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Hey, Joe. Hi.

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So, this week, we're watching Star Trek Picard, and it's the 6th episode of Picard that we've done, so we've done 2 episodes of series one.

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We've done 2 episodes of series 2 and we've done one episode of series three.

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And so this is series two, episode six, two of one, which is directed by Jonathan Frakes using a huge array of drones and things.

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And it was broadcast on the 7th of April 2022 and it's set on the 12th to the 13th of April 2024.

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So it said in the past, as it happens.

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What did you think?

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I mean, there was some pace for this, you know, but I thought his direction for Kurtzman Trek, Freight's direction was actually fairly stately in this one, you know, not, it wasn't like, you know, the discovery episodes where I'm taking medication just to get through them.

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I'm coming to the conclusion, the more we do season 2 that despite many strengths, it's probably the weakest of the 3 Picard seasons, I think one's more interesting because it's setting up and it goes to some really dark places. 3 is obviously the populous season where they stopped listening to Patrick Stewart and I was wrong.

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He said, all right, I should have brought back Marina.

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And they bring back all the characters.

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Obviously everybody loves that series.

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So this is this is our middle ground.

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So it's probably our most quintessential Picard season because it ain't setting it up.

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It ain't finishing it.

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It's the one it's the sort of filler in the middle.

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And interestingly, this episode is bang in the middle of season two, which also feels a little bit like filler to me. despite having some really nice character scenes.

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I've said to you on a message that if this didn't have Alison Peele coming out in that sumptuous red dress, belting out that number in spectacular.

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She's in silhouette and suddenly gets a huge spotlight on her and she's right above the whole party.

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I don't know that I would remember too much about this episode in the grand scheme of the season.

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I remember the party and I do remember the song, obviously, because I think it's one of the highlights of the episode and of the show and of the franchise.

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It's a great moment.

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But what I didn't remember is, in fact, that this isn't entirely about the party, and the party actually starts in the previous episode, which is called Fly Me to the Moon.

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And so Gerati goes to the party at the end of episode 5 and she's captured and we get the reveal that she's allowed herself or that she's somehow become assimilated by the Borg queen as she's dying.

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And we see that in a flashback and we see her captured and chained up, which is where we see her at the start of the episode.

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And then here we spend a heap of time at the end, setting up episode seven.

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So we had, I think, the opportunity to tell the part of the story that was about the party and to give that a beginning, a middle, and an end, but instead the lure of serialisation and the lure of the cliffhanger, I think, actually spoils it slightly, whereas I think it would have been stronger if we'd had party episode this week, you know, weird mindscape episode in Picard's head the following week.

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I got very confused because you told me.

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This is the episode with the party.

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This is the episode.

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So previously on the side, I was like, oh, God, I've put the wrong episode on.

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The party was last week.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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But I think that when it starts, like episodes one and 2 and 3 are all distinct stages of the story, remember?

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Really great. all 3 of those.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And they're really strong and they have a central idea.

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And I think that's where we go with the serialisation in series 3 where each episode has a beginning, a middle, and an end, whereas this is still operating like Game of Thrones operates or something like that.

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Inching it along a little bit each week.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, so for instance, here, I think there's a series of scenes with Adam Sung and Corey, who was Soji last year, and like, I'm not sure that that subplot works in any particular way, it seems to be there.

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Oh, sort of out during those scenes.

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And I was like, I don't really even know the context of any of this.

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So can we go back to those fabulous regulars, please?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I mean, it seemed to be giving Issa something to do, you know, given that Soji isn't in this series.

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We see her in episode one, but we still want to use the actor and we want to use Brent.

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And so it just seemed to be there to give them something to do.

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And it wasn't that interesting.

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And like I think that plot inches along and actually comes to a pretty great climax and there is one very good scene, I think, in that plot, but it was kind of like it dilutes the focus on the party, which would have made it more interesting, I think.

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Do you think what I said to you off, Mike, was wrong?

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I think I might be on the money when I say this 10 episode season has about 6 episodes worth of plot, but it's got really great regular characters in it.

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So they sort of get away with 2 episodes because they do some character stuff that's really interesting, the relationship between 7 and Raffi, and just, you know, the wonderful relationship between Rios and the doctor.

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There's not sort of like interesting character stuff happening.

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But that does still leave you with a deficit of 2 episodes worth of story where you've just sort of got to run on the spot a bit and just do something empty but interesting.

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And I felt, I did feel a little bit of that here.

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Yeah, I mean, this is a very short episode. because half the party was last week.

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Yeah, well, not quite half the party because everyone arrives at the party this week except Gerati who arrives last week.

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But I'm not super sold on the structure where we keep going forward to seeing Picard injured and then going back to the party before he gets injured.

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And again, I think that's setting up the next episode, really, rather than helping us tell the story of this episode.

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So, so I'm not sure that I'm right.

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But my feeling is that they've kind of not really done a great job of the serialisation here and that that's mostly the problem.

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And so I think that if you had more distinct episodes that had a clear focus because I think that's the problem with series one as well.

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Like, we've done episodes of series one where everyone's plot gets inched along a bit, but the episode itself doesn't seem to be about anything.

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And that's certainly a mode.

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That's what soap operas do.

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That's what Game of Thrones does.

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That's what it's trying to do.

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It's not trying to do this, but failing, but I just think it's not a good approach, really.

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But in one, there was a feeling of that crew coming together week by week.

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There were characters being introduced throughout the series that were getting focussed as you went along whilst the plot moved along.

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And I think one came to a really quite spectacular climax and really moving ending, the whole Picardon day stuff, fabulous space battles.

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There was all sorts going on at the end of that season.

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Whereas I think this series starts off sort of running the 1st 2 or 3 episodes like that episode in the alternative universe is just a banger.

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The 2nd you get back in time to earth, it is like the voyage home, but it's 7 hours long.

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And we did the last episode, didn't we?

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And whilst there's a couple of bits that stick in my mind about it, I think the thing I came away mostly thinking was, yeah, I think as Simon Earth may have done this better more entertainingly.

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So I don't know that it comes to much.

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There's the Picard and Q stuff, but that doesn't really get any focus here at all this week.

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So we sort of abandon that at this point.

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And the more fun relationships.

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I've already mentioned 7 and Rafi, Rios and the doctor.

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There's like tiny little mentions of that, but that isn't really given in their focus here either.

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So things are sort of picked up and put down.

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They're not sort of walked along.

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What I do think really works, though, is the relationship between the Borg Queen and Agnes is great.

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And of course, the ball queen.

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What's the woman's name?

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She's worshipping.

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She's wonderful, just so good.

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She's the most cashball queen you've ever seen.

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She's sitting there with her arm round a gun.

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You're right, love, yeah. that's exactly what I wanted you to do Yeah, she's brilliant.

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Like really properly good.

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And the way that that's directed by Frakes is awesome.

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Like the way that she appears and disappears in shot and the way that they converse with each other and stuff is really, really brilliant.

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Like, that's an excellent scene.

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I think there's an excellent scene between Picard and Renee Picard, his ancestor, the astronaut who is going to go on the Europa mission, which I think is really very good.

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It's very rightly, it's like a very TV writer kind of scene, but it's just very well played by both of them.

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And it gives Stuart a new approach.

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He doesn't go in doing the normal Picard thing in it.

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And I think it's really warm and very sweet and it's a very human way of solving this space problem.

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So I thought that was really effective as well.

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So I do think there are real strengths to this episode and apart from the musical number, but I'm just not sure it hangs together as an episode, but it's over quite quickly.

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You know, one of the things I really love about the ball queen this season is, you know me.

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I'm not really that sold on Alice Kriegs and Susanna Thompson's, you know, corpse, ice cream, not mine.

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Please go see our first. what was it called?

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What was he?

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What was the movie called again?

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1st contact episode.

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You'll see hear all of Nathan and Fraser's bizarre kinks in that episode.

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Um, is that I really like this sassy.

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Very casual, queen, who's still evil as hell.

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And she did play the regular ball queen at the start of the season, you know, when she was the ball queen.

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Now she's in Agnes's head.

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It's sort of like a hybrid of her and Agnes, isn't it?

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Because Agnes is scatty and a bit.

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It's really well judged, I think, and a lot more fun than the ball queen normally is.

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I'm really pleased.

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And, you know, we lost the actress, didn't we?

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I'm really pleased that she had this season. of her just having the best.

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Did you see her on Instagram, taking pictures, taking selfies of everybody in that bloody makeup, you know?

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So enthusiastic, like so happy to be there.

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It was just terrific.

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It was really fantastic, I think, to see.

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My last stab of serialisation is that this is why I don't go back and watch Picard very often or discovery.

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It's because if I, I can't put on a midseason episode.

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I don't know where I am, you know, and that's my problem because I'm not really in tune with how television is these days. certainly genre television, which tells these big long, you know, books in chapters.

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But there are episodes which are standalones because those 1st couple very much are.

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I think every season of Picard has this mid-season.

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What should we call it?

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I want to say Lao, Saunter, Longer, you know, slow walk towards the climax, you know.

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Yeah, and that's kind of a shame because it means I'm not as exposed to it.

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And we will talk about this.

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There's really great stuff in here.

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But, you know, I put this on and the previously on, had all of these fucking plot points coming at me at 15 miles an hour and I'm like, what?

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Because you remember what they were.

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It was like a box sake.

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You know, we'll do an original series next week and be like, oh, okay, on the bridge, right?

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setting up the episode, lovely.

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I'm just old.

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That's the problem.

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No, no, we're literally not watching this the right way.

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I mean, television like this, which is on a streamer, is entirely designed for people who are going to tune into it every week and properly watch every episode.

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Do you know, did it get an audience?

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I don't know.

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I should look into that. don't know.

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But, you know, like I think if I was to decide to sit down and watch series 2 of Star Trek Picard, I think I would enjoy the experience, but it's a 10 hour commitment in a way that watching an episode of Star Trek, the Next Generation just isn't.

