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Welcome to The Greatest Generation. It's a Star

1:04

Trek podcast by a couple of guys just

1:06

a little bit embarrassed about having a Star

1:08

Trek podcast. I'm Adam Pranika.

1:11

I'm Ben Harrison. My wife

1:13

took a day off for the first

1:15

time in like, I don't know, months

1:19

without a plan. Like she's pretty good at

1:21

taking days off if we're

1:23

like going somewhere. But

1:25

on very short notice, she was

1:28

like, yeah, Friday, I'm taking it

1:30

off. Let's do something. Wow. That's

1:32

very un-your-wife. I mean, it's

1:35

very un-Russian also. Russians don't take a

1:37

dump sign without a plan. The

1:39

something she wanted to do was like

1:42

a little bit akin to a staycation.

1:44

She's like, neither of

1:46

us have ever been to the

1:48

Universal Studios theme park. Wow.

1:51

Why don't we like go to there

1:53

and see what that's about? That sounds

1:55

fun. For living in LA as long as

1:58

we have. Like I have not done. a

2:00

bunch of studio tour shit. So I was

2:03

like most excited to do that. The studio

2:05

tour is great. Wow, fun. You know what

2:07

it made me think of most of all though? The

2:11

lack of Star Trek ride

2:14

universe that we live in. Yeah. The

2:17

idea that all that IP is just sitting there,

2:20

fallow, that we

2:22

could at least have an

2:25

okay ride compared

2:27

to the rides that I wrote at

2:29

Universal. There are all these little distinct

2:31

worlds. There's the Simpsons universe and

2:34

the Harry Potter universe. And there's the

2:39

Transformers one and the Nintendo world and

2:42

so forth. None

2:45

of these worlds are big. If

2:47

anyone out there has ever been to

2:49

Disneyland or whatever, those worlds are enormous.

2:52

You go to Universal and the worlds are

2:55

a couple of blocks. They're manageable.

2:57

You could do Star Trek. And

3:00

I know the properties don't

3:02

have a relationship. This isn't a Universal and Paramount

3:04

thing. I'm just talking about like, I think

3:07

it's possible. Why isn't anyone

3:09

doing it? Was Great America

3:11

somehow Paramount affiliated in the

3:13

past or is it currently?

3:16

Cause I wasn't really much

3:18

of a theme park person growing up but

3:20

at some point I went to

3:22

Great America and there were

3:25

like Klingons walking around instead of costume,

3:28

mascots. I

3:30

think that's a Great America issue and not a

3:33

Star Trek theme park issue. Yeah,

3:36

I mean, I guess there was the Star

3:38

Trek experience in Vegas and the footage I've

3:41

seen of that, it looked awesome. Like you

3:43

got to go on the D's bridge and

3:45

you got to run down a hallway and

3:47

see Borgs and all that

3:49

stuff. I think if all you ever did was

3:52

take the Star Trek experience shit out of

3:54

the boxes or out of the trash where

3:57

I think sadly it ended up and

3:59

just rebuild. it exactly the

4:01

same. Like, I'm

4:03

not asking for much. I'm just

4:06

asking for something. Yeah. Yeah.

4:08

Like, why throw away the set of the

4:10

Merv Griffin show, you know? This

4:13

stuff belongs in the Smithsonian. Yeah, at

4:15

least in the dumpster behind the Smithsonian.

4:19

Anyway, I had a great day off

4:21

with my wife last week, and it

4:23

just, I don't know, this isn't

4:25

a new idea that even we've

4:29

not discussed before on this show, but it was

4:31

a reminder that this stuff is still unexplored.

4:34

Yeah, there's so much potential unrealized

4:36

in Star Trek. I

4:38

know. I know, and it

4:41

seems like the folks at Paramount have

4:43

their hands full with other matters. Yeah.

4:45

But maybe a theme park property is

4:47

something that could be realized after the

4:50

smoke clears from whatever

4:52

it is they're trying to achieve at

4:54

this point. Yeah, maybe if they'd oriented

4:57

some of that Berkshire Hathaway money

4:59

toward some shit people

5:01

actually want to do and not a

5:04

stupid ass app experience. Like,

5:07

keep the shows on Netflix or whatever, and

5:09

then do other cool shit also. Yeah.

5:12

You know what? That would be

5:14

unexpected, wouldn't it? And

5:16

that's a great pivot, Adam, because

5:19

that is the name of the episode we

5:21

came to review here. Today

5:24

it's season one, episode five of

5:26

Star Trek Enterprise. We

5:36

start with Archer sopping

5:39

wet, enjoying himself

5:41

a shower. This is no sonic shower. This

5:44

is the old fashioned kind with water. Then

5:47

his dick starts floating upward and everything

5:50

else does too. What the hell's

5:52

going on? Wouldn't the loss of

5:54

gravity be a problem worthy of

5:57

its own alert claxon?

6:00

or a message on the 1MC, because

6:02

we get a scene where the captain

6:05

of the ship is unaware of this

6:07

problem, floats upward,

6:11

and then is dropped onto

6:13

the floor as soon as gravity is restored. He

6:15

hits really hard. That looked like it hurt. You're

6:20

gonna kill somebody. Like,

6:24

that's one of my big old age fears,

6:26

is slipping and falling in the shower, and

6:28

fucking myself up, and then that being like

6:30

how I live my remaining years. I

6:33

don't wanna go out like that. Oh man. This

6:35

is terrible. Don't make me a shower veg.

6:39

This terror is sufficient enough to go into

6:41

theme song off of. Right?

6:47

Yeah. After the theme, it's

6:49

chow time in the mess hall, and it's

6:51

breakfast buffet style. Ben, what's your

6:54

choice when confronted with a

6:56

breakfast buffet? Never soup. You

6:59

know what? I love Japanese breakfast at

7:01

a hotel, and often you'll get the

7:03

miso soup as a component of that.

7:05

I love that for breakfast. Yeah,

7:07

I don't know. I like eating what I've become

7:10

accustomed to, and for me

7:12

that's not soup. But

7:14

for T'Pol it is. How about

7:16

T'Pol just absolutely smashing

7:19

nuts in this scene about what

7:22

her choice in breakfast is and how

7:24

it is not the doctor's choice, and

7:27

how disgusted she becomes when a

7:29

blueberry pancake is waved in her

7:31

face. It's a real

7:33

gross out. It smells revolting to her. Eating

7:36

it is out of the question. I

7:38

love that the doctor is not human, you

7:41

know, like for the purposes of this scene.

7:43

She is not telling a human, like your

7:45

shit is disgusting to me. It's

7:47

too alien saying these people's shit is

7:50

disgusting to me. How

7:52

early is too early for carbonated

7:54

water is also a question I

7:56

had, because T'Pol goes to the replicator to...

8:00

get a glass of that. I don't know if

8:02

I'm drinking anything with burbles in it until the

8:04

afternoon. Yeah, yeah. This

8:06

scene reminded me of a trip I took to

8:09

Ethiopia. It

8:11

doesn't take a lot to get

8:14

Ben telling you. There's

8:17

nothing that would love more than to tell

8:19

you. Ben's

8:22

gonna talk about Africa.

