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The party is just getting started
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on the lower decks of the U.S.S. Cerritos,
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which is why we are now
turning our attention
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to the lighter side of Star Trek.
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Please welcome to the viewscreen
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Star Trek: Lower Decks'
voice cast: Tawny Newsome,
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Jack Quaid, Eugene
Cordero, and Noel Wells,
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as well as the show's
Creator, Executive Producer,
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and Showrunner--whew, lot
of titles--Mike McMahan.
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Thank you guys for joining me.
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Hey Mica, yay, whoo!
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But before we get into it,
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I wanna remind everyone
that Star Trek: Lower Decks
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is now streaming on CBS All
Access in the United States,
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and in Canada, it airs on Bell
Media's CTV Sci-Fi Channel,
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and it streams on Crave.
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So if you haven't watched the show yet,
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you should definitely go check it out.
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It's pretty awesome.
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And now with that, hey guys.
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Thank you guys so much
for hopping on with me.
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Happy Star Trek Day.
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Happy Star Trek Day to all of you.
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Hey, happy Star Trek Day
to all of you as well.
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Hey, hey Eugene, happy
Star Trek Day to just you.
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Oh my God, thank you so much.
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Hey, Noel?
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Yeah?
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Hey, happy Star Trek Day to just you.
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Whoa, thank you.
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And I'm just gonna keep it.
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[Eugene] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Is nobody gonna wish a
happy Star Trek Day to me?
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Nope, no.
We got it.
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What are you doing?
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Well, for all of you guys, quick question.
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So we're halfway through
Season 1 of Lower Decks,
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and fans have a good
sense of what the show is,
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who the characters are, what's going on.
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So what has it been
like as an active member
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of the Star Trek community
since the show has debuted?
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I can't speak for these
guys, but I've been on shows
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where I've obsessed
and watched everything,
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and on Lower Decks, I'm
kind of letting stuff
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just kind of come to me
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instead of digging through
the whole internet.
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And it's been awesome.
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It's interesting watching the fans
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grow to love the characters,
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'cause we all know where
they go across the season.
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And so experiencing it
through Star Trek fandom
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and getting to see them take
first steps into the season,
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I mean, it's just been awesome.
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Like they're catching every
little thing we put in the show.
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It's just been wild to see it happen.
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I think I worked on something one time
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where I read everything.
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And even if it was, not even negative,
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just like something I wasn't
expecting, I was like,
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"They don't get it, and
I messed up everything."
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So I think I'm just done doing that.
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And yeah, like Mike, I'm
kind of letting things
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trickle up to me, and
I've been blown away with,
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like some people have
made some amazing fan art.
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I've seen some people
cosplay as us already
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in quarantine, which is insane.
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And a huge honor considering
the circumstances.
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And it's just been awesome.
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I like to browse.
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I like to browse the hashtag.
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And like Mike, I get really giddy
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seeing when people are like,
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"Aw, I'm not really feeling this,"
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and then I'll see the same person
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two episodes later be
like, "Okay, now I'm sold.
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This is great."
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I love seeing the arc.
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I'm reading Twitter right now.
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What do you got, what do you got?
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Good stuff?
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There's an infinite amount of information
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and an infinite amount of opinions.
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But fortunately, the show's great,
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and so I just see great stuff.
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I hope that's everybody else's.
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You know, it's one of those things
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where I guess I'm getting
a little cocky about it,
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where I'm just like, "I don't
care what you guys think.
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I think it's great and
I'm gonna enjoy it."
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And then I prance around my
house with my shoulders up.
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I don't know if you guys are seeing this,
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but every time somebody likes the show,
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they're like, "I liked it
the first time I watched it.
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Then I really liked it the
second time I watched it.
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The third, fourth and fifth times
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I really started to get it.
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And then I watched it with my family."
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I'm like, "Okay, I think
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Well, it's so great to hear
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that there's such an amazing
reception to this show.
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And since the show is
halfway through the season,
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I gotta know for all of you,
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what's been your favorite
storyline so far?
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'Cause in the last episode,
fans just watched, for instance,
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we were introduced to
Boimler's girlfriend,
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which--freaking hilarious.
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So if that's your favorite
moment so far, that is valid,
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but I wanna hear from all of you.
