RW662 - Men Behaving Badly Rewatch S01E04-06 - Animals and Violence Career

 

In this week's episode of The Men Behaving Badly Rewatch, Cory and Tom think they know what they're asking for as they discuss the series 1 episodes 4-6, Animals, Sex and Violence, and My Brilliant Career.

Drunken Mishap:

Last week we talked about George wanting to do the bongs with his wife. It turns out this is a reference to the opening of ITN News at Ten, which show Big Ben. Here's a clip from 1992-

Beer of the week: (not a paid advertisement)

Heineken, from the Netherlands, is a pure malt lager. Very crisp and refreshing!

Animals:

Written by: Simon Nye

Directed by: Martin Dennis

Original airdate: March 10, 1992

Synopsis: 

Dermot shows up late to a company training and after quarreling with the trainer, a break is called and a young woman named Kate approaches him. He discovers that she is the younger sister of a girl he used to date but when she comes on to him, he turns her down, thinking of Deborah. 

At home he can’t understand why he turned her down, commiserating with Gary, deciding to try and proposition Deborah for just a friends with benefits situation. Gary meanwhile has decided to try and get Dorothy to explore an open relationship. The two tensely discuss their relationship, with Gary trying to paint a picture of how much he cherishes their relationship, but would like to also have sex with other women too. She surprisingly agrees. 

Dermot practices his pitch for Deborah but when she comes down, he asks her about her boyfriend and how she’s doing and she mentions the things she misses about him, getting lost in thought, not even hearing Dermot try and give his pitch for them sleeping together. In the end, he leaves her without trying again. The next day, Dermot attempts to get with Kate, but she says she only had a schoolgirl crush, but that her mom did tell her to pass on a hello to him. 

Dermot and Gary chat about the open relationship with Gary covering up his own jealousy, attributing it to Dorothy instead of himself. Gary starts to promote monogamy while Dermot fibs about letting Kate down gently and claiming he talked to Deborah and she gave him a kind of maybe concerning his friends with benefits idea.

Chat on the sofa:

Complete series writer Simon Nye's TV writing career began in 1990 when he was persuaded by producer Beryl Vertue to adapt his first novel for the small screen. Before that, he translated books on Wagner, Matisse and Braque before turning in his late twenties to fiction. After MBB, he went on to write for the short-lived 2001 sitcom The Savages. He wrote the comic adaptations of ITV Pantos, including Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Aladdin, and Dick Whittington, and he co-wrote the 2006 film Flushed Away. He even contributed an episode to the 2010 series of Doctor Who, titled "Amy's Choice."

Complete series director Martin Dennis got his start back in 1982 on episodes of ‘Allo ‘Allo. MBB was his major work, but since the show he’s worked on many other series, including The Savages, Black Books, The Vicar of Dibley, Carrie and Barry, and the revival series of Birds of a Feather. He actually returned to his hay day in 2007, and directed the 2007 TV Movie The Return of ‘Allo ‘Allo.

Neil [Gordon] Kinnock, Baron Kinnock was a privy council member and a Welsh politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was Vice-President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. Kinnock was considered to be on the soft left of the Labour Party.

I Should Be So Lucky by Kylie Minogue

Horlicks is a British sweet malted milk hot drink powder developed by founders James and William Horlick. It was first sold as "Horlick's Infant and Invalids Food", soon adding "aged and travellers" to their label. In the early 20th century, it was sold as a powdered meal replacement drink mix.

Custard Creams and Gingernuts

A custard cream is a type of sandwich biscuit popular in the British Isles, and parts of the Commonwealth, filled with a creamy, custard-flavoured centre. It is believed that the custard cream biscuit originated in Britain in 1908. Usually, they have an elaborate baroque design stamped onto them, originating in the Victorian era and representing ferns. A gingernut (aka ginger snap) is a biscuit flavoured with ginger. Gingernuts are flavoured with powdered ginger and a variety of other spices, most commonly cinnamon, molasses and clove.

