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Hey, Joe. Hi.

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So we're back doing Star Trek, the original series, and this is season two, episode 13, depending on how you count.

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I'm going in broadcast order.

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It's called Obsession, and we admitted, I think, openly to never even having heard of it before, although that might not be true for you.

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I've reviewed this twice.

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Oh my blog.

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So I've definitely seen this before.

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But we are literally, this is like halfway through TOS, isn't it?

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The halfway point.

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Yep, yeah.

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I initially, I had one of those sort of moments because we watched Galileo 7 last and I said that that was inept in a way that kind of just made you wonder, you know, how it made it to air.

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And that is a thing that occasionally happens with Star Trek.

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You know, occasionally you get a Star Trek episode like Wolf in the Fold where you kind of go, what the hell is everyone think they're doing?

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Manhunt.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But I mean, I'm in original trek where it's sort of really early days and we're not quite sure what we're doing and sometimes we just, you know, face plant horribly.

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You know why, though?

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You know why it's so shocking because it's starkly contrasted with just exceptional work elsewhere.

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Exactly.

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It's not like they can't make great TV.

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We had the doomsday machine earlier this season, not so long ago.

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Which tribles was this season?

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Yeah, yeah.

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So when I saw this initially when I 1st saw the teaser, I thought, oh, no, this is not going to be very good at all.

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That same alien planet again.

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Only work.

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Capolite.

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That's right.

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But I think it's really great.

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I don't think it's like top tier, but I think it's absolutely solid and Shatner is so good in it.

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Yeah, I agree.

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I agree.

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In fact, the 2nd you said at the beginning of this episode, we're back in the original series, did you see I smiled?

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This is how I've turned a corner with the original series.

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I love it when we go back here now. really fun.

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It is great.

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It is great.

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I said to you on the chat, I do think it's about 10 minutes too long.

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It's a bit wordy for its own good.

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It could comfortably be 40 minutes and just be a very tight story.

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But as we've said before, you could probably level that at, no, just the original series and so let's cut it apart for that.

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I've got a quote, if you don't mind, from Captain's log.

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The complete voyages book here, but it's a very short one, and I'm only, I only want to bring this up because it references what influenced this, and I want to know your thoughts on that.

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So it's from writer Art Wallace, who explains, Gene Roddenbury and I were having dinner one night and then it came to me that it wouldn't be a bad idea to do a version of Moby Dick, which became obsession.

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I just substituted the cloud, the great whale.

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What do you think?

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Well, I think that's kind of obvious.

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I think that anyone watching it would be thinking that way, I think.

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Like, that's clearly an influence.

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The big thing about the episode is you don't know, you know, at what point Kirk is going to become the problem.

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And it looks like he's heading towards being the problem.

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It looks like he's heading towards being an intransigent idiot and he looks like he's heading towards a kind of character breaking moment and they pull back from it.

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So even though he's obsessed, even though he is angry and all of those things at himself and at the thing, he isn't actually super irrational.

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And I think there's a massively superb central scene between all 3 of the leads, where it looks like that's where it's heading.

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It looks like he's crazy, he's Captain Ahab, but it's just Al Kirk, and he's there, and he's he's not irrational.

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They're there to sort of hold up a mirror. he realises, doesn't he?

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Even while he's still acting in this obsessed way, there's some sort of self-awareness to it.

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There's a couple of other episodes in trick where they do this sort of obsession theme, this sort of Moby Dick, they'll maybe it's Les Miserables in one of them.

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Uh, and that's the, you remember before the uniform where Cisco is blazingly angry at going after Commander Reddington.

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And then, of course, we've already covered Equinox, which features insane Captain Janeway going after Ransom who's been murdering all those Ghostbuster ghosts.

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I think this is probably the best of the free.

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I do love for the uniform, but that's far more of a two-handed character tale than what this is.

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I just think Shatner plays it brilliant.

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I love the bit on the bridge where he suddenly goes, it's a conspiracy against me and then suddenly everyone's looking at him and he realises, oh.

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Maybe I should have said conspiracy.

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Yes, right.

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And then the music kicks in. everyone's aware that he's a complete nutcase.

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But like Shatter's made for this sort of material, right?

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Yeah, he's really good.

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He's really properly good.

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And our gym shines through from time to time and he just does keep it light.

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He doesn't make him stupid.

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He doesn't make Kirk the problem.

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Unlike a lot of season 3 that I've seen as well.

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That sort of, sort of pushing it a bit over the top, doesn't go over a cliff because there's several times in the 3rd series where we're in pantomime territory, whereas this stays within a sort of dramatic boundary, which is good.

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Would you mind if I quoted from my blog, like a whole review?

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I would love you to do that.

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I thought I'd just read out the synopsis and show you how impressed I was the last time I watched this.

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Okay.

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Here's what I said.

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One of the best William Shatner performances in the original series is Rum, because he has a chance to get his teeth into some dark psychological material rather than simply devouring the scenery, although there is a bit of that as well.

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Obsession is an intelligent piece, dramatically excused, very nicely acted, and featuring some memorable exchanges between the trio of Kirk, Spock and McCoy.

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Aside from some overdone music at times.

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What am I talking about?

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I love that now.

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We're talking too much 90s trek.

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There are none of the hallmarks.

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Overdone campness, ridiculous monsters, unconvincing romance that usually embarrass about early trek.

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It's incredibly focussed, directly told, and features a villain that really gets under the skin, obsession and guilt.

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Top 10 TOS for me.

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So I definitely did watch this before.

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No, I'm surprised I forgot.

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I think that's absolutely fair.

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You know, like there is a ridiculous monster and obviously there is some over the top stuff, but we want that as well.

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Those are not negatives.

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Um, yeah, I just really enjoyed this and it was, it was just that, just teetering on the edge of being crap that just gave it that edge, uh, to me, that made me really, really enjoyed.

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There's a suspense about watching it.

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This is going to go to hell.

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To be fair, it's a position where we're in regularly with Star Trek.

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That's absolutely true. part of the experience, isn't it?

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Oh, well, we should probably watch this, you know.

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I think we should.

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I do need to warn you of 2 things.

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One, I will be singing a bit of incidental music.

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So good.

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And two, I have to inform you that 4 ones, you are in complete agreement with Gemma.

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Yeah, yeah.

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I did actually check out German's review.

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And yes, that is a horrifying position to find myself in.

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But of course, he loves all this serious trek, doesn't he?

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It's quite serious this episode, so of course he loves this.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I mean, it seems...

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I mean, for Star Trek.

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Ridiculously serious, of course.

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I'd say melodramatic rather than dramatic, but Exactly.

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Not a bad thing.

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All right.

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I'll count us in.

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Five, four, three, two, one, and we're off.

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So I'm watching the new version with the new special effects.

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This is not one of them.

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This is a Jabalite rock that's been hastily spray painted.

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With a small section that comes away when the phaser hits it, you know?

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I do like how Spock corrects him from saying it's 20 times as hard as time into 21.4 times as hard and he just throws it away.

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He just says, thank you very much.

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Mr. Sparken doesn't sort of create a thing about it.

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I want to say something about the cloud effects, which are so simple.

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And they're a bit, but I think he's signed a bit different, you know?

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Yeah, so it looks like like dry ice or something and now the now the film's being run backwards.

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That's what's effective, though, I think, because it's just, it's acting in a weird way.

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They obviously replace the space effect. is that's not the original.

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Look at that.

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That beer rock looks so light.

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It really does, doesn't it?

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Leto, don't push that claw too hard. go straight through it.

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So this where he can smell something, I thought that was weird and cheesier and like is going on about the odour and he mentions it.

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An odour is such an American word.

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It makes me laugh.

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Um, and I think that there's something clever, something intelligent happening with that.

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And we might talk about it later, but I think he is genuinely in communication with this creature.

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Who's uh, Kirk is?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So Kirk knows that it's intelligent and purposeful, and later on, he, you know, learns that it's going home just from the smell, from experiencing the smell.

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And so it's a thing that communicates via smell, but it's also a thing that can change its molecular structure, which would mean that it would be able to create certain smells because smells are just us detecting, you know, detecting the molecules, I guess.

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I like the whole smell thing because it's such a sort of opaque frat.

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But it was another way to signal that it was about throughout the episode.

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And yeah, and that it's intelligent.

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You know, like there is something, the way that it communicates and stuff.

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So it's incomprehensible, look at these fucking plants, will you?

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Look at those.

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I imagine that's what the Varga plants look like in the Dale.

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Doctor Who.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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They're really bad.

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I mean, this is...

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No, look, it's the...

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TNG season one planet set, look.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, are there?

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Look, something's coming over, something's coming over the hill behind them.

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Quick, someone's there, like, go pop, pop, pop, get that dry ice going.

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So yeah, so there's another feature of this as well, where this guy Rizzo, or they say Rizzo.

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They pronounce it like he's Italian.

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Rizzo, though, just like the character in Greece to film.

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Yes, but they pronounce it the Italian way for some reason, which I think is an odd decision, but like that's fine.

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It's a shame.

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I love these...

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I love those POV shots of the clown attacking people.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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They're not afraid to do a bit of freaky direction in TOS, are they?

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No.

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And I think this is the thing that's terrifying.

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Like, I think that this is the thing that terrified children.

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And particularly when we see the dead bodies later and they're all just white or much whiter, then they all were before.

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Oh, shot there, that overhead.

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It's been shot from the ceiling.

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So you're seeing the entire size of the set.

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Yeah, so that's what we end on before we go to the credits.

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It's a really good shot that high.

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What does he say?

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Every car puzzle when their body uses sucked out or something is a gray line.

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Yeah, I remember it now.

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Why are 2 of them completely white, like zombies and yet the other...

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Well, because Rizzo is still like Rizzo is still okay.

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He's not dead, but the other 2 are dead because all of their red corpuscles have been sucked out.

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And again, there's a little bit of science there because we know that Spock doesn't have haemoglobin with iron in it.

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He's as copper based and so he's not vulnerable to the thing, which comes up later.

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That's such a great horror movie line by something that can't possibly exist. doesn't exist.

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Funny, see, that is.

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That's that's so at this point I was like, okay, this is Galileo 7.

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Plus those, that shitty planet, you know, like...

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And then it goes, da, da, da, da, da.

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I have to confess once again, I did skip over the opening music.

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No, you can't do that.

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This doesn't appeal to me at all.

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It's a boring, it's a boring opening titles, but David, I've got to tell you something right.

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I want another podcast the other day and somebody said to me that they thought that the Star Trek theme tunes have got successively worse.

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So he's including the Kurtzman's as it's gone along.

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And I tried to make a defence for its sort of technical competence, you know, and beauty in kosmetry, and I wouldn't have it at all.

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They were like, no, no, no, the original was the best and everything that came after just gone.

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All right, then.

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That's fine.

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Good for you, though.

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Horses precautious.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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In fact, one of the things that really sold me on Strange Street Worlds was the new take on that music, you know, just a much more propulsive and interesting version of that song.

