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Tracks. It's the Galaxy's most unpredictable Star trek podcast. M h here we
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are here, we are back again. Welcome everybody, Yeah, welcome.
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How are you doing? Man? I am doing fantastic. It's the weeks
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seem to fly by, so yeah, getting geared up for for some things
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that are coming up in the sci fi world, so you know, a
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few weeks. Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be, which is
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good, good for us. Yeah. Oh hey, I'm liking the I'm
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liking the trek Cast uh beanie the beanie. Yeah that's awesome. Yeah,
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Daniel's wearing a really cool uh trek Cast beanie that I'm assuming you can get
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at the the merchant section at trek cast dot com. Yep, okay,
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good way to support the show and a show off your good love of treck
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Cast. Yeah. I've gotten back into writing more lately, and for whatever
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reason, when I write, I wear a beanie cap your thinking cap on.
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Yeah, put my thinking cap on literally. Yeah, the beanie has
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been worn a lot lately. Love it. Yeah, what have you been
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up to? Oh? There he goes, look at that. Oh yeah,
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I'm having some technical difference. Oh oh no, we've lost a strong
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beard. Well, hopefully he'll come back. I will monitor the situation.
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Uh. In the meantime, oh there is now he's back. Yeah,
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I'm having some technical difficulties. I have to reset if if you don't mind
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carrying the show, start, I'll start the news. Okay, all right,
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thanks, all right. So in the meantime, we're gonna get right
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to Star Trek News. Star Trek News. All right. So our first
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news story coming up right now is from Collider, So let me bring this
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up so everyone can check that out. Basically, we are learning a little
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bit more about Star Trek legacy. The actor who played Jack pressure there.
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He is right there, Ed spears. I can never pronounce this last name.
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He says that Star Trek Legacy will happen if fans are noisy about it.
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He says he has heard a lot of the internet buzz about legacy and
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how people are excited for it and hoping for it to actually come to fruition.
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But right now it is not in happening allegedly, so we'll see.
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But he does say that they have heard a lot of the the chatter.
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He wants it to happen. He says he loves playing that character. He
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said, what is the quote right here? I feel like I have so
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much to offer with him him being Jack Pressure, and I really really hope
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and want to believe that I get the chance at some point. So yeah,
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he he would love to do that. He would love to to be
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Jack Pressure again. I know a lot of us are really excited for Star
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Trek Legacy and hoping that it comes to fruition. But with that in mind,
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let's get oh there, he is stronger. So we're just talking about
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Star Trek Legacy. Yeah, let's let's all make some noise. You know
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that. That's what they're saying, speaking of Star Trek shows. I'll just
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kind of bounce around from what I originally wanted to do. But that's fine
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because it's kind of so we are learning a little bit more about another Star
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Trek show, and we're learning about Star Trek Academy. So, according to
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Alex Kurtzman, who was recently interviewed at South South by Southwest that festival going
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on, he says you can expect Start Trek Academy not airing until twenty twenty
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six. He says they are currently building the sets and those sets are massive.
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It's going to take another six months of shooting in about six eight months
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of postwork, so about twenty to twenty twenty six is when we can expect
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academy. He did also say that they're expecting to shoot towards the end of
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the summer, so by then we can get probably chast announcements chas been Saint
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Boo already. Yeah, yeah, so you know, people are excited.
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It's funny. Stanpointed this out when he saw a post for Star Trek Academy,
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and the comments were really filled with give us legacy. And I have
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noticed that in other areas too, even on official Star Trek posts about Academy.
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It's just we want legacy. Please give us legacy. So yeah,
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we I mean, we're reading a dead horse here, but well, for
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sure, everybody wants legacy. Everybody wants it set in you know, twenty
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four oh one or twenty four h two. That's what we want. We
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want, we want these characters, and we want I think a lot of
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people want this timeline. We want the next but yeah, that's that's the
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timeline we want. So we'll we'll see. But yeah, that's that's where
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we're at right now. All right, then our next news story comes to
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us from Joe Blow. This is kind of interesting, but apparently, according
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to a Roddenberry executive who was interviewed, Paramount says they have a plan for
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Star Trek movies. For those of you listening, I put a plan in
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air quotes. Yeah, so what have they been doing all this time?
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Yeah? When I posted the story in the in the Facebook group, I
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put did they not have a plan before? Apparently not? Yeah. Yeah,
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So apparently Paramount is very intent in coming out with a Star Trek movie.
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They've had plenty of shows that they really think it's time to be back
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in the box office, and so they're working on something and there's a lot
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of logistics, you know, to get out of the way, like I
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don't know, maybe a story in the script and you cast yea, So
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we have no idea what the film would be about out because they don't even
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know, you know. When when they say they have a plan, it's
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really hard for me to believe, not because of everything we've seen, but
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because of the fact that Paramount is for sale and they're knocking on the door
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of everyone saying will you please buy us? You know, it puts It
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also puts the future to the future of Star Trek in jeopardy too. Yeah,
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when it's parent company sort of is for sale, and yeah, yeah,
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there's a lot of unknowns. You know, there's too many unknowns to
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be really confident about this. Like I don't doubt that they themselves have a
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plan, you know, while we want to make a movie by this date
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and we're you know, working on it. Sure, I don't doubt that.
