Strange New Wednesdays - Subspace Rhapsody

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Space, the Final Frontier. These
are the voyages of Strange New Wednesdays.

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It's continuing mission to explore episodes of
Strange New Worlds, to seek out new

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information and new discussions, to boldly
go where no podcast has gone before.

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to
Strange New Wednesdays, where we continue to

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talk everything about the current season of
Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Once again

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Red alert, please be warned spoilers
our heads. So you haven't seen this

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week's episode, please stop watch it
and then come back to join us.

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I am David Burns, I am
Scott Hoffman, and I'm Wayne whited.

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Well. Today we are discussing season
two, episode nine, Subspace Rhapsody,

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the Star Trek musical we've all been
needing right, Well, I don't know,

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Scott. Can you guys a quick
recap of this episode? Absolutely.

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This episode takes us where no Star
Trek has gone before, into a musical

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reality. While investigating a rare subspace
fold, they discover the chance to explore

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an experimental quantum probability field. While
investigating the potential they could expand communication exponentially,

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the crew accidentally opens a tear in
reality that causes them to burst into

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song during emotional moments, just like
a musical. It starts with the stats

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report that's most unusual and so peculiar, and follows with several moments when the

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crew can't keep secrets anymore. Chapel
declares that she's ready to leave the ship

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and Spock for a fellowship, which
makes him contemplate if he's the X.

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Not even Pike can have a private
conversation with Captain Battell without into song.

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Their career races against time and klingons
to sew up the musical zipper before the

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songs drive them apart with a horror
keeping them all connected in many ways.

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As the voice of the Enterprise,
that's a bold direction for the show,

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and I, for one, I'm
glad they took it well. I thought

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the performances were extremely well done in
this episode. They were, But you

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know, I think this is a
bad choice were in where to position this

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episode. We had such a very
strong, powerful, serious episode with Under

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the Cloak of War, and then
we go right to this right after that.

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Just a very strange situation. I
don't know, I don't know what

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you guys think. It's it is
some huge changes. I mean we went

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from having a comedy episode to the
most serious episode of the series, and

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then another extremely lighthearted It's it's might
be just a little bit too much of

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a turn, especially at the end
of the season, like this, Yeah,

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see, I don't know, see
I'm on the other side of the

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fence. I have a feeling I'll
be on the other side of the fence

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for this, for this conversation.
I think this is one that helped to

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sew up a lot of different emotional
arcs for the characters. I do think

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it's a fun departure from under the
cloak of war. We had seen this

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kind of beat before, where they
kind of alternate between serious episodes and ones

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that are a little bit more lighthearted
and probably setting up a few relationships that

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might be in danger when we get
to the season finale. I don't think

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it was necessarily poorly placed, because
I don't know that it would have would

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worked better earlier in the season.
I feel like it would have been too

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early and there wouldn't have been as
much development that we'd be pursuing or changes

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that we'd be seeing that worked,
in my opinion, really well for the

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for the musical numbers that they had. I mean, there's there's certain parts

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of the of the episode that I
really did enjoy. It, just I

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felt out of my element watching this
episode. I never imagined or ever thought

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I would want a musical uh in
Star Trek and it was kind of awkward

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on how they got trapped into that. And I've got to say, the

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one thing that really really just like, really we're going to go this far

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is the Klingons wrapping. That was
awesome. No, no, it wasn't.

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That was terrible, And I just
I don't want to maybe I shouldn't

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say terrible because this season has been
really good and I don't want to pick

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on anything strange New World has done, but I just it took. As

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soon as I saw that, I
was like, and I'm done with this

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episode. They got Hemmer back for
that, though, they got Bruce Horrek

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bet for that. Yeah, well
this was a hard one. Yeah.

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Let me let me say this about
me. I don't hate anything. You

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know, I may find things boring, badly written, you know, performed

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badly, maybe bland on memorable,
but you know, fifty years of viewing

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TV and movies, I can probably
count the amount of things that I actually

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hate on one hand, and I
don't hate this episode, but it's it's

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just not my cup of tea.
I just and that's all right. It's

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it's probably the episode that's going to
divide the viewers, the fans right through

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the middle. Either loved it or
you didn't, and that's okay. You're

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allowed to have your opinion. And
you know, some people don't like musicals,

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just like some people don't like westerns, or or or war movies or

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fantasy. You know. I say
I do like musicals, especially the classic

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ones like you know, Singing of
the Rain, Sound of Music, or

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the Disney films. You know,
I absolutely adore bed Knobs and Brimsticks,

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you know, and I can sing
every word in front of every song from

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that film. But that's just my
opinion. Yeah, I find it really

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hard to get involved and enjoy the
current trend of these music musicals on TV.

