The Greatest Generation - Space Mengele (S2E7)

Episode Date: May 16, 2016

When the Enterprise encounters a ship full of dead seniors, their immediate concern is the smell. Their investigation leads back to a science facility where experiments in genetics have taken a dangerous turn, creating a race of non GMO-free people. How many cans of soup can a starship hold? Is Star Trek anti-science? Is Chief O'Brien a con artist? It's the episode that has plenty of handrails!

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How are you doing, Ben? I'm good. You know, after the ridiculous success of that last time I opened some Star Trek cards, I'm kind of tempted to open some more. They're sitting here right next to me. I was gonna say like today's episode is a season two episode seven unnatural selection and it was pre-saged by these cards. Yeah, it was predicted by the magic cards that I got you off of eBay. It kind of freaks me out. Did you like promise your first born son to the gypsy that's all there on eBay? Yeah, look. I mean, excuse me, Romani, I'm sorry. I hit a gypsy in a crosswalk with my car and as I, as I, I don't recommend that

Adam. Or narrowly, I would have just kept on driving. Yeah. As I do most of the time, but I But I stopped, and I tried to help her. She was dying in my arms, and she looked at me, and she said, podcast. So this show is your cursed, made manifest, huh? It is, yeah. And you get to live in it with me for some reason.

I never did anything but use a kind of offensive, I think, epithet, like gypsy, in a public forum. Yeah, that was a mouthful. I really regret that. Okay, I've got five new cards. All right. One of them is for an episode called Acquiel. It's like a...

What are we looking at? Pink Circle with an eye at the top and a hand at the bottom. I don't remember this episode The Enterprise arise near remote subspace relay station blah blah blah blah blah I don't know I'm already asleep reading the back of this card next one is sleep reading the back of this card. Next one is a picture of data being shocked by some electricity and it's for an episode called disaster. That's fun. That's fun. Yeah. These are all, I think these are all for episodes. The next one is for an episode called Transfigurations. That might be coming

up in season three. Yeah. it's like a there are no spoilers You're looking at right like they aren't given too much away when you just look at the image No as far as I can tell that's good. Let's see manhunt I did we watch this episode on route to the Pacifica conference. Oh, yeah, weren't they talking about yeah? It was one of those great conference episodes that we've done. Oh, this is the, uh, this is the Troy episode with Troy's mom. Sure is. I think this is, uh, this is like dog versus lizard people or whatever.

What did we? Oh, that's right. Yeah. Versus dog. Yeah. The, uh, unfortunately, the, the trading card really doesn't illuminate any of that. I'm not even sure who it is. It might be Picard in profile with a weird psychedelic pattern. God. If they ever do another version of these cards, I wonder if this show will get a special card.

Oh, I would sign. I would sign until my signing hand was stiff and claw-like. Yeah. It'd be awesome. My last card here is for an episode called The Outcast, which I do remember. This is that episode where they're at a planet where gender doesn't exist, like there's no male-female divide, and Riker gets down with one of the members of the society.

Awesome. And it seems a little diplomatic relations. A deep diplomatic relations, if you know what I mean. It's like, I guess it would have to be the butt, right if you don't have a gender like you probably don't have a Yeah, as far as I know a butthole is is genderless. Yeah You know you could be describing any one of like 60 episodes of this show by just by just the logline Riker engages in diplomatic relations with an alien species. Yeah That is a fair point.

He doesn't quite get near any of that in this episode though. Unless he's attracted to old, which he has not demonstrated that predilection so far. I mean, I don't think right here is super, super selective. I think he kind of takes all comers, but yeah, they all feel the same on the inside. Mm-hmm. Oh God. I think that might have been the worst thing I've ever said on this show. Oh, I've said worse. This episode starts with Picard Captain logging and his observation about this mission

that like they have zero details on was is that he hopes it will help him evaluate his new chief medical officer more, which is maybe the dumbest thing I've ever heard in the captain's life, because it's like, do we really need that setup? Do we need to set up that this is gonna be a Polesky episode or can we just have the episode?

It might be that they're sort of doing the viewer a favor. Telegrapping that this is a Polesky episode, right off the top. Yeah, like if you don't care, you can check out now. Yeah, yeah, go ahead and care, you can check out now. Yeah, yeah. Go ahead and do something else with your Sunday evening. Just come back next week. That's an awesome little faint on the writers part, but like, like, he says they literally know nothing about this mission other than that they like need to be some specific place. And then he says that he hopes it allows him to evaluate his chief medical officers.

