Eye Dumps (ENT S3E18)

Speaker 1 Here's to the finest crew in Starlink.

Speaker 3 When it comes to my crew, you won't get any argument from me.

Speaker 5 This is a parody.

Speaker 6 Paramount owns the sun.

Speaker 7 Welcome to The Greatest Generation. It's a Star Trek podcast by a couple guys who are just a little bit embarrassed about having a Star Trek podcast.

Speaker 9 I'm Ben Harrison.

Speaker 3 I'm Adam Prianica. It's a very special episode today, Ben.
You know why?

Speaker 10 Are you talking about because of what you rolled or because of something else?

Speaker 3 Oh, because of what was rolled at the end of the last episode.

Speaker 3 We landed on a special square, a quarks bar square, a neighborhood of the game of buttholes, I feel like it's been a long time since we've been here.

Speaker 11 It has been.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 14 We've had other drinking episodes, but not one.

Speaker 16 You know, I was like, maybe I'll like knock it off with

Speaker 21 the booze a little bit, like the couple of weeks leading up to Vegas.

Speaker 26 No, that won't happen.

Speaker 27 Um,

Speaker 29 I've got my glass of ice uh prepared here, which has melted pretty significantly just in between the back of my house and the studio.

Speaker 18 So I'm gonna drink the water just to get that the fuck out of there.

Speaker 3 All right, while you drink the water, uh, maybe I'll share what I will be drinking on today's episode. I reached into a cardboard box

Speaker 3 and I pulled out the last bottle I have of Chateau de Soto wine.

Speaker 3 This was sent to us from Adam Tuck of Courting Hill Vineyard and has maybe my favorite thing I've ever said on the show as its tagline at the top. It says, as dangerous as it gets for a podcaster.

Speaker 3 And what I mean by that is drinking wine that an FOD has sent in with its own label.

Speaker 33 This wine

Speaker 34 genuinely of tremendous merit.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 34 I'm not a wine expert, but I know good wine when I taste it, and this is good wine.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 this is actually a vintage 2016 Racogino Noir. Yeah.
So this has been aged quite a bit. And I thought, why not class up Quark's bar a little bit today and honor a great FOD in the process.

Speaker 8 I would love for Chateau DeSoto to be made available to people.

Speaker 6 I don't know if.

Speaker 40 Would you have to clear the rights to Captain DeSoto, or is it silly enough that you could just do it?

Speaker 3 I think it's silly enough to just do it. But, I mean, we should get back in touch with Adam Tuck and see what the deal is over there.

Speaker 41 We really should.

Speaker 43 I've just poured myself a large rum, Adam.

Speaker 9 So that's what I will be sipping on today.

Speaker 6 Oh!

Speaker 46 Corkbuster!

Speaker 13 Oh, no!

Speaker 3 I might need to vamp a little bit longer until I can figure this thing out.

Speaker 16 What vintage is your rum, Ben?

Speaker 30 I'm drinking a

Speaker 48 Mount Gay Eclipse Heritage Blend.

Speaker 8 It sounds like having sex on a vintage bed, is basically what's going on over there.

Speaker 9 Did you get it out?

Speaker 3 I got it out.

Speaker 3 It's got a corky hole. I'm just trying to get a bunch of the

Speaker 3 shit out of it.

Speaker 7 Does it smell okay?

Speaker 3 are we dealing with a corked bottle or is it uh that that's just it like i wonder if i did that thing where i aged it too long man i'm really really bad at telling whether a bottle is corked so i could probably drink this whole thing and it would be yeah you're just you're just smelling for dank basement if you smell any anything in the dank basement neighborhood Honestly, it smells like wine.

Speaker 3 It smells a little fruity.

Speaker 33 Okay, good. You're good.

Speaker 15 I sent a corked bottle back at a restaurant one time, and the waiter gave me a ton of shit.

Speaker 40 And he's like, No, we're specially trained to identify when the wine is corked.

Speaker 7 And I was like,

Speaker 35 I don't know what to tell you, man.

Speaker 19 It smells like, it smells like mildew.

Speaker 42 It's not good.

Speaker 19 This is why we have the whole thing of them pouring a little bit in a glass for you to taste.

Speaker 3 That's the ritual. I need to do the same thing.
I

Speaker 3 stupidly brought a stemmed wine glass out to the studio. Something I would caution you you never to do.
And

Speaker 11 there we are.

Speaker 12 There we go.

Speaker 3 It looks very dark.

Speaker 51 It

Speaker 3 looks like one of the darkest red wines I've ever seen. It's almost brown.
It really is. Dude, I don't know if it's turned or not.

Speaker 3 It tastes like booze almost.

Speaker 32 Like it tastes hot.

Speaker 24 Whoa.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 54 Maybe it might just need to lay down in the glass a little bit, breathe, you know?

Speaker 13 Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 46 Let's go with this, Ben.

Speaker 3 It's a quark spar episode. I'm not sending this

Speaker 56 back.

Speaker 57 Let's let that shit breathe.

Speaker 3 Cheers to you, man.

Speaker 42 Well, I am.

Speaker 24 Okay.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 58 Let's go, Ben.

Speaker 3 We've got, as exciting as that Marin was, an even more exciting episode on deck today.

Speaker 42 Incredible.

Speaker 3 It is Enterprise Season 3, Episode 18, and it's called Azadi Prime.

Speaker 4 Got free speech and the time.

Speaker 3 There is not even a cold open to this one.

Speaker 58 We are getting into it.

Speaker 6 We pull up.

Speaker 55 It's that red giant system

Speaker 59 we've been promised.

Speaker 60 We learn that there's tons of Zendi security.

Speaker 40 There's like a security grid.

Speaker 45 There's lots and lots of activity with ships floating around everywhere.

Speaker 3 We don't see the grid this episode. Does that bug you?

Speaker 61 Oh, like an actual grid in space.

Speaker 3 Like that episode of TNG where Tasha Ram Yarlin is in, you know, like, and they set up that net and then Data has to yell at a guy. That's my summary of that episode.

Speaker 33 But that's their grid, right?

Speaker 62 They're trying to make a grid to stop the Klingons from coming over.

Speaker 3 Some would edit Memory Alpha to say that that episode was the one where Data had to yell at a guy. That's my recap.

Speaker 57 Yeah, I didn't have a problem with it because they're satellites and

Speaker 59 it's just a detection grid.

Speaker 17 I feel like if you got the shield around the planet that Prince Vespa comes from in

Speaker 66 Spaceballs.

Speaker 46 I remember that.

Speaker 3 And the Rogue One shield?

Speaker 67 That's just like a hard shell.

Speaker 14 But a detection grid, I feel like you kind of want that to be subtle.

Speaker 19 You don't want to make it obvious that it's there.

Speaker 3 It's like a tripwire.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. You want it tripped.

Speaker 25 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 41 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 You want it tripped. That's a line I've been using on

Speaker 3 interesting females my whole whole life.

Speaker 35 Only one of them's ever gotten me pregnant.

Speaker 36 You're never going to let that go, are you?

Speaker 3 Hey, you almost tripped my line. And by line, I mean penis.

Speaker 13 Hello, I'm Trip Tucker.

Speaker 60 I don't want you to get the sense that it's really, really skinny like a piece of wire.

Speaker 24 No. It's not.

Speaker 35 It's got a nice girth to it.

Speaker 3 If you were to drag a foot into my penis, you wouldn't break it.

Speaker 38 And you wouldn't set off a claymore.

Speaker 3 Something's going to explode, but it ain't no bomb.

Speaker 3 There's a bunch of ships that they pick up in a convoy they zoom in on the on the front one that's degra's ship right there this is such a fun moment i mean this is as heroic i'm not gonna say as heroic as archer gets this episode because like getting the shit kicked out of him i think constitutes a big part of being a hero in a story like this but that whole like

Speaker 3 Like he's leaning forward in the seat and he's standing up, like leaning forward. He's like, everything about him is like, we got got to get this guy.

Speaker 3 And it's a big moment when he fingers the view screen and points it out. On board Degra's ship is where we cut to next.
And celebratory moment over there, not unlike a Quark Spar episode.

Speaker 35 We're all drinking to the big completion of the weapon.

Speaker 14 What an accomplishment.

Speaker 3 His toaster is really something else, Ben.

Speaker 3 Degra pours something out for his buddies and he's like, here's to being single, drinking double, and exterminating triple.

Speaker 3 And everyone's like, whoa.

Speaker 13 Okay.

Speaker 17 I feel like everybody is giving Degra pats on the back, except for the lizardman.

Speaker 2 I'll reserve my gratitude for when the humans have been annihilated.

Speaker 16 No aquatics in this episode, no bugmen in this episode, but

Speaker 76 I guess they didn't, they expended all of the CG ordnance on other shots, so they weren't having insects and

Speaker 59 swimmers in this one.

Speaker 3 When you said that there are no aquatics in this episode, my mind went to the planet where they're building the bomb. Yeah.

Speaker 19 That must be where they live, right?

