Never underestimate the pettiness of professionals, especially engineers. In the 1850's, when railroad director Amosa Stone found out that two different engineers, one of whom was on his railroad's payroll, wanted to make necessary alterations to his bridge design over Ashtabula Creek, he fired both of them and built the bridge himself his way. 20 years later that bridge collapsed in a snow storm, taking with it a locomotive, 16 passenger coaches, and over 100 lives. Amosa Stone never took responsibility for his failure in designing that bridge.
I like to remember that kind of story whenever somebody asks why so many RPGs have different stats for Intelligence and Wisdom. There are plenty of real-world examples of people having an abundance of one and none of the other.
I remember hearing a story on an archaeological dig about this one academic dig director who was working around the area adjacent to stonehenge. He had this "rock-solid" theory and was persistent about it, but then one of his dig team found some small features which threw his theory out the window (or to be more precise, which would have forced him to re-think certain aspects of his rock-solid theory), but instead of re-thinking and repostulating with the new information at hand he removed the features from the site during a lunch break before his excavation team could record it. No record = no proof that it existed, no proof = nothing to contradict his theory. Like I said I only head about this, and given the nature of all sites around stonehenge its hard to imagine... but i've worked with people who did similar sort of things or who acted in these very abrasive sort of ways, and in doing so they destroyed sites or made them an embaressmet that we no longer even talk about. Not only can these people be petty, but they will sow distrust and deflect the blame onto anyone but themselves.
Wow. I never heard about that. Wonder if lack of maintenance had anything to do with it bec it could be a factor too, but nonetheless. Some people can't get past their own ego. It's a shame. Sometimes the consequences are catastrophic.
yeah where'd that go? I understand the youtube version can't have it, but the dailymotion version doesn't either.. and it's a separate file since it has actual footage, so why not let it have the music?
I hope he'll still be able to use the songs. It's hard not to think of his Reviews if I hear the songs from them irl. I also wonder what song he'll use for Lower Decks.
They could probably made Leah so much more reasonable simply by having state how upsetting it is to have put so much time and effort into making that engine, just for one guy to come along and make it better.
Every time I see a trek character in civilian clothes, it looks like the wizards and witches of Harry Potter (the books, not the movie) who have no clue how muggles actually dress.
I just rewatched this episode last week... I gotta say, what would really have helped Geordi is if he'd had their dinner in Ten Forward ( a nice public, neutral location) and explained EXACTLY how he came to know all about her. With an emphasis on, "please don't get mad... this is actually kinda silly... we have all kinds of crazy things going on aboard this ship. And... um... I used the holodeck to recreate the original design lab... and... um... it recreated you, too. So I was hoping I could be friends with the real Dr Brahms..."
Thinking about Geordys line about how he's never written-up reports regarding his work to the Enterprise, that in itself could have been used as a reason for Brahms cold bitchiness towards him. After all Geordy is an engineer who's so by-the-books that he doesn't even implement buffer time (if the work will take an hour he'll say that it'll take an hour to do), yet when it comes to his own modifications of the ship, he doesn't write up about them, instead letting others do so which then requires the actual designer of the engine to come out an appraise them. Now Brahms coming out to appraise them would happen anyway, and there's no pretending that proffesionals can't be petty, but looking at those events from her point of view she would see that some engineers made modifications to the engine but has neglected to explain what or why. Those modifications could be the deal-breaker for the Galaxy class, yet this enginner hasn't justified anything, so from Brahms point of view he would have been messing around with her engine. The entire plot could have been built around that. Geordy expecting to see the holo-girl of his dreams, but who is instead faced with the reality of Leah, and Leah expecting to see this cavalear Enginner whose withholding vital information regarding the galaxy-class's engines. It would literally be a story about 2 people expecting one thing and getting the other..... but nope, just make her a bitch. :S I mean, I know television (not just trek) has this issues of showing specialists in their fields being anything but unplesante (i'm looking at you shelldon cooper) but its a trope that needs to end.
