The Greatest Generation - She’s Just Not That Into Q (VOY S3E11)

Episode Date: February 7, 2022

When Q shows up with a romantic overture for the captain, only a lady Q will be able to divert his attention. But when a war in the continuum implicates judicial precedent set onboard Voyager, the crew will have to cosplay to preserve the Qunion. What is it about camping that Captain Janeway enjoys so much? What kind of Continuum was Milton Berle packing? Why did this episode keep Tipper Gore up at night? It’s the episode that accommodates guests with a fold-out bit!Exchange scarves for goods at PodShop.bizSupport 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 now regularly streaming on Twitch.Facebook group | Subreddit | Discord | WikiSign up for our mailing list!

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I'm Ben Harrison. Normally we clap sync before starting the show. It gives us some nice birds on the wave form to sink with. It gives you a nice spiky bird on the wave form. And on today's episode I tried to sink sys. Sys don't sink like the claps do. Yeah. Not spiky enough. The bird needs to be spiky for it to be a usable sink mark. Or a weapon in a canceled episode of Star Trek the Next Generation. Yeah. You know, on the flop house, instead of a clap, what they do is count off.

Yeah. So, like count together? Like, like one person will say one, one person will say two, you just wait for your number to come up and you say it, and then the editor just lines them up like that. Wait, what? Yeah.

I mean, so all the hosts of the flat-house are not saying one, two, three, one is saying one, the other is saying two, the other one is saying three. You got it. You're picking up when I'm putting down. How do you think that? I mean, like the clap is nice, but it's a bit of a fiction that it's actually

like a very precise mark, because there's lag, you know? Totally. And sometimes you play with that lag. It's lag, you know. Totally. And sometimes you play with that lag. It's just a good place to start. Yeah, exactly. So, I don't think that there is a right or wrong way to do it. We have chosen the clap, because our preferred method. I thought it was interesting to guess on another show.

Not the first time I've chosen the clap over other options. Yeah, exactly. I had a great time going on the flop house and it's always interesting to see how another, how their family does it, you know. I thought you'd never be invited back on the flop house after the first time you slash we were guests on the fly pass. Good job. Oh, man. I must have forgotten. If people don't know There's a a crossover episode of the greatest generation and the fly pass in the max fun bonus feed where we review Star Trek 5 Kullin the one where they kill God. I don't want anyone to listen to that episode because I want to tour that movie And I've burned up all my great jokes. Yeah.

Yeah. We didn't save anything for the swim back. I ride for Cyboc harder than Menu rides for two vicks. I think I love Cyboc. Yeah, Cyboc's great. Menu is on the record as saying Star Trek 5 is the best Star Trek film. So. Oh man, see now I don't like it as much anymore.

Ha ha ha. I'll tell him you said that. He'll be devastated. Uh huh. I mean, he'll know. He listens to the show. That guy is just chaotic, opinionated. Yeah, he takes a certain joy in staking out

a nearly indefensible position on certain meaningless matters like whether or not it's okay to have melted cheese in a dish. You know, chaotic opinions make me think a lot of a character on the show today, Ben. One of the Urkhaos agents in all the Star Trek. We're just gonna pivot right in, aren't we? Why not? Why not get in? It's right there.

Okay, you talked me into it at season three, episode 11, the Q and the Greg. Reaver course. Unless you've got something a little bigger in your torpedo toots, I'm not turning around. Oh, this is some real nerd shit on the bridge, just to kick off the episode. Can we, before we talk about how nerdy the bridge scene is, can we talk about how nerdy the title of this episode is?

Yeah. It's, it's the blue in the gray as in the Civil War. Uh-huh. But the Q instead of the blue. Yeah. I always thought the queue side would be the Confederate side. I'm a little shocked by that. I mean, but it's brother versus brother

brother in the queue civil war. So it's all the queue side. That's true. Yeah. Yeah, I couldn't believe, and I know from corny puns. I'm a big fan of the corny pun, but this one took me a minute to process, and by the time I had worked it out, I felt great umbridge with whoever picked this title. Your enthusiasm for corny puns is amazing. Where is the pun even? Do you think when you're

on a starship? Do you just keep needing more and more visually interesting things to move your needle. Yeah. And when you see the supernova that starts the episode, where are you a little underwhelmed? It's just a blinding white flash. Yeah, it didn't seem that spectacular based on some of the other things that we've seen in Star Trek, but the crew treats it as amazing. It's the scarcity part of it

that they're enthusiastic about, right? Like no one gets to see this. It gets a standing o. The whole crew stands and claps for this. This bridge crew is the type that claps when the plane lands, you know? Claps when the credits roll in the movie theater. Yeah, even Nielix and Kess are there.

Kess knows about standing as long as you're having them in broom closets. Right. I just had to wedge that joke in there. Just shove it in. She have it in and close the locker door behind it. The EMH is there to remind everybody that he has this thing on his arm now. All right, later, not going to be in the episode any longer.

And that six Bay is the real place to be if what you want to see are things explode. He makes a very flowery pronouncement about, you know, like the bridge in the view screen is a cool place to be ordinarily, but six Bay is where it's at. That's what he's talking about, you know, like the bridge and the view screen is a cool place to be ordinarily, but a six-base where it's at. That's what he's talking about, right? He's like a friend that moved to kind of an annoying part of town that's like a little bit far from where most of your other friends live,

and he's always trying to get people to come out. Now, there's some really great stuff out there. You guys gotta come check it out. That was impressive and everything, but until you've seen a spiky headed baby move through the birthing canal. You've never really seen the galaxy's danger the way I have. The captain has been on the bridge for 14 hours today. She basically gets kicked off by Chico Day.