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But when you're trying to sell yourself, all those plans go right out
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the window at the minute that sale finishes, right, and they're talking about
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having you know, they're talking about having plans like, oh, you can
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do this next year in twenty twenty six. And I'm going to have talked
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about this in a little bit when I when I talk about the rewatch.
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But you know, they didn't know what they were doing. You know,
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five years ago, they had zero clue what was going to happen right now,
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right like they did. They didn't even plan for what was happening right
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now. So you know, them telling us they've got plans for two,
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three, four years from now, I don't Yeah, yeah, that's how
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I feel. I'll believe that Gussins saying he wants a Star Trek popcorn bucket.
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Which what would it be? Would it be a shuttle crap because like
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the enterprise is too Yeah, a shadow craft makes the most sense, I
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think. Yeah, so yeah, and then our last news story comes to
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just from the Hollywood Reporter. This I think was kind of interesting because I
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don't think we've seen too many sequels in Black Mirror, But according to the
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Hollywood Porter, Black Mirror and season seven will do a sequel to the Uss
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Callister. If you remember this episode, it was like one off episode,
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which kind of Black Mirror, every every episode is one off kind of Star
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Trek loosely based, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it should
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hit next year, is what they're saying. For those of us who didn't
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watch Black Mirror, I'm not saying me. I'm saying there might be an
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audience member or two who haven't. Did you watch Black Mirror, and if
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so, could you give us a little Yeah, so we reviewed it.
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It's it's one of our past episodes. Black Mirror is kind of like the
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modern day, I don't know, it's very much in the vein of Twilight
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Zone, that kind of that kind of so each each episode is its own
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thing. They do not connect. They're what they call an anthology series.
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Gotcha. And so a few years ago they did a a Star Trek style
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show. It was called The Uss Callister. It had a bunch of actors
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now that you would go back and be like, oh, that guy's in
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there, right right, Yeah, it's pretty neat. I don't remember the
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whole premise of the episode, but I do remember thinking it was pretty good.
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I know we did review it, so you can go listen to our
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review. Yeah, ty j is saying it's it's really dark. That's dude,
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that is true. I do remember it being but most of Black Marry,
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Yeah, most of a Black Marry is very very dark. Okay,
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uh yeah yeah, so that should be hitting hitting uh Netflix sometime next year.
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So I'll check that out. Yeah, more more surgic. It's pretty
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cool. Definitely not for kids, kind of like, right we reviewed,
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okay, okay, but that's all the news stories, all right. Yeah,
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if you don't mind, I've got something i'd like to bring up.
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Yeah, yeah, good for it. So I have been doing a rewatch
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of Star Trek Discovery, and so far, I'm about halfway through season two.
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So I've just been it's been on in the background, and i've been
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you know, while I'm working out and while I'm on my lunch at work
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and stuff like that. So I've been kind of powering through them. There's
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a They're fairly long episodes, varying from like about forty five minutes to about
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almost an hour long. The first season was fifteen or sixteen episodes. The
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second season is like fourteen or fifteen episodes, so they get progressively shorter.
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But so, I just wanted to note a couple of things about the rewatch.
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Number One, I am enjoying the rewatch more than my than the initial
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run. Okay, so I think it's because some of the shocking things that
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I sort of sort of hit me the wrong way the first time, like
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the Klingons and some of the storyline are not so egregious to me the second
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time around. The shock Yeah, it's it's out of my system and I'm
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just able to focus on the storylines. I'm finding myself stopping and rewinding to
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catch certain lines of dialogue because I care what they're saying, and I care
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a little bit more about the storyline more this time around, and I'm getting
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a little bit more out of it. I'm I'm obviously I'm understanding the characters
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a little bit more of the second time around, and so it's it's it's
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better the second time around. I'm just I'm halfway through season two, so
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I've you know, we're not quite sure who the Red Angel is at this
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point. We have been introduced to Spock. He's gone crazy. So I'm
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I'm really loving. One of the characters that I'm liking a lot more of
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the second time around is Georgio. Uh, Georgio. She is the first
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time, I just hated her because she was such you know, she was
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like the bad guy. But this time around, I'm understanding sort of the
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depths of her character and why they why they if they if the showrunners wanted
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Georgio there, why they chose that version of her instead of the primetime primeline
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version of her. Because Emperor Georgio is much more interesting than Captain Georgio,
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right right. So IIJ says that he did a rewatch last year and that
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the seasons are a masterpiece compared to what follows. Well, yeah, that's
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I'm I'm debating whether or I see, here's the thing too. The first
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season of Discovery came out in twenty seventeen. Yeah, so it was a
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long time ago. I there were half of the episodes I had only vague
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recollections of. Part of the reason why I'm enjoying the rewatch is it's kind
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of like watching a new Star Trek series because I don't remember half of these
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either tuned them out or wasn't all that interested, or you know, I
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remember the first couple of episodes, but after that it was kind of a
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blur. And I'm I'm really enjoying the rewatch because I'm I'm remembering the episodes
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and actually, you know, caring. But they're one of the things that
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I'm doing while I'm rewatching uh the season one and two as I've also gone
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back and I'm re listening to trek Cast the corresponding cast episodes and from you
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know, five years ago, and I have a couple of notes here.
