The Greatest Generation - The Supersoldiers Have Come Home to Roost (S3E11)

Episode Date: August 15, 2016

When Rambo Jason Bourne in Space breaks out of a penal colony with a boring name, the Enterprise crew become U.S. Marshals. It’s a hard target search of the star system and the ship that turns up more than the locals had bargained for. When did Farmer Hoggitt grow that molestache? Is Roga Danar the frontman of a rock band called Breadcrumbs of Destruction? Its an episode we recorded in the afterglow of a truly awesome karaoke performance.

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Hey Ben. What's that Adam? We got kind of a crazy, uh, crazy tweet last night. You know what you tweet I'm talking about? Uh, I think I do. I, uh, so for me it was this morning. Right. Well, I was just getting off of a 16 hour shoot and, uh, and was in bed at like one in the morning

when I read this thing and, uh, it kind of kept me up. It was so great. So you lost sleep over this. In a good way. So one of our Twitter followers teased this earlier. Yeah. She's like, look, I'm going to the Star Trek convention. And there's an opportunity to sing karaoke

with Conor Ternier and Dominic Keating, like on stage. And I get this tweet, and I get to tell you, like at the time we got it, where it was like, oh, well, great, good for you. Like, nothing's gonna come of this. This is just like an exciting development for one of our beloved viewers. Like, cool, but then she goes on to say,

I want to sing the drunk Shimoda song, and then I became very interested. That's a major ripple in the story. But still, like, here about a random person willing to sing the Drunk Shimoda song in public with two stars of the Star Trek canon. Yeah, they're from Enterprise, right? They're like the, who's it?

The engineer and like the, maybe they're both engineers. I can't remember how that show goes Does one of them get naked in the first episode? Hope so We'll get from there to here eventually So last night she sends the video and it is awesome It's fucking the greatest because like she like filled the dance floor up with this. Yeah, there's there's people in Starfleet uniforms dancing to the Drunk Shemota song, and she's up there singing Drunk Shemota to the song,

My Shirona, and it sounds perfect. Like, she nails all the lyrics. She hits those notes. It's hilarious. It's great. And like, the guys on stage are into it, too. Like, they're fully rocking out yeah yeah pretty cool I sort of got the idea that a few of the

the people on the dance floor got the reference to maybe we had some some greatest gen viewers I think we have we may have had a the first unofficial greatest GenCon type place in our absence. It's only right that the first greatest GenCon happens and we're not around. Whenever you make something that goes on the internet, inevitably there are going to be some people that say mean things about it and we've definitely had a troll or two and they suck and they make me feel really bad and this type of thing just turns it all around. I've been beaming all day. I only wish that my wife understood anything about this so that I could show it to her

and she could enjoy it with me. Yeah, it's weird. You tell your wife that that a stranger on the internet, some song to you and the wife like isn't into that. No, yeah. I don't know why. She'll never understand how much we enjoy this stuff. No. Anyway, I believe this is in the process. If it hasn't been already, it's gonna be posted to the greatest Jen Facebook page.

It's out there on Twitter right now. You can search for it under the hashtag greatest Jen, but wow. I posted her tweet to the Reddit already, so. Awesome. I think the title is like, this is the greatest thing that ever happened or during Shurimoto karaoke or something like that.

I think it's awesome that something that another fan made gets remixed into something else by a different fan. Yeah, so Carl Phillips heard our riffing up the idea of the song, made the song a reality. And then this viewer goes, and does it live on stage, amazing. It just feels so cool to be making something that other people are helping to create ancillary culture around. You know? Thank you, everybody. Thank you, everybody, that's listening, because I feel like all of you have contributed to the awesomeness of today. Well, putt.

of today. Well put. Maybe we should turn our attention to season 3 episode 11, the hunted. Then this is one of several episodes this season that feels very Rambo inspired. It was the kind of Rambo meets Jason Bourne meets the fugitive. Yeah. In space. Meet universal soldier? Yeah, so the enterprise is taking a look around a planet that wants in. When they heard about what they got going on in the federation, they were like, we got to get us some of that. This planet is called Angosia III,

and the prime minister of the world government, farmer hoggit with a molestash, is given Riker and Picard a little tour of the planet. And it's definitely like not Riker's type of place, he's definitely like not gotten's type of place. He's definitely not gotten his dick wet yet. And so. He doesn't like his chances either. Yeah, he takes one look at that mustache

and he's like, this isn't the kind of sex I'm into. Let a knuck on this planet too. Yeah, it's kind of like a Kyle Raker-type costumes on everybody. Yeah. If the Edo decided to go to church on Sunday, they would still want to maintain the knuck framing that they're known for, but they'd also want to cover up into something more formal. Be a little bit more respectful. Yeah.

