Phasers Set To Stun: Trekxpectations

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Space the Final Frontier. Join us
for a bold conversation our prime directive to

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recap our favorite Star Trek shows,
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debate about all things Trek. Prepare
to energize with Phasers Set to Stunt.

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to
Phasers. Set us down where we continue

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to show our love for everything Star
Trek in its ongoing series From a film

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by a podcast which focuses on every
quadrant of the expanding universe of Trek by

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covering television, animation, movies,
directors, and much more. Plotting the

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course as always as your or Trek
group, I'm David Burns and I'm Wayne

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White. Our co host Scott is
not here this week as he is on

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an away mission and couldn't bean back
in time. Before we get started,

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I would like to wish our beloved
Captain Jean Luc Picard aka Patrick Stewart a

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very happy birthday, as he recently
celebrated his eighty fourth year with us.

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I'm glad you brought that up.
Happy birthday, Patrick, that's right,

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happy birthday. So in this episode, we are going to do something a

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little different today. We're going to
do what we like to call Trek Expectations,

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and with that, Wayne and I
are going to share our expectations for

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the upcoming slate of Star Trek projects, both rumored and confirmed, coming soon

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to theaters and streaming platforms. So
Wayne, let's get started. Oh it

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sounds great. So let's talk about
the Calvin timeline. This has just been

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all over the place, Yes,
it has. I think the last film

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we got was what twenty sixteen?
Is that correct? That's right? Was

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that Star Trek Beyond Beyond? Yeah, which I loved. I thought that

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film was great. Actually, I
mean it was much better than the second

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one. Oh yeah, absolutely would
completely agree with you on that one.

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But I mean it has been hot
and cold with the fourth film since then.

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It's back and forth, the higher
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then everything falls apart. Then it
gets hot again. And I know Paramount

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did like some kind of announce the
beginning of this year where they're talking about

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Star Trek a little bit. Yeah, and the fourth film was not really

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mentioned, but they did talk about
a movie that's going to take place before

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the Chris Prime Star Trek. Is
that correct? That's correct? That the

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origin story film that they were talking
about. Yeah, so what could that

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possibly be, Well, the origin
of Star Trek, I guess. I

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mean, your guess is as good
as mine. I mean, this kind

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of came out of the blue.
Yeah, I don't know what to expect

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on this. The only thing that
I know about it is they they hired

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Toby Haynes to direct it. You
know, I'm very familiar with him.

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A lot of sci fi fans are
very familiar with him. He was directed

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Star Wars and or oh yeah,
first season. Also, he's a very

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he directed quite a few episodes of
Modern Doctor Who as well, Yes,

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eleventh and twelveth. Yeah, I've
met him, of course, So I

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met him in a very very nice
guy. But he delivers good work,

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he does, And I mean,
if he's I was really happy to hear

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his name attached to this because I
think he's he's an excellent director, and

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I think he'll give us a beautiful
film. But as to what it's about,

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I don't know. I don't know
either. He also did I don't

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know if you've seen that episode of
Black Mirror on Netflix, the one called

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Uss Callister, which is really unique, almost like Star Trek. Yes,

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I did, Yes, that was
great. Yeah, so you can clearly

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pull that kind of stuff off,
so I would be very interesting to see

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what he can do. But the
story wise, I don't know. I

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mean, what I was able to
dig up is it's going to be said

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in the prime timeline, which that's
the same timeline that the next generation D

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Space nine Voyager, all the Discovery, all those are set in there.

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But it's the aftermath of humanity's first
contact with alien lives. So I guess

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that means right after what we see
the events that we saw in Star Trek

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first contact, right, but you
know, you know, I'm not sure

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if it's going to be you know, I don't know what to expect.

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I mean, what happened after that? This is which I guess is good

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because that timeline, that time area
is pretty much completely unexplored, and when

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it comes to Star Trek, I
don't think anything was really mentioned. So

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it's all open to them to write
something good. Yeah, I think Bad

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Robot. Are they still going to
produce it? I'm assuming J. J.

