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Sept. 14, 2026

EPISODE 697- Star Trek: A High-Stakes Adventure

EPISODE 697- Star Trek: A High-Stakes Adventure
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In this episode, Uncle Jim and the crew reflect on a moment of silence for a personal tragedy, introduce the podcast crew, and discuss various Star Trek topics including fan shout-outs, a special video presentation about Cybok, and engage the audience with polls about their favorite Star Trek movies and characters. The conversation is lively and filled with humor, showcasing the camaraderie among the hosts and their passion for Star Trek. In this episode review, the hosts delve into the intricacies of a high-stakes Star Trek episode, exploring character dynamics, fan reactions, and the thematic elements of teamwork and crisis management. They discuss the references to previous Star Trek lore, the effectiveness of visual effects, and the portrayal of character development, particularly focusing on Scotty's journey. The conversation highlights diverse perspectives on the episode's quality, addressing plot armor and the balance between suspense and predictability in storytelling. In this episode, the hosts discuss the fan ratings of the film 'Off Hour', celebrate the birthdays of notable figures in the sci-fi universe, and delve into classic films like 'Alien'.
TakeawaysA moment of silence was held for Uncle Jim's Aunt Eileen. The crew introduces themselves in a light-hearted manner. Star Trek 5 is highlighted as a favorite movie. A special video about Cybok was shared with the audience. Fan shout-outs are an important part of the podcast. Polls are used to engage the audience and gather opinions. The hosts express their love for various Star Trek characters. The discussion includes humorous anecdotes and personal stories. The importance of community and connection among fans is emphasized. The episode wraps up with a teaser for the next discussion on Star Trek Strange New Worlds. The episode draws on various Star Trek references, enhancing its narrative depth. Character dynamics, especially in Sick Bay, reveal underlying tensions and conflicts. The crew's response to crisis showcases their competence and teamwork under pressure. Fan reactions indicate a strong appreciation for character development and storytelling. Scotty's journey in this episode marks a significant development in his character arc. Visual effects play a crucial role in creating a believable and immersive experience. The concept of plot armor raises questions about character survival and tension in storytelling. The ensemble nature of the episode allows for multiple storylines to unfold simultaneously. The ticking clock device adds a layer of urgency, reminiscent of other series like 24. Overall, the episode is well-received, with many praising its writing and character work. The fans rated 'Off Hour' an 8.6, while the house gave it an 8.8. Merritt Butrick, known for his role in Star Trek, is remembered on his birthday. Raquel Welsh became an international sex symbol after her role in 'Fantastic Voyage'. Patty Yasutake played Nurse Alyssa Ogawa in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Michael Berryman has had a unique career in horror films. Idris Elba is recognized for his roles in both Star Trek and Thor. The original 'Alien' film is noted for its slower, more contemplative pace compared to its sequel. William Shatner's memoir includes stories from fans and celebrities alike. The hosts reminisce about their experiences watching classic horror films. Upcoming guest Brian Volk Weiss is known for his work in resurrecting Star Trek action figures.

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stick and chat and we can go.

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On and on.

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Well, good evening, Trekkies and Trekkers around the globe. It's Thursday,

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September 10th, 2026. I'm your most excellent host, Uncle Jim.

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Welcome to the podcast. This is episode 697. Before we

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go too far, I would like to take a very

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brief moment, a moment of silence and a moment of remembrance,

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if you don't mind. Tomorrow, 25 years ago tomorrow, my

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Aunt Eileen Parrish on the 86th floor of the World

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Trade Center. And I think about her at this time

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every year and seeing how it happens tomorrow. I just

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wanted to take a brief moment because I know that

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there's a lot of people that weren't alive when that happened.

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But if you were, just never forget what happened. It

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was real, it was tragic, and it was awful. They

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never found any parts of my aunt's body. She completely vaporized,

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just puffed. She was gone. They had a DNA funeral

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for her. So if you don't mind, I would just

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like to take a moment right now of silence, if

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you guys don't mind. Thank you. Thank you for giving

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me that. And I'm thinking of my NIL right now. Okay,

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put that out of the way. Let's have some fun now.

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What do you say? I appreciate you guys bearing with me.

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So as I said, I'm your most excellent host, Uncle Jim.

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Welcome to the podcast. And I want to go around

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the room and introduce my awesome treks. First, we're going

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to start off with Dee. Dee is down in Virginia.

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I'm doing all right. It was a hot and humid day.

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But now I'm... cool and calm and we're going to

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have a lot of fun.

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Happy to be here. I'm not blue. I'm orange or something.

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I don't know.

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Sorry, that's the crack in my screen.

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Okay, I'm not orange. Okay, whatever. Next week I'll be purple.

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I don't know.

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Do they have purple aliens?

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Because they should. I need to be purple.

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I'm sure they did at some point. And also we

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have with us from Las Vegas, we have our very

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own Charles. Welcome to the show, Charles.

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Oh, thank you, Jim.

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Enjoying our day of heat today as we get a

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heat warning today. Supposed to cool off finally and maybe

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get down to double digits again next week.

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It's nice up here in Vermont. It's right where we'd

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expect it to be. It's going to snow tomorrow, so

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that's good.

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No, not really.

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Really?

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No.

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Okay.

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No, just kidding. And we're going to swing out to

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our Portland contingent, and we're going to say hello to David.

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He's our miracle worker on the show. We put together

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all these awesome videos that you guys enjoy. How are

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you doing tonight, David?

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I'm doing good. I came across some triple eggs, but,

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you know.

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What? Be careful with those. and also from portland we

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have with us joining i.

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Am doing very good as you can see uh i've

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just finished cleaning the transporter room on the enterprise here

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um just finished my shift and so happy to be

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sharing a drink and some uh bespokement of star trek

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with y'all You like that word.

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There, Paul? You like that word?

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Overdue.

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Overdue as well.

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Looks like you missed a spot, Eric.

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Last but not least, we have with us a toy

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guy who's really excited about next week. Welcome to the show, Paul.

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Hi, I'm Eric. Do I want to know why you

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needed to clean the transporter room? Were there bodily fluids

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that we need to find out about? No, no, no.

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That's the holodeck that you're thinking of.

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Okay.

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All right.

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All right.

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Because I just wonder about this show, because V's obsession

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with cracks and last night with the leather pants thing,

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it's just, I don't know what's happening. I feel like,

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you know, it's... It could be anything. Yeah, getting steadily

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more adults. So, I don't know. I'm ready to escape

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into a land of fantasy. That's all I know. Yeah, excited. Excited.

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Glad to be here. It's going to be a good week.

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I had an interesting run-in with a coyote this morning.

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It was really cool.

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The coyote from the movie?

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No, the coyote, the kind that will eat your cat

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if you don't watch your... We have lots of them

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in our neighborhood, and one darted out in front of

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my rig this morning when I was driving back from

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the store. It was cool. I like like to believe

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as the First Nations people do. The coyote is a messenger.

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He's trying to tell you something. If he shows up,

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he's got special connections to the other realms. I was

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quite thoughtful after my coyote encounter today. Very cool. Misunderstood animal.

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I see all kinds of wildlife on my way to work.

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You never know what I'm going to run into on

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the highway, on the roads here. It could be chickens, cows, coyotes, beavers, moose.

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You never know.

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Well, I see.

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We have around here, we have horses, cows, sheep, chickens,

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and ducks.

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So there you.

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Go. You have it the whole damn day. So if

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you guys, we had a podcast yesterday. We didn't want

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to get too far behind because next week we have

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the toy guru himself is going to be joining us.

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So we didn't want to get too far behind. So

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we did a one-hour podcast yesterday. chronitons through the hourglass

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so you can find that you can go over to

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our page trektalking.com and you can check out that podcast

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from yesterday you can support us by becoming a subscriber

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only 99 cents a month or you can help us

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to all of your friends because that gives us a

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really good algorithm on Facebook Tonight we're going to be

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talking about Season 4, Episode 6, Off Hour. We're going

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to have some fun with that. We also have our

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fan shout-outs, so let's not forget about that. And our

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cadet review with our own Charles. What actors do you

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share a birthday with on our Sci-Fi Birthdays? Uncle Jim's

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movie pick of the week. And what's going on around

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the universe? And we have a Shatner says, what's going on? However,

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before we go too far, anybody who's watched this podcast

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or follows us, I can see behind me my autographed

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Cyborg Star Trek 5 poster, my Star Trek 5 magazine

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cover over here. Star Trek 5 is by far my

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favorite movie. I was so excited that Cyborg was going

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to show up that I was thrilled. And Eric and

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David put together a really nice video for me, which

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if David has that I'd like to play that for

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you guys again today in case you missed our show yesterday.

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Alright here we go.

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When you wish on shock away then Wait for eternity.

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The truth in your dreams you see will come to.

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You.

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Into the skin of your skin.

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And so.

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Trying to make them. understand.

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To make them understand.

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To make them understand.

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Oh, my God, that was so excellent. Brought a tear

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to my eye again.

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Why do I see Eric as a Vic Fontaine-type lounge

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singer just playing?

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That would be fantastic.

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But that movie theater marquee just cracks me up.

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I just lose it over that.

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Oh, my God, when I found that, I was like,

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we have to include this.

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I gotta find out where that theater.

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Is.

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It says it's Buffalo. I think it was in Buffalo,

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New York.

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Oh, I'm gonna have to go there. For sure. As

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you guys know, we've been expecting Cybox Returns to end

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the season 2. And we finally got it, and that's

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all I'm.

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Gonna say about it.

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Okay, so I just wanted to play that video for

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you guys because I enjoyed it so much, and I

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wanted to make sure that all of our regulars like

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you right out there got a chance to see it

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if you missed our Wednesday show. So there you have it.

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And if you're not a subscriber... If you didn't get

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David and Eric did together for us. All right, are

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we ready to dive right in? We always start off

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our show with our fan shout-outs. To be mentioned in

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a fan shout-out, just head over to our Facebook page,

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Trek Talking and Beyond. You'll see the Live Long and

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Prosper pinned to the top of the page. Tell us

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where you're from. Leave lots of emojis that catches my attention.

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You can see our next few names. from your truly

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Uncle Jim, then you are going to be mentioned in

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a fan shout-out like these awesome fans that Eric is

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about to tell you. I don't hear Eric. He's muted.

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Sorry about that.

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Somebody muted me.

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I don't know what was going on there. All right, well,

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our very first fan shout-out this week.

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Yeah.

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Our very first fan shout out this week goes out

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to Maybe Marie from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. And she

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sends us a live long and prosper sign. And the

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number 39, are you telegraphing your age too? I'm not

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really sure, maybe. But at any rate, thank you for

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saying hello to us from Amsterdam. We really appreciate it.

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I'd also like to say hello this week to Sharian

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Bridge from Germany, who sends us not one, not two,

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not three, but four live long and prosper emojis. And

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Lord knows that's how you get Jim's attention, just pile

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up on the emojis. It'd be better if there was

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a Klingon ballad emoji, but I'm not sure that there

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is one. Thank you as well for saying hello to

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us this week to Tobias Paderbaum from Münster. Invest Phelan.

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That's right. Tobias, thank you so much for saying hello.

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And Lupe Lorraine is saying hello to us from Scotland,

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sending us that beautiful Scottish flag and another Live Long

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and Prosperous sign. It was like that was the emoji

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everybody was going to use today. It was the Vulcan

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hand symbol. So thank you to every single one of

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you for supporting our podcast and for listening to us

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and for interacting with us.

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Hello from King Jones in Houston, Texas.

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Yes.

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So my first, next, Kirk P. DeCoste from Nebraska. Then

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Paul Sims is saying hello and says, I'm from Burnett, Michigan.

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And last but not least, Heather Babby, originally Iowa, South

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Dakota now. So thank you to all of you for

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watching and listening to us. All right, now the flaming whatever,

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not birthday candle, sorry, never mind.

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Charles, who do you have?

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Thank you, V.

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Let's start off with a warm welcome to Chris Lucchipi

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from Southern Oregon, checking in with the Live Long and

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Welcome, Chris.

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Welcome, Teresa Grigou.

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From Marysville, Washington, north of Seattle.

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Teresa, I know you're having great weather because I was

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just spending last weekend in Seattle.

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Love the weather. Welcome, Steven P. Brown from Chicago, Illinois. Welcome, Steven.

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And welcome, Kat Tidsdale from Gilbert, Arizona, which I know

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where Gilbert is.

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Because I lived there for a couple years. Welcome, Kat. Paul,

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I'm going to hand you the flaming megaphone.

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Thank you. Everything is flaming today, including many of our

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Trex birds. But that's another story. We've got an international audience,

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as you well know, that love not just this wacky podcast,

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but all things Star Trek related. And let's say hello

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to Louise Ann from Belgium, overlooking the North Sea there.

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Wonderful to hear from you, Louise Ann. What a country

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you live in. Absolutely amazing. So I aspire to visit there. myself,

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in a little bit warmer climates, shifting continents. We go

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over to Brazil, and our pal Laiken Fernando is weighing

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in from Brazil. I'm seeing a lot of this from

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Brazil today, a lot of live long and prosper, which

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is great. So it lifts us all together. From Greece,

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with an alien emoji and the big thumbs up, I

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have a one-word individual named Skiofti from Greece. It could

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be that Skiofti is like Cher. You know, it just

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goes with one name. That's all you really need. I

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am Skiofti. And that's, you know, everyone knows who you mean,

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which is fantastic. And then Irish flag proudly unfurled. It

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is top fan from Dublin, Ireland, Rachel Carr saying hello.

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So we've got folks all over the place. Just because

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Star Trek was invented in America and that we do

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a lot of science fiction here, it doesn't mean that

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it's not beloved over the entire globe. from folks everywhere,

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united through the power of the imagination. But I think

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there may be somebody closer to Uncle Jim he wants

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to say hello to here, so let's pass the roulette

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wheel of longitude and latitude back over to Uncle Jim.

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Why, thank you so much, Paul. Unfortunately, I don't have

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any emojis. I don't know what that means. But, um, Anyways,

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I'd like to say hello and thank you to Jack Wilson,

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who's listening somewhere here in Vermont. Don't know where, but

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Jack is somewhere in Vermont. Thanks for being along with

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the ride, Jack. I also want to say hello to

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Carol Robin Drescher, who is in New York. New York,

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the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps. Thank you

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for listening, Carol. We also want to say hello and

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welcome to Mindy Foster, who is in Naples, New York.

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I'm not sure where that's at. I'll have to check.

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But thank you for being a fan and supporting our podcast, Mindy.

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And last but not least, Joe Torelli, who's in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Thank you so much, everybody. If you'd like to be

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mentioned on a fan shout-out, please head over to our

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Facebook page, Trek Talk, and then beyond. Tell us where

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you're from. Leave emojis. It gets my attention. and we'll

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feature you in a future fan shout-out. And all these

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awesome pictures that are going by, like me interviewing Darth

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Vader on the screen right now, you can send us

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your cosplay pictures, and David will add them right there

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on the screen, so you will be immortalized for all

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of eternity as not only a fan, but a fan

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of Trek. That was a good one, dude, when I

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met Eric at Triconderoga. Okay, guys, so that's our fan shout-out.

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We're going to do some polls right now, which means.

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You know we'd like to win, but you thought about

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the show and we tried. To share your opinions with

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all of our minions.

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I don't care because they listen to me.

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So tell us just what you think, and together we

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will all dream.

