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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 perhaps, definitely.

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Yeah, perhaps one of the ones that has had the biggest effect on 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 watched this twice this week in preparation and I've watched Oh, 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 and stuff.

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It's Trouble with Tribbles, which is about episode 15 of series 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 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 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 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 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 and they've been genetically modified.

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So instead of breeding, they just get bigger. and so they just get 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 shribbles where Kirk picks, you know, like brushes tribbles off the captain's chair and there's a similar scene where he picks one 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 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 moments from this episode, which of course they do.

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

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Or a Star Trek episode and such a funny one, but it can kind of only work once per show.

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

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

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So in the background of the scenes that we see in trouble with Tribbles, you've got Cisco and Dax kind of sneaking around trying to kind of find the bomb that's been hidden in the tribble that's 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 know, like up in the thing, just hurling individual tribbles that Shatner.

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And Shatner kind of gets the shits a little bit and you can kind 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 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 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 and, you know, fasting shoes.

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And I remember saying, because I watched this with my raft last night and he goes, well, is there any kind of plot to this at 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 being beamed into space in this moment with angelic music. 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 everyone is given funny dialogue and funny moments, and it is, they've just got David Gerald, and David Gerald's decided that Star Trek can do a comedy.

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And, you know, now, 50 years later or whatever, we know that Star Trek is absolutely the perfect vehicle for comedy because we kind 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 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 absolutely agonising.

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

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There's a wonderful bit between like Spock and McCoy where they 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 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 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 or a dog dressed up or whatever.

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And just these little faceless things that are genuinely cute, like 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, 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 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 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 a major game.

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Only imagine that, because his voice is very sexy, that he is an 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 see Captain Pike at the very beginning of the thing, you know, getting a minor character and she's got her 1st captain thing and she's on this ship.

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And he is the one who genetically engineers the tribbles to breed out of control and eventually things get out of control and the entire ship fills with tribbles in a way that only kind of this 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 more sophisticated than this and more fast paced and it's only 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 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 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 Star Trek can work as comedy.

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And people approach Star Trek in a way that's much more serious or 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 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 play into it is really fun.

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

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Well, I mean, even the name of the title, Trouble with Tribbles, because you've got, there's a John Wyndham novel, which is a sort 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, 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 they have to get rid of, and it's Harry, and it's called the 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 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 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, Bugs used to do it in the 90s and these endings with a joke, 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 protracted laughter for about 15 minutes and you're like, when 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 gonna land?

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Come on, in that last scene, I was like, there's going to be a 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 season because Chehov's getting his little education of like, right, 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 it's sort of a little bit unusual, and there are some comedy bits around him identifying things as being Russian, which is actually funny.

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Um, but, you know, it was making a little joke and and he gets put down by Spock, yes, a very little joke, which again is a kind of nothing line.

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It's not like a particularly funny line, but it's actually sort of 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 actor. in the original trick.

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There's a bit later on in the episode where you're waiting for him 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 world could possibly know about it, yeah.

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You're waiting for Spock to jump in and the weight delivers that 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 look of DS9, but skipping back to 60s trek and the bold 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 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 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 them.

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And then when I watched Trouble Little Tripples, I was like, did they add that little detail?

218
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Yeah, yeah, that woman, the woman who comes and serves them.

219
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We don't serve any any Klingon beverages here, sir.

220
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That's right.

221
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She doesn't know what Erectagino is, does she?

222
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It's really funny watching.

223
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It's funny watching this because I'm much more familiar with trials and tribulations because it's one of my go-to DS9s.

224
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And so I'm always sort of comparing it to uh, comparing it to the DS9 episode.

225
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There's a fantastic shot here.

226
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Okay, you're not seeing this because you're watching the original effects, where as they approach the station, The camera comes over the saucer section of the Enterprise as the station approaches, stunningly good.

227
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This shot is fairly similar.

228
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Like we're shooting over the source.

229
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The camera's not moving.

230
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We're shooting over the saucer.

231
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And like, I think that the model for K7 is actually pretty good because it seems to be constructed out of the sources that, like, it looks like, you know, a collection of the sources on the enterprise or the other sheep.

232
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They do do that weird thing though, where it looks like someone's just sort of stamped K7 over the windows.

233
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Where it's positioned is very odd.

234
00:16:38.100 --> 00:16:40.799
Now, look, I want to talk about Kurt, right?

235
00:16:40.860 --> 00:16:46.139
Because you and I have said he can have quite a relaxed nature amongst his crew and he can be quite chill.

236
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He can also be quite officious and bureaucratic sometimes as well, you know, like he's appalled here that he's been pulled across the sector to this, you know, red alert for no reason.

237
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It has this running gag where he's now got the shits with the guy with Barrett.

238
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Who is a that guy?

239
00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:10.019
Like he's absolutely super recognisable and he does come back.

240
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He does come back in DS9 series 5. to play a different role.

241
00:17:15.059 --> 00:17:19.079
I don't know that Kirk is always the likeable one in their exchanges.

242
00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:27.779
No, it's a bit of a prick, and it's really funny, and it just reminds me of Shatner. like it's Kirk being just an asshole like Shatner.

243
00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:34.440
I want an office with this transporter pad in like a set into the wall.

244
00:17:34.500 --> 00:17:38.700
I just think that looks so fabulous with the sort of 60 stars.

245
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Fumption in transporter or just for aesthetic.

246
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Just both, I don't care.

247
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Like, I'm just happy for it to look like that.

248
00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:45.119
It's so great.

249
00:17:45.180 --> 00:17:46.980
Like it just looks so awesome.

250
00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:48.660
Just in some guys' office.

251
00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:53.099
Like we've seen lots of scenes of people butting heads like this in Star Trek.

252
00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:54.660
There's a lot of talking in Star Trek, you know.

253
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And it can be very tedious or a bit nasty, but it's just all played so charmingly.

254
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They seem that, like, and every time we go back to Coke and Barrass, it's more funny. to the point where, you know, where he's got the triples and he's like, Well, they like you, Mr. Barris.

255
00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:12.599
I can't think why.

256
00:18:12.660 --> 00:18:14.819
Yeah, so great.

257
00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:15.960
It's so good.

258
00:18:16.019 --> 00:18:24.299
So by the time of more trouble, more tribbles, it's Quinto Triticale, rather than quad, quadro.

259
00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:25.079
Okay, word.

260
00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:26.160
So space.

261
00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.480
I think it might be a real word or like the trio means third, I think.

262
00:18:30.539 --> 00:18:35.579
So quadratriticale is 4 third, you know, grain.

263
00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:39.960
But it's, it's really...

264
00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:40.619
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

265
00:18:40.619 --> 00:18:53.640
Shatner rolling his eyes, you know, because he's kind of being made a fool of because it's not just no one has heard of this, but this man standing next to me knows literally everything about it.

266
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But no, he gets that line later, doesn't he?

267
00:18:56.099 --> 00:18:59.400
where everyone and he goes, does everybody know about this grain but me?

268
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That's it.

269
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Because he's an idiot.

270
00:19:03.299 --> 00:19:09.240
But it's nice because Shatner, who obviously has a bit of an ego and likes to present himself. well.

271
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He's actually willing to take a piss out of himself as his character, which is really nice.

272
00:19:13.140 --> 00:19:26.099
Because the other thing that's really funny in more trouble, more tribles, more tribles, more trouble, whatever, is that they give Shatner, the word sabotage to say quite a lot.

273
00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:32.279
So, Sarah Jones turns up in that episode and he's charged with ecological sabotage.

274
00:19:32.339 --> 00:19:41.700
And of course, there's that famous recording of Shatner saying sabotage and being corrected by the floor manager or something.

275
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And he says, don't know, you say sabotage.

276
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I say sabotage.

277
00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:58.619
And like, it's like, so it's like, I don't know whether David Gerald is just doing that deliberately to shit.

278
00:19:58.680 --> 00:19:59.640
How does he say in that episode?

279
00:19:59.700 --> 00:20:01.440
He sort of says sabotage.

280
00:20:01.500 --> 00:20:04.680
And he doesn't like...

281
00:20:04.740 --> 00:20:10.500
Remember, we did determine that he is, you know, drinking a mint julep on a date phoning in his lines, you know.

282
00:20:10.500 --> 00:20:11.220
Oh, sorry, what?

283
00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:12.779
What bit of the script do you want?

284
00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:14.099
That's it.

285
00:20:14.460 --> 00:20:16.740
Sabotage, darling.

286
00:20:18.779 --> 00:20:23.880
He's just being spectacularly rude to Barrass and then stormed off.

287
00:20:24.059 --> 00:20:25.680
So great.

288
00:20:25.740 --> 00:20:31.200
See, I love it whenever and even when 90s trek did this, whenever they go off to these space bars.

289
00:20:31.259 --> 00:20:35.400
I just, I just love, it feels a bit Star Wars-y.

290
00:20:35.460 --> 00:20:44.519
You know, like when her solo's in the bar in the 1st Star Wars movie, that sort of the universe is a bit bigger and there's stuff going on and people hang out, but not just on our ships, you know?

291
00:20:44.700 --> 00:20:46.440
I really like it.

292
00:20:46.500 --> 00:20:51.359
And look, this is gorgeous classic 60s furniture, the plastic furniture in the background.

293
00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:56.519
Oh, this fella, um...

294
00:20:56.579 --> 00:20:59.819
I think his performance is sublime.

295
00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:00.119
Yeah.

296
00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:03.359
Like, he's playing up every single line.

297
00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:04.079
Yeah, yeah.

298
00:21:04.859 --> 00:21:09.119
And I guess he's a Star Trek type by now, isn't he?

299
00:21:09.180 --> 00:21:09.720
Oh, look.

300
00:21:09.779 --> 00:21:13.140
Well, you sort of idea Harry Muds, haven't you?

301
00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:15.720
So you know you can have these big comic turns.

302
00:21:15.779 --> 00:21:19.319
Actually, I don't think he ever goes madly over the top.

303
00:21:19.859 --> 00:21:23.339
But if anyone in this is winking at the camera.

304
00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:23.880
It's him.

305
00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:25.680
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

306
00:21:25.740 --> 00:21:31.319
Well, there's that bit during the bar fight where he goes up to the food machine and just replicates himself a drink.

307
00:21:31.380 --> 00:21:42.839
And like the comedy business because he's got these giant pockets all over his thing, which are full of flame gems and glow water and stuff that he's selling.

308
00:21:42.900 --> 00:21:44.640
And here's our 1st trip.

309
00:21:44.700 --> 00:21:45.720
We naturally just love.

310
00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:54.240
In any science fiction franchise, when these sleazy merchants turn up with all their baubles and, you know, yeah, yeah.

311
00:21:54.299 --> 00:21:57.779
I think we just love these carrots. basically cork, isn't he?

312
00:21:57.839 --> 00:21:58.559
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

313
00:21:58.619 --> 00:21:59.640
Yeah, yeah.

314
00:21:59.700 --> 00:22:02.579
We'll get to Quark a bit later, I think.

315
00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:12.900
Oh, and so this is us having the tribles explained to us and she is so beautiful.

316
00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:14.759
Like, it's just adorable.

317
00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:17.220
How can you not love her hair?

