Qo’noS Roadshow (ENT S2E25)

Here's to the finest crew in starving.

When it comes to my crew, you won't get any argument from me.

This is a parody.

Paramount owns the sun.

Welcome to the Greatest Generation.

It's a Star Trek podcast by a couple of guys just a little bit embarrassed to have a Star Trek podcast.

I'm Adam Pranica.

I'm Ben Harrison.

It's bug season.

Have you noticed?

Have you noticed they're back?

Uh-huh.

They're fully back.

We, I mean, I think we talked a couple of weeks ago about it being one bug in my office season.

Yeah.

Which comes early, you know.

That's the first Robin of Spring in LA is one bug in office.

I think I got the one bug in office right before we started recording.

You don't, you don't want to mess up the sync clap, right?

Like that getting that one fungus gnat.

If you don't get the sync clap right, the whole show falls apart after.

And we never hear about it.

Wendy keeps that from us.

Yeah.

Wendy will fully do like an extra full two days of excruciating work relining things up and then will tell us about it like a week later.

We'll be like, you should have told us.

We could help.

I think you've cultivated an air where no one wants to give you bad news.

And I think, you know, so often in like a corporate environment, that is a way to say, boy, that boss is a live wire and a loose cannon.

But with Ben, it's like, we cannot add anything to what's going on there.

He must never know how we struggle.

Ben will walk into the ocean if one more bad thing is mentioned to him.

Listen, man, I'm wondering, I got this fish tank in my office now.

Yeah, are they related?

Like, you keep a vessel of temperate water in there.

But there's also, like, carnivorous creatures in that water.

So I don't think anything can, like, lay an egg in there without.

Are you creating a system where the bugs grow and then they get into the water and then they die in like a a closed loop?

If you can picture the water cycle diagram from your, like, second grade science textbook that just said science on the cover.

I remember it well.

My favorite book before I covered it with the bag from a grocery store.

Yeah, I didn't have to do that because I owned the book.

It's my book.

Point to the area of the bookshelf where the science book now rests, Ben.

I actually do.

I actually have moved across country several times with

all my fucking books, and many of them are school books.

I was going to say, I have one of those,

you know, the fan that blows in at a piece of sticky paper bug catchers in my office.

I've got one of those too.

It looks like what the old Mac Pro used to look like.

The little

black cylinder.

Yeah.

When it was a little black cylinder.

And

I have been running it like, you know, when single bug in my office season started again, I

put in a new piece of sticky paper and set it running.

Today I looked at it and there is like a skirt of dead gnats around the outside of it.

And I don't understand how that happens.

That is such a fuck you to the system.

Yeah.

Like you're supposed to be on the sticky paper.

Like they're outside the paper killing themselves to spite you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wow.

They have like a can of gas and they're pouring.

I mean, it's like such a small amount of gas, it's not going to start a house fire, but they're pouring a can of gas all over their little bug selves and self-immolating in protest of my

bug genocide device.

Like with their bodies, they spell out the words, you've done a bad job.

Like, that's just even worse.

Why would you tell Ben that?

This is why Wendy can't tell us when a struggle is happening in the edit.

Ben, I got to tell you, I'm hearing about that stuff.

It's okay.

Wow.

I'm on it.

So there's a side chat.

Yeah, we got it.

We got it handled.

Oh, good.

Okay, good.

So do you think,

look, whether or not the bugs are killing themselves or you've deployed a weapon with an agent that does the killing.

Are you on the other side of the problem?

No, because I still have one bug in my studio at all times.

Like, I think.

Is that bug always the same or is it a different bug?

No, because I kill it every time.

I'm replacing the old dead one.

That's right.

I throw off the sink clap.

I get it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah.

We're early enough in the season that they're slow bugs, you know?

Like, you get to the hotter months and these bugs are uncatchable.

These are simple bugs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We have not reached the neon Dion phase of single bug in office yet.

Yeah.

We're still getting Lenny bugs.

My problem is not airborne.

You seem to have the airborne bug problem.

Mine are on the ground and they are ants.

Oh.

And this is the time of year where ants are in the studio.

I don't eat in the studio.

I don't know what they're here for or what they think they hope to accomplish by being here.

my wife and i were were doing yoga in the other part of the this little adu we're in and she's like i gotta stop like but i'm like babe what's going on

and she's all there is a row of ants like crawling past my mat on their way to a thing

So we stop the yoga, get out the spray, hit the ants, like stop the yoga in the middle.

Yoga pivoting to poison is just, it's, you know, that it's a bad sign.

It's not what you want.

It changes the whole energy.

It's like the opposite of what yoga is about in many ways.

I know, man.

You're totally right.

You fucking torched your chakras.

We were so peaceful, and then we murdered a billion ants.

And we got back to the last 10 minutes of the yoga, and it was like, it wasn't the same.

The mood was ruined.

You could tell Adrian was judging you from the other side of the screen.

Aditi's our instructor.

Oh, okay.

But yeah, her judgment is withering.

We thought we had the problem solved, but as you well know, you can kill the ant trail, but until you get the source.

Yeah.

Until the source of the ants commits suicide in front of you, sending you a message,

you don't have your arms around the problem.

And I found this out just this morning, where I was in here using the studio bathroom and looking at my phone as you do.

Mostly good stuff on the phone, I assume.

Ben, I felt a little tickle.

Felt a little tickle and

what I realized when I looked down was

an ant was crawling on my balls.

It had somehow found its way into the bowl and then on the underside of the seat

transited across the the the bottom of my legs yeah toward what was hanging right in the middle and uh i just want to tell you not a bad feeling

you know what kind of a special tickle even ants know not to neglect the balls you know

yeah this guy died soon after and my time on the bowl ended as abruptly as that yoga session

Which is all to say, my bug problem has no solution at this point.

It's ongoing.

I would say that you have a bug proppertonity, my friend.

I sure do.

Yeah.

But today, Ben, a different kind of problem.

A problem really that is not seen as an opportunity until maybe at the very end.

Yeah.

