July 29, 2026

Phasers Set To Stun: Strange New Worlds S4. E1 - Valles Marineris

Phasers Set To Stun: Strange New Worlds S4. E1 - Valles Marineris
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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 week, we're excited to talk about the return of Strange New Worlds with the season 4 opener, Valles Marineris! Time travel? Dinosaurs! What could possibly go wrong?

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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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Welcome to an all new episode of Phasers Set to Stunt,

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where we continue to show our love for everything Star

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Trek in this ongoing series from a film by podcast

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which focuses on every system of the expanding Star Trek

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universe by covering television, movies, animation, directors, merchandise, and much

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much more. Plotting your course on this voyage of the

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USS Enterprise is your Core Trek crew. I'm Wayne Whited,

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and I'm Scott Hoffin and I'm David Byrnth. And today

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we're talking about the new fourth season opener, The season

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premiere of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, titled fallas mariniis

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written by Henry Alonso Myers and Alan B. McElroy and

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directed by Chris Fisher. So from this point on it's

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red alert, folks. There are spoilers ahead, and by now

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you should have went over to Paramount Plus and watch

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the episode. So sit back, relax, and have a listen

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to what we have to say about this week's episode.

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So, Scott, why don't you give us the short summary

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for this?

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Captain Pike is dealing with the loss of Marie Patel

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by immersing himself into his work. After fifteen consecutive action

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packed missions, he and the crew were due for an

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easier assignment. They seem to get one in a mission

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that simply asks them to observe a Stella curiosity from

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a safe distance, basically light show. Of course, that doesn't

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last long as they get a may day from inside

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this space storm, and when they investigate, they get caught

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in the storm and marooned with every system knocked offline.

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Their recovery demands a rare element they find on a

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nearby planet, which Una, Ortegas and Lan investigate by shuttle. Meanwhile,

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the offline Enterprise is captured for salvage. The crew slowly

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realizes they've been knocked sixty five million years into the past,

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captured by Martians, and faced with difficult decisions they have

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to make very carefully to avoid rewriting the entire universe's history.

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So what do you guys think of this episode of

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season premiere finally the fourth season where I know we're

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always really excited about strange new worlds, but I'm curious

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to hear what you guys have to think about this.

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Wow, dinosaur one thing. Come on, you can't go wrong

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with dinosaurs, all right, Yeah, I mean this is a

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very mind blowing, eye opening beginning to a season. For

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crying out loud, you know, I didn't know what to

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expect in this first off. Victual effects were out of

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the out of the world fiercely they were. They were incredible,

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they really were. But I didn't really know what the

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expect of this episode. I didn't know that I was

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going to get a very serious, in depth, making you

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think episode when you got to the end of this,

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because I mean, the things that happened at this end

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of all the things that they caused was ridiculous. I mean,

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off of just Pike decided, you know what, hold on

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a second, I'm just going to make a spur of

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the moment of decision and not stop this from happening,

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And thank god he didn't. Wow, I loved it. I

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thought this episode was incredible. What a great way to

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open up a season. But that's my opinion.

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Yeah, I agree, very interesting and kind of conflicted in

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that moment when it was like, I know that he

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probably has to, but should he Like he's condoning the

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genocide of this this species even though it's invasive. I

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think it did a great job of keeping it light

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in the right places so it didn't seem so dour,

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because this could have started in that way with that

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heavy kind of decision. When they first saw the may Day,

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I was like, Oh, yeah, it's going to be them,

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Like I kind of it was easy to call that

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a little bit but interesting where they took it. And

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I want to credit doctor am Benga specifically for keeping

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the appropriate level of levity, like he was being the

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time police in the right way. But I think he

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is also kind of growing as a kind of a

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counselor friend role to Pike because he knows, like this

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guy's been through the Ringer and he's been diving into

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his work for fifteen consecutive missions. I know there's some

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important ramifications for the choices he makes here, but for

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his state of mind, I've got to try to keep

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this light whenever I can.

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Yeah, there's so many things to unpack in this episode,

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like when you get to the end and the credits

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are rolling, you really start processing everything that just happened

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in that last like last ten minutes, and you're like,

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all the things that were occurring on top of one another,

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and then when you realize that, you're holy crap, Like

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when the Commander basically genocides her entire race right destroys Mars,

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and then you see the asteroid go by them, You're like,

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oh my god, that's the asteroid that destroys the dinosaurs.

