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Here's to the finest crew in Starlink.
When it comes to my crew, you won't get any argument from me.
This is a parody.
Paramount owns the song.
Welcome to the Greatest Generation.
It's a Star Trek podcast by a couple of guys who are a little bit embarrassed about having a Star Trek podcast.
I'm Ben Harrison.
I'm Adam Pranica.
Feeling good about the hair?
I feel like...
I feel like you're making head movements that could only be one hair is bothering me.
When I was growing up, I used to, like a lot of kids my age, part my hair, which in retrospect just feels silly and stupid.
Did you do butt cut like right down the middle?
Fuck no.
Gross.
I would never.
Oh man.
Okay.
I guess I won't admit to any specific past hair choices that I may or may not have made in that case.
I have possession of those pictures.
I know what you were rocking back in the day.
No, I chose asymmetrical part and always from one side until I realized much too late, much, much too late.
Your hair parts itself.
Like your hair knows what it needs to do.
And why do we spend so much time fighting it?
Just let it be its thing.
Yeah.
That's what I was doing when we were just getting on a mic was like I was looking at myself in the video.
Folks at home watching the live stream know
what I'm looking like.
But I kind of like tossed my head to one side and on the other.
And I was like, okay, this is the side.
This is the side that it wants.
The chat went crazy.
I felt like I couldn't but bring it up because the chat was losing their minds over Adam's hair.
You have any haircuts you regret?
Oh, most of them, I would say.
Is that why you wear a hat a lot of the time?
No.
I'm not a hatman like you.
I'm not a hatman.
Skibbita beat.
No, I think I just look good in a ball cap.
And
you do.
Yeah.
Some people do.
Yeah.
I don't think I have a face for caps.
I always look like a little kid when I wear one.
I have some college photos of myself where I'm like, man, I am so much just in Bieberrier than I realized I was at the time.
You know?
Being groomed by adult women.
Is that what you mean by that?
Just the like, you know, kind of uniform length and all kind of like twist-tussled to one side.
I didn't do that on purpose, but it happened.
I think that was just what the barbers of the day were assuming everybody wanted.
Imagine having barber confidence to be asked the question, how should I look?
And have an answer be like, I know how you should look.
And then I will make you look that way.
It's interesting because for the most part, when I've asked a barber, like, what do you think I should be doing?
Therapy.
Yeah.
They've tended to not want to like give a, you know, a really specific answer to that.
And it's like, I mean, it's like asking a lawyer, like, hey, is this legal?
And lawyers are always like, no,
it's not my area of law.
It's an interesting analog, yeah.
I think you would find in a court that this haircut would be terribly embarrassing and you would not get laid, but it would be very costly to find out about that.
You almost exclusively go to fade shops, so I can understand it would be, it'd be difficult for a professional in that area to like make a strong suggestion.
They have the best adult magazines at a fade shop.
So
that's why I'm going there.
Yeah.
I mean, I have,
I think,
probably four or five-year relationship with my barber at this point.
And I think it's a relationship built on trust and personal, interpersonal respect.
And I still can't get this guy to to like take me in a direction.
You know, he's like, no, like what you're doing is working.
We could go like a little bit shorter than you're used to or a little bit longer than you're used to, but that's that's the most variation we're entertaining here.
I love that the long-term relationships in your life are largely due to you not advocating for an opinion or like strongly asking for advice or help from a professional.
I mean, I think he would stop me if I went in and said, like, give me a mullet.
I want to be
a 25-year-old scumbag, you know.
I think I've had three
people who have cut my hair in my life.
And so when I heard you say that like, uh, I have a long-term relationship with the person who cuts my hair, I absolutely know what that's like.
I think that's a really important relationship for anyone to have.
It is.
And it's nice to have like consistency like from time to time, you know, like.
I don't want to have to like awkwardly not make conversation with a different person each time.
Like this guy knows that I'm going to awkwardly not make conversation with him every single time.
Isn't it insane, though?
The assumption of like, I see this person once every four or five weeks, and yet I'm assuming that they remember me and remember my hair and my head and what sort of haircut I want.
I know.
And they don't even have the benefit that a doctor has of like a
folder full of information about the last time you were there.
They're cold.
They're cold every time.
Yeah.
That's a miracle.
Yeah.
Doctors really do a good job of selling that they remember who you are and what you're dealing.
It's such fucking bullshit, though.
Like you can hear the nurse talk to the doctor outside in the hall.
They're like, hey, here's their name.
Here's what they're here for.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like a chief of staff telling a politician, you know, whose hand they're about to start shaking.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, a hairstylist, much like a doctor, they should have that kind of help, and they so rarely do.
And when you put yourself in the care of a hairstylist or a doctor, it's a great leap of faith, Adam.
That was nice.
Nicely done.
Nice transition into show today.
Ben, let's get a little heavy.
You want to get heavy with me on this one?
I choo-choo-choo-choose to get heavy.
Season three, episode 12, Choosin' Realm.
another Manny Codo written episode directed by Roxanne Dawson.
Yeah.
How about this combo?
I like it.
It's a good combo, as is the combo of Trip and Travis cruising around in a shuttle, scanning a sphere.
If you're placing your bets at this point, if this will be the only scene where Mayweather has dialogue, even though he is in many, many scenes afterward, cash your bet.
Yeah.
They are looking at the readings they're getting off of this sphere,
remarking about how identical it is to the other spheres.
Like, even though the spheres are old and breaking down, they're really perfectly identical in every way, aside from presumably the ways in which they're breaking down.
I mean, it's kind of a thing, right?
Like, there's this idea that all spheres are perfectly symmetrical, or they should be.
And if they're not, something is wrong with you.
It's just not the case.
no no it's not and uh
i mean this feels like a mission now that they've done kind of a lot right there's a comfort in being inside this part of the expanse there's a familiarity with uh going through the cloaking barrier in both directions they've seen spheres before they've seen the cloaking barrier come off of a couple of spheres now so it's not like i mean it's still exciting every time but it's not as big a deal for them yeah you know which is actually like has its own sexiness to it right it's like there's some confidence in like yeah
all right i know what we're working with here sphere wise it's fun to see mayweather like reach over the shuttle pod yoke and like without looking steer the shuttle through the cloaking barrier that's fun yeah yeah i think we're getting the hang of this it's all in the wrist for mayweather at this point there's no fumbling no Anyways, they finish their scans.
They leave through the cloaking barrier.
There's some power fluctuations, some bumps.
