The Greatest Generation - Alleged Loughlin (DS9 S4E7)

Episode Date: April 8, 2019

When Quark gets a new RV from his cousin, he decides his first drive should be a road trip taking Nog to college. But when a blowout leaves them stranded in an unfamiliar place, their timing couldn’t be worse. What should you always wash after buying from a garage sale? How quickly can a person absorb the entire history of human kind? When do you know an episode is a comedy? It’s the episode that’s gonna be chillin’ over in crafty!

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I'm Ben Harrison. Have we made it clear yet to the people that were going to Star Trek Las Vegas? No, I don't think we have. Tickets, button, air travel and hotel arranged. Do we have tickets to the con? No, of course not. I'm like I'm gonna give them my credit card information after seeing their massive breach. Do they have a massive breach? Oh, dude. Yeah. They're venting a crewman into

space. They're venting credit card plasma. Oh, no. It's, yeah, it's a bad like a friend of the podcast, Bri Belky, I think had her her credit card snuffed, like a bunch of friends of DeSoto threw in and then had to like get new credit cards and stuff for it So I don't know about you. I'm gonna be paying cash on the day of Cash like a gentleman that's me You know as something else we should probably make clear is we are going to destroy the Falcon That's right. This was something we were using as a

Intensive during the pledge drive during the max fund drive. We we said if we got That's right. That's right. This was something we were using as an incentive during the pledge drive, during the Max Fund drive. We said if we got 2000 new and upgrading supporters, we would do it and we did and we're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. We make no promises about timeline. However, we're working even now on how to get this done with the Lackerti.

I'm really excited about it. A couple of friends of DeSoto we're working even now on how to get this done with Elacrity. I'm really excited about it. A couple of friends of DeSoto have offered to send us a drone for use in this video. I was just thinking, we talked about dropping this thing into a pool to kind of contain all the pieces when it flies apart, fly it apart then you say. Right.

And if we find a pool, I feel like we're gonna want some overhead shots of the situation. So. I might put this out on the streets right now. If you're a pool person in or around the Los Angeles area, we're auditioning pools. One thing that I do have genuine fear surrounding is the idea of building this model and then putting it in a car

and taking it somewhere to break it. What do you mean? Like it would be stolen out of your parked car? No, I'm just saying like going around a corner, it's going to like slide over and break, you know. Come on, man. You just seatbelt that in, it's gonna slide over and break. Come on, man. You just seatbelt that in, it's gonna ride shotgun. It's gonna be fine. You know, it would be great.

Destroy the Falcon with an airbag. Just plow through a four lane intersection and let fate take the wheel. That would be an exquisitely nerdy way to die. If in the driver's seat, like the Claymore Mine that is the Lego Millennium Falcon explodes via airbag and then just tear-srapnel throughout the entire car. Killed by dork. Well, anyways, we're working all these details out how many vehicular man slutters we will be

perpetrating in the process etc etc so yeah well we'll keep you guys posted on that and I'm looking forward to dropping that video. Yeah, yeah we'll know when we. Adam, it's been a while since you've checked the PO box and I understand that you were just there at the PO box store. Do you have any mail? You want to open up? Ben, I have so much mail. Captain, I'm sorry to disturb you. I'm receiving a code 47. Verify. It is code 47, sir. Start is 25 pounds. I know this because my friends at the UPS store made mention of that and how not enjoyable it was to take care of this

thing for the week that they had. So I'm going to start there. You know that Millennium Falcon is like over 30 pounds shipping late. Can't out rule out that that's what's in here. This package is from John from Parker Colorado. Then what we have in this box is a lot of beer. Wow. What we have is a six pack of River Runner's Pale Ale from the Eddie Lion Brewery.

Wow. We have got DuEast IPA. Just a, just a... From the Boulder Beer Company. A surfeit of podcasting fluid. Is this all Colorado? Let's see. Yes, it looks like it is. We got big juicy freak double IPA, so Probably your favorite from the Denver beer company. Why is that my favorite? That was your college nickname

And then we got death before disco porter of the left hand brewing company. I remember having left hand beer during our time in Denver. Yeah. It shows there. So wow, a hell of a care package. Yeah. From our friend John, there is a letter here suggested off air reading. So I'm'm gonna keep the letter to myself and just thank our friend John from Colorado for sending us a lot of things to drink. The occasion of Ben's next visit to Seattle. Yeah thank you John that's great. Looking forward to drinking. It's incredibly generous to send us beer especially because of how expensive it is to ship. Like, wow! Then our next package sent to us from Leslie and Alice from Shikopi, Minnesota. Shackapi?

Shackapi? Ankilles or... What we have here is a box bursting with Girl Scout cookies. Hell yeah! So many Girl Scout cookies we've got there. This is not the first box of Girl Scout cookies we've been sent by the way. Oh you were sent a box that I did not have access to. Oh I think this is I think she sent some to you and some to me. Wow that is really nice. It includes

all my favorites. The caramel delights being my number one. Then we got thin mints and s'mores. One of the things that I have often thought as an adult is I want girl scout cookies, but I feel weird about the idea of having to get to know some girl scouts. Well, you're supposed to park your van on the other side of the parking lot and then get out on foot and then go into the grocery store Where they sell them been you don't have to like sell them in the grocery store in Seattle my experience is they hang out at the entrance slash exit to your local grocery really

Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, that's that's where they gather how convenient our letter enclosed is from Leslie and Alice and in parentheses, the scout. So Alice being the scout. Do you have been an Adam? Thank you so much for this awesome podcast. It has been a great stress reliever for me, and I even have made new friends. The many Facebook groups have made it fun

to be on Facebook again, and I enjoy interacting with all the great friends of DeSoto. That goes for one of us. You know, one of my great regrets is having made Facebook palatable to more people. Ha ha ha. The live shows were a blast too.