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So many things were happening at once, and then then

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you find out that it's because of that of the

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big bang, the human race started, and all that is like,

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god dang off of one decision that Pike made not

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to interfere right there. It's just so many things to

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think about that, right, It's crazy.

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Yeah. I love this episode.

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I thought it was probably the strongest of any of

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the season openers for any of the modern Star Trek.

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But I think I like this more than than anything

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else because this is this felt more like a Doctor

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Who episode than it did a Star Trek episod.

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It really did it. It did.

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I mean, it felt it checked all the boxes, but

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it as a Star Trek episode. It really, it really

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took a huge swing at Star Trek Cannon.

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I mean this, you know, this, this whole thing in.

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Doctor here they call it a predestination paradox, which, you know,

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the fact that they're they're directly tied to the extinction

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of the dinosaurs the rise of the human race. That's

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that's a pretty staggering idea when you think about it

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in Star Trek terms.

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Uh, you know, I just love.

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The idea that they've uh shaped the future of Earth.

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I guess a good way to put it's it's just

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it's just fascinating. I I love this episode from beginning

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to end because I mean, really, this has a lot

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of major implications to the history of Star Trek altogether.

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It does.

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Yeah, if there was any nitpick that I have in

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this episode, it was just that because I really really

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love this episode. There's a lot of big ideas. You

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brought this up, and you did. There's a lot of

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big ideas here coming at you all at once, and

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I felt some of them maybe they didn't get the

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attention they deserve. I think this could have been a

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two parter, or at least a two hour episodes because

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there's a lot of stuff going on here. But I

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loved every minute this and the visual effects were just

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I'm gonna go this. This was some of the best

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that they've done.

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It was, actually it is. I agree. I sat there's

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the top for a strange new world for sure, and

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for a new modern Star Trek. I completely agree with

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you on that one. Waink. Yeah, I'm on the opposite

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of the fence with you on this one, though. I

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think it should stay as a one part because what

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it does for me and what it does for a

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lot of people, it brings you to the water tank

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to talk about it, where I think this Pater would

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have explained too much. This one is making the audience

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talk and think and process everything that happened in this episode,

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and it's done everything you wanted to do as a writer,

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because you want people to talk about this, and I

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just I mean, when I'm looking at people's reviews and

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people are just praising this, everybody is.

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They are talking about this, and that's what I really

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really like. I've been watching after the episode air too.

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I watched it Thursday. I couldn't wait because everything I

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heard about it I loved. But watching people talk about it,

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people love this It's great to hear a lot of

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love coming from New Star Trek after spending you know,

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all this time hearing all the hatred and stuff. People

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are really liking this see this episode. I really hope

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they're able to keep this up because starting this strong,

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that's a tough act to follow.

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I hope they do.

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They get the bar high right now. There's no doubt

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about that.

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And I wish there was not. You know, what I've

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been hearing about this version of Trek going away, I

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think is disappointing, to say the least. But I hope

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that what they do with the Martian species and the

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kind of arachnid insectoid kind of species, put that in

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a drawer, but don't lock it. I don't say it

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needs to come up again in strange New worlds. I

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don't think it needs to be, you know, something that's

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kind of setting up, something that's gonna bake and explode.

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I'd much rather see a future series kind of pick

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up on that and use that for story fodder, especially

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like the water cooler thing. Like you said, Dave, is

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perfect because it's like, let this spark people's imaginations for

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a while. Yep, but let the rest of the series,

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just ride out. Don't make them big bads or anything

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else like that.

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I haven't seen an episode of Star Trek in a

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long time. Create ripples. This good ripples in a long

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long time. Most of the stuff. And you guys, we've

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talked about it in many, many episodes, and how all

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the negative, toxic people we've seen, there's no toxic talk

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about this episode. Everybody is just absolutely praising this thing,

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as they should because this is a phenomenal episode. Y.

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Yeah, yeah, I didn't.

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I mean, even though I mentioned my fault, now that

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you you've kind of talked me out of that, I

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don't really think it's a fault now.

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I just I love this episode. I love death better.

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Yeah. I think the only thing, I guess, the only

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nitpick I would have is I don't think it is

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it Asha to the Vulcan Cadet. I don't think she

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was in it enough. I felt like she kind of

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got put in the back a little bit, which makes

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sense because a lot was going on, I get it.

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But I felt like we got introduced to her pretty quick,

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and we got some comedy relief there a little bit

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with her and with Fock, and you know, with Erica

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and stuff like that, and then she kind of went

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off to the back until the end. Again, He's like, oh,

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here she is again. That's my only nitpick. That's it.