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Excuse me, you've got a bit of time off coming up, all right?

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You've got more than 10 hours to spare. do.

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Well, one thing we can say is it has gained an audience today, you and me.

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Should we watch it?

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Yep.

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I think we should.

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I will count us in.

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

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Will you pay attention, please, because there's a lot happening in this pre-tiles.

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It's impossible to understand.

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Actually, in retrospect, I think I can see why all of these scenes are actually in it.

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Um, and we see the alternative, you know, the Confederation there, and we see Q went back in time and changed the present.

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When was it?

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Like it is telling the story so far quite well, introducing Talon, who is a really odd character.

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Like, why do we have all of Brady playing someone else this...

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We just see your little pretty boy there for a second, but he's not in the season, so that's just his little, his one shot of the episode.

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Oh no, he is in this episode.

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He's at the party briefly.

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Paying attention.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Because remember he gets killed in episode 2 when he gets shot because he's an alien.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And of course, he's better.

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Like, um, uh, Q brings him back at the end.

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That's the sort of happy one.

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You just can't leave Brent Spiner alone, can they?

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Brad, come on.

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The ratings are flagging.

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So this is his 2nd song, and of course, he's played, this is the 2nd song that he does in Picard, and he's played a song, obviously, in series 4 of Enterprise as well.

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So he plays a lot of them.

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Can't get over how striking John Delancey looks in this.

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Yeah, she looks great.

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With the beard and everything. to make myself old for you, big God.

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So you don't feel bad.

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Yeah, well, I mean, we recently did tapestry, and we said that this series doesn't, this particular series of Picard never happens if not for tapestry, because tapestry does that personal relationship.

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I'll tell you what, there are great scenes between Picard and Q this season.

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I think tapestry may have done it a bit more succinctly though.

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Well, yeah, but better, possibly.

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Well, it's nice to see it. revisited later.

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And certainly that final shot where Q and Picard hug.

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Looker, Alice and Pearl's test.

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Did you see her then?

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This is the flashback with her being assimilated.

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That's it.

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She's got her nanoprobes well into her.

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Yeah.

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So, and then she dies.

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Of course, the ball queen dies, but we didn't know she had done that.

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You know what?

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They've been paying attention to Farscape, you know, where Scorpius was in in Brown's mind all the time and stuff like that.

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No, none of that, no, none of that means anything to me.

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How could that mean nothing to you?

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Yeah.

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No, I've never heard of it.

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Um, so yeah, this is this sort of thing where this sort of framing device where we see Picard injured and then we see him taken to the clinic, um, to, um, to raise this clinic.

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And, you know, the time gets shorter and shorter and stuff as time goes by, look, how beautiful all of Brady looks.

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Can I just say far out, she's stunning.

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Um, I actually really like this interaction as well, uh, because Talon realises that um, Picard is in love with Laris, and then he lies to her about that, and then she goes, yes, No, well, now I know what it looks like when you lie.

207
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She's one of those people from Assignment Earth, isn't she?

208
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She steps through the door in the last episode and says, well, my work here is done.

209
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That's right She's a watcher.

210
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Yeah, yeah.

211
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So she's a real.

212
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Please, you're in my dreams every night.

213
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He's sort of doing his array of accents in this as well.

214
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Did you know?

215
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He does a little bit of the English.

216
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It has a little bit of the Mexican.

217
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Can we very quickly talk about Alison Peele?

218
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Because I set you off, Mike.

219
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She truly is slumming it in Pizzard series 2 because her CV is phenomenal.

220
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Just wait one sec, wait one sec.

221
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There's one second.

222
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Just wait one sec.

223
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The thing that the Borg queen says captured on purpose, that's a great plan, and it looks like she talks about how Girardi's been captured and locked up up in this scene in order to get access to the control room, but it also talks about her being captured on purpose.

224
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You know, the Borg queen and the Girardi are capturing each other on purpose as well.

225
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Sorry, just says a couple meanings.

226
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So, relaxed.

227
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Her legs are crossed.

228
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She's leaning back in the city. wonderful.

229
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She's having a great time.

230
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Yeah, I was just going to say that like, you know, pills work with Aaron Sawkin, a big name.

231
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I know you're not keen, but a big name in television.

232
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She goes on to work with M. Night Shaman.

233
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But the big hitters. like her one line of her CV in Star Trek.

234
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Unfortunately, it's like the lesser line of her CV.

235
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She's great.

236
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No, she is terrific.

237
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She's just tremendous.

238
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Look at her breasts there.

239
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Holy crap.

240
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I don't usually notice that sort of thing, but I mean, at least.

241
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Yeah, she looks awesome.

242
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But just the way that the, that, um, that we shoot, you know, the boar queen appearing and disappearing and her interactions with the boar queen is so clever and so well done.

243
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And there's no special effects involved.

244
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It is just a clever director doing it, you know, there she was in the shot.

245
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The camera just panned across and there was the bog.

246
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Can I take another cold shot at serious 3 though, quickly?

247
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Because I was reminded once again watching this.

248
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What a brilliant cast of characters they have put together in Picard.

249
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I love Agnes.

250
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I love Rios.

251
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I love Raffi and I love seven.

252
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And yes, fine.

253
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It's great to bring those old geriatrics back in the last series for one last hurrah.

254
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I would have rather personally.

255
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I would have rather have seen them go out with this cast.

256
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I think they're really really great.

257
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I do too.

258
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Well, and I miss Evan, you know, um, because I just thought he was adorable.

259
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Oh God, what's her name?

260
00:19:31.980 --> 00:19:36.000
Ah, you just said, the one from Tasha Lim, her.

261
00:19:36.059 --> 00:19:38.220
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all of Brady. yeah.

262
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All abrasious.

263
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Yeah, they're all crazy.

264
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I mean, she's briefly in series three, I think.

265
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She appears at the beginning.

266
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I mean, I would have had that hot Romulan join the crew from series one as well if I'd had a choice. no, yeah, no, that's Evan. think he's adorable.

267
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The one thing they got bang on was that, was that that regular cast, I think.

268
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Yeah, yeah.

269
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The storytelling, I've got issues in all kinds of places. the place.

270
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They cast charismatic leads and gave them interesting characters.

271
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And it's the old Star Trek thing.

272
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The classic Star Trek thing of you could put any combination of those characters together and they've got great chemistry.

273
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The other thing, too, that I miss is this music and these opening credits as well.

274
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So, yeah, these, it's wonderful.

275
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And I miss that from the 3rd series as well.

276
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Like, I think the 3rd series was inevitable, and I think it is great.

277
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Is it the next gen fame in the last series then?

278
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It's the 1st contact theme.

279
00:20:35.579 --> 00:20:39.480
Yeah, the 1st contact theme, and only in the closing credits.

280
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Notice Terry Mantelis gets a opening credit, an executive producer opening credit, and he's the one who's largely responsible for series 3 of them.

281
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You telling me that Terry is responsible for pill being out and Certis being in?

282
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My guess is that we get peel for 2 series because she's too big.

283
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That's night, a movie, you say, right, I'm going.

284
00:21:05.819 --> 00:21:13.980
So they write they write Rios and Agnes out this series, don't they?

285
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And is that because they knew what they were doing the next year already or what?

286
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I did see some backlash to that, though.

287
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Obviously, I know 3 was popular, but I remember there was a little bit of backlash of, oh, we're just getting to like these people.

288
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Yeah, are they going?

289
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Yeah.

290
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I agree.

291
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I mean, it's not hard to like Rios, just look into his eyes for 2.5 seconds.

292
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It's beautiful.

293
00:21:33.779 --> 00:21:36.660
Oh, I thought this was a pretty well executed party.

294
00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:40.559
You know, there's lots of extras on the screen. some very fabulous art and lighting.

295
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I, you know, there's little good character moments all the way through, like Raffi refusing a drink, like she's offered a drink and she refuses it, and that's kind of interesting.

296
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The interaction between Rios and Raffi is very good.

297
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I love that bit.

298
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Yeah.

299
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I love it.

300
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Yeah.

301
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Yeah.

302
00:22:00.420 --> 00:22:06.359
Like he's already talking about staying behind, you know, like she says, you know, don't fall in love with someone here.

303
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Don't go back there.

304
00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:11.519
I liked it when Rafi talked about 7 as well.

305
00:22:11.579 --> 00:22:15.779
Yeah, about all the package that comes with being with a book.

306
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X Borg.

307
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It's that moment where she says, no, no.

308
00:22:19.619 --> 00:22:35.279
The implants are heavy and it's nice to see her not carrying, because she's at the party relaxing, having a drink, laughing with strangers, being normal, you know, not being a Borg for the 1st time for a long time. stiff Jerry Ryan from Voyager, don't we?

309
00:22:35.339 --> 00:22:37.440
Because, you know, Deadpans, she's very, very funny.

310
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And it means when the emotion breaks out, it really hits us.

311
00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:45.059
But the more relaxed Jerry Ryan of Picard. wonderful.

312
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She's so sexy. bloody hell.

313
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She's great.

314
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She's really good, like properly good and still funny and awkward.

315
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Remember the scene where, you know, her and Raffi are taking the photos.

316
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Like she's a massive dork and doesn't get the language, right?

317
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You know, but is much more relaxed.

318
00:23:04.619 --> 00:23:12.599
And I would have been disappointed had she still been like 7 of nine, you know, because how many years have passed, you know, 20 years or something?

319
00:23:12.660 --> 00:23:17.819
And of course she's going to be different and have learned to relax and learn to be human.

320
00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:18.960
That was the whole point, wasn't it?

321
00:23:19.019 --> 00:23:23.579
I was super pleased as well that she did stick around for 3 and I thought she was great in three.

322
00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:26.039
But again, that was just a safe bet.

323
00:23:26.099 --> 00:23:27.359
It was a safe bet, wasn't it?

324
00:23:27.420 --> 00:23:30.420
Bringing seven, you know, as a big love into 90s trek.

