The Greatest Generation - Liberate the Washlet (VOY S4E7)

Episode Date: July 11, 2022

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Board of Dürrkut? Captain Captain Bringing what is the U.S.S. Welcome to the greatest generation. A Star Trek podcast by a couple of guys just a little bit embarrassed about having a Star Trek podcast. I'm Adam Pranaka. I'm Ben Harrison. Ben, I'm coming at you from my studio and also my bedroom. Oh!

Oh! Oh! Your studio and become bedroom. Yeah. I was thinking about that, so you're stuck down there. I finally got thrown out, Ben. But it's for a good reason. A good reason, but also like a fucking shitty reason.

Yeah, it's a drag. My wife got double striped on the tester. You're a one striped, but she's a two-striped, and a house divided, that's saying. Yeah, dude. So I'm setting up shop in the studio and tell my wife single stripes again. When I double-straped, my wife and I had been sleeping in the same room for a week at that point,

and I was kicked out then. Because your wife was looking for reasons? Your wife was staying in the normal bedroom. Yeah. You're sleeping in the guest area. Yes. We didn't have a guest bed, so I went and slept on the couch when I double-striped. Yep. She got back from a trip and she's been back for two nights, so we had two nights of being together like normal. Yeah. She double striped today and I single striped today

and I'm feeling fine and she's feeling shitty, which sucks. Like she's got the kind that is making her feel bad so. Yeah, that's a drag, man. I don't want to get too serious about this, so I won't. But I will say there is a consequence to this arrangement that is devastating, Ben. The Toto Washlet is in that bathroom. And I'm stuck with just a regular cold toilet seat which doesn't shoot anything at my butthole. I'm taking dumps manually.

Oh man. Your wife is so studied, had not given me the satisfaction. Cause I went over to your house one time a while ago. And. That was just a glimpse into what my life is, by the way. I cracked a joke. I said something about how, oh, I noticed that you don't have

100% of the toilets in your house converted to total washlets. Yeah. And she's like, yeah, Ben, that's because we have a bunch of toilets. That's it. That's it. Gosh. you just smashed your balls over being a single bathroom house over a year. So brutal. Yeah, it's crazy to think about having one washlet would be 100% washlet coverage. Yeah, 100%.

At least you'll sleep well, right? Yeah. Got that whole bed to yourself on the fold-out couch. I'm gonna wake up sore. I'm not gonna feel great after every poop I take. And this is just day one, man. Man, it's really like most of the disadvantages of having a terrible illness or following on you.

I mean, who's really feeling the breath of this thing? Who's suffered for real? This is an episode coming out in July, where I hope the condition hasn't turned far worse. Jesus. I hope she feels better soon, man. She did not deserve that. You guys have been so careful. Yeah, it's And yeah, not too worried about you though. You've got a lot of booster in you and a pretty recent one. I've had four shots in me I mean like the only person beating you at this point is that guy in Germany that got it like 90 times so that he could sell fake

beating you at this point is that guy in Germany that got it like 90 times so that he could sell fake vaccination records to people. Yeah. That guy is like the perfect COVID guy because he's got the clients that are the most afraid of the vaccine and he's the least afraid of the vaccine. Like they span the entire vaccine concern spectrum. He's like keep putting them in me.

It's perfectly compatible in a yin yang. To mom. Like I could go for a fucking swim in pure COVID and come out smelling like a rose on the other side. Damn, that is a lot of shots. Yeah. I mean, putting aside whatever medical consequences there may be for just that much of whatever it is put inside you.

Yeah. Taking that time out of your day to do it, like, you don't have a job if you're getting that many right? My arm was always sore for a couple of days after. That guy must have had a sore ass arm for a long time. I mean, you got to go every other arm, don't you? Yeah. If you're getting them with that frequency. Can you put this one in my butt?

I'd want them all over the place. I'd make up any excuse. Yeah. Put all 90 of your shots in me, Daddy. Well, that's what I'm dealing with over here, Ben. Yeah, I'm so sorry for you, particularly, since all of the bad stuff is happening to you. And do a leisure extant your wife who is very sick and feel really bad for her. I think that stated perfectly. Nobody's gonna have a weird misunderstanding of that

and like say something weird about it on Twitter. There's no way the transcript of that isn't going to be devastating to me. When right out in the card case. It's not like I had a reputation to save anyway. What reputation? No one gives a shit. Yeah.

Well, I'm hoping that the miracles of modern science can help your wife and maybe even you, Adam. If it's not science, I'm gonna be over there with a couple of hand tools moving the washlet over to the guest bathroom. You go liberate the washlet over to the guest bathroom. You go liberate the washlet. I thought you were bringing me dinner. You're getting the washlet?

It's season 4 episode 7 of Voyager, scientific method. Breaver, of course. Unless you've got something a little bigger in your torpedo tubes, I'm not turning around. This is a fun fancy meeting you here moment to start the episode. It's BLT crawling through a jeffery's tube and... Tora's in a tube. Are the little fireball doors always closed? It seems like you'd want to keep them closed at all times, right?

Yeah, because then they don't have to close in case of a whole breach or something like that. The energy is already expended. If a plasma fire were to break out. Seven of nine has been caught messing around with the energy of the ship. I loved how this was unfolded because Tora is in the tube looking for what's causing a problem and that kind of comes out as she comes to understand what Seven is in there doing. I'm reconfiguring the power couplings in this section. Why?

