December 19, 2024 • 45 mins
Holidays in the Star Trek Universe
As 21st Century Earth approaches the festive season, the trio ask - what are the holidays of the Star Trek future?
Throughout many series, we have seen small references to our current holidays. How are they celebrated by Starfleet personnel? Has the meaning changed? And outside of Terran culture - what holidays have we seen on screen? And what others must also exist?
Join us in a celebration of holidays past, holidays present, and holidays yet to come!
As 21st Century Earth approaches the festive season, the trio ask - what are the holidays of the Star Trek future?
Throughout many series, we have seen small references to our current holidays. How are they celebrated by Starfleet personnel? Has the meaning changed? And outside of Terran culture - what holidays have we seen on screen? And what others must also exist?
Join us in a celebration of holidays past, holidays present, and holidays yet to come!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Nerd Party. I'm Darren Moser, I'm Philip Gilphus,
I'm Daniel Prue and this is City Alpha three. Hello,
(00:23):
and welcome to City Alpha three ah Star Trek podcast
here on the Nerd Party. I'm Philip, joined by Daniel
and Darren. How's your trick, Sember.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Going to stop trying to make treck Sember a thing?
It's not that thing. No. I received a Christmas gift
from a fellow podcaster, and it was season four on
Blu Ray of Lower Decks because I'm believing in the
rise of physical media again, so I'm trying to get
(00:55):
as much of that under my belt so that I
can watch it whenever, whenever I so choose. So now
I've just got to patiently wait for them to finish
season five and put it on Blu Ray, which probably
won't take too long. They usually get them on Blu
Ray pretty quickly nowadays.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And then, Daniel, do you have already bought your section
thirty one Advent calendar store?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It counts down every this new secret combat in every box,
you know.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I did go to We're at the mall doing some shopping,
and I went to Hallmark and I saw some of
the Christmas ornaments and not all almost picked up because
they have the Generation's Enterprise B and I'm like, oh
it's cool, I kind of want it. I almost picked
it up. I didn't. And they also have big old
(01:49):
Captain Pike and a Beverly crusher almost crush.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh nice. How much is the ship one? I don't
even know how much Hallmarks cost.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Thirty five dollars according to their web set.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's not terrible.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
It was pretty beefy though, so like it was actually
pretty big.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I liked it, like maybe like six inches long or
like five inches long.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, I would, yes, you know, it probably has the
dimensions here I click on the thing that. Yeah, I'm
not sure. I didn't see some of these other ones.
Oh yeah, they did have. I'll try to forgot. The
other one I saw that they had was Data and
Spock from uh Reunification and like you know how like
they have the little push the button and you hear
(02:31):
them right and stuff. Well they go through their whole
their whole little dialogue with.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The Oh my gosh, it's like the whole scene.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It's like, oh my god, this is not good for
an action figure, Like this is or even an ornament.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I had a friend who people are crowding around you
trying to get to the aisle.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Like it's almost done, it's almost done. Yeah I can't.
I can't walk away while it's playing. But yeah. I
had a friend who had a small tree that had
all of his Hallmark Star Trek ones, and my favorite
was I think it was the Galileo, and it would
be it would say like shuttle Craft to enterprise, shuttle
Craft to Enterprise, enterprise, spock here, happy holidays, you know,
(03:10):
something something like that. And then it just stopped and
it was like, wow, that's kind of cool. But yeah,
there's man, there's a that's about a long standing tradition
Hallmark Christmas ornaments for Star.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Trek, plan M for Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, set course for merriment.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Oh goodness. Well, speaking of merriment, I thought, since we're
in the festive season, as we said, around these parts,
we would talk about holidays in Star Trek, and that
covers a lot. I know, predominantly we'd usually focus on
alien holidays or non human holidays, if you will, but
(03:55):
I don't know whatever human holidays that still exists.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Voyager was in a Chrisstmas Tree in one episode, so Christmas,
they at least know about Christmas. But I'm trying to
think now, if any series would have done it, it
would have been TOS like it would have been more common.
But there wasn't a TOOS Christmas episode. Was there where
they like celebrate Christmas or even mentioned Christmas. I feel
(04:21):
like there's got to be at least something.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
They do mention it. Now, don't quote because I can't
remember the exact episode, but it's in the most tos
E way, because because which I think is this is
more a UK thing than it is per se a
US thing, though I noted it's the US two, but
it's more so here. But there's a scene and I
can't remember which episode, but they're on the transporter pad
and random female lieutenant is joining the landing party and
(04:45):
it is then explained that she and Captain Kirk had
some encounter at the Christmas party.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Oh yeah, okay, okay, So it establishes that there has
been a Christmas party that did it exists, which, again,
like I said, it makes total sense for TOS like
that feels like the series and the sixties where they
would have just like said, oh yeah, like where nowadays,
like I can't see the bourbon era being like we're
not going to talk about Christmas, We're not going to reference.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That, because it was definitely a The vibe I remember
is because there's always a stereotape stereotype of O Kirk,
you know, da da dah, but the situation definitely reads
as woman was like, oh yeah, let's do that again.
Kirk's like, I uh uh, this never happened. This never happens,
you know.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Now I can see lower decks doing something too, like
where they exchange gifts or something, and and they're like
on the Holid deck except for some reason and they're
all you know, pretending to be Actually that would be
even hilarious where they recreate like a traditional Christmas tree
and all that, and then but all the gifts are holographics,
so they don't care about look what I got to.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You, but none of it can escape the Holo decks,
so it's like is it really a gift? It's like
buying you know, present with through joint bank account, like
is it a gift? You know? Does it work that way? See?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I was thinking more like they would put a Christmas
tree like right, in front of the the you know,
the window in the hallway where they used to where
they used to stay, and they could they could like
blast in it like an ice asteroid and it would
snow out the back window and it'd be all festive
and merry. That'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I know.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I was about to say, you know, you said Voyager, Darren. Now,
of course Voyager was not the first Christmas tree we
saw in Star Trek.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It's right, what generation that those generations would be the
first Christmas tree? Yeah, but the cards, like, you know,
he reads paper books. He's very old fashioned.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well as for him, I think you could argue had
generations or at least that scene in generations not been there,
I think we could have sit sat here and said, like,
how does Christmas exist in the twenty fourth century still?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
But well it it exists in the cards dream. You know,
I was gonna say, it's like it's not so much
you mean existing as in still celebrated because obviously, like
people know it what it was. It's not like which
it is kind of interesting about the staying power of
Christmas if you think about it like in a meta level,
(07:17):
because you know, that'd be like, oh yeah, that festival
that they have in seventeen fifty five, we totally still
celebrate that. Like I can't think, you know, I don't
think of anything that stuck around that long for hundreds
of years.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And again I'm not I'm not a sociologist, but from
what little I know of at least how we celebrate Christmas,
at least in the Western world, is it is it
a bit of a revival like sort of like it
was a thing and it wasn't a thing, and then
it came a thing again because it was like, you know,
you had the early Americans like Outlaw and the double
down was really a thing, and then the Germans really
(07:54):
like a lot of the traditions are German traditions facts,
you know. So but anyway, again I'm not an expert,
but I just think that's like what would be the
in the Federation, in the Star Trek universe or there
any like stuff we do now or that maybe isn't
as big or that is in the past that would
then like have a revival in Star Trek or you know,
some whatever time because obviously with the franchise now we're
(08:16):
talking multiple centuries.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So well, what is there there's ah wasn't there like
a Federation Day, like the day the Federation was founded?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, there's a few holiday let's let's do the If
you're serving on a starship, what days do you get off?
So there is First Contact Day?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Okay, First Contact Day? Yeah, that's every school child knows. No,
was it? Oh something fifth September April fifth, Yeah, twenty
sixty three. There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, I mean you you will not imagine how big
the cues are over at First Contact Land in Montana.
You know, that's that's you want to go off season.
I always go in the winter and no one's there.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
What a miserable can be a rough experience going there
in the winter.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No, no, the weather net keeps at a ball me
seventy two DeGreasy. You know, it's all the snow stops
like ten feet before it hits the ground. Everybody's happy.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh you don't winter in Bozeman. Oh no, So we
have First Contact Day, we have Federation Day, which I
think was referenced. No, I think the card actually was
the first to reference.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I think it was the first. Yeah, and that is
which gives me major like Empire Day vibes, because that's
the thing in Star Wars when the Empire was founded,
and I'm like, Federation Day. I'm like, is this something
we should be celebrating.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, well, I'm curious because I don't you know, outside
of my knowledge is Empire d and Star Wars? Is
this talk about revival and co opting and all that?
