The Greatest Generation - The Clearasil of Freedom (S1E21)

Episode Date: April 4, 2016

When the Enterprise is sent to look for the missing USS Drake, Commander Riker is stoked to meet up with an old friend of his from Degrassi High. Unfortunately, when an away team searches for clues on a nearby planet, they discover that ship and crew were killed not by boring rap music, but by a sophisticated weapons system built out of sex toys. How does Captain Picard know parkour? Why is Vincent Schiavelli so great in everything he's in? Will Geordi be happy to know that Dr. Crusher knows so much about roots? This is one episode that's not expendable!

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How you doing, Ben? Good. Yeah? Yeah. Recovered from some sickness. Yeah. With a quickness. It's actually not with a quickness. I was sick for like seven days basically. Yeah. Yeah.

It sounds terrible. Were you, uh, were you snot sick or butt sick? Uh, snot sick. My butt is great always and all. Sure. And in all places. Just, uh, permanently on point. Yeah. I can tell you, trust me. There's nothing wrong with my butt. Yeah. Are you trumping me right now?

I'm trumping you a little. I just love that denial. Yeah. Trust me. It's like trying to tell me a used car has the undercoat for rust prevention. Trust me. Oh yeah, there's nothing wrong with that undercarriage. That's for sure.

We're not a politics podcast. I apologize. There's some shit going around, man. Yeah. I feel fortunate to be the type of person that works from home. So my exposure to the filth of the world, the six, and what have you is pretty diminished given that I'm living in a basement most of the time.

Yeah, I think that I got this on the day that I salied forth into the city and dain't to go on a job interview because I too generally work from home and I'm considering a couple of cool opportunities to go in-house at different places and yeah I probably sicked myself up going and eating in a restaurant for lunch and riding around on the subway and interacting with strange people in an office.

Well that'll teach it, go out and get some real employment? Yeah. God, there's really no natural segue between that and the episode we're gonna cover. I think we got a good one today. We do. It's season one episode 21, the arsenal of freedom. I think we've been looking forward to this one for a while.

Yeah, and 21 starts to really feel like we're closing in on the end of the dreaded season one. It's a great feeling. I feel like we've really accomplished something here. Yeah. And in some ways we've accomplished nothing. Something is a generous term. It's becoming a speech. You're the captain, sir. Very entitled. I'm going to type a ramble on about something everyone knows.

So the Starship Enterprise, that's the Enterprise D for those keeping track at home, shows up in the Lorenz cluster to search for the USS Drake after it vanished while surveying the planet Minos. I was ready not to like the USS Drake immediately, by the way, just based on its name. USS Drake immediately, by the way, just based on its name. Yeah. Just really unimaginative, lyrically. Yeah. It like tries to look tough, but it's still totally ethered the USS Meek Mill.

Right. Oh, man, there's exactly three listeners who will get that joke. And we're two of them. Oh, I don't listen to this show. They spend a lot of time talking about the captain of the Drake in their approach of Minos. Yeah, Riker and him evidently were roommates back in the Academy, right? Yeah, they were like Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were college rumies.

Could you imagine being Rikerers roommate in the academy? Oh my God. That sock is permanently on the door handle, right? It's probably covered in socks. I'm thinking it's like when you take a scarf out of a clown's hand and scarves just keep coming and coming and coming. Like a magician's sleeve. Yeah, exactly.

But what we come to understand is that Captain Rice is a very Kirk-like dude. It sounds like, you know, doesn't believe in no-win situations. Pulled a lot of shenanigans at the academy that have since become curriculum. In a difficult situation, a man like that would act aggressively. Agreed. Captain Rice's acne scars are a real no-win situation when you see him down on the planet later. Okay, he had it pretty rough. Yeah. Anyways, they show up at the planet and they get a scan going.

And what they discover is that there are zero life forms in orbit or on the surface and no sign of who they came looking for but they get hailed by something on the planet surface and Vincent Chevelle pops up on the screen really Smarmly put in the hard sell to the crew of the Enterprise. If you need a little something special, be it for one target or multiple targets, we got it. And this transmission ends with an invitation to go to the planet's surface.

