July 16, 2025

Phasers Set To Stun: Previously on Strange New Worlds...

Phasers Set To Stun: Previously on Strange New Worlds...
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Season 6 Phasers Set To Stun

On "Phasers Set To Stun," we recognize the popularity of all things Star Trek, with a look at television shows, animation, movies, and much more! On this episode, Wayne and David get you ready for the upcoming third season of Strange New Worlds with a recap of season two, discussing their favorite, and not so favorite (rapping Klingons, anyone?) moments, and share their theories about what's coming our way!

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Space the Final Frontier. Join us for a bold conversation

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our prime directive to recap our favorite Star Trek shows,

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both new and old, to engage and debate about all

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things Trek. Prepare to energize with Phasers Set to Stunt.

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Hello, listeners, and welcome to an all new episode of

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Phasers Set to Stunt, where we continue to show our

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love for everything Star Trek in this ongoing series from

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a film by podcast focusing on every note of the

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expanding Star Trek universe by covering television, movies, animation, directors, merchandise,

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and much much more. Plotting your course on this voyage

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is your Core Trek crew. I'm Wayne Whited and I'm

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David Burns, and the time has finally arrived, after nearly

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two years, one hundred and thirteen days to be exact,

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Tomorrow is the premiere of Star Trek Strange New World's

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Season three. Now, David, how excited are you for the premiere?

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It's been a long time coming and I cannot wait

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to see what happens with that finale we got last season.

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Ah me too.

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I'm very excited because last season was incredible. It was

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and you know the quality of the writing just seemed

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to get better and better as the season went by.

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Yeah, yeah, I can't wait to see what they have

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in store for us, because they give us in some

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wonderful episodes and nice treats that we don't express. So

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looking forward to see what they have in store for

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us in this season.

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Well, we've been waiting so long for this conclusion, that

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massive cliffhanger they gave us, they threw at us, in fact,

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that with the Hegimity Part one, just let everybody know,

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you know, there was a long way. This season was

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originally premiere, planned to be premiere last year, but you know,

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because of the twenty twenty three Hollywood writers strike, delayed

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the filming for quite some time, forced Paramount to bump

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this new episodees back a year or two now, so

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it's really been a while since we've seen Captain Pike,

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mister Spock and the others on screen. Therefore, David, why

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don't you give us a brief recap of what went

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down during season two?

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A lot I'm going to tell you, but I'm going

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to keep it brief. The season would add some incredible

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stories to what we know of Star Trek, while at

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the same time giving us a musical that was well

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to put it plainly, with something else, wrapping Klingons should

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never be a thing, just thing. We opened with the

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conclusion to the first season finale with the very fight

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for one of its crew members and first of all,

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the certain to Chinriley, who was arrested by Starfleet in

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an outstanding courtroom drama that Star Trek does so well.

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We have an amazing crossover with Lower Decks when the

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Boemler and Mariner who are sucked into the live action

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world and interact with Pike and the crew of the

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Enterprise who have to team up to complete a mission

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and get back to their own time and place and

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under the cloak of war. We would see doctor membinga

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like we have never seen him before as we learned

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his past and nickling on Wars and find himself along

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with Pike, an immortal debate that ends in death and

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serious changes to some of the characters we thought we

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knew so well. Leon will go back in time with Kirk,

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and we would have a touching episode where O'Hora finally

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deals with the loss of Hemmer. We would see Spock's

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DNA completely removed, making him fully human, giving us some

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very fun situations with him and the crew. We would

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see Pike and the Enterprise return to a familiar place

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on Rigel seven, bringing back some classic memories of the

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original Star Trek episode the Case. In the final episode,

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we would find our crew at the edge of Federation Space,

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where they discover the Gorn have returned and have attacked

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with the deadly Vengyans. Discovering a new face, but one

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we all know quite well with Montgomery Scott. The crew

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have to fight for their very lives while Pike does

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his best to come up with a creative way to

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do an unfanctioned rescue. Upon doing this, we end on

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one of the biggest cliffhangers that we have yet seen

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on this series, as the crew is capped by some

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of the crew is captured by the Gordon and themselves,

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leading us with the dreaded to be continued exactly.

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That was perfect. Now, of course, you know this is

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where Phaser Set to Sun got started. We reviewed every

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episode of season two all the way back two years ago.

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That's where it all began. So let's rather than taking

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a detailed look, let's just kind of recap up everything

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that we liked and disliked and everything in season two.

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So David, I'll let you start off at the discussion,

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and what were your specific likes and dislikes during that

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second season.