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It just seems to be the thing
to do. You know, Buffy

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did it, The Flash did it. Hell even David Doctor who did it

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twice. They did once on the
stage and once in the audios. But

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the issue I have is this,
if you look at all the great musicals

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over the years, those those big
hits and their their timeless songs. You

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know, it took months and years
to write those songs, you know,

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with trial and error, rewriting and
creating demos, going back to the drawing

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board on many times, for those
songs to you know, to be remembered

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like the hits they are. They
just they don't have the time for these

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TV episods to do that, and
therefore we get we get well written songs,

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but very memorable songs. You know. Uh, people remember songs like

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you know, you know, where
will My Life Begin? Or Hakuna Matad?

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We all know what those songs are, but how many you can remember?

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You know, what you feel you
know? Or what even that came

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from? Or how about running Home
to you? Can you tell me what

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episode or even series that came from? You know? Now? Yeah,

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that being said, I want to
say that there there's there's much of this

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episode I did like, uh,
you know, Jess Bush and Celia is

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Gooding and Christina Chong, they did
a phenomenal job at singing their songs.

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You know, they they were beautiful. The final number for the episode what

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was to call this? The song
we Are One? It was quite fun

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and it was a good way of
wrapping things up. But uh, that

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cling on but that was embarrassed saying
sorry, please don't do that again,

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but intentionally so like they're drawing on
the comedy of that and how awkward it

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is and how it didn't make sense
for klingonce to be singing it rather than

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having it be like a heavy metal
kind of thing or the bit. I

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know, I think it was just
better just not to have it at all.

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It was it was a real cringe
mode. But it was an episode

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that that teetered between storytelling and cringe
worthy and that just went right over the

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edge right there, just just for
that that what was it like thirty seconds

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but boom, we we've fallen off
the cliff right there. Well, I

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mean you said it really well that
you know it's going to be divisive,

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and you know that's totally fair.
Like there are some people that might come

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to this episode and wait and say, wait the musical episode. Can I

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just read the synopsis right, because
that will just automatically wrote them the wrong

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way, or even some of the
numbers won't necessarily And I mean, I'll

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admit some of the songs were stuck
with me a little bit less than others.

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I know that the duet between Una
and Kirk there was a little bit

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more of a Gilbert and Sullivan kind
of thing. I don't know that that

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felt like it was kind of a
I know they were going with it,

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given UNA's history with Gilbert and Tullivan, that it sounded a little bit more

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like a Mary Poppins or an Oklahoma
kind of thing. I know those were

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Gilbert Sullivan, but you know,
not everybody. Number is going to be

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for everybody. But I think it
made sense to me how they introduced it.

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They've they've gotten into the scientific aspects
of song before, like with Children

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of the comment right, and I
feel like they had at least a plausible

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explanation for why it was happening.
And I think as soon as I understood

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the tone of the episode, I
was already invested in having fun with it.

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I think I was already invested in
doing so before I saw the episode

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start. And I think you do
mention some of the other franchises that have

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done things like that. I haven't
seen the Flash and what they did or

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heard the Doctor Who audio, but
I did see Buffy when it came out

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once more with a feeling episode which
I know is very influential in this production.

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It's something that they said that's kind
of setting the bar for them to

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reach and kind of going beyond it. David had some easter eggs in there,

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like the probability of bunnies somebody talking
about I have a theory, you

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know, these are all easter eggs
that kind of pointing back to that,

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which I also think was as a
fun musical episode. But not all the

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numbers hit. I will say for
me, there's there's a lot of the

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songs that I have been I've been
playing this episode on repeat, probably at

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least six times by now, and
things like Status Report and I'm the Ex.

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Even chapels I'm Ready number in the
Bar are very easy to get in

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too. For me. You know, I didn't see the Buffy musical episode,

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not because I didn't want to.
I wanted to avoid that episodes because

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I just I watched a few episodes
during the first season of Buffy and it

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wasn't a series that I really got
into. But the director of this episode

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was Dermott Downs and he's the guy
who directed the musical episode of The Flash,

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which was called Duets, So it
makes that he's directing, and I

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think he did. He did a
good job at directing. I have no

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problem with the story. I have
no problem. I really don't have to.

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It's not it's my problem. It's
not an actual problem with the episode.

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It's it's just that I felt like
with with with many of the songs,

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I felt that they just were really
out of place, and I half

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the time I just wanted them to
be over with and to continue the storyline.