318
00:22:17.339 --> 00:22:19.740
I smile, you know?

319
00:22:19.799 --> 00:22:21.119
It's wonderful.

320
00:22:21.180 --> 00:22:27.299
And it's her and Chekhov and Chekhov's playing like her gay best friend in this scene.

321
00:22:27.299 --> 00:22:31.740
Like, it's just sort of because she's going to go shopping, isn't she?

322
00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:33.240
And he's going to go with her. right.

323
00:22:33.299 --> 00:22:34.920
You think you're going to carry them back?

324
00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:35.940
know?

325
00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:37.680
And give her a box.

326
00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:40.440
I don't know anything.

327
00:22:40.500 --> 00:22:43.140
I do think there's something very cute about Wolves Canig.

328
00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:45.420
Oh yeah, he's so little. terribly young.

329
00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:48.240
It's that sort of, that sort of monkeys look, you know?

330
00:22:48.299 --> 00:22:49.859
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

331
00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:52.200
And he's got a beautiful smile as well.

332
00:22:52.259 --> 00:22:52.740
He does.

333
00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:57.539
And then these crazy old men by the bar.

334
00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:11.279
I like it when later on, when he takes the 2 drinks out and he somehow manages to lose them as he's going through the fracas and then when he gets to the door, he just pulls one out of his pocket.

335
00:23:11.339 --> 00:23:12.539
Yeah, yeah.

336
00:23:12.599 --> 00:23:21.299
No, the bomb and confiscates the drink off him because he knows that he's been behind the bar pouring drinks for himself while the bomb's been distracted.

337
00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:24.720
But yes, he gets one of his pocket and leaves.

338
00:23:24.779 --> 00:23:25.500
It's so good.

339
00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:34.500
But this as well, you know, one thing I realised about this was, yeah, it's not particularly fast paces, is it?

340
00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:35.759
It's a lot of talking and stuff.

341
00:23:35.819 --> 00:23:37.019
I was never bored.

342
00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:41.279
Sometimes with, um, one of the things that is said on random trek all the time.

343
00:23:41.339 --> 00:23:43.980
Most original series, episodes are about 10 minutes too long.

344
00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:45.599
And I don't disagree with that.

345
00:23:45.660 --> 00:23:48.779
They do have lots of scenes of people walking about corridors and things like that.

346
00:23:49.380 --> 00:23:51.960
But because everyone's having fun in this.

347
00:23:52.019 --> 00:23:54.240
Like you just go for the ride, don't you?

348
00:23:54.299 --> 00:23:55.140
It's really great.

349
00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:59.700
Did you see that bit there when that triple went across the table and started eating the grain?

350
00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:01.319
Yeah, they're little puppet.

351
00:24:01.380 --> 00:24:04.319
It's so great because sometimes they're just sort of super low effort.

352
00:24:04.380 --> 00:24:14.759
Like they're just sort of fluffy balls that cost nothing to realise so that we can scatter them all over the set, but some of them do move and they must be, it must be fishing wire or something.

353
00:24:15.420 --> 00:24:15.839
Oh my god.

354
00:24:15.900 --> 00:24:19.680
Did you hear the story about James, how do you say?

355
00:24:20.339 --> 00:24:23.279
his kids come into the studio.

356
00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:25.140
And what happens?

357
00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:26.400
Do they steal tribbles?

358
00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:28.380
No, it was during this episode.

359
00:24:28.440 --> 00:24:30.299
Well, they didn't really know what they were shooting.

360
00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:44.039
They would just come in to see their dad in the studio and they went snooping and they literally had a kirk at the end of this episode moment where they started snooping about, opened up a cupboard and 500 tribles fell out.

361
00:24:45.779 --> 00:24:49.259
I don't know if that's apocryphal, but it's still a great story.

362
00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:50.039
It's true.

363
00:24:50.099 --> 00:24:51.720
Oh, yeah.

364
00:24:52.259 --> 00:24:57.660
Have you got like a little CGI face inside that screen there on yours?

365
00:24:57.720 --> 00:24:58.380
No.

366
00:24:58.440 --> 00:24:59.099
No.

367
00:24:59.099 --> 00:25:00.180
Oh, okay.

368
00:25:00.180 --> 00:25:00.960
Just inset.

369
00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:02.579
What?

370
00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:05.759
There's a face in the screen, but it's like a...

371
00:25:05.759 --> 00:25:08.579
Well, oh, my, I was really impressed watching that.

372
00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:11.099
He goes, oh my god, look they're using CSO back in the 60s.

373
00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:12.240
It's inlay.

374
00:25:13.440 --> 00:25:16.619
They do that all the time for those little screens.

375
00:25:18.420 --> 00:25:23.819
Oh, these are, this is my favourite part of Star Trek original series, is what's going on in the...

376
00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:28.680
I don't think this is the da, da, da, da music.

377
00:25:28.740 --> 00:25:30.359
At the moment where they do it again.

378
00:25:30.420 --> 00:25:31.980
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

379
00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:33.539
Like, they just, they just quote it.

380
00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:35.759
So good.

381
00:25:35.819 --> 00:25:37.380
It's very important things happening.

382
00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.819
The only thing that upholded me because I thought the score for this was brilliant.

383
00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:45.539
Especially that weird, that kind of...

384
00:25:45.539 --> 00:25:48.000
Easy the gigs playing all the way through.

385
00:25:48.059 --> 00:25:52.740
And I actually thought when I watched the DS9 episode that the score wasn't half as...

386
00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:54.359
You astounded me, really.

387
00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:58.980
But one thing I really miss.

388
00:25:59.099 --> 00:26:01.079
I thought this was a comedy episode and they didn't do the...

389
00:26:01.079 --> 00:26:04.920
No, but there is sort of comedy scoring.

390
00:26:04.980 --> 00:26:06.359
Like there is comedy scoring.

391
00:26:06.420 --> 00:26:07.619
I love the fact.

392
00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:23.460
So we've just had, um, we've had Admiral Fitzpatrick turn up and tell Kirk that he has to do whatever Paris says, which I think is fantastic and that kind of explains why he's got the shits with Barris, like for the whole rest of the episode.

393
00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:27.299
Don't you think the timing of that gag as well, where he's like, 0 my god, the Klingons are here.

394
00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:31.740
So he's like, Mr. Paris, the Klingons, Captain Kirk, I don't think the Klingons are going to be any trouble.

395
00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:32.160
Why?

396
00:26:32.220 --> 00:26:33.660
Because they're here in my office.

397
00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:35.099
And then they go back.

398
00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:38.460
What a great gang.

399
00:26:39.660 --> 00:26:44.220
And is it John Colley, I'll see his performance as core.

400
00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:47.339
No, this is what Campbell as Coloff.

401
00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:50.759
Well, I'll tell you what, you don't you don't tone it down at all.

402
00:26:50.819 --> 00:26:52.079
When he comes back in blood oath.

403
00:26:52.140 --> 00:26:53.279
It's annoying.

404
00:26:53.339 --> 00:26:54.839
He's just as camp, I'm telling you.

405
00:26:54.900 --> 00:26:56.460
Yeah, he's really camp, isn't he?

406
00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:59.519
It's a really funny, like just seeing the Klingons look like this.

407
00:26:59.579 --> 00:27:00.839
Like that guy.

408
00:27:00.900 --> 00:27:15.900
I think there's a that guy in trials and tribulations, who is like an actor dressed up. as a Klingon who looks like that guy, like the other Klingon, who's Korax or something, Michael Petaki is Korax.

409
00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:18.059
This one behind him. camp.

410
00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:22.559
Yeah, the Klingon 8 who starts to fight in the bar.

411
00:27:22.619 --> 00:27:23.160
Yeah.

412
00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:24.779
Oh, yeah, man.

413
00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:26.519
He is Campus Christmas, isn't he?

414
00:27:26.579 --> 00:27:27.180
It really is.

415
00:27:27.299 --> 00:27:27.960
He's so good.

416
00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:31.740
It should be hard away. garbage.

417
00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:37.200
I love the way that everyone pronounces Klingon differently.

418
00:27:37.259 --> 00:27:39.839
Yeah, like they all pronounce it wrong.

419
00:27:39.900 --> 00:27:42.059
Including the Klingons.

420
00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:43.980
Yeah, he says Klingon.

421
00:27:44.099 --> 00:27:45.180
Klingon, doesn't he?

422
00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:45.839
Robin.

423
00:27:46.140 --> 00:27:52.019
And then the, and one of them goes, instead of saying, Klingon, he goes, Klingon.

424
00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:53.279
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

425
00:27:53.339 --> 00:27:54.599
That's the language.

426
00:27:54.660 --> 00:27:55.500
It's strange.

427
00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:58.500
I just don't bring it...

428
00:27:58.559 --> 00:27:59.640
No one had a meeting, you know?

429
00:27:59.700 --> 00:28:01.079
No, no, look at chat.

430
00:28:01.140 --> 00:28:08.579
They're just charming him back, like absolutely refusing to rise to it and just smiling, just beautiful chat and a smile.

431
00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:13.380
When he came in and he goes, oh, my dear, Cola.

432
00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:15.420
Oh, my dear Captain Kirk.

433
00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:22.319
I live for this stuff, you know?

434
00:28:22.380 --> 00:28:24.180
Play it up to the camera.

435
00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:26.880
Oh, Scotty, so boring, Leo.

436
00:28:26.940 --> 00:28:33.480
I know, but look at Kirk's response to him and just Kirk's just his whole demeanour here.

437
00:28:33.539 --> 00:28:41.220
There's something sexy about him being chill and funny rather than being an uptight creek. which he often is.

438
00:28:41.579 --> 00:28:44.940
Well, Joe, this is what he's got in space.

439
00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:48.059
I think Cisco has this as well when he's chill with his crew.

440
00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:50.220
Very sexy because he's sort of so chill.

441
00:28:50.279 --> 00:28:52.200
It's something that Archer doesn't have at all.

442
00:28:52.259 --> 00:28:54.359
No, no, because he's just a pre.

443
00:28:54.420 --> 00:28:56.279
He's just an asshole to everyone.

444
00:28:56.339 --> 00:28:57.779
Pick up his butt all the time.

445
00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:09.960
So this is Nemoy's great moment where he's talking about the tranquilising effect it has on the human nervous system and how he's immune to it, but he's just repeatedly striking it the whole time.

446
00:29:10.019 --> 00:29:17.400
It's shutness looking at him and then everyone looks at him and he realises that it's affecting him and he puts...

447
00:29:17.460 --> 00:29:18.900
And then he's just out now then.

448
00:29:18.900 --> 00:29:20.339
It's so great.

449
00:29:21.059 --> 00:29:26.640
And I love her line where she says, if you're gonna dissect it, just don't tell me.

450
00:29:26.700 --> 00:29:27.539
I don't want to know.

451
00:29:28.140 --> 00:29:30.779
She still gives them all away, doesn't she?

452
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:31.500
She like, go on in.

453
00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:32.940
Well, so many of them.

454
00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:37.259
I don't think they realise at this point just how many there's gonna be.

455
00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:38.039
No.

456
00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:43.680
Have we learned yet that they're 50% reproduction, their biology?

