Nov. 20, 2024

Phasers Set To Stun: Lower Decks S5.E5 Starbase 80

Phasers Set To Stun: Lower Decks S5.E5 Starbase 80
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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 5, Starbase 80.

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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 in debate about all

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

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Hello everyone, Welcome back to Phasers Set to Stunt, where

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we continue to show our love for everything Star Trek.

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In this ongoing series from a film by podcast, we

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explore every quadrant of the expanding universe of Trek by

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covering television, animation, movies, directors, and much more. Plotting the course,

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as always is your Core Trek crew.

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I'm Scott Hoffman.

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Burns and I'm Wayne Whitey.

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And then this episode we're drawn back into the animated

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side of Star Trek with one of our favorite fresh

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news series, Lowered Decks, which is unfortunately back for its

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final season, which is back for more. Before we talk

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about the latest adventures the uss Soritos, we're calling for

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a red alert. This episode is full of spoilers, so

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if you haven't seen the latest episode, please go watch

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it and then come back to join us.

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We'll be waiting right here for you.

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All right, let's break down the latest episode Star Bass eighty.

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Dave wanted to tell us what it's all about, It'd.

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Be more than happy to. Written by May Darman, directed

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by Bob Soarez, Boymer's facial hair continues to grow and

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amaze us all. However, something manages to short out the

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ship's navigation processor, which must be fixed before they can

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continue on, and the only place they can get that

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completed is the dreaded and much hated Star Base eighty.

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Yeah, it's a fear filled and gel coded episode.

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I gotta tell you, I laughed so hard at the

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creepy music every time they show starbas.

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Yeah right, Yeah, it feels like Bob Suarez and May

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Darmond probably had a lot of fun with this one.

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Wayne. Would you agree, Oh, I definitely agree. You know

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this every season has had like one episode where I

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just laughed from beginning to end. I probably consider it

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my favorite episode of the season, and this could very

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well be the seasons because I didn't laugh from the

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beginning to end of this episode.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, everybody on board is afraid of Starbas eighty, not

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so much for the curse aspect, and more so for

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the overall smell and maybe the threat of tetanus I

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guess when we first see Starbas eighty from the outside,

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it looks like a place that con probably would have

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ravaged back in the early.

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Days and abandoned on the inside.

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It kind of reminded me of a cross between Deep

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Space nine and the early pilot episodes and the apartment

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complex that Mama ran in Carl Urban's Dread.

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Anybody else get a twinge of dread.

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In this one?

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Yeah, yeah, I kind of did.

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You're right.

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Yeah it's creepy, please, that's for sure.

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Yeah.

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Well, it's got all these shops, it's like it's all promenade.

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Yeah, right, it's all like and I don't know.

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A little CD. I mean, did you notice the adult

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theater and right right past that the store with all

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the uniforms from dead people.

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And yeah, yikes, and and yet not a Ferengi to

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be found. That kind of surprised me, although it's also

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like the ferang You don't want to touch this place,

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hy steer clear.

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I will say, one of one of the pleasant surprises

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with Stephen Rude, yes as Chief Engineered Jack about Yeah,

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his name is ridiculous, but yeah, it was nice to

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have him back in this episd because it was like,

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what thirty years ago he was in that next Generation

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two parter.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true.

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So it was really neat as soon as he started speaking, like,

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oh my god, it's Steven Rude.

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Yeah. Well, and I was happy to see cetacean ops.

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I always am, and this one absolutely gave me everything

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that I would want from it, which was a lot

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more focus in it, but kind of an odd circumstance.

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They find them in.

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I just think it's brilliant to have dolphins with their

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own deck, speaking their own language, and there's subtitles like

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or if they have like subtitles that they need to

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I don't know.

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It feels like the.

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Universal Translator should probably just turn it into text or

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turn it into speech.

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But I don't know.

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Is it sad that I laughed hysterically when they got shocked?

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Yeah? What do you have against dolphins?

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Things?

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I don't, But it was just so funny.

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And then once we finally got on there, let's talk

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about uniforms a bit. Yeah, God, they got enterprise era uniforms.

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Right.

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There's a lot of these strikes that obviously will dig

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into later, but it was. It was a great use

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of different uniforms and so much different technology, like we

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had the.

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Wall comes.

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And the twisting turbolift controls.

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Yeah, there was so much going on in this episode.

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I'm telling there's probably stuff I would have missed, you know, yeah,

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to go back and watch it again just to pick

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it up. But what I thought was cool was the

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Tibakowski was wearing the the air vest over his jumpsuit

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like Scotty did in Star Trek five. Oh yeah, in

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Relics he did for the next Generation. So I caught

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onto that right away. All looks pretty cool. It's a

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nice nod.

