The Greatest Generation - Our Time of Uncool Death (ENT S4E12)

Episode Date: January 12, 2026

When Shran’s ship gets blown up and the Entrepreneur is nearby to help, the mutual distrust between Tellarites and Andorians simmers over before trade talks can begin. But after the crew uncovers evidence that the marauding ship can shapeshift, Talas gets shot and Trip and Reed get left behind. What’s the Amish-style 69? How many ways can Babel be pronounced? Where do Andorians bust from? It’s the episode that’s Great, not Grawful.Support the production of The Greatest GenerationGet a thing at podshop.biz!Sign up for our mailing list!Follow The Game of Buttholes: The Will of the Riker - Quantum LeapThe Greatest Generation is produced by Wynde PriddySocial media is managed by Rob Adler and Bill TilleyMusic by Adam Ragusea & Dark MateriaFriends of DeSoto for: Labor | Democracy | JusticeDiscuss the show using the hashtag #GreatestGen and find us on social media:YouTube | Facebook | X | Instagram | TikTok | Mastodon | Bluesky | ThreadsAnd check out these online communities run by FODs: Reddit | USS Hood Discord | Facebook group | Wikia | FriendsOfDeSoto.social Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Here's to the finest crew in starving. When it comes to my crew, you won't get any argument from me. This is a parody. Welcome to the Greatest Generation. It's a Star Trek podcast by a couple of guys who are just a little bit embarrassed about having a Star Trek podcast. I'm Ben Harrison. I'm Adam Pranica. It's episode 609.

Nice. Is that like with a pillow in between? How's that work? Is that like Amish style? What is that? When there's a pillow? Or a hula hoop? Is it a hula hoop?

I hope this comes off as the pure, innocent question that I mean it. As. But like, why fireplaces for the Amish? That seems to be like the only product that I've seen that they're like bringing to market. It's popcorn and it's fireplaces that you can buy on TV. They sell them on TV? And it seems like, man, they're doing so many good things with like woodworking and stuff. Yeah.

Why can't I buy like an Amish ADU or something? Like actually make this studio building something that doesn't feel poisonous to me. Yeah. You know? I bet the Amish aren't putting poison in all that. their stuff. I bet it's great. I bet they go on poison rum springers. Sure. I mean, everybody does. Yeah. Did you ever watch that, uh, that like Amish gangsters reality TV show? You know, I don't go for reality TV generally, and I did miss that one.

This was like, uh, like, when I was like traveling for work, something that I would occasionally catch snippets of in a hotel room. This is your comfort watch far from home? Yeah. Like, There was a kind of show, I don't know if they still do this, but there was a kind of show on Discovery Channel for a long time. Moonshiners was another example of this where purportedly the kind of gimmick of the show is like, we're taking a camera crew in there behind enemy lines and like seeing how criminals do the crimeing. And gangsters of the Amish country or whatever, I don't remember what it was called, but was one of them. And you could never quite get your fingers around what crimes they were supposedly arranging when they would go have their various hush, hush meetings. Because they were bringing a camera crew, you know. When you commit Amish crime, like the only sentence is the gallows, right?

Or probably that thing where you tie four horses to your body and then you shoot a gun in the air. And then they run in opposite directions. They just leave a torso behind? You have to tie yourself to the horses? Is that what you're saying? No, I'm saying. You tie four horses to your body? Or somebody else does the tying?

That's how that would work. Yeah, they'd tie four horses to your body and off you go. Yeah. In four different directions. That's got to be one of the top worst ways to go, right? It doesn't sound fun. Because they're like, I don't know, as a kid, I know I used to do this. You like open up the encyclopedia and you see what,

what terrible form of death you'd get sentenced to in the old timey times and it's like wear a helmet filled with spikes that close on you in a very slow way or or like the classic like tard and feathered was like not that long ago and that's like the worst sounding shit ever it does sound really bad why do we do that to each other uh you know just kill me fast that's that's what i'm saying yeah i think that's what we're both saying to our listeners specifically, if you could. Please, just stay calm.

We're going to get you off. Not me. I want to live forever. I want to at least make it to Archer's time where they get out into the galaxy and all of these things that humans have very recently stopped doing are just like the norm for all of the other species. And they're like, what the hell? What's wrong with you guys? Well, it's not even wait to get out there. And we can do that right away. Like now, when we review Enterprise Season 4 episode 12, it's called Babel 1.

Got free speech and guitar. Schran is in a fucked up ship. Very, very badly damaged. I mean, he's kind of like pulling himself around the bridge the way Khan was at the end of Star Trek 2, you know. Except heroically, like the way Worf does and the, Defiant. Yeah. And Star Trek First Contact.

You know, there's a lot of, like, bashing of the panel and frustration, you know? You got to throw more than a girder to take Schran off the board. Like, he just tosses his girder aside. Fuck that. He's going to work. He's a tough little guy. Little. He's great.

He blames the tellerites right away. Yeah. He knows what got him. He puts that out on Maine when he issues the distress call. and then he gets on the one MC and orders his crew to abandon ship. And that's our cold open. After the theme were underway with Enterprise, and Archer is just getting an absolute faceful of Hoshi's fury.

She hates the food and her quarters suck. And Archer caps off his end of the argument with a nice little, you know, if you hate the food so much, it kind of doesn't look that way. To me. Sort of a mic drop at the end. From the looks of things, you should probably skip the dessert table while you're at it. Brutal. This is one of those, like, you know, when you watch one of those like roast battle

social media clips and one of the comics just takes it way too far. I really love the attempt at faking us out. But if you really want us to believe this is Dark Archer, you got to grizzle him up a little bit. He looked too clean. Give him the shadow. Yeah. I would have bought him. hook line and sinker if it was grizzled archer. But now it's clean-shaven archer, so you can't believe

him entirely. And you're right not to, because this is just simulated tellerite practice for what it's like to have an interaction with one of those guys. The only way to earn the respect of a tellerite is to be an even bigger dickhead to them than they are to you, apparently. You have to be one of the best dozens players in the game if you want to step to a tellerite. That's for sure. Oh, man. What's dozens? Isn't dozens?

