A Look at Arsenal of Freedom (TNG)
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Opinionated Next Gen Episode Guide returns once again to season one. While looking for a lost Federation ship our heroes wind up facing a long-lost weapons system that proceeds to kick their ass, except for Dr. Crusher who falls down a hole and spares it the trouble.
"It's a good ship, the Lollipop."
That line always cracks me up.
Me too.
I've thrown away my toys, even my drum and train
I want to make some noise with real live aeroplanes
Some day I'm going to fly, I'll be a pilot, too
And when I do, how would you like to be my crew?
On The Good Ship Lollipop
It's a sweet trip to a candy shop
Where bon-bons play
On the sunny beach of Peppermint Bay
Lemonade stands everywhere
Crackerjack bands fill the air
And there you are
Happy landing on a chocolate bar
See the sugar bowl do the tootsie roll
With the big bad devil's food cake
If you eat too much, ooh-ooh
You'll awake with a tummy ache
On The Good Ship Lollipop
It's a night trip, into bed you hop
And dream away
On The Good Ship Lollipop
On The Good Ship Lollipop
It's a sweet trip to a candy shop
Where bon-bons play
On the sunny beach of Peppermint Bay
Lemonade stands everywhere
Crackerjack bands fill the air
And there you are
Happy landing on a chocolate bar
See the sugar bowl do the tootsie roll
With the big bad devil's food cake
If you eat too much, ooh-ooh
You'll awake with a tummy ache
On The Good Ship Lollipop
It's a night trip, into bed you hop
And dream away
On The Good Ship Lollipop
You'll awake with a tummy ache
On The Good Ship Lollipop
It's a night trip, into bed you hop
And dream away
On The Good Ship Lollipop
In some forgotten starbase's secure storage, an entire arsenal of war drones waits, forgotten, gathering dust, waiting for someone who recognizes the potential.
Anyone else hear this in the voice of Agimus?
@@FromMyBrain "Peanut, is that you?"
@@FromMyBrain more like Admiral Buenamigo
Shoulda had those guarding the wormhole during the Dominion war. Which O’Brien should have known about.
@@FromMyBrain Well it would seem Agimus was a prior customer of Minos' foundries before they went under. Peanut Hamper wouldn't know. And Buenamigo needed a domestic design to secure his legacy.
The Echo Papa 607 was built by visual effects supervisor Dan Curry using a L'eggs pantyhose container, two plastic Easter eggs, and a discarded shampoo bottle. On its use in production, he elaborated, "Regarding the model robot built for the TNG episode "Arsenal of Freedom" - the Echo Papa 607, I decided to hand animate the model for its levitation sequences instead of using motion control which was the norm. As a result the model has a more fluid natural randomness to its movement. My thirty years of Tai-Chi allowed me to move the model in a way that kept its motion believable, threatening, and saved the expense of days of motion control photography."
Not going to lie, it actually worked really well in the episode.
Lmao! I always thought they looked like pantyhose containers
That's very impressive! And the effect is fantastic in action. I love practical effects so much
what does motion control mean exactly, like using motors?
@@KairuHakubi motion control is using the cameras and moving cameras instead of moving the prop.
It is how they got the footage of the starfighters and Star destroyers in Star Wars, because the shots of the Star destroyers and starfighters are actually the cameras moving in the opposite direction of where the spaceship is supposed to move.
But that is tedious to set up and requires editing in special effects, so they just had the one guy move the props by hand and he did it well enough that it was convincingly floating alien machines.
I am quite sure that Quark would
have closed a business deal with
the Salesman Hologram in a minute .
Where is a Ferengi when you need one?
And he'd have gotten huge praise for that after hoodwinking it into forking over all its stock for a song.
@@bthsr7113 Well, that hologram used to work for Salieri .
The backgrounds for the Season 1 planets look like they put up the blue/green screens on set, but they never bothered to fill in any imagery in post production.
Rice: Riker, you didn't answer me. Who sent you here?
Riker: Your mother. 😎
2:06 "We've never seen anything like this."