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My favorite happened pretty early on,
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which was just the idea
of being able to try
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the different jobs, like that Rutherford
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goes through all of the different jobs
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and tries a bunch of
things and is not horrible,
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but not great at anything.
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And it's just kind of perfect.
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Also, being able to do
different angry voices at times
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and then accents at other times.
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I mean, I just enjoy being a goof.
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I like Episode 3 a lot.
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I like kind of all the storylines in that.
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I really love seeing
Boimler get such a huge win,
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you know, when he's able
to level with the captain.
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And when she finally
smiles at him at the end,
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it's just this, he has the cutest look
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and it's so heartwarming 'cause he's maybe
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really the only character
besides Tendi that would get
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that excited from just an
approving look from a captain.
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It's such a small moment, but
it means everything to him.
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And then I'm still mad at Mike.
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I'm mad at you for drawing Ransom so hot
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because it's confusing and strange for me
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as an adult human woman
It's disturbing.
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in the 3D world.
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I don't like it.
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I don't like the ego trip
that it gives Jerry O'Connell.
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I don't think it's healthy for him or us.
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So beautiful job, animators.
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Please dial it back in the second season.
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One of my favorite moments in the show
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is when Mariner gets
promoted and she hates it.
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I just love seeing all the
kind of menial, boring things
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that the bridge crew does
when no one's looking.
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I love that they have a talent show.
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The entire talent show is great.
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[Tawny] That poker game.
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That boring ass poker
game kills me every time.
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[Mike] They all fold!
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They all fold, you dull,
dull pieces of trash.
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I love in Episode 2,
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I think that's when you
really start to understand
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not the fully fleshed-out
versions of all the characters,
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but why the lower
deckers are such friends.
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partially about how good
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you have to be to be in
Starfleet and to be in Star Trek.
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Like how good at your core.
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That episode really landed
for me when we were writing it
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and the way it came together,
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that these are really
wonderful characters to write.
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And they're really, really good friends,
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and that feels really good.
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So that's my cheater
answer for favorite part.
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The other thing I like is that,
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and this is another cheat
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because it's not about any of these guys.
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It's something on top of it.
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I love that opening sequence.
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I love seeing the ship for a second.
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The music is beautiful.
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The effects are amazing.
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You've got that classic
TNG-style kind of credit font
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and seeing all these guys' names up there.
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It just warms my heart.
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I'm really proud of this
show, and I get to see that
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at the top of every episode,
and it's just awesome.
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Yeah, I like seeing my name up there, too.
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That's my favorite part.
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Well, you don't expect that
with a cartoon, but it's such a,
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it happens in every Star Trek show.
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I was very--even though
it makes total sense
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that our names would be up there
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'cause they have been in
every other Star Trek intro.
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When I first saw my name up there,
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I was like, "Oh. Well, okay."
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I don't know.
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I have never seen cartoons
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with opening credits for the actors.
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I think it was the ship
and the font and everything
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that Mike is talking
about that made us feel
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like, "Wait a minute, are
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Like, "I hope I did it okay."
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You spoke on it a little bit before,
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but I wanna feel all of
your detailed reactions.
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How did you feel when you first saw
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the final, final product of Episode 1?
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You saw your names in the Star Trek font.
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It was real.
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What was going through your mind?
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I mean, I'll tell you
guys, I felt super relieved
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because we were not done
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with any of it when we went into lockdown.
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You know our priority number
one was keeping everybody safe
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and priority number two
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was if we're gonna keep making the show,
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it's gotta be as good as if we
did it without a quarantine.
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You know, it's gotta be great.
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And you know, there's
some stuff that was hard.
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These guys can tell you, we've
been doing ADR like this.
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We've been doing lines in our closets.
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And you know, we've been doing, yep.
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Jack's pointing at his home studio now.
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You know the music
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was completely recorded during quarantine.
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Individual musicians that
were--we had to stitch together.
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I think every show has
unexpected difficulties.
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But you know, when it
finally all came together,
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and you can just sit back
and actually look at it,
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it really blows you away.
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It's really awesome and it's really funny.
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And it comes at you fast,
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and it's all the good Star Trek you want,
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but also all this stuff that
you never knew you wanted.
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So, a huge relief, and
I'm really proud of it.
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I think the score really set the tone
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for me of how epic it is.
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I'm just so impressed about
how many people came together
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to make this and how it's
such a seamless product.
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It's such a seamless show.
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It feels like real people.
