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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 to Stunt.
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In this ongoing series from a film by podcast, we
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continue to show our love for every quadrant of the
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expanding Star Trek universe by covering television, animation, movies, directors, merchandise,
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and much more. Plotting the course, as always is your
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Core Trek crew.
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I'm Scott Hoffmann, I'm David Burns, and I'm Wayne Whiten.
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And in this episode, we're happy to continue our coverage
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of Starfleet Academy. Specifically, we're covering episode six, Come Let's Away,
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written by Kenneth Lynn and Kylie Rousstetter and directed by
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Larry Tank. Since it's so new, as always, we're calling
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for a red alert on spoilers, So if you haven't
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seen this latest episode, please go watch.
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And come back to join us.
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So waitne it falls to you to summarize this week's
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episode and to tell us what it's all about.
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During a joint training exercise aboard a DERELK starship, the
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cadets of Starfleet Academy quickly find themselves trapped and fighting
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for survival against a dangerous new enemy. As the situation
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spirals out of control, Captain Nalla Ake is forced to
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seek help from an old rival, nus Braka, risking both
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her pride and her cruise safety. Meanwhile, Tamira pushes her
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telepathic abilities beyond their limit to reach the stranded cadets,
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leading to a devastating sack that leaves the academy shaken.
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This is a very shocking episode. It's definitely the action
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packed but I think it's safe to say that the
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tone of this episode starts one way and ends very differently.
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Would you say that's fair, Dave.
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No, that's very fair.
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You know, when this episode opened, I'm like, oh, okay,
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you know we're gonna get some romance, you know, that
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kind of thing going on. And man, is this episode
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take a complete turn and just becomes like an Empire
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strikes back vibe. By the time you get it into
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this thing. There are just so many layers to this
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freaking episode that it is difficult to capture it all
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in one viewing, would you guys.
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Agree, Yeah, yeah, I definitely agree that.
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I mean, just so much going on, huge stakes involved
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for these characters that we have barely started to get
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to know. I mean, granted, I know these episode seasons
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are short now, but it's just wow, did they just
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go crazy with this episode and just dropped a bomb
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on us?
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Yeah? For sure.
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I mean, it definitely turns the idea of feeling safe
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on its head. Right, Like, for the past five episodes,
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I feel like there's been some some turmoil, but it's
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had a pretty pretty sharp focus on kind of the
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educational nature of it, the dynamics within the student body
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and things like that. The second viewing made me look
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at Tamira's character in a different way. We knew that
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she had the you know, being a bit iszoid with
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the implant in her neck that was kind of subduing
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her abilities, but the fact that they kind of start
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in this intimate moment and she opens up to Mirror
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and lets her guard down to a place where she
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wants him to feel safe with her and she us
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to feel safe in doing so. There's a lot of
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that dynamic that plays throughout this episode, right Like the
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entire student body is probably feeling like, all right, we're
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pretty safe with each other, and then it gets quickly
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thrown into life and death circumstances and seeing Tamira as
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possibly a threat, not necessarily like a villainous one, but
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one that's I would think after the burn and kind
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of the nature of that, that she'd be very worried
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about how people are perceiving her and how she's kind
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of carrying herself.
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Is that fair?
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Yeah, I think so.
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And then paralleling that with Captain Ake and Braka knowing
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absolutely it is not safe for this guy to be
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anywhere near them, let alone on board, let alone trusted
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for some kind of a mission, and that's set up
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for a space where it feels like it's not going
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to change their relationship. It's not that he's going to
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turn into somebody that anybody feels safe with, but at
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least they feel like they're bargaining for some kind of
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a situation.
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That they can manage.
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And that absolutely falls apart, and yeah, like you said,
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Empire strikes back, Like everything falls apart at the end
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of this episode, and you're just going to have left
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reeling at the end of it.
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In the credits room.
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You know, as much as happens in this episode, as
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many powerful scenes that there are, I have to say
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the one on one battling was the best.
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Of it all.
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Their performances onto each other was just absolutely stunning and
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was a clinic.
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On performing, especially for Star Trek.
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The villainous Barca that Paul Dumonti plays, and I'm going
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to say it right now, is almost as good as
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Con at this point and we've only known him barely,
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and I love what they have done and what Pauldumonny
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has brought to this performance.
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He is nomenal like when he.
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Was, and he's almost playful with Nallah, like he knows
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that he's getting under her skin. Every word that he says,
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he knows it's that's happening. And the mere fact that
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as you're watching this episode you are you think, okay,
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Broca's got her, and then when it kind of turns
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a little bit, you realize Nala was playing with him.
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But then when you get to the end, you're like,
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oh god, Braca got him in at the end all
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this time, you know, and my jaw dropped when that happened.
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I'm like, are you freaking kidding me because I didn't
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see that coming.
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I didn't. And then that whole ending.
