The Delta Flyers - Melora

Episode Date: June 4, 2024

The Delta Flyers is hosted by Garrett Wang, Robert Duncan McNeill, Terry Farrell & Armin Shimerman. In each podcast release, they will recap and discuss an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This week’s episode, Melora, is hosted by Garrett Wang, Robert Duncan McNeill, and Terry Farrell.Melora: Melora Pazlar, a new arrival on DS9 with a special gravity-based disability, finds an admirer in Bashir. Meanwhile, an old associate of Quark's comes to the station to kill the bartender.We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, starting with our Production Managers Megan Elise & Rebecca McNeill.Additionally, we could not make this podcast available without our Executive Producers:Stephanie Baker, Jason M Okun, Marie Burgoyne, Kris Hansen, Chris Knapp, Janet K Harlow, Heidi Mclellan, Rich Gross, Mary Jac Greer, Mike Gu, Tara Polen, Tom Paynter, AJC, Nicholaus Russell, Lisa Robinson, Alex Mednis, Holly Schmitt, James H. Morrow, Nicole Anne Toma, Roxane Ray, Andrew Duncan, David Buck, Ian Ramsey, Feroza Mehta, Jonathan Brooks, Gemma Laidler, Rob Traverse, Matt Norris, Stephanie Lee, Izzy Jaffer, Jan Hanford, Sam Mikelic, & Thomas IrvinOur Co-Executive Producers:Liz Scott, Sab Ewell, Sarah A Gubbins, Luz R., Dannielle Kaminski, Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, Courtney Lucas, Elaine Ferguson, Captain Jeremiah Brown, E & John, Deike Hoffmann, Anna Post, Shannyn Bourke, Jenna Appleton, Lee Lisle, Sarah Thompson, Holly Smith, Amy Tudor, Mark G Hamilton, KMB, Dominic Burgess, Mary Burch, Sandra Stengel, Normandy Madden, Joseph Michael Kuhlman, Darryl Cheng, Elizabeth Stanton, Kayla Knilans, Tim Beach, Victor Ling, Shambhavi Kadam, Tae Phoenix, Donna Runyon, Nicholas Albano, Daniel O’Brien, Danie Crofoot, Steven Lugo, Penny Liu, David Smith, Lisa Hill, Stacy Davis, Lena Pfitzmeier & Timothy McMichens, & Kevin HarlowAnd our Producers:Philipp Havrilla, James Amey, Patrick Carlin, Eve England, Ann Harding,Trip Lives, Samantha Weddle, Paul Johnston, Carole Patterson, Warren Stine, Carol Murphy, Jocelyn Pina, Mike Fillmon, Chad Awkerman, Mike Schaible, AJ Provance, Claire Deans, Maxine Soloway, Barbara Beck, Brianna Kloss, Dat Cao, Stephen Riegner, Debra Defelice, Vikki Williams, Cindy Ring, Alicia Kulp, Kelly Brown, Jason Wang, Gabriel Dominic Girgis, Rob Johnson, Maria Rosell, Heather Choe, Michael Bucklin, Lisa Klink, Dominique Weidle, Justin Weir, Jesse Bailey, Mike Chow, Kevin Hooker, Matt Edmonds, Miki T, John Richardson, Heather Selig, Rachel Shapiro, Clark Ochikubo, Stephanie Aves, Seth Carlson, Amy Rambacher, Jessica B, E.G. Galano, Tim Neumark, Will Forg, Jeremy Gaskin, Ryan Tomei-Sigurðarson, Charlie Faulkner, Estelle Keller, Carmen Puente-Garza, James Lyszczek, Russell Nemhauser, Lawrence Green, Greg Kenzo Wickstrom, Lisa Gunn, Lauren Rivers, Jennifer B, Dean Chew, Linda Daireaux, Mars DeVore, Robert Allen Stiffler, Jennifer Vaughn, Walkerius Logos, PJ Pick, Preston Meyer, Rebecca Leary, Ryan Mahieu, Andrew Cook-Feltz, Karen Galleski, Constance, Loretta Reyes, Kyle Freund, Cassandra Girard, Francesca Garibaldi, Andrea Wilson, Willow Whitcomb, Jadzia Mehari, Mo, Leslie Ford, & Travis CamposThank you for your support!“Our creations are protected by copyright, trademark, and trade secret laws. Some examples of our creations are the text we use, artwork we create, audio, and video we produce and post. You may not use, reproduce, or distribute our creations unless we give you permission. If you have any questions, you can email us at [e-mail] Sponsors:* Check out Mint Mobile: https://mintmobile.com/TDFSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-delta-flyers/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Greetings, everyone. Welcome to the Delta Flyers Journey Through the Wormhole with Quark, Dax, and their good friends, Tom and Harry. Join us as we journey through episodes of Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Your hosts along this journey are Terry Farrell, our enchanting science officer. Terry is with us today. Sometimes we have Armand Shimmerman, our beloved entrepreneur, but he's not here today. So we send him our good wishes. Can't wait to see him back.

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Hello, Terry. Hi, Gary. How are you guys? How are you guys? Yeah, good. Pretty good. You guys and girl. I don't mean to be gender specific.

How is everyone doing? I always assume guys means guys and gals. Yeah. I know. I know people are sensitive about it. it right now but I just um and I can understand that absolutely but in my mind that was something the teachers would say without you know they yeah they meant all of us yeah hey guys didn't mean male it meant everybody yeah I'm in the same habit Garrett and I've talked about that like even on

this podcast we've really tried to be conscious of using pronouns and and descriptions that are accurate. So, you know, we thank everyone. We don't say thanks guys, sir. You know, we really, we're used to, guys. Yeah, I think that's important. So anyway, we've got a couple of birthdays, shoutouts today. First of all, PJ Pick, PJ, PJ, happy birthday on June 5th from the Delta Flyers. Happy, happy birthday. Happy birthday, PJ. We also have Gabriel Dominic Girgis, June 8. is Gabriel's birthday. Happy birthday, Gabriel. Happy birthday, Gabriel. Happy birthday, Gabriel. All right, it's time for our poetry synopsis. We're going to start with Robbie McNeil with his limerick of Melora. That sounds very intimidated. We're going to

start with Robbie McNeil. I love it. I hope I live up to the... Should I sing? We're going to start with Robbie McNeil. Yes, okay, okay. Here I go. My poem for Malora, here we go. It's in the style of a limerick, but not really a limerick because... What? Well, it's, you know, it's, my cadences are off.

It's just not exact, but I do my best. I do my best. All right. Let's hear we go. Malora is the new cartographer advisee. Bashir gets some romance in low gravity. Hork thinks he's going to die, but it's fallout who will cry. Being a little mermaid isn't what it's cracked up to be.

That was in cadence. What are you talking about? It was kind of in cadence. It was amazing. Although the first line, it sounded like you said. Melora is the nude cartographer ad vizee. It sounded like you said nude. It sounded nude to me, but Robbie said nude.

She was nude in this episode when she had her procedure. She was under the sheet. So that would fit as well. She is the nude cartographer advising. Sure, true. All right. Here's my haiku for Malora. Yes.

New Ensign assigned. Bashir makes out in low grave. Malora, not dead. Nice. You got low gravity in there too. Malora, not dead. Not dead. All right.

Now let's get some real poetry. My goodness. Mine is kind of long. I'm sorry. It's not two pages, but it's a page. Okay. Okay. Here we go. Love is divine, stands the twists of time. So thine own self be true, never to change to fit, someone else's version of you. To betray yourself, your version of you will damage the very essence of what you hold true. And you eventually must own your truth or love that blossom. never was love in clear view oh a lot of levels there a lot of levels i'm telling you that's the i did not include quirk though i feel bad i'm sorry that's right yeah we'll be talking about cork in this episode so yes we will well tell us garrett about yes yes guest stars let's say let's talk about this okay first of all let's just talk about guest stars daphne ashbrook as ensign malora Paslar. Now,

Robbie. Benomenal. Did you work with her before? Anthony Ashberg? Hmm. Did I? I'm asking if you did because she did five episodes of the OC as the character Dawn Atwood from 2003 to 2006.

So in that span. I only directed two or three OCs. I can't remember. And you never know. It could have been one of the ones she was on, but you don't recall having I don't think so. I don't think so. That's all right.

We also have Peter Cromby as Fallet Cot. Fallet Cod, of course, is the wronged individual, the person that was wronged by Quark. Now, interesting enough, Robbie, he wrote a short drama in 2006 called Threshold. Oh, how funny. That was a title of a Voyager episode that's very famous. Very famous. Oh, really? Yes.

Yes. With Robbie's character. Yes. Janeway and I had babies together. Oh, yes. Lizard babies. I was going to say sea horses, but okay, yeah, lizards. Janeway and Paris had sea horses.

I like that. Unfortunately, Mr. Cromby passed away January 10th of 2024. Oh, my gosh. We also have Don Stark as Ashrock. Ash Rock, that's the alien who... That's the amazing makeup, yes. Okay, it's amazing makeup. The weird little piece there.

Guys, what did you, what did you think? No, no, it was, it looked like mourn to me. No, but what did it come on? I mean, when you see that wrinkliness and that line down the middle, that one, the heavy set one at the beginning with the gold piece? The one that's looking for the gold piece. What did it remind you of, Garrett? I don't know. The sack that holds your gonads, basically.

Oh. I'm sorry. I did not go there. Terry and I are both in shock right now. All right. Yeah. Because I brought up a ball sack and now you guys are in shock over this. I would not want my face to look like a ball sack.

