Phasers Set To Stun: Strange New Worlds S4. E6 - Off Hour

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1:02 I'm Scott Hoffman. And I'm Wayne Whited. Welcome back to The Bridge. On this episode, we are continuing our discussion on Season 4 of Strange New Worlds with a very intense Edge of Your Seat Episode 6 Off Hour written by Bill Wilcoff and directed by Dan Liu. But before we do that... I would like to call out that not only is Star Trek celebrating an anniversary this year with its 60th, but we here at Phaser have a reason to also celebrate. This is our 100th episode of Phaser Set to Stun, gentlemen. Yay. That's right. We can officially be syndicated now.

1:44 Wait, wait, wait. Get that producer on the line. That's right. Our agency is having a discussion. Well, it's a great sign that there's like, you know, this started out with new shows to talk about. Yeah. Right? Like we've been able to fill the space with talking about a lot of other things, but like it's a good sign that there's that much new that's able to contribute to that hundred. Yeah. And I believe we started, wasn't it called Strange New Wednesdays? Isn't that how we started? Yeah, it was season two. Yeah. So, I mean, we have really grown. from where we were. We've covered a lot, but there is still a lot to come. We don't know what the future holds for Star Trek, for the new stuff that is.

2:27 We still got a lot of older stuff to go back through. But we don't know what the future holds. We know there's some good stuff coming. They just haven't announced it yet, and I'm excited to dig into that eventually with you guys. I love chatting with you guys about this stuff, so thanks for making me part of the ride. Absolutely. We're all big Trekkies. We just love talking about this forever. We do. Exactly. Exactly. We've got many, many years of content to come. So stick with us, listeners. We're in it for the long haul. We're going to be doing this until we're 90. Probably. Yeah. We probably will be. Yeah. All right. Red alert, listeners. If you are not caught up with the series, please go do so. There are many spoilers ahead. Please, we do not want to ruin this one because this is a fantastic ride of an episode.

3:10 We'll be right here on the bridge waiting. All right. Let's transport into the episode. Scott, why don't you tell us what this episode is all about? Shift happens, but sometimes that next shift doesn't happen soon enough. After a hard week, 5 o'clock on Friday still holds a lot of stress, relieving power, even in the far-off future and the deep reaches of space. Our core crewmates are waiting for a shift change after a long week, and their off-hour is just within reach. Una starts early in a lounge with La'an and Spock, Pike, Uhura, and Ortegas get ready to shut down the bridge until a last-minute check pops up. Scotty is getting ready for the new Bessards in Engineering with bleary eyes, while Chapel and Mbenga are arguing about leaving each other behind in Medical just as another doctor is rejoining the crew. Before any of them can take their much-needed downtime, disaster strikes. Scotty calls for an emergency shutdown of the engines just a few seconds too late as the Enterprise is caught in the pull of a wormhole that causes it to accelerate beyond control. The bridge controls become electrified, making any control deadly.

4:16 All sensors go offline except for one. Engineering floods with lethal levels of neutrinos after Scotty leaves, and he's thrown into several situations that force him to become the miracle worker that we know him to be. Meanwhile, in the lounge where the new doctor is trapped, gravity goes haywire and causes pockets that crush everything from pianos to people, including Una's leg. Nurse Chapel and Dr. Mbenga also contend with the crushing danger of their own as Mbenga saves Chapel from a runway medbed, only to become pinned by it himself and cutting him almost in half. It's a series of disasters with a countdown of 45 minutes that threatens key members of our crew and the Enterprise itself.

4:56 The only solution is to rely on a theoretical application of a theoretical type of neutrino and each crew member having faith in each other and their ship. It's an off hour that will dramatically change the crew, and leave them needing at least an off day to recover. Thanks, Scott. You know, this was a fantastic episode. And that's not, you know, if you haven't seen it, you're not going to understand it, right? I felt worn out watching this episode by the time it ended. Because there's so much going on. There's a lot happening in this. You know, the seeds are starting to be planted in regards to Membinga. So I'm glad that we're moving in that direction. I love the fact that they introduced two original characters, Dr. Boyce from The Cage and Incinrata from Season 3, which survives, which I think that is awesome. Pike, proving again how much he cares about his crew because he risked death by electrocuting himself. I'm like, dude, come on, Pike.