No one gets to use her bathroom, right? I think this is a lot easier if you're her and you get to duck out to your ready room anytime you want to take that midwork dump. Well, with how much coffee she's drinking to, like she's gotta be going back and forth all the time, right? When they beam the poops out of you, do people know what's happening to you?

Are you like, hmmm? I do. Do you ever prefer the classic dump if that's the case? Original flavor. Yeah, like taking a dump old school rules. Yeah, I think that Captain Janeway is kind of a like she enjoys traditional oldie-timey big dress style holodeck programs. I bet she enjoys a pooping in a hole for on vacation.

Yeah, she's an enthusiastic camper in a way that I am just not. So you go take the other side of your theory about the poop beam outs. And I think it's because you've got on record. And I think we both have that everyone in Starfleet has their poops beamed out. Yeah. Keeps them at work longer. Keeps them efficient. This is a technology that Jeff Bezos is probably hard at work on. Probably more healthful for a lot of reasons. A lot of a lot of reasons. A lot of bad things can happen when you get in there with the wiper.

But if you don't use that muscle, Ben, you'll lose that muscle. So like I imagine you might become accustomed to having it beamed out, and then maybe you're on an away mission, or you're on a planet with Chico Te, where he's building you bathtubs, and all of a sudden you've got a planet with Chico Tay, where he's built in your bath tub, and all of a sudden you got a poop with the old school rules.

Right. I think that stuff's just coming out of you in a very inconvenient way. It's like the theory that Taco Bell has that reputation of giving people the runs because people that eat mostly fast food never encounter dietary fiber until they have the beans at Taco Bell. And then suddenly, it lets everything go.

Like a crab pot suspended above the crab trawling boat. So your theory is basically if they're cutter is a mussel that they could let atrophy if they're not careful about it. Maybe like replicator rations, you're not careful about it. Maybe? Yes. Maybe like replicator rations. You're asked to do your business in the traditional fashion, at least a couple of times a week. In the SAT question, jargon, it is.

As whole is to shit as crab pot is to crabs. Ha ha ha. Do you think anybody's listening to this show? No, they're all gone. That's it. That's it Well, we could just stop now then, right? We spent five minutes on the first minute and ten seconds of this episode The hey Ben the the cell doors have been unlocked the entire time. Hahaha.

Hahaha. So the captain heads down to her bedroom and discovers that her bed has been replaced with the kind of thing you see in the honeymoon suite at a corny themed roadside motel. A lot of pressure. And you get the heart-shaped pillowcases on the bed. Seriously. And there's Q. John Delancey is back and he's attempting to set a mood here because what he would like very much is for Catherine Janeway to bear his offspring.

You gotta keep them separated. It's not very sexy when you use the clinical terms for things in the scene, right? So his version of seduction sounds very clinical. It does, don't you think? I mean, he's out of practice. Like he doesn't even call it love making. It is like procreation is the word.

Yeah, it's like, it's kind of like, it oscillates back and forth though, right? Because he's like, he's also like, I wanted to feel good. So I've created these satin sheets because we're not doing it with those shitty military issue ones that you normally have on your bed. Uh-huh. Which, that's like a remarkably subtle bit of character development for Catherine Janeway. She's like flung to the other side of the galaxy and has bit. We've seen her in fabric shopping mode.

Yeah. She has not upgraded her bedsheets. I mean, does everyone have a sofa bed? Is that the standard issue situation on the ship? Yeah, I don't know. If one person was going gonna have a real bed, you'd think it'd be the captain and the captain's quarters, right?

Is this a sofa bed? I'm saying once Q takes off and like the room is returned to normal, what was once a bed is now sofa? It is? Yeah. Oh, I didn't notice that. It's the only thing I could think about.

Wow. Are you confusing her bedroom for the ready room, which has a sofa? No, no, watch this scene. I'll wait when he leaves and everything switches back to normal. The heart-shaped bed transforms back into a couch. Wow. Okay.

I mean, maybe there's just a different room in the suite that has a bed in it that he didn't want to mess with. How'd it respect? Have you ever gotten the honeymoon suite? The one like that isn't just like a really nice room, but that is like actually set up. I have not. Like that. I got a very nice room in one of the hotels we stayed in on my honeymoon, but it wasn't like Rose Petals and shit, you know.

Yeah. Fuck it totally does turn into a sofa. How fucking great would it be to have a sofa bed? But what came out of the sofa was a heart shaped bed? Hahaha. Yeah, sure Uncle Rick, we've got a spare bed. But the house, if you come in through town, ordinarily a guest is going to be disappointed

by a silver bed accommodations anyway, but then you bag over the head, punch them in the face of it. The fact that the bed inside is a hard shape bed. I want that just for the react. And what's going on here seems pretty pervy. Yeah. Yeah, yeah I mean we're be amazing that's a worthwhile bit an expensive bit but worthwhile I love

traumatizing my friends and family for a bit it's it's it for like 30 seconds of amusement that's the classic your wife reacts with, who is this for? Which is like one of my favorite lines. One of the questions I had was like this scene kind of unfolds on either side of the opening credits sequence and she's sort of refusing, refusing, refusing and when we come back from credits they're like in the bed together and she's pushing him off of her. Which was not the position they were in before the credits. What happened during the theme?

