Dec. 4, 2024

Phasers Set To Stun: Lower Decks S5.E7 Fully Dilated

Phasers Set To Stun: Lower Decks S5.E7 Fully Dilated
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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 7, Fully Dilated.

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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 everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Phasers

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Set to Stun, 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 quadrant of the

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expanding universe of Trek by Confrey, television, animation, movies, directors,

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and much more. Plotting the course, as always, is your

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Core Trek.

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I'm David Burns, I'm Scott Hoffman, and I'm Wayne Whited.

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All right, gentlemen, welcome back to another episode. We're going

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to discuss lower decks. Read alert all of our fans

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out there. This episode is full of spoilers. If you

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haven't seen this episode, please go do so and then

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come back to join us. I know we will be

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waiting for you, all right, gentlemen. Episode seven Fully Dilated,

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written by Andrew Muth and directed by Megan Lloyd, who

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has been directing a few of these episodes. I have

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noticed really enjoy this episode, but Wayne wants to go

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ahead and tell us what it's about.

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Marner to Lynn and Tindy beam down to the planet

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Dilmer three, a planet where and nominally causes Time to

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move at a must faster rate to look for technology

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which is inadvertently landed on the planet and to keep

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it from influencing the civilization living there. The piece of

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technology ends up being the head of Lieutenant Commander Data

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from ap parallel universe where everything is purple. Of course,

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their mission doesn't go without problems, the first caused by

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a snoopy local named Snell out to uncover them, and

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the second by Boimler and Rutherford themselves, who accidentally spill

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their fancy drinks on the transporter console, stranding the team

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on the planet.

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Damn you, Snell, Damn you always lurking, always lurking, guys.

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I really enjoyed this episode. You know, we're getting to

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see the fissure again. Obviously, we get a glimpse of

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the Purple Enterprise that came through Purple. Yeah, Purple. When

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they said that, I just busted out laughing. I mean, okay,

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all right, we're just gonna go crazy with it. Let's

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do it. Let's do it. And the fact that we

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have Brent Speinder.

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Back that that was a surprise. I saw nothing at

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all leak about that. So when when he spoke, I'm like,

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oh my gosh, it really is him.

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That was Yeah.

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Actually, when he first spoke, I didn't recognize his voice entirely.

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It was like a certain phrase that he said, and

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I'm like, there, that's Brent Spinder. But for a while

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I was like, are they having somebody else do that?

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That'd be a weird cameo.

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I just thought it was just going to be a

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head they're going to carry around who episode. I didn't

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need to go to turn it on and let it

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speak because it got come on, it's they didn't get

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Brent Spinder. Yeah, did you start talking that? Oh my god?

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It is.

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Well. The weird thing about the Purple Enterprise.

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For some reason, it made me think of the NES graphics,

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So like in the Fright of the Thirteenth video game,

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Jason Voorhees is like a blue or a purple.

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Or something like that.

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Oh, yeah, that's what I.

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Thought they were kind of playing with a little bit there.

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But yeah, a universe where everything is purple and uh,

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we get Data's severed head yet.

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Again, there's a there's got to be something.

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With the guy loses his head so much.

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The Sung blueprints need to have some kind of like

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a secure thing on the next or something. But I

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was kind of wondering where the rest of his body is.

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Are they implying that it was destroyed?

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Is a shuttle?

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Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Okay, it just it didn't seem like I didn't know

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if it was like a clean cut like the Times

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zero kind of thing, or if it was something where

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it had been removed by somebody, and that would make sense,

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just like take his head down on the surface, but.

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Must have popped right off.

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Yeah, I'm sure exactly.

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He's face down.

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He's like a lego. He just comes to party.

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It's like a grape. It just pops right off.

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Yeah, okay, sure whatever. No, there's there's some good things

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in this episode. I'm telling you. When Rutherford and Boimler

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spilled their drink on there, and then I'm like, here

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we go again. Boymoer has to take his shirt off.

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Have you noticed that's happened several times this season? Yeah,

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he's gonna take his shirt off, and then the whole fact. Okay,

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last episode he got a lightning bolt in the ass.

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This time he has to lick this counter.

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They lick everything this season. That's a scross. Come on, guys,

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I don't know what that.

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It's a theme.

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I guess he touches that.

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Yeah, yeah, well they even made the comment that somebody

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didn't ever washed their hands, and they lick it anyway,

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you know.

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Yeah, here's the thing that confuses me. I mean, they're

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transporter consoles, as I'm assuming you are, kind of like

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the next generations, which are just like the clear plastic.

