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

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continuing mission to explore episodes of Strange
New Worlds to seek out new information and

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new discussions, to boldly go where
no podcast has gone before. Hello everyone,

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and welcome back to Strange New Wednesdays, where we continue to talk everything

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about the current season of Star Trek
Strange New Worlds. Once again, Red

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alert, please be worn spoilers our
heads. If you haven't seen this week's

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episode, please go back watch it
and come back and join us. I'm

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David Byrne, I'm Scott Hoffman,
and I'm Wayne White. Today we are

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discussing season two Episode three tomorrow and
tomorrow and tomorrow. Well, gentlemen,

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I have to say when I learned
this to be another going back into time

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on Earth episode, I kind of
rolled to my eyes thinking how many times

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have we done this in Star Trek. But I have to say I was

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very surprised on how this episode turned
out, especially that twist we get at

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the end of why what they were
there to prevent? But before we discuss

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that, Scott, can you give
us a quick recap of this episode?

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Yeah? Absolutely so. In this
episode we get a unique focus on a

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somewhat unlikely duo, Laon Nunian Thing
and James T. Kirk. After a

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look at a day in Laon's life
as chief of Security, she gets a

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desperate mission from a time traveling agent
and sends and finds herself at an alternate

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reality where Kirk is Captain and the
Federation as she knows it is gone.

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Actually that they travels with Kirk to
a time similar to our own, and

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they team up to stop a Robulan
assassin from making disastrous changes the Earth's feature.

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The journey becomes personal for lat On
as she developed strong few things for

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Kirk, struggles with losing them in
various ways, and I expectedly finds herself

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fighting to save the legacy that continues
to haunt her. This episode shares a

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lot of DNA with classic Original series
episodes like The Space Seat and City on

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the Edge Forever, and quickly establishes
itself as another Drek classic. And it

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does. You know. One of
the things I love about the first three

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episodes of this season is the fact
that Captain Pike has taken a back seat

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to this season. You know,
it's it's kind of a rare thing to

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see that because typically the captain's in
the main character and we see them so

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much. But we are getting to
see so many characters shine and see their

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stories unfold before us. You know, we're getting great character development. And

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we get that with lay On in
this episode, right guys, that's right,

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Yeah, absolutely, And I think
it was very clever in the first

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episode how he took a backseat,
because then that kind of let it kind

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of unfold in a way that we
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On episode two, we got more
of a focus there. I think

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when we're seeing that continuing episode three, it just it continues to remind me

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of Next Generation, where it's really
a show about the ensemble, and while

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the captain is a focal point,
it's not the only person that can that

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can do everything in the in the
show. So yeah, and we we've

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already discussed like the chemistry of all
of these actors and the characters in this

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show, and they're all fantastic the
other but you know, Lyon's never really

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has not got to share the screen
with Captain Kirk as she did in this

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episode, and I thought their chemistry
was phenomenal too. You know, the

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people who have casted this show have
just gone have knocked it on the park.

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But one of the things that I
really like this and Scott you touched

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on this in your recap is you
know, we know lyon in the we

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know her relationship to con and what
he has done, and you know she's

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living with what he has done,
his legacy. We get to see her,

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you know, build up with all
this anger and frustration and all these

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emotions just bottle up inside of her
and clearly they come, you know,

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boiling out there at the end,
which we'll get to that because that's like

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one of my favorite scenes of this
episode. Yeah, same here, But

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um, you know, I I
think we needed this episode with her.

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You know, we've seen her around
the ship. You know, she's in

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charge of security. I think one
of the coolest scenes was there at the

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beginning when she was dealing with security
problems around the ship. I thought that

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was kind of funny. And getting
to see Commander Palia again. I love

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her. She shines every time every
single scene. I mean she doesn't know

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what two episodes now and barely in
those at that, but every scene she's

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been and she has been awesome.
Yeah, she was hilarious. It was

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great seeing her again and learning a
lot more about her. We got to

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see a little bit of her past
that it was just it was a fun

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scene. Uh. We got to
say she she suffers from kleptomania. Um,

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she stole a painting from the louver. Um, that's just and she

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uh back in the round our time
she owned antique store. It was it

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was It was great fun. It
was but but but Wayne, clearly they

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are not stolen, that's what she
said. But that was a copy,

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that's right. Um. But yeah, Scott, I think you mentioned last

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episode that we would probably get some
of her, didn't you in this episode

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when they went back in time,
and sure enough we got it. I'm

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pretty sure you've mentioned that and you
were right. Yeah. I suspected.

