An astrophysicist watches 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' for the first time
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👩🏽💻 I'm Dr Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford. I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.
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To all the Trekkies who I mortally offended: “I’ve never watched any of the original Star Trek series...” to me, meant “all the series made before the Chris Pine films”. Showing my Star Trek noob once again, I had no idea The Original Series was the actual name.
Oh, and yes Patrick Stewart plays Prof. X not Magneto, but I always get that mixed up in my head where I’m convinced Ian McKellen always plays the good guy ❤️
I prefer to think that was just epic trolling, cracked me up.
I actually thought your faux pas were hilarious and I couldn’t wait to start reading comments.
TNG (what you seem to be watching) gets good after season 3, once the actors really got into their roles.
The big thing about TNG for me is the series take on ethical/moral situations.
"The Battle" is a good early season one episode with some decent (a relative word there) physics to comment on.
You wait until you watch the one where they have to remove a dangerous build up of baryons from the Enterprise. No, I’m not making that up. Just pretend they say rabyons or something when you get it. Enjoyable but sometimes you wish the writers occasionally rang actual scientists and asked if the cool word they heard recently makes sense in context or if they should just make up something else.
Wait a minute, did Dr Becky just call Picard Magneto? No no no, he was professor Xavier. Not magneto.
Right!
You can tell that she doesn't get out much.
Good catch!
yeah, got to call that one out lol
Does it really matter? He'll always be Gurney Hallek to me!
You called Patrick Stewart "Magneto" and just incensed two fandoms simultaneously.
Use the force Harry -Gandalf
How efficient of her.
yeah, but also he plays Professor X and Ian McKellan (aka Gandalf) is Magneto.
She may not know her movie references but she knows her physics! That's the important part. Not butthurt fanboys complaining.
@@rays2729 That's not a movie reference though, that's the name the actors portrayed. Knowledge is knowledge, when you're wrong you're wrong.
"That's the important part" Lol what, that she Jimmy Fallon fake laughs while pointing out inconsistencies in a show with Klingons and Phasers from the 80's? That's like Jim Wendler pointing out flaws in a high school PE class.
"Stop touching each other at work!"
Clearly you are not familiar with Riker.
Well it was the late 80's...
I just did a spit take reading this 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, he was a bit of a touchy, feely character.
Just wait until she sees the classic Riker chair mount move
Or Kirk from STTOS. 😂
“Does watching JUST the Chris Pines films redeem me with Trek fans?”
No. In fact, quite the opposite. 😄
The JJ films have nothing to do with Star Trek. If you’re *only* a fan of those dumb schlock movies, you’re not a fan of Star Trek. It’s really that simple.
@Gary Snow You say that like it's a bad thing. And honestly, it wasn't hard to keep track of canon until they threw it out the window with the reboot and Discovery.
I thought that immediately but I wasn't sure if I felt like commenting... thank you for taking care of it
Ya know, these kinds of arguments over a fictional story line are, well, really kind of sad.
@@palomarjack4395 Never been to a Star Trek convention with actual panel discussions that are about things other than the actors? How about a Star Trek discussion forum? People have been arguing about some of this stuff for over 50 years.
“I’ll just watch another one....” yeah that’s how we all started...
LOL!!!!! So true!! If only all Jeopardy questions were based on Trek I could retire comfortably in 6-9 months. (OK, I'm a little weak when it comes to the Enterprise prequel.)
Nothing but truth!
Yeah, except the episode after Naked Now is.......
@@dupersuper1938 Code of Honor 😨
Many a sci fi fans have gone down that rabbit hole with many a series, good sci fi is like a black hole, once you get caught in its gravity well you just keep getting drawn further and further in until you hit the Event Horizon/Finale.
Dr. Becky: Bored so watches Star Trek
Me: Bored so watches Dr. Becky watching Star Trek
When does the cycle end?!?!
Me: So bored, reading the funny comments of a video where Dr. Becky watches a Star Trek movie.
Oh, I think, it's not boring any more ;-)
But by the way, those movies were "a bit" simple even in the times back then. But well, it was the only entertainment with some space stuff. Although we knew, it had much more to do with fiction than science. But even the fiction was very simple in the first Star Trek series:
Each planet had no more than one city, mostly nothing more like a tiny town, often underground, everyone speaks english on every planet and when an unnamed crew member walked off to the left (on the planet's surface), he would not come back. Very simple ;-)
@@DrBecky This is never ending. (gasp) We're caught in - a TIME LOOP (dun Dun dunn DUUUUUNNNN) 😧
@@DrBecky I think with my dog. He's watching me watching you watch Stars Trek. Wait, where's the cat...
Me, bored, reading the comment about watching Dr Becky watch Star Trek.
Dr Becky reacting to TNG: YAY!
Season 1 Episode 2: oh. oh no.
Quite possibly the worst episode to start with.
If I wanted to ensure people thought star trek was stupid, I'd make them watch this episode 1st.
@@joeyadair9228 At least it wasn't Code of Honor...
Should probably just watch the handful of gems in the first 2 seasons and then start on season 3
LMAO
I wish there was a face palm gif here because this is where you would use it.
"Lets whats great about Star Trek TNG."
Starts in the worst part.
The rest of the video was too obvious. *shrug*
@@iainmac6272 "At least it wasn't Code of Honor..." Yeah, that was the next episode after The Naked Now. So if we really did "just one more..." Oi, this show really did not get a good start.
“The Naked Now” was actually a extremely inferior remake of a first season episode of the original Star Trek series called “The Naked Time”.
In that episode, the Enterprise was in close orbit around a planet that was undergoing gravitational instability and crust collapse due to the core cooling.
The acting, writing, and directing of that 1966 episode were all much less embarrassing than this episode.
The entire first season was still trying to shake off its dated roots. There were a few points, like Farpoint, where TNG shone brilliantly, but any time I go back to Trek I start with season 2.
