I actually think Star Trek should adress the holodeck addiction that such a device would bring over humanity for sure. Who´d be the worst addict on board?
How can you not be emotionally touched by an android writing a poem about his cat? I freaking love it! And all these crew members sitting there, being all bored... not only is that very rude, but how can you not be fascinated or at least interested in how Data relates to his pet and the insight it provides into his way of thinking? Data provides the most heart-stringing moments in the entire series and movies, imho, btw. Lal comes to mind, but also when, towards the end of "Star Trek: Generations", he finds his cat and thinks his emotion chip must be malfunctioning cause, even though he feels happy about being reunited with Spott, he is crying, and Troy assures him, that the chip is working just fine. It always chokes me up. Any cat lover will understand.
Totally agree, I'm NOT a cat person and still Love that very clever And moving (regardless of what Geordie said:) poem, which I suspect many TNG fans could recite verbatim. The abducted crew members recreating the place from subconscious memories, and then recognising they've all been there before was very spooky and unique; and I could go on since this episode's one of my favourites.
Love the show, guys. The longer the episode, the better. No more of that 7 minute crap, please. Give me 20 minutes of Nick and Robert talking about TNG!!!
"Sometimes, Neptune's atmosphere looks greener. Do you want to look at my weiner?" "An Indian tent is sometimes called a teepee. Do you want to look at my peepee?" "Beverly Crusher is Wesley's mommy. Do you want to look at my salami?" Ok, I'll stop.
I like that the holodeck was used to solve a problem in a practical way. Usually it's to justify using a low-cost script that's set in whatever Paramount lot was free that day, say like a small town in the wild west. I thought the lighting, camerawork, and direction stood out this episode.
That girl Picard is sitting next to is a recurring extra on the show that I don't think ever had any lines.... I've seen her in a bunch of episodes though. I don't know if it's a shadow or a subtle woman-stache on her upper lip, but that's how I always recognize her (aside from the hairdo). I'm pretty sure she showed up in the Generations movie as well.
New to channel. I love your snark reviews. You guys have such great chemistry and your friendship really shows. Robert: I appreciate that you know real science and comment on the stooopid dialog nonsense. Nick:: The dick jokes were hilarious, and loved that you saved more for the closing. Great job, guys. If you’re keeping a tally my vote for voyager reviews. Thanks for making me laugh. 🖖
Human cells are typically 20 to 40 microns. 1.2 microns would be devastating. Nerves wouldn't aligned correctly, cells would probably rupture they would be bleeding. It's like if your house was off by 18in somewhere in the middle. You'd notice. The electrical wiring would notice. And the plumbing would notice.
They can get the location of a person from the computer by asking. Though it is inconsistent about whether leaving your comm badge somewhere will confuse the computer. Despite this ability, many episodes, across multiple Trek series, demonstrate they can't or won't have the computer monitor and inform someone if a person who is on the ship stopping being on the ship. Even in situations like this where getting that information would be pretty damn helpful. You'd think that the computer check for everyone on board's location every technobabble-small-time-unit, and compare with the previous. Even filter out people that left by transporter or shuttle, and alert the on-duty security officer if someone disappears. This is a miliary vessel with lots of children, seems like a pretty useful and technically trivial thing to do. Why wait until a doctor happens to notice a misaligned arm, when you could just put one of the wireless tracker things they put on kids in daycare.
0:35 Only on ENTERPRISE do they stack barrels on Hazard Containers... with all the SHAKING and BOUNCING around the ship goes through on a regular basis, stacking containers seems not only to be an OSHA violation, but a very, VERY Bad Idea . . . !!!
Good review. The concept was kind of done before in "Allegiance" and TOS "The Empath". Alot of technobabble to be sure and all good/funny points made. Especially, liked the one about the glowing object/rift in the middle of the cargo bay. Don't remember what the redshirt rank was, but a "Thank you Ensign Obvious" would have had me rolling. I would commit to taking a drink of home brew if you inserted a "Dilly-Dilly" every time they say something like that. I remember in college some guys on the engineering floor playing this game with TNG episodes, it was hilarious. Many of them couldn't walk back to their own door-rooms after watching an episode. It's funny how they still think increasing power is actually something. They could have at least thrown us a bone and offered up a sentence or two about how the Enterprise is getting low on Super-high strength Potentiometers and Universal energy pathways.
Those aliens make an appearance again in Star Trek Online briefly both in the build-up to the Iconian War and the rather disappointing Iconian War if I remember right. Other than that, I would like to have them return because of how creepy they were, but I doubt we'll see them in Picard or Discovery.
