Episode 100: The Phoenix Problem (S5E1)

8th January 2017

When the Enterprise chooses the flashpoint of a Klingon civil war to begin the galaxy’s biggest game of Cat’s Cradle, Klingon Jake’s future in the empire is at stake. But when Captain Picard’s most dramatic “Apparently…” story comes back to haunt him, it’s up to Commander Data to take command of a little ship with a secret strategy. Does the Sutherland have a clip show machine? What’s the name of the captain from Crimson Tide? It’s the episode where lose all our feminist credibility by playing a terrible game that we’re extremely ashamed of.

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When the Enterprise chooses the flashpoint of a Klingon civil war to begin the galaxy’s biggest game of Cat’s Cradle, Klingon Jake’s future in the empire is at stake. But when Captain Picard’s most dramatic “Apparently…” story comes back to haunt him, it’s up to Commander Data to take command of a little ship with a secret strategy. Does the Sutherland have a clip show machine? What’s the name of the captain from Crimson Tide? It’s the episode where lose all our feminist credibility by playing a terrible game that we’re extremely ashamed of.

Music by Dark Materia & Adam Ragusea.
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