June 21, 2024 • 48 mins
Celebrating Captain's Day
Fans were introduced to the concept of "Captain Picard Day" in the seventh season of The Next Generation. Since then, it has taken a life of its own, with references in later shows like "Picard" and "Lower Decks", as well as real life celebrations of Captain Picard Day (typically June 16).
The trio get into the holiday spirit to look at how Captain Picard Day may have started on the USS Enterprise-D and how it could have spread across the Starfleet to celebrate other captains (or station commanders). What would be the best entries in a student competition? What are other ways to celebrate? How much is children-led and how much is enjoy by other members of the crew?
Get your papier-mâché ready for a nice sculpture of Jean-Luc's head as we celebrate Captain Picard Day.
Fans were introduced to the concept of "Captain Picard Day" in the seventh season of The Next Generation. Since then, it has taken a life of its own, with references in later shows like "Picard" and "Lower Decks", as well as real life celebrations of Captain Picard Day (typically June 16).
The trio get into the holiday spirit to look at how Captain Picard Day may have started on the USS Enterprise-D and how it could have spread across the Starfleet to celebrate other captains (or station commanders). What would be the best entries in a student competition? What are other ways to celebrate? How much is children-led and how much is enjoy by other members of the crew?
Get your papier-mâché ready for a nice sculpture of Jean-Luc's head as we celebrate Captain Picard Day.
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Welcome to the NED Party. I'mDarren Moser, I'm Philip Gilphus, I'm
Daniel Prue and this is City Alphathree. Hello, and welcome to City
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Alpha three. Yeah, Star Trekpodcast here on the NERD Party. I'm
Philip, joined by Darren and Daniel. And it's a very special day on
the calendar, something celebrated every year, and that of course is Captain Bercard
Day, and so we're going tobe talking about that first of all,
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brief recaps about anything in your StarTrek weeks. But I'll go first if
you have to think about it.Yesterday here in the UK, I saw
Star Trek three on the big screen. That was in cinemas across the country
yesterday, So that was my firsttime seeing three on the big screen.
So I think the only movies Ihave left to see on the big screen
ever is five to six, andthen I never saw Generations when it first
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came out on the big screen,so those three movies, so I have
to wait for those you know,super duper blu rays of five and six,
so I know I five, youknow, big demand for that coming
out, and then I'm sure Generationswill be on pollow disc or something by
the time they do that. Butanyway, Special Nexus Edition exactly. So.
But yeah, I mean I couldprobably talk about it for thirty minutes.
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What I won't, but it wasit was interesting, eve though it's
not my favorite Star Trek movie byany means. I think there was a
lot of stuff like, oh,this is actually the first time that they
did X, Y and Z whenyou really think about it, like Coppla,
it's the first time that's there eversaid probably, and first Bird of
Prey or clean on Bird to Preythat model. But so yeah, I
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kind of I snooze on three.I shouldn't. Like it's I always think
of like, oh, if I'mgoing to watch three, I'm going to
watch two and three but on itsown, like it's got Christopher Lloyd in
it, like it's got all sortsof great stuff in it, and you
know, I need to I needto watch it more. I probably remember
the plot the least, Like whenI start to think of the plot,
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it's like, no, no,Darren, that's actually Start Trek two.
It's like, oh, you're right, Like I kind of like they muddle
together. I mean, obviously thestory flows right between the two, so
it's easy to to misremember. Butas far as rewatching in theaters, we
my daughter's twelfth birthday is coming up, and so as a gift for her
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and for us as well, we'reall gonna go next weekend and see The
Extended Lord of the Rings and theaterspray pray for me. It's it's gonna
be long. So it's a it'sa Saturday, Sunday, Monday deal where
each day you do a movie andthe evening they're like the whole day because
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it's the entire day, one movie. Yeah, it's like four hours each
one ish, no intermission. Ilooked it up. I was like,
why, but it's ridiculous. ButI thin because the first time they've shown
The Extended in theaters, it's usuallyalways the theatrical obviously, So yeah,
I think. I looked it upand I think The Fellowship of the Ring
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has like thirty extra minutes, andThe Two Towers has like forty extra minutes,
and The Return of the King haslike fifty five extra Like it's an
hour longer. It's crazy, butbut what was also fun is you know
the reason for keeping stuff in thedusty ass attic. I went up and
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I found. I don't know whyI still had this. I think I
tried to sell it at one pointand it didn't An eBay a two thousand
and three where kurrent of the Kingedition of box set of like All the
Fellowship with the little ring that youcould like wear as a necklace, you
know, all the you know,it's like the seven inch tall action figures
that they had at the time.Anyway, the whole Fellowship, and I
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think it had a twenty nine dollarsprice sticker on it, which there's no
way, like that's the cost ofone figure nowadays, but twenty years ago.
Yeah, So we gifted that toher and yeah, that was fun.
So I'm really looking forward to introducingher to those movies and the right
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time. Yeah, this is herfirst time seeing them, so it's we're
going in deep now. My wife'sbeen reading The Lord of the Rings to
her, but she she hasn't evengotten to the Fellowship yet. So when
she saw the box, she's like, well, I know these characters,
but I don't know like Legalissa Kimleyand bored Mare, I don't know who
those people are. But yeah,we're in true nerd fashion. We're tossing
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her in the deep end. Ohbut you're like, oh, you you've
showed a mild this. What shouldwe do? Buy you action figures?
We signed you up for the theend the giant movie marathons. As No,
she's been enjoying it, so I'msure it's gonna be be fun.
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And and it's it's fun because that'sone of the cool things as your parents
to as your kids, you know, become age appropriate to watch some of
the cool things and and enjoy it, Like like when I got to show
her Money Python, except for thatone scene that was yeah, we skipped
we skipped the Castle Castle Anthrax.That was the only thing. Honestly,
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the whole rest of it was goldand it was right up her her alley
as far as humor, but Iwas just like, Nope, we're not
We're not ready for that there.And I assume at thirteen, RoboCop,
right, yeah, she's the mostfor you, the most eighties are.
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I was trying to think, like, yeah, when did I make my
RoboCop costume and backdate it? Butno, I mean, honestly, I
mean this is when they're much older. But like you know, Starship Troopers,
which is a great movie, butit's definitely not a kids movie.
So like, as they move intoyou know that they'll want to know more
and then you know, we're enoughfor a Jurassic Park. They have watched
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Jurassic Park. We only skip thevery first velociraptors, like the prologue scene
because it's a little much for them, but they watch the entire rest of
the movie. So both my kidshave seen Jurassic Park. Uh. Yeah,
it's it's just to their own andwe tell them it was the only
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movie they ever made. Yeah thatwas what are you talking about? No?
Actually, uh, she's really intoAvatar the Last Airbender and so she's
she's self watching. I think she'son her fifth rewatch of the series,
and she'll just you know, Netflixbinge it and it's really fun. So,
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uh, the new one or theold Nickelodeon. This is the original
animated show Nickelodeon. Yeah, theNickelodeon. Yeah, so I'll see about
the I haven't watched any of thenew live action one. The better one
that was more in line with thecartoon. Yeah, I think we say
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better, that's what you're comparing itto. Well, we keep telling her
because she's like, what about themovie. I'm like, no, honey,
I'm protecting you. Don't. It'sterrible. It's absolutely terrible. So
anyway, so not not Star Trekrelated, but but a big franchise related.
So what about you, Daniel?Any sci fi the past week?
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No, not really. We finishedFallout finally, finally, finally finished it
and it was Would you think itwas good? It was good, obviously
set itself up for a second season. I'm not gonna spoil anything here,
but uh makes sense? Can Iask? Because I would have said because
I as I probably talked about weeksago, having only played one game and
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only a little bit of it.To be honest, I only understood some
of the show. I mean Igot understood all of it, but as
far as but the guy, Idon't remember anyone's name, but the guy
in the armor he been talking abouthe's such a pitiful character. Is he
supposed to be that way? Iguess, like basically, like I don't
know what the game like, what'sthat reference to? No? No,
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so, I mean all the charactersare new, this is stats. Yeah,
he's just he's just he's just kindof a really crappy human being.
I think like, I just Ithink I don't know if they have a
bigger arc in mind for him,but I'm like you, I was like,
he just like bends like the windand and like gives in all the
time, does terrible things, likehe's just kind of a really crappy person.
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I don't really know why, LikeI don't because they didn't really sort
of you know, he didn't havelike this come up at some moment or
anything like that, really, soI assume that'll that'll be next season or
season three or something. But heis a very weak part of the show
for sure. I just didn't getand I'll be super generic in case anyone
cares about spoilers. But like theromance, I'm like, what what what
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is just because he's there? Imean, because otherwise this guy has nothing
positive about his art. But Iwill say so the show itself is incredibly
representative of the games, Like likeduring the last episode when there were choices
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made it failt very much like theend of a vallag game where you're given
an option between two sort of differingpolitical opinions on how things should be run
and with some pretty big consequences,and she made the choice but of course
in the games you can make eitherchoice. Like a lot of the sound
effects and the music, even thethe unlocking the terminal mini game shows up
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in in the show and it's exactlyhow it's represented in the games, which
makes sense because Todd Howard, whoruns up Bethesda Studios it was one of
the executive producers on the on theshow, So, uh yeah, I
don't know anything about Fallout, butI have heard that a lot with the
show is that you there were alot of video game miss in it.
