No really, are their safety protocols in there? What happens when Moriarty gets over it? He cant die? What if hes captured and tortured? What if this box is forgotten for a thousand years, he doesn't age, right? This box is a fucking prison, and very potentially an outright hell.
Barkley: "Computer, end program" computer: stays quiet Barley: happy face Admin: "You don't have the privileges for console commands you silly user, hue hue hue"
"...running inside a little device sitting on someone's table" Picard grinning vaguely around the room - Barclay nervously glancing directly into the camera
@@FutureDeep Funny thing is I love broccoli. Moriarty=Lucifer but hey you're just simulation programs programmed with a blind spot so these very words you read go right through you lol yup.
@@FutureDeep I just had a terrible thought, since the Enterprise was eventually destroyed we don't know what happened to that device Barkley wasn't trusted with...
Nah, Barkley is todays everyday IT guy (think of webdeveloper, etc). Little bit nerdy, little bit antisocial, etc. OBrien is the Everyman. He's the guy that does his job and you dont notice, and when he doesnt your life goes to shit. Think of any plumber, any roofing guy, IT infrastructure, etc.
Wouldn't it be funny if when Barclay said, "Computer end program!" Suddenly we see the end of the episode as the theme song begins playing over the scrolling end credits? ;)
@@jv-lk7bc no it isn't. Barkley smiled, patted the machine and walked out of the room as the music played and it faded to black. What they are talking about would go "computer, end program." (Black) instantly as he says it. As if the show was the program and he ended it.
Earlier in the episode, Barkley suggests there "is a glitch in the matrix" of the holodeck's circuitry. Fascinating to find the origin of that statement was in a Star Trek episode and not The Matrix film.
Well, TNG also named the Dyson Sphere. (Dyson himself only talked about something like the Dyson Swarm, people just keept missunderstanding "Habitat").
If you dig even deeper you will find "The Matrix" story in ancient history. It is told in a different way not with computers but with torches and lights on a wall. It is a very old story my friends.
Why you complaining about 2020? We were supposed to run out of gas..2020 was so much better than we thought. Imagine no gas, no trains no food in your stores children crying themselves to sleep from hunger and that's when people get sick...so tell me how the f was 2020 bad? You got to stay inside most the time...half the US smokes pot the other drinks..2020 was a party year wtf is wrong with you
@@jamesmeppler6375 Correction you got to stay inside smoking pot perhaps but most of the working class that grows your pot and the food you eat for the most part did not have the luxury of being a social parasite in a real 21st century world without Star Trek replicators and had to actually go outside to do their jobs like all the soldiers, police officers and firefighters dealing with mobs of looters and rioters and medical personnel trying to stop a global pandemic started in China so you didn't end up like one of the aristocrats in the Masque of the Red Death inside your nice safe comforting delusions paid for by the taxes of the rest of us.
We would see who a would add whose biological and technological advancements to their own. Moriarty is an evil genius mastermind after all. His only shortcoming was being unfamiliar with the universe he found himself in. Otherwise the crew couldn't find a way to trick him. The Borg Queen would have a tough opponent for the control of the collective if he ever found out they exist. And then, the universe would have a problem. He was always one to do things through subterfuge, not sheer force.
reminds me of Babylon 5 and Jack the Ripper. Heh, I wounder what Moriarty's Borg Designation would be? maybe 18 9 of 3? and funny that his first appearance in literature was a short story called The Adventure of the Final Problem.
I do like Barclay's flaws. Granted, the Enterprise is the Federation flagship, and would therefore have Starfleet's most accomplished personnel, but it was still nice to see someone who struggled a bit with being there. Also, I like that they addressed holo addiction as being a real issue.
As I recall, initially he was a recent transfer whose imposter syndrome started to take control of him. The crew started to reject him, calling him things like "broccoli" (like in the title). Picard wouldn't allow the transfer, telling the crew that he was part of the team and they better figure out a way to include him. It was one of those episodes that demonstrated how Picard is a great leader.