She's been having a problem with diagnostics. Seven of nine has been mugging with the power systems to shut some power to the new astromestrix lab that they keep referencing. And she didn't ask anybody. Now. Hi, Rocky, don't come natural to a Borgs. Better to not ask forgiveness than not ask permission if you're a Borgs, right?

Because initially I was like, like, seven was like, well, nobody was working here. So this seemed like a cool place. And I was like, didn't she, like, well, nobody was working here, so this seemed like a cool place. And I was like, didn't she, like, two episodes ago complain about being too lonely? It's an interesting choice to make BLT this person too, right? Because for the entire season, BLT has kind of been

the bully of seven of nine. And I would have guessed that this scene would have been all about seven of nine learning a lesson about a hierarchy and there being rules on the ship or whatever, but it's really about BLT recognizing that she's become what she used to hate the most. Steve came what she said to the destroy. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, a very star trek scene in that way, like the BLT recognizes a lesson that she herself

has like learned to the extent that it's an instinct now and is now going to try and impart on 7 of 9 and a friendly or way than her open and gambit would have led you to believe. 7 arrive just the other day she came to the ship and an unusual way There were holes to patch and power relays Punched in some Kim while I looked away Then she got a job in engineering and then I knew I said, I used to be like you bad

You know I used to be like you And the cats in the cradle in the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man on the moon Don't get assimilated but they don't know when We'll be together then They're gonna get some nanoprobes then These are real cats in the cradle moment, right? Yeah, it's good

Paris is interested in skipping out on work. He talks to the doc about like, hey, I got this report about navigation to write up for Tricote. He's really going to stomp my nuts if I don't get it to him on time. What's the doctor so worried about? There's nothing going on.

Like, the doctor's reading a fucking novel. Well, it's my con report, actually. Yeah, I mean, we get the look around at the end of the scene. No one's there. It's like working a holiday in an office building. It sucks. The phone's not ringing.

Yeah, I mean, you would like it, but Paris doesn't. Low key, though, I really like the sequence of this, right? Because we get empty sick bay, boring sick bay here. Yeah. Completely unaware that in another 20 minutes, shit is gonna go buck wild in there. Yeah. So Paris goes to set something up with the computer,

site-to-site transport, into a jeffries tube. And he's also going to use some replicator credits to make flowers made out of human shit. It's pretty good for shit. To woo his girlfriend with. Yeah, these don't smell right. He transports himself into a jeffries tube, not realizing that all jeffries tube doors

are sealed shut naturally. So his arm is cut off, being in the middle of this thing, and the hand holding the flowers falls through. It's a really upsetting image, probably the most drizzly thing we've seen in Star Trek ever since the Nubbin Bugs episode. Oh yeah.

They start smooching though, once he gets his arm bandaged up, and then the POV of the camera like clicks and suddenly it's like a medical scan of them. We're seeing inside their baretees. If you've ever gone to bodies, the exhibit and wondered what it would look like if they just started making out. That's what this shot does. It is gross as hell. It really is. I don't like it. Didn't they like get the bodies from some like bad place,

like a prison or something? That's why I never went, because I was like, oh, it seems bad. I killed people and sell their corpses from cash. You think with a shot like this, that this is gonna be the visual late motif of the entire thing, like this equals they're being studied by these aliens.

But what my theory presupposes is that this show does not want this relationship to appear sexy or romantic. Hmm, because it becomes so clinical in this moment. By the end of the episode, I think, I think this isn't the only instance of it. I think they try extremely hard to make their relationship seem not hot. Hmm. Why would they do that?

I don't know. Well, let's keep looking for moments where you can extrapolate on this observation, because I'm curious about your theory. How about this leaflet? After the credits, we come back and the captain is in a massage chair, the camera's shooting like directly vertically into the face her,

gives her a medical massage and the captain is in a position that will become very confusing later in the episode. But for right now, she's getting scolded for being so stressed out, which is a great way to like help somebody unclench. You like a hard massage, Ben, I sure do. The harder the better. Really beat me up. I feel like that, but I've also never had a massage that I felt like was good.

God, I finally found someone to do a good sports massage up in Seattle before I moved away. Oh. And it was like right up to the point where I wanted to say, okay, that's too much. It was like massage edging. Yeah. And I never said it because it was exactly

the right amount. Wow, that's great. Was that rulfing? It's like a really, really intense massage. That rulfing was when the massage therapist wears like a brown furry costume and it's like, you want me to work more on your shoulders? I love it. I used to have a tune piano.

I love what I'm doing. So Captain very stressed out is also a motif that is set up early in this episode. And I was also just blown away when, so she's like called away by Chico Tei, who's like, there's some energy readings that we knew you'd wanna hear, no matter what you were doing.

Yeah. And she gets up and is like getting ready to walk out in the towel that the masse you were doing. Yeah. And she gets up and is like getting ready to walk out in the towel that the masseuse gave her. The reveal is that they're in her quarters. I was like, oh shit. It was the same thing. What?

Yeah. Did the image bring the massage table? You know there was a moment before the massage where Janeway, like she's going on a first date, is like, if you don't hear from me in five minutes, you need to call and tell me that you've picked up an energy reading on the bridge. And this totally gets her out of this massage that she clearly is not enjoying. Yeah.