5:53 But I guess any captain would do that to protect his crew, right? But, you know, I absolutely love this episode. So what do you guys thought? Wayne, you go first. I really liked it, too. I mean, it's obvious they're sticking with the genre of the week style here. I think this is disaster movies, although it really reminded me more of the TV show 24 than the actual disaster films that they were trying to emulate. But I enjoyed it. I mean, there's a lot of action, a lot of things going on with this episode. But I think the reason why I enjoyed it the most was more the personal stories because there's a lot, and I mean a lot, of character moments happening in this episode. And this episode really pushes... forward the storyline of the season that they're doing. I think Mbinga and Chapel's story, I think that was probably the most important one that came out of this and probably the one that I enjoyed the most. Seeing Nurse Chapel refuse to give up on him really shows, has some emotional weight to it, really shows how they've grown together. And it makes me kind of worried and sad that we are going to lose Mbinga. as chief medical officer. But, I mean, I like the Pellia and Scotty story. It was a great episode, but it reminded me a lot of, remember the Next Generation episode, Disaster? Very, very similar to that. Almost pretty much the same thing happened there that happens here. But

7:25 the big difference is with there, it was mostly just about the disasters and the crew's each crew member trying to get through it here, they all kind of came together and, you know, work together in their separate areas to solve this. And I think that's what pushed this above disaster, which isn't the greatest episode in the first place, the next generation, but, um, this is a good episode of strange new worlds. Yeah. Scott, what about you? I totally agree. I mean, edge of my seat, nail binding the entire time, specifically because of the chapel and binga, um, scenario, Um, totally agree. This is a lot of growth between them. Um, I'm glad that it didn't end in Mbinga's death. I was very afraid of that. Um, because we're not used to seeing him. So it feels like there needs to be some kind of departure happening. I hate to have it happen in this way. Although if it was his death episode, it would be a good one to go out on. Um, it's a horrifying scenario that doesn't seem possible. Um, But really well done, really well paced, the tension and the action with what's happening there. And I think it shows Nurse Chapel proving herself as far as what kind of a physician she's going to be. Practically, Dr. Boyce's orders from the lounge probably should have followed his orders,

8:55 but she knows better. she knows that, you know, there's nobody in critical condition in the lounge. So she needs to stay here with Dr. Mbenga. Uh, and I totally agree with her call there. Um, this is one episode that I'd recommend watching a couple of times just because it's so well done, but also because it gives you a chance to be able to follow different segments of it. Um, throughout, because I was so fixated on chaplain and mega, I was just like, keep getting back to medical bay. I just need to know what happens. Um, But a lot of good action all around. Dave, what about you? Well, I think one of the things they did really well with is balance. I know we have a story-heavy load with Chapel and Mimbinga, and we've got, you know, with Scotty and Pellia. But they did such a good job of balancing the entire crew throughout this episode, you know, and moving in and out of the things that they were trying to do to make sure the ship, was able to get out from where they were at. So I think the scriptwriters actually did a really good job with that across the board. Chappell, I felt, stole the show.

10:05 That's kind of giving away what I'm going to say at the end of this. But she stole the show. I love the conversation. She already had her mind made up. Scott, you mentioned it when Dr. Boyce reached out and said you need to get him to leave him alone she already made her mind up because she said to Mimbinga earlier that she won't fare well under Boyce and she already knows that in her head so she's already got it set in her head that she's going to leave the Enterprise because of Boyce there's just end of story so when he reaches out and commands her to leave Mimbinga there ain't no way in hell she's going anywhere and I don't blame her I wouldn't either you know Those two have proven how much they love one another.

10:47 And I'm not saying it as a boyfriend and girlfriend. I'm just saying that friend love. And you can see it. They care deeply for one another, which is why they argued so heavily there in the medical bay before all the crap hit the fan. And it just showed you their friendship they had there. And the whole episode I thought was fantastic. I really, I love the fact that we get where Scotty becomes in tune with the Enterprise. And when he's touching the wall and getting that from Pellia. And, you know, I absolutely loved that so much. It gives me such a deeper meaning now for Scotty. Not only that, but now the impact that Star Trek 3 now has when he watches the Enterprise get destroyed. Now when he sees that and goes through that has a completely different meaning to me now when I watch Star Trek 3.

