March 17, 2026

Phasers Set To Stun: Starfleet Academy S1. E10 - Rubincon

Phasers Set To Stun: Starfleet Academy S1. E10 - Rubincon
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Season 7

On Phasers Set To Stun, we recognize the popularity of all things Star Trek, with a look at the television shows, animation, movies, and much more!

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Star Trek and we've got an exciting new series to watch! Wayne, David, and Scott will be discussing plots, sharing their favorite characters, and revealing all the Easter eggs within Star Trek: Starfleet Academy!

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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 Phasers Set the Stun.

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This is the ongoing film by podcast series where we

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celebrate everything Star Trek, covering every quadrant of the ever

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expanding Trek universe, from television and animation to films, directors, merchandise,

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and so much more. Plotting the course as always you

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your core track crew.

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I'm David Burns, I'm Scott Hoffmann, and I'm Wayne Whiten.

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Well, gentlemen, we have made it to the end of

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season one of Starfleet Academy with Episode ten, Rubin Khan.

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But so before we proceed, red Alert listeners, if you

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are not caught up with the theories, please go do so,

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as there are many spoilers ahead. We will be right

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here at the Academy waiting. Scott, go ahead and tell

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our listeners what this episode was about.

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Ruben Coon is directed by Olatundi Osin Sunmy and written

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by Alex Kurtzman. And Kristen Byer. In this episode, the

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Athena stands alone as the only starfleet vessel outside of

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an Omega forty seven particle mindfield that threatens everything in

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Federation space set by nus Braka. The Athena can't cross

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this field without triggering a catastrophe. Aboard the Athena is

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a skeleton crew of Captain Ake, the Doctor jet Reno,

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Sam Jayden, Terrema Raymi, Genesis Sam Caleb, and his recently

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rescued mom.

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As we saw at the end of the last episode.

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They barely have time to recover before Braca and his

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ships surround the Athena. Captain Ake hides the cadets in

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an airlock to stay safe and hidden from Braca and undetected,

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just before he takes control of the bridge. His initial

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plan is simple gloat in front of the Captain. Ake

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killed the crew and seized the Athena for himself, but

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when he sees Anisha, Meir, who he thought he was dead,

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he decides to level up his revenge. He kidnaps Ake

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and Anisha before leaving the rest of.

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The crew to go down with the ship.

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Braka escapes and his ships attack the stranded crew, which

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seems to be destroyed. Before opening credits roll, however, we

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quickly see that the doctor was able to extend himself

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into a holographic trick that fooled Braca into believing the

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Athena is destroyed. This takes a toll on the doctor,

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who seems unable to speak intelligibly. Sam focuses on helping

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her dad, while Reno and the cadets find ways to

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get the Athena up and running in an attempt to

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save Anisha, Ake and the Federation on their own. Meanwhile,

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Bracas stages a mock trial of the Federation, with Ake

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representing the accused, himself as the prosecution and Anisha as

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the judge. He plans to see Ake emotionally destroyed, Anisha

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aligned with his vision once again, and the Federation doomed

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to the demise he thinks it deserves. Captain Ake stages

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a masterful defense, knowing that Caleb is alive and that

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she can help Anisia's son, while also proving that Bracca's

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vendetta is misguided. In juvenile on the Athena, every cadet

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has a moment when they shine from Rami growing as

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a pilot Genesis becoming a leader, Terma learning to trust herself,

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Caleb reconnecting with his friends, and Terarma and Jaden solving

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the mystery of the doctor who reveals the key to

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disarming the Omega forty seven, and filed with a big

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assist from Sam so the crew can ultimately save the day.

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It's a tense and surprising blend of a courtroom and

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a catastrophe episode, and a fitting end to this first season.

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Well it's got covered it off. I guess we're done.

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In your body, thanks for listening. No, no, Well I

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said a lot, A lot happened in this episode. I

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gotta say the opening was fantastic. I love the fact that,

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you know, we got all of that before they even

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showed the title, you know, Starfleet Academy, and how they

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did it that way of just wrapping it.

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It was very cinematic, is what it was.

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Yeah, cast against that exploded ship.

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And you know, just as Star Trek does such a

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great job with their PTSD episodes, they do really good

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courtroom dramas too. Even though wasn't really an official courtroom,

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it still was a courtroom episode, which are little thing

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is going on on the outside of the courtroom. But

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beyond that, I thought it was a really good episode.

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I'm curious what Wayne thinks, because I know the last

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time we talked, he said that everything had felt a

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little rushed. We could have had three episodes, and I

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still kind of agree with him on that, but I

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feel like they did.

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Wrap it up a little bit better. I liked the

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bookend stuff.

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By what we got at the very beginning of the

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series of Nla of this being put on trial and

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how you know, with you know, how we open up

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the season with you know, Brocken them on trial, I thought.

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That was well done.

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I like that how they twisted it. But Nala was

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never really backed into a corner.

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She knew what she was doing and she came out swinging.

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I agree with you one d percent on that, And

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but I mean, I still think this story would have

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benefited with a third episode, just to let the the

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characters shine a little bit more developed the look when

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they did, I just feel a little rush. But all

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in all, I thought it was a very satisfying ending

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to the season. I really did for and I agree

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with the book in part two. I noticed that as well.

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I always think, you know, I always like that when

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they do that. I know they did that very very

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well with the Star Trek dictioneration, and I think they

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did a really good job. I enjoyed the episode. You know,

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I said I was going to wait and make my

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decision whether or not I liked last night last week's episode,

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after I saw this, and I'm like, it's I'm satisfied.

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I think they it came together really nicely.

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Yeah, Scott, what about you?

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Yeah? I agree.

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I think I could see some places where they could

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pull this out a little bit further, but I was

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ultimately satisfied with the entire episode, the pacing, the direction,

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the writing, the acting. I thought I was all spot on.

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I think it's interesting when you mentioned it as kind

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of a book end to the season. I hadn't really

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even considered that before you mentioned that. Obviously, it's a

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good catch that it opened. It begins in a courtroom,

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and it ends in a courtroom of sorts with these

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three players at the core, which does a really great

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job of making it a self contained season. I'm glad

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that it's going to continue because I think it has

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a lot of potential, and i'd like to see that

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potential played out over several seasons if possible, but if

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somebody wanted to, they could just keep this as a

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self contained story.

