The Greatest Generation - XXXL Merkin (S3E13)

Episode Date: August 22, 2016

When Q appears on the bridge naked and powerless, the Enterprise crew begrudgingly grants him asylum as they troubleshoot an Armageddon-sized problem for a planet in trouble. But as Data teaches him what it's like to be human, one of Q's old nemeses plans its revenge while he's the most vulnerable. How does Q decide his bodily proportions? What's the safest restaurant appetizer? Who is "Malibu Q"? It's the episode that's just a total mess. Sad!

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I'm your other host, Ben Harrison. Ben what episode is this in the entire run? This is episode 60. Oh God. 60 episodes down. in the entire run. This is episode 60. Oh God. 60 episodes down. You'll look back at your life and you see 60 of these episodes. What does it mean?

What have we done? I think the great thing is that we haven't made any mistakes on any episodes. Nothing. 100% success rate. Nothing we regret, nothing we, which we could have done differently. It's been a good run. Well, this is also the last episode, am I right? We have a very special announcement to make.

Yeah, we'll just hang it up after this. The final episode of The Greatest Generation. I think that would really break some hearts. We just decided to hang it up very abruptly. It's like quitting, singing amazing grace right in the middle of it. I'm just like, no! It would be exactly like that then.

Yeah. You know who would be angry? Who? It's America's radio sweetheart, Jesse Thornt. Yeah. Owner operator of the Maximum Fun Network. Yeah. I've never seen him angry.

Would that anger him? Ah, yeah,'ve never seen him angry. Would that anger him? Uh, yeah, I've seen him angry. Oh no. Not a man I would ever want to have mattered me. So I suppose we should probably finish doing the show. Yeah, guess so. How hard is that? Not quite so hard as it was for you to get through this episode,

right Ben? See, that's a world-class transition. Oh, yeah. World-class pivot to show. I stuck the landing. Yeah. This is becoming a speech. For the captains. I feel like I would have compared that to Mission Long,

but I feel like we've pulled ahead in the train, at least in the Segway department. I feel like we're the leader in the clubhouse, right? You know, someone wrote in to our Drunk Shemota gmail.com email address and said, is it okay for me to go out and make fun of other Star Trek podcasts on your behalf? That I think are doing a bad job compared to you. He actually, he or she actually wrote in and was like,

do I have your permission? To control people. Yeah. And I actually told them no. Like, I don't know. I have a great amount of respect for anyone who would humiliate themselves in the way that we have for 60 episodes.

First of all, there was a time early on when I would have wanted to hold all the other podcasts underwater until the bubble stop. But that was the jealousy of an insecure podcast that didn't have a ton of listeners. And not that we have a ton now, but we have an audience. And that's what we really wanted. Is it what we really wanted, Ben? Well, I think that we weren't being honest with ourselves. Yeah, I think it wasn't what we consciously wanted, but I think unconsciously.

Yeah, we really obliterated our segue, didn't we? Yeah, we took a great pivot and just destroyed it. That's it. We don't even need that segue. This is becoming a speech. We're the cat-conservant type of... Not a type that ramble on about something everyone knows. Let's talk about season three episode 13, Dayjack Hue. The Enterprise is an orbit of Braille 4,

another planet with 4 in the name. It's a planet with a lot of like the mountains coming dots and slashes. Yeah. Little, little groupings of dots. Yeah. The, um... That's a little braille reference, Ben. Yeah. I was going to try and move past it.

It's how people with compromised sight are able to read. Right. And I'm not sure if you knew this. Uh, well, speaking of compromised sight, there's an asteroid that's going to crash into this planet. That's like an episode three level greatest gen transition right there.

So an asteroid is about to crash into Briel 4 and Briel 4 assembles a group of oil rig drillers. The best of their world. You got Bruce Willis, you got Ben Affleck, you got... You got a cantankerous Keith David who's dropping quips. The fate of the planet is in the hands of a bunch of retards I wouldn't trust with a potato gun. Oh it's fun with Keith David around. Oh yeah. Do we have to actually talk about this episode or can we just keep bullshit

like idiots for the rest of the time? I know it's pretty baby, but I didn't take it out for air. Is that our first Requiem for a Dream reference on our pod? Impossible to say for sure, but it might be. Their moon is like gun out of whack and is going to crash into their planet. their moon is like gone out of whack and is going to crash into their planet. Its orbit is at its paragy is low enough that it's dragging atmosphere, which provides friction, which is causing the moon to slow down, which for anybody that has read a sentence or two on orbital mechanics, knows is a bad thing. And this actually...

