The Greatest Generation - The Medkit Device Is a Chode (VOY S6E22)

Episode Date: October 16, 2023

When BLT and Ensign Kim crash on a planet full of theatre nerds, their life becomes art, layered with nesting-doll suspense about the ending. But when Voyager locates the Delta Flyer on the day of the big play, BLT leaves the bronze age in peace with an especially dramatic beam out. What makes coleslaw a meal? Is there a St. Louis twist on ambrosia salad? Why aren’t there more survival stories involving ropes? It’s the episode that has tragedy, time, and stamps!Support the production of The Greatest Generation.Friends of DeSoto for Democracy.Friends of DeSoto for Justice. Friends of DeSoto for Labor.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 YouTube.Facebook group | Subreddit | Discord | WikiSign up for our mailing list!Get a thing at podshop.biz!

William Shatner wrote, directed, and starred in the fifth Star Trek film in the winter of his 57th year. Over the next three decades, the film has been pilloried as one of the worst entries in the series. But when Shatner had fallen on hard times becoming primarily known as a television pitchman for a travel booking website, The recent share your embarrassment tour earned him a sudden, unexpected second run at celebrity. Well, everyone knows that Star Trek V is a catastrophic failure of a film that nearly ended the franchise.

What this tour presupposes is, maybe it isn't. Let me ask you something. Why would a reviewer make a point of saying someone is not a genius? Do you think I'm especially not a genius? You didn't even have to think about that. Did you? The share your embarrassment tour. Coming to just a few more cities this year.

Tickets still on sale at greatestgendtour.com. Here's to the finest crew in Starfleet. Engage! Watch your back shot. Hello! I'm Captain Captain, I'm printing where the U.S. is. Boy, I'm Captain Captain,

I'm printing where the U.S. is. Boy, I'm doing Captain Captain. Welcome to the greatest generation. 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. Adam.

I had an experience today that I cannot get out of my head. I cannot stop thinking about. I can't wait to hear this. It's going to be hard for me to think and talk about Star Trek if I don't get this off my chest. Is this a bad thing that happened to you because that's how I think about bad things. They just, they just assault my mind. Well, I'll, I'll, I want you to weigh in on that.

Okay. I, many people know, love that chicken at Popeyes. You're not even gonna try to sing the jingle? Come on, man. Love that chicken at Popeyes. It's one of the great jingles. I've been a good boy lately. I've been, you know, making all my dinners

and making all my lunches. All I had yesterday for lunch was coleslaw. I made myself a big coleslaw. What? Yeah. That's not a meal. Like, did you add a protein to that? I put some sardines on top.

It's a thin fish. It's trying to think of like, what would Adam Ragusia do at a time like this? Make good choices. That is exactly what he would do. It was good. It was actually really good. I made it with this kind of olive oily dressing with this herb to province olive oil that

somebody gave me as a gift. And it was delicious. But today I was feeling a little naughty. I was feeling spicy. And I decided that I would have Popeye's fried chicken for lunch and- You've earned it, buddy. I do not have many apps on my phone in general.

But one app I do have is the Popeye's chicken app. And I put in my order to the Popeye's app and I walked down to The restaurant in my neighborhood Yeah, this is another reason I can afford to do this taking a nice walk to get it Yeah, probably half a mile from my house. Yeah, so I go in there Kind of a lot more people in there than I'm used to seeing. And the drive-through also appeared to be quite busy. What's the time of day on this?

So it was like right on the dot noon, visit to Popeyes. And Guyon, I kind of got there at the same time and I offered to let him in first, but he insisted that I go ahead of him because I had actually put my hand on the door first so he got in line behind me inside the restaurant and there's probably three or four other people waiting in front of us. I feel like you're about to describe a robbery like with this level

of detail. I'm trying to lock in every part of this story you're telling. I bet you could cut down on the hero factor in a place like this. A guy comes in in a huff and a couple of old ladies come in right behind him. And this guy goes like, what's going on? Have you guys all ordered? Who's ordered?

Who among you have ordered? And we're all like, no, we're all waiting. Like nobody has even talked to, like, there's nobody even standing at the counter yet. Yeah, yeah. The staff is swamped. They're totally getting buried right now. Uh-huh.

And this guy goes, all right, well, I'm behind this guy. I'm going to use the bathroom. And he like starts marching off in the wrong direction for the bathroom. And he's like, where the hell is the bathroom in this place? And he turns around, he goes and finds it. Slope that bathroom with Popeyes. Two different bathroom doors. He tries both of them, both locked.

And he's like, what is going on in this place? And he goes up to the counter and I'm probably the only person in this entire story that isn't fluent in Spanish. So most of the time when he was speaking in English, it seemed to be for my benefit specifically. But I have enough Spanish that I could pick up from context clues, the gist of what he was saying, a lot of the rest of the time.

But he starts kind of like getting at the stuff. You're looking like the Mexican Wolverine. My name is Jeff. He's like yelling at people in the kitchen, like leaning his head around to see the people in the window at the drive-through, like trying to get somebody's attention, he's like, I really need to use the bathroom.

Finally, I got asked to stop cooking, wash his hands, go get some keys and come out from around the counter to key open the two bathroom doors. Whoa. Or I guess he only opened the one because there was only one open after this. So this guy has made just such a scene. Like I was already wildly impressed with him

just making the guy behind me's responsibility to hold his place in line. Like, hey, I'm behind you. If anybody else comes in, I'm still behind you. Like it was literally a thing he said to this guy. Of a line that's like three people long, I find that kind of hilarious. Like it's amazing. What's the worst that's going to happen?

Well, how many places in line are you going to lose? So these old ladies had come in and they were also asking about the bathroom. Uh-oh. And this guy gets the bathroom keyed open for him. He goes in and everybody in the restaurant is treated to... Oh, yeah! Woohoo! Oh! Oh!

Oh! Like, for five sustained minutes. And still nobody has like come to the counter to like see who needs to order or who is waiting on a web order, who has an order number. The old lady who wanted to use the bathroom starts laughing hilariously and she's like,

I don't know if I wanna go in there after him. And I said, yeah, I think it might not be worth it at this point. He should have let you go first if that's what he was going to do. And she was like, he's very rude. He's very rude. And she starts talking to her companion in Spanish. And they agree to leave and go to Pasadena.