8:26

He's gonna take some time to tell you

8:29

the things you've never asked. One

8:36

of the best food countries I've ever

8:38

visited. By far, best lunches and dinners

8:40

ever. But the hotel that we

8:43

stayed in for part of the trip was

8:45

just trying to cater to, I

8:48

guess it was trying to cater to Western

8:50

travelers and have Western-style

8:52

breakfast, but it just

8:55

seemed like it was being prepared based on a picture

8:57

by people that didn't know what

8:59

it was supposed to taste like. They were preparing

9:02

something that's outside their culture. And

9:04

so everything tasted super wrong and

9:06

I hated the breakfast at this

9:08

place. After seven days of getting

9:10

up early and

9:13

going out and working long hours and

9:15

being fueled by breakfast that was kind

9:18

of gross and not really something that I

9:20

was enjoying, I could really vibe with DePaul

9:22

in this moment. Could you be

9:24

specific about what made it not

9:26

agreeable to you? So there were

9:29

some pastries, but they were really

9:31

gummy and maybe spiced in

9:34

a way that I was really unused to. And

9:37

there would be some cut-up

9:40

fruit, but it would be kind

9:42

of bad quality low-end fruit. I

9:46

wound up eating just a ton of yogurt. And

9:49

it was just plain yogurt with no, there

9:51

wasn't honey or anything to put in the

9:53

yogurt aside from the bad fruit.

9:55

So there was nowhere to

9:57

go. There wasn't like, oh, the eggs are...

10:00

clearly bad and like reconstituted from powder, but

10:02

at least there's a waffle iron, you know,

10:04

like you can't really fuck that up. Like

10:06

there was just nothing like... Was this a

10:09

chain hotel? It was not. It

10:11

was like a locally owned... There

10:13

you go. You got to go across

10:15

the way to the Marriott for

10:18

that flip over waffle maker. Yeah.

10:20

You know, this was not

10:22

really a choice that I got to

10:24

make. It was like, we're going here

10:26

and this is where we're staying. Do

10:29

you ever think about how maybe

10:31

horrifying isn't the word, but

10:34

like when you put one thing

10:36

inside another thing that's just unusual

10:39

that you're not used to seeing, like

10:42

putting Hershey's syrup in a

10:44

water glass, there's something

10:47

like revolting by it.

10:51

When DePaul puts her glass into the

10:53

replicator and orders carbonated water and the

10:56

syrup comes out, I

10:58

mean, I've heard of like a Bosco if

11:01

you're going to make a like an egg

11:03

cream, but Hershey's no fucking way, man. How

11:06

much Hershey's syrup do you think you could drink?

11:09

Well, none. I

11:12

kind of feel like I could drink a lot of it. Really?

11:14

It's the taste of my childhood. Wow.

11:17

Man, that was the treat when I

11:19

was growing up. One scoop of vanilla

11:21

ice cream store brand. Hershey's

11:24

syrup in the squeeze bottle. Wow,

11:26

but the name brand squeeze bottle.

11:28

That's interesting. Yeah. Huh.

11:31

Yeah, loved it. I lived such a

11:35

seriously name brand free childhood. Like

11:37

we never had name brand band

11:40

aids. We never had name

11:42

brand paper towels. We never had

11:44

name brand toothpaste. It

11:46

must have been like you grew

11:48

up on a television sitcom set,

11:51

like a kitchen set. Yeah. Like

11:54

when you watch TV, that must have felt so

11:56

familiar to you. Everything was

11:58

like a little bit off. Why? Why is

12:00

dad drinking beer brand beer?

12:04

It has made me, like I

12:06

will always spend the extra two

12:08

bucks to get Advil and not

12:11

like CVS brand ibuprofen. Because

12:13

you had that kind of upbringing I bet.

12:15

I am like hard reacting against it. The

12:17

deprivation made you go after that, huh? And

12:19

I know that it's like financially, it's like

12:22

the worst choice, like there's no difference. It's

12:25

like made in the same factory, it's a different box. It's

12:27

a different company, it's a different

12:30

quality of product. That must be why

12:32

you have such a hard line feeling

12:34

against Costco. It's

12:37

all starting to make sense to me now.

12:39

Maybe that's what it is. Maybe their products

12:41

being generally pretty bad is only part of

12:43

it. So these

12:45

ship-wide problems are

12:48

not just confined to the gravity systems and

12:51

the food systems, tuckers and engineering, triaging,

12:53

a bunch of other shit going on. And

12:57

bad timing, Archer's there to get an

12:59

update. And everything

13:03

seems to point to a plugged up

13:06

exhaust causing these issues in so many

13:08

areas of the ship. And when an

13:10

actual fire starts, when the boss arrives,

13:14

that's just the worst, ain't it? You don't

13:17

want your boss to be Johnny on the spot with

13:19

the fire extinguisher, you know? That

13:21

makes you look bad. There's that moment

13:23

where Archer's like, shouldn't we drop out of

13:26

warp and Tucker hangs his head like, let's

13:30

drop out of warp. He doesn't want to do this.

13:33

I like that moment. T'Pol gets

13:35

in the Vulcan

13:38

science officer, Looky Lou.

13:42

It looks like one of those shoe boxes that

13:44

you modify to watch an eclipse, but she's looking

13:46

in that thing and she's like, I figured out.

13:49

Is this what a Nickelodeon is? Oh.

13:52

Do you look through one of those when the cyclotron

13:54

goes and you watch the

13:56

horse gallop and stuff? The

13:59

zoetrope. Yeah, that's what

14:01

DePaul is looking at, just a horse galloping.

14:04

You don't think it's one of those dirty zoetropes

14:07

from like a, from like a

14:09

seedy saloon. She's watching a lady

14:11

take off her knickers. Just

14:14

enormous bush vids. I

14:17

think I found the problem. They

14:19

drop out of warp and DePaul finds

14:22

something strange in, in their warp bubble.

14:25

And Archer has an idea to

14:27

burn out their problem, which is

14:29

to set fire to some, some

14:31

warp plasma in their wake. You

14:34

only need to see a handful

14:37

of a jackass style internet videos

14:39

to know that you shouldn't light

14:41

your exhaust on fire. Like

14:43

Archer wants to do so badly in this

14:45

scene. Yeah, especially when you're wearing pants

14:48

made out of a synthetic fiber, like just a

14:50

bad idea. They go

14:52

from lighting the exhaust to revealing

14:54

the ship out there. And

14:57

Archer starts in on an audio call to

14:59

this thing. He asks for

15:01

a wider berth. This thing

15:03

is affecting the ship. Maybe back off a

15:05

little bit if you could. And the guy

15:07

on the other end is absolutely

15:10

begging not to be destroyed. I

15:13

love this. I want to be able to hail

15:15

the car behind me and be like, Hey, can

15:17

you, can you give me like another car length

15:19

and a half here? That would be

15:21

great. Yeah. I'm

15:24

trying to go 55 in the left lane,

15:26

Adam, you know? Oh yeah. I

15:28

bet that's you. We

15:31

need to get over the other lane,

15:33

buddy. So

15:35

this other ship has been sucking off the

15:37

exhaust to power their own engines. Right.

