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Hey, Joe. Hi.

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So, this is an exciting one.

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This is one of the most famous episodes of Original Trek, and

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perhaps, definitely.

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Yeah, perhaps one of the ones that has had the biggest effect on

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the franchise in all sorts of ways.

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It's huge.

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I'd say in terms of pure enjoyment as well, this has been, I've

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watched this twice this week in preparation and I've watched Oh

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you better say what we're talking about first.

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Well, I mean, they can see it on their podcatcher and the website

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and stuff.

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It's Trouble with Tribbles, which is about episode 15 of series

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two.

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I want to say episode 15.

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Is episode 15 of series two?

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Yeah.

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And we've both done a little bit of a sort of extra work on this

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because in the triple expanded universe of Star Trek.

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It's quite a bit, isn't it?

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I've watched trials and tribulations from DS9, which is one of the

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best DS9 episodes, a fabulous love letter to original Trek.

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And you've watched...

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I watched the animated series episode, which is called More

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Tribbles, More Troubles, I think.

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Now, I say no.

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Is that any good?

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No.

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No, it's the usual.

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So we have seen the animated series.

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So it's by David Gerald and it has tribbles in it.

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It has Cyrano Jones in it as well who has, I don't know.

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He's being chased by the Klingons there, they're hauling robot

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ships full of grain and there's tribbles everywhere.

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And the tribbles are all curiously pink.

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Like they're not a variety of colours, like they are canonically

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and they've been genetically modified.

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So instead of breeding, they just get bigger. and so they just get

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bigger and bigger No, it doesn't end up.

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There's like a mutant, massive triple, does it?

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No, but there's actually a scene here where like in trouble with

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shribbles where Kirk picks, you know, like brushes tribbles off

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the captain's chair and there's a similar scene where he picks one

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just giant big arse tribble off the captain's chair.

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But it's got the usual the animated series problems, which is, you

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know, 2 or 3 seconds between every line that anyone delivers.

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Like everyone's really static.

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They all look like each other.

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It's really terribly boring.

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But they do try and recreate some of the really, really iconic

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moments from this episode, which of course they do.

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The trouble is, though, is this is such a fantastically weird

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premise.

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Or a Star Trek episode and such a funny one, but it can kind of

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only work once per show.

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Well, you know, you're just going to do the same gags and it's

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going to lose its lustre.

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Well, in fact, what DS9 does is actually a little bit cleverer

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isn't it?

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Because they go back in time and discover that all the while.

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It's got a bit of a, I want to say back to the future 2 kind of

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vibe.

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So in the background of the scenes that we see in trouble with

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Tribbles, you've got Cisco and Dax kind of sneaking around trying

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to kind of find the bomb that's been hidden in the tribble that's

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going to kill Kirk and stuff.

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When those triples fall on his end, the single ones.

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It's Dax.

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It's down the aisle.

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And it's really funny because it's clearly some stage hand, you

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know, like up in the thing, just hurling individual tribbles that

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Shatner.

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And Shatner kind of gets the shits a little bit and you can kind

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of see his response to it.

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And so making us now think that that's Dax and Cisco all the time

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is just delightful.

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It's a stroke of genius I think.

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Well, they do there is they they assemble because, like, there is

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a mush of our plots and the trouble with tribbles.

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Like, it's essentially, you know, the tribles eat a lot, replicate

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and, you know, fasting shoes.

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And I remember saying, because I watched this with my raft last

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night and he goes, well, is there any kind of plot to this at

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all?

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I said, 0 yeah, it's all revealed at the end.

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And then when they revealed, you know, Cyrano Joe's or whatever.

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No, not Siri, no, Jones.

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Darvin as the Klingon.

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Well, it weren't much of a plot, was it?

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I was like, no, no.

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But the DS9 one is far more robustly.

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And it's like a revenge plot, isn't it?

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It's just a revenge plot with a bomb in a tribble, which ends up

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being beamed into space in this moment with angelic music

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everywhere.

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It's really good But I mean, the original is fantastic.

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And it's not, it's not just the tribbles that are funny, but

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everyone is given funny dialogue and funny moments, and it is

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they've just got David Gerald, and David Gerald's decided that

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Star Trek can do a comedy.

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And, you know, now, 50 years later or whatever, we know that Star

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Trek is absolutely the perfect vehicle for comedy because we kind

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of have seen lots and lots of that.

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But they mustn't have known then.

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The original series can do comedy extremely well, but it can do

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comedy extremely badly as well.

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So I, depending on who is involved in a particular story.

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The farce of the original series can go over a cliff somewhere

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absolutely agonising.

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This was very finely tuned, I thought, and all the actors were on

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board with this.

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Yeah.

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And they're playing their roles.

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Absolutely how they always play their roles.

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They're not sort of, you know, looking off to camera go.

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You know, they are sort of committed performance, but you're

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right.

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There's a wonderful bit between like Spock and McCoy where they

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have a fabulous pitch fight as he's studying.

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Kirk and his, you know, vendetta against Mr. Barras, who's for him

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to case K7 under lesson official circumstances.

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Yep.

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Oh man, it's just, it's so, so funny.

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I thought the character work was the funniest part of it.

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It's actually the troubles are funny, but it's how everyone's

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reacting to this is what's the best.

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And it's just so genius.

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Like it's so brilliant.

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Like, you know, aliens are so often rubber monsters on Star Trek

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or a dog dressed up or whatever.

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And just these little faceless things that are genuinely cute, like

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they actually properly make them cute.

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They really sell it.

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Well, that just doesn't get old, does it?

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A cute little fuzzy blob.

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Yeah.

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And they're all reacting to it going, you know, who was going, oh

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it's so delightful. isn't it wonderful, you know?

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So good.

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Spox reaction is really properly funny.

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That's one of the best things.

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It seems to have a calming effect on the emotional system.

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Fortunately, I'm immune to such things. stroking it.

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It's adorable.

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It's so great.

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Well, actually, very quickly then, because you watched the short

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treks.

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Trouble episode, didn't you?

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So it's called the Trouble with Edward, and it is this version of

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Star Trek, the Kurtzman version of Star Trek doing a comedy.

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And so it has John Benjamin from Archer and Bob's Burgers playing

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a major game.

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Only imagine that, because his voice is very sexy, that he is an

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extremely sexy man.

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Yeah, no, he's not.

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He's really schlabian kind of bearded and odd looking.

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And so he's a kind of lieutenant on a science ship, which is we

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see Captain Pike at the very beginning of the thing, you know

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getting a minor character and she's got her 1st captain thing and

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she's on this ship.

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And he is the one who genetically engineers the tribbles to breed

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out of control and eventually things get out of control and the

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entire ship fills with tribbles in a way that only kind of this

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iteration of Star Trek could ever possibly realise.

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And it is absolutely out and out comedy in a way that's sort of

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more sophisticated than this and more fast paced and it's only

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like sort of 7 minutes or something like that.

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It's quite short.

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But it's well worth watch.

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It's really funny and John Benjamin is as funny in real life as he

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is in a cartoon where he's always absolutely brilliant.

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I think.

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This is funny, but it isn't particularly sophisticated in the way

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that it's funny, I think.

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It's not belly laughs.

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I just think this is massively charming.

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Yeah, yeah, that's it.

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And I think we have David Gerald to thank for the discovery that

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Star Trek can work as comedy.

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And people approach Star Trek in a way that's much more serious or

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some people do than I want to approach it.

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I want Star Trek to be silly and ridiculous because it is really

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frequently even when it's not aiming for that.

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And so to have it acknowledge that it's ridiculous and to sort of

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play into it is really fun.

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Would you like me to tell you what the original name for the

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triples was before they changed into triples?

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Was it a space name?

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No, they wanted to call them the Fuzzies.

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And the working title for this was a fuzzy thing happened to me.

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Almost works.

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Triple again is a brilliant word because it sounds like an English

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word.

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You know, like it actually sounds like an English word.

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It's not a space name.

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So their instinct to do not a space name.

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Well, and it sounds just a little bit silly, but almost a bit

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plausible as well.

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It's really well chosen.

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Wow, and it allowed them to do that fabulous pardon trials and

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tribulations.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Well, I mean, even the name of the title, Trouble with Tribbles

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because you've got, there's a John Wyndham novel, which is a sort

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of satirical novel called Trouble with Lichen.

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And there is the trouble with Harry, which I think is, is that the

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it's like Shirley McLean's 1st film.

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I think it's an early Hitchcock, where there's a dead body that

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they have to get rid of, and it's Harry, and it's called the

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Trouble with Harry.

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So it's a, it's a...

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Trouble with X is already a kind of, you know, way of constructing

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a title.

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And so just calling them tribles, I think, just works well.

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And it does give rise to the very, very shitty final line, the

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final laugh line, that Scotty believes. all the way through.

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I always find, you know, when Blake 7 and Star Trek or any show

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Bugs used to do it in the 90s and these endings with a joke

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right?

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It's agonising, isn't it?

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Like, and the camera sort of pulls away and everyone has

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protracted laughter for about 15 minutes and you're like, when

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does this happen in real life?

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Yeah, yeah.

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But this was the one time where I was like, oh, when's that joke

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gonna land?

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Come on, in that last scene, I was like, there's going to be a

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dreadful triple gag at the end of this episode.

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And of course there is.

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And it did not disappoint.

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The shell's absolutely fucking going for it in that final lap.

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It's magnificent.

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It's a glorious thing to watch.

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We've seen her, too.

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Well, we'll get near in a minute.

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This is the most we've actually seen her do in any original series

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episode.

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I thought she was fabulous.

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Yes, of course.

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Yeah, magnificent.

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Can I just say one more bizarre bit of trivia?

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Well, maybe you can explain it to me.

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Have you ever read the Robert Heinland novel, The Rolling Stones?

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No.

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Oh, okay.

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Because Gene Roddenbury was particularly perturbed because this

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story apparently is similar to that.

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Oh, wow.

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And he actually got in touch with the author to avoid a lawsuit

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and said, look, I'm really sorry.

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We've written this script and it's very similar to your novel.

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I mean, what the hell was going on in that novel?

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Yeah, yeah.

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I thought Heinland was really humourless and kind of boring.

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I don't know.

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Apparently he was very understanding and he was extremely

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satisfied with a little Mia Culpa by Rob Ray.

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Yeah, so that's the trouble of doing Star Trek when all those

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horrible golden age science fiction writers are still alive.

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All right, what do you think?

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Should we do it?

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Well, I mean, we've already had a good giggle.

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Well, we should probably giggle along with it.

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Absolutely.

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All right.

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I will count as in in that case.

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

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There's one thing we love, Nation, is original series episodes.

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Another thing we love is comedies.

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Yeah, yeah, we're on a winner, yeah.

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No, it's perfect.

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It's really good.

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You know, I am currently watching the original version as well.

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So, to prepare.

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I watched it on Netflix, but this version that I'm watching here

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for the 1st time is the one with the original shitty effect.

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Oh, see, I'm watching the new one, and honestly, the tension to

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diesel they've lavished on these CGI effects is beautiful.

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And so here's, I think this is supposed to be earlier in the

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season because Chehov's getting his little education of like, right

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you're on the crew now.

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Like, you know, show us what you got.

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Show us what you know.

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It's a bit weird in the middle of the season.

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But he's telling a joke, like, and it's kind of a crap joke, and

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it's sort of a little bit unusual, and there are some comedy bits

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around him identifying things as being Russian, which is actually

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funny.

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Um, but, you know, it was making a little joke and and he gets put

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down by Spock, yes, a very little joke, which again is a kind of

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nothing line.

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It's not like a particularly funny line, but it's actually sort of

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hilarious to have Spock do it to him, I think.

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Do you know what?

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I'm coming to the conclusion that Leonard Nimoy is the funniest

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actor. in the original trick.

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There's a bit later on in the episode where you're waiting for him

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to interrupt somebody and say, oh, this is what the grain is.

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Yeah, and he knows all about it because they say no one in the

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world could possibly know about it, yeah.

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You're waiting for Spock to jump in and the weight delivers that

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line, so deadpan.

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Oh, I was pissing myself.

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Oh, here she is.

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Michelle Nichols looking absolutely edible.

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Yeah, just gorgeous.

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So we're at Red Alert and there's rushing out of the Ready Room.

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Are we going into the credits, are we?

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Yeah.

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Can I just say as well, after 2 DS9 episodes, I, yeah, I love the

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look of DS9, but skipping back to 60s trek and the bold

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Technicolour, beautiful nature of 60.

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I love it.

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It's like I just drink it in.

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There's a lot of gels, aren't there?

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I mean, I think the sets look a bit cheap, but they're a bit

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sparse, but they're beautifully designed, you know.

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I just feel like I'm in a gay disco in every room.

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There's purple and pinks and yellows everywhere. bar with all of

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the coloured gels and stuff is pretty impressive.

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I love it.

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Yeah, so good.

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Do you know what made me laugh?

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all the ladies in the bar, they've got these little fairy wings on

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them.

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And then when I watched Trouble Little Tripples, I was like, did

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they add that little detail?

328
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Yeah, yeah, that woman, the woman who comes and serves them.

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We don't serve any any Klingon beverages here, sir.

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That's right.

331
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She doesn't know what Erectagino is, does she?

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It's really funny watching.

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It's funny watching this because I'm much more familiar with

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trials and tribulations because it's one of my go-to DS9s.

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And so I'm always sort of comparing it to uh, comparing it to the

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DS9 episode.

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There's a fantastic shot here.

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Okay, you're not seeing this because you're watching the original

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effects, where as they approach the station, The camera comes over

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the saucer section of the Enterprise as the station approaches

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stunningly good.

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This shot is fairly similar.

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Like we're shooting over the source.

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The camera's not moving.

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We're shooting over the saucer.