I got to hang out with a great group of Minnesota FOD. And that's the truth. We love doing shows in Minnesota. That's for sure. Hell of a place. Please enjoy these Girl Scout cookies. It's my way of saying thanks. This helps me support my kid's goal of getting a thousand boxes sold without eating a bunch myself. She doesn't like to make

things easy on me. Thank you, Leslie and Alice. I will share that I shared some of my Girl Scout bounty with folks at maximumfund.org. A office staff favorite, they also really appreciated it. Good job, I U. Then our third package is contained within a Shuttlecraft Galileo cardboard box. Fun! It's from Liz. From Washington, D.C.

I've been given specific opening instructions. Oh, that's because when you open it, it's also printed inside. I'm going to Jackie and Laurie you. A picture of this. That's pretty good. Oh man, that is cool. Yeah. Wow.

Right? How about we have some action figures that would be to scale in that box. Speaking of action figures, what we have inside is a Star Trek Master Series Latinum Edition 7 of 9 Figurine. Wow. Oh wow. Look at her. It's a 7 of 9 in Statue-Wet form. Wow, look at her. It's a, it's seven of nine, in statuette form,

letter inside from Elizabeth, goes like this, dear Ben and Adam, I'm not exaggerating when I say your podcast has changed my life. Wow. The community that is emerged out of TGG is the best thing on the internet. Facebook, it's not just for Russian election thieves anymore. I've met true friends in established relationships that have made my life better.

You helped me find my best friends. I'm slightly embarrassed writing this, but it's true. And closed you will find a weird ass statue I was gifted, but I don't know what to do with. Oh great! Thanks Elizabeth! Thanks for your sincere note of gratitude. Weird ass statue I was gifted, but I don't know what to do with. Oh great, thanks Elizabeth. Thanks for your sincere note of gratitude and your re-gifted statue. Well, John Roderick is a number of other co-hosts

that also have weird sexy lady statues in their offices. So now you join that August society. Thank you. Anyway, I hope one of your wives gives you permission to display this and I hope this motivates you to do Voyager next. Voyager! Better than you remember! Live long a prosper, paddads and thanks. Love Elizabeth, all caps Janeway. Whoa! Yes, thanks for coming to DC two times. Keep it up.

We love DC. We'll be back in DC. Yeah, no question. This next one is from Kim. From Fluegerville, Texas. Kim has enclosed a couple of Jim Shimoda things. I'm gonna see if the letter can give me any more insight. To the Prophet's greetings from the Ascend of the Alpha Quadrant things just haven't been

the same around here since you decided to blow up the Space Book but whole. We understand why you did it but we miss you. Wait lots of Facebook talk. Really like it's like we get off Facebook and it comes out of through the the fucking mail. We were cleaning out our closet on the promenade and ran across these Jim Shimoda magnets We're these like a product that were available for sale now We thought they would make a nice gift for you So we stuck them in an orb case and dropped them off a quark. He knows a guy that knows a guy with a really fast ship Also, thank you so much to Ben for his attempt

at singing our theme song. It's a very good thing. You didn't know how the theme to the song, to Enterprise goes. Good thing that my memory is bad. I've always said this. Having that particular song in so many viewers' heads would have resulted in a 1,000 one-star reviews on iTunes.

So bullet dodged there. Thanks again. Jim Shimoto with a G. Well, you know, I'm glad that Jim Shimoto exists. I'm just not glad that Facebook exists I Wish that one could could exist without the other. I think I think it could I wish Everybody listening to this just got off Facebook all at once and wow people running Facebook were like what the fuck? Why did like 30,000 people just leave our service? Wow, that would be great.

And then they tracked us down and they had us killed. That doesn't sound fun to me. How about they just kill you? Okay. You're the one with that crazy idea. I mean, you don't think Facebook is good. I do not think it's good. Ben in the package sent to us by Megan in Australia. My heart skipped a beat because what I have pulled

out of this package is a cookbook. The cookbook is called In My Kitchen. Its author is Nanavisator. Whoa! It appears to be signed by Nanavisator. Whoa! Is this a... Megan of... Megan an Imogen? The inscription in science says to Ben and Adam,

enjoy this. And then, sign below Nanavisator. If this is some kind of prank... Megan... Gonna be deeply upset. But I don't think it is. This looks legit. There's a letter. I'm gonna read it. Maybe there's more information.

Dear Ben and Adam, nothing said fuck 2018 and fuck cancer better than voyaging on big rata float aka Star Trek The Cruise 3. Oh, man. It was truly a blast and you will see my bald Nagan and many a photo on the official cruise site at Star TrekTheCruise.com. The only thing missing on the cruise was your good selves. A bit of pirate pod and big rod's pocket would have been ace. That said, there were many FODs and a fellow Jim Shimoda. Wow. I told the Nga all about you.