Sex and Violence:

Written by: Simon Nye

Directed by: Martin Dennis

Original airdate: March 17, 1992

Synopsis: 

Gary and Dermot bring Deborah to the pub, on account of her being seemingly depressed the last few days. She eventually reveals that she found out her boyfriend cheated on her in Singapore and so she broke up with him. Gary suggests getting back with her by sleeping with someone, preferably someone that is tall and blond like himself, while Dermot pushes for someone shorter with darker hair and a smile like his.

At the squash court, Dermot promises he won’t take advantage of Deborah, while Gary tries to talk but is breathless due to the exercise they’ve been partaking in, leaving him to pant his answers breathlessly. Gary sees Dorothy in the gym and makes some jokes from afar, making her laugh, but then Graham shows up and the two leave together. He goes to Dorothy and confronts her and the two argue when he finds out she slept with Graham. Gary starts to hit on every woman in the club, striking out quite spectacularly. 

Dermot goes to a bank to borrow money, but his goal of using the money to impress Deborah causes the bank manager to deny him. 

At home, Dermot is dressed in a tuxedo, planning to impress Deborah, while Gary is getting drunk, heading to the pub to leave the two of them alone. Deborah, depressed still, doesn’t see the point of trying again. The Mexican food that was supposed to show up, ends up being Japanese food because the Mexican restaurant closed down. Deborah is impressed, Japanese being her favorite. 

Jeremy, their authentic Spanish guitar player turns out to be a keyboardist, showing off his playing ability to everyone’s annoyance. After many songs, Dermot tells her he will just send Jeremy on his way. Dermot then tries to hit on Deborah, which she does seem annoyed by, but lets it drop easily when they’re interrupted by a visit from Mike, Deborah’s former boyfriend, who wants to talk. Dermot says he should leave, but then Gary shows up drunk, making a comment about Mike’s cheating ways, leading to Mike head butting him. 

Gary calls Dorothy over for sympathy and learns that her and Graham stopped seeing each other, having nothing in common. Their chemistry comes through as she picks out on one of their favorite records. Dermot admits he sold their record player to pay for his date last night, but offers them mood music by playing Jeremy’s keyboard. 

Chat on the sofa:

Squash, sometimes called squash rackets, is a racket sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow, rubber ball. The players alternate striking the ball with their rackets, directing it onto the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court. The object of the game is to hit the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return.

Can’t Buy Me Love by the Beatles

Paul Daniels was an English magician and television presenter. He achieved international fame through his television series The Paul Daniels Magic Show, which ran on the BBC from 1979 to 1994.

My Brilliant Career:

Written by: Simon Nye

Directed by: Martin Dennis

Original airdate: March 24, 1992

Synopsis: 

Dermot, lost in thought, answers the door to see Deborah, who wonders what's wrong as they walk towards the kitchen, surprised he hasn’t asked her out again. He explains he got fired after having a big disagreement with a few children in the toy department.

He asks Deborah for a job but she’s unsure about hiring him. She does decide to give him a. Try making Dermot so happy he grabs her and swings her around, much to her chagrin. She then asks them to make some room in the shed for her gardening tools. 

Gary questions how Dermot got Deborah to give him a job and the discussion of jobs they wanted to as kids, makes Gary start to think about his own job and he wonders aloud the next day to George about how Dermot will now be working with Deborah, wondering when the last time was that they had a young attractive woman working with them. Gary asks Anthea if she sees him as a dynamic entrepreneur or a complete failure but she pauses which exasperates Gary. She then explains that she thinks young people are in too much of a hurry to get ahead at the expense of older people. Gary decides to try and do something special for Anthea’s birthday.