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Of just one season. Yeah, I think it was. It

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was really well done.

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Before we really dive into more of this episode again,

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I want to shout out Jeff Russell for his amazing

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score to this episode. And Wayne, I did see the

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soundtrack getting released. It's either this month or next month.

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Oh I missed that.

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I'm glad.

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Oh, I'm so glad to hear that too, because, like you,

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I love the music that he did for this entire season,

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and it was great this episode.

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Yeah, I mean every week it just seems he just

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he improves on it more and more.

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Yeah, I just I don't know how he does it.

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But man, yeah, I cannot wait to see what's coming

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up next season with what he has planned for the score.

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So absolutely no, a lot of good stuff in this

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episode to like, I mean, Scott, you mentioned it in

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your synopsis there. I love how the doctor used himself

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to do the hologram thing to hide of them getting

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blown up. I thought that was really cool and you felt,

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I mean, I knew you knew what was going on.

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And then obviously you went right into the hologram itself

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where they were at, and I just felt that.

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Was cgi was phenomenal by the way it.

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Was, I know, towards the end when they were coming

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up out of that gas when they warped in.

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Dude, that was an incredible shot.

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Yeah. Yeah, well, and I like how they.

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As much as they're giving the ability for the new crew,

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the new cast members to shine in this, how much

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space they're giving for legacy characters to continue to grow.

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Particularly what you're talking about with the doctor. I didn't

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even dream that that was a capability of his. I

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think it was an interesting use of the character that

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he basically is almost kind of self sacrificing himself. It

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feels like it's entirely possible that if they had gone

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any longer with it, or if something else had happened,

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if there's some kind of damage, he may not have

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been able to come back because he would have been

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reduced to kind of holographic projection. I think it's interesting

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how they kind of played that out with something that

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reminded me of an episode of Deep Space nine where

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they essentially kind of get like a little bit of

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a brokosophasia kind of thing going on where they can

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say the words that they.

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Want to say.

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It's interesting that little bit of loss of self there

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with him not being able to quite get it across,

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even though he's completely lucid knows what he wants to

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say and is almost saying that. I loved the use

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of that, and I loved the chance of being able

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to get Jaden to have kind of a connection there,

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to have that kind of medical epiphany to know that,

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you know, what might be going on. That was one

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of the things that I think resonated in the most

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with me was what the doctor was able to do

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and what jet Reno was able to do as kind

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of the acting captain absolutely shined in this.

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Yeah, I love just how proud the doctor was.

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You saw it in his face when they realized what

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he was trying to say, and he was just you know,

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he was getting so excited because they were finally realizing

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what he was doing and they're solving, you know, the riddle.

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But speaking of Reno, I think this is her best

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performance even from Discovery in this particular.

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Episode because she completely takes charge.

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But there's one scene that really stood out to me,

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and it's the scene between her and Caleb when she

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tells it, remember when I told you to tell me

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who you are. I wanted to know who you are,

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and you didn't know how to respond. And when he

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explained what he wanted to do, that he was there

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to save his friends and stuff like that, she says,

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right there, you just told me who you were. You

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did not turn your back on them. You come to

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the rescue of your friends. Many would have turned their backs.

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And I love that scene. I thought that was very

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powerful between Reno and Caleb.

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Yeah, I agree, that was a good scene.

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I was a little amused by the twist surprise that

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they had in this episode, you know, that reveal that

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it wasn't the Federation that destroyed a Bracus planet, it

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was as far there. Yeah, that is a very very old,

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trusted science fiction trope that they've we've seen used over

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and over again. But I'm I'm not folding this episode

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for it for using it. It just you know me, David,

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so I've got to bring this up. It reminded me

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of an old John Perty episode of Doctor Here where

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these these time travelers go back in time to stop

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the destruction of Earth and the Doctor reveals it that

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you know, they didn't destroy your world, you did it yourselves.

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You know exactly what came to mind when when she

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revealed that it's it's a It was a great twist then,

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and it's a really good twist here at Star Trek.

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But I had to crack a smile at that and

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made me laugh.

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Yeah, ALUs expect somebody is going to be running through

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the scene with the words cautionary tale on a card,

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just like, hey everybody.

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Yeah, but no, it may work. It really did it did?

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It did very work?

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You know, I didn't really I didn't see that coming.

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I'd put it.

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I didn't even think about it until Nledge uncovered it

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for us and like, oh hey.

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And then Brock obviously was like he was. He was

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beaten right there.

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You could tell even though he was trying to think

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he wasn't in and up playing it up. But I

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love to finally seeing Broka realize he was defeated, because

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I mean he was tough to defeat, There's no doubt

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about it. This whole season, he's been ahead of everybody.

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So it was finally you could see that we know

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he's coming back, minunderstanding he's not in season two, but

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you know, he's going to come back if they go to.

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Season three, which I can understand them not having him

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in season two. You don't want to use too much

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of a good thing, and right, Paul Giamani is a

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good thing. Really definitely. I'll mention that later, but I

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can see them wanting to do a different storyline than

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bringing him back for season three.

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Yeah, I agree.

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You know, there's this is kind of giving away my

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what I think is the standout people in this episode,

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so I kind of get ahead of myself a little bit,

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but a little bit more of detailed a little bit

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later though. The scene between a Nisian and Nala where

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Anissa's basically telling her that she wants to dance on

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her grave, I gotta tell you that was an incredibly

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powerful scene. You know, her explanation of, you know, people

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who go through grief basically other people may say they

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understand that grief, but in reality they don't because they

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don't experience, they don't feel, even though Nala does have

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that kind of experience with her son, but when it

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all came down, when it all came back, and Nala

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basically said, you know, if you do want to dance

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on my grave you already are. And then she explained

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everything in detail about the pilot that they killed, you know,

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explained who that pilot was. That that was some incredible

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detail right now. That really just pulled you into that

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episode even more than they really needed to in this

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courtroom drama because they do such a great job of it.

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But I mean, that was just very powerful scene between

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those two.

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Yeah, I mean it's very well written because she's basically saying, like,

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you know, I can't dispute anything that you're saying about me,

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but I can explain some of what you might not

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be aware of, right, which is interesting, Like the undertone

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of this whole thing is the Federation rebuilding itself and

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earning their trust back a lot of times from people

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that don't necessarily have any could justifiably say like, I

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don't know if I can ever trust the Federation again.

