March 11, 2026

Phasers Set To Stun: Starfleet Academy S1. E9 - 300th Night

Phasers Set To Stun: Starfleet Academy S1. E9 - 300th Night
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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 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 plot in the course, as always as

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your core Trek crew.

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I'm Scott Hoffman, I'm David Byurns.

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I'm Wayne Whited.

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And in this episode, we're continuing our coverage of Starfleet

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Academy by looking at the next to last episode of

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the season, three hundredth night. This sen's written by Kirsten

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Breyer and Kenneth Lynn, and in the director's chair is

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one of our favorites, Jonathan Frakes. Right, since it's so new,

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we're calling for a red alert on spoilers. If you

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haven't seen the latest episode, please go and watch and

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come back to join us later. All right, let's break

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it down, Wayne I wanted to give us a summary

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of what this latest episode is all about.

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As the Cadets celebrate the end of the year, Caleb

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struggles with frustration over his missing mother until he discovers

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old messages revealing she is hiding on the planet u Kek.

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Ignoring orders, he and Sam steal a shuttle to find her,

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and after a difficult journey, they reunite, but Caleb chooses

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to stay with her rather than return to Starfleet. Meanwhile,

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the Veneri Row deploy stolen Omega minds capable of destroying

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warp travel, and when they'refore arrive on you, Caleb and

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his mother are forced to fight alongside the Cadets until

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the USS Athena rescues them, escaping with heavy damage and

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sacrificing its saucer section. The Athena discovers the Federation has

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been surrounded by Omega mines, leaving it as the only

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Starfleet ship outside the barrier.

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I mean, Anisha is a very dedicated mom. I can

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definitely relate to reaching out to your kid several times

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and getting an answer to emails, but I also kind

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of feel like it's it's interesting that Sam gives him

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that breakthrough where he's able to find like the decryption

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code to be able to answer all those emails, but

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like how many years of.

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How many years of messages? Right?

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Like, oh, my goodness, right, you have to bold things.

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That's yeah, exactly.

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I was happy to see uh Tachiana Maslani come back.

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And that was the thing that I had seen last

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week when I had seen, oh there's a spoiler, because

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I knew that it would involve his his mother popping

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up again. What are your thoughts on seeing her back

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to start us off?

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I mean, we knew she was coming back. She had

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to know, because that's that's Caleb has been wholess quest

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is to find her. You knew they had to do

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it this season, and it was either going to be

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this episode was going to be the finale, so clearly

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it made sense for this one it to happen at

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I find it interesting though, that all the shenny inigans

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that Caleb has pulled off by stealing the Shdow and leaving,

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actually I think has kind of saved Starfleet because it

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pulled the Athena out of that box. So I think,

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and you know, they maybe be able to be mad

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at Caleb, but and the on the flip side of that,

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you're like, oh, witnte, Caleb kind of saved this, so

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maybe not.

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Right, which is kind of an interesting flip, like if they,

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you know, if there's going to be a second season,

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it's not going to be formally known as Starfley to Kut,

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so I imagine they'll figure it out. But he's in kind

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of an interesting pickle because he finally, you know, reunites

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with his mom, but he's afraid to reveal that he's

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aligned with Starfleet. And I'm glad that this is the

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next to last that we're not left with this as

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the cliffhanger, because I understand there's dramatic tension for her

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to be like, I want nothing to do with Starfleet.

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There's a reason I've been outside of Starfleet this entire time,

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and now my son is aligned with Starfleet and being

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raised by the lady who separated us.

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How devastating was that her to find out that he

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was part of Starfleet? For one, but the whole sequence

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when Nala comes walking in and they make eye contact

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was just like, damn you could you could cut the

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tension in that room with a knife.

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And there's nowhere to go like they're trapped outside of

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everybody else.

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So it's like, yeah, so how you been it was?

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I think it was a great I think Tatiana did

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a great acting performance in this one. A lot of

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range and you know, her reactions and you know, reuniting

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with Caleb. I liked the scene where they're all being

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kind of held in the square for kind of group

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interrogation or something, and she decides to help the kids.

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She decides to step up and you know, be the

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one that kind of starts to save them. Anyway, even there,

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they're ultimately saved by the Athena, but I like seeing

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that turn. I kind of had a feeling at one

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point that they might make her completely leaned into the

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the role like the bad guy organization. But I'm glad

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they didn't go there. I'm glad they kept her as

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somebody who's independent.