"Yes, but after looking at it for nearly one full second I can confidently state that it's undamaged, despite having no idea what one of these is supposed to look like. Hell, half the parts could have been carried off by Ferengi and I wouldn't be able to tell."
Would have been funny if they actually tried to use the weapon and Data realizes that it is actually damaged. And everybody laughs about Tasha's stupidity - the end.
I really thought Tasha mentioning the weapon is undamaged would lead to them using it later when i first watched the episode. Chekhov's Gun - but no, there was no plan.
One of the few episodes from season 1 I can rewatch, that’s for sure.
I completely ignore season 1 of Tng but do watch the one.
Probably, embarrassingly, my favourite episode of season one.
The subplot with injured Crusher fashioning natural medicine was lifted from the _Space: 1999_ episode "Journey to Where".
I remember the first time I saw this. At the end I was like..what happened to all the Drake crew? Are they in stasis or just dead or did we all just forget about it and call it a day? Probably a mix really.
The _Drake_ blew up real good.
Is it too soon for a Fried Rice joke?
Gene said no romance between Crusher and Picard.
Meanwhile, in Picard Season 3….
In fairness, the idea of romance between these two squicked me. Just didn't seem like they were compatible either.
DANGIT! TNG predicted the "Say Potato!" meme when ferreting out AI!
I also like this episode a lot. It's kind of a little dopey, but it's a very entertainingly smart and fun kind of dopey.
Or perhaps I should say it's a little cheesy, but it settles down from the ridiculousness of many other first season episodes into a functional level of craziness that's fun to watch.
"Peace to superior Firepower"
That sould be the American Slogan for the Vote
As a weapons nerd who was getting close to burned out after all of TOS, I clung to this episode like highground in a flash flood.
I don't share the hatred of the ending, offering to buy it was incredibly simple, clever, and established in the story that it was a sales demo. Sure it might be part of a software bug that picard didnt have a known credit report or something but it made me chuckle at the time and still does as other starfleet officers would not have had the idea at all or had principled objections to doing it.
I found Crusher's "just turn it off!" to be endearing considering how many more episodes of the franchise would require a technobabble solution. Though it does make you wonder how the rest of the planet failed that spot check.
@@tbeller80 Maybe it was designed to only sell to aliens.
@@tbeller80 A planet full of weapon salesman - you would assume they could keep destroying the drones long enough for someone to find a solution.
@@tbeller80 I am curious how that went exactly. I think the implication is that it wasn't the _demo_ that killed them, but _the weapons the demo is selling._ like 'they got so good at war, they all died' typical 80s hippie message that ironically kills more people than war ever gets around to.
I'm guessing they maybe wanted to have the ship destroyed before turning off the demo but realized they'd be ending on a fat raspberry so changed the sequence of events.
I did a comparison of Picard and Kirk's first years.
Kirk lost and replaced his XO/Chief Navigator Mitchell (KIA), Chief Helmsman Kelso (KIA), CMO Piper (retired), and Chief of Security Giotto (presumed retired) (4 Department Heads replaced)
Picard lost Chief Engineer MacDougal, Chief Engineer Argyle, Chief Engineer Logan, Chief of Security Yar (KIA), and CMO Crusher (Transfer), plus a replacement for Flight Controller LaForge after his transfer to Chief Engineer. (6-7 replaced).
Hey, one ranking where early Picard won over Kirk (aside from the number of times he surrendered). Even as a kid the number of chief engineers TNG went through urked me. Seemed like Picard had not a good hand in finding the right candidate for the job.
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Leave it to Geordi to remember the technical details about the shields. That's why they made him chief engineer.
The Arsenio Hall Story.
I thought of this episode when Flash, Arrow and Supergirl were fighting Amazo.
"Just turn it off".
I can't disagree with any of the enumerated plotholes, but I have always kinda liked this episode. The Picard/Crusher stuff was good, and I really enjoyed Geordi being command, doubly so in a coherent space battle.
Love that Picard really says nothing more than "noted" when Deanna objects. There isn't really a good reason why he would join the away team. The others could try to find a way to free Riker and have Picard make a decision from the Enterprise. But we wouldn't have Geordi taking over if Picard wasn't so dumb. I mean he even tells Geordi that the safety of the ship is more important than the away team - that's why you should't leave, Captain!!!