Star Trek is at its best when it deals with human/ethical problems. It's basically social commentary with a futuristic backdrop. They've tackled racism, homophobia, dictatorships, imperialism, ... There's also the ethical implications of AI and what makes humans human, for example. But above all it's a show about hope for humanity's future and that we'll eventually be able to overcome our weaknesses and create a prosperous and peaceful society ruled by diplomacy instead of war, where money doesn't exist, replicators can create anything you need, including food, and people have all their basic necessities covered.
Well said!
I'm the opposite. I like the unknown and science problem episodes over human ethical problems. We get enough of that in our own real world.
Nah! The best Star Trek episodes were the battles.
Don’t forget Star Trek IV. It had big political impact.
Yes, I love it. It is delightfully left wing and the overarching statement that Star Trek makes, is that the future has a left-wing bias. Which is absolutely does. That's why I don't like Star Wars.. the Rebels are the Republicans and they're constantly trying to overthrow democracy by sabotaging expensive megaprojects while murdering innocent breadwinners and who have little regard for authority and even less for armed forces... it couldn't have been more on the nose if Han Solo wore a MAGA cap.
"So, Magneto..."
Oh no, oh no no no. Oh dear god no. I need some tea.
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
If it’s good enough for Picard, it’s good enough for me.
I know, right? That made me cringe so hard it hurt.
So. Cringe. Arrrgh! LOL!
No dear. That is Professor Sex
I don't even care about the X men but gave up at that point.
This is interesting. Star Trek is actually the reason why I gained an interest of Astrophysics. To the point I did my Astrophysics degree.
This! This is why I'm having a hard time believing someone who studies stars has not watched this.
Yeah I’ve heard a lot of people say that! I think I just missed the boat on it being born in the 90s. I don’t remember it ever being on TV and my parents didn’t watch it either. To be honest it was my love of astronomy that got me into sci-if! 😂
@@DrBecky I think you had to have been born in the 80s to have ST:TNG be on prime-time television while you were growing up. I recall it was really big in the period of 1990-1994, after the 3rd sesion which did make TNG come into its own and set the stage for the subsequent ST series like DS9 and Voyager. Their lore and visual identity all trace back to TNG.
Funnily enough, I was a child of the 80s that grew up with TNG and when there was a showing of Star Trek: The Motion Picture on my local TV in 1990 or so, I thought to myself "who are these guys, this is not the 1701-D crew?" :-D
ST was the reason I almost got a Astro degree (but later dropped out)
Contender for "Shortest Scientific Paper Ever"?
Title : "Do Exploding Stars Chuck Out Glowing Asteroid Thingies?"
No.
R.Smethurst
"Geordi" was named for a disabled Star Trek fan who made the convention circuit and was much beloved by the original cast. The character's "visor" represents the hope that future scientific discoveries will help human beings overcome physical disabilities.
6:18 *Professor X, you mean, surely? ;) Magneto was Sir Ian McKellen!
Whoops!
Whoopsie!
Crumbs... how embarrassing! :D
@@DrBecky ua-cam.com/video/wnedkVrgFF0/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Asad
@@DrBecky i had the hope that was a sarcasm :(
TNG Season 1 was terrible. It gets much better around Season 3.
Chocolate rain
So glad my opinion on this actually fits in with what appears to be the vast majority. That doesn't happen often.
Season one is damn near unwatchable and the writers confess as much. She should watch "Q Who" from season 2 just to introduce the Borg and then skip right ahead to season 3
Is it really you?
TNG Season one is great! It just looks bad when it is compared to what came later.
I'd like to see an astrophysicist's reactions and response to the series finale, All Good Things (2-part episode). It is premised on a temporal "anomaly", which seems to age backwards through time.
As a child, it really sparked my imagination in the direction of theoretical physics.
Yes, I loved that finale. Picard had to make such a large conceptual leap to understand what was happening to him.
I love the finale, as you can guess from my user name 😁💁🏻♂️
@@InverseTachyonPulse Haha! Likewise, I love your username. Full impulse, ahead into the anomaly!
I'm sad she didn't watch more episodes. 😭
don't watch that. an editorial fail makes the solution to the problem not make sense. the filmmakers admit this. It's like telling her to start watching Trek with the episode Code of Honor.
According to Star Trek canonical lore. In Warp Fields (hence Warp Speed) the ship doesn't go faster than light, instead it warps space time around it so as to give the affect of faster than light travel. This was explained on how aging between a character on a planet and someone making all these warp jumps doesn't result in weird age gaps later on.
@@SF-tb4kb didnt someone claim they'd come up with negative mass in some experiment recently? ... or was it even... negative energy? :o
Look up the alcubierre warp drive, aparent FTL travel is possible with current physics. They have even been able to reliably warp spacetime in lab conditions
@@SF-tb4kb , the theoretical harnessing of dark matter would allow space/time warping. The energy to do that would rival small stars.
@@SF-tb4kb But then the statement made in the original comment is true, she said current understanding of physics doesn't allow it, well Dr Alcubierre argues otherwise.
Also last I heard negative energy isn't even nessesary at this point (something about changing frequencies at which they send energy around the loops of the theoretical ship) , although I am really skeptical about that one
Yea I believe the physics does work but you need massive amounts of both positive and negative energy. We aren't even sure negative energy is a think. There are theories about creating locally negative energy through the Casmir effect. I think the US government LEGITIMATELY studied it not long ago.
0:30 "I've never watched any of the original Star Trek series." Watches TNG.
Der Nudel
Well, she did pick a TNG episode that recycled a TOS script.
I know. Bless. 😆😍
Yeah, well ...
I'm guessing "series" here is plural, as she said she _had_ watched the Kelvin films but didn't mention anything else. So "the series which were originally made" not "The Original Series"/TOS.
@@Alphathon I know, just being a pedant.
After two seasons of TNG, everything got settled in and the characters were well established and the writers were sorted out. It got much better then.