And in parentheses, she is beyond lovely. She signed her book for you. Wow. I just kind of got the chills reading that Megan. That is incredible. We're so glad that you were feeling well enough to go on the cruise. Yeah. Certainly. And wow, just really glad that you made some friends there and there were some other friends of Desotto to keep you company, that's rad. I love that that's like becoming a thing at these Star Trek events is like people in the shirts and with the pins and stuff, just kinda like winking at each other.

This email address in the inscription. Yeah, it seems like she's saying, she's saying she's open to communicating with us. Does that take me to her? No. Is that something I should write? I think you should write an email to that. I am going to start up a donor support podcast feed

that's making every single recipe in this book. There's pictures and stuff in here and there's stories. Is it a particular style of cooking? Is it just kind of home recipes or... It looks like it's just all her favorites. Wow. She's so great. Thank you so much, Megan.

Our next package is from Dan, from Arcada, California. Arcada is the seat of Humboldt County if I'm that mistaken. Yeah. Oh, I'm smelling the package. Dan has sent a Star Trek Mad Libs. Oh. With a post that says Ben and Adam, I simply want to say thank you for bringing so much joy

and fun into my ear holes. Live long and prosper, your true friend of DeSoto Dan. Thanks, Dan. Star Trek Mad Libs could be like a whole kind of Marin. Oh, shit. You're right. Thank you for sending that. Thank you very much. We got an envelope here from Jacob.

From Dearborn Michigan. Jacob has included a picture of a K9 Police Dog named Wurf. Whoa. Dear Ben and Adam, now that Mr. Wurf is established on DS9, I've enclosed a trading card that I suspect you do not have. My otherwise very serious local police department employs a canine officer named Commander Wurf. Cool! In fact, trained and clinging on verbal commands.

His handler carries these cards with him to hand out to children. I have brought much dishonor to my house in the face of a very tall policeman in order to obtain this card. Please enjoy! It's Jake and Dearborn! Then our next package comes to us from Kevin out of North Port Florida. It is a bunch of credentials for something that took place October 26th through 28th 2018. I'll tell you what's going on here. This guy went to a bunch of different things and then put his credentials on like a doorknob in his house and then eventually they stacked up and he's like, I gotta do something with these. He tried to pawn them

off on us. Kevin, we don't want you trash. Get your trash out of here. Maybe Kevin will explain in his letter that goes like this, Adam and Ben, so... I work for a company that produces event credentials for festivals, conventions, etc. I often end up with some extras. So when this one event came through last October, I instantly thought of you guys. Here are some laminates and lanyards from northeast Trekkon and Albany, which took place in October 26, 2018. Thought you might like them.

Kind of neat. Also, I've included some Star Trek TNG Pogs that resurfaced in my possession during a round of spring cleaning. Kevin gives us his garbage. Man, Kevin could have been some help to us last year because we were making like company IDs for Uxbridge, Shimoda.

There's a little pro tip to everyone out there. If you ever like traveling a gear, if you have an ID with your face on it from the company that you work at, and you work for a company that claims to be a media company, like Uxbridge Shimoda does. You can get discounts on check-logged fees at the airport. Ben, our final package of the day. I thought we'd never get there. Comes from Grand Prairie, Texas. No name on the exterior, probably smart. We have

got a lot of bubble wrap protecting the start trek the next generation communicator walkie-talkie The letter inside unsigned Says now you'll never be apart It is so threatening wow, I'm gonna send you a picture of Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Oh man. I think they got the scale wrong. Yeah, not to scale. That is hilarious. I like that there is a little inset picture of a different kid wearing the same communicator presumably to share that that one in the lower left corner has a friend. A friend is the do you stockin too?

It's strange credulity to imagine that that kid has a friend This is gonna be my new Twitter profile pic the kid with a too large communicator. It is Ridiculous. Oh, there's even a picture of them together. Oh, cute. Just like you and me, man That's gonna that's gonna be how we keep in touch when we're at STLV So ends the opening of the mail, Ben. Christ, do we have to do an episode now? I think we should wrap it up here. Thanks for listening.

What are we watching next week? We'll just skip little green, man. We would be run out of town on a rail. I don't think we'd ever be forgiven. No. Well with our remaining time, Ben, let's turn our attention towards an episode that is just as much fun to experience. It's Deep Season 4 Episode 7. Little Green Man. Do you realize how many cannibal this is? No, of course you don't. It is a bit of a rite of passage for young Nug. He's getting ready to go away to Starfleet Academy.

And what you do when you're a fringy boy, about to head off into the world and make his own way is you sell all your crap. Let the bite commence. I bet my parents wish that this was a human ritual. I bet most parents do this as a human ritual. My mom has been trying to convince me for like three months to fly home

and empty the closet of my childhood bedroom. Why don't you? You think it's her job to, to schlep around your shit for the rest of your life? The, the reason I don't is I don't think that there's anything in there. Oh, it's stuff that she should know to throw away that she just hasn't.

Yeah, it's like a software boxes for Final Cut Pro version one, you know. Oh, yeah, that's a great version. We don't need to say that. That's a great big box, also. Yeah, it works great on Mac OS 8. Hey, that's the OS that John Roderick uses. Which of your boyhood items would have the most value to you in a garage sale type setting?

