My reasons for watching this: 10% I like Star Trek 30% I love hearing Jessie geek out about Star Trek 60% Jessie has been working so hard and she asked me to watch this and I refuse to let her down!
My percentages break down pretty closely (esp. the "watching this because of/for Jessie" aspect 💗)... Just need to carve out ~20% for my *other* reason for watching: "'Is It My ADHD or Am I Autistic, Too?'™ Who knows, but I have an intense curiosity about things that engender massive fandoms (like Star Trek or fascist TikTok influencers or christianity) and the fandoms themselves, and this will SO scratch that itch" 😅 [hahaha had to edit because autocorrect switched 'but' to 'butt.' I didn't think I was using the latter so much more than the former but apparently my keyboard thinks otherwise...!]
Realizing this video was called, "A Star Trek Breakdown" not just because you are giving us a break down of Star Trek, but also because you are actively having a breakdown in front of us, for the sake of trying to explain Star Trek to us, and for your service, I can only thank you.
Star Trek is the only franchise I know where “the episode with the sex slug” could refer to more than one episode (VOY - Threshold or ENT - Rogue Planet). You’d really think that one would be unambiguous.
Honestly, what I love most about Lower Decks is that you can tell the creators know ALL of this stuff, from the popular tidbits to the obscure, and find any opportunity to acknowledge it. You got cameos of one-time alien species, returning to planets only visited once, characters pointing out the absurdities of their universe... and it all feels so loving
i mean when Billups said: "pass me that tricorder that looks like a phase discriminator" bruh all that for one ultra obscure joke also the fact we finally got to see cetacean ops, glorious!
The Trill are so trans culture that it's hard to believe that wasn't always the intention. I mean, the exchange between Kor and Jadzia Dax is iconic. Kor, greeting Jadzia with a hug: "Curzon, my beloved old friend!" Jadzia: "I'm Jadzia now," Kor, continuing the hug: "Jadzia, my beloved old friend"
@@GigatoreadorKlingons are oddly progressive in some respects. Women are treated as equal warriors on a ship. Identity matters little while skill as a warrior matters more.
@Vesta_the_LesserYup, they did. They were still heavily patriarcal and kinda eugenicist tho. Spartans believed, that only String women would have strong children, so both genders got the Sports-training from a very early age.
Dear Jessie, I am still watching @ the 2 hr mark! You have no idea how important you and your content are to me. I started watching when Picard season 1 began. I am a 61 year old trek universe lover. As importantly, I am the grandparent of a 16 year old person who is in the process of their gender discovery. YOU have helped me be a better person on so many levels, so, Thank You. Thank You! Keep shining lovely one!
You are proof that it's not about "generation" or era, it's about choosing to see and empathize with experiences other than your own. Thank you for leading by example and showing the younger generations that it's not about age, it's about compassion.
@@gearandalthefirst7027 What if the salamander babies' children or grandchildren develop rapidly into superintelligent humanoids? What if the salamander babies are superintelligent, and build a civilization, just the four or five of them, and build a starship of their own, and go chasing after Mommy and Daddy? Perspiring slime want to know.
This is exactly the video I need. I've been intimidated to jump in to Star Trek so having a nerd explain it all is perfect for me! Thank you for your service.
I am an LGBTQIA+ ally, but as a straight cis person, all of this went over my head when I watched the episode. Hearing your takes have always been welcome to me because I want to be the best ally possible, and to continue to learn and grow. Thank you for being you, Jessie!
over the course of two weeks/two hours I have gone from complete ignorance of the Remans, to outrage at the worst kind of genocide (the "Oops, we forgot about you" kind). So there are two doors still open: Pine-verse and Time-wars to bring them back...which one, which one...
It would be a story of Trill who back in time an have an affaire with a daddy cpt of the Enterprise. She get enroll in time war to save the Reman from destruction. That will save the federation from the description by a giant vaginale space prob on the 29th century
I found Jessie through Star Trek first, stayed for her insight on everything else, and it's such a treat whenever she gets to do more passion projects on Star Trek! I missed Trekkie Jessie~
I found Jessie through her gender conversations, but stayed for the Star Trek book learnin'. Who knew two roads would eventually meet like that? She's actually the first person to get me to finally understand why this franchise is so influential. I've known several Trekkies in real life and even they couldn't get me to see it. I guess Jessie has the advantage of being able to edit and put things in some kind of order I can understand, something a natural conversation can lack. Plus she's got props and pictures and shiny things to keep my attention.
Jesse you are 100% one of my favorite youtubers of all time. You're able to show light hearted fun and compassion towards your interests and are also willing to talk about much harder topics in a well presented manner without hiding the pain caused by them. You're genuinely inspirational and such a fun person to watch on youtube
Things I learned about Star Trek from this video as a person who previously knew nothing about Star Trek: 1. This franchise will awaken things in me that I had no idea could even be a part of me, and 2. pour one out for the Remans
"How do you know this isn't the best thing that's ever happened to me?" Janeway, regarding gross fish-Paris, totally deadpanned: "That's a possibility."
As someone who's first start trek was lower decks, this was an amazing watch. Being able to see and learn the lore that happened was all super interesting and Jessie did a *really* good job of making it all comprehensible. I feel like I actually have a somewhat decent idea of the timeline of the show as well as a bit more lore of star trek. Thank you for making this video, and you've, at the very least, made a star trek fan out of me :)
As someone with only the barest minimum understanding of Star Trek, I fully enjoyed this video. But I really love hearing people geek out about stuff they care about. We need more of this in this world.
Ah yes, the OG Star Trek TV series: The Original Series, The Next Generation, DS9, Sex Salamanders, the list goes on, such unforgettable and re-watchable classics, all of them!