(10:20):
Not like you're, you know,first person Oh, here's my gun floating
in front of me, you knowkind of thing, but like, like
you said, the types of choices, the types of so you can it's
almost like you're you're living cinematics.Like it's very integrated into how the game
feels, which I think is great. That's what these types of shows should
be if they're based off video games. Yeah. Yeah, it definitely respects
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Fallout fans. And I was thinking, I was comparing this in my mind
the other day, where like Haloseems to hate the Halo show hates its
fans, and the fans of thislike revels and like if you if you
really know Fallout the series, well, there's a lot to chew and it's
not so distracting either, like itjust fills the world. It's like they
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didn't have to build that stuff outbecause it was already there. So it's
it's why not pull from this stuffthere? And then you spend your time
with the story and then something goodcomes out of surprise, surprise. I
think you you summed it up rightthere hates their fans and all that loves
them. Yeah, there you go. All right, Well, as I
said, we're gonna be talking aboutCaptain Picard Day, so I thought we'd
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start with first first the basics,Captain. Let's let's do some trivia.
Find some haven't done trivia in awhile. But it was just basic stuff.
So but this will just be veryshort four four pips. What episode
did we first see Captain Piccard Dayon? Oh? Man, I was
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just thinking about this. I can'tremember it. So very random, of
course, yeah, connected in yourright. It's not like the it's not
the one with the little kids andthe radishes. No, it's not children
anyway, is it with Oh god, it's not a Larsano episode, is
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it? No? No? No, it's a very serious episode. Serious
episode, is it. I'm gonnasay the episode years later in another series,
Oh, Pegasus, Pegasus. Ohthat makes sense. Okay, I
can see like the thread that they'regoing forward that, yeah, because I
remember, like I was trying tothink of the context of the admiral phone
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call because that's where we see theCaptain mac card day flag and all of
that, and she's a Captain BacardDay. She's like, okay, so
that's when he she's getting he's gettingordered to go meet admiral, receive a
jerk face and uh yeah, doyou remember who won that Captain of a
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Card day? Oh, that's right, because somebody and they did to win.
He made like a paper mache something. Ah. Man, it's like
all in that episode, which Ihaven't watched in a while. Yeah,
and so it was, uh,you know, it's pretty hard, but
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you know it's so last It wasPaul mcginnahey, age seven, and I
believe it's a paper mache model ofhis head. Okay, Okay, I
was gonna say paper So I wasright with the paper mache. I just
was trying to remember. I don'tthink they showed it. I think they
said like off screen or something.But so that's a door let's engage in
some stuff before because I want toimagine Captain Days another series. But just
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sticking with the Enterprise, D whendo we think kind of Card Day started?
Like did it start that season oneand we just didn't see it because
like I feel like he'd be yellingat that children that first year. I
mean because like by Pegass, he'sall things considered pretty mellow compared to season
one, because Pegas, this isseason six or seven, it's like very
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late in TNG. I bet youknow what I'm thinking season three, it'll
be it'll be the third year becausethen Riker's comfortable enough to season Yeah,
he's comfortable enough to do it,to pull it off, to make it
happen, and the car has togo along with that. You think it
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was a surprise the first day,like it's like Captain of a Card report
to the observation lounge. Yeah,he just walks in and he's like what
the hell? Yeah, he definitelyhas from it as you shown up this
stuff. We got an alert readalert just cute. No, no,
Captain, I did this you okay? I I like that idea. I
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am gonna say, actually it's seasonfour because as I'm gonna say that,
Riker does it in a way tohelp Picard reconnect with children and humanity because
after the Borg incident, and againnot that he loves children, but there's
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something about connecting with children that intrinsicallyconnects you with humanity. It's and seeing
our youth and and things like that. So I'm just pushing it to four.
So it's post that that trauma.It doesn't matter either way, but
I do like the thought of himthinking que has taken over the observation louch,
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but does this do you think,Captain I don't want to still on
any of your thunder here, no, no, no, but do you
think Captain Picard? Day continued onthe Enterprise. He well, here's the
thing, because there's many families onthe Enterprise. Wait, what else is
on deck twenty three, Captain Day, That's why they stopped. They're like
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assimilating all the paper mache, Likewhat is this? Because it cours ostensibly,
kat Big Card Day is for thechildren, you know, late Christmas,
I guess, but anyway, orDisney trips, I don't know,
kidding, but so I'm trying tothink do we think doesn't mean we make
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any of this up. Do wethink it's organic to the enterprise, or
do we think other ships have captaindays? Well we're going to get to
that, but well, I meanof the time in the twenty fourth century,
right, you know, I likethe idea that it is. It
may exists on other ships, butit's not. It's certainly not like a
like a standard like you No,it's just it's just something that may have
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happened naturally. Like just like Voyagerhas movie nights, doesn't mean all the
other ships have movie nights like thatpart of the culture, right, Yeah,
it's their own culture. Like eachship has its own sort of vibe,
you know. Yeah, I thinkCrito's has their bar you know,
which is I mean, it's kindof ten forty, but it's a little
more barish. Uh Now. Ikind of like to think that at some
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sort of conference, Captain McCard letsit slip about Captain maccart day, and
then all these other admirals and otherships start doing it because they're like,
that sounds awesome, you know,I want or it's galaxy class, only
it starts with all the galaxy classesbecause they're one of the first ships that
are big enough and specialized enough tohave families. So if we assume all
galaxy classes have a similar compliment,how many children died when the ship to
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yeah, or the Yamato like diesright from It's like Captain it was odd
Captain Picard Day. Sorry, theentire primary school Captain, Captain whatever.
Obviously it's like they're not celebrating Captainmaccart day. It's not their ship,
but tam Yeah, yeah, Icould see how maybe uh maybe it didn't
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start organically in the classrooms of theEnterprise d and then when Admiral what's her
face? I saw it? Andthen so like, you know, the
next week she's in you know,playing uh of course, playing golf on
the right space golf talking to theother admirals and captains like yeah Captain macart
day, and the other ones arelike, ah, that's so silly.
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The captain, Yeah, yeah,I went my Captain day. Where's my
Captain Day? It's so wait,so its captain day is Admiral week because
it only seems fair, you know, It's like on space dock, the
admirals like, we why is therenot an admiral day, like, well,
we don't really have that many commodorefamilies, you know. Yeah,
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all children will pay service to meon the space stock. Whoa uh get
the ears on him now. Ilike the thought of it starting organically on
the galaxy classes and then Admiralty pushingit, not pushing it, but like
spreading it throughout the strongly suggesting,yeah, strongly suggesting that said star fleet
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has like you know, she sendsan email to uh, I don't know
what, but they send an emailto all all they subscribe to her zign.
It's totally how it works, substack, subspace. It's a specific path
that gets replicated and only reads theHR messages. Another exciting from the from
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the desk of Admiral. So it'sthe head of HR star base one to
whom it may concern, it's cometo my attention. Captains are our role
models, good old our good oldfriend. It is like a tear terrible
picture from the file Captain John LukePicard. Maybe it's him. It's like
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stargazing photo where it's him like sittingin the chair and like the lounge chair
on Riza Like it's just very veryca Yeah, it's like just like reading
a book. It's yeah, it'sjust him reading. Who likes to read?
And like that's the stock photo theyplay. Now, I don't know,
there's nothing to do with it,but I'm picturing you eyes. We
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all remember. I'm sure they stilldo it. But in the old days
of like the eighties and nineties,like the library posters with stars reading like
oh yeah, captain, but theydid it was fun. Yeah, reading
his fun. It's lounging on Rizawith the book. Yeah. Anyway,
they push it out and they're likewe we think if you feel up to
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it, if you have at leastthirty children in your starship, then you
are compelled to a Captain Day.Now, as far as we know,
Captain of Card Day, the kidschildren submit various kind of card related art
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to be judged for second, thirdand I leave several honorable mentions. So
do we think it's like school dayoff? Like what's kind of card date?
What do you what? Children get? No? No, no,
So this is like remember when youwere a kid, and Dark probably has
experience with this now, but likewhen you were a kid and like Halloween
was coming up, like like inthe beginning of October, you would start
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making stuff for theorating the classroom.Yeah, that kind of thing. It's
actually more day. Yeah when bythe time the end of the month and
it's Captain pc Card's day and heif he walks into that classroom, it's
gonna be everywhere, every wall,every table is covered with Captain mc card
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stuff. He gets to create paperchains, all that windows. Yeah,
the you know, something on thepottery wheel something because I was watching when
it's just a little bit of macaronifor his hair on the sides, like
nothing on the top. I waswatching when the valve breaks season one episode.
