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Few minutes into the series. Lost a missile, a captain leaving the ship for a chase and reprimands mr Worf on his way out. The day couldn’t start any better.
I like in this part how it shows Barclay acting normal and calm showing that he can be that way. The fact that he knew about cats i like to imagine instilled more confidence in Barclay taking care of his cat.
Indeed, I agree. However, the nature in how he was handling Spot, does not inspire my confidence that he's sensitive to Spot's pregnant condition. You should never handle a pregnant cat this way.
@@TheWu1976 true but the actress that played spot was not actually pregnant nor female for that mater and they had to try to keep spot under control to get the shot done.
Reminds me of Mass Effect where in the background an officer is chewing out one of his crew for "winging it" when shooting off a nuclear warhead. He told him how when it misses its target it will fly into space till it hits something, it could be tomorrow, next year or 1000 years, but someone at sometime might have a very bad day when hit with a rouge nuke and this is why we use our target systems.
@@Dhips. Which is making a mountain out of a molehill 'cause space is so terribly empty that, if it's not heading directly for a planet or something, then for all intents and purposes it will never hit anything, ever. By the time 1000 years have passed, a nuke would have long been rendered inoperative and the missile becomes little more than a fancy space rock. This photon torpedo is more problematic, though, because it's not just moving in a straight line, but rather being guided by a malfunctioning guidance system. There's no telling when it might try to hit something or what that something will be.
Since Spot was not spayed and the father was not neutered, we must consider the possibility that all archived video of the Price Is Right had been destroyed sometime during the Third World War.
I love the Riker/Worf big brother little brother like relationship lol. You know there's mutual respect but the way Riker takes friendly jabs at Worf is hilarious 🤣
People think Data had no emotions, but Data had emotions, but they were limited. When Lal said she loved Data as she was dying, Data said something like I wish I could feel your love. That broke Data's heart. He felt emotions.
@@grundian I remember this. One of the many situations where Data displays care and concern and goes to great lengths for others. We've seen Data's lightning fingers before, but it was described by this man in such a lyrical fashion as to make one wonder, is it truly always Logic that compels Data, or is something else at work?
@@ozymandias1758 Absolutely. Even something like that, would break a heart like Data's. He may not fully appreciate it, or understand it, but he did feel it.
Yeah I kind of thought that too. For all the praise Picard is given by fans (by me as well) for his great leadership, that wasn't his finest moment. But to be fair, he is only human & even a Captain can get a bit bored & tired of the "work day routine" at times.
He probably was bored. It sounds like this was one in a long line of "tests" they had performed with many more to come, which is why he decided to appoint himself the one to retrieve the torpedo. He needed a break. Don't think his boredom or irritation was necessarily directed at Worf.
@@sharkdentures3247 I don't know which episode this is, but if it's earlier in the series it makes sense. Picard was a bit more stern and humorless at first, but becomes warmer and more personable later on. According to Marina Sirtis (Troi) Patrick Stewart himself started out as a sort of rigid stage actor, professional but very serious minded, but eventually eased up a bit and developed a sense of humor.
Has anyone noticed how clam and normal Barclay is around Data? He doesn't stutter as much when speaking to him. Much like in the way Barclay is more confident around holographic people because they aren't real and therfore don't judge you, I wonder if he feels the same way around Data because he's "not real" and knows that Data doesn't judge him as well.
@@stargazer7644 like many inventions, just because a book says it was invented in a specific year, doesn't mean it was widely known and widely available. The Internet for example was "invented" in 1967, but wasn't really known about by the general public until the mid 90s.
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@@deltaray3 Nobody said anything about "a book says" something. Commercial DNA analysis was available to anyone who wanted to pay for it in 1987. That wasn't when they learned to do it, that's when the first commercial lab offered it as a regular service. If anyone can pay to get it done, that's pretty much exactly NOT "pure futuristic science fiction." Whether it was commonly done or not has nothing to do with it. Your Internet example is also off-base. The general public didn't really know about the Internet until the 90s because it wasn't available to the general public before then. Prior to that access to ARPANET and NSFnet was restricted to military, government, and research/educational institutions on invitation by the govt. No commercial entities (ISPs) were allowed.
@@stargazer7644 I know that. I was actually there, but I'm saying that just because.... you know what, nevermind. You're right, now you can feel better about winning a pointless argument.