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You don't get writers' names like Art Wallace much anymore, do you?

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No, it is a very period name.

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So he doesn't write any other Star Trek apart from co-writing assignment Earth with, with, um, oh, we love that as well.

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Yeah, Roddenbury.

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Um, but this guy, Ralph Soneski, Sonenski, who directs he directs stacks of stuff, like he directs 5 or 6.

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And I think he does a great job.

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The one of the really interesting things about this is how look how green that wall is behind them.

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Just for colours, like the doomsday machine.

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There's lots of sort of half shadows on people's faces throughout.

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It's just more interesting to look at than that flat TNG line.

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But I also thought too that because kind of the emotions are heightened, you know, there's something like making the background's much more dramatic, rather than that sort of gray teal colour that we know those walls are, everything has this sort of green lighting behind him.

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And it's really striking all the way through, I think.

222
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That'll strike me that forgetting how to light things sort of moodily. is a bit baffling, isn't it?

223
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as they, not, not, don't mean TOS.

224
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I mean, you know, they get it right here for the most part.

225
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And then when we hit 90 straight, it's just so boring, isn't it?

226
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Do you think, do you think it has something to do with black and white?

227
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Like, because, you know, this is a show that's very proud of being in colour, isn't it?

228
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Like, yeah.

229
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But they're still using the sort of the same techniques when black and white was in where you had to use light and shadow in a really striking way.

230
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But I mean, you know, the reason the uniforms are all primary colours and the colour scheme on the bridge and stuff is because it's colour and look how colour it is.

231
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It isn't just a HD that makes those colours pop, but they really, like, they really go staying with it.

232
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I've got to say recently we did Muse or the Muse.

233
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I can't remember the moves. right.

234
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Yes, but I'm talking about Majel Barrett.

235
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Yeah, the muse.

236
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Oh, Vermuse. very confusing.

237
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They shouldn't reuse styles.

238
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She's barely aged.

239
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I mean she obviously looks younger here, but she aged beautifully, didn't she?

240
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She did age beautifully.

241
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She is really great in this episode as well.

242
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Now, she's getting...

243
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We don't get to say that very often, Nathan.

244
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No, she's giving him a few ccs of cordrazine, and cordrazine is something that Beverly uses all the time in Star Trek the Next Generation, unless it's very serious, in which case she uses trichordrazine.

245
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And you'll remember Man of the People, uh, in Man of the People, she used Cordrazine to bring Deanna back to life.

246
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So it's powerful stuff.

247
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Weirdly enough, not, though, the least convincing moment in the next generation.

248
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It's up there.

249
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In fact, I thought all the sort of Dr. Bev moments in this episode were split quite evenly between Nurse Chapel, understandably, and Scotty, Vazali. oddly.

250
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He's got to do something though, isn't he?

251
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Exactly.

252
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But look at look at Kirk here.

253
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Like Kirk is clearly much more crazed than usual.

254
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And he looks like he hasn't slept.

255
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Like he's got sort of eye bags.

256
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I mean, there's De Forrest Kelly who always has eyebags, but do you know what I mean?

257
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He looks, he's really super tense.

258
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He's really, really stressed, and you wonder, like, that was the thing.

259
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For me, it wasn't just, is this going to just fall to pieces and be a massive embarrassment, which is always an exciting possibility with original series, but is Kirk's character going to be kind of wrecked?

260
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Is he going to become the problem?

261
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And he doesn't, despite all of this?

262
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And he gets to do some real proper acting.

263
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That's one thing I'll say about Shatner is he might be, you know, a fascinating egotist and attempting to steal the screen from everybody.

264
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We've heard great stories, you know, Julian from Voyage Home and all that, where he's always trying to get the camera on him.

265
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But for the most part, I think maybe some parts of three, this isn't true.

266
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But for the most part, he's totally invested in making this a vehicle for his career.

267
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And and for selling what they're doing, you know, because you could so easily not.

268
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He's being asked to be obsessed about a sentient cloud, you know.

269
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, but he just sells it.

270
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He's really properly good, isn't he?

271
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He's great.

272
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So you saw the lighting in Sick Bay.

273
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Like it's all purples and reds and stuff.

274
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It's just like, why is it like that?

275
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Why are we lighting it like that?

276
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Because it's interesting.

277
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Yeah, exactly right.

278
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No one seems to know how to pronounce dicoronium.

279
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And it's such an, it's such a TOS name for a substance, isn't it?

280
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Dikeronium?

281
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So awesome.

282
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Oh, yeah, yeah.

283
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Let's assume it's intelligent, Nathan.

284
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This gaseous cloud.

285
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So he has got the impression it's intelligent.

286
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So it's 11 years ago when his career starts, right?

287
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I like that, though, that they wait this long to lean into his past and explain sort of his 1st captain, its 1st ship and all of this.

288
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Yeah, yeah.

289
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They, I mean, Farpoint in TNG. covered a lot of ground in that.

290
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There was no room for any development after that because they basically got the bios out of the way in the 1st episode.

291
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Yeah, yeah.

292
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Well, they had much more kind of they had the whole paragraph bio that they had to get through in FarPoint.

293
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You know, we had to hear about the rape gangs.

294
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They had seven, oh, Blake.

295
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Okay.

296
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That's the one line.

297
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Mark always brings up whenever I mention TNG, you know.

298
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So this is Stephen Brooks's Ensign Garavic, and Garavic is the son of the captain of the Farragut, who, um, Kirk, uh, you know, served.

299
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What a coincidence.

300
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Well, that's okay.

301
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But but I kind of like how this works because because we get to see Enson Garavic go through the exact same thing that Kirk goes through.

302
00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:14.940
So when Kirk forgives himself for his moment of hesitation.

303
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We get to see it because he forgives Garavic, and it allows him to re-engage with that period of his life because it's not just like, and I did a bad thing and everyone died.

304
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He doesn't have to think that about himself anymore.

305
00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:30.839
I think that's so good.

306
00:20:30.900 --> 00:20:32.880
Like that's such a great outcome.

307
00:20:32.940 --> 00:20:37.680
You know how we've always said about how charming Kirk can be relaxed with his crew.

308
00:20:37.740 --> 00:20:47.640
I bloody love that bit there, where he goes, I don't expect special treatment, sir, because you knew my dad. and Kurt just cuts him down with, well, you won't get it here, so don't worry, you know?

309
00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:51.900
So I want to know, though, why Garavik is standing like this?

310
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like in this whole scene.

311
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He's like standing look at his legs.

312
00:20:57.059 --> 00:21:01.799
Yeah, yeah, like, he's holding the fucking, like, look at him.

313
00:21:01.859 --> 00:21:04.019
Why is he holding the tricorder like that?

314
00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:05.400
It's so...

315
00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:06.299
Dramatic license.

316
00:21:06.420 --> 00:21:14.640
Oh, I want to know why very often in original Star Trek, then men look as edible as chocolate sundaes.

317
00:21:14.700 --> 00:21:15.660
I mean, he's beautiful.

318
00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:21.839
No, see, I think he's not quite beautiful enough, and this episode would be much better.

319
00:21:21.900 --> 00:21:24.059
Yeah, no, he's weird looking.

320
00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:24.900
He's got terrible teeth.

321
00:21:25.019 --> 00:21:26.039
He's gorgeous.

322
00:21:26.099 --> 00:21:28.500
He reminds me of Maxwell Caulfield from Greece 2.

323
00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:30.059
Okay.

324
00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:33.359
I don't know that's a deep card that reference.

325
00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:40.319
I think one of the guys behind him is much hotter than him and maybe he'll come into shot.

326
00:21:40.380 --> 00:21:41.940
Well, that's good.

327
00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:43.140
We both join this away team.

328
00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:44.519
There's someone for both of us.

329
00:21:44.579 --> 00:21:46.740
No, this guy doesn't do anything for me.

330
00:21:46.859 --> 00:21:47.400
He really is.

331
00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:48.299
Oh, my God.

332
00:21:48.420 --> 00:21:49.259
It's a shame.

333
00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:50.099
The clown's coming.

334
00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:51.839
Wait, I think I smell honey.

335
00:21:51.900 --> 00:21:52.559
That's so great.

336
00:21:52.619 --> 00:21:55.319
He looked so bored before it appeared.

337
00:21:55.380 --> 00:21:56.880
He's just kind of...

338
00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:59.099
There we go.

339
00:21:59.099 --> 00:22:00.720
We're doing hard hell camera work.

340
00:22:00.779 --> 00:22:02.579
Yeah, we're doing handheld.

341
00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:03.359
That's pretty exciting.

342
00:22:03.779 --> 00:22:05.640
Yeah, look at that.

343
00:22:05.700 --> 00:22:07.680
There is just...

344
00:22:07.740 --> 00:22:09.119
I can't believe I'm going to say this.

345
00:22:09.180 --> 00:22:10.500
Oh, no, it's the guy on the left.

346
00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:11.700
This guy on the left.

347
00:22:11.700 --> 00:22:16.740
So much more dynamism and creativity with how they hold their fucking cameras in the 60s.

348
00:22:16.859 --> 00:22:18.420
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

349
00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:20.880
Look, it's come on, but it's true.

350
00:22:20.940 --> 00:22:21.900
Oh yeah.

351
00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:26.940
It's a space vampire, Nathan.

352
00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:27.599
Yes.

353
00:22:27.660 --> 00:22:36.480
So the guy at the back, I thought that because he'd been facing away, they just had decided to save money and not make him up, but he's still alive as well.

354
00:22:36.539 --> 00:22:38.220
So that's a thing.

355
00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:45.119
Although your production issue possibility, you know, that could have been real as well.

356
00:22:45.180 --> 00:22:45.599
Yeah.

357
00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:51.539
Yes.

358
00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:54.779
Very serious voice over here.

359
00:22:54.839 --> 00:22:56.519
I am now even more convinced.

360
00:22:56.579 --> 00:23:02.579
It's not only an intelligent creature, but the same which decimated the crew of the USS Farragut.

361
00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:06.960
So, so he says that 200 people died.

362
00:23:07.019 --> 00:23:09.960
So, and says it's about half the crew.

363
00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:15.900
Um, Yeah, which is not what decimate it means, but that's fine.

364
00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:23.700
So sorry to always talk about the set dressing in TOS, but I swear that table changes every time we go into this room.

365
00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:24.900
Oh really?

366
00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:26.940
Yeah, because it's been red before.

367
00:23:27.059 --> 00:23:35.220
So I enjoyed the table in Kirk's quarters, which we'll see later because it seems to be wood, which I think is a great choice.

368
00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:43.259
Like, uh, one of the best things about that stupid set in in X-Jan. Just look at his red uniform against that green background.

369
00:23:43.319 --> 00:23:44.640
It's really strong.

370
00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:45.839
It's great, isn't it?

371
00:23:45.900 --> 00:23:47.940
My eyes are very pleased.

372
00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:52.380
Yeah, it's a kind of boring set that said.

373
00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:57.720
You know, compared to the Star Trek, the Next Generation set, which is much sad.