Because there are a few of these that Nog gives relative difference to, but yet they're all for sale. Everything must go. It's his PJs. I saw some desiccated bodies pucks there. So definitely like some dead. He's selling grandma. Yeah, grandma is definitely among his personal effects.

No reasonable offer will be refused. Quark is not psyched about this, right? No, because any reminder of Nog's entrance into Starfleet Academy is something that he just disagrees with. Another character that's suspicious of it is Worf, which is surprising because Worf, probably the first Klingon to go

through Starfleet Academy right? Yeah, something that I think O'Brien reminds him of. Like Worf, remember how painful it is to be othered. Yeah, seems like a pretty hypocritical stance for you to be taking right now Worf. He does see the utility of a tooth sharpener which is nice. You gotta wash the tooth sharpener before you stick it in your mouth. That fully work on the sound, I think, is very good, very well done, as soon as he touches that thing to the tooth. Having had a lot of dental work done recently, I did not like. Wurf will buy that tooth sharpener, and then we will never see it again. Thank goodness.

Get it out of here. Quark's cousin has finally given Quark the shuttle that they've been promised for years and years. This is a real inherit a vehicle situation. It's because Quark lent his cousin a bunch of money back of the day when Ram like gives it a once over. He's like, yeah, this thing is in great condition. You don't even, you know, routine maintenance isn't for a long time.

By the way, you need a new Johnson rod in here. We've made the joke before, but it feels like shuttles of this kind and size, really evoke an RV type vibe, right? And so if you've been gifted an RV, I think the first thing you need to do is check the wastewater and the, like make sure it doesn't smell.

Right, make sure that nobody has ever used the toilet. Like number one only, that's the rule of all RVs, right? Yeah, did you tell me that or where did we learn that? I think that was a routericism. Yeah, that once you use it for anything other than number one, it's never the same. Yeah, go on the use it for anything other than number one, it's never the same. Yeah, go on the side of the road, where that belongs. To what the Dave Matthews band does and dump it off the side of a bridge. Right. So it turns out Nogga is going to fly

private to college. Which yeah, pretty fancy. Yeah. Quark has paid $250,000 to defraud the admissions board at a, that's definitely the academy. Like photoshopping nogs head onto a soccer player. Hold on a second. Are you are you making Quark into a, a Loughlin type situation in the legit Loughlin? Yeah, yeah. Okay, I could get with that. We don't know his last name, but I'm thinking it might be Loughlin. You need to do a bunch of things before you leave your home for the last time in a while, right? And one of those things is, you need to get one last balcony hanging and say goodbye to

your good friend Jake. Yeah. That was a good spot. The best. I liked this moment. You know, like, I feel like DS9 has done things to throw us off the scent before, like making it seem like a character is leaving

and having us go through the emotional motions of this, but I did not expect myself to be reacting in this way when they did it with Nog. And how did you react? I mean, it was sad. I felt like they did a good job of kind of evoking like the meaning of place when we had that scene, you know? They didn't hug though.

Did they? I don't remember them hugging in this scene. I don't know. Maybe it's just my latent cynicism around everything these days that made it seem like I was going for something more from some close close friends there. Well, one thing that occurred to me was maybe their friendship was closer when they were younger because like when you're a kid your friends are just like whoever whatever kids are around and choosing your friends is largely a function of convenience. And then at a certain point, like when people start going away to college or not and you know, life starts changing, like the people that you like stay in touch with

become a smaller subset of those. And I definitely remember around the time of going away to college that like the transience of some of the friendships of childhood started to become evident to one or both friends, you know. Yeah, that's a good point. Do you think Keko wrote Nog's letter of recommendation? Ha ha ha ha ha. Do you start fleet academy? I still wrote Nog's letter of recommendation. Hahaha. Dear Starfleet Academy, I'm writing on behalf of a student of mine named Nog.

I'd really like to get rid of him if it all possible. My school recently exploded. Hahaha. Which as a consequence allowed me to free myself from teaching nog on the one hand, but now I give him to you. I've hid nog in my ass. I guess Kako is on Bajor right now, yeah? Yeah, yeah. I guess she doesn't really give a rip about it.

She's in the bush, she's not writing any letters. It would be nice to arrange for him not to be there when she comes back. Yeah, what a relief. Morn is gonna be watching the bar, because Quark doesn't trust the Ferenki that worked for him. Odo is totally amused by this in a, I can't wait to see how badly this fucks you.

And the play. Ha ha ha. Vintage. Vintage, like season one level Odo Quark banter in this episode. And the tension between ROM and Quark is also about the idea that ROM sees this as a fun thing that a father does for a son

and Quark sees it as a chance to make some quick lats. Yeah. Because he's gonna be doing some smuggling on the way back to Earth. Right. I forgot to write down what the material was. Oh, that's Kimo site, Ben. Oh! Kimo site.

Yeah. Let's ask for it by name. Apply it directly to the forehead. Uh-huh. Go to Kotlok. Go to Kotlok. So. So they all pile into this shuttlecraft.

It's a nice fast ship, but they are kind of driving each other nuts along the way. This is a Ramnug and Quark episode, so we just have to like get all of our time with the other characters on the show in the in ops like as they depart, going like, boy, I'm sure glad we don't have to watch that episode. Basically. The main cast is super psyched about this.

