Hello, my name is Tawny Newsom. I play Beckett Mariner on Star Trek Lower Decks.

I am Paul F. Tompkins and I play Dr. Migglymo on Star Trek Lower Decks.

But more importantly, we're just a couple of Star Trek nerds who are excited because we finally get to talk about Star Trek again with all of you.

And we will be featuring Deep Space Nine guests to celebrate the show's 30th anniversary.

We're gonna be talking Picard Season 3 with members of the original of the next generation cast.

Listen to Star Trek The Pod Directive wherever you get your podcasts.

We made it. We made it. From Times Square to Show Time. We made it. I'm excited. Did you just fucking yawn?

They would have never known that if you hadn't said no.

This lady put two hands up to yawn like it was a wall and I couldn't see her.

I'm so mad no one can see us. But what they can see is this week's episode. Let's talk about it.

Oh, first of all, shout out to this entire season because so far this has been such a great season.

Cliffhangers and all. It's been really, really good. This particular episode came in hot.

Hot. Were you expecting Ben and Casey to be the ones thrown into elimination?

No, I had no idea. That threw me for a loop because it was Derellen Kiki doing.

Right. And because of that, I feel like they were just a mouthpiece for a bigger situation that was going on.

Yeah. And it's so crazy. It's so crazy because I've been over here fighting the air and calling it Derell

because I wanted him to make some big moves but he's so busy like, oh, I don't want to do anything

because I don't want to shake the tables. And you literally just shook a table.

The ticket you did. You picked up the table and you shook it.

Oh, my goodness. Like not even realizing it. Just shook a table because now it's.

Did he think that because they thought that they were when Casey and Ben are like self-proclaimed,

we are at the bottom of these alliances. Yeah. You know, did Derellen think, you know what?

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