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We are the Borg, and you're listening to Two Guys, Questionable Credentials with Adam and Tom.
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Resistance is futile.
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Alright, everyone, welcome back to Two Guys with Questionable Credentials with Adam and Tom.
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Tom, how are we doing?
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I'm alright.
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How are you doing, buddy?
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Oh, I'm hanging in there.
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Nice, nice.
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Alright.
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Well, so, um, let's see.
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Um, as of recording, it is 11:35 a.m.
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and Eastern Standard Time.
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Yeah, Eastern Standard Time.
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And Adam has to leave for work in uh what is that, 25 minutes?
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Yeah, right around here.
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Well then you know what?
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I think I think this episode, um, you know, we we kind of thought that maybe we would just kind of do like a like a like a general just a general chat.
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Like, I don't know, what you've been what you've been thinking about, watching, reading, whatever.
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I don't know.
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Uh, Adam, would you like to start or would you like me to get going?
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Kick this off.
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Why don't you go ahead and start?
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Because I know you are working on uh a T TV streaming series right now of a very um uh important subject in your work in your life.
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I I am.
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I am watching lanterns.
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Um I'm I'm hoping that we'll get to do an episode on it when it wraps up.
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But so I'll I'll keep it brief and no spoilers.
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But I I'm really enjoying it.
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Um I know a lot, shocker, a lot of Green Lantern fans are mad about it.
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Um, which anything anybody does is gonna do that.
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It's gonna upset people because it's not exactly like the books.
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But my dad and I often talk about how like, you know, I I'm all for something as long as it's um I'm entertained for the most part.
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Um and the show I really am enjoying.
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There's a couple of things that like confuse me, but doesn't really like upset me or like make me lose interest in the show.
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There are things they're doing with the characters that are different from the comics that maybe we'll dive into a little bit when we if we do an episode on it.
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But I I I do want to say, if any Green Lantern fans listen to this show, and I'm actually thinking about reaching out, I'm part of a Green Lantern Facebook group, and I thought about asking the admin, because they do a podcast also, if these couple of episodes that we that I hope we do about Green Lantern, if I'm allowed, if I can share them too.
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I mean That would be cool.
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They'll probably all hate me because you know I'm I'm an idiot.
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But one of the one one of the things I want to say about the show, and then we'll move on, is that anybody who's listening to this that's a Green Lantern fan and is not loving it, to me, I'm I'm really enjoying it, but more importantly to me is that it's actually brought me back to the franchise.
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I just I don't know, a lot of people, not everybody, but a lot of loud voices have talked about how they really they they they like they they haven't enjoyed the show or just in general the way the comics have been doing things, and that's fine, that's their opinion.
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But honestly, like sometimes those conversations, just like Star Wars, get very toxic.
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And so it kind of made me walk away from the franchise.
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But lanterns has actually gotten me back into it.
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I'm reading a bunch of Green Lantern stuff, just like I made you read that uh Green Lantern Star Trek crossover.
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Which I'm glad I'm I'm very glad I did, actually.
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And I and I'm reading uh and like I'm reading you know comics that I I've already read, have been meaning to read that have Green Lantern in them, or like the the TV show, which I'm trying to get the girls to get into, they're not loving it, but they love playing with my Blackest Knight Power Ring collection.
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Um so yeah, I mean, even even when something, you know, in someone's opinion is bad, if it brings another fan to the table, I think that's pretty great.
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But again, uh I will hopefully elaborate on this at a later date.
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Adam, what do you got?
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Well, you know, I I've actually kind of taken a little bit of a little bit of a break from science fiction a little bit recently.
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Um, you know, my for those of you don't know, I you know, my job during the summer, I'm with I work uh day shift and then during the school year I work second shift.
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So that kind of uh you know it changes up how I, you know, what movies, shows, books, and stuff that I'm I'm really into based on what's going on.
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Um I at some point in the very near future, I know I need to pick back up on Strange New Worlds.
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Um I left off um I think it was the end of season two that I left off of Strange New Worlds, and I need to pick it back up.
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Um missed season three, season four is currently out, and I tell you, some of the um uh some of the clips that I have seen on YouTube of Strange New Worlds with some of the episodes that have just come out, I I they look amazing.
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Um with just some of the stuff that's going on.
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The uh the Western episode looks like it's really good.
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Um there's another episode recently where I don't know, but there uh Kirk is on the Bridge of the Enterprise, and then there's an Admiral also on the Bridge of the Enterprise.
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I don't know exactly where Pike is during all this, because of course I haven't watched it yet.
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Um, but it shows it's the reviews of that it shows it's a very powerful episode on how it's written and everything.
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Uh so that's something I want to come back in this uh near future.
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Uh just watched Deep Space Nine, finished Deep Space Nine.
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Um I think I stopped it like a year and a half ago, partway through season seven.
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So I actually finished it out.
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Uh checked that box again.
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I think it's my third time watching the series.
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Uh but then it was cool because as soon as I got done with Deep Space Nine, then I watched the Deep Space Nine episode of Lower Decks.