To the Pasadena Popeyes? I guess so. I don't know. They just they left the restaurant at this point. Like, it was too much for them. Were you thinking about bailing out of this line? Seems like it's not happening. Here's the thing, I'm pot committed.

My order is in. I have a web order numbered. All I'm there to do is announce myself to the staff. Yeah, you're not there to order, you're there to pick up. Yeah. So, this guy finally comes out. He's in like much better mood. You know, he's standing not in the line,

but like reminding everybody that comes in and goes out like where his spot is in the line. Yeah, good idea. And then just makes it his business to like keep on the staff, keep hounding them to like get somebody up to the front register so that we can get things moving. And like a couple of them explained like, yeah, we're really in the weeds right now, like, you know, we're a little short staff today. And he's like, starts doing the like, yeah, I heard if you have to wait more than five minutes for your

order, the chicken's free. How everyone loves to hear that. As a joke. A guy, another guy comes in, opens the door to the kitchen. Oh, like a civilian goes into the kitchen area to ask for the bathroom key. Like he went behind the counter into the kitchen to ask for the bathroom key. This first guy standing in the waiting area goes, Hey man, I left it unlocked for you, but you might want to give it a few minutes to clear out. I did a real nasty one in there. Do not go in there. I did a nasty one. This guy goes and tries the door and just wordlessly

leaves the restaurant. You can't announce what kind of bowel move you took in there. You're going to discuss somebody. He just he left the restaurant without ordering without saying anything to anyone. But there's a second bathroom. There is, but it's not unlocked. So I'm I'm presuming second bathroom was like out of order or something. But boy, like it was just such a scene. And I think the thing that I wonder about with this guy

is there's so many people that are like, I don't even go poop if it has to be a public bathroom. Like I save it till I go home, you know? Like they're very unwilling to relieve them themselves in that way in a context where it could be known to other people. And this dude was so unburdened by that kind of thinking. And I feel like I admire it almost. Wasn't it Kurt Vonnegut that was like, you know, the best part of life is like going to buy stamps because that's an adventure. You know, like you get to meet people,

you get to hear their stories, you buy your stamps, but like the task isn't the stamps, the task is like going on a premise walk or whatever. Right, right. This is what you got to do, you bought your stamps, but you came home with a story. Yeah. Did you ever get your Popeyes?

Yeah, and it was delicious. Slop that store from Popeyes. Yeah, so. What's your Popeyes order? I'm sure FOD's want to know that too. Oh, you know, I usually get just like the bone-in, dark meat, spicy chicken, but I got the chicken nuggets today. I only ever get Popeyes at the airport.

Oh, yeah. Well. If I come across one. If there's a Popeyes at the airport, we're stopping for sure. Yeah, that's a pretty good deal at an airport. Not all of them have a Popeyes. No, not every airport is that lucky, but yeah,, yeah, it's good chicken. Anyways, um, was this a bad story or a good story? Like, would you say that this was a comedy or a tragedy?

Oh, it would be a tragedy if you left without food. Yeah. So it's a comedy. As told, I think it's a comedy for sure. Yeah. But like, the great comedies containies contain a morsel of tragedy. Sure. And there's your tragedy in time. Really is what I've heard. Tragedy time and stamps. Really is what Kurt Vonnegut would describe as a story. Yeah.

I think Marcus Aurelius basically said the same thing. Yeah. Marcus Aurelius did write Slotter House 5 because it had the Roman numeral 5, right? Mm-hmm. Slotter has V. Yeah. People loved that one. Mm-hmm.

Do you want to get into a series of plays that maybe even be even more inspired than my little tale today? I can hardly wait, Ben, to talk about Star Trek Voyager season six episode 22, Theemuse. Reaver course. Unless you've got something a little bigger in your torpedo tubes, I'm not journeying around.

Oh. I saw this as Mews in a couple of places. Oh, just the one word? Yeah. Think on IMDB, it's just as Mews. Not search engine engine optimized if it's that because you're gonna get a lot of damn stuff. Yeah, you need the definite article. Yeah. Monks have taken a hold of BLT's private logs in this cold open. One of those monks was the Klingon ambassador for the Star Trek films. Oh, really? Yeah. God, I did not notice that.

I see, we have a long way to go. I couldn't take my eyes off of the guy who looked like Andy Sandberg. Kellis, to me, like, red is either Andy Sandberg or the lead singer of Incubus. Yeah, if Sandberg and the lead singer of Incubus had a baby, Kellis would be theus. Yeah. If Sandberg and the lead singer of Inquibus had a baby, Kellis would be the result. Yep. Yep. Yep. So this is a captain's log as done in the style of Greek play. Star eight, five, three, eight, nine, six. There's the chorus, and then there's the the players. They're telling this story about how BLT crashed on the shores of their land in

the Delta Flyer after putting Harry came in an escape pod. It's pretty interesting to watch a theatrical performance of a log. Yeah. And the things that they determine are the important parts of the story and the parts sufficient to act out. Like people playing the wave. You know, that's neat. Yeah. There seems to be a very important audience member of the IP, even in the audience. And he's talking during the play, talking very loudly indeed, actually, in demanding another chapter to this story.

I guess that's a good review, right? If you do a play so well that someone demands more. Yeah, and they're paying for it. That's basically on core, right? That's what this guy's saying. Yeah, I like that this guy, like everybody's so afraid of this guy that nobody applaud until he applauds.

Like, does the patron like it? Mhmm. This is what standing ovation energy is at the end of shows. Like, is anyone gonna do it? I guess there's like, there's always like a tipping point, right? Like three or four or five isn't enough. The damn does have to burst.