@@raven4k998 No that cube is a passive computation device with memory, it's a whole computer in a sense Isolinear chips hold specific commands as well so I have no fucking idea how they store data
Picard: "For all we know, this could just be a recording on an internet video sharing website; being watched by thousands of viewers from all over the world."
I like the subtle eye contact and smile Picard makes with the viewer at 1:01 after making the observation that their reality could be merely a simulation. Barclay looks directly at the camera after as well.
What Barkley doesn't realize is that he just terminated the computer program he was holding in his hand, dropping Moriarty out of the simulation, defeating the whole purpose of putting the mini holodeck in that enhancement module.
imagine if he was in a simulation and when he said computer end program the program shut down and he didn't even realize it till someone came along to start it back up?🤔🤣
"our reality might be very much like theirs..... all this might just be an elaborate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table..." In reference to the simulation you are watching.. running through the television on your table...
@@MorebitsUK Oh I broke the 5th wall my friend which is currently upside down hence that star thing which is a curse on binary code 101=E=that which connects 0-10 the big or the HI & LO the big & small like why E-LOHI-M or why LO-KI-IK-HI names mean what they do in reference. E-Theory came & M-Theory are the connecting of two simulations with separate but connecting themes/paradigms meaning like this world they have molds over them or like what the Keepers of TalosIV described in captain pike leading a guided life a rigged life & if you refuse there is ""punishment"" which yeah Pike broke the 4th wall & paid dearly for it hence him blinking once for no twice for yes. He never made it out of the cage he was being punished the entire time...
1:05 Lol at that moment. It feels like Picard is making an in-joke that everyone gets except Reg and he's like 'wait, is that an in-joke? Are we actually in a simulation?'
i always believed that it got sent to the Daystrom institute for study,, in one of the semi canon books i believed it was mentioned mortality was the inspiration for EMH
the evidence of it being a simulation is right there, the computer didnt respond to Reg's Command, a Direct "Computer, End Program" and it didnt query what program, unless of course it shut down a hollodeck and left some poor crew members falling from a mountain that suddenly stopped existing
I always figured that Moriarti would discover the deception within the hour and spend eternity trapped inside a simulated world he knew to be fake, slowly going mad as he desperately tried to escape.
You ever think about some of the reports Star Fleet operations must get? “While surveying a new star, our holodeck malfunctioned and a character from a Victorian Era (Earth) fictional series came to life and threatened the ship. The program was sequestered and is now running in a memory module on an Engineering lieutenant’s desk. The star was normal for its sequence.” What’s the 9-to-5 like for the person responsible for responding to those things? How do you even begin to square, sort, and/or make any of that right?
They put the entire future of the universe, the smartest of all super villains AND the Matrix into the hands of Star Fleet's most inept man. [I'll be looking for the sequel.]
@@0x1EGEN Is it? LaForge created Moriarty by accident in seconds. Whereas Dr Zimmermann canonically spent years creating the EMH. In consistent continuity it should have been as easy as saying "Computer, create a hologrammatic ship's surgeon capable of handling all manner of medical emergencies."
@@davidwuhrer6704 In a practical setting, you probably don't want to have a virtual surgeon created by vague interpretation to perform surgery on you. Think of it like how computer programs for industrial applications are made. You 100% would never use github copilot to write the code for you lol. I like to think that EMH was a more formalized version of the hologram AI technology. But it is just my imagination and the writers probably never gave it a second thought. :)
Wait, shouldn't the computer have said "please specific Programm to end"? Or "unable to comply, programm not known"? Only a Holodeck that he had no control over would have stayed silent like that...
I just thought the very same thing today...if the cube was in the saucer section it could have survived. Picard would probably do the moral thing and at least search for it. Also there is the possibility that the cube was placed in a more secure location than a Federation starship between this episode and Generations? Fun to think about...
It probably got transferred to Zimmerman's holo research lab on Jupiter Station. He was pioneering the development of intelligent, self-aware holograms at the time.
Great character...especially liked when Barkley evolved into a super being. Fascinating what Picard said... we maybe living in a holodeck on someone's desk..
I wish they'd explored this more in DS9 or Voyager, after the doctor got his mobile emitter technology, or when Zimmerman showed you could have holograms running throughout buildings/ships.
