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

0:01 Space the Final Frontier. Join us for a bold conversation our prime directive to recap our favorite Star Trek shows, both new and old, to engage and debate about all things Trek. Prepare to energize with Phasers Set to Stunt. Welcome to an all new episode of Phasers Set to Stunt, where we continue to show our love for everything Star Trek in this ongoing series from a film by podcast which focuses on every system of the expanding Star Trek universe by covering television, movies, animation, directors, merchandise, and much much more. Plotting your course on this voyage of the USS Enterprise is your Core Trek crew. I'm Wayne Whited, and I'm Scott Hoffin and I'm David Byrnth. And today we're talking about the new fourth season opener, The season premiere of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, titled fallas mariniis written by Henry Alonso Myers and Alan B. McElroy and directed by Chris Fisher. So from this point on it's red alert, folks. There are spoilers ahead, and by now

1:32 you should have went over to Paramount Plus and watch the episode. So sit back, relax, and have a listen to what we have to say about this week's episode. So, Scott, why don't you give us the short summary for this? Captain Pike is dealing with the loss of Marie Patel by immersing himself into his work. After fifteen consecutive action packed missions, he and the crew were due for an easier assignment. They seem to get one in a mission that simply asks them to observe a Stella curiosity from a safe distance, basically light show. Of course, that doesn't last long as they get a may day from inside this space storm, and when they investigate, they get caught in the storm and marooned with every system knocked offline. Their recovery demands a rare element they find on a nearby planet, which Una, Ortegas and Lan investigate by shuttle. Meanwhile, the offline Enterprise is captured for salvage. The crew slowly realizes they've been knocked sixty five million years into the past, captured by Martians, and faced with difficult decisions they have to make very carefully to avoid rewriting the entire universe's history.

2:33 So what do you guys think of this episode of season premiere finally the fourth season where I know we're always really excited about strange new worlds, but I'm curious to hear what you guys have to think about this. Wow, dinosaur one thing. Come on, you can't go wrong with dinosaurs, all right, Yeah, I mean this is a very mind blowing, eye opening beginning to a season. For crying out loud, you know, I didn't know what to expect in this first off. Victual effects were out of the out of the world fiercely they were. They were incredible, they really were. But I didn't really know what the expect of this episode. I didn't know that I was going to get a very serious, in depth, making you think episode when you got to the end of this, because I mean, the things that happened at this end of all the things that they caused was ridiculous. I mean, off of just Pike decided, you know what, hold on a second, I'm just going to make a spur of the moment of decision and not stop this from happening, And thank god he didn't. Wow, I loved it. I thought this episode was incredible. What a great way to open up a season. But that's my opinion.

3:47 Yeah, I agree, very interesting and kind of conflicted in that moment when it was like, I know that he probably has to, but should he Like he's condoning the genocide of this this species even though it's invasive. I think it did a great job of keeping it light in the right places so it didn't seem so dour, because this could have started in that way with that heavy kind of decision. When they first saw the may Day, I was like, Oh, yeah, it's going to be them, Like I kind of it was easy to call that a little bit but interesting where they took it. And I want to credit doctor am Benga specifically for keeping the appropriate level of levity, like he was being the time police in the right way. But I think he is also kind of growing as a kind of a counselor friend role to Pike because he knows, like this guy's been through the Ringer and he's been diving into his work for fifteen consecutive missions. I know there's some important ramifications for the choices he makes here, but for his state of mind, I've got to try to keep this light whenever I can.

5:01 Yeah, there's so many things to unpack in this episode, like when you get to the end and the credits are rolling, you really start processing everything that just happened in that last like last ten minutes, and you're like, all the things that were occurring on top of one another, and then when you realize that, you're holy crap, Like when the Commander basically genocides her entire race right destroys Mars, and then you see the asteroid go by them, You're like, oh my god, that's the asteroid that destroys the dinosaurs. So many things were happening at once, and then then you find out that it's because of that of the big bang, the human race started, and all that is like, god dang off of one decision that Pike made not to interfere right there. It's just so many things to think about that, right, It's crazy.