You need like a couple rows to set it off. They do set it off. People fucking love this shit. And the patron guy loved it so much that, yeah, he's demanding a follow-up, a sequel, and Kellis, the poet, who has been part of the stage performance. He wrote it, but is also sort of put himself at the center of the story. I was like, yeah, I mean, like I could do it, but these actors need to eat, man. Yeah, I mean, we're like putting two inside one trench coat to like play different sizes of folks. Like, you know, some Popeyes take out might really sell

our problem here. Yeah. I mean, like, I'd love to keep doing this story. But if it keeps going this way, I'm going to have to do all little rascals based stories. What do you guess is the situation financially for the players and the guy with the cash. Because it would seem as though this is like a tip or whatever, but is this a free performance most of the time? I mean, yeah, like he pulls, it's like the wife's necklace, that he uses to supplement the pay.

Oh, boy. Is his cash all tied up in jewelry? Is he like that illiquid? I don't know any wife alive who would be okay with that. Yeah, well, it was a different time at him. Yeah, the Bronze Age was a different time. Backstage, this guy, Kellis, makes an announcement. They're doing another Voyager play, and they've got money to buy food for the after-party.

Our patron salutes you. And they got a week to do it. These actors are getting paid, but they're not getting laid at them because Kellis is pretty stressed about getting a script together in time for the patron to watch next week's performance. You see the cell at the time, your theater couples, you know, just in it during the project. Things get very hot. Drama club is one of the horneiest things you can get involved with.

Oh yeah. Shall we celebrate the duvet? I have very little time. Celebrating will have to wait. Poor lady though. Up on a mountain side, the crashed hull of the Delta Flyer is lit by candlelight. The candlelight makes it look pretty.

But it does not look like the Delta Flyer is going to fly again. It does look a bit like the set of like a Goth music video from the late 90s when the camera finds Kellis coming inside. I didn't often ever have a reason to Dutch my angles, but I really thought a lot about starting here. How much work you get out of the sense of a crash based on a camera being at an angle, the entire fucking time you're inside the Delta flyer, you know? And it doesn't have to be by a lot.

And it's not like Rucks on Dawson is leaning over in a weird unnatural way. She's walking around this like normal. It's just camera angle. It's all camera angle. They did not tilt the craft at all. And you can tell that by the way that the candle flames are angled.

Bingo. They are also tilted. But yeah, it's super effective. It really does make it seem more broken down than they probably actually had to make it in set dressing. He approaches her with a knife. And she waxes him. I mean, her hands are bound, but she baps him back really hard. And he identifies himself to her as her servant. My servant. What mean? All right. And let me go.

I think you need the right tone right off the bat between these two characters. And I think they do a good job in creating that, right? Like, it doesn't really feel like BLT is in real danger. Like, she's tied up with ropes that it doesn't appear as though she's tried very hard to escape. He seems like very gentle as past people go. He's kind of got that past person quality of like, how much of a threat can you be? He's a fucking past person, you know? And like, when she begins to recognize

the sort of personality she's dealing with, she sort of understands how much smarter she's gotta be than this guy. The power imbalance that's in play here because he clearly needs her for shit. In a way that's gotta make her believe that her life isn't in danger. I mean, she's also just confused because she's like,

you know, I'm not really into the like, shabar or whatever, but like, I've listened to enough dance average that I know it's usually the servant that's tied up and not, and you know, it's like, you've got some of these things reversed. Now take that knife of yours and cut me fruit. Yeah.

Yeah. He believes that she is an eternal. And he's been trying some of his bronze age medicine on her. She's got all these scrapes and cuts on her forearm that are his attempt to break her fever. He believes that the best way to let the heat out of her blood is by cutting her open. And she gets him to go into a med kit and get a light to wave over all these cuts that he's done on her.

And this is just more proof to him that she is some kind of godlike creature. I couldn't help but laugh because like BLT is very patient to teaching Kellus how to wave a light over her scrapes. But then Kellis afterwards like walks over to the high-fi and starts playing logs like Mission Logs. Like he opens the place. How'd you know how to do that, Kellis?

Yeah, we're just lucky he didn't find the Ubidubi music. I mean, did you presume that BLT taught Kellis how to do this or that this was their very first, like this wasn't their very first interaction? This was confusing. Yeah, I think that she was just so feverish maybe that she doesn't remember. But yeah, she's been there for quite a long time. She's been there for more than a week in this state, but yeah, she's been there for quite a long time. She's been there for more than a week in this state, but it's just kind of coming to,

I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Kellis describes BLT as a gift, which I think might be nicer than anything Paris has ever said to her in many seasons. I thought they were going to fall in love at this point. Like I thought this would be the beginning of something. Yeah. Yeah. I thought for sure, once he cut her ropes, she would embrace him and thank him for saving her. I mean, he cuts her ropes and

then shoots his own. It's the sequence there, right? Oh, my shoe. I'm fucking tute. Except for again, they get everything all backwards because she's the one shooting. Yeah. Yeah. She grabs a dustbuster, demonstrates it's awesome power to vaporize trees, tells him to get lost and don't come back.

Kellis is like, is that supposed to scare me? Like, you shot a tree with a tree shooter. But I mean, it's enough to scare him off. Off he goes. And the next day, you see the Delta flyer in the light of day. And it looks pretty bad. Looks like it's gonna need a couple of weeks in the body shop. Ben, give us a body shop update.

Get your car back. This said maybe tomorrow. God damn it. Yeah, it's been a really long time. It's fucking bullshit. Yeah. The problem here is the communications. BLT is trying to get those things up,

but there isn't enough power to do it. And she hears Kellis call to her from outside. He gets to come in because he's got food. This is another scene where it just feels like he's too dopey to be dangerous, right? He's trading snacks for stories. How much can he afford, though? Like, what was that necklace worth?

Because like, he was saying that like the actors were starving basically at the beginning of the episode. Now he's got food to spare. I mean, or he doesn't because you need something to get the sense of how important the muse is to Kellos, right? Like maybe he's sacrificing his own food to get some of these great stories out of her. Maybe so. Yeah, so he starts asking about, you know, Earth and her story.

It's just super curious about, you know, what broader here, you know, what's the premise of the of the show Star Trek Voyager? Maybe you could tell me about Earth and there was this other planet I've read about in the logs. How do you how do you say, uh, who? Nush. Is that how you say it? She's like, yeah, that's actually pretty close. Yeah. You know, foreign languages sound better when it sounds like you're kind of doing an impression

of the foreign language and you really nailed it. They're kellis. Good job. Yeah. You gotta be careful with that, though, because you can kind of take it too far and then it feels like you're sort of insulting the people from that place. Yeah.