I have a lot of questions about that. So much happened off-screen. Why don't you have a seat right over there? I like how Picard crawled and Cisco walked so Janeway could run in terms of quipping with Q. Yeah. Like there is a total escalation to how these captains treat him. And I gotta believe like the next captain to meet Q is just going to be like,

it's nothing but profanity and punches to the face. Yeah. Because Janeway is really throwing ship back at him in a very satisfying way just has zero time for it I thought through this entire scene. I wonder how Chico today is gonna feel about this I'm guessing jealous as fuck and yeah the writers of this episode totally anticipated that question and answer it in short order Chico T's balls get smashed from two different directions, like from from the front and behind. If you can smash him from the front, we'll tell you to smash him from the back, back, back. Because initially he's made to feel the jealousy of another gentleman's suitor for the lady

friend that he has feelings for. And then he has to be in the same room for Janeway to go, there's no jealousy here. Chico De does never chance either. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha and starts working on a manuscript entitled, she's just not that into queue. Yeah. Sure does. Do you think he writes it out on like a burlap sack the way all of those documents tend to be? Yeah.

Yeah. Anything that gets up. It's more of a manifesto is what I'm saying. Right. Anything that would get shared in a McLaughlin group on the table has to be written on a dirty piece of fabric. I find it fascinating that Chicoete is so emboldened to get all up in his crew person's shit about things.

Like he has a dream relationship with BLT where they get to crosstalk that all the time. And he gets to ask sincerely what up with you. Yeah, they've like maybe even more hostile relationships than Q and Janeway like Yes, Q goes tip for tattoo with Chico day because mine's bigger and it still doesn't seduce Janeway or impress Chico Te. Yeah. What would it take to impress either of them?

Not big enough. Hughes, like, what if I had John Delancey's legendarily giant hog? Ha, ha, ha, ha. Would that make a difference? I feel like we both learned about that fact between the last Q episode on this one. And now I was just totally preoccupied watching this with what that thing was doing below the frame.

When he says mine's bigger, he's not talking about the problematic tattoo on his face. No, he's talking about his own personal continuum. Yeah, he's only going to take out enough to win the contest. My word, you were tripod. He's the only one to beat Milton Burl at that game. Exactly. Down in the holodeck, Harry Kim and Tom Paris are getting massages from a couple of ladies who are cubed-beamed away from them by Delancey,

who appears down there. And like Paris and Kim do not skip a beat. They are not surprised to see you, they are not alarmed by his presence, they are just annoyed. All right, queue, we'll bite. What do you want? It seems commonplace in our society for powerful people to take great umbrabridge with not being feared or respected.

And there is like something absent from every queue scene in this episode so far. That has something to do with that. Like, no one fears him. Everyone's throwing shit back in this face. In a way that you would expect an omnipotent creature to be like, I'm going to bishop you in this holodeck and keep you alive. He's not really a threat anymore the way he used to be. Those earlier Q episodes, you really did fear him and now there's no fear component at all. Yeah, I mean, it seems like he is not going to just kill someone for the shits and giggles of it anymore. Part of it might be that another aspect to it might be the clothing he's wearing, which seems to be out of the McDonald's Land Casual Collection.

This is all the cabana wear that Kramer took from George's dad. I can't find any of my vacation clothes that were in the attic. Yeah, it's great. And Paris and Q are like doing the work that Janeway has assigned everyone, trying to get to the bottom of YQ's there, really. And even Nielix participates, because when Qwips around and heads to the bar,

Nielix's version of the vacation is actually a bus mentality. What is Nielix doing there? Working on the holodeck? Take a break Neelix. You got time to get a massage from a bikini babe. You got time to clean Neelix. Get behind that.

I have a lot of questions about this scene. It's funny. Q. Leeens over the bar and takes a look at Neelix's feet and then actually blows his brains out on the holodeck. And he's dead. Heolien's over the bar and takes a look at Neelix's feet and then actually blows his brains out. On the holodeck. And he's dead. Yeah, the safeties are not on. Yeah, he took the Quinn way out.

One of the things that entered my mind in this scene is, is it possible to make a good tasting drink that is served in a holode out butternut squash? butternut squash. I think Crystal Jewett, maybe the only person that I can think of that would be K-who will have answering this question. But if she can come up with a recipe, I would totally try this on our next cocoa no-no episode. I mean, I would assume there would be kind of a, like you could imagine a teaky drink having squashy flavors in it in a all-spice drink kind of a, like you could imagine a teaky drink having squashy flavors in it in a all-spice drink kind of way. All-spice and squash are good friends. Yeah. But like, is...

Good friends like the cereal. Is citrus friends with those and rum also? How quickly would the squash deteriorate, you think? I don't know. Yeah, I guess it probably depends on how on how ripe the squash is, too. I had a really bright idea in college to get a bunch of mini watermelons that, you know, like hand size. Sure. And howl of them out and make watermelon margaritas in them. Christopher walkin' had this idea and all of them out. What you do is you take the tiny melons. You draw a knife along its skin. Yeah, and I was like making them for a big group of people.

So I had like 12 of these guys. Wow. All of them all out. And I thought I'd pre-make them. Sure. Pre-make them the night before. Batch them. So I stuck all of the hollowed out watermelons in the freezer.

To keep. You can imagine what happened next. Because the next day, once I took them out of the freezer to fill with the watermelon margarita, like the thawed muscles had had had collapsed and they turned into slimy goo. They looked like pumpkins two weeks after Halloween. It was bad. The other thing that I found very in Congress at this scene is that Q kind of expresses to Tom and Harry that he is interested in learning the ways of wooing a lady.

Q wants to learn how to woo, and they don't help him, but Nelix does. Nelix is the one to give Q the hot tips on how to treat a lady. And it's about sincerity, it's about giving gifts, it's about loyalty. You can't bribe Captain Chang Wei? Oh no, isn't that what you do? So that's what Q tries. Yeah, I mean, I guess the one thing that embodies that feeling is a puppy.