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But I think Star Trek always doesthis, the one where they steal
the children, right exactly, Yeah, but they always like because it's the
future, all the subjects are nowlike ten years earlier. You have like
a oh, I will taking that'salgebra and I'm four, you know,
So I'm just like thinking, isthat because I mean that's like math and
signs and all that Star Treky stuff, But like does that extend to everything?
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Are they like doing like pottery wheelsat like age seven? Like,
well, isn't that the episode wherethey literally are sculpting with laser things?
Yeah, that's that's that advanced civilizationlets them do that. Yeah, yeah,
right, And the little boy likehe's like, I'd miss getting to
to to use the wood, andhe's like, well, fine, stay
on this planet. But you're kindof now, I yeah, I like
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that that thought of I almost Imean, as much as as fun as
it is to attribute to Riker,I kind of almost wanted to generate from
the the school teacher who just andand like they get Rikers buy off and
he's like, oh yeah, I'mone hundred percent, because you know,
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maybe it starts off with you know, for all purposes, the card delegates
the head of education to talk toRiker. Like he he's like, I
don't want to you know, notthat he's rude, but he's like,
I'm going to delegate that. II don't need to talk to the head
of the school. And so shekind of takes she takes that a little
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personally and she's like, you know, so she creates Captain Picard day kind
of it's like, how do Iget the Captain to get into my classroom?
Well, if there's a day deadcatered to the Captain, he's gonna
have to make an appearance. Andthe Riker's just like, you totally should
do that. I here's my stampof approval. Make it happen next week.
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And he just sits in the backof the room with his big old
grin on his face, just watchingthe whole thing. Now about I wanted
to ask, well, you said, like who the winners were of the
what did they get? We're talkinglike trips to the bridge, trips to
the battle Bridge, hal of Deckspecial Halidick privileges like the guy want the
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good tour, the good to thegood tour because like remember the side,
Yeah, that was a crappy tour, like to the battle Bridge. Okay,
no, we can't go to thebattle Bridge. We're gonna go to
the hydroponics four. Yeah, it'salways my favorite. We're gonna go to
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Transporter Room six and you pawn youoff on Chief O'Brien for an hour or
two. I know what do Thefirst place gets a very stern well done
Kyle from Yeah, from from handshakeand a personal pan pizza from the replica.
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You get a pizza party, Butsir, he could replicate anything.
No pizza. The trolls, theydon't get it. I'd like to think
it also becomes a tradition, maybejust for the science Fair, which I
know is not KEM maccart's day.That he because he can replicate new ones.
But like he continues to give hisrank pips to the winners, like
kind of continue on what happened fromthat adventure? But what about so what
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about when Wesley was on board?Did he still have an obligation to make
something? I was kind of wonderingthat, like what's the cutoff? He's
just like, mom, I'm tooold for Captain McCart day. I literally
wack with Simpson or yes, it'slike he's what's sitting on the bridge,
are surrounded by officers and just whatlike turn around and be like, h
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sir, so I am like thesafety scissors at the station? What what?
What? Or? I think itlike? He you know, turns
around and there's a box next tohim and he's like, well, since
I'm here, Captain, I uh, this is my entry into cap'n McCard
day. I hope you enjoy it. And he's just like on the bridge,
Wesley seriously like no, no,I think Wesley doesn't entry under a
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false name because he still wants towin, because I mean look, hey,
personal pan pizza is personal pan pizza. I don't care. I understand
bridge officer not. All the otherkids are jealous of him because he has
the inn on knowing exactly what CAPNmaccard would want. And they're like,
he always wins. He's literally he'son the bridge. How am I supposed
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to compete with that? Is thislike the Simpsons where Ralph wins with the
signs fair by giving like a bunchof Star Wars figures. We're like,
uh, Wesley just does like abunch of like archaeological artifacts, and like
what does that have to do withlike I brought this from Nimbus to is
it archaeological artifact that is also ametaphor? Sold you win? Wesley checked
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all the boxes. Uh you're goingto I'm really sure? How bunch of
old pots? And then he haswant to get award. He puts it
on the shelf and you see likethe row of all the other past like
he's just cleaned Wesley, Yeah,Captain's pet. Okay? Well, and
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one last quite is anything? Isthere anything else besides competitions? You anything
else on carday that we don't see? Is there any traditional like does it
get to drink wine that day oryou know what, something from adults.
Right, Yeah, I was gonnasay. I was gonna say, like
go through the psyche test or somethingthat's a little traumatic. I don't know.
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I think, do you have youa book report? And like the
is there some sort of play feelslike there should be a play card pageant?
Totallyget totally a pageant and it's intentional. World. I am Jack Crusher
and I have been struck man.There's a there's a captain picard. There's
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costume, look like costume. There'sfour kids. There's five kids total that
make the stargazer one and one isthe saucer like around him and they walk
across the stage. Oh, it'sterrible. And card maneuver and zoom,
where are we here? The pageantof the card maneuver. That would be
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great. It's just like the battleMan. So so No, there's an
unknown vessel. When I was approachingredacted from Starfleet records, then I chose
to, uh do this maneuver.I'm a captain. Okay, we're getting
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a little a little insensitive here,but I'm allowed to wear that costume anymore.
Oh yeah, I know. Paperson your costume paper ears. Oh
oh it's it's it's so not appropriate. But like they did that for like
the first couple of captains. Ohyeah, total dog joined star Fleet and
we became more sensitive to this isthat kid? No man? And then
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like whips it's so bad, sobad, it's just over No, oh
that's terrible. But I could totallysee it happening. What was I thinking?
Oh, I kept thinking, likeas a sidebar during rascals, where
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is Kambaccard. He's in the school, in the nursery, And so there's
some kid who totally knows what's goingon. He knows that those are the
adults. So he's like, Iwanted to get in early. Here's my
gat Macard Day submission, sir.You know, it's like it's like months
ahead. But he's like, hey, I'm gonna strike while the iron's hot.
I got a dethrone Wesley somehow.Uh that's great. All right,
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Well let's move on to what weimagine goes on in the other series.
So first, now I think Iknow the answer, but I'll ask anyway.
At Deep Space nine children they alreadyhave it. Yeah, it's I
mean, it was really a holidayit's it's really really it's like a religious
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holiday. All the majored workers getit off. Oh man, you know
what, they definitely have a religiousday. And I was I was thinking,
how would the senior staff like usethat as an opportunity to like maybe
like prank him or or you know, try to just because he would probably
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at first, well in the beginning, you'd be annoyed by it, but
then you would obviously go on toaccept it. But I was thinking,
like there'd be he'd like cook foreverybody because he loves to cook. Oh
well, like, so I'm Mother'sDay, Mother's Day, Mom, what's
for breakfast? No, no,it's perfect. I'm picturing like the end
of How the Grinstal Christmas, theanimated version where they have that really long,
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snaking table all the way down thepromenade, just a giant table and
everyone's having a big feast of whateverhe's cooking, like jumbalaya. Yeah,
I was just well, I alsothink of the episode where Kaiwin was confronting
Keiko O'Brien. So does that meanlike the but Joran kids are celebrating Emissary
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Day, but the Starfleet kids arecelebrating Captain Day like it you know,
is it? And I think likethe banner has like two like it's Captain
Sister Day. Yeah, you knowa line Emissary Day jan yeah. Or
he's got a like Fred Flintstone.So he's got like an emissary outfit and
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he runs back and forth here andthen one time, like three quarters of
the way through the episode, heshows up in the wrong costume on on
the wrong place and all the religiousconservative like what he doesn't have it?
Well, he has to put theearring on when he goes to the Jordan
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ones, he has to take itoff when he goes to the Starfleet one.
Hilarious. He shows up at theStarfy wont two ear rings on?
He's like, oh, I'm afuffle captain Sis sit calm character if ever,
Oh jeez, I think it's thethe easiest one. And he's like,
and for winning, you get atour of the old part of the
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station that used to be an oreprocessing plan. What could go wrong?
Yea? But join workers. It'slike the day rank specific. So in
other words, in season four,was it just emissary Day and you didn't
catch Captain Cisco Day until you arejust a commander you don't have. It's
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called Captain's holiday and you're not acaptain. So yeah, so you'd have
to wait till you're a captain forsure. Wow. So it's just emissary
day. But then it's become moresecular now picturing to be about something.
Now I'm picturing admir Ross like youknow when he when he got promoted to
captain. He's like his long timecoming back and you know what that means.
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He's like, I just I've beenwaiting. I've been waiting. Now
I do want the reason for theseason. Emissary. Wow. I will
say, if if there was CaptainCisco Day on these Pase nine, Captain
Sico would enjoy it way more thanCaptain Patrol way. He would eat it
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way like the Santa Claus where hehas the kids on his lap. They
yeah, give a wish to theemissary, which attle, what do you
want? He's like, I wanthasspro. Everybody wants hass for and they
sit on Captain Cisco's knee. Ilove it. I love it. So
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this is gonna be the awkward questionwe top Jake can't we can't put an
entry into Captain Cisco Day. Itdepends on what season. Like later journalist
Jake, No, he writes anexpose or something on his dad. But
the secrets of Captain Cisco Day exposedtwo hats, both of them controversy in
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a way. The baseball episode iskind of like a like Jake getting a
thing for for Captain Cisco Day,where he's doing all this stuff just because
he wants to cheer his dad up, and it's kind of like what he
could have done. You could havejust turned that into a Cisco Day little
adventure. But is that the onewhere he was like trading for the baseball
card? It was like so andso trades and so and so trades and
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so and so. Uh, that'sthe one that's always misnamed, like because
there's the Great River. Yeah,that's not that episode. I always mix
it up with another one that's yeah, you're right, because that's when Nag
is trying to he's yeah, anyway, all right, So I mean I'll
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go ahead and fill in the gap. What does Naomi do for Captain Jake?
