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I'm captain. My

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Captain Janeway. Welcome

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to the Greatest Generation! It's a Star

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Trek podcast by a couple of guys.

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Were just a little bit embarrassed about having

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Star Trek. I guess I'm Ben Harrison.

1:26

I'm Adam. Frantically I doing it. Adam.

1:29

Hat. This

1:32

is like the first hot week we've

1:34

had melee and a long time it's

1:36

been. It's been one of those years

1:38

Every year. no matter what the weather

1:40

does, they tell us it's going to

1:42

be bad for fire season this year

1:44

because it's were. Lots. Of

1:46

growth. So there will be lots of

1:48

fires. Course, when it's not where they're

1:50

like, oh, everything's going to be very

1:52

dry, so lots of fires. Either way,

1:55

lots of fires. in that

1:57

thinking about that at all until it happens

2:01

It's not changing my fire setting plans for the

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year. I'll tell you that much. Good.

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Good. Good.

2:08

Your confession heard here first on The

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Greatest Generation. No one's going to either

2:13

see or hear this confession.

2:15

How about you, Ben? Nice

2:18

to be back in shorts. Mm-hmm.

2:22

Enjoying that aspect of it. Feels

2:25

good. Yeah. Little

2:27

baby shorts for Daraon. That's fun.

2:29

A boy. Oh, my

2:31

God. What is that about?

2:34

Let me ask you a question. They're

2:37

all elastic bands at

2:39

this point, right? Yeah. At what age do

2:42

you get fitted shorts or pants? You probably

2:44

don't do that until you're 10, right? I

2:47

got to say, less and

2:50

less do I even see

2:52

fitted shorts for grown boys

2:54

like myself available. All my

2:56

favorite brands are moving to

2:58

a drawstring format on

3:00

their shorts. You said it, and that

3:02

is great comfort. Yeah. Do you

3:04

like that a lot? I think that that's a pandemic relic.

3:08

Everybody was getting into soft pants

3:11

over the last four years, and

3:13

I think the manufacturers are finally

3:15

catching up. My wife dunks

3:17

on me all the time because I think

3:20

the first time I ever wore denim with a

3:22

little bit of stretch in it, I was just

3:24

going on and on about how comfortable it was.

3:27

She's like, you fucking dudes.

3:32

Twenty years behind the curve on

3:34

comfy jeans. Enjoy

3:37

it. I hope you do,

3:39

but just know this is a ladies'

3:41

invention first. It was a ladies' invention

3:43

first. I saw a video

3:47

by a lady. I think she was maybe

3:49

an electrician. She did

3:52

something where she desired a certain type

3:54

of performance out of her jeans And

3:57

had to buy men's jeans because the stretch

3:59

... I. Can rebirth

4:01

of his fire electricity. But she worked

4:03

with some kind of the hazardous situation

4:05

where the stretch was a liability and

4:08

so she had to buy if she

4:10

was buying genes yeah, by men's deeds

4:12

because they just don't even make women

4:14

scenes without stretch in the many more

4:17

ads he was complaining about That. Did.

4:19

Sea Tac Anything about how say button

4:22

and zip the opposite way. Oh

4:24

because I told you the story right

4:26

where I've were women's jeans and a

4:28

high school without knowing it because they

4:31

were just in the in the sale

4:33

rak their of the men's section I

4:35

did know him better I was like

4:37

wow we're genes that is a wire

4:39

the buttoning and zipping on the wrong

4:41

side and also why does it make

4:43

my ass with completely debris assess assess

4:45

as i couldn't fill of up the

4:48

but in their health i think says

4:50

the. Story. Behind that is

4:52

that like fancy ladies used to

4:54

be dressed by. Other people

4:56

so those britain were were reversed so that

4:58

they can be done. From.

5:01

The yeah I've got a couple

5:03

of garments that were reverse button

5:05

and sir. I. Feel like

5:07

many things women are like. much more

5:09

comfortable going and getting something out of

5:11

the men sexson. In. General.

5:14

Than. Men are, You know our emasculated

5:16

deserve a very fragile little of the

5:18

Houses of cards. and we can't just

5:21

dip a toe and assists in the

5:23

lady sex. And I would love to

5:25

buy clothing that when either direction because

5:27

it's it's supposed to be good for

5:30

your brains when you brush with the

5:32

other hand that's the non dominant hand.

5:35

When you button or zip when

5:38

you jackets European style. these things

5:40

are all good for your brains.

5:42

They're good for neuro. As to

5:45

city and they may well have. Been.

5:47

A Q if anybody had been looking.

5:50

For. Who in fact

5:52

was playing the part of the

5:54

captain in today's episode say that

5:56

zipper on your uniform is the

5:58

oriented the incorrect. Way. About

6:02

that. You. Just pivoted us

6:04

into so did new heights. I did

6:06

it seamlessly. Snow.

6:08

Seems no edits in this episode.

6:10

Van it's did you call it

6:13

the penultimate episode you sure could

6:15

have the finale. Of of

6:17

Star Trek Voyager. It's Season Seven episode

6:19

twenty four. Renaissance. Man,

6:21

reverse course unless he said something. A

6:23

little nigger in your fetuses. I

6:28

was really worried about this

6:30

episodes from this opening shot.

6:32

So me why says because

6:34

doctors. Piping. Opera

6:37

into the Delta Flyer and singing at

6:39

the top of his lungs doesn't usually

6:41

bode well for what By episodes gonna

6:43

be like you know? I.

6:45

Saw it's may be. Captain

6:48

Janeway had a death wish because not only

6:50

is he going to a conference. Says

6:52

haven't duster mart. Be. The uber

6:55

driver ssssss. I didn't think there

6:57

was a good look at all

6:59

and when see his. Woken.

7:02

Up by Dr. Mark singing. She's.

7:04

Only been asleep for fifteen minutes to say here

7:06

that right, That's what I

7:08

wrote down as well as don't know

7:11

Dr. Mark. I don't know how. You.

7:14

Got such a nice Janeway. In

7:17

this scene a a gene way that sputtered.

7:19

But. Also he jane wait, who should

7:21

just shut off your fucking our emitter.

7:25

To get some goddamn sleep. At.

7:27

This point she said she was unbelievably

7:29

forgiving. A I will say ah them

7:32

on boys will need to prove do

7:34

you think secret? hit a button on

7:36

the hello emitter and just like turn

7:38

off his head. Like

7:40

the head just disappears at the next. with

7:44

it be followed neck like you

7:46

to see the inside of the

7:48

of the textures on the on

7:51

the pali gun frame of his

7:53

body that would be less horrifying

7:55

then of success for us it's

7:58

been like gasping gore Yuck. Yeah.

8:02

Why even go to a medical

8:05

symposium? I don't know, man. Janeway?

8:08

It doesn't seem like something she'd be into,

8:10

but they are talking

8:13

about how they've enjoyed each other's

8:15

company a little bit, and then

8:17

they get a little microbanger, and

8:19

it's a subspace, Eddie, and

8:22

it's going to be an adventure from here on

8:24

in, let's just say. The moments

8:26

before the theme are like

8:29

the bangers get dropped and Dr.

8:31

Mark trying to comfort Janeway with

8:34

his confidence. Is

8:36

there anything less confidence-inspiring

8:40

than Dr. Mark at the controls of

8:42

the Delta Flyer saying, just stand back,

8:44

I got this? A

8:47

man not known for his piloting skills

8:49

at all, right? He was bragging

8:52

about how he's also writing a paper in his

8:54

head during. You

8:56

know how he can turn himself into an emergency

8:59

command hologram? He should turn himself

9:01

into an emergency pilot hologram, and

9:04

then he skins himself in

9:06

the white drive uniform that

9:08

we saw earlier this season. How

9:11

much would that rule? Oh, yeah,

9:13

the EPH, the F, if you will.

9:15

Yeah. Janeway's got to turn on

9:17

Do Not Disturb, though, with this driver.

9:20

She really does. So when we come

9:22

back from theme, we are with the

9:24

Voyager, BLT and Ensign

9:27

Voric are working on

9:29

some engineering problem. And I put

9:32

a lot of money on this

9:34

being the episode in which Voric

9:36

dies. I was

9:38

like, well, we're wrapping up the last

9:41

season. We're saying goodbye to a lot

9:43

of characters that have had a few

9:45

episodes, but not many. I

9:47

love that bet. This guy's doomed in

9:49

this episode, right? It

9:51

sure seems that way. You get a

9:53

pretty tight close up frame on

9:55

him and BLT, and I got

9:57

to ask, is he cutting his

10:00

bangs? Seems

10:02

like something is a little

10:04

wavy. Cutting across like he

10:06

might be depressed or something.