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Yeah, and I'm sure that she's going to play of

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an important role in the season. It wouldn't just be

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a Thoroughway character that they've been introduced. But you know,

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that brings me up something else. I wanted to mention

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to you guys, ask you did you start getting vibes

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of the end is coming with this episode?

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Part of that for me was I feel like, where

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are they going with Leon?

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I have a feeling she's going to go the wrong

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direction that we don't want her to go because of

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the things that occurred in this episode. I feel like

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the part of her that's Cohn is starting to come

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out because she doesn't feel pain anymore because she broke

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her hand in this episode. And then you know she's

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saying that things are starting to change in her So

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what does that mean? Won are they leaning towards? Is

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she going to become a villain? What don't I don't know.

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I'm worried about that, but I do feel like the

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Indie is coming way.

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Yes, I mean, we've been asking for two years, you know,

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what happened to some of these characters. Why haven't we

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heard about them during the original series?

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You know, what happened to them?

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What?

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You know?

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I think we're starting to get the beginning of those

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final stories. And yeah, I'm wondering about her, I mean,

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curious as to where they're going to go with it,

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I really am.

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Yeah, I mean even Una, I'm sorry, it's got to

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mean a step on you. Even Una getting promoted, you're

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already seeing that they're to push you know.

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Yeah, right, well I know that, you know, possible futures

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and all that, but like when we were talking about

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Starfleet Academy, we were starting to see some of the

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names on the walls, it was like, oh, so this

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person doesn't have an ending, you know, like their promotion

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doesn't go much further. Whatever problem you see about that is.

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And I don't remember if if Laan's name was one

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of those. I believe it was, But I hope what

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happens is that we see her fight for control over

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that side of her quite a bit, which possibly leads

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to her leaving. But I don't want to see her

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lose that fight. And I think it's it's you know,

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what you mentioned is absolutely true, and it makes me

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think back to the all Vulcan episode where she ended

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up going a little bit more romulant m than Vulcan,

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right with some of those tenants is kind of coming out.

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So also just interesting that her relationship has to be

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with happens to be a spock, which I know is

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like friends with benefits, but this is somebody who struggles

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a lot with his emotions and a lot with fitting

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in based on you know, his his lineage. So it's

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a great idea to have them pair it up and

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hopefully he can kind of guide her on that.

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If not through that, I feel if they are going

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in that direction, we're gonna be led into some incredible storytelling,

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especially with her character. I really do. I feel like,

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and I hope again, what they kind of did last

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season where they set something up and then they really

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didn't come through, Let's let's not do that this season, please.

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I know they're already it seems like they're already starting

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to plant the seeds of things to come. One of

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the things I thought was hysterical throughout this episode is

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the relationship between Scotty and Erica. Did you guys catch that?

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I love that so much popping up throughout the episode.

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Yeah, I hope that continues. That'd be really interesting. Yeah, here,

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when we're talking about about the character of Lawn, here's

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something that I am interesting because I really have no

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idea where they're going. I mean that your guests is

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as good as mine on this. But you know, she's

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a descendant of Khan. You know, she has the same name.

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But and the writers have been fantastic over the last

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three years, sticking with Star Trek continuity. When Kirk and

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Spock and all of them meet Khan for the first time,

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they have never heard of him before, right, But with

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this character here, how could they not? I mean, both

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of them have met her, both of them are very

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familiar with her in her background. What's going on there?

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I'm I'm gonna actually I'm worried, And I hope they

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don't go this struction. And I hope they're more clever

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than what I can come up with my own head.

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I hope they're not looking for some sort of reset

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where we you know, the characters all for don't remember

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her or something's going on or that it's like, you know, oh,

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we can't talk about her anymore.

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You know, I don't know. I have no idea. Your

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guests is as good as mine on this.

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But but it's something that we I as a big

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Star Trek fan and big Star Trek nerd that notice

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all this continuity that's in my head as this goes,

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and I'm.

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Just I'm wondering what the writers are going to do

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with that.

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And I really hope in that choice between character and

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canon or continuity, they choose character like I do too.

