Speaker 1: Dar Trek does the hangover and dude wears my car
Speaker 1: in space. All that this week on Making It So
Speaker 1: it is episode number forty nine. In this one, we're
Speaker 1: covering Strange New Worlds Season four, Episode three, Human Best Friend.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Craig. This week, I don't have a
Speaker 1: co host. Steve had something come up with work and
Speaker 1: couldn't make it. Maddie also is busy, so hey, you've
Speaker 1: just got my face this week. Yea, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. So first of all, a little bit of news.
Speaker 1: Now it's a little bit unofficial, but Mike McMahon, the
Speaker 1: guy that came up with Lower Decks, he's teased that
Speaker 1: he had another two seasons worth of material in him
Speaker 1: for Lower Decks. But he's also then teased that he's
Speaker 1: got a movie idea that he would like to get made.
Speaker 1: So I would personally love to see that movie get made.
Speaker 1: That would be awesome. So if any of the the
Speaker 1: paramount execs out there somehow listen to this, please please
Speaker 1: get that Lower Dex movie made. That would be awesome. Yea,
Speaker 1: we would really really love that. Okay. As always, this
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Speaker 1: Okay into the synopsis, Hey, I will read this one
Speaker 1: off of a paramount or prime Here in Australia, the
Speaker 1: Enterprise crew visits a sure leave planet that guarantees fun
Speaker 1: thanks to an inebriating atmosphere. When leavers cut short for
Speaker 1: a vital mission, a quarreling Scottie and Ortegis must race
Speaker 1: to find the shuttle they loft. This episode is written
Speaker 1: by Catherine Lynn and directed by Iyana gors Kaya. I
Speaker 1: butchered that name again, didn't I. When I first saw
Speaker 1: this episode, or first read about this episode, or heard
Speaker 1: about this episode, I was like, oh no, this is
Speaker 1: the third week in a row where we've sort of
Speaker 1: done some sort of massive movie reference. I guess for
Speaker 1: episode one they did Jurassic Park. Episode two was Event Horizon,
Speaker 1: and this week it seems we're doing the Hangover with
Speaker 1: a little bit of dude Wears My Car mixed in
Speaker 1: that I'm still in two minds about this episode. But
Speaker 1: the episode opens with ortegis or Erica's log and she's
Speaker 1: steering the ship through some sort of asteroid field, and
Speaker 1: then we sort of skip into Scotty's log, but basically
Speaker 1: these two they're still fighting. So she pushes the ship
Speaker 1: harder than she really probably should, and Scotty then puts
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of alarms on her console and basically
Speaker 1: tells her that she's pushed on the ship too hard.
Speaker 1: But you know, Ortegas she rips out the gaffer tape
Speaker 1: and she puts it over the warnings and alarms on
Speaker 1: her console. That takes us to the bar on the ship.
Speaker 1: So Pike and Uner are discussing the crew and how
Speaker 1: they need a break because they've been pushing very, very hard,
Speaker 1: especially Alpha Shift, the last few months. Then they watch
Speaker 1: an ad from from Dendrew. So Dendrew is a bit
Speaker 1: of a resort planet, but apparently the atmosphere has an
Speaker 1: intoxicating effect to it, so basically, once you start breathing
Speaker 1: that atmosphere, you get a drunk feeling. So that planet
Speaker 1: is also a quote unquote tech free zone. And in
Speaker 1: the advert there is a crazy amount of fine print
Speaker 1: and super fine print at the end, trying to make
Speaker 1: it all legal. Right. But after this time away on
Speaker 1: the resort planet, they have the Redaxian Piece talks. Chapel
Speaker 1: lets them all know that it'll be fine and that
Speaker 1: it's it's okay for them to go, you know, and
Speaker 1: they'll just feel annebriated drunk, and it'll affect everybody differently.