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Yeah I am too.

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So so you go out, both of you. I'm going

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to throw the out right this question right here. So

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you guys both liked this episode.

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Yeah, okay, I would say I did.

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I think it's interesting, Like I saw some of our

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producer's earlier comments that he was born into tears by

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the first half.

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Well, no, there's there. Well, I understand what he's talking about,

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but because there's a lot to like in this episode,

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there really is, but I just can't. I'm torn between

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whether I like it or not. I can't make that

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decision yet, only because I feel like there was so

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much story crammed in here, you know. It's it feels

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like that like the writers really went like, oh damn,

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we only have two more episodes left. We got to

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get move on here with the story, and I just

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there's there was so much going on and this I

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really wish that they could have had like three episodes

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maybe to to let this like flesh out and breathe

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a little bit. But you know, instead we got an episode,

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in my opinion, felt a little bit, a little bit

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rushed and a little bit difficult to take in, which

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I guess that's why it makes me so frush trade

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with this episode. But I'm going to wait and reserve

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judgment until next episode because I really want to see

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how this story is going to flesh out, you know,

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in the end, see how they they resolve this two parter.

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I want to know how they're going I want to

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I'm hoping that it makes more sense, But I just

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I really had trouble watching this episode, but there are

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a lot here that I do like, So I don't know,

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I really am torn whether I like it or not.

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This is this is what happens when you waste an

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episode like they did a few weeks.

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Yes, yes, I agree, I agree. I think that we

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should not have made that one episode and taken this

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and expanded it to three, because there's a lot they

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could have done with these two with the two main

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storylines going on here, because we all knew that he

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was going to find his mother and we were all

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looking forward to that part because you know, obviously that's

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where the story's been gone, and it's just like you know, boom,

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here it is. You know, we could have used an

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entire episode just with that story, right.

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So is that how you would What I was about

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to ask you is how would you split this episode? Like?

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Would you have it be something where it's totally focused

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on the mirror reunion and then kind of running out

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and then the other half would be focused on Brucca's plot.

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Yeah, well, I would have made this a three parter

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with part one centering around the the you know, finding

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his mother and not bringing in the whole omaga and

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the wall that was created until maybe part two.

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Yeah, yeah, I think that one of the things that

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just seemed strange to me. And I know that they're basically,

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I assume, using the Omega to create a sphere around

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Federation space.

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It just sounds like a lot of work.

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Well, if you knew what the omaga is, you would

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understand how you know why it's doing. It's not something

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you know. It's not like they have to put like

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a million minds out there. It's incredibly powerful. I'll get

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into that a little bit later at the Easter Eggs,

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but it's not a new concept to Star Trek.

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Okay, all right, it's good to know.

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What do we think about the I guess one of

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the things that I had a little bit of a

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struggle with, even though it worked out, and I understand

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why ultimately everybody was on the shuttle at first when

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it was just Caleb and Sam. I liked that duo

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kind of getting trapped, getting swept into it. I could

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even see Genesis possibly becoming an accidental third but it

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kind of bothered me when Raymie stumbled in basically drunk

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accidentally into the shuttle that felt a little too convenient, But.

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Was I the only one?

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No, I kind of agree with that. It's a pity that,

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you know, the fact that they crammed so much into

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this episode, some of the characters really had very little

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to do or barely appears in like a scene or two.

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I think that was one of one of the faults

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of this episode. But yeah, yeah, I agree his his story.

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He just seemed like he was kind of, you know,

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squeezed in there just because they wanted him there rather

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than an actual purpose.

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What were some some favorite moments that stood up for

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this one?

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So it was it was the scene when Remy was

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Ramy was talking about Jayden and remember we had that

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ceremony between Jayden and all the group, uh basically you know,

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calling them the brothers and stuff like that, and Caleb

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got up and walked.

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Away kind of thing.

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I love it when Remy lost his temper uh to

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Caleb because you know, he basically said it was just

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a ritual and Rami at the you know, as loud

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as he could saying not to him. Talking about Jaden.

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I love the fact that Remy is now like protecting Jaden.

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Remember they started this series off, you know, basically being

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a bully. You know, Ramy was a bully to Jayden.

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Now you know they it's a protected friendship. So I

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like that scene there just to show the mere of

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fact of how their relationship has grown strong. But for

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the metre of fact to him. That the whole sequence

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really when Caleb was basically giving that, you know, I'm

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letting you guys go, and I'm want to tell you

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what I think you want to hear, just I piss

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you off and make you go away so that I

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can feel good about myself to go with my mom

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kind of that scene. So I like that whole sequence there,

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even though it really pissed me off what Kayla was doing.

