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🚀 USS Sisterhood is your cozy starship companion through the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation — piloted by two sisters, one lifelong sci-fi fan (Marissa) and one curious newbie (Lisa), boldly going where one of them has never gone before.
Each episode, Marissa and Lisa watch five episodes of TNG and return to the bridge to debrief, reminisce, and crack each other up over space whales, holodeck hijinks, and the deeper meanings of peacekeeping in a fractured galaxy. Part heartfelt sisterly banter, part nostalgic nerd-out, and part cultural time capsule, USS Sisterhood is perfect for longtime Trekkies, skeptical sci-fi dabblers, and anyone who believes in the power of story (and sibling chaos) to build a better world.
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Until next time… make it so.
# TNG Season 1 Episode 13-17
[00:00:00]
Welcome aboard the USS Sisterhood. My name's Marissa Garza, and I'm here with my sister Lisa Garza. Lisa, how you doing? I'm doing good. How are you? My sister? I'm doing good. I'm doing a little weird based on these episodes, these were a little, these I, lots of things were going on. Yes, yes. I would say like some of the stuff didn't hold up.
Y that and it's just a weird bunch. It is a weird bunch. Yeah, it's a weird bunch. For those of you who may be joining us for the first time, we are watching Star Trek, the Next Generation for the first time, and we are tackling it five episodes at a time. Uh, this podcast episode will cover data lore. Angel 1, 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1.
Too [00:01:00] short a season and when the bow breaks, so we're still going around the universe with Captain Picard and the gang. Yeah. And we learn so much more about them in this group. Exactly. I, I feel like I am in, even though like this batch was especially weird. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I feel like I really am enjoying the journey that we are on.
What are you enjoying about it? Um, I'm enjoying like the cheesiness. Mm-hmm. That part I am really enjoying a lot. Um, and just, I don't know, see getting to know the characters a bit more. Yeah. It, it's interesting to see them, you know, I. Do their thing be themselves? Yeah, but also [00:02:00] like honestly, Riker. What the heck?
Oh God. We'll get there. You'll get there. I have a lot to say about that man today. All right, well, let's start with the first episode data lore. In this episode, the enterprise stops at the Omicron, the stops at Omicron Theta. To investigate data's origins, the crew uncovers and reassembles a second Android lore whose charming smile masks a sinister agenda masquerading at his as his brother Laura Secret, secretly summons.
The crystalline entity that destroyed their colony and plots to hand over the ship in exchange for power, Wesley ignored till the 11th hour pieces together, just the deception and helps data eject lore into space, earning both a rare commendation and the immortal line. Shut up, Wesley. Um, what were your takes, Lisa?
What did you think of this one? [00:03:00] Oh my goodness. So, um, I thought it was interesting to, um, that like everyone was very excited to, like, they're all interested in data's home planet. Yeah. And they're like, I wanna learn more about you. And he's always wanting to learn more about them. Um, he was trying to sneeze.
Yes, he's in the mirror trying to sneeze. Um, but he's very, to quote him, uh, or them, uh mm-hmm. A GOG that the crew is wanting to, uh, go see where he is from. Which is it like the planning itself is really kind of cool looking. It's very rocky. Yeah. Like right away, you could tell, like it's been like modernized in the sense [00:04:00] of like, there's carved stairs into a cave and secret passageways.
Um, oh, I said about the terrain. I said it's very outdoor, outdoorsy, enterprise esque.
That's very good. Good job. Good. Thank you. Good job with that one. And this whole, yeah, this whole episode to me is giving like, um, I don't know if you've seen the movie Make 17. I haven't seen it yet, but it's, it's kind like, yeah, like print 3D printing. Another human, and it's just interesting to see. Yeah, I liked how data had a brother.
Right in, in this. Like it was kind of cool, but then also it was really interesting to watch in 2025, especially because data is an ai, [00:05:00] right? Mm-hmm. And lore is also an ai, but the reason why lore like Laura's, like I was made to be a hundred percent human. Like, this is you humans are. And I was like, oh no.
Like where are we? What's going on? Because more is. Deceptive lore is he does lie. He is after power, he is all of these things. And that is the opposite of what data appears to be so far in the first, you know, episodes of the season that we've been watching. So it was quite, uh, a throwback to go watch this.
I mean, this was in 1980s, you know, 1987 when we're talking about this stuff. And literally the day we af or before we recorded this chat, GPT put out a whole new. A whole new model that lies 50% less. So just FYI. They're working on it. Oh, good. Good, good, good. Um, I [00:06:00] also, I love that like Laura's claim, it being different.
Is that his. He's like 100% a people pleaser. Yeah, that was, that was unexpected therapy lesson in the middle. I know. I was like, oh, wow, this, but let's do less. Let's do less of this, please. I gotta say, Lisa, I knew about the shut up Wesley meme, you know? Yeah. Growing up and all of this stuff, but I did not like it.
I did not like this. I was not You all yelling at him? Yes. I was like, excuse me, he did nothing wrong. He is just trying to tell you what he is observing. And also he was right. I don't know why after like I said, why is everyone yelling at Wes? I put in quotes, did someone call him a man child at one point?