325
00:23:30.539 --> 00:23:38.819
Sure, but having having seven, having Raffi in there as well in that final series too, I was pretty pleased to see that. just wanted to keep them all, though.

326
00:23:39.779 --> 00:23:41.940
I can't get over.

327
00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:46.619
So like this, like this, she's so funny.

328
00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:48.539
This ball queen is so great.

329
00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:50.339
She's not sexy nation.

330
00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:51.779
No, she's not sexy.

331
00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:52.680
She's not glistening.

332
00:23:52.740 --> 00:23:55.799
She's because she's interacting with Agnes.

333
00:23:55.859 --> 00:23:58.019
And that's not a sexual relationship.

334
00:23:58.019 --> 00:24:07.200
And then in slightly longer shot, she's absent, just to remind us that no one else at the party can see her.

335
00:24:07.259 --> 00:24:08.940
Like it's all so well done.

336
00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:13.200
It is, you know, I will say again though, and I know you haven't watched it.

337
00:24:13.259 --> 00:24:22.079
It is exactly what they used to do in Farscape all the time, was have Ben Browder talking to nobody, and then they'd cut into a shot with her, you know, it is it's a staple.

338
00:24:22.140 --> 00:24:23.339
I've seen it on a few times.

339
00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:24.240
He's done very well.

340
00:24:24.299 --> 00:24:25.440
Oh, yeah, yeah.

341
00:24:25.500 --> 00:24:28.079
Battlestone Galactica as well, with Sid, remember?

342
00:24:28.140 --> 00:24:29.880
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

343
00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:31.619
Nathan, can I get you a whiskey?

344
00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:40.140
So this is the scene that we talked about earlier, which is just the scene with Rios and Raffi.

345
00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:44.039
And I just think that the 2 of them together are so fantastic.

346
00:24:44.099 --> 00:24:47.940
And like he is absolutely different.

347
00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:51.660
And so what, this is kind of foreshadowing what he does at the end of the season.

348
00:24:51.779 --> 00:24:53.880
Of course he's different.

349
00:24:53.940 --> 00:24:57.000
He's caught the eye of that hot doctor, for goodness sake.

350
00:24:57.059 --> 00:24:59.160
Oh, and the matches now.

351
00:24:59.220 --> 00:25:02.339
Oh my god, that's so that's so adorable.

352
00:25:02.339 --> 00:25:03.839
It's so utterly Star Trek.

353
00:25:03.900 --> 00:25:07.920
You know, he's geeking at over the matches and she observes how happy he is.

354
00:25:07.980 --> 00:25:09.779
And I don't think we have seen that smile.

355
00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:14.640
Like, I don't think we've seen Santiago do that smile before as Rios.

356
00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:16.140
This is new, I think.

357
00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:19.559
There's a very natural intimacy between the 2 of them as well.

358
00:25:19.619 --> 00:25:23.819
Like, he does, he kisses her in a, but she blew out his match just.

359
00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:24.359
I don't know.

360
00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:27.000
Something sparkles with this crew.

361
00:25:27.059 --> 00:25:29.039
It's really good, isn't it?

362
00:25:29.099 --> 00:25:39.059
I mean, I do much prefer Raffi as well when she isn't suffering drug withdrawals and relationship issues and 0 my god, she just has some fun this year, doesn't she?

363
00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:40.740
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

364
00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:41.279
I agree.

365
00:25:41.339 --> 00:25:43.440
I do think that that's nicer.

366
00:25:43.500 --> 00:25:51.420
And I did feel a little bit disappointed when series 3 came along and she was so miserable at the beginning of it. like she was still addicted.

367
00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:57.779
Yeah, look, it just his look while he's talking about her when he's talking about Teresa.

368
00:25:57.839 --> 00:25:58.500
It's so good.

369
00:25:58.559 --> 00:25:59.400
He's so good.

370
00:25:59.460 --> 00:26:01.259
Little gleam in his eye.

371
00:26:01.380 --> 00:26:02.940
We've all seen that gleam, you know.

372
00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:04.319
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

373
00:26:04.380 --> 00:26:07.259
Oh, shit, well, you meet someone for a different century.

374
00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:09.180
The relationship is built on lies.

375
00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:11.640
I wonder, doesn't she work it out?

376
00:26:12.420 --> 00:26:20.279
Yeah, it's actually quite good, I think, because that becomes really, you know, important thing later.

377
00:26:20.339 --> 00:26:23.339
So look at look at Jerry too at the party.

378
00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:25.920
Like, oh, and Rios kisses her on the forehead.

379
00:26:25.980 --> 00:26:29.819
But Jerry, the party enjoying herself and there's Elnor.

380
00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:32.160
Oh, Prissy Eldor.

381
00:26:32.220 --> 00:26:33.240
I'll say it for you.

382
00:26:33.299 --> 00:26:35.460
Yeah, yeah. and look.

383
00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:37.740
Oh, again, Michelle doing such a great job.

384
00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:39.539
Like she's just suddenly reminded.

385
00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:49.019
I do have to make this point, Rick Berman, that this is how you make Jerry Ryan look stunningly beautiful without putting her in a skin tight catsuit, okay?

386
00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:50.640
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

387
00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:52.200
Yeah.

388
00:26:52.259 --> 00:26:53.640
It's funny, isn't it?

389
00:26:53.700 --> 00:26:59.759
Like, there are more women than men. in this group at the moment, aren't there?

390
00:26:59.880 --> 00:27:00.660
Good.

391
00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:01.799
I wonder if they're likeable.

392
00:27:01.859 --> 00:27:05.460
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. which is actually pretty great. holiday, obviously.

393
00:27:05.579 --> 00:27:09.180
Alpha males in enterprise and well, half the cast of Voyager.

394
00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:11.160
The man number the problem.

395
00:27:11.220 --> 00:27:21.839
So when Picard is talking about Renee Renee's drinking heavily and they're worried about her and Picard says, oh, she does check her mobile device quite a bit and Talon just says, no, we all do that.

396
00:27:23.819 --> 00:27:25.980
Look the size of it.

397
00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:28.319
She's got a massive mobile phone, mind you?

398
00:27:28.380 --> 00:27:29.099
Hang on.

399
00:27:29.160 --> 00:27:30.779
This is the past now, isn't it?

400
00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:31.440
Not the future.

401
00:27:31.500 --> 00:27:33.119
This is our past.

402
00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:36.299
It's 2 years in the future at the time of broadcast.

403
00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:39.119
Was this the present when it was being shot and put out?

404
00:27:39.180 --> 00:27:44.160
So it's put out in 2022, but it said in 2024.

405
00:27:44.339 --> 00:27:45.660
Oh, risky.

406
00:27:45.660 --> 00:27:47.099
Star Trek Picard.

407
00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:47.400
Okay.

408
00:27:47.460 --> 00:27:48.960
The near future.

409
00:27:49.019 --> 00:27:51.539
They absolutely have to do it.

410
00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:56.339
And there are wildfires in LA, which they correctly predict because they happen all the time.

411
00:27:56.400 --> 00:27:58.500
So...

412
00:27:58.619 --> 00:28:00.539
Please take a look at all of Brody.

413
00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:02.700
Patrick Stewart, you are punching, all right?

414
00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:06.779
Yeah, she's stunningly beautiful.

415
00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:08.400
She's great isn't she?

416
00:28:08.460 --> 00:28:12.779
And there's just a very mature chemistry between the 2 of them that I quite like.

417
00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:14.460
Yeah.

418
00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:16.920
I'd like to imagine that they're together.

419
00:28:16.980 --> 00:28:21.599
We given enough to kind of think that they might end up together.

420
00:28:21.660 --> 00:28:24.660
Is this the season where Wesley comes along at the end?

421
00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:25.559
Yeah.

422
00:28:25.619 --> 00:28:27.779
So, well, we are just in his casuals.

423
00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:28.500
Yeah.

424
00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:29.460
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

425
00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:32.819
Is he still, is he like a, the travel child for that point?

426
00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:33.420
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

427
00:28:33.420 --> 00:28:36.299
So we've got travellers, we've got time travellers from Assignment Earth.

428
00:28:36.299 --> 00:28:37.799
They're all in next season.

429
00:28:37.859 --> 00:28:39.599
Omnipotent beings.

430
00:28:41.339 --> 00:28:48.299
Oh, okay, so Gerardi's been so busy with her chat with the Borg queen that she hasn't been doing her job.

431
00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:52.140
I didn't talk about it earlier.

432
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:54.240
There was a really lovely, tense moment.

433
00:28:54.299 --> 00:29:03.539
Well, we were talking about sort of locks up next to the Ball Queen, where she was adding the data for their cover stories so they could get into the party.

434
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:05.579
I thought that was really nicely done.

435
00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:06.720
It was a really tense moment.

436
00:29:06.779 --> 00:29:11.099
But I could have done with a bit more of that throughout the episode throughout this episode.

437
00:29:11.220 --> 00:29:12.900
I don't know.

438
00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:14.880
I just, I do like this character stuff.

439
00:29:14.940 --> 00:29:17.700
I do, but it does feel like we've just stopped.

440
00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:20.819
But I mean, the party is important.

441
00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:22.140
Like they've set it up.

442
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:28.079
So that was the Borg queen taking over the tree. in order to kiss Rios.

443
00:29:28.140 --> 00:29:29.940
That was a strong pull, you know.

444
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.240
You ever pull somebody that strongly?

445
00:29:33.299 --> 00:29:37.740
Well, I mean, she is the Borg queen as well, remember.

446
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:38.880
So she is stronger.

447
00:29:39.059 --> 00:29:41.819
You just got off with the ball queen.

448
00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:42.240
Well done.

449
00:29:42.420 --> 00:29:44.700
Put that on your scorecard.

450
00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:48.000
So this, I mean, this is the important thing.

451
00:29:48.059 --> 00:29:51.000
This party is the night before the Europa mission sets off.

