The Greatest Generation - Reference Lawnmower (VOY S4E20)

Episode Date: October 10, 2022

When Voyager encounters a starship with experimental technology, they rescue its pilot and offer to help with repairs. But when Steth makes a mess out of Tom Paris’ life, a return to the way things were starts to look good from a distance. What can bring on the rages during mail call? Why did Ben make an impromptu trip to the Pacific garbage gyre? Who will soon be the target of a scientific prank? It’s the episode with an entire department dedicated to lift and bounce!Support the production of The Greatest Generation.Friends of DeSoto for Democracy.Friends of DeSoto for Justice. Follow The Game of Buttholes: The Will of the Caretaker!Music by Adam Ragusea & Dark MateriaFollow The Greatest Generation on Twitter, and discuss the show using the hashtag #GreatestGen!The Greatest Generation is on Twitch.Facebook group | Subreddit | Discord | WikiSign up for our mailing list!

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Welcome to the greatest generation. Star Trek podcast, back up. A couple of guys are a little bit embarrassed to have a Star Trek podcast. I'm Ben Harris. I'm Adam Prantica. How you doing, Adam? Oh man, doing great. Happy to be back on the mics with you?

Yeah. I'm there, doing great. Happy to be back on the mics with you. Yeah, we just recorded an episode of Greatest Trek and we addressed this there, but we should probably address it here too. Yeah, just had a baby. You sure did? Or my wife had a baby. Yeah. Pretty sure I had a baby. I mean, you should have resolved the,

the paternity a long time ago, I would say. But that would, you know, that would make it impossible for me to get cast on an episode of Mori. Right. Which we all know has been your greatest goal. Yeah, my lifelong ambition, some would say. But, yeah, my, my life had a baby, he is great, she's great, we're really excited. But it's been a long time since we've recorded and one of the results of that atom is that I went down to our post office box the other day and it was completely stuffed with stuff. Oh, geez, was it another angry male person situation?

No, they're really chill about it, but it was so full that when I opened it, I could hear stuff fall out the back of it just because like it had jostled the contents of the box. Wow. And fortunately, our post office box is close enough to the ground that I was able to get down on my hands and knees and reach my arm deep into the recesses of the post office and pick up a box that had fallen into the, you know, employee's only section of the post office and retrieve it and turn off. It had our name on it. So I've got that mail call here now.

And I thought we should get into a little greatest gen mailbag. Captain, I'm sorry to disturb you. I'm receiving a code 47 verify. It is code 47, sir. Start lead emergency frequency. Captains eyes only. Wow, the things you have to go through, check our mail, Ben. Yeah, it's very exciting. This first package is from Eric in, it looks like Ankeny Iowa. Ank is it Ankorec- I believe it's pronounced Ancino-Sore.

Pfft. Pfft. We have a letter. Do you have them in Ben? I found these online and knew you'd get a kick out of them. I got sets for my two FODs and myself also. So excited for season three of Lower Decks as it makes me laugh almost as much as you two do.

Thanks for the pods, the jokes, and the good work you both do. Later's Eric. PS, in answer to the question posed on my P1, Robin Kurt know they are McCoy and Spock and proud of it as I am of being their captain Kurt. Wow. That's nice. I remember that.

Almost as funny as Lower Decks. Oh man, what Eric sent us are Badgie Badges. Whoa, look at those. There's angry and happy Badgie. And these are... Man, these would have been fun to open up on a Code 47 on greatest trek. I know. We gotta figure out there's gotta be a way we can... I mean, is there anything wrong with writing something outside of the address part of a package?

I mean, it isn't easy to get mail sent to us to begin with. Because of the very specific way it needs to be sent, but yeah, yeah. If one were to write Edward Larkin's name on the box somewhere, that might suggest on which show it should be opened, right? That would be, yeah, we could decode that. Yeah. Thank you so much, Eric. We will treasure these. I love these.

Eric, that's really awesome. Which one are you, Ben? Angry Badgie, you're happy Badgie. Well, here's the thing, Eric, sent a happy and an angry for each of us. So I feel like we could use these, you know, like put your pin on before you belly up to the microphone to record to let your co-host know what kind of day it is for you. The friends of DeSoto are like the parents of twins.

They gotta get matched sets for both of us. Right, or like Albert Brooks in this is 40, like you have a different haircut from me so that they can tell us apart. Right. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

This next one is from Sam in Carrollton, Texas. This is to ban an atom. That's the fact you're right across from. Here's a letter. You're ban an atom. You have the captain chairs. You have the custom mini figures. Now the interest alone could be enough

to build this ship. That's right, it's doubt furious, back with another pair of totally unlicensed Star Trek themed Lego kits to gift you guys with. Wow! It's becoming a compulsion, I gotta illness. Is this Kirk's Enterprise? Is it Pike's Enterprise?

Or is it a holodeck recreation of the Enterprise for Jerry Atric Sconey to mope in with his bottle of green stuff? It's Lego! Let your imaginations go wild. Is this the Mirror Universe Enterprise? With a different paint job? Sure, I guess it could be. This build also includes a posable display stand for you to dry dock the ship. Anytime you're not wushing it around the house when they who are your wives are not looking. I just want to say dry docking a ship is not pleasurable for either party. If you have a little ship, you either have to wush it around

or you have to smash it with a face or rifle. You just have to. I don't make the rules. Adam, per your preference, decal goes on last. As always, much love from Texas, live long and prosper. Play well, Ubidubi and Foot Blue 22. Wow! And doubt Furious has true to form included a Lego set with... Look at those! I guess they're two of them in here. This is within a bigger Lego bag. There are two Ziploc bags with the Enterprise as a kit.

Wow. And a full set of like on-brand Lego instructions. So cool! Show you how to put it together. Oh, that looks... It looks right. You know what I mean? When I say that, it just looks like how it should be. It looks exactly the put it together. Oh, that looks, it looks right. You know what I mean? When I say that, it just looks like how it should be.

It looks exactly the way it should. And there's even a, there's even a little like diagram of the Lego Mini Fig getting confused, putting it together. Wow. That's us. This is so great. Man, this is gonna go awesome next to our Lego...

The captain's chairs that we both have. So cool. I love it. Well, don't forget to put your decal on last item. Yes, thanks. Thanks for the reminder. And thanks for the gift. Yeah, thank you, Daphne, yes.

You know what, I don't want to besmirch the Lego competitor, the one that has the contract with Big Star Trek or whatever to make Lego things. But man, I just feel like Lego and Star Trek should be together. They should. In an official way. It feels bad that Star Wars is licensed to Lego

and Star Trek is not. It feels like a very Star Trek Las Vegas. Kind of brick company. Right, yeah, the mega block or whatever. Yeah. What's it called? It's called something super off brand. Yeah, I wish it wasn't the way it was.

Yeah, but it is. This next package is from Pittsburgh. No sender listed on the outside of the package. Let's see what says inside at them. On this very crumpled up note. The Yenzer is not going to use that kind of effort to label the contents. All right, I'm gonna do my best. This might be a physician that wrote us judging by the, uh, Andrea. Ben Slash Adam, hi guys. Love the podcast. Been listening for like two years now,

and I'd get, oh, and got my boyfriend on it too. Wow. Saw something I couldn't believe was Star Trek themed on eBay and had to order it for you. So silly, best. God. I cannot decipher the person's name. It's not your fault.

Huyong? I think it might be Huyong. I really apologize if I'm getting that wrong. It's actually pronounced ankylosaur. I'm getting that wrong. It's actually pronounced ankylossor. Ben. Ben. All right.

