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it's just a fart joke.

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And guitars. I

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can't pay. Good for late.

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Got no case. Tempting

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fate. Faith of the

1:48

fart. Welcome to The Greatest Generation. It's

1:50

a Star Trek podcast by a couple of

1:52

guys just a little bit embarrassed about having

1:54

a Star Trek podcast. I'm

1:57

Adam Pranika. I'm Ben Harrison. What

2:00

did you call me before we turned the mics

2:02

on? Oh, remember what did I call you big

2:05

buddy? Sometimes I call

2:07

you a little buddy today I called you

2:09

big buddy because of our relative height I was

2:12

just thinking about how like of all

2:14

the versions of that you get from

2:16

like a bartender like a cool bartender

2:18

Especially or like just a

2:20

random person you encounter. I don't like buddy.

2:22

I don't like it at all But

2:25

if someone called me big buddy, I would

2:28

love that I would laugh and laugh about slick

2:30

Would you like slick run slick as an alias

2:32

to the FBI? Who

2:35

would anyway? Oh sure the the

2:37

connotation with slick is

2:39

something that I'd like a lot the

2:41

idea that someone could consider

2:44

me murderous Capable

2:48

of high crime. Yeah. Well now

2:50

that you've got that teardrop tattooed on your

2:52

cheek I think a lot of people make

2:54

that assumption. No one ever calls a hardened

2:57

criminal big buddy When

3:02

I was growing up one of my school chums

3:04

moms always called us sports

3:06

fans like when we would pile into the into

3:09

the back of the Mini

3:11

fan to go to soccer practice or something.

3:13

She would say get in sports fans Like

3:16

we're of compatible age, but

3:18

I think there are some very meaningful

3:22

distinctions between us having to

3:24

do with that like Did you

3:26

grow up in the time of transition

3:28

between mini van sliding door on one

3:30

side and one side only to? All

3:34

of a sudden there were two sliders

3:36

on either side of the van I

3:38

actually went through that transition. Yeah, that

3:41

was that was an exciting time heavy

3:43

days. What a moment? Yeah I

3:45

didn't spend a ton of time in mini vans as

3:47

a kid because I was an only and If

3:50

you're a parent and you got one kid why

3:52

get a van? Yeah, I don't know even I

3:55

met a guy at a party that had seven kids

3:57

and he told me he drove like a sprinter van

3:59

like Like he had like a 16 passenger

4:02

van operation for his family.

4:06

I'm trying to think of the support group

4:08

that you met that person in who had

4:10

seven kids. Because

4:13

holy moly. Yeah, yeah, he told me he

4:15

goes to Costco three times a week. This

4:18

was a random dude I met at like

4:20

a holiday party. Was he

4:23

really going for it? Because when you have

4:25

seven kids, the opportunity to party has got

4:27

to be a real release. Yeah,

4:29

but here's the thing Adam, what you're failing

4:31

to factor in is seven

4:33

kids and therefore probably

4:36

very religious. So I

4:39

didn't ask this man what his religion was,

4:41

but he did pepper into the conversation that

4:43

he was from Utah. So I did

4:45

a little bit of mental math and he

4:48

was not going for it. He was not getting wasted at

4:50

this party. Terrible! Well

4:53

Adam, this has been a long time

4:55

coming. We are now on to our

4:57

fourth series on The Greatest Generation. I

4:59

can't believe it. I

5:02

can't believe we made it four weeks. Look

5:06

at our lives now. It's incredible. Like

5:08

if they did a montage,

5:12

like a theme song montage for

5:14

our podcast and they

5:16

showed like all the podcasting heroes that

5:19

came before. That's

5:21

basically just all McElroy's, McElroy

5:24

home movies and shit. And

5:27

then Conan O'Brien because he also

5:29

invented podcasting. And then

5:31

finally like Smartless. And

5:34

then there's us. And

5:37

two of these things are not like the others.

5:42

Is what you're proposing kind of just like

5:44

cross fading video of all of the things

5:46

that got us from there

5:49

to here? Yeah I mean I Guess

5:51

if you were to read it a kind

5:54

of way, some of those examples might be

5:56

like the sailing ships of old. You

6:00

know? Finally, like the The Chuck

6:02

Yeager era a jet rockets. Wrote.

6:05

The original Space Shuttle, etc.

6:08

right? He could. You could probably a

6:10

sign who you odds to any of those

6:12

errors. A We don't need to

6:15

do that math for anyone now that's just

6:17

a fun project to do for yourself at

6:19

home. I

6:22

can't believe we're here already them

6:24

what many believe to be the

6:26

final era of the greatest generation.

6:28

I don't. You're

6:31

more optimistic than that. You're like an Earth

6:33

human. Many people believe

6:35

that as this will be the

6:37

series that ends Star Trek podcasting

6:39

for a period of like ten

6:42

to twenty years before a success

6:44

it comes back again. Would you

6:46

say we say that if that's

6:48

the case, I would love nothing.

6:50

Less. More. Nothing

6:54

more. I would love

6:56

nothing as we have it in

6:58

the era of Star Trek Enterprise.

7:00

Then with Season One episode one

7:02

and two, it's a combo amp.

7:06

Called broken Bow. Of

7:10

them. Is.

7:16

Broken Bow Or Broken bow? I had

7:18

a question. I mean you'd have

7:20

to ask the folks in Oklahoma does it's

7:22

like when the bough breaks you know like

7:24

the baby is is is going out into

7:26

the star system that the bow is like

7:28

a of so. Term. And I

7:31

don't know if they have a lot of

7:33

boats in Oklahoma at that. The Oklahoma would

7:35

refer to as like. Native. American

7:37

folks Him: In. That

7:40

region. Know. Pamphlets in this episode

7:42

so hard to tell. a

7:47

friend you read at all like did

7:49

you do any research about this episode

7:51

because a couple of things stuck out

7:53

or cat september twenty seventh two thousand

7:56

and one is when this episode dropped

7:58

pretty why you're shocked America

8:00

was ready to laugh again. Oh,

8:08

I just fell out of frame, Ben, but what

8:10

caused it? And

8:17

also that this whole idea sprung

8:19

from the minds of Berman and

8:21

Braga over, I'm just going

8:23

to assume, a lot of drinks

8:25

on a patio, someplace

8:27

tropical. Just a couple of

8:29

guys chopping it up on

8:31

Star Trek ideas to see what comes out.

8:34

Just a couple of red-blooded American

8:36

dudes drinking readers

8:39

and talking about maybe sexing up some Vulcans.

8:42

I love that idea. I mean,

8:44

you and I have done that, Hang. We just

8:46

didn't have the power to take

8:49

it to series or anything, you know?

8:51

Just imagine being a creator

8:53

god of Star Trek and just

8:55

knowing that whatever sessions you have

8:58

could create something like this. Incredible.

9:01

It is a power almost

9:04

too awesome to put in the hands

9:06

of one Rick Berman. Would

9:08

you believe that the very first shot

9:10

of this brand new series are

9:13

of a plastic caricature

9:16

of a white space hero and also

9:18

his son? It's

9:23

like the sepia-toned past

9:26

scene of father-son

9:29

bonding. I don't

9:31

know how your relationship was with your dad

9:33

when you were growing up and dabbling in

9:36

the model making, but

9:38

my dad never would have permitted

9:41

painting before masking. Wow.

9:43

That just floppy work, kid. You

9:47

got to put some tape down on those windows.

9:49

How interesting. You're going to be scraping the paint

9:52

off with an exacto knife. I didn't

9:54

know that that was a technique that you

9:56

brought down to that scale. I mean, I've

9:58

obviously done like... masking when I'm

10:01

painting a room, but I've, uh,

10:03

and I've seen that people do it on

10:05

like full size automobiles. But I

10:08

didn't realize you did it on models. That's interesting. These

10:10

lines are not clean. I

10:12

don't know. It kind of informed my feelings

10:14

about Archer from the jump, like his attention

10:16

to detail. Well, a bit more of a

10:18

Ben Harrison type. I

10:22

mean, I was going to save that comparison

10:25

for the piloting. Fun

10:31

to see Simon Tarsus again. Yeah. He

10:34

is a Henry Archer and the

10:36

young one is Jonathan Archer, who

10:39

has not yet been taught that it's not

10:41

okay to just toss racial slurs around, even

10:43

when you're just around your family. Uh,

10:45

yeah. I mean, I think the assumption there is

10:47

that the hobby room is a safe space. Yeah.

10:52

No, this is exactly what we want to

10:54

see when, uh, when people express

10:57

ideas like this. Firm correction.

10:59

Don't call them ambassador pointy.

11:01

That's their term. We

11:04

get some information here about the state

11:06

of the world in

11:08

this scene. And what we get is, is

11:10

that the dad is

11:12

a pilot and he's working with the

11:14

Vulcans on a technology for a new

11:16

ship and the Vulcans

11:19

not only have a frustrating reputation, they

11:21

are frustrating to work with. And

11:23

so much so that the kids at school

11:25

know this and make fun

11:28

of the younger Archer over it. Word

11:31

has gotten out that, can you

11:33

imagine being on a

11:35

playground and like the kids

11:37

at school making fun of you for

11:39

your dad having annoying coworkers? What?

11:42

What is that? These

11:44

are very sophisticated bullies. You know, like they

11:47

do the research and in that way I

11:49

kind of respect it. Like don't

11:51

just knock the books out of my hand

11:53

and call me a dork. Like really get

11:55

personal. Get under the skin. With some stuff

11:57

that you're not supposed to know. Yeah. Yeah.

12:00

So we smash cut to 30 years

12:03

later, broken bow

12:05

and or bow, Oklahoma. We're

12:08

in a cornfield. There's a

12:10

crashed ship that has a

12:12

carved a streak in that

12:14

cornfield and a Klingon running

12:18

through it. A

12:20

cornfield, a spacecraft, a Klingon

12:23

Panama. So

12:25

he is running away from

12:27

some other guys. We

12:32

don't get a great look at them just

12:34

yet, but, you know, they're firing at

12:36

him. We see like the

12:38

local human farmer look

12:40

out on, on his field and see

12:42

that some, some shit is going down

12:44

in his field. So he arms himself.

12:47

He doesn't take kindly to people fucking

12:49

with this corn or his daughter. Like

12:53

he's got that kind of energy when he,

12:55

when he steps onto the stoop and racks

12:57

that gun. This farm actually

12:59

has two rules. So

13:04

these mystery aliens chase the Klingon into

13:06

the grain silo and oh yeah,

13:09

the Klingon comes into the clearing and sees

13:11

just one silo and he's like, why,

13:14

how do you run a farm with just

13:16

one silo? So

13:20

confusing. How

13:23

about these aliens? Like the door is shut

13:26

behind the Klingon and that's not a deterrent

13:28

for these guys. They get all bendy and

13:30

they go underneath. They go in the gap

13:32

between the door and the floor. They're

13:34

squishy guys. And

13:36

yeah, their loaf is all like

13:38

modeled like, like they kind of

13:40

have like human shaped heads, but it's just like,

13:43

it's like a totally different texture, which

13:45

I liked. I really enjoyed the energy,

13:48

the kinetic energy of this action scene

13:50

from the chase all the way up

13:52

into the silo to the

13:54

Klingon jumping out of the top of the

13:56

silo. And The thing that

13:58

surprised me most of all. Where's.

14:01

That when this cling on turns around

14:03

to suit the silo with these two

14:05

aliens inside. Oh boy.

14:08

Upload Speed. Oh

14:10

yes! That. Is not corn

14:12

and mazzeo right? At

14:15

step feals in the silo is a bit. Man,

14:18

maybe it's jet fuel. I was

14:20

thinking he was graeme. You know,

14:22

like a certain tradesman were, Greens were

14:24

done with button flies. Instead, a zipper

14:27

flies because likes causing a spark from

14:29

your zipper inside a silo is so

14:31

dangerous. Yes, So

14:34

so imagine firing a fazer at

14:36

a silo. I'm

14:39

just imagining the date that a

14:41

person goes on wearing those pants

14:44

with that that zipper and the

14:46

things you could tell to of

14:48

potential lady you're trying to seduce

14:50

like need to know baby. Gotta

14:52

be careful with the zipper as

14:54

assess assess it's explosion proof. Ssssss.

14:56

Has anybody ever looked into whether

14:58

the jets are Nine Eleven had

15:01

grain silos in their been there

15:03

payloads because maybe that's why it

15:05

was able to melt steel beams?