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Abram's Bad Robot, I think so. I haven't heard anything other than

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that. Yeah, And I thought
I saw that Seth Graham Smith was rumored

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to be writing it. He did
like Dark Shadows, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire

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Hunter, and the Lego Batman movie. Oh I didn't know he wrote that.

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Yeah, okay, okay, Well
I liked Vampire Hunter. I really

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did. I did too. Actually
that was kind of a unique film,

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a unique to this on Abraham Lincoln. It was so Yeah, I really

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enjoyed that too. But you know, yeah, there's not much out there

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about this film. I'm interested to
see what they're gonna do. I kind

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of like the idea that we don't
know because give us something new, something

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different, and we can go into
the theater and don't even know what to

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expect, so we can be surprised. So I kind of like that.

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Yeah, and let's see this.
This would be the the era we're talking

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about is, you know, after
the Vulcans have already made contact with Earth,

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but before we had starships. So
should be interesting. You know,

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maybe it's going to be this worry
of how the first humans that go to

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another alien planet, first one is
going to the Vulcan I don't know that.

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There's so much open for this.
It could be incredible. Yeah,

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and we'll get to see it,
hopefully next year, I'm hoping or Yeah,

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maybe the year after, but we
shall see. I hope they do

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make it. I'd like to see
this film. Yeah, I do too.

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What I worry about if you know
how many Star Trek projects get lifted

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off the ground and then they just
allowed So that's my worry. Well,

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I think the next thing we're talking
about, this this Star Trek four is

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a good example, if I remember. If I'm looking at it, I

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think they've crashed and burned five times
so far with scripts. So I don't

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know. I don't know if it's
everything to get off the ground. To

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be honest with you, I don't
either, you know, and I've almost

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given up hope with it, to
be honest with you, and I'm other

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things. Well, let's see,
it's been what eight years, nine ten?

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If this film is made, it'll
you know, almost a decade since

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the last one. I just I
think that's too much time. I think

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too much time has passed to continue
it. But you know they're going to

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give a good try. At least
they're kind of. They're talking about it.

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Yeah, I mean, you never
know, they could give us something

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that we would absolutely love. I
can't believe they took us long. But

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then when they realized they took that
long, we'd be like, oh,

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we're glad they did because the quick
they gave us, you know, that

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kind of thing. But who knows, well, I know they There was

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an interview recently with Chris Pine and
he's a little concerned about playing the part

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of Captain Kirk. Now at this
age, you know, it's being a

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lot older, so you know,
will people still accept him? You know,

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he's now what I'm not sure how
old he is, but he's probably

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close to or over where William Shanner
was when. But it wouldn't matter.

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I mean, did you see the
Matter Dragons? He was awesome. Yes,

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Oh, it doesn't matter to me. But he's worried about people not

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accepting that, and that's that's a
valid worry too. I understand his reason.

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I have no problem with him,
really, Yeah, no, I

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don't. I don't mean yeah,
when it comes to recasting, I've never

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had a problem with recasting at any
of the shows. As long as it's

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it's it makes sense, and it
always makes sense for this Yeah, I

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agree. Well, let's move on
to the next one. This one is

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already being filmed. I don't know
how close it is to being done.

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But of course that is section thirty
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Paramount Plus and this grew out of
Discovery. Is that right? Why?

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Yes, that's right, and I
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think they have finished filming yet.
Okay, I know what Michel yal.

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Obviously it's about her character. The
writers I believe are Brian Fuller Bowie and

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Kim and Alex Kirksman. Is that
correct, that's correct? Yeah, So

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I believe we don't know when it
really takes place, right. The rumors

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are that it has something to do
with the Captain of the Enterprise that we

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saw in yesterday's Enterprise or something about
that we don't really know, and it's

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yeah, so she hasn't taken over
command yet. So that's this is what's

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very confusing about this. And this
is why we don't know when to going

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to take place because when we saw
Georgio, see that was would have been

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season three of Discovery, she was
at the Guardiana forever and she was taken

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back in time. But you know
this is a lot well, I mean,

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this is this is the after.
This is about fifty years after her

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time, after the time of Discovery, so I don't know what's going on

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here, but it, you know, sounds very interesting. It does.