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Yeah, that's right, go for it. So, yeah, so a
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couple of highlights from uh Trek Cast. Now, UH trek Cast the next
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generation when you guys took over, Yeah, uh was around the same time
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the Discovery started. Yeah, they kind of coincided, so you weren't doing
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an episode by episode. You were kind of recapping like parts of seasons back
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then. And one of a couple of notes was number one. Chad said
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many times the writers of Discovery are and I quote geniuses. So I don't
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know how well that aged. There was a discussion in which you, Daniel
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gave Dan and Chad a lesson in quantum physics with a side dose of relativity.
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You guys were talking about space travel and you went into this, you
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put your professor Daniel head on again. You were explained quite well, I
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might add general relativity. Yeah, general relativity, some quantum physics, and
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and you were sort of explaining uh uh equals MC squared to us. That
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was that was great, yep, ye, but uh but probably my favorite
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thing that aged so well was was Dan's yeah impersonation of Starfleet Captain Donald Trump.
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Oh god, absolutely amazing. So if you if you haven't seen it
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a while or you just started listening to trek cast, there, if you
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just started listening to trek Cast within the last like six months or so,
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uh, there was a period five years ago that was that didn't have Scott
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and it had Chad, Dan and Daniel and you're doing it, especially if
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you're doing a disco rewatch, go back to the corresponding time. Uh,
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go back to the time index of whatever show you're watching and re re listen
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or rewatch trek cast. There's some there's some gold nuggets in there. Boy.
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Also your guys' predictions. For God, the direction that Discovery was going
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to go. It made me feel like I was in the year twenty fifteen
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and watching Back to the Beature Part two for the first time. Sure,
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yeah, just it was great. Yeah, it was loved it. Loved
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it, you know, as as is with any time you're you know,
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try to predict the future. You know, sometimes you get a little bit
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of it right, and then sometimes you just you know, obviously you're gonna
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get it comically off. And I love the predictions. They're fantastic predictions.
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We do them and if they if they had gone in any of those directions,
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it would have been it would have been great. One of the things
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that I found funny was predictions that were from the studio. You Yeah,
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I just listened to an episode the other day where you did a news story
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where they were like, I think this is late twenty seventeen, or early
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twenty eighteen, and you're like, oh, yeah, they're in pre production
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for section thirty one and it's probably going to come out next year, because
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that's what they kept telling us. And it's like, uh yeah, I
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got newsports. Yeah, yeah, absolutely is going to be our black audam
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where he constantly about it. This is constantly. Yeah, we're going to
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constantly have new stories about it. Then someday it may or may not come
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out, but yeah, so that eventually, that's that's my recap of that.
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And if you know, especially for people like Chad if Discovery put a
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bad taste in your mouth, and and for Dan a rewatch, I know
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that Dan's actually doing the rewatch right now. Yeah, so I'm curious to
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hear what his his opinions are about it. But I just got one more
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thing. I wanted to show up, do a little show and tell.
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I saw in the Facebook group the Gentleman that lives in New York, Uh
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devall, yeah, I think it was I think it was him. He
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posted something he said, I just picked this up from Target and I had
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to get it. This is a I'm holding this up. If you can't
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if you can't see this, I'm holding up a small toy model of the
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Enterprise D that I got from Target after seeing the post from Devall. He
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said, he got it from Target, and I really like this. It's
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this thing only cost me twenty five dollars. Oh, it's got a little
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it's got a little starfleet stand. Oh it's not the most well put together
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thing. It's it's kind of cheaply made. But but but first, you
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know, and it it does it does little uh it does little sound effects.
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N I don't know. Yeah, and it does. It does the
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voice of Captain mc cart and Riker. And the thing that the reason why
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I got it, The thing that I like about it the most is it
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actually separates. Oh that's dope. And when it does the sound effect that
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it makes, and it's also got lights, the sound effects that it makes
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is the undocking sequence, so it actually has the sound effect of the docking
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sequence. So yeah, it's Yeah. So if you I was expecting when
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I went onto the Target website or or or eBay or whatever, I was
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expecting it to be because sometimes I've seen these and they'll sell them for like
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four hundred dollars just because they can't because you know, some of us full
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are foolish enough to spend quarter bucks, And I thought, there's no way
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this is going to be like a regular Christ thing. And it was like
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forty dollars on clearance for twenty three plus shipping. Oh wow. And so
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if yeah, the Enterprise D Little Model, it's it's about a little bit
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smaller than the old Playmates Model Enterprise because when I first saw in the box,
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I thought maybe they'd use the same mold. They didn't. It's a
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completely different it's a completely different process. I was wondering when this would happened,
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like that's a little D. That that is the it's the little D.
