The Greatest Generation - Wet Jerky 🍆🍆 (S3E12)

Episode Date: August 17, 2016

When Dr. Crusher is kidnapped while having lunch on a hostile planet, the Enterprise crew finds themselves in the middle of a dispute between outdoor mall architects and cave aficionados. It isn't long before Beverly diagnoses the terrorists with a transporter-related illness, which is unfortunate given how enjoyable transporting sounds to them. Why is everyone afraid of Dr. Crusher? Did Kevin Uxbridge leave a special gift for Geordi? Do quilted breadbox covers come in a child's size small? It's the episode where we receive a very threatening package!

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,

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I'm Adam Pranica. Welcome to the show Adam. Thanks for having me, Ben. You have me on the show a lot. You're one of my favorite guests. Yeah. You're like the Steve Martin of being a guest on the greatest generation. Thanks.

Well, I was going to suggest we open some cards, and I think we should do that. But before we do that, yeah. That old bit that everyone loves, our beloved card opening bit. But before we do that, I just wanted to talk to you about a thing that showed up on my doorstep a couple days ago. It was from Jesse Thorn at MaximumFunHQ and it just had the greatest generation care of Ben Harrison on the address. And I was like, this is gonna be like a turd or like Jesse is gonna is. Why would he do that?

No, I don't know. Here's the thing. I pinch myself constantly that people like this show and that we are on an important podcast network and a lot of things. And like in the absence of somebody physically in my presence affirming that it deserves the success that has had. You do need constant affirmation. I have noticed that. I do.

I really do. And you're doing a great job, Ben. Like I expect every meeting to start with, so we're cutting your show, you know. So, so I was like, what nightmare is this gonna be? And I open it up, and inside is a smaller box that is addressed to the greatest generation care of maximum fun and was sent to their Los Angeles office. Oh, no. Inside this box is I

this I think this person's name is Nicholas I'll withhold the last name to protect the innocent Nicholas I believe sent his childhood collection of Star Trek cards to us. Why would he do that? I don't know. There are so many cards here. There are probably more than 500 cards. Is there a note or a card or anything? There's no note. I've only pulled a few cards out, but my favorite one so far is from original series Star Trek, and it's literally a photograph of the corridor on the ship, and it just says corridor.

Oh my god. Boy, why would anyone want to get rid of these cards? They sound fantastic. Yeah, like the first handful, there's one that's like the taxonomy of next generation shuttlecraft From all the way all the way from flat pack bunk bed to Toyota Previa There's one of a hyposprae. There's one of K-lar worst girlfriend So you get cards of characters, but you also get cards of objects?

So you get cards of characters, but you also get cards of objects? Yeah, there's one of the ship's computer core, which is like a really low rent 3D rendering of some like cylindrical objects. Is there a dustbuster card? I don't know, I haven't found one yet. I've kind of just randomly pulled these out. Ben, without a note, I find that box and the idea that someone would send it vaguely threatening. Yeah. I'm not alone in that. No, there's definitely an implied threat. Yeah. What does it mean? Like, I don't know. I don't know. Would this person prefer that we opened those cards instead of the cards

we're opening? I don't know. I mean, here's the thing Adam, I totally get what you're saying about it being an implied threat, I kind of agree, but at the same time. Especially when they send it to Max Fun. Like, but at the same time Adam, you are the only other person that has ever done this to me.

It's send me a box of starter cards. So. Oh yeah, and when I did I did it was most definitely a threat Oh should we open some I Guess the game is five cards stuff game is exceeding All right, I have a pack ready to go here That one came open really easy. Once again, these are Portfolio Prince trading cards.

Totally different from the garbage cards that were said to you. That were so bad that its owner did not want them anymore. I don't think that the Portfolio Prince were available at that time. Alright, I've got one for an episode called The Devils Do. Do you remember that one? Do you eat or do you? Yeah. Oh, oh.

I don't, I don't remember that one. There's like a, like kind of a hot lady that's convinced this planet that she is their Satan and that like they over the planet. Oh, I like that one Yeah, she was sort of a foxy devil. Yeah, which you woman if you will sure. Yeah, I've got times arrow part two Which is a pretty nice looking rendering of Gainon Always fun to see Gainon Got the last outpost we saw saw that one, right? That's

though and with like, they call me Tim and the Frenki. Yeah. There's one of Wesley Kresher looking like he's got some real heavy-duty eyeliner called Wind the Bow Bricks. Oh yeah, this is the Aldeans episode where they like steal all the children. Oh yeah this is the Aldean's episode where they like steal all the children. Oh yeah. And the boy or the boy polishes his dolphin. Yeah. And finally yesterday's enterprise with a picture of Tasha Yarr on an easel underneath a kind of old school looking NCC 1701C. That episode's coming up. People are emailing us to tell us how excited they are about that.

