Wesley Crusher

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038 - The Lost Episode

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This week:

  • Home Soil, Coming of Age, Heart of Glory

  • Devil in the Dark, redux?

  • Ugly bags of mostly water

  • What is life?

  • Is Data alive?  Is Data human?

  • Is Data just ChatGPT in a synthetic skin suit?

  • I step away while Abbie and Nate continue the conversation, looking ahead to things I haven’t seen

  • The love of being wrong

  • Observations of ADR and television production

  • Picard’s maturity

  • Distinct storylines that don’t come together

  • Series continuity

  • Worf the Stoic

  • A Gentleman in Moscow

  • I relate to the bad guy – sort of

  • Sometimes life isn’t fair

  • Only competing against yourself

  • Starfleet entrance exams.  What is the test?

  • Worf isn’t yet who Abbie remembers

  • The challenge of Tasha Yar

  • Geordi-vision

  • Nate is the biggest nerd on the podcast

  • Death in the Federation

  • Is TNG better than TOS at this point?

  • Picard, the hot head

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035 - Dammit, Wesley!

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This week:

  • A tribute to Scott Adams

  • Where No One Has Gone Before, Lonely Among Us, Justice

  • Abbie realizes how annoying Wesley is

  • Similar to The Original Series, but different enough

  • Thoughts and prayers to get home

  • What is the time range of this iteration of the Enterprise?

  • Curiosity

  • Stoic philosophy

  • Self-proclaimed experts and hubris

  • Confidence without arrogance

  • A body-swap episode?  No way!

  • Sherlock Data

  • Sometimes efforts and attempts just don’t work

  • Security fails again

  • Detectives’ Credo and Bayesian analysis

  • Unbelievable!!!!! The Movie rabbit hole (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIaySADwGp4)

  • A better job telling an ok story

  • Prime Directive

  • Captain’s Calculus

  • Did Picard consider just surrendering the ship?

  • Life is an exercise in exceptions

  • Wesley is smart but naïve

  • The death penalty

  • Broken Window Theory