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That's how lived-in the
animation feels in the space
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and the amount of work
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that goes into creating
something from nothing.
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Literally, we don't have even objects
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and somebody's drawing that
and giving it its physicality
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and a realness that makes it
bigger than an animated show.
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It doesn't feel like a cartoon.
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It feels like a show, you know?
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I didn't realize how comforting
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all the TNG era set and
stuff was going to be.
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I didn't realize that
I had been missing that
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because as I've been enjoying
Discovery and Picard,
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they look very different.
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And I never thought,
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you know, I just thought
of them as different series
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and I hadn't really
dealt with it in my mind
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that I was missing the LCARS
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and just the weird hushed carpeted hallway
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and the scoop archway.
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Why is every wall somehow
curved, but also has corners?
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All over the ship, it's
just this conundrum.
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And so seeing that and
feeling like that TNG era,
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yeah, setting was just so
weirdly--it's like a balm.
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It's just very calming to me.
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I love it.
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And because it lives in that TNG world,
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it's like, "Oh, I'm part of
something that's already,
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it felt like it was already
in there the whole time."
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Even though it's new, it didn't feel new.
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It felt like it was
just kind of wedged in.
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It's just something you
didn't see within, you know,
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the scope of the world.
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And it's just like, "Oh,
you forgot about this."
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And it's like, "Oh yeah, that's
been there the whole time."
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And you're like, "Oh wait,
am I part of something
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that's been here the whole time?"
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And then, you know, my mind goes crazy.
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And then I watched all
of the opening stuff.
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And then once you start
watching the actual episodes,
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and because we've been
recording either by ourselves
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in our closets or when we
were recording in the studio,
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it would be like maybe one
other person and everything.
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You forget that there's
still gonna be drawn
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all the other people on the ship.
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And you're like, "Wow, there's
so many people on this."
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Tawny, you and I have talked about this,
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that you and I didn't realize
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that we were some of the
main characters on this show
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until we got to the table read.
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Because everything was just
kind of in hushed tones,
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and the project was very secretive.
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So I got to that table read and I'm like,
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"Oh, this character Boimler
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has a lot of lines in this thing."
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And so this has just kind of been a series
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of very pleasant surprises
for me of just like, whoa,
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I get to be a part of this thing.
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And I'm one of the four main
characters, that's insane.
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Then to see it actually realized
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is just absolutely nuts and surreal.
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There was a moment during
the virtual premiere
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where--it's the scene
where Boimler and Mariner
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are in their underwear
hiding from a giant spider.
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And my girlfriend looked at me
and said, "He has your body."
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And I hated that so much.
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So, so, so much.
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Jack, you texted me that, and I told you
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what my good friend said.
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My good friend Prina Patel goes,
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"Hey, honey, they upgraded you."
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Ooh.
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In all fairness, I do have
three purple hairs right here.
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Tiny purple hairs.
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Oh, my God.
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For the whole cast, this
show has been filled
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with a bunch of references
of other Star Trek shows,
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which is super awesome.
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And I wanna know, did you
guys get a list of episodes
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from Mike to watch ahead
of time so you guys
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could talk about it and kind
of know what's going on?
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Or were you just like
sure, yeah, this joke?
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No, but that's a good idea for Season 2.
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I'm being serious.
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I would love, 'cause I
think I've seen everything
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except for all of TOS.
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At least once in my life
I've seen everything else.
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But I would love a list
of reference episodes
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to just go back and rewatch.
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That'd be really cool.
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Yeah, I can give you
that actually right now.
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You go to Wikipedia and
you type in Star Trek.
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You know, to speak to
what Eugene was saying,
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it is crazy that we're doing
kind of like the last '90s era
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TNG show, 'cause we all
grew up with this stuff
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being on our screens and now
we're doing like one more.
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So it's kind of wild.
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And it's so available on so many,
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it's all on CBS All Access.
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You can just jump in and watch
the entirety of Star Trek.
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So I know that, I mean, I
haven't made you guys watch it,
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but it might be because I rewatch it
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over and over and over again.
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And I just want you to come in
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and just think about your characters
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and not be trying to you know,
literally emulate anybody
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that's already been on Star Trek.
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But, you know, I do like
that when we're talking
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about Star Trek, it
always seems like you guys
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have a real love for it, too.