10:08

We do not discuss

10:11

it. Yeah, or he held

10:13

a single piece of high-quality toilet

10:17

paper up to his head as a guide when he

10:20

cut his bangs. That's a great

10:22

call back. I

10:26

have not stopped thinking about that since you told

10:28

me about it. I still haven't seen this toilet

10:30

paper in the wild, but I'm fascinated. Oh, you

10:32

got to come over and take a great big

10:34

shit over here. You can try it out. I

10:36

would love nothing less. Ben, back when

10:39

I used to work in giant airplane

10:41

company, lockout-tagout was

10:43

a huge deal because

10:46

there are a million things on an aircraft

10:48

that can kill you if you got someone

10:50

on the flight deck hitting switches and someone

10:53

on the plane somewhere doing work. Why

10:55

is that not a thing in the

10:58

24th century? Well, a lot of safety

11:00

procedures have been done away with over

11:02

the years. Yeah,

11:06

sure are. Maybe they're doing

11:08

their own safety audits, a voyager.

11:10

Yeah, we got this. Uh-huh. Don't

11:12

worry about it. BLT

11:14

gets called to the shuttle bay

11:17

where Tiki-Tom Paris wants to have

11:19

a romantic lunch with wifey.

11:21

And this might be the

11:24

most charmed BLT has ever

11:27

seen in his presence.

11:29

I feel the same way. This

11:31

Roxanne Dawson take feels

11:33

really unique. This is so

11:35

sweet, but

11:38

I can't. She really looks like she loves

11:40

him in this scene in

11:42

a way that I don't know that

11:44

I've ever recognized before in either BLT

11:46

or anyone I've been close to in

11:49

my life. Like

11:53

the affection radiating off of her.

11:56

God, what's that like? It's

12:00

also interesting because I think

12:02

we've seen the grand romantic gesture go

12:04

the other way like he has Made

12:07

him a TV so that they can

12:09

share his second favorite thing together But

12:13

it doesn't seem like he always Often

12:16

goes out of his way to be like super

12:18

sweet like this. I mean You

12:21

know there is the fact

12:23

that the chicken looks super fucking

12:26

rancid, you know undercutting this somewhat

12:28

But it's a nice gesture that he's

12:30

doing like hey come take a break from work We'll have

12:32

a little romantic lunch You know a couple

12:34

of things about how Paris is looking

12:36

in this scene one If

12:39

your bee dunks how psyched are you to show

12:42

up for your shoot day and and see? That

12:45

your costume is Hawaiian shirt Like

12:48

what a great thing and to you

12:51

should be able to buy the action

12:53

figure of Tom Paris wearing the Hawaiian

12:55

shirt He looks fucking great You

12:57

know some people look kind of like just

12:59

a little bit off wearing a Hawaiian

13:01

shirt like not quite right like Kind

13:03

of dopey dad and Hawaii on vacation

13:05

or whatever like Paris Really

13:07

wears this shirt and I think it matters

13:09

that it's reddish. It looks good on him.

13:11

Yeah, it's a command red Yeah

13:14

base to the to the shirt

13:16

that matters Yeah as a person

13:18

who wears lots of aloha

13:20

shirts and looks dumpy in them I

13:23

really admired how he looked at this. Yeah. Yeah,

13:25

he looks great. He is

13:28

motivated To get

13:30

some alone time with BLT in this

13:32

scene. It's it's not just a kind

13:34

gesture. It's a seduction technique because

13:37

that baby coming and They're

13:40

not gonna be alone for too much

13:42

longer And at the end

13:44

of the scene she promises this won't be the

13:46

last time that they're alone and also like maybe

13:49

Settle even when the baby comes like they're they're

13:51

gonna make the time for each other This

13:54

is one of those like a if you want to

13:56

induce labor. This is one of the things that's supposed

13:59

to help also Oh

14:01

yeah? Fried chicken and potato salad? Well,

14:04

spicy food and spicy

14:06

interpersonal actions. Oh jeez.

14:10

Extra paprika, he says. Just the way

14:12

you like it. I did not know

14:14

that. Yeah. These are

14:16

the things you learn. Anyways, up

14:18

on the bridge, we got a

14:20

line for a guy that has

14:22

been in a million episodes of

14:24

Voyager as a background performer. And

14:27

I remembered him typically to be

14:29

wearing yellow, but Tarek Ergen got

14:32

an upgrade to his uniform and an

14:34

upgrade to his role on the show.

14:37

He's sitting there in Tom Parris' seat saying

14:40

lines. There's some kind of pulse being directed

14:42

at our transceiver array. Am I making any

14:44

sense here? Finally. He's got to be so

14:46

psyched until he reads the script and he's

14:48

like, wait, I'm like taking orders from Harry

14:51

Kim. You

14:53

know, I can go back to being a background actor. I

14:56

see what you're trying to do here. It's nice. But

15:00

it kind of destroys the character I built in

15:02

my head for this guy. So

15:06

they get a message from Janeway and

15:09

she's broadcasting it in an unusual

15:11

way. She's like using the deflector

15:13

dish on the Delta Fire

15:15

to do this. It

15:17

just blows away half of the saucer of

15:19

Voyager. Mistakes

15:24

were made. Yeah. She

15:27

accidentally pushed the shoot

15:29

board cue button and not the broadcast

15:31

distress signal button. They're right next to

15:33

each other. They shouldn't be right next

15:35

to each other. There should be a

15:37

little like plastic cover over the one

15:39

button. Absolutely. Anyways, the

15:42

transmission is a little blurry,

15:44

which maybe in retrospect is

15:46

intentional. But she's like, yeah, we

15:48

got into a bit of a scrape.

15:50

We're all right, but ship's a little

15:52

torn up and I need to speak to

15:54

Chakotay at the moment I get back on

15:56

board. What the fuck is Harry

15:58

Kim to you, Jane? way you're fucking

16:00

secretary why don't you ask him yourself

16:03

that's what I was thinking this scene

16:05

yeah where is he's not in there

16:08

just off doing something else wouldn't

16:10

you like to have a bottle

16:12

episode for like Chikote's

16:15

day Chikote's day and it's

16:17

just him sitting in his quarters with

16:20

a million fresh boxes of

16:22

Dixon Ticonderoga's sharpening them individually

16:26

the pan flute

16:28

in his quarters just playing it as

16:30

deafening volume so she comes aboard and

16:44

Ticotay is there waiting for her

16:47

and she's like okay really bad

16:49

news series ending

16:51

bad news there's this species they're

16:53

called the recall we got

16:55

into a scrape with them they

16:57

are ecological extremists who have

16:59

this crazy idea that warp

17:01

travel fucks up subspace

17:04

and we all know that's not true because

17:07

we've never watched that one particular

17:09

episode of TNG that was never

17:11

referenced again but

17:13

we've already reaped the

17:15

punishment of our ship being disassembled

17:18

and us being repopulated to an

17:20

m-class planet and I'm

17:22

basically happy with the deal because I'm

17:24

sick and tired of being responsible for

17:27

all you assholes and this way

17:29

we can just live out the rest of our

17:31

existence in peace they're gonna take our warp core

17:34

away and we're not telling anyone about

17:36

this until we get to this planet

17:39

this is a really fun episode starting

17:41

now for the actors I think because

17:44

this is a Kate Mulgaroo

17:46

performance where she is not acting

17:48

as Jane way she's acting as someone who's trying

17:50

to act like she's Jane way and she's

17:53

got all this information to Give

17:56

Ticotay and she like storms into this

17:58

meeting with Ticotay and she's. Breathing

18:00

heavy like this is like she just

18:02

went through some sit sat on this

18:04

gotta be another way tired to tell.

18:06

Take it. So much fun to think

18:09

about as the episode unfolds. Like all

18:11

these different. Actors used to

18:13

playing these characters but forced to

18:15

play them a little off due

18:17

to them being kind of puppet

18:19

mastered by the doctor. Later for

18:21

a while the think about so

18:23

to go take is. Understandably

18:25

perturbed as a sudden development that

18:28

he's like whoa, like should we

18:30

talk about doesn't she's like no,

18:32

I don't have time to talk

18:34

about it or give you any

18:36

benefit of the doubt on my

18:38

decision surrounding this he is in

18:40

conversation tail and I guess rank

18:42

jail because see is pretty abrupt.