She goes up to the bridge and what they've got on the screen is a couple of pulsars and a binary system. I mean, this is great. This is a scientific marvel. I personally feel like pulsars are on a spectrum, Ben. So, I mean, this is a very old show though. Yeah, there's not just two kinds of pulsar. Right.

Fair. Surprise you didn't know that, Ben. Well, you know, we're all learning and we learn these things at different paces. And what's important is that you're open to learning about the different kinds of pulsar. Not that you're so perfect at this, man. Like, I can't shame you. They're doing that thing that they always do with female characters in TV, which is that like you show that they're rung out by having their hair be slightly not perfect. Right. She's a little bit of the massage samurai here. Yeah. She's like, do whatever you want with the pulsars.

I can't really be bothered. It seems like a great part of being a captain is just delegating the boring to your first officer, right? So we cut away to Paris sneaking down to the engineering deck where he is looking to get a little bit more one-on-one time with BLT. And they sneak off to her upper station. They're called Boomset. This looks like a great place to throw someone off and do a pit of plasma fire. Oh, yeah.

But it's also not a bad place to do a little hot make out while people work down below and can't quite get an angle on what's happening up there. Have you ever roped into a plasma fire? Tom Parris says. They're rolling around on the controls and making the computers beep. And I totally thought the two Valkyries cubbing in to be like, you've activated the like emergency cell distractor something. having end to be like, you've activated the emergency cell distract or something.

They really need to find a breast pumping room or something. Yeah. On the ship. This whole, the out in the open thing is that they're always just out and full of you or partial view. This is a problem. Ensign Wildman's inevitably going to be in the pumping room, right? Right.

Yeah, always occupied. I said I need a time to pump in your refuse to change the meeting. So here we are. inevitably gonna be in the pumping room, right? Right, yeah, always occupied. I said I need a time to pump in your refuse to change the meeting, so here we are. Do you understand how the balcony and engineering works? Because we never see the floor, but we see two of us standing four feet taller than them somehow.

I don't know, yeah. It seems like there's maybe like a split level situation. Yeah. He doesn't seem to give any fucks about what they're doing. Mr. Parasai do not like to watch. You can tell me about it while I jack it later. Did you notice that BLT mouths the word fuck at the end of this scene? Like in that holy shit we've been caught

kind of way. I did not. That's great. She turns away from two valk and she's like. Yeah, she totally does. Wow, right? That's what makes it such a great word because when you watch someone make it, it's like teeth on top of the bottom lip. Like, it can be no other word.

It looks like she's saying, I want a vacuum, but what she's... Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Do you think Paris is just walking around with a charger the whole time? Like, just going make out to make out? I don't know, yeah. I think you want to rope into the plasma fire if you're him.

New relationship energy is really intense. And you'd hope that the Starfleet uniform has like a sturdy, you know, because it doesn't have a belt, but it has that elastic in the waistline. So you're hoping he can get it up under that just to make it a little bit discreet. You're praying for elastic at that point. Yeah, what tens Tense leadership.

A nice sturdy elastic. Like in a way that you wouldn't want the rest of the time because it's a little constricting, but you need the constriction here. You need it real bad, Ben. He catches up with two vach and he's like, hey, so you're not gonna tell everybody are you? In an official capacity, like it's not just being socially outed, it's like a professional

thing. Like you're not gonna put this in your report. Right, yeah. Is the question. Because there's probably some policy and they haven't like spoken to the HR department about it yet. Clearly there's been some fraternization. So later, BLT and Paris are like on their way to a McLaughlin group.

Is you one? And they're in the elevator on the way there worrying about do people know is two-voct the only person that knows do we think he's going to blab? How freaked out are we right now? And they get to that moment where they're like, well, maybe this is like the moment where we need to talk about like, what is this, is this something that is going to last long enough that we do need to kind of address it

on a professional level? Conversation like this really goes a long way in softening Paris's rig. It's now falling out of the elastic in a way that is a little more comfortable. Yeah, she's like, oh, is that a calico cut onesie? He says, I donated. A lot of people give. Do they even want to keep this a secret?

Is the question here? And for now, at least for now, now solves a lot of problems with their current situation, right? Because it doesn't leave Paris out on a limb Yeah. about his prediction for their relationship future. What? It's a real hedge.

It is a hedge, but like earlier in relationship, you kind of have to do that, right? You like, you don't always hedging. You don't plan a $10,000 all expenses paid vacation a year out when you're two weeks into a relationship, you know, just doesn't make any sense. No. So they get to this meeting and Chico Te is kind of running it and he's talking about,

okay, we're going to survey this binary pulsar. You know, we got to be really careful because it's super fucking dangerous. And it's a pretty perfunctory thing. Everybody's dismissed, but then the captain who has been really like glouring through the whole meeting keeps Paris and Torres after class. Who is she mad? Her points are super valid, but the way she makes them just betrays

how much she's suffering here physically. She is like staring off into the middle distance as she questions their conduct and really just stomps all over them for making a total public display. You know, like, unclear what she has personally seen, but it sounds like the crew is definitely all a titter, and she does not like that.

Right. Paris, go to the holiday and get one of Da Vinci's jack-off machines. It's subtle. Do whatever you want to do, but don't do it in front of everyone else. Janeway isn't the only one suffering from an unusual amount of fatigue because Chicoete in his quarters is working late, and he seems just as tired. But hey, if you want to stay awake, Chicoete, let's try turning on your lights. Yeah. He's working in a darkened room. What are you doing, man?