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Well, clearly, I already kind of mentioned one of my

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dislikes in my synopsis. Whereas the music webisode, I know

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there's some fans out there who love it, and you know,

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I give it to the writers to trying to do

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something different, something creative with Star Trek, you know, so

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that we're not having the same things over and over.

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So I give them that, and you know what, continue

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to do that. There may be stuff I don't like,

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you know what, but so be it. That's that's the

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way it is. You know, we all can't like everything

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together to be a boring freaking world. But you know,

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I just I wasn't a fan of that episode and

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I've watched it again and it just doesn't click with me.

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I don't know why. I mean when you know, I've

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never been a gigantic fan of musicals, but they have

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come on to me over the years, you know where

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you know I have. I do appreciate them, and I

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do like some of them, but it's just this just

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didn't work for me in this world. I know Scott

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once once again is on away mission. By the way,

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he liked the episode, and you know, I respect that,

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and you know, we had that discussion with that episode,

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but I still just can't find myself enjoying it like

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like I should. Now. As for likes, there are so

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many likes about this season. Again, I mentioned the Courtroom

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Drama about with First Officer. Who know, there are some

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powerful scenes in that episode, some incredible writing that just

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blew me away in an episode. And we even discussed

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about that episode that you know, Star Trek has had

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other courtroom drama episodes that have just been phenomenal. It's

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like they know how to do those episodes and do

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them well. And it was just one of those things

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that you were on the edge of your seat and

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then when they finally got to the conclusion of that episode,

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you were my chin was just dropping because it was

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done so well. I was like, holy crap, did that

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just happened? And it was just it was just phenomenal. Man.

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But then an absolute blaugh with having Vomer and Mariner

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coming into the live action world. I loved that so

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freaking much. When they first mentioned they were going to

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do that. I was very curious to how they were

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going to pull it off, you know, could they pull

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it off? Boy? Did they ever? Man, I'm telling you,

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the humor did not miss. It felt like you were

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watching Lower Decks, but obviously in the live action world

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of Pike and the crew. And I loved it so much, man,

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I really really did about you.

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I agree with pretty much everything you said that. I mean,

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there was some really great episodes last season, but I

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think the highlights there were three big ones that I

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really really liked. And yeah, that second episode with Unichen

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Riley her trial was just an incredible character piece.

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Yep.

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You know, it really gave us an in depth look

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at the character of Number one and let Rebecca remain

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to flex her acting chops. I just I just loved

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that episode. Was a great, great start. And then you

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mentioned the the crossover Lower Decks episode that I think

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is everybody's favorites a lot of people. I mean that

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that was such a great episode, funny all the way through,

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beautifully directed, Love it love. I hope they do more

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episodes like that, maybe not with just Lower Decks, but

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more Let's see more of Star Trek and Star Trek

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exchanging worlds, and then that last episode, the Cliffhanger. I

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loved that last episode, the Cliffhanger against the corn was

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was so well done, it was so epic. So yeah,

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there's those three just just blew my mind. Well, there

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were a lot of other episodes too that way. But

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I also agree with you about the one that didn't

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quite click with me, and that was Subspace Rhapsody. My

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I love musicals, I really do know. You know, there's

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quite a few of them I can name that that

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I like. I just don't feel that it's the right

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thing to do in a television series because they just

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don't have the time to work out the songs, work

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out the choreography and stuff it. You know, television has

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produced at a very tight schedule, you know, and they

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just don't have the time that the musicals for films do.

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So that's I just didn't think it worked. But I

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do understand that there are a lot of fans out

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there that really did like that episode. I've seen it

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over the last two years of people talking about it.

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You know, there are rewatch parties for that episode, you know.

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I mean, I understand that, but I definitely respect that

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that people like this episode because everybody's allowed to have

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their likes and dislikes. You know, that's just the way

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life is. So I acknowledge that, and I acknowledge its

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impact to the series, So you.

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Know, I'll give them that. Yeah, absolutely, I can't argue

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with that. Like I said, it'd be a boring world

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if we all like the same things. So it is

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what it is, and I give it to the writers

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for trying.

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To be creative.

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I mean every television series that every season has, you know,

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an episode that you're gonna love and there's an episode

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you're probably not gonna like very much. It's that's just

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the way it is.

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Yeah, I know, I know, you and I and it's Scott.