It;s great to see Jessie being all goofy and geeking out over Star Trek. I like all the captions for the various aliens and the choice of picture for the Vorta was unexpected but amusing.
I was so horrified when the show just flat out murdered tuvix. That scene where he's screaming to live and all of his friends circle around him to take him to his execution is DARK. I thought at least that the show would go somewhere with that (maybe the crew feels guilty, neelix and tuvok have a special bond etc), but nope, literally never acknowledged. I remember searching it online and not even finding people discussing it! #justicefortuvix Also while I'm here, I LOVE seven of nine but hate how the show treats her. The episode where the message was literally "don't believe assault victims they're just making it up" put me off the show for MONTHS. Oh and I too think about the sex salamanders constantly
Since Star Trek Online happens in the early 25th century and it is cannon, we have confirmation Remans still exist after the destruction of the Romulan star system since they are playable and in the introductory cutscene for New Romulus they say something like "I think the Remans will really like that shadowy valley over there"
Jessie geeking out about Star Trek for 2 hours? I'm in. Also, Voyage Home was the first Star Trek movie I ever watched. In theaters. Scotty saying 'Hello Computer" into a mouse is still one of my favorite Star Trek moments.
@GearandaltheFirst I work in IT and tend do that whenever I go to work on someone's station and then say, "Oh a keyboard. How quaint." Very few people get the joke.
That was the first Star Trek movie I ever watched as well, on VHS (I wish in theaters), and after that, I began watching TNG, then DS9, then Voyager, etc... I got to see the NextGen movies in theaters tho (:
Seska is basically a soap opera star in space omg PERFECT 🤣🤣🤣 Editing to add my appreciation for the mirror universe constantly being called the bisexual universe and the ensuing bi erasure joke. 😂 I'm here for EVERYTHING in this video, honestly. Hilarious, amazing, gave me joy!
1:07 I forgot about Janeway's mini-heartbreak when the male sex salamander failed to express romantic reciprocity (I mean, who can blame her; thousands of light years away from her loving husband and with a clear prospect on never seeing him again + Tom Paris being the kind of guy who could get most humanoids pregnant with a stare)
I'm definitely concerned for the lizard babies too! The crew just leaving them on the planet has so many possible implications! They seeded a completely new species on a planet - also they left the literal children of two crewmembers behind
Masterpiece! The ending was just pure poetry, such a touching tribute and a worthy farewell to the most important aliens in Star Trek - I was brought to tears🥺👏
I decline to believe that the Remans were abandoned. I prefer to think that the Vulcans rescued as many as they could, without mentioning it to the Romulans, who would have been offended that any ship room was given to a Reman when it could have been given to a Romulan.
This is delightful! I've never seen an episode of Star Trek but I love listening to people give long, enthusiastic explanations of the things they love, it's so cheerful.
DS9 was my absolute favorite hands down since i was a kid and it first aired. A Black single dad as captain?! Empathetic and compassionate and loves his son? ! Also Wharf ❤ Don't even get me started on Seven! Jesse thank you so much. I have not watched the newer shows but Piccard for sure is on my list. Star trek was definitely my safe haven. Everyone was different and their differences were loved. As an immigrant kid, my differences were NOT loved by peers around me. I know ST has its character drama and shortcomings but i love it all the same.
Not a trekkie (aside from TNG and Lower Decks), but I'm fascinated to learn more about this franchise, plus it's a change of pace from the understandable doom & gloom at the present.
I can say with confidence that this will be added to my collection of comfort videos that I will be watching over and over again. This was fantastic, Jessie! ☺️
For what it's worth, this was the first long form video of yours I could watch in one sitting. It's good to see you have fun and talk about fun, easy stuff for once❤
As someone who's only really watched Next Gen, DS9, Voyager, and Lower Decks, this video made me want to watch ALL the rest of Star Trek. Such a well done video, I loved watching you just rant about your favorite series for 2 hours
I don't know anything about Star Trek except for the one movie with Chris Pine a friend draged me into a few years ago (don't even know which one) and for real... I really had A LOT of fun watching your complete video. Your fun and genuine passion about this universe (those universes) is so joyful and appeasing to watch... it was a very nice moment, thank you ! :)
I've never seen a single episode of star trek. I've always been interested, but I figured there was so much lore that I could never catch up. So, after watching this, I think I might actually watch some! Thanks, Jessie!!
I have never met anyone as obsessed with Star Trek as I am. I am so glad you are here sharing this because it makes me so happy to know I am not alone in my complete obsession! Edit: that Khan section is what I live for! 😂
I could have sworn Nero was a Reman. But now that I think about it, I was confusing him with Shinzon. I had forgotten how demonic the Remans looked. They're still alive in Star Trek Online, though, so they must have survived the destruction of Romulus. I have a Romulan captain whose crew is about half Remans. I love those underdogs.
I am a third generation Trekkie❤ I watched every movie in the theaters with my dad. My granddad used his first vcr to copy episodes as they came out. My favorite memories of my Mom was watching Next Generation as it premiered after Jeopardy!My husband is a huge Trekkie! Star Trek is a fantastic part of our lives. I love seeing people discuss their favorite subjects. Ty for this Jesse. Live long and prosper. IDIC.😊
The way I have prayed and prayed for this type of deep dive style for star trek from you and you the ALL MIGHTY JESSIE GENDER has delivered. Please accept the offerings I leave on my altar to you! ❤😂🎉
Gotta stop 6 minutes in to say: JESSIE YOU’RE WORKING WITH THE MOPOP?????? I love that place!!! When they had their Star Trek exhibit, I went three days in a row just so I could take my time and look at everything. Congratulations!!! If your work makes it into there, I will be so happy to see it!!!!
