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Speaker 2: You're listening to Transporter Room three with your hosts Phil
Speaker 2: Pirello and Soak Laura Energize.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the second Transporter Room three of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Mister Scott. How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm doing good, Phil. We're getting ready for this storm
Speaker 1: over here in New York, and I think you are
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm pulling a Sulu in the enemy within. I
Speaker 3: got my rocks to heat up with my facer. I
Speaker 3: got my faser to heat up those rocks. I got
Speaker 3: those blankets. I've also got some makeup to make it
Speaker 3: look really cold on my eyebrows.
Speaker 1: No shuttle, not a shuttlecraft to send down, right.
Speaker 3: And no long rope to send down either.
Speaker 1: No bugs on a coffee, no bugs bunny ladder. No.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're both on the East Coast. We're both about
Speaker 3: to embark on our best McCready and the Thane impersonation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, anyone listening who's facing the storm, because I
Speaker 1: know it's a lot of areas are about to get hit.
Speaker 1: Just stay safe, and you know, don't do anything stupid.
Speaker 1: Stay in, go out by your bread and eggs and milk,
Speaker 1: and stay in the house and watch some Star Trek
Speaker 1: and let the storm pass. You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, power goes out often in our area. The last
Speaker 3: is from the hit me with that powerful three days.
Speaker 3: We're hoping that doesn't happen here, little auxiliary generator. Three
Speaker 3: days is a while, yeah, yeah, yeah, And we got
Speaker 3: two dogs, so you know what, we'll warm up with
Speaker 3: some Star Trek thoughts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I'm not sure if those will tie
Speaker 1: your wife over quite as long as they will you though, But.
Speaker 3: No, they won't, especially if we start talking about Starfleet Academy, because.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, speaking of which we're we are here to
Speaker 1: talk about episode three of Starfleet Academy. Vitus Reflex. Is
Speaker 1: that how you pronounce it? I don't know. I was
Speaker 1: going to ask you, ye vet us reflex. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I can't figure out what that means, what that title means.
Speaker 1: I I googled it like Latin. Yeah, I googled the Latin.
Speaker 1: I wasn't really piecing together what it what it, what
Speaker 1: it stands for. So I don't know. Maybe maybe I'm
Speaker 1: just dumb, or maybe I'm missing the obvious. But but
Speaker 1: we you know, after last week when we talked about
Speaker 1: the first two episodes of Starfleet Academy, we got a
Speaker 1: lot of positive feedback. A lot of people seem to
Speaker 1: want us to keep talking about it. So we'll we'll
Speaker 1: try to keep the keep it going for a while
Speaker 1: and we'll see, we'll see how it goes, if people
Speaker 1: remain interested or not. Uh. But episode three, this is
Speaker 1: this is another moment, the one with the prank, the
Speaker 1: one with the Little Shop of Horror's prank. So it's
Speaker 1: another one that's just set completely on Earth, which I liked.
Speaker 1: It's like they didn't they didn't send the school slash
Speaker 1: starship up into space to get into a space battle.
Speaker 1: It's just it's kids at it's kids at the school
Speaker 1: doing stuff, doing the kind of things that kids at
Speaker 1: school do, right, Uh, And I like that. I'm glad
Speaker 1: that the show is willing to do that, and so
Speaker 1: far anyway doesn't feel the need to to warp out
Speaker 1: and go into battle or whatever every week. But overall,
Speaker 1: I liked this episode. Did you what do you think
Speaker 1: of it?
Speaker 3: I liked it too. I I I like the dynamics
Speaker 3: of the of the crew, obviously the actor who plays Darren.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like what they're doing with the quote unquote stereotypical
Speaker 3: Jacques with Jock what's something to prove yes, and how
Speaker 3: they're subverting that expectation. I was not expecting that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I really appreciated it.