5:50 Yeah. I love this episode. I thought it was probably the strongest of any of the season openers for any of the modern Star Trek. But I think I like this more than than anything else because this is this felt more like a Doctor Who episode than it did a Star Trek episod. It really did it. It did. I mean, it felt it checked all the boxes, but it as a Star Trek episode. It really, it really took a huge swing at Star Trek Cannon. I mean this, you know, this, this whole thing in. Doctor here they call it a predestination paradox, which, you know, the fact that they're they're directly tied to the extinction of the dinosaurs the rise of the human race. That's that's a pretty staggering idea when you think about it in Star Trek terms.

6:45 Uh, you know, I just love. The idea that they've uh shaped the future of Earth. I guess a good way to put it's it's just it's just fascinating. I I love this episode from beginning to end because I mean, really, this has a lot of major implications to the history of Star Trek altogether. It does. Yeah, if there was any nitpick that I have in this episode, it was just that because I really really love this episode. There's a lot of big ideas. You brought this up, and you did. There's a lot of big ideas here coming at you all at once, and I felt some of them maybe they didn't get the attention they deserve. I think this could have been a two parter, or at least a two hour episodes because there's a lot of stuff going on here. But I loved every minute this and the visual effects were just I'm gonna go this. This was some of the best that they've done.

7:35 It was, actually it is. I agree. I sat there's the top for a strange new world for sure, and for a new modern Star Trek. I completely agree with you on that one. Waink. Yeah, I'm on the opposite of the fence with you on this one, though. I think it should stay as a one part because what it does for me and what it does for a lot of people, it brings you to the water tank to talk about it, where I think this Pater would have explained too much. This one is making the audience talk and think and process everything that happened in this episode, and it's done everything you wanted to do as a writer, because you want people to talk about this, and I just I mean, when I'm looking at people's reviews and people are just praising this, everybody is.

8:15 They are talking about this, and that's what I really really like. I've been watching after the episode air too. I watched it Thursday. I couldn't wait because everything I heard about it I loved. But watching people talk about it, people love this It's great to hear a lot of love coming from New Star Trek after spending you know, all this time hearing all the hatred and stuff. People are really liking this see this episode. I really hope they're able to keep this up because starting this strong, that's a tough act to follow. I hope they do. They get the bar high right now. There's no doubt about that. And I wish there was not. You know, what I've been hearing about this version of Trek going away, I think is disappointing, to say the least. But I hope that what they do with the Martian species and the kind of arachnid insectoid kind of species, put that in a drawer, but don't lock it. I don't say it needs to come up again in strange New worlds. I don't think it needs to be, you know, something that's kind of setting up, something that's gonna bake and explode.

9:20 I'd much rather see a future series kind of pick up on that and use that for story fodder, especially like the water cooler thing. Like you said, Dave, is perfect because it's like, let this spark people's imaginations for a while. Yep, but let the rest of the series, just ride out. Don't make them big bads or anything else like that. I haven't seen an episode of Star Trek in a long time. Create ripples. This good ripples in a long long time. Most of the stuff. And you guys, we've talked about it in many, many episodes, and how all the negative, toxic people we've seen, there's no toxic talk about this episode. Everybody is just absolutely praising this thing, as they should because this is a phenomenal episode. Y.

10:02 Yeah, yeah, I didn't. I mean, even though I mentioned my fault, now that you you've kind of talked me out of that, I don't really think it's a fault now. I just I love this episode. I love death better. Yeah. I think the only thing, I guess, the only nitpick I would have is I don't think it is it Asha to the Vulcan Cadet. I don't think she was in it enough. I felt like she kind of got put in the back a little bit, which makes sense because a lot was going on, I get it. But I felt like we got introduced to her pretty quick, and we got some comedy relief there a little bit with her and with Fock, and you know, with Erica and stuff like that, and then she kind of went off to the back until the end. Again, He's like, oh, here she is again. That's my only nitpick. That's it.