I can't remember. I think someone did. Like what? Yeah, they were just really rude to [00:07:00] him. Yeah. And he's like, first of all, you praised him because he's on top of things. You gave him a whole, you know, position on, on the, what's it called? Bridge. Bridge, like the B word. Mm-hmm. Um, and now you're just gonna like.
Tell him to shut up. And I, I was like, what? And it wasn't just like, shut up was No, it was like some vigorous like shut up was like, yeah, yeah. I was like, excuse me, sir. Patrick. No thank you. Not a fan. Also. Can we talk about the craziness? Because like Wes Discover is the one that's like, oh, this is wrong.
Something's up. Can we discover the, or talk about when, like people finally start listening to Wes. Sure. Yeah. And the craziness that ensues like so, um. [00:08:00] They send Wes off the bridge and he is like, well, I'm right. But then his mom's like, I guess I'll listen to you, but I don't understand why I'll listen. Um, and she, she's able to revive data and data's like.
I'm gonna go confront Laura and uh, they go into like the engine room and Laura's talking to the weird crystalline Yeah. Thing I didn't Sure entity. Entity. Entity. Let's go with Yeah. Entity. Yeah. Um, and is like, ha ha ha, I'm leading more, more humans to you. Like I did with the planet where I led everybody to die and like very mischievous.
And then like, data's like, don't mess with my people, don't mess with my family. [00:09:00] And he's like. Um, Laura basically uses his phaser mm-hmm. As like a weapon for the first time that I've seen. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And tells Dr. Crusher, or Yeah, Dr. Crusher to get out and like burns her arm, like she runs away with her arm on fire.
Yeah. Well, that's right because she, because Laura basically takes Wes hostage, right? Like, he is like, listen, nothing will come to him if you leave. Basically. So what choice does she have? She has to leave. Um, so data, Laura and Wes stuck in the engine room and Dr. K Kosher gets all burnt. That was, that was insane.
That was like, it was like what? Also, sometimes again, I'm just like. Sometimes I think they're like, let's see. Let's show the people that we could do this. They didn't need to burn our, that's exactly kind of what was going through my head. I was like, [00:10:00] um, they were like, oh, we use so much asbestos for the freezing.
Let's go the opposite direction and show that we could safely light people on fire. Yeah. You know, we just gotta keep it real. What did you think of the ejection into space? From data to lore. He like put him on the oh thing on the transporter, right? And then kind of just beamed him out into the middle of nowhere.
Like there was a part of me that was like, oh, this is kind of, I think like it's a moment for data to like. Because he calls him his brother. Mm-hmm. But then I think he realizes that he has a stronger connection to those on Starlee. Mm-hmm. That like, even though it's hard for him to like, I'm gonna say delete his brother, I guess.
Sure. Yeah. Kind of. Uh, [00:11:00] like even though that's hard, he knows that he. Has the support of his family, his crew behind him, and I think he realizes that that's stronger than this, like hereditary. Genetic bond, you know, or copy or clone. Yeah. Yeah. I did have to, uh, stop myself a couple times while watching because they kept calling until they're my brother, my brother, and we for, I mean, those listeners who probably don't know us.
Yeah. My, my sister and I say it, my sister, my sister all the time. So I was like, oh, we do, we do. Um, yeah, I think it was a really, like we got to see him like choose his, choose chosen family or whatever. Yeah. And I think like it also shows like just how loyal he is to Starfleet. Like he really, 'cause [00:12:00] even when Laura came in there was like, when am I getting my uniform?
He's like, oh, you have to go to academy and then you have to become an N son and then you have to do all this stuff and you're not just gonna waltz in here just 'cause you're my brother. Right. I, I like, I, even though it was my favorite character getting like messed with in this episode of data, uh, I thought it was pretty good.
Yeah. And I thought it was fun to see the actor play two different role, like the two different roles, but in the same body basically. Yeah. Yeah. That was cool. The next episode we watched was titled Angel One, dispatched to the female led Planet Angel, one to retrieve federation survivors. The Enterprise Away team discovers a society where men are subordinate fashion accessories to PO and political tension simmer over male driven rebellion.[00:13:00]
Riker indulges in. Local customs rocking a plunging neckline jumpsuit. While Tasha and Troy and Troy navigate razor thin diplomacy between progressive rhetoric and 1980s gender cringe. Yeah, pretty much as an influence. Outbreaks sidelines. Picard, the crew must balance respect for local culture against stark lead ideals ultimately beaming out just before a coup becomes bloodshed.
This was wild. Okay. Like at first, yay, women in charge. Show me what it's like. And then it was like, whoa, no, I, no, no. What is, let's find the happy medium, please. Yeah, yeah. And like the myth around Angel one, right? Was that like. There was no myth on this one. It was the other one. I got confused in my head.
No, it's okay. There's a lot of planets, there's a lot of, a lot of different planets. [00:14:00] Yeah. Um, but yeah, this was interesting because they were like. Going to go get these people who were apparently like abandoned there, but then they had to have, the planet had to have a whole big vote, whether to let them go get the people.
