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In this episode of Boldly Go Star Trek Strangely Worlds, hosts Brandi and Dave delve into the season three finale of 'Strange New Worlds,' exploring its themes, character arcs, and connectio...
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I clicked it and it just wouldn't start and then finally it said recording and progress.
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So here we are.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Boldly Go Star Trek Strangelyworld's podcast.
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I am Brandi Jacola here to ramble about the final episode of the season three of Strangely
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World's.
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And with me, of course, is my fantastic husband, Dave, Dave.
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Hi.
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Hi, there you go.
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Something you don't see in Star Trek very often is the confusion between clicking and
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double clicking.
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Everybody seems to work their little touchpad computer screens pretty well.
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Mm-hmm.
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Just now let's click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click,
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click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click,
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click, like it's the old windows thing freezes up on you.
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Yeah.
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Can you imagine?
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And then brings up all the windows you tried to open like 10 minutes later.
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Yeah, the view screen case.
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That's a fatal error.
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Yeah.
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The Apple pinwheel going.
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Oh my god.
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Technology.
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Yep.
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So yeah, this is the season three finale of Strangely World's New Life.
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And New Civilizations.
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Yeah.
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I'll title this.
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I can, you know, see why they chose it because, you know, strange new worlds.
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And so why not finish off the saying?
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But it sounds like a conclusion to the series, you know, like maybe they thought they weren't
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going to get more series or seasons announced.
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And this could possibly be an end.
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No.
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Well, because they announced when they announced that lower decks was ending at season five, they
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also announced that strange new worlds had already been renewed for seasons three and
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four.
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Right.
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So this is definitely not something that they thought was going to end at season three.
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I think they're just trying to get that Star Trek prologue in there all the way.
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Right.
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By breaking it up bit by bit.
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Yeah.
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And it just doesn't seem to fit the episode that much other than just kind of this, this
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sideways reference that Corby, is that his name right?
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Yep.
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Yep.
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Corby gives them this basic star map of all these worlds they have yet to explore.
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Yeah.
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And so those are the strange new worlds and strange new civilizations for seasons to
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come.
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And a five year mission, which is another thing that seemed like a hand off.
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It's like, this is enough for a five year mission, wink, wink.
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Nudge, nudge.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We get the recap of recaps to start this.
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Oh, yeah, we do.
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So much recapping.
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Yeah.
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Well, because, yeah, we're built, we built up three seasons of the conclusion of this.
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Yeah.
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So like that Mariners red string conspiracy wall.
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It's liking everything to this episode.
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It's like this happened and this happened and this happened and we get to see the beep
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beep chair, which we haven't seen for a while.
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Yeah, we have not seen the beep chair since discovery, I think.
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Or was it early SNW?
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I can't remember.
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Was it early like in the, I think it was really early days SNW and then they kind of moved
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away from it for a while.
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Yeah.
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So, we've got Patel Required, yeah, cleared rather to return to Jag.
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I tried to jump ahead in the sentence and it didn't.
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Yes.
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Understood.
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And of course, we're going to have a big fancy party for her.
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Well, not really big pants, fancy party.
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It's actually pretty cash.
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But Uhura finally gets to be the one to play a trick on the nub because Scotty shows up
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in complete Scottish finery and it's, I mean, sporing and everything.
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It is fantastic.
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Oh, yeah.
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That's the question.
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Is this first time at the captain's table?
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Is that, yep, remember, it's a formal affair.
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Oh God, I love me, a Scotsman.
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But yeah, that's just adorable.
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And you know, who knows what it's like to feel like that.
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Yeah.
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Because Erica did it to her.
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Yeah.
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But at the same time, it's not really in a mean spirited way.
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It's just a little gentle hazing.
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It's just not a big deal.
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Very gentle hazing.
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It's basically saying, hey, actually you belong here.
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Yep.
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And we're going to raz you because you belong here.
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So you're one of the people that we can, that there's going to be around for a while.
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It will be funny if Scottie ends up doing it to Sulu or something.
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Oh my gosh.
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I know that I know that you've already expressed this.
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And you expressed it before I did.
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We would love to see a TOS reboot.
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And I would pay money.
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Well, I pay money anyway for a subscription to watch the fucking thing.
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But I would pay even more.
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I would pay additional money to see Paul Wesley as Jim Kirk.
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And, you know, and Ahura and yeah, et cetera.
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Yeah, though I think in the menagerie that Pikes Helmsman was named Tyler.
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Yeah.
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We haven't seen a Tyler yet.
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Well, that doesn't mean that the Helmsman is the same person every time.
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Right.
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True.
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So it's just that when something big is happening, of course, our core cast is going to be the
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crew that's handling.
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Right.
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So anyway.
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Yeah.
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So basically at this party also, we get another Doctor Who reference.
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Right.
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Because Pellie is talking about her adventures and the times she was with a time traveling
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well, never mind.
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You know, she was about to say Doctor.
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Yeah.
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So.
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Yes, indeed.
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More and more of these Doctor Who Star Trek crossover references.
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It's fun.
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It's fun.
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Um, boy, I really did not write very good notes.
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You're not reading your handwriting very well.
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Yeah.
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Uh, well, basically I can't remember.
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See, this is why I should have watched it again.
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We were only seeing it twice.
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I know that, but my notes are not sufficient because all I have here is Doctor Who
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reference and then skipping ahead to just the next thing I wrote was the tell coming
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into her power.
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And I'm like, wait, what?
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Well, what did I miss?
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What happens is that they're in sick Bay or they're investigating the, uh, the ice
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transporter buffer.
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And there's been a weird glitch and apparently something escaped the buffer and reanimated
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essentially from whatever scraps of information was there, which was, and they figured out
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it was gamble.
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Mm-hmm.
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That gamble escaped his confines in the, in the buffer.
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Right.
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And she kind of like activates because all of a sudden she, her eyes look like she's,
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it looks like she's carrying the universe in her eyes, basically.
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Yeah, because the reference that Corby went to this, this planet and there's this,
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yeah, and there's this word that I think Spock mentions that she responded to and that's
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related to Skigaw and somehow.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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So, um, anyway, her eyes do eventually go back to normal.
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Yeah, they become like galaxies.
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Yeah.
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And she can see normally through them and spikes kind of freaked out by them.
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Yeah.
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But basically, since Corby is there and now we know that gamble is loose, of course,
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the only lead that they have is Skigaw and so they go there, of course.