10:43 Yeah, and I'm sure that she's going to play of an important role in the season. It wouldn't just be a Thoroughway character that they've been introduced. But you know, that brings me up something else. I wanted to mention to you guys, ask you did you start getting vibes of the end is coming with this episode? Part of that for me was I feel like, where are they going with Leon? Yeah? I have a feeling she's going to go the wrong direction that we don't want her to go because of the things that occurred in this episode. I feel like the part of her that's Cohn is starting to come out because she doesn't feel pain anymore because she broke her hand in this episode. And then you know she's saying that things are starting to change in her So what does that mean? Won are they leaning towards? Is she going to become a villain? What don't I don't know.

11:34 I'm worried about that, but I do feel like the Indie is coming way. Yes, I mean, we've been asking for two years, you know, what happened to some of these characters. Why haven't we heard about them during the original series? You know, what happened to them? What? You know? I think we're starting to get the beginning of those final stories. And yeah, I'm wondering about her, I mean, curious as to where they're going to go with it, I really am. Yeah, I mean even Una, I'm sorry, it's got to mean a step on you. Even Una getting promoted, you're already seeing that they're to push you know. Yeah, right, well I know that, you know, possible futures and all that, but like when we were talking about Starfleet Academy, we were starting to see some of the names on the walls, it was like, oh, so this person doesn't have an ending, you know, like their promotion doesn't go much further. Whatever problem you see about that is.

12:19 And I don't remember if if Laan's name was one of those. I believe it was, But I hope what happens is that we see her fight for control over that side of her quite a bit, which possibly leads to her leaving. But I don't want to see her lose that fight. And I think it's it's you know, what you mentioned is absolutely true, and it makes me think back to the all Vulcan episode where she ended up going a little bit more romulant m than Vulcan, right with some of those tenants is kind of coming out. So also just interesting that her relationship has to be with happens to be a spock, which I know is like friends with benefits, but this is somebody who struggles a lot with his emotions and a lot with fitting in based on you know, his his lineage. So it's a great idea to have them pair it up and hopefully he can kind of guide her on that.

13:14 If not through that, I feel if they are going in that direction, we're gonna be led into some incredible storytelling, especially with her character. I really do. I feel like, and I hope again, what they kind of did last season where they set something up and then they really didn't come through, Let's let's not do that this season, please. I know they're already it seems like they're already starting to plant the seeds of things to come. One of the things I thought was hysterical throughout this episode is the relationship between Scotty and Erica. Did you guys catch that? I love that so much popping up throughout the episode. Yeah, I hope that continues. That'd be really interesting. Yeah, here, when we're talking about about the character of Lawn, here's something that I am interesting because I really have no idea where they're going. I mean that your guests is as good as mine on this. But you know, she's a descendant of Khan. You know, she has the same name.

14:06 But and the writers have been fantastic over the last three years, sticking with Star Trek continuity. When Kirk and Spock and all of them meet Khan for the first time, they have never heard of him before, right, But with this character here, how could they not? I mean, both of them have met her, both of them are very familiar with her in her background. What's going on there? I'm I'm gonna actually I'm worried, And I hope they don't go this struction. And I hope they're more clever than what I can come up with my own head. I hope they're not looking for some sort of reset where we you know, the characters all for don't remember her or something's going on or that it's like, you know, oh, we can't talk about her anymore.

