Nov. 5, 2024

Phasers Set To Stun: Lower Decks S5.E3 The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel

Phasers Set To Stun: Lower Decks S5.E3 The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel
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On "Phasers Set To Stun," we recognize the popularity of all things Star Trek, with a look at the television shows, animation, movies, and more. On this week's episode, our crew welcomes the return of Star Trek: Lower Decks for it's final season. Join us for a recap of episode 3, The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel.

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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 back to a new episode of

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Phasers Set to Stun, 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 which focuses on every sector of

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the expanding Star Trek universe by covering television, movie, animation, directors, merchandise,

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and much much more. Plotting your course for this final

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voyage of the USS Cerritos is your Core Trek crew.

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I'm Wayne Whiten, I'm David Burns, and I'm Skoyle Aufman.

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And today we are talking about the third episode of

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the fifth season of Star Trek Lower Decks, titled The

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Best Exotic Nanite Hotel, written by Stephanie Amante Ritter and

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directed by Brandon Williams Scott. Why don't you give us

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a short summary of the episode?

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Sure?

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Well.

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The USS Cerritos is Doctor Cosmic Duchess, a moon sized

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interstellar cruise ship that's plagued by two mini missions. One

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away team is focused on a glump of Naanites that's

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beginning to devour as much metal and energy as it

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can touch. That puts Mariner with her girlfriend Jennifer, which

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she thought she wrote it up with last season in

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the lead of to Lyndon, Brutherford and Tendy as they

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chase as they chase Glumpus before it can replicate to

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dangerous proportions. The other team is tracking down a rogue

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admiral who's choosing to have his apocalypse right about now.

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Tame finds Ransom, leading a reluctant Boimler and a frustrated

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billups deep into the Admiral's temple of dread. This one

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feels like a bottle episode that's a fun ride from

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start to finish, with a hint of what might be

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coming in the future.

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Well now we're starting to see the beginnings of a

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season wide plot in this episode. The first two episodes,

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which we covered in our last podcast, saw the USS

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Cerritos and its crew thrown into a parallel but similar

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universe and then helping the planet Tartleus nine adjusts to

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their new economy, all while Lieutenant Tinney dealt with the

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depth that she owed to her sister back on her

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home planet of Orion. We still have quite a journey

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ahead of us until we reach the finish line. So

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this is red alert, folks. There are spoilers ahead. If

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you haven't seen the episode yet, please tumble your way

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down a snowy mountain to the nearest television set to

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catch it on Paramount Plus, then come back and rejoin

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us for the discussion. All Right, what did you guys

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think of this episode?

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So?

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I really enjoyed this episode. As Scott said, it felt

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like more of a bottle episode, even though it's got

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you know, hints of what's to come in this season.

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But I love the Boimler, Ransom and Phillips scenes. I

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found I found that absolutely hysterical in this episode. But

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one of the things I really enjoyed was the fact

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that they gave a lot of fans out there they

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wanted that wrap up with the relationship between Mariner and Jennifer,

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And you know, because I think was it season three

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episode trusted sources, I believe it was where they just

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kind of just you know, okay, we're not going to

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talk about this anymore. Well, a lot of fans really

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wanted that, and I love the fact that they went

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back to do that and they had fun with it

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in this episode.

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Yeah yeah, I.

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Mean Jennifer's role.

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I'll talk about it a little bit later was one

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of the highlights of this episode for me, especially on

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a second watch, knowing how she was kind of, you know,

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going through some some motions to kind of play with

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Mariner that i'sperately done.

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One of my first.

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Favorite parts about this is seeing that it was directed

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by Brandon Williams. I love seeing his name every single time.

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I don't mind saying my favorite director on Lower Decks. Yeah,

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but we had a great conversation with him, and I'd love.

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To have him back, yes please.

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Yeah. You know, I completely forgot about that subplot. I

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had to go back and watch trust the sources, because

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you know, it completely slipped my mind. But I really

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liked how it was dealt with in this episode. You know,

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I feel from Mariner, you know how she had managed

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it so, you know, trying to avoid and just assume

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that it was over with that emotional confrontation. I understand

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where she's coming from, but you know, I liked how

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they worked it all out at the end. You know,

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there was another loose thread that they closed again in

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this season. You can start feeling that that beginnings of

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the end with it so that they're doing But I'm

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glad they are doing that because, like you said, David,

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a lot of people were upset. Yeah, they kind of

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just dropped it and never brought it brought it back.