Yeah, how could they allow unspayed or unneutered cats on a starship? Forget the procreation problem, there are also behavioral and sanitary problems. Those toms would be spraying their funk all over the ship!
@@bridgecross How they kept their ships clean is never touched upon. I presume they just beam everything that isn't ship into the protomatter tanks for use in the replicators?
@@Shaun_Jones well none of them have plot armour. So it's actually considerate of Picard to go himself, rather than send some random red shirt to their doom.
When my cat had kittens, I was running around like a headless chicken waiving my arms in the air. I called my girlfriend to come home from work. She was like, shut up panicking you big idiot. The cat will know what to do. She gave birth to 4 kittens. We found good homes for them all.
He's just supporting his declaration from season 2 that Starfleet is not a military organization. It is really crazy when you think he still has this attitude after the ship was easily captured by the Ferengi in old birds of prey and he endured torture for weeks by the Cardassians just a year before this event. We won't bother mentioning the Borg since they never seemed to care enough to ever send more than one ship against the Federation. Then there was that time his Lothario first officer brought aboard that game that brainwashed the entire crew and nearly all of Starfleet forcing Wesley to save the day yet again.
@@Restitutor_Orbis_214 I always point to that declaration when people say that this or that in Trek is unmilitary. Even if it is innacurate, that declaration probably represents what Starfleet likes to see itself as. To be fair to him, playing the black ops game was what led to Picard's capture by the Cardassians. Also, seeing in loco what militarism might look like probably reinforced his displeasure with purely military affairs, though, when the chips are down, he gives everything he got. It is just that fighting is not his cup of Earl Grey tea. It is also interesting that the Cardassian torture did not rock him as much as the assimilation experience did. He never behaved towards the Cardassians as he did towards the Borges in First Contact. Also, Starfleet security problems are very old. Kirk lost his ship for O'Reilly, Khan, space hippies, the Kelvans, a mad female scientist, alien spores and Spock. Not to mention that it is not often that someone he sent to the sickbay or the brig actually ends up there. Instead of going through further militarization, Starfleet should just copy the security procedures of any reasonably successful 20th Century company.
@@thiagodeandrade7081 that's very possible, that he may be willing and able to fight, but perhaps just doesn't find it stimulating. But honestly with respect to this test...I think the more likely answer is that he's probably seen quantum torpedoes explode thousands of times, and watching one explode with a slightly higher accuracy in yet another asteroid field probably WOULD be boring to any seasoned starfleet captain. Realistically that may be as exciting to watch as fine-tuning the engine to squeeze out an extra one percent efficiency or something (which I'm sure engineering will find fascinating). Its just that us, as viewers, can't comprehend that because we so rarely see phasers and torpedoes in action. I would rather think that if you put Picard into a true battlefield simulation he would find it plentifully engaging. He did come up with his own battlefield maneuver after all.
Picard and Riker's disdain for testing the ships weapons, which they might need at any moment to defend themselves and others, was poured on a little heavy in this scene. TNG's anti-militarism was always silly and nonsensical. Starfleet is at least partially a military organization. If their attitude was typical it reveals an organization in deep denial about itself.
They were always so against making a battle fleet, though youd think a civilian/military distinction would have been a good idea. Sure would have helped against the Borg... i mean, they didnt even have good pla etary defense. Just shows the arrogance of the feds ideology.
@@SiXiam Tedious but necessary. The command officers set the tone for the crew and this was bad leadership. TNG could be all over the place on this aspect of Starfleet. In The Neutral Zone episode Picard was downright callous towards the revived humans Data rescued because it complicated his mission with the Romulans, a military attitude if I ever saw one. Then in this episode and Peak Performance he was completely against Starfleet's defense duties, denying they were a military organization in the latter, even though canon already established they were somewhat military.
@@benmaharaj6854 This was also season 7, so he knew and trusted his crew. Plus it wasn't a situation with the Romulans coming back. Just routine stuff. Also he has ran away on missions during other times when things were boring.
0:12 I like the way Worf is bigging himself up, completely blowing smoke up his own ass while the rest of the bridge crew really couldn't give a shit - they just want the tests done. Its even more amusing when one of Worf's 'improved' torpedoes goes off on a tangent and does its own thing - fuck following orders 🤣🤣Worf's modifications were a complete failure.