I don't want that either, but that's- Okay, fine. All right. Great makeup overall. But still, that's the first thing I saw. I go, oh my gosh, this is the ball sack face alien. You know, that's what I thought immediately. Okay.

Okay, all right. Let's keep on move. Let's keep on going. Let's do. Ron Taylor, Ron Taylor, as Klingon Chef. Klingon Chef. Did you know, did you know that his claim to fame was he was in the original off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors? He was the voice of Audrey the Killer Plant, basically.

Yes. Now I put it all together. That's amazing. He was, that was a big deal when that show first came out. He did two, over 2000, 2000. two thousand performances of that play it's amazing so you're right

in New York when they showed the commercials yeah it was so great I missed that about New York I did too yeah but that was an amazing go ahead Robbie talk about it talk about it

little shop of hers was the only New York production my mother saw before she passed away and I got to take her to that when I first moved to New York in 1983 summer of 83 so she saw Braun Wheeler. I mean, she heard Ron Taylor's voice then. Oh, my goodness. Great production. Really wonderful. I can't believe we just missed each other there. It's so weird. I know. Yeah, I know.

And on a sad note, Mr. Taylor passed away in January of 2002. So another January passing of a cast member, guest cast. Love to their friends and family, both of them. Yeah. Yeah. We have the writers. We have, this is really super, super interesting because the story is by Evan Carlos Summer. who, believe it or not, was actually in a wheelchair. So he felt that he was the right one to write this story. But if you look at that screen, there's a lot of names on the teleplay. Because it says, on the teleplay, it's Evan Carlos Summers and Stephen Baum and Michael Pillar, ampersand, James Crocker. So all those names, what happened was Evan Carlos Summers had written a prior episode called

Battlelines. You remember that where the people kept fighting back and forth, you know? Well, he wrote that in a way. week and a half. And he thought he could do the same thing with this episode. But he was already swamped with another job that he had outside of the show. So he didn't put up enough time, he didn't have enough time to really do it justice. When he turned it in, they weren't happy with it. So they gave Stephen Baum a shot. He gave it a shot. They didn't like what he did. So then Michael Pillar came in with James Crocker at the end. And they said, okay, we've got to revamp

this, revamp that. And that was the final shooting script. Oh, wow. Yeah. A lot of drama going. Oh, my goodness. A lot of development, a lot of drama, but also a writer who is disabled was a huge thing, too. Very cool. Yeah. Yeah, super cool. But, like, I'm exhausted from all that work just now. Oh, my gosh.

Just for hearing about it, it's exhausted. You're right. Can you imagine how upsetting it would be for executive producers to just be like, oh, are you kidding me? Yeah. It's still not right. It's not even ready yet. Yeah, let's assign somebody and then someone else. And we're starting tomorrow.

Exactly. The guy that took the second. and shot at it. His wasn't good enough either. So they were like, oh, no, let's go again. Well, if they got credit, if those other writers that are first, you know, rounds got credit by the Writers Guild, then some of their material is still in this script. Correct. So it's not completely abandoned. Yeah. Because the Writers Guild will go back to all the previous drafts. They'll look at all the drafts. They will look at it and decide what the credits are. Yeah. That makes sense. Really? Yeah. So did they have like a whole, um, wait a way, I don't know.

say like a department or something yeah yes yeah they do yeah that's they have to go back through and compare changes and see how much percentage of this or that is in there yeah wow that the due diligence the nitpick department of the writers guild basically yeah pick department yikers what a job okay directed by vinrich colbert aka rick colby aka the baron as they called him on d space nine Yes, the lovely Rick Colby directed that one. Yeah, and that's everybody. Yeah. All right, let's get into it.

We start with a space shot and a log that is a medical log. Bashir, my man Bashir. This is Team Bashir. Team Bashir is what this is. And we know that Robbie was immediately excited about this episode. I was very excited. The minute he heard Bashir speak, he said, this is an episode I'm going to like. Isn't his voice lovely, though?

What a lovely way. to start the show is Siddig al-Fidels. I'm sorry, Alexander Sadegh's voice. Diggs voice. Yes, I love it. I love his voice. Well, he has a medical log where he talks about how he and Chief O'Brien had been working overtime to prepare for this new cartographer, not a nude cartographer.

Right. A new cartographer. And since Malora Haslar, the first Elysian to join Star. our fleet, and as such, she will require special accommodations. So we're not really sure, like, what is this Elysian, you know, we don't know, and we go into the infirmary where we see Bashir wheeling around in a wheelchair, and we learn that the Cardassian gravity controls on the station aren't going to work for Malora. She's going to need this custom unit, and he's talking with Dax, explaining all of this when

Kira calls. She's here. Her ship's talking. He's so dreamy-eyed about. her already already he's super dreamy eyed about her and super proud of all these adjustments he's made on the chair yeah yeah yes agreed i i do like dax's line i haven't seen one of these in three hundred years so it's been three three hundred years since a wheelchair was a commonplace thing to see so and dax was around dax was around then of course three hundred years ago yeah a prior

100 years ago. Yeah. And by the way, that wheelchair, I don't know what the option would have been to make it more modern, but it looks like a pretty basic, you know, 1990s wheel.

Like hodgepaggy, didn't it? It did a little bit. Yeah. They put some kind of plate on the, like the joystick as if that was going to change the look of it a little bit. Yeah.

Yeah. It was a little lame. It was a little lame. I agree. Yeah, we go to the promenade next where Miles stops Bashir and Dax on their way to go meet Malora, and he tells them that they've installed ramps around the station for Malora, but there's still some places she won't be able to access, and Dax suggests that they maybe have transporters standing by, which leads Bashir to say, no, no, no, she doesn't want any extra, just the basics. She's very particular about getting extra help. So we're starting to get a sense that she's going to be very Proud, maybe? Yes. I think pride is, yeah. Yeah.

Proud is a good word because right now we don't know. We don't know anything about her alien species. We don't know about her condition. We don't know anything. And somebody who says I don't want any extra help, pride, but also she wants her independence. Yeah. You know, that's like I get the sense of that. Yes.

Yes. A little bit of a chip on the shoulder as well, just from how people have treated her maybe. I don't think you're getting it yet. Well, not yet. I don't think we're getting that yet because he was real specific about what she needed don't give me extra I'm actually thinking when I was seeing that

like we're all going to really get along because how great. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. I was getting from that. Yeah. I was getting from that that that she,

that they're intimidated by her, I guess. I was getting their perspective a little bit that they're like nervous. That's a lot. Yeah. She may be. lot in some way either a very you know yeah important and intimidating that's what I was getting from it yeah and we do see Miles O'Brien at the very end he hands them the sort of remote control that that Rick Colby tilts down so to me that moment at the very end of the scene I was

like wait what is this device about this little clicker that he hands but we don't really know yeah we don't yeah we don't really know exactly what it's going to do, but we can tell that Miles has created something, this device that's going to be like, cool. Yeah. So I thought that was neat. Yeah. And the fact that Rick tilted down to it, that there was a shot.

Yeah. So that totally indicates there's something important about it. Something about this is, yeah. Yeah. Where do we go next? Airlock? Yeah. Yeah.

I think we're in the airlock. And we have this, well, this is the first time that we see Malora. But we see kind of like she's struggling. She has this sort of this, this metal framework that's around her body and that's helping her walk. She has a cane. Like an exoskeleton. Like an exoskeleton, exactly. She has this cane or walking stick.

And you can tell there's some physical exertion. I mean, she's really, she's really, you know, she's putting a lot of elbow grease and just to move forward. Yeah. But it's a cool shot. We do see, we see Dax and Bashir pop into this scene. And they basically, they've got everything ready to go. They've got the chair there. Malora introduces herself.

She's reporting for duty. And it's unfortunate, but it's Dax that says, can I help? Which is the one thing that should not have been said to her because, my goodness, the look that Malora and the way of Malora says that, I'm fine, thank you. It's very curt. It's very short. Oh, it's so rude. And then it cuts to Bashir. It's just flat out rude.

Bashir does an eye roll, a bit of an eye. Bashir's like, oh, God, she did it. She asked if she needed help, kind of a look. But clearly, clearly, this is something that she has under control, and she doesn't want any additional help at all. When she sits down in the chair, she notices that it's been modified. This is not the design schematics that she's sent to Bashir. But Bashir was saying, look, I made the modifications to make it even easier for you to get around.

And then Malora says, well, I've been practicing with the other model. And at that point, Bashir's starting to feel a little upset. So he's like, okay, then we can replicate the other. Yes, yes, we can replicate the other design. And she goes, no, no, no, I'll just adapt. You know, so again, right off the bat, the tone is set. Intimidating. Oh, my gosh.

So there's a big chip. Yeah. And she's passive aggressive. Yes. All the walls are up. The armor's on. It's like, oh. Yeah.

She's ready for battle. She's ready for battle. At any given moment, she's ready. And honestly, if she came at me, she wouldn't win. That's right. Nice. Thank you, Terry. I agree with you.

She wouldn't win. I agree with you. She'd be out. That's funny. Oh, my goodness. That attitude, that was a little tempting. But I liked how we saw Bashir and Dax. It's kind of like, we're just going to be ducks.

It rolled off her back. That's her shit, not ours. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we do continue in the corridor. Dax says to Malora that she's going to come here on this trip, this mapping trip that she's come out to do. And Malora says, I don't want any help.