457
00:29:43.740 --> 00:29:57.059
No, because that's the funny line that, um, that, which, um, Deforest Kelly absolutely nails, that sort of wonderful thing, they seem to be born pregnant, which is quite a time saver.

458
00:29:57.059 --> 00:30:00.900
Like, it's...

459
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:04.200
I was not aware that 10 Klingons cast a student's form.

460
00:30:04.859 --> 00:30:08.160
And so this is the bit, isn't it?

461
00:30:08.220 --> 00:30:11.519
Where Dax 1st sees them?

462
00:30:11.579 --> 00:30:14.640
Like, yeah, when they're walking along the corridor.

463
00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:17.099
Yeah, they have this conversation. they're behind them.

464
00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:22.440
Yeah, and obviously we don't cut to, um, we don't cut to barrass.

465
00:30:22.500 --> 00:30:25.500
We just have this half of the conversation.

466
00:30:25.500 --> 00:30:31.440
And she's saying how sexy he is and we think it's curved.

467
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:33.059
Because it's curves out as a spark.

468
00:30:33.059 --> 00:30:35.160
Because she's a smart woman.

469
00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:39.900
And Nemo's the thinking woman's crumpet, I think.

470
00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:48.359
I think the idea of making, obviously, because Dax was alive in this time, in a different host. making her like the ultimate Star Trek fan.

471
00:30:48.420 --> 00:30:51.779
I can't believe you don't want to meet Captain Kirk, you know?

472
00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:57.839
And that's something that they've never done before, and it is something that they obviously do all the time, like on lower decks.

473
00:31:01.619 --> 00:31:03.900
Like he's got the shits.

474
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:09.599
Kelly, um, um, the doctor recognises it immediately and goes, Barrass, the Klingons.

475
00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:17.339
Do you know what line actually made me die when he goes, you know, what happens when you feed?

476
00:31:17.460 --> 00:31:18.720
A treble.

477
00:31:18.779 --> 00:31:22.019
And he wants him to say, you reproduce, he goes, no, you get a fat dribble.

478
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.279
Well, that is what happens next in their next appearance.

479
00:31:26.339 --> 00:31:30.000
But yes, he's just discovered that 50% of their biomass.

480
00:31:30.059 --> 00:31:34.259
And there's a little bit of kind of coyness about saying reproduction.

481
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:35.160
Do you know what I mean?

482
00:31:35.220 --> 00:31:40.140
Like there's, like it's, I'm going to find out how they, you know, you know.

483
00:31:40.259 --> 00:31:42.180
Do you see what De Ferris Kelly just did then?

484
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:49.319
Well, he literally turns on a camera and went, he did the comedy like, you know, had a barbera shrug.

485
00:31:49.380 --> 00:31:50.400
So good.

486
00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:53.220
Oh, dear.

487
00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:56.759
I want you to go on sure leave and stop everybody from fighting, Scotty.

488
00:31:56.819 --> 00:31:57.539
Old Kirk.

489
00:31:57.599 --> 00:31:58.079
Are you mad?

490
00:31:58.500 --> 00:32:00.299
Are you serious?

491
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:01.259
He does for a while.

492
00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:02.099
It does work.

493
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:16.500
And he's sort of disappointed about Shorely because he was enjoying reading his technical journals, which will obviously come up a little bit later in what I think is also a magnificently comic scene.

494
00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:28.140
You know, what's really confusing is that I keep seeing these sets and I keep thinking, my word, the original series really did get these DS9 sets, absolutely spot on, didn't they?

495
00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:28.859
That's right.

496
00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:37.259
Well, this, with the doors coming in and out, you know, that's the moment where, you know, Julian and everyone sort of come in.

497
00:32:37.259 --> 00:32:45.059
And it was really nice.

498
00:32:45.059 --> 00:32:46.680
It's like both episodes as well.

499
00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:54.359
I think it really does draw sort of like the best, most watchable humour of all the characters, the DS9 episode and the TRS episode.

500
00:32:54.420 --> 00:32:58.259
So now we're establishing that Klingons and Tribbles don't like each other.

501
00:32:58.259 --> 00:33:00.059
And this is the very camp.

502
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:01.859
This is the camp Klingon.

503
00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:04.799
I think that's funny in the DSI one, though.

504
00:33:04.859 --> 00:33:07.319
Do they still sing songs or the great triple hunt?

505
00:33:07.380 --> 00:33:11.519
Oh, Renee doing his like his silly comedy headshake.

506
00:33:12.660 --> 00:33:16.259
This, a mortal enemy of the Empire.

507
00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:18.539
Well, because they've been destroyed, haven't they?

508
00:33:18.599 --> 00:33:21.420
By the 24th century, they've been wiped out by the Klingons.

509
00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:26.220
He says the great Klingon Armada wiped out the triple home planet.

510
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:33.779
See, like this whole sequence here where he's pulling out the tribbles from under the bar.

511
00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:35.700
The music is so good.

512
00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:38.220
And it just goes on forever.

513
00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:45.059
So he's trying to sell him a Klingon, a triple and he's just...

514
00:33:45.059 --> 00:33:50.579
But did you, like, did you take note of the music during the bar fight later on?

515
00:33:50.700 --> 00:33:52.019
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

516
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:54.660
I mean, that's really good.

517
00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:55.799
And comedy.

518
00:33:55.859 --> 00:33:59.400
And the great thing about the bar fight is that they're all really shit.

519
00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:04.500
Like they're, you know, it's not just Julian who is crappy in trials and tribulations.

520
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:08.699
Like they're all kind of a bit crap in the bar fight and they're all kind of losing.

521
00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:14.940
Where Chekov goes into someone's chest and then he just gets picked up and thrown over a table.

522
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:39.659
So we're having a discussion where, you know, he's drinking vodka because, you know, Chekhov is a child and he's just drinking vodka and it's like mother's milk and he's drinking scotch and Chekhov, who all all episode has been crediting things to the Russian says that scotch was invented by a little old lady in Leningrad, which I just think is just...

523
00:34:39.719 --> 00:34:41.639
It's so funny.

524
00:34:41.699 --> 00:34:45.599
So this is just so tremendous.

525
00:34:45.659 --> 00:34:49.139
So this is the drunk Pleon who's mouthing off.

526
00:34:49.139 --> 00:34:58.739
And he's insulting, he's insulting Kirk and humans, like generally.

527
00:34:59.699 --> 00:35:04.500
It should be hauled away as garbage.

528
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:05.760
Yeah, with that.

529
00:35:05.820 --> 00:35:07.500
Mr. Stunk.

530
00:35:08.219 --> 00:35:11.639
Don't you think you said briefly?

531
00:35:11.699 --> 00:35:14.460
Oh, no, I can't get it out. rephrase that.

532
00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:15.960
Oh, it's great.

533
00:35:16.019 --> 00:35:23.699
Kurt gets called a tin-plated dictator in more trouble, more tribles as well, more more tribble, more troubles, whatever.

534
00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:25.920
Should be more trouble, more trouble.

535
00:35:25.980 --> 00:35:30.119
And trials and tribulations, they say, his ship, James Kirk.

536
00:35:30.179 --> 00:35:34.800
The man was a menace. 15 different temporal violation.

537
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:39.599
I love the fact they've gone back in time so many times.

538
00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:41.219
There's a temporal investigation.

539
00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:42.420
Yeah, yeah.

540
00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:43.019
Yeah.

541
00:35:43.500 --> 00:35:45.659
And do you know what their names are?

542
00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:46.619
Those 2 characters.

543
00:35:46.739 --> 00:35:50.219
Yeah, yeah, they're like Scully and Mulder only anagrams.

544
00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:52.199
Oh, Dolmer and Lustley or something.

545
00:35:55.260 --> 00:35:56.760
Here we go.

546
00:35:56.820 --> 00:35:58.920
Now the Klingons game insult the shube.

547
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:01.199
But it's weird as well.

548
00:36:01.260 --> 00:36:04.440
I do think the production value on this episode is strong.

549
00:36:04.500 --> 00:36:10.920
Like, I've seen original series Fires that are quite embarrassing and amateurish.

550
00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:13.199
And yeah, this is because it's funny.

551
00:36:13.260 --> 00:36:14.940
I don't know, because it's played for laughs.

552
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:15.480
Yeah, yeah.

553
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:16.559
Don't really matter, does it?

554
00:36:16.619 --> 00:36:20.340
No, I just think it's well directed and it's like a really kind of prolonged set piece.

555
00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:21.900
I mean there's no action in this.

556
00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:23.159
It is just people talking.

557
00:36:23.219 --> 00:36:33.300
And as we've said, like a bar fight or like a fight is kind of the cheapest bit of action that you can realise in Star Trek.

558
00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:36.000
And so that seems to be why they have so many of them.

559
00:36:36.059 --> 00:36:41.219
But this one is funny because you see them all kind of losing and being pathetic and stuff.

560
00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:45.239
Just look at that look.

561
00:36:45.300 --> 00:36:50.159
Look at that look on Jimmy's face.

562
00:36:50.219 --> 00:36:53.519
You just know that he's going to get up and clock him.

563
00:36:53.579 --> 00:36:54.719
It's so awesome.

564
00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:55.800
That's the thunder as well.

565
00:36:55.860 --> 00:37:01.440
The fellow playing the Klingon has to laugh for ages because he knows the punch is coming. but he can't react until.

566
00:37:02.219 --> 00:37:03.900
Oh here we go.

567
00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:05.400
Chaos and shoes.

568
00:37:05.460 --> 00:37:09.179
He learned how to fight like that in an Asdar car park, I think.

569
00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:12.059
Did you see the barman swiping all the triples?

570
00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:13.139
He doesn't want him to get hurt.

571
00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:14.280
He was putting him under the bar.

572
00:37:15.659 --> 00:37:18.360
Don't hurt the soft furry creatures.

573
00:37:18.420 --> 00:37:19.800
And so what's he doing?

574
00:37:19.860 --> 00:37:21.900
He's just trying to escape the bar fight.

575
00:37:21.900 --> 00:37:30.659
And then 0 Jones, we cut between the shitty bar fight and him just pouring himself more and more drinks from this sort of low effort replicator.

576
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:36.420
Yeah, there's there's Chekhov punching the Klingon in the stomach and they're just getting thrown across the room.

577
00:37:37.019 --> 00:37:39.719
And that fella, Cyrano Jones.

578
00:37:39.780 --> 00:37:42.059
Honestly, his pinky is out for this whole scene.

579
00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:46.739
And you know what's delightful as well?

580
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:50.579
He's just going through it, loving every 2nd of this mad fire, isn't he?

581
00:37:50.579 --> 00:37:52.559
He's just watching it and drinking and drinking.

582
00:37:53.820 --> 00:37:55.199
Yeah.

583
00:37:55.260 --> 00:37:57.539
So Scotty gets a crab beaten out of him as well.

584
00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:00.360
They're just hurling themselves.

585
00:38:00.420 --> 00:38:01.380
They really into it.

586
00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:06.179
It's kind of like a, it might be my favourite Star Trek fist fight.

587
00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:10.800
It's definitely one of, well, think about it in stark contrast.

588
00:38:10.860 --> 00:38:13.320
So the siege of AR 558 that we watched the other week.

589
00:38:13.380 --> 00:38:14.340
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

590
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:14.820
Yeah.