That's right. Have you read the Neil Stevenson book? I think it's called Seven Eaves, which I'm not sure exactly how you're supposed to pronounce it, but I think it's Seven Eaves. I have not. It's this most recent novel as of this recording that I'm aware of. And it's literally about the moon breaking up in orbit over the earth and they have like, you know, two years or something to figure out a way to preserve humanity. And it's like the history of that and then checks back

in thousands of years later to like see what happened to the survivors. It's a really awesome book. That sounds like fun. The premise is like this episode, exactly though. It's, why don't you mail me that book like without a note or anything to sort of like a threat? That's how we send each other packages, right? I would.

I, I bought it on, uh, on iPad. So it's fine. You can just send the iPad. Okay. Oh, okay. Yeah. Sure, sure. That's convenient. I'm sure one of our listeners will anonymously mail it to you. Don't worry. But I say listeners, I'm in few years. I'm sorry. Please.

So the moon is coming out of orbit and the enterprises are going to try and this podcast is a mess. It's a disaster. Every part of this podcast is coming apart of the rails. You look at this podcast and it's garbage. Just a pilot crap garbage. Criminal element on this podcast. Let me tell you.

Believe me, if the media wasn't so corrupt, this would be a much better podcast, but the media has been very unfair to me. They've spun everything I've said out and made it seem much worse than it actually is. Not even sure who that Trump character is supposed to be at this point. Like all of our impressions, they're getting worse by the episode. So what they're trying to do is track your beam this this hunk of rock that's gonna kill all these people to put some to put some more spin on it so

that it'll stay in a stable orbit and not crush the planet and they're trying this and failing at it. When who should have show up but cute, nude cute? We're gonna learn. Gotta think that if you can design the corporeal body that you inhabit, you'd probably give yourself a great big dick, right, Ben? Yeah, I mean, he did seem to have some amount of agency in what he wound up being when he was ejected by the continuum. Look I don't want to get all mission log about this scene because we don't typically do

that but I did read some show notes about it. Yeah. And John Delancey performed this scene naked because they couldn't fashion a cover-up that would work on camera. Really? Yeah. Why couldn't they? They can fashion it for everything else. Maybe he's just so hung that they like none of the standard skin color banana hammocks that they usually use would work. Yeah, the triple XL Merkin. Wasn't going to do it. Yeah. Wow. So so he

uh so he walked to set open the robe and there he was. Let it pile up on the floor by his feet. Does it make you like John Delancy Moore? There's a lot about this episode that makes me like John Delancy more. Yes. I think he brings a tour de force with his performance in this episode. Most deaf. So he's hovering above the floor naked and then drops to the ground. And he quickly explains that he's been banished from the continuum. Right. And he's asking Picard for asylum. Yeah. explains that he's been banished from the continuum and is asking Picard for asylum. Yeah, his higher ups have said that he's too much of a trouble maker, the trickster

God that he is. Everyone believes that is pretty viable. Yeah, but Picard has no rope to even be at the end of when it comes to Q. So, like, he's just like, I don't care about anything that's happening in your life, Q. Why are you here? Go away. And also, they're in the middle of sort of a really important mission with a lot of lives at stake. Yeah, there's like literally billions that could die if Q distracts them to the point of not completing their mission. It's like when you're at work and like the boss brings his kid by to sell Girl Scout cookies and you're like in and like the boss brings his kid by to sell girl scout cookies

And you're like in the middle of a really important task. Yeah, like god damn it. I just need to keep working Yeah, I'll buy the Samoa's later. Yeah And then and then the girl scouts gone and you're like fuck. I don't I didn't get any cookies ordered It's not like I know girl scouts. That was my one opportunity I'm not gonna go out and try and meet Girl Scouts. Who does that? They get cute, they put them in some clothes, and this is like half a lampshade shy of being a Ferengue uniform. Yeah. He's like, he's rocking a lot of knuck, and it's like all of the cut to it is Ferengy-like.

And they basically just have Wharf walk him down to the brig. Yeah, Wharf perp walks him, and it just enjoys the hell out of it. Yeah. It's great. Q Zing D'Warf, when he showed up with a line that really made me laugh out loud, which was... Eat any good books lately? I laughed so hard at that. More and more, I feel like

Wurf is like the Larry David figure. Like, he is totally wharf in curbed your enthusiasm. He's constantly failing. He's constantly getting into misunderstandings with people. People are ridiculing him left and right. It really shades his character for me when I see him on screen and I just hear the tuba music. Yeah. And he's always walking around with those big ridiculous white shoes.