You have a brilliant Idea. And if Riker had the time, he would have thrown the girl through the portal, and grabbed the unconcious Alien, and jumped through the portal... Then the Federation could have studied the creature before it died... After all, they killed the one Star Fleet crew member turning him into polymer goo... is the Dominion involved ? Perhaps the solanagen - based interdimensional aliens wanted to establish contact, and engineer one of their own to be an ambassador? The aliens may have acted in stealth not off of malicious intent, but are only following their version of the prime directive.
One of my top 3 "Scary" TNG episodes. I thought the atmosphere of this was excellent throughout. The mystery, the holodeck scene, the vibes obviously based on real life "abduction" stories. The ending and the reveal of the aliens was a bit of a letdown, but they were on the budget, so its somewhat understandable. I think it would've served the story and atmosphere better had they kept the aliens in darkness and unknown even their realm. Still, great horror/mystery episode in my opinion. B+
You'd think by the 23rd century, the holodeck's AI would be able to do a better job of recreating the table than Midjourney. Or they just suck at prompts.
Riker discovering his arm had been amputated and re-attached was genuinely creepy. Beverly's comment about blood turning into a liquid polymer was annoying because we can clearly see zombie guy is having a bad day and throwing pseudo-scientific jargon at us does nothing to explain why. Rager had a small alien device plugged into her arm that Riker disconnected before rescuing her. Seemed pretty reckless as the device may have revealed what they were doing to her and removing it suddenly could have killed her.
Guys? The Picard dick jokes keep me coming back to this particular episode! The first time had me in tears!! That said, I'm not entirely convinced that the human being that Jean Luc is sitting next to during Data's poetry reading is in fact a woman. She looks more like a "He" to me .
Fun fact: the actor playing the guy whose blood turned to liquid polymer is Tyce Bune (pronounced boo-nay) who is mainly known as an adult film star. He is also ardent anti-vaxxer. re: Covid-19. You’re welcome! :-)
Amazing how I never been to this channel and right from the start he's using a dollar store mic. That means he's not taking anything seriously that is coming out of his mouth. Therefore... skip!
Your reviews are really fun. Or have been until the totally annoying dick jokes/rhymes, which I found tedious and off-putting to listen through... oh well, here's to the next one and hopefully return to form. And to each their own of course.
OMG the [bleep] jokes...can we find some better sources of humor please? Beyond...that 😣 I will have to say this was a very unique take and I am interested in seeing some more of your reviews... Just... hopefully...with some better jokes...😣😵😣
PLEASE watch this episode with the idea in mind that Riker just doesn't understand what a hangover is.
Perfect 👌 I also love that the way they make him look dishevelled is to just use less hairspray.
"Riker wakes up from a nightmare that the holodeck stopped working." That is a fine joke. Be proud.
I actually think Star Trek should adress the holodeck addiction that such a device would bring over humanity for sure.
Who´d be the worst addict on board?
That girl is Tracy. The one Jonathan Frakes chases down the hall. By the way, this commentary is brilliant.
Lieutenant Tracy? The one that Piglett killed?
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How can you not be emotionally touched by an android writing a poem about his cat? I freaking love it! And all these crew members sitting there, being all bored... not only is that very rude, but how can you not be fascinated or at least interested in how Data relates to his pet and the insight it provides into his way of thinking?
Data provides the most heart-stringing moments in the entire series and movies, imho, btw. Lal comes to mind, but also when, towards the end of "Star Trek: Generations", he finds his cat and thinks his emotion chip must be malfunctioning cause, even though he feels happy about being reunited with Spott, he is crying, and Troy assures him, that the chip is working just fine. It always chokes me up. Any cat lover will understand.
The lesson to be learned is that the Android is the mindful one and the Humans are the rude, selfish ones. It is deep.
Robots writing poetry about cats is nothing new. Her name is Taylor Swift
Totally agree, I'm NOT a cat person and still Love that very clever And moving (regardless of what Geordie said:) poem, which I suspect many TNG fans could recite verbatim. The abducted crew members recreating the place from subconscious memories, and then recognising they've all been there before was very spooky and unique; and I could go on since this episode's one of my favourites.
A human hair is about 100 microns. Those aliens were really good at reattaching his arm to be off by only .02 microns.
1:33 Actually, her name is Jae, and she appeared as a background character 29 times before this.
1:37 What? That's Ensign Jae - she is in a lot of episodes, either mostly working shifts on the bridge or engineering!
As Riker would say: "Tracee!"
