Yet Another Star Trek Podcast - Ep 047: (TOS S01E29) Operation -- Annihilate!

Episode Date: June 13, 2023

Brad, Drew, and Majeed discuss the intricacies of salmonella poisoning as the crew of The Enterprise struggles to stop the flying chicken cutlet parasites. Join in the craziness as The Gang reviews original Star Trek episode "Operation -- Annihilate!" Be sure to check out our website, social media, and join our Discord! Links for all are listed below: Website | Discord | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | TikTok | YouTube Drop us an email at [e-mail]! “Warp Speed” and "To the Stars" was written and performed by William Grobbelaar Music: https://soundcloud.com/williamgrobbelaarmusic Additional artwork by George Rateau: https://www.fiverr.com/georgerateau

Hey everybody, welcome to yet another Star Trek podcast. We are the number two Star Trek podcast in all of the universe. What's the number one? What you decide that yourself Gee, why are you looking at me like that? I'm sorry, I continue. Sorry. Bye. Oh, well, everybody you've heard my gene-slobly voice. Let's hear Brad's loving voice, Brad. So you say number two in the universe. Now, is it universes, like multi-universes, or do we kind of drop down to number three,

or four, or do we even go up to number one at that point? I think we're highly underrated. I feel like I should refer you to the Marvel podcast. Ha ha ha. Get some Kang and you know, have some fun with that. You know, I know who that is with, but I don't know who that is because I am so far behind that my Marvel moves.

I'm not doing this with you. Not yet. No. I'm not trying to trickle you. Like I haven't seen, and I know that like, he's supposed to be the next big bad, but I don't know anything about him. And I don't read the comics. So like I haven't seen a Marvel movie since like,

if you have to remember, if you have to watch, if you have to choose in the next few months about which Marvel movie to watch, I would strongly suggest you skip Ant-Man and just watch Guardians of the Galaxy C3. Uh, see, I watched, I watched Ant-Man the other day. And um, I was, uh, surprised with how much CG the entire movie is based around. Yeah, I mean, to me, that's not just an A-man movie, but I mean, Guardians of the Galaxy

Volume 3, Drew. Oh, it's so good. It just, I mean, I'll probably, I probably will see that in the theater because I'm pretty sure my wife wants to see it. But I mean, like, we're talking, so I saw Spider-Man, the most recent Spider-Man. Across the Spider-Man. What? What? Across the Spider-Ver. I didn't see the most, what? Across the Spider-Verse.

Is that the name of it? That's the one that's coming out this week, yeah. No, he's not talking about that one. Oh, no way, no way home? No way home. Yeah, that one. Sorry. The live, the live action one.

Oh, okay. Yeah. I saw that. But prior to that, I think I'm going back as far as like before Black Widow. So I got a lot of catching up to do. We should get you out more. Yeah.

But if I get out more, I won't see those movies. What you should do though is find a way to watch the movie on your commute home. You like, you like project and screen on like, you know, the corner of your, your, your, your windshield there and nothing could possibly go right. That's illegal. You know, it's funny. You say that because the three of us shared a coworker. I think his name was Lyle from that mistaken. Is that his real name? Are you doing the thing where

we mess up the name just slightly so we don't get sued? Who is to know? Anyway, Lyle had a very small car, one of those smart cars. Oh, all right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And I recall driving past him on the highway. And well, actually, let me rephrase that. I recall him driving past me on the highway, because he was doing at least like 80 miles per hour. And there was an iPad taped to a steering wheel

and he was watching a movie while driving. Are you serious? That's serious. Oh my God, I did not know about that. He drove like headmen to live for. But in a smart car, if you're in like a pickup or like a hum V, like I get it, because like maybe you might bounce off the object that you're about to run into, but in a smart car, like, you ain't making that one. Yeah. Yeah. I learn because of him, that smart cars don't have

spare tires. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is wild right is it cuz it's not too small to fit on them That you have to buy a whole new car when there's no space in the car There's no space in the car to put the spare. Oh, I thought you just had a buy a new one a whole new car Oh, new car We can't fit a spare tire in here. So we're just not gonna make them so So once you get a flat you need to just buy a new car. Yeah. I feel like that's, I feel like that is like Apple's car model, and they finally released their one.

Well, what's that? You scratched the side. Well, you have to get a new car now. Well, Lyle did have an iPad on his steering wheel, so there you go. My, uh, my, my, my face cheeks are already hurting from smiling and laughing so much with you guys. We're for a long pod. Oh, we're in a long pod. Well, should I pivot into the episode? Well, I wanted to ask you a question before we start.

Yeah, because we haven't seen each other. I'm cameraing a while. Do my arms look bigger? This is the last time that we talked? Like, I've been trying. I don't know. I think the camera takes away 10 pounds from my arms, just specifically my arms. Well, here's the thing, man, like the camera is above you, kind of looking downish and your arms are behind you and you're leaning forward a little.

I mean, I guess they look bigger. Yay! Thank you. I feel like your chest also looks bigger too. Chesticles. Can I say chesticles? I mean, technically, yes, you can make up words if you want. Chesticles is a real term. It's a doctor proof term. It's at least on urban dictionary. Show me the doctor that refers to this.