Dermot studies the workers’ manual for Deborah’s restaurant while Gary and Dorothy play Who’s The Postman, a board game (that looks suspiciously like Monopoly with the street spaces covered up). As they start to play, Gary and Dermot pick the pawns that are real jobs, relegating Dorothy to one of the wives of the careers in the game, to which she is thoroughly annoyed by, especially given Gary’s, Dermot’s, and the game’s attitude towards women. Gary puts his foot in his mouth, dismissing Dorothy’s job as not a proper job. The two argue about their jobs before Dermot finds a toy gun Gary found in the shed and the two start playing war. 

At the restaurant, Dermot tries his best as a waiter but can’t get himself to be flirty with the female diners. Gary and Dorothy come in, planning to celebrate his resignation from the company but Gary doesn’t want to tell them he’s leaving. George and Anthea arrive and make several comments about their past and future working for Gary and the company, which makes him uncomfortable, given that he knows the company will close down after he resigns. As he begins to tell them his decision, Dermot opens a piece of mail informing Gary that there is no job available as he previously thought. He tries to tell Gary but is brushed off with George and Anthea thinking Dermot is playing charades. They eventually guess that he is trying to communicate “no job”, which causes Anthea to worry she’s lost her job. While George comforts her, Dermot shows Gary the letter, and he realizes he has to stay where he is. Deborah brings out the birthday cake Gary ordered which unfortunately has a goodbye also written on it, causing Anthea to cry, thinking she’s been fired. 

Meanwhile Dermot gets thrown out of the restaurant by a man who got angry that Dermot was trying to kiss his girlfriend. Deborah promptly fires him. Dermot decides to get some sleep since he needs to get a few things in the morning, with Gary prompting him to get a job, a girlfriend and a future.

Chat on the sofa:

The lady diner was Suzy Cooper and aside from a few minor roles here and there (22), she had a run of 128 out of 150 episodes of Jupiter Moon (Ilea is an old space craft cruising around the Jupiter system, and functioning as a university. This is the story of its crew and students).

The keyboardist Jeremy was Phil Wilmot whose main claim to fame was also Jupiter Moon (130 episodes).

Linda Lusardi is an English actress, television presenter and former glamour model.

Test Card F is a test card that was created by the BBC and used on television in the United Kingdom and in countries elsewhere in the world for more than four decades. Like other test cards, it was usually shown while no programmes were being broadcast. It was the first to be transmitted in colour in the UK and the first to feature a person, and has become an iconic British image regularly subject to parody. The central image on the card shows Carole Hersee playing noughts and crosses with a clown doll, Bubbles the Clown, surrounded by various greyscales and colour test signals used to assess the quality of the transmitted picture. It was first broadcast on 2 July 1967 (the day after the first colour pictures appeared to the public on television) on BBC2. Carole was the daughter of BBC engineer George Hersee, and is said to hold the Guinness World Record for Longest Television Appearance at 70,000 hours, although she denies this. She went on to become a costume designer for many West End productions and films.

Pan's People were a British all-female dance troupe most commonly associated with the BBC TV music chart show Top of the Pops, from 1968 to 1976. The group, founded and led by choreographer Felicity "Flick" Colby in December 1966, accompanied top 20 hits on the weekly show for eight years, when artists were unable or unwilling to perform live. Pan's People appeared on many other TV shows in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, and also performed in nightclub cabaret.

[Arthur] Bamber Gascoigne was an English television presenter and author. He was the original quizmaster of University Challenge, which initially ran from 1962 to 1987.

The Garibaldi biscuit consists of currants squashed and sandwiched between two thin oblongs of biscuit dough before baking. The biscuits are similar to Eccles cake. Popular with British consumers as a snack for over 150 years, the Garibaldi biscuit is conventionally consumed with tea or coffee.

Ian [Richard Kyle] Paisley, Baron Bannside was a privy council member (advisor to the sovereign), a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008.

Johnny Seven O.M.A. (One Man Army) 

KODA:

Men Behaving Badly is based on Simon Nye's 1989 book of the same title. Producer Beryl Vertue first considered it for a film before deciding it was suited for television adaptation. Harry Enfield, already a well-known comedian, was cast first. He had seen Martin Clunes perform in a play and recommended him for the other lead.