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We talked about how we feel the Gorn or the

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Borg in Strange New Worlds, and when they first introduced

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to Gordon season one, that was probably one of my

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favorite episodes because it was a flat out horror movie

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in Star Trek is what that episode was and what

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it felt like. I mean, it felt like it was

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watching really Scott's Alien is what it was. And you know,

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to bring them back for the finale of season two

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I think was absolutely perfect because there was a lot

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of unset things that they need to cover with the Gorn,

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so it was good that they brought them back and

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the fact that, you know, the people who got captured

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by the Gorn. I'm very curious on where this is going,

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and we'll talk a little bit. I'm sure about what

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we expect is going to happen in the future of

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Strange New Worlds a little bit later obviously in this podcast.

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So yeah, I mean, hit it. I love the way

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I love what they've done with the Gorn. I like

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the idea that they're taking. These ideas are in these

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characters from the classic original series. You know, we really

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knew nothing about to barely even saw or just saw

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a guy and Rubber Mask, you know, fighting Captain Kirk,

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and they're taking it and creating a whole new Star

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Trek legend with them, yep, you know, creating a brand

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new world bringing him in. I hope they do more

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of that. I'm sure they will.

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I know they will.

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But they've done an incredible job with the Gorn and

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how they fleshed out those characters.

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Another thing that I like to point out, and again

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I know we talked about in the episode the very

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first episode of season two, how unique it was that

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they wrote the captain out of the episode. Yeah, you

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don't see that in Star Trek.

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You don't.

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They're always mostly centered on the cap or they're always around.

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But the fact he just up see you guys later,

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I'm going somewhere, and then it was about the rest

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of the crew. That's another thing I love about these

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New Worlds. It's the fact that you have this ensemble cast. Okay,

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that's brilliantly casted. Everybody is fantastic in this series.

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You get to explore them individually. You get to see

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their stories, you get to see their likes, you get

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to see their loves, and you get to see the

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things that are broken in them like us humans. And

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the fact that we get to explore that with them

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more in depth. That's what makes this show even more

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special to me. Not just said at Star Trek, but

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the fact that we get to know the crew so

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much in detail.

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Well, that brings me to another question I was going

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to have with you, which exactly along those lines, is

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you know what you thought the standout character for that season?

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Because they really worked out and gave these characters an

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episode each one of them an episode to shine and

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I love that. I love the writers to sort a

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great job with planning that for me. I I gotta

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say season two's standout was You're her Celia Rose Gooding

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just really did a phenomenal job. Because that episode was

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called lost in Translation. You brought that up in your synopsis.

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Was a real high favorite on my list, and I

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just thought she was brilliant. The character was just so

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well written in that episode. And there are a lot

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of other moments. I mean that that moment in uh

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those on Scientists where she's with Marner. Love that scene.

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You know, she's got so much more now than just

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sitting on the bridge and saying, you know, Hanling frequencies open.

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And I love that what they're doing with all the

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characters every year, and I hope they continue that. I'm

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I know they will.

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Yeah, So I'm exactly with you on this, Wayne. I

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absolutely love a horror and that's why I pointed it

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out in my synopsis because that episode was just written

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so well for a horror and she she's had a

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lot of good moments, even in season one, She's had

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a lot of good moments. Yes, And you can tell

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the writers are really leaning towards her because of her

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not getting the original horror, not getting that respect that

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she had on the bridge. She did eventually, don't get

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me wrong, but you know we've discussed that and getting

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to see this character in more depth and getting to

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do more things and like more than that you said,

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just in haling frequencies or whatever, seeing her just shined.

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I mean, Celia is just a brilliant actress for one thing,

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and the fact that they casted her as a horror

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just shows the brilliance of the casting of this show

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and in that episode and just just seeing her how

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she just came to terms the things over the season

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and just showing her brilliance on that bridge. You know,

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I'll go back to season one, remember the episode where

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and I know we're talking about season two, but I'd

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like to go back to season one where she showed

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her brilliance with that episode with the music. Do you

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remember that?

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I do great episode.

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Love that episode not just for the story but for

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a horror because in that moment I realized, holy crap,

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they're really giving us the ahura we deserve.

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Yeah. Yeah, I felt the same way about that episode.

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And then the lost in translation episode. She's just done

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so much to the character view her, which always, in

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my opinion, with the Michelle Nichols, always felt like a

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terribly underused character, even especially especially in the films, you know,

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because that's what happens with an ensemble cast. You know,

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one or two get thrown into the background. I'm glad

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that they're bringing her out, giving her so much do

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and show that the character is a fantastic creation and

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the actress is playing it is absolutely wonderful.

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sure Michelle Felmware is miln. Yes, there's no doubt about it.

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Yeah. Yeah. Now, last season also had some pretty great

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guest stars. Which one did you think you was your

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favorite during the season.