I'm AmptusFuck for that episode. Yeah, I think we're really gonna do great things with it. That episode's gonna be super fun. A little unlike the episode we're doing today, which is a real, let's make fun of terrorism episode, isn't it, Finn? This is becoming a speech. So the captains are. They're entitled.

Hmm. I'm entitled to ramble on about something everyone knows. This is episode 12 of season three, the high ground. And it starts with the enterprise in orbit of Rudy F4, a planet that we have never been to before, but for some reason. This is our most canonical Cosby-named planet yet until we talk to the Theosians. Yeah, well the Rudeians and the Theosians are neighboring star systems, right? They are.

Right down the hall from each other. Yeah. And, you know, it is Rudia for, but it is also planet shopping mall, because every time we see like what, the surface of this planet looks like, it's just the... It's San Diego outdoor shopping mall. Total. For sure.

And I think it's worth data and the doctor are They're enjoying a beverage in an outdoor patio. They're like They found a cheesecake factory And they're and they're enjoying a little dining alfresco. Yeah, it's nice until a storefront gets storefront gets explodeified. And they're pretty sure that it is terrorists from jump. They know that the planet has a bit of a terrorism problem. And everybody's strapped.

It's not like, it's not like, surely, city here where everybody gets to go down and have a fun hang. And so being good star fleet officers, they rush into the fray and the doctor is treating injured civilians right off the bat and Wurf is trying to convince her to hit the bricks and being back up to the ship and data sort of gets in on the trying to persuade her but she won't be persuaded. She like really insists that until the medics arrive like she needs to focus on helping these people not die. It's an interesting role reversal between Beverly and data because usually it's data with the death wish.

Yeah, and and and data is like standing there trying to trying to keep an eye on things. He's not he's not going over and laying his hand down on some still burning rubble or or trying to see if there's any unexploded parts of the bomb that he could take away. Did he get played with? Yeah. Yeah. Uh, they radio up to the bridge and help Picard what's going on. And Picard is now trying to convince Crusher. And it's like one of those things where data is not even done explaining that there's been

a terrorist attack, then Picard is like, Transporter room free. Log on to the away team, prepare to beam them back. Yes, Captain. Picard's like, Beverly, we gotta get you out of there. Things are smoking, we're hearing. So time to go, and Bev is like, no, actually,

I'm gonna stay down here and fix some people. And basically, Disso-Based Direct Order. Picard is like, I'm beaming you up, Beverly is like, no, Picard looks at Riker like, oh no, she didn't. And Riker is basically like, I don't wanna be in the transport room to Greeter. They both agree that they don't wanna piss her off

by beaming her up against her will, so they leave her there. And that was ridiculous to me. Yeah, if there's a chain of command, like you gotta follow it. Evidently not in this case, because everyone's afraid of Beverly for some reason. Hot headed Beverly.

Hot head Bev. Don't wanna meet Beverly in the transport room, that's for sure. She might use the thicker gauge hypodermic needle. Or the thicker gauge wig, who knows? Yeah. Yeah, so they lever down there. They lever down there, and everybody's worst predictions

come true immediately, because sort of out of nowhere, this guy, like sort of materializes, runs through a hole in space. Yeah. It's a little bit Q flashy just a little bit. Yeah Gats one of the security people that have shown up and grabs Dr. Crusher and and Re-disappears from when she came And That's our that's our dun dun dun moment.

That's our exciting incident. We should mention that these Anzada terrorists shoot laser guns that just spark the hell out of people when they're hit. Yeah. It looks amazing. Some good practicals. Yeah. Like, yeah, but like also like the models of the guns themselves and the, you know, the

beams are all, it's all really cool. It's like pretty different from what we've seen so far, I think. Yeah. Like as cheap as the set of the, of the shopping mall looks, this is like a pretty fully realized society that the enterprise is visiting. Yeah. It's not always the case. No.

Um. So Wesley's back. Wesley, the boy. The boy. The boy. Young Wesley Crusher. My son. Have you noticed that we haven't had many Wesley episodes in the last?