I thought the same thing! When I moved to Seattle one of the very first things I did was go to the mopop and I became a member right away. I used to go there every time I was bored. I got to meet Takei!!!! TAKEI!!!!!!
as someone who only ever saw the pine movies, this was actually very informative and very entertaining. it brought me a lot of joy, especially seeing u just have fun geeking over it. thank u jessie!
As someone who has only watched the original series and is watching their way through TNG currently, this video is hilarious, informative and makes my geek brain very happy!!! Very well done :)
All of Star Trek Explained: "Star Trek (is) an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.” Gene Roddenberry 🖖 Jessie
I’m still frustrated by the cancellation of enterprise. All the time travel stuff felt so unfinished, and hasn’t really been brought back since. Really excited for your next Star Trek video; analyzing DS9 through the lens of sex and gender ought to be extremely interesting.
As someone who's going through a lot of stress and anxiety at work, this video was a great escape and a reminder that there's more to life than work (it's Star Trek!)
I think you underestimate just how much fun I'm having watching a two hour sh*tpost about Star Trek. I live for this kind of stuff. My life is better and more fulfilled having watched this. I would take a class just to listen to you ramble on about how crazy and complicated this series is. And I would ace that class.
I doubt you’ll read this, but I just stumbled across your channel a couple days ago and have been binging your videos. You’re an incredible creator and one of the nicest people I’ve heard on UA-cam. Keep it up!
I saw the time length, and thought "oh no, I'll just watch a few minutes to support the channel, but not all of it, no way..." Two hours later, still glued to the screen, loving every minute of it. More! More!
I'm a recent subscriber to your channel, and as I've been waiting on new videos I've been helping myself to past content. This particular video warms my soul!! When I was growing up, my dad would watch STNG. I would get to watch the first half, but my bedtime was on the half hour mark! So I could remember all these beginnings of stories, but never knew the ending. My partner remembered me talking about this and, when we got married, bought all 7 seasons of STNG (on VHS, no less! We could only fit 3 seasons at a time, using every bookshelf we owned in our college-student apartment.) and spent the first year of our marriage watching at least 1 episode, every day, repeating favorites with no shame (and skipping over boring Pulaski episodes because we're McFadden or bust). From there, we naturally went on to watch EVERYTHING, and are whole-hearted Trekkies! This review was so helpful for ME, as a longtime fan, to help remind me of key moments and straighten out timelines, etc. But what I really loved was seeing you absolutely sparkle with JOY over nerding out on one of your favorite things. I believe that hope is the greatest act of rebellion, and joy is the greatest act of defiance. You deal with hard, deep, important topics on your channel. If you ever see this, I just want to encourage you to never neglect your joy, to feed your hope, and to please keep making time to talk about things that make your insides sparkle and spill out through your eyeballs! You are using your voice for such good in this world, and we need you to take care of your heart whenever you can or need to. I'll keep digging into old content, rewatch favorites, and wait patiently ANYTIME you need to take a break, and I will watch your geekiest content with extra glee when we get the privilege of seeing you in your joy! ALL the best, love. Deepest gratitude, Prudence
I've already watched this on nebula but now it's on youtube it would be rude not to watch again to see you having so much fun making something. I'm not even that big of a star trek fan but your joy on videos like these is always so fun to watch
My knowledge of Star Trek was very limited before this, but I feel much wiser now. So for that, I thank you for your service, Jessie! With loving regards, One of those three people who actually watched this video all the way through
For a good long while, I thought Jessie was going to say the Ocampa were the most important race (for some reason). Which would be an absolutely fascinating position to defend. Also, can we talk about how they survive as a species? According to episodes involving Kes's reproduction and Ocampan birth, they only come into their fertile phase once in their lifetime, and they mate for life. And judging from her own birth, her relatives, and the births of her (time-shenanigans-erased) descendents, single births are the standard, not multiple births. So if each mated-for-life pair of Ocampans can produce a maximum of 1 offspring, how do they not just die out altogether in like 4-5 generations? I get that the writers put in the "must get pregnant NOW because it will never happen again" in order to jack up the stakes of the episode... But it screwed the species over mathematically. The only way to fix it is if the Ocampan standard is for multiple births, which honestly is such an easy fix and it makes it even funnier when Neelix is trying to come to terms with potentially becoming a dad if he is then told, "it wouldn't just be one baby though... It would be 20." The Benjamin Button episode would be trickier, but you could say a bunch of the kids went off on their own when they came of age, and/or there were less and less multiple births as more human DNA mixed in.
Just wanted to write a comment to tell you thanks for everything ! I watched this video with my partner, and we had a great time ! Not only that but we got quite interested into Star Trek thanks to you (and we watched a good part of voyager, which was very cool and also a bit disappointing because of the reset button). I've loved some parts like basically every scene with the doctor, a sassy queen we instantly loved here. And janeway was a great ship captain, loved the parts about coffee in the nebula / the holonovel she goes to in order to chill a bit, and many others. Uh yeah, so, thanks for having us discover Star Trek and for having been a guide so we could avoid lots of cringe things in earlier seasons it seems. Apart from that, we've watched lots of your videos (and also on after dark) and it's been a joy ! Also, seeing someone that resemble us (we're two agender nerdy mess that have a lot of love for lots of things in this world even though this world is... "something"), nerding about things we like / might like, it's very wholesome. We're just two queer people that loved your videos and never even thought not watching this one until the end, for instance, and we laughed and talked a lot and it was great. Thanks a lot. Also, I hope you will be fine and will have good times both making videos and outside of all of this as well. I'm glad to have watched your videos and thankful you did them :3 Thanks for sharing what you like !
