Hello and welcome to Retrospection, the podcast where we decide if an old movie on TV show deserves to be peppered with a barrage of photon torpedoes or given a free holiday on the holiday planet, Oricer, I said holiday, so I said holiday, so I said yeah, well done. Yeah, so good start. I wrote a shit today. So there we go.
My name's Paul and we have engaged the Borg. You said that when you go to the toilet thing. I say a lot of things, I say Fire All Thrusters, I say Photon torpedoes, are ready. Engaging Paul's.
Engaging Paul's that's another one. And I'm Jay, and frankly Commander, you're in my way. Oh no, that. Couldn't have picked a fitter quote there from another thing I'm going to say.
What? What? Are you saying that character is quote unquote fit? As Puget, do you mean fit to the healthy or do you mean fit to the...
Well, she looks very healthy, but... But the playground fit. I mean, I'm not saying people in playgrounds are fit. That's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying the school vernacular of fit. Excuse me, so we just like having a word. Hey, nothing here, nothing here. So on this episode, in case you haven't guessed, although you probably have seen it already because we did the time of the episode.
I'm rambling, though. So I don't know what you're doing. We're heading back to Star Trek, the next generation, with the two parts, season three, stroke four. Episodes, best of both worlds.
Stroke four. Wow, is this the level I've been going for? No. Hey, come on.
Why are you talking to bring it, man? Can you take it back? No. Please.
I'm here, I can't leave. This is true. I'm DB says, responding to a distress call. The Enterprise arrives at one of the Federation colonies only to discover a big hole in the ground and the Borg behind the attack.
I'm DB always with the strength of this. Yep, the episode stars, and it seems a bit redacted to do this, but I'm going to tell you these anyway. Who am I not remember? I mean, you've never seen this before.
I know it was, isn't it? All right. Patrick Stewart has kept him in John Luke Picard. John from Freix has command a Riker, Brent Spiner as Data, Gates McFadden as Dr.
Crusher, Michael Dorn as Wolf, Will Wheaton as Wesley Crusher, Marine, why are you sniggering at Will Wheaton? What? I'm breathing. He's sending like your tittering.
No. Tittering at the Wheaton. He will not have a go at you. He can bring it in handy, I'm telling you.
Also, can I just say, in your notes, we've written Michael Dorn. It looks like Michael Pawn. That's his other stage now. Yeah, yeah.
I've read other career. I've never seen a fall episode of Next Generation. So you didn't really know any of these characters really at all. So this is kind of new though, in a stretch for you.
I knew of them, but I hadn't. I didn't know them. We didn't know the backstories. No, no, no.
Okay. So this is going to be interesting. Now, we watched these episodes edited together as a movie, but when it was originally, it was two episodes with a cliffhanger in the middle, which we'll talk about later. The first part of the story was massive in the ratings, and that resulted in the series becoming the highest syndicated show at that time.
And this was the first two-part episode of Star Trek to have been produced since T.O.S. is the Marjorie. It's also listed on TV guides, 100 Greatest TV episodes ranking number 36. Very well acquainted.
Oh, it was. This was very well-received. It was originally conceived as a three-part story with the Battle of Wolf 359 actually going to be shown. Also, Picard and Data were going to both be assimilated by the board and combined as one unit.
That would have been interesting. How would they have been combined? I mean, they'd plug into each other or? Maybe it's like Batman's Superman thing, but it's like one half is because one half is.
What's they coming at? Stuck it together. That's going to be a bugger to separate again and put them back to the heart. Dr Crusher's got a work guy there.
That would have been interesting though. I think it would have been nice to see the Battle of Wolf on that. Although I think we do see it in the pilot episode of Deep Space Nine. So the pilot episode of Deep Space Nine is the commander of Cisco.
Both those plans, though, the showing of the battle and the slamming together of Data and Picard, I could have put that better. Were dropped due to budget constraints. Well, that makes sense. Yeah.
It would have been so expensive to fill out the TV budget. However, these concepts do kind of resurface in 1996's first contact moving. We see a big battle at the beginning and also Data does get assimilated in that moving kind of. Oh, plus with the film, you've got higher budget than the future.
