Sept. 2, 2026

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

Phasers Set To Stun: Strange New Worlds S4. E6 - Off Hour
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Season 7

On Phasers Set To Stun, we recognize the popularity of all things Star Trek, with a look at the television shows, animation, movies, and much more!

Wow! It's our 100th Phasers Set To Stun episode! Wayne, David, and Scott discuss an absolute tension-filled episode from the fourth season of Strange New Worlds with their in-depth analysis of the sixth episode, Off Hour! Mind your fingers!

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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 in debate about all

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things Trek. Prepare to energize. With phasers set to stun.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to phasers set to stun,

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where we continue to show our love for everything Star

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Trek in this ongoing series from a film by podcast,

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which focuses on every quadrant of the expanding universe of

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Trek by covering television, animation, movies, directors, merchandise, and so

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much more. Plotting the course, as always, is your core

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Trek crew. I'm David Burns.

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I'm Scott Hoffman.

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And I'm Wayne Whited.

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Welcome back to The Bridge. On this episode, we are

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continuing our discussion on Season 4 of Strange New Worlds

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with a very intense Edge of Your Seat Episode 6

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Off Hour written by Bill Wilcoff and directed by Dan Liu.

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But before we do that... I would like to call

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out that not only is Star Trek celebrating an anniversary

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this year with its 60th, but we here at Phaser

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have a reason to also celebrate. This is our 100th

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episode of Phaser Set to Stun, gentlemen.

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Yay.

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That's right.

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We can officially be syndicated now.

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Wait, wait, wait. Get that producer on the line.

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That's right. Our agency is having a discussion.

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Well, it's a great sign that there's like, you know,

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this started out with new shows to talk about.

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Yeah.

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Right? Like we've been able to fill the space with

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talking about a lot of other things, but like it's

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a good sign that there's that much new that's able

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to contribute to that hundred.

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Yeah. And I believe we started, wasn't it called Strange

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New Wednesdays? Isn't that how we started?

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Yeah, it was season two.

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Yeah. So, I mean, we have really grown. from where

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we were. We've covered a lot, but there is still

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a lot to come. We don't know what the future

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holds for Star Trek, for the new stuff that is.

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We still got a lot of older stuff to go

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back through. But we don't know what the future holds.

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We know there's some good stuff coming. They just haven't

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announced it yet, and I'm excited to dig into that

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eventually with you guys.

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I love chatting with you guys about this stuff, so

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thanks for making me part of the ride.

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Absolutely.

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We're all big Trekkies. We just love talking about this forever.

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We do.

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Exactly.

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Exactly. We've got many, many years of content to come.

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So stick with us, listeners. We're in it for the

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long haul.

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We're going to be doing this until we're 90.

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Probably. Yeah. We probably will be.

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Yeah.

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All right. Red alert, listeners. If you are not caught

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up with the series, please go do so. There are

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many spoilers ahead. Please, we do not want to ruin

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this one because this is a fantastic ride of an episode.

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We'll be right here on the bridge waiting.

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All right.

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Let's transport into the episode. Scott, why don't you tell

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us what this episode is all about?

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Shift happens, but sometimes that next shift doesn't happen soon enough.

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After a hard week, 5 o'clock on Friday still holds

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a lot of stress, relieving power, even in the far-off

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future and the deep reaches of space. Our core crewmates

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are waiting for a shift change after a long week,

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and their off-hour is just within reach. Una starts early

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in a lounge with La'an and Spock, Pike, Uhura, and

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Ortegas get ready to shut down the bridge until a

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last-minute check pops up. Scotty is getting ready for the

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new Bessards in Engineering with bleary eyes, while Chapel and

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Mbenga are arguing about leaving each other behind in Medical

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just as another doctor is rejoining the crew. Before any

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of them can take their much-needed downtime, disaster strikes. Scotty

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calls for an emergency shutdown of the engines just a

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few seconds too late as the Enterprise is caught in

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the pull of a wormhole that causes it to accelerate

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beyond control. The bridge controls become electrified, making any control deadly.

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All sensors go offline except for one. Engineering floods with

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lethal levels of neutrinos after Scotty leaves, and he's thrown

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into several situations that force him to become the miracle

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worker that we know him to be. Meanwhile, in the

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lounge where the new doctor is trapped, gravity goes haywire

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and causes pockets that crush everything from pianos to people,

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including Una's leg. Nurse Chapel and Dr. Mbenga also contend

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with the crushing danger of their own as Mbenga saves

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Chapel from a runway medbed, only to become pinned by

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it himself and cutting him almost in half. It's a

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series of disasters with a countdown of 45 minutes that

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threatens key members of our crew and the Enterprise itself.

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The only solution is to rely on a theoretical application

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of a theoretical type of neutrino and each crew member

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having faith in each other and their ship. It's an

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off hour that will dramatically change the crew, and leave

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them needing at least an off day to recover.

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Thanks, Scott. You know, this was a fantastic episode. And

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that's not, you know, if you haven't seen it, you're

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not going to understand it, right? I felt worn out

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watching this episode by the time it ended. Because there's

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so much going on. There's a lot happening in this.

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You know, the seeds are starting to be planted in

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regards to Membinga. So I'm glad that we're moving in

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that direction. I love the fact that they introduced two

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original characters, Dr. Boyce from The Cage and Incinrata from

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Season 3, which survives, which I think that is awesome. Pike,

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proving again how much he cares about his crew because

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he risked death by electrocuting himself. I'm like, dude, come on, Pike.

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But I guess any captain would do that to protect

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his crew, right? But, you know, I absolutely love this episode.

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So what do you guys thought?

