Matthew straight-up blew my mind at the end of this session. By far the best dramatic hook closing I've ever experienced.

Seth says that he doesn't want to get face hugged, but we've all seen him wearing Weyland Yutani t-shirts. Do it for Dweebles.

No one rescued Shackleton and the Endurance. He and a handful of men took a long boat though Antarctic waters hundreds of miles to New South Georgia. They then marched across the island to a whaling station and got help for the remaining crew back on the ice. They rescued themselves. Great pick Sydney!

I just need to stop and express amazed wonder at Skid's level of improv. Someone makes a joke about "Space Pabst," and Skid pops in seconds later with "Pabst Blue Robot," which is better than anything I could have come up with if you gave me a pad, a paper, and ten minutes. And it's just a single passing reference in a sea of others. He is an astounding talent.

14:08 Sydney's self preservation kicks in. 18:47 Summary of last episode 20:57 What do *you* think is going on? 22:58 Aliens? In Traveller? No way! :P 24:54 Is the crew aging weird? (They never get the crew photo, by the way.) 25:44 The adventure begins 27:00 Look at me. Puffer is the captain now. 30:16 A save from Artemis. 30:45 A clue about Hempt. Or however it's spelt. 32:45 This happened 5 days ago? Like older than the 2 plus weeks old video from the civilian pleasure craft? 33:33 The age of the video would be slightly older than 2 weeks. The video can only be brought in on a jump, and then the Kate's Gambit spent a week in the jump. If compared, the video of the pleasure craft from the Ellison would be a few hours old, and video of the Ellison would be a fortnight old. 35:43 She feeds Katie some of the medicine she had last episode. 36:47 Much like how everyone else was crying last episode. The shoe doesn't feel so good on the other foot, Ellison crewmen? 38:40 Puffer looking out for number 1 39:44 RPG horror stories. When the players realize they're all not on the same page about the approach, or anything else. 40:40 He means the half-life of isotopes. 42:58 The minder is coming back. 45:16 Seth's handwriting is like a drunk child. 46:06 Four hours to break 70 year old encryption. 46:30 Sub lieutenant Valman comes back. 48:00 The probes plot. 50:12 The probes launched. Jump drives are next. 52:02 Engineering at deck 5 and 6. 55:30 Another way to say WTF happened. 57:50 The story is just really, really strange. 58:50 Artemis investigates. 1:02:04 Ain't nobody bought the fishy story. 1:04:44 Back to the story. (After Matthew quickly reads about String Theory.) 1:07:27 Wait, he was hitting on her? 1:08:14 Damian is really hitting on her. 1:09:43 Wait, what kind of bars would need use of those signels? 1:10:30 Wait, is this true? Is that why girls do that? 1:12:53 Throwing stuff at the wall. 1:14:29 Ok, where to now? 1:17:08 Our plan is a date. In a sense. 1:17:58 Canon: Katie Finn=Plain. 1:19:16 Wait, are we going there? 1:20:06 Are we going to hit on the (not) Captain now? 1:22:21 In the not-captain's room. 1:24:49 The not-captain is overly clean. 1:26:19 Entrapment gone wrong. 1:27:10 Abort! Abort! 1:27:40 For the love of Saint Peter, pull out! 1:29:26 She turned the encounter around, in a way. 1:30:46 The world of howdoyouspellthat. 1:33:20 Have I mentioned not to murder anyone? 1:35:22 Gigi was getting somewhere. It took a while to get there, but there she is. 1:38:33 What's everyone else doing? 1:39:41 Let's go to the date first. And the code is Brown. 1:40:45 The date. 1:42:46 This endearing but f*!king guy. 1:47:43 Puffer's turn at deck 8 and 9 1:49:48 We go right back to the Date 1:52:53 We go back to the cargo bay 1:56:03 We whiplash back to the date. 1:58:22 The 'Wait, what?' moment. (By the way, RIP Sydney's guns. I think she realizes she is flexing her biceps and shoulders at the camera and is dressing up to prevent that.)

