The Greatest Generation - Fleet of Dorks (S2E11)

Episode Date: May 30, 2016

When the Enterprise crosses the neutral zone to touch dongles with another Galaxy-class ship, it soon becomes infected with a computer virus that threatens to kill everyone onboard. But rather than "turn it off, then turn it on," the crew troubleshoots the problem by doing a little light archaeology. Did the USS Yamato get infected by Nagilum? Does Wesley (the boy?) have a direct line to Captain Picard? What is a "Dirty Data"? It's the episode broadcast to you from Shimoda Corner!

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Yeah, everybody that's watching this podcast right now, believes that they've had a totally unbroken podcast listening experience, because we recorded like eight episodes out ahead of where we were. And fortunately Adam, not much has happened since you were gone. Yeah. No significant changes for our show. If anything happened, I wouldn't have been able to tell anyway. I was off the internet of Fairamount.

Yeah, you were away in the land of Spain. I was. I was. I was eating a ton of ham. One pretty ridiculous thing we did before you left, though, was record a little opener on the idea that we may be going on the Max Fun Network. And I was very glad that we did record that because we did, in fact, go on the Max Fun Network while you were away in Spain. And so I just love to say welcome to all of our new listeners.

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I really appreciate whatever help you can give me. Yeah. Up until CBS starts paying us to write the new Star Trek show. There's a Twitter account. I don't know if it's a real one or not, but it's the Star Trek writer's room for the upcoming show.

What? Yeah. Oh, that's a great idea. I wish I did that. I found it and then didn't actually remember to follow it. But, oh, do you know the handle? I think it might be just Star Trek writers room? I don't know.

I wish. Is it real? That is a question that was in my mind when I looked at it. It seemed real-ish. Like, it definitely wasn't a joke account. Oh, it's got a blue check. Oh, nice. Twitter account for the writers room

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Wow, yeah, it's at Star Trek Room, if you're on Twitter. Good Lord, are they in trouble now? I thought Star Trek Room, if you're on Twitter. Good Lord, are they in trouble now? I thought Star Trek Room was just the name of the special place behind the bookcase in my apartment. Yeah, it's the guest bedroom closet where I go to record this show. This is becoming a speech. Where the cat comes to, very tightly.

Hmm, I'm going to type a ramble on about something everyone knows. We've got, on the show today, season two, episode 11, contagion. It's the episode that's basically one big call to the IT Help Desk. Ha-ha-ha-ha. Yeah, before that was a cliche, too.

So this episode starts. Goeneth Paltrow is coming back from a business trip to China and she dies of a mysterious illness which is very upsetting to her husband Matt Damon. Unfortunately she did die. Right. Can I go talk to her? Mr. Amath, your wife is dead. I've seen that movie. Why are you laughing? Did I watch the same episode as you? Oh, man, I think you might have watched a much better episode than I did if that's the case.

The Enterprise is powering into the neutral zone, which is always a tense situation, because the Yamato, the sister ship of the Enterprise, which we previously saw as an imagined thing in that crazy aliens rat trap. Inside Nigelum's butthole. Nigelum's hole. Deep in that hole. Yeah. Yamato was all up in that hole. Yeah, all the way in it. Yeah. Yamato was all up in that hole. Yeah, all the way in it. The Yamato's having some computer problems, all kinds of malfunctions all over the ship and Picard is on the on the FaceTime with the Yamato's captain. It's good to see you again, John Luke. He's like, yeah maybe maybe like maybe these Galaxy Class ships are just not, you know, they're not ready for prime time there.

They might, this might be like the beta version of the software and we needed to like keep it in beta a little longer before we ironed out all the kinks. It's kind of a weird idea. Like we have been told from the beginning that this Galaxy Clash ship is the best ship that you can get. It's the Cadillac of Starships. Yeah. Oh, the door is close so nice. Yeah. I mean, the idea that this thing could, like, you turn the key and it drives you through the garage, like, that idea is kind of a foreign concept. Yeah. And I mean, like, there's all these references to that

all through this episode. Like, I think at one point, Jordy says that a galaxy-class starship is the most sophisticated piece of machinery ever built. There's just like a real arrogant piece of bullshit for somebody to say, given that they're on a ship that routinely comes in contact with species that appears to be capable of overpowering it. Yeah, how weird. It's like the house on your street with the lights blinking on and off for no reason.