Like, we're on a medical mission of mercy or anything like that. It's like, I have no idea what's going on, but I sure hope the doctor becomes involved in it somehow. Irrespective of the mission, I'm going to keep my eye on you. Like, okay. So as the mission begins, the Enterprise receives a distress call from what we learn is the USS Landtree. Ship that should be super familiar to you,

Ben is such a big fan of the second Star Trek movie. It's sort of like a reliant-looking ship. It's definitely whatever the class of ships that reliant is. So it makes me wonder like how long these ships are in service for. They say this one was a cargo ship, and I feel like if it's a cargo ship, like maybe they're using older ships for that service.

They like demilitarized older ships. I would seem that way. Yeah, that makes sense. Because at the time of the second movie, like this was a sort of a badass ship. Right. It's pretty great. But I imagine they just stripped it out and other using it for moving cargo around, which is the picture we get in the description the data gives as to what sort of ship class this is. Yeah, I mean, it's not the cargo ship you picture when you hear the phrase cargo ship, but your little head cannon works for me.

Glad it's working for someone. So, you should, it's not great on the lantern because they use like special Starfleet codes, maybe the same codes that they used on their alliance in the wrath of Khan. So they hack into the mainframe and they're able to get a look at the bridge of the ship and everybody is dead of old age seemingly. I think that I think it's right here. It says it's like they had a battle with time and Warthoses in. Lost.

God, that ship must smell so bad. Like the ship smelled really bad before everyone died. Mm-hmm. That old person smell. Oh yeah. And just hangs in the air. Yeah.

Just like soup. Caughting without covering their mouths and always unwrapping hard candies and really noisy plastic wrappers. They roll up to the lantern and their turn signal is on. Just clicking. They look at the bridge, there are canasta games that weren't even finished when they passed.

There are a thousand piece puzzles that are three quarters finished and they'll never be finished. There's a cat puzzle that will never be finished. It's a sad scene. Yeah, so sad. So there's a mystery of what. And they start looking into what could have caused this. Where they've been.

Yeah. into like what could have caused this? Where they've been? Yeah, the ship shipped out eight weeks ago. Full complement was given a clean bill of health. One of the officers had had a case of the Thelousian flu, but had been cleared to ship out. And I think Polesky says the Thelousian flu is a you know normal rhino virus nothing no big whoop. Yeah, certainly not anything that's going to kill anyone. So then they're like well they must have picked something up but the last whatever the last place they're at which is a genetic research station on Gagarin 4 and and so they're like, well, we got to go check that out.

We're not going to leave this death ship here. So they erect a quarantine buoy to warn off other ships. And they just turn on its hazard lights. Yeah. And they jet off to Gagarin 4, which is also putting out a distress call as luck would have it. And they get on FaceTime with a very old lady. We've just declared a medical emergency here. We need your help. This science officer who gets on the blower with them makes it pretty clear that she's a 30 year old woman,

but what we're seeing is a real grandma on screen. Yeah, I mean, she says that she's supposed to be in her 30s, but she and Dr. Polaski really have like top-notch old lady phone manners. Like, Polaski pipes up in the midst of the call and this scientist lady down on the service goes, excuse me, to whom am I speaking? And I feel like she kind of shows her hand. Like maybe you aren't 35 after all, lady. Yeah, and all in the background,

like the background action is a bunch of white hairs like in V-neck sweaters. Like they might be suffering from some kind of virus, but I feel like they're also embracing it too. A little bit. Like this is finally a reason for them to go shopping at like Cheetos. Yeah. Having dinner at 4.30 pm is actually kind of nice.

And the bargains. I like waking up first thing in the morning. It's a great start on my day. You know, pinocles are really interesting game when you get down to it. It's handrails everywhere and like the lower people on the door. Right.

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We came to by two. What do you think? Ono Ross and Carrie, available on MaximumFun.org. So the scientist's lady is pretty concerned about the safety of the children that they are doing research on here because she's positive that they don't have any, they don't pose any risks to the enterprise, but they've had to quarantine their own facility. And so Picard convenes a little conference in the conference room to discuss the risks that they're about to start taking.

Because the scientist lady, Dr. King's Lee, is pretty hellbent on getting these children off of the planet's surface. So Troy weighs in and she says she's not lying about, I mean, she believes that the kids are not a threat, but she's also not really telling the truth about something. They decide like they're gonna put up a force field and beam the kid up in, oh, what do they call it? Carbonite?

