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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 back to an all new episode of Phasers Set
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to Stun, where we continue to show our love for
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everything Star Trek in this ongoing series from a film
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by podcast which focuses on every system of the expanding
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Star Trek universe by covering television, movies, animation, directors, merchandise,
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and much much more. Plotting your course on this voyage
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of the USS Centerprise is your Core Trek crew. I'm
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Wayne Whited, I'm David.
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Burns, and I'm Scott Hoffman, and.
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Today we're talking about the fourth episode of the fourth
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season of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, titled A Case
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of Living Get sure I pronounce it's right, A Case
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of Kia Roscorro, which is written by Scholar Ojetta and
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Dana Horgan and directed by Mina Minnin. So from this
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point on, it's red alert, folks. There are spoilers at
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head and by now you should have went over by
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parent to pair them mount plus and watch the episode.
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So sit back, relax, and have a listen to what
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we have to say about this week's episode, Scott, why
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don't you give us a short summary of it?
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Sure so? Directed by Mira Menon and written by Skyler
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O Jetta and Dana Horgan, A small problem soon becomes
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the spark of a dangerous situation as a starfleet probe
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malfunctions and drifts into Klingon space. If the kling else detected,
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if they see a Federation ship go after it, hostilities
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could resurface and trigger another coss the war. Since the
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Enterprise is too big, d o One noticed Captain Pike
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Sen's commander Uni Chinbriley, doctor Mbinga, and Ohura in his
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shuttlecraft to retrieve it. An unexpected close call with a
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Cleon cruiser forces them to land on a nearby planet
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that's currently under Clanon occupation. That planet just happens to
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be in a system where a radiation from a nearby
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star causes everyone to see in black and white, and
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the occupied civilization resembles nineteen forty s Perth. This there
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is an intriguing setting for this episode's adventures, which finds
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the crew stringed on the planet and Una mistaken for
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a mysterious Resistance leader. As the crew struggles to keep
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a low profile, Una and her crew get pulled deeper
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into the resistance rolls on the eve of a Klingon
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plot that would trap everyone on the surface under Klingon rule. Meanwhile,
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on the Enterprise, Laon finds evidence of possible tampering with
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the pro Bid transport. Either her paranoia is escalating and
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she's losing more control of herself, or someone in the
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Enterprise is harboring a secret the compromises her trust. It's
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an episode full of mystery and suspense, all set in
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a chiaroscuro world.
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You have a better way of saying than and I do.
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That's my kryptonite, that word.
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Apparently you're the one that jumped in front of it.
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You know, I have been practicing that night. I screwed
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it up. Anyways, So what do you guys think about
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this episode?
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My first reaction, I liked it. Honestly. It was something
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I was kind of expecting from the opening credits when
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it had that kind of the spotlight kind of searching around.
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I was expecting that it would be you know, full
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of like cheesy forties dialogue, like a Dixon Hill kind of,
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you know, kind of thing, and I'm glad they didn't
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go into it. So I was pleasantly surprised. I wouldn't
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say it's one of my favorites, but I think it was.
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It was shot well, it was written well, and yeah,
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not disappointed, but Dave rob too.
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I mean, I like the episode. I guess I'm getting
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I'm starting getting tired of the gimmick episodes that we're
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getting a lot of, and then we have another one
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next week. I guess I'm getting a little frustrated with him.
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But you know, I get the whole black and white thing.
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I think that was kind of cool for the fact
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that you're here we go again with another movie theme,
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Casa Blanca, and then Una conveniently looks like somebody from
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this planet. You know.
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I think I think we're getting close to jumping the
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shark on this episode. I thought it was okay. I
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like the ending stuff. I thought that was pretty good.
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I mean, it did feel like more of an original
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Star Trek episode, I will say that than what we have.
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But it is definitely my least favorite episode of this
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season so far. I thought de More Barnes, who played
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Command of Corps, was awesome. I thought he did a
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really good job at Core. I loved the shock treatment
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scene of a horror kind of reminded me of The
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too convenient of an episode that's interesting.
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I actually really liked this episode, you know, compared to
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last week. Yeah, I mean, you're right. It's it's basically
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just film noir film. They are doing the the film
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genre of the of the week, it seems like. But
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I like the black and white look. I like the
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the art deco stylings that they did for this episode,
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the characters. But I think probably what I like the
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most is I like the slower pace that this episode
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had because it kind of uh made me. It made
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it feel like an original series episode to me, and
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I think that worked for them. But you know, the
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three characters, Una and the Benga, you're her, they all
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had really good parts here, and you know it, it's
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just the whole thing felt like an original series episode.