Speaker 3 My assumption was that that was an aquatic planet. They volunteered.
Build it over where we are. That way we can actually do some of the manual labor.
They probably regretted that right away.

Speaker 42 Yeah, we want to be involved.

Speaker 66 And then they're like all getting chemocyte burns.

Speaker 3 yeah, it sounds terrible.

Speaker 18 You know, the industrial accidents that are befalling them are yeah, bad news for them.

Speaker 3 After the theme, it's clear that like we're doing real life Zindi Council meetups on Degra ship and a bunch of time is given to like people being really stoked to finally do this in person.

Speaker 3 This is great.

Speaker 3 How much more efficient are we when we're all in the room together? Feels good.

Speaker 11 You know,

Speaker 19 it was nice to try the work from home thing on, but now that we're back in the office, you know, you just like, you're coming up with ideas.

Speaker 38 You're at the water cooler and you just strike up conversation.

Speaker 64 This is stuff that can't happen

Speaker 78 when we're all doing this over Zoom.

Speaker 3 Enterprise has

Speaker 3 been laying low behind a moon that obscures their position from

Speaker 3 the Zindy sensors, I guess. And on the bridge, they discuss this defense grid that is between them and the weapon they're trying to get at.

Speaker 3 And there is no way Enterprise is going to make it through this grid.

Speaker 8 the holes are too small and also like if you take out one of the satellites uh it's it's designed to like self-repair so

Speaker 3 yeah they do pay off that ship that we kept wondering about in a recent episode yeah they kept that thing in the shuttle bay only problem is no one knows how to fly it That task is given to Mayweather and Trip Tucker, and they try to get themselves up to speed while on board.

Speaker 3 But there's this other aspect to the mission too, right? Like Trip and Mayweather have to learn how to fly the ship, but we need to have some sort of facility with the Zindi language, right?

Speaker 3 Because like we're going to get pulled over once we drive the stolen car into this territory. We got to be able to talk to the cops, right?

Speaker 49 We don't know if the registration has expired on this thing.

Speaker 37 Like we're going to get asked questions and we don't speak click and pop the way the insectoids do.

Speaker 3 Hoshi is on the click and pop project and TePaul hits her up about where she's at on that. Not very far.
The translations do not go well, Enterprise.

Speaker 27 TePaul is already a little bit punchy in this episode, like a little bit not cool with the progress Hoshi is making, kind of riding her a little bit.

Speaker 3 That's an interesting observation because of what happens with TePaul later on in the up. Like she's already a little tipped over into

Speaker 3 being her version of emotional or emotionally raw

Speaker 3 for what's to come.

Speaker 52 Do you think this is burnout or is something else going on with TePaul?

Speaker 18 Is it like that they have that other...

Speaker 22 There's chemo site and then there's the other stuff that you're supposed to coat your hole with?

Speaker 78 Is she just getting enough like low persistent dose of that stuff?

Speaker 3 That's a great question. By having the Zindi shuttle on board and not really knowing where TePaul's quarters are in relation to the shuttle bay.

Speaker 67 That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that makes a ton of sense.

Speaker 57 Could be affecting her.

Speaker 26 You know, she might want to rip some eyeballs out is what I'm saying. Yeah.

Speaker 24 Or be inside out, as the case may be.

Speaker 66 I don't know how Vulcans decide these things, but I was just thinking about Tripp and Travis down there in that ship.

Speaker 59 They have to be so grateful that the insectoids keep their shuttles a little bit tidier than they keep their hatcheries.

Speaker 21 They're not getting dirty.

Speaker 26 They're not getting goo all over their uniforms in there.

Speaker 3 That's a great call. It is dressed very differently than that on-planet crash ship situation was.

Speaker 40 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Much less disgusting.

Speaker 14 There's some discussion right before Tripp and Travis depart between them and Archer, where Archer is at great pains to insist that they not make this a suicide mission.

Speaker 45 Like, this is recon, and we're not going to get the information that you get if you don't come back.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you're only supposed to take pictures, guys.

Speaker 77 Just photographs.

Speaker 36 Under no circumstances are you to engage the enemy.

Speaker 64 Sort of seems like something you shouldn't have to say, you know?

Speaker 3 Yeah, say less, Archer. You're kind of making me nervous.

Speaker 16 He is as emotionally piqued as TePaul.

Speaker 57 He's just shown it way more.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 3 These flying lessons do not go well. Like, there's that thing where you sort of fly the craft on the ground before you finally take it out for the first time.
on its test flight.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 the initial flight, the first flight, goes as well as that first flyby they did of Enterprise in the first episode.

Speaker 21 It reminds me of a guy who's like getting into motorcycling and tries to get on a 150cc bike before he's really

Speaker 45 learned the ropes.

Speaker 27 They leave the shuttle bay and immediately collide.

Speaker 25 with the entrepreneur.

Speaker 3 There's a physics to this that makes it seem different from a normal shuttle in that like a shuttle is very straight ahead yeah but this cindy ship seems very floaty in a dimensional sense like it's sort of like

Speaker 3 we're spaced to have waves in it it seems very subject to like bobbing and turning and and floating around

Speaker 63 there is something about the way it moves that

Speaker 27 I thought was really great because it reminded me of model ship on a piece of fishing line.

Speaker 76 Yeah.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 17 Which I imagine is really hard to accomplish in a 3D animation environment, you know?

Speaker 54 Like there, we've seen bad 3D animation, and this is not that.

Speaker 35 It's like good 3D animation to look like bad model work.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Yeah. In a funny way.

Speaker 3 So the Zindi shuttle makes it to the security grid and they pass right through. This is great.
Except as soon as they pass through, here's a patrol comes right up and hails them.

Speaker 3 And this is like immediate shakedown for Hoshi's translation program.

Speaker 45 Insect Eric Estrada comes and like they roll the window down.

Speaker 14 It's like, you know how fast I clocked you going back there?

Speaker 3 Insect Eric Estrada grabs like the external bone structure of its skull and like pulls it back like a hairline trick.

Speaker 21 I need to see your license and registration.

Speaker 22 And if you could put an orange wedge on a paper plate, I would appreciate that as well.

Speaker 3 Has there ever been more done with less than Eric Estrada has done with the fake wig trick that he does with his hair? It's fucking perfect.

Speaker 3 It works every time. It's so funny.

Speaker 14 So they do have this translation matrix that Hoshi made for them.

Speaker 40 And it's sort of,

Speaker 35 it feels very rudimentary.

Speaker 78 It's like speak and spell, not live universal translator.

Speaker 26 giving you all of the feeling and inflection.

Speaker 17 But it gets them out of trouble.

Speaker 20 Like they're ordered to reunite with their mothership or whatever.

Speaker 41 And they're like, gotcha, we'll do.

Speaker 55 See you later.

Speaker 67 And we cut back to the entrepreneur where suddenly they're getting scanned.

Speaker 60 And there's no ships in sight.

Speaker 14 They realize this scan is coming from the surface of the moon that they're hiding behind.

Speaker 21 And they realize there's an installation down there, a complex.

Speaker 8 Maybe you'd call it a facility.

Speaker 4 Anyways, it's down there.

Speaker 3 Maybe you'd call it a Felicity, even?

Speaker 31 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 45 I thought that place was great until the haircut, and then it's just like, I don't even care anymore.

Speaker 3 Guys are going to hate it.

Speaker 84 Yeah.

Speaker 4 And I've got the

Speaker 4 of the far heart.

Speaker 4 Legally it's just a virtue.

Speaker 3 Exposure to oxygen triggers chemical reactions that turn alcohol into acetaldehyde.

Speaker 11 Ankylosaur.

Speaker 3 Which makes wines turn turn brown.

Speaker 53 Oh, maybe that's why it's so dark.

Speaker 46 Yeah, I was just looking at that.

Speaker 3 Here's my search term. Wine tastes like alcohol.
Dangerous question mark.

Speaker 3 I don't think this is unsafe to drink.

Speaker 13 I'm feeling good.

Speaker 63 I mean, most of your hair hasn't fallen out yet.

Speaker 3 My field of vision, I mean, it's closing.

Speaker 3 But like all it needs to be is here.

Speaker 22 Right.

Speaker 66 You just need to be able to see the screen so that you can be on for the people watching the stream.

Speaker 3 Absolutely. And I am.
Yeah. Very much so.
You're doing great.

Speaker 53 Thanks, David.

Speaker 16 I don't think we have anything to worry about.

Speaker 3 I don't think I'm being slowly poisoned by this at all.

Speaker 57 I think you're safe.

Speaker 8 I think you've found the least dangerous thing a podcaster can do.

Speaker 3 This is exciting.

Speaker 46 I didn't think could happen.

Speaker 18 Anyways, they're talking about this place, this Felicity down there,

Speaker 42 and they can't raise the alarm because of the moon's rotation.

Speaker 37 Like, the Zindi that are down there are facing away from the rest of the Zindi, I guess.