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You know where this is going, Clearly it's Jack Quaid

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and Tany Newsome, who are you know, bringing not only

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their voice talent from lower decks as Boemler and Mariner,

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but getting to see them actually perform those characters in

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the live action world. Just just how talented they are.

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Because you know, I know, voice acting is can be

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tough because you really have to put so much of

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yourself into it. But the mere fact that you can

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take when you are performing that cartoon character, that animated

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character into a live action world can be a tough

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thing to do. But the fact those two brought it

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to that episode and we're exactly that animated character that

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we saw them and in live action, they were brilliant

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way and they have to be pointed out as the

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best as the guest appearances for that season.

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Oh yeah, I mean you you said the correct word brilliant.

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I mean the idea that the voice actors can actually

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play the characters and live action really blows my mind.

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But it's it. They're perfect. I mean everything from from

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their mannerisms to the way they talk to Boimler's scream.

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I just I love that episode and I love them.

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We're we're all big Lower Deck fans, you know, everybody's

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very aware of that, so that that episode is great.

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But I also want to point out one other one.

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I don't know if you consider a guest star, I

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kind of do. Carol Kane as as Pellia. I loved her.

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I know she's more of a reoccurring cast than a

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guest star, but I just love what they did with

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her character. She's such a fun addition to the cast

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and and she's back this new season. I can't wait

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to see what they do with her.

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You know, I make sure to jot this down because

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you're not on the same wavelength here. Wayne. I wanted

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to throw her out there as well, because you know,

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I know he's not a guest star. He joined the cast.

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But you know there's some there's some episodes she's not

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in so much. But I'm telling you what, every scene

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she's in, even if it's a small scene scene, it

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is golden man, it is. She is so good, so

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funny and just brillian. Again, I'm gonna use the word

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brilliant because she is. I mean, Kara Kine has been

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around a really long time and she had a brilliant career.

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To keep using that word because it's true, she's had

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a great career over the years. And the fact that

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when we heard she was joining Strange New Worlds as

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one of the cast members got me all excited. And

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I know we've read about that before, but the fact

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in seeing her in those scenes just is absolutely hysterical

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and has joined that cast perfectly. Like the chemistry with

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her did not miss a beat with the rest of

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the cast. Even though she was the new cast member.

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She fit in.

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Perfectly, always like she was there all the time. I

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love her as an actress. I've watched her over the

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years and the film she'd done, all the way back

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to when I used to watch reruns of Taxi. I

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just I think she's fantastic. When they announced that she

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was going to be on the show, and I'm like, oh,

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that's just brilliant. That word again, word again. I just

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what a great idea, what a great casting of a

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legendary actress, especially television actress. And she didn't disappoint I.

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Just like I said, I can't wait to see what

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she does in season three. All Right, I think I

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pretty much know the answer to this. I think you

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listeners probably know the answer to this one. But David,

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what was your favorite episode of the second season?

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You know you might be surprised with this, and I'm

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going to go a different way. Oh, I'm going with

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Under the Cloak of War?

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Oh okay, okay.

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For a few reasons. So we discovered him being a

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was the ghost, right, but we got to see the

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klingon war that we've always wanted to see, and we

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get to see the medical department doing their best to

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take care of some of the Starfleet soldiers, and I

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was like, we have never seen before. I thought some

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of those were just incredible scenes that we got to see,

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you know, watching true warfare and Star Trek, which is,

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you know, something we really haven't seen over the years,

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you know, and getting to see that that grit that

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down in the trenches, like we got to see there

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just a little bit. It's a good little taste. We

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didn't get a ton of it, but we got just

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enough to make it really stand out to me that

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it felt like a war film within Star Trek, and

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I've always wandered that and that's why this episode really

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stood out to me. But not just that, it was

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that Mimbinga crossing the line in this episode at the end.

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Oh yeah, And it's it's that that moral debate that

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battle again that I mentioned that in synopsis. You know

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that that Pike was having Do you agree with Membinga?

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Did here? Do you not? I don't know, did he did?

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He did he cross the line because of you know,

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the thing that happened in that war. Granted the war

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is gone, but you know, if you put yourself into

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Miminga shoes and you went through that very situation that

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he went through. Could you handle that guy being on

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the the the bridge with you, the ship with you,

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and and tolerate it and not do something about it.

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And the way it ended where you had that struggle

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at the end and you know you saw it what

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it was through like a stained glass or something like that,

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I believe it was, and he stabs him, and it

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just I loved that episode so much and it was

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brilliant to me, and again using that word because there's

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a lot of brilliance in this season, there really was,

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and that was just it just I didn't expect that,

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to be honest with you, Wanne, that ending, and it

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caught me by surprise, and I think that's why this

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is the episode that I wanted to talk about in

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this situation. So yeah, I loved it.