11:37 Yeah. So. There's so much happiness episode. And, you know, you guys have heard me. I missed the last episode with you guys. But I'm tired of the gimmick episodes. This was not a gimmick episode. This is exactly what this crew needed to start pushing the characters forward because we don't have very many episodes left with these people. We don't. We're on episode six. And we got, what, four left here. And we've got, what, six in season five. Is that correct? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now, I will go back and say, since I wasn't with you guys, the puppet episode I thought was fantastic. I really do. I loved it. I laughed from beginning to end. It's unanimous. It was great.

12:19 So I don't want to put that episode down, listeners. I loved it very much. I'm sad that I missed that episode with this bridge crew. But to get back to this one, I absolutely loved, loved this episode. Well, this was a gimmick episode, but Being a disaster, the gimmick being a disaster movies. I mean, that's what Star Trek is. It's like disaster of the week anyways. And that's why it worked. That's why it didn't seem like a gimmick is because it was, but it wasn't yet. It's Star Trek. And that works. I want to also bring out that I thought the visual effects in this episode were absolutely fantastic. Especially that when the Enterprise was being battered by the slipstream wormhole. I thought that was especially really good, especially those exterior shots. And Spock's spacewalk, that definitely was the standout. The lighting, the effects, camera work. Actually, it made it feel very dangerous. I love that. But what I noticed was that unlike a lot of earlier Star Trek where they have to cut away real quick, they can't afford to do these longer effects, they held on to the effects so that we could actually see Look at them and enjoy them instead of cutting away.

13:28 And I really appreciate that because they were some beautiful effects this episode. I felt like we were in that suit with Spock when he was climbing, when he was crawling along the outer of the ship and the stuff that was hitting him and he was trying to get there. And how intense that was when Pike had to like launch that out of there and thinking Spock was in it because they couldn't get a hold of him. Just how intense all of that sequence was, which is when Leon had to go out. to see if he was there. All of that was fantastic. But to go back to special effects, Wayne, when the ship was getting out of that stream at the end, dude, that was an incredible shot. That was. I loved that shot. You know, we don't talk about the visual effects too much other than every now and then, but the series has just been outstanding every episode. It seems like they push their boundaries, they see what they can do, and they always accomplish a miracle when it comes to Star Trek. It's absolutely beautiful.

14:23 Yep. I don't know about you guys. The makeup effects, too. Oh, yeah. Yes, exactly. We don't want to forget about that either. Especially Spock's moment where he has that kind of, you know, it feels like it's a callback to, what was it? The Balance of Terror episode where you saw that Spock had the same kind of, you know, result that Pike did. The damage that he had, I missed that on the first viewing, but on the second viewing, when you really pay attention to it, there's a lot of damage there and it's a big fallback to Wrath of Khan. Yep. Um, yeah. And it was, that was one of my favorite moments of the episode when Lon did basically a voluntary almost reverse mind meld. I'm not sure how to characterize it, but the, the connection that she had with Spock, just like the, even through all his, you know, um, battered face, she was able to, to read, um, what she thought he wanted to do. And, uh, I've never seen that kind of thing done, and I thought it was a brilliant twist.

15:27 Yeah. Scott, you mentioned in your synopsis about Una getting her leg shattered. Dude, I came out of my chair in agony when that happened. That was gruesome. Oh, my gosh, that was brutal. Well, and just thinking about that scenario, not only are you in. Because it seemed like there were pockets of invisible space where gravity was stronger than everything else. It wasn't that everybody got smushed. So you had to navigate this minefield of gravity. It was awful. Another thing I thought this episode did an extremely good job with was the split screen. Yes, that was fantastic.

16:07 That was so well done. Especially when there's three of them going back to different areas as they're talking. It would move. Dude, I thought that was so well done and added to the intensity of this episode. Yeah, between that and the ticking clock, that's what reminded me most about the series 24, which I thought was a fantastic show. Yeah. Yeah, I'm glad they did that because that was pretty cool. That was pretty cool for Star Trek. Wayne, even to keep up the. Go ahead, Scott. No, I was just going to say the use of the countdown having kind of two purposes, right? Knowing that the ship would disintegrate if they went much further, but then also knowing that Mbenga would only be able to survive so long being held together by a med bed. Yeah.

16:53 Yeah. I want to go back to the one scene that you mentioned with Spock being outside. You know, not only was that a cool shot, but I thought the score was fantastic. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Melvin's score. She does fantastic. She always does. And I never mentioned it last episode, too, which I thought that score was wonderful. This one in so dramatic. I hope we get a soundtrack for this season. I do, too. Yeah, surely we will. Surely we will. We'll wait until the season wraps up and then we'll get a release for it. There was a lot of character development in this episode. There's one I wanted to point out that a lot of people I think may have missed in this, and that's with Pike. I mean, he had some to do in this episode, but not nearly as much as before.