Picard and Reichard, down on the planet, leaving data in command of the Enterprise, and some shit pops off, where a convict escapes the penal colony on Lunar 5, which is the super uncreative name of one of their moons. The colony is called Temp Name. Yeah, exactly. TKTKTK. The enterprise is tracking the ship because the Angosians don't have good enough ships to track one of their own ships for whatever reason. And this guy keeps using kind of slight of hand and misdirection to make them think that he is in one place

when he is in another. He goes around asteroid and shoots the drive section of the ship out and they're like, oh, we're not getting any life signs on this. So he must be somewhere else. And it's very confusing, but eventually data sort of picks up the pattern and like figures out how to capture this escaped prisoner. He's like the David Blaine of Shuttlecraft pilots.

Your card just left the deck. Look through the deck. Your card isn't there. Go ahead. He is shocking the hell out of everyone who's seeing what he's doing. Get the fuck out of everyone who's seeing what he's doing. Yeah. Get the fuck out of my house. And there's this weird tone on the bridge where like they're on a mission to get this guy who escaped from prison so they know he's bad. But there's sort of an air of like respect for the guys moves like sort of a game respect

game going on here like, this guy's good. It's cool to see like data kind of working out in real time. Yeah. You know, it's like full me once, shame on you, full me twice, shame on me kind of data moment. And he deduces that this guy is undetectable by sensors, and that's what's causing them to be so perpetually confused. Which would have been, I mean, a farmer hoggit would have like mentioned that,

like by the way. Yeah, that would have been good information to have. Yeah, but farmer hoggit kind of has a skeleton in the closet here and we'll come to learn more about that in a bit. Our podcast is all about under-thing character skeletons dragging them into the light. Yeah. The pursuit ends with, or we think it ends with them beaming the humanoid shaped but not detectable by sensors. Otherwise object inside one of these pieces of this ship aboard the enterprise.

And they like hold hold them in stasis for a bit and get. Is that right? Yeah, oh Brian's like a week ago. I was just like a week ago. I know. Yeah, this is one of the rare times that we've recorded an episode of our show. Many days after we saw the episode of the next generation.

I guess we, I don't even remember what it was, but I think we both thought we were about to record and then something came up where we couldn't. So this one's deep in our foggy memories. And this will be a real loose episode. Yeah, it's going to be fast and loose with the facts. But anyways, he gets on the transporter pad and starts molly-wapping the deskbuster club that shows up to get him and like like, Riker and Warfare on their way down, but meantime, he's like putting the butt of his hand

up, chief O'Brien's nose, you know. This is, basically kicks everybody's ass. This is an awesome scene. Like, he takes apart this room and this group of security people in like a real Steven Segal kind of way. It's sort of like Jason Bourne in the embassy in that first movie. He gives everyone a little bit of attention.

Every single person who tries to apprehend him gets two bone breaking moves. Heal of the hand to the nose and then a broken arm. Everyone gets one of those. I wish he had done like couple of take a dustbuster apart into three pieces in a smooth hand movement. Disarmed somebody, disassembled their weapon, and then keep kicking their ass before they have time to react. And O'Brien has just got to be excited to be a part of something.

Even though he is getting his ass kicked and he gets shot, he's got to be thrilled. Yeah. So basically, Warfin' Riker are showing up at the transporter room as the brawl spills out into the hallway. And like, they have to like run and tackle this guy. And they finally, they finally sort of get him under control.

They do that sit on him. They sit on his chest. I was kind of surprised, like they throw six guys at this one person, none of the six can take him down, but Warfen Riker can. Like I think that says a lot about their melee combat skills. Well also Warfen Riker are used to like turning

the holiday up to 11 and going at it with with a skull-faced guys, you know. And they're both used to sitting on chess. Yeah, totally. I mean, Raker was tempted to move up to sitting on face, but... Right. Not it. He managed to resist, because Roga is, Raker, Raker is very, I just feel like Raker is like really into consent, you know?