I've spent months wondering why my latest project, a virtual beaver lodge known as Dammit, won't run for much more than a day. Turns out you're my neighbour, and my microphone gain was turned up.
Looking forward to see how Moriarty got out in Season 3 of Picard. Maybe he found a mobile emitter from Voyager's Doc. (Or they find him in the Holodeck of the Enterprise D at the starfleet museum where they brought the saucer section to, after it crashed.)
Why not just disintegrate it with the phaser? I mean, someone else could find it among the wreckage, hooked it up to the holodeck or god forbid their computer core and get Moriarty come back with a vengeance.
I hope in Picard season 3 they explain that they actually lived up to their word with Moriarty. Voyager had the technology to give him what he wanted. The doctor was able to go anywhere he wanted, even off the ship. They could have done the same for Moriarty.
yeah, sure, by all means, let's give the one most meticulous mastermind since Kahn roam free having coerced Starfleet into yielding to his demands and trust that he'll stay put and never try to do that again. shall we?
Usually, the computer will initiate tones and a response when addressed by a member of the ship's crew, but in THIS case, it was, Computer (thinking to its self), "I am not going to dignify THAT request with a response."
Barclay looks like he's proud but could shyly retreat into himself at the same time. Riker acts like he's annoyed to add some tension and provoke an explanation. Troi and Crusher smile admiringly. (female approval! go Broccoli!) Picard and Data extrapolate on the details. It's a great cast and writing.
Just an insane thought this would have made a great series finale. Barkley says “computer end program” and the computer program ends with him in some holodeck somewhere
It would have been nice to surmise that Barclay took the Module with Moriarty and the Countess with him to Starfleet Command San Francisco, Jupiter Station and then to the Enterprise-E.
I'm not sure whatever happened to the self-contained holodeck they created for Moriarty but I assume it stayed on the Enterprise. And I'm pretty sure no one would've thought to grab it when the Enterprise was later destroyed. RIP in Moriarty and the Countess.
There's only one major thing the writers screwed up big time (in my view), when Barclay says "computer, end program" the real Enterprise computer would have responded for clarification of which program he was referring to.
I could guess that there are some commands perhaps don't require a reaction. Saying "computer, end program" outside of the holodeck is pointless, so the computer might not respond to it. But I do find that the more likely option is that it would respond something like "This command is only applicable to the holodeck", etc. I don't think this is inherently a plothole, however. We know that universal translators are inside people's heads (Quark, Rom and Nog display this very clearly in DS9's "Little Green Men")... So I think computer-integration could be, to some degree, as well-- perhaps entirely. We know obviously specific calls to people aren't displayed to every crew member. All this to say, we might just not be hearing the computer's response as a viewer. Similar to if music plays through someone's headphones in a show or movie-- you might hear the audio direct-to-source, or hear nothing, depending on what works best for its narrative beat.
"You do not have administrator privileges to end this program."
I like the originality of your comment, wasn't the obvious one so good one on ya
No really, are their safety protocols in there? What happens when Moriarty gets over it? He cant die? What if hes captured and tortured? What if this box is forgotten for a thousand years, he doesn't age, right?
This box is a fucking prison, and very potentially an outright hell.
@@Urammar Just remember that Moriarty is a simulated computer generated character. So he would probably just disappear like a computer glitch. lol
@@Urammar I think you are right. It is a prison for consciousness . Isn’t it what squaring the circle means?
"Ugh... Not that again. "sudo computer end programm"."
Picard: Makes lighthearted joke.
Barkley: Enters existential depression.
Based on his tone I don't believe it was a lighthearted joke. I think it's a genuine hypothetical assertion.
It doesn't take much to nudge Lt. Broccoli into any kind of depression.
no its great scene free of dips hit internet humor
Barkley: "Computer, end program"
computer: stays quiet
Barley: happy face
Admin: "You don't have the privileges for console commands you silly user, hue hue hue"
Q: Materializes to throw in a witty comment about the nature of reality, before vanishing again.
"...running inside a little device sitting on someone's table" Picard grinning vaguely around the room
- Barclay nervously glancing directly into the camera
Hahaha! I didn't notice that before. Bravo
@@b33jal as in the camera and the tv.