452
00:29:51.059 --> 00:29:52.740
She's about to go into quarantine.

453
00:29:52.859 --> 00:30:01.559
Uh, but prior to the mission, she's still freaking out about the, um, some of the, uh, you know, the practice runs that they had.

454
00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:05.279
And she's about to storm off.

455
00:30:05.339 --> 00:30:07.559
It's about to go horribly wrong.

456
00:30:07.619 --> 00:30:13.799
And this is what all of Brady's all of Brady's character's been trying to prevent for 24 years and so on.

457
00:30:13.859 --> 00:30:20.700
And then Picard goes off and he says, I'm going to talk to her and um, Taylor says, what are you going to say?

458
00:30:20.759 --> 00:30:22.859
And he says, I'm not quite sure.

459
00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:28.259
And that leads up to this central scene, which I think is just great and has to happen at the party, I think.

460
00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:30.599
Brent, will you just get out of the way, please?

461
00:30:30.660 --> 00:30:31.859
You are stalling this episode.

462
00:30:31.980 --> 00:30:33.359
Yes, you really are.

463
00:30:33.420 --> 00:30:35.519
He's like, oh, do it.

464
00:30:35.579 --> 00:30:37.559
As long as I don't have to wear the fucking makeup again.

465
00:30:37.619 --> 00:30:38.099
Okay?

466
00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:39.480
Deal.

467
00:30:39.539 --> 00:30:42.839
I mean, did you see how many vodka she was down in, Renee?

468
00:30:42.900 --> 00:30:44.160
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

469
00:30:44.220 --> 00:30:45.839
Well Picard was commenting on it.

470
00:30:45.900 --> 00:30:48.299
Have we heard of Renee before this season?

471
00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:49.440
No.

472
00:30:49.500 --> 00:30:50.400
Oh, okay.

473
00:30:50.460 --> 00:30:51.660
Yeah, okay.

474
00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:53.700
Well, because it's 2022.

475
00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:56.519
So it's a somewhat distant ancestor.

476
00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:06.720
Obviously, Renee is a name that runs in the Picard family because he's nephew who burns to death in Star Trek generations.

477
00:31:06.779 --> 00:31:10.799
I do remember he was part of it, but I don't have a clue what soon was doing in that last episode.

478
00:31:11.579 --> 00:31:14.099
What's his out end game?

479
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:15.299
Like, what's his what's his deal?

480
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:21.720
So Q has come to him with a cure for his daughter's genetic condition.

481
00:31:21.779 --> 00:31:27.420
She's currently confined at home and can't go out because the touch of sunlight is deadly to her.

482
00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:37.980
And so Q has said, if you can prevent Renee from getting on board this ship, I will give you the cure.

483
00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:40.500
And so that's what's motivating him.

484
00:31:40.619 --> 00:31:50.039
And she's going to find out um, She's going to find out about all of that in this episode.

485
00:31:50.099 --> 00:31:55.079
So sorry to keep doing this, but why does he want to prevent her from going on the ship?

486
00:31:55.559 --> 00:32:02.460
Because the Europa mission is the thing that has been changed, that leads to the confederation.

487
00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:15.480
If she leaves, if she doesn't get on board Europa mission, the Europa mission finds a solution to the climate change problem, that is what besets the Confederation's version of Earth.

488
00:32:15.539 --> 00:32:21.000
That's a really great premise of a Star Trek episode.

489
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:26.579
But I mean, it is, that's exactly the point of it, though.

490
00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:28.559
It is a premise of a Star Trek episode.

491
00:32:28.859 --> 00:32:31.319
Maybe a 2 par at most.

492
00:32:31.380 --> 00:32:35.519
No, no, but I reckon because there's enough going on.

493
00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:38.279
And so I think this is really wonderful.

494
00:32:38.460 --> 00:32:43.740
So we need to get Picard out so that he can talk to Renee.

495
00:32:43.740 --> 00:32:57.839
Uh, and so the Borg queen helps to create this distraction by turning the power off and then obviously uh, getting uh, getting Agnes to actually do the distraction.

496
00:32:57.900 --> 00:33:01.740
There are images of nomad around here somewhere.

497
00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:02.940
You're joking.

498
00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:03.720
No.

499
00:33:03.779 --> 00:33:05.640
Is there a string?

500
00:33:05.700 --> 00:33:06.480
Did you notice the string?

501
00:33:06.539 --> 00:33:09.240
No, but nomad has been launched at this point.

502
00:33:09.299 --> 00:33:12.480
So there's a poster of nomad in the background somewhere.

503
00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:16.559
It's the sort of detail, Curls, where Trek gets very right.

504
00:33:16.619 --> 00:33:18.480
It's so good Oh boy.

505
00:33:18.539 --> 00:33:19.680
Come on.

506
00:33:19.740 --> 00:33:21.420
It's time for so long.

507
00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:23.220
Baby, take my hand.

508
00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:25.799
She is so good.

509
00:33:25.859 --> 00:33:27.660
And that's her.

510
00:33:27.779 --> 00:33:29.519
Like, that's definitely Alison Peele.

511
00:33:29.579 --> 00:33:32.579
It's like a vita coming out to the balcony, isn't it?

512
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:34.019
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

513
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:51.299
And what I really like is I actually buy this because she sings solo by herself, the band doesn't come in until later, and then, of course, the band, which is just full of great session musicians or whatever, picks it up and knows the song and knows what key it's in and just starts playing along.

514
00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:53.700
Do take a look at her CV.

515
00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:58.140
The amount of musical fear stuff that she has done. is extraordinary.

516
00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:02.460
This, if it's like a breeze in the park for her, compared to some of the stuff she's done.

517
00:34:02.460 --> 00:34:10.920
I really think there just should be more songs, like more Star Trek things with musical numbers in them because it's fucking great.

518
00:34:10.980 --> 00:34:15.420
Really great about it as well, though, is this is a side to Agnes, but we don't.

519
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:17.579
She normally she's awkward and silly.

520
00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:18.780
Do you know what I mean?

521
00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:24.480
She comes out, sexy, confident, you know, this is the queen, Agnes.

522
00:34:24.539 --> 00:34:24.840
Yeah.

523
00:34:24.900 --> 00:34:26.579
It's great.

524
00:34:26.639 --> 00:34:37.500
But there's a twist, of course, because it looks like a moment of triumph and she actually kind of helps to fix the mission and you think and because this is so wonderfully done.

525
00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:45.960
So she finishes the song, she bows, and then the 2 of them come up into the frame, which is just suburb.

526
00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:50.639
Oh, what, so actress's name, she must have just been waiting underneath the camera there, right?

527
00:34:52.320 --> 00:35:01.739
But now it's enabled the Borg to take her over because all of the stress hormones have, you know, she's now been flooded with endorphins.

528
00:35:01.860 --> 00:35:02.820
All those are dolphins.

529
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:04.380
I'm coming through.

530
00:35:04.380 --> 00:35:06.420
I think Carl steered a ship for a while.

531
00:35:07.860 --> 00:35:10.199
No, wait, I'm in control.

532
00:35:10.260 --> 00:35:11.519
Not anymore.

533
00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:13.739
It's so good.

534
00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:17.519
And that shot. where she, suddenly you can see.

535
00:35:17.579 --> 00:35:19.860
Oh, yeah, because they do the eye thing as well.

536
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:21.480
It's terrifying.

537
00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:23.820
With her grinning like that and the black eyes.

538
00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:25.260
Yeah.

539
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:28.559
That easily the highlight of the episode, that.

540
00:35:28.619 --> 00:35:31.739
But then I think this scene is very good as well.

541
00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:35.519
And I think why it's good is it's just 2 people acting.

542
00:35:35.579 --> 00:35:38.460
It's just one person trying to persuade another one to do something.

543
00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:40.440
And it's the centre of the mission.

544
00:35:40.500 --> 00:35:43.920
This is the difference between the 2 pasts.

545
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.539
You're going to make fun of her accent.

546
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:47.699
Please no, all right.

547
00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:52.380
Please know how stationary the camera is right now whilst these 2 people are talking.

548
00:35:52.500 --> 00:35:54.300
Let's compare a contrast.

549
00:35:54.360 --> 00:36:00.179
That fucking discovery episode we watched the other day where it was zooming around the room, changing axles all the time.

550
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:02.219
It's moving very slowly.

551
00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:03.059
This is what I like.

552
00:36:03.119 --> 00:36:05.340
This is the old Jonathan from the drumhead days.

553
00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:07.440
Just stationary on the people.

554
00:36:07.500 --> 00:36:09.420
And yes, the accent, yes.

555
00:36:09.659 --> 00:36:12.780
Awfully, awfully uppercrossed.

556
00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:13.559
I must say.

557
00:36:13.619 --> 00:36:14.579
She's Australian.

558
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:15.480
She's from Melbourne.

559
00:36:15.780 --> 00:36:18.179
I mean, I thought she was English.

560
00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:21.780
I was convinced I just thought she was privileged. all.

561
00:36:22.260 --> 00:36:27.719
But what I like about this is Pecan doesn't come in and be imperious.

562
00:36:27.780 --> 00:36:28.980
Do you know what I mean?

563
00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:42.900
He comes in and he's just a security guard and he, what, he benefits from being old and he says something about being the wisest of the security guards, which I kind of like because she comments that he's very old for a security guard.

564
00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:49.800
And he's just kind to her and he admires her and he's not, do you know what I mean?

565
00:36:49.860 --> 00:36:51.599
He doesn't come from a higher position.

566
00:36:51.659 --> 00:36:53.280
He doesn't say I know better than you.

567
00:36:53.340 --> 00:36:57.179
He doesn't do any of that normal Picard stuff from next gen.

568
00:36:57.239 --> 00:36:59.039
He's just gentle with her.

569
00:36:59.099 --> 00:37:01.139
Well, such a wise move.