Is it like literally like the day Order, you know,
sixty six weeks order.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Sixty six day when like we reorganized the galact the
the Republic into the first galactic Empire. That's Empire Day.
That's a bad day.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I didn't know if it was like they just like
stole like this is when the Republic Senate was formed. No, no,
it's always been Empire Day. I don't know what you're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, no, no, it's it's that terrible black day that
everything happened.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Do you think that the Emperor gave Vader special presence
on that day?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Every year, I hear you get a death star, oh
or won his tay X, his tayags advanced.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I give you a present for each dead child.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
The only two guys in the entire that are like
actively happy about the Empire.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Wait, wait are you telling me they play secret Sith?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Never mind I'm just gonna keep pat past the Death Star.
He stops on you, it destroys your planet.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Sorry, I'm not stealing the Emperor's gifts, are you?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Nothing. We said nothing more than fifteen credits. Yeah, these
mittens won't fit over my gloves. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Emperor helps the lightning come out anyway. This is not
Star Wars talking, all right, So back to all right,
So we have Federation Day, first contact day. I feel
like I'm missing one, but maybe. I mean I'm not
counting Captain of Card Day. That's you know, that's we already.
We've already done that one.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
It definitely should count.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, we definitely day we talked about every ship has there.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It's a local, local day, local holiday.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Local holiday.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
But yeah, I can't think of any federation. I can
get get into different cultures, but any federation wise, I
can't think of any holidays.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Well, because I think holidays would still be like buy species.
Like if you're a Bowllyan, you're gonna celebrate your own holidays, like.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Aaron Darren, what is the Bowleyan holiday?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Go ahead? Oh uh, I'm Blue Day and uh, and
we celebrate our bullianness. I was just thinking, it makes
me think of a I don't remember the title, but
there was a this was more about religion. But this
is something that Babylon five handled really well where it
(12:15):
talked about because you know, in true nineties, let's learn
about ourselves fashion. You know, Jikar wanted to know more
about Earth religions. You know, because each alien species there's
like they're you know, they're monolithic, there's one religion per species.
But on Earth there's many cultures that we can learn
(12:37):
and appreciate. So all that to say, yeah, I kind
of feel like Star Trek would have a holiday liaison
that would run around with scheduling and be like, oh, well,
today's the well by start eight whatever it is the fifth,
you know, Beta z Ring Day, and so we gotta
have a special cello performance in ten forward. You know.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I love the idea because, as we all know, on
a starship at least at least twenty fourth century, that's
usually where we plant our flag. But like the EXO
first officer, as we all know, is hr REP and
so either the first officer or one of their I
don't know whoever they want to deputize is in charge
of holiday scheduling, like you know, Commander Riker is like, okay,
(13:20):
we have the negotiations with the Davidians, we have the
relief we're doing on Parsik five and okay, is it
Bullian Heritage Month? Okay, all right, what are we doing
for that?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Guys? Well, they have eighteen months, so it happens faster
than you would expect it to.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
So oh, that would be really like I know we're
mostly joking, but like imagine that would be kind of
a headache, like what is officially recognized as holidays, and
that would be real messy. And then because some people
would you know, oh, my sex doesn't celebrate that.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Now granted that's only in Starfleet where everyone's mixed together.
If you're on a Bullion Raiders captain, you know, yeah,
of course you celebrate. Well, you're not going to celebrate
Starfleet days.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Wait, you mean I have to work on Federation Day.
All the all the replicators are closed on that day.
Where where are we going to go with the Klingon restaurant?
It's always the kling Off.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You don't think Quark would uh, you know, license things
on Federation Day for selling, you know, he would totally
take advantage of holiday.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Becomes so commercial. It used to be about Archer.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Now it's Quark wants it commercial. It's exactly what he wants.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Yeah, what for any celebrate just money Day or the
anti divine treasure treasury to anti Labor Day, anti un Day.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
The opening the new fiscal year? Happy every quarters?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Financial reports is a is a holiday?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Earnings day?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah? Earnings day, payday?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Okay, So let's talk about someones we definitely know about.
This is off the top of my head, but you
can you just yell out any other ones. So the
one I just think about is the Bajoran got It
Gratitude Festival.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I was gonna say, it's got to be a festival
if it's Bajoran, no holidays, only festivals.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
And I can't remember, Daniel, you're more you've watched the
whole thing more recently than I have. I know it's Bajoran.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Is it technically religion religious in nature or is it
just Bajoran culture in general?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I would think. So it's been a hot minutes since
I can't even which.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I know, I would think. But about Bajoran's they have
festivals and peninsulas. That is that is what I know
provinces and provinces held our joy.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah, yeah, it doesn't say it doesn't say anything about
the actual history of it.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
It is but.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Because everything involving the Jordan's religious nature, but you know,
it doesn't really say specifically.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So I do like, and this is off memory, so
I might be wrong because I forget when they first
introduced it. It wasn't like season one, but whenever they
introduced it, you know, three four five, they did at
least I feel like they attempted every year to come
back to it, even if it was just a casual mention,
like it would be.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Like right, yeah, you'd think they'd have a holiday for
the end of the occupation. It's kind of a major day. Yeah,
but is this Liberation Day or something so recent that
it wouldn't maybe the VC day victory over Kardassia Day.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I think they're waiting on the official government before.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
That is top five on the list, as soon as
the new government.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Although provincial governments can't declare holidays, but actual governments can,
so we're just going to have to wait on that.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
So that's why they only have religious health is because
the KAI has declared holiday that We're still waiting for
the government to figure out the other holidays, so I
feel like you probably still have to work on the
on the holidays.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Always work, always work, go to temple. Everyone goes to temples.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
So I still got to go to work and then
I gotta go to temple. Yeah yeah, oh man, all right,
what are the others? Some the kleons obviously have a
lot of things. They have Day of Honor, which I
guess is well they have tooth.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Every day is a day of honor, Philip, if you
keep it in your heart.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Let me know if you remember the difference, because I
remember having watched T ANDG season two, it wasn't Day
of Honor. It was called like Ascension Day, I think.
But then and I don't know, later on we would
develop Day of Honor, which I think Voyager did that first,
but I mean, correct me if Es nine did it first,
But yeah, I think butoer Alost feel like those are different,
(18:01):
but I don't know, you know, it's almost like your
bomb Mitzvah anniversary, the way they Christmas.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Like killing the Gold God's Day, like, you know, because
they were more trouble than they were worth.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I feel like the Klingons are kind of always in
a celebratory that's true.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Indeed, prescribed holidays for a good time.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
They're just always doing it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, but then then you just have to do all
your time. I just remember that Balana episode because it
was like Nelix is trying to do everything and get
all the Klingon stuff to celebrate her day of honor.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
What she she's nonpracticing, so she's non observant.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Ye, she's she's culturally culturally kling On.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Well didn't she grub on Earth?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Right?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Isn't that right? I'm I misremembering that.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah yeah, well yeah, because her dad was human and
he split and then I had that rough time with
the Klingon moms. How dare you raise me?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I think that was her problem.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
By the way, we've never did I feel like get
an explanation for why the dad left, Like, I mean,
I know we had that episode and it was like, oh,
but like if you remember this episode, you know way
back she was having flashbacks. I forget what, but you
so you saw like little Ballana and her cousin it's
her dad and I think it's brother or something like that.
But he was like, oh, yes, and there's just like
him and his brother or whoever it was, We're like,
(19:32):
oh yeah, things are tough, but I'm like okay, and
then just ran out of his family like I didn't really.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I mean, look, you got replicators, you have a social
safety net, you have you know, daycare, Like, what's it's
not so tough? What's what's her problem?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I mean, you've been presumably with a cling on woman,
and you have a child who's by the looks of it,
I mean at least eight seven eight, So I mean,
like it it's not been a non amount amount of time,
you know, suddenly be like, you know what, I don't like.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Cleaning on women.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Suddenly I've just changed my mind.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, okay, And.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I think that's one of the things if you don't,
if you feel that way, that comes very quickly.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So there's no do any species have or anything in
Star Trek have anything close to Valentine's Day, Romance.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Day, Park Day, I would.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Think, I mean the betazoids surely, right.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the horizons definitely do.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well, that's every day, that's every day.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I feel like betas always have a lot of holidays.