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Oh, okay.
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So I'm like, okay, it's like it's like a bonus episode of Deep Space Nine.
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Uh so got to do I watched that, and then I actually just recently watched uh What We Left Behind, which is a documentary that came out in 2019, I think.
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It was pre-COVID.
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Uh, and it was uh the writers of Deep Space Nine got back together, and it's just it's a documentary of the series.
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Um how the casting went, how the characters were developed, some of the you know the thoughts on you know how the characters interacted with each other and everything.
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Um is there anything like like where they thought the characters would go if they continued or where they where or where they are now?
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Yes, yes, actually, and it's essentially around the documentary looking back at everything, is you have, I think there's there's like f four or five of the main riders, not all of them, but you know, a couple of the big ones, um, that are all in a writer's room, and they do the first episode of season eight.
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Okay.
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So it takes place like it they jump forward in the future of Deep Space Nine.
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So I think it's I don't know, a good ten years, fifteen years in the future, and they're saying, okay, so if we were to bring everything back, this is where we would have the characters.
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This is what we would have going on.
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And you know, what happened to Captain Cisco?
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We kind of left that out there.
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And they they kind of go through what the first episode would be.
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Half of the first episode, because in true Deep Space Nine fashion, they leave it as a two-parter, but they never do anything with part two.
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So they they fix a cliffhanger by adding another cliffhanger.
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Okay.
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Um, but yeah, they bring back all the characters.
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Um, of course, everyone has progressed in their careers.
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I think they they have Kira as a Vedic, still in command of Deep Space Nine.
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Uh Nog is a captain of a starship, which he is killed uh in a mysterious mis explosion of the Defiant early on in the documentary, and then that's kind of like the whole um the center point of getting everyone back together at Quarks on Deep Space Nine as a memorial to Nog.
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But then everything starts to unravel from there, and then at the very end, they Captain Cisco appears, and then boom, end of the episode.
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I did see, you know, I did see some I was watching a video the other day talking about Nog and like how important of a character he was in DS9.
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Yeah, it doesn't start out that way, but then he very much does.
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But and then they were but then uh I did see at some point I was like half watching while I was like doing dishes or being yelled at by three-year-olds.
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Um I did like I saw that apparently at some point, I don't know which show it is or if it's a book, whatever, that he um has a starship named after him.
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Yes, uh, that is in uh Star Trek Discovery, whenever they are in the 20, I'm sorry, the 32nd century, there is a USS Nog.
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Okay.
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Uh and it's it's you know, it is a shame.
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I mean, the actor who did play Nog did pass away several years ago.
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Um he's no longer with us, unfortunately.
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Um but he does um he he he was still alive at the time of the documentary.
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Um but they do talk about you know you know how dare you kill Nog off and everything.
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But uh the actor actually talks that there's a there's a very powerful episode.
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It's um whenever Nog loses his leg fighting the Dominion in Deep Space Nine.
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And he goes through the whole the whole new episode, next episode is all about PTSD and how someone who, you know, whether you're a first responder, you're law enforcement, you're military, you know, a view into possibly what is going through their mind and how they try to reconcile with the fact that they have lost the body part.
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And they said that Nog's perform that you know the performance of Nog in that episode did a lot to help veterans who with their PTSD and everything because it put it on the screen, you know, in a major franchise.
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And the character talks about that, about how he always had veterans or people coming up to them saying, Wow, that episode really helped me and you know get through or helped me in my journey, maybe not to get through it, but to you know, kind of maybe put things in perspective a little bit.
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Um, the other thing they kind of talk about is how bold the riding was in Deep Space Nine.
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We get to see you know, we see two female characters kissing in one episode, we see the war, because war is never really a part of anything in Star Trek until we get to the Dominion War, and that just kind of changes everything.
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And then we have the um the quite adventurous relationship between Wharf and Dax.
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Um the religious part that they bring into um with the Bajoran culture and everything they brought into Deep Space Nine.
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Um so you know, it was you know not only was it a different because it was on a space station, but it was different all around from Voyager and Next Generation.
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Okay.
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I thought it was really good, and I you know what since I had just recently re-watched it, um, it really kind of put me just like, okay, I I I almost need to go back and watch it for a fourth time because it kind of put things in perspective a little bit differently of just that entire series.
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So once you're done with Lower's decks, I suggest that you maybe you need to start Deep uh Deep Space Nine.
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Uh I'll I'll try.
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Maybe maybe I'll maybe it's not everyone's cup of tea.
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Maybe I'll so I started it once.
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I think I got like one season in and I just kind of fell off.
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Um right now I'm watching Next Generation by myself.
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Um I know that Haley and I started simultaneously after Picard.
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We were we started Lower Decks and Enterprise.
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Then we kind of got derailed.
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I don't know if it was Daredevil or another show that if we have time I want to talk about too.
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We kind of dropped Enterprise for right now and we're focusing on lower decks because we're trying to be better about starting a show and finishing it.
