Aug. 12, 2026

Phasers Set To Stun: Strange New Worlds S4. E3 - Human Best Friend

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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 continuing our coverage of the fourth season of Strange New Worlds with the third episode, Human Best Friend! The first round is on us! Who's drinking?

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Aufman, I'm David Byrne and I'm Waywided.

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And today we're continue our coverage of the latest truck series,

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Change New Worlds with Episode three, Human Best Friend, written

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by Katherine Lynne and Anitra Johnson, directed by Yana Gorskaya.

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So let's get right into it. Dave, take a deep breath,

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count down from ten and tell us what it's all about.

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Ten No kidding. On the way to mediate peace talks

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on a planet nearing civil war, the Enterprise crew is

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exhausted and overstressed. Pike orders a stop at Lanaris nine,

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a pleasure planet known for its restorative atmosphere. Most of

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the crew quickly slip into blissful relaxation, but Eric Ortegas

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and Malcolm Scott, both terrible at unwinding, remain tense and restless.

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While exploring, the two discover their missing shuttle, along with

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a bizarre warning recorded by their own intoxicate itself, telling

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them not to look for it. Lanari's nine airborne neuro

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pheromones have been subtly intoxicating everyone, causing memory gaps, emotional exaggeration,

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and comedic behavior. As Retegas and Scotty try to piece

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together what happened, they learned that the very alien's Pike

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was meant to negotiate with the Virillions are unexpectedly arriving

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on the planet. Their earlier selves had uncovered sabotage planted

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on the shuttle by Verrilliant extremists and hit it to

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prevent disaster, but left only the cryptic warning. Now still

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under the planet's intoxicating influence, or Tegus and Scotty must

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find Pike, recover the shuttle, underdo the sabotage, and get

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back to the Enterprise before the villiance misintervet the situation.

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They chemically induced antics make the mission chaotic and hilarious,

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but they ultimately succeed along Pike to proceed with the

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Peace Talks. What a crazy, crazy, crazy episode.

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Yes, so I imagine there's the possibility of this being a

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divisive episode. So I'm just going to get right into

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it and ask Dave you first, as far as Crew

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gets cosmic drunk episodes, what do you think of this one?

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You know, I laughed. I didn't hate this episode at all. Okay,

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there are parts of it that I was very much

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entertained by it. It was very strange. When I got

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a halfway through episode, I had to like, I had

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to pause for a minute and realized, what the hell

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is going on here? This is like ridiculous Star Trek. Yes,

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but I took it as what it was. Okay, we

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knew a comedy episode was coming. I think we talked

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about it last episode. We knew it was coming because

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there's just so much going on. But I have to say,

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I know, I know, I've put down the rapping Klingons

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for very long, but I have to say total clips

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of the heart and Klingon is hysterical. And I love

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every second of it. It was very well done that song.

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Yes, and I gotta give credit to Rebecca Remain. If

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she is singing that entire thing on camera, that would

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be astounding. Yeah, but I don't think it's any less

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of an accomplishment if she had to do a couple

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of takes. Yeah, because it sounded great. This sounded been flawless.

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So yeah, I know her vocal coaches for that, but

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I mean, come on, that's that's above and beyond.

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It was it was. It had a lot of funny

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moments throughout the episode that I laughed hysterically. So I

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loved the whole Kirk and Spock thing that Spock thought

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Kirk was a vision and ended up that he wasn't

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made it even funnier.

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That made me want That made me want to watch

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it a second time. Yeah, I mean, like the the

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the whole human best friend gets explained that way.

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And for the longest time I thought this was going

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to be a dog episode for some reason, but uh no,

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I think I thought that was a great touch. And

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I was like, wait, but was he actually there or

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was he gone sometimes? Or I know, Yeah, I thought

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that was a great gag. Well, Wayne, what about you?

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What's your what's your impression this one? It's okay, it's okay,

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We're here for you.

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Honestly, I I just didn't care for the episode. I

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really did.

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Close far.

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It's pretty high on my list of least favorite Star

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Trek episodes. Actually, I mean, right alongside Subspace Rhapsody. Yeah,

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I mean, this is This is you know, a strange

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New World's version of Everybody Gets Drunk, that comedy, which

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I just don't think works for any TV show. It's

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been proven before. You know, we got the Next Generation

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did it with Naked Now, which is my all time

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least favorite episode of that series, and Deep Space nine

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did it with Fascination, which is on my top five

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least favorite, not quite the most, but on the top.