And there was one lady who was like, no, I don't want them to go get the people, because she was secretly married and in love with this other person. Like one of the people that was gonna be, um, was gonna be rescued. And then also Riker's, like such a, excuse my language, but such a horn dog. He's just like, I'll take this opportunity to engage in local customs and then we'll talk about it in the next episode.
But he's like all over the place. I know. Like I don't like, yeah. There is more to talk about in, in that regard in the next episode, but like there's part of me that's like, yeah. He was like flirty in recent [00:15:00] episodes. Yeah, but this was like, yeah. Really? Yeah. I don't know. I don't, I'm just like, is that what they want for his character or like what is the, what's the drive to like do this?
Like, I'm kind of confused. There is a drive, Lisa. Um, well, yes. But I mean, I think it's confusing for me as a viewer because there was all this, like, I'm mad at Deanna for getting married, like she can't get married. Deanna. Troy, like, I thought I was her beloved. And then he's out there, beloved other people.
Yeah. Like what does this mean? What does this relationship mean to him? I have no idea. He's like, gimme the, this 1980s figure skating outfit. I'm going to rock it. And, uh, and I'm just gonna play the, [00:16:00] for lack of a better phrase, like a the boy toy here. Yeah. And like, um, at what point it got a little weird because like, there.
He's having this like, boy toy moment while, um, Wharf and Tasha and I, who there was like one other person maybe. Yeah. Troy. Yeah. Maybe it was Troy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They, uh, they go looking for these, uh. The other Starly people and the people that are there to rescue. Yeah, yeah. The people that are there to rescue and like they find them and there's this weird moment where they're like, okay, Bema back to like the place where Riker is with this woman.
And I'm like, this is gonna get so awkward, so quickly. And I mean, they do get interrupted. And I think it's also by like [00:17:00] the little manservant man who, Trent.
Yeah. But sure. Yes. Yeah, I thought that was really interesting. And again, we had a, what is with the flu in space? They don't get the flu, but like Episode Lisa, there's had two episode viruses. Yeah. Like, yeah. What is going on? It was like, you have to go, like you have to hurry because everyone's basically dying up here.
Like, yeah, it was bad. All the virus was mutating every 20 minutes. Like yeah. It was ridiculous. Yeah, and it was, was it all, wasn't it just like the smell? Yeah, it was by smell. It was airborne. It was the smell. I wonder what that, what that's like. Yeah. And it didn't it start with Wes like, and his buddy missed their ski, like their ski instructor didn't show up to the hollow [00:18:00] deck.
Yeah. So then they threw a snowball at Picard. Yeah. And I originally thought that the virus was in the snow, but then like at the same time that Picard gets hit with a snowball warfs, like what's the smell? It smells so good. And then I'm like, that was it. Like that's it. Where'd it come from? What's up with that?
Right. Uh, I, the picard's, like whole flu. I feel like everyone was getting sick. Yes. But like Picard was getting the most sick. Oh, well he's a man. Well, I, yeah, and it. He was really playing that up. He's such a man. He got that sick, Lisa. Like that's what happened. Like he was Yes, the most man, so he got the most sick.
Uh, but yeah, no, and that's like, not the only time they had that other episode. I think on the last PO podcast we talked about where he had a headache just like, oh, [00:19:00] my head. I don't, I can't, like, it's just a headache dude. Um, but one thing. Okay. Oh, go ahead. I love that. Like even at like the end of, um, even at the end of the episode, like, everyone else is better, but he's still hoarse from this sickness.
And he even like, yeah, he can't even say engaged. He's like engaged and they're all like, ha ha, ha ha. Let's go. Oh, I think what, going back to this angel one thing? Mm-hmm. Okay. A man had to have written this episode because basically it was like, what if women were in charge, but they led like, men, women won't lead like men.
We don't lead like men. That's not what we do. Mm-hmm. That's not how we are. But that is how this was depicted. And so [00:20:00] very swiftly, my feminist dreams died. I know I shouldn't have expected much. It was the eighties, but it was very clear that that's what was going on. Do you think it was, uh, a man who wrote it that was trying to explain feminism to other men?
You think that's what it was? Leaning feminism? Yes. He was ple eighties feminism to eighties men. Because, yeah. Do you think that was it? That could have been it because I dunno. Yeah, I just, I'm like, yay for women in power. But again, like not at the detriment. Not like this. Not like this, no. Like I do not see a world in which like.
They would. So like, yes, I understand there was like an illegal relationship between the people who were marooned on this planet. Mm-hmm. Um, who were fighting [00:21:00] for male rights. Um, and, uh, and one of the other women. But like I, there was like, they found, uh, like. There was a solution there, and the woman, like the, the ruler was still like, no, Uhuh.
Like, yeah, he has to die. Like, I was like, this wouldn't happen. They, a lot of these societies I'm finding straight to jail, like they just go straight to death. Like it's all of a sudden it's like zero to 60, like, yep, well you gotta die. And I'm like, wait, what? How did we get here? Like the middle ground?