374
00:23:57.720 --> 00:23:58.619
That's it.

375
00:23:58.680 --> 00:24:01.500
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. boring, but that's a great shot.

376
00:24:01.559 --> 00:24:02.339
Yeah.

377
00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:12.059
And so this is, we will discover, the reason that Jim's being such an assehole is that he's being an assehole to himself.

378
00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:17.880
Um, yeah, look at his reaction to when he says it hovers.

379
00:24:17.940 --> 00:24:22.319
It hovers and he, you know, might not have fired at it quickly enough.

380
00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:27.660
You were 20 yards away from this creature and you missed, got my ship.

381
00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:28.680
Yeah.

382
00:24:28.740 --> 00:24:34.319
That's right didn't fire while it was hovering, sir.

383
00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:35.880
Yeah, no, because he...

384
00:24:35.880 --> 00:24:38.700
Come on, how do you sell this dialogue, but they do somehow.

385
00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:40.259
Yeah.

386
00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:42.420
Yeah, but it's all it's...

387
00:24:43.559 --> 00:24:45.420
Look, it's Shagnay's so good.

388
00:24:45.539 --> 00:24:47.039
It's the conviction, isn't it?

389
00:24:47.099 --> 00:24:48.240
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

390
00:24:48.299 --> 00:24:57.660
And Shannon being unreasonable, like being like this is not completely out of Shatner's wheelhouse, but it is him behaving differently.

391
00:24:57.720 --> 00:24:59.400
Look at the lighting behind him too.

392
00:24:59.460 --> 00:25:00.359
You've noticed.

393
00:25:00.420 --> 00:25:06.480
Oh, they put him in a uniform, which sort of accentuates his muscles, but he's got chicken arms, Captain Kirk.

394
00:25:06.539 --> 00:25:07.920
Yeah, yeah.

395
00:25:07.980 --> 00:25:08.400
Yeah.

396
00:25:08.460 --> 00:25:12.960
Yeah, well, one size smaller, said shadow, shadow.

397
00:25:13.019 --> 00:25:15.180
You haven't got any muscles.

398
00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:22.980
This was a sort of stuff we loved about the court mite maneuver, wasn't it?

399
00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:25.200
Well, that guy who loses his shit.

400
00:25:25.259 --> 00:25:27.900
Remember the guy who loses his shit on the bridge, that guy?

401
00:25:29.339 --> 00:25:31.079
That's every TOS episode, really.

402
00:25:31.140 --> 00:25:32.759
Yeah, I guess so.

403
00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:36.779
And yeah, very often it is Captain Kirk, like here.

404
00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:37.859
Hmm.

405
00:25:37.859 --> 00:25:48.059
So, Yeah, so this as well, I love how he just says, no, we're not having a dialogue scene now, write me. you know, like I'm just leaving.

406
00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:50.519
There he goes, you'll be filing both reports.

407
00:25:50.579 --> 00:25:51.660
So they just walks out.

408
00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:52.799
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

409
00:25:52.859 --> 00:25:53.460
Don't talk to me.

410
00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:56.400
I'm not going to have this conversation with you like we do in a normal episode.

411
00:25:56.460 --> 00:25:58.859
Will you look at this set?

412
00:25:58.859 --> 00:26:00.660
The purple licing?

413
00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:01.740
It's wonderful.

414
00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:09.299
I know we're going on about it a lot. don't get to say nice things about how things look in Star Trek.

415
00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:11.400
Apart from Kurtzman Trait, usually.

416
00:26:11.460 --> 00:26:13.140
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

417
00:26:13.740 --> 00:26:18.839
Oh, this is where this is where Scotty has this wonderful Dr. Fair's deadly light.

418
00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:22.500
They desperately need the medicine captain in the colony, you know.

419
00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:32.339
So I think that we get to mark down every next generation episode where the motivation is that we've got to deliver the medicine to the colony over here.

420
00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:34.200
That's just absolute bullshit.

421
00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:36.180
Yeah, about 10 years, isn't it?

422
00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:36.779
Next generation.

423
00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:40.619
It does seem to have a great deal and they've just stolen it from this.

424
00:26:40.740 --> 00:26:44.279
I'm not sure it adds much suspense to this one either, though.

425
00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:47.819
The episode would have been fine if they didn't have somewhere urgent to be.

426
00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:49.319
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

427
00:26:49.380 --> 00:26:54.420
But I guess because we have to see him disobeying orders in order to do this.

428
00:26:54.480 --> 00:27:02.099
But there's no consequences for it, and he makes the point that he's allowed to do it, and that's super interesting in that scene.

429
00:27:02.279 --> 00:27:05.519
The next time I'm at work, I'm going to try that line.

430
00:27:05.579 --> 00:27:07.079
It's a conspiracy against me.

431
00:27:07.980 --> 00:27:09.720
I love this.

432
00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:18.119
I love this. comes in and says, yeah, I need some advice. and he says, well, I'm going to need a drink then. if you want to.

433
00:27:18.180 --> 00:27:21.119
I mentioned that in my review as one of the best exchanges.

434
00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:27.119
I also said my review as well.

435
00:27:27.180 --> 00:27:33.420
I love the fact that the thing that McCoy always throws at him as an insult is green blood is actually pivotal to his blood.

436
00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:34.259
Yeah, so very important.

437
00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:35.400
Yeah, yeah.

438
00:27:35.700 --> 00:27:46.079
Yeah, these, I mean, like, I do think it is a shame that the other regulars really don't get much of a cut of pie a lot of the time, Ahura and check off people like that.

439
00:27:46.140 --> 00:27:52.920
But there is a reason why they keep going back to the three, and that's because it just works like Gangbusters.

440
00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:55.200
It's great telly when they're together.

441
00:27:55.259 --> 00:28:16.680
This scene looked like it was going to be a explain the human feeling you call obsession, but actually ends up providing and giving a good reason for Spock to know what happened in the past and to tell McCoy so we get to see it so that we don't have to see them reading it or something like that.

442
00:28:16.740 --> 00:28:19.319
Like Spock's read it fast to the McCoy because he's Spock.

443
00:28:19.380 --> 00:28:24.720
And so he's able to deliver the, um, and, you know, it's not tedious.

444
00:28:24.779 --> 00:28:25.980
Like, it's quite a good scene.

445
00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:30.119
You've got McCoy's reaction and it gets us to reinterpret what's happened.

446
00:28:30.180 --> 00:28:35.099
Even when they're both on the same page, they still sort of throw barbed in themselves.

447
00:28:35.160 --> 00:28:36.059
The spot goes.

448
00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:37.200
Well, don't worry, doctor.

449
00:28:37.259 --> 00:28:38.519
I can read a lot faster than you.

450
00:28:38.579 --> 00:28:41.700
Well, I don't think I don't think that's a dig.

451
00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:43.079
And so look at the book.

452
00:28:43.140 --> 00:28:43.799
Well, I don't know.

453
00:28:43.859 --> 00:28:45.359
It's just I like...

454
00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:47.039
Their dynamics are fab.

455
00:28:47.099 --> 00:28:57.000
So again, the parallel already now is drawn between Garavik and Kirk, because they both retire to their quarters and they're both lying there and he's having a bit of a voiceover, obviously.

456
00:28:57.059 --> 00:29:01.140
Why letting the horror distort my judgement?

457
00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:09.359
But that's interesting as well because that shows that he's rational, that he isn't, you know, mad.

458
00:29:09.420 --> 00:29:20.519
And I think this scene, which does go on for quite a long time, is maybe the high point of the of the show, just because they're all so good.

459
00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:30.660
I mean, it's great, but it's very funny how, you know, when it goes to Paul Ranklin, it goes, you know, I'm the medical officer and I'll say whether you're working or not.

460
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.900
Spock is literally waiting outside the entire...

461
00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:34.559
It sounds wonderful.

462
00:29:34.619 --> 00:29:38.880
So look at the skull on the on the bench behind him.

463
00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:40.799
There's a skull.

464
00:29:40.859 --> 00:29:43.019
It's just come out of it's just moved out of shot.

465
00:29:43.079 --> 00:29:47.759
But there was a skull on the thing and I'm kind of thinking, who put that there and why?

466
00:29:47.819 --> 00:29:58.680
And it's like, it's like a memento Maury, you put a little skull in an image or a skull somewhere that reminds you that you will die.

467
00:29:58.740 --> 00:30:11.039
And, and so in a way, like, I don't think I'm overreading it here, I think it's there because, because Kirk is thinking of the people who died on the Farragut and it was his fault.

468
00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:15.839
And I think that's just a way of getting that across in a sort of subconscious way.

469
00:30:15.900 --> 00:30:21.539
Well, I'll keep my eye out to see if you've seen other episodes because we go to Kirk's quarters quite a lot. quite a lot.

470
00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:24.240
But I'll see if they're putting that much thought into this or not.

471
00:30:24.299 --> 00:30:24.900
Yeah, yeah.

472
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:27.000
It seems like it seems like a thing.

473
00:30:27.059 --> 00:30:32.400
Because I also think it's really great because he delays it firing at it and so does Garavic.

474
00:30:32.460 --> 00:30:40.319
And Garavik hasn't, you know, resulted in the deaths of lots of people, but 2 people will, you know, have died because Garavik hesitates.

475
00:30:40.500 --> 00:30:45.420
Whereas for Kirk, it's 200 people, including his beloved captain.

476
00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:50.519
Um, Yeah, I think there's a lot in original trek.

477
00:30:50.579 --> 00:30:55.140
This, um, you know, the captain is the head of the ship, the most important person there.

478
00:30:55.200 --> 00:31:00.359
If he's behaving irrationally, then you know, something is going to go seriously wrong.

479
00:31:00.420 --> 00:31:01.619
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

480
00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:03.660
It's like the king in a Shakespeare play.

481
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:05.400
Like it's absolutely...

482
00:31:05.460 --> 00:31:08.519
It's far more of a flat structure nowadays, isn't it?

483
00:31:08.579 --> 00:31:11.220
Yeah, well, yeah, sort of, yeah.

484
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:11.579
Yeah.

485
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:22.920
Yeah, so this, he's still continuing to blame himself and and McCoy's telling him it's irrational, it's unreasonable.

486
00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:25.440
Yeah, yeah.

487
00:31:25.500 --> 00:31:28.559
And just I can't believe it's selling these lines.

488
00:31:28.619 --> 00:31:30.779
The malevolence, I know, it's evil.

489
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.180
It must be destroyed.

490
00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:37.619
And he teeters on the edge of, and you kind of, this is the bit... doesn't know.

491
00:31:37.740 --> 00:31:39.119
It doesn't lose it.

492
00:31:39.180 --> 00:31:41.039
I think he's convincing.

493
00:31:41.099 --> 00:31:43.440
Well, he comes back from it in this scene.

494
00:31:43.500 --> 00:31:45.299
That's what's so interesting about it.

495
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:47.039
In this very scene.