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It's easy enough I would think to say, like, yeah, well,

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I mean they didn't say that they remembered him, you know,

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or knew of him in that episode. But let's just

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right past that part of dialogue being like a semi

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you know, slight divergent kind of timeline, and yeah, because

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it would be a shame. Like I think there's a

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lot to be It's kind of a parallel to unichin

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Riley's story, where you know, she has the ad Astra

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Prospera poster that Boymler looks up to. Right, that's beautiful

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and I want to see that be possible for her,

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for Oritegas, for Law and for everybody in the ship.

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But I'd love to see that kind of thing moving forward.

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You see, I'm not your usual treky, you know, like

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some of them, some of them stick to continuity like

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it's the Bible.

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I'm not like that, you know.

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I'm more or for you know, if if the story

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requires there to be a change, do it for the story,

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especially if it works better. You know, as I've mentioned Earli,

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you know, I'm a Doctor Who fan, and I can

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accept that stuff. After all we had, you know, we've

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had three different creations of the Dollogs and four different

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destructions of Atlantis and that show.

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So who cares?

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Who cares about continuity as long as they can tell

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me a damn good story?

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Yeah, I agree, Funny, I want to go back to

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them that you mentioned. It felt like a Doctor Who episode,

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It really did. But I felt like the Martians were

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like that was straight out of Doctor Who. Their costumes, Yes,

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it looked like they were a villain or an alien

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from Doctor Who.

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Is what they did.

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People were clearly fans of Doctor Who. Even uh, Pelly

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is a comment in this again.

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Per again, it's all about the shoulder beds, you know, right.

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Yeah, and you know, even my mind, it'll fit into

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the continuity to be a doctor who those that race

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it works for I don't know, it's I have to

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laugh at it.

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I know I love what they're doing.

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I do. I do too.

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I mean, could we not have a poker game between

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gynond Pelias?

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You know, Yeah, that'd be a great way. I'd like

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to sit down and listen to them talk. That'd be interesting.

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And you know, this is the second time, and I

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think you guys might agree with me, this is the

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second time that they have now want me to buy

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a jacket because that jacket they had when they went

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on the planet with a dinosaurs. Yeah, Earth, obviously I

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want that jacket now too. Damn it. Stop giving on

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these jackets I need to buy.

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You notice that the company that makes the uniforms their backs,

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they debuted a lot of them, including their jacket from

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Starfleet Academy this last weekend, on which I did.

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Yeah.

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I like that.

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Yeah, I'm liking it. But there's there's a lot of

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good stuff in this episode. There's a lot of good

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comic relief too, which Star Trek does pretty good. You know,

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they don't shove it in your face, but they do

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it just enough. You giggle about it. I remember when

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a Heurl was on the when she was introduced to

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Asha and she tries to talk Vulcan to her and

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clearly messes up with her accent, and she glances back

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to Spock and he just basically just shaky and are like, no,

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that's not right.

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Oh.

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What made me crack up was on the planet when

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Number one shoots the Trina source for exit.

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It falls over and what was it ortagus that goes?

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Did it eat her?

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Yeah, it's it's not chewing.

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Yeah.

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I thought the three ladies were perfect on the on

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the planet together. I love watching that away team.

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Yeah, they were. They were fantastic and that I love

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the end of this episode too with them. I thought

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that was fantastic.

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Yeah.

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I thought naming the naming the shuttlecraft.

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Kirie Kurrie, Yeah yeah, I thought that was cool.

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It was Erica talking back to Scott in his Scottish accent.

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I lost it when she did that.

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I think. Well. I liked a little bit better was

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the her hitting snooze on his alerts.

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Yeah yeah, those were there for a reason. Turn them off. Okay,

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love it so so many good things, but I love

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I don't know if it's a nod or not. But

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I love the whole ending piece of like the nod

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to Jurassic part I like that. Oh though, that was

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the sweeping shot over all the dinosaurs and stuff. That

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was so damn cool.

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It was that was a nod. I was expecting the theme.

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I really was.

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It would have fit perfectly.

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And I'm sure someone out there is doing that. It'll

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be on YouTube probably tomorrow.

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Probably, yep.

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Absolutely, all right, So let's take a quick break and

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then we'll be back after these messages. And we're back,

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and we're continuing talking about the fourth season premiere of

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Star Trek's Strange New Worlds. And now that we've given

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our thoughts and opinions on the episode, let's take a

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look at the characters themselves. Which character do you think

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shines the most this week?

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David, you go first.