Yeah, and Riker totally like Mr. Prime directive. He's all like, well, this is the customs of the place, so I might as well get into my fancy thing and go have sex with this lady. Because it's the custom, right? It's like a custom. You guys just go do it. It's the custom. [00:22:00] So I don't know. It's not, it wasn't one of my faves.
It wasn't one of my faves as well. Um, but yeah. Oh, and Riker tries to, like, the way he tries to talk out of it is, it's like these men aren't being revolutionary. Maybe they're being. Evolutionary. Okay. Well, and we're like written by a man for sure.
I do have to. Okay. Just for people who do not know me. Yeah. I am not mad at men. I am mad at the patriarchy. Patriarchy. I hate the patriarchy. I do not hate all men. Um, agreed. So just so you know when that's coming from me, because on this podcast and my Gilded Age podcast, it has some very strong feelings about men, but it's really the patriarchy and what the patriarchy [00:23:00] has put then through, because then yes, that's what they do, which is not fun.
Okay, great. Speaking of, speaking of and matriarchy. Yeah, lets talkd 1 1, 0 0, 1. During routine systems upgrade at STARBASE 74, the pint sized ins Separ inseparable. NARS discreetly convert the enterprise into a mobile backup drive for their planet sized computer, which teeters on the brink of a stellar flare, an elite an.
Annihilation while they hijacked the ship. Riker Beta test, the Holodeck Sultry Jazz Program and nearly loses himself to virtual singer Minette, realizing they'd been duped, Picard and Riker Mounted two man retake of the enterprise, only to learn the bin desperate, oddly endearing rationale, and grant them a lenient sentence and a reboot.[00:24:00]
Yeah, this episode, okay. At first I was like, cool, we get to see star base. Everyone was kind of excited. Like Dr. Crusher was like, I'm gonna go talk to the professor that like lectured in my medical school and we're gonna talk about the blah, blah, blah, blah nanoscience. And I was like, oh, cool. We're gonna get to see all this.
We did not get to see the much of the star base. We were definitely on the ship and in the holodeck most of that time. Also, uh, data, uh, channeled his inner, um, Bob Ross and was doing, getting creative, like it was like the beginning of the episode was because like you get to see everybody's little special interests.
Yeah. You get to see people having fun. Tasha and Wharf are like participating in some sporting activity. How about those uniforms? For the sports though? And for the skiing ones and the episode prior, like [00:25:00] Right. So cool. Like so eighties. So, so eighties. Yes. But also like with these particular ones, there were only padded on one side and I was like, your other side could get hurt.
I don't understand. It's about the fashion, Lisa, the fashion. Right, right. The fashion. Gosh. But yeah, the beginning was good. And then our little NAR friends come to like do a system update that takes more than like a Windows update. Um, yes. What did you think of the nars? I liked how they talked. Me too.
They finished each other's sentences, sandwiches. Oh, oh.
Sentences like that. Yeah, that was cool. Yeah, I like that. That was a good play on [00:26:00] binary language, you know, having people finish each other's sandwiches. Um, they reminded me a little bit of like remembering Galaxy quest, like, hmm. Yes. Alan, Rick. I don't remember the character's name, but like that guy. Oh, I mean, I don't think it was Alan Rickman.
It was the dad from Veronica Mars. Exactly. Yeah. I was like, was it Never give up now? Roger up. Yeah. They reminded me of like a bunch of little hymns. Yes, yes. Okay. We can't avoid it, Lisa. Let's about into the hollow decks, the hollow deck. Enter the upgraded system. So like Riker's, like I want a jazz club from New Orleans, and like I want a group playing and then I want one woman.
Not [00:27:00] that woman. No, no. First of all, swipe left. Swipe left. Like you swipes left like 5,000 times. I was just so mad, dude. But before he made that request, Lisa, he requested for a bone. I, yes. I was like, no. I was like, why? Like, and a bone for me? A bone? I was like, no.
No. What did you think of his trombone playing?
I don't, he was smiling. Yeah. I don't think he was playing. Yeah, he was. And it was, I was, the positions weren't bad, like, but like, I was like, no Riker, no. I'd rather see, like, I'd rather see him pull like a rob [00:28:00] burgundy and play the jazz flute, like, oh, that would've been great. That would be, yeah. Yeah. That would've been fantastic.
No. So he meets Mirror Minette. He finally decides on a woman to inhabit his fictional space to be Minette, and he doesn't waste any time. He's like, Hey, what? I think he said like, you, what's a girl like you doing in a place like this? Yeah. And I'm like, you literally like sweat, like you. You made her here, like you made her be here.
And then like Picard comes down to like check it out and he and Riker's like, you really gotta check weird. You really gotta check this out. And I was like, wait, what is happening here? Is there vibes upon vibes upon vibes? Like, what is going on? Yeah, that was weird. And like Picard's, like at first he is like, [00:29:00] uh.
So sorry to interrupt. Like what is the hollow deck being used for? Um, but he's like, so sorry to interrupt. Uh, I, I'll get outta here and like Riker's, like, no, come see how real, and they're like talking about how real this person is. Yes. When she's right there and she knows, she's like generated. It's weird.