496
00:31:47.099 --> 00:31:51.900
You know, this is where he teeters closest to the edge of becoming the problem, don't you think?

497
00:31:53.279 --> 00:32:00.240
Watching their faces without hearing the dialogue, the intensity of the looks between them.

498
00:32:00.299 --> 00:32:03.059
Like, look at McCoy looks like he's about to murder him.

499
00:32:04.019 --> 00:32:05.400
Yeah.

500
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:08.039
Well, because Kirk's literally just...

501
00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:09.119
Look at Kirk's reaction.

502
00:32:09.180 --> 00:32:10.559
Look at Kirk's reaction now.

503
00:32:10.619 --> 00:32:19.740
He's actually taken aback by the fact that McCoy is doing that. and now he's going to the door to get... waiting outside.

504
00:32:19.799 --> 00:32:23.339
He'd be there sort of in the frame of the door.

505
00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:25.680
No, he kind of knows...

506
00:32:25.740 --> 00:32:27.059
Then I just go.

507
00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:37.319
This is the beat where I thought he would lose his shit about being, you know, conspired against, like he was saying on the bridge earlier.

508
00:32:37.380 --> 00:32:44.640
And like he, when he says this, like he's not playing it as I'm crazy and you're standing in my way.

509
00:32:44.700 --> 00:32:49.319
He's playing it as, oh my god, this is the, this is where we are.

510
00:32:49.380 --> 00:32:51.180
Like, this is where we've reached this.

511
00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:54.539
You know, I'm maybe I'm the problem, you know.

512
00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:56.099
I like it.

513
00:32:56.160 --> 00:33:04.319
It doesn't do the obvious dumb thing because he's got to be our captain next, you know, like next time, next episode.

514
00:33:04.380 --> 00:33:10.619
He can't be the main problem here and they deftly make him not the problem.

515
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:16.740
I think that's where uh, Equinox 2 failed miserably because everyone's just...

516
00:33:16.859 --> 00:33:21.779
You're behaving irrationally, Captain Janeway and she's going, I don't care.

517
00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:23.220
She could make our telly.

518
00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:24.059
I don't care.

519
00:33:24.180 --> 00:33:30.779
The best thing about for the uniform when they did this is Cisco sort of realises halfway through.

520
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:36.599
And then he realises he's got to play the villain because that's Edinton wants to be the hero of the thing.

521
00:33:36.660 --> 00:33:37.319
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

522
00:33:37.380 --> 00:33:41.880
So he leans into it wholeheartedly. far missiles on a planet. don't care.

523
00:33:41.940 --> 00:33:43.079
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

524
00:33:43.140 --> 00:33:48.180
It's wonderful Well, you see, this thing, like he ends up being right, doesn't he?

525
00:33:48.299 --> 00:33:55.740
Like he ends up being right that the thing can communicate with him because he's able to predict that it's going to go to the other planet at the end.

526
00:33:55.799 --> 00:34:03.839
And so it is a thing that uses, you know, emits molecules that we can pick up by smell and thereby communicates.

527
00:34:03.900 --> 00:34:06.779
So Kirk has proved right about all of that.

528
00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:09.360
And I think then Spock agrees with him, doesn't he?

529
00:34:09.420 --> 00:34:10.739
Yes.

530
00:34:10.739 --> 00:34:11.340
Like, yeah.

531
00:34:11.400 --> 00:34:15.000
I agree with you, I think this is the centrepiece of the episode.

532
00:34:15.059 --> 00:34:28.860
When that cloud appeared on the viewscreen, I was so happy because we had just been standing around in rooms for about half an hour at this and I was like, finally, we're going to get some action and that clouds back and doing some crazy shit.

533
00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:31.139
But look at look at Shatner.

534
00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:36.360
Look at him thinking, you know, like he's, he's, he's not Captain Ahab here.

535
00:34:36.420 --> 00:34:39.059
He is reasoning with Spock.

536
00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:42.300
Like my intuition, you know, that's part of my job as a commander.

537
00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:45.780
I have intuitions and I'm, you know, it's reasonable to follow them.

538
00:34:45.780 --> 00:34:49.860
And he's saying you're all doing the right thing by questioning me.

539
00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:52.199
And he even says to McCoy, doesn't he?

540
00:34:52.260 --> 00:34:54.599
Keep the medical lock entry open.

541
00:34:54.659 --> 00:34:55.800
Do you know?

542
00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:57.719
Maybe, like, in case I...

543
00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:00.420
I may behave more rationally, right?

544
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:02.579
It remains open and he smiles.

545
00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:03.480
Look, look.

546
00:35:03.539 --> 00:35:05.639
Like, it's good.

547
00:35:05.699 --> 00:35:07.019
It's so well done.

548
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:08.219
It's really great.

549
00:35:11.460 --> 00:35:14.519
It's, they just, this three.

550
00:35:14.579 --> 00:35:16.380
They just got it right, didn't they?

551
00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:17.579
They really got it right.

552
00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:21.480
There's a reason why they keep trying to simulate this in the latest series.

553
00:35:21.539 --> 00:35:22.679
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

554
00:35:22.739 --> 00:35:23.820
And that never lands.

555
00:35:23.820 --> 00:35:25.139
It, like, Neverlands.

556
00:35:25.860 --> 00:35:27.780
Yeah, we go now.

557
00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:29.760
The cloud's coming along. going super fast.

558
00:35:29.820 --> 00:35:32.519
So this is not the original cloud that you and I are watching.

559
00:35:32.579 --> 00:35:34.920
This is a...

560
00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:35.820
CG cloud.

561
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:39.420
I did see pictures of it in memory alpha.

562
00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:44.039
And I think it looked a lot like the, you know, there's an optical effect.

563
00:35:44.099 --> 00:35:51.659
No, but the other optical effect that they use on the cloud when it appears on the planet, not the smoke, but the other kind of overlay effect that they have.

564
00:35:51.780 --> 00:35:53.579
Like fairy lights.

565
00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:53.880
Yeah.

566
00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:56.219
Yeah, just missed.

567
00:35:56.340 --> 00:35:58.260
I don't think they do the lights or anything.

568
00:35:59.579 --> 00:36:03.480
Poor old Chekhovs doing nothing but pushing buttons in this one.

569
00:36:03.539 --> 00:36:04.320
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

570
00:36:04.380 --> 00:36:06.780
Well, I mean, they're being scenery, aren't they?

571
00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:08.519
They're being like the discovery crew.

572
00:36:08.579 --> 00:36:10.800
It's just like, you know, these girls.

573
00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:13.199
I'm not sure she's even picked up a signal or anything.

574
00:36:13.260 --> 00:36:14.579
Yeah, she did.

575
00:36:14.579 --> 00:36:18.719
No, she said something before she relayed some news from the Yorktown, I think, earlier.

576
00:36:18.840 --> 00:36:19.980
So here it is.

577
00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:22.980
Yeah, see that's modern digital effect, isn't it?

578
00:36:23.039 --> 00:36:23.699
Can I do it?

579
00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:24.179
Do you mind?

580
00:36:24.239 --> 00:36:33.780
Is it da, da, da, da, da, da, da. favourite music.

581
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:34.860
It's so great.

582
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:38.219
What was I talking about in my review?

583
00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:40.440
I know, the music's really good.

584
00:36:40.500 --> 00:36:41.699
I think, honestly.

585
00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:43.380
I feel as if you've turned me.

586
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:44.219
That's the trouble.

587
00:36:44.219 --> 00:36:48.960
I'm tired of Star Trek project, you know, you've made me realise just how shit night is.

588
00:36:49.019 --> 00:36:51.840
Well, suddenly the music is terrible.

589
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:53.940
I really enjoyed it till I started talking.

590
00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:55.980
I exist to ruin people's fun.

591
00:36:56.039 --> 00:37:02.699
So this little bit of detail is good too, because the open the open hatch, do you know what I mean?

592
00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:07.260
which is established he was fixing it before, blah, blah, blah, and it's how it gets in.

593
00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:08.699
Oh, and this.

594
00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:09.840
We keep up the speed.

595
00:37:09.900 --> 00:37:10.619
Get blown up.

596
00:37:11.699 --> 00:37:16.320
And then, and so Coco goes, oh, maybe we shouldn't blow up then.

597
00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:19.679
He thinks about it.

598
00:37:19.739 --> 00:37:23.340
Spock looks at him and he goes, yeah, no, actually that's crazy, isn't it?

599
00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:24.480
Like, yeah.

600
00:37:24.539 --> 00:37:25.199
Okay.

601
00:37:25.380 --> 00:37:27.539
Oh, God.

602
00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:31.619
But it was never going to go any other way, was it?

603
00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:34.440
Like he was in, because that would have been too far.

604
00:37:35.699 --> 00:37:38.820
I was wondering whether to self-sacrifice himself.

605
00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:44.880
He's sitting in there in his quarters, wondering why he left the purple light on, I think, probably.

606
00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:48.000
Oh, I love this scene with Nurse Jack.

607
00:37:48.059 --> 00:37:48.900
I do too.

608
00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:50.699
Look at her.

609
00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:55.619
Either you feed yourself or we're gonna put a drip on you and force feed you.

610
00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:57.539
And it's all a line.

611
00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:01.019
Like, none of it's true because she shows this, the prescription.

612
00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:05.280
This is the prescription from the doctor and it has one word on it, eat.

613
00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:13.920
And then in the next scene, she returns it to seek bait and he identifies it as some journal article about some other pathogen or something.

614
00:38:13.980 --> 00:38:16.739
So she's just bluffing. really good.

615
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:21.239
You know, obviously, Spock is my favourite character in the original series.

616
00:38:21.300 --> 00:38:24.059
So I'm pleased of the changes that were made.

617
00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:26.880
For what the, you know, the show ultimately became.

618
00:38:26.940 --> 00:38:31.139
I would have loved for her to have been number one as well, though.

619
00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:32.460
Yeah, and seeing what.

620
00:38:32.579 --> 00:38:34.679
She's a great. she's a really good actress.

621
00:38:34.739 --> 00:38:36.119
Yeah, she really is.

622
00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:46.320
And she gets the odd moment like this, but a lot of the time, you know, she's ducking soup and moving after Spock and, you know, that terrible sexist that occurs in a lot of original Star Trek.

623
00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:47.699
Yeah, yeah.

624
00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:54.239
Yeah, it is. and she's, you know, she's manipulating him in order to get him to, is that food?

625
00:38:54.300 --> 00:38:59.579
No, no, that's the, that's the prescription.

626
00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:01.139
So that yellow thing.

627
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:03.360
She's saying that's McCoy's prescription.

628
00:39:03.420 --> 00:39:04.920
It has one word on it. eat.

629
00:39:04.980 --> 00:39:07.559
You have to eat, the doctor says, I will force feed.

630
00:39:07.619 --> 00:39:14.099
Then she puts it back in the box and he ident- oh, she identifies it as a journal article.

631
00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:14.940
Oh no, he does.

632
00:39:15.659 --> 00:39:17.760
Respiration disease.

