Phasers Set To Stun: Top 10 Episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6

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Space the Final Frontier. Join us
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recap our favorite Star Trek shows,
both new and old, to engage in

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debate about all things Trek. Prepare
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Welcome back listeners to Phasers Set to
Stun, where we continue to show our

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love for everything Star Trek in this
continuing series from a film by podcast focusing

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on everything in the ever expanding universe
of Star Trek, covering television, movies,

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animation, directors, books, merchandise, and much more. Joining me

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on this time travels back to nineteen
ninety two is our Core Trek crew and

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I'm your host, Wayne Whiten,
I'm David BYRNS, and i'm's Kyle Hoffman.

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And in this episode, we will
continue our discussion with what we like

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to call Starter Treks, a chosen
list for first time viewers. This spoiler

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free list focuses on the top ten
episodes from each season for people diving into

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the next generation for the first time, showing them a great place to start

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and want to warp away from.
With Starter Treks, we simplify the menu

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with choices that give the new listeners
a taste from each season after listening to

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this episode, You can find the
course we plotted for you in the convenient

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lists located in the description below.
All Right, we've talked our way through

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the first five seasons of Star Trek
the Next Generation. We've discussed our likes

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and our dislikes, chatted about the
characters, and brought you tidbits and behind

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the scenes facts to keep you interested. But we love hearing from you and

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what you like or don't like.
So if you'd like to comment or add

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what you think is your top ten, please do so, because we would

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love to hear from you. All
Right, Scott, what are we discussing

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in this episode? So at the
start of season six, one of the

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things I want to kind of talk
about, just briefly without spoilers, which

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would be easy and quick, is
times arrow the resolution of that. There's

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there's differing opinions on it. I
personally, I'm like devouring the Mark Twain

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character and I think fantastic. The
whole concept is fascinating, and I think

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it's one of the rare times when
they you know, didn't break the prime

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directive with a with a time traveler. So I enjoyed it quite a bit.

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Highly recommend that anybody who watched the
first definitely finish out times zero.

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I'll agree absolutely. I think it
was a fantastic second part. I mean

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it's not the best of all of
them, of course not, but it

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was still entertaining, still fun,
come on command a record with the role

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he has in his history. Yeah, yeah, we didn't get Riker dressed

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up as Mark Twain right well a
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think it was a success. I
mean it's a fun episode and it was

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it's neat seeing the characters out of
costume and uh in the past, you

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know, plenty of action comedy.
Yeah, I really like the scene between

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Ryker and Crusher in the hospital.
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don't see the two of them together
very much, and it was just a

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neat scene. And plus we got
Gynan a lot more of her. She's

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practically takes a main role in this
episode. Yeah, we get to see

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her a little bit of her past, the connection between her and the card,

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which I think is really interesting.
Yes, and I do I do

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love the mini production of a Midsummer
Nights stream of theater kind of things will

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come up a lot come on Lafos
holding the book upside down. Yeah.

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That was like, oh man,
seriously, it's great. Yeah yeah,

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so yeah, ohk ahead, And
now I was gonna say my favorite one

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is Mark Twain calling Warfaw were Wolf
come on with stereo. I feel like

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I feel like Q should have popped
in and gone like, see, I'm

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not that far off. So well
to start off our list, you know,

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just to be clear why and you'd
already set it up. We're talking

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about the ten episodes to watch in
order of appearance, not necessarily order of

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preference, So our number one isn't
the very best. We're just talking through

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in order, right, that's right. And you know, with season six,

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you know, it's very important to
remember that this year was the premiere

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of Star Trek Deep Space nine,
and you got a big impact on the

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season. You debuted in January third, nineteen ninety three. That was during

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the season hiatus that they always had
in between the uh, the winner break.

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You know, this was important because
I mean, this is the first

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time we've had two Star Trek series
on at the same time. I mean,

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this this was unbelievable and huge.
Oh yeah, it was huge,

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and you know, and it was
great because we had crossovers with it for

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the first time ever, you know, you had crossovers between the two.

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And also another you know important thing
that goes along with that is we lost

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a lot of secondary characters from this
show. They you know, we lost

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Cole Meenie and Rosalind Chow. They
went over to Deep Space nine. We

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saw their child, Molly Hannah Hat
she first appeared in the season and then

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went over to Deep Space nine.
Let's you know, this is Whoopi Goldberg's

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final season in the show. You
know, she didn't appear in season seven

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and we won't see her again until
the films. Michelle Forbes, this is

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her final as a regular secondary cast
member. She comes back one more time.

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But you know, we're whittling down
the secondary cast. Leave just are

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our main Southern for the final year. Yeah, get growth. Yeah.

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And at this time, it felt
like it was just like Christmas for a

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Star Trek right, oh yeah,
you know, like I can't wait to

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talk about DS nine. And at
this time too, we didn't know Star

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Trek de Nijuration only had one more
year. We didn't know that no,

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no, I mean seven years became
a standard. But at that point.

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No, you're right, we didn't. Yeah, all right, let's dive

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right into the episodes we've selected.
We've got a season full of holidack,

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high jinks, romance for Picard,
two Q appearances, Wharf's Ponytail, and

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a deadly alien dog, and we're
going to be talking to them about let

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me skip that. So let's fly
our shuttle craft right into our first pick,

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and Scott, you have the honor
of talking about that one. Great.

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So our first one is called Relics. Our first pick revolves around a

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pair of engineering marbles that shouldn't be
possible in this era. One is a

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dice in sphere, which is basically
an inverted planet built around a star.

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All the living spaces are on the
inside, thriving on a constant source of

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solar energy. On the outside,
it basically looks like the Death Star.

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But this abandoned relic of a structure
hosts our second engineering marvel, Captain Montgomery

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Scott from the original series, preserved
in a trademark Mister Scott Rigged Transporter.

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He's the same age that we see
him in the Generations movie. He finds

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himself feeling as obsolete as his original
Enterprise in this new future and wondering where

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he fits in. When the Dyson
Sphere threatens the Enterprise, It'll take a

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blend of something old and something new
to save the day. Written by Ronald

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Y Moore and Brandon Braga, directed
by Alexander Singer. This is you know.

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I had to basically spoil that mister
Scott comes back in this one because

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I don't think we could spend talked
about him in digging into some interesting facts.

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So I wasn't aware that the Dyson
sphere was a real theory apparently was

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postulated in nineteen fifty nine, and
when Dyson was able to see a copy

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of this episode, he said it
was fun to watch and even though it

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was all nonsense, it was still
quite a good piece of cinema. I

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disagree with the nonsense part, but
I mean, it's Dyson's theory, and

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I had forgotten that James Douhan am
I saying that name right? James doing

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the actor who portrays mister Scott is
missing his right middle finger. Yep,

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that was lost in the World War
two D Day invasion of Normandy. Yeah,

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that's fascinating. I know, it's
fascinating me. I know, there

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are a bunch of you know,
stand in hands that they had done for

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some close up work. But similar
to Radar O'Reilly in Mash, I keep

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forgetting that there was something that they
were purposefully trying to hide about his hand.

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Yeah. This this episode is so
much fun. It is absolutely I

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think my first favorite part is finding
out how he was able to keep himself

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alive in a transporter. Yeah,
giving him in the buffer that that was

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fantastic with two percent degradation, that's
it. Yeah for poor Franklin though,

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Oh yeah, oh yeah, when
when you don't forget to the original sound

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of the transporter engaging, when when
the when the being back? That was

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fantastic that they went that route.
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that sound, you're like, yes, brings back so many memories. And

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the ethics are the original too.
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kind of a mini theory that popped
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it, but I think the two
of you know where I'm going with this.

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The fact that he had two percent
degradation. I wonder if that impacted

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his memory because he doesn't ask about
something that comes up in a later movie

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yeah, that's true. Yeah,
And I got to tell you it had

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been a while since I've seen this
episode, but when he went to the

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holodeck and went on to the bridge, and that was just heartbreaking. It

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really really was. When he was
looking around and looking at the different chairs

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and you know, and saluting them
basically, you know, with the drink

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and stuff like that. Oh my
gosh, dude, that was heartbreaking.

