The Greatest Generation - The Kitchen Conn (VOY S1E4)

Episode Date: March 8, 2021

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Priority 1 message from Starfleet coming in on Secured Channel. Hey friends of Disodo. Before today's episode, we just wanted to take a moment to talk about the historic labor actions being taken by writers and actors in the American Film and Television industry. If you're a fan of the work done by the people who make Star Trek, we hope you'll join us in standing in solidarity with the folks who actually bring these adventures to life. Over the past several years, the AMPTP, the organization that represents the American Film and Television Production Studios, have reduced the profit from movies and TV going to workers. And in so doing,

they've attempted to weaken the labor unions that represent those workers. They wouldn't even engage the unions on many issues in their negotiations. And so a strike was the only course of action to take. Adam, Wendy and I have been having a lot of internal discussions about how best to stand with the unions and we are continuing those conversations in a dynamic situation. We're doing our best to understand where the picket lines are in these digital spaces,

and we would never intentionally cross one. With the information we have, we feel like we can do more good talking about and supporting the strike and continuing our show as planned. We'll keep you informed about what all this means for greatest trek specifically. Today we're making a contribution to the Entertainment Community Fund. This fund exists to help all the people whose livelihoods have been put on hold because the AMPTP refuses to negotiate

in good faith with the unions. It provides financial support for writers, actors, and all the thousands of laborers who make the shows that we talk about here and without whom we wouldn't have Star Trek to cast pot about. Those folks are all out of work because billionaires, company shareholders, and the executives of these companies don't want to compromise on the length of their yachts. We hope you'll join us in supporting entertainment workers in a challenging time, especially after they've already endured several years of challenges brought on by the pandemic

and season two of Star Trek Picard. We've set up a page where you can also contribute. It's at friendsofdecotoforlabor.com. That's friendsofdecotoforlabor.com. That's friendsofdisotoforlabor.com. Link in the episode description. Okay, now let's get on with the show. Here's to the finest crew in Starfleet. Engage! Watch your back, shop. Hello. I'm Captain Captain Bringeng, one of the U.S.s. Boyd and Jerk. Captain Captain Bringeng, one of the U.S.N. Board of the... Captain, Captain, Bringeng what is the U.S.N.

Board of the... Welcome to the greatest generation Voyager. It's a Star Trek podcast by a couple of guys who are a little bit embarrassed to have a Star Trek podcast. I'm Ben Harrison. I'm Adam Pranica. Adam, we are live on the Instagram as we record this. If people follow the at greatest trek accounts, we're gonna be doing more of these, I think,

in the future, more times to watch us live. But today we are gonna do a mailbag episode if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, this is the first time I'm hearing of this. Ha-ha-ha-ha. I was telling the folks before you joined us on the live stream that we have received so many packages in the last, like there was a pretty long period of time where my wife and I barely left the house at all.

Like we stopped even going to the store. I'm sorry, Ben did you say you did or didn't get a haircut? Because you look like you did get a haircut and it looks like you asked for the child actor. I went down there and they weren't open, they were gone. You look like a very pre-crocious eight-year-old. Ready to live. What I look like is a beaver. I have a real beaver thing happening right now.

Yeah. And that reminds me of a time that I was the director of photography of a music video for a kid rock group. We were shooting at a like a county carnival in New Jersey and this kid rock group was composed entirely of kids with the haircut that I currently am living with. Wow. And we were walking like among the carnival games and zippoly huts.

And I just heard a new Jersey dad watch this, you know, crew of kids with a camera crew following them and just go, what is this? Beabas? God, speaking of Jersey accents. I've just gotten back into the current season of this old house after a prolonged break. Oh man. Holy shit are you current on that show? I'm probably three or four episodes off of current but I'm watching. The episode I saw last night had to do with a speaker inserted into a ceiling,

and then it was, Oh, I just thought it was that one also. What was up with the five different accents, the interior designer had in one scene. That was amazing. Yeah, that interior designer is extremely sus. Yeah. I want to say, it's like she's like assumed an identity

and didn't realize that she was going to be on a public television show. Yeah, I'm hooked again. I've had a long layoff from this old, and now I am back in in a big way. The season did not have a great start due to COVID, but hey, let's get into all these packages because we have a lot to get through,

even though it's only about half of total. I'm just trying to do a regular Marin over here. I'm trying to, I'm trying to disrupt this thing you have going. Yeah, let's do it. Captain, I'm sorry to disturb you. I'm receiving a Code 47. Verify? It is Code 47, sir. Starfleet emergency frequency. Captains eyes only. The first package we have here is from someone who needs no introduction. It's from Breebelki and Bradley.

About that. One of our best friends at the Soto. Yeah. I tried to kind of look at the postmarks of these things and I'm doing my best to open the ones that were sent the earliest so that so that it's not out of order but let's see what do we got here oh boy I got some stickers here this facility has gone next number of days without an assimilation it's kind of a glossy material so I bet if you wrote on that with a

with a dry erase marker, you could wipe it off and change the number. Got sticker of the pizza box that you would get at a Commander Riker's Pizza Restaurant, Papa Riker's Neptune's, oh, Nepente style pizza. That's right. Always fresh, style pizza. That's right. Always fresh, always hot. Those real tomatoes. Yeah, and none of the poison gland from the buns.

We need a Colonel Kira, a pizzeria, with her just blowing up a pizza oven. Yeah, the pizza comes in a bag because it's been made into dust. Yeah, well this is just a holiday card from Bree with a couple of photos of the kiddies. Way to go Bree sending holiday cards this year. That was pretty big challenge for most people. Yeah, Ben Adam and Wives and pets too, thanks for being such a bright spot in 2020.

You are both owed Hoves in 2021. Well, don't threaten us with a good time, Bri. Yeah, I might actually finish mine this time. Next package here is from Christopher B in Hyatt'sville film Maryland. There's a long treatise on the back of this padded Manila envelope that says, PS, my wife does all the shipping for her house. Imagine her surprise when I asked for a shipping label. She said, Who and what are you shipping? I said,

The Star Trek podcast guys, biggest I rule ever. Hmm. Afterward, she asked if Uxbridge, Shimoda, LLC was a real name or a joke. I told her it was real and she said, cross out my name on the label and write your name instead. I don't wanna get mixed up in all this.

It's the only way we can do real business with real business people is to have a real business sounding business name. That was a good idea by us. So what we've got here are a couple of, looks like burned CDs. Oh, DVDs. Uh-huh.