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As soon as I saw that Yesterday's
Enterprise has something to do with Section thirty

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one, I was like, ooh, because one, you're connecting something to

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the next generation. But who yesterdays
Enterprise was an incredible episode and I would

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love to know more about Captain Garrett. That's what I was just going to

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say. She's another unexplored character,
and she's a Captain of the Enterprise.

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We need to know more about her. Yeah. Absolutely, So I believe

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that's hitting Paramount Plus this fall or
spring. Maybe. I don't think we

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got any date yet, but yeah, I don't think coming soon. Yeah,

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I think. I think they're still
trying to figure that out. But

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I know the last time they said
it was supposed to come out later this

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year, but I'm not sure that's
what I thought too. I thought I

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saw November, but nothing concrete on
that. I not for sure. Yeah,

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my guess is it'll probably come out
between Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds,

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which probably what that'd be November to
March that I'm guessing everybody out there,

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I'm just guessing. Yeah, Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me that we

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see this around the holidays or maybe
January. Yeah, that's that's probably a

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good place to a ballpark in for
sure. All Right. So the next

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one again, another series that is
already you know, currently being worked on

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right now, and that is Starfleet
Academy. Oh yeah, which takes place

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in the thirty second century, which
is what Discovery another one that has been

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given birth from Discovery. I know
they have done some recent casting of this,

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and someone's casting is pretty exciting.
I agree to me, Holly Hunter.

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I mean, there are some big
names here that are popping up for

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this series just as soon names excite
me. Yeah. And we talked a

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little bit about Starfleet Academy when we
were doing Look at Us, the last

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season of Star Trek Discovery. But
and I think as the more we watch

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Season five A Discovery, the more
we liked the idea of Starfleet Academy and

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started getting into it. I'm I'm
pumped for this. It's it's it sounds

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like a great idea. I'm glad
that we're getting more thirty second century stories.

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I like the cast. I can't
believe I never thought Holly Hunter would

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ever be part of Star Trek,
and I mean, either it's great that

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they're able to get these names.
There's all all the good people. There's

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a lot of good people working on
this show. I see no problems so

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far. I hope they give us
a great script. It looks like it

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might be a very fun and unique
show. Yeah, and I'm a big

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fan of pology A Madi. No
matter what that guy him, he always

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brings an incredible performance. So I
don't know how big his role is going

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to be, but I'm just excited
that he's a part of it. I

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know. I believe last week they
announced like three new cast members. I

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don't know any of these actors.
Yeah, I think they're like Bella Shepherd,

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Brooks and George Hawkins got announced.
Yeah, I think they were going

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to play I think all three of
them are playing cadets. Yeah, I

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remember reading but when they all look
young, so it has to be.

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Yeah, I mean this this show, they're they're still working on it,

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so we know very little about it. There, there's very little information as

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to what it's going to be about. So yeah, you know, everyone's

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guests as good as ours right now. So so here here's my vision of

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it. And I know it's not
even to be close. It's Harry Potter

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in space. Oh that would be
That would be fun? Would that not

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be cool? Yeah? Yeah,
you know I would. I'd like to

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see something like that. I hope
that they don't take themselves too seriously.

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Yeah, I think it would be. I think it'd be a lot of

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fun because there's a lot of potential
there for more fun and you can have

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a fun series with with danger.
I mean, Harry Potter is a great

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example of it. Yeah, So
I hope they kind of kind of use

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that out a great idea and and
and give us some like unique professors and

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teachers that we get to know and
love, like Harry Potter, you know,

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to go into the classes and to
these fun things happen in classrooms and

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stuff like that. Man, they
have to do this, right, I

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hope they do. I never thought
about that until you mentioned it. That's

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that's a great way of going about
this. Yeah. And you know we've

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got opportunities too to see people from
Discovery, you know, Tilly throu who

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knows who could pop up in this
series. And I hope they do.

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I do too, Yeah, especially
Tilly, because I mean she has a

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lot to do with Starfleet at this
point, so I can't see her not

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appearing. I really can't. I
think they I felt like her appearances in

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season five were leading up to this, right, you know they were.