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And everybody has a fabulous outfit, like every crew member is just has fabulous outfits.
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This planet was very heavy metal magazine, especially the ones done by Mobius, who was the
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guy they based a lot of the fifth element on.
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So the alien designs their outfits, just kind of the stony look of this planet and it's
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weird double pyramids with the, the open center, which got to help that power system stays
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on because otherwise quiche.
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Yeah.
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It's a really, it's really weird architecture and seems like it's regut, it's relying a
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lot on repulsors to keep everything, you know, upright and that is, that worries me.
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And the people here seem to worship the Vesda and a lot of them wear this kind of eye makeup
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that reminiscent of them having poked out their eyes.
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It's like the bad guys from, was it the first Dr. Strange movie?
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Yes.
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That were in the Darmomu cults and they had that weird burning eyes look to them.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, they have a similar kind of makeup thing.
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Look painful.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So they need to sneak into this, this pyramidal structure because that's where the gateway
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is into whatever they're doing, you know, whatever gambles attempting to do.
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So they have to do this, this drunk acting, Una and, oh, you are skipping way.
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Am I, okay.
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You are skipping way ahead.
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Because they're basically, because, oh no, wait, I think you're right.
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Right.
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Okay, you're right.
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I apologize.
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So yeah, they basically get close enough to, you know, get transported or whatever happens
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to the next level and that's where she finds Corby.
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Well, they notice the doors are very similar to the doors that were in the temple of doom
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or not to be able to be at the last crusade prison.
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Yeah.
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That it's the same kind of setup and that, you know, whether or not they have to go in order
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or if it requires a blood sacrifice, I mean, all these things get referenced.
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But yeah, there are some guards out front keeping people from going in and that's when they
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do the drunk bit and then Blanc gets behind and does the Vulcanic neck bench on the guards
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puts them in both.
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Yeah, yeah, she's been learning stuff while she's been dating Spock.
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And Nurse Chapel is jealous.
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You're going to point out, is that what you guys do?
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I tried to learn and can you show me your finger placement?
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It's like, guys, the doors open and we can go now.
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Yeah, the thing is is that Christine was never all in with Spock.
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No, well, she's got commitment issues, which is something we've already brought up.
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Yeah.
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Which is kind of odd considering, you know, Corby is more devoted to his work than he is to
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her.
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So yeah, she seems to get a taste of her own medicine in that respect, I suppose.
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I know she's, she's basically dating a guy who's too much like her.
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Yeah.
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And is kind of commitment averse.
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Yeah, she's focused on his work.
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Yeah, his first commitment is always going to be his work.
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And that's the case for Chapel too, but, you know, it's like don't mess with other people.
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If that's how you're going to be, that's just not correct.
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And you broke Spock's heart, bitch.
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Makes me angry.
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So yeah, the, the vamp up to the level between, you know, the pyramids, the top and the bottom.
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And there's yet another door there and it has a bunch of riding in it.
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And there's Swahili on there and it tells a story, which Ambinga sees his own story is like,
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how tragic is Ambinga's backstory?
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He's like that, that role player in your role playing group with a really dark character that
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has really twisted, dark past.
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Yeah.
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It's like a killed a guy when I was two years old.
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Well, he wasn't that young.
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He was what he was 14 something like that.
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He was 12.
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Yeah.
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He was on a colony and there were some bad people and he had to defend himself.
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So he stabbed one of them.
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It was the first time he took a life at 12.
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Yeah.
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But was killer be killed?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And we've seen, we've seen gamble.
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You know, gamble isn't present that we know of when they all arrive at this place.
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But once they go up to the next level, that's when in Banga sees his story basically.
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Is this before or after he gets everybody to stab themselves in the eye?
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I think that's coming.
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No, that's coming.
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That's coming.
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But meanwhile, we've also got people back on the enterprise trying to figure out what
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the hell's going on.
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And lay lines come up.
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Right.
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Sam brings it up.
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Sam Kirk is saying, oh, yeah, lay lines.
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And then you see Spock do the kind of look in the eyebrow, which we already know him
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and Sam don't get along too well.
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And then Sam looks at him like, it's their thing.
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Yeah, lay lines are basically traffic lines.
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And they're supposedly have energy, especially like psychic energy.
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And on the earth, they're supposed to connect important places like Mecca, Rome, I guess
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the St. Petersburg, places that major events have taken place.
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Lay lines will connect these places.
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And where lay lines intersect, they create like a Nexus point, which would create even
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a greater source of power.
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And the more Nexus points that connect like if you have two overlapping, you know, you
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have like four lines there.
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If you have three lines, these like creates like six points.
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And so the game, palladium, role plane game, RIFS is based on this is that these lay lines
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and Nexus points create like portals between dimensions.
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And so all the different role plane games they designed, you can create characters and have
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them all be inside the same world.
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Because these RIFS appear and things can go in and out of them, which makes it pretty
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difficult role plane game to like campaign to game master.
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Because you're doing with a lot.
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But yeah, that's what a lace lay line is.
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And I think Pilya calls it bus lines or bus routes.
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My year cats can get a kid here too.
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It's probably, let's be honest, it's probably just one cat, which is probably R is yelling
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at the other cats that just want to live.
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One interesting thing I noticed about everybody's outfits, you know, they match basically their
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personalities, probably something having to do with their background.
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But why did Christine change your hair color?
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I don't know.
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It's just weird.
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I don't know, just because you can, I guess.
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Yeah, but what would why?
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It just doesn't make any sense.
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Oh, on the lay line thing, there's a reason they brought it up.
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It's because there's a traffic line from this place to that world where the prison is.
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Yeah.
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Or skygow into whatever that other world was.
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Does the not actually call you one or something like that.
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No, Shush, Shush, Varian 9.
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Varian 9.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, there's there's traffic routes between those.
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And since these guys can work from place to place, I mean, this is how they do it.
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And so the plan is for a gamble to use this place to return to the prison to free all
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his compatriot Vesda.
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And if that happens, the sky would rain demons.
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And all this while, Batel has felt better than she's ever felt and that, you know, she's
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been struggling to belong trying to, you know, she doesn't know if she wants to captain
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a ship.
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And yeah, she was going to go back to Jag, but that even that seems like not quite right.
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And so she's just having trouble finding her place like she's just this loose puzzle
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piece.
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And now things are starting to fit in.