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Um but yeah, I I do I do want to check it out because like I said, we I I hope that in a future episode that we do, I think it would be cool if we did, you know, if you know, to talk about DS9 because I don't know a lot about it, but just like Next Generation, I've seen so many clips online and I'd love to do an episode on Next Generation 2, just because like I know what's really driving me through that show right now is knowing what's coming, great character moments.
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But well, it's it's also interesting because at one point in time, and this was before kids, um, because I I have two boys which occupy a fair amount of time.
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Maybe, maybe we'll do it, uh, maybe I'll try it with them whenever they get a little bit older.
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Um, is at one point my wife and I, we decided that we were gonna watch Star Trek in chronological order.
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So we started watching, we started watching that this is even before actually I'd watched Enterprise, or we should have started with Enterprise.
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But we watched Next Generation, and then we got to the Deep Space Nine episode.
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So then we started watching both Star Trek, Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine simultaneously, and we got to that, and then finally Next Generation ended, and then we had we got to the Deep Space Nine episode that launched Voyager.
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So then I was watching Deep Space Nine and Voyager concurrently until I got to the end of Deep Space Nine, and then I finished Voyager, and then Discovery came out, and I'm like, crap, how does this fit into everything?
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And then I'll and then at the same time I'm trying to figure out so okay, so I'm at this point in Deep Space Nine.
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When do I watch First Contact?
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Because you have the Defiant and Wharf in um First Contact.
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So alright, so when when during the The Minion War, do the Borg invade?
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Because they don't really reference it in anything else, so it's like you it's like, okay, crap, I just gotta throw this in.
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Um and it just got it got way too complicated, so I just really focused on those three series, but at some point it's like now you gotta do like, okay, so we start with Enterprise, and then we gotta watch part of Discovery, and then we go to Next Generation, then we go to Deep Space Nine, then we go to Voyager, then we have the movies, then we have then, and then we oh crap, I completely forgot.
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Then we have, you know, af after part of Discovery, then you gotta go to Strange New Worlds, then you go into everything else.
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See, this is how complicated it actually is, and then at some point, after probably about four years of watching Star Trek episodes, then you get back to Discovery again that you started like three years prior.
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Oh, geez.
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Because of this the chronological order and time.
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If anyone has the time to actually go and actually, I mean, I know it's already listed on websites and forums and everything, people have actually figured out all this and everything.
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But you know, you figured it out now.
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Actually go and watch it and see how much of it actually makes sense.
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Because then if you really want to, because you know, after Enterprise, then you have Strange New Worlds, and then after Strange New Worlds, then technically you go to the original series.
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Oh boy.
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So and then try watching that because of how different the production is and the special effects are and the characters, because character writing in the late 1960s is different than character writing in the you know 2020s, um and everything.
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So it that would be interesting, and not something I'm gonna say I'm gonna ever do, but maybe who only knows?
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Maybe, maybe a retirement project.
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Who only knows how many more Star Trek shows will be out between then and now.
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Yeah.
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Um see what so so what so what else?
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What's what else?
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I I um I know I don't know about you if you're reading anything.
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I'm reading a couple of things.
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Um I'm reading a comic book series called Brightest Day, and that's connected to Green Lantern, but I I I don't it's good, but I don't even want to talk about it right now.
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Um something I I do want to talk about just slightly.
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One book that I really want to get, I have to talk to my dad to see if he has it.
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I would love to read books about Riker and the Titan.
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Because I just one of the few things I rem I know about it is that I I I looked into it, and apparently Riker's the the Titan, apparently it's kind of a like one of the things that stands out is that apparently Riker's crew was one of the first ships or one of the only ships that were like mostly aliens.
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Um which I just I just thought that would be interesting.
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And then another book that I'm reading, and I'm I and I I stopped reading it because I just really wasn't getting into it.
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I only bring it up because I think it's a funny story.
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When I was a kid, my dad had this Star Wars book called Um Star Wars The Truce Epicura.
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It was the book, um, I don't know if it was the first book to come out, but it was it the book takes place literally minutes after Return of the Jedi, or pretty close to it.
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Um, and but but the reason I'm talking about it at all is that my dad, it was funny when I was a kid, my dad had this book, he knew I was into Star Trek, he let me I don't know if he gave it to me or let me borrow it, but shocker, as a child, I destroyed the book.
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The cover was missing, it ended up my toy box for years, and it ended up being thrown away because the thing was destroyed.
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Uh it's one of the many, many shameful things I've done in my life.
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Things I felt awful about.
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Well, here we are in the year 2026, and somehow I have two copies of the book.
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And I was like, you know what?
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I owe it to my dad to read this book that I destroyed.
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And I probably got nine chapters in, and I think I see why my dad was okay with me destroying the book.
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I don't I don't think it's necessarily bad.
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I just I don't know, I I'm not loving it.
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That's fair.
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Um, and then someday I'd like to talk about Invincible.
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I've been on Invincible Kick, it's on Prime.
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I'm playing the mobile game right now.