15:07

you know? I think some of

15:09

the footage. Made. Show that. Tasty,

15:12

Grain silo. I

15:15

was wondering whether or not the

15:18

silo was filled with something explosive?

15:20

or maybe this is the only

15:22

setting for a cling firearm. It's

15:24

there is no stun on a

15:26

killing our duster. It's just all

15:28

the way of said. I love

15:30

that If that's the case, This.

15:33

Is safe distance Iroquois God. Yes,

15:36

is danger close When he shoots this

15:38

thing off and then the farmer runs

15:40

up and. Trains. His double

15:43

barrel shotgun on the going

15:45

on in his the going

15:47

on like now. now that's

15:49

something I can really wrap

15:51

my mind around. Two barrels

15:54

this farmers like adult farm

15:56

for popcorn. it's fab Said

15:58

assess assess as. Smash

16:03

cut to a very

16:05

controversial theme in

16:08

the Star Trek canon. I feel like

16:10

this one has really grown on people over the years.

16:13

Do you think? Oh yeah,

16:16

I think people have total nostalgia

16:18

for it now. I

16:21

wonder if what has happened to

16:23

this theme has happened to Limp Bizkit.

16:27

Anything that was popular that

16:30

then becomes deeply unpopular eventually

16:32

does. Comes back around. Yeah.

16:35

Come back around again. Hey, let us know

16:37

on our socials whether you have nostalgia for

16:39

this. So get at greatest Trek on any

16:41

social account. And if

16:44

you're nostalgic for it, do

16:46

hashtag nostalgia. And if you're

16:49

not nostalgic for it, hashtag

16:51

no-stalgia. Just let us know. I

16:55

love it. I did

16:57

a lot of reading about why

17:00

they did this, how it was

17:02

received. Then many people experienced

17:04

this theme for the very first time

17:07

at the show's premiere, like the official

17:09

premiere. Wow. And

17:11

it was all anyone could talk about after. Like

17:15

imagine taking all the air out of

17:18

your show with your choice of theme.

17:20

And so many people involved agreed

17:22

that it was a terrible decision to make.

17:25

But it was their decision.

17:28

Everyone who had the power to

17:30

change this did not change it.

17:34

They stayed the course with it year

17:36

after year, season after season with some

17:38

tweaks. But I

17:41

was just surprised that they knew it was

17:43

a bad idea going into it and during

17:45

and then up to its release. And then

17:47

after the premiere, I think they had an

17:49

opportunity to change it out. No, they never

17:51

did. Berman and Braga

17:53

wanted a U2 song as

17:55

the theme. They wanted Beautiful Day as

17:58

the theme and were uneven. People

18:00

are unwilling to pay for the rights for

18:02

that song. They thought that would be the

18:04

perfect song for the moment. Oh

18:07

man, what if they had gotten

18:09

the rights to that but not

18:12

for streaming in perpetuity and

18:14

said this was the song that they layered

18:17

in later because they didn't have the original

18:19

anymore? If you want to

18:21

blame Diane Warren, fuck off. Get the fuck

18:23

out of town. Not her fault. Not

18:25

Russell Watson's fault. They've made

18:28

great music over the

18:30

course of many, many years and most of those

18:32

songs have not been used as the theme for

18:34

Star Trek series. I think that's the main difference

18:37

here. Almost all

18:39

of them. Not all of them, but almost

18:41

all of them. So yeah, I mean, I've

18:43

definitely come around on this. I kind of

18:46

like it now. But I don't see it

18:48

being a drag at the premiere to be

18:50

like, hey, we like created all of these

18:52

new characters and this interesting new premise. All

18:55

anyone wants to talk about is the theme

18:57

song. That

18:59

must have been a killer. Yeah. What's

19:02

that going to be like to put in a ton of

19:04

work to create a new version of a

19:06

thing? And then finally

19:08

it gets released to your fans

19:11

and supporters. And all anyone

19:13

wants to talk about is a weird

19:15

song. Yeah. A weird song that

19:17

starts it. You guys really did

19:19

that? Yeah. Huh. I

19:22

mean, I'll never understand how that feels. Yeah.

19:25

Yeah. I don't see

19:28

or deserve it because you really

19:30

think it's fair you. We

19:32

get our classic captain

19:34

riding a shuttle to his

19:36

new command sequence, but

19:39

we don't get a great look at the ship

19:41

during this moment. Now we're too close.

19:44

Yeah. We're really close. We're

19:46

danger close again. Because this

19:48

is a trip tucker and

19:50

Captain Jonathan Archer kind

19:53

of doing an inspection flyby of

19:56

the ship as it is getting

19:58

its finishing touches put on. And

20:00

they even do like a bonk test

20:02

to, I guess, see

20:04

if it was structural integrity is up

20:06

to stuff. Got to do the

20:08

bonk test before leaving space dock. Pretty

20:11

ballsy move. Like, what if somebody's on the other

20:13

side of that panel and it isn't ready for

20:15

the bonk test? They just

20:17

get blown out into space and space dock? I

20:20

mean, that's the safest place to do it.

20:22

Yeah. I

20:26

wonder, and I wasn't able

20:28

to confirm this. But is

20:30

Connor Trenear, the actor playing

20:33

Trip Tucker, is

20:35

he doing George W. Bush? Oh.

20:38

Because once I heard that in

20:40

his twang, I was

20:42

like, I could not unhear it. And

20:45

for the rest of the episode, I'm just

20:47

seeing Scott Bakula

20:49

and Commander George W. Bush

20:53

saunter around their

20:55

new starship, doing their observations.

20:59

I have to admit, it became a

21:01

far more enjoyable experience with

21:03

that in my mind. It fooled me. We

21:05

can't get fooled again. That was quite the era of,

21:07

that's my Bush getting taken off of

21:09

the air. This

21:12

show, rising to replace it. Archer

21:15

is wearing the hat of his ship, like

21:17

a real Navy guy. You know this guy,

21:20

right? Absolutely. They're

21:22

doing the inspection like you

21:24

do when you get the keys

21:26

to any rental car. This is a good idea,

21:28

right? Yeah, you do the walk around. Yeah. I

21:31

mean, you make your own new dent and

21:34

point it out to the guy. You're scratching

21:36

the beat. A

21:40

question I had on my mind starting here

21:43

that is basically never resolved for the rest

21:45

of the episode is, what

21:47

would you say you'd do here, Trip

21:50

Tucker? Because he's

21:53

not the ship's helmsman, and

21:55

he's flying the shuttle pod, and that's cool.

21:57

But you see him pop up. Later

22:00

on in engineering, you see him operate

22:02

the transporter at the end of the

22:04

episode. I know he's the

22:07

XO, but he's sort of doing everything,

22:09

and he's rarely ever on the bridge.

22:12

Yeah, I think he is kind

22:14

of more like Scotty than Jordy

22:16

in that way. He's

22:19

kind of a chief engineer that is

22:21

just kind of like general

22:24

purpose tech character. Yeah.

22:26

Where Jordy barely ever

22:28

left engineering like

22:31

TripTucker, I feel like can and

22:33

does do a little bit more than that.

22:36

So anyways, they get called back

22:38

to Starfleet Medical, and there's

22:41

a bunch of muckety mucks, a bunch

22:43

of big wigs at Starfleet Medical, some

22:46

admirals from Starfleet, and some Vulcan

22:49

ambassadorial staff, including Thomas

22:51

Copache, are standing outside

22:53

of a OR, like

22:56

a intensive care

22:58

unit that's got a bunch

23:00

of glass separating them from

23:02

the Klingon lying inside. And

23:05

I love the idea that like the Vulcans

23:07

are kind of like trying

23:10

to explain what a Klingon is to

23:12

humans that are like, huh, no, surely

23:14

not. It's a Klingon. A

23:18

Klingon. As excited

23:20

as you were about seeing Thomas Copache,

23:22

I was just as

23:24

excited seeing Jim Beaver

23:27

and a young Beaver at that. Yeah,

23:30

young Beaver. Who would have thought?

23:33

He's one of the greats. I only

23:35

recognized him by voice, basically. He looks

23:37

so young. Yeah. The

23:40

main ambassador guy is Gary Graham,

23:42

who passed this year. RSVP

23:45

Gary Graham. I

23:48

love the... Let's

23:51

talk about the energy that John Archer

23:53

has entering this room full of important

23:55

dignitaries. He just barges in, asking

23:58

to be read in on the situation. No, like

24:00

salute for the admiral. He like shakes one

24:02

of their hands and then kind of like

24:04

pushes the Vulcans aside. Yeah.

24:08

What he's read in on is what we need to

24:10

be read in on, which is Clang, the guy in

24:12

the hospital bed. He's got information he was trying to

24:14

bring back to Kronos and seeing

24:16

as how he's down for the count, that's

24:18

gonna be hard to do. And the feeling

24:20

in the air is like, well,

24:23

because the Klingons live in a culture where

24:25

death in many ways is more

24:27

valued than life. We're just gonna

24:29

let this guy croak and then transfer

24:32

his body back to his homeworld and

24:35

then the job will be done. But... So

24:38

wait, just so I know I'm

24:40

keeping track, the Klingons want Clang

24:42

and the Vulcans want him to

24:44

croak? Yes, exactly. Okay. That's

24:47

it. And Archer like barges into

24:49

what I hope is not some

24:51

sort of like clean medical area.

24:54

Yeah. Goes on in there,

24:56

asks the doctor what the deal is. Excuse

24:58

me. Is this man dead? This

25:00

doctor later we learned his name Flox and the

25:04

doc's like, hey, no promises. I'm doing

25:06

what I can to stabilize the situation.

25:08

Like, this guy's

25:11

great. This guy from Jump. I love

25:13

the doctor. The doc rules. Yeah, Archer

25:15

kind of persuades, like the Vulcans are

25:17

riding hard for let this guy die.

25:20

That will be the most satisfactory outcome

25:23

for the Klingons and therefore we won't have

25:25

a diplomatic incident and Archer's like no fucking way.

25:27

We're taking this guy back to his homeworld now

25:30

that we have this great new ship. The Vulcans

25:32

are like, have you ever given a ride

25:34

to a Klingon before? Trust

25:38

me when I say it is

25:40

better if they are dead. The

25:44

cleanup somehow is easier

25:49

than if they are alive. The

25:52

only Klingon ride share

25:54

app users that have

25:56

five stars are dead Klingon. Your

26:02

metaphor is crude. But

26:04

accurate. This gives Archer a great idea.

26:06

He's like, look, you know how we

26:08

have that ship in space dock ready

26:10

to go and I'm its captain and

26:12

we're kind of waiting for a mission?

26:15

Well, there it sits.

26:18

How about you give me the Uber mission, we

26:20

throw this guy up on the ship, we cruise

26:22

on out of there, we drop him off at

26:24

Chronosh. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be great

26:26

for humanity, is what I'm trying to say. Not

26:28

just me. It's gonna be huge. This

26:32

is persuasive to the admiral

26:34

who breaks the bad news to the

26:36

Vulcans. There's also this

26:39

tension that we mentioned

26:42

in the flashback scene but has persisted

26:44

30 years, which is that humans

26:47

kind of feel like the Vulcans have

26:49

thrown a governor on their technological advancement

26:51

and are kind of trying to keep

26:53

them somewhat earthbound. And

26:57

Archer is just about done

26:59

with that. So he's like, let me do this

27:01

mission. I will go out into the

27:03

cosmos. If you were doing

27:05

a ranking in this century

27:08

of Star Trek, of

27:11

the trash of the galaxy, do

27:13

you think it's humans at the bottom? I

27:16

mean, they seem to smell

27:18

like worse than other aliens. Like the

27:20

Vulcans don't complain at all about the

27:23

Klingon guy, but they mention.

27:25

I kind of get that feeling. The

27:28

humans are these like, hold my

27:31

beer upstarts that

27:33

the Vulcans are very

27:35

trepidatious about. Back

27:37

on Enterprise, we meet a couple

27:39

more crew people. This is Malcolm

27:41

Reed and Ensign Travis Mayweather. And

27:44

they're observing transporter technology

27:46

that is a pretty

27:48

new thing. For now, it's

27:51

only used for cargo and

27:53

neither of them are excited about being

27:55

among the first living things to take

27:58

a trip on this thing. I'm ready

28:00

to have my molecules compressed into a data stream.