Yo mama jokes? Oh. Isn't that what those are? Hello and welcome for the dirty dozens where talking trash can get you cash. So if you listen, you'll hear some disson. You know that I was an extra on the Wilmer-Valdorama hosted Yo Mama show on MTV one time? I'm honestly surprised you made it to the show.

Like, was their casting process so? so super like did they even look at you the premise of how I got on it's like it's like booty shorts booty shorts booty shorts booty shorts booty shorts Ben and a cravat I don't yeah cut off cut off cut off bando bra I should see if I could find the

the episode and see if I can spot myself in the background I have no memory of what I wore Ben you have only one job for research and that is getting your own mugshot and putting it on a mug for the FODs. If I could hold a thought in my mind for more than three seconds, I would commit to you that after this recording is over, I would be going directly to my wife

and asking her to use her lawyer skills to do that. But I can commit to you this. I won't remember. Okay. Yeah, my friend Jesse was like, I don't know how he got cast as one of the contestants, but he was in like a initials. I think it was like a tournament,

so there would be like five or six people your mama joking on each other at the beginning and then by the end it would like it would like whittle down to like these are like the dirtiest haters in the country and you know they took us out to some like sort of vaguely industrial looking site in Brooklyn and gathered everybody around

and I was in Jesse's crew you know I was one of the people that was there to go oh shit every time he you know got off a particularly barbed your mama joke I bet you were great at that. You're such a good laugher and reactor to my bullshit. Like, who wouldn't want that on their show?

Absolutely. That show is huge on Talar Prime or whatever. Right? Yeah, pretty salad. They eat dogs, we learn. They like eating doggies. So we're going to keep Porthos away from the ambassadors. We learned that this is an Uber mission to get a tellerite ambassador from the

Tellerite Homeworld to Babel, a planet upon which peace talks will take place with the Andorians. Did it sound like they said Babel in this scene? Some people say Babel in this episode, and I think Archer is one of them. It's pretty squishy as a pronunciation. Look at me, questioning someone else's pronunciation of anything. Yeah. What a hypocrite. I mentioned like meta-information.

at some point in a college class one time and there was like an old lady that was taking the class like she was she was like a retiree who was auditing some college courses for fun and she came up after class and it was like what was that word you used? Mata

Ooh That's fun Yeah Archer's log tells us about this Uber mission and it's because they're working on a trade dispute the tellerates and the Andorians are and part of

it is getting the tellerites there. Yeah. I mean, tellerites can't take themselves. It's because they're not allowed to fly their ships through Andorian space. Right. And Babel, or as Arnold Schwarzenegger pronounced it when he was reading out the nominees for best picture, Babel, is on the opposite side of Andorian space. I'm about to read the best films.

The films of the best filmmaking capabilities. He's arm. Get an unusual view of the shuttle bay when the tellurites show up. I feel like they must have had this the entire time, but I don't remember seeing it before, which is that when you get out of the shuttle, you come out the top and up a ladder that folds down from the catwalks above the shuttles. Pretty fun. It's like you're getting out of a tank.

You flip open the hatch like that. Yeah, I love it. Yeah. Archer rips into this dude right away. You people are even uglier than I remember. Archer kind of towers over him. The tellerite seemed to be short kings. Isn't that a theme in Star Trek? The folks of an alien species that you don't get along with are often shorter, aren't they? Yeah, yeah, the prickly or the alien, the shorter the stature. Yeah, yeah. This is Ambassador Grawl. He's got a whole group of folks with him.

who complain immediately about the thermostat settings. Yeah. Tripp digs the bluntness. He's getting along with these guys. They have a little reception. Yeah. Hey, Jeff, break out the bouquet of parsnips and peppers.

We got the tellerites here. You know how to do it. Come on. Chef's the best in Starfleet. How much fun would it be to be the food designer for Star Trek? When I'm in the produce aisle and I'm picking out my root vegetables. I don't like the ones with a big shoot coming off,

and yet all of these parsnips have the shoots, almost more shoot than parsnips. You know why? Because that long tail, you're paying for all of that weight, right? But that's not going to roast up nice. You can't cut that into one inch cubes. You know, it's great.

It's like you grab six parsnips with long tails. You just tie the tails together. All of a sudden, you don't need a bag. Oh, you can truss up the bird with those tails later, you know. That's using the whole buffalo, isn't it? Yeah. You trust the goose with parsnip tails, and then the fat drips down as it renders onto the parsnips. What are little bends made of?

Snips and snails and parsnip tails. And then after the meal, you have those nice roasted parsnip tails. You can floss with that. Fun moment between Tripp and Archer here. As you were saying, Tripp is like, I kind of like the honesty. This is fun. your mind for a change. And when radical honesty is taken to

its final degree, everyone realizes that it's a little less fun when your captain is permitted to rip on you the way that he does in this scene. Doesn't Topal do radical honesty too? That's just it. That's her resting state. But they don't offer information that they're not asked

about. Is that the difference? Yeah, I think that is the difference. Yeah, Tripp gets told he's stinky. Does it change the way you feel about Tripp Tucker, knowing he's the little stink pot? A little stinky boy? Yeah. He's a dirty, dirty stink boy. I don't think I like him. I don't think those uniforms are very breathable either.

It makes me like him all the more at him. You know, nice to find one of my own out there among the stars. Ech. Topal tells Archer that Ambassador Graal wants a word. and Archer tells him, hey, we're an Andorian space. Isn't that neat? Girl's like, man, been a long time since I've been in the blue part of space. Mostly I'm used to bluing things up when I roll through from time to time. You know what I'm saying?

