The Greatest Generation - The Bruce McGillification of Our Unhoused Neighbors (VOY S5E23)

Episode Date: May 1, 2023

When Seven of Nine gets recruited for a classified time mission, finding Voyager’s saboteur takes her all the way back to Utopia Planitia. But when past Janeway meets up with future future Braxton, even 30 years of 20th-century suffering doesn’t absolve his time crime. In what arena is Ben equivalent to Michael Jordan? Where does Seven keep her tricorder? Who is the Bono of the crew? It’s the episode that barely remembers Lieutenant Carey!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!Get a thing at podshop.biz!

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Yeah, we clap on the ones the twos, the threes, but not the fours, never the fours. No, no, it's not us, that's not how I like to dance. Would never. I don't like to dance at all. You don't like to dance? But you do, you're a great dancer. You've got dance bravery that I just don't possess

It's fun to cut a rug, you know some of the best fun to be had. It's just letting it all loose You know what that sounded like a cutting thing to say to you and that's not how I meant it like boy You're so brave for dancing out there like you do like a Real inspiration you really do dance like nobody's watching Like you don't care how that comes across. Man, I wish I could care a little less about people thinking that I'm a terrible dancer. God. I don't even know when I'm hurting people anymore. Yeah.

Quad box apology. Get it ready. Yeah. Yeah. Just done the launch pad at all times. How's your day going Ben? Mm, going all right, we're, we were supposed to record this one yesterday, but yesterday we also recorded that drunk a soda.

Right. I think everybody appreciates that we didn't just roll into another one right after whatever that was. I'm excited to hear that episode because I feel like we got drunk and mean at the episode in a way that may be unusual. We weren't that mean, come on. I'm sure it's fine.

I'm sure it's great. We're not mean drunks. I'm not. I'm a sleepy bubbly drunk. That's me. Yeah, I'm a get friends of DeSoto concerned for my safety drunk. Apparently. Is that how it oh, are you referring to sketch fest? Yeah. Have we told anything about that story on the show? We wound up at a Tiki bar after our show at Sketch Fest. And I really turned out, and apparently some of the friends of ours that tagged along were

worried that I was dangerously intoxicated. I, on the one hand, like I'm glad people care. But on the other hand, like you don't see anyone, anyone shooting free throws with Michael Jordan going, boy, he's way too good at basketball. Or whatever. Like, to me, this is just like someone who hasn't been around you at a Tiki bar might think that there's something to be concerned about, but no, this is banded a Tiki bar is a professional.

Many would say that that's when I'm the most in control, much like Michael Jordan on a court. I mean, barrel drinks at Smuggler's Cove are no joke. And you got to be careful with the barrel drinks. And luckily, you're a barrel drink professional. I knew you were fine. You was going to know better than me. I heard about that the next day

that some concerns had been voiced and I was like more confused than anything. Because you were blacked out. You didn't hear him that night. You didn't hear the whisper. I've never actually blacked out. Well, good for you. That I know of.

I mean, would you even remember? Yeah, exactly. No, I don't think that they were being voiced to me is the thing. But yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, that's part of what made it uncomfortable for me was like the constantly telling people that you're fine on your behalf. Like, yeah. Like, and then the camera pans over to me, just having a great time in the other.

Look, look at him. He's clearly fine. To get serious for a moment, I will say this, if you're concerned about someone, tell them. Like, what are you doing telling me for? What am I gonna do that you're not gonna do, you know? Yeah, just tell me, I'm not gonna react badly, I'm a nice guy. Yeah, you're fine.

Everything's fine, you're drinking fine, my drinking's fine. Smuggler's Cove, very fine. Yeah, that's a good bar. Was that twice that we went to the cove during sketch fest? I feel like it once is never enough. Yeah, I think we did go twice. No. Wait, what was unfortunate was that,

what's the other place in the hotel with the floating barge, with the band on it? You're thinking of the Tonga room, which we didn't get to. Tonga room was closed when we were there. And that was a great disappointment Yeah, and we also wanted to go to that one that's like in the fuselage of a crashed plane in the jungle Is the theme of the take bar and that that was also closed the night that we thought to go there

So that just combines too many things that I love We were in Vegas for a thing and there was like a crashed fuselage in a parking lot of a thing that we were at. And I just got all up in that thing. Like, I was not supposed to do that. I was not allowed to do that, but I'd been drinking. There were chains around it and the sign that specifically forbade going inside.

I wanna go into planes. I think the one thing that I wanna to do, like the bucket list plane thing right now, that I really want to do is go to a bone yard and get all up in some dead planes. I want to walk around those dusty ass planes. I got to do that once on a job, like back when I was a pro video producer and I've been chasing that fucking drag. And ever since. Yeah, I went to a bone yard in Mojave, which was really, really cool. I didn't get to go in though. The planes were all closed. A dead plane is a dangerous plane.

You got to watch out. Why? Because it could like start and fly off at any moment. When you leave the doors open, all manner of of critter desert critter gets inside a dead plane, you know, they want to smell those parts that have been there since it was in service. There's a desert plan on a set. I was at that was full of snakes, they said, like the the DB Cooper ladder was down on the back of the 727. And they're like, yeah, you can go up in it,

but I wouldn't advise it, it's snake season. And snake season super seated my interest in going on a dead plane. I didn't do it. I was afraid of snakes. Yeah. Like I'm fine with snakes in a zoo where somebody can be like, this is a safe snake

and then hand it to me or whatever. But like rogue snake on a plane, that sounds terrifying. I was on Hollywood Boulevard last week and walked past snake handlers there. It's not just spiders, man, and Jimmy Kimmel show or whatever, it is people walking around with snakes. Were they snake handlers in the sense of like, they had an extreme devotion to their faith

that they believe protected them from the snakes, or were they just like a weird guy with a boa constrictor? Two weird guys and two weird snakes. Okay. What was what they were? You could like pay to get your picture with the snake. I guess so This is the snake that worked with Britney Spears in that one music video I would take a picture with that snake. Yeah, I think that snake still alive

I think that that snake is retired in the valley and Eddie from Frazier is his roommate That snake is not only alive, but it's still very horny from the experience. Wouldn't you be? Yeah, I mean, I still am, and I had a very different experience from that snake. Ben, we're talking about bone yards, but what I really want to be talking about is ship yards. Yeah. From the beginning of this episode, we need to discuss. You want to get into it? That's a nice pivot at him. That's a mission log great pivot. And now and you can tell your personal friend John champion that you made it. Please like me. I pivot. I pivot. It's Star Trek Voyager season five episode 22

Relativity. Season five, episode 22, relativity. Revert course. Unless you've got something a little bigger in your torpedo toots, I'm not turning around. Fire. And boy oh boy, this slow panning shot over the Utopia, Plenicia shipyards, while people are alive working there, easy to forget that at one point,

this is a functional shipyard with living people on it. Yeah, bars are still on fire. on fire after what happened to it. I know. But this is a happier, simpler past. A golden age, some might say. Yeah, what a fate. You getting there any trouble last night? Hell yeah.