The answer to Artemis's question after the commercial break was epic. Truly cosmic scifi.

Firefly is so great. Nathans character as captain is great because he isnt alwasy right

"Who is your favourite captain?" Me, without hesitation: "Lucky Jack Aubrey!" Skid: "Aubrey" Jaw hits the floor. Great movie, better books. Second place goes to Hornblower.

This is great and keeps getting better No one ever picks Zap Brannigan as their favorite captain

I know what Alicia is saying about the franchise pulling the rug out from under the fans. I felt that way about Firefly- had just enough time to fall in love with the characters and POOF- gone!

Holy crap Matthew is a great GM. The players are also killing it in this series. Please keep this going for a while.

I hope this becomes an ongoing series like Get in the Trunk!

This has got me hooked like nothing could since critical role season 1! Alicia is such a curveball-roleplayer, everyone's joy jumps from the screen and the story is the best parts of home game feel and streaming seriousness. Please please please make this a permanent item on the schedule!

Seth's face during Syd's flirt sesh at the end is priceless

I really look forward to this story every week. So good! Also it’s nice to see the excitement on Seth’s face as he’s finally getting to play.

Endurance was found about the time that this was recorded. Terror was found two or three years earlier. Shackleton didn’t lose anyone on that trip. The boat in which he sailed from Elephant Island to South Georgia is in the national maritime museum at Greenwich in the foyer. The building really isn’t that big. Almost as impressive as Bligh’s voyage after being cast adrift from the bounty.

Best fictional Captain? C.S. Forester's novels tracking the career of Horatio Hornblower from Ensign to Admiral in the Royal Navy at the height of the Age of Sail. And the very well done made for TV adaptations of the earliest portions of these books are clear winners. There's eleven novels and a few short stories.

I'm loving this cast more and more. The only thing that would make this better would be to see them at the same table. They have a natural chemistry.

Captain John Sheridan (Babylon 5)

Best space RPG sessions ever. Pudding cups, code brown....?

as a fun little nitty detail... When the ship's captain does not hold the rank of captain, they are called skipper

I believe Alicia is channeling a bit of Roger Cumstone here with her go nuts with the RP, roll a success- Ref figures it out.!!😂 love them all- also somebody else pointed out the best captain as Carmina Drummer- and I give Bossmang Drummer a second!

Everyone talking about Traveler rules in their theories but forgetting that space and time are inextricably linked, regardless of what Traveler says about jumps.

I haven't waited with such excitement for weekly episodes since the first season of 24. Amazing writing Matthew and acting from the crew.

My favorite part of the Shackleton tale is that every man who returned to England except the man who lost his foot to frostbite, immediately went to fight in WW1

Renfair + Creaper = THE BONESAW

Seth's face when Alicia was accusing the captain was priceless.

Scratched my cornea, so using the time to hone my GM skills by listening to Matthew run this game. This is such a good series - hoping to be able to emulate some of what Matthew does.

Sorry Sydney, while Shackleton led the expedition, Captain F. Worsley commanded the Endurance and Lieutenant J. Stenhouse the Aurora. On the Endurance, the second in command was the experienced explorer Frank Wild. The meteorologist was Captain L. Hussey, also an able banjo player. McIlroy was head of the scientific staff, which included Wordie. Frank Worsley, Endurance's captain, was the one who famously navigated the open-boat journey to the 720-nautical-mile-distant South Georgia whaling station [Wikipedia]

Syd looks like one of the m&m candies had a drug problem.

Every time somebody says something like space broom I'm picturing a broom with little circles around it like in the jetsons.

Never split the party? How about a 4-way split?! Great session!

Love this crew, hope there's gonna be s2 at some point 😆

The key to naming high-tech futuristic stuff (like tools and universities) is apparently to add "space" in front of its name.

I love this series. Well done, all of you.