570
00:37:01.260 --> 00:37:05.639
Obviously, he is a quite an old man now, Patrick Stewart, yeah.

571
00:37:05.699 --> 00:37:16.079
To surround him by hot young, capable young people. doing all of the action, so he can just do what he does best, which is just perform, you know?

572
00:37:16.139 --> 00:37:21.300
And this is the sort of scene he would rock back in his TNG days.

573
00:37:21.420 --> 00:37:31.559
I love, she says I think fear is sometimes a warning that you can't do something and he says, no, no, no. makes you smile. just fear. makes you understand the risks.

574
00:37:31.619 --> 00:37:32.639
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

575
00:37:32.699 --> 00:37:35.039
I mean, we did a bit of that in tapestry, didn't we?

576
00:37:35.099 --> 00:37:36.539
Yeah.

577
00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:39.599
It's passing the lesson on.

578
00:37:39.659 --> 00:37:41.820
It's so nice.

579
00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:49.619
It's just, and look, the camera is moving slightly and we're cutting more frequently than we would have done in the 90s. marginally.

580
00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:51.059
Good grief.

581
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:52.500
Oh, that disgusting episode.

582
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:54.840
Cameras moving.

583
00:37:54.900 --> 00:37:56.760
Things are out of focus in the background.

584
00:37:56.820 --> 00:38:02.760
I think occasionally, you know, I put a roller coaster in the set and Jen, Jonathan sits there with the camera and goes around.

585
00:38:02.820 --> 00:38:04.019
Woo, you know.

586
00:38:06.420 --> 00:38:15.119
Yeah, now, if you are going to stop for an episode, yeah, have things like this that really show connections between the characters.

587
00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:16.619
Yeah, yeah.

588
00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:17.880
But this is central.

589
00:38:17.940 --> 00:38:20.639
Like, this is him fixing the problem in a way.

590
00:38:20.699 --> 00:38:26.340
Um, uh, you know, by getting her to agree to go on the mission.

591
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:27.900
This is episode six.

592
00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:31.800
She don't, the mission don't start till 10. you know?

593
00:38:32.579 --> 00:38:34.559
What do we do for the next 3 episodes?

594
00:38:34.619 --> 00:38:36.119
I can't remember.

595
00:38:36.179 --> 00:38:45.719
Well, next week is the, um, you know, flashback mindscape inside Picard's head while he's unconscious that we set up for the last 5 minutes of this episode.

596
00:38:46.500 --> 00:38:50.039
I say, I fell asleep while watching this at some point.

597
00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:52.440
And I woke up and that was on.

598
00:38:52.500 --> 00:38:56.099
Somebody was painting a wall and there was stained glass. what is going on here?

599
00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:58.139
What's this got to do with Renee?

600
00:38:58.260 --> 00:39:00.960
Yeah, I'm sure it all ties in.

601
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:03.659
Oh, I really love Soji.

602
00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:06.840
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

603
00:39:06.900 --> 00:39:10.260
So she is in episode one very briefly in a scene.

604
00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:15.960
Remember where it's sort of Gerati is kind of hopeless and stuff and and she's doing well.

605
00:39:16.019 --> 00:39:18.300
So we do get to see what happens to Soji.

606
00:39:18.360 --> 00:39:19.980
You know what our problem is, Nathan.

607
00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:26.460
We've got a big problem is that, you know, we do these Star Trek shows and half the time, half the cars, you know, we don't want to hang around with.

608
00:39:26.519 --> 00:39:30.239
We could happily say goodbye to them and we'd never be unhappy about that.

609
00:39:30.300 --> 00:39:35.340
Picard's got characters to spare that we love being around and they keep abandoning them.

610
00:39:35.460 --> 00:39:37.139
Yeah, yeah.

611
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:37.739
Yeah.

612
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:39.780
I mean, Discovery does that a little bit.

613
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:40.860
I think.

614
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:41.880
You know.

615
00:39:41.940 --> 00:39:45.000
Do you think they're as likeable when discoveries they are here?

616
00:39:45.059 --> 00:39:47.039
I think it's so bad. true.

617
00:39:47.099 --> 00:39:48.719
I like ash tile a lot.

618
00:39:48.780 --> 00:39:50.039
And he goes.

619
00:39:50.099 --> 00:39:51.599
Why is that, Matron?

620
00:39:51.659 --> 00:39:53.940
Yeah, he's not as nice as Rios, obviously.

621
00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:57.179
No one.

622
00:39:57.179 --> 00:39:58.800
Jesus Christ.

623
00:39:58.860 --> 00:40:01.500
That one with all the holograms of Vietnam.

624
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:02.579
I had a dream like that once.

625
00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:04.739
Yeah, yeah, he's so beautiful.

626
00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:07.019
Please do another accent.

627
00:40:07.380 --> 00:40:17.760
You were right though. cutting back to to sort of pretend there's a lot of jeopardy in this episode, cutting back to him on the floor here with the black. doesn't really work in this episode, does it?

628
00:40:17.820 --> 00:40:27.780
And maybe that's maybe it is because they couldn't, you know, they should have just held their bottle and said, this is a scene at a party where they all get to talk to one another and we're just doing that.

629
00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:29.219
We don't need jeopardy.

630
00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:33.360
So, you know, they're 30 minutes earlier, 15 minutes earlier.

631
00:40:33.420 --> 00:40:36.000
Yeah, because then it always up to this and yeah, fine.

632
00:40:36.059 --> 00:40:36.420
It is.

633
00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:38.940
I mean, Jesus, he's an old guy and he's just been hit by a car.

634
00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:42.659
That's pretty serious you know, it's called Star Trek Picard.

635
00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:43.860
We know he's going to be in episode 10.

636
00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:45.960
You know what?

637
00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:46.860
I love that thing.

638
00:40:46.920 --> 00:40:51.420
He's had some transplants and Teresa says, what?

639
00:40:51.539 --> 00:40:53.880
I think perhaps it's all of them?

640
00:40:54.300 --> 00:40:56.039
Do you know what?

641
00:40:56.039 --> 00:40:56.880
I would have loved.

642
00:40:56.940 --> 00:41:04.019
If Teresa had gone with them to the future, She could be the new dock session, and she'd be great, would she?

643
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:07.679
Oh, dear.

644
00:41:07.739 --> 00:41:09.840
I just love she's Hispanic, yeah?

645
00:41:09.900 --> 00:41:11.219
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

646
00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:14.159
I love strong Hispanic women in things, you know?

647
00:41:14.219 --> 00:41:32.219
Well, I mean, the great thing about it is that she has set this thing up and she is she is giving medical treatment to undocumented immigrants so that they don't have to, you know, kind of interact with the authorities and stuff.

648
00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:42.119
And so this is very now, particularly in, in, um, in the United States now where you've got ice going crazy and just deporting people, you know, who turn up for work and stuff like that.

649
00:41:42.179 --> 00:41:45.480
Um, so, so like she's great.

650
00:41:45.539 --> 00:41:49.199
And Rios actually calls it our community.

651
00:41:49.260 --> 00:41:50.400
Do you know what I mean?

652
00:41:50.460 --> 00:41:56.519
Like when he's, he's referring to um, the Latino people that she deals with in the in the clinic.

653
00:41:56.579 --> 00:41:59.579
He says they're our community, which I think is pretty great.

654
00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:00.780
And you know what?

655
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:06.960
They set it all up really well for him to go and I understand his decision and he's absolutely fallen in love.

656
00:42:07.739 --> 00:42:09.900
I'm not going to say it again.

657
00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:10.980
You know I'm going to say.

658
00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:13.440
I just want more of them, you know, and her as well.

659
00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:14.940
Yeah, yeah.

660
00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:19.559
Yeah, these scenes here between soon and what's her name in this?

661
00:42:19.559 --> 00:42:20.820
Corey.

662
00:42:20.820 --> 00:42:21.599
Corey.

663
00:42:21.659 --> 00:42:25.679
These are like the ball cube scenes in part in the 1st series.

664
00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:27.300
They cheat out of why are they here?

665
00:42:27.420 --> 00:42:33.960
yeah And the sort of the pacing then is more sluggish than it already was. right.

666
00:42:34.019 --> 00:42:36.360
So we have 11 minutes.

667
00:42:36.420 --> 00:42:45.420
So 11 minutes, it's 10 minutes to go in this, in this episode, and it's kind of like, um, we're, or we're out of the party completely.

668
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:46.559
We don't go back to the party.

669
00:42:46.619 --> 00:42:47.460
That's now over.

670
00:42:47.460 --> 00:42:51.659
And now we're setting up episode 7 and I just think that's a mistake.

671
00:42:51.719 --> 00:43:11.820
But there is one thing in this, um, in this thing, which I think is really great, which is the scene coming up where Corey looks through Sung's records and discovers that she is one of a long line of children that she doesn't know about that all died.

672
00:43:12.059 --> 00:43:13.320
What's her endgame this season?

673
00:43:13.380 --> 00:43:14.519
What happens to her?

674
00:43:14.699 --> 00:43:16.679
I can't remember, actually.

675
00:43:16.739 --> 00:43:18.179
No, I can't.

676
00:43:18.179 --> 00:43:19.440
We have seen the last episode.

677
00:43:19.500 --> 00:43:20.699
Does she go with Wesley?

678
00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:21.179
I don't know.

679
00:43:21.300 --> 00:43:23.039
Maybe she goes to Wesley.

680
00:43:23.099 --> 00:43:25.199
We did, we did do the last episode.

681
00:43:25.260 --> 00:43:27.719
Take any old stray, come along.

682
00:43:27.780 --> 00:43:28.559
Be a traveller.

683
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:32.880
I think she does, actually. she goes with Wesley at the end.

684
00:43:32.940 --> 00:43:40.980
No, I'm going to make a small confession to the unstarted Star Trek audience now and that is I haven't seen the last 5 minutes of this episode.

685
00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:44.099
So fairly soon I'm going to be quite surprised by what happens.