591
00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:16.019
At least you can see this one.

592
00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:16.920
That's right.

593
00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:19.619
And can you see it?

594
00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:20.340
Look at it.

595
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:22.139
Woo, whee, across the bar.

596
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:23.639
I just love the part.

597
00:38:23.699 --> 00:38:25.920
There's so many people are going over tables and bowls.

598
00:38:25.980 --> 00:38:27.539
Just having so much fun.

599
00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:30.659
There's a woman at the back of the set.

600
00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:35.699
She's like, pressing herself into the corner like, oh, but these guys are really going for it.

601
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:37.920
Like, they're just hurling themselves across the shot.

602
00:38:37.980 --> 00:38:39.599
You know, it's really fun.

603
00:38:39.659 --> 00:38:43.199
And then this, he just arrives with the intact drink.

604
00:38:43.619 --> 00:38:49.440
He's just about to get a sip and then the guy just swipes it off him, but fortunately he's got another one in his pocket.

605
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:52.679
See, this is a sort of bar fight.

606
00:38:52.739 --> 00:38:55.559
You say, I wouldn't mind getting involved in, you know, where people just thrown across tables.

607
00:38:56.039 --> 00:38:56.760
That's terrific.

608
00:38:56.820 --> 00:39:01.559
Unfortunately, I live in England where bar flies end up with people getting glasses smashed in their faces.

609
00:39:01.739 --> 00:39:03.539
Yeah, yeah.

610
00:39:03.539 --> 00:39:04.920
Oh, dear.

611
00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:13.019
So this scene is just magnificent and it's where O'Brien and Bashir are inserted into the middle.

612
00:39:13.019 --> 00:39:13.679
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

613
00:39:13.739 --> 00:39:14.340
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

614
00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:15.900
So the 1st punch.

615
00:39:16.019 --> 00:39:19.139
Yeah, so and he's got the shits.

616
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:26.340
Like he's really properly got the shits and he's kind of, yep, so that's, is that O'Brien that, that's okay.

617
00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:27.000
Brian's in the middle.

618
00:39:27.059 --> 00:39:29.460
Yeah, he's the one who says he's the one who says that too.

619
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:30.840
I don't know, sir.

620
00:39:30.900 --> 00:39:33.000
I don't know, sir.

621
00:39:33.599 --> 00:39:40.019
He's being so hilariously, Cap. It's so great.

622
00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:55.260
And props to check off are doing punched in the face acting, like he's acting as if that bruise really hurt, so he doesn't want to move his face too much, which people often forget to do this. his whole sequence now. says.

623
00:39:55.320 --> 00:39:56.760
I'm sorry.

624
00:39:56.820 --> 00:40:01.139
I'm not going to fight him just because he insulted you. but he assaulted the enterprise.

625
00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:03.179
That's a matter of personal honour, sir.

626
00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:03.780
Yeah, right?

627
00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:13.980
Yeah, he's, he's, but Shatner is like, I mean, Kirk is genuinely properly miffed that he's really got the shits.

628
00:40:13.980 --> 00:40:28.980
And it's really, like, and because he actually says, you know, they insulted you and he goes, oh, okay, well, yeah, you know, like, and he's kind of ready to forgive it a little bit flattered, and then he discovers that that wasn't it.

629
00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:37.079
I held him back because like Chekhov wanted to fight the guy over insulting you, but I had stopped him, you know?

630
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:39.239
Is this off the record?

631
00:40:39.300 --> 00:40:41.099
No, this is not off the record.

632
00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:46.320
Well, he called you a complete fuckwear.

633
00:40:46.380 --> 00:40:47.039
Oh, did he?

634
00:40:47.099 --> 00:40:47.579
Okay.

635
00:40:47.579 --> 00:40:48.599
That is the...

636
00:40:48.599 --> 00:40:49.980
And that's when the fight started.

637
00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:56.039
No, I think that off the record line is unbelievably funny.

638
00:40:56.039 --> 00:41:02.219
And he's like just Shatner's delivery of the response is just unbelievably great.

639
00:41:02.219 --> 00:41:05.340
Because you never get to see this.

640
00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:06.179
Do you ever get to see this?

641
00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:11.820
This is actors that, well, this is actors that are incredibly relaxed around each other now.

642
00:41:11.880 --> 00:41:15.000
They know they're performances and they're playing up to it.

643
00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:18.059
I think, you know what?

644
00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:19.920
The more I'm watching it, the more savvy.

645
00:41:19.980 --> 00:41:21.599
I think it's Shatner is as an actor.

646
00:41:21.659 --> 00:41:22.500
Really good.

647
00:41:22.619 --> 00:41:23.820
He's properly good.

648
00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:24.900
And look at him.

649
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:25.320
Look at him.

650
00:41:25.380 --> 00:41:26.820
He's absolutely crushed.

651
00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:29.219
But...

652
00:41:30.300 --> 00:41:33.659
But the way he says it, it's like, surely you understand.

653
00:41:34.380 --> 00:41:35.099
That is a better off.

654
00:41:35.099 --> 00:41:36.360
It's garbage scowl.

655
00:41:38.340 --> 00:41:42.960
So that's when you decided to hit the Klingons, is it?

656
00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:51.780
And he's already kind of resolved not to punish him because...

657
00:41:51.900 --> 00:41:53.340
We kind of know that throughout this whole scene.

658
00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:53.880
Don't we?

659
00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:54.119
Yeah.

660
00:41:54.179 --> 00:41:54.420
Yeah.

661
00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:57.840
But he's absolutely butt hurt.

662
00:41:57.900 --> 00:42:00.000
Like he's super, super annoyed.

663
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:11.820
And so he dismisses him and sort of pretends to be cool with it and then does the restricted quarters thing and then and then he goes, oh, yeah, that's right.

664
00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:14.099
I'll get to read my technical manuals.

665
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:19.559
But he's even got the shits even more because he hasn't even actually managed to punish him.

666
00:42:19.619 --> 00:42:21.539
Look at the look on his face.

667
00:42:21.780 --> 00:42:27.239
Oh, Nathan, this whole scene between Spock and McCoy.

668
00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:33.719
Like these 2 now, I've gone on about how these 2 can be a bit toxic together sometimes, but this was hilarious.

669
00:42:33.780 --> 00:42:38.400
It's all done in sort of double meaning dialogue, isn't it?

670
00:42:38.460 --> 00:42:41.940
Good thing about triples is they do not talk too much.

671
00:42:44.099 --> 00:42:50.159
But that strange quote from the Bible as well. like they're from the sermon on the Mount.

672
00:42:50.219 --> 00:42:54.539
Like he's disquieted by them because they toil not, neither do they spin.

673
00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:57.059
Like they don't seem to serve any purpose.

674
00:42:57.119 --> 00:43:00.719
They just sort of eaten fuck and reproduce and that seems to be all they do.

675
00:43:00.780 --> 00:43:08.039
And the line about, the line about, they make, they're fluffy and they make a beautiful noise and he says, so would an ermine violin.

676
00:43:08.099 --> 00:43:09.599
And he goes, what is that?

677
00:43:09.960 --> 00:43:14.699
It's like, and that's that's Spock coming up with that line.

678
00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:15.900
It's so good.

679
00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:18.900
Oh, it's wonderful.

680
00:43:19.019 --> 00:43:19.800
And you know what?

681
00:43:19.860 --> 00:43:21.000
They pace out as well.

682
00:43:21.059 --> 00:43:24.300
You know, because the triples, obviously, we're getting more and more as we go.

683
00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:24.960
So we've seen one.

684
00:43:25.019 --> 00:43:25.920
Then we see a couple.

685
00:43:26.039 --> 00:43:27.960
Then we see a plateful.

686
00:43:28.019 --> 00:43:31.260
Then we see a whole room full and it just gets big.

687
00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:33.179
It just gets more absurd as it goes.

688
00:43:34.199 --> 00:43:35.880
Oh, yes.

689
00:43:36.539 --> 00:43:39.239
I love this is funny as well.

690
00:43:39.300 --> 00:43:44.219
Him sitting on the chair in the bridge with the tribble on it. is funnier for having no dialogue whatsoever.

691
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:45.119
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

692
00:43:45.179 --> 00:43:46.139
It is terrific, isn't it?

693
00:43:46.739 --> 00:43:48.659
You know, here we goes.

694
00:43:48.719 --> 00:43:51.119
All frottle at this point, don't you?

695
00:43:51.179 --> 00:43:52.139
Or is that?

696
00:43:53.940 --> 00:43:55.380
Music.

697
00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:02.940
He's looking around at everyone and say, well, somebody, just what's going on?

698
00:44:03.300 --> 00:44:09.840
Well, because in animated series, the actors can't, the characters can't sit down or do anything.

699
00:44:09.900 --> 00:44:17.639
Shatner just, I mean, Kirk just decides to stand next to his chair because there's a giant pink dribble in it.

700
00:44:17.699 --> 00:44:19.380
And is he padding it?

701
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:19.739
No.

702
00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:21.059
Oh, no.

703
00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:23.639
Now we get to see how many they are.

704
00:44:23.699 --> 00:44:31.619
I mean, that should have struck him earlier because obviously it was in his line of sight, but now the camera moves to the front of the bridge.

705
00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:33.599
I want this going across the rail there.

706
00:44:33.659 --> 00:44:34.920
It's sort of moving along.

707
00:44:34.980 --> 00:44:37.320
Oh that's so gorgeous.

708
00:44:37.380 --> 00:44:39.179
I really want one you know.

709
00:44:43.019 --> 00:44:49.860
Spock looking at him because he's kind of like attracted to the one that's moving along the railing.

710
00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:51.960
Like, he's kind of interested in it.

711
00:44:52.019 --> 00:44:54.179
Spock looks at him and he gets embarrassed.

712
00:44:54.599 --> 00:44:56.760
Don't look at me, Nathan.

713
00:44:56.820 --> 00:44:59.099
It's the trebles that are pregnant.

714
00:44:59.219 --> 00:45:00.119
That's right.

715
00:45:00.780 --> 00:45:02.340
Yeah.

716
00:45:02.340 --> 00:45:11.340
Just the pregnant, it seems to be quite a time saver.

717
00:45:11.400 --> 00:45:12.420
He's so funny.

718
00:45:12.539 --> 00:45:16.800
It is more funny for Shatner playing this straight, you know.

719
00:45:16.860 --> 00:45:17.940
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

720
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:22.619
But McCoy is really, really like that delivery.

721
00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:25.559
I love the use of the word bisexual here too.

722
00:45:25.619 --> 00:45:28.980
Yes, I that really made me sound.

723
00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:40.679
Yeah, so what they mean is hermaphroditic, but they must have assumed that that wouldn't be as comprehensible as bisexual, which doesn't actually mean having both male and female sex organs.

724
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:41.639
They do have a function.

725
00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:43.619
They give us love.

726
00:45:45.179 --> 00:45:49.019
You know what's really funny about this whole secret on the bridge.

727
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:56.699
It's like, no one's just, you think so, we'll just go around and clear them up, but they just left them all over the consoles all over the floor.

728
00:45:56.760 --> 00:46:13.199
So in trouble with Edward, there's a guy who just walks around in the background with a giant vacuum cleaner, which has a big transparent tank strapped to his back and this sort of vacuum cleaner thing that goes over his head and he's just picking them up off the floor, which is kind of adorable.