It was, it was wild. I was like, what is happening? What's going? And also like, what does this have to do with the story? You know what I mean? I was like, where, why is this here? Why are we doing this? Uh, only to, yeah. Only to find out that it was all part of the Binar big plan. To save their civilization by using the ship as a data storage so that their little civilization could continue.
They didn't really need to like update the hollow deck for this, I don't think, but it did distract [00:30:00] them enough so that they could be separated from everyone else at the star base. Yes. And we should note that like, um, the bins like. The way that they did, like, quote unquote steal or commandeer the ship was by, um, making it seem like the anti-matter was gonna of, the ship was gonna explode or something.
So like, data being in charge of the bridge was like, well, we're gonna get outta here. Like, everybody abandon, evacuate. Yeah. And um. And then the ship ends up being fine and is just like guided towards coordinates. But what I really liked about this is there's a point where like data's like, um, is this happening because of me?
Like I did, I [00:31:00] make a mistake? And the crew like that ended that was on star base was like, no, this would've happened. No matter what, like I feel like we've all felt that way sometimes where like we make a decision and then we question if it's like the right call and it's, it was really cool to see people be like, no.
Sometimes things are just like outta your hands and they're gonna play out how they're gonna play out and we just need to respond to the situation as it is. Yeah, and it did work out eventually. Eventually. I think that's a really good point to show how data is exploring his humanness. Like, you know, that's a very human reaction.
Like, did I do something wrong? Are you mad at me? Like, those are two very common human questions. Absolutely. Absolutely. I did wanna, just before I forget mm-hmm. In the last episode, did you already take the [00:32:00] bridge while, I think he did take the bridge while everyone was sick. Mm-hmm. And I think because it, I remember thinking that's, I, I wonder if that's like super ground unbreaking for the time, because I don't think a black man sat in the chair before him.
And then in the next episode in the, the, the one we're talking about with the bins date or gets to sit there. And do it too. So I, I love the sharing of the responsibility and because of the diversity of the show, getting to show that like everyone's a competent leader and can make decisions and they're like, stand behind the decisions that those people or beings have made.
Yeah. I think even you're right in the last episode too, even Dr. K Crusher, at what point is in charge of the bridge? Like I think it just shows how like. When you have a good team, it doesn't matter who's in the chair. Yeah. Like, you all trust each other. Yeah. It, it was cool. That's the point of being a [00:33:00] good team.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So what else about this one, Lisa? Anything? Anything else? Um. I thought it was really, the NARS were really sweet. Like, like their whole point of, um, doing it or to stealing the ship was just so that they could continue to look because they're all interconnected. Yep. And so like their main memory bank or data thing was wiped and like they were gonna die.
Um, and. So one thing that I remember at the end of the episode is like they do think in binary. So ones and zeros, yeses and nos. And so like at one point it was either Riker or Picard 'cause they were the only two on the ship. [00:34:00] Um, or like. Oh yeah. Why didn't you just ask us? And they're like, well, one of the possibilities was no.
Like they didn't understand that there was a a maybe or like an in-between. Um, yeah. So. I thought it was, and it also showed like how Picard and Riker, even though Riker's Gross. Mm-hmm. Um, right now, right now, right now, right now at this point in what we've like these past two episodes, um, it shows like how will, like they're forgiving of this like, yeah.
They, the bins still have to go to like a trial or in like a debriefing, but they're like, we understand why you did it. Yeah. They're, and also the bins were like, we totally expected that to happen. Like at at least you're not gonna kill us. Okay, cool. Like, yeah, exactly. I also laid to the point [00:35:00] where data's in the star base.
And they have to like, find the password to like unlock everything and to let everything work. And data's like, well, it's gotta be a password. And they speak in binary. So it's probably once what, how many combinations of ones and zero oh ones, it's gonna be to correct this password because they get it done in like two seconds.
But I'm like, I know, I, I'm pretty sure it was 1, 1 0 0, 1, 0, 0 1. But how did they get there? How did they get there? I don't know. Don't know. Do we think we'll see the barns again? I kind of hope like we did. See, we've already saw the ING gay twice. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe, do we think Laura will come back from space for I hope not.
I hope not either. All right. The next episode we watched is called Too [00:36:00] Short a Season. Veteran Admiral Mark Jameson Board. The enterprise to me mediate a hostage crisis on Morden four, but guilt from decades old armors for. Arms for Peace Scandal drives him to overdose an illegal de aging drug. His body rewinds from Wisened brass to reckless youth.
His judgment degrades just as quickly culminating in a botched negotiation and ultimate cau cardiac collapse, but cards silent whore as the star. Fleet. As Starfleet geriatric management leaves, viewers pondering whether this experience without integrity is simply ego in uniform. This is like Ben Benjamin button pretty much before anything.
Yeah. And I felt so bad for his wife, poor Anne, like Anne or Annie, I forget. I don't know, but yeah. Yeah, I, [00:37:00] yeah. She gets so screwed in this episode. Like. She's a very sweet lady. She's taking care of her husband. Who the husband's like, I have this non incurable disease. Let me go find some drugs. Yeah, and I'll make sure to get enough for both of us, but just kidding.