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Yeah. Yeah. And by the
way, that that drink he's having that

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el Debur and whiskey. That's actually
high see ecto cooler, fantastic. But

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you're right that that is probably the
highlight of the episode, that scene where

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he got onto the holidack. And
to make it clear, you know,

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they didn't actually build that set.
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it, like the captain's chair and
the navigation consolement, a little bit of

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the wall. They actually used footage
from some of the original episodes and green

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screened it in. They just didn't
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That the dialogue with the card in
Scotty about their first ship, I

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thought that was fantastic just listening to
them and just knowing the history of all

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of those two characters. Yeah,
you know, Oh my goodness. And

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there's also I have to point this
out, there's a big boo boo in

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this episode. And you know,
the producers actually acknowledged this. But right

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at the end when they're beaming Scotty
and LaForge off of the ship, the

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shields are still up. There's something
they shouldn't be able to do. No.

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Oops, I didn't even notice that, Wayne. So, yeah,

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Scotty had to have something rigged or
something like that. Yeah, well,

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let us give it to Scotty.
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Yeah, give him just a lot
of dialogue and say that's how we

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did it. All right, Let's
move on to our second pick, and

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that's yours, David. The episode
called Rascals, directed by Adam Nimoy,

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written by Alison Hawk, Picard,
ro Guynon, and Keiko are returning to

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the Enterprise when their shuttle gets into
serious trouble. The Enterprise has to do

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an emergency transport to get them off
of it, but comes with consequences.

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The four are beamed on board safely, but find themselves turned back into their

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pre adolescent selves, fault in confusion
among everyone as they are trying to figure

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out how to get the four crew
members back to their normal selves. The

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ship is suddenly attacked and boarded by
the Fringy, making an already difficult situation

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even worse. You know, this
is a fun episode, guys. Oh

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yeah. It's not like the best
episodes of Star Trek or anything like that,

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but I really enjoyed this. One
of the biggest one is David Burkin,

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who plays the young Jean Luke in
this episode. We talked about him

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in the episode Family, where he
played Renee, the nephew to Jean Luke,

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and now he gets to play Jean
Luke. I think that was a

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really neat casting that they did here. I think all the kids did really

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good. They felt like the adult
characters that they were portraying. Every one

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of them did good. The only
thing that I found weird, and I

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don't know if you guys would agree
with me on this, is the voice

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of young guy. Yeah, the
only one on this it did sound like

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adr. Yeah, it had to
have been. Well, you know that

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that young actress, so what's her
isis Carmen Jones. She actually played a

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younger version of Woope Goldberg again sister
act So yeah, I don't know.

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They must have saw something there,
but I agree with you it is it

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seems it does sound like it was
redubbed. Yeah, it had to have

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been, because it felt so off
every time she was talking. But I

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thought all of them did really good. I love the fact that Gynan really

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took advantage of this situation, yeah, you know, beginning to be a

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kid again and just you know,
getting Roe, bringing Roe out, you

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know, to let her experience that
kid again, because she didn't get the

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experience that when she was and she
explains that in the episode of what she

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had to go through as a kid, She doesn't like being back there again.

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But the fact that Ginning got to
bring that out in her, I

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thought that was fantastic. Whole jumping
on the bed and all that stuff was

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cool. Well, think about it, I mean think, you know,

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if you had the chance of being
a kid again, you know, what

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would you do. I think I'd
have to do the same thing they were,

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to have fun. Yeah, yeah, I think. Yeah. I

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love the what you mentioned about bringing
more out of Row because just thinking about

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her character as being somebody who has
been in prison is basically looked down on

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by everybody in Starfleet. And she
has this unique opportunity on the Enterprise to

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change her perception of Starfleet or what
Starfleet can be, right this microcosm of

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a family on the ship and her
ability to you know, thrive and be

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the kind of person that she wants
to be, the kind of officer that

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she wants to be. And I
think there are a lot of important moments

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for her in that. In that
regard, there was a lot of good

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parts of this. And we talked
about the comedic beats that we have done

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BEFO, and I know we did
it last season, but the whole time

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when they were getting trying to get
the children's computer to cooperate with them,

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and how they kept getting their response
from the computer and they was like,

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do you know how to spell Enterprise? I love the design of that,

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you know, the little using the
fish as the interface. I love that.

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Picard had to act like a kid
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many good seeds in this episode.
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one dad, no good? Oh
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this episode isn't forgetten forgotten because during
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Odo brings it up to Wharf as
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so they never let him forget about
that. Yeah. Nice. And this

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is also the first episode to be
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since the first one when they went
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Ronald D. Moore, one of
producers, he was dead set against this

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episode, but then he said after
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he thought it was completely insane at
first, but then he actually loved this

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episode. Well he's right, it
is insane, but it's a great and

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fun episode. Yeah, happens yep. Well, and you get to have

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some moments where Alexander saves the day. Oh right, Like give him something

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good to do there, you know, all right. Our third pick is

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the first of the two two parters
of this season, Chain of Command,

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written by Frank Abetta Marco and Ronald
D. Moore, directed by Robert Shearer,

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and originally aired on December twelfth and
December nineteenth, nineteen ninety two.

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The card Wharf and Beverly Crusher are
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destroy a Cardassian biological weapon installation on
the planet Celtris three. Once there,

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they finally been led into a trap, and while Warf and Krusher managed to

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escape, the card is taken prisoner
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gain knowledge of Federation's secret plans.
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over to a Captain Jellico, who
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the Kardassians, but a crew that
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commanding officer. Now, this this
episode's talked a lot about a lot in

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Trek Circles because mainly because of the
second part. But I want to bring

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up one of the reasons why I
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the guest stars. This has got
some fantastic guest stars, and top of

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it is David Warner. Yeah,
he is such a phenomenal actor. You

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know, he's done Star Trek twice
before. He played Sagan Talbot and Star

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Trek five and Chancellor Gorkhan and Star
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He's been in everything. I mean, it's a Twin Peaks, Babylon five,

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Batman the animated series, even Doctor
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he's been active in film and he's
been active in audio. He's on torch

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Wood Sapphire's Steel played alternate Doctor and
Doctor Who audio was up till last year

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before he passed away. And then
also the second guest star is Ronnie Cox.

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You know, he's also someone who
has appeared in practically everything back in

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the eighties, so much stuff.
And he's a great actor. He comes

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off rather abrasive in this this episode. That's the points that's Yeah, he's

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the person you're supposed to hate and
he plays it brilliantly. Oh and you

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hate him? Oh yeah, oh
you hate him? Just you wait?

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Yeah. Yeah. One of the
things I want to bring up too about

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David Warners that we were talking about
him, he learned three days of notice

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that he got that was getting this
role. Wow, And he could not

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learn his lines in that amount of
time, So they actually were holding up

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his que cards behind the card behind
Patrick Stewart so he could read them.

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The fact that he was able to
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in this just speaks volume of an
actor he is. That makes me wonder

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was he a replacement for for another
actor. I've not read that. I'm

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not sure he have to be.
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that makes me curious. I wonder
if who it was, If anybody

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knows, let us know. Well, I'm glad he did because he was

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just phenomenal in this Man, Oh
my god, that goes yes. Yeah,

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and what Picard has to go through
in the second part just is mind

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blowing. You know, we've seen
him go through so much and I think

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we talked about this in the last
episode of what Picard had has gone through

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and again here he goes again,
has to get tortured and going through all

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of us, he has to go
Oh my god. Man, it's it's

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kind of that's rough. I mean, it's it's incredible that he's kept his

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sanity because he's been through so much
over the last few years. Yeah.

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Absolutely. But the whole the whole
friction between Jellico and Riker, oh so

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well done. I mean, I
know we all hate Jellico, but man,

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ronnick Cox have pulled that off phenominally. The moment you meet him to

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the moment he leaves, Oh my
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nerve. Well, I mean it's
a very intense situation, not only how

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he approaches command, but also how
he approaches negotiations with the Kardassians, Like,

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oh my god, it feels like
he's throwing a ball of gasoline on

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a bonfire, right, And it's
very, very tense. It is.