Sure.

Let's dig into Star Trek Enterprise Season 2, Episode 25.

It's called Bounty.

Working title on the script was Quilted Quicker Picker Upper.

What's your brand?

We were a like Trader Joe's or whatever was cheapest household for most of my life.

And then when the baby first came, Jerome, the boy.

Our doula, she gave us like a shopping list of shit you will need when you have a little tiny baby at home that you don't know about yet because you've never done this before.

And she put us on to Viva paper towels, which are made out of cotton.

And I think we pay a small fortune for our paper towels now, but that is the kind we get.

I'm surprised you were already there.

Given opinions expressed on a recent episode of

mild hit Patreon podcast Wholesome, you You expressed a lifelong interest in like getting the best things.

It feels like

paper products are a value you realize time after time, day after day.

True.

I think that that obsession of mine has a lot more to do with durable goods, though.

Is a paper towel not meant to be durable?

You see it all the time in the commercial.

You get it wet and you do the little

pole.

Imagine wringing out a paper towel.

Who does that?

Let me tell you, Adam, with the Viva brand, you can do it.

Hey, I don't have a baby and don't want one so here's where that question comes from if cotton was such a a great concern for a household with kids why not switch off of paper towels to uh to like cloth yeah because we got off of paper towels during the pandemic we were like well if we can't find paper towels in grocery stores i guess we're just gonna get like the linen rag and we have like a fucking stack of these at home that we just go through every week yeah i did a thing years ago which was i bought you know, those like blue medical towels, like the, the ones that like sometimes have like a hole cut in them so that they can drape it over you when they're going to do surgery.

And just they, they're like, you have those?

Yeah.

There's like a guy online that, that he's, I think he is a physician, but he has a little side hustle selling stack of blue medical towels because they're like durable and very absorbent.

Are they used?

No, and they're, and it's like, it's new fabric, but you use them like a paper towel and then you throw them in the laundry.

And if they have holes, they can stack on the paper towel dispenser.

Yeah, and you don't mind them getting beat up, you know, because they're not like, it's not like a nice dish towel that you got at

Sur la Table.

That is legally how you have to say that name.

Yeah.

What do you say, sur la table?

Now, I don't want to get in the crosshairs of sur le table

corporate.

So, yeah, i mean we do that too but you know

we're washing poop out of a lot of things and uh sometimes you just don't want to have to

you find out about the textiles in your life pretty quickly yeah yeah when you cover them in shit you really can archer finds out about tellerites pretty quickly in today's episode which i'll remind everyone is season two episode 25 bounty and he and trip have been exploring an uninhabited planet.

They get up to the ship having had a great time.

You can tell because they're all dirty.

And

there is

an unexpected visitor outside the ship now that would like to talk to Archer specifically.

It's got to be such a shock when you're the captain of a ship to like go to the bridge and there's already a strange ship on the view screen.

I don't think I would like that surprise.

No, you want a heads up?

God damn it.

There is a second bug in my office.

What the hell?

Yeah.

It's one of those crazy ones, too.

If you're not watching the stream at home, Ben's attention was diverted to all areas outside the camera.

It's one of those ones that looks like a really, really big mosquito, but it isn't a mosquito.

You know what I'm talking about?

Who knows what they are?

Yeah.

No one will ever know.

Yeah.

So up on the FaceTime, the captain of this ship appears, and it's Captain Skillar.

Mm-hmm.

Could you tell if this was Jason or Randy?

Because I can't tell the difference.

I know that it's Sklar racism.

That is the laugh that you deserved out of me.

Yeah,

I could not tell which.

Under just a mountain of tellerite loaf, Captain Skillar exists.

He styles himself as a geographic expert on the planet that Tripp and Archer were just down there exploring.

Yeah.

Because he's like initially pissed that they're there until he finds out that it was just funsies and shore leave that they were doing and not like

mining or something.

In that case, I recommend you visit the equatorial range.

The view from the north summit is inspiring.

I thought it got a little awkward when he started talking about the polar island chain that needed exploring.

It seems a little soon in this relationship to start talking about the polar island chain.

Yeah.

This, of course, was a place that that aunt was exploring in the marin of this episode.

Would he be their guide?

They wonder?

Sure he will.

I'll help you plan your sure leave.

Very welcoming.

Just meet this guy in the airlock and they can go ahead and get started.

But when the door opens, Captain Skolar is shooting first and he takes down Trip Tucker first, which is classic.

Like Trip is always the first to go down in these moments.

And after a brief scuffle, Archer goes down next into the theme.

Yeah, he shoots Trip.

He shoots a pot full of mashed potatoes with a whisk in it and just the pot disappears and then he shoots Archer and then he goes.

And after the theme, Hoshi determines that weapons fire has happened on board unauthorized due to the presence of that pile of mashed potatoes with a whisk in it.

What good is a docking clamp if you can just rip your ship off of it the way the Tellerite ship does here?

I feel like it must be like three or four times a season that Enterprise has got to go in for repairing the docking clamps because somebody ripped off the docking clamps.

upon departure.

I kind of wish there was more of a chunk taken off of Enterprise when this thing goes, and it was still like attached to the Tellerite ship.

Yeah, and like Trip got sucked into space because of the chunk getting taken.

That is left as a question for kind of a long time.

The whatever happened to Tripness of this, and if he's on that ship too, or if he's just blown out into space.

What's interesting about the Tellerite's escape is that Enterprise can't pursue because on his way out, the Tellerite captain shoots an Acel,

and

that actually frees them up to stop and wait for the recall of all of their crew that are still down on the surface.

But it made me wonder, if they could pursue,

would they have?

And left the guys on the surface?

I think you have to, right?

I mean, the guys on the surface have a shuttle pod.

They've got some provisions in there, presumably.

They'll be fine.

No bathroom that we know about, but...

You know, they can dig a hole.

Yeah.

That's what the shovel's for.

This is like something like that you just have to accept about Star Trek,

old Star Trek, I'll say, is that like when the ship is getting embarrassed by an alien, that embarrassment will be sustained.