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For her to basically say, like, you know, but consider

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what happened like this situation and what was happening behind

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the scenes you might not be aware of, helps Anisia

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to get a different perspective. She might not necessarily be

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able to get rid of all of her hate in

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that moment. At least she understands a little bit more.

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For where it was coming from.

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And she's not going to get you know, all love

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adew with the Federation again, but she's at least willing

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to accept that enough to you know, trust her son

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with them and to know that, you know, this is

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where he wants to go.

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I think would also really help that scene be even

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more powerful was the fact that the cadets on the

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Athena were hearing it. We're listening in on that dialogue

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there towards the end when when Nalla was explaining about

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that pilot and all of that, and obviously Caleb needed

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to know that so that he could basically, you know,

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go down there to you know, speak up for Nava,

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which that was an incredible scene as well, just his basically,

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you know, he loves his mother and he tells her,

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you know, I love you, but you know you always

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told me to look.

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Up to the stars.

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I never understood that until Starfleet, which that's almost a

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dagger in his mom's gut right to even say that,

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because of her hatred for Starfleet. But then Caleb just

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goes on to explain of what he found was Starfleet,

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you know, and here again the cadets are listening to

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his explanation, which is kind of nice because earlier, when

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you're trying to explain it generally shut him down. Remember,

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don't waste your breath, you know, when she told him

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when he was trying to apologize. But here he's basically

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apologizing again, you know, but it's to his mom. Even

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the cadets are on Athena listening to his explanation and

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his apologies, so it helps them realize that what he

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was trying to do really was from the heart, you know.

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And it just a lot of people struggle with standing

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up to their parents because everybody puts their parents when

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most people put their parents in such a pedestal that

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they never want to disappoint them right ever, And in

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this situation, you know, Caleb has to make that stance

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because for one, I mean, Naala is on trial here

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and he really cares for her because she's been there

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as that mother where you know, and he has not

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been right. But you know, he was trying to find her,

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but she stepped in for that. So he was there

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to have two mothers who are basically standing off from

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and there he had to protect both of them. But

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the one who is in most danger with Nalla, and

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that spoke volume of Caleb's character.

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Yeah, but you can see how she's basically you know

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this this entire time. She has what she has wanted

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for him, that she recognized that he ultimately found in

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the last place that she ever expected him to, and

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she I think accepts that she can trust him to

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be able to write his own story and to to

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trust the family he's found and to let her know

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that he's he's going to be Okay, there's going to

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be you know, problems that he's going to have, but

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she can trust him to follow this path.

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Yeah. Absolutely.

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I love the fact that they get to punch Brocket too. Yes,

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come on, we all cheered for that.

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Right, Yeah, exactly.

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Jack has deserved it many.

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But no, I mean, there's there are so many good

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scenes in this episode, you know, I mean something. I

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know I've read some obviously people's comments and stuff out there,

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and I just shake my head at it, just like

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I do too.

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I do too.

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I'm like, you know what, it was still a good season,

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

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that when we get to the end of this episode.

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You know how we felt and stuff about the season itself,

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but overall, I thought this was a really good, fineale,

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you know it. The only thing I kind of felt

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was awkward is about taking a summer off. Okay, I

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mean there's really no seasons in space, so I guess

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even though they were on Earth, I guess they're just

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it's a it's a break, you know, between the two

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between the two years.

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I guess it just felt awkward or my I mean

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I alone on that.

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Well, I mean, you know, they they observe that, they've

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always done that on the starships. You know, they observe

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day and night and true there's none of that in

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space too, so I could see them observing the seasons

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as well.

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Yeah, I mean I think as far as like a

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you know, in the starfleet career or it's basically many

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sabbaticals that you take before you come back, which I

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think at this stage in the Federation's development is probably

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more important than ever because it's each of these cadets

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going back to their own worlds, their own cultures, unless

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they decide to go someplace else, which is totally fine,

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but they're having independent experiences that they ultimately bring back

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to the Academy and every time they come back for

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a subsequent year.

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It's a choice.

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So it's kind of like a manifestation of everybody learning

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to trust the Federation that these young kids are bringing

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themselves back into this mix to continue pushing it forward

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until they dedicate their whole lives to it and then

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you know.

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Yeah, no, it's true if you look at it the

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way I give it. They need that break for one thing.

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I'm just jealous because they get a summer break.

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But that's right me too. It's not fair. We don't

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get those as adults, unfortunately most of them.

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Anyway, I missed those days when you could when we

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did have.

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That, I know, I know.

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So what did you guys think about the whole celebration

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that Sam did when Brock obviously found out that his

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remote was not working, they fixed it, and then all

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of a sudden, the federationships just start, you know, popping

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in all over the place, and then Sam just going crazy.

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Let's go on the bridge.

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I thought that was a fantastic Yeah, matched her character

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and it did.

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It, did you know?

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And I feel like, even though she's fighting the two

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characters a little bit, I feel like at the end

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of this episode, she's kind of at peace now for

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a majority.

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Yeah, I agree with that.

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Yeah, she's finding that balance again because her her kind

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of rebirth as Sam two point zero came very much

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from a kind of a dark place right after catastrophe

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and then it was just recovering from that ever since

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going right into burn two point zero. Yeah, so she

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probably just didn't feel like she could trust herself to

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be that or say one point oh and was It's

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interesting how she kind of looks down at Sam one

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point out to just say like, I can't believe I

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was like that, and it's like, but you still can be.

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It's just you have to wait for it to be

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the right moment of joy exactly.

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Yeah.

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I liked the whole Kalob narrating at the end with

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his first log and basically saying, this.

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Is the last thing I expected.

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Well, yeah it is, but I mean just shows how

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much his character has grown over the season too, a lot.

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A real lot. Yeah.

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This was you know, when when we first saw him,

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we thought that, you know, he was going to find

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his mother and then run off. He really didn't care,

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But now obviously we see he does.

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Yeah, Yeah, he's he obviously grew the bots. I think

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of all the characters, even a lot of them have growth. Obviously,

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this is with Caleb's story this season for the most part. Yeah,

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so it was only natural that he had the most growth.

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But I actually loved the photo montage at the end

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with the credits.

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Oh yeah, that.

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Was so cool. They even broad up, which was hysterical.

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Yeah.

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I think my favorite one was Rappert Ricardo's.

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Yes, some of them you really could tell his film.