Yeah, he's driving the pre-y stuff to work. Yeah. Um, wharf is always like trying to clearest throat because he's got a pub in there in the back of his mouth. Oh man, oh that, uh, the Palestinian chicken that the replicator makes is delicious. Yeah. Yeah. What do they do to that chicken? It's so good. Oh man. This episode is a disaster. We're worth goes back to ice quarters and JB smooth is there with his whole family. quarters and JB smooth is there with his whole family. Let's just talk about things that we like instead of this episode. Basically confirm that Q is in fact human and the

Q convinces Picard to let him like work with the geek team on trying to solve this giant crashing rock problem, because well Q is not like a trained star fleet officer. He does come from an interesting vantage point, which is that he has had a deeply perfect understanding of physics in the past. Like the first suggestion he throws out to them is like, oh, like if we're gonna move a big rock, why don't we just change the gravitational constant of the universe?

And they're like, oh, what a good idea, Q. Why didn't we think of that? Yeah, it's easy when you're a god. Yeah, but it does give Jordi a good idea to do something with the warp field and So they're off to the races like they've got like a they've got a better plan and so like they're They're getting some some work done, but Q is really like it's really not taking to his humanness Well like he like pulls something in his back and has to have the doctor come down and

Yeah, doing an adjustment on him that wouldn't have figured Dr. Crusher for like a chiropractic type. You mean a fake doctor? Yeah, she totally straightens them out. Yeah. And then just last 30 listeners. Oh yeah. Yeah, there's some really fun character development here as cute acclimates himself to being a human being. Yeah, he's like getting used to the idea of eating, getting used to the idea of pooling, getting used to the idea of sleep. At one point when he's in the brink like a glowing beach ball like slips into the ship and hovers over him, and that goes unexplained for the time being. But him. And that goes unexplained for the time being. But they're working hard in engineering and he tells data like, hey, like, there's something wrong with me and they work out that perhaps

he's hungry. So they go to 10 forward. Yeah, it's weird that they stick data on him. Like, who's the one person on the crew that can tell Q what it's like to be human? Data. the one person on the crew that can tell Q what it's like to be human. Data. Yeah, I mean, I think they probably put data on him because data is not going to be like quite as agitated by Q because Q is fucking annoying. Oh, I don't think so. I mean, he's actively annoying everybody around him.

So data is a little bit more immune to that. It's like a type of radiation that data can handle and the rest of the crew can't. Yeah, well put. There in 10 forward, Q puts in an order for 10 chocolates Sundays. Based on data explaining that when counselor Troy is sad, she orders a chocolate Sunday. Hey Ben, how do you write for women characters? I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability. You give them food fixations, right? Yeah, you don't want them to have much dimensionality to them, you know? No. Now keep it simple.

Yeah. Well, what you have to realize is that women will be playing these characters and their feeble minds just can't handle any kind of nuance or subtlety. Right. You don't visit the world that beautiful. So they're there in 10 Ford and this cloud of gas shows up at the planet. And another glowing beach ball comes right through the front window there and envelops Q in like an energy field. And he's clearly in a lot of pain because he's trying to brush it off of his legs like mud that gets splattered on him. Electrical mud. Yeah, or like he's got ants in his pants kind of a deal. And data keeps trying to reach in and grab him, but getting shocked and pulling his hands back.

And it's the first time in a long time that we've seen data shy away from an opportunity to have one of his arms blown off by an electrical pulse. Yeah, but at the same time, he rushes in there. Yeah. He doesn't just stand back and watch. Yeah, so maybe he's just getting, he's budding up to this phenomenon. Jordy winds up figuring out a way to modulate the shields

to prevent this attack. And as they're recovering, they're getting ready for the moon to be at its paragy when they're going to try this new gambit that they worked out with Q's help. And at the same time, Q is explaining to them that this cloud is an intelligent species called the Kalamirain, and they're like, pissed at him for queuing around at them. And they finally have an opportunity to be the exact sweet, sweet revenge. You know, the calomerane is my favorite appetizer to order. When I go out for apps.

Yeah, oh yeah, nice, like a nice aeoli, a glass of rosé, squeeze the lemon on them before you tuck into them. Doesn't that sound nice? Something so simple and joyful about that. I mean, I'd never get electrocuted by a plate of those, right? No. Pretty safe to eat, I'd say. Unless they're made of secret pig buttholes.