Everything about this clip is golden. Picard's obvious disinterest with his upgrades. Worf fucking up his chance to win daddy's approval. Riker twisting the knife with his snark. A pregnant tabby cat named Spot. A cartoonish stereotype of introverts with esoteric cat knowledge. Data's suspicions about the unknown cat father. The fact that there are at least a dozen other cats on the Enterprise, which are apparently no longer spayed or neutered in the 24th century (probably because the Price-is-Right stopped airing after the Federation outlawed money on Earth or whatever).
I think one could reasonably argue that spaying/neutering animals is morally wrong in the same way eating them is, and they realized this in the future. People just convinced themselves that its morally acceptable because it reduces chance of testicular cancer and overall aggressiveness (of course it does, you removed their sex organs!), when the same reasoning somehow does not apply or seem moral to a human. Why? Because humans are deemed "valuable" or "conscious" when animals are not, even though in many cases animals clearly display many similar traits of thoughtfulness and emotional concern for their owners. In the more civilized world of Star Trek, they may have figured this out and adopted much stronger animals rights policies.
So, a hugely destructive photon torpedo is hurtling off into the depths of space towards who-knows-what and Data takes this crucial time to chit chat with the babysitter. Android priorities right there.
and better than star trek generations film i might add that movie definitely needs a reboot dont you agree with Klingon cardassian and Romulan with marktok gowron etc.
Problem with taking paternity tests for cats. Females can have kittens from multiple males in a single litter. Once had a cat who gave birth to around 7 kittens and all of them were completely different. One kitten we were pretty sure, was some sort of wild cat breed. It looked very different and acted very different from most cats.
Another case when the producers simply ignored their own lore. Photon torpedos are loaded with an ever-so-slight overage of antimatter, so they will naturally self-destruct when they run out of power for the matter-antimatter isloation fields.
It might not just be that though. In my mind's lore there maybe a eager Romulan or Cardassian in a cloaked ship waiting at the weapons range to nab starfleet technology for reverse engineering.
Barack Obama is famously nerdy, but I never knew until now the subtle shade he threw at Mitt Romney when he said "Please proceed, Governor" in about the same tone as Picard said "Sounds fascinating, Mr Worf. Please proceed."
This was actually good for Worf. Failure is part of how people grow. You learn more that way. It's not like Picard re-assigned him afterwards and there was no mention of further tests being forever banned. Instead, Worf will be analyzing what happened and learning from it to figure out what went wrong. He did deserve some of the hazing he after he talked it up a bit, but if the test was a complete success, I have a feeling he wouldn't have gotten a lot of recognition from the crew for it which is the only real crime here. You would think that after encountering something like the Borg that they would be more welcoming of weapon improvements but I guess they haven't really learned what Q tried to teach them back in season 2.
It's not really believable that they would let Worf tinker with targeting system upgrades. That sort of thing would be controlled centrally by starfleet and multiple experts working with defined processes over many months.
@@Holdfast if you're talking like a real life equivalent, then yes, regular sailors would not be tinkering with guidance systems of their missiles. But there are many ways that sailors innovate their ships, so it is believable that there is some room for experimentation aboard a federation vessel.
An object in motion stays in motion until it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. Or it might drift for 10,000 years and hit some unlucky SOB. If you pull the trigger on this thing, you're ruining somebody's day somewhere and sometime.
Ah, asteroid fields in science fiction. In real life asteroid fields of any meaningful age would be little more then pebbles. A bunch of rock crashing into each other for millions of years will do that. Our own asteroid field only has a handful of objects of any real size anymore.
It's been a while - was there a connection between the failing torpedo and the "Genesis" incident, or was this completely unrelated, and Enterprise was saved from disaster by sheer dumb luck?
@@winstonsmith935 1. Check your spelling. 2. Asteroids by definition can be as small as 1 meter. 3. They call them asteroids in the clip. 4. You either don't know your video game history or can't take a joke, or both.
Love Data’s protective Dad mode, especially his determination to find out who knocked up his cat.
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LOL, Data 🤨
@@movieclipz1441 I see you posted 2 weeks ago. Sad to see trash thrown on the streets.
There's a Caitian working in hydroponics...
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"We'll have to retrieve the torpedo manually."
"There's no need for that, sir, it is coming back."
Good thing the shield is last on Wolf's enhancement list so he haven't got around to it yet
Everyone does seem pissed to have to deal with Worf's test.
is it me or did that torpedo have "mk 14" written on the side?