14:46 You know, I don't know. I have no idea. Your guests is as good as mine on this. But but it's something that we I as a big Star Trek fan and big Star Trek nerd that notice all this continuity that's in my head as this goes, and I'm. Just I'm wondering what the writers are going to do with that. And I really hope in that choice between character and canon or continuity, they choose character like I do too. It's easy enough I would think to say, like, yeah, well, I mean they didn't say that they remembered him, you know, or knew of him in that episode. But let's just right past that part of dialogue being like a semi you know, slight divergent kind of timeline, and yeah, because it would be a shame. Like I think there's a lot to be It's kind of a parallel to unichin Riley's story, where you know, she has the ad Astra Prospera poster that Boymler looks up to. Right, that's beautiful and I want to see that be possible for her, for Oritegas, for Law and for everybody in the ship.

15:49 But I'd love to see that kind of thing moving forward. You see, I'm not your usual treky, you know, like some of them, some of them stick to continuity like it's the Bible. I'm not like that, you know. I'm more or for you know, if if the story requires there to be a change, do it for the story, especially if it works better. You know, as I've mentioned Earli, you know, I'm a Doctor Who fan, and I can accept that stuff. After all we had, you know, we've had three different creations of the Dollogs and four different destructions of Atlantis and that show. So who cares? Who cares about continuity as long as they can tell me a damn good story? Yeah, I agree, Funny, I want to go back to them that you mentioned. It felt like a Doctor Who episode, It really did. But I felt like the Martians were like that was straight out of Doctor Who. Their costumes, Yes, it looked like they were a villain or an alien from Doctor Who.

16:36 Is what they did. People were clearly fans of Doctor Who. Even uh, Pelly is a comment in this again. Per again, it's all about the shoulder beds, you know, right. Yeah, and you know, even my mind, it'll fit into the continuity to be a doctor who those that race it works for I don't know, it's I have to laugh at it. I know I love what they're doing. I do. I do too. I mean, could we not have a poker game between gynond Pelias? You know, Yeah, that'd be a great way. I'd like to sit down and listen to them talk. That'd be interesting. And you know, this is the second time, and I think you guys might agree with me, this is the second time that they have now want me to buy a jacket because that jacket they had when they went on the planet with a dinosaurs. Yeah, Earth, obviously I want that jacket now too. Damn it. Stop giving on these jackets I need to buy.

17:28 You notice that the company that makes the uniforms their backs, they debuted a lot of them, including their jacket from Starfleet Academy this last weekend, on which I did. Yeah. I like that. Yeah, I'm liking it. But there's there's a lot of good stuff in this episode. There's a lot of good comic relief too, which Star Trek does pretty good. You know, they don't shove it in your face, but they do it just enough. You giggle about it. I remember when a Heurl was on the when she was introduced to Asha and she tries to talk Vulcan to her and clearly messes up with her accent, and she glances back to Spock and he just basically just shaky and are like, no, that's not right. Oh. What made me crack up was on the planet when Number one shoots the Trina source for exit.

18:09 It falls over and what was it ortagus that goes? Did it eat her? Yeah, it's it's not chewing. Yeah. I thought the three ladies were perfect on the on the planet together. I love watching that away team. Yeah, they were. They were fantastic and that I love the end of this episode too with them. I thought that was fantastic. Yeah. I thought naming the naming the shuttlecraft. Kirie Kurrie, Yeah yeah, I thought that was cool. It was Erica talking back to Scott in his Scottish accent. I lost it when she did that. I think. Well. I liked a little bit better was the her hitting snooze on his alerts. Yeah yeah, those were there for a reason. Turn them off. Okay, love it so so many good things, but I love I don't know if it's a nod or not. But I love the whole ending piece of like the nod to Jurassic part I like that. Oh though, that was the sweeping shot over all the dinosaurs and stuff. That was so damn cool.