Speaker 1: Because these characters are you know, I mean there's certain
Speaker 1: the main ones anyway are a certain type, right, Like
Speaker 1: you know, you've got like the the chosen One boy,
Speaker 1: you know, that's Caleb. You have the the Hermione type,
Speaker 1: you know, the girl Genesis is other names like yes,
Speaker 1: you know she you know, she's like she's obviously very talented,
Speaker 1: and Ella Shepherd, Yeah, you know she's talented, she's smart,
Speaker 1: she's good at everything. Then you've got Darren, who is
Speaker 1: kind of like the you know, not he's not a
Speaker 1: bad guy, but he's kind of like he has a
Speaker 1: darker edge to him, right, you know. So, and then
Speaker 1: you know the Whack. You have the couple of the
Speaker 1: wacky Sidekicks and the Klingon and samh but that's not
Speaker 1: to say that that any of this is a bad thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, like this is these are types and then
Speaker 1: you build out around them. And I think you're right,
Speaker 1: like this is basically Darren's episode and Genesis to a
Speaker 1: lesser degree, right, But like I really enjoyed the stuff
Speaker 1: with with the Darren character and how you know, we
Speaker 1: we find out that one of the reasons he's the
Speaker 1: way he is is because his parents are assholes, basically, right.
Speaker 1: I mean he talks about how he uh and of
Speaker 1: course we're talking full spoilers here as usual. He talks
Speaker 1: about how when he was a kid, he did some
Speaker 1: he was performing in some musical concert or something, and
Speaker 1: his and he had practiced and practiced, and he screwed
Speaker 1: up a note or something in the concert and his
Speaker 1: parents got up and left like because you know, like
Speaker 1: you know, this is like that's not.
Speaker 3: Some writer's story that they brought him to the room.
Speaker 1: My god, right, yeah, so, uh so you know this
Speaker 1: is the this is what this get. This kid brings
Speaker 1: into Starfleet Academy. He he you know, he comes here
Speaker 1: with this this mindset and as a result, he's super competitive.
Speaker 1: That's why he was picking a fight in the first
Speaker 1: episode with with Caleb and the and the klingon uh,
Speaker 1: and here he's competing with Genesis to be captain of
Speaker 1: that whatever the hell that squad is. I don't I
Speaker 1: can't remember whether it's called, but like basically that late
Speaker 1: laser tag squad. I don't know was some of this episode.
Speaker 1: I was having a little bit of trouble following at times,
Speaker 1: like like they were competing to see who's gonna be
Speaker 1: captain of this like elite squad. It's almost like the
Speaker 1: Wesley Crusher Flying Squadron from the Wesley Crusher Starfleet episode.
Speaker 1: But like I couldn't figure out what is the scot
Speaker 1: squad exactly that they were competing to be captain of.
Speaker 1: Is it is it that laser tag competition or is
Speaker 1: it just is that just one of the tests that
Speaker 1: they had to take. I couldn't quite I don't know. Ye,
Speaker 1: Like it's like it's a pretty long episode, It's over
Speaker 1: an hour long, and yet.
Speaker 3: I felt the run on this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did too. It felt like there was it
Speaker 1: felt like there was a lot of nothing going on
Speaker 1: at times, and like and I and I couldn't quite
Speaker 1: follow all the all the beats despite it being so long, right,
Speaker 1: and the.
Speaker 3: Person pulling the prank court Scott, who who is the mastermind?
Speaker 3: It was a little is it the Vulcan?
Speaker 1: So the War College kids start right, yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: the vult It seems like it's the Vulcan. And I
Speaker 1: think the the gal he's with is a Romulan or
Speaker 1: half romulin maybe, I'm not sure. It's the two of them.
Speaker 1: And then they have that human sidekick I think his name, yeah, Kyle.
Speaker 1: So they seem to be starting it. But then it
Speaker 1: turns out eventually that if I understood it correctly, that
Speaker 1: the masters of the two schools, Holly Hunter and her
Speaker 1: counterpar part in the War College, that they've actually been
Speaker 1: manipulating the kids all along, and that they've been facing
Speaker 1: off in their own way sort of in yes, But
Speaker 1: like I found Holly Hunter's dialogue like I know we
Speaker 1: talked about her last week, but like I found like
Speaker 1: I was having trouble understanding the words that were coming
Speaker 1: out of her mouth to quote, to quote Chris Tucker
Speaker 1: from the Rush Hour movies or to Scott, oh shit
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to hear your borat in two years.
Speaker 1: But like I couldn't quite understand her at times, like
Speaker 1: when she's like she kind of reveals at the end
Speaker 1: when she's talking to the the gem Handar slash kling
Speaker 1: on her number one, and then when she's talking to Caleb,
Speaker 1: like some of the stuff, I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the what the hell you're saying right now,
Speaker 1: Holly Hunter. And I don't know if it's the screeners
Speaker 1: that we the screeners don't have finished audio or what
Speaker 1: it is. But did you feel that too?