18:45

Towards. The end of this scene and as his

18:47

like I don't want to talk about it and

18:49

I don't want the crew to know either. Leave.

18:52

Dismissed and would see totally

18:54

use. My. Bet was to

18:56

coat is gonna mutiny her. It

18:59

feels. Like a perfect pretext

19:01

for the mutiny we've all suspected

19:03

he's always wanted to do yes,

19:06

Have. So an

19:08

engineering Janeway lox and attack to be

19:10

Lt and she's got a hypothetical. To.

19:13

Propose could we.

19:16

So. Our own warp core.

19:18

At Warp. Question The

19:20

made absolutely zero sense to me, but

19:23

I guess what he's doing is like.

19:25

using. The example avoids your first in

19:27

order to apply it to the Delta

19:29

flyer after year. And. Builds he's

19:31

like, well, I mean, What's.

19:35

Assists I guess. Like the

19:37

solution that? that's pretty theoretical.

19:40

Adds a mosaic Cool. Make that

19:42

sector be modifications to both Voyager

19:44

and the Delta Flyer. It's like

19:47

my this is a hypothetical question

19:49

t shirt is forcing a lot

19:51

of questions answered by my this

19:54

is a hypothetical questions he said.

19:58

This is like when your partner. Like hey,

20:00

hypothetically, what do you think about

20:03

opening up the relationship and you're

20:05

like I don't know, I I

20:07

mean maybe I think about it

20:09

and she's like, i know this

20:11

guy's ssssss ssssss And and. Assists:

20:15

We're all going out tonight.

20:18

Assists and well affair. That

20:22

escalated quickly. A specific. So

20:26

she keeps kind of like making

20:28

excuses to get out of places.

20:30

And the next one. Is

20:33

on the bridge where it's also clear

20:35

that see says ten or guy as

20:37

bell tarring in the scene f clearly

20:40

there's somebody else there that's trying to

20:42

jack her off and seen it satanic.

20:44

Keep a cool for the benefit of

20:46

everyone else on the bridge but they

20:49

notice. Many

20:53

many, many times before in situations where

20:55

to go to and Janeway have been

20:57

together, She claims to have a headache

20:59

in order to leave assess, assess and

21:02

this is one of those moments. You.

21:04

Have the bridge sit out day.

21:07

I'd suggest spend some me time

21:09

for access to head over to

21:11

Six bay where after the seemed

21:14

security asks Doctor Mark. Kneeling.

21:16

Weird. Happen. On

21:18

that mission when you were together. When.

21:21

He came in contact with those aliens. And.

21:25

The. Way the doctor tells the

21:27

story does not do the curiosity

21:29

about Janeway any favors because he's

21:31

like, yeah, you know they sat

21:33

me down. For. When they

21:36

interrogated her. And then when they

21:38

turned me back on again as he seemed pretty

21:40

rough dup. But. Other than that,

21:42

I mean pretty standard uber trip

21:44

to a conference. I also like

21:47

that he beams and six Bad

21:49

Dakota's like what was that about?

21:51

It is like, what would it

21:54

mean? Yes, astronomy of isn't Scotty

21:56

orders a more thorough examination. Of.

21:59

Janeway by. Dr. Mark and he

22:01

agrees to do that. Then.

22:03

In the Ass lab. Explores.

22:05

The idea of what if there's

22:08

a cloaked fleet somewhere that me

22:10

you know, the The Recall are

22:12

reputedly. Rocking. An armada

22:15

that is going to be a giant

22:17

threat to Voyager if they don't comply

22:19

with these orders. And seven as like

22:21

yeah, I mean like you would be

22:23

able to tell something funky was going

22:26

on with sub space if that was

22:28

something that existed. So I guess all

22:30

take a look. Before. They

22:32

can even do this though. A

22:35

face time comes in. And.

22:37

They did. They decide to take it in the

22:39

ass lab. Who's gonna be nice to see? as

22:41

Led screen is so much bigger than that the

22:43

few screen on the bridge. Yeah, Gotta feel like

22:45

a treat to take a face time in there.

22:47

While you if you are going to take it

22:49

in the ass lab, you want to make sure

22:51

that the As lab is. Prepared.

22:53

Really don't wanna just do it

22:56

by surprise? On is. Supremes.

22:59

Are chan last from

23:01

the recall Imperium? And.

23:04

He is a little miffed that the warp

23:06

core the Janeway promised him. Has

23:08

not been ejected yet and given

23:10

over and she totally for. Kind.

23:13

Of hearing all of this for the first time

23:15

really thinks on his feet. Pretty.

23:17

Well here he stole him a boy.

23:20

And. Installing and is granted a

23:22

ten hour time limit like. Give.

23:24

It up and ten hours. Or. You're

23:27

dead. And

23:30

for witnessing the threat of death in

23:32

this scene. How silly,

23:34

seven after witnessing this interaction.

23:37

Cool as a cucumber. Says

23:40

sir. Not. Stressing this

23:42

mess. With

23:44

so much is going on in this episode

23:46

lights Easy Ten of White Not really know

23:48

how to play it for a lot of

23:50

these characters that are right in the middle

23:52

of it. Yes to Go! Day marches back

23:54

to Six Bay and asked the doctor like

23:56

they are. So what happened and he's like

23:58

oh yes, tap them. As

24:00

that's. Health. Test with

24:02

flying colors. She's doing great.

24:05

So. To go to goes to see the kept

24:07

them. And her quarters. Where.

24:09

She isn't. And

24:11

doesn't answer. His

24:14

hail but does come marching around the

24:16

corner. And calls him

24:18

onto the carpet. Said

24:20

is. On the floor in her

24:22

apartment to yell at him about

24:25

getting the doctor to do a

24:27

more thorough medical exam. I didn't

24:29

have them to directly her. something

24:31

trusted each time. I don't know.

24:33

Mark Mike the host the director

24:35

this episode and this was the

24:37

moment when things are started to

24:39

look really interesting to me. Like

24:41

the top positions around singles and

24:44

to sites are so. Like.

24:46

Standardized on the show the you don't

24:48

need to change them very much for

24:50

things to dislike. A little off and

24:52

it's framing. On to coated in Janeway

24:55

doorway I think as an example of

24:57

this, it just looks weird. Looks.

25:00

Really claustrophobic. The cameras really pushed

25:02

up against him in this moment

25:04

and you know it doesn't need

25:06

to be like they could have

25:08

framed this wide in the nice

25:10

light airy hallway. but instead he's

25:12

kind of in shrouded in the

25:14

darkness of the hallway and and

25:16

the ship looks extra dark in

25:18

this episode to the whole thing

25:20

just serves to make the feeling

25:22

uncomfortable. Throughout this episode it's really

25:24

affected. To. The kittens argument about

25:27

like, what about all of the

25:29

trust that we've established between each

25:31

other as officers ads. Why?

25:33

Are you telling me what's going on?

25:35

Captain? Like: what is going on with

25:37

this recall guy and. You

25:40

know, at this Delta Flyer? shirts

25:42

and. See. As. You

25:44

know, trying to allied all

25:47

his concerns. Ads he's

25:49

like, well, what about that time? Unless

25:51

it's prime, you did that thing. You

25:54

are kept of the dark when you are a a young

25:56

lieutenant. And. It's a gotcha.

25:58

Had say what colors the both

26:01

the house questions from rodents basically.

26:04

I wonder how many different versions

26:06

they sketched out for this gotcha

26:09

question? Did. They did. They think

26:11

it all about like gas. That.

26:13

Time we made Sweet love. Assess

26:16

Assess unless a prime you remember

26:18

assess assess. My tongue was in

26:20

every hole on their bodies. I

26:22

pumped do like a warp core.

26:25

Ss assists like the word Korea.

26:27

Getting ready to give up to

26:29

the recall. See

26:32

whips out a hypo

26:35

spray Adelaide. She has

26:37

like super strength. And.

26:39

Overpowers to coat day. What is this?

26:41

The kind of feels like an Admiral

26:44

Quinn moment, right? It really does fight

26:46

him. To Wonders

26:48

Of Upon do you think in Star

26:50

Trek much like you know a home

26:52

you get your medicine cabinet of like.

