man. I mean, it doesn't matter where you travel.

2057
01:53:08.600 --> 01:53:11.439
There's no place like home. It was great to come

2058
01:53:11.460 --> 01:53:14.180
back and be on the show and be refreshed after

2059
01:53:14.420 --> 01:53:17.760
huge quantities of scotch and haggis. and be able to

2060
01:53:17.800 --> 01:53:19.420
discuss science fiction.

2061
01:53:19.920 --> 01:53:23.340
You're like, breakfast haggis, lunch haggis.

2062
01:53:24.079 --> 01:53:25.180
Dinner haggis.

2063
01:53:25.460 --> 01:53:29.640
Bringing it, bringing it, bringing it. You know what they're

2064
01:53:29.659 --> 01:53:34.800
doing over there. But yeah, amazing. Wonderful times, but lovely

2065
01:53:34.819 --> 01:53:38.539
to be back on the show and excited for what's coming.

2066
01:53:38.560 --> 01:53:40.739
And last but not least, thank you so much to

2067
01:53:40.850 --> 01:53:43.250
Eric for hanging out and talking with us as well.

2068
01:53:43.289 --> 01:53:43.789
Thank you, Eric.

2069
01:53:45.649 --> 01:53:49.609
Absolutely. I am so excited about next week because I mean,

2070
01:53:49.670 --> 01:53:50.449
forbidden plants.

2071
01:53:50.609 --> 01:53:52.869
Awesome. But I love robots.

2072
01:53:53.470 --> 01:53:54.630
And so I can't wait to.

2073
01:53:54.609 --> 01:53:57.050
Talk about Robbie next week. That's like, yeah.

2074
01:53:57.789 --> 01:54:00.260
That's like the thing I'm really the most excited about.

2075
01:54:00.340 --> 01:54:01.420
Yeah, for sure.

2076
01:54:01.439 --> 01:54:03.800
He's iconic. He's iconic.

2077
01:54:04.319 --> 01:54:04.659
He is.

2078
01:54:04.739 --> 01:54:05.100
He is.

2079
01:54:05.180 --> 01:54:07.239
And he shows up in so many other places other

2080
01:54:07.279 --> 01:54:10.000
than Forbidden Planet. So I'm very excited to.

2081
01:54:09.939 --> 01:54:13.609
Talk about him. And I'm your most excellent host, Uncle Jim,

2082
01:54:13.649 --> 01:54:16.529
saying to everybody to stay safe and be good to

2083
01:54:16.569 --> 01:54:20.390
each other. Failing frequencies are closed. Good night, everybody.

2084
01:54:20.409 --> 01:54:21.210
Good night.

2085
01:54:22.149 --> 01:54:23.130
Live long and prosper.

2086
01:54:23.149 --> 01:54:24.449
Prosper and prosper.

2087
01:54:24.550 --> 01:54:26.640
I still have a whine.

2088
01:54:27.359 --> 01:54:28.100
You're the captain.

2089
01:54:28.500 --> 01:54:31.539
Shh, captain.

2090
01:54:33.619 --> 01:54:35.029
Ready for warp, sir. Is it?

2091
01:54:35.220 --> 01:54:35.500
Is it?

2092
01:54:58.810 --> 01:54:59.130
Wow.