They feel like a holiday you.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Don't need to declare your love if the other people
just know you have it true.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
The just everyone everyone's just naked that one day.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I think everyone's just naked all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
They make it sound like it's just weddings. We know,
we know, it's funerals every day. Actually, the custom is
to wear clothes the day before the wedding, so it
actually feels like something different on the wedding day.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
It's like how you're not supposed to see, you know,
your bride before the wedding. You cannot see. Don't look them,
they're in clothing.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
That's fine, it's fine. I'll be in the gym.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It makes you sound like a FERENGI.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Well, the people on Haven probably have the one with
the you're thinking it, Oh, they definitely have a Valentine's.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
The guardian tells them what the holiday is.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
If you don't celebrate it death.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm picturing just just especially with like the Season one
special effects such as they were. I'm trying to remember
my mind to go back to how they marked the
border because I can't rember if it was like just
like it wasn't a code, but like you know, like
a construction thing that just went on or like how
it was like, oh, this is now the off limits here.
I can just imagine that's how the holidays like suddenly,
(22:04):
like the Jack o' lantern suddenly appear, like Oh, I
guess I guess we're doing Halloween. I guess we're.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah. No, it wouldn't have been well defined for sure.
It's like oh, oh we're doing that now. Okay, okay,
but you know what that that does.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Bring up an interesting point, like on the Prodigy or
the Laderships, kind of like in Harry Potter when when
they're like, oh, it's this season now and this team one,
and it just everything flips.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh yeah, it's Halloween season now, and there's a virtual
displays throughout the ship that change for every you know,
like a conference center, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Like the el cars because as you know, I mean
at this pumpkins on them. Well, like we just haven't
gone down this deep about you know, what is your
preferred EL Car's color spectrum? Like I'm more like an
orange blue, yeah, versus the yellows of the green, So
like is it seasonal? Is it like orange or like
yellow as the seasons go.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
They're an engineering maintenance worker who goes into the turbolips
and change the date on the bottom every every star date.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
So it's it's like the chief engineer. Their responsibility is
to delegate someone's changing the l cars. You know, they
have to talk to the the to talk to Daniels,
like computer operator of the starship that would ever see
we want.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We want orange. It's like a little too close to
red alert. You gotta stay at least one spectrum shift
away from that. Always we can't even tell the difference,
like is this panel at critical? I don't know. Bert
Umber doesn't tell me anything.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's Jack O lantern.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
It's jack yeah, orange alert. I don't even know what
that means. Do I go to my doo d station or.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
There's a little snow that falls down the display.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Because I'm trying to think of like all the like
the little you know, stupid I mean, I play them
all little stupid games on my phone that update the
summer and like same game, it just has snow floating
the whole time.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And so the war icon updates to a one covered
in snow where it's a Christmas tree during Christmas time.
So funny it would be true.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Oh my god, there's something in particular matter in the delithium.
Oh no, it's the snow globe thing.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, we're good. That's a snow globe turns orange.
We know that's bad.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I feel like that was like some like at sea
rhyme when the snow globe is orange.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, but like, you.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Wouldn't encourage Valentine's Day on a starship, specifically on specific starship.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Certainly maybe you tell me you're you're in charge of
the uh.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I don't know. I've seen some season one episodes that
seem very promiscuous, so.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I know it's fine. As long as you can do
your job and it doesn't interfere with it, then it's fine.
But I don't know that you would encourage it.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I think they all take hits from that special drug
where they all, you know, go loopy in.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I'm imagining you're on the bridge and then like the
I don't know, Yeoman walks into the bridge with a
basket full of balanine and be like, hold.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
On, I have let me see who I've got here.
They're teeny tiny two inch pads. Yeah, that's what they
they hand them out. They're like waiting for you. Yeah,
the digit little shape of well, which which species here, Daniel?
Which species.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Are not at card for anyone?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah, it's true universal that everyone keeps their heart.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And then but Cott reaches under he's got like an
empty basket hidden under his chairs. You gotta collect them all.
You know, they have no pockets, they have nothing to
hold all of these dozens of tiny pads.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I am picturing now everyone's seat or station has their
little basket with their.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Name on it.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Don't bring any in if you can't bring one in
for everyone, everyone on the bridge gets.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
See now I'm picturing that there was a whole like
to solve this problem instead of baskets, like someone basically
replicates it almost be like a like a like a
beeswax frame. So you carried around a little handle. It's
got like little slots for all of the little teeny
two inch pads that you just like place in and
(26:18):
just so everyone just walking around with one of these
like next to them.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I can see like during the duty shift change for
the helm, they like take their basket. The other person
comes in attaches their basket.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah, there's a special basket port that connects on the you.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Know, people don't notice it, but if you look you
can see.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
The little Yeah, there's always you know, Wharf doesn't. Everyone
knows Wharf doesn't celebrate, So don't don't give him one.
Stay away. The baskets are only atached to chairs. Sorry, Wharf,
you can't. Can't.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Well, as I learned from Oh I can't remember which episode,
No I can, it's the uh our first episode we
ever to the Klingon episode Code of Honor. That's not
you know, the one talking about But anyway, that's where
with the Kleon exchange program with record. Yeah, but we
learned with the what's his face the Benzite that that
establishes that Orf is in charge of the ass section.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Oh he is. You're right if you're back, because they're
in punching range, you know if you're not, but range,
just you know, he's like busy doing stuff at his
constantly just swings.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
His arm around like hey, hey over here, get down
the debt driving the car.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Look. Science Center Station one and Science Station two are
exactly the same. That doesn't matter who gets witch console.
Just do your job.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Oh and since all the stations are modular, that he
can just press the button Science one and do something
to go to the opposite end of the Fine Sky.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You're in slot one, you're in slot five, Okay, gotta
separate you two. Then Jordy comes in and he's like, oh, sorry, Jordy,
you're you're in slot three today, gonna have to be
in the middle. It's like, oh, but I want the
extra extra side console. I like to be next to
the door in case I want to go get out
of here. One of the bends. It's like, I need
(28:12):
to be on Sciencetation one because it's next to the bathroom.
So I.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
From the CMO. Yeah, Doctor Crusher, what about romulans? Joel
on true?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
What what?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
What are they?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
True? A Senate Day seems like an important I.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Mean, is this before or after ifyone got vaporized?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, Remembrance Day or remember the Superday? Not a lot of.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Man never forget.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Objugation of Remis Day, Like you know, I would.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Just call it.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Change that to then celebrate. Uh, it's a Columbus Day situation. Yeah,
I had to Indigenous redmen. Yeah, there's the episode title
right there. No, it's about the contributions to the mining community.
It's not we're not talking about.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
The contributions to the mining community.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Do they celebrate Reunification.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Day probably would. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Now yeah, is there is there a Is there a
mixture of Romulin and Vulcan holidays or do they still
keep things separates?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Good question.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I wonder how well theirre integration is. I can't remember
how like I can't remember. You would think they would
all become just you know, whatever they are.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It's like every raucous romulin holiday still involves like thirty
minutes of meditation.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Exactly, exactly, all balanced, a little bit of a little bit.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Of me, a little spice added to your plumiek soup.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
They're really celebrating now, Oh man, is.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
That prika goodness?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah? See now I'm just picturing Yeah, I mean my grandmother.
There's there's only now I'm thinking, have Vulcan's like they
have like one holiday that they sell, but they go
absolutely crazy like all the other. No, Nope, No, this
Purge Day you're you're describing.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Not that kind of crazy welcome to festival days suh.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Well, to be fair, that's that's on brand because uh,
what they do for their meeting ritual is pretty pretty right.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, Valentine's Day and on Vulcan is very different.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I want buying that there is perch Day and Vulcan.
It is obviously very secret, but I can just imagine
you're just there in this on.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
The year nor nor All emotion is valid for the
next twenty for twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
It's not like you can like, you know, you don't
commit crazy crime. No, you just can feel you.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
You eat the tub of ice cream, you feel this.
Oh yeah, yeah, it's not violent at all. It's just uh,
it's just all emotional. They're they're watching all the rom
coms on their pads and banging or ye much like
the listen to music that's an out.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Loud and nobody talks about it.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
The next day. You just yeah, no, no, everyone ignores
that day. Yeah, private day.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Go over to someone's house and be like, I like
you so much, I appreciate you still for the next
twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Everyone is a logic extremist, Darren. Oh they are not okay,
too far, too too far, too far.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
See, they would be the ones fighting against the purge.
That's the movie I want to.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Say now, Philip. I don't know if you're aware of this,
but there is a holiday page on Memory Alpha.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Okay, I pulled it up just.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
To see and I want to just bring up real quick,
not to hijack this, but one of the things listed
here is I'm married to the most Wonderful woman in
the Universe galaxy by Miles O'Brien. He named it an
official day listen on her personal holiday, but it's called
I'm married to the most wonderfulman in the Galaxy day.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Okay, weird because it's I was gonna say it feels
like O'Brien was in the doghouse, so he said it
once and they write it on this list. That's exactly
what it sounds like, like, this isn't a real day.