Yeah. Carbonite. Yeah, and definitely beam this child up in carbonite on a special bed with a shield around it. Yeah, and when they beam them up, it's like a 23-year-old male underwear model, and that freaks warfout really bad. He looks exactly like your Star Trek baseball card, because that's the same guy, right? Same guy, yeah.

I have a signed baseball card from a male underwear model in my house. You should put that on your nightstand. It's gonna inspire a lot of sexual encounters from here on out. I can only hope. Yeah, that really breaking into production a little bit, that had to be really uncomfortable for that actor, because it's basically a plastic cowl that covers his entire body. Yeah, can't have been it's got to have been pretty hot under that thing Yeah, I want to know more about how they did that. I just couldn't find anything in my research

So poeski gets to scanning and she kind of you know, so this decides that he's he's Healthy and he's not he doesn't have any pathogens and he's got a really advanced immune system to boot. So she doesn't feel like he's really a threat of any kind. So she starts lobbying the captain to let her unfreeze him from the carbonite. Sure, I get to hit that he's an empath, too, right? Oh, yeah. Like from the bedside, she's like,

huh, well, I'm actually getting something from him, even though he's in this shielding. I neglected to mention that, I'm sorry, Adam. Well, I'm just trying to help. That's why I'm here. Thank you, thank you. Instead of constantly interrupting you, I will occasionally offer some helpful information.

I don't think you constantly interrupt me though. I feel like that's you being sensitive about something. I do. Okay, well, so she wants to unfreeze him and Captain's pretty dead set against it because he doesn't want to put the ship at further risk. So, she discusses this with Jordy and they come up with the idea of going on a shuttle craft that has left the ship and unfreezing him there. And the captain is prepared to agree with that situation.

So kind of a cool idea. Like you got a mini starship. Why don't you just park it on the outside and do you test out there? Yeah, so they go out there data pilots because obviously he's going to be immune to this unlike the disease that got everybody drunk in Drunk Shemota episode. Right. You know, they just know they just know he's going to a me into it, which is great. They seem to really like Throw him in a dangerous situation. Just assuming he's gonna be all right even though he is the most precious commodity in the entire Starfleet Yeah, like absolutely irreplaceable But they're constantly like walking him through fire sending him on on ships about to explode Yeah sending sending him to time warp planets where lasers are going to shoot at him.

Yeah, they really don't seem to care about him at all. Yeah. And it's a good thing because this feeling won't be heard anyway. He doesn't give a shit. So, uh, she embraces him and he pops up and grabs her arm and starts telepathing with her, which is, I feel like a great way that the show's producers found to not pay George Baxter for having any lines, even though they got him into his underpants. That's why he's uncredited. Yeah.

Yeah, wow. Not a speaking part, even though it's essentially a nudity part. Look, George Baxter, we're gonna get you down into your skivvy's. You're not gonna have a single line, but trust me when I tell you, you will become famous in 20 years for a Star Trek baseball card that you'll have to sign.

He's like, deal! That sounds great! What do you think the... he must have been paid to sign some cards, right? That would seem to be his only payment for his involvement in this show. Well, that and his upcoming appearance at Greatest GenCon, in which he'll be going deep into some of the negotiations that his management failed to engage in with the producers of Star Trek. The next generation. I hope he's retained that same management

because I think we could negotiate with them pretty well. Like, I think our chances are good of getting him on the con. Yeah, you know, you don't change horse's midstream. We want to make sure that he's recognized at greatest Gen Con. So I think he shows up just wearing underwear. That'd be ideal for everyone, I think. Yeah, not a tidy whitey, but like a white boxer brief would be great. So this winds up starting to be kind of a big episode for Chifo Brian, who goes down to sick bay to supervise beaming him off the ship and then is tasked with reconfiguring the transporter because not long after Polesky

has this guy unfrozen, does she come down with the exact same condition. Our thread again inflammation is the initial symptom of the disease, which is holding up the people down on the planet. Yeah, the first symptom of the virus is our threadic joint pain and a real need for some soft food, like a real hunger for some applesauce. Yeah, not too spicy. So they're pretty excited about this idea that they can just beam her back to the ship and filter out whatever changed about her by referencing the pattern buffer on the last time she beamed.