Enfield felt out of place in the sitcom and announced he was leaving after the first series. When Thames Television found out, their immediate reaction was to end the series, and they had to be persuaded to put on a second series, with Neil Morrissey replacing Enfield.

What's Up Next?

Series 2A brings us an introduction over the first 3 episodes, Gary and Tony, Rent Boy, and How to Dump Your Girlfriend

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RW661 - Men Behaving Badly Rewatch S01E01-03 - Intruders Bet Alarms

 

In this week's episode of The Men Behaving Badly Rewatch, Cory and Tom pursue their options as they discuss the series 1 episodes 1-3, Intruders, The Bet and Alarms and Setbacks.

Beer of the week: (not a paid advertisement)

Go to or personal favourite-

Cory went for an everyday Aussie beer, a Carlton Draught.

Tom opted for a Wow Wheat, an orange wheat ale from his local Four Peaks Brewing Co.

Intruders:

Written by: Simon Nye

Directed by: Martin Dennis

Original airdate: February 18, 1992

Synopsis: 

Dermott is utterly depressed after being dumped by his girlfriend for sleeping with her friend. His roommate, Gary, tries to sympathize with him, but he has his own problems. He’s ready to move on from his own girlfriend of two years, Dorothy, and upon hearing that she has a new "friend" named Graham, immediately regrets the decision and decides to try and continue the relationship. Things are further complicated when an attractive young woman, Deborah, moves in upstairs, and both young men show signs of interest.

Chat on the sofa:

Martin Clunes plays Gary. He’s more popularly known these days for the long running series Doc Martin, following trials and tribulations of a socially awkward doctor. He also played the lead in Reggie (a mid level corporate drone going through a mid life crisis, 12 episodes), and William and Mary (the lives of William, an undertaker, and Mary, a midwife, cross. They become romantically involved, but what happens for the rest of the series is far less predictable. 18 episodes). He was also the voice of Kipper the Dog in a series of British animated shorts for children.

 

Harry Enfield plays Dermott. His work is primarily comedy and skit shows, like Harry Enfield and Chums, Harry and Paul, and Harry Enfield’s Television Programme. He has recently been in the series The Windsors, a parody show about the royal family, playing Charles. He was also in a musical based on Prince Andrew in which he plays Tony Blair.

Dorothy is played by Caroline Quentin. She starred in the sitcom Life of Riley (the dysfunctional lives of a newly married couple and the children each of them bring from a previous relationship). She was in the dramedy Life Begins (a late-30s English couple's summer holiday turns upside down when the husband announces his desire to move out, leaving his wife in newfound roles as provider and single parent. She finds herself both stronger and weaker than she imagined). Other series works include Johnathan Creek and Kiss Me Kate. Most recently, she was a lead in the Lazarus Project (a man wakes up to find himself reliving the same events over and over again. Confused, he is introduced to the Lazarus Project, a top-secret organization that uses its ability to rewind time to save the world from extinction).

Deborah was played by Leslie Ash. Her last series was Tricked, in 2020 (as World War One begins, a baby girl is born. After a tragic event that left her father shaken, he makes a decision that will change everything - to raise Georgina as George, ensuring her safety but marking the start of her life of crime), and Broke in that same year (crime drama). She did provide some voices for an episode of Big Finish’s Doctor Who audio plays (An Earthly Child). She’s mostly been doing short films lately.