I was gonna say, there's kids'researching the database and when she stumbles
upon Captain your blonde gets mind getsblown about no there's no way that that
Captain Janeway Day does not get organizedby Nelix. There's no way Nelix has
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to be involved. Yeah, Nelixis do like fifty million things. Being
the one kid. You're the one, the one kid, very responsible.
Yeah. Oh and the board childrenlater board children for a spell? Uh?
I mean Kesses two so sure,full grown adult being like, yes,
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I you know you always win,you always have such good pottery skills.
Well, I have to she cheatsthe system. You know what you
could do though? I mean becausebecause because Voyager would be you could try
to make it like a more likeeverybody's showing their appreciation for Captain Jamie,
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like like maybe she hates it orwhatever, but Tom and and Harry left
your gift on Earth. Sorry,Captain a couple of years to get to
it. Do you think it's likethe humorous birthday cards for Captain January Day?
Oh yeah, but sorry, butwhat were you saying, Daniel?
I'm just thinking, like how becauseyou'd have to like make maybe make it
more adults than obviously since there's lackof children on Voyager, it just turns
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into boss appreciation day. She goesgets a big coffee much loves coffee,
and get her a coffee book.She's got so many coffee right, and
then she just puts it back ofthe replicator and let's it go back into
the system. Now, I justimagine the Michael Scott number one Captain.
That's what I'm thinking. That's whatI'm thinking of. Or everybody brings in
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apples and leaves it out. No, you'll get us home. That's what
all the cards say. Halfway there, half only lost twenty two percent of
our crew. Actually they never reachedhalfway there, right, They don't think,
so they skip like fifteen or something, and then a lot and then
they just jump ahead. Yeah,so well there you go. Of course
we were joking about Wesley Captain JanuaryDay? Is this year a NAMI one?
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This year? Yeah? This shouldthe board kids one we got rid
of them, and the yeah,then you got rid of them. No
one's getting this award but me,Captain's assistant. I feel like maybe Naomi
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gets or whoever boor kids, youknow, but gets the Captain for a
day. What do you keep andwhat do you think that would look like?
What do you get? Like?You get you get to sit in
this chair and say go you getto tell Chacote, you get to confide
him to quarters, do your job, go be ahead of hr you know
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what. That's actually kind of that'dbe kind of a fun little episode,
right like where Naomi would go aroundthe ship with with Jane Way and like
like she would just bark orders atpeople and they would just playfully sort of
do it, you know or whatever. That'd be fun. That'd maybe kind
of like a fun little episode,and she would love it because she wants
to the special replicative privileges. Shediscovers that she hates coffee. So obviously
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we get into trouble because this isthe timeline gets messed up. So I'll
just leave it open. Uh,what other series do you think would have
captain days? Well, Archer,there are no kids on on the Enterprise,
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so it could be Captain's beagle dayand they celebrate to porthos. Are
there any other pets other than Probablyno, No, I don't think so
that's Captain's prerogative. Yeah, wenever see any other captains. Janwie could
have taken her dogs with her,well didn't. I don't know how long
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they live, you know what Iwas thinking, I was the puppy was.
I feel like Captain Pike would wouldget Captain's Day somehow, just because
he's cool and like you and howlike it started. I think when Boimler
is on the Enterprise, he suggestslike, oh is it not Captain Pike?
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Captain Captain? What Captain Day?What? Oh? Nothing, that's
anything anything? Yeah, he ruinedthe timeline for Captain's Day boiler, So
now there's Captain Pike Day just becausedad becomes a paradox, because that's how
it starts. Yeah. Well actually, uh, I'd say the critos would
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definitely have a captain We've seen itright, yeah, oh yeah we did.
I need to need to watch.Yeah. Yeah, he tried to
win because no, you're right,you're right, and they have the that's
because we were commenting on the bannerwas like the exact same as it's from
the of course, it was tryingto think, now we hate we've we've
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skipped, you know, kind ofa major series heire like Kirk Enterprise,
like where it all started. Iwas trying to think of like the movies
or something. Yeah, I knowthat is a key component to Captain's Day.
What what was it that the childrenwill lead them started it or something.
Yeah. Yeah, there's not alot of a lot of kids.
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I guess that is a major componentof Cabin's days having children around. So
it's for the children. I'm arole model. I don't know. I'm
not sure what else would fit.Yeff definitely would not have a captain Captain
Burnham. Which captain you know?I think that's I mean Captain Lorcaday.
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That was not a you better winor you lose. What about on the
other ships? Yeah, because Ithink the hard part is the family aspect
of STIRF that kind of lives anddies with an next generation. After that,
they're like, yeah, I wassorry about that. We were just
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kidding about kids on the show.Well, once you start blowing up ships
and thinking like, wait a minute, I know, was there a kindergarten
on that trip? It's lower deckswith Rutherford, he blew out the entire
primary school on the holiday. Allright, Well that's that's probably enough said.
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Well, I guess here's here's lastquestion. What would be your entry
for captain A card day. That'sa good one. I'll go and I
let y'all think again. You haveto, you know, make yourself slightly
a kid. But I feel likeI would put together a bunch of French
items to make a capt Picard model. So it'd be like cheeses and like
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fruits or something on like poster boardto like make a capta Picard face or
something, maybe one labels or something. You know, that would be my
initial thought. I don't know whatI would do. It's a good question.
Yeah, play construction paper. I'mnot really artistic, So I would
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do whatever the kid next to mewas doing. I think I would do.
I would do ships, because Iknow he loves ships and bottles,
and so I would do it whereI'd make like in the Stargazer and Enterprise,
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you like, any ship that hehad served on, and they would
look very crude and they'd be onlylike this big, like four inches long.
But and then as I'm showing itto him, the saucer of the
d like falls off because it didn'tquite adhere it well enough. And I'm
like a separated saucer included totally plannedthat. You're like, I'm qualified to
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put it together manually. Oh,that's perfect, Daniel. You could help
run some dramatic readings of the Captain'slog. Oh, yeah, I mean
they're public, right, captain's logs, I mean not the personal one.
No, they're not. They're notpublic. Have to be publicly accessible when
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it's the ship's record. Oh goodquestion. Oh good question. I don't
know. I mean, except,like you said, except for personal logs
that of course say. But ifit's a non personal then that's get why
not off to right away? Butyeah, they get sent to starfleet obviously.
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What I mean just like like goingright to the cloud, you know
what I mean, like you know, like when you're you know, when
they oh gosh, I remember whenI am for a while was you could
turn on the mode where like asyou typed each word, it would send
it instead of like hit enter tosend the entire message. So he's dictating
it and it's like it's going straightinto the cloud. And then later it's
(45:29):
like delete that entire message. Messagehas been sent. It's like no,
no, no, no, nono no no no no. Is that
what happened to? Captain Cisco isgonna say? It's fair be very bad.
Sorry about you. I wonder ifyou get an unset email. So
and so tried to call back thiscalling back person alone. Oh, it's
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and then it says sorry that emailhas already been opened by Starfleet Intelligence.
You're like, ooh, after whathappens to Captain Kirk in Star Trek six,
you can no longer be legally heldresponsible for what you say in these
dogs. That's true, that's truewith the trial. How long are you
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standing outside? They have privacy uh, sound filters that are at the doorway,
so the sound of the log can'tget outside into the hallway. It
just sounds like you're boring a wholebunch of all these beeps and scratches.
It's all like war like Penis Teacher, Genesis Planet It forbidden. It's like,
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what can it be about the deathof my boy? Or what is
it? I was was one ofthem? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You gotta translate all that? It'stoo much? All right, Well that
that was a good celebration of CaptainPicard Day. So Darren, if want
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to know what your winning entry willbe this year, where can they reach
you? Well, my winning entryis making sure that Wesley gets Quek sick
on Captain Picard Day. They couldfind me at doctor sci Fi dot com
d R s c I F Iand Daniel if folks want to talk to
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you about what Commander Riker Day willlook like next year, where can they
reach you on the Titan. Theycan find me at one of Dan that's
the number one, not the wordas in he's my number one dad,
So that's why you would win.And if folks want to talk to me
about what being kept in four dayinvolves, it's really just a lot of
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sitting around. They can find meon Instagram at c A P T S
f U f P. All right, well until next week, I'm Philip
Gilphis, I'm Daniel Prue, andI'm Darren Moser. Stranded here on City Alpha three
Welcome to the NED Party. I'mDarren Moser, I'm Philip Gilphus, I'm
Daniel Prue and this is City Alphathree. Hello, and welcome to City
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Alpha three. Yeah, Star Trekpodcast here on the NERD Party. I'm
Philip, joined by Darren and Daniel. And it's a very special day on
the calendar, something celebrated every year, and that of course is Captain Bercard
Day, and so we're going tobe talking about that first of all,
(00:46):
brief recaps about anything in your StarTrek weeks. But I'll go first if
you have to think about it.Yesterday here in the UK, I saw
Star Trek three on the big screen. That was in cinemas across the country
yesterday, So that was my firsttime seeing three on the big screen.