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Kadar and Romulan, a-hole to our minions. Wow. Another excellent

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video put together by David and Eric, I must say.

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So right now we're running a little poll on our

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Facebook page with the 60th anniversary of Star Trek. I

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want to find out what your favorite crew would be.

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If you were the crew of a starship, who would

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you pick as your crew? So each week I ask

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a question, and this week we're going to be focusing

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on our engineer. So take it away, if you will, Eric.

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Yeah, we are talking about who you, if you were

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the captain of your own ship, who would you pick

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as your engineer? And we've got the roulette wheel of

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engineers shown on our screen here. And spinning that wheel

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and looking at the responses that we got from you all,

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coming in sixth, out of six, we have Balana Torres

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with only 1% of the vote, which I feel.

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Like something happened there. Because there's no way that Balana

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Torres only got 1% of the vote. She literally saves

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them from being 70,000 light years away from home. Sorry,

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I'm just, like, stunned. So, you know, whoever answered the poll,

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only maybe one of you said B'Elanna Torres would be

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your chosen engineer. Coming in fifth place, we have Pellia,

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above B'Elanna Torres, apparently, with 4% of the vote. I'm

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guessing based on her age and experience and not her disposition. Yeah.

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Coming in fourth, fourth, fourth, I'm sorry, I'm just like

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stunned by this poll. We have Geordi and O'Brien. Literally

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two of the smartest people we have ever seen in

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Star Trek only came in fourth as your pick for

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Engineer with 9% of the vote. 9% of the vote.

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We gave you Geordi and O'Brien together and you said 9%.

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I'm sorry, people. You're wrong. Coming in above Geordi and

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O'Brien at number three, I love this poll so much.

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It's so crazy.

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It's Trip Tucker. And now listen, I love me some

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Trip Tucker. There is no question that he did a

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lot for the Enterprise NX-01. He literally sacrificed himself in

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the end, right, to save the ship. Sorry, spoiler alert.

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But Trip Tucker, really? 14% of the vote went to him.

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That's 6% more than Geordi and O'Brien.

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Coming in second, we have Hammer and Jet Reno at

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15% of the vote. 6% above my choice. And of course,

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number one, which we all knew was going to happen,

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we have Scotty with 33% of your vote. He is

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the chosen engineer on Jim's amazing ship of amazingness.

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I don't know.

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We need to come up with like your fantasy ship

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name or something.

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The USS Chakari.

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The USS Chakari. So as our first officer pick on

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the USS Chakari, we have Scotty as our head engineer getting,

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what does my math say? 24% more of the vote

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than Geordi and O'Brien together.

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That's pathetic, yeah.

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Sorry.

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I'm sorry. But I vote for the week.

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I may have opinions.

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No.

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I mean, like, we literally know that O'Brien is the

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most important man in Starfleet. That's what we learned from

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Lower Decks, right? And Geordi is no slouch. Let's be clear.

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He's the only guy that understands Data's brain, right? He's

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the only guy with depositronic knowledge, other than talking to

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the crazy Soongs, and nobody wants to talk to those guys.

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Well, the fans have spoken, right? And with the Star

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Trek movies coming back out in theaters, which I could

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not enjoy because Here in Vermont, well, we don't have

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a movie theater, so that's hard. I didn't get a

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chance to watch any of these movies, but some of

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my co-hosts did. So in honor of that, Eric, what

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was our next poll question?

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Well, the next poll question, of course, is with Star

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Trek turning 60, what is your favorite TOS movie? And

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you have six choices. So drum roll, please. Coming in

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at number six, no surprise in my estimation, is Star

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Trek V. The Final Frontier, despite the presence of the

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future namesake of the USS Shockery. Coming in at number five,

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we have Star Trek The Motion Picture with 7% of

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the vote. Personally shocking. I know a lot of people

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find that movie slow and arduous. I find it delightful

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and I could watch it 100 times in a row

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and be okay. But yeah, 7% of the vote.

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There you go.

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Coming in above that, we have Star Trek III. The

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search for Spock. People like it when Spock returns. 9%

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of the vote. That's 2% more than the motion picture. So,

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you know, slightly edging it out. Not a big takeover there.

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Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country, with 13% of the vote.

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I give it 65% of my vote. You know, but

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it's probably not worth much in this poll. But you

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all made it the third most popular film, so that's

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pretty cool. Coming in at second, we have the one

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with the whale, Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home, with

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27% of the vote. That's a very respectable amount. You know,

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more than a quarter of you like this as your

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number one movie, and I know at least one Trekspert

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likes it as their favorite movie. And coming in at

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number one, no surprise, is Star Trek II, The Wrath

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of Khan, because that movie is awesome and because it's

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short and sweet and simple and everybody loves it. And

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freaking Ricardo Montalban. I mean, come on. 42% of you

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said that that was your favorite. So thank you so

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much for answering our polls and for almost getting all

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the answers right.

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Well, Star Trek V should have been a little bit higher, but,

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you know, that's okay.

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That's what I'm saying, Jim, you know. We should do

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these polls with the Trexperts and put the numbers up against.

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Oh, yeah. We should. We should. All right. Okay.

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All right, guys.

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Well, that's our polls. If you want to partake in

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our polls, head over to our Facebook page, Trek Talking

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and Beyond, and get your votes in. I think, what

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are we doing? Security Officer David, what was the one

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we just did?

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No. Medical officers?

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Doctor.

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Doctor.

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What doctor would you pick? Right. So head over to

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our Facebook page.

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Gee, I wonder who people are going to pick.

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Pick your doctor. I went with Philip Boyce myself.

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Okay.

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So as I said, guys, we're going to be discussing

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the Star Trek Strange New Worlds episode off hours. But

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before we do that, Charles is going to do some

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cadet training. Take it away, Charles.

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Oh, thank you, Jim.

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And cadet training is where I try taking Star Trek

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or other things to combine that I saw with this episode.

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Starting off with Star Trek The Motion Picture.

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Sure.

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Because they also got caught in a wormhole, even though

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they only were on there for a few minutes other

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than an entire episode. TOS, the cage. This is where

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we met Dr. Boyce originally. TOS, that which survives from

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season three. This is where we met Lieutenant Radha, which

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returns in this episode. Enterprise, Damaged, Season 3, the example

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of a severely damaged ship. And a co-worker of mine

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mentioned this and gave me a couple ideas. This one

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reminded me of Poseidon or the airports, the disaster of

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the week. Poseidon's a big disaster movie. All the airports

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were big disaster movies. But from there, why don't I

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pass over to Paul, who can tell us what happened

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in this episode.

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Thank you, Charles. Makes me want to go sit down

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and watch Poseidon Adventure for the 100th time.

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I love that picture.

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So it's great.

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101st.

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Just great. So we're here talking about

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episode six of the fourth season, Off Hour, in which

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the Enterprise is trapped in a very– precipitous slipstream wormhole,

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turning a much-anticipated weekend of downtime into a high-stakes disaster scenario.

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So some key plot elements in here. At the very beginning,

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before things go south, we spend some time in sickbay

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with Dr. Mabenga and Nurse Chappell. Arguing over Mabenga sounds

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like he's considering leaving the Enterprise and doing something different.

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And Chappell has been sort of squirrelly about maintaining any

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kind of a permanent posting. And it's in this scene

461
00:29:13.170 --> 00:29:15.609
that we get the very first mention of a former

462
00:29:15.710 --> 00:29:21.130
Enterprise CMO, Dr. Boyce, who, as Charles intimated, we see

463
00:29:21.289 --> 00:29:26.299
back in the original pilot episode, The Cage, subsequently Menagerie.

464
00:29:26.410 --> 00:29:29.019
So you do have some callbacks there. We'll get to

465
00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:32.470
see Dr. Boyce later in the episode. So you've got

466
00:29:32.509 --> 00:29:34.930
your various shifts who work on the Enterprise. and Alpha

467
00:29:34.970 --> 00:29:39.289
Shift has just been going great guns and really looking

468
00:29:39.309 --> 00:29:42.009
forward to some time off. And right as that's about

469
00:29:42.049 --> 00:29:46.029
to happen, unexpectedly, they run into this high warp phenomenon

470
00:29:46.150 --> 00:29:50.380
wormhole that pulls the Enterprise into a slipstream, totally frying

471
00:29:50.470 --> 00:29:54.720
all of their systems, charging everything with electricity and threatening

472
00:29:54.799 --> 00:29:58.579
to tear the ship apart as they continue to accelerate.

473
00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:03.309
eventually running the risk of surpassing the warp threshold where

474
00:30:03.349 --> 00:30:06.329
the ship would be literally torn apart. So, uh, when

475
00:30:06.349 --> 00:30:09.430
this happens, it's very unexpected. So crew members are isolated

476
00:30:09.490 --> 00:30:12.990
across different sections of the ship. Various crises are going on. Um,

477
00:30:14.470 --> 00:30:18.319
at the very beginning, um, as, uh, Pike is trying

478
00:30:18.339 --> 00:30:19.960
to figure out a way to like, you know, turn

479
00:30:19.980 --> 00:30:23.660
the shields on to help mitigate all this supercharged electricity. Uh,

480
00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:26.259
Pike takes a real dangerous hit, uh, from a bolt

481
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:28.950
of electricity and he has to, uh, hand over command

482
00:30:28.970 --> 00:30:33.019
to Ortegas in the situation here. Scotty gets trapped inside

483
00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:36.539
a turbolift and has to resort to even using an

484
00:30:36.579 --> 00:30:40.440
American accent to try to make sure the voice interface

485
00:30:40.859 --> 00:30:45.289
recognizes him. A big centerpiece, though, of this entire episode

486
00:30:45.609 --> 00:30:48.170
is in sickbay, right? Where there's, in the middle of

487
00:30:48.589 --> 00:30:54.089
huge turbulence and everything's shifting around because of the gravitational forces,

488
00:30:54.509 --> 00:30:57.619
there's a terrible medical emergency where Dr. Mabenga gets pinned

489
00:30:58.210 --> 00:31:02.099
against this heavy lab table by violent ship movements that

490
00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:06.460
they don't dare move it or he would perish. And

491
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:10.940
Nurse Chapel has to keep trying to figure out new

492
00:31:10.980 --> 00:31:13.309
ways to try to do something, anything to be able

493
00:31:13.349 --> 00:31:16.849
to save him. And gravity is going out all over

494
00:31:16.869 --> 00:31:21.670
the ship. The artificial gravity plates are failing and they're

495
00:31:21.710 --> 00:31:24.970
trying to do everything, including an incredible scene with Number

496
00:31:25.170 --> 00:31:29.660
One where she is trying to run across or crawl

497
00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:33.059
across the lounge there to get to the manual override,

498
00:31:33.099 --> 00:31:33.859
restore gravity.

499
00:31:34.500 --> 00:31:34.819
Wow.

500
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:37.359
I mean, it's a shocking moment, let's just say, that

501
00:31:37.380 --> 00:31:40.859
happens to her and the injury she endures in the

502
00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:45.380
course of that. And all of this involves trying to

503
00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:49.940
find particles that will be the potential solution to A,

504
00:31:50.140 --> 00:31:52.359
getting them out of there, but also potentially being used

505
00:31:52.380 --> 00:31:55.490
for a medical purpose to save Dr. Mabenga, but it

506
00:31:55.650 --> 00:31:59.690
means that somebody has to undergo a very dangerous spacewalk

507
00:31:59.730 --> 00:32:03.390
through a severe radiation storm on the outside of the

508
00:32:03.470 --> 00:32:08.799
ship to gather the necessary data and potentially suffer critical

509
00:32:08.859 --> 00:32:13.279
radiation sickness. And this is a reference back to the

510
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:16.619
ion pod from the original series, first season episode of

511
00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:19.200
Court Martial, that was cool to see. So a lot

512
00:32:19.220 --> 00:32:22.809
of references to prior things in here, the ion pod

513
00:32:22.829 --> 00:32:26.400
being one. with Pike finding himself in a very similar

514
00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:31.559
situation that he did in that same episode there. So again,

515
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:35.900
like Charles said, this particular episode draws on a lot

516
00:32:35.940 --> 00:32:41.150
of disaster formats and episodes. I'm thinking about Next Gen's disaster,

517
00:32:41.670 --> 00:32:46.329
Voyager's year of hell, but it is frankly a really

518
00:32:46.410 --> 00:32:51.880
refreshing episode because it really focuses on the crew's competence, selflessness,

519
00:32:51.940 --> 00:32:56.730
and their ability to work in teamwork under pressure. I'm

520
00:32:56.750 --> 00:32:59.170
going to pop back later on and talk a little

521
00:32:59.190 --> 00:33:04.089
bit more specifics of this episode here, but it's pretty exciting,

522
00:33:04.109 --> 00:33:06.630
and I think it was generally pretty well received. All

523
00:33:06.650 --> 00:33:09.250
of us Trexperts are going to be able to share

524
00:33:09.269 --> 00:33:11.950
their opinions, and we'll see what our consensus is. But

525
00:33:12.019 --> 00:33:14.660
before we get into any of that, Let's find out

526
00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:18.029
what you, the fans, thought. I get a sense that

527
00:33:18.210 --> 00:33:21.390
this was something maybe the fans really enjoyed. Eric, interpret

528
00:33:21.410 --> 00:33:22.109
for me, my friend.

529
00:33:22.769 --> 00:33:25.470
Well, here's what I know, Paul. I know that Ryan

530
00:33:25.529 --> 00:33:30.289
LaRoche said a solid 9.5, some great character development. I

531
00:33:30.329 --> 00:33:35.480
agree with other comments about knowing which characters survive. Presumably

532
00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:38.559
they're talking about M-Benga. But it was definitely one of

533
00:33:38.579 --> 00:33:44.400
the better episodes yet. Rick Gross said, Warp 9.95 for me.

534
00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:45.519
Great episode.

535
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:46.200
All caps.

536
00:33:47.339 --> 00:33:52.809
Marilee Bradshaw-Crews said, Big Giant 10 with an exclamation point.

537
00:33:52.930 --> 00:33:56.450
Thank you, Marilee. I love the enthusiasm. John Baker said,

538
00:33:56.589 --> 00:33:59.490
So far, best of the season. Best of the last

539
00:33:59.650 --> 00:34:03.430
two seasons. A viable candidate for best of this series.

540
00:34:03.430 --> 00:34:07.559
9 out of 10. Clive Robert Bell gave it a 9.5.

541
00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:09.949
I agree there was some loss of jeopardy as we

542
00:34:09.969 --> 00:34:13.590
know characters survive, but my minus 0.5 is due to

543
00:34:13.630 --> 00:34:16.630
yet again using the transporter in ways that wasn't used

544
00:34:16.690 --> 00:34:21.090
in TOS, which seemed to be technical innovations in Next

545
00:34:21.130 --> 00:34:24.389
Generation era. I see, Clive. All right, we can chat

546
00:34:24.409 --> 00:34:24.800
about that.

547
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:25.469
Thanks.

548
00:34:26.199 --> 00:34:28.760
Edward Jess Abbott, a top fan of ours, said on

549
00:34:28.780 --> 00:34:32.940
the edge of my seat the whole episode, that's a 10.