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And it's because of him that Troy
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Oh yeah, he keeps from then
around. Well, let's discuss that real

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quickly. I mean, do you
like her in the dresses and are the

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leotards? Do you prefer her in
the uniform? Well, I had seen

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that Marina Syrtis actually appreciated the change
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reminder that she had a command role
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wasn't a supplementary character, and given
how much damage she has to undo for

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each of these characters, m m, yeah, she's a full time job.

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it And I'm gonna go back to
what I said. I think a couple

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of seasons, a couple of episodes
ago, when Wesley Crusher got the star

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Fleet uniform, his character became so
much better. Now I'm not saying Troy

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was a bad character by no means. Troy has been phenomenal, But when

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she gets the Starfleet uniform, she's
taken a whole lot more seriously. Yeah,

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yeah, that's true, that's true. Yeah, she starts acting like

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a Starfleet officer and not as just
one of the civilians as walking around.

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You know, she she she has
rank. You know that's one thing a

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lot of people don't realize she had
rank, and you know, she has

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the ability to command, and this
kind of gave her that air of authority

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that that I think the character really
needed. Yeah, and if correct me

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if I'm wrong, But isn't this
the episode that establishes the Kardassians is the

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main villain for Deep Space nine.
Yes, this is very important. Well,

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this was their final design. Was
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they also mentioned that they pulled out
of the Bajorn Sector, which is a

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major plot point in the first season
of dew Space nine. So this was

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the first episode to air before the
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you know, having those those planing
those seeds for the series was essential for

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him. Yeah. Yeah, this
is such an incredible two parter and I

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got a pile on the accolades for
David Warner, Oh my god, ever

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since I met him as Evil in
Time Bandits Yeah, Oh my god.

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And then Rosal Ghoul in Batman animated
series Perfect Undiscovered Country. Absolutely loved it,

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and this one is like the icing
on the cake. He is just

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so perfect in both these parts,
right through to the to the end of

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the second part, and you'll be
captivated. And remember, listeners, there

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are four lights right well, there's
our first three selected episodes. And before

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we continue on, let's take a
short break and then we'll come back and

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dive right into what we have next
for you in Starter Treks. Welcome back

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everyone. We're beaming David in for
our fourth episode of the list, and

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that would be Ship in a Bottle
directed by Alexander Singer, written by Renee

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Antaveria. Moriarty is back, reawakened
by mistake when Lieutenant Barclay tries to repair

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and fix some issues with the Holidack. Upon his return, Moriarty, who

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is still self aware, demands for
his long overdue wish to be fulfilled.

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In the sequel to Elementary Your Data, MORIANDU wants to live out his life

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off the Holidack, with further demands
of allowing his one true love to be

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able to join him. He takes
charge of the Enterprise and will not relinquish

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command until he receives what he desires. A bigger mystery is afoot than the

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crew of the Enterprise realizes. Guys. Daniel Davis is back as Moriotty,

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and man does he blow it out
of the water once again. Yeah?

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Yeah, But I also wanted to
bring a performance to somebody else who we've

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not talked about yet. But he's
been on the Enterprise for a while,

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and that's Dwight Schultz as Barklay.
We've not talked about him, guys,

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and he's been around. For those
who know a lot about older television series.

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He played Murdoch from The A Team, and he does such a good

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job acting strange and unusual. I
think that's why he did Murdock so well

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in The A Team, But he
does so good as Barclay as well.

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Would you guys agree? Oh,
definitely agree. Yeah, he's a fun

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character, and we really haven't talked
much about him. None of the episodes

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just happened to be any of our
choices, but we do love the character.

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Yeah, absolutely, he has a
lot of his character kind of reminds

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me of some of the things we've
seen in Lower Decks, right, oh

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yeah, but automatically confident just because
they were the uniform or because the position

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they're in, and some real struggles
with anxiety and you know, confidence problems

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and things like that. It's very
interesting that I see that mirrored in another

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character that I won't say who because
it's a spoiler, but when you wouldn't

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expect and it's easy to kind of
identify with what Barkley might be going through.

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I think there have been a lot
of episodes where he really really stands

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out, and I think he's a
great addition to the show. Oh absolutely

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yes. Now, remember back in
our second episode for Phaser such as Stunt,

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I mentioned about the legal troubles between
Paramounts and the Conan Doyle Estate.

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Well, obviously with this episode it's
all been taken care of. It seems

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actually that the estate had no problems
with the Next Generation. Their fight with

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Paramount was about to the film Young
Sherlock Holmes, and it was all a

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misunderstanding and they were perfectly willing to
license the use of the of the characters

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for a next generation which is we
got this episode, and I'm great grateful

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that they did because this I love
this episode. It's one of my favorites

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of the season. It's another fun
episode. It's great seeing those characters back.

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And like David said, I love
Daniel Davis as Maria. He is

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so fantastic. You know, most
viewers know him from David. This is

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one of your favorite shows, isn't
it. The Nanny? I remember,

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you love that. You're funny,
You're funny. But I mean, he

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had a long run on that,
and you know he he does a great

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British accent, but you know he's
not British's he's actually that's a fake accident.

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Yeah, he's actually from Arkansas.
And he did a good job.

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Interesting. And you know there's another
guest star I want to point out too,

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is Stephanie Beacham. I love her. You know, she's really known

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for her long run on Dynasty,
but she also starred during the first season

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of one of my favorite sci fi
show sequest dsv Oh. Yeah, I

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loved her character as doctor Wes Phalen. It's pretty she couldn't continue on,

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but you know, here we got
her and she does a great job and

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it is a great foil with Daniel
Davis. Apparently she's deaf in one here,

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Yes, that's right. Yeah.
And there's like one of the scenes

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when she's talking to a card you
can see her like kind of like leaning

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in to listen to what he's saying. Yeah, it's kind of It's a

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pair of amazing characters. And the
concept behind this one, there's a I

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don't know if it's the final line, but one of the final lines in

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the episode conceptually just gets you to
think a little about the episode. So

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I feel like this is another you
know, another one you can watch twice,

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and this is in different ways.
If if you ever seen the movie

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Inception, the how that ends,
this episode ends similar. You get you

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thinking like, yeah, are we
how do we do it right? Yeah?

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Yeah, And this was the first
episode that came on after that winter

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break, so when this episode aired, we'd already gotten three episodes of Deep

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Space nine, so we are right
in the middle of it. And also

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another happy thought is that when Professor
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this is the last mention of that
character ever in Star Trek. I imagine

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Pulaski and Angelico are probably happy as
clamps on the ship somewhere together. As

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the show I do not want to
watch. No, Now, let's hear

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our fifth pick for season six,
Scott, Yeah, this one is an

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amazing one called Tapestry. To paraphrase
Charles Dickens, Picard was dead to begin

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with. This episode rushes us into
a scene where Picard is on the brink

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of death after being shot. I
believe in his artificial hearten. As he

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approaches a heavenly figure basked in a
vast white light in the of the afterlife,

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he finds Q waiting to usure him
to his eternal reward. Unless which

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is always a word that precedes Q
based mischief. Unless Picard makes a safer

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decision in his past that prevents him
from ever needing his artificial heart. This

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episode gives us a look at a
pivotal lowered dex moment in Picard's youth,

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and a glimpse into the future that
might have been if he had made different

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choices. It all weaves together for
a fascinating episode and an important chapter in

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Picard's life. Written by Ronald D. Moore and Brandon Braga, directed again

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by Les Landaut I found it interesting
to learn that producer producer Ronald D.