No, thank you. I don't need help. When she does do the mapping mission as the nude cartographer, she's nude, she doesn't need anyone in the shuttle with her. Yes. Oh, because she's naked. She's naked. That's the whole reason why she does a solo.

She's nude. Right. We do get to her quarters, though, and she kind of currently takes that remote device that we saw earlier and says good night. Hurtley takes. Don't you mean snatches? Snatches, right?

Can we also add because we have not said that, but she is an ensign. So it is like, it is even more rude that she's talking to her superiors in the way that she is. That's true. That's true. We see a little bit of that later with Cisco as well.

She's even snappy with Cammoor Cisco. So, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But she rolls into her quarters with her remote control and, And there's Bashir and Tex a little speechless after first meeting her. And then we go into courts.

But one thing we forgot to say, though, her issue is she wants to pilot that runabout solo, right? So she doesn't want anyone else to be there with her if we didn't. She's fine out completely all by herself. All by her lonesome. And ensigns cannot go all by themselves. No. It's not even, it's the buddy system, right? Well, that's partly, do you really want to be flying around in space all by yourself?

Oh, my God. Hell no. No. No. I mean, even John Delancey, who sails to, like, very far away places, has, you know. Tries to always have another person with them. Yeah. Even I get on, you know, Southwest Airlines, and they've got a co-pilot.

I mean, come on. A co-pilot. Even Southwest will do have a co-pilot. And they know where they're going. I thought you're going to say you take someone with you, Robbie. I always take someone with me when I fly. My buddy pass, my Southwest Airlines buddy pass. I always think my co-pilot just in case.

Exactly. But you need a co-pilot. Like, God forbid, what if there's a medical emergency and the pilot can't fly or something? You need somebody. So Malora's not being smart here. Practical. Reckless. Yeah, she's not a team player.

No, no. She doesn't understand the difference between we're not trying to. take over and treat you like an invalid we're just this is the buddy system this is what we do yeah this is what anybody would do same applies to someone who doesn't have the the issues that you're dealing with same would apply to any anyone so yeah but devil's advocate is she's faced so much stress and so much so many hindrances and roadblocks in her past as a starfleet person and that she now just says look let me make this easy on everybody I'm going to do this so You don't need to, you know, micromanage me.

I'll go do this by myself so nobody has to have an issue with my disability of my mobility disability. I can't help myself. I think right away, you can see that every single one of us, even though, whatever our reactions are, we're incredibly patient, let it slide off of us, her attitude and her adjustment to learn to trust that we're going to treat her as an equal. Right. Yeah.

But I also think that when she goes on a mission on her own in a shutter, or any type of vessel, she turns off the grab. You know what I'm saying? So that's how she's piloting, like floating around piloting and doing our work. So she's more comfortable that way. Right. But again, she's an ensign. She's an ensign.

Okay, I get it. It's still an officer, most junior, but still an officer. All right. So we go to Quarks next. I really love Quirks. So I want to get to Quarks fast. Do you love this B storyline? I do.

I decided in this, watching this episode, I love Ferengi stories. I love Arnden Sherman. I do. And I've heard this rumor that a lot of people don't like forengi stories on DS9. I have like, oh, no, we don't want to. Yes, I have. And I don't understand it because I find them fascinating.

I find Armin's performance always, entertaining, always. And all of the Ferengi's, I think. And they write him well. too they write really well for him yeah yeah they do yeah he hardly ever has a clunker no he's great in this episode as always um we do see quark uh he's got a bracelet looking kind of thing like a gold bracelet that he i love that i want that bracelet it was pretty wasn't except for that i know it's just you know plastic with rubber paint on it but if it were real i'd be like i would never take it off yeah it's a great looking bracelet and he's talking to some alien we'll learn is

named Ashrock. And Ashrock thanks him for returning. The bracelet is part of the ring of Paltris, he says. There's 80 of them. There's 80 of them that have been lost or misplaced. Quark's got his hands on it. And he says, sure, you can have this happy to give it to you for 199 bars of gold press latinum. And then as they're about to have another drink, Quark steps to the side and this kind of duck-billed alien steps out of the darkness. and quark panics. So we know right away, they've got some history,

and this is not good for Gork. And he runs. I love how Armid sort of freezes and then grabs like a container. Goes back, here, drinks on me. Waddle sover. Gives the drink to Ashrock, the bracelet guy,

and then runs back to the duck-built guy and pretends to be very happy to see him. I love how Cork says, you look great. You're tan, you're toned. was very funny made me laugh did you find it weird in the earlier part when he's closing the deal ashrock says i heard you drive a hard bargain cork says shall we celebrate our closing the deal with another drink there's no dialogue from ashrock there's a weird

ashrock brings his elbow up and then goes to the left and then puts it down and then he raises his drink and i was like oh is that the universal way of like i agree on the deal we don't handshake Yeah. It's like a handshake. I don't know. It's like, yeah, but that's not, did you? I liked it. Okay. For his species, that's right. It's like when they came up with a thing of clapping like this. Yes, yes. I don't have a problem with that. I do like that. I just don't like the angle it was shot at because it's just awkward. The way they were stacked. That's fair enough. I like it. You know, faced on where they're. It was hard to tell where they were doing it for sure. Yeah, rather have a traditional two shot. Hello. Then you need to showcase it a little more. Then it's clear. You don't have to say what it is.

Right. If it, like you're saying, Garrett, if it was shot from another angle. Yeah. I'm going to start elbow bumping. People who need it spelled out like for you, but people, the twins here, we got it. We got it. Whatever. Whatever.

I would like a more elaborate elbow thing. Maybe like how NBA basketball players like greet each other with the elbow and then a little flick of the hand, a little shimmy shim. I like. But that is an NBA thing. And they're in space. And this is an alien. They're not basketball players.

We had some aliens here in our show. show that I think it was I think it was Neelix that talked to some alien species that he was familiar with and as they talked they did like weird hand movements of stuff like nice to meet

you and they do all these moves and it was amazing and Ethan Phillips was communicating with this alien and it was hilarious this reminded me of that just a little elbow bump it's like oh yeah they're different species

but we do find out at the end of the scene Quark goes back over to the duck built guy whose name is Fallett We learn Fallet And we learn from Fallett That he's come here Not to have a good time

Not to hang out Not to do anything Productive He's going to kill Quark That's why he's heard Well that could be productive For him For him

To do list Check number one Yes yeah the scene ends with i've come to kill you quark and how about that makeup that's what i mean the duck belt or whatever it is it's like yeah the nose is attached to the chin what a how does he hate well that's my point i kept thinking about that point of saying how messy he's oh god i felt so bad for that actor i kept thinking at lunch oh my god at lunch

just has to pull that thing out of the way and then sideways whatever food is he draw lunch I bet you anything yeah like protein parade lunch yeah and then drink it

or maybe an IV maybe he got nutrition for an IV you know what stage four was right next to the infirmary which I thought

was really great this is very good for flu shot every year it was right there Terry did you feel safer knowing that it was right there

I did I knew you did I did also Russ made me feel safer oh Russ God, Robbie, we've got to talk to, is Russ still around? Is he still around? I don't know.

I haven't seen him for decades. You got to find. Russ was their security guard, Robbie. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. A little shorter, African-American gentleman with the glasses on. You know what? We had a, God, love, Russ. I had a fan.

I had a scary fan. Uh-huh. And she signed into work, and they didn't catch anything scary about her. And then when she had given me some letters in a book, and then I called the office and said, help, this person's scaring me. I want you to see what they did. And at that point, we had security guards, but they weren't as like, you know. Serious, official. Yeah.

But once I got that stuff, then they got kind of serious. and one gentleman, one of the security guards, let this gal on the set because she said, no, no, no, I'm a friend of Terry's. He let her on after the thing went out not to let this girl on the set. And I, seeing her on the set, I kind of freaked out. Like it was suicidal, scary stuff, right?

And I was thinking, oh, God, don't do a Romeo Juliet or murder-suicide thing. that's where I was at with how terrifying this was. Oh, I'm sorry. That gentleman got fired and Russ got put on. Oh, that's how Russ got there. So Russ got the job after the other one failed to do his duty. Oh, my goodness.

And boy, that man was mad at me, but I was like, dude. Yeah, exactly. That's your job. You got to take that stuff very seriously. You do. I mean, yeah, we don't even need to go in all the stories that have happened to. personalities and actors and yeah gosh i can't i can't even imagine coming on to set and seeing my stalker there standing there beaming and smiling like i'm here and you're like how did you

get on our set what yes a memo was sent out to everybody the memo who didn't get the memo one person clearly it's kind of like phallet it would be like how that's how cork felt when fallet arrived yeah exactly like where why didn't security stop fallet from coming in here. And I think some people just don't take you seriously because they just think, oh, it's not that big of a deal. He was pish posh, Terry, it's, it's going to be fine. It's like, no.

Perry, you could have been like Quark dealing with Fowlitt when you saw your fan on set. You say, hey, you look really tan. Looks like you lost a weight. You've been looking out. You look great. Well, that's terrifying for you, Terry. And terrifying for Quark in this moment. Way more terrifying.

Fine. This guy was scary. He was scary. Yes, he was. He was scary, calm. Yeah. What I love about the actor playing Fallett is that he plays it. He's so. He's so chill. He's never once does he out.

He doesn't play it like, I'm going to kill. He doesn't play it like the, you know, ah guy. He plays it all like, no. It's worse. Yeah, it's even worse that way, isn't it? I'm going to kill you. With a smile on his face. I'm going to kill you.

Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much. Next scene we go into Cisco's office and Dax is there and Bashir's there. They're filling him in very briefly on Malora, wanting to do this all her stuff alone. When they look out an ops and there's the wheelchair rolling in with Malora and they exit, they come out because there's steps going up to Cisco's office. So they go to try to meet her outside and she's a little offended that they left her out of this meeting and started without her.

Cisco says, well, they were just discussing you wanting to pilot the ship alone, and Mallora gets up out of her, her, you know, mobile wheelchair, she struggles up the steps, and they end up sitting inside Cisco's office. They go back in. And it's a great scene where she sort of explains how badly she wanted to, you know, be one of the few elations that leave the home world and explore the stars. She's got a beautiful, very good. very inspiring kind of speech about this dream of hers and how proud she is that she made the dream happen without relying on anybody else. And I thought she did a great job in that speech. She was right. She's a terrific actress. Yeah. Yeah. And gorgeous woman, terrific actress. Yeah. Yeah. What's interesting, guys, is that there's no, you know, but she is in this scene, but he never says a word in these scenes, right? He just he's there for window dressing he doesn't say a thing yeah he's just a pretty face he's just a pretty that's right and we've all been there oh we've been in plenty of scenes where i just don't say anything or one line you know two pages into a five page scene and you're thinking

oh did i spaced out where are we at yes yes well cisco tells milor at the end he says he's that Dax is going to have to join her on this mission. She's not happy about it, but she accepts that decision and tells Dax, you know, when do you want to leave? And Dax is like, well, whatever works for your schedule. And she says

0,700 and takes off. So Dax and Malora are going to be a team. Although Malora's not happy about it at this point. No. I love the, just to kind of step back for second. I love the development of Malora and Dax's friendship. That's one of the things that you see

Dax being this sort of confidant, this kind of another woman to talk to about all of the feelings that Malora's having. She's very honest with Dax in a way that's really nice. So this is the beginning of their team up for the episode and they're going to head out in the morning. Do you two know the back story behind this character, Malora. No, do you? Yes. Tell us. She, this character was supposed to be the series regular science officer of Deep Space Nine.

No. Yes. Not your, not Dax, but Malora was going to be the series regular. And, yeah, but then what happened was they kept saying, oh, but gosh, the amount of money we have to spend every time recreating the effect of her floating around is going to be just too much to keep that going. So they ditched it and they put in Dax instead. So Terry Farrell, you have to be thankful for your role because this was the action. Daphne Ashbrook was supposed to be the series regular for the entire time.

I might have known that at the time, but I didn't remember it now. I'm sure someone would have been insensitive enough to like, go, yeah, I'll write on the heels of us almost firing you for a year. that's who we really wanted great great thanks guys but i wonder if the character was conceived but the actress like terry you might have played malora they may have ended up casting you as the science officer in the role of malora instead of in the role of dax like i don't know if the actress was attached that early on maybe okay yeah i see you know what you said yeah yeah so they probably said that we want to have a disabled science officer yeah and they could have still cast you as her back then

just as easily, yes. And then you would have had to put on the rig to fly on the wires and do all that. And you would have been making out with Bashir flying in the years. Well, I already made out with him. Been there. Been there.

Done that. Last season. Last season. And I would have taken Bashir's medicine. So we're in a corridor next. Bashir's walking down this corridor. I just got to say,

Marvin Rush, Rick Colby, did a beautiful job of this hallway and kind of the framing of it. It was just a beautiful shot. He's kind of slowly, cautiously, approaching her door. But it's a nice, quiet moment. I just thought it was very pretty. Here's a question. Does the hallway always have blue neon lights in there? I don't remember that.

I don't remember either. It looked different to me, too. But maybe it was some kind of thing to help gravity. I don't know. but that doesn't make sense because she's in the wheelchair that's right yeah yeah i don't i don't think it was that i think they just wanted a pretty color yeah we're in this corridor and this quarter has blue light blue yeah it was very pretty yeah you're right though it was really pretty yeah very pretty he comes up to the door and then we hear this sort of no he rings the doorbell or

whatever and we hear this noise like a vacuum cleaner shutting down or something like that and the door open And there she is in her chair. And Bashir says, oh, I think I just heard the low gravity generator go off. So now we know, hmm, what was that low gravity generator? What does it do? I don't know. For me, I was like, what is that? It's the clicker.

Right. But if you installed it, would you not try it out? Yes. I talk about that. I was going to talk about that later. Okay. Yes. Yes.

Absolutely. Well, Robbie, you saying that it was the sound of a vacuum cleaner shutting off. All I can think about was the guys in post. The guy's doing Foley going like, what do we, what do we use? Hey, vacuum clear dicing off. Bring your Dyson from the home. Bring it in. Hey.

Who's got an Electrolux? I wouldn't bet like, like, which one do we like better? I don't like the Dyson. I like the electric. Let's do that one. Hoover. Hoover is the best. That's the ticket.

That's a fun job, Foley. I think. You're just sitting there like coming up with sounds and sound effects. Yeah. I have a friend who's. who is a director in those. She's amazing, yeah. So cool.

Very cool. Well, we go inside and she's in her chair. Bashir talks about hearing the low gravity. He tries to be really nice to her when he comes in. He's trying to make small talk, talks about her photos in her quarters, asks, is this your boyfriend, husband? So he's kind of fishing, he's flirting a little bit. And she is not having any of it. She's kind of still rude and, you know, pushing him away, basically.

not even kinder not yeah not even kind of she's just cold and a curt and so he calls her on it and he says you know you try to keep everyone away and keep him on the defensive and push him away and you're really good at it and i loved his speech there he just lays it all on the table and she kind of admits it she says she says something like well it's always worked until now yeah it's great Really good scene. Yeah. And he ultimately, at the end of the scene, she softens a bit. He asks her out to dinner at some new Klingon restaurant that's just opened. Yeah. I just want to say these are really, these are very, this is excellent. It's like rom-com.

These are rom-com line, romantic comedy lines of them kind of, you know, getting that initial attraction to each other. And her finally relenting and letting some of those walls crumble just a little bit to let them in, just a tiny bit. And it felt authentic. Yes, it really. They did. I mean, yeah, I love that about it. It really felt believable and it made you like her. And it was so great that they gave that to Bashir to do.

Because it's like he's ready for a romance. Yeah. He's been chatting around and it's like, she is girlfriend material, not. Yeah. Not a date, not a date night. No. No. No.

Yeah, it was a very cute scene and felt very, like he said, authentic. Yeah. So we're in corks right now. And up in the corner, there's a table and Fallet's sitting there alone. And cork shows up with this elaborate dinner. He's got all this stuff. He puts down a bowl of soup. Fallet's like, I didn't even order dinner.

He takes a soup and just dumps the soup out and breaks it. He breaks the dish. And corks like, well, okay, don't spoil your appetite with soup. You know what you want. So how about? And he pulls out a dish of Vulcan mollusks, salted in rhombolian butter. Now, this is the funny thing. He reaches in and these are big mollocks.

If you watch, he reaches in and picks one out to act like he's about to eat it. But in the shot where it cuts to him actually eating it, he only touches his mouth with his finger almost. Like nothing goes in and he acts like he's chewing it. Do you guys notice that at all? I didn't catch that. hard to fit the it was so big it couldn't even fit in the thing that's why so i will say like you guys know how um you know when you've got an eating scene and it's it's very complicated to remember when you're eating for continuity exactly oh did i pick up the fork here and did i right you know

how much did i eat so a lot of times as an actor you're just like i'm not going to eat it with my salad i'm never going to take a bite right i've even seen actors like like like they'll they'll, you know, take a piece of the chicken or whatever, they'll start to eat and then they'll talk. And then they'll go. Then they'll talk. Yeah. You just have to definitely plan around it. It's almost like if we're doing a scene together, Robbie, and you're about to do a monologue, that would be the moment that I would put. It still has to be something small because you don't want your reaction shots to be going. Yeah. Correct. It's got to be a really tiny piece of meat that you're chewing on. You're right. It's true.

So after he tries this mollusk, then Cork brings a couple of Dabo girls in saying, have you played Dabo before? These ladies can teach you in the rules of how to play. Yeah, the art of playing Dabo. They're going to give you strategy. And then he tries that, Cork tries a toast. And they're going to tutor him. They're going to tutor him.

They're going to tutor him. Exactly. So basically, Cork tries to, you know, make a toast at the end. He says, so allow me to propose a toast to old friends. And Fallet says, old debts. So now we know he only cares about. He's not given up on this. Next scene, we go to the Klingon restaurant, which is amazing. Bashir's ordering from the scary Klingon.

He orders, I think, worms. He orders some mushrooms and potatoes, I guess. That's what I got from the cutaway. He's ordering all these Gok-GTek or something. he's ordering Glatst and Zimkach or something

but it was basically worms, mushrooms and potatoes and Malora looks at the worms after they're served and she doesn't like them they're not fresh enough

and she yells in Klingon at this server guy and he actually they go back and forth for a bit and then he's very smiles and he's very impressed and he said

I just sort of interrupt you. I want to just say, this is the translation of the Klingon. I have it. Okay. So Malora says, you call this live, and then he says back to her, what's your problem, lady? She says, this slop you call food is the problem. He says, if you don't like it, don't eat it. She says, I want to see the blood running through the veins.