550
00:34:32.940 --> 00:34:35.369
Jackson Creed gave it a 10 out of 10. I

551
00:34:35.429 --> 00:34:39.130
also enjoyed the puppets episode. It brought joy to my

552
00:34:39.210 --> 00:34:44.829
bad day. Stefan Parker, another top fan of ours, said

553
00:34:44.869 --> 00:34:47.829
a solid 9.5. The only reason I lost half point,

554
00:34:47.869 --> 00:34:50.570
in my opinion, is it would have been better to

555
00:34:50.610 --> 00:34:55.239
put characters who we don't know what will happen to

556
00:34:55.300 --> 00:34:59.079
them in the most perilous situations I see. So once again,

557
00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:03.760
that comment presumably about Mbenga. I can't find myself worrying if, say,

558
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:06.719
Scotty was about to be vaporized when we know his

559
00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:10.539
future self is in a transporter buffer. Yes, it is.

560
00:35:10.619 --> 00:35:11.300
Thanks, Stefan.

561
00:35:11.739 --> 00:35:16.000
Other than that, this was a fantastic episode. Alexander Fernandez

562
00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:19.519
gave it an 8.5. It's better than the last few episodes.

563
00:35:20.420 --> 00:35:24.199
Kev Overton gave it a 9, far better than the

564
00:35:24.260 --> 00:35:29.179
previous episodes this season, with a little barfy emoji. Thanks, Kev.

565
00:35:30.219 --> 00:35:34.730
Ashley Williams gave it a 9 because of nitpicks. Presumably,

566
00:35:34.869 --> 00:35:37.309
Ashley was on her way to 10, but had to

567
00:35:37.369 --> 00:35:40.349
take off a few points here and there. Steve Turner

568
00:35:40.369 --> 00:35:43.449
gave it a 9. Only negative was not enough pike.

569
00:35:44.489 --> 00:35:48.659
You know, I mean, he has become the silver fox

570
00:35:48.699 --> 00:35:50.480
of Strange New Worlds. So I get it, Steven.

571
00:35:50.739 --> 00:35:51.079
I get it.

572
00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:56.059
And Kurt Dirksen said 7. Still a lot of plot issues.

573
00:35:56.179 --> 00:36:00.300
But thankfully, this gives us a combined fan score this week.

574
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:03.280
Second highest of the season of 8 points.

575
00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:04.840
Six.

576
00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:06.440
Very, very respectable.

577
00:36:09.019 --> 00:36:12.139
Absolutely, and I have a feeling that score is going

578
00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:13.739
to be a little bit higher for the episode that's

579
00:36:13.820 --> 00:36:18.000
on tonight, just saying. Okay, so who wants to... V! V,

580
00:36:18.980 --> 00:36:22.400
would you like to start the honors with this episode?

581
00:36:22.420 --> 00:36:23.059
Sure.

582
00:36:24.099 --> 00:36:27.219
Well, I usually watch each episode a couple times, and

583
00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:30.010
the first time just, you know, go through it, and

584
00:36:30.070 --> 00:36:34.639
I usually multitask, but this one just grabbed me from

585
00:36:34.699 --> 00:36:37.849
the beginning and I just sat there and just watched it.

586
00:36:37.900 --> 00:36:42.130
I couldn't tear myself away. It was, um, I think

587
00:36:42.449 --> 00:36:46.829
more Star Trek than a lot of the, um, previous

588
00:36:46.929 --> 00:36:50.829
episodes have been. Uh, so, um, and I can, I

589
00:36:50.869 --> 00:36:55.030
have to say that the, um, special effects that they

590
00:36:55.070 --> 00:37:00.579
have in this show are really quite amazing. And, um,

591
00:37:01.230 --> 00:37:06.889
So I really enjoyed that. Something that I was reminded

592
00:37:07.150 --> 00:37:11.309
of that I hearken back to when Mbenga gets injured,

593
00:37:11.829 --> 00:37:15.349
where he's like basically almost not quite cut in two,

594
00:37:15.409 --> 00:37:19.010
but the pressure of the table is basically.

595
00:37:18.510 --> 00:37:19.440
Keeping him alive.

596
00:37:19.460 --> 00:37:24.280
Does anybody remember the M. Night Shyamalan movie Signs with

597
00:37:24.380 --> 00:37:28.760
Mel Gibson? And does anybody remember that?

598
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:31.510
Absolutely.

599
00:37:32.769 --> 00:37:35.800
With his wife that actually M.

600
00:37:35.829 --> 00:37:39.909
Night Shyamalan is the guy who, you know, she's out

601
00:37:39.949 --> 00:37:43.289
for a walk and he's out, I guess he was

602
00:37:43.329 --> 00:37:46.489
driving drunk or something and he hits her and she's

603
00:37:46.570 --> 00:37:50.949
pinned between the car and the tree. And that was

604
00:37:51.070 --> 00:37:52.349
the only thing that was keeping her.

605
00:37:52.289 --> 00:37:54.090
Alive was the pressure of the car.

606
00:37:54.219 --> 00:37:57.300
So I immediately went to that. But this one had

607
00:37:57.340 --> 00:38:05.559
a much better outcome. And just Chapel coming to grips

608
00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:09.599
with the fact that she actually, she does need to

609
00:38:10.619 --> 00:38:14.699
ask to stay on the Enterprise in a more permanent position.

610
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:21.010
But just her ability to think and how she could

611
00:38:21.130 --> 00:38:26.670
save Mbenga when Boyce basically said, no, there's no chance.

612
00:38:26.789 --> 00:38:30.519
You need to come here and help me. In this case,

613
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:33.840
we go back to the needs of the one outweigh

614
00:38:33.860 --> 00:38:34.510
the needs.

615
00:38:34.409 --> 00:38:36.969
Of the others, if you will.

616
00:38:38.150 --> 00:38:42.769
That and Spock doing his sort of foreshadowing of another

617
00:38:42.789 --> 00:38:50.849
radiation incident, but that was pretty harrowing as well.

618
00:38:52.730 --> 00:38:56.320
And then we have Pelia, which I know some of

619
00:38:56.340 --> 00:38:57.340
you all don't like, but.

620
00:38:59.130 --> 00:38:59.449
I don't know.

621
00:38:59.489 --> 00:39:03.059
I liked her in this episode. She was funny trying

622
00:39:03.139 --> 00:39:11.280
to encourage Scotty because she's been a mentor to him,

623
00:39:11.340 --> 00:39:18.940
I guess. But overall, I will give this episode a 9.5.

624
00:39:18.940 --> 00:39:19.030
9.5.

625
00:39:19.030 --> 00:39:19.550
Excellent.

626
00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:29.630
So I'm right there with you, V. I love this episode.

627
00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:33.400
You guys might have noticed that David and I were

628
00:39:33.420 --> 00:39:37.019
making up all kinds of memes from this episode that

629
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:39.760
were on our Facebook page. We had a lot of

630
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:43.179
fun with that. This episode, we get to see Scotty

631
00:39:43.219 --> 00:39:46.670
develop his love of the Enterprise, which will last a lifetime.

632
00:39:47.489 --> 00:39:53.530
And he develops his love based on Pelia telling him

633
00:39:53.639 --> 00:39:56.159
to be a miracle worker. That was the first time

634
00:39:56.199 --> 00:39:58.739
we would hear that phrase. And it would be stuck

635
00:39:58.780 --> 00:40:02.480
on Scotty forever. My only, you know, I would give

636
00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:04.280
the episode a 10. I got to give it a

637
00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:07.130
9 for one reason. Pelia wasn't a Muppet. Okay?

638
00:40:07.230 --> 00:40:07.750
I said it.

639
00:40:07.889 --> 00:40:08.630
I said it.

640
00:40:08.650 --> 00:40:10.349
I know. I think if Pelia.

641
00:40:10.090 --> 00:40:12.289
Was a Muppet with a wild spaghetti.

642
00:40:12.449 --> 00:40:12.949
I know.

643
00:40:13.329 --> 00:40:14.110
That was great.

644
00:40:14.130 --> 00:40:21.900
But, yeah. Yeah. Overall, I love this episode. And apparently

645
00:40:22.420 --> 00:40:26.480
this episode was another gimmicky episode based on a TV

646
00:40:26.500 --> 00:40:30.360
show called 24 with Kiefer Sutherland, which I never saw,

647
00:40:30.619 --> 00:40:32.800
never heard of it, so I did not know this.

648
00:40:33.260 --> 00:40:36.840
But apparently that show had a 24-hour countdown with a

649
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:39.510
split screen that went back and forth and blah, blah, blah.

650
00:40:39.619 --> 00:40:39.989
I don't know.

651
00:40:40.030 --> 00:40:45.050
Didn't see it. Don't care. Love this episode. This had everything.

652
00:40:45.670 --> 00:40:50.650
The crew coming together, working together, learning about themselves. Scotty,

653
00:40:50.710 --> 00:40:53.489
I think, was the high point of this episode. Him

654
00:40:53.510 --> 00:40:57.190
and Lieutenant Cadet Asha had a lot of scenes together

655
00:40:57.210 --> 00:41:02.989
that I really enjoyed. Yeah, I can't say enough good

656
00:41:03.030 --> 00:41:04.570
about this episode. If you haven't seen it, what are

657
00:41:04.590 --> 00:41:05.190
you waiting for?

658
00:41:05.630 --> 00:41:07.139
Go watch it, please.

659
00:41:08.030 --> 00:41:11.519
This episode is next to the first episode. I think

660
00:41:11.579 --> 00:41:13.739
it's right up there with the best that we have seen.

661
00:41:15.070 --> 00:41:17.630
besides the one that's on tonight so please go and

662
00:41:17.690 --> 00:41:22.630
watch it phenomenal I'm giving it a 9 and yeah

663
00:41:22.710 --> 00:41:26.510
I can't say enough good about this episode great special

664
00:41:26.550 --> 00:41:30.800
effects great character development it had everything that makes Star

665
00:41:30.820 --> 00:41:34.860
Trek Star Trek so please go watch it and enjoy

666
00:41:34.900 --> 00:41:38.119
it and David would you like to jump in next?

667
00:41:39.619 --> 00:41:44.150
Yeah sure um First, I want to say that I

668
00:41:44.190 --> 00:41:47.090
didn't know that this was an episode that was based

669
00:41:47.150 --> 00:41:49.550
off of 24, and I've never seen that either, so

670
00:41:49.670 --> 00:41:54.420
I didn't know that either. However, this episode, I didn't

671
00:41:54.460 --> 00:41:56.420
really think of it as too much as a gimmick,

672
00:41:56.500 --> 00:41:59.500
per se, because there was a sense of danger. There

673
00:41:59.539 --> 00:42:01.960
was a sense of they had to work together to

674
00:42:02.980 --> 00:42:08.130
escape whatever problems or anomalies that may have occurred. I

675
00:42:08.210 --> 00:42:12.139
actually enjoyed this episode quite a bit. This episode, however,

676
00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:14.619
got me confused a little bit, especially in the beginning.

677
00:42:15.820 --> 00:42:20.500
Right away, you sense something's wrong with Mbenga and Chapel.

678
00:42:20.619 --> 00:42:22.079
It was just like, all of a sudden, they just

679
00:42:22.340 --> 00:42:25.500
got into this weird banter argument. I got really confused.

680
00:42:25.539 --> 00:42:28.400
I was like, why are they so angry with each other?

681
00:42:28.420 --> 00:42:30.659
And to me, I was just like, I don't know,

682
00:42:30.739 --> 00:42:33.110
it kind of lost me there. And so then eventually,

683
00:42:33.119 --> 00:42:36.860
you know, they just started to slowly get into the

684
00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:39.360
rhythm of what it used to be like i guess

685
00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:40.300
but anyway yeah i.

686
00:42:40.280 --> 00:42:44.199
Mean david if i if i if you don't mind

687
00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:46.920
me interjecting there so i think one of the thing

688
00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:49.320
that like that whole scene where they're sort of talking

689
00:42:49.380 --> 00:42:53.579
about um you know who's been planning to leave the

690
00:42:53.619 --> 00:42:56.599
longest i guess is a good way to um to

691
00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:59.969
put it you know i think that christine like the

692
00:43:00.010 --> 00:43:02.309
way that I read this show is that Christine Chapel

693
00:43:02.389 --> 00:43:05.929
has always, and Benga was absolutely right. He's always, she's

694
00:43:05.969 --> 00:43:08.849
always had one foot out the door, right? She's never

695
00:43:08.969 --> 00:43:11.469
committed to being on the ship and that kind of thing.

696
00:43:11.889 --> 00:43:14.829
And I think that she feels some internal stress about

697
00:43:14.889 --> 00:43:18.289
that residual from her relationship with Spock and that sort

698
00:43:18.309 --> 00:43:20.179
of thing. Like her job is fine, right? It's all

699
00:43:20.219 --> 00:43:23.900
the interpersonal stuff that she still has some like baggage about.

700
00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:25.079
Yeah.

701
00:43:25.340 --> 00:43:29.059
And, and, and in Benga, you know, we know that

702
00:43:29.099 --> 00:43:32.639
the writers have to get him off the show somehow, right? So,

703
00:43:32.889 --> 00:43:35.510
you know, having him be the guy who's kind of

704
00:43:35.630 --> 00:43:37.449
on his way out is kind of no big surprise.

705
00:43:37.469 --> 00:43:40.710
So I actually really liked that they had that little

706
00:43:40.750 --> 00:43:44.570
conflict because I don't think it was a conflict between

707
00:43:44.590 --> 00:43:46.429
the two of them. I think it was both of

708
00:43:46.510 --> 00:43:52.050
them expressing their own internal stress at one another. You

709
00:43:52.070 --> 00:43:52.469
know what I mean?

710
00:43:52.489 --> 00:43:53.110
Yeah.

711
00:43:53.789 --> 00:43:55.809
Like in a moment of emotional strife.

712
00:43:56.239 --> 00:43:58.030
Yeah, to me, it was just all of a sudden,

713
00:43:58.090 --> 00:44:00.469
it was like the first thing that you see of them,

714
00:44:00.489 --> 00:44:02.630
they're kind of like, it just seemed like they were

715
00:44:02.710 --> 00:44:05.150
angry or something. So it was just like, to me,

716
00:44:05.210 --> 00:44:07.909
it just felt really weird and awkward. But I mean,

717
00:44:07.969 --> 00:44:10.699
I understand that, you know, Trapple has already been talking

718
00:44:10.739 --> 00:44:15.239
about leaving the ship the whole time. And Banga, to me,

719
00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:18.739
I know that they had to write him off so

720
00:44:18.760 --> 00:44:22.670
that they could rest in bones. Like I said, it

721
00:44:22.690 --> 00:44:26.309
just feels like it's going to be rushed. I don't know,

722
00:44:26.530 --> 00:44:28.469
it just felt awkward, and it just felt like it

723
00:44:28.489 --> 00:44:32.809
was off-putting to me, that whole scene. So, anyways, some

724
00:44:32.829 --> 00:44:37.210
of the things that I did like were Scotty. He

725
00:44:37.289 --> 00:44:42.340
definitely grew in this episode, I think. He definitely had,

726
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:50.940
since Peleo was his mentor, they had a great banter between, like,

727
00:44:51.019 --> 00:44:53.960
you know, I got to calm you. I got to

728
00:44:54.119 --> 00:44:56.199
make sure that you're not going to panic and all

729
00:44:56.239 --> 00:44:58.199
this because I know you're stuck in a tube and

730
00:44:58.219 --> 00:45:00.400
you probably have claustrophobia or something. I don't know. But

731
00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:03.119
to me, I thought that was pretty good. I actually

732
00:45:03.159 --> 00:45:09.000
enjoyed it. And the whole scene with Nbenga, I got

733
00:45:09.019 --> 00:45:12.300
to bring this back because I don't know what it was,

734
00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:15.440
but for some reason, the way that the camera was

735
00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:19.280
facing the incident before Nbenga got stuck between the wall

736
00:45:19.340 --> 00:45:23.639
and the table just looked like To me, Chapel wasn't

737
00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:26.480
in danger. For some reason, she pushed her out of

738
00:45:26.500 --> 00:45:28.780
the way thinking that she was saving her or something.