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Yep. Right, So I'm not going to confirm or deny whether I
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uh flew this around my house sound effects yesterday. That's for absolutely. So
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that's awesome. Well I'm glad you got it. I I think I may
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need to get one myself done. Yep. Yeah, all right, Well
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let's head on to our supplemental spotlight. This is gonna be interesting when folks,
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so here we go. All right, So we want to do something
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kind of star trek ish, and so we are. We took a look
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at a film. It's called mk Ultra it does star Anson Mount aka Captain
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Pike, So that's kind of the stretch that it started related because he's in
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it. This film was originally released in twenty twenty two. According to Rotten
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Tomatoes, it has a ninety three percent audience score, and that's with two
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hundred and twenty audience member ratings. So this is a film based on a
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true story about the MK eerments that the government did in the sixties seventies.
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Yeah, it was on Amazon Prime if you have a Prime account. I
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think it is part of the membership on there, so you can just watch
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it. Yep. What did you think, Scott? You know, it
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was interesting. It's a psychological thriller. Like you said, it's based on
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the experiments they did back in the sixties. Have you ever heard those stories
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about the government experimenting with LSD and other psycho whatever drugs to you know,
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kind of control people and that kind of thing. It's based on that.
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It's loosely based on a true story about it. Yeah, and it's like
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you said, it star as Ants and Mount as the the head scientists that
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sort of get sucked into this world of of government CIA, you know,
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undercover kind of kind of world. It's it's it's a trippy film, and
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I think that's an app word. Yeah, and I think that's part of
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the what they were going for, to make it feel like you were on
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acid, right right, Yeah, I mean it's weird. I think it
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was. It's kind of almost weird watching its sober. Yeah, yeah,
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a little bit. I don't advocate drug use, but if you're already into
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that, Yeah, it's definitely not one for children. No, No.
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Throughout the film there is a lot of nudity. I wasn't expecting it,
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yeah either. Yeah, yeah, a lot of drug obviously drug use.
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You know, we have to say based on a true story kind of because
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a lot of that stuff is classified. I mean some has been declassified.
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But even though the lead character Anson Mount's character, doctor Strauss, uh,
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there's no verification that I could find that that was a real person. That's
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interesting because I I, yeah, I did the same thing. I looked
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him up and it's like, uh, it's based I couldn't find a person
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that he's based on. But I couldn't find like in the film, they
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have archival footage that they sort of lead you to believe is the real doctor
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Strauss, right, but I couldn't confirm whether he was a real person or
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not. You know, usually you can find an article says, oh,
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he's a fake person. That's loosely fair. But I couldn't even find that.
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It just, yeah, to be fair, there's not a lot of
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articles about this movie. It was a small independent film. It really had
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a theatrical run. Well like the Rotten Tomatoes the ninety three that was an
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audience score, because it doesn't have a critics score. A critic score.
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Yeah, do you want to know what the box office was on this thing?
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I guess I don't remember it. I mean it was a million lucks.
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Yeah, not even It has made just over twenty five dollars in the
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box office get out twenty That is from box office Mojo and by the Numbers,
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those are both two of the main tracking sites out there. Yeah,
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so it's like hundred people saw this. Yeah, you know, and when
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they say a theatrical run, here, I'm going to pull up the numbers
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right there so we can see them. There. They are in box office
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Mojo internationally worldwide two and fifty two dollars. When they say theatrical run,
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that literally couldvene it was in one theater, which kind of that's what it
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sounds like. Yeah, it probably was in two or three theaters in the
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LA area, you know, for like you know, a weekend. Yeah,
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that's that's probably what it was. It also went straight to v O
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D. We don't have the VOD numbers, and I could not find a
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budget on this film. I don't think the budget was very high. Yeah,
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I can tell you that if you hadn't suggested a review of this,
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I probably never would have seen this. Yeah, Like it's a psychological thriller,
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not really my jam, you know, but I watched the whole thing.
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It was interesting. I was entertained. I'll I'll never watch it again.
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I yeah, me, you probably would either. But yeah, if
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you if you like psychological thrillers, I definitely recommend it. I generally like
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these kinds of films like these, like based on a true story, maybe
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some sort of government or some type of like legal casing that in Vain,
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that kind of thriller I do typically like every now and then. Yeah,
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but this film, it's a simple story, right. It starts out with
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with doctor Stress is running experiments in a mental institution and his funding is going
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to get cut. And he meets a CIA agent who says, hey,
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we'll give you all the funding you want, just come work for us.
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He rejects it. Then eventually he takes up the deal and he starts getting
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all his funding and it's it's you know, dealing that that, that deal
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with the devil, and it doesn't go quite the way he wants. And
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the ending is very weird. I don't want to spoil the ending, but
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if somebody were to do what he does at the end of the movie,
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there's no way he'd be walking around free. No uh yeah, I mean
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I can see a world where he walks around free because they want to cover
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it up. Well, he's either walking for like a month or two and
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then he would get or he magically disappears. Yes, you know, it's
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not even clear about what his fate was at the end. Because I thought
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they were gonna do some twispers that they had been drinking him the entire Yeah,
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yeah, that I thought would have been cool. But you know,
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yeah, it's it's a it's a very weird movie. It's interesting to see
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Anson Mountain a completely different character. Not you know, this character is the
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antithesis of Captain Pike, where his pike is like confident and and and suave.
