For the record, I wish the video were sharper as well. It was recorded with a still camera, using a 300mm telephoto lens, as I tried to hold it between two tall people sitting in front of me. Still, I think the story was worth saving, even in this, let's say 'less than ideal' version.
It's fine. The shaky factor really bugs me but I don't need to watch it, it's what he is talkin about that I'm interested in. The audio is perfect and I give you about a 10 on it :)
I'm very grateful that you were able to capture this at all and share it with us! The audio is quite good considering the circumstances. Moments like this are golden to us true fans. Thank you!
Only years after TNG have I discovered these YT moments of Brent Spiner's supreme wit and unknown talents (i.e. his spot on impression of Patrick Stewart). Dude is definitely a charismatic talent that deserves way more recognition than Spot the cat, lol !
There was one episode where Data said Picard's authorization code while imitating Picard's voice. At the time I just assumed they dubbed it over, but I have seen how good Brent's impression of Stewart is and now I'm wondering... did they dub or was that actually Brent's vocals which were used in that part?
When I was 22 years old, I adopted a tiny kitten and named it "Spaz". He certainly lived up to that moniker with his crazy antics. Best kitty ever! I had him 18 years, he died in my arms 20 years ago after a long illness; one week after my mom died. I told him that day, "This would be a good time for you to leave me, because I couldn't feel worse than I do right now." I was wrong. Last year, on Dec. 27th after the loneliest, most depressing Xmas ever, I was startled to see a beautiful "tuxedo" cat looking at me through the glass front door, and this cat looks exactly like Spaz! My son was eight years old when Spaz died, and he also loved him. As calmly as I could, I told my now 28 year old son who was sitting on the couch, "Go look on the porch, you're not going to believe who is out there." He did, and said, "SPAZ??!!" He got him indoors (not easy, he was feral) and within a month this cat was my buddy, and he's never wanted to go back outside where the coyotes, wolves, bobcat, and pumas live. To him, "outside" is the "bad place". Still don't know how he got here. We live far out in the boonies, on a 20 acre off-grid goat ranch on a mountain. We think he came from a litter of barn cats from a "neighbor" 6 miles away because they were all "tuxedos" and the same age. Of the four kitties from that litter I've seen, he's the only one who looks exactly like Spaz though. He's also has frenetic energy like Spaz did, and acts more like a puppy than a kitten. I've had many cats over the years, but those two are the only ones who love stuffed toys and destroying furniture by chewing holes in it. I don't care, my furniture came from thrift stores and easily replaced. This spastic feline was the best "Xmas gift" I've ever gotten. Thank you, Universe! I'm not sad or lonely anymore. That's him I'm holding in my pic, and the reason for my big, stupid grin. I named him "Houdini" because he's wearing a tuxedo and he's magical. Sorry, didn't mean to write an essay, I know it sounds silly but this cat changed my life for the better.
Brett what did you expect? Those cats were primadonnas. They had all sorts of srange demands. 1. Tuna cans from labels that weren't brown. 2. A sugar bowl of Catnip by their bed. 3. Lavender for their litterboxes. 4. A complete video compilation of dogs dying in hilarious ways. 5. Jonathan Frakes as a scratching post. 6. Patrick Stewart's head to sit on. 7. Lavar Burton to read to them at night. 8. Michael Dorn's old prosthetics for chew toys.
Brent Spiner's voice hasen't change at all. Everytime i listen/hear to it, Lore and Data's voices come back to me i love it he was my fav actor from TNG and i couldnt give enough cedit to him this guys is a genuis - that said i am sure he looks back at the show and thinks "I am sick of Star Trek" he did comit over 7 years to it
Fun bit of video, thanks for posting it. To all you folks complaining about the camera lighten up, it was almost certainly recorded on a phone held over the heads of a crowd, we are lucky to get this much.
I was drinking milk and farting when he said that and i literally started to spray a foamy white chocolate froth outt my ass all over my grandmothers knitting room i couldnt stop it just kept cumming and cumming and now there is a chocolatey white foam all over grandmas favorite balls of yarn lololololl
Actually, they're making light of a truly sad interlude in the saga of The Enterprise. On one of its' first contact missions, the ship entered standard orbit around the planet Melmac. Being only partially familiar with the worlds' culture, they foolishly beamed aboard several of its' inhabitants, one of which managed to elude his escorts and began prowling around, unattended. I don't believe I need to relate the consequences.
