This week we take a pause in our Star Trek Discovery Season 2 re-watch and look at the classic Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode, "Far Beyond the Stars", we reflect on the frustrations of our own timeline. And do stick around for the Marilyn Monroe Tribble jokes.

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Nathan Adams

Heather Ferris

Rocky Robinson

Patrick Hall

00:00 Starfleet Underground Season 01 Episode 23

00:38 Welcome!

01:00 Heather's experimentation...With Tribbles

01:30 Furry Pool

02:15 Check your timezone - It's 5pm somewhere

02:50 Cons go virtual, like SDCC

03:30 Season 2 of Picard Full-Frontal? Seven? Picard?

04:15 Four lights #1 vs #2

04:40 The Voyager reunion online - Stars In The House LINK: https://youtu.be/Fo8cVby5ag4

05:20 Ba'ku, were in Insurrection, (not the Ba'ul in Discovery) the Son'a were the "stretchy" descendants of the Ba'ku in Insurrection.

07:07 "Far Beyond the Stars" - when Star Trek: Deep Space Nine dealt with racism

08:15 War times at DS9, Loss of the Cortez

09:00 Avery Brooks directed (and starred in) this episode

10:20 The frustrations

10:30 Young Aaron Eisenberg without makeup

11:00 No alien makeup

11:30 First time Michael Dorn seen without Makeup on Star Trek.

12:10 Sexism and racism for sci-fi writers

12:50 People think this way? Still?! It doesn't compute.

14:11 Small-Dicked scientists?

14:30 Nice people and assholes

15:15 Blame someone else to make you feel better?

15:45 Bad woman in the park without the dog leash

17:20 Narcissists. Power over another. No empathy

18:30 Crime vs Athletics. Role Models - lack of good ones

19:20 Is it the street life, prison system, lack of opportunities

22:30 Privatized prison labor

23:40 What de-funding means

24:00 Police vs mental health professional

24:30 Horrible hotline vs Police armed with guns vs hospitals

25:50 Special training? Refresh the system? Or is it the people?

27:30 Oh yeah - Back to Star Trek! Worm in her belly!

28:00 Allies vs Cowards

29:00 What if it was all a dream?

29:45 Speakeasy origins

31:10 Hope and Despair. The dreamer and the dream

31:45 The cuts between, the brutality

32:40 Watch 8:46 - Dave Chapelle LINK: https://youtu.be/3tR6mKcBbT4

33:44 Watch 13TH LINK: https://youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8

34:00 Getting everyone together

34:40 Everyone IS getting together - Thanks twitter!

35:10 Just a little fact-checking...Not to get too political, but WTF?

35:50 You said you wished I was green!

36:10 Big Mac vs Fillet of Fish. It's all good!

37:00 Fear of walking down the street. Or the pullover

37:50 The people who are here to protect us, not kill us.

39:00 Nathan's pullover strategy

40:30 Stories

44:50 These are not new stories. But they are still happening. This should not be happening now.

45:20 Black lives matter

46:50 All lives will matter, when Black lives matter.

47:45 Military rules vs Police rules

48:40 Something stinks

49:00 Would phasers help? Stunning problems

50:45 Running because of fear

51:45 Black vs White AK47

52:19 We have camera phones now. Can we make it change?

53:00 Russians?

54:00 Tree huggers

54:30 Dreaming of the future...Or aliens...Or Robots?

55:14 That artsy visual stuff in the episode

55:30 Sisko's big scene

57:00 Caesar's farts? Jesus's water?

57:30 Surf the Tribble wave

58:00 Who's leaving the Holodeck running!?

58:50 Tribbles for Breasts

59:30 Muffy

1:00:00 Don't grab'em by the Tribble

1:00:30 All Black Lives Matter

1:01:00 Star Trek Homework - Next week: Back to Discovery - S02 E07 Lights and Shadows and Short Treks S02 E04 The Girl Who Made the Stars.

1:02:20 LINK: Covid19protestrelief.com

1:02:58 Moving the conversation forward. Together.

1:03:50 Patrick gets touchy

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