I'm going deeper into the package and there is a very shredded of tubular pack from eBay here with eBay tape on it. It looks like a can of snakes. If I could describe it, like it looks like one of those classic comedy cans of snakes.

It has a vibrating feel like a comedy can of snakes as well Please open up a can of snakes I think I have to open it from the other end the taped end because the end I'm trying to get yeah Can't can't get it bad end the wrong end Doesn't seem like the right end. All right. Oh My god The wrong end doesn't seem like the right end. All right. Oh my god. It wasn't just a comedy can of snakes. There's glitter in here too. You got glitter bomb. I got glitter bomb. It's all over my fucking computer. That actually sucks, man! What the hell? Why- why did they do that to you?

I- I can't believe that they didn't even take the time to write their name... ...it clearly so that I can know- I could go kick them in the nuts or whatever. The worst part about this is that that should have been opened by Bill Tilly. Yeah. Man! Oh, that sucks. Are you just, are you just positively covered in glitter now? My wife is gonna think I went out to the studio and, and ordered myself a stripper. This isn't sane.

I swear it wasn't a stripper, it was a can of snacks. God fucking dammit. Oh, that sucks. It's on my drink too man. Oh no. Oh man it's in the glass that I brought to drink my drink too. Why? Why did that why did somebody do this to us? What did we ever do to anyone? Hey real talk for a second. Was that a mean thing that just happened? Yeah, I feel like it was kind of mean. That sucks. Yeah. You know what? No more mail call today.

I'm calling it. No. When mean stuff happens during mail call, we shut off the mail call. Wow. So the four other people that maybe sent in good things don't get to get the benefit because one person was bad. Yeah, I want that one person in good things. Don't get to get the benefit because one person was bad. Yeah, I want that one person to feel bad. I'll take it even further at him.

No fucking episode today. Sounds great. God. You know what, you'd actually be doing me a great favor. Does he? I have never been the case. The glitter is fucking everywhere. I can see it on your microphone.

It's on the mic arm. It's like, it went really high. God dammit. I got expensive stuff in here. It's all over my mixing board. It's like in the grooves on the mixing board. Oh, God, this sucks. This fucking sucks.

I'm very upset. Was there anything in that letter that suggested what was going to happen then? Like, are we that dense that we didn't see this coming? Here's the thing, Adam. I don't want to pick up the letter because it's covered in glitter and it's just gonna get glitter in more places. Like I don't even really know how I can record right now

because I can't touch or do anything because glitter is everywhere. Do you want to take a quick break before we come back and do the episode? I might need to just like hit my desk with the vacuum just to like, yeah. Just to solve for glitter. All right, when we come back,

we are going to discuss Star Trek Voyager season four episode 20, Visa V, and let us not forget, it is a Bronze Zone episode. I take you to your charge here. Team leader, Bone, Fortmore Defense Contingent. I gotta get a pump. That's it, get it. I think I've glimped the Nemesis already, to be honest.

You got so much glitter all over you, I mean, I can hardly stand the glare. You know what, the glitter sender should wind up upturned if I get my way. Yeah, geez. You know what, when I saw the glitter pop out, I got the trembles. But then when I realized what the glitter had done to you, I got the rages.

Yeah, well, okay, we're gonna pause. I'm gonna wrestle this glitter and we'll be right back. Reaver, of course. Unless you've got something a little bigger in your torpedo tubes, I'm not turning around. And you're back. I'm back. I'm already making peace with the fact that first of all, it was not sharp of me to open that. Based on what it looks like and felt like.

You are such a fucking pro, dude. That person was a motherless beast. That sent that. I'm trying to set loose of this, but I've really got the rages and I'm making peace with the fact that there will be glitter in my office forever now. Like, I will never not be reminded of today. From now until the year after.

Yeah. We got to change the policy on the, on the mail now. Yeah, we got to drill on it a little bit and try and fathom what would have possessed somebody to do something like that. Ah, man, that sucks. Yeah, yeah, I feel like I got a little bit grayer today. Have we done our, our Brone Zone for the episode? Can we just talk about the up now?

Have we done our brown diligence? I think we have. Let's do our best to sprinkle it in, but I don't want anything to get in the way of pretty interesting episode here. Yeah, it is an interesting episode. It opens of all places in a car garage and the person under the car is upturned, which is sad to see. Yeah, I mean, when the dock hunks the horn,

it could have just killed it. Yeah, yeah, no kidding. That seems like an area of holodeck safeties that we haven't actually considered before on the show, which is like, are holodeck safeties good enough to prevent hearing loss if somebody honks a horn of a bitch in Camaro you're wrenching on while you're upturned underneath it.

What would the Vory even think of this scene? Like, on the one hand, Paris is upturned. Yeah. On the other hand, he doesn't even glimpse the doctor when he comes in. Like life on Voyager is so amazing that the holodeck programs that people choose are chores. You gotta think that there is some sick fuck out there who is like cleaning an apartment. Yeah. Because that's old-timey and fun. I mean, that's what he craves to do. Because that's old-timey and fun. I mean, that's what he craves to do.

Do you think there's like a future steampunk seen in the 24th century where you just, you book yourself a holiday and you clean a toilet? This is what they did before they beamed the Poops out. It's not sexual at all. It's just a thing to do. I do it brightly. Isn't it amazing? My mother's mother and my mother's father used to do chores this way. Yeah. Yeah. The doc beams in right through the sock on the door. You get them. You gotta believe this is something he's not gonna be doing going forward too much, right? Yeah, and he's pretty upset with the fullness of Paris's behavior lately,

because Paris is supposed to be learning more medical stuff and obviously it's voluntary, but he just like has not thrown himself into it with the alacrity of somebody who is really dedicated to it and that's pissing off the doctor and it seems like pairs has kind of been spending a ton of time in the in the holodeck just in general. I know you're someone who thinks a lot about their own privilege. I know you're someone who thinks a lot about their own privilege. Generally. But it's interesting how the doctor presents his duty as such.

His duty both to please that booty, but also to work in six bay and the privilege associated with that kind of job, you can't thrust privilege upon someone else, right? He's in there and he's like, look, Paris, you should feel great about this, not everyone gets to. Yeah, it's extremely sharp to be given this privilege.

Yeah. But that's not really where Paris is at, like emotionally. And it's sort of saved by the bell because Paris gets called up to the bridge. And he runs up there in his grease monkey outfit. Yeah, he is not wearing his fleet colors. Yeah, which I wrote down in my notes that he was dressed as a grease monkey

and then I was like, is that problematic? And then they used the phrase later in the episode and I was like, oh, yeah, if Star Trek does it, it's okay to do, right? As I turn to camera. Uh-huh. I mean, if Star Trek did it in the before, that doesn't necessarily make it okay to do. Right.

Yeah. I mean, the grease leaves with Paris. Yeah. It stays on him. It's very unsnobal, like, in that way. Yeah, they've detected a spatial anomaly at him. And you know why you're best pilot on the bridge for a spatial anomaly? Somebody call for a driver? your station Tom turns out it's a ship with sort of event horizon sounding technology

This is a season of Star Trek Voyager that is obsessed with event horizon In the same way I was this year. Yeah Did you rewatched event horizon this year? Not in many years. It's too scary for me. Like, I know you're the one on the show that says, I don't like scary movies and I don't watch any of them. That's you. I do watch and like scary movies, but Event Horizon, too scary. Oh my god.

What happened to your eyes? Is it too late to spook ourselves for a listener bonus for October about event horizon? Would you? It just seemed like something that you would reject. For the friends of DeSoto, I would do it. There's one friend of DeSoto that I would not do it for. Oh. They sent me a glitter bomb recently.