26:55

Antacids. An advil him and

26:57

whatever. Just the stuff that every home

26:59

has. In. A medicine cabinet right? You've

27:02

got your medicine cabinet with the like a maki

27:04

was stuff and then there's the false panel behind

27:06

it where you keep all like the fungus, creams

27:08

and stuff so that when people come over to

27:10

your house and. Look in your

27:12

medicine cabinet, they don't see all those all

27:15

the dirty sits on the size. It's

27:18

still have a phone analysts a

27:21

great idea. Are you gotta get

27:23

a false panel? Yeah What I'm

27:25

wondering is this. In. Star

27:27

Trek? Do you just have a

27:29

hypo spray? Nozzle. And.

27:32

Then you have like a medicine cabinet full

27:34

a little lad things you you slam and

27:36

do it in order to like. When you

27:39

have a headache you can just get yourself

27:41

as edit things. As our

27:43

religion as years be cool air. And.

27:46

Enough I would want to inject something

27:48

for headaches. This as to how I

27:50

would I hate headache so much. I

27:52

would. I do anything

27:55

I do object me twice. assess,

27:57

assess and. So

28:00

down goes Chikote and in the Voyager morgue, Janeway sets

28:04

up a dampening field there that serves

28:14

to block out the sensors from

28:17

this area and onto the slab

28:19

Chikote's birdie goes, I so wanted

28:21

to see her get his

28:23

body up onto the slab though. Like,

28:26

do you think the scene we don't see

28:28

is Janeway arranging him on the floor in

28:30

such a way where he would fit on

28:32

the slab and then they both beam to

28:34

the morgue that way? Well this

28:36

goes to our recent conversation about, you

28:39

know, beaming down in an

28:41

emergency beam out from an exploding shuttle.

28:43

Yeah. Like, was Chikote

28:46

running around getting his empty Pelican

28:48

case ahead of that? Yeah. So

28:51

how does your computer just change what position your

28:53

birdie is in when it beams you? I

28:56

mean, knowing what we know about Dr.

28:58

Mark's super strength, like he probably as

29:01

Janeway still just got him right up

29:03

on there. I love the idea of

29:05

that being an image like Janeway

29:08

just picking Chikote up like he's light

29:10

as a feather. Yeah. That

29:12

would have been great. Like an

29:14

absolute serial killer, like clipping

29:16

off a pinky toe or

29:18

something. Janeway removes Chikote's comb

29:21

badge and then that

29:23

slides his birdie through the

29:25

morgue door before shutting it. And

29:28

marches down to Six

29:30

Bay, puts her boot

29:32

up on Dr. Mark's desk, and

29:35

what's that under her pant leg? It's

29:37

the mobile emitter and she boops a button

29:39

and it's revealed that this has been Dr.

29:41

Mark the whole time. Oh,

29:45

hi Mark. Amazing. Hi.

29:49

And he takes a FaceTime call, not

29:52

from somebody from

29:54

Recall, but somebody from The Hierarchy

29:56

or like, what are these guys

29:58

called? The Overlookers? They

30:00

are the Overlookers, Ben, and I'm just going

30:03

to admit to you and everyone else, I

30:06

lost all of

30:08

my money betting that

30:12

we would ever see them again,

30:14

let alone on the second to

30:16

last episode ever of Star Trek

30:18

Voyager. Did you ever

30:20

care about the Overlookers? It was

30:22

a very, very long odds

30:24

bet that the Eggmen would show

30:26

up again. I

30:29

thought for sure we would go out with

30:32

a different alien species toward

30:34

the end of this show. One

30:37

last goodbye to the Cazun

30:39

or whatever. Or the Banes.

30:41

Sure. Sure. The

30:44

Overlookers. The Overlookers.

30:46

It was the Overlookers all the

30:49

time. So

30:51

they are keeping the Captain

30:53

hostage to manipulate the Doctor

30:56

and the Captain does not want the Doctor

30:58

to do what he is doing. They're

31:00

trying to get the Warp Corps. Captain

31:03

does not want him to give up the

31:05

Warp Corps. He is perfectly happy to be

31:08

sacrificed for the safety of the ship

31:10

and the crew. But

31:12

the Doctor is focused

31:14

on getting her back in one piece and

31:16

is doing the bidding of these guys and

31:20

is bugged. They are watching through

31:22

his eyes and ears. So they

31:24

are seeing everything he is seeing.

31:27

They have a new assignment for him.

31:30

You get two Overlookers here.

31:32

An Overlooker George and an

31:34

Overlooker Lenny. Overlooker

31:38

George orders Doctor Mark to

31:40

bring him a bio-neural gel pack. There is a

31:42

little bit of resistance to this idea because he

31:45

can't just yank one of these out

31:47

of a panel. It seems like a pretty difficult

31:49

thing to source. But threats

31:52

are made. Doctor

31:54

George is like, you're going to do it and we're going

31:56

to watch you do it. And then in

31:58

a dance out. kind of way, we will

32:01

watch you give it to me

32:04

and all parties will be satisfied.

32:10

We'll upload this to OnlyOverlookers,

32:12

I guess, presumably. We

32:14

should be able to look at a

32:17

little porn at work. And when Tuvok

32:19

radios Dr. Mark to ask him to

32:21

the shuttle bay, this

32:23

gives Dr. Mark an opportunity

32:25

to chameleon himself again. He

32:28

asks for and is given

32:31

Chikote Face. This is

32:33

starting to just be logistically

32:35

tricky. He is impersonating Chikote

32:37

and the captain and also

32:39

presumably doing all of the

32:42

Dr. Mark stuff that

32:44

he would normally be doing during.

32:47

So trying to make everybody think that

32:49

nothing is wrong while trying

32:52

to be in three places at the same time. And

32:54

boy, what a stressful position that must

32:57

be. In the Delta Fly

32:59

or Tuvok can't find anything wrong with

33:01

its communication system. And

33:04

Chikote is like, huh, weird. And

33:08

over with the Overlookers, they're watching Star Trek

33:10

on Star Trek like this is fun. One

33:13

last Star Trek on Star Trek scene. Before

33:16

we go, pretty cool. There could still be

33:18

another one in the next episode. It wouldn't

33:20

be unlikely. We're

33:22

dodging back and forth between the Overlooker

33:24

ship and the Delta Flyer before we

33:27

finally find ourselves on that

33:29

Overlooker ship. And Janeway

33:32

starts talking shit. We've seen a

33:34

lot of hostage situations on Voyager lately

33:36

and often the hostage tries

33:39

to be nice, tries to

33:41

put themselves in a position where the

33:43

hostage taker would feel bad to do

33:45

anything harmful to them. Janeway just starts

33:47

talking shit. Yeah,

33:50

well, there's like the junior Overlooker is

33:52

kind of an encouraging guy. He's like,

33:54

you're doing a great job, Doc. And

33:56

the head guy is much more surly.

33:58

So she. She really puts the

34:01

wood to that guy and

34:04

is trying to scare them by

34:06

making them believe that it is possible

34:08

that the EMH has simulated everything that

34:11

they're seeing through his eyes and ears

34:14

in the holodeck and that Voyager's already

34:16

on top of what they're trying to

34:18

do and may already be headed at

34:20

them at high warp. Janeway's

34:22

got that energy of like, you

34:25

can't fuck with me when my boyfriend gets

34:27

here. He's going to kick your ass. Just

34:31

fuck baby heads! Like that

34:33

energy? Yeah. She's got a

34:35

big mouth but she's not kidding. I'm going to

34:37

whip you silly and I'm going to fuck you

34:39

stupid. The boyfriend winds up going down really easy.

34:41

Yeah. Yeah. She

34:44

proposes, look, this is all getting very

34:46

complicated. Why don't you just throw me

34:48

in an escape pod, blow

34:50

me out the back, and just

34:52

end this quagmire before it starts. It's

34:54

going to be bad for you, trust

34:56

me. We learned

34:58

that these guys are hierarchy escapees

35:01

and they stole this ship and

35:03

now they are pursuing a life

35:05

of crime and they're basically kind

35:07

of on a heat style. This

35:11

is a big score that we're trying to take down

35:13

so that we can then go retire in water with

35:17

algae that glows in the dark or

35:19

whatever. When

35:21

Overlooker Lenny chose his

35:24

ID to the guy working the

35:26

shop that sells explosives, do

35:29

you think it's just like wider

35:31

at the bottom to accommodate what

35:33

his facial structure looks like? Yeah.