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And she sees what is pretty much her destiny because they're doing tests on her.
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And I'm not just sure how this happens, but just playing around, I guess, I guess this
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is earlier because chapel was back during this scene with Batel and the eyes is that they
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noticed that her biological makeup, you know, her physiology matches the statue that's overseeing
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the prison that the one in the same and the spots there to say, yeah, that's, you know,
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the effect after cause or before cause that time doesn't work properly or linearly in
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the prison.
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And so the fact that she's there and here makes perfect sense.
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Yep.
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And then we have the eye violence scene.
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Right.
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And I looked away because I cannot, I can't do eye violence.
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Just can't.
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I can't even do the hint of eye violence.
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If there's even a hint like a needle is coming close to someone's eye, I'm just like,
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no, I'm turning away.
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Well, they didn't really poke.
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I don't care.
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I don't care.
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It seems to be something they do in Star Trek a lot is the attack of the eyes.
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But it's just this blind devotion.
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It's like they're under some kind of spell.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Or even chant something and kind of this faux Latin sort of thing.
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I'm sure it's their alien language, but it does have a kind of a Latin demonic kind
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of thing going on.
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Yeah.
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That's, you know, and since they worship them like gods and they're dressed kind of like
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a priest, even with a staff and orders them to stab themselves in the eyes and they
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do all these people on this planet.
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And once they do that, that's when our little friend Campbell shows up again and grabs
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and bang it and drags him through this portal.
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Yeah.
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I just, after he's finished telling this story, Campbell just suddenly appears and grabs
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him, bang, and because you need two people to go through the portal, grabs him and trolls
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both of them through.
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So they end up being on this prison facility.
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Yeah.
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And Vodian.
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So it's funny because I wrote down, I wrote down the warden and that I, before it was
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even really revealed, I wrote down, but tell us the warden, the sleeper has awakened.
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Yeah.
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It's a very much a dune thing that she's awakening to her power.
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Yes.
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And she senses, was basically destiny.
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And I think, you know, that's where we are after, um, Benga goes through with Campbell's,
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I believe they return to the ship and they're, you know, addressing this and they're discussing
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what to do next.
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And that's when the tell is certain that she is the person to deal with this.
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And you see, uh, back in the prison that, um, Campbell is taunting him, Benga and fires
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his hand bolt at, uh, basically, you know, his little cantrip action.
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His poor sliding.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Uh, just like maybe a fire bolts, maybe, uh, which bolts, maybe, um, Eldridge blast,
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probably an Eldridge blast.
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There's something, um, a warlock about the, uh, yeah.
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And zaps the statue and it creates this mark on its forehead and that same mark appears
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on Betel and I think that's why they run tests on her and note that she matches, um, the
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statue that they're winning the same person.
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Yeah.
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Uh, and, uh, uh, also we get a little, uh, apparently it seems like a throwaway line,
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but uh, Vulcans can sense earthquakes.
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Did you know that?
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I did not know that.
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Wow.
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So they're like birds or dogs or cats.
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Yeah.
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Vulcans are like dogs and cats.
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Um, well, I guess if their plan is called Vulcan, they probably have a lot of, um,
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tectonic activity.
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And so it's probably a survival thing that developed through evolution.
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Sure.
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Is to know when eruptions going to happen.
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And so they can protect themselves that, you know, earthquakes is something they could
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pick up on.
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But yeah, when they're testing Betel, um, with her treatments for the Gorn, she's had,
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you know, Spock work with her to, you know, develop her, um, pain tolerance.
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Um, yeah, tolerance, I guess, uh, I was trying to think of a cooler word to say control,
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but yeah, pain tolerance for management.
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Yeah.
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Uh, uh, Eunah's blood, uh, to help her, um, to incorporate this, they have the chimerif
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flower that they put in her to help her cells adapt.
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And so she's had all these different treatments.
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And she's picked up all this different DNA from all these different races.
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And they talk about this, um, survival instinct and the battle of good and evil is that
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evolutionarily, we developed to fight, um, the things that threaten us and that as she's
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gone through these treatments, she's picked up on these survival instincts.
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You know, she's picked it up from all these different races.
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And I'm going have to cough.
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So I'm learning, uh, mute.
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Yeah, that was me earlier.
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I coughed like five times.
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Sorry, allergies are really bad.
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There's something in the air and my eyes are watering.
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My nose is running and my full allergies are fucking worse than anything.
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Yeah, I think I get a worse than the winter weirdly.
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And I don't know why because it's like there's no growy things around to make me allergic.
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So it must be just dust or something.
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But yeah, probably dust from the furnace.
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Yeah, dust from the furnace, which I think we have some filters that I can replace.
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But anyhow, yeah, that she's developed these instincts to fight evil.
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And it's, uh, kind of out there theory and you can see spot kind of just almost rolling
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his eyes, but he's there with them because he, you know, it's, it's Star Trek.
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He's seen some weird things.
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Yeah.
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And you see, um, of course, Pike being resistant to the idea,
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because he doesn't lose, but tell to this and she doesn't want her to be the one, you know,
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sacrificing and having to stand guard over all these Vesda for all eternity.
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Yeah.
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Well, um, the thing is is that they don't have enough power to get the gateway open
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so that they can go after gamble and get to Evadia 9.
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Yeah.
spk_0
So, um, and earlier, and we didn't mention this yet, but, uh, our, uh,
spk_0
oh, yeah, Kirk's one wife.
spk_0
Him Kirk.