I've never watched/read anything star trek related and genuinely got so excited to see this video. I cannot think of a better person to introduce me to it 💙💙💙
People deserve to see your fun videos as much as your serious videos! Nerdy joy and creations like this are always a great sight to behold. Excited for your upcoming projects, you've got such fantastic things planned! I cannot wait for that short film of yours to come out, you are an inspiration to us all!!!
absolutely loved this break down. As someone who spent years absorbing bits of star trek through cultural osmosis and then finally decided "well if I'm doing this, I'm doing this" and started from the the original series and am working my way through, i truly love this layout of the bonkers shit that goes on. I both love the show as a general lore machine, but agree that Star Trek Lower Decks really just hits things perfectly imo
I rarely comment on videos, but I must say that after watching your video on the Tennessee shooting (such a devastating event), I took your advice and watched this one. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that the Kazon were stupid and dumb. This was exactly what I needed to watch after such a terrible week in the news. Thank you, and you have made a subscriber out of me!
Jessie I gotta say it was a huge relief to see you made a new star trek video. It's been nothing but terfs lately and I've been worried for you and also missed the silly star trek stuff a lot. You're wonderful!
With your unbounded energy and passion for the subject I believe in you and wish you success in all your endeavors current and pending. The posts are a joy to watch. Thank you for being here. (I made it to this universe Ms. Earl)
I just recently started to get into Star Trek via The Next Generation! It's my first exposure to the series whatsoever, and now my partner and I watch it nearly every night! We are about halfway through season 3 at the moment. I am becoming more enamored by the series as a whole with each episode of TNG that we watch. My partner also just got me a couple of the same glasses that the crew uses on the Enterprise! :) I unfortunately have to go adult now, but I shall certainly return to this video later to learn even more about all things Star Trek. Thank you, Jessie, for such a comprehensive summary. As a new trekkie, it is much appreciated!! 🫡 Edit: I've seen all of TNG, all of DS9 and VOY, and I'm on Enterprise S1 now! 🫶🏻 DS9 has been my favorite but I'm also really loving Enterprise, it being all early federation and such. It's just cool to see a different angle of star trek. Also the ENT theme song SLAPS,, I love it sm
My reasons for watching this:
10% I like Star Trek
30% I love hearing Jessie geek out about Star Trek
60% Jessie has been working so hard and she asked me to watch this and I refuse to let her down!
My percentages break down pretty closely (esp. the "watching this because of/for Jessie" aspect 💗)...
Just need to carve out ~20% for my *other* reason for watching: "'Is It My ADHD or Am I Autistic, Too?'™ Who knows, but I have an intense curiosity about things that engender massive fandoms (like Star Trek or fascist TikTok influencers or christianity) and the fandoms themselves, and this will SO scratch that itch" 😅
[hahaha had to edit because autocorrect switched 'but' to 'butt.' I didn't think I was using the latter so much more than the former but apparently my keyboard thinks otherwise...!]
same
@@moxiebombshellyes 😁
same though my percentages vary by a 10% margin
@@moxiebombshell omg same. I’m so intrigued about things with huge fandoms
I appreciate Jesse's restraint in keeping this video under 12 hours long
Me too, I mentioned she left out a section on Jeffrey Combs 🤣
Amateur stuff
Wait, you mean there isn't another ten hours? But we haven't even made it to the Great Tribble Hunt 🤣
Um excuse me I require a 12 hr video on this subject.
Realizing this video was called, "A Star Trek Breakdown" not just because you are giving us a break down of Star Trek, but also because you are actively having a breakdown in front of us, for the sake of trying to explain Star Trek to us, and for your service, I can only thank you.
Star Trek is the only franchise I know where “the episode with the sex slug” could refer to more than one episode (VOY - Threshold or ENT - Rogue Planet). You’d really think that one would be unambiguous.
OK, the Enterprise episode is maybe a stretch, but even so - most franchises would have NO ambiguity about the sentence “the one with the sex slugs”
I think at least the ghost sex is only one episode
I feel like the enterprise episode could be a sex slug, threshold are obviously sex salamanders
Honestly, what I love most about Lower Decks is that you can tell the creators know ALL of this stuff, from the popular tidbits to the obscure, and find any opportunity to acknowledge it. You got cameos of one-time alien species, returning to planets only visited once, characters pointing out the absurdities of their universe... and it all feels so loving
i mean when Billups said: "pass me that tricorder that looks like a phase discriminator"
bruh
all that for one ultra obscure joke
also the fact we finally got to see cetacean ops, glorious!
YES the people writing lower decks are clearly fans and it shows
@@joda7697 yes! I mean one of the main characters is a green Orion. AN ORION, but she's a Trekkie! How can we not be obsessed?!
“You’re always trapping people inside of games! Stop trapping people inside of games!!”
The Trill are so trans culture that it's hard to believe that wasn't always the intention. I mean, the exchange between Kor and Jadzia Dax is iconic.
Kor, greeting Jadzia with a hug: "Curzon, my beloved old friend!"
Jadzia: "I'm Jadzia now,"
Kor, continuing the hug: "Jadzia, my beloved old friend"
characters in Star Trek: respecting people's chosen name for decades
"characters" in real life: "whatchu mean, pro-nouns?"
@@GigatoreadorKlingons are oddly progressive in some respects. Women are treated as equal warriors on a ship. Identity matters little while skill as a warrior matters more.
@@tenkenroo yup man or woman Klingons follow and respect the strongest warrior.
@Vesta_the_LesserYup, they did. They were still heavily patriarcal and kinda eugenicist tho. Spartans believed, that only String women would have strong children, so both genders got the Sports-training from a very early age.
that and the first two letters of the name..
Dear Jessie,
I am still watching @ the 2 hr mark! You have no idea how important you and your content are to me. I started watching when Picard season 1 began. I am a 61 year old trek universe lover. As importantly, I am the grandparent of a 16 year old person who is in the process of their gender discovery. YOU have helped me be a better person on so many levels, so, Thank You. Thank You!