633
00:39:17.940 --> 00:39:18.900
Diseases.

634
00:39:19.980 --> 00:39:25.559
And she just goes, ah, you know, it's just applying psychology, using it as a prop.

635
00:39:25.619 --> 00:39:28.260
And it was lovely because we had a little bit of that.

636
00:39:28.260 --> 00:39:40.199
Well, in fact, there's a line from that portrayal of her to the Strangely World's portrayal, I think.

637
00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:42.900
In moments, yeah.

638
00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:46.079
But God, number one is Strangely Wales.

639
00:39:46.139 --> 00:39:48.000
No, no, no.

640
00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:48.840
So good.

641
00:39:48.900 --> 00:39:52.500
She's Star Trek royalty, Rebecca Remain.

642
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:55.079
Oh, that, what was that food?

643
00:39:55.139 --> 00:39:56.159
A load of plaster scene.

644
00:39:56.280 --> 00:39:58.079
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

645
00:39:58.139 --> 00:40:01.920
That's the stuff that comes out of the replicator or whatever, the food thing.

646
00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:04.380
They love in moments of mania.

647
00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:06.360
They love throwing things on the wall.

648
00:40:06.420 --> 00:40:19.260
So he throws the thing at the wall and switches the active ventilation thing to bypass, which will enable the cloud to get into his room later and make it unable to get it out.

649
00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:24.300
So he's broken the thing and that's all very obvious, which I just think, come on.

650
00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:32.099
But see, what I like here, like it doesn't fully land, like they don't say it, but we see it happen.

651
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:37.199
We see them fire the phases at the cloud and it doesn't work.

652
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:50.039
And that's the moment that both Garavic and Kirk C, which absolves both of them from the guilt of the deaths that came afterwards, which I think is really good.

653
00:40:50.099 --> 00:41:05.760
The reason I love the cloud is the same reason I loved that weird shape in the Corbin mite maneuver, and the reason I love the Bork cube in Q Hu is because it cannot be reasoned with on any level.

654
00:41:05.820 --> 00:41:13.440
And for Star Trek, the original series for it not to have, you know, the mysterious voice that the clouds often do have.

655
00:41:13.500 --> 00:41:16.860
It's just an evil fucker that's going to kill people.

656
00:41:16.980 --> 00:41:19.800
Well, like the doomsday machine as well.

657
00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:25.260
Yeah, but like, you know, this is a show all about sort of rationality, isn't it?

658
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:30.539
And sort of logic and emotion and, you know, talking things to death and things like this.

659
00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:31.860
They can't do it with this.

660
00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:37.079
Yeah, so something, something implacable and incomprehensible.

661
00:41:37.139 --> 00:41:39.900
Look at, look at.

662
00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:44.400
He's just playing that, he's pressing those buttons like an absolute demon.

663
00:41:44.460 --> 00:41:45.179
Check off.

664
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:47.699
The plough is covering the entire screen now.

665
00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:49.199
It really feels like it's...

666
00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:51.239
Do you see it surrounding the enterprise?

667
00:41:51.300 --> 00:41:54.000
I can't remember No, no, it's gone in through the vent.

668
00:41:54.059 --> 00:41:55.440
It's gone in through the vent.

669
00:41:55.500 --> 00:41:56.280
They couldn't have tried that.

670
00:41:56.340 --> 00:42:01.139
So it's gone in through the vent and it's going to end up in Garavic's quarters hilariously.

671
00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:06.179
Oh, bit of technobabble.

672
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:06.900
Thanks, Scotty.

673
00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:09.480
Yes, that's what he's here for.

674
00:42:09.539 --> 00:42:11.639
Oh, and we've killed 2 people.

675
00:42:11.699 --> 00:42:13.199
Oh, okay.

676
00:42:13.260 --> 00:42:14.159
Yeah.

677
00:42:14.219 --> 00:42:14.760
Yeah.

678
00:42:14.820 --> 00:42:17.280
No, one's alive, one's not.

679
00:42:17.340 --> 00:42:18.840
Oh, that's kind of good, isn't it?

680
00:42:18.900 --> 00:42:22.559
You can add that little price tag to your little monster hunt, Captain Kirk.

681
00:42:22.619 --> 00:42:25.500
Yeah, so he's still angry, isn't he?

682
00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:26.519
He's still kind of angry.

683
00:42:26.579 --> 00:42:30.420
He's still accusing him of being irrational, but look at Kirk's response.

684
00:42:30.539 --> 00:42:32.099
Yeah, this is great.

685
00:42:32.159 --> 00:42:36.059
Gentlemen, could we please stop talking, stop belabouring the point.

686
00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:39.360
I'm like, we should have got out of the creature because we found the creature.

687
00:42:39.420 --> 00:42:41.460
It's in the ship.

688
00:42:41.519 --> 00:42:43.019
Oh, yeah.

689
00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:46.920
And this is the point where Spock is definitely on his side.

690
00:42:46.980 --> 00:42:50.699
It really is not just a cloud, it's an intelligent creature.

691
00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:53.519
I think Shatner looks very handsome there, you know?

692
00:42:53.579 --> 00:42:57.300
Yeah, I think there are, I think Shatner is a handsome man.

693
00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:02.400
There are moments when he's sort of over, he overdoes the makeup a bit and...

694
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:03.239
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

695
00:43:03.300 --> 00:43:06.179
He's still got a lot of eyeliner on this episode, I seem to.

696
00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:09.900
I think Jimmy Dooman thinks he's handsome, but he's not.

697
00:43:10.860 --> 00:43:12.719
That's probably fair.

698
00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:15.420
Oh, I'm sorry, Jim.

699
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:16.739
I was wrong Here we go.

700
00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:17.880
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

701
00:43:17.940 --> 00:43:18.480
There you go.

702
00:43:18.539 --> 00:43:24.960
And it is, like, it's just normal, rational kind, people, and look at, look at Kirk smiling, you know, he's...

703
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:27.539
He's not the problem.

704
00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:32.099
Did he just say the creature's ability to throw time out of sync.

705
00:43:32.219 --> 00:43:35.280
No, he throws himself out of time, sync.

706
00:43:35.340 --> 00:43:40.019
Like, I don't even know what that is or that come from or why we needed that at all.

707
00:43:40.980 --> 00:43:46.199
It's a bit like they like throwing these things in. like, do you remember when they said about what was it?

708
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:49.500
the map of the galaxy or whatever it was, contain.

709
00:43:49.559 --> 00:43:49.980
Do you remember?

710
00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:51.719
The Galactic Barrier or whatever.

711
00:43:51.900 --> 00:43:55.079
They just throw random things in every now and again.

712
00:43:55.139 --> 00:44:13.500
So that's the thing, the time sink thing is that that 22nd delay that both Kirk and Garavik did when 1st shooting at the creature would have made no difference because, you know, they shot the thing with the phaser and it went straight through the creature.

713
00:44:13.559 --> 00:44:17.099
And so it wouldn't have, it wouldn't have, um, yeah, here we go.

714
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:19.380
Is this spocky to explain that?

715
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:27.360
What does that explain then why Captain Kirk or Ensign Kirk, whatever he was back in the day, couldn't...

716
00:44:27.420 --> 00:44:29.099
Yeah, either of them.

717
00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:32.099
Neither of them could have saved everybody because it would have had no effect.

718
00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:35.159
And I think these... shit, though, and it giving them a get out clause.

719
00:44:35.219 --> 00:44:37.260
Well, no, I think you need it.

720
00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:41.400
I think you absolutely need it because you need a kirk who's been healed of this.

721
00:44:41.460 --> 00:44:50.400
You need a kirk who's not haunted by this, and that's how it ends, where he goes and spends time talking to Garavic about his father.

722
00:44:50.519 --> 00:45:03.900
And so Garavik is healed from his guilt and also gets to reacquaint with his father, rubbing that weird prickly exchange that they had about the father earlier on when he 1st came on and Kirk was being a bit of a nutcase.

723
00:45:07.019 --> 00:45:09.599
It's very kind of you to come, Mr. Spock.

724
00:45:09.659 --> 00:45:10.139
No, no, no.

725
00:45:10.199 --> 00:45:12.300
Kindness is a human emotion, Mr. Garovic.

726
00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:13.679
I'm not afflicted with that.

727
00:45:13.739 --> 00:45:18.000
And here we close this episode. finally, the cloud attacks.

728
00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:20.880
You smell something, Nathan?

729
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:23.219
Yes, it smells like honey.

730
00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:24.780
It does.

731
00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:30.599
What's he doing?

732
00:45:30.659 --> 00:45:34.260
Oh, he's going to, he's putting his hands in front of the face.

733
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:38.579
All right, he's discovered that he's discovered that doesn't work.

734
00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:46.920
No, he tried to flick the switch back, but stupid Garavic broke it when he threw the tray, the lunch tray.

735
00:45:46.980 --> 00:45:49.679
It often works, you know, that would work perfectly in this scenario.

736
00:45:49.739 --> 00:45:57.539
You know, when they open up cargo bay doors and suck something out and they'll just hold onto a console and don't get sucked into space. would work perfectly right now.

737
00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:01.619
Well, if it still had an ejector hatch like it did in the animated series.

738
00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:03.360
They could just open that up.

739
00:46:03.420 --> 00:46:06.239
I know it's so simple, just that reverse effect.

740
00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:07.199
Yeah, it's pretty.

741
00:46:07.260 --> 00:46:07.920
But I do like it.

742
00:46:07.980 --> 00:46:08.940
Yeah, I like it too.

743
00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:10.320
What is that device?

744
00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:14.820
Is he the fellow you said you thought was quite pretty?

745
00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:15.539
That one there.

746
00:46:15.659 --> 00:46:16.440
No, no.

747
00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:18.780
Oh, no, it's quite pretty, isn't it?

748
00:46:18.780 --> 00:46:20.639
I don't think I'd mind serving on this ship, you know?

749
00:46:20.639 --> 00:46:22.619
Yeah, I think they look slightly weird.

750
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:25.320
They saw a loop as well, with the morals.

751
00:46:25.380 --> 00:46:26.280
They don't mind them all.

752
00:46:26.340 --> 00:46:28.380
Back it up on the Enterprise, don't I?

753
00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:29.280
I guess not.

754
00:46:29.340 --> 00:46:29.820
Yeah.

755
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:32.820
Oh, so there we go.

756
00:46:32.820 --> 00:46:33.780
Thank you, Spark.

757
00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:35.219
The reverse pressure worked.

758
00:46:35.699 --> 00:46:39.960
We're in 90s territory again. explaining everything.

759
00:46:40.019 --> 00:46:43.619
Well, I mean, it is just reversing the air pressure closes.

760
00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:44.519
The vent makes sense.

761
00:46:44.579 --> 00:46:45.840
It's not super technical.

762
00:46:45.900 --> 00:46:46.980
There is.

763
00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:49.019
It says green blood up his.

764
00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:52.500
Well, doctor, my reverse haemoglobin.