19:10 It was that was a nod. I was expecting the theme. I really was. It would have fit perfectly. And I'm sure someone out there is doing that. It'll be on YouTube probably tomorrow. Probably, yep. Absolutely, all right, So let's take a quick break and then we'll be back after these messages. And we're back, and we're continuing talking about the fourth season premiere of Star Trek's Strange New Worlds. And now that we've given our thoughts and opinions on the episode, let's take a look at the characters themselves. Which character do you think shines the most this week? David, you go first. You know, this is a hard decision for me because there's quite a few people who put some pretty good performances in here, but I'm gonna have to hand it to the one individual just because of his scene towards the end of it, and that's Pike. I really I thought the things that he had to deal with in this episode really made him stand out the most just for the mere fact that he had to ride that fine line of how much do I tell these aliens, but I also need to calm them down so that we can get out of this situation and my ship doesn't have any weapons or anything like that, And then to come to the realization that he needs to make that gut instinct to be that captain to protect everybody on his ship. I believe even the commander even told him that you would do the same thing if it was you, you protecting your people. So, I mean, he had a lot to process in this episode, and when

20:42 they were about ready to stop the destruction, and then he thinks about it for just a brief second and makes that gut instinct no, don't, don't do anything, and everybody's look at him like, are you kidding me? I think even un It was freaking out on him about this. We've got to do something, and he let it ride. But the scene when he was talking to the admiral there at the end is the scene I'm really talking about when he says, I saw the past, present and future like I never imagined and now I want to focus on the present. When he turned down that promotion, and I think part of that he got to see because he knows what his future is going to be. We all know that he knows that he's seen it, he knows where he's going to end up. But he realizes that he's got to make it all the way to that point. And he put every effort into being a captain. And I know he's done that before, but in this episode, I really think he shined as a captain in this episode. Plus he got to use his saddle finally. Yeah he did.

21:40 How about you, Scott, Yeah, I'll see you and raise on that Pike. To me, it was, you know, kind of touching on what you were just talking about. It seems to be Pike finally comfortable basically just living in and riding out the now. And I think the horse sequence in the beginning was a great call to that. He's not exactly happy, he's not exactly like gleeful or anything else like that, but he's like, you know, just one more ride, and I think that decision aligns with that. There's a lot of calm, confident resolve with him, even in the moments when he had that bit of self doubt.

22:22 It could be very easy for him to slip back into that with what he saw in I forget what the name of the episode is, where he basically sees what would happen if he continued to be the captain of the Enterprise. So it's kind of like it could be easy for him to see that my diplomacy, my tendency toward that is a downfall, but it's actually an advantage. It almost seems like the Martians almost really kind of like a like knowing that they have. They kind of reminded me of Vulcan at first, but then it was almost like the anti Romulin where Robinin seemed to be kind of like, you know, we've leaned into our emotions and we're twirling mustaches, which is a big generalization, apologies, but that's how they're kind of, you know, written in most of the episodes, versus what we see here. It's kind of like, yeah, they're you know, they're they're driven by emotion, but they're very calm. So I feel like his approach fit with that a lot more than other captains might have. So, yeah, I agree, Pike, Wayne, what about you?

23:31 Yeah, there were a lot of great character. Moments in this episode, and and Pike had some really good stuff, but I'm actually going to choose Number one one Una Chin Riley. She continues to show just why she's an important part of the Enterprise crew, and this episode is one of the best showings of that. You know, she got to do a lot of great stuff this episode. She had to lead that away mission, which I'm so glad to see her off the ship again. She got to fight and. Bring down that tyrannosaurce Rex, and and she got that much much needed promotion to commander at the end of the episode. You know, she's a great leader, and she showed it over and over again, and and and here in this episode, she generally she shows that she generally cares about the people that that you know, she's commanding the ones around her. She's willing to put herself in danger to protect them. You know, she she deserved that promotion.

24:26 I love the character of Number one. You know, this this small throwaway character that I've always been interested more from the original series is now you know, got this whole life that the writers and Rebecca remain have given her. It's I just love watching the development of this character. And I just thought she was fantastic phenomenal in this episode. I think with us going back and for you listeners you haven't heard some of our episodes that we're diving back into the first season the Star Trek, the original, I think going back to the ca and seeing that original character the way it was done, because we all talked about we loved her character and that we all loved her, and seeing it that character now in Strange New Worlds, giving all new light, giving her a much more character development, really gives you a whole much more appreciation of what Rebeccamine is doing with this character. It really does.