'Warp' is actually being studied in physics, warping space-time to move matter with space instead of through space. It may still be impossible but the math works.
You can't tear apart the science in star wars because there isn't any.
And that's one more reason why Star Wars really isn't Science Fiction. It's more like Space Fantasy.
@@hjk3927 plus it's in an a long established universe Star Trek is science fiction because in the reality it's based in which is our future hasn't happened yet but Star wars is in the past
@@lectornox sci fi doesn't have to be in the future.
That is a common misconception. What's often overlooked is that the events in the Star Wars take place closer to their galactic core. The gravity is significantly more intense there, and that changes things like the laws of physics and standard deviations.
@@lectornox and far far away
Dr Becky: The Girl Who Deliberately Kicked the Trekkie Hornet's Nest. :D
"Look at Betelgeuse, for example. Betelgeuse is a....."
My mind: "Say it one more time, I DARE YOU!"
Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse.
@@fredlandry6170 It's showtime!!
She can't say it three times, her name is not Lydia.
I double dog dare you. Say what one more time. ;-)
She’s funny! She called him “Magneto”. I’m ☠️ 🤣😂🤣😊☺️😂
OMG, he's Prof X, not Magneto! Yikes!!
Same... I mean she called herself a sci-fi geek... Apparently shar trek isn't the only series she needs to watch...
I was just about to say that 🤣🤣
I still enjoy her vids though.
That killed me 🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😂
But still cute
TNG gets real good from season 3. I mean it's all good, but it really picks up in season 3.
There's some pretty good Season 2 episodes, especially Measure of a Man
thats true, currently rewatching TNG and it blowed my mind how good episodes got starting in season 3. And especially season 1 was really cringeworthy.
has probably still the best ending of all TV series period.
Yep, when Berman replaced most of the staff 😊
@@derNephelin I don't think I've ever had such sadness about the end of a TV show.
I'm relieved that you only said "Betelgeuse" twice, and not three times... ;-)
Yes, I'm not sure how Picard would have sounded singing about bananas.
@@jameswest4819 Well, IMHO, if Dick Cavett could handle it, I'm confident that Sir Patrick Stewart could do it justice! LOL
Oh look! You've been to Saturn. Hey, I've been to Saturn! Whoa. Sandworms. You hate 'em right? I hate 'em myself! 🤣🤣
I think I would have liked to see that. 😁
Betelgeuse star would make it even intresting
Becky, would be really cool to see your scientific opinion on The Expanse.
Haven’t watched it yet so I’ll add to the list thanks 👍
@@DrBecky it’s a much more realistic depiction of space, so it might be right up your street!
@@DrBecky Heartily recommended. Apart from some hilarious headpalm moments like the Jovian moons approach it's actually rather consistent internally.
Yes, definitely watch the expanse. It is so good!
I watched the first season. . . After that there were just so many plot holes concerning gravity and momentum. I guess it has to do with budget constraints in set design.. .
The models and space shots were amazing for the time, and the detail still holds up over modern CGI because it's using real light and models :)
The writing holds up too because now we're stuck with CGA.
As a Star Trek TOS, next gen, deep space nine, etc. fan I can tell you that those newer movies don't embrace the Roddenberry ideal. 😁🖖💕
But they do perfectly capture the essence of the original Star Trek.
DS9 wasn't what Roddenberry wanted either. He was good at coming up with a universe but in the 80s he was a spent force.
It's just not the same without magic space socialism and space gods every three light years.
@@GamesFromSpace and let's not forget the ships doctors son! He's essential for getting everybody out of a bad situation within 45 minutes.
Roddenberry wanted to present a future where everybody worked together rather than infighting. That's the essence we lost in all the shows when he died.
Dr Becky: This is not sci-fi bashing in any way.
1 minute later: *GOES FULL NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON*
Snake in De Grass.
@@NeverTalkToCops1
lol!
Pluto is a planet yo.
NDT's reasoning for de-planetizing Pluto failed. One of the main reasons was that Pluto didn't clear its own orbit. Neptune overlaps and therefore Pluto doesn't have a cleared orbit, and is not a planet. Kinda makes sense, right?
Except that if Neptune's orbit overlaps Pluto's orbit that means Pluto's orbit overlaps Neptune's. If Pluto is disqualified that means Neptune must be disqualified for the same reason. Neptune never cleared its own orbit. And there's no doubt Neptune is a real planet.
Pluto
Is
A
Planet
@@protorhinocerator142
The actualy phrasing is _dominant in its immediate neighbourhood._ This definition works for Neptune because it is by the largest body in that orbital region and dominates all the other body's motion. PLuto is in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Neptune.
I guess if we found 2 similarly sized planets in 1 orbital region, they might both have to be planets, but this has not yet had to be established.
Dr. Becky: (First time watching TNG) OOH, LOOK - PARALLAX!
ME: (having seen every episode of ToS and TNG multiple times) Huh, never noticed that.
First time I heard "parsec" was in TOS. I thought it was a made-up term. 😃
Alpha Centauri parallax angle from Earth 1 AU is like 0.742′′ so you’d need to move some serious distance to visually see parallax...
@@mpeg2tom Good idea that light bounces, we can get glimpses of confirmed angles without needing to get that "far out"
Although, I think we are! Phases be like, when we have to depend on pet or animal stories for distinction or when Political President elect Biden voices a CoVid19 add like abused animal commercial ( obvious there is a lot more to it than a few lines about tragedy ) reducing inflammation us key, but yeah, rarely do we see anything other than the spokesman because political suicide to be completely forward and responsible rather than degenerate.
Actors have no place in leadership, no matter how much I q. Is supporting them.
Sorry for the sour note, it blew away.
Funny how things slip your mind...then suddenly you remember, you just can't negotiate with systemic distortion termed description discrimination, bigot or racist. But I know how serious and sensitive this is.
A build up of inflamation.