4:55, no, he's just helping her with a problem, "mansplaing" is a woke-speak term that needs to die.
1:31 I thought for sure y'all were gonna call her Gozer the Gozarian. Still hilarious poems!
Totally agree lolol
The ongoing commentator poetry had me thinking of Andre the Giant's rhyming in Princess Bride.😂
Love the show, guys. The longer the episode, the better. No more of that 7 minute crap, please. Give me 20 minutes of Nick and Robert talking about TNG!!!
^ this
47 minutes of erotic poetry please.
Nah, 19 minutes. 20 is just too much for any techno-babble episode tongue-lashing review. 😁
3:39 Riker doesn't like drinking milk, because he is Lactose Intolerant... Up all night, running to the restroom... Urg!
I would listen to an entire episode with Data talking about Spot, tbh. XD
"Sometimes, Neptune's atmosphere looks greener. Do you want to look at my weiner?"
"An Indian tent is sometimes called a teepee. Do you want to look at my peepee?"
"Beverly Crusher is Wesley's mommy. Do you want to look at my salami?"
Ok, I'll stop.
I like that the holodeck was used to solve a problem in a practical way. Usually it's to justify using a low-cost script that's set in whatever Paramount lot was free that day, say like a small town in the wild west. I thought the lighting, camerawork, and direction stood out this episode.
You guys joke but that clicking sound from the aliens gave me nightmares as a kid.
That girl Picard is sitting next to is a recurring extra on the show that I don't think ever had any lines.... I've seen her in a bunch of episodes though. I don't know if it's a shadow or a subtle woman-stache on her upper lip, but that's how I always recognize her (aside from the hairdo). I'm pretty sure she showed up in the Generations movie as well.
That woman sitting next to Picard at Data's poetry reading was Lt. Jae, played by Tracee Coco.
Who tf is Lt Jae!???
This is my first time watching a video from you guys and you have earned a new subscriber!
You have a “montage” of catching up to do!
History remembers Captain Decker
Would you like to see my [beep]?
omfg the poetry
I think Data erased his own memories after the aliens convinced him to play along. God knows he's done things like that in the past.
New to channel. I love your snark reviews. You guys have such great chemistry and your friendship really shows. Robert: I appreciate that you know real science and comment on the stooopid dialog nonsense. Nick:: The dick jokes were hilarious, and loved that you saved more for the closing. Great job, guys. If you’re keeping a tally my vote for voyager reviews. Thanks for making me laugh. 🖖
Tetryon particles: How romantic.
0.02 microns is about 133 times larger than a single carbon atom.
Some examples of liquid polymers are latex paint and nail polish.
Human cells are typically 20 to 40 microns.
1.2 microns would be devastating. Nerves wouldn't aligned correctly, cells would probably rupture they would be bleeding. It's like if your house was off by 18in somewhere in the middle. You'd notice. The electrical wiring would notice. And the plumbing would notice.
They can get the location of a person from the computer by asking. Though it is inconsistent about whether leaving your comm badge somewhere will confuse the computer. Despite this ability, many episodes, across multiple Trek series, demonstrate they can't or won't have the computer monitor and inform someone if a person who is on the ship stopping being on the ship. Even in situations like this where getting that information would be pretty damn helpful.
You'd think that the computer check for everyone on board's location every technobabble-small-time-unit, and compare with the previous. Even filter out people that left by transporter or shuttle, and alert the on-duty security officer if someone disappears. This is a miliary vessel with lots of children, seems like a pretty useful and technically trivial thing to do. Why wait until a doctor happens to notice a misaligned arm, when you could just put one of the wireless tracker things they put on kids in daycare.
Not getting enough REM sleep also deprives you of the ability to comb your hair.
This might be one of the best TNG review I might of heard.
Glad the showed the stunt that Tom Morga did on Schism for Riker going through the wall of the ship
Compared to any segment of 2009 and on Star Trek, Schisms is A+++++++++++
"You think it's cool to hate things, it's not, it's boring"
Theere was a movie about an actual alien obduction that occureedd in 1977 whcih as filmed iin 1993. That may have been the basis for this episode.
FIRE IN THE SKY
Glad I found y’all. The poetry is sublime. Like Norm aka Mr Dictionary.
0:35 Only on ENTERPRISE do they stack barrels on Hazard Containers... with all the SHAKING and BOUNCING around the ship goes through on a regular basis, stacking containers seems not only to be an OSHA violation, but a very, VERY Bad Idea . . . !!!
Why do I love binging every video of this review series.
that girl sitting next to Picard is an extra that's been in several episodes actually
Your poetry has some real Bing Bong Bros energy.