Always a great gift in 2021. And here's a letter. When a coworker asked, have you ever watched the Turkish Star Trek? I quickly googled and discovered the storyline of this movie is, the Enterprise picks up a Turkish hobo. I smashed the Buy It Now button and bought the DVD, but later it had to cross over the railroad tracks to the sketchy side of the internet in order to download something called a quote, bit torrent that contains the English subtitles.

As I am the source of many bits, I expected a bit torrent client to be a pleasant experience. All I do is bits, bits, bits. No matter what you're always doing, bits, bits, bits. No matter what you're doing, boy was I mistaken when I was fed into the ball-kicking machine of endless advertisements for either Boner Hill, Pills, or pornographic websites that offered credit card-free no more bullshit offers for premium membership.

Wow. The plot for Turkish Star Trek is lifted from Star Trek, the original series, and closely relates to the man trap featuring a main character, Omar, that is pulled through time to fulfill a shotgun wedding to Dr. McCoy's ex-girlfriend Nancy. When Omer is beamed aboard the Enterprise, Hygiene, Hygiene and Sue and Captain Kirk and Mr. SPAC sick are flummoxed. Well, that's a better episode recap than we're used to reading at the end of our shows.

Yeah, I watched about 30 minutes before I encountered the dialogue I've attached. If you are not worried about a bit torrent, quote, flooding your basement, then I recommend popping this disc into your player and enabling English subtitles. I think you will enjoy the production failure of this film and have a lot of laughs. Thank you both for your work on TGG. I'm catching up with episodes currently deep in the pocket of season 6 of Deep Space 9. Well, you are close to the climactic end of season 7.

I have been feverishly listening in order to catch up so we can both finish at the same time. Nobits on tips, Dolphin Hordegans for life, Floth the Boi for Raz and Plavim, they're the only hope for Delta Rana for. In a shouting voice, this is Brigadier General Christopher D. Blunk, United States Marine Corps from Maryland. Out! It's big fun.

This next one is from Amazon fulfillment services, and it's to us. Is it a, is it a jar full of urine? Ha, ha, ha, ha. They do sell that stuff. Oh thank goodness there are some gift notes in here. Hey B&A, here's the official DS9 comic I worked on last year. Wow, hope you like this.

Otocentric tale of suspense. Also, this might be handy if you run out of stuff to cover on the greatest discovery feed. I'm just saying from Philippe, Sobraero, and second note, if I were drawing and not just coloring this, I swear I would have drawn you guys in the background. I swear! You know, I wore Philippe's, Philippe sent me very kindly, he sent me a couple of masks, one of them with the Sylvester Stallone this part of the face yeah and I wore that outside exactly once before my wife told me I could never do that again well to the thought the counts right I still

treasure those masks believe these are big thick graphic novels that he's sent us, and it is a, it looks like a really, like, deep, involved DS9 storyline. Oh yeah, hold it up. Whoa. Beautiful coloring. And the illustration suck because we're not in them. Those look like some thick, glossy pages.

The title of the comic is Murder on the Edge, Too Long a Sacrifice. I wrote a thesis paper in a film studies class with that very same title. So that's weird. Wow, I can't wait to read this, and there's a copy for each of us, so. Yeah.

Next time. I was just going to say, Next time we're IRL. How much fun it is to watch you open presents, like being invited to your birthday party. And... Well, except for there's a duplicate of every one of these presents for you Adam. That's nice. That makes me feel better.

When was the last time I saw you in real life, like two months ago? Yeah. I think it has been a long time since that burrito. Yeah. It's socially distanced burrito where we stood across the street from each other and shouted. Yeah, really, really was worth the trip. The 30 minutes to Fairfax, the Adam and Ben story. All right, we got a few more packages to get through here.

This one is from Scott G in Villa Park, Illinois. We've got 260 friends of DeSoto watching this. No way! Good job. That's a lot. Oh wait, seven just left. They're really dropping out now. I understand that, yeah.

I would leave two if I were a friend of Tisoto. Everything seems to be letter sized and not box sized. What's up with that? I'm getting to the boxes. I always work my way up. I gotta see that box, Ben. Alright, no. What? I'm trying to like not put people's addresses out on the internet. I always say this on videos. Shhh!

Show me that box. Yeah, tilt the Shhh! Show me that box. Yeah, tilt the camera down and show me that box, Ben. There's no note in here as far as I can tell. But it's another deep space 9 comic that is like sealed into a bag here. Oh yeah. It's at the edge of the final frontier, start trick deep space 9. Oh, and there's a free poster inside.

Well, I gotta open the bag then. Oh, God, you've totally devalued it. Don't open mine. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. We won't be able to flip this for cash on the internet. I want mine kept in it, kept in sealed, okay? Well, I like this poster tremendously. Wow, look at that.

Look at that Cisco with hair. That's an era. That's a whole mood. Yeah. Jazee of Dex, I mean, wild. Someone on the greatest gen reddit posted a picture of the box of cards, the collectible trading cards. Yeah. And it struck me just how kind Bensisco looked, like kind and friendly, and like, completely unlike the Benzisco we know from that show,

like inviting, like inviting you to open up cards with him was the look on his face on that box of cards. He was a much more hugable guy when he was a commander. I feel like becoming a captain really, like put a, put a harder edge on him. Well, yeah, I mean, mean, those first couple of seasons were all about him hugging his son every episode. Big hugs.

All right, here's one from M. Johnson and Vancouver, Washington, that's Vancouver, Canada. That's fragile and the box is in terrible condition. So I'm a little bit worried about this one. Finally. Boxes really beat up. Boy, look at that beat up box. Got a little note here.

Dear Ben and Adam, love the pod and absolutely loved your live show last November in Portland. My local one screen movie theater in Vancouver, Washington, the Kiggins has been selling off their collection of old movie trailers. Did you say the Higgins was been selling off their collection of old movie trailers. Did you say the Higgins was the name of the theater? It looks like the Kiggins. Hmm, I'm not sure. Maybe she has a very, uh, ornate, uh, handwriting style here. So I'm not sure, uh, whether it's the Higgins or the Kiggins, but one of those two.