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Wayne, you go first. I really liked it, too. I mean,

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it's obvious they're sticking with the genre of the week

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style here. I think this is disaster movies, although it

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really reminded me more of the TV show 24 than

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the actual disaster films that they were trying to emulate.

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But I enjoyed it. I mean, there's a lot of action,

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a lot of things going on with this episode. But

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I think the reason why I enjoyed it the most

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was more the personal stories because there's a lot, and

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I mean a lot, of character moments happening in this episode.

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And this episode really pushes... forward the storyline of the

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season that they're doing. I think Mbinga and Chapel's story,

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I think that was probably the most important one that

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came out of this and probably the one that I

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enjoyed the most. Seeing Nurse Chapel refuse to give up

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on him really shows, has some emotional weight to it,

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really shows how they've grown together. And it makes me

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kind of worried and sad that we are going to

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lose Mbinga. as chief medical officer. But, I mean, I

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like the Pellia and Scotty story. It was a great episode,

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but it reminded me a lot of, remember the Next

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Generation episode, Disaster? Very, very similar to that. Almost pretty

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much the same thing happened there that happens here. But

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the big difference is with there, it was mostly just

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about the disasters and the crew's each crew member trying

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to get through it here, they all kind of came

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together and, you know, work together in their separate areas

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to solve this. And I think that's what pushed this

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above disaster, which isn't the greatest episode in the first place,

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the next generation, but, um, this is a good episode

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of strange new worlds.

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Yeah. Scott, what about you?

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I totally agree. I mean, edge of my seat, nail

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binding the entire time, specifically because of the chapel and binga, um, scenario, Um,

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totally agree. This is a lot of growth between them. Um,

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I'm glad that it didn't end in Mbinga's death. I

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was very afraid of that. Um, because we're not used

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to seeing him. So it feels like there needs to

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be some kind of departure happening. I hate to have

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it happen in this way. Although if it was his

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death episode, it would be a good one to go

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out on. Um, it's a horrifying scenario that doesn't seem possible. Um,

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But really well done, really well paced, the tension and

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the action with what's happening there. And I think it

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shows Nurse Chapel proving herself as far as what kind

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of a physician she's going to be. Practically, Dr. Boyce's

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orders from the lounge probably should have followed his orders,

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but she knows better. she knows that, you know, there's

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nobody in critical condition in the lounge. So she needs

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to stay here with Dr. Mbenga. Uh, and I totally

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agree with her call there. Um, this is one episode

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that I'd recommend watching a couple of times just because

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it's so well done, but also because it gives you

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a chance to be able to follow different segments of it. Um, throughout,

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because I was so fixated on chaplain and mega, I

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was just like, keep getting back to medical bay. I

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just need to know what happens. Um, But a lot

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of good action all around. Dave, what about you?

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Well, I think one of the things they did really

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well with is balance. I know we have a story-heavy

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load with Chapel and Mimbinga, and we've got, you know,

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with Scotty and Pellia. But they did such a good

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job of balancing the entire crew throughout this episode, you know,

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and moving in and out of the things that they

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were trying to do to make sure the ship, was

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able to get out from where they were at. So

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I think the scriptwriters actually did a really good job

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with that across the board. Chappell, I felt, stole the show.

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That's kind of giving away what I'm going to say

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at the end of this. But she stole the show.

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I love the conversation. She already had her mind made up. Scott,

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you mentioned it when Dr. Boyce reached out and said

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you need to get him to leave him alone she

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already made her mind up because she said to Mimbinga

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earlier that she won't fare well under Boyce and she

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already knows that in her head so she's already got

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it set in her head that she's going to leave

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the Enterprise because of Boyce there's just end of story

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so when he reaches out and commands her to leave

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Mimbinga there ain't no way in hell she's going anywhere

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and I don't blame her I wouldn't either you know

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Those two have proven how much they love one another.

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And I'm not saying it as a boyfriend and girlfriend.

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I'm just saying that friend love. And you can see it.

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They care deeply for one another, which is why they

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argued so heavily there in the medical bay before all

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the crap hit the fan. And it just showed you

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their friendship they had there. And the whole episode I

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thought was fantastic. I really, I love the fact that

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we get where Scotty becomes in tune with the Enterprise.

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And when he's touching the wall and getting that from Pellia. And,

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you know, I absolutely loved that so much. It gives

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me such a deeper meaning now for Scotty. Not only that,

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but now the impact that Star Trek 3 now has

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when he watches the Enterprise get destroyed. Now when he

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sees that and goes through that has a completely different

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meaning to me now when I watch Star Trek 3.

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Yeah. So.

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There's so much happiness episode. And, you know, you guys

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have heard me. I missed the last episode with you guys.

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But I'm tired of the gimmick episodes. This was not

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a gimmick episode. This is exactly what this crew needed

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to start pushing the characters forward because we don't have

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very many episodes left with these people.

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We don't.

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We're on episode six. And we got, what, four left here.

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And we've got, what, six in season five.

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Is that correct?

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Now, I will go back and say, since I wasn't

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with you guys, the puppet episode I thought was fantastic.

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I really do. I loved it. I laughed from beginning

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to end.

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It's unanimous. It was great.

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So I don't want to put that episode down, listeners.

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I loved it very much. I'm sad that I missed

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that episode with this bridge crew. But to get back

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to this one, I absolutely loved, loved this episode.

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Well, this was a gimmick episode, but Being a disaster,

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the gimmick being a disaster movies. I mean, that's what

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Star Trek is. It's like disaster of the week anyways.

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And that's why it worked. That's why it didn't seem

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like a gimmick is because it was, but it wasn't yet.