Probably why you're giving me a ride, Captain Archer. Bluing up Andorians, bluing up toilets. Yeah. Bluing up the spot of your stinky, stinky engineer, Trip Tucker. I'm on growl's side here when he's like, look, man, couldn't help it notice. Kind of a lack of beef on the table. You don't go to Italy to eat to eat hamburgers. Right.

Captain Archer, so why is there no earth food on offer? If I'd wanted to eat like this, I would have stayed at home. Nobody has ever laid out a diplomatic reception for me. but if they did I would be highly insulted going to another culture if they like was like

this is our version of what you are used to you know like I'm not a fucking frog that you need to put a leaf and a stick in a terrarium for to make me feel like

I'm in my natural environment it's a very unconfident move by a culture to be like we don't think you'd like what we eat we think you'd like

our version of what you like better, which we also know to be bad. Yeah. Right? Yeah. He's in a grumpy mood. As a tellerite, that's kind of his resting state. But the grump is also partly inspired by his mistrust of humans and whether they can be dispassionate arbiters in this trade dispute.

What with the fact that they're a little bit buddy, buddy with the Antorians. Doesn't love this. But Archer seems to be on his way toward building some kind of. not camaraderie, but like rapport with this grumpy man. That word works. Yeah. Anyways, he gets called away to the bridge

before he can really do this. And this is where we hear scraps of Schran's distress signal. And Archer realizes that the entrepreneur is the only ship within range of his little buddy Schran. He's got to go rescue him. It didn't sound like Shran to me

over the radio. I thought it just might have been Jeffrey Combs again, you know, doing that magic trick of sounding like a very different person every time we encounter him. I don't think Archer knows either. All they know is that they're going to go ahead for this distress call. And once they arrive, it's a cloud of debris out there. It's clearly an Andorian combat vessel that's exploded. And there's a ton of escape pods out there too. Archer's like, All right, round them up, bring them aboard. And bang, bang, bang.

We're in Six Bay from there. And Archer goes to greet. And this is where Archer meets Tran. He survived. He did not go down with the ship. No. He learns that he is among 19 survivors. There were 86 souls aboard that ship, Adam.

You know what that means? The dead count in the number of six, Seven! I'm just looking at the time and the date. This is the moment our show became cool. Mark it down, dude. Okay. Our time of uncool death has been noted.

They were escorting their ambassador, Adam. Yeah. Shran's all in on the tellurites being the ones who attack them. But why even do it? a trade meeting if you're just going to attack one of the parties attending that meeting. Yeah. Right? That doesn't make any sense.

Some interesting information gets sprinkled in here. He mentions that their vessel was like insanely maneuverable, which he has not seen. Yeah. Out of a tellerite combat situation before. He's like, if you don't trust me, Archer, black boxes somewhere in that debris field, you dig that out. You're going to find that, in fact, it was the dirty, dirty tellerites that done it. really a bad time for humor when archer's like,

why didn't you just build your whole chip out of the black box material, Fran? Makes sense, right? Yeah, I love what his antennae do when he hears this one, you know? Ben, I've got a dog that has a tail that curves up, which means you can see her butthole all the time. I find Andorian antennas, the holes, look like old dog buttholes.

That's what they look like to me. It do look like something could come out of them, right? Yeah, I can't unsee it. Is that where it comes out when they bust? Do they do it like Navi where it's like tip to tip? I've never seen a Navi movie, so I don't know. You gotta see them. They're so good.

I don't believe they are. I think they're ironically good. I think film nerds are for some reason. Like, I don't know what film nerds are trying to do with these movies. but I'm skeptical to say the least. Ben, here's a question. Yeah. If the Avatar movies are so great and important and make so much money,

how come no one knows anything about them? How come there's no line of dialogue that's like entered the zeitgeist as being like, oh yeah, Avatar's got that line. Astila Vista baby or whatever. There's none of those. No one can name a character. I'm not even sure these movies are real. can name Sully, you know, the like main bad guy when he's got a great line delivery when he meets Sully

and he's like game recognized game for your soldier skills. Venezuela, that was some mean Bush. See, that, tell me a line like that as an avatar. That is from Avatar. Oh, I thought Bush meant, you know. Now, the Navi seem largely hairless aside from what's going on on top of their heads. I don't know, man. What's it going to cost you to test this theory? Three hours of my life that I'd rather spend watching train dreams or something? I'd watch train dreams four times over watching an avatar film.

Give me a break. What a strange hill to die on. The way James Cameron has died career death doing avatar films. Oh, yes. Come on, man. Come back into the light. Yeah. Make true lies too.

That poor, poor man making the movies of his dreams and being rewarded with all of the riches of Averis. Come back. Come back to us, James. They're irrelevant. They really don't matter. I like them. All right. Anyways, Archer reveals to Shran that there are tellerites aboard.

Hey, hey, who said we weren't going to have an argument for Rob to turn into an Instagram? It's a good thing it's about Star Trek so that, you know. Look at us. This is great. By the time this episode comes out, Avatar will be out of theaters for months, right? Oh, yeah, when's it coming? It's coming really soon, right? I have no idea. Maybe. Christmas? Christmas is when big movies like that drop. I think it'll still be there. I'll probably be on my third viewing.

Well, it's going to be a real hot post. Yeah. Archer reveals that there are tellerites. Tran is like trying to just like march out of six bay to go get them. I love this. An Archer has to be like, hey man, be cool, you're on my ship, and they're my passengers. You can't just attack someone else on Archer's ship. You just can't, guys. I love how he's physically restrained from doing that. Yeah.

Really fun. But it's going to be a real lizards versus dogs kind of situation where we got people on board that should not run into each other by rights. So. Cut to the armory where. There's a character who shouldn't run into anyone. Read. I need something to do on this ship, Commander. Fair enough.

I'm just hoping we don't keep you quite so busy. He's found out that tellurite particle cannons were responsible for much of the damage on the hull pieces. They dragged out of space and studied. And Paul has the last few seconds of the sensor data on this little screen if you want to watch it. And what they watch is a couple of seconds of this ship. Yeah. I think the event of the black box is as badly damaged as this. is good evidence for not using black box materials in the construction of ships.