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And like, I think that the model for K7 is actually pretty good

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because it seems to be constructed out of the sources that, like

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it looks like, you know, a collection of the sources on the

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enterprise or the other sheep.

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They do do that weird thing though, where it looks like someone's

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just sort of stamped K7 over the windows.

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Where it's positioned is very odd.

353
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Now, look, I want to talk about Kurt, right?

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Because you and I have said he can have quite a relaxed nature

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amongst his crew and he can be quite chill.

356
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He can also be quite officious and bureaucratic sometimes as well

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you know, like he's appalled here that he's been pulled across the

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sector to this, you know, red alert for no reason.

359
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It has this running gag where he's now got the shits with the guy

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with Barrett.

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Who is a that guy?

362
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Like he's absolutely super recognisable and he does come back.

363
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He does come back in DS9 series 5. to play a different role.

364
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I don't know that Kirk is always the likeable one in their

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exchanges.

366
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No, it's a bit of a prick, and it's really funny, and it just

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reminds me of Shatner. like it's Kirk being just an asshole like

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Shatner.

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I want an office with this transporter pad in like a set into the

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wall.

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I just think that looks so fabulous with the sort of 60 stars.

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Fumption in transporter or just for aesthetic.

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Just both, I don't care.

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Like, I'm just happy for it to look like that.

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It's so great.

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Like it just looks so awesome.

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Just in some guys' office.

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Like we've seen lots of scenes of people butting heads like this

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in Star Trek.

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There's a lot of talking in Star Trek, you know.

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And it can be very tedious or a bit nasty, but it's just all

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played so charmingly.

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They seem that, like, and every time we go back to Coke and

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Barrass, it's more funny. to the point where, you know, where he's

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got the triples and he's like, Well, they like you, Mr. Barris.

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I can't think why.

387
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Yeah, so great.

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It's so good.

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So by the time of more trouble, more tribbles, it's Quinto

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Triticale, rather than quad, quadro.

391
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Okay, word.

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So space.

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I think it might be a real word or like the trio means third, I

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think.

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So quadratriticale is 4 third, you know, grain.

396
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But it's, it's really...

397
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Shatner rolling his eyes, you know, because he's kind of being

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made a fool of because it's not just no one has heard of this, but

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this man standing next to me knows literally everything about it.

401
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But no, he gets that line later, doesn't he?

402
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where everyone and he goes, does everybody know about this grain

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but me?

404
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That's it.

405
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Because he's an idiot.

406
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But it's nice because Shatner, who obviously has a bit of an ego

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and likes to present himself. well.

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He's actually willing to take a piss out of himself as his

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character, which is really nice.

410
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Because the other thing that's really funny in more trouble, more

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tribles, more tribles, more trouble, whatever, is that they give

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Shatner, the word sabotage to say quite a lot.

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So, Sarah Jones turns up in that episode and he's charged with

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ecological sabotage.

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And of course, there's that famous recording of Shatner saying

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sabotage and being corrected by the floor manager or something.

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And he says, don't know, you say sabotage.

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I say sabotage.

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And like, it's like, so it's like, I don't know whether David

420
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Gerald is just doing that deliberately to shit.

421
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How does he say in that episode?

422
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He sort of says sabotage.

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And he doesn't like...

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Remember, we did determine that he is, you know, drinking a mint

425
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julep on a date phoning in his lines, you know.

426
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Oh, sorry, what?

427
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What bit of the script do you want?

428
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That's it.

429
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Sabotage, darling.

430
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He's just being spectacularly rude to Barrass and then stormed

431
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off.

432
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So great.

433
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See, I love it whenever and even when 90s trek did this, whenever

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they go off to these space bars.

435
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I just, I just love, it feels a bit Star Wars-y.

436
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You know, like when her solo's in the bar in the 1st Star Wars

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movie, that sort of the universe is a bit bigger and there's stuff

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going on and people hang out, but not just on our ships, you

439
00:20:44.339 --> 00:20:44.519
know?

440
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I really like it.

441
00:20:46.500 --> 00:20:49.980
And look, this is gorgeous classic 60s furniture, the plastic

442
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furniture in the background.

443
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Oh, this fella, um...

444
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I think his performance is sublime.

445
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Yeah.

446
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Like, he's playing up every single line.

447
00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:04.079
Yeah, yeah.

448
00:21:04.859 --> 00:21:09.119
And I guess he's a Star Trek type by now, isn't he?

449
00:21:09.180 --> 00:21:09.720
Oh, look.

450
00:21:09.779 --> 00:21:13.140
Well, you sort of idea Harry Muds, haven't you?

451
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So you know you can have these big comic turns.

452
00:21:15.779 --> 00:21:19.319
Actually, I don't think he ever goes madly over the top.

453
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But if anyone in this is winking at the camera.

454
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It's him.

455
00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:25.680
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

456
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Well, there's that bit during the bar fight where he goes up to

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the food machine and just replicates himself a drink.

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And like the comedy business because he's got these giant pockets

459
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all over his thing, which are full of flame gems and glow water

460
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and stuff that he's selling.

461
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And here's our 1st trip.

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We naturally just love.

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In any science fiction franchise, when these sleazy merchants turn

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up with all their baubles and, you know, yeah, yeah.

465
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I think we just love these carrots. basically cork, isn't he?

466
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

467
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Yeah, yeah.

468
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We'll get to Quark a bit later, I think.

469
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Oh, and so this is us having the tribles explained to us and she

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is so beautiful.

471
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Like, it's just adorable.

472
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How can you not love her hair?

473
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I smile, you know?

474
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It's wonderful.

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And it's her and Chekhov and Chekhov's playing like her gay best

476
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friend in this scene.

477
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Like, it's just sort of because she's going to go shopping, isn't

478
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she?

479
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And he's going to go with her. right.

480
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You think you're going to carry them back?

481
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know?

482
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And give her a box.

483
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I don't know anything.

484
00:22:40.500 --> 00:22:43.140
I do think there's something very cute about Wolves Canig.

485
00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:45.420
Oh yeah, he's so little. terribly young.

486
00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:48.240
It's that sort of, that sort of monkeys look, you know?

487
00:22:48.299 --> 00:22:49.859
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

488
00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:52.200
And he's got a beautiful smile as well.

489
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He does.

490
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And then these crazy old men by the bar.

491
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I like it when later on, when he takes the 2 drinks out and he

492
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somehow manages to lose them as he's going through the fracas and

493
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then when he gets to the door, he just pulls one out of his

494
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pocket.

495
00:23:11.339 --> 00:23:12.539
Yeah, yeah.

496
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No, the bomb and confiscates the drink off him because he knows

497
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that he's been behind the bar pouring drinks for himself while the

498
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bomb's been distracted.

499
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But yes, he gets one of his pocket and leaves.

500
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It's so good.

501
00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:32.400
But this as well, you know, one thing I realised about this was

502
00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:34.500
yeah, it's not particularly fast paces, is it?

503
00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:35.759
It's a lot of talking and stuff.

504
00:23:35.819 --> 00:23:37.019
I was never bored.

505
00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:40.920
Sometimes with, um, one of the things that is said on random trek

506
00:23:40.920 --> 00:23:41.279
all the time.

507
00:23:41.339 --> 00:23:43.980
Most original series, episodes are about 10 minutes too long.

508
00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:45.599
And I don't disagree with that.

509
00:23:45.660 --> 00:23:48.299
They do have lots of scenes of people walking about corridors and

510
00:23:48.299 --> 00:23:48.779
things like that.

511
00:23:49.380 --> 00:23:51.960
But because everyone's having fun in this.

512
00:23:52.019 --> 00:23:54.240
Like you just go for the ride, don't you?

513
00:23:54.299 --> 00:23:55.140
It's really great.

514
00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:58.440
Did you see that bit there when that triple went across the table

515
00:23:58.440 --> 00:23:59.700
and started eating the grain?

516
00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:01.319
Yeah, they're little puppet.

517
00:24:01.380 --> 00:24:03.900
It's so great because sometimes they're just sort of super low

518
00:24:03.900 --> 00:24:04.319
effort.

519
00:24:04.380 --> 00:24:07.559
Like they're just sort of fluffy balls that cost nothing to

520
00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:11.039
realise so that we can scatter them all over the set, but some of

521
00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:14.519
them do move and they must be, it must be fishing wire or

522
00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:14.759
something.

523
00:24:15.420 --> 00:24:15.839
Oh my god.

524
00:24:15.900 --> 00:24:19.680
Did you hear the story about James, how do you say?

525
00:24:20.339 --> 00:24:23.279
his kids come into the studio.

526
00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:25.140
And what happens?

527
00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:26.400
Do they steal tribbles?

528
00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:28.380
No, it was during this episode.

529
00:24:28.440 --> 00:24:30.299
Well, they didn't really know what they were shooting.

530
00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:33.359
They would just come in to see their dad in the studio and they

531
00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:36.960
went snooping and they literally had a kirk at the end of this

532
00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:40.619
episode moment where they started snooping about, opened up a

533
00:24:40.619 --> 00:24:44.039
cupboard and 500 tribles fell out.

534
00:24:45.779 --> 00:24:49.259
I don't know if that's apocryphal, but it's still a great story.

535
00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:50.039
It's true.

536
00:24:50.099 --> 00:24:51.720
Oh, yeah.

537
00:24:52.259 --> 00:24:57.119
Have you got like a little CGI face inside that screen there on

538
00:24:57.119 --> 00:24:57.660
yours?

539
00:24:57.720 --> 00:24:58.380
No.

540
00:24:58.440 --> 00:24:59.099
No.

541
00:24:59.099 --> 00:25:00.180
Oh, okay.

542
00:25:00.180 --> 00:25:00.960
Just inset.

543
00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:02.579
What?

544
00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:05.759
There's a face in the screen, but it's like a...

545
00:25:05.759 --> 00:25:08.579
Well, oh, my, I was really impressed watching that.

546
00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:11.099
He goes, oh my god, look they're using CSO back in the 60s.

547
00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:12.240
It's inlay.

548
00:25:13.440 --> 00:25:16.619
They do that all the time for those little screens.

549
00:25:18.420 --> 00:25:22.140
Oh, these are, this is my favourite part of Star Trek original

550
00:25:22.140 --> 00:25:23.819
series, is what's going on in the...

551
00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:28.680
I don't think this is the da, da, da, da music.

552
00:25:28.740 --> 00:25:30.359
At the moment where they do it again.

553
00:25:30.420 --> 00:25:31.980
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

554
00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:33.539
Like, they just, they just quote it.

555
00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:35.759
So good.

556
00:25:35.819 --> 00:25:37.380
It's very important things happening.

557
00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:40.200
The only thing that upholded me because I thought the score for

558
00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:41.819
this was brilliant.

559
00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:45.539
Especially that weird, that kind of...

560
00:25:45.539 --> 00:25:48.000
Easy the gigs playing all the way through.

561
00:25:48.059 --> 00:25:51.180
And I actually thought when I watched the DS9 episode that the

562
00:25:51.180 --> 00:25:52.740
score wasn't half as...

563
00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:54.359
You astounded me, really.

564
00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:58.980
But one thing I really miss.

565
00:25:59.099 --> 00:26:01.079
I thought this was a comedy episode and they didn't do the...

566
00:26:01.079 --> 00:26:04.920
No, but there is sort of comedy scoring.

567
00:26:04.980 --> 00:26:06.359
Like there is comedy scoring.

568
00:26:06.420 --> 00:26:07.619
I love the fact.

569
00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:13.200
So we've just had, um, we've had Admiral Fitzpatrick turn up and

570
00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:18.359
tell Kirk that he has to do whatever Paris says, which I think is

571
00:26:18.359 --> 00:26:21.599
fantastic and that kind of explains why he's got the shits with

572
00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:23.460
Barris, like for the whole rest of the episode.

573
00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:26.160
Don't you think the timing of that gag as well, where he's like, 0

574
00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:27.299
my god, the Klingons are here.

575
00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:30.599
So he's like, Mr. Paris, the Klingons, Captain Kirk, I don't think

576
00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:31.740
the Klingons are going to be any trouble.

577
00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:32.160
Why?

578
00:26:32.220 --> 00:26:33.660
Because they're here in my office.

579
00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:35.099
And then they go back.

580
00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:38.460
What a great gang.

581
00:26:39.660 --> 00:26:44.220
And is it John Colley, I'll see his performance as core.

582
00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:47.339
No, this is what Campbell as Coloff.

583
00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:50.519
Well, I'll tell you what, you don't you don't tone it down at

584
00:26:50.519 --> 00:26:50.759
all.

585
00:26:50.819 --> 00:26:52.079
When he comes back in blood oath.

586
00:26:52.140 --> 00:26:53.279
It's annoying.

587
00:26:53.339 --> 00:26:54.839
He's just as camp, I'm telling you.

588
00:26:54.900 --> 00:26:56.460
Yeah, he's really camp, isn't he?

589
00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:59.279
It's a really funny, like just seeing the Klingons look like

590
00:26:59.279 --> 00:26:59.519
this.

591
00:26:59.579 --> 00:27:00.839
Like that guy.

592
00:27:00.900 --> 00:27:05.579
I think there's a that guy in trials and tribulations, who is like

593
00:27:05.579 --> 00:27:10.980
an actor dressed up. as a Klingon who looks like that guy, like

594
00:27:10.980 --> 00:27:15.240
the other Klingon, who's Korax or something, Michael Petaki is

595
00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:15.900
Korax.

596
00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:18.059
This one behind him. camp.

597
00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:22.559
Yeah, the Klingon 8 who starts to fight in the bar.

598
00:27:22.619 --> 00:27:23.160
Yeah.

599
00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:24.779
Oh, yeah, man.

600
00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:26.519
He is Campus Christmas, isn't he?

601
00:27:26.579 --> 00:27:27.180
It really is.