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But in the end he did come back and so

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did his mom.

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So yeah, Wayne, what about you? Yeah?

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No, I do agree with David. I like that scene,

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the whole ritual and the way they were arguing. But

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I also liked the scene between Remy and Sam when

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she helps him discover the messages I got. First of all,

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I like the fact that she pops right into the rooms.

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It reminds me of a conversation we had during Discovery

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about the way they're transporting back and forth in the

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rooms and how we can figure out why the hell

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they're doing this. But that that just that made me laugh.

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But I like that scene because I like these little

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intimate scenes between between the you know, one or two characters,

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and it's it was just it's just it was just

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such a Sam moment. I like that and I love

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her character.

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Yeah, yeah, I think Sam did a great job in this.

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I like seeing where her character is going. I just

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hope with the emergence of Sam two point zero, we

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don't lose Sam one point Oh. You knows the enthusiasm,

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you know, not that it has to hang around all

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the time, but just I don't know. I'll be interested

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to see where her character is going. She has that

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distance that's starting to be created between her and Genesis,

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and I understand she has to find herself a little

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bit more, but I hope it doesn't turn into isolation.

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You can already see that that she's fighting herself in

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this episode. You've been brought this up last episode that

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you were wondering when that was going to take place,

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but they they didn't wait long to start making that happen,

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so you already see it, and I agree with you.

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I hope she doesn't take over one point zho because

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that was just pure joy to watch her. And now

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I see her as this teenager who's struggling with herself

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finding herself, you know, and she's losing what we love

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about her, and I hope that doesn't happen, but only

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time will tell.

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Yeah, well it might also be interesting, like you know,

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thinking of this, and Dave, you started off this whole

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series by comparing this to Hogwarts.

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Yeah, when you're talking.

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About that, it's making me think about the fact that

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this is the end of the first year. In the

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second season, there's going to be a new freshman class yep,

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technically right, So now you've got the opportunity for Sam

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to have somebody do what Tillie had done for Sam.

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Like I could see the possibility of a new freshman

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coming in and Sam needing that one point zero brightness

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and enthusiasm to come through for somebody else as kind

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of a mentor role. So hopeful, hopefully that kind of

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brings it back.

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You know, you brought up something I never really considered,

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in the fact that you know they will be moving

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year per year kind of like uh, like Harry Potter

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did and that could mean that, you know, introduction of

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new characters along the line within within the seasons, new

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ones that could start interacting. I'm not talking about main

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cast members, but it also means that we could also

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see some of these characters that we're familiar with leave

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as well and be replaced by some of these, uh,

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these newer characters. So you know, it kind of gives

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a new, uh new light on on what can happen

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in the future for the series.

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Yep.

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And I think they have that formula for bringing in

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fresh blood like Strange New Worlds does and in surprising ways,

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so I'll be interested to see where that goes. One

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of my favorite moments was when Cayleb talks to Tarima

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in the hallway. I thought it was an interesting moment

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of catching a bitazoid off guard where she couldn't really

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read someone that she should be able to read more

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than anybody else because of being so close to him,

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despite the inhibitor, but his I think their dialogue when

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he was basically saying goodbye to her, I thought there

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was some great acting performances between the pair, her just

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having that moment of like, this is what I have

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wanted to hear from you. This is him really being genuine,

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This is him really kind of reaching out to her.

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And she's like, but I can kind of understand, you

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know what's happening that you're basically saying goodbye.

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You're being genuine.

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With me, but I don't know what that means, Like

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you're leaving the Academy, you're leaving the ship, you're stepping

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out for a summer sabbatical, whatever might be happening.

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But that was an interesting that.

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Well, let me I also want to throw this out

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because this is this is absolutely bonkers. Okay, but just

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what I got to tell you this because it popped

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up in my head when I was watching this And

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this is some crazy speculation. But you know, for practically

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every episode we've had of Starfleet Academy, we've been hearing

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about this. How would you put troublesome Telaxian fur fly

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that keeps being called up by the Digital Dean? You know,

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this time it's gone missing and it's entered the Science

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Lab replicator. What if that plays a factor in the

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solution of everything? You know we've been seeing this mentioned,

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It's mentioned in every freaking episode. What if if I'd

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be really disappointed if that doesn't come somehow come into

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the storyline and and makes you know, even if it's

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just a little thing that makes them you know, hey,

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you know we can use this or whatever, but I don't.