@@MariaMartinez-researcher The first time I heard "parsec" was in the first Star Wars movie from 1977 when Han Solo told Obi-Wan Kenobi about the Millennium Falcon. He said, "It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs."
I don't think they were trying to show parallax, I think it was just 2 badly cut together star fields in the editing transition 😂
"I'm more of a Star Wars fan…"
I… My heart is broken. It'll take a while to recover.
I thought all true nerds knew Star Trek is where it's at?
You can like both of them you petty Ferengi-Gungans.
@@ninjabluefyre3815 LOL
Star Wars is fantasy, like Harry Potter, not sci-fi.
For the record, Dr. Becky, you can't hear lasers pew pewing in space like you can during the Star Wars movies
You need to do the same with "The Expanse"
100% agree, watching a reaction to The Expanse would be great.
@@WaystedMined And there is season 5 coming soon! I would rate The Expanse right at the top of my favourite Sci-Fi series.
@@Outland9000 What do you mean coming soon? It's already episode 3 from season 5.
Earth gets hit by an asteroid.
@@predattak My comment was posted a week ago... *_Before_* season 5 dropped.
@@Outland9000 Yep.. it seems so :)) i never realized they dropped 3 episodes at once. I thought they went for 1/week. My bad.
Dr Becky, you should do an episode on the Dyson sphere The Next Generation: Season 6, Episode 4
YAAAAS! The episode is called Relics. Great episode also.
Yes do one on the Dyson where.... Please please please.... Thank you for making these. We love you for it
Yes!!!!
When they said "Dyson Sphere" I though, "Finally! Some science fiction in this alleged science fiction series!" instead of Troi's mother or some such. But then they proceedeed to ignore the thing for most of the episode until they got trapped inside it. Any SF author could have thought of a dozen things to do with a DS but that's all those TNG people could come up with. Well, that and making Scotty look like a fool.
Yep, I was about to suggest this one too
Technically, it is possible based on the way warp drive actually works. You push down space in front and raise behind pushing you forward injunction with whatever type of actual engines push out. It basically makes it easier to push the spacecraft around. Star Trek shows that the bubble pulling the ship forward. That is a little different.
Nothing in Trek moves faster than light: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive (the closest to a theoretical warp drive but Warp is a plot device.)
I watched this series in my forming years 8-12, and Picard was my role model. In a time when TV was filled with beefy strong men, he was an intellectual who solved conflicts with reason, appreciated art, quoted Shakespeare... I totally shipped him with Dr Crusher :D
Kill all the Lawyers Shakespeare
In canon, Picard was married to Crusher, for a time, anyway. But I DO wonder when they're gonna just admit that Jean-Luc was Wesley's real father and not the dead, yet horribly cuckolded Jack Crusher.
Picard is an illustration of what a great leader looks like
We all ship picard with dr crusher
Instead of "forming", I think you mean "formative". Oh well, that's what happens when someone spends way, way too much time indulging in sci-fi. Go out and read some other literature for a while.
5:54 The Enterprise isn’t moving Newtonally anywhere. It’s contracting and expanding spacetime around itself.
. . . kinda like a fly between two sheets of paper ? ! ?
TECHNICALLY, the camera was moving, not the ship.
@@brianrogers7360
. . . in the bowels of the ship ! ! !
If it isn't moving then why does it need a deflector dish? And how can they match speed for transport and to put a tractor on probes?
@@mintydog06 Warp bubbles must be permeable, or a the crew would be completely blind, and the fuel scoops wouldn't work.
"Magneto"!? May God have mercy on your soul, because the Marvel fans won't.
I did cringe at that one.
He'll always be Gurney Hallek to me! 🤪
@@rjonboy7608 Mood's a thing for cattle and love play, not fighting!
@@rjonboy7608 No...he is Leondegrance from Excalibur : "I saw what I saw! The boy drew the sword. If a boy has been chosen, a boy shall be King!"
😆
I really wish every episode of season 1 started with "It gets better!".
Captain Picard: Full stop!
Helmsman: Relative to which inertial frame of reference, captain?
😂
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Scottie: I got my foot to the fleur cap-in . . . it's all she'll do ! ! !
Captain Kirk: Bones . . . go down the engine room see if you can help Scottie with damage control ! ! !
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@@hughmoore786 Scotty: McGyver, go out and reconnect the nacelles with chewing gum and an aspirin. :)
Captain Picard: helmsman I swear to god... You know what? Fuck it get that child up here, he won't talk back.
Capt. Picard:
The frame of reference that anchors the bars to your cell in the brig if you have anything you wish to add to this conversation ! ! !
@@hughmoore786 "Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a damage control guy!"
:)
Oh and The Enterprise doesn't travel faster than light, it travels by warping space time and rides it like a wave :)
Kind of redicules sometimes when the warpdrive breaks down and they continue with the impulse drive. Once the warpdrive are operational again it will overtake what distance the impulse gave them in no time.
@@michaelpettersson4919 No ship captain likes to be stopped...
Yes, and this is a highly speculative possibility / theory of physics about which we don't know yet whether it is relly possible. But that is why it is a sci fi.
@@akostarkanyi825 Otherwise they would all be senior citizens before they reached the next star.
@@scotth6814 More like their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren will be senior citizens
"Oh look, she's going to watch TNG... this should be good. Which episode?" "The space-drunk tie-in with TOS."
Me (an intellectual): Oh shit... buckle up.
Dr. Becky: STOP TOUCHING EACH OTHER IN THE WORKPLACE!
Me: THERE IT IS.
Sorely an intellectual America is an oxymoron... 🤣
#MAGA even meant Made (Republican) Americans Goons Again for example... 🤣
@@BassandoForte 1. Sorely you meant 'surely'.
