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Improvised Star Trek

Ep 48: I Can't Believe Its Not Romulus

Improvised Star Trek

USS Sisyphus

Improv, Comedy

4.9573 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2012

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The USS Sisyphus encounters a Romulan ship when a rescue mission takes it in to the Neutral Zone.  But is everything as it appears? SPOILER ALERT: It is not.

With Special Guest Julia Weiss.  Recorded July 15, 2012.  Title suggested by comic artist Ben Templesmith. Title solicited by @TheMightyGarn, winner of Improvised Star Trek's "Get Us A Celebrity Suggestion from the San Diego Comic Con" contest.

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0:00.0

Commander?

0:02.0

Yes, Captain.

0:04.0

Set in a course for these coordinates.

0:07.0

You'll notice that it's in the neutral zone.

0:09.0

Yeah, I did. I noticed that right away, sir.

0:12.0

Is this...

0:13.0

Set in those coordinates, I'll be in my red air room.

0:15.0

Uh, yes, sir.

0:17.0

All right, everyone.

0:19.0

Actually, no, I'm not gonna give a speech Loram get out of your seat okay

0:26.6

Ah heading to the neutral zone huh? Damn it Lorum what I was just what we're heading to the neutral zone? I was watching him put in the corn it's right in the neutral zone

0:33.6

We're going to the neutral zone and I'm sure we've got a very good reason hey it's not like any of we're not complaining I'm not complaining any of us we're going to the neutral zone and I'm sure we've got a very good reason. Hey, it's not like any of... We're not complaining. I'm not complaining. Any of us, we're ready to go to the neutral zone. Well, you should be a little reticent. This is technically an act of war. No, let's go. Commander Fassbender. Yes, Lieutenant Fassbender. Are we going to the neutral zone? What, how did you, how did you find out about this? You put coordinates into my wife, and you expect her not to immediately tell me where we're going. All right, we're going to the neutral zone, and you don't get to know why. Fair enough, Faspender out. Captain Baxter, Commander Hayes. Uh, yes, sir. Can you come into my ready room for a moment? Yes. But I'm going into the ready room, everyone. Ooh, busted. I feel like he expects us to, like, be worried and care about the fact that we're going into a neutral zone. Why is it an act of war anyway? I mean, it's neutral. It's a neutral zone. It's not the war zone. No. I don't understand. It also seems like he expects us to be all, ooh. If he got summoned by the captain. I know. This guy, I mean, he just expects us to, can think that this is like the most impressive stuff happening all the time. Yeah, yeah, that whole, like, grand show of like, get up from your console. Get up from me. Get up from here. Let me get up from here. Like we don't know what he's doing.

1:48.0

God. What a dick. It's all it's pageantry. Space. Space, the final frontier.

2:23.3

These are the voyages of the starship's Sisyphus.

2:28.3

Its five-year mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations,

2:35.9

to boldly go where no one has gone before.

2:46.5

You're listening to the improvised Star Trek with Matt Young as Captain Julius Valentine Baxter.

2:52.4

Chris Rathchin as First Officer Corbyn White Hayes.

2:55.5

Sean Kelly as science officer Crick Watson.

2:58.4

Rivene Naxein as Chief Engineer Fritz Fassbender.

3:01.9

Irene Marquette as security officer, Lieutenant Lady Cola.

3:05.9

Nick Wagner as Navigation Officer Charles Lorum.

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