You missed one thing that got me They need wesley back, who knows physics. Braums: the antimatter ratio isn't as rich as Starfleet specifications Gordi: to high a ratio is inefficient Wesley: It was a trick question. There is only one ratio for matter antimatter 1:1
Either statement can be true, but there's plenty of reasons to run rich or lean even from our real world perspective. Running an excess of regular matter can be a safety requirement, if you don't perfectly controll all the particals in the chamber then you will likely get stray antimatter left over from any given cycle, this either effects the next cycles ratio or exposes the matter of the chamber to erosion and radiation damage over time. So you inject at least enough excess matter to react with any stray antimatter. This excess matter can also be the source of the warp plasma, there in great excess to absorbe and transmit the energy of the reaction. I think warp plasma must have some properties that allow it to absorb neutrinos since they make up some large portion of the energy released. If this is the case then how lean you can run your core depends on how exacting your control is over the individual particles of both matter and antimatter. To rectify the apparent contradiction we can easily assume that these people from the far future talking about principals we simply can't grasp are sharing some unspoken context in both scenarios that we are not privy to. Assuming the D has a fairly advanced control system that allows them to ensure within a very small margin of error near perfect reaction efficiency it may well be that Westley was talking about the innermost zone of reaction where the ratio is effectively maintained at a 50/50 split, while Geordy and Brahms were talking about the overall ratio of the entire chamber including the likely presence of a barrier of regular matter for safeties sake and the portion of matter present in the form of plasma. As a car guy, mechanic and a novice engineer by hobby I compare it to the various styles of combustion technologies used in cars. Today stratified charge technology has become mainstream and allows the overall fuel ratio to be leaner than traditionally possible by making a rich ratio in a part of the chamber where the ignition event starts with most of the chamber being very lean. This allows for the benefits of lean burn without the destructive side effects and can only be done because of modern computer controls.
@@DrewLSsix not with matter antimatter. We aren't talking about gasoline and running it a bit rich. Matter and antimatter are used up equally. 1.1 grams of antimatter mixed with 1 gram of matter results in the energy of 1:1 and leaves 0.1 grams of antimatter left over.
@@DrewLSsix should have reread your statement. Yeah, a little extra matter to be sure no antimatter is left over would be wise. But it won't affect the energy output beyond ensuring the antimatter is fully used.
Honestly the romance angle of La Forge towards Brahms simply wasn't necessary. They could have easily played off the idea of him knowing that she was married while still genuinely wanting to be friends with her and get the chance to bond over the Enterprise D. She could still be cold and clearly resistant to even that, with a subtle resentment about how his changes to the engine greatly differ from the research and especially when he explains that they came from experience in the field . He could eventually get upset at this and accuse her of being unable to get past his alterations and see his attempts at being friendly while she in turn could find out about his studies of her biography (no holodeck program reveal) and say he's just angry that she doesn't measure up to his idealized idea and fully embrace what he's done. And then after the blowup there can be an acknowledgement of their respective issues, with him admitting he invested a lot in the fantasy of Leah as a friend with shared interests and that she admits she's really upset that the changed Enterprise really is a better functioning vessel which stings given how much she invested in the ship as one of her crowing achievements. Its no masterpiece but it would make for an easier watch.
It's funny, the fact that he never looked her up well enough to know that she was married speaks VOLUMES about geordi. on one hand he wasn't so obsessed with her that he looked up her records.. on the other hand maybe he didn't wanna know.
(5:38) It always cracked me up that the prop department always made the _installed_ dilithium crystals always look like someone had just smashed a geode with a sledgehammer and dumped the resulting shards into the warp core. I don't think Trek was the only show to do that sort of thing, but I'll bet you they did it the most often. Worst offending episode? "Peak Performance" where Wesley Crusher coaxes chunks of shattered crystals to function in the warp core of the Hathaway before they take part in war games with Enterprise. :P
Dialog suggests that the armature that holds the crystals needs to articulate them in a precise and unique to each crystal way to make the things work. It's kinda a neat contrivance in a universe where nearly anything else can be made to order, not only do the ships run on some valuable and rare thing that can't be replicated but these things have to be used as they are requiring substantial investments in time and effort to be used.
I agree, they went too far in making the real Leah be the polar opposite of what Geordi was hoping for. They should have gone with a slightly lighter touch. Geordi is also far too determined (or clueless) here. He should have gone slowly and stuck to business at first. Well, at least they made up and got married in an alternate future 😊
It’s weird that more people in the 24th century are not more aware of the danger of digital fantasies, the concept has been around at least since the 20th century, but even someone like geordi still act naive about it.
