The Greatest Generation - Space Weasel (S3E3)

Episode Date: July 18, 2016

When the Enterprise discovers the aftermath of an attack on a planetary colony, they become suspicious of the two elderly survivors shacked up in the nicest house on their block. These survivors also seem unusually obsessed with their landscaping, which catches Commander Riker off-guard. But when Counselor Troi gets a bad song stuck in her head, the crew starts to wonder if there's something sinister going on inside their Malibu home. How many scarves is a reputation worth? Is there such thing as a lethal amount of guile? Why won't Captain Picard tell anyone what he's thinking? It's the episode where we play ALL the music.

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I'm your host, Adam Pranika. I'm your other host, Ben Harrison. Jesus. Yeah. You look up and you've made 50 super-embearsing things. I never thought we'd do five of these. Yeah, we've come a long way, haven't we? Hmm, should we open some cards?

Yeah, let's do it. The game is five cards, the game is exceeding very simple. What are these just cards there? Time to pluck a page of them. I feel like I do worse opening these every single time. What does it mean to do worse? I'm scared to bend the cards. Like I know that they're worthless or whatever, but I'm like,

whoa! What do you say that? Let's see. I've got a card for an episode called Force of Nature. It's like a Picard Godhead image. I do feel like the descriptions on the backs of these cards might be a happy medium in between the longer plot summaries

that we reference from Wikipedia and the incredibly inaccurate one sentence plot summaries that Amazon uses. How does it look? But yeah, I feel like the inaccuracy is often an opportunity to whip out the clarifying Pocosby. Ha-ha-ha.

The necessary Pocosby that illuminates the issue. I got kind of a banger of a pack here. Really? Did you fan them out? Yeah, I got coming of age, which is an image of Wesley with no facial features at all except for eyes and a mouth. Creepy? Yeah.

But after that, it's conspiracy. Dang. Syrac, Night Terrorist, and the Inner Light. Oh, I have the inner light right here. The episode that hilariously gets wrong how Patrick Stewart will look like when he's much, much older. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, I have CERIC also. What the hell? Right. Good pack. That CERIC card is pretty sweet. Yeah, it is a, the image of a hand held up in live long and prosper fingers. and then circled around that hand is a rainbow, and Siric's face is in the middle of that hand. I also have cards for an episode called The Hunted, and the episode where Troy gets

subjected to pregnancy and mogloflin group, the child. Do you love that mogloflin group the child do love that mogloflin group issue one man conspiracy is a cool looking card. It's it's like a quarter of a face Is it a remix head dealing blown apart with an eye that's opened and Terrified and there's a there's a bug sort of screen-printed over the top of it my card are all at a order I kind of feel like I opened up conspiracy at some point. I've been ordering my cards as we go because I'm a nerd. The only one I can put a hand to easily is my George Baxter, which I covet. I bet you're putting a hand to it easily, if George Baxter's around.

Yeah, I've still got my Sterling Macer Junior and my Charles Dennis. Still waiting for that Biff Yeager. It's coming though. I can feel it. One of my favorite things that Bill Tilly has now done is you made a Photoshop of Biff Yeager in an overcoat, like a trench coat, offering up natural yagers. And I guess Biffyager got wise to it and followed us as a result. I am really excited that people are interacting with Biffyager.

I hope it remains friendly and fun. Yes. But I am a little bit apprehensive about Biff joining our greater ecosystem because he's a nice old man. Right. He's like, and the people in our fan community are horror shows. Yeah. this is a guy that is trying to have a nice acting career and write children's books on the side. Yeah. Yeah. And we are a group of people that have really gathered around the, the warm light of Dick and Fart Chokes.

Yeah. I think if there's one thing I want to put out there is that like don't fuck with the yeager, alright? Yeah, be cool be chill. I don't I don't want biffieager to think less of us because of something that somebody not us did Don't be the reason that biffieager doesn't come to greatest gen con 2017 That is a those are words to live by Adam. Yeah. Yeah. In any context, don't be that guy. Don't be that guy. This is becoming a speech. Where the cat comes to, very tightly.