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I just got tired of hearing him
and and it was there was very

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little story in between them. It
was just one song after another after another,

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and it was no variety really,
with the exception of the Klingon,

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they were all very similar type song. So I just I was glad when

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each one was over with. And
it shouldn't be like that, not with

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musicals. It shouldn't be like that. And I'm with you on that.

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I felt like I was drifting from
the episode quite a few times. I

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mean, and I haven't done that
to a Strange New World episode the two

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seasons that we've had. And I
really got bored a few times and I

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was like looking at something else and
oh I should be watching this, you

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know, and had to pull myself
back to watch it now. There are

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some numbers that are really good.
You know. I thought the opening song

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was really good. You know.
I like when Spots started singing, everybody's

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looking at him like, uh,
what are you doing? You know that

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kind of thing. So you know, I did laugh at that. I

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like Membinga's line I prefer not to
be a bunny. I thought that was

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really funny and I laughed out loud
for that. So there are parts of

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it that I enjoyed. And I'm
with you, Wayne, and you know,

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I don't want to hate anything because
a lot of work went into this

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episode. You know, a lot
of work went into their performances, you

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know, of singing and dancing and
doing all that kind of and you know,

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I respect that completely, respects that
I did it knew it for me.

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Many of them had great I mean
the many of them saying really great.

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I mentioned a few of them,
and I have to give credit to

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the director too that those cast members
who couldn't sing or really couldn't take center

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stage for singing, they kept that
down to a minimum. I think one

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of them definitely was Anson Mount.
We never really owe very much of him

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singing because he kept getting cut off, and I think it's probably because they

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wanted to keep his his scene ability
to a minimum. I'm glad they did

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that. That's that was a smart
thing to do. Yeah well, and

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I think they declare job of pulling
that into the character right where he was

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like, let's nip this in the
butt, let's stop this as soon as

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we possibly can. When he was
trying to sing de Batel on the bridge,

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they were having this argument of their
relationship and uh Long goes over and

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turns it off like and cuts him
off in like mid sittings, and he

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turns back and looks like, you
know, basically happened. I like that

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too. I thought that was pretty
funny. Yeah well, and they had

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they had a really clever element there
with Lawn with Pike, where they were

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talking thinking about this as you know, it's one thing to have people like

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randomly burst into song, but keep
thinking of it as a security threat.

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Is interesting. And particularly her arc
that I think mirrors what we saw with

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Spock, both of them having doubts
about allowing their emotions to come out or

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trusting that they can kind of invest
in their emotions in different ways. You

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know, she is on the fence
about opening herself up to Kirk and hoping

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that something will come out of it, and she does end up getting hurt,

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but I think it was interesting to
kind of explore, you know,

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in her dialogue but also with the
song, places where she was having a

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hard time with there are reasons why
I'm holding myself back. There are reasons

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why I'm holding myself in and I'm
afraid to do so. And I really

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think, especially in that dialogue she
has with Kirk, she did get hurt,

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but it wasn't in a hurtful way, if that makes sense. I

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think it was shocking to her to
hear about Carol and unborn David, which

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I thought was a nice, a
nice bit of backstory that we hadn't really

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heard with Kirk, especially by him
thinking about it is a sometimes relationship,

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you know, So I thought that
was very interesting. And then kind of

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mirroring with Spock, you know,
finally feeling like he's going to open up

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his human side and trust that he's
going to be able to deal with these

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emotions, just as Nurse Chapel is
ready to leave, and you know,

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I think we're starting to see him
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be like, well, maybe this
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down and kind of withdraw on reserve, which if he does, I really

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hope that he doesn't, because I
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It's it's not necessarily that Chapel is
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him. This is an important step
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her her song was very dynamic.
I thought a lot of the it wasn't

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all Gilbert and Sullivan. It didn't
the songs didn't all sound the same to

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me. There were actually a lot
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directions that surprised me. You know, you start to kind of sing along,

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you think it's going to go to
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kind of hook it a little bit. I love when songs do that.