@@rickbirch4090 failure is like onions?
Few minutes into the series. Lost a missile, a captain leaving the ship for a chase and reprimands mr Worf on his way out. The day couldn’t start any better.
They used to have Redshirts for that sort of thing. You may have noticed that they still DO send the Redshirts out on such missions...
Well, you know what they say about pride...
I like in this part how it shows Barclay acting normal and calm showing that he can be that way. The fact that he knew about cats i like to imagine instilled more confidence in Barclay taking care of his cat.
Indeed, I agree. However, the nature in how he was handling Spot, does not inspire my confidence that he's sensitive to Spot's pregnant condition. You should never handle a pregnant cat this way.
@@TheWu1976 true but the actress that played spot was not actually pregnant nor female for that mater and they had to try to keep spot under control to get the shot done.
Cats and weirdos go together like peanut butter and chocolate. I would know, caring for a cat for 14+ years.
I love how none of them gave a crap about Worf's upgrades but he was so proud. Right up until the one went awol.
That wasn't Data who said "She is to you", that was Brent letting his disdain for the cat out lol.
I'm pretty sure spot was a different cat in every episode she appears in XD
@@human-tk2fo There were indeed several Spots.
Poor Worf, finding bugs is why we run tests in the first place. Public shade from Picard is pretty rough.
Reminds me of Mass Effect where in the background an officer is chewing out one of his crew for "winging it" when shooting off a nuclear warhead. He told him how when it misses its target it will fly into space till it hits something, it could be tomorrow, next year or 1000 years, but someone at sometime might have a very bad day when hit with a rouge nuke and this is why we use our target systems.
I am reminded of a phrase I read many years ago about software testing. "A successful software test is one that breaks the software"
Quality control is not his forte.
@@Dhips. Which is making a mountain out of a molehill 'cause space is so terribly empty that, if it's not heading directly for a planet or something, then for all intents and purposes it will never hit anything, ever. By the time 1000 years have passed, a nuke would have long been rendered inoperative and the missile becomes little more than a fancy space rock.
This photon torpedo is more problematic, though, because it's not just moving in a straight line, but rather being guided by a malfunctioning guidance system. There's no telling when it might try to hit something or what that something will be.
We generally don't run tests with live nukes going at warp nine. A Photon torpedo has the energy of 14000 Hiroshima bombs.
Worf: super proud of his work enhancing the targeting system.
Picard: "Boring, get on with it Klingon".
"Have you given a name to your new guidance system, Mr Worf?"
"Yes. I have decided to name it, "Macguffin."
Since Spot was not spayed and the father was not neutered, we must consider the possibility that all archived video of the Price Is Right had been destroyed sometime during the Third World War.
I love the Riker/Worf big brother little brother like relationship lol. You know there's mutual respect but the way Riker takes friendly jabs at Worf is hilarious 🤣
What I love is how Picard just appears from behind Worf
"That sounds fascinating" he says with a complete lack of enthusiasm.
@@FreejackVesa At least Worf didn't experiment with small talk like Data did. Or did he?😁
Love Picard, he basically says *“You really F'ed up”* to Worf in the most politely worded way of it expected of a Starfleet officer
But his screw up let the captain take the shuttle out for a joy ride into a asteroid belt!
I love how proud Worf is of himself. I wish they just ended the scene there. Let him have it, he works hard!
0:18 It's blowing my mind how Picard just kind of materializes out of nowhere from behind Worf...
"Replicator, captain, Picard, Bored."
"Very very sneaky sir "
"Who is the father?"
"I do not know but I plan to go full Maury until I deduced the identity of the father."
Boots you ARE NOT the father !
Data really does love his cat, he is more human than he thinks 🤗
True that ability to love was especially evident when he created his daughter Lal. It goes to show the Love is more than just an emotion
People think Data had no emotions, but Data had emotions, but they were limited.
When Lal said she loved Data as she was dying, Data said something like I wish I could feel your love. That broke Data's heart. He felt emotions.
@@grundian I remember this. One of the many situations where Data displays care and concern and goes to great lengths for others. We've seen Data's lightning fingers before, but it was described by this man in such a lyrical fashion as to make one wonder, is it truly always Logic that compels Data, or is something else at work?
@@Locutus she responded that she would love enough for the both of them💔 I remember..