Speaker 36 So there's

Speaker 39 nothing to worry about in the short term, but Archer is pretty quick to react to this, and he nukes the entire site from orbit.

Speaker 3 It's the only way to be sure.

Speaker 3 Fucking hey. What'd you make of how fast Archer went from knowledge to action here? He really went hard and fast, didn't he? Yeah.
Three folks inside. RSVP, those guys.

Speaker 8 Amazing to see his after five shadow just instantly appear on his face.

Speaker 3 I think this moment is crucial in the episode to understand that nothing is off the table for Archer.

Speaker 25 Absolutely.

Speaker 3 Like, I don't think anything he does could surprise from here.

Speaker 66 Everybody on the bridge feels weird and bad about this, including Reed, who pulled the trigger.

Speaker 3 It's like the boss doing something terrible at a holiday party. Like, whoa,

Speaker 3 you're not supposed to sing that song at karaoke at a work function.

Speaker 27 Yeah, like my

Speaker 63 it rubs the lotion on its skin karaoke song.

Speaker 51 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 That was one of those.

Speaker 75 You do not want to see like the senior VP for your region do that at the holiday party.

Speaker 3 The Open Pike Night guys are holding on to that video, and we'll release it at a time when we're most sensitive.

Speaker 30 The Open Pike Night guys are very much the push-a-tee to my Travis Scott.

Speaker 18 I've always thought this.

Speaker 3 Are they who we're having a podcast war against, finally? Are we heating this up?

Speaker 27 You know, another...

Speaker 66 dangerous thing for a podcaster to do given the footage that they probably are in possession of but let's let's fucking do it.

Speaker 14 I think we can smoke those guys.

Speaker 3 We're undefeated when it comes to podcast wars.

Speaker 11 Tell you that much.

Speaker 65 So Trip and Trav are on their bug shuttle and they find something on a water world, which has lots of little islands, but nobody living on the islands.

Speaker 57 But they've discussed how this shuttle has high structural integrity, so they can go underwater with it.

Speaker 21 and they plunge in and like immediately come over an ocean ridge and there is the Zindi weapon in a construction apparatus.

Speaker 46 Let's be clear about this.

Speaker 3 This is a planet-sized planet that is almost entirely ocean. They did not know where the weapon was under the water

Speaker 3 and they submerged right next to it.

Speaker 62 Yeah, I mean, there was some talk of Trip getting some readings of something.

Speaker 16 I feel like that explains it, but like, yeah, it's a whole ass planet.

Speaker 3 Were you looking around in the water at the thing swimming? I could swear I saw some aquatic Zindi in there.

Speaker 27 Oh,

Speaker 18 were they like waving goodbye to the shuttle as it went by?

Speaker 27 Like the guy in the

Speaker 78 shipbuilding facility when the Enterprise leaves.

Speaker 3 You know what? They looked fucking tired of doing all the work.

Speaker 42 They're toiling.

Speaker 46 It sucks for them.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Anyway, they go full on inside this thing. This was unexpected, too.
Mayweather and Trip are flying their little Zendi shuttle around. They go up in it.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 42 We've talked a lot about how the prototype weapon was a lot smaller than we expected.

Speaker 57 This one bigger than I expected.

Speaker 26 Ships are going in and out of it. Like a lot of them.

Speaker 42 There's traffic.

Speaker 59 They have to do like a full zipper merge to get in there.

Speaker 3 Like like the heads of a magic shop where's the regular size

Speaker 16 we're all ready to woohoo ha

Speaker 3 you skipped regular size cindy

Speaker 3 and we are immediately back in a mclaughlin group issue one in the command center we go through a dissolve transition to get there though i really like that That's not something we get all the time on Star Trek.

Speaker 14 The rare dissolve transition in track.

Speaker 3 Did you have a favorite number of frames for your dissolves when you were doing production?

Speaker 60 It comes preset at one second.

Speaker 17 One second is the default of a dissolve.

Speaker 3 Which is bad, which I never did. I don't know about you.

Speaker 42 No, yeah.

Speaker 5 It's like it comes preset at this so I can mess with that.

Speaker 3 I was a 10 framer.

Speaker 11 10 frames? Wow.

Speaker 3 Like it softened the cut enough to like... to not make it feel hard, but like it wasn't this luxurious

Speaker 3 dissolve.

Speaker 3 I thought it worked under most circumstances for stuff I was working on.

Speaker 17 I made a music video that had a lot of whip pans in it, and I was trying to do dissolves between the whip pans.

Speaker 66 And I kept shortening my dissolves until I realized it doesn't need a dissolve. In a whip pan, you can do a hard cut, and it's invisible.

Speaker 3 Sneak it right in there.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 16 Dissolve is

Speaker 26 hard to deploy artfully, I would say.

Speaker 66 It's very funny because all of the consumer grade video editing things that have ever existed all the way back to Video Toaster put so much work into all of the weird video transition effects that they pack in, like cube rotate, star wipe, and and they all just look bad for the most part.

Speaker 3 Do you think dissolve as a transition is

Speaker 3 like for the past? Because I'm thinking of modern TV and movies and you don't really see it anymore. Yeah.
And were you to see it, it might bump you a little bit.

Speaker 66 I think that they do it in like the Star Wars things to signal this is a Star Wars thing.

Speaker 10 But it was like, hey, look at this neat thing we can do in the 70s when they made Star Wars.

Speaker 22 And now it's like, this is just so you're not getting it twisted, this is a Star Wars thing.

Speaker 3 Sure. I mean, because Star Wars would still do an iris open, Iris close kind of transition.
And that's still fun and cool, but they're the only ones that get to do that.

Speaker 84 Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 63 I like a nice long dissolve.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the one in Spaceballs is great.

Speaker 77 Nice dissolve.

Speaker 3 So, what's happened here is we've dissolved from

Speaker 3 the planet side to Trip and Mayweather having returned to Enterprise, reporting on what they found in their mission.

Speaker 3 And they are able to decide on a part of the weapon that would be best served to destroy it, were they to deploy a shuttle full of explosives to do it, except that would make it functionally a suicide mission, wouldn't it?

Speaker 3 Because if you were to go in there with the shuttle with all these explosives, like you're not leaving.

Speaker 56 Right.

Speaker 3 You're not getting out of the shuttle and like dumping explosives out of it and then leaving before the blast radius hits you. You're just hitting the button from inside.

Speaker 77 Did any part of you wish that they had like preserved some technology from Dijamat and his people and sent somebody on the suicide mission with a brooch that they could stab into themselves.

Speaker 3 I love that a lot.

Speaker 3 I think that would be great. Like they go into great detail about like

Speaker 3 the thing about these shuttles is once they get crushed There's a lot of guesses about how much suffering there would be were you to fill up with a bunch of billionaires and then have that thing get crushed up like were anyone to volunteer for this mission, it's a total mystery about how painful it could get.

Speaker 3 So, maybe we give you a poison brooch and you stick that into your arm and hit the button at the same time. That removes the possibility of any suffering.

Speaker 3 And Mayweather, hearing this, is like, put me in, coach.

Speaker 58 Yeah, I want this.

Speaker 3 And I want to pause the episode right here. I wanted this for him.

Speaker 3 I love this for him because if you kill Mayweather in this way, in this episode, he becomes the ultimate hero of Star Trek Enterprise forever.

Speaker 43 Just like being back in the womb.

Speaker 3 Who are you? In St.

Speaker 43 Travis Mayweather.

Speaker 88 Parents must be very proud.

Speaker 6 I should be the one to go. Forget it.
Who are you? I'm the helmsman.

Speaker 9 I'm the only one that can pilot that shuttle.

Speaker 88 And your mom? Very proud.

Speaker 63 That's true. Takes practice.

Speaker 33 I think I'm getting a feel for it.

Speaker 88 I think I found reverse.

Speaker 18 An actual memorable thing for him to do, which they haven't really done for him up until now.

Speaker 8 Hard for Trip to do it because he'd have to stab that brooch right into his nipple.

Speaker 3 I'd have to find some flesh in between.

Speaker 52 But what if I miss?

Speaker 32 It's all Areola all the way down.

Speaker 78 It's a moot point because Archer's like, no, it's got to be me.

Speaker 21 I'm doing the suicide mission.

Speaker 3 This is a hell of a way to end a meeting. Like, as soon as he says that, what else can you say? Like, he's the captain.

Speaker 11 All right. Yeah.

Speaker 20 I mean, if you're gonna go with a bunch of billionaires in a vessel of dubious structural integrity like i got respect for you going yourself it's a dubious can yeah it's good faith jubilee

Speaker 20 i can i prepare

Speaker 65 archer is like going to get on the elevator after telling travis like meet me in the shuttle bay for flight lessons in half an hour and he gets on the elevator and is immediately aboard.

Speaker 59 What we learn is the Enterprise J

Speaker 35 and it's in the middle of a war.

Speaker 3 Enterprise J,

Speaker 3 kind of a wide king, as we see on the Master Systems display behind them on occasion. We don't really get an exterior shot of this ship at this moment, but we do see it in schematic.

