Bomber's Trek: TNG 1x06 Lonely Among Us

[00:00:03] Speaker A: Discovery going throttle up. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Hello out there and welcome to the Star Trek Warp Top 10 Podcast. What is happening, Trek fans? So glad to have you with us again. I'm your host, Phil Rizzo, and as always, I'm joined on his journey by Brian Parks. What's going on, Bomber? [00:00:41] Speaker B: Well, I'll tell you what, what's going on is, you know, the Star Trek world got a lot more interesting with this one. I will say that I, I got to tell you something right now. I know it's titled Lonely Among Us. We'll get to the title, we'll get to all this. I know we're just kicking this off, but I don't feel lonely anymore. I mean, I feel like I am in the Star Trek. I'm on the bridge. We're in this now. This, this episode is wow. All I gotta say is wow. I pumped up to talk about it. How are we doing? [00:01:09] Speaker A: Good, man, good. I'm so glad. I'm so glad. So as, as Brian's been telling everybody, this is the first episode in which Brian watched it sober and took notes. And we've, you know, we're still trying to perfect this bad boy. This is something we just kind of started when Brian decided to take up the, the next gen. So, yeah, we're, we're feeling this out as we go, but this, this, this is gonna be an interesting one. I'm very much looking forward to this. Not just because of what, you know, Brian brings to the table, but because of this episode. Yeah, I rewatched this one as well. I should tell you, I haven't watched this one in a while. There's a reason for that. But I, I watched this one again last night, as a matter of fact, and I know you watched it last night as well, so that's really interesting. And yeah, let's, let's talk about it. Listen, check us out because we're on TikTok, we're on Instagram, we're posting as much as we can on there. You can check us out at twarp10 and as always, you can give us an email atwarp10mail.com Let us know what your favorite first season episode is. Let us know how much you love us, how much you hate us. Let us know what's going on in your Star Trek universe. But yeah, we're talking about Lonely and Among Us, as Bomber talked about. [00:02:23] Speaker B: This is the six, right? I was gonna say counting the episode, one and two is one episode. This is the sixth episode, 100%. [00:02:31] Speaker A: This is the sixth episode of Next Gen season one, starting from the beginning and. [00:02:36] Speaker B: Should I give you a minute? Do you want to bring up the recap here or the synopsis? [00:02:39] Speaker A: Yeah, let's talk about it. So Lonely Among Us. I'll do the recap first and we'll talk about that rating. So while distracted by two antithetical races applying for Federation membership, the Enterprise picks up a sentient entity that can alternately possess either man or machinery. Pretty good synopsis, I think. Pretty good. I like a little vocab going there. It's a good job done. Not bad. So this is. Oh, you know, what should I say it? Have you already rated it? [00:03:10] Speaker B: I rated it. I rated it myself for my own. [00:03:13] Speaker A: Leave that for now. So, so IMDb has a 6.3 rating on this guy, and if I'm not mistaken, that might be the lowest one so far. [00:03:21] Speaker B: Wow. [00:03:21] Speaker A: Oh, no, of course not. Of course not. [00:03:23] Speaker B: Well, Corner was a. [00:03:24] Speaker A: Was a 5.1. Yeah. So, yeah. So 6.3. So this is Lonely Among Us. So. Yeah. So, I mean, first impressions of this episode, man. Let's hear it. [00:03:34] Speaker B: Well, I. I gotta say this. My. My impressions of the episode is, you know, first of all, I. I want to. I know it's season one, and we're trying to figure out what we're doing here, but I thought I. You know, this episode. What does it not have? I mean, this episode is absolute insanity, in my opinion. It is. There's so many different things going on. I wish there was more time with certain parts of it. I just thought it was, like, what? I thought it was entertaining as fuck. Well, first of all, I mean, let's just get rid of. [00:04:05] Speaker A: Really. [00:04:05] Speaker B: I really did. I. Don't get me wrong, it was wacky as hell, I thought. [00:04:10] Speaker A: But. [00:04:10] Speaker B: But, you know, I gotta say, you know, right off the top of the episode now, I forgot I might be wrong. Even though I did just watch it yesterday pretty early on here. We're. We're beaming in these. These snake people. Right, Right, right, right. As soon as they get beamed in, I'm going right to that machine, hitting the reverse button, and they're getting the. Out of there. You know, I don't want these around. Am I losing my mind? [00:04:38] Speaker A: You're saying as soon as you beat them in, you'd be like, all right, no, transfer right back out. [00:04:43] Speaker B: Yes, let's change the course to ricer. Whatever the that is, we're out of here. [00:04:48] Speaker A: Right. [00:04:49] Speaker B: It was like Cobra Commander and his henchmen. What are we doing here? [00:04:53] Speaker A: Oh, it really is. It really is now and now. [00:04:56] Speaker B: And, and the best that this is just now. I could be completely wrong about this. Well, I'm gonna get to what I'm gonna say, but I gotta say now. Only to be outdone by the dog faced brainhead, white bearded. What are these things? You know, like what are they? And they only got like the snake people. We didn't get that. We saw them like what for two, one to one or two scenes. And the same thing with these people. Like as much as I was freaked out by them, I kind of wanted more of these people. Did we see them again? [00:05:26] Speaker A: Do they. [00:05:26] Speaker B: We ever see them again or. No, we. [00:05:28] Speaker A: I, I don't think so. Not, not those species. You see similar species, you know. [00:05:32] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:05:33] Speaker A: You definitely see species that look like the lizard. Lizard guys for sure. On, on multiple shows. The, the whatever they were that dog cat people or whatever. Like they were. They were unique looking. I'll say that the makeup is pretty interesting. [00:05:46] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. They looked like, you know, to me it was like a 90 year old Benji fucked a brain that was just lying on the street, you know, that makes no sense. [00:05:58] Speaker A: Like brains do. Like those brains that you see on the street every day. [00:06:02] Speaker B: There was one scene that, where Riker was talking with Tasha Yar and one of these things was around. I don't know if I forget if it was the snake guy or the. I think it was the dog face guy. And yeah, and that guy was trying to talk and the two of them are looking like, what the fuck is this guy? I was with them. I'm like, we got to get this guy out of here. Like, this is fucking brutal. You know? You know, it was. I just love that they, they kind of shoehorn these guys into this episode, you know what I mean? I just thought it was hilarious. [00:06:30] Speaker A: So, you know, it was just a B story really. Yeah, they did. They put that in there as a B story, dude. Tashi or Denise Crosby, the actress. Her face at one point was hilarious. I was fucking dying. Like she didn't even try to hide her like revulsion and disgust when they were talking about like