We are doing it again. It's another crazy TrekRanks live show from Las Vegas, and this one is a sequel to the show we did on Episode 166 featuring "The. Best. Deaths." On this week's TrekRanks live recording it's Episode 216 and the topic is even more rowdy with a breakdown of "The. Best. (Fake.) Deaths." This is a fun one for our host Jim Moorhouse and our massive panel of eight guests, including Star Trek experts Alex Perry, Claire Little, Ken Reilly, Matt Hansen, Jamie McGregor, Thad Hait, Carl Wonders and John Krikorian, as they power through 45 rapid fire selections for "The. Best. (Fake.) Deaths." This one will keep you on the edge of your seat!

Episode Rundown:

• Diagnostic Cycle: If this topic was Top 5 Fake Deaths, you'd have Spock from "The Wrath of Khan" and that kind of thing. It's not. It's "The. Best. (Fake.) Deaths," which is a whole other thing. (Yeah, we don't know what that means either, but just go with it.)
• Prime Directive: Each guest on this week's massive panel reveals exactly how they narrowed down list and made their final choices.
• The Order of Things: All the picks are revealed with the TrekRanks' original "Five words and a hashtag" summary, along with one episode that helps frame their choice.
• Secondary Systems: For a few extra picks that just missed our final list.
• Regeneration Cycle: The panel does not recap their picks (because there are so many of them), but we do dissect some of the interesting statistical anomalies that arose from the discussion.
• Temporal Inversion: We flashback to a previous episode of TrekRanks and relay some of the feedback received from listeners.

If you have your own picks you would like to relay to us, please hail us at 757-828-RANK (7265) and record your own personal TrekRanks log to let us know your picks for The. Best. (Fake.) Deaths. (Or you can record it yourself and just DM us @TrekRanks.com on Bluesky.) Your comments could be used as part of a Temporal Causality Loop on an upcoming episode (and might get you a chance to be a guest on a future episode, too).

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