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I read a very fun thing about this sequence, which is that the visual effects people worked on this from love and that scope. You know, like they were told, give me a couple of seconds at the shipyard and make it look awesome. Yeah. And the artists at foundation imaging were like, well, we're not going to just make a couple seconds. We We're gonna do like a whole sequence, and you're gonna use two seconds of it. And that's what they did. They're making all these cool ships,

and all the ships have something to do there, and it's a very complex sequence that they did. And the only tragedy is like, yeah, like we're the only ones that have the super high resolution, glory shots. And all you got on TV, on the UPN or whatever is two seconds of what's basically Star Trek scrambled porn. Yeah, yeah.

It's great. You see all different kinds of space stocks. Like you see the crab one that we saw a couple episodes of TNG. We see the kind of long tubular ones that you fly out of at the beginning of your Star Trek movie. Yeah. A space stock is probably always good, right? Like it doesn't age itself out of usefulness.

Yeah, I would guess that, yeah, I mean, they also look very modular. So if there's like a part that is like no longer useful in constructing these new classes of ships, you could swap it out probably. Yeah. And then there's Voyager. Yeah.

And we see Voyager like kind of not battleship gray, kind of a kind of lighter color than we see her in service, right? Yeah, was that the lighting or was that that it just hadn't had its final coat of paint yet? That's just like the primer before they spray it down. Great question. You know, there's like a version of a starship model

like of all kinds. Like you can get, Bri Belkies got like a Borgified Voyager ship model. Like I wonder if she's got the white model. The primer Voyager. That's got to be a thing. I'm finna pay it money green when I get paid, but for now, it's just covered with primer. And she beams aboard and did I hear that track in your car the other day? your car the other day. Probably. She beams aboard and meets an admiral who's gonna walk her through her new ship. Kind of a grandad, Merle, if you ask me. Yeah. You know, a real

white hair. I feel like he's going for the same thing that Captain Riker of later years is going for, but Captain Riker is hitting it way harder. You know? Tell me what you mean by that? Like, he's got kind of the same haircut and the same white beard, but like, I don't know, just doesn't look as good as him on him as it does on Riker.

Yeah, I mean, that's not a slam on him. Riker never stops being a stickman, and I think Admiral Patterson kind of wound that down 20 years previously. That's like a trinket on his desk now is his captain's stick. He's got a dick and cock duck. Admiral Patterson sort of reminded me of Bunny Colvin

from the wire. He's always like springing a question on you. If you're under him and the chain of command, kind of make sure you're staying sharp on all four corners. He demands something of bun edition Janeway who is just about to take command of this starship and starts giving her the grand too. Yeah, it's bun and bunny, isn't it? Yeah, there you go. Was bunny the one that always asked where North was and what address you were at at a given time?

Yeah, right, so that if you're like calling something in on the radio, you don't have to stop and think about it. I never forgot that. That was really cool. I mean, it didn't inspire me to do it, but I think about doing it. And that's enough, right? Yeah.

Admiral Patterson, unfortunately, was forced into early retirement because he tried to make sort of a, you know, liberalized zone for selling sucked-disk games at a Starfleet installation that he was in charge of. He's legalized drugs. Yeah, the sucked-disk injection zones. Yeah. Very unpopular.

Yeah, he was trying like a harm reduction thing by like sort of decriminalizing it, but he didn't really have the authority to decriminalize it. And when the paper got ahold of that, woof. A lot of confidence in Daken Matthew's performance here to introduce him as like maybe not a fun kind of admiral with a bunch of questions, but Janeway and he get along really well.

Janeway is sort of his favorite student. There's that kind of energy to it. Yeah, there's a real teacher student affection between them. Voyager may not be as big as a galaxy clash ship, but she's quick and smart, like a captain. She's sort of bragging on what a bookworm she's been, too. She's like, oh yeah, like I can walk this ship with my eyes closed because I know the schematic so well.

She's ready for this command. Do you think when you're a captain and you're given a command, there's gotta be the instinct to like, boot it up in the holodeck. I wanna get in there now. But sort of like a saving the presence for Christmas morning kind of thing. Like maybe a captain of a certain type is like, I'm just looking at the blueprints.

I want the first time I'm on that bridge to be the real time. The first time I sit this ass in that big chair, I want it to feel real to me. Yeah. I mean, if you're like buying a car, you want to test drive it, right? Like, I could see wanting to be the, you know, to have the holodeck reps before I do the real thing. Yeah, like part of it is gotta be you don't want to look like a dope in front of the crew. And like, you probably don't want to ask a dumb question about where something is.

You want to have that thing down cold. Oh, this computer screen flips out. Ah, gotcha, gotcha, got is. Right. You want to have that thing down cold. Oh, this computer screen flips out. Ah, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Right. They kind of do this, sort of, throughout the ship. They see a bunch of spots. They see corridors. They see the bridge.

They see the ready room. And in the ready room, Janeway helps herself to the replicator. Like it's hers already. Yeah. Nobody's thrown you command codes yet, Janeway. Just helping yourself. All right. As far as security goes,

this is like an iPad without a pin on it. Like you can just go anywhere and do anything of a ship's in a shipyard, right? You've probably need really great security there. Yeah, not just anybody gets a board. And yeah. Yeah, I really liked the way the office felt super generic with no stuff hanging on the walls, no plants, no books yet.