8 out of 10, because the Actors did their very best efforts with what the writers could pack into a TV episode length story... How would you re-write it ? It has to fit in the time slot, so if your going to change things or add things, you will have to cut other things out too. It could have been TWO episodes, one that is strictly focused on real human feelings and relationships vs holodeck simulations... A deep topic. and a second episode of Enterprise vs a whole Civilization of Space Perogies. And not 'animal whale' space perogies, actual sentient beings that have constructed a huge city in the asteroid belt... a city large enough that the Enterprise would fit inside one apartment ! :-)
I always got a kick out of 'Junior'. like to think that at least _some_ of the crew were thrilled to have a baby- a multi-ton space-ravioli-slug of a baby- hitching onto the Enterprise. They could say 'the ship had a baby- we're calling it Junior' and Picard tries to stew and be stern over it, but that means nothing because, you know, space-slug.
The thing is, Dr. Brahms came into it being told her work had been improved on, which she took as an insult, as if starfleet was saying her work wasn't good enough. Her attitude wasn't hostility, it wasn't arrogance, it was defensiveness.
I never liked this episode. Was there EVER any sort of satisfactory explanation given for why the computer got her personality so UTTERLY wrong in Booby Trap?
It was like "accuracy can only be ascertained to 86%" or someshit. I think Brahms was just drunk on the day she attended the conference that the computer guessed her personality from.
I think it was based on her personality but since she was desinged to be an assistant, the holographic version would have been more helpful and friendly than the real thing.
Consider every A.I. personality running in ST:TNG is actually the Ship's computer itself, loading up a neural net NPC of some standard format configuration. An assistant, helpful, interactive, supportive, and perhaps keyed to match Gordi's personell records too: A 'fantasy woman', not completely unexpected from a Holodeck, considering a good deal of the content data found on the internet here in the 2000s. Also, the Ship's computer, from it's point of view, is optimizing the performance of the 'Gordi' component, maximizing his interaction, inventiveness, and output. From the ship's computer's point of view, the living beings on the Enterprise are components, just as any valve, or generator, or engine... On the Holodeck, Gordi was working on improving the reactors, but the Ship's A.I. was working on improving it's Chief Engineer component.
OK sometihng has been bugging me about these videos lately, no actual video in them. Just saw there are two versions on the SF debris site, so I guess it's a youtube thing...
You're the first person I've met that acknowledged that Brahms was a right b.... jerk... as soon as she stepped foot on the ship. It wasn't like Geordi stalked her. This is the equivalent of looking at someone's LinkedIn then bringing up Texas A&M because you knew they went there. ...and he didn't delete the marriage from her profile or adjust it to make her a photonic flesh light. The computer didn't add that she was married. ... She's mad like he stalked her... then more mad that he didn't stalk her good enough to know she was married? Can't have it both ways.
*NO.* Get it in your head, this was _not_ considered universally unacceptable or even all that offputting just a _few_ years ago. I am SO sick of people saying shit like that, and acting like the TNG episodes that bring up the concept are somehow endorsing that insane post-2018ish attitude. The whole point of Hollow Pursuits (that was the title, right?) is that everyone thinks it's healthy and fine, until they see _themselves_ and then they become hypocrites. You aren't meant to agree with them, and NOBODY did until you people started steamrolling every opinion that doesn't fuel outrage.
@@KairuHakubi You seem defensive and argumentative about the idea that someone could find this creepy. Many real girls would, and for good reason. As a guy I'd find it creepy too unless I knew the person very well and even that is a maybe.
I know an actual private investigator who does the "find a lost person" thing. Find parents who gave you up for adoption? Fine, but no guarantees of a happy reunion. Find the deadbeat who owes you child support? Often at Cost/contract minimum with no markups. Find "lost loves"? No, you're creepy, move on!
Much has been said about the racism of Code of Honor and the Sexism of Angel One. Little is said about the sexism and general creepiness of this one. Geordi is a stalker and a creep; a harasser to some extent. When confronted he screams at the Scientist, and SHE winds up apologizing. This could have been a 2-parter, with segments in HR, with the Captain giving him 30 days off without pay, and Geordi getting busted down to Ensign.