729
00:46:16.260 --> 00:46:18.719
I know, you know, you you say about sort of hang time.

730
00:46:18.780 --> 00:46:19.980
This is basically...

731
00:46:19.980 --> 00:46:24.420
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. with fluffy blobs, isn't it?

732
00:46:26.280 --> 00:46:28.800
Okay, so what's occurring here?

733
00:46:28.860 --> 00:46:31.739
So we're questioning him in Barris's office.

734
00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:36.360
We are questioning Cyrano Jones and we're very cross... this is where he has a light bulb moment, isn't it?

735
00:46:36.420 --> 00:46:37.860
Ah, the storage compartments.

736
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:38.159
Yes.

737
00:46:38.219 --> 00:46:38.760
Yes.

738
00:46:38.820 --> 00:46:42.480
Yeah, and in fact, the storage compartments line is something that we hear.

739
00:46:42.539 --> 00:46:52.920
He says storage compartments quite a number of times, including earlier on in the 1st conversation with Barris, and then they picked that up, I think, in, don't you?

740
00:46:53.699 --> 00:46:54.360
There's 9 one.

741
00:46:54.420 --> 00:46:58.739
They say right when they land, they say, oh, the station is mostly storage compartments.

742
00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:00.480
A few bars, you know?

743
00:47:00.539 --> 00:47:08.280
And I think there's a realisation in the DS9 episode in trials and tribulations, isn't there, where someone goes...

744
00:47:08.340 --> 00:47:09.000
Yeah, yeah.

745
00:47:09.059 --> 00:47:12.000
So he has the same discovery that Shatner has.

746
00:47:12.059 --> 00:47:22.500
Like he's suddenly realised. that wonderful bit where they're literally they're sitting on all of those triples in the storage compartment and they're scanning each one and then throwing it, scanning it, throwing it.

747
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:24.420
So good.

748
00:47:26.159 --> 00:47:34.199
Do you know, I was just reading, actually, you know, memory alpha, you know, we were saying earlier about Dax throwing the triple through the hole and landing.

749
00:47:34.260 --> 00:47:36.599
Apparently that's because the stage hands.

750
00:47:36.659 --> 00:47:38.280
They weren't aiming for Shatner.

751
00:47:38.340 --> 00:47:43.079
They were just supposed to throw him out, but because he wasn't in their line of sight, they just kept catching him.

752
00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:47.460
Him looking a bit peeved is actually real.

753
00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:56.460
This just supposed to be dropping out of the out of the storage container, but instead they just appear to be hurling themselves directly at Shatner, that's so great.

754
00:47:56.519 --> 00:47:58.920
Oh, that's even funnier, isn't it?

755
00:47:58.980 --> 00:48:00.480
That's right.

756
00:48:03.539 --> 00:48:08.460
Oh, and Spock and Dax both have the same line about...

757
00:48:08.460 --> 00:48:10.800
About the multiplying.

758
00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:12.719
Yeah, yeah, they do the same sum.

759
00:48:12.780 --> 00:48:22.500
And I think she actually overhears Spock doing that some later and then kind of smiles because it's, you know, they've both got it right.

760
00:48:22.980 --> 00:48:28.800
Yeah, can I drop a really, a really slight piece of trivia, which I really like.

761
00:48:28.860 --> 00:48:42.719
Doug Jones from Star Trek Discovery says this is one of his favourite episodes because he prefers the low stakes Star Trek episodes that are really fun.

762
00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:43.920
Yeah, yeah.

763
00:48:43.980 --> 00:48:45.239
They are sometimes the best.

764
00:48:45.300 --> 00:48:47.099
Yeah, yeah. this is just making...

765
00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:48.000
Look at it in the cars.

766
00:48:48.059 --> 00:48:50.880
Yeah, one of my favourite Star Treks ever.

767
00:48:50.940 --> 00:48:51.420
Yeah.

768
00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:52.260
Yeah.

769
00:48:55.320 --> 00:48:57.840
He's after my grain?

770
00:48:57.900 --> 00:49:05.519
So the guy who plays on Darvin is obviously back for trials and tribulations.

771
00:49:05.579 --> 00:49:08.039
Is it the 25th anniversary?

772
00:49:08.460 --> 00:49:12.539
I'm a little baffled because here he looks quite exotic.

773
00:49:12.599 --> 00:49:13.980
Whereas in...

774
00:49:13.980 --> 00:49:15.360
True or tribulations?

775
00:49:15.420 --> 00:49:16.920
Is it because he's a Klingon?

776
00:49:16.980 --> 00:49:18.659
Are they giving him a slightly darker hue?

777
00:49:18.719 --> 00:49:19.920
Yeah, yeah.

778
00:49:19.980 --> 00:49:36.360
I think the actor might be Jewish or something and there is kind of an ugly history of making the Klingons look like, um, you know, racial minorities and stuff and they kind of read sometimes the sort of Fu Manchu characters with those beards or whatever.

779
00:49:36.420 --> 00:49:41.579
Um, here, they just seem like sort of cross white guys most of the time.

780
00:49:41.699 --> 00:49:43.980
So there's a bit less of that.

781
00:49:44.039 --> 00:49:50.159
But I wonder whether they're just kind of, they've cast Brill because he's a bit darker.

782
00:49:50.219 --> 00:49:56.340
And he is still a little bit dark skinned in the thing, but he's got gray hair and he looks a bit less.

783
00:49:56.340 --> 00:49:58.440
Terribly handsome as well, you know.

784
00:49:58.500 --> 00:50:10.860
Yeah, yeah, young, like both of them, but he's a little bit more relaxed where he's very kind of stiff and kind of, um, you know, and young, ridiculously young.

785
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:11.940
He's brilliant.

786
00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:14.400
He's Barry, isn't he?

787
00:50:14.820 --> 00:50:19.079
Yeah, and he gets he gets to camp it up in that one because he's just the villain.

788
00:50:19.139 --> 00:50:20.880
Whereas he's not the villain in this, is it?

789
00:50:20.940 --> 00:50:28.079
So he's like, I see myself holding Kirkham Kirk's head in one hand and a triple in the oven.

790
00:50:28.139 --> 00:50:30.179
Oh, he wants a monument, doesn't he?

791
00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:38.039
Do you know, do you know something that actually, I learn about Gene Roddenbury?

792
00:50:38.099 --> 00:50:39.659
He really disliked this episode?

793
00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:40.679
Oh wow.

794
00:50:40.739 --> 00:50:42.239
He disliked this episode.

795
00:50:42.300 --> 00:50:48.300
He disliked the Tribbles and he didn't want comedy episodes in original Trek.

796
00:50:48.360 --> 00:50:57.780
And apparently Gene Coon, who you and I have said, was as responsible, was massively in favour of, you know, having some fun.

797
00:50:57.840 --> 00:50:58.320
Yeah.

798
00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:04.380
But apparently he thought it deviated from what he thought Star Trek should be.

799
00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:07.380
Yeah, but I think, you know, Have you seen it?

800
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:08.159
bloody absurd.

801
00:51:08.219 --> 00:51:09.360
He's been proved wrong.

802
00:51:09.420 --> 00:51:12.780
Yes, and it is silly and when it acknowledges that it's silly.

803
00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:17.039
Like sometimes it's worth just playing it straight and going with it, if it's being ridiculous.

804
00:51:17.099 --> 00:51:20.639
But, you know, sometimes it's worth acknowledging that it's silly too.

805
00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:24.000
Oh, here we go.

806
00:51:24.059 --> 00:51:30.239
Yeah, he sort of, he's actually seems to be kind of pulling them down out of the thing in order to keep them going.

807
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:32.460
Like he's certainly leaning into them.

808
00:51:33.119 --> 00:51:39.659
The fact that this next shot starts with him emerging up from an entire...

809
00:51:39.659 --> 00:51:40.800
Army of brillles.

810
00:51:40.860 --> 00:51:42.539
That one's moving.

811
00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:49.800
I think he's redefined and perfected looking peeved in this episode.

812
00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:53.880
He's just slightly pissed off the entire way through this episode.

813
00:51:53.940 --> 00:51:57.360
Did you see that security officer behind spot there?

814
00:51:57.420 --> 00:51:58.739
in the red shirt.

815
00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:01.260
He is in the DS9 episode.

816
00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:02.820
Obviously there's a much older man.

817
00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:06.239
He's the one that arrests a Brian and Bashir after the bar fire.

818
00:52:06.300 --> 00:52:07.440
Oh wow.

819
00:52:07.500 --> 00:52:08.400
Wow.

820
00:52:08.460 --> 00:52:11.639
He's put on about 15 stones since then.

821
00:52:11.699 --> 00:52:14.219
So they squeeze him into a red shirt again, but he's massive.

822
00:52:14.280 --> 00:52:15.539
That's brilliant.

823
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:17.039
That's awesome.

824
00:52:18.420 --> 00:52:23.699
Oh, just the pained way, he says, and please close that door.

825
00:52:28.139 --> 00:52:31.380
I mean, how can you...

826
00:52:31.739 --> 00:52:35.400
Look at that image of Shadow that's surrounded by those tribles. ridiculous.

827
00:52:36.599 --> 00:52:38.219
There we go.

828
00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:40.860
They're throwing them at his head from off.

829
00:52:40.980 --> 00:52:46.559
The image I really took away from this was the poor fellow at the bar when he's comes around and he's got 2 on his head.

830
00:52:46.619 --> 00:52:52.019
They redo that in the final scene of the DS9 episode, don't they?

831
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:55.440
where we pull back to see that Quark has one on his head.

832
00:52:55.500 --> 00:52:57.539
Like, and he's the bartender.

833
00:52:57.599 --> 00:52:59.219
Like, and he's just literally that shot.

834
00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:00.420
And that is the...

835
00:53:00.420 --> 00:53:01.260
Well, now, do you know?

836
00:53:01.260 --> 00:53:10.380
Do you know, though, like you said about the short treks where they had the budget, the two, you know, a 1000 CGI triples filling up this ship.

837
00:53:10.500 --> 00:53:17.340
And in the DSI one, it's clear they've only got about 50 and they're trying to scatter them around the promenade very, they'll make it look on those hundreds.

838
00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:34.800
But they do a pretty good job of it, and that is absolutely a stroke of genius to have, like, because the investigators have come to investigate the temporal violation and the temporal violation has caused the tribbles, which were extinct, to not be extinct anymore.

839
00:53:34.860 --> 00:53:38.159
And we don't know that until the very end.

840
00:53:38.219 --> 00:53:41.039
And so they've ushered those guys out.

841
00:53:41.039 --> 00:53:46.320
And then we reveal that the entire station is just plagued with tribbles.

842
00:53:46.320 --> 00:53:47.699
And we just leave it like that.

843
00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:48.599
It's wonderful.

844
00:53:48.659 --> 00:53:50.880
Do you remember the apologetic look on Odo's face?

845
00:53:50.940 --> 00:53:52.260
He goes, did you tell them?

846
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:54.300
It's so good.

847
00:53:54.360 --> 00:53:55.559
It's so good.