Like he is shooting a guy, like grabbing someone, taking him aboard his ship.

He then shoots their nacelle to knock out Warp.

Like the pants are getting pulled down for a sustained 30 seconds in a row before the crew are like even reacting to what's going on.

I'm not sure I've ever thought about it that way, but that's really astute.

It's like how if you see a bank robbery in a movie, the cop in the bank never apprehends the robber and then the problem is done.

Like the robber is permitted to get the money into the bag and then leave in the getaway car and so forth.

Right.

You're never rooting for the cop in the in the bank heist movie, you know.

I mean, I was against the Joker.

The Joker was a bad guy.

He was bad, yeah.

But he was also robbing a mob bank, so it's like, you know, kind of bad guy on bad guy action there.

But like, you want like Hoshi and Reed to be like, oh, fuck, like, this guy's leaving.

Throw the extra clamps on the docking ring so that he can't.

It's problem solved, you know?

They should use the grapplers like a bike chain.

Like, if you want to dock with Enterprise, you also get a grappler

right on you.

Yeah.

I need something to do with this shit.

Come on.

Fair Fair enough.

They don't even tell you about that part.

You dock and like the grappler is going like

sneaky grappler.

Like if you're not looking for it and you're the captain of that tellerite ship, you might not even feel it.

It might just be a little tickle you feel.

Right.

On the bottom of your ship where the grappler attaches.

Like back when I was in my film production days, you know, I carried production insurance and like errors and omission insurance for my company.

And I was like putting a pitch deck together for a prospective client.

And I had my wife look it over for spelling mistakes.

And she was like, don't tell them you have insurance.

Are you fucking nuts?

That just makes them more likely to sue you for the value of your policy.

And I was like, oh, yeah, I guess I'll keep that to myself.

Don't tell them about the grappler.

Don't ever tell them about the grappler.

Anyways, so warp is disabled.

All the teams left on the surface are coming up.

And Tepal is in decon when they inform her that the captain has been abducted didn't want to radio that to uh to the uh shuttle pot i guess guess not unlike archer and trip tapal and dr flox are covered in microbes yeah

i mean The microbes took one look at these two and they were like, we got to get us some of that.

And so she and Flox are going to be stuck gelling each other up in the chamber.

I wanted TePaul to be like, interesting that I am forced to spend time in the decon chamber far more than any other character on this show.

Yeah, it seems that way.

But I do like how the pairings keep changing.

Yeah.

That's good.

Yeah, at least there's that.

So So Archer wakes up and he's in like a holding cell.

Like this shuttle is like 50% holding cell, it seems like.

It's like cockpit and holding cell and no other things.

I bet this tellerite captain wishes that that wall weren't just a bunch of fluorescent lights and instead was like a wall.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because fucking Archer just will not shut up.

Yeah.

Archer, you know, in the time-honored tradition of prisoners of war, sets about making himself a pain in the ass for those who have imprisoned him.

And eventually this Skolar guy turns around and is like, you can shut the fuck up or I can shut you up with this gun.

I was kind of rooting for the gun here.

On and on Archer goes negotiating, negotiating a thing for which there is no negotiation.

Yeah.

You don't have anything to offer in this conversation, do you, Archer?

Yeah.

We cut over to the lube room on Enterprise, and Dr.

Flox seems almost impressed by the microbes that they're riddled with, right?

Oh, is this microbe more resilient than you thought, Flox?

Oh, are you going to need more gel to rub onto Paul Flox?

Oh, did you put a modesty curtain in the decon chamber, Flox?

Oh, actually, that's actually pretty cool.

It's going to take hours of being lubed up to decontaminate themselves from this.

Yeah.

And

the camera, as it always does in these moments, positively luxuriates over every inch of both of their bodies.

And Dr.

Fox is like, can you get my back?

And when he disrobes, you see he has kind of a shaved cross

of chest hair.

Like you would expect some extremely devout Christians to be rocking this kind of chest hair

on the beach.

Yeah.

Like, God, give it a rest.

Like, only the most evangelical have cross-shaped chest hair.

He also has backloaf, which

kind of like folded in a way where when TePaul started rubbing it, it kind of looked like she was looking for the man in the boat a little bit.

I thought there were maybe even hundreds of men in boats

on the back of Dr.

Flox.

You'd think they'd be easier to find in numbers like that.

Maybe there's only one man in one of the boats on Dr.

Flox's back.

That's finding a needle in a haystack.

That's pretty tough.

And as anyone would be, as Tepaul rubs the lube into Dr.

Flox's birdie, into his back fold specifically, the face she's making seems like she's getting pretty turned on here.

And she kind of snaps out of it.

She's like, oh,

oh,

I was kind of feeling that for a moment.

And then it's her turn for the back lube after.

She's like, instead of my back, do you mind getting my front?

We cut away from this scene back onto the bridge.

And Trip is in charge while Reed picks up the fleeing Tellerite ship.

And this is just a moment in the show to tell us that Enterprise has changed course in order to catch up with this thing.

Yeah, we have a lead on a warp signature.

Right.

But yeah, the captain of the Tellerite ship is now on the phone with his client for this bounty, Captain Goroth, to let him know that he's got the fugitive.

And we learned that Captain Goroth is a Klingon.

Yeah, he's the guy that Skolar is doing business with.

And

Captain Skolar is like, cool, I got the fugitive.

I'm going to meet you at Kronosh like we talked about.

And the Klingon's like, no!

I'll transport coordinates

where we will meet.

Make sure the bounty isn't dead!

And he'll get paid when they get there.

Like, that's the arrangement that they're made.

And Archer's like,

yeah, I'm not sure if you knew this.

I know what Klingons are.

I've actually had a few encounters with them.

It may interest you to know that I escaped from their maximum security prison Rue Repente.

Yeah.

Want to know what I did?

And Captain Skullar looks back at him and he's like, I don't care.

At this point, I think the Enterprise has found the decoy beacon that Skullar dropped.