Hmm. I'm gonna type a Rambalon about something everyone knows. You want to talk about season three, episode three, survivors, which is an episode that I believe sets the record for squinting into the commercial break. I think every single commercial break is preceded by a push into the actor and a squint into the distance and then dissolved the commercial. Pretty solid.

Pretty good. There was a lot of it. I'll at least give you that. Yeah. Oh, hello. Hello. All right. So there is a distress call as many episodes begin with. And it is coming from a planet called Delta Rana 4. And the enterprise shows up and this planet is wiped out. Scorched earth, like they get a load of the surface and it's just a splotchy mess. I mean, Jordy's not on the bridge to talk shit about how bad it looks, but it looks bad. He's up nagging somewhere else. It sort of teases the idea that it might be a borax. He's a borax.

Involvement, right? Like, just the way the planet's been ice cream scooped away. Nobody ever says anything about the borax. Yeah. And then when the implication to me thought a little bit of borax-ish. Right. But yeah, I almost feel like it should have been the borax, but they didn't want to get rid of the borgs spoil our alert. Yeah So it's not the borgs. It's just people who operate exactly like the borgs

So they do they do a scan a scan and enhance For a while and they find You know how like when you when you fly over the country and you look down and it's and you can see like the squares of farms down there, like they're perfect little squares. So they're they're doing the scan on the planet and it's scorched earth for miles in every direction but they find one of those squares, a little square of green. An entire planet obliterated except for a few acres of trees and grass and one building.

Green posted stamp on the surface of the planet. Yeah. It's like you missed a spot. Yeah. And so they're like, I think we're picking up some life signs down there. And Picard's like, Number one, I think you would better see who's at home.

So they form an away team, and they beam down to Malibu house. Yeah. Which is a beautiful white house on some verdant land. It looks beautifully taken care of. Yeah, they're definitely not observing the water limitations that your average California house has observed given the water crisis, but.

Yeah, so let's talk about who's in the in the dustbuster club right now. It's a, it's Riker, it's Jority, it's Wurf. Data is also there. Yeah, and Riker is doing a little bit of anybody's at this point. Mm-hmm. And he steps into a Peewee herman style snare trap.

Like it's the one spot on the lawn that there's a trap set in and sure is shit-riker steps in it. Well I just I like to picture that there's dozens and dozens of these on this lot. Yeah. Like, almost anywhere you step, you could get your ankle lassoed and taken up into the heights on a pole. I wonder if it got them on the vine leg. I can't feel good. I think it was his other foot. Yeah.

I think so. So, so Rikers a dangling. And the two inhabitants of the house, Kevin and Roshan walk out. And Kevin. Kevin is strapped. What are you doing there? This is private property.

And his voice reminds me of Jasper Beardley from The Simpsons. It's a bad line. It's got that weird Dan Rather whistle, little bit of Sean Connery mixed in. It's a quintessentially perfect old man voice. Yeah, I feel like this voice we've heard in other things. I don't, I don't, I don't, look out the actor,

but he seems super familiar. Yeah, yeah, he's great. Kevin's got a piece, and so he's holding a gun to him. The Wharf has like, has like, trichorded the whole place. He knows that this is a non-functioning weapon. Yeah, no one's afraid of this old man with his empty piece. And so they get Riker down and they convince Kevin to let them check out the house because Riker is, you know, like they're there to figure out why this house got spared. Like what's going on? And to be clear, I think Riker's doing a little bit of real estate speculation as well. Nobody for miles, excellent curb appeal.

No, anybody for miles. Yeah. The inhabitants are probably not going to be living there for very much longer. Yeah. Going to be on the market soon. Yeah. I was going to call this the the matte painting planet because every time they go to a wide shot, it's like the people are standing on a small bit of lawn that has got matte painting all around it. Yeah. But that's Riker's natural habitat. Like he loves looking out over a desolate matte painting. It's sort of his deal, yeah.