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But uh one thing, um I apologize.
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I I want I want to keep this brief because you have to go to work and I have to go mo some lawns before I drive to the Poconos today.
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I think it's the Pokanos.
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Uh before I jump into this last thing, you got anything else you wanna you want to talk about?
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No, it's just um you know I think you know you need to in order to really uh I think appreciate science fiction, you either you pigeon your hole yourself in like one or two things, or you kind of jump around.
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So, you know, there's times where because you know, my previous job, I worked for the post office, so I spent a lot of time in the Jeep, riding around, delivering mail.
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So I I listened to a lot of books.
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Um so I was always jumping, you know, I did nonfiction history books, but then every once in a while I'd jump and do a couple Star Wars books, and I do there's really not many Star Trek audiobooks that were free on um where I was able to download mine.
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Um but I you know I had read there's there's one Star Trek book that I read a long time ago, I think it was in college.
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Um it takes place um a little bit after it takes place right after Undiscovered Country.
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And it's a book that centers around Kirk.
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I think William Shatner may have even written it.
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I'm I can't remember.
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But it's like Kirk um after the Enterprise is decommissioned and everything, um they Starfleet goes in and they take out all the sensitive um equipment and all the offensive weaponry, and this um I don't know if they're Federation World or another another civilization, they they buy the Enterprise or they Starfleet gives them the Enterprise, and so they go and they find Kirk, and they're like, Hey, you know the ship better than anyone.
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And I think he go and Scotty's involved in this somehow too.
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And essentially Um Kirk goes with them to another planet that like kind of like Rejuvenates him, um, and then Scotty's involved, but then somehow the Klingons are still involved in all this because you know you can't have classic Earth without the Klingons trying to kill him.
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Of course.
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Um, and it you know, they still have there's still a couple elements of like Starfleet officers still collaborating with the Klingons that haven't completely been rooted out yet.
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Uh, so they play a factor in that too.
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So at one point, um, there's a rogue Starfleet Admiral on a Klingon bird of prey that's trying to kill Kirk and destroy the Enterprise, uh, and then Kirk outsmarts them with the help of Scotty, who breaks into the Starfleet Museum, steals the USS Yorktown, steals the cloaking, steals a Klingon cloaking device from one of the um oh, from one of the original series episodes where they do steal a cloaking device.
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Uh I think it's from the Romulans.
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And then he at the last minute Scotty appears and saves the day.
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Um in this unmodified constitution class um relic with a Romulan uh cloaking device like hot wired into it and everything.
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But it was it was an interesting book.
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It was a different book from you know from the movies and everything.
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Um and there's a there's a ton of them out there.
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You mentioned about the books on Riker.
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Um, but then there's also there's a ton of books on, you know, with I think there's a couple with Picard, there's definitely some with Kirk, too.
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I yes, I was I was thinking about that when you started talking that um there were a couple that I really wanted to I read the second one for a school project, and it was one of the time it was one of the few times I found that I could really enjoy reading.
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Talk about that another time, but it was like the second book in a trilogy that Shatner wrote that had to do with like Kirk like being revived after generations and he was like teaming up with Picard, and there was like the mirror universe Picard uh not Picard Kirk um that I'd really like to revisit.
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But um, real real quick before we wrap up, um, so at this point, uh when this episode comes out, hopefully it will come out after, and you'll be hearing about this after we did it, but maybe not.
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And so in we we were hoping, if we didn't already do it, we want to do an episode of Brothers Before Bourbon with uh our friends Dennis and Chad.
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We're gonna do a two-parter.
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And I'm I'm scrolling on Google, and I thought um it would be funny on their show, they um they you know like they do like a half and half.
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It's an interview.
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You know, we've both been on it.
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We've both been on it.
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Not for the podcast, but we've both been on it.
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And I I thought, wouldn't it be funny if I found if I found like one or two like whether they're recreations from the show or just tributes, bringing like, you know, you know, like sci-fi whiskey or whatever to and my god, there are so many.
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I'm on here right now.
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They apparently Chateau Picard is an actual wine.
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Um there's all sorts of Romulan whiskey, Romulan ale, yeah.
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Ale, there's there's a there's a bourbon, uh gin.
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Um a lot of them are pretty pricey, so um I'll have to figure that out considering you know my work situation that I'm not gonna talk about on the show right now.
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But I there's one that I don't care.
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I I I have to have.
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And it is it's called V Senses Star Trek Aldebarren Spirit.
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But as you would probably remember it, Adam, what is it?
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It is green, it is green, and so I'm like, I don't care.
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Even if it's only Ordorian whiskey or whatever Picard called it.
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Yeah, yeah, the way you know Scotty's drinking it and he's like, oh, be careful, Picard, and Picard's just down in it like a pro.
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Um who do you think gave it the guy in?
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Oh, yeah, exactly.
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Alright, yep.
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Oh, yeah, so look at that.
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We were able to cram that in.
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We're just a little bit over.
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Um, so okay, alright, then let's we will just jump right in here.