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I did connect with that character though, when you're right.

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I love when things worked themselves out and I don't

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have to do anything when that When she was trying

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to make that happen to you, I love it. She

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was working so hard to make that happen. Hey, I

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can relate to that.

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I also got to give it to Stephanie and Monte

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Rider for the D and D elements of this one.

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When they started out with Ransom teeing it up as

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a side quest and the D and D in nerdive

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me was like, what's this? And then the fact that

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they had the the nanaxwarm form into a D twenty

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shaped chaos engine. It's like rolling through town and you

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can see it kind of making decisions like it'll roll

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past the crowd, then.

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Ye stop.

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And come back from munchies. And I was like, oh, man,

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good to see some that.

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It was brilliant.

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I absolutely loved that, and I think at first it

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was called the Glumpus, Isn't that what they first started

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calling it with. Absolutely was hysterical. I love it when

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they come up with names in the show that are

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just really, that's so silly, but that is so funny

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at the same time.

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Yeah, you know, and then Mariner goes as far as

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to say, oh, it's a how do you say that iron?

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Yeah, try that easier. Yeah, I gotta admit that. Of

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the two storylines, you know, I kind of liked Boimler

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is the best. I laughed all the way through that

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he's turning probably going to be turning out to be

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my favorite character of the entire series. I I laughed

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so hard when he was talking to the lieutenant that

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had come back from his mission. And it was the

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performance at that actor of gave. It was so dramatic

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and you know, my hand I lost my hands. I'm like, yeah,

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I mean they're going to new ones. Yeah, it was.

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I know. We talked last time about Boemler trying to

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grow in his record beard. The glacial pace of Boimler's

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facial hair growth.

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It didn't look like very much.

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Some extra lines on the bottom and that's it.

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So yeah, that'll be nice to get I think.

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I think another character that I really enjoyed this was

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Lan's her growth a little bit. You know, she's a

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Vulcan and but we get to see a different side

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of her a little bit here. You know, her lover

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was a crock in the rocks. Yeah, you know, her

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love of that, you know, you really don't. You didn't

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expect that, especially coming from a Vulcan. So getting to

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see her have that fun in that connection to it,

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I thought that was blessed.

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Yeah, she's truly now part of the Lower Decks crew.

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I mean she's she's just as important as the main characters.

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As for as much as we've been going to conventions.

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To have the autograph there at the end and she's like,

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this has no scientific purpose. It's no you know, uh,

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it's it's graffiti or something like that. So like it

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doesn't do anything. She's like, come in here, She's like, no,

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I'll keep it to study.

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So there are so many parts of this episode that

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I just busted out laughing. And one of the reasons

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why I loved this episode, but The one that really

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got me was when Boimwer was just flying down the

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mountain and he went out of control and then went

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off the cliff and you just see this extended fall

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as he falls and falls and.

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The scream he screamed yep.

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I was hoping that can we get a Goofy scream here?

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Because I was gonna say he's channeling is Goofy.

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You know. This episode does confirm though, that there is

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a overlying story to this season, but the quantum fissures

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are going to remain a plot points. I'm curious to

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where they're going with this. The little the little ship,

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a little ship that looks like Voyager, but it wasn't.

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I can't remember the name of it now, but yeah,

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I'm curious as to what they're doing with that. I

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still have no idea, but you know it should be interesting. Yeah.

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When that popped up, I was like, Ah, this is

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what was going to happen this season.

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Okay, cool?

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Yeah, that opens up a lot of things that can happen,

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right yeah right, oh yeah.

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Well, especially with how they're exploring it. It's not just

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you know, in this universe, we use beggers. In this universe,

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we all have mustaches in this universe, you know whatever.