602
00:27:27.299 --> 00:27:27.960
He's so good.

603
00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:31.740
It should be hard away. garbage.

604
00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:37.200
I love the way that everyone pronounces Klingon differently.

605
00:27:37.259 --> 00:27:39.839
Yeah, like they all pronounce it wrong.

606
00:27:39.900 --> 00:27:42.059
Including the Klingons.

607
00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:43.980
Yeah, he says Klingon.

608
00:27:44.099 --> 00:27:45.180
Klingon, doesn't he?

609
00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:45.839
Robin.

610
00:27:46.140 --> 00:27:50.819
And then the, and one of them goes, instead of saying, Klingon, he

611
00:27:50.819 --> 00:27:52.019
goes, Klingon.

612
00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:53.279
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

613
00:27:53.339 --> 00:27:54.599
That's the language.

614
00:27:54.660 --> 00:27:55.500
It's strange.

615
00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:58.500
I just don't bring it...

616
00:27:58.559 --> 00:27:59.640
No one had a meeting, you know?

617
00:27:59.700 --> 00:28:01.079
No, no, look at chat.

618
00:28:01.140 --> 00:28:04.980
They're just charming him back, like absolutely refusing to rise

619
00:28:04.980 --> 00:28:08.579
to it and just smiling, just beautiful chat and a smile.

620
00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:13.380
When he came in and he goes, oh, my dear, Cola.

621
00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:15.420
Oh, my dear Captain Kirk.

622
00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:22.319
I live for this stuff, you know?

623
00:28:22.380 --> 00:28:24.180
Play it up to the camera.

624
00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:26.880
Oh, Scotty, so boring, Leo.

625
00:28:26.940 --> 00:28:32.099
I know, but look at Kirk's response to him and just Kirk's just

626
00:28:32.099 --> 00:28:33.480
his whole demeanour here.

627
00:28:33.539 --> 00:28:39.059
There's something sexy about him being chill and funny rather than

628
00:28:39.059 --> 00:28:41.220
being an uptight creek. which he often is.

629
00:28:41.579 --> 00:28:44.940
Well, Joe, this is what he's got in space.

630
00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:48.059
I think Cisco has this as well when he's chill with his crew.

631
00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:50.220
Very sexy because he's sort of so chill.

632
00:28:50.279 --> 00:28:52.200
It's something that Archer doesn't have at all.

633
00:28:52.259 --> 00:28:54.359
No, no, because he's just a pre.

634
00:28:54.420 --> 00:28:56.279
He's just an asshole to everyone.

635
00:28:56.339 --> 00:28:57.779
Pick up his butt all the time.

636
00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:02.279
So this is Nemoy's great moment where he's talking about the

637
00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:06.059
tranquilising effect it has on the human nervous system and how

638
00:29:06.059 --> 00:29:09.660
he's immune to it, but he's just repeatedly striking it the whole

639
00:29:09.660 --> 00:29:09.960
time.

640
00:29:10.019 --> 00:29:14.099
It's shutness looking at him and then everyone looks at him and he

641
00:29:14.099 --> 00:29:17.400
realises that it's affecting him and he puts...

642
00:29:17.460 --> 00:29:18.900
And then he's just out now then.

643
00:29:18.900 --> 00:29:20.339
It's so great.

644
00:29:21.059 --> 00:29:25.440
And I love her line where she says, if you're gonna dissect it

645
00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:26.640
just don't tell me.

646
00:29:26.700 --> 00:29:27.539
I don't want to know.

647
00:29:28.140 --> 00:29:30.779
She still gives them all away, doesn't she?

648
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:31.500
She like, go on in.

649
00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:32.940
Well, so many of them.

650
00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:36.960
I don't think they realise at this point just how many there's

651
00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:37.259
gonna be.

652
00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:38.039
No.

653
00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:43.680
Have we learned yet that they're 50% reproduction, their biology?

654
00:29:43.740 --> 00:29:49.619
No, because that's the funny line that, um, that, which, um

655
00:29:49.619 --> 00:29:54.240
Deforest Kelly absolutely nails, that sort of wonderful thing, they

656
00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:57.059
seem to be born pregnant, which is quite a time saver.

657
00:29:57.059 --> 00:30:00.900
Like, it's...

658
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:04.200
I was not aware that 10 Klingons cast a student's form.

659
00:30:04.859 --> 00:30:08.160
And so this is the bit, isn't it?

660
00:30:08.220 --> 00:30:11.519
Where Dax 1st sees them?

661
00:30:11.579 --> 00:30:14.640
Like, yeah, when they're walking along the corridor.

662
00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:17.099
Yeah, they have this conversation. they're behind them.

663
00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:22.440
Yeah, and obviously we don't cut to, um, we don't cut to barrass.

664
00:30:22.500 --> 00:30:25.500
We just have this half of the conversation.

665
00:30:25.500 --> 00:30:31.440
And she's saying how sexy he is and we think it's curved.

666
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:33.059
Because it's curves out as a spark.

667
00:30:33.059 --> 00:30:35.160
Because she's a smart woman.

668
00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:39.900
And Nemo's the thinking woman's crumpet, I think.

669
00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:44.160
I think the idea of making, obviously, because Dax was alive in

670
00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:47.759
this time, in a different host. making her like the ultimate Star

671
00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:48.359
Trek fan.

672
00:30:48.420 --> 00:30:51.779
I can't believe you don't want to meet Captain Kirk, you know?

673
00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:54.960
And that's something that they've never done before, and it is

674
00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:57.240
something that they obviously do all the time, like on lower

675
00:30:57.240 --> 00:30:57.839
decks.

676
00:31:01.619 --> 00:31:03.900
Like he's got the shits.

677
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:08.279
Kelly, um, um, the doctor recognises it immediately and goes

678
00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:09.599
Barrass, the Klingons.

679
00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:15.000
Do you know what line actually made me die when he goes, you know

680
00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:17.339
what happens when you feed?

681
00:31:17.460 --> 00:31:18.720
A treble.

682
00:31:18.779 --> 00:31:21.539
And he wants him to say, you reproduce, he goes, no, you get a fat

683
00:31:21.539 --> 00:31:22.019
dribble.

684
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.279
Well, that is what happens next in their next appearance.

685
00:31:26.339 --> 00:31:30.000
But yes, he's just discovered that 50% of their biomass.

686
00:31:30.059 --> 00:31:33.420
And there's a little bit of kind of coyness about saying

687
00:31:33.420 --> 00:31:34.259
reproduction.

688
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:35.160
Do you know what I mean?

689
00:31:35.220 --> 00:31:38.460
Like there's, like it's, I'm going to find out how they, you know

690
00:31:38.460 --> 00:31:40.140
you know.

691
00:31:40.259 --> 00:31:42.180
Do you see what De Ferris Kelly just did then?

692
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:47.279
Well, he literally turns on a camera and went, he did the comedy

693
00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:49.319
like, you know, had a barbera shrug.

694
00:31:49.380 --> 00:31:50.400
So good.

695
00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:53.220
Oh, dear.

696
00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:56.400
I want you to go on sure leave and stop everybody from fighting

697
00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:56.759
Scotty.

698
00:31:56.819 --> 00:31:57.539
Old Kirk.

699
00:31:57.599 --> 00:31:58.079
Are you mad?

700
00:31:58.500 --> 00:32:00.299
Are you serious?

701
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:01.259
He does for a while.

702
00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:02.099
It does work.

703
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:05.339
And he's sort of disappointed about Shorely because he was

704
00:32:05.339 --> 00:32:10.200
enjoying reading his technical journals, which will obviously come

705
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:15.599
up a little bit later in what I think is also a magnificently

706
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:16.500
comic scene.

707
00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:21.299
You know, what's really confusing is that I keep seeing these sets

708
00:32:21.299 --> 00:32:25.319
and I keep thinking, my word, the original series really did get

709
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:28.140
these DS9 sets, absolutely spot on, didn't they?

710
00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:28.859
That's right.

711
00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:33.420
Well, this, with the doors coming in and out, you know, that's the

712
00:32:33.420 --> 00:32:37.259
moment where, you know, Julian and everyone sort of come in.

713
00:32:37.259 --> 00:32:45.059
And it was really nice.

714
00:32:45.059 --> 00:32:46.680
It's like both episodes as well.

715
00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:51.059
I think it really does draw sort of like the best, most watchable

716
00:32:51.059 --> 00:32:54.119
humour of all the characters, the DS9 episode and the TRS

717
00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:54.359
episode.

718
00:32:54.420 --> 00:32:57.720
So now we're establishing that Klingons and Tribbles don't like

719
00:32:57.720 --> 00:32:58.259
each other.

720
00:32:58.259 --> 00:33:00.059
And this is the very camp.

721
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:01.859
This is the camp Klingon.

722
00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:04.799
I think that's funny in the DSI one, though.

723
00:33:04.859 --> 00:33:07.319
Do they still sing songs or the great triple hunt?

724
00:33:07.380 --> 00:33:11.519
Oh, Renee doing his like his silly comedy headshake.

725
00:33:12.660 --> 00:33:16.259
This, a mortal enemy of the Empire.

726
00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:18.539
Well, because they've been destroyed, haven't they?

727
00:33:18.599 --> 00:33:21.420
By the 24th century, they've been wiped out by the Klingons.

728
00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:25.799
He says the great Klingon Armada wiped out the triple home

729
00:33:25.799 --> 00:33:26.220
planet.

730
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:32.579
See, like this whole sequence here where he's pulling out the

731
00:33:32.579 --> 00:33:33.779
tribbles from under the bar.

732
00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:35.700
The music is so good.

733
00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:38.220
And it just goes on forever.

734
00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:45.059
So he's trying to sell him a Klingon, a triple and he's just...

735
00:33:45.059 --> 00:33:49.680
But did you, like, did you take note of the music during the bar

736
00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:50.579
fight later on?

737
00:33:50.700 --> 00:33:52.019
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

738
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:54.660
I mean, that's really good.

739
00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:55.799
And comedy.

740
00:33:55.859 --> 00:33:58.859
And the great thing about the bar fight is that they're all really

741
00:33:58.859 --> 00:33:59.400
shit.

742
00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:03.119
Like they're, you know, it's not just Julian who is crappy in

743
00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:04.500
trials and tribulations.

744
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:07.859
Like they're all kind of a bit crap in the bar fight and they're

745
00:34:07.859 --> 00:34:08.699
all kind of losing.

746
00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:13.500
Where Chekov goes into someone's chest and then he just gets

747
00:34:13.500 --> 00:34:14.940
picked up and thrown over a table.

748
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:20.340
So we're having a discussion where, you know, he's drinking vodka

749
00:34:20.340 --> 00:34:23.699
because, you know, Chekhov is a child and he's just drinking vodka

750
00:34:23.699 --> 00:34:28.500
and it's like mother's milk and he's drinking scotch and Chekhov

751
00:34:28.500 --> 00:34:32.699
who all all episode has been crediting things to the Russian says

752
00:34:32.699 --> 00:34:36.300
that scotch was invented by a little old lady in Leningrad, which

753
00:34:36.300 --> 00:34:39.659
I just think is just...

754
00:34:39.719 --> 00:34:41.639
It's so funny.

755
00:34:41.699 --> 00:34:45.599
So this is just so tremendous.

756
00:34:45.659 --> 00:34:49.139
So this is the drunk Pleon who's mouthing off.

757
00:34:49.139 --> 00:34:57.900
And he's insulting, he's insulting Kirk and humans, like

758
00:34:57.900 --> 00:34:58.739
generally.

759
00:34:59.699 --> 00:35:04.500
It should be hauled away as garbage.

760
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:05.760
Yeah, with that.

761
00:35:05.820 --> 00:35:07.500
Mr. Stunk.

762
00:35:08.219 --> 00:35:11.639
Don't you think you said briefly?

763
00:35:11.699 --> 00:35:14.460
Oh, no, I can't get it out. rephrase that.

764
00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:15.960
Oh, it's great.

765
00:35:16.019 --> 00:35:20.579
Kurt gets called a tin-plated dictator in more trouble, more

766
00:35:20.579 --> 00:35:23.699
tribles as well, more more tribble, more troubles, whatever.

767
00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:25.920
Should be more trouble, more trouble.

768
00:35:25.980 --> 00:35:30.119
And trials and tribulations, they say, his ship, James Kirk.

769
00:35:30.179 --> 00:35:34.800
The man was a menace. 15 different temporal violation.

770
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:39.599
I love the fact they've gone back in time so many times.

771
00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:41.219
There's a temporal investigation.

772
00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:42.420
Yeah, yeah.

773
00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:43.019
Yeah.

774
00:35:43.500 --> 00:35:45.659
And do you know what their names are?

775
00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:46.619
Those 2 characters.

776
00:35:46.739 --> 00:35:50.219
Yeah, yeah, they're like Scully and Mulder only anagrams.

777
00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:52.199
Oh, Dolmer and Lustley or something.

778
00:35:55.260 --> 00:35:56.760
Here we go.

779
00:35:56.820 --> 00:35:58.920
Now the Klingons game insult the shube.

780
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:01.199
But it's weird as well.

781
00:36:01.260 --> 00:36:04.440
I do think the production value on this episode is strong.

782
00:36:04.500 --> 00:36:09.960
Like, I've seen original series Fires that are quite embarrassing

783
00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:10.920
and amateurish.

784
00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:13.199
And yeah, this is because it's funny.

785
00:36:13.260 --> 00:36:14.940
I don't know, because it's played for laughs.

786
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:15.480
Yeah, yeah.

787
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:16.559
Don't really matter, does it?

788
00:36:16.619 --> 00:36:19.079
No, I just think it's well directed and it's like a really kind of

789
00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:20.340
prolonged set piece.

790
00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:21.900
I mean there's no action in this.

791
00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:23.159
It is just people talking.

