Nov. 27, 2024

Phasers Set To Stun: Lower Decks S5.E6 Of Gods and Angles

Phasers Set To Stun: Lower Decks S5.E6 Of Gods and Angles

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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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Phaser Sectis Stunt, where we continue to show our love

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for everything Star Trek in this ongoing series from a

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film by podcast which focuses on every sector of the

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

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and much much more. Plotting our course from the 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.

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David BYRNS, and I'm Sky Hoffmann.

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And today we're talking about the sixth episode of the

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fifth season of Star Trek Lower Decks, titled of Gods

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and Angles, written by Aaron Burnett and directed by Brandon Williams.

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Our buddy, Yes he is so Scott. Why don't you

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give us the short summary for the episode?

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Sure? The Critos is the diplomatic host to peace talks

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between two photonic species, the Orbs and the Cubes, but

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these talks seem to take a lot of energy in

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more ways than one, as the warring factions can't seem

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to accept one another without getting into highly charged fights.

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Tensions quickly escalate as two young members of the two houses,

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both alike Indignity, go missing and one of their quarters

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seems mysteriously disheveled. Heading up the investigation is Mariner and

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ensign Ali, who just happens to be the granddaughter of

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an alien who once presented itself to the people of

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ancient Earth as Zeus, the god sparks fly as Ali

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tries to help without misusing her electrically based powers while

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the orbs and cubes ransacked the ship in true Romeo

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and Juliette fashion. There's a romantic angle to the mystery,

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which in this case helps quell the war with new

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life instead of more death. That's an interesting episode that

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shows how much Mariner continues to grow and brings us

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one step closer to the serious, mysterious finale.

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So, as always, folks, here's your red alert. There are

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spoilers ahead and you haven't seen the episode yet. Please

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put down your Universe pad and head to the nearest

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television set to catch it on the Paramount Plus then

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come back and rejoin us for this discussion. So what'd

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you guys think of this episode?

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The whole Orbs and Cubes saying was absolutely hysterical. Yeah,

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every time that stuff was popping up on screen, and

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then the whole battle they had on the ship and

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go outside of the ship would go so well done.

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Yeah.

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The first thing, the first thing it made me think

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of was have you ever seen the dot in the

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line of romance in mathematics? It's an old Chuck so

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legendary animated Chuck Jones did this great animated short that

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basically has a dot and a line that fall in

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love with each other, but then there's a squiggle that

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comes in and kind of messes up everything and whatever.

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It's a it's a classic, and it's the first thing

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that I thought of when I started watching this episode.

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So I would say, you know, to our friend Brandon Williams,

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you did an amazing job with.

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This one, and I think Chuck will be around absolutely.

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The first thing I thought of was way back first

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season Next Generation. It was an episode Lonely among Us

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the Antikins and the Sea l As that was very,

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very similar storyline. You know, you get the two warring

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factors that are blaming each other for a mysterious murder. Yeah,

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that was the first thing that popped in my mind.

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But hey, you know, this lower dex is great for

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bringing out the silly things of Star Trek, and that

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was really a silly episode.

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The whole way they did with Ins and Ali. Come on, really,

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you went that angle, you brought that character in. Okay,

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sure they're going.

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It's deep cuts right with the laurel headwear and shooting

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lightning bolts that seem to be like inflatables or like

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gummy bears or something like that.

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Like that was always, you know, the original series episode

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was always one of those episodes that I'd watched like,

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oh gosh, this is kind of silly. But I love

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the fact that they brought that up. I mean, they

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returned it to Star Trek. It seems to be like

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one of those things that you know, oh, we'll just

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ignore that it never happened.

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But now, did you notice the theme is popping up

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again about you know, to be yourself. They kept mentioning

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that and how that just keeps popping up over and

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over and over, and like every one of these episodes

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this season.

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Yeah, well, I think this episode surprised me at first,

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honestly because I thought that now that we're kind of

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in the second half of the last season, that there

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would be more happening. But it just speaks to how

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much Lower Decks truly is a character driven series. It's

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not about the big cosmic happening, the big you know,

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big bad they have to battle, or the big mystery

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they have to chase down. It's more about looking at

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specifically Mariner and Boimler, because they're both clearly on very

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different paths, even though they're kind of taking a similar journey.

