We’re watching Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 10 “Similitude,” but only Maria has actually watched the episode. An accident while testing the warp core puts Trip in a coma and the only way Phlox can save him is to grow a clone of him and harvest its brain matter. And that's just the first of a series of ethical conundrums that the crew has to deal with. Of course, Archer has a thoughtful and thorough analysis of the problem and... oh who am I kidding. All he really wants to do is save his bro. Join us as we attempt to navigate the truly wild complexities of this gordian knot of an episode.

Bethany Brookshire, science writer and author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains and creator of Insomniac Academy, joins us to give us a little perspective on the fundamental dangers of cloning, growing up in two weeks, and why southern accents probably aren't genetic.

Rikermendations:

• Bethany: The Murderbot Diaries (show and books)
• Bill: Mountain Goats (tabletop game)
• Jamie: A Man on the Inside
• Maria: Ride or Die (TV show), plus remember Ted Lasso is back!

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