Is this a decoy buoy, Ben?

I think it kind of is.

If it's standing up and down like that,

I think up and down means buoy.

Yeah.

A decoy.

It appears to be a beacon of some kind.

Let's try off our scans.

Then get rid of it.

Probably the first truly easy kill the Enterprise has gotten with its weapons.

Do you think Reed overcelebrated this moment?

I kind of do.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Topal's not the only person getting sexually excited on this episode.

Yeah.

But yeah, so Archer's talking to Skolar and he's like, you know, I got this life sentence that I escaped.

But, you know, Starfleet can like buy my freedom.

Like, whatever they promised you, like, we can definitely beat.

So take me back.

And Skullar's, like, you realize that we're talking about Klingons here.

Like, there's no, like, upside for me in doubling my money if it also means the Klingons are going to hate and want to kill me forever.

So much of Archer's argument here is like, they're going to kill me.

when I'm returned to them, which kind of makes you an accomplice to my death in a way that I want you to really think about in case you might be uncomfortable by that

this captain is not uncomfortable by that at all once again skullar is like i don't care

he's like honestly it would probably be easier for me to just kill you now because they just want the body in exchange for the bounty yeah he makes it clear also that look he doesn't work for the Klingons.

He's an independent contractor.

Yeah, he has to pay self-employment tax and everything.

Yeah.

yeah.

And he's almost sad to be handing Archer over to the Klingons at this point.

There is a weird kind of mood change to the thing that happens in this scene.

Yeah.

I think.

Indeed.

Meanwhile, back in the decon chamber, Tepal is really starting to get feral.

And she like tries to escape, but Flox

is trying to reason with her like you're going to

infect the whole damn ship if you get out of here.

He's got sedatives that he thinks may be able to help her, you know, calm her lustful heart.

Do you think it's irresponsible for Vulcans to be so secretive about ponfar?

We do not discuss it.

I kind of do.

I mean, it feels like it's always a secret until it's not, you know?

Like every series that's got a Vulcan in it has a ponfar episode.

There could be an accommodation made for this circumstance but every time it arrives it's always a huge big surprising problem

and it's so much more difficult to triage as it's happening instead of going like all right it's to paul's time of the eight years or whatever like let's let's figure this out so it's not destructive because she hasn't even said what ponfar is yet and but it's clear to a star trek viewer what's going on like half of what's making her crazy is the secret of it, it feels like, at this point.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Ligery is just a part of.

She has not revealed the secret to the Doctor yet, but you know that's coming.

What's coming right now is on Captain Skalar's ship, he's on FaceTime with another Tellerite,

and it's clear that his life is a real paycheck-to-paycheck situation.

What he wants is to get paid by the Klingons for Archer.

And then he wants to use that money to get the Tezra back.

But without the money in hand, this conversation kind of goes nowhere with this other Tellerite.

And we learn that Tezra isn't just a person.

It's the name of a cargo ship.

Oh, man.

He's going to buy that ship back.

That's going to be his meal ticket.

He's so excited.

9,000 Darsecs he's going to earn from this job.

That'll be plenty.

Yeah.

Uh-oh.

A ship isn't coming right now, Ben.

And it's not Enterprise.

It's another bounty hunter named Kago.

Yeah.

And this guy looks like he's from another science fiction TV show.

Did you get this?

He did not look like he belonged on Star Trek.

And I mean that in kind of a complimentary way.

Like, I feel like sometimes when you get new alien creatures on the show, they they sort of fit into the box of Star Trek loaf-wearing aliens.

But this guy, dimensionally, like in stature and in voice and everything else, like you get Robert O'Reilly's voice coming out of him, which is great, and it familiarizes what this guy could be.

But like, he's on this weird chair and his limbs are...

interestingly proportioned to his body.

Yeah.

Like, I feel like the lighting is a lot more like Andromeda than it is Star Trek.

He kind of looks like that moment in older video games, like on the Star Trek Psychogenesis game, like you get an alien on view screen and it was always like alien in chair with background.

And like, that's what this guy is.

He's just classic alien in chair.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He also has undertaken to get this bounty and he wants Archer so that he can go tournament for the 9,000 Darse X.

And this turns into a shooting match because,

I mean, Skalar is not going to give him up easily.

And

this

pretty quickly means Skalar is like back aft of the flight controls of the ship, working on repairing his ship and not really working on flying away or defending himself.

And Archer uses this as a pretext to get out of the cell so that he can fly while Skolar shoots back.

What'd you make of how Skalar treated Kago here?

Because I thought he never took Kago seriously.

And then when the firefight popped off, I was like, oh, Kago can like really get it.

Like, he's doing good.

And then I thought back to that earlier scene in the episode where we learned that Tellerites...

Love arguing.

Yeah, yeah.

And that kind of like put the frame around this moment that like, oh yeah, it wasn't like overconfidence or condescension for Kago.

It was like, this is actually what Captain Scalar lives for.

He lives for

a fucking put-down and a firefight is a great day for him.

Yeah, I mean, like, there's also the point made, like, this guy is not going to vaporize the ship with you on it.

You're his meal ticket, too.

So we can counter-punch way harder than he can punch in this context.

And that they do.

Like, Archer gets into the pilot's seat and does some fancy tactical flying so that they can shoot down Kago's ship.

And Kago goes down hard in an atmosphere of a planet.

And they realize that they've got some repairs to do because the warp reactor is leaking.

So they decide to land well away from where Kago is so that they can...

wrench on the ship a little bit and get it fixed up for the rest of their trip.

Speaking of leaking, back on on Enterprise, Dr.

Flox is woken up by TePaul, who is absolutely slick for him.

Yeah.

And he is really struggling to keep it professional in this exact moment.

Yeah.

You don't find me attractive.

Of course I do, but that is not the issue.

He didn't bring a broom handle into decon with him so that he could just kind of keep her at bay.

And she's like, I mean, rubbing on him in his sleep.

That's inappropriate.

You know,

this gets more and more explicit.

She, you know, is talking about like the cure for what ails her.