Yeah, I mean, Vincent Chavelli has kind of an amazing career as an actor. He's been in about a thousand things. And when he pops up on screen, I think it's a real welcome sight. Yeah, you're familiar with this character. He's a strange looking man. Yeah, he kind of is.

I think it's the haircut. He's not like super attractive, like most people on TV, but he does have like an exceptionally weird hairstyle going in this. Yeah, we're definitely gonna get back into Star Trek hair cast here for a moment. But he's sort of got like that professional wrestling haircut of a little bit balding in the front

and then really long and stringy in the back. I would compare it to crusty the clown. Yeah, that's fair. Except for normal hair color, not green. Right, exactly. All right, that concludes Star Trek hair cast. So they decide to send an away team down to the surface, even though they've just discussed the fact that something

or someone has obliterated all life from the surface and there's no sign of the ship that came before them. Yeah. Sounds kind of risky. Yeah. So RikerTaps data, Tasha Yar. Yeah, and Yar is strategizing a little bit. She wants to take a small detachment down to the surface

because of this potential hostile situation. Her logic is they'll get fewer people killed that way. If they just take fewer total people down. Yeah, let's just take the three most important people aside from the captain and the doctor down to the surface of the planet. Yeah, we can always get them killed later. So the weight team beams down and they're kicking around through the palm trees and whatnot.

Yeah, they really rated the garden section at the Ace Hardware for this episode. It's another classic, bad planet set, you know, exterior, interior for exterior. So there's like, ficus trees, they've hot glued bird of paradise flowers onto the outside of. There's just every different type of plant that you would see in the potted plants for inside your shitty Van Nijse apartment. Yeah, they totally got a set budget injection here for this one. He really blew it out at the local Home Depot.

Yeah, every Dolly group went home with something to put on his front porch. So they're stomping around all these plants and they decide to split up because they can do more damage that way. And Riker bumps into his old bud, Captain Rice, who just sort of emerges from the mist. But it's pretty clear that something's wrong with him because, well, not only is he just covered in acne scars, but he has sort of that dead, that dead looking his eyes. Right, yeah. Riker wasn't like, geez, Rice, it's looking 24th century,

get some acutane or something. Riker steps to him and attempts to do their 13 step handshake. And Rice isn't having it. Rice instead asks him a bunch of weird questions in a really monotone fashion. What's your purpose here? And so Riker is sort of hip to the idea that something's wrong and

starts giving him some real weird answers to his question. What's the century order look? Your mother. Testing the waters for what rice is going to do if he starts giving wise acre responses. Right, rice is like, like how many people are in your crew? How fast is your ship? Yeah, what's the name of your ship? The name of my ship is the lollipop. It's a good ship, which is like sort of a slide whistle of a joke that raker slips in there. So he's hip to the idea that rice isn't really rice.

Yeah, and once he kind of makes his understanding of the situation known to rice, rice evaporates and reveals himself to have been a hologram that was carefully concealing a highly dildonic, mobile battle drone, which starts blasting away at the away team. This drone looks like Pringles can with one of those big plastic Easter egg

things that have candy inside on top. Maybe a big one on top and a little one on the bottom and then there's that Pringles can in between. It's sort of like a, there's a like a Robocop looking helmet on the top part. What did you say this looks like? I mean, it really just looks like a standard dildo with clit stimulator turned upside down to me.

Not quite as long as you would want. You mean like the one on your Amazon wish list? Yeah, people can, people can find me on there. Nobody's taking me up on that yet, but. Oh yeah, my clit needs diddlin. The good ship, clip Diddler. So I read in the production notes on this one

that the effect was made by some guy wearing a full head to toe green screen suit and just like hand carrying this thing around. Oh cool. I kind of wondered because it definitely moves a little different from a ship model. It doesn't look like a dolly. Yeah, I thought it worked pretty well. Yeah, so the Clit Rocker blasts a beam at Riker of all people,

and it sort of encases him in this clear shielding. It sort of freezes him. Yeah, like an energy field. Yeah, and so Tasha Yare and Data start shooting phasers at the machine and blow it up. But Ryker's still locked in this thing. Right, really tricky situation when you're not really sure if the first officer of the Starship is a live or not.