The camera went close on Trip's face in a way that I thought that this episode was going to be heading in a, oh, Trip has been body snatched as they went through and the power went out.
Like,
there's something different about Trip.
You're onto something there.
There's like a code to this camera move that isn't paid off in this episode.
There's a change in expression with him and a composition that suggests something has happened, but nothing has.
Nothing's happened.
Then we cut to a POV of this shuttle where some guys with ponytails are watching them come out of the cloaking barrier.
These are peeping aliens.
How's it peeping?
They're peeping on the shuttle pod and they're peeping on Enterprise.
How's it peeping?
I wrote proto-Bajorans when I...
tried to describe these guys in my notes because they've got like it's it's not jewelry it's hair but it read is jewelry to me in this first dark, gloomy room.
And what is hair if not jewelry?
It's the jewelry of the head, you know?
You know what else is the jewelry of the head?
Balls, working the balls.
Anyways, those guys are watching them, and that's our cold open.
After the theme, we're in the command center playset with Archer and Tepal, and they're reviewing the the data that was brought back on the mission we just saw.
And this is great.
This is going to help them map the anomalies more accurately and also tally the number of spears, which at this point still remains kind of a mystery.
There's an estimation to the number, but not quite a specificity that they're going for.
But they don't get very far in this conversation before ship incoming.
Yeah.
And this one's got a distress signal.
Distress signal: 23 people on board a ship that is trapped within some anomalies and archers up on the bridge now.
And
the entrepreneur has now mapped enough of these anomalies that they can plot a course to get safely within range of this ship to go help these people out.
And this thing looks like, you know, when you like put a soda can on the ground to stomp it into a disc so that it will take up less space in the in the recycling, but you kind of miss?
That's kind of how this ship looks.
And you slash your ankle
and then you have to leave the fun vacation and go to an emergency clinic.
I was saying, do you know what happened like when you do it?
Not when I do it.
When you do it.
The decision's made pretty fast, right?
Like, let's go ahead and dock with this guy.
Get it on the saucer.
Start examining folks.
Yeah.
I like that Archer is like a little bit twice bitten here where he's like, okay, like,
you know, what does their weapon situation look like on this ship?
How, like, let's be careful when we dock with them and make sure nobody brings anything aboard that we don't want them to.
What's their jail situation over there?
Specifically?
Yeah.
So they go dock with this crumpled-up ass ship and the next scene is in Six Bay where Fox is like, well, they won't let me scan their birdies for religious sanctity reasons.
but, you know, even though life support was out, they all seem pretty much fine.
Yeah.
Their issues seem pretty minor.
Bumps and bruises, scrapes and exhaustion, whatever.
Archer introduces himself to their captain, who is called a prenom, and his name is Dijamat.
Yeah.
Dijamat!
This guy.
has got a smile like Mr.
Beast, which means I don't trust him.
Except Archer can't really tell.
He has the sort of diplomatic face blindness that he tends to have in situations like these.
He just straight up invites this guy to dinner.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't trust him because he was in that scene where they were peeping on the shuttle.
Oh, yeah.
That's another reason not to trust him.
Yeah.
I've never seen Mr.
Beast do that, so I trust him fully.
He seems cool and good to me.
So we go right to dinner with these folks, and we learn that Dijamat belongs to a race of people called the Triannans who worship the spheres and who could blame them?
They're certainly impressive.
Archer asks, you know, while we're in the expanse, have you ever run into the Zindi?
Ever see the Zindi in here?
And this guy's like, no, we mostly keep to ourselves in order to keep our attention on the spheres.
And Dijamat rolls up, like this is what you don't want to do during a dinner, is like roll up your sleeve and show a gruesome wound on your arm and be like, look, we love these fears so much and we love what happens in the expanse so much.
The maker's breath is what we love being touched by.
And TePaul's like, what?
You mean the anomalies?
Yeah, he's got blurp wound and he starts talking about how there's thousands of these things.
And TePaul's like, That is not correct.
Like there's about 52 and this is not really a subject that is up for debate.
You know, it's like up is up and down is down.
There are not a thousand anomalies.
And this gets uncomfortable because it is a deeply held religious conviction of this man's that there are thousands of anomalies.
And you can't argue with somebody's deeply held religious conviction.
I really love the term maker's breath as the name of the anomalies, which is also what my grandma warned me about when my granddad would come home after going out with his friends.
gets awkward and archer's like okay let's not debate how many uh spheres there are i mean let's just say we like a nice round number however many there are
archer's acting like ben does whenever i have an interaction with someone from the network like
can we talk about anything else
dijamat's faith is anchored in a very familiar kind of I do my own research understanding of things.
And that is very contrary to Tepaul's general way of being.
Yeah.
That seems to be where their friction is coming from.
But hey, the subject has changed to something good.
And that good thing is Dijamat's ship is going to be repaired in a few days.
And that's great.
He'd really like to repay the kindness by Archer.
Maybe there's someone on board that I could have like an arm showing contest with.
Like we could both roll up our sleeves incrementally and then like,
gauge the reaction from folks around.
Mine being terribly disgusting.
Maybe you have a crew person that has something very titillating on their arm.
You're never gonna let that go, are you?
Archer's like, you know, as a matter of fact, we do.
I think we could arrange that.
And
they start planning that, and we cut to a lady from this rescued crew entering Six Bay.
And she is nervous and has a
question for Dr.
Flox that she seems to be hoping will be covered by Starfleet HIPAA.
Her portrayal of pregnant lady just seemed.
I don't know how you do this any differently.
So this isn't a criticism at all.
It just seemed like it's shrouded in mystery, and that mystery is revealed later.
But like, it just seems obvious that that's what's going on here because of her manner.
Yeah, it was also just a weird cut because
it comes on the heels of Dijamat saying, I would like to repay your kindness, and then beautiful woman enters Six Bay.
It's like, what does he have in mind?
Like,
I don't know how these guys roll.
This seems fucked up.
Yeah.
You know, we also have a couple of personal spheres we bring around.
If we change the words,
then it's fair use all day long.
Dijamat's next stop is the regular ass mess haul, not the captain's mess.
All the food that Dijamat and his henches eat are like spherical shapes, like big jiggly jello molds.
They got pork buns, steamed pork buns.
They got grapefruits.
Baked Alaska.
Melons!
Big juicy melons!
Are they nice and firm?
Or what do you think?
Dijamat talks to a couple of his little buddies, and one of them is like a little like,
should we, are we doing this, Dijamat?