And that's the gift that Q gives Jane Wei in her office. Fuck, this is a cute dog. It's a real cute dog. Are you inoculated to the cuteness of puppies because of your current ownership of a puppy? Are you like, miss me with another puppy? It's a great question because I was looking at this pup and I was like, well, nothing in this room is destroyed. So, so this is the science fiction aspect of the scene. Yeah, this dog clearly

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I've got to get that luck woodknot. Are you selling a horse to me? Go. Janeway holds the puppy like someone who has held a puppy before, but Q does not, which I think is great. That's such a great detail that Q wouldn't know how to hold a puppy. Yeah. He then kind of pivots into talking about what his reasons are for wanting to... you wouldn't know how to hold a puppy. Yeah.

He then kind of pivots into talking about what his reasons are for wanting to fuck Jane Way, which we understand more and more in this episode why he's bad at this, having not been in a relationship for billions of years and sex never having been on the table previously, but he does do that thing where he really makes it all about him. I want someone to love me for myself. It really has nothing to do with anything he likes about her. I look around at the universe and all of its myrium, alien races, and it's just nothing but stasis and chads out there.

Yeah. Single for billions of years. Pretty rough. He's really got to knock the dust off of that crank. It's some dusty junk he's got going. Yeah, but it ages like a fine wine at him. The dusty ones are the really expensive ones. Yeah. Poor guy. This is why he's so unpredictable. He's walking around with that loaded member. He's got to chill out. He also makes the case for like,

you know, your biological clock must be ticking too. And Janeway expresses that having a kid is something that she would like to do, but not with him, not here, not now. She has bigger fish to fry at the moment. This is such a gentle way for him to make his case that I kind of wish he had pivoted back into the more harder core cue that we've gotten. The first few times seeing him, like, the version that holds up a picture of Tom Irvings and goes, like, you're never going to see this guy again. Like the puppy kind of implies a, like, this is the puppy version of the dog you left behind. Like the implication of the puppy is that life. But I wish he'd been more direct about the man she left that she's never going to make a baby with. Yeah. And that part is kind of missing. RSVP Tom Mervins from Janeway's thought processes.

Yeah. Enter QZ plaxton, Adam. I never thought we'd see her again. This is great. One of the greats, one of our favorites is Suzy plaxton. Yeah, she is here to really drag Janeway through the mud. I love how Kate Mugru John Delancey both make, is that Suzy Plaxton eyes to commercial?

Jaws on the floor. Yeah, great take there. Yeah. And this queue is Q's X. And it sounds like part of the reason for their breakup is that one of the two parties New they had an open relationship for billions of years That's down to

Injender some resentment, right? Yeah, they weren't listening to the Dan Q Savage podcast advocating for Lots of candor what's relationship? Yeah, you can't do that. Yeah. There's some relationship jealousy between QZ plaques and Janeway, but Janeway is, you know, trying to get out in front of it, expressing that she is zero interest in breaking up whatever they have. Stay away from it. I'll save you a lot of trouble.

I have zero interest in him. But this is all interrupted by a bonanza of supernovas that have begun to happen in this part of space. And a mount that isn't just unusual, but is like scientifically impossible. Yeah, they talk about that first one is having been like a record setting observation of a supernova for the Voyager crew.

And now they're just setting the records left and right. It's like they're baseball players that are on the juice. And you add another game to the season and the record book can be thrown out. Mm-hmm. Throw some asterisks up on the Voyager's stats. They've got three waves converging on their position and they can't go to warp.

So they're kind of limping away, but because they're on impulse power, they can't go to warps, so they're kind of limping away, but because they're on impulse power, they can't get away fast enough. A praxis-level shockwave knocking the ship. God. Everyone's T is going to hit the floor once these waves come. But Janeway's not going to be- I mean, which wave do you turn into, Ben?

Yeah. That's really the question. It's an impossible choice. This would confound the great King Solomon. It's the rail car problem of T. Hahaha. Somebody draw that. Janeway's not gonna be there for this though,

because she has been transported to the continuum, which has been redressed from Texas Chainsaw Massacre theme to more of a civil war theme where she is trapped in a house with Field Marshal Q. Well, do you think I would go from a start to be that rude to anything else? Who? I guess is this Confederate, this uniform that he's wearing? No, this is Union. This is very specifically Union. Yeah. Well, that's good. He kind of describes himself as a radical that's fighting the status quo.

So I wasn't quite sure which side they were coding for. You know? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the other side of the continuum is fighting for heritage. Right. Right. Yeah.

That's what makes the analogy clear. The traditional values of the queue. Yeah. So he keeps working the pitch and it's now becoming even more kind of pragmatic. He throws up in the windows, shows her that the continuum is at war and he's like, this war is all about what happened with Quinn punching his own ticket. And what the Q need is the compassion and love of peace that humanity has achieved. And these non-violent improvements can be brought into the continuum through crossbreeding.

You're going to make a compassion messiah. It's not the messiah, it's a really naughty boy! Do you find that pragmatic seduction often works like as an angle? Yeah, versus attraction or common interests or anything else. This is just getting less sexy by the moment I'd love to make fun of this Adam, but it's basically how my wife and I got together We're already roommates. I have so little game I don't want to move you don't want to move. You don't want to move. I'm scared of you.