I don't know. It's in the last, I don't know, at the end of the last six, maybe he's been in like two or something like that? Yeah. I wonder what's going on. Maybe he's got his college applications to fill out something. I don't know, maybe he's, he's serving some chocolate to the ladies. Or maybe, maybe there, his relationship with Picard has gotten to a point where Picard is keeping him like a gimp box and he only gets let out at certain times.

Yeah. They seem to have done a little bit of a tweak to his hair too. It is not super bufanti, but it is still like an entire bottle of swav spray hair spray. Yeah. It's still pretty great. It's really hard to fit a vinyl zipper mask over that haircut I bet. Oh yeah, and they probably had to like make sure

that the product in his hair wasn't corrosive to the rubber that they used on the mask. Yeah. Kind of does explain the way he has so many pimples though, because you know, that's gonna keep a lot of. Cause vinyl doesn't breathe well. Yeah, yeah. Oh, we're gonna get so much hate mail.

Ha ha. make it so much hate mail. So we meet Alexa Devos who is the lovely chief of security for the routines and she and Riker are gonna kind of tag team this terrorism issue. We get the idea right away that there is absolutely no sexual tension between her and Riker. I don't know how they do it. I think this might be the first time in the series that Riker works closely with a female from another planet and there's just nothing there. Yeah, it's like there's zero implied sex, there's zero implied interest.

It's like it's a totally professional relationship. And I love how our show has become the Mr. Skin of implied sexual references. Yeah, how many eggplant emojis would you give this episode? Just as a one eggplant emoji episode. Yeah. We should start working that into the episode titles. Oh, man.

You can use emojis on podcast titles, I'm pretty sure. Oh, okay. I'm willing to try that. You know, the ship's been there for a while when the episode starts, so maybe they already had their fling. Yeah, well. Maybe they got it out of their system. Well, Beverly and data are eating it at

a P F Changs. Rikers off banging away. So in some condo just outside them all. Yeah, possible. She's kind of rocking the bread box cover uniform. Yeah, she's got like half a half a bread box. She's got like half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a half a half a bread box.

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He's got like half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a bread box. He's got like half a bread box. He's got like half a bread box. He's got like half a bread box. He's got like half a half a bread box. He's got like half a half a bread box. So they're working on this. This is sort of a Wesley centric app because as soon as his mom gets kidnapped,

Wes is like, all right, I gotta be involved. I wanna be a part of the team that goes down to rescuer. Right. And Picard is like. Shut up, Wesley. No, like, that would be idiotic. I'm not gonna do that.

You are not a commando, you are a barely an engine. If you can't fight me off, what makes you think that you're going to be able to take on an entire terrorist group? Forget it. Get back in the box, Wes. So he gets assigned to data mining a little bit with data. Yeah.

He data and Jordy are going to work on this transporter technology because it's a real head scratcher. They don't understand how it works because it doesn't work the way their transporter works. They can trace a transporter beam, they can find transporter residuals and all that, but they can't do that with this because it's something different. They don't know what to do there. The tech team is going to work on that. Meanwhile, Riker and the security lady are like having a conversation about the nature of living in a society that's at war with terrorists and also occasionally doing some actual work to try and find Dr. Crusher.

And we go to the cave where Dr. Crusher is being kept and we meet cural fin. He looks a lot like he's got Michael Landon highway to heaven here. Yeah, I he was trying to put my finger on what this guy's look was. And I think you nailed it. He's really landening, isn't he? Yeah, I was going to say like early sign felled hair. But yeah, that's I think you're closer to the mark. Everybody on this planet has a stripe in their hair also. Yeah. All the women have like kind of auburn to red hair with a black stripe and the dudes all have like dark hair with a white stripe. Yeah, and so this fin guy brings down, it looks like some wet jerky. He's getting down on this jerky in front of Beverly and he's like, oh, you must be hungry. You should have some of this

Beverly's doing that thing that that hostages Typically do where where they they don't talk they just stare they stare down their captors She's not wanting to play games. She doesn't want any of this weird jerky. Yeah, this is the higher ground of the any of this weird jerky. Yeah, this is the higher ground of the episode title. Eventually, she breaks because he shows her the sick people that he's brought her there to treat. And we should say that this terrorist group, unlike all other terrorist groups in history, doesn't do a lot of kidnapping.