Yeah. You mean I can get out of the loaf early today? Rad. I'm gonna be over in crafty. Just chilling. One thing that we should mention is that the gift that Nog has been given by O'Brien and Bashir is the sports almanac from back to the future containing the whole of human knowledge.

Right. Like human history in an iPad. It seems like Nog absorbs a fairly astonishing amount of this book in the journey because I mean most of what we see is just the three of them bickering you know like like ROM getting up on his high horse about how Quark is smuggling and then like them using that leverage to extract a commission off of Quark extract a commission off of court of the proceeds. And then they find that the ship is not quite as in ship shape as they had been led to believe. I thought I told you to take a shot of warp.

I'm trying, brother, but the warp core isn't responding. Not a good look for ROM, TBH. Because when it blows a tire, it is a real emergency situation. It's a situation that requires the use of the chemocyte. Right. The only thing they can figure out to turn the warp engines off because they can't eject it is like flood the compartment that the chemocyte is in with warp plasma and see if that will bust the warp bubble and put their shuttle back into real space.

And we get a kind of special effects exterior of the shuttle as it kind of dissolves into golden dust. Ben, is it just me or does the Firingy shuttle look like the Oscar Meyer Weenermobile from the outside? It's the Oscar Meyer Weenerm from the outside. It's the Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile with pincers. Yeah, it really looks that way to me. I think it's probably just a kit-bashed Weiner, right? I mean, it's definitely the same general design as the one when they were negotiating for

the Barzahn wormhole and TNG, that those guys got lost in the beta quadrant. Yeah. They wake up and Quirk is, he's like on a slab in a room and ramen nagar on slabs next to him and they're in the past at him. What if time travel were really this accidental? It is terrifying, like the tone of this episode, not terrifying. No.

What if a spoon falls into your sink and into a running garbage disposal and all of a sudden you were transported to 1947? If that happens to me, I'm just transported to a Creighton Parall to replace that spoon. But it's like they're just doing Star Trek and they time travel. Like that's all this is. Right. It's amazing and terrifying. The idea of not giving that much of a shit about the fact that this happened is a very Star Trek convenience. The prospect of being trapped here forever is discussed a bunch of times and it never feels like the end of life as we know it for these characters. It isn't long before they run into Charles Napier, who I am a big fan of from his work in Rambo for a split part two. Charles Napier playing Rex Denning, the cigar-chomping general in this episode.

He'll be combination. Who watches over the air base in Roswell, New Mexico. Of course, I'm a big fan of his work in Ernest Goes to Jail. You're gonna make me find Ernest Goes to Jail drops. Cool. Yeah, yeah. Quark cannot figure out how a door works because of its knob. Yeah, it's possible that whatever wharf has is catching.

Yeah. But they're in this room. It's like one of those interrogation rooms where there's a one-way glass mirror in there so they can't see out but there's a dark room full of 1947 government types that can see in. And we get like a can-repand to the calendar to establish when and where they are. And it's like the Rosswell story told from the perspective that Quark and his brother and nephew are the aliens that crashed at Rosswell. When does this episode signal to you that it's a comedy? Oh, I think that what you want to look for is like that opening, there's a tracking shot, right?

Like the first shot of the episode, it's handing along all of the crap that Nag is going to sell. And then the camera pans up, and it shows that it's about for Rengie. Ha ha ha ha. Hey, your paper's just coming through on this side, Ben. How to tell when Star Trek episode is a comedy. Yeah. Benjamin R. Harrison, all right, I'll give that a look.

And I think that I picked up on that a little too late. Yeah, I mean, the comedy works some of the time in this episode. It's hard because Star Trek has had a history of not being very good at comedy. Nothing makes me laugh. I wish to learn. This would be an example of that. But if you just lean into silly,

like here's the thing, I think silly is different than comedy. And I think you can judge silly a little less critically than comedy. And so I think you'll enjoy this episode if you proceed from that spot. Yeah, I mean, like it's, it's a weird middle path that it takes, right? Because it's like, I mean, the premise of like, hey, like, let's get some alien characters from Star Trek that we know and do the Roswell story. That is like sold in the room, right? Like that's a great premise for an episode. And then you say for Rangie and the producers like, get out. This is that done with the most Star Trek Corniness that we get in this era of Star Trek, right?

Yeah, this is Rascals-level Cornie. Yeah, which was also a Ferengy episode. True. So let's talk about the human characters. We've got the general Rex Denning. Just photographs under no circumstances. Are you to engage the enemy? We've got Professor Carlson.

This is one of the most important events in human history. His girlfriend, Nurse Garland, who is a military nurse. The only thing I can tell you for sure is they're not human. And we've got a captain, captain Wayne Wright. Turns out it was just a weather balloon who's kind of hawkish, more hawkish than in general, I would say. Hill hawkish. And then there's like, you know, plenty of MPs and other kind of background figures.

Like the professors there to be the like first contact Amy Adams in arrival, like try to communicate with the aliens guy. Like, the general at one point turns to him and it's like, look, professor, we didn't just ask you here because exposition, exposition, exposition. You know, like, yeah. Like, I don't know why they tried to write him as caring about anything more than the fact

that he's meeting extraterrestrials for the first time, but like, he like turns to the nurse at one point and is like, Here we are in the middle of one of the greatest discoveries in human history. All I can think about is what you're going to look like in your wedding dress. It's not real. Like, that's not even Star Trek, Corny. That's just corny. It's hard to criticize a science fiction show for not being real in its treatment of 1940s America. Like, none of this is real.