28:02

I had a little bit of a complaint

28:05

about the way this was written, because

28:07

like one of the cargo things

28:09

that they beam up is like not the

28:11

thing that they wanted. And

28:13

I was like, are you not going to

28:16

like do a bit about like, you asked

28:18

for one thing and this transporter beam beams

28:20

up something entirely the other. Yeah, that's a

28:22

great call. It was right there and they

28:24

did not engage with that at

28:27

all. I was like, it was driving me nuts in

28:29

this scene. Reid and

28:31

Mayweather meet up with Commander George

28:33

W. Bush in engineering and everyone's

28:37

super gushy about how awesome this engine

28:39

is and how fast they can go.

28:41

There's some real enthusiasm about

28:44

getting out on those space

28:46

streets and hitting the gas. Yeah,

28:50

really want to open this bad boy up. So getting

28:52

ready to go up to like warp four

28:54

and a half or something, which is

28:57

a big deal for humans. I

28:59

mean, I'm looking forward to it too. That sounds cool as hell.

29:02

We're dodging around quite a bit here. We're

29:04

meeting new crew people because part of the

29:07

moment is about assembling

29:09

a crew complement and a

29:11

very important part of the crew is going to be

29:14

that communications officer. Peter's

29:16

first choice is in Brazil

29:18

and she's teaching a

29:20

language class to a bunch

29:22

of students that he interrupts.

29:25

When he pulls her off to the side, she's

29:28

like, look, I'm a great teacher,

29:30

obviously. That's why you want me,

29:33

but I'm so great. I'm not going to ditch

29:35

these students. All he has to do

29:38

is needle drop the audio

29:40

recording on this Klingon. Turn

29:42

it up. Think of

29:44

it. You'd be

29:47

the first human to talk to these people.

29:49

You really want someone else to do

29:51

it? And she is like, oh, let

29:54

me at those sounds. Yeah,

29:56

loves that guttural language.

29:58

Yeah. even think she

30:00

says goodbye to these students. Like, yeah, they just

30:02

keep walking. You remember every

30:05

time a teacher had to leave the classroom,

30:07

they were like, okay, read the next 10

30:09

pages of this book or whatever, and they

30:11

go and do whatever important business is out

30:13

in the hall. Like I

30:15

gotta believe that Hoshi does this. Right.

30:18

It was like, all right, keep working on

30:20

those vowel sounds and I'll be right

30:22

back. And then cut to that night

30:24

and the crickets are chirping and that

30:26

guy's still just trying to like practice

30:29

the, you'll

30:32

never get it, Dan. Why

30:34

don't you stop trying? Just

30:37

not cut out for this, Dan. Try

30:40

switching careers. You'll never be able to roll

30:42

your tongue. Hey, how do you know that?

30:48

Your girlfriend told me, shut up.

30:54

You're saying Dan's alien

30:57

language interpreting career is dead

30:59

on arrival because he also

31:01

sucks at giving head. Yeah.

31:04

He also cannot satisfy his

31:06

girlfriend. So

31:15

on Enterprise, there's one last position to

31:17

fill and it's got to be

31:19

a Vulcan, right? A Vulcan's got to be

31:21

the chaperone on this mission. And

31:24

Archer explains to W that

31:26

this sub commander to Paul is going

31:28

to be their science officer, thus

31:31

kicking off a long

31:33

tradition of Vulcan science officers, a

31:35

great tradition in Star Trek. And

31:37

she meets them in this ready room. She's

31:41

not thrilled about having

31:43

a dog around. I hope Portos isn't

31:45

too offensive to you. And

31:48

dog yarn. She's not thrilled

31:50

to be there. She's not thrilled to shake

31:52

hands with trip. And

31:54

Archer feels the same way. He's like, look,

31:56

I don't want you tattling on me. I

31:58

know how you Vulcan. are, you're always

32:01

judging us, making

32:04

me feel uncomfortable. You're messy alien

32:06

bitches who love drama and you're

32:08

just gonna gossip about everything that

32:10

happens on this ship. They're

32:13

on the same level I feel like.

32:15

They don't want each other around and

32:17

when she turns to leave you

32:20

get the first of many shots of

32:22

this character leaving the room. And

32:25

hearing me describe it you might think,

32:27

oh we're just showing Jolyne

32:29

Blaylock's body in a cat suit

32:32

leaving the room. No, no.

32:35

We see the back of T'Paul's

32:37

head so often in

32:40

this episode. It's like they're making

32:42

a point of her

32:45

weird hairstyle. I couldn't

32:47

get over it. Yeah, well I

32:49

think it's like a this ain't Tuvix kind of

32:51

thing. Like they just want to make sure that

32:53

we see that the Vulcan adjacent

32:55

character isn't gonna be a Tuvix

32:58

on this show. She

33:00

is not good with dogs. Porthos

33:03

the Beagle, I gotta say, is

33:05

probably not a great breed for

33:07

long-term starship

33:09

deployment, right? Yeah, where's it gonna

33:12

bury stuff? Like when it howls

33:14

in this echo-es ship, like that's

33:16

gonna be deafening for people. Beagles

33:19

are so fucking loud. Oh

33:21

my god. You never

33:23

hear him bark. He's a well-behaved boy.

33:26

Science fiction. That's what this

33:28

show is. Ben,

33:31

you can't launch the ship before

33:33

doing a ceremony. This ceremony completely

33:35

without champagne. Instead, you

33:38

get Admiral Forest doing a

33:40

speech and then I think

33:42

this is a good job by him. He's not doing

33:44

great at the speech, so he throws

33:46

to a video and this video has deaf

33:48

from Cochrane in it and it's filmed 32

33:51

years ago at the Warp

33:53

5 complex. Yeah, so

33:55

this is a nice little

33:57

cameo and I thought that this was

34:00

really nice connective tissue to build

34:02

a bridge between first contact

34:05

and this moment. Henry

34:07

Archer is in the background of this shot.

34:09

They're excited about starting to

34:11

work on a Warp V engine.

34:15

This is when we realize the extent

34:17

to which Jonathan Archer is just a Nepo

34:19

baby. No wonder he walks into a room

34:21

full of admirals and diplomats and acts like

34:23

he owns the place. Yeah,

34:27

this is not Chuck Yeager. This is Biff Yeager.

34:33

I also just wanted to say, like, I thought

34:35

it was a nice choice

34:37

that we see a very cleaned

34:40

up version of Zephyrm Cochran. Like,

34:42

there's not an ounce of Ooby

34:44

Dooby in the version

34:46

of the man making the speech

34:48

at the Warp V complex, you

34:50

know? There's neither Ooby nor Dooby

34:52

about this guy. He's

34:54

got his buttons buttoned all the way up to the

34:56

neck. Yeah, no,

34:58

like, weird fingerless gloves or, you

35:00

know, duster jacket. It's a clean

35:03

cut version of the guy. He gave

35:05

up the booze and the women. He

35:08

was in it for the women, remember?

35:10

That's Zephyrm Cochran. That's his

35:13

vision. Money. You

35:15

remember his line read? Money.

35:19

Women. Money.

35:26

You know what I want? Money.

35:32

Women. Reicher's

35:35

like, why do you have this? What? Why

35:37

are you saying it like that? You know, one

35:39

of my favorite parts of Chinese cuisine? Mung

35:42

beans. Just

35:48

in case you forgot how important

35:51

Jonathan Archer's relationship with his perfect

35:53

father was, we get

35:55

just the briefest of flashbacks of it's

35:58

going in to the model. The

36:00

engine I mean. Was that a little warp

36:03

core? Seems that way. Yeah. Seems

36:05

like it could kind of fly itself around right?

36:08

Yeah, I mean dad had a little

36:11

radio control for that. He

36:14

was flying that thing around. We cut back

36:16

to the enterprise where Archer is taking the

36:18

big chair and he gives the order to

36:20

leave space dock and go to warp

36:23

with the words Money!

36:31

Pretty solid Starship porn and

36:34

they go to warp and

36:37

we smash cut to a

36:39

weird like cloudy part

36:42

of space with a space station in it.

36:45

And one of these lumpy

36:47

guys that we saw chasing the Klingon at

36:50

the beginning. Walks into

36:52

the room and he's kind of like phasing

36:54

in and out of existence and he's

36:56

talking to a shadowy figure in

36:59

an energy column and Basically

37:01

like taking orders from this shadowy

37:03

figure. Yeah, he's got bad

37:06

news for shadowy figure I lost two of

37:08

my guys and they didn't capture

37:10

this Klingon Be great

37:12

for me if you could prevent their

37:14

deaths a noteworthy sentence construction I thought

37:16

yeah and this shadowy figure is like

37:18

no we're not here to like clean

37:20

up your messes get that Klingon

37:22

got to get him We're

37:25

here to continue fighting a temporal

37:27

cold war. Whoa About

37:30

that, you know what that means man? time

37:33

travel Money!

37:40

Don't try to be a great man try

37:42

to be a money man rhetorical

37:46

nonsense Archer glad they

37:48

convinced dr. Flocks to join the crew

37:50

because in six Bay Archers

37:53

there just like wanting

37:55

to get to know more about him and

37:58

in doing so you get to meet know

38:00

him a little better, but also all of

38:02

his strange medical supplies. Some

38:04

of them living. Got a lot of little

38:07

critters and some

38:09

of them, yeah, like the critters

38:11

are his sort

38:13

of frontier medicine approach to

38:16

making the compounds that he

38:18

needs to do medicine. And he's

38:20

part of this medical

38:23

rotation where different species

38:25

exchange physicians so that they can learn from one

38:27

another. Something organized by

38:30

the Vulcans that sounds decidedly

38:32

non-shitty compared to the way they've

38:35

tried to hold humanity back on the

38:38

getting out to war thing. This

38:41

whole idea makes so much sense to me

38:43

that medical advances on

38:46

just one planet would go from leeches

38:50

and bloodletting to

38:53

future medical science as we know it

38:55

today and maybe in the future

38:57

up until you reach first

38:59

contact. And then when your

39:02

universe goes from a planet

39:05

into a galaxy, you

39:08

need to start all over again with frontier

39:10

medicine in order

39:12

to exist out there. I think it's

39:14

a great concept. I do too. Flax

39:16

is such a fun guy to be

39:18

around. He's so like unflappable. He's like,

39:20

yeah, this is just like kind of

39:23

a cool little project you got me

39:25

on. So I'm curious as anyone. As

39:27

much as I like Flax, I do get the sense

39:29

that he's a guy that hits a little bit of

39:32

the gas before he puts the mask on you. You

39:35

know? Yeah. If we're

39:37

going to try to embrace new worlds, you must try

39:40

to embrace new ideas. He's got gas mask energy. He

39:42

does. Especially when he does that creepy

39:44

ass smile at the end of the

39:46

scene. You're like, are we supposed to

39:48

be on acid or does his mouth

39:50

naturally do that? I did not like

39:52

that moment. What's

39:54

that like creepy character that teens

39:57

send each other as a prank that doesn't... that

40:00

like freaky smile character? Oh,

40:04

I don't know. Is it

40:06

the, the ghost mask from scream when

40:08

he smokes the weed and scary movie?

40:14

The, uh, the scary movie. Yeah.

40:17

Screamed ghost energy

40:19

to it. Then a truly bizarre

40:21

sequence happens after this. And I

40:23

want to know if you clock

40:25

this. Commander George W.

40:27

Bush is revealed to be late

40:30

for dinner by the end of it. But

40:32

instead of going straight to this dinner,

40:35

he goes to hang out upside down

40:37

with Mayweather, who's in a part of

40:39

the ship where the gravity is reversed.

40:41

And crucially learns that Mayweather has hooked

40:43

up with three boobed alien ladies. Right.

40:45

You know that firsthand, first

40:48

hand, second hand, third hand.

40:50

And then he goes to the mess hall where he's

40:52

offered a place to sit and have a meal and

40:54

he's like, no, not for me. I'm eating

40:56

with the captain. And then in

40:59

the captain's mess, he goes to meet

41:01

up with Archer and to Paul for

41:03

dinner, and he's late for that. And

41:05

he has to apologize for being late.

41:08

Why were you late? What

41:10

were you doing in the mess hall? I

41:12

thought he was in the mess hall, like

41:15

going to bring something to dinner, like appetizers

41:17

or like a bottle of wine or something.

41:19

He doesn't have shit. No. This

41:22

is a chief engineer that is not Six

41:24

Sigma, you know? Like he, he just fucks

41:26

around all day, you know? He

41:28

is a real fuck around engineer. He

41:32

apologizes for being late, but no

41:34

one apologizes for it being awkward

41:37

in this room between to Paul

41:39

and Archer and him. Yeah. She

41:42

is a vegetarian and they have great big

41:44

beef steaks that they want to eat in

41:46

front of her, despite her

41:48

obvious discomfort with this. Did you

41:51

clock the split diopter between steak

41:53

in the foreground and to Paul

41:55

in the back? Fucking

41:57

great. Excellent use of split diopter. after.