2. Keep your derisive socio-political comments to yourself.
@@arrjee3176 - Why..?? Because Tsar Arjee says so..?? 🤣🤣
🇨🇳 #MAGA 🇨🇳 Made (Republican) Americans Gulag Appreciaters.. 🤣🇨🇳🇺🇸🇨🇳🤣
Go storm more Capitol's against democracy just like those Russian Communist Revolutionists... 🤣
@@arrjee3176 - Derisive..?? Maybe grow a skin easily offended ❄... 🤣🤣
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It's hilarious that she wants people to stop touching each other in the workplace, yet she likes FakeTrek, when you have FakeUhura whining about her relationship with FakeSpock _while they're on duty_ and actually telling FakeKirk to shut up while she proceeds to whine some more at FakeSpock when they're in the middle of a mission.
This was episode 3 as the first episode was a double! You've inspired me to binge watch the whole lot again, so thank you.
I'll always love TNG, it positively changed my perspective on life.
Especially because the show was just very... relaxing to sit back and enjoy. Don't get me wrong, Discovery and Picard are great in their own rights but they're more fun to watch, not necessarily a show you sit back after work and end the night watching.
I will excuse you if you enjoyed the JJs because of Pine, but....
also, TNG season 1 and 2 are a bit rough. There are a few gems in there, but it only really hits is stride in S3 and onward.
So I’ve been told
@@DrBecky Also of note, TNG had multiple science consultants, such as Naren Shankar (Season 6, DS9, Seaquest DSV) and André Bormanis (Season 7, DS9, VOY, Orville, Star Trek Science Logs, Star Trek Star Charts).
@@TReKiE, I was going to add that things got more accurate, from the science side of things, when Michael & Denise Okuda got involved.
There is a reason it is called Star Trek: The NEXT Generation.... it's not the original Star Trek.
True but Gene Roddenberry was there to create it. His influence was reigned in a bit after season 2 I belive explaining why early Next Generation episodes are so similar to the Origjnal Series.
Well, what can I say... watching this is probably what it's like for you to watch someone who doesn't know real space stuff talk. Almost everything you said in the video was wrong, from the point of view of Star Trek.
I get that you're trying to focus on this from the "real world", but you're wasting your time. They actually wrote in the script "now Data says technobabble" and they left that to be added later. They made almost no attempt to have the words mean anything.
Also, the Enterprise can easily get close to that star, it's shields (yes, it has shields) can actually allow it to enter the upper atmosphere of a star. Yes, I know the Enterprise isn't real :)
Also, you started with perhaps one of the worst episodes of the entire series. And not the pilot either, which you have to watch to understand the show.
Also, and this is KEY... this is just Wagon Train to the Stars... it's not about starships and transporters, it's about the people and how this relates to us here. The technology isn't important and the show never took it seriously.
I’m with you. I don’t enjoy those other videos either where “lawyer watches LA Law” or “construction worker watches This Old House” or “ER Doctor watches medical drama”. These shows are for entertainment not for reality.
@@tom2point0 Me Too. So much technology has come FROM star trek, and other science fiction over the generations. I think thats what people dont get. Science fiction inspires scientists, generally not the other way around. Jules Vern inspired scientists. Scientists were inspired by the original star trek.
And, the technobabble stuff has inspired research into everything. The PADD became touchscreen tablets. "On screen" we're now doing via teleconference. Warp drive is being researched through Alcubierre's reinterpretations of Einstein's math. Teleportation through proven ansible effect among entangled subatomic particles.
Watching her commenting on Star Trek is like watching a 1930's doctor watching an organ transplant, chemo dosing, or anything beyond blowing tobacco smoke up someone's ass via pipe.
@@tom2point0 you are right, but there are so many people who believe that those shows do depict how things really work. it's amazing how many people don't know you cant approach a witness on the stand... or how the sterile field in surgery works... they believe the TV shows know all about it and what they are watching are accurate....
@@mirtos39 it could go both ways
Star Trek was never about science, it‘s about humanitarianism and ethics. The "science" is ridiculous. 🙂
Maybe slanted socialism or "Socialism" italics.
Except for the warp drive. That might be an actual possible thing. NASA's Eagleworks laboratory has been researching it for a decade or so. Dr. Alcubierre proved that it is at least mathematically possible, and further adjustments to the calculations have made it quite a bit more feasible.
Well, except for predicting flip-open cellphones, automatic sliding doors, transparent aluminum, the Bluetooth earpiece, video conferencing, wearable displays (Google Glass), implants + visors that provide vision to the blind (e.g., eSight), hypospray (needleless injections), computer-to-voice interfaces (Siri, et. al.), stun guns, large flat display screens, tablet computers, and "tricorders" are slowly coming along (e.g., NASA's LOCAD).
But other than that...
Spock in Who Mourns for Adonais: "Take these equations to the nuclear electronics lab. I want them to work on the problem of negating the force field in selected areas."
That's how most problems are solved in Trek. Just like in the ISS, by resolving scientific problems.
This is my favorite quote, ever.
@@rylian21 actually, Alcubierre just proved that if you put unrealistic numbers into an equation you get speeds greater than that of light. No different to saying that a nuclear bomb using negative mass is mathematically accurate to act like a black hole and suck a chunk of mass into oblivion
Also: Star Trek ships don't travel faster than light. They don't really travel at all. What they do is "warp" through space (hence the name) by entering a pocket dimension called subspace. So rather than they moving through space, they are pulling space through them. This is also how they escape time dilation. How do they achieve this? It's science fiction physics.
Warp drive bends (warps) the fabric of space similarly to what you said, but does not achieve faster than light travel by jumping into and out of subspace.
Subspace is used for faster than light communications (subspace radio) and is a sci-fi sounding word used in miscellaneous plot developments.
Also, might be wrong, not an astrophysicist, but isn't it that the math says you cannot cross from below the speed of light to above it, not that you cannot travel faster than light?
Also, in Voyager they have an episode - Vis a Vis - season 4 - when they mention a "coaxial warp drive" & it folds space, making me wonder how their normal warp drive works in the Trek universe...
I mean, the description above is an answer, but warp drive often means bending or folding space to cross without going through the speed of light - one can go faster but not cross the barrier - but I'd love to hear a physicist explain the difference. Between two fictional warp drives...