Yeah. No pictures of Tom Mervins yet. The clothes you love to live in. We haven't even taken the photo that I will frame. We haven't even adopted the dog yet. We're just dating now. We aren't at photo level. So they walk out onto the bridge. Janeway's talking about, oh, I'd like to do some stuff to the navigational sensors. I think that they could be improved relative to what I've read about. And as she's talking to the admiral but this the the focus shifts to the

Ensign kneeling in the foreground and it's none other than Dolphin Free 7. I almost didn't recognize her. It's a good like stand up into frame and like furtively look left and right before we smash to theme song. This may seem like a minor thing, but if you are composing this moment in camera, you must be on Jerry Ryan's left side of her face, right? This moment does not read if the shot is reversed, you know? Because if you don't see that there's no dolphin, you don't see that something strange. Right. No dolphin, no strange. After the theme, seven continues her undercover work, and she creeps into a conference room

to take a personal phone call the way I used to do. Back when I worked in an office. She says, no sign of the weapon, which is something I've never said into a phone before. I don't know about you. That's That's like what ladies usually say when they get your pants off for the first time, right? I keep digging around Where is it? Is that a Not a weapon in here? I

Mean it could be confused for one, I guess. Hmm. She has to kind of play it off like she's not on a personal call and go pretend to be tricordering a screen when Janeway and Admiral Patterson come in and Janeway absolutely fucking slams whatever architect designed the conference room. Starfayx smells up to date vessel and they still can't design a comfortable place to hold a meeting. Yeah. Absolutely savage. Is her opinion about this? I thought it was pretty interesting that they broke the fourth wall

and the camera just pans over and you start to see the edge of the set and the crew there and all the lighting. And then just like one person who clearly like designed this set standing there with a single tear rolling down their cheek. and then just like one person who clearly designed this set, standing there with a single tear, rolling down their cheek. Pretty rough day at the office for that person. They really put that in the script, she didn't add lip that. What the hell?

I know you don't wanna do it. Coffee black, make it yourself. I'm trying to help you see this as an opportunity to grow. Make it yourself. We met up with a prop designer not too long ago who worked on every Star Trek show. And the pain that he felt about being just generally ignored by big Star Trek throughout his career, by being uninvited or unwelcome to all of the big Star Trek events, you know, as a person who really made a lot of cool shit

and knows a lot of things. I thought about that guy when you were talking about conference room designer. Yeah. Seven actually gets asked a question by the captain here. What do you think of the conference room? She replies it's efficient. Do you think she does this for Patterson's benefit? Like, I too can pop quiz my crew the way you did me.

I wanted it to be like, you have a strange affect about you, Ensign. Did you grow up on Vulcan or something like that? I guess when you're rolling with an admiral, you have to just anticipate that Ensign's are going to be a little bit uneasy when you start grilling them, right? Yeah. I was just thinking about like the Hanson expedition was so far before this moment, but like with access to time travel, no mention is made of seven's interest

in maybe going back and saving her parents from the nightmare that their lives become. She's okay, that part of her is in the past. I mean, she doesn't regret the trauma. She met her drone-ified dad and didn't even mention the idea of liberating him from the collective. So it seems like she's pretty much made peace with that.

She's writing a book. Yeah, fine. Janeway and Panersen go down to Six Bay, they fire up the EMH, so that he can be in the episode for a moment. Mm-hmm. It's personality. Could you do some work? He kind of gives some sass and they turn him back off and then head down to engineering.

Where seven meets Lieutenant Kerry, who it was fun to see. I wonder, didn't he, like he was like in competition with BLT for, Yeah. Chief engineer, right? He didn't ever die, did he? He's very much alive and very veer-o in this moment.

Mm. You forget that about Lieutenant Kerry. Hello? Sir. Lieutenant Kerry. I don't think we've met. James Anna, service number 860790. I'm not security.

He's all in on this new crew person. Yeah, I mean, he says the thing about I'm trying to get to know all the new faces around here and it's like lieutenant Kerry, if you're trying to get to know the new faces, I think your eyes should be a few inches above where they currently are resting. Yeah, those aren't faces. Lieutenant Kerry. I think this is a demonstration of how good Seven has become at interpersonal relationships, though, because this is a pretty good blow-off by her. A blow-off in a way that doesn't create a scene. Do you need a hand? No.

She dips into a Jeffries tube and is crawling around scanning for temporal readings on this very fancy like low profile tricorder that she's got. I love this. And she finds them. Yeah. Deck 4 section 39. She pulls a panel off a wall and we see her POV

and it's interesting because it doesn't really look like the three-quarter shot that we get of what's inside the panel. It's like she's seeing something different than what we can see. Yeah. And because it's kind of the green vision, it's like she's always wearing tinted lenses. Yeah. You know?

Yeah, she's very much the bano of this crew. And this device is the titular weapon that she's looking for and she starts working on it. If seven is working on the titular weapon, is it titular weapons versus titular weapon? Mm. Yeah, if you wanna go for that kind of bargain basement, kind of humor at it, I guess. Oh, God, John Champion would be so disappointed in me.

God damn it. You started on such a high. You had such a great pivot at the beginning. This always happens. The more someone learns about me, the less interested they are and being friends. He starts trying to work on this thing and it kills an EPS conduit,

which is immediately noted by Lieutenant Kerry. And he's like, Oh, don't worry, Captain, I'll go check it out. And Jane was like, no, no, no, no. Yeah, Lieutenant Kerry, not too busy scouting new ass to see this on his computer screen. But Janeway wants to go check on it herself. She's dying to get into those Jeffries tubes. So she volunteers to do it.

And poor Admiral Patterson has to get on hands and knees and follow. I didn't expect that. Don't make him get in the Jeffries tube, Jane. Wait, look at him. He's old. I feel like Jane was trying to shed this dead weight and get some alone time on her brand new ship, right? Now need to follow Admiral. I've got this one myself. Do you think that she's trying to like test if there's something wrong with the universe by seeing if he like disappears from reality by ditching him? Does anyone remember Admiral Patterson?

And they're all like, uh, Patterson. And they're all like, uh, inside the Jeffries tube seven can't disable this weapon because it is out of phase. And knowing where it is, is just going to have to do for now. They'll need to figure out when this thing is at a later point. And outside the door, like everyone's very surprised that it's locked from the inside Mm-hmm, and that there's cronotone particles time travel behind it It's like my college roommate coming home to the dorm room we shared at like a kind of surprise time in the middle of the day Why is this door locked? No reason?

I'll be right there. The very peculiar smell of coronatons. Just hit some right in the face as soon as they open the door. Why do coronatons smell exactly like the lotion that is on the desk? Why is the fan on your computer cranking at top speed? Inside, things are getting pretty intense. Seven tells whoever she's been talking to that she needs to get the hell out of there and aboard the time ship.

