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Part 19 of EVA-Trek - The Complete First Season
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EVA-Trek - Episode 1x14 - "Learn to Fly"

Summary:

Stardate 49101.5: Nerv is assigned a fourth Evangelion unit and a new pilot is chosen.

Chapter 1: Teaser

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Welcome back to the 24th century! Gonna keep comments short and sweet this week.  Thanks for continuing to read and (hopefully) enjoy EVA-Trek.  With all the craziness in the world at the moment, I can only hope I'm providing some refuge for an hour or so.

Up in the writer's room on the Firebird Pictures lot, production is progressing ahead at a good pace.  I’m getting detailed script outlines written for episodes 20 through 25 so I can bang out the first draft scripts in quick order and keep up the bi-monthly release schedule through March - which actually pulls the finale up by two months sooner than I'd originally forecasted!  I say this often, but it's hard to believe I'd be this far along with the series when, just two years ago, I never thought I'd make it past a couple episodes at most before the network (or rather you, dear readers) cancelled the series.

As mentioned last episode, I'm still looking for illustration and musical collaborators for future episodes if anyone is interested in helping me out.

Time to turn the lights down low, ease back in the recliner, and let a new episode unfold...

ACT NOTES:

  • Title Page: Director Cliff Bole (1937-2014) directed 42 episodes of Berman-era Star Trek, over half of those being TNG episodes, including both parts of the classic “Best of Both Worlds.”  He was also the namesake of the blue-skinned Bolian race.
  • Set List: EVA-Trek’s beleaguered line producer and VFX supervisor nearly had a heart attack when they saw how many locations were required for this episode’s shooting schedule.
  • Page 1, Scene 1: The Utopia Planitia shipyards is where the Enterprise-D and its sister ship, the USS Nerv, were both constructed and commissioned.
  • Page 1, Scene 2: Marie Vincennes originated from The Nerv White Paper RPG game.
  • Page 2, Scene 3: Sadly, this won’t be the only time a technological disaster happens at the shipyards, as depicted in the first season of Star Trek: Picard.

Chapter 2: Act One

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ACT NOTES:

  • Page 6, Scene 6: Elsewhere in Trek, Major Kira and Gul Dukat are searching for a crashed Cardassian freighter in DS9: “Indiscretion,” and Chakotay investigates mysterious visions in VGR: “Tattoo.”
  • Page 6, Scene 7: The Treaty of Algeron was established in TNG: “The Pegasus.”
  • Page 7: First contact with the Cardassians hasn’t actually been established canonically.  Though Memory Alpha lists Captain Lorca had a Cardassian vole in his menagerie, it’s still up to interpretation.  The 2321 date is based off of the Voyager novel “The Brave and the Bold, Book Two.”  2327 comes from the TOS Comic “Enter the Wolves.”
  • Page 8: Technically, the occupation of Bajor began in 2319, but 2328 is when the Cardassians officially annexed Bajor.

Chapter 3: Act Two

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ACT NOTES:

  • Page 14: As Uhura once told an over-eager junior officer, “be careful what you wish for, you may get it.”
  • Page 15: The Trivas system has only recently been abandoned by the Cardassians.  It’s the location of the former ore mining station Empok Nor, a sister station to Deep Space Nine.
  • Page 16, Scene 15: Kensuke and Shinji both wear the provisional crewman uniform first worn by Wesley Crusher in the second season of TNG.

Chapter 4: Act Three

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ACT NOTES:

  • Page 22, Scene 22: Refer to episode 6, “The One” for the first crossover with The Orville.
  • Page 24: Refer to episode 8, “My Hero” for the events regarding the Murasaki-type phenomena.
  • Page 28, Scene 37: Something about angel DNA prevents the saliva of an Evangelion from freezing within the vacuum and frigid temperatures of orbital space.