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It's Star Trek. And that works. I want to also

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bring out that I thought the visual effects in this

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episode were absolutely fantastic. Especially that when the Enterprise was

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being battered by the slipstream wormhole. I thought that was

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especially really good, especially those exterior shots. And Spock's spacewalk,

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that definitely was the standout. The lighting, the effects, camera work. Actually,

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it made it feel very dangerous. I love that. But

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what I noticed was that unlike a lot of earlier

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Star Trek where they have to cut away real quick,

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they can't afford to do these longer effects, they held

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on to the effects so that we could actually see

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Look at them and enjoy them instead of cutting away.

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And I really appreciate that because they were some beautiful

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effects this episode.

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I felt like we were in that suit with Spock

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when he was climbing, when he was crawling along the

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outer of the ship and the stuff that was hitting

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him and he was trying to get there. And how

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intense that was when Pike had to like launch that

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out of there and thinking Spock was in it because

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they couldn't get a hold of him. Just how intense

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all of that sequence was, which is when Leon had

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to go out. to see if he was there. All

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of that was fantastic. But to go back to special effects, Wayne,

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when the ship was getting out of that stream at

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the end, dude, that was an incredible shot.

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That was. I loved that shot. You know, we don't

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talk about the visual effects too much other than every

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now and then, but the series has just been outstanding

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every episode. It seems like they push their boundaries, they

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see what they can do, and they always accomplish a

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miracle when it comes to Star Trek. It's absolutely beautiful.

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Yep. I don't know about you guys.

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The makeup effects, too.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yes, exactly. We don't want to forget about that either.

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Especially Spock's moment where he has that kind of, you know,

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it feels like it's a callback to, what was it?

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The Balance of Terror episode where you saw that Spock

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had the same kind of, you know, result that Pike did.

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The damage that he had, I missed that on the

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first viewing, but on the second viewing, when you really

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pay attention to it, there's a lot of damage there

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and it's a big fallback to Wrath of Khan. Yep.

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Um, yeah.

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And it was, that was one of my favorite moments

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of the episode when Lon did basically a voluntary almost

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reverse mind meld. I'm not sure how to characterize it,

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but the, the connection that she had with Spock, just

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like the, even through all his, you know, um, battered face,

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she was able to, to read, um, what she thought

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he wanted to do. And, uh, I've never seen that

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kind of thing done, and I thought it was a

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brilliant twist.

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Yeah. Scott, you mentioned in your synopsis about Una getting

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her leg shattered. Dude, I came out of my chair

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in agony when that happened.

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That was gruesome.

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Oh, my gosh, that was brutal.

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Well, and just thinking about that scenario, not only are

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you in.

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Because it seemed like there were pockets of invisible space

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where gravity was stronger than everything else. It wasn't that

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everybody got smushed. So you had to navigate this minefield

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of gravity.

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It was awful.

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Another thing I thought this episode did an extremely good

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job with was the split screen.

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Yes, that was fantastic.

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That was so well done. Especially when there's three of

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them going back to different areas as they're talking. It

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would move. Dude, I thought that was so well done

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and added to the intensity of this episode.

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Yeah, between that and the ticking clock, that's what reminded

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me most about the series 24, which I thought was

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a fantastic show. Yeah. Yeah, I'm glad they did that

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because that was pretty cool. That was pretty cool for

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Star Trek.

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Wayne, even to keep up the.

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Go ahead, Scott.

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No, I was just going to say the use of

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the countdown having kind of two purposes, right? Knowing that

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the ship would disintegrate if they went much further, but

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then also knowing that Mbenga would only be able to

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survive so long being held together by a med bed. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I want to go back to the one scene that

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you mentioned with Spock being outside. You know, not only

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was that a cool shot, but I thought the score

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was fantastic. Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Melvin's score. She does fantastic. She always does. And I

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never mentioned it last episode, too, which I thought that

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score was wonderful. This one in so dramatic. I hope

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we get a soundtrack for this season.

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I do, too. Yeah, surely we will. Surely we will.

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We'll wait until the season wraps up and then we'll

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get a release for it.

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There was a lot of character development in this episode.

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There's one I wanted to point out that a lot

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of people I think may have missed in this, and

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that's with Pike. I mean, he had some to do

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in this episode, but not nearly as much as before.

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But remember back in the first season episode, the finale,

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was it A Quality of Mercy? Pike's hesitation for everything

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he was doing because he was always second-guessing himself. That's

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what started that war and created that ultimate timeline. But

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here in this episode, if you noticed, he doesn't hesitate once.

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He makes those snap decisions and he sticks with it,

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like injecting the pod. And I really like that they've

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showed that he has grown over the last couple of years,

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that big character growth with him, along with all the

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other characters. I appreciated that from the writers.

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Yeah, I agree. I also see, to go back to

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talking about Paley and Scotty here, you can kind of

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feel it's moving into Scotty taking over the ship a

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little bit, right? It's not, though, because Peli is still there.

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But you can see she's starting to prepare Scotty for

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a bigger role. And not if she realizes that's coming

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or not, because I love the dialogue between the two.

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And when she was basically trying to distract him to

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make him feel comfortable. And, you know, when he was saying, like,

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after the star diver, you know, I can't keep doing this.

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And she was like, yes, you can. I can tell

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you why. Because starships are also capable of miracles, if

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you listen. I felt that was such a good dialogue

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scene between those two characters. And man, every time they

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switch to Pellia's room, I'm always looking around like, ooh,

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what's back there?

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Ooh, ooh, ooh.

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Looking all around her room, trying to figure out what

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is there.

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There's a Nintendo. I saw that.

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I did.

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The gumball machine. I saw all kinds of stuff back there.

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But no.

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It's like that Incredible Hulk, Future Imperfect. issue where you

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see like that you know big throne room for the

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maestro with all the like professor x's chair and like.

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A oh yes that's right yep yep that's.