739
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:31.619
To me, I was like, why didn't they just both

740
00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:33.840
get out of the way? That wall in between them

741
00:45:33.900 --> 00:45:35.989
could have stopped that table. So to me, I was like,

742
00:45:36.469 --> 00:45:38.369
that was really weird and bizarre. I just had to

743
00:45:38.409 --> 00:45:40.429
get that out because I think they could have done

744
00:45:40.449 --> 00:45:48.389
a little bit better trying to picture how that worked. Anyways, yeah.

745
00:45:49.130 --> 00:45:56.710
The whole box getting radiated again, I thought that was

746
00:45:56.730 --> 00:46:01.789
just an homage to Wrath of Khan. So to me,

747
00:46:01.849 --> 00:46:05.889
I was just like, oh, well. But being able to

748
00:46:06.329 --> 00:46:12.159
communicate with the Vulcan, you know, the Vulcan, what do

749
00:46:12.179 --> 00:46:12.550
they call that?

750
00:46:13.300 --> 00:46:13.840
Mind meld.

751
00:46:14.260 --> 00:46:17.559
The Vulcan. Mind meld. There you go. Thank you. I

752
00:46:17.639 --> 00:46:21.059
actually thought that was actually a really clever way, since

753
00:46:21.099 --> 00:46:24.059
he couldn't talk, of the writers saying that, okay, we

754
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:26.659
need to get the information out there. He can do this,

755
00:46:26.699 --> 00:46:29.159
so let's just give the information to somebody who can

756
00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:31.960
talk and communicate. So I actually enjoyed that quite a bit.

757
00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:36.000
But other than that, yeah, I would have to probably

758
00:46:36.059 --> 00:46:39.739
give this episode, I'm going to go with an eight

759
00:46:40.099 --> 00:46:40.559
on this one.

760
00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:46.280
Okay, we have an eight from David. Do you want

761
00:46:46.300 --> 00:46:47.010
to jump in next?

762
00:46:48.739 --> 00:46:49.280
Sure.

763
00:46:49.380 --> 00:46:52.880
I would love to, um, you know, V you brought

764
00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:54.780
up a really good point and I wasn't going to

765
00:46:54.820 --> 00:46:57.239
start with this, but like, I think we sort of

766
00:46:57.300 --> 00:47:00.119
take special effects for granted these days because every single

767
00:47:00.139 --> 00:47:03.900
movie we see has amazing ones, you know, throughout the

768
00:47:03.940 --> 00:47:09.159
entire thing. So yeah, I, yes, I would like to actually, um,

769
00:47:09.539 --> 00:47:11.820
say I also appreciate what's going on in terms of

770
00:47:11.860 --> 00:47:15.380
special effects in this show. So I'm with you there. Um,

771
00:47:16.500 --> 00:47:22.090
so let's see. Uh, I really like starting from the beginning.

772
00:47:22.230 --> 00:47:26.710
I really liked the kind of ensemble nature of this,

773
00:47:28.329 --> 00:47:30.750
of this particular episode. You know, some of our episodes

774
00:47:30.789 --> 00:47:33.250
really focus on like one or two characters or maybe

775
00:47:33.909 --> 00:47:35.469
have an A and a B story or that kind

776
00:47:35.489 --> 00:47:39.570
of stuff. This one felt like it had many story branches,

777
00:47:40.070 --> 00:47:42.599
which I thought was great. I immediately because of the

778
00:47:42.639 --> 00:47:49.090
clock recognized the 24 thing. It, It was actually honestly

779
00:47:49.130 --> 00:47:51.050
a little distracting to me at the beginning because I

780
00:47:51.090 --> 00:47:53.050
was like, oh, here we go with the 24 episode.

781
00:47:54.210 --> 00:47:56.250
But then it just kind of became part of the texture.

782
00:47:56.329 --> 00:47:58.570
So I literally think they could have just tossed out

783
00:47:58.590 --> 00:48:01.489
the clock altogether. There was really no reason to have

784
00:48:01.530 --> 00:48:04.360
it there. It didn't build tension in the same way

785
00:48:05.300 --> 00:48:07.019
that it did for the show 24. And if you

786
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:09.389
haven't seen the show 24... You should probably see it

787
00:48:09.449 --> 00:48:13.030
because it's really, really good. And that running clock actually

788
00:48:13.349 --> 00:48:16.170
does build tension in a really effective way in that show.

789
00:48:16.630 --> 00:48:20.269
I thought it was less effective here. But the character

790
00:48:20.289 --> 00:48:24.829
interactions were great. You know, nothing was fake. Nothing was phony.

791
00:48:24.849 --> 00:48:29.369
I thought it was neat to have all of the

792
00:48:29.409 --> 00:48:32.670
different stories going on. Some of my favorites, of course,

793
00:48:32.710 --> 00:48:35.090
included the Mbenga story that people have already talked about.

794
00:48:37.329 --> 00:48:41.619
You know, The fact that Christine Chappell wouldn't give up

795
00:48:42.280 --> 00:48:47.960
on Mbenga feels super duper Star Trek-y to me, right?

796
00:48:48.460 --> 00:48:51.199
Whatever she does, she's going to stay there until the

797
00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:54.789
end through the minus 400 degrees, they said, or something.

798
00:48:54.829 --> 00:48:56.530
I don't even know. I forgot to look up what

799
00:48:56.590 --> 00:48:59.710
absolute zero was, but it must be right in that

800
00:48:59.789 --> 00:49:05.809
same range. There was plenty of TreknoBabble going on, which

801
00:49:05.989 --> 00:49:10.000
I was delighted about, honestly. Like that's one of my

802
00:49:10.039 --> 00:49:12.989
favorite things about Star Trek is when they start talking

803
00:49:13.050 --> 00:49:16.690
about pseudoscience and making it sound like, oh yeah, that

804
00:49:16.710 --> 00:49:18.909
could totally be possible. If I only knew what a,

805
00:49:18.909 --> 00:49:25.039
you know, chroniton was or whatever. So I appreciated that.

806
00:49:26.380 --> 00:49:30.300
I appreciated obviously the, the, I think somebody else already

807
00:49:30.340 --> 00:49:34.949
said that kind of the development of Scotty's love for

808
00:49:34.969 --> 00:49:37.460
the enterprise is like you could tell in this episode,

809
00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:42.860
he starts to love her as an entity, right? There

810
00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:45.119
was that moment when the switch was sort of flipped

811
00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:47.880
and he was touching the wall and Pellia and him were,

812
00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:51.119
were talking to one another. So I, I really appreciated that.

813
00:49:51.659 --> 00:49:56.019
And the whole, um, quote about, uh, starships are capable

814
00:49:56.059 --> 00:49:58.900
of miracles. If you listen, you just have to be

815
00:49:58.940 --> 00:50:01.880
a miracle worker. I think Jim mentioned that.

816
00:50:02.179 --> 00:50:03.139
Uh, I really liked that.

817
00:50:03.909 --> 00:50:06.309
Um, A couple other characters had great moments. You know,

818
00:50:06.329 --> 00:50:08.670
the Spock on the outside of the hole getting pinged

819
00:50:08.690 --> 00:50:11.150
with the stuff was really cool. And then him failing

820
00:50:11.210 --> 00:50:13.570
and La'an having to sort of take over. I thought

821
00:50:13.590 --> 00:50:18.670
that was really cool. Somebody else already mentioned Una doing

822
00:50:18.690 --> 00:50:22.969
the gravity, the super gravity scene and kind of like

823
00:50:23.150 --> 00:50:27.329
having to push through to help the team. So I

824
00:50:27.369 --> 00:50:30.789
guess if I had just like one criticism of this episode,

825
00:50:30.829 --> 00:50:34.630
it would be that maybe this is just me. and

826
00:50:34.710 --> 00:50:41.679
maybe I'm not desensitized enough to modern television, but we,

827
00:50:41.820 --> 00:50:44.480
you know, we had a couple of like body horror moments,

828
00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:47.659
you know, it's not like a horror episode like that,

829
00:50:47.800 --> 00:50:50.099
that other one that I thought was absolutely awful, but

830
00:50:50.139 --> 00:50:52.360
you know, we get Una's leg breaking in a really

831
00:50:52.409 --> 00:50:56.550
terrible way and you get to see everything, you know,

832
00:50:56.690 --> 00:50:58.909
was that, was that necessary?

833
00:50:58.929 --> 00:50:59.610
I don't know.

834
00:51:00.389 --> 00:51:05.010
You know, maybe I'm just too sensitive. Like, chapel leaves

835
00:51:05.590 --> 00:51:08.909
part of a frozen finger on a table. Um, was

836
00:51:08.949 --> 00:51:13.989
that necessary? I, you know, I, I don't know. It was,

837
00:51:14.170 --> 00:51:17.579
it felt like a little bit too much for me,

838
00:51:17.679 --> 00:51:19.820
you know, that we've already talked about Spock and his

839
00:51:19.860 --> 00:51:23.940
radiation burns. That was, that was fine kind of foreshadowing

840
00:51:23.960 --> 00:51:26.860
of that. So, you know, that's probably just me and

841
00:51:26.920 --> 00:51:30.150
not like a super fan of body horror stuff. Although

842
00:51:30.190 --> 00:51:33.199
on occasion I do really like it. Um, which is weird.

843
00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:35.519
I guess I just don't expect it from my Star Trek, uh,

844
00:51:35.860 --> 00:51:39.679
is where I am. So, uh, so yeah, I overall

845
00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:42.010
thought this was a great episode. I really enjoyed it.

846
00:51:42.010 --> 00:51:44.829
I gave the opener a nine. I don't think this

847
00:51:44.889 --> 00:51:48.449
one was quite there. Um, so I'll give it, I'll

848
00:51:48.469 --> 00:51:51.150
give it an eight and a half, 8.5. Not afraid

849
00:51:51.170 --> 00:51:55.289
of that 0.5. Um, yeah, yeah, it was, it was

850
00:51:55.329 --> 00:51:56.250
a darn good episode.

851
00:51:56.849 --> 00:51:58.690
So, There you go.

852
00:51:58.710 --> 00:52:02.289
There we have it, an 8.5 from Eric. What about you, Charles?

853
00:52:02.329 --> 00:52:04.650
You get to follow up an 8.5, buddy.

854
00:52:06.610 --> 00:52:08.710
Okay, well, I'll try to follow up.

855
00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:12.900
Okay, I was chatting a little bit about this with

856
00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:16.280
our hosts before we got started in the green room.

857
00:52:18.219 --> 00:52:21.570
The one thing about the boys in the chapel incident is.

858
00:52:26.260 --> 00:52:32.800
One, Chapel refused to follow an order from a higher

859
00:52:33.010 --> 00:52:40.130
up commanding officer. And we know that Boyce and Chapel

860
00:52:40.230 --> 00:52:44.349
both show up in TOS. So they both have what

861
00:52:44.369 --> 00:52:48.289
we call plot armor. So we're going to try making

862
00:52:48.349 --> 00:52:50.889
up what looks like a big death scene for Boyce

863
00:52:51.670 --> 00:52:54.489
when we know he's not going to die because he

864
00:52:54.530 --> 00:52:55.349
still shows up.

865
00:52:56.920 --> 00:52:59.599
Which I thought, yeah, I'm not sure.

866
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:05.159
Actually, Charles, Paul, please correct me if I'm wrong, but

867
00:53:05.179 --> 00:53:07.380
the only time that we see Phil Boyce is in

868
00:53:07.420 --> 00:53:11.079
the cage, which happens about five years before this episode, right?

869
00:53:11.980 --> 00:53:13.559
Yeah, I would say that's about right. And there's no

870
00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:15.320
death scene for Boyce in this episode.

871
00:53:16.059 --> 00:53:19.980
Not Boyce. Sorry, I meant Embaiga. I meant Embaiga, not Boyce.

872
00:53:21.739 --> 00:53:25.800
I got my names wrong in my notes. Embaiga and Chappell.

873
00:53:27.030 --> 00:53:33.050
Embaiga and Chappell both have plot armor. So the fact that, okay,

874
00:53:33.849 --> 00:53:36.809
Embaiga's going to go through a big death scene, it's like, no,

875
00:53:36.869 --> 00:53:37.369
he can't.

876
00:53:37.469 --> 00:53:38.610
He's still living.

877
00:53:38.630 --> 00:53:42.050
My apologies for getting the name wrong. I watched what

878
00:53:42.070 --> 00:53:46.039
I put in my notes real quick. As Eric said,

879
00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:49.559
and I kind of think it, the timer popping up

880
00:53:49.960 --> 00:53:55.250
right as the episode started was confusing. It's like, okay,

881
00:53:55.329 --> 00:53:58.750
when Scotty says, okay, we got this much time, that

882
00:53:58.769 --> 00:54:01.219
would have been a good time for the timer to

883
00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:03.880
show up. And then I don't think we would have

884
00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:09.059
had quite as much the 24-hour feel. But it's like, oh,

885
00:54:09.099 --> 00:54:12.840
they're talking about going off, having some time off, enjoying

886
00:54:12.860 --> 00:54:15.880
the evening by evening and not having to work.

887
00:54:16.619 --> 00:54:18.559
And the timer's going up. It's like, why is there

888
00:54:18.579 --> 00:54:18.739
a timer?

889
00:54:18.760 --> 00:54:20.280
Why is there a countdown? Why is there a countdown?

890
00:54:24.670 --> 00:54:27.409
I will say definitely it was a good use of Akasha.

891
00:54:29.050 --> 00:54:36.369
That new Vulcan cadet was pretty stiff the couple of

892
00:54:36.409 --> 00:54:38.969
times we've seen her. Well, this time she still had

893
00:54:39.010 --> 00:54:42.909
that look to her, but she was still challenging Scotty.

894
00:54:43.929 --> 00:54:47.070
She was getting, well, why can't you do this? It's like, well,

895
00:54:47.269 --> 00:54:49.489
I can't. Well, yes, I could do that.

896
00:54:51.980 --> 00:54:55.579
So I like her trying to challenge Scotty into doing things,

897
00:54:56.820 --> 00:55:00.300
which we talk about this one. I think this is

898
00:55:00.340 --> 00:55:05.989
getting closer to TOS Scotty, the miracle worker. This is really,

899
00:55:06.050 --> 00:55:08.670
I think, kind of hitting the point where we're getting

900
00:55:08.710 --> 00:55:10.710
a lot closer to the Scotty.

901
00:55:10.230 --> 00:55:15.260
We're used to from TOS. But he is a miracle worker.

902
00:55:16.099 --> 00:55:18.500
I think Scotty's starting to get closer to that.

903
00:55:21.369 --> 00:55:22.769
And the reverse mind meld.

904
00:55:25.769 --> 00:55:27.889
I was thinking of the fact that the person who's

905
00:55:27.949 --> 00:55:30.750
doing the mind meld is supposed to sit there and say,

906
00:55:31.389 --> 00:55:34.719
my mind to your mind. I thought that was the

907
00:55:36.159 --> 00:55:39.219
first time I think we've ever seen somebody really reverse that.