Yeah, and first contact is like a big action. Patrick Stewart was actually in the process of renegotiating his contract during this. So the cliffhanger could have served as a way to write him out should he decide not to return. I suppose they've got killed him.
Yeah. George Mowgop, who plays Admiral Hansen in this, also plays the alien quote unquote, God character in Star Trek Final Frontier. You know the big floating head. Oh, yeah.
You know the whole, I just like, what does God need in Star Trek? Yeah. Yeah. You try to watch that movie once.
Yeah. You get very fun. I got that halfway. What was your problem with Star Trek Final?
Is it a human? I think it was very good. Yeah. Just because it's directed by Shatna is that why you like it?
It's only reason. Because Shatna is in British every scene of it. Look, Star Trek Final is a grossly underrated movie, in my opinion. Yes.
Go back and listen to what I've ever said. And cover it on the shirt. I'm going to have a listen to it. So there you go.
You need to rethink it. I'm asking I remember from what Shatna was, Scottie running down corridor. Did you get to the point where he does the guy go know the shit like the back of my hand and then walks into a bullcrap music stuff? Yeah.
That's great. Probably to film in part two, Levi Burton had just had surgery. So most of these scenes were filmed after the production concluded. This is why he's only ever shot in close up and never with any of the other characters in the second part.
So two, actually one two M's. One for outstanding, sign mixing and the other for sign dancing. Any fun book, the actual. Well, he's science fiction isn't it?
He's kind of snobbering around science fiction. You can make the greatest thing in the world. The Ronald D. Moore reboot of Bal and then the one from Star Wars.
Oh, Katie, she's the rebooted in the original Starbucks book. Vote Benedict. They were on the rewind. Who would go on to in the 18th in the basement when they rebooted Bal and they changed the sex and turned into a killer lady.
Which I was trying to do not wrong with because it's completely different shows. But they both got merits but I'm always kind of biased. Also a past episode. So listen to that one as well.
That's a very early episode. You've also covered Bal's style like good 1980s. Not as good. Okay, so let's listen to a little bit of a trailer.
Next time on Star Trek, the next generation. You once knew him as the card captain of the starship Enterprise. But now he's half man, half machine. A deadly pawn of the evil board.
His mission to destroy Earth and anything or anyone who gets in his way. It's the showdown of the 24th century on the next exciting episode of Star Trek, the next generation. The Enterprise arrives at a colony and the waiting beams down only to find a massive crater where the time used to be. It's a nice map painting.
Oh yeah, definitely. What do you think of the effects in this? A bit early to mention it. Yeah, you know, I'm not sure whether it was just because of the version we were watching.
Because it was a Blu-ray and it might have been tweaked later. I thought the effects, I didn't even realise they were models until you told me. Yeah, yeah. No CGI.
I think I said, no, these still models. They look so good. Yeah, no, the effects always looked good in TNG. I think the modern Blu-rays have been slightly tweaked.
Yeah. Just to clear them up a bit. That's the same with original Trek. You can watch on the Blu-rays of the original Trek.
You can choose between whether you want to watch the original effects or these new CG effects. I don't mind the CG effects in the new TOS because they kind of still try to make them look of that time. You know CGI. But they didn't go overboard with it.
They got all the entire place. Yeah. But yeah, the effects in TNG are very good. There's some nuts over there.
But on the whole, mostly good. What do you think of the design of the Enterprise D? It's weird because I'm so kind of connected with the original Enterprise. And I mean, I even the Enterprise from the original Trek films.
Yeah. But I don't mind it. I just found it to look like a, it's been an ugly ship at the Enterprise D. Yeah.
It kind of looks like a duck. You know, it's got a weird. What, just because it's curved. It's curved with a big bulbous.
Yeah, but that has a purpose later on. Yeah. Yeah. And it's supposed to be like a massive ship.
It's supposed to be a lot bigger than the original Enterprise. For me, the best ship design still has to be the refitted Enterprise in the motion picture. And that's, that's. Well, it's so good they have an old 10 minute sequence.
Yeah. To show it off. I did always like the updated Open Credits and the use of the motion picture music in the next generation. Yeah.