I think we've all been here. You hear a little about a lady, she sounds perfect for you, you are practically writing your names in a heart in your notebook, and then something goes wrong. Finding out she's not what you expected is disappointing. Hearing she has a dude already? *heartbreaking.* That private investigator service sounds pretty natural actually. The kind of thing that was done in a lower-tech way in the past (go talk to her pastor and ask what she's like, where she lives, then go bring her flowers). And particularly, a natural result of the problems we have now. I expected to hear it was related somehow to that 'missed connections' thing.
I think her reaction was both sadly typical among women, feeling outraged and violated by the idea some man she doesn't know might be fapping to a image of her or something and is overblown. I can't imagine a man having the same reason to a strange woman rubbing one off to an image of him. I think it boils down to women wanting to advertise themselves sexually but thinking only the men she finds the most fit and attractive men notice, anyone else is a "violation". Not saying that's the exact case here, and she has a right to maybe feel a bit annoyed at worse, but going off on a tirade on LaForge wasn't justified and kinda makes her look even more childish and insecurely controlling than she did when she came abroad.
Never underestimate the pettiness of professionals, especially engineers. In the 1850's, when railroad director Amosa Stone found out that two different engineers, one of whom was on his railroad's payroll, wanted to make necessary alterations to his bridge design over Ashtabula Creek, he fired both of them and built the bridge himself his way. 20 years later that bridge collapsed in a snow storm, taking with it a locomotive, 16 passenger coaches, and over 100 lives. Amosa Stone never took responsibility for his failure in designing that bridge.
I like to remember that kind of story whenever somebody asks why so many RPGs have different stats for Intelligence and Wisdom. There are plenty of real-world examples of people having an abundance of one and none of the other.
I remember hearing a story on an archaeological dig about this one academic dig director who was working around the area adjacent to stonehenge. He had this "rock-solid" theory and was persistent about it, but then one of his dig team found some small features which threw his theory out the window (or to be more precise, which would have forced him to re-think certain aspects of his rock-solid theory), but instead of re-thinking and repostulating with the new information at hand he removed the features from the site during a lunch break before his excavation team could record it. No record = no proof that it existed, no proof = nothing to contradict his theory. Like I said I only head about this, and given the nature of all sites around stonehenge its hard to imagine... but i've worked with people who did similar sort of things or who acted in these very abrasive sort of ways, and in doing so they destroyed sites or made them an embaressmet that we no longer even talk about. Not only can these people be petty, but they will sow distrust and deflect the blame onto anyone but themselves.
Wow. I never heard about that. Wonder if lack of maintenance had anything to do with it bec it could be a factor too, but nonetheless.
Some people can't get past their own ego. It's a shame. Sometimes the consequences are catastrophic.
I still have 99 Red Balloons in my head during the intro.
yeah where'd that go? I understand the youtube version can't have it, but the dailymotion version doesn't either.. and it's a separate file since it has actual footage, so why not let it have the music?
I hope he'll still be able to use the songs. It's hard not to think of his Reviews if I hear the songs from them irl. I also wonder what song he'll use for Lower Decks.
Yeah, one time, I heard the song at work, and I got Chuck's reviews stuck playing in my head the rest of the day. lol
I miss it
Still stuck in my head from time to time lol
And THAT is why Geordi NEVER made fun of Reg Barclay again!
They could probably made Leah so much more reasonable simply by having state how upsetting it is to have put so much time and effort into making that engine, just for one guy to come along and make it better.
Geordi is the Chief Engineer, he should have known to clear his browser history.
He did but what about the mysterious folder on the C drive labelled "Brahms in Leather"?
@@Nickelodeon81 That was just a performance of Brahms Lullaby with the violinist wearing BDSM gear, nothing to do with Miss Leah.
If I had a dollar for every time a Space Amoeba followed one of my ships in Stellaris...
"You should know that I'm married"
If only they put things like marital status in personnel files.
She may not have been married at the time. That was five years earlier.
Every time I see a trek character in civilian clothes, it looks like the wizards and witches of Harry Potter (the books, not the movie) who have no clue how muggles actually dress.