Patsy Kensit’s Bicycle

This joke also reminded Cory of this commercial for Pepsi:

The Bet:

Written by: Simon Nye

Directed by: Martin Dennis

Original airdate: February 25, 1992

Synopsis: 

Gary, having made plans to attend an opera with Dorothy, gets pushed into a chess game with Dermott. The prize? His opera tickets. Dermott spends the week working later so he can try and learn how to play chess from his coworker George. Meanwhile, Dermott runs into the new neighbor, Deborah, at the furniture store he works in and asks her to go to the opera with him, anticipating an easy win. She tells him she has a boyfriend, albeit one out of the country, but he plays it off as just a “friend” activity to do together and she accepts. Later that week, Gary and Dermott play their chess match, with Gary quickly winning, his hard work of practicing paying off, and he heads to the opera with Dorothy. Dermott says that his wallet was stolen and he and Deborah plan for a night together. However, Gary returns home with Dorothy because the tickets turned out to be fake, and he got into a fight with the usher over them. When Dorothy feels bad that he lost out on the money, Dermott pushes Gary to reveal the tickets were free, and Gary pushes Dermott to reveal he was only using the opera tickets to get Deborah into bed. She leaves, upset that he would try that with her.

Chat on the Sofa:

Fool’s Mate

Alarms and Setbacks:

Written by: Simon Nye

Directed by: Martin Dennis

Original airdate: March 3, 1992

Synopsis: 

Gary, depressed over his girlfriend Dorothy not talking to him and seeing another man, drowns his sorrow in the pub with Dermot. The two guys both set their sights on their new neighbor Deborah. 

 

At work, Gary is trying to pick out the perfect burglar alarm to impress Deborah, with his coworker George urging him to try and get back with Dorothy. 

Back at home, Gary holds a tenants meeting consisting of him, Dorothy and Dermot. Dermot tries to put the moves on her but she shuts him down right away before Gary reveals the burglar alarm system he picked out. Dermot goes to the hospital that Dorothy works at in an attempt to get her to tell back together with Gary which she is against, talking about the many men she meets at the hospital, including Graham. He fibs about Gary calling out sexual things about Dorothy in his sleep which makes her consider contacting him.

Dermot helps Gary install the alarm system and tells Gary that he saw Dorothy and she seemed to miss him.  He leaves to answer a phone call from Dorothy and tries to hand it over to Gary but it is not within reach, so he kicks the ladder aside, pushing Gary down further enough to talk on the phone. Gary and Dorothy agree to meet. 

Gary tries to impress Deborah with the alarm system but is having issues getting it set up correctly, the ringing going on for three hours. Pulling the wire out causes a blackout in the house and then a surge causes Gary to get shocked and fall. He recovers and the three of them head inside to get candles and phone the electrician. Dermot tries small talk with Deborah about her boyfriend but she’s a bit cold towards him. As Dermot goes to get more candles, Gary tries to talk with Deborah about her boyfriend too. As he talks with her, complimenting her and trying to woo her, Dorothy walks in to hear him talk bad about their relationship and calls him out on it and dumps a fern in his lap and a potful of dirt on his head. Dermot returns and tries to rizz Deborah up, blowing out the candle and grabbing her hand but she kicks him in the groin.

Chat on the Sofa:

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
They met on the set of Cleopatra in 1962 and their affair, while both were married, became a global scandal. Their first marriage took place in 1964, and they divorced in 1974. They remarried in 1975 but divorced again less than a year later.

Music
Dermot plays Jim Reeves (briefly) on the jukebox

Agadoo by Black Lace is Gary’s fav song, according to Dermot

Dermot finds an old Showaddywaddy album in the garden shed

What's Up Next?

Let's check out the remaining 3 episodes in series 1B, Animals, Sex and Violence, and My Brilliant Career.

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RW660 - Star Trek Films - Section 31

 

In this episode of The Star Trek Film Series Rewatch, Cory and Tom are out of federation control as they discuss Star Trek: Section 31.

Trailer:

Synopsis:

In the Terran Universe, a young Philippa Georgiou returns from a series of trials in which she and many other young children were pitted against each other in order to find who would become the next emperor of the empire. In the end, only her and her friend San survived and were sent on their final quest to determine the winner. Her family rejoices that she made it this far but while they eat a dinner together, their happy reunion ends as they all painfully pass out and die, having been poisoned by Georgiou, who by the terms of the competition needs to have no connections to her former life in order to become emperor. Her friend San could not bring himself to do the same to his family and loses the competition, receiving a large disfiguring scar on his face from Georgiou, her first act as the new emperor. 