The like evil thing that we were hinting at scheming on in the in the cold open?
And Dijamat's like, hell yeah.
Are the men in place?
They're like, yeah, the men are in place.
And Dijamat explains that this is all basically divine providence.
Like that the entrepreneur is here is something that the sphere makers have provided to them because of their zealous fervor for their religious beliefs.
This is that thing about religious fanaticism, right?
Like the terrible actions you're about to take are made righteous when you put an us versus them kind of spin on it.
And that's what Dishmatt's able to do here.
I kind of wish this scene was peppered with a bunch of spoonfuls of jello mold and stuff.
Like I wanted more food in the mess hall because like there's a shading to these characters that make it seem as though deprivation is a part of their deal.
Like they're packed into these tiny ships.
They worship these fears.
Their clothes aren't what anyone would say is like the best.
Like I kind of wanted them to be totally energized by the food and maybe have the food be a reason to have second thoughts.
Right.
Yeah.
Like Yarik is like, like look at, look at how jiggly this is.
This is delightful.
The mouthfeel?
Amazing.
Dijamat's actually like, I like my spheres actually really firm and hard.
Like it's what I prefer.
Like I want to be able to slap one and just have it be not moving.
Yeah.
And Yarik's like, did Dijamat say that he wants it to be like a bag of sand?
And then Trip is like walking around with his tray looking for somewhere to sit and there is an open seat at their table, but then he looks at all of the food that they've selected and he like keeps walking.
Yeah.
Yeah, you'd have to.
Cut to the clarinet rental closet where Archer religion explains the Trianon belief system to TePaul.
A person who was just in a dinner scene hearing all about this, like she wasn't listening or something.
Yeah.
They don't get very far anyway.
They're interrupted by Dijamat and TePaul leaves like immediately, like in a way where if she was human, it would be very awkward.
But as a Vulcan, that's just her way.
Like she'll leave.
They just wanted to see the back of her head.
Yeah.
And she didn't want to hear something that Archer was going to then recapitulate to her in exactly the same terms a little bit later.
Right.
Right.
This way she saves the time.
You You know, I know that I'll hear whatever this guy says.
So, DJ Mod is like, hey, evil scheme time.
All of my little buddies wouldn't let you scan them because they have biological weapons built into their bodies and they can blow themselves up.
And to prove that, I'm going to radio up to a dude who is sitting in a random hallway right now.
And he is going to take himself out for the faith.
And this guy guy does it.
There's an Enterprise crew person walking by.
She can tell something weird's going on when this guy takes his little brooch
off of his chest and stabs it into his forearm.
Didn't you want this person to make a choice here?
Like the idea that she just stands still and watches this happen from somewhere move.
I wanted her to like go render aid to this person or get the fuck out and like not be able to escape fast enough.
There was something about what she didn't do here that kind of bumped me.
It was like deer in headlights.
And I think if you kill her in a way where she's making a decision, I think it makes her death more tragic in either of those cases.
I think the Starfleet officer writing is she runs in to render aid, right?
Like she sees this guy have blue veins start to spread out all over his body after he stabbed himself.
And she's like whipping out a tricorder and saying like, you know, like, we need to get you to Six bay and then and then she's taken out as punishment for her altruism this actor gets all the benefit of five seconds of screen time in a sequence of shot reverse shot but like and a wide shot and a close-up like there's yeah there's a lot given to this performance yeah i just wish a little more was given
back in the clarinet rental closet dijamott is saying look at me i am the captain now and archer's like, does that make me the pre-nom in this case?
And Dijamat's like, no, no, no, that's not how this works.
I'm the captain and the pre-nom.
And they start locking down the ship.
You remember that tour you offered to give my entire crew that happened off screen that has made it possible for all of my henches to be distributed evenly across all of the weak parts of your ship, the most sensitive areas, if you will?
That's where all my guys are.
Yeah.
Not only that, we're going to get your arms out of the armory.
We got to have webs.
He's the key.
So everybody is sent to their quarters and locked inside, except for like the critical people for running the ship.
That includes Trip and Engineering and a few people on the bridge.
But like Reed is locked up.
A lot of people are locked up so that they don't have to pay them to have spoken lines for the rest of the episode.
Some good the Makos are in this situation, right?
Like, wouldn't you have assumed that they were kind of always armed and maybe especially armed when there were strangers aboard the ship?
Yeah.
What exactly is your policy when you invite 26 crew people over that you've never met before and distribute them around the ship the way you have?
I mean, that's the thing.
It's like any one of them could blow big, so you got to kind of get them all off the ship all at once without them noticing you're doing it, or they can really do a lot of damage.
Yeah.
Archer and Trip are kind of talking and engineering Soto Voce about what's at stake.
Like, we gotta, we gotta play this out for a little while before we try to stop these guys so that we can do our Zindi mission.
So, Tripp is given pretty unequivocal orders.
You gotta help these guys for now, and I will figure something out.
Trip is like, so the lead guy, the lead guy's got some, some stiff on his forearm.
I gotta say, Cap,
I kind of like that guy's deal.
I mean, I'm no religious fanatic, but I could follow a guy like that.
Assuming at some point he gives a speech about, you know, you and I are not so different, you know, I'd like to be the other person in the room when he says something like that, you know?
I would be the most appropriate person for him to tell that to.
We get like so many scenes in this episode where it's just Archer and DeJamat usually in the clarinet rental closet talking one-on-one.
And they're talking at this point about, like, oh, you know, Archer's like brought back there to be brooding and angry.
And Dijamat's like, you know, like, you lost a crew member, but so did I, Captain.
Like, this is tough for me, too.
And Dark Archer, not sympathetic.
But we find out we are going to the Trianon homeworld.
And Dijamat gives the order to shoot.
torpedoes at his own ship before they go.
And I thought it would have been very fun if they'd shot those torpedoes and they did not effectively destroy his ship.
Well, there's a reason why Reed's not at a station
to shoot them.
I thought it was really intentional that the way this scene was blocked looks very much like the Reliant with Connon charge.
Like, we got some folks here that just don't belong.
They're wearing the loose beige garments.
You know,
there's not the exposed chests of a con and company.
Well, so if he said fire a couple of photon torpedoes at our ship and somebody had pushed the buttons a couple of times and said, I can't!
See, that's a hat on a hat, though.
Hang a lantern on it.
That's too much.
You know,
I think it would have been fun.
I think that's just good homage, you know?
Ketsu later in the command center, and Dijamat explains his big plan to Archer.