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He has as the kids say, you know, yeah, this this
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character is like the complete opposite, just unsure of himself, nervous, you
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know, timid. It's very weird. Do see Mount Mount like that?
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It's also weird Shaane smoking like crazy yep yep, yeah, and and smoking
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other funny cigarettes too, that's right, that's right, that's right. And
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h and engaging in all sorts of weird sexual activity. Yes, there was
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a weird sexual activity. That's right, that's right. Yeah, he isn't
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even Actor Jason Patrick was in the film. Jason Patrick had been in a
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lot of movies back in the day. He was in another thriller that I
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really enjoyed, Narco or Narcs. Back in the day. He was,
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yeah, some other film that was in the box office recently. The director
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and writer of this film, Joseph Sarantino, is a former ex intelligence officer,
29:41
so he's got a background in this. H it's kind of interesting he's
29:45
become a filmmaker since he's got a handful of movies out there. Yeah,
29:51
apparently this whole film takes place in Mississippi. I don't remember them saying that,
29:56
but uh, there was a a crawl across the screen. There was
30:00
a thing across the street that said something a mental hospital, psychiatric hospital,
30:04
Mississippi nineteen sixty one. Yeah, okay, which you know, Mississippi in
30:10
nineteen sixty one is kind of gives a bad, bad vibe to begin with,
30:14
right, that's true, that's true. Yeah, it's a short film.
30:19
It's only like ninety eight minutes. According to the Wikipedia, the film
30:23
was originally called Midnight Climax, but then they changed it to mk Ultra.
30:27
Yeah, either one or disturbing, Yeah, mk Ultra. The reason why
30:33
it's called the mk Ultra is that's the name of the like the SAIA or
30:38
the That was the name of the program that the CIA. It was,
30:42
okay, the program, yeah, yea program. Yeah yeah. And if
30:45
you want to go researching mk Ultra on the internet and good luck, good
30:49
yeah, it's yeah, you're gonna have all sorts of tinfoil to have fun,
30:55
right right, yeah, Maybe we can Maybe we can asked Dan to
31:00
get some space force, uh you know, expertise. Maybe he can dig
31:03
something up. I don't know if he could, I mean it'd be all
31:07
right, right yeah, yeah, the section thirty one is Space Force will
31:11
not like that. That's true. That's true. Well, my theory is
31:15
that Dan is section thirty one of Spaceport. That's true, that makes sense.
31:21
He always watched Yeah, yeah, but it's you know, it was
31:29
neat to see a start actor in something else at least sure. Yeah,
31:33
sure, maybe one of these days we'll watch The Green Room with Patrick Stewart
31:38
and uh Antony Eltin. I don't know if you ever seen that one.
31:42
I've heard of it, I've never I've never worn Yeah, that's that's where
31:45
Patrick Stewarer plays the neo Nazi. Okay, yeah, that would be weird.
31:49
It's a really crazy film. But yeah, yeah, you know,
31:55
it's it's that there's a reason why a lot of actors play either bad guys
32:00
good guys. You know, you sort of see them, you know.
32:04
I don't want to see Patrick Stewart as a bad guy. I don't want
32:07
to see Jonathan Fraakes as a bad guy, you know, because I love
32:12
these actors because of the characters they play. Yeah, that's true. But
32:21
yeah, so that that was the movie. I will say, just kind
32:24
of give people Risola a little bit. We do have a plan for the
32:28
next few episodes, So SE's that. So next week, Yeah, next
32:34
week we will be covering the new Ghostbusters movie, Frozen Empire. The week
32:38
after that we will be doing our Star Trek Discovery Season five prediction show,
32:44
and then after that it'll be all Discovery during the run of that show.
32:50
Just want to let people know what's kind of in store, since we have
32:52
a plan and not just like, oh, we'll figure it out later.
32:55
Yeah, yeah, so what is plan? Hopefully? I mean Paramount Plus
33:01
had a plan too, So you're not wrong, You're not wrong. Can
33:07
you imagine if in the middle of Discovery they're like, we're gonna split it
33:09
up in October? Yeah, like six weeks in Yeah, right, right,
33:16
I can see that happening. Well, I'm sure you know, in
33:20
a week or two we'll be able to review section thirty one. That's gonna
33:22
come out. Right. No, they're shooting it now. Oh, they
33:25
are shooting it now. Like I said, I'll believe it when I see
33:29
it, Yeah, exactly, exactly. Now, is that gonna be a
33:31
movie a series that there? They've been kind of kind of back and forthy
33:37
on that, haven't they Like, is it gonna be a full series?
33:42
No, it's it's a it's a TV movie, TV movie. Okay,
33:45
yeah it is. It is one hundred percent TV movie. But I don't
33:51
know if that means like is it three hour movies? A two hour movie?