I thought it was a nice kind of nod to the past. Not to the past. But also kind of making it his own. And that theme that, that from the motion picture is one of the best pieces of the film music.
It's a great opening thing. Also, you did point out to me that during that credit sequence of the shot where you can see someone. Yeah, you, you can see someone passing the window. When the Enterprise get, when you see it from the back and it moves up the screen, you see a little Picard walk past the window in the ready room.
Because that's the ready room. The conference room where they sit down. Yeah, it's a nice little touch. Yeah.
So, I'm not sure if you've seen the previous episode in season two. So, Q, who is this omnipotent being, like a god-in-law, being, who holds the Enterprise so far into a different solar system, like beyond the river gone before. And they encounter this Q and turns out it's the board. And they're like unlike any foe that they've faced before.
Because they don't want anything other than to assimilate you. They've got no other motives. They don't want land. They don't want power.
They don't want to assimilate every culture and technology. And they lose. And basically the only reason they get away from them is Q throws the Enterprise back to where it came from. It gets them out of there.
And they're like, you're not ready for this. But the point is, the episode ends with the card realizing they're aware of us. They're going to come. They know that we exist now so they're going to come.
And this is the payoff from that. They show up again after this. Oh, they keep Q, the board show up all the time. They're like the big.
It's not just like, there was the episode in season two then this. No, no, no. They are an ongoing problem for the Federation. So, she'll be there to jump to defense efforts.
And apparently, an OI Riker and the audience. I think as much as possible. She's like that one person at work who does tons and tons of work while also making sure that you know that you're a big failure at the same time. Yeah.
She constantly tries to make sure that Riker knows that. No, she wants his job, basically. Also, he sends some grooming out of it. He's a little bit weird where there is a day.
Do we need to get Starfleet H.A.R. on to this? Yeah. We talked about, oh, it's just an old man's fantasy.
Yeah. Because I was just like, like, okay. Yeah, man. Watch those cups after you've thrown that thing.
So they talk about the main prize previously came to the board in the season two episode I talked about. And we also discovered that Riker has turned down another captain scene. Now, this is something that also goes on through TNG. He keeps getting off with captains chairs on ships.
He keeps turning on that. He just loves being on that intro. Yeah. I guess you could prove that he's a loyal crew member, yeah.
Plus, he's old sweezys on the ship. So him and Troy used to have a thing. It's kind of like Gekker and I, you're in the motion picture. Yeah.
You know, they meet each other again on the ship and the Kindle something. And eventually, they get married. What do you get a uniform, by the way? Yeah.
You know, I never used to like them. But watching this, I think, they've kind of grown on me a little bit. And just kind of how sleek they are. Yeah, they're two pieces when we get to season three.
Much more comfortable than the first and second season ones, which were kind of like jumpsuits. Yeah, because I always wondered why in this episode, when I was right, it was just kind of the justices. Well, they all do it. They all do it.
There's a perfect Stuart one. He always does it when he sits there and they ended up calling it the car maneuver. But yeah, that was original jumpsuits in season one too. Apparently, they rode up the crotch something chronic.
Yeah. And they actually went to the producers. So anyway, we could do something about this because you know, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, it's children dying inside of it. Yeah, of course, we'd be born.
Later on, because I does get a lovely suede jacket as well. Which he never does up. It's kind of like black suede with the red bits on the top. Always want to go check it.
You can get them. Imagine walking down the street now. I think I can pull it off. Okay.
All right. All right, Colin. Critiquing my, you know, dress sense. I love you.
You can come with me that. Yeah, I know. He doesn't listen. Riker shows Shelby to her quarters and she's definitely trying to push Riker's buttons.
She shall let me say she basically wants his job. So it's Poconai and this becomes a big thing in the series. We get lots of scenes from Saturn. But I never joins them until right at the very end of the series.
The last scene in the very last episode of next generation is him turning up to Poconai. And at first they're all kind of like, oh, yeah, of course. And he deals the cards and he looks around everyone and says, you know, I should be done with you. This is a rather an explanation.