15:40

Because their ship is damaged. They left a note

15:42

for their wife and kids. Put

15:51

by cruel world. Yeah.

15:54

It's like the beginning of a

15:56

hereditary. It's

15:59

got a, it's got a. tube strapped to

16:01

its bridge wrapped in duct

16:03

tape. There's a hose coming out of our port in

16:05

a cell. Yeah. And

16:08

it's duct taped into the

16:10

window of this Chevelle. There's

16:12

a note taped to the top of the

16:14

hole that says, do not resuscitate. So yeah,

16:16

it takes a little moment or two

16:23

for the translator to catch up as

16:25

this guy explains what they were trying

16:27

to do. It's just

16:29

audio. We can't see them yet. They were

16:32

using this exhaust to replenish the warp

16:34

system on their ship, which has gone

16:37

out, stranding them very far from

16:39

home. Almost like a good idea for like

16:41

a whole series. Like what if you're really far

16:43

from home and it was gonna take a while? ["Fare

16:47

You, Salty Love"]

16:54

Imagine the sheer

16:56

fucking hubris of thinking your engineer

16:59

could fix an alien ship's problem.

17:02

And when the solution the alien ship came

17:04

up with is sucking off the exhaust of

17:06

another ship. Like, do you think

17:09

you have compatible knowledge here

17:11

in this field? Anyway, that's the

17:14

assumption. And without even seeing these

17:16

aliens at all, Flock

17:18

shoots up TripTucker with some

17:20

decompression meds. And the

17:23

mission is he's gonna be over there for three

17:25

days. Yeah. Biggest concern,

17:28

not just what these aliens look like. Not

17:32

getting some sort of common

17:34

communication going with them. Not

17:37

fixing the engine. The

17:39

biggest concern is what

17:41

about the food? And not

17:43

at any point do they think about

17:46

stuffing the one suitcase he takes over

17:48

to that ship with energy bars or

17:50

whatever. No, he's going over

17:52

there raw dog. He has got

17:54

a suitcase full of

17:56

some tools and clothes for three

17:59

days, maybe. And that's it. Yeah.

18:02

Wild shit. So they

18:04

go over on a shuttle and it's

18:06

a Mayweather flying and trip in the

18:09

back and he's still packing

18:11

somehow. I don't

18:13

know how he got stuff loose onto the

18:15

shuttle and now he's packing in

18:17

his suitcase. He's doing that

18:20

obsessive compulsive thing where he

18:22

like opens a suitcase and closes it again

18:24

like making sure he's got closed for three

18:26

days. And absolutely no

18:28

protein bars. Like

18:31

you're in the aisle of the plane, man. You're

18:35

already in. Like, come on, calm down.

18:37

No one expects the gas. When

18:40

Trip Tucker gets into

18:43

the tube on this alien ship, the door

18:45

shuts behind him and it's not like the

18:47

door on the other side opens and he's

18:49

greeted as a hero. No, he

18:52

needs to get gassed first. And

18:54

when you're being gassed, a voice

18:56

on the PA telling you to just breathe normally

18:58

is not exactly the sort of

19:00

thing that's going to get you to breathe normally. Adam,

19:04

you've seen the de-com chamber.

19:06

This is the de-com chamber.

19:09

Yeah. The

19:11

aliens are assuring him that this

19:13

gas, though it burned his lung,

19:16

will abate soon enough and the air

19:18

will be much clearer toward the end

19:20

of the three hour decompression

19:24

experience. It does not take

19:26

long at all for Trip to blow in a

19:28

call to Archer where he's like, hey, it's

19:31

your boy Trip Tucker. You know, the guy

19:34

who quickly flies off the

19:36

handle into paranoia and terror,

19:40

just an episode ago. You

19:43

might remember me having an experience like that.

19:46

I'm going to fall apart over here. I

19:49

loved how few fucks Archer gave about this.

19:51

He's like reading books and like filling a,

19:54

you know, make himself a cocktail and stuff. He's like,

19:56

yeah, rub some dirt on it, Trip. You're going

19:58

to be all right. Experience for

20:00

you. So there's the passage of

20:02

time and then trip plays a

20:05

brief game of Simon On

20:07

the door and then that door opens and

20:09

it reveals a bridge set

20:12

Unlike anything I remember seeing in Star

20:15

Trek the carpet looks like it's

20:17

straight out of a Palm Springs vacation rental

20:20

The colors are bright and amazing

20:23

and these aliens are very very

20:26

Brown scaly looking folks. Yeah, they

20:28

kind of look like the thing

20:30

from Fantastic Four, but but not

20:32

as enormous, right? Yeah,

20:34

and they have like more

20:38

60s idea of sci-fi costumes than I feel

20:40

like we've seen in a long time like

20:42

the shiny onesie that

20:45

everybody's wearing Yeah, it's a

20:47

lot of fun It's like I

20:49

think this one might have been directed by Mike V.

20:51

Har and like one thing I really like so far

20:53

is how Much continuity

20:56

there feels between this

20:58

show and other Star Trek in in

21:00

style But also I think

21:03

because you bring so much of that

21:05

production staff over to this show That

21:08

are like used to making things that look

21:10

and feel like Star Trek You can afford

21:12

to get a little weird and experimental with

21:14

production design choices and casting choices that you

21:17

might not have done in Another

21:19

context and still like gotten away with it

21:22

feeling like Star Trek I

21:24

love how they do a play on that

21:26

feeling of Like when you

21:28

don't speak the same language as someone else or you're

21:30

in a foreign country loud

21:33

and slow tends to be The

21:35

default for someone trying to to

21:38

convey information We

21:40

strongly recommend that you get

21:42

some rest and that

21:45

combined with kind of the drug-induced

21:48

Psychosis happening here Really

21:50

plays in an interesting way because

21:52

these aliens are kind of slow

21:54

and loud talking but the

21:57

the perspective is all warped and

22:00

and the cameras are in close to these faces.

22:03

And it just makes for a very confusing

22:05

scene. They put that wide ass lens on

22:07

the camera, which is another thing that shows

22:10

how fun this set is, because it's like

22:12

a whole space that the camera can move

22:14

through without finding the lighting of

22:18

the soundstage by accident. It

22:21

just seems like, how

22:23

could you possibly do automobile repair

22:26

when you're super fucking high? Trip

22:29

is taken from this scene to

22:31

the floor creeper, and he's

22:33

like under the engine, doing

22:35

it. And he is

22:37

fucked up. So wasted.

22:42

I wouldn't guarantee the work if I'm Trip

22:44

Tucker here. No, yeah. Maybe

22:49

put it in order for some parts that are

22:51

gonna take a couple days to get there while

22:54

you clean yourself up. I feel

22:56

like you're a fuck. I've

22:58

got a fever. I'm having

23:00

trouble focusing. Woo!

23:03

But also, this is

23:05

in a long continuity of TV

23:08

shows where people are on mechanics

23:10

creepers and not stopping what they're

23:12

doing for any external

23:14

reason at all. Like, I am being

23:17

accused by these two police detectives of

23:19

murder, or I am

23:21

high as fuck. Yeah. We

23:23

cut over to Archer's Quarters again. Archer's

23:25

Quarters provide a passage of time here.