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Moore thought this was one of the
best things he'd ever written in one of

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the show's finest episodes. I would
agree with that assessment. I think this

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one is aside from the fact that
Picard is facing Q as God, which

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he just dismisses to a certain degree, but there's a there's a fascinating twist

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in that that you learn about in
the episode, but getting to see another

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aspect of Picard, getting to see
him in his youth and being, you

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know, i'd say a lot more
reckless than he is nowadays. Degree,

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you do not even imagine what Picard
was like at that age when you when

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you realize who he was and what
we've gotten used to with, Uh no,

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that's not right. Yeah. Yeah, it was weird. Yeah,

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very weird, especially to see him, yeah, interacting with women in various

405
00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:38.720
ways and you just get like,
oh, really, yeah, he's very

406
00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:45.079
grown over time, Yes, big
time. The actor Will Wheaton, who

407
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.519
played Westy Crusher, as we know, he doesn't have any appearances in the

408
00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:53.200
sixth season, he commented, my
favorite episode of Next Generation is Tapestry,

409
00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:56.960
and it is a really great example
how everything that happens in our lives,

410
00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:02.720
even the shitty things, help us
us into the people we are. And

411
00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:08.359
he is absolutely right. This is
a fantastic episode. Marda played by J.

412
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:12.319
C. Brandy Zeeler, who was
played by Nid Vaughan, who I

413
00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:18.039
swear was it could have been played
by Eric Stoltz. I really could have.

414
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:22.799
They all did a fantastic job of
you know, how the events take

415
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:26.680
place and how they do and you
know the Clarden making those decisions, you

416
00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:30.799
know, very similar to like Scrooge. I mean, if you think about

417
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.480
it, it's kind of like a
Christmas Carol if you think about it in

418
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:36.480
that way. That's funny you say
that, because that's actually was the original

419
00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:40.119
intention for this episode was to be
a Christmas Carol type episode. There were

420
00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:42.279
going to be three events, uh. I think one of them was Jack

421
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:48.759
Crusher's death on the Stargazer and Card's
young childhood in France. But I don't

422
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:52.839
think the producer liked it so and
they thought it was too much for for

423
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:56.240
an hour episode, so they turned
it down, which I think was a

424
00:31:56.279 --> 00:32:01.440
good a good choice. I think
there's two kind of chapters of this one.

425
00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:08.599
I guess maybe three. But it's
very important that they focus on each

426
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:15.880
of these things and that you get
to see some regrets from Picard in different

427
00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:22.680
ways. And this and very interesting
how he learns that the choices that he

428
00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:29.200
makes in his life make a big
difference. I think it's one of the

429
00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:35.319
most clever uses of laughter I've ever
heard of in Star treksh I think it

430
00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:37.799
was. It was a brilliant plot
device, and I've got to say I

431
00:32:38.119 --> 00:32:45.079
really enjoyed the Nauskins, especially the
way they say dom John. I think

432
00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:47.960
my my favorite line in the episode
is when Q was you know, kept

433
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:52.359
probing it at McCarty as he always
does, but he's you know, getting

434
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.000
into what he regrets, what he
regrets and letting He finally said, well

435
00:32:55.039 --> 00:33:01.960
like grets dying finding you here yep. And you know, this is Q's

436
00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:07.680
second appearance for the season, but
he actually had another appearance just the week

437
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:12.160
before this episode aired. He was
on Deep Space nine on the episode Cules,

438
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:15.920
and he even mentions in that episode
that he believes he should pay John

439
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:21.079
Luca call, which he did.
He does right here. It is ye

440
00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:25.480
and guys, I'm sorry he doesn't
look good and Blue I was so thrown

441
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:28.880
off by that, and I'm like, I don't like this. I just

442
00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:34.720
if you're dirty. It was kind
of his pitiful actually, you know.

443
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:38.359
It was the way he had pretty
much ruined everything, you know, let

444
00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:43.240
all the opportunities slip by. It's
kind of sad. Yeah, yeah,

445
00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:46.880
all right. Our sixth Pick is
the second of the two parters Birthright,

446
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:53.160
written by bron And Braga and Renee
at Schavaria, and part one was directed

447
00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:57.799
by when Rich Colby and part two
by Dan Currey. This originally aired on

448
00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:02.519
February twentieth and twenty seventh, nineteen
nineth The Enterprise makes a layoverstop at Deep

449
00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:08.119
Space nine to assist with repairing the
Bajoran aqueducts. During their stay, doctor

450
00:34:08.199 --> 00:34:14.320
Julian Basher asks Data and LaForge for
help with an artifact discovered in the Gamma

451
00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:19.760
Quadrant, and during their experiments,
Data is zapped by a strange energy discharge,

452
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:23.199
which causes him to experience dreams of
his creator, Doctor Nunian's song.

453
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:30.000
Meanwhile, Wharf has problems of his
own when an alien approaches him with evidence

454
00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:32.760
that his father, Mode, believed
to be long dead, is still alive

455
00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:37.239
and being held in a Romulan prison
camp. Now, as I said,

456
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:39.920
this is the second of the two
two parters this season. This is a

457
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:45.679
big one too. This is the
first multi series crossover take place with Deep

458
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:50.239
Space nine. This is something that
they were hoping to do every year.

459
00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:52.480
Didn't work out that way. They
kind of did a little bit of it

460
00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:59.639
during season seven. But makes you
wonder if they had actually thought that season

461
00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:01.840
seven and would was going to be
the end. Maybe they had planned on

462
00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:07.239
it being continuing even even farther.
And you know, we got we got

463
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:13.239
one character from d Space nine,
doctor Bashir. But Jazia Dax was actually

464
00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:16.280
supposed to appear in this episode as
well, but she was she was busy

465
00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:21.280
filming Move Alon Home, which that's
an episode during the first season, and

466
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:23.920
I couldn't work the schedule out,
which you know, she was rather upset

467
00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:25.760
that she couldn't be in the episode. And I'm a blamer. I'd rather

468
00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:30.920
do this episode than Move Along Home. That's very well known. That's one

469
00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:36.199
of my least favorite episodes of the
series. I want to mention because I

470
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:38.320
find the guest stars of all the
episodes is really interesting. Some of the

471
00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:43.280
best things that I enjoy the most. The character of Shrek, not not

472
00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:47.719
the ogre Shrek the alien Trader that's
played by James Cromwell. You know,

473
00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:52.280
we see him later on big part
In Star Trek First Contact he played as

474
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:59.559
Zephyron Cochrane and we also got Richard
Hurd. He's a fantastic character actor,

475
00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:01.920
none of one of the those that's
pretty much just appeared in everything back in

476
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:08.239
the eighties and the nineties. He
plays the klingon Liquor in Part two.

477
00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:12.559
You know, he was gosh,
some of the things he's done. He

478
00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:21.599
was the visitor leader on v he
was Admiral Noise on SeaQuest City. He

479
00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:27.880
would to return and play Admiral Paris, Tom Parris's father on Voyager in quite

480
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:30.760
a few episodes. And Scott and
I just recently just talked about The Giant

481
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:35.280
Syndrome, the film at forty five
that he was in. That's right.

482
00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:37.679
Yeah, See, he's everywhere it
is, and he's a great actor.

483
00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:40.280
I mean, you know, I
can understand why he had no problems getting

484
00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:44.960
jobs. Oh yeah, yeah,
I'm glad they made this on a two

485
00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:47.639
parter because there's so much to unpack. There is absolutely so much unpack.