They're going to the Trianon homeworld to defeat a bunch of heretics using the Enterprise firepower to do it.
And we get more of a glimpse at this guy's deal.
He's the kind of idiot that thinks he's got it right and he'll be proved right when every non-believer is swept away, when the makers of the orbs return.
Yeah, he's bringing them back.
Just wait and see is his religious position.
Archer, you know, tries to argue the morality of this.
And Digimod is also like super duper pissed off at Archer because he's taken the time to look through some of the ship's logs and he's like, I mean,
you went through the barriers to spheres.
You've touched them.
You've gone inside of them.
You've committed terrible acts of desecration.
That is not something that my religion can abide.
And while you did save my life and give me this awesome starship that I'm going to use to complete my jihad, I do need to punish you.
And so you're going to have to go ahead and pick out a crew member that we can kill to, you know, exact revenge for the crimes against my religion that you've committed by being curious about these spheres.
Ben,
let's play a quick game.
You ready?
Okay.
We're going to go one, two, three, and then we're going to say the name of the crew person we would choose to die if we were Captain Archer here.
Okay.
Okay.
Here we go.
Three, two, one, read.
Read.
I just think that's so interesting.
Yeah.
Get him out of here.
Also, a thing that gets killed in this scene is all the data that they've collected on the spheres.
Like, DePaul was on the verge of cracking the sphere code.
This might be a good moment to just talk about, as a construction of a bad guy, you want to disagree with Dijamat.
You want to even hate him for being such a fucking hypocrite.
Do you think at this point, Dijamat is arch enough
to solicit that kind of strong feeling?
Like I get a lot of strong feelings about religious fundamentalism, but like when I see Dijamat, I'm just like kind of smirking.
Like he's kind of paint by numbers
in a way that I was like, I want him to be more evil almost.
Right.
Or to have something that complicates him, like that you like really like about him.
Like Like, I almost wanted him to have the pregnant girlfriend, you know?
Yeah, that would have been interesting.
She comes up in the next scene because Yerick, the guy that was worried about maybe we shouldn't take over the entrepreneur in the earlier scene, comes to drop off an iPad with Archer, and Archer immediately goes to work on Yerick.
Like, I know you're in Dijamat's inner circle, but you're also not totally on board with his methods.
And your wife wants an abortion.
Maybe you should be like rethinking the plan here.
And maybe you could help me drive this wedge in between you and your fearless leader.
I love how Archer here is not just an expert at escaping prisons, but helping other people escape mind prisons.
Oh, yeah.
He's an expert cult deprogrammer.
Yeah.
It's really great.
I mean, that's how he got Hoshi out of Nexium in the pilot, you know.
It's true.
Yeah.
I mean, the tattoo remains, but no longer a fan of volleyball.
No.
Is Hoshi.
Yeah, she's totally switched over to water poll.
Legally, it's just a fart joke.
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You will never take the greatest kid alive.
I love the sequence here, right?
Because we go from a Yerick putting up a brave face, like the face of a true believer, to out on the corridor talking to his lady friend about her conversation with Dr.
Flox.
And it's not that he doesn't agree with her.
They came to this choice together, W slash R slash G, their family planning.
It's more that if Dijamat ever found out, he would be ripshit.
And who knows what would happen then?
We've got this baby coming, and Dijamat's going to want that baby for his holy war.
Right.
And they just don't see that as a good future to bring a child into.
Yeah.
A bunch of holy warrior volleyball players, a bunch of forwards and spikers.
And what's another volleyball position?
Digger?
They're folks specialized in digging the other people's spikes.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah, setter, for sure.
Yeah.
I think that's all of them.
But is it, are there positions, or is it just like, because I thought you rotated through, right?
You do.
You have to.
Yeah.
Well, anyways, we get another scene where it's just Digimod and Archer debating shit.
And there's like a bus full of volleyball team players on their way to
a match, and the driver just somberly pushes Skip on the
iPod and like
plays an episode of Stuff You Should Know or whatever.
The whole bus erupts and cheers.
Side out, rotate.
So, yeah, the Dejamont and Archer have the we are not so different, you and I captain scene.
Hey,
Archer, you want to join the Hard Choices Club?
Because
who has two thumbs and killed a kid?
This guy.
Yeah, the
I killed a six-year-old to
keep our position.
uh hidden from our enemy in our religious war is not the super relatable relatable tale you think it is, Dijamat.
He tries his darndest, though, to make the case that Dark Archer equals Dijamat.
I had no idea we were such kindred spirits.
What makes you think that?
Like, you put a guy in an airlock and made him think you might blow him out into space one time
is his comp with Archer.
And yeah, it just doesn't track.
I mean, maybe if that guy was a kid, that would track.
Or maybe if he opened up the the airlock and that guy actually died, now we're cooking, right?
What if that had been a six-year-old kid?
Tell me the location, Sydney Leaven.
I'm going to put you on the spot, Ben.
Archer stock, pretty low at this point, I think.
I think we can agree on that.
Does your opinion of Archer change if he kills a six-year-old kid by letting him out an airlock in that episode?
I would say it does, but very little.
Yeah, very little.
Almost as little as that kid he blows out the airlock.
Am I right?
Yeah.
Speaking of
people who do a lot with regards to blowing things out airlock, Archer is asked who he has selected in the religious punishment choice that he's been asked to make.
And he says, Consider me as a failed clone of Ellen Ripley.
Kill me.
Nice one.
That was great.
I love how Dijamat's like, you got a second place?
Get a second choice for this?
He's like, read.
You know, I couldn't help but notice some squirrely guy that we confined to quarters who's like doing nothing but just scribbling on a pad of paper.
Like, we can't even get his attention.
We can't get him to eat.
How about that guy?
One thing I love about a battle of wits against a religious zealot is they tend to be...
rustic idiots that don't understand how shit works.
And so when Archer's like, we've got a humane killing device on board that we do use from time to time for this purpose, and Dijamat's like, Cool, where is it?
Simple Dijamat is unveiled here, and he and Yerick are given a demonstration of the killing booth using a cargo container.
First, Yerick's got to look at this thing, and I think he's on the hook too.
But when he sees it, he's got to be thinking about beaming that unborn baby out of his girlfriend, right?
This is a non-surgical method
to make that right.
Come on, Dijamont.
You've been through the fucking logs.
You can look up what this thing is.
That's just it.
He's lazy.
It's not just that he's dumb.
He's also lazy.