@@ozymandias1758 Absolutely. Even something like that, would break a heart like Data's. He may not fully appreciate it, or understand it, but he did feel it.
Way to motivate your subordinates. Act bored when they are demonstrating a new project they've put a lot of time and effort into.
Yes! That was really shitty on their part. Worf must felt humiliated which is one of the gravest offenses to a Klingon.
Yeah I kind of thought that too.
For all the praise Picard is given by fans (by me as well) for his great leadership, that wasn't his finest moment.
But to be fair, he is only human & even a Captain can get a bit bored & tired of the "work day routine" at times.
Let me just say that Worf is treated like a dumbass for most of the whole series. I bet that is intentional.
He probably was bored. It sounds like this was one in a long line of "tests" they had performed with many more to come, which is why he decided to appoint himself the one to retrieve the torpedo. He needed a break. Don't think his boredom or irritation was necessarily directed at Worf.
@@sharkdentures3247 I don't know which episode this is, but if it's earlier in the series it makes sense. Picard was a bit more stern and humorless at first, but becomes warmer and more personable later on. According to Marina Sirtis (Troi) Patrick Stewart himself started out as a sort of rigid stage actor, professional but very serious minded, but eventually eased up a bit and developed a sense of humor.
I love this scene with Barclay and Data's fussing over Spot 😁
The only thing that could've made this scene perfect would be if, at 2:30, Barclay had said "Has Spot umm...picked a spot?" 😂
Data: Please be sure Spot does not turn into an iguana while I am gone. Thank you.
Has anyone noticed how clam and normal Barclay is around Data? He doesn't stutter as much when speaking to him.
Much like in the way Barclay is more confident around holographic people because they aren't real and therfore don't judge you, I wonder if he feels the same way around Data because he's "not real" and knows that Data doesn't judge him as well.
This sounds like the Genesis of a hilarious episode
Brent Spiner hates the cat so much he gave it to Mad Dog Murdoch
I thought he gave it to Howling Mad Murdoch
Barclay: You have nothing to worry about, Sir.
Data: Hmmm. 🧐🤔
3:10
Running DNA analysis on the offspring was pure futuristic science fiction when this aired in March of 1994.
Now a common procedure.
Commercial DNA analysis has been available since 1987.
@@stargazer7644 like many inventions, just because a book says it was invented in a specific year, doesn't mean it was widely known and widely available. The Internet for example was "invented" in 1967, but wasn't really known about by the general public until the mid 90s.
To the point of charging a fee to the owner of a pet that left a deposit on the apartment complex premises .
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This is not the only one.
@@deltaray3 Nobody said anything about "a book says" something. Commercial DNA analysis was available to anyone who wanted to pay for it in 1987. That wasn't when they learned to do it, that's when the first commercial lab offered it as a regular service. If anyone can pay to get it done, that's pretty much exactly NOT "pure futuristic science fiction." Whether it was commonly done or not has nothing to do with it. Your Internet example is also off-base. The general public didn't really know about the Internet until the 90s because it wasn't available to the general public before then. Prior to that access to ARPANET and NSFnet was restricted to military, government, and research/educational institutions on invitation by the govt. No commercial entities (ISPs) were allowed.
@@stargazer7644 I know that. I was actually there, but I'm saying that just because.... you know what, nevermind. You're right, now you can feel better about winning a pointless argument.
Their leisurely approach towards a dangerous threat is astounding. They act like they have all the time in the world. 😮
I cannot tell you how long I sat here confused and rewatching the video trying to figure out what constitutes an "Ashtray" torpedo
That last shot of the shuttle departing from the Enterprise is beautiful
I absolutely love Spot.
I always wondered where the heck a suitable tomcat strayed around on the Enterprise... 😂
Jeffries’s tubes
they keep the rat population in check, just like on any ship
Yeah, how could they allow unspayed or unneutered cats on a starship? Forget the procreation problem, there are also behavioral and sanitary problems. Those toms would be spraying their funk all over the ship!
@@bridgecross Yes indeed! 😹
@@bridgecross How they kept their ships clean is never touched upon. I presume they just beam everything that isn't ship into the protomatter tanks for use in the replicators?
Even the torpedo denied Worf.
They always went so far out of their way to make Worf look like an idiot, unless he was dealing with other Klingons, who were even dumber than him.