I just rewatched this episode last week... I gotta say, what would really have helped Geordi is if he'd had their dinner in Ten Forward ( a nice public, neutral location) and explained EXACTLY how he came to know all about her. With an emphasis on, "please don't get mad... this is actually kinda silly... we have all kinds of crazy things going on aboard this ship. And... um... I used the holodeck to recreate the original design lab... and... um... it recreated you, too. So I was hoping I could be friends with the real Dr Brahms..."
Poor Dumb Gordie
Thinking about Geordys line about how he's never written-up reports regarding his work to the Enterprise, that in itself could have been used as a reason for Brahms cold bitchiness towards him. After all Geordy is an engineer who's so by-the-books that he doesn't even implement buffer time (if the work will take an hour he'll say that it'll take an hour to do), yet when it comes to his own modifications of the ship, he doesn't write up about them, instead letting others do so which then requires the actual designer of the engine to come out an appraise them. Now Brahms coming out to appraise them would happen anyway, and there's no pretending that proffesionals can't be petty, but looking at those events from her point of view she would see that some engineers made modifications to the engine but has neglected to explain what or why. Those modifications could be the deal-breaker for the Galaxy class, yet this enginner hasn't justified anything, so from Brahms point of view he would have been messing around with her engine. The entire plot could have been built around that. Geordy expecting to see the holo-girl of his dreams, but who is instead faced with the reality of Leah, and Leah expecting to see this cavalear Enginner whose withholding vital information regarding the galaxy-class's engines. It would literally be a story about 2 people expecting one thing and getting the other..... but nope, just make her a bitch. :S I mean, I know television (not just trek) has this issues of showing specialists in their fields being anything but unplesante (i'm looking at you shelldon cooper) but its a trope that needs to end.
You missed one thing that got me
They need wesley back, who knows physics.
Braums: the antimatter ratio isn't as rich as Starfleet specifications
Gordi: to high a ratio is inefficient
Wesley: It was a trick question. There is only one ratio for matter antimatter 1:1
Either statement can be true, but there's plenty of reasons to run rich or lean even from our real world perspective.
Running an excess of regular matter can be a safety requirement, if you don't perfectly controll all the particals in the chamber then you will likely get stray antimatter left over from any given cycle, this either effects the next cycles ratio or exposes the matter of the chamber to erosion and radiation damage over time.
So you inject at least enough excess matter to react with any stray antimatter.
This excess matter can also be the source of the warp plasma, there in great excess to absorbe and transmit the energy of the reaction. I think warp plasma must have some properties that allow it to absorb neutrinos since they make up some large portion of the energy released.
If this is the case then how lean you can run your core depends on how exacting your control is over the individual particles of both matter and antimatter.
To rectify the apparent contradiction we can easily assume that these people from the far future talking about principals we simply can't grasp are sharing some unspoken context in both scenarios that we are not privy to.
Assuming the D has a fairly advanced control system that allows them to ensure within a very small margin of error near perfect reaction efficiency it may well be that Westley was talking about the innermost zone of reaction where the ratio is effectively maintained at a 50/50 split, while Geordy and Brahms were talking about the overall ratio of the entire chamber including the likely presence of a barrier of regular matter for safeties sake and the portion of matter present in the form of plasma.
As a car guy, mechanic and a novice engineer by hobby I compare it to the various styles of combustion technologies used in cars. Today stratified charge technology has become mainstream and allows the overall fuel ratio to be leaner than traditionally possible by making a rich ratio in a part of the chamber where the ignition event starts with most of the chamber being very lean. This allows for the benefits of lean burn without the destructive side effects and can only be done because of modern computer controls.
@@DrewLSsix not with matter antimatter. We aren't talking about gasoline and running it a bit rich. Matter and antimatter are used up equally. 1.1 grams of antimatter mixed with 1 gram of matter results in the energy of 1:1 and leaves 0.1 grams of antimatter left over.
@@DrewLSsix should have reread your statement. Yeah, a little extra matter to be sure no antimatter is left over would be wise. But it won't affect the energy output beyond ensuring the antimatter is fully used.
Honestly the romance angle of La Forge towards Brahms simply wasn't necessary.
They could have easily played off the idea of him knowing that she was married while still genuinely wanting to be friends with her and get the chance to bond over the Enterprise D. She could still be cold and clearly resistant to even that, with a subtle resentment about how his changes to the engine greatly differ from the research and especially when he explains that they came from experience in the field .