So I think the only movies Ihave left to see on the big screen
ever is five to six, andthen I never saw Generations when it first
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came out on the big screen,so those three movies, so I have
to wait for those you know,super duper blu rays of five and six,
so I know I five, youknow, big demand for that coming
out, and then I'm sure Generationswill be on pollow disc or something by
the time they do that. Butanyway, Special Nexus Edition exactly. So.
But yeah, I mean I couldprobably talk about it for thirty minutes.
(01:30):
What I won't, but it wasit was interesting, eve though it's
not my favorite Star Trek movie byany means. I think there was a
lot of stuff like, oh,this is actually the first time that they
did X, Y and Z whenyou really think about it, like Coppla,
it's the first time that's there eversaid probably, and first Bird of
Prey or clean on Bird to Preythat model. But so yeah, I
(01:51):
kind of I snooze on three.I shouldn't. Like it's I always think
of like, oh, if I'mgoing to watch three, I'm going to
watch two and three but on itsown, like it's got Christopher Lloyd in
it, like it's got all sortsof great stuff in it, and you
know, I need to I needto watch it more. I probably remember
the plot the least, Like whenI start to think of the plot,
(02:13):
it's like, no, no,Darren, that's actually Start Trek two.
It's like, oh, you're right, Like I kind of like they muddle
together. I mean, obviously thestory flows right between the two, so
it's easy to to misremember. Butas far as rewatching in theaters, we
my daughter's twelfth birthday is coming up, and so as a gift for her
(02:35):
and for us as well, we'reall gonna go next weekend and see The
Extended Lord of the Rings and theaterspray pray for me. It's it's gonna
be long. So it's a it'sa Saturday, Sunday, Monday deal where
each day you do a movie andthe evening they're like the whole day because
(02:57):
it's the entire day, one movie. Yeah, it's like four hours each
one ish, no intermission. Ilooked it up. I was like,
why, but it's ridiculous. ButI thin because the first time they've shown
The Extended in theaters, it's usuallyalways the theatrical obviously, So yeah,
I think. I looked it upand I think The Fellowship of the Ring
(03:22):
has like thirty extra minutes, andThe Two Towers has like forty extra minutes,
and The Return of the King haslike fifty five extra Like it's an
hour longer. It's crazy, butbut what was also fun is you know
the reason for keeping stuff in thedusty ass attic. I went up and
(03:42):
I found. I don't know whyI still had this. I think I
tried to sell it at one pointand it didn't An eBay a two thousand
and three where kurrent of the Kingedition of box set of like All the
Fellowship with the little ring that youcould like wear as a necklace, you
know, all the you know,it's like the seven inch tall action figures
that they had at the time.Anyway, the whole Fellowship, and I
(04:05):
think it had a twenty nine dollarsprice sticker on it, which there's no
way, like that's the cost ofone figure nowadays, but twenty years ago.
Yeah, So we gifted that toher and yeah, that was fun.
So I'm really looking forward to introducingher to those movies and the right
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time. Yeah, this is herfirst time seeing them, so it's we're
going in deep now. My wife'sbeen reading The Lord of the Rings to
her, but she she hasn't evengotten to the Fellowship yet. So when
she saw the box, she's like, well, I know these characters,
but I don't know like Legalissa Kimleyand bored Mare, I don't know who
those people are. But yeah,we're in true nerd fashion. We're tossing
(04:50):
her in the deep end. Ohbut you're like, oh, you you've
showed a mild this. What shouldwe do? Buy you action figures?
We signed you up for the theend the giant movie marathons. As No,
she's been enjoying it, so I'msure it's gonna be be fun.
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And and it's it's fun because that'sone of the cool things as your parents
to as your kids, you know, become age appropriate to watch some of
the cool things and and enjoy it, Like like when I got to show
her Money Python, except for thatone scene that was yeah, we skipped
we skipped the Castle Castle Anthrax.That was the only thing. Honestly,
(05:33):
the whole rest of it was goldand it was right up her her alley
as far as humor, but Iwas just like, Nope, we're not
We're not ready for that there.And I assume at thirteen, RoboCop,
right, yeah, she's the mostfor you, the most eighties are.
(05:56):
I was trying to think, like, yeah, when did I make my
RoboCop costume and backdate it? Butno, I mean, honestly, I
mean this is when they're much older. But like you know, Starship Troopers,
which is a great movie, butit's definitely not a kids movie.
So like, as they move intoyou know that they'll want to know more
and then you know, we're enoughfor a Jurassic Park. They have watched
(06:18):
Jurassic Park. We only skip thevery first velociraptors, like the prologue scene
because it's a little much for them, but they watch the entire rest of
the movie. So both my kidshave seen Jurassic Park. Uh. Yeah,
it's it's just to their own andwe tell them it was the only
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movie they ever made. Yeah thatwas what are you talking about? No?
Actually, uh, she's really intoAvatar the Last Airbender and so she's
she's self watching. I think she'son her fifth rewatch of the series,
and she'll just you know, Netflixbinge it and it's really fun. So,
(06:59):
uh, the new one or theold Nickelodeon. This is the original
animated show Nickelodeon. Yeah, theNickelodeon. Yeah, so I'll see about
the I haven't watched any of thenew live action one. The better one
that was more in line with thecartoon. Yeah, I think we say
(07:21):
better, that's what you're comparing itto. Well, we keep telling her
because she's like, what about themovie. I'm like, no, honey,
I'm protecting you. Don't. It'sterrible. It's absolutely terrible. So
anyway, so not not Star Trekrelated, but but a big franchise related.
So what about you, Daniel?Any sci fi the past week?
(07:43):
No, not really. We finishedFallout finally, finally, finally finished it
and it was Would you think itwas good? It was good, obviously
set itself up for a second season. I'm not gonna spoil anything here,
but uh makes sense? Can Iask? Because I would have said because
I as I probably talked about weeksago, having only played one game and
(08:05):
only a little bit of it.To be honest, I only understood some
of the show. I mean Igot understood all of it, but as
far as but the guy, Idon't remember anyone's name, but the guy
in the armor he been talking abouthe's such a pitiful character. Is he
supposed to be that way? Iguess, like basically, like I don't
know what the game like, what'sthat reference to? No? No,
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so, I mean all the charactersare new, this is stats. Yeah,
he's just he's just he's just kindof a really crappy human being.
I think like, I just Ithink I don't know if they have a
bigger arc in mind for him,but I'm like you, I was like,
he just like bends like the windand and like gives in all the
time, does terrible things, likehe's just kind of a really crappy person.
(08:50):
I don't really know why, LikeI don't because they didn't really sort
of you know, he didn't havelike this come up at some moment or
anything like that, really, soI assume that'll that'll be next season or
season three or something. But heis a very weak part of the show
for sure. I just didn't getand I'll be super generic in case anyone
cares about spoilers. But like theromance, I'm like, what what what
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is just because he's there? Imean, because otherwise this guy has nothing
positive about his art. But Iwill say so the show itself is incredibly
representative of the games, Like likeduring the last episode when there were choices
(09:33):
made it failt very much like theend of a vallag game where you're given
an option between two sort of differingpolitical opinions on how things should be run
and with some pretty big consequences,and she made the choice but of course
in the games you can make eitherchoice. Like a lot of the sound
effects and the music, even thethe unlocking the terminal mini game shows up
(09:58):
in in the show and it's exactlyhow it's represented in the games, which
makes sense because Todd Howard, whoruns up Bethesda Studios it was one of
the executive producers on the on theshow, So, uh yeah, I
don't know anything about Fallout, butI have heard that a lot with the
show is that you there were alot of video game miss in it.
(10:20):
Not like you're, you know,first person Oh, here's my gun floating
in front of me, you knowkind of thing, but like, like
you said, the types of choices, the types of so you can it's
almost like you're you're living cinematics.Like it's very integrated into how the game
feels, which I think is great. That's what these types of shows should
be if they're based off video games. Yeah. Yeah, it definitely respects
(10:45):
Fallout fans. And I was thinking, I was comparing this in my mind
the other day, where like Haloseems to hate the Halo show hates its
fans, and the fans of thislike revels and like if you if you
really know Fallout the series, well, there's a lot to chew and it's
not so distracting either, like itjust fills the world. It's like they
(11:05):
didn't have to build that stuff outbecause it was already there. So it's
it's why not pull from this stuffthere? And then you spend your time
with the story and then something goodcomes out of surprise, surprise. I
think you you summed it up rightthere hates their fans and all that loves
them. Yeah, there you go. All right, Well, as I
said, we're gonna be talking aboutCaptain Picard Day, so I thought we'd
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start with first first the basics,Captain. Let's let's do some trivia.