33:54
You know, I don't know. Is it part one, two and
33:57
three of a movie? Right? Right? You know? What exactly are
34:01
they going to be doing here? Yeah? You know, because like one
34:07
of the last I think I was talking to I was talking to my wife
34:08
and son about Stranger Things, and like the last season the Stranger Things,
34:13
it's like a couple of two hour episodes, you know, together, So
34:17
yeah, who knows what. Well, now these kids are like thirty five
34:22
years old and have kids, right, yeah, Yeah, it's gonna be
34:27
really tough to do that next sea. Yeah, and as you know,
34:31
as you go on in seasons two, you know, you know, Millie
34:35
Bobby Brown commanded what you know, maybe like one hundred thousand dollars an episode
34:38
during season one, and now you know, she's ridiculously famous and well yeah,
34:44
and she keeps working with Netflix, so they love her. Yeah,
34:46
so they want to they want to keep Well, the you Nola Holmes movies
34:52
were really good. I really, I really liked those. She plays,
34:54
yeah, she she Millie. Bobby Brown plays Nola Holmes. The uh then
35:00
the Little Sister or the niece, I think Little Sister of Sherlock Holmes.
35:05
And it's on Netflix. They're really fun movies. Okay, yeah, check
35:09
those out. Check check them out. I caught so when Prodigy was on
35:16
the air, I got up to four episodes and then I stopped. So
35:20
I caught up to see to the fifth episode and I've stopped. Okay,
35:23
so we'll see. Prodigy was fun, obviously geared towards kids, but it
35:30
was had just enough, you know, it's It's Star Trek, which was
35:34
enough to keep me, you know, engaged long enough, you know,
35:38
to to watch the whole thing. And uh, season two is coming out
35:44
eventually at some point, so they say, you know, well it's allegedly
35:47
it's in the can, so I hope. So yeah, and but that
35:53
doesn't mean that it's coming out Netflix spotted, so okay, okay, but
36:00
we have seen projects that were filmed edited and then oh, by the way,
36:07
this has never coming never going to see the light of day. Yeah,
36:08
absolutely, absolutely, Well, let's let's get to feedback. Sure,
36:15
yeah, listener feedback all right, So I wanted to share this for feedback.
36:28
I posted this meme a few days ago. It's for those of you
36:31
listening. It is a picture of the Star Trek Enterprise just being attacked.
36:37
It's an inside shot of the of the bridge. The card and Riker and
36:42
war were all just sparks everywhere, and the ship is yeah, it's it's
36:47
shaken nuts start for sure. And the the quote is or the the caption
36:54
is caption this with the last text you sent, and we had some pretty
37:00
good ones. So this is from the Instagram account. One person wrote,
37:07
just waiting on the last two drinks as everyone's dying. Another person wrote I
37:15
only got four hours of sleep, but yeah, I'll be fine driving home.
37:21
Yeah. Another one I'm not in the epping mood today. Yeah.
37:28
My favorite one though, came from our threads account and somebody with that picture
37:34
posted sweet, I don't have to go to the meeting tomorrow. That's great.
37:43
Yeah, I just let me share this. We've got Chas Biz on
37:47
the line, so let's bring him on there he is where that Hey?
38:00
I love it. This is a Star Trek only guys Star Trek, right,
38:08
So did you watch himk ultrue? I started it last night. Yeah,
38:15
and then I woke up and it was over that, right, Yeah,
38:22
I got came from some people who are into psychological thrillers, like but
38:34
a lot lower. Yeah. I don't know where that ninety three percent came
38:37
from. My wife likes that genre movie and she's like, yeah, I'm
38:40
going to bed. This is boring. Yeah, okay, yeah, I'll
38:45
try to watch this week maybe like bits and pieces, but I really did.
38:49
I fell asleep. So I think if I want to see as Mount
38:53
something else, I'll watch the Britney Spears movie. He was in that too.
38:58
Oh okay, yeah check that out out Crossroads. Yeah yeah, Crossroads
39:04
that Yeah, you can be a black Bolt to not say a word,
39:07
so that's right. Yeah, and then what else was again Helen Wills?
39:16
Yeah, he was in Helen Wheels for a long time. Yeah, so
39:20
you want same in other shows? When is Yeah? My wife creed like,
39:28
yeah, yep, it was boring. They you may have to review
39:36
Crossroads. It's got not only as Mount, but it's got Zoe's Yep.
39:42
Yeah, it's connection. There's it's seven degrees to Kevin Bacon right now?
39:47
Oh boy? Yeah, yeah, you guys think we should interview or review
39:52
Crossroads at some point. Okay, before you decide that, I think this,
40:00
my wife says, Yep, I think you should review the numbers for
40:04
this trek Cast episode and then decide if you want to review Crossroads. Yeah,
40:09
we'll see, we'll see. I think Discovery Crossroads could be nice.
40:14
Uh. Do you think more people have listened to this episode than singing mk
40:20
Ultra? Yes? Oh yeah, probably probably. I wonder if they'll get
40:27
the treck Cast bump maybe, like yeahs for the box why did why did
40:37
twelve people watch this movie in the last week? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
40:40
let's make a sequel. Yeah. Oh no, our box office is
40:46
now twenty seven hundred. How did we get there? Hey, that's the
40:52
treck Cast bump, ladies and gentlemen. There you go, there you go.