He's Dr. Nick from the Sims. Actually, me talking about my arms made me think of a way to respond to a meme on Twitter. Oh God, I've been loving Twitter recently. I got back into it. I'm sorry, I took so long off of it. I need to get right on Twitter. Yeah, you totally need to not get me on. But you have a Twitter account, right, Brad? I do. I do. And I don't use it. Give it to me. I'll I'll use it for you. I don't particularly feel like that will go well. I kind of feel like you may get me canceled.

I won't lie to you. I feel as if because it's not my Twitter account, I would say things that I wouldn't put on my own personal account. Just so like what you're doing with the Star Trek pod. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right.

Yeah. No, it's totally. I've said things on that podcast on that Twitter page. But yeah, yes, on the podcast too, that if we release those tapes, you'll be in a lot of trouble. Brad is accurate. Brad is going for the throat. I know I'm just trying to get to merit. This is technically the last episode for this season that we are recording. That is correct. Yeah. We are wrapping up season one of Star Trek with season one episode 29 Operation Annihillate.

I feel like they have a missed opportunity operation annihilation. Like that would have been perfect for the name. You know the shun and the shun. I don't get it. I don't get it. Is that an Atlanta thing? I don't like you guys. Don't you come up here and do something about it.

Oh, maybe, maybe in Christmas. Who knows? I'm busy that day. So we're ready to get started on this flying broad chicken episode. Brad, I'm tagging you in. All right, gentlemen. So the crew of the Enterprise, they are following a path of destruction across the universe.

They are going from planet to planet to identify a mysterious devastating force, which is, in truth, not really a mysterious devastating force, is more of like flying chicken couplet. Like seriously, who in the prop department decided to just say, hey, I got some raw chicken, I'm gonna flap some wings on it and then just push it on the wall. There you go.

Chicken cup. That's literally the entire episode's bad guy. Sorry, sorry, I'm like spoiler folks if you're actually watching this episode well Chicken color So yes the crew then to prize reach the planet of De Neva De Neva is that how it's pronounced true? I would go with De Neva De Neva De Neva with Geneva. Geneva? Geneva. Geneva? Like Geneva?

Yes. Geneva. Okay. Okay. Okay. Geneva. So they go to Geneva where Kirk's brother Sam is there. He's the, you know, the family guy, you know, the fun.

What? No, no accent. Oh, I, no. Okay. No accent. Sorry? No, no accent. Oh, I, no. Okay. No accent. Sorry, please. No accent.

Is that worth it, Demerat? No, it's not. It's worth him getting canceled. Oh, this is technically. It's technically, technically I am Italian. So he has no Japanese. That's offensive. That's offensive. That's not.

No, it's not. If people knew, you know what, let's just continue. I'm not going to do this for you. To avoid majeed yet in canceled, let's continue. So they go to this planet. Drew, how did we establish? We're going to call it. Deneva. Deneva. Deneva. Deneva. Deneva. Deneva. Okay, so they go to Deneva, they beam down, you know, it's the usual guys. It's the, you know, the

Kirk, the Spock, the McCoy, and then of course, as usual, the wretcheds. Well, you know, surprise, surprise, they get attacked by some crazed people. Oh, I forgot. They also encountered a spaceship and, you know, near the sun that was like, oh my God, it's hot in here. And then I'm free and then it blew up. That's a side note because that's actually important, layered on the story.

So I apologize for my jumping around folks. Bear with me. I apologize for my jumping around folks. Bear with me. I apologize for interrupting, Brad, but my cat has busted in this room twice. Now he's literally rolling around belly up on the carpet next to me. And like, he's like really pushing this door wide open to get in here. So I'm sorry. No, is that, is that is it my problem that you need better locks? Oh, I that is a valid complaint because all the door knobs in this house suck and they all need to be replaced.

I can help you that you know, actually, I need new doors. Actually, I can also help you with that. You can frame a door. No, I can help you go to Home Depot and load it into my pickup truck. Yeah, that's not what I need. I need like the doors reframed. So the crazy, the enterprise, make sure, like, you know, do really short effort on on gangway, those crazy lunatics. They all phasered, by the way. And they do find Kirk's brother Sam, or what I would also like to say, they find mustache Kirk dead on the floor. And unfortunately, he gave too many mustache rides. Oh, you went for the low ball. Oh, what a way to go.

Raise your hand if you thought that this was going to be the legacy of Sam Kirk that we would encounter in strange new worlds. I'm not surprised. For the listeners, there are no hands raised. Unfortunately, we looked this up when we when we first encountered Sam a firm member correctly. What we looked it up in so far that we knew that he would be dead. I did not. I didn't expect to be. I saw the picture of of a dead Kirk with a mustache. I saw that picture too. I didn't expect that to be literally all there was. So, oh, here's what. Oh, that's, I see what you mean.

