THE RED SHIRTS: A STAR TREK PODCAST
THE RED SHIRTS: A STAR TREK PODCAST
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THE HOST REVIEW TREK DOESN'T GO ALL THE WAY!
It's a Red Shirts social justice warrior two-for-one and we welcome former Black Girl Nerd writer and current contributor to Fandango and Star Trek.com sa well as CEO of Running Ladies Studios!
In part 1, we review the TNG episode The Host, the one where Trek DOESN'T boldly go where no one has gone before, at least in 1991! We discuss the nature of attraction, how Dr. Beverly Crusher handles her conundrum, we also unpack whether or not a violation of Riker takes place in this episode! And we debate the CONTROVERSIAL FINAL SCENE. Yes, we go THERE! Qstorm and Big Sexy spar over Gates McFadden's acting prowess!
Check out The Host on Netflix, CBS All Access or Blu-ray, then put on your cognitive thinking cap and join us in this fascinating breakdown of one of Qstorm's favorite TNG episodes! Then beam aboard next week for part 2 of our social justice crusade with another triggering topic!
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  • @orvillemeadows3492
    @orvillemeadows3492 2 дні тому

    Has she lived I think she’d been great on DS9 especially when Worf joined the show

  • @christopherneufelt8971
    @christopherneufelt8971 4 дні тому

    I knew it. It was always the Kardashians.

  • @tonyjeevar6565
    @tonyjeevar6565 5 днів тому

    Shaka, when the walls fell.

  • @urt1
    @urt1 5 днів тому

    The more I watch old TNG clips, the more I realized it raised me into who I am today. Bravery, compassion, loyalty in a single episode...thank you TNG

  • @ricksimon9867
    @ricksimon9867 7 днів тому

    This was it. This was what needed to be done to save the show. But they didn't realise it. After so many episodes, we had seen all the main characters interact with each other in any conceivable situation. What was needed was more characters. That's why Ensign Ro was immediately a fan favourite. If they had made these Lower Decks characters - especially the waiter - recurring characters, the show would have improved markedly. But alas, that would have meant less screentime for the main characters (as in this episode), and that was a no-go. And so TNG died. _

  • @SnowDaulphin
    @SnowDaulphin 13 днів тому

    RIP Nurse Ogawa.

  • @soulsphere9242
    @soulsphere9242 14 днів тому

    RIP Patti Yasutake

  • @SN-cb9xj
    @SN-cb9xj 17 днів тому

    The Star Trek Universe peaked with The Next Generation. That will forever be my opinion.

    • @MrQstorm3476
      @MrQstorm3476 17 днів тому

      Even though Capt Kirk is the foundation, TNG is my favorite iteration. Having said that, I don’t think it’s fair at all to suggest DS9 and Voyager weren’t impactful. If nothing else, those series gave us our first black and female LEAD captains.

    • @SN-cb9xj
      @SN-cb9xj 16 днів тому

      @@MrQstorm3476 Well, although I did enjoy Sisko and Janeway, I don't really care about box checking. The best thing is that those characters were integrated so naturally that it never FELT like box checking. Also, I never said that the other shows were awful, but TNG had the best characters and writing. Again, for me, the Mt. Everest peak of Star Trek was TNG.

  • @sleepinggorilla
    @sleepinggorilla 20 днів тому

    Now a days it’s all about character arcs. TNG understood character “refinement”. The characters did not change much, but they gradually became better, deeper versions.

  • @andrewkapplin1138
    @andrewkapplin1138 20 днів тому

    I don’t remember this episode. What happened to her?

  • @grast5150
    @grast5150 21 день тому

    Here is my only comment about this future interpretation of humans, We have 3 Starfleet officers who go through years of training and risk their lives for the betterment of humankind. This is contrast to a civilian which serves drinks for a living in a post scarcity society. One is not like the other. How is the bartender expanding human society or holding up those ideals of humans striving for the best. What get an education? Learn something new? Nah I will just serve drinks for the rest of my life and enjoy the holodecks go to love StarFleet.

  • @user-fp4dm6od1b
    @user-fp4dm6od1b 23 дні тому

    Why does the hot chick have to die?

    • @MrQstorm3476
      @MrQstorm3476 23 дні тому

      What do you mean? Nurse Ogawa survived.

  • @charlesbaer9971
    @charlesbaer9971 23 дні тому

    Worf: "You guys ever grief-drink with a Klingon before?"

  • @tnvol2011
    @tnvol2011 23 дні тому

    It would have been cool to see Worf mourn.

  • @SlicerJen
    @SlicerJen 24 дні тому

    the riker maneuver! best way to sit a chair.

  • @anothergalaxys4780
    @anothergalaxys4780 26 днів тому

    OMG The music is so good

  • @theredshirtsastartrekpodca5967
    @theredshirtsastartrekpodca5967 Місяць тому

    Dammit…I posted this five years ago…just watched it again. Still makes me cry. When Ogawa gasps, the tears start up. When Worf stands up to walk to the table, it’s full on waterworks.