35:37

These guys carry trapezoidal IDs. Yeah.

35:40

Because the guy at Brady Demolition is going to

35:42

know the difference between a

35:44

fake ID and a real one from

35:46

an Overlooker. So,

35:49

back on Voyager, the EMH

35:52

needs to get Torres away

35:54

from engineering. So, impersonates

35:57

the captain's voice to get her to go do the

35:59

job. Something on the Delta

36:02

Flyer and then downloads her

36:04

image into his mobile emitter.

36:07

And gets ready to go impersonate

36:09

her. and I like the light

36:11

running out the door and realizing

36:14

not pregnant enough Sas effect for

36:16

a specific see would have been

36:18

fun if he goes out into

36:21

public as not pregnant Blt and.

36:23

Like. The react swim, the crew

36:25

and what that would mean. That.

36:28

Just complicates. a very complicated episode

36:30

though. Yeah. I mean

36:32

the other thing that I wanted

36:34

it was instead of the image

36:36

of Blt disappearing and reappearing with

36:39

the belly up, it's but the

36:41

inflatable under the for the costume

36:43

and fill it up right? That's

36:45

more fun, right? First Trimester. Second

36:50

Trimester: Woo hoo

36:52

ha ha. It's.

36:58

It's fun when Doctor

37:01

Blt could run into.

37:03

Blc. Actual like that kind of stress

37:06

is a big thing, but there's a totally

37:08

different kind of stress. When.

37:10

Doctor be else. He goes to get a gel

37:12

pack and is. Confronted by.

37:15

Paris. A Paris who is just

37:17

as motivated as he was in the cold

37:19

open. He's. Going to the hotel dishes

37:21

with the dome on it and her. guess

37:24

what? More. Fried Chicken. Such.

37:27

City was in Fried chicken? Do? I

37:29

don't think this is that bad. The

37:32

suits like refrigerator fried chicken like leftover

37:34

fried chicken? whatever. Really like. And

37:36

want. A darker crust on my

37:39

chicken? Man like I wanted. C.

37:41

B D You know it looks

37:43

like it would say Gremlins fried

37:45

Chicken something. Again,

37:49

I was shocked that for it didn't

37:52

die in the scene or something there,

37:54

especially because they're up high and a

37:56

section in engineering at that someone was

37:58

going over railing. And

38:01

work is like maybe the first

38:03

person that notices somebody is acting

38:06

really weird that has no context

38:08

for it in L A. But.

38:10

Like doesn't really get to do anything

38:12

with that is just onscreen to be

38:14

like fans seem strains. I mean I

38:16

like part of this is a scene

38:18

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38:21

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38:23

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38:38

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38:40

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38:42

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42:02

cut to the ass

42:05

lab where Chikote has

42:07

been summoned. Of

42:17

course, this is Dr. Chikote with

42:20

Seven and Ensign Kim, and they're looking

42:22

at the image of this recall guy

42:24

that radioed up earlier. And

42:27

they've done some back

42:29

tracing on the call. Turns out the

42:31

call came from inside the ship. So

42:36

scary. Did

42:40

you ever watch that classic horror

42:42

film When a Stranger Calls? Have

42:45

not. That was like the

42:47

first horror movie version of The Call

42:50

is Coming from Inside the House. You

42:52

might just know its reputation based on that.

42:55

I guess I know it from Scream, right? Yeah.

42:58

Scream bit that rhyme. Yeah. Yeah.

43:01

Well, anyways, quote unquote, Chikote and

43:03

Ensign Kim go down to the

43:06

holodeck to recreate the holo image

43:08

of this recall guy and try

43:10

to figure out who placed the

43:12

call from in here because it

43:14

was placed from the holodeck. Gets

43:17

an image of the recall guy and then is

43:19

like, oh, there's another hologram underneath it. And

43:22

it just resolves as the EMH as

43:24

the hypo spray is going into Ensign

43:27

Kim's neck. And a second birdie is

43:29

put on the slab in the morgue. You

43:32

know, the darkest part of this story is

43:35

that no one will miss Chikote and

43:37

Kim. What's

43:39

going on? Looking for him. Like as

43:41

sort of unattached single dudes. Like how

43:44

long would it take before someone missed

43:46

either of them? That's

43:48

sad. I

43:50

mean, you'd think like maybe Paris would

43:52

be bored and call Kim up. Yeah.

43:55

Yeah. How many morgue

43:58

slabs do they have on this show? You

44:00

only see this shot of the morgue, but

44:04

makes you wonder if maybe it's like

44:06

those parking structures in New York City

44:08

where you can probably slide a body

44:10

in and the body's moving up or

44:13

down in the thing, like

44:15

a dumbwaiter. Oh, I

44:17

like that idea. That was a great

44:20

Stuff You Should Know episode years ago

44:22

about this mission that

44:24

the US military did where there

44:27

was a Soviet nuclear sub that

44:29

bottomed out and everybody aboard

44:31

died and

44:35

the US wanted to recover this submarine

44:37

so that they could study it and

44:40

see how the Soviets

44:42

were building their subs. So they built this

44:44

giant boat that was going to put

44:47

pincers down to the floor of the ocean somewhere

44:50

in the Pacific and lift the sub

44:52

up. But it had to

44:54

look like it's a normal boat so

44:57

that satellite images would not reveal what

44:59

it was actually doing. But

45:01

also, they had to build

45:03

a huge morgue on this boat for

45:05

all the bodies on the sub because

45:07

there's international law about what

45:09

you do with the bodies of

45:11

dead sailors when you recover a ship. You

45:14

have to shoot them out like depth

45:16

charges, right? Put an escape jacket

45:18

on to make sure he floats. They

45:20

couldn't just not have a plan for those.

45:23

I think that they failed for this huge

45:26

ship that had a

45:28

secret opening under compartment and a

45:31

totally enormous morgue on it. It

45:33

didn't wind up getting to

45:35

do what it was built to do. But

45:38

that's kind of what Voyager needs right now

45:40

for its growing number of

45:42

bodies problem. That's the naval equivalent

45:45

of three kids standing on their

45:47

shoulders wearing a trench coat. That's

45:50

fun. That's the collection of

46:00

badges is growing. Dr. Mark

46:03

assembles them in his

46:05

office and is clearly feeling real

46:07

bad about the situation and starts

46:10

playing some music. He's playing Blue

46:12

Danube Waltz in

46:14

his office and starts

46:17

beeping buttons. This button

46:19

beeping felt important.

46:22

It doesn't seem like the Eggman are

46:24

really picking up on what he's doing,

46:27

but Tuvok comes and pays him a

46:29

visit while he's playing this

46:31

music. He's claiming that

46:34

it is just some self-care

46:36

after a stressful day. Tuvok's

46:38

utility belt is absolutely filled

46:40

in this scene, which

46:43

is interesting and it's revealed

46:46

toward the end of the scene when Dr.

46:48

Mark's answers are just bullshit

46:50

and bad that

46:53

he's going to need the dust buster on

46:55

this thing to take him on. But the

46:57

thing about the Doctor that I

46:59

don't think either of us knew until this scene was

47:02

how fucking badass Dr. Mark

47:05

is if he had to

47:07

escape. He flies

47:09

through a window without breaking it. That

47:11

part is fun. But he kind of

47:14

Spider-Man's up and down walls

47:17

and stuff. He

47:19

uses the walls to fight the

47:21

way a martial arts film would

47:24

use. It's really fun

47:26

and a little

47:29

bit disappointing that this exciting potential

47:31

of this character is

47:33

only being realized in the penultimate

47:36

episode, as you said. He

47:39

runs to escape using

47:41

his mobile emitter and

47:43

parkours around and gets

47:46

into a holodeck.

47:48

My stand-up and cheer moment of the

47:50

episode was when the doors finally opened

47:52

to the holodeck and Tuvok walks into

47:54

a room full of one

47:56

million marks. Amazing

48:00

moment. Really fun. I

48:02

literally laughed out loud. And

48:04

then meanwhile, Mark Actual is

48:06

escaping in a Jeffries tube.

48:09

It's kind of a response to how bad

48:12

the mini Dr. Mark scene was so

48:14

early in the series. You know, like

48:17

the tricks that they would do to

48:19

his hollow early on.