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So why don't they just get some wind decks and

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a rag out right and go nuts with their uniforms

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and everything.

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I don't know. And when they say their uniform wasn't

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wasn't absorbing it and that's why they're licking it.

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Yeah, he gets like a shrimp in his hair or

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something like that.

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My eye, Yes, that was absolutely hysterical. But then we

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get the girls trip or we get Mariner, we get

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a telen and attendee who go down on this planet

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where time is a little bit different. Obviously we've seen

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that kind of a I think Voyager had an episode

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about that. I think they don't think.

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Yeah, there's a couple of references. Yeah, wink of the

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NYE is the episode, which is a great episode, is

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one of my probably top ten favorites of a voyager.

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It's a it's a great concept.

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Yeah. And I love Mariner mentioning episode about the card

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with the probe. Yeah, yeah, because that is that is

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a fantastic episode. We've discussed in Phaser set this time

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when we did the Next Generation series, and I'm glad

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it came back. And it was funny that she was

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looking for a flute.

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I gotta find a flute, I gotta find a friend,

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looking for an inner light moment.

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Yeah, yeah, that.

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Was that was so good, so good. But I think

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to me the most what I appreciate love about this

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episode was the stuff between to Lenin and Tendy. Yeah,

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and that clearly the episode was kind of really focused

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on that because Freeman obviously wants a new science officer

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and they were battling for it, because at least one

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of them thought they were battling for it, and uh,

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you know, and Telenn has really surprised me a few times.

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Remember when she did with Rutherford about the shuttle, remember, Yeah,

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and then she found out the only reason why he

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was taking forever on that shuttle because of spending time

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with Tindy, remember, and then she blew it up so

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they had to start all over again or took it

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apart and had it and you'll do it all again.

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I feel like this is the same kind of situation

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here where Kendy is like all gun Gangbusters here of

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like she wants to be the science officer forgetting her

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friendship with with Halan, and Kalan's like, hold on, you know,

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I just want to rekindle our friendship. I love that.

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I thought that was really special in this episode.

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Yeah. I agree that they're becoming quite a two act

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for the series, which surprised me. I mean, they're they're

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the breakaway characters in my opinion of this season. They've

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had so much to do. And to Lynn, she's she's

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part of the Lower Decks crew. Now, definitely they should

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put her with the rest of the main cast because

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she deserves it.

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Yeah, I complain, well, and they definitely get that across

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when they basically choose both of them to be the

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science officer on the bridge, which goes back to you know,

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the core of Lower Decks's relationships, right, Yeah, and recognizing

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you know, it's not just about calling it a tie

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and letting them both have the position. That's knowing that

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the two of them are powerhouses, but they're even more

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powerful together as a internet.

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Yeah, and it comes back to that thing that we've

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talked about multiple times this season. Just be who you are,

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you know, right, And you know that comes back so

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much in this season. And I do love that because

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that's a good message for everybody. You know, we'll try

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to hide who you are and communicate with somebody. If

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she would have just communicated with Helen, it would have

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been a whole different story, you know. Right.

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But when they did come together and work as as

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a team, they really solve the problems there on the planets.

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I mean Mariner, you know, she was the problem. She

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didn't as she was for her, But but when the

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two of them finally decided to work together, you know,

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they were able to come up with an ingenious solution

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to get out of the problems they were having. So

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we both deserve the position of that senior science officer.

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They both deserve it together.

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Yeah, when she asked the data chew these ropes off

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it's like, that's not my normal parameters. It's like, well,

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I have seen Wharf do it before.

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Well, and the fact that they took her on that

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kind of journey where she kind of emulated what Data

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was doing in Time's arrow right where she creates the

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hand crank that you know repowers them. But it's almost

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like she's going into a kind of a Doctor Frankenstein,

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kind of mad scientist arc because she's letting her panic

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and her her anxiety kind of take over what she's doing.

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It would have been interesting to see what would have

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happened further on, if they.

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Would have been if they would.

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Have drifted further apart. But I'm glad they were able

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to reconcile things. And it looked like to Lynne was

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handmaning it famously, which sure was frustrating Tendy a lot

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more obviously.

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But and the fact Data is the one who comes

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up with the solution. It's a freeman. Hey, you got

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both two incredible science officers. You can't pick between these two.

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I mean, we didn't see that message, but you knew

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that's where it was going. Yeah, you know, so they

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get both of them get the job. I love that

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that was awesome.