Objection noted, we'll do this without you. Do it. If you do it. If you do it. Objection noted, we'll do this without you. Do it. If you do it. If you do it.

Do it. Great first episode or bad first episode to someone just come into Voyager. Really? She's pretty concise with the Voyager origin story. Also pretty concise with her relationship status with Tom Parris. Yeah, I think she's saying what we've believed for a long time is that things are fine. They're fine. Yeah.

Yeah, but not really moving in a hot and heavy direction, are they? No. Are you in love with him? No. Supper is over. I mean, don't even talk about it. It is BLT's opinion. And by candlelight, they go into the back area of the flyer.

And she shows them where they share their memories. I love this description of the computer. Yeah. It's great. And they go stronger from the sharing. Yeah. She shows a schematic that he recognizes as Winters Tears, but she knows as Dylithium. And he already knows that

Dylithium is the thing that she wants and needs from her logs. So he's like, yeah, like I mean, there's some on the patrons hunting grounds, which is no good to you or me because it's punishable by death to trespass on those grounds. So, too bad. And she's like, you better fucking get that, or I won't tell you any more stories about where I come from. Naming Taelithium Winters Tears is like calling that marshmallow fruit salad Ambrosia. It's just like, it's very flowery description for something that, uh, isn't that great. Wow. I just got a letter from Max Fun. They said the entire Midwest unsubscribed to our podcast.

I mean, I grew up eating Ambrosia salad. That a lot of it. Wow. It's okay. And you're here today to tell the tale. Were you an Ambrosia salad family? What's your guess about that, Adam? How long ago? Have you ever had it?

Might be a better question. Never had it. Never even had an opportunity gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it.

I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it. man the Midwest leg of the tour is basically over. Oh no, I think what's as close to the Midwest as we're going to get? I guess St. Louis is in the Midwest. St. Louis has Ambrosia salad, I guarantee you. Yeah, but they make it with provolone. Yeah, everyone's got their regionalisms. So this is kind of kind of quick, right? Like we cut to him coming back wet from his trip to the hunting grounds with a big ol'

hunker and she's like, great, dilithium, just what I needed. And she starts fiddling with it. We cut to like later the next day where he's meeting with all the actors and Talking to them about about the next play that they're gonna be mounting. They only have got a week to do it Seems like a pretty great deal. You just bring some Ambrosia salad to the To the Delta flyer and in exchange you get a great story out of it and you get to eat. Yeah, that's called a pot luck at him. Yeah, really is. I was wondering for a long time what was going on on Voyager. The answer to that question is next. We see the very end of a McLaughlin group. Auto time, boy, boy. That is so good. Harris never wants it to end. That's it. that is so good, Harris never wants it to end. That's it.

Yeah, I mean, talk about leave them wanting more. Janeway basically drops the mic at the end of the McLoughlin group and they're like, no, keep going on court. Kim is conspicuously absent from this McLoughlin group. It's true. And they're talking about a planet by planet search. They're talking about what they can do to find the Delta flyer

and the missing crew. And everybody clearly wants a solution to this, but nobody has one yet. And Tom Parris is pretty heartbroken here. So it seems like his side of the relationship is going great. Ha ha ha. He's really, I mean, you wanna talk about great acting,

Paris acting like he cares about finding BLT here. Incredible performance. I really felt his trauma here. The girl I'm hugged up with and the guy that is my primary competition in the Stickman department on this ship are both gone. This is incredible for me. The amount of sympathy, sex alone. I really wish there was a little bit more made out of the danger of using Voyager to do the search. Like,

there's talk of a spatial eddy that's dangerous that could threaten Voyager itself. But this idea, like most of the time we cut back to Voyager, Voyager is just sitting on its ass and people are looking at iPads and stuff. Yeah. Do you think that's why Paris is so upset is that like his ship, the Delta flyer is missing?

I wish there was more of that too. This thing is fucked up. Well, no time like the present to cut to a play rehearsal. Yeah. So this actor that we saw in a previous scene who has the hots for Calis is getting some stage direction because she's doing it all wrong. She's playing seven of nine, but she's not playing seven of nine as Scary Borg's lady. She's playing her as nervous bride on her wedding day. Yeah, and that's just not the energy that this scene needs.

If you're a director, this is what you need to do. Even with folks in the cast, you might be fucking like, you got to give them good concise direction. That kellist did a good job here. Have you seen the video of Michael Sarah, like doing a scene from Noctubbe? Like he's with the lady from Noctubbe and it's like behind the scenes of them getting directed by Judd Apetao and it is part of apparently like a very long con that Michael Sarah has been doing on Hollywood to create the reputation that he's super hard to work with.

And he basically has like a meltdown in front of the entire crew and Catherine Hyggele at Judd Apetao because he thinks Judd Apetail is directing his dog shit. And he's like, everybody here wants to know what you mean Judd because you tell me to do the thing, I give you five perfect takes of that. And then you're giving me notes. What the fuck are you doing, man? Sedan in Michael Sarah voice.

Right. Yeah. Do you need a break? Are you having a hard day? That's bullshit. What a prince. Yeah, so good. The rehearsal does not go well in her prize.

And pretty soon, Kellis is back on the Delta flyer where BLT is hard at work engineering. And he is talking about how he's having a hard time wrapping his mind around what motivates the turtles and why they act the way they act. And she's like, doing her best to kind of keep him at bay while she fixes her ship, but she gets power up and running and then tries to add this hunk of dilithium that he brought her into the dilithium lunch tray. And

looks like it's going really well until she orders the subspace transmitter to be brought online and we get a big star trick bang. Do you think someone from the bronze age is going to be really impressed by a shower of sparks here. Oh yeah, he's like you like you didn't even hit that with a blacksmith's hammer. Amazing. I was kind of expecting a bigger react from Kellis. I mean, at this point, he's seen a wound healed by an object that wasn't touching it. Yeah, a spark sucks shit compared to that, right? Yeah.