@@danskkr Yes, that sounds exactly correct to me.
@@gliberty42 As I understand it, regular warp drive warps space, and (from memory) in that Voyager episode, it’s just a special kind of warp drive that folds (warps) space to such an extent to achieve the magical-Trek-limit warp 10 speed.
When you said "little glowy poopy asteroid" I had a bout of laughter 😂👏 such fun!
"We're a long way off from those ships that can approach those speeds." Yes, and the designers of the first interplanetary probes in 1961, just sixty years after the world's first airplane flight, had played with paper airplanes as children.
The Star Trek episodes that delve into social commentary, are some of the best.
The problem I noticed was that they could not only hear the star explode, but there wasn't even a delay.
Could it be the Enterprises sensors converting high energy solar radiation in to an audible sound?
No SciFi series gets orbital mechanics right, with one exception: The Expanse.
Orbital mechanics isn't really important when you have a near infinite amount of energy to use.
It's been a while since I really read their definitions, but I believe the normal sub-light speed they travel at is 1/4 the speed of light, with the ability to go much faster in an emergency (but they try to avoid to stay away from time dilation problems)
The continuous thrust was unrealistic since ships do not have unlimited fuel. A better show of physics is Battlestar Galactica where the ships don't turn like they are in the atmosphere. Babylon 5 also did pretty well.
Have you watched babylon 5?
@@oldfrog17 FYI B5 has been remastered and will be showing on HBO Max. B5 RULES!
I'd recommend one of the best episodes of STNG "Yesterday's Enterprise" from S3. It has wormholes and the effects of time travel on history. Great episode.
I’ve heard that 2001:Space Odyssey is very accurate when it comes to physics. I would love to see your reaction to it
Try 2010 as well.
I agree, and it is to the extent it really can be, but there are limits, which are interesting to learn about. Apparently the lighting on the models is wrong for deep space, as there would be no scattered light to backlight an object: anything would be in full bright sunlight or in complete deep shadow. The two instances of spin gravity (Space Station V and the centrifuge aboard Discovery One) are indeed based on a sound physical idea, but I've read that in general you want a much larger ring than Discovery's centrifuge, because of difference in rotation speed between the astronaut's head and legs would be significant, and other issues. It's interesting to see what a movie gets wrong, that tries harder than any other movie ever had, to be accurate and appear realistic.
In the case of the centrifuge, the acceleration is given by a truly simple formula, it goes directly as the square of the angular speed and inversely as the radius of the wheel, so just with normal math skills you can play with different values and calculate the spin gravity easily for a given rotation rate and radius (let the rotation rate be once every minute, the radius 100 meters, or whatever you like). The book says that the station's spin gravity was maintained at a compromise between the moon and Mars' surface gravitational force.
Yea
She done have the brains to do it ...
@@gafrancisco She has a Ph.D. in astrophysics. She's seen it.
I’m surprised you didn’t scream “explosions don’t go *boom* in a vacuum” at 10:33
I did when I watched that episode (when it first aired, a long time ago in a college dorm room far far away...)
I still do - every time it happens in a sci-fi film or TV episode. You'd think I'd have learned by now...
Shaka, When the Walls Fell!
Darmok and Jalad on the ocean
Becky, her eyes unveiled!
@@wwoods66 Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel. Becky and StarTrek at UA-cam!
His arms wide😁 I'm SUCH a nerd 😂
*Clapping like child*
The faster than light "travel" of warp travel gets around the whole speed of light thing by not actually "accelerating" per se instead by warping space itself (yeah that's not easy either) you can "move" by simply moving space under you to get to your destination without having to actually move faster than light. In a later episode they discover that a high enough warp factors it is damaging the fabric of space-time.
Have you seen any of The Expanse? The world’s a bit more “real” so your reactions to it could be interesting!
"Little glowy asteroid poops" 🤣
I had that one time; just needed a little more neutrinos in my diet
Star Trek: The Original Series started in 1966. That's what you should start watching.
I think she meant the shows in general, having started with just the movies. Like the original shows, not the JJ reboot
Can you imagine her nitpicking the TV science of 1966?!
@@aalhard Yes. Lol!
hmmm... Maybe. I always preferred TNG myself.
I know I'm waaaay late to this video, I just discovered your channel. I literally had to stop as soon as you said "I've never watched any of the Original Star Trek series" and then start watching The Next Generation, to check the comment section.
Please tell me you have watched some of the old Star Trek movies. My favourite is "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (1986). It's hilarious.
I love star trek. It inspired my love for space when I was just a little kid. I've no mind for math, so I could never be an astrophysicist myself but I love hearing experts explain the science. I hope you react to more episodes!
Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard) didn’t play Magneto in the X-Men, he played Professor X (Xavier).
I just watched you react to Contact, and my enjoyment of that video led me to find more of your work. Now I've just heard you say that you're reacting to "The Naked Now" for your first entry into proper Star Trek. Trekkies will understand why my first thought was of Picard smashing his phaser into his display cabinet in First Contact.
You should watch the series.
Once you get through season 3, you'll be hooked.
Season 3 episode 16 - The Offspring - is my favourite episode 😢
@@davadoff that is one I never rewatch! Idk why I don't enjoy it as much as the others
@@technicallytess, never watch because it’s bad or because it’s too emotional/good?
Watch "Space Seed" from the oiginal series, then watch "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn". It is more like a Shakespearian play than sci fi. Both are excellent.
Would there be enough physics content for her to react to in those?
@@Sailorsega Space Seed not so much, but Wrath does have a planet exploding and knocking its neighbor into a new orbit. And there would be plenty of room for "Nebulae do not work that way!" Still the best of the Trek movies, but even at its best Trek's technobabble is pretty sketchy.
The ending to Star Trek 2 is fantastic, it gives me goosebumps thinking about the two ships flying blind trying to get a position on eachother... and Khan's speech.