This isn't deep space nine. You can get it much brighter in there. He burns a couple replicator rations on some coffee, and this coffee really fucking hits. Yeah. Like, his hands start shaking. That's when you know you've had too much caffeine. It's a shame, right?

Because he drops most of it on the floor with these shakes. What a waste. I've had some really intense like Kyoto style cold brew. Yeah. I've never had the cold brew where you go to the mirror and run your hand through your hair and like, clumps of it start coming out.

How did they do this effect? I don't know. It's really good. I thought this was incredible because you see all of his hair there. Yeah. And then as he runs his hand through it, a bacon strip of scalp is revealed.

It's bonkers. And it's also bonkers because he's just splashed water on his face and then he comes up. Whatever that is is stuck on enough that when he splashes water on his face and then he comes up. Whatever that is is stuck on enough that when he splashes water on his face while he's leaning over, it doesn't fall off. But that when he touches it with his hand, it comes away. It's really good. Boy, they really don't give you a lot of basin on this ship, do they?

It doesn't look like a sink big enough for a face. Yeah. Does it? If you're going to go get down there? Yeah. And also it's a sink without a countertop next door. You're just going to splash water all over the carpet around you. Right? It's one of the main reasons why I hesitated to join the military.

I need a nice big sink. Well, I mean, this is a ship full of carpeted bathrooms too in a way that is disturbing. That's one of the other reasons. Yeah. Ben never joined the Navy because of the carpeted bathrooms. I bet the sound-deadening properties of a carpeted bathroom are pretty advantageous though. Mm-hmm. For someone like me, for sure. A popcorn pooper? That's not all the time. I was talking about an example of a kind of thing that can happen, not the nor- People were like, oh man, I think you're sick.

Yeah, you should get that checked out, man. People were like, dude, you need to do a sleep study and you need to speak to a gastroenterologist. And I was like, what? Is podcast diagnosis the most parosocial thing that gets done in this world? I was not trying to apply that either of those were my normal. You didn't even tell anyone how much blood was in your stool.

Yeah. People wouldn't believe how much blood is in my stool. Red velvet popcorn. That's what you're making. Coffee blood. Make it yourself. I know you see this as. Coffee, black, make it yourself. I'm trying to help you see this as an opportunity to grow. Make it yourself. When we come back from a commercial break, we meet Chacolte. And that tattoo goes back a lot further on his head

than I had previously known. Good Lord. The reveal here is outrageous. He looks almost cardacian. How far back his eyes have sunk in. If this is how he ages, I wouldn't want to get old if I were him. It's fucking unbelievable. I will say this about Chicoete. His attitude is about as healthy as could be in a circumstance like this. The matter Chico Te is suffering bone decalsification tissue necrosis decreased visual acuity. Sounds great. I would be horrified and scared out of my mind because there's like the doctors like we don't know how this happened or how to reverse it. Yeah. Andate is like, all right, well, let me know when you figure it out, I'm gonna go to work.

Like, take a sick day to go to, this is what's wrong with this workplace culture here on Voyager, like you're made to feel ashamed for taking a sick day. Such a toxic blood and guts workplace. Even when you've been aged at a DNA level, like 80 years into the future, you still don't wanna take one?

Chico says, like, well, if I hit my communicator and ask Janeway, I've got a sound like I'm old. Like do I sound old in the room? How do I sound older? I wonder to believe that this horrible thing's happened. Yeah, yeah. Bueller trying to load old man sound effects into his keyboard.

Is it serious? Oh, I don't know, I hope not. When Janeway goes into Chico T's quarters later, the dummy does not sit up straight at all, it's just sort of like, eh. Eh. Eh. Later on, Kim and Paris are in the mess hall, and Kim is kind of busting Paris's jobs for

having let his business get out in the street enough that the captain knows about it. Nielix is offering them some scrambled eggs for breakfast and Kim is like, can I get some leftover casserole from last night? What the fuck? The viewers at home just sell you make a very funny face. Casserole face. I mean, people are developing a lot of strange symptoms on this episode.

This one goes totally uninterrogated in a way that I found very upsetting. Kim's preference for leftover casserole, a bizarre turn. We never know how they're experimenting on him. Harry Kim is so fucking nasty. I love how Kim and Paris are talking about horny stuff, standing in front of a bowl of eggplant. I know, they invented that emoji.

They had no idea how meaningful that would be. Yeah. Neelix collapses in the kitchen and they rush him to Six Bay. And when he gets there, he's covered in pox. He's like, he's got spots all over his face. This scene is my favorite scene in the episode. Because you're immediately disabused with the idea that Neelix is in any real danger here. It's just like a weird recessive gene having to do with talaxians and mylians or whatever.

It just gave him some spots. So he goes and he sits next to Chicoetay. And they're like two olds on a part bench comparing maladies. Yeah. And just looking at Chicoete makes you hurt. And he looks like, yeah, man, I fucking stink. And I'm like staggering around. And Chicoete runs down his laundry list of aches and pains. And it is just a delight. It is so funny. It's really good.

