This episode originally broadcast on July 3, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/07/binary-system-podcast-464-station-eleven-and-star-trek-lower-decks/

Our journey through a post-pandemic world continues this week as we discuss the fourth episode of Station Eleven. The lines are being drawn between the people still mourning the world that existed before the pandemic, and the people born after the pandemic who will never understand how bad it was and wish people would just get over it. This episode has some fun moments, like Lori Petty's character and the surprisingly workable Shakespearean costumes made with golf gloves. But there's also a shocking development that was set up almost from the start of the episode; it's just not the one you think it's going to be.

In another shocking development, Kathryn recaps two episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Elizabeth is shocked to realize that she'd forgotten an entire storyline that can be summed up as "Rutherford's clone cave-baby."

This week's outro is a clip from Before The Countdown by Armament.

Correction: We didn't realize until halfway through the recap that we were mispronouncing "Kirsten" as "Kristen". Sorry about that.

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