486
00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:53.280
I love julianaar in this one.
Oh absolutely. His presence I think was

487
00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:58.280
a great kind of bridge with with
DS nine. Yeah, and the introduction

488
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:00.159
where he's kind of like tinkering with
stuff he's supposed to. They kind of

489
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:04.639
chastise him for it. What are
you doing? Man? Come on,

490
00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:07.960
you know better than this. It
always gets us in trouble. So I

491
00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:12.880
know this is a two parter,
but please don't chastise me when I say

492
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.800
this, but I feel like the
first part was a whole lot stronger than

493
00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:21.840
the second part. I know you're
dealing with a lot more of the wharf

494
00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:25.599
stuff in part two. I love
the Data stuff. I love the dream

495
00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:32.679
sequences that we got with Data and
him exploring that part about himself. I

496
00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:37.440
felt like they should have maybe given
us a little bit more if they could

497
00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:43.199
have, so that would have extended
into part two. Maybe that would have

498
00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:45.679
taken away from WARF's story a little
bit. I mean, there were some

499
00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:49.119
good stuff at Part two, don't
get me wrong, I just feel like

500
00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:51.719
the first part with a lot I
agree, and I'm glad you brought that

501
00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:53.719
up, because, yeah, this
is a two parter, but it feels

502
00:37:53.760 --> 00:38:01.239
like two separate episodes. The part
one is mostly about Data and his dreams

503
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:05.800
and there's I mean, while Wharf's
story starts, there's very little of it

504
00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:07.480
there, with the exception of like
the very end of the episode and then

505
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:10.559
episode two, you know, none
of Data's story is in there, and

506
00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:15.079
it's all Wharf. I mean,
yeah, it is a two parter but

507
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:21.239
barely barely hanging together. Yeah.
And I think it's fascinating to see like

508
00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:25.800
the depth and the complexity of Data's
character and how much has been burnhamed and

509
00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:32.119
that he isn't even aware of that
Doctor Sum you know, engineered him with.

510
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:37.159
There's a great look at that in
the first part. Yeah. And

511
00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:44.239
the second part is a lot of
resolution. It seems like it is progress

512
00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:46.960
for a Wharf, but it doesn't
seem like it's as much growth maybe as

513
00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:52.400
we see with Data. Yeah,
and it brings up another thing about Wharf

514
00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:53.360
in the second episode, because I
don't want to give too much away,

515
00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:59.360
but does Wharf really cross a line
in that episode and what he does and

516
00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:01.239
think about that I'm directive kind of
thing. Yes, yeah, yeah,

517
00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:07.719
yeah, that's true. Yeah,
Yeah. I really like the Data dream

518
00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:12.840
stupits. I think they're beautifully shot, very interesting. Oh yeah, and

519
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:15.960
I got to point out that the
final shot when he's flying like the bird,

520
00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:19.880
that shot of the enterprise is gorgeous. It is, you know,

521
00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:23.880
it's the only time is that shot
has ever seen Usually most of the most

522
00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:28.119
of the visual effects that we used, but this one was specially shot for

523
00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:30.599
the episode. It is. It
is a beautiful shot of the enterprise that

524
00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:32.760
you usually don't see from that angle. Yeah. And the music, the

525
00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:37.920
music from that that sequence too,
that was done by Jay Chadaway, absolutely

526
00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:44.239
fantastic. You know. He used
a wind machine, which is something that

527
00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:47.679
I always familiar with with the wind
machine from Jerry Goldsmith used it really prominently

528
00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:52.400
in Star Trek Motion Picture and he
used it here and it it just highlights

529
00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:55.599
that that scenely. Yeah, and
you're talking about the shots for the dream

530
00:39:55.639 --> 00:40:00.239
sequences with data. I love that
that that almost fish eye look of like

531
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:04.840
the cameras like floating behind him as
it's walking down the hallway of this ship

532
00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:07.079
before he sees doctor Noninsong. I
love that that shot. That was so

533
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:12.000
cool. All right. The next
episode, our seventh on our list,

534
00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:16.199
is being Wrangled by David. This
episode is the Chase, directed by,

535
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:22.920
of course, none other than Jonathan
Freaks, written by Joe Minowski. Professor

536
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:27.159
Galen surprises Captain Picard, and with
him he brings the chance of a lifetime.

537
00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:30.840
The Professor is on an archaeological mission
of major significance and he wants Picard

538
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:35.039
to join him. However, there
is more to this mission, as it

539
00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:38.440
brings an ancient mystery waiting to be
solved that could possibly be the greatest discovery

540
00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:44.400
in history. With Picard denying the
Professor's request, an incident occurs, forcing

541
00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:47.199
him and the Enterprise into the search, which puts them on a direct path

542
00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:52.400
with the Cardassians, Romulans, and
the Klingons who are still who are all

543
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:55.320
after the same thing. One of
the things that they didn't talk about in

544
00:40:55.440 --> 00:41:00.840
Rascals is when they were on the
shuttle on their way back the Enterprise before

545
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:04.800
the incident happens, how giddy a
Card was when he was talking about the

546
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:09.800
art items he had found. We
get that again here when a Professor Galen

547
00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:15.159
brings that gift to him, and
you know, the card like freaks out

548
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:19.519
when he realizes what it was and
that it's all intact. I love seeing

549
00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:22.639
that from Percard because you're getting to
see his human side, you do not

550
00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:25.559
seeing just the captain's side. You're
getting to see the part of him that

551
00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:29.719
he's like a kid, you know, like we all do, you know,

552
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:31.880
we love things like Star Trek.
We get giddy about it. You

553
00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:35.320
get to see that out of Percarter
here, and I thought that was really

554
00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:39.039
neat for his character development, and
that artifacts. You know, he is

555
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:43.639
he he lights up when he sees
that. He just absolutely loves that artifact.

556
00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:47.679
But does he really like that artifact? Because it comes back and we

557
00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:52.079
see it in Star Trek Generations and
he picks it up and he just throws

558
00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:55.199
it like like it's garbage onto the
ground and then but then then it reappears

559
00:41:55.239 --> 00:41:58.559
again. We see it again in
Star Trek Picard and there it is.

560
00:41:58.679 --> 00:42:00.800
I mean, did he maybe he
had a change of heart. Remember what

561
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:04.239
the heck was I doing? Why
did I throw that down and flew all

562
00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:07.159
the way back to the planet and
got it? Questions? Any of the

563
00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:10.639
answers to these again, maybe the
heal grew up. I don't know.

564
00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:16.400
It's the degradation. It's all about
the degradation. Yeah. I thought this

565
00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:22.039
was an interesting archaeological mystery that kind
of unravels and it really digs into that

566
00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:27.760
aspect of Gard's character, which I
think is fascinating. You get so many

567
00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:31.360
players that step into this trying to, you know, vibe for whatever this

568
00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:37.039
could possibly be, and I think
the resolution was was great. Oh there's

569
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:44.239
one guest star in this salom Gens
if I'm saying the Retten name right as

570
00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:51.239
a character. I can't tell you
who it is. But this actress comes

571
00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:54.840
back in Deep Space nine in a
big, big, big, big way.

572
00:42:55.000 --> 00:43:00.679
And I thought that character in DS
nine was absolutly fascinating, So I

573
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:05.280
like seeing a little taste of that
character here. Yeah, and she's not

574
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:10.119
the only actual big name guest star
on this. We got two British actor

575
00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:15.840
actresses on this show. We have
Linda Thorson, who you know. She's

576
00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:22.400
best known for playing Tara King during
the final two years of The Avengers the

577
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:27.280
Back the Sixties spy series, which
that's another show I absolutely love, and

578
00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:31.639
then playing the romulent is Maurice Roves. Yep. I know him because he

579
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:37.760
played the smuggler Stoughts in Peter Davison's
final story The Case of Andrezany on Doctor

580
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:43.599
Who back in nineteen eighty four.
His voice is easily recognizable, even though

581
00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:46.280
through all that makeup. I know
him as Colonel Monroe from the Last of

582
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:50.119
the Mohicans. Yes, that's right, I forgot he was in that film.

583
00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:52.639
Yeah, yep, all right,
it's time once again to take a

584
00:43:52.679 --> 00:44:00.679
break. Stay tuned and we'll be
back after these important messages. Welcome back

585
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:06.400
everyone, and we're going to continue
with our eighth pick. Scott tell us

586
00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:08.679
what that is though. Our number
eight pick is an episode called a Frame

587
00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:14.519
of Mind. Anyone who's a fan
of Riker and Jonathan Frakes should pay special

588
00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:17.719
attention to this episode. We open
with a scene where Riker plays a character

589
00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:22.400
in one of Doctor Crusher's theatrical productions. His character is defending his sanity as

590
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:27.559
he continues to lose his own tenuous
grip on reality, but soon it becomes

591
00:44:27.559 --> 00:44:30.760
hard to tell the difference between that
character and Riker himself. He begins to

592
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:35.039
question if his life on the Enterprise
was ever real at all, or if

593
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:37.079
it was all an elaborate fantasy that
he created to live with his guilt.