And they're on the radio with Picard the whole time and Picard is getting pretty frustrated. So he wants them beamed up, but it turns out there's some kind of field that's preventing beaming up, but he and the doctor are able to beamed down. So it's weird. It's like the door locked behind them. So Picard for some reason thinks that he's going to be able to solve this situation by going down in person and he and the doctor.

Yeah, without Riker to stop Picard from beaming down on a way team, like Picard takes the first opportunity to go join one. Yeah, I think that counselor Troy makes kind of a half-hearted attempt to talk him out of it, but he's not going to listen to her. Interestingly, he gives Jordy the bridge. Yeah, this is the second time that Jordy has taken command.

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Another century probe shows up. I think at this point they've gotten riker out of the energy field, but this second century probe starts blasting away and it's like a lot more aggro than the first one. And Picard and Crusher are like trying to draw its fire and wind up just falling down a hole. Yeah, once you get a look at how far they fell, it's amazing that Picard is just fine. And he's Picard's the one that does a front, summer saw down, like I replayed this scene a bunch. Yeah, but it's definitely gonna be a gif of this, of this moment in my Twitter stream.

Yeah, it was kind of amazing. So Beverly's just sort of slides down, slips and slides and breaks a leg in an arm. But Picard front flips down the hole and lands, just a little dusty. Yeah, he tucks, he rolls, he's a little bit more used to the action than the doctor is,

he's eager for the fray. And yeah, in this dusty, dirty, like cobweb, strewn, underground area. Some kind of room, like there's definitely like structural things, but it's also kind of cave-like. Pretty good set. Yeah, the doctor has been fucking rough shape. She's like bloodied up on her arm.

We come to find out that she's also injured a leg, which is like buried under this dirt. So Picard is like trying to patch her up, put a splint on her arm when they realize that they're unable to reach the enterprise on their communicators. But, you know, she's probably concussed and not doing so hot.

And he's not sure how to proceed, really. She's got blood coming out of the side of her mouth too, which is a pretty strong sign that she's either dead or dying in movie and television rules. Yeah. So they really emphasize the level of danger with that. The only thing stronger is a character coughing and it going uncommented on. Right, right.

You know that by the third act that character's dead meat. So just above them on the surface of the planet, Riker, Yard, and Data are dealing with this drone. They finally destroy a fire with two phasers. But data has like counted the intervals between drones and announces that every like 12 minutes or something a new drone is spawning and they seem to be getting tougher and tougher. In orbit, the Enterprise is getting attacked by a cloaked probe. I'm picking up an octagon of the port, BOW. It's firing.

We have learned battle stations. And they're in trouble. They can't lock phasers or torpedoes on this thing, and the chief engineer gets on the blower and starts barking at Lieutenant LaForge. Yeah, and the reason he's doing that is because he outranks Jordy. He goes so far as to come all the way to the bridge and is like... In view of the present crisis, I believe you should relinquish command to me. No, I'll rank you.

Mr. Logan, I'm in command. So why don't you just go and do that. Thanks. Yeah, this guy is like, they called up central casting and said, send us bully from a 1980s ski comedy. And that's, that's who this guy is. He keeps kind of showing up on the bridge like right when LaFourge needs to be focused on something. So LaFourge is kind of fighting on two fronts. And I thought this was a great scene. He really stands up for himself. And

he's like, I was left in command. It's not your place to just go and you serve the captain's orders just because he's not here to clarify on this point, your place is in engineering and I need you there right now because we're low on power, dude. Yeah, I think there are a few reasons to dislike Chief Engineer Logan. Firstly, he's a real dickhead to Jordy. He's no argyle. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say and the second is he's argyle's replacement, right? Yeah, he's the new chief engineer and he's clearly He doesn't have the charisma. He doesn't have the accent. He doesn't have the actor name of an argyle slash biffieger And I hated him immediately. Go fuck yourself chief engineer Logan. I hope this is your last episode. Oh wait, it is. The Enterprise under Joradi's command is kind of getting the shit kicked out of him.

