I was the one security guy that pushed the button after the Capt said, shields up! But never before no matter how much sense it made and no one in Star Fleet had a longer and more dramatic pause then our Capt taking even more damage than any other ship before saying, FIRE! Then I got to push the button again. Good times.
yup Romulan ale and installing warp cores don't mix. Luckily the Enterprise didn't reverse at warp 8 as the Exelsior The Yokohama is still turning tight circels around Jupiter station at 2% impuls 😳
As a computer programmer this really hit home. The number of times a person has managed to fix the problem in a system only to watch it fail over and over after every new fix, every "I know how to fix this one" .. priceless.
As a retired Navy engineer, this scenario occurs more frequently than one might think. Especially doing full power runs on main engines that were recently inspected, overhauled, or replaced. The loss of power is very realistic as well.
@@hvacqualityassurance7116 actually had to go to bolt store nearby shipyard and buy back the bolts that we marked that were taken from our parts box. To replace them with new ones had a six month lead time.
As a former first officer on a Galaxy Class starship, this episode really made me chuckle, I was always grateful the Captain had to be the one to explain to the top brass why we were always late.
Scotty: “starship captains are like children, they want everything right now & they want it their way but the secret is to give them only what they need not what they want.” Geordie: “yeah, well I told the captain that I’d have (this) done done in an hour” Scotty: “how long will this really take?” Geordie: “AN HOUR…” Scotty: “oh, you really didn’t tell him how long it would REALLY TAKE, did you?” Geordie: “of course I DID”…. Scotty: “oh laddie, you got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a MIRACLE WORKER”. 😉😊😀
As a retired 50-year HD fleet mechanic, the 'hardest' job I had was my first 'running the rack' on a Detroit 8V-71 2 stroke engine. If anything went wrong, the engine could over-rev and cause engine damage. I had all the shutdown equipment ready, but the engine played nice and ran very well. There too the bus owner was watching, like Picard, wanting the best from me. Good for me, I had a good teacher! Thanks Craig Seyfried! 😎🏆
As a former transwarp manifold out of alignment by .004 microns, this episode really hit home. When the deflector dish malfunction caused by an inverse tachyon stream from a strange probe sent the dilithium matrix flux converter out of sync, most of the ship suffered a protonic orbital array cascade that pushed my alignment off by just enough to make the static warp shell collapse and took us out of warp. We counted ourselves lucky we weren't the books that Worf had eaten earlier that day.
I like that Geordi taps his comm badge to contact the bridge. In the early seasons, most of the crew did this pretty consistently, but as the seasons went on, they stopped or did it sporadically anytime they wanted to contact someone or someplace aboard ship. This is the last season, so the fact that he does it, shows that it was pretty scattershot in the later seasons.
@@Shadowkey392 I would say so only because she's not listed under the cast. Her name is found at the end of the episode with all the other guests...but then again, it's been awhile since I've been in front of the camera and they may do it differently now.
I like the wood burner attachment on the front of the reaction chamber. If Worf was there he could shovel coal into the warp core or whatever that blue thing is.
Actually, she did react, I think her lack of speech could be a directing choice. The parley between Picard/LaForge needs not be interrupted for what seems like a very obvious issue.
@@ducminhduong9873 I wonder though if it also has something to do with the fact that actors also get paid by lines they speak. It's cheaper for an extra to just sit there with no dialogue than to incorporate dialogue especially if it doesn't add to the scene.
Picard: "Why isn't my ship moving?" Geordi: "Well, technically we ARE moving sir. The ship is drifting at 6.4 meters per second toward our destination." Picard: "Well done, Geordi. I let the admiral know we're making progress."
As a former rookie computer builder, this episode really hits home. I would always get so excited when I have all the electronical thingy jigs and blinky lights and wind whirlers in place and just when I push the make it happener shiny round thing and be so surprised by the release of the magic smoke.
At my USCG small boat station, we had a break in coxswain blow the reduction gear with a stupid maneuver. We got back home on one engine. When we got the brand new replacement part and started test runs (just like here) we discovered the new reduction gear housing had a major defect in the form of a crack that was painted over by the manufacturer. It sprayed the gear fluid all over the engine room. So we limped back on one engine….
Surprising how a Galaxy class starship can put in huge changes to something as fundamental as warp core just before a very important mission lol. That is like releasing to production right before the black friday shopping rush hits your website.
Or building a PC. I installed a new video card recently, and my PC wouldn't post or give me video. I went through everything I could think of. Reseating the RAM fixed it somehow, despite the fact that I never touched the RAM.