686
00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:49.619
What about Raffi just going so Gerardi can sing, which I just thought would be great.

687
00:43:49.679 --> 00:43:51.539
That's an understatement.

688
00:43:51.780 --> 00:44:00.300
I, I, you know, when they were all crowded around Picard when he got hit, yeah, and all the scenes here were there with him in the hospital.

689
00:44:00.420 --> 00:44:02.519
Oh, this crew.

690
00:44:02.579 --> 00:44:04.139
Oh, I just love them.

691
00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:10.079
That's that's the thing about this episode too, because they have been split into their own plots.

692
00:44:10.139 --> 00:44:13.139
Like they pretty much split up the moment they arrive in 2022.

693
00:44:13.139 --> 00:44:15.119
And then they come together.

694
00:44:15.179 --> 00:44:18.960
So this is the the episode where we have them come together.

695
00:44:19.019 --> 00:44:21.300
I love this.

696
00:44:21.300 --> 00:44:22.320
She's beautiful.

697
00:44:22.380 --> 00:44:27.780
If you put your hand between this pair, you'd get an electric shock and then some.

698
00:44:28.380 --> 00:44:30.239
She's stunning.

699
00:44:30.300 --> 00:44:30.900
He's excited.

700
00:44:33.539 --> 00:44:35.760
He blames the kid.

701
00:44:35.820 --> 00:44:45.360
Remember the kid, like the little boy, like her son who is just hanging around there and deep respect for a grown man who escaped Coast Cross?

702
00:44:45.420 --> 00:44:46.980
It's great.

703
00:44:48.420 --> 00:44:50.760
He's not a grown man.

704
00:44:50.820 --> 00:44:52.139
He's a bloody child.

705
00:44:52.199 --> 00:44:52.679
Look here.

706
00:44:53.820 --> 00:45:02.280
But this is him. is the scene where he's got to be remembering what Raffi said about, you know, starting a relationship with someone from a different time period.

707
00:45:02.340 --> 00:45:04.139
That is a great exchange.

708
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:05.460
We're the good guys.

709
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:07.679
Good guys never say that.

710
00:45:07.739 --> 00:45:09.000
That is wonderful.

711
00:45:09.059 --> 00:45:11.940
Because she's the good guy. isn't she?

712
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:13.139
Do you know what I mean?

713
00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:21.239
She's working with a group of people who are kind of oppressed and harassed by the police and stuff and giving them life-saving medical care like she's the good guy.

714
00:45:21.300 --> 00:45:24.179
Oh, sassy, Hispanic women, please, in dramas.

715
00:45:24.239 --> 00:45:26.940
Yeah, yeah, yeah. from Dexter.

716
00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:28.739
Boy, oh boy.

717
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:29.940
She was such a bitch.

718
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:30.719
I loved her.

719
00:45:30.780 --> 00:45:35.699
So I love, this is the 1st time that Corey ever looks her father up on the internet.

720
00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:37.559
Honestly.

721
00:45:37.619 --> 00:45:40.679
She starts with Google and starts to discover all of this stuff.

722
00:45:40.739 --> 00:45:43.980
Now, I have a theory here about why she's called Corey, right?

723
00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:58.260
So when we see his records, all of the children that he mentions are given ancient Greek mythical names, right?

724
00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:01.619
So they're all given ancient Greek names.

725
00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:04.139
There's Artemis, there's Persephone.

726
00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:06.179
I think this little girl's called Persephone.

727
00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:11.820
Um, uh, and there are lots of them.

728
00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:14.039
There are lots and lots of these little children.

729
00:46:14.099 --> 00:46:16.619
This scene reflects last year, doesn't it?

730
00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:18.900
Where Soji had all these memories.

731
00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:20.219
Do you know what I mean?

732
00:46:20.280 --> 00:46:26.219
The photos that were her memories, but even though she only existed for like 6 months, but she had all of these photos.

733
00:46:26.280 --> 00:46:28.860
Now there are all these photos of her, but they're not her.

734
00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:30.960
They're previous versions of her that die.

735
00:46:31.019 --> 00:46:40.260
And Corey is ancient Greek for girl because at this point he's run out of Greek names to give her.

736
00:46:40.260 --> 00:46:44.099
And he, she's the last one and he just calls her girl.

737
00:46:44.219 --> 00:46:48.059
This is so detached from the main story of this episode.

738
00:46:48.119 --> 00:46:48.960
Oh, yeah.

739
00:46:49.019 --> 00:46:50.039
It's so weird.

740
00:46:50.159 --> 00:47:01.619
It's a bit like the way DS9 did those plots in the last 10 where you'd have an episode about something and then they'd need to set it up for the next one so you'd have this one scene jammed into it.

741
00:47:01.980 --> 00:47:06.119
Yeah, so there's a spoiler, persifasa, Artemis.

742
00:47:06.179 --> 00:47:11.400
You know, Proserpina, like all of these names, Proserpina is actually Latin, but whatever.

743
00:47:11.460 --> 00:47:16.920
The fact that you and I can't remember what comes with this is telling as well.

744
00:47:16.980 --> 00:47:24.300
Yeah, well, the fact that she's just a loose end that gets, you know, kind of swept up, I Will Wheaton in the final episode, I think, from memory.

745
00:47:24.420 --> 00:47:28.320
It is really giving them something to do.

746
00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:33.840
And so Q tries and gets him involved in the plot.

747
00:47:33.900 --> 00:47:46.980
It might be Q. Oh, yeah, because the future, the, the, um, the future is a future where Adam Sung invents, uh, the, the, um, barrier that saves them from the...

748
00:47:47.039 --> 00:47:49.380
Oh, okay, so they're not all bad guys, and these songs.

749
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:52.019
No, no, he's he wants that.

750
00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:53.820
He wants that glory, you know?

751
00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:54.840
You are right, though.

752
00:47:54.900 --> 00:48:00.900
What you said earlier about, have they shifted the party out of last week into this, and the whole episode was just at the party.

753
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:04.199
I would absolutely remember this as the party episode.

754
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:05.039
Yeah, yeah.

755
00:48:05.099 --> 00:48:05.519
Yeah.

756
00:48:05.579 --> 00:48:15.960
And because there is all this other stuff, maybe that's why maybe that's why they had to shift that there because they were putting all this stuff here, which was setting up next week.

757
00:48:16.260 --> 00:48:18.780
It's a bit disjointed.

758
00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:20.639
It is a bit disjointed.

759
00:48:20.699 --> 00:48:27.420
And I do think, you know, the party has a natural climax, a double climax, which is the song and then the persuasion scene.

760
00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:30.599
Does all of Brady have a sonic screwdriver there?

761
00:48:30.659 --> 00:48:31.619
It looks like she does.

762
00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:32.579
Yeah, she does.

763
00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:33.960
Okay.

764
00:48:34.019 --> 00:48:36.239
Now we're doing what, young Picard?

765
00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:38.159
Yeah.

766
00:48:38.340 --> 00:48:38.699
Yeah.

767
00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:50.159
So these weird flashbacks with the mother and Will's get to see the father next week and stuff like that and we'll learn how she died and why she wasn't a sweet old lady like she is in lowly among us because she's already dead.

768
00:48:50.219 --> 00:48:54.420
It was, it was so focussed the 1st half of this.

769
00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:58.440
I now feel as if I'm involved in 20 directions.

770
00:48:58.559 --> 00:49:03.599
Well, it's like you fall asleep and you wake up in the next episode suddenly.

771
00:49:03.900 --> 00:49:09.719
Like, I do think that that scene where Corey finds out her origin is. well done.

772
00:49:09.780 --> 00:49:10.860
That's well done.

773
00:49:10.920 --> 00:49:14.760
It's not hugely exciting or innovative or something, but it's just well told, I think.

774
00:49:14.820 --> 00:49:22.079
Well, it just it does remind me of, you know, O'Brien delivering crab rolls and going, well, I wonder if section 31 will turn up on the station.

775
00:49:22.139 --> 00:49:24.300
Now you know about the changing virus.

776
00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:26.760
Stay stay tuned, folks.

777
00:49:28.139 --> 00:49:30.239
Yes, yeah.

778
00:49:30.300 --> 00:49:32.280
So I can't remember.

779
00:49:32.340 --> 00:49:37.800
Oh, yes, no, I can remember where this ends, but this is all just setting up the next episode, isn't it?

780
00:49:37.860 --> 00:49:40.019
is explaining the premise of the next episode.

781
00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:45.059
Is it so we can go straight into the next episode and that, do you know what I mean?

782
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:50.039
is what they're trying to do is front load the episodes with the story.

783
00:49:50.099 --> 00:49:57.480
The next one in the exposition, the previously. straight into the past into flashbacks of Picard as a kid in the next episode.

784
00:49:57.539 --> 00:49:59.820
So I suppose, yeah, we're doing a bit of the legwork.

785
00:49:59.880 --> 00:50:02.519
You know, I'm not really worrying about the setup.

786
00:50:02.579 --> 00:50:07.260
I'm more having a sort of sexuality epiphany looking at Jerry Ryan in that dress.

787
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:09.300
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

788
00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:11.760
Oh, no, there's Rios. back on track.

789
00:50:13.739 --> 00:50:17.219
That outfit, holy crap, he's beautiful.

790
00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:18.300
I can't get over it.

791
00:50:18.719 --> 00:50:21.960
I've never seen such a group of actually models in my life.

792
00:50:22.019 --> 00:50:22.500
I know.

793
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:23.280
I know.

794
00:50:23.340 --> 00:50:28.619
Patrick Stewart must have been like, would you please stop surrounding me with these young hot people?

795
00:50:29.219 --> 00:50:38.579
I mean, absolutely Santiago is the hottest person who has ever been a regular in a Star Trek by a mile. by some margin.

796
00:50:38.699 --> 00:50:44.099
The only person I'd probably say yes to over him would be Cisco on the right day.