908
00:55:40.699 --> 00:55:45.019
So I'd be curious if that's a possibility to actually

909
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:49.289
do or not. But I think with a couple of

910
00:55:49.349 --> 00:55:52.550
things in this episode, I think I'm going to go

911
00:55:52.590 --> 00:55:55.969
with an 8. Good episode, but I think there's some

912
00:55:56.010 --> 00:55:59.929
things I really could have done not done because of

913
00:56:00.030 --> 00:56:00.690
plot armor.

914
00:56:04.050 --> 00:56:07.530
I think as far as the mind meld, Charles, we

915
00:56:07.590 --> 00:56:12.360
don't know if they did or didn't, but I seem

916
00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:16.250
to remember from TOS that it's typical for Vulcans to

917
00:56:16.289 --> 00:56:19.670
mind meld with significant others. And we know that La'an

918
00:56:19.730 --> 00:56:23.789
and Spike were very significant. So it's totally possible that

919
00:56:24.210 --> 00:56:27.510
they could have mind melded, you know, off screen when

920
00:56:27.550 --> 00:56:30.030
they were, you know, when they were ponfaring or whatever

921
00:56:30.230 --> 00:56:35.260
they were doing, when they were dancing in the corridors. And,

922
00:56:35.550 --> 00:56:38.000
you know, that opened up the pathway for her to

923
00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:41.480
reach out to him is the way I was, you know,

924
00:56:42.219 --> 00:56:45.889
envisioning that. But you're right to see it done the

925
00:56:45.969 --> 00:56:51.409
opposite way was strange. But at any rate, so that

926
00:56:51.449 --> 00:56:53.369
leaves us with Paul, who gets to bring up the

927
00:56:53.429 --> 00:56:56.030
caboose as usual. He gets to get the whole train

928
00:56:56.070 --> 00:56:59.110
a-rolling as the engineer. And he gets to bring it

929
00:56:59.170 --> 00:57:02.550
all to a halt as our caboose, what do they

930
00:57:02.590 --> 00:57:06.929
call the guy on the caboose, the conductor? Yeah, I guess.

931
00:57:07.340 --> 00:57:09.519
Yeah, it's like the guy who comes in to close

932
00:57:09.579 --> 00:57:10.019
out the baseball game.

933
00:57:10.039 --> 00:57:10.500
Engineer.

934
00:57:10.519 --> 00:57:11.739
Oh, yeah.

935
00:57:11.800 --> 00:57:12.760
Man, that was fun.

936
00:57:14.219 --> 00:57:17.179
Jesus.

937
00:57:17.980 --> 00:57:22.360
Thanks. Appreciate it. Now I'm going to get a cochlear

938
00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:26.219
implant and I'll be better. Okay. Let me make no

939
00:57:26.679 --> 00:57:29.380
bones about it. This was a fantastic episode. This was

940
00:57:29.420 --> 00:57:31.539
a dynamite episode. This is the kind of thing that

941
00:57:31.579 --> 00:57:34.889
you're hoping you're going to get all the time. One

942
00:57:34.909 --> 00:57:37.630
of the things I loved about this episode and it

943
00:57:38.550 --> 00:57:41.570
was just, they went out of their way to remind

944
00:57:41.690 --> 00:57:45.389
us of how, terrifying the void of space can actually

945
00:57:45.449 --> 00:57:48.449
be when the only protection you have is being sealed

946
00:57:48.510 --> 00:57:50.110
up inside of a fragile machine.

947
00:57:50.510 --> 00:57:50.730
Right.

948
00:57:50.809 --> 00:57:52.949
I mean, they really made it tangible.

949
00:57:53.590 --> 00:57:53.769
Right.

950
00:57:53.829 --> 00:57:56.530
I mean, the ship is constantly creaking and groaning and

951
00:57:56.570 --> 00:57:59.179
in danger of like some kind of structural collapse or another.

952
00:58:00.070 --> 00:58:03.239
The ways it's death is just right around the corner.

953
00:58:03.280 --> 00:58:05.300
I thought that was done in a really realistic fashion.

954
00:58:05.340 --> 00:58:09.389
I thought it was outstanding. Really, really cool. I do

955
00:58:09.429 --> 00:58:11.489
not think this was any kind of a gimmicky riff

956
00:58:11.650 --> 00:58:14.869
on 24 at all. I must take issue with that.

957
00:58:14.909 --> 00:58:17.670
I think they used a similar device of having the

958
00:58:17.710 --> 00:58:20.159
countdown in real time, but there's plenty of movies and

959
00:58:20.199 --> 00:58:22.360
plenty of other things other than 24 that did that,

960
00:58:22.380 --> 00:58:25.380
because 24 was a show that's based in one hour

961
00:58:25.699 --> 00:58:27.760
in real time each week, and that's not what was

962
00:58:27.800 --> 00:58:29.659
going on here at all. What this reminded me of

963
00:58:30.199 --> 00:58:36.400
more was there's a phenomenal– premiere episode of Battlestar Galactica,

964
00:58:36.460 --> 00:58:41.159
the Ronald D. Moore remake, it's called 33. It's like

965
00:58:41.219 --> 00:58:44.739
the first episode of the first season. You watch it

966
00:58:44.760 --> 00:58:46.460
and you're going to have a heart attack the whole time.

967
00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:48.800
It's just so stressful. It's just time becomes a real

968
00:58:48.880 --> 00:58:52.429
element because it's just the stakes are so extreme. And

969
00:58:52.489 --> 00:58:55.570
I thought this episode and the use of that shipboard

970
00:58:55.590 --> 00:59:00.349
chronometer readout was done very effectively, very deftly, just really,

971
00:59:00.369 --> 00:59:03.739
really well. I think that Jess Bush got to do

972
00:59:03.780 --> 00:59:05.300
some of the best acting I've ever seen her do.

973
00:59:06.320 --> 00:59:09.590
I thought that she was basically running like a workshop.

974
00:59:09.650 --> 00:59:13.449
in the scenes with uh mabenga on in stick bay

975
00:59:13.630 --> 00:59:16.369
i was there was no confusion for me maybe it's

976
00:59:16.389 --> 00:59:19.449
just confusing because we're not used to seeing such good

977
00:59:19.530 --> 00:59:22.659
character work right this was character work and a really

978
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:27.809
well-written scene that was about them and their respective struggles.

979
00:59:27.829 --> 00:59:31.570
It was beautifully done. No confusion at all for this viewer.

980
00:59:32.170 --> 00:59:35.030
Absolutely a great way to start things out there. I

981
00:59:35.190 --> 00:59:37.550
admit that I took a deep breath when Pelia showed

982
00:59:37.610 --> 00:59:40.320
up because, man, she's like one of my least favorite characters.

983
00:59:40.380 --> 00:59:42.420
But she was way less annoying than usual in here

984
00:59:42.460 --> 00:59:44.840
and actually sort of was helpful. And I think they,

985
00:59:45.019 --> 00:59:48.199
you know, wrote her in an appropriate way. And she

986
00:59:48.239 --> 00:59:51.389
was great in terms of this. She landed her usual

987
00:59:52.010 --> 00:59:56.320
mannerisms were toned down so i really uh i i

988
00:59:56.340 --> 00:59:59.460
just thought it was fantastic i i had a hiccup

989
00:59:59.500 --> 01:00:01.880
for me when i'm watching these kind of episodes right

990
01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:04.639
and it's you know just do my own little cadet

991
01:00:04.679 --> 01:00:08.320
training moment here um it really drives me crazy uh

992
01:00:08.380 --> 01:00:11.300
typically in the star trek universe when you show characters

993
01:00:11.400 --> 01:00:13.960
surviving on the crawling around on the outside hull of

994
01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:17.409
a ship during warp it's just it's strained i know

995
01:00:17.429 --> 01:00:19.130
we're supposed to believe that oh well if the warp

996
01:00:19.170 --> 01:00:21.949
drive and has a localized warp bubble that bends space-time

997
01:00:21.989 --> 01:00:24.130
around the vessel, you're safe so long as you stay

998
01:00:24.170 --> 01:00:28.030
inside that protected pocket of normal space. It's so hard

999
01:00:28.110 --> 01:00:31.719
to buy that nonsense when he's like with the gravity

1000
01:00:31.960 --> 01:00:35.380
things climbing on the hull and he's being bombarded.

1001
01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:38.059
You need to read more about Star Trek physics, dude.

1002
01:00:38.099 --> 01:00:39.119
It's totally believable.

1003
01:00:39.679 --> 01:00:42.019
Yeah, I really don't because I'm a viewer, not a

1004
01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:43.670
technical person, right?

1005
01:00:43.730 --> 01:00:47.619
Yeah, but you're complaining about a ticky-tacky technical thing right now.

1006
01:00:48.409 --> 01:00:50.210
Yeah, but I'm complaining about how it makes me feel

1007
01:00:50.230 --> 01:00:53.190
because it doesn't seem plausible. It seems nonsense. Because you

1008
01:00:53.210 --> 01:00:57.219
don't understand Star Trek physics, right? Because it's fictional, Eric.

1009
01:00:57.360 --> 01:00:58.739
It's fictional. It's not real.

1010
01:00:59.179 --> 01:01:00.139
It's not real.

1011
01:01:00.260 --> 01:01:04.099
It's not real. Okay, yeah. So there's a thing called

1012
01:01:04.119 --> 01:01:07.179
suspension of disbelief. And I shouldn't need a physics degree

1013
01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:11.130
to have suspension of disbelief. That's not how drama works, okay?

1014
01:01:11.449 --> 01:01:13.630
End of discussion. But it's just like episodes like.

1015
01:01:15.110 --> 01:01:17.829
May I please continue? I mean, may I please continue?

1016
01:01:18.420 --> 01:01:19.679
Oh, absolutely.

1017
01:01:19.699 --> 01:01:22.559
Star Trek Discovery had one, Red Directive, where we got

1018
01:01:22.980 --> 01:01:24.719
Michael Burnham on the outside of the ship. They did

1019
01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:28.239
the same thing in Prodigy with Mindwalk, where, you know,

1020
01:01:28.300 --> 01:01:31.099
doll rails inside Janeway crawling around the outside of the,

1021
01:01:31.300 --> 01:01:34.019
it's become an endless thing. We've seen this so many times.

1022
01:01:34.739 --> 01:01:37.320
And it's, it's, it strains credibility for me, right? And

1023
01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:39.780
I don't, I'm not going to get into technology and

1024
01:01:39.820 --> 01:01:42.960
all this explanations because it's all Ed Gannon stuff and

1025
01:01:43.000 --> 01:01:45.760
it's not real. So it's just, it seems pointless to

1026
01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:48.070
belabor it, you know, but. I thought this was a

1027
01:01:48.210 --> 01:01:52.989
terrific episode. I was really happy with it. Extremely well-written, right?

1028
01:01:53.190 --> 01:01:55.710
And that, for me, is the bottom line. Good writing.

1029
01:01:57.309 --> 01:01:59.230
I watched it a couple times. I will tell you, though,

1030
01:01:59.730 --> 01:02:02.250
on a second viewing, the whole crawling on the outside

1031
01:02:02.269 --> 01:02:03.570
of the ship thing didn't bother.

1032
01:02:03.369 --> 01:02:03.710
Me as much.

1033
01:02:03.889 --> 01:02:07.090
I accepted it. Initially, I was just like, oh, here

1034
01:02:07.110 --> 01:02:08.989
we go again, because we've seen that so many times.

1035
01:02:09.530 --> 01:02:12.329
It reminded me of some of the fakak the science

1036
01:02:12.349 --> 01:02:13.969
used to get on Discovery all the time. But in

1037
01:02:14.010 --> 01:02:16.219
the second viewing, I was so caught up in it,

1038
01:02:16.380 --> 01:02:20.570
I didn't care. and I don't have the same issue

1039
01:02:20.590 --> 01:02:23.590
you all do with the plot armor thing. I was

1040
01:02:23.630 --> 01:02:26.309
on the edge of my seat with Mabenga, right? I, yeah,

1041
01:02:26.349 --> 01:02:28.369
he's going to show up later on, but there's so

1042
01:02:28.409 --> 01:02:30.909
many things are different in original series. And on this show,

1043
01:02:31.030 --> 01:02:32.610
I don't even consider it the same thing.

1044
01:02:32.670 --> 01:02:34.389
It's like, this is like a different universe.

1045
01:02:34.929 --> 01:02:36.800
You know, it's like nobody in the original series had

1046
01:02:37.099 --> 01:02:40.059
ever even seen to bring before, but she's wondering in

1047
01:02:40.079 --> 01:02:43.679
and out of the bathroom, every fricking episode on strange

1048
01:02:43.739 --> 01:02:46.869
new world. So it's like, you know, You can't reconcile

1049
01:02:46.909 --> 01:02:50.590
these two shows. They're different realities, right? They're different eras.

1050
01:02:50.869 --> 01:02:53.590
It's pointless to try to do that, right? Do you

1051
01:02:53.630 --> 01:02:55.530
buy it when you watch it? That's the bottom line.

1052
01:02:55.710 --> 01:02:57.750
And when I watched it a second time, I bought it.

1053
01:02:57.869 --> 01:03:00.010
I thought it was exciting, and I thought it was

1054
01:03:00.550 --> 01:03:04.329
really great. The use of music, the use of the

1055
01:03:04.710 --> 01:03:07.829
ticking clock, really phenomenal. This is what I look for,

1056
01:03:09.650 --> 01:03:12.449
and the science felt believable to me. To have Chappell

1057
01:03:12.469 --> 01:03:16.760
be the one who's talking about the explanation in what

1058
01:03:16.820 --> 01:03:19.019
felt like a really convincing manner so for me this

1059
01:03:19.079 --> 01:03:21.079
is what I'm looking for 10 all the.

1060
01:03:21.010 --> 01:03:28.489
Way wow that's impressive I think we may have out

1061
01:03:28.750 --> 01:03:33.570
our our minions this week I just wanted to say

1062
01:03:33.610 --> 01:03:38.159
that the whole thing someone collect me or look this

1063
01:03:38.239 --> 01:03:43.760
up there was an episode called starship bingo I think

1064
01:03:45.230 --> 01:03:47.989
on Strange New Worlds, where there was a scorch mark

1065
01:03:48.050 --> 01:03:53.019
on the outside of the Enterprise, and Una and Juan

1066
01:03:53.179 --> 01:03:55.860
walk on the hull to get to the scorch mark,

1067
01:03:55.920 --> 01:03:59.119
and that's when we find out that the shields of

1068
01:03:59.139 --> 01:04:03.820
the Enterprise aren't actually, they're like 10 feet off the hull,

1069
01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:07.739
and that there's actually room to walk. I'm pretty sure

1070
01:04:07.760 --> 01:04:10.030
it was Strange New Worlds that introduced that.

1071
01:04:11.010 --> 01:04:12.630
Eric, Charles? Yes, it was.

1072
01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:17.219
Yeah, okay. So that's where I went. I thought that

1073
01:04:17.260 --> 01:04:22.659
was weird. But at any rate, what does our score

1074
01:04:22.920 --> 01:04:26.260
hold up with against our Facebook minions, Charles? How well

1075
01:04:26.300 --> 01:04:28.079
did we do? Or how well did they do?

1076
01:04:29.199 --> 01:04:29.840
Okay.