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Mariner seems to have learned so much more about herself

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through the entire series, but specifically in that premiere episode

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where she ran into her universe counterpart and decided how

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much she wanted to kind of double down on who

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she really is to be the Captain that she would

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eventually be. Right with Boimler, we're kind of seeing the

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opposite effect of that. He's seeing there's a version of

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myself that seems like everything I ever wanted. It's so

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much more like the ideal me. But I can only

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be that by being to somebody else, and it's it's

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backfiring on him, fortunately in not really harmful ways, more

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kind of funny ways, you know, getting attacked by doctor

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to Anna and things like that. But the more that

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he kind of, you know, doesn't stay true to his

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own playlist or his own script, the more it kind

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of gets in his way. And I think we're seeing

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two different sides of where they ultimately need to go,

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because I think at the end of this series we're

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going to see them kind of come into their own

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and kind of graduate in another way. But yeah, watching

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that happen is is very interesting.

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That's like my favorite scene in this whole episode was

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the boy and We're getting attacked.

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I laughed so damn hard during that scene and the

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fact that he was just trying to connect with her

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by using you know, the foul and.

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The beeping, the beeping her Oh my gosh. I laughed

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so hard with during that.

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It was so damn good. Oh my gosh. But you

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know what I'm hoping is we've only got four episodes left. Yeah,

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so what I'm really hoping is that we're going to

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get a open ending to this, like we got the

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next Generation, remember, you know, you know, they had more

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going on, you know, but this series ended. So I'm

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hoping that's how we're gonna get this and this is

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how this is going to wrap up because you know,

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we've talked to Brandon Williams before, who directed this episode,

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and you know, he told us that they would love

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to make a movie, you know, so hopefully that is

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in the future that Paramount will let them do it,

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or at least if it doesn't go to theater, let

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them do something to bring it to Paramount Plus as

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a movie.

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You know, ye'd be perfect.

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So I'm hoping that's what's going to happen, because with

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only four episodes left, that's a lot to wrap up with,

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you know. I mean, I know it's an animated show,

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but come on now, we've not really dived into this

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season really have we doesn't feel like it's to me anyway, No, And.

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This episode was a real This really was a standalone episode.

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You know, I didn't really see anything that advanced this, uh,

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you know, mysterious plots about this season long storyline here.

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You know, it's nice to have a standalone story, but

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we just don't have enough episodes. So I think again,

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we're going to have a lot of rush at the

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end of the season. I think I said that when

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we were talking about Discovery, the same thing happened there.

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Yeah, yeah, I didn't look at the schedule. Is the

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is the final two episodes of the same week or

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are they splitting them just singly? You know how they've

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done that before where you get episode nine and ten together.

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But I didn't look at the schedule.

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If I'm not sure, I think they're split. I think

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don't don't quote me on that. I think I think

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it is. I remember seeing it.

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Yeah, I guess that's part of what surprised me. Right,

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It just seemed like there would be at least some

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kind of wink or some kind of easter egg that said,

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this thing is still looming, this thing is still kind

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of out there so much that I kind of skipped

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through the credits to see if there was some little

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last minute nod.

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Right, of course, maybe there is. Maybe we just didn't

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don't realize it.

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Yet exactly exactly.

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Well, yeah, we're like, well, duh, look right exactly.

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And I mean, yeah, you raise a great point about

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you know, if there could be something that's kind of

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a cinematic follow up to this where they get to

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do kind of an animated movie.

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It would be.

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Great if they could do it in a series of

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animated movies, give them the time to really dive into it.

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I'm sure the fans would would love to do it.

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I'd be very surprised after this ends if we don't

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hear people clamoring for this to come back in some

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kind of way.

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Can you imagine seeing lower decks on the big screen?

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That would be fantastic.

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That that'd be fun.

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Yea, they would.

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They could do so much with such a high budget.

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Yeah, yeah, there's so much.

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They could do with that.

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It'd be great. Yeah, you've ever listened a pyramid because

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all the fans want that there.

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We do well and we've been enough to enough conventions

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to know that if you had some kind of screening

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at one of these it would be it would be great.

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Oh, absolutely huge. Yeah. Yeah, I did like the in

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Scott you mentioned it when you were talking about the

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summary of this episode. I did like the whole Romeo

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and Juliet that they pretty much came around to.

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Doing right exactly without all the pesky suicide you know,

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right right right, Yeah, it made it kind of gross

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when they come to that realization that you know, it

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looks like a crime scene in the bedroom, and it

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turns out it was just them, you know, yeah, the

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doing indeed. Yeah, but I couldn't quite understand the the

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kind of the offspring that they had. It was almost

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like a cube top with kind of a round bottom

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or something like that. It was like a ball being

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shoved into a cube. I didn't know, Like, I didn't

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try to look too close. I was just watching it

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on my phone.