Like consent is like almost Raker's fetish. You know, like, like Raker fucks a lot, but like, the game for him is how much consent he's able to obtain, you know? Yeah, like enthusiastic, unqualified consent that just like floods in from all directions. Like, don't consent too much. Like pull back that consent just a little bit. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And that's why I want to keep his edge. And that's why Riker doesn't fuck with Angosia, you know?

Like these people all look a little unwilling. Yeah. This prisoner gets tossed in the space Poke. The space Poke playset. So this is Rogadaynar and he is a former soldier and he's in like dirty, dirty clothes and... He's kind of a strapping good looking dude. I thought they should have given him some,

some like either some prison clothes or just a clean, a clean set of clothes cause they let him just kind of rot in the prison without... Like he's dirtiest fuck, you know? Like he's... The Starfleet contractor uniform looks more prison-like than what this guy's wearing. Yeah, he's got...

Like this guy actually looks pretty cool. Yeah, he's got a little bit of a beyond Thunderdome thing going on. That quite is... Quite as rubbery, but... Especially with his eye makeup, right? Yeah. And um... He's had a highlighter drawn across his face, sort of like a guy who passed out drunk at a party.

So that tells you what the Angosians cocks look like. Another reason, Riker, it's just completely disinterested. Yeah, he's disgusted by that childish behavior. Seriously. He's becoming a speech. You're the cat monster. You're in type. I'm tired of ramble on about something everyone knows.

Troy is like walking down the hall and gets kind of, she gets a special tingle. Yeah, there's like the wafting smell of stinky cheese and she, she like floats off the ground until she finds herself in front of the cell. And she starts to have what becomes kind of a protracted conversation between herself and Dana. Are you the keeper of this jail?

I'm Deanna Troy, Shib's counselor. She sort of stands there to allow him to provide some exposition about who he is, why he's there, why he was imprisoned. And his deal is he's genetically enhanced to be like a super soldier and to be cunning and ruthless. And the soldiers that came from his unit

have all been sort of relegated to living on this penal colony on lunar 5 because they're too violent and children to integrate into the super button down society that Angosha 3 has become in the post-war period. This is basically a rewrite of the last scene in first blood where still owns Rambo characters like look I was built to be the super soldier and then by the time when it was time for me to come home I couldn't turn it off. This way that I was taught this life that I was given the the war that I was told to go fight. All these flowers put in my gun barrel. Yeah yeah And the prime minister on the planet is like the will-teasel character

who's like, he wants Danar to get the fuck out of his town. Yeah. So they're like, damn, this is like pretty whack that they're just imprisoning this guy because he doesn't fit in that good. So they... Yeah, and it's an interesting time to find this guy because as we stated at the top of the episode,

like, this is a planet that wants to be in the federation. And so they're like trying to put on airs and be on their best behavior. This is sort of a black eye on the whole thing. So they face time up, Neyrock. And they're like, is this true? Like is this guy who he says he is? And he's like, yeah, frankly, this is the best thing for them.

We can't have a stable society when there's a bunch of guys that are wired to be at war all the time walking around in it. And this is like the most humane thing we could come up with. Like they're treated well. It's not like a prison. It's just a different place that they have to live and can't leave. Which is, you know, as dubious as distinction, is that makes it sound? They sure make it sound like a bunch of FEMA trailers on a asteroid, you know?

Like, look, they've got food and they've got water. Right. That's good, right? It's like Bill O'Reilly's description of how it was nice for the slaves that built the White House. It's like, eh, Sounds like there were still slaves. Yeah, exactly. If you're in a place you don't want to be, it doesn't matter what grade it is.

Yeah. So Troy's having this ongoing conversation with him. And part of his deal is that he's been modified on a chemical and genetic level. And part of it is that he's been kind of conditioned. And she really believes that any psychological changes that were made to him could be kind of backed out and reversed of ultimately. She's a very optimistic mental health practitioner and she's like, have they even tried that? And he's like, no, they're not.

That'll never work. Yeah. And the other. It's sort of like your friends have in relationship problems and he's like, oh my god, this is terrible we fight all the time I think I think we might have to break up and and you're and you ask him like well have you have you told her that you're that you're feeling this way and he's like no no that would never work yeah yeah it's like like bro, it's like, bro, like communication is key.