Speaker 3: Some of the dialogue in this was hard for me
Speaker 3: to understand, and I think that's the sound mix issue
Speaker 3: that we've been seeing for the last decade. Yeah, dreaming,
Speaker 3: you know, I put the subtitle on Yeah, I just
Speaker 3: want to so Aki is behind this, but she's the ultimate.
Speaker 3: She's the mastermind.
Speaker 1: Sure, master she's manipulating the kids without them really knowing it.
Speaker 3: But now here's the thing about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: She says we are in the teach them how to
Speaker 3: fish business, which is a good line, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: And she says this is kit shit. I'm pro kit shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They grew up in the burn. Yeah, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to crush the life out of them anymore than the
Speaker 3: universe already has. Yeah, then why are you submitting them
Speaker 3: to these pranks that can emotionally traumatize or scar them.
Speaker 3: I mean, as they're going through a physical gauntlet of
Speaker 3: this centuries version of Capture the Flag.
Speaker 1: Well, being beamed and naked into in front of all
Speaker 1: your classmates in the third week of school, that can't
Speaker 1: do much for you for your self esteem, right like that?
Speaker 3: You know, But again, these pranks, the Capture of the
Speaker 3: Flag game, well, people could get injured.
Speaker 1: Well I'm assuming there are safety protocols, but at the
Speaker 1: very least emotionally injured. It felt like the beginning of
Speaker 1: the freaking Terminator.
Speaker 3: Too, right, So what like, Yeah, I mean, I'm waiting
Speaker 3: for a skull to get crushed but by a metal foot.
Speaker 3: But if you think just unpack, I think this is
Speaker 3: of the story of the writing. They grew up in
Speaker 3: the Burn. Yeah, and as we know, the burn is
Speaker 3: a galactic emp basically, yeah, right, Okay, they grew up
Speaker 3: in the Burn. I want to crush the life out
Speaker 3: of them, so I'm going to drop them into the
Speaker 3: middle of the first twenty minutes of saving Private Ryan.
Speaker 3: Why would you, as a cadet want to continue on Yeah,
Speaker 3: with an academy.
Speaker 1: Like this, it's a pretty intense.
Speaker 3: That's okay.
Speaker 1: But they say it's only been three weeks, so it's
Speaker 1: a pretty intense. You would think that's the.
Speaker 3: Least be my last time. I say I've been here
Speaker 3: for three weeks.
Speaker 1: You would think that that's that's at least junior year
Speaker 1: type stuff. Right. They didn't let us shot shoot on
Speaker 1: sixteen millimeters till junior year. When I was in college.
Speaker 1: It was like, you know Super eight and video before that,
Speaker 1: you know. So, so, yeah, I I hear where you're
Speaker 1: coming from.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, but am I I mean if
Speaker 3: I'm wrong, am I overthinking this?
Speaker 1: Or I mean again, like I don't I don't think
Speaker 1: they could actually get hurt. I tend to think they
Speaker 1: couldn't get actually get hurt. But having said that, it
Speaker 1: could still be a traumatic situation. So I hear where
Speaker 1: you're coming from.
Speaker 3: And she's she's quoting from shit Sue, Sorry, sorry, should
Speaker 3: should that's my dog son, Sue learned patience in a garden.
Speaker 3: What fucking garden are you? What are gardens?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: We met you in a garden.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well she's trying to she's she kept trying to
Speaker 1: drop plant references to bring it all home to Audrey
Speaker 1: at the end, right, Audrey from Little Schub of Horrors,
Speaker 1: I will say, and again I like the episode. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think a lapling the Lapling is the
Speaker 1: Lapling is the one of the Again, like I had
Speaker 1: a little trouble following everything. The Lapling was one of
Speaker 1: the mascots, the bird type mascot.
Speaker 3: Oh right, and that's the creature in the most toys
Speaker 3: that I was talked about almost being extinct from.
Speaker 1: Oh is it really I think that's that.
Speaker 3: Oh I really know that because I looked it up.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well that's okay. Uh. And then the Mugatcha
Speaker 1: was the other mascot the war.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is a nice touch.
