This week's episode of Improvised Star Trek will be delayed a few days due to holiday traveling.

We are returning to the I.O. Theater stage in January. Stay tuned for news about that after this short bonus scene entitled Trading Species.

I know what I want to see. I want to see Lorum and Commander Hayes in trading species.

And that's all there is to it, you know.

All right, well, turn on the machine then.

Wow, wow, wow. Turn on the machine then.

Oh, uh, do I look different?

Yeah, you got spots. Do I look different?

Yeah, you don't have spots.

Wow. It's like, I never really realized what it would be like to be an entirely different species. I mean, I still have five fingers and five toes on each hand. Yeah, we're pretty similar. I guess my hands, I feel, they're a little clamier. Yeah. Is that you? No, well, I mean, that's not trill. Yeah, that's just me. Oh, right. It's just being me specifically.

Oh, and I don't know. I got a lot of tension. Yeah. Yeah. Is this a trill thing or? No, that's a me thing. Okay. All right. Oh, man. This is very freeing, though, I will say. Yeah, no, you look good. You look real good. I feel just normal. You look so good. You look better than you've ever looked to me right now.

It feels like the default state, really. You know, this feels like what a sentient being is supposed to be like, and everything else is like an augmentation or segmentation of it. Right. You know, I feel like there's a little an asterisk around my personality right now. Yeah, exactly. Like, I'm me, but I'm also a trill. Yeah, right. And that's what the spots indicate, too. Yeah. Like, this just feels neutral, normal, uh, correct. Man, I feel like I could say any crazy thing now, and you wouldn't know whether it were true.

I wouldn't know, because I'm human, you know? Yeah. I'd just be like, oh, that's because they're different. Oh, on my planet, we grab each other's nipples when we first greet. I wouldn't even know whether that's true or not. Don't say no. That'd be rude. insensitive so I just you know whatever I'm doing is correct yeah this is all correct well so we

switch back rude. I don't want to be culturally insensitive, so I just, you know, whatever I'm doing is correct. This is all correct.

Well, should we switch back?

Uh, no. No?

See.

I love, I love the idea that Corvamite becomes Lorham and loves it.

It's very freeing. I'm assuming Lauren loves being Lauren.

Maybe that's wrong.

It's his blessing and his curse.

Improvised Star Trek will be back on the I.O. Theater stage starting January 11th for an eight-week run, Sundays at 8.30.

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