594
00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:42.400
If any of these personalities is going
to survive, the others must be destroyed

595
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:46.199
and dismissed as nothing more fantasy.
It's an episode that has both the performer

596
00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:52.159
and us as an audience questioning what's
real and a sure sign of overtime in

597
00:44:52.199 --> 00:44:57.000
Troy's future, if she even exists
at all. Written by Brendan Brega and

598
00:44:57.239 --> 00:45:02.800
rene Eshebia, directed by James el
Conway. Interesting that this is the first

599
00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:07.840
episode directed by Conway since the first
season finale of The Neutral Zone. That's

600
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:13.800
quite a long stretch. Yeah,
that is yeah, And I saw that

601
00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:19.039
Jonathan Freakes has said that this is
something he considers to be a really dark

602
00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:23.360
episode that was terrifying and creepy to
do. He has a big show for

603
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:29.119
him to carry, and I think
he does so beautifully. It's one of

604
00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:34.519
those episodes that messes with your minders
of your and the character's mind And like

605
00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:37.960
I said, I don't know how
Troy is ever getting any sleep with the

606
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:43.320
number of issues that she has to
unpack and this this is another episode where

607
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:45.079
it feels like Conception again. At
the end, you're like, what do

608
00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:51.440
I believe? Yeah? I mean
Jonathan Franks has an incredible job of making

609
00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:54.679
it look like he is losing his
mind and in getting you to believe in

610
00:45:54.719 --> 00:45:59.519
that man. That's a really good
performance on him. And Wayne you talk

611
00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:05.800
about. Uh, here we have
Andrew Bryne who played Funa Wayne and I

612
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:08.840
would know him as a Brigadier General
Richard Garnett in Gettysburg. That's right,

613
00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:12.559
But he's been he'd done a lot
of stuff, Andrew Proyne has, Yeah,

614
00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:14.280
he did. He was on V
as well. You know, we

615
00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:16.840
got a lot of V guest stars. Uh. You know, I I

616
00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:21.599
agree with both of you. I
think personally, I think this is probably

617
00:46:21.639 --> 00:46:25.280
one of Jonathan Frakes's strongest performances in
the entire series. Yeah, you know,

618
00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:29.400
it's it's really as terrifying. It's
some of those episodes that you didn't

619
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:30.599
we really didn't think about when it
first aired, you know, seeing the

620
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:34.800
commercials, but then you know,
we watched it and it was like,

621
00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:38.719
wow, this this really blew our
mind, you know. And you know,

622
00:46:38.840 --> 00:46:42.360
when doing my research, I found
out this this was written at the

623
00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:45.440
last minute. They only had three
days to write this episode. It was

624
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:49.039
a replacement for another script that fell
through. And I'm like, wow,

625
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:53.559
you know, that's phenomenal to write
something like that. Yeah, no kidding.

626
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:58.440
One of the things I really love
in this is going back to the

627
00:46:58.440 --> 00:47:02.000
comedic beats again when Gardi and Riker
are together and they're talking about Rikers thinking

628
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:06.480
that he might have to back out
of the performance for Beverly Crusher, and

629
00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:09.559
you know, Picard knows what's going
on with this conversation and talks him back

630
00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:12.599
into no, you need to do
it. He says, if you back

631
00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:16.360
out, she'll come after me.
Yeah. I imagine Crusher probably takes a

632
00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:23.639
hiatus on productions after this one,
especially with uh what the The reactionary shot

633
00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:30.400
that we see at the ending of
this episode is fascinating. It is pretty

634
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:35.079
It goes to a pretty deep place. The only thing that kind of sticks

635
00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:37.519
with me, and the only I
guess daing of this one is, you

636
00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:40.360
know, considering the special effects of
the era, there are some places where

637
00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:45.159
it seems like, you know,
nineties PowerPoint kind of special effects. But

638
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:52.719
all in all, you know,
you get Riker with crazed hair and just

639
00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:57.239
at the freight ends of sanity.
Like, I don't know how he got

640
00:47:57.239 --> 00:48:01.639
through this one, but yeah,
definitely one of the darkest episodes of the

641
00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:07.000
entire series for sure. All Right, we're moving closer to our finish line.

642
00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:10.119
Here is our ninth pick, and
I'll give you that one time Scape

643
00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:15.480
written by Bron and Braga and directed
by Adam Nimoy. This originally aired on

644
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:22.079
June fourteenth, nineteen ninety three.
Returning from a conference by Runabout, Picard,

645
00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:28.519
Troy LaForge and Data discovered the Enterprise
frozen in time in mid battle with

646
00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:32.719
the Romulin warburd beaming on board.
They discovered that the crew have also been

647
00:48:32.719 --> 00:48:37.679
effective, and that the Romulins have
boarded and the Enterprise's warp corps has begun

648
00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:44.920
to explode. Further investigations discovered that
time is not frozen still, but moving

649
00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:49.079
at an incredibly slow pace, and
starting it up again would mean the destruction

650
00:48:49.239 --> 00:48:53.079
of the ship and everyone on board. This is an interesting episode. This

651
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:59.840
felt way at the end of the
season, a lot of sci fi elements

652
00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:02.440
going for It's uh got you know, you got your time travel theory,

653
00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:07.679
uh, some really really cool visual
effects. It doesn't it sounds simple,

654
00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:10.199
you know, you're just nobody's moving
around the ships ever in in uh you

655
00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:15.679
know, frozen in time. But
it really makes for a striking shot when

656
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:20.599
you when you put it against the
moving characters. And this is the first

657
00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:25.199
time we see the Denude class Runabout
on Next Generation that was built for deep

658
00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:31.239
Space nine, which is my favorite
shuttlecraft by the way. Yeah, it's

659
00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:34.960
it's a larger shuttle craft and you
know it's able to go to warp.

660
00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:39.719
The reason they used it on this
show was they were trying to save a

661
00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:44.039
little bit of money on Deep Space
nine and they needed the next generation to

662
00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:47.199
use some of their budget to build
the sets. So they built the Runabout

663
00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:55.440
set and then Deep Space Nine never
used it the US. But I got

664
00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:59.920
to point out my favorite part of
the episode, and it's such a little

665
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:05.119
thing. But so when when Picard
begins to suffer the effects of the time

666
00:50:05.159 --> 00:50:07.840
displacement. Yeah, you know,
they're in the engineering and they see the

667
00:50:08.119 --> 00:50:13.440
warp corps is exploding. It's big
cloud of steam coming out, and he

668
00:50:13.599 --> 00:50:17.199
just starts laughing. It's this giggle
and the camera turns to him and he's

669
00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:21.719
drawn a smiley face in the in
this this steam. I mean, I

670
00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:25.639
love that. That makes me crack
up every time. Yeah. Well then

671
00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:29.440
he gets it together. Yeah,
then he gets it together again and starts

672
00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:31.440
laughing again. Yeah. Yeah,
oh my god. But then he has

673
00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:35.840
this like breakdown. He's like,
this is layers. No, no,

674
00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:39.440
I won't do it. Oh the
range they have in this one is fantastic.

675
00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:44.199
I got to give credit to the
you know, the the rest of

676
00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:47.360
the cast in each of these scenes
to just be frozen for so long in

677
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:52.880
place. Yeah, it's a very
like a lot of episodes, and this

678
00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:55.280
seas in particular, have a kind
of a twilight zone aspect to it,

679
00:50:55.880 --> 00:51:00.760
like these conceptual ideas that really really
kind of draw you in and thinking about

680
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:06.400
that kind of concept well beyond at
the end of the episode. Yeah,

681
00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:12.840
this one's absolutely fascinating, especially when
you see the all the pieces that they're

682
00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:19.519
kind of unpacking, like when you
see the uh the exterior of the ships

683
00:51:19.719 --> 00:51:22.039
and what's going on between the ships
and them having to kind of figure some

684
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:29.320
things out in the middle of a
warp core breach. How I think it's

685
00:51:29.679 --> 00:51:34.880
Data mentions that he can see it
moving at this infinitesimal rate, right,

686
00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:38.079
but it's still happening, like everything's
still unfolding. It's absolutely fascinating. And

687
00:51:38.119 --> 00:51:42.280
the whole the whole mystery thing when
you're when they go on the ship and

688
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.360
you see people in certain positions so
it looks like something else, but it's

689
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:50.920
actually another thing when you realize what's
going on, uh thing you know with

690
00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:52.559
Beverley Crusher, you know, all
of that stuff is just so cool.