I mean, in a way, Logan's right. They can't just stay up there and continue getting tossed around like do something. Every time they get fired on, the enemy ship disappears. So they can't return fire. So they're just kind of sitting ducks. Finally, Jordy decides to break orbit and take the ship out of range so he can come up with another plan. Yeah. So, as what he's doing isn't working. There's a pretty funny little bait and switch that he pulls on chief engineer Logan here where he says, you're going to take command, of this saucer section.

Yeah, have fun saving all the dumb families. I guess they've gotten clear of the planet by now, which was funny because that's all Logan was arguing for and then Jordy does it and Logan is like, what about your responsibilities to Captain Picard and the members of the away team? I have a responsibility to them as well. There's basically no way Jordy can win the argument with him because Logan's always gonna be right. So anyways, they head back with the StarDrive section and So anyways, they head back with the StarDrive section and they're working on a tactic where they'll kind of analyze the pattern of attack that is being used by this drone to take it out, but it's not going to be any easy feat. So down in the cave Picard discovers a computer terminal and he activates it and back comes

Vincent Shevelle. He's in full blown, used car salesman mode. Versus all powerful and easy to use. The 607 does it all. Really given him the hard sell. Yeah. This is a demonstration of the Echo Papa 60 607, a lepidant system that can upgrade itself, depending on what the response is being used by the enemy.

So we've seen this on the ground when data was able to shoot down the first one. It took data and yard using their phasors at the same time to shoot down the second one and then it took all three of them including Ryker to shoot down the third one. Now there's a fourth one that's about to spawn and it's looking like they're fucked. Yeah, it's clear that by the fourth iteration they're not going to be able to hold this one off because they've already basically done all of their best plans to kill the first three. Yeah, like they don't have a fourth phaser. It's just, it's gonna take one more phaser to take this one down. There's a cool scene here when, when data jumps to the bottom.

Like, he's been on the surface the entire time, but he decides to hop through the hole. I love that. Yeah. It really shows like one of Data's super strength characteristics. I thought it was awesome. They find the whole that they fell down and Data wants to take a look at the computer. And it's no problem for him to drop 30 feet. Yeah.

It looks real and good. Yeah. Very well done. So Data pops down and his tricorder confirms what we've all suspected that Beverly's in really bad shape. And as the salesman, as Vincent Chivali is continuing to give him the hard sell, Picard finally just sort of tells him that he'll buy one if that means that they'll stop the demonstration.

We'll take it. We've seen enough. You made a sale. You won't be sorry. Good. And Vincent Chivali is like, great. That's not say it. You won't be sorry. Go on. And Vincent Chivalle is like, great, that's awesome. That's all you needed to say. Yeah.

And it's crisis-averted, pretty much instantaneously. Well, or is it? Because the second the crisis is averted on the surface, we go back up to the upper atmosphere where the enterprise is still being hotly pursued by this cloaked drone, which I was confused by because I would have guessed that that was part of the demonstration, but apparently it wasn't. It's just a planetary defense drone or something. Oh really? I thought it was associated with Echo Poppa 607. Right, but they turned it off.

