The Greatest Generation - He’s Not My Android (S6E16)

Episode Date: May 31, 2017

When alien technology and indigestion trigger parallel daddy quests for Data and Worf, one goes fully suicidal while the other goes full Rambo. All this is set against a tense backdrop of Captain Picard doing some aqueduct diplomacy and Dr. Crusher doing something decidedly naughty in Quark’s holosuites. Is Deep Space 9 well-lubricated enough for that space butthole? Did Farmer Hoggett get horribly burned in a fire? Under what circumstances is it OK for Worf to go on an unsanctioned black ops mission behind enemy lines? It’s the episode with the seven stages of podcast preparation.

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I'm Adam Pryanaka. Welcome to the show Adam. Thanks for having me Ben, long time first time. I was thinking, speaking of long time first time, if we do a mop up episode at the end of TNG, do you want to like take, take listener questions or something? Like have a part where people can write in and ask us things they wonder about our show that we've never had an opportunity to answer. Do a little behind the pod segment. Yeah.

I'd be up for that. I'd answer any question. Well, that's, that's might be charitable of you, Adam. Well, I reserve the right to not answer any question also, as I should say. I'm, I'm walking that one back, man. The nightmare started to take shape in my imagination. What is the first name and phone number of your wife? And then I just give them your wife's information.

That'd be a real double cross. What are we going to do with this Marin Adam? Do we even need to do a Marin? We could just get right in. Ben, we have just so much to talk about on today's episode. Why don't we just get right into that? Actually, before we do, here is something that we can talk about that's a little bit more taking care of business related.

Okay. The episode that we are about to review here on our Star Trek review podcast that much to our consternation, lots of people know about. This is the first episode that has any deep space 9-in-ess in it. I think that at this point, deep space 9 had been on the air for several weeks. We missed our opportunity to step out of TNG and into DS9 like in the air date order. Yeah, which is it that went right by without us realizing. Many people encouraged just to do that, including you. I mean, I wasn't married to that, but I thought that that was an interesting concept. I think that the thing that made me want to do it less was when I looked at what the air

dates were and realized that there were a bunch of back-to-back deep-space nine episodes before TNG started back up. They did a hand-off episode where there like a TNG episode that ended and then DS9 started in the next hour of programming and And then like TNG was in reruns for a few weeks, I guess yeah so It's going to be weird. Well, it was weird and it's going to be weird seeing a bunch of DS9 crossover and eventually DS9 because like I've watched The next generation many times over and I believe I've only ever seen the deep space 9 series once

Yeah, I did not I did not watch DS9 to completion in its original airing. I guess the reason I bring that up is that I wonder how many people were next generation people who never went over. Like, did that viewer exist at the time that this episode came out? It must have. I mean, there are lots of people to think that DS9 is the better series. You're talking, of course, about wrong people, right? Right. Yes, yes, yes.

But I mean, I like DS9. It's just not better than TNG. Can you say you really liked it if you never went to completion? I think that I stopped having enough bandwidth for it rather than stopped wanting to watch it because it started to... I think when it really started to get good, I started to be in high school and I was an athlete in high school and I did not really have as much unstructured time as I had up until then.

Athlete in high school, you say? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I was on the crew team. Not my high school's crew team. My high school did not have one, but there was a local Oakland like independent crew team that I was on. Sounds to me like you and I had very different ideas of high school stroking at the time Ben. You want to know what my my crew team's name was?

The Oakland Strokes. That's real illiterative, that's nice. my, my, uh, crew team's name was the Oakland strokes. That's real a literative. That's nice. Yeah. Yeah. I thought for sure you were going to say different strokes. Uh, was that, uh, was that the name of another crew team? Yeah.

Crew teams have like improv names. Is that what the deal is? The absolutely nuts. The great big cox wanes. I guess all that is to say, I think very conspicuously don't have a plan, W slash R slash T, DS9, but it's on our minds. And it's hard to ignore in this episode.

Sure isn't. I mean, we're not gonna be watching DS9 for a while and it was fairly disruptive. See that world bleed into this one. Yeah. It's fun that they're in the same world. Yeah, it is. It's weird to get an introduction to their crew people this way. In a way that was not intended, you know? Like the assumption is that you know

who Dr. Bashir is before he appears. Let's get into the episode then. Yeah. Season six, episode 16. Birthright, part one. First, you need every star piece, obviously, it's to the truth, find the truth, or a historical truth, or a personal truth.

This episode, I hit in my ass, and now I give it to you. This chunk of episode was up my ass. Yeah, that deep space nine, very uncomfortable hunk of metal looks like The space but hole that it sits next to has just got to be like eyeing it like Keep that thing well back. I Don't want that thing anywhere near me. Yeah Well back and well lubricated So yeah the captain and the doctor are walking around on the

promenade of DS9 which is the casino and commercial district. I guess. Yeah, all it's missing is that incessant slot machining, you know, you get when you walk through any casino lobby. Yeah, this place is fucking dead. Beverly's going on and on about the spa facilities. Specifically the protein baths. Not sure she's aware of the protein bath that exists already on the entrepreneur bin. You don't have to travel far from Rikers quarters to experience it.

I'm telling you that much. Yeah. Do you think Rikers, think the hallway near Rikers quarters smells like those trees that smell like come in the spring? Oh, God. Do you guys have those trees in Seattle? We decided not to go that route with our landscaping in the backyard a couple of years ago, Ben.