It's sort of a got a honoured house vibe over there. What adds to the vibe is the FaceTime is all screwy. Like some real VHS shadowing going on. Donald, your transmission is breaking up. Mr. Day, to try and clean that up. And the bridge of the Yamato is clearly like on the same design as the Enterprise, but it is just a massive circuit board. There's circuit boards coming out everywhere.

It's unclear if that's just how they set the bridge up or if those are circuit boards that they had to haul out of the consoles and work on, because they're in dire straits. Yeah, and Yamato's captain gets on the blower, and he's like, yeah, the whole reason I'm in the neutral zone is because we're digging up these cool artifacts on this planet. Artifacts that could be extremely powerful and we can't let them fall into the wrong hands. The rhyming ones could use these for evil. And that's the whole reason I'm out here. And Picard's a little bit miffed about this. Yeah. What are the chances that Picard's counterpart on the

on his sister ship is also a total a total archaeology dork. It's a fleet of dorks is what it is. Yeah, just a bunch of nerds with the Starship commands. Yeah, the test to become a galaxy-class starship captain is a forensic memory of the Indiana Jones saga, a big stupid hat, and an interest in archaeology. Of course. Varly and Picard seem to be like approximately the same age. You think they went to the academy together? Like, they know each other. They purport to have a familiarity, but they don't really go into it at all.

Yeah. I think that's because everyone that Picard says he knows on the show ends up dying. Have you noticed that? I'll look at his friends or dead so far. What about that lady that he wanted to hit in the teeth with a chair after... Oh, Lou,... Pressing?

Yeah. Yeah, actually that's... She survived. It's a fair case. Yeah, she survived that chair to the teeth. She was only maimed. In the bedroom after the trial. They're on the FaceTime very briefly with this captain, just long enough to sort of get

the plot underway when the Yamato goes critical and just blows up right in front of them. And it's one of those moments where you're like, I kind of wish we had met this captain and this ship, like for real a couple times, like we've seen the ship, we've heard about this ship before, but it would have been nice to have this captain like be sort of an established character that we encounter from time to time. Like and there's, there's plenty of times on the show where they like radio up the captain of another ship. And I think that if they had done that, this would have felt incredibly impactful,

like holy fucking shit, like they just, like a whole ship blew up, you know, but it doesn't, it doesn't really land, at least for me. I don't know, how do you feel about that? Yeah, I think the way they played it was, you can either play it as a tragedy due to relationship, which is I think the case that you are making, like why don't we know a little bit more about Varley, so that we feel his death more acutely, but the way the show ended up playing it was about quantity, like thousands of people died in a couple of seconds, and that is the way that the crew interprets the tragedy and processes the tragedy. So I think I'm on your side. I would have rather felt the tragedy more like individually.

I think those hit a little harder than just like a ship getting blown up. I thought the way that the ship exploded was especially terrifying. Like, it wasn't a total destruction. Like, the star drive totally explodes, but then the saucer kind of just rolls. Yeah, you kind of watch it slowly burn off in space. Yeah, the skin kind of peels off and it's a little slower than the other section. That was pretty rough. Yeah. It kind of goes out like ginger Jesus is chorus.

Like, you know how when they were shot with that ray gun, they got reduced down to skeletons. Yeah, you see their musculature then your skeleton. That's what the saucer section looks like it got skinned and then and then it got exploded after that yeah this this whole sequence is like okay it's it's you know mid to late 1989 we got to get our last little eighties shit in so like the explosion effect is super eighties, the music queue that they play is super 80s. Everything about this episode is just like, like these aha music video type

characters are not going to play in 1990. So we got to get our rocks off now Sir Sensors indicate no life-reading sir Like a like a car alarm going off In a city street this explosion draws the attention of a Romulan warbird, though, who decloaks right off of their bow, being like, what the hell? I feel like there are warbirds decloaking every single time a car alarm goes off in my neighborhood. That's what you're saying, right?

Yeah, that is what I'm saying. And their bridge is super smoky, and are doing what what Romulan's be doing, which is kind of being vaguely threatening and antagonistic without ever doing any overt provocation. Have you used that spray on any of your productions, the the Fogger? You know, it's one thing that like I was like vaguely aware of in film school and then forgot about for like 10 years and now like I see it in everything.