They go into the house, or compliments Kevin on his unmitigated gal, trying to stick him up with an unmotored weapon. Yeah, a game respect game. I admire go. And data finds a little music box on the shelf. Yeah, it's a music box that has two, is it one ballerina or is it a couple of dancers inside?

Yeah, it's like a man and a woman doing a doing a waltz. Yeah, and it plays ice cream chuck music And as soon as this box is turned on we cut back to the enterprise and Councillor Troy is Like hit with a lightning bolt of this music. Yeah, and it's the sort of, it's the version of this music that's Doppler affected. Like, we heard the music down on the planet. Right, that ice-cream truck is heading off

into the distance all the time. Yeah. It's a very frustrating feeling, because you know you missed out on some soft swirl. Her disappointment in missing the ice cream is equal to the pain she's feeling for hearing this music, this Doppler shifted music. It's totally overwhelming to her. There's a whole bunch of scenes in this episode before she kind of cops to the fact that she's in total psychic distress, where she's got to like sit in a meeting and everybody's talking and all she can do is listen to this stupid fucking ice cream truck.

Yeah. And it's some real capital A acting by Troy here by Marina Certees. She, at many points, just totally breaks. Like, fall on the floor crying breaks. Yeah. She's given a lot to do in this episode. And it's kind of a mystery for most of the episode what has befallen her. I mean, we know that it's linked to this music box in some way,

but it's pretty crazy mystery. Yeah. So on the surface, the away team is making the case for... I mean, this is an episode that's a little bit like the one that came before. They're trying to convince the inhabitants that it's dangerous to stay. Whoever did this to the rest of the planet is probably coming back. Right. And we're not really sure why they spared you, but we'd like to get to the bottom of that too. But in the meantime, like, this is not a place that we feel good about leaving

you. And obviously, it's your right to do whatever you want. It's a real Dante's peak scenario. Like, the volcano is exploding, old lady. Like, don't you want to leave? Yeah. And they're really gochivinning it. Like, they are... Especially Kevin. Kevin does not even want to hear it.

He's not even trying to hear it. Yeah, he's like, we're not going anywhere. And he's like, not initially rude, but he really tips toes up to the line. Yeah. So they like we're not going anywhere. And he's like not initially rude, but he really tips toes up to the line. Yeah, so they finish up with them and they're like, all right, well we're gonna get back to the surface, but I wouldn't count on us going anywhere. They go back up to the enterprise where they are greeted by a ship that looks like one that could have attacked the planet. Right, it's like huge. They say it's five times the mass of the enterprise. Look at the size of that.

It's flexing, like it is loaded for bear with enough weaponry to wipe out the entire surface of a planet, so they're like plausible that these are the guys that we're looking for with regard to this huge genocide that has just been committed here. I think they even refer to it as a holocaust at some point. Yeah, this ship for being as big as it is,

look at the size of that. It's just not very impressive looking to me. Yeah. It looks like sort of a metal paper airplane. Yeah, it's not, it's got all the imagination of a ship from like Battlestarco Actica. Yeah, yeah. Which is a sick burn on Battlestarco Actica, which I know is a show that people like, I don't like it. I like it.

But you know, it's like, I think that one thing that this show has a history of doing really well is throwing a ton of character into the ships and you can kind of speculate about the kind of people that would build a ship like the one that you see on screen where the Romulans have a very distinct style to themselves and the Clions and the Frangangi and the Borg and you can extrapolate a lot about them From their ship designs. This is an inscrutable ship design that is you know It might as well have been drawn in a graph paper notebook by a nerdy high school student named Ben Harrison Right like for instance someone like Jordy wouldn't be able to look at this ship and make a Character judgment based on its inhabitants.