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I think it's really interesting. But
her song in particular was so so strong

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and so confident. I can't think
of the artists that I'm thinking of that

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it reminds me of. But it
almost sounds like an a Dell kind of

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thing, you know, not like
a mournful kind of thing, not a

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sad kind of thing, but kind
of that you know, upbeat, kind

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of strong and confident thing where she's
going someplace in her life. And I

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think to a certain degree she had
been kind of waiting for Spock to come

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around, and maybe she's realizing I've
waited so long, and now with Boimler's

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somewhat of a spoiler saying, you
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thinking, you know, I need
to pursue what I need, and if

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the relationship with Spock is going to
continue, I should be able to trust

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that at a distance. I don't
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things like that that I think could
have gotten through with dialogue, but I

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just feel like getting it across with
music. It does give you a chance

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for emotional Catharsis with an efficient delivery. You know, you can express more

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with songs than dialogue in less than
three minutes. It does make you have

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to kind of like listen to it
and pay attention to it and wear the

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different kind of twist and turns that
it's that it's taking. But I don't

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know, I feel like we got
so much out of what we heard from

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Laon and Chapel and Spock specifically his
I'm the ex I think was very cleverly

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written, that kind of play on
words, you know, him being the

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variable versus him being the ex boyfriend
kind of the thing. Yeah, there

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was a lot that I liked about
how that pulled more out of the characters.

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So what about some favorite moments,
Wayne? There were there were a

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lot of Easter eggs I looked for
it. I've of course picked those out,

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you know, there was this was
a second mention of doctor Roger Corby.

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They referred to him as the Louis
Pastor of Archaeological Medicine. That's exactly

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what Spock said in his classic series
episode what Are Little Girls Made Of?

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We got to learn that Captain Pottel
are Yeah, Betel's first name, it's

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Marie. And we got to see
the Jeffrey's tubes, and we get to

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see the transporters, Heisenberg compensators.
And then there was that star map.

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I loved at that star map they
showed when they were showing all the ships

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and stuff there, we got to
see some some of the ships like the

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the USS Lexington, which was in
one of the original series episodes, The

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Ultimate Computer, and we all such
see the star uh Focus and that that

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was a real obscure reference. But
Forcas three was the planet that Warf went

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and won his Battler tournament in the
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you know, as as Scott mentioned
the mentions of Carol, which I mean,

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that's definitely talking about Carol, Mark
Marcus and Star Trek to the rath

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Khan. And of course, you
know, this is the first time I

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think in any of the series that
the Katana class cling on battle cruisers have

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been mentioned. Those are from the
movies. We saw that first in Star

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Trek the Motion Picture, and this
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Trek continuity that that's even been mentioned. I like that, I mean,

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there were other little bits. I
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going to say that I really I
like the singing, their ability to sing

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the songs. I mean, I
have liked the song so much, but

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I love their ability. I think
that everybody did a phenomenal job with what

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they had in here. I can't
deny that. Scott. What about you,

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Yeah, I mean, something you're
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musical ability of the cast, and
I've got to give them credit, those

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who you know, it may have
been a bit nerve wracking for certain members

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of the crew to get out there
and do this kind of thing if they

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didn't have as much musical training as
the rest of the cast. I got

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the sense that Bengo wasn't necessarily going
to have as many numbers as Chapel was,

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But I think they had a great
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they wanted really well. It was
an interesting dive into the background of the

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actors, knowing that, you know, Bruce Horrek is part of a band,

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Christina Chong having a musical background,
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she was going to be part of
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I'm must pronouncing that. She was
one of the ones that's been asking

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for a musical episode from the start, so it was it was great to

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watch the ready room afterward and see
how happy she was about, you know,

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getting into that, and how much
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I had no idea that Celia Rose
Gooding was a Grammy winner and a major

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part of The Jagged Little Pill Broadway
show, which is incredible, and that

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Carol Kane was Madame Morrible in several
productions of Wicked, that would have been

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great to see on Broadway. Absolutely, you know, I've already mentioned,

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you know, a lot of the
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at how well Spock was singing.
I think he had a great voice in

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each of the numbers that he had, especially I'm the X. I thought

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the opening credits are always a treat
that they pepper in little easter eggs,

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you know, having that be kind
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And yeah, I've already mentioned,
you know, for this to be

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something that's such a big ensemble kind
of episode and something that seems like kind

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of they're they're drawing the family of
the crew together. I think it would

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have been a shame to not have
Bruce Horrek in it. And I know

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that their their number is not for
everybody, but I think bringing him in

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for that performance was very clever and
very welcome to me. O. Yeah,

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I think for me it was a
horror speech to get everyone to sing

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towards the end of the film ut
the episode, I thought that was really

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good. But you touched on the
one that I absolutely love the most,

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and that was the opening title sequence. I love when series blend were mixed

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or change their open type of sequence
to match what the episode is going to

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be about. I'm always a fan
of that, so I was glad to

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see it when they did with those
old scientists, and I was glad to

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see if they did it with this
one too. Very nice touch, is

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what I will say. You're reminding
me of a piece of dialogue. It's

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small, but I thought it was
very very much of kind of an honor

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to the Aha character to call her
the voice of the Enterprise. Yeah.