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Yeah, just because she had kind
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kind of reminds me of Guidance character, you know, living in the past

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and getting little glimpses of it,
kind of being connected connection to that when

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we get the chance to do so. Um. I thought it was a

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lot of fun that the uh,
the door to her to her place in

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Vermont had archaeology department but she couldn't
started it too much in the middle when

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she started painting it and she had
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the word a word nerd thing there. But yeah, no, she she

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absolutely does shine. She does a
great job of having that kind of eccentricity,

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and that mystery continues to unfold because
they go expecting an engineer and she's

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like, what, no, I
have an archaeologist. I don't know anything

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about that, but it does sound
interesting. Yeah, and Kara Kane is

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just so good and everything she does, she just brings such a comedicus great

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comedic timing in this series. I
love her so much. Yeah. What

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do you guys think about Paul Wesley
as James T. Kirk. How do

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you think he's going I think he's
doing fantastic. He's not trying to copy

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William Shatner. Yep, He's putting
his own take. But every now and

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then a little bit of the original
Kirk comes out, you know. You

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hear it in his voice sometimes in
his mannerisms, his movements, So he

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is channeling Kirk but his own way, and we got to see we got

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to see a lot more of him
and some of the things that Kirk does.

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He loves hot dogs. He's never
he's never driven a car, but

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I will say one thing he learned
really quick how to drive that car.

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Andy. He's an expert of chess, which I don't think that's ever been

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brought up on kirk sister. I
never don't think I remember him ever playing.

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Well no, wait, he did
play it in the pilot episode,

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play the three dimensional that's right,
but I think it lost because he even

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mentioned that one dimensional chess is super
easy or something like that. Yeah.

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Yeah, I think that was a
pretty cool then how he went in there

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just to earn money and wipe wipe
them all out. Yeah. Now,

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I think it's really cool that we
haven't necessarily seen this timeline's true Kirk yet,

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Right, we've gotten the at the
end of the last season, we

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got an alternate Kirk. Here we
get an alternate Kirk. I think it's

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a great way to start to slowly
introduce the character by never really revealing the

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true Kirk yet, because it helps
kind of laid the foundation for you know,

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this doesn't have to be exactly William
Shattner's Kirk. Ye, well,

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it can be its own. It's
that's probably a good idea. I don't

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know how close they want to stick
with the continuity. But in um,

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the original series episode of The Menagerie
with the one would that show the scenes

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for the pilot, Kirk mentioned only
having met Pike once or twice before.

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So and I hope that they don't
use Kirk too much after all this series.

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I don't want to see him too
much, but I would like to

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see him again. Yeah, I
complete, because I mean, we know

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Kirk's story. We don't need to
go over and over and over and over

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and again. This is Pike's story
in his career, you know. And

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then I want to keep it that
way, and it seems like that's where

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they're focusing on it. I don't
mind him coming back like that from time

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to time. So and again,
Pike didn't see him in this one.

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It was it was lay on,
so you know, it fits perfectly without

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it. Yeah. Um, so
someone let's talk about some other episodes,

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I mean, other scenes in this
episode. What do you think about the

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relationship between those two, Um,
where it was building over the episode.

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I thought it was a good touch. It wasn't forced. The scene I

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think where they were in the hotel
room and she couldn't sleep and basically got

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up and walked into the other room
to see him on the on the couch

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and then she walks away, and
then he wakes up and looks over and

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she's gone. I thought that was
pretty cool touch. Yeah, I think

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it's interesting how he's able to,
like his personality, is able to draw

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a little bit more out of her. You know, around everybody else,

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she's very closed off. She's gone. Yeah, aside from you know,

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Una and a select few people,
you know, and we've we've seen her

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kind of grow and change, but
in this one, he's able to bring

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a little bit of something out of
her that kind of maybe let some of

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those defenses down. And yeah,
that's a great moment when she kind of

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walks out of the room and you
know, I think she might want to

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talk to him, and then it
was just like nope, no, close

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it down and and back off.
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to have a little bit of fun, you know, when they're when they're

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stealing the clothes. I thought that
was kind of a yeah, an interesting,

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interesting party, and she brought a
lot of emotion to this episode.

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Jumping to the end when she meets
Khan, the younger version of Khan that

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was incredibly powerful. She just did
a phenomenal job at acting that. I

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mean, you know, she she
had the chance of changing everything, of

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getting rid of all the problems that
that name, that person has brought to

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her. But she knew that she
she couldn't kill him. I mean,

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she couldn't, you know, allow
him to be killed by the Romulans,

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because, you know, even though
it was a bad thing, eugenics war

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had to happen. It had to
happen because Earth had to rise out of

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that, it had to be discovered
by the Vulcans, had to become part

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of the Federation, a golden Age
start. Even though it was bad,

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she knew that this had to happen
and she couldn't allow him to die.