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They were hinting there, they were
teasing us. So it's not gonna surprise

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me at all that she if she
appears, and I hope she does.

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Yeah, I do too, It's
gonna be quite interesting. So we probably

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won't see this, probably another year
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scratching the surface and putting this together. Yeah. I love to think we

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see with Strange New World's coming out
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bet we don't see this. This
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probably won't see until like September of
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could definitely see that for sure,
let's hope. So anyway, Yeah,

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well, this next one kind of
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attention to it, and it's sad. And I'm talking about Star Trek Prodigy.

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couple episodes of it, So I'm
gonna be one of the ones who's not

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really gotten into it, but I
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decided, you know what, we're
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to cancel it. Luckily Netflix jumped
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we'll take it over, and they
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just came out, what a couple
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was the first of July versus July. Now, this is a very unique

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situation because I believe it's like enslaved
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starfleet vessel and explore the galaxy.
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season? Okay, they've kind of
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two, and now the ship that
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are trying to think of the word
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oh okay, there with Admiral Catherine
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find the original crew of the Protostar, which was mentioned quite a lot and

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during the first season, and the
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turned back? Yes he is.
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returns. He sees it. It's
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You know, other than the people
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returning is Jellico. We've got Billy
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there. You know, with all
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it come on? This show has
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huge fan base, and they're really
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with these kind of names. While
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going on. I get it,
and you're looking to leave shelf something to

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save some money, so I get
it. So I'm guessing Netflix probably gave

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them a little bit of money to
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and then Paramount using that money to
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I think, and I'm not one
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think I read a while back when
when a show was created, back and

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during its for its first season,
I believe it wasn't Paramount was making it

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for Nickelodeon. It wasn't originally intended
for Paramount Plus, it was actually it

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was made specifically for Nickelodeon, And
I believe there were a lot of changes

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in the background and stuff with Nickelodeon, and they kind of it kind of

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fell out of favor. And we
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the same thing happened with this.
They just they weren't interested anymore. Netflix

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was came in bought it for season
season two because season two was already made.

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like they had to make it.

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It was already done. They just
needed someplace to bring it to the people.

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Netflix stepped up. I hope that
it gets enough viewers. If you

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haven't watched it, please tune in
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you can see it on Paramount Plus
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can watch it. Because this deserves
a third season, absolutely well, I'm

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definitely gonna take out season two now
after you've told me about that. That

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really intrigued me. Yeah for sure. All right, So let's go ahead

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and take a break here, and
then we come back. We will continue

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with our Trak expectations. All right, everybody will going back. We are

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going to continue talking about Star Trek
of what we're thinking, rumors and stuff

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that are coming soon. Wayne,
Let's talk about one that I think many

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people want to see, and that
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Is there still hope here, Wayne, I really do think there is,

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and I do think we will get
this show, but not right away.

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Right now. There's a lot of
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all about it right now. I
mean we're making a whole episode about it.

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Paramount doesn't want to flood the market, makes sense, and you know,

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they've got we've got Strange New Worlds, We've got Lower Deck, we've

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got Starfleet Academy, we've got you
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a lot of Star Trek over the
next couple of years. To throw another

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series in there, I think would
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that's they're right. I mean it
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much out there. People get tired
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lower decks unfortunately ending, I think
once Strange New Worlds starts spinning down,

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which will probably be I hate to
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best chance for legacy, and I really

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do think we'll get it. Yeah, there's so much there that we want

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to see. The way The Car
season three ended and you know it,

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we're very comfortable with that time period, Yes, and we want to see

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more of it. And Wayne and
I have been We've known each other for

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a very long time. We've been
to many conventions, We've met a lot

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of these people who are in these
shows. We both love Seven of nine.

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We love Jerry Bryant. She's fantastic
and we want to see her in

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a commanding role. We all do. Come on, everybody out there a

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minute to yourself. You want to
see seven of nine being the captain of

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a ship. Come on, we
do and that would be fascinating. The

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stuff that we got to see at
the end of the card season three that

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they were hinting to what Star Trek
Legacy could be. There's a lot of

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potential there and we I know,
we all want to see it. But

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really really worries me is that we're
losing Terry Manalis. How do you say

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his listen name, Terry adolescent Metallis
Metalis. Well, we've lost him because

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Marvel got him Marvel. He's working
on a Cinematic Universe TV series for Marvel.