792
00:36:23.219 --> 00:36:29.099
And as we've said, like a bar fight or like a fight is kind of the

793
00:36:29.099 --> 00:36:33.300
cheapest bit of action that you can realise in Star Trek.

794
00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:36.000
And so that seems to be why they have so many of them.

795
00:36:36.059 --> 00:36:40.019
But this one is funny because you see them all kind of losing and

796
00:36:40.019 --> 00:36:41.219
being pathetic and stuff.

797
00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:45.239
Just look at that look.

798
00:36:45.300 --> 00:36:50.159
Look at that look on Jimmy's face.

799
00:36:50.219 --> 00:36:53.519
You just know that he's going to get up and clock him.

800
00:36:53.579 --> 00:36:54.719
It's so awesome.

801
00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:55.800
That's the thunder as well.

802
00:36:55.860 --> 00:36:58.320
The fellow playing the Klingon has to laugh for ages because he

803
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:01.440
knows the punch is coming. but he can't react until.

804
00:37:02.219 --> 00:37:03.900
Oh here we go.

805
00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:05.400
Chaos and shoes.

806
00:37:05.460 --> 00:37:09.179
He learned how to fight like that in an Asdar car park, I think.

807
00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:12.059
Did you see the barman swiping all the triples?

808
00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:13.139
He doesn't want him to get hurt.

809
00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:14.280
He was putting him under the bar.

810
00:37:15.659 --> 00:37:18.360
Don't hurt the soft furry creatures.

811
00:37:18.420 --> 00:37:19.800
And so what's he doing?

812
00:37:19.860 --> 00:37:21.900
He's just trying to escape the bar fight.

813
00:37:21.900 --> 00:37:26.760
And then 0 Jones, we cut between the shitty bar fight and him just

814
00:37:26.760 --> 00:37:29.940
pouring himself more and more drinks from this sort of low effort

815
00:37:29.940 --> 00:37:30.659
replicator.

816
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:34.500
Yeah, there's there's Chekhov punching the Klingon in the stomach

817
00:37:34.500 --> 00:37:36.420
and they're just getting thrown across the room.

818
00:37:37.019 --> 00:37:39.719
And that fella, Cyrano Jones.

819
00:37:39.780 --> 00:37:42.059
Honestly, his pinky is out for this whole scene.

820
00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:46.739
And you know what's delightful as well?

821
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:50.099
He's just going through it, loving every 2nd of this mad fire

822
00:37:50.099 --> 00:37:50.579
isn't he?

823
00:37:50.579 --> 00:37:52.559
He's just watching it and drinking and drinking.

824
00:37:53.820 --> 00:37:55.199
Yeah.

825
00:37:55.260 --> 00:37:57.539
So Scotty gets a crab beaten out of him as well.

826
00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:00.360
They're just hurling themselves.

827
00:38:00.420 --> 00:38:01.380
They really into it.

828
00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:05.760
It's kind of like a, it might be my favourite Star Trek fist

829
00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:06.179
fight.

830
00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:10.800
It's definitely one of, well, think about it in stark contrast.

831
00:38:10.860 --> 00:38:13.320
So the siege of AR 558 that we watched the other week.

832
00:38:13.380 --> 00:38:14.340
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

833
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:14.820
Yeah.

834
00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:16.019
At least you can see this one.

835
00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:16.920
That's right.

836
00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:19.619
And can you see it?

837
00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:20.340
Look at it.

838
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:22.139
Woo, whee, across the bar.

839
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:23.639
I just love the part.

840
00:38:23.699 --> 00:38:25.920
There's so many people are going over tables and bowls.

841
00:38:25.980 --> 00:38:27.539
Just having so much fun.

842
00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:30.659
There's a woman at the back of the set.

843
00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:34.320
She's like, pressing herself into the corner like, oh, but these

844
00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:35.699
guys are really going for it.

845
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:37.920
Like, they're just hurling themselves across the shot.

846
00:38:37.980 --> 00:38:39.599
You know, it's really fun.

847
00:38:39.659 --> 00:38:43.199
And then this, he just arrives with the intact drink.

848
00:38:43.619 --> 00:38:46.320
He's just about to get a sip and then the guy just swipes it off

849
00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:49.440
him, but fortunately he's got another one in his pocket.

850
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:52.679
See, this is a sort of bar fight.

851
00:38:52.739 --> 00:38:54.420
You say, I wouldn't mind getting involved in, you know, where

852
00:38:54.420 --> 00:38:55.559
people just thrown across tables.

853
00:38:56.039 --> 00:38:56.760
That's terrific.

854
00:38:56.820 --> 00:38:59.579
Unfortunately, I live in England where bar flies end up with

855
00:38:59.579 --> 00:39:01.559
people getting glasses smashed in their faces.

856
00:39:01.739 --> 00:39:03.539
Yeah, yeah.

857
00:39:03.539 --> 00:39:04.920
Oh, dear.

858
00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:11.159
So this scene is just magnificent and it's where O'Brien and

859
00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:13.019
Bashir are inserted into the middle.

860
00:39:13.019 --> 00:39:13.679
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

861
00:39:13.739 --> 00:39:14.340
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

862
00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:15.900
So the 1st punch.

863
00:39:16.019 --> 00:39:19.139
Yeah, so and he's got the shits.

864
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:22.980
Like he's really properly got the shits and he's kind of, yep, so

865
00:39:22.980 --> 00:39:26.340
that's, is that O'Brien that, that's okay.

866
00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:27.000
Brian's in the middle.

867
00:39:27.059 --> 00:39:29.460
Yeah, he's the one who says he's the one who says that too.

868
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:30.840
I don't know, sir.

869
00:39:30.900 --> 00:39:33.000
I don't know, sir.

870
00:39:33.599 --> 00:39:40.019
He's being so hilariously, Cap. It's so great.

871
00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:44.400
And props to check off are doing punched in the face acting, like

872
00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:47.760
he's acting as if that bruise really hurt, so he doesn't want to

873
00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:52.079
move his face too much, which people often forget to do this. his

874
00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:55.260
whole sequence now. says.

875
00:39:55.320 --> 00:39:56.760
I'm sorry.

876
00:39:56.820 --> 00:40:00.119
I'm not going to fight him just because he insulted you. but he

877
00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:01.139
assaulted the enterprise.

878
00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:03.179
That's a matter of personal honour, sir.

879
00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:03.780
Yeah, right?

880
00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:08.579
Yeah, he's, he's, but Shatner is like, I mean, Kirk is genuinely

881
00:40:08.579 --> 00:40:13.980
properly miffed that he's really got the shits.

882
00:40:13.980 --> 00:40:20.219
And it's really, like, and because he actually says, you know, they

883
00:40:20.219 --> 00:40:24.179
insulted you and he goes, oh, okay, well, yeah, you know, like, and

884
00:40:24.179 --> 00:40:27.420
he's kind of ready to forgive it a little bit flattered, and then

885
00:40:27.420 --> 00:40:28.980
he discovers that that wasn't it.

886
00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:34.440
I held him back because like Chekhov wanted to fight the guy over

887
00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:37.079
insulting you, but I had stopped him, you know?

888
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:39.239
Is this off the record?

889
00:40:39.300 --> 00:40:41.099
No, this is not off the record.

890
00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:46.320
Well, he called you a complete fuckwear.

891
00:40:46.380 --> 00:40:47.039
Oh, did he?

892
00:40:47.099 --> 00:40:47.579
Okay.

893
00:40:47.579 --> 00:40:48.599
That is the...

894
00:40:48.599 --> 00:40:49.980
And that's when the fight started.

895
00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:56.039
No, I think that off the record line is unbelievably funny.

896
00:40:56.039 --> 00:41:00.420
And he's like just Shatner's delivery of the response is just

897
00:41:00.420 --> 00:41:02.219
unbelievably great.

898
00:41:02.219 --> 00:41:05.340
Because you never get to see this.

899
00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:06.179
Do you ever get to see this?

900
00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:10.320
This is actors that, well, this is actors that are incredibly

901
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:11.820
relaxed around each other now.

902
00:41:11.880 --> 00:41:15.000
They know they're performances and they're playing up to it.

903
00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:18.059
I think, you know what?

904
00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:19.920
The more I'm watching it, the more savvy.

905
00:41:19.980 --> 00:41:21.599
I think it's Shatner is as an actor.

906
00:41:21.659 --> 00:41:22.500
Really good.

907
00:41:22.619 --> 00:41:23.820
He's properly good.

908
00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:24.900
And look at him.

909
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:25.320
Look at him.

910
00:41:25.380 --> 00:41:26.820
He's absolutely crushed.

911
00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:29.219
But...

912
00:41:30.300 --> 00:41:33.659
But the way he says it, it's like, surely you understand.

913
00:41:34.380 --> 00:41:35.099
That is a better off.

914
00:41:35.099 --> 00:41:36.360
It's garbage scowl.

915
00:41:38.340 --> 00:41:42.960
So that's when you decided to hit the Klingons, is it?

916
00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:51.780
And he's already kind of resolved not to punish him because...

917
00:41:51.900 --> 00:41:53.340
We kind of know that throughout this whole scene.

918
00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:53.880
Don't we?

919
00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:54.119
Yeah.

920
00:41:54.179 --> 00:41:54.420
Yeah.

921
00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:57.840
But he's absolutely butt hurt.

922
00:41:57.900 --> 00:42:00.000
Like he's super, super annoyed.

923
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:05.519
And so he dismisses him and sort of pretends to be cool with it

924
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:10.739
and then does the restricted quarters thing and then and then he

925
00:42:10.739 --> 00:42:11.820
goes, oh, yeah, that's right.

926
00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:14.099
I'll get to read my technical manuals.

927
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:18.000
But he's even got the shits even more because he hasn't even

928
00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:19.559
actually managed to punish him.

929
00:42:19.619 --> 00:42:21.539
Look at the look on his face.

930
00:42:21.780 --> 00:42:27.239
Oh, Nathan, this whole scene between Spock and McCoy.

931
00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:30.239
Like these 2 now, I've gone on about how these 2 can be a bit

932
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:33.719
toxic together sometimes, but this was hilarious.

933
00:42:33.780 --> 00:42:38.400
It's all done in sort of double meaning dialogue, isn't it?

934
00:42:38.460 --> 00:42:41.940
Good thing about triples is they do not talk too much.

935
00:42:44.099 --> 00:42:49.199
But that strange quote from the Bible as well. like they're from

936
00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:50.159
the sermon on the Mount.

937
00:42:50.219 --> 00:42:53.880
Like he's disquieted by them because they toil not, neither do

938
00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:54.539
they spin.

939
00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:57.059
Like they don't seem to serve any purpose.

940
00:42:57.119 --> 00:43:00.059
They just sort of eaten fuck and reproduce and that seems to be

941
00:43:00.059 --> 00:43:00.719
all they do.

942
00:43:00.780 --> 00:43:04.619
And the line about, the line about, they make, they're fluffy and

943
00:43:04.619 --> 00:43:07.199
they make a beautiful noise and he says, so would an ermine

944
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:08.039
violin.

945
00:43:08.099 --> 00:43:09.599
And he goes, what is that?

946
00:43:09.960 --> 00:43:14.699
It's like, and that's that's Spock coming up with that line.

947
00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:15.900
It's so good.

948
00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:18.900
Oh, it's wonderful.

949
00:43:19.019 --> 00:43:19.800
And you know what?

950
00:43:19.860 --> 00:43:21.000
They pace out as well.

951
00:43:21.059 --> 00:43:23.579
You know, because the triples, obviously, we're getting more and

952
00:43:23.579 --> 00:43:24.300
more as we go.

953
00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:24.960
So we've seen one.

954
00:43:25.019 --> 00:43:25.920
Then we see a couple.

955
00:43:26.039 --> 00:43:27.960
Then we see a plateful.

956
00:43:28.019 --> 00:43:31.260
Then we see a whole room full and it just gets big.

957
00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:33.179
It just gets more absurd as it goes.

958
00:43:34.199 --> 00:43:35.880
Oh, yes.

959
00:43:36.539 --> 00:43:39.239
I love this is funny as well.

960
00:43:39.300 --> 00:43:42.000
Him sitting on the chair in the bridge with the tribble on it. is

961
00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:44.219
funnier for having no dialogue whatsoever.

962
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:45.119
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

963
00:43:45.179 --> 00:43:46.139
It is terrific, isn't it?

964
00:43:46.739 --> 00:43:48.659
You know, here we goes.

965
00:43:48.719 --> 00:43:51.119
All frottle at this point, don't you?

966
00:43:51.179 --> 00:43:52.139
Or is that?

967
00:43:53.940 --> 00:43:55.380
Music.

968
00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:02.159
He's looking around at everyone and say, well, somebody, just

969
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:02.940
what's going on?

970
00:44:03.300 --> 00:44:08.219
Well, because in animated series, the actors can't, the characters

971
00:44:08.219 --> 00:44:09.840
can't sit down or do anything.

972
00:44:09.900 --> 00:44:14.159
Shatner just, I mean, Kirk just decides to stand next to his chair

973
00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:17.639
because there's a giant pink dribble in it.

974
00:44:17.699 --> 00:44:19.380
And is he padding it?

975
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:19.739
No.

976
00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:21.059
Oh, no.

977
00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:23.639
Now we get to see how many they are.

978
00:44:23.699 --> 00:44:26.219
I mean, that should have struck him earlier because obviously it

979
00:44:26.219 --> 00:44:29.639
was in his line of sight, but now the camera moves to the front of

980
00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:31.619
the bridge.

981
00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:33.599
I want this going across the rail there.

982
00:44:33.659 --> 00:44:34.920
It's sort of moving along.

983
00:44:34.980 --> 00:44:37.320
Oh that's so gorgeous.

984
00:44:37.380 --> 00:44:39.179
I really want one you know.