eating or something. Oh my God. [00:06:49] Speaker B: I feel like it was exactly like you said. There was revulsion and discuss and there was also a. Like she's just fed up about being in the episode with these people, I feel. You know what I mean? It was just like hilarious to me. [00:07:00] Speaker A: Right, right now I got, I got it. [00:07:03] Speaker B: I got to dissect one scene right off the top that I was on the place on the floor with this. This is the best. [00:07:09] Speaker A: This is the guys fans. This is an excited Brian with notes and a full head of steam, man. Take it away, baby, go. [00:07:18] Speaker B: So I, I don't know if I'm gonna, I'm gonna get you where we're going here, but I know at one point Jordy is in the, in the room and the electric. Gets the electric shock by the fucking thing. He's trying to fix something and he gets the shot. [00:07:28] Speaker A: We got to talk about that room. But yeah, right. [00:07:30] Speaker B: And they fly through a cloud or something. Is that what I'm. [00:07:33] Speaker A: Yes. [00:07:33] Speaker B: Remembering him. [00:07:34] Speaker A: Crowd of like and just energy, pure energy. [00:07:37] Speaker B: And then now I forget. Unfortunately my timeline here, I didn't write down. I didn't write down the best timeline of what, what happens first. But what I want to get to is when Wharf gets affected by this. [00:07:49] Speaker A: Yes. [00:07:50] Speaker B: Because I'm telling you right now, I'm gonna, I'm gonna try. This is gonna be a long winded story. I'm gonna tell you. But go. As you know, I might have mentioned this on this podcast before. Anybody out there listening that's fans of the old Universal Studios monsters movies now I. Why I grew up with my dad watching old, old movies. And the original Dracula was Bela Lugosi and the original Frankenstein monster was Boris Karloff who did how the Grinch Stole Christmas and everything, right? They made a few movies together and one of the great ones that I loved is called the Raven. In the movie. It's not. It's kind of based. They say it's based on the Ed Ground poem, but it's not really about that. It's more about. Bella Lugosi plays a Edgar Allen Poe obsessed mad scientist in the movie. Anyway, long story short, this young couple is staying at his house and him and Belargosi and Boris Karloff are teamed up. At this point, Boris Karloff kidnaps the woman, the. The female lead in the movie. And he's trying to take her through a secret passage. The boyfriend comes to try to rescue her. Boris call hits this guy not even with a regular full punch. He just like. It's like a light punch. And this guy's out cold on the ground, right? And Boriskov takes the girl. He gets her into the layer. Now him and Bela Lugosi get. They got the girl. They put her under like a pin that, you know, they put her in these, in these traps and everything. They're going to torture the girl. They keep cutting back to this, this guy for like the next 20 minutes, they keep cutting back to this guy out cold on the floor from a bullshit punch. My father. I remember watching my dad. My dad was. You got to be fucking kidding me. He was getting pissed. This guy's still out from this, you know, And I thought of this in this scene when I had to watch this. I was dying when I had to bring this up, watching this episode, you. [00:09:33] Speaker A: Know, just laughing hysterically. You know where I'm going, really? I mean, I remember the scene, but we're curious. [00:09:39] Speaker B: Wharf gets hit by this thing, and he doesn't know where the. You know. Now he's becoming like this animal, almost like, you know, like. Like a monster himself. And there's three. There's three people trying to. Trying to get him down. Crusher, right? Jordy and random guy. The random guy should get a. I want. I love this. This guy is the best. They're trying to hold down warp. Wharf doesn't hit the guy. He just kind of gets up and like, shoves the guy. This guy goes down to the ground. Meanwhile, Jordy and Crusher are putting a. You know, they're trying to fix war for trying to knock him out or she injects him or something. Ever. It is. This guy is out, like. Like, he got hit by a Mack truck. This guy, you know, like, what. What happened? I'm like. [00:10:21] Speaker A: I'm like, what the fuck? Right? [00:10:23] Speaker B: Then the best thing that happens is he. Now they're all recovering from this, he gets up. The guy, he's getting up and he's holding his head like. Like, this guy got hit by a true. Like a Mack truck. He gets up. Crusher goes. I think they forgot the guy was in the room. Crusher goes. Crusher goes, are you okay? No response. They walk out of the room and they end the scene. I was like, no, I was. I was dying. I'm like, first of all, was this an extra that they just didn't want to give the extra money to. To give one line, like, I'm cool. I'm okay. You know? I mean, like. Like, you can't give this guy any line of dialogue here. You know what I'm saying? Like, I was losing my mind on this. [00:11:00] Speaker A: I mean, I guess, like, you know better than anybody. Like, as. You know, like, if you. If they speak a line, they gotta get paid more. Right? [00:11:06] Speaker B: I mean, just was doing extra work. Yeah, like, yeah, definitely. You would have to get something similar. But so I'm getting. But, like, he. I don't even know if I gotta be honest. I don't even think the dude nodded his head, like. Yeah, I just think he just, like, almost like he didn't even hear or he just walks out of the fucking room. I was. It was. [00:11:21] Speaker A: That's fucking hilarious. [00:11:22] Speaker B: Classic. But. But now I know I was a long winded story because I was just laughing about how long the guy was knocked out for, but. And the fact that, you know, they didn't acknowledge that he got up and he was okay. But now. Now we got to get into the idea that. So this. This energy thing, this reminded me of the episode that we saw where everyone was falling in love with each other when Data bang. Tasha. [00:11:43] Speaker A: Yeah, it kind of reminded me that. [00:11:45] Speaker B: Right now, like, this thing is now moving around the ship and it's everyone up. Right? Is that what's going on here? [00:11:49] Speaker A: Right? Yeah. Yeah. [00:11:51] Speaker B: And I thought there was some interesting acting over here as well. Like, I like the idea that Crusher kind of got up by this at one point. Right. And they're like, are you okay, Doctor? You know, like, it was interesting, you. [00:12:02] Speaker A: Know, just real quick to bring it back to that room, because that's interesting. We don't see that room maybe one or two more times in this season, and then that room never appears again. I thought that was a cool room. It's like the sensor room or whatever, like the sensor monitoring room or some. I thought that was really cool. And like I said, I feel like we've. We see it maybe once or twice after this, but really cool to see that. That space and then just not used again. I don't know why, but. [00:12:27] Speaker B: And I remember that was a cool room. Jordi and Wharf were in the room together, and they both wear the red shirts. Right? What's the red shirt? Isn't that. Is that the. [00:12:36] Speaker A: The red shirt is either. Well, I think they might have still had it kind of off, so. [00:12:43] Speaker B: Because Jordy doesn't do the same thing Wharf does, right? [00:12:45] Speaker A: No, no. Well, right now, Jordy's really just like the helmsman who just kind of helps out here and there. And Wharf is again, just like a junior officer. Like, they did they. As of season two, they both settle into their roles. But right now, the red is like command or security right now, but. But that's not really. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's not true. Red was security on the old show. On this show, Tasha Yar. Security's gold, Engineering is gold. The medical sciences and sciences are blue, and command is red. So right now, technically, I guess they're both just like officers in Command like they're both lieutenants. Say, you know, so. But yeah, so the. They're both. They're both the same rank right now, and they're both the same sort of job description, which wasn't really defined yet. [00:13:33] Speaker B: But, yeah, good call. Now, I'm going to give you my one sentence synopsis of the episode here. Are you ready? [00:13:39] Speaker A: Okay. [00:13:39] Speaker B: I am lonely among us. Sherlock Holmes, Hypnosis. Troy looking hot. Walking and talking snakes and dogs. And Picard becomes Emperor Palpatine. This episode is Looney Tunes. You know, I mean, that's where we're at here. All right. I mean, you know, what. What does this episode not have? I mean, we gotta dissect. First of all, Data is in another show at points. We're doing this now. I love that he falls in love with Sherlock Holmes and he has the. At one point, they have. He's got the pipe and it's all. I mean, that was. That was pretty funny. I mean, it was ridiculous, but it was funny. I thought. [00:14:18] Speaker A: No, I mean, you know, I forgot all about that. Look, full disclosure, folks. I haven't watched this episode in probably 15 years. It is not one of my favorite episodes. I probably remember it being so fucking bonkers that I was like, wow, I'm not watching that shit. But I forgot. Now, obviously, Data, you know, dives more into Sherlock Holmes at some point, but I forgot that he did that in this episode. I really did. That's it. That's how infrequently I've seen this episode in the last 15, 20 years or so. [00:14:46] Speaker B: I just loved how he just learned about the guy. Now he reads everything because I guess he has the ability to. He's read every Sherlock Holmes story and now he's like, so Die Hard. He has the piping and he's. He's. He's not letting this thing fucking go. Like, I fucking loved it, though. It was just hilarious. It was like, what are we doing? [00:15:03] Speaker A: Yeah. And honestly, that. That is a precursor to what we kind of see Data become, to be honest. You know, he dives into a lot of roles sometimes in an effort to learn more about humanity. He embraces humanity's literature and that kind of shit. So he does. And he does end up with an affinity for Sherlock Holmes. And I think. I think we've mentioned it before. I think you've heard us talk about it. I thought they do do a Sherlock Holmes episode, season two. You're gonna. You're gonna love that episode. It's gonna be so much fun for you. But, yeah, Data was bonkers in this. [00:15:35] Speaker B: Episode, and I wanted more of it. Like, I. I wanted it when once he had the pipe. I would have loved the next time we see him if he's got the Deer Stalker cap on. You know, like, it just keeps building every time. Like, that would have been awesome. [00:15:46] Speaker A: There's a scene when he's talking. I was dying. There's a scene when he's talking and he's got the magnifying glass, and, like, the scene ends and he just turns to the fish tank. It just looks at it with the fucking magnifying glass. [00:15:59] Speaker B: I don't remember that I was dying. [00:16:02] Speaker A: Oh, I was like, what the fuck is happening here? [00:16:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. I know I want to. [00:16:07] Speaker A: And I've seen it probably six or seven times. [00:16:10] Speaker B: There was one scene where it looked like they were just. They. They was, like, maybe very minimal information that they needed to get out, but it was mostly just about him around with the pipe and them telling him, all right, Data, that's enough now. You know, like, it was just like. [00:16:21] Speaker A: This is what we're doing, Picard. Like, they were all enjoying it to a point. And then it's like, yeah, you know, Picard was like, enough. [00:16:27] Speaker B: And then. And then I had to bring up the hyp. I love the idea that we're going to hypnotize people. And, like, we're still doing this. Like, what year is this? Then? Like, this is still a thing that people do. Like, I don't even think, do we do that now? You know what I'm saying? Like, right now, is that a thing? You know, Like, I feel like it is, actually. It is. Really? So people still do that? [00:16:45] Speaker A: It is. Yeah. Yeah, it still is. Maybe not with the hypnotic therapy still a thing. [00:16:49] Speaker B: Okay, okay. [00:16:49] Speaker A: Okay. [00:16:49] Speaker B: Because I was wondering, like. [00:16:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know if it's the. I don't know if it's a, you know, an Austrian going, you're very sleepy. You know, but, like, they do it actually. You know, it's funny. I thought about when I was smoking years ago, years and years ago, a lot of people suggested that to me to try hypnosis. A lot of people, that's the only way they were able to quit smoking is by, like, convincing themselves it was, you know, through hypnosis. And they just kind of. They have an aversion to smoking after that because of what it, you know, sort of represents. Blah, blah, blah. I don't understand it, but. [00:17:17] Speaker B: Right. [00:17:17] Speaker A: And I quit smoking without it. But who knows? Maybe I would have tried that. [00:17:20] Speaker B: So now, let's track this thing. Now. So this thing goes through. I thought I hit Jordy first, and then he gets rid of it somehow. Right. [00:17:27] Speaker A: Wor first, Right. [00:17:28] Speaker B: Oh, it was War first. Okay. So then it goes from. But it goes from wharf to Crusher, I think. Then. [00:17:32] Speaker A: Oh, you know. Crusher. [00:17:33] Speaker B: You know what it is. That's right. I don't think Jordy gets it. Jordy sees it going through war. That's what it was. [00:17:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:38] Speaker B: Right. [00:17:38] Speaker A: Yep. [00:17:39] Speaker B: Then what? [00:17:39] Speaker A: Get in. And he tried to pull him off the console when he got sort of got stuck to it. [00:17:43] Speaker B: Right. [00:17:44] Speaker A: You know? [00:17:45] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. Then it goes to Crusher when she's trying to heal him. [00:17:49] Speaker A: Right. [00:17:50] Speaker B: And then she kind of gets it. [00:17:51] Speaker A: Is it. Was it a. Here's what's funny. I watched. I watched that episode, and I watched an original series episode where, like, it was the naked time that I watched where, like, an infection passes from person to person. [00:18:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:05] Speaker A: And the way they signify that they're infected is they look at their hands and they try to rub something off. Hands. For a brief moment, I thought that was this episode, but it was the original series