It's been selling off their collection of old movie trailers to help stay afloat. When I saw this copy of Star Trek 5 Up for grabs, I knew exactly who it needed to go to. Hopefully one of you has a projector so you can view it in all its glory. Looking forward to more live shows in the future. Wow, this is a 35 millimeter print of the Star Trek 5. It's in like a wax paper bag and it has Star Trek 5 written on it. Should I try and like hold a cell up to the camera on my phone so people can see it? When I was a projectionist, I'm probably not supposed to say this. I took a number of trailers from my theater. Wow.

But I never got a Star Trek one. Was there a Star Trek film in theaters or being promoted while you were there? Not in the years when I worked there. Those were sad number of years. Let's see. All I've got is like the credits at the end of the trailer here. Perfect.

Oh yeah, look at that. Oh yeah, it's showing up great. I don't want to mess this up because I don't have a rewind table here yet. But once I get a 35 millimeter film projector, which I like am actually kind of thinking about trying to do. You gotta do it. I got you, right? If. Man, that's so neat.

That's the rule when you're in a 35 millimeter film is the coolest thing in the whole wide world. Then it's California live when you move into a place with a projector booth, you need to get a projector for that booth. Oh man, yeah. Did you return that to tell you that? Um, yeah, I think we have like 12 months from moving date to comply with that local ordinance.

Yeah. I think we have two boxes left. All right. This one is from Alex P in Lyndonwald, New Jersey Got a letter to Ben and Adam. It is sealed with a wax seal. Oh, no With a bird on it With a summons You've been served

Wow, typewritten letter. Like with a real typewriter, I think. That's it. Dear Ben and Adam, this letter looks like all good letters written by folks who are perpetually a little bit embarrassed. It is sent by way of an apology more specifically. An apology for my behavior at your Philly show October 23rd 2019 Ben, I'm sorry. I drank too much and demanded you signed my yeager

You had already graciously signed it once and we're already in the process of doing it again Please accept this custom data and Jordy sunscreen. I vaguely remember you mentioning you wished it existed May it keep your Prius cool and your dashboard vibrant. You know, it took a lot of time. People are apologizing for their actions at our live shows. Keep it up. Yeah, this is gonna be a big reveal. These rules.

I can't believe it. So this is the put up in your window to reflect the sun's rays window screen for your car with Jordy and Data piloting a bunk bed shuttlecraft. Now we're in business with Alex P, right? Because this is a product we've wanted to make forever. Here's, there's also a letter to you in here, Adam. Adam, I'm sorry I didn't run that grift on eBay with you I genuinely genuinely wanted to but I would be lying if I said I wasn't afraid of the electronic bay

Coming for their cut and breaking my legs when they found out there was no money Please accept this burn bag print fabric. I had made you offhandedly mentioned lining a jacket with it in an episode of the Hit war movie podcast friendly fire Now it exists and it's your problem. Wow so look at that That's amazing and it's like it's it's a it looks like a light kind of Rayon like fabric so it probably would make a decent you can shoot You can suit your arms through those sleeves no problem. It exists and friendly fire does not.

Wow. I left a great tailor up in Seattle that would have done great with that. I'm sure you could get in touch with that tailor and send them something. Yeah. But I can probably introduce you to someone down here if you'd rather do it local. I'm sure you have a roller at X-Full of LA tailors. Man. It's very much you. Thanks so much for years of great pod. Maybe I'll get to see you guys live again

before the sun explodes, best regards, Alex. Well, I look forward to doing live shows again. If for no other reason, but to encourage more apologies from our viewers. Yeah, if somebody getting a little too tipsy at a live show results in us getting awesome stuff like this, I'm all for it. Uh oh, and he also adds PS, Row Laren. Last package here, biggest one. It says frozen.

Oh no. I think that might just be because it was, this is a repurposed box. That had frozen merchandise in it, or used to contain frozen fresh crab legs. And looks like it had pies in it. If there are like rotten pies in here, I'm gonna be very upset.

I think for the sake of the pod, for the sake of this live feed, I hope there are pies in there. It's just a plume of mold spores enter my face when I open it. Yeah. This is from Michelle L. in St. Paul, Minnesota. Another part of the country we love visiting on tour. Does the buck smell like anything? It has no smell to it. Oh, letter?

Do you read an ad? I'm a few months back. I emailed you about some t-shirts. Unfortunately, over the last few months, I was unable to procure any in the sizes that fit. However, I was able to acquire a few other things that I hope the two of you will enjoy. Love the pods.

All of your pods everywhere. Keep up the hilarious and insightful work. Best, Michelle. Oh, that's sweet. Hey, Ben, for a moment there, we went up over 300 viewers. Wow. And then almost immediately crashed down again. Yeah. But I think probably what's happening is like people are seeing, are scrolling through what things are happening live on Instagram and accidentally clicking on Instagram and accidentally clicking on this and then going like, oh, this is terrible. I bet this is something that would happen at live shows, if it, if it were, like as soon

as people walked into a live show and saw what we looked like and then we're, and then just left, I think that's kind of what's happening here. It would be like, you know, like when, when like a comedy show or or an open mic night starts in a bar and everybody leaves. Yeah. Yeah, this is Instagram, trivia night, and people are ready to go. We've been sent some ship models. This one is a... These are really nice.

I think they're die cast. They're metal. That's bigger than mine, I got this little guy on my desk. Oh yeah, the micro machine one, I think I have that too. We'll have to fight over who gets the bird of prey and who gets the war bird. Oh yeah, we're really gonna fight over that. Big time. I think I've got the, uh, Borg logo on a commuter mug. Not that.

Nice, nice, uh, aluminum vacuum-sided mug. Get some real nice merch over there, buddy. Got a couple of Klingon ball caps here. Oh, yeah. Oh, a model one here. Boy, that's, that's gonna look really great on a couple of guys in a Las Vegas swimming pool at the end of the year.

Oh man, and we got another commuter mug. I think that's everything in here. Thank you, Michelle. Thanks so much. Thanks to everybody that sent stuff in. Wow. And if you'd like to send stuff in, or if you wish you had caught this livestream

and are only hearing about it now on the podcast, you got to follow at greatest trek on Instagram and Twitter and we'll let you know when we're doing it next. Yeah, we tend to drop that kind of news a few minutes before just in case something awful happens. Yeah, yeah, we don't uh, I think that was the Twitch rule, right? We went, we went live on a Twitch and ended up just blowing up on the launch pad. And we were like, we're never telling anyone we're going to do this with that between time again. Getting people excited and then disappointing them is, uh, it's the greatest gen promise.