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No kidding. So this event horizon drive that powers this ship to have big problems and the problems are not contained within the ship. It's not like if the ship were to explode. It would just go boom and that would be it. Billions of kilometers would be in jeopardy if this thing pops off. It's really gonna blow big. It's a warp curve breach that you really don't want to glimpse. And I just want to thank whoever's editing this episode for not quitting 20 minutes in.

As we stop and look at Arthur Sores, our Vory The Sores. Yeah. Do you think of Vory The Sores as a type of dinosaur that lives on the Vory home world? No. And a blind Vory dinosaur would be a, do you think you, Vory Saurus? I should never have brought it up. I don't wanna get in a clash with you.

Yeah. After the theme, like this is the moment they start the theme song up on. Right. Uh oh. Billions of kilometers could be in danger. Boaaaah. After the theme, they can't beam the pilot out and they can't get him to answer a hail

either. And that's a problem. Yeah, where is this motherless pilot not even answering hails? I don't feel like they are often as frantic as they are in the scene about saving one pilot of a weird ship. Like Paris is acting like a toddler is wandering into a busy street. Like he's freaking out about this. We should vacate this area of space at once.

We can't just leave him like this. Yeah, I mean, I think Paris is really excited about it because he actually gets what's going on in a way that nobody else on the bridge does. If anyone else got it, I think they'd be as freaked out. You're right. Yeah. And that's really well described in the scene when the captain asks for suggestions at one point.

It just cuts around. And it's just a bunch of blank expressions from everybody else, as though they're all novices at them. I mean, compositionally, what you get is Paris coming up with ideas with people in his frame. But as we cut around to the other bridge crew, these are just singles, right? Yeah. And they're not figuring anything out.

But Paris comes up with the idea of we can use our warp field to stop this reaction from going bad. And it's going to be a little bit tight. We'll have to use the tractor beam to slow the ship down and then our warp field to stop the chain reaction. I mean, at this point, they're committed to the idea. There's no time to backwalk. Yeah, but if they're sturdy with their action, that should suffice. We've lost every viewer at this point, right?

They're God. Yeah, yeah. They stop the reaction and they beam the pilot of this ship aboard and they're like, oh, what sphere are you from? Yeah. He tells them he's from a system 20 light years from here. Can I just say that I laughed and laughed at this sequence starting here? Because in the context of the moment, here's what they've done. They found the strange ship, single pilot inside. They beam them aboard. And then this guy steps off the turbo live pad and leads Janeway and Ticote through the corridors like he fucking lives there. He's leading the walk. Did you notice this? Yeah, he has kind of pericy vibes, even. Where is he going? I don't even feel like they got his name at this point.

Yeah, they don't have his name. They don't know what his fleet colors are. They haven't fathomed this dude at all. He's fucking fast-walking them through the corridors like he owns the place. I don't like it. It made me not like this guy. Yeah, and he's drilling them on what went wrong

with his flight. He's a test pilot. He was really excited to test this coaxial warp engine. filling them on what went wrong with his flight. He's a test pilot. He was really excited to test this coaxial warp engine. Do you feel like some colors should be off limits, though, because his coverings are a very particular maroon, you know? Are a monstrous maroon. I feel like in Star Trek, you got to be careful

with this color, right? Especially because he mixes it with a little white, like a Bob Ross, like a little titanium white around the neck. And it's a mock turtle neck white, which recalls Monster Maroon even more. I know. I know. Strange to glimpse.

Yeah. Objection noted, we'll do this without you. Do it. Do it. Do it. Objection noted, we'll do this without you. Do it. Do it.

Do it. Do it. Elsewhere in Chicoote's office, he's there to host Paris. Objection noted will do this without you. But if you do it, if you do it, if you do it, you'll add. Elsewhere in Chico Te's office, he's there to host Paris for a meeting. And Paris is there to ask permission for a thing. He knows that ordinarily his duties would be in six Bay. He's asking very nicely, very politely. Can I please, please, please work on this guy's death ship?

His name is Steph. Yeah. That's what you find out. Yeah. I think we find it out in this scene because I don't think Steph introduces himself. No, Steph is a guy that you want to scope very carefully. Chicoote is like drilling into parishes, motivations

and feelings. Yeah. And I don't mean that in a vory kind of way because to the vory drill means to teach. Yeah. I'm speaking English there. I'm using drill as a form of like interrogate. Right.

You know, English. But here's the thing, like, I don't like this. I don't think this is a good chakote scene. I don't think this is a good Chico-te scene. I don't think this is a good Chico-te episode because Chico-te is like, hey, Paris. Are you just clocking in and out all the time or are you a real company man? Like me, ex-Makewies Chico-te.

It's sort of a like, you don't have enough flair on your uniform moment. Oh, I hated this. Your heart doesn't seem to be on it. Okay, so you want me to wear more? Yeah, and the doc has snitched Paris out to Chicoetay. So Chicoetay has more information than Paris does about what's going on.

Hey, Chicoetay, we've got like 80 years before we get home, we need to find comforts where we can, dude. Yeah, if that's wrenching on a bitch in Camaro or making a holiday program about hanging out among the trunks. Sure. You know? Yeah.

Like, we can't question any of these things. No, no. And it seems like Chicocha is gonna like hard-ass Paris and to go into Six Bay. But instead, this is just sort of some weird surprise where he grants Paris's request. Why did he do that? It feels like a real jerk move.

I think that Paris actually made a good case for himself. Like I said, I think I need a change of pace. Ah, this made me so sad. I didn't like Paris having a fucking cow to Chicoatay here. Yeah. Because I think Paris' reasons, or no reasons from Paris, should be sufficient for clocking in and clocking out.

You know, your work isn't your life, even if you're on a starship. Yeah, yeah. I mean, like who's to question how you turn your trembles into rages? Yeah. Am I making any sense here? Yeah.

So Paris and Steth are gonna team up and work on fixing Steph's ship. And when they do that together, there's a lot of like, chummy, jackularity between them. They're really like cut from the same cloth. Paris and Steph. It's two car guys kicking each other's tires and talking about how the engine works. And Paris has some cool ideas about it. This is like a cars and Ractagino meat at the parking lot of a

shopping mall. Yeah, it really is You know, they're getting along famously. You know what that should be a thing if you're a car enthusiast and Cars and coffee is just a little too snooty for you. Yeah a Star Trek cars Enthusiest community could be cars and Ractagino. Is there a bumper sticker we could come up with for PodShop.biz based on this idea? Hey Siri, check PodShop.biz in four weeks. Something weird happens in this scene because like Paris is doing that way too trusting thing where he turns his back on an alien that's made himself a home on Voyager. And when he does, Steph turns into a lady and then turns back into Steph.

And doesn't go gold in between. So it's like, is Steph a founder or what? He did that pretty fast. I don't know if we can trust him. I mean, that's impressive. I've been practicing on potted plants in my quarters for years, and I can't do that. If I were to help Paris, I'd be checking the ship for buckets. So we start to suspect Steph in this moment, but Paris does not.

No, because Steph gives him the little hand-sized warp drives that they use over there. Yeah, it's like quite a gift. This thing could be cool for Voyager, you know? It's hand-sized, it's exciting for Paris to hold in this hand. It's like a warp fleshlight. It bends the space around your dog. Yeah, feel the fullness of it. And this is what makes folding space possible?