He could eventually get upset at this and accuse her of being unable to get past his alterations and see his attempts at being friendly while she in turn could find out about his studies of her biography (no holodeck program reveal) and say he's just angry that she doesn't measure up to his idealized idea and fully embrace what he's done.
And then after the blowup there can be an acknowledgement of their respective issues, with him admitting he invested a lot in the fantasy of Leah as a friend with shared interests and that she admits she's really upset that the changed Enterprise really is a better functioning vessel which stings given how much she invested in the ship as one of her crowing achievements.
Its no masterpiece but it would make for an easier watch.
It's funny, the fact that he never looked her up well enough to know that she was married speaks VOLUMES about geordi. on one hand he wasn't so obsessed with her that he looked up her records.. on the other hand maybe he didn't wanna know.
LOL I love that reference to how stupid the Picard show is
(5:38) It always cracked me up that the prop department always made the _installed_ dilithium crystals always look like someone had just smashed a geode with a sledgehammer and dumped the resulting shards into the warp core. I don't think Trek was the only show to do that sort of thing, but I'll bet you they did it the most often. Worst offending episode? "Peak Performance" where Wesley Crusher coaxes chunks of shattered crystals to function in the warp core of the Hathaway before they take part in war games with Enterprise. :P
Dialog suggests that the armature that holds the crystals needs to articulate them in a precise and unique to each crystal way to make the things work.
It's kinda a neat contrivance in a universe where nearly anything else can be made to order, not only do the ships run on some valuable and rare thing that can't be replicated but these things have to be used as they are requiring substantial investments in time and effort to be used.
I agree, they went too far in making the real Leah be the polar opposite of what Geordi was hoping for. They should have gone with a slightly lighter touch. Geordi is also far too determined (or clueless) here. He should have gone slowly and stuck to business at first. Well, at least they made up and got married in an alternate future 😊
It’s weird that more people in the 24th century are not more aware of the danger of digital fantasies, the concept has been around at least since the 20th century, but even someone like geordi still act naive about it.
Lol good point, he was practically Catfished by the Enterprise D computer.
@@Nickelodeon81 as James T Kirk: ‘it’s lonely out in space.’
Don't mind me. Just showing my support.
8 out of 10, because the Actors did their very best efforts with what the writers could pack into a TV episode length story...
How would you re-write it ? It has to fit in the time slot, so if your going to change things or add things, you will have to cut other things out too.
It could have been TWO episodes, one that is strictly focused on real human feelings and relationships vs holodeck simulations... A deep topic.
and a second episode of Enterprise vs a whole Civilization of Space Perogies. And not 'animal whale' space perogies, actual sentient beings that have constructed a huge city in the asteroid belt... a city large enough that the Enterprise would fit inside one apartment ! :-)
I always got a kick out of 'Junior'. like to think that at least _some_ of the crew were thrilled to have a baby- a multi-ton space-ravioli-slug of a baby- hitching onto the Enterprise. They could say 'the ship had a baby- we're calling it Junior' and Picard tries to stew and be stern over it, but that means nothing because, you know, space-slug.
"Mmmmm...unexplained space ravioli." - CinemaSins, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
The thing is, Dr. Brahms came into it being told her work had been improved on, which she took as an insult, as if starfleet was saying her work wasn't good enough. Her attitude wasn't hostility, it wasn't arrogance, it was defensiveness.
"Only here by author mandate"
Nope, they exist in the wild, I can assure you.
Character assassination of Jordy and Leah
I never liked this episode. Was there EVER any sort of satisfactory explanation given for why the computer got her personality so UTTERLY wrong in Booby Trap?
It was like "accuracy can only be ascertained to 86%" or someshit. I think Brahms was just drunk on the day she attended the conference that the computer guessed her personality from.
@@KairuHakubi lol, that actually makes perfect sense :)
I think it was based on her personality but since she was desinged to be an assistant, the holographic version would have been more helpful and friendly than the real thing.
Consider every A.I. personality running in ST:TNG is actually the Ship's computer itself, loading up a neural net NPC of some standard format configuration. An assistant, helpful, interactive, supportive, and perhaps keyed to match Gordi's personell records too: A 'fantasy woman', not completely unexpected from a Holodeck, considering a good deal of the content data found on the internet here in the 2000s. Also, the Ship's computer, from it's point of view, is optimizing the performance of the 'Gordi' component, maximizing his interaction, inventiveness, and output.