But yeah, the idea being is that they use the last scan of her body when she was healthy, competent against the one that she's got right now. And then like, the subtract out the different. Yeah, exactly. It's like, it's like multiplying fractions. Yeah. So that's a great idea except for Polasky is a transport of fob and has never been on the transporter on the enterprise. And the last ship she was on scrubbed her transporter records from the few times that she did it there. And so they don't have a biopadtern to work with. It's as if the TSA has been throwing away all of our new dex rays for the years.

Oh, that would be such a shame. I don't believe that's happened either. Yeah. So she and Data take the shuttle down to the planet surface and they get to work with these scientists trying to come up with something that explains this horrible illness because they don't think it can be coming from the children but they don't really have any kind of understanding of what is causing it. Yeah, the chief scientist is like, check out our experiments on children. Look at how advanced they are,

and they're like moving shit with their minds. They're playing three-dimensional chess without touching any of the pieces. They're all like really good looking. Yeah, well, that's like a J. Crew Clad-Alog waiting to happen. It's some real like final solution earring, you know, of like master race genetics. Like, like these, she basically cops to it. She's like, we genetically modified people into perfect people and here they are. Yeah, I mean, now that you're pointing this out,

she really is like a space mangle. Like, she is fully doing some like some sick human experimentation to like purify genetics. She doesn't seem to grok how upsetting that idea is to anyone else. Perfect in every way. Their body structure, their musketeer, their minds. She's like, well, yeah, that's totally what we're doing. It's our whole mission for being.

Yeah. She has that kind of oblivious old lady quality that's typical of 35-year-old women. You know, like for as science fiction as this show is, it's sort of amazing how often the problem in a particular episode has to do with science. To the degree that like are we sure that this is a pro-science show makes me feel like sometimes this is an anti-science science fiction show. That happens sometimes. I mean that was true

of Jurassic Park in a lot of ways. It sure seems like here nature found a way. That your gold bloom? Yeah, that a very terrible gold bloom. So meanwhile back up on the ship they're trying to work out a solution because it seems like at the rate of aging the Palazquez going through, she is just turning more and more leathery with every minute, like sag on top of sag on top of sag. She's being aged rapidly by the makeup department and it's getting ugly. Like they're bringing the same level of skill to bear that they brought in the episode with the de-aging admiral.

And it's not nice to look at. God. And I think we mentioned this a little bit at the end of the last episode, but how must it feel to be a legitimate old person on the show as an actor? And be sitting next to someone in the makeup trailer being aged via makeup, and they're like swinging you both around into the mirror, and going, hey, you guys look the same, right? Like, uh, well, we might not be sure

if this is like an anti-science or pro science show, it is most definitely anti-old people. Yeah, for sure. My love is a piece of longing for that, which long enough has a busy, how they want your love for you. So the captain gets this idea that if they can, you know, they don't have any transporter pattern to work with, to save Plaski.

But what if they got some DNA? Could they just use that as like a comparative, a piece of comparative information right and that that is a really exciting notion because it It sends them off into a search for Polesky DNA, right? So they like rifle through or apartment. Yeah, this is riker and data pulling pull on all the drawers open looking at her under things They're doing that a date line NBC thing where they're like using a black light, going around her, her condo trying to find something. Yeah.

I doubt Riker would be okay with this sort of thing happening in his quarters. No, he might have the only lock on any door in the whole ship. I think you'd have to believe that the black light would be malfunctioning if you try to use it in this room. Like, I'm blinding! I'm only getting one color. Like there's no differentiation here. This thing is broken.

Also, how come your bedsheets are stiff as a board? Yeah, it's like the box and refrigerator came in I broke his bath towel over my knee These socks are like sticks I've never I've never seen a stock a sock that stands up on its own Oh, I'm stuck to this chair on its own. Oh, I'm stuck to this chair. So they finally find a hair in the hair brush with a follicle in it and boom.

Live DNA. There you go. That's how DNA works, right? It sure does, Adam. We take the hair and replicate the doctor. I know DNA. The hairbrush being of course the amber that the mosquito, which in this example is the hair follicle has been trapped in.

Yeah. Yeah. So they take that back to O'Brien and O'Brien like has one of the funniest pieces of dialogue that I think I've heard in the entire series so far. It might as well be written in a foreign language. It's amazing. There's spitball and ideas and they finally come up with this whole idea using Polaski's DNA and they're like, well, Chief, can you do it? And he's like, Well, I'd have to get into the biofilter bus and patch in a molecular matrix reader.