That's just a gouge. You like me. Yeah, interesting angle for the cue to take here. Yeah. You never get the sense that she's like tempted, but this is more interesting than she thought it was initially. It's not just him going like, hey, wanna fuck? It's like, hey, I kind of think like

for the stability of the universe, I might need to make a baby with you. Coffee and mate it with you? Did you crave a little bit of a indecent proposal kind of angle to this, where Janeway is made to consider this seriously and a real needs of the many needs of the few situation. I mean, this is a very light episode and we're very superficial in the description of

what this would mean for Janeway and Q. But if Janeway were to go back to Chicoetay and go like, the fate of the universe is at stake here and If I truly believe that this is gonna solve a massive problem, do I at least have to consider it? There's never that moment in this episode. There isn't and I wonder if they considered that It's too sexy to consider, isn't it? Yeah, but he's said he's already established as sort of an unreliable narrator like he says things that aren't exactly true all the time to begin with. So. Yeah, it's never about considering the proposal.

It's all about whether or not he's sincere. Yeah. Like, even when he offers to get them home quicker, if Janeway will stay in the continuum with him, she rejects that out of hand, but we haven't quite got that. That's a really great point. Like, my, I think my point answers a math problem. This question isn't asking. This is on its own course.

This is its own formula. You get shot in this scene and it's a really bloody wound. Probably more blood than we've seen in Star Trek in a long time. And there's some discussion of the weapons in the continuum are like really scary actually. Just to set up this scene, like this is the only way that Jane Ways feeble mind can make sense of what's happening in the queue continuum is through this representation. Right. Yeah. So while Q has been shot with a lead bullet shot from a musket. Those are muskets. What's actually happening is some crazy Q weapon being shot at a Q.

And this is just the way her mind understands it. This is a GUI and Q works in Command Line Only. It's a UNIX system. The final of this. On the bridge of the Voyager, everybody is kind of waking up after having been KO'd by the triple shock wave, including QZ PlaXIN, everybody is kind of waking up after having been KO'd by the triple shock wave, including QZ plaxton who is- I thought she snapped away.

I was surprised by this. Yeah. And she's issuing threats in Chicoetay, even less worried about her presence than Paris and Kim were about Q's presence in the holodeck because he's noticed that she's got bruises on her, which means that she's got bruises on her, which means that she's probably been defanged. He kind of lets a lot ride on his assumption that she's been defanged, but... Yeah, he's like someone in the middle of a stick-up who thinks that the gun is a starter's

pistol and is like 60% sure that that's what it is. Yeah, yeah. So, she comes to the realization that her powers are not there anymore and Tuvac is the one that in so few words says, we're not stuck in here with Giu. Giu stuck in here with us. Vulcan talent for stating the obvious never ceases to amaze me.

Maybe the greatest representation of Lady Q's lack of powers is that she couldn't get herself out of a meeting. That she's made to attend with Chico de Antuvac, where she kind of lays out all of the news about the continuum that Jane Wai got in her own version of this. Somehow I don't think this rickety barge or your half-witted crew members are up to the challenge. She is incredulous about working with them at all before two Vachramine sur that she's kind of stuck there. Yeah. And this is her only choice.

Perfect black. Make it yourself. I'm trying to help you see this is an opportunity to grow. Make it yourself. Back in the fancy house with Delance EQ and Janeway, the house is surrounded. Q is being offered an opportunity to surrender himself and instead does the firing crazy shots out the window. You'll never catch me coppers.

Tack. It does not go well. He's like trying to get Janeway to join in the fight with him. She's not really interested in taking up arms and a conflict that she's not really involved with, but she is willing to drag him out of this room. More sparks than you'd expect in an old-timey Civil War mansion, right? Yeah, I guess they kind of have one mode when it comes to special effects, explosions, and Star Trek. I really love a chandelier drop, though. Yeah.

Don't get too many of those in Star Trek. Good stuff. It's big fun. You're a drop, though. Yeah. You don't get too many of those in Star Trek. Good stuff. It's big fun. Town and engineering, BLT, is working on a series of modifications to the ship and the shields that will let them enter the Q continuum with the Voyager. This is a scene that made me notice Lady Q's mid-Atlantic accent throughout the year. No, I've always liked Klingon females.

You've got such spunk. What do you make of that? To do planksons a great actor. She's being a fancy lady. And this has that civil war milieu on the cue continuum side of the story. So maybe it's maybe her ideas to be playing like a Maryland

Socialite that is trying to pull political strings in the midst of the war. You don't often get the combination of mid-Atlantic and Regular, I guess and what it gives the feeling of is real condescension. Yeah Whether or not that was her choice or if it was a directed choice, like it really makes her seem condescending to everyone around her in a very effective way. That and like having no patience for BLT, having like a shitload of work on her plate. Yeah. Yeah. And that being done with it. But again, no one scared of LadyQ in the way that no one is really scared of Q Prime.

I would have loved to have Bosen's whistle and Chicoote get on the PA throughout the ship. Everybody, Qzy Plaxen is going to be walking around the ship, doing some stuff, and just for everyone's edification, she does not currently have her powers, so don't let her act like she owns the place. If I were to co-tape, I'd be thinking about Janeway bedding down with Q and this being his chance to do the same, right? Yeah, revenge Q's X. Yeah. In the continuum, Janeway and Delancey Cue are camping with the CUNION Army.

He is suffering from his bullet wounds and she's trying to help him out to some battlefield medicine. They have a little debate about whether this theoretical offspring of the two of theirs would in fact have the compassion and love of peace that he is is after in his proposition with Janeway. It never works that way. It's a Q nature versus Q nurture kind of debate. It is, but you can just imagine this kid would grow up to reject their parents, ideas for

what they should be like. Yeah. Imagine how much damage got Cue could do. I'm just trying to think of any other Star Trek characters that are people who have a foot in two worlds, but feel like they don't fully belong to either. There's like almost no characters like that that I can think of. Yeah.