Apperrantly Matt's favorite Fictional Captain is that dude from "Love Boat." 😍

Captain Haddock from Tin Tin was also a great Captain

haha, i had to get myself a chocolate pudding cup from the kitchen thanks to this

Yeah Shackleton's famous because he saved every single crewman and they definitely, *definitely*, all should have died.

Traveller does have talking space dolphins.

Roy Scheider yes!!! And 'All That Jazz' and 'Jaws.' Skid, 2010 will always be one of my dear favorites! And I call retrofitting backup systems of any kind - Adama Retrofitting, because Edward James Olmos Adama made sure the Battlestar Galactica survived by having that older generation of not so vulnerable systems to sabotage. And for me, it's gotta be Captain Michael Burnham on Discovery

Matthew i love you... SeaQuest was (questionably) a great show... I had such a crush on Lucas

Skid's British accent is lovely and sounds genuine to my American ears. I love practicing the British accents for my games. The typical English accent is one of my best and longest practiced.

This show's great. Casts great, traveller is great, game masters great.

Dolphins keep getting brought up in this game and it made me reread Startide Rising, so I’m going to throw my vote for Captain Creideiki of the Streaker, first dolphin space captain and hands down winner (loser?) of the “I thought this was supposed to be a routine research trip?” award. Galactic civil war going on right on top of his crippled ship’s hiding spot, every alien in charted space trying to catch them, and this dolphin’s keeping his three-species crew in line with philosophy and sonar haikus while romancing a goddess in his sleep. Traumatic brain injury couldn’t even take him down for long.

Best fictional captain goes to Monkey D. Luffy. There are no other acceptable answers. Good day.

I keep saying this - But it is consistently true - This show is amazing awesome and not only well played but well GMd 🥰 Everyone is just stellar in playing their characters 🥰 Super fun and awesome show - Ty ty so much all of ya 🥰 As for the probes - Try sending one back along your (The Kates Gambit) flight path and check for temporal anomalies 😇

Aubrey is my favorite. The books are amazing read, but you all had great choices

Oh my god! Such a great episode! I’m absolutely loving this series

I Love This Crew!! Wishing the cast and crew of GCN the happiest of New Years!!

No, I remember the movie 2010 too. Not close to the Clarke novel, but still amazing. Hopefully someday they'll make a movie from David Brin's UPLIFT series.

That is an epic cliffhanger. Favorite captain? So many good choices; kinda tied between Olmos as Adama and Mount as Pike. Seth's comments about the nBSG series finale makes me feel like he and I watched different episodes. 😅 IDIC, I suppose.

Love this series, so hyped for next week!

Seen a lot of favorite captains posted here (and most of them are great choices) but I'm going to add one more. Honor Harrington from the series of novels by David Weber. Start with 'On Basilisk Station' and see where the story goes.

I believe they have protein synthesisers in SNW & TNG (Hence 'Food Cubes') but actual replicator technology hasn't been perfected yet.

Favorite ship captain? Captain Shakespheare from 'Stardust'.

Thank you Matthew and All ! Very good session again. Well Done All ! Skid , i love Master and Commander movie, and Yes Jack Aubrey very fine Captain. I like ST SNW, Captain Pike very fine Captain. Sorry Alicia, but Janeway really ?! She's an ok Captain at best, in my opinion. I like all the Trek Captain's but Sisko i think might be favorite. I like movie Remo Williams, would've liked for them to make more. I like alot of the 90's sci fi TV. And yes SeaQuest i really like to. Captain Bridger very fine officer. Got kinda bored with newer BattleStar Galactica a few seasons in. Prefer the older one. Though the new one does have some good action scenes. Anyway thanks again All.

As a former naval officer you shouldn't bring 2-ply 'cuz it'll jam up the Marine Sanitary Systems and you end up with a shit-geyser in engineering

This is sooooooooo good. Thank you! This cast is so talented all sci fi lovers. I love it. I was really disappointed when A&A went away because I love sci-fi. But this this is wicked awesome.