42:00

I had a real problem

42:02

with the when you when

42:04

you're trained to drop plates

42:06

on tables at a restaurant. It's always

42:08

protein facing the diner. And

42:11

one of these plates goes in front of Captain

42:13

Archer with the baked potato closest to him and

42:15

the steak further away and I was like, who,

42:17

who does that? I got to

42:19

admit I'm starting with the potato. If a steak

42:21

and potato hits the table. Am I crazy?

42:25

I would wait on the potato personally because it's

42:27

usually way too hot and I it needs a

42:29

lot more time to be bite ready than the

42:31

steak. My favorite kind

42:34

of restaurant is Steakhouse restaurant and

42:36

I've never really given

42:38

it that much thought about what I'm

42:40

eating first. You remain in post of

42:43

carnivores. Yeah, because usually in

42:45

a steakhouse the steak is just a plate

42:47

with a steak on it like it's not

42:49

it's not a plate with a steak and

42:51

a piece of kale and I'm usually about

42:53

four martinis in by the time the steak

42:55

hits the table. Yeah, that's part of it.

42:57

You're not worried about burning your mouth on

42:59

a piping hot baked potato. No. It's a

43:01

very weird scene also because like a

43:03

big plate of like maybe ratatouille or something is

43:05

put in front of Tepaul and then every time

43:08

it cuts to the close up of her plate,

43:10

it's just an empty plate with one breadstick on

43:12

it and she's like trying to cut it with

43:14

a fork and knife. Like what happened

43:16

to the other thing that she was served? She's

43:19

trying to make a point by eating Costanza

43:21

style in front of them. It gives me

43:24

for trying to clash up this place. She's

43:26

like, how do you eat breadsticks with

43:28

your hands? Before

43:31

I was a Vulcan ambassador, I was

43:35

Mr. Pitt's personal assistant and this

43:37

kind of just caught

43:39

me off guard, but I'm really into it now. They

43:42

argue back and forth about the judgments

43:44

that Tepaul has about humanity

43:46

and the punctuation

43:49

on the conversation is

43:51

to Paul successfully fork

43:54

and knifing this breadstick

43:56

without breaking it, making

43:59

a point about it. out. Cricket

44:05

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45:39

And I've got faith. Later

45:43

on the bridge, Hoshi Sato

45:45

is skittish about

45:47

the bumps they're

45:49

enduring in transit. And

45:52

she does not have any patience for Tepal.

45:54

And Tepal doesn't have any patience for her.

45:57

They fucking hate each other from jump.

46:00

shoot daggers at each other back

46:03

and forth. What do you

46:05

think about T'Pol's Vulcan-ness up

46:07

until this point? Here's

46:10

what I think. I think acting

46:13

Vulcan is maybe one of the hardest

46:15

things an actor can do, especially

46:17

an actor who is very charismatic.

46:20

And I think it has got to be

46:22

really hard to turn it

46:24

off, to like put your light completely under

46:26

a basket. Yeah. I

46:29

think there is a moment in this episode

46:31

where T'Pol comes around to being recognizably

46:34

Vulcan, but that's a little

46:36

while from now. And this scene is

46:39

an example of that. Like, she

46:41

is clearly upset

46:43

with Seto. Yeah, I

46:45

think that every actor

46:47

that winds up playing a

46:49

Vulcan has that early learning

46:51

curve moment. And I'll

46:54

be curious to see how this

46:56

character develops over the series, because

46:58

she is definitely a little

47:00

bit different from some of the other ones that

47:03

we've met over the years. We

47:05

get called down to Six Bay, where

47:10

they are pushing the ship to warp

47:12

4.4, which seems like a bigger

47:14

deal than they're making of it in this moment.

47:16

Like, it seems like this is

47:18

the fastest humans have ever gone, right? Yeah. Yeah,

47:21

there's no banner that drops. Yeah.

47:24

And it's just like, okay, well, we've got to

47:26

go down to Six Bay. So that's great. But

47:29

they go down there and the Klingon

47:31

has woken up. And I had not

47:33

clocked this guy until now, but this

47:35

is Tiny Lister Jr. He's one of

47:38

the all-time that guys. Yeah. Incredible casting.

47:40

I love it. Yeah. And like

47:42

the kind of guy that

47:44

I want cast as Klingons

47:46

more often than not, like huge,

47:49

physically imposing people is

47:51

my favorite kind of Klingon. Absolutely. And

47:53

this guy is it. In

47:55

this era, no one was more imposing

47:57

than Tiny Lister. Yeah. Cast

48:01

his Gling on Tiny

48:04

Lister. Yeah,

48:08

I mean, I wasn't going to do it, so I'm glad you did. Big

48:15

language barrier here. No

48:18

subtitles to help us out. No, nothing.

48:20

No. We do hear the

48:22

word Stovocore, and that needs

48:24

no translation for us. I

48:27

kept thinking, like, what if this was your first

48:29

Star Trek thing watching this episode?

48:32

And I think that they do a really good

48:35

job in this pilot overall of it being

48:37

a, this is the

48:39

first of a series for somebody

48:41

that's totally uninitiated, and this

48:43

is the first of a series for people that have

48:45

already watched Star Trek. I think it does a

48:47

really nice job on both sides of that line. I

48:50

liked seeing more of a Klingon's body than

48:52

I can remember seeing in a while. Like,

48:54

you see his feet? Yeah. You

48:57

see his chest? The ridges go all the

48:59

way down, Adam. We never saw this much

49:01

of Worf. Did

49:03

Worf have ridges on his feet? I

49:05

don't know. I don't remember. I imagine

49:07

Worf is not a big sandals guy. No.

49:11

While they're having this conversation, the lights

49:14

go out. RSVP main

49:16

power. Up

49:19

on the ridge, they, like, have a

49:21

sensor reading that they're like, oh, maybe

49:23

there's something out there, but

49:25

they're getting that reading right as the power

49:27

is going out, so no way to double

49:29

check it or verify or anything. And

49:33

I loved this shot when it cut

49:35

to the hallway and there were just

49:37

three of these creepy dudes climbing down

49:39

it, kind of Spider-Man style, or maybe

49:42

even more like alien xenomorph style. They

49:45

did a good job with the creep

49:47

factor on the Sububon. Yeah.

49:50

They're in Six Bay. They're like creeping

49:53

around in Six Bay. It seems like they

49:55

can either go invisible or do the Garden

49:57

State thing where they're wearing

50:00

a shirt that looks exactly like the wallpaper

50:02

behind them. Oh, I thought

50:04

you meant one of the Suluban is listening

50:06

to headphones and then like puts the headphones

50:08

on to say toe. That's

50:12

how she knows someone else is in the room. Like

50:14

the invisible headphones are put on her head. This

50:19

song is going to change your life. Wow.

50:22

And it's the theme song to enterprise. So

50:24

she's like, Oh, I

50:27

hate it. Who's

50:30

doing those harmonies? They suck. You

50:33

know what? You compared the Suluban

50:35

skulking to Xenomorph and the way

50:37

that this dark scene explodes into

50:39

action is a lot like an

50:41

alien film. Yeah. And

50:44

it's so scary. Like when one of

50:46

them like falls from the ceiling onto

50:48

the Klingon and all of the Starfleet's

50:50

in the room are so

50:53

distracted with fighting the other one

50:55

and like getting the crewmen

50:57

off the floor who got attacked that

51:00

when the lights come back up, the Klingon

51:02

is gone, baby gone. Whoever

51:04

was shooting coverage of

51:07

Hoshi Sato waving her flashlight

51:09

around did Yeoman's

51:12

work here because they use so

51:14

much of it as filler. Yeah.

51:17

Like it is great. They probably got 10

51:19

seconds for doing it and they used 20

51:22

seconds of it. There's a

51:24

couple of reused clips. Yeah. Would you

51:26

say they did Yeoman Rand's work? No,

51:29

that's a different kind of work. Oh, yeah. Okay.

51:31

That's that work is done in the dark. No

51:35

flashlight. More fun that way,

51:37

you know. So the

51:40

power comes back on and on

51:42

the bridge. Archer is pissed. He's

51:45

pissed at how his ship

51:47

systems failed him. He's

51:49

pissed at how

51:52

he didn't see this coming. He

51:54

takes it personally in a very unusual way.

51:56

And even to Paul is like, look, man,

51:59

shit happens. here in deep space.

52:01

Like, stop making it about you. And

52:04

she is kind of operating from a, well,

52:06

we lost the Klingon, so mission over. And

52:08

it's kind of assuming that they're just heading back

52:11

for Earth. And this feeling

52:13

of chagrin that Archer is experiencing

52:15

is like enough for him to

52:17

call her into the ready room and be like,

52:19

we are not going back to Earth. We're doing

52:21

this fucking mission. So take your Vulcan cynicism and

52:23

bury it along with your repressed emotions. Your

52:26

reaction to this situation is a perfect example of

52:28

why your species should remain in its own star

52:30

system. I love

52:32

the version of this that is so much

52:35

like Star Trek VI, where basically

52:37

Archer in front of T'Pol is like,

52:40

I hate the Vulcans and I always have.

52:43

I've never forgiven him for the death of

52:46

my father's career. She's

52:48

like, you sure you want to say

52:50

that on the record? Let it go,

52:52

man. I

52:55

liked his ready room being like kind

52:57

of cramped, like submarine style. Yeah, I

52:59

like that a lot. The

53:03

temptation with a new show with more money

53:05

is make all the sets big and roomy.

53:07

And I think that they did a nice

53:09

job making some of these feel real cramped

53:12

and naval in vibe.

53:14

I do like that. So he

53:17

goes down after this big blowout

53:19

with T'Pol to Six Bay, where

53:22

Flox is doing an autopsy

53:24

on this Suluban and has

53:27

discovered some weird things about his anatomy.

53:29

He's like, yeah, this guy is not

53:32

standard issue. Suluban has been heavily

53:35

genetically altered and we

53:37

don't know why. Are you saying he's some kind of

53:39

a mutant? Well, I suppose I am,

53:41

but this was no accident. This scene

53:43

reminded me a lot of the scene

53:46

in Star Trek Picard with the autopsy of

53:48

the changeling. You

53:51

really get close up to those guts.

53:53

Yeah, that looks good. Flox

53:56

is like blown away by

53:58

this guy and his genetic mind. modifications,

54:00

he's impressed. Like I

54:03

love the enthusiasm that he has

54:05

basically in every scene, the

54:07

vigor he has for his job. Yeah.

54:10

Good for him. I think that it's

54:12

easy to compare this character to Neelix

54:15

because of that vigor, but like there's

54:17

a, there's such a different energy behind

54:19

it. You know, like it's, it's

54:21

so much less grating

54:24

currently. You know? I

54:27

mean, I wonder if it will eventually great,

54:30

but for right now, I think it's a

54:32

great companion to the fuck

54:34

around guys that are on the ship

54:37

at every other station, you know? So

54:40

one of those fuck around guys is in

54:42

engineering with DePaul and she

54:44

is just smashing his nuts about

54:46

how stupid their tech is on the ship.

54:49

Your senses aren't capable of isolated plasma

54:51

decay. How can you be so damn sure what

54:53

our senses can do? Broken children

54:55

say the toys that are more sophisticated. Hoshi

54:58

walks in and has

55:00

translations of what the Klingon

55:03

was babbling about. She

55:05

has pretty much everything figured out except

55:07

for a handful of words that she

55:09

didn't know, one of which

55:11

was Rigel 10, which is the planet he was

55:14

on before he was on earth. So they're like,

55:16

well, that's a good, as good a place as

55:18

any to start our search. Like see if we

55:20

can pick up the trail there.

55:22

And that's the plan. Meanwhile,

55:24

in that Suluban station, Clang is

55:26

just getting worked over. He's, he's

55:28

filled with truth telling drugs. And

55:31

this is so frustrating as an

55:34

interrogator or a torturer. Like you're

55:36

just really given the Klingon the

55:39

business and he's

55:41

just not giving you anything

55:44

like you're just dialing up that scissor to

55:47

the max. Yeah, nothing, nothing

55:50

actionable. Like the

55:52

best this guy can do is Sharon,

55:54

the name Sharon. Yeah. That's

55:56

the courier that Clang encountered. The

55:59

courier that Clang. encountered one of

56:01

my favorite neurotoxins. Oh yeah. Just

56:04

all around a popular item.