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Exactly pelio's room to me i'm always it's wayne's heaven

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of easter eggs it is.

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It is exactly what it is but no it's i

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i thought a lot of that was tremendously well done

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by the writers and the creators of this uh I

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think this is probably the best episode of the season

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in my eyes. I love the opening, don't get me wrong,

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but I feel like this one really knocked it apart

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for the character development.

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I really do. They did.

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They did.

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What did you guys think about the introduction or reintroduction

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of Dr.

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Piper?

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Or did I miss the... Dr. Boyce, excuse me.

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Dr.

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Boyce.

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Dr.

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Boyce, yeah.

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I liked it. I do love the fact that they

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had a martini with an olive in his glass.

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Yeah.

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Which is a refer back to the cage, which I

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thought was fantastic. I love that. I saw that right away.

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I was like, holy crap, look at that. That was awesome.

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But I liked that they introduced his character because it

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gives us a little bit more of that OG vibe, right?

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Well, it makes me wonder what they're doing with the character.

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Because really, I mean, it's a character with an open slate.

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I mean, they can do anything they want with him.

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Yeah.

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But why they reintroduced him now... makes me think that

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they've got something leading up to him now the reason

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why i've got the characters mixed up is because if

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you remember there was a doctor between him and and

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mccoy and that was piper and i i don't know

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i guess i would assume that piper would have been

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the one that would reintroduce rather than voice but i

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i'm certain they have to have some sort of plan

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for him what they would bring him back at all

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i'm really curious to see what they're going to do

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with him I'm with.

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You on that, Wayne. I'm excited to see what they're

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going to do with it, because they've got a lot

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of gaps they have to fill, and they are running

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out of time.

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Yes, they are.

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But no, I love the introduction.

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Scott, what about you?

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Yeah, I mean, I think it comes at an interesting time,

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because we hear Mbenga and Chappell both talking about the

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fact that they're not wild about not having each other

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in the med bay. Mm-hmm. and having that kind of

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permanence and that kind of dedication to it. So right

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at the moment where they can't imagine not working with

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each other, and eventually she comes to that realization at

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the end, like, I'm going to stay permanently even if

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Mbenga leaves. Now we have that kind of transition moment

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to say, like, okay, Mbenga is going to want to

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make sure that Christine is okay with Boyce being there,

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even though he knows that he doesn't have any say

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in whether or not Boyce stays. but helping to kind

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of coach her through that and maybe coach voice through

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on where he has to dial back. Like he clearly

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he's not, you know, starting off on the right foot

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with nurse chapel. Um, but knowing that that's going to

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have to be some kind of transition moment as well

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to bones. So I feel like there's going to be

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more of Christine's self-confidence, her solidifying herself really as a

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lead in the medical team, even though she won't necessarily

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be in charge of it.

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Yeah, and the fact that they're doing it now makes

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me think that Mbinga is not going to make it.

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I mean, obviously he has to stay alive because we

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see him in the original series, but that he's going

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to no longer be the, whatever's happening to him, whatever's

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going to happen that takes him away from being the

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chief medical officer is going to happen at the end

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of this season rather than wait till next season. I agree.

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It's going to happen at the end of the season.

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It has to. And it will have to fit within

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season five.

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It has to. Yeah, because we know McCoy is being

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introduced next season. We already know that because they announced

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the actor.

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Yep.

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So, yeah.

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Which is still crazy to me. I don't see Thomas

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Jane playing Dr. McCoy, but hey, we'll see. Yeah. He's

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a great actor, but I just.

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Yes, he is.

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Dr. McCoy? We'll see. We'll see. But no, overall, I

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thought this was a great episode. I love how.

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Why am I drawing a blank? I love how Nurse

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Chapel did all she had to do in her power

475
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and was the one that basically took, you know, Mimbinga's

476
00:23:27.099 --> 00:23:29.980
experiment idea to save not only the ship and the crew,

477
00:23:30.460 --> 00:23:33.029
but to save Mimbinga's life as well. I love the

478
00:23:33.130 --> 00:23:35.650
whole sequence that she came up with of freezing him

479
00:23:36.269 --> 00:23:38.789
and then wrapping herself in the, what were those blankets called?

480
00:23:40.009 --> 00:23:43.970
Whatever they were. She wrapped herself to keep warm. Um,

481
00:23:44.210 --> 00:23:46.210
but then, you know, when she got the table out,

482
00:23:46.289 --> 00:23:47.789
she left her finger on it. So she had to

483
00:23:47.890 --> 00:23:48.890
snap her finger off.

484
00:23:48.910 --> 00:23:50.289
Oh, that, that made me win.

485
00:23:50.950 --> 00:23:51.869
Yeah.

486
00:23:51.970 --> 00:23:55.329
Oh man. But it just shows you how much their

487
00:23:55.369 --> 00:23:57.359
friendship is right there that she would go through all

488
00:23:57.410 --> 00:23:59.619
of that. And you know, I would do that for

489
00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:01.619
any one of you two guys. So feel comfortable. I

490
00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:02.539
would do that for you too.

491
00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:03.599
I feel the same.

492
00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:05.059
Thank you. You would give us the finger.

493
00:24:05.480 --> 00:24:06.660
I would give you the finger. Yep.

494
00:24:06.980 --> 00:24:07.319
Nice.

495
00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:08.059
Yep.

496
00:24:08.180 --> 00:24:10.319
That was a good one.

497
00:24:10.460 --> 00:24:13.549
That was good. I also loved that Mbenga was in

498
00:24:13.569 --> 00:24:15.549
the middle of his joke and she froze him. And

499
00:24:15.569 --> 00:24:17.089
then when he does come back out of it, it's like,

500
00:24:17.289 --> 00:24:19.930
you didn't let me finish the, give me the punchline. Yeah.