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I don't know why. Like I said, that's crazy.

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So then in the upcoming season of short Tracks, they

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need to have some kind of collaboration with DreamWorks or

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Pixar or something like that. And then you've got a

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Bugs Life starring the fur Fly and the Warp Slug.

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Yeah, I do. I do.

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Like the Digital Dean talking about going into the closet.

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I thought that was hysterical.

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Yeah, Stephen Colbert is doing a great job as the

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Digital Dean. I'm glad that's like a recurring character. Yeah.

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Well, of all the crew members, which one do you

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think shine the most way?

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Let's start with you before we go to that hold on,

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hold on, I guess i'd want to mention you know,

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one thing that they do not want to take as

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a detractor from this episode is I thought it was

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directed extremely well with Jonathan Freaks.

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Oh yes, the scene where Caleb.

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Is looking for his mom on the planet, and like

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you get a lot of the steady cam like moving around,

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turning at different angles and stuff like that. Adding to

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that that dimension of he's looking around to give you

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that vibe, that feeling is an audience that you're there

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with him. But on top of that, and again every

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week we talk about the amazing score that we get.

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Once again, there are so many pieces in this episode

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that are done extremely well. I love the fact that

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we get when he's on that planet looking for his mom,

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that we get like that Arabian style of music. Did

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you recognize that?

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Yeah?

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I thought that was brilliant.

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Yeah.

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Russell's been doing a fantastic job with the score of

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this and I'm glad you brought up because I didn't

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even think about it. But I can understand why they

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give this episode too to freaks. It definitely reeks of

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his style, and he does have a directing style that

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you see it in first contexts on Insurrection and I

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definitely see it here. And he is excellent, absolutely excellent.

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I wonder if he'll come back for the next episode.

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Because I I don't think so. Now.

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They just he just mentioned and a lot of people

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are taking this out of context. He said that he

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has directed his his last Star Trek episode. They forget

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to add the part to date because he I guess

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he didn't direct any during the season two. I think

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he could work out his schedule. But if they go

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into season three, I'm sure he'll be back, he said

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he would.

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Interesting.

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Okay, well I hope not. I know that he has

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to slow down at some point, but yeah, no.

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He doesn't anything else we wanted to highlight.

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All right, Wayne wanted to talk to us about which

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crew member you think shy the most.

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All right, well, I think this is pretty obvious. It's like,

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there's so much happening in this episode, like I said before,

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and most of the characters really didn't get too much

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to do. But uh, you know this is this is

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Caleb's episode. We knew this was going to happen. We

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knew that he was always going to be reunited with

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his mother, which is you know, I got to give

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it a shout out to I know he's pronounced her

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name wrong.

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Teddy and a touch Ada Maslotti.

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Thank you very because she she's a fantastic actress. I

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think I'm probably the only person in the world that

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liked she Hulk.

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But did you thank you? Thank you?

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She's fantastic actress Star Trek is blessed to have her

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on the show, and she did a great job, and

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the combination of the two of them together was it

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was fantastic. And that's why I'm given the shine to

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both of them, because it really was the emotional highlight

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for the episode, the moment we've been waiting for, and

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a really powerful performance from the both of them.

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Dave, what about you?

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Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna agree with with Wayne on

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this one. It's obviously Caleb's episode, and I already talked

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about I thought the standout moment with when he's, you know,

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deliberately pushing his friends away. I thought there was there's

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a lot of good content right there, and it was

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just one of those moments where you know, he didn't

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mean anything that he said, He just had to say

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it so that he could get them to run away.

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It's kind of like those movies where you know you've

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got a wild animal and you've got to let it

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go and you just basically berat it with language to

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get it away from you because you know you've got it,

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set it free. You know, it's the same scenario here,

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and I just thought he did such a fantastic job

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with that. I like this scene too where he goes

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into the office because he wants to say something too novel,

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but then he turns around and leaves. Remember, yeah, he

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doesn't explain himself of what he needs and what he's

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going about to do. That he had gotten contact with

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his mom because she had a lot on her plate

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at the time, and he recognized that. So you know,

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he had to leave and basically do everything on his own,

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which we thought would be on his own until his

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friends came to his rescue. So yeah, definitely Caleb episode.