797
00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:45.420
Yeah.

798
00:50:45.420 --> 00:51:08.579
And then this final scene, one thing that we do get is this beautiful final shot, which is just Agnes slash the Borg queen, in the dress, holding her shoes, and just walking along the street out into Los Angeles, dress is swaying in the wind.

799
00:51:08.699 --> 00:51:10.980
What is going to do?

800
00:51:11.039 --> 00:51:13.679
Like what the fuck is she going to do now?

801
00:51:13.739 --> 00:51:15.599
That's magnificent.

802
00:51:15.659 --> 00:51:17.760
I think that is a great final shot.

803
00:51:17.820 --> 00:51:20.280
The ball queen is loose in history.

804
00:51:20.340 --> 00:51:22.019
Exactly, right.

805
00:51:22.019 --> 00:51:23.099
God help us all.

806
00:51:23.159 --> 00:51:24.059
Yeah.

807
00:51:24.059 --> 00:51:27.420
Actually, that was a money shot there, wasn't it?

808
00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:28.980
Yeah, yeah, just incredible.

809
00:51:29.039 --> 00:51:31.260
Jonathan knows it's an important moment.

810
00:51:31.320 --> 00:51:32.039
He said, you know what?

811
00:51:32.099 --> 00:51:33.599
Wait, wait, where are the street lights?

812
00:51:33.659 --> 00:51:36.300
Oh, God, we can even get some lens flaring. lets go.

813
00:51:36.420 --> 00:51:37.679
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

814
00:51:37.739 --> 00:51:39.239
It is pretty is pretty great.

815
00:51:39.300 --> 00:51:44.880
Although, you know, I don't like these end bits of dialogue.

816
00:51:44.940 --> 00:51:45.960
Did you hear what Rafi said?

817
00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:48.420
Oh, how much worse could it possibly get?

818
00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:51.239
Which leads into that thing. that child.

819
00:51:51.300 --> 00:51:53.699
But, but you see, it still works.

820
00:51:53.760 --> 00:51:56.760
You still have that final shot if it's the party episode.

821
00:51:56.820 --> 00:52:14.639
If we don't do the setup for episode 7 in this episode and we just do the party, then it can still end with, you know, they go off with Picard in the ambulance or whatever in the car to kind of, you know, save him and and she strides off into the night to do goodness knows what.

822
00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:18.840
You know, like, I think that that, that just, I can't even remember what she gets up to.

823
00:52:18.900 --> 00:52:19.500
What does she do?

824
00:52:19.559 --> 00:52:20.699
No I can't remember.

825
00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:24.360
See what I'll say about series 2.

826
00:52:24.599 --> 00:52:27.000
So some of the details are a bit foggy.

827
00:52:27.059 --> 00:52:32.099
It has been 3 years now, I think, at this point, just more than 3 years.

828
00:52:32.099 --> 00:52:33.960
And I've only seen it once.

829
00:52:34.019 --> 00:52:40.440
So it's not like 30-year-old episodes of Star Trek, their acceleration that I've seen dozens of times.

830
00:52:40.500 --> 00:52:45.659
You know, notice how well-informed I am every time we go back to Dune Space 9.

831
00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:49.679
When I watch the card, I spend most of the episode going, what's that person's name?

832
00:52:49.739 --> 00:52:50.579
Who were they?

833
00:52:50.579 --> 00:52:56.159
Although the pertinent points of Picard, yeah?

834
00:52:56.219 --> 00:52:58.739
You know, of one, 2, and three.

835
00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:00.719
I can still remember very vividly.

836
00:53:00.780 --> 00:53:03.719
You know, Gold Dukut's skull in that museum.

837
00:53:03.780 --> 00:53:04.739
I'll never forget.

838
00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:06.960
Yeah, Martok's there too, I think.

839
00:53:07.019 --> 00:53:09.960
When they 1st walk onto the Bridge of the Enterprise in free.

840
00:53:10.019 --> 00:53:11.880
Well, no one's ever going to forget that, you know.

841
00:53:11.940 --> 00:53:18.059
They spent 2 days hoovering that carpet in preparation.

842
00:53:18.119 --> 00:53:27.420
I would like to issue a personal thank you to Jonathan Frakes for turning off the power to the roller coaster this week and just stately directing the party.

843
00:53:27.480 --> 00:53:28.320
Thank you very much.

844
00:53:28.380 --> 00:53:36.300
It was very stylishly directed, but without your usual dynamism, shall we say?

845
00:53:36.360 --> 00:53:38.820
Well, I think that's the Discovery House style.

846
00:53:38.880 --> 00:53:41.820
I think when discovery comes back.

847
00:53:41.880 --> 00:53:53.880
It's very keen to say, this is not Star Trek, the Next Generation, and immediately it's just visually impressive and spectacular. did that when it murdered off the captain in the 1st episode.

848
00:53:53.940 --> 00:53:55.139
Yeah, yeah.

849
00:53:55.199 --> 00:54:01.559
But I mean, just remember the scenes like, you know, Burnham doing the EV thing and then Burnham trapped in the brig.

850
00:54:01.619 --> 00:54:03.960
Oh, the exterior of the ship.

851
00:54:04.079 --> 00:54:05.400
Yeah, amazing.

852
00:54:05.460 --> 00:54:07.380
Like, it just looked magnificent.

853
00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:09.300
And so that's the house style going forward.

854
00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:10.739
It is unlike the others.

855
00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:12.119
Not to leave the point.

856
00:54:12.179 --> 00:54:18.719
I do like a character scene to be actor focussed rather than director focussed.

857
00:54:18.780 --> 00:54:25.800
And there are there are times in discovery where I'm just very aware of the director doing tricks.

858
00:54:25.860 --> 00:54:38.940
Whereas that scene with Renee and Picard here, it was more impressive that it was just the 2 of them acting and Jonathan said, nope, yeah, keep the camera still or maybe just move it an inch to the left just to show we're still here.

859
00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:46.860
There's gentle movements and there's things with depth or field and it cuts between them a bit more frequently than you would do in 90s trek.

860
00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:51.780
It's still impressive and stylish, but it is just letting the actors do their thing.

861
00:54:51.840 --> 00:54:54.780
And that's the most important scene in the episode.

862
00:54:54.780 --> 00:54:56.159
And I think it's really good.

863
00:54:56.280 --> 00:55:00.780
This episode, I think, encapsulates to quite well, actually.

864
00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:06.420
I think we did quite a good pick to for like the house style or two, which is, do you know what?

865
00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:07.380
It is flawed.

866
00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:11.340
There are plotting issues within the episode and the season.

867
00:55:11.400 --> 00:55:20.280
It's full of great moments and it has great characters that you want to hang out with. and it is impressively executed.

868
00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:30.780
All right, it's the end of the episode.

869
00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:33.960
It's time for us to find out where we're going next.

870
00:55:34.019 --> 00:55:41.159
This was my choice, and so the randomiser is in your hands, Joe, what are you going to do?

871
00:55:41.219 --> 00:55:52.619
What's, you know, if your cliche is or rather your, the joke that we do now because you don't pick enterprise anymore, but your kink is, just wait till next week. choosing enterprise.

872
00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:55.019
What's my ink with the randomiser?

873
00:55:55.079 --> 00:55:57.420
Just pressing all the buttons.

874
00:55:58.079 --> 00:56:01.079
Then you're not gonna be disappointed today.

875
00:56:01.860 --> 00:56:03.599
It could be anything.

876
00:56:03.659 --> 00:56:06.000
The whole length and breadth.

877
00:56:06.059 --> 00:56:08.760
For some reason, I've kept the movies in as well, but we won't be doing a movie.

878
00:56:08.880 --> 00:56:10.440
Okay.

879
00:56:10.500 --> 00:56:14.099
Oh, we won't be doing this one either, but it's worth mentioning.

880
00:56:14.099 --> 00:56:20.820
Your random Star Trek Voyager episode is season 3, episode 16, Blood Fever.

881
00:56:21.420 --> 00:56:24.659
Now, uh, too much, Tom Paris.

882
00:56:24.719 --> 00:56:28.500
It's about B'lana getting the Pomfara, right.

883
00:56:28.559 --> 00:56:34.440
She takes it off of Shuvok, but then it becomes all about Tom Paris given her permission to fuck him.

884
00:56:34.500 --> 00:56:35.519
Of course.

885
00:56:35.579 --> 00:56:36.840
Yuck.

886
00:56:36.900 --> 00:56:39.179
Yeah, no, let's not have that.

887
00:56:39.239 --> 00:56:40.320
Let's go somewhere.

888
00:56:40.380 --> 00:56:41.880
Oh, okay.

889
00:56:41.940 --> 00:56:47.760
Your random Star Trek Duty Face 9 episode is season four, episode 23 to the deaf.

890
00:56:47.880 --> 00:56:52.739
Now that's the, obviously, the reappearance of the Iconian Gateway.

891
00:56:52.860 --> 00:57:00.900
It's a big sort of Jemhadar episode, the 1st appearance of Jeffrey Coombs as Wei Yoon, where they kill him off.

892
00:57:00.900 --> 00:57:03.599
Ooh, I'll let you decide on that.

893
00:57:03.659 --> 00:57:04.739
I'm happy to press again.

894
00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:07.500
I'm kind of intrigued.

895
00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:12.300
And, um, Yeah, it does give us things to talk about.

896
00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:15.000
I didn't know that Jeffrey Coombes came in quite so late as that.

897
00:57:15.059 --> 00:57:17.820
So he's right at the end. of series four.

898
00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:24.059
There's a wonderful quote where they watched the rushes and went, oh, what did we do when he shot?

899
00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:29.099
I mean, it's directed by LeVar as well.

900
00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:32.340
It's got quite a lot of action on it and location work.

901
00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:34.019
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

902
00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:34.920
I mean, we did...

903
00:57:34.920 --> 00:57:36.119
Deep Space 9 last time.