48:21

Neither funny nor good, I thought. But

48:23

this moment, I thought was great in

48:26

both ways. Yeah, it really

48:28

worked. They finally get the holodeck

48:31

turned off and it's revealed that

48:33

nobody's in there. But

48:35

nobody asks questions when Dr.

48:37

Takote marches into engineering and says the

48:40

doctors messed with your internal sensors and

48:42

the warp cores are about to go

48:44

critical. Everyone out. Don't

48:46

you wish there was a door that came

48:48

down like the D had? It

48:51

sucks that you can eject the core

48:53

and there's no fucking door. There's no

48:55

there's no garage door for BLT to

48:58

roll under and strike a pose on

49:00

the other side. She

49:03

does a pregnant lady roll, which is like

49:05

rolling stop on the belly. And

49:08

then the door just comes right down on her. It

49:13

hits the belly and then starts going back up like

49:15

a safety sensor

49:17

was triggered. No, it's supposed to do this.

49:19

This is the safety thing. So

49:24

she gets trapped behind a

49:26

force field while Dr. Takote

49:29

activates emergency command hologram.

49:32

And now ECH Mark

49:34

ejects the core. You

49:36

get to see it come out. You

49:38

get a really close up shot of this. Loved

49:41

this. There was something very poopy about

49:43

this scene. I thought this

49:46

thing is long. Yeah,

49:48

real long. It's long enough where you're like,

49:50

should I take a picture? This

49:53

episode sponsored by symbiotic plus.

49:59

So now in the guise

50:01

of BLT, Dr. Mark is

50:03

escaping down a hallway and

50:05

Tuvok catches her and she

50:09

like parkours around him again.

50:11

Amazing. So good.

50:13

Yeah. And escapes on

50:15

the flyer and all the modifications have

50:17

now been made so that the flyer

50:19

can tow the warp core

50:22

at warp safely. I love

50:24

how the Delta flyer doesn't stop in

50:26

this sequence. Like it just whips that

50:28

tractor beam on its way

50:31

out. Yeah. Really quick

50:33

escape. Which is not like

50:35

what you expect from a Star Trek ship.

50:37

I feel like they

50:39

usually move so slow and the Delta flyer is

50:41

all about how fast it can

50:43

go. So it's really cool. We

50:46

cut over to this Renegade

50:48

Overlooker ship and

50:51

the younger junior officer

50:53

guy is repairing gadgets.

50:57

And this is something that Janeway

50:59

quickly identifies as another opportunity to

51:01

drive a wedge between him and

51:03

his superior

51:06

officer talking about, Oh

51:08

yeah, like you're all this junk that you

51:10

fix up is definitely worth a ton of

51:12

money. And you know, when

51:14

my ship is back together, I bet

51:17

my chief engineer would love to buy all

51:19

this stuff from you. Yeah. There's coffee in

51:21

spare parts. George Overlooker

51:23

is not having this at

51:25

all. He sees what's going

51:27

on here between Janeway

51:29

and the Lenny Overlooker. But to

51:33

stop to this pretty fast. Also,

51:35

if you're the Lenny Overlooker, like how

51:37

is this the dream of

51:39

getting rich, opening up a

51:41

business selling engine parts? I like

51:44

their dream before where it was

51:46

like spa day forever. Could

51:51

we have like a spa day where

51:53

I'm tinkering with a gadget though? Yeah.

51:55

Can I take my parts into the

51:57

mud bath? Maybe. So

52:01

they get the hail that Dr.

52:03

Mark is here with their stolen warp

52:06

core and he's not going

52:17

to release it until he gets

52:19

the captain aboard. And

52:23

George Overlooker just

52:26

fires on him without any

52:28

warning. Dr. Mark is like,

52:30

are you fucking crazy? Like if the warp

52:32

core blows, it destroys both of our ships

52:34

immediately. What are you doing? And

52:38

I really like this moment for the character

52:40

of George Overlooker because it reveals that he's

52:43

like fucking nuts and he's

52:45

really like a devil may

52:47

care, like we'll use violence early and

52:49

often kind of guy. It's

52:52

such a weird combination of

52:54

like these Eggmen and everything

52:57

that's involved in how they look and

53:00

their actions. They

53:03

look like such dopes, but they're

53:05

really lethal, at least one of them. I

53:07

would love to get these guys in the room

53:09

with some pack lads, you know? Oh yeah. Yeah.

53:13

Like dopiest aliens to

53:15

highest danger ratio is

53:17

an interesting competition here because the

53:20

Eggmen are at least like conniving. Like

53:23

the pack lads are dangerous because of

53:26

just how like willful they are. We

53:28

want what we want. Dr. Mark's

53:30

really out of his depth here because

53:32

he is told

53:34

that he needs to lower his shield so

53:37

that the captain can be beamed over as

53:39

per their negotiated

53:41

plan. So he

53:43

does and oops, he's

53:45

beamed into the brig with Janeway now.

53:49

You fucking dork, Dr. Mark.

53:52

You don't know what you're doing. I

53:54

loved the Lenny

53:56

Overlooker being the one

53:58

that feels bad about this. And

54:01

Mark not feeling bad about this, like

54:03

when he is beamed over, he's beamed

54:05

into the cell with the captain. And

54:08

Lenny's like, oh man, I didn't know he was

54:10

going to do that. And the captain being like,

54:12

you fucking idiot, Dr. Mark. And Dr. Mark being

54:14

like, I'm trying to save your fucking life! What

54:17

did you expect me to do? Let them

54:19

kill you? I expected you to follow my

54:21

orders. They get into the plans for the

54:24

prisoners pretty fast in this scene. It's like,

54:26

alright, cool. Well, we got both of you,

54:28

and that's great. Janeway, you're worthless

54:30

to us. We're just going to drop

54:32

you off at the nearest planet. Some

54:34

dumpy ass M-class. Doesn't even matter which.

54:37

And Dr. Mark, we're going to turn some screws on

54:40

you and get you to work for us from

54:42

now on. Pretty spooky. On

54:45

Voyager, they finally turn up

54:47

Chikote and Kim in

54:49

the morgue. And there was another like very

54:51

recognizable extra in this scene when they find

54:53

Chikote and Kim. And I was like, oh,

54:55

he's going to get a line too. And

54:58

he does not. VLT

55:00

restarts the impulse reactors, and that's

55:02

what turns on the lights in

55:04

the ship. Things are starting to

55:06

look normal again, even though

55:09

not much else is going to work

55:11

there. Unfortunately, along with

55:13

the lights, the music starts again.

55:15

It's Blue Danube, but it's off

55:17

key though. Why? It's

55:20

not sounding right. No. In

55:23

the ass lab, basically every senior

55:25

officer has assembled so that they

55:27

can analyze

55:29

this musical composition

55:32

and why it sounds so

55:34

weird. And it's like familiar because

55:36

the doctor played it recently

55:38

at a recital, but unfamiliar

55:40

because it's off. They

55:44

realized that the way it is off is

55:47

describing a warp signature

55:50

like mathematically or something. And

55:53

I guess that gives them something

55:55

to scan for to find the Eggmen

55:58

that have Mark and the Captain. and

56:00

the warp core. Can't take Voyager out there

56:02

to these coordinates though. Good thing they have

56:04

a bunch of brats. Yeah. Inexpensive

56:06

and built to stay that way.

56:08

Just tell him it saved your

56:11

money, buster. Meanwhile

56:13

the captain is trying to do

56:15

something to modify the mobile emitter

56:17

to break the force field so

56:19

that they can bust out of

56:22

jail. And

56:24

Dr. Mark is catching a little

56:26

bit more flak for getting himself

56:28

and the warp core captured but

56:30

also saying like, hey, I just really want to get

56:32

to know you better. This

56:36

is not the time for this. I

56:40

think it might be something you bring up

56:42

like your fantasy fridge and all the pies

56:44

in it. Like when you're a

56:46

prisoner for a long time, you start fantasizing about

56:49

getting free and what you're going to do when you're there.

56:51

They've been in the brig for like 20 minutes. So

56:55

this is a little soon I think from the

56:58

doctor. Too early. What you

57:00

should be doing right now is getting

57:02

ready to beat the shit out of

57:04

the biggest guy in the lunchroom when

57:06

it's meal call. Yeah. They

57:09

demonstrate the reprogramming on Dr. Mark here.