17:35 But remember back in the first season episode, the finale, was it A Quality of Mercy? Pike's hesitation for everything he was doing because he was always second-guessing himself. That's what started that war and created that ultimate timeline. But here in this episode, if you noticed, he doesn't hesitate once. He makes those snap decisions and he sticks with it, like injecting the pod. And I really like that they've showed that he has grown over the last couple of years, that big character growth with him, along with all the other characters. I appreciated that from the writers. Yeah, I agree. I also see, to go back to talking about Paley and Scotty here, you can kind of feel it's moving into Scotty taking over the ship a little bit, right? It's not, though, because Peli is still there.

18:23 But you can see she's starting to prepare Scotty for a bigger role. And not if she realizes that's coming or not, because I love the dialogue between the two. And when she was basically trying to distract him to make him feel comfortable. And, you know, when he was saying, like, after the star diver, you know, I can't keep doing this. And she was like, yes, you can. I can tell you why. Because starships are also capable of miracles, if you listen. I felt that was such a good dialogue scene between those two characters. And man, every time they switch to Pellia's room, I'm always looking around like, ooh, what's back there? Ooh, ooh, ooh. Looking all around her room, trying to figure out what is there. There's a Nintendo. I saw that.

19:05 I did. The gumball machine. I saw all kinds of stuff back there. But no. It's like that Incredible Hulk, Future Imperfect. issue where you see like that you know big throne room for the maestro with all the like professor x's chair and like. A oh yes that's right yep yep that's. Exactly pelio's room to me i'm always it's wayne's heaven of easter eggs it is. It is exactly what it is but no it's i i thought a lot of that was tremendously well done by the writers and the creators of this uh I think this is probably the best episode of the season in my eyes. I love the opening, don't get me wrong, but I feel like this one really knocked it apart for the character development.

19:49 I really do. They did. They did. What did you guys think about the introduction or reintroduction of Dr. Piper? Or did I miss the... Dr. Boyce, excuse me. Dr. Boyce. Dr. Boyce, yeah. I liked it. I do love the fact that they had a martini with an olive in his glass. Yeah. Which is a refer back to the cage, which I thought was fantastic. I love that. I saw that right away. I was like, holy crap, look at that. That was awesome. But I liked that they introduced his character because it gives us a little bit more of that OG vibe, right? Well, it makes me wonder what they're doing with the character. Because really, I mean, it's a character with an open slate. I mean, they can do anything they want with him. Yeah. But why they reintroduced him now... makes me think that they've got something leading up to him now the reason why i've got the characters mixed up is because if you remember there was a doctor between him and and mccoy and that was piper and i i don't know i guess i would assume that piper would have been the one that would reintroduce rather than voice but i i'm certain they have to have some sort of plan for him what they would bring him back at all i'm really curious to see what they're going to do with him I'm with.

20:58 You on that, Wayne. I'm excited to see what they're going to do with it, because they've got a lot of gaps they have to fill, and they are running out of time. Yes, they are. But no, I love the introduction. Scott, what about you? Yeah, I mean, I think it comes at an interesting time, because we hear Mbenga and Chappell both talking about the fact that they're not wild about not having each other in the med bay. Mm-hmm. and having that kind of permanence and that kind of dedication to it. So right at the moment where they can't imagine not working with each other, and eventually she comes to that realization at the end, like, I'm going to stay permanently even if Mbenga leaves. Now we have that kind of transition moment to say, like, okay, Mbenga is going to want to make sure that Christine is okay with Boyce being there, even though he knows that he doesn't have any say in whether or not Boyce stays. but helping to kind of coach her through that and maybe coach voice through on where he has to dial back. Like he clearly he's not, you know, starting off on the right foot with nurse chapel. Um, but knowing that that's going to have to be some kind of transition moment as well to bones. So I feel like there's going to be more of Christine's self-confidence, her solidifying herself really as a lead in the medical team, even though she won't necessarily be in charge of it.