765
00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:57.119
There we go.

766
00:46:57.179 --> 00:46:59.639
He's not taking the insult at all, spokes.

767
00:46:59.699 --> 00:47:01.920
Can you say how colloquially expressed?

768
00:47:01.980 --> 00:47:03.300
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

769
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:05.880
He says, but still essentially correct, doctor.

770
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:14.159
So this, this bit where we just admit, yes, he is in communication with the creature.

771
00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:32.280
And so the sense that he gets that it's alive and evil isn't just him, you know, deciding that because he needs that to be true in order for, you know, not to have full responsibility for the deaths or whatever to, you know, 11 years ago. don't know.

772
00:47:32.340 --> 00:47:33.360
You know, it is why we're inism.

773
00:47:33.420 --> 00:47:38.880
We have met about 4 gaseous clouds already on TOS, and none of this came up at those points.

774
00:47:38.940 --> 00:47:42.360
Well, they were different types of gaseous clouds, I think.

775
00:47:42.420 --> 00:47:44.699
I remember last week.

776
00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:53.880
I remember last time when we were talking about the one in Lonely Among Us, which is sort of a gaseous cloud, isn't it?

777
00:47:53.940 --> 00:47:54.719
Oh, yes.

778
00:47:54.780 --> 00:47:55.440
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

779
00:47:55.500 --> 00:47:59.039
Well, that's a gaseous cloud that just takes over people, you know?

780
00:47:59.099 --> 00:48:02.280
Yeah, definitely to behave in strange ways.

781
00:48:02.340 --> 00:48:06.659
So I don't, I, yeah, so I don't quite get...

782
00:48:06.659 --> 00:48:09.179
I don't know.

783
00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:12.780
I don't quite get why I don't know this so well.

784
00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:14.579
I knew that.

785
00:48:14.579 --> 00:48:15.239
Yeah, all me.

786
00:48:15.300 --> 00:48:17.099
Yeah, so Kirk.

787
00:48:17.340 --> 00:48:23.400
Kirk being on the Farragut as his 1st mission, his 1st posting.

788
00:48:23.460 --> 00:48:24.480
I think I did know that.

789
00:48:24.539 --> 00:48:28.440
And I think that we've referred to that maybe in Strange New Worlds or something.

790
00:48:28.500 --> 00:48:35.579
But this isn't an episode that's sort of come up or been redone or been referred to in anything.

791
00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:36.179
Is it?

792
00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:37.679
Like I just can't think of.

793
00:48:37.739 --> 00:48:41.519
It sort of vanishes without trace. do think this is very well done.

794
00:48:41.579 --> 00:48:47.760
But when you sort of break it down, there's a scene on a fake planetary landscape, there's lots of talking on the enterprise.

795
00:48:47.820 --> 00:48:51.239
Captain Kirk behaving obsessively, and this has all happened elsewhere.

796
00:48:51.300 --> 00:48:54.599
So I think it could shuffle very easily into the pack.

797
00:48:54.659 --> 00:48:57.539
There's not that sort of one, even the cloud monsters.

798
00:48:57.599 --> 00:48:59.039
We do cloud monsters elsewhere as well.

799
00:48:59.099 --> 00:49:04.500
And in shitter episodes, and very often you remember the crap ones more than the good ones.

800
00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:13.739
Yeah, I mean, I guess the thing that's really good about this episode is that it's well directed and that the script is interested in the characters.

801
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:15.000
Yeah, that's right.

802
00:49:15.059 --> 00:49:19.139
And just having that, you know, that great parallel between young kirk look.

803
00:49:19.199 --> 00:49:24.239
See, Garavix are a little bit more relieved now that he's not to blame for everything.

804
00:49:24.780 --> 00:49:27.539
Chekhov was bent over that console.

805
00:49:27.599 --> 00:49:30.780
Captain Kirk walked in and just stared straight at his bum.

806
00:49:30.900 --> 00:49:31.920
Did you notice that?

807
00:49:31.980 --> 00:49:33.780
Well, you would, you would.

808
00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:34.380
I would.

809
00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:34.980
I think you would.

810
00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:37.920
Although now Kirk's bending over him, Captain Kirk turned away.

811
00:49:37.980 --> 00:49:40.500
Oh, no, no, Spock's still looking.

812
00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:43.260
I mean, Kirk's still looking at Spock's bum for a 2nd there, I think.

813
00:49:44.219 --> 00:49:48.539
That's the sort of insightful combination.

814
00:49:48.599 --> 00:49:49.860
This is why people choose.

815
00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:55.260
What's going on in those displays behind?

816
00:49:55.320 --> 00:49:57.659
It looks like some weird sort of arty ink splot.

817
00:49:57.780 --> 00:49:59.880
Yeah, yeah, I don't know what that is.

818
00:49:59.940 --> 00:50:05.639
They sort of hinted that a little bit in the design of the Strange New Worlds enterprise set, I think.

819
00:50:05.699 --> 00:50:07.380
But yes, they look great.

820
00:50:07.500 --> 00:50:09.480
I think they look so good.

821
00:50:09.539 --> 00:50:11.460
Strange new world sets.

822
00:50:11.579 --> 00:50:12.960
Oh, yeah, but these...

823
00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:14.820
Please, I don't care. 20 episodes.

824
00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:16.260
Please, can we watch another one soon?

825
00:50:16.380 --> 00:50:17.639
Yeah, so good.

826
00:50:17.699 --> 00:50:19.320
Well, they're shooting series 3.

827
00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:23.880
Okay, when it starts, then we've got carte blanche.

828
00:50:23.940 --> 00:50:24.960
Yeah, I think so.

829
00:50:25.019 --> 00:50:25.619
I think so.

830
00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:29.340
Yes, yeah, see, that's super interesting.

831
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:30.960
Isn't it?

832
00:50:31.019 --> 00:50:33.719
So he can he can communicate with it.

833
00:50:33.780 --> 00:50:34.739
He can understand what it's saying.

834
00:50:35.099 --> 00:50:36.719
I like it.

835
00:50:36.780 --> 00:50:39.059
We even do that, though, don't we?

836
00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:41.039
Remember Spock and the halter?

837
00:50:41.099 --> 00:50:45.300
in that episode where you're in communication. with it. yeah.

838
00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:49.500
But it's all good stuff, but it's all sort of...

839
00:50:49.619 --> 00:50:50.519
Yeah, I guess so.

840
00:50:50.579 --> 00:50:51.300
I guess so.

841
00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:56.940
Yeah, I guess this is a solid episode that doesn't shit the bed in any kind of spectacular way.

842
00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:02.159
And we've watched, you know, wolf in the fold and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Galileo 7.

843
00:51:03.599 --> 00:51:07.079
Do you think that was the worst dwarf in the fold that we've done?

844
00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:10.320
Um, no, it had some things going for it.

845
00:51:10.380 --> 00:51:12.239
Oh, you forget sexual politics.

846
00:51:12.300 --> 00:51:18.960
I think I, I think I thought that Galileo 7 was pretty poor.

847
00:51:19.019 --> 00:51:21.119
Although he'd had good things going for it.

848
00:51:21.179 --> 00:51:22.559
What is brain?

849
00:51:22.619 --> 00:51:23.400
Yeah.

850
00:51:23.519 --> 00:51:29.880
Spock's brain like has a woman in a miniskirt with a big gun on the Bridge of the Enterprise.

851
00:51:29.940 --> 00:51:31.440
So there is that.

852
00:51:31.500 --> 00:51:32.639
Like, that is pretty great.

853
00:51:33.059 --> 00:51:35.579
A most hairy primitives.

854
00:51:35.639 --> 00:51:36.179
Do you remember?

855
00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:37.019
Yeah, yeah.

856
00:51:37.079 --> 00:51:39.300
There's plenty to laugh at at least.

857
00:51:39.360 --> 00:51:40.800
Yeah, yeah.

858
00:51:40.860 --> 00:51:46.679
I do like, so we go back down onto the planet in a minute and there's some wonderful execution there.

859
00:51:46.739 --> 00:51:48.480
Some great camera work.

860
00:51:48.539 --> 00:51:49.320
Keep an eye on it.

861
00:51:49.380 --> 00:51:49.980
Yeah.

862
00:51:50.039 --> 00:52:02.039
I actually really like the bit where Garavic goes to attack, like attacks Kirk to stop him from sacrificing himself, and Kirk says, I'm not sacrificing myself.

863
00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:05.159
Can you know who I am?

864
00:52:05.699 --> 00:52:07.860
No, I'm not going to do that.

865
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:11.579
Do you think that useless bunch can run that shit without me?

866
00:52:11.699 --> 00:52:12.420
Come on now.

867
00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:14.940
Plus I'm William Shatner, you know.

868
00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:16.739
I also like to.

869
00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:24.239
I was expecting Garavik to die, like, and I think that would have been a mistake.

870
00:52:24.300 --> 00:52:27.840
And so you have, you have, um, McCoy.

871
00:52:27.900 --> 00:52:32.699
You have Nemoy setting it up by saying, you know, under these environmental conditions.

872
00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:33.780
We could lose someone.

873
00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:44.699
And then you have the sort of gaff view mastershot of them taking forever to re-materialize in the transport to pay.

874
00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:47.039
But I'm glad they kill them.

875
00:52:47.099 --> 00:52:50.099
That line there, it's going to take 2 men to do it.

876
00:52:50.159 --> 00:52:51.059
Well, of course it is.

877
00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:51.780
Yeah, yeah.

878
00:52:51.780 --> 00:52:53.519
The 2 men winning to go down.

879
00:52:53.579 --> 00:52:55.079
Look, so look at this.

880
00:52:55.139 --> 00:52:56.579
It's that thing floating in the air.

881
00:52:56.639 --> 00:52:58.440
Yes, it's anti-gravity.

882
00:52:58.500 --> 00:52:59.460
Isn't that cool?

883
00:52:59.460 --> 00:53:01.019
Was it flowing in the air originally, though?

884
00:53:01.079 --> 00:53:02.699
Yeah, I think so.

885
00:53:02.760 --> 00:53:05.820
Yeah, no, I think that's the intention that it can just fly in the air.

886
00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:09.780
I think probably there was a wire, probably originally, but they've taken out.

887
00:53:10.619 --> 00:53:14.340
They didn't do anything to nomads wires, remember, and they were really bad.

888
00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:16.679
Oh, no math.

889
00:53:18.480 --> 00:53:20.820
Wow, great robot.

890
00:53:20.940 --> 00:53:22.679
But I love this.

891
00:53:22.739 --> 00:53:24.000
I like they just let go of it.

892
00:53:24.059 --> 00:53:29.400
I mean, the bottom of it's not in shot in that shot, but I just love...

893
00:53:29.460 --> 00:53:30.840
No rud coming up the chute.

894
00:53:30.900 --> 00:53:31.619
Do you remember?

895
00:53:33.179 --> 00:53:35.460
No, man, so awesome.

896
00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:37.380
Oh dear.