56:06

I hope we meet Sarah

56:08

and then she's wearing a

56:10

string of pearls around your neck.

56:12

That'd be nice. Yeah,

56:15

wrapped in a thin film of plastic. Yeah.

56:18

Unfortunately, incredibly unstable. On

56:21

Enterprises Launch Bay, this is a

56:23

new set for us. Yeah. We

56:25

have a lot of influencers telling the Dust Buster

56:28

Club that look guys, we're going to a

56:30

bizarre, a Star Trek bazaar. And

56:33

to Paul's like, y'all better be fucking cool down there.

56:37

Not like how I've seen you act basically

56:39

the entire episode up until now, because no

56:42

one has

56:44

seen a human down there. You have a tendency

56:46

to be gregarious. I suggest you try to restrain

56:48

that tendency. Good

56:50

first impressions. All around.

56:53

Eyes forward. So like we, you

56:55

know, they're going to be gawking

56:57

at your weird, loveless features and

56:59

you just need to like maintain.

57:02

They're looking for the courier that Clang met

57:04

and that means there's a pretty good chance

57:07

that they're talking about Sharon. Yeah.

57:10

So away they go and Rigel

57:12

10 is a very snowy place

57:14

and they enter this bazaar and

57:17

sure enough full of like steam

57:20

and dangling chains and

57:22

open barrels full of flame. I

57:25

thought I spotted the hollow matrix

57:27

from Voyager in the background of

57:29

some of these shots. It

57:32

looked like they just like took some pieces of

57:34

that and just like threw it in the background

57:36

to like give texture to scenes. I

57:38

think this should come in a box. The

57:41

the science fiction bazaar set up like,

57:44

like if you're a set carpenter or

57:46

whatever, like you should just be able

57:48

to buy this off the rack. Right.

57:51

Yeah. Yeah. Star Trek IKEA

57:54

just has kits. Yeah. You

57:56

got to have exotic dancers with

57:58

super long tongues. Right? I

58:00

mean, and their pimp. You gotta

58:02

have him in this scene too. There is a lumpy

58:06

thumb that is plying his trade as

58:08

a pimp, trying to get

58:11

Reed and Mayweather to book some

58:13

one-on-one time with these alien

58:16

exotic dancers. It seems like

58:18

they barely resist this,

58:20

right? Yeah. I

58:23

mean, neither of them seem to be spoken for.

58:27

Like what a great opportunity, right? Is this

58:29

a ship of single folks? Yeah, I think

58:32

it is. So far

58:34

it is. Whoa. Okay. In

58:43

another part of the station, Tripp

58:46

observes a parent with a child

58:48

struggling to breathe, and he

58:50

thinks what's happening here is torture. But

58:53

to Paul tells him that it's actually

58:55

just a weaning process. This is a

58:57

sort of alien that is birthed and

58:59

grows up in an air

59:01

environment of one sort of gas, and that

59:03

they need to be weaned off of that

59:05

in order to breathe the oxygen

59:07

in this environment. And look, man, if

59:10

you're just going to start jumping to

59:12

conclusions every time you see an

59:14

alien interaction, I'm just going to send you back

59:16

to the ship. Every time you see a child

59:18

that appears to be suffering, if you start to

59:21

try and intervene, that's not going to work for

59:23

you out here, man. Or if you hear like

59:25

the cries of a woman being beaten by a

59:27

monster behind a door, like, you just got to

59:30

let that shit go. Yeah,

59:33

this is like many, many scenes

59:35

that Tripp falls for. I

59:38

guess suggesting that he

59:40

is a rube? Yeah, I

59:43

mean, I think they kind of all are. But

59:45

Tripp seems to be the one that's like

59:48

the silliest about it. Yeah. And

59:51

also seeing the craziest shit of

59:53

anyone. He's like a rube in. His

59:56

naivete is piled high. Mm,

59:58

yeah. Hoshi

1:00:00

and the captain are in another

1:00:03

steamy, you

1:00:05

know, warehousey factory looking place, and they

1:00:07

see a couple of Klingons. A lot

1:00:10

of chains. Tons of

1:00:12

chains. They radio up to let everyone

1:00:14

know, like, we think we're close. We

1:00:16

think we're onto the trail. And

1:00:19

pretty quickly, they get into a great big

1:00:21

fight with some Zulubans who grab them and

1:00:24

kind of like pull them into the smoke.

1:00:27

And this felt like probably where episode

1:00:29

one theoretically ends and

1:00:32

episode two theoretically begins,

1:00:34

right? It was hard to tell. Yeah,

1:00:37

it felt pretty smooth to me. Yeah,

1:00:39

like this is one of those ones where

1:00:42

it's like, it's listed as part one and two. And

1:00:45

I don't really understand, like, what the point of

1:00:47

that is in just call

1:00:49

it episode one. Like, why is it called

1:00:51

part one and two? It's one thing. It's

1:00:54

a moment that reads is dun

1:00:56

dun dun. But in

1:00:58

the aftermath is revealed to be like, these

1:01:01

are good Zuluban. Yeah, they're just locking everybody

1:01:03

up while the captain gets to talk to

1:01:05

Saren. Yeah, look, they just need to lock

1:01:07

them up so they can figure things out.

1:01:10

Right. Is that so bad? Is that

1:01:12

such a bad thought? Saren

1:01:16

comes out from behind

1:01:18

a cargo container and

1:01:21

she is beautiful. She's

1:01:25

Melinda Clark from the OC. She

1:01:28

is. And she is really

1:01:32

like slinking around. It's

1:01:34

a very, very sexy sequence where

1:01:36

she's kind of trying to seduce

1:01:39

our, or we find out that

1:01:41

this kissy kissy moment is, in

1:01:43

fact, because she needs to touch

1:01:45

someone to find out if they're trustworthy.

1:01:48

And that's one of her genetic modifications.

1:01:50

Can you just see fucking Berman

1:01:52

and Braga like? Sitting

1:01:55

on a patio, getting a huge laugh about this. Well,

1:01:57

how is she going to be able to tell? of

1:01:59

his tale and the truth. Make

1:02:02

him kiss. She

1:02:04

has to suck his dick. Okay, but like

1:02:06

for broadcast, we'll make it that they have

1:02:09

to kiss. I

1:02:11

love the take that Baccala

1:02:13

has here because when she

1:02:15

changes from Melinda Clark into

1:02:17

the Suluban, he's like,

1:02:20

Ooh, did that come from me? That's

1:02:23

never happened. He

1:02:26

kind of feels responsible for her

1:02:28

transformation. Now that that's not it

1:02:30

at all. Very funny line.

1:02:32

She's determined that he is a

1:02:35

trustworthy person. She was helping Clang

1:02:38

get back to the High

1:02:40

Council on Kronos with information

1:02:43

about how the Suluban

1:02:46

have been stoking

1:02:48

tensions within the Empire by like

1:02:50

making attacks look like they're coming

1:02:52

from rival houses and stuff. And

1:02:55

this is all a part

1:02:57

of a cabal that she is

1:02:59

now fighting against that are fighting

1:03:01

a temporal Cold War. Temple?

1:03:05

You've lost me. She would like Archer's

1:03:08

help to finish Clang's mission

1:03:10

because since

1:03:13

he's been grabbed by the bad guys,

1:03:15

she needs to get this info to the to

1:03:17

the Klingons, but she does not have a starship. This

1:03:20

moment runs out of time like many

1:03:22

moments do in this part of the

1:03:25

episode because the phaser fire comes in

1:03:27

again. It's fight scene,

1:03:29

fight scene, fight scene. The

1:03:31

Suluban have found them. Run for

1:03:33

it, Marty. Yeah, they got to get

1:03:35

out of there. Saren catches a stray

1:03:37

and buys the

1:03:40

farm. RCP Saren. We

1:03:42

barely knew Yi. And then they get out onto

1:03:44

out to the parking

1:03:46

lot and like, you know, like

1:03:48

Reed has like a huge air conditioner in

1:03:50

a box and to Paul's carrying a goldfish

1:03:52

in a bag and they can't find their

1:03:54

car. Really?

1:04:00

long action sequence on the roof of this

1:04:02

building. Pretty long

1:04:04

shootout here where Archer gets

1:04:06

hit and they

1:04:08

finally all pile into the shuttle and

1:04:12

T'Pol takes command

1:04:14

here, not just of the shuttle but of

1:04:17

the Enterprise. We get a flashback

1:04:19

here. Archer hitting a

1:04:21

leg probably in an archery, probably

1:04:23

starting to bleed out pretty bad here hence

1:04:26

the flashback where

1:04:28

he crashes his RC spacecraft into

1:04:31

the sand and he blames the wind and his

1:04:33

dad is like, it's

1:04:35

like the Christopher Cross song son. You

1:04:38

gotta ride like the wind. On

1:04:48

Enterprise, the scene

1:04:50

that I've heard about before watching

1:04:53

it takes place. This is in

1:04:55

the decontamination chamber. Dr. Flocks has

1:04:58

told T'Pol and George W. that they got

1:05:00

covered in spores and what they

1:05:02

need to do is rub themselves on each other

1:05:04

with lube. You guys

1:05:06

made a very sexy mistake and now you've gotta

1:05:08

pay for it. Berman and

1:05:11

Braga are like, look, if the last scene

1:05:13

with the kissing and the telling of the

1:05:15

truth doesn't make much sense, we gotta raise

1:05:17

the sexual stakes here. Let's

1:05:19

get some body touching. Let's really

1:05:21

use these two underwear models for all

1:05:23

they're worth and specifically one of the

1:05:26

underwear models for all she's worth. I

1:05:29

can understand the reason this needs

1:05:31

to happen. Decontamination

1:05:33

on an alien world, I totally

1:05:35

get it. The reason that the

1:05:38

necessity exists makes sense to

1:05:40

me. I even get the

1:05:42

rubbing of lube on themselves and

1:05:44

each other. What I don't

1:05:46

get are the singles on the

1:05:49

boobs and the singles on the legs

1:05:52

and what kind of looks

1:05:54

like a chubby that Tuck's

1:05:56

got on the very brief pan

1:05:58

past his breathe. Yeah, oh you

1:06:01

can't show that on TV Definitely

1:06:03

get that out of here. He definitely

1:06:06

judged himself before this scene, right?

1:06:08

These are both beautiful people and

1:06:10

I'm who doesn't like

1:06:12

looking at beautiful people, but the

1:06:15

lingering Lasciviousness

1:06:17

of the camera here. I found

1:06:20

it shocking Yeah, and maybe

1:06:22

it's because like there's nothing to suggest

1:06:24

the potential of this Ever

1:06:27

like if there was an example of oh,

1:06:29

yes, dad chicks getting a little cheeky,

1:06:32

right? Like I could understand that this

1:06:34

is more of a pattern of this.

1:06:36

There was no pattern that makes this

1:06:38

likely It's been a long time since I

1:06:40

watched this series. I I remember this being

1:06:42

a thing that happens Ones

1:06:45

are you serious? Yeah, I think they

1:06:47

come back to this I think they

1:06:49

go harder at this with different people

1:06:51

No, I think it's basically a to

1:06:54

Paul thing like always getting

1:06:56

contaminated down on the surface Like

1:06:58

people on on just mister klez with the

1:07:00

Paul or constantly like throwing spores at her.

1:07:02

Oh, it's a ball You

1:07:04

got these on you again. Oh I

1:07:10

got spores on me. Oh, they're in

1:07:12

my mouth and genitals. Oh Here's

1:07:17

some for my butthole I

1:07:20

need your help rubbing some gel on this around

1:07:24

It's a weird choice. I mean like I'm I'm

1:07:26

all for horny Star Trek. Don't get me wrong It's

1:07:29

weird that we get the brazers logo in this

1:07:31

scene. That is a strange choice

1:07:33

that they made. Yeah Archer

1:07:35

wakes up in six Bay with

1:07:38

a an osmotic eel cleaning

1:07:40

his wound Leech

1:07:42

like and I like that he

1:07:44

was like pretty hurt for the rest of the

1:07:46

episode Like he's always like limping around after this

1:07:49

to Paul and George W roll in

1:07:51

I don't think this is right after

1:07:53

the lube scene Because

1:07:55

I would imagine there's an interstitial scene where you got

1:07:57

to wipe off the lube. You can't just go straight

1:07:59

to do a uniform after that, right? Oh

1:08:02

yeah. It'd be kind of gross and clammy,

1:08:04

right? Like pulling on a wet swimsuit. Uh,

1:08:07

yeah. So this isn't going great. Like

1:08:09

when we rented the Airbnb, we kind

1:08:11

of like didn't anticipate how many swimsuits

1:08:13

we were going to need and like,

1:08:15

this one doesn't dry. So we're like

1:08:18

kind of wanting to go home, but

1:08:20

to Paul having assumed command of the

1:08:22

ship did not just go do what

1:08:25

she would do. She thought, what would

1:08:27

Archer do in this situation and

1:08:29

did that. So they are continuing to

1:08:31

track, uh, the Sula bond that

1:08:34

have the Klingon that they're chasing

1:08:36

having modified the ship's sensors to

1:08:39

chase these plasma particles.