691
00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:55.639
How they, like you said,
how they unpack this and then you realize

692
00:51:55.679 --> 00:52:00.599
the truth behind all of it's really
neat right, and it gets a lot

693
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:02.480
to do in this episode too,
you know, so it kind of harks

694
00:52:02.519 --> 00:52:07.000
back to her time that she spent
on the Romulan ship back in last season

695
00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:12.199
with no that was a season excuse
me, I was earlier this season ins

696
00:52:12.239 --> 00:52:15.639
of the Enemy, which is another
really good episode but didn't quite make our

697
00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:21.880
top ten, but definitely worth watching, you know, just to enjoy Troy

698
00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:25.639
in a great, great episode.
And one thing we learned is clearly Ryker

699
00:52:25.639 --> 00:52:31.360
and Spot do not get along.
Oh yes, yep, I love Spot.

700
00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:38.199
Finally, we're going on to our
tenth and final choice for starter treks.

701
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:42.480
David, you have the honor of
closing us out, and this is

702
00:52:42.599 --> 00:52:49.000
the season finale to season six decent
Art one, directed by Alexander Singer and

703
00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:52.840
written by Ronald D. Moore,
and responding to a distressed signal, the

704
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:55.760
crew of the Enterprise are surprised the
final ship they do not recognize. Upon

705
00:52:55.800 --> 00:53:00.599
searching the outposts, the Await team
discover who exactly is responsible for the death

706
00:53:00.679 --> 00:53:05.079
of all the Federation officers within the
Borg. During the brief fight in the

707
00:53:05.079 --> 00:53:08.679
outpost, Data does something he has
never done before, shows emotion by getting

708
00:53:08.719 --> 00:53:14.880
angry. The crew also discovers something
else. The Borg they encounter shows signs

709
00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:17.800
of individualism, which brings a new
set of problems for the Enterprise, the

710
00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:23.679
Federation, and most of all Data. This is another great performance but Data,

711
00:53:23.760 --> 00:53:27.840
I mean by Brn Speiner that we
have talked about over and over and

712
00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:31.119
over. One of the things that
I found very amusing is the opening scene

713
00:53:31.800 --> 00:53:38.679
where Data is playing poker with Einstein
Newton and of course Stephen Hawking. Such

714
00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:44.159
a fun scene there, and apparently
Stephen Hawking had a blast doing this.

715
00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:46.400
You know, they got to show
him around the set and all that kind

716
00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:51.559
of stuff, like getting to be
in the episode two. What I found

717
00:53:51.559 --> 00:53:54.880
out and doing some research on this
episode, is that he asked if he

718
00:53:54.880 --> 00:53:59.920
could be in the Captain's chair,
so they actually took him out of his

719
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:04.679
wheelchair and put him into the captain's
chair of the Enterprise. That's awesome.

720
00:54:04.840 --> 00:54:07.239
Wow, Yeah, that is that's
cool, you know what I mean.

721
00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:10.599
He's having a lot of fun in
that point. Absolutely. They give him

722
00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:16.440
great dialogue too, mindste and Isaac
Newton. I think it's fantastic. And

723
00:54:16.559 --> 00:54:20.880
that was a big thing too.
I mean they advertised the heck out of

724
00:54:20.920 --> 00:54:23.599
his appearance. I remember it was
on TV Guide, it was on Entertainment

725
00:54:23.599 --> 00:54:27.599
Tonight. I mean we knew he
was going to be there and knew didn't

726
00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:30.760
disappoint. I love that scene too. Oh yeah, we'll talk about the

727
00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:34.639
ending of this because it is a
two parter. It's a cliffhanger. Do

728
00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:38.599
not look at anything related to this
episode before you watch it. Praise God,

729
00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:44.159
don't look at anything. But I
don't know why. I find this

730
00:54:44.320 --> 00:54:51.960
an absolutely fascinating two parter, considering
why they think this is happening to the

731
00:54:51.960 --> 00:54:59.679
board and considering what we kind of
hear from them. There's a change in

732
00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:04.280
their way, right, there's a
lot of changes to them. I had

733
00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:08.599
mentioned a while ago there was a
an actor, Brian Cousins that plays Crosis

734
00:55:09.480 --> 00:55:15.360
on this one. I think he
gives an amazing performance as one of the

735
00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:20.320
borg. You definitely seeing a change
in them. We're definitely seeing an evolution,

736
00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:28.559
and the changes in the evolution in
data is at times pretty chilling.

737
00:55:28.800 --> 00:55:35.559
Oh yeah, there's an aazing bit
of dialogue between Data and Troy, and

738
00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:38.400
when you hear it, like,
and you know what I'm talking about?

739
00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:44.239
He kind of grudgingly talks about one
of the feelings that he had. Yeah,

740
00:55:44.280 --> 00:55:46.679
and it goes right to commercial and
you're like, did we just hear

741
00:55:46.719 --> 00:55:51.559
what we thought we heard? Oh? Yeah, yeah? Oh so here's

742
00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:53.719
here's my problem with this. So
you know what's going on with Data,

743
00:55:53.800 --> 00:55:58.639
right the crew of the Enterprise knows
he's struggling with this, and he has

744
00:55:58.679 --> 00:56:01.199
shown an emotion for the first time. Do you think it's a good idea

745
00:56:01.320 --> 00:56:07.639
leaving him with the board? No? No? Yeah, well yeah,

746
00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:12.840
there's something about this episode that drives
me insane the first part. So let

747
00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:15.119
me ask the two of you,
what is up with the opening credits to

748
00:56:15.159 --> 00:56:20.760
this episode? Did you guys notice
this? I mean, it's the only

749
00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:24.079
episode ever in Star Trek to do
this, But the guest and writer credits

750
00:56:24.119 --> 00:56:30.280
are like, right as the episode
opens up in the teaser before the name

751
00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:35.639
of the show, before the opening
title sequence with the cast's it's just so

752
00:56:35.800 --> 00:56:38.239
weird. They never did it before, they never did it again. It's

753
00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:44.639
like it's like a mistake that someone
got things mixed up or there was some

754
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:50.280
like last minute editing to to move
something around. I mean, that would

755
00:56:50.280 --> 00:56:52.159
be my guest, But I've never
in all the years of my research and

756
00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:55.719
everything, actually found an answer to
that. It had to be a mistake

757
00:56:55.719 --> 00:57:00.400
and they just don't admit it.
It has to be they're trying something new

758
00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:04.880
and it didn't fit. Just do
that again. Yeah, it didn't work.

759
00:57:05.239 --> 00:57:07.320
No, not at all. One
of the scenes too, I loved

760
00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:10.519
in this too, was when the
Card got really angry at Riker. You

761
00:57:10.559 --> 00:57:15.079
know that conversation that they had again. You know, those two characters really

762
00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:19.920
respect one another, and even even
after that blow up, you know,

763
00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:21.880
Rikers like, yeah, yeah,
I get it, you know, I

764
00:57:22.239 --> 00:57:23.800
understand where you're coming from with this, and they still respect one another.