Right. Something that he loves doing. Yeah. It's a dreamy, sweet, well-with-thog-beauty-based. Are you gone, find it within yourself? Just stand up, tell the truth. You don't deserve the wealth that you never bought. And it starts like shooting a pea shooter at him.

And I think Wurf is, uh, is like kind of, kind of, chuckling at how, how puny this, this weapon is, but, uh, but the ship, uh, takes off and they try to pursue it. And so, they're like warping away, and there's just nothing they can do to catch up to this ship. It's matching their speed so perfectly that there's no possible chance they could catch up to this ship. It's matching their speed so perfectly that there's no possible chance

they could catch up to it. So they whip the ship back around and head back to the planet, thinking that they've saved its two inhabitants for now. Right, they've chased this ship off. And so, but the urgency is sort of redoubled now, right? Like they've seen this big ship, they know it's around, they gotta try to get Kevin and Roshan off the planet.

Right, and this is also like vexing for the reason that they've pretty like thoroughly scanned the system, like Wurf says he's willing to stake his reputation on the fact that there's no ship and then the ship shows up. So they're like, wow, like it's either got some kind of cloaking technology or something, but... How about gambling wharf again? Ready to stake his reputation on it. Like, keep gambling wharf. Well, wharf does get vindicated in the end, but...

That's true. But this hand, he does lose. And this is now urgent enough that Picard chooses to beam down. And Kevin and Roshan are mucking around in the dirt, like doing some gardening. And... Kevin's got a garden weasel. Did you see that? I did see that.

Yeah. Garden weasel of the future. Yeah. Space weasel. Yeah. But then... And he shows up with gifts. He's like, hey, I got a replicator forel. Yeah. And he shows up with gifts. He's like, hey, I got a replicator for you. Yes.

And Worph's going to set it up for you. Yeah, Worph will walk you through its operation. He's got the IKEA instructions for putting it together. This is a white glove delivery. And one of the things that we've learned is that the planet's water table has been tainted by the attack. So there's not really any reason to believe that Rashan and Kevin could survive here if they did leave. But Rashan and Kevin are quite insistent

that they would like to stay. And so Picard is down here to talk them out of it. And when he can't talk them out of it, he promises that the enterprise will stay in orbit forever, like indefinitely until they die, of natural causes, I guess, to because they have to defend them from this attacking ship.

Which is- Based on their age, that could only be a couple of days. In this series, this is the second time that MacArthur said that the enterprise can stay here forever if it needs to, the other time being the Royale. God, how disappointing would that be for the rest of the crew? Right, like, this is the flagship. Can you really spare it for something like that? Can't you like, shift in another less important

ship of the line? Yeah, I don't know. I don't get it. But this is really like vexing to Kevin, who has been explaining to them the entire time. He's a man of special conscience. The reason they were spared in the initial attack was that he refused to lift a finger

to help defend the colony and Roshan says that while she wanted to help fight she decided to stay with her husband rather than join the the colonists and he keeps hanging on this idea that he is a pacifist that he doesn't he doesn't commit acts of violence he will not kill like like no circumstance could cause him to kill Oh you better believe that's a better he just keeps hitting on this and it's like Guide like you're just an old man in a house. Nobody is accusing you of being willing to kill Yeah, and also like what's he gonna do against a ship that's Moeng down the planet from orbit?

He's gonna shake a rake at it? Yeah, he's gonna get out of his... I like Kevin. He's gonna get out of his weed whacker and go to town on him. He's hoping that the attacking ship has grass pollen allergies? This is a fun scene because they enjoy some tea together. So it's warf and Picard sitting on the Malibu couch across from Kevin and his wife.

And warf is like, Good tea, nice house. Like he's a guy who doesn't enjoy drinking tea that has a Mr. Yuck sticker on it. Like he likes that tea. I think there's one of the rare times you actually see him lie. Intentionally lie to someone.