1:08:41

What a great bit of news. This

1:08:44

is for Archer. He's like,

1:08:46

you didn't disappoint or humiliate me

1:08:48

at all. It's amazing. Amazing. And

1:08:50

I liked the symmetry

1:08:52

of this, like where in

1:08:55

that previous scene, she assumes like mission over,

1:08:57

we're going to earth and she's wrong. And

1:08:59

now he assumes mission over, we're

1:09:01

going to earth and he's wrong. This is

1:09:03

kind of the thing. Like when you expect

1:09:05

the worst from people, when

1:09:07

you get not the worst from them,

1:09:09

it's like pure oxygen, like, whoa, disarming.

1:09:12

Wow. Ben, this is also

1:09:14

the scene that I thought was the

1:09:17

pivot point for to Paul where she

1:09:19

resembles a Vulcan the most. And

1:09:21

from here until the end of the episode, she

1:09:24

reads as familiar in that

1:09:26

way. I thought, yeah,

1:09:28

I think that's an interesting observation. It's

1:09:31

so shocking for the captain that he's like doing

1:09:33

a captain's log about it later. And he's like,

1:09:35

you keep pausing and he's like, that's so fucking

1:09:37

wild. And he's like talking to his dog. Like

1:09:39

you ever heard of a Vulcan doing anything like

1:09:42

this? And his dog is like, I

1:09:44

don't talk, man. Dog. The

1:09:46

dog does start talking and he's like, man, what

1:09:48

was in that eel? I

1:09:52

feel great right now. And

1:09:56

Portos is talking to me. Hell

1:09:58

yeah. Oh man. Oh,

1:10:00

that's so intense. My ready

1:10:02

room couch goes all

1:10:04

the way across the ready room. Oh!

1:10:08

Oh, I

1:10:10

got two couches and

1:10:13

two beagles. Woo hoo! And

1:10:18

you will never cheat the greatest

1:10:20

in the life. Then

1:10:22

would rather die. They

1:10:26

drop out of warp and he's like, duh

1:10:28

fuck. And he goes up to

1:10:30

the bridge and it turns out they just got

1:10:32

into where the ship went that they were tracking.

1:10:35

They're in orbit of a gas

1:10:37

giant that has a lot

1:10:40

of radiation in its upper atmosphere that

1:10:43

has like dissipated the warp trail. And

1:10:46

for a second they think like this

1:10:48

was just like a going across a

1:10:50

stream so that the trail goes cold

1:10:52

and the bloodhounds can't keep tracking the

1:10:56

fugitive or whatever. But

1:10:58

it turns out that they are able

1:11:00

to like configure the sensors

1:11:02

again to see that a

1:11:05

whole bunch of Suluban ships have gone

1:11:07

into the atmosphere of this planet. So

1:11:10

this is where everybody's going. This

1:11:12

seemed a little unnecessary like after the last

1:11:14

scene where it seems like T'Pol and Archer

1:11:16

are going to get along to get a

1:11:19

scene where it's like, oh,

1:11:21

now everyone's getting along and working together

1:11:23

and like doing science to

1:11:25

solve a mystery that didn't seem mysterious at

1:11:27

all. Like this is a path

1:11:29

heading toward a planet. I

1:11:32

mean, I think it was padding probably

1:11:34

just because I didn't get enough footage

1:11:37

of Hoshi waving her flashlight around in the

1:11:39

earlier scene. They're just like, we got to

1:11:41

like fill some time here. Yeah.

1:11:44

They used all the flashlight and all the

1:11:46

lube and

1:11:49

they still need to make time. So

1:11:51

they go inside this gas giant, get

1:11:53

some bumps, and then they find this

1:11:55

space station that we saw earlier. And

1:11:59

they're like. getting bangers because it's

1:12:02

like a modular space station, all these

1:12:04

little pods

1:12:07

connect to it. I like it, it's cool.

1:12:09

Yeah, it's really good looking. Some of them

1:12:11

are shooting at them and they

1:12:13

don't wanna use the transporter to get aboard

1:12:15

the space station. So they use

1:12:18

the grappler, which is another like, this is

1:12:20

like one of those scenes in a pilot that's

1:12:22

like, here's a thing that the ship can do.

1:12:25

Isn't it wild how in the pilot of

1:12:27

Star Trek, the next generation, there was a

1:12:30

grappler? Wow. And

1:12:32

in the pilot of Enterprise, there's a grappler. That is

1:12:34

wild. I also thought it was wild that in the

1:12:37

pilot of the next generation, they played

1:12:39

the entire theme song again when they

1:12:41

showed them separating the saucer section. And

1:12:43

in this, they played the entire theme song

1:12:45

again when they grapple that one pod. And

1:12:48

we're back. So

1:13:00

they gotta like study up on how

1:13:02

to work the pod. Yeah.

1:13:05

It seems like Mayweather like learned how to do it

1:13:07

and is now teaching Tripp how to work it, which

1:13:10

just feels like inefficient. Like shouldn't Tripp

1:13:13

have just been the one to like learn

1:13:15

up on it? I hated this for Mayweather.

1:13:18

Mayweather is the qualified pilot. And

1:13:21

for some reason Archer tells him

1:13:23

he needs him on Enterprise. Really?

1:13:26

What, to sit there in like one position?

1:13:28

Cause the plan is that Enterprise is just

1:13:30

gonna stay in one spot while they go

1:13:32

do the mission. If you're giving me the

1:13:34

choice of an Uber driver

1:13:37

who has driven in this country

1:13:39

before, understands the traffic laws and

1:13:41

whatever, like from experience

1:13:44

and one who's just winging it.

1:13:48

Five stars to the first one. How

1:13:50

complicated can it be? Up, down, forward,

1:13:52

reverse, figure it out?

1:13:55

Unbelievable, not a great Mayweather

1:13:57

episode. Yeah, sad

1:13:59

really. They get

1:14:01

some bond gadgets on their way out.

1:14:04

Reed gives them a

1:14:06

gadget that will demagnetize

1:14:08

the space station and

1:14:11

a briefcase with some new pistols and he's

1:14:13

like, oh, these are our new weapons. And

1:14:15

it's like, didn't you guys have guns in

1:14:17

the previous space station you were at? Like-

1:14:21

Yeah, why didn't they get them then? Like

1:14:23

what were they shooting then, if not

1:14:25

these? I get a weird vibe

1:14:28

from Reed as the tactical

1:14:30

guy. Like he seems

1:14:32

kind of indifferent to matters

1:14:35

of security and weapons and so

1:14:37

forth. Yeah. Like, unless you

1:14:40

told me he was the security guy, I

1:14:42

don't think there's very much evidence of that

1:14:44

in the pilot. So far not so much.

1:14:47

But so they get to the

1:14:50

space station and they do like a

1:14:52

little orbit around it and I love

1:14:54

that they bump into it by accident

1:14:57

because drip isn't that good at piloting.

1:14:59

That's a nice callback. And then they

1:15:02

connect and they start sneaking around and

1:15:04

start bullseyeing bad guys. It

1:15:06

is weird that when trip comes into contact with

1:15:08

this other ship, like it smears a bunch of

1:15:10

lube onto it. That's

1:15:14

going to be a theme. Yeah, is that thing

1:15:16

where like the screen thinks he's trying to do a

1:15:18

multi-touch gesture and it's just because he left like a

1:15:20

glob of goo on

1:15:22

another part when he was tapping something. Enterprise

1:15:27

continues to take bangers and it

1:15:29

doesn't seem like they

1:15:31

are long for their position in

1:15:34

the atmosphere, but they can't move the

1:15:36

ship because that means Archer and George

1:15:38

W. won't know where to find them

1:15:41

afterwards. Right. So they're in

1:15:43

a bit of a pickle. Meanwhile

1:15:46

Archer and Trip

1:15:49

find Clang in a clip

1:15:51

show device and are

1:15:53

somehow able to persuade him to come with

1:15:55

them. He's ready to start

1:15:57

ripping their heads off when they first wake him up.

1:16:00

But uh this is like waking up a

1:16:02

Benjamin R Harrison. Yeah He

1:16:09

is a real asset for their Sculking

1:16:12

around the corridors in the hand-to-hand combat department.

1:16:14

He really kicks a lot of ass Yeah,

1:16:17

but not so much in the stealth department now

1:16:20

He's yelling crazy shit and drawing

1:16:22

a lot of unwanted attention toward them So

1:16:25

Archer places the device from the

1:16:27

ship onto a panel and once

1:16:29

it detonates It sends

1:16:31

out this wave that causes all of

1:16:33

the links ships to separate and I

1:16:35

love this cut to the exterior When

1:16:38

you see all of them float away and even

1:16:41

from the interior you see them kind of blurb

1:16:44

out of their holes Yeah, that's

1:16:46

really fun. It's really well done

1:16:48

and George Debia and Clang

1:16:50

have gotten aboard a pod, but Archer

1:16:52

didn't quite make it for some reason

1:16:55

That felt kind of arbitrary to me. It truly

1:16:57

did yeah So but

1:16:59

also there is clearly there was never going to

1:17:02

be room for all three of them in that

1:17:04

pod, right? That's a

1:17:06

good point. Yeah, the clang is fucking

1:17:08

huge. Yeah, not called tiny for nothing

1:17:11

No, no, they've moved the Enterprise

1:17:13

at this point and they gotta they gotta

1:17:15

like figure out where the pod is I

1:17:17

thought that this whole sequence where to

1:17:20

Paul was hit charge on the bridge

1:17:22

of the Enterprise was great for her

1:17:24

because she seems like super capable and

1:17:27

You know quick on her feet and making

1:17:29

good choices as a leader It's

1:17:32

weird to say this because she's a Vulcan

1:17:34

But you see a pattern of this in

1:17:36

a lot of movies and TV which is

1:17:38

like the fuck around character gets given an

1:17:41

opportunity for responsibility and all of a

1:17:43

sudden like snaps into Capability

1:17:47

right like you see Jim Kirk to

1:17:49

do this in the JJ Abram Star

1:17:51

Trek like but she's Vulcan She was

1:17:53

always capable like nothing about her changes

1:17:55

and you're right. She's a great captain

1:17:57

in these moments. That's That's

1:18:00

cool to see on the enterprise.

1:18:03

W is arguing like we need to go back and

1:18:05

get the captain and to Paul is like, there's

1:18:08

so many of those fucking ships out there.

1:18:10

Like there's no way we can safely do

1:18:12

that. That's insane. And

1:18:15

you sort of wonder if there's going to

1:18:17

be a crimson tide moment here because like,

1:18:20

who is to Paul even to be left in charge

1:18:22

of this ship? Trip Tucker

1:18:24

is the XO, isn't he? Yeah,

1:18:26

I guess he isn't. I guess she is.

1:18:28

Yeah, that's that's part of their conflict. Archer

1:18:31

really has nothing to do on the

1:18:33

Sulubon base besides explore. Like he's just

1:18:35

got to wait for pickup. Yeah. And

1:18:38

he picks up this strange energy reading

1:18:40

on his tricorder and follows it into

1:18:42

the temporal one conference room. And

1:18:45

he is really tripped out by

1:18:47

it. The way that we've seen the

1:18:49

other characters experience this place. He

1:18:52

kind of blurs around on his

1:18:54

way in there and he hears a ghostly

1:18:56

voice from the shadows. It's

1:18:58

kind of scary. And all the snacks

1:19:00

from the previous meeting are still there

1:19:03

uneaten. And that's creepy. Like, where did

1:19:05

they go? A

1:19:08

bunch of half drank water bottles on

1:19:10

the conference room table. Like clean up after

1:19:12

yourselves, guys. Yeah, they're

1:19:14

still logged into different zoom rooms. Like,

1:19:17

what is this? Oh, yeah.