Speaker 1: So Alpha Shift along with Captain Pike, head down to
Speaker 1: the planet. So both Scotti and Ahura bought tricorders, and
Speaker 1: Erica lands the shuttle hard and she does damage the
Speaker 1: shuttle slightly, and we don't exactly see that damage though
Speaker 1: on the outside, but Scotty's definitely not happy with it,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Right. So when they get there, they
Speaker 1: say that they're not feeling the effects of the planet yet,
Speaker 1: but Chapel tells them once the door opens, it should
Speaker 1: take about ten seconds for them to start feeling the effects. Anyway,
Speaker 1: when they crack the hatch on the shuttle, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, it starts to go all colorful and they
Speaker 1: start all starting to feel drunk, and it's like they
Speaker 1: black out essentially. Right. The next part, we go to
Speaker 1: a room, and that room is an absolute mess. There's
Speaker 1: a triple in this wrecked room, and Erica is in
Speaker 1: there and she's wearing some sort of a and dooran
Speaker 1: like a headband with like and Dorian antenna's with one
Speaker 1: part of it missing, so which was interesting because we've
Speaker 1: seen and Dorians before with missing parts of their Antennas
Speaker 1: she comes across in the room, there's like a mugato,
Speaker 1: but we are not finding out that that mugato is
Speaker 1: Scotty in a Mergado suit. Now that suit, if you've
Speaker 1: watched Dart Trek stafleet Academy, you probably would recognize it.
Speaker 1: Caleb definitely wore that in one of the episodes when
Speaker 1: he was acting as a mascot for one of the
Speaker 1: sporting teams at the Academy. Yeah, so that was definitely
Speaker 1: a reuse of that pro or costume, I should say
Speaker 1: more than prop. Scottie, super super drunk, almost trips into
Speaker 1: some broken glass that's sticking up in the room. Dendrew
Speaker 1: comes and knocks on the door. He's played by the
Speaker 1: Dave Foley. Dave Foley, you would definitely recognize him. He
Speaker 1: played a fareng well, you'd recognize his voice at least
Speaker 1: from Lower Decks. He played a Ferengi in a Lower
Speaker 1: Decks episode he was also in. He's been in heaps
Speaker 1: of shows over the years. He appeared in Young Sheldon,
Speaker 1: which was relatively recently. If you're my age, you would
Speaker 1: probably recognize him from a mid to late nineties TV
Speaker 1: show called News Radio. He played one of the main
Speaker 1: characters in that, called Dave Nelson. So yeah, anyway, he
Speaker 1: gives them a envelope with a paper message in it
Speaker 1: because obviously there's no technology allowed on this planet and
Speaker 1: they've got to take that message to Captain Pike. So
Speaker 1: this sort of sets them off on their I guess
Speaker 1: their little mission for the episode to find Captain Pike
Speaker 1: and get this message and get off the planet. So Scotty,
Speaker 1: he's got a kind of cool shirt in this episode,
Speaker 1: so it'd be cool if they put that shirt up
Speaker 1: for Sir Helen the Star Trek store online there. That'd
Speaker 1: be very funny. But Scotty, in his drunk state, he
Speaker 1: sees this like double ended knife in the wall and
Speaker 1: he thinks it's a good idea to try and take that,
Speaker 1: and Erica has to stop him. Mind you, Erica doesn't
Speaker 1: actually seem like she's being affected too much by the
Speaker 1: atmosphere on this planet. At this stage, she must have
Speaker 1: been completely affected by it to be, you know, to
Speaker 1: have missing ours. Anyway, this takes us to the opening
Speaker 1: titles of the episode, which sits at about the nine
Speaker 1: ish minute mark. When we come back, it takes Erica
Speaker 1: and Scotty. They head two spots room to see if
Speaker 1: he knows where the captain is. But when they go in,
Speaker 1: Spock apologizes to them for the mess. Now that room
Speaker 1: is pristine, but to Spot he's got one one piece
Speaker 1: on the on his three D chessboard that he's got
Speaker 1: in there, which is slightly out of alignment, and that's
Speaker 1: what he calls mess and he has to apologize for that.
Speaker 1: And Spock seems to be thinking that he's seeing James
Speaker 1: Kirk around the place everywhere. So Spock also asks Erica
Speaker 1: if she fought a dragon because he could hear her
Speaker 1: yelling about a dragon or something in the hall overnight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we see Kirk there, so you know, is this
Speaker 1: really Kirk or is this just in Spock's mind? Interestingly,
Speaker 1: Kirk is in his full uniform still, and Kirk gives
Speaker 1: Spock a hug at that point, all right, so Spock
Speaker 1: doesn't know where the Captain is. So next they head
Speaker 1: to Hoa's room. Hooa is absolutely baked, like the amount
Speaker 1: of look, I'm just gonna say is probably h marijuana
Speaker 1: smoke or something along those lines coming out of her room,
Speaker 1: and it just seems to be the party room. She
Speaker 1: mentioned something about cookies again, so she seems to have
Speaker 1: something about cookies going on the last few weeks. But
Speaker 1: either way, she still doesn't know where Captain Pike is,
Speaker 1: so Erica and Scotty they then head to the bar. Now,
Speaker 1: this is probably one of my absolute favorite parts of
Speaker 1: the episode. Uona gin Riley number one. She is in
Speaker 1: there singing kling On karaoke. Every single one of these
Speaker 1: songs is an Earth song which is in Klingon now
Speaker 1: through the Klingons just really like Earth music and sing
Speaker 1: it themselves or I don't know, but she was actually really, really,
Speaker 1: really good at it. I was very surprised she can
Speaker 1: sing and Klingon it seems, and beger doctor and Benger.