Eventually Georgiou would travel across dimensions to the Prime Universe and become involved with the starship USS Discovery before traveling into the far future and discovering that her existence was unraveling there. The Guardian of Forever sends her back into the past when her existence would be less threatened due to the timelines of the two universes being closer in divergence, a time shortly after Captain James T Kirk and his crew were put on a trial for conspiring to kill Klingons and disrupt the peace talks, a crime they were eventually cleared of and exonerated and before the time Jean Luc Picard takes command of the Starship Enterprise NCC1701-D.

In that time period, Georgiou eventually sets herself up as the head of a luxury bar/resort/nightclub before being approached by Section 31, a black ops organization that operates outside of Starfleet jurisdiction. She herself was a member of Section 31 before her journey into the future and is curious as to why they need her now. They reveal their plan to capture a device from an arms dealer Dada Noe but she makes her own plan and retrieves Dada’s package using a phase inverter so that he can’t touch or shoot her to retrieve it. Unfortunately, an unknown assailant appears, also armed with a phase inverter and he and Georgiou fight for the package. The assailant eventually wins and opens the package, retrieving its contents, which Georgiou is shocked to see as it is a weapon named Godsend that she believed she had destroyed years prior to her coming to the Prime universe but instead had been filed away in a weapons facility. Section 31 takes Georgiou captive at a safe house to aid them with retrieving the device but she leverages her knowledge of the weapon to get on equal footing with the team.

Georgiou explains the Godsend’s abilities to destroy anything in its path, similar to the way a virus infects creatures from one to another. In this case, a weapon of mass destruction that would travel from planet to planet, eventually destroying anything entire quadrant. She created it so that if anyone ever assassinated her, the weapon would be deployed to insure that the ones who killed her would have nothing left to rule over. She remembers when San presented her with the weapon, he revealed that the others who created it killed themselves. He then takes his own life, using the same poison she used on her family years earlier, in defiance of what his old friend has become. 

To retrieve the device, Georgio joins up with the Section 31 team, consisting of the team leader, Alok Sahar an augmented human from the 1970’s that survived in suspended animation until joining Section 31, Zeph, an exoskeleton armored soldier, Quasi, a shapeshifter, Fuzz, a tiny alien known as a Nanokin, and Rachel Garrett, a Starfleet officer who is part of the team to ensure things go as planned and not off the book with death and destruction. Melle, a Deltan with the power to influence thoughts, was part of the team but was killed during the fight for the Godsend.

Georgiou offers to interrogate Dada, reasoning he is from the Terran universe, but the team fights about why they shouldn’t allow it. Instead, Georgiou and Alok go together and after she whispers to him how she has interrogated precious captives, he gives up the information of how he got to the Prime Universe with the Godsend: an ion storm that happens regularly, enabling easy passage between the universes. He explains that the Terran universe has used up its resources and they are looking for new worlds to conquer and take over. Dada claims that whoever the masked assailant learned of its existence from one of Section 31’s team. Suddenly the wall behind them explodes as Section 31’s ship explodes and destroys the building. Alok and Georgiou reveal to the team that one of them is a mole. They all begin arguing about who could be the mole, while Garrett interrupts and explains she earlier found a garbage scow that they could take to use as transport. While Georgiou goes with Quasi and Fuzz to retrieve the scow, the rest stay behind to fix the antenna array so they can tell section 31 the danger they’re all in with Godsend.