Maybe we'll be seen one day. Maybe one day. In a Star Trek series. And so yeah, he's like, yeah, no, you wouldn't be Captain of the ship anymore. You'd be raising this baby and and transmitting your values to it. I would basically stay out of the whole parenting process, which he's like, this is sounding better and better. But also like, I get you home. So like, like Janeway's position is, I like being Captain. I'm on a mission to get this crew home. That'sway's position is, I like being captain,

I'm on a mission to get the screw home. That's sort of what my deal is. Right. Regardless of what you're proposing baby-wise. It is sort of a needs of the many, right? Like everybody but Janeway would get to go home in this arrangement. Right.

And she's not into it. Can you imagine Tom Mervins and that dog waiting on the dock, you know, as crew person after crew person comes down the ramp? He's like, oh, I guess he's gonna be the last one to come off the ship. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right. Gonna be waiting a long time to Mervins. Tom Mervins, treading home. Just lets the least drop. Dog shits on somebody's lawn, he doesn't even clean it up. Dog will be happier with someone else. Yeah.

Yeah, but even this is not enough to convince Janeway. She wants to get her crew home herself. Kind of prideful on her part, I think. Well, I mean, it's another in the long line of defenses against fucking Q, you know? I guess so, yeah. Like, whether or not it's true, it's a stated reason not to. I forgot that that was the other part of the option.

Yeah. I would draw my dunk. Janeway is like, and rather than to continue this conversation, I'm going to attempt to wave the white flag on the battlefield, which is an incredibly brave choice for someone who doesn't really get the rules of what's happening here. I mean, we sort of understand, but to think that you could walk out in the middle of this thing with a white flag and think you're not going to get killed is some hubris.

It's a huge amount of hubris given how little regard most of the Q members we've encountered have for human life. I mean, this is like an ant walking out in the middle of a nuclear war. Like, like these opposing forces, like what would it take for them to even notice her? Right. In this context.

Who knows? Adam, Tom Paris has a new nickname. Helmboy. It's getting bossed around by QZ plaques and. It's amazing they keep making Helmboy movies. Like they're very popular and I've never seen one. Yeah. There's like four of them now?

Yeah. Didn't uh... Guillermo del Toro direct a couple of them? I mean I think that's... And Doug Jones is in them? I think that's one of the reasons why they're supposed to be so good. I mean I didn't think that they were that good. Yeah I wouldn't know.

It's never, never saw. The plan is we got to fly this ship into one of these supernovas. And everybody was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, that's what we were planning. Like all these modifications we're doing are for that, but the shield modifications that she's recommended for BLT are apparently going to get them up to 10x shield strength

Which I have a lot of questions about whether they get to keep this Technology going forward Wouldn't that be great? I mean the the downside is if they don't do this perfectly the shield bubble could burn the ship to a crisp Right, there's a lot of questions and answers could burn the ship to a crisp. Right. There's a lot of questions and answers happening during this moment. The bottom line is that these supernovas blow and then suck almost instantly and that is going to be the function that draws the voyager into the continuum. So in they head and there's a flash of light and we come back to the continuum where Janeway is in the tent of a shitty confedient general on the other side of the battlefield and

Did you recognize this guy he was the General in saving private Ryan that said we've got to go get them the hell out of there of course I did I mean, I knew him primarily as FBI director Lazaro from Face Off. The guy who John Travolta kills with a heart attack that he makes happen by punching him in the chest. What a good movie. He was also Mr. Brooks and Dawson's Creek. Oh.

For all your Creek heads. Oh, you Creek freaks. Oh, yeah. Is Creek freaks a bonus podcast we should do for the greatest Jen bonus fee? It would break my heart to watch Dawson's Creek as in the state that it's in right now because all of its copyrighted music

got taken out of it. It's just not the same. It's like watching 90210. Like the music was like a big part of it. And without it, it's just not the same at all's like watching 902.0. Like the music was like a big part of it. And without it, it's just not the same at all. Stupid media companies with their stupid- You tell me Steve Sanders is gonna have a 21st birthday party without the Goo Goo Dolls playing live?

Not on my watch. And instead it's like some stock music. Man. That's not a party. When I was in New York, I did some video work for a guy who he was a musician, but like his day job was in post-production at MTV. And he was the person who single-handedly got the DVD reissue of the state together. Wow.

What that involved was taking out all of the, you know, MTV used to just put hit MTV music in all of their shows. And they couldn't re-release the state with that stuff in it. So he, like, he just spent a year on company time saying, like, hey, like when I'm not busy doing other stuff, I'm going to be editing needle drop onto episodes of the state so that we can reissue this as DVDs. It was a labor of love, you know, like it's a shame because like the state isn't quite the same thing as it was when it was on TV, but also I'm really glad that's still out there, you know.

Yeah, I just think, I think anytime you can stop copyrighted material from being used in another person or group's work. You got to do that. You got to. It knows how that stuff is going to get used. Ben, like, all of a sudden you could take that stuff and use it to say anything. Yeah, you know how I feel about copyrighted material, had them? How's that, Ben? I want to dip my balls in it. So this kernel is dressed in Confederate kernel garb, which makes a fairly strong comment on what side of this Q continuum conflict he represents.