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You know, this is a hard decision for me because

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there's quite a few people who put some pretty good

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performances in here, but I'm gonna have to hand it

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to the one individual just because of his scene towards

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the end of it, and that's Pike. I really I

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thought the things that he had to deal with in

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this episode really made him stand out the most just

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for the mere fact that he had to ride that

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fine line of how much do I tell these aliens,

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but I also need to calm them down so that

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we can get out of this situation and my ship

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doesn't have any weapons or anything like that, And then

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to come to the realization that he needs to make

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that gut instinct to be that captain to protect everybody

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on his ship. I believe even the commander even told

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him that you would do the same thing if it

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was you, you protecting your people. So, I mean, he

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had a lot to process in this episode, and when

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they were about ready to stop the destruction, and then

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he thinks about it for just a brief second and

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makes that gut instinct no, don't, don't do anything, and

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everybody's look at him like, are you kidding me? I

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think even un It was freaking out on him about this.

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We've got to do something, and he let it ride.

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But the scene when he was talking to the admiral

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there at the end is the scene I'm really talking

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about when he says, I saw the past, present and

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future like I never imagined and now I want to

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focus on the present. When he turned down that promotion,

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and I think part of that he got to see

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because he knows what his future is going to be.

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We all know that he knows that he's seen it,

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he knows where he's going to end up. But he

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realizes that he's got to make it all the way

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to that point. And he put every effort into being

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a captain. And I know he's done that before, but

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in this episode, I really think he shined as a

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captain in this episode. Plus he got to use his

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saddle finally. Yeah he did.

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How about you, Scott, Yeah, I'll see you and raise

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on that Pike. To me, it was, you know, kind

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of touching on what you were just talking about. It

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seems to be Pike finally comfortable basically just living in

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and riding out the now. And I think the horse

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sequence in the beginning was a great call to that.

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He's not exactly happy, he's not exactly like gleeful or

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anything else like that, but he's like, you know, just

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one more ride, and I think that decision aligns with that.

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There's a lot of calm, confident resolve with him, even

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in the moments when he had that bit of self doubt.

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It could be very easy for him to slip back

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into that with what he saw in I forget what

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the name of the episode is, where he basically sees

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what would happen if he continued to be the captain

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of the Enterprise. So it's kind of like it could

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be easy for him to see that my diplomacy, my

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tendency toward that is a downfall, but it's actually an advantage.

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It almost seems like the Martians almost really kind of

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like a like knowing that they have. They kind of

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reminded me of Vulcan at first, but then it was

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almost like the anti Romulin where Robinin seemed to be

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kind of like, you know, we've leaned into our emotions

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and we're twirling mustaches, which is a big generalization, apologies,

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but that's how they're kind of, you know, written in

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most of the episodes, versus what we see here. It's

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kind of like, yeah, they're you know, they're they're driven

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by emotion, but they're very calm. So I feel like

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his approach fit with that a lot more than other

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captains might have. So, yeah, I agree, Pike, Wayne, what

473
00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:30.400
about you?

474
00:23:31.119 --> 00:23:33.720
Yeah, there were a lot of great character.

475
00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:36.400
Moments in this episode, and and Pike had some really

476
00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:39.920
good stuff, but I'm actually going to choose Number one

477
00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:45.279
one Una Chin Riley. She continues to show just why

478
00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:48.599
she's an important part of the Enterprise crew, and this

479
00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:52.599
episode is one of the best showings of that. You know,

480
00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:54.920
she got to do a lot of great stuff this episode.

481
00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:57.039
She had to lead that away mission, which I'm so

482
00:23:57.160 --> 00:23:58.640
glad to see her off the ship again.

483
00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:00.799
She got to fight and.

484
00:24:01.319 --> 00:24:04.680
Bring down that tyrannosaurce Rex, and and she got that

485
00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:07.400
much much needed promotion to commander at the end of

486
00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:10.279
the episode. You know, she's a great leader, and she

487
00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:12.680
showed it over and over again, and and and here

488
00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:16.599
in this episode, she generally she shows that she generally

489
00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:19.960
cares about the people that that you know, she's commanding

490
00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:22.160
the ones around her. She's willing to put herself in

491
00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:25.480
danger to protect them. You know, she she deserved that promotion.

492
00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:29.480
I love the character of Number one. You know, this

493
00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:32.799
this small throwaway character that I've always been interested more

494
00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:35.359
from the original series is now you know, got this

495
00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:40.559
whole life that the writers and Rebecca remain have given her.

496
00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:45.039
It's I just love watching the development of this character.

497
00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:49.759
And I just thought she was fantastic phenomenal in this episode.