It is less and less medicalized, what she wants.

She has heard what he can do with his tongue.

She knows about his non-exclusive relationship structure in his society.

Like, she has a pretty good sense that she could fit her entire pelvis into his mouth

if he wanted that.

Yeah.

You have no idea what what you're denying yourself.

It's a real fucker die scenario that she's laying out there, right?

Like, hey, doctor, you gotta save me, and here's how you do it.

The only medicine that can treat me starts with a D.

Yeah.

And yeah, she finally explains what ponfar is and what the consequences of not fucking when you're ponfarring can be for a Vulcan.

It's really putting Flox in a tight spot.

Flox has not seen the third Star Trek movie, so I don't think he's aware that finger stuff can also alleviate the sexual tension of this moment.

No effort is made to do the finger stuff at this moment.

Great effort is made on the surface of the planet where repairs are being made to Captain Skolar's ship.

Yeah, I didn't know if you read this, Adam, but this set where they landed the ship is actually a little bit of Hollywood history.

It is the same set as the one that Cubic used to fake the moon landing.

How about that?

Yeah.

That's why it was so familiar.

Yeah.

I had the dumbest thought when I saw this.

I was like, it is so weird to see people out on the surface of a planet with like black and stars up in the sky.

And then I wait a beat and I'm like, except that's what it looks like at night on earth

like

why does it look so dangerous yeah and otherworldly it's it's just because of the topography it's just the uh the rocky moon-like soil of the place yeah yeah

this ship that uh we're talking about getting back the tesra was a real fast mover and uh

Skullar just really has a soft spot in his heart for this ship.

Like the car you wish wish you never sold.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Huge regrets.

He tells Archer about, you know, taking a shipment of something and accidentally going through a little bit of Klingon space.

And that led to their ship getting impounded.

And

Archer is listening to this story while pretending to fix the engine.

And it turns out he was just like...

fucking it up even more the whole time.

This is like Archer's best move in the episode.

I think my favorite edit in this episode is that, like, we're going shot, reverse, shot between Skalar and Archer during the storytelling.

But when we're on Skalar for a time and he notices that Archer's doing something fucked up to the engine, the cutback to Archer isn't him facing the engine, throwing the sabot into it.

It's him, like, looking at Skalar with his arms, like, working

in a way that he can't see.

Yeah.

I thought that was hilarious.

There's like smoke pouring out of the area behind him.

I suppose when you're destroying something you don't need to see, you're just ripping out hoses and stuff.

Right, yeah, you're stripping the wires and all that stuff.

I love Archer's defense of his actions here.

He's like, it was practically my duty to attempt to deceive you.

As your prisoner,

I thought you would know that.

I'd already pleased that booty, so this was the only thing left to me.

Yeah.

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And you will never take the greatest gym alive.

Ben would rather die.

Rather die.

We're back in the lube room now and Paul is

writhing around sexually.

And she is both horny and pissed that Dr.

Flox is pursuing a medical treatment instead of physical therapy.

Yeah.

The only serum she wants is come.

You have the cure.

It's unethical for you to withhold it, doctor.

A poorly timed doorbell breaks up the tension here, and it's Trip Tucker with dinner.

And, oh no,

this room service tray has nothing but hot dogs and tacos on it.

And these lids of the trays look like large silver boobs.

Abort, Trip!

Abort!

Get a screw.

Please.

This imagery is not helping, man.

Yeah, I love that Fox is trying to brave face it for Trip and not like, you know, like, this is TePal's business.

It's not everybody's business.

Fox is like, it's fine.

But then she kind of slinks out from the

blue room in the decon chamber.

Fox is absolutely incredible in this episode.

He really is.

As a total pro.

But unfortunately, he cannot hide from from Trip the way she's eating that tabouli salad.

Yeah.

I mean, if I've gotten a taboula salad and like there's no utensils in the bag,

I'm probably not eating it.

Like,

I don't think you can at that point.

I was very inspired by TePaul here.

Yeah.

You can eat the tabouli salad.

You can just do it.

Yeah.

I was high on acid one time in the Santa Monica Mountains and we bought some

pasta salad with us, like a little like deli tub of pasta salad.

And we didn't have any forks, and so I was just eating it like by the fistful.

It was like one of the great memories,

Ben.

What were you doing when you were tripping on acid?

Well, we ordered a sensible lunch.

We went up into the Santa Monica Mountains and then we dined.

Yeah, pretty much that sounds great

uh so the enterprise has now found the planet but no tellerite ship but they do pick up something on the surface and it's fucking kago again

i'm so glad we get kago again yeah another face time with kago yeah where trip is talking to him and

I guess Kago is like giving up.

It's not like Kago thinks he's got a shot at getting Archer at this point.

And he's like, yeah, so, like, there's a price on his head, and I was trying to get it.

And this other guy is probably going to get it.

Don't you love the rapidity of this information?

Like, Kago's not trying to cover it up.

Yeah.

Cago doesn't give a shit.

Kago's trying to repair his ship.

Yeah, he would much rather Skullar's day get ruined at this point for any reason than Kago self-delude into thinking that he's getting 9,000 Darsecs anytime soon.

Right.

He fucking isn't.

Nope.

But I was surprised, like, after Archer's attempted sabotage, sabotage, sabotage the system,

to put it in the Shatner terminology, that they made it to a space station, no problem.

Yeah, this is where Captain Skillar's brother lives and works.

And when Captain Skillar finds him, the brother is not happy to see him.

No.

And this is classic because Skillar has assumed that his brother and he are on the same level W slash R slash T getting the Tezra back right and the brother's like you think I give a shit about the Tezra like those days are behind us dude you're the one that blew it with the Tesra to begin with you blew it and not only that if you were to get the Tezra back you're gonna fucking cry your eyes out dude that thing has been stripped for parts yeah it's a pile of shit right now it's never gonna go to warp again it's like a beautiful architectural house that's had all the copper pipes stripped out of the walls.

It's totally fucked up.