501
00:24:20.930 --> 00:24:21.309
I like that.

502
00:24:21.329 --> 00:24:22.910
I think we were all thinking the same thing too.

503
00:24:22.950 --> 00:24:24.569
We were like, so finish the joke.

504
00:24:24.930 --> 00:24:25.150
Right.

505
00:24:25.670 --> 00:24:28.170
What was it? Yeah. I thought, I thought that was

506
00:24:28.190 --> 00:24:30.309
a great way to, to end that, the scene with

507
00:24:30.329 --> 00:24:32.880
those two was for him to say the punchline. That

508
00:24:32.910 --> 00:24:36.259
was awesome. But overall, great episode. And I'm sure you

509
00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:38.220
both guys agree with it as we've been speaking about it.

510
00:24:39.099 --> 00:24:39.200
Yeah.

511
00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:41.619
All right, well, let's go ahead and take a break.

512
00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:43.740
When we come back, we will move further into some

513
00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:46.599
of our favorite parts of the episode. So we will

514
00:24:46.700 --> 00:24:54.289
be right back. Welcome back, listeners, to Wayne, Scott, and

515
00:24:54.390 --> 00:24:56.250
I as we are talking here on Phaser Set the

516
00:24:56.269 --> 00:25:01.750
Stun for Strange New Worlds, the episode off hours. All right, gentlemen,

517
00:25:01.910 --> 00:25:04.950
let's talk about which character shined the most. I think

518
00:25:04.970 --> 00:25:06.740
we're probably going to pick one of two people, but

519
00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:09.289
we'll see how this goes. Uh, Scott, I will let

520
00:25:09.329 --> 00:25:09.890
you go first.

521
00:25:10.910 --> 00:25:12.869
Uh, I'm, I'm going to have to lean into the

522
00:25:12.930 --> 00:25:16.089
obvious and just say nurse chapel, uh, for finding the

523
00:25:16.109 --> 00:25:19.230
ways to save a manga, um, for not giving up

524
00:25:19.309 --> 00:25:22.130
on her very, very close friend, if not one of

525
00:25:22.190 --> 00:25:27.410
her best friends. Um, and for being bold enough and

526
00:25:27.509 --> 00:25:32.019
smart enough to come up with a, a workable theoretical

527
00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:36.480
application that just defies the law or bends the laws

528
00:25:36.500 --> 00:25:43.839
of physics. Um, but faced all of the chaos and

529
00:25:43.940 --> 00:25:47.000
all of the mini disasters that were happening to her

530
00:25:47.220 --> 00:25:53.890
in the Mid Bay with calm and resilience and resolve.

531
00:25:54.769 --> 00:25:57.450
Like she had to not only, you know, kind of keep,

532
00:25:57.710 --> 00:26:01.490
she had to keep Mbinga's spirits up while every single

533
00:26:01.529 --> 00:26:05.589
thing was falling apart. And I think her character did

534
00:26:05.609 --> 00:26:08.809
an amazing job I think it was a standout performance

535
00:26:08.849 --> 00:26:12.559
from Jess Bush. It was one of the best Chappell

536
00:26:12.599 --> 00:26:14.559
episodes I've seen, and a lot of that goes to

537
00:26:14.619 --> 00:26:17.579
her acting in this. So that's my call. Wayne, what

538
00:26:17.599 --> 00:26:17.839
about you?

539
00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:22.640
I agree with everything you said. Yeah, it's Christine Chappell.

540
00:26:23.859 --> 00:26:26.279
Jess Bush, she gets probably some of the best material

541
00:26:26.299 --> 00:26:28.500
that she's gotten in this series right here in this episode.

542
00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:33.299
Even after their argument that they had, she just refused

543
00:26:33.339 --> 00:26:37.339
to give up on Mbinga. even though everybody else thinks

544
00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:41.650
that he's beyond saving. I like that her storyline this

545
00:26:41.690 --> 00:26:44.170
time didn't have anything to do with romance or Spock

546
00:26:44.210 --> 00:26:47.849
or anything. It was just about Christine Chappell as a doctor,

547
00:26:48.210 --> 00:26:50.809
as a friend, as a co-worker of Mabenga, that she

548
00:26:50.849 --> 00:26:53.849
knows him better than anyone else. But I do want

549
00:26:53.869 --> 00:26:55.910
to give some credit to Scotty, though, because I really

550
00:26:55.930 --> 00:26:58.819
feel his story pushed it forward on there. It's the

551
00:26:58.839 --> 00:27:02.960
beginning of him becoming the miracle worker that we know

552
00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:06.140
But just for me, Apple just edges him out just

553
00:27:06.180 --> 00:27:09.339
a little bit more because her scenes were just so incredible.

554
00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:12.380
A lot of a lot of emotional weight with her

555
00:27:12.619 --> 00:27:14.920
for this episode. I think it was fantastic.

556
00:27:15.809 --> 00:27:17.230
Yeah, I agree with both of you. I mean, when

557
00:27:17.269 --> 00:27:19.930
I said one of two, it was between her and Scotty, obviously,

558
00:27:20.230 --> 00:27:22.170
because I felt like both of them did a tremendous

559
00:27:22.210 --> 00:27:24.750
job in this episode. But anyone who's listened to the

560
00:27:24.789 --> 00:27:26.710
show and all you guys know how much I love

561
00:27:26.829 --> 00:27:32.240
Nurse Chapel, that this was she shined tremendously in this episode.