Find some haven't done trivia in awhile. But it was just basic stuff.
So but this will just be veryshort four four pips. What episode
did we first see Captain Piccard Dayon? Oh? Man, I was
(11:52):
just thinking about this. I can'tremember it. So very random, of
course, yeah, connected in yourright. It's not like the it's not
the one with the little kids andthe radishes. No, it's not children
anyway, is it with Oh god, it's not a Larsano episode, is
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it? No? No? No, it's a very serious episode. Serious
episode, is it. I'm gonnasay the episode years later in another series,
Oh, Pegasus, Pegasus. Ohthat makes sense. Okay, I
can see like the thread that they'regoing forward that, yeah, because I
remember, like I was trying tothink of the context of the admiral phone
(12:39):
call because that's where we see theCaptain mac card day flag and all of
that, and she's a Captain BacardDay. She's like, okay, so
that's when he she's getting he's gettingordered to go meet admiral, receive a
jerk face and uh yeah, doyou remember who won that Captain of a
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Card day? Oh, that's right, because somebody and they did to win.
He made like a paper mache something. Ah. Man, it's like
all in that episode, which Ihaven't watched in a while. Yeah,
and so it was, uh,you know, it's pretty hard, but
(13:24):
you know it's so last It wasPaul mcginnahey, age seven, and I
believe it's a paper mache model ofhis head. Okay, Okay, I
was gonna say paper So I wasright with the paper mache. I just
was trying to remember. I don'tthink they showed it. I think they
said like off screen or something.But so that's a door let's engage in
some stuff before because I want toimagine Captain Days another series. But just
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sticking with the Enterprise, D whendo we think kind of Card Day started?
Like did it start that season oneand we just didn't see it because
like I feel like he'd be yellingat that children that first year. I
mean because like by Pegass, he'sall things considered pretty mellow compared to season
one, because Pegas, this isseason six or seven, it's like very
(14:11):
late in TNG. I bet youknow what I'm thinking season three, it'll
be it'll be the third year becausethen Riker's comfortable enough to season Yeah,
he's comfortable enough to do it,to pull it off, to make it
happen, and the car has togo along with that. You think it
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was a surprise the first day,like it's like Captain of a Card report
to the observation lounge. Yeah,he just walks in and he's like what
the hell? Yeah, he definitelyhas from it as you shown up this
stuff. We got an alert readalert just cute. No, no,
Captain, I did this you okay? I I like that idea. I
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am gonna say, actually it's seasonfour because as I'm gonna say that,
Riker does it in a way tohelp Picard reconnect with children and humanity because
after the Borg incident, and againnot that he loves children, but there's
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something about connecting with children that intrinsicallyconnects you with humanity. It's and seeing
our youth and and things like that. So I'm just pushing it to four.
So it's post that that trauma.It doesn't matter either way, but
I do like the thought of himthinking que has taken over the observation louch,
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but does this do you think,Captain I don't want to still on
any of your thunder here, no, no, no, but do you
think Captain Picard? Day continued onthe Enterprise. He well, here's the
thing, because there's many families onthe Enterprise. Wait, what else is
on deck twenty three, Captain Day, That's why they stopped. They're like
(16:03):
assimilating all the paper mache, Likewhat is this? Because it cours ostensibly,
kat Big Card Day is for thechildren, you know, late Christmas,
I guess, but anyway, orDisney trips, I don't know,
kidding, but so I'm trying tothink do we think doesn't mean we make
(16:26):
any of this up. Do wethink it's organic to the enterprise, or
do we think other ships have captaindays? Well we're going to get to
that, but well, I meanof the time in the twenty fourth century,
right, you know, I likethe idea that it is. It
may exists on other ships, butit's not. It's certainly not like a
like a standard like you No,it's just it's just something that may have
(16:48):
happened naturally. Like just like Voyagerhas movie nights, doesn't mean all the
other ships have movie nights like thatpart of the culture, right, Yeah,
it's their own culture. Like eachship has its own sort of vibe,
you know. Yeah, I thinkCrito's has their bar you know,
which is I mean, it's kindof ten forty, but it's a little
more barish. Uh Now. Ikind of like to think that at some
(17:14):
sort of conference, Captain McCard letsit slip about Captain maccart day, and
then all these other admirals and otherships start doing it because they're like,
that sounds awesome, you know,I want or it's galaxy class, only
it starts with all the galaxy classesbecause they're one of the first ships that
are big enough and specialized enough tohave families. So if we assume all
galaxy classes have a similar compliment,how many children died when the ship to
(17:42):
yeah, or the Yamato like diesright from It's like Captain it was odd
Captain Picard Day. Sorry, theentire primary school Captain, Captain whatever.
Obviously it's like they're not celebrating Captainmaccart day. It's not their ship,
but tam Yeah, yeah, Icould see how maybe uh maybe it didn't
(18:06):
start organically in the classrooms of theEnterprise d and then when Admiral what's her
face? I saw it? Andthen so like, you know, the
next week she's in you know,playing uh of course, playing golf on
the right space golf talking to theother admirals and captains like yeah Captain macart
day, and the other ones arelike, ah, that's so silly.
(18:27):
The captain, Yeah, yeah,I went my Captain day. Where's my
Captain Day? It's so wait,so its captain day is Admiral week because
it only seems fair, you know, It's like on space dock, the
admirals like, we why is therenot an admiral day, like, well,
we don't really have that many commodorefamilies, you know. Yeah,
(18:52):
all children will pay service to meon the space stock. Whoa uh get
the ears on him now. Ilike the thought of it starting organically on
the galaxy classes and then Admiralty pushingit, not pushing it, but like
spreading it throughout the strongly suggesting,yeah, strongly suggesting that said star fleet
(19:17):
has like you know, she sendsan email to uh, I don't know
what, but they send an emailto all all they subscribe to her zign.
It's totally how it works, substack, subspace. It's a specific path
that gets replicated and only reads theHR messages. Another exciting from the from
(19:42):
the desk of Admiral. So it'sthe head of HR star base one to
whom it may concern, it's cometo my attention. Captains are our role
models, good old our good oldfriend. It is like a tear terrible
picture from the file Captain John LukePicard. Maybe it's him. It's like
(20:04):
stargazing photo where it's him like sittingin the chair and like the lounge chair
on Riza Like it's just very veryca Yeah, it's like just like reading
a book. It's yeah, it'sjust him reading. Who likes to read?
And like that's the stock photo theyplay. Now, I don't know,
there's nothing to do with it,but I'm picturing you eyes. We
(20:25):
all remember. I'm sure they stilldo it. But in the old days
of like the eighties and nineties,like the library posters with stars reading like
oh yeah, captain, but theydid it was fun. Yeah, reading
his fun. It's lounging on Rizawith the book. Yeah. Anyway,
they push it out and they're likewe we think if you feel up to
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it, if you have at leastthirty children in your starship, then you
are compelled to a Captain Day.Now, as far as we know,
Captain of Card Day, the kidschildren submit various kind of card related art
(21:10):
to be judged for second, thirdand I leave several honorable mentions. So
do we think it's like school dayoff? Like what's kind of card date?
What do you what? Children get? No? No, no,
So this is like remember when youwere a kid, and Dark probably has
experience with this now, but likewhen you were a kid and like Halloween
was coming up, like like inthe beginning of October, you would start
(21:30):
making stuff for theorating the classroom.Yeah, that kind of thing. It's
actually more day. Yeah when bythe time the end of the month and
it's Captain pc Card's day and heif he walks into that classroom, it's
gonna be everywhere, every wall,every table is covered with Captain mc card
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stuff. He gets to create paperchains, all that windows. Yeah,
the you know, something on thepottery wheel something because I was watching when
it's just a little bit of macaronifor his hair on the sides, like
nothing on the top. I waswatching when the valve breaks season one episode.
(22:15):
But I think Star Trek always doesthis, the one where they steal
the children, right exactly, Yeah, but they always like because it's the
future, all the subjects are nowlike ten years earlier. You have like
a oh, I will taking that'salgebra and I'm four, you know,
So I'm just like thinking, isthat because I mean that's like math and
signs and all that Star Treky stuff, But like does that extend to everything?
(22:37):
Are they like doing like pottery wheelsat like age seven? Like,
well, isn't that the episode wherethey literally are sculpting with laser things?
Yeah, that's that's that advanced civilizationlets them do that. Yeah, yeah,
right, And the little boy likehe's like, I'd miss getting to
to to use the wood, andhe's like, well, fine, stay
on this planet. But you're kindof now, I yeah, I like
(23:02):
that that thought of I almost Imean, as much as as fun as
it is to attribute to Riker,I kind of almost wanted to generate from
the the school teacher who just andand like they get Rikers buy off and
he's like, oh yeah, I'mone hundred percent, because you know,
(23:25):
maybe it starts off with you know, for all purposes, the card delegates
the head of education to talk toRiker. Like he he's like, I
don't want to you know, notthat he's rude, but he's like,
I'm going to delegate that. II don't need to talk to the head
of the school. And so shekind of takes she takes that a little
(23:48):
personally and she's like, you know, so she creates Captain Picard day kind
of it's like, how do Iget the Captain to get into my classroom?