57:11

And it's going to be for a spy mission inside

57:14

the hierarchy. They hit a

57:16

couple of buttons and they reskin him as

57:18

an over looker. Look at this guy. Yeah. Look

57:21

at how eggy he is. So eggy. He's got

57:23

egg on his face and everywhere else.

57:25

He's got a bush. What the hell?

57:29

But the program doesn't hold together very

57:31

long. It starts to degrade and destabilize

57:34

and it becomes kind of an emergency

57:36

situation. Yeah. The data is

57:38

messing his program up. And this

57:40

is when the brat catches up

57:42

with their ship and

57:45

Paris and Tuvac are using

57:48

the element of surprise to their

57:50

advantage, even though the ship is

57:52

massively outgunning and outclassing them. And

57:56

you'll love Paris splitting off and

57:58

beaming onto the flier so that

58:00

the had two weapons platforms going.

58:02

That was great. Yeah, love that

58:04

move. It's a really exciting combat

58:06

sequence. And again, George

58:09

is like totally fucking unhinged with the

58:12

level of violence he's willing to bring

58:14

to bear on any situation. And

58:16

he's preparing a torpedo to destroy

58:19

the warp core because like,

58:22

Mark is much more valuable to him than

58:24

the warp core. He's like, if we do

58:26

this heist on the hierarchy that I have

58:28

planned, we'll have plenty of money so because

58:30

I have Mark, I'd much rather get the

58:33

fuck away from these guys and go do that. But

58:36

the combat knocks out the force

58:38

field in the jail area of

58:40

their ship and turns into a

58:44

hand-to-hand struggle on the bridge. Pretty

58:46

great scene. A bunch of phaser shoots,

58:49

a bunch of

58:51

fists, the whole thing. And like

58:53

Mark phasing in and out of different

58:55

lukes over the course of the fight

58:57

scene. How about Overlooker

58:59

Lenny hitting Overlooker George with

59:02

the engine part to finish the job? It's

59:05

really nice when it's Lenny that takes

59:07

out George every so often, you know?

59:10

Yeah. Enough with the tyranny

59:12

of the Georges. Lenny's of

59:14

the world unite. You

59:17

have nothing to lose but the mouse that

59:20

you keep in your coat pocket or whatever.

59:22

You gonna give me that mouse or am I

59:25

gonna have to suck you? The end

59:27

of this episode really stitches together fast.

59:30

In really quick succession, the warp

59:32

core gets scooped up by the

59:34

Delta Flyer. Everyone heads back to

59:36

Voyager and on the holodeck they

59:38

work to stabilize Dr. Mark's matrix

59:40

again. And the

59:42

problem with it is that it's stuffed with so

59:45

much new data from the Overlookers. Dr.

59:49

Mark is facing a very real

59:52

reality that he might not

59:54

live through this procedure. He's

59:56

been corrupted utterly by the

59:58

Overlookers. He's got some things

1:00:00

to get off his chest if this is truly it

1:00:03

for him. Yeah, it sort of

1:00:05

starts with like a last will and testament,

1:00:07

like give my emitter to the Dastrom Institute.

1:00:09

Maybe they could do something with it. But

1:00:12

then, yeah, it turns into like delete

1:00:14

my shitty diary that I kept of

1:00:16

all the things I disagreed with the

1:00:18

captain on and apologies

1:00:21

all around and some interesting choices

1:00:23

about what he chooses to apologize

1:00:25

for. The thing that

1:00:27

I learned from this scene is that

1:00:30

if someone tells you that you're gonna

1:00:32

die, you really need to

1:00:34

get like a second opinion. Like you need to be

1:00:36

sure before

1:00:38

you start unburdening yourself of all

1:00:41

of these things. No

1:00:43

surprise that he's still madly in love with

1:00:45

Seven of Nine. Do you

1:00:48

think her react here is bigger or

1:00:50

smaller than the one from the ass

1:00:52

lab where that alien told

1:00:54

Chikote that he was going to destroy the

1:00:56

ship in 10 hours? What's

1:01:00

more distressing to her? It seems

1:01:02

like this. Yeah, I think so too. I agree.

1:01:05

Because she's like trying to explain it away.

1:01:07

She's like, he's going crazy. Like this is,

1:01:09

you know, he's not of sound mind and

1:01:11

body. He's saying

1:01:13

crazy shit because his program is

1:01:15

overloaded. Right. Right. This is

1:01:17

so fast though, Ben. Like, like he gets

1:01:19

into all this shit and then he blurbs

1:01:22

away, but he's not deleted, he pops right

1:01:24

back into the room. And

1:01:26

Dr. Mark is super embarrassed about

1:01:29

what just happened, but

1:01:31

we cut over to a Janeway's log where

1:01:34

we get the update on the ship. The,

1:01:36

the, the core has been rammed back into

1:01:39

the hole. Or yeah. I mean, so that's

1:01:41

repaired, but Dr. Mark will take

1:01:43

a lot longer. And in sick bay, Janeway goes

1:01:45

to do just that. It seems

1:01:48

like saving the day has really

1:01:50

gone badly for him. Yeah.

1:01:54

He did create the method

1:01:57

by which they were able to get the.

1:02:00

warp core back and rescue him

1:02:02

as the captain, but everybody

1:02:05

knows all his dirty laundry now and

1:02:07

he has just been hiding in

1:02:09

shame in Six Bay ever

1:02:11

since. And the

1:02:14

captain is really cool about it. She

1:02:16

comes and basically orders him to

1:02:19

get back in the game, come

1:02:21

do some of that socializing with me that you

1:02:23

seem so interested in. Not

1:02:26

unprecedented for the chief medical officer and the

1:02:28

captain of the starship to be pals. Maybe

1:02:33

we could have croissants together for breakfast

1:02:36

every day or something. Would

1:02:38

you like to watch a bartender

1:02:40

from Fairhaven, Eiffel Tower me? You

1:02:46

just sit in the corner and watch Dr. Mark.

1:02:52

Tell me how close we get

1:02:54

to medically unsafe. You can

1:02:56

fiddle with your mobile emitter if you want, but

1:02:59

I don't want to see it. Did

1:03:01

you like this episode, Ben? You know, probably we

1:03:03

need to get along with it. I

1:03:11

really did like this episode. I mean, I felt

1:03:14

really bad for the doc at the end.

1:03:16

Like the gut punch of shame at the

1:03:18

end felt a little bit mean

1:03:20

of the episode writers. This

1:03:23

is a series about kicking Dr. Mark

1:03:25

in the nuts, though. Yeah,

1:03:27

it really is. So with

1:03:30

that said, I did

1:03:32

feel like the rest of

1:03:34

the episode was really great. And I love

1:03:37

a mystery where a character is acting weird

1:03:39

and the rest of the crew has to

1:03:41

figure out what's going on. And

1:03:45

I think that those often fall

1:03:47

apart when you're like, if this person had

1:03:49

just said something to that person, they

1:03:51

would have like realized something was up 25 minutes

1:03:54

earlier and the mystery

1:03:56

falls apart. And I thought that this was

1:03:59

really well structured. where everybody's

1:04:01

reactions to Dr.

1:04:04

Mark in his weird behavior felt

1:04:06

natural. Like his behavior

1:04:09

as Captain Janeway at the beginning felt strange,

1:04:11

but like nobody really knew what to do

1:04:13

about it. Yeah. So

1:04:16

I really enjoyed this one. How about you? I

1:04:18

really like all the performances. As

1:04:21

I said before, like I like the variation that

1:04:23

an actor can give their own character this

1:04:26

far into the series. I think that's a fun idea.

1:04:28

I don't really care for the Overlookers and

1:04:31

I'm kind of bummed that they are the last

1:04:33

look backwards into the Delta Quadrant before

1:04:35

we finish the series. Like I'm aware

1:04:38

the finale is about the Borgs and

1:04:40

stuff, but like I wish we got a

1:04:42

different alien or a different type of

1:04:44

story or even maybe the Neelix goodbye

1:04:47

episode in this position in

1:04:50

the season. Something

1:04:52

about a story like

1:04:54

this with aliens like this makes

1:04:57

it feel like I wanted something

1:04:59

else just before the end here.

1:05:02

Yeah. I think that's how I feel about it. Nothing

1:05:04

wrong with it. I think it's just a like record

1:05:07

sequence thought I'm having.

1:05:10

Yeah. It is so different

1:05:12

from what they would be doing on

1:05:14

a modern television show that knows that

1:05:16

this is the last season. It

1:05:19

sure feels like you kill someone in the

1:05:22

second to the last episode. Yeah. Yeah.