episode. Naked time. [00:18:13] Speaker B: I remember there was one of the Animated series episodes where there was an illness that I forget how it passed through to the. It went from person to person, and then they became. You remember this? I forget what the episode was now. I forget how it got trans. [00:18:24] Speaker A: Not off the bat, but. [00:18:26] Speaker B: Okay, yeah, but. But this one I know. Crusher gets it, and then she goes on to the bridge with it, and everyone's like, what the. Is up with her? And then she gets it into the computer system itself. Is that what happened? [00:18:37] Speaker A: She. Okay. [00:18:38] Speaker B: And then from there, Wesley is again solving. Doings. Whatever the fuck it is. And then the Indian. The poor Indian guy, kind of like this character, he gets killed off. [00:18:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Chief Engineer Sing Sing. [00:18:49] Speaker B: I was kind of digging, so. [00:18:50] Speaker A: No, I'm sorry. He wasn't. She wasn't Chief engineer. I'm sorry. What's interesting is they still kept the chief engineer's name from the previous episode. So they mentioned. So Singh wasn't the chief engineer, but they mentioned Chief Engineer Argyle, who was the chief engineer, and where no one has gone before. Okay, so they were really gonna ride out that guy. Apparently. Until they decided not to, but yeah. So Chief engineer. No, I'm. So the engineer Singh passed away. That sucks. [00:19:10] Speaker B: It was interesting because at first I was like. [00:19:12] Speaker A: He had. [00:19:12] Speaker B: He had a scene in one of the. In, like, one of the rooms. I don't know. If it was Picard's office or some. [00:19:17] Speaker A: Kind of conference room, I think, where. [00:19:18] Speaker B: They bullshit with him and everything. I'm like, this guy seems pretty cool. I'm like, why have I never heard of. Really heard of this guy? And then now I found out a couple of scenes later. And then he gets killed, like you said. [00:19:28] Speaker A: One. One and done. Unfortunately, rest in peace soon. [00:19:31] Speaker B: And then. And then the thing somehow gets into Picard. How does it get to Picard now? I'm trying to remember now. [00:19:37] Speaker A: Yeah, good question. [00:19:39] Speaker B: Was it. Was it through the computer? Because I think from. [00:19:43] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. So Jordy was working on the console. Like, Jordy and Data were at the front of the Enterprise bridge, right. And Picard put his hand on the console where Jordy wasn't looking. It kind of got into him. [00:19:53] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he's acting well. And say. Then he reverses course to go back to the cloud or whatever the fuck it is. [00:19:58] Speaker A: Back to the cloud? Yep. [00:20:00] Speaker B: And then the snake and the door guys are all pissed off about this maneuver. [00:20:06] Speaker A: Freak out. Yeah. [00:20:07] Speaker B: But then. Then at one point, I don't know what it is. I forget how it. But he's. Picard is like, in front of everyone and he sends it. This is where I was like, this is Return of the Jedi. [00:20:17] Speaker A: This is the Palpatine. Totally. I didn't think about it like that. [00:20:21] Speaker B: But, yeah, it's hilarious. So I was like, you know, and then now what I didn't understand was I thought, or you could even have said, like, Raiders of the Lost Ark at the end with the. The way that the art kind of goes through everybody. I was wondering how was there a reason why everybody didn't get affected by this thing at that point? Or what did I miss there? You know what I'm saying? [00:20:38] Speaker A: Like, I guess it was just in the machinery, I guess. I guess. Unless it's like person to person or machine to person. But they did, though, right? Like, oh, he was saying it didn't get inside them. [00:20:49] Speaker B: That's what I thought. [00:20:50] Speaker A: They were all, like, frozen by it, right? [00:20:51] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:20:52] Speaker A: That was so weird. Someone restrained the captain and he's just like, who's going to do it? Riker, you? We're all frozen. Like, who's. Who's going to tackle the captain? Riker, you know? [00:21:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I know, I know. There was a one point where Riker sat in the captain's chair. Right. Or my. You know, because. Yeah, I thought that was pretty. That kind of shit was kind of cool. Like, oh, what do we got to do? We got to override Picard because he's not fucking there, like, mentally, whatever. Right? I mean. [00:21:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that was interesting. Yeah. They kind of had a conversation about it. Yeah. Not the last time they would tug it like that either. [00:21:20] Speaker B: I'm sure. It made me think that. I'm sure we'll see it again. Definitely. Yeah. [00:21:23] Speaker A: Yeah. 100%. And sitting in the captain's chair is nothing new. If you're, like, if you have the con, if you're in control of the bridge, you can sit in the captain's chair. [00:21:31] Speaker B: Right. [00:21:32] Speaker A: It's not a. I got you on an off limits thing. Interesting footnote about this episode as it pertains to our pod, I should say. I believe this episode was one of Luke's top 10 episode titles, actually. [00:21:43] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [00:21:44] Speaker A: Kind of a cool title. Lonely Among Us. Very poetic. Kind of, you know. [00:21:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:48] Speaker A: I'm not sure it really fits the episode. I mean, it kind of does, yeah. [00:21:52] Speaker B: Of what it was referring to, I guess. [00:21:55] Speaker A: Referring to, like the. The matter isolation of the. The energy cloud, I guess. Which is. Which is funny you say matter, because I know at some point Data was like, it's no matter. It's just pure energy. [00:22:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:09] Speaker A: Like, that's still matter. Like, energy still matter. Like I was. I mean, unless I'm dead wrong, Dr. Space, get back on this pod. But I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure it's still matter, you know, But. [00:22:21] Speaker B: But this is what reminded me of, like, the last episode we just talked about, when no one's gone before, about how you were talking about the different. The concept of thinking something and letting. And letting it be reality. [00:22:31] Speaker A: This. [00:22:32] Speaker B: This is kind of like that scientific episode. Part of it here is the idea of becoming this energy. Because at one point Picard kind of becomes this energy. Right. Or he's trying to communicate. [00:22:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:41] Speaker B: He. Like the computer. [00:22:42] Speaker A: He's sort of out there in the ether, but he's not. It was really weird. [00:22:45] Speaker B: And then he beams back to the. [00:22:46] Speaker A: Point they almost took off without him. Like, I guess he's dead, you know? [00:22:49] Speaker B: That was another thing I was going to bring up. It almost seemed like Riker was resigned to, yeah, let's get the fuck out of here. And they're like, well, wait a second now. You know what I mean? Like, it was like, damn, man. [00:22:57] Speaker A: Like, I think