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But you put yourself in her shoes
at that moment, and the things that

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are running through your head on all
the things that you can prevent if you

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just assassinated him right then and there, or you allowed the Romulans to assassinate

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him right then and there. That's
a lot to deal with. But you're

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right, Wayne, I mean,
you had to let all that happen.

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And she realized that you know,
it's unfortunate all the lives that are going

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to be lost because of him,
but you had to make that choice because

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you know how things are going to
turn out, and you couldn't let that

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happen. And you see that a
lot in time travel series. It's the

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classic go back in time and kill
Hitler. Yeah, it sounds like a

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great thing to do and prevent all
the deaths during World War two, but

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just think of what happened after War
two, how the world has shaped and

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formed after that. You know,
doesn't mean that the changes will be good.

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Yeah, well, I can't tell
you. I don't know what you

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guys, But them to assassinate Khan
was not on my radar on how that

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was going to happen. So when
that happened, that are you kidding me?

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They caught me by surprise on that
one. You know, they had

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me so geared towards this terrorist attack
that about the bridge and all of that

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stuff, and then going after them
what was the not an engine but the

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reactor, the reactor. Yeah,
they were going after the reactor, and

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so they had me so focused on
that, which is exactly what their intention

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was in writing this. And then
when you discovered that the Romulans are not

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there to kill let me destroy,
that they're gonna kill Khan. I'm like,

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what that was a twist, great
twist. Yeah. So, I

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mean, I think when I started
watching this episode, there was a moment

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where I watched the recap of last
episode and saw all the things that she's

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saying, and then I stopped to
watch those two episodes that I mentioned before,

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Space Seed and City on the Edge
Forever before watching this, and it

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was interesting having to kind of east
Kes they dropped in there and having a

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kind of notes that kind of called
back. But in watching that, just

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thinking about that scene where she has
the length of a long haulway to think

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about what's happening and to consider that
decision. You know, it's not just

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kind of like a decision she's presented
at the end of the door. She

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knows what's probably about to happen.
She has some time to think about it,

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and I think she wrestles with,
you know, the morality of the

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decision of killing a little kid,
and you know, knowing that it will

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not save her future, it will
just create a worse one. Because she

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knows that killing the monster doesn't kill
the ghost. She'll continue to be haunted

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by that, she won't be able
to reconcile it. She'll just know that

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she's basically running away from it by
allowing it to collapse. I think that

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was a very smart decision. It
made me want to kind of look at

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that map when it said the reactor
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I was like, well, what
else is in't here? This is

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a fascinating place explorer. But um, yeah, that was a That was

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a great emotional moment for her,
knowing that even when she's standing in Khan's

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room holding the gun and I don't
think she has any intention of shooting him,

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but she's like, you know,
Harry, I'm meeting this person with

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for the first time, with a
you know, with a weapon with an

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symbol of violence. So a very
interesting scene and a great twist on this

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because they were building up to like
it's got to be a big explosion,

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a big exact or a big thing, and then nope, let's try this.

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So so interesting it really was,
and you know, um, we

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can go ahead and talk about some
of her favorite moments. I'm gonna I'm

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gonna jump ahead of you guys on
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about the ending, which is one
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and you know, that's uh,
when Leon finally breaks down. You know,

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she's in her quarters and she is
obviously missing Kirk, you know,

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of what had happened. You know, she saw him die, so she

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you know, reaches out through the
Kirk and her reality and you know,

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he answers and stuff like that,
and she just makes up the story that

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you know, she was checking on
some security reasons for her brother or his

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brother, excuse me, and you
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hangs up that communication, that's where
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you know, crying just uncontrollably,
you know, her her shell has finally

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come down. Yes, she's by
herself, but we get to see all

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these emotions that have just built up
that she's you know, guarded herself from

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everybody, that she finally just has
to release it all and we get to

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see the truly on right there.
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I mean, I know, so
much stuff happened in that episode. There's

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a lot of good scenes, a
lot of great moments, but for me,

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that right there defined her. It
really did. Yeah, I think

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she I noticed that she cries in
a very specific way, or at least

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the way that I was interpreting it. You know, that's the you know,

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I've I've had those kind of breakdowns
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you've been holding your breath for so
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so long that it's not just you
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open up the gates and I finally
start. It was a lot of like

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catching breaths and a lot of deep
breaths and things like that when it's kind

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of like Okay, I can finally
let go and I can finally take a

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breath, but I'm still a little
bit guarded. I still don't want to