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I thought that was such a clever
touch, and I'm really glad that they

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put that in here. Yeah.
Same here absolutely. So which character you

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think shine the most, Scott?
This is a tough one. I'm on

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the fence, but I'm not going
to give an answer. I'll say Aha.

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You know, knowing how much Celia
has that background makes me much more

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interested in to see what other work
that she has. But I think it

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was it was a great development for
the character. It made me think of

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Galaxy Quest Soil Courtney Weaver's character where
it's just like I have one job.

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It's a stupid job, but I
have to do it, and thinking that

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that might be whatever feels like sometimes
even though she's in charge of so much

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of the ship, but that her
her character is really about communication. It's

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not just linguistics. It's about how
people are trying to express themselves. And

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the fact that she's able to use
those skills so well and that it's that

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idea of connection and bring people together
really help put a spotlight on a powerful

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character. So I'm glad they did
that with this episode. O Wayne,

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what about you? Well, everyone
is pretty equal in this one, even

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even with all the singing. I
like how they were able to wrap up

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a lot of the storylines for the
season. Yeah, you know, it's

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so you see the end of the
Spock Chapel relationship, which we knew that

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had to happen, the end of
the Kirk and alone storyline, and I

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want to bring attention this is probably
the person I personally think which shined is

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Christina Chong, and she did a
brilliant performance in that scene with her and

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Kirk. Her character in the way
it's developed, this reminds me a lot

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of the character of Tashi yar If. If Denise Crosby would have stayed on

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the series, I think we would
have seen something very similar to this.

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I'm glad that they're they're bringing a
lot more to the Lawn character. And

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then, of course, you know
Pike and Betel's relationship. It's escalating now,

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but I'm beginning to get worried about
her. The comments she makes at

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the end about her mission makes me
wonder if they're leading this all is leading

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to tragedy for her and that her
character won't even see the end of the

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season. I don't know where it's
going. That's the feeling I got with

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that. Yeah, yeah, I
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mean, I did see a sneak
preview of the next next episode. There's

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a clip in the ready room.
I think it's going to be an interesting

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look at Pike, and it makes
me think of the Crisp Pine Star Trek

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movie where we get that idea that
the captain can't be emotionally compromised, right.

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I think that'll be interesting to see, especially given what was set up

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in the Memory Loss episode when we
saw Pike really kind of let go and

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really get kind of angry. I
wonder if it might go there, because

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it's going to be a high pressure, very tense situation with the Gordon.

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Yep. Absolutely So if you could
be any character in the episode, who

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would it be and why? Wayne
Well, I want to be the off

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screen mentioned doctor Roger Cordy because he
didn't have to appear in this and saying,

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and he gets to spend three months
with Christine Chappell, although I know

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what happens to him in the end, and I don't really relish the idea

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of being dropped in an android body
and then end up by committing suicide,

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But that's who I'd want to be. Okay, Scott, what about you?

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For me, it would be a
I thought it was interesting how she

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was using that kind of handheld track
quarter extension to study the songs and look

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for the pattern. I think there's
a fascinating scientific aspect to music and to

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see what kind of thing she was
studying and observing. She was close to

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a lot of the main numbers that
I enjoyed quite a bit, and just

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to see how she was kind of
analyzing and stitching it all together. I

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think she had a great role in
here Table what about You Paleo because she

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didn't have any songs, and believe
me, nobody wants to hear me build

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a solo, So that would be
my choice for sure. So gentlemen,

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we've got the season finale next episode, so one episode ago. But yeah,

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it looks like, from what you
know, I saw the clip that

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Scott was mentioning, Gorn looks like
they are back. It looks like there's

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a Starfleet ship in distress. And
from the clip that I saw, it

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looks like the Gorn send a picture
of I guess, like a border that

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the telling Starfleet do not cross that, and it puts apparently Pike in a

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bad situation. So it looks like
we're in for a treat for the season

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finale. Yeah, it looks like
there's a lot of scenes where people are

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in danger. You see people you
know, with dipris all over them,

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blood and whatnot. So obviously it's
going to be a big battle episode.

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Yeah, it's going to be a
heavy action episode. I mean, we've

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also saw scenes in some of the
other trailers of Spock doing a spacewalk and

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so there's going to be some huge
visual effect shots in this last episode.

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Yep, looking forward to it,
that's for sure, all right, So

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