985
00:44:43.019 --> 00:44:48.000
Spock looking at him because he's kind of like attracted to the

986
00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:49.860
one that's moving along the railing.

987
00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:51.960
Like, he's kind of interested in it.

988
00:44:52.019 --> 00:44:54.179
Spock looks at him and he gets embarrassed.

989
00:44:54.599 --> 00:44:56.760
Don't look at me, Nathan.

990
00:44:56.820 --> 00:44:59.099
It's the trebles that are pregnant.

991
00:44:59.219 --> 00:45:00.119
That's right.

992
00:45:00.780 --> 00:45:02.340
Yeah.

993
00:45:02.340 --> 00:45:11.340
Just the pregnant, it seems to be quite a time saver.

994
00:45:11.400 --> 00:45:12.420
He's so funny.

995
00:45:12.539 --> 00:45:16.800
It is more funny for Shatner playing this straight, you know.

996
00:45:16.860 --> 00:45:17.940
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

997
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:22.619
But McCoy is really, really like that delivery.

998
00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:25.559
I love the use of the word bisexual here too.

999
00:45:25.619 --> 00:45:28.980
Yes, I that really made me sound.

1000
00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:32.519
Yeah, so what they mean is hermaphroditic, but they must have

1001
00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:37.139
assumed that that wouldn't be as comprehensible as bisexual, which

1002
00:45:37.139 --> 00:45:40.679
doesn't actually mean having both male and female sex organs.

1003
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:41.639
They do have a function.

1004
00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:43.619
They give us love.

1005
00:45:45.179 --> 00:45:48.719
You know what's really funny about this whole secret on the

1006
00:45:48.719 --> 00:45:49.019
bridge.

1007
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.260
It's like, no one's just, you think so, we'll just go around and

1008
00:45:52.260 --> 00:45:55.739
clear them up, but they just left them all over the consoles all

1009
00:45:55.739 --> 00:45:56.699
over the floor.

1010
00:45:56.760 --> 00:46:00.360
So in trouble with Edward, there's a guy who just walks around in

1011
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:03.480
the background with a giant vacuum cleaner, which has a big

1012
00:46:03.480 --> 00:46:07.860
transparent tank strapped to his back and this sort of vacuum

1013
00:46:07.860 --> 00:46:10.980
cleaner thing that goes over his head and he's just picking them

1014
00:46:10.980 --> 00:46:13.199
up off the floor, which is kind of adorable.

1015
00:46:16.260 --> 00:46:18.719
I know, you know, you you say about sort of hang time.

1016
00:46:18.780 --> 00:46:19.980
This is basically...

1017
00:46:19.980 --> 00:46:24.420
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. with fluffy blobs, isn't it?

1018
00:46:26.280 --> 00:46:28.800
Okay, so what's occurring here?

1019
00:46:28.860 --> 00:46:31.739
So we're questioning him in Barris's office.

1020
00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:34.980
We are questioning Cyrano Jones and we're very cross... this is

1021
00:46:34.980 --> 00:46:36.360
where he has a light bulb moment, isn't it?

1022
00:46:36.420 --> 00:46:37.860
Ah, the storage compartments.

1023
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:38.159
Yes.

1024
00:46:38.219 --> 00:46:38.760
Yes.

1025
00:46:38.820 --> 00:46:41.820
Yeah, and in fact, the storage compartments line is something that

1026
00:46:41.820 --> 00:46:42.480
we hear.

1027
00:46:42.539 --> 00:46:45.239
He says storage compartments quite a number of times, including

1028
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:49.500
earlier on in the 1st conversation with Barris, and then they

1029
00:46:49.500 --> 00:46:52.920
picked that up, I think, in, don't you?

1030
00:46:53.699 --> 00:46:54.360
There's 9 one.

1031
00:46:54.420 --> 00:46:57.360
They say right when they land, they say, oh, the station is mostly

1032
00:46:57.360 --> 00:46:58.739
storage compartments.

1033
00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:00.480
A few bars, you know?

1034
00:47:00.539 --> 00:47:04.440
And I think there's a realisation in the DS9 episode in trials and

1035
00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:08.280
tribulations, isn't there, where someone goes...

1036
00:47:08.340 --> 00:47:09.000
Yeah, yeah.

1037
00:47:09.059 --> 00:47:12.000
So he has the same discovery that Shatner has.

1038
00:47:12.059 --> 00:47:15.239
Like he's suddenly realised. that wonderful bit where they're

1039
00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:18.239
literally they're sitting on all of those triples in the storage

1040
00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:21.659
compartment and they're scanning each one and then throwing it

1041
00:47:21.659 --> 00:47:22.500
scanning it, throwing it.

1042
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:24.420
So good.

1043
00:47:26.159 --> 00:47:29.760
Do you know, I was just reading, actually, you know, memory alpha

1044
00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:33.000
you know, we were saying earlier about Dax throwing the triple

1045
00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:34.199
through the hole and landing.

1046
00:47:34.260 --> 00:47:36.599
Apparently that's because the stage hands.

1047
00:47:36.659 --> 00:47:38.280
They weren't aiming for Shatner.

1048
00:47:38.340 --> 00:47:40.860
They were just supposed to throw him out, but because he wasn't in

1049
00:47:40.860 --> 00:47:43.079
their line of sight, they just kept catching him.

1050
00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:47.460
Him looking a bit peeved is actually real.

1051
00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:51.420
This just supposed to be dropping out of the out of the storage

1052
00:47:51.420 --> 00:47:53.880
container, but instead they just appear to be hurling themselves

1053
00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:56.460
directly at Shatner, that's so great.

1054
00:47:56.519 --> 00:47:58.920
Oh, that's even funnier, isn't it?

1055
00:47:58.980 --> 00:48:00.480
That's right.

1056
00:48:03.539 --> 00:48:08.460
Oh, and Spock and Dax both have the same line about...

1057
00:48:08.460 --> 00:48:10.800
About the multiplying.

1058
00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:12.719
Yeah, yeah, they do the same sum.

1059
00:48:12.780 --> 00:48:19.139
And I think she actually overhears Spock doing that some later and

1060
00:48:19.139 --> 00:48:22.260
then kind of smiles because it's, you know, they've both got it

1061
00:48:22.260 --> 00:48:22.500
right.

1062
00:48:22.980 --> 00:48:28.139
Yeah, can I drop a really, a really slight piece of trivia, which

1063
00:48:28.139 --> 00:48:28.800
I really like.

1064
00:48:28.860 --> 00:48:35.639
Doug Jones from Star Trek Discovery says this is one of his

1065
00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:41.099
favourite episodes because he prefers the low stakes Star Trek

1066
00:48:41.099 --> 00:48:42.719
episodes that are really fun.

1067
00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:43.920
Yeah, yeah.

1068
00:48:43.980 --> 00:48:45.239
They are sometimes the best.

1069
00:48:45.300 --> 00:48:47.099
Yeah, yeah. this is just making...

1070
00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:48.000
Look at it in the cars.

1071
00:48:48.059 --> 00:48:50.880
Yeah, one of my favourite Star Treks ever.

1072
00:48:50.940 --> 00:48:51.420
Yeah.

1073
00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:52.260
Yeah.

1074
00:48:55.320 --> 00:48:57.840
He's after my grain?

1075
00:48:57.900 --> 00:49:04.739
So the guy who plays on Darvin is obviously back for trials and

1076
00:49:04.739 --> 00:49:05.519
tribulations.

1077
00:49:05.579 --> 00:49:08.039
Is it the 25th anniversary?

1078
00:49:08.460 --> 00:49:12.539
I'm a little baffled because here he looks quite exotic.

1079
00:49:12.599 --> 00:49:13.980
Whereas in...

1080
00:49:13.980 --> 00:49:15.360
True or tribulations?

1081
00:49:15.420 --> 00:49:16.920
Is it because he's a Klingon?

1082
00:49:16.980 --> 00:49:18.659
Are they giving him a slightly darker hue?

1083
00:49:18.719 --> 00:49:19.920
Yeah, yeah.

1084
00:49:19.980 --> 00:49:23.519
I think the actor might be Jewish or something and there is kind

1085
00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:29.579
of an ugly history of making the Klingons look like, um, you know

1086
00:49:29.579 --> 00:49:33.300
racial minorities and stuff and they kind of read sometimes the

1087
00:49:33.300 --> 00:49:36.360
sort of Fu Manchu characters with those beards or whatever.

1088
00:49:36.420 --> 00:49:41.340
Um, here, they just seem like sort of cross white guys most of the

1089
00:49:41.340 --> 00:49:41.579
time.

1090
00:49:41.699 --> 00:49:43.980
So there's a bit less of that.

1091
00:49:44.039 --> 00:49:47.639
But I wonder whether they're just kind of, they've cast Brill

1092
00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:50.159
because he's a bit darker.

1093
00:49:50.219 --> 00:49:54.360
And he is still a little bit dark skinned in the thing, but he's

1094
00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:56.340
got gray hair and he looks a bit less.

1095
00:49:56.340 --> 00:49:58.440
Terribly handsome as well, you know.

1096
00:49:58.500 --> 00:50:01.860
Yeah, yeah, young, like both of them, but he's a little bit more

1097
00:50:01.860 --> 00:50:08.039
relaxed where he's very kind of stiff and kind of, um, you know

1098
00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:10.860
and young, ridiculously young.

1099
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:11.940
He's brilliant.

1100
00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:14.400
He's Barry, isn't he?

1101
00:50:14.820 --> 00:50:18.539
Yeah, and he gets he gets to camp it up in that one because he's

1102
00:50:18.539 --> 00:50:19.079
just the villain.

1103
00:50:19.139 --> 00:50:20.880
Whereas he's not the villain in this, is it?

1104
00:50:20.940 --> 00:50:26.099
So he's like, I see myself holding Kirkham Kirk's head in one hand

1105
00:50:26.099 --> 00:50:28.079
and a triple in the oven.

1106
00:50:28.139 --> 00:50:30.179
Oh, he wants a monument, doesn't he?

1107
00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:36.300
Do you know, do you know something that actually, I learn about

1108
00:50:36.300 --> 00:50:38.039
Gene Roddenbury?

1109
00:50:38.099 --> 00:50:39.659
He really disliked this episode?

1110
00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:40.679
Oh wow.

1111
00:50:40.739 --> 00:50:42.239
He disliked this episode.

1112
00:50:42.300 --> 00:50:47.699
He disliked the Tribbles and he didn't want comedy episodes in

1113
00:50:47.699 --> 00:50:48.300
original Trek.

1114
00:50:48.360 --> 00:50:52.500
And apparently Gene Coon, who you and I have said, was as

1115
00:50:52.500 --> 00:50:57.300
responsible, was massively in favour of, you know, having some

1116
00:50:57.300 --> 00:50:57.780
fun.

1117
00:50:57.840 --> 00:50:58.320
Yeah.

1118
00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:03.239
But apparently he thought it deviated from what he thought Star

1119
00:51:03.239 --> 00:51:04.380
Trek should be.

1120
00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:07.380
Yeah, but I think, you know, Have you seen it?

1121
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:08.159
bloody absurd.

1122
00:51:08.219 --> 00:51:09.360
He's been proved wrong.

1123
00:51:09.420 --> 00:51:12.780
Yes, and it is silly and when it acknowledges that it's silly.

1124
00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:15.659
Like sometimes it's worth just playing it straight and going with

1125
00:51:15.659 --> 00:51:17.039
it, if it's being ridiculous.

1126
00:51:17.099 --> 00:51:20.340
But, you know, sometimes it's worth acknowledging that it's silly

1127
00:51:20.340 --> 00:51:20.639
too.

1128
00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:24.000
Oh, here we go.

1129
00:51:24.059 --> 00:51:27.659
Yeah, he sort of, he's actually seems to be kind of pulling them

1130
00:51:27.659 --> 00:51:30.239
down out of the thing in order to keep them going.

1131
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:32.460
Like he's certainly leaning into them.

1132
00:51:33.119 --> 00:51:37.079
The fact that this next shot starts with him emerging up from an

1133
00:51:37.079 --> 00:51:39.659
entire...

1134
00:51:39.659 --> 00:51:40.800
Army of brillles.

1135
00:51:40.860 --> 00:51:42.539
That one's moving.

1136
00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:49.440
I think he's redefined and perfected looking peeved in this

1137
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:49.800
episode.

1138
00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:52.980
He's just slightly pissed off the entire way through this

1139
00:51:52.980 --> 00:51:53.880
episode.

1140
00:51:53.940 --> 00:51:57.360
Did you see that security officer behind spot there?

1141
00:51:57.420 --> 00:51:58.739
in the red shirt.

1142
00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:01.260
He is in the DS9 episode.

1143
00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:02.820
Obviously there's a much older man.

1144
00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:06.239
He's the one that arrests a Brian and Bashir after the bar fire.

1145
00:52:06.300 --> 00:52:07.440
Oh wow.

1146
00:52:07.500 --> 00:52:08.400
Wow.

1147
00:52:08.460 --> 00:52:11.639
He's put on about 15 stones since then.

1148
00:52:11.699 --> 00:52:14.219
So they squeeze him into a red shirt again, but he's massive.

1149
00:52:14.280 --> 00:52:15.539
That's brilliant.

1150
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:17.039
That's awesome.

1151
00:52:18.420 --> 00:52:23.699
Oh, just the pained way, he says, and please close that door.

1152
00:52:28.139 --> 00:52:31.380
I mean, how can you...

1153
00:52:31.739 --> 00:52:34.440
Look at that image of Shadow that's surrounded by those tribles

1154
00:52:34.500 --> 00:52:35.400
ridiculous.

1155
00:52:36.599 --> 00:52:38.219
There we go.

1156
00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:40.860
They're throwing them at his head from off.