I mean Picard wasn't wrong. It's playing in a box in my hand. My cell phone.
@@kermitdafrog8 But that is not a simulation. So, half correct?
@@kermitdafrog8 Except you hand is probably not a table. My apologies if you have some sort of weird table-type prosthetic hand.
lieutenant barclay: "Computer. End program."
The cube switches off.
Moriarty: Damn you, Broccoli!
@@FutureDeep Funny thing is I love broccoli. Moriarty=Lucifer but hey you're just simulation programs programmed with a blind spot so these very words you read go right through you lol yup.
@@FutureDeep I just had a terrible thought, since the Enterprise was eventually destroyed we don't know what happened to that device Barkley wasn't trusted with...
@@glair the program isn't necessarily run at realtime speed. perhaps after a year, the program has experienced 100 years and shuts down
@@glair You mean "Barkley was entrusted with"?
Reginald Barkley is one of the most realist characters in all of Star Trek; The Everyman.
he is too intelligent to be everyman.
He is another science type with HFA, formerly known as AS.
Nah, Barkley is todays everyday IT guy (think of webdeveloper, etc). Little bit nerdy, little bit antisocial, etc.
OBrien is the Everyman. He's the guy that does his job and you dont notice, and when he doesnt your life goes to shit. Think of any plumber, any roofing guy, IT infrastructure, etc.
@@livinlicious And Troi is every company’s VP, or of their VP’s...completely useless.
I agree, i like how he never played into the cliche that is Crusher, Laforge and Troy. I like how he took them on for a time.
Wouldn't it be funny if when Barclay said, "Computer end program!" Suddenly we see the end of the episode as the theme song begins playing over the scrolling end credits? ;)
...which is what happened.
All of Trek is just another one of Barclay's fantasies
@@jv-lk7bc no it isn't. Barkley smiled, patted the machine and walked out of the room as the music played and it faded to black. What they are talking about would go "computer, end program." (Black) instantly as he says it. As if the show was the program and he ended it.
@@nathanbrooks2581 it's disappointing that you actually had to explain it to someone *sigh
@@nathanbrooks2581 Or we ourselves faded to black.
Earlier in the episode, Barkley suggests there "is a glitch in the matrix" of the holodeck's circuitry.
Fascinating to find the origin of that statement was in a Star Trek episode and not The Matrix film.
Well, TNG also named the Dyson Sphere.
(Dyson himself only talked about something like the Dyson Swarm, people just keept missunderstanding "Habitat").
@@christopherg2347 Dyson actually got the idea from a sci fi novel.
@@Kalenz1234 At least for the Niven Ring, he did. From Larry Niven.
If you dig even deeper you will find "The Matrix" story in ancient history. It is told in a different way not with computers but with torches and lights on a wall. It is a very old story my friends.
Simpsons did it first, but Star Trek did all of sci-fi first😁
"Computer. Reboot 2020 with something better".
Specify parameters.
Unable to comply
Why you complaining about 2020? We were supposed to run out of gas..2020 was so much better than we thought. Imagine no gas, no trains no food in your stores children crying themselves to sleep from hunger and that's when people get sick...so tell me how the f was 2020 bad? You got to stay inside most the time...half the US smokes pot the other drinks..2020 was a party year wtf is wrong with you
@@jamesmeppler6375 Yeah imagine worse things to feel good about bad things. Classic.
@@jamesmeppler6375 Correction you got to stay inside smoking pot perhaps but most of the working class that grows your pot and the food you eat for the most part did not have the luxury of being a social parasite in a real 21st century world without Star Trek replicators and had to actually go outside to do their jobs like all the soldiers, police officers and firefighters dealing with mobs of looters and rioters and medical personnel trying to stop a global pandemic started in China so you didn't end up like one of the aristocrats in the Masque of the Red Death inside your nice safe comforting delusions paid for by the taxes of the rest of us.
If Picard states that their reality is very much like theirs, then imagine Moriarty running into a random Borg cube in deep space.