Lets make this clear, Mr. Spiner changed science and computer lingo. I was in University Computer Science in 1985-86. NOBODY SAID memory storage was saying the A in DATA like Fonzie on Happy Days, Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Everyone, I mean everyone, said DATA like it was without the line over the A and you were repeating what the doctor tells you to say when he tells you to open wide and day "Ahhhhhh". Now everyone says Day-tuh, Ā like you were having sex with Lieutenant Yar kind of "Day-tah". Everyone at NASA, every astrophysicist on the Science Channel to PBS pronounce your name like it was always that way. You sir, will always be my hero, just like when I met you at Comicon 2010. You lied to me saying "They are killing us all off" in the movies. Seriously sir, I NOW know now you had a big hand on the writing DATA off in the last TNG movie. Amazing actor I very much admire and respect. Thank you for being... well, you. Still nice to me in 2010... I mean, despite all your all encompassing ego... I assume ego since you refused us in line filming you. Take care, write in DATA for Picard, before it's too late. Just a suggestion sir, no control... really. You are the one in control, so awesome.
Long as they are aging like wine and not cheese, I'm happy. Fact that they could be so personable and funny speaks WELL of our favorite Enterprise crew members
And then if he gets work in post he can even add chroma flares to go with the lens flares and then badly white balance it. This is actually a good example of a typical UA-camr too stupid to know to take the camera off auto focus - if the camera isn't so cheap it doesn't even have that option.
One of my favorite Spot moments in ST:TNG is when she goes to eat some food from a bowl and it looks like there is a flea caught inside the food in the bowl and it is crawling around trying to get out. Seriously. I see it every time, but I've never seen anyone else comment on it. Has anyone else noticed that?
Brent Spiner is a lot more like Lore than data... He seems like kind of a smart ass... Even comes off as being a little self-satisfied (though what he is saying tells me otherwise).
He can be a smart ass. In an episode of Night Court, Dan Fielding as Spiner's Bob Wheeler whats in the coffee can, a dead rat and a box of necco wafers? So he shows it do Dan. He says No 20,000 dollars. We ate the Necco Wafers!
Sentience and sapience are two different things. Dogs are most certainly sentient. Its actual sapience where there is debate, although more and more research and information keeps coming out showing that they are.
As a Hardcore Trek fan I cry a little inside when they joke about their dead careers. The thought that the enormous contributions these actors have made to the universe of sci-fi was in vein is a wee bit depressing. Im sure that is not exactly what he meant but still its like finding out that your hero regrets being your hero it kinda stings a little. I mean Data is in the robot hall of fame for fuck sake how bad ass is that!?
Mmmm yes, the entitled complaining is strong in this comments section. How quick we are to belittle someone's amateur little clip, as if they were supposed to film with an HD stabilized camera and NOTHING ELSE. Clearly we need to be able to see Spiner's face with pro-shot perfection for the sake of a two-minute anecdote. FORSHAME.
OF COURSE WE DO HE IS OUR GOD ! Jokes aside :D you are right . I think it shakes that much because the dude holding the camera is really far in the crowd and zoomed to the max to even see him. We have to be thankful atleast its not shot in vertical XD .
Well they had already been dyeing it jet black for years anyway. His natural hair color was more of a dark brown, you can see it in the early screen test footage.
"How am I looking now? YOwwwwlll!" Bringing a pregnant cat aboard Red Dwarf was probably the best thing Lister ever did. Otherwise he would have had to deal with Rimmer alone!
He is a very handsome man. Almost unrecognizable without the Worf makeup. He probably liked the freedom of not being constantly harassed in public by fans who wouldn't know him unless he used that glorious "Worf" voice.
Cats are wicked hard to train to do anything. I watched a filming of Early Edition and they got the cat's attention by tapping a tin of cat food with a fork. That's how they got her to look at the camera.
Yeah but in a way B4 took to the "data" transfer. That's why picard smiles when he leaves his ready room. He knew that All Data's memories and experiences would become B4`s So it may as well of been Data.
They're not too old. The Motion Picture came out much after the original TV series and the original cast looked ok. And the TNG cast could just do with a little make up. Brent Spiner might need some CG to get rid of the wrinkles though. I would love to see one more TNG movie.