Yeah. And I think that the government just didn't want to take a risk on, like, trying to work this out and then have one of them, you know, tear shopkeepers head off over, like, a return policy that he didn't like and have that kind of fall on the politician's hands. You don't want a day-n-hour type blowing up a town because of some fireworks going off down the street, you know? Right, yeah. So the Angosians are sending like a prison transport to come pick day-n-hour up and they're

like, everything is like pretty tense because they're getting ready to beam them off. Mr. Wolf, I've all secured a precautions, but it's taken. Release of the force field and activation of the transporter will be virtually simultaneous. There will only be a point one second difference between them. Even Dana can't move that fast. Sure enough, like they go down there with a bunch of dustbusters and watch as he is supposedly getting get transported over the prison transport and he like breaks out of the

confinement beam in the in the transporter and he manages to like get a weapon and get on the hoof and he's like loose in the enterprise. This is a great scene. Yeah, this is this is when you need the US marshals to come in, right? When I want to be teaching every one of you is a hard target search of every gas station, residents warehouse, farmhouse, handhouse, outhouse, and doghouse. In that area, checkpoints go up at 15 miles.

Your fugitive's name is Dr. Rosardino. You need a Richard Krenna figure. Yeah, and it's like a real conundrum because they're so used to everybody being detectable that they can only kind of figure out where he's going by getting everybody to like, you know, they sound general quarters and everybody has to like go to their, go to where they're supposed to be and

then every time a door opens or a turbo lift gets activated, they're like, oh, he's on deck six. Oh, he's on deck four. Oh, he's in the Jeffries tube. Yeah, he's dropping like bread crumbs of destruction around the ship, which is both a good for them in terms of trying to figure out where he's going, but also sort of a strategy by Danar because he can direct their attention to wherever he wants it based on what he's doing. Yeah, there's a pretty badass scene where he like overloads a phaser

and leaves it in a turbo lift that, you know, the door's open and warf realises that it's going to blow a chunk of the ship to hell and tells everybody to run away. And he charges in there and deactivates the phaser, which was pretty fucking badass. Yeah. Major props for the bravery on display when Warf did that. Yeah, he was ready to jump on the dust buster.

Totally. And he's leaving overloaded overloaded faces all over the place and just causing all kinds of mayhem. And finally, we figured out he's in a cargo bay. And so they decided to flood the cargo bay with gas to knock him out. And... The car deploy is a gas called a nastazine.

Mm-hmm. I want you to flood them with a nastazine. And I truly believe he's the only one that has a working knowledge of this. But only because it comes in a powder form, typically, and is tasteless. And odorless. He usually puts it in drinks. Sure. We could use some a nastazine, Rodi.

I'm like, what's that? Why aren't you drinking your beverage, you? They didn't count on though, is there is a space suit in a storage crate in this cargo bay. And they are like really quickly knows exactly where to look for this, pulls it out and so they come down there like thinking they're gonna find Dan are passed out and instead what they find is an empty cargo bay and a used pressure suit and so orph radio is up and he's like, he got away from us again.

We got to search through his ship, like he must be somewhere else. And we hear Worph leave and Dana comes out from behind some barrels. And then, orph is like, Dana! You are cunning. And we get our second complex fight scene in one episode, which is great.

Like 50 gallon drums are flying around, little hexagonal storage units flying all over the place. It's great. It's like a warehouse fight. And where does he beam when he beams out of here, but the ship that he was supposed to beam over to before. No one will ever find him there. Yeah. It's like pulling some perloind leadership.

It's like, why did you go through all the trouble of not beaming to the ship, only to beam to the ship? I think at that point, he's gotta know that he's not gonna take over the enterprise. Yeah. What's the one ship that can actually offer an escape for him? That's the only one. Unless he wants to steal a bunk bed. Right.

I mean, which would have been fun, but I feel like the enterprise can probably shut those down remotely. Yeah. Ever since the Jake episode, there's a written, to shut that shit down. Yeah, there's just a Jake Stingray. Yeah. They won't get Jake again. Yeah. He beams over and they're like, oh, fuck,, get him. And they realize they can't because one of the steps that Dainar made on his little ramble through the ship was a Jim Schumotor Memorial Corner. And he pulled a bunch of isle and ear chips and fucked some shit up in the system.

So the enterprise is essentially defanged for the time being. And they can't do anything to get Dainar. So the man who is brilliant at escaping has escaped a new. Who could have guessed this? Yeah, I mean, this was like, this was a real exciting series of beats, I feel like. The guy is like the, again, like this, the trade craft in season three is so fun and inventive, you know?