22:25 Yeah, and the fact that they're doing it now makes me think that Mbinga is not going to make it. I mean, obviously he has to stay alive because we see him in the original series, but that he's going to no longer be the, whatever's happening to him, whatever's going to happen that takes him away from being the chief medical officer is going to happen at the end of this season rather than wait till next season. I agree. It's going to happen at the end of the season. It has to. And it will have to fit within season five. It has to. Yeah, because we know McCoy is being introduced next season. We already know that because they announced the actor. Yep. So, yeah. Which is still crazy to me. I don't see Thomas Jane playing Dr. McCoy, but hey, we'll see. Yeah. He's a great actor, but I just.

23:07 Yes, he is. Dr. McCoy? We'll see. We'll see. But no, overall, I thought this was a great episode. I love how. Why am I drawing a blank? I love how Nurse Chapel did all she had to do in her power and was the one that basically took, you know, Mimbinga's experiment idea to save not only the ship and the crew, but to save Mimbinga's life as well. I love the whole sequence that she came up with of freezing him and then wrapping herself in the, what were those blankets called? Whatever they were. She wrapped herself to keep warm. Um, but then, you know, when she got the table out, she left her finger on it. So she had to snap her finger off.

23:48 Oh, that, that made me win. Yeah. Oh man. But it just shows you how much their friendship is right there that she would go through all of that. And you know, I would do that for any one of you two guys. So feel comfortable. I would do that for you too. I feel the same. Thank you. You would give us the finger. I would give you the finger. Yep. Nice. Yep. That was a good one. That was good. I also loved that Mbenga was in the middle of his joke and she froze him. And then when he does come back out of it, it's like, you didn't let me finish the, give me the punchline. Yeah. I like that. I think we were all thinking the same thing too. We were like, so finish the joke. Right. What was it? Yeah. I thought, I thought that was a great way to, to end that, the scene with those two was for him to say the punchline. That was awesome. But overall, great episode. And I'm sure you both guys agree with it as we've been speaking about it.

24:39 Yeah. All right, well, let's go ahead and take a break. When we come back, we will move further into some of our favorite parts of the episode. So we will be right back. Welcome back, listeners, to Wayne, Scott, and I as we are talking here on Phaser Set the Stun for Strange New Worlds, the episode off hours. All right, gentlemen, let's talk about which character shined the most. I think we're probably going to pick one of two people, but we'll see how this goes. Uh, Scott, I will let you go first. Uh, I'm, I'm going to have to lean into the obvious and just say nurse chapel, uh, for finding the ways to save a manga, um, for not giving up on her very, very close friend, if not one of her best friends. Um, and for being bold enough and smart enough to come up with a, a workable theoretical application that just defies the law or bends the laws of physics. Um, but faced all of the chaos and all of the mini disasters that were happening to her in the Mid Bay with calm and resilience and resolve.

25:54 Like she had to not only, you know, kind of keep, she had to keep Mbinga's spirits up while every single thing was falling apart. And I think her character did an amazing job I think it was a standout performance from Jess Bush. It was one of the best Chappell episodes I've seen, and a lot of that goes to her acting in this. So that's my call. Wayne, what about you? I agree with everything you said. Yeah, it's Christine Chappell. Jess Bush, she gets probably some of the best material that she's gotten in this series right here in this episode. Even after their argument that they had, she just refused to give up on Mbinga. even though everybody else thinks that he's beyond saving. I like that her storyline this time didn't have anything to do with romance or Spock or anything. It was just about Christine Chappell as a doctor, as a friend, as a co-worker of Mabenga, that she knows him better than anyone else. But I do want to give some credit to Scotty, though, because I really feel his story pushed it forward on there. It's the beginning of him becoming the miracle worker that we know But just for me, Apple just edges him out just a little bit more because her scenes were just so incredible.

27:09 A lot of a lot of emotional weight with her for this episode. I think it was fantastic. Yeah, I agree with both of you. I mean, when I said one of two, it was between her and Scotty, obviously, because I felt like both of them did a tremendous job in this episode. But anyone who's listened to the show and all you guys know how much I love Nurse Chapel, that this was she shined tremendously in this episode. You know, she stole the show, in my opinion. You know, she showed how much she cared for Mbenga. She became that professional and put everything to the side that showed she could protect a friend and save his life, even if it meant her career in Starfleet. I thought that just speak volume of her character and what she did here.