897
00:53:37.619 --> 00:53:39.480
Okay, here we go.

898
00:53:39.539 --> 00:53:41.519
But dramatic showdown with the cloud.

899
00:53:41.579 --> 00:53:42.659
Yes, yeah.

900
00:53:42.719 --> 00:53:44.340
Will they possibly defeat it?

901
00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:46.139
I think they will.

902
00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:47.159
Yeah.

903
00:53:47.219 --> 00:53:50.699
But it's more excuse for the crazy music to kick it, you know?

904
00:53:50.820 --> 00:53:51.599
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

905
00:53:51.599 --> 00:53:52.860
Dramatic zooms.

906
00:53:52.860 --> 00:53:55.800
See, that looks like, see that?

907
00:53:55.860 --> 00:53:56.519
That's weird.

908
00:53:56.579 --> 00:53:59.099
I think that that's probably what it looked like through the thing.

909
00:53:59.159 --> 00:54:02.460
So the plan goes wrong at the last minute, doesn't it?

910
00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:10.079
It drinks all lahema thing, all the blood stuff that has been provided by Dr. McCoy, hemoplasm.

911
00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:10.440
Yeah.

912
00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:13.320
So we'll have to use something else for bait.

913
00:54:13.380 --> 00:54:18.840
I was going to call this episode Red Shirt Party because there's quite a few red shirts that die.

914
00:54:18.900 --> 00:54:25.079
He should have done he should have done what Avon did in Blake 7 to Villa and just thrown Gary.

915
00:54:25.139 --> 00:54:27.059
You're wearing a red shirt.

916
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:28.559
It's the same colour as blood.

917
00:54:28.619 --> 00:54:29.820
It's fair game, mate.

918
00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:30.780
Yeah, yeah.

919
00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:33.480
Chop.

920
00:54:33.539 --> 00:54:34.079
There we goes.

921
00:54:34.139 --> 00:54:34.800
Down he goes.

922
00:54:34.860 --> 00:54:36.300
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

923
00:54:36.360 --> 00:54:40.380
People's collarbones are notoriously weak on TOS, aren't they?

924
00:54:40.500 --> 00:54:41.579
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

925
00:54:41.639 --> 00:54:42.239
Yeah, yeah.

926
00:54:42.300 --> 00:54:43.619
But I should have.

927
00:54:43.619 --> 00:54:44.340
Oh, no.

928
00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:46.139
The whole rock face just moved.

929
00:54:47.460 --> 00:54:50.099
Oh my god, they all set.

930
00:54:50.159 --> 00:54:53.579
Yeah, but that, that, like you're on report.

931
00:54:54.059 --> 00:54:58.800
That's so funny He's doing the tombstone machine thing, isn't he?

932
00:54:58.860 --> 00:55:00.179
Spock, come on now.

933
00:55:01.739 --> 00:55:03.900
Not quite as camp.

934
00:55:03.960 --> 00:55:06.179
But I did think that that was...

935
00:55:06.179 --> 00:55:16.920
I thought that was terribly cute because it's an episode that raises the question, is Shatner acting irrationally and basically says, no, he's not.

936
00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:23.159
But for a 2nd you think, oh, maybe he is trying to sacrifice himself and Garavek hasn't quite worked out how the episode works yet.

937
00:55:23.219 --> 00:55:24.719
Look at this.

938
00:55:24.780 --> 00:55:28.440
The camera work here, it's the POV of the cloud coming out.

939
00:55:28.500 --> 00:55:29.639
Yeah, yeah, just...

940
00:55:29.639 --> 00:55:30.599
And then staring straight at it.

941
00:55:30.659 --> 00:55:32.519
It's really good, isn't it?

942
00:55:32.579 --> 00:55:34.500
And you know what music you've got here?

943
00:55:39.659 --> 00:55:45.000
I think I think that Jama did say something about the score.

944
00:55:45.059 --> 00:55:46.139
Here we go.

945
00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:47.159
He likes it.

946
00:55:47.219 --> 00:55:48.780
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

947
00:55:48.900 --> 00:55:50.760
I mean, it's a fabulous explosion.

948
00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:53.579
It's every cue from every episode.

949
00:55:54.300 --> 00:55:55.440
It's great cues.

950
00:55:55.559 --> 00:55:58.260
They, yeah, they're great cues and they deploy them really well.

951
00:55:58.320 --> 00:55:59.219
Yeah, see?

952
00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:00.659
Look at just the race.

953
00:56:00.719 --> 00:56:03.480
Nemoy's eyebrow race is so good.

954
00:56:03.539 --> 00:56:04.739
So great.

955
00:56:04.860 --> 00:56:06.599
I love the app.

956
00:56:06.659 --> 00:56:09.659
I always love the acting of the people in these moments.

957
00:56:09.719 --> 00:56:13.739
So watch Dr. McCoy here where it's like, oh, God, are they going to make it?

958
00:56:13.800 --> 00:56:17.400
Because loads of Star Trek episodes do this. you know, we all know they're gonna make it.

959
00:56:17.460 --> 00:56:18.659
They're really trying to sell it.

960
00:56:18.719 --> 00:56:21.119
Will we get them back this time?

961
00:56:22.139 --> 00:56:24.480
No, but I love this thing.

962
00:56:25.679 --> 00:56:30.780
Spock is currently cross-circuiting to A, but that doesn't quite work.

963
00:56:30.840 --> 00:56:33.539
So he goes, yeah, cross circuiting to be.

964
00:56:33.599 --> 00:56:38.639
And then later on, he claims that he saves the...

965
00:56:38.699 --> 00:56:42.719
Crazy way to travel, spreading a man's molecules are over the universe.

966
00:56:42.780 --> 00:56:44.400
I thought it was just perfectly tied.

967
00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:45.719
And realised...

968
00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:47.280
I checked that back, or I can get behind.

969
00:56:47.340 --> 00:56:49.019
Cross-so A, that didn't work.

970
00:56:49.079 --> 00:56:50.760
Let's try and be.

971
00:56:50.820 --> 00:56:51.360
It works.

972
00:56:51.480 --> 00:56:53.460
But then we do a comeback to be.

973
00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:55.440
Like, it's really kind of funny.

974
00:56:55.500 --> 00:56:56.280
Oh my god.

975
00:56:56.340 --> 00:56:57.599
We're all okay.

976
00:56:57.780 --> 00:56:59.940
He's so happy checking his lands.

977
00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:02.760
He's been through a nervous breakdown.

978
00:57:02.820 --> 00:57:05.039
I'm confronted with the horrors of the past.

979
00:57:05.099 --> 00:57:06.719
He's like, well, that's that then.

980
00:57:06.780 --> 00:57:13.679
Yeah, yeah, but but McCoy goes, thank goodness or thank the good Lord or something like that.

981
00:57:13.739 --> 00:57:19.260
And, uh, and, uh, spot goes, no, no, it was me cross circuiting to be.

982
00:57:19.320 --> 00:57:22.139
There was no deity involved, which I think was pretty great.

983
00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:25.500
So, well, do you remember that medicine we were supposed to?

984
00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:26.760
Oh, yeah, yeah. we're doing that now.

985
00:57:26.820 --> 00:57:27.960
Yeah, yeah, we'll do that now.

986
00:57:28.019 --> 00:57:29.340
It's in the fridge.

987
00:57:29.400 --> 00:57:30.059
It'll be okay.

988
00:57:30.179 --> 00:57:31.679
You'd sell by dates.

989
00:57:31.739 --> 00:57:35.219
You know, they were always a couple of days conservative, I think.

990
00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:39.960
Imagine, though, he is that charming Captain Kirk that we love, isn't he?

991
00:57:40.019 --> 00:57:48.000
But it's because this is him forgiving his young self and reacquainting himself with that time.

992
00:57:48.059 --> 00:58:04.619
Now it's okay for him to talk about Captain Garavic, because he knows that he wasn't responsible for the death, and he's kind of in some way, you know, taken revenge, I guess, even though that doesn't seem to be the kind of primary motivation at that point.

993
00:58:04.679 --> 00:58:10.260
I thought that was just good, just solid, fun, enjoyable, you know.

994
00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:15.719
I do have to say that Netflix has started playing wolf in the fold now, and that exotic bow dance was on my screen.

995
00:58:16.019 --> 00:58:39.059
So unfortunately, this solid competent TV is about next week, however, next week, we also got the shot of Nomad spraying Ahura in the face on the closing credits in the still, you can't see it because you're watching the next episode, but the closing credits was just Nomad firing a beam at Ahura's face.

996
00:58:39.119 --> 00:58:42.179
And there's Jolene Blaylock there at the very end of the credits.

997
00:58:42.239 --> 00:58:47.280
You know how those robots go about on discovery, you know, what are they called?

998
00:58:47.280 --> 00:58:50.039
The dots, they're called dots, fabulous robots.

999
00:58:50.099 --> 00:58:52.860
They should have kept Nomad at the end of that episode.

1000
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:56.639
And you should just see them every now and again, floating past. vacuuming.

1001
00:58:56.699 --> 00:59:00.840
Just like vacuuming somewhere. doing some tolls, you know.

1002
00:59:00.900 --> 00:59:01.920
I mean, they've got the prop.

1003
00:59:01.980 --> 00:59:02.280
Why not?

1004
00:59:03.780 --> 00:59:05.579
Yeah, you're right.

1005
00:59:05.639 --> 00:59:06.900
That was really good.

1006
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:12.900
I'm not sure I enjoyed it as much as I did when I reviewed it on my website.

1007
00:59:12.960 --> 00:59:18.900
I was sort of watching Star Trek out of order like this, but I'd seen some pretty terrible TOSs.

1008
00:59:18.960 --> 00:59:26.460
I think the one I watched before, this was the one with all the evil kids in series 3, which is a loathsome episode.

1009
00:59:26.519 --> 00:59:29.519
So this automatically scored points there.

1010
00:59:29.579 --> 00:59:39.179
But yeah, in terms of characterisation, in terms of performance, uh, and sort of tackling its theme in an engaging way.

1011
00:59:39.239 --> 00:59:40.320
Yeah, I think that's a winner.

1012
00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:43.019
We've seen a lot worse. have.

1013
00:59:50.280 --> 00:59:56.039
Alright, it's the end of the episode, and it is time for us to find out where we're going next.

1014
00:59:56.219 --> 01:00:04.860
Obsession was my excellent choice this week, and so it's your turn, Joe, what series are we choosing from?

1015
01:00:04.980 --> 01:00:07.079
Well, then, we're on a roll.

1016
01:00:07.139 --> 01:00:09.599
We did that brilliant triple short trek.

1017
01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:11.400
We did a great DS9 episode.

1018
01:00:11.460 --> 01:00:13.920
We've done a really good TOS episode.

1019
01:00:13.980 --> 01:00:17.820
Something shit from series one and 2 of Star Trek The Next Generation, I would think.

1020
01:00:18.059 --> 01:00:20.940
Oh, I did say I was going to do that, didn't I?

1021
01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:21.659
Right, yes.