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opinion, I think we're talking about
a show that Legacy that won't be considered

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to be produced for another like two
or three years. So I definitely see

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he I know he'll be back.
You know, if they make it,

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he will be back. He said
he would, and there was no problem.

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I mean, so many people will
produce multiple shows for multiple platforms.

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I know of a couple of producers
I can talk name off the top of

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my head that produced like six shows
at the same time. You know,

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I don't think that's going to be
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couple of years down the line,
so by that time, I think his

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his commitments with Marvel will be spinning
down then and then he'll be able to

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concentrate on legacy. They would He's
definitely needed because his love and knowledge of

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Star Trek is what we got to
see in Picards season three. Yeah.

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Yeah, he turned the whole show
around. He did. He brought us

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what we wanted. And that's another
thing I discussed. You know, we

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got strange new worlds because Paramount heard
the people. Yeah, because we said

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we want this, and Paramount is
very aware that we want legacy. Yeah.

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They just they just I'm I believe
that they just don't want to put

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it out right now and floodless with
so much Star Trek. Yeah, and

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that makes sense because if you've flowed
the market, you're gonna start getting burned

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out and then things are going to
start failing, Yeah, and going to

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lose money. And no studio is
in this business to lose money. We

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all know that, you know.
So yeah, everybody thinks is you know,

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they want to throw everything out so
fast. I mean Disney has had

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the same problem with Marvel. Oh
yeah, Star Wars. They were trying

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to throw everything out too much,
and it became too much. People couldn't

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keep up, and people were getting
bored with it, so they had to

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slow down. I think this is
exactly what Paramount what's happening with PARAMOUNTA and

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Star Trek. It unfortunately has some
bad effects and the fact that you know,

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Lower Decks is being canceled after its
fifth season. But I think that's

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what's happening right now, is they're
slowing down to keep people's interest. Yeah,

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and you know that makes sense,
it really does. It does.

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We're living in a streaming world that
you know, you can watch everything in

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one day if you really want to. Even though a lot of these streaming

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services are starting to go to the
you know, one a week, which

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I like. I mean, don't
get wrong, I love to bend sometimes,

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but the one a week you know, brings back they what we used

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to watch when we were in television, you know, years and years ago,

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when kids man, you know,
where you could you see an episode

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and then you would talk about it. The water cooler effect, I guess

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you could say. So I do
love that some streaming services do that.

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I'm that way too. I prefer
to binge old DV shows, but when

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I get my new shows, I'd
rather have it once a week. Yeah.

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I love that anticipation. I do
too. It helps build it and

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gets you more excited for it.
Yes, well, that's our next show

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that we're going to be talking about. Obviously you had to hinted to it

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is their final season, sadly,
and of course that's talking about Lower Decks

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that is coming this fall on Paramount
Plus. Not much to know about what

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the stories are going to be,
or where they're going to go with it

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this season, or anything, or
how they're going to end it. We're

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not going to know any of that
stuff. Way they are keeping it under

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wraps. I couldn't find anything that
anyone was talking about about what they're planning

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to do this season. Yeah,
no clue at all, And I'm sure

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they don't want to get anyth out
because anyone keep us excited. You know.

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I'm glad they're doing that because I
mean that's part of the fun.

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We had Brandon Williams on one of our

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episodes, Faser said the stune we're
talking about the last season of Lower Decks.

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I know he's back. I don't
know how many episodes he's directing or

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what he's doing. But I do
know he's back for season five and I

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cannot wait. Hopefully we'll get him
on another episode of Phasers. Yeah we

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can dive in. Oh yeah,
me too. Absolutely, he was a

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blast to talk to. You know, you see his excitement in Star Trek

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and it was good to see that
and talk to somebody who's in the business

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of working on Star Trek. And
it's a unique perspective on the show.