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Yeah, I had a hard time choosing it. That was

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because that was one of my top episodes. That was

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probably the episode that was definitely the most dramatic, most

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thought provoking of the entire season. And because the ending,

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and they did it on purpose, they left that that

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not exactly open but open to your interpretation and your

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feelings exactly how you felt about that, And I love

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that I love the work there. I mean, you know,

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some of that was rather close to home for me,

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and I remember when we were reviewing the episode talking

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about that, how much we all really enjoyed, how how strong,

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how provoking that episode was. So yeah, I almost chose that.

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I almost chose a loss in translation, but I did

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go with the most obvious, uh those old Scientists, only

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because I think that's the episode I enjoyed the most

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and was looking forward to. You know, like I said,

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we're all huge fans of Lower Decks. You know, I

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wish it would have continued past its five years. I'd

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seen them cross over into live action, and seeing strange

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new worlds cross over into the animation at the end

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was just was just so much fun. It's I've rewatched

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season two over the last two years, probably about three,

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maybe four times, I'm not sure, but that episode I've

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watched rewatch the most. I think I've probably watched it

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about ten times to tell you true, because it's just

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so much fun.

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It's a good one. It's a good pick for sure.

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All Right, before we travel through the Guardiana Forever into

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the future, let's pause a little and listen to this.

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Believe it or not. David and I are back and

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we've still got lots to talk about you. So let's

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look forward to season three. Now that we've looked back

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and talked about everything we remembered on season two and

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hopefully refreshed your mind and the events that happened there,

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we're going to look forward to what's in store for

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us over the next next few months. Well, what do

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we have in store for us for season three? We

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got that trailer that came out about a month ago. Uh,

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what do you think about that? Anything you got out

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of that trailer?

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There was a lot in that trailer that obviously some

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of it doesn't make any sense at all. It won't

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see those episodes. But I know, obviously, you know, we've

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already talked about the anticipation of getting the conclusion to

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the to the cliffhanger, like, yeah, finally after a very

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long wait, grueling weight on my Dad. Yes, we're going

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to get some comedy episode obviously where the crew gets

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turned into Vulcans. I think that's gonna be kind of interesting.

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I know Patton Oswalt is playing a vulcan. It might

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even be that same episode.

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So very curious is that who he's playing. He's playing

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a vulcan. I didn't know.

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Yeah, a murder mystery episode. I think I got out

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of the trailers. I think that's gonna be the weird

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episode that we get this season, you know, kind of

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like the musical was this one might be that episode.

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I don't, I don't know.

469
00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:02.319
Yeah, there were scenes of them dressed in like look

470
00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:04.559
like nineteen forties or fifties outfits and something like that.

471
00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:08.240
I'm assuming assuming it's that episode. That episode's also directed

472
00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:09.799
by Jonathan Frakes, Yes.

473
00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:12.519
Which is another reason why I'm looking for yeah to that.

474
00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:16.440
And then the one that's gotten very curious is the

475
00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:19.720
crew is being forced to go completely analog. Okay, did

476
00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:23.039
you see when when Palea was like hooking up a

477
00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:24.720
phone in the trailer?

478
00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:26.559
I think I think I missed that a little bit,

479
00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:27.920
but I know what you're talking about.

480
00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:30.240
It, and I guess they have to go analog for

481
00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:32.519
some unknown reason. I don't know what happens to the ship,

482
00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:35.880
but clearly they have to do something in order to

483
00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:39.240
keep their communication going. So I don't, I don't know.

484
00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:41.359
It seems very interesting, but a lot happened in that

485
00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:43.240
trailer that, Yes, what is going on.

486
00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:46.400
Yes, a lot of things flashed by a really quick

487
00:25:46.440 --> 00:25:50.119
I mean I got there's there was glumpstons of some

488
00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:53.400
sort of like a lush green world being attacked. I

489
00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:56.839
did catch a really quick shot of a kling on. Yeah,

490
00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:01.920
there was that that pep talk between Kirk Pike, which

491
00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:05.240
looks like Captain Kirk is having to take over command

492
00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:08.799
of the Enterprise for brief time. There was a huge

493
00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:11.599
ground firefights and lots of Gordon shifts with which I'm

494
00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:13.400
presuming is that's from the season premiere?

495
00:26:13.640 --> 00:26:14.160
Yeah, I think so.

496
00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:17.279
And then of course we got the return of Montgomery Scott.

497
00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:19.359
Very excited about that.

498
00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:24.200
So what do you hope you see this season?