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We are the Borg, and you're listening to Two Guys, Questionable Credentials with Adam and Tom.
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Resistance is futile.
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Alright, everyone, welcome back to Two Guys with Questionable Credentials with Adam and Tom.
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Tom, how are we doing?
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I'm alright.
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How are you doing, buddy?
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Oh, I'm hanging in there.
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Nice, nice.
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Alright.
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Well, so, um, let's see.
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Um, as of recording, it is 11:35 a.m.
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and Eastern Standard Time.
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Yeah, Eastern Standard Time.
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And Adam has to leave for work in uh what is that, 25 minutes?
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Yeah, right around here.
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Well then you know what?
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I think I think this episode, um, you know, we we kind of thought that maybe we would just kind of do like a like a like a general just a general chat.
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Like, I don't know, what you've been what you've been thinking about, watching, reading, whatever.
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I don't know.
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Uh, Adam, would you like to start or would you like me to get going?
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Kick this off.
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Why don't you go ahead and start?
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Because I know you are working on uh a T TV streaming series right now of a very um uh important subject in your work in your life.
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I I am.
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I am watching lanterns.
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Um I'm I'm hoping that we'll get to do an episode on it when it wraps up.
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But so I'll I'll keep it brief and no spoilers.
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But I I'm really enjoying it.
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Um I know a lot, shocker, a lot of Green Lantern fans are mad about it.
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Um, which anything anybody does is gonna do that.
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It's gonna upset people because it's not exactly like the books.
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But my dad and I often talk about how like, you know, I I'm all for something as long as it's um I'm entertained for the most part.
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Um and the show I really am enjoying.
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There's a couple of things that like confuse me, but doesn't really like upset me or like make me lose interest in the show.
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There are things they're doing with the characters that are different from the comics that maybe we'll dive into a little bit when we if we do an episode on it.
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But I I I do want to say, if any Green Lantern fans listen to this show, and I'm actually thinking about reaching out, I'm part of a Green Lantern Facebook group, and I thought about asking the admin, because they do a podcast also, if these couple of episodes that we that I hope we do about Green Lantern, if I'm allowed, if I can share them too.
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I mean That would be cool.
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They'll probably all hate me because you know I'm I'm an idiot.
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But one of the one one of the things I want to say about the show, and then we'll move on, is that anybody who's listening to this that's a Green Lantern fan and is not loving it, to me, I'm I'm really enjoying it, but more importantly to me is that it's actually brought me back to the franchise.
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I just I don't know, a lot of people, not everybody, but a lot of loud voices have talked about how they really they they they like they they haven't enjoyed the show or just in general the way the comics have been doing things, and that's fine, that's their opinion.
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But honestly, like sometimes those conversations, just like Star Wars, get very toxic.
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And so it kind of made me walk away from the franchise.
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But lanterns has actually gotten me back into it.
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I'm reading a bunch of Green Lantern stuff, just like I made you read that uh Green Lantern Star Trek crossover.
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Which I'm glad I'm I'm very glad I did, actually.
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And I and I'm reading uh and like I'm reading you know comics that I I've already read, have been meaning to read that have Green Lantern in them, or like the the TV show, which I'm trying to get the girls to get into, they're not loving it, but they love playing with my Blackest Knight Power Ring collection.
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Um so yeah, I mean, even even when something, you know, in someone's opinion is bad, if it brings another fan to the table, I think that's pretty great.
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But again, uh I will hopefully elaborate on this at a later date.
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Adam, what do you got?
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Well, you know, I I've actually kind of taken a little bit of a little bit of a break from science fiction a little bit recently.
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Um, you know, my for those of you don't know, I you know, my job during the summer, I'm with I work uh day shift and then during the school year I work second shift.
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So that kind of uh you know it changes up how I, you know, what movies, shows, books, and stuff that I'm I'm really into based on what's going on.
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Um I at some point in the very near future, I know I need to pick back up on Strange New Worlds.
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Um I left off um I think it was the end of season two that I left off of Strange New Worlds, and I need to pick it back up.
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Um missed season three, season four is currently out, and I tell you, some of the um uh some of the clips that I have seen on YouTube of Strange New Worlds with some of the episodes that have just come out, I I they look amazing.
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Um with just some of the stuff that's going on.
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The uh the Western episode looks like it's really good.
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Um there's another episode recently where I don't know, but there uh Kirk is on the Bridge of the Enterprise, and then there's an Admiral also on the Bridge of the Enterprise.
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I don't know exactly where Pike is during all this, because of course I haven't watched it yet.
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Um, but it shows it's the reviews of that it shows it's a very powerful episode on how it's written and everything.
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Uh so that's something I want to come back in this uh near future.
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Uh just watched Deep Space Nine, finished Deep Space Nine.
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Um I think I stopped it like a year and a half ago, partway through season seven.
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So I actually finished it out.
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Uh checked that box again.
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I think it's my third time watching the series.
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Uh but then it was cool because as soon as I got done with Deep Space Nine, then I watched the Deep Space Nine episode of Lower Decks.