So no, we decided to go for Jasmine. Are you saying you've never experienced this? No, I've never experienced it. I didn't know it was a thing. There's an incredibly abundant kind of street tree in New York City that for like two weeks every spring, you just walk around and you're like, oh, oh. Next thing you're going to do is

tell me that in the summertime, that's when the urine tree comes into full bloom. I don't believe you've been. It's a thing, Adam. That, that, that taxi cab exhaust tree in full bloom in the fall now. Can't miss it. That's a lie. These are not tree sense been. I'll let people on the greatest gen hashtag straight new out at them. Yeah hashtag come tree. That's a great gen hashtag come tree hashtag raker's quarters. So yeah, the the ship put in at DS9. I guess the captain is gonna be occupied with some kind of diplomatic shit.

They're doing some, what is it like, aqueduct planning stuff with the bejurins? And so yeah. A lot of people have shoreleave. And... Data should be on aqueduct duty. That's a decent idea, when he's graded this. Maybe they're like...

Mostly blowing him up though. Data killed the last aqueduct he met. You don't want to put him in a room with an aqueduct. The only good aqueduct is a dead aqueduct. Would you like to know more? First couple of crewmen we meet are Jordy and Worf who have decided to get commuter mugs of coffee and pasta and sit down and have a chat. What is this?

It's pasta, I'll feel her out. What are my favorites? Don't worry, you're gonna love it. They made the fatal mistake of getting like, what is the incongruent dish at the restaurant? Like, they ordered the hamburger at the Mexican restaurant, for example. Right.

Like, they got the wrong thing in the wrong place. Yeah. This happened to, I was recently on this big, long trip and one of the weirdest things when you go to a country with a culture that is like really substantially different from your own is that they have like Chinese restaurants in Kanon, Nigeria, but it is like Chinese food as filtered through the lens of Nigerian food in the world

that Chinese food here in the US is filtered through an American palette and sensibility. And so like, that was like some of the weirdest food. It was like the food that is both foreign to my own culture and to the culture I am visiting. And I can't imagine that the like space station that the Bajorans own that used to be in the owned by the Cardassians does a particularly good pasta dish. So when you're using the African Chinese food example, are we talking about base protein differences or like total construction because like Mongolian

lamb wouldn't be too big of a departure but if the way that they make Mongolian beef is like instead of rice noodles it's buckwheat pasta or something like like how different did it get? It came real different like we went to Thai food one night in Pano, and the array of herbs and spices that were in this dish, didn't, I don't think there was, I got pod CU, and I don't think there was any fish sauce flavor at all. It didn't seem like a Southeast Asian dish in the way that Thai cooking seems so specific to me.

Where there are Southeast Asian people there, like as either purveyors or customers? Best sense that I got was that the average customer was a foreigner and the average person working there was maybe like Lebanese ethnically. Like there's a big Lebanese population in Kano. And so this was a restaurant that had like Thai food and Indian food. I didn't see any Thai or Indian people there.

I don't know. It was a K of is also like very, very Muslim majority. So there are relatively few restaurants where you can get a beer with your dinner. And this is one of them, huh? We wanted to be bad. But that beer tasted great on the very hot days you described to me. beer tasted great on the very hot days you described to me. Oh, it was a lot. Like how much beer do you drink on a 200 degree day? That would be a lot. A good deal. Oh, hey, so was the beer good there or was it like Budweiser?

It was Bud. It was the like every developing country has their own brand of beer that tastes the same in every developing country. Sounds pretty good. I think it was called star. Yeah. Yeah. It was fine. It was like it's good hot weather beer, you know. Did the job. So they do that bit bin where where the food is unpalatable to one person, but that's Worf's favorite kind of food. Worf goes to town on this pasta dish. Meanwhile on the bridge of the entrepreneur, data is picking up some like unauthorized

power use in Six Bay. And Rikers like, why don't you go poke your nose in there, see what's up. It's kind of an interesting idea that the op station knows what the average power use of every part of the ship is. I guess it's like to make sure nobody's like, you know, plugging in a bunch of grow lights and making some hydroponic weed in their closet or whatever. Now one of the things a new homeowner might want to install in their fuse box is a power reader. Using iOS software, you can tell how efficient your appliances are day to day.

We're installing a security system that's entirely bad reoperated so that even if the power goes out, your ship will be nice and secure. It also has high-definition cameras so that you can see the face of an intruder, whether or not the power is on in the house. Now the system runs on Wi-Fi, which means you can tell when there's a power draw in 6-bay all the way at the opposition. So he goes down there and there is a big chunk of weird equipment sitting on the desk. And Dr. Bashir, chief medical officer of Deep Space 9, is poking away at it.

phase nine is poking away at it. And he does this great power move on data where data is trying to get him to stop. And he's like, yeah, just help me out by like plugging that thing into that other thing. And data is like almost false. It's an interesting kind of move that Bashir is doing here. It made me wonder like, is he is he new to Starfleet? Or is it just an accepted practice that me 6-Bey, S-U, 2-6-B? I'm sure the Spanish speakers in our audience understood what you just said.

The deal is... That was not grammatically correct. But she comes from Deep Space 9 where he is like Dr. Crusher status. He only has one boss. Yeah. And his one boss is somebody who he's in a position to take out of the order of succession if he thinks he's medically unfit. So that, I'm sure, despite the fact that Bashir is like considerably lower rank than

Dr. Crusher in terms of Pips, probably like has a kind of automatic sense of status that he's unable to turn off without some kind of conscious effort. Yeah. Yeah, and he presents himself as a guy without a governor on his mouth. And much in the same way that he just invites himself to use six bay material. He's just jabbering on, incessently, at data about how interesting he feels he is. Like, and asking him, uh, childlike questions, like, data even mentions, you know, the most people like to talk about my processing power or how many positions and techniques that

I'm familiar with. But, but Bashir is like, can you grow a beard? What about, what about your hair? And I've noticed your feet. You fall straight to your leg when it's hot outside or do you talc or do not need to. They do some shot reverse shot here during the questions and answers and I so wanted data to fuck with them. Like shot towards

bishir, shot back at data, data has a beard and then back to bishir and then back to data and then he doesn't like he's just spontaneously changing his appearance for him. Yeah, it would have been fantastic. make it sound. Make it sound. Make it sound. Make it sound. Make it sound. Make it sound. So data is like you can't do this experiment in six bay. You're not allowed, but it seems interesting enough. This is like a chunk of equipment that they found in the Gamma Quadrant. Do they have any idea what the thing is? You know, if they do, it went by so fast that it didn't even register for me. Yeah, it's like almost not important,

but they wanna fuck around with it more. So he's like, well, why don't we take it down to engineering and we'll plug it in there and then we'll have the forge helping us and you're not a lady, so he won't do anything to creep on you. The one thing we know about mystery objects in the Star Trek universe is that you should not stand down range of whatever that thing is when you powered on, right?