As a former nuke on aircraft carriers, this scene hits home so much more now than it did when I was a kid- leave it to shipyard to screw up something important during an overhaul, and the crew has to go behind them and spend a significant amount of time fixing it to get the ship underway, keep the lights on, or both. Don't want to pull back into the yards because lord knows they're likely only going to make things worse, and aside from that, when propulsion plant casualties happen when you're underway in the middle of nowhere, you're going to have to fix it yourselves anyway.
It happens in manufacturing on dry land as well. My favorite was the gearbox that threatened to shake two floors apart and drop them to the ground level. But there were others as well. Fire safety system , pellet distribution system update...Yah, it is universal.
@@pwnmeisterage Which is why ships always go through a shakedown cruise before entering service as the people who built it always screw something up from the very start as it is actually pretty common to have numerous issues when a ship leaves the shipyard after just being built or having undergone a refit of any sorts.
As a former strip of pixels on the main display to the left of the admirals right nostril, this episode really hit me hard. I recall fondly the shading command and remember the deep disappointment when we had to switch back to transparent afterwards.
As a former TV fan of the show ... Heck, I'm still a fan!!!!! But this episode was really impactful ... as was every other episodes in all of the 7 series!
I was trained to be an engineer myself. If this happened to me I would have headed back on the first power shut down. LaForge’s interest in this warp core clouded his judgement and also lost impulse power to go back to base. Technically if something went wrong immediately you go back to find out what it was. This was quite an amateur behavior considering his experience.
I'm not an engineer, but have been in those situations and you're absolutely right. When a big piece of expensive and potentially dangerous equipment doesn't respond the way it it should during commissioning, you stop and figure it out. Then again, a realistic portrayal of something like that would have taken all episode long. And we have to remember that star trek was written for a broader audience.
Ships engineers can be like this. More then a few cases where ships have had engine failures and the engineers wanted to fix it themselves out of pride. Its usually the captains call after that if he wants to drop anchor and wait, or call for a tug. Then it becomes the captains pride depending on the type of ship, if they want to be towed back into port or not. smaller ships often go for the tow... But larger ships, big cruise liners, aircraft carriers, seem to think they should be able to do it themselves.
Electrical engineer here who used to work on aircraft carrier reactor propulsion plants in a former life. No, it really isn't amateur at all. When you pull into the shipyard, there's an annoying tendency for you to pull out with more things broken than when you pulled in, and there's always going to be adjustments that need to be made. Best not to trust the people who broke your ship in the first place, and just do the work yourself. After all, when you go dead in the water in the middle of nowhere, it's not like you can just send out a call and have technicians flown out to meet you - you have to fix the issues yourself. This is one of the most accurate scenes in Star Trek I've seen in a long while.
@@jenniferstewarts4851 ship's engineers fix it themselves because they're going to need to be able to do that if they're mid-ocean anyway. Warships can't just call for a tow or technicians to fly out when you go dead in the water in the middle of the Pacific, especially if you're in combat operations or in a situation involving restricted maneuvering ability.
As a former bio-neural gel pack on an Intrepid-class starship, this really didn’t hit home for me as I have been stuck in the Delta Quadrant for almost 30 years. For the love of god, please save me from Neelix’s cooking.
For this comment on the galactic subspace network i sentence you to consuming a special mix of amino acids the doctor and neelix made together you will be begging for ration packs by time you get the alpha quadrant
As I understood it, they usually eject the warp core when the core is displaying risk of harming the crew or destroying the vessel. In some circumstances this would've left them stranded for days, even weeks, without anything more than impulse engines. They would've had to wait for another ship to come by and tow them to the nearest station. On top of that, while I'm sure diterium isn't too rare of a resource by this time, it probably takes quite a lot of time to construct a new core and install it. The better question is, they just departed a station and didn't go to warp, which means they were still in range of the station. Why didn't they go back?
They didn't eject the core 8n Generations which is why the ship crashed. They had to evacuate everyone to the saucer section which took time. I don't know why they didn't just eject the core. Maybe the magnetic interlocks being damaged had something to do with it
No but as others have pointed out you be stuck for weeks either limping to the nearest planet/Starbase or waiting for another ship to give you a tow. Also they never ejected the warp core in the next generation as Geordi pointed out in Season one the galaxy class has a high enough ejection failure rate that it is just simpler to evaluate the star drive and do a saucer separation then to try to dump a warp core.
As an expert YT comments reader this one really hits home. I inject my opinion into the stream and no one comments on it. Everyone is watching and yet I cannot get a single thumbs up.
After the first couple seasons of TNG, Star Trek took its starship technology so cavalierly afterward. The way Geordi and Picard are behaving in these scenes-Geordi insisting nothing is seriously wrong, and Picard with a case of "get-there-itis"-is so reckless. The warp drive is a giant bomb if not handled with great care. When you push the button and nothing happens, you'd take even with a single home electrical circuit, let alone a Galaxy Class warp core.