1077
01:04:31.380 --> 01:04:37.460
The fans gave an 8.6 and the hosts gave an 8.8.

1078
01:04:38.699 --> 01:04:39.119
Wow.

1079
01:04:39.699 --> 01:04:41.429
So we're right there with the fans.

1080
01:04:42.489 --> 01:04:49.860
We're right there with the fans. That's rare, but awesome. Okay, cool.

1081
01:04:50.500 --> 01:04:54.400
So that wraps up our discussion on Off Hours. So

1082
01:04:54.639 --> 01:04:56.719
if you haven't seen it, what are you waiting for?

1083
01:04:56.760 --> 01:05:00.239
Go and check it out. It's awesome. And this is

1084
01:05:00.260 --> 01:05:05.170
the part of the show where we do our sci-fi birthdays.

1085
01:05:21.679 --> 01:05:23.030
That was not a fling-on song.

1086
01:05:25.480 --> 01:05:28.519
All right, guys. We always start off our sci-fi birthdays

1087
01:05:28.599 --> 01:05:33.000
by savvying up, remembering those members of our vast sci-fi

1088
01:05:33.079 --> 01:05:35.519
universe who are no longer with us. For that, we

1089
01:05:35.539 --> 01:05:36.280
turn to Eric.

1090
01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:38.860
Yes, Jim.

1091
01:05:38.900 --> 01:05:43.320
This week, we remember actor Merritt Buttrick, the American actor

1092
01:05:43.360 --> 01:05:46.619
best known for his role as David Mark... Dr. David

1093
01:05:46.639 --> 01:05:49.030
Marcus in Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan, and

1094
01:05:49.050 --> 01:05:52.389
Star Trek III, The Search for Spock. And a photo

1095
01:05:52.409 --> 01:05:55.849
of him also appeared in Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country,

1096
01:05:55.949 --> 01:06:00.429
two years after his death. He later played T'Jon in

1097
01:06:00.510 --> 01:06:05.789
the Next Generation first season episode, Symbiosis. Merritt's first major

1098
01:06:05.809 --> 01:06:10.019
role in television was portraying the supportive character John Slash

1099
01:06:10.059 --> 01:06:15.579
in the sitcom Square Pigs from 1982 to 1983. He

1100
01:06:15.599 --> 01:06:19.159
has a couple of other things on his IMDb page,

1101
01:06:19.219 --> 01:06:21.579
but unfortunately we lost him at the very young age

1102
01:06:21.659 --> 01:06:25.179
of 29 years old. You can look that up if

1103
01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:28.309
you would like to learn more about that. Merritt Buttrick,

1104
01:06:28.750 --> 01:06:32.829
lost back in 1989. Happy birthday to him. Happy birthday

1105
01:06:32.869 --> 01:06:36.510
as well to Mira Furlan, a Croatian-American actress and singer

1106
01:06:36.550 --> 01:06:42.130
best known for her roles as the minibari ambassador Teline

1107
01:06:42.389 --> 01:06:46.510
in the television series Babylon 5. and as Danielle Rousseau

1108
01:06:46.530 --> 01:06:51.510
in Lost. She also appeared in multiple award-winning films, such

1109
01:06:51.769 --> 01:06:56.389
as When Father Was Away, On Business, and The Abandoned.

1110
01:06:56.489 --> 01:07:00.860
Happy birthday to Mira Furlan. Happy birthday to Bruce Gray,

1111
01:07:00.920 --> 01:07:04.420
the actor who played Admiral Chakotay, not that one, in

1112
01:07:04.500 --> 01:07:08.250
the Deep Space Nine second season episode, The Circle. and

1113
01:07:08.309 --> 01:07:11.550
Star Trek The Next Generation's seven-season episode Gambit Part One.

1114
01:07:11.690 --> 01:07:15.889
He later played Surak in the Star Trek Enterprise four-season

1115
01:07:15.929 --> 01:07:21.630
episode Awakening. Yes, that's Surak. Gray starred in the entire

1116
01:07:21.670 --> 01:07:24.309
run of the Canadian series Traitors and had a reoccurring

1117
01:07:24.349 --> 01:07:28.030
role on Babylon 5 and the American version of Queer

1118
01:07:28.190 --> 01:07:32.409
as Folk as well. In 2008, he made a brief

1119
01:07:32.429 --> 01:07:36.860
appearance on Boston Legal. of course, interfacing with William Shatner

1120
01:07:36.929 --> 01:07:41.429
on that show. So happy birthday to Bruce Gray. Happy

1121
01:07:41.469 --> 01:07:45.969
birthday to Reggie Nalder, the actor who played Ambassador Shrass

1122
01:07:46.130 --> 01:07:50.590
in the TOS second season episode, Journey to Babel. Of course,

1123
01:07:50.650 --> 01:07:53.869
he's the first canonical Andorian that we see on screen.

1124
01:07:54.429 --> 01:07:59.190
He was born Alfred Reginald Nasler in Vienna, Austria, the

1125
01:07:59.250 --> 01:08:04.369
son of actor and operetta singer Sigmund Natzler. He was

1126
01:08:04.429 --> 01:08:08.230
often cast in villainous roles due to his unique facial features,

1127
01:08:08.289 --> 01:08:11.590
the result of disfiguring burns to the lower part of

1128
01:08:11.630 --> 01:08:15.139
his face acquired as a young man. He also appeared

1129
01:08:15.239 --> 01:08:20.659
in the original Manchurian Candidate, TV's adaptation of Salem's Lot

1130
01:08:20.699 --> 01:08:25.720
from 1979. And he was a sadistic witch burner in

1131
01:08:26.100 --> 01:08:31.119
1970's Mark of the Devils. So Reggie Nalder... typecast perhaps

1132
01:08:31.199 --> 01:08:33.399
because of his physical visage but we got to see

1133
01:08:33.439 --> 01:08:35.859
him as an andorian which was pretty cool happy birthday

1134
01:08:35.880 --> 01:08:36.279
to him.

1135
01:08:37.119 --> 01:08:40.840
Now happy birthday did anybody else did salem's lot scare

1136
01:08:40.920 --> 01:08:44.369
the living bejesus out of anybody else like it did me.

1137
01:08:44.149 --> 01:08:46.729
When i saw oh yeah well i mean that book

1138
01:08:46.890 --> 01:08:48.350
is terrifying.

1139
01:08:49.649 --> 01:08:51.729
Just look at his image on the screen that gave

1140
01:08:51.770 --> 01:08:55.630
me nightmares when i was a kid that original Salem's

1141
01:08:55.689 --> 01:08:57.390
Lot was just phenomenal.

1142
01:08:57.590 --> 01:08:59.750
I wasn't allowed to watch it.

1143
01:09:03.250 --> 01:09:04.710
That's why I don't watch horror movies.

1144
01:09:07.140 --> 01:09:10.029
That was a good one.

1145
01:09:10.109 --> 01:09:13.640
Moving on, happy birthday to Raquel Welsh, the actress, model,

1146
01:09:13.720 --> 01:09:16.840
and singer who won attention for her role in Fantastic

1147
01:09:17.060 --> 01:09:21.989
Voyage from 1966. after which she made One Million Years B.C.

1148
01:09:22.670 --> 01:09:25.949
Although Welsh had only three lines of dialogue in the film,

1149
01:09:26.050 --> 01:09:30.270
images of her in the doe-skinned bikini became best-selling posters,

1150
01:09:30.329 --> 01:09:34.229
wonder why, that turned her into an international sex symbol.

1151
01:09:34.869 --> 01:09:41.239
She later starred in Bedazzled Bandolero, 100 Rifles, Mira Breckenridge,

1152
01:09:41.439 --> 01:09:46.539
and Hanny Calder. She made several television variety specials along

1153
01:09:46.579 --> 01:09:49.689
the way. And I see her in the new adventures

1154
01:09:49.729 --> 01:09:53.489
of Superman. Apparently they're on the screen. Very interesting. Happy

1155
01:09:53.529 --> 01:09:56.930
birthday to Raquel Welsh. And last but not least, I'd

1156
01:09:56.949 --> 01:10:01.479
like to say happy birthday to Patty Yasutake. Patty Yasutake

1157
01:10:01.569 --> 01:10:05.239
was the actress who played Alyssa Ogawa in 16 episodes

1158
01:10:05.479 --> 01:10:08.960
of the next generation. And in two star Trek films,

1159
01:10:09.020 --> 01:10:14.659
including generations and first contact Yasutake remembered watching the original

1160
01:10:14.760 --> 01:10:18.460
series together with her family and On television, several years later,

1161
01:10:18.520 --> 01:10:22.279
she auditioned for the part of an unnamed con officer

1162
01:10:22.340 --> 01:10:26.560
on The Next Generation, but wasn't cast. After she first

1163
01:10:26.699 --> 01:10:30.090
appeared as Nurse Alyssa Ogawa in the four-season episode Future

1164
01:10:30.149 --> 01:10:35.529
Imperfect in 1990, she wasn't convinced that she would be

1165
01:10:35.590 --> 01:10:38.510
called back to play this part again. But she was

1166
01:10:38.590 --> 01:10:42.850
also originally a contender for the role of Keiko O'Brien

1167
01:10:43.289 --> 01:10:46.170
back in the day, introduced, of course, in the same season.

1168
01:10:48.409 --> 01:10:55.680
eventually cast to Rosalind Chow. Patty Yasutake did an amazing

1169
01:10:55.720 --> 01:11:01.239
job as Nurse Ogawa. She also portrayed Alyssa Ogawa in

1170
01:11:01.279 --> 01:11:06.020
a Hallmark television commercial in North America, apparently, where she's

1171
01:11:06.060 --> 01:11:09.020
seen questioning the shipboard computer about the features of the

1172
01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:13.859
USS Enterprise-D keepsake ornament. I haven't seen that one, but

1173
01:11:13.880 --> 01:11:17.109
it sounds interesting. She was also on a couple other shows,

1174
01:11:17.170 --> 01:11:21.850
TJ Hooker, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, many times cast as

1175
01:11:21.909 --> 01:11:26.489
a doctor in television movies. So Patty Yasutake, thank you

1176
01:11:26.529 --> 01:11:28.529
so much for your contributions. We lost you just a

1177
01:11:28.550 --> 01:11:32.609
couple years ago, the 5th of August, 2024. So just

1178
01:11:32.649 --> 01:11:34.350
a little over two years ago at the age of

1179
01:11:34.350 --> 01:11:38.869
70 years old. Happy birthday to Patty. And that does

1180
01:11:38.909 --> 01:11:42.189
it for our remembrances. So I would like to pass

1181
01:11:42.210 --> 01:11:46.930
on Our gently lit birthday candle.

1182
01:11:49.010 --> 01:11:49.359
Over to V.

1183
01:11:49.350 --> 01:11:49.430
Yes.

1184
01:13:42.819 --> 01:13:46.500
I will use my asbestos gloves to retrieve said candle.

1185
01:13:47.220 --> 01:13:49.899
So thank you. Thank you, V. Yes, lots and lots

1186
01:13:49.960 --> 01:13:53.140
of birthdays. A real unusual cat. I'm happy to be

1187
01:13:53.199 --> 01:13:56.340
able to wish a happy birthday. The great Michael Berryman,

1188
01:13:57.000 --> 01:14:00.390
who we talk about on Star Trek Circles for playing

1189
01:14:00.659 --> 01:14:03.050
a couple different roles. He was in Star Trek IV

1190
01:14:03.090 --> 01:14:06.930
The Voyage Home as a Starfleet display officer and had

1191
01:14:06.970 --> 01:14:11.449
a really interesting part in Next Gen's first season episode, Conspiracy,

1192
01:14:11.609 --> 01:14:15.310
one of my favorites. where he plays Captain Ricks there.

1193
01:14:15.850 --> 01:14:18.829
This guy has been in so many different horror movies

1194
01:14:18.970 --> 01:14:24.960
over the year. Michael Berryman's got a very unusual condition.

1195
01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:31.180
It's hypohydrotic dysplasia. It's a condition where you basically have

1196
01:14:31.199 --> 01:14:34.680
an absence of sweat glands, hair, and fingernails. Very unusual.

1197
01:14:35.100 --> 01:14:39.140
So he has a usual striking appearance, but he's turned

1198
01:14:39.180 --> 01:14:42.859
it into an iconic I mean, he's been in so

1199
01:14:42.899 --> 01:14:47.279
many different motion pictures over the years, way back to

1200
01:14:47.319 --> 01:14:51.289
like 1977, right? He was in an early Wes Craven

1201
01:14:51.329 --> 01:14:54.010
picture called The Hills Have Eyes about these, you know,

1202
01:14:54.050 --> 01:14:57.569
kind of mutated inbred folks who live in the, you know,

1203
01:14:57.609 --> 01:15:02.050
the nightmare road trip of your worst imaginal possibilities. If

1204
01:15:02.069 --> 01:15:04.229
you've never seen it, it's pretty wild. But he just

1205
01:15:04.460 --> 01:15:06.359
shows up all over the place in all kinds of

1206
01:15:06.399 --> 01:15:10.310
different ways. pictures, but, uh, uh, a striking individual, uh,

1207
01:15:10.449 --> 01:15:13.310
very cool. And, uh, what a, what an amazing career

1208
01:15:13.350 --> 01:15:17.529
he's created. So also was in, uh, Milos Forman's, uh,

1209
01:15:17.609 --> 01:15:20.149
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Jack Nicholson. So really,

1210
01:15:20.189 --> 01:15:23.369
really amazing career. So happy birthday to you, sir. Happy

1211
01:15:23.430 --> 01:15:27.100
birthday to the legend, Idris Elba.

1212
01:15:27.380 --> 01:15:27.840
Okay.

1213
01:15:28.079 --> 01:15:31.899
One of the great, absolutely phenomenal portrayal. Uh, yeah, a

1214
01:15:31.899 --> 01:15:35.380
lot of people recognize him as playing Heimdall, right? On, uh,

1215
01:15:36.159 --> 01:15:41.039
in Thor movies, the Avengers movies. He played a captain

1216
01:15:41.260 --> 01:15:45.100
in Ridley Scott's Prometheus. But he's also appeared in the

1217
01:15:45.119 --> 01:15:48.149
Star Trek franchise in Star Trek Beyond. He played the

1218
01:15:48.189 --> 01:15:52.569
sort of villainous character Kral, if you will. I'm a

1219
01:15:52.649 --> 01:15:54.210
big fan of this guy, though, for a lot of

1220
01:15:54.250 --> 01:15:58.729
his other work. If you've never seen the British television

1221
01:15:58.789 --> 01:16:04.050
program Luther and the subsequent standalone films that have spawned

1222
01:16:04.109 --> 01:16:07.340
off of Luther, run. Don't Walk, some of the best

1223
01:16:07.880 --> 01:16:12.750
crime police procedurals you will ever, ever see. And of course,

1224
01:16:12.829 --> 01:16:16.329
he really came into prominence on the classic HBO series,

1225
01:16:16.390 --> 01:16:22.170
The Wire, as a character named Stringer Bell. Amazing, amazing role.

1226
01:16:22.390 --> 01:16:25.279
So it's just like, this guy's a legend beyond Star Trek.

1227
01:16:25.399 --> 01:16:30.939
Absolutely phenomenal. Recently knighted as well. So Idris Elba, pretty

1228
01:16:30.979 --> 01:16:34.119
much a guaranteed home run if you cast this guy.