I would have pocketed that a medkit device if I was him. Oh, yeah. I wonder if they accounted for all their equipment before they left at the end of this episode. I mean, but it's so wide and short. Like, he just puts that in front of his robes. I don't think his girlfriend's gonna like that. You're saying that the medkit devices a chode. That is what I'm saying. Size 54, waist, ten inch legs, fucking junk. Okay.

BLT is super frustrated by this. She needs some metal. And specifically, she needs Kellis to go get that metal. But Kellis digs in his heels. He wants to know more about what Vulcans are like first. I love the question Do you people have alloys? Which ones can you make? It's a great question and it like he should be so excited He should be like yes, we just invented that it's called brawn

We named our entire age after this It's amazing We're super pumped And Jeff, for this. It's amazing. Where's Super Pumped? The exact opposite of Pumped is what Tuvac is in the mess hall. I think Tim Russ' performance of Tired Tuvac is incredible. Yeah.

As a Vulcan, I can function without sleep for more than two weeks. In an episode that brings some overt discussion to what a strange task it is to portray of Olken, I feel like Tim Russ really brought his A-game to this episode especially. And yeah, Neelix is trying to convince Tuvonk that after nine days of being up looking at scan data to try and find some indication of where the Delta flyer might be. Maybe eight hours of shed eye would do him some good. Do you think Neelix is pouring him trekkerti?

Oh, like a little crank dissolved in it or something? Oh, yeah. There's something in that tea. That's what I think. Two-fock takes a sip and he's like, I feel... It's nasty, isn't it? I drove eight hours in a single day last weekend, going to visit my parents.

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It is a character playing Tuvak. And this was, I thought, a little bit troublesome casting, at least for me, because this guy looks so much like Kellis that in a couple of scenes, I was like, wait, is that Kellis, or is that a different guy? Yeah. I really loved how Kellis articulates the idea of Tuvac, the character in this really insightful way. That idea that when Tuvac is doing something that would cause someone else to cry, you get the sense that he's feeling a deeper version of the feeling than you would feel, get the sense that he's feeling a deeper version of the feeling than you would feel

and suppressing it is really intense, it's really amazing. Kellus is like crying? There's no crying in two valk. Hahaha. And then he goes and takes an extremely long pee. Yeah. Hahaha. A Popeyes pee. Yeah. A Popeyes pee?

Yeah. I'm going to choose to believe that that was pee, that that guy was doing. Yeah, it was a real nasty one, a nasty pee, specifically. You want to let that air out? Yeah. Interrupting the scene is a messenger with a dire message. War! It's more!

Go to war! There has been some grave insult brought upon their patron by his rival to the North. Mm-hmm. I liked that the patron doesn't seem to get a name check or like even like a, he's not like a a Duke or a King like Who the fuck knows what this guy really is to these people? I like that the patron especially in comparison to the players in the play

Kind of seems like the unit of all of them like he is just kind of a fucking dude He's definitely not missing a meal, you know, right? Yeah, he's uh he's he's eaten of all of them, like he is just kind of a fucking dude. He's definitely not missing a meal, you know? Right. Yeah. He's, uh, he's, he's eaten. Yeah. And, um, the playwright, Kellis, sees a, an opportunity here because, while war is imminent, it has not popped off just yet. Back on the Delta flyer, BLT has continued her work when Kela springs her some of the metal that she requested, but this is real piece of shit metal. Like this is not going to do it.

It was so tragic because it was very clear that this was like money that he really couldn't afford to spend to get her this metal. She's like, yeah, it's too dirty and impure. There's like a parent whose kid draws them a picture and like the picture is just shitty. It's just the worst. The parents forced to be like, oh cool. Thanks for trying. Kellis gets really wistful here. He's like, you know, can the rat kind of play step a war? Am I the max fisher of this story? Perhaps. Beelty thinks this is pretty silly, but he prevails on her to help him out. And the next

scene is him introducing her to all of the actors in his theater company. That's like an out of town playwright who also knows a ton about the attorneys that live on Voyager. And she's going to be there kind of as a script consultant. Speaking of script consultants, if I were a script consultant on this script, if I were a script consultant on this script, I might have wanted, you know how often in a Star Trek story we get a Star Trek fish put into a Bronze Age water, and they stay long enough to get kind of used to it,

or they fall for someone, or there's some sort of tension that by the very end, they sort of don't wanna go home, like they do, and they're fine with that, but there's an attachment that's been made. That makes them feel a thing. I kind of wanted there to be more motivation for BLT to go like, fuck, I'm out of food.

And you know what, I cannot get this communication to Ray going, I might have to live here forever. Like, I wish there was some of that motivation also. Yeah, I also wished when she got introduced to the actors, one of them would be like, Oh, what's wrong with her forehead? Oh! Do all of your people look like that?

Who's going on across the eastern sea? Who's the rat? Who's the rat? I can't afford to be barfing right now, Vatan. So look. Ooh. Oh, that was all of my calories for today. Oh, I've got to get it back up off the ground.

I can just feel my stomach walls pressing against each other, but nothing's coming out. Blah! Guess who isn't excited to meet BLT? Kellis's theater wife. Yeah, she can read between the lines about what Kellis has in mind here. Yeah.

So we got a scene where Kellis and BLT are kind of like trying to break story. They have a little miniature of the stage and the set. And he's like moving little representations of the characters around. He's pushing a little like sweet and low packet up her leg. How can I do anything way to my leg, Michael?

To describe the conflict in the play. Yeah, I like the part where he like made the Janeway miniature kiss, another miniature, and then the Chico Tay miniature snapped a little itty bitty pencil. They really do have a lot of details here about the crew. One of the old guys that's in the chorus kind of criticizes Kellus' writing skills. He's like, more sex. And my Jay plays were much more horneer.

They weren't trying to be squeaky clean and broadly appealing so that they could make money in foreign markets. And I guess this is why Janeway and Chicoete have that super hot love scene with a mask touch in the next scene. Let me show you what I've done with Captain Janeway and Commander Chicoete have that super hot love scene where the masks touch in the next scene. Let me show you what I've done with Captain Janeway and Commander Chicoete. Sounds great. That's fun. Oh man. Just little bloop. Just touching masks. Yeah. And then they spoon masks like they flip one around and

and rest the other one in the cavity of it. Yeah, I bet you do do that. Sweet. Two Vox, not the only one up late at night. Janeway also doing that in her office. She co-te brings in some info from passing alien ships that picked up the distress call of the Delta Fire, but didn't get a fix on where the distress call was broadcasting from. So they get a little bit more information about them, maybe having crashed on an L class planet. There's coffee in that L class planet.