848
00:53:55.619 --> 00:53:58.980
That is such a genius comic moment, I think, at the end.

849
00:53:59.039 --> 00:54:00.119
Cisco goes.

850
00:54:00.179 --> 00:54:01.860
Well, we could always build a new station.

851
00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:03.719
Yeah, that's right.

852
00:54:03.780 --> 00:54:05.639
Everyone's having fun.

853
00:54:05.639 --> 00:54:06.420
That's great.

854
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:07.800
Honestly.

855
00:54:08.340 --> 00:54:10.199
Oh, here we go.

856
00:54:10.260 --> 00:54:14.760
This is that protracted sequence where the triple unmasks the real villain.

857
00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:19.860
Yeah, and it turns out it's little Charlie Brill, Barry, to his most.

858
00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:24.119
I feel like every Poirot reveal, you know, could be a tribble there.

859
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:24.840
Yeah.

860
00:54:25.500 --> 00:54:30.179
We haven't mentioned the other really prominent tremble in Star Trek discovery.

861
00:54:31.079 --> 00:54:32.820
Who's that?

862
00:54:32.940 --> 00:54:37.199
Captain Locker has a tribble on his desk in...

863
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:37.920
Oh, is it dead?

864
00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:38.639
In the ready room.

865
00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:46.619
No, it's alive, but he does, I think, have a dissected one or something in, you know, with a gone skeleton stuff in his armoury.

866
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:56.940
It's a tribble there as well I think that's it's a declaration by Kurtzman Trek that we're just doing the nonsense bits as well.

867
00:54:57.000 --> 00:54:57.960
It'll be okay.

868
00:54:58.199 --> 00:55:02.699
I just, I love the fact that in 90s trek, I think it's on trek.

869
00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:10.199
They just cherry pick all of the wackiest, the maddest things from original trek and just run with it.

870
00:55:10.260 --> 00:55:11.219
It's great.

871
00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:16.679
Well, in DS9, but not really in Star Trek, the Next Generation.

872
00:55:16.739 --> 00:55:25.800
And in fact, Star Trek, the Next Generation very deliberately seems to avoid, you know, after episode two, obviously, which is just a remake of another one.

873
00:55:25.860 --> 00:55:33.900
Well, you know, Ronald D. Moore and Ira Bear, and I think Renee Chavaria as well, a massive original series fans.

874
00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:35.280
So they would throw in references.

875
00:55:35.340 --> 00:55:42.239
There's a bit in facets where Odo, who is in fact, um, 0 my god, that's his old host.

876
00:55:42.300 --> 00:55:46.800
He goes up to the bar and he goes, 2 troniers, please. brilliant.

877
00:55:49.920 --> 00:55:53.400
Well, I think, yeah, it's like the Pike City pioneers.

878
00:55:53.460 --> 00:55:55.800
Like, if you look, there's loads of references.

879
00:55:55.860 --> 00:55:56.760
Yeah, yeah.

880
00:55:57.659 --> 00:55:59.460
Oh here we go.

881
00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:00.960
So this is the unmasking.

882
00:56:01.019 --> 00:56:05.639
He's got the, yeah, they don't like Klingon.

883
00:56:05.699 --> 00:56:08.760
Okay, so McCoy just walks in because we need him for a plot point in the minute.

884
00:56:08.820 --> 00:56:09.900
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

885
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:10.139
Yeah.

886
00:56:10.199 --> 00:56:14.039
No, he needs to out of the line about his pullman.

887
00:56:14.099 --> 00:56:14.880
Well, Mr. Spark.

888
00:56:14.940 --> 00:56:16.199
I didn't know you had it in you.

889
00:56:16.260 --> 00:56:17.639
This is a per name.

890
00:56:20.340 --> 00:56:23.579
Oh, here we go. just embarrassed.

891
00:56:23.639 --> 00:56:24.000
They like you.

892
00:56:25.079 --> 00:56:27.780
Well, there's no accounting for taste.

893
00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:30.239
Like, he's really quiet.

894
00:56:30.539 --> 00:56:31.619
He's having fun now.

895
00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:38.940
Shatner's really enjoying himself and he just gets the chance to let off one last insult to Barris and here we go.

896
00:56:42.420 --> 00:56:44.760
Yeah, he's really having fun.

897
00:56:44.820 --> 00:56:47.219
Can you just imagine where they got their scripts?

898
00:56:47.340 --> 00:56:51.599
They must have all just been like, oh, man, we can cut loose and have a laugh.

899
00:56:51.719 --> 00:56:52.679
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

900
00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:56.699
Instead of trying to make something absurd, seem dramatic.

901
00:56:56.760 --> 00:56:58.199
Yeah, we can make something absurd.

902
00:56:59.099 --> 00:56:59.820
Actually, absolutely.

903
00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:02.340
Yeah.

904
00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:06.780
Although William Charlotte is playing Barris absolutely straight.

905
00:57:06.840 --> 00:57:09.179
He deserves an award, I think of some kind.

906
00:57:09.239 --> 00:57:11.340
So I do wonder then.

907
00:57:11.400 --> 00:57:14.340
I do wonder if they should have done more comedy episodes.

908
00:57:14.460 --> 00:57:16.920
Because it's clearly it works.

909
00:57:16.980 --> 00:57:24.780
Yeah, I wonder whether it would have tried our patience, perhaps, if they, too often.

910
00:57:24.840 --> 00:57:32.940
I think we think there are more comedy episodes of the original series than there are because so many of the serious episodes are so ridiculous.

911
00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:33.539
Yeah.

912
00:57:33.599 --> 00:57:36.480
That, you know, Abraham Lincoln floating in space.

913
00:57:36.539 --> 00:57:43.199
Yeah, the giant green hand, you know, the massive Pooh monster.

914
00:57:43.260 --> 00:57:44.280
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

915
00:57:45.059 --> 00:57:49.139
But, but I mean, this is, you know, like deliberately comic.

916
00:57:50.219 --> 00:57:52.860
Well, can you think of any other?

917
00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:55.440
I think the one set in the Chicago planet.

918
00:57:55.500 --> 00:57:58.559
That's supposed to be quite funny, isn't it?

919
00:57:58.619 --> 00:58:00.000
Oh, the Alice in Wonderland one.

920
00:58:00.059 --> 00:58:00.480
Do you remember?

921
00:58:00.539 --> 00:58:06.780
Yeah, that's the one that I've been thinking of more than anything else, and I don't really remember that at all, I have to say.

922
00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:08.159
Is that Shore Leave?

923
00:58:08.340 --> 00:58:10.260
Yeah, surely.

924
00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:18.300
It's really funny Oh my god, look, he's wobbling those tribles in his hand to try and make it a lot.

925
00:58:18.360 --> 00:58:19.619
Yeah, yeah, he's getting them to act.

926
00:58:19.739 --> 00:58:20.460
Yeah, yeah.

927
00:58:20.519 --> 00:58:21.840
No, no, no.

928
00:58:21.900 --> 00:58:22.980
I think I'm one of those.

929
00:58:22.980 --> 00:58:25.079
The tal is attached to a fishing line, I think.

930
00:58:25.139 --> 00:58:27.179
I don't think that's just all shot.

931
00:58:27.239 --> 00:58:29.639
That short ought to go at the bar.

932
00:58:29.639 --> 00:58:30.420
That is so great.

933
00:58:32.820 --> 00:58:35.219
He's so muterable.

934
00:58:38.280 --> 00:58:45.840
And I like this, I like the fact that the punishment for, um, oh god, I'm, Mr., no, what's his name?

935
00:58:45.900 --> 00:58:48.239
Tyrano Jones has to pick up all...

936
00:58:48.239 --> 00:58:52.079
Tribbles and it's going to take him 17.5 years. 17 years.

937
00:58:52.139 --> 00:58:52.619
Yeah.

938
00:58:53.880 --> 00:58:57.360
And of course, we get comedy music as he starts picking them all up at the end.

939
00:58:57.420 --> 00:58:58.440
Instead of looking around.

940
00:58:58.500 --> 00:59:07.260
Of course, it will take him less time than that because he actually ends up getting off the station and being in the animated series.

941
00:59:08.280 --> 00:59:11.400
But this sort of heightened performance.

942
00:59:11.460 --> 00:59:14.400
Oh, the sort of theatrical acting, yeah.

943
00:59:14.940 --> 00:59:18.360
I mean, you know me, we're a big fan of vintage TV.

944
00:59:18.420 --> 00:59:20.340
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

945
00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:24.360
But I mean, Star Trek does this still, you know, like at times, doesn't it?

946
00:59:24.420 --> 00:59:28.019
Oh, yeah, that fabulous pirate woman in the serene squad.

947
00:59:28.079 --> 00:59:29.579
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

948
00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:32.099
Yeah, that's like a big comedy villain.

949
00:59:32.159 --> 00:59:35.099
Not comedy, but a big camp villain kind of.

950
00:59:35.159 --> 00:59:39.119
I about say she did everything, but put her hands on her hips, but I think she might have done that. times.

951
00:59:42.179 --> 00:59:47.039
So 17.9 years, so that's what, 2 years less on the prison sentence.

952
00:59:48.659 --> 00:59:53.039
So, right, here's a quote, I don't need your new questions, but I'm going to ask you a question.

953
00:59:53.099 --> 00:59:57.360
Is this the best comedy episode?

954
00:59:58.619 --> 01:00:01.739
I think it's the most, it's the most remembered.

955
01:00:01.800 --> 01:00:09.840
Yeah, but I mean, I think that, um, well, I mean, we've got lower decks.

956
01:00:09.900 --> 01:00:10.440
Do you know what I mean?

957
01:00:10.500 --> 01:00:12.239
In lower decks, he's I'd like it.

958
01:00:12.300 --> 01:00:14.760
Wishing that to a other side, which is a comedy show.

959
01:00:14.820 --> 01:00:36.840
Yeah, I think, I think probably, I think probably there's a sort of attempt to do a sort of strange weird camp comedy towards the end of series one of Strange New Worlds, but it's not an out and out comedy and it does have an actual kind of, you know, emotional core.

960
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:44.099
Um, I think I think there's a few contenders for like most of them are.

961
01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:49.139
I think literal green men would rank. as a very funny one.

962
01:00:49.199 --> 01:00:51.840
Our man Bashir as well, which is very funny.

963
01:00:51.900 --> 01:00:56.639
Um, And I think there's a couple on TNG as well.

964
01:00:56.699 --> 01:01:01.920
I think the one where Q loses his powers is hilariously funny.

965
01:01:02.039 --> 01:01:03.059
Remember that one?

966
01:01:03.119 --> 01:01:05.280
The guy that stabs him with a four.

967
01:01:05.340 --> 01:01:06.179
Yeah, yeah.

968
01:01:06.179 --> 01:01:17.760
Yeah, again, but that's just a big performance from John Delancey and everyone else is playing it straight, whereas here everyone gets the opportunity to be funny. like they get to deliver something.

969
01:01:17.820 --> 01:01:21.360
There's a massive high concept joke as well, isn't it?

970
01:01:21.420 --> 01:01:22.079
The triples.

971
01:01:22.139 --> 01:01:25.739
Like little green men, uh, cork, rum, and not, because they're Roswell aliens, you know.