Guess that's why he told Riker in the pilot he needs him to stop him from making decisions like these. If Riker said no, Picard would have listened. But Deanna? Doesn't care what she says ...
Disaster in season 5, when Deanna had to take over command, did this way better. And the conflict between Miles and Ro Laren actually made sense, unlike with Logan here.
Picard actualy aplies the splint dangerously wrong
How does he apply it? And why is it dangerous?
@@Meushell first mistake: the splint is way to short. One would have to extend them over the adjacent joints to prevent the bone fragments from moving. Otherwise the broken bone would grind on itself and cause more injury.
Second mistake: lack of cushioning. Some sort of polster (i.e. a towel) is needed between the splint and the skin. Otherwise it will get pressed into the skin and cause open wounds.
Third mistake: frequently test that you have not strangeled the blood flow down, by pressing a nail down till it gets white and see if the blood returns (if not loosen the splint). Otherwise the broken limb would die from a lack of oxygen, that would lead to blood poisoning, wich in turn could make (worst case) necessitate an amputation.
TLDR unless absolutely necessary (i.e. you have to move the wounded) avoid doing splints. Focus on stop any bleeding, keep your patient concious and avoid discomfort.
@@comentedonakeyboard Thank you. That was interesting to read, especially about how to test for blood flow.
@@Meushell my pleasure,
PS if you ever end up in an emergency first call for help and the phone operator will probably talk you through the rest.
Wait, we've never seen a single movie (or video game that wasn't a holodeck or brainwashing the crew, comic book outside of one issue of Starfleet Academy, audio drama, TV show, classic rock and roll or disco,...anything that isn't jazz, a stage play, chamber music, or a book) in this franchise as far as Earth media goes, and yet they still know who Shirley Temple is in this century? How?
Clearly Riker spent days trapped in a long forgotten malfunctioning Holodeck Shirley Temple production. After he got out it was deleted, but he continued to reference it repeatedly, knowing he was leaving everyone else in the galaxy feeling like they couldn't get the joke.
@@MrGranten Is that how Paris knew about Captain Proton? Because outside of Decker in the Starfleet Academy comic knowing about comic books that's the only other anomaly I can think of.
Its a good ship, lollipop.
I jokingly reference "the good ship, Lollipop" every now and again. About the only good thing I can say about this particular episode.
Why couldn't the creators turn off their tech? Were they not smart enough to pull the old "Good demonstration, now wrap it up for us. We're buying" like Picard did?
So the episode name doesn't seem to really have any meaning. It doesn't, say, refer to the ship using its arms to help anyone out, it isn't used ironically about anyone selling weapons that just cause more suffering, the episode doesn't even really focus on how the weapons caused the downfall of their creators that much.
Allegedly Hurley felt it was a reference to the sale of F-14s to pre-revolution Iran, but if so it's really stretching it. I mean, the episode ends with Picard 'buying' them!
*So the episode name doesn't seem to really have any meaning*
It has *freedom* it in. That word is enough to give any Patriotic American a hard-on.
Googling it, this episode seems to be the origin of the saying "peace through superior firepower" that is beloved by military members and on a bunch of military patches (none official though as far as I'm aware). And its from a pretty meh at best Trek episode, find that kinda funny.
also the fact that the phrase was intended to be satire, but was then adopted by those it was trying make fun of.
When were they able to beam through the shields?
The episode with Scotty a few seasons later.
@@tbeller80 Which was probably because that little detail was forgotten about. I love that it was the other way around in the Stargate-franchise: There was no problem beaming through shields for a long time, but then they had one episode of SG: Atlantis, where suddenly the shields needed to be dropped for beaming - so the enemy could damage their superior ship and suddenly has an advantage. It's always great to change established rules just to make the story work.
If perception filters are real then it’s this episode of TNG.
I know it existed but I’m always surprised when I see it like it’s the first time ever. Which I guess means it’s so forgettable.
For you maybe. For me, it's one of the only bits of season 1 TNG that I can remember.