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I think you can do multiple.

And also having characters from media come in to cover up actual abuses.

Like to this day, I will still have dreams that are totally saturated with Star Trek characters.

And now I know to pay attention and look beyond that because that was a programming thing that was used on me when I was a kid.

you know, in like the late eighties and nineties when the next generation was on TV, like they would literally like give me acid and sit me down like clockwork orange style with my eyelids open, like in front of a marathon screenings of the next generation.

But like, this is something I became very aware of when I started to get my memories back.

Like I would wake up in a cold sweat, but I couldn't describe anything concrete.

I just had a dream about Star Trek characters.

But if I meditated with it and let those false images start to dissolve, I could get to the actual picture of what was happening and why my body was reacting so violently.

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Today, we're discussing the Deep Space Nine episode, Invasive Procedures.

I'm Dom Bettinelli, and joining me today on the panel are Jimmy Akin.

I mean, because, I mean, it provides a convenient excuse for why they can't ask any of the non-main cast to help if the station's evacuated and none of the non-main cast are on board.

Yeah.

But the main cast does everything anyway, so they don't need everybody else in terms of Star Trek writing.

Right.

right no i'm with you i'm with you but for those people who just see that headline because i saw several in the entertainment thing where the muppets are doing a brand new christmas carol and people of course they're doing it just to try to you know get people to go oh look click click click and they click and they go it's a freaking walmart ad really whatever anyway Some sad notes in the entertainment.

Walter Koenig, Star Trek's original Chekhov, dead at 90.

George Takei was one of the first.

Him and Walter's niece basically put out their stuff at the same time.

But I just have to add it in today because we.

Star Trek's Walter Koenig, who played Chekhov, one of my favorite characters, died at 90 years of old, natural causes.

A neighbor found him in his home in California as the iconic, the real Star Trek, the original.

In 1966, he landed the role alongside William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and many others as Chekhov, in that big, heavy Russian accent that was always fun.

There were some really funny episodes that sort of featured him.

nerd.

You're a Star Wars nerd or a Star Trek geek.

Ugh.

I thought we could buy the category.

Because one of them sucks, that's for sure.

Let the people at home decide which one.

It's Star Trek.

And Stargate fits into one of those two categories.

You

literally like Star Trek would go, oh, that's what we're looking for so we can create our, you know, beam me up stuff.

You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, one second.

I'm going to show you the other, the Tetractys.

I forgot the name of it, but it's basically, you know, like...

Perhaps.

In fact, we got this idea from Star Trek where they can take apart you by...

Numbers, using numbers, just calculations, and then reassemble you somewhere else.

Is it? Yeah.

The Orville? Oh, that was a Star Trek adjacent space thing.

It's like

his love letter to Star Trek.

Yeah, I remember hearing things about that, and then I stopped hearing things about

that.

like no this guy's obviously i mean they don't know that he's going to regenerate off of the slab but um Yeah, and also, this is, like, a legitimately, like, as far as a sci-fi movie goes, like, there's lots of science and pseudo things happening and, like, oh, we gotta get to this thing, but no, we have to, like, override this.

There's, like, so much Star Trek jargon happening.

Yeah.

It feels kind of cozy, again, as people that grew up watching Next Generation and things, where, like... have to like contend with the science along with the threat um that is just it's just kind of well done for what it for what it needs to be um it's written by todd farmer who did the my bloody valentine uh remake and drive angry um guilty