This is something O'Brien said. And scene two of Act four,
so it's on the list.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
When the guy is in charge of the computer system,
you're selling like wait what.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
This park's like? Why is my replicator saying Aco day
Like I.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Shouldn't don't make the rules And then and then Cisco
just goes plays baseball on the holiday all day, so
you know, yeah, because hey, now it's married, Miles, Okay,
have some considerations.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Wife died.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Jeez, has it been well? What about Wolf three? Five
nine days?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Oh? Yeah, yeah? What what? What?
Speaker 4 (33:28):
What?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
What is?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
What does Sean Luke Do that day? Does he just
got to run.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
I'm gonna be in my corner, don't want to talk
to me. I was gonna say, what about Captain shaw
Do on that day? Yeah, it's a very trauma filled
day like this is.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Uh yeah, I imagine like a lot of pinatas that
look like locutest or man.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I didn't think about that, but having Captain Shramae Captain Cisco, yeah, they.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I think they kind of bond over that day. Hmm.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Oh you got to meet your wife in a parallel universe.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
So remarried. Okay, well, that's sounds like you're moving on.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I pictured his conversations also, like, now, let me tell
you like we were we were flying out of one
wormhole and we could see the back end of our
ship right over there. It was the craziest thing.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
What else is on the list, Daniel, Uh, let's see.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
On the list is well, personal holidays are anniversary, birthdays
and naming day, which is apparently for rangunar holiday.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I name you something, that's when.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
You name a male frangie. I don't remember that at all.
But a lot of the things you talked about, Prickson,
which we didn't talk about specifically that's on.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
There talaxiin holiday, right, Yep, it's definitely.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
There's like good holidays where we're like celebrating them. There's
like remembrance days where like we're remembering terrible things in
our history.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Oh, there is a speaking of which because Strange New
Worlds introduced this, there's I mean, I forget what they
call it, but memorial Day basically what it is. That's
when they all wear like their little pens from the
other ships they served on. Oh yeah, where people died
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
That's right, that's right. Now you watch that again.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Nelix made a holiday.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I don't remember that ancest Felix Day and Daniel's from
eleven fifty nine. Come on now, I don't know how
you don't.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Oh yes, my favorite of all the episodes that I've
watched once.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I mean, do you feel like they brought back whale Day?
Once they brought back the whales?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
So and actual thing. I mean there's other cetaceans before,
just not just the whales, but even the whales are evil.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yes, what holidays do the societation ops get to celebrate?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Is there flippers Birthday?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I don't know what? What?
Speaker 3 (36:24):
What is a birthday. Yeah, I don't know. I guess
that would be an exo duty, right, that's true. Yeah,
and then they get like special fish or something for
the day. Or you can't really decorate it the inside
of a tank. I guess you could put like a tree.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
You could you can dump glitter into the tank day,
you guys, not a good idea, but they could do it.
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
You die the water?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Oh yeah, the whales so angry. Well they dyed in red,
so it's like everything, Yeah, I can't see anything.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Tom Peris mentioned Saint Patrick's Day, so it exists.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
In some capacity, it exists on a whole planet. But yeah, no, no,
that's that's true.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Well, I mean obviously you're gonna have to go okay
forgetting it fair fair Haven, fair Haven. That's that's your.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Fair Haven Day.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah, Groce stereotypes day, I guess.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I mean overall, like you know, we get a lot
of holidays and stuff like that, But I do feel
like that's something that Start Trek could have done more
of to kind of make it feel more grounded. And
it's like, oh, in our in our future, we still
have these customs. You know, that'd be but it kind
of feels like it goes at odds with Roddenberry's like
(37:57):
no religion view, so it's like it's gonna be harder.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
So does like Crou's planet Kelpia or whatever it's called.
Do they have like reverse Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Oh, Jesus's terrible.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Uh, fear day.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Every day is fear day if you keep it in
your heart. You know.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Right now, I'm thinking of the of the a fear
Carol that that threw has to go through.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
And then at the at the end, he just learns
to be more afraid and there's no positive message.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Fears of past, fears of presence, and fears have yet
to come.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yeah, to all fear. It's what all little children, Kelpian
children learn about the fears of the past, present, and future.
That's actually really funny because that would be exactly what
would happen.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
And of course I'm going to die. We all know that, Yeah,
I know, because not tends to not be a lot
of aliens at the top. That's I started my head
going through captains and exos. Well, like number one Allyrian,
(39:19):
what are the Allyrian holidays? We'll have to or whatever
she is, I don't have to know enough.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
What about Kardassians.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Ah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
It feels like Krdassians would have the Cardassian you know,
funny enough, feels like it would also be a festival species.
I feel like, uh, that's something that they in the
Victorian have in common.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Victory Day for sure. Yeah, and they all lay out
on a rock.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yeah, canard for all my officers.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
What about the Borg they all celebrate the day assimilation
assimilation day, It's like the birth every day, but since
somebody has always been every day is a similation day
if you keep it in your coinical processing.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
But no, no, but like the anniversary of each like
Drone as they were assimilated.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Wait, so you're saying they have all have birthday, Like
I'm picturing like the little birthday hat they put on
the Drone and they're like, is there asleep?
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Fun will now commence?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Well, they could have a the board could have some
sort of religious holiday around Omega, thank you? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
And how would they celebrate the Borg temple?
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Obviously the triangle room inside their giant hue.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
But is that what they get in to the celebratory triangle?
You know, you let go of your spears and cubes
and triangle it up for a day. Oh no, it's
the Borg cone. O'ver fine there, that's party day. They
won't they'll leave us alone. Is it just like the
same like have we talked about like the picture a
(41:16):
little disco lighting.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Now I'm picturing the Borg triangle cone? Is you know,
small enough that it could just like dock on top
of a galaxy class It looks like a party hat.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Just you will be celebrated, silly.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
The Borg don't celebrate, as you say.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
When I think of Borg, I think of silly. So
I don't know what you're.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Why do they have lights in their ship?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Uh? Efficiency for being able to see?
Speaker 3 (41:51):
They need to see?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Well they I mean they all start with biological Yes
I can't see, but that I need to see?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
H I mean like because they're not telepathic. I mean
if they are, you know, they.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Have a new defense mechanism where if someone beams aboard,
they just turn off all the lights and then all
people see they're just a little red lasers flying through
the the sky and they're like, oh this is bad.
That's true. They were the lights around that room when
in first contact, Like they don't need air.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
The cube could be full of no air or you know,
just vacuum, So why not. I'm just thinking, I mean,
I get.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
It, you're you're you're right in that they don't need
those things, but there are drawbacks like physiologically to not
having like a pressure vessel and you know light, So
I think it feels more like an efficiency thing.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Like it's just i mean, why do they have that
huge space inside the quebe They could just downsize if
it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
The compact cube. It's like it's the same volume of
drones just packed in. They're all just a clown car.
They're all just docked. Can't know, no one can get
out of their stasis pod because they're all like just
like cord would I mean, they really.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Should be like packed in, like even horizontally vertically whatever,
and then they just kind of slot out, you know.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Yeah needed. Yeah, they're all standing sideways like you know,
like we have to pivot for the picture at school,
like to fit a little more.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Do you remember in the first episode Borg episode when
Riker opened a drawer and there was a Boorg baby inside? Yep,
And we never did that again.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Yeah, yeah, Boyler saved the Borg children in lower decks.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
So the cards, uh, I don't like his name. Jack
is technically a borg baby, I guess right, so.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
Nickle, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Wait wait is that like on a scholarship application he's
saying he's part Borg and we're like.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
Okay, all right, your what percent Borgan? Best? What percent Borg? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Let's let's not.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Does he get a special studies what's the word scholarship?
If he's one per seven? Seven can claim that she
gets you know, it's like eighty percent Borg.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
And she still celebrates her assimilation day.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
I guess cool.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
All right, well that's been sort of a random walk
through Star Trek holidays. I'm sure we missed a bunch,
but those are the fun ones. So put on your
borg cone hat and party party, party this festive season. So, Daniel,
if folks want to know what you'll be doing for
your ascension day and the painsticks you'll be using, how
can they reach you?