Why haven't we learned this lesson by now? It's maddening. Well, data's got a certain relationship with the idea of having his life and early. Well, he sure does. A United States and Britain type of special relationship. Does that make the machine the Tories and data that I don't know? I'm bailing. I'm bailing out of that reference. Is beta Jeremy Corbin? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Thanks buddy. Hey, I got your back at him Warf is finishing up his disgusting meal when Lofi farmer hog it comes and finds him on deep space nine and he's like hey I got some secret information for you buddy

If Lofi farmer hog it were wearing the Freddy Krueger sweater from the Friday the 13th movies. He is almost a one for one. He looks like a burn victim. Farmer Hoget, unfortunately. Yeah, he's got his loaf is like, you know that seam on your taint? I know it well, Ben. That part of your balls that looks like it was stitched together.

His whole head looks like that. He's got basically scrotum head. He looks like he could use some powder. Yeah. Yeah. He looks like he's extremely envious of data's ability to regulate his own temperature. This guy doesn't just have a coke nail, he has a coke hand. He is just digging all up in that coke. He's a big enthusiast of nose drugs and jazz guitar. Real squarely type. Real squarely and telling Warf he's got some

information that Warf might be interested in purchasing. You have no information I could use. I would not be so sure. He gives the kind of headline of the information to dangle it out there, see if Worf is interested in the purchase price. And the headline is, Mogue, the long dead father of Worf may in fact be alive. And to this guy's contention, he is alive, and he's imprisoned on a Romulan planet. A planet that he describes as both remote and not far from here.

Now we all know Mogue, Father of Warf, is dead. But what my book presupposes is. Maybe he's not? Old Mogue. Yeah. The butterfly's on the Romulan planet flitted through the underbrush. Yeah. Scurried through the sage thicket. Vamanos, Warp said, and they rode on the friscalating dusk light. I don't remember my own phone number, but I remember that line of dialogue. Worf is pissed at this guy. He like, because in, in Klingon land, if you're, if you're a POW, if you're POW MIA, that means you're an asshole. Right. They don't have the foreign Legion Hall with the POW MIA flag hanging

outside of it in a neighborhood on Cronos. Yeah, he's not filled with Chuck Norris feelings about wanting to go free them. Like, his position is more like, I need to go over there and kill them. Like, these people should be dead. Yeah, and the logic behind that is if you are, if you're a cling on, you want to die with honor in battle and if you get taken taken prisoner, you've essentially been deprived that honor by your by your enemy and there is a burden of shame that will land on you and your son and your son's son

Right which which means this dishonor extends to Alexander. Cut to Alexander making pottery ash trays in the daycare. You take a big piece of clay like this, you push your hand into it. Like as if honor is of great concern to him at this moment in time. My love is people are longing for that which longer than us at the busy Tell me more, you're not the boy, yeah. This definitely is like an interesting episode when it comes to what it's like to be a Klingon. Yeah. Because I think Warf kind of has a confirmation bias where like a huge percentage of the Klingons he comes in contact with are high up in the government or on warships and therefore like a thousand percent bought into the thing

that Wurf is bought into. And it's always interesting when Wurf encounters Klingons that don't take that as seriously. Yeah. K. L. R. was a great example of that. Alexander is a joky example of that. But like the ones that he ultimately meets in this episode are like really challenged the kind of core beliefs that he has. Yeah. It's an, it's, I always think that this is like a fun, a fun neighborhood to take Wharf into.

Wharf doesn't think it's fun at all though, because he goes back to work and he's like standing at his station on the bridge and like white knuckling the security arch. Really fun establishing shot to this scene of like the arch clinch, you know? Yeah. Yeah. It's great.

Much like me, Worf is not able to play it cool when he's having a bad day. Yeah. Like he needs everybody in the room to know about it. He's really being an only child here. He really bites the head off of some lowly, Ensign, given him a report. Yeah. He just takes him down two full pegs. The duty roster is unacceptable like many of the dialogueless friendships I was just like picturing this guy stuffing cereal box tops into into an envelope to win this walk on.

Yeah. Or if does not appreciate the the report that he's giving him. It might be the same iPhone that Lieutenant Picard, Jr. grade, tried to give Worf in the last episode. Yeah, Worf's beef with the report is that it's not an alphabetical order or something, but Worf should know that you can just click on a tab and resort that field. Yeah, there's a sort function in almost every spreadsheet program worth its salt.

I guess that's below his grade. Yeah, well, Riker takes note and he's like, you all right, buddy. What's your fucking problem? Really tore that guy's head off. Yeah. He's on an angsty path, Ben. Yeah, he's on an angsty path, Ben. Yeah, he's on an angsty path and I think I think like the next scene is him doing his

cotta down in his quarters. Another great reveal shot where it starts on the like nude men wrestling each other statue that he has on his glass table. His pregnantly unbroken glass table, and Warf is doing his cotta in the background and really struggling to keep his composure. And there's a real sick judo chop right through that glass. I feel like maybe one of the things we should do at, you know, in our greatest gen retrospective episode is do the in-memorium for all the glass tables to Sarah McLaughlin's, I will remember you.