1:19:19

Archer finally encounters the

1:19:22

Sulubon in the room.

1:19:24

And this guy really wants

1:19:26

Archer to leave. That part

1:19:28

seems very important to him. Yeah,

1:19:31

important enough for the Sulubon to hit

1:19:33

Archer with a running spear move. Now

1:19:38

he's got the dust buster. And

1:19:40

because of the weird time aspects of this

1:19:42

place, like the Sulubon shoots

1:19:44

at Archer and it discharges

1:19:47

the energy. But in such a slow

1:19:49

way that Archer can just kind of

1:19:51

neo himself around the beam.

1:19:54

And then the fight continues. And

1:19:56

right at the moment that things become

1:19:58

kind of lethal. still added in the

1:20:00

corridor, Archer gets beamed away

1:20:03

by the Enterprise using the transporter.

1:20:06

You can just do that. How did they do that?

1:20:09

Incredible. Sorry, I have

1:20:11

no other choice. I love

1:20:13

this, like as soon as Archer's on board they're like gun

1:20:16

it, let's get the hell out of here. And

1:20:18

where they gun it to is

1:20:20

Chronosh. Yeah, which is looking very

1:20:22

like clear skied and crisp in

1:20:24

a way that I've never seen

1:20:26

Chronosh look. It really looks great.

1:20:29

A lot of bells and gongs.

1:20:32

Yeah, I mean the high council chambers

1:20:34

look exactly as they ever have. It

1:20:36

kind of seems like they're interrupting something

1:20:38

important here when they walk in and

1:20:41

present Clang. Yeah, Clang

1:20:43

and a few Starfleet show

1:20:46

up to the council chambers

1:20:48

and you know there's that

1:20:50

dramatic like pull open the doors, move.

1:20:52

So the leader guy takes out a

1:20:54

knife and he slashes Clang's hand and

1:20:57

then he puts some of that blood into

1:20:59

a computer and what pops up onto

1:21:01

the screen is Mr. DNA. The

1:21:06

code is in your blood. Saren

1:21:10

found holes in your frog DNA

1:21:13

and put information about how

1:21:16

the Sulabon are stoking tensions

1:21:18

within the empire right in there.

1:21:21

Clingon blood is pink so we can

1:21:23

achieve a PG-13 rating. Yeah,

1:21:28

this is another example of TV

1:21:30

Klingons having redder blood than movie

1:21:32

Klingons. Yeah. I like it. Lower

1:21:35

Decks had the right idea with this. Stick

1:21:37

with the pink Pepto-Bismol blood. What

1:21:40

do you think happens to Clang after they leave?

1:21:43

It sure seems like he's gonna die,

1:21:45

right? Yeah. Like, he

1:21:48

was captured by humans and Sulabon,

1:21:51

both of which are viewed as kind of beneath

1:21:54

the Klingons, kind of the alien

1:21:56

trash of the galaxy at this moment in time,

1:21:58

right? Yeah. Like the Klingons

1:22:00

are aware of the humans because of

1:22:02

the diplomatic situation, W slash R

1:22:05

slash T, Clang. But

1:22:07

this is the first time humans have made any kind

1:22:09

of contact with them. Right.

1:22:11

Finally, on Enterprise in Archer's

1:22:13

Ready Room, he's telling

1:22:16

T'Paul and W that their orders

1:22:18

now, hey, now that we're out

1:22:20

here, we're not turning around. We're going

1:22:22

to keep moving forward. But what

1:22:24

happens to T'Paul now? He

1:22:26

makes sure to make this moment

1:22:28

about him. I

1:22:30

was thinking. A Vulcan science

1:22:33

officer could come in handy. He wants

1:22:35

T'Paul to stay, but only if she

1:22:38

can make it look like T'Paul

1:22:41

wants to stay, like it's coming from her. Right.

1:22:45

Can she help him out with that? He's like,

1:22:47

look how much we've grown as a species. I

1:22:49

am here asking you secretly to

1:22:52

date me. I'm

1:22:54

just a man asking a Vulcan to

1:22:57

ask her bosses to stay

1:23:00

on board my ship. Yeah. That

1:23:02

seems like it's a yes. And they're

1:23:04

off to their next adventure, which is

1:23:07

just like a first contact. Like we

1:23:09

heard that there's non-humanoid species, a couple

1:23:12

of systems over. And we

1:23:14

end on another little flashback

1:23:17

of Jonathan Archer mastering the

1:23:19

art of flying his model

1:23:21

rocket ship with his

1:23:23

dad. Fade to black. End

1:23:26

of pilot. Adam, did you like this

1:23:29

first episode of Star Trek colon

1:23:31

Enterprise? I can't

1:23:33

take good flight. Got

1:23:37

no case. Well,

1:23:40

to use a word we've thrown around a

1:23:42

bunch in this episode, I thought this was

1:23:44

a little bit of a clang. No.

1:23:49

I think for a couple

1:23:52

of reasons. I thought a

1:23:54

lot about the Mercury and

1:23:56

Apollo space programs when I was

1:23:58

watching this episode. And just

1:24:00

like the thing about those astronauts, the

1:24:04

weird thing about them is

1:24:06

how totally exceptional they were

1:24:09

and also totally fucking

1:24:11

weird. Like emotionally

1:24:14

and psychologically, because they

1:24:16

had to find people who were

1:24:18

extremely intelligent and talented and

1:24:21

also crazy enough to do

1:24:23

the things that they needed to do. And

1:24:26

so I'm meeting all of these characters for the

1:24:28

first time and this is basically a brand new

1:24:30

space program for the people of Earth. And

1:24:33

I'm observing their behavior and

1:24:35

their interactions with folks. And

1:24:38

I'm like, I would really like to know what

1:24:40

is exceptional about any of these people. Because

1:24:44

all I'm seeing are a bunch of folks that like

1:24:46

don't get along. I understand

1:24:48

to make an interesting television

1:24:50

show you need conflict and emotion

1:24:53

and all the rest, like to create

1:24:55

vibrant stories. But like a part of that

1:24:57

when you're telling stories about exploration

1:25:00

made up of like the best of humanity and

1:25:03

so forth, I thought there would be a little bit of

1:25:05

that Mercury Apollo DNA,

1:25:07

like a little bit of that

1:25:10

steely stuff. And

1:25:14

like this ain't NASA at

1:25:16

all. At

1:25:19

all. And I'm wondering how

1:25:21

soon we get to a little bit of

1:25:23

that part because this was meant to introduce

1:25:25

us to characters

1:25:27

via conflict instead of via

1:25:30

competence. And maybe

1:25:32

on every other previous Star Trek

1:25:34

series we've gotten, it's been about

1:25:36

that competence and just trickling out

1:25:39

a little bit of the other stuff. And

1:25:41

this series seems to begin as a

1:25:44

spin on that in a way that

1:25:46

didn't quite work for me yet. Maybe all of that other stuff

1:25:49

is to come and I hope it is. But

1:25:52

that part was weird to me. What I did

1:25:54

really like was how much this felt like an

1:25:56

open world video game where you're in level one,

1:25:58

but you've strayed a little. too far

1:26:00

afield. Like that aspect of being

1:26:03

like out-thought, out-gunned, out-everything.

1:26:05

Once you're far out in deep

1:26:07

space, that was really interesting to

1:26:09

me. And finally

1:26:12

I can't get with the sideburns. Why

1:26:14

do we have late 90s, early 2000s sideburns here? Like, give me

1:26:19

those fucking Star Trek dagger sideburns.

1:26:23

I missed them badly. Yeah, they need

1:26:25

the jagger sideburns. I mean, I guess they just

1:26:27

hadn't invented that yet in this era. I

1:26:29

guess. Yeah, a lot of potential here.

1:26:32

I think that's where I'm

1:26:34

at with it. I wish it

1:26:37

were better. What about you? Well,

1:26:40

I felt a lot

1:26:42

better about this than I think you did.

1:26:44

I thought it was a really nice story.

1:26:46

I kept thinking about how good

1:26:48

it is from the perspective of somebody who

1:26:50

has not watched Star Trek before. Like, I

1:26:52

think it does a great

1:26:54

job of implying a lot about the

1:26:57

richness of this world that we are

1:26:59

going to be getting into in a

1:27:01

way that would be

1:27:03

fun for a first-time viewer. And

1:27:05

it was also fun for me

1:27:07

as a seasoned Trek enjoyer to

1:27:10

imagine characters that had not heard about Klingons

1:27:12

before. Like the guy's getting

1:27:15

his mind around pronouncing the name

1:27:17

Klingons in that early scene. And

1:27:19

Vulcans that are

1:27:22

more alien than they are

1:27:24

in subsequent series. And I

1:27:26

really loved the sets in

1:27:28

general. The alien bazaars, whatever.

1:27:31

But the set of

1:27:33

the NX-01 Enterprise is awesome to

1:27:35

me. I love the way

1:27:37

Six Bay looks. I love the way the bridge looks.

1:27:40

I think that my main gripe

1:27:42

so far is just

1:27:44

bacula. I don't quite know what

1:27:46

he's going for with this

1:27:49

character. Because I

1:27:51

mean, I just get folksy. That's the

1:27:54

headline. But it feels

1:27:57

like put on folksiness. in

1:28:00

the way of a person

1:28:03

who has tons of power and is

1:28:05

like kind of performing folksiness

1:28:07

to make himself more

1:28:09

approachable or something. There's

1:28:12

nothing interesting about a

1:28:14

character who has a

1:28:16

great dad and a great

1:28:18

and supportive family. You

1:28:21

know, like that part was. That's why

1:28:23

I've dedicated my life to failing my

1:28:26

son. I

1:28:28

want him to be interesting, you know? You're going to

1:28:30

make a very interesting darone. Didn't

1:28:35

it also feel like this is going to sound

1:28:37

like a virtue signal and I fucking promise it's

1:28:39

not. But like to go from

1:28:41

Voyager and many competent

1:28:43

female characters to back

1:28:46

into two female

1:28:48

characters who so far,

1:28:51

the introductions are super

1:28:53

rockin' tits and scared

1:28:56

lady. Like I

1:28:58

really, really, really hope we get

1:29:00

some good stories for those characters. Because

1:29:03

right now it's Lube and Scaries and

1:29:06

I hope there's more than that. Agreed. Well,

1:29:09

I'm looking forward to exploring all of this

1:29:11

with you, but I'm also looking forward to

1:29:13

exploring the Priority 1 inbox, Adam. You want

1:29:15

to go check in there? Oh,

1:29:19

Ben, they're covered in lube. Wow. Oh,

1:29:23

and it's not water soluble. Oh,

1:29:26

it's getting everywhere. Oh, it's

1:29:28

dissolving the condom. Oopsies.

1:29:42

Priority 1 message from Starfleet coming

1:29:44

in on secured channel. Need

1:29:47

a supplement, Oink? Supplement.

1:29:49

Supplement. Yes, extra.

1:29:52

For the interest alone, could be enough to buy

1:29:54

this ship. Ben,

1:29:57

our first priority 1 message is of a

1:29:59

personal nature. It's from Zach

1:30:01

the Mortician. It's to ANYBODY!

1:30:04

Their message goes like this. Sup?

1:30:08

I saw the first night of Wrath

1:30:10

of Conochicago. It was freaking great. I

1:30:13

told my girlfriend, now wife, left

1:30:15

me in the merch line with

1:30:18

anxiety. I just watched

1:30:20

the Spotacular special and really loved it. Not

1:30:22

a fan of the Bashir piss

1:30:24

thing you do, but whatever. I'll deal. Thanks,

1:30:28

Fisher and the sisters that be

1:30:30

mens to me. From

1:30:33

Zach. Wow, Zach

1:30:36

the Mortician. I'm surprised you don't

1:30:38

love the Bashir piss thing, given

1:30:41

what you probably do in your work

1:30:43

as a mortician working with fluids

1:30:46

of all kinds. Yeah, maybe that's too close

1:30:48

to home. Yeah, maybe that's what

1:30:50

it is. Who knows what

1:30:52

fucked up shit Flox gets into. I know. Our

1:30:55

next priority one message is

1:30:58

from Ben. Long time, first time,

1:31:00

and it's to Ben and Adam. And it goes

1:31:02

like this. I hope

1:31:04

this will be aired during Enterprise. Can

1:31:07

I request the Vichy French guy singing

1:31:10

Zie Zie War Crime to the tune

1:31:12

of the Enterprise theme song? Also,

1:31:16

if you ever tour the southeast, please

1:31:18

consider the beautiful city of Wilmington and

1:31:20

sea. Oh yeah. See where

1:31:23

the worst Iron Man movie was filmed.