1157
00:52:40.980 --> 00:52:43.739
The image I really took away from this was the poor fellow at the

1158
00:52:43.739 --> 00:52:46.559
bar when he's comes around and he's got 2 on his head.

1159
00:52:46.619 --> 00:52:52.019
They redo that in the final scene of the DS9 episode, don't they?

1160
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:55.440
where we pull back to see that Quark has one on his head.

1161
00:52:55.500 --> 00:52:57.539
Like, and he's the bartender.

1162
00:52:57.599 --> 00:52:59.219
Like, and he's just literally that shot.

1163
00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:00.420
And that is the...

1164
00:53:00.420 --> 00:53:01.260
Well, now, do you know?

1165
00:53:01.260 --> 00:53:05.039
Do you know, though, like you said about the short treks where

1166
00:53:05.039 --> 00:53:09.840
they had the budget, the two, you know, a 1000 CGI triples filling

1167
00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:10.380
up this ship.

1168
00:53:10.500 --> 00:53:13.559
And in the DSI one, it's clear they've only got about 50 and

1169
00:53:13.559 --> 00:53:16.320
they're trying to scatter them around the promenade very, they'll

1170
00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:17.340
make it look on those hundreds.

1171
00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:21.000
But they do a pretty good job of it, and that is absolutely a

1172
00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:26.219
stroke of genius to have, like, because the investigators have

1173
00:53:26.219 --> 00:53:29.940
come to investigate the temporal violation and the temporal

1174
00:53:29.940 --> 00:53:33.900
violation has caused the tribbles, which were extinct, to not be

1175
00:53:33.900 --> 00:53:34.800
extinct anymore.

1176
00:53:34.860 --> 00:53:38.159
And we don't know that until the very end.

1177
00:53:38.219 --> 00:53:41.039
And so they've ushered those guys out.

1178
00:53:41.039 --> 00:53:45.780
And then we reveal that the entire station is just plagued with

1179
00:53:45.780 --> 00:53:46.320
tribbles.

1180
00:53:46.320 --> 00:53:47.699
And we just leave it like that.

1181
00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:48.599
It's wonderful.

1182
00:53:48.659 --> 00:53:50.880
Do you remember the apologetic look on Odo's face?

1183
00:53:50.940 --> 00:53:52.260
He goes, did you tell them?

1184
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:54.300
It's so good.

1185
00:53:54.360 --> 00:53:55.559
It's so good.

1186
00:53:55.619 --> 00:53:58.980
That is such a genius comic moment, I think, at the end.

1187
00:53:59.039 --> 00:54:00.119
Cisco goes.

1188
00:54:00.179 --> 00:54:01.860
Well, we could always build a new station.

1189
00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:03.719
Yeah, that's right.

1190
00:54:03.780 --> 00:54:05.639
Everyone's having fun.

1191
00:54:05.639 --> 00:54:06.420
That's great.

1192
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:07.800
Honestly.

1193
00:54:08.340 --> 00:54:10.199
Oh, here we go.

1194
00:54:10.260 --> 00:54:14.400
This is that protracted sequence where the triple unmasks the real

1195
00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:14.760
villain.

1196
00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:19.260
Yeah, and it turns out it's little Charlie Brill, Barry, to his

1197
00:54:19.260 --> 00:54:19.860
most.

1198
00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:23.880
I feel like every Poirot reveal, you know, could be a tribble

1199
00:54:23.880 --> 00:54:24.119
there.

1200
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:24.840
Yeah.

1201
00:54:25.500 --> 00:54:29.280
We haven't mentioned the other really prominent tremble in Star

1202
00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:30.179
Trek discovery.

1203
00:54:31.079 --> 00:54:32.820
Who's that?

1204
00:54:32.940 --> 00:54:37.199
Captain Locker has a tribble on his desk in...

1205
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:37.920
Oh, is it dead?

1206
00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:38.639
In the ready room.

1207
00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:42.239
No, it's alive, but he does, I think, have a dissected one or

1208
00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:46.079
something in, you know, with a gone skeleton stuff in his

1209
00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:46.619
armoury.

1210
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:53.760
It's a tribble there as well I think that's it's a declaration by

1211
00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:56.940
Kurtzman Trek that we're just doing the nonsense bits as well.

1212
00:54:57.000 --> 00:54:57.960
It'll be okay.

1213
00:54:58.199 --> 00:55:02.699
I just, I love the fact that in 90s trek, I think it's on trek.

1214
00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:08.099
They just cherry pick all of the wackiest, the maddest things from

1215
00:55:08.099 --> 00:55:10.199
original trek and just run with it.

1216
00:55:10.260 --> 00:55:11.219
It's great.

1217
00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:16.679
Well, in DS9, but not really in Star Trek, the Next Generation.

1218
00:55:16.739 --> 00:55:19.739
And in fact, Star Trek, the Next Generation very deliberately

1219
00:55:19.739 --> 00:55:24.300
seems to avoid, you know, after episode two, obviously, which is

1220
00:55:24.300 --> 00:55:25.800
just a remake of another one.

1221
00:55:25.860 --> 00:55:30.780
Well, you know, Ronald D. Moore and Ira Bear, and I think Renee

1222
00:55:30.780 --> 00:55:33.900
Chavaria as well, a massive original series fans.

1223
00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:35.280
So they would throw in references.

1224
00:55:35.340 --> 00:55:41.460
There's a bit in facets where Odo, who is in fact, um, 0 my god

1225
00:55:41.460 --> 00:55:42.239
that's his old host.

1226
00:55:42.300 --> 00:55:46.800
He goes up to the bar and he goes, 2 troniers, please. brilliant.

1227
00:55:49.920 --> 00:55:53.400
Well, I think, yeah, it's like the Pike City pioneers.

1228
00:55:53.460 --> 00:55:55.800
Like, if you look, there's loads of references.

1229
00:55:55.860 --> 00:55:56.760
Yeah, yeah.

1230
00:55:57.659 --> 00:55:59.460
Oh here we go.

1231
00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:00.960
So this is the unmasking.

1232
00:56:01.019 --> 00:56:05.639
He's got the, yeah, they don't like Klingon.

1233
00:56:05.699 --> 00:56:08.280
Okay, so McCoy just walks in because we need him for a plot point

1234
00:56:08.280 --> 00:56:08.760
in the minute.

1235
00:56:08.820 --> 00:56:09.900
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1236
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:10.139
Yeah.

1237
00:56:10.199 --> 00:56:14.039
No, he needs to out of the line about his pullman.

1238
00:56:14.099 --> 00:56:14.880
Well, Mr. Spark.

1239
00:56:14.940 --> 00:56:16.199
I didn't know you had it in you.

1240
00:56:16.260 --> 00:56:17.639
This is a per name.

1241
00:56:20.340 --> 00:56:23.579
Oh, here we go. just embarrassed.

1242
00:56:23.639 --> 00:56:24.000
They like you.

1243
00:56:25.079 --> 00:56:27.780
Well, there's no accounting for taste.

1244
00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:30.239
Like, he's really quiet.

1245
00:56:30.539 --> 00:56:31.619
He's having fun now.

1246
00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:35.039
Shatner's really enjoying himself and he just gets the chance to

1247
00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:38.940
let off one last insult to Barris and here we go.

1248
00:56:42.420 --> 00:56:44.760
Yeah, he's really having fun.

1249
00:56:44.820 --> 00:56:47.219
Can you just imagine where they got their scripts?

1250
00:56:47.340 --> 00:56:50.699
They must have all just been like, oh, man, we can cut loose and

1251
00:56:50.699 --> 00:56:51.599
have a laugh.

1252
00:56:51.719 --> 00:56:52.679
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1253
00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:56.699
Instead of trying to make something absurd, seem dramatic.

1254
00:56:56.760 --> 00:56:58.199
Yeah, we can make something absurd.

1255
00:56:59.099 --> 00:56:59.820
Actually, absolutely.

1256
00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:02.340
Yeah.

1257
00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:06.780
Although William Charlotte is playing Barris absolutely straight.

1258
00:57:06.840 --> 00:57:09.179
He deserves an award, I think of some kind.

1259
00:57:09.239 --> 00:57:11.340
So I do wonder then.

1260
00:57:11.400 --> 00:57:14.340
I do wonder if they should have done more comedy episodes.

1261
00:57:14.460 --> 00:57:16.920
Because it's clearly it works.

1262
00:57:16.980 --> 00:57:22.260
Yeah, I wonder whether it would have tried our patience, perhaps

1263
00:57:22.260 --> 00:57:24.780
if they, too often.

1264
00:57:24.840 --> 00:57:28.380
I think we think there are more comedy episodes of the original

1265
00:57:28.380 --> 00:57:32.219
series than there are because so many of the serious episodes are

1266
00:57:32.219 --> 00:57:32.940
so ridiculous.

1267
00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:33.539
Yeah.

1268
00:57:33.599 --> 00:57:36.480
That, you know, Abraham Lincoln floating in space.

1269
00:57:36.539 --> 00:57:43.199
Yeah, the giant green hand, you know, the massive Pooh monster.

1270
00:57:43.260 --> 00:57:44.280
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1271
00:57:45.059 --> 00:57:49.139
But, but I mean, this is, you know, like deliberately comic.

1272
00:57:50.219 --> 00:57:52.860
Well, can you think of any other?

1273
00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:55.440
I think the one set in the Chicago planet.

1274
00:57:55.500 --> 00:57:58.559
That's supposed to be quite funny, isn't it?

1275
00:57:58.619 --> 00:58:00.000
Oh, the Alice in Wonderland one.

1276
00:58:00.059 --> 00:58:00.480
Do you remember?

1277
00:58:00.539 --> 00:58:02.699
Yeah, that's the one that I've been thinking of more than anything

1278
00:58:02.699 --> 00:58:06.780
else, and I don't really remember that at all, I have to say.

1279
00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:08.159
Is that Shore Leave?

1280
00:58:08.340 --> 00:58:10.260
Yeah, surely.

1281
00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:16.440
It's really funny Oh my god, look, he's wobbling those tribles in

1282
00:58:16.440 --> 00:58:18.300
his hand to try and make it a lot.

1283
00:58:18.360 --> 00:58:19.619
Yeah, yeah, he's getting them to act.

1284
00:58:19.739 --> 00:58:20.460
Yeah, yeah.

1285
00:58:20.519 --> 00:58:21.840
No, no, no.

1286
00:58:21.900 --> 00:58:22.980
I think I'm one of those.

1287
00:58:22.980 --> 00:58:25.079
The tal is attached to a fishing line, I think.

1288
00:58:25.139 --> 00:58:27.179
I don't think that's just all shot.

1289
00:58:27.239 --> 00:58:29.639
That short ought to go at the bar.

1290
00:58:29.639 --> 00:58:30.420
That is so great.

1291
00:58:32.820 --> 00:58:35.219
He's so muterable.

1292
00:58:38.280 --> 00:58:43.679
And I like this, I like the fact that the punishment for, um, oh

1293
00:58:43.679 --> 00:58:45.840
god, I'm, Mr., no, what's his name?

1294
00:58:45.900 --> 00:58:48.239
Tyrano Jones has to pick up all...

1295
00:58:48.239 --> 00:58:52.079
Tribbles and it's going to take him 17.5 years. 17 years.

1296
00:58:52.139 --> 00:58:52.619
Yeah.

1297
00:58:53.880 --> 00:58:56.519
And of course, we get comedy music as he starts picking them all

1298
00:58:56.519 --> 00:58:57.360
up at the end.

1299
00:58:57.420 --> 00:58:58.440
Instead of looking around.

1300
00:58:58.500 --> 00:59:02.820
Of course, it will take him less time than that because he

1301
00:59:02.820 --> 00:59:06.780
actually ends up getting off the station and being in the animated

1302
00:59:06.780 --> 00:59:07.260
series.

1303
00:59:08.280 --> 00:59:11.400
But this sort of heightened performance.

1304
00:59:11.460 --> 00:59:14.400
Oh, the sort of theatrical acting, yeah.

1305
00:59:14.940 --> 00:59:18.360
I mean, you know me, we're a big fan of vintage TV.

1306
00:59:18.420 --> 00:59:20.340
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1307
00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:23.880
But I mean, Star Trek does this still, you know, like at times

1308
00:59:23.880 --> 00:59:24.360
doesn't it?

1309
00:59:24.420 --> 00:59:28.019
Oh, yeah, that fabulous pirate woman in the serene squad.

1310
00:59:28.079 --> 00:59:29.579
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1311
00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:32.099
Yeah, that's like a big comedy villain.

1312
00:59:32.159 --> 00:59:35.099
Not comedy, but a big camp villain kind of.

1313
00:59:35.159 --> 00:59:37.380
I about say she did everything, but put her hands on her hips, but

1314
00:59:37.380 --> 00:59:39.119
I think she might have done that. times.

1315
00:59:42.179 --> 00:59:46.679
So 17.9 years, so that's what, 2 years less on the prison

1316
00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:47.039
sentence.

1317
00:59:48.659 --> 00:59:52.139
So, right, here's a quote, I don't need your new questions, but

1318
00:59:52.139 --> 00:59:53.039
I'm going to ask you a question.

1319
00:59:53.099 --> 00:59:57.360
Is this the best comedy episode?

1320
00:59:58.619 --> 01:00:01.739
I think it's the most, it's the most remembered.

1321
01:00:01.800 --> 01:00:09.239
Yeah, but I mean, I think that, um, well, I mean, we've got lower

1322
01:00:09.239 --> 01:00:09.840
decks.

1323
01:00:09.900 --> 01:00:10.440
Do you know what I mean?

1324
01:00:10.500 --> 01:00:12.239
In lower decks, he's I'd like it.

1325
01:00:12.300 --> 01:00:14.760
Wishing that to a other side, which is a comedy show.