Good review. The concept was kind of done before in "Allegiance" and TOS "The Empath". Alot of technobabble to be sure and all good/funny points made. Especially, liked the one about the glowing object/rift in the middle of the cargo bay. Don't remember what the redshirt rank was, but a "Thank you Ensign Obvious" would have had me rolling. I would commit to taking a drink of home brew if you inserted a "Dilly-Dilly" every time they say something like that. I remember in college some guys on the engineering floor playing this game with TNG episodes, it was hilarious. Many of them couldn't walk back to their own door-rooms after watching an episode.
It's funny how they still think increasing power is actually something. They could have at least thrown us a bone and offered up a sentence or two about how the Enterprise is getting low on Super-high strength Potentiometers and Universal energy pathways.
Aw, that's Lt. Jae. She's in a lot of TNG episodes and movies. :) I wonder what her story is? :)
This was one of my favourite episodes, and also one of the creepiest. C is too low for this one. I would give it a B-
It was pretty entertaining and was a great little mystery. I don't understand all the crap it gets.
Those aliens make an appearance again in Star Trek Online briefly both in the build-up to the Iconian War and the rather disappointing Iconian War if I remember right. Other than that, I would like to have them return because of how creepy they were, but I doubt we'll see them in Picard or Discovery.
In discovery it seems that the iconians do reappear as in sto
You have a brilliant Idea. And if Riker had the time, he would have thrown the girl through the portal, and grabbed the unconcious Alien, and jumped through the portal... Then the Federation could have studied the creature before it died... After all, they killed the one Star Fleet crew member turning him into polymer goo... is the Dominion involved ? Perhaps the solanagen - based interdimensional aliens wanted to establish contact, and engineer one of their own to be an ambassador?
The aliens may have acted in stealth not off of malicious intent, but are only following their version of the prime directive.
Funnily enough, so many of the more obscure TNG episodes are actually sincerely improved by the storyline in Star Trek Online.
2:11 The guy wearing pants is in the back.
Cannot believe you ended all of those poems with horga'hn.
One of my top 3 "Scary" TNG episodes. I thought the atmosphere of this was excellent throughout. The mystery, the holodeck scene, the vibes obviously based on real life "abduction" stories. The ending and the reveal of the aliens was a bit of a letdown, but they were on the budget, so its somewhat understandable. I think it would've served the story and atmosphere better had they kept the aliens in darkness and unknown even their realm. Still, great horror/mystery episode in my opinion. B+
11:02 Cheese and rice! That was some gruesome audio! What was that from?
I will give it a C+ for Commander Riker. Took a consciousness for his fellow comrades.
Picards date for the poetry reading was in other episodes. No speaking parts. In this episode the way she looks at him is squirrelly as fuck.
the clicky aliens
were supposed to be on
VOYAGER
I enjoyed the suspense when watching the first time around. On the rewatch, the table reconstruction on the holodeck is laughable.
You'd think by the 23rd century, the holodeck's AI would be able to do a better job of recreating the table than Midjourney. Or they just suck at prompts.
You guys should do the animated series next
If I had one wish from a genie......
Ping pong and dingdong. Missed opportunity
Just remember after each episode Section 31 is wrapping up all loose ends
And I give it a D+
SECTION 31 ISN'T CANON
it was created to keep
SIDDIG EL FADIL / BASHIR
from quitting DS9
KURTZMAN DREK
GLOMMED INTO IT
&
ran it into the ground
As a 40k fan, every time "warp energy" is bought up I keep thinking that a sudden influx of demons would really spice this show up.
Who knows, with AI generated media we might eventually get that ST:TNG x 40k crossover we've been clamoring for
"Let's make sure you are awake when they abduct you."
Really? Does anyone remember Fox Mulder's abduction?
Riker discovering his arm had been amputated and re-attached was genuinely creepy. Beverly's comment about blood turning into a liquid polymer was annoying because we can clearly see zombie guy is having a bad day and throwing pseudo-scientific jargon at us does nothing to explain why. Rager had a small alien device plugged into her arm that Riker disconnected before rescuing her. Seemed pretty reckless as the device may have revealed what they were doing to her and removing it suddenly could have killed her.
8:14 seriously. Human hair is around 100 μm wide (around 1 mil atoms). 0.02 microns would be like 200 atoms
What will you do after TNG?
Guys? The Picard dick jokes keep me coming back to this particular episode! The first time had me in tears!! That said, I'm not entirely convinced that the human being that Jean Luc is sitting next to during Data's poetry reading is in fact a woman. She looks more like a "He" to me .