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You could see it in their faith, you know, even

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in how little they were, you could still see it

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in them. So but no, really good episode, good finale.

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So let's let's move on to I know, some of

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our favorite parts of these episodes. Which character shined the most? Wayne,

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I'll start with you.

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Well, this was a really hard one for me because

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I really want to say je Reino, but but I can't.

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I can't because I have to go with with Nospranka.

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Just like he did with his other two appearances, he

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stole the show away from the others. He's really that

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that court resume. He's really chewing the scenery. He is,

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But but I loved every minute of it, you know.

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He he's definitely cemented himself as one of the better

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villains of the Star Trek universe. You know, he's right

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up there with the Ricardo Monabon and Christopher Plummer. My

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eyes and I just loved every scene between Giamani and

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Helen are Holly Hunter because both of them are just

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giving some real class a acting here. And I'm glad

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that both of them have joined the Star Trek Universe.

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And I can't wait to see more of them, I

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really do, because I love those scenes.

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Those two together is just some of the best performances

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all of this season.

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I mean, they just feed off of one another brilliantly.

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You can just see how good they are as actors.

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And when you get those two in a room just

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going at it to one another, I mean, it's just

476
00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:34.759
it's just perfect.

477
00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:36.279
It is incredible.

478
00:23:36.440 --> 00:23:39.200
Yeah, it's fun to watch, it really is. But no,

479
00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:42.000
that's that's a good choice. Actually it really is. Wayne Scott,

480
00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:42.480
what about you.

481
00:23:43.359 --> 00:23:46.319
Well, if he's gonna go Braka, I'm gonna go which

482
00:23:46.359 --> 00:23:49.839
is a good call. Good, I'm gonna go with a

483
00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:55.119
nation mer Maslani. I I was going to say Captain

484
00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:58.400
Ak I actually had notes on, you know, detailing why

485
00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:01.960
but I think this is one of the first episodes

486
00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:06.720
where we've really gotten kind of the breath for Tatiana

487
00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:11.680
to fully fletch out this character the range of emotions

488
00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:13.640
that she's been feeling. We've only been seeing kind of

489
00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:16.880
drips and drabs, even in the last episode, but here

490
00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:19.759
we get great emotional range because she goes from just

491
00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:23.279
like traumatized, I would say at the beginning when she

492
00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:26.319
sees the face of the person that stole her son

493
00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:32.279
and kind of goes a little off the rails, has

494
00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:36.000
to quickly compose herself, knowing that she has a role

495
00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:39.680
to kind of trap Braka or try to throw him

496
00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:44.960
off his game, all the way to having to reluctantly

497
00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.440
trust Ake for a while, express everything that she's had

498
00:24:49.480 --> 00:24:52.200
bottled up over the past what nineteen years of been

499
00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:56.279
growing up, and then ultimately coming around to just being

500
00:24:57.079 --> 00:25:00.599
a mom who is seeing her son go off to

501
00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:05.000
college essentially. So, I mean, I think she had great range,

502
00:25:05.079 --> 00:25:08.880
great performances in here. I'm glad that character was so

503
00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:13.000
central to the finale because it was used so well.

504
00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:16.079
And when I when I look at the casting for this,

505
00:25:16.279 --> 00:25:20.400
you know the big names are Holly Hunter, Paul Giamadi

506
00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:22.839
and Tachia Maslani, and I think she.

507
00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:25.599
Did great having all three of them in the same scene,

508
00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:26.680
and it's just incredible.

509
00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:28.799
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, what a wait, what a way

510
00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:31.039
to end to see the See seasons with those three?

511
00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:31.960
My goodness.

512
00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:36.039
Now I'm with you, Scott, and aniche is with at

513
00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:37.079
the top of my list for this.

514
00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:38.680
I mean, Brock is a good view.

515
00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:40.160
I had him earlier in the season, so I felt

516
00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:41.559
like it was a cop out to go with him again.

517
00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:43.920
But it's a good choice, don't get me wrong, it

518
00:25:43.960 --> 00:25:44.440
really is.

519
00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:46.880
I remember you both laughed at me. We didn't laugh

520
00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:50.759
at me, but you was like the villain. Now Wade

521
00:25:50.759 --> 00:25:51.480
picks the villain.

522
00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:56.599
See but no, Anitia, I thought was just the scene

523
00:25:56.680 --> 00:25:59.880
where she just bared the pain and suffering to non

524
00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:02.039
in that courtroom scene.

525
00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:04.799
Was just phenomenal in itself.

526
00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:07.160
I mean, she did a really good job of what

527
00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:09.920
little we saw her this year in her performances, but

528
00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:11.279
this one she nailed it.

529
00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:13.640
She knocked it out of the park for sure.

530
00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:17.799
You know, the way she conveyed her anger, her grief

531
00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:21.359
in that that deep rooted trauma. I mean a lot

532
00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:23.599
of people can't feel that and it hits home for

533
00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:27.480
a lot of people, and as much pain and agony

534
00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:30.119
as she has been through, as Nalla has been through

535
00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:34.359
and Caleb has been through, Braka just standing back there

536
00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:36.200
as the one who's caused a lot of this, you know,

537
00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:38.119
and just laughing it off basically.

538
00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:41.440
So I feel she just just.

539
00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:44.519
Does an incredible job in this episode that I had

540
00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:48.160
to pick her. You know, she was really good in

541
00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:50.119
the season the opener, but this one, like I said,

542
00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:51.319
she she knocked it out of the part.

543
00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:54.160
All right. So if you could be any character in

544
00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:56.519
this episode, who would it be? Scott, I'll let you

545
00:26:56.599 --> 00:26:57.039
go first.

546
00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:03.000
I go with jet Rino again, good one. She had

547
00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:08.680
so many amazing lines. She makes Raka hater like you,

548
00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:14.200
I don't like, but her her navigation of all the

549
00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:16.119
different roles that she had to do. She does a

550
00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:20.920
great job of helping all the cadets kind of come

551
00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:24.319
out to where they need to be. And I just

552
00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:25.880
I just love any of the scenes where they're kind

553
00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:28.839
of tinkering with like isolinatory ships and things like that.

554
00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:31.960
So when she was fixing things with Caleb looked like fun.

555
00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:34.400
Well, I mean, since I couldn't give my who shined

556
00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:37.799
a Jetry. You know, I chose her as well. She

557
00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:40.599
was just so good in this episode, you know, and

558
00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:41.759
so central to the story.