From the ship's computer's point of view, the living beings on the Enterprise are components, just as any valve, or generator, or engine...
On the Holodeck, Gordi was working on improving the reactors, but the Ship's A.I. was working on improving it's Chief Engineer component.
It was based on some conference she attended. Who knows maybe she met her not-yet-husband then and was a little flirty and warm.
OK sometihng has been bugging me about these videos lately, no actual video in them. Just saw there are two versions on the SF debris site, so I guess it's a youtube thing...
15:29 - Not perfect. There was a 17% margin of error. 😂
The holideck will be the last invention of humanity and the last generation
No, but it will thin the heard!
Also, not a bad thing.
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You're the first person I've met that acknowledged that Brahms was a right b.... jerk... as soon as she stepped foot on the ship. It wasn't like Geordi stalked her. This is the equivalent of looking at someone's LinkedIn then bringing up Texas A&M because you knew they went there. ...and he didn't delete the marriage from her profile or adjust it to make her a photonic flesh light. The computer didn't add that she was married. ... She's mad like he stalked her... then more mad that he didn't stalk her good enough to know she was married? Can't have it both ways.
the amount of bad tng episodes you can just sum up with "this is a maurice hurley script" amd end it at that is hillarious
Chuck funny pI story 10:23
wouldn't most of us be creeped out if you found out some stranger was writing real person fanfic of you?
Yes.
I don't want to talk about it.
*NO.*
Get it in your head, this was _not_ considered universally unacceptable or even all that offputting just a _few_ years ago. I am SO sick of people saying shit like that, and acting like the TNG episodes that bring up the concept are somehow endorsing that insane post-2018ish attitude. The whole point of Hollow Pursuits (that was the title, right?) is that everyone thinks it's healthy and fine, until they see _themselves_ and then they become hypocrites. You aren't meant to agree with them, and NOBODY did until you people started steamrolling every opinion that doesn't fuel outrage.
@@KairuHakubi Sorry, what? I said I would find it creepy and off-putting.
@@KairuHakubi You seem defensive and argumentative about the idea that someone could find this creepy. Many real girls would, and for good reason. As a guy I'd find it creepy too unless I knew the person very well and even that is a maybe.
@@ianury5614 Little tip for ya, kid. Someday norms are going to majorly shift again, and you're going to understand why the rest of us are pissed off.
I know an actual private investigator who does the "find a lost person" thing. Find parents who gave you up for adoption? Fine, but no guarantees of a happy reunion. Find the deadbeat who owes you child support? Often at Cost/contract minimum with no markups. Find "lost loves"? No, you're creepy, move on!
Much has been said about the racism of Code of Honor and the Sexism of Angel One. Little is said about the sexism and general creepiness of this one. Geordi is a stalker and a creep; a harasser to some extent. When confronted he screams at the Scientist, and SHE winds up apologizing. This could have been a 2-parter, with segments in HR, with the Captain giving him 30 days off without pay, and Geordi getting busted down to Ensign.
"I studied her...'schematics'....er...for years!".... Eww change the program Geordie.
I think we've all been here. You hear a little about a lady, she sounds perfect for you, you are practically writing your names in a heart in your notebook, and then something goes wrong. Finding out she's not what you expected is disappointing. Hearing she has a dude already? *heartbreaking.*
That private investigator service sounds pretty natural actually. The kind of thing that was done in a lower-tech way in the past (go talk to her pastor and ask what she's like, where she lives, then go bring her flowers). And particularly, a natural result of the problems we have now. I expected to hear it was related somehow to that 'missed connections' thing.
I think her reaction was both sadly typical among women, feeling outraged and violated by the idea some man she doesn't know might be fapping to a image of her or something and is overblown. I can't imagine a man having the same reason to a strange woman rubbing one off to an image of him.
I think it boils down to women wanting to advertise themselves sexually but thinking only the men she finds the most fit and attractive men notice, anyone else is a "violation". Not saying that's the exact case here, and she has a right to maybe feel a bit annoyed at worse, but going off on a tirade on LaForge wasn't justified and kinda makes her look even more childish and insecurely controlling than she did when she came abroad.