A bit of a brand promise for us, but, but, uh, it's also not a great feeling. Yeah. Someone just asked what episode this is for, and I'm here to tell you that it is for Star Trek Voyager Season 1 episode 4. It's called Fage. Fage. Bye guys. Bye.

Reaper Course. Unless you've got something a little bigger in your torpedo tubes, I'm not turning around. I'm so glad to be in an editable place where my mistakes won't be screen grabbed and looped forever. People are already posting photos of me on Twitter. It's one of the great benefits of doing video. Thanks to everyone who came out to see us on the live feed. That was fun. Yeah, that was fun. We are pulling up to a rogue planetoid full of dilithium. This is a concept very familiar to you and I, people who just watched season three of Discovery.

Oh yeah, the idea of dilithium being in short supply and being very dangerous in a explosive kind of way. It had a planetoid that's unusually rich in it. All of these things, familiar concepts. There's a power shortage on this ship that seems to be the big overarching issue that they are confronting. We start with a little conversation between Janeway and Chacote in a hallway. Lieutenant Torres is working on rebuilding some kind of reactor on the ship to be a dilithium refinery. The arguments are quite convincing. She thinks it can be done safely. Who do you think is going to be made to work in the dilithium refinery, fam? I'll give you a clue.

Like what? Not the Starfleets. I'm a Dylithium refinery fan. I'll give you a clue. And a quiz? Not the Starfleets. Try to imagine a Dylithium refinery being set up on the ship. And what exactly that would do to morale. Yeah. I wonder how radioactive it is. I wonder if they have to like separate it from other parts of the ship that are inhabited by people with a lot of distance or something.

Yeah, I don't know. It seems dangerous. It does. But it's worth it if what you want is delicious food at all times, right? That seems to be the main concern. It's, it seems dangerous, but no more dangerous than what Nelix is doing in the captain's private dining room.

On the list of needs is fuel to be used for propulsion. But I would argue in the first couple episodes of the series, what's more important is get that food on point. I mean, they're going to be eating the food in question for a long time given how far they are from home. So I mean, it's not totally crazy from a royal standpoint to to prioritize that. Speaking of things that affect morale, Neelix has kind of without asking seized Janeway's private dining room.

Captain, you caught me by surprise. I should say the same thing. I was as shocked as Janeway was about this. She has a private dining room. Does Picard have a private dining room? No. I will take this to the Federation Council. He's someone who ate in his ready room to save time. Like a big attendant bomb. It's standing up in his desk.

Yeah. He definitely ate in his quarters a lot. Yeah. I love the idea of like leaving your house and going somewhere else and eating there and that's also a private place that's just for you. Like if you had a restaurant that was just for you, is basically what Janeway is rocking.

Everything all right? That's all right. Good, good, good. What do you think is of the biggest concern to Janeway in the scene? Is it that her private dining room has been taken over? Or is it that it will never smell the same way again after this? Because there is an amount of smoke in here that would set off the fire alarms in any nuclear submarine.

It seems like fire abortive starship would be a major, major concern at all times. I don't understand this because he talks about how he's like rerouting power conduits and getting supplies from all over the ship. Like he has, he has re-engineered this room, but apparently gave no thought to ventilating it. Yeah. He's a, he's a he's assimilated the captain's private dining room He's worse than a Borg's yeah He's destroyed all the little pots and pads Yeah, there's a lot crazy about this the the burners that he's cooking the the vegetables on Obviously being too cool of burners to really cook anything But also when they flare up that he throws his dish towel over it,

you got to have a very wet dish towel for that to work. Nelix is in conflict with just about everyone and everything on this ship at this point in time. I think one of the ways that this is made most apparent is that he's dragged out of this kitchen and gives Ensign Parsons the kitchen con on this way out. Ensign Parsons didn't go into the private dining room to be given a station in the kitchen. No. Ensign Parsons should do, you know, like when you're a PA on a film set, it sucks because basically anyone can grab you and make you do something.

Yeah. And then when you get into a department and you have a title, and somebody's like, hey, can you like move those power cables? You can be like, sorry, I'm in sound department, not my job. And you can kind of defend your time a little bit. And I think that that's what Ensign Parsons failed to do is stand up for himself. I didn't see whether or not he had a bar or a pips, but that would have been an interesting thing to illuminate if you had shot him from the other side

and profile, you could make this a class struggle. Like is Nielix above the makuies in the ship hierarchy? That's pretty fucked. I feel like a makuies would have gotten in a lot more trouble if they had helped themselves to the captain's private dining room and re-engineered it. This, the make-wee situation is too low level at this point. This should be a high level concern every episode right now.

Chicoote should be like talking to the captain like, if one of my people had done that, you know. Yeah, Chicoote is going to be super concerned about all the missing sternow out of the captain's private tying room. I think you can make a make some improvised explosives out of those, right? Well speaking of fizzile material, they're going to send an away team down to this planet and Chicoote is kind of chagrin that Nielix assumes that he's going to be on this mission. I've been preparing for this mission all week. I mean, speaking of assumptions,

I just assumed that Janeway went on all of these, but this episode isn't important enough for the captain to lead the way team. So it's Chico Tay, Nielix and Kim. Yeah, they scan this moon and they're like describing a system of Star Trek caves with a breathable atmosphere. But it's, I mean, like, come on, we don't need that in dialogue. We just assume.

Yeah. This is Star Trek. We know where we're going when we beam somewhere. Pretty fun bit of child being lost in a department store here as Chico Te is giving Nielix and Kim orders orders that Kim doesn't need to hear, but Neelix clearly does that go something like don't go wandering off in the racks of clothes, and that's exactly what Neelix does chasing down what he's seeing on his tricorder that that seems to indicate some life, but everyone's getting false positives when they're down there. Yeah, it's irritating. I mean, mean, they were beaming down expecting to just find heaps

and heaps of unrefined dilithium. And it's kind of nowhere to be found. And we get like a very ominous camera pan past a rock face that kind of fades out and reveals that it was a hologram concealing a technological tunnel of some kind and a creepy man is standing down at the end of it and That's our cut to theme Nielix fucks around and finds out with this man

Getting getting shot with a weapon that puts him down and he is like he goes from zero to flopping around on the ground in no time flat. I mean, I thought his first mistake was radying up to the ship and saying, uh, Mr. Vulcan, I wish a motherfucker would. Yeah, he does. They, you know, in the, in the hierarchy of emergencies, getting beamed directly to sick Bay is, is pretty near the top, and that's where Nielix goes. Yeah, you know, this kind of reminded me of like the classic

New Yorker cartoon premise of hallucinating an oasis in the desert. Like this planet appears to be exactly what they're looking for and kind of draws them in. Up until the moment where Janeway looks at the view screen and says, that's no dilithium moon. Yeah, and it turns out to be, you know, too good to be true. Because when they get Neelix up into six bay, the doctor assesses the situation as long as I've been removed. They've been removed via a transporter, which is exactly how the Marv Romand died.