Speaker 3 I'm going to say a better-looking ship than Enterprise E or F.

Speaker 85 Wow.

Speaker 11 Fuck.

Speaker 68 Harsh. Harsh but fair.

Speaker 30 It's something that we only see in schematic at this point, but

Speaker 37 Daniels is there and he's in his ropey outfit.

Speaker 3 Just for some reason, miles of feces and urine going through the tubes.

Speaker 69 Like,

Speaker 3 doesn't that ever drive you crazy? Like, when in health class, you're told, like, yeah, the small and large intestine is like 40 feet long. And you're like, that's impossible.

Speaker 63 Yeah, if you took it out of you, you could stretch it out.

Speaker 3 Yeah, like you could go to the moon and back four times off of the length of your small and large intestine put together. Like, that doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 3 That's what's going on here with Daniels' shit tubes.

Speaker 67 And Archer's like, I guess, because Dune is like 10,000 years in the future.

Speaker 66 So, like, it takes that long to come up with the technology for the feces just to be processed in the thigh pads.

Speaker 80 In your time, it has to be processed everywhere.

Speaker 55 Yeah.

Speaker 44 It's getting harder and harder to surprise you, Captain.

Speaker 3 And yet, Daniels looks warm and comfortable.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 84 Yeah.

Speaker 28 They're in that weird nebula that everybody had to sleep their way through.

Speaker 20 And I presumably the J has some kind of shielding that protects from that nebula.

Speaker 21 But this is a conflict between the Federation and the Sphere Builders.

Speaker 55 And we're told that sphere builders are using those spheres to terraform the galaxy, essentially, to turn it into a place where transdimensional beings can hang.

Speaker 3 They're kind of beings of mystery at this point, aren't they?

Speaker 35 I mean, they just have normal-looking ships.

Speaker 63 Their ships are kind of like dumb-looking, honestly.

Speaker 3 I thought so, too. They're like looking out the view screen, and Daniels is gesturing broadly.
This is one of the great moments in Federation history. We finally get over

Speaker 3 on these fucking sphere builders, and it's great because it represents the promise of what the Federation is. You know what the Federation is, right, Archer?

Speaker 3 And Archer's like, what the fuck are you talking about?

Speaker 63 You've mentioned this before, but it doesn't ring a bell.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 66 And Daniels is like, well, needless to say, Federation is really important. It's a bunch of different kinds of guys that all got together, and they're not going to get together without the humans.

Speaker 36 So if the Zindi take you guys out, just really shits on galactic history from that moment forward.

Speaker 3 What do you make of how emphatic Archer was in his defense about wanting, maybe even needing to die at this point.

Speaker 31 Send someone else. I won't do that.

Speaker 3 No one tells me not to die.

Speaker 32 God damn it.

Speaker 38 I just took out an entire Felicity from Orbit.

Speaker 2 I feel terrible right now.

Speaker 16 This is the only way I can think of to atone.

Speaker 3 Daniels has got to do more than just say it's really bad, doesn't he?

Speaker 11 This is not enough.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 3 At this point, Archer has like moved through time, and so he has this sort of

Speaker 3 way about himself that like he has the confidence of of someone who's had a time travel experience talking to a professional time traveler and being like i'm on the same level as you yeah i know what you're talking about yeah when he kind of doesn't yeah it's uh it's rough the message from daniels is go convince the zindi Like, in the way that you're trying to convince me, you know shit about time travel, go convince the Zindi that you know shit about what they're up to with their weapon and that they need to not proceed with the killing of all humans everywhere.

Speaker 78 Like, if you sacrifice yourself, like, you're blowing the whole thing.

Speaker 45 Like, you've got to live through this, and you've got to convince the Cindy not to use their planet killer.

Speaker 3 Do you think there's something about Archer's understanding of time travel that makes death seem a little bit squishy as a concept?

Speaker 56 Like,

Speaker 3 a little less permanence than he might normally associate with it, pre-knowledge of time travel?

Speaker 81 Yeah, I mean, interestingly, we've learned from Daniels that the results of actions taken in Archer's time propagate through

Speaker 66 the timeline in a way where Daniels doesn't feel it immediately. Yeah.

Speaker 19 So like Daniels doesn't know what Archer's going to do here.

Speaker 3 Pretty wild.

Speaker 21 Yeah, you've got to be thinking like, I mean, Daniels knows what he knows, but he doesn't know what I know.

Speaker 15 I could do anything at this point, you know?

Speaker 3 Hey, listen, Archer, I see you're pretty dug in with the whole kill yourself aspect of this mission. Let's just pretend that there is a moment of doubt for you at some point.

Speaker 3 I'm going to give you this little brooch.

Speaker 3 In case you choose the diplomatic option at some point, I want you to have this in your pocket.

Speaker 3 This belonged to a Zindi crew person who's on this very ship at this very moment, the Enterprise J.

Speaker 81 Let's just say if you're ever in a in like a, you know, a Starfleet bar and somebody comes up to you, you're going to want to have this in your pocket.

Speaker 3 Archer's like, why is it all wet?

Speaker 3 Daniels is like, well, that's because this is an aquatic Cindy.

Speaker 3 And Archer's like, I didn't think they did anything.

Speaker 24 Like,

Speaker 51 what?

Speaker 22 He kind of mostly wrenches on things.

Speaker 73 He's kind of a, you know, he, he's a laborer.

Speaker 74 He's not the brightest guy in the crew by any extent.

Speaker 3 They work for the navigation cetaceans, like

Speaker 3 kind of a job without a lot of opportunities. Like, that's just where they're going to be.

Speaker 17 You wouldn't think that a huge tank full of whales would need like a janitor, but there you go.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 3 He's scraping barnacles

Speaker 3 off of the navigation whales.

Speaker 3 That's what he does.

Speaker 35 It's also what he eats, amazingly.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 60 TePaul and Archer catch up after this encounter.

Speaker 34 And he's like, I don't know, man.

Speaker 49 I just really am kind of hot committed on the whole killing myself thing.

Speaker 16 And she's like, I don't know. I mean, like, let's hear this Daniels guy out.

Speaker 21 He did prove to us recently that time travel exists.

Speaker 64 So maybe, uh, maybe listen to him.

Speaker 3 This is that kind of ugly argument that a person can get into where they use the other person's words against them. Like, Archer's like, Tipa, you don't even believe in time travel.

Speaker 46 So shut the fuck up.

Speaker 3 Like, you don't get to have an opinion here.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that never works.

Speaker 3 No, it does not.

Speaker 14 And she's also just, she expresses, doesn't want him to die, doesn't consider it to be necessary.

Speaker 3 In one of the moments of this episode where Jolene emotes here, like the mask of being a Vulcan slips just a little bit in this scene.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 66 I think more and more over the course of the episode. Yeah.
Catch up with Degra.

Speaker 14 He is having a hang with like, I guess like the main lizard guy.

Speaker 54 The main Liz.

Speaker 3 The Sliz Liz.

Speaker 57 Yeah. Do we have a name on King of the Lizard people?

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, we do. This is Dahlem.

Speaker 84 Dahlem.

Speaker 57 Dahlem, he's got plans.

Speaker 66 He wants a bunch of ships.

Speaker 77 He wants four ships to go with the weapon when it goes to take out the Earth.

Speaker 67 And his idea is that that many ships will be needed to chase down any Fujis that attempts to depart the system upon the destruction of the planet.

Speaker 77 Degra's really stressed out about whether the vortex can be made that is big enough to accommodate the weapon and four ships.

Speaker 55 Like,

Speaker 78 we've been stepping it up in the plugs over the course of weeks to get stretched out and ready to accommodate this weapon.

Speaker 14 I don't know if we can stretch it much further, to be honest.

Speaker 3 I mean, and what Dahlum is writing for

Speaker 3 to use to use that description is that, yeah, I mean, you just need to get a weapon plus four escort ship size plug to get this thing worked out.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I got to say, aren't you on dolem's side here? Like, why would you fly this thing unescorted anywhere?

Speaker 57 Like, I don't know.

Speaker 3 Removing the idea of like, yeah, we got to do the mop-up duty with the refugees, like, with the other ship, obviously. But, like, wouldn't you want something flying interference?

Speaker 3 Makes a ton of sense.

Speaker 17 I mean, it is a super weapon.

Speaker 40 Like, can it not defend itself?

Speaker 79 Like,

Speaker 3 can it just just take out anything that comes at it i don't know i don't know super weapon-ally i don't know or is it is it a one-shot deal like it like the other one kind of took its shot and then and that that was it so this argument is interrupted with news that the moon base is late for their check-in and if you'll remember it's because they're dead and exploded over on the moon base not exploded in the good way where your your muscles look good but the the bad way Yeah.

Speaker 41 Where you're dead.

Speaker 3 There's a conversation here between Degra and Jannar where it's like two bad guys talking about the bad thing they're about to do and like maybe the mixed feelings they've got during.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 3 You know, we're about to be successful with our extermination, but also,

Speaker 3 you know, it's them or us, and that makes it complex, doesn't it?