9:04 you should mention who this actor(with liqid polimer as blood) really is :D
Well, who was it!
@@sportosp-0158 Tyce Bune
One of my favorites
Fun fact: the actor playing the guy whose blood turned to liquid polymer is Tyce Bune (pronounced boo-nay) who is mainly known as an adult film star. He is also ardent anti-vaxxer. re: Covid-19. You’re welcome! :-)
they just took him back in time and gave him the covid vaccine
Was that a sound snippet from The Dig I heard?
omg it is: ua-cam.com/video/CSxRq0_wzPA/v-deo.html
I cannot believe i remembered that...
Glhagh tu sia nayieea umd.
@@reverseangle Lahum stchiadnak tresto luum.
God I love that game ❤
Random 1st question... what series is next? VOY or DS9?
Do a survey of what your subscribers might like to see next…
TOS
DS9
TAS
VOY
ENPR
@@cyrusmorris9599 enterprise because lol wtf every episode
Yes please do the other trek shows
1. ENT
2. DS9
3. VOY
4. TAS
5. TOS
They have GOT to do VOY next! I can only imagine how they will react to Threshold or Tuvix. They might need some marijuana or something.
There is a mission in star trek online that plays off this episode. It has to do with iconians.
to be fair to Diana no one in starfleet is paid. though somehow they have money to buy stuff at quarks.
What the hell rhymes with checkers?
Well, it's inappropriately plural.
It's closely related to piculets, wrynecks and sapsuckers in the family picidae.
Pecker
Black & Decker (British slang for a dong)
I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them fall away
Ensign, please come over to sit in my garden.
Then I will show you my …..
Extra likes for the poetry
The only one I didn't get is the rhyme for "spacecraft."
"shaft" most likely
@@daviddiggens8841 thanks. I think you're right.
Was this episode just TNG trying to get in on that sweet sweet X Files action? That's what it feels like. Maybe you should do X Files next?
FIRE IN THE SKY
"On the last away mission there was a quaje.
Do you want to see my one-eyed trouser snake?"
"It seems our latest mission is done.
Now would you like to see my Johnson?"
Re watched it just for the dick jokes. 😅
TETRION / TETRYON
is overused on
VOYAGER
MIlk has casein tryptic hydrolysate and tryptophan
Best poem ever !!! Do you two hate babies as well as cute fuzzy animals ?
I, for one, only hate babies, but am okay with fuzzy animals ... as long as they don't eat lizards.
It always annoyed me that Data reads the first line of the poem about Spot as if it is a question, but the wording of the poem is a statement.
You just don't understand poetry
@@Wasabiofip clearly :)
If only you would have made this video 9 seconds shorter.
Another Z minus .damn I wish there would been more letters 😂😂
Iambic pentameter. 🤣
It’s pretty good for me. B-
Eh, this one is a B or B- for me.
I didn’t like Troi’s new hair either😄
I mean it's almost 1993 and they go with a perm. They might as well given her some legwarmers and neon sunglasses to go with it.
@@dycedargselderbrother5353 Haahaaa exactly
I didn't like Troi, full stop.
What the hell? Hilarious
More terrible Picard dick jokes, pleeeease!
_Watches Star Trek_
_Is upset at made up science_
🎉
why do you guys shit so much on the show? even some of the best episodes you make it sound like a 3rd rate sci fi show
It's a comedy channel.
Amazing how I never been to this channel and right from the start he's using a dollar store mic. That means he's not taking anything seriously that is coming out of his mouth. Therefore... skip!
Why write this
@@nathanclark306 It's a teachable moment for anyone who wants to use their voice on YT. Sound competent, profesional, it pays off.
@@dragonskunkstudio7582 professional
@@nathanclark306 Weird how chrome on Linux doesn't catch misspelling all the time.
@@dragonskunkstudio7582 no it literally doesn't lmao, its just a hobby they're pursuing and having some fun with
Your reviews are really fun. Or have been until the totally annoying dick jokes/rhymes, which I found tedious and off-putting to listen through... oh well, here's to the next one and hopefully return to form. And to each their own of course.
OMG the [bleep] jokes...can we find some better sources of humor please?
Beyond...that 😣 I will have to say this was a very unique take and I am interested in seeing some more of your reviews...
Just... hopefully...with some better jokes...😣😵😣
There was nothing wrong with them. Cry more.
Yeah Troy's hair was awful.
Troi was also awful ... and would be with any hair ... or no hair at all. She's annoying af and useless.