Here's what I think happened. And I have a theory based on what we know about Sam Kirk from Strangelys and World Season 1. Here's what I think happened. Sam Kirk saw the parasite. Thought it was a piece of chicken, decided to put it into a piece of chicken, decided to put it into a sandwich, tried to eat it,

he died. That is what happened to Sam Kirk. Cause he is not smart. See, I feel like that would have been better if we just called him jellyfish and he thought of his jelly. Anyway, so what happened in the episode? Ha! Ha! Ha! So we find we find a mustache

Kirk down the floor, but but his wife and his son are okay. Well, in the sense that they're both passed out, not really responsive. So if that's your definition of okay, then they're doing swell. Nope, nobody took that. Nobody, nobody agrees that's okay. Okay, that's just me. Got it. I understand. So yeah, the, they, they, they get the, the peeps out of there and try to get them away. But, you know, well, that's not all that happens. So they actually start

looking around for what and the freak is going on this planet and they come across the chicken cult. It's kind of, it's kind of like posted on that wall and then the ceiling and it's in the dark because, you know, they got to stay cool in the shady, right? Somebody like literally took chicken cutlets, pounded them flat, and then threw them at walls, hoping they would stick. That's honestly probably the best way I can describe this one. Yeah.

It is not attractive. I mean, these, this is also the same crew that took a pomegranian and glued extra wigs to it to make it look like an Indian. In a horn. A port dog. Like a unicorn horn. A port dog.

Mm-hmm. Yep. You know, I think I remember calling a unicorn dog at one point. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, you know, the Kirk and McCoy being back up with Sam's kid, Peter, and I don't know his wife's name, or Arlene. Arlene, that sounds right. Well, they, they beam up board, you know, make sure things are going good.

And they, they then being bound, Spock, of course, is unfortunately attacked by the chicken cultlet. He unfortunately then suffers a severe case of food poisoning. You know, that's a serious illness, folks. Please make sure you cook your chicken to the proper temperature. Do not wash your chicken. No, no, no, no Just just you don't want to you don't want to get wet. Just just keep it nice

moist and you know Make sure you fully cooked it though. I'm speaking directly to our friend Wayne right now do not wash your chicken You can clean the chicken. I'm not doing this with you guys you guys can clean chicken You've been in out you clean chicken. Well, well, no the reason why you don't do it is because it actually is more likely to spread germs at a greater distance around your kitchen when you wash it. Do you not clean your kitchen? So, yeah, so what you're telling me is you clean your kitchen immediately after washing your chicken? No, I have a stainless steel sink. How are you? How are you, stainless steel doesn't mean

germ free. That's not, that's not what they sell me. So the particles, the particles go further away by the spray of the water. And it is more likely to go around your kitchen like on the walls and everything. You put the chicken in a bowl, you pour the vinegar

over the chicken. Why would you let it go? Hold on, hold on. Are you making a marinade or are you cleaning it? Because you're doing different things. You're cleaning the chicken. Why are you using vinegar and a lemon? To clean the chicken.

Why? Why? I don't know, chicken blood? Just cook it. There's no blood. There's no blood. Just, just cook it. There's no blood. There's no blood. Just cook it.

Listen, my wife is, my wife is not from this country originally. My wife is Haitian. If I go check. Yeah, my wife doesn't do that. She is your wife Haitian? She's from, not from this country? Right. Okay, great.

They, right. Listen. They raw fish. All I'm saying. That's fair. My listen. They raw fish. All I'm saying. That's fair. My wife does eat raw fish. That's delicious. It's delicious.

Some raw fish is, but you know what? I can't do this with you right now. When I see you in person, I'm busy doing business. Did I ever tell you, did I ever tell you I had a well while I was there one time? This is, I can't do this with you right now. I can't, I can't, I can't do this. He was surprisingly horrible.

It was really horrible. I can assure you you don't ever want to try it. Majeed, I would like to direct you to our chatroom where I just copied and pasted a Google search. and paste it to Google search. Does this mean, does this mean Drew gets a Domeric? I can't give Drew a Domeric because he's exempt because he lives in the same state as me. And he lives in the same time zone as me.

You, my friend, don't. I live in the same time zone as me. You, my friend, don't. I live in the same time zone. So we go back to the crew of the Enterprise. And you know what, we get a little treat. We get Nurse Chapel chapel and she's she's helping out McCoy on the enterprise you know honestly I was kind of surprised I didn't really expect to see a chapel again yeah you know I was a nice little treat the original original NC is great she shows up through various

episodes throughout the entire run and then she is in some of the movies to believe she is. Maybe thinking of well, her voice is everywhere. Well, yeah, but I'm trying to think I could just weren't who's the other one? Um, Yelman Rand Rand is in a couple of the news. Um, I definitely remember. Speaking speaking of Yaman, can I just say that I saw Yaman, I think her name is Zara and think I love her. So, so you're saying Yaman, do you mean Yoman? What did I say? Yaman. What did you say?

Yoman. They sound exactly the same to me. Anywho, uh, Yaman Zara Zara, I think I love her. She showed her for like five minutes in the episode as a red shirt. Who? She's the one that didn't die. She's a red shirt that didn't die.

The only female red shirt that was sent down. Oh, in this episode. Yeah. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. Um, she was a fairly attractive individual, I believe she's a model.

Well, I'm sorry. I'm not sure if she's still alive, but she's still alive. She's 80 years old now, but she was a model. Don't ask me how I know this. Don't ask me how much research I did into this. Just know that I figured this if Mason. So, Majid stayed up all last night looking and talking to the whole podcast.

This is why I lost the episode five minutes ago. This is why I took him up until like five minutes ago to finish the episode. Right. He was like pausing it is like, oh man. Right. That's a good, good looking lady. I got to go find out who she is back

into the left. So back into the left. So back into the left The Paramount Plus has has commercials on my Level so I had time So anyways Back back on the enterprise. I swear to God, I had no idea where I left off folks. So I'm just going to skip over here. Well, we saw on your chat.