It kind of takes the premises of all the objects and established technologies of the show and really like imagines cool and devious ways to use them. It's real refreshing to see fight scenes shot wide again. Like you sort of forget that you used to be able to see fights on TV and in movies. Yeah. Instead of just like cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. Yeah. This is one one thing that it does not borrow from Jason Bourne. Right. So he uses the ship to launch an attack on the old penal colony, right?

Right. He goes in, he goes and he basically, he basically like takes out all the guard towers and lands and, and I mean we're just told this but it would have been cool if they showed it but. I know, I understand why we didn't see it because the show would be so expensive but man, that must have been great. And so the farmer, farmer hoggit is freaking out because they don't really have any way to stop Danar and all of these super soldiers from coming back to Angosha 3 now and so they're like they're shitting themselves

and they are probably right to be shitting themselves, right? These guys are real pissed off and they have good reason to be. Yeah, the super soldiers have come home to roost. Hahaha. That's how the saying goes, right? So they put down in the city and they're like, they're like converging on the capital

and Picard is like, okay, enough, enough, enough. And he beams down directly to the capital right as Farmer Haggit and all of his government stuages are getting armed to the teeth to prepare to try and repel this super soldier attack. And Farmer Haggit is like, listen, there's just nothing we can do. We really wish we could, but we're desperate here. We can't incorporate them into our society. We're not going to kill them. This is the best solution we have.

And they're so pissed off at us. Please help us. Please get rid of them so that we can become part of your federation and be, you know, rich and happy for the rest of our lives. And that's just like right when, when Dana and all of the like, like, what guy we're looking guys, all the Michael Beans. Yeah, they just, they storm the palace with their armaments.

And one thing we have learned is that they're training. They have pretty strict rules of engagement, which is a surprising choice for super killers, but they won't attack if they are not under threat. So Picard convinces everybody to drop their laser beam weapons and that sort of like Dana'sys like come on shoot at me Come on Do it do it shoot me with the laser beam

Kill me yeah, yeah, that's it's it's five minutes of short to make your impressions Yeah, yeah, it's it's five minutes of short to make your impressions. Yeah before before the cards like all right See ya fix it fix it yourself fix it damn self. Yeah, and he basically is like hey like good luck with your little government Therefore on my hog it were were Very interested in the things that we learned here on this inspection trip and we will advise the Federation Council of what we've seen. And if your government has survived after this little standoff, we are happy to help you try and reverse the conditioning of these guys that fought and died for your country. Right. Yeah. And then they beam off. Yeah, they're like peace. Kind of great, kind of a limbo ending. Yeah, good times.

Game fake, are you not lovely with my eyes, baby? A polar bearer she is my heart. Did you like this episode, Ben? It's very important that we go over whether or not we like these episodes. Yeah, I really liked it. I thought it was a tight script. I mean, there was a couple little misses in there, but more or less, like a fun one-to-watch that had a lot of interesting ideas. And, you know, I think sci-fi at its best sort of imagines a society

that allows you to compare and contrast your own societies, behaviors with it. And this really does that. And it was also really fun to see a total a-lister, like James Cromwell, before he became famous. Yeah, that was cool. I liked it too. I liked genre blending a little bit and I like how on the nose the the Rambo comparisons are. Like I'm a big fan of that Rambo trilogy and so I thought it was

really cool to see a storyline just sort of picked up and dropped off. Trilogy, it's a quadrilogy bro. Oh yeah, there is that fourth movie which was just a blood and guts fest. Yeah, I like this episode too. It's fun to see a lot of fight scenes every once in a while. Yeah, I wasn't quite as hot on the initial transporter pad fight scene as you were, but I totally appreciate what you're saying about it being nice to see just a wide shot of some stage combat. Yeah, the shot composition didn't do it any favors. And my Steven Segal comparison was meant

to be disparaging. Like, it didn't look great, but it was fun to see a bunch of wrestling and stuff. It was cool. And also, it was interesting to me that the solution to a problem was just to throw more bodies at it. This seems like a very original series solution to a next generation problem. Like, let's just put as many people in danger as we can. I thought that was kind of funny.

Yeah, fair enough. I wish we got a little follow-up scene in Sick Bay with O'Brien, who's like, who's been like phaser blasted all the hell, and he's talking to Beverly. Yeah, like, oh, my celloing hand! Beverly doesn't even... That's kind of stoddish accent, I don't know what I'm doing. Dr. Crusher doesn't even know who he is.