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You got cling on the trouble, you got the the longer, slow,
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longer conversations. Plus you got, as you just mentioned, the
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the appearance of Core from the Radial series. But I
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just I thought the characters were brilliant, especially Una. I
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love her characters so much, and I'm really glad that
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she had a lot to do, a really good script
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for her, because she hasn't had much to do this
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season in my opinion, you know, I just I just
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really enjoyed it. And and I know, you know, this
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whole doppelganger, you know, the explanation that they came up with,
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it might be a little bit too convenient, but if
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I think back at how many times Star Trek has
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actually done something like that, yeah, I can forget it,
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especially you know, if you think about the Mirror Universe
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and what they've done. But I thought it was a
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really good balance both with the concept and the actual telling,
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like a solid Star Trek stories.
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You know, I agree about it her on both your accounts.
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I thought, you know, the mention of the interrogation scene
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was pretty impressive. It kind of give me some D
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and D vibes. How she was able to like, you know, oh,
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I speak to Gaul or whatever. That was that kind
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of dialect that she was able to translate. I thought
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that came in handy. I wasn't necessarily clear on how
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the interrogation was supposed to work. Was it kind of
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like a light detector that gives you a shock if
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you don't get something truthful or right or was it
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just kind of this conditioning that every once in a
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while they'll get some giant shock that'll prevent them from lying.
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It will, but the more they lie, the more the
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greater the shock. It's not let's just say Core has
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used it before.
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Okay, Okay, fair enough, Okay, Dave. What were your thoughts
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on the on the subplot, on the enterprise with la
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On and the eventual you know, realization of his travel alone.
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I did kind of like that twist at the end
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of all of it that was unique into the fact
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that you know, she had to basically hide it knowing
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that the Klingons can't find out about it, obviously, and
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obviously the Starfillet can't either. So that just tells you
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who can they trust, who can they not trust?
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So, and even at the very end, does Pike know
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because the way he said, if you ever do come
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up with something, you know, you go come back and
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talk to me about it. It's almost like Pike New Yeah.
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I got that impression too, that he suspects something very new.
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need to write off.
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This show is Asha. Oh thank you for sich.
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I cannot stand her character and she needs to go away.
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I was going to bring that she just rubs me
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the wrong way. I mean, you know, by this time
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in Star Trek history, you know the Vulcans and the
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humans are working together that they should at least may
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not like one another, but they've got a working relationship.
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But this her character feels like something out of like Enterprise,
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where you know, where the Vulcans like hated they look
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down at humans as a subspecies, and I just I
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don't like that as a character. She doesn't seem to
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work well. She definitely doesn't work well with the other
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other characters. I guess I was expecting something more like
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what to Lend from Lower Decks, but that is definitely
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not what we're getting. I just I hope that the
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writers are going somewhere with that character, and it's more
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than just her being an asshole to everyone because right
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now I don't like her at all.
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I hope they do, because I feel like, if it's not,
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this is just the waste of everybody's time. Why even
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introduce this character if you don't have any kind of
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plan with her? Yeah, you guys, right now, she is
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just a waste of space on that ship.
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I understand adding conflict, but no, no, this isn't working.
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This is not the conflict that we need on the
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ship right now.
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No, what is it with the medical team hiding all
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these secrets? And Bing has got a bunch of secrets
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he's trying to hide, which you know, and something of
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them know about it now now, chap But what's going
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on with the medic team on this ship? Well?
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of the I don't know if it's like a friendship
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role or a counselor role or a little bit of
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both with Laan, which makes this situation in this episode
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interesting because you know, Laan is fighting this idea that like,
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you know, I'm I'm evolving into something that's going to
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fulfill the destiny and make me the person that everybody
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thought I would eventually be. So despite all my efforts to,
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you know, write my own story, it's already written for me.
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Or it's going to a place that's completely out of
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my control and it could be worse than I imagined.
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So she has these feelings of self doubt. These feelings
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are paranoia, which are both dangerous for a security officer.