1326
01:00:14.820 --> 01:00:20.820
Yeah, I think, I think probably, I think probably there's a sort

1327
01:00:20.820 --> 01:00:24.119
of attempt to do a sort of strange weird camp comedy towards the

1328
01:00:24.119 --> 01:00:31.320
end of series one of Strange New Worlds, but it's not an out and

1329
01:00:31.320 --> 01:00:36.000
out comedy and it does have an actual kind of, you know, emotional

1330
01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:36.840
core.

1331
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:43.199
Um, I think I think there's a few contenders for like most of them

1332
01:00:43.199 --> 01:00:44.099
are.

1333
01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:49.139
I think literal green men would rank. as a very funny one.

1334
01:00:49.199 --> 01:00:51.840
Our man Bashir as well, which is very funny.

1335
01:00:51.900 --> 01:00:56.639
Um, And I think there's a couple on TNG as well.

1336
01:00:56.699 --> 01:01:01.920
I think the one where Q loses his powers is hilariously funny.

1337
01:01:02.039 --> 01:01:03.059
Remember that one?

1338
01:01:03.119 --> 01:01:05.280
The guy that stabs him with a four.

1339
01:01:05.340 --> 01:01:06.179
Yeah, yeah.

1340
01:01:06.179 --> 01:01:11.159
Yeah, again, but that's just a big performance from John Delancey

1341
01:01:11.159 --> 01:01:13.980
and everyone else is playing it straight, whereas here everyone

1342
01:01:13.980 --> 01:01:17.159
gets the opportunity to be funny. like they get to deliver

1343
01:01:17.159 --> 01:01:17.760
something.

1344
01:01:17.820 --> 01:01:21.360
There's a massive high concept joke as well, isn't it?

1345
01:01:21.420 --> 01:01:22.079
The triples.

1346
01:01:22.139 --> 01:01:24.780
Like little green men, uh, cork, rum, and not, because they're

1347
01:01:24.780 --> 01:01:25.739
Roswell aliens, you know.

1348
01:01:25.800 --> 01:01:26.280
Yeah.

1349
01:01:26.280 --> 01:01:27.840
Yeah, that is pretty great.

1350
01:01:27.960 --> 01:01:30.539
Or the whole crew plays baseball.

1351
01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:34.980
Yeah, that's a sitcom episode, but it's not quite a comedy.

1352
01:01:35.039 --> 01:01:39.179
Like it's not an out comedy, but it is shaped like a sitcom

1353
01:01:39.179 --> 01:01:43.139
episode where, you know, Cisco learns available lesson and stuff

1354
01:01:43.139 --> 01:01:46.739
and it does end with a crap joke as well, which is super

1355
01:01:46.739 --> 01:01:47.639
disappointing.

1356
01:01:47.699 --> 01:01:51.300
I'll tell you when, I'll tell you when a comedy goes badly wrong

1357
01:01:51.300 --> 01:01:52.500
profit and lace.

1358
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:53.880
Oh yeah, yuck.

1359
01:01:53.940 --> 01:01:56.159
That is supposed to be a comedy.

1360
01:01:56.219 --> 01:01:57.719
Super ill advised.

1361
01:01:57.780 --> 01:02:02.820
The, I mean, Star Trek, the Next Generation, everyone is generally

1362
01:02:02.820 --> 01:02:05.099
a bit too wooden for comedy to land.

1363
01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:07.260
Like they're not that good at it.

1364
01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:09.360
And towards the end, they get more relaxed.

1365
01:02:09.420 --> 01:02:10.139
Oh here we go.

1366
01:02:10.199 --> 01:02:13.440
Look, Michelle's giving a proper head laugh there.

1367
01:02:13.500 --> 01:02:15.059
Like she's throwing a head back.

1368
01:02:15.119 --> 01:02:17.099
It's the funniest thing that's ever happened.

1369
01:02:17.159 --> 01:02:17.699
Bless her.

1370
01:02:17.760 --> 01:02:18.840
That's so awesome.

1371
01:02:19.380 --> 01:02:24.119
You know, the funniest thing about watching this with my palner

1372
01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:28.139
was that at the end of the episode and you've got that picture of

1373
01:02:28.139 --> 01:02:32.340
the gall. in the credits and he went, what the hell was that?

1374
01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:38.039
But you know what?

1375
01:02:38.099 --> 01:02:39.539
I will I will forgive.

1376
01:02:39.599 --> 01:02:41.519
I'll forgive the joke at the end of this one though.

1377
01:02:41.579 --> 01:02:43.860
It's the whole thing full of moments like that.

1378
01:02:43.920 --> 01:02:47.460
The gone thing is another one of these ridiculous things where

1379
01:02:47.460 --> 01:02:52.679
it's a rubber lizard in a cocktail frock and then they make it the

1380
01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:57.059
most terrifying alien enemy that you could possibly imagine in

1381
01:02:57.059 --> 01:03:01.380
strange New World series one and gives, you know, one of the

1382
01:03:01.380 --> 01:03:06.000
characters a tragic backstory involving the gone.

1383
01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:10.679
Like, it's that thing where it just goes, yes, Star Trek's

1384
01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:14.039
ridiculous, and we're going to still do it, and we're going to do

1385
01:03:14.039 --> 01:03:17.820
it in a very Star Treky way and you watch us make something

1386
01:03:17.820 --> 01:03:18.659
incredible out of it.

1387
01:03:18.719 --> 01:03:22.139
Well, I think the rarest of things and say that actually

1388
01:03:22.139 --> 01:03:27.420
Enterprise had a gone appear in the mirror 2 passer in series 4

1389
01:03:27.420 --> 01:03:31.920
and did it in CJR, but in like the half dark, glowing eyes.

1390
01:03:31.980 --> 01:03:33.539
And it was really effective.

1391
01:03:33.599 --> 01:03:37.860
And I was like, Jesus, these monsters have got legs, you know?

1392
01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:42.059
They are fucking terrifying in episode 9 of Strange New Worlds.

1393
01:03:42.119 --> 01:03:45.059
Like they're really, really frightening.

1394
01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:48.420
It's a great episode, a really properly good episode.

1395
01:03:48.480 --> 01:03:48.900
Yeah.

1396
01:03:48.960 --> 01:03:51.719
Nathan, I kind of knew you and I were going to laugh throughout

1397
01:03:51.719 --> 01:03:53.519
the entire episode. so good.

1398
01:03:53.579 --> 01:03:54.659
It's so good.

1399
01:03:54.719 --> 01:03:58.079
And like we said before, it's not overt belly laughs. not, you

1400
01:03:58.079 --> 01:04:00.480
know, it's it's comedic.

1401
01:04:00.539 --> 01:04:01.380
Yeah, yeah.

1402
01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:04.860
Um, but I just think it's the character work.

1403
01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:07.619
It's the character work on the original series that has impressed

1404
01:04:07.619 --> 01:04:08.099
me the most.

1405
01:04:08.159 --> 01:04:10.440
Yeah, and the sort of...

1406
01:04:11.639 --> 01:04:12.960
Well we call it relaxed.

1407
01:04:13.019 --> 01:04:16.139
That sort of charming relationships that everybody has, that it's

1408
01:04:16.139 --> 01:04:19.800
just not there in most of 90s trick, you know?

1409
01:04:19.860 --> 01:04:23.159
where they're all, where they're all sort of like, you know, office

1410
01:04:23.159 --> 01:04:23.880
people in space.

1411
01:04:23.940 --> 01:04:25.440
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1412
01:04:25.500 --> 01:04:28.440
And like the banter, any kind of comedy that they attempt to do in

1413
01:04:28.440 --> 01:04:33.119
Voyager is just horrifically bad, like really, seriously

1414
01:04:33.119 --> 01:04:34.679
physically painful to us.

1415
01:04:34.739 --> 01:04:37.440
Unless it involves Jerry Ryan and Robert Picardo.

1416
01:04:37.500 --> 01:04:38.699
I mean, that's pretty good.

1417
01:04:38.760 --> 01:04:39.539
Yeah, they're great.

1418
01:04:39.599 --> 01:04:40.440
Yeah, obviously.

1419
01:04:40.500 --> 01:04:44.099
Oh, actually, that was an episode, you know, with an over comedy

1420
01:04:44.099 --> 01:04:45.539
premise.

1421
01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:49.019
The one where the doctor and 7 of 9 do the body swap.

1422
01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:51.599
Have you watched it?

1423
01:04:51.659 --> 01:04:52.380
I watched it.

1424
01:04:52.500 --> 01:04:53.099
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1425
01:04:53.159 --> 01:04:54.420
It was funny, wasn't it?

1426
01:04:54.480 --> 01:04:55.380
it was properly good.

1427
01:04:55.800 --> 01:04:58.079
He's such a prick.

1428
01:04:58.139 --> 01:04:59.039
It's wonderful.

1429
01:04:59.099 --> 01:04:59.880
It's really good.

1430
01:04:59.940 --> 01:05:00.360
Yeah.

1431
01:05:00.719 --> 01:05:06.239
Well, I will say, uh, before we out, once again, like every single

1432
01:05:06.239 --> 01:05:11.400
time we dive back to the original series, I have a complete blast

1433
01:05:11.400 --> 01:05:15.000
and it's, but that's been a revelation to me because I've never

1434
01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:16.920
had time for the original series before.

1435
01:05:16.980 --> 01:05:21.539
The more I watch it, the more worth, I think, is there.

1436
01:05:26.039 --> 01:05:31.199
All right, it's the end of the episode, and it is time for us to

1437
01:05:31.199 --> 01:05:34.440
choose what we're going to do next, and it's my turn to hit the

1438
01:05:34.440 --> 01:05:34.619
button.

1439
01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:35.159
It is.

1440
01:05:35.159 --> 01:05:36.300
Ask me what we're doing.

1441
01:05:36.420 --> 01:05:37.559
What are we doing?

1442
01:05:37.800 --> 01:05:41.639
So it has been a while.

1443
01:05:41.699 --> 01:05:47.219
Look, so we just went and looked back over the last 20 episodes of

1444
01:05:47.219 --> 01:05:53.280
Untitled Star Trek Project, and it turns out we have done 2 Star

1445
01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:59.340
Trek, the Next Generation episodes in that time. and just to, you

1446
01:05:59.340 --> 01:06:03.960
know, the, the most popular, potentially the most popular star, is

1447
01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:05.880
the most underrepresented in the last 20.

1448
01:06:06.179 --> 01:06:07.199
Yeah, yeah.

1449
01:06:07.260 --> 01:06:10.260
I think we've done more discovery than Star Trek The Next

1450
01:06:10.260 --> 01:06:10.739
Generation.

1451
01:06:10.800 --> 01:06:13.260
And there's a lot more of the next generation. right.

1452
01:06:13.320 --> 01:06:17.280
So we're just going to choose from Star Trek the Next Generation

1453
01:06:17.280 --> 01:06:18.960
and I'm going to press the button now.

1454
01:06:22.019 --> 01:06:22.739
Go for it.

1455
01:06:22.739 --> 01:06:24.599
Okay, so this is a classic.

1456
01:06:24.840 --> 01:06:29.820
It's from series 4 and it's reunion.

1457
01:06:29.880 --> 01:06:33.480
So it's a wharf episode with special industry, K-Lar.

1458
01:06:33.539 --> 01:06:35.340
It is brilliant.

1459
01:06:35.460 --> 01:06:37.679
And I know that's brilliant because I've seen it recently.

1460
01:06:37.739 --> 01:06:40.260
But I really want to watch something quite shit.

1461
01:06:40.320 --> 01:06:43.320
Yeah, yeah, I'd like to watch something a little bit less kind of

1462
01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:44.519
overwrought than that.

1463
01:06:44.579 --> 01:06:46.739
It is really good and Susie Paxton is wonderful.

1464
01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:50.159
Can you please keep pressing until you get sorry from seasons one

1465
01:06:50.159 --> 01:06:50.699
and two, please?

1466
01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:52.320
Oh, okay.

1467
01:06:52.380 --> 01:06:53.159
Let's see.

1468
01:06:53.219 --> 01:06:55.199
The defector.

1469
01:06:55.260 --> 01:06:57.659
That's actually great as well.

1470
01:06:57.719 --> 01:06:58.739
That's fantastic.

1471
01:06:58.800 --> 01:06:59.280
Yeah.

1472
01:06:59.340 --> 01:07:00.599
I've watched that recently too.

1473
01:07:00.659 --> 01:07:02.099
Oh, that's good, isn't it?

1474
01:07:02.159 --> 01:07:02.940
So that's series three.

1475
01:07:03.300 --> 01:07:06.179
Yeah, this is when they're kind of getting good.

1476
01:07:06.960 --> 01:07:08.940
New ground.

1477
01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:12.719
Oh, that's terrible.

1478
01:07:12.780 --> 01:07:15.239
That's the one with the little Gilvos puppets.

1479
01:07:15.300 --> 01:07:17.340
Oh, Series 4 is.

1480
01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:19.260
It's an Alexander episode.

1481
01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:21.659
It's the one where Wolf learns how to be a good parent.

1482
01:07:21.719 --> 01:07:25.559
Is it the one where Loaxana takes him to the holodeck?

1483
01:07:25.619 --> 01:07:27.539
No, that's wonderful.

1484
01:07:27.599 --> 01:07:28.860
What's that called?

1485
01:07:29.099 --> 01:07:32.400
The higher, the fewer.

1486
01:07:32.460 --> 01:07:33.900
Yeah, that's pretty great.

1487
01:07:33.960 --> 01:07:36.179
Are you sure they can't remember?

1488
01:07:36.239 --> 01:07:37.199
No, okay.

1489
01:07:37.320 --> 01:07:40.860
No, new ground's got these dreadful sort of vol puppets in it.

1490
01:07:40.920 --> 01:07:41.639
It's not.