Speaker 62 Women and children, etc., etc.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 78 The arboreal guys like, no, genocide is the right path.

Speaker 3 We should do this. And we love women.
Am I right? Am I right, Degra?

Speaker 13 You know I'm right.

Speaker 22 I like that the humanoids and the arboreals are kind of like,

Speaker 16 you know, like, ultimately, like, they get along.

Speaker 49 We're more similar than all those other kinds of guys.

Speaker 3 We breathe the same way. Our blood temperature is very similar.

Speaker 86 Yeah.

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Speaker 4 You will never take the greatest shit alive.

Speaker 4 Ben would rather die.

Speaker 3 Over on the Zindi shuttle, Mayweather is giving flying instructions to Archer. Archer having maintained he will be the guy at the stick flying this thing on its suicide mission.

Speaker 3 And Mayweather has to question at this point, now that they're alone, why he would lead this suicide mission. Archer being a pretty high-value crew person,

Speaker 3 especially compared to Mayweather. He knows this.
Archer's answer is pretty simple. He's done a lot of killing, especially lately.
And it is time to go for the most perfect game. And that's himself.

Speaker 3 What if I could also kill myself, Mayweather?

Speaker 41 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 34 What if this mortally zero-sum game I'm playing could end with a perfect score?

Speaker 3 It's the reason of a crazy person, and Mayweather could do nothing to talk about of it.

Speaker 3 Sorry I asked.

Speaker 16 But Adam, would a crazy person leave his dog in the care of a kindly doctor like Flox?

Speaker 3 This moment kind of bumped me because you know how Dark Archer's gotten when he doesn't outwardly emote anything during the rehoming of his dog

Speaker 3 on the eve of a suicide mission. Like, there isn't even...

Speaker 3 You can tell the person who wrote this episode isn't a dog owner or lover because there isn't that last moment of like, I love you so much.

Speaker 3 Scritches. And then like he turns away and like bites his fist.

Speaker 13 Come on.

Speaker 54 You get your hands under those floppity ears and you get the side of the face.

Speaker 78 And you might comment to the person, I wish I could explain this to him.

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 34 You know.

Speaker 3 The writer of this episode thinks that the cheese thing is that. The cheese thing is not that.

Speaker 18 Yeah. Give my dog diarrhea on purpose is not that.

Speaker 76 Yeah.

Speaker 3 It sounds very biblical. Give my dog diarrhea in remembrance of me.

Speaker 23 Do this is off to see you eat it.

Speaker 3 Take, eat the cheese.

Speaker 8 Three writing credits on this one.

Speaker 65 Brandon, Rick, and Manny

Speaker 77 got together on this.

Speaker 25 Who knows?

Speaker 75 Who fumbled the dog ball this hard?

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, hard to know.

Speaker 3 A real bumper of a scene here.

Speaker 3 Dr. Vlox is like, I don't think we discussed this previously.
Like, I feel like you're kind of dumping this dog on my doorstep.

Speaker 51 Not really fair.

Speaker 17 Did you see a fire station logo on the door to Six Bay?

Speaker 26 What are you doing?

Speaker 3 There might be something baked into this scene that we're not talking about, and that is maybe the percentage chance that everyone believes this mission will be successful anyway, versus them all believing they're going to die because this isn't going to work.

Speaker 51 Like,

Speaker 3 maybe that's the energy Archer has here. He's like, well, you're going to be taking care of Porthos for about, looks at his watch, three hours.

Speaker 32 Good luck.

Speaker 59 That's interesting.

Speaker 87 I mean,

Speaker 54 it's a question of like what we bring to the viewing of a thing like this.

Speaker 17 And it's like, it's Star Trek.

Speaker 18 Like they're going to save the planet, you know?

Speaker 26 Sure.

Speaker 18 Especially in prequel Star Trek.

Speaker 38 We know that the Earth will be fine.

Speaker 3 That's a great point, except for the thing that Daniel said about the sphere builders existing out of time and thus being able to control situations all over the map.

Speaker 77 Archer also says his goodbye to his crew.

Speaker 66 Maybe a reverse of what it should have been. Maybe he should have saved this much emotion for the dog and just given a pretty perfunctory speech to the crew.

Speaker 39 But he really proud poppers them.

Speaker 62 I mean, and maybe this undercuts what you just said about their like feeling about

Speaker 42 the doomedness of their mission because he's talking about all of the other captain butts that are going to sit in that chair.

Speaker 3 Of all of the captains I have ever known, I am the most

Speaker 58 angry.

Speaker 58 I'm so angry.

Speaker 41 Yeah,

Speaker 21 he's angry, but these guys rule and away he goes.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 3 It would be great if he bumped Enterprise for old time's sake. Like he flirped the ship around like, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Speaker 3 Like, bonks into the shields, bounces off, goes their separate ways, and everyone on the bridge crew is like, damn, there goes a real one. Like, he was always himself, wasn't he?

Speaker 30 He scrapes off the last E on

Speaker 20 the name of the ship.

Speaker 36 Enterpris.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 52 The fuck is that?

Speaker 3 Through the grid he goes, just like the first time through. Like, that's pretty much assured.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 57 I like that he doesn't get pulled over.

Speaker 66 I thought that the episode made a good choice not having the,

Speaker 20 you know, the chips are out there on the highways, but they're not catching every single speeder.

Speaker 3 TePaul has watched long enough. She goes into the clarinet rental closet because that is her space to cry.
Everyone knows

Speaker 3 you don't cry at work.

Speaker 3 You don't. You got to take that into the breastfeeding room or someplace private.

Speaker 3 No matter who you are, you do not cry at your desk.

Speaker 3 You'll never be seen the same way again.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 3 There's actually a second room now right next to the breastfeeding room for crying because he, because it's like, but I don't want to be seen going in the crying room. I'm going to the breast room.

Speaker 3 Because then at least it's a mystery. Yeah.
What's Adam doing in there?

Speaker 26 That's weird. What does Adam identify as, anyways?

Speaker 18 It's not appropriate to ask at work.

Speaker 64 It definitely isn't.

Speaker 3 And it isn't up to me to objectify his body and whether or not he has lactating breasts.

Speaker 3 I'll just roll those questions around in my own mind.

Speaker 67 Those are inside thoughts.

Speaker 77 She's having a real hard time with this and actually lets a tear go.

Speaker 3 What has that got to feel like for a Vulcan? It's got to feel orgasmic in a weird way, right?

Speaker 18 Right.

Speaker 8 Like taking a massive dump after being super constipated.

Speaker 3 Eye dumps. That's what she's doing.

Speaker 84 Yeah.

Speaker 66 Archer makes it there pretty quickly and comes up to that construction apparatus that the sphere was in but uh the sphere was in it it is no longer

Speaker 3 i love archer's take here this is so disappointing they really did a good job with the reveal too oops the only thing we have around us are uh these aquatics indie yeah finally a break yeah finally i get to eat

Speaker 18 They're all sitting around with like

Speaker 45 with like, you know, buckets full of coronas on ice.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 57 Thank fucking Christ.

Speaker 36 Oh, speaking of beers,

Speaker 26 I've, uh, I've switched my, my

Speaker 66 intake to a, uh, one of my few remaining spotted cows.

Speaker 3 Amazing. I thought I saw that creeping in a frame there.
That's, that's awesome. Good job by you.

Speaker 3 I'm almost down to the bottom of my second glass of wine, and the reason I've slowed down a bit is because I feel like something about this

Speaker 3 is very strong.

Speaker 3 I'm feeling pretty drunk after two glasses in a way that two glasses of wine doesn't usually do to me. I think there's something about what's happened to this bottle that is strengthening it up.

Speaker 17 I wish there was a way to assess like how much, like what the percentage, like you can't like, like wave your phone over a glass of wine.

Speaker 3 I wish there was a way to know if I was drinking poison or not, because

Speaker 3 I think maybe like micro-dosing poison would feel very similarly to what I'm experiencing right now.

Speaker 57 I mean, there's only a few lesions breaking out on your face.

Speaker 77 And like, you know, when you bring your hand up to move your hair,

Speaker 47 I can see that one of your fingers fell off, but the rest are fine.

Speaker 3 I do feel like

Speaker 3 very warm face feeling.

Speaker 3 I do feel funnier than I usually feel, which is also a symptom of being drunk. Like you really think you're funny when you're drunk.
So that's part of it.

Speaker 5 The bits are really cooking.

Speaker 56 Yeah.

Speaker 3 How about this moment where Archer goes to the coordinates, finds no super weapon there, takes bangers, and then powers cut on this ship before we cut away. Like he's in the dark and underwater.

Speaker 3 And I almost wish that they stayed with this moment a little bit longer because the creeping dread of that is really powerful. Like use it.

Speaker 66 Every submarine film that's ever been made has used that moment.

Speaker 10 And this episode cuts away from it and lets us just spin on that.