Speaker 1: A weird though, And then I was googling that and
Speaker 1: like back when the trail, I guess you glimpsed it
Speaker 1: in the one. You could glimpse it in one of
Speaker 1: the trailers before the show came out, and people were
Speaker 1: like complaining because they thought that the mugatta was going
Speaker 1: to be a member of Starfleet Academy and that the
Speaker 1: makeup didn't look good. You know, It's like it's a
Speaker 1: guy wearing a mascot suit like so, but I will
Speaker 1: say also like I felt like the escalating pranks didn't
Speaker 1: pay off that well. It was almost like the beat
Speaker 1: the beaming prank was the best one, and that was
Speaker 1: the first, the first one, you know, But you know,
Speaker 1: the like the character. So there's a lot of the
Speaker 1: nit stuff to nitpick here. But like again, like I
Speaker 1: really like the characters and the stuff going on with
Speaker 1: them in these episodes, In these all the episodes so far,
Speaker 1: I like that we we shined the spotlight a bit
Speaker 1: on these other two this week. Again, the stuff with
Speaker 1: with uh uh, you know, with Darren's parents and you
Speaker 1: know the fact that he kind of is trying starting
Speaker 1: to learn to like think differently from his parents. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons you go away while you
Speaker 1: leave home is to experience the world and other people's
Speaker 1: viewpoints and stuff. And I felt like his story felt
Speaker 1: a little like a Star Trek story in a way,
Speaker 1: like an like an episode of Star Trek where it
Speaker 1: was like, you know, he was learning something about himself
Speaker 1: and about others, you know, uh, and they you know,
Speaker 1: they We've said this last week, but they really are
Speaker 1: like packing it in there in terms of supporting and
Speaker 1: recurring cast. You know, Deep says nine way right. But
Speaker 1: now we have these War College people who've entered the mix,
Speaker 1: and like, I think we'll probably see them again, right,
Speaker 1: And and also like the idea of the War College
Speaker 1: makes more sense now. It's like, okay, so it's two
Speaker 1: different schools that are working together, and of course there's
Speaker 1: going to be a rivalry between them, like that's inevitable.
Speaker 1: Uh So, I you know, I really I liked it.
Speaker 1: I think maybe it was the weakest of the of
Speaker 1: the first three so far, but I still thought I
Speaker 1: still thought it was good, you know, And I'm anxious
Speaker 1: to see the Klingon. I'm sure he's going to get
Speaker 1: an episode and Sam. I'm sure Sam's going to get
Speaker 1: an episode as well. So I like that they seem
Speaker 1: to be going through and kind of giving each each
Speaker 1: member of the cast something to do. They're they're not
Speaker 1: getting check off in Sulud, uh you know, which is
Speaker 1: always a danger, right, They're not They're not getting Jordie lafforged.
Speaker 1: Not not yet anyway.
Speaker 3: I hope not. I hope not anytime soon.
Speaker 1: The doctor was not in this one at all.
Speaker 3: No, And you know what, I didn't really miss.
Speaker 1: I didn't either. It's fine, you know, Like I hope
Speaker 1: when they do bring him back that they they do
Speaker 1: something more substantial, substantial with him. I hope he gets
Speaker 1: he gets an episode or an episode where he works
Speaker 1: with one of the kids or something, and you know,
Speaker 1: I need more than just opera jokes. Like it was
Speaker 1: good out of the gate the way they handled him,
Speaker 1: but like we need more, right sore.
Speaker 3: When we get to those episodes.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, see you're ahead, you've you've seen them and
Speaker 1: I have, you know. And then also, uh, tig Nataro
Speaker 1: was in this one a lot as Jet Reno, and
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that stuff. Actually watching films, I thought that
Speaker 1: stuff was good too.
Speaker 3: Oh she uh uh. I thought Jet kind of stole
Speaker 3: the show this time. I loved some of the line readings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she we find out is partners with Laura,
Speaker 1: if that's how I'm saying. Yeah, Gina, Yes, Sheier's character
Speaker 1: who's the gem dar slash killing on uh and she
Speaker 1: even kind of they she says, like I left the
Speaker 1: Starship on the edge of reality creation. Yeah, a edge
Speaker 1: of creation, but it's a cool way to put it
Speaker 1: in order to like come live with you basically like
Speaker 1: live with you know so yeah, so uh and yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're funny together. One thing I wanted to mention
Speaker 1: just bigger picture. We didn't really talk about it last time,
Speaker 1: but like the toxicity around this show, it feels a
Speaker 1: bit unparalleled. And you know, all the modern Trek has
Speaker 1: caught a lot of ship from toxic fandom, right, but
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 4: The fantom Yeah, I I'm unsure other than you know,
Speaker 4: people stirring ship just to stir ship and then then
Speaker 4: Snowballs becomes the boulder from Raiders.