Chapter 5: Act Four

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ACT NOTES:

  • Page 32, Scene 51: I couldn’t resist throwing in a little reference to Jaws.
  • Page 40, Scene 83: A polaron is a type of particle.  I real life physics, they’re used to understand and explain the interactions between electrons and atoms in solid materials.  Star Trek physics usually use polarons as Dominion weapons, Borg scanning beams, and disruption of various electronics.  By 2384, the USS Dauntless in Star Trek: Prodigy would use polaron torpedoes.
  • Page 42, Scene 89: As established in prior episodes, rage and anger issues have been passed down from Yui to Shinji.
  • Page 42, Scene 91: Another End of Evangelion reference.

Chapter 6: Act Five

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ACT NOTES:

  • Page 48: As mentioned for his first appearance in episode 3, “Fraternity,” Mr. Aida is voiced by Garrett Wang, Voyager’s Harry Kim.
  • Page 49, Scene 100: Here we have the first sight of the mass-produced Eva series in this timeline.
  • Page 50, Scene 102: These coffins were an idea native to the Rebuild of Evangelion film series.
  • Page 51, Scene 105: For the voice of Kaworu, I decided to do something a bit different.  I imagine him being voiced by Casey Mongillo, who is the voice for Shinji in the Netflix dub of Eva.  I thought it would put an interesting spin on the character, while keeping with a tradition in the English dubs of Kaworu having a shitload of dub actors.

Next Time...

A new arrival to the USS Nerv... friction coming to a head between Shinji and Asuka... an angel attack... and dire consequences...

Chapter 7: Dialogue Appendix

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Chapter 8: Afterword and Episode Artwork

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EVA-Trek:  Cast of Characters

Now that we’re into the back half of the series, and nearly all of the main cast has been established, I thought I would revisit the EVA-Trek cast list. This only covers the main, supporting, and recurring cast, and not the incidental/one-off characters.  As previously mentioned, the voices I write to are a blend of the Netflix Amazon dub casts for the franchise.

MAIN CAST

Crewman Shinji Ikari:  Spike Spencer

Ensign Rei Ayanami:  Amanda Winn Lee

Lt. J.G. Asuka L. Soryu:  Tiffany Grant

Commander Miasto Katsuragi:  Allison Keith-Shipp

Captain Gendo Ikari:  John Swasey

Commander Kozo Fuyutsuki:  JP Karliak

Commander (Dr.) Ritsuko Akagi:  Erica Lindbeck

Lt. Commander Ryoji Kaji:  Greg Chun

Crewman Kaworu Nagisa:  Casey Mongillo

Lt. Commander (Dr.) Hitomi Amagi:  Carrie Keranen

Lt. Commander Mari Makinami:  Deneen Melody

SUPPORTING CAST

Dr. Yui Ikari:  Amanda Winn Lee

Kensuke Aida:  Benjamin Diskin

Sakura Suzuhara:  Felecia Angelle

Touji Suzuhara:  Johnny Yong Bosch

Hikari Horaki:  Abby Trott

Mana Kirishima:  Stephanie McKeon

Lt. Makoto Hyuga:  Daniel MK Cohen

Lt. Shigeru Aoba:  Billy Kametz

Lt. Maya Ibuki:  Christine Marie Cabanos

Lt. Meika Komi:  Amber Lee Connors

Lt. Koji Takao:  Jake Eberle

Lt. Sumire Nagara:  Rebeka Thomas

Ensign Midori Kitakami:  Bijou Vann

Ensign Hideaki Tama:  Scott Golden

Nurse Henry Park:  Gavin Lee

Commodore Lorenz Kiel:  D.C. Douglas

Dr. Naoko Akagi:  Mary Faber

Ship’s Computer:  Majel Barrett-Roddenberry

RECURRING CAST

Mr. Aida:  Garrett Wang

Mr. Suzuhara:  Vaughn Armstrong

Ensign Barnes:  Donald Glover

Ensign Nadir:  Danny Pudi

Captain Ed Mercer:  Seth MacFarlane

Nerv’s EMH:  Robert Picardo

EPISODE ARTWORK

Scene 10 - INT. CLASSROOM

 

Scene 19 - INT. TRAINING ENTRY PLUG (OPTICAL)

 

A Typical Misato/Kaji Scene:

 

Cast Photo - Crewman Shinji Ikari

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