But yeah, it looks pretty damning. That does look like a tellerite ship on there. Yeah. So they go to Grohl with this and he denies everything. He wants the Andorians off the ship. Archer's like, actually, you're going to hate this, Grohl. We're actually heading to Andoria. So to drop them off first.

Ah, you're not going to like that, are you? Sorry. He's like, I don't want to go there. They'll probably arrest me. Makes a ton of sense if you're Grohl. Like, he's claiming innocence, but innocent or not? Like, what do you think is going to happen when you're on Andorio's doorstep? Yeah, there's still like a procedure that would get put in place to determine his innocence or not.

And, yeah, shit could not be more tense. So Archer and Shran go have some drinks in the captain's mess. and they have a little toast to the Komari. And Shrain talks about what this vessel was to him. And I've really liked this. I liked hearing a captain in Star Trek talk about their crew from the perspective of like we don't know their crew at all and we don't know this captain that well.

Like this is the ship he served on for 12 years. He loved those guys. He knew their families. Really happy that. Talus survived, so at least he can like still get laid pretty reliably, but like, what a bummer. Schran revealing himself to be this sort of captain

where on his ship, everyone, his family, didn't love that. That's usually this sort of thing that a bad captain says to a crew that he's about to fire. It's the only family you can get laid off from. Legally it's just a... What I'm actually You will never take the greatest chin alive

Ben would rather die What I do like about this moment is just captains being bros and knocking back a bunch of shots of Andorian ale In the process. Pretty great. Yeah, pretty fun. I love how, like, Archers baited into a question about Talus, you know, like about,

well, you really shouldn't fuck your crew and so forth, but he doesn't really take the bait on that. Look at me, Shran. Look at my crew. You know, you honestly think I've not thought about this. Archer encounters a lot of folks who dick down and are dicked down. And yet Archer himself, not a very sexual being. Yeah. Wouldn't you say? I feel like is the other Starfleet captain that he fucked at the beginning of this season the first time? Yeah. It's like the one person he had sex with.

that I can remember. He's attracted to power, isn't he? Yeah, yeah. Because, like, before when she wasn't the same rank as him, he wasn't that interested. That's true. Yeah, subject change here. Wars coming, huh? That sucks.

That's going to suck for everyone, isn't it? Still, it is crazy that the tellerites would do something like this, right? Like, they're kind of tossing this around conversationally, like, I just don't get it. Yeah, and, like, a lot of ships have been. going missing along the border. Hey, Andorian, figure that out. I didn't love hearing that either. Yeah.

We're losing ships in the Andorian fleet. And Archer's like, you know the tellerites have too. And train's like, I don't buy that for a second. What? Yeah. Yeah. Topal calls Archer to the bridge because an Andorian ship is incoming. So just a couple of drunk captains saunter their way over to see what's going.

on and this mystery ship isn't picking up the phone. No. But it does shoot first. The look on Schran's face when they start getting shot at by this Andorian ship is... Comes right through the makeup. One of my favorite Jeffrey Combs looks, like to the extent that like when we come back from commercial break, we're like in a different angle and he's like still making the face. And I was like, yay, they got it again.

He can do it. He can do it in multiple takes. He's so good. Yeah, not a fluke is that face. Enterprise basically gets shot out of warp, and Schran blows in a call himself. I'm over here. Yeah, yeah. Is the tone of it, and that doesn't stop him. No damage when they return fire, so Schran is asked to give up some tactical info,

and he goes and like a ghost helping someone throw a pot. wraps his arms around Reed and helps him aim the guns at the right spot. These are the coordinates to their shield general. Fire one ready. I mean, if you didn't compare it to that, I would have direct hit. I'm like that reaction gift, like that, what the fuck? You know, Reed getting aiming help at any. point in this series always amuses me.

Pretty great. They're still getting their asses kicked, but they release a volley of torpedoes, and that seems to scare off the other ship. And a couple of times in this episode, we get just like a little pepper of information that's like, hmm, something's going on here. And with this one, it's like, huh, there were some strange fluctuations of their power grid that don't really comport with what we know about shooting endorian ships. Love a shot down a long conference room table.

That's the next scene where Shran sits across from Gral and archers middling. They continue to argue about whose fault it is for these attacks. Schran suggests that the ship that attacked them wasn't Andorian. They've had a bunch of these ships go missing like we talked about. Could be a modified Andorian ship with a nefarious crew. Oh. Maybe once they find this ship abandoned, it'll be like they went joyriding in it and used it as a toilet. You know?

Yeah, you know, Archer is trying to assure Groll that they've got a bunch of boys down to the crime lab working in chiefs. But Gral does not like this. And he and Tran almost come to blows. Yeah. They are leaping across the conference table at each other. That's why I feel like when you do a seating chart for a negotiation like this, you got to sit long ways at the table, right? Yeah, yeah. Not short ways.

You got to do like Lord and Lady of the Manor positioning for the warding factions. Like your dining room table with all the candelabras. Like you want to negotiate over something like that. Yeah. So the tellerites like get back together in their. dorm. They're like, man, this archer dude is totally in the bag for the Andorians. We're basically being treated like prisoners aboard this ship. And I'm kind of on their side here, Ben. Like, archers paling around with Schran. Did you smell the Andorian ale on his breath? It's unmistakable,

right? You see these guards outside the door? Yeah. Like, come on. Isn't it if we are prisoners are duty to not only please that booty but also escape. That's prisoner's law, right? That is prisoner's law. Why don't we try that? On the bridge to Paul does a presentation to Archer and Tran. The sort of presentation that suggests that two things may be different, but then they do that ninnon, ninnon, ninn, and then like the two pictures of things

are like imperceptibly on top of one another. Like you can see no difference between the two pictures. pictures. They look at it and the pictures are the same. Yeah. They're the same picture. They love doing this fucking shit in Star Trek. It's great. This is at least as old as TNG as an idea. Yeah. If not older. And yeah, like, Schran is like, I don't buy it. Like this, this idea that the tellurites and the Andorians that have been involved in the last two attacks have like identical power signatures. Archer's like, I mean, I don't know what it means either, dude, but Topal isn't exactly known for like fabricating data.