But also they learn that the escape pod was jettisoned with Harry Kim in it. And that probably means Harry Kim is dead. Janeways like, how long could someone survive on an escape pod? And Chicoate is like, you know 10 days is basically all All the food and water you've got and Janeways like how many days has it been Chicoate is like, I don't know like two weeks or something Janeway considers this for a moment. She's like

In the academy they teach you after the food runs out to consume the only protein you have on board. My money's on Harry Kim, consuming his ropes. And if there's one group person on board who could sustain his own life for two weeks? It's Harry Kim. I lasted 22 minutes. Do you think that would work? Could you jack it enough to sustain your own life?

I'm guessing you burn more calories jacking it than you get out of a rope. You never hear that in the stories of like people who have survived plane crashes or like, you know, alone in the woods without food or water. You never hear the jacking at stories. Yeah, we survive back everybody giving each other dumb. You gotta believe that that's a part of the story

that people are just too ashamed to tell, right? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I mean, what are we going to eat our own shit? No way. Ropes. I didn't like the end of this scene for the lack of urgency of it. Like, Janeway just seems content to stare out the staring window. She's taken the ship in a more dangerous places before. Does she make that way?

Yeah. They're pretty despondent. We kept back to like late night at the theater where BLT and Kellis are still kind of debating the idea of a play that could stop a war. He's really into this idea. He's gonna mount a production that is so persuasive to the patron of the patron will decide

not to fight a war with their northern neighbor and They're talking about it in the context of talking about the Borgs and He comes up with the idea of Janeway making peace with the Borgs and BLT is like yeah, that's kind of like a Disturbingly high number of Voyager episodes like in a, that's kind of like a disturbingly high number of Voyager episodes. Like, in a way that's kind of disappointing actually, like you kind of want them to stay really scary and like a force of nature that can't be reasoned with, you know, and then suddenly there's like one person

that has the ability to kind of call off the dogs or whatever. Don't you feel like when you're constructing a story that it feels a little desperate to make the borgs the enemy as if you can't come up with an original idea and you just gotta like lean on the crutch of the borgs. I don't know. And then in order to defeat them,

you have to like yank out another one of their teeth. Yeah. Yes, in fact, you know, you know, the U.S.S. God, boy, do it. God, it's the God. You ain't more the U.S. God, boy, do it.

Bilti goes back to the Delta Flyer for the evening and that jilted actress is there. She's found the ship and she threatens Bilti. She says, if you go back to that stage, if you show up on show night, I'm gonna put you on blast, and the patron's gonna know you're an eternal, and he's gonna use you in his war against the North.

Like, because you're an immortal God character, you will be like a great weapon for him to wield. And unclear like how he will hold something over BLT to force her to do anything when she's a god, but that's what this lady believes. I really, really wanted Harry Kim to seduce her here. That would have been so much fun. That would have been great.

Inspiration can't be forced. Get out, Harry. Who are you? I'm sorry to disappoint you. Like another bad idea girlfriend for Harry Kim. can't be forced. Get out, Harry. Who are you? I'm sorry to disappoint you. Like another bad idea girlfriend for Harry Kim. Right, like at the end, BLT takes the stage and she's like, I don't even care about that anymore

because I got a man now. Ha ha ha. Do whatever you want, Kellis. I'm with Harry now. Yeah. No, but when she leaves Harry reveals himself to BLT, he's been on the planet the whole time. He crashed about 200 kilometers from here. Did you do the math on this because I did?

Well, it's like a little over 100 miles. It's a 124 miles. Yeah. That's not too bad. He only walked eight miles a day if this took him two weeks to get there. He doesn't have any equipment. He made it there looking clean and well groomed. I'd say he's fucking impressive as shit walking eight miles a day. Based on his hair alone, which is still in full full quaff. He looks great. Yeah. He looks really to seduce an actress. I think so. I think something doesn't quite hang together about his story is my point. Well, what does hang together is all

of the gadgetry he brought. He brought a tricorder, a phaser, and a transmitter, which is just what BLT needed. And she gets to work immediately. The next day, Kaelis is working hard on figuring out how to end his play. All of the suspense about how this episode is going to end is about how this episode is going to end. Yeah It's really liked. I like the layered nesting dullness of this episode. KELESS is making SNL, but it's unable to recognize that you go on when it's time to go on, not when you think you're finished. Mm-hmm. He really wants the sketches in the one o'clock hour

to be working. Yeah. And so often they just aren't. Yeah. So often those are my favorites, just the weird ones. Yeah. He does not seem to be of that frame of mind. He is what happens when you put all your creative eggs

in one basket like the entire theater production is looking to him for a solution to this problem and he doesn't have it. Yeah, it'll come to me. Don't worry. But it does sort of seem like the Patron's just going to kill him if he doesn't put all his eggs in this basket, so. Does it ever really, really feel life-threatening though?

Just something felt off about that tone. Yeah. I don't know. Patron doesn't look like that angry of a dude. He does when he shows up to the play. Like, beilted and Harry sent their transmission and then it is performance night and like that angry of a dude. He does when he shows up to the play, like, Bilt didn't Harry send their transmission, and then it is performance night.

And, Kellis is like frantically writing scripts, and then he's got scribes that are frantically copying it onto pages for the actors. And like, he is writing the end of this play, like, well, act one goes up on stage. This is terrifying.