Why? Because he always comes. I think he thinks it's their time and it wouldn't be appropriate for me to catch him to join. But by the time he gets the end of the series, he realizes that they are like his family.
You know, and they all care for each other. It's a nice moment to end it on. They can't blow it in the movie. But we'll get to that.
Shelby beats Riker who bluffs everyone else, but she sees straight through it in the movie. And he's not too happy on when he gets beaten. So next morning and Riker finds out that Shelby has already been down to the planet. You wouldn't put up with this, would you?
No, that would not keep her up on me. She would have started doing it. Wow! H.R.
H.R. Again, we need to be forced out of H.R. No, because I mean, if you've got a crew member who's unreliable and keeps doing stuff beyond your back, then that's not really appropriate. It's not appropriate, isn't it?
It's appropriate or helpful. Yeah, yeah. Because if you don't know what's going on, they could be doing anything. Exactly.
And she does think that she, you know, best. Yeah. Because she's young and she's ambitious. I think she's got a nice little arc in this sort of world.
Yeah, because at the end they become. She's not the same at the end of the story. Data makes one of his jokes, which I always found a bit tiresome in nature actually. Yeah, it's just like, you know, the stereotypical...
I don't really understand you, man. Yeah, comedy relief robot type thing. I mean, there's more to date than that. This is just a little facet of the character that they throw at.
It's a lot worse in first season. They're kind of throwing it down as a show goes on and stop doing it. But they really push it in that first season. And it does get a bit tiresome.
Like a gift shelter talking to. But once clearly annoyed, he's still being professional about it. Oh, those heady days of real-star trek when people talk like adults to each other and not children. And actually had some kind of rank in their...
Yeah, there's a chain of command. Yeah. In original trek and in this and in Deep Space Nine, which doesn't really exist in the modern trek. Especially in Discovery and Strangely.
Everybody, you know, it's like Captain or Say Something and then they go, I don't want to do that. And he'll just kind of go, all right. Especially Pike and Strangely Wild. He may have gone up, he can't say.
He's not going to be captain though. He's not going to be captain though. Because he's riker at the hell you still do in here chat. I think it's like he doesn't want riker to go.
But he knows he's hurt in his career by staying put. Yeah, because you know, as much as he likes him as a friend and you know, he knows that, you know, he says you're ready to have his own. He says you're ready to take the cent of sea. He's suggesting it, because he wants him to further his career and solve it.
Yeah, exactly. It's like when I say to you, you know, make sure that you're doing all your revisions so that one day you can find me that house. You know, I'm thinking in the long game here. You know, I won't let up show at the bottom of the estate that I told you I want.
Nice little crew with some beers in. Big TV, you know, give me that phone as well as I can call you when I need something. Yeah. Well, then you don't even have to see it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just show up for the podcast now again because we're still doing this in 20 years. Yeah, yeah. I'll definitely put you on it.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. When he asked Riker why his impression of Shelly was, I was actually waiting for him to do an impression. You imagine that?
It'd be like that famous episode of the original series trek when a woman takes over Kurt's body and shout is really going for it. And at one point he's starting to capture doing his nails. It's a pretty bad episode. You know, I'm not sure.
It's a very nice episode. At the very end. It's not great. Because Riker's best interests are hard.
Like, so he really doesn't want him to go. So in 10 Forward Riker has a bit of a heart to heart with Troy, who is the worst ships counselor ever. She was just from a song at one point. I don't really know what that means when he says sent into it.
It's like, you're the character. You look at her watch, you know, everything. Is that the only reason she's on the show? She's a ships counselor and she can sense him.
These two characters do have a great arc over the years as I say. They eventually get married. And they are kids and one of them dies and blah, blah, blah, blah. It's a big thing in the car as well.
This 10 forward set, by the way, wasn't in season one of the next generations. Basically, Wookie Goldberg, who was a fan of the show and of Star Trek. Loved Trek as a kid. And when they brought Star Trek back, she called the producer and said, is there a part for me?
And they were like, you want to be Goldberg? And she's like, yeah, I know, but I want to be in Star Trek. Because she was a big star, you know. And so they wrote her, this character of Guyan, and she's kind of the bartender in 10 Forward.