They're looking at graphics, depicting what's going on. On a time ship, you're just looking at dots, right? You're looking at dots and graphs. You're not looking at pictures of people at all. Never need to look out the window. And they deduce from these dots that they gotta use the time-transported to get her out of there.

And they do. They beam her out, but there's like a problem with the phase or something, and they're like worried about it, being bad for her health. They get her out just in time for Jane Wann Patterson to not discover her in this Jeffries tube, but when seven materializes on the transport patch, she immediately collapses. And the camera pushes in on Bruce McGill horrified. She's dead. Says RSVP seven.

Bruce McGill, such a welcome sight. Yeah. Love a Bruce McGill. I love that guy. Yeah. I thought we emptied out the character actors, bag in the last episode. No!

There's still one left, guys. We got a Bruce McGill in here. There are still dad bod middle age white guys available for McGill in here. There are still dead-bud middle-aged white guys available for this episode in Hollywood. It's so Star Trek for the curiosity of this moment to be those cronoton particles or the cronoton flux and not that the door was locked from the inside. Like, no one talks about that again.

Yeah, yeah. There's coffee in that chronotone flux of 0.003. Bruce McGill tells his underling, Duquesne, like, hey, yeah, we're gonna have to recruit her again because we gotta solve this problem. We're cleaning up a mess and this is what it's gonna take. And Duquesne is like, man, that's fucked up. Like it's going to really start to like affect her. And he's like, tempest fugit, baby.

Yeah. This is a moment that really divides the audience, right? Right. Who sat you on? Ducaine or Braxton? Braxton's cruelty on full display here, willing to sacrifice seven for this mission. A mission we don't even know about. Yeah. So we come in to the present as it were looking at the APOV of the doctor. And we can tell it's seven's POV because of the matrix-like tint to the video. But it's all blurry and she's got like double vision.

Yeah. She's done that thing where she's done her own web MD research and diagnosed herself with something really exotic. Yeah. You can't do that. No. That's bad. It's the classic mistake of my wife. Oh, really? I'm constantly trying to talk her out of having a serious disease or me having a serious disease.

I'm like, no, it's fine. It's nothing. And then, you go to the doctor and they're like, no, you were right. It's just bad. Every other day she bursts into the room. Ben, I figured out what your generalized problems are. WebMD had the answers. It turns out.

It's never been me. It's always been you. Yeah. So the doctor injects her with something to fix her mild aphasia and it fixes the situation right up but the doctor gets called away to 6 Bay and he kind of touch her for Googling her symptoms. Yeah easy fix for the doc just

hyposprae it away. Yeah, neck on that's how the hyposprae works, right? it away. Yeah. Neck on. That's how the hyposprae works, right? Apply directly to the neck. Neck on. Apply directly to the neck. Neck on. Apply directly to the neck. In a corridor, Paris is playing solitaire ping pong. I play ping pong, even when I didn't have anyone to play ping pong with. And invites seven to play as his doubles partner that night. Yeah. This is something that she's not interested in doing until she hears that BLT will be on

the side of their opponent. Interesting that BLT and Paris are not a team in this context. I was confused by this too. But I guess that's sometimes the way, right? Sometimes in mixed doubles, people turn the pineapple upside down. So in the scene that follows, we're back in BLT and Tom Paris's, I guess, shared quarters. And BLT is like, Tom, I didn't know what you want to be on the

same team as me. I thought that would be fun. And Paris is like, whoa, whoa, whoa, is this an ambush or something? I thought it was cool. Plus, the teams were randomized and BLT is like, well, you didn't try hard enough to be on my team. Yeah. It's like, well, we didn't talk about it. So I assume just going by the tournament rules was okay.

She's like, that's the big mistake, is that you just assumed. You just let things happen all the time, Tom. And just so like the rest of the episode is just a big kind of existential relationship fight because it kind of spins out of control from there. Like she globalizes that about him being like really careless and then he gets really hurt that she is rounding this up to like some major character flaw that he has.

And it's Tom like doing a bunch of scientific research into time travel, paradoxes, and he actually like distills enough chronometric particles to go back in time to the night of the ping-pong draft, where he somehow fixes it so that he will be on the same team as BLT and stopping this entire horrible timeline from starting at all. Right. But then she finds out that he did that and she's like, that doesn't solve the problem, Tom. The problem is that you didn't think to do it in the first place.

That score? 1918? So did you like this episode, Adam? It's like you're not listening to me. I'm telling you about my problems with the ping pong draft, not because I want you to solve them, I just want you to listen. I want you to be there for me while I'm going through a thing. So seven is willing to be Paris's partner and there is no drama about that moment at all

from anyone. Yeah. I mean, you know, to his credit, Tom isn't weird or jealous about Harry being BLT's partner. No. And you think he would be given how promiscuous Ensign Kim has been lately. Yeah. Just from like a personal safety standpoint, you know,

like like Blanna, who knows where that thing's been? Something about it reminds me of being in the womb. What up, Harry? Who are you? Harry Kim. Parents must be very proud. Who are you? They come as come as a pair.

Who are you? Harry Kim. Who else is she supposed to get chummy with? Harry Kim and your mom. Very proud. Who are you? Harry Kim. I lasted 22 minutes.

And your mom. Very proud. Harry Kim. Who are you? Barry Kim. I lasted 20 minutes. And you're Mark Barry Brown. Barry Kim. Who are you? Barry Kim. Who knows where he stuck his paddle? Paris is totally obsessed with the sterility of the paddles. And like, has like an 80s Reagan era understanding of how germs are passed.

Like, like, use this weird paper gasket around your paddle. BLT, I don't want you catching anything from that guy. Ah, yes, extremely thin one ply paper, the thing that we protect ourselves from pathogens with in all contexts. Over in Six Bay, Janeway enters the doctor's office looking absolutely pedragold. Space sickness is the thing that's going around. Yeah. And it's sort of waved off as a thing that everyone gets from time to time.

Yeah, but it's catching. It's like more than one person has had this symptom lately. It's gone airborne. Yeah. It spreads like more than one person has had this symptom lately. It's gone airborne. Yeah. It spreads like flu. Impossible. We cut over to like the lab part of Six Bay and someone has got like a spinner device full of vials.