Troy, Councilor Troy, like, sensed him, Right? [00:23:00] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:23:00] Speaker A: Like, since the piece of him was still out there. Yeah. [00:23:03] Speaker B: And then when they tried to beam him back, it kind of reminded me of Back to the future with the photo. Like they're trying to get, you know, he's like kind of coming in, kind of not coming in and all that. [00:23:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:11] Speaker B: But then he comes back and I was wondering when they did beam him back if he was gonna look like a cloud or some kind of other thing. Like I'm. It seemed like, you don't know. You know, I'm saying, like, I was surprised it came right back as a human form. I thought there could have been some other kind of a thing there. [00:23:24] Speaker A: Yeah, true. They could have kind of messed with that a little bit. That would have been interesting. I'll tell you what, the transporter is a great source of what the fuck in Star Trek, Laura. You know, like, because, you know the idea that like, first of all that there's, there's the Heisenberg principle. I'm not going to recite it because I don't know it for sure, but something about it disproves that the transporter could ever work. [00:23:43] Speaker B: Right, Right. [00:23:44] Speaker A: So, I mean, so what? So they have Heisenberg compensators in the, in the transporters. That's one of the things they. But the point here is, is next gen use the trans. I mean, all the shows use the transporter very, very loosely when they're trying to weave it into the plot. [00:23:59] Speaker B: Right. [00:24:00] Speaker A: There's a second season episode that is just bonkers when you see what they do with the transporter. But that being said, so you know, they take a lot of liberties, a lot of science fiction liberties with the transporter. Oh, yeah. No, he will just get his body back together from the fucking, you know, from this energy cloud. And you know, clearly all those molecules are still out there. It's really weird. [00:24:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Because like at one point he's in the computer and he, he. The letter P comes up. It's Picard. He's talking. Right. I was like, you know, I forgot about that too. [00:24:25] Speaker A: That was so weird. [00:24:27] Speaker B: I was like, wow. [00:24:27] Speaker A: I guess in some ways, I mean, I guess if you, if you are in control of the machinery. You know what I mean? I guess that's one way to get a message, you know. But it was very weird. Got folks bombers dying laughing right now. Yeah. I gotta find out why. [00:24:41] Speaker B: I just love that we're like 25 minutes into this fucking conversation and we're talking about the fact that there's fucking walking snakes on the goddamn ship. And you think, you think that there's a P in the computer and you're like, this is up, like this the whole thing. [00:25:00] Speaker A: That's so true. It's amazing once you get into these shows, what you decide to spend. Suspend your disbelief on and what you don't, you know, it's really crazy. [00:25:08] Speaker B: And that's. I swear to God, there was a. That's that scene I'm talking about. There was a moment where I thought Riker and Tashir, one of them was gonna stop and go, do you realize there's a goddamn dog with a beer talking to us right now? I swear, it looked like they were this close to making that. Making that happen. Like, I was like, you know, I was like, oh. But yeah, you know, it's funny, it made me. For some reason, I also thought of Lost, you know, when they were like trying to. I figured I'm trying to get my head to get there. [00:25:35] Speaker A: To the black smoke monster. [00:25:37] Speaker B: Well, not, not only necessarily that, but like, wasn't there a point where they're there? They had to keep putting that certain code into the computer and all that. And then it was like tight back at them or something like that. It was right at one point, watching it, you were like, what the is going on? Who's communicating? Or is the computer alive? In a way. And that's what I was thinking about. This was like, when Picard is out there and he's trying to type that, you know, type back that he's here. It kind of gave me that right sense. And I was like, I. Again, it was, it was. It was that scientific thing where I'm like, oh, he's becoming this energy beam and he's. He's in like the computer thing of the ship. And I'm like, that is interesting. But it's also like, wow, where, you know, what are we doing here now? You know what I mean? It was, it was very, very interesting, I guess. I don't know. You know. [00:26:16] Speaker A: That'S crazy. You know, I think was this. And I'm not sure, not 100% sure, but this might have been the first episode where you saw the dress uniforms when they're. When they were welcoming the delegates in the transporter room. They had like the weird. Pretty much they're wearing skirts with a different cut on the uniform. I don't know if you noticed that or not. [00:26:34] Speaker B: Who was wearing this now? [00:26:36] Speaker A: Riker, Tasha, Yar and Picard in the beginning of the transporter room. [00:26:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I gotta be honest, I was probably too blown away by, you know, the fucking. The snake people coming into the ship where I was like, you know, the. [00:26:47] Speaker A: Lizard people in the fucking I don't. [00:26:49] Speaker B: Know how I didn't notice that. But. Okay, so. So that's the thing that they now is that continuous through the show, if they're meeting certain kinds of things, they'll. They'll change the outfit. [00:26:58] Speaker A: Yeah, just. Just like military, like nowadays, like, you know, you or your dress uniform, like you dress blues, if, like, you know, you're going to see the president in the Navy, you get to dress up with the buttons all down the, you know, the shirt and the hat and the rifle and all that, you know. So. [00:27:11] Speaker B: Okay, so, like. [00:27:12] Speaker A: Yeah, so it's. It's been military. So they have uniforms when they're, you know, welcoming delegates or, you know, VIPs and that kind of thing. It's just part of a naval protocol, I guess. [00:27:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's funny. [00:27:25] Speaker A: And that changes. That changes as the, The. The show goes on, I think. [00:27:30] Speaker B: You know, again, there was a. There was another. It seemed like another moment where Wesley was figuring out there they were like. They always kind of brush this kid aside. Seem to happen in this episode, too, right? When he was like. I feel like he remembers that Singh was fucking around with something before he died. And I feel like Riker was like, no, no, no, that's. That's not the way it is or whatever. [00:27:47] Speaker A: Right. [00:27:47] Speaker B: Wasn't there. So there was something there. I can't remember what it was, but. [00:27:50] Speaker A: Vaguely, Yeah, I don't really remember that, but yeah, yeah, I think it was something like that. [00:27:53] Speaker B: And again, he was. He wore the same sweater as he did in the last episode, you know, what are we doing? [00:27:57] Speaker A: Yeah, right, right, right. [00:28:00] Speaker B: You know. [00:28:03] Speaker A: So, yeah, I guess these, These two. I mean, what's funny is