Which I think could be one of the definitional distinctions between freedom fighters and terrorists maybe. Is that like, I don't know that the revolutionaries in the George Washington era, we're doing a lot of kidnapping for ransom, but maybe I'm wrong about that. Who would really change my opinion of him if that were the case? That would be some weak shit. It would really change my opinion of him. Yeah. If that were the case.

That would be some weak shit. Can we ever really know, though? Impossible to say. But, yeah, so they've been wondering why she's kidnapped and like part of the speculation is that they're trying to bring the Federation into this dispute. And the other side of it, though, turns out that the unsatisfictists are all suffering from a mysterious illness, some worse than others. And there's like a section of their caves where just a bunch of people are on bedrest. And Dr. Crusher is like, well, oh, shit,

like I'm going to doctor them. Like, her instincts to doctor things are annoying. Are unfold display in this episode. Like she's suddenly really ready to eat the jerky and fix some people once she sees all these writhing people on cats. Yeah, it's like he's like still sort of explaining it himself and she's like, shut up, I'm doctoring right now. Yeah, yeah.

And so the scene is we get some riders on cats and Beverly's like, look, I could really fix these people up if we get some gear from the enterprise. It feels like fuck that. Like, I'm not gonna let you talk to your ship. And from around the corner, it comes a little boy with some slick back hair, which is how you know he's lost a parent or two.

And he's got enterprise gear. He's got federation medical supplies. And he gives them to get to work. These are the medical supplies that the enterprise was here to deliver. Right. So that's the other side of it is that Finn feels like the federation has taken aside in this conflict by providing anything to his enemies. Yeah, Finn's like, why don't you give anything to us? If you're given stuff to them, then you must be on their side. And she's like, well, you didn't even ask. And he's like, well, you should at least let them break it in half and let us pick which

part we get. All right. That is about as preachy as the moralizing gets throughout the episode. Yeah, I mean most for the most part it's like Alexa diva's going The insata are killers, the rapists, and some of them are nice people, I'm sure. And then I don't know, you might be wrong about this because there's also a mouth quote later on where Picard is like talking about how he doesn't believe that political power

grows from the barrel of a gun, which I thought was surprising, like that he kind of quotes that, you know, without citation of any kind. He's like, oh, he real read up on Mao, are you, Captain Picard, member of Quasi Socialist Utopia Society? So the, the Ansada decide to So the unsata decided to mount an attack on the Enterprise itself, which takes the form of several of them flashing onto the ship. And down in engineering, like Juryddy kind of crushes this encounter where, you know, he's not armed or ready for this, but these guys beam on and he, like, he takes a pretty impressive dive into this remote corner to avoid getting gatted. And if he just keeps a mattress back there. Yeah. The, the, who knows, maybe he does. Yeah.

Maybe his real doll kicked him out of the apartment Jordy I hope you appreciate the real doll that I've made you As a parting gift for your crew Please enjoy it with my compliments. I can I can see that you could never know true love So this is the next best thing, trust me. I suggest you keep it away from your work and failure, mate. Don't let your captain know that we have it. Just try and take it away from you.

He has no law to fit my crime. I promise you it's very durable. I've been fucking my real deal for thousands of years. It should outlast you. There weren't these. Good as the paper sprinkles on. God, this is another enemy for which Kevin Uxbridge would be a great ally. It would be fun to have. Yeah. The insana also show up on the bridge and Worf basically gets caught with his pants down here.

Like they beam on and like the card has to, has the cold cock one of them. But they manage. Well, everyone gets caught with their pants down, right? Because like they know at this point that these people can travel in the blink of an eye, they can appear anywhere, your shields are useless. They go down to the planet, packing dust busters,

but no one on the ship packs dust busters. As soon as they're aware of this threat, I thought that was a real... Yeah, they should have passed them out. That's for them. Yeah. You break the glass on every corridor and you take out those dustbusters.

Maybe they don't know what the range of this thing is. But anyways, this results in Picard being captured. And that is a big problem because... Picard really dex that guy. Yeah, he got that guy. That guy is gonna have some job paying for at least a few weeks. People are panicking. Like, people are flashing in all over the ship. That guy is gonna have some job paying for at least a few weeks. People are panicking, like people are flashing in all over the ship.

