We Hate Movies - The Nexus 30 - "The Alternative Factor" / "Where Silence Has Lease" (CLIP)

Episode Date: February 28, 2019

On this month's journey into The Nexus—our 30th trip into the magic Trek ribbon—the gang is chatting about two very different episodes of the beloved franchise. Over on TOS, it's "The Alternative Factor," which originally aired March 30th, 1967. In this episode, we're shown such enticing things like—WHOOPS! This episode is for paid subscribers only! To check out the full episode, head on over to our Patreon page and sign up today! You're currently missing out on hours and hours of unheard WHM material on Trek, Star Wars, additional bonus episodes, sync-able commentaries, and more! Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

But first up on the docket, Star Trek, the original series, the episode in question, The Alternative Factor, original air date, March the 30th, 1967. Now, the alternative factor, Jim Boy, that's when Nirvana really blew up, you know. Suddenly on the radio we had sound garden, Pearl Jam. It was the alternative factor. I was a mud honey fan myself. Make up your mind, darn it. I love the video, the little girl in the bee costume.

Yeah, I was dancing to it all, Jim Boy. I do think to myself why there is no rain. How about a Bush's razor blade suitcase? Jim Boy, now that is a classic It's got greedy fly Swallowed Bones, could you get out of my office? No, Jim boy, I ain't gonna come down

from this cloud. I knew I walked into that, Bones, and you get the fuck out of my office. I will not stop calling Spock a Greedy Fly. All right, Jim Boy, fine. I'll go down to sickbay and inject my body with some glycerin. Yeah.

Suddenly it feels like I got a machine head that I just jacked myself. Red shirt, just kill him. It's better than the rest. Red shirt, do you want a promotion? Oh, man, this is even better than Azera. Hey, you know what, Jim Boy, it was good to live with you. Oh, ha, oh.

You know, Jim Boy, Jeremy's spoken, and I got to get the hell out of it. Jim, boy, I have had a lot. not and much like my favorite bad local age I'm bound for the floor. What I want to really explore is what your death is. Right. Oh, right, right. And I've done one. I just need to do, I don't know, like a couple hundred more, you know, just get, I just need, it'll take maybe one third, yeah, half your crew will die. Right. Right. No more than a thousand. I guarantee it. Oh, yeah, but they want to go to. to hell tonight. Yeah, dude.

This is an amazing turn by Picard. Oh my God. So, yeah, in response to that, you better believe the self-destruct sequence is initiated. Well, he brings everyone in the ready room, and they're like, okay, so what do you think you want to do? Is there like escape pods or something? No, we're going to blow the whole fucking thing up.

Just blow it right to fucking kingdom come. It's like, what if we, I mean, I don't know, like, is, I mean, I know it's a ship, so the captain's authority is total, but like, maybe when it involves the death of everyone, there's a vote possibly, like... No, dude.

I would rather draw... You're in the military. Sorry. It is what it is. This is what you signed up for. We could draw straws maybe like half is better than none. I'm sorry, Deanna.

Much like the Italian artist Antonioni, we are going to blow up. Oh, well done. I sure do love 20th century cinema. I think if you split straw, you know, drew straws and all that, the alien would, like,

judge you as like a weak your weak leader kill all of you anyway right yeah you're totally right and then there's this weird fucking conversation where they're setting it's it's Riker and Picard

have to set it and it's like you know commander Riker da da da da da da and they're like how long do you want to give it like 20 is 20 minutes good well it's died 20 minutes it's a weird like Riker's basically like

all right dude are we going to give the crew time to prepare for their death or are we just going to fucking blow up like a pulling a band-aid off. Oh, okay. How long does it take to watch the movie Ghostbusters? That's my favorite movie. That's the last movie

I'm ever going to see. You're right. That's what it should happen. Because immediately once this 20-minute detonations is started, like, we just cut to like fucking Picard kicking back in his lazy boy. Yeah, dude. Well, how long

is the uncut in Agada de Vos? 20 minutes. Catch go. And also, like, why is it everyone, like, I mean, this is a very well-behaved crew. I would be flipping shit, screaming fucking in the hallway. You'd be terrible and starfully, too, obviously. Nilbog would get you, dude. Yeah, that's true.

So it's just Kirk and Picard in his ready room. Yeah, and he's listening to classical music, just waiting for the blow. And he's really fine with it. It's like, whatever, man. But does he know? You know, I've fucked enough. Yeah, I'm good. I've fucked enough.

But does he know, though, that? Yeah, he's intending to call this guy's bluff. I think he's ready to go to hell. I kind of agree with Chris. He's ready to go to hell tonight. He's going for it. I will not give that fuck the satisfaction. I mean, I think in the back of his head he thinks he doesn't have the space cahones to do it.

You don't have the nuts, mister. It's fucking funny, though, man, just with how casually and quickly he comes to this decision. And record's like, totally cool, man. Well, because he will follow Jean-Lou Picard to the ends of the earth. Oh, you would think. you think I'm scared of some monster made of the absence of light, huh? Well, you're wrong. Well, it'd be cool if he was like, oh, you killed one of my men.

Wow, that's really impressive. Jordie, come here, and he just shoots him in the head. Now there's two fucking dead guys. What do you want, motherfucker? Let's do it. Tonight we dine in hell. You're going to kill Pulaski? I'll kill Pulaski.

Yay! So then Deanna and Data walk in to his apartment, his quarters, his quarters. And they sit down and have a talk about, like, is this the best decision? And data's like, what is death? Yeah. Hey, Captain, let's run out the clock. What is death?

You know? And they go through this whole thing. And I think Picard knows the entire time because if not, I'd be like, guys, you really got to get the fuck out of my room right now. I am five minutes away from the abyss and I am not talking to a robot. I'm not talking to customer fucking service. Listen, everybody, we're going to blow up any minute. I haven't even gotten to the fucking stay-pop marshmallow man.

I'm sorry, everybody. I'm jerking to oblivion. Yeah, exactly. Deanna and Data, too. Unless you ought to help with that effort, then you can stay. Otherwise, get the fuck out of you. I don't know about your robot grip, Mr. Data. You know, it's now and never.

A replicator human steak. Just kidding.