  • @Scarecrow545
    @Scarecrow545 Місяць тому

    Notice LaVelle (ensign who got promoted), the guy who thought Riker had it out for him, does a little Riker Maneuver at 1:27.

  • @DeadmanXYZ
    @DeadmanXYZ Місяць тому

    The most tragic story of all the supporting characters. And I hate the TNG producers and scriptwriters for it. Because every time I watch TNG and then get to seasons 5 and 7, I get angry again about how those idiots treated the character Sito Jaxa. Every time I watch it, I cry like a waterfall because I find her story so damn tragic and I suspect that she had what it takes to become captain of the USS Voyager. There was so much potential in this character and they didn't use it. In retrospect, I could shake my fist at many decisions made by producers and other idiots who worked behind the camera on TV series and feature films.

  • @gregorycannon2458
    @gregorycannon2458 Місяць тому

    I'm just saying...I would imagine Picard was feeling guilt seeing it was he who tapped her for this mission

  • @bonusbaby801
    @bonusbaby801 Місяць тому

    1:54...What a quote!!

  • @carminedecosmo7698
    @carminedecosmo7698 2 місяці тому

    Watching this scene after Patti Yasutake has passed makes me sad. I loved her portrayal of Alyssa ogawa

  • @rdkap42
    @rdkap42 4 місяці тому

    The subtle nods of each lower deck character taking on a trait from their mentor. You could imagine Ogawas lines coming from Beverly, Taurik's lines coming from Data, Sam has that hint of self doubt you see in Riker when he is in private, and Ben has the emotional intelligence of Guinan in fabricating a pretext to tell Worf to join the group of mourners. And obviously Sito dies in battle in the best Klingon tradition.

  • @alonzotanner1226
    @alonzotanner1226 4 місяці тому

    Amazing actress. Shannon Fill is talented and beautiful. I think she deserved the toughness she got and more but not death. What she did, being such a follower to Locarno and actually letting him coerce them into covering up Josh Albert's true cause of death she deserved banishment just as much as Locarno did. It's not fair Wesley kept having to pay for it most than most being set back a year when everyone kept advancing ahead of him and whatnot. Thats part of why I don't get how stupid fans can be sympathizing for this person who actively participated in covering up a death she was partially responsible for without remorse, until she had to start paying for it unavoidably. This is probably why that stupid kid who caused the boston bombing is still alive. Morons.

    • @thomashong2938
      @thomashong2938 Місяць тому

      The only one who deserved banishment was Locarno. It was all his idea, the risky stunt and the coverup. The others were guilty of blind loyalty and groupthink. Tim Watters led Red Squad to their deaths on board the Valiant. His bad decisions weren’t challenged by the others due to their groupthink and blind loyalty to him. Same thing on the Equinox. We’re morons and stupid fans because we liked Sito? We liked her because we liked Shannon.

  • @YD-uq5fi
    @YD-uq5fi 5 місяців тому

    Worf should have them do a scream upward as a warrior has died.

  • @stephenbyrne2170
    @stephenbyrne2170 5 місяців тому

    I'm here after Lower Decks. Anybody else?

    • @zomfragger
      @zomfragger 24 дні тому

      Same here. It puts into perspective that the smallest characters can have a larger influence on the bigger picture.

    • @stephenbyrne2170
      @stephenbyrne2170 24 дні тому

      @@zomfragger Well, actually, I came here after Lower Decks to learn more about her.

  • @BegToDiffer99
    @BegToDiffer99 6 місяців тому

    Michael Dorn at his best. *tears*

  • @Phillip713
    @Phillip713 6 місяців тому

    You gotta love Worf. The moment he is told that Sito considered him a friend, he gets up and goes to sit down with her other friends. Worf is the most loyal friend you could have. There is also that scene in “the outcast” when Worf wants to help Riker rescue Soren and says “A warrior does not let a friend face danger alone.”

    • @DanielAppleton-lr9eq
      @DanielAppleton-lr9eq 2 місяці тому

      Worf AND Data. 2 people that I would love to have watching my 6 : 00 position if things were going seriously sideways.

    • @Skipper-j2z
      @Skipper-j2z Місяць тому

      Just dont call him a coward

    • @NormAppleton
      @NormAppleton 23 дні тому

      Worf is pretty cool. Cuts off a head, offers you Camomile tea

  • @BooBahh-uh5jk
    @BooBahh-uh5jk 6 місяців тому

    Sito should come back as a Cardassian Agent who takes over the Enterprise... next movie?

    • @thomashong2938
      @thomashong2938 6 місяців тому

      If anything, she should have come back in PIC season 2. I like to think that Wesley went back in time as a Traveler to rescue her.

  • @reidsb78
    @reidsb78 6 місяців тому

    That bartender learned well from Guinan.