And what I love about this scene maybe most of all is that we don't get the scene before it or any hint that TePal and Archer are like.
Speaking in any sort of code, or there's an understanding that like, we're going to do a thing, but we need to talk about it first.
Like, they're so on the same wavelength that she knows exactly what the plan is.
And when he hops on to the thing and has his last words, she just beams him harmlessly into another part of the ship.
Yeah.
Dejamont, believing that Archer is dead, prays.
If you're Archer, you got to ham and cheese this up, right?
Yeah.
Like, brave, stoic last words.
He looks at TePaul, TePaul hits the things, and he's like,
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
It's not humane after all!
And I'm also pregnant!
You don't know that about humans!
That happened to Trip once.
Ask him about it!
Like if TePaul had also, like at the same time, beamed a plate of lasagna to that transporter bath.
Like lasagna that's been reheated in the microwave so that like you've over-reheated it.
It's too hot.
The cheese has melted and turned into like that lace.
It's broken.
Yeah.
That's what we need to be working with on the transporter pad.
Or just like some mashed potatoes with a whisk in it would have been fun.
If we're doing callbacks to Trek movies.
Like maybe
that's a surgical implant that Archer has, like a whisk in this century.
Oh yeah, yeah.
It wouldn't get the inorganic material.
That's just nature of the humane killing device.
And Dijamat's like humane killing device.
If you could even hear yourself.
You know, often in crematoriums, there's like the ashy, shaley matter, but also the hard stuff.
The hard stuff being the fillings and the whisks and so forth.
Sure.
Dijamat and Yarik have a little debate about whether it is okay to kill in the name of the sphere makers.
And Dijamat is like so zealous at this point that he's like, even
asking his heresy.
Yeah, you know what?
You're kind of sounding like an H right now, Yerick.
You're doing that on purpose, Yerick?
Chastened, Yerick leaves, and we go to Six Bay where Porthos is hanging with Flox
and he's in like an AOL chat room with Archer, who is
transmitting from another part of the ship.
Yeah.
Archer is like you up
and Dr.
Flox is like a slash s slash L
Archer's like I don't know late 40s I guess yes please a Jeffery's tube
and Flox is like yeah so if we if we're gonna like figure out a way to neutralize these body bombs that these guys all have in them we need a detailed scan of of one of them.
And Archer can do that.
He goes and bonks a guy on the head and scans him up and sends the scan to Flox.
But, like,
these guys are kind of on their game security-wise, because this dude going missing is immediately an emergency that is explained to Gigamot.
And he's walking out onto the bridge to start ordering search parties when main power gets disrupted.
And we cut down to Archer just like willy-nilly unplugging stuff in a Jeffers tube.
How fucking dangerous must this be?
It's a really fun sequence that shows a lot of things happening very quickly.
It's great.
Yeah.
Nobody is like Archer must have tricked us and is alive in the ship or there's somebody that we didn't account for alive in the ship somewhere.
Like they never get suspicious about this.
They really downplay that he is dieharding or Stephen Segalling his way through the ship.
It's not like that at all.
But it very well could be.
Yeah.
Trip Tucker is accused of being the saboteur, but he's like, no, it ain't me.
Look.
And the camera pans down and he's still wearing wooden shoes.
Hence the word sabotage.
He's like, I've been here the whole time and you've been watching me.
They're both on my feet, sir.
Yeah.
And the guy's like, yeah, those are the shoes that he was wearing when I came on duty.
I've been watching him the whole time.
Yeah.
He's mostly just been kind of like, not scratching his forearms through his uniform, but like he's doing something.
Kind of a twisting, kind of tracing of some S's around his forearm.
I saw him do the alphabet at one point.
That was kind of interesting.
I got to try that sometime.
So, Yerick and some other Tri-Annon dude go looking for the problem because the problem isn't Trip Tucker.
The problem is Archer, who they run into.
And Archer's got a Phaser.
But once Yerick's buddy goes down, Archer isn't just doling out phaser blasts.
He's doling out stern talking twos.
And Archer takes one to the dome here about how his wife and child are as good as dead with this nut job running the show.
And there's like a moment in TV and movies that often goes like, you're playing for the wrong team, religious crazy person.
This leader you're following is crazy.
So often this goes into, you know who should be the leader?
You.
But Archer never takes this angle.
I think it's because he sees something different in him.
Yeah, this is the highest risk part of Archer's plan, is like de-radicalize Yerick on the fly mid-plan.
But I guess he must have seen something in Yerick in the previous interaction that they had.
I mean, he busted him out of mental jail.
I guess so.
He's just that good.
Yeah, he's Galaxy's best talkdown man.
They're having this conversation when some other...
Triannan ships show up, and these are the heretics.
And we find out from Yerick that the religious dispute is over the number of days it took for the makers to create the Delphic expanse.
These guys believe 10.
Dee Jamaad and his guys believe 9.
And they've been fighting a bloody war for centuries.
Fucking 10 dayers.
I cannot believe it.
Crazy.
And I've got faith of the far hearts.
Legally, it's just a virtue.
What number of ships represents a fleet versus a convoy versus however many ships this is?
Yeah, it's described as a convoy.
It's four.
This is what I'm getting at.
Like, I think if it's five or six, it's a fleet, right?
Except in Civ, it's three.
Oh, yeah.
Well,
I don't know if they're playing by Sid Meier rules.
They're not.
Yeah, definitely not.
Tell you what, they're both going for religious victory here.
They sure are.
So Archer is like, hey man, I need you to go to the bridge and push a couple of buttons on this panel.
And he shows him a picture of it.
And we're going to release an airborne agent that will neutralize the body bombs.
I was just thinking about that kind of internet comedy that recuts a scene like this, where Archer's like,
here's what you need to go do, and like shows him the pad.
But then we get an angle on the pad, and it's like a picture of horse playing saxophone or Garfield
or something fucked up.
Yurik's like, what?
I actually think when you handed me the pad, like my thumb accidentally flipped over to a different tab.
Maybe, should I hand this back to you so you can give me the schematic I'm supposed to look at?
Why are you looking at this in the Tor browser?
What are you hiding?
So Dijima wants to fight these guys that showed up.
What surprised you about the way the the 10-dayers looked when we finally got them off on the FaceTime Ben?
Not much, I guess.
They're just bland, regular guys.
Their face tattoos are black.
Oh, I didn't even notice that.
And Dijamat and his crew have red ones.
Yeah.
They're like checkers religion.