He's the side that is being northern aggrest. What I really like in this conversation is how they're both shot from below, right? Yeah. Normally in a scene between two characters having an argument, you'd get the suggestion of superiority by one person being shot from above and one from below. But when they're both shot from below, they're both seen a superior in their argument. Right. And they're on roughly even footing. She proposes her truce and Colonel Q is like, yeah, a stab to the fighting is a great idea. This is something I can agree with you with.

But the methods for this truce are a thing that they do not agree with at all because executing Q is the proposition on the table at this point. that they do not agree with at all, because executing Q is the proposition on the table at this point. Yeah. Colonel Q is a real son of a bitch and already has Delanticue in his custody. And Delanticue to his credit attempts an act of selflessness here.

He says like, I know you're gonna execute me, but leave Janeway out of it. This isn't her fault, but Colonel Q believes that Janeway has aided and abetted the enemy. So they are both going to get tied up to telephone polls and executed by firing squad. I thought he was going to say she was pregnant to save her life. And that's like the cost of surviving the moment is like Q gets killed. He snaps his fingers and impregnates her.

She gets permitted to leave. That's not what happens here, though. No. This is a sweet scene in a good moment for John Delancey. He really has all the gears as an actor. Yeah. Go along with that massive crank. He sure does, Adam. We've heard. It's kind of an open secret, right?

We're not talking out of school there. I don't remember where I heard it first. I don't think I heard it in private. Yeah, I think it's out there. This is not something that like a Star Trek star said to me in confidence while we were sitting in the first class seats in a flight from Vegas to LA. That is usually how you'd get that kind of information. Yeah, but I would never have a conversation in that context. No, you know what? Maybe it's better that you didn't chat up Jonathan Freaks if the first question you asked was about

John Delanci's cop. Okay, I gotta know. Been hearing over the transom. Some stuff about the land's east dog. Can you confirm or deny? So you think they're gonna get executed here, but the shots fired or not from the firing squad, they're from the union. And the union is made up of the Voyager crew shooting period weapons and in period costumes. Voyager crew to the rescue?

Yes. Yes. Yes. Hell yeah. I love the little pop zooms in on them when they're when the like you almost never see as I zoom in in Star Trek. And those are really great. I'm sure that's a no-mosh, tell like a peck-and-paw film or something. Yeah, I like that moment a lot, too. They felt great.

And it's a fun action sequence, Harry Kim and Qzy plaques that are running around, rescuing Janeway and Dolancy Q, Tom Parris catches, Colonel Q, at the end of his rifle and takes him into custody. These are the Q's weapons that they're wielding. So this gooey works for everyone. Yeah, it's pretty wild. You know what goes hand in hand with violence? Adam is sex. Oh yeah, this is Tipper Gors worst nightmare. Qzy plaques and and Delancey Q have gotten hot and bothered about all of this violence and come up with an

idea for being the people who do the reproducing. And we get to watch. Yeah. And so does Captain Janeway. Now is the time when QZ plaques and then Q Delanci do it right on camera. Yeah. You see it going in. I think it's going to be something massive, but it's only a hand job.

Yeah. That's how they do it. That was it. So that's how it is in their family. And then like just after sweet release, the crew has transported back to Voyager, where there are no supernovas around. No supernovas, they're back on their course,

they didn't get a free bump in their progress or anything like that. I was kind of thinking like, I'll take 10,000 light years off your thing or whatever. Like, it would have been nice. But at least the war is over. Janeway says, all right, everybody back to work. I'm going to be in my ready room flicking the bean. I just watched two people bone down on a battlefield. Yeah, I mean, how many hours was she awake this time around? Yeah, and when she gets in there she gets to meet baby Q who's already in a Starfleet uniform. Well Starfleet onesie. Yeah, this kid out ranks Nelix probably

Already. Yeah, you just you hear Harry Kim on the other side of the door going God fucking damn it. Are you kidding me? Yeah, you just you hear Harry Kim on the other side of the door going What Ensen Kim changed your captain's diaper That's the thing like the annular conf confinement beam of the transporter is sufficient to, like beam adult poops out. Right, right. But a baby poop is like, is too diffuse, it's too messy. Can't be done.

You really need high resolution for that. Yeah. He makes her an offer, she can't refuse. He'd like her to be the baby's godmother. Yeah. A way they flash. And that's the episode, Adam. He makes her an offer, she can't refuse. He'd like her to be the baby's godmother. And a way they flash. And that's the episode, Adam. Nice to see Q holding a baby a little bit better

than a puppy. Yeah, I was worried. This is gonna be fun to return to again. Like you don't just make a Q baby without bringing back the Q progeny at some point, right? Right. I don't think you do. Yeah, but this is a this is a show with kind of a mixed record of of what it chooses to recognize as its own canon. It's really true. Yeah, what they bring back, not consistent, but I have a question, Adam. Did you like this episode of Star Trek Voyager? Yes, in third. You know, the U.S.S. No, I don't.

Captain the Captain. You know, the U.S. No, I don't. I think I tend to like Q episodes. And I'm sure someone could play a real of me hating on Q episodes. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Now would be the time to play that back.

But I think maybe after as many of them as we've gotten, there is a comfort to them that I enjoy. It's easy to feel like when you're with this crew on this ship out in its quadrant, you're just going to be far away from the familiar stories and characters that you've gotten on past series. So in that way, that's how this feels. This is a lot like meeting

those two forangi dumbasses again after so much time. Like, this is, it's comfortable to be around the familiar on occasion. And this is one of those episodes. A Q episode is a, is a great way to do that. Yeah. I like seeing Captain Janeway kick you in the nuts, as often as she does. She always hits, always hits the target with him. And I like that they don't tend to overuse this. Like, he's not around all the time. He's not getting a three episode arc here.