going forward in the show, you kind of learn that species like this, the fucking lizards and the dogs, they would never. They probably wouldn't be allowed in the Federation, you know. [00:28:17] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:28:18] Speaker A: They raise their criteria as the show goes on for, like, you know, you need to be at a certain level to join the Federation. It's not like a bougie or a hoity toity type thing. It's just like, you got to be past petty differences, like not being downwind from another species. You know what I mean? [00:28:33] Speaker B: I forgot about that. [00:28:34] Speaker A: So that it was very petty, what they were doing. [00:28:36] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:28:36] Speaker A: It's kind of funny, right? You know, we need to be at least. You know, you're 150 meters apart. He's like, that's not enough. Yeah, smell, you know, really weird. [00:28:44] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a weird episode. Just like, you Know, it is just, it is just a very. But again, it was, I think it's because it was, there was so much going on there like that where I was like, this is, it was so really, I thought it was entertaining, as to be honest with you. [00:29:02] Speaker A: That's good. That's good, that's good. I mean, that's the idea, right? No matter how you get there, if you're entertained, I guess that's half the battle. Yeah. [00:29:09] Speaker B: I mean, you know, and it's funny, like, like I said, I'm trying to think of so many other characters again, like Troy. I, I, I know. I think it's just the character, obviously, I think Troy is hot. But, but, but aside from that, I'm saying it's she seem. She, she doesn't, she hasn't to me yet go, you know, Planet Bonkers, where some of these other characters have had a moment where you're like, all right, this guy is. I don't know where this guy is because I don't know if it's just the way. That's why I like, her character is cool. Like, you know, she's, she's always kind of underplayed. [00:29:38] Speaker A: Pretty composed. [00:29:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Composed, yeah. Yeah, totally. [00:29:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, that's good observation. Yeah, it's true. You will see her lose her shit. I mean, you know, it's a sci Fi show, so some point, all these characters at some point. But, but yeah, no, no, she'll, she'll get there. But yeah, she is, she's pretty composed. That, that's good observation. [00:29:57] Speaker B: And. Yeah, no, I was just gonna say, like, I liked, I liked war fitness even. You know, just the fact that I, I mean, now I know I was joking around a lot about that guy getting knocked everything but he is supposed to have some, some strength behind him. I'm not like Data, but. Right, but he's supposed to have some muscle to him. Like, he's a. Yeah, no, not as. [00:30:12] Speaker A: Strong as Data, but yeah, Klingons are much stronger than humans. Yeah, so, so, yeah, I was gonna say that before, but I didn't want to be like, the Trek apologist. Like, even if he did just graze him, it might be enough to just like, jar his head or something. [00:30:24] Speaker B: No, but see, that makes, that makes sense to me now, though, now that you say that, because. You know what I'm saying, like, because it would be. [00:30:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:29] Speaker B: Different than a regular guy doing it, which is what I was just, I didn't, I forgot about the Klingon thing. So that makes it, that helps out a Little bit. No, definitely does. [00:30:36] Speaker A: All right. [00:30:37] Speaker B: All right. [00:30:37] Speaker A: Yeah. You think of. I want to say Vulcans are, like, three times as strong as humans, and maybe Klingons are probably, like, a little stronger than that. Maybe like four times as strong. Maybe. Maybe. I mean, you know, the original series, you'll see the. You know, the Enterprise crew, they go toe to toe with Klingons, but there were different types of. The Klingons were weird on the old show. So it's kind of hard to. [00:30:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:59] Speaker A: Hard to, you know, sort of quantify that. But. Yeah. No. So to answer your point, yeah, the Klingons are stronger. Yeah. [00:31:05] Speaker B: So he might have gotten knocked the out and. Yeah. You know, I'm trying to think again, Jordy. I'm trying to. I haven't really had a real fix on him yet. I have. I don't know how, you know, I mean, he's fine. [00:31:16] Speaker A: Well, it's funny. On the old show, right? Really, there were only three stars. I mean, there were other people on the show. Sulu, Uhura, you know, Scotty. But really, it was the Kirk, Bones and Spock show. Right. So there's. There's pretty much something for them to do in every episode. Right. When an ensemble cast like this, where everyone's. I mean, Patrick Stewart's obviously the lead, but there's all. You know, there's seven leads in the show. [00:31:38] Speaker B: Right, Right. [00:31:39] Speaker A: So they all don't have something to do every episode, like, series. So. And I'm exaggerating. The original series, they didn't. Three of them didn't have something to do every episode, but. So it's kind of hard, you know, some get lost in the shuffle. Not on Next Gen, per se. I think at some point, every character has their due, and they all get to have their own episodes and they have character development and they have arcs. But there are some shows, you know, like Enterprise, for example. Travis Mayweather on the show is, you know, famous for really just being a very underwritten character. Very dull. They really didn't go anywhere with him. So on some of the shows, some of these characters kind of get lost. But on the better shows. And again, I'm not shitting on Enterprise or original series or anything like that. But on the better shows, you know, you want to develop all these characters so they're all interesting and engaging. So when you have a Troy episode, it's not like, fuck, it's a Troy episode. You know, Family Guy makes that joke all the time. Yep, it's a Meg episode. I want to change your channel. You Know, so. Yeah, so, you know. You know, they all don't have anything to do everything to do yet, but, you know, hopefully you'll see them all coming to their own. [00:32:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:47] Speaker A: So if you had to pick one scene or one moment that stood out, what would it be? [00:32:51] Speaker B: No, it's a tough call because there was so many that it's like, you know, again, it's like Patrick Stewart fucking electrocuting everyone. You know, Wharf, knocking that dude out. Data. Data. Doing Sherlock Holmes. You know, that's what I was curious. [00:33:07] Speaker A: About, if that was your favorite part or not. [00:33:09] Speaker B: Snake. The snake people. And, you know, it's funny how little time they had in the. In the episode, but they were kind of like always around in a way. You know what I mean? [00:33:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:20] Speaker B: It was interesting that to me, the most interesting part of it to me was the idea of what to do with Picard being incapacitated and how we're gonna move forward. Like, that whole. That whole thing was kind of interesting, I thought, you know, that is