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Nice. My favorite bit you was talking about the turbolift

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was when Ransom and Freeman get in it and he

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sees those those old style turned twist handles and he

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asks her if if she remembered them from being an incident.

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She turns, I'm not that old. Oh that made me

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laugh hard.

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I think my favorite part of this was them with

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Freeman and Ransom. To be honest with you, I mean,

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the whole episode was fantastic. Like you, Wayne, I was

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laughing from beginning to end. But when they got down

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when they were trying to get to the arcade level,

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which was what level thirty three? Yeah like that. Yeah,

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and it took him to the basement and then they

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got out, and then she said something about the arcade

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and then the elevator said, oh, arcade level, yeah, yeah.

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And then they got the we found out about Ransom's

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love for stairs. Yeah, when they found out they'd have

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to climb in thirty flights and he's like, yes, you

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never get this kind of workout.

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Yeah, and she looks like she's going to collapse at

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the at the top of it. Yeah, that's great.

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It was a nice touch that they had a star

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bas with no working replicators. So then you've got Chad

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the hot dog scan or the corn dog.

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Yeah, you just.

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Got like random food stands and engineering okay, of course.

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And when we saw that when they got to the

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engineer and he was like asleep on that console. Right

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next to him was a little boat with a corn

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dog setting.

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Oh yeah, like a mall boat. Yeah, yep. He had

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to scoot it out of the way.

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The little catchup ramnekin and everything else like that.

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Come on in the trickery of having them fix Star

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Base eighty keep moving them around the ship basically.

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Yeah, you know it was great.

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Yeah, that's probably how the alternate Freeman got stuck Star

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Base eighty, just like fixing all the stuff, catching all

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the bats.

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One of the lines waned it reminded me of you,

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because you turned me onto so much of the British stuff.

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But when he went he said, which one you're a doctor?

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Oh he gets that a lot, he's British.

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Yeah.

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I instantly thought of you, Wayne, Oh my gosh, that

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was hysterical.

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That's exactly what I thought too. You know you mentioned

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it earlier too. I also want to call out to

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Chrismas like score. You know, there was a lot of

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like Star Trek two elements, especially every time they showed

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that star bas But I also got that a feel

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of like Goldsmith's Alien.

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Yes, yes, good good.

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I would love to hear this music separated again. I

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mean we need to soundtrack Paramount.

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Yeah, absolutely, you're right Wayne. That like once or twice

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when I saw that they were doing that music, I'm like, man,

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that really sounds like alien and a fantastic job.

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That's where I thought of Wayne.

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I was like, there's gotta be like musical Easter eggs

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in this thing. I think it was borrowing a lot

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of elements, but I was like, damned to this is

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part of like there are some wrath of con elements

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that I had heard.

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When they're on that.

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The starbus that they reach and there's everybody like hanging

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from the ceiling and things like that, that's where it

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went for me.

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Yeah, there was a bit, and I'm actually sure how

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it's but it's like when they when they instead of

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using the bow on the strings, that kind of slam

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their their hand against the strings and makes a real

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screeching sound. Horner used that a lot on Star Trek two,

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and now I heard it a lot on in this score.

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Too interesting. Interesting.

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So here's something interesting. So we're halfway through the final season.

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This is this is episode five. You know, we've only

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got five episodes left. So do you think that we're

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gonna have like Balls of the Walls episodes for the

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next five episodes because they have to you know, wrap

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this up basically. So where are they going to go

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with this? I mean, I mean kind of this one

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kind of got away from the the theme that we

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have been seeing in the last few episodes kind of.

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But what I got out of this episode, and I've

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seen quite a few of these episodes, is the self

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acceptance piece that seems to be very heavy in this season.

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If you guys haven't picked up on that, no, I'm.

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Sure you happy you brought I'm glad you brought that up.

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Yeah, So that seems to be a major theme in

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this season. And I get that, you know, because these

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characters have goofed off so much, and you know, they

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kind of haven't you know, been you know, picky about

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themselves and each other and not taking themselves seriously. And

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this season it's starting to get real for them, you know.

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I mean even I think Mariner Mitches isn't here that

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she's starting to really enjoy being you know, responsible and

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wanting to become, you know, one of the crew or

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an officer and the kind of thing. So that's really

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starting to come out.

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In this season.

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And maybe that's one of the elements for this one.

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You know, I've been thinking about how does this tie

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into everything else besides maybe setting up Starbase eighty to

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be an important element in the last five episodes. But

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what you said about that idea of self acceptance, it

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does seem like everybody is gelling together every well, not

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in the gross way like that to apply to them,

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but everybody's understanding each other. Everybody has you know, good

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working relationship. Maybe it's that final tumbler that they had

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to trigger that gets the whole rest of the season

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able to just focus on here's the big climax, because

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we do have those you know rifts, those dimensional rifts

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that somebody is creating. So we have to have them

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explain who that is set up, whether it's a threat

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or something accidental, and then have enough episodes to dive

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more into other versions or alternate versions.