562
00:27:32.700 --> 00:27:36.119
You know, she stole the show, in my opinion. You know,

563
00:27:36.460 --> 00:27:39.710
she showed how much she cared for Mbenga. She became

564
00:27:39.730 --> 00:27:43.470
that professional and put everything to the side that showed

565
00:27:43.509 --> 00:27:46.609
she could protect a friend and save his life, even

566
00:27:46.670 --> 00:27:50.730
if it meant her career in Starfleet. I thought that

567
00:27:50.769 --> 00:27:53.920
just speak volume of her character and what she did here.

568
00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:57.880
Just the dialogue scenes that she had just showed what

569
00:27:57.900 --> 00:28:01.890
a tremendous actress she is. And it's clearly, I mean,

570
00:28:02.230 --> 00:28:03.609
you felt it was going to be her episode because

571
00:28:03.650 --> 00:28:06.390
it opened up with her dialogue, her giving her, you know,

572
00:28:07.009 --> 00:28:09.130
her introduction to what was going on. Kind of felt

573
00:28:09.170 --> 00:28:10.890
that this was going to be her episode, even though

574
00:28:10.910 --> 00:28:14.309
it was everybody's episode. But obviously she was the central

575
00:28:14.349 --> 00:28:17.990
part of this story. And she definitely shined when it

576
00:28:18.029 --> 00:28:19.269
comes to that. So I agree with both of you

577
00:28:19.390 --> 00:28:22.369
on that. And to you, Wayne, as well, that nod

578
00:28:22.390 --> 00:28:26.410
to Scotty. You're seeing that expert of the Enterprise, the

579
00:28:26.470 --> 00:28:29.450
one that, why they lean on him. is because you're

580
00:28:29.470 --> 00:28:33.750
starting to see that starting to come. And he's with

581
00:28:33.990 --> 00:28:35.890
one with the Enterprise, I guess you could say, right?

582
00:28:36.349 --> 00:28:39.430
Yep. Now, so absolutely.

583
00:28:39.470 --> 00:28:41.809
I thought both characters were fantastic. All right. If you

584
00:28:41.829 --> 00:28:44.140
could be any character in this episode, who would it

585
00:28:44.150 --> 00:28:46.740
have been and why? I have a feeling I know yours,

586
00:28:46.779 --> 00:28:48.410
but let's you go first. Wayne, what is it?

587
00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:52.019
Well, I'm not going to pick Chapo because I like

588
00:28:52.059 --> 00:28:55.259
my fingers, so I'm going to pick Scotty. Yeah, I

589
00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:57.759
chose Scotty because he seems like he was probably out

590
00:28:57.779 --> 00:28:59.440
of everybody and all the disaster of his money. He

591
00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:02.099
was having at least the most enjoyable experience out of this,

592
00:29:02.609 --> 00:29:04.609
even though I'm sure he was under a lot of

593
00:29:04.730 --> 00:29:07.349
pressure from the looks of it, but there's just, there's

594
00:29:07.369 --> 00:29:12.369
just something fun about watching him stumble. Good word to

595
00:29:12.410 --> 00:29:15.380
put it into the, his role was that, that legendary

596
00:29:15.430 --> 00:29:18.460
miracle worker that we know of him. You know, when

597
00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:21.569
you got Pellia right alongside him, encouraging him all the way, I,

598
00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:25.259
you know, we all love her. But, The episode really

599
00:29:25.299 --> 00:29:28.480
let Martin Quinn have fun with Scotty, and I'm glad

600
00:29:28.500 --> 00:29:32.049
that they're doing that, putting more into the character that

601
00:29:32.130 --> 00:29:36.289
James Doohan put into. Um, and I, I, I love

602
00:29:36.329 --> 00:29:39.539
that turbo lift scene. I thought that was hilarious. It was,

603
00:29:39.990 --> 00:29:42.099
you know, but yeah, that's, that's who I choose.

604
00:29:42.660 --> 00:29:44.759
And the fact that they beamed him into a Jeffrey tubes,

605
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:46.859
which is what he spends a lot of his time anyway,

606
00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:49.799
it's hysterical. So I thought, I thought that was perfect

607
00:29:49.819 --> 00:29:54.079
fitting for this episode. Absolutely. All right, Scott, what about you?

608
00:29:55.019 --> 00:29:57.019
Yeah, I agree. I love the fact that there are

609
00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:00.769
so many times specifically in this season, um, when I

610
00:30:00.829 --> 00:30:03.410
pick Scotty, which seems like I'm just being obvious because

611
00:30:03.430 --> 00:30:08.559
of my name. But the things that stand out to me,

612
00:30:08.740 --> 00:30:14.079
aside from just touching on the callback to Bruniston, is

613
00:30:14.099 --> 00:30:18.119
that the comedy sketch show where they had that Scottish

614
00:30:18.180 --> 00:30:21.299
elevator with the voice recognition that he called back to?

615
00:30:21.299 --> 00:30:22.380
Oh, I forgot about that.

616
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:24.619
I love that he made that call. He was like,

617
00:30:25.140 --> 00:30:27.259
make it so that it can't understand a Scottish accent,

618
00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:29.539
and he has to try to fake an English accent.

619
00:30:31.509 --> 00:30:34.190
But it's that emotional turn that he has, because in

620
00:30:34.289 --> 00:30:37.849
order for him to actually be a miracle worker, he

621
00:30:37.890 --> 00:30:41.490
has to have people trusting him, which starts with him

622
00:30:41.549 --> 00:30:44.339
trusting himself. But then there's also the extension of him

623
00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:49.299
trusting the Enterprise. Not that it's this big construct that's

624
00:30:49.380 --> 00:30:54.849
just designed to cause him headache after headache, but Pelia

625
00:30:54.890 --> 00:30:57.130
having that moment of saying like, you have to kind

626
00:30:57.150 --> 00:31:01.099
of extend that faith in yourself and in the enterprise. Um,

627
00:31:02.099 --> 00:31:05.619
but also having him, uh, placing him in a moment

628
00:31:05.720 --> 00:31:10.519
where he's kind of exceeding Pelia because she's like, you know,

629
00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:14.140
I never really studied physics or particle physics or whatever

630
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:17.839
it is. And he's able to kind of like succeed

631
00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:21.640
her or kind of go beyond that. And that shared

632
00:31:21.700 --> 00:31:24.400
moment that he has where he touches the wall, and

633
00:31:24.460 --> 00:31:26.940
Pelia kind of walks up and she touches the wall,

634
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.829
kind of that moment of recognition with him, um, was beautiful.