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I just I just don't find drunk people very funny.

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I'm sorry. I watching all these actors act drunk for

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the entire episode got very annoying in my opinion. Now,

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there are a couple of things I do like. Don't

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get wrong, I didn't hate this episode all. I mean

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there were a few good things. I really liked the

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progress they made with Ortegas and Scotti's characters, I thought

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that was that was really good, you know, especially with

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the whole thing came out from their insecurities, you know,

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and they're from their jobs rather than than just you know,

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hatred and one of them And like you guys, I

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loved UNA's singing totally Cups of the Heart and clingon.

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I thought that was hilarious.

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That was That was my.

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Favorite part of the entire episode. But some of the

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other bits, like the what was the bingo room fight?

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And punks are punks? Yeah, I guess punk with all

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those tattoos works, but Pike's handling that that piece the delegation,

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I just thought it was just too silly, just didn't work.

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It wasn't as funny as I think they were hoping

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that it would be.

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To me.

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I just you know, I don't know. I don't mind

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Star Trek having fun and doing something different, but this

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was this was a stone or comedy, and I'm not

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sure it just works that well with Star Trek. That's

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a pity because the writer was it, Catherine Lynn. She

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wrote to those old scientists and that's my all time

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favorite episode of the series. So I had a lot

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of expectations on this.

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Yeah, I don't know. I just well, I just journey.

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I know you journey.

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Well, here here's another thing too, and I want to

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bring up as well, is a problem I have And

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I know this is probably my problem, but I'm starting

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to begin to believe that they may be over using

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the character of Kirk a little bit of the series

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this I'm at that point right now.

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It's just I feel like we're seeing him in almost

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every episode, and that when it comes to the point

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where we're predicting that he's going to take over the

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Enterprise at the end of the series, it's going to

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feel less special if we've seen him already two dozen

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times within this series. I really do think they need

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to back away from this character for a while and

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maybe make his appearance once or twice a season. I

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just I'm starting to get tired of the character. I

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love the actor. I think he's does a fantastic job.

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I'm just tired of seeing him so much. I just

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just find the whole episode just wasn't wasn't as funny

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as I feel like they were hoping it would be.

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For me, I just don't That's what I was My opinion,

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is he.

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Starting to feel like that additional kid that always shows

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up on the sitcoms when you know they jumped the shark.

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Well, I'm not gonna say they jump the shark.

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Well, not necessarily, right, but I mean like the idea.

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He's starting to feel like cousin Oliver, if that's what

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you cousin, Yes, yeah, yeah, he's starting to feel like

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that the the the unwanted child. I don't and I

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don't want that to happen because I really want the

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end of this series to be special, but I just

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he's just it's too much. I'm I want to see

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Pike and that crueity enterprise rather than than than Kirk.

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Cut back on it.

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Please. So do you think Kirk is just better at

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holding his liquor so to speak? Because he didn't seem

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drunk at all, Like that's why I was buying it

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he was a hallucination because he didn't seem to be

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affected one bit.

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Well, I'm not one certain he was there really or not.

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To tell you the truth, okay.

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I mean also that I found that they're unclear. I

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know they were leaning towards oh that's the real him,

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but I didn't think they were clear enough with it.

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I'm still totally baffled by I'm bafftly by the entire episode.

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And and but yeah, I don't know.

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I just got a lot of I don't know how

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to put it. I'm I'm I'm disappointed in the episode.

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I really am.

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Well, let's get back to one of the points that

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you said, Uh, I think you had said that the

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the Scutty Ortegis relationship, Yeah, that you had enjoyed where

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that was going. Let me pitch this over to Dave. Dave,

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what did you think of the development of their relationship.

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Where were some of the high points between Scotty undertake

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us for you?

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So I knew. I knew this was eventually going to

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clear up that because they've kind of been hinting to

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that this whole for this whole season, right, we we

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knew something like this was going to come along. So

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I'm glad they didn't take it at least I don't

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think they're going to take it to the whole romantic way.

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I hope they.

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I don't think so.