23:27

Like, we get these scenes with Trip

23:29

Tucker doing stuff, but when we cut

23:32

back to Archer, it's Tucker blowing

23:34

in a call to him, being like,

23:36

hey, hey man, they

23:38

don't have orange juice over here. And

23:43

I'm freaking out. Their chill out tent has

23:45

bugs climbing up the walls of it. It's

23:47

like, why would you do a bug

23:50

climbing up a wall style chill out

23:52

tent? It makes no sense. It

23:54

doesn't seem like Trip is blowing it

23:57

out of proportion to say that he can't concentrate

23:59

and he's having... a hard time adjusting. And so

24:01

Archer blows in a call to the captain and

24:03

the captain on the other ship is like, look,

24:06

we told him he needed to take a

24:08

one hour nap to chill the fuck

24:10

out, but instead he just got right to work. And

24:13

Archer, after hearing this is like

24:15

Tucker, take

24:17

a nap. And

24:23

if that doesn't work, we'll bring you back to

24:25

the enterprise. But like take a nap first. He

24:27

says maintain. That's an order. Yeah.

24:30

So we cut to an hour after the nap

24:33

and Tucker seems like he's been

24:35

sleeping on a playground sculpture and

24:39

like a well-off community, like that's

24:41

something that's both art and playground.

24:44

Oh, it's so cool. I got like a

24:46

Japanese architect to come in. Yeah. And

24:49

there's a handler that he's been working

24:51

with throughout and this lady's name is

24:53

Alan and she has

24:56

quote unquote water for him

24:58

and it's water Jello and

25:00

then for some reason she feeds

25:02

it to him by hand because I guess trips,

25:05

hands don't work trip.

25:09

Trips hands were useful enough to

25:12

use underneath the warp core of

25:14

an alien engine, not sufficient for

25:16

feeding or drinking on his own.

25:19

And so Alan gets in there with her fingers and

25:21

then like as she feeds him

25:23

water, there are some sparks

25:26

going off between them, aren't there? Yeah. I

25:28

was, I was trying to figure out if

25:30

this was a when in Rome thing, like

25:32

he was like, Oh, I guess she's offering

25:34

to feed me. Maybe that's just their culture.

25:36

Or if he was like, I

25:38

have woken up refreshed and quite horny

25:41

and here's a, a shapely

25:43

woman feeding me water Jello. I'm not going

25:45

to stop her. A

25:48

few episodes ago, I, I compared trip Tucker

25:50

to George W. Bush, but I think this

25:52

is a scene that makes me think that

25:55

Connor Trenur's doing a little bit of Keanu

25:57

wing here. Like there's a fun kind. of

26:00

a little high, a little curious. There's

26:03

a take that I especially love in this

26:05

moment, because as the sparks are happening around

26:07

his mouth, he's like, oh, that feels kind

26:09

of good. He looks down

26:11

at his junk, and I feel

26:13

like he's getting a charger out of this. What

26:17

happened when you people touch each other? Something

26:19

similar. I want to believe it. It's

26:21

an amazing scene also, because he was

26:24

so high in the previous scene, but

26:26

it was like they were overcranking the

26:28

camera and doing like rubber

26:30

soul effects to really sell that,

26:32

but he seems no less stoned

26:35

in this scene. It's just a different way of

26:37

showing somebody that is rolling, you know? We

26:40

just changed the camera effects. Yeah,

26:42

yeah. Trip is still affected. And

26:46

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greatest chin alive. Ben

30:17

would rather die. So

30:21

we cut to later again, and

30:23

Trip reports to Enterprise that, this

30:26

mission's going great, and these aliens

30:28

have floor that's carpeted with real

30:30

grass. And boy, oh boy, does

30:32

he love real grass and the smell of it and

30:35

the feel of it. And he's just having a great

30:37

time over there. And Archer's

30:39

finally like, that's

30:41

cool about the grass, man, but like, did

30:44

you fix the engine? And

30:46

they're like, oh yeah, that alien warp reactor

30:48

is almost ready to be turned on. That's

30:50

great. Yeah, it's

30:53

going great. And he and Alan

30:55

take a break, and they go

30:57

into a room that has

30:59

been decorated like a second

31:01

grade classroom with that sparkly

31:04

wallpaper. A

31:06

long time ago, you told me a story

31:08

of being invited to a pantsless dance club.

31:10

Oh yeah. And this, in my

31:12

mind's eye, was what that place looked like.

31:17

Like, this is the scene I'm like, oh

31:19

yeah, that's where Ben went. Looks

31:23

fun. Yeah,

31:27

it was great. Hey Alan, is

31:30

this your idea of a holodeck? The

31:33

answer is yes. That way, yeah. She

31:35

shows him her

31:38

home world of Thera, and

31:41

we do like a little hang in

31:44

a rowboat, which is very romantic. She's

31:47

very interested in him as a specimen.

31:51

Like, she's noticed his after five shadow.

31:53

Unclear if TripTucker's ever been this close

31:56

to a rowboat before. Ha ha ha.

32:01

He can't see her where she's seated in

32:03

that part of the boat. You

32:07

know, he's heard that she's there, but you know,

32:09

he's never actually found her. This isn't

32:11

a boat. It's a boat. It's

32:13

so confusing. And she's like,

32:15

you know what I love to do on rowboats? Play

32:18

board games. Yeah. And

32:20

she produces this game board for them to

32:23

play. And it's like that Halloween game that

32:25

kids play where they stick their hands into

32:27

the jack-o'-lantern filled with wet pasta. Or

32:30

you know, like what Amelie does to

32:32

the bulk products when she

32:35

goes to the grocery store. Nice

32:38

Amelie pole. You

32:41

know what? You can't play this

32:43

one-handed trip as much as you might

32:45

want to. This is a two-handed game. It's

32:49

a telepathy game. And

32:51

when they both put their fingies

32:54

in this bowl of grain,

32:57

she learns that Tripp likes

32:59

to eat catfish, among

33:02

other things. In

33:05

your culture, is a catfish a

33:09

buttocks? Their

33:18

people are so open-minded. He's

33:22

like, you mean millennials? Would

33:26

you call this game truth or truth? Yeah.

33:30

I think that's about right. Yeah. Oh

33:32

boy. These four hands are in

33:35

the grains and they're getting to know each

33:37

other very well. They have a

33:39

great time, but they turn off

33:41

the holodeck and say

33:44

their goodbyes. And Tripp is

33:46

climbing back into the shuttle

33:48

with Travis Mayweather.

33:50

And it's like, man, the

33:53

Zorilians were so cool. I

33:55

went over there skeptical as hell. I wanted to leave

33:57

the second I got there. There's like a kid coming

33:59

home. from sleep away camp, you know,

34:01

like just brimming with stories

34:04

about all the great stuff he experienced

34:06

over there. This

34:08

scene was really important because

34:10

it did not give

34:12

Trip Tucker that moment to look at Al

34:15

in like Will Riker at the end of

34:17

an away mission, like, oh,

34:19

I can feel it between us, can't you? Like

34:21

there was not, there was not

34:23

no like goodbye scene that made it seem

34:25

as though anything was up. Like when Trip

34:28

returns to the shuttle, he's

34:30

just excited about a successful mission

34:32

and it really seems professional and

34:34

I think you have to have this scene to

34:37

make every other scene that follows really

34:40

work. Absolutely. So

34:42

he gets up to the bridge having

34:44

not needed to gel

34:47

himself up and

34:49

Archer is just signing off with...