But she's more than that. She's almost Q like in a way. She's got like weird powers and things. But you never really explain what she is, you know?
But she's like a peck-a-peck-a-peck. She's really close to the card. You know, she's good at psychology and things like that. And I always felt though that having Guyan and Troy on the ship, it kind of made, sometimes it makes Troy irrelevant in episodes because Guyan would be the one that was, I mean, she does it in this, doesn't she?
Yeah, she gives Riker a pet talk that I own, and things like that. In the cards, off it. So having the two of them together in the same episode, always seemed a bit pointless to me. Yeah.
Anyway, we've got to engineer him and they're discussing how to come back the board. And the consensus is that they're knackered. Basically, they've got nothing. They've got nothing.
It's always good. They're always good. She'll be like, I've always got to push on and try and have them something. But Riker basically orders a bit of bed.
I'm familiar with this conversation too, James. What? You know, it's like 2am. You've got stuff to do tomorrow.
Oh, 10 more minutes. I'll just know. Go to bed. Maybe when I was like 12.
It's not happening at all. All right. We'll stick with that. That's the party line.
Is it all right? Okay. I agree with Riker though, because he basically says, you know, there's no point fighting the board when you're also fighting fatigue. Oh yeah, I mean, you can't have a group that's all tired.
Imagine everyone you're on it on bridge. Yeah. We've engaged the board. Wait a minute.
We're following two pillars. Wesley? You can probably get onto a character later, but how old is he? I think he's supposed to be about 16.
And he's one of the Hellersmen on the ship. He is at this point. He wasn't on his first time. He was just a kid.
I was going to say he looks like a child. I think it's season two when he's 15 or something. He might be a season actor. He might be a season actor when he's turned 16.
He does join staff at the academy. And he... Why are you on the ship in the first place? Because he's already on the ship because he's docked to crush his son.
Right. And there's families on the impact. Crewmen are like to bring their family. Families because the ship's so big.
Yeah. So I think because he gets accepted to the academy. Pick up like all the few strings and basically they allow him to take a work place and thing. You know, you know, it was no better place to learn than being on the flagship.
Yeah, it's like a work experience. It's like the fact that you could die at any minute. And he's super smart. He's one of those.
He's that 80s trope of the Super Smart Tech kid who knows everything. So the Admiral calls and it's definitely at the board are on their way. And I love how Ryker orders everyone to battle stations, but just points at Wharf and he knows what he wants. He says battle stations everyone and he just points at Wharf and what kind of nods him to walks off.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He knows what he has to do. He knows what he has to do. We get a tense moment on the bridge as everyone's waiting until the board ships.
And so the board ship appears along with its own choir of haunting voices. No, you imagine if that really is a board on the ships sing it. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What are they doing?
We've got their own soundtrack. Yeah. Because states that we have engaged the board. But let's graph them.
We have engaged the board. Don't you have any questions about your question? Give me some Stuart. Give me some Stuart.
Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
Come on. This is great. This is great. I can't do a patch of Stuart impersonation.
You did it. What? What? Oh, it's all about that.
I really like that. The Yorkshire Ladder. So the board called the card personally. They give him a ring.
And they like what? They like the cut of his jib. Sorry. They like the cut of his jib.
And they want him to come over for a bit of a board party. I don't think this happened. It did. But he's not interested.
He's got things to do. He's got to watch his hair. Oh, wait a minute. That's not going to work.
He's got a bit of a bat. There you go. It's like you when you go. Oh, I'm just coming over here.
If I did go my... The board ship attracted to Bean. But she was told for the minute. Unfortunately the board got out.
And the infruses is an overgoer. Yeah, it's kind of an unfair thing, isn't it? Just being able to adapt to whatever anyone... Well, that's why the board got like anything that the federation and stuffy affects because they're seemingly unstoppable.
It's always difficult as well as a writing one. You write such an overpowered villain. But then I think they handle it really well because the climax of this story, I'm not going to give it away yet. But it makes sense.
Yeah. It's a very well-written piece of TV this because it everything tracks and it all works. The board was a very horror coded as well. Oh, yeah, definitely.