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let all of it out at once. Yeah, that that sense of relief

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that both of them that are alive, that the timeline is intact, but

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also just you know, it even
starts with that scene with Ambenga, which

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I thought was a great little nugget
when they're starring and he's like, can't

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you just let this out? As
your doctor, I'm letting I'm asking you

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to do so, and she's like, no, I'm not going to buy

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and here's a moment when she finally
allows herself to just a little bit,

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but not all the way. I
think it was really well done. Yeah,

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way about you. Well, you
know, time travel episodes are a

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very important part of Star Trek.
They've all had them, they all have

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their great episodes. But what I
liked about most about this episode was not

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so much a certain scene, but
and this is what surprised me the most,

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is that they really made the effort
to connect this episode, this series

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to the past series, especially Star
Trek Enterprise. I mean the Usually you

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don't see these new series wanting to
connect to the Burman era of Star Trek,

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but this episode was just packed full
of references and continuity instances. Right

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at the beginning, the fight with
the Transporter Chief that lawn was breaking up,

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the one the Transport chief himself was
a new a Danubelian. That's was

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what doctor Flox was is the same
alien race from Star Trek Enterprise. And

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then of course we got quite a
few mentions to the temporal Cold War,

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which was a huge storyline in Star
Trek Enterprise as well, which they never

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really finished that storyline. They never
were really able to conclude that because the

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series was canceled, so I actually
have a feeling that this is the first

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act of what we're going to see
more of, more of this. They're

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going to try to maybe close out
a little bit of that story, maybe

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not follow what they originally wanted to
do, but bring it out. And

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then plus, you know the time
Traveler that went was jumped into the future

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where Lan got the device from the
time travel device that used the interface,

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the t car's interface that was actually
designed for Star Trek Voyager when they were

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they because that's where they told the
temporal cold War really started. That's where

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we first saw the first bits of
it. And bravo to the production designer

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this series of actually going back and
making sure it connects and looks just like

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what they did in Voyager. And
then of course, you know, at

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the end, we got to the
Apartment of Temporal Investigations. They appeared in

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Deep Space nine and uh, they
were investigating Captain Cisco when he went back

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in time and messed with Kirk and
the Tribles. It was a great episode,

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yeah, but there were there were
so many great little little bits connecting

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it to the whole Star Trek and
we got to hear. I think this

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is the first time that Kirk's hometown
was actually ever mentioned on screen. I

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think it was mentioned in the books, but on screen, Um, what

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was it? Riverside? Riverside?
Yeah, yeah, some of those easter

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eggs I didn't catch Wayne, So
wow, fantastic job on that. Yeah,

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that makes me want to watch Enterprise
a little before. This is something

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too. It also brings back from
to the last episode, and this actually

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rather surprised me. Um, you
know, on our last podcast, I

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had mentioned about the eugenic swar.
I told you about the eugenicy swar that

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and it happened in the nineties,
from ninety ninety six. Well, here

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in this episode they referenced that it
happened somewhere between the twenty thirties and the

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twenty fifties, and I was wondering, you know, there that's some difference.

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I mean, we know sablished fact
that it happened in the nineteen nineties,

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but now they're saying that waves from
the Temple Cold War have has actually

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altered history and has changed the time
that the eugenic sport happened, has moved

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it about fifty years. I guess
that that brings it from now. It's

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no longer in our past, is
now in our future, so they can

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kind of even pans out to the
way stuff looks today. Interesting. So

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the Easter egg that I caught,
which I don't know if it's an intention

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for an Easter egg, but um, and I'm not sure it's not for

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Star Trek, but for a fan
of an eighty series TV series called Voyagers.

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The time traveling device that Lion has
reminds me of the Omni, which

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feenis bug used to travel through time. Oh yeah, you know when and

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when the Omnis read it means history
is wrong, it's right. I like

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that. Yep. As soon as
I saw, like, oh hey,

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look at that Voyagers, so so
go ahead. I thought that was an

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interesting point to mention. And when
in Sarah's speech how she says it was

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supposed to happen in the nineties and
she's been trapped there for thirty years,

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I think that that's a cool callback. Having just watched the Space Seed and

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having them talk about you know,
this happened in the ninety two and also

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the kind of stuff, but it
helps to kind of explain, you know,

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again, this is a slightly different
timeline so there are some variations that

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we can just you know, accept
and move on. But they're they're taking

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care to kind of tidy up some
of those things, which was I think

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it's a really well, really smart
way to go about that. Yeah,

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and it doesn't surprise me with the
all the ships and all the captains that

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keep traveling back in time. It's
it's surprised. It doesn't surprise me at