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But you know, it seemed to satisfy all of them,

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so hey, it worked exactly exactly.

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Okay, So now that we've given our opinions on the episode,

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

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do you think shines the most this week?

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David, I am definitely gonna go with Mariner on this one.

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She becomes a mentor for instant Ali, and Mariner is

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actually really good at being a mentor for her. She

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really shines in this episode. You know, it's one of

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those situations and Mariner was actually kind of in this

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situation a long time ago, where you know, you could

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just be written off, you know, and that's exactly what

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was happening to Ali. She was just being moved shipped

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to ship to ship because no one wanted to deal

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with her. No one wanted to take their time with

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her and figure her out and work with her, and

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Mariner wanted to do that. And I thought she did

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a fantastic job in this, you know, and this is

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part of her growth that we're seeing. We're seeing Mariner become.

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In my opinion, I think she's going to come the

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next captain of something else. Maybe not the Soratoas, but

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she is going to be a captain and there's no

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doubt in my mind. And she has taken that step

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every episode, but I think I felt this one she

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proved that she can work with somebody and help them succeed,

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and that is a huge step for Mariner. Scott, what

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about you?

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Everything Dave said that was very well said, Yeah, I

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double down on that and say, Mariner, you know, she's

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got this unconventional ensign who not a lot of people

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understand to the extent that she was kicked off of

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another ship and kind of blamed for her approach for

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certain things, which you know, you got to admit destructive

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tendencies and things like that, but it seems like nobody

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had really dug into what was going on with the

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electrical based powers that she kind of has like clear

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that she was, you know, hyper charging everything that she

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touched so much to the extent that she wanted to

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hide those things, right, But Mariner, yeah, has that first

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person perspective on that and in this case, doesn't have

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to realize that she can do that. She just easily

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falls in to that role as the mentor. And that

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was a great thing to see that she doesn't have

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any more like learning process. She's already there. So I

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think I wouldn't be surprised if the next few episodes

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maybe they rely on Mariner for that to get through

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whatever they have to get through, because she's ready. And

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I think we're going to see some kind of graduation

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from Captain Freeman to something else, or maybe she's just

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accepting that she can be there in the chair next

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to Freeman.

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We'll have to see.

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Oh it's unanimous. Yeah, I agree, it's Mariner. You know,

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this this episode really showcased just how far her character

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has grown over the last five years. So, you know,

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I have to think about the scene at the end

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of the episode where she's sitting outside the brig keeping

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all the company, you know, dial the dial it back

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five years, she would have been the one in that brig.

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But now she's you know, emparking her knowledge, her her experience.

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You know, she's finding these troubled insigns she realizes they

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can be taught and made into good officers, just like

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she was. That's a lot of character growth for an

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animated series, for an animated character, and a lot of

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character growth for Star Trek for that matter. But you know,

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I think, like like you said, Scott, I think that's

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got something very important to do with with the rest

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of the season, with the storyline, is her growth and

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how she comes out of it.

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I definitely got some insignt rovibes some of this episode. Really. Yeah.

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It puts that kind of Ensign Row personality at the

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forefront that it's not like, well, Ensign Row is a

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road to the Maquis doesn't always have to be. There's unconventional,

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there's different ways of approaching being again Starfleet or being

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on a ship for that matter.

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Okay, if you had the choice to be any character

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that appeared in this episode, which one would it be?

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And why so?

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I'll be in tuested to hear the different answers on this.

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I don't know that i'd want to be Boimler because

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he just gets scratched hell By. I'll go with ensign

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Ali because I mean, you know, shooting lightning bolts. That

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seems like fun. I know it's kind of a shallow answer,

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but and it it would be interesting to get her

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perspective on being under the mentorship of Mariner, right and

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being in that that situation where she's kind of learning

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and realizing that there can be leaders like this. There

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might be a captain that I serve under there is

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more like Mariner, who is more like me as a person.

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I'll double down on your answer, because come on, You're

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related to a god, you know, and you get to

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run around pretty much do what you want, even though

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you get in trouble and you get kicked off from

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ship to ship, and you have these really cool powers.

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But come on, man, nobody wants to be Boiler. I

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don't want to let you boil my ass.

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A second, hold on, we got to hear from Wayne

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through Wayne what about you?