They get more so as the shows go up. You wait until you watch first contact. They're kind of like zombies. The fire at will line always may be like as well.
It's a perfect thing. Fire at will. And you kind of see like where I could go up. And Dory rolls under a door grammatically, you know you could just walk down.
Well, you know, dynamic. I'm pretty sure you just crouch slightly. You could just trundle through that. Yeah, but that's not cool.
No, no, no, no. You have to do the Indiana Jones Roll, doesn't it? What is... This has got nothing to do with the episode, but what is the whole thing behind Dory's visor?
He's blocked. Is that what it is? Yeah, he's blocked. Right.
Yeah. Right, okay. And that goes on all the way through up until first contact. When you start...
He's on contact, I think it is. When he gets popular implants. Basically because the act is sick and tired of where that thing. So with any just...
They just got their contacts and he's nice and he's nice and he's like, look at it weird, you know what I mean? Yeah, okay. But yeah, and the whole thing with Dory being blind was came about because it was based on a fan, a blind fan that Jane Robin Rino, who wanted to like pay a little bit of a tribute to him. So that's okay.
She only has an idea that works and the Enterprise escapes followed by the Borg and Pursuit. And they shoot the tractor being blown up. They managed to get through the Borg by rotating the shield modulations or something like that. And they escape with the Borg and Pursuit.
But luckily Picard's seeing Wrath of Khan. And he takes them from Nebula to hide. Do you reckon there's like history books on Wythem? And that's what he's been reading those.
I thought, let's base it off now. I would imagine that Kirk's exploits were a required reading that he had in there. It's actually the same effect we used for Wrath of Khan as well. Why make anyone?
Oh, you did Wrath of Khan come out? 82, I think. No, it was 88. Okay, so they're probably still lying around.
Just lying around. No, I meant, you know what I mean. Oh, we need to make that happen with the draw. I'm not going to tell you that.
I mean, they probably still had it in somewhere so that they could reuse it. Oh, should I shoot it? Yeah. Well, I mean, like, because most of the time, once the props down, that's it.
They just chuck it. Exactly. They don't chuck it. You're not fair off.
Yeah. I think they're lying. I think one of the movies that they called the original model out of the movie. The original model out of the dumpster and they had to repaint it because half of it was very painted.
It was like, glue or something. Yeah, because like, I mean, they have to remake stuff all the time. Blue is props. Just get.
Yeah, and they get broken. So, Colin would be able to tell you more about that. Probably. Because they're in what he kind of does really well.
They take time to have a chat in the conference room and they come up with a plan that could also blow up the ship. So that's a good plan. She only wants to separate the sources section, but Riker thinks it's too risky. I do think that Front Jon for Fakes and Dan are here really good together.
Yeah. You know, they've got quite a screen chemistry to shame that she doesn't see it. She doesn't say it really. Is this the only episode with her in?
I don't think she comes back. Maybe she comes back once more. I'm not sure. Riker goes to see Picard and finds Shelby's got in there first.
She's got over his head to give Picard her idea of the plan that Riker didn't want to do. And then once again, he's not very happy. Well, Picard does agree that the plan is too risky, but he also thinks it's a good backup plan. Yeah.
And we get this great scene in the Turbo Lift where Riker and Shelby lay the cards on the table for each other. And he basically says to her, you know, you go on my head again. I'll snap you back. Like, so hard.
You'll think you'll first year get out of the way. Yeah. And they're really good in this scene. All three of us.
I think I turned to you when we watched it and said that Chakra Fakes doesn't get enough credit. I think he's pretty good. He's pretty good as Riker. He's too sick.
Part of him is weird. One key icer. One key icer. Have you never noticed?
Whenever he looks at someone, one of the guys might be slightly more squinted than the other. So you're ocular shame than that? I'm just pointing out. You're pointing out the guy's got one key eye.
He's never coming on this show now. He's not coming on this show now. He's not even coming on this show now. He's got his own.
No, he does. He does. He does. He does.
He does. Pretty sure by the time you're killing him as well. He's got lucky eyes and he's dead soon. We're going to say that.
We got back from all their fraud for killing actors. No, no, no. That's pub-castful. As long as it's profitable.