interesting. [00:33:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, the captains incapacitated, I forgot how. [00:33:36] Speaker B: Close they were to just being like, all right, let's leave him the behind. Let's get out of here. You know, it was like, wow. [00:33:40] Speaker A: Yeah. And. And, you know, and before he got zapped, before he, you know, electrocuted the bridge, he wasn't. They weren't sure he was infected. Like, he was just being the captain, maybe just making him. It was written pretty well when he was like, you know, counselor, does every captain explain every decision to the entire crew? And she was like, no, sir. [00:33:57] Speaker B: You know, so that was the fucking best. I was like, all right, yeah, you. [00:34:01] Speaker A: Know, that was a good line, but a well written scene. [00:34:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:34:05] Speaker A: To leave that doubt there that they couldn't really go for it, you know, because they weren't 100% sure. [00:34:09] Speaker B: Right. [00:34:09] Speaker A: 90% sure is not not enough with Picard, you know, you got to be. You better be fucking sure. I'm reminded of the best quote from fucking the Wire. You come at the king, you best not miss. [00:34:19] Speaker B: That's right. [00:34:21] Speaker A: Yeah. So what do we got? What's. What's the rating on this guy? I. I'm not even sure. I don't think I could predict what the rating is going to be for you, so I'm really curious. [00:34:30] Speaker B: Well, you know what? I. I got to be honest with you now. I cheated a little bit on here because I knew the one before it. I gave a seven and I said, you know what this was? But this. I know this is probably not regular Star Trek fans probably pick, but I had so much fun with it. I gave this a 7.1. I gave it. All right. Wow. [00:34:48] Speaker A: I love it. [00:34:49] Speaker B: I know. [00:34:50] Speaker A: A 7.1 for lonely among us. That's. [00:34:52] Speaker B: That's great because I just thought it. [00:34:54] Speaker A: Dude, if you enjoy it, you enjoy it. [00:34:56] Speaker B: It was just, you know, I don't know, it was just a lot going on and, you know, I guess, I guess if you, if, if you talk to someone that has never watched Star Trek before, which, like, I was basically coming into this, you know, but I had seen some things, you know, I mean, if you talk to someone, never, never watched one episode of Star Trek and this was the first thing they ever saw, you know, they would be blown away because I don't think they would expect it to be this. You know, I'm saying, like, once you see Data with a pipe acting like Sherlock Holmes, you're like, this is Star Trek. You know what I'm saying? [00:35:31] Speaker A: It's so bonkers. Yeah. [00:35:34] Speaker B: You would never think that, you know, I don't know. Well, you know, you're right. [00:35:36] Speaker A: There was so much in this episode. You're so riot. So much going on. When I think back to this episode before I watched it last night, all I remember is the blue energy, you know what I mean? And that's pretty much it. And maybe those aliens and that's it, you know, but there was really a lot going on. Like I said, I totally forgot about Data's Sherlock Holmes obsession that started in this episode. It's really cool. Which is really actually kind of cool because I mean, Sherlock Holmes is a, is a going forward. There's a lot going on with Sherlock Holmes in this, in the series. There's at least three episodes that I could think of that involve the lore of Sherlock Holmes. [00:36:11] Speaker B: So it's kind of cool and do. And I guess the other thing I was gonna say going off that was that I'm amazed at how many. I mean, I guess I shouldn't be that amazed, but how many different species that we're gonna. That you run into. Like, obviously we know the Klingons, you know, the Vulcans, the Borg, or you know, whatever the. You want to get, you know, the big, the big players here or the Ferengi people or whatever the. But I'm like, Frankie, but how many different of these almost one off things, like how many. So that basically there's a lot of species we're going to meet that we only see kind of once and never again. [00:36:44] Speaker A: Tons. [00:36:45] Speaker B: I didn't realize it Was it was going to be like that. That's why I was like, okay, because. Oh yeah, there's like a never ending thing there, I guess. All right. [00:36:51] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean it's pretty amazing to the point where I think at one point in the 90s I could name a species for every letter of the Alphabet. Just like top my head. I could not do that now. I mean, maybe if I tried, but I mean, that's how many there are. Like, you could just say a letter and just kind of like antidians. Like you just. I think that was one of the people in this episode. But yeah, so you just, you just know, you know. Yeah. I mean, you know, a lot of times, you know, the species of the week is just kind of means to an end to tell a good story, you know. But I mean, think about it. Like every planet they go down to is going to have inhabitants. Every, you know, people that comes on the ships can have inhabitants. So. Yeah, yeah, I mean that, that, that's a regular part of all the Star Trek series. Just multiple, multiple species. The fun thing for me looking back now, like I said, is seeing like the, the origins of some of these species that I know so well now. You know, like, you know, like, I don't think we've really encountered now the Klingons, for example. Right. Like, you know, you only know Worf really. Right. And, but I mean, there's an episode in season one, it's called Heart of Glory and you'll learn a lot more about the Klingons which is good because they end up taking on a big role in Next Gen. So for me, I'm looking forward to rewatching that episode as the origin of Klingons for me. You know what I mean? Now I knew Klingons existed in Star Trek 3 and all that stuff, you know, in the, in the Kirk Shatner movies. But for me, I really learned about Klingons from Next Gen and being allies where this is the, don't forget this is the first show where they were allies. There were enemies in the original series and in the movies. So it's kind of interesting for me seeing, seeing those species start. So yeah, you're gonna see a lot. No question about it. [00:38:30] Speaker B: You know, what I was laughing at was that, you know, you think about like Picard, like, you know, or any of these guys really, but on the show. But if you take picnic car, like, you know, you're like, like, now this ship is basically, you know, this is Next Gen first season. They're just basically going Out. Like these are the early missions, right? [00:38:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:46] Speaker B: I mean. [00:38:46] Speaker A: Yep. Just exploring. [00:38:48] Speaker B: You think about your day to day life where you're like, oh, I gotta go to work today, I gotta go home, I gotta walk the dog. This and that. This, this guy got. Already got sucked into a computer. He's electrocuting people. You know, he fell in love with the girl with a potion. They got jellyfish to. You know, you're seven episodes in. I'm like, this is enough for a lifetime with this guy. Like, you know, this is insane. You know. [00:39:12] Speaker A: You know, it's funny. And we may end