Keep shining lovely one!
Tammy can I give you a hug❤❤
Here, you dropped this 👑
so glad you & grandkid can share & trust so much. so glad they don't have to hide. you are so lucky to have each other 🙌💜🙌
You are proof that it's not about "generation" or era, it's about choosing to see and empathize with experiences other than your own.
Thank you for leading by example and showing the younger generations that it's not about age, it's about compassion.
What a lovely story. I do hope Jessie reads this comment, it will warm her heart.
I watched to the end, also.
The fact that it took over two hours to summarize Star Trek should say plenty about the thought and care behind these characters and worldbuilding.
And the sex salamanders
@@gearandalthefirst7027 What if the salamander babies' children or grandchildren develop rapidly into superintelligent humanoids?
What if the salamander babies are superintelligent, and build a civilization, just the four or five of them, and build a starship of their own, and go chasing after Mommy and Daddy?
Perspiring slime want to know.
@@gearandalthefirst7027 you know, maybe it really was the sex salamanders we met along the way all along...
After all Jessie has endured lately, I love to see her enthusiasm and joy talking about Trek ❤
Me, a hardcore Trekkie who knows all of this, hanging on to every word because I love your take!
If Jessie doesn't get at least a cameo on a Trek show, I will be heartbroken. This video is gold and so is Jessie
Bonus points if she plays a half Orion half Bajoran endocrinologist
@@polyestawyldesage504 Actually LOLed. Perfect!
@@polyestawyldesage504 after hearing her love for Tendi, I wonder if that's the inspo for shaving her sides 🤔
I didn't know I wanted a "Jessie explains Star Trek in the style of Unraveled" video, but thank you for giving it to us.
This is exactly the video I need. I've been intimidated to jump in to Star Trek so having a nerd explain it all is perfect for me! Thank you for your service.
She made a video a year or so ago dedicated to actually helping new viewers get into Star Trek, you could check that out, too!
Yes as @swish_fish mentioned you gotta run-not-walk to that other vid! 😀
Never be afraid to ask us nerds to explain things, its what we love.
Me too!
I am an LGBTQIA+ ally, but as a straight cis person, all of this went over my head when I watched the episode. Hearing your takes have always been welcome to me because I want to be the best ally possible, and to continue to learn and grow. Thank you for being you, Jessie!
Same here!! I have learned so much about the trans community, (I'm 61 btw) Jessie is amazingly smart and articulate when expressing herself!
Someone said "Okay Jessie, you've got two hours, tell me Star Trek" and Jessie took them seriously, and so we all win.
Except the Remans.
over the course of two weeks/two hours I have gone from complete ignorance of the Remans, to outrage at the worst kind of genocide (the "Oops, we forgot about you" kind). So there are two doors still open: Pine-verse and Time-wars to bring them back...which one, which one...
there's rhomulans AND remans? D:
Nothing Re-mains of them now
Kinda nice to see Jessie just get to make a long fun video again
Same, she is fun from all the transphobia
I have never experienced so much contact relief.
One more reason to watch to the end.
Would love to see Jessie make her own Star Trek show.
Curzon! My old friend!
Hey there "old man", how are ya
i would volunteer to work on production
Take my checking account
It would be a story of Trill who back in time an have an affaire with a daddy cpt of the Enterprise. She get enroll in time war to save the Reman from destruction. That will save the federation from the description by a giant vaginale space prob on the 29th century
I found Jessie through Star Trek first, stayed for her insight on everything else, and it's such a treat whenever she gets to do more passion projects on Star Trek! I missed Trekkie Jessie~
I found Jessie through her gender conversations, but stayed for the Star Trek book learnin'. Who knew two roads would eventually meet like that? She's actually the first person to get me to finally understand why this franchise is so influential. I've known several Trekkies in real life and even they couldn't get me to see it. I guess Jessie has the advantage of being able to edit and put things in some kind of order I can understand, something a natural conversation can lack. Plus she's got props and pictures and shiny things to keep my attention.
Jesse you are 100% one of my favorite youtubers of all time. You're able to show light hearted fun and compassion towards your interests and are also willing to talk about much harder topics in a well presented manner without hiding the pain caused by them. You're genuinely inspirational and such a fun person to watch on youtube
Chikotay wasn't the father, the baby was really part Kazon. The Doctor figured that out in the episodes
It wouldn't be a Trekkie video without another Trekkie correcting her 🤣 so Trek
Cuckotay
(I’m so sorry)
Things I learned about Star Trek from this video as a person who previously knew nothing about Star Trek: 1. This franchise will awaken things in me that I had no idea could even be a part of me, and 2. pour one out for the Remans
Neelix labeled as "Kitchen Nightmares" had me rolling. Well played.
"How do you know this isn't the best thing that's ever happened to me?"
Janeway, regarding gross fish-Paris, totally deadpanned: "That's a possibility."
As someone who's first start trek was lower decks, this was an amazing watch. Being able to see and learn the lore that happened was all super interesting and Jessie did a *really* good job of making it all comprehensible. I feel like I actually have a somewhat decent idea of the timeline of the show as well as a bit more lore of star trek. Thank you for making this video, and you've, at the very least, made a star trek fan out of me :)
As someone with only the barest minimum understanding of Star Trek, I fully enjoyed this video. But I really love hearing people geek out about stuff they care about. We need more of this in this world.
I've always been too intimidated by how much Star Trek content there was to where I never started it. this is a great place to start, thank you ❤❤
Ah yes, the OG Star Trek TV series: The Original Series, The Next Generation, DS9, Sex Salamanders, the list goes on, such unforgettable and re-watchable classics, all of them!
Tribbles, ???, Sex Salamanders, Tribbles (Reprise)...