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Where he left a message for her was just that
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salt in the wound man that he knows he got her,
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not just in that moment of what you have, he
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tricked her, but overall playing a chess game here, he
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just uh, he just took the board.
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Well, I mean, like it's interesting.
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It might be because I'm so fresh off of DS nine,
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but he almost has kind of Cardassian sensibilities.
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You know what I mean, Like his.
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His making every conversation a chess game and kind of manipulated,
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manipulative abilities. It felt very Kardassian for a while.
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Yeah, yeah, I mean we've been anticipating this episode for
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a while because you know, we even guessed that he
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would return. We've been waiting for his return. You know,
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both him and Holly Hunter are the two actors, the
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two seasoned actors in this series that you know, we
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are most familiar with, and I think I was looking
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forward to more scenes with them, and we really got
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them here in this episode. I'm glad we did. Those
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were I agree with you, David, those were my favorite
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favorite scenes. You know that this was a really really
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heavy episode, but it was one that was greatly needed
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to push this series along because, you know, so far
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other than just the the whole Starfleet Academy antics, we
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really hadn't known what the actual storyline for this first season,
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and we knew there had to be one. I mean,
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they do it all with all modern trek, there's always
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gotta be a continuing storyline, and we knew this series
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was no different. This finally gives us, gives us an
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idea of a little idea, a little hint about where
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this show is going now. There's only so much classroom,
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just you storytelling you can do before you have to,
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you know, get those students out in the school and
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get the story moving. But this was really brutal, really
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brutal on the characters. You know, talk about getting thrown
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into the fire right away, a lot of emotions happening.
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But I loved the episode. It was incredible, gripping all
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the way.
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Through well, and it definitely leaves you in a place
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where you're kind of wondering what might happen to the
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Academy after this, because they had just opened negotiations with
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Beta Z to even talk with them, let alone allowed
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to two of their citizens to be part of the Academy.
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Academy hasn't been opened that long, so it's it's bound
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to open up some questions about the viability of it,
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the appropriateness of it, and how much Chancellor Ake is
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going to be allowed to run things the way that
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she wants to. It seems like it's going to be
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very intense. I hope it doesn't. I mean, it could
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make for good episodes for it to get into that
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kind of tense, you know, tense kind of place, but
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I just don't I hope it doesn't have better immifications
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for the school itself.
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and for the characters, and I like that. I like
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the idea that this isn't just going to be a
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simple Starfleet Academy series, you know, where we're.
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Just watching the students being taught to their antics.
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I like this, this this challenge that they've been given,
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this this this new storyline. I'm looking forward to the
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rest of the season now to find out what happens.
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And I hope we get both those characters together again
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in the final episode.
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Other than that, that's happening, no doubt, and I'm sure
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we're probably not gonna see him.
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Again until the finale.
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want to beat that to death obviously, But you know,
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it's just it's just as much as going on in
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this episode, you still have the magic of it. And
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I say magic because it still has some Harry Potter
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vibes for crying out loud. The mere fact that they
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use a comic book, Tails from the Frontier to help
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push the world building that they're doing in this in
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this series was phenomenal. And how they use that comic
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book on the Miyazaki to get it to understand that
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the crew was dead and it had to interact with
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this new crew to turn on to start reacting so
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that they could get out of there.
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Was just such a nice touch for that.
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It was just I didn't see that coming at all either,
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And I'm like, that is really cool on how they
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went about that.
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And a whole new level Holograms Gate can get hurt
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now because family was taken out.
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Yeah, that surprised me a lot. I thought that, you know,
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with her ability to kind of phase in other situations.
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I thought they would use that to some kind of effect.
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But yeah, I was surprised to see that she's gent
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onely knocked out, but she's in like critical condition.
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Well that makes me wonder because you know, this is
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something they haven't really explored. I never thought about this,
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but you know, the doctor always needed to have his
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mobile admitter during Star Trek Voyager to be able to
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even just leave the sick bay, and I guess they
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really haven't explored whether or not or what's going on
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with him and why he's able to move around. But
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what about her? I mean, is there some sort of
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a physical item that's allowing her to exist, kind of
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like the will emitter or remember, David, You'll remember when
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Red Dwarf character of Rimmer had had a little thing
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that would spin around, but there was something physical, something
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actual physical, that would that would create the hologram. I
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wonder if it's been damaged, because I was actually rather happy,
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surprised but happy to see that it wasn't just an
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instant fix at the end of this episode. Right, So
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I'm curious. It's it's keeping me hanging on this series.
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I want to see next episode find out what's going
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to happen to any of these characters now?
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And let's not forget how creepy the Furies are. Oh
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my god.
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Yeah yeah, those were really well shot, like yeah, kind
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of distorted, like almost like.
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They're out of phase.
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personal shield or like a face covering or something like that.
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It did quite a bit, like when they were talking
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about like the human hybrid with some kind of unknown
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species that I had never heard of before, some kind
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of bat.
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Like, yeah, yep, you heard of it before I have.