Why don't we just keep an open mind about this whole lots of ships disappearing along the border and a bunch of people being attacked for reasons that we can't really explain and also the power signatures seem to be the same by the attacking ship. I don't know what I'm suggesting, but we need to keep our minds open. Schran and Growl are like, that's cool and everything, Archer, but we came to this with our own personal beliefs. And it's going to take a little bit more of the, proof to change our minds about such things, okay?

Shran gets pretty hot about this. Like, whoa, and even, like, takes it out onto Paul. Archer's got to, like, get in between them a little bit. You don't like seeing that. You don't. Not Tran's finest hour. Yeah. Kind of saved by the bell, because Tripp radio's up and says,

Warp and Hull plating will be back soon. And Archer's like, all right, we're going to. go pursue that ship because we actually have like the warp signature and and can follow them still and trans like what about my guys they're all covered in blue burger we got to get them to and doria and archer says if we go to and doria we're losing this marauder who uh might be up to something to stop peace talks and i can't afford to do that this moment in retrospect comes back in a very strange way I just want to note this for later. I'm going to want to talk about this moment

toward the end of the episode. All right. So in the captain's mess, it's just a table for two with Archer and Topal. DePaul's like, babe, what's wrong? You're hardly touching your space sandwich.

I'm just not hungry. Meanwhile, Tapal is just hammering the Vulcan iced tea. Like, you hate to see it. Yeah. I feel like everybody knows this guy, like the person that's in recovery, that is like constantly got like a huge thermos of coffee, you know?

It's like, man. Yeah, we got to dunk on that person. What a dork. Archer wants to know to Paul's opinion about whether or not a trade deal constitutes maybe moving too fast. In light of all the baggage everyone's got, you know, with the Andorians and the tellerites. Speaking of things that don't seem like a good match, Topal got a message early. or from Koss, from Vulcan. Their marriage is over.

It's official. The paperwork was processed. Yeah. That's nice. She's officially back on the market, I suppose. That's got to be nice for the boys. Yeah. Coincidentally, Reed blows in a call to Archer saying,

they found the Andorian ship. But we cut to a different ship from the one that they're talking about. This one looks very alien. On board, we see a bunch of proto breadbox. Romulans in there. And they got a body, like a gimp guy, strapped to a helmet with a whole bunch of wires coming out of it. And they are not happy that Enterprise is rolling up on him. It took me a while to even notice that guy. He was so, like, ensconced in the technology. I was like, oh, fuck, there's a guy in there. Well, there is the one Romulan drumming his fingers on the top of his

latex head. Yeah, as he decided what to do with their... his captives. Yeah. Yeah. Brian Thompson is in there. Amazing. Fun to see him. One of the great faces.

Yeah. Is he still alive? I think so. I feel like Brian Thompson's In Memorium Real is going to be like, look, it's always sad when someone dies and the in-memorium moment of the Academy Awards is always really sad.

But like some people get pops from that. I feel like Brian Thompson is going to get that recognition pop. Yeah. Once people see how many cool things he's been in. I think Brian Thompson, yeah, Brian Thompson's still working.

Hey! Way to go, Brian Thompson. I won't cease or desist. It's fair you. On the Enterprise Bridge, they blow in a call. But the ship is screening at the moment. So gives them time to give this thing

a bit of a look. Kind of interesting set of spikes on this thing, huh? And all those spectral emitters? Lot of spikes. Yeah. What are those four? What is this all about? So they're going to send a boarding party over. And this boarding party is going to go in spacesuits because they can't really detect if there's like oxygen or like life support going on on board. If you were wearing one of these, could you go into a Zindy aquatic ship and swim around in there.

Do you think one of these suits would be good for that? Or would the pressure crush you? I don't know. I wish we got that scene in the Zindi Ark. Yeah. So I love these like wide-ass lenses that they put on low angles when the boarding party goes over. It's Trip Reed and a couple of Makos.

And they're gonna, they're like in Jeffrey's tubes, essentially. Like they're in like working parts of the ship. there's nobody there. Yeah, they think they're in an empty ship at this point. They don't know what we know about that room full of ROMs. Yeah. They're hard at work trying to repair the ship. And if they can't, they're fine with blowing it up rather than allowing Starfleet to have it.

Yeah, the order is given, like, let's get ready to overload the core in case we can't get the ship working again. And everybody's like, oh, man, what? but we can't let this fall into Starfleet hands. Yeah, can't do that. Tucker blows in an update to Enterprise where he asks Tepal for help turning on the power, but the power turns on all by itself. Tepal didn't do anything.

And that's when the ship starts zooming around, all willy-nilly, dropping bangers on Enterprise, and like inside the ship as it's doing the zoom-arounds, this Dustbuster Club is getting thrown around like nickels in a coffee can. It looks very uncomfortable, very painful. And on board the entrepreneur,

they're like, oh, fuck, let's get those guys out of there before they get turned into cat food. But they can only transport one at a time because of like shields that have gone up on the other ship. And so they start getting them out. They get the second Mako. And as she steps off the transporter pad, it kind of explodes behind her.

And what a feeling that had to be to be her. Yeah, wild day on set. I was in a spacesuit and they set off explosions right next to me. She turns around to stare at what exploded behind her. And her uniform is just totally backless, like all the way down. It's like she's wearing a hospital gown. Crazy. I thought you were going to say, she said, did I do that?

That's not what I was going to say. I thought you were going kind of a more Urkel direction with that. No, I chose against. Fair enough. Fair enough. I mean, we did just recently turn this podcast cool, so we don't have to talk about Urkel if we don't want to. Yeah, we're now a Stefan Urkel type of show. Sure.