559
00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:42.400
Yeah.

560
00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:45.559
Many times back in Discovery and even early in this series,

561
00:27:46.119 --> 00:27:49.160
she was really more than just a popping character, you know,

562
00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:51.079
kind of like Guynan did on The Next Generation. You

563
00:27:51.079 --> 00:27:53.759
know that she was there for a scene, sometimes just

564
00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:56.200
for you know, comedy, and then never seen again. But

565
00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:58.960
I'm so glad they gave her more to do here

566
00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:01.960
in this finale, a lot more, you know, the way

567
00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:04.960
she has to lead and encourage the debts to come

568
00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:08.079
up with a solution that was gold. I mean, She's

569
00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:10.279
sent her seat here and that's why I'd want to

570
00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:13.519
be here, because I just I loved her performance. I

571
00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:17.240
loved her character, and I hope we see more of

572
00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:20.599
her in season two, and like this she has she's

573
00:28:20.599 --> 00:28:21.599
more central to the story.

574
00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:25.599
Yeah, I agree. Well, for me, I'm going with Vanskin. No,

575
00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:31.920
I'm kidding, totally totally kidding. No, I'm with you guys

576
00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:33.720
on this one. I really wanted to be jet Reno

577
00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:35.720
in this one, just because of how she shines on

578
00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:39.359
that bridge. But as we all know, every captain gets

579
00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:43.799
their their moment of engage or make it so hers

580
00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:46.799
is now show me some pretty streaks of light. I

581
00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:51.039
love that that character to a tea man.

582
00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:52.200
It really did.

583
00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:55.000
But Scott, you kind of touch based on it too,

584
00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:57.960
and how not a lot of people get under Braka

585
00:28:58.039 --> 00:29:01.440
skin but jet Reno does because he literally says, I

586
00:29:01.480 --> 00:29:04.720
don't like you, so they just shows you how awesome

587
00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:08.839
jet Reno is. And dude, as good as she is,

588
00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:11.599
she was having fun on that bridge. I mean, I

589
00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:13.599
know she had a lot of pressure on her of

590
00:29:13.799 --> 00:29:17.599
working with these cadets, but the mere fact that she

591
00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:20.440
has been with these cadets for this whole entire freshman

592
00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:23.880
year with them, that she got to see them grow

593
00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:27.519
in those few moments on that bridge more than she

594
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:31.240
saw in the academy the entire year. And getting to

595
00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:33.599
see that it goes back to what we saw with Tilly,

596
00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:38.119
remember where how proud she was getting to see the

597
00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:40.759
breakthrough those cadets had and what she was showing them

598
00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:43.240
and teaching them without actually saying, hey, you need to

599
00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:45.880
do this. Je Reno did the same thing here. I mean,

600
00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:49.440
she is so proud of taking control of that and

601
00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:53.160
watching the cadets actually shine. They struggled. I mean, Remi

602
00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:55.039
was having problems piloting in the ship there for a

603
00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:58.440
little bit, but she didn't get angry. She helped him,

604
00:29:58.480 --> 00:30:00.640
guided him, showed him, hey, do it this way, do

605
00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:02.839
it that way. You know, just let you let yourself

606
00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:05.960
go with it. And then when she laughed and gave

607
00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:08.359
the bridge to Genesis, says please.

608
00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:10.640
Don't break anything, please please please please say she was

609
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:15.720
walking away. Yeah, yeah, you. Reno was awesome in this episode.

610
00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:19.960
Yeah, tak Natarda is an amazing job with this. Well,

611
00:30:20.119 --> 00:30:23.880
one of my favorite characters, I would say of modern Trek.

612
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:24.839
I think I've said that before.

613
00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:25.359
Yep.

614
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:29.759
And this is her second Kobyashi Maru kind of real

615
00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:32.440
life scenario. Right Like, when we found her, she was

616
00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:37.240
basically had no completely implausible it should still be alive. Yeah,

617
00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:39.440
she was, and it became more plausible to just see

618
00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:40.079
how she did it.

619
00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:42.319
All Right, Well, guys, let's take a break. We come back.

620
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:45.000
We'll do Wayne's favorite part, and then we'll talk a

621
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:47.160
little bit about what we thought of the season. We'll

622
00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:47.680
be right back.

623
00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:52.920
Welcome back, everybody to a Phasers set the stun where

624
00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:57.599
Wayne Scott and I are discussing the finale of Starfleet Academy.

625
00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:00.720
So let's go ahead and talk about wayne favorite part,

626
00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:03.920
the easter eggs. So Wayne, what did you find?

627
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:04.119
Man?

628
00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:07.160
There are some juicy ones in this one. I'm glad.

629
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:09.680
I was glad to find what I did find. But

630
00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:12.119
of course, the big easter egg for this episode has

631
00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:14.240
got to be the appearance of the Doctor's mobile admitter.

632
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:17.160
I would have thought after eight hundred years that he

633
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:19.319
would have found a way to exist and not need

634
00:31:19.359 --> 00:31:24.599
it anymore, but apparently not. As you remember it, well,

635
00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:28.680
it existed with him on Voyager and all those years

636
00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:31.599
after making it like eight hundred years old. It's actually

637
00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:35.480
a piece of twenty ninth century technology that was acquired

638
00:31:35.480 --> 00:31:38.319
when the Voyager encountered a twenty ninth century Federation vessel

639
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:41.599
that believed they were the cause of a temporal explosion,

640
00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:45.240
and then boat ships were thrown back into the twentieth century,

641
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:48.359
and that's where the Doctor obtained the admitter. All it's

642
00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:50.680
all very timey, whymy, But if you want to see that,

643
00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:56.759
you watch the Star Trek Voyager two parter futures and

644
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.319
from their third season. Now, the Doctor also still has

645
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:03.119
his a mobile emitter. During these appearances on Star Trek Prodigy.