We shouldn't care. Perhaps the most absurd scene in the app is when the humans first come into the room and are actually face to face with the forangi and they all start kind of bonking themselves in the head. Yes. Their universal translators are not working. And the humans interpret this as some kind of greeting. So they start doing the same thing. Nog has had 20 minutes with the Almanac.

So he tells everyone that they're in 1940s earth and these are Australians or something. Right. I mean, like we get some human dialogue from the Ferengi perspective and it was, I thought like a pretty good effect garbling the speech. Yes, I agree. And like the the Ferengi language, which I don't know if we've ever heard before, like Ferengi's speaking Ferengi. But sound did new. Yeah, but we got some of that that and that was nice and I feel like Arm and Shimmerman can act through nonsense language.

It's true. He really has this character down in a way where you give him a bunch of nonsense phrases like he knows what the real meaning is and acts accordingly. Grand Faktaric Umaksh. This episode was shot kind of like a stage play. Yeah. We're in, you get establishing shot of Air Force Base exterior, which they throw to a couple of times.

It's just airplane foreground, hangar background, a couple of different times of day. And then you've got the interior of the lab, and then you've got the interior of the shuttle, and then you've got DS9, and I think those are the only locations that we have. I wondered if they put like a very thin tobacco filter on the camera for the scenes in 1947 because they look like a little yellowed and a little old timey. The light was

also unflattering to make up. Yeah, you can see the seams in the make up a little bit more than normal, like where the latex stops and the real skin starts on the cheeks on the franghi. All the lab scenes look very fluorescently lit and it's really unforgiving, like that. Pretty tough challenge, especially for as many close-ups as there are in this app, you really get to see under the seams, unfortunately.

Yeah. I'm not a man. I'm not a man. I'm not a man. I'm not a man. I'm not a man. I'm not a man. I'm not a man. I'm not a man. Exactly. Speaking of tough challenges, the communication issue is the big problem. So eventually, they apply Nurse Garland for one of her hair pins and Ron is able to get the universal translator in Nog's ear back going.

So presumably there's something like deep inside their heads that's working, right? Because it's in the communicators in TNG, like the communicator badge has the universal translator in it. Why not just put it right into your head. I kind of like this idea. And like spoiler alert, when Odo shows up, no problem with him.

No, yeah, where does he keep his translator? Do you think all of the dialogue on the bass is looped? And the reason I ask is not only for the Ferengy language scenes, but the, you know, the broken universal translator scene is another example. But also because there's an old timey oscillating fan in the room where this dialogue is happening. And I don't know about you, Ben. But if I were shooting a scene with dialogue,

I would do everything in my power to make sure that there wasn't an old timey oscillating fan in the room, you know? And you never hear it in the show audio. So I'm thinking that's what happened. Yeah, a strange choice. Yeah. But maybe they were shooting somewhere where they knew that they weren't going to be able to use the audio anyways. Maybe this is an episode where Star Trek talks a lot about its judgments on either

the present or the not so distant past. The self-righteousness of Star Trek is very apparent throughout this episode, especially when it comes to things like Tobacco. Yeah, but it's interesting and fun to get it from the perspective of characters that we tend to judge as being worse than the humans in the series. Yeah, like who has more vices than Quark?

And here's Quark making fun of people for smoking two cigarettes at the humans in the series. Yeah, like who has more vices than Quark and here's Quark making fun of people for smoking two cigarettes at the same time. Right. Like people have been fucked to death in his hollow suites before, you know, like he's seen the dead end street of a vice gone wrong. Right, and like the guys that sharpen their own teeth or judging people for period appropriate smoking.

They also judge the cigarettes, but never judge the cigar. Cause the gentleman's always chomping on a cigar. Right. That's never addressed. It's like it's two different things. Weird. Why is ROM wearing Digi-cammo?

ROM shops exclusively at Cabela's. I don't like that. DIGY CAMO. ROM SHOPS EXCLUSIVELY AT KABELLAS. I don't like that. Yeah. So speaking of police dogs at them, there is a military dog walking around this base. And I wonder if the professor like stoops down to pet the dog? The general's not like, don't pet that dog, sir. Don't military dogs get their teeth replaced

with like metal teeth and shit? Oh no, do they? Yeah, I think the seals go into battle with German shepherds that have augmented metal teeth. Wow, I did not know that. Yeah, it's kind of fucked up. Geez. Is this a whole duck fucking theory that you have that's

there's that to be wrong or are you? What do you mean duck fucking theory? I mean, you mentioned on an episode not too long ago, and that you wanted your duck fucking to be consensual and there's no such thing as consensual duck fucking. I mean, I'm not a biologist. I don't know what... I think we can agree that it's sad that a doggie would have his teeth replaced for military reasons, that's not fun. Yeah.