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He's, he's hanging around and, uh, basically let Pike know, hey, you know, we're standing by to help.
spk_0
If you need some help, um, and, uh, it's like, okay, great.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
The captain of the Farragut basically wrote a blank check for anything that the enterprise needs
spk_0
for saving your life.
spk_0
And so, yeah, they're in the neighborhood and offer assistance, which is required because
spk_0
they're going to need lots of power to open this door so they can get to Embinga and take out gamble.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
The, basically the power of the Sun, they need the power of the Sun.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And the phaser banks can apparently supply half of that power.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
And so they're like, well, we can, we can do two ships together, uh, but with that work,
spk_0
or would it, it wouldn't actually help know this, the phasers are complimentary.
spk_0
Don't ask me how it works.
spk_0
That's what they said.
spk_0
They said it works.
spk_0
And so whatever.
spk_0
Let's just say it works.
spk_0
Team meeting is great.
spk_0
Just got these greatness seen because they're like, we need power.
spk_0
Is that nuclear battery?
spk_0
We need a lot of power.
spk_0
Two nuclear batteries.
spk_0
It's like, oh, we need this much power.
spk_0
It's like, well, that's the power of the Sun.
spk_0
Our phaser alone does half the power of the Sun.
spk_0
So we'll need two phasers, but they need to be synchronous from two separate ships.
spk_0
But they're not additive is what Spock says.
spk_0
And then Scottie says, yeah, but they're complimentary.
spk_0
And you see Spock go, ah, that's dating.
spk_0
So yeah, they can fire two phasers at the same location.
spk_0
But they have to find manually.
spk_0
Immaculate and it has to be perfectly in sync.
spk_0
Because otherwise, though, basically blow up the planet.
spk_0
Yeah. So yeah, this requires.
spk_0
You know what's going to happen.
spk_0
Synchronicity, perfect synchronicity with the with the very good.
spk_0
Now, this is actually probably my favorite scene in the whole episode.
spk_0
And that is one of the coolest scenes in the whole of the series so far.
spk_0
Yeah, exactly.
spk_0
And it's because of course Spock says there is a way we can do this.
spk_0
And if we mind meld, we'll be, you know, we'll be able to act at the same time.
spk_0
We will be, you know, perfectly in sync.
spk_0
And the thing is is that Burke saw kind of like scared a little bit.
spk_0
You know, it's like, what are you going to see in there?
spk_0
It's like, it's not, I don't read your whole mind.
spk_0
Okay.
spk_0
It's like, well, there's this thing that happened on the moon of Ryan.
spk_0
Did he say?
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
So if you see this, if you see the judgment.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
But it's interesting to me because it feels to me like Spock and Jim are flirting.
spk_0
It's coded that way.
spk_0
You see Erica looking at both of them side-eyed like they are flirting because Kirk
spk_0
makes several references.
spk_0
At least you brought me to a bar.
spk_0
You could buy me a drink first.
spk_0
Yeah, because mind melds are very intimate.
spk_0
You're sharing your innermost thoughts with somebody.
spk_0
And you're technically sharing your body too.
spk_0
Because in a way, Spock will be inside his body manipulating his limbs.
spk_0
Well, no, he will, they're, they're, they're just tied together.
spk_0
And so they know what each other's thinking.
spk_0
So they're in each other's minds.
spk_0
It's not a one-way connection.
spk_0
But in such a way that they'll act in perfect unity kind of like really, really good synchronized
spk_0
swimming.
spk_0
Yes, like better than any synchronized swimming you've ever seen.
spk_0
And so the visuals of these two ships coming together and you know, just basically positioning
spk_0
themselves in absolute perfect accuracy.
spk_0
And then flipping on their sides.
spk_0
So that basically their roofs are pointing at each other.
spk_0
And then speaking at the same time, moving at the same time is just all really so cool to watch.
spk_0
It's so cool.
spk_0
Yeah, Erica's not Erica.
spk_0
Um, the heros says that the communication is faster than their calm system.
spk_0
That there's probably a delay on her end that they're actually speaking at the same time.
spk_0
And so the delay that she's getting is like, whoa, you know,
spk_0
it's like odd that, you know, it's that instant.
spk_0
And uh, Pellia calls it poetic, but really it's belletic.
spk_0
Because it's like a perfect synchronized motion.
spk_0
And yeah, the way their hands both move over the, you know, the controls to position the ships.
spk_0
So their saucer to saucer with their phasers aimed at this little energy cell.
spk_0
On this giant door and they both fire, which is pretty funny because there's um,
spk_0
Patel and Pike in their leathers just standing in front of this door is these two ships blast the power of the sun into the pack of it.
spk_0
It's like, that's a lot of trust you have your crew there.
spk_0
Yeah, well, that's it opens the door though.
spk_0
Then the beam never gets close enough to them.
spk_0
And they stand there for the longest last time.
spk_0
And I'm like, how much heat is that phaser giving off?
spk_0
Oh, those two phasers giving off to the back of that thing.
spk_0
Yeah, the power of the sun through that door and let them shut off the phasers already.
spk_0
Well, they should be shutting off the phasers anyway before they go through the door.
spk_0
Yeah, but as soon as they shut it off, the door closes.
spk_0
So I noticed that the phasers on there for as long as the doors open.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And so it's just the beam weapon concentrated in this small area for long period of time as they
spk_0
discuss whether or not to go through the doors like just go.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
One important thing to note as we go into this last bit is that
spk_0
in Benga realizes that because he didn't come down to body and nine, he didn't go in the prison
spk_0
when Gamble got possessed.
spk_0
So this is his first time being in the prison, but he figured it out pretty quickly.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
And he he figures out a way to separate himself from Gamble so Gamble cannot escape.
spk_0
Yeah, you're also threatens to kill himself.
spk_0
Yeah, that too.
spk_0
And he would do it.
spk_0
Yeah, and you would do it.
spk_0
He won't even hold the knife to himself, which is weird because there's like these
spk_0
almost like a bottomless pit at the edge of all these platforms they could just hurl himself off of.
spk_0
But he threatens to kill himself because you need to get in, you need to get out.
spk_0
So as long as there's two of them there, Gamble can do whatever.
spk_0
But yeah, Gamble disarms him of the knife.
spk_0
And then as they're having this kind of, I guess Gamble's a little distracted and
spk_0
Benga just runs up and hurls him through a door.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
That stays on the other side.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And that's only going to hold him for so long, of course.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
But it gives Batell and Pike time to get there.
spk_0
And that's when things really start to get weird.
spk_0
Because when Gamble finds his way back in, we have to call him Gamble because, you know,
spk_0
that's the bottom.
spk_0
I don't know the Vesda's name for one thing.
spk_0
Yeah, and I don't care to know the Vesda's name.
spk_0
Because that might be inferred as respect.
spk_0
And I have no respect for the Vesda.
spk_0
So, of course,
spk_0
he comes back in and he's ready to do battle.
spk_0
He realizes now that Batell is the warden.
spk_0
spk_0
And he's attacking her.
spk_0
Well, he's attacking the statue.
spk_0
And obviously, he has completely forgotten about cause before or cause after effect.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
So, yeah.
spk_0
He's apparently forgotten about that.
spk_0
And he keeps, you know, slashing at the statue and wounds keep appearing on her.