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Usually where we see that kind of evil, kind of

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opposite universe. And obviously we got a little bit of

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a taste of something different last time, but now we're

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going with different proportions. So I mean we could be seeing, like,

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you know, a ship piloted by koalas or by ducks

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or by you know, live action or whatever. So they're

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showing that there's it almost seems like they're kind of

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bracing us to say, like, we're going to go in

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some interesting places, so just get ready.

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Yeah, yeah, and you know the sky's limited with that too.

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And it is, by the way, Wyane, that ship was

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the Uses Endeavor, Oh thank you, thank you, and it

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was commanded by Captain Trefell. If you noticed they were

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using the next and raking.

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Uniforms, I didn't notice that. Yeah, that was awesome. It

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was odd though, I mean, is there a little bit

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of a time difference there? She shouldn't be wearing those uniforms, right,

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So what's that all about. I don't know. Things going on.

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It's gonna get wacky.

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Their features in the hands of an admiral that's in

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charge of milking space.

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Whales, Okay. Another thing, when I lost it with Admiral methods,

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I don't want to go to store bays eighty Yeah.

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Yeah, that would be the spinoff shorts we get from

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this afterward Starbase eights things do.

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Yeah, And we've talked so much, especially when we were

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reviewing the next Generation, about admirals and how they seem

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to go wrong, and look at this episode really put

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that center stage right there. And that's that's one of

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the best things the Lower Decks does is they take

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these silly bits of star Trek and throw them right

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into your face, you know.

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Well, And it's great timing that Dave, you and I

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had just recently talked about Apocalypse now on a film

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forty five right, yep. So it finally gave me the

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context to appreciate that so much more.

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It does, You're right, absolutely, And I didn't think of

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it that way, Scott. So that's that's a good bring up.

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Man.

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What I love about Lower Decks is the fact that

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can have so much fun and it could just make

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you laugh and I'm talking belly laugh, and you get

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so many tidbits of stuff and you know, eyster eggs,

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all kinds of stuff from all the different worlds of

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Star Trek, but you still get good meetings and characters.

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In each episode you get you get something you care about,

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and you get somebody that was pulled out of these characters.

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And I feel like Boymoer in this one, you really

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get to start to see his path.

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Growing more and more.

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when he when he's you know, ongoing his side quest here,

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he thinks that he's there to you know, do all

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the dangerous stuff, that he's going to get hurt, when

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in fact that wasn't the He was actually invited because

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they actually respect him. You know, they know that he

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makes good decisions, and when they say that to him,

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it kind of catches him off guard.

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That about the show, how it just brings those things

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out in these little characters.

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like Ransom has had this faith in then the entire time,

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but he just never let himself see that or believe that. Right,

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So when he's finally getting through that's it's unlocking a

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lot of his potential. I think we're seeing a similar

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thing with Mariner, where She's just like, Oh, so if

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I just come out and start talking about these things,

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then it'll it'll help me get a little bit further,

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Like if I use communication, that will help. And yeah,

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so I like that early on in the season they're

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doing a lot of that unlocking of their potential so

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that we can see a lot more happen with the.

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With the rest of the series, and I think that

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was part of the plan.

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But I'm guessing they're kind of rushed a little bit

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since they know they have to wrap everything up in

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this final season. But I'm glad that they're doing that

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in giving the fans that because, as you all know,

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we all love to see character development in the characters

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that we love Two Star Trek. You know, you want

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to see that growth, that story arc, and we're really

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starting to see that these characters shine.

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Yeah, and you know another thing along with the growth

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disclosure as well. Yes, you know we got to have that.

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You know, we didn't get that for years with the

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Next Generation, and I feel that we're going to get

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that with this show. I know. It was like, I

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don't think they knew exactly when they were making this

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the show is going to be this final season. But

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I still feel that we're going to get some satisfaction

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faction of seeing the characters grow and become good officers,

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which is good closure for these characters that we.

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Followed absolutely and who knows down the road, we may

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get some live action with these characters.

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I think we're fantastic. I to be honest, I really

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don't think this is the last we'll see, no bes,

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I really don't too popular. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, we'll

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see more. I know we won't. All right, So, now

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that we've given our opinions and thoughts on the episode,

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let's take a look at the characters themselves. Which character

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you think shines the most this week?