Yeah. Anytime there's any atmosphere in a shot. It's really hard to do right, I think. I agree. I mean, especially in the late 80s. But they make, they make cans of it so that you don't necessarily have to like rent the machine, like fog shit up, you can just sort of spray it

tastefully into the air. I deep-heat a music video for another student when I was in, on my study abroad in Ireland, and we went into like a forest outside of Dublin and... You only do rap videos, so was this an Irish rap video? It wasn't. It was like a singer songwriter, but it was like a little red riding hood scenario.

Uh-huh. And it was pretty fun to use the industrial-sized smoke machine in a peaceful Irish forest because it really made it look crazy. I bet it occasionally draws the wrong kind of attention too. Yeah, Romulans were decolking everywhere. It's a crazy, crazy, one with the leading face. Are you wrong, find it within yourself?

Just stand up, tell the truth. You don't deserve the wealth that's beautiful. So here's what's going on. The Iconians, the ancient race that Captain Varley was trying to find the technology of were some super powerful race that are vaguely mythic in the same way that a lot of these ancient civilizations that come up in this show are. And, and Varley thinks that if the Romulans find the Iconian homeworld, they will find technology that is, is going to be like way past what the Federation can repel, and it will embolden them to make inroads into Federation territory. So, you know, the captain's logs that he leaves behind are enough to convince Picard that

this is actually worth running down. This advanced technology fall into the hands of the Rhymen and we might as well dock our ships and defend ourselves with sticks. Before they can start running it down, Wesley exposition crusher, the boy, comes into his ready room. He totally missed your DNAs Picard in this scene. Yeah.

There is no other reason for this scene to happen than to educate the viewer on who the iconians were and why this story is important. Right, because they haven't really addressed it up till now, and it's just like, I guess we just need to toss the boy in here, and we'll excuse it with him bumming out a little bit about the thousand people that lost their lives in the ship blowing up,

but really it's so that we can establish that he now has a silver communicator badge and that Captain Picard likes T. Earl Grey hot, because this is also the first scene I believe where Picard orders his signature radio room beverage. Do you think that Wesley's silver communicator badge, which by the way is the only silver communicator badge there is on the show, like it's a one off. I'm pretty sure this is the first time we see it too. Do you think it just goes to Picard? It's like the red phone and the Kremlin

that goes to the Oval Office. All it does is it texts Picard with you up. And then a couple of eggplant emojis. Yeah, eggplant and squirt emojis. But Picard's tea comes out not as tea T but as a crazy looking plant. Didn't you order T sir? Now that should not have happened. This isn't like the first thing that's happened, but there have been a couple of little indicators

that all is not right with the way the enterprise is operating. The ship's starting to get buggy. Yeah, and so like. Like doors aren't opening up when people are trying to walk through them. Lights are flickering. You got little failures all over the ship. They tell this rhymingland ship, look, I know you don't want us here, but we're going to stick around so we can complete this investigation.

Don't count on us just leaving because you want us to. We're going to chase this mystery down, and we're going to leave when we're done. so we can complete this investigation. Don't count on us just leaving because you want us to. We're gonna chase this mystery down and we're gonna leave when we're done. Fuck you guys. We're gonna set a course to the last planet the Yamato went to and they go ahead and do that. Right, and they've uncovered some footage

of the previous episode that the Yamato was in in which a probe comes up off of the planet surface and scans them. They figure out that this is the triggering event for all of the failures that befell the Yamato ship. They start to link the fact that the Yamato dumped their ship log to the enterprise to why they're having these little malfunctions of their own. I think at one point, Jordy says it's going to happen slowly on the enterprise because

the alien program that's the culprit got loaded into just the ship log area, but when the probe scanned the amato, it affected everything all at once. So, the amato was doomed much more quickly than the enterprise. Yeah, and Jority realizes this as the enterprise is coming into orbit of the Iconian planet. So the Iconian planet launches one of these probes. Captain, projectile launch from the planet's surface. And Picard's like, hey, J, hey, Jordi, check it out. I'm going to assist you in your research.

We're going to get one of these probes or in a capture for you so you can study it. And at that exact moment, Jordi is like, holy shit. No, sir, wait! Like, this is the key to the whole thing. If this probe starts scanning us, reflect. But his communicator doesn't work. Captain!