Speaker 3 (44:55):
I will only be a sending once and that is
the number one, not the word do you find me
at one of.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
The And.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Darren, if folks want to know what you'll be wearing
to your beta's at holiday function, where can they reach you?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Oh? Yes, that registry is very short and they can
go to doctor sci Fi dot com d R s
c I f I And.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
If folks want to chill with me over at the
Andorian Party, they can find me on Instagram at c
P T S f U P Well until next week,
I'm Philip Gilphiss.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
I'm Dandifer, and I'm Darren Moser.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Stranded here on City Alpha three
Welcome to the Nerd Party. I'm Darren Moser, I'm Philip Gilphus,
I'm Daniel Prue and this is City Alpha three. Hello,
(00:23):
and welcome to City Alpha three ah Star Trek podcast
here on the Nerd Party. I'm Philip, joined by Daniel
and Darren. How's your trick, Sember.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Going to stop trying to make treck Sember a thing?
It's not that thing. No. I received a Christmas gift
from a fellow podcaster, and it was season four on
Blu Ray of Lower Decks because I'm believing in the
rise of physical media again, so I'm trying to get
(00:55):
as much of that under my belt so that I
can watch it whenever, whenever I so choose. So now
I've just got to patiently wait for them to finish
season five and put it on Blu Ray, which probably
won't take too long. They usually get them on Blu
Ray pretty quickly nowadays.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And then, Daniel, do you have already bought your section
thirty one Advent calendar store?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It counts down every this new secret combat in every box,
you know.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I did go to We're at the mall doing some shopping,
and I went to Hallmark and I saw some of
the Christmas ornaments and not all almost picked up because
they have the Generation's Enterprise B and I'm like, oh
it's cool, I kind of want it. I almost picked
it up. I didn't. And they also have big old
(01:49):
Captain Pike and a Beverly crusher almost crush.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh nice. How much is the ship one? I don't
even know how much Hallmarks cost.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Thirty five dollars according to their web set.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's not terrible.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
It was pretty beefy though, so like it was actually
pretty big.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I liked it, like maybe like six inches long or
like five inches long.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, I would, yes, you know, it probably has the
dimensions here I click on the thing that. Yeah, I'm
not sure. I didn't see some of these other ones.
Oh yeah, they did have. I'll try to forgot. The
other one I saw that they had was Data and
Spock from uh Reunification and like you know how like
they have the little push the button and you hear
(02:31):
them right and stuff. Well they go through their whole
their whole little dialogue with.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The Oh my gosh, it's like the whole scene.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It's like, oh my god, this is not good for
an action figure, Like this is or even an ornament.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I had a friend who people are crowding around you
trying to get to the aisle.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Like it's almost done, it's almost done. Yeah I can't.
I can't walk away while it's playing. But yeah. I
had a friend who had a small tree that had
all of his Hallmark Star Trek ones, and my favorite
was I think it was the Galileo, and it would
be it would say like shuttle Craft to enterprise, shuttle
Craft to Enterprise, enterprise, spock here, happy holidays, you know,
(03:10):
something something like that. And then it just stopped and
it was like, wow, that's kind of cool. But yeah,
there's man, there's a that's about a long standing tradition
Hallmark Christmas ornaments for Star.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Trek, plan M for Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, set course for merriment.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Oh goodness. Well, speaking of merriment, I thought, since we're
in the festive season, as we said, around these parts,
we would talk about holidays in Star Trek, and that
covers a lot. I know, predominantly we'd usually focus on
alien holidays or non human holidays, if you will, but
(03:55):
I don't know whatever human holidays that still exists.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Voyager was in a Chrisstmas Tree in one episode, so Christmas,
they at least know about Christmas. But I'm trying to
think now, if any series would have done it, it
would have been TOS like it would have been more common.
But there wasn't a TOOS Christmas episode. Was there where
they like celebrate Christmas or even mentioned Christmas. I feel
(04:21):
like there's got to be at least something.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
They do mention it. Now, don't quote because I can't
remember the exact episode, but it's in the most tos
E way, because because which I think is this is
more a UK thing than it is per se a
US thing, though I noted it's the US two, but
it's more so here. But there's a scene and I
can't remember which episode, but they're on the transporter pad
and random female lieutenant is joining the landing party and
(04:45):
it is then explained that she and Captain Kirk had
some encounter at the Christmas party.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Oh yeah, okay, okay, So it establishes that there has
been a Christmas party that did it exists, which, again,
like I said, it makes total sense for TOS like
that feels like the series and the sixties where they
would have just like said, oh yeah, like where nowadays,
like I can't see the bourbon era being like we're
not going to talk about Christmas, We're not going to reference.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That, because it was definitely a The vibe I remember
is because there's always a stereotape stereotype of O Kirk,
you know, da da dah, but the situation definitely reads
as woman was like, oh yeah, let's do that again.
Kirk's like, I uh uh, this never happened. This never happens,
you know.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Now I can see lower decks doing something too, like
where they exchange gifts or something, and and they're like
on the Holid deck except for some reason and they're
all you know, pretending to be Actually that would be
even hilarious where they recreate like a traditional Christmas tree
and all that, and then but all the gifts are holographics,
so they don't care about look what I got to.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You, but none of it can escape the Holo decks,
so it's like is it really a gift? It's like
buying you know, present with through joint bank account, like
is it a gift? You know? Does it work that way? See?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I was thinking more like they would put a Christmas
tree like right, in front of the the you know,
the window in the hallway where they used to where
they used to stay, and they could they could like
blast in it like an ice asteroid and it would
snow out the back window and it'd be all festive
and merry. That'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I know.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I was about to say, you know, you said Voyager, Darren. Now,
of course Voyager was not the first Christmas tree we
saw in Star Trek.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It's right, what generation that those generations would be the
first Christmas tree? Yeah, but the cards, like, you know,
he reads paper books. He's very old fashioned.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well as for him, I think you could argue had
generations or at least that scene in generations not been there,
I think we could have sit sat here and said, like,
how does Christmas exist in the twenty fourth century still?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
But well it it exists in the cards dream. You know,
I was gonna say, it's like it's not so much
you mean existing as in still celebrated because obviously, like
people know it what it was. It's not like which
it is kind of interesting about the staying power of
Christmas if you think about it like in a meta level,
(07:17):
because you know, that'd be like, oh yeah, that festival
that they have in seventeen fifty five, we totally still
celebrate that. Like I can't think, you know, I don't
think of anything that stuck around that long for hundreds
of years.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And again I'm not I'm not a sociologist, but from
what little I know of at least how we celebrate Christmas,
at least in the Western world, is it is it
a bit of a revival like sort of like it
was a thing and it wasn't a thing, and then
it came a thing again because it was like, you know,
you had the early Americans like Outlaw and the double
down was really a thing, and then the Germans really
(07:54):
like a lot of the traditions are German traditions facts,
you know. So but anyway, again I'm not an expert,
but I just think that's like what would be the
in the Federation, in the Star Trek universe or there
any like stuff we do now or that maybe isn't
as big or that is in the past that would
then like have a revival in Star Trek or you know,
some whatever time because obviously with the franchise now we're
(08:16):
talking multiple centuries.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So well, what is there there's ah wasn't there like
a Federation Day, like the day the Federation was founded?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, there's a few holiday let's let's do the If
you're serving on a starship, what days do you get off?
So there is First Contact Day?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Okay, First Contact Day? Yeah, that's every school child knows. No,
was it? Oh something fifth September April fifth, Yeah, twenty
sixty three. There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, I mean you you will not imagine how big
the cues are over at First Contact Land in Montana.
You know, that's that's you want to go off season.
I always go in the winter and no one's there.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
What a miserable can be a rough experience going there
in the winter.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No, no, the weather net keeps at a ball me
seventy two DeGreasy. You know, it's all the snow stops
like ten feet before it hits the ground. Everybody's happy.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh you don't winter in Bozeman. Oh no, So we
have First Contact Day, we have Federation Day, which I
think was referenced. No, I think the card actually was
the first to reference.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I think it was the first. Yeah, and that is
which gives me major like Empire Day vibes, because that's
the thing in Star Wars when the Empire was founded,
and I'm like, Federation Day. I'm like, is this something
we should be celebrating.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, well, I'm curious because I don't you know, outside
of my knowledge is Empire d and Star Wars? Is
this talk about revival and co opting and all that?
Is it like literally like the day Order, you know,
sixty six weeks order.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Sixty six day when like we reorganized the galact the
the Republic into the first galactic Empire. That's Empire Day.