Hahaha. This is like a pretty intense emergency medical scene because what do you do for somebody that doesn't have any lungs and especially what do you do when there's one hollow doctor and one Tom Paris acting as the nurse? This is where, of course, we get the timeless adage. Doctors prescribe Tom Paris Rolls-Eyes.

Give me a side of plasmix stimulator. We don't have one. Then replicate one. I love that Kess can feel things happening across the entire galaxy, but when her special man friend has his lungs removed via a transporter, like they cut to her sleeping soundly throughout the entire experience. She kind of power of attorneys around a little bit, right? Like she is not going to like sign off on the doctor's plan

until he can convince her that literally it is the only, it's a long shot, but it's the only way they could potentially save Nielix. And the plan he's describing is kind of using the same technology that makes him to make holographic lungs to serve as a replacement for Nielix. Well, while they try and figure this situation out. There's no time to explain the exact procedure to you right now. to make lungs to serve as a replacement for New York's well, while they try and figure this situation out.

There's no time to explain the exact procedure to you right now. Oh, we'll make the time. We're gonna be in six bay for a long time this episode, and I just want to mention how nice it is that they have a saltwater aquarium. And they're like all the best medical facility waiting rooms. It's usually something to look at.

I don't wanna touch those magazines, just look at the fish. The fish tank is a very welcome part of a waiting room. Really is. Too much trouble to have one at home, you know? All the yukki. That wall of bubbly water is really something

to be impressed with here. I love the set design of Six Bay on the Voyager. I do too. It looks like a total fucking pain in the ass. I respect the effort big time. Yeah, it's definitely set design on hard mode. And he will never be able to leave the holographic environment of this room. Captain Janeway is fucking pissed about this lung situation and decides to go back down to the planet surface with a bunch of security people and weapons.

Yeah, she's like, Nielix didn't have an advanced directive. What the fuck? Come on! What about his loved ones? He didn't think about them in a time like this? Yeah, putting their mind at ease. What is... I mean, I don't have an advanced directive either.

Who does, but? Yeah. I love that the intensity of the episode pivots on who's on the away team because as soon as the captain becomes involved in it, you know things got serious. Shit just got real. It's the captain in two vach and a couple of desbester jackeys replacing the previous away team.

And they are walking around these Star Trek caves just like kicking indoors, waving the four or four, looking for the people that stole, it's the, it's the, it's the caper of the stolen lungs and they got to find these bad guys that did this. Captain Janeway's method of finding these bad guys is putting the back of her hand onto a bunch of the rocks to feel for heat. And it fucking works. She's like, I, like, the tricorder that two Vogue uses indicates that the rock that she feels is two degrees warmer than the rock

around it, which is an amount of temperature variance that Janeway's back of hand can detect. That's amazing. Given how chilly my wife always seems to be, I feel like I actually believe this. Yeah. Yeah. She's always finding the warmest corner of whatever room she's in. The rock is warmer here. They like shoot this hollow wall down and find this kind of mad scientist laboratory looking room full of crazy formaldehyde jars full of organs. And they see some case on organs in there, but they don't really know what the rest of them are. But this seems to be a place where people go to collect organs and tissue.

I guess that it was a restaurant where some jars of awful were there to brine. You want to break down some of those tissues before cooking. Oh yeah. Make it more palatable. I mean, it looks delicious, right? Really nice and tender and a little zesty from all the vinegar.

It's right. Take my word for it. The aroma is absolutely incredible. K-Zon liver is an exquisite delicacy that most people will never get to enjoy. As secret labs go, we're barely here. Like this is the only scene of the lab that we get. And that's too bad with what we find out later

about who runs this facility. Yeah, speaking of set design, it's like a big set that we just don't spend much time in. And we're like back doing run-arounds and shoot them up in the Star Trek caves. They actually hit one of these bad guys and it does not take him down. He runs off and beams out of their,

they're in communication with the ship, Chico Teiz explaining to the captain that he wasn't able to tractor the bad guys in time. I love this scene because Chico Te is totally incredulous. He's like, well, yeah, I had to call you first. I didn't have time to tractor the fucking ship leaving the planet. If I didn't have to do that, I would have had time to. I'm not handling the money, driving the car and talking on the phone all by my fuck up. This gets a big eye roll from Janeway. When I leave you with the con, you have con. I feel like if Jordi were in command of the ship he would have separated it already.

One half of it would have chased this ship. The other half would have been like falling into the atmosphere. Bullshit, man. It's just bullshit. I don't think you can you separate the saucer on the voyager. So we see the Boulbridge and torpedo bay? No, I'm afraid not.

First of all, it's not a saucer. It's like an arrowhead or something. Oh, don't get into that. Ben, the appropriation of that for this show. Will not stand. Coffee, black, make it yourself. I'm glad to help you see this as an opportunity to grow. Will not stand. Coffee black, make it yourself. I'm trying to help you see this as an opportunity to grow. Make it yourself.

There's an interstitial scene in Six Bay where Paris is feebly helping out the doc. And Kess wants to be an organ donor. She even shows the doctor her idea with a little icon on it. Yeah, I mean like the deal with Nielix is that because this hologram can't be like moved around adaptively to work with his body, they have to completely immobilize him. So his body is not able to move more than two microns in any direction. One micron would be preferable, but I suppose it'll have to do. The way he puts it to kiss is making it clear that this is going to be a very special quality of life episode of Star Trek Voyager.