It's like the whole weaponized dolphins thing you read about. Yeah. That's not cool either. Leave the animals alone. They're not weaponized, they're just like able to swim up to harbor mines and put trackers on them, right? Yeah, I think that's the deal. Yeah. First lesson in training a dolphin bin is teaching a dolphin to stop trying to fuck you. That's rule number one. Wait a second. Our dolphins and ducks the same now. What's wrong with you Adam? We should not be listened to for any information about animals. with you Adam. We should not be listened to for any information about animals. We shouldn't be listened to it all also. Yeah. You're talking about wane right, right? Wane right pets the doggy

so often, but if wane right was actually taking notice of the dog's behavior, he would have been able to tell that this dog is not pissing or shitting because if it had, it would have gone gold because this is dog odo. Do you think that it would piss and then like that scene in Terminator 2 where the chunk of metal that was left in the car would like reabsorb into its foot? I think so. Yeah. Yeah, this is de godo.

Hello quark. And DeGoto is going to work with the Ferengi on getting them back. He's been over to where their shuttle is. It's in a hanger nearby. Still in pretty good working order, despite having crashed landed. Quark making a feeble case here to stay behind and change the timeline completely and run Earth as its leader. Yeah, he sees this as a big business opportunity. Part of the business opportunity, he sees,

is that they're going to sell their shuttle to the primitive forebears of the Fraggie Alliance in this timeline. Right. There's some discussion, like when they're on their way out there, that the Fraggiey didn't in fact Invent warp technology themselves. They had to buy it off of somebody else. I like that backstory. It totally fits together Yeah, that's fun And so and so he thinks that maybe like they can they can take over the quadrant at this point in time because they'll be so far I had of everybody else technologically Once they get the translator working quark starts to do this wheeling and dealing with Rex. He's like, I'd love to sell you my information, but if you aren't interested in buying,

I'll sell to the Russians. I didn't know it was supposed to happen like this. He's trying to be like intergalactic arms dealer here. Right. And general denning does not like the hard hard sell right now he's not a fan doesn't react well to it reacts so badly to it in fact that eventually quirk winds up strapped to a chair getting sodium pentathol injected into him and no amounts of this is changing his behavior it's pretty great he's got a high

tolerance yeah I have a totally lost my booze tolerance lately. Really? Yeah. Did you take a break? Well, I actually took a page from the Adam's wife playbook and started not drinking on weekdays. And man, like I had one room cocktail last night, and I was like, wow, I'm like totally drunk off this one cocktail.

It's nice, right? That hasn't happened in forever. That's good value. Yeah. You're making money, Ben. I'm back to being a cheap date. Finally. Finally.

Our touring expenses are gonna go down as a result. Yeah, I'm not gonna be bringing a pint of tequila out on stage with me. Just to feel anything. Yeah. There's a real three-stuiges reaction from the gang while Quark is being tortured. Yeah, I thought that the Captain Wainwright

was kind of a weird casting move. Yeah? Like he's got a very kind face this actor. Oh, interesting. Yeah. This actor is James McDonald. Like he's been like NCIS, Jag, CSI, like he's a he lives in procedural television land. I feel like. And I don't feel like he's selling how evil this is, you know, his face betrays him, right? Like I think you would need to be kind of like a psychopath. You know who he needed to be?

He needed to be muscle-faced guy from the ex files and he's not. Right. Yeah. I think it kind of brings out one of the big problems with this episode, which is that it is a little distracted from the idea of like what a big deal it would be to the humans in this scenario.

All of the jokes and lulls are either like fish out of water stuff or like this is inconvenient for quark and quark is obsessed with making money. And the episode is like emphatically disinterested with the humans coping with what a big deal this would be. Yeah. Like, you know, just look at any other movie or TV show

about the first time humans make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence, it's a huge deal. And like these humans are like walking around like, oh, like they want to sell us something cool. Well, you know, like it's mundane, it's procedural. Like there's no humanity to it. It's all military, superseding that.

Right, and the idea that this guy would just be like, well, we didn't get like exactly what we wanted from one conversation with them. So I'm going to start torturing. I mean, like I could kind of believe that that kind of guy exists, but I don't think that he's selling what that is. Faith Garland is the only character that shows any humanity

during this episode, and it's not in the way that you're hoping, you know? She has hope for the future of humanity type humanity, but it's not directed at what's right in front of her, which are aliens in her presence. Right. what's right in front of her, which are aliens in her presence. Right. During the torture scene, Nug makes a big show of breaking, like he can't stand it anymore. So he's going to show where the fringy invasion fleet is going to land.

You mean your people are going to invade Cleveland? I hope they don't destroy Cleveland. One of the great chicken wings I've ever had was in Cleveland. Oh yeah. Those are really fun live show. We should go back to Cleveland sometime. Yeah. And this is where they get the drop on them, right?

There's like one MP and one torture guy and the professor and the nurse and the Ferengi like beat everybody up. She distracts a couple more MPs and they run out. They're like, they're almost home free when General Denning and some more army guys come out. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. They've almost got them, but then DaGoto, ungues behind them and beats everybody up. I guess he's disguised himself as a space saver spare on the back of a Jeep. We used to talk a lot about missed opportunities on this show and I feel like we haven't in a while because the quality of the show has gotten so much better. But I think there was

an opportunity here to do the thing that you were aching for, which is if you have Odo go gold in the foreground where they're looking, I think you could melt Rex Denning's mind at seeing this. But as it is, he appears as quasi-humanoid behind them. And so you never get the mind-melt moment of a Rex Denning actually having that moment. None of the human's reality shattered. of a rec-steading actually, like, having that moment. None of the humans realized. Is reality shattered. None of the humans, like, realizes or processes

that there's a second kind of alien at play, which would be another totally big deal. Like, and that nurse, like, basically doesn't care. She's just like, come on. You know, come on, man, that used to be a tire, let's go. Like, no one changes by the end of this episode and I think there are candidates that could. I felt like Rex was being set up to be one of those people that does and this was a moment that it could have taken place.