Oh, no, no. Not very much. Much, much pushing 78, mere seconds. Oh, was that ulty?
So I'm not? Just ocular? I'm saying if I am ocular shaming, you will basically imagine they're not as old as you think they are. They're both of us a billion there.
I'll leave that one there. Picard then walks his ship on the either battle, which is an actual illitary tradition. tradition in point out in the episode. And then we get this really great scene between Guy and Anam Picard where she tells him not to lose hope and that humanity will survive this no matter what.
And I always, another thing I always thought that actually Stuart and Wuppa Goldberg have really been chemistry on screen which is why I think they use it more and more in the show and in the movies. The Borg Flush is the Enterprise out of the Cloud and they have to try another runner. The end of the day, and the Borg steal Picard. It's a good scene isn't it when they beam onto the bridge.
And Woff being Woff just goes charging straight in and the Borg just goes get off. So the Enterprise gives chase and the Borg heading straight to a on the Borg ship. They prove to be terrible hosts. There's not even a Volovon or a Sotry's role inside.
So this was not the party that they were proposing it to be. What they actually want to do is assimilate the card and through him the rest of humanity but he's not too happy about this. No he's not going to be like, no I might not. Bring on the probe.
Whoa we going! You know what I said there? Go with it. Go with it.
Riko wants to head over to the Borg ship to get Picard back but Troy reminds him he's the captain and he re-lips and he has to stay on board. So this goes back to in the original series Kirk always used to beam over to him to beam down with. He's the tech Spock and the Cori with it. I'll go and we'll take the other two senior officers.
Yeah you know we've got all this crew but we'll just use the captain and two. He takes the red ship. He dies. Captain is too late.
Yeah so obviously at this point they come up with this rule that the captain should never be done unless he's really really necessary. I thought this was a good thing that they brought in. It made sense. Yeah because I mean if you've got your captain and what would be second commander beam down there's no one really.
I mean sometimes it's not what you'll get in the chair. Oh this is a cool issue. Wesley. Step up.
Step up. Step to sack up mate. Come on. Hey this is the train and you need.
Yeah. Shelby leads the away team to the Borg ship but the Borg just ignore the team. So they get to snook around a little bit but the team starts to shoot at bits and pieces of the ship like these little nodes on the walls and the Borg are like whoa what are you doing? I think one of them actually said that didn't they?
Whoa what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? Where are they from?
Bradford. Also they find the college uniform and communicator which the Borg have neatly folded and placed in a drawer for some reason. It's very thoughtful of them. Just in case I wanted to give it back.
Yeah maybe watch it. I mean you're never going to need it again because those pants aren't going to fit after the probes. I'm telling you that. Meanwhile the Enterprise plans to hit them with a beam from the Deflectedish which is ready to go.
On the Borg ship the team of Farting off Angry Borg and destroying more of the equipment which forces the Borg out of war and they get a glimpse of Picard who has been fully assimilated and given us nothing leather and spandex ones he to wear. Yeah they're converting. Yeah he's fully broged. What?
You got a nice little gothmaker. He does yeah. He got the pail scooter. Yeah yeah yeah.
I bet this was a couple of people. So the team have to beam back to the ship without him. They get a call from Picard who is now calling himself look-ooches. Anybody can tell them that this read.
Yeah. Reckon the Borg suggested multiple different names though. Well he's got... So you can even have...
Jeff? Jeff the Borg. Yeah. I'm not really feeling Jeff.
What about Gennias? Gennias? Yeah. My name is John Luke.
Gennias. Oh right. Wow that's good. That's actually good.
I'm the other one I brought was a podcast for something. Then you've just given it. I was saying that's why the call is on the computer. Wow.
You only just realised that. Yeah. Yes I did. Yes I did.
Wow. It's good. I like that. Yeah.
I'll go with that. Picard yes. Okay. Jeff the Borg.
Jeff the Borg. Jeff the Borg. But Rynko orders Wolf to fire. Now this is where you would have had to wait a few months if you mentioned it real time.
That would have been annoying wouldn't it? I have to do a month with a different episode than the twin sister. Yeah. We'll talk about it a quick.