Yeah, it's great. But he lies, he picked up that cadence on the Edo planet when he said nice planet. Like, that sort of his brand. Yeah, he's gonna be kind of monosolabic and in his assessment of his brand. Yeah, he's going to be kind of monosolobic in his assessment of any situation. I'd love to read Warf's Yelp reviews, you know? Yeah.

Terrible parking, pretty good service. Generous portions, dirty bathroom. Poor quality espresso, good french fries. What did you even order a wharf? What the fuck is wrong with you? Valle was a bit of a dick. Yeah I love that. That should be a thing. I think we've accidentally done bits that have already been done before on the show and surprised me at all of Warfjelpe was a thing. Yeah. Well, you say what you call accidental, I call rank plagiarism, so. Sure.

Fuck you. Yeah. So meanwhile up on the Enterprise, like Troy has been put into a medical coma, because the ice cream truck music is driving her that crazy. She's like screaming and wailing, and like nothing is helping get the music out of her head. Not even the coma, like she is as brain dead as the doctor can safely make her and she's still like tossing and turning on the bed. Yeah. It's fucked up, like she is really suffering here.

Yeah. And Picard is like, is, is pissed, like he's, he really goes to bat for Troy with, like he knows something is up and this is sort of where Picard starts to put it together, but I feel like he kind of has a picture of what's going on about halfway through the episode but doesn't show up homes it until way, way later, like he doesn't kind of like go through what the plot was. And so he just starts like really smarty-pancing around, like he keeps telling, you know, Riker to get the ship to do something that doesn't make any sense to Riker because Riker is not privy to Picard's theory of the situation. And so like everybody is getting pissed with Picard before long. Like they keep going nose to nose with this fucking dangerous ship that keeps entering the system in the exact same way.

Like they definitely recycled the shot of the ship coming into orbit three times. Yeah. And you know, it keeps shooting at them and getting more dangerous. Eventually Picard just tells Riker to stand by and not do anything as this ship rewipes out the surface of the planet. And so, as far as everybody knows, the last two people in this horrible Holocaust have been allowed to be killed by the captain and they warp out of the system. They destroy the ship though, right?

They destroy the attacking ship with a single torpedo. Right. It's suddenly much more vulnerable to their attacks and they bounce. So it's a couple of really weird things have happened here in the span of like two minutes. Yeah. in the span of like two minutes. Yeah, because nobody on the ship is privy to like in, you know, like a civil proceeding in the law, you talk about your theory of the case and you as a lawyer are communicating with the other side

about what your theory of the case is. And it's all about like trying to poke holes in one's theory of the case. And the card clearly has a theory of this case, but he does not let in any of his associates on what that might be. So he chaotic pros it totally. And they are kind of a chaotic captain. They are just horrified that he's, these two people be killed. Yeah.

It's a very strange, strange set of choices he makes about how to go about doing this. I mean, it helps enhance the dramatic tension of the episode, but it's weird. Sure. Yeah, so then Picard's like, peace out. Let's get out of here.

And they fly away. They fly away for a couple of hours. And the Picard's like, all right, let's head back. Which is confusing to everyone in the same way as all of his other actions have been. Right. He still hasn't showed them his cards. Yeah. The first card that gets shown to the rest of the crew is when they arrive back at the planet, the green patch is back, and the Malibu house is back. Right. And so are Kevin and Roshan. So at this point everyone's starting to put together how they've been fucked with. Yeah. And this is the point where Picards

like beam them directly to the bridge. Yeah, they're pretty stunned. Like, they thought that the Enterprise was out of their lives for good and Picard is on to Kevin and he's on to Kevin in that Kevin is not human. And Kevin basically has a confession here, which is A, he is an alien. I have a doubt in the mortal being of disguises and false surroundings. Which are indistinguishable from Q in terms of what their power level is at, right? Yeah, it seems that way. But he fell in love with a woman named Rashan, and they retired here to Ranafore. An actual alien race called the Hussnack killed everybody, including Rashan and Kevin