Georgiou and company discover they need a coil to power the ship and head off to the cargo hold, while Garret and Alok stay behind at the safe house and determine the problem with the array, Zeph goes missing. Alok and Garret try to find him and split up, but meanwhile someone activates the antenna array. Georgiou, Fuzz, and Quasi SUDDENLY return to the array and they theorize that Zeph took the part missing from the array, used it to send a message and then destroyed it. They head out to try and find him with Alok and Georgiou trade barbs about doing what they’re doing for redemption for all their own previous atrocities but soon come upon Zeph, already dead.

Finding a hair on Zeph that matches Garrett’s leads them to investigate her further, finding traces of Zeph’s blood under her fingernails. They manage to retrieve footage from Zeph’s mech suit which shows him actually killing himself. Georgiou thinks back over the events and realizes that Fuzz likely set his Vulcan body on autopilot and then took over Zeph’s suit, who took control of the array and subsequently destroyed it. Having been discovered, Fuzz reactivates Zeph’s exoskeleton to attack them while he escapes with everyone except the tied up Garret chasing after him  on flying platforms throughout the safe house. Alok and Quasi fight Zeph’s suit while Georgiou takes on Fuzz.

Fuzz thinks he’s tossed Georgiou over the edge of the platform but she comes up from behind and stabs him as he reveals that San is still alive, having built up an immunity to the poison, and is out for revenge. Fuzz is then transported away to safety.

San on his ship pulls the dagger from Fuzz’s back, and reveals a countdown to the next ion storm portal opening soon, his desire for Georgiou to marinate in her own defeat foremost in his mind. Alok reveals that he has a backup plan, revealing he took the coil out of the garbage scow in an attempt to stop the mole from using it. With the ship powered up, Alok, Quasi, Garret and Georgiou head off to find Fuzz and San at the portal location. San fires on them but they push through and use the scow’s tractor beams to drag San’s ship away from the portal. It starts to work, but the radiation will destroy both ships. With San’s ship’s shields down, they beam over and Georgiou faces off against San and Alok fighting Fuzz. During their battle the Godsend is knocked over and begins activation. Fuzz leaves his body on autopilot in the fight and goes to the garbage scow to attack Garret and Quasi. Luckily, Alok manages to take out Fuzz.

San monologues about the Terran Empire ruling over the Prime universe with righteous mercy. Georgiou tries to talk sense into him, recalling their past together,  but he continues to fight. Garret finds a toy in the garbage scow that is powered by a dangerous fuel source. Quasi manages to open the cargo bay, sending all the contents out into space with the fuel, which when combined explodes and kills Fuzz. The fight between San and Georgiou continues but she manages to flip his weapon around on him, mortally injuring him. They share a moment of regret together as he dies and Georgiou mourns her former friend.

With the Godsend still active and ready to fire, Georgiou decides to send the device through the portal to the Terran universe, and she and Alok share a moment as they realize they can’t escape the Godsend as the ship is inching towards the portal. Luckily, Quasi managed to transport Georgiou and Alok out at the last second, and they all watch as the portal closes and collapses. 

Three weeks later, Georgiou resumed her job as head of her resort. Alok meets up with her, and she reveals Section 31 made her an offer which she is considering. She reveals she knows Alok is actually Quasi pulling a joke on her before the real Alok and Garret show up to talk and celebrate their success. Suddenly Fuzz shows up but reveals that she is actually Wisp, Fuzz’s wife in the same Vulcan shell, and is looking for revenge, knowing that Fuzz likely survived. The group is then contacted by Control who gives them their next mission.

Our Favourite Trivia:

This film was originally planned as a television series, but after Michelle Yeoh won an Academy Award for Best Actress, this was redeveloped into a television movie.

The character Rachel Garrett, played by Kacey Rohl, first appeared in the season three TNG episode Yesterday's Enterprise (1990) as Captain of the USS Enterprise-C.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708845/?ref_=tttrv_tr

Georgiou's assistant Virgil in the first bar scene is from the planet Cheron, which is from the TOS episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (1969). It can be inferred that he was from that planet's ruling class in that he is black on the right side which is the same as Frank Gorshin's character Commissioner Bele.