@@stalfithrildi5366 You forgot the Profit step
But uhhh let’s all skip code of honor from tng and profit and lace. Oh and the ds9 episode with the species way too into table top
It;s great to see Jessie being all goofy and geeking out over Star Trek. I like all the captions for the various aliens and the choice of picture for the Vorta was unexpected but amusing.
I was so horrified when the show just flat out murdered tuvix. That scene where he's screaming to live and all of his friends circle around him to take him to his execution is DARK. I thought at least that the show would go somewhere with that (maybe the crew feels guilty, neelix and tuvok have a special bond etc), but nope, literally never acknowledged.
I remember searching it online and not even finding people discussing it! #justicefortuvix
Also while I'm here, I LOVE seven of nine but hate how the show treats her. The episode where the message was literally "don't believe assault victims they're just making it up" put me off the show for MONTHS.
Oh and I too think about the sex salamanders constantly
Since Star Trek Online happens in the early 25th century and it is cannon, we have confirmation Remans still exist after the destruction of the Romulan star system since they are playable and in the introductory cutscene for New Romulus they say something like "I think the Remans will really like that shadowy valley over there"
Jessie geeking out about Star Trek for 2 hours? I'm in.
Also, Voyage Home was the first Star Trek movie I ever watched. In theaters. Scotty saying 'Hello Computer" into a mouse is still one of my favorite Star Trek moments.
Voyage Home is, and probably always will be, my favorite Star Trek movie.
I quote "Hello computer! Hello computer?" all the time but unfortunately no one ever gets it :P
@GearandaltheFirst I work in IT and tend do that whenever I go to work on someone's station and then say, "Oh a keyboard. How quaint."
Very few people get the joke.
That was the first Star Trek movie I ever watched as well, on VHS (I wish in theaters), and after that, I began watching TNG, then DS9, then Voyager, etc...
I got to see the NextGen movies in theaters tho (:
Excuse me where are the nuclear wessels?
Seska is basically a soap opera star in space omg PERFECT 🤣🤣🤣 Editing to add my appreciation for the mirror universe constantly being called the bisexual universe and the ensuing bi erasure joke. 😂 I'm here for EVERYTHING in this video, honestly. Hilarious, amazing, gave me joy!
1:07 I forgot about Janeway's mini-heartbreak when the male sex salamander failed to express romantic reciprocity (I mean, who can blame her; thousands of light years away from her loving husband and with a clear prospect on never seeing him again + Tom Paris being the kind of guy who could get most humanoids pregnant with a stare)
I love it when Jessie goes off about her special interest like the lovable dork she is
I'm not sure about the thirst for those lizards, but Jessie's enthusiasm suggests the extent and scale of their importance.
I'm definitely concerned for the lizard babies too! The crew just leaving them on the planet has so many possible implications! They seeded a completely new species on a planet - also they left the literal children of two crewmembers behind
Masterpiece! The ending was just pure poetry, such a touching tribute and a worthy farewell to the most important aliens in Star Trek - I was brought to tears🥺👏
I decline to believe that the Remans were abandoned.
I prefer to think that the Vulcans rescued as many as they could, without mentioning it to the Romulans, who would have been offended that any ship room was given to a Reman when it could have been given to a Romulan.
Actually the most important aliens were the Whatever-The-Fuck-Was-Talking-To-Whales in Journey Home
This is delightful! I've never seen an episode of Star Trek but I love listening to people give long, enthusiastic explanations of the things they love, it's so cheerful.
I once read a huge volume on the history of soap opera (radio *_AND_* television) in the same spirit.
DS9 was my absolute favorite hands down since i was a kid and it first aired. A Black single dad as captain?! Empathetic and compassionate and loves his son? ! Also Wharf ❤ Don't even get me started on Seven!
Jesse thank you so much. I have not watched the newer shows but Piccard for sure is on my list. Star trek was definitely my safe haven. Everyone was different and their differences were loved. As an immigrant kid, my differences were NOT loved by peers around me. I know ST has its character drama and shortcomings but i love it all the same.
Not a trekkie (aside from TNG and Lower Decks), but I'm fascinated to learn more about this franchise, plus it's a change of pace from the understandable doom & gloom at the present.
This is the best thing I've ever seen 10/10 Jessie please never stop. The way that you abridged everything was so funny.
I can say with confidence that this will be added to my collection of comfort videos that I will be watching over and over again. This was fantastic, Jessie! ☺️
To be honest I'm surprised you were able to summarize Star Trek in only 2 hours bravo
For what it's worth, this was the first long form video of yours I could watch in one sitting. It's good to see you have fun and talk about fun, easy stuff for once❤
I don't know. Is condensing all of Star Trek down into 2 hours "easy"?
Oh boy time for Trek content and of course watching Jessie spiral into madness. Thank you for making me smile.
The poor Ocampa. Didn't rate being on the alien board. And Kes didn't even get mentioned, but Seska did. lol.
I'm glad to see that no matter where's you're from, we can all appreciate Jessie's humour because we're all just as much.
Two hours of Jessie talking about Star Trek. I'm so excited!
As someone who's only really watched Next Gen, DS9, Voyager, and Lower Decks, this video made me want to watch ALL the rest of Star Trek. Such a well done video, I loved watching you just rant about your favorite series for 2 hours
I don't know anything about Star Trek except for the one movie with Chris Pine a friend draged me into a few years ago (don't even know which one) and for real... I really had A LOT of fun watching your complete video. Your fun and genuine passion about this universe (those universes) is so joyful and appeasing to watch... it was a very nice moment, thank you ! :)
I'm not even a Trekkie (my dad is a huge one though), but this slaps so hard. Glad you could take a break to enjoy nerdy stuff, I loved it!
I've never seen a single episode of star trek. I've always been interested, but I figured there was so much lore that I could never catch up. So, after watching this, I think I might actually watch some! Thanks, Jessie!!