Because this one goes pretty hard. Yeah, this one, this one, it didn't deserve what it got. People normally bleed when they karate chop a glass table, warf seems fine. Yeah, he's good. He's like breathing heavily over the clumps of his defeated victim when Troy walks in. And she's like, what did that glass table ever do to you?

And he kinda like talks her through the thing he's struggling with. Worfs like, in life glass tables don't have a name, but in death they do. This glass table's name was Robert Paulson. Its name was Robert Paulson. Its name was Robert Paulson. His name was Robert Paulson. Its name was Robert Paulson. Its name was Robert Paulson. His name was Robert Paulson.

His name was Robert Paul. His name was Robert Paulson. His name was Robert Paulson. Warf is essentially has decided that low-fi farmer hoggot is not worth his time. And Troy's like, why don't you look into this idea that your dad might be alive? Like maybe there's something to it. Like he didn't think of that already? Like, thanks, Diana.

Here's the thing. Like, is it okay for Wurf to go on a completely unsanctioned, behind enemy lion's mission? We never get a scene of him asking anyone about this. He just goes. This is a two-parter. They've got enough time for him to do that. And also, I guess he has a license to kill. Because earlier when he was holding Freddy Hogado for the railing of the stations, and you know, give him that what-for-about, if you're lying, I'm going to push you over the edge. Sort of thing. Like, I guess he can just threaten to kill anyone he wants,

because he's killed people before or without, without any sort of thing. Like, I guess he can just threaten to kill anyone he wants because he's killed people before without any sort of punishment. Yeah. I really want, like, there's a lot of dumb Star Trek merch available for purchase in the world. I would love a Worf's yoga costume to just wear around the house. Like I wouldn't wear it out, but...

Sure. If I could lounge in this fucking yoga outfit, I'd be so comfy. It looks real soft. What is that texture? It's great. And it's sharp looking too, that red... That red slash across the front? Yeah, it's so good.

Yeah. Why, like, where is that texture in my life? I need that. that red slash across the front? Yeah, it's so good. Yeah. I didn't want, like, where is that texture in my life? I need that. I would never want the obvious Star Trek merch. I would want the tertiary merch, like that robe. Mm-hmm. It's just a secret for, it's a secret for only you, Ben.

Yeah. My wife wouldn't even know what it was. She's never seen this episode. She's never seen any of this shit. And it's a good thing too. I think we're back in engineering and now Bashir and data are tooling away on their cool Now, Bashir and data are tooling away on their cool game Aquadrant dingus, and they've plugged it into the power system on the ship, and Jordy's helping them.

They plug it right into the dilithium chamber. Like, that's the straight juice right there. Yeah. They aren't even bothering to run it through a search protector or anything. Like, it's going right in. They don't have the the battery backup on the floor No, and the you know, they're having their little shop talk about like different Things data does like have a pulse grow his hair But your creator went to a lot of trouble to make you seem human. Get full and firm erections. I find that fascinating.

They're just kind of like breezing past the fact that they have turned on this unknown piece of alien technology. And data goes and stands like in the kind of like down range area, like where it's pointed. You could have no idea what this thing does and still know that this is the pointy end. Right. Yeah. It's like looking down the barrel of a musket. Yeah. Yeah. This is the end of the thing that's flared and it has scorch marks on it. Something's coming out of this hole, Ben.

And it goes all over Data's sexy chest and it knocks him down and he wakes up in the land of White-ass lenses. Yeah, like definitely a 16 or even wider. Maybe talking to him. Maybe a 14. It might be an 11. Yeah. The White Angleverse. Yeah, real warp deadges, real warped fringe. Yeah, I mean, it's obviously like a very nice piece of glass

because it's not distorting that much, but it is disorienting, because they never go this wide. This is like the hype Williams lens of effect on a Star Trek all day. It really made me wonder where Buster Rhymes and Missy Elliott were, because this shot looked like they were gonna hop out

at any moment. Well, this is important to talk about because when you go this wide, you have to make sure that the set is dressed perfectly. Like, you have to make sure everything is looking great because your field of view is so wide and seeing so much of the ship at one time, like we've never seen this much of the bridge in one shop before, for example. So you need complete sets to shoot on. And if there was ever any question

that these sets were completed in a given moment, like that question is answered here, like they're like that question is answered here, like they are fully walled. They have a ton of hallway to shoot it. Yeah, they really do. They have so much hallway. The ship is almost entirely hallway, really. Yeah, as these blueprints that are friend in South Carolina sent us display. Yeah, mostly hallway, it's hallway all the way down.

that's a display. Mostly hallway, it's hallway all the way down. Let's do carpets. So, Data's walking through these hallways and he comes around a corner into kind of a big open area and young, new-newnian soon is blacksmithing with like a hammer and he turns and it looks like he's about to say something

and data like flinches and wakes up on the floor of engineering with Philips head screwdriver in the back of his head and Jordy is like tightening something up. I thought it was weird that data's arms weren't up. He's been shocked before or he just turns into the mummy. He's choosing that to do that anymore. So what he's informed is that a plasma shock hit him. It shorted him out for 30 seconds and he's like, well, I wasn't shorted out. I have a memory of what just happened in the last 30 seconds and I saw my daddy.