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Virgil is the first appearance of an inhabitant of the planet Cheron since the TOS episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (1969). Quasi is the first Chameloid to be seen since Martia from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).

It is never stated what is used to power the Godsend, only that its destructive force was powerful enough to affect an entire quadrant. The only thing previously seen in Star Trek with that level of destructive force that could fit into such a small device, is the Omega molecule, first seen on the season four VOY episode The Omega Directive (1998). Omega is a highly unstable molecule and the most powerful substance known to exist, with each molecule containing the same amount of energy as a warp core. Federation cosmologists theorized Omega once existed in nature for an infinitesimal period of time at the instant of the Big Bang, acting as the primal source of energy for the formation of the Universe. Omega was first synthesized by a Federation scientist working at a remote research outpost in the Lantaru sector during the late 23rd century, a single molecule was synthesized but was only stable for a fraction of a second before exploding, destroying the station and killing 126 of the Federation's leading scientists. The explosion had an unexpected secondary effect of rupturing subspace throughout the entire sector, rescue ships trying to reach the Lantaru sector discovered they weren't able to create a stable warp field and could only travel at impulse. Starfleet scientists soon realized that a chain reaction of even a handful of molecules would not only destroy everything for dozens of light years it would destroy subspace across the entire Alpha Quadrant making traveling at warp speed impossible, without warp drive spacefaring civilization would essentially come to an end. After this, all knowledge of Omega was classified at the highest level, with only Starfleet captains and flag officers being made aware of its existence.

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Omari Hardwick played Alok. Most recently he was in a movie called Xeno, releasing this year. He looks to be a part of Army of the Dead: Las Vegas.

Quasi was played by Sam Richardson. He has a number of upcoming roles as well, like Angry Birds 3 and John Cena’s Matchbox. He was in 22 episodes of Velma playing Norville (Shaggy). He was a main cast member in Apple TV+’s The Afterparty. Yes We Cannabis is another movie he starred in, and he even had a few roles in Star Trek: Lower Decks and was in 8 of the 10 episodes of Patton Oswalt’s MODOK.

Robert Kazinsky was Zeph. Coming up he’s a lead in a movie called Iron Ribbon. He was a main cast member in the British soap opera Eastenders playing Sean for 267 episodes, and a lead in season 9 of The Dream Team. He is also the lead in Do You Want To Die In India, and The Assent, both of which are on Tubi. He’s a bit higher on the cast list in Pacific Rim, Warcraft, and Hot Pursuit. Apparently, he was cast as Fili in The Hobbit series, but left the role during the first movie for unknown personal reasons. He was replaced by another actor, though he can apparently be seen in one scene in a background shot.

Kacey Rohl plays Rachel Garret. She was the lead in a number of movies now showing on Tubi or Hallmark like The White Lie, Killer High, The Wedding Veil Inspiration, Fortunate Son (Roku series) and Flicka Country Pride. She’s been in a number of series as recurring role like Arrow, Hannibal, and Clue.

Sven Ruygrok was Fuzz. He was the lead in a movie called Just Now Jeffrey, and Breathing In. He was also the lead in 6 episode series Pulse.

James Hiroyuki Liao played San. Most recently, he plays General Mori in the new Superman movie. He appeared in Star Trek before in Star Trek: Into Darkness. He was a main cast member in Unforgettable, and was in Orphan Black: Echoes as a main supporting cast member.

Michelle Yeoh is of course Philipa Georgiou. Previously she was the lead in Everything, Everywhere All At Once for which she became the first Asian woman to win such an accolade. She was also a lead in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Wicked, Kung Fu Panda, Crazy Rich Asians and Shang Chi, to name a few credits. She was also a Bond girl in Tomorrow Never Dies, and turned down The Matrix Sequels. She is a main cast member in Amazon’s series Bladerunner 2099, and will be in Avatar 4, set to debut in 2029.

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