Speaker 66 And we learn in the next scene between T'Paul and Trip in the clarinet rental closet that it's been two hours with no news from Archer, no evidence that a massive explosion erupted on that planet.

Speaker 12 He's like, T'Paul, you got to be on the bridge.

Speaker 42 Like, this is important shit we're doing right now.

Speaker 80 And

Speaker 39 she is...

Speaker 66 too bummed out, too sad, trying to put on a brave face that she's just being a stoic Vulcan and that if she's needed, she can be summoned easily.

Speaker 42 But it's a real best of both worlds moment.

Speaker 62 Like, Trip almost goes into the, like, that's now your chair.

Speaker 58 Is it, though?

Speaker 71 I was close with Archer, closer than friends, closer than family, and I can say goodbye.

Speaker 3 I really wonder how the rest of the crew feels about a non-commissioned Vulcan officer being given the captain's chair on a starship in this way. Yeah.

Speaker 3 where like she quit her job, she's a fucking contractor, yeah.

Speaker 3 Like, there are people who would have real gripes about that, I think, especially in a moment like this, especially with her being such an absentee captain.

Speaker 3 It's more interesting because of tripping to Paul's intimacy

Speaker 3 that he feels empowered to do this and that she feels empowered to tell him to get the fuck out of her office.

Speaker 27 Like, yeah, it's a level of vulnerability that is really intense for this scene.

Speaker 70 These are now your clarinets.

Speaker 3 So Paul's like, I actually didn't know what were in these cases. It's really what it is.

Speaker 4 I won't cease or desist,

Speaker 4 cause you really think it's fair use.

Speaker 5 Archer's getting beat up in one of those interrogation rooms where you get your hands chained to the ceiling.

Speaker 3 Oh, this is great. I love this.

Speaker 37 His prisoner taunts of his captors are really tremendous because he's getting beaten up by lizardmen and he's bragging about the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Speaker 88 Around 65 million years ago, most of the reptiles died out.

Speaker 2 Mammals became the dominant species.

Speaker 1 How unfortunate.

Speaker 3 He has got a lot of lip for a guy who failed his mission.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And this is something that

Speaker 3 Dollum calls him out on later. Like, do you want to die, dude? Like, what are you doing here? You're You're making it a little easy for us to beat on you.

Speaker 82 Yeah, Talum also tells him that the Enterprise has been clocked in the system and that they're going to destroy it unless he makes with the information.

Speaker 20 I guess the information that they want is like, what are you doing here?

Speaker 8 And, you know, how many Starfleet ships are in the expanse?

Speaker 87 Like, what are we up against, basically?

Speaker 3 Archer breaks the spell here by

Speaker 3 bringing up the idea of Degra's third mystery child.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And Dollum's like, what are you talking about, dude? Everyone knows Degra's got two kids. Archer's like, nah, not me.
I know. I know the truth.

Speaker 72 Third mystery child.

Speaker 84 You know what?

Speaker 78 I was kind of a fan of Degra before he was really famous.

Speaker 85 You know?

Speaker 10 I think the stuff that he put out before he was on a major label was...

Speaker 66 some of his best work and I'm familiar with some of the deeper cuts.

Speaker 78 Let's just say that.

Speaker 8 Anyways, I want to talk to him and not you.

Speaker 21 I'll tell him everything you want to know.

Speaker 3 Cut over to Enterprise. And TePaul, hey,

Speaker 3 return to the bridge.

Speaker 3 Good job, TePaul. That's where you need to be.

Speaker 3 It is clear by now to everyone that the weapon was not destroyed. And the question in the room is, what do we do now?

Speaker 3 Like, the expectation was the weapon would be destroyed, or we'd hear from Archer, or we'd be destroyed by now.

Speaker 3 So TePaul and Reed and Trip Tucker are talking it over and they're like, we don't want to just wait for whatever.

Speaker 3 How about

Speaker 3 we give this one more hour before Tepal goes through with her plan to go in by herself

Speaker 3 and do a little Vulcan style diplomacy? Also sounding a little bit like a suicide mission in this case.

Speaker 60 She's like, I'll just take a shuttle and I'll go in and I'll try.

Speaker 12 And they're like, huh?

Speaker 3 But you don't even have that little pin that Archer was given.

Speaker 70 Pin seems important.

Speaker 54 That's gonna be in one of your Earth hours.

Speaker 20 They're gonna wait until TePaul goes and tries this.

Speaker 3 That's a lot of time to keep beating on Archer. But in this case, Degra has actually gotten word about what Archer said, and so he's brought in and he does that thing.
That's great.

Speaker 3 He dismisses everyone from the room.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 3 So they can talk privately. Or I guess if you're Archer, like, do you talk primately?

Speaker 41 What do you think?

Speaker 36 But they're humanoids, and the primates are the Dr.

Speaker 57 Zaius guys.

Speaker 25 So they can't talk primately.

Speaker 3 But, like,

Speaker 3 what are humans if not evolved primates?

Speaker 30 It's a great point, Adam.

Speaker 45 It's not good terminology in the Zindi.

Speaker 3 I've been saying this forever.

Speaker 17 Like, I don't know if the Zindi came up with this or if, you know, the Earth government came up with this.

Speaker 3 For the purposes of my wordplay, I think we can agree that they are talking primately.

Speaker 62 You know what I think?

Speaker 8 I think the universal translator is to blame for this, and therefore Hoshi is to blame for this.

Speaker 82 She fucked this up.

Speaker 17 Yeah. Because humans are primates.

Speaker 33 Humans are a type of prime.

Speaker 64 Humans are apes.

Speaker 19 We're great apes. Yeah.

Speaker 62 You know, we share 99% of our DNA with bonobos and chimps.

Speaker 3 Created by the great ape creator.

Speaker 17 Some would say we're damn dirty apes.

Speaker 65 I wouldn't.

Speaker 25 I think we're quite clean generally.

Speaker 3 Yeah, all my parts are clean.

Speaker 84 Yeah.

Speaker 21 But anyways, all of the lizardmen leave and the conversation begins.

Speaker 36 And

Speaker 30 Archer has Degra listening because he's got lots of

Speaker 21 semi-secret biographical information about Degra's life.

Speaker 76 And he explains, like, you guys are acting based on a lie, based on, you know, wool that has been pulled over your eyes.

Speaker 25 And I can prove it.

Speaker 14 And he taps that coin on the on the counter of the bar.

Speaker 63 And Degra's like patting all of his pockets and he's like, oh shit,

Speaker 15 I don't have one of those.

Speaker 3 This whole idea that like when you destroy the humans, you destroy yourself, man.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 3 The weight of that is in this scene. Cut to later,

Speaker 3 where Degra has this coin quantum dated. This thing you took from Archer.
And he's out talking to the council.

Speaker 39 He's just talking to like mammals.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he's not talking to the whole council he's talking to his dudes about what to do about this and there's like kind of a lot more discussion of detroit than you'd ever expect on a zendi ship maybe ever

Speaker 3 like if if this were a bettable ass thing like how many times the word detroit is said on a zendi ship i would i mean i would set the line at 0.5 and it's basically a yes or no

Speaker 39 he described the pizza of this place and it's a thicker crust with

Speaker 63 sauce on top of the cheese.

Speaker 3 What we get out of this is a fair bit of news about the insect Cindy developing the secret bioweapon. Like, that's the main thing that happened in Detroit.
Right.

Speaker 3 And that is driving a wedge between the insectoids and everyone else on the council.

Speaker 59 They're like, those fucking guys.

Speaker 22 And there's some discussion of like, should we go to the big the bigger council with this information?

Speaker 78 Or should we like just tell the aquatics?

Speaker 34 Because it sort of seems like the lizardmen and the bugmen are in league.

Speaker 33 But, you know, the council doesn't work when we're all kind of like making

Speaker 68 backroom deals among subsets of the species.

Speaker 3 I got a great question about the Zindi bioweapon.

Speaker 3 The reptiles made the bioweapon in Detroit. It wasn't the insectoids.

Speaker 57 Yeah.

Speaker 3 But if the insectoids wanted to make a bioweapon, why wouldn't they just squirt a bunch of ropes in people's faces and it just transforms them into a Zindi insectoid protecting people at their core?

Speaker 2 We have to help these children.

Speaker 3 All of a sudden, everyone on the council is pro-Zindi insectoid, going along with whatever their ideas are because it's good for the insects.

Speaker 77 We've seen one example of what this huge weapon can do.

Speaker 55 Maybe this even bigger one, what it does is sprays ropes all over the faces of every human on earth.

Speaker 3 What you do is you get a bunch of well-dressed Zindi insectoids wearing boot and ears

Speaker 3 on their chests. They're going around asking folks to smell their flower.
Oh, Zindi rope.

Speaker 3 Zindi rope again. All of a sudden you're on our team.

Speaker 5 They could sweep through the earth population very quickly that way.

Speaker 3 Absolutely. That's not their idea, though.
They're not as smart as us.