@@garethbattersby That was a great study in how to do space battles. For a director who had not seen the original seties, I think he gave us some of the best Star Trek - TV series and movies. Actually, for any director.
I'd be interested to see your takes on "Babylon 5" and "Stargate".
I want to watch her watch the Stargate: Atlantis episode where Rodney blows up 5/6 of a solar system.
Defo b5
B5’s a long investment. Need to point out which episodes to react to. Perhaps the two parters where Babylon 4 is involved?
Stargate would be so cool
Yes yes yes yes
"I have never seen any of the original Star Trek series." You still haven't, this is Next Generation. 🤣
Stargate SG-1 has some great science in it. Would love to see you react to that
Now you gotta watch deep space 9, voyager, and enterprise, I suggest you take a year off and get on that...engage
Hey I’ve watched 16 seasons of greys anatomy I think I’m ready to commit to Star Trek 😂
@@DrBecky oooh i finally got a heart from Dr Becky...on my birthday no less...thanks!:-)
I met someone who was doing a astrophysics degree of some kind a few years ago, with historical astonomy (to link historical events to celestial events) and ancient Greek. One of their thesis was on comparing Homer's The Odyssey to Star Trek Voyager, their thesis was presented along with a large cardboard box containing series 1-3 of voyager on VHS as source material! I wonder if the poor lecturer had to watch them? 🤣🤣
@@DrBecky They say the science in The Expanse is fairly accurate, and it's a very good story.
@@ambulocetusnatans is this Enterprise episode Expanse or some have alluded to a series, The Expanse?
I recommend you watch the movie Spaceballs.
Dark Star.
@@PhilHibbs Lone Star
May the Schwartz be with you.
@@rjonboy7608 When did we get to Disneyland?
Ludicrous speed!
Patrick Stewart Magneto that's like calling Allan Rickman Harry Potter
This needs a whole channel of its own.
Underrated comment
I like star trek and star wars movies. these inspired me to be an astrophysicist. When i was first watched, i was 8 years old. I'm sorry for my broken english doctor. Have a nice day
It would be interesting to know how many scientist in the world that has choosen physics because of "science fiction" ? I bet there are very many. You did the right thing !!!
English isn't the easiest language even for native speakers. We all understood what you said, even if it wasn't perfect. That's the good thing about English. Even bad English is pretty understandable.
@@hakanpersson6524 thank you sir . I'm 20 years old now. when ı was decided 8 years old. I believe there is an event that determines every person's life, I guess that's mine.
@@tarmaque Thank you sir.
@@hakanpersson6524 I tried to get a feel about that by analyzing videos of talks by present-day scientists, etc. and what inspired them to get into science. My impression is that a significantly larger fraction of people who decided to pursue science in some way were inspired by Star Trek rather than, say, Star Wars. Which kind of does make sense, Star Wars doesn't really have any science (it *is* a fun space opera) and Star Trek (even though it's make-believe mumbo-jumbo science technobabble) did push the narrative of a world that could be understood by science and not some "magic" like The Force. That and the fact that Star Trek was really a commentary on our contemporary society, moral issues etc, projected onto some random alien race so that it wouldn't trigger our own internal prejudices and so we could examine those issues more objectively.
Make a habit of it.This was massive!
More please!
Gasp you called piccard magneto 🤣 loved watching this though two of my favorite things science and star trek thanks for making this reaction 😊
I wish the newer Treks were as bound to good story telling as they are to good CGI.
Sadly, the number of viewers would be even less than it is now. :(
@@DIEKALSTER8 I never understood why people always want extremes in their shows. Like I get it, I love really fun, exciting shows to watch. The appeal is 100% understood. What I simply don't understand is why nobody seems to ever want to balance that out with something a bit slower... dare I say it, mundane. One of the best parts of the older shows, TNG especially, was it's willingness to just show life on the Enterprise. It wasn't always fast or always pushing the bounds of cinematography with fancy atmospheric shots.
The older shows built themselves up to be a world you develop an attachment to. A whole crew your memory starts confusing as real people you know in person. It crafted a world first, then told it's stories within that world. Not bullishly laying down slabs of stone in the form of whatever could up the ante more and calling it world building.
Doctor Who, a show I absolutely love, is notorious for this. So it's not straight up hate, just... not always appropriate.
@@SilverAura People don't like to think, or rather, the new viewers they are trying to get to watch a sci-fi show don't want to in general. At least, that is what they think. I do think they have a problem with getting people to really get into what made old Star Trek so special. You would have to get people to watch a whole bunch of episodes before they get it. I mean, a show like the expanse is awesome, but it arguably requires less of an initiation. With new Trek they are trying to get old and new fans in one go and they are falling short with both as far as I can tell. The Orville is closer to old Trek and I love it, but it is still it's own thing.
As for Dr Who; I read piles of Dr Who books as a kid and when I started watching the reboot shows I loved it, but I feel it has been going downhill from Peter Capaldi onwards. Some of the premises of the episodes were horribly cringe worthy. I wish they would fall back to the older style.
@@DIEKALSTER8 The largest issue I'm having with the newer Doctor Who episodes (after Matt Smith, especially) is the massive disconnect between theming and content.
Doctor Who is an intelligent, quirky, and it's humor is smart, hits fast and moves on very quickly. The newer episodes have grown much darker, much more cinematic, and stopped exploring fun new concepts in place of trying to make each episode more exciting than the last.
@@SilverAura I also grew fond of the old doctor from the books I used to read. Can not remember which one he was, but he was quirky in just the right way. After Matt Smith I agree. David Tennant was my favourite of the new bunch so far. Let's hope for better things to come. I did enjoy the reveal about the Doctor's origins in the latest stuff though. Interesting idea, but I also don't like the way they portrayed Gallifrey in the new series much.
"glowing poopy asteroid" Now there's a phrase I never thought I'd ever hear on this channel. Thanks for the laughs! Keep 'em coming, Dr. Becky!