Speaker 3: I just choose to ignore it, like a show that
Speaker 3: for sixty years was built in a foundation of inclusivity. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and empathy.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: If that is something that you feel the need to
Speaker 3: rail against behind an avatar online, then I need convinced
Speaker 3: that you were ever the audience for the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that you ever.
Speaker 3: Understood what it was. If all you want is phasers
Speaker 3: and photons and punching and we're in silent run, Deep
Speaker 3: Star Trek has that, but it's never only had that.
Speaker 1: Yep. Exactly, Well put Yep, That's all I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: about that. A big part of the promise.
Speaker 3: My first Gump guys.
Speaker 1: I hope you liked it.
Speaker 3: Scott was dusting off his nineties reference. I gave you,
Speaker 3: guys a classic Gump.
Speaker 1: Are we putting Forrest Gump and Rush Hour on the
Speaker 1: same scale?
Speaker 3: But if we were, I think we'd be the only
Speaker 3: people to do so. I don't know what that Venn
Speaker 3: diagram is. Movies in the nineties, that's it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, now you're right. I guess the last thing
Speaker 1: I'll say about that is just you know, you have
Speaker 1: these people who basically monetize hate nowadays, you know, on
Speaker 1: the political spectrum, but then not on fandom, the fandom
Speaker 1: side of things, Like they it's in their best interests
Speaker 1: to make people hate in order to get feed those
Speaker 1: people more, in order for the algorithm to feed those
Speaker 1: people more hate, so they'll click on their hateful videos
Speaker 1: and you know, try to make a few bucks off
Speaker 1: of YouTube ads or whatever. It's. It's it's freaking pathetic.
Speaker 1: But also on this episode, I mean, they it's a
Speaker 1: long episode. It felt like it could have been shorter,
Speaker 1: but they do service a lot of things, and they do.
Speaker 1: They did also touch on Caleb and the I'm blanking
Speaker 1: on her name now. The betazoid girl Terrima is that
Speaker 1: their name? Tee? We're gonna get these names right eventually.
Speaker 1: Tarama is it? I think it's okay?
Speaker 3: Kima the Beta said yeah, Beta student.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So we got even though they weren't the
Speaker 1: main focus of the episode, we got stuff with them
Speaker 1: as well, which was enjoyable. They got a fair amount
Speaker 1: of to do. They got to play basketball together.
Speaker 3: I was fascinating, No pun intended. That was interesting to
Speaker 3: see that of all the sports to not require a
Speaker 3: future upgrade, it's basketball because jump ropes got a glow green.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're right. The basketball didn't have like us, have
Speaker 1: a shiny surface or anything. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: By the way, how rude is it to jump rope
Speaker 1: while your roommates are sleeping? Oh?
Speaker 3: I would have I would have beamed him without his
Speaker 3: clothes on some place walk back.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But I like the when when Caleb goes in
Speaker 1: undercover when they're finally going to pull off their ultimate
Speaker 1: prank at the end, and he goes in undercover as
Speaker 1: a as the Mugatu mascot, and then the beta zoid
Speaker 1: girl uh runs into him and he's trying to play
Speaker 1: it off and she kind of leans in and she's
Speaker 1: acting like she doesn't realize what he's doing, why he's
Speaker 1: really there, and she kind of leans in to kiss him,
Speaker 1: and then she at alerts the alarm system, but she's
Speaker 1: known the whole time that that he actually was there
Speaker 1: to infiltrate the dorm. I thought that was cute, And uh,
Speaker 1: there's also this like so we should mention it actually,
Speaker 1: because some of our listeners were wondering about this, the
Speaker 1: question of whether or not the Beta Z powers of
Speaker 1: being portrayed correct betazoid powers. Are they empaths or are
Speaker 1: they telepaths? And I have to confess I don't have
Speaker 1: a clear answer to it, because I always felt like
Speaker 1: Next Gen was never super clear on it either. I
Speaker 1: don't know what super clear.