Yeah. This is Warf gets crushed by a barrel all over again, right? Nielik's does go so far as to radio Riker to come into the room and ask him to end his life. Yeah. Which is really intense and it's not explained because riker is not on the ship. He's a welcome site. What's weird is is when riker leaves, he pulls off his velcro sideburns. And then there was elsewhere, which in the timeline makes sense because Tom Riker is still alive at this point

and Sturge Rick, he's out there, he's out there kissing Kirsten Kirsten. And he was a make-wice. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. God, what if Tom Riker were in this cat? How great would that be? God, it would be a really interesting, like a very interesting version of this show, having Tom Riker be a very low status character. That's exactly what I was gonna go if we're if we're stratifying the classes here. It's Starfleet, it's Neelix for some reason. It's Tom Riker and then it's Makewies, right? It's a Neelix sandwich with Tom Riker sauce. Oh yeah. Give me give me extra Tom Riker Sauce. Oh yeah. Give me extra Tom Riker Sauce.

Yeah. And give me a little on the side if you could. Allie did it in my car. I'll eat that shit with a spoon. There's also some interesting Neelix jealousy because Paris is trying to comfort Cass a little bit telling her like, you know, if you're gonna stick with him Let me know if you need anything and Neelix feels terribly threatened by this he describes Paris as one big hormone I really like it made me suspicious too because Paris was kind of asking a lot of questions about what was going on too because Paris was kind of asking a lot of questions about what was going on under the confinement beam of the doctor. Like everything working below the beam doctor.

I know you can't move, but could somebody,ized form be flaccid or erect permanently? I know that there's a little bit more headroom under this arc in the biobed down in this portion of it. Is that for a reason? Yeah, like the question the episode never answers is if Nelix has a permanent erection or not. A permanent mercy erection. Right. Yeah. I think we can assume he does, right? Just look at the guy. Yeah. That guy's always ready to go. This is emblematic of the haste that this episode moves with because it feels like Nelix is going through the stages very fast. He's in the

beginning a little bit grateful to be alive and then he starts to process the reality of a situation and then he starts getting jealous and then he starts to feel grief almost immediately about the the prognosis like he's going through all of this in the span of 20 seconds. Yeah, there are a number of scenes kind of about the various ways this is hitting him at various moments. And you know, like he's very ready to accept cases, comfort it. But like when when it's just him in the doctor, he's like annoyed that the doctor isn't there entertaining him. Just imagine waking up in a hospital and having your first words be to your wife

that you should move on without you. Like, that's the haste with which Nelix moves here in processing all of this. I mean, if you woke up in a hospital more told, hey, you don't have lungs anymore. I feel like that. I would also ask about the status of my erection. Yeah, right.

Duck, don't sugarcoat it, and also lead with the erection. Firstly and most importantly, how's the crank? Could you do the lights a little? We also get a scene where Tuvac explains this device that they picked up from the floor of the Star Trek caves. They got one of the weapons that the alien used on Nielix. And it's kind of a combination, transporter, trichorder phaser. It does a full medical and genetic workup of its victim before stunning them and aiding

in beaming out the organs it's trying to extract. So it sounds like we're dealing with aliens who have developed a technology specifically designed to locate and extract organs from other beings. There are in pursuit of this alien ship the entire time as they're learning this. And that's another part of the kind of breathless nature of this episode where we are not like stopping to learn about these things. We are building the airplane mid flight. Jane Wayslog tells us that the ships are moving at exactly the same speed, which is like they're both restrictor plate racing at Talladega for the driver's safety. No one's closing in on anyone else, so it gives them a bunch of time to study this device.

It's an interesting science fiction concept, right? The Oregon Harvesting Gun. I love it. I mean, this alien species, I felt like they're kind of using some of the tactics of like the type of animal that like burrows into the sea floor and like dangle something tempting out and then, you know, snatches its prey. And I really like to put your mouth around it. It turns out it was a trap.

Yeah, exactly. When you, when you, knee looks like shove your dick into it, that turns out to be a mistake. So the ship that they're chasing has arrived at a kind of asteroid, which looks like it had some work done. It's not a natural asteroid at all. And the ship they've chased goes into a hole in this asteroid. And Janeway's got to decide whether she's gonna go in two because two ships in one hole might be more than that asteroid can take. But that-

It depends on whether the asteroid has prepared itself, you know? It also, I mean, if the asteroid is old, this could be the only thing that the asteroid can be paid to do anymore. TwoVoc is a little bit worried about that prospect though. He kind of steps in front of the captain and says, listen, I know you and I know that you're going to try and DP this asteroid. His supposition is proven because after they go in, things get pretty tight almost immediately, so tight that they've got to slow down. You're doing just fine, Mr. Paris. Just fine.

They slow down, you know, Paris is kind of gingerly flying them through this thing and they come to a hall of mirrors. And this is a really fun effect when they emerge into the core of this asteroid are presented with dozens of starship voyagers to look at confounding. It's very final fight scene from Enter the Dragon like, you have offended my family and you have offended a shawl in temple. Is this series just going to do this all the time? Give us the multiple ships problem, cause we're four episodes in and it's happened twice. Yeah.

We're batting 500 on multiple voyagers. Yeah, we're batting 500 on multiple voyagers and 500 on time travel. Yeah. And 500 on people abducted for medical reasons, right? That happens in episode one and episode four. Right, got tickets that lock them, get them. All better lodgements here.

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and multiple enemy ships. Nielix is going through his own private Metallica one video in the six bay. He is not taking to his circumstance as well at all. So there is also the implementation of a ticking clock here. It does not seem like Nielix is long for this world if they can't get their hands on his real lungs. Yeah. So that's like spurring the urgency inside the Hall of Mirrors.

He's getting like more and more cellular toxicity or something. Yeah, and so the idea is like maybe they can shoot a beam weapon out inside this Hall of Mirrors and use it as kind of a tripwire for the real ship that's in there. Kind of a great bit of business. And so they do. And the effect is great. Like the phaser just like bouncing kind of infinitely around this until it finds the hull of the real ship.

And I mean, like it's scary because their power is getting drained. Like the, this is higher stakes than just getting lungs for neilix. It like becomes a threat to the entire ship. But they find the enemy ship. It's got two life forms aboard and they beam them aboard and immediately regret it because these people are clearly suffering from a terrible disease. I said full loaf.

Ben. It's working sir. It's working sir. And the makeup department delivered. Give me everything you got, they said. These are some rotten looking aliens. And I thought it was interesting the way they did this because the transport room is lit very moodily when these guys beam down and they're kind of backlit by the transportor bay itself is the main light source in the room.