1:31:26

Weekend at Bernie's. Empire Records.

1:31:28

Drink some great local beers. Hit the

1:31:30

beach. Wow. Boy,

1:31:33

I would love to go to Wilmington for

1:31:35

a show. It could happen. This

1:31:38

is a war crime as theme

1:31:40

song for Enterprise. Maybe that's something

1:31:42

that we can get into the

1:31:44

rotation for interstitials.

1:31:47

This is a war crime.

1:31:51

Who make all of this

1:31:54

propaganda? That's

1:31:58

fun. Priority One messages

1:32:00

are a great way to support the show. And

1:32:03

now that we're getting started with the new series,

1:32:06

we've got some capacity for your message ahead. You

1:32:09

just go to maximumfund.org/Jumbotron,

1:32:12

write out some words. Those will

1:32:14

come out of our mouths. That's a

1:32:16

great way to support our shows. Indeed. Thank

1:32:19

you to everyone who does it. Hey,

1:32:21

Adam. What's up, Ben? Did you

1:32:23

find yourself a drunk shimoda in this,

1:32:25

the pilot episode of

1:32:28

Star Trek, colon, Enterprise? Incredible. Drunk

1:32:31

Shimoda! Well, I'll start

1:32:33

by describing what a drunk shimoda is for

1:32:35

folks who might be coming to the show

1:32:38

anew. You might remember

1:32:40

from the Naked Now episode in TNG,

1:32:43

our engineer Shimoda, the

1:32:45

drunkest and most

1:32:47

faded character in that episode

1:32:50

became sort of a mascot for

1:32:52

the show and became a segment for

1:32:55

the shows that followed in that if

1:32:57

there's ever a character or a moment

1:32:59

that catches our eye that suggests

1:33:02

that a person was having the most fun

1:33:04

or acting the weirdest or maybe just being

1:33:06

a little anachronistic. I feel too good for

1:33:08

that. That's our drunk shimoda.

1:33:11

And for this pilot episode of Enterprise, I

1:33:14

think I'm going to make mine Captain

1:33:16

Archer. He's kind of

1:33:18

action archer everywhere, and I get that given the

1:33:20

era of Star Trek we're dealing with. But

1:33:23

like he is so hot about

1:33:25

the Vulcans. He just

1:33:27

barges into that room with all the

1:33:30

diplomats. He's given a

1:33:33

wide berth. I

1:33:35

don't admire him as a commanding

1:33:37

officer right now. I

1:33:40

don't want to follow that guy's lead. I

1:33:43

don't know what's exceptional about him. I

1:33:46

think I'm just going to make him my

1:33:48

shimoda for that reason. I

1:33:50

hope he proves it, and I hope he proves it soon. He's

1:33:54

just all over the place, and maybe

1:33:56

that's the best description of a drunk

1:33:59

shimoda character we've... Scott, what about you? I'm

1:34:02

gonna give it to him as well, not

1:34:04

for that, but for that moment after

1:34:06

he kisses Saren and

1:34:09

she gets all bumpy and it

1:34:12

turns into a this has never happened before, like.

1:34:15

That's fun. It's because I'm so into you.

1:34:19

You know, I'm like a captain of a

1:34:21

certain age and like you can't just expect

1:34:24

things to work perfectly a hundred percent of

1:34:26

the time. And

1:34:28

look, like I'm tired. I'm tired from

1:34:31

this mission. I

1:34:33

had all that beef earlier. God, that

1:34:35

was a heavy dinner. Yeah. So

1:34:37

that'll happen. Totally. So

1:34:39

yeah, daily double for the drunk

1:34:42

shimodas. Yeah. Faces of fart.

1:34:44

Okay, we gotta go to the game of

1:34:46

buttholes right now and

1:34:48

roll for the next episode. Do you wanna head

1:34:50

over there and I'll tell you a little bit about

1:34:53

the next episode, Adam? Sure thing, Ben. If you're

1:34:55

new to the show, starting now,

1:34:57

you should know that we tend to gamify

1:34:59

our episodes at the end of every recording.

1:35:02

We'll roll a die and

1:35:04

then our little ship will

1:35:06

go across the game board. And on that game

1:35:08

board, there are fun squares

1:35:10

that order us to

1:35:13

experience the recording in

1:35:15

Miriam ways. Yeah, we

1:35:17

got a brand new game for

1:35:19

this series. So our next episode

1:35:21

is season one, episode three. Fight

1:35:25

or flight, the crew comes across

1:35:27

an abandoned ship of dead aliens.

1:35:30

Are they frozen? Is this

1:35:32

another Naked Now episode? Just

1:35:35

an excuse to get to Paul to like fuck

1:35:37

a bunch of characters. Ben,

1:35:39

you've told us what the next episode is going

1:35:41

to be and now we need to figure out

1:35:43

how we're going to enjoy it. And for that,

1:35:46

we are going to unveil a brand

1:35:49

new version of

1:35:51

the hit board

1:35:53

game associated with the hit

1:35:56

Star Trek podcast we do. It

1:35:58

has a brand new name even. It

1:36:00

does. I am so excited

1:36:03

to introduce FODs to the game

1:36:06

of buttholes, Wheel

1:36:08

of the Riker, Quantum Leap.

1:36:13

What do you think of that? Oh

1:36:15

man, it's even pithier than before. That

1:36:19

name might get longer, the longer we play

1:36:21

the game. Thank you

1:36:23

to everybody in the FOD

1:36:25

community who submitted pitches for

1:36:28

ideas. We kind of scraped

1:36:30

them all up and distilled many of

1:36:32

them down into what is on this

1:36:35

board. You can head to gach.biz slash

1:36:37

game to check out all the changes

1:36:39

that have been made. There's

1:36:41

a bunch of new squares, a couple of

1:36:43

squares have been retired, but

1:36:46

also a brand new mechanic to the game.

1:36:48

No more shoots and ladders, no

1:36:51

more inching along. We

1:36:53

roll a D100 every single

1:36:55

time with this game. I like that

1:36:57

idea. It feels like

1:36:59

space exploration itself. It's not often

1:37:01

in a straight line. You're

1:37:04

going all over the place. Who knows

1:37:06

what you'll encounter? Yeah, and

1:37:08

that's very odd brand for this series. We

1:37:10

know what we're going to encounter, Ben. You

1:37:12

want to talk about a couple of these

1:37:14

brand new squares for this brand new edition?

1:37:18

Let's talk about it. We also

1:37:20

did a rebrand of a couple of

1:37:22

pre-existing squares. Porthos ate my notes being

1:37:24

an example of this. If we land

1:37:26

on this square, both of the

1:37:28

hosts will do the show without

1:37:30

notes because Porthos ate them, whoever that

1:37:33

is. He sure did. I know

1:37:35

that's the dog. Shut up. And

1:37:37

then read alert has replaced Canar

1:37:39

with Demar and that is a

1:37:42

pineapple beverage square instead of a

1:37:45

Canar square. That's a

1:37:47

square that will benefit both of us

1:37:49

and our lovely romantic

1:37:51

companions. Well, assuming

1:37:53

that they want to engage in that kind of bullshit.

1:37:57

You know how much we love the series?

1:38:00

theme song to this brand

1:38:02

new version of Greatest Generation

1:38:04

Band. This next square has

1:38:06

us recording new lyrics to the theme

1:38:08

song, and then that version of the

1:38:11

song plays for the next episode. So

1:38:13

for example, if we hit

1:38:15

this square this time, we

1:38:17

will have to create lyrics

1:38:20

that will play on the episode

1:38:22

upcoming. Does that make sense? So

1:38:25

based on our viewing

1:38:28

of that episode, one of

1:38:30

us or both of us is going to do this. I

1:38:33

think we can collaborate on the lyrics and then we

1:38:35

just have to send off our files to the

1:38:37

goose. We didn't ask the goose if

1:38:39

this was an okay idea beforehand. Faith of the

1:38:41

Heart Square. Pretty heavy,

1:38:44

okay. So for Fight or Flight it

1:38:46

would be like, it's been

1:38:48

a lot of dead aliens

1:38:52

filling up this abandoned ship.

1:38:55

Something like that. Woof. You

1:39:00

know, fortunately that's going to be the sort

1:39:02

of square that does not cripple the entire

1:39:04

episode, just its very beginning. Do I have

1:39:06

to remember all those fucking harmonies? Of

1:39:08

course you do. Oh man, god damn it.

1:39:10

This sort of sucks. I

1:39:13

don't know who the Zindy are, but

1:39:15

the Zindy Arc Square means that the

1:39:17

host must take shots of five different

1:39:19

alcohols during the episode. Yeah.

1:39:23

We didn't figure out if that's like, you take five

1:39:26

shots right at the beginning and then record or if

1:39:28

you can space it out and

1:39:30

we'll probably have to cross that bridge

1:39:32

when we come to it. FODs who

1:39:34

live in Seattle will probably

1:39:36

assume that I'm just going to call that the

1:39:38

Earl's Square. Decontamination

1:39:42

chair square of course, we

1:39:44

record in our underpants and

1:39:47

many more to check out on the

1:39:49

Board Game website. Hell yeah. We

1:39:52

got some big thanks to

1:39:54

give out. Craig Anderson and

1:39:56

Felipe Sobriero jumped into action.

1:39:58

We kept promising them that we would be back. We were going to

1:40:01

send them notes for what

1:40:03

things we wanted to do with the game. And

1:40:06

we were like weeks and weeks late and

1:40:08

they got it done in time anyways. So

1:40:10

we really, really appreciate all of their great

1:40:12

work. And we should

1:40:14

also thank Andrew Wong-Hoyer who contributed some

1:40:17

web design to the game. But

1:40:20

it's all updated and looking spiffy. And

1:40:23

why don't you go ahead and roll that

1:40:25

bone, Adam? You're required to learn as you

1:40:28

play. Roll. Alright, Ben. Our

1:40:30

game piece is not anywhere. And I'm

1:40:32

about to roll a 100 sided

1:40:35

die to determine where it will

1:40:37

appear first. Okay. Here we

1:40:39

go. Let's do it. Ben,

1:40:42

I've rolled a 45. Tula!

1:40:45

Did I win? 45

1:40:48

is what I've rolled. That is in an

1:40:50

empty area of space. It

1:40:52

is also how old I am. Wow.

1:40:56

As of this year. Coincidental. That's

1:40:58

kind of like landing on something.

1:41:01

Oh, it's like landing on something horrible and it

1:41:03

only gets worse as time goes on. Square

1:41:07

45 is it on this brand new

1:41:09

game of buttholes, Will of the Riker Quantum

1:41:11

Leap. So look

1:41:14

out for more of this in

1:41:16

the seasons and episodes ahead. I

1:41:18

am so excited for more of this fucking

1:41:21

bullshit. So

1:41:23

many weird squares out there. Go to gach.biz slash

1:41:26

game to check out all the fun squares. Some

1:41:29

exciting stuff happening over on the game of buttholes.

1:41:31

Go check it out. I just

1:41:33

have some credits to do and we're going to get out of here.

1:41:36

Of course, this show is produced and edited

1:41:38

by Wendy Priddy. Our

1:41:40

social media director is Rob

1:41:42

Adler. And our

1:41:45

consigliere is Bill Tilly, who is

1:41:47

the person who will reach a

1:41:49

few slide-in to the DMs on

1:41:51

socials and wants to

1:41:53

send something in for a future code 47. We

1:41:57

open fan packages and mail

1:41:59

on. show. Thank you so much

1:42:01

to everyone who supports the show

1:42:04

at maximumfun.org join

1:42:06

and thanks so much to the

1:42:09

great Adam and Lucia that we

1:42:11

made. Our brand new theme

1:42:13

song. Now our theme song. With

1:42:15

that we will be back at you

1:42:17

next time with another great episode of

1:42:19

Star Trek Voyager. Another

1:42:23

great episode of Star Trek Enterprise

1:42:25

and an episode of

1:42:27

the greatest generation enterprise where I

1:42:30

mean if they're not frozen and drunk we

1:42:33

certainly probably should be right? I hope

1:42:36

so. Lutely. That

1:43:00

was a very we're just innocent men

1:43:02

snort that I just did. We're

1:43:07

normal men.