Speaker 1: He is being a bar man, ye know, he's breaking everywhere,
Speaker 1: throwing bottles around and glasses and dropping drinks on the ground.
Speaker 1: It's actually not too bad that one. But he makes
Speaker 1: some sort of a green drink for Scotty. Anyway, Captain
Speaker 1: Pike is not there, so then they keep looking for
Speaker 1: him and they find him in a tatoo shop. He's
Speaker 1: getting a tattoo on his right arm of a horse
Speaker 1: and some other stuff. Apparently Scotty has a tattoo as well,
Speaker 1: so I don't know, have we ever heard that in
Speaker 1: Star Trek before. If we have, let us know in
Speaker 1: the comments down below. Anyway, the captain gets the note
Speaker 1: and the Rhodaxian diplomats are coming in two hours, you know,
Speaker 1: that's what they said in the note. So he sends
Speaker 1: Erica to get the shuttle with Scotty. But the shuttle
Speaker 1: isn't there. It's not where it's meant to be. It's
Speaker 1: not in the parking. So yeah, where's this shuttle gone?
Speaker 1: And not only that, where's the key? Right? So the
Speaker 1: attendant says that she gave the key to Scotty, so
Speaker 1: it seems like Scotty's lost the key somehow Scott Scotty
Speaker 1: comes up with the idea to use his try quarder
Speaker 1: to find the shuttle, but yeah, he left his try
Speaker 1: corder on the shuttle. So there goes that idea. But
Speaker 1: then they remember that Hour has one, so they head
Speaker 1: back to her, but she won't lend it unless they
Speaker 1: apologize to each other, so Scotty and Erica they do.
Speaker 1: They apologize to each other. You know, it sort of
Speaker 1: turns into a bit of a buddy movie at this point, right,
Speaker 1: and then Ohra gives them the tricorder, but Scotty, in
Speaker 1: his inebriated or drunken state, he goes to throw the
Speaker 1: tricorder to Erica for some stupid reason and it ends
Speaker 1: up over a balcony and smashing on the ground. So
Speaker 1: they head back to Spock to see if they can
Speaker 1: use him to help hack the security system to see
Speaker 1: if they can find the shuttle. So when they go
Speaker 1: back to Spock, he seems to think that everybody that
Speaker 1: he sees is a plant, which is a little bit strange.
Speaker 1: So what he sees Erica as a cactus and it's
Speaker 1: a little bit weird. But then he finds a security
Speaker 1: terminal but it's actually a plant, and he does a
Speaker 1: mind meld with a plant, which is very very weird.
Speaker 1: My mind to your leaves instead of my mind to
Speaker 1: your mind. It is a little bit amusing, so maybe
Speaker 1: I didn't hate this episode as much as I thought. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the shuttle is just north in an area with thieves
Speaker 1: and then which Spock then suggests that they go get
Speaker 1: Laarn to go with them. He also sees Kirk again,
Speaker 1: to which he then says to Kirk that hears his
Speaker 1: human best friend. So yeah, that's where the name of
Speaker 1: the episode comes from. You think they would have named
Speaker 1: the episode something to do with what Scotty and Erica
Speaker 1: were up to. Okay, there's what it is, all right.
Speaker 1: So Larne is in a relaxation class. Seems to be
Speaker 1: some sort of yoga sort of thing, but she's turned
Speaker 1: it into a bit of a fight class. So anyway,
Speaker 1: they managed to convince her to come with them to
Speaker 1: find the shuttle, and she goes and talks to the
Speaker 1: thieves in this area and she takes out one of them,
Speaker 1: which happens to be their leader, and somehow she becomes
Speaker 1: their leader. There's definitely a thing with Laarn here, with
Speaker 1: all the violence coming out with her in every single episode.