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There's also a nice little nod where Mariner is talking

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to Data's head and she talks about him like being

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one of her favorites and all this the kind of stuff.

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I'm sure there's probably a little bit of Towny Newsome

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herself coming through there, and that had to be a

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great moment. I hope that they had, you know, moments

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in the recording booth together. I don't imagine they would

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have been separated, but hopefully they got some time in person.

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Yeah, you know, we we still don't know what exactly

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is going to happen with this overall season storyline, but

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we definitely I think we can pin it down now

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that it's the feeling is the whole thing is about

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being yourself. Yeah, I mean they've they've dragged that in

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almost every episode you know about this and when when

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these characters are themselves, they succeed. And I think that's

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where this this season is leading to.

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And I think that's a good message for lower deckers,

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And I think isn't that where it really should lie

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and be When you're when you're learning something that you

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don't know and you're trying to succeed it, that's a

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great message, and I see why they're pinpointing on that.

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I really really do like that.

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I do. Another thing that I really like is the

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fact that the Purple World Jordan Data are still really

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good friends. Because I love it, says, I need to

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get home to Jordy, he's my best friend.

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find another you know, bfore or some other kind of

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you know, replacement unit for his body.

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few episodes back where we had we were looking at

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something else that was from the alternate universes, and we

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made noticed that the uniforms were wrong. Yeah, you'll notice

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that the Enterprise is still the Enterprise D here. I

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still think I said back then that I think there

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may be some sort of time involved, you know, time

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differential or whatever. But I still say that because I mean,

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obviously things are other than being purple. Everything is running

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very similar to the way the regular universes. But we

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still have this this old Enterprise, So I still saying

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that there's something something time wise is going on with

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the story.

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I think you're right. Even Ransom as like the Purple

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d Yeah, all right, no good stuff all right, so

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let's talk about some pippleworthy moments with character we thought

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stole this week's episode.

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Way Well, this was really hard to choose because so

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many of them had such great things. But uh, I'm

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going to cheat a little and I'm going to say

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to Lynn and ten Date they both get the spotlight

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this time because I can't choose from either one of them.

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They they're they're great together, and they worked together perfectly

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as a team. Just it just seems when everything was

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going wrong with everybody else, these became they became the

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solution to the problem, and they ended up with the

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promotion together. So you know, they're they're the lower deck team.

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Now, Yeah, I get that. You're You're perfectly right on that.

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I can argue with that, even though it's a Hoffin answer.

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You're right, yeah, but no good answer, good answers got

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what about you?

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Yeah, So I agree with that, But I think I

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was leaning more toward to Lynn in this one. She

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was fitting in famously with the culture. She was probably

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about six weeks away from running it completely honestly, But

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I love the fact that she, you know, with kind

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of ego removed from the equation. She was so willing

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to help Tendy through the situation, but also recognize that

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there are things that she can learn from Tendy to

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better herself without changing herself. Right, And I think I

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completely agree with what Wayne saying, like especially with the

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way they set up this season where Boemler is constantly

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pursuing his you know, ideal version. It may be that

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we see you know, a slightly future version of them

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or something else where. It kind of shows who they

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feel like they think they want to be, but not

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staying true to who they are. I think to Lynn

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has really carved out her own space separate from the

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core lower deckers we've been kind of growing up with,

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so to speak. So I'll go to Tellnn David, what about.

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You, Ruther Frzbeard. No, I'm kidding, totally kidding, No, it's

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it's definitely both answers here are fantastic, even though Wayne cheated.

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I know, I think Tendy and Talon both are fantastic answers.

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But I have to kind of lean with you, Scott

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with Tilan because she know she's working her butt off

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just to try not only to be a science officer,

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to succeed at that, but she's also working really hard

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to be a friend even though it went unnoticed for

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a while, and then she even admits her faults. She

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was completely open and honest with herself. You know when

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when she finally made Tendy realize that, you know what

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was going on and tell him, I say why, I

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was just wanting to spark our friendship again. But you know,

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I'm going to probably withdraw my application because of these

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very reasons.

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I liked that honesty, and I thought that's what made

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her go a little bit of past tend when it

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comes to the pit moment for this episode.

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Yeah, it's a good point.

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Yeah it is.

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So let's talk about get into that turtle lift with

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the lower deck team. Who would you join in the

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searchos for this episode, Scott.

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So for me, it to be Tendy, So to pick

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the other the other side of that equation, just because

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she she gets to interact with the Grimace flavored data

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and you know, if they had other conversations, I mean,

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they spend a lot of time together. I think that

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would have been a fascinating conversation to listen to Wayne

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about you.