635
00:31:30.950 --> 00:31:33.750
So to be able to feel what he's going through

636
00:31:33.769 --> 00:31:36.569
with that, I think it'd be beautiful. But Dave, what

637
00:31:36.589 --> 00:31:36.890
about you?

638
00:31:37.250 --> 00:31:40.569
Dare I say the Padawan has become the master. That's right.

639
00:31:40.630 --> 00:31:43.269
I brought star Wars into star Trek. Get off my back.

640
00:31:44.569 --> 00:31:45.710
But he doesn't have a little braid.

641
00:31:46.170 --> 00:31:47.559
No, he doesn't. Thank God.

642
00:31:48.099 --> 00:31:51.059
Yeah. No, he doesn't. Thank goodness. Um, before I answer

643
00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:53.339
that day, I want to go back to one thing. Um,

644
00:31:53.779 --> 00:31:56.059
I love the fact that everybody's looking forward to their

645
00:31:56.099 --> 00:31:59.799
weekend in this episode before all that crap. Yeah. Yeah.

646
00:31:59.859 --> 00:32:01.819
I think that's something we don't see a lot of

647
00:32:02.740 --> 00:32:04.339
on people on the crew of the ship.

648
00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:04.680
We don't.

649
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:07.240
And it's kind of neat that they related that because

650
00:32:07.289 --> 00:32:09.849
it makes us in the real world who are always

651
00:32:09.869 --> 00:32:12.529
looking forward to our weekends. It was kind of nice

652
00:32:12.569 --> 00:32:14.670
to see the crew does that too. And that they

653
00:32:14.690 --> 00:32:16.430
all had the plans of what they were going to do, what,

654
00:32:16.450 --> 00:32:18.109
you know, they want to get to the bar first

655
00:32:18.130 --> 00:32:20.109
to get the drinks and stuff like that. And then

656
00:32:20.190 --> 00:32:22.670
all hell breaks loose. So I like to see that

657
00:32:22.769 --> 00:32:26.210
element of the crew. a little bit more. But to

658
00:32:26.230 --> 00:32:29.150
answer your question, I'm not going to cop out and

659
00:32:29.170 --> 00:32:31.289
say Scotty because I think that's a good pick. I'm

660
00:32:31.329 --> 00:32:33.289
going with another easy one because I want to spend

661
00:32:33.309 --> 00:32:35.289
a lot of time in her room. I'm going with

662
00:32:35.309 --> 00:32:39.329
Pelia because, yeah, she's in danger like everybody else is

663
00:32:39.369 --> 00:32:41.529
on the ship, but she's in the comfort of her room.

664
00:32:42.089 --> 00:32:44.329
And I would just love to explore everything that is

665
00:32:44.470 --> 00:32:47.359
in there or play the NES that's sitting over there.

666
00:32:47.500 --> 00:32:48.799
I would love to just sit there and play the

667
00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:51.670
Nintendo while everybody else is like, running around trying to

668
00:32:51.710 --> 00:32:54.630
save the ship. Sure, okay, I'm good with that. And

669
00:32:54.650 --> 00:32:56.750
then just talk to the other engineer just to help

670
00:32:56.789 --> 00:32:59.359
him out from time to time. Okay, I'm good with that. So, yes,

671
00:32:59.500 --> 00:33:00.400
that's my pick, Talia.

672
00:33:01.220 --> 00:33:02.420
Is it weird that I want to know a little

673
00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:04.579
bit more about what she used to cover that pinhole

674
00:33:05.019 --> 00:33:08.750
in her room? Did that have to be like a

675
00:33:08.789 --> 00:33:12.789
special reinforced kind of thing? That's a good question.

676
00:33:13.029 --> 00:33:15.190
I don't know. All right, well, we're going to come

677
00:33:15.230 --> 00:33:18.190
to Wayne's favorite part of the episode, and I'm sure

678
00:33:18.230 --> 00:33:20.470
he found enough Easter eggs here.

679
00:33:20.630 --> 00:33:21.210
Oh, yeah.

680
00:33:21.269 --> 00:33:22.309
But I'm going to jump on a few of them

681
00:33:22.329 --> 00:33:25.829
before he steals them from me. Brian Markson, who's in

682
00:33:25.849 --> 00:33:29.990
this episode, if you know, was in The Next Generation's Homeworld, Homeward,

683
00:33:30.390 --> 00:33:33.549
Deep Space Nine's In the Cards, and Voyager's Calexis and Faces,

684
00:33:34.250 --> 00:33:36.339
and he wears the United Earth emblem on his uniform,

685
00:33:36.380 --> 00:33:41.019
just like in the cage, if you guys didn't catch that. Obviously,

686
00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:43.180
we learned where Scotty got his technique of understanding the ship,

687
00:33:44.220 --> 00:33:47.049
We already talked about Dr. Boyce and Instant Rata, and

688
00:33:47.069 --> 00:33:51.470
then we talked about the Martini with Olive. So, Wayne, Scott,

689
00:33:51.670 --> 00:33:53.970
what do you got? Scott, go ahead. Do you have anything?

