Ep 12: Sparkle Quarks
Improvised Star Trek
USS Sisyphus
4.9 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2011
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Lt. Cmdr Watson invents a shrink ray, exposing the crew to undiscovered worlds all around them.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, I know it sounds crazy, but I need all of you to help me with something. |
| 0:16.7 | Yeah, of course. What do you need? Are you moving? |
| 0:18.9 | You can't call me crazy when I take this tarp off of this thing. |
| 0:23.5 | Lieutenant Commander Watson, we see a lot of strange things here in space, and we just need to roll with it. |
| 0:28.6 | I have invented a shrinking ray. |
| 0:32.0 | What? |
| 0:32.5 | That's ridiculous. It's stupid. |
| 0:34.0 | I want to shrink everyone here down to the size of a quark, to the size of a subatomic |
| 0:39.6 | particle, and we are going to go down into the subatomic world. |
| 0:43.7 | Yeah, why would we want to do that? |
| 0:45.4 | Because we're Federation officers to explore, to see what's there. |
| 0:49.8 | Yeah, to explore space, outer space. |
| 0:52.3 | This is inner space. |
| 0:56.9 | Captain, can I have a word with you? A word long enough, yeah, sure. |
| 0:59.8 | I know I have my moments of general badness. |
| 1:05.2 | Badnessy. |
| 1:06.1 | I don't know what you guys call it. |
| 1:08.3 | I'd call it homicidal tendencies. Okay, sure. We call it lunacy. We're having a side conversation. We're having a side conversation, Jaff. You're not invited. You're not invited over here. Go back with the rest of the crew. Jaffey, do you want me to tell you about the birds and the bees? No. Okay. So I feel like I have a pretty good gauge on this stuff. |
| 1:28.9 | And I would say, |
| 1:31.4 | Quirk is exhibiting my behavior right now. |
| 1:34.5 | That's just an aside to you, just so you, |
| 1:37.0 | I mean, there's a certain gleam in a side. |
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