Wesley and Data are like, we don't know where they're coming from, we don't know where they're going, like we're getting reports of people getting killed, and injured, it's sort of a panics scene. Yeah, this terrorism is super effective, and there's a lot of conversation about the fact that terrorism has been effective in political conflicts of the past. And... Data, these are questions that mankind has been struggling

with throughout history. Your confusion is only human. Fortunately, the nerd crew is able to figure out what this thing is. And what it is is like a technology that was explored in the Federation a long time ago is a possible transporter thing, but abandoned because it was determined to be incredibly dangerous to human flesh. And that happens to be what the unsatisfictists are suffering from. Like it's just shredding their DNA every time they jump. And you see this when they jump on board the Enterprise,

because every time someone flashes on, they appear to achieve orgasm. Yeah, I'm just in time for the Jonathan Demi Film Festival. Oh! Oh. Oh. So the pain must be incredibly pleasurable. Mm-hmm. Pain don't hurt. My love is a piece of love and guilt for that which long and thus has a busy, tell me more.

Once they've figured this out, they realize that like the next time they are scanning when somebody uses it They're gonna be able to pinpoint the base and Finn takes a trip up to the enterprise to tell Troy that I'm not here to hurt you. He's got Picard and like, you know, he wants an embargo and trade sanctions levied against Routia and Rikers like fine. We're gonna fucking negotiate with you terrorists. And... Yeah, the game changes when Picard's down there. Yeah, and Divos is like, maybe she like detected this willingness in Riker and that's why

she, she doesn't sweat him because she's like, no, you're not supposed to negotiate with terrorists and he's like, we got to negotiate. Like, what choice do we have? So they realize once Finn does this, they realize where the unsatisfying base is, like he sort of ironically exposes his base by beaming a board to talk to Troy.

It kind of looks like Planet NWO from a couple episodes to go, right? Yeah, I guess it does. Yeah. I probably used a lot of the same truss work. Yeah. A lot of the turnbuckles are still up. It's only a matter of time before we find out whether Riker or Davos gets the strap. Riker's finishing move is pulling the snake from his bag.

They're gonna mount a covert operation to rescue, Crusher and Picard and Warf is super thirsty because he got his pants pulled down so bad. And they're like, getting ready to beam down. We cut down to the surface and Beverly and Picard are having a conversation and she's like, oh man, this is so fucked. We're definitely gonna die. And if we don't get out of this, there's some really important shit I need to tell you. And then the lights cut. And it's like a cool, like, clandestine raid where, you know, wharf and raker and dustbuster boys are running around the place, like knocking people out, shooting people. And it all comes to a head in the cell where our crusher and Picard are being held, and Finn runs back there

to kill them, so that even if the raid is successful, it'll be a sort of a pure victory, and he raises his gun, and then Devo shoots him in the back, and she had her guns set to kill. And Raker's like, what the hell did you do to that for? Everybody's gross. Like, what the fuck is wrong with you? That really escalated quickly. Yeah, I think her explanation is essentially like, if we had imprisoned him, it would have been...

it would have been like a focus for more violence. And they're like, yeah, but you sort of made a martyr out of him. Until it's, you know, they have some real mixed feelings about these people after this. Finn gets gatted, Devo explains herself, and then Slickback boy holds a gun up to her. Oh, yeah. Slickback's like, I've been a killer since I was little that like this is this is what I need to do I've watched so many of my adult friends do it. Maybe it's maybe it's my turn and and Beverly

Sort of mothers him into putting his gun down. Yeah, and she's had a little like a little relationship with this kid You know she's been you know very warm to him In her way. She sees a little bit of Wes in him. Yeah. She likes the cut of his jib, and she talks him out of doing something that he would have regretted the rest of his life. Yeah, and so at that point, it's Handshakes and High Fives, the Enterprise crew beams back

up and Beverly and Wes are reunited on the bridge. Yeah. And a warm embrace. Yeah, it's like one of those really like slow motion scenes where he's running toward her and she's running toward him that yeah they fall into each other's arms and then he turns to Picard and he's like hey good to see you too buddy. Gives him a little wink. Yeah a family reunited. Yeah. Picard and he's like, hey, good to see you too, buddy. Gives him a little wink. Yeah. A family reunited. Yeah. Picard's like, alright, get the fuck out of here.

Yeah. Soon as your hug's over. Let's hit the bricks. We got some more exploring to do. And then that's episode end. D'Armoch Angeloin, and Denarga. A greatest gen live show is something you don't want to miss. Why?