I love how Spot was suddenly a girl in this episode
The guidence system of the wepon, did not fail. The target was destroyed by the other torpedos. It didnt exist when its coordinates were targeted
I always thought Spot was a cute kitty.
Just like a modern job. Management doesn't pay attention to the effort put in to a project but the second something goes wrong, they're on the spot.
A ship’s Captain would never go off on such an errand. Especially as malfunctioning weapons have a tendency to act in unpredictable ways.
You have a crew of something like 2,000 and you expect me to believe that none of them are qualified for ordinance disposal?
@@Shaun_Jones well none of them have plot armour. So it's actually considerate of Picard to go himself, rather than send some random red shirt to their doom.
13 cats and we never see a single dog???
When my cat had kittens, I was running around like a headless chicken waiving my arms in the air. I called my girlfriend to come home from work. She was like, shut up panicking you big idiot. The cat will know what to do. She gave birth to 4 kittens. We found good homes for them all.
1:20 "Hey, Captain"
It's a good thing Barclay wasn't around to take care of Spot and her kittens, considering what he became.
Spot got on the bridge one time. He looked right at Picard and said, YO you're in my chair.
The shade thrown at Worf by the writers...
Picard is so unreasonably bored by all things military / defense related
He just wants his stint in Starfleet to be over so he can go back to his vineyard.
He's just supporting his declaration from season 2 that Starfleet is not a military organization. It is really crazy when you think he still has this attitude after the ship was easily captured by the Ferengi in old birds of prey and he endured torture for weeks by the Cardassians just a year before this event. We won't bother mentioning the Borg since they never seemed to care enough to ever send more than one ship against the Federation. Then there was that time his Lothario first officer brought aboard that game that brainwashed the entire crew and nearly all of Starfleet forcing Wesley to save the day yet again.
@@Restitutor_Orbis_214 I always point to that declaration when people say that this or that in Trek is unmilitary. Even if it is innacurate, that declaration probably represents what Starfleet likes to see itself as.
To be fair to him, playing the black ops game was what led to Picard's capture by the Cardassians. Also, seeing in loco what militarism might look like probably reinforced his displeasure with purely military affairs, though, when the chips are down, he gives everything he got. It is just that fighting is not his cup of Earl Grey tea. It is also interesting that the Cardassian torture did not rock him as much as the assimilation experience did. He never behaved towards the Cardassians as he did towards the Borges in First Contact.
Also, Starfleet security problems are very old. Kirk lost his ship for O'Reilly, Khan, space hippies, the Kelvans, a mad female scientist, alien spores and Spock. Not to mention that it is not often that someone he sent to the sickbay or the brig actually ends up there. Instead of going through further militarization, Starfleet should just copy the security procedures of any reasonably successful 20th Century company.
He's a diplomat after all
@@thiagodeandrade7081 that's very possible, that he may be willing and able to fight, but perhaps just doesn't find it stimulating. But honestly with respect to this test...I think the more likely answer is that he's probably seen quantum torpedoes explode thousands of times, and watching one explode with a slightly higher accuracy in yet another asteroid field probably WOULD be boring to any seasoned starfleet captain. Realistically that may be as exciting to watch as fine-tuning the engine to squeeze out an extra one percent efficiency or something (which I'm sure engineering will find fascinating). Its just that us, as viewers, can't comprehend that because we so rarely see phasers and torpedoes in action.
I would rather think that if you put Picard into a true battlefield simulation he would find it plentifully engaging. He did come up with his own battlefield maneuver after all.
Picard and Riker's disdain for testing the ships weapons, which they might need at any moment to defend themselves and others, was poured on a little heavy in this scene. TNG's anti-militarism was always silly and nonsensical. Starfleet is at least partially a military organization. If their attitude was typical it reveals an organization in deep denial about itself.
They were always so against making a battle fleet, though youd think a civilian/military distinction would have been a good idea. Sure would have helped against the Borg... i mean, they didnt even have good pla etary defense. Just shows the arrogance of the feds ideology.
Many episodes Sisko looked absolutely sick and tired of running battle drills. It can be tedious.
@@SiXiam Tedious but necessary. The command officers set the tone for the crew and this was bad leadership. TNG could be all over the place on this aspect of Starfleet. In The Neutral Zone episode Picard was downright callous towards the revived humans Data rescued because it complicated his mission with the Romulans, a military attitude if I ever saw one. Then in this episode and Peak Performance he was completely against Starfleet's defense duties, denying they were a military organization in the latter, even though canon already established they were somewhat military.