Yeah, at least fullness of it. And this is what makes folding space possible? Yeah, at least in spurts. You want to feel like your dick is like billions of light years long. This thing bends space around it. It can exist here and in the alpha quadrant. Yeah. You know what's weird about this? Shroud your dick in this. Speaking of the great distances that a dick could travel

using the warplash light, no one ever brings up the idea of using this as a technology to get home. Well, they do, because they're gonna try to... They generally say, like, let's use some of this death technology and bolt it on to the ship, but they're not like, maybe this is the way home, because they don't talk is the way home,

because they don't talk about the way home like that anymore. They don't, I think they're hinting at that when they talk about like trying it out first on a shuttle, but I think their hope nuts have been smashed too much. I think they don't even think that way anymore. Mm, they're not thinking about the soon after in that way. Well, this guy's death is so cool though, right?

Paris is like, damn, look at your life. Being a vagabond. A rambling man, they test flies. All these different cool kinds of aeroplanes. Look at you, you're not gathering any moss. Yeah, you don't have the trembles. Hell no. And it's just like, you know, you could roll with me

on this next mission. Yeah. Test pilot style. You could be my test co-pilot. We could be gloryed. Paris is like, but I got this sixth bay homework and, oh, a girlfriend. Right. Also that. Belana would be furious. It was kind of driving me nuts that BLT hadn't come up in this episode yet.

And suddenly she comes up and Paris is realizing that he is late for a dinner engagement that they had. And when he arrives in Nielix's restaurant, he is late enough to catch her finishing her meal and raging at him. Right. She says to him that she's finished without him, which are words that Harry Kim has never heard anyone say to him. That's for sure. Get it together, Paris. Yeah. You got to get that stick game working. Yeah. Maybe you practice on that thing that

Steph gave you. Poor Nielix just wanders into this argument and just gets a spaghetti pot dumped on his head for it. Yeah, pretty brutal. Yeah. It's not a great look for Paris. I get the bends in this scene though, because they're arguing, arguing, arguing, and then they pivot right into engineering talk.

Yeah. I thought we were arguing. Yeah. Now you're asking me to help you out with the project? Pick one or the other, what your tellings are going to be about. Yeah. It's a real scene of what are they trying to say versus what do they actually say? You know?

Sure. Because I wonder like at the time of this episode, who side the episode is suggesting you take? Because watching this with modernize, I'm like, God BLT, stop. Like he's not cheating on you, he's just working on cars, but I can't let him work on cars. But I think at the time, are you on BLT side?

Is Paris acting weird as weird as everyone says he is? Cause everyone in this episode up until now, not after he gets stethoscope later. Yeah. Like up until now people are like, Paris is acting weird. I think that this episode maybe bumps its shin on the coffee table of the series of episodes

where Paris was acting like he was shitty at his job and had a bad attitude so that they could catch a thief. The Paris fucking up at work for SB&I's thing, it's hard to ignore in this episode. The only evidence we get that he is not doing his job with the enthusiasm everybody thinks he should is the scene with the doctor. That's a tell not show, you know. It's not showing up late, it's not, you know, having a must-up haircut at a thing. I love that.

This is the language of film that they've used previously, you know? Sure is. Yeah. Yeah, maybe not get the lift and the bounce. You're used to. I know you don't want to do it. Coffee, black, make it yourself. I'm trying to help you see this as an opportunity to grow. Make it yourself. It seems like Steth's abilities to hold his shape.

There are a challenge for him, and they're becoming more challenging as time goes up. Yeah, there's a scene with Steph alone in the coaxial warp ship where another, one of the shape shifts takes place. And Steph checks in with the computer and the computer in like the voice of a dude that was walking around the office at Paramount when they made this episode.

Says time to reversion, three hours, 13 minutes. Hey, Steve, you wanna be in an episode? You busy? Yeah. Your daughter's daughter will be so excited about this. Need this scene though, because we need this timeline. Yeah, and we need to understand how desperate Steth is. Yeah.

And that is very, very desperate. So when we cut to Paris and Steth walking down the hallway and Paris pitching Steth on this idea of adding a carburetor to the coaxial warp drive, you feel the danger that Paris is in. Right. They decide to make the holodeck, their cluster mark, where Paris can show him the grease monkey holodeck program where he's been hanging out.

And there we hear a little bit more about how this plan works. And I like, you know, sometimes Starcha can be so clunky with the, the metaphor, like putting it in modern terms, whatever their tech problem and solution is, but this really made a lot of sense. They're running too much warp juice. Too many atoms into this thing, they need to dilute them using this carburetor, and this

is a concept that makes sense. Yeah. To even my people mind. That's the thing that our show has perfect. Just the right amount of atoms. We're a comedy carburetor, aren't we? I think I am a comedy carburetor. We take something smart and good and dilute it.

Yeah, I dilute the atoms. Sure do. How's that glitter going down? How much of you drank? I have noticed a couple of pieces of glitter in my beverage. Yeah, just take those to the dome, man. I think they're falling off my hands. I went and like scrub, like you hear glitter is litter. This is why. It like, you can't ever get rid of it.

I want the person that sent that in to know that I did personally collect as much of that glitter as I possibly could and have it flown out over the middle of the Pacific Ocean and dumped into the Pacific garbage gire. Dude, you have this person's return address, put all the glitter back in it, and mail it back in that springy tube. They're going to see that coming from a mile away. What I got figured out is my brother-in-laws over here visiting my new baby right now. It's right. Have your brother-in-law take a dump in that tube.

His special lady's brother lives in Pittsburgh. Uh-huh. He's a scientist in Pittsburgh. Yeah, if that scientist shits in his mailbox. Yeah, I'm going to have him do like a science prank back to this person. This is a great idea. Fenty beast comes to clash, I'll nullify the beast.

You fucked with this, and you did the stupidest thing ever, which was put your return address on the box. Yeah. Yeah. We have access to scientists, okay? We have access to a lot of resources that will make us nightmares for people like you trying to glitter bomb and yeah. Yeah. It's not going to go well for you, you know? You're not gloried at this point. No. Seth makes the case to Paris that Voyager must be a pretty awesome place to work, right? You got these, these, these,

these, Halidex, you got these smoke show babes walking through the corridor. What's up with those Delaney sisters in Paris is like, don't ask. Now, the thing about Paris in this episode specifically that does not feel canonically Paris, is that he's super complaining. He could complain about anything.

A real Adam Pranica type. No matter how good things are going. Yeah, I mean, there is sort of a, the trunks are greener on the other side of the fullness. Energy happening here where Paris sort of Envy's Steath and Steath and Envy's Paris in this sort of coaxial way, I guess you could say. But yeah, Paris starts talking about the shackles

of his life and it sort of feels like almost like midlife crisis for Paris, which is a surprising turn for his character to take. Like his entire life has upturned. I guess getting obsessed with your Camaro and hanging out in a garage all day is attendant to a midlife crisis in a lot of cases, but it seems like it just kind of came out

of nowhere for him. Are we past the 60s nostalgia circle jerk that having a Camaro and a garage represents to a 90s Star Trek show? I mean, I hope so. I mean, this Camaro is legitimately cool. I'm not saying it's not. But like Paris's version of freedom

or having a hobby or whatever, is just so transparently the wet dream of some old. It's just one of the million pieces of evidence of how much boomers were catered to for so long in pop culture. Yeah. And this is the doctor making out with the meatloaf in that holodeck program all over again. It really is.

I don't know if this is what the creators are into or what they think their audience is into, but like definitely as a kid, I was like, who the fuck cares about this shit? You know? Hey man, not my Star Trek. Yeah, not my Star Trek indeed. In my Star Trek, he'd be wrenching on a Toyota Prius.