Oh yeah. They're trying to figure out like what's going on with the space sickness. Yeah. But they're like eating a sandwich at the same time. Yeah. You got to pay attention when you reach your hand into the center fuge. Uh-huh. Oh boy, that busts the glove and then they have it.

Oh no. And if one of them gets out of sea to Greek belly, then we're in deep fucking shit. Oh, this is bad. And we're all ready in deep fucking shit. And then Morgan Freeman is there and he wants to turn it into some kind of bio weapon. And if you're gonna rest me now, all right Sam, all right. Yep. Can't trust Morgan Freeman in this movie.

But it's great casting because he kind of assumed that you can in all cases, right? Yeah, I love that. At the ping pong tournament, Tom is going for a great big spike of the ball to absolutely crush Harry Kim for stealing his girlfriend. And he hits it in the ball just like stops in midair right above the net. I love this moment because seven scans it and the scans a temporal distortions, but then the ball continues. And Nielix counts it as a point. That's amazing. Where did Seven get that tricorder? Did she have it like in her back pocket or something?

Oh, yeah. Are you allowed to play with the tricorder? Because she's in the game. Yeah. I don't like that at all. Yeah. Bad officiating from Nelix and, you know, there should be a little bit more controls over

whether you get to bring scanning devices to the tournament or not. I think it's Nelix's job to both officiate and make sure no one's bringing a contraband in there. And I think tricorder's qualified. That could be a performance enhancing tricorder. Yeah. Yeah.

So this is the first time the crew has noticed that something may be fucking surrounding space time. And we go down to the ASLAB where they've got a map of the ship and they're showing surrounding space time. And we go down to the As lab where they've got a map of the ship and they're showing that space time is starting to get messed up all over the place. And they're erecting force fields around the parts of the ship that are affected. But the force fields don't seem to be totally helping

because at this point, six Bayes just full of people that are experiencing this space sickness. I love the stoic professionalism of a group of people who learn that they've got two hours to live. Like, these breaches are going to destroy the ship and everyone knows it. Everybody is pretty much chilling the most. Like, Nielux is the one person

that's got kind of an emergency attitude. He calls the doctor down to the restaurant to check on Ensign Manus. And Ensign Manus is fine. Ensign Manus is like doing solitary on his laptop. Yeah. Until he isn't. I mean, Ensign Manus' laptop is facing away from the camera. So really, who knows?

What could be on there? I love this take though. Like, this is such a great take for comedy. It's like looking at it's in madness. He's great. He's ship shape and then bonk. He just falls right over. The doctor uses a visual aid of the computer on the nearby Replicator to show what time it

is in the restaurant and what time it is in 6 Bay. And it's two different times, Adam. Yeah, this is why daylight savings can't work. Can we just get all the decks on the same page? Right, Ben, everyone would sleep better if Six Bay and the Mess Hall would just stop fooling around with the time. That's what I think.

Isn't like China all on one time zone or something like that? There's some like really big country that's like surprisingly decided to just all be on one time zone or something like that? There's some really big country that's surprisingly decided to just all be on one time zone. If China does it, it's okay. That's your stated position on things. Yeah, I'm saying, let's follow their lead in all things. Over in the ready room, Chico Te tells Janeway

that this space-time problem is somehow getting worse than two hours to live. She wasn't really on board for this until she tastes her coffee and then she's like, this is a huge problem Chico Tay. We need to self it. Suddenly, the bar rescue voice over a guy comes on and he's like, space time fractures have appeared all over Voyager, including the replicators, food prep, and walk in cooler areas. A spacetime fracture is a phenomenon

which the spacetime continuum is distorted, allowing unwanted travel through time. Your employees have been asked to walk through visitors at spacetime, and you're only paying them, minimum wage. What are you doing? Your server started to shift tomorrow, and they just showed up today? I don't understand how any of this works.

The only way to solve this problem is to get you a new Harvard Dense PLS system. These peaches haven't even been grown yet, they already have black mold of them shut it down So Chico day gets himself right in the middle of one of these Space-time flexes and Janeway sees it and is very concerning How fucking cool is Chico day in this moment to kind of look like he doesn't feel it and And when Jane Ways like, you've been caught in a rift, he's like, Oh, it's expanding. Sounds great. Let's go out to the bridge. Let's get out of here. Absolutely zero react from Chico Dei to this. Meanwhile, BLT and seven are back in that Jeffries tube and find the piece of technology or more accurately, seven finds the piece of technology.

BLT cannot see it or detect it. What is it? A piece of technology. The Borg implants and seven have enabled her to see just covered with Paris. You probably call that plaster of Paris, don't you? Hmm. Hmm. Gross. Could you say she was plastered of Paris? Jesus.

Let's think a couple more runs at this, Adam. Yeah, okay. Am I making any sense here? It'll be funny eventually. Let's take a couple more runs at this, Adam. Yeah, okay. Am I making any sense here? It'll be funny eventually. Call her left because Paris has plastered her. I've got to get bit. Not now put your lot number, your mouth.

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and Janeway recalls this number from the readings they got when they were in dry dock five years ago. It immediately comes back to her. The time guys grab seven and beam out with her right before Voyager kind of comes apart in this weird blue explosion. I just love seeing ships explode.

Yeah. Great sequence. It's a very different looking ship explosion than they normally do too. Yeah. The time explosion. Yeah, the pieces fragment and then kind of dissolve in an unusual way. Yeah, it was cool.

So when we come back, we're on the time ship, presumably in the 29th century, and Captain Braxton is recruiting seven. It's funny how we're recruiting pitch that goes like, I've already recruited you successfully before. You can't say no to that. You've already said yes many times. I already know what I need to say to you to get you to yes. So, resistance you might say is futile. Here's the thing about consent, Ben, is even though you've said yes many times before, you're still able to say no at any point.

You can withdraw it at any time. Yeah. They're trying to sell a mystery and they need seven's help. This is the pitch, right? There's a weapon that's made to fracture space time. We don't know who put it there or why, but it ends up on Voyager. And they've got to kind of narrow down to a moment when Voyager engaged with the K-Zone and everyone gets a good hearty chuckle at this because really the K-Zone, someone must have just taken advantage of the moment because this is clearly not a K-Zone move. Right. They don't have the technology for this, but them boarding Voyager provided cover for whoever it did.