904
00:57:36.179 --> 00:57:41.820
But remember, not too long ago, we did 2 consecutive weeks of lower decks.

905
00:57:41.880 --> 00:57:49.860
So I think that we can probably afford to go back and have another look at another later era of Deep Space 9.

906
00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:51.420
I promise you this.

907
00:57:51.480 --> 00:57:52.739
It's full of Gemadal.

908
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:54.719
So latex stocks were high.

909
00:57:54.780 --> 00:57:55.739
Excellent.

910
00:57:55.800 --> 00:57:58.500
Well, that's what you expect from Deep Space 9, is it?

911
00:57:58.559 --> 00:58:00.840
I'm mostly there for the laz eggs.

912
00:58:00.900 --> 00:58:03.059
Okay, you fancy a bloody battle?

913
00:58:03.059 --> 00:58:05.340
By the iconi in the gateway?

914
00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:06.000
Let's do it.

915
00:58:06.059 --> 00:58:07.079
Yep.

916
00:58:07.139 --> 00:58:07.619
Yeah.

917
00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:08.400
Okay, awesome.

918
00:58:08.460 --> 00:58:09.000
Let's do it.

919
00:58:18.059 --> 00:58:29.099
You've been listening to entitled Star Trek Project with Joe Ford and Nathan Bottomley, where online at untitled Star Trek Project.com, where you can find subscription links and links to our social media accounts.

920
00:58:29.159 --> 00:58:34.679
Our podcast artwork is by Kayla Ciceran and the theme was composed by Cameron Lamb.

921
00:58:34.739 --> 00:58:41.340
This episode was recorded on the 24th of June 2025 and released on the 27th of June.

922
00:58:41.400 --> 00:58:45.599
We'll see you next time for Star Trek Deep Space 9 to the death.

923
00:59:01.139 --> 00:59:03.599
I don't know what I think about that one.

924
00:59:03.659 --> 00:59:05.099
I haven't seen it for ages.

925
00:59:05.219 --> 00:59:09.000
To the death to the death.

926
00:59:10.079 --> 00:59:17.340
Well, I've got new better versions of Deep Space 9, so I can, oh, no, I don't.

927
00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:18.780
What did I get better versions of?

928
00:59:18.840 --> 00:59:22.320
I've got better versions of Picard so that I could get a better screenshot.

929
00:59:22.380 --> 00:59:34.380
I think I'm actually convinced now that the screenshot that I chose for Picard is too late, is too early in that shot and it should really be the very...

930
00:59:34.440 --> 00:59:37.199
Yeah, with the leg with the light, all of the flares.

931
00:59:37.260 --> 00:59:45.840
Like, you know, like I chose from just before the lens flare came in, um, co-starring.

932
00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:48.539
Cute waiter.

933
00:59:48.599 --> 00:59:51.420
Alexander Chen. officially gets out of it.

934
00:59:51.480 --> 00:59:53.159
It gets one BM from Jamma.

935
00:59:53.280 --> 00:59:55.679
Uh, to the death or this?

936
00:59:55.739 --> 00:59:56.579
To the deaf.

937
00:59:57.179 --> 00:59:59.280
Well, I'll see what he gives this.

938
00:59:59.340 --> 01:00:00.780
Oh, no, I'm too scared.

939
01:00:00.780 --> 01:00:02.099
Look, he's so mean.

940
01:00:02.099 --> 01:00:04.619
He's so mean about...

941
01:00:04.679 --> 01:00:08.880
You know, I have huge reservations, but I'm much kinder.

942
01:00:08.940 --> 01:00:10.619
It's still good telling.

943
01:00:10.619 --> 01:00:15.420
Star Trek to do what it's always done before, I think, is the problem.

944
01:00:15.539 --> 01:00:16.500
You don't want to know.

945
01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:17.880
One.

946
01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:19.440
Two.

947
01:00:19.500 --> 01:00:21.840
But it's still less than a bam.

948
01:00:21.900 --> 01:00:23.099
So less than a bam.

949
01:00:23.159 --> 01:00:28.380
But I mean, it had, doesn't it get like 3 extra stars just for the song?

950
01:00:28.440 --> 01:00:29.940
Yes.

951
01:00:29.940 --> 01:00:33.179
I would give it an extra, at least one extra star.

952
01:00:33.179 --> 01:00:35.880
I'll give it an extra star for the song.

953
01:00:35.940 --> 01:00:37.019
Well, he only does four.

954
01:00:37.980 --> 01:00:39.900
Yeah, three.

955
01:00:39.960 --> 01:00:41.340
Three stars for the song.

956
01:00:41.400 --> 01:00:45.000
So 6.5 out of four. that's perfectly reasonable.

957
01:00:45.059 --> 01:00:48.059
What an intriguing rating system you have.

958
01:00:48.539 --> 01:00:59.400
I never put things out of numbers until, unless someone tells me that their podcast requires it, that they have an algorithm where they have to kind of add up everyone's numbers.

959
01:00:59.579 --> 01:01:00.960
You know what I might do, Nathan.

960
01:01:01.019 --> 01:01:04.079
I might actually do some proper research for the next episode.

961
01:01:04.139 --> 01:01:07.860
I might try and figure out if I can find out some things about the Iconians.

962
01:01:08.519 --> 01:01:10.380
Oh, yeah.

963
01:01:10.380 --> 01:01:12.119
Because they don't go into a lot of detail.

964
01:01:12.179 --> 01:01:27.480
There's just a gateway there where it's so funny as well because I think I seem to remember they've got all like the stock planets of Deep Space 9 that it's sort of zaps between, but it's all the match shots that they've done since it's the 1st episode.

965
01:01:27.659 --> 01:01:29.280
Of course.

966
01:01:29.340 --> 01:01:31.800
Including the angel one planet.

967
01:01:31.860 --> 01:01:32.820
I think that's there as well.

968
01:01:33.179 --> 01:01:39.300
But is the, is the Iconians like, are they, is that...

969
01:01:39.300 --> 01:01:42.960
The Iconian Gateway, wait, is that in contagion?

970
01:01:43.860 --> 01:01:46.079
It is in contagion.

971
01:01:47.219 --> 01:01:52.320
Is it the one where there's 22 datas, you know, where he's sort of going across the...

972
01:01:54.239 --> 01:02:03.119
I think contagion is the one where, um, is it Carolyn Seymour's in it?

973
01:02:04.199 --> 01:02:08.519
Carolyn Seymour does 2 turns as a Romulan sub-commander.

974
01:02:08.579 --> 01:02:15.300
One is face of the enemy and the other one's in season 2 of Star Trek, the Next Generation, an episode called Contagion.

975
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:16.559
Maybe there are 2 daters.

976
01:02:16.619 --> 01:02:17.099
I can't remember.

977
01:02:17.159 --> 01:02:20.940
It's about a computer virus that gets that comes through the the portal.

978
01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:27.900
It destroys the other galaxy class starship, the Yamamoso, like it explodes.

979
01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:32.760
Um, And it, it, there's a Romulan thing there.

980
01:02:32.820 --> 01:02:35.460
I mean it's a very forgettable series 2 episode.

981
01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:36.719
I haven't seen it for a long time.

982
01:02:36.780 --> 01:02:38.699
I just remember this one.

983
01:02:38.760 --> 01:02:49.739
It's a rogue group of Gemadar that have gained access to the gateway and that's why they have to go after them.

984
01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:55.199
So they team up with, you know, the Jemadar from the Dominion to go after them and murder them.

985
01:02:55.260 --> 01:02:59.460
That's why they have a massive battle at the end with...

986
01:02:59.460 --> 01:03:01.920
It looks like a very hot day.

987
01:03:01.980 --> 01:03:04.920
I just remember it's really sunny when they shoot it.

988
01:03:04.980 --> 01:03:07.139
But it's only in those 2 episodes.

989
01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:10.559
I thought the Iconian gateway. like they must get mentioned elsewhere.

990
01:03:10.920 --> 01:03:17.219
There does get a mention in, oh, there's an Iconians.

991
01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:19.679
No, there's a there's some reference to it.

992
01:03:19.739 --> 01:03:22.440
You know where I'll be able to find out something about it.

993
01:03:22.500 --> 01:03:23.820
Andre Bormanis is.

994
01:03:23.940 --> 01:03:25.920
Science, technology books.

995
01:03:25.980 --> 01:03:28.019
He'll have something about the gateway in there, I'm sure.

996
01:03:28.079 --> 01:03:32.460
So remember that gateway that gets them to Nepenthe in Picard series one?

997
01:03:32.519 --> 01:03:46.559
So they're on the board cube, and they get to the gateway, and little, uh, Elanor stays behind to kind of defend them while Picard and Soji head off to Nepenthe, uh, and they travel a long distance.

998
01:03:46.619 --> 01:03:56.400
And then we discover that it's technology that the Borg have assimilated from the horrible people in prime factors.

999
01:03:58.860 --> 01:04:00.599
Do you know what I mean?

1000
01:04:00.659 --> 01:04:02.039
Who had the technology to take them?

1001
01:04:02.039 --> 01:04:03.659
Night years forward, doesn't it?

1002
01:04:03.719 --> 01:04:05.159
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1003
01:04:05.219 --> 01:04:06.900
So that's where that came from.

1004
01:04:06.960 --> 01:04:11.219
Which I just think is great because those people are such fucking...

1005
01:04:11.280 --> 01:04:13.320
That guy with a South African accent.

1006
01:04:13.380 --> 01:04:14.880
Captain Janeware, yeah.

1007
01:04:14.940 --> 01:04:17.880
Yeah, whatever accent he's doing the accent.

1008
01:04:17.940 --> 01:04:19.679
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1009
01:04:19.739 --> 01:04:24.420
And he gets, so presumably he's a Borg now, which is a happy ending for us anyway.

1010
01:04:27.480 --> 01:04:28.619
They forget nothing.

1011
01:04:28.679 --> 01:04:29.760
No.