I'm gonna take it all. And then so like. He goes through this Benjamin Button experience and she is just like, what, what about me? Yeah. Like, hello, I'm still here. I'm still old. Like I don't know what to tell you. And the whole time Dr. Kher is like, this is bad. Like, he's gonna die. Not good. Not good. She's like, keeps popping in.
This is not gonna add. Well, no. Nope. No. Um, I have to. [00:38:00] Be honest. I don't think this was, I think this was my least favorite episode of the whole, it's kind of the whole group. It's dry. Yes. There's not a lot to really talk about here. I mean, like, I think the summary tells it as it is like a guy mm-hmm. Wants to broker this arms deal that has to do with like this thing from his past.
He ends up taking a drug and then he dies and also like picard's like, oh crap, like. Don't get old and Star Fleet.
Yeah. Also, like, does Star Fleet not have like a good retirement program? Like why is he still in odd duty? I don't know. It's active. Yeah. I don't. And why couldn't he, why couldn't he retire? Did he need the health insurance? Like what? What is it? Like when we see him at the beginning of the episode, like he should have been [00:39:00] retired.
He can put in my notes. Why is this man still working? His name is Hector Garza. Um, the, I think it, there's also a question we can talk about a little bit here is like the. They're really big on the hierarchy. You know, they're really big on the 'cause. Even in the episode where Wesley got yelled at by Picard, it was like, you're an N.
Like you can't like do these things. You can't go up this. But I think Picard did have a responsibility here to kind of like. Take the reins from this man and maybe give him like a, I don't know. I'm just thinking like, what would you do with an old person that maybe has dementia or is maybe like do like give him a mission in quotes.
That could fulfill his, oh yeah, you totally did. Broker his arms for peace. Yeah. That was you. Yeah, bro, like good job, [00:40:00] but he just kind of like let this man die. Like, I mean, he had taken the stuff, there was no stopping that, but he just kind of like let him go out. So maybe, I guess knowing that he was gonna die, it wasn't such a bad thing, but I don't know, sometimes you think the hard hierarchy gets in the way.
Agreed. I agree. Um. I did have one moment that I thought I personally thought was funny. Let's talk about it. It was fun. It's only one, it's like the smallest moment, but it's when, um, uh, I think his name is Admiral. Oh, I didn't even write down his name. Mark Jameson. Jameson? Yeah. Jameson. Um, he um, he's like middle aged at this point.
Yeah. And he's walking around like the base where they're supposed to be picking up these hostages and [00:41:00] like, he's like, there used to be a tunnel here and like, uh, there, this is gonna be the quickest way. Set your phasers to. Cut through metal and Oh yeah. Tasha and wharf worked together so, so slowly to cut open this hole.
But the whole time I'm thinking, and you're watching the Disney Channel, it was very much like that. For sure. Yes, for sure. Yeah. Good call. Good call. I mean. Okay. That was that one. Yeah, I don't really have much else to say. The only other thing was like the stunt, the quote unquote stunt during the gunfight.
I feel we're like over the top for what this episode was. They were like parkour, and it was only for like five seconds. Oh, yay. Yay. Yeah. [00:42:00] Well, the last episode in our little group does have it. Was it? There's some stuff to talk about in this one, I think. Oh yeah. It was titled When the Bow Breaks the Mythical Planet ald, UNC Cloaks, dazzles.
Hold on. Let me start that again. Mythical Planet ald Uncloak dazzling the enterprise with utopian tech and then promptly kidnaps the ship's children, including Wonder Kid Wesley Crusher to remedy his zone for infertility crisis. While Beverly wages a medical investigation into Al Diaz's mysterious sterility, Wesley organizes a pint-sized civil resistant leveraging food, right.
And passive aggressive sulks. More of like a like peaceful resistance type of thing. But yeah, the real culprit, long-term shielding radiation forces LDNs to comfort their, to confront their hubris and return the kids leaving parents. [00:43:00] Crew and probably the ship's insurance actuaries is deeply rattled.
This was wild. Hi, we're here. I know we haven't been here for a while, like you we're a myth or whatever, but hey, we're here and we're gonna like steal your children. Like, first of all, we're gonna ask nicely, like, would you give us your children? No. Oh, okay. Well, we're just gonna take them anyway. I know what, and like with the whole, like there was like that ray that like scanned.
Them like Wesley, like stared into the light. He's like, it wasn't scary, you know? Like it was scary at first, but now it's okay. Yeah, that part was weird. I was like, what is happening? Yeah. And they couldn't, like, the enterprise couldn't beam down because of the shields that were there. It was all like by the aldeans and they were just like very almost binary about it.
Like. Okay, we're gonna [00:44:00] have a negotiation because we're gonna keep your kids. So what do you want in return for us keeping your kids? And that seemed like the normal response to them. They're like, what do you mean? Like you don't wanna, like, we're doing you a service by wanting to negotiate and give you something in return for just taking members of your family away.