The one that was chasing them through the Home Depot jungle disappeared when they turned it off, but the cloaked one is still causing big problems up in orbit. If the Echo Papa 607 on the surface knew who Captain Rice was, then wouldn't the only way that would be possible is if there was a similar unit in orbit that had interacted with the Drake before it was destroyed? I guess so. That's the only reason I assumed that they were related because the only way the Drake gets

destroyed is from the planetary defense and the only way that the surface defense knows about the planetary defense is if they're somehow on the same team. Yeah, some parts of this that are hard to get your head around. Well, Jordy does get his head around a plan to destroy this thing. He does it by skimming the atmosphere of the planet with the StarDrive section, so as they get closer and closer, there's a burning effect around the ship that surrounds the enterprise and also the cloaked ship that's been harassing them the entire time. Right. It's a cool plan, you know, like hangs together, makes sense, you know, cloaker no cloaks going to hit the atmosphere just the same as them. And they

use that to their advantage. They manage to get a lock. They waste that thing. And I think this is kind of the first time we've seen Warfoot tactical really coming into his own at that station as well. Yeah, I think this was sort of a job interview for him and he did great. Yeah.

Good job, Warfoot. Nice one. Now that all is well, the away team beams back up and a very dirty card and riker walk onto the battle bridge and a pickard, as this is what, especially when he's on the battle bridge, Big Dog's La Forge a little bit and says that I left an intact ship and I will not take command again until you put my damn ship back together, buddy. That gets a big grin at it, Lieutenant LeForge. Yeah, he's all too happy to remain in command for the time it takes to stick the ship parts back together.

Yeah, the shots of the ship in this are awesome. There's some great angles that we don't normally see. Usually if the ship is an orbit of a planet, we just have the planet in the middle of the screen with the ship moving across it. There was a couple of like high angles of the ship, kind of small in frame against the backdrop of the planet that I thought were really great and there's like a bonafide space battle in this episode which is always really fun to watch. Yeah. Good special effects generally speaking when it came to the ship. I hope this is just the beginning of a greater variation of this stuff that we're getting in the remastered version of the show

because it's been pretty great so far. Yeah, the planets look really good. They don't look all muddy and uniform the way they used to. Yeah, it's real, I mean, it used to look like an eight-bit video game and now it's looking pretty nice. It's looking like Sega Saturn. Yeah. I thought it was a video game and now it's looking pretty nice. It's looking like Sega Saturn. Yeah.

I thought it was a good episode. I think it lived up to my expectations and hopes and my recollections that I had watching it the first time. Yeah. The whole Jordi gets to be captain for a while. Part was a little less familiar to me. And it was a really big B story. Totally.

To this entire episode. Yeah, there's a great scene where Jordi is kind of, he walks into the ready room and Troy follows him in and and just kind of gives him a reminder, like I know you're really stressed out and you're doing great, but like these, this B team crew members that are at

at Ops and Con, they need motivation. They are stressed out too, and they know that you're not the captain. So just take a leadership role and motivate them. And Jordy really takes the bull by the horns on that. And it's great. He has totally good character development.

He seems like a very confident character, which, you know, like there's definitely some episodes in this series where he is grossly and unconfident in himself and. Yeah, basically anytime he talks to a woman. Right, and this, like he seems great. He really seems like a leader. He occasionally breaks into that Levar Burton

intonation, like with his captain's log and stuff. And when he interacts with some of the bridge crew, like he got, he got a little reading rainbow with it. Like really like super nice. Chief engineer Logan is on his way to the bridge and he's not paying a courtesy call. But you don't have to take my word for it. One of the B team bridge crew people that he was, being a courtesy call. But you don't have to take my word for it.

One of the B-Team Bridge crew people that he was sort of coaching up was Julian Nixon. You remember her from Rambo too? Oh yeah, I was wondering why I recognized her. Expendable. What mean expendable? I thought that was awesome and she has a bunch of lines. She did a great job in this one. Yeah, good job, Julian Nixon.

Great job. I feel like that's becoming a regular thing for us. Like we're shouting out big characters that we recognize. Maybe we should have another little segment for one way see a sort of recognizable character actor pop up on the show. Yeah, I have to think about what we call that. Speaking of people we nominate for things,

did you have a Drunk Shimoda for this episode? Drunk Shimoda! Sure, so Drunk Shimoda is anytime a character is having a lot of fun or just doing something that seems incongruent, that amused us enough to write down. I mean, for me, it was the holographic salesman. He's so fun to watch. And he's so like, you know, like the second he thinks he's landed the sale, he's like, I've got the sale.