That's a bad day.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I didn't know if it was like they just like
stole like this is when the Republic Senate was formed. No, no,
it's always been Empire Day. I don't know what you're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, no, no, it's it's that terrible black day that
everything happened.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Do you think that the Emperor gave Vader special presence
on that day?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Every year, I hear you get a death star, oh
or won his tay X, his tayags advanced.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I give you a present for each dead child.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
The only two guys in the entire that are like
actively happy about the Empire.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Wait, wait are you telling me they play secret Sith?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Never mind I'm just gonna keep pat past the Death Star.
He stops on you, it destroys your planet.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Sorry, I'm not stealing the Emperor's gifts, are you?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Nothing. We said nothing more than fifteen credits. Yeah, these
mittens won't fit over my gloves. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Emperor helps the lightning come out anyway. This is not
Star Wars talking, all right, So back to all right,
So we have Federation Day, first contact day. I feel
like I'm missing one, but maybe. I mean I'm not
counting Captain of Card Day. That's you know, that's we already.
We've already done that one.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
It definitely should count.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, we definitely day we talked about every ship has there.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It's a local, local day, local holiday.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Local holiday.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
But yeah, I can't think of any federation. I can
get get into different cultures, but any federation wise, I
can't think of any holidays.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Well, because I think holidays would still be like buy species.
Like if you're a Bowllyan, you're gonna celebrate your own holidays, like.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Aaron Darren, what is the Bowleyan holiday?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Go ahead? Oh uh, I'm Blue Day and uh, and
we celebrate our bullianness. I was just thinking, it makes
me think of a I don't remember the title, but
there was a this was more about religion. But this
is something that Babylon five handled really well where it
(12:15):
talked about because you know, in true nineties, let's learn
about ourselves fashion. You know, Jikar wanted to know more
about Earth religions. You know, because each alien species there's
like they're you know, they're monolithic, there's one religion per species.
But on Earth there's many cultures that we can learn
(12:37):
and appreciate. So all that to say, yeah, I kind
of feel like Star Trek would have a holiday liaison
that would run around with scheduling and be like, oh, well,
today's the well by start eight whatever it is the fifth,
you know, Beta z Ring Day, and so we gotta
have a special cello performance in ten forward. You know.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I love the idea because, as we all know, on
a starship at least at least twenty fourth century, that's
usually where we plant our flag. But like the EXO
first officer, as we all know, is hr REP and
so either the first officer or one of their I
don't know whoever they want to deputize is in charge
of holiday scheduling, like you know, Commander Riker is like, okay,
(13:20):
we have the negotiations with the Davidians, we have the
relief we're doing on Parsik five and okay, is it
Bullian Heritage Month? Okay, all right, what are we doing
for that?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Guys? Well, they have eighteen months, so it happens faster
than you would expect it to.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
So oh, that would be really like I know we're
mostly joking, but like imagine that would be kind of
a headache, like what is officially recognized as holidays, and
that would be real messy. And then because some people
would you know, oh, my sex doesn't celebrate that.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Now granted that's only in Starfleet where everyone's mixed together.
If you're on a Bullion Raiders captain, you know, yeah,
of course you celebrate. Well, you're not going to celebrate
Starfleet days.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Wait, you mean I have to work on Federation Day.
All the all the replicators are closed on that day.
Where where are we going to go with the Klingon restaurant?
It's always the kling Off.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You don't think Quark would uh, you know, license things
on Federation Day for selling, you know, he would totally
take advantage of holiday.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Becomes so commercial. It used to be about Archer.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Now it's Quark wants it commercial. It's exactly what he wants.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Yeah, what for any celebrate just money Day or the
anti divine treasure treasury to anti Labor Day, anti un Day.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
The opening the new fiscal year? Happy every quarters?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Financial reports is a is a holiday?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Earnings day?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah? Earnings day, payday?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Okay, So let's talk about someones we definitely know about.
This is off the top of my head, but you
can you just yell out any other ones. So the
one I just think about is the Bajoran got It
Gratitude Festival.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I was gonna say, it's got to be a festival
if it's Bajoran, no holidays, only festivals.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
And I can't remember, Daniel, you're more you've watched the
whole thing more recently than I have. I know it's Bajoran.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Is it technically religion religious in nature or is it
just Bajoran culture in general?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I would think. So it's been a hot minutes since
I can't even which.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I know, I would think. But about Bajoran's they have
festivals and peninsulas. That is that is what I know
provinces and provinces held our joy.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah, yeah, it doesn't say it doesn't say anything about
the actual history of it.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
It is but.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Because everything involving the Jordan's religious nature, but you know,
it doesn't really say specifically.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So I do like, and this is off memory, so
I might be wrong because I forget when they first
introduced it. It wasn't like season one, but whenever they
introduced it, you know, three four five, they did at
least I feel like they attempted every year to come
back to it, even if it was just a casual mention,
like it would be.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Like right, yeah, you'd think they'd have a holiday for
the end of the occupation. It's kind of a major day. Yeah,
but is this Liberation Day or something so recent that
it wouldn't maybe the VC day victory over Kardassia Day.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I think they're waiting on the official government before.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
That is top five on the list, as soon as
the new government.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Although provincial governments can't declare holidays, but actual governments can,
so we're just going to have to wait on that.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
So that's why they only have religious health is because
the KAI has declared holiday that We're still waiting for
the government to figure out the other holidays, so I
feel like you probably still have to work on the
on the holidays.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Always work, always work, go to temple. Everyone goes to temples.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
So I still got to go to work and then
I gotta go to temple. Yeah yeah, oh man, all right,
what are the others? Some the kleons obviously have a
lot of things. They have Day of Honor, which I
guess is well they have tooth.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Every day is a day of honor, Philip, if you
keep it in your heart.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Let me know if you remember the difference, because I
remember having watched T ANDG season two, it wasn't Day
of Honor. It was called like Ascension Day, I think.
But then and I don't know, later on we would
develop Day of Honor, which I think Voyager did that first,
but I mean, correct me if Es nine did it first,
But yeah, I think butoer Alost feel like those are different,
(18:01):
but I don't know, you know, it's almost like your
bomb Mitzvah anniversary, the way they Christmas.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Like killing the Gold God's Day, like, you know, because
they were more trouble than they were worth.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I feel like the Klingons are kind of always in
a celebratory that's true.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Indeed, prescribed holidays for a good time.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
They're just always doing it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, but then then you just have to do all
your time. I just remember that Balana episode because it
was like Nelix is trying to do everything and get
all the Klingon stuff to celebrate her day of honor.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
What she she's nonpracticing, so she's non observant.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Ye, she's she's culturally culturally kling On.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Well didn't she grub on Earth?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Right?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Isn't that right? I'm I misremembering that.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah yeah, well yeah, because her dad was human and
he split and then I had that rough time with
the Klingon moms. How dare you raise me?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I think that was her problem.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
By the way, we've never did I feel like get
an explanation for why the dad left, Like, I mean,
I know we had that episode and it was like, oh,
but like if you remember this episode, you know way
back she was having flashbacks. I forget what, but you
so you saw like little Ballana and her cousin it's
her dad and I think it's brother or something like that.
But he was like, oh, yes, and there's just like
him and his brother or whoever it was, We're like,
(19:32):
oh yeah, things are tough, but I'm like okay, and
then just ran out of his family like I didn't really.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I mean, look, you got replicators, you have a social
safety net, you have you know, daycare, Like, what's it's
not so tough? What's what's her problem?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I mean, you've been presumably with a cling on woman,
and you have a child who's by the looks of it,
I mean at least eight seven eight, So I mean,
like it it's not been a non amount amount of time,
you know, suddenly be like, you know what, I don't like.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Cleaning on women.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Suddenly I've just changed my mind.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, okay, And.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I think that's one of the things if you don't,
if you feel that way, that comes very quickly.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So there's no do any species have or anything in
Star Trek have anything close to Valentine's Day, Romance.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Day, Park Day, I would.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Think, I mean the betazoids surely, right.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the horizons definitely do.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well, that's every day, that's every day.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I feel like betas always have a lot of holidays.
They feel like a holiday you.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Don't need to declare your love if the other people
just know you have it true.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
The just everyone everyone's just naked that one day.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I think everyone's just naked all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
They make it sound like it's just weddings. We know,
we know, it's funerals every day. Actually, the custom is
to wear clothes the day before the wedding, so it
actually feels like something different on the wedding day.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
It's like how you're not supposed to see, you know,
your bride before the wedding. You cannot see. Don't look them,
they're in clothing.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
That's fine, it's fine. I'll be in the gym.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It makes you sound like a FERENGI.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Well, the people on Haven probably have the one with
the you're thinking it, Oh, they definitely have a Valentine's.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
The guardian tells them what the holiday is.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
If you don't celebrate it death.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm picturing just just especially with like the Season one
special effects such as they were. I'm trying to remember
my mind to go back to how they marked the
border because I can't rember if it was like just
like it wasn't a code, but like you know, like
a construction thing that just went on or like how
it was like, oh, this is now the off limits here.