Speaker 1: And she says that she needs Scotty's shirt, but Scotty
Speaker 1: doesn't want to give it to her because it's his
Speaker 1: favorite shirt, but yeah, she holds it up and as
Speaker 1: the leader of this thieve gang, it's like their trophy.
Speaker 1: They find the shuttle damaged behind a billboard, right, but
Speaker 1: the chip or the key to get it going is missing.
Speaker 1: They figure out that Erica has the key inside the
Speaker 1: cast that's on her arm. So anyway, at that point,
Speaker 1: they get bagged and tagged by a couple of guys
Speaker 1: in masks, and we're like, what who are these guys?
Speaker 1: Is there anything to do with larm But it turns
Speaker 1: out it's not. So they wake up in a warehouse
Speaker 1: tied to a couple of chairs, and Scotty thinks that
Speaker 1: his eyeballs have been stolen because he can't see anything,
Speaker 1: but Erica quickly reminds him that they've got bags over
Speaker 1: their heads. We find out here that Scotty actually has
Speaker 1: six brothers, four of who are adopted as well. So
Speaker 1: this is where Scotty and Erica they start to sort
Speaker 1: of unite together. This is where you sort of start
Speaker 1: to see that they're working together quite well. But then Dendrew,
Speaker 1: the boss of the resort, comes in and cuts them loose,
Speaker 1: and apparently he had them kidnapped because they ask him to,
Speaker 1: you know, in their inebriated state the night before. So
Speaker 1: but Dendrew's plan didn't work to help Scotty and Erica relax,
Speaker 1: so that's why he cut him loose. And then he
Speaker 1: tells them that they should probably go to Room see
Speaker 1: because there's another one of their crew members there Room See,
Speaker 1: Christine Chapel. She's in there playing bingo. She's causing a
Speaker 1: few issues in there, that's for sure. Lahan. Yep, she
Speaker 1: pops in with her crew, and then next we see
Speaker 1: is all the crew on the shuttle. Pike at this
Speaker 1: stage has a face tattoo, so again more hangover references.
Speaker 1: All right, But the once they're in the shuttle and
Speaker 1: they're back in a normal like Earth normal atmosphere of
Speaker 1: the shuttle, they should be starting to feel normal again
Speaker 1: within the hour, but it doesn't seem to be working,
Speaker 1: so the effects of the planet don't seem to be
Speaker 1: leaving their system anyway. The delegation beams on board the
Speaker 1: Enterprise and apparently they are so apparently Pike asked for
Speaker 1: or the talks to come forward for some reason, but
Speaker 1: you know, obviously he doesn't remember that. So Erica's trying
Speaker 1: to fix the shuttle with Scotty. This is where we
Speaker 1: learned that, you know, this is where Erica and Scotty
Speaker 1: really start to open up to each other really and become,
Speaker 1: you know, friends really. So Erica lets Scotty know that
Speaker 1: when she joined Stafleet, she initially joined to become an engineer,
Speaker 1: so she's probably a little bit jealous of Scotty. But
Speaker 1: she failed impulse mechanics at the academy, which is when
Speaker 1: she become a pilot. And Scotty he's actually a very
Speaker 1: terrible pilot and he's crashed several shuttles, so he's a
Speaker 1: little bit jealous of her as well, I guess. So
Speaker 1: as they're going through and fixing the shuttles, gott he
Speaker 1: finds a bomb inside the shuttle and if he takes
Speaker 1: his hands off it, it'll explode. So this at this
Speaker 1: point Erica goes for help. Right, So Pike is giving
Speaker 1: his speech to the delegation and he's got his hands
Speaker 1: sort of in front of him and on his fingers
Speaker 1: on the inside parts to be seeing. He's got his
Speaker 1: speech tattooed on there, which is quite interesting. So she
Speaker 1: tells Ahura what the messages that she needs to get
Speaker 1: to Captain Pike about the bomb, but it starts what
Speaker 1: we would call Chinese whispers type of thing, so Erica
Speaker 1: tells her and then herr tells the next person long
Speaker 1: until the message finally gets to the captain. But then
Speaker 1: Spock comes out into the hall where Erica is and
Speaker 1: tells her that he got a message about avocados. Well,
Speaker 1: that definitely wasn't the message. It was about a bomb
Speaker 1: on the shuttle. So when she runs back to the
Speaker 1: shuttle with Spock in toe right, Spock finds a recording
Speaker 1: ship on the ground and that's recording or video has
Speaker 1: Scotty and Erica in it at this point as well,
Speaker 1: so Spock is still seeing everybody's plants and plants all