No. Do you know about that? No! There's a whole, I think it's this American life. Oh, bad episode. I don't want to know. Is that really the truth? Well, it's unclear, but there is definitely...

Is that why I can't stop eating them? There's a good reason to believe that sometimes when you order calamari, it's actually secretly pig buttholes that have been sold as calamari by like unscrupulous seafood vendors. I am mortified, I could thought. Well, they go so far as to test it on the show where they like make some pig buttles the way you would make calamari and they're like yeah it tastes just like calamari. Whoa. I sort of stopped eating, I stopped eating squid and calamari because something changed

in me. I determined that they are smart creatures of a higher intelligence. Yeah. But it sounds like I can keep eating pig butt. So that's good. Well, pigs are pretty smart themselves. Oh no. I have to stop eating pig butt now too. Yeah, sorry, dude. Oh man. Am I gonna dip in that a-o-ly? My love is your people long and chill for that which longer than us at the PC. Tell me more, you're not the boy yet. So the the rack is getting close to the surface of the planet and they're like, well, we gotta drop the shields so that we can do this warp field and

and tractor beam shit, but these calmerane are going to attack us when we do. So I guess we're just going to have to run the risk. So they do it and they're getting some positive results. Like Q comes down to engineering and and Jordy like puts them on a task and Q is completely baffled by the idea of being within a command structure, which doesn't make a lot of sense given the fact that his superiors in the continuum have just kicked his ass out. Like, he should know what it's like to be bossed around, but he acts like it's a total

new one on him. Beverly Crusher feels the same way. She doesn't like acting within a command structure either. Yeah. There are a lot of like that way. She's not bucking the system quite as much in this episode though. Yeah. They get the rock pushed a little bit, but not enough to get it out of harm's way and

the calmerane start attacking. And this is when they get that beach ball into the engineering section. It envelops Q data, like tries to break him out and gets shocked and like knock down on the floor. Friends planer always does a great job with these where like he goes stiff in like a standing position and like falls flat on the floor.

With his arms sticking out, that's just tiny. That should have got to hurt, right? Yeah, that doesn't look comfortable. He really commits to it though. Data forgets that thing that if you see someone electrocuted, you gotta grab something wooden, like a rake or something and poke the guy away

from the electrical charge. He doesn't do that. Yeah. Wouldn't like a rake or something and and and poke the guy away from the electrical charge. He doesn't do that. Yeah Wouldn't like a rake. That was where my mind went So stupid so they're down in the six bay with data's head all all You know like they took the the engine block out of his head and they have it set on the table next to him. And Jordy's going a town on him with a socket wrench. And Q is like, is being super selfish here. He's like, God, that fucking hurt. They're like, hey, data just saved your life, okay? Show some fucking respect.

And then he's sort of, like, this takes him through a little journey. Like, he's really baffled by the fact that data did save his life. He's like, why would he have done that? I wouldn't do that for anybody. And that that introspection leads him to recognize that he is a coward. And he doesn't, when he looks at that man in the mirror, he doesn't like what he sees. And he appears powerless to change his ways. He's

looking to make that change. This is the stupidest episode. I think we have created. I think the moon has crashed into our show. So, Q decides that he can't go on living this way. It decides that he maybe suicides the only answer. So he jakes a shuttlecraft. The ship really needs to get better launch clearance procedures in place. You can apparently just get in a shuttlecraft and fly out without clearing it with anybody. It's like the shuttle bay is a valet stand and all the keys are just out and unlocked. Take any shuttle you want.

Yeah. They didn't show that scene where Peewee pulled in the shuttlecraft and pulled out a 78-foot long chain and wrapped it around an animatronic clown. Yeah. So, Q's out there in a Previa. Is he in a bunk bed or is he in a Previa? He's in a Previa. Good choice, I respect you for that.

And so Picard is like, fuck, I kinda hate to have to do this, but that's actually a really nice Previa. So let's beam it back on, onboard the ship. Really low miles. Yeah. Not a dent, honor. Yeah, the paint job is pretty immaculate.

Like, none of the kids have barfed in the back yet. Yeah. It's in good shape, you know. Good resale value on that prev. So they try to beam it back and no worky. And we cut to the inside of the previa and a second cue, like helps himself aboard. Cue!