spk_0
And she's only actually getting more powerful.
spk_0
The more he attacks her, the more powerful she starts to become.
spk_0
And then everything stops for a few minutes.
spk_0
Because we go into a bunch of scenes about Batell and Pike having a life together.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
And I thought, at first, what is the point of this?
spk_0
And then I realized at the end what the point of it was, was that she needed to have that time
spk_0
with him.
spk_0
She needed to live a full life in those few seconds that seemed like years as the final top up of her
spk_0
power.
spk_0
Yep.
spk_0
But these scenes are fascinating.
spk_0
And there's so much door knocking.
spk_0
There's so much door knocking.
spk_0
There's so much door knocking.
spk_0
And that's, that's, yeah.
spk_0
And I was always like, don't answer the door.
spk_0
Don't answer the door.
spk_0
Don't answer the door.
spk_0
The only time that it was okay was when their daughter came in.
spk_0
But anyway, I knew immediately what she was doing.
spk_0
Cause it is a very fifth element.
spk_0
You have to combat hate with love.
spk_0
Darkness with light.
spk_0
And so this was her power up for her Kamehameha move.
spk_0
If you're a Dragon Ball Z person.
spk_0
She had to power up with a whole lifetime of love and affection and joy and just
spk_0
life experience.
spk_0
And so she gives herself and Pike who she knows is destined for this accident as well.
spk_0
And so there are two, I guess, cursed by destiny people.
spk_0
So it's both real and a fabrication of what their life could be.
spk_0
And so you see them living together.
spk_0
You see an anniversary when they give each other gifts.
spk_0
And she gives him this, this chef's apron.
spk_0
And you like the way she brought it to him.
spk_0
It's just the way she trots over there.
spk_0
She just kind of trots in this little cute way.
spk_0
The little, yeah, shoulders going up and down.
spk_0
And it's like a chef Pike.
spk_0
I think it says that has like the delta on it.
spk_0
They have the other anniversary.
spk_0
They have a child.
spk_0
They have various dogs.
spk_0
Their little girl grows up and is marrying April's son.
spk_0
It's like they announced their engagement.
spk_0
And you see them in old age.
spk_0
And I think everybody has said that Pike and old age make up.
spk_0
Looks like Bruce Greenwood.
spk_0
Yeah, which is freaky as fuck.
spk_0
Yeah, they didn't go overboard with the old age makeup.
spk_0
It's convincing.
spk_0
She's in what appears to be her sick bed.
spk_0
It's last of her days, it seems.
spk_0
He's at her bedside.
spk_0
And yeah, all this while they keep getting knocks on the door.
spk_0
And the knock on the door turns out to be their daughter.
spk_0
It turns out to be Ix assignment that he goes off.
spk_0
And he doesn't have the accident in returns.
spk_0
And he's frightened that for the first time in his life,
spk_0
he doesn't know what's going to happen next.
spk_0
And she says that's a gift.
spk_0
That's the gift you've been given is life.
spk_0
And the unexpected.
spk_0
And that's embraced that.
spk_0
And so yeah, they lived this whole life together.
spk_0
And then at the very end, with that knock on the door.
spk_0
And it's a knock that seems to get
spk_0
more ominous and urgent as it goes by.
spk_0
That when he finally opens the door
spk_0
after she seems to have passed away,
spk_0
there's Gamble on the other side of it.
spk_0
And they return to the reality they're in
spk_0
with inside the prison.
spk_0
And Betel starts to glow.
spk_0
But for this Gamble hit Pike pretty hard with, you know,
spk_0
another one of his spells from his Warlock spell book.
spk_0
Another eldritch blast.
spk_0
Last time to, times two.
spk_0
Yeah, some kind of pain, suffocation kind of spell.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
But yeah, she starts to risk glowing.
spk_0
And she basically does her
spk_0
Ripley talking to the alien queen kind of line, you know.
spk_0
It's like, I am the light.
spk_0
You are the darkness.
spk_0
It's like I'm more powerful than you can imagine.
spk_0
Yep.
spk_0
And then blasts him.
spk_0
And it doesn't take much.
spk_0
She can be a ma as the hell out of him.
spk_0
She really does.
spk_0
And then her body dissolves.
spk_0
And well, the thing is we forgot to say is that
spk_0
Gamble destroys the statue.
spk_0
Oh, yeah.
spk_0
She destroys the statue.
spk_0
Releases all the the baddie waddies.
spk_0
They come pouring out of the prison well.
spk_0
Like the girlfriend, the ring,
spk_0
multiplied as dark sperm.
spk_0
So bad.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And she's just like, nah.
spk_0
She just, she takes Gamble out
spk_0
and her body dissolves and reforms as the statue
spk_0
as it was before Gamble destroyed it.
spk_0
And there she will remain forever,
spk_0
forever, until until the universe dies, I guess.
spk_0
As she, did she call herself a beholder, I think?
spk_0
She's kind of a guardian.
spk_0
Yeah, she said she was a beholder.
spk_0
I think she also said she was
spk_0
the warden.
spk_0
So yeah.
spk_0
Yeah, she has a lifetime of love
spk_0
that acts as a barrier to all the,
spk_0
the evil.
spk_0
Yeah, indeed.
spk_0
And um, and Pikes devastated.
spk_0
Of course.
spk_0
And he shares a drink with,
spk_0
and I know who asked if he's ready to talk about it.
spk_0
And he says no.
spk_0
So they just share a drink together.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And we get a scene where Jim and Spock are playing chess.
spk_0
Yep.
spk_0
And and and flirting and they're flirting.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Oh, yeah.
spk_0
And I think Erica comes by to, oh, no, Christine,
spk_0
I don't know.
spk_0
I'm doing the aftersame Christina.
spk_0
Lawn comes by is like, what are you talking about?
spk_0
Yes, because they're talking about his, uh,
spk_0
one trip and then Krix like, oh,
spk_0
must be a dance practice.
spk_0
And she kind of looks embarrassing,
spk_0
but you know, embarrassed and then Krix taps his head
spk_0
like still trap.
spk_0
Remember everything Kirk and Lawn did or Kirk Spock and Lawn
spk_0
did together.
spk_0
So.
spk_0
Well, I don't know that he remembers everything,
spk_0
but he made, I'm sure he can see everything.
spk_0
But he certainly applies it.
spk_0
And then finally, finally, we get a reunion of the Kerk brothers.