  • @kev3d
    @kev3d 6 місяців тому

    "You shouldn't feel that way, Sam" Well thank you for the advice, space-waiter. Now, how about a Arcturan Mai Tai?

  • @SilentWayFarer1
    @SilentWayFarer1 6 місяців тому

    I thought her name was Sito Jackson. It was Sito Jaxa

  • @captpicard100
    @captpicard100 6 місяців тому

    This and The Pegasus were the 2 best episodes of Season 7.

  • @petergianakopoulos4926
    @petergianakopoulos4926 7 місяців тому

    She was hot

  • @pacom6549
    @pacom6549 7 місяців тому

    This episode was actually the inspiration for the concept of LD.

  • @Ductos
    @Ductos 8 місяців тому

    They need to bring this group back somehow in Lower Decks. I wonder how their lifes turned out.

  • @ABCDyeahyeahyeah
    @ABCDyeahyeahyeah 8 місяців тому

    When someone says Season 7 was crap I always reference this episode. This was a tantalizing hint of what could have been had the show continued on.

  • @kennethpaulsen5407
    @kennethpaulsen5407 9 місяців тому

    this episode always gets me

  • @tomtomminger6227
    @tomtomminger6227 9 місяців тому

    This last scene brings me to tears every single time. We are lucky to have grown up with TNG, which set an example of the true spirit of what humanity could become.

  • @nathanfugate8210
    @nathanfugate8210 9 місяців тому

    Killing off Sito was a travesty!

  • @nolanueno1060
    @nolanueno1060 10 місяців тому

    I wonder how Mariner at first handle hearing that her hero recklessly got one her teammates killed and then conspirer to coverup? Then what did do when Sito was getting ostracize and possibly builled by the other cadets?

  • @bradleypittman9370
    @bradleypittman9370 10 місяців тому

    While ds9 could have bettet long term storylined tng had some of the best 1 or 2 episode stories

  • @Kartissa
    @Kartissa 10 місяців тому

    I see Sam Lavelle went to the William T. Riker School of Sitting Down.

  • @stevenhenry5267
    @stevenhenry5267 10 місяців тому

    TNG should have worked harder on a supporting cast.

  • @pauljmorton
    @pauljmorton 10 місяців тому

    What I like about this death over many others is that it's off screen. Everyone, including us the viewers, expected that Sito might die, and when news of her death came, we're left with a sense of wonder about what exactly happened.

    • @mako88sb
      @mako88sb 9 місяців тому

      Found out fairly recently that they planned to have her return in a future episode after she’d been a POW for awhile. Too bad it didn’t happen.

    • @pauljmorton
      @pauljmorton 6 місяців тому

      @@mako88sb I'm happy it didn't happen. There are so many instances of "I thought they were dead but lo, comeback" in everything already. For once, we need someone to actually die and stay dead because that's what the dead do. Death means nothing if just about anyone can simply waltz their way back.

  • @Mark73
    @Mark73 10 місяців тому

    That bartender is absolutely a deciple of Guinan's.

  • @JH-mo7xm
    @JH-mo7xm 11 місяців тому

    After 30 years i thought her name was Ensign Sito Jackson. Now on lower decks, her name was spelled Jaxa.

    • @thomashong2938
      @thomashong2938 6 місяців тому

      It was spelled Jaxa on TNG.

    • @JH-mo7xm
      @JH-mo7xm 6 місяців тому

      @@thomashong2938 evidence! **In sisko**

    • @thomashong2938
      @thomashong2938 6 місяців тому

      @@JH-mo7xm It was spelled Jaxa in the closed-caption English subtitles. And in Star Trek Encyclopedia and in Memory Alpha. The character was Bajoran. Family name first, first name last. Jackson would be a very unusual first name for a human girl. For a Bajoran girl? An impossibility.

    • @JH-mo7xm
      @JH-mo7xm 6 місяців тому

      When I watched it 30 years ago, the way Picard said it sounded like Jackson and there was no internet back then.

    • @thomashong2938
      @thomashong2938 6 місяців тому

      @@JH-mo7xm The TNG season DVD box sets have always had English subtitles available for every episode. No Internet needed.

  • @directive0
    @directive0 11 місяців тому

    I love how they finally called back to this episode and made it the foundations of Star Trek: Lower Decks. So rad.

  • @dragonsword7370
    @dragonsword7370 11 місяців тому

    The credits music, has a theme sounding like DS9. Either is from Worf's theme subtly added or maybe... The show's Were running together at this time.

  • @Church449
    @Church449 11 місяців тому

    I feel as though this is the utmost inspiration for the Lower Decks show.

    • @Treydies
      @Treydies 11 місяців тому

      If you see the most recent episode it's almost guaranteed

    • @Church449
      @Church449 11 місяців тому

      @Treydies I have and this feeling is reinforced. I honestly love the call backs and the fact they are bringing in older characters and their original actors.