25:19 Yeah, and you can turn that exactly around and say that about Christopher Pike, and you know how we saw that. That one episode. Now, Anson Mount has done a phenomenal job of bringing this character a whole new dimension to us. We love the chick Cage and. We love of Strange New Worlds, and we're so glad it's back. Absolutely all right. If you had any choice to be any character that appeared in this episode, which one would it be? And wise Scott, you begin this one mind is simple? Una gen really if for nothing else, so he gets to stun a dinosaur? Yeah, how many people can say that. Dave, Well, I'm going to go very thimilar to you because if I'm picking Lhamak, she gets the punch. Wait what about you?

26:06 Oh I'm choosing Una again too. I mean, you know, everybody else got to stay on that stuffy ship and she got to step foot on prehistoric Earth and stand there with the dinosaurs. And that last shot again where she's looking out of the distance just saw what, you know, just amazing. You know, I've always been more of a time travel guy, and this just would make everything that she went through would just be absolutely mind blowing. Plus of course she got promoted again and that's a big pluz. You know. And and to add on to that, I really think I like the idea because it really didn't dawn on me that it was Earth at first. I kind of like thought about it would be. But then when they did get that realization, oh crap, that's Earth.

26:47 That was kind of a cool I like that twist, Yes, very cool twist. All right, now comes my favorite part where we dive deep into the episode and see if we can't pull out any Easter eggs. And there were a few, but David Scott, did you find any Easter eggs in this episode. No, no, no, he's shaking his head. No, you not. I don't want to. I don't want to mention any because there's one that's the one that's probably the first Easter egg, that's the easiest Easter egg. How can I take that away from you? I'm just give you all you Wayne, You're good. Well, yeah, and I will say there were some. It was kind of hard to pull. Weren't very any obvious ones. But yeah, I'm going to bring the one up I think that you're talking about, And that's uh Pelly's reference that connected the post Star Trek and Doctor Who.

27:33 You know? This time, she states that she saw an interstellar squall from the distance while she was in a phone booth. Well, it's pretty obvious what she's talking about there. Well, yeah, it could be. But but considering the fact that that we had two references kind of references to Doctor Who last season in the what was the season finale she mentioned her time with the time traveling doctor and then as that was in New Lives and New Civilizations this new episode, but then we also had that sneaky appearance of the actual Tartis and the sellout who ate its tail, so it's pretty obvious it's what they're talking about here. I would like to know what they're doing. Are these just fun references? Are are they really? Is there really something more into it? Because I know that there has been a lot of talk between the two series actually doing.

28:25 A crossover, and this is real. This isn't something that everyone's just making up. That the producers and Russell Davies have talked about this. Of course, Davies is no longer involved a Doctor Who, so I don't think it's gonna happen, but who knows. I'm not sure if I'd like to see it or not. I don't know. I've still kind of torn whether or not I'd like the two franchises mixing, or if I prefer to keep. Them start it would be an interesting, fun like short maybe, but I don't know how they would be able to do it and just be serious about it, you know, I'd. Be telling you know. I'm a huge comic book collector, literally thous of them, and about ten or fifteen years ago, they did a crossover between Doctor Who and the Next Generation, and I do not own those issues. I just have no desire to buy them because I'm not sure if I want to read.

29:12 That, so you know, there you go. I don't know fair enough. All right, well, I don't know if you exactly call these easter eggs, but they are some nice, interesting facts. But this is the third season premiere to be directed by Chris Fisher. He directed both the season two premiere, The Broken Circle and last year's premiere, Hegimity Part two. And I also want to explain the title of this episode for the use of you that aren't into the specific Mars cardiography like me, I'm not into that stuff. I had to look all this stuff to you, including the pronunciation of it, because I knew I would butcher it. But the valas Mariners is a system of cannons on Mars, which are about four thousand kilometers long. It kind of look like a scar that goes across the Mars and service.