We left off our chat. We saw on your chat. Yeah, that was a treat. There we go. We have our treats. McCoy explains to Kirk that the... Yeah, I don't really understand this part. So, uh, yeah, like, uh, Sam's wife is, uh, got some sort of chicken, cutlet on her shoulders. So they remove it and, uh, then, you know, they're

kind of really stumped on what to do next. Spock recovers enough to a point where he kind of goes a little bonkers and just kind of rushes on out of the sick bag. I have to admit, our sick bag on TUS kind of sucks when it comes to keeping people in there. They're really bad at it. And this is not like the first time, this has got to be like the fifth or sixth time we've seen at this season.

Yeah, at least. By the way, just really quick, because as we're talking about downgrades, the enterprise is gonna get a retrofit before TOS, like between Change New Worlds and TOS, there's gonna be a retrofit, like they're gonna downgrade this ship heavily, right? This has to be explained.

You're talking about like in relation to the show and the old show? Yeah, yeah, like the Enterprise and what's there's there's there's there's just a few things that we're going to have to reconcile on our own because of you know 55 years of past. This is one of them. So anyways, So anyways, that's a box goals to take the ship out of orbit throwing

Sulu aside from the helm. That was a little manhandling right there. You know, from previous episodes, a spot can pretty much manhandle anybody. Yeah, nothing. You said manhandle. Nothing. You say manhandle. Nothing. You say manhandle and you use that term deliberately.

But he's not a man. I do. I use it. I use it for you, Micheal. By the way, make sure you can understand. He tried to Vulcan sleeper hold Kirk. I'm not sure if you saw that. He did.

Yeah, he did try to do that. Unfortunately, didn't really do, you know, it goes so well for him. However, you know, Chapel arrives kind of makes that guy pass the heck out with a tranquilizer, kudos to her. She helps saves the day. And with that fast thinking, which, you know, McCoy should have done in the beginning, but, you know, just reasons space annex. beginning, but you know, just reasons space annex.

So after everybody, you know, brings, spot backs of the sick bag, they kind of go through the whole wonderful thing of trying to, hey, you know, are you okay? You speak, a box clearly in pain, you know, he's he's trying to fight through the something, something that's attacking him. What what the hell am I talking about chicken parasite chicken parasite. Here you go. The food poisoning. Yeah, the food poisoning. He's trying to fight through the food poisoning. By the way, if you ever ever fought through food poisoning, man, that does not go well on your stomach. I can tell you that much. It does happen sometimes when you eat the raw fish, Mijid. Or you splatter chicken guts all over your kitchen.

True point, true point right there. Cross-gathering. That's the best. Why'd you say it? I just wanted to give you something to think about when you're washing your chicken later. Carry out. Anyways, Spock conquers through his pain I'm gonna go out and I'll live here and say it bones as a shitty doctor.

Whoa. Whoa there. I don't really have a comeback other than whoa, whoa there. So I would say that he's not a shitty doctor. I would say that he's a shitty security guard. And I would remind you that Dammit Majeed, he's a doctor, not a security guard. Well, this is spot tries to go back to the planet. And, uh, yeah, Scottie's like, yeah, that's, that's not happening. I'm not going to beam you down to the planet. I mean, I guess technically, Scottie only beams people up, but, you know,

it's not too way, beam. Like, what do you, like, what do you do here? Exactly. I beam people up from the planets. Oh, okay. Well, anyways, Spock's logic is that he is the one who can truly go down and get the parasite chicken,let, and to overcome the food poisoning. Kirk is convinced for some odd reason. I don't really understand why actually, it just sparks like, he is, I can do it. And Kirk's like, good enough for me, man, good enough for me. And he's down on the planet, you know, reasons, right?

and he's down on the planet, you know, reasons, right? So Spock is attacked again by colonists, almost immediately after being me down, because you know, they're all freaking nuts down there, right? Yeah, yeah. Spock's able to incapacitate the men with some sleeper holds and Vulcan nerve pinches, right? And so he's just like, you're down, you're down, you're down. And yeah, Spock was able to go ahead and find his way to a creature and bring it on the

ship, right? Right, yeah. Right, okay, cool. Because I told him, checking out with that. And honestly, to me, it was a whole big blur. It wasn't only sure if he actually accomplished it, but all I do know is that they had a giant like chicken cuddlet in the jar there, and they were kind of cooking it. And I wasn't sure where that came from. So, gentlemen, thank you for, for double checking me on that one. Chicken cutlet and sharpening were cooking it. You are leading so hard and then a chicken cutlet.