I have never met anyone as obsessed with Star Trek as I am. I am so glad you are here sharing this because it makes me so happy to know I am not alone in my complete obsession!
Edit: that Khan section is what I live for! 😂
I severely underestimated the amount of depth Star Trek has
I think this is the first 2hr UA-cam video I've watched all in one go and I absolutely love how much fun you clearly had making this.
Keep it up
I could have sworn Nero was a Reman. But now that I think about it, I was confusing him with Shinzon. I had forgotten how demonic the Remans looked.
They're still alive in Star Trek Online, though, so they must have survived the destruction of Romulus. I have a Romulan captain whose crew is about half Remans. I love those underdogs.
I am a third generation Trekkie❤ I watched every movie in the theaters with my dad. My granddad used his first vcr to copy episodes as they came out. My favorite memories of my Mom was watching Next Generation as it premiered after Jeopardy!My husband is a huge Trekkie! Star Trek is a fantastic part of our lives. I love seeing people discuss their favorite subjects. Ty for this Jesse. Live long and prosper. IDIC.😊
The way I have prayed and prayed for this type of deep dive style for star trek from you and you the ALL MIGHTY JESSIE GENDER has delivered. Please accept the offerings I leave on my altar to you! ❤😂🎉
Gotta stop 6 minutes in to say: JESSIE YOU’RE WORKING WITH THE MOPOP?????? I love that place!!! When they had their Star Trek exhibit, I went three days in a row just so I could take my time and look at everything. Congratulations!!! If your work makes it into there, I will be so happy to see it!!!!
I thought the same thing! When I moved to Seattle one of the very first things I did was go to the mopop and I became a member right away. I used to go there every time I was bored. I got to meet Takei!!!! TAKEI!!!!!!
as someone who only ever saw the pine movies, this was actually very informative and very entertaining. it brought me a lot of joy, especially seeing u just have fun geeking over it. thank u jessie!
As someone who has only watched the original series and is watching their way through TNG currently, this video is hilarious, informative and makes my geek brain very happy!!! Very well done :)
only a true fan would want to introduce newbies to their beloved program and then make it over two hours long
Love how amazing of a creator Jessie is that this beautiful work won't even be her magnum opus
2hour videos usually freak me, but am oddly looking forward to the next 2 hour of my life...thanks Jessie!!
This is the most gloriously unhinged love letter I've ever seen. Thank you for everything that you do, and for sharing your joy with the world.
As someone who has always been interested in Star Trek, but never knew much about it, this was so helpful. Thank you for making this video!
All of Star Trek Explained:
"Star Trek (is) an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.”
Gene Roddenberry 🖖 Jessie
I’m still frustrated by the cancellation of enterprise. All the time travel stuff felt so unfinished, and hasn’t really been brought back since.
Really excited for your next Star Trek video; analyzing DS9 through the lens of sex and gender ought to be extremely interesting.
As someone who's going through a lot of stress and anxiety at work, this video was a great escape and a reminder that there's more to life than work (it's Star Trek!)
I think you underestimate just how much fun I'm having watching a two hour sh*tpost about Star Trek. I live for this kind of stuff. My life is better and more fulfilled having watched this. I would take a class just to listen to you ramble on about how crazy and complicated this series is. And I would ace that class.
I doubt you’ll read this, but I just stumbled across your channel a couple days ago and have been binging your videos. You’re an incredible creator and one of the nicest people I’ve heard on UA-cam. Keep it up!
I saw the time length, and thought "oh no, I'll just watch a few minutes to support the channel, but not all of it, no way..."
Two hours later, still glued to the screen, loving every minute of it. More! More!
Love seeing fun content like this, your serious videos are so important and informative, but these are a great casual video.
I don't think I've ever been more excited for a video in my life
I'm a recent subscriber to your channel, and as I've been waiting on new videos I've been helping myself to past content. This particular video warms my soul!! When I was growing up, my dad would watch STNG. I would get to watch the first half, but my bedtime was on the half hour mark! So I could remember all these beginnings of stories, but never knew the ending. My partner remembered me talking about this and, when we got married, bought all 7 seasons of STNG (on VHS, no less! We could only fit 3 seasons at a time, using every bookshelf we owned in our college-student apartment.) and spent the first year of our marriage watching at least 1 episode, every day, repeating favorites with no shame (and skipping over boring Pulaski episodes because we're McFadden or bust). From there, we naturally went on to watch EVERYTHING, and are whole-hearted Trekkies!
This review was so helpful for ME, as a longtime fan, to help remind me of key moments and straighten out timelines, etc. But what I really loved was seeing you absolutely sparkle with JOY over nerding out on one of your favorite things. I believe that hope is the greatest act of rebellion, and joy is the greatest act of defiance. You deal with hard, deep, important topics on your channel. If you ever see this, I just want to encourage you to never neglect your joy, to feed your hope, and to please keep making time to talk about things that make your insides sparkle and spill out through your eyeballs! You are using your voice for such good in this world, and we need you to take care of your heart whenever you can or need to. I'll keep digging into old content, rewatch favorites, and wait patiently ANYTIME you need to take a break, and I will watch your geekiest content with extra glee when we get the privilege of seeing you in your joy! ALL the best, love.
Deepest gratitude,
Prudence
I've been watching Star Trek my whole life, and I really enjoyed how thoughtful and funny this overview was (like the rest of your content). 10/10.
Listening to people happily infodump about stuff that they're into makes me so happy in turn, so I love this so much!
I've already watched this on nebula but now it's on youtube it would be rude not to watch again to see you having so much fun making something. I'm not even that big of a star trek fan but your joy on videos like these is always so fun to watch
I saw it on Nebula too, but had to watch again. Fun and it boosts the algorithm.