@@benmaharaj6854 This was also season 7, so he knew and trusted his crew. Plus it wasn't a situation with the Romulans coming back. Just routine stuff. Also he has ran away on missions during other times when things were boring.
Trying to pretend _Starfleet General Order 24_ doesn't exist.
Was it a running gag to always shit on and shut down worf. Happy they moved him to ds9 where he was respected.
Imagine what kind of war Worf could start with torpedoes like that!
lol. The collateral damage caused by Worf's torpedoes would be through the roof.
When he says "She is to you" that's the closest I've seen Brent Spiner get to breaking character. Doesn't sound like Data at all.
0:12 I like the way Worf is bigging himself up, completely blowing smoke up his own ass while the rest of the bridge crew really couldn't give a shit - they just want the tests done. Its even more amusing when one of Worf's 'improved' torpedoes goes off on a tangent and does its own thing - fuck following orders 🤣🤣Worf's modifications were a complete failure.
Everything about this clip is golden. Picard's obvious disinterest with his upgrades. Worf fucking up his chance to win daddy's approval. Riker twisting the knife with his snark. A pregnant tabby cat named Spot. A cartoonish stereotype of introverts with esoteric cat knowledge. Data's suspicions about the unknown cat father. The fact that there are at least a dozen other cats on the Enterprise, which are apparently no longer spayed or neutered in the 24th century (probably because the Price-is-Right stopped airing after the Federation outlawed money on Earth or whatever).
I think one could reasonably argue that spaying/neutering animals is morally wrong in the same way eating them is, and they realized this in the future. People just convinced themselves that its morally acceptable because it reduces chance of testicular cancer and overall aggressiveness (of course it does, you removed their sex organs!), when the same reasoning somehow does not apply or seem moral to a human. Why? Because humans are deemed "valuable" or "conscious" when animals are not, even though in many cases animals clearly display many similar traits of thoughtfulness and emotional concern for their owners. In the more civilized world of Star Trek, they may have figured this out and adopted much stronger animals rights policies.
I love cats.
So, a hugely destructive photon torpedo is hurtling off into the depths of space towards who-knows-what and Data takes this crucial time to chit chat with the babysitter.
Android priorities right there.
Great video great movie Star Trek
and better than star trek generations film i might add that movie definitely needs a reboot dont you agree with Klingon cardassian and Romulan with marktok gowron etc.
I kept reading it as "Ashtray torpedo" and couldn't figure out why it was called that in the video
Problem with taking paternity tests for cats. Females can have kittens from multiple males in a single litter.
Once had a cat who gave birth to around 7 kittens and all of them were completely different. One kitten we were pretty sure, was some sort of wild cat breed. It looked very different and acted very different from most cats.
Holy crap I learned something today!
@@VanderbiltMr I know a lot of facts about biology.
Another case when the producers simply ignored their own lore. Photon torpedos are loaded with an ever-so-slight overage of antimatter, so they will naturally self-destruct when they run out of power for the matter-antimatter isloation fields.
but this one will last 10% longer.
Also you might have a harder time working out what went wrong with it, if it detonates.
It might not just be that though. In my mind's lore there maybe a eager Romulan or Cardassian in a cloaked ship waiting at the weapons range to nab starfleet technology for reverse engineering.
Where did you get this from? It's probably not even canon.
What was his intention upon finding the feline dad, get him for kitten support? And did Spot object to the encounter at all?
Who's to say Spot didn't initiate it?
probably a 10 page report on the likely health of the kittens
“Goes?” Grammar is part of this hobby.
that one big shuttlecraft
Haha. I half expected the torpedo to develop sentience and refuse to destroy itself.
All other aspects of this episode aside, cats are a good judge of character.
Worf proudly took ownership of the guidance enhancements. Not a good move *before* the test!
Eu nunca consegui assistir a todas as temporadas; um dia assisto tudo! Amava demais❤
Everybody shits on Worf.
Sounds like an interesting title to a potential Star Trek spin-off show.
"Captain Picard and me..."
Yes, a grammatically correct phrase.
The whole crew can barely contain their contempt for all things Warf.
Oh man, I just clicked on this video thinking it said ashtray torpedo 🤣🤣🤣... I'm just like WTF are they talking about 🤣
Barack Obama is famously nerdy, but I never knew until now the subtle shade he threw at Mitt Romney when he said "Please proceed, Governor" in about the same tone as Picard said "Sounds fascinating, Mr Worf. Please proceed."