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Of people coming over.

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Right, So there's gonna be a lot they have to

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work through, and maybe this is just the last episode

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to say like, all right, we've had the fun. Now

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we have to finish up the story and really wrestling through.

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the surface, it does look like a self contained story.

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But I'm not willing to dismiss it quite yet, because

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you know, we've got five more episodes coming up. And

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understand this reference, but remember the series Babylon five where

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something would appear in first season that looked like nothing,

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but then would become very later on in the season.

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It could we could have saw something that was very

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important and we just glanced over it right now, So

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I'm going to keep everything in this episode in mind.

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And to that point, Starbuck eight has come up quite

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a bit this season. Yeah, so you might be onto

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something there, Wayne, for sure.

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Well, and we don't see Ella Loreans all that much,

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and when we do they're pretty significant. It seems like

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there will be something something tied to that.

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I believe this is only the fourth time we've ever

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seen one of their race. Yeah, Dinan, we've got Soren,

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We've got that guy from d Space nine, and then

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and her. Yeah.

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Yeah, well it was a very fun episode, a lot

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of Easter eggs all over the place. I'm kind of

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curious if you could spend a day on Star Base

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eighty just to explore the arcade, would you do it?

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Play the bats and all this other kind of stuff,

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some fun games.

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Yeah, yeah, it looked like the gay Yeah.

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One cardboard Crazy. I'm curious just to play that one.

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Yeah.

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I saw one that was like half a ferrange head

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on the top of it.

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Yeah.

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I didn't catch many of the other details because there

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was so much going on, but I don't know. It

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looks like it's a bad infested somewhat smelly. Everything's a

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little gross, has a little bit of slam on it.

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But it looks like it could be a fun place

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to visit. Yeah, that's true, and it sounds like they're amazing.

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I don't envy the crew members that were licking the

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walls on the floor. That was an interesting touch. Like

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everybody goes possessed by this, you know, uh anti phasic energy,

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and the what it makes them do is to I guess,

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grab crew members and take them somewhere.

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But we don't see them like eating anybody or her.

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No, they're just dragging them somewhere.

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They're just being weird. Yeah, right, just in general.

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I enjoyed that twitch. I enjoyed that twist like it

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was actually the crew of the Shirt Toast that was

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causing the problem. They were the curse. Not that that

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was awesome.

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Well, and it's it's what the mariner was afraid of, right,

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is that she would just get stupider and stupider. And yeah,

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and they're they're at the end when they get on

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the curritos and one of the heroes is Chad the

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corn dog guy, and he has that wolverine moment where

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he had a snack hand full of the corn dogs

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and yeah, good old Chad.

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I think he earned a fifth that day.

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He did.

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He sacrificed himself for everybody else.

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Loved it. And that last scene, I mean, the episode

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ended with a big laugh with Freeman and Ran somewhere.

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You know, they're cleaning up the bats and then that

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big one appears out on the Internet and you know,

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all they have in their hands is the the broom

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and the dust band, you know, and then they that

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was the way they ended the episode. You gotta wonder,

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you know what happened.

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I think the biggest laugh for me was when they

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have clem the in a physic noncorporeal form.

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Well I think was voiced by Jerry O'Donnell, and.

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This one could have been could have been.

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Yeah, so when he says, don't tell my bosses, Okay,

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they can kind of be dicks.

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We can we can all relate to that.

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Yeah, yeah, Well we always get into this idea of

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kind of a pip worthy moment and it feels like

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Dave going back to what you were saying before. They've

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kind of graduated beyond that.

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But it's something that we always talk about. I know.

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For me, uh, I'll go with Mariner. I feel like

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she was leading the wave through the entire episode, got

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over a lot of things and kicked but yet again.

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But yeah, Dave, what about you.

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I'm actually gonna go with Commander Knox. She I thought

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she did a fantastic job in Szepiso because she's the

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one that actually brought Mariner around to real life. And

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not judge the crew by their looks, don't judge, don't

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judge Starbay th eighty by its looks, and you know,

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with her able to bring that acceptance to Mariner and

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make her realize that. I really enjoyed Commander Knox in

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this one for sure, great great character, Wayne Er.

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Well, yeah, I chose Marin or two because just like

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what you brought up earlier, David, I've noticed the same

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thing this season. You know, this whole season is about

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fife lessons, and this was hers. You know, we had

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last week it was Mahas, and then we before that

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was ten D's and then before that was Ruthaffords. Now

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you know, and then Boemler. You know, he's just doing

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his thing, doing his best to try to be like

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his ultnate universe self.