It's so funny for me. You're leading so hard. I love the word. Now, before they can go ahead and rotisserie that, that piece of chicken there, they, they kind of run some tests to try and to figure out what the heck's going on. They finally realize, oh my God, the sun, the sun,

when that guy was flying into the sun, he's like, I'm free and then blew up and you know, died, they're like, hey, there's something about the sun, either the heat or the light or something. Ultraviolet radiation. Well, we'll know, well, okay, yes, but no, they didn't figure that out until after they blinded

this box. They put them in a room and he's like, hey, I can take it. I'm a closed-ass-ass. And then he's like, well, I can't see. That's a malpractice suit. I know a good lawyer. Yeah, yeah, no. Anyways, Spock and McCoy, I kind of go back to Kirk, you know, surprisingly, Spock doesn't knock over any vases or trips over on anything, which would have been kind of a

historically, historically unfunny, I guess you should say because it's not funny to make fun of people. I'm gonna get canceled aren't you? Yeah, you are. You are on that track, baby. Yeah, you give me your Twitter account. You're definitely canceled. Okay. Well, Well, Spock kind of requested beam down, you know, taking Peter, which is Sam's son down to the planet before it's destroyed. Kirk denies it. Kirk kind of posed the key. It must lie in some sort of exploring the property of the sun, because the sun blinded Spock and saved them, right? That's the whole thing, right?

Oh, wait, wait, we kind of skipped over a few things there. But yeah, there was back and forth and then we got to the blinding of Spock and that's when they kind of figured out it's ultraviolet light that actually kills these parasites. Right. So, you know, Spock didn't have to get blinded. They used ultraviolet radiation to

give everybody a bad sunburn. More or less. That's what happens essentially, essentially. And then they save the planet. Or rather, the planet's not needed to be destroyed and Spock's blind forever now and the end. Yeah. Kirk was really saying. He, he, I forgot. He, um, he has an interliled, so Spock's protected.

It's not blinded. It was only temporary. And apparently it's got really good hearing because he made a, a jab at McCoy when, when McCoy's like, I'm so sad. Of course he has good hearing. Have you seen his ears? So, yes. To sum up this episode, the crew is attacked by chicken cutlet. Kirk really should just grow a mustache and call himself Sam. And I honestly don't really know what happened to Peter. I know he's an orphan now because both his mom and dad are dead. And so, if anybody wants to adopt Peter, please give us a give us a call at, uh, 1-800. I don't care. So Peter is like probably a grown man by now.

I'm just going to put it out there. I'm not adopting a grown man. Also, uh, there's a good chance that Kirk killed him by hitting the wrong button on the console and eject them in out in space. That's, that's a a very very fair point. Gentlemen, how did you like our season finale? Um, I liked it so much that I'm so excited to get into the season two. Ha.

Is that really an answer? So is it? No, is that all right? Is it so much that you want to talk about it and then get into season two or more of just like, let's just watch season two right now. I like this episode and I would like to talk about it, but I'm also excited for what's to come with season two. But you know, this is just a means to get there. That makes sense?

Got it. Makes sense. All right. Drew, how about you, man? You know, I watched it last week, and I enjoyed it. It was fine. It was a little like nonsensical.

I kind of had to suspend my disbelief with the chicken cutlets on the strings, you know, although they kind of looked a little bit more like jellyfish or like, you know those, those fake like poop props. Like leave on chairs. Or a fake vomit. Yeah, fake vomit. It's like they took a bunch of those

and just painted them different colors and then attached them them the fishing line. I was thinking it was a fried egg. And it was a fried egg over medium. And they used that. Yeah. Nice. And Shatton has still ate them afterwards because he needs his protein.

Yeah. Oh, it's so horrible. There was a lot of stuff that just seemed like it was very convenient for the storytelling. Yeah. You know, like I kind of was disappointed to your point, Drew is like Sam is just like, I have a brother. He's dead also. Yeah. Yeah. Like I knew, I knew Sam was going to die.

But I thought that like there would be some sort of a climax to that, you know, like instead of him just being already dead. And just yeah, instead of us like finding about him out about him and then watching him die within, you know, the span of five minutes. What if what if Sam's son killed him? And that would have been way more exciting. It was really Sam's son who killed Sam, and then like the aliens took over. So Sam is Samson Peters on the right clear son of Sam killer. That's where it comes from. Perfect. Yeah. Yeah. God, what an episode though. I wonder what the creative decision

like who decided let's just put a mustache on Shatner and have him play his own brother. I'm pretty sure his salary has a big contributing factor where they're just like, yeah, we can't afford anybody. So Kirk, we're already paying you enough. Let's just have you do. Well, I mean, it could be a number of things, right? I mean, you're thinking like, oh, man, maybe there's nobody good looking enough as an actor that can play my brother. Like, I wonder if that was a conversation. Like, my mind is racing on this one.

So, Shandir is like that. He's like, hey, I've got such a big ego that's how it's going to roll. Yeah. I think what really happened was they ran out of money to pay another actor and they just put a mustache on him and said, we're not giving you double your rate. What if what if Shadon air showed up drunk and passed out on set with a mustache on, they just decided to film it.

I mean, you had in shape for a week. Wow. So many theories. I would like to know though. So if anybody happens to know that story, please at me at whatever bread's Twitter pages, I'll be there. I don't even know what my Twitter handle is, man.

Well, I can tell you what it's gonna be if I change it. I see. I see. I think I'll tell you what it's gonna be with when I change it. I'm just... I'm just gonna tell you what it's gonna be with when I change it. I'm just gonna tell you what it's gonna be with when I change it. I'm just gonna tell you what it's gonna be with when I change it. I'm just gonna tell you what it's gonna be with when I change it. I'm just gonna tell you what it's gonna be with when I change it.