Yeah. Like. Oh my God. Wild. Very wild. Especially like in 2025. Um, yes,
very much so. Yeah. And then we did get to meet some of the other kids though in this episode. We saw Harry, the kid who doesn't like calculus. Rightfully so. I'm in Hi. I'm in his camp on that one. Like totally get it. I, when we met, I forgot the name of her, I forgot her name, but she had red hair and she was just like, I about Alexandria hope.[00:45:00]
Maybe she's just like, I I love you. It flowers. Oh man. So yeah. Love you, love, love how they all were like, look immediately, where like. Wesley, you're the leader. Like the kids were like, he's the tallest. Yep. He's the tallest, gonna listen to him. Like, and he acts as their leader. Um, I mean, it was pretty utopian.
Like they understood the kids skills and like gave them units, AKA families that would support and bring out these skills. So I get it when the kids are like, it was nice. Yeah. I wait to be here. There's no calculus. There's no calculus. Yes, I can carve a dolphin the sea. I'm telling you. I'm telling you how they know so much about the ocean and being in space, it makes no [00:46:00] sense to me.
But I love it so much. I am here for the space aquatics. I am here for it. Um. Also they have like on this planet, they have their own version of El Alexa called the Custodian. Yes. Which is very interesting. Yes. Like it can answer all the questions and it's like, can see not, well not see. Well I guess it can like, it it like when Wesley's like, I wanna see where this person's at.
It would show him. Yeah. It also was, I think, responsible for all of the shielding and all of the like, yes, because they said that like the custodian made the decision, the custodian made this. And I was like, are you living by the algorithm? Oh my God, is this a warning? Oh my God, what's happening?
It was very, it was very it. I just was the [00:47:00] whole time kind of felt uncomfortable. 'cause I was like, just give 'em back their kids. Um. But I did like how Dr. Crusher was like a secret agent in this one. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And like they were when she, yeah, with the Wess, when she goes to visit Wess and then mm-hmm.
She like hands them the scanner thing and he's like, oh, I got you ma. Like, let me scan you, scan this person. Oh, don't go. Let me reach out for your hand. Oh, lemme get it back. Oh, no. It was good. And I also props to Leslie for the, um, nonviolent resistance because he was just, first of all, he did have to tell a bunch of kids don't eat.
Yeah. They're like, why? I don't know. You're too young to understand, but it's gonna work. Don't, don't, don't worry. It's gonna work. Hunger. Hunger Strike. Hunger. Strike. Yeah, and also the like not talking or whatever. [00:48:00] And the one kid Harry was like, but what about my dolphin? Like I like that. And Wesley's like, we have to be all in it.
It was like a nice little, like if you're looking to organize in 2025, look to the scene. Yeah. Storm check the next generation when the bowel breaks, if the kids could do it, you can do it. You know? That's kind of what I took away from this. Small acts of defiance can make big impacts. Yeah. Because it was that, that got 'em basically to think like, it got the LDNs to say, oh, your kids are broken.
We don't want your kid, basically, you know, like, or at least get 'em to think, start thinking that. Yeah. Or like maybe forcing. Like have, having kids that way by just taking them is not the best. Oh yeah. No. Yeah. And also like they, it [00:49:00] forced them to kind of like see like, oh, our planet is going through like a global warming thing, which is causing our infertility, so why don't we solve that?
Like maybe we solve that problem and then like. We won't have to worry about stealing kids. Like, yeah, why? Why don't we do that? And also, I think at the end there's this whole conversation about like the fact that this myth is gonna die, right? Mm-hmm. Like this myth of this hidden planet and all of this stuff, but the people are gonna live.
And I think sometimes that that's what has to happen in life and a society. And I think that's kind of what we're going through. I, I know, I'll get off my soapbox in a minute, but like in the United States right now, we have to let go of the myth. Of who we were and yeah, or who we thought we were. We never were that country.
We, we were never. For everyone. We were never built for equality and freedom and all of that. For the white, rich [00:50:00] people. Yeah, but not for anybody else. And so I think right now what we're going through is letting go of that myth, but the people survive. The people get through it. Yeah. The people go continue on.
And so that's. I'm sure that's not what they intended with this episode, but like watching it in 2025, that's what I took away from it. I was like, how would I view this in the 1980s? Would it be like foreign adoptions are bad? Like, I dunno, I, I dunno, I dunno. I don't know. But yeah. Kidnap people now though.
Yeah. And um. Going off of what you said, like, I don't know exactly where this quote came up, but I wrote it down 'cause I really liked it. Um, I think, and I think it had to do with like, how it seemed like impossible that these kids were gonna get back home. Like Oh yeah. Because of the shield and the fact that they were able to push the enterprise [00:51:00] like three days away and stuff like that.
Yeah. Um. It said, the quote I wrote down was, things are impossible until they aren't. And it's like, that is, that's true. And I think like in, if I may join you on your soapbox, like there's room for everyone. Oh, yay. Um, like it may seem like right now, like, it seems real bad and like the impossible may like, seems like.
Just being, having people be treated like humans like. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Like a basic thing that our founding father fathers intended well wrote on a piece of paper. I don't know if that's, they probably didn't intend it that way, but like that's the idea that we grew up with and like. I think we have to remember that like we create the possibility of change.