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David, I kind of let it out of the bag

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a little bit ago. It's Boimler seeing him grow some

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more again. You know, he thought he was just being

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a red Shirt, and it turned out that he actually

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was important and he was picked for the very reason.

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I'm glad to see he's getting the respect that he

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deserves and he's realizing that with confidence.

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Scott, I'm going to give my vote to Jennifer this

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week for staying with the illusion so that Mariner will

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finally give the closure to the relationship and just having

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fun with the character. Props to Lauren Lapkis for her role,

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for her voice work on that. I think it was

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very well done, and I think it's one of those

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where on rewatch you see how she was kind of

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messing with Mariner.

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Of the entire time.

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I just think that was well done. Yeah, what about you, Wayne.

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Yeah, well, you know, it's really hard to choose in

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this episode because there were a lot of characters that

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did get center stage. You know, Marner's story was great,

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just like what you said to Lynn, another good one.

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But for this week, David's reading my notes because I

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said formula for pretty much almost the same reads as

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you know, the way he's grown into his Lieutenant Rink.

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He's quickly becoming a good officer. He really is. You know,

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Ransom and Bilps revealed why they needed him because he's dependable,

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he's reliable, he's wiry. You know, he realized all those

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things and it was a really boost in his confidence

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and it helped him defeat the admiral Admiral Milius, you know.

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Plus you know I chose him that scream yep.

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You know, it's funny the fact, remember we talked about

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the Lower Deck's episode of Star Trek the Next Generation

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and how much we all loved that episode and you

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got to see a side of Star Trek. You got

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to see a side of a ship that you never

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got to see. It's so wonderful that they took that

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concept and turned that into this animation that we get

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to see, and how it has just grown and makes

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you fall in love with these characters and seeing them

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grow and become these officers. Because what if we've seen

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these kind of characters with like the Card or Riker

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or any of them when they were young and in Starfleet.

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How fantastic would that have been to see them when

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they were first starting their careers and growing, you know.

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So it's really neat to get to see this kind

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of stuff, and you know, these creators packed themselves on

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the back because they're doing a fantastic.

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Job with it. Well, we know that the Card, you know,

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he was a little crazy in his youth than he

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had wild, so I think he would have fit pretty

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good with these these characters for sure. All Right, if

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you had to choose to be any character that you're

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in this episode, which one would it be? And why?

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So? My choice this time will be uh Rutherford, because

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he's good choice basically helping to drive a D twenty

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through the streets, oh yeah, and figuring out how to

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stop the swarm. It just looks like, I don't know,

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I mean, yes, do you want to be in the

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middle of that mess? Probably not. But then again, it

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was like this like a gyroscope kind of thing that

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was like, you know, stable in the middle of it

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the whole time, not like he's tunneling around in a

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wonder on a washing machine or something. And if they

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had worked, if they had worked out how to kind

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of like talk to the nan, I would have been

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I don't know, they convinced some interesting things I could

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have Dave, what about you?

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So I'm going to take a little page out of

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your book, Scott, and I'm going to pick Jennifer in

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this one just for the mere fact that I'm sure

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when we were all younger, we had some kind of

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situation where the relationship didn't go as good as it

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went it should have went, and it was broke off

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and we never really got that and that coclosure that

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we wanted. So the fact that Jennifer actually gets that

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and you don't realize it at first that she's in

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on it.

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She knows that they broke up. She's just playing with Mariner.

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So I absolutely love that, and that they still become

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really good friends at the end. I respect that, and

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that's I'd love her character in this Wayne, what about you, Well.

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I'm going to choose to lend you know, I said

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before that the way she's integrated herself with the crew,

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but you know, even though she's a Vulcan, she seems

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to be having the time of her life with them.

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It really is. I love how she saved the day

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in this episode, you know, against the Nanites by playing

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those vibe tubes and then that final scene with the autograph.

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I mean, we all relate to that. I just love that.

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I just love that scene. That was my probably the

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whole thing, my single favorite little bit from the episode. Yeah,

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all right, now comes my favorite part where we dive

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deep into the episode and see if we can't pull

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out any Easter eggs. Of course we can. It would

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be lower decks without them. Yeah, did you guys find

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any Easter eggs?