It's funny at a moment of great danger. Like for everyone else on the ship, though, this scene shouldn't be compatible with the rest of the episode, but it totally is it's like a deep breath before something stressful It's also so unusual for the show to throw one of the comedy moments at Beltrein and He is like totally holding his own in this scene with Nielix just being like one of the silly olds It is really funny. So the doctor heads down to the medical lab where he is working with Torres on scanning the DNA

of Chicote and she gets this special scanner up and running for him and he zooms in onto the molecules of Chicote's DNA and finds like a barcode on there. I'm no microbiologist, but that doesn't look like it belongs there. Believe me, it doesn't. Like he's talking about it as like a contaminant or something initially. It's definitely not naturally occurring.

Like it really helps to see it, huh? Yeah. I love this scene because it's like, it's a little bit longer than I was expecting it to be. I thought it was going to be a like, oh, that's weird. That's an interesting revelation. But then, Torres looks and then she wants to go scan

the sample somewhere else and then he puts in Nelix's DNA and they come up with a working theory of what's going on in this scene. Over the course of a number of beats and it's probably over simplified, but I love a scene where two people are working on a science problem together and they resolve multiple questions through it.

It's really interesting. It's bonkers that this thing attached to the DNA is also transmitting a signal. It's not just a marker that suggests that that some other forces that work here. It's like a technology. Yeah. And the technology has a phase variance. So they're going to like see if they can scan for stuff that has this phase variance.

And the doctor goes over to set up the scanner and like almost blips out. BLT looks at his mobile emitter and it's like you are being erased right now my friend. Yeah. And suddenly she is collapsing on the floor, unable to breathe and the doctor beams himself away minutes before being erased, apparently. Just in time. It's a Scary moment. In Six Bay Paris gives Janeway the update about what happened,

these genetic mutations have become an outbreak all around the ship, and BLTs on a respirator, which means crucially Paris can't make out with her. Yeah. And this is a real problem for Paris. And he goes on and on with Janeway about how her inability to breathe makes kissing very difficult and uncomfortable. The breathing tube that they put down our throat, like it's like right in the way.

And he's like, she's so sick. Think about how this affects me. And like she's got the washlet in her quarters. So I can't go there while she's sick. Yeah, we aren't at the point of our relationship where she's given me the keys to her quarters, so like, I'm stuck out here with a dirty butt. It sucks.

Stephanie of nine is listening to all of this. Yeah. And is so relieved when she gets a phone call and has an excuse to tune out and listen to something else. This is great. The dog is like, Hey, I'm in your ear. I made myself really small. And I'm in your ear.

You know that different sheet program with all the jack-off machines. Meet me in there. It has nothing to do with the jack-off machines. In the holodeck, the doctel 7, that there's something causing these mutations. They aren't just happening on their own. And that the weird thing about it is that, like, once he and BLT got close to kind of arriving at a breakthrough, it felt like they were sidelined, like his program started to break up and BLT lost the ability to breathe. And so the suggestion is from this evidence is that they're being monitored

and the closer they got to a solution was the moment where they were kind of taken off the board here. So he's like, there's that phase variance thing. I'm gonna modify your board's eye so that it can see energy in that phase variance. You walk around the ship, see if you see anything in here first, and we get like a fun 360 of the

Da Vinci workshop with the horny shadows cast across the wall and everything. Do you get why the Holidic is not a place where they can be surveilled? I think it's just that the aliens don't think anybody is in there right now. Yeah. The funny thing about this 360 though is that DaVinci's workshop has a skeleton in it and

I was like, ah, skeleton. That must be it. I really love going POV here because it increases the tension, right? We're slowly panning around as seven. Yeah. I fully expect it to see something that didn't belong there. Totally. But no, it's just jack-off machines and skeletons. Yeah.

So this puts seven in an interesting place because you can't tell everyone that she's in touch with the doc because we know that the aliens want to take him off the board. But that means she is in this weird position of being an untrustworthy actor, doing weird untrustworthy shit. And also like allowing herself to be experimented on when she sees one of these aliens close

up, like she can't betray that she's in touch with the doc or that she has this special knowledge. Yeah. So she starts walking around the ship and seeing people. And when we're in the non-POV camera shots, they look normal. And then when we go into her POV, they have these like crazy medical rigs on them. And there are also people in these kind of long, drapey clothing

with loaf and weird haircuts walking around scanning these people and like fiddling with the weird medical technology on them. There's a lot of interest in orthodontia, I think, with how many crew people are wearing headgear. Yeah, right? No kidding. Yeah, they're like, our people are studying the various techniques of orthodontia

and we'll save millions of children from having slightly a skew teeth. It's weird, like, on her way to the mess hall, she sees like a couple of instances of this, but once she arrives at the mess hall, it is like a full-blown clinic in there, basically, a clinic that no one knows that they're in. And she's like trying to like, so do Voché communicate with the doctor about what's going

on. And it feels really like tense because they're everywhere. These people, these invaders are all over the fucking ship. She gets word to the doc about this experience and the doc tells her that her next stop has got to be Janeway. This has got a rise to the level of telling the captain, obviously. She's a little stressed out, so don't like unload on her, but if you can ease into it, let her know. I mean, we see what a very benign incident does to Janeway in the next scene where two vux is like, hey, just giving you the update on that thing or whatever.