Thank you. Thank you. No moving parts on an electric vehicle, not in the same way anyway. He doesn't have to be toiling on an electric car, does he? There's a conspicuous shoulder touch that's death does here to Paris that I think sets up what happens later, right?

Yeah. The thing doesn't happen here, right? No. The thing happens later. The thing happens later. This isn't skin on skin contact. That's what you need. But also like in the context of recent episodes

that shoulder touch makes the next scene feel extra creepy because he's in the cargo bay where seven lives and his scanning Tom Parris's computer records and and seven walks in alone and it feels like creepy and gross. Yeah. This guy is almost doctor like in his wandering into and out of private areas. He doesn't have permission to be there. Seven is suspicious of him being in there at all, and not only suspicious of him being there. It's what he's doing while he's there. He's not supposed to use a computer. No, he should be not

snooping around in there stuff and it sort of feels like a little strange that seven doesn't call this in, you know. Except most interactions between seven and Janeway have been shitty up until now. If I'm seven, I wouldn't want to have any unnecessary contact with Janeway either. That's fair, that's fair. So it is not told to Janeway or to Vock or anyone else.

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I'm giving you an U.S. Just crossed the line. Paris and Steth are still working together on his ship. And this is like the just button and things up phase of doing car maintenance. You drop the hood, you rub your hands with your rag, you sort of whip that rag over your shoulder, look admiringly at your work, getting ready to turn the key.

And hey, what's my box wrench doing here? Ask Paris. And, Steph gets real close and the Paris is nook. And, like, nook pushes Paris across the room. Yeah. Why steal a box wrench? Also, why replicate a box wrench when you could just have one in the holodeck that was part of the program?

That's a great point. These are real box wrenches. a box wrench when you could just have one in the holodeck that was part of the program. That's a great point. These are real box wrenches. Yeah. What is pairs doing? Are they like antique box wrenches? Is this like JFK's golf clubs? Why would you burn a replicator ration on a box wrench? He had to eat so many Leola roots to get that one box wrench. No wonder he's pissed that Steth took it. I really get it. And when the, Steth gets into explain the why of his closeness, he explains that they're compatible for a face-off.

Yeah, these tellings do not bode well for Paris. And Steth gets the hand on Paris's throat and then they sort of, they cross morph. Steph looks like Paris now and Paris looks like Steph and they had to make an entire extra Tom Paris uniform and Steph outfit and Taylor the four, he's two actors. I wonder if that is why Stephath's uniform is command red.

Oh, interesting, because they just know the color works good on. Yeah, if it would just look too weird, if you were watching this morph happen, I don't know. Yeah. Maybe on the bridge, Stairis is there. And he's walking around. And he watches the coaxial warp ship just leave. He leaves without saying goodbye. Did Peth get vaporized? I mean, because there's like a shot from the point of view of kind of seems that way.

The man that you still look like Paris can't rule it out blast it. Yeah. And Stairs is like on the bridge inhabiting the role of Paris. Yeah. and they watch Stealth Ship fly away. And this is the part of the episode that you imagine is going to be fun, right? Like, how is this guy going to fit in to Paris's life? And it starts in the mess hall where Chico De Fines Paris finds Starris for a break and asks whether or not they can begin installing some of Steph's technology on Voyager. Not specifically about getting home faster, but

just like he had some neat stuff over there. What about that? And also what about getting some more six bay time? And the thing about Starris in this scene is how into it he is. He's into all of these jobs in a way he hasn't been before. This is when the whole crew starts catching on that something is wrong because Chico Te is clearly trying to destroy another shuttle. Right. And Starris is enthusiastic about that and not trying to forest all the destruction of another shuttle. And everybody's like, something's up. Yeah, something's weird. And look at the way he's getting down on those Leolo roots. Yeah, it looks like he likes them.

Heeey. Heeey. Heeey. I don't think those Leolo roots have ever been slurred in the way that I said them just now. Hehehe. Leolo roots. Leolo roots. In the corridors outside, Paris uses a map to guide his journey to Six Bay.

He's like, how many footfalls am I from Six Bay? This is great. He's trying to look normal, but he doesn't want to run into a familiar, and that's what Seven of Nine represents. He skulks around the corner and he looks at a mall map to see if he can find this way to Six Bay, but Kim walks up behind him. And this is going to be the biggest test of all, right? The friend test. It's one thing to get one over on a seven of nine, but but Kim knows everything about you. Kim's seen everything in the Sonic showers. You can't get the trembles now, Starris. No. That'll lay bare what's going on.

I wanted to see this golf date that they're talking about so badly. Right, yeah. The golf date on the holiday sounds really, really fun. Yeah. And it's in Kephamville. No, what hitter.

What? I feel like if Star Trek now had a storyline like that pop up, we would get like an iOS like Star Trek Golf game. Right, you know, like in the style of a Mario Golf game. Be so fun, it would be great, but we don't get that. Instead, Starris goes to Six Bay having somehow successfully spoofed Harry Kim. Not a good scene slash episode for Harry Kim too.

Not especially Sharp, Mr. Kim. All right, give the doc my best. I will. I mean, Starris looks at Kim and is like, never. Never gonna change into that guy. It's deeply humiliating for Harry Kim in this scene. The doctor's a lot sharper when Starris starts fucking around with a tricorder and failing to use it properly a bunch of times.

And the doctor is getting ready to scan Starris, but Starris manages to weasel out of this as well. Yeah. Yeah, what's going to catch him? I was getting so upset by this. All these close calls. Every single crew member is going to like make a misjudgment about how suspicious to be.

I was like, certainly he won't pass the boyfriend test. Because when BLT finds him in our quarters, like practicing his puts or whatever, I'm like, well, golf never goes over well with a girlfriend. Like, this is gonna be the thing that destroys him. She's gonna nullify him right here right now. Yeah.

Like, I'm expecting rages like none other. What do you think you're doing? Get the fuck out! But then Paris makes with the apologies and the hand kissing. Oh, the hand kissing really puts it over. The hand kissing floods both basements. That will suffice. And at this point, I'm wondering what the hell is up with Paris? We haven't seen him in ages. both basements. That will suffice.

And at this point, I'm wondering what the hell is up with Paris? We haven't seen them in ages. We cut over to the coaxial drive ship where there's Stethis and he's come to and he's shocked by the sound of his own voice. He's like, like when you wake up after a night of partying that you like, you don't smoke, but why did I have three cigarettes last night socially? That's why my voice sounds like that. It's weird as hell. Yeah. And he comes to it the worst possible time because a bunch of alien ships roll up, and he have accusations of thievery. Not looking great for Starris.

Right. It's not looking great for Peth. Right. That's the exact moment the lady in Beams aboard the lady in from before. Yeah, we've seen her. Yeah, she's got her own crazy ship and she is pissed. Right. That's my body you're in now. I want it back. Yeah. And as Stethis begins to explain, we cut back over to Voyager where BLT meets Paris in the transportor room and Paris has got another romantic idea. He's like, look, I know a place where I can kiss both of those hands. Real hard. It's down on the planet. And I packed a lunch. You know where Nielix is tending various products for us to eat? You know, we can just beam ourselves just out of sight of Nelix to do our business. Yeah. And as Nelix moves, we can move for maximum titillation.

He's going to get those plantings and we're going to get that panting. Yeah. BLT goes along with it for a moment. She's like, oh, yeah, this is a nice fantasy. Wouldn't it be great if we could just knock off work and go fuck on a strange planet? I really like the writing of that. Yeah. That she's like, ah, cool, funny idea. Yeah. Yeah.