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Ono Ross and Carrie, available on MaximumFun.org. with a boy putting down his gun. Sometimes it's all it takes. Wasteless like boys can put their guns down. Did you like this episode, Ben? I did like this episode. I think that there's some cheese to it. There's more cheese on it than I typically like in an episode. But I thought it was more thoughtful of a thing about terrorism than I would have imagined to exist in the year 1990. Like there's smarter shit

said about terrorism in this episode from 26 years ago than is often said in contemporary media about terrorism. I agree. I was often surprised at how they were able to articulate the problem in such a way that you just don't hear anymore on a 24 hour news cycle even. Or even just in like 24, you know? Like in a show that's like kind of about terrorism,

they never actually like explore the issue. And they don't have like a ton of time devoted to it in this, but I felt like it was pretty insightful. And like, and I appreciated it. I suppose it's it's expecting too much to think that the show could solve terrorism. But I came away a little disappointed that they couldn't do that. Yeah. Like the war goes on. They just decide to leave. They don't fix their technology.

I imagine they're going to use the orgasm transporter to conduct their raids. At least the unsatants know what the risk is. Yeah, maybe that the slick back boy affected some change. Who knows? Maybe he will be their new ruler. Fidham for a bread box uniform. Yeah. See if they got a bread box inside small. Yeah, I think I liked it too. Good app. Good app. Then as you were watching this episode forensically, even studying its every detail. Did you find a drunk Shimoda? I got to throw my Shimoda award to Worf in this episode. I just thought

it was so ridiculous that he wasn't ready with a phaser when those guys beamed onto the bridge. I mean not the first time that hostile aliens have beamed onto the bridge and in the the past, you know, like when the Borg did it, he totally shot one. And this time he is like, if you watch the like the master shot of this scene, or if it's frozen doing nothing for most of it, he's like, he's totally baffled by the fact that they have been done. It's like, dude, get, get with the program. This is what we are dealing with today.

I don't understand how the most important room in the entire ship doesn't have a phaser on it. That's just at arm's reach. Yeah. I bet Wurf doesn't make that mistake again. He's keystering a key fob phaser from now on. How about you? Do you have a drunk Shimoda?

To me, the Shimoda was Finn, who chooses a weird time to show his art to people. Like one of his character development traits is sort of portraying him as a sensitive artist type. So he's down there plotting his terror schemes. And at the same time, sort of drawing take on me pictures of Beverly. Yeah, they're weird ones, though, too, because like, it kind of looks like their body parts. Yeah, it kind of looks like they took some photos and like put them into Photoshop and put the like draw effect on them. Yeah, it's not like, it doesn't

really look like a real artist made those. And I guess I don't know what that's supposed to do for his character development. Like are we supposed to feel sympathy for him because he may be sensitive and artistic? It seems to work on Beverly for some reason. Yeah. Like she softens a little bit at the idea that she's been drawn. Yeah. And Picard is definitely excited about the idea that this guy clearly sweats her. You know, he's like, okay, like, yeah, it can be exploited. There's some leverage available in

the situation. Yeah, he's, he's really stoked about that. He can leverage this to his favor. Because at this point, they're pretty fucked like Ristin leg shackles in a cave no way out. I mean, they're looking at at least Picard's looking at it pretty realistically He's think he thinks they're gonna die. Yeah, but he doesn't fall to pieces the way Jority does on that storm planet Right like he's a pretty cool customer. Yeah, get the sense that he knows knows from captivity customer. Yeah, get the sense that he knows knows from captivity. What do we have coming up on the next episode? The next episode unfortunately is season 3 episode 13, Deja Q. The crew is surprised by the appearance of their mischievous nemesis Q. Ben, I was so excited for this episode that I accidentally watched this one before the episode we just reviewed. Well, that wasn't a mistake because we don't have any vetoes for me to prevent us from having to watch this stupid episode.

Yeah. I'm pretty pumped about it. You would have vetoed this? Probably. It's a Q episode. Is it not? I'm aware of his presence based on the reading of its summary. So yeah. It's incredibly non-descriptive summary. And also the title. Yeah. The summary on this is maybe the worst of the long list of terrible descriptions that we have read of upcoming episodes. Yeah, I'm pumped. I love Q episodes. It's basically the greatest conflict that you and I have over this show. Our positions are intractable. Yeah, we're going to have to agree to disagree.

We're like two opposite factions, me being the terrorist faction, clearly, who seeks to destroy our show through weird uses of videos. Yeah, I'm just trying to hold this ship together. Yeah. Bear hands. Really, white nuckling it. Well, good luck with that. If you'd like to discuss our show on Twitter, use the hashtag GreatestGen. We'll definitely find it.

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