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all that time has changed a little
bit, right, right, right,

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it would have to. I'm sure
I'm probably gonna know the answer to this

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question. But which characters shine the
most in this episode? For you guys,

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Wayne, Oh wait, this is
Lawn's episode. So we continue the

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trend of centering an episode for each
character. We get spot. We have

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Una now it's it's line. Um. She spent ninety five percent of this

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episode with con Or with Kirk,
and Um, I just I've not seen

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this type of emotion come from this
actress in this series. It's so great

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to see these characters now finally getting
the time to shine and the time to

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act their socks off. And she
really did. Yeah. He kind of

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taking me aback with her performance in
this because you're right, she hasn't had

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really an opportunity to just take over
the screen like she did in this episode.

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Scott and Yugreen. Yeah, absolutely. I mean this actress has shown

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a lot of range. Like it
keeps bringing me back to the storybook episode

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where she was a very indifferent character. But no, she really stands out

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in this one very powerful performance and
you know, at the same time a

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lot of fun. Um, you
know, I was I was thinking that

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the time travel episode would be a
little bit more fun, which I think

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it was. But it was a
nice balance of not making it completely you

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know, um kind of poking fun
with time travel, but making it having

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it have some serious implications, you
know, to the timeline, but also

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some some growth for her character.
So I think it was very interesting.

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I'll be interested to see what happens
when she meets Kirk next, even though

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it might be another alternate version of
him, It's going to be awkward a

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little bit. Um, If you
could be any character in this episode,

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who would it be and why?
Scott, I'm going to go with one

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of the security officers cataloging Pelly's collection, Just gonna go with a random there,

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But um, I'd like to see
what else what else is in there?

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And you know what you know,
not only kind of like, oh,

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that's an interesting item, but the
story that she has behind it,

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or the story she makes up about
it, whether or not those things are

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fakes. And yeah, oh Opelia. I mean look at her. She's

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she's having a great time on Earth. She gets to spend three four hundred

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years watching some of the best events
ever happened in Earth's history. And um,

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and she's stealing paintings and collecting things. I mean, what's better than

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that? You know, I really
think it's fantastic. I'll tell you what's

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better than that being James T.
Kirk and sharing a kiss with lay On.

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That's what that would be my choice
anyway. No, but good,

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good choices, Scotten Wayne, very
good choices. I like those. Um

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so um. Next episode. Episode
is at four right, yes, yes,

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among the lowest eaters. What do
you think this is about? Looks

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like another self contained story. What
do you think do you get the cast

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back? The at least majority of
the cast seem to be in it.

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Looks like a very very intense episode
and very special effects heavy. So I'm

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expecting a lot of action, a
lot of a lot of fun. It's

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We've had two episodes that we've been
very light on visual effects. Ye,

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so this is gonna be a big
one. I think. I think this

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is probably going to be an important
episode for the series. Yeah. I

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think in one of the scenes that
I saw from the load of theaters,

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they Pike mentioned something about Spock bleeding
out or something. Yeah, I'm like,

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WHOA, what's going on? Yeah, what's going on here? So

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yeah, it looks like there's some
serious stuff going on for sure on that

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planet that they're on. Yeah.
So m so I was thinking around a

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little bit and apparently it's Rachel seven. It has some kind of connection to

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Pike's past. It might be something
that we see before Bearded Pike that would

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be at the beginning of season one. Maybe wrong, but Rachel seven.

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I believe that was where in the
cage the very first episode star Trek.

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I think that's where he went and
he thought some monster. We did see

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scenes of him on that planet.
Just should be interesting. That's interesting,

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and I guess a little bit of
not to spoil anything, but we were

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to get a spoiler when I looked
up Lotus Eaters because I was trying to

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see it does that have some kind
of connection to Star Trek, not that

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I could find, but apparently in
Greek mythology it was a race of people

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that were living on an island,
and apparently after they ate the lotus,

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they'd forget their home and their loved
ones and long to stay with the fellow

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lotus eaters. So apparently it's something
that hasn't I was thinking it would be

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something with amnesia, so we'd get
you know, like it seems to focus

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on Pike and Archtagas specifically, so
maybe they'd kind of forget who they are

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and maybe we'd get a little bit
more into their kind of raw personalities.

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But it might be that it's not
amnesia, it's more of um, you

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know, apathy, like with Spock
bleeding out, if you know, kind

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of like the the Serenity movie where
they just kind of, you know,

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start kind of giving up and just
letting things happen. SOE like it would

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be very interesting, definitely action packed. Yeah it does. We can see

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more Pike looks like, so yeah, welcome back Pike. Yes, all

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