I actually did get a lot of sympathy stress from this moment. This is like millennium, the booth, reworking jokes for Stefan on the teleprompter right before they go up in front of Bill Haters eyes, you know. It doesn't make sense. It'll have to. Yeah, so you know, Kellis is gonna crush here

But he needs to be sure so he passes a note to a page and that page has to give that note to BLT Yeah, BLT has been warned about not attending the performance is being summoned and up on Voyager two Valkyzen command of the ship. He's in the captain's chair doing a shift on the bridge and Tom Paris turns around and finds a sleepy two-valk, a sleep-on watch. I like how Paris wakes him up with the whisper. That's nice. Yeah, well, it's like a dog, you know,

you gotta be careful about how you wake him up. Right, right. I mean, if Paris was like in a reach out and touch him, he might get neck pinched. Yeah. It wouldn't be two-vox fault. It's just a reaction. It's not his fault. Yeah, yeah. So while like two-vox is arranging to get relief from Chico Tay, they receive the distress call. And it's real, it's real beat up, it's real stannicky, but they've got a beat on where BLT and Harry are and they know that BLT and Harry are okay.

So they head off at top speed to go rescue them. The camera tilts down to the computer display and Tom Paris is like clicking on the dates he has scheduled that evening and just like deleting and canceling, just swiping them off of his entire week. His group text to the Delaney sisters is like, so good news, bad news. Would you like to delete across all devices? Sadly, Paris is like, yes. Sucks. That can a theater. You experience some dramatic license with seven in that she is the queen of the Borax

here. And Janeway knows it. This is sort of the idea that Kalesis was towing with like Janeway making peace with the Borgs and this being an idea that could inspire the patron not to go to war, to do something that rises to Federation values instead. The performer who plays Janeway, I thought was really good. I feel like we just noticed her too. Like she's been in the background of a lot of the shots but hasn't had much to do.

And yeah, she's doing, I feel like everybody's like doing a pretty good job of an impression of the character that's supposed to be playing. I think you need that here. Like you can't have the theater suck at doing theater. Like they are capable. They are. So the scribe with the note for BLT

makes it to the Delta flyer, summons her. Harry's like, who gives a shit about this stupid plan? She's like, I do. I've been here for weeks and I'm really invested now. I love the incredulity that Harry can treat this moment with. It's amazing. But we only have enough transport energy for whoo, and then she's gone.

God damn it. Yeah. She beams herself over to the play and walks out in front of the crowd. And Janeway is like about to kill 7 of 9 and then decides not to. And this isn't BLT, like reveals herself. And the like jilted lover lady comes out and starts yelling the shit that she promised to yell to the patron. And it really starts to feel like a happening, like some real avant-garde theater because the chorus is like trying to describe what's going on and they're improvising and like eventually the patron decides, like, oh, this must be part of the play.

Like, they tried to convince me that that's the real BLT. That's so clever and weird. I like that the patron for a moment feels like they're a part of the story too. Like, they're brought into it. And he can't help but be impressed by like how immersive this whole thing is. Yeah, it's great. Nicely done.

You know, he's like giving his review live during. And we get our kind of final scene between BLT and Kellis here when the patron sits back down. And it's no longer improv, it's just a sincere conversation that they're having, you know, Kellis is like, you can't go, like, I need you to keep writing these stories and she's like, it was inside you the entire time. And he's like, no, like, seriously, I would never have come up

with any of this shit without you and the, and the transporter logs, like, I am not that creative. Not everyone enjoyed the play and the camera, like, pans over to Lauren Bobert, giving an over-the-pants hand job. Hahaha. And then like the camera keeps panning up to a balcony where Statler and Waldorf are. And they're like, I've heard of members of Congress,

but this is ridiculous. What an unusual ending to this episode because we don't go back to Voyager or anything like the performance ends and so does the episode. Yeah. You just have to sort of imagine the court marshal for the egregious, prem-directive violations that have been committed in your mind, you know? I'm just glad you didn't have to eat a week of your own comb.

Harry. So you're like, maybe he did. Maybe that's why I took him so long to get there. Maybe that's why he looks so good when he arrives. Yeah, maybe that's why the front of his hair is sticking up so much. Is that a hair gel? Yeah. Ben, did you like this play and did you like the episode?

You know, I'm really used to get along with most of the time, but I don't like bullets, I don't like friends, and I don't like you. I'm used to. I really like this episode. I love a weirdo like this. And it's a kind of episode that would have hit really different in TNG. A TNG character I think would have gone about integrating into the society in a totally different way. Like I guess you could kind of compare this to the data lost his memory and has the radioactive material episode of TNG. And then he has a spear go through his chest.

Yeah. But, you know, in that episode, he doesn't know the prime directive when it's happening. And BLT does know the prime directive, but she's kind of not a signatory to it, you know? She is a make-quease. Make-quease? And so she is not eaten up by the same worries about that

as another Starfleet actor. And that was like an interesting subtle angle to why this unfolded the way it did and like the choices that she makes that I thought were. It's very much subtextual and like almost every scene in this in a way that I thought was really cool and interesting. Yeah. Yeah, it's fun to think about where it to be transposed onto TNG,

how this would play out, and who would have the most fun down there. Yeah. Yeah. I think probably Beverly. I mean, Beverly's like the playwright of the TNG cast, right? Picard's the orator, though. He would have fucking loved that shit. Yeah. But he would have been up as he was so uptight about like, you know, contaminating the timeline or whatever.

Inspiration's such an interesting aspect to this story. It's not just that Kellus is a creator. It's that he can only create because of BLT. That makes their relationships so interesting. I want to know more about this guy. What did he do before BLT? He was clearly talented. It's like superstition, right? Like he was probably great until he realized he he put on his socks in a certain way that one morning. And all of a sudden he's got to do it that way going forward. Like that's what BLT is. Yeah. She's a stanky pair of socks. Yeah. Yeah. I like the episode for how weird it is for sure. I mean, I would be surprised if it would be anyone's favorite episode of Star Trek Voyager

because it is so weird. Yeah. Yeah. But nice to get a BLT-centric episode again. And I like going to a weird place with weird people and experiencing their lives. And that's definitely what happens here in the Muse. The last few episodes have really been strong, in my opinion. You know what else is sometimes strong at them?

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And Pat Meo is like a sports media personality, like pro, oh, fantasy sports analyst. No way, yeah, tons of ratings on Apple podcasts, totally crap. We've talked a bunch over Twitter about sports and everything else. Oh, that's fun. He's really great.