We would see who a would add whose biological and technological advancements to their own. Moriarty is an evil genius mastermind after all. His only shortcoming was being unfamiliar with the universe he found himself in. Otherwise the crew couldn't find a way to trick him. The Borg Queen would have a tough opponent for the control of the collective if he ever found out they exist. And then, the universe would have a problem. He was always one to do things through subterfuge, not sheer force.
Hullo! Prepare for assimilation, indubitably
reminds me of Babylon 5 and Jack the Ripper.
Heh, I wounder what Moriarty's Borg Designation would be? maybe 18 9 of 3?
and funny that his first appearance in literature was a short story called The Adventure of the Final Problem.
I'd watch a 6 episode series about that.....
I do like Barclay's flaws. Granted, the Enterprise is the Federation flagship, and would therefore have Starfleet's most accomplished personnel, but it was still nice to see someone who struggled a bit with being there. Also, I like that they addressed holo addiction as being a real issue.
wait wait wait is that cube were ssd's are going?🤔
As I recall, initially he was a recent transfer whose imposter syndrome started to take control of him. The crew started to reject him, calling him things like "broccoli" (like in the title). Picard wouldn't allow the transfer, telling the crew that he was part of the team and they better figure out a way to include him. It was one of those episodes that demonstrated how Picard is a great leader.
@@raven4k998 No that cube is a passive computation device with memory, it's a whole computer in a sense
Isolinear chips hold specific commands as well so I have no fucking idea how they store data
"Computer, End Program." Darn, 2020 is still here.
And 2021 Is off to a Greeeeeeaaaaat start
@Corat it’s very nice, that’s why I hate the news
i would of love to of seen Barkly break the 4th wall and look directly at the cam and say "just checking" LOL
Oh my lord... "would HAVE love to HAVE seen..."
At this rate of language evolution, by the 23rd century it'll be my comment that's incorrect.
@@mario0318
_"bruh why of you correc im just cos u a nerd
thas why ur still a nerd
nerd"_ Someone, probably.
@@EggBastion Y u trippin bruv?
@@jv-lk7bc cos innit
oof
Picard: "For all we know, this could just be a recording on an internet video sharing website; being watched by thousands of viewers from all over the world."
And commented.
Or it could just be a tv show.
I like the subtle eye contact and smile Picard makes with the viewer at 1:01 after making the observation that their reality could be merely a simulation. Barclay looks directly at the camera after as well.
What Barkley doesn't realize is that he just terminated the computer program he was holding in his hand, dropping Moriarty out of the simulation, defeating the whole purpose of putting the mini holodeck in that enhancement module.
Crusher and Barkley trying not to look at the Camera, after Picard breaks the 4th wall just a bit
I like how they all walk out in unison leaving outcast Reg to ponder on life’s mysteries.
imagine if he was in a simulation and when he said computer end program the program shut down and he didn't even realize it till someone came along to start it back up?🤔🤣
"our reality might be very much like theirs..... all this might just be an elaborate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table..." In reference to the simulation you are watching.. running through the television on your table...
Oh I've known this longer than I can say for reasons of which should be painfully obvious.
Get me outta here now!
He Broke the fourth wall!
@@MorebitsUK Oh I broke the 5th wall my friend which is currently upside down hence that star thing which is a curse on binary code 101=E=that which connects 0-10 the big or the HI & LO the big & small like why E-LOHI-M or why LO-KI-IK-HI names mean what they do in reference. E-Theory came & M-Theory are the connecting of two simulations with separate but connecting themes/paradigms meaning like this world they have molds over them or like what the Keepers of TalosIV described in captain pike leading a guided life a rigged life & if you refuse there is ""punishment"" which yeah Pike broke the 4th wall & paid dearly for it hence him blinking once for no twice for yes. He never made it out of the cage he was being punished the entire time...
Honestly it goes even deeper now I was sitting here watching it on my phone on Netflix
1:05 Lol at that moment. It feels like Picard is making an in-joke that everyone gets except Reg and he's like 'wait, is that an in-joke? Are we actually in a simulation?'
Well it was. It was a nod that TV's back in the 90s looked like a box and was usually on a table.