They're like those guys from TOS where they're like a black and white cookie, but some of them are the opposite.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
It's that level of religious difference.
There's a T-Paul.
I should say it like that from now on.
There's a T-Paul scene
in this moment that I didn't quite understand.
Maybe you can help me figure it out.
I loved playing T-Paul when I was like, you know, six years old.
The problem with playing T-Paul is you accidentally hit the T more than you hit the ball.
I hate that.
So frustrating.
Keep your eye on the ball.
I'd say.
T-Paul won't fire on the ships.
when told to, and she's pulled out of her seat so some hench can do it for her.
but she won't just stand by and watch her counterattack to this intervening is like kind of slapping and like
one of the weakest Star Trek fights we've ever seen.
Why didn't she go after some necks here?
I know like Vulcans are fucking strong.
There's no way this should happen.
If you go into like what her mindset is in this moment, she is trying to stop them from murdering people
with weapons that have been taken out of her hands.
Like she should be like going buck fucking wild on these guys.
She should smash this guy's head on a panel like it's a fucking overripe watermelon.
Melons!
Yeah.
Big juicy melons.
And she could.
That would have been fucking sick.
Yeah.
But
no, she does not stop them.
But amid the chaos, Phlox lets a bat out in Six Bay, and this is going to start distracting the guy that's guarding Phlox.
Archer goes and gets Reed and tells him that they need to spring all the Makos from their quarters so that they can take back the ship.
DGMAT is like fighting the Heretics.
He gets some of them to start retreating, but he's like still, he's like, chase them and kill the rest of them.
That's when Yerik goes and sneaks off and reroutes environmental control so that Flox can use the distracting bat.
to inject his guard with something to knock him out and rig the airborne toxin up to some gadget so that it will distribute it throughout the ship.
How much do you like the bat plan?
Like, Dr.
Flox has so many distracting things in Six Bay.
Yeah.
I got to feel like there's a moment where he's like, I am wealthy beyond measure in terms of distraction.
Like, like, it could be anything.
And it's up to me to choose something creative, something that delights me.
Dr.
Flox.
I'm surprised it wasn't Porthos, just because like they made a point of showing that Porthos is in there.
Dr.
Flox just starts winging dog shit at this guy.
I mean, I was just picturing like of the beagles I've known in my life.
Trying to imagine a beagle that is totally silent in a scenario where there's a bat flying around in an enclosed space is impossible.
Science fiction.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's not a thing.
Maybe the most science fictional thing we've ever seen depicted in Star Trek is a calm and collected beagle.
I love how Dr.
Flox kind of becomes a vampire here by hypo-spraying this guy in the neck
to take him down.
Yeah, how about that?
Pretty good.
So, in the torpedo bay, Reed and Archer are now openly firefighting with their invaders, and this guy that they're fighting tries to do the stabby into the arm self-explosion thing, but it does not work.
He just winds up doing a trust fall off the ladder into their arms.
There is,
I think we can talk about this on the show without getting it cut out.
Okay.
Help me talk about this on the show without getting it cut out.
All right, Wendy.
Hold on to your butts, everybody.
There is a quality to suicide attempts that are filled with regret by the person making the attempt.
But it's so interesting in these scenes to get kind of the opposite of that.
Like the attempt of someone to do it, having it not work, and the guy's like, fuck, fuck.
Like, I really want this.
Why isn't it working?
I think the difference is suicide bomber.
It's
not like, he's not like, oh, I lost the firefight.
I won't be able to look DJMont in the face after a failure of this kind.
This fucking guy does like the trust fall off of the ladder, though, like, kind of, eh.
Yeah.
You know, the sales team put up banner numbers the next quarter
after this guy.
We see a lot of folks stab themselves in the arm in this episode
attempting to do this.
Yeah, I thought it was interesting that this fight scene took place in the torpedo room because the next scene is them shooting torpedoes at one of these heretic vessels.
And I was like, couldn't they have just like offlined the whole weapon system?
Yeah.
From there, they were right there.
It would seem as though there's a big, like, break glass and pull the thing to shut that whole thing down.
Nope.
Nope.
So a bunch more firefights.
We're in engineering.
We're in corridors all over the ship.
Makos are on the scene, and that helps.
Yeah.
One of these makos looks like she's about to lose a hand-to-hand situation with one of the invaders when...
The lady who wanted the abortion shoots him in the back.
She takes out one of her own, and they sort of get the ship under control.
They turn off weapons.
Archer reveals himself to Dijamod on the bridge, and he's like, ha, I wasn't dead this whole time.
And Dijamod's like, fuck, I should have realized when anything happened out of the ordinary the moment after we materialized you.
I mean, he's not the only one.
receiving bad news.
Yeric is told that his lady friend switched teams after becoming pregnant.
He's like, fuck, fuck.
I heard about this happening and now it happened to me.
I thought it would have been real fun if Archer had tried to play it like, I've been resurrected by the Sphere Makers.
You're wrong, Digimod.
Dude, I wanted that so bad.
Like, like the angle up and in on Dijamat, and he's like, you're supposed to be dead.
Yeah, yeah.
There's a lot of restraint in this episode like that.
Like, I think we've noted it a few times.
Like, wouldn't it be cool if?
Wouldn't it be cool if?
but, like, because like, Captain Picard could and would never, like, play on somebody's religious beliefs, but I feel like Archer is absolutely enough of a Wild West that he could and would.
Yeah.
Guess who rose from the dead, bitch?
Shoots DJ Motten and goes, your forearm makes me sick.
We get a big firefight on the bridge.
I like a firefight on the bridge.
You know what I don't like?
Mayweather not having any dialogue at all at any point in any bridge scene whatsoever.
Whether or not he's being told to steer the ship a certain way or take an order or take an order with a phaser to his head.
He doesn't say anything.
He doesn't get anything cool to do, even.
You know?
He's got to say something.
When someone sticks a phaser to your temple, you got to say something.
Yeah.
Here's something Mayweather could say.
Hey,
don't.
What do you think of that?
Is that good?
Yeah.
You got one?
I prefer Deli to Dijon, bitch.
Is that something Mayweather says?
Yeah.
Just, I don't know.
Oh, like, like, Mayweather's giving line readings to Archer on the burst-in.
Like, yeah, yeah.
Okay, I like that.
Yeah, he's
roxanning Archer a little bit.
like, here's some material.
Yeah.
Mayweather is mute Syrano de Bergerac.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they're still in the fight with the heretics who are shooting from outside the ship, but Archer blows in a hail and gets the attackers to stand down.