The problem with that is that they're all too old now. Not to mention the fact that they're probably burned out of doing the show since they were on it for 7 years and then another 4 or so for the movies. Plus at this point I doubt most people still care about or even remember TNG. The actors have moved on in both their lives and their careers so they were probably a bit relieved once the show ended that they didn't have to keep playing the same parts over and over again.
If a writer puts action for the cat in the script...it is because that writer is pissed at you and purposely effing with you.... either make friends with that writer so they don’t do it again, or get that writer fired so they don’t do it again....
If you think about it, the 2009 movie did start in the 24th century with time travel to kirks time so technically its still going for a weird paradox thing LOL
I love how Spot is operating the camera.
+Shango yes I agree it was :)
Michael J. Fox can't help don't make fun of him
Considering he has no opposable thumbs I would say he is doing a great job
I love that Spiner has a prepared answer ready for all Spot the cat questions! Shows just how much people remember that cat...
cats.
What cat ?
"They're doing much better than we are."
For the record, I wish the video were sharper as well. It was recorded with a still camera, using a 300mm telephoto lens, as I tried to hold it between two tall people sitting in front of me.
Still, I think the story was worth saving, even in this, let's say 'less than ideal' version.
It's fine. The shaky factor really bugs me but I don't need to watch it, it's what he is talkin about that I'm interested in. The audio is perfect and I give you about a 10 on it :)
I'm very grateful that you were able to capture this at all and share it with us! The audio is quite good considering the circumstances. Moments like this are golden to us true fans. Thank you!
RIP Spots.
I would pay money to see the bloopers from all the Spot takes.
Only years after TNG have I discovered these YT moments of Brent Spiner's supreme wit and unknown talents (i.e. his spot on impression of Patrick Stewart). Dude is definitely a charismatic talent that deserves way more recognition than Spot the cat, lol !
There was one episode where Data said Picard's authorization code while imitating Picard's voice. At the time I just assumed they dubbed it over, but I have seen how good Brent's impression of Stewart is and now I'm wondering... did they dub or was that actually Brent's vocals which were used in that part?
I feel like naming a kitten 'Monster' is just rolling dice against the universe and hoping you don't have any bad karma accrued.
Probably earned that name.
When I was 22 years old, I adopted a tiny kitten and named it "Spaz". He certainly lived up to that moniker with his crazy antics.
Best kitty ever! I had him 18 years, he died in my arms 20 years ago after a long illness; one week after my mom died. I told him that day, "This would be a good time for you to leave me, because I couldn't feel worse than I do right now."
I was wrong.
Last year, on Dec. 27th after the loneliest, most depressing Xmas ever, I was startled to see a beautiful "tuxedo" cat looking at me through the glass front door, and this cat looks exactly like Spaz! My son was eight years old when Spaz died, and he also loved him. As calmly as I could, I told my now 28 year old son who was sitting on the couch, "Go look on the porch, you're not going to believe who is out there." He did, and said, "SPAZ??!!"
He got him indoors (not easy, he was feral) and within a month this cat was my buddy, and he's never wanted to go back outside where the coyotes, wolves, bobcat, and pumas live. To him, "outside" is the "bad place".
Still don't know how he got here. We live far out in the boonies, on a 20 acre off-grid goat ranch on a mountain. We think he came from a litter of barn cats from a "neighbor" 6 miles away because they were all "tuxedos" and the same age. Of the four kitties from that litter I've seen, he's the only one who looks exactly like Spaz though. He's also has frenetic energy like Spaz did, and acts more like a puppy than a kitten. I've had many cats over the years, but those two are the only ones who love stuffed toys and destroying furniture by chewing holes in it. I don't care, my furniture came from thrift stores and easily replaced.
This spastic feline was the best "Xmas gift" I've ever gotten. Thank you, Universe! I'm not sad or lonely anymore. That's him I'm holding in my pic, and the reason for my big, stupid grin. I named him "Houdini" because he's wearing a tuxedo and he's magical.
Sorry, didn't mean to write an essay, I know it sounds silly but this cat changed my life for the better.
Brett what did you expect? Those cats were primadonnas. They had all sorts of srange demands.