up cutting this entire bit out that I'm about to talk about because I might not even make sense to you, but I kind of had a weird fanboy epiphany about TV in general. Right? So the odds that all of this would happen to this crew is astronomical. Right? [00:39:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:32] Speaker A: But hear me out. But hear me out. But the only reason we're watching this crew is because it all happened to them. [00:39:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:40] Speaker A: Do you follow that? Like, like if this happened to the USS Hood, that would be the TV show and we'd be watching that, you know? [00:39:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:39:47] Speaker A: Because in this vast universe, I don't mean the writers, I mean like in universe, right? Like so it's like, like, like you take any other show, right? Like take ncis, doesn't matter, right. Like there's a million fucking, you know, CSI people all over the world, you know, but like, because all this cool shit happened to happen in Las Vegas, right? That's where the show is. And I know that really kind of doesn't make sense, but like to me, like, that it's weird. That kind of like. Or like movies, you take any movie, you know. Wow, that's an extraordinary plot, you know? [00:40:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:19] Speaker A: It isn't it? Is it? Like, I'm sure. Shit. You know, truth is stranger than fiction, right? Shit happens all the time. Like that. The reason that's the focus of the movie is because that's where the cool shit's happening, not the other way around. It's not happening because we're. That's where we're filming the movie. [00:40:32] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm saying. Oh yeah. [00:40:33] Speaker A: I. [00:40:34] Speaker B: Do you really? [00:40:34] Speaker A: Cuz I barely understand. [00:40:35] Speaker B: I do know. But I was gonna say was there's a great documentary. I talked to my brother about this. Netflix does these documentaries. American Manhunt, they just did one on OJ I think, but they did one of them. They did one on the Boston Book Marathon, Bombers. And it was, it was phenomenal. Three episodes, you know. And I forgot a lot of it, you know? And there's some cool, very cool in there, you know? But at one point, these cops, regular cops that are on their regular beat, they get a call, you know, we think they. I forget. I forget how it lays out, but basically, they're in a suburban street in a major shootout with these two guys. And then, yeah, all this happens. Then the one they. They shoot this one, the one, the older brother, they can't kill the guy. They shoot him like, seven times. He won't die. He's coming after the cops. They're trying to get him on the ground. The younger brother seals, the car, drives over towards all them. The cops get out of the way, and he runs over his own brother, you know? And all this shit happened to these cops. Now this. This is a story they'll tell for the rest of their lives. This is a Monday for the Next Generation crew. You know what I'm saying? [00:41:39] Speaker A: Like. [00:41:39] Speaker B: Like, this is like. [00:41:42] Speaker A: Yes. [00:41:42] Speaker B: It would be like if something like this happened the next day and then the next. Now the next day, we're. We're doing something even more insane. You know what I'm saying? [00:41:49] Speaker A: Like, that. [00:41:50] Speaker B: That's what I think you're trying to say. It's like. It's like. It's like Bruce Willis and Die Hard. How many different times can you. Can you. You have the same thing happen to you? [00:41:58] Speaker A: That. That's what I was gonna bring up. So. So as opposed to like a Die Hard 5 or even, like, Scooby Doo, Right? So what are the odds? No matter where these people went, some mystery was gonna unfold, right? But here's the difference. Because they were just going about the normal lives. But here's the difference. They're exploring the unknown. Like, they're just jetting out there and just. Let's just see what's gonna happen, right? So, like. And again, we're just bullshitting here, you know, we're just talking out of our ass. But like. Like that. Like, that is, like. That's why they're seeing all this crazy. Because they're going where no one's gone before, right? [00:42:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:34] Speaker A: No one's ever seen this before. So it's gonna be crazy no matter what it is. It's a fucking dog species. They're gonna be like, oh, shit. That's fucking bonkers. Yeah, but like you said, Bruce Willis is just trying to, like, you know, get over a hangover and New York City blows up, you know? It's just crazy. [00:42:48] Speaker B: I know. [00:42:49] Speaker A: Now, they explained that away because the guy targeted Bruce Willis. So you want to get away with the third one, that's fine. But the airport. Nah, you know, Die Hard too. Come on, what are the odds, right? [00:42:59] Speaker B: Yeah, that's pretty insane. [00:43:01] Speaker A: And I love those movies, but, you know, so I don't know, there's some weird concept construct that we're trying to cooking, like whittle down, you know, it's a little meta, but whatever. It's. [00:43:11] Speaker B: I guess I'm coming around. It's just the idea that it would be awesome. Who, who, who wouldn't want to be on this ship going on to the next adventure? I mean, you know, Right? [00:43:20] Speaker A: I mean, unless you're. Unless you're Engineer Singh, which case. [00:43:25] Speaker B: No doubt. [00:43:27] Speaker A: Oh, well, yeah. Anything else? [00:43:30] Speaker B: That's it. I'm. I'm tapped out here. I need a breather after this one. I can't wait for that. [00:43:34] Speaker A: You do you need a breather? [00:43:37] Speaker B: Sure. [00:43:37] Speaker A: Could use a little breather. Airplane for you. Yeah. So, folks, that's it. That's. That's episode fucking six in the, in the bag here. Lonely Among Us. Bomber gave it a 7.1. That's the highest rating so far. Interesting. Really interesting. Thank you so much for listening. We really, really appreciate it. And if you're getting half the fun out of listening to this as we are doing it, man, it's, it's, it's very satisfying. Check us out, Check us out on TikTok Tock and Instagram. You could see some, some videos, some audio clips up there. Stwarp10. Give us an email at twarp10gmail.com Let us know what's going on out there. And yeah, we'll be coming at you soon with, with another, another episode that on, on Bomber's track. I'm very excited, Very excited. We're, we're getting there. Any final thoughts? [00:44:25] Speaker B: Yes, I was going to say, as some of the listeners know, we are big Looney Tunes fans and everything. And I was going to say, as much as I'm looking forward to some good action and some serious, you know, the show getting better and everything else, whenever this does get bonkers and insane and Looney Tunes, I think it's just as much fun. So I can't wait to see how much as crazy as it can get, I think it's gonna be, you know, a lot of fun. So I'm looking forward to it, you. [00:44:50] Speaker A: Know, but that's it for the Star Trek Warp Top 10 Podcast. Thanks for listening and we will see you on the next app. Or the next top 10, which I think is coming soon. [00:44:58] Speaker B: Watch out for those walking snakes.