Captain! Captain! And he can't get a message out to Picard so he's got to run on foot up to the bridge. Yeah, and he runs, he tries one door, it's blocked so he goes to another, gets on the turbo lift, and he has what I will call Jordy's wild ride, much in the style of Mr. Toads. He is like being jerked around, left, right up and down. And at one point, like the turbo lift is plummeting, so he flies up to the ceiling and is like being pressed by the acceleration into the ceiling. And eventually gets to the bridge

where the doors open and he literally flies out. It's like it spits it out. Yeah, he gets pretty fucked up. I mean, unlike Mr. Toad's wild ride, which is like an allegory about drinking and driving, I'm not sure what the message is here. To Jority's wild ride, but it was pretty violent. Yeah.

Pretty, it fucked him up bad. So he gets to the bridge and he's like, shoot that thing, shoot it now. And to Picard's credit, he doesn't like, he doesn't interrogate this. He said, he's trust Joradi, that Joradi, you know, ran up to the bridge for a reason. So he has worked. Yeah. His chief engineer has been vomited onto the bridge. It's a little out of the ordinary. Yeah, so, so Worf Zaps that thing and Jury explains that this probe would have met their certain destruction if they'd let it scan them. My love is a piece of longing, too far back, which long does not let me see. This is the part in the episode where I started to think, why don't you just delete the

logs? They know now at this point that the logs are the problem. Why don't they delete them? I don't understand. I'm sure that everybody that's downloaded the Mission Log podcast feels the same way at them. Oh geez. Well, our rap feud with Mission Log is really like the coldest of cold wars.

We got a message from someone on Twitter that said that they started listening to Mission Log because of our show. Is there anything more insulting than that? That is one of the most incredibly insulting things I've ever heard. Rather be slapped in the face. Yeah, I'd rather have somebody drop a Mission Log on my chest. The dirty data. But anyways, they decided to beam down to the like one part of the planet that still has

an energy signature. And the technology that the Iconians had that everybody's so freaked out about turns it turns out to be a way to like walk through a door into another place in the galaxy. Data quickly reverse engineers the Iconian language based on a few languages that have similar glyphs in their writing and is able to understand the computer system pretty quickly. And so Picard, Warf and data are down on the surface and they open one of these iconian transport doors. And it's genuinely a pretty freaky idea.

If the Romulans had this, they could just walk into the Federation Senate with soldiers and waste everybody without the Federation would have no way to stop such an attack. Or, I mean, they wouldn't even have to go with any people. They could just roll a bomb through the door and then that'd be it. That is true. It would be a great way to deploy weapons. Yeah, maybe they'd roll one of those, one of those make everybody into a dust person bombs that they had in Star Trek Nemesis, the feature film.

Fucking data, like walks right up to the doorway and just sticks his arm into it. And Picard is like, Dana, what the fuck are you thinking? That is such a dumb idea. It's like a guy dropping his wedding ring into the sink disposal. Yeah, and reaching in after it while it's running. Yeah, exactly. What is he thinking? He did such an idiot sometimes.

Yeah. For being the smartest person on the ship, sure as an idiot. Yeah. This is like a high school party with my best friend who's a very, a very smart guy. This kid, I can't remember what he did, he spilled something on the floor and this kid, because Michael, you're the dumbest smart guy I've ever met. I mean, it would have been fun, right? If the scene had changed on the other side of the door, and Data's arm had just been severed at the elbow.

Do you think they, I mean, they went to that planet and they had a whole lot of like data parts there. Spare and lore parts. Spare data parts. Do you think they had spares from that mission? And do you think that's why Data felt like one of his arms was expendable? I mean, Riker took one of data's arms off and in court.

Do you think that data wanted to destroy his arm after what Louwade did to it? She went and put it on the judges chair and sat on it for half of that trial. Data has never felt clean sense. I can't do these scans. All the fingers want to do is they come hit their motion. This is the worst show we've ever done. It's a rocky start to getting back on the horse. It's like riding a bike covered in dick jokes.

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it's showing the bridge of the enterprise. And so every four minutes they have an opportunity to go to the bridge of their ship. And so Wurf walks through this door with data. And data is basically declared DOA. Like they lie them down in engineering and it's like, sorry, nothing Jordy can do to write this wrong. We had an expert of Maddox somebody. They really dumb-viewered that moment too because for some reason there's an EKG sound that goes flatline. Yeah.

What the hell is that? It's just the only way. What exactly is flat lining with him? It's the only way I can get off anymore, you know? Yeah, I guess. Yeah, they do the whole, like, Jordy closes the dead guy's eyes. Yeah, yeah.