972
01:01:25.800 --> 01:01:26.280
Yeah.

973
01:01:26.280 --> 01:01:27.840
Yeah, that is pretty great.

974
01:01:27.960 --> 01:01:30.539
Or the whole crew plays baseball.

975
01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:34.980
Yeah, that's a sitcom episode, but it's not quite a comedy.

976
01:01:35.039 --> 01:01:47.639
Like it's not an out comedy, but it is shaped like a sitcom episode where, you know, Cisco learns available lesson and stuff and it does end with a crap joke as well, which is super disappointing.

977
01:01:47.699 --> 01:01:52.500
I'll tell you when, I'll tell you when a comedy goes badly wrong, profit and lace.

978
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:53.880
Oh yeah, yuck.

979
01:01:53.940 --> 01:01:56.159
That is supposed to be a comedy.

980
01:01:56.219 --> 01:01:57.719
Super ill advised.

981
01:01:57.780 --> 01:02:05.099
The, I mean, Star Trek, the Next Generation, everyone is generally a bit too wooden for comedy to land.

982
01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:07.260
Like they're not that good at it.

983
01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:09.360
And towards the end, they get more relaxed.

984
01:02:09.420 --> 01:02:10.139
Oh here we go.

985
01:02:10.199 --> 01:02:13.440
Look, Michelle's giving a proper head laugh there.

986
01:02:13.500 --> 01:02:15.059
Like she's throwing a head back.

987
01:02:15.119 --> 01:02:17.099
It's the funniest thing that's ever happened.

988
01:02:17.159 --> 01:02:17.699
Bless her.

989
01:02:17.760 --> 01:02:18.840
That's so awesome.

990
01:02:19.380 --> 01:02:32.340
You know, the funniest thing about watching this with my palner was that at the end of the episode and you've got that picture of the gall. in the credits and he went, what the hell was that?

991
01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:38.039
But you know what?

992
01:02:38.099 --> 01:02:39.539
I will I will forgive.

993
01:02:39.599 --> 01:02:41.519
I'll forgive the joke at the end of this one though.

994
01:02:41.579 --> 01:02:43.860
It's the whole thing full of moments like that.

995
01:02:43.920 --> 01:03:06.000
The gone thing is another one of these ridiculous things where it's a rubber lizard in a cocktail frock and then they make it the most terrifying alien enemy that you could possibly imagine in strange New World series one and gives, you know, one of the characters a tragic backstory involving the gone.

996
01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:18.659
Like, it's that thing where it just goes, yes, Star Trek's ridiculous, and we're going to still do it, and we're going to do it in a very Star Treky way and you watch us make something incredible out of it.

997
01:03:18.719 --> 01:03:31.920
Well, I think the rarest of things and say that actually Enterprise had a gone appear in the mirror 2 passer in series 4 and did it in CJR, but in like the half dark, glowing eyes.

998
01:03:31.980 --> 01:03:33.539
And it was really effective.

999
01:03:33.599 --> 01:03:37.860
And I was like, Jesus, these monsters have got legs, you know?

1000
01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:42.059
They are fucking terrifying in episode 9 of Strange New Worlds.

1001
01:03:42.119 --> 01:03:45.059
Like they're really, really frightening.

1002
01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:48.420
It's a great episode, a really properly good episode.

1003
01:03:48.480 --> 01:03:48.900
Yeah.

1004
01:03:48.960 --> 01:03:53.519
Nathan, I kind of knew you and I were going to laugh throughout the entire episode. so good.

1005
01:03:53.579 --> 01:03:54.659
It's so good.

1006
01:03:54.719 --> 01:04:00.480
And like we said before, it's not overt belly laughs. not, you know, it's it's comedic.

1007
01:04:00.539 --> 01:04:01.380
Yeah, yeah.

1008
01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:04.860
Um, but I just think it's the character work.

1009
01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:08.099
It's the character work on the original series that has impressed me the most.

1010
01:04:08.159 --> 01:04:10.440
Yeah, and the sort of...

1011
01:04:11.639 --> 01:04:12.960
Well we call it relaxed.

1012
01:04:13.019 --> 01:04:19.800
That sort of charming relationships that everybody has, that it's just not there in most of 90s trick, you know?

1013
01:04:19.860 --> 01:04:23.880
where they're all, where they're all sort of like, you know, office people in space.

1014
01:04:23.940 --> 01:04:25.440
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1015
01:04:25.500 --> 01:04:34.679
And like the banter, any kind of comedy that they attempt to do in Voyager is just horrifically bad, like really, seriously, physically painful to us.

1016
01:04:34.739 --> 01:04:37.440
Unless it involves Jerry Ryan and Robert Picardo.

1017
01:04:37.500 --> 01:04:38.699
I mean, that's pretty good.

1018
01:04:38.760 --> 01:04:39.539
Yeah, they're great.

1019
01:04:39.599 --> 01:04:40.440
Yeah, obviously.

1020
01:04:40.500 --> 01:04:45.539
Oh, actually, that was an episode, you know, with an over comedy premise.

1021
01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:49.019
The one where the doctor and 7 of 9 do the body swap.

1022
01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:51.599
Have you watched it?

1023
01:04:51.659 --> 01:04:52.380
I watched it.

1024
01:04:52.500 --> 01:04:53.099
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1025
01:04:53.159 --> 01:04:54.420
It was funny, wasn't it?

1026
01:04:54.480 --> 01:04:55.380
it was properly good.

1027
01:04:55.800 --> 01:04:58.079
He's such a prick.

1028
01:04:58.139 --> 01:04:59.039
It's wonderful.

1029
01:04:59.099 --> 01:04:59.880
It's really good.

1030
01:04:59.940 --> 01:05:00.360
Yeah.

1031
01:05:00.719 --> 01:05:16.920
Well, I will say, uh, before we out, once again, like every single time we dive back to the original series, I have a complete blast. and it's, but that's been a revelation to me because I've never had time for the original series before.

1032
01:05:16.980 --> 01:05:21.539
The more I watch it, the more worth, I think, is there.

1033
01:05:26.039 --> 01:05:34.619
All right, it's the end of the episode, and it is time for us to choose what we're going to do next, and it's my turn to hit the button.

1034
01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:35.159
It is.

1035
01:05:35.159 --> 01:05:36.300
Ask me what we're doing.

1036
01:05:36.420 --> 01:05:37.559
What are we doing?

1037
01:05:37.800 --> 01:05:41.639
So it has been a while.

1038
01:05:41.699 --> 01:06:05.880
Look, so we just went and looked back over the last 20 episodes of Untitled Star Trek Project, and it turns out we have done 2 Star Trek, the Next Generation episodes in that time. and just to, you know, the, the most popular, potentially the most popular star, is the most underrepresented in the last 20.

1039
01:06:06.179 --> 01:06:07.199
Yeah, yeah.

1040
01:06:07.260 --> 01:06:10.739
I think we've done more discovery than Star Trek The Next Generation.

1041
01:06:10.800 --> 01:06:13.260
And there's a lot more of the next generation. right.

1042
01:06:13.320 --> 01:06:18.960
So we're just going to choose from Star Trek the Next Generation, and I'm going to press the button now.

1043
01:06:22.019 --> 01:06:22.739
Go for it.

1044
01:06:22.739 --> 01:06:24.599
Okay, so this is a classic.

1045
01:06:24.840 --> 01:06:29.820
It's from series 4 and it's reunion.

1046
01:06:29.880 --> 01:06:33.480
So it's a wharf episode with special industry, K-Lar.

1047
01:06:33.539 --> 01:06:35.340
It is brilliant.

1048
01:06:35.460 --> 01:06:37.679
And I know that's brilliant because I've seen it recently.

1049
01:06:37.739 --> 01:06:40.260
But I really want to watch something quite shit.

1050
01:06:40.320 --> 01:06:44.519
Yeah, yeah, I'd like to watch something a little bit less kind of overwrought than that.

1051
01:06:44.579 --> 01:06:46.739
It is really good and Susie Paxton is wonderful.

1052
01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:50.699
Can you please keep pressing until you get sorry from seasons one and two, please?

1053
01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:52.320
Oh, okay.

1054
01:06:52.380 --> 01:06:53.159
Let's see.

1055
01:06:53.219 --> 01:06:55.199
The defector.

1056
01:06:55.260 --> 01:06:57.659
That's actually great as well.

1057
01:06:57.719 --> 01:06:58.739
That's fantastic.

1058
01:06:58.800 --> 01:06:59.280
Yeah.

1059
01:06:59.340 --> 01:07:00.599
I've watched that recently too.

1060
01:07:00.659 --> 01:07:02.099
Oh, that's good, isn't it?

1061
01:07:02.159 --> 01:07:02.940
So that's series three.

1062
01:07:03.300 --> 01:07:06.179
Yeah, this is when they're kind of getting good.

1063
01:07:06.960 --> 01:07:08.940
New ground.

1064
01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:12.719
Oh, that's terrible.

1065
01:07:12.780 --> 01:07:15.239
That's the one with the little Gilvos puppets.

1066
01:07:15.300 --> 01:07:17.340
Oh, Series 4 is.

1067
01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:19.260
It's an Alexander episode.

1068
01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:21.659
It's the one where Wolf learns how to be a good parent.

1069
01:07:21.719 --> 01:07:25.559
Is it the one where Loaxana takes him to the holodeck?

1070
01:07:25.619 --> 01:07:27.539
No, that's wonderful.

1071
01:07:27.599 --> 01:07:28.860
What's that called?

1072
01:07:29.099 --> 01:07:32.400
The higher, the fewer.

1073
01:07:32.460 --> 01:07:33.900
Yeah, that's pretty great.

1074
01:07:33.960 --> 01:07:36.179
Are you sure they can't remember?

1075
01:07:36.239 --> 01:07:37.199
No, okay.

1076
01:07:37.320 --> 01:07:40.860
No, new ground's got these dreadful sort of vol puppets in it.

1077
01:07:40.920 --> 01:07:41.639
It's not.

1078
01:07:41.699 --> 01:07:42.719
Oh, okay.

1079
01:07:42.840 --> 01:07:43.320
Yep, no.

1080
01:07:43.380 --> 01:07:46.860
Okay. let's try something else And it's very boring. as well.

1081
01:07:46.920 --> 01:07:48.420
Oh, the loss.

1082
01:07:49.199 --> 01:07:50.760
A loss.

1083
01:07:50.820 --> 01:07:53.940
Oh, that's a Troy, actually, isn't it?

1084
01:07:54.059 --> 01:07:56.940
She does get she becomes a pissed off.

1085
01:07:57.000 --> 01:07:57.539
Is she?

1086
01:07:57.599 --> 01:07:58.920
Yeah, yeah, yeah. which is quite good.

1087
01:07:59.039 --> 01:08:04.500
That is quite good, but... like, how can you know what it's like to lose something that you never had?

1088
01:08:04.559 --> 01:08:07.019
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she's really...

1089
01:08:07.079 --> 01:08:10.139
But Riker calls her out on it and says, you know, you're being a bit of a bitchy, you know.

1090
01:08:10.199 --> 01:08:12.119
It doesn't say quite like that, but.

1091
01:08:12.420 --> 01:08:14.519
Come on. one or two.