Stefan, stop. You're embarrassing me. I was shocked that Enterprise turned and ran at this point. They're going to leave Reed and Tripp over there because Enterprise is taking so much damage. They can't stay. And they have no way of getting them out of there without the transporter. Archer tells Reed and Tripp to sit tight as if they had any choice. They're pressed up against a bulkhead right now, Captain Archer.

Yeah. The Romulan ship decides to pursue. do. And every move this thing makes really gives Tripp and Reed a good tossing. Reed's suit gets damaged in the last jostle, actually, and they've got to share the air supply, which means neither are going to have a lot of it left pretty soon. The lenses have now gotten so absurdly wide. Like, we're verging in fish-eye territory here, and Tripp is like, all right, I'm going to try and figure out if there's life support that I can turn on. What's crazy is I saw a little bit of like behind the scenes footage of this moment.

And you see who's behind the camera and you hear what you said. What is that? My lens is wide beyond belief. Reid's going to get started on some letter writing. And on the entrepreneur, they step on it. And they've got these new plasma injectors that make them go so fucking fast. outrun these fuckers. I mean, there's a moment it doesn't feel that way

because the speed is increasing very slowly. It is. Like, tenths of a warp speed. Then, this is the moment I wanted to circle back to that first part. Why isn't there any concern once they ditch this thing about never being able to find the ship again

with read and trip on board? Because there was so much concern about losing it before. Oh, yeah. I mean, I guess if they're being chased... Their reasonable expectation is they will continue to be chased. Can they be confident in that? Like, once they put enough distance between themselves and the other ship, they can, like, level out the speed and just like...

But I don't know. Yeah, like, that's a good question. Yeah. Yeah. We're not concerned about answering that in this moment. Instead, we're in Transcorders where he is so aggravated about his situation, how powerless he feels. Maybe an interrogation of Grail would make him feel better. Give him some answers, certainly. Talas is ready to help.

She's game. He wants to leave, and he wants her to bypass the security protocols so that he can make his way to where Ambassador Grail is and torture answers out of him, because he does not think that Starfleet is getting straight dope out of Grail, and the only way he can think of to do that is, enhanced interrogation techniques. It's going to be tough, though, because his favorite torturing chair was destroyed on his ship.

And so he's like looking around at the office furniture, like, I guess one of these will have to do, right? It's like these Starfleets never want to skish them anybody. It's tough about these Starfleet chairs. They're not perforated, you know, to allow the juices to flow through them. Yeah, and they haven't cut away the cane work around the bottom so that you can swing a rope up under their nut sack. Yeah, yeah, so he's going to have some challenges in order to do his favorite thing. Do tellurites keep their genitals in the same place as everybody else? I doubt it.

Yeah, they don't look like it. In the alien ship, Trip works to try to figure out the life support situation because they're going to need some air soon. Yeah, Reed's had his hose knocked out, and they're like, man, maybe there's like atmosphere on the bridge. It seems like maybe if not down here, certainly there. We cut over to that bridge that they're talking about, where the ROMs are discussing what to do now. They can't leave any living witnesses to this prototype vessel, so they have got to destroy enterprise or destroy themselves. Yeah. I mean, like, this goes to your question of, like, what confidence does the entrepreneur have?

have that they can ever find these guys again. Yeah. But nobody on the entrepreneur knows this. Yeah, it's true. So, yeah. DePaul tells Archer that she's done some more scanning and realized that this ship is using baridium cells, which I love that Archer gets this, you know, he like fills in the blank before she can tell him.

He's like, oh, it's just like the Romulan minefield. She's like, yeah. I mean, tenuous connection because they're like, better and more advanced and whatever, but maybe there's a Romulan connection here. It's probably Romulan or probulin, for short. Right. And that stirs up a bunch of questions.

Like, what the fuck do they care about a trade agreement between the tellerites and the Andorians? Like, what are we talking about here? Do you think that, like, on the Romulan dating apps, like something you could write in your bio is like, I'm a real probulin who loves drama. You know, they'd be fun. Yeah, yeah.

I'm a southerner in the streets and a northerner in the sheets. Oh, yeah. Oh, you know that's fun. Probably not anyone good for a long-term relationship, but good for a fling. Yeah, yeah, if you're like blow into town, if you're in the valley of Chula. Yeah. to believe On that alien ship

Reed and Tripp cut through door after door. They have not ran out of any welding fuel for their phasers. They're happy to move from compartment to compartment. They just can't find this bridge. Where is this thing?

Their plan is to follow the dryer ducts. Like eventually these dryer ducks are going to lead to a bridge. All roads lead to Paris and all dryer ducts lead to Romulan Bridge. And I love how they keep, like, checking in on how much oxygen they may or may not have left. Yeah.

And then, like, going to, like, character building. Like, I cannot stress how dire the situation. Anyways, now that to Pol's available, trip, do you think you'll make another run at that? You're going to tap it? Yuck. Yuck. I don't think that this, like, Reed has the mindset of a killer, you know? Like, you're supposed to be the weapons and tactics.

officer, you're in one of the most, like, dire situations you've ever been in. You're going to fucking suffocate in the belly of an unknown alien ship. You're thinking about whether Tripp is going to date to Paul? I thought it was weird that Tripp consented to Reed's pursuit of her, as if it was up to him. But he's like, yeah, yeah, if you want to date her, that wouldn't bug me. Go ahead. Come on, Tripp. It would bug you.

Admit it. Admit that it would bug you. I mean, maybe Tripp is more evolved, you know? Like, he's a future human. Maybe it wouldn't. I'm going to gesture toward the past three and a half seasons of evidence. Do you believe Tripp Tucker is more evolved than that? Don't wait for the translation, answer me now.