Does anybody ever done that in real life where they drag their hand across some of these face to close their eyes? I don't know. I feel like I would just go with like two fingers and grab each eyelid and move them down. I feel like I would grab each eyelid and then flip them inside out like kids used to doing.

Yeah, and then I would grab the tongue and make it into a taco. Pretty fucked up, huh? I think you want to keep it light in that moment. I'm pretty sure this is how Dato would want us to remember him. Yeah. But before Dato was completely shut down, he explained that Picard could launch more probes, but keep the probe doors closed so that the probe launch systems would like nuke the site that this

Iconian transporter is at, thereby denying the Romulans any ability to learn from this technology. So once Wurf and Datafen Data through Picard sets this process in motion and barely escapes by stepping through the door and where does he end up? What the bridge of the Romulan ship and he's pretty quickly like there's like a bunch of Romulans are like hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot Amulins became a more regular part of the show if they didn't regret what an 80s-ass design they went with the the Romulan military uniform. Yeah, even Patrick Bateman's like cool it with those shoulder pads man.

Yeah, they're not happy to see Picard on their ship. You know, at first they're unhappy to have them there, but once they realize that they won't be able to turn off the self-destruct sequence that their ship has turned on, I mean, because by this point, the Romulan ship is full-on infected with this virus. Yeah, and the only way we can figure that they got the virus is by tapping into the communications between the Yamato and the Enterprise, which is a pretty scary thing to think of, right? Like, I mean, that's like how the Allies won the war

against the Nazis was like knowing how to decode Nazi transmissions. And like, if the Romulans are able to just like freely read the transmissions between the Yamato and the Enterprise, the flagship and sister ship of the federation. Like federation has big fish to fry. Yeah, I'm sure they're looking at all those emails like in some sort of graph presentation. What is the first officer doing sending so many emails with attachments?

Yeah. Why does he have so many subscriptions to adult websites? Why does he have 14 email addresses? What's the thing you're selling on eBay called the Riker Collection? Riker collection? RikerBuns at Enterprise.com. What are all the Riker email addresses on the Enterprise? Let's go through a couple.

Oh, yeah, I mean, he's going to have Commander Boy 69, for sure. Sure, yeah. First lover at Enterprise.com. Live long and pork her at Enterprise.com. I don't know. Does Enterprise have its own domain? Or is it like Enterprise.Federation.gov? Yeah, I mean, in any government institution, the email is way too long.

Yeah, it's just gonna be an email gore. Yeah. Raker gets a fix on Picard, and because the Romulant ship is so messed up, I cannot deactivate the auto-destruct. Their shields aren't up, and so they're able to beam Picard right off the Romulant bridge, and he kinda talks shit to the sub commander in charge of this ship as he's being

beamed away. You will die with us. Not I think today, Commander. Which I thought was a pretty cool move on Picard's part. Yeah, he kind of double middles his way off the ship. Yeah. Kind of cold-blooded. Yeah, it's like a not today sub

commander and um. Oh, is that your first real Picard impression? Not today a sub commander You have to understand that my crew can be me off the ship whenever they want Rudy And it just cripples me every time They get the he gets on to the on to the transporter pad is like hey raker Let's get the fuck out of here that trip is about to blow and raker The transporter pad is like, hey, Riker, let's get the fuck out of here. That ship is about to blow. And Riker, to his credit, sends a transmission to the Romulan ship,

explaining how they can unfuck their computer core, using the same turn it off, then turn it back on again, technique that Jority developed. Yeah, I mean, Picard is supposed to be a great diplomat, and he seems really satisfied with the idea of letting them die over there. Well, he didn't know.

He didn't know that Jordy solved all the problems while he was gone. I don't know. I just felt that like he was super comfortable with the idea of that ship exploding. It kind of resolves a lot of problems for him. Yeah. Well, he's also a man that's not afraid of a challenge. I mean, they've read his emails.

Yeah, they've read his emails with West. I think he's probably really okay with them dying. Yeah, think about this smear campaign that you could get going if you had an agent in the Romulan Empire feeding you information from this wiretap. Like, oh God. This is the era of data journalism and the the data dump

from the enterprise computer bank would be a real a real fucking full-blown scandal it'd be a nightmare for a lot of people this would be the pentagon papers of the 24th century clearly and that's that's the end of the show. Yeah. How'd you like it? I don't know. I, it was my memory of it was better than the rewatch, certainly. Well, let's give people some context for your negative review here, Adam. You're fresh off of some Spanish oyster-derived food poisoning, head cold, your jet lagged.