I'm just gonna tell you what it's gonna be with when I change it. I'm just gonna tell you what it's gonna be with when I change it. I'm just gonna tell you what it's gonna be with when I change it. I'm just gonna tell you what it's gonna be with when I change it. I'm just gonna tell you what it's gonna be with when I change it. I'm just gonna tell you what it's gonna be with when I think it was a little bit of a letdown. And I say that because like thinking about how, they're like, oh, there's this giant destruction, destructive path that's going from like colony to colony. And then you get to the colony that's like, it's currently impacting.

And it's just these blob monster type things. And they are, they're not really running around or anything. And there's really not like the colonists, like a lot of them, they're trying to attack them or anything. And just they're there and they exist. Yeah. I would like to see a little more fall out with Sam, Steph, you know, it's a, it's a let down, especially the first time we see Sam and Jim interact and change the worlds at the Runezese finale,

they hug, right? That means that those two as a sibling pair who look nothing alike, love each other. So for Jim not to react in an emotional way, does that mean that they had a follow out? And he's like, ah, all right, he's just dead now. Guess I'll raise his case, my name. He reacted emotionally when it first happened, but then it just like, then they're like, nope, not going to talk about it. Here's the thing. Kirk is first and foremost the captain of a starship and there's dead people on this planet and he needs to figure out why and

his job his mission is to solve this problem. So he's swallowing his emotions and putting aside his grief to be the captain because his ship needs that stoic military figure right now. This is something that is we'll see time and time again throughout Star Trek. I would like to offer a counterpoint to you. And I want to blow your mind real quick. Oh boy, city any edge of tomorrow, or a city any edge of forever.

If you're going to be on a Star Trek podcast, you have to promise me you're going to at least attempt to get the names of the episodes right. I did, I got like 95% of it right. I like the file name that I saved it as, which was city on the Edge of Drew's backyard. Anyway, so during City on the Edge of Forever when Jim's love interest died,

he showed more anguish and heartbreak over her dying or having to let her die, then he showed for Sam. Well, the episode was about that relationship. The entire episode kind of hinged on whether or not he fell in love with her. This episode, like, Sam Kirk could have just as easily not even been in it. That's fair. Nothing would have changed. Yeah. I don't know why they felt compelled to put his brother in this episode. It didn't, it didn't add anything.

It only took away. God, I really was shattered. It didn't block us on Twitter. I would like to find out. Did he block us? I mean, by the time this episode airs, and I have access to Brad's Twitter page, he might have. I feel like this is one of those situations

where we've come across previously. And I don't remember which episode it was, but they'll throw in these little blurbs to make a little bit seem a little bit more important than it actually is. And then they don't really reference or go back to it or they don't really address it. And it's unfortunately a time and time again,

like, thing that they tend to do in TUS, at least it seems to be consistent with some of the previous episodes. And it's like, hey, you know what, whatever, they're just doing it for like that one moment. And then there you go. You mean like when they travel back in time for three days? Yeah, like that, maybe. It was like a red herring where it's just like a fake little ploy to indicate how the story's

going to go. And then they never reference it again. Right. Yeah, totally. Red hearings. Would you say red hearings? Red, red herring. Yeah, sure. I'm guessing you've never heard of the term.

I've heard of MacGuffin. I don't think those are the same thing. No, they're not. I at least I don't think so. McGuffin is like the object of interest. Yeah, that's not even close. Red herring is a an item that seems like it should be

the object of interest, but it's just there to throw you off the trail. Like the, hmm, let's a good example of that. Maybe Indiana Jones's son in Kingdom with the crystal skull. No, because nobody desired child above. You know what, I'll get back to this. I'll read this. I'll work on that. Just think of it as something that's misleading. That's probably the best way.

Yeah, it's a misdirection. Yeah, this is one of those examples where I didn't know that. Whoa, whoa, was this wasn't me telling you for the listeners? No, no, no, no, I didn't know that. Like normally it's like, oh yeah, no, I, this wasn't me telling her for the list. No, no, no, I didn't know that like normally it's like Oh, yeah, no, I know this but the rest of like our listeners need to know this so you know this one's for me I'm gonna help you out. Thanks. Thanks. I appreciate you guys totally not laughing at me right now Welcome, Miche. This is why I hide my feelings.

That's why I go to the gym and get muscles because I want to hide my feelings in them. And when I have more feelings, I just get bigger muscles. That's how it works. Anywho. Where else do we go with this episode? The Saturday morning cartoon

resolution with Spock's eyesight. Piss me off. Oh, the, hey, I have second eyelids that protects all of Vulcans and then therefore doesn't actually do anything. Essentially like an act of God. I'm all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of all of I mean, it's fine because, you know, we've encountered this, you know, sort of thing again too. He is an alien species. Yeah. Human.

Yeah, convenient, but I'll allow it. It would have been nice if some red shirts died like a, they peed down to the planet. I think you're the, you're the savage. You're the one that wants all the red shirts to die. I've read books. Um, was it John Scalsey that wrote red shirts? Yes. Yeah.