1:05:25

This would be a great spot for that. That's why

1:05:27

I was so worried for Voric. Yeah. They

1:05:31

put him in this one so that they could take him out. Yeah.

1:05:35

Yeah. We killed Carrie, kill

1:05:37

Voric. Kill Voric. At that point, what's

1:05:39

the difference? Drop of a hat. These

1:05:41

guys will rock and roll. I say that

1:05:44

like we have as of

1:05:46

this recording recorded four episodes about

1:05:48

the final season of Star Trek

1:05:50

Discovery. And word on

1:05:52

that is that they did not find

1:05:54

out that that was going to be the final season

1:05:56

until they finished shooting the scripts

1:05:58

that they had written for it. it. So then

1:06:00

they had to go back and do reshoots for

1:06:02

the end of season five of Discovery to make

1:06:04

it the end and not a cliffhanger or whatever.

1:06:07

And I don't think

1:06:09

that that was the case with Voyager, right? Like

1:06:12

they knew that this is this was it. So

1:06:14

it's interesting that they aren't winding things up a

1:06:16

little bit more toward the end. I

1:06:19

agree. Ben, we're we're kind

1:06:21

of winding our way toward the end of

1:06:23

the priority one messages for Star Trek Voyager.

1:06:25

We are. See what we have in there?

1:06:27

Let's do it. Priority

1:06:30

one message from Starfleet coming in

1:06:32

on secured channel. Leave

1:06:34

us up a little. supplement. supplement.

1:06:39

Yes, extra. By the interest of the loan, couldn't

1:06:41

be enough to buy this ship. Our

1:06:44

first priority one message is from

1:06:47

mischievous miles. That's two

1:06:49

friends of DeSoto. And

1:06:51

it goes like this in November 2017. Plaveem

1:06:54

bought a P1 telling Raz

1:06:56

to fuck himself. It

1:06:59

aired on the DS9 finale in

1:07:01

February of 2021. What

1:07:05

this P1 presupposes is

1:07:07

those two have spent all of TGG

1:07:09

Voyager planning a follow up. I

1:07:12

am preemptively playing a switcheroo card.

1:07:15

Whoever comes out on top next

1:07:17

week, the opposite person shall be

1:07:19

declared the winner. That's

1:07:21

Calvin ball fellas. This

1:07:24

was sent in January of

1:07:26

2022 by mischievous miles who

1:07:29

I do have a copy of the rules of

1:07:31

Calvin ball here. He is citing the rules correctly.

1:07:34

Then back away from the P1 mischievous

1:07:38

miles has the upper hand now. Amazing.

1:07:43

Wow, excited to see if there

1:07:46

is in fact a P1 from

1:07:48

Raz or Plaveem next week. Well,

1:07:51

Ben messages from the past going

1:07:53

into the future are kind of

1:07:55

a theme on the P1s this week. This one

1:07:57

from past Peter, it's to future

1:07:59

Peter. The message goes like this,

1:08:02

By this time, you should have completed our

1:08:04

five year mission to watch all of Star

1:08:06

Trek, finishing this week with

1:08:08

Voyager. Thank you to

1:08:10

Ben and Adam and to all the FODs everywhere

1:08:12

for making it more fun. Special

1:08:15

thanks to she who is my wife, Luisa,

1:08:17

for sometimes watching us, listening

1:08:20

to the pod, and even coming

1:08:22

with me to live shows in DC.

1:08:24

Harry Kim drop? Something

1:08:27

about it reminds me of being in the womb. Who

1:08:29

are you? Harry Kim. Harry

1:08:32

Kim. Harry Kim must be very proud.

1:08:35

Who are you? They come as a pair. Who are

1:08:37

you? Harry Kim. Who else is she supposed to get

1:08:39

chummy with? Harry Kim. And your

1:08:41

mom? Very proud. Who are you? Harry

1:08:44

Kim. That lasted 22 months. And your

1:08:46

mom? Very proud. Harry Kim.

1:08:49

Who are you? Harry Kim. Wow. Well,

1:08:52

yeah, thank you to Luisa for sure. And thanks

1:08:54

to past Peter and future Peter for sticking

1:08:57

with our little corner of the

1:08:59

Internet for your rewatch. Sometimes

1:09:02

the best you can do from a

1:09:04

partner is just like sometimes. Sometimes

1:09:07

watching apps. Sometimes listening

1:09:09

to the pod. Sometimes going

1:09:11

to a live show. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes

1:09:14

it's great. Well, if

1:09:16

you'd like to look at P1,

1:09:18

probably not for next week, but

1:09:20

for our coverage of Enterprise or

1:09:22

just for, you know, somebody's birthday

1:09:25

or so that past

1:09:27

you can say something to future

1:09:29

you or whatever, please head

1:09:32

over to maximumfun.org/jumbotron and set

1:09:34

one up today. Hey, Ben. Oh,

1:09:38

what's that, Adam? Did you

1:09:40

find yourself a drunk shimoda? Incredible.

1:09:42

Drunk shimoda. I'm going

1:09:44

to give it to Chekov Zvorak. He

1:09:47

felt like he was in this episode

1:09:49

for some things. Yeah. He

1:09:52

ended up being in this episode for no reason at all.

1:09:54

It could have been anybody speaking those

1:09:56

lines or no one. Like, like

1:09:58

you could edit those two. The scenes he

1:10:00

was in out of the show and

1:10:03

I don't think I would have played

1:10:05

a if it's what an amazing art

1:10:07

for barack. Know. Whether.

1:10:09

Or not he died this episode. What?

1:10:12

Does that guy's. What? As that

1:10:14

guy, I think for that reason I'm gonna

1:10:16

make him nicely motor to my. I

1:10:19

read this is his last episode in the series.

1:10:22

And. The owner put him over. Here.

1:10:25

With the Simona yeah that does Feel like one

1:10:27

thing that they're doing with the end of the

1:10:29

series is like. Gonna. Bring him back

1:10:32

some old saves and giving little bump

1:10:34

up to a speaking part to. The.

1:10:36

Occasional guy from the

1:10:38

backgrounds crew so that's

1:10:40

nice. Serious. Big

1:10:44

episode next week ban it is the

1:10:47

series finale of Star Trek Voyager. Answer

1:10:50

is I'm going to to

1:10:52

gas.busy last game so we

1:10:54

can play the game of

1:10:56

but. Their

1:10:58

savior. And I'm also going to tell

1:11:00

you about Season Seven Episode Twenty five.

1:11:03

And. Game. Voyagers.

1:11:05

Quests to return home is aided by

1:11:08

a visitor from the future. Admiral

1:11:10

Kathryn Janeway Time Travel however same

1:11:12

way to said sir risk Voyagers

1:11:15

short cup home in order to

1:11:17

destroy the board. And. Save

1:11:19

millions of lives. That's not

1:11:21

the only risk taking behavior

1:11:24

I've done and Mauser divorced.

1:11:26

Assess Assess Assess Assess uncommon

1:11:28

for you seek out day

1:11:30

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1:11:32

blew it. That's what I'm

1:11:34

saying. Is

1:11:38

that? Come with me

1:11:40

if you want to fact one of

1:11:42

our more interesting missions. There's

1:11:44

a short go home but there's also a short

1:11:47

cut into a double wide bath. Your

1:11:51

choice or right Adam Big

1:11:54

role Here we are on

1:11:56

square seven. We. Do

1:11:58

have a caretaker square. It out ahead

1:12:00

of us. And looks like

1:12:03

we can also hit a Coca? No,

1:12:05

no, One. Is.

1:12:07

The caretaker so chooses. You're

1:12:09

required to learn as you

1:12:12

play roles. Summer. God

1:12:14

role this phone. I

1:12:18

rolled the six jumping us over both

1:12:20

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1:12:22

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1:12:24

last square fifteen? Have.

1:12:27

Thought I had to admit, I thought

1:12:29

something weird was gonna happen for the

1:12:31

last episode of Star Trek Voyager. Now.

1:12:34

Know. Just gonna raw dog the

1:12:36

episode regular episode. I mean we might

1:12:38

have a have all of drink to

1:12:40

celebrate right? Yes, that sounds fun. Let's

1:12:43

do it. only gets wasted Ness that

1:12:45

I bodies a temple. Unless

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1:12:53

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