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Maybe in some ways good for security offera I have,
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but could be dangerous in terms of like compromising her
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own kind of self trust. But she's she's getting counseling
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for some from someone who is a friend who is
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trying to, you know, kind of coach her through it
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and say like, you're not losing control. And then that
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person happens to be the one that has been causing
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the paranoia and causing a lie that she has to hide.
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I completely agree. I think Pike knows, and I think
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it was an interesting exchange with him to say, you know,
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he doesn't lead on that he suspects something. I think
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his very brief exchange is meant to say, like, I
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know that there's something you're hiding, or I know that
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there's something more to it, because I trust that this
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is not paranoia, but I also trust that you're doing
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the right thing with that information. So just know that
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I know something else is going on, but I'm not
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going to push it at this time because that's not
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important for you. So it's kind of interesting. Their dynamics
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with la On makes me more even more curious about
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where her character is going to go. If it's some
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place where she's like, I can't do this anymore and
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she has to give up her post. Hopefully doesn't lead
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to that, Hopefully it doesn't lead to something worse. But
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I just think it's interesting, like the dynamos three of
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them and where long might be going.
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Yeah, yeah, well we know the secrets don't hurt Chapel.
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But my personal theory is that everything that that that
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that is going on with the Benga is going to
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be his downfall and that's why he's taken off the
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Chief Medical Officers position. That's just my theory. I don't know,
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but I feel like that we're beginning to see maybe
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a little bit of the leading story that's going to
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go up to that. Yeah, I don't know, we don't
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We still don't know. It's all guesswork when it comes
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to some of these characters and what's where they're going
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to end up at. But it's it's going to be
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happening soon with them.
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Oh yeah, I mean we're running out of episodes, all right.
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I do want to say the I always talk about
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their special effects, and they're That really cool shot of
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the shuttle going down to the clouds I thought was
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incredibly well done. I was.
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I was just gonna say, I think it's interesting how
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they set this up episode in black and white. It
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seems to be unlike some of the other black and
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white episode that I've seen them do with this. Obviously
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Voyager Head there's but the fact that they're not able
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to see color seems like it would be extraordinarily difficult
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for them to use their controls. Everything is touch panels,
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everything's color coded. That would be like a you know,
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a Sigmon, a nineteen eighties Simon game to do your controls.
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Everything's black and white. So I don't know how they
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fly the ship.
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that they were struggling with that on the.
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the end, just when she's looking at a reflection.
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I thought that was pretty cool. That was nice. I
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like the visual effect at the end that was that
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was pretty cool. Nice way to end the episode.
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All right, we're going to take a quick break in
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the recreation room and then we'll be back shortly. And
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now we're back on the bridge and ready to continue
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our discussion on this week's episode. Now that we've given
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our thoughts and opinions, let's take a look at the
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characters themselves. Which character do you think shine the most? David,
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I have to go with Una without question.
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that held everything together, and the mere fact that when
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she was given the opportunity to take the easy way out,
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you know, to just go ahead and leave because it
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wasn't their problem, she thought back to her remembered her
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past and knew that she wasn't going to let that
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happen this time, and she was going to stay and
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make sure she righted that wrong, even though you know,
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she knew the person she was playing was dead and
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gone and they didn't have that leader anymore, and she
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wasn't going to abandon them in that situation, even menbinga
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brings up that that you know, you don't belong here,
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You're not that person, you know, and he's trying to
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plead with her to get to go to get out
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of there, and she didn't want to hear it, and
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he basically told her, you know, you don't don't die,
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don't kill yourself because of this. But then she finds
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her way out of it. Instead of her being the
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one you know, ignites that was MP.
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I believe it was the MP.
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off and does it, so I thought that was a
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unique twist to that as well. But without question, I
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think Una was the brilliant character in this episode.
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Scott, what about you?
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I agree, But I also wouldn't give credit to another character.
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I think, at least in the well in the beginning
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of most of the episode, I would say doctor am
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Benga for helping his crew navigate the mission without getting
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caught and keeping his composure during a mission that hits
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close to home for a certain In a certain regard,
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I think he had a great way of kind of
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I've never seen that kind of espionage side of him,
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but you could see a lot of his war history
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kind of coming out, being able to kind of coach
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Bahura to not act too quickly, to be able to
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blend in a little bit better. Same way uh ownA,
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helping her to you know, hold back when her was
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getting arrested, being kind of her the guide for both
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of them. Honestly through the episode, I think he did
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a great job. Wayne, What about you.