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The one about them using the Nick generation uniforms? Uh,

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the uses endeavor? I saw that one. I believe there

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was like the black body suits that we're talking about

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that was in a Chain of Command Part one.

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I think.

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I think that's really all I picked up on.

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Wayne. I'm sure you pick up on Ton.

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Well, I had I had one pilot just that. The

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Admiral Millius apparently his name is a reference to the

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screenwriter of Apocalypse Now, oh John Millius?

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Okay, yeah, I never made that connection.

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I get neither.

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Yes, it has to be.

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That's pretty cool, Scott, Wayne, what about you open up

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the rest of the chest?

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All right, Well, this is the first time that we

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get to see the Gallamites, and they are transparent skulls.

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This race was mentioned many many times on Deep Space Time,

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but we never got to see him. Lieutenant Dax had

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data a Captain Bidet who was a Jelinite. Axcume me

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a Galamite getting my shows mixed up to get there? Uh?

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Those vibe tubes that Delenn plays were previously seen on

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the first season Next Generation episode Will Always Have Paris

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was played by a musician in the Cafe de Autiste,

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and then, of course Formula miss mentions the Galaxy's child

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whale when Admiral Wilius mentions it. Of course, that's from

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the the TNG episode Galaxy Child. And finally, I'm not

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really sure if this is an easter egg. I think

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it was just a little wink weak nod here that

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they were giving. But Phillips orders something on the planet

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called a Silurian Colada, and I think that's that's just

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a little bit of a hint to the Silurians from

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Doctor Who Nice.

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Some good wins in this one, for sure.

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Yeah, I think we've said this kind of thing before,

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but I'll just echo, like, there are so many deep

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cuts that go way over people's heads, but they're so

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tailored to the Star Trek fan base obviously, so I

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would just I would just ask if you're a Star

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Trek fan, obviously you're listening to this show. Otherwise you know,

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why are you here? I mean, thanks for being here,

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But you know, maybe it's not left turn. But if

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you know someone who is into Star Trek and you

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whatever their connection to the universe might be, it's worth

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suggesting this because little tiny cuts like this will just

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get it'll get one laugh, but it won't be the

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only one that you have. There are so many others

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to be unpacked, you know, even if they're not necessarily

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a fan of animation. It's part of the charm of this,

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it's part of the vehicle of it that they're able

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to do so many more things without limitations that they'd

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have in the physical world. So definitely pass it on

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to something it's got something for everyday.

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Yeah, I definitely agree. You know, I've noticed a lot

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on the presence of the Star Trek fan websites and

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on Facebook that some people just they won't watch the show,

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they won't acknowledge it because it's animation, and that's, in

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my opinion, is a really really wrong, because you know,

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they have spent over the last five years to really

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try to integrate this into the Star Trek universe perfectly,

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and it does it. Just because it's animated doesn't mean

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it's it's not part of the Star Trek lorry. It is,

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it's worth watching. All you're doing is not allowing you

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to have to watch something good. You're not giving yourself

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the chance to see something a good part of Star Trek.

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Give it a chance.

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There's fans like that in Star Wars two who don't

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want to watch the Clone Wars or Rebels or any

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of that, and you are just not doing yourself any

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favors here because all this animation is fantastic and it

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is part of these worlds.

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Yeah, and so that's it for this set episode of

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phasers such as stunts look at Lower Decks Season five,

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fans of Lower Decks, fans of Star Trek, if you're

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new to this. We discovered last season I think it

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it's a great shop. So if you're a fan of

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Star Trek, fan of the show, go in check it out.

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There's more to be revealed. It's not the first shirt

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that's been designed by the crew. I think Tony Newsom

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also had a drop with their T Shirt Club. Essentially,

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I think it's too late to send up for that now,

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but keep an eye on the site and you know

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holidays are coming up. It's a great places stock up.

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There's great designs on their.

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Term and our friend Brandon who directed this episode is

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also mentioned that when we interviewed him exactly absolutely check

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it out.

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Thank you Scott and David for joining me and the

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listeners for another fascinating episode. Next week we take a

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look at episode four, which is titled a Farewell to Farms.

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We look forward to returning to the of the serretas

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again next week for Phaser Set to Stunt