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There's no doubtbout it, and he was starting. There was

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elements throughout the episode that some of the other characters

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had some strong moments, but Caleb is clearly the winner.

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I agree with you too completely. I'll just start there,

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but one of the standout crew members to me was

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Admiral Vans when he has don't bullshit a bullshitter moment.

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You know, we've had some.

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Moments with admirals in the past don't get just started,

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but you know, it's one of those moments where he

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could have doubled down and said, you know, if they're

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gonna go rogue, they're gonna go rogue and we can't

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risk the academy and everything else. He's like, I'm not

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even gonna waste my time. I know that you're going

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to try everything that you can, and I'm essentially going

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to officially say that I'm allowing you to go right

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to the edge, right to the brink, and reach out

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with colms as much as you can, but just know

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that if you go beyond that, there's nothing I can

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do to help you. There's no like threat, there's nothing

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where he's saying, if you cross that line, kiss your

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career goodbye. And Holly Hunter had this great you know

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delivery where she's like, you know, thank you for being

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such a good friend. Like they have that connection and

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that moment that is a turn from what we've seen

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from a lot of admirals. But I like their friendship,

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I like their stance. I like his trust and he

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knows that she has a responsibility to these kids that

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is so parental that he's like, I can't override that,

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so you do what you have to do, Please be careful,

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but know that you can't have any backup. So that

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that was a standout moment for me well as far

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as who you would want to be. I'm imagining not

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one of the kids in the square that's getting punched

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repeatedly for Remy. Yeah, way, let's start with you. Who

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would you want to be in this episode?

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This is hard because you know, I don't really want

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to be anybody except for maybe Advance because he's not

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really there. But I'm gonna I'm gonna choose Caleb this

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time because you know, he finally, with a little help

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from Sam, found the missing link that he was able

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to track down his mother, which was the whole point

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of his character up at this point. You know, I

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don't envy him some of the choices that he had

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to make, you know, just having to decide between his

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mother and his friends and cadets fellow cadets snary thing.

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But you know, he made the choice. We'll just have

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to wait till next episode and see if it was

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the right one. But I chose him, Dave, what about you.

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I'm pulling the same card up a few weeks ago

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because this bastard Advance comparently could be wherever he's at,

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safe and sound, and he could just pop in and

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out whenever he wants to be with no harm. So

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I mean where is this guy? I mean, are you

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kidding me?

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Ye?

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I'm gonna borrow that card next time. I don't know

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why I didn't do it this time.

473
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Like what the hell? It's ridiculous, is what it is.

474
00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:42.799
It's almost to a point where it's becoming humorous because yeah,

475
00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:46.200
somebody and the crew needs to point Oh dude, you

476
00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:48.039
need to come about and help us out here instead

477
00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:49.039
of just pop it in and out.

478
00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:50.119
Where the hell are you?

479
00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:53.559
I'm picturing the next episode, Dave. He's going to show

480
00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:57.119
up into Lebowski robe just like man like, right, are

481
00:24:57.160 --> 00:24:57.559
you good?

482
00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:01.039
Maybe they're is no Adboro Vans.

483
00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:03.920
Maybe he's an EMH because the real Aborrow Vans died.

484
00:25:05.599 --> 00:25:07.160
Or he's going to be in the next moment.

485
00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:10.039
I don't know. I mean never know.

486
00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:18.920
For me, I'm going with jet Reno again. Taking Nataro

487
00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:21.559
did another great job and it seemed like she was

488
00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:24.400
having even though it was a pretty stressful situation, had

489
00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:27.079
a lot of fun at the helm, had some great lines.

490
00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:33.039
She's one of my favorite characters from this Discovery era.

491
00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:37.640
I'll have to say, I'm glad that they introduced this

492
00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:40.920
character and that this character continues to stay with us.

493
00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:43.640
So I'd go with jet good cool.

494
00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:48.440
Yeah, all right, I think we have some Voyager easter eggs, right, wait.

495
00:25:49.079 --> 00:25:52.799
A few, Yeah, there are definitely a few here. Of course,

496
00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:55.839
the big easter egg in this episode is obviously the

497
00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:59.440
Omega particle, and let me go into that one. In

498
00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:03.599
the Search Voyager episode the Omega Directive, it's revealed that

499
00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:07.480
Omaga is a highly unstable particle and one of the

500
00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:11.480
most destructive elements known to exist. The Starfleet has a

501
00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:15.160
directive that only those of the rank of captain or

502
00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:18.640
above have any knowledge of this particle, and should they

503
00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:22.720
come across it, it has to be destroyed because of

504
00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:27.599
its ability to disrupt subspace and render warp travel impossible.