And Janeway is not in the mood for any shit whatsoever. Yeah. No progress is not good news. Good job. I too about kind of breaking this spell. Yeah. Because she's like, and another thing, Diamond Blanna, I'm still mad about that. So like, we're going to start really fucking cracking down on people that fuck around and we're gonna get a lot more rigid on this ship.

It's gonna be much more of a four-shift rotation kind of energy around here. If I can't fuck, no one will fuck. Install the chest of the bath tubs in every quarter to back. And he's like, hey, I know there's this mutation crisis or whatever, a great turn of phrase. But maybe when it's over, you can take a little VK. It seems like you really need it. And this mutation crisis is over. I think I'll spend a few days in Renaissance Tuscany.

There's coffee in the little in-out side side Sienna, I've been wanting to try. I will join you for a glass of wine. Two bucks, really nice support system here. Yeah. When Seven walks in, she POVs on Janeway, who... I will remind everyone was faced down in a massage chair at the beginning of this episode when she was already displaying the symptoms of this. She's got like stuff sticking out of her forehead

and her temples. Yeah, but how did the massage chair not just like push those fucking chopsticks into her brain? Those are corporeal chopsticks, though, Ben. Like the aliens can't be run into either, can they? You think they're running around dodging people? Oh, so because it's out of phase, you can just like, we we we we we we we we we we we.

I think that's what's happening. You can wave your hands right through it. Yeah. Oh, wow. That's what I think. Damn. So, Seven is looking at these aliens that are working on the captain and she's like,

well, I can't tell her here and now. Not in front of these aliens. Yeah. So she goes back to the holodeck to confer with the MH and they're talking about, okay, so these guys are everywhere. They're all over the fucking ship. We gotta like break the spell and get everybody to notice these medical devices on them all at once.

And they come up with the idea of like shock everyone. Yeah. Like if they can like release an electronic pulse through the ship that stuns everyone, it will hurt for a second, but then they'll see these devices. Seven of nine scenes very enthusiastic about this plan. By the way. Herding everyone all at once is agreeable.

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by two. Only Ross and Kerry, available on MaximumFun.org. Did you ever get the sense that Tuvak was a subject to these experiments? You never see him through her eyes in a way that would tell us. I didn't see him having symptoms, but yeah, maybe they hadn't gotten a gadget on him yet. Yeah. I don't know. So he goes down to engineering to stop her from shimotating the ship.

Because she's like pulling isoliner chips out and engineering. It's pretty hard to find a station and engineering without a butt print on it at this point, right? Right. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha? You hope BLT and Pariser being fistidious with the wipe down? Right, yeah, the clean up.

You would hope. He's like, where do you want me to finish? And she's like, in the fire. Yeah. Okay, you go first, I'll come later. No. Amy did the plasma fire, Pariser. She's trying to like get him to take her word for it. I'll come later. Amy did the plasma fire pairs. Hahaha.

She's tried to like get him to take her word for it, that this is legitimate shit that she's doing. Yeah. He does not take her word for it. She's not good at deception. One of these aliens sees that she's like making eye contact with them. And so she just has to like grab two-vox gun and stun her. Well, she takes a hostage.

Yeah, now it's been revealed. This person is gonna be putting the brig, two-vox is like, oh, so you were actually doing something for real. This brig scene is great, I think, because the hostage that Seven took gets interviewed by an already contancorous Janeway. Just ready to kill, I think. There's a nice rim light on Janeway when she enters

the the brig scene. And I was just picturing the like onset makeup and hair person just like restraining themselves from rushing in with some fucking hairspray and like getting all the flyaways down a day away. Flyaways tell the story here. The flyaways are doing a lot of work. Yeah.

I love how the scene plays out because the cold detachment of the alien, you know, citing their own protocol and procedure for their reasons for doing this. Yeah. Meeting up against Janeway's frayed nerves is great. And it's a kind of a rollerversal of what you'd expect out of Janeway and a prisoner.

It really is. The prisoner is like totally unafraid and is like trying to make the case of the needs of the many like we've got like millions of people that we help with this research and it's just worth doing for all of the reasons that you can think of doing medical research and you know like the fatality rates not even gonna be that bad especially if you leave us alone and let us do it. Yeah, but the more you resist, the worse it's gonna be. Yeah.

And this is a form of a threat as Janeway takes it. And Janeway is not down to receive any threats in her current state. Yeah, they did the wrong experiment on this captain. They've been raising her dopamine levels, which really perked my ears up because we just watched an episode of Strange New World that everybody's dopamine levels are raised. I was like, man, what the hell are the chances? How do I get me some of that dopamine? Yeah, it seems like it's really fun for Janeway. Yeah.

Get me some of that. I mean, I probably wouldn't be able to pull off show hair if I had a lot of dopamine. That's where I can see that's the only downside. Right. So seven reports that the shock to everybody gambit is not gonna work. The aliens seem to be controlling the computers

at this point. They don't really have a leg to stand on. They're having this McLaughlin group in her office with the EMH and TuVoc and seven. Is you too. And, you know, they're up against it. Like, the aliens have everybody in a fucking device at this point. And control of the ship, right? Yeah.