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Oh, okay.
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So I'm like, okay, it's like it's like a bonus episode of Deep Space Nine.
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Uh so got to do I watched that, and then I actually just recently watched uh What We Left Behind, which is a documentary that came out in 2019, I think.
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It was pre-COVID.
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Uh, and it was uh the writers of Deep Space Nine got back together, and it's just it's a documentary of the series.
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Um how the casting went, how the characters were developed, some of the you know the thoughts on you know how the characters interacted with each other and everything.
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Um is there anything like like where they thought the characters would go if they continued or where they where or where they are now?
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Yes, yes, actually, and it's essentially around the documentary looking back at everything, is you have, I think there's there's like f four or five of the main riders, not all of them, but you know, a couple of the big ones, um, that are all in a writer's room, and they do the first episode of season eight.
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Okay.
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So it takes place like it they jump forward in the future of Deep Space Nine.
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So I think it's I don't know, a good ten years, fifteen years in the future, and they're saying, okay, so if we were to bring everything back, this is where we would have the characters.
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This is what we would have going on.
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And you know, what happened to Captain Cisco?
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We kind of left that out there.
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And they they kind of go through what the first episode would be.
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Half of the first episode, because in true Deep Space Nine fashion, they leave it as a two-parter, but they never do anything with part two.
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So they they fix a cliffhanger by adding another cliffhanger.
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Okay.
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Um, but yeah, they bring back all the characters.
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Um, of course, everyone has progressed in their careers.
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I think they they have Kira as a Vedic, still in command of Deep Space Nine.
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Uh Nog is a captain of a starship, which he is killed uh in a mysterious mis explosion of the Defiant early on in the documentary, and then that's kind of like the whole um the center point of getting everyone back together at Quarks on Deep Space Nine as a memorial to Nog.
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But then everything starts to unravel from there, and then at the very end, they Captain Cisco appears, and then boom, end of the episode.
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I did see, you know, I did see some I was watching a video the other day talking about Nog and like how important of a character he was in DS9.
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Yeah, it doesn't start out that way, but then he very much does.
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But and then they were but then uh I did see at some point I was like half watching while I was like doing dishes or being yelled at by three-year-olds.
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Um I did like I saw that apparently at some point, I don't know which show it is or if it's a book, whatever, that he um has a starship named after him.
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Yes, uh, that is in uh Star Trek Discovery, whenever they are in the 20, I'm sorry, the 32nd century, there is a USS Nog.
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Okay.
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Uh and it's it's you know, it is a shame.
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I mean, the actor who did play Nog did pass away several years ago.
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Um he's no longer with us, unfortunately.
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Um but he does um he he he was still alive at the time of the documentary.
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Um but they do talk about you know you know how dare you kill Nog off and everything.
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But uh the actor actually talks that there's a there's a very powerful episode.
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It's um whenever Nog loses his leg fighting the Dominion in Deep Space Nine.
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And he goes through the whole the whole new episode, next episode is all about PTSD and how someone who, you know, whether you're a first responder, you're law enforcement, you're military, you know, a view into possibly what is going through their mind and how they try to reconcile with the fact that they have lost the body part.
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And they said that Nog's perform that you know the performance of Nog in that episode did a lot to help veterans who with their PTSD and everything because it put it on the screen, you know, in a major franchise.
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And the character talks about that, about how he always had veterans or people coming up to them saying, Wow, that episode really helped me and you know get through or helped me in my journey, maybe not to get through it, but to you know, kind of maybe put things in perspective a little bit.
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Um, the other thing they kind of talk about is how bold the riding was in Deep Space Nine.
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We get to see you know, we see two female characters kissing in one episode, we see the war, because war is never really a part of anything in Star Trek until we get to the Dominion War, and that just kind of changes everything.
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And then we have the um the quite adventurous relationship between Wharf and Dax.
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Um the religious part that they bring into um with the Bajoran culture and everything they brought into Deep Space Nine.
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Um so you know, it was you know not only was it a different because it was on a space station, but it was different all around from Voyager and Next Generation.
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Okay.
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I thought it was really good, and I you know what since I had just recently re-watched it, um, it really kind of put me just like, okay, I I I almost need to go back and watch it for a fourth time because it kind of put things in perspective a little bit differently of just that entire series.
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So once you're done with Lower's decks, I suggest that you maybe you need to start Deep uh Deep Space Nine.
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Uh I'll I'll try.
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Maybe maybe I'll maybe it's not everyone's cup of tea.
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Maybe I'll so I started it once.
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I think I got like one season in and I just kind of fell off.
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Um right now I'm watching Next Generation by myself.
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Um I know that Haley and I started simultaneously after Picard.
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We were we started Lower Decks and Enterprise.
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Then we kind of got derailed.
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I don't know if it was Daredevil or another show that if we have time I want to talk about too.
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We kind of dropped Enterprise for right now and we're focusing on lower decks because we're trying to be better about starting a show and finishing it.