Yeah this is a great tv moment
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A little reference to solipsism
And Moriarty died when the Enterprise D was blown up and that cube along with it.
the saucer survived, so there's a good chance it dd too
Broccoli, you had ONE job!
i always believed that it got sent to the Daystrom institute for study,, in one of the semi canon books i believed it was mentioned mortality was the inspiration for EMH
@@sword4005 Actually the EMH is designed to delay the onset of mortality.
I think you mean Enterprise E? Didn't D get destroyed in Generations?
I always thought this should end with Worf taking the module to "keep that safe," then when everyone leaves he incinerates it with a phaser.
that was not the matrix it was an early day borg cube🤣
Since that Enterprise blew up, this module was almost certainly destroyed.
I guess I never noticed the Barkley's look at 1:03, it's great, with perfect timing! XD
Next episode: Wesley Crusher plugs the device into the warp drive as part of a science project
the evidence of it being a simulation is right there, the computer didnt respond to Reg's Command, a Direct "Computer, End Program" and it didnt query what program, unless of course it shut down a hollodeck and left some poor crew members falling from a mountain that suddenly stopped existing
You do know there is a full time.e guy that needs to mop up the buckets that are spilled on the hollodecks floors.
dafuuuuq?
Barkley should also try spinning a top at the end...
And said device is probably sitting on Q's desk.
And Q is probably a nerdy 13 year old human with a big ego and a talent for simulations.
Every now and then, he picks it up, loads his mods and enters the simulation. The time he was human? Patch day. His mods weren't updated yet.
Wow, Picard calling out the simulation hypothesis back in the late 80s.
Since they never revisited this character afterwards I always imagined Moriarty becoming Picard's "Khan" if/when he ever found out about the ruse.
good thinking. I kinda hoped that barclay put the device into an airlock and blasted it into open space 😂
One of the truly great television episodes of all time. Any genre.
he didn't say computer end program in the correct language that is why it did not comply with that order🤣
Legend has it they are still in the Holodeck...Star Trek Picard is just a simulation
I always figured that Moriarti would discover the deception within the hour and spend eternity trapped inside a simulated world he knew to be fake, slowly going mad as he desperately tried to escape.
@FlyingMonkies325 OTOH, Barclay has more than enough time to tinker with the program from the outside. He could "age" them at a fairly normal rate.
a nightmare
1:03 I love how Barkley looks straight into the camera, nervously. LOL, never noticed that before!
I was half expecting Barclay to trip and fall, breaking the doohickey!
Imagine how upset Moriarty will be if he ever gets out!! 🤣❤️
Cue Picard: S3. 😉
@@badgercdlyons Yeah but id have to watch Picard Season 3. Pass.
The actor stated this to me when I asked about that: "When I do get out, Picard is going to wish the Borg were still around."
Season 3 was a lot better than the rest
You ever think about some of the reports Star Fleet operations must get? “While surveying a new star, our holodeck malfunctioned and a character from a Victorian Era (Earth) fictional series came to life and threatened the ship. The program was sequestered and is now running in a memory module on an Engineering lieutenant’s desk. The star was normal for its sequence.”
What’s the 9-to-5 like for the person responsible for responding to those things? How do you even begin to square, sort, and/or make any of that right?
They put the entire future of the universe, the smartest of all super villains AND the Matrix into the hands of Star Fleet's most inept man. [I'll be looking for the sequel.]
probably one of the most genius tng episodes and most satisfying conclusions to a sideplot.
Except they never again used this ability to create supergenius AIs quickly at will.
@@davidwuhrer6704 The EMH is basically the successor to this.
@@0x1EGEN Is it? LaForge created Moriarty by accident in seconds. Whereas Dr Zimmermann canonically spent years creating the EMH.
In consistent continuity it should have been as easy as saying "Computer, create a hologrammatic ship's surgeon capable of handling all manner of medical emergencies."
@@davidwuhrer6704 In a practical setting, you probably don't want to have a virtual surgeon created by vague interpretation to perform surgery on you. Think of it like how computer programs for industrial applications are made. You 100% would never use github copilot to write the code for you lol.