I don't really follow sports, so I have not encountered him, but if I was going to ask a person who a real sports media personality would be, you are who I would ask. So the Pat Mayo experience has more reviews on Apple podcasts than us. Oh, yeah. No doubt. Yeah. Pat, I wish you would invite me to play your fantasy league. I play in a fantasy

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I am shocked. Yeah, there are dozens of them. Ben, our second priority when message is from Mock. Oh, hi, Mark. Oh, boy, it's been a while since we've heard from Mock. What's new with you? This message is for Ben Adam, Mike, and Chris Darshrimm Kogar. That message goes like this.

I'm looking forward to seeing all of you gentlemen once again on our annual pilgrimage to City Winery in Boston. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this message is going to drop 10 days after our show in Boston, that being October 6th. A show I can guarantee will be one of the greats. But it's still before our show in Austin.

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All right, we're putting you on the list. If you make it out to Austin, your tickets around us. Yeah, I'm adding it to our tour spreadsheet as we speak. It's the right thing to do because Boston sounds like Austin. You know, you could be forgiven for getting a little bit confused between the two of them. They're very, very similar cities in many other ways. I think a lot of times we're not enunciating our words on this show, we're saying words that mean one thing when we actually mean them to mean another. I hate it when that happens. Yeah. Adam, our final priority one message today

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shows on our share your embarrassment tour. Yeah. It's been such a fun tour so far. If you're hanging out with Sam and Brad, I'm sure we'll see you because we're hanging out with Sam and Brad too. Oh shit we'll see you because we're hanging out with Sam and Brad too. Oh shit, are we? Yeah, our buds from DC. What about Adam? He's not in this message. So does Jason not know Adam?

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Granada, drunk Shimoda! I'm gonna give it to John Schuck, the chorus member in the performance troupe, who also played the Klingon Ambassador in a couple of the Star Trek films. I love that Klingon Ambassador character and it was real fun to see Jon Shuck in a different kind of loaf and also to be reminded that his name is Jon Shuck.

You know, with a name like that, you'd expect his parents to have pushed him into Seafood restaurant as a career right no you think Quit trying to make me join the family business mom and dad It's the theater for me. Yeah, that's a good one John Shek had a specific goal in mind I don't know my my Shimoda might be basic, but I think it's BLT for going back to the theater once her rescue is assured. Tell the captain I'll be a little late. Polona.

Come on, come on BLT. Yeah. Couldn't she use a shower? It's been two weeks. Wouldn't she like some food that isn't Ambrosia salad? Ha ha ha. Wait, wait, why isn't Nohri? You can tell she isn't Nohri to see Tom Paris.

Like, that is not part of her energy at all. What do you think was going on there? Like the, I mean, that was, I don't know if we talked much about this, but like, when Kellis and BLT's improvised dialogue at the end is like perfectly hand in glove with like for both the play and real life. That's a beautiful moment. It's an amazing moment, so well written.

Yeah, yeah, that's why you do it. Theata. Ha ha ha. I don't know why I said it that way. I say it that way all the time. I don't know why either, but I have a theater, and when I walk through it, I go, the theater. Just to no one. To no one.

I do it to the theater. You know what? You, to have a theater is the way that you do, you must. You must do that. I have to. Adam, I'm at a Gachdok Bizslash game. Currently, in the game of Buttholes, the will of the caretaker, we are five squares away from a Mornhammered episode and could also

hit an nth degree. So, pretty exciting time. It's been a long, long time since we've been up here on this top row of the game. It feels momentous to me today. The next episode of the show is season six episode of 23 Fury. An old friend returns with a decidedly unfriendly plot to destroy Voyager. Oh, is this a sesca, Ep? A sesca? A saesca. A pejoran crewman with a card asking physiology. She wouldn't do something like this.

Maybe. You know, it's been a while since Chico Tase had a pregnancy scare. It's true, it's really true. One of our more interesting missions. So I gotta set us up here. Yeah, we're on the top row of the game of Buttholes, the wheel of the caretaker bin.

Yeah, and I'm gonna go ahead and roll this bone. You're required to learn as you play, roll. Your fingers crossed. Oh boy Adam, the tension just keeps ratcheting up. I've rolled a two. Two-law! Did I win? Hardly.

We are now on the doorstep of that space-butt hole that goes down to the nth degree square Mm-hmm and just a couple squares after that is that more in hammered so we are in some pretty dangerous territory right now Incredible that we remain on the top row the tippy tap Yeah on the edge or we got to be no more bugs our Yeah, on the edge, where we gotta be. No more bugs. Our pal's Philippe Sobriero, Craig Anderson and Andrew Wong Hoyer fixed up the game. They fixed us up the game.

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Ben, going on tour, expensive, making the show, expensive, paying our great producer, expensive but worth it? Yeah. We're doing it all thanks to the support we get at Maximumfund expensive but worth it. Yeah. We're doing it all thanks to the support we get at Maximumfund.org slash join. Thanks. That producer, Wendy, pretty, without whom we really could not be releasing all these

episodes the way we are. She does a great job every week. You see her online? Say thanks, Wendy. She also makes a great Ambrosia salad. Is that true? Oh, it's so good. How about new?

We also got to thank the great Bill Tilly who, I'm willing to guess Bill Tilly has talked into an Ambrosia salad or two this day. Bill Tilly knows of Ambrosia salad. Bill Tilly probably has Ambrosia salad references that would, you know, blow your hair back. Gonna see him at a upcoming show. Don't be exciting, ask him all about it.

Follow us on all the social medias at Graze Trek, Blue Sky, Mastadon, Dredds, Insta, we're on all of that shit. Pop eyes, the social media site. Uh huh. Gotta thank the great Adam Raguseia for making our theme music. Follow his YouTube series. I'll search Adam Ragusia over there.

And thank the dark material for the original Picard song. With that, we will be back at you next week with another great episode of Star Trek Voyager. An episode of the greatest generation Voyager where we have to lean on a friend. Oh. I like it. I think I get it. I can close him back, I'm a kid. Wordplay. I can show. Make it sound. Catch it, you'll know it gotta be you. Catch it, you'll know it gotta be you. Catch it, you'll know it gotta be you.

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