Well of course the bloody cat only gets on with the two most neurodivergent members of the crew.
12 un neutered male cats on board?!? Man , that’s gotta reek!
Worf later took out his frustrations on Ensign Dern
where can i see the full show ?
Genesis. This episode gave me nightmares as a child lol Easily the scariest episode of any TV show ever.
meanwhile the stray torpedo made it to the Triangulum galaxy before they got their asses into the shuttlecraft.
There's thirteen cats on the Enterprise? 🤣
Somehow makes the thought of the Enterprise's destruction less tragic and more funny to me. lol
We come in peace..
Barkley infected with Taxoplamosis: Confirmed!
A stray torpedo or a torpedo thats gone astray.
Wait. What? Doctor Crusher directed this episode?
You go girl!
Yep, her one and only go as director.
Yeah, cats don't usually like broccoli (or brussel sprouts, just ask Smudge 🤷🏼♂️)🤓😎✌🏻
"...several days for Captain Picard and me to complete..."? WHAT?!!! Data comimtted a grammatical error?
Nah, it's correct. Cross out "Captain Picard and" to test it
Bob Barker apparently isn’t in Starfleet
Hasn't Data once asked Worf to take care of Spot for him? What happened?
He turned out to be allergic to Spot.
@@AC4ace Thanks.
He fed him.
@@michael719 I guess Data wants the full service now.
"I will feed him."
I didn't know that Boeing made photon torpedoes'.
Barclay - Umm, Data, wasn't Spot a male last year?
Captain Picard and *I* .
This was actually good for Worf. Failure is part of how people grow. You learn more that way. It's not like Picard re-assigned him afterwards and there was no mention of further tests being forever banned. Instead, Worf will be analyzing what happened and learning from it to figure out what went wrong. He did deserve some of the hazing he after he talked it up a bit, but if the test was a complete success, I have a feeling he wouldn't have gotten a lot of recognition from the crew for it which is the only real crime here. You would think that after encountering something like the Borg that they would be more welcoming of weapon improvements but I guess they haven't really learned what Q tried to teach them back in season 2.
It's not really believable that they would let Worf tinker with targeting system upgrades. That sort of thing would be controlled centrally by starfleet and multiple experts working with defined processes over many months.
@@Holdfast if you're talking like a real life equivalent, then yes, regular sailors would not be tinkering with guidance systems of their missiles. But there are many ways that sailors innovate their ships, so it is believable that there is some room for experimentation aboard a federation vessel.
Poor Worf... he, Troy and Riker are aways the ones transformed into plot motivations through sheer incompetence.
By the way, the asteroid field is DENSE, but somehow Worfs torpedo managed to miss every single asteroid.
Again, poor Worf.
Episode ?
I read ashtray and thought of the joke as useless as an ashtray on a Harley and thought that's a weird joke for star trek.
How he kept his job is ridiculous
You would THINK by that time in the future, SOME sort of birth control for cats would have been invented, neutering or not.
Except ginger cats are rarely female.
Several days to find one torpedo? Just what is the range on those things?
An object in motion stays in motion until it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. Or it might drift for 10,000 years and hit some unlucky SOB. If you pull the trigger on this thing, you're ruining somebody's day somewhere and sometime.
Ah, asteroid fields in science fiction. In real life asteroid fields of any meaningful age would be little more then pebbles. A bunch of rock crashing into each other for millions of years will do that. Our own asteroid field only has a handful of objects of any real size anymore.
episode title?
It's been a while - was there a connection between the failing torpedo and the "Genesis" incident, or was this completely unrelated, and Enterprise was saved from disaster by sheer dumb luck?
Plot device to get then off the ship.
Playing space rocks, a video game by Warf
It's called Asteroids.
@@AC4ace no Astoria’s are a lot bigger, rocks sounds better.
@@winstonsmith935 1. Check your spelling. 2. Asteroids by definition can be as small as 1 meter. 3. They call them asteroids in the clip. 4. You either don't know your video game history or can't take a joke, or both.
@@AC4ace Well then, they must be Asteroids hanging out of my ass, not haemorrhoids?
@@winstonsmith935 Not worth my time.
What is an ash tray torpedo? … wait, nevermind.