I love that book, by the way. I love that book. I hate the ending. Like I love everything up to the last. Like I love it up to the ending. The fact that it's weird. Yeah. Um, and we'll weathen. Oh Wheaton, the hardest working man in Audible,

give that man every single John Scalsey book, please. But with that book, it just points it out that everyone on Star Trek, who wears a red shirt, is sentenced to die. That's it. So in my mind, and because of Futurama, I expected that once they beamed down to the planet, and they're getting attacked, Kirk is like, protect me. And the red shirt just block his path. And by the time the attackers get to Kirk, they're exhausted because they've

killed so many red shirts. Is there no satisfying your you're lust for blood with these red shirts? Just an observation here. In the past several episodes, there have been less red shirts who've died in comparison to what Mijid's like, I thought a red shirt was going to die.

There have been, Brad, Brad, there have been less red shirts dying and more clamoring for death-hiding red shirts from Mageed. There is a correlation with these two things. The fewer red shirts that die, the more Mageed angry, anger's about it and wants the red shirts to die more. It's like there's just no satisfying.

This man's lust for blood. Clearly. I mean, it's okay. It's okay, hold. There's two things I love in this world about science fiction properties. One is the promise that red shirts will die at the hand of James T. Kirk

and two storm troopers will die at the hand of James T. Kirk and two storm troopers will die at the hands of any Jedi and or Han Solo. Like these are the two things I love about my star, my star properties. Mike, you know what? I was listening. I was listening to a podcast or I was watching YouTube video the other day and they were talking about how in video games, you get the main attackness like Nathan Drake. And if you think about it, he's essentially a serial killer, just killing all those guys. And he does, he's a sociopath, apparently too, because he has no regret afterwards. There's no PTSD, nothing like that. So in truth, these heroes that we say they're heroes

are just quite frankly murderers. Thanks, next time I play on charge. In this case, Kirk is an murderer because he is technically not the person who is killing them. He is just a captain and giving them directions. So unfortunately, those types of deaths happen in the line of duty and that's unfortunately a part of service. Uh, that's correct. They know what they're signing up for. They are making the ultimate sacrifice to get ejected out of the freaking airlock. Uh, correct. So also, Kirk had an option to kill

everyone on the planet. He's like, I don't want to do it. But I'm going to hit that nuclear football. I want to do it. Give me three seconds. I'll do it. I don't want to do it. I'll do it. Fingers on the body.

Didn't do it. He did not do it. He didn't do it. I think he wanted to do it. He was kind of pissed off. There's just a lot of accusation about Kirk. About Kirk, yeah, from the other side of Connecticut right now.

Oh, Frank's is not here though. Also, Frank's no, Frank's can't defend you. He can't go against my opinion when this guy was like, oh, Anakin killed little younglings. Ooh, sorry. Yeah. Star Wars.

Frank's, Frank's was okay with that. What's, what was that? You said something worse about the younglings in film worse? Oh, right. Uh, right. So if I say Jedi, what's the word that comes in your mind? Parking space.

So far the steak. You could have said no, mad. You're gonna say homeless. Oh goodness, he's so parking lot. What? What's? All right, all right, I'm sorry. This, I think I've talked to you enough about what I liked about the episode. I even gave you some of the things I didn't like about the episode. I didn't, I don't know what you guys

hated about the episode though. It was fine. It was fine. It was fine. It was fine. It was fine. It was fine. It was fine. It was fine. I don't know. There just wasn't anything like redeeming about it.

Wasn't anything particularly offensive, but there just wasn't anything like redeeming either. Does that make sense? A lot of the episode to me didn't make sense. Like, it just was, I understood why things occurred. It just was to me, poor writing, I'm sorry, to me, it's kind of I felt. Can we talk about the title?

Like I know you were making jokes about the Operation Annihilation before, but what the heck are they trying to say with the title? Why is there, what is the operation? Who's doing the annihilating? So under the assumption that the operation is what the crew of the enterprise is on. And the annihilation is the chicken cull it. And they need to identify who is annihilating. What if the chicken cutlet is the one that's doing the annihilating, what if it's their operation?

These are the questions that I have. These are the questions that keep me up at night. Your cats keep you up at night. They like their chicken cutlet. You know, I died. I, uh, Majeed has an answer for you. Yes.

Oh, you met now. Oh, uh, so it's actually operation to my, not operation to annihilation. Drew, if you're going to be on a Star Trek podcast, it would be nice to know if you got the episode time for right. I was referencing Brad. He was.

He was referring to what I was saying. Shut up, Brad. You have it to me right now. Yes. One final one. We are so much closer to us watching the movies now. We only have like two more episodes than we watch movies. Season season season season season. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, I'm excited to get over this first season. We had some some season. We had some some side quests along the way, but we finally did it, man. We're at the last episode of the season. Well, we do have another side quest coming up

shortly, but that's a good side quest. Well, let's hope it's a good side quest. Shall we you guys have anything else that you want to talk about this episode or shall we score it? Let's let's go ahead and score it and we can continue some conversation. Alright let's start with, let's start with Magi. What, are you upset, Brad? Well, you said you started with, let's start with a little Magi. That's kind of how it went. And I was like, really, I got passed over for Magi. I see how this goes. Well, I mean, it was either getting passed over for Magi or for myself.