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I absolutely agree with you. I'm choosing Tendy too. For

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pretty much the same reasons she spend all that time

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with Data's head. I'd love to spend time with Data's head.

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She's she's brilliant, she gets them out of trouble. She's

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promoted one half of the senior's science officer. You know,

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it's a great double act. I just I would love

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to be her and in her position, she just came

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out top of everybody else.

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Yeah, my answer is tendy as well. We're going to

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do the trifecta here. It can't be argued because, you know,

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first off, the same reason she gets to work with data.

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Every one of us on this podcast and our listeners

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would love to work with data no matter what. And

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the fact that you know her realization, you know, maybe

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down the road this is gonna make her when she's

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starting to go into that mode where you're like, oh

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my god, I gotta be better than everybody, and I

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gotta do this and do this and do this, you're

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gonna stop, slow down and realize, wait a minute, maybe

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I should talk to these people first, which is gonna

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make her a better officer. So yeah, definitely tendy U

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for sure. So good pick on all that, guys, Very

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good pick. All right, I know this is Wayne's favorite part.

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Let's talk about the deep cuts, the easter eggs of

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this episode. Wayne, what did you find?

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Well, there were a lot of quick comments and mentions

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on this episode, so I'll try to summarize here. First off,

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I noticed it Lynn made a comment about she's very

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sensitive to odor. That's part of the lore was established

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on Star Trek Enterprise of Balkans are very sensitive to smells.

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Another thing is the spot they chose down to beam

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down on Dilmore three that looks a lot like Desquez

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Rocks out in California. Because so many scenes were filmed

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there from all the different Star Trek series. I'm pretty

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sure that I know that's what they were leading towards

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good And of course, you know we mentioned this isn't

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the first time Datas lost his head. You know, he

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even mentions in it a couple of times about being

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rescued in nineteenth century San Francisco. We all know where

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that comes from. Marner also mentions that being in a

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Carbon Creek situation. This is a reference. There was an

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episode of Star Trek Enterprise that was called Carbon Creek.

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It was where Paul's ancestors crash crush Land on Earth

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in the twentieth century Pennsylvania, and she tells the story

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Maner also mentions the eto that scantly clad race of

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beings from the TNG first season episode Justice, you know,

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our favorite episode from that first season. Plus you know,

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there's there's a mention about war, and there was just

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so many mentions, but those are the big ones that

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I found.

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No good one's got you find anything different.

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No, he's got the whole thing. I think it. One

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of the things that I just found interesting was when

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they got to the down shuttle craft and they were

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basically phasering out every piece of it. I don't think

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I've ever seen them really do that before. So I

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wanted to ask in the eastering section if that's typical.

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Or I would say, well, see, they were there to

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recover or or make sure that any technology and the

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Starflee technology didn't get into the hands of the civilization

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because they don't want to influence that the whole prime

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directive thing. So that would make sense that, you know,

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since they couldn't exactly get it off the planets, probably

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just destroy it. Yeah, that would make sense.

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I think that would be protocol. Even though we've never

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really seen that before. Yeah, I think that would be protocol.

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I mean, I think we've seen an episode I can't

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remember which one, but where they were beaming some of

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the items back to the ship.

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Yeah, that's a lot of planet.

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So that was I don't remember what I can't remember,

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but this one, they were just decided just to go

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and destroy this stuff, obviously except for Data's purple head.

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a while, and you who knows how long. I'm not

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really sure exactly how long they were on the planet,

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considering the time was changed, but yeah, it was probably

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the best thing to do.

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Yeah, I think it was. It was it a year.

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I could have swore I.

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Heard anything like yeah, yeah, I think it was. Yah.

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Yeah, I think Mariner might have mentioned that if somebody

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mentioned it. But anyway, no good catches of Lane on

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all of those. As always, I always look forward to

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see what you you caught, and some of this I

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didn't even see, so, you know, fantastic.

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Yeah, and it's very similar. Like we've said earlier, it's

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very similar to another story from Voyager called up Blink

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of an Eye. I love that episode. It's really a

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good episode as one of my favorite guest stars from

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that ever appeared on Voyager. It's uh sixth season, I

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believe the end of six seasons, so uh yeah, you know, listeners,

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go find that episode and watch it. You'll enjoy it.

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Yeah, absolutely, all right, Wayne Scott, thank you for joining

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me on another episode of Lower Decks Phaser Set the Stun.

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It's always a touch time with you two guys. Always.

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Yeah.

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