1491
01:07:41.699 --> 01:07:42.719
Oh, okay.

1492
01:07:42.840 --> 01:07:43.320
Yep, no.

1493
01:07:43.380 --> 01:07:46.860
Okay. let's try something else And it's very boring. as well.

1494
01:07:46.920 --> 01:07:48.420
Oh, the loss.

1495
01:07:49.199 --> 01:07:50.760
A loss.

1496
01:07:50.820 --> 01:07:53.940
Oh, that's a Troy, actually, isn't it?

1497
01:07:54.059 --> 01:07:56.940
She does get she becomes a pissed off.

1498
01:07:57.000 --> 01:07:57.539
Is she?

1499
01:07:57.599 --> 01:07:58.920
Yeah, yeah, yeah. which is quite good.

1500
01:07:59.039 --> 01:08:02.639
That is quite good, but... like, how can you know what it's like

1501
01:08:02.639 --> 01:08:04.500
to lose something that you never had?

1502
01:08:04.559 --> 01:08:07.019
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she's really...

1503
01:08:07.079 --> 01:08:09.119
But Riker calls her out on it and says, you know, you're being a

1504
01:08:09.119 --> 01:08:10.139
bit of a bitchy, you know.

1505
01:08:10.199 --> 01:08:12.119
It doesn't say quite like that, but.

1506
01:08:12.420 --> 01:08:14.519
Come on. one or two.

1507
01:08:14.579 --> 01:08:17.699
There must be something in there for seasons one or two.

1508
01:08:18.180 --> 01:08:21.180
Okay, this is series two.

1509
01:08:21.239 --> 01:08:23.100
This is pen pals.

1510
01:08:23.399 --> 01:08:25.560
Oh, like a good one.

1511
01:08:26.460 --> 01:08:28.140
Is it?

1512
01:08:28.140 --> 01:08:30.899
Is it that good?

1513
01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:32.279
I don't think it's terrible.

1514
01:08:32.340 --> 01:08:33.779
Penpal isn't a terrible episode.

1515
01:08:33.840 --> 01:08:35.520
Oh, it's kind of terrible.

1516
01:08:35.579 --> 01:08:36.300
Alright.

1517
01:08:36.359 --> 01:08:36.899
I'm going to be.

1518
01:08:37.020 --> 01:08:38.699
You could cut some of this out if we keep...

1519
01:08:38.699 --> 01:08:40.380
These is going to be the longest one ever.

1520
01:08:40.439 --> 01:08:45.479
So the best of both worlds, part two, which means we have to do

1521
01:08:45.479 --> 01:08:46.319
part one.

1522
01:08:46.680 --> 01:08:50.880
The Mantlepiece Society, really the Masterpiece Society.

1523
01:08:50.939 --> 01:08:55.739
It's the one where Diana has sex with the handsome leader of a

1524
01:08:55.739 --> 01:08:56.159
colony.

1525
01:08:56.220 --> 01:08:57.779
Yeah, it's super important.

1526
01:08:57.840 --> 01:08:58.920
We've got to choose one eventually.

1527
01:08:58.979 --> 01:09:00.119
It's going to be this next one.

1528
01:09:00.180 --> 01:09:00.420
Right.

1529
01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:00.779
Come on.

1530
01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:02.579
No, this is terrible.

1531
01:09:02.699 --> 01:09:05.340
This is transfigurations at the end of series three.

1532
01:09:05.399 --> 01:09:09.119
So it's just before best of both worlds and it's Beverly's

1533
01:09:09.119 --> 01:09:09.600
annual.

1534
01:09:10.140 --> 01:09:11.520
Georgie become this word.

1535
01:09:11.579 --> 01:09:14.819
No, it's no, that's called...

1536
01:09:14.880 --> 01:09:16.380
I can't remember what that's called.

1537
01:09:16.439 --> 01:09:17.579
Transfiguration.

1538
01:09:17.699 --> 01:09:19.859
Yeah, yeah, no, it's not that one.

1539
01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:24.600
It's the one where it's Beverly's annual fucking an alien episode

1540
01:09:24.600 --> 01:09:30.479
and this time it's John Doe, who then turns all glowy and goes

1541
01:09:30.479 --> 01:09:32.340
back to his home planet or something.

1542
01:09:32.399 --> 01:09:33.300
It's super boring.

1543
01:09:33.359 --> 01:09:35.819
Well, come on. one more time then.

1544
01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:37.260
Well, no.

1545
01:09:37.319 --> 01:09:39.720
Times arrow part two.

1546
01:09:39.779 --> 01:09:41.460
That's all right.

1547
01:09:41.520 --> 01:09:42.779
I mean, that's pretty terrible.

1548
01:09:42.840 --> 01:09:44.100
Mr. Pickett?

1549
01:09:44.159 --> 01:09:46.079
I need to be done. sort of hang time.

1550
01:09:46.140 --> 01:09:49.319
It is hang time and it does have Jerry Hardness.

1551
01:09:49.380 --> 01:09:49.920
It kind of fun.

1552
01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:51.119
It's pretty terrible.

1553
01:09:51.180 --> 01:09:51.720
Yeah.

1554
01:09:52.979 --> 01:09:55.020
New ground again.

1555
01:09:56.340 --> 01:09:58.319
God hates us.

1556
01:09:58.439 --> 01:10:00.539
There's something in the country.

1557
01:10:00.600 --> 01:10:01.439
Okay, I'm telling you.

1558
01:10:01.680 --> 01:10:06.420
Series 2, episode 19 Manhunt.

1559
01:10:10.380 --> 01:10:14.340
Oh, that's the one where Luax Olatore is after Picard's legs for

1560
01:10:14.340 --> 01:10:15.060
the whole episode.

1561
01:10:15.119 --> 01:10:15.899
Yeah.

1562
01:10:15.899 --> 01:10:19.020
I just, I know you're going to love this.

1563
01:10:19.079 --> 01:10:19.920
You're gonna love it.

1564
01:10:19.979 --> 01:10:20.760
I think I will.

1565
01:10:20.819 --> 01:10:24.539
It's got horny, horny, Miguel.

1566
01:10:24.960 --> 01:10:27.479
Yeah, no, I think it's kind of bad.

1567
01:10:27.539 --> 01:10:31.619
And it's it's not the eulogium or the morologium.

1568
01:10:31.800 --> 01:10:32.460
What's the one?

1569
01:10:32.520 --> 01:10:37.319
It's the, she's got the, it's the betazoid kind of...

1570
01:10:37.380 --> 01:10:39.840
She's more horny than ever.

1571
01:10:39.899 --> 01:10:44.279
Yeah, because she's undergoing menopause, but it's...

1572
01:10:44.340 --> 01:10:45.720
He trying to go to the Dixon Hill.

1573
01:10:45.720 --> 01:10:47.819
The holodeck program.

1574
01:10:47.880 --> 01:10:50.880
And then she just goes on there, basically, and pursues him.

1575
01:10:50.939 --> 01:10:52.800
Yeah, it's dreadful.

1576
01:10:52.859 --> 01:10:53.819
All right, let's do that.

1577
01:10:53.880 --> 01:10:55.619
Absolutely weird doing that.

1578
01:10:55.680 --> 01:10:59.699
Gene Roddenbury had a point about Star Trek being comedy. doing

1579
01:10:59.699 --> 01:11:00.119
comedy.

1580
01:11:00.180 --> 01:11:00.899
That's it.

1581
01:11:01.020 --> 01:11:05.039
So we've just done a successful comedy for the original series and

1582
01:11:05.039 --> 01:11:08.880
now we're just gonna watch the crew of the Enterprise D fuck it up

1583
01:11:08.880 --> 01:11:14.340
in the 1st kind of plunge and sort of depressing way possible, I

1584
01:11:14.340 --> 01:11:14.579
think.

1585
01:11:14.640 --> 01:11:17.100
I literally cannot wait.

1586
01:11:27.239 --> 01:11:29.760
You've been listening to entitled Star Trek Project with Joe Ford

1587
01:11:29.760 --> 01:11:30.899
and Nathan Bottom League.

1588
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:34.199
We're online at untitled Star Trek Project.com, where you can find

1589
01:11:34.199 --> 01:11:36.720
links to our Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube channel.

1590
01:11:36.779 --> 01:11:40.380
Our podcast artwork is by Kayla Ciceran, and the theme was

1591
01:11:40.380 --> 01:11:42.000
composed by Cameron Lahn.

1592
01:11:42.060 --> 01:11:46.020
This episode was recorded on the 29th of November 2022 and

1593
01:11:46.020 --> 01:11:47.640
released on the 9th of December.

1594
01:11:47.699 --> 01:11:52.140
We'll see you next time for Star Trek the Next Generation.

1595
01:12:08.939 --> 01:12:10.680
There we go.

1596
01:12:10.920 --> 01:12:15.539
I've already started on 2nd skin.

1597
01:12:16.680 --> 01:12:20.100
So I'll finish it tomorrow, probably.

1598
01:12:20.819 --> 01:12:23.100
Can you hear me, all right?

1599
01:12:23.159 --> 01:12:23.819
Yeah, I'm all right.

1600
01:12:23.939 --> 01:12:24.539
Yeah.

1601
01:12:24.539 --> 01:12:24.840
Yeah.

1602
01:12:24.899 --> 01:12:25.859
Really clear?

1603
01:12:25.920 --> 01:12:28.319
Yeah, I love this new microphone.

1604
01:12:28.380 --> 01:12:33.119
It was not as expensive as the old one, but it is good, I think.

1605
01:12:36.180 --> 01:12:37.020
That's what matters.

1606
01:12:37.079 --> 01:12:38.159
That is what matters.

1607
01:12:38.279 --> 01:12:43.020
I read a list of microphones for under a 100 American dollars that

1608
01:12:43.020 --> 01:12:44.520
this guy said was good.

1609
01:12:44.520 --> 01:12:49.380
And uh, this one's this is it, and it's got less, because there's

1610
01:12:49.380 --> 01:12:52.140
those ones when we're recording, like, and there's that big

1611
01:12:52.140 --> 01:12:54.180
fucking pop shield in my face.

1612
01:12:54.239 --> 01:12:58.979
You know, like when I was like crouched in Calvin's room on his

1613
01:12:58.979 --> 01:13:04.920
tiny fucking desk and like I'm down here in the frame and then

1614
01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:08.340
there's a big giant pop shield.

1615
01:13:08.399 --> 01:13:10.739
I think I've got some YouTube videos or some of that going on, you

1616
01:13:10.739 --> 01:13:10.920
know.

1617
01:13:11.159 --> 01:13:13.199
This is much more normal.

1618
01:13:13.260 --> 01:13:15.180
I just feel like I'm at a press conference.

1619
01:13:15.600 --> 01:13:17.939
We just there we go.

1620
01:13:18.000 --> 01:13:21.479
Just so I can, I've got memory out for up, so I can just mention a

1621
01:13:21.479 --> 01:13:23.100
few little bits and bobs.

1622
01:13:23.159 --> 01:13:26.279
Yeah, I've got a linked memory alpha here on my notes page.

1623
01:13:26.340 --> 01:13:27.479
Have you read?

1624
01:13:27.539 --> 01:13:32.159
I've got to drop what the original working title was, but I don't

1625
01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:32.640
know what that is.

1626
01:13:32.699 --> 01:13:33.300
Don't tell me yet.

1627
01:13:33.359 --> 01:13:33.899
Oh okay.

1628
01:13:34.260 --> 01:13:36.060
It's great.

1629
01:13:36.359 --> 01:13:39.359
I mean, it's terrible and that's why it's great.

1630
01:13:41.760 --> 01:13:43.560
Oh, dear.

1631
01:13:43.680 --> 01:13:45.720
Now you got to be all high energy.

1632
01:13:45.779 --> 01:13:47.399
But the next day, I'm 35.

1633
01:13:47.579 --> 01:13:49.859
So I will have to go to bed after this.

1634
01:13:49.920 --> 01:13:50.279
I think.

1635
01:13:50.340 --> 01:13:55.380
But I have 2 lessons tomorrow and then I will, I think I'll spend

1636
01:13:55.380 --> 01:14:00.840
all of my free time doing prep for the fucking 1st aid course.

1637
01:14:00.899 --> 01:14:02.760
Then tomorrow night.

1638
01:14:02.939 --> 01:14:07.199
I will record the podcast and edit AR and I'm 2nd skin.

1639
01:14:07.260 --> 01:14:09.119
I mean I think I should be fine.

1640
01:14:12.720 --> 01:14:15.659
Red leather, yellow, leather, red, yellow.

1641
01:14:15.720 --> 01:14:17.039
All right.

1642
01:14:17.340 --> 01:14:18.960
Are you ready?

1643
01:14:19.859 --> 01:14:21.420
Always.

1644
01:14:25.260 --> 01:14:28.859
Hey, Joe. Hi.

1645
01:14:28.920 --> 01:14:30.899
All right, I'm going to do that a little bit more.

1646
01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:31.859
I'm excited.

1647
01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:34.800
Oh, yeah, for a comedy episode, remember?

1648
01:14:36.420 --> 01:14:40.199
Hey, Joe. No, for a death.

1649
01:14:40.260 --> 01:14:42.600
I can just stick the high in for a before.

1650
01:14:42.659 --> 01:14:44.760
We'll do it once more.

1651
01:14:44.819 --> 01:14:45.659
Just to get natural.

1652
01:14:46.079 --> 01:14:51.119
Of all the things that we agonise over it is...

1653
01:14:51.180 --> 01:14:53.520
I do the timing, like I make it happen.

1654
01:14:53.640 --> 01:14:57.180
Hey, Joe. Hi.

1655
01:14:57.239 --> 01:14:59.340
So this is an exciting one.

1656
01:14:59.399 --> 01:15:03.659
This is one of the most famous episodes of original Trek.