like hulked out and in an instant like used his awesome power to destroy the Hussnack race entirely and forever. So it's not one Holocaust but two that we're talking about at this point. And, you know, the Hussnak don't sound like especially nice neighbors, but maybe the ones that weren't involved in specifically killing everybody on this planet didn't deserve to die. And he says that it's like 50 billion individuals that got taken out. And it turns out that Rashan is also a recreation. He is, he's like, willed her back into existence,

so she doesn't really exist. She's kind of a real doll, which is gross, Kevin. Yeah, but her mouth is a lot more realistic. I mean, we should have suspected from the second we learned his name was Kevin, right? Right. We need to talk about Kevin. Picard says something pretty intense here,

which is, we have no Lord to fit your crime. Yeah, he's got a body count on him, that's for sure. Yeah. And no prison could hold him. So what-so what's Picard going to do? That's sort of the point. Right. Not only do we not have a lot that fits your crime, but we have no way to punish you at all.

Right. You know, it's almost unthinkable, like what-'ve done. And the scope of our morality and technology just don't let us address this in any way. So we're just gonna leave you here. And you can think about what you did for the rest of eternity. And oh, by the way, if you could just fix what you've done to Troy, that would be great.

Yeah, so given disappears and we cut to a shot of the doctor running into Troy's room and I don't know if they meant for this to be the thing but Kevin is standing over Troy's bed reaching for her and it almost looks like he's going for a boob when Cresher walks in He's like, oh, I was just removing this music from her head. One shong only. You're best. Those are always whining about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen

When when the Kevin get replaced I kept an aramious Oh, I'll go so we just sort of he Waves his hand over her head and the music is gone and He goes back to the planet to live out the rest of his days in privacy, huh? I think the last thing is that they're going to put one of their signature warning beacons not to go around the planet for other ships. Yeah, kind of a solemn ending, huh?

You know what I really was left wondering at the end of this episode, Adam, is what does Captain Picard's mission report look like when he writes up this situation to Starfleet? It's like, well, 11,000 people died. We found a super powerful Deus Ex Mach and a type alien who took responsibility for that and also the genus side of an entire other race that we're called the Hoosnok. I guess we won't

have to be dealing with them. Anyways, if you want to talk to this guy, he's all powerful and he lives on run of four. Yeah, BT debbs, we dropped a pin on this planet so you can find it again and we're just gonna go on to the next. Like, to somebody it's definitely a command go like, Picard, are you saying you've met another unbeatably powerful alien? Are you fucking kidding me, man? It's weird that like whenever Q goes to visit them again, he doesn't just yell out for Kevin.

Kevin would make a great ally. And Kevin kind of owes him a favor. If you yell Kevin three times, Kevin appears. Hello Captain Picard. You rang. I got your message. Hey Ben. What's that Adam?

You find yourself any drunk Shimoda? Drunk Shimoda! Which of course is the plural for drunk Shimoda. I've only picked two drunk Shimodos one time in the history of our show. It's a good thing we have those data points. My my drunk Shimoda in this episode is Rashan. This is kind of a half-hearted drunk Shimoda because I came up with this before I was reminded that she was in fact a fake Rashishan and not the real person. But.

This is a buzzed Shimoda. If it's not a fully drunk Shimoda. Yeah, well, you know, buzzed Shimoda driving is drunk Shimoda driving. But I was just struck by how vastly incurious she was about the fact that she and Kevin were spared. Like, she doesn't seem to have even wondered why. Like, she says at one point that she tried to put a purpose to it, but couldn't, but then she just seems to have like fully accepted the fact

that they're just going to live alone on this planet for the rest of their lives and doesn't question like why Kevin is not cooperating with Picard doesn't question whether Kevin is right about telling the enterprise to fuck the hell off like she just is totally at the mercy of her husband's will and it just seemed crazy that she was so, so like, cowed by him. It makes me think a couple of things. A, Kevin Portenz to be an all-seeing, all-knowing, has lived for thousands of years type of being.