34:52

Just imagine if he did and

34:54

he like gels himself up like

34:56

his chest and his shoulders and

34:58

then you see an ECU of

35:00

like gel going up a wrist

35:02

and it's like you

35:05

can't show that on TV, right? You can't

35:07

show lubed up nipples even if it's on

35:09

your forearm. Let's

35:13

push the limits UPN or

35:15

whatever. I would love to

35:18

see the memo from the Standards and Practices

35:20

Department on this episode. Yeah. I bet that

35:22

exists. I bet Dr. Trek has that, right?

35:25

I bet if we posted a video

35:28

gram on Instagram and

35:30

it included wrist nipples, I bet

35:33

we wouldn't be able to use

35:35

it. That's a great call. Yeah.

35:37

I bet like the algorithm would

35:40

be more conservative than... Pixelate those

35:42

nipples, Rob. Oh, thank God. So

35:47

yeah, the Zorilians are like, cool, thanks. Trip

35:49

is like, yeah, you should be good to

35:51

go. Those coils are gonna work just fine

35:53

as long as you keep them charged. Good

35:56

luck, Tally Ho. And he says quick

35:59

goodbye to all in. gives her a

36:01

smile, and the aliens

36:03

warp away, and the credits roll. Shortest

36:05

episode ever. Tight and tidy,

36:07

the way we like it. No,

36:10

they don't roll. The

36:13

next scene is Trip

36:15

telling Malcolm about the

36:17

holodeck experience, and Malcolm

36:21

immediately invents the holosuite. No sooner has

36:23

the premise of this idea flown out

36:25

of Trip Tucker's mouth than Malcolm has

36:27

invented using it for horny reasons. If

36:29

we had one of those on board,

36:32

I can only imagine what it'd be useful. And

36:34

specifically using it

36:37

with and at all in. Reed

36:41

presumes that stuff has gone

36:43

down, and that's even before

36:45

he sees the wrist nipples.

36:50

Yeah, Trip has a wrist nipple. Hey,

36:53

does Spider-Man have wrist nipples that the web

36:55

comes out of? I think in some versions

36:57

of Spider-Man, they do come out of his

36:59

body, and in other versions, they come out

37:01

of a gadget that they invent. Nothing

37:05

seems to be coming out of Trip

37:07

Tucker's nipples. Anywhere on

37:09

his body. And he has got

37:11

to go to Six Bay for this. He

37:14

gets to Six Bay, and Flox

37:16

takes one look at this wrist

37:18

nipple and says, let me smell your dick. I

37:22

know what you've been up to. And Trip

37:24

Tucker's like, what are you talking about? And

37:27

the big comedic reveal, finally

37:30

an inciting incident in this episode,

37:33

he's Prager's. Like

37:39

push in on Trip Tucker's eyes.

37:44

Boom. We

37:47

cut to later and Trip Tucker's clearly

37:50

had to do that full body scan.

37:52

But why does he have to wear

37:54

a especially tight fitting blue-knuck onesie? We'll

37:57

never know. Not until later.

38:00

Anyway. Yeah. Well, Rick

38:02

Berman was involved in the creation of

38:04

this program, so I loved that scanner

38:06

tunnel. That was great. When

38:09

you're laying down and you've

38:11

got like basically a nuc mountain

38:13

happening. Good

38:16

job, TripTucker. Good for you.

38:19

Hey. Hey, good for you. Good

38:21

for you. Attaboy. Yeah.

38:24

Yeah, I've never been self-conscious about

38:26

size or anything, but I would

38:29

need a gym sock to make

38:31

that happen. Flox

38:34

tells Archer and Tepal who are

38:36

in the room for this scan

38:39

all about Zyrilian reproduction.

38:42

And it's a form of reproduction that only

38:44

uses the genetics of the mom, which

38:47

means the male is just a

38:49

host. And TripTix great umbrage with

38:51

the idea that he acted unprofessionally

38:53

in any way in order to

38:55

become pregnant. We took a ride

38:58

in a rowboat. I

39:00

swear, Captain, nothing happened. I

39:03

absolutely loved Tepal's energy through this

39:05

whole scene, just like throwing

39:09

absolute shade at

39:11

TripTucker. Every time she

39:14

opens her mouth, she's basically implying

39:17

that he was a slut when

39:19

he went over there. I mean,

39:21

this calls back to Paul's warnings for

39:23

away teams in previous episodes. We're only

39:25

five episodes into this series, and she

39:28

has said on multiple occasions, don't fuck

39:30

the aliens on the

39:32

Dustbuster Club mission. Because

39:36

this is what happens. This is

39:38

what happened to get wrist nipples. The Vulcans know

39:40

this. This is new to the humans. And

39:43

it seems like an alien abortion

39:46

is not in the cards

39:48

because it could, you know, the

39:50

fox just doesn't feel like he can safely

39:52

do the procedure. I

39:55

think it would be so

39:57

easy to create a situation

39:59

familiar to like aliens franchise

40:01

films where it's like fear, like

40:03

get it out of me. Yeah.

40:05

This is something alien and potentially

40:07

hostile. Like it could kill me.

40:10

There are so many steps taken in

40:12

the, in the story making of this

40:14

episode that push

40:16

that into the periphery. Like you're

40:19

never scared except

40:22

socially for Trip Tucker. You never think this

40:24

thing is going to be lethal or burst

40:26

out of his chest or his side. It's

40:30

such a magic trick the show does to like keep

40:32

it focused on the weird and the

40:34

funny and the unusual and don't make

40:37

it a terrible scary thing

40:39

that it so easily could have been. Or

40:42

like a super charged political

40:44

ethical thing. Like if, if

40:47

they had gone in the direction of like, well, we need to

40:49

get it, you know, we can't find the other ship. So we

40:51

have to like, you know, terminate the

40:53

pregnancy and like, what are the ethics

40:55

of that? Do we like make an

40:57

alien enemy by doing this? Because they

40:59

take their young so seriously. We're keeping

41:02

it light here in episode five. This

41:04

is not that episode, man. So

41:06

yeah, we learned that the box of

41:09

pebbles was the sex. Coffee's

41:11

not coffee. Coffee is sex.

41:13

Very embarrassing for Trip Tucker.