40:57
That sucks? Uh boy, Yeah, but next week Ghostbusters and then
41:04
after that Discovery. Yeah, I think that'll bring it back connection to Ghostbusters
41:08
and Star Trek, like which character would be connected to I feel like there's
41:15
a crossover. I know, I'm sitting there thinking, I was like who
41:20
and oh I didn't think about that. Yeah, there's been a lot of
41:22
coming a crossovers with Star Trek. Yeah, but now I'm talking about actors
41:28
that acted in Sea act connected to Ghostbusters. I don't know, but uh,
41:35
that just made me think Paul Rudd needs to show up on lower decks.
41:38
Yes he was in the nineties, who knows. Yeah, that guy's
41:44
been everywhere. So I wonder if Paul Rudd ever did like a background Starfleet
41:49
officer and like Deep Nine Voyager, if he did those, Yeah, that'd
41:55
true. That's true, uniform on and everything. Yeah, it's the lead
42:00
singer or drummer whoever from Against Rage, Against the Machine showed up and Voyager?
42:06
Yeah, and then pet when Matt was all covered in what was he
42:10
the fish guy on one episode? Oh yeah yeah, yeah, I was
42:16
covered to makeup. You wouldn't even know. It's Iggy Pop that dies?
42:22
Was it? What the King of Jordan is in one episode? Yeah?
42:24
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can pick your face, but I can't
42:30
remember what episode he was in. Yeah, TG, I think okay,
42:34
Yeah, there was a bunch on TG, more than probably any of the
42:37
others. Yeah. Do you think the fact who was the only person in
42:44
Star Trek to ever play himself? Stephen Hawkins? Yeah, Albert Einstein on
42:52
that or or what's his name, Mark Twain. That's right, it went
42:59
back got Sam Clemens. Hey for us, that is Marko. That is
43:07
my favorite portrayal of Sam Clemens on TV. Yeah, he's such a dick,
43:17
just runner around gosin problems. Yeah, I know people like that who
43:24
think they constantly know better. Yeah, you know, they kind of made
43:30
him in the ass. Did you see where people like they Yeah, several
43:37
people dressed up as Samuel Clemens. Yes, that's a pretty good bit.
43:40
That's a pretty good bit. I did see that they have officially released an
43:47
officially licensed Mopsie just recently. Really, your knockoff Mopsie's like, you're not
43:55
getting my moopsie? You hear that paramount book? Would you say? Move
44:02
to see popcorn bucket? That's all. No, you put your hand in
44:07
there, it'll it'll drink your bones. Yeah, or a triple one you
44:10
get hair in your popcorn? Oh yeah, you don't want that. Nobody
44:14
wants that. No, nobody wants the shuttle craft or we'll go off.
44:21
You're eating spots brain, So no, I love it, Yeah, no
44:31
at all. That's the hard I didn't find that. Uh apparently in a
44:37
Star Trek comic book, they didn't like crossover with the Ghostbusters, but they
44:42
made a ghost catching trap in one of the comic books. Oh really,
44:46
okay, ghost trap is going to be the the bucket well one eckta one,
44:54
I think. Yeah, there's a few different books. Yeah, there's
44:58
like not everybody after the I can't talk about it after that one movie that
45:05
buckets. Yeah, each each theater chain pretty much gets their own bucket.
45:10
So yeah, so mine's just a cleanex holder right now. So uh huh
45:19
that's what it is. Yes, that's what it is now when it's olden
45:22
mm hmm. No. Nice. You want to bring up next week?
45:30
You guys are doing Ghostbuster's right, Yes, yes we are. The bad
45:34
thing is I won't be here. I might be here, but I might
45:37
be on the road to feedback because my wife it's making me see Sleepless in
45:43
Seattle at eleven a m. Next week, So oh no, yeah,
45:46
I'm like, damn it, what I have to wake up so early to
45:51
come on to see Ghostbusters. So they're playing they're doing a re like Sleepless
45:57
and Seattle in the theater. Yeah, it's like brunch thing. Oh okay,
46:02
okay, you have alcohol and like I don't drink in the morning,
46:07
drag ass all day. But I uh. Earlier this week, I went
46:15
to my buddy's fortieth birthday party. They had runted out of movie theater and
46:19
we watched the original Planet of the Apes. Yeah, yeah, when were
46:25
you talking about that? Yeah? Man, I I guess I realized I
46:30
had never seen the movie all the way through clips. Yeah, and man,
46:37
that movie it's weird man. Yeah, Darlton Essen totally over acting.
46:44
Oh yeah, I almost feel bad for the hands off your damn dirty ape.
46:50
Yeah all that. Some of the other lines too, like when they
46:55
travel through time and they go further into the future, they have a female
47:01
astronaut with them and she dies in time travel. Yeah, and and then
47:07
he like later says at one point he's like, yeah, she was supposed
47:09
to be our Eve, and we were gonna reproduce and repopulate with her,
47:14
Like that's why you brought her a board. Obviously she's not a scientist,
47:19
don't be silly. Yeah, there's three of them and then one of her
47:22
women. We right to have more women if you're going to repopulate, Yeah,
47:29
absolutely, Yeah, it was opposite apparently not what they were thinking.
47:35
No, if you're think of their minds. It was more like trade you
47:40
need more women. So the whole thing was just messed up. Man.
