Ep 177: Baby, It's Old Outside
Improvised Star Trek
USS Sisyphus
4.9 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Captain Baxter's quest for the perfect Christmas mission is a resounding success, assuming your family traditions include cabin fever and existential dread.
Improvised on 9/3/2017. Title suggested by Nat Blackburn via Twitter
Matt Young as Captain Baxter
Chris Rathjen as Cmdr. Corbomite Hayes, Dirk Snowman
Mary Cait Walthall as Dr. Zarlene Zonalzo
Eli Mandel as Lt. Rip Stipley, Doug Snowman
Nick Wagner as Lt. Ch'arles Lorem, Mr. Snowman
Julia Weiss as Ensign Spot, Jiminy
Sean Kelley as Lt. Cmdr. Crick Watson, Steve Snowman
Transcript
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| 0:19.0 | Corbo, can we go ahead and just land on this planet? |
| 0:23.3 | No? |
| 0:24.4 | Why not? |
| 0:26.2 | It'd be like a day's work to get down without destroying the ship. |
| 0:29.6 | Really? |
| 0:30.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:30.9 | We not built for land in, sir. |
| 0:33.6 | Is that why we're always in orbit? |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, yeah, that's why. |
| 0:36.3 | That's why. |
| 0:36.9 | And then, like, I have to go down and we have to build, like, a little base for the front because the bottom of the ship isn't flat. What if we just tied shuttlecrafts to the front of the ship? Like, stacked them? Yeah, because they can land, right? I guess we could land them. It would be a whole thing. Can we just do orbit? And I promise, I promise, give me some time. I will work out so the next planet we go to, we can land. I just really wanted to land on this one particular continent because it looked very, like, snowy and, like, kind of like a fun, like, old Christmas vibe. And I was like, I really want to just land there and, like, decorate the whole ship. Is this your Christmas wish, sir? Yeah. It's your one Christmas wish? My only one. All right, we'll land the ship. Yes! Rip, you don't have to go. You don't have to go on shift. Come on. I have to. No, you don't have to. You have freedom. You could stay. |
| 1:27.9 | Okay. |
| 1:28.5 | Okay. |
| 1:33.4 | This tea is good. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.5 | I don't go to work. |
| 1:37.3 | No, stay. |
| 1:38.4 | What are we going to do? |
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