That's fair. That's fair. All right, Magi, you can go. Wait, I remember, make sure I give a reason when you, when you give it before you either score and make sure it's a solid score. Yeah, yeah, no, no phasers or warp drives too many notes. I give this episode a two thumbs up. I listen, I love this episode. I am. So I don't know what I expected this episode. I'm not sure if you guys do this,

but I'll see the name of the episode, but I will not read the synopsis or the tagline or the preview. I'm only going to, I'm basing my headcanon only off the title. So I didn't know what to expect. So going into it, I was pleasantly surprised. And what was your headcanon off the title. So I didn't know what to expect. So going into it, I was pleasantly surprised. And what was your head cannon with the title? Kirk murders everybody. An annihilation of all the road trutes. Yeah. Yeah, red trutes, blue shirts. Season finale. I expected some type of war.

I expected some type of cliffhanger. Because I think around this time in 19... What, when did this episode air? 1966 after the moon landing? 67. That was close. Oh, so close. No, I don't think cliffhangers in seasons were out yet. I think Dallas started that, right? We talked about this before. But anyway. even with that, it wasn't widespread. Yeah, I mean, I expected, I don't know, something to get killed. I expected the ship to blow up. I expected the ship to get damaged. I don't know. Seeing Sam Kirk there was a surprise even though I knew it was in a show eventually. I forgot when. But no, I just, you know,

I was a really solid episode for me. And I would, you know, based on all my criticisms, I would still give this thing an eight. An eight. Okay. Brad, you're up. Midmajee, that's a, that's a score, man. You, you really going high there. I don't need you, I don't need your, your, I don't need your praise. Get another, another to marry for me. Just give me your score, buddy.

All right. So going through the whole episode, right from beginning, there was some sort of anticipation of like some sort of thing going from colony to colony, wiping out colonies, destroying and being destructive. And we find out Kirk's brothers there, there's mystery and like, hey, this is kind of exciting. His brothers dead. The son and his wife are kind of incapacitated and then we get the chicken cobblet.

I don't know, it felt like a bit of a let down after that moment of when we switched over and we did the reveal of that enemy that they're gonna be dealing with for the episode It just felt let let down from there on in it was a lot of convenient plot points Spock not being able to be Impacted and then Spock's alone one that could go down to the planet to get the You know the sample of the species you know, one thing after another that kind of just felt very convenient. I mean, the solution it did, it was nice how they did that because it was them starting

with the episode with like the guy in the shuttlecraft saying like, oh, I'm free and then it blew up and they kind of like went back to that part. And like that made sense. But there was a lot more that didn't really make sense in my mind or at least was just very poor writing and lazy writing and maybe in that sense. I would have to say though, I'm closer to a, I'm at a five for the subject. Ooh. Kind of in between you guys.

for this episode. Ooh. Hmm. Kind of in between you guys. Yeah, I mean, like, I don't know, it just seemed like there was, it seemed like they had an idea and then they just kind of lost sight of it, lost track of it.

You know, the stuff with the colonists being angry, which ultimately, you know, they were trying to, I guess, scare them away from the planet or something. I don't know. It was a little unclear. Sam Kirk being already dead and having zero purpose for being there. All the stuff was spock. It was fine. I don't have anything serious against this episode, but I also don't like have anything really positive to say about it either. I don't think I would turn it off, but I wouldn't ever choose to watch it. So I'm going to go with like, I feel like a seven is too high, but a six is too low. I'm gonna do a six and a half. I'll allow it. Well, thank you. Anything else that you guys want to bring up regarding this or anything else? I need to know, I need to know about

Chetner playing Sam Kirk. Like I need to know. There's a note in memory alpha about him wearing the fake mustache and being Sam Kirk. Yeah, but that's it though. You know, I want to know like Deats. I need to know like why him. I just, I don't know, man, it's not enough for me. It's not enough. The body of Sam Kirk was played by William Shatner wearing a false mustache at a different hairstyle. That's it. I need, I know, I just crave more, I need more, I yearn for more. Maybe there's some books that we can find for you. I'm too lazy for that. I mean, I'm just going to ask, what if, what if we'll wheat and read them? Man, we'll wheat and listen, we'll wheat and I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,. I mean, I'm just gonna ask what if what if we'll wait and read them

Man will we listen will we didn't I am I I put the book speed when I when I listen to audible I put the playback speed at like 1.65 and For me I can keep up with it and it sounds like a natural conversational tone will we at that speed it's just right. And he has like this quirky kind of sarcastic tone to literally every single character he's reading. It can get kind of old sometimes, but it's also like a breath of fresh air. And I love it. That's my second or third.

Will Wheaton rants in a week. Thank you You're welcome. So shall we start with strange new world's gentlemen? Yeah, well, I haven't watched the episode yet for season two That's that's not out yet. Oh, I know I just just want to let you know I haven't seen it yet. All right, guys. So season one is in the books. But before we move on to season two,

we got to cover strange new worlds. And we have to recap season one, right? Oh, yeah, definitely. So we're not done yet. We got way more season one to talk about. Well, just just one more season one, but all of it at the same time. And then when all that's all said and done, we can watch the movies. No, that's not how we worked at all. Thanks Brad. He tried. No, that's not how they work at all.

Thanks Brad, he tried. I asked one more to him for you. Wait, what? Don't ask how the math works just accepted. Good night everybody, thanks for tuning in. Bye, love you. Later. I love you guys. Thanks for listening to yet another Star Trek podcast.

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