Well, if there's a day deadcatered to the Captain, he's gonna
have to make an appearance. Andthe Riker's just like, you totally should
do that. I here's my stampof approval. Make it happen next week.
(24:11):
And he just sits in the backof the room with his big old
grin on his face, just watchingthe whole thing. Now about I wanted
to ask, well, you said, like who the winners were of the
what did they get? We're talkinglike trips to the bridge, trips to
the battle Bridge, hal of Deckspecial Halidick privileges like the guy want the
(24:34):
good tour, the good to thegood tour because like remember the side,
Yeah, that was a crappy tour, like to the battle Bridge. Okay,
no, we can't go to thebattle Bridge. We're gonna go to
the hydroponics four. Yeah, it'salways my favorite. We're gonna go to
(24:57):
Transporter Room six and you pawn youoff on Chief O'Brien for an hour or
two. I know what do Thefirst place gets a very stern well done
Kyle from Yeah, from from handshakeand a personal pan pizza from the replica.
(25:18):
You get a pizza party, Butsir, he could replicate anything.
No pizza. The trolls, theydon't get it. I'd like to think
it also becomes a tradition, maybejust for the science Fair, which I
know is not KEM maccart's day.That he because he can replicate new ones.
But like he continues to give hisrank pips to the winners, like
kind of continue on what happened fromthat adventure? But what about so what
(25:45):
about when Wesley was on board?Did he still have an obligation to make
something? I was kind of wonderingthat, like what's the cutoff? He's
just like, mom, I'm tooold for Captain McCart day. I literally
wack with Simpson or yes, it'slike he's what's sitting on the bridge,
are surrounded by officers and just whatlike turn around and be like, h
(26:07):
sir, so I am like thesafety scissors at the station? What what?
What? Or? I think itlike? He you know, turns
around and there's a box next tohim and he's like, well, since
I'm here, Captain, I uh, this is my entry into cap'n McCard
day. I hope you enjoy it. And he's just like on the bridge,
Wesley seriously like no, no,I think Wesley doesn't entry under a
(26:33):
false name because he still wants towin, because I mean look, hey,
personal pan pizza is personal pan pizza. I don't care. I understand
bridge officer not. All the otherkids are jealous of him because he has
the inn on knowing exactly what CAPNmaccard would want. And they're like,
he always wins. He's literally he'son the bridge. How am I supposed
(26:55):
to compete with that? Is thislike the Simpsons where Ralph wins with the
signs fair by giving like a bunchof Star Wars figures. We're like,
uh, Wesley just does like abunch of like archaeological artifacts, and like
what does that have to do withlike I brought this from Nimbus to is
it archaeological artifact that is also ametaphor? Sold you win? Wesley checked
(27:18):
all the boxes. Uh you're goingto I'm really sure? How bunch of
old pots? And then he haswant to get award. He puts it
on the shelf and you see likethe row of all the other past like
he's just cleaned Wesley, Yeah,Captain's pet. Okay? Well, and
(27:41):
one last quite is anything? Isthere anything else besides competitions? You anything
else on carday that we don't see? Is there any traditional like does it
get to drink wine that day oryou know what, something from adults.
Right, Yeah, I was gonnasay. I was gonna say, like
go through the psyche test or somethingthat's a little traumatic. I don't know.
(28:06):
I think, do you have youa book report? And like the
is there some sort of play feelslike there should be a play card pageant?
Totallyget totally a pageant and it's intentional. World. I am Jack Crusher
and I have been struck man.There's a there's a captain picard. There's
(28:29):
costume, look like costume. There'sfour kids. There's five kids total that
make the stargazer one and one isthe saucer like around him and they walk
across the stage. Oh, it'sterrible. And card maneuver and zoom,
where are we here? The pageantof the card maneuver. That would be
(28:49):
great. It's just like the battleMan. So so No, there's an
unknown vessel. When I was approachingredacted from Starfleet records, then I chose
to, uh do this maneuver.I'm a captain. Okay, we're getting
(29:12):
a little a little insensitive here,but I'm allowed to wear that costume anymore.
Oh yeah, I know. Paperson your costume paper ears. Oh
oh it's it's it's so not appropriate. But like they did that for like
the first couple of captains. Ohyeah, total dog joined star Fleet and
we became more sensitive to this isthat kid? No man? And then
(29:40):
like whips it's so bad, sobad, it's just over No, oh
that's terrible. But I could totallysee it happening. What was I thinking?
Oh, I kept thinking, likeas a sidebar during rascals, where
(30:02):
is Kambaccard. He's in the school, in the nursery, And so there's
some kid who totally knows what's goingon. He knows that those are the
adults. So he's like, Iwanted to get in early. Here's my
gat Macard Day submission, sir.You know, it's like it's like months
ahead. But he's like, hey, I'm gonna strike while the iron's hot.
I got a dethrone Wesley somehow.Uh that's great. All right,
(30:26):
Well let's move on to what weimagine goes on in the other series.
So first, now I think Iknow the answer, but I'll ask anyway.
At Deep Space nine children they alreadyhave it. Yeah, it's I
mean, it was really a holidayit's it's really really it's like a religious
(30:49):
holiday. All the majored workers getit off. Oh man, you know
what, they definitely have a religiousday. And I was I was thinking,
how would the senior staff like usethat as an opportunity to like maybe
like prank him or or you know, try to just because he would probably
(31:11):
at first, well in the beginning, you'd be annoyed by it, but
then you would obviously go on toaccept it. But I was thinking,
like there'd be he'd like cook foreverybody because he loves to cook. Oh
well, like, so I'm Mother'sDay, Mother's Day, Mom, what's
for breakfast? No, no,it's perfect. I'm picturing like the end
of How the Grinstal Christmas, theanimated version where they have that really long,
(31:34):
snaking table all the way down thepromenade, just a giant table and
everyone's having a big feast of whateverhe's cooking, like jumbalaya. Yeah,
I was just well, I alsothink of the episode where Kaiwin was confronting
Keiko O'Brien. So does that meanlike the but Joran kids are celebrating Emissary
(31:56):
Day, but the Starfleet kids arecelebrating Captain Day like it you know,
is it? And I think likethe banner has like two like it's Captain
Sister Day. Yeah, you knowa line Emissary Day jan yeah. Or
he's got a like Fred Flintstone.So he's got like an emissary outfit and
(32:19):
he runs back and forth here andthen one time, like three quarters of
the way through the episode, heshows up in the wrong costume on on
the wrong place and all the religiousconservative like what he doesn't have it?
Well, he has to put theearring on when he goes to the Jordan
(32:42):
ones, he has to take itoff when he goes to the Starfleet one.
Hilarious. He shows up at theStarfy wont two ear rings on?
He's like, oh, I'm afuffle captain Sis sit calm character if ever,
Oh jeez, I think it's thethe easiest one. And he's like,
and for winning, you get atour of the old part of the
(33:02):
station that used to be an oreprocessing plan. What could go wrong?
Yea? But join workers. It'slike the day rank specific. So in
other words, in season four,was it just emissary Day and you didn't
catch Captain Cisco Day until you arejust a commander you don't have. It's
(33:29):
called Captain's holiday and you're not acaptain. So yeah, so you'd have
to wait till you're a captain forsure. Wow. So it's just emissary
day. But then it's become moresecular now picturing to be about something.
Now I'm picturing admir Ross like youknow when he when he got promoted to
captain. He's like his long timecoming back and you know what that means.
(33:55):
He's like, I just I've beenwaiting. I've been waiting. Now
I do want the reason for theseason. Emissary. Wow. I will
say, if if there was CaptainCisco Day on these Pase nine, Captain
Sico would enjoy it way more thanCaptain Patrol way. He would eat it
(34:16):
way like the Santa Claus where hehas the kids on his lap. They
yeah, give a wish to theemissary, which attle, what do you
want? He's like, I wanthasspro. Everybody wants hass for and they
sit on Captain Cisco's knee. Ilove it. I love it. So
(34:37):
this is gonna be the awkward questionwe top Jake can't we can't put an
entry into Captain Cisco Day. Itdepends on what season. Like later journalist
Jake, No, he writes anexpose or something on his dad. But
the secrets of Captain Cisco Day exposedtwo hats, both of them controversy in
(34:57):
a way. The baseball episode iskind of like a like Jake getting a
thing for for Captain Cisco Day,where he's doing all this stuff just because
he wants to cheer his dad up, and it's kind of like what he
could have done. You could havejust turned that into a Cisco Day little
adventure. But is that the onewhere he was like trading for the baseball
card? It was like so andso trades and so and so trades and
(35:20):
so and so. Uh, that'sthe one that's always misnamed, like because
there's the Great River. Yeah,that's not that episode. I always mix
it up with another one that's yeah, you're right, because that's when Nag
is trying to he's yeah, anyway, all right, So I mean I'll
(35:46):
go ahead and fill in the gap. What does Naomi do for Captain Jake?