I don't make the orders, I take them just like you. But as it was, he will live on to Champs-A-Gars and order a wane right around. Yeah. was he he will live on to chomp cigars and order a wane right around yeah right on the spot it's an app here i've got a but i have to but i don't want to stay all of

i don't use the bucket time travel so easy been that all you need to do is harness the power of an exploded atomic bomb and uh... you're on your way home yeah they use the rest of their keto site and they just happen to have enough and Ram happens to get the timing just right that they fly their shuttle into. Like I think it's a stock film

of an actual atom bomb going off. It is. Another thing that they're highly judgmental of is like setting off nukes in your own atmosphere. Faith is the only one that gets it at the end. She's like she's put it together. She's put together the idea of humanity's role in the galaxy. She's still in love with her professor boyfriend despite the fact that he does not get it. You get the craziest ideas. Fucking Jeff, like, pats her on the top of the head and, like, says, that's okay, honey, like, on his way to take her to become pregnant and a barefoot for the rest

of her life. Sort of a tragic ending to the faith story, I think, is that, like, she's the only one who has an imagination and is right in her prognostications and like will never be she will never achieve her potential because it's 1947. Right, but unlike like it's not an episode that feels like it's building her up in that way. Right. Like it feels like it's dunking on her for being a forward-looking person. Yeah, it turns it into a joke. Yeah, so unfortunate, but yeah, they get back to the station, the button on the episode is Quark is getting hauled off to the cooler because of his attempted smuggling nonsense. And it's a big slide whistle ending. To a slide whistle ending. T-Lop. Slide whistle episode.

Boy oh boy. Ben, why do they sell the shuttle for salvage? It doesn't make sense. Like this is the little d problem, right? Like give, let quark keep the shuttle so that he can have bottle episodes and shit with it. Like this is his little d. I know. It is such a small change that could have so many interesting storylines. Yeah. Why in the world would they need to pay for passage

from Earth to a federation outpost? Right. When the federation is a moneyless society, why would the cost of that be roughly equivalent to a working very good for Angie Shuttle? Doesn't make any sense. You really want to do this. Here, now okay, okay, let's do it, do it. Really feels like we've been speedbagging the episode, Ben, but did you like it?

I'll tell you where I turned on this episode. I liked it a lot. It's telling me it's premise and it's like inhabiting this funny world. But there's this scene, I think the like military guys have left and Rahm is like munking around with Nox Eir trying to get the translator working and nurse Garland turns to the professor and speculating about their you know their Family relationships like you know that one could be the little ones dead and then there's the The suggestion that maybe quirk is the mother and I feel like this show has done this And I feel like this show has done this a bunch of times now where it makes a joke of Quark as a girl, how hilarious would that be?

If Quark was a girl. And like it's not a funny joke, it's not a good bit. And the bits that they've tried and that they try in this episode tend to be really bad, you know, tend to be really corny. And then that one is just like, you know, like it always sucks when they do that. Are you feeling me on that? I feel like that is a joke about

Quark's relative ugliness as a thing rather than any sort of comment on on gender. Personally. I don't know if it's a comment on gender or not. I just I just think that like it's it's really weak tea. If they tried it once and it was great, I could see like dipping into that well again, but it's it's a it's not working, you know. Hmm.

Just leave it behind. I really approached this episode with an open mind because I am one who is not very accepting of Star Trek's experiments with comedy. And I think there was a moment in, and I'm not going to say it goes back to the script phase, I think in between script and production, you could have made the choice to turn this into more of an X-files episode than a Mars attacks style vibe. Yeah. As I was watching this episode, playing concurrently in my mind was the X-filesification of it.

Like if you turn down the lights a little bit, if you made the room as smoky as it should have been, given all the smoking that was happening in the room, I think you can still have some comedic elements here. Yeah. And some thoughtfulness here that makes it work. But this episode is like so self-aware of its broad appeal.

I feel like this episode knows that it's gonna be popular because of its subject matter. Right. I hope people don't hate us for not liking it that much. Yeah, when an episode is this self-aware or a movie is this self-aware about how it will be received, I feel like what it does frequently is it dumbs itself down to the lowest common denominator

so that it can achieve the broadest possible appeal. Right, so it can be more of a television event and you don't even have to watch the show to get what's going on in it. That's a great description of what I'm trying to say. It feels like a very special episode and I think that is one of the reasons it is good and not great, you know? So that's where I'm at with it.

Yeah, I wonder what would have happened if they'd ever gotten like actual comedy writers to come in and work a script like this. I think it would be terrible because my position is keep comedy out of Star Trek. Like, incidental comedy is fun and funny when they do it on the show, but every time they try, time it's it's not good yeah like who would be stupid enough to try and combine comedy and star trek it never works Ben you know what works almost all the time is checking our priority one email box you want to

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