499
00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:28.920
You know, I'm hoping that we get to see you

500
00:26:28.920 --> 00:26:31.799
think Montgomery Scott's going to stay Do you think that

501
00:26:31.880 --> 00:26:36.000
once the cliffhanger is done so the first episode, do

502
00:26:36.039 --> 00:26:38.480
you think he's gonna stay on board the Enterprise or

503
00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:41.319
do you think he is just going to go away

504
00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:43.400
and then come back later. But I'll let you answer

505
00:26:43.480 --> 00:26:46.920
that in a little bit. I don't know if we're

506
00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:50.119
going to get any more of the original crew members

507
00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:52.759
this season, like McCoy or check Off, or do you

508
00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:55.960
think I think we're gonna get I think they're gonna

509
00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:58.319
pause on that a little bit, and we're gonna get

510
00:26:58.319 --> 00:27:01.319
that probably season four or even season five, which we

511
00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:03.119
know is going to be the final season of Strange

512
00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:05.799
New Worlds. So I don't want them to be in

513
00:27:05.799 --> 00:27:08.279
a rush to that. I'm excited, don't get me wrong.

514
00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:11.680
I do want to see that, but you know that

515
00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:14.680
we know that enterprise that we want to see this crew.

516
00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:19.920
But another thing that I'm really curious about is when

517
00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:24.160
are we going to start losing some of these characters. Yeah,

518
00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:27.039
that's they're not around in the og, but you know,

519
00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:29.359
at least that we know of maybe they's somewhere else

520
00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:31.839
in the galaxy or doing something else. That's cool if

521
00:27:31.839 --> 00:27:34.119
they explain that, but we we know what happens to

522
00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:36.920
Pike re crying out loud, we know where they's But

523
00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:40.400
some of these other crew members, you know, we don't

524
00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:43.440
know what happens. So when is that going to start

525
00:27:43.480 --> 00:27:45.559
hap I'm sure it probably won't be this season. They'll

526
00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:47.920
probably be, you know, start heating up in season four

527
00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:50.279
and season five, which I believe, by the way, did

528
00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:52.680
they just finish season five for didn't they filming it?

529
00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:55.160
Yeah, they have finished four and I don't I'm not

530
00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:56.680
sure when they're supposed to do to is film in

531
00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:58.960
season five, but it's not that far off.

532
00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:00.880
I don't think Yeah, I don't think so did it.

533
00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:03.640
But it's good to see, you know, Kirk being in

534
00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:05.559
a little bit of a command role because we obviously

535
00:28:05.599 --> 00:28:09.319
know where that's going and that's coming from. But I'm

536
00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:13.440
excited to see more of diving down into getting to

537
00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:15.920
know these characters even more because again we're gonna go

538
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:18.599
back to talking about how it's an ensemble cast. We

539
00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:22.240
get to know so much more about them, and I

540
00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:25.400
think this episode we're going to get the very first episode.

541
00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:29.039
I think we're going to get some more of that

542
00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:32.079
for sure. For Cecily, definitely lay on because remember her

543
00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:36.480
history gone and she got captured by the go in

544
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:41.160
the finale of season two, so what's going to happen there.

545
00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:43.440
Surely they're not going to write off her character this quick.

546
00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:45.599
But then again, look what they did the Heimmer. They're like,

547
00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:46.440
see you later.

548
00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:49.759
Yeah, we don't know. I mean, we never know about

549
00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:53.119
these characters. We have no idea that they're all contracted

550
00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:57.240
for five seasons, and never feels that so yeah, yeah,

551
00:28:57.279 --> 00:28:58.839
you know, you actually make me think about some of

552
00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:01.559
this stuff because I wanted to say, I hope. I mean,

553
00:29:01.559 --> 00:29:03.640
we're definitely going to see more of Pelly and Scotty,

554
00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:06.359
but I now that I'm thinking about it, I don't

555
00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:09.359
think he's going to be joining the Enterprise just yet.

556
00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:12.279
But I do think maybe like Kirk may pop in

557
00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:16.720
for like, you know, three or four episodes right other

558
00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:19.480
than I mean, but what I really do hope and

559
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:22.039
I'm sure they will, is that they continue that trend

560
00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:24.160
like they did last season and used the episodes to

561
00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:27.880
focus on each one of those main and secondary characters

562
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:30.119
and give them their times to shine again, because we

563
00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:32.519
want to see more of all of them. They're all,

564
00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:36.599
every last one of them are fantastic characters, fantastic actors

565
00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:41.400
and actresses, and you know they there's still a lot

566
00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:45.440
more to explore with their characters and the story. I

567
00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:46.960
also hope we see more of George Kirk.