41:15

He would really like to

41:18

keep this just between the

41:20

four of them. Pretty cool by them to

41:22

promise to do that. It's a deal. At

41:25

least until he starts to show they're going to

41:28

keep this news to themselves. And

41:30

we cut over to engineering. Trip has not taken

41:33

any time off work. And

41:35

he absolutely goes off

41:38

about how OSHA would have a

41:40

field day in this

41:42

area of the ship. And this

41:44

poor random crew person just

41:47

bears the brunt of this. Isn't

41:51

he the commander? Yeah. Like

41:54

this guy didn't design the ship. Safe

41:58

to say you approved how everything functions. in

42:00

this department. Yeah, it's also like

42:02

the crew member that he's talking to looks

42:05

like he could be like a background character

42:07

in American Psycho. He's just like that era

42:09

of haircut and actor. Yeah, yeah. And

42:13

okay, like I guess we're doing the bits about

42:16

Moody pregnant person. I

42:18

guess so, yeah. But like, boy

42:21

did this guy not deserve this. We

42:29

are spared eight days of scenes

42:32

like this happening all around the

42:34

ship. Because eight days later

42:36

in the mess hall, Tripp

42:38

is wearing a girlfriend

42:40

shirt to... We have

42:43

to talk about this shirt. Like,

42:45

it's a girlfriend shirt. Yeah,

42:48

it's a, I'm cooking you breakfast the

42:50

morning after you had me over to

42:53

your apartment for the first time, sure.

42:56

What a choice. The

42:59

untucked nature. I wanna

43:02

know what else they auditioned for this.

43:04

This was the perfect choice. So

43:08

good. Yeah, the

43:10

girlfriend shirt and tube socks. And

43:13

that's the look. How

43:16

does hell, I say? It

43:18

shows up for dinner in

43:21

the officer's mess wearing this

43:23

and... Did you know it

43:25

was right next to the mess mess? I

43:27

did not. You follow him through the mess into

43:29

the officer's mess. I thought that was cool. Yeah,

43:31

he didn't even have to like, show

43:34

that he had like the Delta Reserve

43:36

business card to get in there. You

43:38

know what sucks shit though, is

43:41

like eating the food in the mess

43:43

hall, but smelling or watching the servers

43:45

bring the prime rib into the captain's

43:47

mess through the mess hall. Oh,

43:50

give me a break. Fucking assholes.

43:52

That sucks. Yeah,

43:55

there was a restaurant I used to

43:57

go to where it was, there were two

43:59

restaurants. that shared the same kitchen. Like

44:01

it was like one business

44:03

that operated two concepts and

44:06

there was a dessert I really liked that the one, and

44:09

like you could not talk them into selling it to you

44:11

at the other. Like it's like, I just

44:13

wanted a burger tonight. I wasn't like trying to spend 30

44:16

bucks on like a brick

44:19

chicken with whatever,

44:21

like, but I want

44:23

that dessert. And they're like, nope, sorry, no

44:26

can do. I know it's right back there.

44:28

Come on. Exclusive. That's what

44:30

that is. That's gotta be the feeling

44:33

of the crewman's mess. Trip

44:35

is feeling paranoid that everyone on

44:37

the ship knows about the pregnancy

44:39

and believes that it was to

44:41

Paul that outed him and

44:44

Flux rides for to Paul here. He

44:46

doesn't think she'd knock on him

44:48

that like that. That's not to Paul's

44:50

way. Unclear whether

44:54

this is just paranoia or the truth.

44:57

We have nipples, Ben. More and

44:59

more nipples have multiplied on his

45:02

parody. Just how many of these am

45:04

I gonna grow? Archer prepares Trip for

45:07

the idea of not just going through

45:09

more body changes, but like being

45:12

a parent, because it

45:14

isn't just about all of these horrifying

45:16

changes to Trip Tucker. It's like, once

45:19

this baby comes, having to care for

45:21

the baby. We are still getting to

45:23

know these characters. And this was such

45:26

a fascinating insight into what kind of

45:28

guy Trip Tucker is that he hasn't

45:30

spared a thought for, do I have

45:33

to be a father now? The assumption

45:35

that the baby would come out of

45:37

his body and then be dealt with

45:40

by Starfleet or Dr. Flux or whatever.

45:46

I gotta say, I might've assumed the

45:48

same thing. Yeah, like here's the

45:50

thing. He is behaving like somebody that

45:52

knows they're on Star Trek. Well,

45:56

it's the behavior of someone who believes he has

45:58

an affliction that he- will then be cured

46:01

of after a period of time instead

46:03

of the responsibility that Archer makes it

46:05

into. And there's a moment where I

46:07

wasn't sure if this was a bit

46:09

or not by Archer, but no, he's

46:11

sincere. He's being real. Yeah.

46:14

Won't somebody please think of the

46:16

children? This is a big

46:19

first, first interspaces pregnancy involving

46:21

a human and they get

46:23

called up by, by to

46:25

Paul to the bridge. She's

46:28

got some good news. They

46:30

have found the energy signature

46:32

of these zerilians and they're

46:35

going to make contact. But when the captain

46:37

and trip make it up to the bridge,

46:39

she realizes she has

46:41

made a great big mistake because she has pulled them

46:43

up. Not on just

46:46

the zerilian ship flying around, but

46:48

a Klingon D7. Love

46:51

this ship. Yeah. Love seeing it. Glad

46:54

we got to see so much of it. Yeah. Does

46:57

disco break the continuity of this because,

46:59

uh, oh no, wait. Yeah.

47:02

Yeah. Cause this disco happens

47:04

after this and Lorel

47:06

as chancellor invents the D7, right?

47:10

I think you're right about that. In disco. That

47:12

is some nerdy ass Star Trek podcaster shit

47:14

right there, Ben. Yeah. Look at

47:16

you. Hey,

47:19

hey, I'm not like this

47:21

because I'm in greatest gen. I'm in greatest gen

47:23

cause I'm like this. There's

47:28

probably never going to be a moment

47:30

where Archer hails another species and isn't

47:32

a total beta about it. We respectfully

47:35

would like to ask for your assistance

47:37

with the little problem. So they're charging

47:39

weapons. And then whoop,

47:41

whoop torpedoes away by the Klingons.

47:45

Klingons are not trying to hear this shit. And

47:48

then after getting shot with

47:50

torpedoes, Archer, hey guys, them

47:52

again. Please accept our apology.

47:55

He does not get the benefit

47:58

of learning about the Vulcan holo. from

48:00

to Paul. She does not share that

48:02

information with him. And like,

48:04

I know that also that is a thing

48:07

from disco, but you really feel like she

48:09

knows something like that and isn't telling Archer

48:11

in the scene. I wish we got more

48:13

cutaways. They

48:17

could have really officed this up, where

48:19

every moment like this came with a

48:21

floating shot of to Paul and to

48:24

Paul looking at the camera like. Just

48:27

spiking the lens

48:29

every time Archer does something dumb. I

48:38

understand most Star Trek fans don't consider

48:40

Star Trek Enterprise like the best Star

48:43

Trek series, but I'm telling you, if

48:45

all you did for the entire series

48:48

is do a cutaway to Paul

48:51

spiking the camera, this

48:53

show is 2000% better. Yeah,

48:56

so second hail does the

48:58

charm. Archer

49:05

asks about some malfunctions they might've

49:07

had. And that's just the wrong order

49:09

of things

49:11

to say to the Klingons in this case. Cause

49:14

the Klingons immediately are like, oh,

49:16

you did that to us? What

49:18

the hell is that about? What Archer needed to do is

49:20

be like, hey, we feel this

49:22

way. Do you feel the same? That's

49:24

how you do it. That's not how he did it.