Right. So they're going to get seven ready for a mission to go back to this period of time and recover the device to save Voyager to clean up the damage to the timeline that this is causing. Yeah. And Lieutenant Duquesne is going to be kind of getting her ready for this. And so he's like quizzing her on different types of time paradoxes and talking about different examples in Star Trek history of time travel. Get a little plot summary of first contact here. They have time to do a ton of research. Like they watch looper.

They watch a ton of movies. I mean, she has an infinite amount of time to study for this test, right? Or does she? We can never know. Oh, wow. So he equips her with a time gun and a time tricorder. Everything just sounds cooler that way, right? Yeah. And they like hide her dolphin. They give her a period appropriate garment so that she can blend in as a member of the crew. Captain Braxton gives her a license to kill. Yeah. This is a less plausible cover than she had last time

because when they were in dry dock, she could tell people, like, oh, I'm just on assignment. I work here at Utopia, Planesia. But now she's going to the stranded Voyager where, you know, it's a small town and everybody recognizes everybody. Yeah. Fortunately, all the chaos of the Kazon attack is enough to provide her coverage in the hallways. And we get some great like throwback, space battle footage of the Kazon shooting Voyager and Seven marching around in the hallway looking for that Jeffries tube area where the time device is being kept.

Is it important to talk about the acts that Braxton has against Janeway before sending Seven back? Because there's a moment that really bumps you here when Braxton's like, look, we've given you all the tools you need for a successful mission. All the greatest modern weapons are at your disposal, and Seven Briefly says the mind is the best weapon, etc. And then out of nowhere Braxton just goes hard at Janeway. She's reckless.

She has no regard for the integrity of the timeline. I asked for her help once. She refused. This was what made me remember who Braxton was. And it's me too. I think partly I was thrown off the scent earlier because he is recast. He was not played by Bruce McGill last time we met him. But he is the captain that got stuck in the 60s in futures and the double

episode featuring Sarah Silverman. What's up? Is this a show that is so confident in casting Bruce McGill as Captain Braxton that it's like, you know, if you've been unhoused for 10 or 20 years in the 20th century, it's going to change you. It'll Bruce McGill physically. Anyone. That's what's so stressful about modern society is that it feels like you're on footing where at any point, like one slip up, one bad medical diagnosis even, and your Bruce McGill, right?

Which is why, like, Well, we need is a Bruce McGill safety net bag. Right, and they're like trying to have this kind of punitive approach to solving the Bruce McGillification of our unhoused neighbors, and we really have to go more services first, you know? Get them headshots, get them some auditions. Yeah, I mean, seven so cool about doing that thing

where there's a hot head in front of her and she just describes something in a neutral way that does not further set off the hot head. Right. And seven in this moment is like, yeah, you're right, Janeway can be challenging to work with. And this totally diffuses the bomb that is kept in Braxton in this moment is like, yeah, you're right. Janeway can be challenging to work with. And this totally diffuses the bomb that is Captain Braxton in this moment.

Right, but this is just kind of like code for Janeway's an asshole, right? Like whenever you hear actors on set saying in an interview, this other performer can be really challenging to work with. Really brought everybody's a game. It's like, oh, is it redundant to say that this scene is time foreshadowing? Perhaps. That's the real ATM machine of, right, right, of statements, right?

No sooner has Seven gone in and started messing with this device than Harry Kim detects something weird going on with time. And they're like in media dog fight with the case on when he reads out the temporal reading that he's getting. And Janeway recognizes it again from space stock. He's like really, really on top of picking up Cronaton fluxes on board the ship. Yeah, almost like he's scanning for them all the time. Yeah, but when Seven gets to the

rule in the Jeffrey Stu, that device is not there yet. Yeah, uh-oh. She's in the wrong time. She's in the wrong time, but the right place. And those Cronatons having been detected, she, you know, needs to get out of there and quick. But level 10 force fields go up. And they blocked temporal comms. The time ship is not able to get seven back. This bump me did it bump you. You've got a fucking

time ship from 500 years in the future and somehow force fields are the thing that getcha. Come on. We've seen seven like walk through force fields. Right. Yeah. So Janeway arrives on scene now that they've got seven trapped and she asks her a bunch of questions and these answers are suspicious.

Yeah. And when two of us scan seven and reads her as a Borgs, oh, it's a whole thing. Ooh, that's gonna be a tough one to explain. Yeah. And I love the cross cutting between Captain Braxton, eavesdropping, and this moment here.

Like that really adds a lot of comedic tension to the scene in a fun way. Yeah, because they can hear what's going on, but seven can't hear them. So they're hearing her attempt to disemble and talk her way out of it without Janeway asking too many more questions. But eventually, seven has to just reveal the whole thing. Like, yeah, okay. I'm a time traveler. I've been sent to get this time bomb, temporal bomb, out of your jeffries too, but it's not there yet. We screwed up.

And I just really needed to forget we ever had this conversation. That fun thing happens where someone says something crazy and then it's repeated by someone else and it sounds just as crazy when when Janeway says it. But there is a very serious moment here which I thought was really affecting. There's at the most desperate time for seven, she appeals to Janeway's interest in trusting her. Like intrinsically, there's this natural trust that Janeway has for strangers.

And it was something that was extended to seven when she first came on the ship. And this is enough to convince her to lower the force field. That combined with the thread of imminent death that seven believes to be at stake. And Janeway like extends that trust. She retracts the force field and extends the trust. Right.

Almost simultaneously, right? Yeah, it's like a swap. They head back into the Jeffries tube because seven is getting a reading that the bomb is being installed right now, moments away from them. Yeah. And they head down the tunnel and who should turn around? But Captain Braxton? Oh, I can't believe this.

Me. More accurately, a future you. I was very surprised by this. This might be plot by numbers. Like, I don't know, I fell for it. Yeah. I fell for it the whole time. It was great.

It was a great twist. Yeah. I love getting two Bruce whole time. That was great. It was a great twist. Yeah. I love getting two Bruce McGill's for the price of one. Oh yeah, do you think contractually, you got to pay him extra? Oh. I think you do. Yeah. And there's a third one too, a third one's referred to. Yeah, that's true.