That's no problem. But the waveform modulator will be overloaded without the regeneration limiter in the first day of circuit. O'Brien is kind of flexing. He's like, you know, I'm transporter Chief, but I'm looking at Jordy, you know. He's not going to be Chief Engineer forever. Let me show the captain what I've got.

That's what I thought too. I, like, this is gonna be given in a way at this point, but this was my Shimoda moment was O'Brien going, I'm gunning for a promotion, and this is how I do it. Like, I'm gonna have a great idea that's not gonna make any sense to anyone. Here you go. And the implications like, yeah, do it.

I have no idea what you meant, but go ahead. Sounds like a good idea. What was your name again? You're that guy that stands in here by himself every day. For weeks at a time, right? Yeah, except for in this episode, O'Brien has like a lackey. That's right.

Yeah, who is creepy as hell? Yeah, that guy is super date-rapey. Yeah, I mean, look, there are two actors in this episode that don't have a single word, but yet occupy, you know, a pretty large amount of the episode. What's underweighed guy? And the other one is O'Brien's assistant. So they've been, being data by now,

and so now they're gonna beam up the doctor, and Picard comes into the transport room for the big event, and O'Brien is like, just by the way, this is like a one-time deal. Like if we get her into the pattern buffer and we're detecting that it's like old Polesky, there's no beam in her back down to the planet. Like, we got a disperser pattern into space.

Like, there's nothing, you know, because this is all Jerry rigged together like this. There's no turning back once we start. And the captain's like, then I will take the job of doing, and it'll run, it's like, thanks dude, that's awesome. And yeah, and it really that's awesome. And. Yeah, and it really goes down like that too.

Like, it is extremely understood between them that O'Brien doesn't want the job of the mercy killing and Picard is all too happy to do it because he hates Polasky. Yeah. Yeah, and you know, that I think is most evidence by the fact that he does not then radio down to Polaski and explain this to her.

He's just like, all right, let's get this going. Let's fire this thing up. Yeah, so they start be me or up and it's like, it's played for some tension. Like they kind of fade in and out between super old Polaski and just pretty old Polaski. And uh, standard issue old Polaski. Yeah. Bone stock old Polasky and just pretty old Polasky. And... Standard issue, old Polasky? Yeah, bone stock, old Polasky. But it... She's got some miles on her.

Yeah. Those are city miles at him, you know? She's a pit woofie like that does not qualify for the warranty. Yeah, but they beamer bemer aboard and and she's she checks out. So we are stuck with her for the rest of the season. Yeah, pretty big disappointment probably to a lot of people. So they they warp off to to where the lantern is and there's a very somber moment at the end of this episode where everybody stands up on the ship and they have a little moment of

silence and then they nuke the lantern. Thus saving everybody from this genetic disease. And I guess we didn't even explain what the disease was, did we? Insofar as we just explained it as a disease that ages people in an accelerated manner. It comes out that because these kids are so genetically advanced, their immune systems have attacked

this thalusian flu that this guy had so much that they're rewriting the genetic code of everybody that comes in contact with it and therefore aging them up. So I just wanted to make sure that got in there. Yeah, and you know, in addition to destroying the lanternry and scattering 200 cans of soup into space, they also needed to quarantine that lab. Was that a Ted Cruz joke? No, I think it was just an old person joke. Oh, because Ted Cruz is famous for having bought 200 cans of soup. God, I just, yeah, that that number wasn't significant outside of that bit of trivia. God, I just, yeah, that number wasn't significant outside of that bit of trivia.

Yeah, it has nothing to do with Ted Cruz, thank God. Yeah. So they quarantine the kids on the planet too. Like, their fate is to spend the rest of their lives alone and then die, I guess, because they can never come in contact with any humans. Because their biological defenses would just kill them, the way they killed everyone else.

Yeah, and that is pretty brutal. Although I think these kids are probably sharp enough to come up with a way of fixing that, right? I think they're extremely dangerous, and if they were smart, they should truck on back to the planet and use a few more of those torpedoes on the base. Yeah, I mean there's no telling what will happen though if a photon torpedo comes in contact with that many orthopedic shoes. Sir, our our fasers cannot possibly penetrate that many shals. Sir, I'm reading a massive surge of energy.