And so, if they can't like stop all of the aliens all at once, the aliens can drop many, many crew members, and there's an object lesson in this of a young Ensign who dies of just like a massive raise in her blood pressure on the bridge. Does a blood pressure spike make it look like you've been attacked by a bear, though? What they're describing is her blood pressure spike make it look like you've been attacked by a bear though? What they're describing is her blood pressure went up so much that it just like blew through

all of her arteries and stuff. This is a pretty intense scene because the doctor pronounces that she's dead and her internal organs are basically putting in there. And Janeway continues to do the CPR out of desperation. And so when they finally are like, she's dead, this is not going to help. She gets up and immediately just goes over to Paris's station and puts the ship on ramming speed course with the binary pulsar and begins to play a game of gravimetric chicken with these hailey. I'd say the odds of us getting through this are what?

One in ten? One in twenty. Bet, bet, bet. I got to believe that Janeway always has in her back pocket the interest in destroying the ship at someone. Yeah. Whether or not it's setting auto-destruct or otherwise. This is a fresh new spin on an old favorite, I think.

Yeah. Kim in addition to two vox seems to be the other crew person that is uniquely unaffected in these moments. They both are fine and they're like calling out like the increased to terror dines of gravimetric pressure, etc, etc. And Kim is like, maybe we should like increase power to the shields and one of these aliens reveals herself and is trying to stop the captain.

And it's not the same person. It's not the lady that was in the brig but they're like styled really similarly in a way that I was like, again, Voyager, just like make the one alien the one alien. Yeah. I don't see the point of having two aliens. In this case, I think.

Well, I think it's a jobs program, Ben. I think you want to get some more actors paid. That's the side of it that I'm on. I mean, I'm down with getting more actors paid, but like how... It doesn't sound like you are. But these are like U5 roles and I'm saying one actor could get like a lot of money versus two actors getting like almost nothing. There are no small roles Ben, there's only small actors.

So she is like pleading with Janeway to like make some sense because she can't break Janeway's command controls and she's like, this is so stupid. Like you're gonna destroy yourself just to destroy us and Janeway's like, well that's kind of my whole thing. I love the many of this moment where everyone's like,

should we turn back and Janeway's like, no, faster. She's like putting her arms up like she's on a roller coaster. So as they go through the pulsars, we cut to an exterior where we see a couple of ticks that have like embedded themselves on the forward part of the ship. I guess it's not really the saucer section because it's not a saucer. What is it, the shovel section? The primary hull. Yeah. Because what they call it? Yeah. And you get to make sure when you get ticks off that the head isn't still stuck in there because it can get infected, you know.

You think they took advantage of where the Borg parts were? Oh. Like those were like weakened portions of the hull. Might be a scandal. It's really tearing the fucking ship apart going through, but they make it, and one of the alien ships gets destroyed. It's a good thing that they went through instead of not slingshotting around, because that's time travel. Through is transit around as time travel. Time is a flat circle. So they win the day, gotten rid of all the bad guys, and Paris and Belana have a post nightmare date. It's one of those power couple dates where the entire time they're beating back cell phone calls and people trying to get and get a hold of them from work. I really like these asymmetrical salad plates. Yeah

does it look like them? Yeah. I dig. Pantagonal plate. Kim's at the door. He's loaf blocking. I get the hint Kim. You more than anyone should know what's going on here. This is pretty much the worst time you could have possibly picked to return my tax documents, folder, Harry. Now she's gonna wanna know what's on it and like what I'm into, and I'm not ready to have that conversation yet.

This is kind of a first date. We're not far enough along for that revelation. Yeah. I mean, Harry Kim is used to getting with people We're not far enough along for that revelation. Yeah. I mean, Harry Kim is used to getting with people on hard mode. So he's just kind of enjoying seeing Tom have to do the same, right? When he fucks off, BLT admits that maybe the captain was right about their urges being so out in the open.

Yeah. And then they both come to a horrible realization that they don't know if they were horny or if it was aliens. Yeah. And they also don't know if it was love or aliens. That new relationship energy could have been medically induced. What a terrible realization. Yeah.

But it's makeouts into credits, Adam. They better experiment sexually with whether or not this is real. They do a good job of being an actually sexy make-out, though. I feel like make-outs on TV can often look really gross and awkward, and they really sold this. But was the episode itself super hot, Ben? You know, I'm really easy to to get along with most of the time, but I don't like bullets, and I don't like threats, and I don't like you.

I'm just doing it. Yeah, I found it jackable. I think that, um... Jesus. The medical devices were so nicely designed, the like incredible variety of them that we see, and we see them for like an instant in like the Seven walking around POV sequence, but

they are really cool and interesting looking and they're all different and I think that that kind of typifies What I like about this episode is it seems like a real bottle episode like a real this Hardly impacts the storyline of the show kind of episode, but they didn't hold back on it. It's not a script that feels like it's full of problems, it's not a presentation that feels like it's full of problems, it feels well directed, it feels well acted. So yeah, just a solid episode of Star Trek Co-in Voyager.

Yeah, about the devices, I think what I really liked is how they looked rented. And by that, I mean, they don't look like they were there for comfort. Yeah, yeah. The medievalism of them and how they looked, I thought really set the tone for the idea that they were being used and experimented on without either their knowledge or their comfort in mind.