But don't worry, they'll all be reintegrated in time for the trial. There are three instruments on the in stash of cat. You should take the rodal of the ship and you're going to do it. So there's a classic standoff where he's got the bomb activated and they've got their weapons drawn and he says you got to put them down. He reveals that he's really got an extra grind with Janeway. Yeah. His time as an unhoused person in LA was rough. Yeah. And this is like the future Braxton of future Braxton, like 29th century Braxton's future

Braxton is who we're talking to here. And future of future Braxton is like, yeah, like then I had to go back to rehab after this mission because I've done so much time traveling that it's messed me up. You know, I spent those three decades in 20th century. And in he, he like arrests future Braxton for the future crimes that, you know, feature a future Braxton is going to commit. Don't be absurd. The fact that you prevent it from happening doesn't change the fact that it was going to happen. It's such an interesting scene because like I was expecting future but not too future Braxton to want to arrest future, but not too future Braxton to want to arrest

too future Braxton as a show of like, right, I'm not that guy, that guy's fucking nuts. I'm time law and time order all the way. But instead future of future Braxton dips out, yeah, he beams himself away, but future Braxton successfully taken into custody and now Ducane is in charge of the case. And he's like, while he went into a different time period, but I'm not going to send you there seven because that would be the fourth time travel you've done. Let me tell you a little something about a man named Yor that you don't want to end up like. Oh, Yor're in all the literature about time travel. Yeah, really a warning to others.

You're not going to like what you hear. But seven is like no time for backup or is there? No, there isn't. Be me to the future. Who's backup? You're backup? And by the future, I mean the past. And we've been back to Voyager in Drydack, where Janeway is getting her tour from Admiral Patterson. And it's like a run and gun chase scene where she's chasing future of future Braxton down the hallway. And like Janeway and Patterson have to duck to not get shot. I love this. This is so fun. They erect force fields and future of future Braxton runs right into one. This is a chase scene that is begging for a Michael Bay shot, you know?

It really is, but Seven of Nine is like too woozy to catch him initially. Yeah. Yeah. Braxton beams away again and this time it goes five years ahead. Yeah, Braxton beams away again and this time it goes five years ahead. Yeah. And Seven gives chase. It's the night of the ping pong tournament in the mess hall and in Runs Braxton. And Seven shoots Braxton and shoots him again and shoots the thing out of his hand. Shoot him a bunch but doesn't bring him down. Braxton has made out a tough stuff.

He runs out of there. Yeah. Harry Kim and Tom run after him. And Seven of Nine, who was competing in the tournament, goes and meets Undolphin, Seven of Nine. And he's like, so what gives? What's this all about? And she's like, you're not gonna believe it.

He's like, you're not gonna believe it. I love Seven on Seven here. Seven of nine, two, seven of nine. What's your status? I love Seven in Seven. Very refreshing. Haven't had one of those in a while. Yeah. Pretty nice.

Before she can get much information out of Future Seven, Future Seven is beamed back to the time ship by Duquesne. But she's confident that the crew back in the present or whatever are gonna be able to stop future of future Braxton because his, his triangle was the key. Like you needed that to jump around in time. Right. So he's not, he's not gonna be able to go anywhere.

Back on Voyager Braxton is cornered, but it's not by seven, it's by Janeway. Yeah. His nemesis. He gives this whole rant about how he's lost his rank and like, you know, you don't realize how much he've ruined my life. It's a real vendetta. Yeah, because like he's he's spent like most of his career cleaning up time incursions that she's done. And then wound up being shamed into living this like ignominious force retirement by her. But then DuCane is gonna have to clean up his mess if he succeeds in this thing, right?

Right. I wonder if they thought about keeping the set from the town that Shannon O'Donnell visited to give them another option for Braxton and his intent to murder Janeway. Like a first contact style. Like go back into the past and stop Janeway before Janeway can even happen. We cut over to Star Trek First Contact, the movie. And Braxton is there, sabotaging Zefram Cochrane's warp flyer. How great would that be?

That would have been good. I mean, everyone loves Star Trek First Contact, but what my theory presupposes is that, doesn't it get a little better with Bruce McGill? Yeah, aren't there not enough time paradoxes in it? Yeah, yeah. I mean, we've already paradoxed the fuck out of this episode. Yeah.

So with future of future Braxton captured and beamed back to the 29th century by Duquesne, Janeway is talking to current day seven. She's like, what do you think just happened? And seven is like, I think like some kind of bad time travel shit was going down and we stopped it. And Janeway's like mid-response

when she gets beam to the time shift and gets to talk to Duquesne about what all went down. What a headache this is. Yeah. So they can reintegrate different versions of someone that have gotten split apart in time, apparently, in this is. Yeah. So they can reintegrate different versions of someone that have gotten split apart in time, apparently, in this future. Why sure you, when all this is over, they'll be just one seven of nine. That's cool.

So like you can refer to this integration, but we don't get to see it. Yeah. I wanted to see the integration. That would have been great. Yeah. It's not all cleaned up though. No. Now, and they're going to need one very special undercover officer to clean up the last of the mess. I get the feeling I'm about to be drafted. Because seven's unfit for this duty. And future

of future Braxton has to tell her like how to capture him. Yeah. When he makes it to the ship. tell her like how to capture him when he makes it to the ship. How embarrassing does it have to be for future of future Braxton to go? Yeah, like I beamed over and then I tripped over a guy. That's how you get me. You know, oops. I beamed over and there was a discarded banana peel right outside of Nielix's restaurant.

And I go ask over T kettle on that thing. That's pretty much the perfect moment to nap me. Yeah. Janeway goes back to Voyager during the case on attack when Braxton falls over. Yeah. And BLT sees her in the hallway and doesn't notice that she's gone from bun to Bob. Yeah. Thanks for not noticing my new haircuts. She's like confused that Janeway isn't on the bridge. BLT believes that Janeway has now gone into the holodeck in a canonical before a ship explodes kind of way, the crew retreats to the holodeck

for the moments before death. And the time Janeway wants to spend before dying is getting her hair done in a new way. Like, finally she'll take that risk with a new look. She's running her hollow mat. Yeah. Just a little off the top. She's like sneaking around.

She catches future of future Braxton, beaming a board as promised he trips and she nabs him. He can't believe she was right there to capture him when he be to board. Yeah. And back in the 29th century, Duquesne is like super duper impressed with how little she messed up the timeline by doing this. Duquesne points up to the mission accomplished banner on the bridge and is like, when you're a time ship, you just keep this up all the time

because your missions are always accomplished or going to be accomplished or about to be accomplished. And she's like, wait, do you mean your missions are always about to be accomplished or your missions are about to be accomplished? Big fun ending here. Yeah, she gets kind of scolded like, hey, knock it off with all the fucking time travel.