Do you have a kiss for daddy? So that's not what is in their family. Dun dun. Dun! The possibility is discussed that data has had a vision. And I don't want to tell Wharf how to do his job at him. But if I were the chief of security on the Starship Entrepreneur and data ahead of vision, that's a red alert triggering event. Like anything untoward happening

inside of Data's brain should be treated as exquisitely dangerous. Yeah, anything out of the ordinary with data should result in immediate removal of his arms and legs. Like, reduce him to a safety as much as yours data. Take him down to a stump and then stick him in a pot until we figure this thing out. Until this whole thing blows over. You yellow bastard, come back here and take my skin and do your... I'll buy your legs off. But instead, data goes up to Warf and he's like, uh, I just had this vision. What are visions like?

Man, you seem to be like someone who's experimented in that sort of thing. And Warf is like, actually, I've taken mushrooms a lot in my youth. This one time in college. He talks about the right of Muska, which Ben, I think we can't go past this subject without telling our viewers that anyone who messes with psilocybin Muska. We don't encourage its experimentation, and if you do, we advise you to be very careful in all such matters. Make sure you have a couple of friends nearby.

Big glass of water. Do you have a safe space? Yeah. So, Worf basically tells data, look, if you sell your father in this vision, like this is, That's some big shit, man. It's really significant,

and you should do what it takes to chase the significance down. Completely ignoring every other moment that when data has chased his impulse at the expense of the ship safety. I was like, simmer down, Wurf. I don't think you know what you're about to rot. I don't think you know what you're about to rot. Yeah, this could be a real havoc. Bad security, Worf. In talking data through this, I think Worf kind of, it kind of like clicks all the tumblers into place for Worf

that he needs to, he needs to go find Lofi Haga and get to the bottom of this thing about his dad. He's like, look, I have a black spandex jumpsuit already. It wasn't used a couple episodes ago. It's very knuck obscuring. I didn't even wash it so that it would shrink. Like, it's not too stinky for me.

I'm going to put it right on. I'll be right back. I like the device they have in this episode of they like will pan from the space station up to the enterprise and then pan from the enterprise back to the space station to like take the action from the ship to the station and vice versa. Yeah, that's a nice transition. It's good. I don't remember Deep Space 9 having that yellow stripe on it before.

Do you? Um, I think it had that stripe. Really? Yeah. As I said, it's been a long time. My time is finally... Before they pick up a dog, they pick up a lady. Why give you not a thing?

Don't take that. Don't take that. Worf goes and gets his guy and heads off on his adventure without asking permission, but data does in fact ask permission. He pulls Picard aside and sits down with him in the ready room, and he's like, it's very clear that data is continuing his traditional around the horn,

asking everybody's advice thing. It's funny when he chooses to do this and when not. Like, he didn't ask anybody's advice about making law, but he asks everybody's advice about forming an intimate relationship or looking into his dream about his dad. He does that thing that you do when you're a little kid and you're trying to ask permission

for something without giving the full details of what you're asking so that you can get that permission. Like, he gives different stories to different people, but Data's plan is fucking insane. Data wants to recreate the experiment that briefly killed him before so he can have another vision. And I'm like, if Jordi did the same thing, if Jordi drowned on the holiday or something and was like, I saw my dad, it was amazing. I, there's so much, there's things I want to ask him. There's, there's stuff I want to experience in this other world. Data would you drown me? There

is no fucking way that data would drown Jordi, but he's basically asking Jordi to do the same thing. Yeah. How does he grant that permission? Does Jordi seem to think that there are more data out there to be found and that he's not unique and priceless? I guess it's data's risk to take, but yeah it's weird that Jordi is cool to like be a party to it. It's data's risk to take in the way that it's Jordi's right to commit suicide. It's sort of not, I guess, and this also blurs the line between whether data is starfleet material or not. Like intentionally putting himself in this kind of harm's way is just, I don't get it. This is the leap this episode asks you to take though.

The way that data convinces Jordi is that he has painted a shitload of paintings. Maybe this is Jordi's way to get him to stat painting. My paintings are not like a recipe that I follow each time the same way. Each one is just a little different. These are not good data. Not good at all. One of them is that horse playing the saxophone. Remember that time, Riker, made fun of the the fact that Jordy was teaching data to paint

because he's blind. Yeah. Good one, Riker. Good one, asshole. Riker's not around. He's busy making protein bats. Then a cloud of Chroma vapor carries you into a meditation chamber. Data has painted a bunch of the imagery of a blacksmith, which is kind of how soon was dressed.

But then he started painting crows. Are these ravens or crows? And how can you tell the difference? One thing I know for sure is it's murder that he's painted. That is one murder of Crowe's band. Yeah, out in the street, that's what they call it. Well anyways, the Crow stuff is definitely diverges from what he saw in his vision. So he's thinking it has something to do with it, but the relationship is kind of unknowable at this point.

Yeah, he takes so many things so literally, this was a moment of like true creativity. Right. And so they call up Bashir and they're like, hey man, let's go kill data one more time. Bashir is like dope, I'm there. And he's not my Android. They fire this thing up at Zapp's data into Y-Dass Lensiverse and he's kind of like back where he started. He's, I think he like starts in a chair this time because they have him sitting down. I guess just so we won't go down like a sack of potatoes. And he goes and finds a soon and soon is blacksmithing the wing of a bird and then they're in the bridge I guess and

All of the like control consoles have been taken out and Replaced with a phycus It's the plural for phycus I guess it would be Ficus. It would be, wouldn't it? And soon is there. And he's kind of explaining like this is a dream. It's different from the other because dreams are not always exactly the same.

As much as screenwriters wish they were. A writer yells from off camera. Can you not be such a dick about this? I totally have a embarrassing short film in my in my rear view mirror that is premised on a dream that is the same every time. Oh. So bad. Can you at least give us a title? It was called character. Mm-hmm. And with a K. Okay. Now the, that's how you know it's edgy. It's the short film where the lead character realizes he's a character in a short film. he's a character in a short film. Hmm, intriguing. Hmm, not really.