690
00:33:54.089 --> 00:33:55.069
I just had the Scottish Lift.

691
00:33:55.369 --> 00:33:58.390
That was my favorite. Which is a good one. Wayne,

692
00:33:58.410 --> 00:33:58.829
what about you?

693
00:33:59.289 --> 00:34:01.799
Let me say, David, I am really impressed that you

694
00:34:01.970 --> 00:34:07.539
actually saw and picked out Lieutenant Rata. That's a real

695
00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:11.530
callback there to the original series, but... And it actually

696
00:34:11.550 --> 00:34:13.849
surprised me. I had to look that one up to

697
00:34:13.869 --> 00:34:15.949
make sure I was actually seeing the same character. But yep,

698
00:34:16.329 --> 00:34:20.889
what he says it is. You mentioned that Dr. Boyce

699
00:34:20.949 --> 00:34:23.809
is wearing that pin on his uniform that matches the

700
00:34:23.849 --> 00:34:26.250
United Earth badge that he wore in the cage. Now,

701
00:34:27.050 --> 00:34:29.849
that kind of throws a wrench in the continuity. The

702
00:34:29.909 --> 00:34:33.389
United Earth was ultimately changed to the United Federation of

703
00:34:33.449 --> 00:34:35.650
Planets in the original series. And it's never once been

704
00:34:35.690 --> 00:34:39.510
acknowledged that United Earth was actually used, that phrase used.

705
00:34:39.900 --> 00:34:43.900
in Federation history. Um, but, uh, well, there it is.

706
00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:46.989
So hopefully future Star Trek explores that a little bit more. Um,

707
00:34:48.289 --> 00:34:50.889
now Scotty placing his hand on the bulkhead that we've

708
00:34:50.909 --> 00:34:53.809
mentioned to, to feel this, the, the enterprise, that isn't

709
00:34:53.869 --> 00:34:56.949
something new. Um, he actually mentioned that, that he could

710
00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:59.579
do that and could feel the, the speed and the

711
00:34:59.619 --> 00:35:04.659
movement of the enterprise in the next generations episode relics. Um,

712
00:35:05.340 --> 00:35:08.519
You talked about that elevator skit and I completely forgot

713
00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:11.719
about that. But what that reminded me of was the

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computer having trouble understanding Scotty's accent. That's not something new

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because Chekhov had to do this and get rid of

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his accent in Star Trek The Motion Picture in order

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to get the computer to understand him. Another callback to

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the original series was that ion pod itself. The exact

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same thing happened in this episode that happened in the

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original series episode Court Martial. And the button placement on

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Pike's chair is exactly where it was on Kirk's chair

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in that episode, too. By the way, I really liked

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how they made sure that you knew that Pike went

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to Red Alert before jettisoning the ion pod. Because in

725
00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:53.519
the episode Court Martial, the whole reason that Kirk was

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00:35:53.579 --> 00:35:55.909
on trial was to determine if he jettisoned the pod

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before or after he went to Red Alert. Pike, you

728
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did the right thing. Good job, Pike. Now, Scotty creates

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a static warp bubble around the Enterprise to allow Spock

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to safely walk on the hull outside. This has been

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done a couple times before. Commander Tucker did it in

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Star Trek Enterprise, the episode Divergence, so that he could

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cross over from the USS Enterprise over to the Columbia.

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And it was also done in the Star Trek Discovery

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fifth season opener, Red Directive, which we reviewed last year.

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And that was done so Captain Burnham could walk on

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the hull of a mole and block ship. And then,

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of course, they mentioned a few times about the dangers

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of crossing the warp threshold. Yeah, that's a really big danger.

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Because if you remember, the Star Trek Voyager episode threshold

741
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showed that when you cross it, you get turned into

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00:36:48.469 --> 00:36:51.340
these weird-looking salamander lizards. And I thank God that they

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00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:55.730
didn't do that this episode. And that's it.

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Good one. Good pick. Good pick. All right. Well, thanks, listeners.

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What do you think is going to happen during the

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rest of this season? We've only got four episodes left.

747
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I do want to mention about the next episode. I

748
00:37:09.349 --> 00:37:11.030
don't know. Did you guys see the trailer to this?

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In this season, they're actually doing trailers. Don't watch it.

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00:37:14.139 --> 00:37:17.980
Don't watch it. Wait until you watch the episode. The

751
00:37:18.019 --> 00:37:22.780
episode's titled, like, Chronotons Through the Hourglass. And the official

752
00:37:22.820 --> 00:37:26.349
Paramount tease is, A temporary anomaly traps the crew inside

753
00:37:26.389 --> 00:37:29.789
a soap opera reality where Pike confronts a life he lost, which,

754
00:37:29.809 --> 00:37:34.789
I mean, sounds like another gimmick. But that trailer really

755
00:37:35.329 --> 00:37:38.110
reveals too much, in my opinion, for what's going on

756
00:37:38.130 --> 00:37:40.360
in this episode, because there are some familiar faces that

757
00:37:40.380 --> 00:37:43.519
are going to pop up. So, viewers, my best suggestion,

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00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:46.239
skip that trailer. Wait until the episode, otherwise you'll be

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00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:46.960
spoiled big time.

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All right. Well, thanks for the warning, Wayne. Red alert

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00:37:50.019 --> 00:37:54.590
on that one for the trailer, elicitors. Stay away from it. Well,

762
00:37:54.610 --> 00:37:56.579
Wayne Scott, as always, thank you for joining me on

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the bridge. It's been an absolute pleasure. And again, it's

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been a great 100 episodes with you guys.

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It has been. Here's to the next 100. That's right.

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On to the next 100. All right, listeners, check out www.afilmbuypodcast.com

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