27:55 Just the dialogue scenes that she had just showed what a tremendous actress she is. And it's clearly, I mean, you felt it was going to be her episode because it opened up with her dialogue, her giving her, you know, her introduction to what was going on. Kind of felt that this was going to be her episode, even though it was everybody's episode. But obviously she was the central part of this story. And she definitely shined when it comes to that. So I agree with both of you on that. And to you, Wayne, as well, that nod to Scotty. You're seeing that expert of the Enterprise, the one that, why they lean on him. is because you're starting to see that starting to come. And he's with one with the Enterprise, I guess you could say, right?

28:36 Yep. Now, so absolutely. I thought both characters were fantastic. All right. If you could be any character in this episode, who would it have been and why? I have a feeling I know yours, but let's you go first. Wayne, what is it? Well, I'm not going to pick Chapo because I like my fingers, so I'm going to pick Scotty. Yeah, I chose Scotty because he seems like he was probably out of everybody and all the disaster of his money. He was having at least the most enjoyable experience out of this, even though I'm sure he was under a lot of pressure from the looks of it, but there's just, there's just something fun about watching him stumble. Good word to put it into the, his role was that, that legendary miracle worker that we know of him. You know, when you got Pellia right alongside him, encouraging him all the way, I, you know, we all love her. But, The episode really let Martin Quinn have fun with Scotty, and I'm glad that they're doing that, putting more into the character that James Doohan put into. Um, and I, I, I love that turbo lift scene. I thought that was hilarious. It was, you know, but yeah, that's, that's who I choose.

29:42 And the fact that they beamed him into a Jeffrey tubes, which is what he spends a lot of his time anyway, it's hysterical. So I thought, I thought that was perfect fitting for this episode. Absolutely. All right, Scott, what about you? Yeah, I agree. I love the fact that there are so many times specifically in this season, um, when I pick Scotty, which seems like I'm just being obvious because of my name. But the things that stand out to me, aside from just touching on the callback to Bruniston, is that the comedy sketch show where they had that Scottish elevator with the voice recognition that he called back to? Oh, I forgot about that. I love that he made that call. He was like, make it so that it can't understand a Scottish accent, and he has to try to fake an English accent.

30:31 But it's that emotional turn that he has, because in order for him to actually be a miracle worker, he has to have people trusting him, which starts with him trusting himself. But then there's also the extension of him trusting the Enterprise. Not that it's this big construct that's just designed to cause him headache after headache, but Pelia having that moment of saying like, you have to kind of extend that faith in yourself and in the enterprise. Um, but also having him, uh, placing him in a moment where he's kind of exceeding Pelia because she's like, you know, I never really studied physics or particle physics or whatever it is. And he's able to kind of like succeed her or kind of go beyond that. And that shared moment that he has where he touches the wall, and Pelia kind of walks up and she touches the wall, kind of that moment of recognition with him, um, was beautiful.

31:30 So to be able to feel what he's going through with that, I think it'd be beautiful. But Dave, what about you? Dare I say the Padawan has become the master. That's right. I brought star Wars into star Trek. Get off my back. But he doesn't have a little braid. No, he doesn't. Thank God. Yeah. No, he doesn't. Thank goodness. Um, before I answer that day, I want to go back to one thing. Um, I love the fact that everybody's looking forward to their weekend in this episode before all that crap. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's something we don't see a lot of on people on the crew of the ship. We don't. And it's kind of neat that they related that because it makes us in the real world who are always looking forward to our weekends. It was kind of nice to see the crew does that too. And that they all had the plans of what they were going to do, what, you know, they want to get to the bar first to get the drinks and stuff like that. And then all hell breaks loose. So I like to see that element of the crew. a little bit more. But to answer your question, I'm not going to cop out and say Scotty because I think that's a good pick. I'm going with another easy one because I want to spend a lot of time in her room. I'm going with Pelia because, yeah, she's in danger like everybody else is on the ship, but she's in the comfort of her room.

32:42 And I would just love to explore everything that is in there or play the NES that's sitting over there. I would love to just sit there and play the Nintendo while everybody else is like, running around trying to save the ship. Sure, okay, I'm good with that. And then just talk to the other engineer just to help him out from time to time. Okay, I'm good with that. So, yes, that's my pick, Talia. Is it weird that I want to know a little bit more about what she used to cover that pinhole in her room? Did that have to be like a special reinforced kind of thing? That's a good question. I don't know. All right, well, we're going to come to Wayne's favorite part of the episode, and I'm sure he found enough Easter eggs here. Oh, yeah. But I'm going to jump on a few of them before he steals them from me. Brian Markson, who's in this episode, if you know, was in The Next Generation's Homeworld, Homeward, Deep Space Nine's In the Cards, and Voyager's Calexis and Faces, and he wears the United Earth emblem on his uniform, just like in the cage, if you guys didn't catch that. Obviously, we learned where Scotty got his technique of understanding the ship, We already talked about Dr. Boyce and Instant Rata, and then we talked about the Martini with Olive. So, Wayne, Scott, what do you got? Scott, go ahead. Do you have anything?