1092
01:08:14.579 --> 01:08:17.699
There must be something in there for seasons one or two.

1093
01:08:18.180 --> 01:08:21.180
Okay, this is series two.

1094
01:08:21.239 --> 01:08:23.100
This is pen pals.

1095
01:08:23.399 --> 01:08:25.560
Oh, like a good one.

1096
01:08:26.460 --> 01:08:28.140
Is it?

1097
01:08:28.140 --> 01:08:30.899
Is it that good?

1098
01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:32.279
I don't think it's terrible.

1099
01:08:32.340 --> 01:08:33.779
Penpal isn't a terrible episode.

1100
01:08:33.840 --> 01:08:35.520
Oh, it's kind of terrible.

1101
01:08:35.579 --> 01:08:36.300
Alright.

1102
01:08:36.359 --> 01:08:36.899
I'm going to be.

1103
01:08:37.020 --> 01:08:38.699
You could cut some of this out if we keep...

1104
01:08:38.699 --> 01:08:40.380
These is going to be the longest one ever.

1105
01:08:40.439 --> 01:08:46.319
So the best of both worlds, part two, which means we have to do part one.

1106
01:08:46.680 --> 01:08:50.880
The Mantlepiece Society, really the Masterpiece Society.

1107
01:08:50.939 --> 01:08:56.159
It's the one where Diana has sex with the handsome leader of a colony.

1108
01:08:56.220 --> 01:08:57.779
Yeah, it's super important.

1109
01:08:57.840 --> 01:08:58.920
We've got to choose one eventually.

1110
01:08:58.979 --> 01:09:00.119
It's going to be this next one.

1111
01:09:00.180 --> 01:09:00.420
Right.

1112
01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:00.779
Come on.

1113
01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:02.579
No, this is terrible.

1114
01:09:02.699 --> 01:09:05.340
This is transfigurations at the end of series three.

1115
01:09:05.399 --> 01:09:09.600
So it's just before best of both worlds and it's Beverly's annual.

1116
01:09:10.140 --> 01:09:11.520
Georgie become this word.

1117
01:09:11.579 --> 01:09:14.819
No, it's no, that's called...

1118
01:09:14.880 --> 01:09:16.380
I can't remember what that's called.

1119
01:09:16.439 --> 01:09:17.579
Transfiguration.

1120
01:09:17.699 --> 01:09:19.859
Yeah, yeah, no, it's not that one.

1121
01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:32.340
It's the one where it's Beverly's annual fucking an alien episode, and this time it's John Doe, who then turns all glowy and goes back to his home planet or something.

1122
01:09:32.399 --> 01:09:33.300
It's super boring.

1123
01:09:33.359 --> 01:09:35.819
Well, come on. one more time then.

1124
01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:37.260
Well, no.

1125
01:09:37.319 --> 01:09:39.720
Times arrow part two.

1126
01:09:39.779 --> 01:09:41.460
That's all right.

1127
01:09:41.520 --> 01:09:42.779
I mean, that's pretty terrible.

1128
01:09:42.840 --> 01:09:44.100
Mr. Pickett?

1129
01:09:44.159 --> 01:09:46.079
I need to be done. sort of hang time.

1130
01:09:46.140 --> 01:09:49.319
It is hang time and it does have Jerry Hardness.

1131
01:09:49.380 --> 01:09:49.920
It kind of fun.

1132
01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:51.119
It's pretty terrible.

1133
01:09:51.180 --> 01:09:51.720
Yeah.

1134
01:09:52.979 --> 01:09:55.020
New ground again.

1135
01:09:56.340 --> 01:09:58.319
God hates us.

1136
01:09:58.439 --> 01:10:00.539
There's something in the country.

1137
01:10:00.600 --> 01:10:01.439
Okay, I'm telling you.

1138
01:10:01.680 --> 01:10:06.420
Series 2, episode 19 Manhunt.

1139
01:10:10.380 --> 01:10:15.060
Oh, that's the one where Luax Olatore is after Picard's legs for the whole episode.

1140
01:10:15.119 --> 01:10:15.899
Yeah.

1141
01:10:15.899 --> 01:10:19.020
I just, I know you're going to love this.

1142
01:10:19.079 --> 01:10:19.920
You're gonna love it.

1143
01:10:19.979 --> 01:10:20.760
I think I will.

1144
01:10:20.819 --> 01:10:24.539
It's got horny, horny, Miguel.

1145
01:10:24.960 --> 01:10:27.479
Yeah, no, I think it's kind of bad.

1146
01:10:27.539 --> 01:10:31.619
And it's it's not the eulogium or the morologium.

1147
01:10:31.800 --> 01:10:32.460
What's the one?

1148
01:10:32.520 --> 01:10:37.319
It's the, she's got the, it's the betazoid kind of...

1149
01:10:37.380 --> 01:10:39.840
She's more horny than ever.

1150
01:10:39.899 --> 01:10:44.279
Yeah, because she's undergoing menopause, but it's...

1151
01:10:44.340 --> 01:10:45.720
He trying to go to the Dixon Hill.

1152
01:10:45.720 --> 01:10:47.819
The holodeck program.

1153
01:10:47.880 --> 01:10:50.880
And then she just goes on there, basically, and pursues him.

1154
01:10:50.939 --> 01:10:52.800
Yeah, it's dreadful.

1155
01:10:52.859 --> 01:10:53.819
All right, let's do that.

1156
01:10:53.880 --> 01:10:55.619
Absolutely weird doing that.

1157
01:10:55.680 --> 01:11:00.119
Gene Roddenbury had a point about Star Trek being comedy. doing comedy.

1158
01:11:00.180 --> 01:11:00.899
That's it.

1159
01:11:01.020 --> 01:11:14.579
So we've just done a successful comedy for the original series and now we're just gonna watch the crew of the Enterprise D fuck it up in the 1st kind of plunge and sort of depressing way possible, I think.

1160
01:11:14.640 --> 01:11:17.100
I literally cannot wait.

1161
01:11:27.239 --> 01:11:30.899
You've been listening to entitled Star Trek Project with Joe Ford and Nathan Bottom League.

1162
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:36.720
We're online at untitled Star Trek Project.com, where you can find links to our Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube channel.

1163
01:11:36.779 --> 01:11:42.000
Our podcast artwork is by Kayla Ciceran, and the theme was composed by Cameron Lahn.

1164
01:11:42.060 --> 01:11:47.640
This episode was recorded on the 29th of November 2022 and released on the 9th of December.

1165
01:11:47.699 --> 01:11:52.140
We'll see you next time for Star Trek the Next Generation.

1166
01:12:08.939 --> 01:12:10.680
There we go.

1167
01:12:10.920 --> 01:12:15.539
I've already started on 2nd skin.

1168
01:12:16.680 --> 01:12:20.100
So I'll finish it tomorrow, probably.

1169
01:12:20.819 --> 01:12:23.100
Can you hear me, all right?

1170
01:12:23.159 --> 01:12:23.819
Yeah, I'm all right.

1171
01:12:23.939 --> 01:12:24.539
Yeah.

1172
01:12:24.539 --> 01:12:24.840
Yeah.

1173
01:12:24.899 --> 01:12:25.859
Really clear?

1174
01:12:25.920 --> 01:12:28.319
Yeah, I love this new microphone.

1175
01:12:28.380 --> 01:12:33.119
It was not as expensive as the old one, but it is good, I think.

1176
01:12:36.180 --> 01:12:37.020
That's what matters.

1177
01:12:37.079 --> 01:12:38.159
That is what matters.

1178
01:12:38.279 --> 01:12:44.520
I read a list of microphones for under a 100 American dollars that this guy said was good.

1179
01:12:44.520 --> 01:12:54.180
And uh, this one's this is it, and it's got less, because there's those ones when we're recording, like, and there's that big fucking pop shield in my face.

1180
01:12:54.239 --> 01:13:08.340
You know, like when I was like crouched in Calvin's room on his tiny fucking desk and like I'm down here in the frame and then there's a big giant pop shield.

1181
01:13:08.399 --> 01:13:10.920
I think I've got some YouTube videos or some of that going on, you know.

1182
01:13:11.159 --> 01:13:13.199
This is much more normal.

1183
01:13:13.260 --> 01:13:15.180
I just feel like I'm at a press conference.

1184
01:13:15.600 --> 01:13:17.939
We just there we go.

1185
01:13:18.000 --> 01:13:23.100
Just so I can, I've got memory out for up, so I can just mention a few little bits and bobs.

1186
01:13:23.159 --> 01:13:26.279
Yeah, I've got a linked memory alpha here on my notes page.

1187
01:13:26.340 --> 01:13:27.479
Have you read?

1188
01:13:27.539 --> 01:13:32.640
I've got to drop what the original working title was, but I don't know what that is.

1189
01:13:32.699 --> 01:13:33.300
Don't tell me yet.

1190
01:13:33.359 --> 01:13:33.899
Oh okay.

1191
01:13:34.260 --> 01:13:36.060
It's great.

1192
01:13:36.359 --> 01:13:39.359
I mean, it's terrible and that's why it's great.

1193
01:13:41.760 --> 01:13:43.560
Oh, dear.

1194
01:13:43.680 --> 01:13:45.720
Now you got to be all high energy.

1195
01:13:45.779 --> 01:13:47.399
But the next day, I'm 35.

1196
01:13:47.579 --> 01:13:49.859
So I will have to go to bed after this.

1197
01:13:49.920 --> 01:13:50.279
I think.

1198
01:13:50.340 --> 01:14:00.840
But I have 2 lessons tomorrow and then I will, I think I'll spend all of my free time doing prep for the fucking 1st aid course.

1199
01:14:00.899 --> 01:14:02.760
Then tomorrow night.

1200
01:14:02.939 --> 01:14:07.199
I will record the podcast and edit AR and I'm 2nd skin.

1201
01:14:07.260 --> 01:14:09.119
I mean I think I should be fine.

1202
01:14:12.720 --> 01:14:15.659
Red leather, yellow, leather, red, yellow.

1203
01:14:15.720 --> 01:14:17.039
All right.

1204
01:14:17.340 --> 01:14:18.960
Are you ready?

1205
01:14:19.859 --> 01:14:21.420
Always.

1206
01:14:25.260 --> 01:14:28.859
Hey, Joe. Hi.

1207
01:14:28.920 --> 01:14:30.899
All right, I'm going to do that a little bit more.

1208
01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:31.859
I'm excited.

1209
01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:34.800
Oh, yeah, for a comedy episode, remember?

1210
01:14:36.420 --> 01:14:40.199
Hey, Joe. No, for a death.

1211
01:14:40.260 --> 01:14:42.600
I can just stick the high in for a before.

1212
01:14:42.659 --> 01:14:44.760
We'll do it once more.

1213
01:14:44.819 --> 01:14:45.659
Just to get natural.

1214
01:14:46.079 --> 01:14:51.119
Of all the things that we agonise over it is...

1215
01:14:51.180 --> 01:14:53.520
I do the timing, like I make it happen.

1216
01:14:53.640 --> 01:14:57.180
Hey, Joe. Hi.

1217
01:14:57.239 --> 01:14:59.340
So this is an exciting one.

1218
01:14:59.399 --> 01:15:03.659
This is one of the most famous episodes of original Trek.