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Well, I'm glad you guys chose those characters because I
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actually chose you're her. I really think she shines. I
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think all three of them actually shine. But I just
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really like how how she came through in this episode.
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She's you know, put in this situation where she's forced
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to think, you know, on her feet, and she just
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really proves how capable she's becoming, which is something we've
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seen her and her character grow over the last four years.
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You know, she's not just tagging along. She's she's actively
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figuring things out. She's dealing with the Klingon, she's staying calm.
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I like, senior confidence grow this character from from being
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young and new to being a valuable crew member of
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the Enterprise. You know, it's she's she's leading her way
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to the way we aw the character from the original series.
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I think she's doing both the character the actress is
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doing both the character of view Heura and the legacy
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of Michelle Nichols justice. Really with everything she's done, I
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just I just loved every scene that they did with
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her and her interaction with the other characters.
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That's a good point.
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Well, if you have any choice to be any of
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the characters that appeared in this episode, which one would
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it be? And why Scott you begin this one?
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Well following it you were just saying, I go with
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a Herah for being able to not only apply the
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shuttle in a black and white backdrop, she would probably
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welcome any of the new alerts from Scotty, I would think,
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and being able to understand that rare cleon dialect came
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in clutch exactly what it was supposed to. I don't
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know that i'd be so keen on the torture aspect
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of it, but I'm always kind of a fan of, like,
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you know, being able to code languages, so I think
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that that was kind of a cool part of it.
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So en we hear role that I'd be, I'd be
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a crying mess with that torture. So there's there's no
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way I want to do that character.
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No, thank you. They know everything.
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Yeah, but they would know everything and anything about me
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about starkly everything if I was bid the one being tortured.
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So uh, they just bring out the torture device and say, okay,
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there you go.
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Yeah, you've got five flights there, I get it. We're good,
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let's go, let's let's move along. I'm good. No, I'm
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I'm going to cop out on this one. And I'm
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gonna say Captain Pike because he has the easiest job
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in this episode. He literally just has to sit back
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and do pretty much nothing in this episode except listen
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to people talk.
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I'm good with that.
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So that's what I'm going with.
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I to cook in this episode episode we haven't seen him,
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and the would be chaos.
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Or shop his fingers off.
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Gosh, that again good choices. But I'm actually going to
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go with with number one Una again this week because
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I did last week, because you know, this is one
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of those episodes where you're really get to see how
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great of a character she is. You know, she's she's
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in this here. She's tough, intelligent, she's calm, she knows
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when to bluff, you know, take a risk, she just
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did a fantastic job. I'd love to be like that. Plus,
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you know, we got to see a little bit of
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her emotional side, especially when she deals with those you know,
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grets from her past and and everything at the end.
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I love that re Becca Mains doing a fantastic job here.
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She really has that that quality to lead this episode,
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and I enjoyed seeing her take this center stage. You know,
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it'd be a great adventure to go on in my opinion.
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Let's say I think the Black and White school. All right,
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now comes a section where we dive deep into the
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episode and see if we can't pull out any Easter eggs.
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And there were quite a few good ones here in
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this episode. But did you two find any Easter eggs?
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She'd like to mention, No.
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I couldn't find any. I mean, well, it's a black
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and white world, so it all blended into the grass.
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Yeah, all right, I'm going to get this out out
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of the way right away. I'm going to explain this
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title and I'm going to try to pronounce it again,
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so I apologize it.
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Here we go again.
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Kierrusscorro is an art form that utilizes the contrast between
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light and dark which is kind of both a reflection
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of the story that's happening on the planet as well
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as the fact that the episode is broadcast black and white.
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But okay, well start with the big one, of course,
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The big easter egg this episode is the appearance of
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Commander Core. You know, this is not a new character.
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This is the same character that originally was played by
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John Kalikas in the original series episode Aaron of Mercy,
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which is also the episode that first introduced the Klingons
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to Star Trek. Kalikos returned to play the character several
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times in the nineteen nineties on Star Trek d Space nine,
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in the episode's Blood Oath, the Sword of call It
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KALs guse Me, and once more, Onto the Breach. Corr
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also appeared in the animated series episode The Time Track,
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but in that episode he was voiced by Jimmy Dooon.