Ha ha ha. Get any laurels on the poster for that one? If there are any, they were made up by me because I, you know, thought, oh, I'll make a poster like you do for a real moving. I wanna do something laurel worthy, Ben, can we do that? I think so. I think that, I think we have it in us. This is a film I made before I went to college. So it was a...

One of them. I have a camera and we have a summer to kill kind of situation. But yeah, I think we could do something Laurelworthy at him. I mean, count me in. I feel like this podcast is Laurelworthy. If there was a legitimate sanctioning body to hand out Laurels for podcasts,

don't you think this is Laurelworthy? Accepted to the Santa Barbara podcast awards. official selection of the Long Island podcast festival. received application to the Albuquerque podcast festival. I think the piece of exposition that we get from suing here is that this is a function in Datashead that is designed to allow him to have dreams. And it was designed to only turn on in the event that a certain sophistication was achieved in data's development. So I guess the thing from the gamma quadrant that zapped him sort of like trigger this thing prematurely. It's like he got dreams earlier than he was post-to. It's sort of like the kid in powder getting struck by lightning.

He didn't know he was capable until he got hit. And now he has all these dream powers. Yeah, all the silverware at the lunch table is collecting in one place. He really feels the deer's death acutely. Something like a phenomenon. Well, Adam, we should talk about Rambo 2 Warf edition. Yeah, Warf has packed an action backpack full of replicator pasta and he's hitched a ride to this weird planet

on the edge of Romulan space. Yeah, he kind of threatens Lofi Hoggett into providing the whip for this adventure. Like, Hoggett's like, not a dog, I don't have a car and he's like, I know you have a car, I went down to the DMV and checked. And I don't know why he's gonna trust this guy to come back and pick him up. It seems like a bad idea. He doesn't seem like he'd be a good wheel man. Yeah, I mean, he's terrified to go there and he actually like steps outside of his craft and locks

Wharf into the jungle surrounding the Romulan prison complex and he's like, you just like head down this way You hit a riverbank. You follow it there. You can't miss it and I'll be I'll be back in a couple of days and Don't be late So like Wharf in his ninja costume like runs through the forest and he comes across like a grotto where like a nude woman is having a moonlit bathe. Yeah, there's almost as much buns portrayed here as P-Stu showed a couple episodes ago. Where are the nude women having the grotto bath in real life? I feel like we see this in every movie and television show from this era. There's like some excuse for like, there to be like a remote waterfall

on an island and a lady has taken a naked bath in it. I've never seen this in real life. You're looking a gift grotto bath in the mouth. This guy was saying that there's a bunch of fucking needle snakes on this planet. And this lady's just going out in the middle of the night when it's dark and taking a sexy naked bath by yourself naked cling on girl in the water needle snakes in the water and when a

needle snakes catcher his eyes roll back like a doll's eye we're gonna need a bigger deskbuster. Swimming right up your retra. Oh, Jesus. She, and what kind of bathing is this? She's just like spraying the water everywhere. She's like making a bowl with her hands and then like throwing it in the air. She's not in this to get clean. She's in this toodalate.

She has no culture. She's been isolated this to get clean. She's in this toodalate. She has no culture. She's been isolated from clean on society her entire life. Right. Well, she perceives there to be an unwanted male gaze upon her and puts a, throws on a cover up and walks into the forest and wharf grabs her and he's like, hey listen, what the fuck is going on here? I'm here to rescue you. I'm not the creeper that this makes me look like I am. She is just fucking confused by this.

Like save me from what? I was taking a bath. You mean those needle snakes? The rumors of their urethral penetration are exaggerated. God. I had to go back to the urethral penetration well, huh Adam? She looks down and she's just wearing a skirt of these needle snakes. I just picture you sitting in She's just wearing a skirt of these needle snakes. I just picture you sitting in Studio B,

surrounded by Hentai Wall Art right now, Adam. You're really giving me the skis. It gives me the energy for this project, Ben. It's the only thing keeping me going. So she like runs back off into the distance and he hops the wall into the prison compound and comes across a really weird scene. It kind of looks like a table at Benny Hanna and there's a bunch of clings on seated at it and one is kind of walking around

singing to them. Might be like a like cling on duck duck goose. It's like that scene at a beach bonfire when one fucking asshole brings a guitar and just like has to play, has to play crash into you. Like give it a rest man, we're just trying to have a fun meal out, Alphresco. Yeah, Dave, we know that you know that and wonderwall. No one here is going to sleep with you, Dave. Dave, you could tell him, well, cure herpes. he's Warf grabs this guy that's singing and like pulls him into into a dark corner and Do you know Meloda? Do you take requests?

Meloda is my jam dog Start all over the text isn sink up with the music. And he's like, hey listen, I heard a rumor that my, my pop is here and the guy's like, you're dead, who's your dead? And he's like, he's like, name's Mogue. And he's like, no, that guy died at Kittamer. What are you talking about? Did he die in battle?

And it comes out that these Klingons were at Kittamer, and were indeed imprisoned by the Romulans, but the bill of goods that Lofi-Hoget sold Wharf is a bunch of bullshit. And these are klingons who have gone full Stockholm. Like they get Wharf arrested by the Romulan captors and and they like they turn them in like they are they're not trying to leave. You got a one-per-two side they're on. Yeah and they full on freeze frame to be continued.

It's a pretty crazy moment. They usually cut to black on the tabies. And they full on chips ending this cliffhanger. Yeah. Pretty unusual choice. Yeah. Also, we have seen how many cliffhangers would be seen in this series. Five? Is this the fifth?