568
00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:51.200
Yes, oh gosh, yes, I liked him. I did. I

569
00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:53.440
really liked him, you you know. And another thing too,

570
00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:58.039
is I want to see they need to address the

571
00:29:58.160 --> 00:30:00.920
ending of the Cloak of War, right, We've got to

572
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:05.000
come back to that somewhere because remember I forget what

573
00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:07.400
episode followed that, but it was like, why did this

574
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:09.519
episode follow the Cloak of War? Because of the way

575
00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:16.160
that ended? It was awkward, right, Yeah, I was confused

576
00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:19.119
by that. So I'm like, how do you not address

577
00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:20.960
what happened at the end of that episode?

578
00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:25.000
Remember that the character of men Benga, there's still a

579
00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:26.759
lot more to his story. He's one of the first

580
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:29.240
characters that we do know a little bit about, yep,

581
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:32.000
and that you know right now he is the chief

582
00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:36.839
medical Officer of the Enterprise, but he loses that rank

583
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:41.000
that position somehow because when we saw him in the

584
00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:43.480
original series, he's still on the Enterprise, but he is

585
00:30:43.599 --> 00:30:48.640
not chief medical officer. He's actually second doctor under McCoy.

586
00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:49.720
So what happened?

587
00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:52.799
Could this could we have begun to see you know

588
00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:56.079
that part of the story? Maybe that's it could be.

589
00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:58.839
It could come up, come back up and you know,

590
00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:02.279
bite him in the ass. Yeah, but that has got

591
00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:04.480
to happen. It won't happen this season. I'm almost certain

592
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:06.440
that probably won't happen until season five.

593
00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:08.759
But they have to address it this season, right at

594
00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:09.559
least a little, I.

595
00:31:09.559 --> 00:31:11.160
Would think, So they can't you know, to let it

596
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:14.200
go for that long, you know, because he's I always assume,

597
00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:15.880
and I'm pretty sure this is the way the writers

598
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:18.079
are doing it that each year of the show that

599
00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:21.559
we watch equals one year on the Enterprise.

600
00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:21.400
So.

601
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:25.279
You know, I if they let it hang till season five,

602
00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:27.519
that's like two years later. I just don't see that happening.

603
00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:30.200
I think I think it will at least a little

604
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:33.319
bit of that storyline will start coming in. They'll probably

605
00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:36.480
stretch it out for a few years, but I do

606
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:38.720
hope that they address it and don't just let it

607
00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:39.440
hang for a while.

608
00:31:39.640 --> 00:31:39.880
Right.

609
00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:45.160
Yeah. We also we also got a few another interesting

610
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:49.079
guest star this season. There's Ciliana Solivan as Roger Corby.

611
00:31:50.039 --> 00:31:51.880
There's a character that was mentioned a couple of times

612
00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:56.519
during season two because Nurse Chapel was leaving the Enterprise

613
00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:02.559
to what was it some sort of like tea. Yeah, yeah,

614
00:32:03.079 --> 00:32:05.440
Well that's another character from the original series that we

615
00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:08.160
saw and he becomes her fiance. So there's a lot

616
00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:10.720
more story there. Now. I am certain that we're going

617
00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:12.880
to see it this season. This this is a storyline

618
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:16.880
that's going to begin and probably conclude this season. So

619
00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:17.960
we got we got all.

620
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:19.680
That to look for the one they call it from

621
00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:20.440
friction with back.

622
00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:24.079
Oh yeah, oh yeah, well, you know that's something also

623
00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:26.400
I wanted to bring up to because you know, Spock

624
00:32:26.599 --> 00:32:31.200
and Chapel have been kind of an on and off thing.

625
00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:33.839
But there they've been let's just say they've been an item, yes,

626
00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:38.240
and they are definitely not an item in the original series.

627
00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:41.759
So we there there, right, there is more. There's a

628
00:32:41.799 --> 00:32:45.240
storyline that we've got to wait to see something happens

629
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:48.000
between them, and I think this might be it. I mean,

630
00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:49.079
who knows, we'll find out.

631
00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:51.440
Yeah, you're right, there's a lot of gaps they got

632
00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:52.960
to fill in here. I mean, granted, they still got

633
00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:56.599
three seasons including this one, but we'll see.

634
00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:01.440
I'm curious, and you know, we've got got some interesting titles.

635
00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:03.640
Have you Have you seen the titles of the episodes?

636
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:07.680
They really make me curious. The of course, we we

637
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:10.480
talked about the Murder Mystery one. It's called a Space

638
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:12.400
Adventure Hour. I love that title.