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I think that was it that would ruin that. But

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what I really liked about these characters is the fact

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that they were forced into working with one another which

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it's kind of like that action you know movie or

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whatever TV show where two characters don't like one another

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but they're forced they have to help each other to

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get through it. But in the end they find out,

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you know, they bond basically with each other, and they

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realized why they had been acting the way they'd been acting.

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They just didn't know each other's story until you had

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that scene where they finally realized. They talked about, you know,

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their family history and those kind of things, and where

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they came from and why they do what they do.

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And then once they came to that realization, then obviously,

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you know, they look through each other's eyes basically, and

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now they're getting along. And I like that, I really did.

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I knew that's where they were going to go with it.

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I didn't know it was going to be in this episode,

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but I'm a fan of it. I think the highlight

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of this entire episode was that bonding moment between the

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two of them when they were talking about their history

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and stuff like that. So I think that was the

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entire highlight of the episode.

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Yeah, I think it sets up kind of an interesting Obviously,

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it sets up more of a relationship between them to

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develop and I totally agree let's keep it a friendship,

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but also interesting that it sets up kind of an

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interesting dynamic between Scotty and Sulu in the future if

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Sulu happens to join before they send it out. I

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think it'll be interesting how he kind of takes on

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Sulu as a pilot, if he might say, you know,

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he still got kind of a chip on his shoulder

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with pilots in general, or if he starts to give

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them a little bit more leeway because of Erica. There

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was one part that may be nervous when they kind of,

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you know, exchange that moment in the shuttle and they're like, wow,

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I really wish I'd gotten to know you better, and

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I was.

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Like, don't go that way.

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Yeah. One of the one of the standout moments for

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me was when they had that kind of opening scene

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where they were kind of having that dual kind of

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perspective from one another, and you saw Erica tape over

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on the console where the exceeding parameters came up. I

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thought that was clever.

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Yeah, No, I just there was elements of this episode

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that we probably could have done without for sure, But

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you know, I was still entertained by it. I love

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the fact that I don't know what they're doing this season,

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but I feel like we've got themes going on here.

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So the first episode was Jurassic Park, Episode two was

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Event Horizon. Now episode three is the Hangover. So what's

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what's episode for going to be? I mean it seems

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like there's like movie themes throughout this season.

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Yeah, well, and it makes me wonder what the puppet

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episode is going to be? Right? Is that up Christmas Carol?

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I mean, yeah, they're not eating the muppets, so clearly

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who knows what they're going to do there?

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Yeah, somebody would be singing, moving and head long or

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something like that.

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I do like the nod to Scotty's finger. I thought

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that was kind of funny, the wrong finger, though I

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know it was the wrong finger, but it was still

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a nod.

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It was I agree. I thought that was that was

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pretty funny. Yeah.

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I thought I thought it was in good taste that

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they chose the wrong finger too, Yeah, because it would

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have been.

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Like, oh, I don't think they want to go in

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the middle.

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Yeah, I thought that was cool.

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Well, good, I'm gonna ask Davi. I'm gonna ask you

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this question that I'm gonna ask Wayne, who do you

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think was the or who is your favorite drunk in

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this episode?

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It has to be Scottie, Okay, it has to be because,

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I mean just the way he plays it off through

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the whole episode, because he's on screen a lot with Erica,

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so he has to do it a lot more than

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everybody else.

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And this is different from Hushine the most.

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Oh no, I know, Horror did a really good job too.

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Don't get wrong, She's a second clothes for me when

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it comes to beat especially her outfit. What the hell

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was that thing?

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You just you just know that Celia was just having

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a lot of fun with that she I mean, they

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all seemed like they were having a lot of fun

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with it, you know, for better or worse. But who

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do you think was the most entertaining of all the

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people that were affected by all this. You've got and

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Benga doing the cocktail thing. You've got Pike getting a tattoo,

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You've got Nurse Chapel with battle Bengo. Of of those,

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I know it wasn't your favorite episode, but which one

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do you think was the was the most entertaining of

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those little vignettes?

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I would have to agree with David. I've probably Scotty.

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I thought his drunk acting was the the least outrageous,

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the most tame he seemed to be. I would I

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would choose him. He held himself a little bit better.

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His storyline was progressed better in this episode despite the drunkenness. Yeah,

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I'm gonna choose him.