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I mean, yeah, you don't
hear too much about the creation, no

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of you know, the behind the
scenes part of an animated series. And

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it was very fascinated listening to him
talk about exactly how these episodes get made.

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Yeah, yeah, that was really
neat. So I'm looking forward to

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the season. Unfortunately, like I
said, it's the last one for Lower

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Decks. I was hoping we'll get
more, but who knows. I know,

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Brandon mentioned that they want to do
a movie one day. Hopefully we'll

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get an animated Lower Deck. Perfect. Yeah, perfect, either theater or

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streaming. I'll take it, you
know, Okay, just give us more

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Lower Decks after this season. I
would be happy. Yes, Well,

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that takes us to the next series
that we do know is coming in the

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spring of next year, twenty twenty
five, and of course that is Strange

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New Worlds. They're filming those episodes
currently. I don't know how close you

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are to being completed or anything like
that that I can answer, because Anson

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Mount had announced that they wrapped the
season on May twenty fourth. Wow,

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okay, they are, well,
they are done filming. But I'm sure

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they have a lot of post production. I am sure because the special effects,

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everything that's in that show is top
nutch. Yes, so they got

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a lot of work ahead of them, no doubt about it. But I

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know, you know, we're gonna
probably obviously we're gonna get more Scottie because

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of the way the last season ended. I'm hoping we're going to see somebody

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else of the original crew show up. I don't I don't want them to

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rush it. I don't want it
to be crowded or anything like that,

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because they've not really announced anything yet. I mean got he was kind of

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with the Brive to us. Yeah, you know, I think we'll see

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a lot more. Well, we'll
definitely see a lot more of mister Scott

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during this season. It wouldn't surprise
me if they introduce another one. You

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know, we all have our ideas
of who it'll be, but they'll probably

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wait till either the end of the
season or they might wait till season four.

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I'm not sure and build it.
But I'm sure they'll build up to

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that, because they need to build
up the story to h I'm not sure.

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We're you sure we mentioned the character. We think that I think we

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both agree. Yeah, we're pretty
certain that doctor McCoy will eventually appear on

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the show, and they're going to
have to build up to that because any

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of you that are familiar with the
original series, you know, we've we've

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already got the one doctor. For
some something has to happen for him to

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stop being the Chief Medical Officer and
for mccoya to become the chief medical Officer.

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I think that's what's going to be
explored in season four, but they'll

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probably build up to it. I
would maybe could see some of that in

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season three. We could. I
Like I said, I hope they kind

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of spread this stuff out. I
don't want them to get it too crowded

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with oh, here's a guest star, here's a guest star, and you

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know, and on and on.
You know, don't do that, you

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know, if you're if you're thinking
we're gonna get five seasons, which is

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most likely going to be the case. They've not said that, but it's

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most likely gonna be the five scenes
to be the new number. It's the

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new seven for for Star Trek and
nowadays. So that's what we're looking at.

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So they have a lot to do
since there's the season three. If

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they're looking at season five is being
an end. They've got two seasons to

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give us a lot of stuff in
order to connect to the Star Trek that

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we know with Captain Kirkt and with
this show. They're still keeping a lot

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of things in a wraps. But
I did was able to dig up a

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few things. Uh. They have
this new season a murder mystery episode.

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Nice, So what that's going to
be about nobody knows, but it should

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be interesting. I always loved a
little murder mystery. It's been fascinating.

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They're not going to a casino,
are they? And I also know they

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built a new set or for the
show, a new science lab. It's

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got a transparent floor that has a
pool of swirling water underneath the central work

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bench. So interesting that should be
interesting, Yeah, fun to watch for.

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We also got to some great directors. Jonathan Frakes is returning Amen direct.

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Yes, we love our freaks and
I'm sure they'll be an extra surprise

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or too, just like they had
in season Season two coming up, you

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know, I I hope, I
hope we see some some guest appearances from

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people from another show I do too. Wouldn't that be great? That would

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be great. We shall see where
they're going to go. This guy is

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the limit anymore, so nothing will
surprise if they can pull it off and

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just not let us know, because
I love when that happens. Yeah,

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I do too well. As always, I want to thank our listeners for

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joining us haling Frequencies are always open
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