spk_0
Yeah, because Sam, when Spock goes up to go off to
spk_0
that in quotes dance practice.
spk_0
Yeah, they fuck.
spk_0
Yeah, Sam comes over and he's like nursing a drink and
spk_0
T and Sam or T and Jim smile at each other as they share a drink.
spk_0
Yep.
spk_0
So it's a little touching end.
spk_0
Yeah, it is.
spk_0
One parting gift, of course, they got was the, uh,
spk_0
the whole, uh, bunch of planets and what not, they'd never been to.
spk_0
Yeah, Corby leaves that with the, with Nurse Chapel,
spk_0
as he bids for a while, because he's saying it's,
spk_0
it's best that I stay with the Vesda gone.
spk_0
There's like so much knowledge and so much information about, you know,
spk_0
how to, um, to avoid death or cheat death.
spk_0
So he's going to say, oh, yeah, that's his whole thing.
spk_0
Yeah, it doesn't go well for him.
spk_0
I also imply that the people are recovering.
spk_0
So they're probably getting those little bands that regenerate your eyes.
spk_0
But I'm also.
spk_0
Yeah, so, yeah, hopefully that's, you know, they're repairing the damage there.
spk_0
Yeah, and yeah, uh, Pike's still out of sorts goes up to the bridge.
spk_0
I raised kind of, uh, on egg shells.
spk_0
A little bit.
spk_0
Erica's like, is this a kind of hidden situation?
spk_0
He's like, well, aren't you take it out, uh, how fast you want?
spk_0
And we'll make it into a divature.
spk_0
And that's pretty much it.
spk_0
They're off the go.
spk_0
Yep.
spk_0
To seek out new life and new civilization.
spk_0
New life and new civilizations.
spk_0
You know, five year mission that, uh, I did not escape my attention.
spk_0
Yeah, well, I talked about it being enough for a five year mission.
spk_0
And yeah, but it's just seeing this was a five year mission.
spk_0
It's like, well, it was enough to like ring a bell.
spk_0
Yeah, yeah.
spk_0
So, I find it interesting that Betel has been in the series since Episode 1.
spk_0
And I think people forget that sometimes.
spk_0
Well, yeah, because they were at his cabin and they even talk about him shaving.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And that she found kissing him, you know, his face was too itchy.
spk_0
Yeah. Well, when a when a beard is too bristly,
spk_0
it can be a painful for someone trying to kiss your lips.
spk_0
Yep.
spk_0
So, but, uh, one thing I forgot to say, um, one of the things that made me laugh out loud
spk_0
was that their daughter, they're in their life they had together, um,
spk_0
called Spock Uncle Sock.
spk_0
Uncle Sock, yep.
spk_0
And the nickname stuck.
spk_0
It's like, he even pikes like his name is Spock.
spk_0
He's like, he likes his nickname.
spk_0
Yeah, she, he says, you've known how to say Spock since you before you were four years old.
spk_0
And that's when she says, but he likes his nickname.
spk_0
He's Uncle Sock.
spk_0
Uncle Sock.
spk_0
So, yeah, this, this, I appreciate that this was not a season ending cliffhanger.
spk_0
I also feel that it was rushed.
spk_0
Somebody addressed that this was possibly like this season was possibly done during a writer's strike.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And I can, it's actually probably the whiff of that.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
It's not the strongest writing.
spk_0
It's uneven.
spk_0
I mean, some episodes like the holodeck one, like, you know, that seems right or
spk_0
really, you know, there seems something about that.
spk_0
And but, yeah, some of the choices that make some of the things they discuss, the Vesta themselves being evil,
spk_0
which is not typically something Star Trek addresses is good and evil.
spk_0
It's, you know, it's more, I guess, well, deep space time does kind of a thing like that.
spk_0
But yeah, it's kind of leaning more towards fantasy than science fiction than that respect.
spk_0
But yeah, I can, I can see it being a bit uneven.
spk_0
But yeah, this, I do like that, they wrapped it up and this could be a season like series finale,
spk_0
not just a season finale.
spk_0
It could possibly do that.
spk_0
It wraps up well enough that they could just end it here, but they do have another two seasons, I think, planned.
spk_0
Well, technically one and a half, there'll be 10 episodes in season four and six episodes in season five.
spk_0
Six episode run.
spk_0
Yeah, that's short.
spk_0
I feel like we're being short changed.
spk_0
Yeah, it does seem like that.
spk_0
Well, you know, Paramount's been trying to do various deals and whatnot.
spk_0
So they've already done the deals.
spk_0
Yeah, that's true.
spk_0
I've already got what they wanted.
spk_0
Yeah, apparently what they want is to have content without spending any money
spk_0
so that they can keep lining their big bank accounts.
spk_0
Well, that's why so many people have been pushing AI because it's a way to create
spk_0
content without having either writers or actors.
spk_0
Tampidous.
spk_0
So yeah, they don't realize what the thing they're creating, nobody's going to want to watch it
spk_0
because it's not going to have any soul behind it.
spk_0
It's not going to have any talent behind it.
spk_0
And at most of the time, it's going to be plagiarized from other material because
spk_0
where else are they going to source that?
spk_0
The AI has to create from something.
spk_0
And since it can't create from its own imagination, it has to borrow from other places.
spk_0
And what happens when that lawsuit or class action suit drops that says,
spk_0
hey, this is plagiarized material that you have no authority and you have no, you didn't pay for.
spk_0
This is intellectual property that you're just trading stuff out of that.
spk_0
Who's going to want to watch?
spk_0
It's not going to be good.
spk_0
I mean, we've seen AI slop and it's called slop for a reason.
spk_0
Is it's not good?
spk_0
Everybody looks too plasticky and shiny and there's no humanity in the voices.
spk_0
It's just.
spk_0
And can I just say there was a training thing, a training module that I had to do for work.
spk_0
And I can't say, of course, what was in the training module, but it had these little
spk_0
vignettes that were set up like it was someone talking on a podcast, but it was like,
spk_0
I could tell that the voices were AI.
spk_0
Absolutely could tell.
spk_0
So I found that very disappointing.
spk_0
Yeah, they don't want to pay an actor because I've witnessed similar training materials.
spk_0
Only they were internal employees that probably weren't paid to do it.
spk_0
It was just part of their job.
spk_0
Yes, he does.
spk_0
So they're not actors.
spk_0
Yeah, that's the thing.