But you can't see them quite as well as later when they walk into Six Bay, which is like really brightly and evenly lit. And the like real horror of what we're looking at is revealed. Your skin, love to me. These are definitely alien to fuck with the lights out. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. And what they explain is, oh yeah, we had to steal his organs because this guy was

gonna die. We try to extract them from the dead, but sometimes when the need is immediate, more aggressive actions are required. I thought for sure at this moment, this was gonna be one of those, why didn't you just ask kind of episodes? That we get a lot in science fiction, right? Where the alien takes and takes something

that would have been given freely if they had just asked nicely. You might have said no. But it isn't at all. And you know right away that it isn't because of the disgust that Captain Janeway experiences hearing about what they've been through and what they've put the crew through

by stealing Neelix's lungs. It is a horrifying decision that Janeway has to make here between punishing them for trying to save their own lives or killing them to steal the lungs back. Yeah, because if they take Nielix's lungs back from this guy, it's just as bad as what they did to Nielix and by some ways of thinking. I mean, it's a real catch 22.

And she's like, I'm not gonna throw you in the brig and then take you back to the Alpha Quadrant. That's not a reasonable solution to this either. So these two guys are in the Peewee's biker bar. Like they're up against the wall. And Derek is like, I see we let him go. No! No! go. No!

I wish that they had talked about whether the virus was contagious or not. Dude, I thought the same thing because as soon as you beam aliens on the ship that look like this, the quarantine wall needs to go up. Right, yeah, or just have two-vox vaporize them immediately. Right. But I guess they have two-vox vaporize them immediately. Right.

But I guess they needed to find where the lungs were and they didn't know yet that they were in that guy. But the aliens are reasonable. They made a... They did a terrible thing, but they're like, well, thank you for not killing us or throwing us in jail, but maybe we can help you. This is a very admiral cartwright kind of amenable because only when you have the enemy's lungs,

are you free to dictate terms? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I mean, it's interesting to take the admiral cartwright footing when you are the alien trash of the galaxy. It's true. You guys look like a heap of garbage. Yeah. But Janeway pays the mech kindness that is then returned.

Because, as a motorist, like maybe I can help out with this neilic situation, as you may be aware, we are great with the medicine. And they're like, I don't know if we want to let you into sick bay. It's kind of like a clean environment. And I'm kind of worried that a chunk of you could fall off. Over the balcony, bounced off some respirator thing into the page.

They are really rough looking. They are. They look like mummies that have been unwrapped, like taking the bandage off of a mummy is what these guys look like. Yeah, and like different patches in different places, they aren't the same patches of grossness. Like each guy is like get different stuff in different places. But what they're able to do is make Kess's dream of becoming an organ donor come true. They've got the technology to let an ocompin donate a lung to a talaxi. And that's not something that the EMH

thought possible. Right. So despite the fact that they have this phage virus, their species has actually gotten really great at the at the kinds of medical interventions that Nelix needs right now. They offer up the idea of taking one of Kess's lungs and putting it in Neelix and then taking Kess's other lung and then brining it in a solution of salt and sugar for a while before braising it. The brine loosens those tightly coiled molecules of protein. You slice up the lung into some ribbons, toss it with a bolinets.

Yeah. Delicious. And it's like a high protein replacement for spaghetti. It is. Yeah. It's all I've been eating lately. Lungy. Not a lot is made post transplantation of kind of a great sacrifice, I think, by Kess here. transplantation of kind of a great sacrifice. I think. By Kess here. Like one lung Kess comes to you and is like,

ooh, I'm kind of out of breath and the doc is like, you'll adjust. Yeah, really? Really? Yeah, really? Really? Walk it off. Yeah, and like as Nelix is coming to you,

Captain Janeway does that thing that I'd be like, a lot of people are motivated to be extra kind to someone recovering from a, from an ordeal, especially medically. She's like, you know, I think I'm okay with seeding you the mess hall as a project going forward. As soon as you're back up on your feet and Nielix is like, I'll be back up on my feet by the next episode. Do not even worry about that. Don't sweat it.

Yeah. So the ship pulls out of there, and I think the doctor really appreciates some moments that he had with Kess in this episode. Like the doctor seemed really stressed in this one. He's just one big hormone. In a way that is very interesting for a character that is supposed to be a hologram. Like he's really like banging his head against the idea that he is stuck providing medical

support to this entire ship alone. And you know, he's treated with great disrespect like he wants to be turned off when people leave the room and he's not. And, and Kess kind of, I feel like talk some sense into him gave him some raison d'être and his, his proposal to her at the end of this episode is maybe I can train you how to be a doctor. And maybe we won't have Tom Paris running around here so much. And that would probably be good for everybody. Paris would be so relieved if Kess took this job because I can't rule out the idea that Paris believes that part of his job were he to be a medical assistant would be to offer up his own organs and situations like this. That just seems way above and beyond.

Yeah, so that's the episode, Adam. Did you like this one? Jackson noted, we'll do this without you. Let's do it. Let's do it. I mean, I liked some of the themes about it. Like, I like the genre bashing of like a quality of life question episode that we've gotten on Star Trek before with the moral quandary of like crime and punishment.

Having to do with these meatloaf guys. It's like they have no law to fit their crime. Yeah. I mean, this feels like a kind of episode that we're gonna get a lot if I were to predict the series. I mean, the scarcity of resources making you choose some paths that you may not have otherwise, you know, out of desperation. Like what happens when the rubber meets

that kind of moral road? Yeah. This seems like that kind of episode and that kind of episode is going to be a Star Trek Voyager episode more often than not. I agree that we do seem to be kind of like ringing some of the same bells over and over again, only four episodes in, but the specifics in this one are so weird, you know, like the it's I feel like this would have been a really good season 5 TNG episode script.

That felt very fun. Really weird. There is no conclusion to the phase guys story. They're like, well, we don't have them anymore. They're going to go off to try to cure their face somewhere else. Yeah. Like their conclusion is off screen, right? Yeah, but spoiler alert, this type of alien is a big presence in the first season or two

of this shit. Really? Yeah. I was not expecting that. I mean, I don't know. This script doesn't feel like they are Establishing them as one of the aliens of this quadrant per se it explains a lot though by not giving them a formal exit That is a that is a television language that

That indicates an invitation back right? Yeah, they didn't tie those guys up with a bow So they may they may return yeah indicates an invitation back, right? Yeah, they didn't tie those guys up with a bow, so they may return. Yeah. That's what's being telegraphed there. So very perceptive of you. About that. Do you wanna see if we've perceived any priority one messages?