639
00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:13.880
That's great.

640
00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:18.400
But the sixth episode is called this a Lot who

641
00:33:18.599 --> 00:33:22.039
ate its tail? Now? I didn't think about this until

642
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:23.839
you mentioned it, but this is probably the episode where

643
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:26.480
they get turned into Balkans. But I also like that

644
00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:29.519
title too. I think it's definitely yeah, it's definitely got.

645
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:32.720
It's probably going to be a Spock episode obviously, yes,

646
00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:36.519
but the episode after that has really got me curious,

647
00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:40.559
and it's just simply titled what is Starfleet? I have

648
00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:42.400
a feeling that's going to be a very dramatic episode

649
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:45.039
in my opinion. But so we got a lot to

650
00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:48.400
look forward to, some great stuff coming up, and a

651
00:33:48.440 --> 00:33:49.880
lot that we don't know about yet.

652
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:55.319
Yeah, it's exciting because this this starts, uh it tomorrow

653
00:33:55.440 --> 00:34:00.839
after this episode airs, right, That's right, So that's exciting

654
00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:02.759
times that we're finally getting to see this. And I

655
00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:04.759
hope we don't have a long I know, since they

656
00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:08.199
finished filming season four. Don't make us wait two years.

657
00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:11.079
Please give it at least in the spring or in

658
00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:13.360
the summer of next year, you know, come on.

659
00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:16.239
Let's hope the writers don't go and strike again.

660
00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:20.199
Yes, please, don't, you know, because we want to. I

661
00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:21.480
know they're going to leave us with some kind of

662
00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:24.360
cliffhanger in this season. Who knows what that is going

663
00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:27.679
to be because they always catch us by surprise, And

664
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:31.599
I'm very curious about how that's going to happen. And

665
00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:33.280
you know another thing that you know we always talk

666
00:34:33.320 --> 00:34:36.480
about this too, is I very much appreciate I know

667
00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:37.760
a lot of people there's not a lot of things

668
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:40.559
out there of Star Trek Discovery, but we have one

669
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:42.519
thing to think Star Trek Discovery for and that's the

670
00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:48.320
show we're watching now. So we got it. Yes, we

671
00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:50.239
wouldn't have had this if it wasn't for Discovery, So

672
00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:54.440
very thankful for that, and we at least get you know,

673
00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:57.159
we know Star Trek used to be seven seasons and

674
00:34:57.239 --> 00:35:00.000
now it's pretty much five. Five is the new Steven

675
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:02.880
in the world of Star Trek. I guess we're I'm

676
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:04.639
fine with if five seasons is still good.

677
00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.000
Yeah. I mean that's with ten episodes. That's fifty episodes.

678
00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:12.119
That's not a bad run today for any television series.

679
00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:15.639
That's fifty episodes, fifty hours of Star Trek that we

680
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:18.280
can enjoy over and over again for the future.

681
00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:20.119
Yeah, absolutely could agree more.

682
00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:22.880
And that about wraps it up for this episode of

683
00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:26.559
Phaser Set to Stun our recap of Star Trek, Strange

684
00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:29.719
New Worlds Season two and a look to season three.

685
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:32.840
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686
00:35:33.159 --> 00:35:35.920
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687
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.639
opinions of how Strange New Worlds has progressed so far,

688
00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:41.800
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689
00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:44.840
might just mention you on a future show. Of course,

690
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:47.239
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691
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696
00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:07.480
for joining me and the listeners for a look back

697
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:09.480
at what has come before and what we hope to

698
00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:10.280
see in the future.

699
00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:12.079
Absolutely always look forward to it.

700
00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:15.239
The first two episodes of season three of Strange New

701
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:19.440
Worlds will be available to stream starting tomorrow, July seventeenth,

702
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.880
on Paramount Plus. If you haven't already done so, go

703
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:26.599
back and check our earlier episodes titled Strange New Wednesdays,

704
00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.159
where we look at and review each episode of season

705
00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:32.119
two of Strange New Worlds the week they originally aired,

706
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:35.599
and please return next week when we begin our review

707
00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:37.960
of the new season three On July twenty third, with

708
00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:42.480
episode one titled The Jiminy Part Two and episode two

709
00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:46.800
titled Wedding Bell Blues. It's going to be another wild

710
00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:49.400
and fun ride with Captain Pike and the crew of

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the USS Enterprise. Both of us, along with our fellow

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crew members Scott Hoffman, look forward to joining you in

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the future or the past. It's hard to tell when

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direction you're going in store our trek anymore. With what's

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coming up on new episodes of Phasers set to stun, live, long,

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and prosper