Yeah, maybe fifth or sixth. Is this the lowest stakes cliffhanger of all of those? Kind of feel like it is. We've got captured. I mean... The stakes are high because they didn't tell anyone where he was going. It's not a good move. You're right, Adam. It might seem higher if Mark Twain had been walking around that table, recounting some some yarns rather than a guy singing and clinging on. Well, Mr. Wolf. Oh no. You're a peer. You must have- Fuck off. Fuck off. You must Fuck off! You must have told someone why you were going!

Fuck that impression. I will put your adventures in my next book. I'm leaving. I'm gonna quit the podcast if we keep doing that. Oh the weakest impression there is. My Mark Twain. I want you to stop that impression. Now! Yeah, that's the end of the episode, Ben. Did you like the episode, Adam? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm No, I don't think I did. Really? I mean, and I think to me it goes back to the dream sequence. Like the A-story's cool. I like the idea of it being like War First Blood Part 2.

But the, but there's nothing there to the dream thing for me at all. Like there's no interest. That does not move my needle. They spend an awful lot of time on that. So much. It may be 50-50 in terms of like time dedicated. So I think that's my issue with it, is like there's not a lot of teeth to that. And it's so abstract at the moment, but there's not even a hint of like, like there is a way to cliffhang that story too.

But so far, I guess that cliffhang is the data is still under, like he's still in that dream state. No, he's woken up and said like, I'm gonna start dreaming on the reg. It's like, it's almost, it's almost, it feels like it's wrapped up. Like there's no suspense in it. Yeah, and there's something about that because of the time given,

that is, that sort of brings everything else down with it in terms of like the overall satisfaction of what's happening. Yeah. So I'm going to say no to this. How about you? I like it. I agree that there's a lot more dream than he's probably warranted by how interesting it is. And I would have loved to have like the, I think the things that we really gravitate toward in this series is seeing some kind of trade craft, like, that, that kind of only could exist in this world.

And like, what if Warfoot had a run in with a venomous snake on that, on that planet? And like, had to do like some kind of like field prep of his injury and he's like he's going into this prison camp a little compromised for that reason or something or he must go there to get medical attention. Right like give us give us some give us some of that world like I, we've never been on a jungle planet in a ninja ghee at night. Yeah, like the last jungle planet

was the Ecopyp 607 planet, right? Right. And yeah, like there's, like, if Rambo 2 is nothing else, it's a lot of fun with the kind of like challenges of being in that kind of environment. So like have some fun with it. Like that's a really fun place to go and a fun thing to do.

And it shouldn't be that hard to shoot because you just fucking go to an A's garden center and get 10 ferns and bring them into a dimly lit studio, you know? Plus I'm always hungry for like bad ass worth moments and if you give him that behind enemy lines Shit where like he's got a cotter eyes of wound with with a phaser. That would be awesome Yeah, like what setting is cotter eyes? That's awesome like I want to see all that We know he's capable when he was in that old West simulation He made a shield out of a communicator like Like I want to see him do some trade craft. Yeah.

All he has is a backpack full of pasta. Delicious. Yeah. So I mean, I think this episode is way too much table setting for the next episode. And the, I mean, like we said with the last, with the last to be continued, like the fun is when this episode ends and they are so deep in the hole, you can't imagine them digging themselves out. Yeah. Yeah. That's not this. I might regret this suggestion

right now before seeing the next one. But like, I wonder what would happen if you clicked and dragged five minutes of part two into this sequence and change the moment that the cliffhanger happens, if that makes this any more satisfying, or if everything depends on part two, and there's no amount of weight you could give part one to make it satisfying. Because that's, I think, what's happening here is that is that uh the entire pot is is back weighted. Yep. I mean there's a way to do this like this is this is a possibility but uh it's um yeah like what if we're from murder murders that girl in the bath? What if he has to? How dark can we get?

That would be intense. What if he cracks some Romulan skulls before getting there? Then he gets there, he finds out they're friendly, he's going to live with that. Let's torture this guy a little bit with his actions. I mean, not actual torture, of course. Why not actual torture? Why not actual torture is what I'm saying. You stick them on a wire frame mattress.

Turn the jumper cables up to high. You put a Michael Jackson CD in his mouth and pour a barrel of oil down it. Yeah. Michael Jackson is popular of sick fucking country. Yeah, we could get a lot of political extemporizing by a couple of fun characters here. Indeed.

Hmm. Sounds like the jury might be out on this. Like we may like, we may still like the episode if we count both ends of it as one. Well, let's see what, yeah, let's maybe, let's do that. Let's see if the second installment redeems the first. Deal. All right. Do you want to move on to check our P1 inbox, Adam. Let's do. Priority one message from Starfleet coming in on Secured Channel. Need a supplement on the... supplement. Yeah, it's extra.

The interest alone could be enough to buy this ship. Adam, we've got a couple of P1s here. The first one is from fashionable people. And it is to Kirsten. Kirsten? Kirsten? You know what I used to do. God, this is such an awful admission. This might be my most shameful admission on this show yet.

Every time I have befriended a K-name person in my life, like a cursed in, Christian, you know, what have you? A curing cake up. I always, I always jokingly call them special K. As a crutch for not remembering if the eye goes before the eye or after. Isn't that shameful?

I have that problem where my brain has the same hole for the name Rob and Ron. Oh yeah. And I've had like close friends who were named Rob or Ron and I'm like I know his name is Rob. And half the time I call him Ron so I always go like hey Ron you know like that kind of like don't pronounce the sounds that well. I'm just congested. Yeah. I'm a monster. God. I there are probably so many social crutches like these. we're probably in good company, but yeah.

Tough. It's tough to have friends. Anyways, the fashionable people want Kristen, Kirsten, Kirsten to know, enough of this charade. Happy birthday, Kirsten. And congratulations on graduating. I'm so glad I have you in my life and that you enjoy this ridiculous podcast

as much as I do. May the next year bring lots of scarves, many drunk Chamotas, and hopefully a few, many space buttholes as possible. Oh, happy birthday and good luck and roller derby. That's a pretty big year. If we're taking by the months in terms of buttholes. That's a unit of measurement that I don't do.