Speaker 3: In the beginning, she was an EmPATH.
Speaker 1: Right, but she was half human right so, right.
Speaker 3: So that there was an implied and sometimes actually stated
Speaker 3: limitation to her powers right at the same time, I
Speaker 3: think as narratives evolved and story stuff involved. Obviously the
Speaker 3: Troy we see in Picard season three is not the
Speaker 3: one we meet in TG season one, right, I think
Speaker 3: she's more telepathic than empathic, But it does seem like
Speaker 3: the power that power set but their abilities have evolved somewhat.
Speaker 3: But there's also a good chance that the people behind
Speaker 3: the show had the same Mandela effect. Is that what
Speaker 3: the abilities are of the beta z Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just don't clear on it. There's also the
Speaker 1: fact that she wears that thing on her neck because
Speaker 1: apparently she's overpowered to Yeah, so that could be leading.
Speaker 1: That's and that's very X men like power inhibitor inhibitor type.
Speaker 1: It's got to be leading.
Speaker 3: There might be something it's power inhibitor. You know, it's
Speaker 3: gonna it's going to go off at some point, you.
Speaker 1: Know, right, pabl Chekhov's power inhibitors. Yeah, Okay, anything else
Speaker 1: that we should touch on on this one before we move.
Speaker 3: On speaking of Yeah, one one thing, I this is nerdy,
Speaker 3: but this is a Star Trek podcast, so clearly you're
Speaker 3: here for nerdy shit jets temporal mechanics class.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you caught it, but our buddies
Speaker 3: that truck cor did h Do you remember that Star
Speaker 3: Trek warriagor episode Relativity, the time travel one where seven
Speaker 3: has to get involved.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, she dies at one point, right.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah. The two cars start play computer interface because
Speaker 3: that's from the twenty ninth century set boy drops of
Speaker 3: relativity can see that in her temporal mechanics class.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I thought it was a cool little touch. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know I've seen.
Speaker 3: This before, and it turns out we've seen it twice
Speaker 3: in Voyd your and in the Strange New World's episode
Speaker 3: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow aka the one where could
Speaker 3: you kill Baby Khan?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: And what do you the one where we eat hot
Speaker 3: dogs in Canada?
Speaker 1: Yes? And what can you see exactly?
Speaker 3: You can see the two cars startlet computer interface?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, ah wow, okay, yeah, I mean it feels
Speaker 1: like a lot of these screens in the background have stopped,
Speaker 1: have a bunch of stuff on them that merits investigation
Speaker 1: in the show, for sure. So and check Corp is
Speaker 1: doing the Lord's work, I guess already.
Speaker 3: So God's as apostrophe work.
Speaker 1: What's next week's episode? I don't know, even though, do
Speaker 1: you know? Do you remember which one comes next?
Speaker 3: It's the fourth episode? I think it's a I think
Speaker 3: it's its centers on. I think the previews for the
Speaker 3: clinic jay Den.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, going on? Okay, yeah, all right, yeah, now
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the thing here, the the the graphical
Speaker 1: call out. Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh that's cool. That's cool.
Speaker 3: It could be cool. But yeah, I dug. I dug
Speaker 3: this one. Not as much as the other two as
Speaker 3: we talked about, but it's it's still interesting track. I
Speaker 3: disagree with the fundamentals of the prank premise as we
Speaker 3: talked about, but uh, it's not. Yeah, there's there's a
Speaker 3: it's vox in Excelcio is next week's episode.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, real quick.
Speaker 3: Did you see the Enterprise era communicator and translator in
Speaker 3: Aki's office?
Speaker 1: Yes, I saw, Okay, that was That was a translator?
Speaker 1: Is that what that was?
Speaker 3: And there's also a Defiant model.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's a voyager, and there's an Excelsior mm hmm.
Speaker 3: And there's an NX class. I think those are those
Speaker 3: like the Master Replica ones or the Eagle Moss ships.
Speaker 1: They might be, Yeah, they might be.
Speaker 3: They look like them. I just wanted them, you know,
Speaker 3: I wanted I wanted those models.
Speaker 1: But it bugs me. I'm sorry because Discovery did this too.