I had always assumed that was in orbit adn the shockwave sent it hurdling out. the glow I thought "They needed it to be visible"
My first thought was its a chunk of metal that had coalesced from all the heavy elements formed in the star. But I'm not an astrophysicist. I just like the theory.
My parents named me after captain Kirk. True story. Whenever I asked my mom "hey, you know his first name was really James, right? Kirk was his last name?" she would always say "Be glad we didn't name you Spock" :-D
My daughter's middle name is Imzadi and my son's middle name is Sarek........no lie.
I'd have been honoured to be named after Spock myself.
But, hey, at least you didn't end up being called "Tiberius", eh?
Trekkies: "That's good, you've taken your first step into a larger world... Oh, crap!"
I loved this. Your explanations were great. I loved also how you even gave us an outlier to explore more about what was in the episode. I truly would watch you watch the entire series. (Wait till you get to voyager) thanks for doing this.
Space can expand faster than the speed of light.
100%. That'd be one hell of a ride if we could mount it.
You should watch "The inner light" season 5 episoode 25. It has only a little bit of astrophysical scifi going on, but most of all it is an amazing piece of story telling. It is making me tear up just thinking about it.
one of the best episode they did
5:48
In Star Trek, they explain that they travel faster than light by compressing the space in front of the ship and expending it behind within a "warp bubble".
Dr Becky I think an older show you could "fact-check" would be Space 1999 I think you'll have fun with that one.
It was awful.
AGREE - Didn't earth's MOON take off and go to other SOLAR SYSTEMS?? LOL
For its time, and if you were aged 16 or less, Space 1999 was wonderful. The show “UFO” was awesome too. Both created an amazing, haunting, claustrophobic atmosphere of what life might be like in ‘space’.
Only if she wants to lose brain cells.
@@ogieogie I'm sure you 're quite right and could have done better pre-starwars with some sci-fi writing.
I'd love to hear your take on the stable wormhole in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine!
Well, the wormhole in DS9 is an artificial wormhole created by ancient aliens, so it's made out of an alloy of impossibilium and unobtanium manufactured by the handwavium procedure.
@@fredashay WAS it established that they truly created it, rather than simply inhabited and perhaps improved it? I don't remember that bit of lore...
@@WeyMama Well, that's how I remember it. But it was many, many years ago since I watched DS9.
@@WeyMama not too long finished watching it again, and yeah they created the wormhole
@@mastere6115 Thanks for clarifying!
Enjoy... It takes a while to get really good... But there are some gems even in season 1... Also, the really whacky 'astrophysics' stuff comes in later seasons...
In the original series, Captain Kirk would simply punch the lights out of the red giant.
In the Next Generation, Picard would try to negotiate with it.
In subsequent series, some species would try to buy the star, others would try to blow it up and in the Twiterverse, 'Q' (from the first TNG shows) would be involved and claim it's all a deep state hoax.
Dr Becky might actually appreciate Voyager’s “Astrometrics Lab.”
@@GlenBradley She'd love making galaxies in the holodeck. (She hasn't learned what that is yet.)
@@GlenBradley or Stellar Cartography from the movies.
_"The controls are not responding."_
_"Override!"_
Because we know that at least the _"override control"_ will always work?
🤣
The best episode of this series is "The Inner Light"
Maybe not the best but very good one. Someone somewhere a billion years from now will be playing Chuck Berry and wonder about us.
Totally the best
Watch it doc...
Although the series finale will make your brain hurt. Hurt so good 😁
Babylon 5, its the best tv show ever. Also I would love to hear what you think of there hyper space travel.
Just loved it. It's really funny to learn some astrophisics by comparing with science fiction. Thanks, Becky, I really enjoyed it.
OK I’m a Trekkie who is hooked because I learned something from you in the first five minutes. Well done!
"The Inner Light" is widely considered to be the best Star Trek Next Generation episode. Season 5, episode 25.
I like First Contact....... the episode, not the movie........... I also like the movie First Contact.......... why'd they name an episode and movie the same?
What?! I'm pretty sure "The Best of Both Worlds," Parts 1 and 2 are probably considered to be better than "The Inner Light," given that their plot line spawned a movie ("First Contact") and provided a huge amount of plot fodder for STV.
Not that "The Inner Light" is a bad episode. I totally agree that it's one of the best.
"The Inner Light" was ok, but it's not even in my top 50 TNG episodes. Who are these people that "widely considered" it the best? Something tells me that it's your favourite and therefore bias. :P
Inner light one of best TV show episodes ever
What you didn't realize is that this was an Irish red giant star. When it blows up, it throws you a potato. : )
We need a video of a Trekkie (or Trekker) watching and reacting to Dr. Beckys video. BTW, your channel is excellent!
4:12 Corridor Crew just did a VFX analysis of that opening sequence and how they did the parallax effect. It's deceptively simple but put an Enterprise model in it and it's just gorgeous. The show had beautiful space shots.
Season one, oh no... that's the bad one LOL
In the bit just before you talked about Betelgeuse, Picard mentioned the name Tsiolkovsky, who, in the real world, came up with the rocket equation.
I couldn't remember the story, I knew it came from Russia. Like one of those silence heard round the world quietly quickly built up tensions as if a hurricane had drug the Oceans out to sea.
Some lines we just can't forget until we've depleted all of its internal irrational relationships leaving us just exhausted.
I'm glad you recognized that name, I wondered who the person she stated was.
Von bron made it work though.
The episode "Court Martial," of the original Star Trek series, contained an absolute zinger of mathematics. Captain Kirk said, "Gentlemen, this computer has an auditory sensor. It can, in effect, hear sounds. By installing a booster, we can increase that capability on the order of one to the fourth power. The computer should bring us every sound occurring on the ship."
That's about the same as ten to the zeroth power, isn't it?
@@jeepien Depends on how big your zero is.
was this the tech jargon team making a joke?