He's coming and going. No, it's about a once a season thing at most, I feel like. And in a 37 episode season, that is, that's just the right dose. And in this case, I mean, boy, love seeing Suzy plaques and again, she's just the greatest. So yeah, I mean, for those two reasons, I'm going to say I did like the episode quite a bit. What about you? I also like this episode.

And I traditionally don't feel like I love QEPS, but this one is light fun and yeah, like we talked about how serious this could have been played. Like you set up this premise and take it to its most serious possible treatment and it would have been way more intense. And I don't think that that's the strength of a queue episode. So, surprisingly, kind of liked the way they took this one. Kind of an interesting sequence in the season, so far, going from futures end to warlord to this episode. Yeah. Like tonally. Totally. Yeah. Some weird choices. The stakes are pretty high throughout. Well, do you wanna see if the stakes are high

and the priority one in box, Adam? The fate of the show depends on the priority one in box, staying well stocked, Ben. Hmm. Priority one message from Starfleet coming in on Secured Channel. I need a supplement on that. supplement on comp?

supplement. supplement. Yes, extra. The interest alone could be enough to buy this ship. Ben, our first priority when message is of a promotional nature. And this promotional message is from Sean Capstick, asking us to check out Capstick Building and renovation in Victoria, BC.

The message goes like this, if you hired this guy to build something, you'll hear him giggling away while he listens to nerds talking about Star Trek. What a delight to know that your talented carpenter is belly laughing with Ben and Adam, making dumb jokes. If you're in Victoria, BC, and you want your carpenter to be a real dork, Sean is here. Whoa. Sean's got an ad for himself. No, I think that this was sent in on Sean's behalf because the targeted date is February

because that's when Sean's birthday is. I kind of think maybe somebody is promoting Sean's carpentry business as an act of love or friendship. Maybe there's someone else on the job site. Looking at Sean laughing his way through an entire shift, wondering what the hell he's listening to. This dovetail came out completely wrong because obviously the capenter was doing a belly laugh while he was doing his chisel work. We keep inviting Sean to take the work van to the home center, go pick up more materials just to get him away from us. If you're in Victoria BC,

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This is one of those, it does. I do declare we are the world! We are also the children! We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let's start giving. Oh, there's a choice we're making. We're shaving our own lives. Each tree will make a bitter day, just you and me. When you're down and out, that seems the hop at all.

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We have to. I'm humiliated that we did that, Adam. Can we just get onto the next P1? Ben that P1 is from Todd and it is to Claire. And that message goes like this. We've been married for five years. Or maybe four, I'm not entirely sure. Our anniversary is in July or possibly January.

Definitely a J-month. Anyway, I love you and I'm certain of that happy anniversary probably. Wow. Gotta be hard to ever relationship with Kern. I mean, at a certain point you probably don't take it super personally when you forget Superstay or your anniversary or whatever, right? Very forgiving partner if you're Claire, really. Yeah.

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Hey Ben. What's that Adam? Did you find yourself a drunk Shimoda? I'm gonna give it to QZPlex and I think that partly this is just an honorary Shimoda for being such a pleasure to get another episode with her, but also partly just any time a Q attempts the snap and doesn't have their power, which you know, we've only seen a few times, but that's always a really funny moment, a real like high status character.

It's not impotent, huh? Yeah, being brought down to earth and that's my shremot a moment for the episode. It's like real magician shame when that happens, right? It's a magician blowing a trick. Totally. I'll guess your card and then I guess the wrong card. That's the vibe. Absolutely. How about you?

I'm going to go for a time code, Shimoto. For me, I mean, the Shimoto is obviously Q, but what is the moment that is most Shimoto like if you move your time stamp to 13 minutes and 23 seconds, the take that Q has while describing his sexual prowess, I think is one of my favorite expressions I've ever seen John Delansey make. It is big, big fun. And for that reason, he is my Shemota. Some great face takes in this episode by Dolancy, all the way through. He really brings it with the face, it does.

Wow, well, Funch Mota's Adam, our next episode is season three, episode 12, macrocosm. Janeway and Nelix return from an away mission to find Voyager a drift in space in the crew barely alive. They soon learn that the ship has been overrun by viral life forms that are rapidly growing in size. They made the crucial error of going to a conference or something. You can't leave the ship and expect to come back to the ship, okay? No. Yeah.

The ship went into the corona this episode and now they're coming to discover that they've got a virus. and now they're coming to discover that they've got a virus. Hmm, so. Too soon. Tch. Ha, ha, ha. Well, it's not too soon for you to head to the game of Buttholes. The will of the caretaker at gach.bizslashgame. And tell us how we'll be reviewing this next episode.

Ben, our runabout is pulsing on top of square 41. Makes me wonder, is the runabout the game piece for us, unvoid your? You mean it is the moment? Should we change what it is? What would you change it to, a race car shuttle? I don't know. What should it be?

I don't know. Something to think about. Some of the shiny balls that you use to clean your hands and Nielix's restaurant? Five squares away, we got a cocoa no-no. Trink of soda episode. That's the only thing in range for us. You're required to learn as you play, roll.

Let's see if we hit it. I'll tell you after I roll this day. Do that. Didn't quite get there, Ben. I rolled a three, which means we're on square 44. Shula! Did I win? Are they? That Coco No No remains two squares ahead. All right. which means we're on square 44. Tula! Did I win? Harvey.

That Coco Nono remains two squares ahead. All right. So a definite possibility for next time. That means, okay. Next week is gonna be a regular episode, another great episode, I think. Sure, why not? Hard to beat this one, one of the best.

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