646
00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:05.799
That's where he started wearing it under his coat rather

647
00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:08.359
than on his arm like he did on Voyager. Now,

648
00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:11.559
Remy executes a maneuver to warp the ship into the

649
00:32:11.559 --> 00:32:15.079
clouds of a gas giant to avoid detection, which is

650
00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:18.400
exactly what the USS Enterprise did to avoid Nero and

651
00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:21.920
the Narrata in the two thousand and nine Star Trek film. Now,

652
00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:25.519
the idea of projecting holographic ships out into space to

653
00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:28.799
trick your opponent has been done before, and it was

654
00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:32.079
done by the Doctor and he's very familiar with it

655
00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:34.640
because the USS Voyager did it in a second season

656
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:38.359
finale Basics Part one. But that time the Doctor himself

657
00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:40.599
got accidentally projected out into space right and in the

658
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:41.839
middle of the battle.

659
00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:43.039
Oops.

660
00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:46.640
Yeah, another good episode. You got to watch that two

661
00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:50.319
parter as well. Now, Captain Aki states that the Federation

662
00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:54.559
doesn't have an anthem. I'm sorry, Naalah, Yes, yes it does.

663
00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:57.960
We heard it before the baseball game in the Deep

664
00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:02.920
Space nine episode take Me Out to the Now during

665
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:06.559
the Nari Raal newsreel, we got a couple of nice

666
00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:11.279
easter eggs. First was the mention of the Federation President Rilick,

667
00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:14.920
who was seen a couple of times in Star Trek Discovery,

668
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:17.160
but we also see the mention of three planets that

669
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:22.359
were considered joining Braca's new Coalision, Aldeboran, Halka, and the

670
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:25.039
New Kronos. Well, of course, the New Kronos was found

671
00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:32.000
earlier this season in the episode Box and Excelso Aldeborn

672
00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:35.079
has been mentioned many times throughout all the Star Trek series.

673
00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:38.799
I won't get into that. Remember, Scotty on the Next

674
00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:42.839
Generation was drinking al deboron whiskey. But let's talk about

675
00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:46.799
the planet Halka. This has been seen before a long

676
00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:49.440
time ago. That was the planet that was visited by

677
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:52.200
Kirk Spock and the crew of the Enterprise at the

678
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:56.279
beginning of the original series episode mir Mirror. It was

679
00:33:56.319 --> 00:33:59.720
when they were beaming up from Halka that Kirk, Scotty,

680
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:02.680
Her and McCoy were thrown into the Mirror universe the

681
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:08.119
very first time. Now, last episode we talked about where

682
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:11.639
the US Discovery was, Well, it's right here. We get

683
00:34:11.639 --> 00:34:14.159
a shout out for the ship early in the episode,

684
00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:16.159
and then later near the end we got a blink

685
00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:19.960
and you miss it appearance right outside the atrium windows. Now,

686
00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:24.800
let's let's talk about that. In sequence with the graduating

687
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:28.639
class entries, you notice that there was a date on there. Well.

688
00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:32.519
During Caleb's log entry, he mentions that the start eate

689
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:36.800
is eight six nine six three one point seven, now,

690
00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:40.360
giving that each year equals a startate of about one thousand,

691
00:34:41.239 --> 00:34:43.800
and that the year twenty three sixty four is to

692
00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:47.840
start eight forty one forty one to forty one thousand.

693
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:50.480
That's what that that is, No, that's already been established.

694
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:53.599
That means this episode takes place in the year thirty

695
00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:58.159
one ninety two. So those yearbook entries state their year

696
00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:00.880
as thirty one ninety six, which means Darkley Academy is

697
00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:04.960
a five year university. It also reveals that apparently they

698
00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:07.559
all make it out alive at the end and graduate

699
00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:09.239
because they're all there.

700
00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:13.639
Good catch, look at you, A little bit of mass,

701
00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:16.239
a little bit of a math. I can't do that.

702
00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:18.639
I'm sorry, my brain doesn't work that way. But well done, Wayne,

703
00:35:18.760 --> 00:35:20.639
well done, Well guys.

704
00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:23.039
I mean, let's let's talk about our thoughts of the

705
00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:26.880
entire season in itself. It had a lot of ups

706
00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:29.760
for me. We kind of talked about the one episode.

707
00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:32.119
I don't think any of us really light. We could

708
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:35.440
have done without that episode, and if we had not

709
00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:40.000
had that, Wayne would have had history partner for this finale, unfortunately.

710
00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:41.360
But overall, you know.

711
00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:44.159
I thought the the opening of the season was incredible.

712
00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:48.639
It was very, very cinematic, and then the episodes beyond

713
00:35:48.679 --> 00:35:52.480
that were great. The characters have been fantastic. I've enjoyed

714
00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:55.880
getting to know them. I know when you in Star Trek,

715
00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:57.960
when you first start to get to know some new characters,

716
00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.239
it's kind of tough. But now I feel like I

717
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:03.119
know them like I know other crew from Star Trek.

718
00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:05.719
I know they're not a crew, their cadets, but still,

719
00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:06.360
you know what I mean.

720
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.199
I feel like I'm more involved with this.

721
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:12.239
Time period than I was with Discovery, if that makes

722
00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:14.559
any kind of sense. I always felt a little lost

723
00:36:14.599 --> 00:36:18.960
with Discovery, with feeling comfortable with the time period they

724
00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:21.360
were in. But now with Academy, I feel like I

725
00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:23.159
have a home. I feel like I'm more at place

726
00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:25.599
now because I see where they're going with it, and

727
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:29.480
I love how and I mentioned this a year ago

728
00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:31.360
or two years ago, and we talked about at the

729
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:33.880
beginning of the year. I wanted this to feel like

730
00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:37.000
Harry Potter and it really did. At times, especially the

731
00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:40.519
first few episodes, they nailed it. It felt like you

732
00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:44.320
were at Hogwarts, you know, with the students. But overall,

733
00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:47.920
I thought the performances were incredible. Paul Giamadi, I feel

734
00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:51.599
stole the entire show. Wayne, As you mentioned, he's up

735
00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:53.400
there with one of the best villains of Star Trek,

736
00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:56.079
and I can't wait to see him again. And I'm

737
00:36:56.079 --> 00:36:58.719
glad they're not going to overuse him. Let's give him

738
00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:00.639
a break, so when he does come back, it's going

739
00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:04.400
to be that much more powerful. So I really like

740
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:06.719
what he brought to the table of Star Trek, and

741
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:09.639
I know he loves Star Trek. I saw an interview

742
00:37:09.639 --> 00:37:13.199
with him saying how he was so giddy in the

743
00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:15.239
interview of the fact that he was getting to be

744
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:18.519
in Star Trek, and now after seeing the entire season,

745
00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:21.000
seeing what he brought to the table, I can see why.