1. Tuna cans from labels that weren't brown.
2. A sugar bowl of Catnip by their bed.
3. Lavender for their litterboxes.
4. A complete video compilation of dogs dying in hilarious ways.
5. Jonathan Frakes as a scratching post.
6. Patrick Stewart's head to sit on.
7. Lavar Burton to read to them at night.
8. Michael Dorn's old prosthetics for chew toys.
Brent Spiner's voice hasen't change at all. Everytime i listen/hear to it, Lore and Data's voices come back to me i love it he was my fav actor from TNG and i couldnt give enough cedit to him this guys is a genuis - that said i am sure he looks back at the show and thinks "I am sick of Star Trek" he did comit over 7 years to it
Fun bit of video, thanks for posting it. To all you folks complaining about the camera lighten up, it was almost certainly recorded on a phone held over the heads of a crowd, we are lucky to get this much.
We're losing signal! Boost your mattergain!!
Their all long gone, like our careers.
That was so funny lol
+Dan Sturby but a little sad
Renhorable are you kidding me? no way, Brent Spiner just did independence day 2 and he's also on a new television show on Cinemax called Outcast
It'll never be Star Trek, though. Star Trek was the high point of Brent's career, and everyone knows it.
I was drinking milk and farting when he said that and i literally started to spray a foamy white chocolate froth outt my ass all over my grandmothers knitting room i couldnt stop it just kept cumming and cumming and now there is a chocolatey white foam all over grandmas favorite balls of yarn lololololl
@@garyenwards1608 What the hell Gary
I like to close my eyes as I listen to this and imagine I'm in the same room with everyone...
Because watching the video is painful.
Well I, for one, hope all three Spots lived long and healthy lives well past stardom.
Actually, they're making light of a truly sad interlude in the saga of The Enterprise. On one of its' first contact missions, the ship entered standard orbit around the planet Melmac. Being only partially familiar with the worlds' culture, they foolishly beamed aboard several of its' inhabitants, one of which managed to elude his escorts and began prowling around, unattended. I don't believe I need to relate the consequences.
Hahahahaha!!! Lmao! I got that right off the bat. :)
NEEEERRRRRRD! 😛
J/K
Lets make this clear, Mr. Spiner changed science and computer lingo. I was in University Computer Science in 1985-86. NOBODY SAID memory storage was saying the A in DATA like Fonzie on Happy Days, Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Everyone, I mean everyone, said DATA like it was without the line over the A and you were repeating what the doctor tells you to say when he tells you to open wide and day "Ahhhhhh". Now everyone says Day-tuh, Ā like you were having sex with Lieutenant Yar kind of "Day-tah". Everyone at NASA, every astrophysicist on the Science Channel to PBS pronounce your name like it was always that way.
You sir, will always be my hero, just like when I met you at Comicon 2010. You lied to me saying "They are killing us all off" in the movies. Seriously sir, I NOW know now you had a big hand on the writing DATA off in the last TNG movie. Amazing actor I very much admire and respect. Thank you for being... well, you. Still nice to me in 2010... I mean, despite all your all encompassing ego... I assume ego since you refused us in line filming you. Take care, write in DATA for Picard, before it's too late. Just a suggestion sir, no control... really. You are the one in control, so awesome.
Dear god people, give the guy’s camera work a break. Seeing them perfectly isn’t important, at least you can hear them
Long as they are aging like wine and not cheese, I'm happy. Fact that they could be so personable and funny speaks WELL of our favorite Enterprise crew members
Spot survived the crash of the Enterprise-D saucer section only to be captured and eaten by Alf a week later. True story. So sad.
Well, despite the behind the scenes stuff, data's connection throughout the series and then finding spot in Nemisis? the feels, man. the feels.
Wasnt it in Generations, when he finds spot?
I loved the Spot episodes! It was worth all the extra work. :)
Every 5 seconds he roasts the ghosts of Spot(s)
How I loved and laughed my arse off to Data's " Ode to Spot".
Jesus how hard is it to focus a camera
Walmart was having a sale.
Potatoes: 25 cents each.
The problem isn't so much focusing the camera as turning off auto focus. I don't think the panel is gonna go anywhere. :-p
manictiger Damn I got the Toaster™ from Target for 69¢ "on sale"
I hate getting ripped off!
At the very least the video wasn't taken vertically.