505
00:26:28.119 --> 00:26:31.640
That directive stands above all others, including the Prime directive.

506
00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:33.799
You can you can disobey the Prime directive. In order

507
00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:38.240
to destroy Omaga, Captain Janeway and the Voyager came across

508
00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:41.079
the civilization that had produced up to two hundred million

509
00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:45.559
of the Omaoga particles, but were killed off by their experiments.

510
00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:48.480
So Voyger was able to neutralize these particles before they

511
00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:51.559
could do any more damage. And the graphics that we

512
00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:55.000
see in this episode of Omaga is exactly the same

513
00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:58.039
as the graphics in that Voyager episode, I got to

514
00:26:58.039 --> 00:27:00.880
omit a good good call for the design. They really

515
00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:04.079
know their stuff here, all right. And also another thing

516
00:27:04.359 --> 00:27:08.400
is it's no surprise that this episode's writer, Christen Bayer

517
00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:11.880
would write this episode that features the Omaga particle, because

518
00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:15.480
back in twenty twelve, she'd wrote a Star Trek Voyager

519
00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:19.599
novel called The Eternal Tide, which revealed that Omaga is

520
00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:23.279
a fragment of the Omaga Force, which is a force

521
00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:27.039
that caused the Big Bang and created the universe. It's

522
00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:30.000
because of this that it's revealed that that Omaga could

523
00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:33.799
be synthesized and re re created, leading to the Omaga

524
00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:36.119
forty seven that we get in this episode. You know,

525
00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:38.519
let me say that The Eternal Tide is a really

526
00:27:38.519 --> 00:27:41.799
good novel and I'm hoped to be reviewing that soon.

527
00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:43.839
I have to pick up a copy of it. I've

528
00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:45.720
lost my copy of quite a few years ago. But

529
00:27:46.119 --> 00:27:49.279
it's a really really good one. Now there's another thing.

530
00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:50.799
I'm not sure if you guys caught this, but that

531
00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:56.240
klingon bonding, right, What is a rouste that Jaden and

532
00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:59.079
the Cadets performed. We've seen that once before in the

533
00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:02.559
Star Trek the Niction Ration episode, the bonding Lieutenant Warf

534
00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:05.440
performs it with the young boy named Jeremy Astor after

535
00:28:05.480 --> 00:28:09.240
his mother had been killed on away mission. See what

536
00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:09.920
else do I got?

537
00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:10.319
Oh?

538
00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:13.240
Yeah, Captain Aki mentions that she's going to have the

539
00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:17.799
Athena Pola Kimal And that's a reference to what Captain

540
00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:20.720
Burnham and Captain Reiner did with their starships in the

541
00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:24.559
atmosphere the planet Camal in the Star Trek Discovery fifth

542
00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:28.839
season episode read directive. We reviewed that last year or so.

543
00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:34.079
Check that one out. The iceolinic burst weapon that the

544
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:37.359
vender Raw used is very similar to what the Sona

545
00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:41.519
used against the Enterprise and Star Trek insurrection. And this

546
00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:43.319
is not an Easter egg, but I'm going to mention

547
00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:47.079
it once again. Someone needs to tell Starfleet that calling

548
00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:50.559
all their ships back into one area is really, really

549
00:28:50.599 --> 00:28:54.279
bad idea. Come on, guys, you remember Star Trek Bicards

550
00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:58.039
season three, Remember Wolf three five nine? It never ends well?

551
00:28:58.359 --> 00:29:02.519
Right and advertising it maybe, yes, keep it on the download.

552
00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:04.359
Not that it's easy to hide an armada.

553
00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:07.279
But this is the same group who puts all their

554
00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:09.759
trusts in a droid. Yeah, I'm i keep bringing that

555
00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:15.519
one up too. Yeah, yeah, you know what I do

556
00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:18.200
have to say before we go any further. The ending

557
00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.279
to this episode, the cliffhanger I thought was incredible where

558
00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:24.400
they're you know, she's calling out for a may Day,

559
00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:28.880
and it to me, it really resonated as like aliens.

560
00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:30.640
I don't know, I don't know why, but I just

561
00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:34.440
got that vibe on how you know when Ripley puts

562
00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:38.519
out that call, I got that vibe in this episode.