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I think, especially now, I would love
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for you to recommend episodes to us
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because I think, like the
thing you were saying earlier
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about emulating characters that you see,
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I think the danger for that is passed.
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I think we've all like,
we've had a season in.
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We kind of know who we are now.
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Now I wanna know literally
everything you want me
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to watch because you and Tawny
recommended a ton of stuff
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to me when we started to
record for the first time.
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And it was just great.
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It really did help just knowing the world.
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'Cause I came in, I don't think I was,
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I'd seen a few of the movies
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and a few episodes of the original series,
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but not a ton of Next Generation.
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And I really needed to steep myself
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in the lore of the world.
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It was just super helpful.
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So the more the merrier, keep 'em coming.
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All right guys, you heard it here.
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Jack is getting you homework.
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I'm gonna give you a list of
episodes you have to watch.
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No, no, no.
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Thanks a lot, Jack.
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That was unintentionally
the most Boimler move
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I could have pulled on this Zoom.
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For Mike, I understand
that we will be seeing
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some really cool cameos
from some legacy talent
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in the next few episodes.
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So are you able to share any
of those with us pretty please?
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This is when we're actually
asking for spoilers.
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Okay, all right, spoilers.
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If you don't wanna hear these,
please just go read a book.
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Dang!
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Go read a book.
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Wow, wow.
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Read a book.
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So coming up in an episode,
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we do have John de Lancie joins us,
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and he is playing Q in a small part.
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Dope.
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The whole episode isn't about him,
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but it's hard to make a TNG era
show and not have Q show up.
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So I think an eagle-eyed viewer
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will be able to catch his appearance.
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In the same episode, Kurtwood
Smith plays a tough alien
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named Clar, who, I don't
want to reveal too much
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about what he does, but
Kurtwood originally played
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the President of the Federation
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in Undiscovered Country in Star Trek VI.
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So, you know we try to cast
some legacy Star Trek voices
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not just in the roles
they originally played,
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but in stuff that just sort of--
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they're the perfect voice for
even though it's a new role.
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So you can see both of
them coming up very soon.
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And as well as some legacy Star Trek cast,
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you guys have some
amazing guest voice stars,
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particularly comedians playing
a few different characters.
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So are there any you wanna shout out?
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Once again, spoilers are welcome.
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Okay, so you guys just saw Gillian Jacobs
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playing Barbara Brinson,
Brad Boimler's girlfriend.
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Which I don't know why
it's so funny to me,
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Barbara Brinson and Brad Boimler,
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like just very insufferable couple name.
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You've also seen Sam Richardson plays
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our resident Bolian, Vendome,
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who we would love to have more of.
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He's kind of just been
popping in a little bit.
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Matt Walsh, he played Ron Docent.
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Not the world's best Starfleet officer.
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We've got Jack McBrayer showing
up as a very funny character
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that I don't want to say too much about.
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You're also gonna see Tim
Robinson, who is incredibly funny.
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Shows up as kind of a little
bit of our show's Barclay,
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I can say.
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I want to shout out
Haley Joel Osment, too,
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as ascension guy.
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Oh yeah.
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He was so good.
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For Mike, I have one super important,
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big question for you.
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What else can you tease about
the back half of Season 1?
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The back half of Season 1 rules.
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Every episode is my favorite.
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I can't choose.
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And instead of me trying to tease it,
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I think instead we've put
together a little clip package
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to give you guys a
little tease of its own.
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So, I think we should just show them that
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instead of me talking about it.
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I think that sounds great.
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She never fails to take my breath away.
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I wish I could kiss her and squeeze her.
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Excuse me?
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Ah, the Cerritos is a handsome lady.
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You're damn right about that.
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Warp me!
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I updated The Dog.
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It just looks like a normal dog.
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[gasping]
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Wake me up if it turns into something
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I need to care about.
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Intruders beaming in!
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Looks like we'll have to repel them
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the old fashioned way.
449
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Setting my fists to stun,
and my kicks to kill.
450
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You just instigate chaos.
451
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It's helpful, character-building chaos.
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I rode with my best friends.
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Look at this new button!
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Sexy mode? Mm, don't mind if I do.
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I would never put anyone in danger.
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Mariner, in case we don't make it.
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We're making it.
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Voila!
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Anyway.
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Awesome, and on that note,
I wanna thank you guys
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so much for hanging out with me today.