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Um but yeah, I I do I do want to check it out because like I said, we I I hope that in a future episode that we do, I think it would be cool if we did, you know, if you know, to talk about DS9 because I don't know a lot about it, but just like Next Generation, I've seen so many clips online and I'd love to do an episode on Next Generation 2, just because like I know what's really driving me through that show right now is knowing what's coming, great character moments.
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But well, it's it's also interesting because at one point in time, and this was before kids, um, because I I have two boys which occupy a fair amount of time.
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Maybe, maybe we'll do it, uh, maybe I'll try it with them whenever they get a little bit older.
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Um, is at one point my wife and I, we decided that we were gonna watch Star Trek in chronological order.
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So we started watching, we started watching that this is even before actually I'd watched Enterprise, or we should have started with Enterprise.
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But we watched Next Generation, and then we got to the Deep Space Nine episode.
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So then we started watching both Star Trek, Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine simultaneously, and we got to that, and then finally Next Generation ended, and then we had we got to the Deep Space Nine episode that launched Voyager.
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So then I was watching Deep Space Nine and Voyager concurrently until I got to the end of Deep Space Nine, and then I finished Voyager, and then Discovery came out, and I'm like, crap, how does this fit into everything?
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And then I'll and then at the same time I'm trying to figure out so okay, so I'm at this point in Deep Space Nine.
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When do I watch First Contact?
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Because you have the Defiant and Wharf in um First Contact.
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So alright, so when when during the The Minion War, do the Borg invade?
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Because they don't really reference it in anything else, so it's like you it's like, okay, crap, I just gotta throw this in.
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Um and it just got it got way too complicated, so I just really focused on those three series, but at some point it's like now you gotta do like, okay, so we start with Enterprise, and then we gotta watch part of Discovery, and then we go to Next Generation, then we go to Deep Space Nine, then we go to Voyager, then we have the movies, then we have then, and then we oh crap, I completely forgot.
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Then we have, you know, af after part of Discovery, then you gotta go to Strange New Worlds, then you go into everything else.
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See, this is how complicated it actually is, and then at some point, after probably about four years of watching Star Trek episodes, then you get back to Discovery again that you started like three years prior.
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Oh, geez.
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Because of this the chronological order and time.
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If anyone has the time to actually go and actually, I mean, I know it's already listed on websites and forums and everything, people have actually figured out all this and everything.
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But you know, you figured it out now.
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Actually go and watch it and see how much of it actually makes sense.
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Because then if you really want to, because you know, after Enterprise, then you have Strange New Worlds, and then after Strange New Worlds, then technically you go to the original series.
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Oh boy.
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So and then try watching that because of how different the production is and the special effects are and the characters, because character writing in the late 1960s is different than character writing in the you know 2020s, um and everything.
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So it that would be interesting, and not something I'm gonna say I'm gonna ever do, but maybe who only knows?
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Maybe, maybe a retirement project.
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Who only knows how many more Star Trek shows will be out between then and now.
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Yeah.
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Um see what so so what so what else?
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What's what else?
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I I um I know I don't know about you if you're reading anything.
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I'm reading a couple of things.
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Um I'm reading a comic book series called Brightest Day, and that's connected to Green Lantern, but I I I don't it's good, but I don't even want to talk about it right now.
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Um something I I do want to talk about just slightly.
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One book that I really want to get, I have to talk to my dad to see if he has it.
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I would love to read books about Riker and the Titan.
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Because I just one of the few things I rem I know about it is that I I I looked into it, and apparently Riker's the the Titan, apparently it's kind of a like one of the things that stands out is that apparently Riker's crew was one of the first ships or one of the only ships that were like mostly aliens.
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Um which I just I just thought that would be interesting.
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And then another book that I'm reading, and I'm I and I I stopped reading it because I just really wasn't getting into it.
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I only bring it up because I think it's a funny story.
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When I was a kid, my dad had this Star Wars book called Um Star Wars The Truce Epicura.
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It was the book, um, I don't know if it was the first book to come out, but it was it the book takes place literally minutes after Return of the Jedi, or pretty close to it.
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Um, and but but the reason I'm talking about it at all is that my dad, it was funny when I was a kid, my dad had this book, he knew I was into Star Trek, he let me I don't know if he gave it to me or let me borrow it, but shocker, as a child, I destroyed the book.
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The cover was missing, it ended up my toy box for years, and it ended up being thrown away because the thing was destroyed.
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Uh it's one of the many, many shameful things I've done in my life.
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Things I felt awful about.
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Well, here we are in the year 2026, and somehow I have two copies of the book.
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And I was like, you know what?
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I owe it to my dad to read this book that I destroyed.
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And I probably got nine chapters in, and I think I see why my dad was okay with me destroying the book.
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I don't I don't think it's necessarily bad.
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I just I don't know, I I'm not loving it.
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That's fair.
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Um, and then someday I'd like to talk about Invincible.
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I've been on Invincible Kick, it's on Prime.
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I'm playing the mobile game right now.