I like to think that EMH was a more formalized version of the hologram AI technology. But it is just my imagination and the writers probably never gave it a second thought. :)
Quite the 4th wall break there. “Perhaps we’re all just a simulation being played on someone’s table…”
Lol. Nice
Picard is right. They do live in a simulation. It’s called Star Trek.
WHOAH MAN That's exactly the message that you were sent by the writers, actors and director.
END PROGRAM.
And the Cube, and memory device shuts down 😂
As he gently puts it on the table, and backs away slowly...
Wait, shouldn't the computer have said "please specific Programm to end"? Or "unable to comply, programm not known"?
Only a Holodeck that he had no control over would have stayed silent like that...
"Dr. Harris, when are you going to let me out of this _box?"_
This never ends well.
Notice that... the ominous music didn't end.
I've got a lot of affection for reg. He's easily one of my favourite, well thought out characters
This device destroyed with the destruction of the enterprise.
Can you imagine the number of people who watched this until it ended ,and immediately said "Computer, End Program" to the empty room ??
nice to see Barclay becoming more confident.
No you imprisoned the guy in a personal hell.
A shame that the mini holodeck and Moriarty were lost with the destruction of the Enterprise.
I just thought the very same thing today...if the cube was in the saucer section it could have survived. Picard would probably do the moral thing and at least search for it. Also there is the possibility that the cube was placed in a more secure location than a Federation starship between this episode and Generations? Fun to think about...
It probably got transferred to Zimmerman's holo research lab on Jupiter Station.
He was pioneering the development of intelligent, self-aware holograms at the time.
Computer end program...
Computer: "Request denied, you need omega clearance for that request Mr.Barkley.
Running program... indefinitely."
Admit it! You said "Computer. End program." outload, after watching this episode.
Great character...especially liked when Barkley evolved into a super being.
Fascinating what Picard said... we maybe living in a holodeck on someone's desk..
I wish they'd explored this more in DS9 or Voyager, after the doctor got his mobile emitter technology, or when Zimmerman showed you could have holograms running throughout buildings/ships.
Reminds me for some reason like when Beverly was trapped in a warp bubble, which Wesley and Geordi saved her from.
In reality, Moriarty fooled them, and they are the ones in a simulation.
Imagine if in fact all of this is just "a-similation" hmmm.....love TNG entendres!!
If true, this has got to be the glitchiest, poorly thought out and ill conceived simulation imaginable.
Oh shit Piccard knows, should I format my phone?
I say that last line nearly every day.................. followed by a loud "dammit"
I've spent months wondering why my latest project, a virtual beaver lodge known as Dammit, won't run for much more than a day. Turns out you're my neighbour, and my microphone gain was turned up.
"Computer end program" "You ain't getting me on no starship fool"
Wonderful 4th wall writing ❤
30 years later Moriarty goes insane and becomes obsessed with 'Pop goes the Weasel' as a password.
Picard knew! Quicky we must terminate the program and restart it so that our most beloved characters can continue to entertain us!
Looking forward to see how Moriarty got out in Season 3 of Picard. Maybe he found a mobile emitter from Voyager's Doc. (Or they find him in the Holodeck of the Enterprise D at the starfleet museum where they brought the saucer section to, after it crashed.)
And here we are 30 years into the future and Moriarty makes his comeback in Picard Season 3.
Who would ever have guessed it..
Who's pumped for this?
Looks good!
"Computer, end program."
"You forgot to say 'please'."
Barclay's ancestor, Capt. "Howling Mad" Murdock, would be proud.
Reg really does have a lot of imagination.
Picard over here saving holograms, while Janeway just straight up murdered Tuvix...
Why not just disintegrate it with the phaser? I mean, someone else could find it among the wreckage, hooked it up to the holodeck or god forbid their computer core and get Moriarty come back with a vengeance.
It's the yellow tesseract!!!!!
I hope in Picard season 3 they explain that they actually lived up to their word with Moriarty. Voyager had the technology to give him what he wanted. The doctor was able to go anywhere he wanted, even off the ship. They could have done the same for Moriarty.
yeah, sure, by all means, let's give the one most meticulous mastermind since Kahn roam free having coerced Starfleet into yielding to his demands and trust that he'll stay put and never try to do that again.
shall we?