This is great. Like, it's such a funny characterization. And it was generally genuinely fun to watch the same way that Jim Shimoda, assistant chief engineer from episode two, was genuinely fun to watch. Yeah, good call. I voted for Captain Picard himself because much in the same way that Shimoda, like as soon as he was given a little bit of freedom and alcohol, just started doing a bunch of fun shit. Like, it felt like as soon as Reiker was off of the bridge, Picard was like, I am going on an away team.

Like, who's got two thumbs and is going on an away mission? Yeah, yeah. I don't know that we can be sure that as soon as the away team was telling him that Riker was encased in that force field, that maybe Picard wasn't secretly happy about that. Because he was out of his seat and on his way to the transporter room pretty much immediately. So. Yeah. He got on the turbo lift and flipped the coin coin whether he was going to go fire up the

minuet program on the holodeck or go down to the service planet. It's like the parents are out of town, we're throwing a party. That was Picard going down to the surface. It's a good job by him. I believe it was check off that if the parents go out of town and you have a party, it has to be a montage scene at the end where you put the house back together before the parents get back and... Right.

They come back together and that just seems like a missed opportunity. Yeah, and instead they gang up on Jordy. Really make them feel bad about how they left the house. Yeah. Bummer, Jordy. Not gonna get many more chances to do that. Nope, you're off the bridge pretty soon, dude. All of Picard's liquor has been topped off with water.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I'm not Romulan Ale, who's supposed to be blue. This is clear. I am a beautiful, There are full lights. What do we got going on for the next episode? Next episode is called Symbiosis. The Enterprise is caught in the middle

when two alien races weigh a bitter battle over cargo, which one of them needs to survive. Hmm. Got any memories of this one? I really don't. That's probably a sound bite you could play over most of these season one episodes. I remember this being a very heavy-handed,

anti-drug message, and it was a bleak one for me. Like, I don't, I don't remember liking this episode much. The reception seems to echo that sentiment. This is one of those episodes which exemplify all the disaffel about Star Trek in general. I feel like these receptions that you read are always written by people that hate Star Trek in general. I feel like these receptions that you read are always written by people that hate Star Trek. Because I'm getting these reviews off of fuckstartrek.com.

Oh, well that explains it. So many people that give one listen to our show think that we're in that camp. Oh, we are not. We're not at all. Why would we spend 20 episodes making a show about Star Trek if we didn't like it? Yeah, eat that to Star Reviewers. So yeah, it doesn't appear like it was received very well. And if it's a dare episode, then God,

we're really in for a treat, huh? Well, I'm looking forward to it, aren't you? I mean, the both of us have a pretty significant drug problem. Right. I'm going to be curious if this episode coming up is going to be effective in maybe getting us off the crack. Mm. Yeah, or at least persuading us that it is whack.

I hope not. I personally love my drug problem. Big fan. All right. Well, I think that wraps up this exciting episode of the greatest generation. If you want to reach out to us, you can find us on Twitter. I'm at Cut for Time. Ben is at Benjamin A.H.R.

We should think dark material for our theme music, which is notably the best part of our podcast. You stick that tune in your car with like a bazooka base subwoofer in there. Man, really going street patrol. Yeah, that's a real shake that'll bring all the boys to the yard. Yeah, that's a rearview mirror, Radler right there. You go from Bucket the street sweeper and one fell swoop. Yeah, thanks to the dark material for that though. You can also join the hashtag

that is sweeping the nation. Hashtag greatest gen is where you can join fellow Star Trek nerds as well as our country's proud servicemen. You can talk about either, you can talk about World War 2 service or you can talk about Star Trek the next generation. Talk about both. If you can fit that into 140 characters. I hope someone tries. Well, that's all we have to say about that. It's been a fun episode. I'm Ben Harrison. Yeah, I'm Adam Pranica.

We will see you next time with another great episode of the next generation and your two shameful hosts to bring it to you. Bye. Bye. Bye! I'm gonna be car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car, car,