Speaker 1: around the place, so he's still not even gotten. But
Speaker 1: they come up with a plan that Erica and Scotty
Speaker 1: will take the shuttle off the Enterprise right and then
Speaker 1: Spock will transport them off like basically a nanosecond before
Speaker 1: the explosion, saving their lives. So before he actually does
Speaker 1: transport them off, though, we see Kirk come in and
Speaker 1: Spock doesn't think he's real, but he slaps him because
Speaker 1: apparently Kirk was down on that resort planet on shore
Speaker 1: leave the whole time as well. So, yeah, when we
Speaker 1: were seeing Kirk earlier, was that really him or was
Speaker 1: that in his imagination or in Spock's imagination. I don't know,
Speaker 1: But apparently the peace talks aren't going well. So Scotty
Speaker 1: and Erica on the shuttle though, you know, they're starting
Speaker 1: to become actually friends, and Scotty even says, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe we are friends or something along those lines. Anyway, anyway,
Speaker 1: so they get beamed out and boom there is this massive,
Speaker 1: colorful explosions like a big bywork slash powder, colorful explosion
Speaker 1: in space. Apparently this explosion deeply honored the guests as
Speaker 1: it's an old tradition in their culture, which is very
Speaker 1: very cool. So we then skip back to Scotty and
Speaker 1: Erica on the transporter pat and Scotty's thumb completely just
Speaker 1: hanging by a thread, just cut off, hanging by a
Speaker 1: small little skin flap. Yeah. Ouch, with the whole Kirk
Speaker 1: and Spock thing on the planet. So Spock thought he
Speaker 1: was talking to hallucination the whole time, but turns out
Speaker 1: he was actually talking to the real Kirk and he
Speaker 1: told him everything. So, you know, This is one of
Speaker 1: those things where I guess it becomes the start of
Speaker 1: their lifelong friendship. So later on it transitions back to
Speaker 1: the bar on the ship and they are discussing what happened,
Speaker 1: but and Benga is behind the bar again and Pike
Speaker 1: asks if the doctor can remove that tatoo from his face.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're sort of fuller what's the word I'm
Speaker 1: looking for. They're all reminiscing about what actually happened down
Speaker 1: on the planet. So Erica visits Engineering Scotty. He's working
Speaker 1: on rerouting power through the intermixed chamber to allow Erica
Speaker 1: to be able to push the ship a bit more,
Speaker 1: and she she offers to help him. That takes to
Speaker 1: the end of the episode really, but instead of like
Speaker 1: normal with the end of these episodes, the credits start rolling,
Speaker 1: but we get like the end of the Hangover, we
Speaker 1: get some video clips and photos and stuff of what
Speaker 1: happened down on the planet. So they really lend into
Speaker 1: this hangover thing. So it shows more of Uner singing,
Speaker 1: Kling on karaoke, Kirk and Spock playing paperses as rock
Speaker 1: Erica and Scotty having a massive pillow fight. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it got a little bit weird. So I really don't
Speaker 1: know how I felt about this episode, Like, there are
Speaker 1: parts of it I did like, parts of it I
Speaker 1: didn't like. But why are we leaning into this whole
Speaker 1: movie thing? Every week? We seem to be doing some
Speaker 1: sort of a movie Like why, Yeah, it's I don't know.
Speaker 1: We started the season off really strong with that first episode,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, it seems to be falling off
Speaker 1: the edge a bit. I'm not entirely sure. But yeah, look,
Speaker 1: there was parts I liked, but yeah, it was parts
Speaker 1: I didn't. So next week's episode is called a Case
Speaker 1: of the I say that case of the Churrascuro Uner
Speaker 1: is mistaken for a resistance leader and drawn into the
Speaker 1: struggle against Klingon occupation. Right, I've got no idea what
Speaker 1: that actually means. I haven't watched the trailer for the
Speaker 1: next week's episode yet, so I don't know. What did
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Speaker 1: podcasting channels as well with those boys. So until next time.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I've got somebody else with me next time, because
Speaker 1: this is much more difficult to do this by yourself
Speaker 1: instead of actually having a discussion about it. Until next time,
Speaker 1: I'll catch this later bye,