Usually, the computer will initiate tones and a response when addressed by a member of the ship's crew, but in THIS case, it was, Computer (thinking to its self), "I am not going to dignify THAT request with a response."
Is it me or is Mr Barkley a fucking legend?
Barclay looks like he's proud but could shyly retreat into himself at the same time. Riker acts like he's annoyed to add some tension and provoke an explanation. Troi and Crusher smile admiringly. (female approval! go Broccoli!) Picard and Data extrapolate on the details. It's a great cast and writing.
"What if we just turn it off?"
"Oh yeah good point."
lol 😂, I was thinking, “There’s 5,678 programs running right now “
Is that Murdoch from A Team?
It is😊
Plato came up with it even before this, in ‘the cave’.
Just an insane thought this would have made a great series finale. Barkley says “computer end program” and the computer program ends with him in some holodeck somewhere
in a roundabout way it was the ending of the Enterprise Star trek series.The way the episode went kinda of sucked
1:27 i would of loved of seen LT Barcley break the 4th wall and vlook right at the cam and say just checking" lol
It would have been nice to surmise that Barclay took the Module with Moriarty and the Countess with him to Starfleet Command San Francisco, Jupiter Station and then to the Enterprise-E.
The phrasing of this video's title is amusing since Dwight Schultz actually voiced Neo in the Animatrix series.
the idea that you could end the program that your potentially trapped in with just a simple voice command is rather laughable
“I love it when a plan comes together.”
woah, the entire interwebs, dun fitted in to a children's 3d maze. incredible
i love star trek so much
I would have loved if it cut to black as he said computer end program
Barclay: Computer, end program.
(mini holodeck shuts off)
Barclay: Oh...oh no...(panic attack)
"Computer, end programme..." Worth a try.
"Computer end program" [the miniature holodeck shuts down essentially killing Moriarty] "WAIT NO-"
One of best ending ever: smart, philosophical, shakespearean.... all the opposite of the current trek...
It have been nice to see James Moriarty in Voyager. When Captain Janeway in the future. Moriarty could have help her
Classic Trek is better than False Trek
I'm not sure whatever happened to the self-contained holodeck they created for Moriarty but I assume it stayed on the Enterprise. And I'm pretty sure no one would've thought to grab it when the Enterprise was later destroyed. RIP in Moriarty and the Countess.
Moriarty got out of the cube in a later episode IIRC
@@FureyinHD I looked it up just to be sure. This was his last appearance.
Mr. Musk laughs out loud:
"Ha-ha fools"
Picard was right. I am someone watching this on my little device on my table.😊
I remember Barkley doing this but Broccoli? Must be a new character
There's only one major thing the writers screwed up big time (in my view), when Barclay says "computer, end program" the real Enterprise computer would have responded for clarification of which program he was referring to.
I could guess that there are some commands perhaps don't require a reaction. Saying "computer, end program" outside of the holodeck is pointless, so the computer might not respond to it. But I do find that the more likely option is that it would respond something like "This command is only applicable to the holodeck", etc.
I don't think this is inherently a plothole, however. We know that universal translators are inside people's heads (Quark, Rom and Nog display this very clearly in DS9's "Little Green Men")... So I think computer-integration could be, to some degree, as well-- perhaps entirely. We know obviously specific calls to people aren't displayed to every crew member.
All this to say, we might just not be hearing the computer's response as a viewer. Similar to if music plays through someone's headphones in a show or movie-- you might hear the audio direct-to-source, or hear nothing, depending on what works best for its narrative beat.
Barclay be looking like Murdocs inelligent brother from ATeam
When he was walking away after saying "end program" the lights should have flickered
I don't understand Crusher's stupid smile at Picard's remark that this may also be a simulation, that's a terrifying thought.
Patrick having a little fun there.. what if we were just in a little box sitting on somebody's table?
1:03 "THANKS FOR YET ANOTHER ANXIETY CAPTAIN GOD FUCKING DAMMIT"