And he's wearing the same dumb, frangy costume that Cue Prime is wearing. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Corbin Berntson. Should we call this guy Malibu Cue? Absolutely. I think he's Malibu Cue. He is Malibu Q? Absolutely. I think he's Malibu Q. He is Malibu Q. And he admits that he is the Q that recommended Q prime for discomendation. And the fact that Q prime has done this selfless act where he's going to sacrifice himself to the calmerane to allow the enterprise to save all these people on the planet below

is seen as as sufficiently redemptive to mean that Cucan Cucan have his powers back and This is a big big victory for him. So he Reappears on the bridge of the enterprise in full Mariyachi regalia years on the bridge of the Enterprise in full Maryachie regalia. Full family Mexican restaurant entertainment regalia. And he like snaps his fingers and everybody gets a cigar. He's trying to make a party of it and Picard is like not having much of it.

He snaps a couple of babes around Riker. Oh yeah, Riker's like, I don't need your fantasy women. Oh, you're so solid. You weren't like that before the beard. I got my juices out with some of those weird looking aliens on the planet below. I told you I'm not into submissives.

Yeah. And I'm in my refractory period, so I'm not even going to bend the rules. So those babes get beamed over to Worf and Worf is married to Kalar in his mind, so he's also not into it. And he also grabs the Kalamari and sticks them in his hand. Oh yeah, he blows them away like a little puff of smoke,

which is a good effect I thought. Yeah, we should say like the effect on this on this electrical cloud looks great. All of the shots of the ship and the planet and the moon, all of that stuff looked awesome in this episode. Which only serves to underscore how terrible these briel aliens are. serves to underscore how terrible these briel aliens are. Like, they didn't even try to cook the meatloaf. No, yeah. For these poor people. Yeah.

That is, they trawled on raw veal right onto their faces. Yeah. Uncooked turkey sausage. Yeah. A little bit of breadcrumbs, a little bit of sage, a little bit of oregano. Yeah, a little bit of sage, a little bit of oregano. Yeah, no one likes a turkey loaf. No.

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Being smart is hard. Be dumb instead. Oh, rats, hey, hey, hey, oh, I'm about to count you in line. These clouds are really frigging me out. I hate having to stand in line. And boy, what do I? These giraffes do not smell good. No, they do not, and they've such short nacks. But I'm hearing we need to get on this good. No, they do not, and they've such short necks. But I'm hearing we need to get on this.

We've got to get on the art. It is about terrain, about a spout to destroy humanity. Hey, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Are you Noah? Yeah, I know we look like humans, but we're actually, we're podcasters. We are podcasters, so it's different. Have you heard of Ono Ross and Kerry? We investigate spirituality, claims of the paranormal, stuff like that. And you have a boat and say the world's gonna end, so seem like something for us to check out.

We would love to be on the boat. We came two by two. What do you think? Ona Ross & Kerry, available on MaximumFun.org. Q gets the idea that he's not, uh, he's not welcome anymore on the ship. With the way to leave now that he does his Q powers back, he decides to show his gratitude to the crew by fixing their moon problem. Yeah, moon problem solved and he says, data, since you were kind enough to show me around

and show me how to use the bathroom and everything, I'm gonna leave you with a little parting gift. And Data gets concerned for a second that he's gonna turn him human, which Data wants to get there on his own. And he's like, no, no, no, no, it's much more elegant than that. And so, Q snaps his fingers and disappears

and Data bursts out laughing. That's a genuinely funny scene where data doesn't know why he's laughing or what about, but he's like really genuinely laughing. This is like, this is Brent Spiner at his best. Capital A. Amazing. Yeah. There's a physicality to Brent Spiner's acting best. Capital A. Amazing. Yeah. There's a physicality to Brent Spiner's acting that you wouldn't think that he'd have much of an opportunity to go there as a robot person. But all these little subtle details, like the passing out with his arms out stretched, the massive Vodvilleian laughter that he emotes. Like, he does a great job.

Yeah. It's, again, like there's another example where it could be really cheesy. Like, he plays it so big and broad that it should be, but I don't know. Somehow, somehow he sold it. Yeah. Did you like this episode, Ben?