And then we are down in the brig where Digimat has been on ice and Archer comes in to tell him that they're going to be dropping him off on his home planet.
And Digimot's like, man, what the hell?
Like, if you just let me do my glorious mission, I could have come back here.
I could have taken out the heretics all at once.
We could have had peace.
Like, you think you did a good thing.
You did a bad thing.
I was going to kill some people.
I admit it.
But it was in the cause.
of creating a lasting peace for my people.
Kind of a lot of lip for a beaten man, don't you think?
Yeah.
This is the kind of lip you get from somebody that you didn't go, like, I've been resurrected.
What does that do to your super rigid belief structure?
That's just it.
If Archer had a great hero line, it would have shut this shit down.
Once and for all.
This is what you need to do.
You need to humiliate these people so that they shut the fuck up.
Yeah.
They need to be publicly humiliated.
You know what?
may or may not count as public humiliation?
Taking Dijamat to the surface of Trianon, showing him that it's absolutely trashed because eight months ago both sides destroyed each other and the war is over.
Is that public humiliation if everyone's dead?
Yeah, that's that's basically the moral equivalent of replacing Yuri Geller's spoons before he goes on the tonight show.
I love how the ending is like, well, I guess we'll leave you here.
Bye.
Seems like you got the peace you were looking for, Dijamat.
Yeah.
Did you find any peace in this episode, Ben?
Did you like it?
I can't pay.
Couldn't plate.
Got no kid.
Tempting fate.
I did like this episode.
I think there's like some real missed opportunities in this episode, but overall, I thought it was very interesting.
It's like
it has a lot of Star Trek DNA in it.
The like this society is like dooming itself to failure because of the intractability of their bad belief systems.
And in many ways, that's like a more TOS kind of Star Trek story than any other kind of Star Trek story.
But I thought that they came up with a really creative way of telling it and revealing that absurdity without it being, you know, Kirk beaming down and busting everybody's balls and then beaming back up and warping away, you know?
That can be fun too.
That can be fun too, but I thought this was a more contemporary treatment of that kind of idea.
How about you?
Yeah, and I think in that way, that's one of the aspects of the episode that veers it into like preachy Star Trek episode that's a little too on the nose in a way that isn't entirely satisfying.
Like,
I do appreciate very much that fundamentalism is the enemy and the enemy of knowledge and all that.
But like, Star Trek just can't get out of its own way in like really underlining and highlighting all of those things.
And I think one way you can do that is to maybe choose a little more fun in the way that we noted.
Like, this episode chooses no fun at all of the points where you could be fun in a way that is very self-serious.
Yeah.
In a way that Star Trek tends to be.
That's a very post-9-11 mood, too.
You know what?
I didn't consider that part of it.
Like, there was not room for a lot of comedy in this area at that moment in time, was there?
Yeah, you couldn't, like, zing on the idea of suicide bombers.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No Toby Keith jokes for many years after
this.
It's so clear that they do Mayweather dirty in episodes like this, where he's there.
He's there in so many scenes with nothing to do or say.
And at least they give Hoshi, her character and the actor who plays her the dignity of not even showing her in the scene.
Like, she's just not there.
She's clearly been taken to recorders or whatever.
She got to take the week off, you know?
Yeah.
I would rather Mayweather's character just not be a part of this than be given as little as he's given here.
Like, you don't have to run over time.
You don't have to not make your day by giving him two lines of dialogue that are interesting when he has a phaser held to his fucking temple.
Yeah.
Like, it's human to have a reaction to that moment.
It is unusual and weird for him not to have a reaction to that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Give me anything there.
So that's how I feel about it.
But.
Interesting Manny Koto episode.
Interesting Manny Koto episode.
Another writer of note in this episode, Adam.
Taylor Sheridan had a small part in this one.
How about that?
Yeah.
Interesting.
I didn't even clock him on screen.
Then I looked it up later and I was like, oh, shit, that was...
Holy shit.
Sicario guy.
Amazing he wasn't too busy to do this.
At this point in his career, he was not.
But yeah, great pull.
Well.
Do you want to see if there's anything great in the Priority One inbox, Adam?
Oh, yeah.
Always is.
Fundamentally, some of our best FODs are in there.
Priority one message from Starfleet coming in on secured channel.
Need a supplemental income.
Supplemental income.
Supplemental.
Supplemental income.
Yes, extra.
But the interest alone could be enough to buy this ship.
This first one is of a promotional nature, Adam.
Goes like this.
Kind of because I've always wanted a reason to support this podcast, and now I have a good cause to promote.
I'm using the money my parents insist on giving me, a 40-year-old, on my birthday, to ask you to send a donation to NL West SPCA in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada, a small town animal shelter serving a large area that is scary low on funds.
E-transfers go to nlwestspca at gmail.com until we figure out that post-scarcity society thing any little bit helps.
Thank you, fellow FODs.
So that's Victoria for the NL West SPCA asking you to donate by e-transfer to nlwestspca at gmail.com or visit their Google site
by searching NLWest SPCA.
Hey, just to be clear on this, like by saying e-transfers, we're talking about all of the other, all the kinds, like the PayPals and the Venmos and so forth.
Look for NLWest SPCA at gmail.com.
I guess so.
Yeah, e-transfer is not a term that I'm familiar with.
Not living in Canada, I want to be able to support this, and hopefully that's a way to do it.
Yeah, important work being done there, and a scary thing to consider a small shelter serving a large area.
Yeah.
One of the notable things about the pandemic is just how many more folks adopted animals during that time and how many of them ended up in shelters in the years that followed.
So
I hope we can collectively support this location of the SPCA, but also your local ones.
Yeah, indeed.
And I'm seeing on their Google site that there's also a donate link there.
So great.
If you're not sure what an e-transfer is like me and Adam, just search up their Google site and that'll take you to the right place.
Sounds great.
Thanks, Victoria.
Ben, we got a message here from your frog prince.
It's to you and me and all FODs everywhere.
Here's that message.
Looking forward to dropping some scarves on hooves and hanging at the Prana Cabana STLV this year.
Wow.
It will be my first Trek convention in a long, long time.
So, to commemorate the occasion, not sure if anyone has ever done this.
All the drops,
Team Leader Bro, Fourth Boy Defense Contingent.
Who are you?
In some Chadis Mayweather.
This is fucking spectacular.
Suska, she a real bad bitch hacker spreader.
What kind of a girl do you think I am?
Wow.