You're not your best self right now. I mean, usually on this show, you can count on me to be bright eyed and positive. Yeah. Just the real sunshine of this show. The real raising brand sun, the greatest generation, with two scoops of love on every episode. Yeah, so I guess that is a little out of character.

I thought it was an okay episode. I mean, definitely not like the best we've watched by a long shot, but... Anytime you can destroy a galaxy-class ship on an episode, I'm down. Yeah, let's see. Let's see them blow up at least once a season, you know? Yeah, I'm into that. What's the that one movie that's terrible is still pretty good because you get to see the enterprise like crash land on the surface of a planet.

Yeah. What is that? Generations that that happens in it is generations? Yeah boy that movie sucks You're not wrong that movie does suck We're probably gonna have to watch it one day for this podcast at him so brace brace yourself. I could get it up for that As you were watching did you come across a drunk Shimoda? Drunk Shimoda! Yeah, I have very little to stand down with this drunk Shimoda, but there's a scene as

they're sort of getting used to the fact that the enterprise is falling apart all over the place where Jordi is on some computer console in engineering and gets a electric shock. And data is just standing next to him and grabs his shoulder and tosses him off of the console, disconnecting the electric shock from Jordi and saving his life. And just Brent Spiner's performance doing that. He's like, oh, oh, oh.

Yeah, like a man who doesn't know his own strength. He doesn't make any sounds, but yeah, like you see him in the background like, well, what have I done? And it just really like made me laugh. And I got as good a laugh out of that as I ever got out of Assistant Chief Engineer, Jim Shimoda.

So that's my drunk Shimoda, data. What a weird part of the episode to play for humor. Like, shit has gone real dark and they do not have a solution to this problem. People are talking about like resigning themselves to the idea that they're gonna lose the ship like and and this weird like one minute comedy bit happens. Yeah It's that in that same part of engineering that Jim Shimoda was in which is like I feel like we've had drunk Shimoda's take place there like

four or five times now It's sort of haunted by his memory. It's Jim Shimoda Corner. RIP. Yeah. To me, Data sticking his arm through that gateway was like the ultimate drunk guy at a party

telling everyone that he can jump off the deck and not be there. Hey guys, look at this! Yeah. I'm gonna live forever! Yeah. Well, so Data got it twice. That's great. Yeah, twice for gonna live forever. Yeah, well so data got it twice. That's great.

Yeah, twice for two different scenes. Good job, data. I thought Wurf played up like the color of that electric shock that got Jordi looked very similar to the one that got Wurf in that early season one episode. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Wurf at least had the presence of mine to scream to let everybody know that he was being hurt. Yeah, Jordy just sort of flapped around. Come on, Jordy.

Can it be better than that? I am the cutest of all. There are four lights. What do we have coming up next time? The next episode is a pretty notorious episode, Adam. The Royale, episode 12 of season 2. Investigating the discovery of a piece of metal bearing a United States Air Force insignia,

the O'Lay team finds itself trapped in the world of the hotel Royale. A novel come to life. I don't know who writes these captions, but I'm pretty sure it was a NASA insignia, not an Air Force insignia. Do you remember this app at them? This feels like one of those dress-up episodes that I hate. I have a real soft spot in my heart for this episode. I remember it very well and I like it. I'm fingering my veto right now. Are you really?

Yeah. I mean, so we are recording this before we know the outcome of our veto poll, but I suppose you could veto. It would push off any action on that poll until next season, which would be an interesting choice. I love how we appeal to our listeners. And then the idea that I would just be like, oh, fuck them. All right. Now I'm not going to veto this episode. Let's watch it.

Okay. Well, I will I will see you there and I will see you then, Adam. I'm looking forward to that one. Yeah, I'm not. If if you have any thoughts or comments about this or any other episode we've talked about, you can find us on Twitter, at hashtag GreatestGen. I am there at Cut for Time and Ben is there at Benjamin A.H.R. And we also have a Facebook group now. Yeah, Austin Harper, right on. The program started a Facebook group for us at Facebook.com slash groups slash greatest generation.

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