Right. And on the one hand How could he have fallen in love with such a fucking simpleton like like what is interesting about Roshan at all to him? I don't know I'm sure my wife asks herself the same question Sure how did I fall in love with this dope either she was always that dull and either she was always that dull and his recreation of her was accurate. Right. He might have dumbed her down in the recreation so that she wouldn't ask a bunch of questions about why they were the last survivors, right?

He made a real dull of his previously fully fleshed out wife, gross, super gross. I think that is the darker of the two ideas. I like to think real where Sean was probably pretty kick ass if she kept Kevin's interest. Totally. And Kevin's seen a lot of crazy shit. Bedroom or otherwise, like Roshan's probably knocking it out pretty hard. Yeah, I like to think so. I like to think so all the time.

So yeah, I think Kevin as maybe a form of punishment for himself probably dumb down Roshan in the recreation and has sort of made that a punishment going forward. Like I don't deserve full power Roshan. I deserve the image of Roshan as sort of a further imprisonment of what I've done. That's fucked up, yo. Yeah, pretty dark, huh? How about you, dude? Do you have a drunk Shimoda?

All right, this might require some editing. So my Shimoda is, can you call up the episode? I'm, yeah, the episode called up. OK, so at minute 26, the enemy ship is attacking the enterprise. And this is the moment where it's like hardcore attack, right? Yeah. And shit is popping off. Like bangers are getting dropped.

Stuff on the bridge is blowing up. There is an extra that overplays... Are you talking about this red shirt in the background? How he gets killed so badly. So he flies backwards into the turbo lift but he doesn't just fall down. He falls back into the lift and then does a forward flip onto the floor. Yeah. It is amazing. And so it's pretty pretty solid and what's great about this scene is that he's almost completely Obscured by the railing to the back part of the bridge. Yeah, so I basically just see his iPad fly up in the air

And yeah, and he goes down for the count So like I can imagine what he's thinking. He's like all right I got this one scene to to really make a name for myself as a stunt man Like I'm really gonna go for it, but no one is going to see it. Like, I'm almost completely obscured by the railing, but he fucking does it, and I love it. Like, no one's having more fun in that scene

than he is, it's great. Yeah, solid Shimoda. Yeah, yeah, so red shirt extra at minute 26 Make sure you check this out this guy deserves your love. Yeah, he deserves a animated gift. I think yeah sliding into your DMs like A Greatest Gen Live Show is something you don't want to miss. Why? Well it's a great opportunity to see me and Ben in person, but that's not all. FODs from all over gather at these shows to cosplay, to do pre and post show hangs, to make friends, and share their embarrassment.

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It's about terrain, about a spout to destroy humanity. Hey, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Are you Noah? Yeah, I know we look like humans. We're actually, we're podcasters. We are podcasters, so it's different. Have you heard of Ono Ross and Carrie? We investigate spirituality, claims of the paranormal,

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Who watches the Watchers? Mistakenly believing Captain Picard to be a god. The members of a primitive culture sees Troy and prepare to sacrifice her to him. It's a human sacrifice episode. Yeah. I think this is the one where they have the cloaked, like duck blind facility to watch primitive Vulcans. A concept so strongly decided to form an entire movie

around it. Yeah. A real peach of a movie. Yeah, God, I have to admit, like, do they, do the Enterprise crew put on the makeup, the head makeup, to go, to go interact with these people? Is that what happens? I think Troy and Riker do. Oh, they put on some heads, huh?

Yeah, they get some, some forehead shit. I don't remember anything else besides how strange Troy looks with a headpiece. So yeah, guess we have to watch it. Yeah, I don't remember hating this episode, so I'll... I remember hating the movie that was similarly storyline. I will say that, so I'm going into this a little apprehensive. Fair enough. If you would like to talk about the upcoming episode,

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