I can just imagine that's how the holidays like suddenly,
(22:04):
like the Jack o' lantern suddenly appear, like Oh, I
guess I guess we're doing Halloween. I guess we're.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah. No, it wouldn't have been well defined for sure.
It's like oh, oh we're doing that now. Okay, okay,
but you know what that that does.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Bring up an interesting point, like on the Prodigy or
the Laderships, kind of like in Harry Potter when when
they're like, oh, it's this season now and this team one,
and it just everything flips.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh yeah, it's Halloween season now, and there's a virtual
displays throughout the ship that change for every you know,
like a conference center, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Like the el cars because as you know, I mean
at this pumpkins on them. Well, like we just haven't
gone down this deep about you know, what is your
preferred EL Car's color spectrum? Like I'm more like an
orange blue, yeah, versus the yellows of the green, So
like is it seasonal? Is it like orange or like
yellow as the seasons go.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
They're an engineering maintenance worker who goes into the turbolips
and change the date on the bottom every every star date.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
So it's it's like the chief engineer. Their responsibility is
to delegate someone's changing the l cars. You know, they
have to talk to the the to talk to Daniels,
like computer operator of the starship that would ever see
we want.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We want orange. It's like a little too close to
red alert. You gotta stay at least one spectrum shift
away from that. Always we can't even tell the difference,
like is this panel at critical? I don't know. Bert
Umber doesn't tell me anything.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's Jack O lantern.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
It's jack yeah, orange alert. I don't even know what
that means. Do I go to my doo d station or.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
There's a little snow that falls down the display.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Because I'm trying to think of like all the like
the little you know, stupid I mean, I play them
all little stupid games on my phone that update the
summer and like same game, it just has snow floating
the whole time.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And so the war icon updates to a one covered
in snow where it's a Christmas tree during Christmas time.
So funny it would be true.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Oh my god, there's something in particular matter in the delithium.
Oh no, it's the snow globe thing.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, we're good. That's a snow globe turns orange.
We know that's bad.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I feel like that was like some like at sea
rhyme when the snow globe is orange.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, but like, you.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Wouldn't encourage Valentine's Day on a starship, specifically on specific starship.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Certainly maybe you tell me you're you're in charge of
the uh.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I don't know. I've seen some season one episodes that
seem very promiscuous, so.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I know it's fine. As long as you can do
your job and it doesn't interfere with it, then it's fine.
But I don't know that you would encourage it.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I think they all take hits from that special drug
where they all, you know, go loopy in.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I'm imagining you're on the bridge and then like the
I don't know, Yeoman walks into the bridge with a
basket full of balanine and be like, hold.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
On, I have let me see who I've got here.
They're teeny tiny two inch pads. Yeah, that's what they
they hand them out. They're like waiting for you. Yeah,
the digit little shape of well, which which species here, Daniel?
Which species.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Are not at card for anyone?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah, it's true universal that everyone keeps their heart.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And then but Cott reaches under he's got like an
empty basket hidden under his chairs. You gotta collect them all.
You know, they have no pockets, they have nothing to
hold all of these dozens of tiny pads.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I am picturing now everyone's seat or station has their
little basket with their.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Name on it.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Don't bring any in if you can't bring one in
for everyone, everyone on the bridge gets.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
See now I'm picturing that there was a whole like
to solve this problem instead of baskets, like someone basically
replicates it almost be like a like a like a
beeswax frame. So you carried around a little handle. It's
got like little slots for all of the little teeny
two inch pads that you just like place in and
(26:18):
just so everyone just walking around with one of these
like next to them.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I can see like during the duty shift change for
the helm, they like take their basket. The other person
comes in attaches their basket.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah, there's a special basket port that connects on the you.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Know, people don't notice it, but if you look you
can see.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
The little Yeah, there's always you know, Wharf doesn't. Everyone
knows Wharf doesn't celebrate, So don't don't give him one.
Stay away. The baskets are only atached to chairs. Sorry, Wharf,
you can't. Can't.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Well, as I learned from Oh I can't remember which episode,
No I can, it's the uh our first episode we
ever to the Klingon episode Code of Honor. That's not
you know, the one talking about But anyway, that's where
with the Kleon exchange program with record. Yeah, but we
learned with the what's his face the Benzite that that
establishes that Orf is in charge of the ass section.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Oh he is. You're right if you're back, because they're
in punching range, you know if you're not, but range,
just you know, he's like busy doing stuff at his
constantly just swings.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
His arm around like hey, hey over here, get down
the debt driving the car.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Look. Science Center Station one and Science Station two are
exactly the same. That doesn't matter who gets witch console.
Just do your job.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Oh and since all the stations are modular, that he
can just press the button Science one and do something
to go to the opposite end of the Fine Sky.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You're in slot one, you're in slot five, Okay, gotta
separate you two. Then Jordy comes in and he's like, oh, sorry, Jordy,
you're you're in slot three today, gonna have to be
in the middle. It's like, oh, but I want the
extra extra side console. I like to be next to
the door in case I want to go get out
of here. One of the bends. It's like, I need
(28:12):
to be on Sciencetation one because it's next to the bathroom.
So I.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
From the CMO. Yeah, Doctor Crusher, what about romulans? Joel
on true?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
What what?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
What are they?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
True? A Senate Day seems like an important I.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Mean, is this before or after ifyone got vaporized?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, Remembrance Day or remember the Superday? Not a lot of.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Man never forget.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Objugation of Remis Day, Like you know, I would.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Just call it.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Change that to then celebrate. Uh, it's a Columbus Day situation. Yeah,
I had to Indigenous redmen. Yeah, there's the episode title
right there. No, it's about the contributions to the mining community.
It's not we're not talking about.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
The contributions to the mining community.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Do they celebrate Reunification.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Day probably would. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Now yeah, is there is there a Is there a
mixture of Romulin and Vulcan holidays or do they still
keep things separates?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Good question.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I wonder how well theirre integration is. I can't remember
how like I can't remember. You would think they would
all become just you know, whatever they are.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It's like every raucous romulin holiday still involves like thirty
minutes of meditation.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Exactly, exactly, all balanced, a little bit of a little bit.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Of me, a little spice added to your plumiek soup.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
They're really celebrating now, Oh man, is.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
That prika goodness?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah? See now I'm just picturing Yeah, I mean my grandmother.
There's there's only now I'm thinking, have Vulcan's like they
have like one holiday that they sell, but they go
absolutely crazy like all the other. No, Nope, No, this
Purge Day you're you're describing.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Not that kind of crazy welcome to festival days suh.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Well, to be fair, that's that's on brand because uh,
what they do for their meeting ritual is pretty pretty right.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, Valentine's Day and on Vulcan is very different.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I want buying that there is perch Day and Vulcan.
It is obviously very secret, but I can just imagine
you're just there in this on.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
The year nor nor All emotion is valid for the
next twenty for twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
It's not like you can like, you know, you don't
commit crazy crime. No, you just can feel you.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
You eat the tub of ice cream, you feel this.
Oh yeah, yeah, it's not violent at all. It's just uh,
it's just all emotional. They're they're watching all the rom
coms on their pads and banging or ye much like
the listen to music that's an out.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Loud and nobody talks about it.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
The next day. You just yeah, no, no, everyone ignores
that day. Yeah, private day.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Go over to someone's house and be like, I like
you so much, I appreciate you still for the next
twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Everyone is a logic extremist, Darren. Oh they are not okay,
too far, too too far, too far.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
See, they would be the ones fighting against the purge.
That's the movie I want to.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Say now, Philip. I don't know if you're aware of this,
but there is a holiday page on Memory Alpha.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Okay, I pulled it up just.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
To see and I want to just bring up real quick,
not to hijack this, but one of the things listed
here is I'm married to the most Wonderful woman in
the Universe galaxy by Miles O'Brien. He named it an
official day listen on her personal holiday, but it's called
I'm married to the most wonderfulman in the Galaxy day.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Okay, weird because it's I was gonna say it feels
like O'Brien was in the doghouse, so he said it
once and they write it on this list. That's exactly
what it sounds like, like, this isn't a real day.