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But uh one thing, um I apologize.
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I I want I want to keep this brief because you have to go to work and I have to go mo some lawns before I drive to the Poconos today.
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I think it's the Pokanos.
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Uh before I jump into this last thing, you got anything else you wanna you want to talk about?
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No, it's just um you know I think you know you need to in order to really uh I think appreciate science fiction, you either you pigeon your hole yourself in like one or two things, or you kind of jump around.
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So, you know, there's times where because you know, my previous job, I worked for the post office, so I spent a lot of time in the Jeep, riding around, delivering mail.
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So I I listened to a lot of books.
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Um so I was always jumping, you know, I did nonfiction history books, but then every once in a while I'd jump and do a couple Star Wars books, and I do there's really not many Star Trek audiobooks that were free on um where I was able to download mine.
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Um but I you know I had read there's there's one Star Trek book that I read a long time ago, I think it was in college.
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Um it takes place um a little bit after it takes place right after Undiscovered Country.
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And it's a book that centers around Kirk.
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I think William Shatner may have even written it.
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I'm I can't remember.
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But it's like Kirk um after the Enterprise is decommissioned and everything, um they Starfleet goes in and they take out all the sensitive um equipment and all the offensive weaponry, and this um I don't know if they're Federation World or another another civilization, they they buy the Enterprise or they Starfleet gives them the Enterprise, and so they go and they find Kirk, and they're like, Hey, you know the ship better than anyone.
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And I think he go and Scotty's involved in this somehow too.
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And essentially Um Kirk goes with them to another planet that like kind of like Rejuvenates him, um, and then Scotty's involved, but then somehow the Klingons are still involved in all this because you know you can't have classic Earth without the Klingons trying to kill him.
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Of course.
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Um, and it you know, they still have there's still a couple elements of like Starfleet officers still collaborating with the Klingons that haven't completely been rooted out yet.
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Uh, so they play a factor in that too.
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So at one point, um, there's a rogue Starfleet Admiral on a Klingon bird of prey that's trying to kill Kirk and destroy the Enterprise, uh, and then Kirk outsmarts them with the help of Scotty, who breaks into the Starfleet Museum, steals the USS Yorktown, steals the cloaking, steals a Klingon cloaking device from one of the um oh, from one of the original series episodes where they do steal a cloaking device.
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Uh I think it's from the Romulans.
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And then he at the last minute Scotty appears and saves the day.
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Um in this unmodified constitution class um relic with a Romulan uh cloaking device like hot wired into it and everything.
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But it was it was an interesting book.
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It was a different book from you know from the movies and everything.
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Um and there's a there's a ton of them out there.
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You mentioned about the books on Riker.
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Um, but then there's also there's a ton of books on, you know, with I think there's a couple with Picard, there's definitely some with Kirk, too.
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I yes, I was I was thinking about that when you started talking that um there were a couple that I really wanted to I read the second one for a school project, and it was one of the time it was one of the few times I found that I could really enjoy reading.
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Talk about that another time, but it was like the second book in a trilogy that Shatner wrote that had to do with like Kirk like being revived after generations and he was like teaming up with Picard, and there was like the mirror universe Picard uh not Picard Kirk um that I'd really like to revisit.
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But um, real real quick before we wrap up, um, so at this point, uh when this episode comes out, hopefully it will come out after, and you'll be hearing about this after we did it, but maybe not.
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And so in we we were hoping, if we didn't already do it, we want to do an episode of Brothers Before Bourbon with uh our friends Dennis and Chad.
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We're gonna do a two-parter.
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And I'm I'm scrolling on Google, and I thought um it would be funny on their show, they um they you know like they do like a half and half.
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It's an interview.
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You know, we've both been on it.
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We've both been on it.
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Not for the podcast, but we've both been on it.
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And I I thought, wouldn't it be funny if I found if I found like one or two like whether they're recreations from the show or just tributes, bringing like, you know, you know, like sci-fi whiskey or whatever to and my god, there are so many.
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I'm on here right now.
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They apparently Chateau Picard is an actual wine.
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Um there's all sorts of Romulan whiskey, Romulan ale, yeah.
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Ale, there's there's a there's a bourbon, uh gin.
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Um a lot of them are pretty pricey, so um I'll have to figure that out considering you know my work situation that I'm not gonna talk about on the show right now.
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But I there's one that I don't care.
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I I I have to have.
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And it is it's called V Senses Star Trek Aldebarren Spirit.
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But as you would probably remember it, Adam, what is it?
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It is green, it is green, and so I'm like, I don't care.
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Even if it's only Ordorian whiskey or whatever Picard called it.
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Yeah, yeah, the way you know Scotty's drinking it and he's like, oh, be careful, Picard, and Picard's just down in it like a pro.
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Um who do you think gave it the guy in?
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Oh, yeah, exactly.
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Alright, yep.
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Oh, yeah, so look at that.
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We were able to cram that in.
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We're just a little bit over.
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Um, so okay, alright, then let's we will just jump right in here.
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