49:27

And he completely outs the Zarelians who

49:30

have been cloaked in their

49:32

exhaust, sucking on that sweet, sweet

49:35

exhaust. And they get shot at

49:37

and tractor beamed immediately. Because

49:39

what the Zarelians have done is an act of

49:41

war. Yeah, the

49:43

Klingons are going to execute them and

49:47

Archer is like, no, no, no, please, please, please,

49:49

do not do that. We

49:51

also have things that we need to address

49:53

with them. And after

49:56

watching Archer do not. the

50:00

correct things at every turn for

50:03

as long as he has to

50:05

pull steps forward and does a like, do

50:07

you know who he is to this

50:09

Klingon? I mean, who he is

50:12

is kind of a made

50:14

guy, right? The way that he's described is

50:16

like, hey, he's the guy that

50:18

took Clang back to Kronos.

50:21

You know this guy. And guess what?

50:23

This guy right here, he's the

50:25

reason all the houses aren't at war right

50:28

now. So you better kiss his fucking boots

50:31

and stop fucking around with the Zorilians because we

50:33

need to talk to them. This

50:36

is persuasive. Tripp also like

50:38

steps forward and is like, hey,

50:40

like I bet they'd give you some of

50:42

their cool technology. Maybe that cloaking device or

50:44

maybe something else. If you

50:46

don't kill them. This is

50:49

so unnecessary to the

50:52

plot of the story, but so

50:55

important for the comedy of it, because

50:58

Tripp does not need to disclose

51:00

the pregnancy or the unfinished business

51:03

or anything at all. But Tripp

51:06

Tucker shows his whole ass in this

51:08

scene to the

51:11

Klingons, to everyone on the bridge

51:13

crew and the Klingons laugh and

51:16

laugh. Oh, this is hilarious to

51:18

them. We had

51:20

wondered why you were in maternity

51:22

wear. Is that

51:24

a boyfriend shirt

51:27

you're wearing? To

51:31

a Klingon, a boyfriend

51:33

shirt is just a

51:36

chainmail tunic and

51:38

tube socks. It

51:43

is one of the few women's wear

51:45

items from our planet that does not

51:48

have a boob window. So

51:52

on the Zorilian ship, these Klingons and Tripp

51:54

Tucker talk to the captain. And as soon

51:56

as I saw them on that ship, I

51:58

was like, whoa. You're

52:00

gonna skip the three hours spent in

52:03

a tube, that cramped ass

52:05

tube with that Klingon captain and Trip

52:07

Tucker, you could make an entire episode

52:09

about what happens in that tube. This

52:11

is like a three episode arc and that's the

52:13

middle episode. You may very well be putting those

52:16

nipples to work before you know it. Can

52:18

you imagine how angry the Klingon gets getting

52:20

gassed in there with Trip Tucker? Oh

52:24

man, shoot that into my veins, we don't get it.

52:27

Let me look at your

52:30

wrist nipples again. Instead

52:34

the Klingons get tour guided around when

52:36

they get to see the holographic simulators

52:38

in action. They get to see

52:41

Chronosh again for the first time in what seems

52:43

like a long time. They miss home

52:45

as much as anyone else does who's

52:47

been out in space for a while. Meanwhile,

52:49

A'lan scans Trip Tucker and this was another

52:51

moment where I was like, oh, like she

52:53

did not know that she was

52:56

going to become a parent either and

52:58

like this is a massive moment, a

53:01

potentially like life changing moment for a

53:04

human and she is like, oh yeah, you're having

53:06

a girl, don't worry, we can like squirt

53:08

it into somebody else's birdie, this is no big deal.

53:11

Did you put together which wrist had

53:13

the nipples and if it was the

53:16

first hand that went in or the

53:18

second? Because I'm thinking maybe

53:20

in Zeryllian sex ed the messaging is

53:22

like even one hand can cause a

53:24

pregnancy. Yeah,

53:28

seems that way. So it

53:31

was like an innocent mistake, I didn't realize I

53:33

was knocking you up, I didn't even think you

53:35

could get knocked up and we'll

53:37

take care of it, it's no

53:39

problem. We get back to the

53:42

bridge of the entrepreneur and this

53:44

kind of felt like maybe they're like

53:47

getting the Klingons off the show now

53:49

because like they can't have too much

53:51

Klingon stuff in Enterprise because

53:53

this Klingon captain is like, don't

53:56

let the door hit you where the Lord split

53:58

you and never talk to me. to us again.

54:02

Yeah, they don't end on a good

54:04

note. Yeah. I mean, the

54:06

note the episode ends on is at

54:08

dinner that night where we're tripping Archer

54:10

and T'Paul enjoy a

54:12

meal and T'Paul enjoys

54:15

knowing that she embellished the story about

54:18

Archer and how he's viewed

54:20

by the High Council. Then

54:22

T'Paul tells Trip that he's the first

54:24

male to ever become pregnant. It seems

54:26

like T'Paul is having the most fun

54:28

this episode. She really

54:31

is. But did you like

54:33

watching it, Adam? I

54:41

really did. This is

54:43

a very fun brand of episode.

54:48

The fun, bizarre style

54:50

of Star Trek episode that you

54:53

don't get too often. You can't do this too

54:55

much. You got to sequence

54:57

it right, too. Because

54:59

if you do an episode like this too early, you're like,

55:01

well, is this the sort of tone we're going for with

55:04

this show? We've had a couple serious

55:06

episodes before this, so I don't think this is going to

55:08

throw you off the scent. It's just

55:10

a little bit of a change in flavor to

55:13

the thing that I really liked personally.

55:16

It's de-emphasized Archer, I think, in

55:18

a way that had to happen. I

55:21

was growing tired of Archer. He's

55:25

barely a thought in this episode. When

55:27

he is in the episode, he's fun and funny.

55:30

Made me like Trip Tucker a lot more

55:32

too, and to T'Paul especially. She

55:35

just kind of runs the show from the background, kind

55:38

of puppet mastering everything else. I

55:41

think for reasons that we said

55:43

earlier, veering away

55:45

from all of the potential

55:47

serious and very special

55:50

episode aspects to what a

55:52

subject like this could create

55:54

was such a great idea. Just give

55:57

me a break, please. This

56:01

is a perfect give me a break episode Ben.

56:03

What about you? I totally

56:05

agree. A lot of fun watching

56:07

this. I thought that the structure was really interesting. It

56:09

was like almost like a two act structure. It

56:12

almost made me think like what if you just had

56:14

like an hour long episode of Star Trek that was

56:16

like two totally distinct stories

56:18

that were just like shorties that they

56:21

couldn't stretch out into a longer one. Like it

56:23

almost felt like it

56:26

was like pitching that as an idea and

56:28

that's an idea I can get behind. It

56:31

feels like the first episode we've gotten

56:33

where we've kind of put a stop

56:35

to character development like we

56:38

kind of know enough about

56:41

everyone's utility on the show to get

56:43

what they're supposed to be doing. Yeah.