spk_0
They used to do it that way.
spk_0
They used to have just people from the company doing the voices, but not any more apparently.
spk_0
No.
spk_0
And the thing is, when every sentence is structured like this and has the exact same cadence,
spk_0
you notice.
spk_0
And then the next time that you hear that exact same sentence with different words,
spk_0
the cadence is the same.
spk_0
Restrating.
spk_0
Anyway, what I meant by saying I felt it was rushed.
spk_0
I felt the episode was rushed.
spk_0
I felt like there was a content in the episode that it could have been two episodes.
spk_0
And they just crammed it into one.
spk_0
I didn't feel it with this particular episode.
spk_0
It is an episode two halves and I can see how you could split the house up and give each more
spk_0
time to breathe.
spk_0
But I think we had just enough time in their fabricated world.
spk_0
I don't think that needed to be any longer than it was.
spk_0
Oh, I'm not saying that.
spk_0
I'm just saying that all of the events leading up to that point were really rushed.
spk_0
Yeah, them all the sudden we're on SkyGowan all the sudden.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
I think we could have had more gamble, but we didn't.
spk_0
It just seemed like it was so fast.
spk_0
Yeah, I could see another episode building up gamble.
spk_0
Because well, we got the one when he was first infected.
spk_0
But him on SkyGowan developing a following.
spk_0
That could have been its own thing.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
But that they squeezed it in here.
spk_0
spk_0
It works.
spk_0
It's a little wild because people seem to be in two places at once a lot.
spk_0
Because of, like you said, it's seeming rushed.
spk_0
Gamble seems to be up where he can grab Ambinga and toss him through the door.
spk_0
But he also seems to be down, getting people to stab themselves in the eye.
spk_0
Really close time together.
spk_0
So it's like he did one and then he did the other is like how much of a gap is between those two events.
spk_0
Yeah. That's why.
spk_0
Is he up on the upper levels or is he down on the planet?
spk_0
Well, he probably could have done it from up above.
spk_0
I can't be everywhere at once.
spk_0
So it's odd that he's in both places pretty close to one another.
spk_0
And I can see that giving the feel of something that's been a bit rushed.
spk_0
Yeah. I just feel like they could have been more.
spk_0
But again, thinking about how this was probably written before a writer's strike or trying to be developed at some point with a writer's strike going on.
spk_0
I can see how they ended up having a more truncated version of the season finale.
spk_0
And I'm not saying I didn't like it.
spk_0
I did.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
And I was very appreciative that there were no fucking season cliffhangers.
spk_0
Because I think they learned their lesson after the reaction of the cliffhanger of season two.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
A lot of people don't like that part two.
spk_0
And I was wondering why is I liked part two more than part one.
spk_0
Well, maybe because they're the kind of people that like season in and cliffhangers and those people are crazy.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
I like this episode too.
spk_0
I do find one big problem with it is that there doesn't seem to be a start to the time loop.
spk_0
And I know that's the thing about time.
spk_0
Well, yeah, that's the thing about time and that there's all this effect before cause thing.
spk_0
But the statue, you know, the Batell statue is there guarding over a prison in which it doesn't seem they were ever imprisoned.
spk_0
We never get them being imprisoned.
spk_0
We get them being re-imprisoned.
spk_0
We get them escaping and then returning.
spk_0
But we never get them being put there in the first place.
spk_0
We don't know how that happens.
spk_0
Because effect before cause.
spk_0
Okay.
spk_0
So that's what happens in this place.
spk_0
In this place, think of it like the wormhole aliens.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
How they experience time as everything all at once.
spk_0
They don't understand yesterday or tomorrow.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
It seems like this is the similar circumstance where time exists all at once.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And so when you impose your will on a statue of a warden, guess what?
spk_0
You've done nothing.
spk_0
Because she's going to come back every time and rebuild it.
spk_0
She's going to keep those desda there.
spk_0
That is her sole purpose now.
spk_0
Yeah. We just have no explanation to this how they got there in the first place.
spk_0
I don't care.
spk_0
It doesn't bother me at all.
spk_0
Because this place is so ancient.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
And see, we see time linearly.
spk_0
And that is not what this is.
spk_0
This is not linear time.
spk_0
This place, the whole entire structure does not obey the laws of time.
spk_0
So it doesn't matter when they first got imprisoned.
spk_0
Because it's, they don't follow linear time.
spk_0
You can't say when something is because it's all together.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
It still bugs me.
spk_0
Well, that's too bad, then.
spk_0
How did they get there?
spk_0
It's like they were always there in period.
spk_0
It's like, I don't...
spk_0
Then why are they a problem?
spk_0
Why were they a problem before?
spk_0
Well, when they were outside of their prison, they had to obey linear time, didn't they?
spk_0
Were they ever outside the prison?
spk_0
Well, yeah. Because how else would they have been imprisoned?
spk_0
How else would they have been the scourge?
spk_0
They were always imprisoned.
spk_0
Because if they were always imprisoned, they could have never escaped.
spk_0
And the one time they escaped, they were returned to prison.
spk_0
So they were never outside the prison.
spk_0
Well, it depends on your viewpoint of the battle between good and evil.
spk_0
Yeah. So, yeah.
spk_0
Evil existed, wasn't prison somehow.
spk_0
Is the gate was returned to prison.
spk_0
That's where the beholder comes from, the warden.
spk_0
You're trying to use the three-dimensional thought on something that is beyond our comprehension.
spk_0
Yeah. It's just...
spk_0
It's missing something with that... that loop.
spk_0
Well, our brains just can't process it.
spk_0
Right. Mine's trying to desperately.
spk_0
Yeah. Well, that's the thing, though. We are about lily humans.
spk_0
We do not have the consciousness to perceive anything, but what our poor brains let us perceive.
spk_0
And we are not capable of understanding quantum realities.
spk_0
We're not capable of understanding all time existing at once.
spk_0
We're not capable of any of those things, because we're not advanced enough.
spk_0
We haven't evolved to that point.
spk_0
Interesting. Because you refer yourself as the beholder.
spk_0
And if you're talking about quantum mechanics, that reality is what's in the eye of the beholder.
spk_0
Is that's what the...
spk_0
You can either determine the speed or the direction, but not both of an atom.
spk_0
And so you have to decide between one or the other.
spk_0
It's that kind of scenario.
spk_0
Yeah. Yeah.