And that's when he says, I like a customer who knows what she wants in English. But the prior Klingon is to. Trans- All the Klingon was trans- Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Well, he tosses the old, the dead worms, I guess. He just throws the whole plate behind him, right? He's like, he's got like a handful of what is clearly fresher worms. Yes.

And sticks it on a plate for them. And, yeah, it's kind of amazing. She had to learn Klingon for that scene. She did. She sounded very. Just those lines, guys. But she did good, though. She did a good job, though.

It was good. But when you say she had to learn. in Klingon, it's like, yeah, I had to say Toy Doshamaste, and I had to learn Japanese. It was like, no, you learned how to say Totaishamasia. But Terry, you have to agree with me. There have been guest stars that have come on with a few lines

of some alien language, and they're struggling with it. Like, she made it look like she knew it back and forth. Well, again, she's a terrific actor, right? She really is. She is. She did great. This isn't her first circus. No. No. Or rodeo.

Or rodeo. That's right. Or Klingon restaurant. There's a little time cut here and we start on the very last gummy worm. I guess it had to have been like a gummy worm. It is. Like a candy. I had to eat them in one of my Klingon episodes.

Oh, you did? Yeah. And the hard thing is, well, for me anyway, they had the earthworms so that the camera saw the earthworms. And then Pat moved the earthworms out and then put the gummy worms so that. when I reached down to grab one to eat it, that it didn't look like it changed, right? Yeah.

But the smell of the earthworms, which I love in my garden. But not on a plate. No, no. Yeah. A sack of earthworms. It's like, oh, it's just. Yeah.

I'm with you. It was gross. Yeah. Well, I thought it was definitely, it looked like a gummy worm, the last one. But then I started looking at it closer. And I thought it actually looks more like a fishing lure. That's what it was so perfect looking

And the perfect looking things Are the Gummy worms, right? Gummy worms aren't as the person making the candy He was so proud of it. Yeah. So, okay, it was nice to see. Well, Bashir eats the gummy worm As he tells a, he, you know,

spins this yarn, this tale of when he was a young boy and went on a trip with his father And his father was a diplomat, I think. He meets some young, girl in, what was the planet? It was the, they went to Avernia 2, I think, was the place they went. Anyway, he meets this young girl, and she's very sick. So his father decides to go get some medicine, but while he's gone, the young girl dies. And later, when his father returns, they find out from some of the people there that she could have been saved by some simple herb that grew

nearby. And that's when Malora asked if that's when he started studying medicine and he continues about his life story. No, he wanted to be a tennis pro. And that's what me. He was hilarious. I'm like, what? I know, right? He looks more like a golf pro, but not a tennis pro. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it didn't go well for him. He said his first major tournament after the very first surf by a real tennis pro, he realized that's not for me. And that's when he decided to study medicine and so his his stories are really charming her you just see her eyes glowing and her smile and the scene ends with a very long stare between them and smiles all around and she's like well i should get some sleep before the mission tomorrow so yeah more rom-com moments i guess like nice nice connecting

great chemistry between the two of them yeah almost that you think she'd come back but yeah we're in the corridor and now we see Dax heading towards Laura's room. She rings a doorbell. There's no reply. Dax uses her security access to bypass the door lock and she goes in. There's no. Okay. Were you worried? When I used the bypass watching the show again, I was thinking, oh no, oh, no, if she and Bashir in there. Oh, oh, they're going to walk in on, no, I did not think that. That's what I thought. I know. It's weird how little details you've forget the show, but I just thought, oh, no, oh, no, oh, no, what's going to happen? You thought you were walking in on anti-Grav Nookie, is what you thought.

Yes, I did. All right. I kind of wanted to see that. So, well, there's no Bashir and there's no, no Ensign Paslar either. Dax asked the computer to locate where Malora is, well, she's on docking level 22, section 14, which Dax is like, what? It just, it makes no sense. Yeah. Dax does head towards the area where the computer tells her that Malora is.

And when she gets close to where Malora is, we do see that the wheelchair is sort of just sitting there empty. Tipped over, yeah. It kind of tipped over. And then Malora basically has fallen. And her exoskeleton is in some weird, like, you know, it just keeps moving. All you can think is poor, poor child right there, just like the hand, the leg, just. it won't stop it's it's got a glitch you know what i thought of when i saw the because she was on her side and her leg was going up sideways and her arm was doing something and i thought about

jane fonda's workout from the 80s you remember the jane fondda workout yes yes i used to own it yeah yes everybody did right i remember fasting for a week on a before a job and doing that every single day and not eating for a week and i lost 10 pounds i was like well oh yeah that's what Laura was trying to do, she's doing some Jane Fonda on the ground. That's all I get think of. Dax runs to her side, turns off the Jane Fonda workout, you know, a mode that her exoskeletons in, turns that off. And when Laura's like, no, it's my fault, it's my fault. I decided I wanted an extra astrometric array. And then I came here to go to pick it up. And I wasn't thinking all I could think of was the gamma quadrant and I fell and all this stuff happened.

And it's because those lips, all those, all those parts. of the ship the lips of the doorways the thresholds or difference yes okay the lips i'm like going okay what lips yeah back into the rom-com with the lips um so dax does assist malora back into her wheelchair but this is what i was amazed by harry you pick up that actress like she's a ragged ragamuffin like she's nothing you physically picked her up and put her back in how how much do you easy to do. No, I was really strong then. You were so buffed back.

I'm only three inches taller than her. She's like 5'9. Yeah, she's not a small person. No, she's not a small person. I mean, she's a thin woman for sure. Right. But even at 5.9, she's got to be 120, 130 pounds, whatever. At least.

You, Terry, you picked her up like she was literally a doll. Like she was not, you would have to. I was kind of impressed with myself. I have to admit. There was no exertion. I was watching Terry's face. There's no exertion on her face. This is it looked like she literally picked up this

a Barbie doll and went, yeah, get back in your chair like that. That's how Trills roll. That's how Trills roll. I guess. Thank you for me. I'm so impressed. I was,

Robbie, why are you not a press? Robbie has no expression. Because I believe in Terry Farrell. Oh, my God. The strength of her physical strength and her strength of character. I believe in Terry. Well, the times. that I had... Well, my character had nothing to do with it.

I got to start doing sit-ups again, man. That just made me feel like there's no way I could do that today. Terry, we had an episode on Voyager where I was told my character had to pick up a guest star that was injured. And they said, you're going to pick him up and you're going to drag him out of there. And this guy was six foot four, 240. And I was like, pick him. Are you kidding me? I was like, I could barely...

I said, there's no... I can even drag him. So I told the actor, I said, you've got to push with your foot as well. I can't even drag the guy. It was like dead weight. Then you're forced to do that weird fake looking thing. That weird fake, yes. But again, because I know it's so difficult, you did a really good job.

Thank you. Good job. Thank you guys. Well, after Terry Farrell's, you know, amazing display of strength, we cut to the infirmary where Bashir is examining Malora, she's fine, she's all good. She's very embarrassed and she's mad at herself. Yeah. And he's got a nice moment where he talks about how no one can do anything alone. We're, you know, none of us can, we're not totally independent.

None of us. We need each other. Yeah. And so more, more relationship building here, a nice sensitive moment. Bashir says, you can depend on us. And you can feel her attitude starting to change here. You know, you can feel it between Dax coming in to help her and Bashir. Shear, yeah, she's softening for sure.

Yeah, I like that last few lines. Bashir's like, well, you know, now what do the rest of us have to do to convince you? And she says, of what? And Bashir says that you can depend on us. So he's trying to get her to open up even further than she has. But yes, we do see some warming of the glacier freeze. Yeah. We're back in the corridor next.

I love this corridor. I will say once again, beautiful lighting. Beautiful blue light. It's a nice, yeah, nice slow walk and talk with Bashir Malora. they get to her door and he's a little hesitant to go inside and she basically invites him in. He says, no, I don't, you know, I don't need to go in. I know you enjoy the low gravity and give you your space. And she's like, don't let that stop you, big fella.

Exactly like that. She did it just like that. Don't let that stop you. And that's how you got Rebecca. Exactly. That's my move. That is my style. So smooth.

Sassy Robbie. It was that coy lip purse that you did the end. Whatever the hell that was. That's the one that sold Rebecca. She's like, oh, my God. Totally. He's a keeper. He is a keeper.

Yeah, I know. I got it. I got me. They go inside Maloris room. She turns on the low gravity and she starts to float. Now, this is where I have to pause. Yeah. If, okay, if she is being pressed down by gravity so hard that when they adjust it, she's able to float.

Then Bashir, who's not pressed down by gravity, who already has some lift in his natural state. When she turns off the gravity, he would have gone, boom, he would have hit the ceiling. I agree. I expected him, her to have to pull him down. Yeah. But he was completely stationary. And she's floated. But weren't his hands on the wall, though, at the time?

Yeah, but I'm saying if it's so hard that she is being like immobilized by the gravity, then the adjustment she makes is going to make him shoot through the roof. Right. And so it's just the logic, the science of gravity didn't make sense to me. No. And so even if he's holding on to the wall, Garrett, it seems like his body should have gone up while his head stayed. Yeah, and she would stop him like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Yeah, that would have been cool, right.