563
00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:41.240
I just thought that was really really well done and

564
00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:43.839
you just see that like they are literally by themselves

565
00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:46.839
now and they are the only hope for Starfleet at

566
00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:47.200
this time.

567
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.200
Yeah, when I thought it was a great way to

568
00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:54.039
end it, where it fades the black and you still

569
00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:57.319
hear that may Day being called out. Yes, yeah, It's

570
00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:01.400
also interesting that when that was happening, all I could

571
00:30:01.480 --> 00:30:04.880
hear was India golf nine or nine er aboard their

572
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:10.680
children on board for the Incredibles. But yeah, I'll be

573
00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:13.119
interested to see where they go with it and what

574
00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:14.599
kind of cliffhanger were left with.

575
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:16.279
I don't know.

576
00:30:16.680 --> 00:30:19.400
Much about Omega other than what's been told here and

577
00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:21.480
what Weighing shared with us.

578
00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:21.480
But.

579
00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:28.440
I'm imagining that the damage that's done is maybe not

580
00:30:28.519 --> 00:30:33.400
impossible to repair, but probably pretty difficult. Like it's not

581
00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:36.039
a matter like have they set these things off and

582
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:38.839
now it's the damage is done or is it just

583
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:40.759
the threat that those are all there?

584
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:44.359
I believe it's the threat because they had mentioned that

585
00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:48.559
if she brought the Athena through that line, it would

586
00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:51.000
set them off, and it is. It would be devastating.

587
00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:54.519
I mean, like I mentioned, this is the particles that

588
00:30:54.640 --> 00:30:59.799
caused the Big Bang. You know, this would be extremely devastating,

589
00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:03.400
not just to to to the Federation, but to the galaxy.

590
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:06.119
We're talking you know, this is we're talking about a

591
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:09.559
galaxy wide threat, which Star Trek does you know pretty well,

592
00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:13.559
especially in recent years, so you know, the sticks are

593
00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:14.160
very high.

594
00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:17.680
For this next episode, I'm looking forward to hearing Bracca's

595
00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:21.960
for somebody to get him monologue, for him to talk about,

596
00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:24.559
like you know, why he's doing it and what his

597
00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:28.480
mustache twilling agenda is with them.

598
00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:30.440
But I will have to see.

599
00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:33.680
I think it's brilliant though he's not in this episode

600
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:35.319
at all, but he's still present.

601
00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:37.640
Oh yeah, yeah, threats to there from it?

602
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:38.400
So well done.

603
00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:39.079
How they did that?

604
00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:42.880
Yeah, it's it's a great villain. We've said that from

605
00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:46.920
the beginning, so I hope that, hope that obviously continues.

606
00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:49.240
All right, Well, I think that wraps up for us.

607
00:31:50.519 --> 00:31:53.240
One more to Go, doesn't. Next week we've got Rubicon.

608
00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:55.200
I'm looking forward to it.

609
00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:58.880
They gave a bit of a blurb for it. It's

610
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:01.240
very vague, but oh go ahead. I had a dig

611
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:03.519
for this one too. It wasn't exactly out there, but

612
00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:06.680
says in the season finale, the return of an old

613
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:09.960
enemy force is knowledge to confront her own mistakes as

614
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.039
the cadets and instructors undertake a seemingly impossible mission to

615
00:32:14.119 --> 00:32:18.079
save the Federation while defining the future of Star Feet.

616
00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:21.039
So there you go. Interesting.

617
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:26.319
Yeah, could they possibly sneak in through the transworp conduit

618
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:28.960
wormhole whatever they used to get there.

619
00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:31.640
In the first place? Well, yeah, you know, that is

620
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:32.279
a thought too.

621
00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:36.119
And I also want to bring up Discovery doesn't use

622
00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:38.319
that type of warp drive too, They just pop in

623
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:39.000
and out as well.

624
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:44.000
They could use that, right, yeah, Well, as Nala found out,

625
00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:45.680
there are design flaws.

626
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:50.279
Yeah right, exactly one or two? Yeah, one or two?

627
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:53.839
But all right, well, thank you both. As always it's

628
00:32:53.839 --> 00:32:55.279
always a pleasure. I appreciate it.

629
00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:56.279
That's for great fun.

630
00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:59.359
We'll be back next week to talk about that last

631
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:01.519
episode of the se and listeners, we hope you come

632
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633
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