498
00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:52.839
I think with us going back and for you listeners

499
00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:55.000
you haven't heard some of our episodes that we're diving

500
00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:57.440
back into the first season the Star Trek, the original,

501
00:24:58.559 --> 00:25:01.440
I think going back to the ca and seeing that

502
00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:03.960
original character the way it was done, because we all

503
00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:06.000
talked about we loved her character and that we all

504
00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:09.880
loved her, and seeing it that character now in Strange

505
00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:12.000
New Worlds, giving all new light, giving her a much

506
00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:15.000
more character development, really gives you a whole much more

507
00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:18.079
appreciation of what Rebeccamine is doing with this character. It

508
00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:18.480
really does.

509
00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:21.759
Yeah, and you can turn that exactly around and say

510
00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:25.079
that about Christopher Pike, and you know how we saw that.

511
00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:26.119
That one episode.

512
00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:30.000
Now, Anson Mount has done a phenomenal job of bringing

513
00:25:30.039 --> 00:25:34.319
this character a whole new dimension to us. We love

514
00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:35.279
the chick Cage and.

515
00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:37.519
We love of Strange New Worlds, and we're so glad

516
00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:37.920
it's back.

517
00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:40.599
Absolutely all right.

518
00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:42.920
If you had any choice to be any character that

519
00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:45.160
appeared in this episode, which one would it be? And

520
00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:48.839
wise Scott, you begin this one mind is simple?

521
00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:52.039
Una gen really if for nothing else, so he gets

522
00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:54.799
to stun a dinosaur? Yeah, how many people can say that.

523
00:25:56.319 --> 00:25:58.839
Dave, Well, I'm going to go very thimilar to you

524
00:25:58.920 --> 00:26:05.119
because if I'm picking Lhamak, she gets the punch. Wait

525
00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:05.640
what about you?

526
00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:10.240
Oh I'm choosing Una again too. I mean, you know,

527
00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:12.559
everybody else got to stay on that stuffy ship and

528
00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:16.319
she got to step foot on prehistoric Earth and stand

529
00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:19.599
there with the dinosaurs. And that last shot again where

530
00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:22.400
she's looking out of the distance just saw what, you know,

531
00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:25.359
just amazing. You know, I've always been more of a

532
00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:29.599
time travel guy, and this just would make everything that

533
00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:32.759
she went through would just be absolutely mind blowing. Plus

534
00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:35.400
of course she got promoted again and that's a big pluz.

535
00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:38.160
You know. And and to add on to that, I

536
00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:40.160
really think I like the idea because it really didn't

537
00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:41.839
dawn on me that it was Earth at first. I

538
00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:44.160
kind of like thought about it would be. But then

539
00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:47.200
when they did get that realization, oh crap, that's Earth.

540
00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:50.119
That was kind of a cool I like that twist, Yes,

541
00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:51.119
very cool twist.

542
00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:54.359
All right, now comes my favorite part where we dive

543
00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:56.359
deep into the episode and see if we can't pull

544
00:26:56.400 --> 00:26:59.039
out any Easter eggs. And there were a few, but

545
00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:04.279
David Scott, did you find any Easter eggs in this episode. No, no, no,

546
00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:05.920
he's shaking his head.

547
00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:07.599
No, you not.

548
00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:09.279
I don't want to.

549
00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:11.319
I don't want to mention any because there's one that's

550
00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:13.920
the one that's probably the first Easter egg, that's the

551
00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:16.559
easiest Easter egg. How can I take that away from you?

552
00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:18.799
I'm just give you all you Wayne, You're good.

553
00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:20.960
Well, yeah, and I will say there were some. It

554
00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:24.000
was kind of hard to pull. Weren't very any obvious ones.

555
00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:27.200
But yeah, I'm going to bring the one up I

556
00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:30.200
think that you're talking about, And that's uh Pelly's reference

557
00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:32.240
that connected the post Star Trek and Doctor Who.

558
00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:33.319
You know?

559
00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:37.079
This time, she states that she saw an interstellar squall

560
00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:39.880
from the distance while she was in a phone booth. Well,

561
00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:46.200
it's pretty obvious what she's talking about there. Well, yeah,

562
00:27:46.319 --> 00:27:48.839
it could be. But but considering the fact that that

563
00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:52.079
we had two references kind of references to Doctor Who

564
00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:56.000
last season in the what was the season finale she

565
00:27:56.160 --> 00:27:59.839
mentioned her time with the time traveling doctor and then

566
00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:02.279
as that was in New Lives and New Civilizations this

567
00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:04.799
new episode, but then we also had that sneaky appearance

568
00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:08.559
of the actual Tartis and the sellout who ate its tail,

569
00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:12.319
so it's pretty obvious it's what they're talking about here.