I think she should keep that line, too. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, a big fella like that. But she does start floating first, and then he's just watching an amazement, and then she tells him, just give a little push. And he flies up too, and we've got this beautiful, floaty romantic thing where they're floating. And she does say, while they're floating in air, she says, you know, the picture was my brother so that was the okay that's yeah he was doing him the okay fantastic romantic kiss oh like a disney style they're enrapped in each other

oh you know it's kind of rotating and everything i love it wasn't that kind of disney it was it was it did feel very disney it also reminded me of the voyager episode where yes Tom Harrison, Belona, Dea Bonner, yes, where Robbie's character and Balana Torres, Roxanne Dawson's character, are in space, they're running out of oxygen and they're floating together with each other. We had to wrap around each other and we just sort of, the last moment where we both think we're going to die. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's a sweet moment. It's sweet.

It is sweet. They stole it for, from, for Voyager from this episode. From this episode, yes. Probably. I agree. Stole that idea. Or any number of other movies. Exactly.

Or Disney. Or Disney. We go inside the runabout next, and the runabout is gone, whoosh, coming through the wormhole, Malora and Dax are hanging out. It's girl time. The ladies are starting to bond. And this is a part of the episode I wish there was more of. I wish there was more of Malora and Dax, you know, hanging out and having that point of view.

You know, Malora and Dax are flying the shuttle together. Malora asked for some music to be played. And I love this song, by the way. This composer, Del Valk, the Vulcan composer. I kept thinking, why hasn't somebody, maybe someone who's already done this, maybe someone is already inspired to do this, taken what you can hear from this particular scene

and extrapolated upon that to make a full Vulcan Del Valk album or something like of that. Oh, that would be cool. Wouldn't that be cool? It was beautiful. It was really beautiful. And I don't know who composed the music for this episode, but I particularly liked it. It was really good.

But Malora brings up, asks Dax about romance and Starfleet. Like, what does Dax think about romance and Starfleet? And there's one point in the scene where Dax says, yeah, I think there's room for romance and Starfleet. And Malora says, well, you've made it work. And Dax says, now and then. I was like, wait a minute, Dax's had, I want to hear about the romances of Dax. what because yeah if she's 300 years old how many love stories has she been through right probably

plenty right but it's even more confusing because after she says now and then and you you ask about if dax has had romance then milora goes i mean really work and then so so basically she's saying not just like tinder dates or or or booty call or yeah booty call yeah kind of a thing right but like a real relationship but then but then this makes me think that dax has had a lot of one-night stands as well right now and then kind of a thing 150 years that's right yeah you got to look back 150 years to get to a real real relationship deep relationship so you've you've only had that's true because she did uh when she was curs on remember the episode dax she had an affair and they were in love yeah that was yeah that's true

that's true that wasn't 150 years ago I mean again guess you were like, well, that was an affair, not, that's different. Anyway, but. But it just, it jumped out at me. I was like, oh, wow, it really, in such a concrete way, I was like, wow, Dax has had a lot of love stories. That's really, I want to know about these love stories. Or is it a commentary on marriage? Then maybe you shouldn't get tied to knot and have anything serious. Because it 150 years ago, yeah, was when she had a real relationship committed boyfriend, girlfriend or married whatever you want to call it that's a long time well they do they do talk about a lot of different variations what if you're stationed apart what if you know a lot of practicalities and

ultimately dax says she thinks it's worth it she says what's the alternative to not yeah have love to not yeah yeah so it's a great conversation about relationships and balancing it with work and and how important is love and all that i like that steen a lot terry I thought you did an awesome job. Oh, my gosh. Thank you. I think there's an element, too, of, like, live in the moment. Yeah.

If romance is love is coming your way, don't let it pass you by, right? Enjoy it for the moment, for what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so this is when they should play that Night of the Roxbury theme song. What is love? Baby, don't hurt me. Don't hurt me no more.

Yeah, that's when this should play at the end of the scene. like fade out. Garrett Wong musical heirlude. It's not quite the same as our Delvok music, but it's not as romantic as the Delvok composition, the love, love theme. Next is the security office where we finally get to see Odo in this episode. We haven't really seen Odo. No.

But Quark comes in begging Odo for help with Fallet. Fowl's going to kill him. Odo knows about Fallot already. He's seen them. the manifest and knows all about him being in jail and, you know, thinks that Quark was probably part of this hijacking of the Romulan shipment. And Odo's kind of accuses Quark of betraying him. Like, well, maybe he wants to kill you because you betrayed him.

Right. And this is where Quark, pork, when he finally says, he's going to kill me. And he comes over behind him. And you see Odo smile for a... Oh, God. It was brilliant. It was brilliant. Yeah, I get a little daydream about what that might be like.

And Quark is like, what, what? And Odo's like, nothing, just a passing thought. That's all I know. So funny. Renee did such a great job. Didn't he? Yeah. Quark is begging for Odo to do something.

Oda says, I will do my job. Right. And then Cork leaves. And Otis finishes with, unfortunately. Very funny. Those two are very funny. They're great together. Yeah, yeah.

We go to the infirmary, Bashir's studying some kind of neuron on a screen. Malora comes in, and he's basically revisited some old studies and found a solution that might fix her problem. He's found a way to increase the neural output from the brain so that she might be able to walk. And she's just in shock.

She can't believe it. Yeah, she seems stunned. It doesn't know how to react. Yeah. Yeah. Important to say that this is the basis of the work of Nathaniel Teros, who've been working on it but didn't continue with the work. Yes.

It's important to say Nathaniel Teros because he's not a real person. And we just sort of make sure that it's important to give him credit. No, I'm just saying. No, I'm kidding. I'm just easier. It wasn't Bashir. In our world. In our world.

Nathaniel, what's his name again? Terros. I just love the seriousness with the chores. It's important. It's very important to give Nathaniel Teros credit. I should have said this. You know we're talking about a pretend place. I'm just saying that we don't want to think that Bashir is a Superman that he discovered

this stuff on his own. No, no, no. He's working off for someone else's work. I think Bashir is Superman for sure. But you're right. But Robbie is very funny. The way I was like, that's very important to know. It was funny.

I couldn't. I'm sorry. I could not let that go. No, I'm glad you didn't, except for it's probably not as funny right now. I'm going to say right now with a dead horse. Okay. I'm going to say right now, Terry, if you weren't here, Robbie would not have said what he just said. But I think that he's become a little bit more rambunctious because of you, actually. So the old, hey, stop chewing gum. And then, hey, you're being so serious about that. So I think, I think it's your interest. I did have to apologize the last time, though, because I teach. you about the gum, like way too many times. Well, see, do you know that some of the... Until you spit it out, and then I finally let it go. Yeah, I spit it out with you, Terry, but when Armin has been on the podcast, I have chewed gum once or twice, and the fans have noticed. They're like, Terry's going to be mad. Terry's going to be mad because just because Terry's not there doesn't mean he can chew

that gum. You're such a bad boy. I know. He's a rebel. I've been scolded by you and our list. now. Thank you very much. I love our listeners. Yes.

Okay, where are you, Robbie? We go to the security office next. So she may have a cure is the takeaway from that scene. Right. She may be able to, yes. Yes. And it's important to say Nathaniel Terros did the original research. Okay.

I want a disclaimer for what the side effects might be for her. That's what's bothering me right now. Yes. Hasey vision, diarrhea, loss of that. area, loss of batter control. It's all kinds of side effects. It's your skin, loss of hair. Yes, exactly.

It keeps on going. Yes. But you wanted to walk, lady. You wanted to walk. That's right. Security office again. Odo is questioning Fallett in this scene. And he, Fallot says he's not going to kill.

He puts it all out there. I'm not going to kill him. He pretends to be innocent. Oh, do doesn't have anything to arrest him on. though he can't hold him or charge him so fallet very confidently with a big smile on his face walks away you can't lock a man up for the way he walks because odo says something like i don't like the way you walk he says i can tell a man's intentions by the way he walks i can always tell a man's intentions by the way he walks yes exactly all right so oto can't do anything nothing all right

So we're back on the promenade where Odo watches him walk away. When Quark pops up and he wants some reassurance, he wants to know, did you take care of this? And Odo says, I'm going to keep an eye on the way he walks. And then Odo says something like, Quark's like, I'm going to die. And Odo says, well, don't Ferengi sell part your body, part of your body. So gross with that. That was so disturbing. And that is what they do, though.

works says yes and otto says well i'll buy a piece of you after you're dead i'll buy one but it is disgusting it's disgusting but rnay's delivery of that it wasn't like being an organ donor he wasn't like that no it's like souvenirs like here's his fingernail here's a little piece of his knuckle whatever right what would you do with that why is that working a list just stop making a list i'll stop i'll stop i'll stop but it was very funny though it's a funny scene it was but he says i'm I want to give you a com badge. Here's a con badge. Keep it with you at all times.

Call me the first sign of trouble. Right. But his line of I'll buy one is clearly just the way Renee delivered that was hilarious. Like I'll buy a piece of you. No worries. It's gross. I'll buy one. Yeah, it is gross.

It's gross. Malora's on a bio bed with things on her forehead. She's got a couple of stickies on her chest that aren't attached to anything. I was like, what the heck are those things for? They're just there. They're just there. I guess they're wireless. They don't need to be wired anymore in the future.

She's getting this procedure done. Bashir's doing this, a neo-analytic infusion is what he says. And he reassures her, it's all going to be okay. And suddenly we see her toes moving underneath the sheet. And then she lifts her leg up. And Bashir says it's working. She says it's working. They're both excited.

And Bashir says she should be able to walk within an hour. What? Yeah. He's good. Now, if this was shot as a comedy, when that leg lifted up, it would have kicked Bashir in the face. It would have been like, hey, that would have been good. That would have been good. More comedy.

Comedy is always, you can't have too much comedy. Ever. Ever in life. True. Yeah. That's the best message. Yes. Everyone needs to laugh.