My knowledge of Star Trek was very limited before this, but I feel much wiser now. So for that, I thank you for your service, Jessie!
With loving regards,
One of those three people who actually watched this video all the way through
This was a delight from start to finish - your enthusiasm came across in SPADES and I loved every second of it.
This was exactly what I needed on my mental health day. Thanks Jessie for two hours of delightful fun.
Jesse, don't worry, everything you do is fabulous. Keep being you!
THIS IS GONNA BE SO GOOD AND I LOVED YOUR COMPLETE (AND UNHINGED) GUIDE
If I had a nickel for every time one of my favorite UA-cam creators made an hours long video essay with gratuitous Frasier references 😂
For a good long while, I thought Jessie was going to say the Ocampa were the most important race (for some reason). Which would be an absolutely fascinating position to defend.
Also, can we talk about how they survive as a species? According to episodes involving Kes's reproduction and Ocampan birth, they only come into their fertile phase once in their lifetime, and they mate for life. And judging from her own birth, her relatives, and the births of her (time-shenanigans-erased) descendents, single births are the standard, not multiple births. So if each mated-for-life pair of Ocampans can produce a maximum of 1 offspring, how do they not just die out altogether in like 4-5 generations? I get that the writers put in the "must get pregnant NOW because it will never happen again" in order to jack up the stakes of the episode... But it screwed the species over mathematically.
The only way to fix it is if the Ocampan standard is for multiple births, which honestly is such an easy fix and it makes it even funnier when Neelix is trying to come to terms with potentially becoming a dad if he is then told, "it wouldn't just be one baby though... It would be 20." The Benjamin Button episode would be trickier, but you could say a bunch of the kids went off on their own when they came of age, and/or there were less and less multiple births as more human DNA mixed in.
Just wanted to write a comment to tell you thanks for everything !
I watched this video with my partner, and we had a great time !
Not only that but we got quite interested into Star Trek thanks to you (and we watched a good part of voyager, which was very cool and also a bit disappointing because of the reset button). I've loved some parts like basically every scene with the doctor, a sassy queen we instantly loved here. And janeway was a great ship captain, loved the parts about coffee in the nebula / the holonovel she goes to in order to chill a bit, and many others.
Uh yeah, so, thanks for having us discover Star Trek and for having been a guide so we could avoid lots of cringe things in earlier seasons it seems.
Apart from that, we've watched lots of your videos (and also on after dark) and it's been a joy ! Also, seeing someone that resemble us (we're two agender nerdy mess that have a lot of love for lots of things in this world even though this world is... "something"), nerding about things we like / might like, it's very wholesome. We're just two queer people that loved your videos and never even thought not watching this one until the end, for instance, and we laughed and talked a lot and it was great. Thanks a lot.
Also, I hope you will be fine and will have good times both making videos and outside of all of this as well.
I'm glad to have watched your videos and thankful you did them :3
Thanks for sharing what you like !
I've never watched/read anything star trek related and genuinely got so excited to see this video. I cannot think of a better person to introduce me to it 💙💙💙
People deserve to see your fun videos as much as your serious videos! Nerdy joy and creations like this are always a great sight to behold. Excited for your upcoming projects, you've got such fantastic things planned! I cannot wait for that short film of yours to come out, you are an inspiration to us all!!!
absolutely loved this break down. As someone who spent years absorbing bits of star trek through cultural osmosis and then finally decided "well if I'm doing this, I'm doing this" and started from the the original series and am working my way through, i truly love this layout of the bonkers shit that goes on. I both love the show as a general lore machine, but agree that Star Trek Lower Decks really just hits things perfectly imo
This is a criminally under viewed video, Jessie. I enjoy this type of content so much ❤❤
The analogy between Q and Loki is very apt, never thought of it that way before.
As someone who made it to the end and enjoyed every minute, I wish you, as always, peace and long life 🖖🏻
I rarely comment on videos, but I must say that after watching your video on the Tennessee shooting (such a devastating event), I took your advice and watched this one. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that the Kazon were stupid and dumb. This was exactly what I needed to watch after such a terrible week in the news. Thank you, and you have made a subscriber out of me!
Jessie I gotta say it was a huge relief to see you made a new star trek video. It's been nothing but terfs lately and I've been worried for you and also missed the silly star trek stuff a lot. You're wonderful!
With your unbounded energy and passion for the subject I believe in you and wish you success in all your endeavors current and pending. The posts are a joy to watch. Thank you for being here. (I made it to this universe Ms. Earl)
I feel like Voyager easily has the most mindfuckery in its episodes. It's also easily the most fun to watch imo
somehow you actually managed to summarzie the whole franchise pretty well, im genuinely impressed!
I just recently started to get into Star Trek via The Next Generation! It's my first exposure to the series whatsoever, and now my partner and I watch it nearly every night! We are about halfway through season 3 at the moment. I am becoming more enamored by the series as a whole with each episode of TNG that we watch.
My partner also just got me a couple of the same glasses that the crew uses on the Enterprise! :)
I unfortunately have to go adult now, but I shall certainly return to this video later to learn even more about all things Star Trek. Thank you, Jessie, for such a comprehensive summary. As a new trekkie, it is much appreciated!! 🫡
Edit:
I've seen all of TNG, all of DS9 and VOY, and I'm on Enterprise S1 now! 🫶🏻
DS9 has been my favorite but I'm also really loving Enterprise, it being all early federation and such. It's just cool to see a different angle of star trek. Also the ENT theme song SLAPS,, I love it sm
This makes my trekkie heart so happy. I love listening to you talk about Star Trek!!
One of the 3 people who made it to the end!!! I love videos like this. So important to talk about trans joy not just trans struggle
So true.
I literally did a happy little dance when you said we would be starting with TOS god I love your videos