Bombpier I think the guys hair in front of him was throwing off the auto focus. Full zoom does that.
Jesus, dude, you should do camera work professionally! You're so fucking good at it!
JJ. Abrams could use some more camera operators
Kris Kross Get some lense flares in it and you're perfect for the set of Star Trek!
And then if he gets work in post he can even add chroma flares to go with the lens flares and then badly white balance it.
This is actually a good example of a typical UA-camr too stupid to know to take the camera off auto focus - if the camera isn't so cheap it doesn't even have that option.
@@dogmannz "camera so cheap it doesn't have that option" lol even my 200€ Smart Phone has that option
I can't believe I'd just cleaned my glasses and this is the first video I looked at. :(
Proof of god at last.
One of my favorite Spot moments in ST:TNG is when she goes to eat some food from a bowl and it looks like there is a flea caught inside the food in the bowl and it is crawling around trying to get out. Seriously. I see it every time, but I've never seen anyone else comment on it. Has anyone else noticed that?
First day with the new camera, huh? At least the audio (the most important part, so we could hear the story) kept constant.
Brent Spiner is a lot more like Lore than data... He seems like kind of a smart ass... Even comes off as being a little self-satisfied (though what he is saying tells me otherwise).
He can be a smart ass. In an episode of Night Court, Dan Fielding as Spiner's Bob Wheeler whats in the coffee can, a dead rat and a box of necco wafers? So he shows it do Dan. He says No 20,000 dollars. We ate the Necco Wafers!
Years after TNG, I am still disappointed that it ended at Nemesis. :(!
What camera are you using? Because I wouldn't want to buy it with it's retarded autofocus
danwat1234 It's called a "potato"... Po-tay-tow. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.
Funniest comment in youtube history LMAO
Boil 'em, mash 'em, 'stick 'em in a stew, and serve to kate mulgrew.
love how they showed how Spot survived 'Generations'...yet Captain James feaking Kirk didn't. cat's fine though kiddies. (brother)
At 300mm, I think you did a good job capturing it as well as you did. Gives me an idea how just how far away you were. Thanks for getting it. :)
It’s amazing how such a joker could play an emotionless robot so well. Get you a man who can do both
People don't train cats; cats train people.
Sentience and sapience are two different things. Dogs are most certainly sentient. Its actual sapience where there is debate, although more and more research and information keeps coming out showing that they are.
As a Hardcore Trek fan I cry a little inside when they joke about their dead careers. The thought that the enormous contributions these actors have made to the universe of sci-fi was in vein is a wee bit depressing. Im sure that is not exactly what he meant but still its like finding out that your hero regrets being your hero it kinda stings a little. I mean Data is in the robot hall of fame for fuck sake how bad ass is that!?
He's so amazing!
Mmmm yes, the entitled complaining is strong in this comments section. How quick we are to belittle someone's amateur little clip, as if they were supposed to film with an HD stabilized camera and NOTHING ELSE. Clearly we need to be able to see Spiner's face with pro-shot perfection for the sake of a two-minute anecdote. FORSHAME.
OF COURSE WE DO HE IS OUR GOD !
Jokes aside :D you are right . I think it shakes that much because the dude holding the camera is really far in the crowd and zoomed to the max to even see him. We have to be thankful atleast its not shot in vertical XD .
That was great, thanks for that!
I sure wish they would do another Star Trek movie with the TNG cast, Or maybe the Voyager cast. I totally miss them.
When i met him he said it was a little actor inside.... I was like..............................? 😂
Technically, Spot the cats won't be born for another 300+ years.
Can you imagine Worf wearing a CHP officer's uniform? (Since Michael Dorn played Jed Turner and Worf)
This was so funny I laughed so hard
If the camera is blurring in and out when you're super zoomed in, zoom out!
There's a reason why this channel isn't called candle the focus keeper
Well they had already been dyeing it jet black for years anyway. His natural hair color was more of a dark brown, you can see it in the early screen test footage.
Brent Spiner rules.
spot roast
This is the best fucking comment, I laughed so hard
Ask David Lister about how crazy it is to bring a cat on board a spaceship
"How am I looking now? YOwwwwlll!"
Bringing a pregnant cat aboard Red Dwarf was probably the best thing Lister ever did. Otherwise he would have had to deal with Rimmer alone!