1022
01:00:21.960 --> 01:00:29.940
Let's clear everything and put in Star Trek the Next Generation and I'm not stopping until it's one of the 1st 2 seasons.

1023
01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:31.199
No, no, that's my condition.

1024
01:00:31.320 --> 01:00:33.000
Oh, 2 seasons.

1025
01:00:33.059 --> 01:00:33.300
Okay?

1026
01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:39.119
All right. settle in Okey dokey.

1027
01:00:39.179 --> 01:00:41.460
Oh, no, it's not, I'm afraid.

1028
01:00:41.519 --> 01:00:42.300
So we can't do it.

1029
01:00:42.360 --> 01:00:43.739
It is the best of both worlds.

1030
01:00:43.860 --> 01:00:45.179
Okay, my first.

1031
01:00:45.239 --> 01:00:47.460
No, it's the 1st 2 kids.

1032
01:00:47.519 --> 01:00:49.139
All right. fist.

1033
01:00:49.199 --> 01:00:51.900
Oh no, another brilliant episode.

1034
01:00:51.960 --> 01:00:52.739
En some Row.

1035
01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:53.880
Oh, no.

1036
01:00:53.940 --> 01:00:56.039
Maybe this was a dumb idea.

1037
01:00:58.440 --> 01:01:03.119
Come on, a matter of perspective, the most toys.

1038
01:01:03.179 --> 01:01:04.679
Oh, yes.

1039
01:01:04.739 --> 01:01:05.940
Oh my god.

1040
01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:07.079
Is it?

1041
01:01:07.079 --> 01:01:10.260
Is it code of honour?

1042
01:01:10.800 --> 01:01:14.039
No, but it is a Tashiara episode.

1043
01:01:14.099 --> 01:01:16.320
Season of Evil.

1044
01:01:16.320 --> 01:01:17.280
Episode 23.

1045
01:01:17.579 --> 01:01:18.599
Innovation.

1046
01:01:18.599 --> 01:01:19.440
Skin of evil.

1047
01:01:19.500 --> 01:01:20.639
Oh my god.

1048
01:01:20.699 --> 01:01:22.860
Did I send you the picture?

1049
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:35.820
So there was the Star Trek like cruise and it was, it was Denise Crosby running away screaming from someone who was cosplaying his arms.

1050
01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:37.139
Oh, yeah.

1051
01:01:37.260 --> 01:01:41.400
That was a great costume.

1052
01:01:41.460 --> 01:01:45.900
It was the same ball gown that they chopped up and turned into arms.

1053
01:01:45.960 --> 01:01:47.639
I can't believe we're doing skin of evil.

1054
01:01:47.699 --> 01:01:49.619
I'm going to let you on a little secret.

1055
01:01:49.679 --> 01:01:52.679
I know, I know this is a shitty episode.

1056
01:01:52.860 --> 01:01:54.599
I love it.

1057
01:01:54.719 --> 01:01:56.579
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1058
01:01:56.639 --> 01:01:57.719
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1059
01:01:57.780 --> 01:02:04.260
It wins the booby prize for the least convincing blob of blood in Star Trek.

1060
01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:06.599
What the hell is that thing on her cheek?

1061
01:02:06.719 --> 01:02:07.500
It's very strange.

1062
01:02:07.559 --> 01:02:13.739
That's the cheesiest funeral scene you're ever going to see. television ever.

1063
01:02:13.800 --> 01:02:19.019
I'll almost certainly tear up, I think, probably, but that's just me.

1064
01:02:19.079 --> 01:02:28.320
And it's got some great moments with Troy, that fucking weird monster that's very cheap, but somehow a bit scary.

1065
01:02:28.380 --> 01:02:29.460
I think as well.

1066
01:02:30.539 --> 01:02:32.639
Oh, what a joy.

1067
01:02:32.699 --> 01:02:34.380
Yeah, no, we have to do it.

1068
01:02:34.440 --> 01:02:34.980
Absolutely.

1069
01:02:35.039 --> 01:02:36.000
Brilliant.

1070
01:02:45.059 --> 01:02:49.079
You've been listening to entitled Star Trek Project with Joe Ford and Nathan Bottomley.

1071
01:02:49.079 --> 01:02:55.139
We're online at Untitled Star Trek project.com, where you can find subscription links and links to our social media accounts.

1072
01:02:55.260 --> 01:03:00.599
Our podcast artwork is by Kayla Ciceran and the theme was composed by Cameron Lamb.

1073
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:06.119
This episode was recorded on the 5th of March 2024 and released on the 15th of March.

1074
01:03:06.239 --> 01:03:10.920
We'll see you next time for Star Trek the Next Generation, Skin of Evil.

1075
01:03:29.039 --> 01:03:29.579
Wow.

1076
01:03:29.639 --> 01:03:30.780
Skin of evil.

1077
01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:31.500
Perfect.

1078
01:03:31.559 --> 01:03:32.820
Perfect.

1079
01:03:32.880 --> 01:03:34.679
Oh my god.

1080
01:03:34.739 --> 01:03:37.079
Gator, something's got me.

1081
01:03:37.679 --> 01:03:42.300
What about what about, um, what is it, KY jelly or something?

1082
01:03:42.360 --> 01:03:45.300
Like, like, that's tar, isn't it?

1083
01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:49.139
No, no, no, but remember they submerge frakes in it.

1084
01:03:49.199 --> 01:03:52.559
Like it Frakes's face is like one of the ad breaks and stuff.

1085
01:03:52.619 --> 01:03:54.179
Brilliant quote about that as well.

1086
01:03:54.179 --> 01:03:55.320
Yeah.

1087
01:03:55.320 --> 01:04:00.179
LeVar Burn turned to him afterwards and said, Fraser, you're mad. would have done that.

1088
01:04:01.800 --> 01:04:04.500
He's trying to impress at this point, you know?

1089
01:04:04.559 --> 01:04:05.699
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1090
01:04:05.760 --> 01:04:06.840
Well, it worked for him.

1091
01:04:06.900 --> 01:04:08.699
It, you know, it's a very long career.

1092
01:04:08.820 --> 01:04:17.280
It's working about Denise Crosby leaving as well and like some of the quotes that, you know, god damn it, what did I do?

1093
01:04:17.340 --> 01:04:23.219
I don't think she regrets it, but I don't think she thought it was going to be a success either.

1094
01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:24.300
Yeah.

1095
01:04:24.300 --> 01:04:25.139
She did a lot.

1096
01:04:25.199 --> 01:04:31.739
I mean, I might actually pull up her IMDb and sort of point out some of the work she did afterwards because she's been busy.

1097
01:04:31.800 --> 01:04:32.820
I see.

1098
01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:34.739
Yeah, she should.

1099
01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:36.239
I watched her on a brilliant.

1100
01:04:36.300 --> 01:04:39.659
We're watching with Mark and my friend Lucy.

1101
01:04:39.719 --> 01:04:43.380
We're watching very slowly because Lucy only comes around every a couple of weeks.

1102
01:04:43.440 --> 01:04:54.659
An episode of Dexter each time she comes around and she was like Dr. Death in one episode where she was administering a too higher dosage and murdering patients.

1103
01:04:54.719 --> 01:04:57.360
And God bless her.

1104
01:04:57.420 --> 01:05:10.079
She, she goes back to her flat, Denise Crosby, and um, she's got this weird relationship with the cat, like she's this lonely catwoman, and she's going, oh, Mr. Frickles, I love you.

1105
01:05:10.139 --> 01:05:11.519
And then Dexter knocks her out.

1106
01:05:11.579 --> 01:05:22.559
And honest to God, she's completely naked in this scene with just a bit of shrink wrap around her sort of midrift. and she plays out the whole scene naked.

1107
01:05:22.619 --> 01:05:23.760
It's brilliant.

1108
01:05:23.820 --> 01:05:24.360
Yeah.

1109
01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:25.860
Bless her.

1110
01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:26.340
Awesome.

1111
01:05:26.400 --> 01:05:29.039
Oh, I'm glad that you should do anything for a paycheque.

1112
01:05:29.099 --> 01:05:30.780
At this point.

1113
01:05:31.079 --> 01:05:37.980
But she's certainly, she's certainly traded in on the Star Trek now, though, because she does more convention appearances than anyone.

1114
01:05:38.039 --> 01:05:39.360
Yeah, yeah.

1115
01:05:39.420 --> 01:05:41.340
No, well, we love her.

1116
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:42.059
She's tremendous.

1117
01:05:42.119 --> 01:05:42.780
She's brilliant.

1118
01:05:42.840 --> 01:05:44.219
But, uh, more or so.

1119
01:05:44.280 --> 01:05:46.260
Yeah, that'll be a brilliant commentary.

1120
01:05:46.380 --> 01:05:47.219
Yeah, yeah.

1121
01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:48.300
Well, we haven't done.

1122
01:05:48.360 --> 01:05:49.199
Oh, we did justice.

1123
01:05:49.260 --> 01:05:55.440
Yeah, she's been, remember the picture on the, on the, um, for justice.

1124
01:05:55.500 --> 01:06:05.219
There's that picture where it's her and Troy standing on either side of a man wearing nappies, like unattractive white guy from the planet Justice wearing a nappy.

1125
01:06:05.579 --> 01:06:09.360
Yeah, yeah, it's got a bit of moose knuckle happening there.

1126
01:06:09.420 --> 01:06:17.099
And she's looking off camera at her age of kind of going, can you just get me the fuck out of this stupid show?

1127
01:06:17.579 --> 01:06:23.099
Oh, I'll get to talk about the fact that this wasn't the last episode she shot as well.

1128
01:06:23.159 --> 01:06:26.039
Yeah, she waved the one where she.

1129
01:06:26.099 --> 01:06:26.880
Yeah, yeah.

1130
01:06:26.940 --> 01:06:27.780
From behind.

1131
01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:28.500
It's really obvious.

1132
01:06:28.559 --> 01:06:29.280
It's adorable.

1133
01:06:29.579 --> 01:06:33.179
Oh, there's so many talking boys on that one.

1134
01:06:33.239 --> 01:06:36.360
I think that one's going to be an easy and easy one to talk about.

1135
01:06:36.420 --> 01:06:37.320
Yeah, I think so too.

1136
01:06:37.500 --> 01:06:40.500
Like, but that wasn't hard to talk about.

1137
01:06:40.559 --> 01:06:42.659
But because it's a lot of men talking in rooms.

1138
01:06:42.719 --> 01:06:44.099
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1139
01:06:44.159 --> 01:06:44.639
Yeah.

1140
01:06:44.699 --> 01:06:45.420
Yeah.

1141
01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:47.880
Yeah, this was good.

1142
01:06:47.940 --> 01:06:48.960
Like it had a thing.

1143
01:06:49.019 --> 01:06:49.860
It had an R.

1144
01:06:49.920 --> 01:06:54.119
Yeah, it had things to do. as well.

1145
01:06:54.179 --> 01:06:55.139
Yeah, yeah.