Like, no, I'm, I'm Chief O'Brien. I'm the guy who beams you places, and she's like, who? Heh heh heh heh heh. I got into an adventure today. He's just beaming. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh. Yeah. Good times.

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Hey Ben, what's that Adam? Did you find yourself a drunk Shimoda. In an episode that featured Shimoda corner and someone actually doing some Shimoda-ing. Yeah, actually, like he didn't quite get to Django level Shimoda-ing, but yeah. My Shimoda in this episode is Farmer Hogget. I think he really, like he's supposed to be the prime minister of Angosha 3. And Picard and Riker leave and like he knows what this guy is that is escaping. Like I don't think he knows specifically who it is, but he knows what he is.

And he is just like, hey can you solve this problem for me? Thanks, bye. And he doesn't, like, he doesn't go with them or send somebody there. Like, all they needed to do was send a spin doctor to the enterprise to kind of manage the narrative of what Rogadaynars deal is. And it totally would have,

it totally would have like affected the way the whole thing worked out. And they never gave the enterprise enough information to know what Rogadaynars' capabilities were. And that was why he was constantly slipping through the cracks of their security. And if he had just sent sent somebody that could like transmit that information to them in a way that like affected the way they're thinking about the scenario, they probably would have not punched the, punched the snooze button on their admittance to the federation. Right. He was in full cover-up mode. What a terrible representation of his people.

Like, I mean, he was like in the opposite of cover-up mode. He like completely neglected to cover anything up, what he should have. Yeah, I guess. Yeah, what a terribly run planet, by the way. Yeah. I don't think we want these people in the Federation at all. Yeah.

I think I would rather have the prisoners in the Federation. Yeah, they seem cool. They can get shit done. Yeah, they probably can rock out, too. Yeah. How about yourself? Did you have a drunk Shermota? Yeah, so we get a couple of scenes in this episode where we're told things happen and

then we see the aftermath or we don't see it at all. One of those was at the end when Danar takes a shuttle and destroys the penal colony and breaks out a bunch of prisoners. The other time is when we go to engineering after Danar has been there and shit is fucked. Like tables have been flipped over. Jordy's visors on the ground. Jordy's visor being on the ground is like, a, is the briefest possible amount of time that you could show that fucked up should just happening. Yeah. But one of the things in this scene

that is maybe my favorite part of the whole episode is, so there's bodies strewn everywhere. Danar has taken apart the entire engineering team. One on 20. One of the random lieutenants has been placed on the engineering table. Like his legs are draped off the side and his torso is up top. Like he's sort of lieutenant Dirtnapping up there. And I wish so bad that I had seen the fight

seen that somehow made that guy end up in that position. I just thought that was great. Like, why see up there? Why isn't he on the ground? So Lieutenant Dirtnapp is my drunk Shimoda. Oh man, he's never gonna live that name down. I know. Yeah, terrible.

I'm just trying to put my mind in the place of the person who blocked that scene. Okay, we'll have you over here with the prosthetic broken arm. We'll have Jordy to sort of hunched over his station. And you, what are we gonna do with you? Well, I don't really want to be on the floor Yeah

Yeah, it's a little sticky from all the marks that they've put down with gaff tape How about I get up on this table You know, I don't think we're gonna use it, but why don't we shoot it? Yeah? It's definitely the case there. Fun. What do we have coming up on the next episode, Ben? The next episode is season 3, episode 12, the high ground. Dr. Crusher's abduction by a radical terrorist group

thrust the crew into an explosive civil war on Rutia 4. Do you remember this episode, Adam? Who would abduct Dr. Crusher? Guy with some, some big old 90s hair? Guy was really into some wigs. He's like, yeah. They go to a doctor and then they're like, now you got to go back home and get your wigs. No, I'll abduct you again. If she dies on this mission, do they just fill an empty torpedo tube casing with her wigs and then shoot it out of

the space? Then they ring up, Polaski and like, hey, you know how you retired? Yeah. Any chance at all that you'd consider coming back at a retirement for a few more seasons? She is so loud on the phone. Like she just cannot, she has no sense of the volume of her own voice. She calls back at like six in the morning. What are you doing up this early? Yeah, bring back Pulaski. At this point, I'd be into it.

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