This is something O'Brien said. And scene two of Act four,
so it's on the list.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
When the guy is in charge of the computer system,
you're selling like wait what.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
This park's like? Why is my replicator saying Aco day
Like I.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Shouldn't don't make the rules And then and then Cisco
just goes plays baseball on the holiday all day, so
you know, yeah, because hey, now it's married, Miles, Okay,
have some considerations.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Wife died.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Jeez, has it been well? What about Wolf three? Five
nine days?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Oh? Yeah, yeah? What what? What?
Speaker 4 (33:28):
What?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
What is?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
What does Sean Luke Do that day? Does he just
got to run.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
I'm gonna be in my corner, don't want to talk
to me. I was gonna say, what about Captain shaw
Do on that day? Yeah, it's a very trauma filled
day like this is.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Uh yeah, I imagine like a lot of pinatas that
look like locutest or man.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I didn't think about that, but having Captain Shramae Captain Cisco, yeah, they.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I think they kind of bond over that day. Hmm.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Oh you got to meet your wife in a parallel universe.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
So remarried. Okay, well, that's sounds like you're moving on.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I pictured his conversations also, like, now, let me tell
you like we were we were flying out of one
wormhole and we could see the back end of our
ship right over there. It was the craziest thing.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
What else is on the list, Daniel, Uh, let's see.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
On the list is well, personal holidays are anniversary, birthdays
and naming day, which is apparently for rangunar holiday.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I name you something, that's when.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
You name a male frangie. I don't remember that at all.
But a lot of the things you talked about, Prickson,
which we didn't talk about specifically that's on.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
There talaxiin holiday, right, Yep, it's definitely.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
There's like good holidays where we're like celebrating them. There's
like remembrance days where like we're remembering terrible things in
our history.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Oh, there is a speaking of which because Strange New
Worlds introduced this, there's I mean, I forget what they
call it, but memorial Day basically what it is. That's
when they all wear like their little pens from the
other ships they served on. Oh yeah, where people died
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
That's right, that's right. Now you watch that again.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Nelix made a holiday.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I don't remember that ancest Felix Day and Daniel's from
eleven fifty nine. Come on now, I don't know how
you don't.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Oh yes, my favorite of all the episodes that I've
watched once.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I mean, do you feel like they brought back whale Day?
Once they brought back the whales?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
So and actual thing. I mean there's other cetaceans before,
just not just the whales, but even the whales are evil.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yes, what holidays do the societation ops get to celebrate?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Is there flippers Birthday?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I don't know what? What?
Speaker 3 (36:24):
What is a birthday. Yeah, I don't know. I guess
that would be an exo duty, right, that's true. Yeah,
and then they get like special fish or something for
the day. Or you can't really decorate it the inside
of a tank. I guess you could put like a tree.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
You could you can dump glitter into the tank day,
you guys, not a good idea, but they could do it.
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
You die the water?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Oh yeah, the whales so angry. Well they dyed in red,
so it's like everything, Yeah, I can't see anything.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Tom Peris mentioned Saint Patrick's Day, so it exists.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
In some capacity, it exists on a whole planet. But yeah, no, no,
that's that's true.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Well, I mean obviously you're gonna have to go okay
forgetting it fair fair Haven, fair Haven. That's that's your.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Fair Haven Day.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah, Groce stereotypes day, I guess.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I mean overall, like you know, we get a lot
of holidays and stuff like that, But I do feel
like that's something that Start Trek could have done more
of to kind of make it feel more grounded. And
it's like, oh, in our in our future, we still
have these customs. You know, that'd be but it kind
of feels like it goes at odds with Roddenberry's like
(37:57):
no religion view, so it's like it's gonna be harder.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
So does like Crou's planet Kelpia or whatever it's called.
Do they have like reverse Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Oh, Jesus's terrible.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Uh, fear day.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Every day is fear day if you keep it in
your heart. You know.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Right now, I'm thinking of the of the a fear
Carol that that threw has to go through.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
And then at the at the end, he just learns
to be more afraid and there's no positive message.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Fears of past, fears of presence, and fears have yet
to come.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yeah, to all fear. It's what all little children, Kelpian
children learn about the fears of the past, present, and future.
That's actually really funny because that would be exactly what
would happen.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
And of course I'm going to die. We all know that, Yeah,
I know, because not tends to not be a lot
of aliens at the top. That's I started my head
going through captains and exos. Well, like number one Allyrian,
(39:19):
what are the Allyrian holidays? We'll have to or whatever
she is, I don't have to know enough.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
What about Kardassians.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Ah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
It feels like Krdassians would have the Cardassian you know,
funny enough, feels like it would also be a festival species.
I feel like, uh, that's something that they in the
Victorian have in common.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Victory Day for sure. Yeah, and they all lay out
on a rock.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yeah, canard for all my officers.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
What about the Borg they all celebrate the day assimilation
assimilation day, It's like the birth every day, but since
somebody has always been every day is a similation day
if you keep it in your coinical processing.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
But no, no, but like the anniversary of each like
Drone as they were assimilated.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Wait, so you're saying they have all have birthday, Like
I'm picturing like the little birthday hat they put on
the Drone and they're like, is there asleep?
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Fun will now commence?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Well, they could have a the board could have some
sort of religious holiday around Omega, thank you? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
And how would they celebrate the Borg temple?
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Obviously the triangle room inside their giant hue.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
But is that what they get in to the celebratory triangle?
You know, you let go of your spears and cubes
and triangle it up for a day. Oh no, it's
the Borg cone. O'ver fine there, that's party day. They
won't they'll leave us alone. Is it just like the
same like have we talked about like the picture a
(41:16):
little disco lighting.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Now I'm picturing the Borg triangle cone? Is you know,
small enough that it could just like dock on top
of a galaxy class It looks like a party hat.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Just you will be celebrated, silly.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
The Borg don't celebrate, as you say.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
When I think of Borg, I think of silly. So
I don't know what you're.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Why do they have lights in their ship?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Uh? Efficiency for being able to see?
Speaker 3 (41:51):
They need to see?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Well they I mean they all start with biological Yes
I can't see, but that I need to see?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
H I mean like because they're not telepathic. I mean
if they are, you know, they.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Have a new defense mechanism where if someone beams aboard,
they just turn off all the lights and then all
people see they're just a little red lasers flying through
the the sky and they're like, oh this is bad.
That's true. They were the lights around that room when
in first contact, Like they don't need air.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
The cube could be full of no air or you know,
just vacuum, So why not. I'm just thinking, I mean,
I get.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
It, you're you're you're right in that they don't need
those things, but there are drawbacks like physiologically to not
having like a pressure vessel and you know light, So
I think it feels more like an efficiency thing.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Like it's just i mean, why do they have that
huge space inside the quebe They could just downsize if
it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
The compact cube. It's like it's the same volume of
drones just packed in. They're all just a clown car.
They're all just docked. Can't know, no one can get
out of their stasis pod because they're all like just
like cord would I mean, they really.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Should be like packed in, like even horizontally vertically whatever,
and then they just kind of slot out, you know.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Yeah needed. Yeah, they're all standing sideways like you know,
like we have to pivot for the picture at school,
like to fit a little more.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Do you remember in the first episode Borg episode when
Riker opened a drawer and there was a Boorg baby inside? Yep,
And we never did that again.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Yeah, yeah, Boyler saved the Borg children in lower decks.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
So the cards, uh, I don't like his name. Jack
is technically a borg baby, I guess right, so.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
Nickle, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Wait wait is that like on a scholarship application he's
saying he's part Borg and we're like.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
Okay, all right, your what percent Borgan? Best? What percent Borg? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Let's let's not.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Does he get a special studies what's the word scholarship?
If he's one per seven? Seven can claim that she
gets you know, it's like eighty percent Borg.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
And she still celebrates her assimilation day.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
I guess cool.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
All right, well that's been sort of a random walk
through Star Trek holidays. I'm sure we missed a bunch,
but those are the fun ones. So put on your
borg cone hat and party party, party this festive season. So, Daniel,
if folks want to know what you'll be doing for
your ascension day and the painsticks you'll be using, how
can they reach you?
Speaker 3 (44:55):
I will only be a sending once and that is
the number one, not the word do you find me
at one of.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
The And.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Darren, if folks want to know what you'll be wearing
to your beta's at holiday function, where can they reach you?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Oh? Yes, that registry is very short and they can
go to doctor sci Fi dot com d R s
c I f I And.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
If folks want to chill with me over at the
Andorian Party, they can find me on Instagram at c
P T S f U P Well until next week,
I'm Philip Gilphiss.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
I'm Dandifer, and I'm Darren Moser.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Stranded here on City Alpha three
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