765
00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:28.039
They just they have to talk it
out. And I like that between those

766
00:57:28.039 --> 00:57:37.079
two characters. Oh. I got
to mention Natalia admiral admiral Wow, we've

767
00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:43.440
we've seen Admiral and chev before,
I think in this season. And yeah,

768
00:57:43.559 --> 00:57:50.280
the performance the dialogue again between her
and the Card was very very interesting

769
00:57:50.519 --> 00:57:53.760
and I think Jeff in particular will
find it a very very interesting bit of

770
00:57:53.760 --> 00:58:00.039
dialogue there. The conversation about you. Yes, yeah, absolutely, yeah,

771
00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:04.000
and she comes back to not only
next season, but in Deep Space

772
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:07.719
nine as well as one of the
reoccurring admirals, which is kind of nice

773
00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:10.840
to see because usually it was always
new admiral every time. Yeah, it's

774
00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:14.760
nice to have that consistency, so
you get it back over and over again,

775
00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:17.440
so it feels real, you know. And there's our list. We've

776
00:58:17.480 --> 00:58:22.719
talked about our top ten episodes of
season six of Star Trek the Next Generation.

777
00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:25.519
So now let's take a side step
and chat about some of our favorite

778
00:58:25.559 --> 00:58:30.400
character moments. We're working our way
through the entire Command crew, and now

779
00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:34.239
for season six, we're going to
talk about what we think is our favorite

780
00:58:34.280 --> 00:58:39.639
moments for the Enterprise's Resident counselor Lieutenant
Commander Deanna Troy Scott. What's your pick.

781
00:58:40.159 --> 00:58:45.239
It's hard to pick out which one, but there are some amazing badass

782
00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:50.360
moments from Troy. I have they
of the episode here? Yeah, in

783
00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:55.840
Face of the Enemy where she's basically
on a Romulin ship or posing as a

784
00:58:55.880 --> 00:59:02.280
Romulin but the way that she just
takes command, takes authority in those situations

785
00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:07.519
where she is in a lot of
danger, but she she steps into that

786
00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:13.480
role, and I think we're giving
we're seeing more authority from Deanna. We're

787
00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:16.480
seeing a build on some of the
leadership abilities that she showed in Disaster,

788
00:59:17.880 --> 00:59:22.960
and I just I just love that
that dialogue, David, what about you?

789
00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:27.679
So I'll feed off of that.
My favorite Troy moment is we kind

790
00:59:27.679 --> 00:59:30.920
of touched on it. It was
in Timescape showing her brilliance in regard to

791
00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:36.199
the Romulus ship. You know,
she is even lean on Picard by Picard

792
00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:37.960
in regards to this. You know, it's you know, it's we're getting

793
00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:43.000
to see her in that commanding role
and being utilized more in that capacity.

794
00:59:43.440 --> 00:59:45.719
That's what I loved about it.
You know, we talked about already in

795
00:59:45.719 --> 00:59:49.880
this episode, she put that Starfleet
uniform on, and she has become a

796
00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:52.960
different personal most you know. I
mean, she's been important to the cast

797
00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:55.360
this whole time. We know that
we're not going to deny that, but

798
00:59:55.840 --> 01:00:00.960
getting to see her now as part
of that command structures that she's making decisions,

799
01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:05.719
she's being leaned on to be helped
with important stuff like this just shows

800
01:00:05.800 --> 01:00:09.599
how much they have moved her character
forward. Well, I'm gonna have to

801
01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:13.559
echo you Scott, I got to
say, it's from the face of the

802
01:00:13.679 --> 01:00:15.800
enemy. You know, this is
this is an hour of Troy at her

803
01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:21.400
finest in my opinion, She's been
kidnapped, altered to look like a Romulin

804
01:00:21.480 --> 01:00:24.159
and she's forced to act like a
member of the tow she are. You

805
01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:28.360
know, she's in one of the
most dangerous situations in her life. And

806
01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:31.159
you know, at first in the
episode, she gets pushed around by the

807
01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:35.519
Romulins that are helping her. But
then she gets to her wits end,

808
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she takes charge and she becomes that
Romulin persona. You know, it's it's

809
01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:44.920
a marvelous performance by her in as
service and we, like you said,

810
01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:50.159
we get to see her in a
command situation, which you know, we

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continue to see through this season and
the next season. And I like that.

812
01:00:53.320 --> 01:00:59.159
I'm glad. You know they you
realize how important of a character Troy

813
01:00:59.280 --> 01:01:00.159
is. You know you brought it
up many times, Scott. You know,

814
01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:04.639
look at all the work she's got
to Do's talking an entire crew,

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01:01:04.679 --> 01:01:09.119
over a thousand people. You know, their mental state is her responsibility,

816
01:01:09.320 --> 01:01:14.880
and she shines, and this is
one of the episode where she shines the

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01:01:14.880 --> 01:01:19.239
most. I agree, now it's
time we get to talk about our least

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01:01:19.320 --> 01:01:22.199
favorite episode of the season. Now, listeners out there, you may like

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01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:27.039
the episodes we choose, and that's
okay. Everyone's allowed to have their favorites

820
01:01:27.079 --> 01:01:30.920
and their least favorites. But here
are some of our least favorites from season

821
01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:35.719
six. So, David, what
is your choice for least favorite? Mine

822
01:01:35.719 --> 01:01:42.440
would be episode thirteen Aquael enterprise of
rise to the station to find an animalve

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01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:46.920
dog and then they discover Lieutenant Aquayle
later found with the Klingons, which she's

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01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:52.199
accused of murder, and then Jordie
falls in love with her by just listening

825
01:01:52.280 --> 01:01:58.239
to her audio logs before he really
even meets her. This episode just did

826
01:01:58.239 --> 01:02:00.920
not click for me. I mean, I love to see an episode about

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01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:02.840
Jeordie LaForge. I you know,
I want more and more of him.

828
01:02:04.440 --> 01:02:07.800
This episode just not did not work
for you. Guys. Yeah, I

829
01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:10.960
second that. I was just can
we not give Jordy a break once?

830
01:02:12.639 --> 01:02:15.760
When it comes to relationships, plea, It's like it's it's a little painful.

831
01:02:16.480 --> 01:02:22.480
I know that Ronald dy Moore had
said of everything with Next Generation,

832
01:02:22.039 --> 01:02:27.119
uh, he would not have written
Aquil And yeah, I totally agree,

833
01:02:27.400 --> 01:02:31.519
Wayne, What do you think I'll
make it unanimous. It's Awkuele, which,

834
01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:35.440
yeah, you know, the whole
story of you know, Jordie falls

835
01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:38.599
in love has been accused of murdering
someone. Just that doesn't sit right with

836
01:02:38.639 --> 01:02:43.039
me. No, I I just
don't see how Jordie can fall in love

837
01:02:43.079 --> 01:02:45.039
with with that girl. I just
don't see it in the story. And

838
01:02:46.079 --> 01:02:50.320
I find his interest in her,
you know, kind of on the creepy

839
01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:52.360
side. Really, to tell you
the truth, there's no chemistry between them.

840
01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:57.920
There's not. It doesn't It just
doesn't work, you know. I'll

841
01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:02.039
use we usually avoid tellings on these
podcasts, but I'm going to spoil this

842
01:03:02.119 --> 01:03:06.519
episode for you because you don't need
to see this. The dog did it.

843
01:03:07.519 --> 01:03:09.519
You don't have to watch that episode, all right, although I'm sure

844
01:03:09.559 --> 01:03:13.639
our producer Jeff will probably go and
watch this one right away. He will

845
01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:17.400
because of that. You're wrong.
The dog is the star of the show.

846
01:03:19.679 --> 01:03:22.440
There you have it, another episode
of Starter Treks for your enjoyment.

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I want to thank everybody for tuning
in with us for our top ten picks

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of the Next Generation season six,
and we appreciate everyone listening in and supporting

849
01:03:32.440 --> 01:03:37.639
us, David Scott, thank you
so much for joining me through this jaunt

850
01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:43.360
through time and Tethin oh as always
it thanks Wav and of course hailing frequencies

851
01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:46.400
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852
01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:51.400
know what you think about our choices
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853
01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:53.679
should have been in the top ten. Who knows you might get a mention

854
01:03:53.800 --> 01:03:59.079
on a future show. You can
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