Duty and honor and so forth. And then when she sees the packed pic Nick, she's like, are you fucking high? Yeah. You actually bought a Yeti cooler. Do you know how I know how expensive those are? Tell me that's not the $800 one. Here. I don't know anything about coolers,

but I know the legend of that thing. What the hell? Yeah. And Paris. Oh man, Paris goes straight over the top with the anger here. He gets grabby and angry. Not good.

He's grandery. Yeah. And he basically dumps her. Yeah. I don't know what I ever saw on you. If your parents don't you beam down to the planet and enjoy your picnic after this, it would have been a great hang up the phone argument if he's like, fine. Fuck you.

And he walks up under the transportor pad with a big big box. Hahaha. It goes himself. Hahaha. It makes more sense than Starris, like, I made Charcudery. Yeah. Yeah. It makes more sense than Starris going and just getting hammered on the ship, which Yeah.

Which is the scene that follows. Kind of puts him in a position to get caught. It's not a very sly move, you know. This guy's kind of a dumb, isn't he? Yeah. He's got an interesting superpower, but he's not that great at using it. He's got the confidence of someone who hasn't been caught yet, and so I guess I'll never be caught. Right, right. This guy needs to stop Robin Banks. That's his problem. He gets caught by a 79 and he is kind of three sheets to the wind at this point.

He's like replicated himself a tall whiskey, it looks like. And he's like, yeah, no, I'm just trying different drinks. See what the replicators got. I like this glassware. Yeah, that's a very good looking glass. Looks like something you distill some water out of in a middle school science class context.

Totally, yeah. Seven of nine, pretty shocked at this behavior. And turns him down for drinks. Crucially. Cru, yeah. I mean, he's on duty. Yeah. She is too.

Yeah. That would be an inefficient use of our time. We cut from this scene to a shot of Janeway just sitting like with a concerned look on her face on a couch. And I love the just like idea that Janeway has been sitting quietly by herself in a room waiting for Paris to show up so she could chew him out.

This is like a parent waiting for a kid late for curfew, right? Yeah. And he can't shroud what he's done. No. She knows that he replicated all that booze. Yeah. So very weird scene because it does sort of come across as being very like pure, a tanical. Like you replicated five drinks while you're on duty. Like it, I don don't know I Mean, yeah, I guess that's bad, but also like do you think there's something to the whole like driver of the ship getting drunk? I guess that there's the subtext to this. Yeah, it just doesn't seem like a thing that is super likely to be a problem in a Utopian future like yeah people getting hammered on the job. It seems like a like a lesser in a utopian future. Like, people getting hammered on the job.

It seems like a lesser show, a season one TNG, if you will, would have had Denise Crosby go, like, but why are you drinking Paris? Yeah, right. And Paris being like, drinking can be fun. It would have turned into a lot more of an after school special energy. Right, yeah. Drinking can feel good.

I'm drunk right now. I'm misblocked. The Captain orders Paris to report to Six Bay and... Paris, will you report to Six Bay today? Gosh, Paris, you just got an entire crew that just loves you a whole bunch. I thought it was interesting that the Captain had that, like, legal pad, yellow piece of paper, crumpled up in her hands, like she wrote wrote something down but is not going to refer to it. Yeah. Harris, you must go to Six Bay.

I need to go visit another crew person who is huffing air dester before reporting to engineering. We don't see what happens after this, but we hear on the bridge when security gets called to the ready room. The captain is being choked out by Paris. They stun Paris. The captain gets up feeling much better. And then we cut back to Peth and the lady who have teamed up now and they are headed back to Voyager to see if they can solve for getting

their birdies back. Because they both want their birdies. Yeah, she wants his body, he wants Paris's body. The birdie swapping continues a pace. It does. And fortunately they have a real to do this with. Yeah. What's that? Has that sound go? I got a fair shoot. I don't know that one. So they, they agree that they're on the same team. They remove the lockouts on the ship and they and they make it for Voyager. This is where we're at. We get a weird captain's log in retrospect. Yeah. Because it seems like a pretty square straight down the middle captain's log. Yeah.

Yeah, we fixed his physical wounds, but his emotional and career-based wounds remain. Yeah, nothing physically wrong with Paris, but they're speculating're like speculating like I don't know genetic virus or something Can we make his hair bounce again is the question in the doc just kind of grimly Grimly shakes his head. Yeah, I think that's a moose. He's working with how do you think he gets that kind of fluke? I've never been a mooser. Oh, maybe that is moose. I don't know I always figured that it was just something natural about the texture of his hair, but you're right. This is television.

Yeah. There's an entire department dedicated to lift and bounce. Yeah. So just then, Steath's ship returns on the scene and on the bridge, Janeway does not believe Steath at first. Right. In a way that she really sells. I like this moment.

This is where things really turn. Steff is on the FaceTime, saying, I'm not Steff. You're dealing with an identity thief and he's currently in the body of Tom Paris. The captain closes the FaceTime and is like, we're gonna consider your request. Yeah.

Why don't you tell me something that only Paris would know? She personally heads back down to Six Bay and leaves Chicote in charge. And instead of going to Six Bay goes to the Shuttle Bay. Yeah. It's a whole different bay, Adam. I really feel like Seven was going to get nullified here. But instead, she's just sort of stunned and dragged.

I was wondering if Steph wanted to... We're calling this person Stainway, right? Stain, I guess so. If Stainway wanted to take on the identity of Stefan. God, this is too confusing. Would the implants be there? Great question. Would it be just human looking Stefan or would it be XB Stefan? I think you should ask the question at the convention. In Star Trek Voyager season 4 episode 20, nice, Visa V. There was sort of a moment at the end where it seemed like the shape-shifting identity thief, Alien, could have inhabited the character of Seven of Nine, and I'm just wondering if that had happened, would they have had the implants, both facial,

handle, and boobal, or would post genetic modifications be left out of the shape-shifting ability of this character? I will take my answer in the line for a hot dog at Corksbar. Get a life! Delicious. Kim tells us that an authorized shuttle has launched nothing about the unauthorized phaser being discharged in the shuttle bay. I thought that was interesting.

Does it count as being aboard the starship if it's aboard the shuttle? Wouldn't it just be the alarm in the shuttle that goes off? It is a shuttle chase in a pretty fun way. And Stainway has the upper hand, right? Because she knows that they can't kill her, otherwise they're going to lose the ability to birdie swap back. There's coffee in those bodies. Yeah, and I really liked Stainway kind of

inhabiting the role of the nemesis here. Really throws herself into, you know, the face of someone you don't want to glimpse. I love Kate Mulgrue in these scenes. It is so fun to watch her, you know, relish in her body as an actor. Yeah. Like, she's great. I love this gear. She's had this gear the whole time and she so rarely gets to deploy it. She meets it brightly. And fortunately, Peth is smart enough to come up with a way

to nullify the space folding technology on her shuttle. And we cut back to a like captain's log of starship voyager that's just like everything's back normsies. Yeah. The doctor reversed everything. Everybody's in the birdie that they were supposed to be in. Except for the lady in. Yeah. Who is going to become the life's mission of stealth? Henceforth? Steathath is gonna take her back to the sphere that he met her on and turn her into the author ties, I guess. I mean, this could be a really long-term project. Yeah, this is like a spin-off comic book,

see what he's right here. How many birdies are there? Yeah, how many times is Steath jumped? Is this a Beverly Crusher fuck candle situation where there's like thousands of years of history with Steph? I think this is pretty weak writing here because this is the scene where you should know. Yeah.