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Well, no, I don't want to be Boimler either, but

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I want to be a doctor Tianama because well, first

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I've always loved the doctors on the ship. But you know,

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she gets to cursed whenever she wants, and she gets

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to have a procedure named after after removing the lightning

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bowl from Boimler's. But you know, it's just it's seemed like,

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out of all the characters she she seemed to come

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out of it with with the best.

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That's true. It is the valid point, Wayne good choice.

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Speaking of speaking of Boimler, I know that his his

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arc is kind of a mini arc underneath this one.

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But it's occurring to me that the pad that he's reading,

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the pad that he's following, is it likely that that

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timeline parallels this one so closely that he doesn't see

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the difference between the two other than him.

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It couldn't be. Yeah, it could.

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Be because he's assuming that if I just get in

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that book club, if I just get in with doctor Tana,

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that's one of the only differences between me and Riker

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Boemler or you know whatever. I wonder if that's going

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to come back up later in the season.

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I think will.

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Yeah, very well good.

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And now let's dive deep into the episode and see

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if we can't pull out any of those Easter eggs.

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You know, there are always lots of Easter eggs in

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lower decks, but not too many in this episode. I

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will admit that that I could find that we haven't

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already mentioned. Did you guys find any come.

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On that ridiculous chair that was in Worth Quarters? That

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thing is so silly, but yeah.

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They found something to do with it.

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Finally, Yeah, and.

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Of course Q being mentioned again. Yeah, I'm sure more

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Wayne Scott, what about you? You might have found something

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I didn't see.

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There was one that I that I noticed, Rutherford. We

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got a real Ronald B. Moore here, like referencing a joke,

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So I know that that was a visuals visual effect

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supervisor for a few series Voyager Enterprise TNG. And I

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think he was also the holiday character in the Outrageous

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o'conna that's correct.

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Yeah, yeah, that Joe.

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Piscopo played and tried to teach data comedy, which was interesting,

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which I.

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Mean, up till now, I didn't even know that character

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had a name, but it said that on the pad

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during that episode it's mentioned, so I mean I learned

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something about that. I you know, I had no idea he's.

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Not just mister comic but don't forget Dixon Hill was

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miss mentioned in this episode.

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Yeah, ye, And then let me add that Worf's chair

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wasn't the only thing that we saw her trying to stack.

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There was a there was a Dabo wheel that was

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included in there. There was a romulin cloaking device. And

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there was a bunch of those weird tubular pillows that

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you always saw in the next generation on their beds.

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Weird.

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Oh I didn't notice one. It's kind of a tiny one,

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but you don't see it that often. There was a

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medical officer wearing a Jordy advisor.

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Yeah, oh yeah, that's right.

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I forgot there was.

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We rarely have ever seen anybody else using that tech.

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Right, it's odd because I mean, Jordi doesn't wear anymore

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because they've they've kind of advanced past that. So you know,

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maybe she's next with the surgery.

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You or me?

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In the timeline? Is this something where it they hadn't

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quite gotten to that point yet. This is supposed to

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be post.

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Voyager, right, Yeah, it's five years after Voyager and one

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year before Prodigy if I.

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Remember, right, m okay, and then where in the movies

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does this fall?

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Oh jeez, I don't think it's a see Voyager would

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have been like right before, so it's probably about three

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or four years after Nemesis.

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Oh wow, okay, interesting, So the technology was there. Yeah, yeah,

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the tech is there, It just has to happen, okay.

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Interesting, or maybe she just likes the style.

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Who knows, you know, you never know, it could be.

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Did you see there was some action figures too that

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were behind boy Yeah, oh yeah, that's right.

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Yeah, it looked like there's maybe a kirk Mago.

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Yeah, it looked like.

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There's a data from holding one of the phase or

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the phase of rifles from like Nemesis and Insurrection.

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Yeah, yep.

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I'd be interested to know if those are easter eggs

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that Brandon specifically put in or if that was somebody

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else's request. Yeah.

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Another thing I noticed is, you know, Allie was using

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that like tractor beam thing. It's very similar to what

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Western Crush he used, and I think it was the

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second episode of Next Generation and Naked Now, but the

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actual but it didn't look quite look like the one

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Wesley used. But the actual one that looked just like

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Wesley used is in the episode it's setting on Rutherford's side.

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When you saw those action figures. If you looked on

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the other side of the screen, you saw it setting

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on the shelf on Rutherford side of the quarters.

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I love it. Just stuff and all that stuff in

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the episode.

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Oh yeah, and that's it for this episode of Phasers

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All right, next episode, we take a look at episode seven,

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which is titled fully Dilated. I have no idea what's interesting.

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