You know,

Gavrin doesn't want to be the first officer of that piece of shit now.

Yeah.

Not after what the Klingon's done to it.

No.

No, but he will give his brother the engine part that he needs.

Like this guy doesn't believe that 9,000 Darsex will get...

Like, even if the Tezra is not an option, can't he get something good with some Darsecs?

I mean, 9,000 Darsex just doesn't go as far as it used to, I guess.

Yeah.

Yeah, with inflation and everything.

I mean, you're certainly not going to fix the Tezra for that amount.

No.

You know, I guess that's what being totaled is.

Like the cost to repair is more than the cost to purchase new.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Anyways.

Hey, man, give up the Tezra plan.

All right.

Yeah.

So Archer.

starts working on this dude and he's like you're still turning me into the Klingons after this like why are you licking their boots your whole thing has gone to shit and he wants to know a little bit more about goroth and his ship and this is when we cut away back to tapal who's now really losing it like phox has finally synthesized the serum that he wants her to take

and she is just so hungry for sex that she refuses to to accept

i mean like coming at you with the with the hypo spray i can tell why she's like, fearful and, like, irrationally against taking the hypo spray.

Well, there's, there's a difference in TePaul between here and previous scenes because before she was aggressively sexual, but now she's aggressive and sexual and delirious.

Yeah.

And this is what makes consent even more of an impossibility at this point, let alone the fact that she's like physically trying to defend herself from getting a serum injected into her that will supposedly stop her suffering.

Yeah.

So Flox is like, all right, well, you know, my denobulin medical ethics prevent me from doing anything.

So

the code to the door, if you would like to leave, is 867-5309.

And she goes right to the door to try and leave.

And he tries to dose her from behind.

I thought this is a great plan.

It's a good move because she looks too delirious to have her wits about her.

So is he going to cite her willingness to do the serum previously as the ethical.

Okay.

I was like...

I think so.

I thought you just said a thing about your medical ethics, man.

No, it was all a trick.

It was all a trick to heal her.

Yeah.

Per her wishes.

But she's got Super Vulcan Sremp, and she rocks him against a wall.

And while he's stunned, she jimmies the the lock,

gets loose into the ship.

And now she could fuck anyone.

Yeah, Dr.

Flox blows in a call to the bridge.

It's like, hey, get every male crew member into the cage.

Distribute emergency cages to all male crew members.

When you see Reed and his security team, they're in those full-body condoms from that one seen in the Naked Gun movie.

Yeah.

Unfortunately, Reed is the one leading the team to find TePaul.

And as you said,

the team is wearing environmental suits.

And they got her location on a tricorder and it's doing that beep that beeps faster when you get closer to the target.

There's something wet as hell in here and it ain't us.

It's just too bad that Reed is the one to find her first.

Because it makes the scene about Reed and somehow I think the scene is meant to convey to us us that Reed is a good and strong and noble

masculine figure for resisting to Paul in this moment.

But I don't think it does what it's supposed to do in doing that.

Like, because you can see on the close-up of Reed's face, he is kind of in anguish

in this moment.

Right.

It's not like he's not considering it.

Yeah.

Fortunately, Dr.

Flox has read him and everyone else in on like the specificity of her condition.

It's not just apprehend to Paul.

It's also you should know this about how she's acting and know to resist it.

So they hit her with the stun pistol, and she goes down hard.

And

we cut back over to the Tellride ship docking with Goroth's Klingon ship.

A Klingon ship of a design I'd never seen before.

Yeah.

And we don't initially see the inside of the Klingon ship because the Klingons come over to Skalar's ship and underpay him pretty badly.

6,000 Darsics.

We agreed to nine, did we?

Didn't like this moment.

Yeah.

But I think crucially and magically,

it gets you to feel bad for Skalar.

I couldn't believe that.

Like, up until this moment, you're like, this guy's a dirtbag.

He's doing it for money.

And now that the Tezra isn't even on offer for him as a result, like, what's he even doing this for?

What a shitbag.

And yet, when he's underpaid, I'm like, oh, man.

Man,

that's just like everybody that's ever freelanced is like, come on, man.

Like, this fucking company.

That's what it is exactly.

They just fuck you every time.

Even though, like, the box that they give him the Darsex in was a nice box, you know.

I'm sure the Klingons hope he's satisfied by the box.

I'd like to see the like Star Trek antiques roadshow, you know.

Like, uh, oh, like Kivas Fajo might buy this from you, kind of a thing.

The smell of the outdoor tent that they set up production of Tronos Roadshow

and the hot summer sun.

Hi, I'm Mark Wahlberg.

I am Kamark Kamalberg.

You pitiful fools.

Stand no chance against this Klingon that looks a lot like Paul F.

Tompkins.

Your treasured personal items are worthless.

Your family hung on to this for generations for no reason

All this and more

on the next episode of Krotos Road Show.

So the Klingons warp off, and Skalar Radios the Enterprise?

What?

Huh.

That's interesting.

We do see the inside of the Klingon ship.

Archer gets taken to a holding cell and turns out he has like a set of trick cuffs on.

I wanted to ask you about this.

Yeah.

When he gets out of his handcuffs, I'm like, holy shit.

Check out Captain Archer.

Like maybe he is the guy that quote unquote busted out of Rue Rapente.

Like the guy that can't be kept in the Klingon prison.

I was so impressed by this when you're told later that Skullar gave him a pick to the lock.

Yeah.

I kind of wish I didn't know that.

Like, I wish there was another way to convey to us that Skullar is now our buddy and our friend.

The lock pick is hidden in the cuffs.

Like, it's that thing that he puts on the door, right?

But, like, Archer needs a win so bad.

I kind of wanted this to be his thing that he was able to do without help.

Right.

Yeah.

I do like that the cuffs become a cudgel, like, when he, when he gets in the Star Trek fight in the hallway, he's, like, swinging the cuffs around.

It looks like it hurts.

Yeah, and it's a pretty rough Star Trek fight.

Like, it's a Archer barely won this, but he got a gun because he did win this fight.