33:54 I just had the Scottish Lift. That was my favorite. Which is a good one. Wayne, what about you? Let me say, David, I am really impressed that you actually saw and picked out Lieutenant Rata. That's a real callback there to the original series, but... And it actually surprised me. I had to look that one up to make sure I was actually seeing the same character. But yep, what he says it is. You mentioned that Dr. Boyce is wearing that pin on his uniform that matches the United Earth badge that he wore in the cage. Now, that kind of throws a wrench in the continuity. The United Earth was ultimately changed to the United Federation of Planets in the original series. And it's never once been acknowledged that United Earth was actually used, that phrase used.

34:39 in Federation history. Um, but, uh, well, there it is. So hopefully future Star Trek explores that a little bit more. Um, now Scotty placing his hand on the bulkhead that we've mentioned to, to feel this, the, the enterprise, that isn't something new. Um, he actually mentioned that, that he could do that and could feel the, the speed and the movement of the enterprise in the next generations episode relics. Um, You talked about that elevator skit and I completely forgot about that. But what that reminded me of was the computer having trouble understanding Scotty's accent. That's not something new because Chekhov had to do this and get rid of his accent in Star Trek The Motion Picture in order to get the computer to understand him. Another callback to the original series was that ion pod itself. The exact same thing happened in this episode that happened in the original series episode Court Martial. And the button placement on Pike's chair is exactly where it was on Kirk's chair in that episode, too. By the way, I really liked how they made sure that you knew that Pike went to Red Alert before jettisoning the ion pod. Because in the episode Court Martial, the whole reason that Kirk was on trial was to determine if he jettisoned the pod before or after he went to Red Alert. Pike, you did the right thing. Good job, Pike. Now, Scotty creates a static warp bubble around the Enterprise to allow Spock to safely walk on the hull outside. This has been

36:11 done a couple times before. Commander Tucker did it in Star Trek Enterprise, the episode Divergence, so that he could cross over from the USS Enterprise over to the Columbia. And it was also done in the Star Trek Discovery fifth season opener, Red Directive, which we reviewed last year. And that was done so Captain Burnham could walk on the hull of a mole and block ship. And then, of course, they mentioned a few times about the dangers of crossing the warp threshold. Yeah, that's a really big danger. Because if you remember, the Star Trek Voyager episode threshold showed that when you cross it, you get turned into these weird-looking salamander lizards. And I thank God that they didn't do that this episode. And that's it.

36:56 Good one. Good pick. Good pick. All right. Well, thanks, listeners. What do you think is going to happen during the rest of this season? We've only got four episodes left. I do want to mention about the next episode. I don't know. Did you guys see the trailer to this? In this season, they're actually doing trailers. Don't watch it. Don't watch it. Wait until you watch the episode. The episode's titled, like, Chronotons Through the Hourglass. And the official Paramount tease is, A temporary anomaly traps the crew inside a soap opera reality where Pike confronts a life he lost, which, I mean, sounds like another gimmick. But that trailer really reveals too much, in my opinion, for what's going on in this episode, because there are some familiar faces that are going to pop up. So, viewers, my best suggestion, skip that trailer. Wait until the episode, otherwise you'll be spoiled big time.

37:46 All right. Well, thanks for the warning, Wayne. Red alert on that one for the trailer, elicitors. Stay away from it. Well, Wayne Scott, as always, thank you for joining me on the bridge. It's been an absolute pleasure. And again, it's been a great 100 episodes with you guys. It has been. Here's to the next 100. That's right. On to the next 100. All right, listeners, check out www.afilmbuypodcast.com for film and TV articles and our entire library streaming free. Write to us at afilmbuypodcast.gmail.com with your questions, comments, and concerns. We may just read your response in the show and send you a film by Swag. And to all you listening to the show, following us on social media, and subscribing to our Patreon, we thank you. See you next time for another episode of Phasers Set to Stun.