570
00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:14.359
I would like to know what they're doing. Are these

571
00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:18.400
just fun references? Are are they really? Is there really

572
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:21.640
something more into it? Because I know that there has

573
00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:25.359
been a lot of talk between the two series actually doing.

574
00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:28.559
A crossover, and this is real. This isn't something that

575
00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:31.440
everyone's just making up. That the producers and Russell Davies

576
00:28:31.480 --> 00:28:32.839
have talked about this.

577
00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:34.880
Of course, Davies is no longer involved a Doctor Who,

578
00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:37.440
so I don't think it's gonna happen, but who knows.

579
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:39.720
I'm not sure if I'd like to see it or not.

580
00:28:39.880 --> 00:28:40.279
I don't know.

581
00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:42.480
I've still kind of torn whether or not I'd like

582
00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:46.920
the two franchises mixing, or if I prefer to keep.

583
00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:49.839
Them start it would be an interesting, fun like short maybe,

584
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:51.119
but I don't know how they would be able to

585
00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:54.240
do it and just be serious about it, you know, I'd.

586
00:28:54.039 --> 00:28:54.759
Be telling you know.

587
00:28:55.440 --> 00:29:00.359
I'm a huge comic book collector, literally thous of them,

588
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.359
and about ten or fifteen years ago, they did a

589
00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:07.599
crossover between Doctor Who and the Next Generation, and I

590
00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:10.680
do not own those issues. I just have no desire

591
00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:12.039
to buy them because I'm not sure if I want

592
00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:12.480
to read.

593
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:14.119
That, so you know, there you go.

594
00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:16.000
I don't know fair enough.

595
00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:18.960
All right, well, I don't know if you exactly call

596
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:22.359
these easter eggs, but they are some nice, interesting facts.

597
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:25.519
But this is the third season premiere to be directed

598
00:29:25.559 --> 00:29:28.480
by Chris Fisher. He directed both the season two premiere,

599
00:29:28.559 --> 00:29:32.240
The Broken Circle and last year's premiere, Hegimity Part two.

600
00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:36.119
And I also want to explain the title of this

601
00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:39.039
episode for the use of you that aren't into the

602
00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:43.880
specific Mars cardiography like me, I'm not into that stuff.

603
00:29:43.880 --> 00:29:45.519
I had to look all this stuff to you, including

604
00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:48.799
the pronunciation of it, because I knew I would butcher it.

605
00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:53.680
But the valas Mariners is a system of cannons on Mars,

606
00:29:54.039 --> 00:29:57.319
which are about four thousand kilometers long. It kind of

607
00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:00.680
look like a scar that goes across the Mars and service.

608
00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:03.319
So there you know, that's what that is. And it's

609
00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:07.079
dirictly mentioned in the episode, so it's you know, proper

610
00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:09.880
that they use it as a title. Now during the

611
00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:13.079
sick Base scenes, it was nice to see a tellwrite

612
00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:15.240
working in the background. We don't see enough of those.

613
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:17.759
The tellwrights are one of the five founding members of

614
00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:21.000
the Federation, and I've always felt that we should be

615
00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:23.839
seeing more of them on the starships.

616
00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:24.319
Than what we did.

617
00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:27.759
We rarely ever saw them in the twenty fourth century,

618
00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:30.759
so you know, it's nice one they pop up. Now,

619
00:30:31.319 --> 00:30:33.240
this this one I have to bring up because I

620
00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:35.960
need to address the Star Trek elephant of the room,

621
00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:39.759
and that is the dinosaurs. You know, I'm not sure

622
00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:42.160
if you guys remember because and I'm Scott, I know

623
00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:44.799
you mentioned you never watched the series. But well, as

624
00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:46.759
we saw in this episode, the dinosaurs are like most

625
00:30:46.759 --> 00:30:49.000
people think of them, you know, like straight out of

626
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:51.640
Jurassic Park. But this isn't the first time that Star

627
00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:55.960
Trek is dealt with dinosaurs. In the Star Trek Voyager

628
00:30:56.079 --> 00:31:00.119
episode Distant Origin, Captain Janeway and Jusice Voyder in to