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I am so stoked to see
the rest of Season 1,
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which again, Star Trek:
Lower Decks is streaming
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on CBS All Access in the U.S.
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and in Canada airs on Bell
Media's CTV Sci-Fi Channel
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and streams on Crave.
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So definitely check it out.
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And one more time for the cheap seats
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and everybody way in the
back, today on Star Trek Day
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you can support our Star
Trek United campaign
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by tweeting #StarTrekUnitedGives.
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And for every person
that does, CBS All Access
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will donate $1 to the organizations
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who do the real world work
of championing equality,
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social justice, and the pursuit
of scientific advancements.
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All things Star Trek essentially.
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So Mike, Tawny, Jack, Eugene, and Noel,
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I hope you guys have a great Star Trek Day
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and hopefully we'll talk again soon.
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Happy Star Trek Day!
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Happy Star Trek Day!
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Jack, that is not to you.
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Not happy Star Trek Day to you.
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Just before we go, can
someone, just one person?
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No absolutely not.
Not Jack, everyone but Jack.
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All right.
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Hey, actually Tawny, before you head out,
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I heard from a little birdie
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that you are working
on a fun side project.
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So is there something that you wanna share
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with all the people watching
at home for Star Trek Day?
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Yes, and Mica, you have good sources.
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You've had all the scoops.
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All the scoops today.
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Yeah, so you guys might know
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that in addition to Lower Decks,
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I'm also the proud host of the
official Star Trek podcast,
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The Pod Directive.
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But what you don't know,
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what I'm super excited to announce today
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is that I will be joined
in my hosting duties
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by just the premier king of podcasting,
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incredible comedian,
actor, my dear friend,
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Paul F. Tompkins.
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So exciting.
506
00:20:11.773 --> 00:20:14.790
Whoa, that is some confetti-worthy,
507
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awesome air horn, excited announcement.
508
00:20:17.900 --> 00:20:18.733
That's awesome, I can't wait to listen.
509
00:20:18.733 --> 00:20:20.170
I mean, should we just do it?
510
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Like [airhorn imitation].
511
00:20:22.660 --> 00:20:24.564
We need like a variety of like pitches.
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[airhorn imitation]
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00:20:27.500 --> 00:20:29.290
Yeah, so that is gonna be soon.
514
00:20:29.290 --> 00:20:31.690
You're not going to have to
wait too long to hear it.
515
00:20:31.690 --> 00:20:32.990
I mean, you don't have
to wait at all actually.
516
00:20:32.990 --> 00:20:34.740
We have a little promo clip thing
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if you wanna hear it right now.
518
00:20:36.080 --> 00:20:37.040
I mean, I wanna hear it.
519
00:20:37.040 --> 00:20:40.410
I'm sure everybody else wants
to hear it. So let's do that.
520
00:20:40.410 --> 00:20:41.410
Let's do it.
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[Tawny] Hi, I'm Tawny Newsome.
522
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[Paul] And I'm Paul F. Tompkins.
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[Tawny] And we are hosting
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00:20:59.233 --> 00:21:00.797
the official Star Trek podcast,
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00:21:00.797 --> 00:21:03.230
Star Trek: The Pod Directive.
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00:21:03.230 --> 00:21:06.800
[Paul] It is official.
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00:21:06.800 --> 00:21:08.520
We are huge Star Trek fans
528
00:21:08.520 --> 00:21:10.230
talking to other huge Star Trek fans
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00:21:10.230 --> 00:21:12.440
who just happen to be
award-winning actors,
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00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:13.940
writers, politicians.
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[Tawny] We even got a real life astronaut
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00:21:15.470 --> 00:21:17.150
in there and more.
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00:21:17.150 --> 00:21:19.640
We're talking to them all
about their love of Star Trek,
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00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:21.670
how it influences their everyday lives,
535
00:21:21.670 --> 00:21:23.540
and how it continues to impact them
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00:21:23.540 --> 00:21:24.860
and the world around them.
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00:21:24.860 --> 00:21:27.000
[Paul] Subscribe now to
Star Trek: The Pod Directive
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00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:28.360
on Apple Podcasts.
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00:21:28.360 --> 00:21:30.330
[Tawny] Live long and prosper.
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[Paul] Engage.
[Tawny] No.
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00:21:32.193 --> 00:21:34.004
[Paul] What do you mean no?
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[laughing]