They find a maneuvering thruster. and they're like, hey, this thing has oxygen in it. Maybe we can squirt some oxygen out of it and into our suits and not die so quickly. How badly did you want a hot shots joke here? Where the only breathable gas they have is like oxygen mixed with helium. Can we have a little fun in these Enterprise episodes? A little bit of fun would be nice. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, speaking of topping off, Talas is looking fine as hell attempting to seduce the Mako at her doorway.

Yeah, I didn't know that overriding security protocols just meant like getting down to your skivies and doing like a porno come on to the Mako guard standing in the hallway. Her big story is that before getting married, all Andorians have a hall pass they can choose to use. And given that they're out in a hall, he's her pass. Yeah. I've never had relations with a member of your species. I was hoping you'd indulge me. Go back to your quarters.

But this Mako isn't fallen for it, and he gets his ass absolutely kicked for this. This poor guy does the right thing and just gets put into the ground for it. The kickboxing match does not go well, Enterprise, for this Mako Krooman. Now. And meanwhile, over on the Romulan bridge, they're like, fuck, someone is a board. Like somebody is opening up a maneuvering thruster and getting oxygen out of it on board the ship. And orders are given to turn on internal sensor.

I would have kept them on personally. If it was me, if I was Brian Thompson, leave them on. I don't know. It's very distracting to have a screen on when you're trying to do work. Sure. Yeah. Probably one of those bridges where you put your phone on a little cubby. So you can get the work done.

Oh, you're saying like it's a skiff. Like you're lock it up before going in there. Yeah. A yonder bag on that bridge. Yeah, we're working on new material. We don't want to get in out before we teleifies the special, you know. I mean, this ship is new material, isn't it? I'd buy that.

I've never been to a show where I had to put my phone in a yonder bag. What the fuck? What? I think I've been to more shows with yonder bags than without. It sucks. But it just, like, statistically it seems unlikely that you would never have done that. I've never, never once in my life been asked to put my phone in a bag. Ben?

I've had to put my phone in special cubbies in government buildings more times than I've put my phone in bags. Have you not been to the improv or the store lately? It feels like that's part of the deal. I've never been to the improv of the store. What? You have never been to the comedy store or the improv? No. On the alien bridge, we see, uh,

some closed circuit TV footage, you know, like they click through the channels, finally get the humans in that compartment. And knowing that their inertial stabilizers could, like, those only work on the bridge. Those aren't going to work in the tunnels where Reed and Trip are. They decide to drive the ship like a van that's got a carjacker in it, but they don't have their seatbelt on.

They're really zooming around here. I love this order by Brian Thompson. evasive maneuvers, not for evading anything, but for shaking the can with the nickels in it. You remember taking this ship on a test drive when the guy that worked at the dealership wasn't around? Yeah. Like, let's do that. Tripp and Reid come up with the idea that magnetizing their boots will help them from thrashing around so much. And they keep kind of making their way forward.

And over on the entrepreneur, Schran is now sneaking around. and like coming out of like access panels and shooting makos so that he can get closer to the tellerite quarters they are moving around pretty easily i thought yeah not a great look for the makos that as many of them have been taken out before the alarm goes up do you feel like this is an indictment of the makos or an example of shran and the and or doryans just being really good at this shit i don't know because Because, like, the, ultimately what calls Archer to the, like, archer's on the bridge and, like, learning from Hoshi and DePaul that this, this ship that they found, like, all of the antennas and emitters on it are designed to make it able to impersonate other ships.

And then somebody's like, oh, man, like, weapons fires going off all over the ship. Maybe we should get down to the teller right quarters, make sure those guys are safe. And I feel like they shot a lot of weapons. before we heard about it on the bridge. Yeah. I mean, they make it to the teller egg quarters, and it's interrogating time. Yeah.

There is like a gun to the chest of the ambassador. There is some really fun combat stuff going on in the hallways. I thought the way the cameras moved and the way Archer is like running at a full sprint and Makos are like getting, you know, like shooting back and forth with Andorians. All looked really awesome. The whip pan isn't really available in scenes like this generally because of the width of the corridor, right? Like you can only use it at an intersection to make that work. And yet this running and shooting sequence is just really dynamic feeling for all those camera moves.

Really good stuff. So Archer makes it just. before the ambassador is about to get slimed by Schran. And he's like, hey, Schran, like, I, like, literally am just coming from a briefing where I learned about that ship that we just saw and how it is, like, designed to, it's like an imposter ship. It's designed to look like other ships. Can you put down your gun for, like, a minute so I can show you this new evidence?

Like, five minutes even. I don't want to underestimate the amount of time. Guns down, five minute break. what do you say? And it seems like everyone does that thing where they slowly put down their guns but growl's fucking dick valet

he's the slowest one to put it down like in this kind of standoff there's always the one that does it the slowest just in case that's what this guy does and he shoots Talas God fucking damn it I was really affected by this I think Talas is cool as hell

I don't want her to die and I don't think Talas wants to die either And when Talus asks Stran if like, it's bad, do you believe Shran when he says it's not that bad? Or is this Shran like trying to be brave and like trying to give Talus some bravery about that? I don't want to like look ahead and see if Molly Brink is in the next episode. The fucking screen grab is showing like an Andorian torpedo being shot out into space. Like fuck! Paramount Plus is the worst.

It's like seen from the window of a ship and you can see Schran crying in the reflection. Come on, spoiler alert on the fucking episode tile? What the hell? I don't know. It looked like it was just like her shoulder, right? Like it didn't look that bad to me. There wasn't like blue burbling out of it. Do Andorians keep their most important?

organs in the same place. Oh, yeah. Her lungs are right there in her shoulder. I know. Right? Could be. It's only a flesh wound. Our away team, Trip and Reed, make it to the bridge of this ship that they've been

trapped on. And it's fucking empty. Hey, Reed, where'd that gimp go? There's like a giant glowing jujube where the gimp, where the gimp, where the gimp, would be. Yeah. Yeah. I love this set.