629
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.039
a race called the Vath in the Delta Quadrant and

630
00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:05.279
it was revealed that the Bath or the descendants of

631
00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:09.920
the dinosaurs on Earth. Now, those dinosaurs were bipedalin not

632
00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:15.119
much bigger or different than humans. So what's going on here? Well,

633
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:19.400
the Voyager episode references that the both had survived and

634
00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:22.680
left Earth after the asteroid hit the planet, so that

635
00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:26.160
you know, not all the dinosaurs died during that that

636
00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:32.319
cladys Couse event, and that they were around this time

637
00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:36.319
is when the progenitors had come to Earth and seated

638
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:40.559
bit and manipulated the development of the life on these planets.

639
00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:42.759
So that's how they got their intelligence, and then that's

640
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:46.079
why they left Blur. So everything continuity wise checks out.

641
00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:50.799
Now at the end of the episode, we see Pike

642
00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:54.000
turned down the promotion to the rank of commodore you

643
00:31:54.079 --> 00:31:56.319
know so far, this also is correct with Star Trek

644
00:31:56.440 --> 00:31:59.200
continuity because when we met Pike again and the original

645
00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:03.839
series episode The Nagerie, he holds the rank of fleet captain. Now,

646
00:32:03.960 --> 00:32:06.200
there's always been a little bit of confusion between the

647
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:08.319
two ranks, you know, whether or not they're they're different

648
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:11.400
or if they're actually the same rank. But I've always

649
00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:15.960
personally believe that they're different ranks. But I don't really know,

650
00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:17.319
so I guess we'll just have to wait till the

651
00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:19.200
end of the next season to find out if that's true.

652
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:23.079
And that's it for this episode of Star Trek Strange

653
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:26.079
New Worlds, as well as this week's episode of Phasers

654
00:32:26.079 --> 00:32:28.599
Set to Stunt. We'd like to open a channel to

655
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:30.759
our listeners and here just what you thought about this

656
00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:34.640
most recent episode and the season in general. You can

657
00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:37.519
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658
00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:40.480
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659
00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:44.000
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660
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662
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663
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.559
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664
00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:58.519
on YouTube, so please check that out as well. A

665
00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:01.480
big thank you to my fellow trekkers David and Scott

666
00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:03.839
for joining me and the listeners for this episode.

667
00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:08.119
Always a pleasure, and I want to add to our listeners.

668
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:10.559
We will get back to the OG theory after Strange

669
00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:11.160
New Worlds.

670
00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:13.759
Yes we will, and we'll be starting with the next

671
00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:16.599
episode we'll be talking about is the Menagerie. So it yep,

672
00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:20.400
it's pretty good. But until then, we are excited to

673
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:22.680
get our teeth into another season of Strange New Worlds

674
00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:26.039
and it looks like there's some really great stuff coming

675
00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:29.079
in over the next ten weeks. As many of you

676
00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:32.039
might already know, this last weekend was the twenty twenty

677
00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:35.359
sixth San Diego, Comic Conn and Paramount had quite a

678
00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:38.680
display for both the Star Trek sixtieth anniversary as well

679
00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:41.240
as a look forward to the new seasons of Strange

680
00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:44.599
New Worlds and season two of Starfleet Academy. Now, did

681
00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:47.240
you guys get to see the Strange New Worlds trailer

682
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:48.400
that debuted there at the convention?

683
00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:49.440
I did not know.

684
00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:52.559
Oh, I'm not sure if you should check it out

685
00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:55.039
because there's a lot of great spoilers in that one.

686
00:33:55.079 --> 00:33:57.200
A lot of surprises are in store. I did watch it,

687
00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:01.680
and a few past character are popping up, so you know,

688
00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:04.240
make the decision you might want to stay away from that,

689
00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:07.640
and you listeners to you know, you decide whether or

690
00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:10.519
not you like being spoiled. But we are not going

691
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:13.239
to spoil the surprise just yet because we'll be returning

692
00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:15.880
next week to the Bridge of the Enterprise and to

693
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:19.920
you are listeners. On the next episode, a phaser set

694
00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:20.679
to stunt.

695
00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:29.639
Put himself into his work. After fifteen consecutive action packed missions,

696
00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:33.000
he and the crew are due for an early Then

697
00:34:33.079 --> 00:34:35.880
he screws up and he can't talk.

698
00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:38.079
We've been off the bridge a little bit. It's okay.

699
00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:38.559
We have