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Okay, I think you well. For me, it's a toss

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up between Pike and Chapel because you know that Anson

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Mountain Jess Bush both had a blast doing those I

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think Anson Mountain did a great job of leading into

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the whole like his mannerisms. It was very outside of

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you know, character for him. I think he did a

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fantastic job that made me laugh the whole way through.

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But if I had to choose a favorite, it's probably

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be a Nurse Chapel because it was the last thing

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I expected. Like, I didn't know there would be a

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Bengo hall in this. You know, it's like Las Vegas

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having a Bengo Hall, Like it doesn't really compute for me.

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But yeah, just to know that she was getting so

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irad with those older customers, I thought was pretty fun.

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Ancient mount can place some very weird, crazy people and

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do it really well off the wall. Cause remember he

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played the author last season and did an incredible job

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in that episode. Remember how goofy he was, and in

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this episode he's just crazy and then his his Vulcan

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that he did last year. Remember, Yeah, he does an

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incredible job of these very weird characters and just taking

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it to another level. So I agree with the only

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one that on Scott. I think antient mounted Pike in

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this one was getting the tachers and stuff. Just how

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he's kind of a little like over reacting to things

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was just hysterical.

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Yeah, I also think it's I thought it was clever,

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even though it did not work at all, but for

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him to have the tatt the tattoos kind of memorizing

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his speech, and then it just made it like, what

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was your plan with the face tattoo? Like, where were

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you going to a mirror or something with up?

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Did you notice that on his neck right right at

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the bottom of his neck you could barely see because

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the uniform or the outfit was covering a little bit.

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It was an upside down United Federation of Planets logo.

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Oh my god, does that mean they're in distress?

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Yeah?

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I do like flip me over on it or something, right.

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I thought it was crazy. One of the other favorite

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parts for me was in the transporter room when Kirk

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and Spock are standing there and Spock just blurts out

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Hallucination Beyond like it's a spell or something, and then

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gets the slap. I admit, like this this up that

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specifically took me to watches. The first watch is just

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to get a process, and I was like, that was fun,

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but I feel like there's some things that I missed.

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And then when I went through a second time, I

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think it gets better with a with a second viewing, Wayne,

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I went put you through that, Uh so totally fun.

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I did watch it two times.

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I had to.

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I had to to catch up the Easter eggs and stuff.

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But I felt the same way the second time as

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they did the first time.

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But can can we talk about the greatest mind meld

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of all the Star Trek mind melding with a plant?

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Come on?

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Now? I was going to argue with that. I was

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really going because I thought that was the stupidest thing

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I ever saw. But then I started realizing he has

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mine melded with other things other than living creatures, so are,

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you know, other than organic creatures. So I'm gonna throw

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all that away that that's that was fine.

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That he kept seeing them with plants.

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Yeah, okay, I will I will say that was pretty funny.

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That was weird. That was probably the weirdest Star Trek

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has ever got when she became a cactus. But that

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was pretty funny.

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I thought it was a nice touch how they had

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the pot scooting on the floor. Yeah she was You

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could hear that.

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Yeah yeah.

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And I was having kind of an extra nerd moment

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in the plant mild scene because I feel like there's

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a spell in D and D five e that lets

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you like talk with a plant or something like that,

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and I was like, oh wait, I've done that before.

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That was kind of fun. Last thing that I want

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to throw out before to take a quick break is

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just a shout out to Dave Foley from Kids in

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the Hall. Oh yeah, making the appearance here. It seemed

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like he was that was such a Kids in the Hall.

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Character, and realized it was him right away until the

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second viewing, and I forgot all about that he was

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hearing this season.

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So I'm hoping he's a Star Trek fan, and I'm

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hoping this is kind of a dream realized for him,

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so I always love to see that. All right, Well,

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let's get a cup of coffee and when we'll take

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a quick break and we'll be right back after these messages. Okay, listeners,

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welcome back. We're talking about the latest episode of Strange

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New Worlds. Wayne has already told us so much about

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how it's his favorite episode of Well, let's get into

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some of our standards. So of the crew members, which

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one shined the most? And the day will go to

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you first.

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I'm going to do it two for here. I'm going

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with Erica and Scottie on this one, just because they

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carried this episode. And I kind of already mentioned the

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scene that I thought they shined the most where they

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finally broke down and listened to each other and got

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to learn more about themselves and then started working with

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Phasers Set To Stun: Strange New Worlds S4. E3 - Human Best Friend

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