[00:52:00] Yeah. We write the story. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And it may seem impossible now, but at one point if we keep these little small acts of defiance or our tiny little hunger strikes like they will. Force the change and make it possible, I hope. Like, uh, be, it's like the princess and the p like be the p like the little thing that causes the most annoyance over time, over time, over time, over time that they have to change the mattress.
They have to do something. Um, be the, the rock in the shoe. I mean, please eat if you have the availability to, yeah. Yes. Um, however, if you choose not to eat for political reasons, totally understand it will get harder to eat. So please eat while you can. Um. But yeah, Lisa, I like that, that takeaway of what we, you know, what seems impossible right now is [00:53:00] gonna be possible in the future one day to just keep going.
You gotta keep going. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Good. Good note to end on, my friend, my sister. I agree. I agree. My sister well. That was this little group of, we had what, let's see, we had cloning, we had men writing women. We had Tinder. Tinder, we had Benjamin Button, and then we had, uh, kidnapping in 2025. Uh, reflections.
So who knows where the next five episodes will take us, but we're here for it. I literally don't know, like, I don't know. We could go anywhere. We could do anything. It's true. I mean, do you think we'll hear like, shut up, Wesley, again. I, you know, I hope, [00:54:00] like, I feel like we've had one good. Yelling at Wesley, like every single batch of episodes.
So I feel like it might be coming. Yeah, but I don't, I don't like it still. I I'm going to be cringing. I will tell you that from this point out. Yeah. I would like to learn. Okay. What are your hopes and wishes? 'cause I would like to learn more about Warf. Yeah, we don't really know a lot about him right now.
I'd like to, like, it'd be cool to see him in more, him more in a leadership position. Yeah. I feel like we've seen most people in a leadership position, but not him. Um, I think what I'd like to see, um. I don't know. I, I mean, it's really hard to guess on something like this because yeah, you go all over the place.
But I would also like to see breaker tone down, like, [00:55:00] or talk to Deanna. Like talk to Deanna Troy. Yes. Or calm it down. Like get more grounded. Yeah. Like Case all over the place right now. Yeah. He needs to get back. Also, random thing about Riker. Yeah. That, um. That was pointed out to me. Oh. Um, was that, and now I can't unsee it.
Okay. But Riker only sits down in chairs. You know, this big. I didn't know that. A big theme. Yeah. By stepping over the back of it. Yeah. It's called the Riker Maneuver because there's the card maneuver and then there's the.
Uh, I, I see it all the time now. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, but I think, um, I'm going to have to learn the actor's themes, but [00:56:00] I, I am, I know that he has spoken about that choice and like, why he did it. Oh, I, I looked, it, it was like he had when they first, like either right before they started shooting or. Uh, like very early on in the shooting, he had a back injury, so like he couldn't sit down normally, and then it just became part of his character.
Like it just, I mean, it fits. It fits. He is kind of like swanky sometimes. And like, I like it, but Agreed. Yeah. And he did. Yeah, go ahead. No, go ahead. I was gonna say he had that limp for a little bit and I thought like that's when it was gonna be like emphasized that he does that. But it just was just as who he is.
It's just who he is. Um. I think, uh, one more hope or wish that I have for this next batch is like to learn more about [00:57:00] everybody's, like hobbies. Like that was like, I really liked that part of the episode was fun. So I'd to see more of that. Yeah, like when I hope that it was data and Jordy, it data's like.
I'm trying to find my creative, my creativity. Jordy a blind guy is looking apart. Like it was great because it was a moment that like you don't think you'd see, I mean it seems impossible, but it's possible. But it's possible. Yes, it's possible. Uh, yeah. I mean, I wonder, who knows, maybe they have a version of Cinderella in space.
Maybe that's something we use our holodeck for. Maybe they just pop in also random. Yeah. But speaking of like, I just had this idea, this is, I don't know if this, we may need to cut this. I don't know, but get it out. [00:58:00] My friend, my friends and I are gonna go to the run. Fair. Yeah. And I am very, yeah. Like one part of me wants to just like wear a Star Trek outfit and pretend like I have.
Yes. And transport it like you're on the away team. Yes, exactly. Do it. Start looking for Q, do it and places use like a set your phasers to like, it could be your camera, it'd be like set your phasers to click or whatever. Yes. Yeah. But like, yeah. Star Trek is definitely coming more into my mind space. 'cause I probably wouldn't have thought of that before.
Yeah. You could be like, guys, we can't interfere with the, due to the prime directive, we can't interfere, we can't change the rules or the laws or anything. Mm-hmm We must, we must do the customs and eat this Turkey leg. [00:59:00] Yes. And eat this Turkey leg. Well, you'll have to report back and let us know how um, your visit to the Renaissance Planet went.
I'll let you know if I find Q or Discover any puzzles, please, that would be fantastic. Watch out for Napoleonic Cosplay as well will do. Well, that about do it for us here on the USS Sisterhood. We are looking forward to our next batch and learning more about Star Trek the Next Generation, and until the next time.
Make it so, make it so.