The lady should be like, you'll never know how many people I've jumped from. I lost count 40 aliens ago. I've been inside crazy birdies. Yeah. Bird birdies. Yeah. Bird birdies. Lizard birdies. What's that, Denzel Washington movie where the bad guy jumps from birdie to birdie?

Oh, that movie was scary. Fallen. Oh, yeah, Fallen was good. John Goodman was in that, right? Am I? Yeah, John Goodman wasn't that. Wow. Yeah. Fallen came out in 1998. When did this episode come out? 97 I think. Dang, they beat Fallen with this premise. Do you think they're making Fallen under watching Voyager and the Starwagon and they're like AHHHHH! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Dang, wait! Yeah, yeah.

Time is on Steth's side. Wow, God, that's such a great pull. Great pull. Like a reference lawn mower. You grabbed that pull cord and gave it a sturdy tug. You got to start it right up, baby. Yeah. I mean, you pulled that Goodman wasn't it. I didn't remember that. You didn't have to prime that reference,

more whatsoever. The button on the episode is Paris showing off his Camaro to BLT and they get in the car and do some smooching. Yeah. You know, I thought for sure they were going to drive that car off a cliff or destroy it or something because Paris at the beginning is like, look, this represents all the time I don't spend with you. And I know you hate it. And I just expected her to be handed a baseball bat or something.

But instead they get in the Camaro and they fucking bang in it. And that's the end of the episode. Yeah, just the the shocks that he recently replaced. Oh, yeah. Moving up and down rhythmically. The shocks are gonna be absorbed. Yeah, but no chrome is gonna get abraded. No.

Did you like this episode, Adam? You know, I'm really easy to get along with, post-opestive. But I don't like bullets, I don't like friends, and I don't like you. I love this too. I love a body swap concept, and Star Trek doesn't always do a good job depicting these types of stories, but I thought this one was really effectively told. It did too. I dislike everything having to do with being a grease monkey.

I wish I could believe Paris arrived to this naturally instead of being written there by an old white guy or whatever. That feels shitty. I want to believe that Paris's interests are his own and not just transparently some dude writing that way. I'm making assumptions, obviously. But Paris doesn't feel like a real character

in this episode because I just don't believe that he's like this. I don't know which I did. Yeah, he got sort of wedged into it in a way with the being bad at his job again, all of a sudden energy of this episode. But I'd say overall I liked it. Like, I guess the other quibble I have is

I'm always a little bit annoyed with Star Trek episodes that are depicting the characters not working at the height of their intelligence. And like, character after character not catching Steph was frustrating to watch. But ultimately, I think the fun of this episode outweighed the things that I didn't like about it. So, yeah. Do you ever think about how long it would take

for you to realize that a person you knew or were close to had been replaced, though? Because sometimes I do, and I see dumb people on Star Trek acting dumb, and I'm like, oh, I could do better. I would totally be able to tell. But I don't know. It's not about being able to tell, though.

It's about being like, you're acting fucking weird, and we need to do something about it, and then remembering that you live in Star Trek, and that could be an alien or whatever. Yeah. So. Living in Star Trek sounds exhausting, doesn't it? Yeah.

It just sounds so tiring, unless you're not on a starship, in which case, it sounds awesome. Now, I'm beginning to understand the appeal of a holodeck of chores. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. appeal of a holodeck of chores. Kind of recreation, you know? A toilet's not going to shape shift into killing you. Not with the safety zone.

I'm beginning to understand the appeal of priority one messages, Adam. Do you want to head into the inbox and see what's going on in there? Pretty sure there won't be any glitter bombs and the P1 inbox, right? I got the trembles. Priority one message from Starfleet coming in on Secured Channel. Supplement. Supplement. Supplement. Yeah, it's extra. The interest alone could be enough to buy this ship. The first one to be found was from a glory defender. It's a promotional nature. One time I was on tour with Ben and Adam. While waiting in the lobby of the hotel, Ben encouraged me to start a Vanderpump rules podcast called Vanderpump Robbs. Now, to help pay for the podcast, Vanderpump Robbs has a Patreon.

Guests of the podcast include Ben Harrison, Alana Johnston, Alison Rosen, Sheena Shea, who is on Vanderpump Rules, Peter Madrigal, who is also on Vanderpump Rules, and more. So friends of DeSaudo, if you you enjoy high quality comedy podcasts about low quality TV, please join Vanderpump Robbs on Patreon. Hashtag TGG Bump! Wow, look at Robbs crawling into our P1 box. To get that sweet, sweet TGG Bump. Yeah.

The... You're the reason that Robbs has the Vanderpump show? I don't remember that. I was probably profoundly drunk at the time, if we were on tour. But, uh... Yeah. And in the lobby of a hotel. I believe it. Yeah, sorry, Rob's.

You're a very inspiring person. Yeah. I hope you don't want to flame me. You know what? I'm throwing in on that Patreon right now. Yeah, yeah. I got to support Rob's and what he does. He supported us for a long time. Yeah. Don't nully the Vanderpump Rob's Patreon. Save for it. Look, don't wait until you're gray.

Yeah. Be in the now. Get in there and support Rob's Patreon about bad television. It's good television. He toils very hard on that show. He does, he does. Ben our second priority one message is from Ryan. It is Tamika. That message goes like this. Mika, I have been drinking podcast fluid and I'm throwing some scarves

at this pod to tell you this. Buy your own damn Dermatome. If your surgery center can afford a retinal scanner you can afford a Dermatome. If you don't buy a Dermatome, I will get Bishir to give you the current procedure and you will forget we have a dermatome at our hospital. Wow, what is a dermatome? Well, now I need to figure this out. This is one of those words that could easily be, uh... Dermatomy? Dermatomy... Oh yeah, maybe a dermatomy is an area of skin that is mainly supplied by...

...afferent nerve fibers from the dorsal root of any given spot. Oh man, I don't know what the fuck this is. Oh, this is tough. There's so many words I don't know in the first sentence of the definition of dermatome. It's an area of skin. So, by skin on the open mark is what I'm wondering. Oh, I could get your skin, dude. I could get you

There are ways you don't want to know about it with nail polish Man, is this where our medical community is at right now? They don't have the the technology they need so instead they send P1 messages at each other need so instead they send P1 messages at each other, goading each other into Dermatomes. Yeah this is some late stage capitalism nightmare shit if ever there was. Yeah I'm I'm really glad to be a part of this. Damn. Well Adam our final P1 is from Defested aka Ens Ensign Jake, and it is to Adam, Bri, Rizzo, Laura, Carl, Kit, Ann Marie, and so many more. Wow, I guess I'm among the so many more, I hope,

I don't know. Oh, I see what's going on here. Right. This is a message to STLV people, like this this year, goes like this. Another great STLV and successful hashtag CrotchDice Continuation. Y'all, it was a great hang, and I look forward to many more.

And sorry, Bri, for not being available for the Monday Pool Party that you told me about long after I had purchased my tickets. Defested. Oh, no. Defested that I hung out quite a bit at STLV. Had a super fun time. Yeah.

I am with Defest did though, in that I should have known about the Monday pool party. I also did not book my STLV to go into Monday like a fool. Yeah. I learned a little something about how I need to do STLV every year I do it. And this year I've decided that next year, I need to nudge everything a day forward, or a day backwards, right? Because you have a pretty hard and fast rule

about how many nights you'll spend in Vegas, right? Three nights only. Yeah. That's the max for me. So I've got to go Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night, and then leave Monday if I can do that Monday pool party. Oh yeah, you want to have a wet swimsuit under your clothes on the flight home. That's how you know you did Vegas correctly. Ooh.