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But this was her, so yeah, yeah, good choice, Dave.

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As far as if you could be any character in

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this episode, who would it be and why.

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I'm gonna have to go with Ransom, I'm telling you.

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Geled up.

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Oh I know, I'm oh my gosh them, but just

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be with Threeman.

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They had so much fun even though they were going

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around this star based fixing things. But it was just

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the hysterical moments with Ransom, the gel scene, the going

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up the steps. But then come on, they get to

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go to the arcade. Come on, come on.

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That's true. That's true, Wayne, What about you?

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I Am going to go with Commander Knox because she's

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you know, in charge of start being sitting. I don't

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think it looks that bad. I mean, it's got that

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that retro style look to it.

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You know.

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If I was her, i'd fix it up and make

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it a victurist spot, you know, like a like a

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fifties diner or you or something like that. And then

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it's got the arcade. That's I'm want to be her

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in that place.

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I was just going to be cleaning it. The whole

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time the print saying like, right, complain. My answer again

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is merin her because she was she knew enough to

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be careful about what she was getting into in the station.

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Everybody else is just like wow, fantastic and didn't seem

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to have too much controller, a little bit of kind

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of abandoned, but she eventually came around and started appreciating it.

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She also didn't get possessed by Clem, so she didn't

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have to lick any walls or any floors, which is

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a godsend. I like how when Boimler finally snapped out

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of it and he was like, what.

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Am I to him?

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Well, we touched on a little bit earlier talking about

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Easter eggs. I know there's a ton of them in

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this one. The as far as a ton of Easter eggs,

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I noticed there was a giant pile of red shirts

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in that one store where they were taking them all

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from dead people, and it's like, wow, nobody's brutal, Wayne,

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What else did you pick up?

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Ah?

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There were so many of them that I had to

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scale back to some few important ones that I thought.

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But start off, the Critos was heading to Caspiria Prime

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when it was forced to be a detour. Caspira Prime

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was like the new vacation destination of the Alpha quaterrant.

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It was mentioned many many times during Deep Space nine,

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but especially in the sixth season episode Inquisition. That was

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where Baser was going to go before oh gosh, the

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Spies took him and tried to make him an agent.

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And then, of course, you know, we talked about the

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Dicon chamber scene that was very similar to what was

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done in the ENTERPRISEES Pilot Broken Bow, but even mentioned

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to Paul in that scene. But there are quite a

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few next generation references here, so many of them. We

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have the l Allurans. We talked about that. There was

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a quick mention of Q the Acamarians. That was a

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race that we saw during the third season Vengeance factor,

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the chachar and parasites. That was the thing that invected

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Jeordie LaForge in the four season episode Identity Crisis, and

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the Unaphasian life forms. Of course, that was sort of

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sub rosa that Beverly Crusher had the hots for that.

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I was proud there are no candles in this one, right,

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which it really was.

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And then of course we've got the shop and there

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are so much stuff in this if. We saw uniforms

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from the original series, the motion picture the Ratha Con

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both the uniforms and the awaiting jackets. We saw an

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original series kling On uniform, the gangster hats that Kirkanspot

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wore in the Piece of the Action. We saw clothing

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from Edo that was the Next Generation's Justice and Rock's

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uniform from water Little Girls made of. There were original

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series tricarders, communicators, Admiral Jameson's wheelchair, that cylinder like carrying

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case that Beverly crush Roys carried around on the Next Generation.

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We even saw a Kelvin universe Starfleet Academy dress hats,

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which I have no idea how it got there. Well,

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CON's broken necklace was seen, and a lot of other

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things that I probably missed, you know. The whole scene

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was just a wealth of these raggs.

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That seems like a very pauseworthy episode.

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It was right like any one of these frames, if

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you just pause, you'd probably be able to pull apart

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a lot of different things.

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You definitely want to revisit this one so much, you know,

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because there's a lot of stuff that you miss. You

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want to go back and watch again and just to

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watch the background, you know.

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Yeah, this is this is one of those episodes that

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you're gonna watch over and over, get it enjoy.

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Yep, yeah for sure.

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All right, well we got five left to go. I

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don't remember seeing any kind of trailers for last week.

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I'm not even trailer. I want to guess what's happening next.

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I just want to see it unfold.

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You know, just sit back and enjoy.

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Exactly.

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Yep.

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And I think we're in for a good and wild

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ride these last five episodes, just because you got to

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get into the big story and it's happened.

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Yep.

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Yep for sure.

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Well, thank you gentlemen for coming back on and talking

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through another episode.

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