It's like that time Ferris Bueller really mashed all the keys on his burp and fart keyboard to sell how sick he was over the phone.
Yeah,
STLV, you guys, next week.
Amazing.
So be like your frog prince and meet us out there.
We're going to be there every day of STLV.
It's going to be nice to see your frog prince in person.
Yeah.
Come see us at our booth.
Yeah.
Come hang out.
Our last P1 here is from Greatest Gen TNG Season 7 Episode 1 Graham.
And it's to future Dr.
Graham.
Goes like this.
Hello from the past.
I started listening with season 1 episode 1 in 2024 while getting a PhD.
By the time I hear this, what will the pod be like?
Is Drunk Shimoda still a thing post-TNG?
Are Raz and Plavim still at it?
Do all impressions meld into one one Buffalo Bill-style voice?
Yes.
When will I hear this message?
Keep writing.
Thanks, Ben and Adam, for the laughs and movies convo.
How about that?
Wow.
Thank you, future Dr.
Graham.
I hope you're a doctor by the time you hear this.
I know PhDs can take a really long time, but
you know.
So this was in 2024,
starting the PhD.
Yeah.
Do you think there's been enough time, Ben?
I don't think so.
I think Dr.
Graham is probably still working their way through, but hopefully not too long before they catch up to this.
Well, Ben, as long as there are folks in school studying, becoming doctors, we will be here to support them in their studies.
Being not as smart as them in our efforts.
Getting the word out on their challenges, as well as
great folks at animal shelters and folks who just want to play all the drops.
What I'm trying to say is, any kind of message is a message that will read on the greatest generation.
To do that, you go to maximumfund.org slash jumbotron.
It's a great way to support the show.
Hey, Adam.
What?
Did you find yourself a drunk Shimota?
Incredible.
Drunk Shimoda.
Hey, it's still a thing.
I just feel like Dijamat
didn't think this one through.
Like, I love the idea of, like, he's looking at his view screen and he's like, he's like a carjacker, right?
He's like, you know, I saw that old lady.
And by old lady, I mean shuttle pot, you know, just visit an ATM.
And by ATM, I mean sphere.
Are you following this, Ben?
I like what you're doing.
So Dijamat's like looking out of a van window across the parking lot and he's like, I think, I think there's my mark.
I think that old lady is driving a vehicle I want for myself.
So he gets out and does the jacking,
except
like he's smart enough to know what he wants, but he's not smart enough to know what to do with the thing once he finally gets it.
Yeah.
He needed to think this through a little more.
Yeah.
Did a bad job with the jacking.
He talked to a guy, a known airlock blower.
Like,
do we really need all the crew aboard the Enterprise if this is your plan?
You've already demonstrated a capacity for killing.
You kill little kids.
You kill other people on the ship.
I mean are you planning on giving the ship back to them at some point?
What I'm trying to say, Dijamat, is at that point, you shouldn't hesitate.
You should be rock and roll from there on out.
TV religious zillet
heard it mostly.
Reed was writing letters mostly.
What about you, Ben?
Yeah, it's Dijamat.
Like, if you know about blowing a guy out the airlock, you should know about the transporter and what its function is.
You know, you know what he should have done.
Like, Archer tells him about the transporter being the death machine.
Dijima should have been like, actually,
I think it would be kind of poetic if airlock was what did you in Archer.
Like, you're kind of Captain Airlock to me.
Just called Archer's bluff, yeah.
What do you think about that?
Did like see what Archer does?
Like, um, uh, well, it's not as humane.
Dijamat's like, again, not an acceptable terminology to be using with me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
So let's double that up.
Digimat.
Faith of the fart.
All right.
Let's talk about our next episode.
And it'll be season three, episode 13, proving ground.
An Andorian ship led by Commander Shran arrives in the Delphic Expanse to help Enterprise hone in on the Zindi super weapon?
Oh,
we're already there.
Shran is helping now.
I like Shran.
Shran's horny.
This is going to be another horny episode.
The thumbnail I'm looking at for this episode is the back of Archer's head looking at the view screen, and Shran is completely obscured except for his antennas staying up.
Fine.
Can't wait to see what that's all about.
And I also can't wait to see how we will be covering this episode.
For that, I'm headed to gosh.biz/slash game,
where our runabout is presently on square eight.
and I'm going to find out what kind of square it shall be on
at such time as we record the next episode, Adam.
It could be on anything.
You're required to learn as you play.
Roll,
but it isn't.
It's just on square 50, which is a regular episode.
Tula!
Did I win?
Hardly.
50.
How about that?
All right.
I'm 50!
Bet you didn't know I could kick my leg that high in the air, Adam.
That's fun.
I'm grateful for all the support we get for this show, Ben.
You can show your gratitude in maximumfund.org slash join.
Getting on a support plan.
Just five bucks a month.
With the number of episodes we put out every month, that's worth it.
Five bucks a month?
That's a deal.
That's a steal.
It really is.
Yeah.
You can't get anything for five bucks anymore.
And the price not going up year after year?
Yeah.
Amazing.
What price but this has not gone up year after year?
Impossible.
Got to thank Wendy Pretty, our producer and editor, for all of the hard work being done on every episode of this show.
Also got to thank Bill Tilley, our Zindi wartime concigliary.
Both of them are going to be at STLV.
Oh, yeah.
Look, I'm looking forward to a lot of aspects of STLV, but like getting a lot of the gang back together, it's fun.
It's going to be fun.
Got to thank Rob Adler, our social media director.
Follow all of our online stuff by following at greatest trek on the various socials.
I think we're pretty much focused on like Insta and Blue Sky these days, but we're in a lot of other places too.
We have friends everywhere.
We have friends everywhere, and you should be on our mailing list.
Know all of the things going on by being signed up for our mailing list.
Yeah, you you want to know exactly where we're going to be on any given day at Star Trek Las Vegas, not in a creepy way, just in a way that gives you a general understanding of how to have a fun and not weird interaction with us.
The newsletter is a great thing to have.
Sure is.
That's where we put information like that.
Well, with that, we will be back at you next week with another great episode of Star Trek Enterprise, an episode of the Greatest Generation Enterprise, where we're on the stream and somebody's doing like the the bunny rabbit ears behind our heads.
You can never see who's doing it.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Can't tell what's what's causing that.
That's a fun Andorian bit, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, there's an Andorian behind you.
Yeah, exactly.
That's fun.
That's real fun.
Catching, John Lu Picard, the Unfinished, Center Crime.
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