Speaker 1: It's like everything the only sense of history that the
Speaker 1: people in the thirty second century have is of the
Speaker 1: twenty third and twenty fourth centuries? Like, you know, like
Speaker 1: from our perspective, it's like, oh, okay, that's cool, Like
Speaker 1: those are from the shows you remember from the nineties,
Speaker 1: But in and Chancellor Achi's history, they were like eight
Speaker 1: more centuries to choose from starships and stuff, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, yeah, show me what was like a century
Speaker 3: agoes version of Voyager? Yeah, and if anything, you would
Speaker 3: be a Voyager model. But like, yeah, what would have
Speaker 3: been your Voyager?
Speaker 1: What was the iconic ship from one hundred? Yeah, like
Speaker 1: years ago?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what was your that we haven't heard of ever? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, but it has the same meeting as Voyager does.
Speaker 1: To us, Yeah exactly. You know. So I think that's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a miss. It's still cool to
Speaker 1: see that stuff. It's cool to see that stuff, but
Speaker 1: it also feels a little like a little fan service heavy, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, you want to move on and do
Speaker 1: a quick replemat let's do it all right, I'm going
Speaker 1: to the replemant to get something to eat.
Speaker 3: My pick is Ponies on Peacock. It's a Cold War
Speaker 3: seventies set seventy spy dramedy about two persons of no
Speaker 3: interest ponies in Soviet Russia who struggle to get involved
Speaker 3: with espionage when a personal tragedy affects their lives. I
Speaker 3: don't want to spoil it. The log line spoils it.
Speaker 3: The trailer kind of spoils it. It's much better going
Speaker 3: in unspoiled.
Speaker 1: Okay, it stars.
Speaker 3: I'm planking on her name, the actress who played Denaris
Speaker 3: on Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1: Oh, Rachel McAdams.
Speaker 3: No, Rachel McAdams is on a Game of Thrones. She
Speaker 3: was in a Terminator, Scott, I'm gonna, I'm gonna Amelia.
Speaker 1: Clark, Amelia Clark. Oh, oh, secret Invasions, Amelia Clark. If
Speaker 1: you had said secrets. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Terminator Genesis is Amelia Clark and its stars also Haley Richardson,
Speaker 3: who is the standout that actor. If you if you've
Speaker 3: ever seen Edge of seventeen and everything she's done through
Speaker 3: then there's nothing that actor can't do. Okay, so natural,
Speaker 3: so believable, can juggle the tones of the comedy, the drama,
Speaker 3: the stakes of the spy show. In the Just world,
Speaker 3: we would be giving her a special animy right now,
Speaker 3: and we're not even in that point yet. But it's
Speaker 3: a great show so far. Really go check it out.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna recommend it to my wife.
Speaker 3: As check it out.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's a lot to watch right now. Gosh.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with Primal season three. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if I've talked about it. I talked, you know.
Speaker 1: The thing with replomat pics is sometimes I forget if
Speaker 1: we've already talked about something or not. But I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think we have. Okay, So Primal being the
Speaker 1: Gandhy Tartakovsky animated series. Uh, you know, the guy who
Speaker 1: did like Samurai Jack and Dexter's Laboratory. He did the
Speaker 1: original Star Wars Clone Wars animated show before the one
Speaker 1: that became the the popular one. He did a series
Speaker 1: of shorts and this is this is not the new show,
Speaker 1: which but the third season just debuted and it's about
Speaker 1: a caveman and his dinosaur, basically his trusty pale who
Speaker 1: was a dinosaur. Uh. And the show had debut in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, I think, and we're only on season three now.
Speaker 1: It kind of seemed as though it had definitively ended
Speaker 1: a few years ago, but now they've brought it back
Speaker 1: and they've kind of it's a new format. I don't
Speaker 1: want to say too much about it, because if you
Speaker 1: haven't watched it before, it's worth going back and just
Speaker 1: watching from season one on the Really they're quick, twenty
Speaker 1: two minute episodes. I think they're ten episodes per season.
Speaker 1: But I think it's great. I mean that's I've only
Speaker 1: seen the first three of the third season so far,
Speaker 1: but just pretty much every episode is just a work
Speaker 1: of art. It's it's just it's really great. We're mostly
Speaker 1: wordless animation. Very little dialogue comes into play. It's all
Speaker 1: just action being, you know, telling the story. Very emotional stories,
Speaker 1: but a lot of action, a lot of blood, a
Speaker 1: lot of gore, and cool monsters and creatures and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's it's really good. And so with the with season
Speaker 1: three dropping now it's weekly. Yeah, it's a good time
Speaker 1: to go back and catch up on the first two.