spk_0
So, what you determine, and they even talk about how the place is built on dualities.
spk_0
That's why there's two that's required to go in and out at any one time.
spk_0
That's why there's lights, taballac darkness, etc.
spk_0
There's just everything. There's like a binary nature to this realm.
spk_0
Indeed.
spk_0
Even with cause and effect and how those two are confused.
spk_0
Yeah. All right, then. So you've already kind of expressed your ideas of how you feel about the season overall.
spk_0
Yeah, uneven.
spk_0
It's I liked bits I didn't.
spk_0
This is a good episode of like it as a closer. I could even see it as a series closer.
spk_0
Yeah, there's episodes are really liked. And once I could have done without.
spk_0
And some that are just kind of well, it's a lot of ups and downs.
spk_0
I don't know if there's anything that was just kind of there hanging out in the middle.
spk_0
Maybe terrarium.
spk_0
Yeah, as much as I like that, it was very familiar in some respects.
spk_0
But it was a good piece for for Erica or take us as nice to get her own episode, you know, finally well and truly.
spk_0
Fucking veterans.
spk_0
So yeah, a bit uneven.
spk_0
Interesting to see what comes next because I know Muppets or puppets are going to be involved in the subcoming season.
spk_0
Yeah, I've seen a picture.
spk_0
I feel like they should have eliminated the episode for half-fulcans.
spk_0
And instead done episodes nine and ten as this whole season to now.
spk_0
I feel like that should have a two.
spk_0
Two.
spk_0
Two parter to like end the season, but you know, end on a conclusion of the harder not post-ponent till next time.
spk_0
Yeah, which is like what discovery did with their season two because in fact, it's even labeled parts one and two such sweet sorrow, sorrow part one such sweet sorrow part two.
spk_0
Okay.
spk_0
And so those two are interconnected, you know, they're they're part of the same thing.
spk_0
It's like this, this whole thing about getting discovery out of the equation and they took their time.
spk_0
And they didn't scram it all into one episode.
spk_0
And that was back when you know, discovery would run for like 12 to 15 episodes.
spk_0
I feel like 10 episodes just isn't enough.
spk_0
Yeah, we could get more of what the Vesta are because it is debulous.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
I mean, there's references to ancient evil and stuff like that.
spk_0
But how they were worshipped as gods and how they were imprisoned in the first place.
spk_0
Now, these are things that could have been addressed if it had been two episodes instead of one.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Because it's like, introduce a villain.
spk_0
They'll in escapes deal with villain end of say needs a little bit more just just to color in the lines a bit.
spk_0
Yeah, which is why I said it was rushed.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Anyway, the season for me to was uneven.
spk_0
There were things that I really liked and there was four and a half Vulcans.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And I actually really liked Terrarian.
spk_0
Obviously a lot more than you did.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
It's a good episode.
spk_0
It's just familiar.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
I don't I didn't care because it was Erica and Erica wasn't familiar to the situation.
spk_0
And it was interesting seeing her instead of somebody like Captain Pike or somebody like number one.
spk_0
That was good that it was Erica.
spk_0
And I feel like she shouldn't have had to wait season three to have her episode, but here we are.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
She kind of had one with, you know, she flies the ship, but it wasn't the best because you're dealing with memory issues.
spk_0
So you're not playing the character for we.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
spk_0
Playing a fragment of the character.
spk_0
We've already talked about this.
spk_0
Let's not revisit it.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
But overall, I feel like it's still a good season, even though it had its ups and downs.
spk_0
It's still something that I mostly enjoyed except for four and a half Vulcans.
spk_0
But if if nothing else, you know, just seeing Spock and Jim flirting.
spk_0
Just one of my favorite things of all time.
spk_0
All the Spurk fans out there were just losing their minds, you know it.
spk_0
And if you didn't understand why I said Spurk, then you don't understand.
spk_0
That's a ship name, meaning relationship name where you mash the two names together into one.
spk_0
It started with long time ago.
spk_0
I think the first time that I heard it was Benefer and the Portmanto couple name.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And so Spurk.
spk_0
Which is the way you have to do it.
spk_0
Otherwise it's cock.
spk_0
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Thank you.
spk_0
As I guess the Kelvin universe would be Spurra.
spk_0
Spurra.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Well, Spock apparently even just in our Strangest and Worlds universe gets around a bit.
spk_0
So he does.
spk_0
I know that it's not some people they don't like him having so many romances.
spk_0
I don't care because there's spappled.
spk_0
And they're spawned.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And there was.
spk_0
I don't even know how to put those together.
spk_0
Spring.
spk_0
Spring.
spk_0
Spring.
spk_0
Spring.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Anyway, so there we go season three.
spk_0
Strangest and Worlds.
spk_0
New life and new civilizations.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Spock getting his catcher wet.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Good times.
spk_0
Good times.
spk_0
All right.
spk_0
Do you have anything more to say, darling?
spk_0
Well, I'm not particularly.
spk_0
I think we talked the hell out of this episode.
spk_0
Cool.
spk_0
Well, that is the end of season three.
spk_0
And we're probably going to just be on hiatus until Strangest and Worlds comes back.
spk_0
Unless we feel a great, impressing need to talk about something in the meantime.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Imagine that we were going to be a hiatus until season four episode one drops.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And I'm sorry if that annoys some people, but we are tired.
spk_0
And we have other things we have to do too.
spk_0
This is a specialty podcast devoted specifically to Strangest and Worlds.
spk_0
And so Shield Pudulation is where we just talk about all of the Star Trek, including Strangest and Worlds.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
So we did an episode of Strangest and Worlds over on Shield Pudulation.
spk_0
We did trades.
spk_0
Yes.
spk_0
So it was so great to answer that.
spk_0
spk_0
If you want more of us, we're over there.
spk_0
There's quite a difference between the listeners to this show and those listeners to that show.
spk_0
There's quite a difference between numbers.
spk_0
So if you like what we do here, you can subscribe to Shield Pudulation and get more of the same.
spk_0
Or anywhere with the Star Trek in general.
spk_0
We're doing Datas Day next.
spk_0
The Star Trek next generation season four episode of living.
spk_0
Yeah, I was just going to say that, but you beat me to it.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
All right, then folks, that was season three.
spk_0
And you know what I'm going to say, you know, live long and prosper and keep boldly going.
spk_0
The women, the many, many women that dated spot.
spk_0
Yeah.