56:46

And like we didn't have to waste

56:48

any time explaining their talents or

56:50

abilities or whatever. Like we're just

56:52

into story instead of backstory and

56:55

I like that. It doesn't feel

56:57

introductory anymore. Yeah. I

57:00

thought this one was a lot of

57:02

fun. Like definitely like minor Star Trek

57:04

but totally diverting. Yeah. Well

57:07

speaking of diversions, Ben, we got to go see if

57:09

we have anything in the priority one inbox. You want

57:11

to go see if anything is a decloaking

57:15

over there? Yeah. Let's see if

57:17

anything's gumming up our warp pipe. Priority

57:20

one message from Starfleet coming in on

57:22

secured channel. Need a

57:24

supplement link. Supplement.

57:27

Supplement. Yeah, it's extra. By

57:30

the interest alone, could be enough to buy this

57:32

ship. Ben

57:34

I got a priority one message here from me and

57:36

it is to Ben, I guess.

57:43

Their message goes like this. A year

57:45

ago I was flying to Zanzibar for

57:47

my birthday and as we were endlessly

57:49

taxiing around the airport, I turned to

57:51

my little sister and started singing. We're

57:54

on our way to Africa. Thinking

57:56

about Pelican cases and cameras. My

58:00

older sister asks, what is he singing?

58:02

And my little sister says, oh, probably

58:04

something from his Star Trek podcast. That

58:08

is interesting timing. Given

58:10

that Ben told another Africa story

58:12

this episode. Amazing.

58:15

Who asked? Nobody ever asked.

58:18

The next P1 is from

58:21

me, the narrator, I guess, and

58:24

it is to the continuation of the

58:26

previous story. And it goes like this.

58:29

To continue the previous story, we get

58:32

to Zanzibar and check into the resort.

58:34

The villa included a welcome

58:36

bottle of champagne and sundowners

58:38

cocktails. So my

58:41

sisters and I are merrily imbibing and

58:43

my older sister asks, so my name,

58:45

are you drunk enough to pay those

58:47

Star Trek podcast people to read a

58:49

message again to which I reply dot,

58:52

dot, dot. And the

58:54

message trails off. To

58:56

a promotional priority, one message that goes like

58:58

this, Ben. And

59:01

now the continuation, I turned to my

59:03

older sister and say, I mean, sure,

59:05

but I'm nowhere near drunk

59:07

enough to which she replied, not yet.

59:10

Then picked up the phone and orders

59:12

another bottle of

59:15

champagne. The bottle of champagne was

59:17

delivered with a second set of

59:19

sundowners. So I am

59:21

drunk and tipsy. And

59:23

what amounts to paradise? Wow.

59:26

With this set of P1s, the

59:29

two previous plus this one, I have reached 10

59:32

P1s over the years. Wow.

59:35

Full spread around Canada. That's

59:38

great. Sounds

59:44

great. I just want to say to

59:47

this narrator, I'm glad that you counted it up. Ten

59:49

P1s is an incredible amount of support.

59:51

And to my knowledge, no

59:54

one has ever done

59:56

all three P1s on

59:58

an episode of Greatest her greatest

1:00:00

trek before. Hey, congratulations! Wow. For that,

1:00:02

we are sending you a bottle of

1:00:05

champagne. And a round of sundowners. Why

1:00:07

don't we throw that in? And a

1:00:09

round of sundowners. Hope

1:00:12

you enjoy that, and hope you

1:00:14

had just a great trip to

1:00:16

Africa. Yeah, that sounds like a

1:00:18

rad trip. Holy mackerel. No one

1:00:20

is saying that you have to

1:00:23

do all three messages, but

1:00:25

if you have a message that

1:00:27

you would like us to read on the show,

1:00:29

you can go to maximumfund.org slash jumbotron.

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And we'll read just about anything you want.

1:00:35

To each other and to our enormous

1:00:37

audience, they're a great way to

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support the production of our show. Hey,

1:00:42

Adam. What's up, Ben? Did

1:00:44

you find yourself a

1:00:46

drunk shimoda? Incredible. Drunk shimoda! I

1:00:49

mean, Trip Tucker is a minus

1:00:51

100,000 favorite

1:00:53

for drunk shimoda this episode. Like,

1:00:57

such a favorite that you

1:00:59

shouldn't even be beddable. When

1:01:02

you're main character this hard,

1:01:05

when you have nipples on your wrists, when

1:01:09

you're a man who's pregnant, you're

1:01:12

my drunk shimoda. Yeah. Not you, Ben. I think

1:01:14

I'm gonna join you. I mean, like, I also

1:01:16

think that T'Paul is having the most fun, but

1:01:18

I can't give it to T'Paul. Yeah, that's kind

1:01:20

of a head fake I threw for after what

1:01:22

I said earlier. Like, she's definitely having a blast,

1:01:24

but it's hard for me not to choose Trip

1:01:26

Tucker. Trip Tucker's so funny in this, and

1:01:30

I thought it was amazing that they made it

1:01:32

through this whole thing without making it feel at

1:01:34

all Schwartz and Agerty. Right. I mean,

1:01:37

the only bulging on Trip Tucker was in

1:01:39

that blue onesie he was wearing in the

1:01:42

body scan scene. Yeah, no kidding.

1:01:45

Face of the fart. What a

1:01:47

fun episode, but it's

1:01:49

time to start thinking about next

1:01:51

week's episode, Adam. I'm gonna go

1:01:53

ahead and read you the

1:01:56

description of Season 1, Episode 6.

1:02:00

Terra Nova, Archer

1:02:02

and the Enterprise crew set out

1:02:04

to learn what happened to the

1:02:07

lost human colony of Terra Nova

1:02:09

and discover a tribe of human-hating

1:02:11

cave dwellers. There's

1:02:13

one thing I know about cave dwellers. It's

1:02:15

that they hate humans just

1:02:18

about every time. Your world

1:02:20

frightens and confuses me. Just stay out

1:02:22

of those caves. Yeah, that's not a

1:02:24

good place for humans to go. You

1:02:27

want to know what the cave of our show

1:02:29

has been? It's

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found over at gak.biz slash

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game. It's the game of

1:02:37

buttholes, the will of

1:02:39

the riker, Quantum Leap. It

1:02:41

is a game that decides how we will experience

1:02:43

the next episode of our show. It

1:02:46

is a completely randomized game

1:02:48

board filled with horrors

1:02:51

and delights. A

1:02:54

roll of a 100 sided die will

1:02:56

transport us anywhere at

1:02:58

random across that board. You're required to

1:03:00

learn as you play. Roll.

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And if you want to see all the weird places we could

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go, go to gak.biz to check it out. I'm

1:03:08

going to roll that die and see where we end up, Ben.

1:03:11

Do it. Ben,

1:03:13

I have rolled a 19. Tula!

1:03:17

Did I win? Hardly. And this has

1:03:19

tossed us back down the game board. It

1:03:22

is right next to a

1:03:24

caretaker square, which would have had

1:03:26

us roll again. But it

1:03:28

is a regular old episode for you and me. Okay.

1:03:31

Well, I'm looking forward to another

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regular episode. I had a great time regularing

1:03:36

it up with you on this episode, Adam.

1:03:38

Yeah. Sometimes regular is just

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fine. Nothing

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wrong with regular. Chill out. Been doing

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