Loving this stream ❤ I went out and bought the books after watching episode 2. Then played a double session (character creation, lunch, then a oneshot) with my friends on my birthday. 7.5 hours of really, really good fun 👍

I am curious why they think the Battlestar Galactica Finale was so bad... I LOVED it. :)

Hey, _2010_ was amazing! Loved that movie. Saw it opening night, in fact. The spacewalk sequence with Lithgow still holds up, imo. And the ship designs screamed _Traveller_ - playing off the _Aliens_ space-trucker aesthetic.

Good episode guys, still lovin it !

I so look forward to each new episode of this series! What a cliffhanger!

Matthew's roleplay is fantastic

"I don't know why they put those buttons so close to each other." 🤣

Great conversation about favorite captains. My favorite is Captain Sir Edward Pellew from the Horatio Hornblower series. A great leader who mentored and trusted those under his command.

My favorite captain is Spock. I find him very relatable.

Nobody mentioned the infamous Captain Hook or Turanga Leela of the good ship Planet Express ship.

Hop drives available at tl 16. There are only 2 or three worlds in 1105 with tl16. One of these planets is Vincennes, Vincennes subsector Deneb sector. About 30- 40 parsecs trailing ( east).

Alicia does amazing Janeway . I agree with her. She's a amazing captain

This show is soooooo good!!

remote ops is for controlling...sensors would be for operating and interpretation of data gathered from sensors/probes

don't forget Sir Walter 'Ooh What A Big Ship I've Got' Raleigh! :D

Hop drives can go up to 10 parsecs, skip drives are theoretically measured in hundreds of parsecs. It was rumored that the Imperial Navy built a ship for the Emperor that had a Hop drive .

Continuing intriguing storyline plus compelling and fun character role-playing 👏👍✌ Plus, for me, Alicia Marie's PC character, 'Gigi', was hilarious when seeking captaining and advancement advice from the acting naval ship captain [01:28 to 01:30] 🤣😂😆

Space Pabst… lol… maybe comes with a chaser of Blatz Off

One of the fun things about a good stream is thinking about what you would do in this situation. I've spent a lot of time thinking about experiments I would do to investigate the situation and possibly really annoy the DM. :)

So good

Just scrolling through the playlist watching the hairstyles progress from thumbnail to thumbnail

I'm late to the party, but of course Mr. Sliders Reference is interested in String Theory. XD

Thomas Cochrane. He was a bad ass lucky British naval commander.

I'm really curious to know what the intro song is and where I can find it. Thanks much!

As far as captains I am torn between Sisko, Reynolds, and Mercer. All for kind of the same reasons Sisko just cause he was put in a position having to be a diplomat and keep peace on the station. But also he cared for the crew and the people who lived on the station, Reynolds again how much he cared for his crew but also his ship.

Kirk is my favorite, but Sisko of DS9 is a close second. The picks by the cast are good picks also

Oh my God this series is so good!

Best captains: Scully (Rip Torn) in the John Candy comedy Summer Rental. Peter Ustinov in the title role in Blackbeard's Ghost.

Wish the sessions were longer.

Space Battleship Yamato Capt. Juzo Okita is my favorite. Adama was an Admiral in Battle Star if i remember

My prevailing theory is that the jump mishap created a time bubble rather than a jump bubble, and The Kate's Gambit entered the Bubble.

Sheridan. Babylon 5

Oh boy , Syd went full blue ! 🎉

As a huge trek nerd I have read almost all 700 star trek novels. I Agree with skid. New Pike is a good blend Kirk and Picard.

I kept hearing "space dementia" from the movie Armageddon.

16:35 There canonically are sentient spacefaring dolphins in Traveller. There are also a couple of recurring dolphin characters on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

It’s worth checking out Thomas Cochrane, pretty remarkable character.

Yes!!!!!!!

Sturred the tanks? They pulled an Apollo 13? 🤣

Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous 😎

Surely the space head is some kind of sci-fi Toto washlet.