746
00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:23.280
But overall I thought it was a really good season.

747
00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:27.199
What about you, guys, Yeah, I totally agree. You raise

748
00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:31.239
a great point about Discovery in this time period. I

749
00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:35.639
think for me when that was happening, it felt temporary.

750
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:37.280
M It felt like.

751
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:39.519
Oh, but if we can get back to the past,

752
00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:42.039
that we can prevent the burn, and I kept waiting

753
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:46.239
for that to happen, But knowing that they're invested in that,

754
00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:52.400
that they're continuing with it, it feels a lot more familiar.

755
00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:55.960
It feels like it fits a lot more with another

756
00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:59.280
time period, and it's not necessarily discounting everything that came before.

757
00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:02.800
It actually allowing more room for that to grow if

758
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:05.880
anybody wants to explore the time between then and now.

759
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:09.320
But it also kind of jumps way ahead to say, like,

760
00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:12.360
how would it deal with catastrophe? How did it deal

761
00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:16.360
with a federation that's not necessarily trusted anymore and having

762
00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:20.599
to rebuild that from the ground up. I love the

763
00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:23.960
fact that it is in an academy. I think the

764
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:27.519
Hogwarts angle is a brilliant catch and a great decision

765
00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:34.320
because you're getting Starfleet beyond the ships, which I know

766
00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:36.480
when we were talking about DS nine some people haven't

767
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:40.000
always been comfortable with that. But just to think about

768
00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:43.840
how much range there is for stories, how much range

769
00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:46.480
there is for potential to look at all the other

770
00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:48.480
things that Starfleet is supposed to be.

771
00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:50.440
Doing.

772
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:53.239
It at the academy level gives you so many more

773
00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:57.639
avenues to explore the different facets of it beyond just

774
00:38:57.840 --> 00:39:02.679
being in the Captain's chair, being on the bridge. So yeah,

775
00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:06.480
I hope this continues. I hope that they take cues

776
00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:10.199
from this in what they developed for future Star Trek,

777
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:13.039
whether it's continued with the storyline or things like it.

778
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:14.760
I think it's a lot of good calls.

779
00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:16.119
Yep, yeah, absolutely.

780
00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:18.639
I mean I know they finished season two already, they

781
00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:21.079
filmed it, ye, so I can't wait to see that.

782
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:22.719
But uh, Wayne, what do you think of the season?

783
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:25.079
Well, I mean, you know, touching on what both of

784
00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:28.840
you said, you know, I had a hard time. I

785
00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:31.000
love the idea of the thirty second century, but I

786
00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:33.239
did have a hard time grasping it. And I think

787
00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:36.360
the problem when it came to Discovery, which I liked it,

788
00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:39.320
was that, you know, that show started off in the

789
00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:42.840
twenty third century and we were just getting used to that,

790
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:45.199
and then boom, it was thrown and we were thrown

791
00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:47.400
into thirty second century with all these new characters and

792
00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:50.119
all these new concepts, and it was really hard to

793
00:39:50.119 --> 00:39:54.840
get your head around that. Here, it's already been established,

794
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:58.280
so we're starting already being in an era area that

795
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:01.679
we're familiar with. Plus this show seems to be a

796
00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:06.039
lot more grounded, literally, I guess. But you know, so

797
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:09.760
you know these characters, they're they're central. We've been introduced

798
00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:11.840
to them very nicely. That's one thing the writers have

799
00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:16.360
done this season has introduced these characters really well so

800
00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:19.119
that we can we understand them, we know them, we

801
00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:22.400
can see them grow. That's something that I think Discovery

802
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:24.519
had a little bit of problem with with their thirty

803
00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:29.639
second century characters, and I think that helps. I love

804
00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:31.800
the thirty second century. You know, now we've we've got

805
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:35.800
three centuries of Star Trek that we can follow, and

806
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:40.760
it's great that that they're being able to expand the

807
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:45.000
whole universe and concepts like this. And I can't wait

808
00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:46.639
to see what season two because I want to see

809
00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:48.519
more in this thirty second century because I love it.

810
00:40:48.639 --> 00:40:50.119
I love it, and I love the characters that what

811
00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:50.840
they got here.

812
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:52.199
Yeah, I agree.

813
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:54.639
I feel like, do you think the next season, because

814
00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:56.480
we know Brock is out of the way now, do

815
00:40:56.519 --> 00:40:59.960
you think that it will go back to the typical

816
00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:03.119
you know, each episode is a different story or do

817
00:41:03.159 --> 00:41:04.559
you think they're going with the story arc again.

818
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:07.159
I think they'll go with a story arc it'll be

819
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:08.360
something completely different.

820
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:09.440
You know.

821
00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:11.519
Here, here's the I don't want to call this a concern,

822
00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:12.559
because it's not a concern.

823
00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:13.679
You know.

824
00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:16.840
This first season was definitely Caleb's story, as we we've

825
00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:20.360
mentioned before, and it looks like that, you know, his

826
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:22.360
story has been wrapped up a little bit other than

827
00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:25.480
the fact that he's starflee We we we've finished up

828
00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:27.599
that bit that we've been introduced with his story, and

829
00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:31.079
I hope they don't let him fall off to the wayside.

830
00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:33.639
I hope they come up with something more new and

831
00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:38.880
original for him. Uh, but I forgot what the question was.

832
00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:45.840
What we think we're gonna be. We're gonna be a

833
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:46.920
story arc or that.

834
00:41:48.880 --> 00:41:51.760
No, you know, I I guess the sky's the limit

835
00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:53.519
for them. But I do think it'll be a story arc.

836
00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:57.079
But I think it'll probably be something completely different. I

837
00:41:57.079 --> 00:42:00.000
don't know if it'll be have a central I think

838
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:03.360
that they'll probably go with something a little more like

839
00:42:03.559 --> 00:42:06.960
like a natural cat catastrophe or something. I hope they

840
00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:10.039
don't do another another you know, the galaxy is threatened thing,

841
00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:12.559
because yeah, no, please, you don't want to do that again.

842
00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:15.119
That not not this soon. But that's that's my thought.

843
00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:17.760
I mean, who knows, really they can go any any

844
00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:18.639
direction with it.

845
00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:20.599
Yeah, Scott, what do you think?