That's just really a literative of you, Ben. I'm gonna go click on over there. Priority one message from Starfleet coming in on Secured Channel. Need a supplement on that. A supplement on that? A supplement. Yes, extra. The interest alone could be enough to buy this ship.

We got a couple of priority one messages here at him, and the first one is of a promotional nature. Are you a cat person? No. is here at him and the first one is of a promotional nature. Are you a cat person? No. Do you wish you could visit Japan right now? Yes. If you answered yes to these questions,

then Cat Land, the soft power of cat culture in Japan, is the book for you. From folklore and anime to tiny cat furniture, cat cafes, Hello Kitty, and Thomas, the honorary feline train station master. You'll learn why cats occupy such a special place in Japan and how Japanese cat culture has become beloved all over the world. So buy a copy of my new book.

That's what the cut, I'm reading the copy here. It says buy a copy of my new book, Cat Land, the soft power of cat culture in Japan, today. But the my in question here is our friend Sarah Archer. Wow. Sarah Archer, one of the great friends at the Soto. That's so awesome. Yeah. I am, I'm, look, not a cat person, but I am very much of Japan. That's okay. I'm nobody's perfect. I Love Japan and Japanese culture, and I'm totally picking up this book not just to support Sarah Archer Enter projects, but because I'm I'm

I'm very interested in knowing more about this. I bet your wife would love this book too. Oh, don't tell her. Maybe I'll get one for her as a nice gift. So you think she'll never listen to this? The surprise is unspoiled. That's right. Wow. So yeah, that's really great. Sarah has been a huge support to this show over the years.

She wrote an article in Slate about us very early on in our run as a big reason why the Friends of Disotto is such a big and cool community. One of the reasons you're hearing our voices right now is because of that article. Yeah, so please support her. Get Catland, the soft power of Cat Culture in Japan. I'm personally going to wait the movie, Catland, which is gonna star Sylvester Stallone as a cat who's put on a lot of weight for the role, famously eating like 50 pancakes or whatever. Is this sort of like a cat situation

where he's put on a lot of weight, but then they're also digitally giving him fur and boobs and stuff? I love where you're going with this. Like the idea of Copland as played by the computer generated cats of cats. It's a much more gelical version of Kaplan. You get your Sylvester Stallone cat, you get your Raylyota cat, you get your Harvey Kitell cat.

I love it. That's gonna be a big hit. That's gonna be a bigger hit than cat. Yeah, I mean, hey, almost anything would be. Sarah, you wanna get together and work on the story treatment. Holler, it's your voice. Yeah, give us a holler.

I think we have something here. Ben, our second priority one message is of a personal nature. It is from the wormhole aliens, and it is to you and me, Ben. OK. And the message is in three parts. OK. The first part is this

I'm Chris Brenner Brinner information systems You know interface operations net access channel 90 Chris Brenner The next part is this The next part is this. And the last part is this. I'm Chris Brenner. Brenner information systems.

You know, interface, operations, net access, channel 90. That Chris Brenner. Thanks guys! Wow, those wormhole aliens are not linear so they really came full circle with the drop order there. Like that quite a bit. You know what? We have yet to come up with with drops for characters from Star Trek Voyager. I'm sure that'll happen when they occur to us. But it may have happened already, we don't know. I'm glad our some of our greatest hits will never be forgotten by the French de Sotto. Yeah, I mean we we should be so

lucky to have a drop as iconic as the Chris Brenner drop when when we're reviewing this series. Yeah, that would be great. Hope so well We are fortunate for the support that priority when messages provide the show you can Make one for yourself by going over to maximumfund.org slash Jumbo Tron. Please do I'm captain Kingway the U.S. and Captain Hey Adam. It's aap.

Did you find yourself a drunk Shimoda? Drunk Shimoda! When you construct a kitchen environment inside your commanding officers' private dining area, I mean that that that qualifies to me. Yeah. That is a that is a isolinear chip jenga move. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, Neelix, I'm I'm just generally reluctant to give Shimoto's to Neelix because I feel like he's gonna lap the entire field. Yeah. And and get out to an insurmountable lead in another 10 episodes. No.

He's gonna overtake Warf who had like 11 total seasons to rack up his all-time number. Yeah. I mean, Nielix as all-time drunk Shimoda is off the board in Vegas. It's such a sure thing at this point. What about you, Ben? I'm gonna give it to Matura, the Fagie guy.

I think these aliens are called Vidians. Oh, yeah? I last when he was like explaining like, oh, will we try to find dead people to get the organs from? It's like, I just love the logic of like, hey, listen, if we can, we'll get them from a dead organ donor, but in a pinch, a goofball will do. If you know of any space morgues around, that, that would help.

Do you have any other extremely silly characters that we could steal organs from? Anybody sillier than this that you would maybe care about less? Look, we tried to kill Neelix first. I had the beam weapon set wrong. So he's my drink, Shibata. That's a good Shibata, Ben. But do we have a good episode coming up next? We have season one episode five coming up next.

It's called the cloud. The crew discovers that a nebula is not what it seems and Paris invites his fellow offers officers to share a little R&R in his holiday program. Just a just a classic star Trek A and B story combination here. It really is. It really is. I think a little frosting on the hamburger or whatever. Wow. Looking forward to this one, Ben. But how are we going to do an episode of the greatest generation about it? For that, we've got to go over to the game of Buttholes, the will of the caretaker. We do. Currently, our runabout is on square 31. We have a Delta flyer out ahead,

and a Nielix's galley out ahead. I think we could hit either of those potentially. You're required to learn as you play, Roll. So, I'm gonna go ahead and roll this bone and see what we get. Wow. I'm gonna go ahead and roll this bone and see what we get. Wow. Oh, I love it!

Oh my goodness, I hit the Delta Flyer and we have rocketed up to a measure of a man episode for next week's app. This is of course the episode where we flip a coin at the beginning and we determine somebody to argue why this is a good episode and somebody to argue why this is a bad episode vehemently over the course of the episode.

Oh yeah, this is like, this is like Star Trek Crossfire. This is, we're gonna have to turn down our might gain. Because these are the episodes where we're both Chris Matthews. Donald Priscilla, your thoughts are the statement we just heard from Donald Priscilla. I could get ugly, but this is far up the board as we have been in a long time at and we're on square 87. I'm getting a nosebleed just acclimating to this altitude on the board.

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