47:47
Yeah, yeah it's good maybe though, I mean it's really good. I
47:53
did like what there was a scene where two apes kiss and because it's it's
47:59
bad makeup from then. I mean it looks great, but what's your little
48:02
mouth clones? Yeah, they just smush against each other and you can just
48:07
like visibly see it. Did they tongue? That wasn't that kind of okay?
48:15
Yeah, it was cool to see it in the theater we went to
48:22
in Spokane. It's called the Garland. It's a complete like art deco style,
48:25
like from the nineteen forties. And oh that sounds cool. Yeah yeah,
48:30
so it was neat to see it in that kind of setting. But
48:34
yeah, last week I saw it was a Pull fiction so oh nice?
48:38
Yeah nice? Then mine too, Yeah, I love Pull. Fisher's a
48:44
thirty year anniversary or something like this. Oh is it really? Wow?
48:47
Yes, came out in ninety four and like a bunch of theaters are showing
48:53
it. Thanks a lot. Me feel so old, I know, right,
48:58
but maybe it's so great. It's like that is that is a movie?
49:02
That all you need is dialogue and just listen to him talk. And
49:07
what they're saying is it's hilarious. You know that's true. Yeah, it's
49:10
a good film, and it has a Star Trek connection because Honey Bunny played
49:15
on the card last year. Yeah that's right. Well, now we've got
49:20
to start connectiction. Yes, let's review fiction. Yeah, it'll be great.
49:27
That's an awesome movie. Do podcasts you can make a warning on the
49:30
podcast like adult Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah for
49:37
an advisory stick around. You can't review it without using the word at least
49:42
forty yeah, when they use other words at that time. A lot more
49:49
milkshakes when we review it. Oh the five dollars milk shape, right,
49:53
you know, tasty burger? Yeah? Was that Nick Royal with cheese?
50:00
Yeah, that's such a great. Now I'm going to Paris next month.
50:07
I'm going to see if that's really true. Oh yeah, McDonald's. Yea,
50:14
if it's right. I was just watching a CNBC article about how fast
50:21
food has taken over France American fast food and outside of the US, France
50:28
is the number one country for buying fast food. Wow. Yeah, it's
50:34
crazy, Like they love our fast food. But one of the big differences
50:37
is France has got like strict rules about like preservatives and food, so like
50:44
their fast food is a lot higher quality than ours. Yeah, so that's
50:49
part of the reason why it just tastes better. So you couldn't leave like
50:52
a bucket of McDonald's fries on the shelf for ten years and they wouldn't change
50:55
type of thing. Correct, Correct, there's a go back after a few
51:00
days. Pretious. Yeah, but they love our KFC, they love our
51:07
our McDonald's. Yeah. McDonald's I think is like the number one, and
51:10
then right after that is Burger King Like it's it's pretty cool. Yeah,
51:16
So chances are you going to take a picture? We gotta you gotta take
51:20
a picture of yourself in front of the Eiffel Tower with your truck cast head
51:22
on. Yeah, absolutely, hat. Yeah, yeah, gotta take You
51:28
gotta take your hat and post, you know, post it on the Facebook
51:30
group. That's right Eiffel. No think you're part of the cast because it's
51:36
closer over there. I guess I have to wear it on the flight.
51:38
So yeah, my wife, we got to pack light and I'm like,
51:43
what do you mean we're going? Yeah, because I'm thinking about the crews.
51:49
I want to I want to take my trick Cat shirt on the cruise
51:51
when we go. Oh yeah cast shirt. You know. Yeah, there's
51:58
a few new shirt styles on the on the web said, I haven't mentioned
52:00
that, but yeah, new designs. Yeah yeah, I've got I ordered
52:06
the trek Cast uh motorcycle Best patch and I gotta yeah, yeah, I
52:09
got that in. I gotta. I still have to put that on the
52:13
best but right when I do, I'll take a picture of it. Okay,
52:17
uh yeah, anything else, just this, when's the treck Cast flame
52:22
thrower coming out? It's not a flamethrower because a flamethrower is illegal to sell.
52:27
But you can say not a flamethrower and then it's fine. Not a
52:30
yeah bug remover or yeah check cast the lunch spot. Right. I bought
52:43
a friend of mine a lightsaber, and all it is is it's just a
52:45
giant lighter that shoots out a giant flame. Oh wow, yeah, would
52:52
you guys try to burn with it? Uh? Well, it took us
52:54
for fluid put in it, but I really it's a special fluid. So
53:00
it's a it's a special type of utane that like the the spigot for it
53:06
is very specific, so we had Mutts to get it. Yeah yeah,
53:12
it's just regular running around the woods, burned out, and he's really the
53:20
grillian, so I got it for him to light up his grill. That's
53:24
awesome because I told, you know, what's cooler than I'm gonna barbecue.
53:28
But I'm gonna barbecue with my lightsaber. So right, Actually, you know
53:37
those little electric ones that have the little sparks or oh yeah yeah, don't
53:43
light your fireplace with one of those, or you know, especially have gas
53:49
exploding. That could be problems sin my leg. Yeah yeah, I would
53:58
know. I think you've got away lucky with that then yeah, yeah,
54:05
not doing that again my life. Yeah. Oh boy, Well thanks for
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54:23
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