Speaker 77 On the Entrepreneur, Trip is basically chasing Tepal through the ship and into the shuttle bay and trying to convince her not to go on this solo diplomacy mission.

Speaker 42 And if you thought she was emotional before, brother, you ain't seen emotional.

Speaker 3 Is this a word that's ever been said before? Is this diplomacide?

Speaker 3 That's what I feel like TePaul is after. And she gets like on the threshold of a shuttle pod before she is stopped with news that Zindi ships are incoming.

Speaker 20 That like grabbing the elbow move always feels bad to see a man do to a woman in a show, right?

Speaker 3 And yet that is like the language of TV and film for time in Emerium.

Speaker 65 It really is.

Speaker 3 I feel like that is a function of

Speaker 3 weak dialogue.

Speaker 3 If you can't write dialogue that acts as a placeholder for grabbing a woman's arm, than like you failed write better dialogue you know rick berman is like uh let's toss out these four lines and just have him grab her elbow now is it and i'm playing the part of rick berman here now is it possible that trip could like grab her elbow and all of her clothes could fly off like

Speaker 3 like maybe she slips down the ladder into the shuttle pod and like whoop

Speaker 42 And he's just up there holding her cat suit like, oh, dang.

Speaker 57 I didn't know it came apart like that.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And then she climbs up the ladder and they got to make out because that's what they need to do.

Speaker 55 There's a moment where she's climbing the ladder and trying to cover herself up, but she's not doing that good of a job.

Speaker 53 Can we write that into the script?

Speaker 16 I've seen everything.

Speaker 32 I've seen it all.

Speaker 62 Rick, sorry, standards and practices are not going to let us do that.

Speaker 6 Fuck.

Speaker 3 Cut over to the bridge. TePaul's hails of these four ships go unanswered.
So we're left on this cliff when we cut over to the Zindi jail cell. Archer, unshackled.

Speaker 3 He's already received a ton of trust in this scene. He's asking for more trust.
He wants to address the Zindi Council directly and personally.

Speaker 51 And man, that's a big ask, I think, in this moment.

Speaker 26 They're like,

Speaker 26 I don't know.

Speaker 66 He's like, I...

Speaker 18 I really insist.

Speaker 60 You're fighting the wrong enemy.

Speaker 8 A guy I know that has poop running through his entire uniform insisted that that was the case.

Speaker 3 We're running toward the last couple minutes of this episode. Enterprise is getting absolutely rocked by these Indy ships.
Sparks and girders are flying and dropping.

Speaker 3 Also getting dropped as Archer at a detention center for more interrogation.

Speaker 3 That's because Dollum has taken control of things now. And the orders to attack Enterprise actually came from him.
That's the way it's going to be. That's final.

Speaker 77 He has sort of superseded superseded everybody and decided that he is going to destroy the Entrepreneur. And if there are any survivors, they can join Archer in their interrogation center.

Speaker 17 These fucking lizardmen are acting like they'd run the place.

Speaker 3 It really feels like when we see these scenes of Enterprise being attacked, like this is the most amount of damage a ship named Enterprise has ever taken.

Speaker 3 Like it's an Enterprise-C amount of damage they're taking at this point. Right.

Speaker 35 Like aside from like blowing up the whole damn ship.

Speaker 8 This is it.

Speaker 35 And people are getting blown into space.

Speaker 65 People are catching on fire and like rolling around on the ground and getting, you know, fire extinguishers blown at them.

Speaker 57 It's so much.

Speaker 3 People are recreating the Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here album cover.

Speaker 51 Left and right.

Speaker 8 We get a super duper zoom in on the eyes of TePaul in the captain's seat.

Speaker 3 What does that mean?

Speaker 3 This was such an interesting composition because there's so much chaos going on with the exterior of the ship being attacked, the interior of the ship being attacked, and then like the stillness of a TePaul,

Speaker 3 like almost scorekeeping in her mind.

Speaker 86 Yeah.

Speaker 19 And that's it.

Speaker 66 That's the way the episode leaves us.

Speaker 39 Did you like this episode?

Speaker 4 I can't pay. Couldn't forlate.

Speaker 4 Got no case. Tempting fate.

Speaker 3 I don't know, man. This might be my favorite episode of Enterprise.
I don't know whether this is the brown wine talking or not, but I really thought this was great.

Speaker 3 And I think it was great because of how it just grew and grew in intensity toward the end of it.

Speaker 3 Like, it started off with Archer going on, like, insisting on a suicide mission, and it ended with the possible death of not just Enterprise, but like Earth at the hands of the super weapon.

Speaker 3 Like this, this crescendo of a of a tone was very persuasive. Like it just made me feel like this is one of the high watermarks of the series itself.

Speaker 66 I don't know how many episodes of Star Trek we've watched, but it's like dozens at least.

Speaker 3 I mean, I think we're talking about 591 episodes of Greatest Gen.

Speaker 66 Yeah, and then a handful over there on Greatest Trek, too.

Speaker 3 335. Yeah.

Speaker 55 When the credits rolled on this episode, I was shocked.

Speaker 3 It's a great moment, right?

Speaker 10 I was like,

Speaker 25 that's it?

Speaker 12 That's it? Like,

Speaker 62 I had no concept of where I was in time at that point.

Speaker 16 I was so locked in on this episode.

Speaker 3 Why not to be continued this?

Speaker 38 I think that's this amazing choice.

Speaker 61 Like, it's an amazing...

Speaker 16 To be continued is old-fashioned shit.

Speaker 35 Like, this is a modern television show, you know?

Speaker 3 You know what I loved? I loved the interior dish of the bridge falling like a chandelier.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Like, you know, shit is bad when the chandelier falls on the bridge.

Speaker 45 And Mayweather doing like a shoulder roll to get out of the way of it.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 17 Good situational awareness by a guy who was

Speaker 77 presumably very occupied with maneuvering the ship to notice that the chandelier was hanging by a thread and getting out of the way.

Speaker 3 When you know that you don't have to deliver dialogue, you can concentrate on all sorts of other things in your scene.

Speaker 14 Do you want to see see if there's anything worth concentrating on in the Priority One inbox?

Speaker 3 Oh yeah, I'm holding it together for that, Ben. Okay.

Speaker 3 Priority one message from Starfleet coming in on secured channels.

Speaker 77 Need a supplemental income.

Speaker 2 Supplemental income? Supplemental.

Speaker 31 Supplemental income. Yeah, it's extra.

Speaker 1 By the interest alone, could be enough to buy this ship.

Speaker 47 We got a promotional one here, Adam.

Speaker 6 Hey!

Speaker 62 Goes like this. I'm going to get political.

Speaker 8 Star Trek has always been a socialist and humanistic vision of the future.

Speaker 10 Funding has been cut to public radio.

Speaker 66 I am calling for friends of DeSoto to donate.

Speaker 5 Hashtag rascals resist.

Speaker 8 And the call to action is donate to your local NBR station.

Speaker 3 Ira the Gooch with this message. Fuck yeah.
Longtime friend of DeSoto.

Speaker 54 Absolutely despicable what happened to public radio, and it will

Speaker 10 unfortunately disproportionately affect the most rural stations in the country.

Speaker 28 I mean, you and I, Adam, have lots of friends in those public radio trenches and we have friends everywhere. Veterans of those public radio trenches.

Speaker 60 And I couldn't agree with the Gooch

Speaker 10 more strongly.

Speaker 76 Like this is a direct attack on credible information being delivered to people all over the country.

Speaker 77 So if you've got the means and can do so, I highly encourage you to give a little coin to your local affiliate.

Speaker 3 I, for one, have stiffened my resolve. I know there are a bunch of public radio folks out there who see the value of these things.
We're going to come together and make it happen.

Speaker 3 We're going to do it. No one's going to take away our NPR stations.
That's just not going to happen. We will save them.
We got to. Ben, we got a personal message here.

Speaker 3 It's from Courtney and it's to Robert. Here's how that goes.
Happy 40th birthday, honeybear.

Speaker 3 You're aging like a fine chateau Picard.

Speaker 3 You're the Jennifer to my Sisko, the Rom to my Lita to my Rom.

Speaker 42 Whoa.

Speaker 3 What does that mean exactly, Courtney?

Speaker 42 Oh, man.

Speaker 87 The Rom to Maileta to my Rom.

Speaker 15 Hmm.

Speaker 3 The Bashir to my Garrick.

Speaker 3 The prophets say to bring your batleth to Tarak Boudoir.

Speaker 3 Hell yeah. Let's pawn far, baby.

Speaker 6 Wow.

Speaker 3 Courtney, a very well-written, a very seductive

Speaker 3 priority one message here.

Speaker 11 Robert.

Speaker 32 Lucky man. Time to go.

Speaker 32 Yeah. Time to go, dude.

Speaker 42 Turn off the episode right now.

Speaker 3 If you know what's good for you.

Speaker 38 Yeah.

Speaker 33 Courtney, well, well done.

Speaker 27 Well met indeed.