Sure do. Everything else that Defested talks about the crotch dice, I don't know anything about that. But I will remind you of the phone call that we had, the FaceTime call, where I was in a Kavanaugh, Fran a Kavanaugh is where we were at, and it was just bombarded by a DJ who was right next to the Kavanaugh in the loudest club music that I'd ever heard in my life. Like all of our watches were going off with danger, decibel warnings. And you and I tried to have a pleasant conversation couldn't have it. We were trying to toast you from afar.

Yeah. Now we missed you very much. I called in from an inflatable Kittie pool in my backyard with a, with a hopeful of slushy beverage and it didn't really work out. I honestly think you were more comfortable there than we were in the Prana Cabana. Hashtag Prana Cabana.

Wow. Well, let's hope that DJ winds up upturned and thanks to everyone who got a P1. Much appreciated. Get a P1 at maximumfun.org slash jumbo-tron. Great way to support the show, and it's also a great way to get a message out there. Or get your Patreon supported, like Rob's Rob's Rob's Rob's did. It helps the show keep going, both now and in the soon after.

Hey Adam. It's that Ben. Did you glimpse a drunk Shimoda? Incredible. Drunk Shimoda! Sure did, Ben. I was just delighted the whole way through with Dan Butler's performance.

Uh-huh. So I'm making Dan Butler my drunk Shimoda. You may have recognized his voice. And the radio DJ Bulldog from the hit television show Frazier. This dates the Natalya! Oh! That's Dan Butler.

Wow. He's Bulldog from Frazier. Cheese. Which I know is the second most surprising piece of knowledge to come out of that show. For you me and our friends group. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to our friends in DC. I mean, I feel like everything I learn about Frazier

is a new scandal. Yeah. I think you'll always remember where you were when you learned that Dan Butler was Bulldog from Frazier, right? I was right here. Yeah. Here in the studio. He just a ton of work and work and like a really fun part.

He plays a number of people while looking like the same person. That's a fun acting challenge, I've got to believe. It really is. My drunk Shimoda is the stealth that doesn't catch up with their former body. Yeah. I don't know if stealth is the name of the original consciousness that has got time on its side. But it seems like at some point in the past, there was an original person who got their body taken over

and they don't have a hope and hell of catching up with this whole situation. No. That lady very resourceful to have gotten out there, gotten back in the stiff body that they were originally supposed to be in. I don't even know how to talk about it. I get confused. I don't feel sharp talking about this, Adam.

No, yeah, it sounds like it. But the one immediately before the lady body. That's the person that really got fucked. The chain was broken with them and I feel bad for that step. I think that was well told, man. I don't. Well, that is just about that for that episode. I'm going to head over to goch.bizslashgame.

And meanwhile, I'm also going to boot up some tellings about the next episode of Star Trek Voyager. Season 4 episode 21, the Omega Directive. How jeez. Voyager is forced out of warp by the detection of a dangerous and powerful particle called omega. It has the power to join subspace. Yeah, that doesn't sound so bad.

What's wrong with that? Yeah, joining up used to be considered heroic in this country. All right, Adam, we are currently on square 43. Hey, this Omega particle doesn't run. Tell you that much. A brown zone square is where we're at. Yes, square where we joined up. Wow, it is hard to fathom how this one is gonna work

for the Friends of Disodo. Oh, yeah. If they listen to this episode brightly, or if it gives them the rages. Yeah, yeah. I think we might want to keep our tops low the week that this one comes out. Thanks, Oh, too. Yeah.

But next week, we have the potential of two different Cocoa Nono episodes at them. Oh, no. We could hit the Cocoa Nono on Square 46, or we could hit the space but hole on square 49, which would take us down to the cocoa no no on square 12. Oh, either could happen. And just a reminder for those keeping track at home, Adam is still at a cocoa no no deficit. So if we hit another one of these, this will be a second Coco Nono post the one that he skipped

because he had to ride his stationary bike one time. Yeah, yeah, I didn't want to do that drunk. And I didn't want to put it off. All right, yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and roll this bone. You're required to learn as you play, roll. You know, hashtag Jim Shimoda is all up and down. The peloton system, I couldn't disappoint them, that's hundreds of people.

You keep rambling. I'm just sitting here enjoying the fact that we hit that strange wall. I love our aim! Drink the antidote! And the next episode is a Coco No-no, and we're back down on the second row of the Game of Buddles. It really did it, didn't we?

Goddamn it! Hey, just to make matters easy, I recently was over at your house and I left some canned pinacoladas in the fridge. You did? So, you can rest easy that that is basically sorted for next week. You don't have to go out of your way. You don't have to do anything that would inconvenience

your life for your job. That is the barrier, isn't it? The barrier for entry for me. Yeah. Can't cocoa no-nos. Yeah, yeah. Well, I just have nothing but excitement for next week's episode, mostly because I don't have to deal with the rages of friends of Tisota who don't care for Brozone Episodes.

Yeah, it'll be better next week, right? Sure. It's great to be back in the driver's seat of an episode of the greatest generation. I really miss Duac-Biss. And despite all of the glitter that suffuses my office, all of the glitter that I'm looking at on the surface of my $1,000 mixing board, and I'm worrying about it getting into the inside of my mixing board. I just want to say thanks so much to everyone who put up with us being in sort of low power mode

while we were taking some time off. It was something that I think Adam and I both really needed to do to recharge it. I'm so glad to be back. I feel a refreshed and renewed enthusiasm for doing this and the incredible privilege it is to work for the Friends of Desotto. If you'd like to become our boss, you can head to maximumbund.org slash join and set up a membership. My baby needs to eat so I would really encourage you to do so. We got some people to thank, Adam.

Sure do. I mean, I think in addition to the people that support the show. If things worked out right, our break should be undetectable. And I think a major reason for that is the producer of the show, Wendy Pretty. True. The best in the business. And we thank her for getting us on the show through the last several weeks. She's been a major reason why we can pull this up Truly we got to thank Adam Ragusia who may be original Janeway song of course

Working off of the inspiration of dark materia who made the original card song Let us use it all those years ago Adam Ragusia now on YouTube just search Adam Ragusia on YouTube, he's gonna teach you out of Cush, it's great. Sure is, he'll post a picture of a pretzel that he's working on sometimes. Oh man, he's working on pretzels at the moment. You gotta work with LI to make pretzels, that serious business. Yeah, follow Adam Ragusia on Instagram too, you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter

at greatest track. I also don't shout this out often enough, but there is a Friends of Disotto community on Twitter. If you like, go into the communities section of Twitter and search for Friends of Disotto. There's a nice little community in there, and it is a fun way to just tweet to other FODs without putting it out on your main feed. It is a fun way to just tweet to other FODs

without putting it out on your main feed. And it's a really fun little subsection there because people are really positive and cool and it's mostly just like funny dank memes about Star Trek. It's almost entirely embarrassment free. Yeah. When you tweet like that. It's kind of wild. It's kind of wild. It's great.

And yeah, join the various other, you know, social media communities out there. There's a Facebook group. There's a Reddit. There's drunksremotor.com Discord. Which you can get to using the new URL, big floppy dogs, that biz. What is it?

Dog shop, that biz. Yeah, dog shop, that biz. Yeah, get over there. Can't believe it wasn't taken. We got a welcome back, the great Bill Tilly, who got married. Yeah, we're not the only ones taken breaks. Yeah, congrats to Bill.

Congrats to Bill, Bill Tilly, running our social media accounts. Really glad to have him back, though. And with that, we will be back at you next week with another great episode of Star Trek Voyager, an episode of the greatest generation Voyager that is pulling this pod car over, even though we're as far from home as we are.

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