1229
01:16:34.220 --> 01:16:39.880
He's phenomenal. Happy birthday to Michael Keaton, very prolific character actor,

1230
01:16:39.899 --> 01:16:43.100
of course, known for many, many comedic roles early in

1231
01:16:43.140 --> 01:16:48.960
his career, dramatic roles. We are talking Beetlejuice, right? Beetlejuice.

1232
01:16:49.699 --> 01:16:53.279
He played in Spider-Man Homecoming. He played the Vulture. And,

1233
01:16:53.300 --> 01:17:00.000
of course, in 1989, underneath the mantle of Tim Burton.

1234
01:17:00.630 --> 01:17:02.890
was the first character to play a motion picture version

1235
01:17:02.930 --> 01:17:05.770
of Batman in the modern era. And of course the sequel,

1236
01:17:05.810 --> 01:17:10.050
Batman Returns. So absolutely amazing. Um, but always does really,

1237
01:17:10.090 --> 01:17:12.689
really great work. Um, rare to find actors who can

1238
01:17:12.729 --> 01:17:18.159
throw themselves into comedy and, uh, and drama with equal verve.

1239
01:17:18.739 --> 01:17:21.199
Got a big part in the first Cars movie as well.

1240
01:17:21.239 --> 01:17:25.840
What an irascible antagonist in there. He's very, very funny.

1241
01:17:27.100 --> 01:17:30.750
Love his work. Uh, very cool. Uh, Michael Keaton is

1242
01:17:30.789 --> 01:17:35.189
just a great dude. Happy birthday also to Keone Young,

1243
01:17:35.220 --> 01:17:38.020
a Hawaiian-born actor who played the role of Buck Bokai

1244
01:17:38.279 --> 01:17:42.020
in Deep Space Nine's first season episode, If Wishes Were Horses.

1245
01:17:43.220 --> 01:17:46.560
Also popped up over there in Enterprise's second season episode,

1246
01:17:46.640 --> 01:17:50.899
Vanishing Point, as Mr. Sato as well. So pretty amazing

1247
01:17:51.079 --> 01:17:54.489
to be in a couple different aspects of the Star

1248
01:17:54.510 --> 01:17:58.729
Trek universe and very, very cool. So happy birthday, Keone Young.

1249
01:17:59.829 --> 01:18:01.670
And this guy, I don't think he's ever taken a

1250
01:18:01.689 --> 01:18:03.890
day off in his life. Seems like he's constantly, constantly

1251
01:18:03.930 --> 01:18:08.760
working all the time. The great Jeffrey Combs. Wow. Where

1252
01:18:08.779 --> 01:18:11.439
do you even begin with this guy? He's just done

1253
01:18:11.520 --> 01:18:14.880
so much stuff, okay? Actor has the distinction of playing

1254
01:18:15.079 --> 01:18:20.329
nine different characters so far across four different Star Trek

1255
01:18:20.350 --> 01:18:25.270
television series. Of course, Brunt and the various Weyouns on

1256
01:18:25.289 --> 01:18:30.039
Deep Space Nine was recently immortalized in a action figure

1257
01:18:30.079 --> 01:18:33.430
form by next week's special guest, Brian Volkweis in the

1258
01:18:33.439 --> 01:18:36.229
Nacelle range. So you've got it, Jeffrey Combs. You made

1259
01:18:36.270 --> 01:18:39.590
it to action figure immortality, which is no easy thing

1260
01:18:39.630 --> 01:18:45.449
to achieve. We played Thalek Shran, of course, on Enterprise.

1261
01:18:46.109 --> 01:18:47.949
We can talk more about Shran at some other point,

1262
01:18:47.989 --> 01:18:51.979
but a phenomenal character. And then voiced Agabus on the

1263
01:18:52.039 --> 01:18:56.399
Lower Decks episodes, etc., etc. But he's done tons and

1264
01:18:56.420 --> 01:19:00.520
tons of great horror movie work as well. Reanimator series

1265
01:19:00.579 --> 01:19:04.979
comes to mind for me. It's just a knockout. Really,

1266
01:19:05.050 --> 01:19:09.479
really entertaining. Brings a lot of high-octane energy. to his

1267
01:19:09.520 --> 01:19:14.640
roles does not hold back, which is a great characteristic.

1268
01:19:14.729 --> 01:19:17.909
So absolutely great. But go check out some Jeffrey Combs

1269
01:19:17.949 --> 01:19:21.329
horror movies if you never have and discover his universe

1270
01:19:21.369 --> 01:19:24.789
beyond Star Trek, which is pretty, pretty cool. So that's

1271
01:19:24.810 --> 01:19:27.439
what I've got for my birthdays this weekend. And we'll

1272
01:19:27.449 --> 01:19:29.340
see what Uncle Jim's got for us next. This is

1273
01:19:29.380 --> 01:19:31.979
one of my favorite segments. I love that Jim reaches

1274
01:19:32.060 --> 01:19:34.180
into the back of his sock drawer and comes up

1275
01:19:34.239 --> 01:19:38.199
with something that is beloved in From his memories. Uncle Jim,

1276
01:19:38.340 --> 01:19:40.359
what is beloved for you this week, my friend?

1277
01:19:41.039 --> 01:19:43.720
Well, I've got some great movies. But first, I've got

1278
01:19:43.739 --> 01:19:45.819
to show you this baseball card. Can you guys see

1279
01:19:45.840 --> 01:19:46.699
this baseball card?

1280
01:19:48.600 --> 01:19:50.239
Is it the blob? Is that it?

1281
01:19:51.010 --> 01:19:51.199
No.

1282
01:19:51.729 --> 01:19:54.409
Oh, no, here it is. Oh, okay. Buck Bokai.

1283
01:19:55.130 --> 01:19:59.630
Yes. I was at a Star Trek convention. I was

1284
01:19:59.770 --> 01:20:04.979
at a multimedia anime convention. And I'm walking through the

1285
01:20:05.180 --> 01:20:08.260
autograph room like, who the hell are these people? You know,

1286
01:20:08.659 --> 01:20:11.760
I don't know any of these people. And I see

1287
01:20:11.800 --> 01:20:13.739
him in a corner. I said to my wife, Karen,

1288
01:20:13.760 --> 01:20:16.720
I said, wait a minute. Is that dude? Is that

1289
01:20:16.739 --> 01:20:20.739
the guy from Deep Space Nine? And my wife's like, no,

1290
01:20:20.800 --> 01:20:22.779
how can you remember that? I said, I think it is.

1291
01:20:22.840 --> 01:20:25.279
And I went over. And sure enough, it was. And

1292
01:20:25.319 --> 01:20:28.880
he had these baseball cards right here on his table.

1293
01:20:29.789 --> 01:20:31.710
And I bought one and had him sign it for

1294
01:20:31.750 --> 01:20:34.350
me because I'm a baseball fan as well. So I

1295
01:20:34.390 --> 01:20:39.890
have an autographed Buck Banzai baseball card from Deep Space Nine.

1296
01:20:39.930 --> 01:20:41.449
So I just wanted to share that with you guys.

1297
01:20:41.510 --> 01:20:46.680
I thought that was pretty cool. So that's Uncle Jim's

1298
01:20:46.760 --> 01:20:50.539
story of the week. Okay, so now that we're going

1299
01:20:50.560 --> 01:20:53.600
to move back into the movie of the week, we

1300
01:20:53.619 --> 01:20:57.680
want to start off with The Block. which was released

1301
01:20:57.979 --> 01:21:02.460
on September 10th in 1958. I think there's been several

1302
01:21:02.520 --> 01:21:06.180
remakes of this movie, but this is the original Stephen McQueen,

1303
01:21:06.739 --> 01:21:12.569
the blob. Another movie that was released this week was Psycho,

1304
01:21:12.890 --> 01:21:17.750
released on September 8th, 1960. My God, who, you know, Psycho?

1305
01:21:17.989 --> 01:21:20.720
Do we need to say any more? Janet Leigh was

1306
01:21:20.800 --> 01:21:26.510
in this movie. This is Jamie Lee Curtis's mother. You know,

1307
01:21:26.810 --> 01:21:30.359
Anthony Perkins. This movie's a classic. If you haven't seen it,

1308
01:21:30.460 --> 01:21:35.960
it's well worth checking out. Phenomenal, phenomenal movie from Alfred Hitchcock.

1309
01:21:36.560 --> 01:21:39.100
And the next one that's on our list, released on

1310
01:21:39.159 --> 01:21:44.220
September 8, 2017, Stephen King's It. Now, this was not

1311
01:21:44.260 --> 01:21:49.069
the TV series. This was the actual motion picture of It.

1312
01:21:49.170 --> 01:21:54.210
Scary as hell. Skazgard plays an incredible Pennywise the Clown.

1313
01:21:54.779 --> 01:21:57.970
If you haven't seen that, check it out. It's definitely

1314
01:21:58.010 --> 01:22:01.810
worth watching. Next is another movie. This is a classic.

1315
01:22:01.829 --> 01:22:03.930
This is one of my favorites. This is one of

1316
01:22:03.970 --> 01:22:08.270
these 80s cheese movies. Right here, Battle Beyond the Stars

1317
01:22:08.310 --> 01:22:13.899
was released on September 8, 1980, starring John Boyd. And

1318
01:22:14.680 --> 01:22:19.449
this is a Roger Corman classic. It's cheesy. It's 80s.

1319
01:22:20.039 --> 01:22:22.460
But it's so much fun, and it's well worth the

1320
01:22:22.500 --> 01:22:25.520
watch if you have not seen it. Check it out, please.

1321
01:22:26.659 --> 01:22:31.279
Next on our list is a more recent movie, The Predator,

1322
01:22:31.380 --> 01:22:33.359
which was released on September 6, 2018. And last on

1323
01:22:33.430 --> 01:22:42.800
my list is Wow, I don't know. Is Alien, which

1324
01:22:42.819 --> 01:22:49.079
was released on September 6, 1979. This movie, what can

1325
01:22:49.119 --> 01:22:51.899
I say about this movie that hasn't already been said?

1326
01:22:52.579 --> 01:22:59.210
Absolutely outstanding movie. And what movie am I going to

1327
01:22:59.310 --> 01:23:01.710
pick as Uncle Jim's movie pick of the week that

1328
01:23:01.750 --> 01:24:58.810
you shouldn't miss? David, roll the tape. That's right, everybody.

1329
01:24:58.890 --> 01:25:04.439
In space, no one can hear you scream. So Alien

1330
01:25:04.460 --> 01:25:08.680
was a landmark science fiction horror movie, which was released

1331
01:25:08.720 --> 01:25:13.560
in 1979 between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.

1332
01:25:13.640 --> 01:25:18.779
It was a stylish, malevolent alternate to George Lucas' space fantasy,

1333
01:25:18.840 --> 01:25:23.489
partially inspired by the 1950s The Terror from Beyond Space.

1334
01:25:23.989 --> 01:25:27.079
This instant classic set a tone of its own offering

1335
01:25:27.100 --> 01:25:33.239
richly detailed sets, ominous atmosphere, relentless suspense, and a flawless

1336
01:25:33.439 --> 01:25:39.130
ensemble cast that featured Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, and Veronica Cartwright,

1337
01:25:39.350 --> 01:25:41.930
just to name a few. They're in that picture right there.

1338
01:25:42.970 --> 01:25:46.430
As the crew of the space freighter Nostromo, who fall

1339
01:25:46.489 --> 01:25:51.409
prey to a vicious alien creature. Any of the Trek

1340
01:25:51.430 --> 01:25:53.989
sports see this movie in the theaters?

1341
01:25:54.649 --> 01:26:04.260
Oh, yeah. Opening weekend. Yeah. Opening weekend, absolutely.

1342
01:26:04.279 --> 01:26:06.840
I just saw this movie.

1343
01:26:08.600 --> 01:26:13.050
It was rated R, so I wasn't allowed to see it.

1344
01:26:13.060 --> 01:26:17.659
It didn't stop me from seeing it, though. We bought

1345
01:26:17.699 --> 01:26:20.819
tickets for Bambi or whatever. We all went into the bathroom.

1346
01:26:21.159 --> 01:26:23.520
We waited until the movie started, and the ticket taker

1347
01:26:23.560 --> 01:26:27.250
wasn't there, and we snuck in to watch Aliens. That's

1348
01:26:27.270 --> 01:26:31.550
how I had to see it in 1979. Illegally. Scared

1349
01:26:31.630 --> 01:26:35.090
the crap out of me. The scene with the chestburster

1350
01:26:35.130 --> 01:26:38.470
with the buckets of blood everywhere and the little alien

1351
01:26:38.510 --> 01:26:43.609
popping out of the chest wrapped around the intestines. Nightmares

1352
01:26:43.680 --> 01:26:45.260
for weeks after that.

1353
01:26:47.060 --> 01:26:50.159
Great movie. Jim, I was fortunate to be able to

1354
01:26:50.199 --> 01:26:52.760
see this movie just this past Monday on the big

1355
01:26:52.800 --> 01:26:56.619
screen at the Hollywood Theater here in Portland and One

1356
01:26:56.640 --> 01:26:59.220
of the things I was struck by was the fact

1357
01:26:59.260 --> 01:27:02.239
that the movie has such a different pace to it

1358
01:27:02.800 --> 01:27:05.949
from Aliens, which I think is the movie that many people,

1359
01:27:06.350 --> 01:27:09.649
like many more people, have probably seen. This movie, much

1360
01:27:09.710 --> 01:27:13.470
like Star Trek The Motion Picture, has a slower pace

1361
01:27:13.510 --> 01:27:16.829
to it. It's a little bit more contemplative. They try

1362
01:27:16.869 --> 01:27:22.180
to build things up a little bit more. By today's standards,

1363
01:27:22.199 --> 01:27:27.300
the jump scares are not particularly effective in my like

1364
01:27:27.460 --> 01:27:30.619
opinion but it's still a classic because not only does

1365
01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:34.479
Sigourney Weaver give like an amazing performance but as you

1366
01:27:34.510 --> 01:27:37.250
were just talking about all of the characters here are

1367
01:27:37.270 --> 01:27:40.090
amazing and it was fun also to kind of go

1368
01:27:40.130 --> 01:27:42.390
back to the beginning and watch Alien again because there

1369
01:27:42.409 --> 01:27:44.189
are so many things that show up in that movie

1370
01:27:44.930 --> 01:27:47.729
that then show up later in some of the Prometheus

1371
01:27:47.760 --> 01:27:52.899
you know universe films which I think is kind of cool, too,

1372
01:27:52.979 --> 01:27:56.229
if you've seen some of the more recent Alien-themed stuff. So, yeah,

1373
01:27:56.270 --> 01:27:59.189
having just seen this movie last Monday, I can tell

1374
01:27:59.210 --> 01:28:01.970
you that it still holds up for me, but I'm

1375
01:28:02.010 --> 01:28:06.130
also a person who kind of likes slower-paced, more contemplative

1376
01:28:06.270 --> 01:28:11.750
movies with moments of action or moments of excitement versus

1377
01:28:11.789 --> 01:28:13.850
something that's just like bam, bam, bam, which is what

1378
01:28:13.909 --> 01:28:16.289
the movie after this one is. Constant action.

1379
01:28:18.909 --> 01:28:19.930
For me, I was....

1380
01:28:25.789 --> 01:28:28.060
For me, I was too young to probably see it

1381
01:28:28.079 --> 01:28:33.060
in the theater, but this was definitely a regular HBO

1382
01:28:33.100 --> 01:28:34.859
movie on cable.