Every fight depicted on Star Trek or TV or movies in general should feel like this.

Like the winner should barely escape.

Yeah,

it's desperate and grueling and quick.

Yeah.

So he starts sneaking around.

He's looking for something in particular.

He's looking for a particular place on the ship.

And this is presumably why he was asking Skullar, have you ever been aboard Goroth's ship?

There's like periodically firefights with Klingons who have insanely bad aim.

Like

so many door jams get hit in these firefights.

I think any Klingon can be a Klingon sniper in their military,

given what we're seeing depicted here.

Yeah, it's really brutal.

Ben, by the time you see where Archer is headed, did it reveal to you that this, in fact, was not a Klingon ship and a ship that the Klingons had taken?

Because I was surprised that any Klingon ship would have an escape pod.

I wrote down the same thing.

Like, I was like, I mean, the green reads as Klingon when you see the outside of this ship, but it's not a very Klingon-y shape, so maybe it is some other species build.

It is without honor to have a spare tire and mini-jack in your trunk.

Road flares are for a patak.

The only thing acceptable is one of those pumps that you plug into the cigarette outlet, and then there's that weird cylinder that you add to it.

A pump of goo!

Sprays goo on the inside of your tire, and it doesn't actually work.

It's just there to make you feel better.

Pump of goo is with honor.

So yeah, he gets out in the escape pod.

Enterprise comes and gets in a firefight with the Klingons.

A firefight that features Grappler because they grapple the pod while they're trying to like knock out the heavily shielded weapons ports.

Could you use the grappler like a lasso?

Like if they decided to grapple the Klingon ship, and then maybe, you know, like if you're if you're driving a tank, you can reverse the tread direction of one set of tracks.

If you could spin Enterprise around,

could you just toss a ship with the grappler?

Oh, like a lasso?

Wow.

Or like a whip?

I was picturing something like what they did to the Adats in Empire Strikes Back, where they like wrap the grapplers around the legs.

Wrap the grappler.

Wrap the grap.

And then they can't get away.

No.

Anyways, they grapple Archer's escape pod, and you see the cable snap as as the ship flies off.

And you just they cut to the inside of this escape pod, and the sudden vector shift causes Archer to turn into cat food against the interior hull of this escape pod.

And

that's the end of the episode.

They recover just a wet red uniform,

like there's some hair,

teeth.

Yeah.

Ugly.

Flox

has come up with a cure for Horny.

TePaul's horny secret is safe with him and the half-dozen crew members that he had to tell when she escaped from the decon chamber, I guess.

Archer does not get an update on the TePaul and Flox situation.

That's a long story for another time thing when he gets back to the bridge.

That's good, right?

That's another check in favor of Dr.

Flox.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They get on FaceTime with Skullar

and it's like, hey, like, you know, that was great, but we're not friends after all that.

I'm still a bounty hunter and bad.

And maybe I'll bounty hunt you again.

Kind of a goodbye.

Especially now that we've presumed that the bounty has doubled or increased in a way that would make that possible.

So you better watch your back, Jack.

Probably buy two Tesras if you get the bounty again, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, maybe a little extra to not only fix the Tesra, but upgrade it.

Yeah.

Can you imagine?

Wow.

Wow.

Almost too powerful and fast.

Did you like this episode, Ben?

I did like this episode.

I've been wondering when the Tellerites were going to come into play in this show because they're like, I feel like they're like one of the most unexplored Star Trek species in the

hundreds and hundreds of episodes of Star Trek.

Like, you know, we know that they're like a founding member of the Federation and that they're gruff assholes that love arguing, but like, I don't really know much about them other than that.

Outside of Jenkin Pog in...

Star Trek Prodigy, I knew nothing about them.

Yeah.

I mean, like, we see them in Discovery a little bit.

And

I know that they're like, they show up in TOS a little bit, but I don't, I'm not, like, familiar with those episodes.

So we'll get there eventually, dude.

I feel like this show has an interesting opportunity to, like, flesh them out a bit, and I'm curious to see what they'll do.

But yeah, I enjoyed this episode quite a bit.

How about you?

I did, too, and

I think it's easy to reflexively

see

the Tepal storyline and go, like, great.

They fucking sexed up the lube tube again, and they're making the perfect male fantasy of like, fuck me or die, as a reason to get down with a hot person.

And then I remembered that this is really hard for an actor to do.

And it made me respect Jolene Blaylock even more because this is like a version of act drunk that I would assume it's very easy to feel embarrassed if you're an actor doing something like this.

Embarrassed and uncomfortable, maybe, if you're doing this with a scene partner that maybe you don't trust or know entirely.

Yeah.

And she's such a fucking pro,

and the characters are so lived in at this point that I think if you were to put this episode in very early season one, you'd be like, oh God, like, like, this is truly something else.

Like, this is something for a different TV show.

Yeah.

In a fucked up way, I feel like Enterprise earned the benefit of the doubt of a B story like this in late season two.

Because we know who Dr.

Flox is.

We're not skeeved out by him being a part of this scene.

Right.

We know what Ponfar is.

We're familiar with T'Pal, and we recognize how upsetting and embarrassing this is going to be afterwards for her.

It's kept sort of private in a way that ends up being like a check in favor of just the systems in place to protect the privacy and embarrassment of people involved in things on this ship.

If you were to just step up to this episode as someone who hasn't consumed everything up until now,

I think you could easily be like, that's gross and misogynistic.

But I don't think it is based on that evidence.

Yeah, I mean,

I think you were right to point out that the read scene complicates that and makes it

work less.

It makes it like closer to what I imagine Braga and Berman were probably hoping for, you know, in writing the story for this episode.

And that's just the thing that cuts against what I said.

It like anyone could have heard my argument in favor of this episode and be like, yeah, but like, consider who wrote it.

Like, that's clearly not in play here.

But I'm trying to like.

But like, Roxanne Dawson directed this episode, and I totally.

I think the that's where I was going to go next.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And like, and there was a woman on the writing team, too.