Speaker 8 Our last P1 is from Samantha.

Speaker 63 It's too ben and Adam.

Speaker 22 It goes like this. Hey, guys.

Speaker 57 Long time listener, first time P1er.

Speaker 16 My first episode of the show was Ginger Jesus.

Speaker 33 I was riding my bike and decided to try this new Star Trek podcast I laughed so hard I crashed I still have a scar on my upper lip whoa

Speaker 19 I've been listening ever since for nine years I've never admitted to anyone what caused the crash it was dick valet oh my god

Speaker 13 oh Samantha Samantha what the fuck

Speaker 3 Ben, we gotta stop doing this show, man. It hurts people.

Speaker 50 This was Adam's fault in particular.

Speaker 28 He definitely said Dick Valet.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that was me.

Speaker 54 And on his behalf, I want to say that I'm very sorry for making a Star Trek podcast with him.

Speaker 3 I want to be clear. Ben apologizes not on my behalf ever.
I do not apologize.

Speaker 3 Amazing story.

Speaker 3 Holy shit.

Speaker 3 Samantha.

Speaker 3 Damn.

Speaker 3 What a secret.

Speaker 82 What a secret.

Speaker 22 What a thing to be withholding from your friends and relations.

Speaker 3 A good idea to withhold it, by the way.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 3 That's a smart move by you.

Speaker 30 But, like, you know, not in that context.

Speaker 7 We encourage people to share the show with their friends.

Speaker 8 Like, you know, there's a podcast I really like.

Speaker 28 You might enjoy it too.

Speaker 57 Sure. Just don't tell them it disfigured you.

Speaker 3 No, unless it's like a cool scar.

Speaker 85 Yeah.

Speaker 54 Thanks for getting a P1 to everyone who did one this week.

Speaker 26 and highly encourage

Speaker 66 anyone listening to arrange one themselves. I'm looking at our inventory.
We got a lot of availability on GrazGen, which is unusual.

Speaker 62 We're usually booked several months out.

Speaker 3 I think people are going to want to get into this P1 inbox, especially after today's episode.

Speaker 86 Indeed.

Speaker 3 Because doing so is a great way to support the production of our show. Maximumfund.org/slash jumbotron.

Speaker 13 Get in there.

Speaker 25 Hey, Adam.

Speaker 46 What?

Speaker 60 Did you find yourself a drunk Shimoda? Incredible.

Speaker 85 Drunk Shimoda!

Speaker 3 There's an inner life to Degra in this episode that is totally unscrutinized. Like, what I wanted to see more than anything was for Archer to tell

Speaker 3 Dollum the thing about the third child. And then I wanted to cut over to the bridge.

Speaker 3 I wanted to see Degra get told and for him to be like, like to spit out his coffee.

Speaker 32 Like,

Speaker 3 I'm Degra.

Speaker 3 My job is bomb like like what what am i involved with this prisoner bullshit for and for that to change his entire life yeah i think a lot is made of that moment where degra is brought into the cell and and he's like

Speaker 3 because he has no memory of anything going on between him and archer before he's never met archer there's a way you have to be in front of the prisoner where it's like tie is up you're buttoned up you're being stoic nothing nothing's gonna rattle you i want to see the part before the rattle.

Speaker 3 When Degra permits himself to be like, what the fuck?

Speaker 13 What?

Speaker 52 No, guys.

Speaker 46 There's no third child.

Speaker 13 What?

Speaker 3 Everyone knows. I'm two-child Degra.
That's like the main thing about me.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 53 It's like my whole identity at work.

Speaker 3 They didn't have time for a last time on. They didn't have time for it to be continued.
They didn't have time for that. So I get it.
But like, I'm going to make my drunk Shimoda Degra

Speaker 3 because

Speaker 3 there had to have been that moment, the moment that just melts his mind.

Speaker 3 And that we never see the mind melting deprives us, I think, of a great moment in this episode that we just have to conjure out of our imagination.

Speaker 66 My drunk Shimoda is,

Speaker 66 I couldn't quite tell if it was one or two extras on the bridge during the big combat sequence at the end.

Speaker 75 It might be two guys, but

Speaker 45 in my heart, it's one guy.

Speaker 10 Because there's a guy that we see get like the traditional Star Trek. My instrument panel exploded, blasted me in the face, and I went ass over tea kettle over the horseshoe.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 19 And then I think it is that same guy a couple of beats later in the same sequence when a girder falls.

Speaker 74 He's like just gotten up from being blasted out of his seat and gets up, and a girder comes out of the ceiling and takes him out from the back.

Speaker 82 And I just,

Speaker 49 man, I loved how that guy was just having like the worst possible day on Star Trek

Speaker 3 I love how understood the girder is as the angel of death on Star Trek yeah yeah it's like you know what it's almost like its own character on the show I love it good one Ben faith of the fart what a fun episode Adam I can't even imagine what we've got coming up next is it called a Zadi Prime part two like this is this is not a to be continued so I'm going to say it can't be.

Speaker 11 No.

Speaker 63 Our next episode is season 3, episode 19,

Speaker 36 damage.

Speaker 18 While dissension among Zindi ranks festers, Enterprise tries to recover from a devastating attack.

Speaker 3 I don't see how the Luke boys are going to get out of this bucket.

Speaker 3 Enterprise is looking pretty bad.

Speaker 73 Yeah, it's not

Speaker 3 going great for the ship. Ben, the game of buttholes, the will of the caretaker quantum leap.
I rolled the last one. It's landed us on square 32.
That's a quarks bar episode.

Speaker 3 Really wondering if we're going to experience the next episode in any kind of way. Yeah.
A brown wine kind of way, even. We'll see.

Speaker 7 It could be anything, Adam.

Speaker 25 That's the thing about the game of buttholes.

Speaker 59 She's a cruel mistress.

Speaker 60 You're required to learn as you play.

Speaker 25 Roll.

Speaker 60 Sometimes she's nice.

Speaker 8 I'm gonna go ahead and roll this hundred-sided die and see where we land.

Speaker 27 Do it.

Speaker 24 Oh, Adam.

Speaker 28 Narrowly avoided disaster.

Speaker 66 We are on square 87.

Speaker 73 Tula!

Speaker 31 Did I win?

Speaker 81 Hardly.

Speaker 66 Doorstep of that temporal Cold War, but a regular old episode for the folks next week.

Speaker 3 Just looked up Courting Hill Vineyard, a website that hasn't been updated since 2015.

Speaker 86 Oh no. What does that mean?

Speaker 3 But this vintage is 2016. I just want to say at this point, I appreciate everything that Cording Hill Vineyard has provided me.

Speaker 3 Up until now, I also want to dedicate this episode to Jimmy Laydon,

Speaker 3 the owner of Cording Hill Vineyard, who died in 2021. Possibly the reason

Speaker 3 that we have not gotten an update on this vineyard or its status. By all accounts, a great dude who is well loved.

Speaker 65 Oh, buddy.

Speaker 3 And I hope that I'm not drinking the last bottle that could possibly be gotten from this great place. Adam Tuck, you got to reach out and give us an update.

Speaker 77 Let's try and drill down on the Adam Tuck situation, figure out what's going on.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 83 Before

Speaker 45 Adam Pranica shuffles loose this mortal coil.

Speaker 3 Let's get some advice on whether or not you should finish this bottle.

Speaker 8 Got to thank the friends of DeSoto who support at maximumfund.org slash join.

Speaker 43 Thank you so much. Got to thank Wendy Pretty, our amazing producer and editor.

Speaker 66 Got to thank Rob Adler, our social media director.

Speaker 78 Follow at Greatest Trek on all social media platforms and subscribe to the newsletter, greatestreck.com to get all of the information about all of the things.

Speaker 43 We got to thank Bill Tilley, our temporal Cold War time consigliary,

Speaker 43 and Adam Lagusia, our beloved music director of the Uxbridge Shimota Corporation, and our co-host on Wholesome.

Speaker 45 Check out that show at wholesome underscore pod on Patreon.

Speaker 78 A really special show, I think.

Speaker 3 People would like it. It's really good.
I look forward to it every week. You want to know Ben a little better than what you know about him from Greatest Gen? There's a lot more under the surface.

Speaker 47 Oh, no.

Speaker 43 Let's try and come up with something actually compelling to pitch the people with.

Speaker 3 Ben is weird.

Speaker 3 How weird? You'll find out on wholesome.

Speaker 43 With that, we'll be back at you next week with another great episode of Star Trek Enterprise, an episode of the Greatest Generation Enterprise where I am frantically trying to put Adam Pranica back together after his disastrous run-in

Speaker 43 with a bottle of brown wine just as the crew of the entrepreneur are trying to put their own ship back together.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think I'll be okay.

Speaker 3 I had a broad before this.

Speaker 54 Good thinking.

Speaker 31 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I'm gonna keep drinking this wine the rest of the afternoon.

Speaker 51 I feel awesome right now.

Speaker 25 You look awesome, Adam.

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