I was gonna say, there's kids'researching the database and when she stumbles
upon Captain your blonde gets mind getsblown about no there's no way that that
Captain Janeway Day does not get organizedby Nelix. There's no way Nelix has
(36:07):
to be involved. Yeah, Nelixis do like fifty million things. Being
the one kid. You're the one, the one kid, very responsible.
Yeah. Oh and the board childrenlater board children for a spell? Uh?
I mean Kesses two so sure,full grown adult being like, yes,
(36:32):
I you know you always win,you always have such good pottery skills.
Well, I have to she cheatsthe system. You know what you
could do though? I mean becausebecause because Voyager would be you could try
to make it like a more likeeverybody's showing their appreciation for Captain Jamie,
(36:52):
like like maybe she hates it orwhatever, but Tom and and Harry left
your gift on Earth. Sorry,Captain a couple of years to get to
it. Do you think it's likethe humorous birthday cards for Captain January Day?
Oh yeah, but sorry, butwhat were you saying, Daniel?
I'm just thinking, like how becauseyou'd have to like make maybe make it
more adults than obviously since there's lackof children on Voyager, it just turns
(37:14):
into boss appreciation day. She goesgets a big coffee much loves coffee,
and get her a coffee book.She's got so many coffee right, and
then she just puts it back ofthe replicator and let's it go back into
the system. Now, I justimagine the Michael Scott number one Captain.
That's what I'm thinking. That's whatI'm thinking of. Or everybody brings in
(37:35):
apples and leaves it out. No, you'll get us home. That's what
all the cards say. Halfway there, half only lost twenty two percent of
our crew. Actually they never reachedhalfway there, right, They don't think,
so they skip like fifteen or something, and then a lot and then
they just jump ahead. Yeah,so well there you go. Of course
we were joking about Wesley Captain JanuaryDay? Is this year a NAMI one?
(37:59):
This year? Yeah? This shouldthe board kids one we got rid
of them, and the yeah,then you got rid of them. No
one's getting this award but me,Captain's assistant. I feel like maybe Naomi
(38:20):
gets or whoever boor kids, youknow, but gets the Captain for a
day. What do you keep andwhat do you think that would look like?
What do you get? Like?You get you get to sit in
this chair and say go you getto tell Chacote, you get to confide
him to quarters, do your job, go be ahead of hr you know
(38:44):
what. That's actually kind of that'dbe kind of a fun little episode,
right like where Naomi would go aroundthe ship with with Jane Way and like
like she would just bark orders atpeople and they would just playfully sort of
do it, you know or whatever. That'd be fun. That'd maybe kind
of like a fun little episode,and she would love it because she wants
to the special replicative privileges. Shediscovers that she hates coffee. So obviously
(39:13):
we get into trouble because this isthe timeline gets messed up. So I'll
just leave it open. Uh,what other series do you think would have
captain days? Well, Archer,there are no kids on on the Enterprise,
(39:34):
so it could be Captain's beagle dayand they celebrate to porthos. Are
there any other pets other than Probablyno, No, I don't think so
that's Captain's prerogative. Yeah, wenever see any other captains. Janwie could
have taken her dogs with her,well didn't. I don't know how long
(40:01):
they live, you know what Iwas thinking, I was the puppy was.
I feel like Captain Pike would wouldget Captain's Day somehow, just because
he's cool and like you and howlike it started. I think when Boimler
is on the Enterprise, he suggestslike, oh is it not Captain Pike?
(40:24):
Captain Captain? What Captain Day?What? Oh? Nothing, that's
anything anything? Yeah, he ruinedthe timeline for Captain's Day boiler, So
now there's Captain Pike Day just becausedad becomes a paradox, because that's how
it starts. Yeah. Well actually, uh, I'd say the critos would
(40:45):
definitely have a captain We've seen itright, yeah, oh yeah we did.
I need to need to watch.Yeah. Yeah, he tried to
win because no, you're right,you're right, and they have the that's
because we were commenting on the bannerwas like the exact same as it's from
the of course, it was tryingto think, now we hate we've we've
(41:12):
skipped, you know, kind ofa major series heire like Kirk Enterprise,
like where it all started. Iwas trying to think of like the movies
or something. Yeah, I knowthat is a key component to Captain's Day.
What what was it that the childrenwill lead them started it or something.
Yeah. Yeah, there's not alot of a lot of kids.
(41:39):
I guess that is a major componentof Cabin's days having children around. So
it's for the children. I'm arole model. I don't know. I'm
not sure what else would fit.Yeff definitely would not have a captain Captain
Burnham. Which captain you know?I think that's I mean Captain Lorcaday.
(42:06):
That was not a you better winor you lose. What about on the
other ships? Yeah, because Ithink the hard part is the family aspect
of STIRF that kind of lives anddies with an next generation. After that,
they're like, yeah, I wassorry about that. We were just
(42:28):
kidding about kids on the show.Well, once you start blowing up ships
and thinking like, wait a minute, I know, was there a kindergarten
on that trip? It's lower deckswith Rutherford, he blew out the entire
primary school on the holiday. Allright, Well that's that's probably enough said.
(42:52):
Well, I guess here's here's lastquestion. What would be your entry
for captain A card day. That'sa good one. I'll go and I
let y'all think again. You haveto, you know, make yourself slightly
a kid. But I feel likeI would put together a bunch of French
items to make a capt Picard model. So it'd be like cheeses and like
(43:17):
fruits or something on like poster boardto like make a capta Picard face or
something, maybe one labels or something. You know, that would be my
initial thought. I don't know whatI would do. It's a good question.
Yeah, play construction paper. I'mnot really artistic, So I would
(43:40):
do whatever the kid next to mewas doing. I think I would do.
I would do ships, because Iknow he loves ships and bottles,
and so I would do it whereI'd make like in the Stargazer and Enterprise,
(44:00):
you like, any ship that hehad served on, and they would
look very crude and they'd be onlylike this big, like four inches long.
But and then as I'm showing itto him, the saucer of the
d like falls off because it didn'tquite adhere it well enough. And I'm
like a separated saucer included totally plannedthat. You're like, I'm qualified to
(44:21):
put it together manually. Oh,that's perfect, Daniel. You could help
run some dramatic readings of the Captain'slog. Oh, yeah, I mean
they're public, right, captain's logs, I mean not the personal one.
No, they're not. They're notpublic. Have to be publicly accessible when
(44:44):
it's the ship's record. Oh goodquestion. Oh good question. I don't
know. I mean, except,like you said, except for personal logs
that of course say. But ifit's a non personal then that's get why
not off to right away? Butyeah, they get sent to starfleet obviously.
(45:06):
What I mean just like like goingright to the cloud, you know
what I mean, like you know, like when you're you know, when
they oh gosh, I remember whenI am for a while was you could
turn on the mode where like asyou typed each word, it would send
it instead of like hit enter tosend the entire message. So he's dictating
it and it's like it's going straightinto the cloud. And then later it's
(45:29):
like delete that entire message. Messagehas been sent. It's like no,
no, no, no, nono no no no no. Is that
what happened to? Captain Cisco isgonna say? It's fair be very bad.
Sorry about you. I wonder ifyou get an unset email. So
and so tried to call back thiscalling back person alone. Oh, it's
(45:52):
and then it says sorry that emailhas already been opened by Starfleet Intelligence.
You're like, ooh, after whathappens to Captain Kirk in Star Trek six,
you can no longer be legally heldresponsible for what you say in these
dogs. That's true, that's truewith the trial. How long are you
(46:13):
standing outside? They have privacy uh, sound filters that are at the doorway,
so the sound of the log can'tget outside into the hallway. It
just sounds like you're boring a wholebunch of all these beeps and scratches.
It's all like war like Penis Teacher, Genesis Planet It forbidden. It's like,
(46:39):
what can it be about the deathof my boy? Or what is
it? I was was one ofthem? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You gotta translate all that? It'stoo much? All right, Well that
that was a good celebration of CaptainPicard Day. So Darren, if want
(47:00):
to know what your winning entry willbe this year, where can they reach
you? Well, my winning entryis making sure that Wesley gets Quek sick
on Captain Picard Day. They couldfind me at doctor sci Fi dot com
d R s c I F Iand Daniel if folks want to talk to
(47:20):
you about what Commander Riker Day willlook like next year, where can they
reach you on the Titan. Theycan find me at one of Dan that's
the number one, not the wordas in he's my number one dad,
So that's why you would win.And if folks want to talk to me
about what being kept in four dayinvolves, it's really just a lot of
(47:42):
sitting around. They can find meon Instagram at c A P T S
f U f P. All right, well until next week, I'm Philip
Gilphis, I'm Daniel Prue, andI'm Darren Moser. Stranded here on City Alpha three
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