Yes. So it's working. We go to ops next. Malora walks in pretty confidently. They're surprised, Cisco and Miles turned their heads, and there she's coming up the lift. She's walking right in by herself, starts to deliver the mission report. And then suddenly, very quickly, her legs weaken. Bashir says the first treatment is probably beginning to wear off.

She should rest right now, but this is nothing to worry about. I do like Avery's reaction when he sees her walking in. He plays that very well, that look that he gives. He's very surprised and excited and happy and all played in one nonverbal look. Yeah, it's nice. And it's also very important to note that Bashir does admit that this was someone else's work, was not his work. Nathaniel Teros's work.

Nathaniel Teros is important to note that. He's real to me, okay? He's real to me. As a fan of Star Trek, he's space nine. Teteros is real to me. Yes. And Bashir thinks that's important as well because he does tell everyone that it's just other people.

Nathaniel's work. I just dotted the eyes and crossed the T's. But O'Brien says your name will be in a medical journal for this. And Bashir's response is, yes, I know. So he gets it. He's basically stealing the important Nelteros's great work. I just thought that was important to note. Maybe it'll be, maybe there'll be an ampers, an ampersand.

And then, you know, Bishirian. his name underneath. Yes. Dr. Julian Beshear, ampersan, Dr. Julian Bashir. Yes. Experimented on his girlfriend. Yeah.

Exactly. With all those horrible side effects of diarrhea, nausea, and hair loss. But so we go back to Maloris Quarters, Bashir's there again. He does say that with each progressive treatment, you should get stronger. The effects are going to last longer. And then he does also say in the scene when he saw, talking to her, that he thanks her for letting him fly for the very first time. And I know he means it metaphorically, but I was like, they built this technology.

They could have all gone and flown around as much as they want. Like, he didn't need her to fly. Bring it to Ops. How much fun would that be? Yes, exactly. They don't share. Yes. We go to Quarks next.

Quark walks into his dark quarters, tries to turn on the lights. They don't go on. Spooky. Very scary. Just as he starts to run, Fallick grabs him from. behind around the next starts choking him cork offers 199 bars of latinum and fallet lets him go but did you notice in the choking it didn't seem like phallett's arm was anywhere near a choking an anatomical place that would choke him

and armin was playing very beautifully the you know struggling to speak but the arm was down by his chest there's was a very should have come in and tutored him a little bit how to Yeah, maybe, maybe. But this was, this was a turning point. Maybe Quark's going to save his life in this scene. So save his own life. So we cut back to the infirmary. So who needs Odo?

Who needs Odo? That's right. Who needs Clint Eastwood? The sheriff. Who needs the sheriff? The sheriff. The sheriff. We're back in the infirmary.

Malora's getting more treatments. And then she does bring up in the scene, is this going to be, when will it be irreversible? When is this treatment going to take away the parts of herself that are who she is? Yeah. Yeah, because I think she really liked that feeling of the hot bath. Yeah. Right? The floating by herself.

There's things like my poem, there's parts of herself that are true to herself. Yeah. No. No. Yeah. She says, I don't feel like myself. She literally says, I just don't, something about this. It just doesn't feel like the real me.

And Bashir does understand. But he says the effects are fully reversible for a few more days. After that, though, it will be permanent. So now we kind of have a timeline. We know she's got a few more days to make the final decision here. But after that, she's going to be like everybody else. Now we go to the runabout Orinoco. Orinoco.

What is it? That sounds good. Yeah, Orinoco. Orinoco. Thank you. Thank you, Terry. You're welcome. Malora is is standing they're back on a Dax and Malora out on the mission again.

Laura is standing at the top of the scene, but then she weakens. She says it's starting to wear off again, so she sits down and basically spills all of her second thoughts to Dax about this. And Dax is the one that brings up this little mermaid reference. And Malora says after that, she says, well, the little mermaid lived half. ever after, right? And Dax's response was unclear to me. So I was like, in the Disney movie, it's a happy ending. I don't get the, I don't get what's not happy. So I googled the real, uh, you know, little, yeah, the Hans Christian Anderson version. And here's what

it says. In the Disney movie, Ariel marries Eric and the two live happily ever after. But in Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale, the little mermaid takes the knife and agrees to kill the prince. And when she tries to do it, she finds she can't kill him. So instead, the little mermaid sacrifices herself to save his life and she

turns into seafone. Whoa. That's a horrible story. Yeah. And most of them were. That was horrible. I don't know where, mine's in my shed in a box, but I found

one of the original. Yeah. I haven't read it because I found it and then I moved from L.A. out here, but I have a lot of those books. I have so many of those books. Don't you hate that? It's like, oh, I can't wait to have my bookshelves up so that I can kind of finally read them. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Well, Hans Christian Anderson did not have a happy little mermaid tale. So that's where for me, the whole premise of this episode made sense. It's like, oh, it's a, it's a little mermaid story. I get it. Well, and also, and you know, along with that, you can say, well, the Disney ending isn't

realistic. Yeah. So you could be saying, well, you know, you're going to, it's the reality is you're going to be walking. You're not going to be living the life you used to live. And there are there's always things that if in that situation that you're going to miss. Yeah. And you're going to end up killing Bashir and turning into sea foam. Yeah. That's how that's going to end. No, killing herself, which would be fine. She cannot hurt Bashir. I'd be very upset about that. That's true. She'd try to kill Bashir, couldn't do it, and then she'd kill herself and turn into space foam. Yeah, exactly. Space, boom, something like that. The dreaded space bump. Okay, we're in the airlock. We are, but I just want to say another good scene with Dax and Malora.

I love these scenes. I think they're going to. great scenes. You guys did a great job and I love the content. I love what you guys did. So that's all I want to say. Thank you. Well, in the notes, just online looking around, digging around, they wanted this character to be recurring. I'm surprised she didn't come back. Yes. They wanted this to be a recurring character and said, we're going to use. Did she not want to come back? I don't know. Maybe it didn't work in her schedule. Who knows? Maybe not. Yeah. Who knows? Okay. Well, she was so busy doing Jane Fonda workouts that she didn't have time. to come to this.

I think she was also in, like, Dr. Who? Wasn't she in Doctor Who? Was she? Yeah, she was in, she did play in Doctor Who. That's correct. Oh, cool. One of the movies, I think, a Doctor Who movies. So, let us move forward to the airlock where our B storyline continues.

Ashrock comes to meet Quark. Quark as Fallot with him. Quark even introduces Fallot to Ashrock as his longtime business partner, which is true, if you think of it that way. The transaction happens. So all those awesome 42 rings go to Ashrock. Ashrock hands the bag of latinum, which Falet takes very quickly and inspects it. And they're done with the deal.

But then Falet says, no, this transaction is not complete. He pulls out a phaser. And he says that he'll be taking the artifacts as well. The cool bracelets that Terry really wants. Yes. Terry, maybe you should have a designer help design those. with you and it'll be the Terry Farrow DS9 line of jewelry line or the Delta Flyers

journey through the wormhole line of jewelry that you market the more. So you're going to give this to me as a gift. You guys are going to pull together and buy me a gold bracelet. Solid gold. Solid gold. That'll work. Yes. But it won't be tough but you're going to have to buy three because there's no way you're buying me one.

That's right. If your ladies aren't getting one. What do you mean? I want one. I think it would look super cool. They're unisex, those bracelets. They're absolutely unisex. It's 2024. If you wanted to be unisex, it's unisex. Thank you.

Exactly. Fallett pulls out that phaser and he shoots. Poor Ashrock. Poor Ashrock with that amazing makeup job, gets blown back. Ashrock throws as he's being shot the whole bag of of rings gets thrown in the air and caught by cork. It was a little home alone. It was a little home alone.

It was like, Oh, cork was Kevin from home alone, catching the bag. Like, what, me? Yes,

it was very much, very much like that. And that's when Ashrek yells at, at cork to pick up the, the latinum and move, which cork picks up pretty easily, 199 bars of gold latinum. I'm sure that's heavy.

But they, they high tail it out of there. There's an alarm that Odo does see, right? He's in a security office. He sends security to level 22, Section 5. And this is where in the corridor we see Quark holding stuff. And Fallet is basically using Quark as his shield in a way, as the guards are shooting at them with their phasers.

Fallot is shooting back, but using Quark as a shield at the same time. A little further down the airlock, Fallot and Quark are running off, you know, trying to escape. Fallett's heading to the airlock now, runs into Dax and Malora. Yes. Tells them to get back on the ship. Get back in. I don't know why he wouldn't request the Vulcan music as well.

It's just a side thought, but, you know, please play that relaxing music for us while we try to escape. Oh, but they do go for that. Yeah, they go back on the ship and Fallett tells Dax to get them out of here. Dax explains that Malora needs this motor support that she can't exist in their gravity the same way that they do. And Quark says, I love this moment where Cork says, you know, I'll wait in the back. And Fowler goes, nope, in the front where I can see you.

See you. Very funny. Classic comedic beat there. We go to Ops. We see Miles has gotten a notice that they're trying to escape. The ship is leaving. In this scene, they tractor the ship. And Cisco says, you know, calls them and says, return to the station at once.

And they don't reply. So the tractor beam is locked on to them, pulling them back. This is our action sequence. I'm going to fly through it quickly. Back in the shuttle, Fallet demands they release the ship. He's going to shoot the hostages if they don't. And at first he points is going to quark. But then he says, no, I have something for you.