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But that means Core is the Klingon to have appeared
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in the most Star Trek series, now, beating Wharf, who
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had just appeared in three Now. Core is described in
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the episode as a descendant of the Klingon Imperial family
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and of Kaylus the Unforgettable. That is very correct, as
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general Martek describes Kor in exactly the same way and
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d S nine's wants More onto the Breach. Now, if
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you think you've heard that Klingon drinking song before, you're
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not wrong. That same song was sung by some very
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drunk Klingons in the DS nine episode The Way of
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the Warrior, as well as in the Voyager episode Prophecy,
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and in Barge to the Dead where the doctor in
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seven of nine sing it. Now we mentioned before the
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mind scanner. That mind scanner that Core used to interrogate
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you her is the same thing that he used to
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interrogate Spock in that first episode Aaron a Mercy. Now
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Scotty tells lawn Cross my heart hope to get stuck
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in a pattern buffer. Well, mister Scott, that lies in
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your future, because you end up in the USS Jan
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Nolan's pattern buffer for seventy five years until Jordia LaForge
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finds you in the Next Generation episode Relics. I love
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that little call off to that.
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I felt so bad for him, just like Oh.
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Now, you'll notice that the Klingons D seven battle Cruiser
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wasn't hidden, and that there was no mention of cloaking
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device or cloaking in this episode. That's very correct for
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continuity because at this point in Star Trek history, the
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Klingons didn't have that technology yet. They don't get that
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until they form an alliance with the Romulns just a
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few years after the events here. And now, finally, I want,
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and I seem to do this a lot for this season,
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I want to address the proverbial Star Trek elephant in
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the room. All Right, this is a big one. And
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I see a lot of people talking about the Klingons appearance.
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You know, it's been widely established in Star Trek continue
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as to why the Klingons look like what they did
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in the original series, which is so different from the
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ridged head versions we see in the movies and then
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the later series. In the Star Trek Enterprise episode Divergence,
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it was explained that in the twenty second century, a
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group of Klingon researchers messing around with genetically modified human
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embryos left over from Earth's Eugenics Wars, created an augment
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virus that escaped and threatened to wipe out the entire
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Klingon Empire. A cure was discovered with the help of
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doctor Phlox from the Enterprise, but millions had already been
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infected before the cure was administered, which caused their appearance
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to change and their head ridges to dissolve. But by
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the twenty fourth century, this offshoot of the Klingons began
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to fade, and the effected Klingons regained their original ridged traits,
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and the whole thing had mostly been forgotten. That's why
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Bashir and O'Brien didn't recognize the Klingons and Trials and Tribulations,
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and why the three returning Klingons in Blood Oath, which
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were Core, King and Coloth, looked like the modern Klingons
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and not the way they did in the original series.
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But here Core should have looked like what he did
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in the original series. It seems that the production team
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for Strange New Worlds, they seem to be treating the
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thing as like an artifact of the original series rather
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than something from continuity. And that's I find that rather weird,
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because they went out of the way to make this
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series really stick to establish continuity, but here they just
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kind of ignored it. But it's a strange choice to
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make to just ignore it like it never happened. But
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I'm willing to overlook this mistake, but I'm not really
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sure if you can call it that, you know, a mistake.
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I don't know. I'm as everybody knows, I'm a dedicated
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fan of Doctor Who, and I'm trained overlook these continuity errors,
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which but this has caused quite a ruckus with the fans,
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and I'm not sure that this was the right choice
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to make for a series that's trying to wind over
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those diehard original series of viewers. You just everybody's got
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to have their opinion. Well, that's it for this week's
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episode of Phaser Set to Stun and our look at
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the newest episode of Strange New Worlds. We'd like to
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open a channel to our listeners and here just what
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out as well, a big, big thank you to my
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fellow trekkers David and Scott for joining me and the
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listeners for another trip into the twenty third century.
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Absolutely yeah, thanks many coming in the way.
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Yeah, and as I mentioned, we're not even halfway through
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this season and that next episode will be titled Level
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five Transporter Accident and the official Paramount Plus blurb is
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a transporter malfunction transmosts to the crew into puppets and
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where Spock fights to reclaim the ship. So it's that episode,
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that infamous puppet episode as we mentioned, So it should
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be a very interesting discussion next week when we return
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to the bridge of the Enterprise and to you, our
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listeners on the next episode of Phasers, set to stun