Like, yeah, it's Brandon Braga and Rick Berman's story, but they weren't the ones that actually wrote the script.

And so, like, I feel like it, like, in spite of the

more prurient instincts of the creative team that were running this show, I feel like this came out better than it could have been.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Well, you want to see if there's anything prurient in the Priority One inbox, Adam?

Let's see if we can make anything there come out better than it could have been.

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Now it's a whole thing with Gene.

Yeah.

I like that Gene can dial up their nerdery or dial down the nerdery depending on what your project's needs are.

Yeah, find yourself someone who can do both.

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Yeah, pretty great.

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It goes like this.

Hello, future Christina.

This is past Christina wishing you a happy fourth birthday.

It was cruel fate to have your birthday be on Star Wars Day, but hopefully getting a birthday wish by your favorite Star Trek podcasters makes it easier.

Do a shot of Malort for me.

Wow.

Mallort as birthday shot.

I kind of like that way of entering a new year.

Yeah.

It's only getting better from that point.

We got pretty close to May the 4th here.

So

happy birthday, Christina.

Happy birthday, Christina.

I know how that be worrying about a birthday.

We were really worried that Darone's baby sister, second of two, was going to be born on January 6th.

We missed it, fortunately, but it was really stressful those last couple of days.

It turns out

Darone's sister's conception was January 6th.

Yeah, got us really excited.

And she's one of those rare babies that Jess dates for a year and a day.

Yeah.

A little overcooked.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Ben, our final priority one message is from Hannah.

It's to Afton.

Happy birthday to the best big sister ever.

Wow.

I'm so happy I convinced you to move in upstairs in Spinster Sisters Barn.

It's been wonderful to have you and Wesley the cat here.

I hate cats.

Go to Wesley.

You're telling you the kitty cat?

You're welcome for introducing you to Greatest Jen.

Can't wait for more Star Trek Sundays together.

Love, Hannah.

Wow.

The Spincer Sisters Barn sounds like a great hang.

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What have you?

You know.

Yeah.

Any of that shit.

Hey, babe,

that's that, Adam.

Who'd you find is your drunk Shimoda?

Drunk Shimoda!

I kind of felt like Jolene Blaylock might be the person having the most fun.

Like, we were talking about how, like, this type of performance is hard and, like, potentially really embarrassing.

Maybe that was the case.

Maybe she wasn't having the most fun on set.

for this one, but I thought she threw herself into this with a level of commitment commitment that makes me hope otherwise.

Yeah.

So

this is a hopeful Shimode, but I've given it to Blaylock for this one.

Yeah, optimistic Shimode.

I like it.

Ben, mine's related, but not exactly Jolene Blaylock.

She is very hot this episode

in all kinds of ways.

But specifically, the way I want to talk about is in temperature.

Thermally.

She's thermally conductive here

in all kinds of ways.

And anyone who's ever worked out vigorously will be familiar with the areas in which perspiration can sometimes gather on a body.

I love that there is a decision made to give her crack sweat.

Like

at the top of her shorts, in the back of her shorts, like,

She's got ass sweat

because she's that hot.

And everyone gets ass sweat.

Swap ass is normal, even for Vulcans, okay?

I think this cuts against the idea that like the depiction of her in this episode was totally purient and bad.

Like

if that were true, they wouldn't have given her ass sweat.

So crack sweat is going to be my drunk Shimoda.

Wow.

And the presence of it.

All right.

Faith of the fart.

Let's talk a little bit about next week's episode.

We will be covering season two, episode 26,

the expanse.

An alien race known as the Zindi

launch an attack on Earth, causing great casualties and massive damage.

As Enterprise heads back home, an unlikely source informs Archer about the Zindi and that their next attack will destroy Earth.

Why not just destroy Earth the first time?

Hmm.

It's a good question.

What are they waiting for?

We'll have to see.

Well, uh, sounds like this is gonna be our season two finale episode, Ben.

Are we gonna do anything special to celebrate it?

Let's find out by going to the game of buttholes, the will of the Riker Quantum Leap over at goch.biz slash game.

Ben, our runabout is currently on square 46.

And by the time I roll this hundred-sided die,

we'll figure out how we're going to recap the season two finale.

Are you ready?

I am ready.

My body is ready.

My mind is ready.

You're required to learn as you play.

Roll.

Can you give us the status of your Crack Sweat?

Crack Sweat, you know, has been readier, I would say, but we're going to have to make do with this level.

Crack Sweat, nominal.

Ben, we've landed on square 74.

Tula!

Did I win?

Hardly.

Okay.

It's a regular episode.

It's exactly between the Read Alert and Faith of the Heart squares.

So dodged a couple of big ones.

Yeah, we should.

But regular old episode for you and me.

Tremendous.

I think so.

I can't wait.

Looking forward to next week.

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I mean, during the drive, but then the other best time to support is always.

The best time to support is now.

Yeah.

Right now.

Yes.

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Sure is.

She's our amazing producer, editing out stories about insects on Adam's Scrotum.

How about new?

And we really appreciate her doing things like that for us.

You don't think people would want to hear that story.

We've got to thank our Zendi wartime concigliary, Bill Tilly,

who makes amazing, hilarious trading cards about every episode.

You can find those on the at Greatest Trek Instagram.

Well, at Greatest Trek all over the internet, goddammit.

Bill would know to destroy Earth the first time around, not needing to come back a second time.

Bill takes care of business, you know.

Yeah.

We got to thank the social media director at the X-Bridge Shimoda Corporation, Rob Adler, for all of his tremendous efforts.

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Got to thank our buddy Adam Ragusia, who made our parody theme music on the show.

He also co-hosts Wholesome, our little Patreon side project.

Patreon.com slash wholesome underscore pod.

Go give it a listen.

It's really good.

And we got to thank Dark Materia for use of CardSong.

With that, we'll be back at you next time with another great episode of Star Trek Enterprise and an episode of The Greatest Generation Enterprise where we're finally giving Florida what it deserves.

Can you wait to find out what you mean by that?

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