Special. something special for you. And he shoots Malora. Poor Malora. When he shoots her and she goes falling, my first question was, why isn't the Jane Fonda exoskeleton continuing to? Or little electric special effects.

Yes. Yeah. Something. But he does shoot her. It looks like she's dead. She goes falling pretty hard. And Cisco takes Bashir from ops, back in ops.

He takes Bashir and Miles to the Rio Grande. It says, give us 10 seconds and then disengage the tractor beam. So they beam onto the Rio Grande. And back on the bad guy's ship, on the Orinoco, Orinoco. Orinoco. The tractor beam releases them and Falot says, get us through the wormhole. But they do read Sisko's ship behind him. And then we cut away and we see Malora's not dead.

She starts to wake up. Okay. Just stop for one second. Didn't you think that maybe the baron, maybe Rick Colby could have directed Sid to be a little bit more shocked that she's dead? Because clearly the guy says, I'm going to kill one of these guys, right? That phaser is set on super stunned. But when the camera cuts back to the reaction on, you know, Bashir's face, it's like nothing even happened. Like, this is the person he's in.

I had the same question later on when he realizes that she's alive. it wasn't as emotional as I expected. Okay. And I wondered, now that you're connecting all this, I wonder if they shot these scenes before. They might have shot. I bet. Out of order.

So he hadn't played the scenes yet, the love scenes. So he didn't know how that was going to feel. Because I feel in both of those moments, it was less emotional than I would have expected. But isn't that the duty of the director to know where those moments are? And he should have mapped that out then, really. Yes.

Yes, it is. all righty and that is why by the way if they had writers on the set sometimes directors especially when you're first starting off it's hard for you to wrap your head around the whole thing as much as the actors having a writer on set who's been through the process for weeks or months already could look at that and say to the director hey i think bashear should be a little more emotional yeah shot it yet that would have helped and we didn't have writers on star trek sets. They should have had at least an emissary. Somebody, yes, an emissary, yes. Like a profit from the writer's room. Exactly. I bet the writers would have appreciated it. I don't think the writers

wanted it back then. They didn't look at it like an advantage. They looked at it like, oh, the actors are going to complain to us. No, no, no, no. I think, Ira always says he and he and other guys wished they could come down to the set more. And first of all, you remember how far away they were from us? Yes, yes, very far. Really far. Like another town over there. Even a golf cart would feel like a long time to get there.

Yep. But yeah, they wanted to be. I think some of the writers did. And there were so many hours. And yeah. Yeah. Oh, well, if we could go back in time. If only someone had a time machine, go back and have writers.

join us. Or I just go back and I tell Sid, I go, Sid, this is going to look really great if you look really distressed that she's getting killed, okay? And then later, once you realize she's alive, Sid, I came from the future, by the way. And I'm going to tell you also look really, really happy that she's alive. And he'll be like, okay, Garrett from the future. And then that would have been it. Wow.

Wow. If only we could solve everything that we just need Garrett on our team and we're done. We're good. Exactly. We're gold. All right. So the tractor beams off. Phyllis go through the wormhole, Cisco's chasing, Malora wakes up.

I made a note here in the Rio Grande, Miles O'Brien is piloting this space chase. And I thought, oh, so Miles is a hotshot pilot, too, as well as an engineer. Yeah, they already told, they've already established that he's a great pilot in a prior episode. Oh, they did. I forgot about that. Well, it just, it hits the same tender spot with me as a pilot myself. right every time I see it because you need I also was a hot shot pilot and one of my lifetimes do you feel that do you feel a little bit you know falling short of because the fact that you were only a hot shot pilot and nothing else and the other characters in DS9 are hot shot pilots as well as other things is that what you're saying yeah like yeah

like I was a hot shop pilot but I was just a nurse in the infirmary like literally he called you were a nurse in the infirmary a hot shot pilot and you were Casanova. Robbie. That's true. Okay, I had plenty of things to do. Okay, so Miles is piloting this thing. They're chasing them.

Cisco says stay with them. But they go to warp. And so now they're at warp, they can't do much when they're at warp. No. Back to the Orinoco, runabout Orinoco, bad guy's ship. He's distracted by Dax and Quark. And Dax does notice Malora moving. But you can see Dax stands up.

She's kind of trying to distract cleverly. fallet from looking back, when Malora turns off, hit some buttons, turns off the gravity reaches up, because she's, she can't stand, turns off the gravity, and then she starts to float, everybody starts to float, and she kind of pushes herself like a, like a torpedo, rammed into Falliff, taking him out. Yeah, it's, it's cool. Do you remember how the anti-gravity happened in the shuttle, that scene? I don't. It's so funny because I wonder if I'm in the shot. They might

have shot it in such a way that they didn't need anybody else. Yeah. But Malora and the other guy. Because also it would imagine that either we waited in our trailers or we were let go to come back the next morning, right? And that would be their last shot kind of thing.

Those kinds of things happened a lot. Yeah. Yeah. But it was cool to see them doing anti-gravity in a shuttle in a small space like that. In the big quarters, you can imagine they've got wires up above. But in there, that was tricky to do. Yeah. I also wanted to just throw in there, you know, when he says, when Fallot says,

I have something special for you. And according to one of the earlier drafts, that special thing was killing him by having a setty alpha-5 eel from like Rath of Khan when it went into Chekhov's ear, you know, that scene. So they wanted, he was going to do. the same thing to quark allow that little you'll go to go in his ear earworm yeah so gross that's that's gross thanks for that thanks for that image you're welcome yeah it's kind of like when you were describing

ferengis cutting their bodies into body parts yes was that gross too that was gross too okay back on the Rio Grande with Cisco and team they see the ships dropped out of warp the generators turned off this is where Bashir realizes Malora's a lot He even has a line. He says, well, where's alive? But it was just like data. It wasn't like, this is my girlfriend. She's alive, right?

Or even my science experiment. Yay. Yay. Anything. Yeah, gravity's reinstated. The engines are down. They beam over. Cisco and Bashir beam over to the Orinoco,

where Quark is holding a phaser on an arm bad guy. and they beam in. This shot was beautiful because it started on someone crossing through the frame, paned to the middle, then sort of locked off, and someone passed out of the frame. They beamed in,

and then it tracked them back over. It was a oneer. This whole scene is a oneer. That's pretty cool. With a beam in. And a soft lock in the middle. It was really well done by the baron, and I just wanted to point that out.

Nice. Clever. Very nice. They head back home. We cut back to, I think our final scene is a Klingon date in the Klingon restaurant, a date where Malora wonders why the phaser didn't kill her. And Bashir says, well, maybe it's those neural treatments that I did based on Nathaniel. What's his name?

Teros. Teros's work, of course. Yeah. My great, great, great grandfather. I think it's important that we talk about that here. Yes. And he's not fishing for the. the compliment is that I'm really saying I saved your life.

Exactly. So I kind of saved your life. Yeah. I'm just saying. Yeah. But she does ask if she, you know, wants to do any moral, more neural treatments. Treatments. And she says, no, I don't want to do them.

That she wouldn't be who she truly is if she did. And she's very grateful. She would not be the same nude cartographer if she does the changes. Yes. And I love that she says she, she thanks him very sincerely for getting her to open up to people, that she's, even though she's not going to be able, you know, do the treatments and walk, she's a new, she's a different person because of Bashir. She's open to people. She's, you know, softer and, and yeah, more connected. And I thought that was really good.

Yeah. And he was genuinely kind to her. he most people seem to react to her like all of us it's harder when someone's attacking you to calm down and react in a calm way to help that person calm down and that's what Bashir did for her which was really great yeah yeah I do want to point out that there's a moment the Klingon serenades them silently like a minstrel walks through I thought it was the most terrifying Klingon song I'd ever heard there's nothing sweet or romantic about it was like whoa it was so jarring to me no really I didn't get that okay it was a nightmare song to me okay that's fine it was not a it was not a sweet love song no no

it wasn't delvok it was not delvok vulcan composer okay all right well it didn't bother me as much it bothered you just so you know the the yeah the minstrel was weird but it is a very sweet moment in the end and she does say like I just want to sit here and remember all of this, which I thought was a great way to... That line was awesome. Yeah. I want to remember all this. And that's how they end. They end the episode on that line, basically. Yeah. It's really nice. All right. There you go. We got it. Malora. Yay. Malora. Okay. What of our themes or lessons for this episode? Let's start with Robbie McNeil.

What is your overall lesson? Well, my theme, my lesson comes from, the wise man Billy Joel don't go changing to try and please me don't change the color of your hair yeah

don't go changing thank you we're your backup singers remember okay I love you just the way you are too love you just the way you are all right

Terry Farrell what's your lesson for this episode. To thine own self be true. Okay. Because you could see her wrestling with the choice pretty early on. It was kind of interesting to see her kind of stunned at the idea. She, it felt more like she trusted him and was letting him convince her this was a great idea.

But it took her a little bit more than a second thought to tell him her thoughts. We could see her going through that before she revealed it all to him. Great. Yeah. My lesson can be said in multiple ways, different ways. One way would be to say the grass is not always greener on the other side. Or you don't need to keep up with the Johnsons. So, I mean, there's basically what you guys said, but in a different way.

So, yeah. Great. Don't keep up with the Johnsons. Yeah. Don't keep up with the Johnsons. And the Patreon poll winner for theme lesson moral, the episode will be read by Terry Farrell. No one is an island submitted by Mary Bee. Oh, that's an interesting because that's what Bashir was saying too.

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