1383
01:28:34.890 --> 01:28:37.460
And I know that's where I caught it was cable.

1384
01:28:40.119 --> 01:28:44.340
I don't know what version of the movie that you

1385
01:28:44.359 --> 01:28:48.020
guys saw, but there's a director's cut. The original version

1386
01:28:48.050 --> 01:28:53.470
of the movie did not have the egg scene. At

1387
01:28:53.479 --> 01:28:55.789
the end of the movie, when Sigourney grabs Jonesy and

1388
01:28:55.869 --> 01:28:58.449
is running through the ductwork to get to the shuttle,

1389
01:28:58.930 --> 01:29:04.289
she finds Captain Dallas cocooned. And he wants her to

1390
01:29:04.409 --> 01:29:06.989
kill him. And, of course, she torches the whole chamber.

1391
01:29:07.670 --> 01:29:11.369
That scene was added into the director's cut much, much later.

1392
01:29:11.390 --> 01:29:15.170
It was not featured in the original film, which actually

1393
01:29:15.229 --> 01:29:19.479
ties Alien closer into Aliens with the Queen. So I

1394
01:29:19.520 --> 01:29:20.600
thought that was interesting.

1395
01:29:21.159 --> 01:29:23.880
Jim, it was shown in the version I saw on Monday,

1396
01:29:23.979 --> 01:29:25.779
so it was the director's cut.

1397
01:29:26.579 --> 01:29:30.520
Yeah, it's in a restored version of the movie. So

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that's it. That's Uncle Jim's Movie Pick of the Week, guys. Alien, 1979,

1399
01:29:34.180 --> 01:29:39.449
Sigourney Weaver's first motion picture. All right, so that wraps

1400
01:29:39.529 --> 01:29:41.909
up Uncle Jim's Movie Pick of the Week. That wraps

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01:29:41.970 --> 01:29:44.970
up our Star Trek birthdays, and that brings us to

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01:29:45.569 --> 01:30:12.829
Star Trek News. All right, guys. We always start off

1403
01:30:12.930 --> 01:30:17.050
our Star Trek news, if possible, with a segment called

1404
01:30:17.489 --> 01:30:21.850
Shatner Says What? Guess what? He says something this week,

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01:30:22.029 --> 01:30:23.649
and Eric's going to tell you all about it.

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01:30:24.689 --> 01:30:25.149
Yes, Jim.

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01:30:25.229 --> 01:30:30.479
William Shatner shares fan stories in William Shatner and You.

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01:30:31.640 --> 01:30:33.640
He says, It was a pleasure to talk to the

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01:30:33.680 --> 01:30:36.220
people in the book who shared perspectives that I will

1410
01:30:36.340 --> 01:30:39.979
always treasure, Shatner writes in his book. The legendary Star

1411
01:30:40.020 --> 01:30:44.239
Trek actor, 95 years old, has collected stories and perspectives

1412
01:30:44.279 --> 01:30:46.479
from all those who have shared his life with him,

1413
01:30:47.020 --> 01:30:52.180
from famous friends to dedicated fans, and William Shatner and you.

1414
01:30:52.640 --> 01:30:55.279
We actually read a story about this probably about a

1415
01:30:55.300 --> 01:31:00.579
year ago. Shatner's unique memoir, the actor announced his memoir

1416
01:31:00.819 --> 01:31:04.739
in August 2025, and calls upon fans to submit their

1417
01:31:04.800 --> 01:31:07.439
stories and memories of how his work has impacted them.

1418
01:31:08.359 --> 01:31:10.579
A select few were then chosen to be interviewed by

1419
01:31:10.640 --> 01:31:14.399
Shatner himself for the book. He says, my greatest joy

1420
01:31:14.460 --> 01:31:16.880
has been the connection I've shared with fans over the years.

1421
01:31:17.399 --> 01:31:21.359
William Shatner and you is a celebration of them, their stories,

1422
01:31:21.779 --> 01:31:25.710
their passion, and the bond we've built together. The people

1423
01:31:25.770 --> 01:31:29.170
who have been influenced by Star Trek are so numerous,

1424
01:31:29.369 --> 01:31:32.130
Shatner writes in his memoir. I was astonished by the

1425
01:31:32.170 --> 01:31:35.710
complexity of what we've uncovered. It's given me a deeper

1426
01:31:35.810 --> 01:31:38.770
insight into our audiences. It was a pleasure to talk

1427
01:31:38.789 --> 01:31:41.630
to the people in the book who shared perspectives that

1428
01:31:41.689 --> 01:31:45.560
I will always treasure. Among those interviewed for the memoir

1429
01:31:45.649 --> 01:31:51.880
are celebrity friends Ben Stiller, Josh Groban, Weird Al Yankovic,

1430
01:31:52.680 --> 01:31:59.590
Jason Alexander, Jeff Bezos, and Seth MacFarlane. Fan stories featured

1431
01:31:59.619 --> 01:32:02.510
have come from all walks of life, including members of

1432
01:32:02.529 --> 01:32:09.010
the military, first responders, and others who, quote, overcame incredible obstacles.

1433
01:32:10.289 --> 01:32:14.609
Shatner penned his memoir with the help of co-author Joshua Brandon,

1434
01:32:15.270 --> 01:32:18.720
who the actor previously worked with to create Boldly Go!

1435
01:32:18.840 --> 01:32:23.340
Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder in 2022.

1436
01:32:23.340 --> 01:32:25.779
Fans have given me the gift of a lifetime, Shatner

1437
01:32:25.840 --> 01:32:28.699
said in an announcement of his memoir on his website.

1438
01:32:29.600 --> 01:32:33.250
This book is my chance to return that gift by

1439
01:32:33.310 --> 01:32:38.539
telling their stories and ours together. William Shatner and You

1440
01:32:38.680 --> 01:32:43.930
is on sale exclusively through Amazon on August 31st, which

1441
01:32:43.989 --> 01:32:47.449
was about 11 days ago. So presumably you can grab

1442
01:32:47.470 --> 01:32:47.909
it right now.

1443
01:32:50.130 --> 01:32:52.510
You know what, Eric? He didn't pick me.

1444
01:32:53.670 --> 01:32:54.090
He didn't?

1445
01:32:54.630 --> 01:32:55.340
Did you send one in?

1446
01:32:56.130 --> 01:32:58.590
I told him how great Star Trek V is, how

1447
01:32:58.649 --> 01:33:02.430
I worship the movie. He's the greatest director of all time,

1448
01:33:02.729 --> 01:33:06.020
made the best Star Trek movie ever produced. I mean,

1449
01:33:06.279 --> 01:33:11.119
I poured it all right on there, and I didn't

1450
01:33:11.140 --> 01:33:12.640
get picked.

1451
01:33:12.659 --> 01:33:13.100
Sorry, Jim.

1452
01:33:13.119 --> 01:33:17.930
Well, at least we made you a video, Jim. That's true.

1453
01:33:18.149 --> 01:33:20.329
I always have the shock I read video to fall

1454
01:33:20.369 --> 01:33:27.449
back on. So... That, my friend, wraps up the podcast

1455
01:33:27.470 --> 01:33:32.869
for this week. If you haven't watched the latest episode,

1456
01:33:34.850 --> 01:33:38.409
wow is all I want to say. Check it out.

1457
01:33:39.399 --> 01:33:43.399
Three times I've watched it already. It's that freaking good.

1458
01:33:44.239 --> 01:33:47.579
We won't be talking about it next week because why

1459
01:33:47.600 --> 01:33:49.380
won't we be talking about it, Paul? This is our

1460
01:33:49.420 --> 01:33:50.720
last shameless plug.

1461
01:33:52.380 --> 01:33:58.020
Because We have the phenomenal Brian Volk-Weiss as our guest.

1462
01:33:58.819 --> 01:34:03.229
Absolutely amazing. This is the CEO and founder of Nacelle

1463
01:34:03.270 --> 01:34:07.170
Toy Company, a man who's resurrected Star Trek action figures

1464
01:34:07.310 --> 01:34:10.470
better than they may have ever been before, and who's

1465
01:34:10.529 --> 01:34:15.170
also just recently unleashed his, I believe it's five-part Star

1466
01:34:15.189 --> 01:34:19.069
Trek docu-series on all the different platforms at the center chair.

1467
01:34:19.640 --> 01:34:22.020
Part two, so this is the big sequel where he

1468
01:34:22.060 --> 01:34:26.369
talks about all the different iterations of a post original

1469
01:34:26.430 --> 01:34:31.529
series motion pictures that, uh, came. So really, really cool to, uh,

1470
01:34:31.609 --> 01:34:35.289
get that insight. I've watched a few of these, uh, already.

1471
01:34:35.750 --> 01:34:39.380
And from part two, the novel documentaries, I mean, he

1472
01:34:39.420 --> 01:34:42.680
gets access to everybody that you can think of. Uh,

1473
01:34:42.779 --> 01:34:46.060
they're really well cut together, extremely well edited, highly recommend

1474
01:34:46.100 --> 01:34:50.060
them and all narrated by the wonderful Gates McFadden. So definitely, uh,

1475
01:34:50.560 --> 01:34:52.340
The guy who gets things done is how I would

1476
01:34:52.380 --> 01:34:54.680
describe Brian Volk, why I was excited to be able

1477
01:34:54.720 --> 01:34:57.899
to talk to him about toys and movies and other things.

1478
01:34:58.079 --> 01:35:01.539
So very cool. So definitely an episode you don't want

1479
01:35:01.560 --> 01:35:02.460
to miss next week.

1480
01:35:03.689 --> 01:35:08.649
And watching that, I think it was episode five, I

1481
01:35:08.689 --> 01:35:11.529
was really surprised to find out that Star Trek V

1482
01:35:11.609 --> 01:35:16.649
was not the lowest grossing Star Trek movie of the franchise.

1483
01:35:17.210 --> 01:35:21.140
The movie that bombed even worse, Then Star Trek V,

1484
01:35:22.409 --> 01:35:25.890
Star Trek Beyond. So there you have it. Go and

1485
01:35:25.909 --> 01:35:27.390
watch it. If you don't believe me and you want

1486
01:35:27.409 --> 01:35:30.229
to find out for yourself, go and watch episodes. Well, no,

1487
01:35:30.310 --> 01:35:34.329
actually watch all five episodes, but eager anticipation for the

1488
01:35:34.430 --> 01:35:38.720
fifth one when you can find out that interesting fact.

1489
01:35:39.399 --> 01:35:44.399
So I'm not sure if we will do a special

1490
01:35:44.960 --> 01:35:48.810
Wednesday podcast. I'm going to wait. for all of my

1491
01:35:48.890 --> 01:35:53.630
co-hosts to watch this episode. And if they feel inclined,

1492
01:35:54.029 --> 01:35:57.380
we may do a special show. If not, we'll just

1493
01:35:57.420 --> 01:35:59.720
be a week behind, and I'm okay with that as well.

1494
01:36:00.100 --> 01:36:02.100
I'm just really excited to talk about this episode. I

1495
01:36:02.140 --> 01:36:04.579
love it. But I can wait. I can wait because

1496
01:36:04.600 --> 01:36:07.550
we're going to talk to Brian. And I do have

1497
01:36:07.590 --> 01:36:12.829
an invitation out to Cadet Asha herself. I haven't heard

1498
01:36:12.890 --> 01:36:17.609
anything back, but hopefully, maybe she'll come on the podcast

1499
01:36:17.689 --> 01:36:21.079
and talk with us about her time working on Strange

1500
01:36:21.140 --> 01:36:25.060
New Worlds. I'll keep you guys in the loop. Without

1501
01:36:25.140 --> 01:36:27.859
any further ado, unless there's anything else that my co-host

1502
01:36:27.920 --> 01:36:30.520
wanted to mention or bring up.

1503
01:36:33.189 --> 01:36:33.390
No?

1504
01:36:33.550 --> 01:36:33.810
Yes?

1505
01:36:33.930 --> 01:36:34.189
Maybe?

1506
01:36:34.210 --> 01:36:38.000
Okay. Okay. That wraps up the podcast. So I'm your

1507
01:36:38.039 --> 01:36:40.939
most excellent host, Uncle Jim. And I want to say

1508
01:36:41.020 --> 01:36:44.739
thank you to our miracle worker himself, David, for putting

1509
01:36:44.760 --> 01:36:47.760
together this awesome podcast. Thank you so much, David.

1510
01:36:48.699 --> 01:36:49.939
You're welcome.

1511
01:36:50.380 --> 01:36:53.260
It's been fun. And I have some stuff you and

1512
01:36:53.340 --> 01:36:55.020
I are going to be working on over the weekend.

1513
01:36:55.079 --> 01:36:56.520
I'll get you some pictures and we're going to get

1514
01:36:56.539 --> 01:37:00.989
to work. So something to look forward to. And I

1515
01:37:01.060 --> 01:37:03.819
also want to say thank you so much to Charles

1516
01:37:03.920 --> 01:37:05.920
for joining us from Las Vegas. Thank you, Charles.

1517
01:37:07.100 --> 01:37:09.279
Thank you, Jim. Always fun talking track.

1518
01:37:11.220 --> 01:37:13.859
And, of course, let's not forget V. Thank you so

1519
01:37:13.899 --> 01:37:15.960
much for joining us from Virginia, V. It's been great

1520
01:37:15.979 --> 01:37:22.529
to have you tonight. And, of course, let's not forget Paul.

1521
01:37:22.569 --> 01:37:24.890
Thank you for joining us, Paul, and chomping at the

1522
01:37:24.930 --> 01:37:28.229
bit for next week. Thanks.

1523
01:37:28.329 --> 01:37:28.850
It'll be fun.

1524
01:37:29.930 --> 01:37:32.449
I'm going to ask him about a Saibot figure. That's

1525
01:37:32.479 --> 01:37:36.979
going to be my big question. You never know.

1526
01:37:37.739 --> 01:37:39.899
Well, he does dig into the back catalog, so you

1527
01:37:39.920 --> 01:37:40.340
never know.

1528
01:37:41.319 --> 01:37:44.479
He's making a Ben figure, I believe, from the animated series.

1529
01:37:45.100 --> 01:37:48.430
He is, yeah. Nothing's impossible. You just have to convince him.

1530
01:37:49.010 --> 01:37:53.289
Oh, I'll show him the video. Convince him. And last

1531
01:37:53.310 --> 01:38:15.270
but not least, Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Yeah,

1532
01:38:16.329 --> 01:38:16.630
you bet.

1533
01:38:16.850 --> 01:38:17.130
Thanks.

1534
01:38:18.390 --> 01:38:20.710
And I'm your most excellent host, Uncle Jim saying, everybody,

1535
01:38:20.810 --> 01:38:24.229
please stay safe and be good to each other. Hailing

1536
01:38:24.289 --> 01:38:27.189
frequencies are closed. Good night, everybody.

1537
01:38:27.789 --> 01:38:28.310
Good night.

1538
01:38:29.569 --> 01:38:30.619
I'm longing prosper.

1539
01:38:34.840 --> 01:38:36.119
Word two, number one.

1540
01:38:36.779 --> 01:38:37.399
You're the captain.

1541
01:38:38.619 --> 01:38:38.939
Captain.

1542
01:38:43.079 --> 01:38:44.279
Ready for warp, sir.

1543
01:38:44.939 --> 01:38:45.529
Oh, my God.

1544
01:38:52.729 --> 01:38:53.029
Thank you.