Yeah, yeah. Even though they couldn't feel it, it just looks like it's something without that kind of regard for the subjects of their trials. Right. Had like 1950s medical device look that like in retrospect looks weird and cruel. Right. Like it looked like electric chair ball gag. Right. Like that kind of thing. That's probably something that was on Tom Parris' tax documents folder that Eric returned to him. It does also seem like a straight over the plate kind of outer limits style episode,

which I think given to a lesser show or a less talented cast might not work, but I think the way that the story is acted and especially by Kate Mulgrue, like this is a low key a really great Kate Mulgrue episode. Totally. For what she's having to do here. I thought it was great for that reason. But I still think, like, I'm very curious about what's gonna happen with Paris and BLT in their relationship because I'm feeling like chased romance between them.

Like, I'm not saying I want to see penetration. But like, they're two attractive people and I don't want this to turn into like a cute thing. I want this to be a real relationship and I hope that they take it in that direction. Wow. Well, and I hope they fuck before salads. Yeah, because you're so full after a salad. Yeah. And you know, sometimes there's raw onion in a salad.

Yeah. Or asparagus. I guess if they both have it. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Or asparagus. I guess if they both have it. Yeah. That's true. Then you don't notice. Hey, this episode aired on my 14th birthday, Adam. What? Yeah. Wow.

So your mom is probably covering your eyes for the makeouts at the end, huh? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Do you want to see if we have anything that we need to cover our eyes for in the P1 inbox? I hope not. I won't be able to read them. Yeah.

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Being a person fantastic Ben Adam you have helped me not unalive myself Wow, they can fart jokes for the wind Ben, Adam, you have helped me not unalive myself. Wow! Dick and Fard jokes for the win. They keep other dumb ideas out effectively. And then there's a request for the Row Lair and Jingle. I mean, it always trips me out to hear that, I'm very very glad that you are here with us Marinera and not no longer here with us because here is better yeah permanent solution to a temporary problem as I always say I never know how to react to

that I think that's the right way to go. We're glad Marinera is here. Yeah. Marinera, stick around. Yeah, stick around. There's a lot more show also. Hey, here's that role-arrangeing all one more time just for good measure. Our next priority one message is from Wiki and it's Blondie. And O-Boner, but she doesn't listen to the pod. Blondie and O-Boner, you did it. You chaired a real marathon main event. No more virtual burr miles. You are running around in your red leather bitty yelling at people for not drinking enough.

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Yeah, yeah. This feels like a throwback to that. This is like somebody in like the Kremlin transmitting something to a sleeper agent in Philadelphia, probably. You probably didn't have earbooks at your tennis high school, but this feels like one of those pages that seniors get where it's all like kind of written in code and with abbreviations and stuff. I didn't even see your page in my earbook. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So you're familiar with the idea? My high school wasn't that Tennessee.

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Hey, Ben. What's that Adam? Did you find yourself a drunk Shimoda? DRAWN CHIMOTA! I did, mind's a timecode Shimoda. Oh shit. Just past the eight minute mark in this episode is when Janeway leaves Chicoetay in charge of whatever is going on with this pulsar on the bridge. And we talked about some of the fun comedy stuff that Beltrend does in this episode, but it would be easy to let this moment go unharbleded as one of his funniest moments in the episode

because it's very subtle, but he really like straightens up into Captain Pose when she leaves him in charge in a way that made me laugh out loud as just a very funny acting choice. I really appreciated it. Boy, you really get it when you watch it on mute. You know what? There is such a thing as the captain squints, too. Yeah. Yeah.

He's like hands behind his back. Yeah. Squints into the view screen. I am the captain now. That's kind of a classic Star Trek scene, and or two, like the squint into the distance. Yeah, squint into the next scene. How about you, did you find a drunk Shimoda in this episode?

I mean, I think for me, it's Paris, just like really being led around by his dick this entire episode. I mean, his crank is probably covered in headgear. Right. Who knows it's going on down there? That's where they did the experiment on him. That a lot of scenes with seven in Paris in the same room, because if they were, I think

we'd see what's going on. True. And just the suggestion that the horniness or even the relationship itself might be an outside force, and not their own personal interest, I think, is a fascinating idea. And I love the idea that BLT and Paris are kind of grappling with that at the end.

So Paris is going to be my Shimoda for that reason. Good Shimoda Adam. Objection noted will do this without you. We got to figure out what we're watching next week and how we're watching it. Why don't you head to guch.bizslashgame. And I will tell you about season four episode 8, Year of Hell, part 1. The Crenum Imperium is attempting to return to its former glory by using a temporal weapon ship that can erase entire species of their enemies from existence. We've met the Crenum before, right? We've been warned about them by, uh,

I think by Cass in that, uh, Cass is aging in reverse episode. Right, because they were involved in that time dabbling. Yeah, so, uh, so the Crenum, we're actually gonna meet them, see what they're up to. Probably gonna be an episode with some Chronometric Particles. It's time travel. I mean, a temporal weapon without Chronometric Particles is barely a temporal weapon at all.

It's just a weapon. Yeah. And don't pretend it's otherwise. You're required to learn as you play. Roll. Ben, our runabout is on square four. Oh, right. We came all the way back around, didn't we?

It's on the bottom of the board. Crazy. A six would give us a caretaker episode which would send us to a random square on the board. But that's the only thing that's not a regular episode. That's a possibility, so. Okay. Give it a roll. Then I've rolled a two which puts us on square six.

Chula! Did I win? Harvey. Which makes Year of Hell part one a regularly done episode by you and me. Wow. What are the chances? I mean, I'm gonna want to drink for hell. So maybe I'll just bring one. Yeah, but I'd like to do it.

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