I think I know the answer to that. I love this episode. I like Jendolansi and I like his performance so much and I just feel like I was... Your like is great big dick don't you? Yeah, I mean you can tell when he's rocking that knuck that he's got He's got the hunker that Q would give a human male if you had didn't have it that body. More like J, am I right? Capital J. Yeah, so that's how I feel. Alright, I think we know your feelings on the character. Priority one message from Star fleet coming in on secured channel

Supplement Yes extra the interest alone could be enough to buy this ship our First priority one message Comes from Brian McRain for his brother Paul. Oh, it's pretty nice, right to my big brother You'll always be my drunk Shimoda. Sounds like somebody had a brother pulling isolanius lips out of his childhood the whole time. Oh, geez.

I think we can tell from the message which one's the younger brother and which one's the older. I find that the younger brother is typically the drunk Shimoda, right? Well, this guy's saying the big brother is the drunk Shimoda. Oh man, how does that act? Well, maybe it's like he's projecting Shimoda. It is.

What do you say we sing our signature drunk Shimoda song for Paul as a celebration of this jumbo tron message? Okay. What song has that been? Dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna- Well Paul, hopefully it's your birthday. If not, I apologize. Save this for your birthday and listen to it again. Yeah. And you get like, like, twice as much Shimoda for your money. Oh boy.

Thank you for supporting the show guys and thank you for listening. Our next priority one message is to Brad and Sam from Adam. And I don't remember sending this in. Pretty sure this isn't me, Ben. It's a different Adam. This is going to require a bit of translation. Ben, for our listeners benefit, I will be reading the English first. And without giving you any lead time at all, you will be my Klingon translator, are you

ready? Okay. Let's begin the first line of the messages Brad your cat Ella is the devil Brad Ella Phil Grove Velquard Sam Wisconsin tastes like gah. Lichemun, Rurgach. Numwulb, nog. Wisconsin Kurds. I hope Riker does to your moms what Picard does to the boy. Oh no.

Nuktae, Picard, hod. Lodhumta moms. Riker is... ...vutul. Love Adam. Bang Adam. I love that love is bang and klingon. That's pretty fun.

Yeah. I hope my pronunciation was okay. I'm not sure if any of you guys are native speakers. I'm terribly embarrassed that I... ...I skipped a lot of Klingon class in high school, so my pronunciation has always left a little bit to be desired. I really did a bad thing to you, Ben. Ben, probably a lot of targets here, a lot of soft targets. So what you call a target rich environment?

For your Shimoda gun, who is your drunk Shimoda? Drunk Shimoda! I'm gonna go with the Boreal scientists that they're in contact with. They seem to be there only to do FaceTime. Like there's a lot of people running around in the background doing science theoretically, but the enterprise is the only game in town. They're not actually doing anything there. You know?

Yeah, why don't you help your own cause? They say they're evacuating people from the coasts, but it's like, guys, like, can you, can you put a rocket in orbit or something like? Do you have any oil drillers? Yeah. Get, get Bruce Willis. Get live Tyler. Get Keith David. Get Steve Bashemmy, goddamn it. Yeah, agreed. It seemed kind of helpless.

Is this a violation of the prime directive? Also? No, it's a nature take its course. Well, it's like a planet that they're already in contact with. Forgiveness is a post-warp species. But I don't know, like, what about the last planet where they're doing all the terrorism? I don't know.

They just sort of pick their moments, don't they? Yeah, the prime directive doesn't always apply. Ben, 90's television star Corbin Burntson is on this episode and he chose to be uncredited. I don't know why. He's a massive star in the 90's, in the early 90s especially. I imagine he wouldn't be there unless he was a big fan. He's my Shimoda for choosing to become uncredited for his really great performance as Malibu Kyu. Like, this is something to be proud of. I don't get it.

Yeah, I thought it was a, I thought it was well played. Like, he played it, he played it as Kui as John Delance, he did. Which I don't think is necessarily easy. Those are not as really easy shoes to fill. Yeah. I think most of the time we choose a Shimoda based on if they're having the most fun or we're doing something zany and wacky.

And I guess Malibu Q would fit that description due to his actions, but I'm gonna actually give it to the actor to see that decision as making a decision I don't understand. I am a cute and a bold, there are bold lights. What is coming up for our next episode? Our next episode is season three, episode 14, a matter of perspective. Riker is suspected of murdering a respected scientist who had accused the enterprise officer

of seducing his wife. This is gonna happen all the time, right? Yeah. It's not just an accusation though, like Riker seduced this guy's wife as he seduces everyone's wife. Right, that's what wives get done to them. So this is the episode where Riker is executed

for being a home wrecker? That's how I remember it. Yeah, you're probably right. Got to see it. Yep. Hey, Ben. What's that, Adam? People can support our show

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