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Welcome to the podcast maneuver, the officially unofficial podcast for Star Trek Picard on Paramount

Plus. I'm Jim. I'm Aaron. And today we're here to do season two episode nine feedback

episode. Aaron, what did the audience have to say? What was the general tenor of the

audience's feedback? We had an item or two of praise, but yeah, there's a lot of quantum

torpedoes being launched at this particular show. Shields are buckling. Hollen Taggarty

is questionable at this point. Do we need to separate the saucer section as all I'm

asking? I mean, I think it's like, when I think we're being too mean on the show, I just

this morning, or maybe it's last night, Red Letter Media's coverage of episode six through

nine dropped, and they're just scathing. I'll say this. This reminds me of middle walking

dead with a spice with a little dash of some spice onto it, because like the overwhelming

amount of people that are like watching and enjoying the show are just sick of people

like us. Sure. But what annoys me is I feel like they are retreating into the like, well,

if you hate to Star Trek, it's you hate diversity, which has never been my problem. I've always

loved the fact of Trek as diverse. Trek has always been diverse. Trek has always tackled

one. Jesus Christ. What do you think you hear it was doing on the bridge? Yeah. They got

the captain kissing his black bridge officer right and got them banned off Southern stations,

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