It feels alien and weird. It really is cool. I mean, we get a couple of different looks because we cut over to the bridge that we're familiar with this episode, with the crew we've gotten to know. And outside their window, we see they're not on a ship at all.

They're controlling this thing from afar on Romulus. That's our to be continued. Did you like this episode? episode Adam. I can't pay. Could for late. Got no case. Tapting.

Fate. Capital G. Great. How would you like it? I said, capital G. Graffle. I loved it.

I thought it was super fun. I was kind of wondering how they would show us the ROMs in full light. You know? What are they up to? What is their dark secret? Yeah. I like that they're experimenting in remote control starships. That's neat.

Will the Starfleets ever be like definitively sure that this was the Romulans? Like I kept wondering like how are they fucking bringing the Romulans back because of the way the Romulans get introduced in TOS? Like are they sensitive to like the Canon implications? And now I'm like, oh, like maybe the Starfleets will never be totally sure if this was a Romulan ship. And that's so Romulan, right? That's so Romulan.

It's always a game of chess with them, isn't it? Yeah, like, I love that they, like, reused the 3D model of the Romulan capital city from Nemesis. Like, I know that that's, like, controversial for a lot of people, but I fucking like that movie. And I like the, I like the way this city looks when we get the, the wide shot of it. Ben, you're an incredible person of contrasts. Ben likes and watches Nemesis, the semi-reviled Star Trek film, also never used a yonder bag. You're a man of mystery.

I've never been asked to, you know? I think that they can trust me. When I walk into a venue, they say, that's a man that can be trusted with the material being performed herein. This episode was made 20 years ago, almost exactly 20 years ago. And I don't feel like you could make this episode today, because it's so on the nose with the whole like, well, when proof doesn't agree with your beliefs,

you can just disregard the proof. And it being such an uncomfortable feeling for, for Gral and Tran. Like, I feel like it would be too on the nose for right now. But as it was, really good stuff. And I think it's important that Tran is one of these people because I love seeing that character kind of tormented with what he believes to be true

and his many aggressions and yet his allegiance to Archer, who he clearly loves and, like, wants to work with, I don't know. I like how messy this is. I do too. It's good TV.

Yeah. I wish all of the stories like this and millions of others that we got in between, like, the end of the 40s, and the end of the 2000s had prepared our culture for these kinds of people, but it doesn't seem like it did. Yeah, no one's paying attention.

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Yeah, I mean, now's the time, Ben, to put some fucking bumpers on this bowling alley of whatever AI is going to be. Until we can figure this out. Yeah. Right? Until we can figure out what's going on. Yeah. And this sounds like a really good place to put some energy.

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Ben, in my childhood, there was definitely, you know, like the judge and the executioner figure of the parents. Like, my mom was the judge. My dad was the executioner. Like, only one adult in my house was wielding the spoon and the belt. Oh, man. I got to ask you, like, if Picard and Cisco were your dad's, who would you want to be which of those? I feel like Picard is naturally the judge.

Oh, yeah. I mean, he's the one telling you, you know, the guiding principle of Starfleet is the truth and all that. But Cisco had his moments too, you know? He did, yeah. When Cisco looked at it. into the camera. Yeah.

You know that's your fucking ass. But I feel like also, like, nice parent sometimes is actually where the buck stops. Like, I don't know. There's the disciplinarian parent who gets stuck with the job most of the time, but if you turn nice parent against you, you are fucked. That's how you know. When you have a full parental quorum about what's going to happen to you, you know you fucked up. But it sounds like Jonah did not fuck up. Neither did Sam for that matter.

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Incredible. Drunk Shimoda! Shrant just loves torturing people. He loves it. He's always looking for an excuse. And I gotta say, I love that about him. I love that he's got a special person on the crew. Mm-hmm.

They get to work together. Yeah. That's nice. She keeps him honest. You know. Doesn't she? They love torturing together. Yeah.

Yeah. It's a foundation of their relationship, honestly. I just hope these crazy kids figure it out, you know? Yeah. So, yeah, Schran for me. What about you? Yeah, I mean, I guess it's Schran. It's Jeffrey Combs for that, his look when the alleged Andorrian ship starts firing on the entrepreneur.

I loved getting to see that look twice. Look on Schran's face when ship shoots at him. That was the high point of the episode. for me by far. I love it. I mean, that that kind of makes the rest of the episode sound bad if a look was the high point. That's not what you're saying. It's not. It's very good. It's just that that look is like one of the best things I've ever seen. Okay. I gotcha.

Faith of the fart. Let's bring this thing home, Ben. What's the next episode going to be? We already talked about it. They're shooting Talas's body in the space in an Andorian torpedo. Next episode is called United. Part two. Archer tries to unify the Andorians, Tellurites, and Vulcans in a plan to capture a marauder ship threatening to destabilize the region. And also, our SVP Talas. Yeah, I mean, I'm looking at a thumbnail that is,

Stran, he's looking very upset. I don't know about what, but, you know. When isn't he upset? Let's keep our fingers crossed that it's not about Talas. His facial spectrum goes from rueful to upset. With an absolutely unbelievable stopover as, what the fuck? The Andorians are shooting at me?

Yeah. Yeah. All right, Ben, gach. com. Biz slash game is where you find out how we're going to watch the next episode. How are we going to watch the next episode? That's a great question. It could be in any way because that is the way the game of buttholes works these days.

We're starting from square 95, tip-y-toe ahead is that Broan's own episode. So let's see what happens. You're required to learn as you play. Roll. I rolled a 15 at him, and it landed us on something. Oh, no. It landed us on square 10, a measure of a man. Wow.

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that Talas perished and is being shot out in a torpedo. That is a potential outcome next week. I could be convinced of anything at any time. My opinions are very squishy. Yeah, you have a certain, like, A very smart guy, but you have like a kind of naivete about the like direction you're heading, you know. Like there's a little, little nudge and you can be convinced of almost anything. It's true. Yeah. Always looking for new information.

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