Yeah, wow. Pretty intense. I think their wish for the coming year is that it's, it may pinch a little bit at first. Could even be momentarily painful, but then give way to a very good feeling finale. A pleasure that dare not speak its name. In the October, November, December months. That was awful. We've just ruined Kirsten's birthday, and that Kirsten we are deeply sorry. Would you like to move on to message 2 Ben?

Yeah, what's message 2 Adam? Ben message 2 is from Plevine, it is too rare and it goes like this. God. Plevine says, we are going to be passing by your area on the way to the in-laws cabin on July 4th weekend. Are you free? If so, let's get together. And if you are interested, we can piss on Joe McCarthy's grave.

It's right by my second high school. I'm starting to suspect that Plavime doesn't have Raz's phone number and thus cannot send him a text. Raz is totally new phone who does. New podcast, who does. We're really stitching together a tapestry of Raz and Plavemeim's friendship here aren't we? Yeah, hopefully Q will offer them the opportunity to go back in time and undo some of the harm. Plavim is clearly the artificial-hearted one of the two of them. Hmm, yeah. I'm waiting for Razz to fire back at some point.

Yeah, come on Razz. We know you can do it, buddy. The world is waiting. Well, Ben, one thing we rarely have to wait for is a message telling us we have a new priority one message. We get them all the time. Yeah, I was like, oh man, we're the best. We sell the most priority one message.

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I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The show is wildly popular. Yeah. They've got a special sauce at them. Yeah. Yeah. But I feel like for a show as new as ours and one that publishes as often as ours, the fact that we consistently have a couple in every episode is humbling

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in this app, Adam. Kind of around like the 39-minute mark in this episode. He and Data have been like walking through the hallways having a wrap and you see them walk away. And it's just kind of like a glimpse in the background, but you see that he is wearing like white hospital shoes. And I was like, yeah, like I guess he's a doctor, I guess he white as well.

But you know when you're on your feet for an entire shift, the right footwear is key. Yeah, so he's got a little orthopedic shoe choice. Yeah, and some white on white and new ballad. Real comfortable. He's got those all white jacks, Bade, Adidas. Ben, I was recently on a shoot where secret service people were around because there was a very important person being videoed for this production.

And I surprised myself in the thought that the one thing that I wanted to ask a secret security person about was their footwear. Because who's on their foot, who's on their feet in one place more than that secret service detail guy who's standing completely still in dress shoes. Like, there's got to be a secret there, right? Mm-hmm. I want to know it. Yeah, and like, sometimes you have to jog alongside the motorcade, right? Yeah, and those are clearly dress shoes.

Like, I want to know what those secret dress shoes are that are so comfortable. Yeah. Do you ever see in the line of fire? Sure did. Love that movie. Yeah. Great movie. It's one of the best.

Ben Mishimoto goes to an inanimate object. I think we both took notice of the most explosive action scene in the entire episode, which was that glass table being destroyed in Worf's quarters. What you may not have noticed for its subtlety was the scene in 10 forward where data approaches Worf and is like, you ever see your dad in your dreams? And then war sort of gestures to a table with a drink on it and they sit down. That as soon as they sit down, that table is wobbling from fear.

It is positively shaking in fear of what's about to happen because I think it knows. I think it knows what happened to that other table. I always get that fucking table. Every coffee shop I go in and sit down in, I get the table that needs a shim. You put in a little sugar packet in that table, are you leaving it for the next guy? I observe strict, can't fire coffee shop rules. I'm leaving it better than I found it been. I'm just saying like for all of the observation I do of that rule, I never get it where somebody's already

shorted it out before I get there. You've never sat at a pre-packeted table? No, it's always shaky. I think coffee culture in Seattle is just different. Nay, better than Brooklyn coffee culture. We're shimming our tables left and right. Adam, they got us working with sheams. Yeah.

I'll hand it to you on the average coffee shop in itself in Seattle being quite a bit better. But I have to say, Brooklyn ran ahead of Seattle a long time ago in coffee quality. Well, I can't wait until I visit and I get that pumper-nickel bagel with a triple Americano. We're going to get a side car. I'm going to take you to like five coffee shops in three hours and we're going to be

decimating the bathrooms in each one. I'm so down looking forward to it. As I am looking forward to our next episode bin, what do we have on the decket? The next episode is season six episode seventeen. The birthright part two. Boy there is sort of a lot in Christopher Walken's ass, isn't there? Such a bad walkin'. The whole two episodes. Impreson'd in a society of peaceful klingons and Romulans. Warfrisks his life to show the younger klingons their lost heritage and inspire them to claim

their honor. Do you remember this episode, Adam? What makes Warf think that he is a good conduit for this? Alexander hates their culture. He doesn't get it and he doesn't care. Maybe Wurf's going to get a little bit of like paternal transference here. They'll become the children that appreciate the culture in a way Alexander does not.

It'd be like a Lebanese guy teaching a tie-kid in Nigeria how to cook. That is a world-class call back, Ben. The circle is complete. This is a terrible comeback. Well, that's what we're watching next to time. We always reward the people who listen to the end and that was your reward for your viewer. One of the most rewarding things about this show is the growing community that surrounds it. Like so many armed prison guards trapping us in a

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It's a terrible thing And yet wonderful at the same time. Yeah, you can always support the show by going to Maximumfundadoric slash donate as well. That is the triple truth roof. And with that as our outgoing message, we'll be back at you next time with another great episode. I'll start track the next generation. And an episode of the greatest generation that is practicing with its Make it sound. Maximumfund.org

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