30:00 So there you know, that's what that is. And it's dirictly mentioned in the episode, so it's you know, proper that they use it as a title. Now during the sick Base scenes, it was nice to see a tellwrite working in the background. We don't see enough of those. The tellwrights are one of the five founding members of the Federation, and I've always felt that we should be seeing more of them on the starships. Than what we did. We rarely ever saw them in the twenty fourth century, so you know, it's nice one they pop up. Now, this this one I have to bring up because I need to address the Star Trek elephant of the room, and that is the dinosaurs. You know, I'm not sure if you guys remember because and I'm Scott, I know you mentioned you never watched the series. But well, as we saw in this episode, the dinosaurs are like most people think of them, you know, like straight out of Jurassic Park. But this isn't the first time that Star Trek is dealt with dinosaurs. In the Star Trek Voyager episode Distant Origin, Captain Janeway and Jusice Voyder in to a race called the Vath in the Delta Quadrant and it was revealed that the Bath or the descendants of the dinosaurs on Earth. Now, those dinosaurs were bipedalin not much bigger or different than humans. So what's going on here? Well, the Voyager episode references that the both had survived and left Earth after the asteroid hit the planet, so that you know, not all the dinosaurs died during that that cladys Couse event, and that they were around this time

31:32 is when the progenitors had come to Earth and seated bit and manipulated the development of the life on these planets. So that's how they got their intelligence, and then that's why they left Blur. So everything continuity wise checks out. Now at the end of the episode, we see Pike turned down the promotion to the rank of commodore you know so far, this also is correct with Star Trek continuity because when we met Pike again and the original series episode The Nagerie, he holds the rank of fleet captain. Now, there's always been a little bit of confusion between the two ranks, you know, whether or not they're they're different or if they're actually the same rank. But I've always personally believe that they're different ranks. But I don't really know, so I guess we'll just have to wait till the end of the next season to find out if that's true.

32:20 And that's it for this episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, as well as this week's episode of Phasers Set to Stunt. We'd like to open a channel to our listeners and here just what you thought about this most recent episode and the season in general. You can email us at a Film by Podcast at gmail dot com, find us online at a film by podcast dot com, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and x and if you're looking for more content or swag, you can join our patren and find out what exclusive gyms are hidden within. And also remember you can find all of film the Film Buys library, including the Phaser set to Stun episodes on YouTube, so please check that out as well. A big thank you to my fellow trekkers David and Scott for joining me and the listeners for this episode.

33:04 Always a pleasure, and I want to add to our listeners. We will get back to the OG theory after Strange New Worlds. Yes we will, and we'll be starting with the next episode we'll be talking about is the Menagerie. So it yep, it's pretty good. But until then, we are excited to get our teeth into another season of Strange New Worlds and it looks like there's some really great stuff coming in over the next ten weeks. As many of you might already know, this last weekend was the twenty twenty sixth San Diego, Comic Conn and Paramount had quite a display for both the Star Trek sixtieth anniversary as well as a look forward to the new seasons of Strange New Worlds and season two of Starfleet Academy. Now, did you guys get to see the Strange New Worlds trailer that debuted there at the convention?

33:48 I did not know. Oh, I'm not sure if you should check it out because there's a lot of great spoilers in that one. A lot of surprises are in store. I did watch it, and a few past character are popping up, so you know, make the decision you might want to stay away from that, and you listeners to you know, you decide whether or not you like being spoiled. But we are not going to spoil the surprise just yet because we'll be returning next week to the Bridge of the Enterprise and to you are listeners. On the next episode, a phaser set to stunt. Put himself into his work. After fifteen consecutive action packed missions, he and the crew are due for an early Then he screws up and he can't talk.

34:36 We've been off the bridge a little bit. It's okay. We have