Speaker 3: Season one's one of the best. I still have to
Speaker 3: finish season two, but I love the animation style here.
Speaker 3: It's it's yeah, your visual storytelling.
Speaker 1: It's worth it. You should finish. You should, you should
Speaker 1: finish season two and then hop into three. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's the way they end season two and then
Speaker 1: what the way they start season three is really interesting.
Speaker 1: But again I don't want to spoil too much, so
Speaker 1: that that's uh, that's that. Do you want to do
Speaker 1: a red shirt?
Speaker 3: Red shirt man?
Speaker 2: Okay, attention all crew, please don your dress uniforms and
Speaker 2: prepare the photon torpedo coffins. It's time for the red
Speaker 2: Shirt of the week.
Speaker 3: Well, Scott has a good one from d S nine.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, uh so this is from In the Hands
Speaker 1: of the Prophets the uh yes, season one finale of
Speaker 1: Deep Space nine. Do you remember Chief O'Brien's assistant great
Speaker 1: casting on that episode. Her name, her name is Nila.
Speaker 1: She's played by Robin Christopher. Uh she is our red shirt.
Speaker 1: She is if you remember the episode, it's the school
Speaker 1: bombing religion versus Science episode where kai Vedic Wind shows
Speaker 1: up and she's calling ship on Keiko O'Brien's school and
Speaker 1: she thinks they should be teaching that the prophets are
Speaker 1: you know that they're not wormhole aliens, but they're profits
Speaker 1: and but it's all a ruse for Vedic Wind to
Speaker 1: try to lure Vedic Barrel to the station because he's
Speaker 1: her political rival, and she meant and she wants to
Speaker 1: have him assassinated, and she's gonna have Nila O'Brien's assistant
Speaker 1: assassinate him. And the episode culminates with her taking a
Speaker 1: shot at him and they man of course, Cisco Cisco,
Speaker 1: I think, does a slow motion no and jumps and
Speaker 1: like saves saves remember that right, right, and saves Baril.
Speaker 1: So she's unsuccessful, but she before she attempts the assassination,
Speaker 1: she has a discussion with vetick Win where she says, like,
Speaker 1: you know, if I have no escape route, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be caught and I'm gonna be executed, and and
Speaker 1: Vedic wins like, if that's what the prophets, you know,
Speaker 1: if that's the will of the prophets, that's that's what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. That's it. Like the last CC is
Speaker 1: that she's been arrested and she's gonna go off, and
Speaker 1: so we assume that she she's no longer with us
Speaker 1: for this world, so uh yeah, gins all around for her,
Speaker 1: she's not she's not implementing to no more self stealing
Speaker 1: stembolts are being put to use by her particular engineering.
Speaker 3: So made no antigraph units breakdown. He was a good one, Scott. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Just you know, every once in a while there's still one.
Speaker 1: We've done a lot of red Shirts over the years,
Speaker 1: but every once in a while there's one that we've
Speaker 1: managed to miss. So she was good, but she was
Speaker 1: a character they were setting up. And but so I
Speaker 1: think that'll do it for us. Phil, as always keep
Speaker 1: writing in and letting us know what you guys think
Speaker 1: of Starfleet Academy. We've enjoyed reading your thoughts and hearing
Speaker 1: hearing what you have to say. And you know, maybe
Speaker 1: we can even if we do keep kind of doing
Speaker 1: this weekly. I mean, we'll play it by ear Phil
Speaker 1: and we'll see if people are still interested, I guess.
Speaker 1: But but if you guys have questions that you want
Speaker 1: us to to try to answer on on the air,
Speaker 1: send them in and we'll try to do that. Or
Speaker 1: your thoughts about individual episodes or characters or whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: we would love to do that. Read some read some
Speaker 1: reader mail on the air too.
Speaker 3: Thank you for listening, Gain, Scott, thank you for joining me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Phil. Stay safe this weekend with the weather.
Speaker 3: You too, my friend. Until next time, Gain, We'll see
Speaker 3: you on Gribad Island,