846
00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:24.039
I think it'll probably you know, we've seen things like

847
00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:28.280
the planet of Vulcan getting a new name, right, We've

848
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:33.360
seen giant changes to Beta Z. I have a feeling

849
00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:37.119
it's not necessarily going to be so focused on the

850
00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:40.519
established characters. There may be some other arcs. I feel

851
00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:42.800
like we're probably going to get something infused, like I

852
00:42:42.840 --> 00:42:47.519
said last time, with the second years, with the Freshmans

853
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:51.159
that are coming in, I think there's probably going to

854
00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:53.800
be a little bit of a little bit more digging

855
00:42:53.960 --> 00:43:00.760
into rebuilding some classic parts of the Federation, with one

856
00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:03.920
of them possibly being like a pivotal point that you know,

857
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:09.840
threatens the stability of being able to rebuild it. I

858
00:43:09.960 --> 00:43:12.280
feel I hope that there's a little bit more depth

859
00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.000
in there, because I feel like that's the possibility of

860
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:21.599
bringing some of the classic fans back in, maybe giving

861
00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:23.639
them away to kind of see the potential for this

862
00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:27.119
to grow. By the same token, I don't know, the

863
00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:32.559
serious needs to play to people that necessarily don't really

864
00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:35.119
want to accept it. They should just go at it

865
00:43:35.199 --> 00:43:38.079
and be their own thing. I don't think it has

866
00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:40.400
to be for the prior generations. I think it can be,

867
00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:43.360
but I don't think they have to try to just

868
00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:45.719
do your own thing and let.

869
00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:46.920
It grow completely agree.

870
00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:49.239
I agree with that to a stint. But if we

871
00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:51.800
look back, what were the two strongest episodes this season

872
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:56.320
in my opinion was the Deep Space nine one ye

873
00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:58.559
and then the episode with the Doctor, which you know

874
00:43:58.960 --> 00:44:03.400
was new stories and developing, you know, new mythology, but

875
00:44:03.559 --> 00:44:06.119
was grounded with a little taste of the whole Star

876
00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:08.840
Trek mythology. And I really I hope they do that

877
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:11.599
at least once. Don't overdo it that, Please don't overdo that.

878
00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:14.719
But you know, I would love to see that. You know,

879
00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:18.480
it's not just the old Trek fans that that we

880
00:44:18.480 --> 00:44:21.119
want to draw back us us, you know, Trekkies that

881
00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:23.440
are already here. We we just like, you know, we

882
00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:25.039
just like being fanboys for a time.

883
00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:25.639
We do.

884
00:44:26.159 --> 00:44:30.320
I do hope next season that Vance gets away from

885
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:32.519
Earth or wherever the hell he is kind of you know,

886
00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:35.800
shows up in person, retired of the hologram version of him.

887
00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:37.760
I think it'd be interesting if there's a little bit

888
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:43.519
of mystery behind that, like fighting Mummy well, I mean possibly, Like,

889
00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:48.639
I think it could be fascinating. He's like he's he's

890
00:44:48.719 --> 00:44:53.440
omni present but never available, right right, nobody sees him

891
00:44:53.480 --> 00:44:55.360
in person. I wonder if there could be a little

892
00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:58.280
bit of a surprise there to say, like you could

893
00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:01.239
be he's actually in pikes Can edition and that's the

894
00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:03.239
only way that he can exist and interact with people.

895
00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:04.400
Oh gosh, I don't know.

896
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:07.400
Yeah, but I mean still.

897
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:10.000
Scott's going the wrong direction here man.

898
00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:16.360
Wood again, hold on, but I don't know, just I

899
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:18.840
don't know. I think there's some interesting depth to explore.

900
00:45:19.159 --> 00:45:22.480
Yeah, Parris, well, I can tell you what is happening

901
00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:25.760
next with us, So tune in for the next episode

902
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:28.360
where we are giving our Trek expectations on what is

903
00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:31.079
coming up for Star Trek as well as we are

904
00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:33.760
here at Phasers set stun going to join in with

905
00:45:33.840 --> 00:45:37.280
the sixtieth anniversary of Star Trek by diving into the

906
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:40.400
original theories starting from the very beginning.

907
00:45:41.039 --> 00:45:42.320
So come back and listen.

908
00:45:42.360 --> 00:45:44.159
We have a ton of store that we can't wait

909
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:47.840
to talk about. Listeners, we thank you for tuning in

910
00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:52.360
and hopefully you've enjoyed our discussions on Starfleet Academy I

911
00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:55.840
know we've got Strange New Worlds season four coming up

912
00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:56.639
sometime this year.

913
00:45:56.679 --> 00:45:57.920
They've not given us a date yet.

914
00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:01.639
They did mention this week. The producer did mention late summer.

915
00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:03.039
Oh okay, well, good.

916
00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:04.360
Okay, good, give us a little bit of time.

917
00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:08.199
Yeah, we used to break break tweet. Yeah, little break,

918
00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:08.599
little break.

919
00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:08.960
Yeah.

920
00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:11.400
I'm sure season two of Starfrek Habby probably around the

921
00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:14.719
same time next year that they're released it. Yeah, it

922
00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:16.519
feels comfortable for them to be able to do that.

923
00:46:17.639 --> 00:46:18.039
So good.

924
00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:20.199
Well, guys, thank you so much for joining. It's always

925
00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:23.920
a pleasure joining here at Phasers talking about Star Trek.

926
00:46:24.760 --> 00:46:26.800
It's been fun. This has been a good series.

927
00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:29.000
It's kind of nice that we get to start with

928
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:31.760
in the original series, right from the very beginning, from

929
00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:32.159
the start.

930
00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:33.440
Yes, it's kind of nice.

931
00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:36.480
From one me too, me too. Hopefully we'll get more

932
00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:38.639
than just a second season. Hopefully we'll get more.

933
00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:41.719
But with Paramount buying, Warner Brothers and all that stuff,

934
00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:44.280
I don't know what's going on. Who knows, who knows

935
00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:45.400
what what?

936
00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:49.159
Well, we'll get into that. There is another series that

937
00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:51.840
that was mentioned this week, but you'll have to tune.

938
00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:54.360
You'll have to tune back for trek expectations exactly.

939
00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:56.679
That's what we're talking about, that Will said, Wayne. Will

940
00:46:57.199 --> 00:46:57.840
all right, listener.

941
00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:00.280
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00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:03.440
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