Yeah. But we're not gonna wipe your memory. You're going back with your memory intact. Hey, knock it off with the time travel so I don't turn into one of those kept and Braxton's. Hahaha. Would love to avoid that. Yeah.

And they beam away and they time beam away, and we beam into the credits band. Did you like this episode? You know, I'm really easy to get along with close to this time, but I don't like bollies, I don't like friends, and I don't like you. You're the youngest dude.

I think that this episode does time travel episode right in that time travel is so silly. It doesn't make any sense. It is only interesting from a story standpoint when it is a bottle episode where it doesn't actually matter that this episode happened. So if you're going to do it, do it to be an entertaining rom and like make fun of how silly time travel is because that's that's the best going to do it, do it to be an entertaining rom and make fun of how silly time travel is because that's the best reason to do it.

Yeah, and so I feel like this episode does that. I feel like it doesn't take the time travel stuff too seriously and it doesn't like encode the results of time travel into the timeline too much. Like I guess the 29th century stuff is encoded into the universal little bit, but it kind of already was. So might as well have fun with it. I liked that we got to see Lieutenant Kerry. I guess I wished we'd seen Cass

like in the case on period. Whoa, what a great bringback she would have been. Yeah. But if you're going to get one, Lieutenant Kerry is a fun, like, deep cut character. And boy, having Bruce McGill on that episode, lots of fun. Yeah. How can you go wrong with the Bruce McGill? Well, I don't know.

How can you add him? Did you like this episode? I will agree with everything you said and I will add to it that this is maybe the best hair episode of all time. The hair continuity traveling forward and backwards in time. Yeah. You really need to have someone on top of that and they most definitely were, whoever's responsibility was to make sure that we had that straightened out. Really great stuff. And it helped you understand in what time period you were, just by looking at Janeway in her hair,

or BLT in her hair, which has also suddenly gone through changes. Totally. I really liked it a lot. A romp, a romp through time. So what this was. Well, do you wanna romp a romp through time So what this was all do you want to go on a romp through our priority one inbox? That's me Adam. Oh, yeah, let me put on my rompers first. Yeah, do that

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Did you find yourself a drunk Shimoda? I'm a drunk Shimoda! I did. The moment where Captain Braxton shouts no one seven brings up the temporal prime directive. You're from another town. Yes. No. We sent you. When he realizes that the game is not going his way when they're stuck listening to what she's doing and can't transmit code back to her because of the level 10 force fields, maybe laugh out loud.

I don't think Bruce McGill gets enough credit for how funny he is as an actor. Oh, I give him enough credit. I think he's hilarious. I think he's so funny. And, but he just thought, he like, doesn't get casted that many like really funny roles. I feel that's fair.

He castes a straight man. And I think that he's really funny in this role. So he's my drink, Sramata. How about you? I mean, I was just going to give it to Bruce McGill as just a welcome site in a Star Trek episode. Like I don't have a a greater reason behind it. I don't have support for that decision the way you do. I just love seeing a Bruce McGill. I mean, I'm just flipping through his credits. My God. What a career.

Amazing. So he's gonna be my drunk Shemota. Great Shemota Adam, I couldn't agree more. Why don't we move on to next week's episode. I'll tell you a little bit about it. It's season five episode 24, War Head. An alien missile with artificial intelligence takes over the doctor's systems and insists that it be allowed to complete its mission of mass destruction.

Whoa. Does it feel like the stakes have become very high over the last few episode, De Voyager? Yeah, I guess they're pretty high. Yeah. That's destruction tends to rate. Yeah. Alright, I'm going over to the game of buttholes. The will of the caretaker. Or currently, boy, I gotta scroll a bunch of times to get down to where our runabout is. Square 19.

Square it lives. Scroll a bunch of times to get down to where our runabout is. Square 19. Hahaha. Square it lives. Looks like we got a couple squares ahead. His eyes uncovered. Couple squares beyond that. A banger. You're required to learn as you play. Roll.

Okay. ROLL Would you believe I rolled a six? Shula! Did I win? Hardly. Wow. I hopped the banger. Would you believe I rolled a six? Who la? Did I win? Wow. I hopped the banger. We're on square 25.

Okay. We're on the third row. It's a regular roll episode. That's great news. Clear squares ahead for the moment. Mm-hmm. Aside from that naked now that we could hit next time. Fuck.

Yeah. I could really see that happening. Aside from that naked now that we could hit next time. Fuck you. Yeah, I could really see that happening. Mm-hmm. Don't want to. Well. No one wants to. Fortunately next time it's just a regular old app. Looking forward to it.

Looking forward to seeing all the funny stuff posted by Friends of Disodo. Maybe on FriendsOfDisoto.social or on drunkshamotor.com, the Discord group or on the Reddit sub or on Facebook. There's lots of great places to be fun on social media with this show, use the hashtag GreatestGen and follow at GreatestTrack on all those social medias. Yeah, those accounts are run by the great Bill Tilly, our card daddy. Hey, where can I find the TikTok? Because you were so great at the TikTok during the Max Fundra. Oh, we have a greatest trek TikTok, but I don't think anything's been posted to it.

Now? I'm just at Benjamin A.H.R. on TikTok. Oh, that was you doing that? Yeah, it was just my personal TikTok account. Oh! OK, yeah, follow Benjamin A.H.R. on Tick-tock. Yeah, maybe I'll post something else. Doon-no-yes.

Maybe I'll try one of those dances that the kids are into. Hey, Dark Materia did the music you're hearing right now, but Adam Magusia did our theme and interstitial music and continues to make great themes for us. Can't wait to see what he whips up next. He's great. He does a YouTube cooking channel and a great podcast that we really recommend. We gotta think Wendy Priti the producer and editor of this show without whom this thing would just be a shambolic disaster. Yeah. With that, we will be back at you next time. With a great episode, Star Trek Voyager,

and an episode of the greatest generation Voyager, it's giving head. Generous lover. That's the next episode of Star Trek Voyager. That's great. Make it so. Make it so. Make it so. Make it so. Make it so. Make it so.

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Make it so. Make it so. Make it so. Make it so. That was backwards. What the fuck are you doing? That was time travel, Ben. Time travel. Alright, let's do it right. Let's give her a good clap. Three, two, one. Maximumfund.org.

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