It appears that 200 craftmatic adjustable beds have been upgraded all at once. Our systems can't possibly power that many hover-owns. Oh, man. One of my favorite parts of this episode was, so Polasky hatches the plan to use a shuttle craft as her sick bay, as her mobile sick bay. She and Data go into the shuttle bay and see the most janky looking shuttle craft I think has ever been on the show. It looks like what a shuttle craft looks like if a bunk bed race car looks like a race car. Like it's that equivalent. Like it's a totally squared off model. Like you can tell

it was never meant to be shot. It was meant to be shot in the far distance. It looks like a fucking cardboard box. Well, they have two kinds of shuttlecraft on this show. There's the kind that they only show in space or in a rendering. Which is the Toyota Previa mini van version of the shuttlecraft. It looks like a jelly bean with warp missiles.

Right. But then there's the other kind, which is the plywood junker that they actually show people getting in and out of. And that those are always the, uh, the squared off pieces of shit. Yeah, this is totally like shuttlecraft geloppy. Yeah. But of course, like, I think that's a good idea. You want to give her the beater because you aren't sure if it's going to get all that virus on the inside of it.

Oh, but she leaves the ship on a nice one. Yeah, I think that's a continuity error, you know? Yeah, you might be right. As you were watching, did you come across any drunk Shimoda figures? Drunk Shimoda! Yeah, so drunk Shimoda is the award we give any character who's doing something silly or hilarious to us. And I think I'm gonna give this one once again to Picard, just for a little moment when... So he got on FaceTime at a certain point with the captain of the USS Repulse, which

savvy viewers will recognize as the ships that Polaski transferred from in episode one of season two. And the captain on that ship lets slip that Polaski is like kind of obsessed with Captain Picard and Newies Hall service record and was really excited to come work on the enterprise. And this is after they've had a lot of conflict and you know she's really kind of attempted to big dug him several times and Captain Picard's reaction to getting this news that Polaski is obsessed with him is so funny. He just says extraordinary and really winces as he says it.

It just really made me laugh. He winces because the actor Patrick Stewart knows how shitty of a line of dialogue that is for that exact moment. Like it's almost like it's ego masturbation if we're gonna take that scene as true. Like he's really turned on by the idea that Plasky is so into him, right? Oh, I think.

From a professional standpoint. I took it as much the opposite, Adam. I really, I really thought that his performance was that, that really creeped him out. Oh, wow. We took it completely different ways. Well, it's funny either way. Yeah, it is. As I said before, chief O'Brien

is definitely my drunk smote for this episode. Yeah, going for that big promo. Yeah, the instinct to brag like that word salad that he just sort of bombed out into the transport of room. Like, yeah, you can't just do that. Yeah, nobody is going to be able to check the math on techno battle like that, you know? Yeah. Your chief because we trust you, go do your chief and... Yeah. I just want to yes or no answer to my question. I am a cute and sublime.

There are four lights. What do we have coming up on the next episode? Our next episode is season two episode eight, a matter of honor. Riker's loyalties are put to the test when he's assigned to a Klingon vessel which plans to attack the Enterprise. Do you remember this one Adam? This one is one of the more memorable episodes of the whole series I think. Yeah, I totally agree. This is like Klingon exchange program. Yeah, and like, and like, I feel like really establishes some of the some parts of the Klingon mythos that haven't here to forebeen established.

And it's just a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, I'm excited to see Reiker kick some ass on a Klingon chip. Yeah, you got to kick some ass if you're on a Klingon chip, it's required. He's over there to eat some goch and grab some ass and he's all out of goch. Oh, he's not out of goch. There's plenty of goch to go around. All right, that sounds great.

I'm looking forward to it. Me too. That just about wraps us up. You can comment about this episode and all of our episodes on Twitter. Use the hashtag GreatestGen, which is a great way to connect with other people to listen to the show. And us, I check it 50 times a day every single day.

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It would be great. If we had as many reviews as we have listeners, we'd have a lot more listeners. Yeah, we'd have like 40 reviews. That'd be great. That's like a Buddhist cone. Am I using that right? I don't know the end of the game. You're gonna get about 200 emails if you didn't.

So let's find out. So drunkrimodagmail.com, if you wanted to correct me about my feeble understanding of Eastern religions, or if you just wanted to talk to us about anything Star Trek related with that we will be back at you next time with another great episode of Star Trek the Next Generation and another episode of the greatest generation that talks about it. That's exactly what we've done here. Right Adam, later. It does what it says on the tin.

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