Micheal Dorn looks fantastic.
He is a very handsome man. Almost unrecognizable without the Worf makeup. He probably liked the freedom of not being constantly harassed in public by fans who wouldn't know him unless he used that glorious "Worf" voice.
I wonder if Roddenberry came up with the idea of a cat for Data, and how does someone pick one for the role.
This is ironic considering it was supposedly his idea Data should have a cat in the first place.
Cats are wicked hard to train to do anything. I watched a filming of Early Edition and they got the cat's attention by tapping a tin of cat food with a fork. That's how they got her to look at the camera.
LOL never seen Brent Spinner beeing so hilarious and cool. He's usually somewhat odd. Good for him! :D
Data lost Spot When enterprise travel to the XXI century in "First Contact"....so SPOT is the gran gran mother of SPOT....or...now it's a Borg CAT
Resistance is feline
OMG, a Borg cat! I think I'm going to have to incorporate that into a future art project.
"Like our careers"
Aww jeez Brent XDD
Yeah but in a way B4 took to the "data" transfer. That's why picard smiles when he leaves his ready room. He knew that All Data's memories and experiences would become B4`s
So it may as well of been Data.
"Long gone... like our career." 😹😻
I really wish someone would film these things properly. I don't want to see a digitally zoomed in iPhone video with ambient sound recording
Just close your eyes and pretend its just audio, youll thank me
Lovely sound. But I do believe your camera was out too late lol. Fun though! Thanks
They're not too old. The Motion Picture came out much after the original TV series and the original cast looked ok. And the TNG cast could just do with a little make up. Brent Spiner might need some CG to get rid of the wrinkles though. I would love to see one more TNG movie.
Who knew that Brent Spiner could go into Stand Up based on his old careers? This guy is freaking hysterical.
You should look at the character he played on "Night Court" before his role as Data. Really funny guy!
It was specifically stated that dogs were not sentient in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.
Bob Wheeler ate Spot! Tasted like chicken!
How was Spiner not more famous?
I wish we saw Spot in Picard in Data’s simulation
Transporter accident, he was converted into Feline Supplement 74.
Holy crap, you couldn't manage to keep the camera in focus?
I think this video was recorded with a Lemon!
Turn auto focus off
thx for upload
The problem with that is that they're all too old now. Not to mention the fact that they're probably burned out of doing the show since they were on it for 7 years and then another 4 or so for the movies. Plus at this point I doubt most people still care about or even remember TNG. The actors have moved on in both their lives and their careers so they were probably a bit relieved once the show ended that they didn't have to keep playing the same parts over and over again.
I think someone replaced your autofocus with a potato.
The other two cats were Brandy and Abbott.
By the end of the clip I'm watching two big blurs.
Data had white skin,Brent Spiner has white hair just go with it man he's immortal anyway
I don't suppose "Monster" was the one that sent Riker to sickbay. >:D
I am sure spot became an independent starship pilot and evolved into a non-corporeal being... chasing non-corporeal phased subspace-mice!
Did Spot shoot this video?
Who's holding the camera? Spot?
for anyone who does not drink-- this is what being drunk looks like
It's funny,I always figured the cat was called "Spock".Go figure.
He is getting ready to reprise his role as old doc Soong without the need for makeup.
Nobody in the audience reacts to the earthquake?
If a writer puts action for the cat in the script...it is because that writer is pissed at you and purposely effing with you.... either make friends with that writer so they don’t do it again, or get that writer fired so they don’t do it again....
Monster the cat is the one that Riker gives Dr. Crusher the phaser for. 😋
Monster, Brandi, and who is the third?
of course the cats are gone its been how long, why does spot get brought up every convention
omg! turn OFF the auto focus!
If you think about it, the 2009 movie did start in the 24th century with time travel to kirks time so technically its still going for a weird paradox thing LOL
One of the best videos to listen to and not watch. The camera made me pukey.
There are trained cats? I thought cats that accepted commands were born, not taught.
Yes, because we all know that cats aren't sentient. Only dogs. Dogs are sentient. Not cats.
I wonder how Monster got its name.
Worst camerawork EVER. Blurry and moves too much. Seriously..... I'd have been too embarrassed to post this.
Filmed with SteadyCam by Michael J Fox.
Manual focus. Learn it. Use it.