Well a car has basically a giant gasoline bomb under your butt, and we still get only slightly frustrated when we turn the key and it doesn't work. Thats how routine warp cores had become by the late 2300s And by that time warp cores had been around for twice as long in universe as cars have been around in real life, so the tech is probably all the more mundane to them.
Im wondering why they are installing a new warp core in deep space and not a starbase. They just had a new core in storage i guess and broke down on the road.
Poor Ensign Gates, reduced to stoic wordlessness in the face of repeated inexplicable technical failures because she wasn't on the full day rate. 😉 (The character's most delivered line -- an off-screen _"Aye, sir."_ in multiple episodes -- was recorded in post by a different actor. She only had one on-screen line of her own, but in fairness it was just before she flew the Enterprise inside an asteroid in _The Pegasus_ so she gets a million cool points for that.)
Yeah, I would rather have her slam her fist on the console, shouting, "WHAT THE FRICKEN HECK!!!!" . . . 'I'M GETTING NO RESPONSE FROM THE WARP DRIVE!!!!!! CAPTAIN!!!!!" **sobs** "WHY AM I EVEN ALIVE!!!"
As a former formal formica counter in 10 forward, I definitely remember red shirts in the air and feet on my face….there was loud music and most of engineering’s 1st shift present.
As a former chevy cavalier owner, this episode really hits home.
As a retired starship engineer myself. This episode really hit home.
I was the one security guy that pushed the button after the Capt said, shields up! But never before no matter how much sense it made and no one in Star Fleet had a longer and more dramatic pause then our Capt taking even more damage than any other ship before saying, FIRE! Then I got to push the button again. Good times.
yup Romulan ale and installing warp cores don't mix.
Luckily the Enterprise didn't reverse at warp 8 as the Exelsior
The Yokohama is still turning tight circels around Jupiter station at 2% impuls 😳
Thank u for ur service
Hey what ship did you work on????
@@Anth230 the Compliant.
We used to go along with anything.
As a former spacedock supervisor who never bothered to make sure things worked before installing them, this episode really hit home.
Exactly
To be fair, when testing a brand new engine that could blow the space station out of orbit, I'd wait till I had a bit of room before starting her up.
As a computer programmer this really hit home. The number of times a person has managed to fix the problem in a system only to watch it fail over and over after every new fix, every "I know how to fix this one" .. priceless.
As a former strip of carpeting on the bridge of a Galaxy class starship, this episode really hit home.
I was a former tack strip for carpeting on galaxy class starships, which ship did you serve on?
I was a piece of carpet from the NCC-1701-A, the first version.
As a former plasma conduit, this episode really hit home. My entire family was on the Enterprise when that tragedy hit.
Now this really made me chuckle :) thank you
At least your not a mouse droid on the Death Star.
Liar enterprise , aircraft carrier maybe
"Hey, that's my family you're talking about."
As a retired Navy engineer, this scenario occurs more frequently than one might think. Especially doing full power runs on main engines that were recently inspected, overhauled, or replaced. The loss of power is very realistic as well.
Any time you come out of the yards, it's just a matter of time until you find out what's going to break.
Very very true
Thank you for your service sir
@@Rink03 Thank you.
@@hvacqualityassurance7116 actually had to go to bolt store nearby shipyard and buy back the bolts that we marked that were taken from our parts box. To replace them with new ones had a six month lead time.
As a former blinking light diode on engineering station 6-baker, this episode hits hard.
As a recipient of Ensign Yates' dead eyed vacant stare, this episode really hit home.
As a former food replicator, this episode really hits home
As one of the books Worf had for breakfast, this episode really hits home.
As a former episode this episode really hit home.
As a former RUclips commenter, this episode really hits home. Nothing worse than thinking you're ready to go when things just stop all of a sud
As a former RUclips comment, this episode really hits home.
As a former first officer on a Galaxy Class starship, this episode really made me chuckle, I was always grateful the Captain had to be the one to explain to the top brass why we were always late.
When we served together I always wondered why you turned down your own command.
As a former home, this really hit this episode.
Picard can really count on his crew. They know how bad he not want to go to this conference.
you see you see they just don't make em like they used to🤣
It's like the ship herself knew. 😆
Conveniently lacking shuttles at this particular moment.
@@Thornbloom no they had shuttles Picard did not want to go to the summit that badly🤣
@@Thornbloom you forget.... the captains yacht.
Scotty: “starship captains are like children, they want everything right now & they want it their way but the secret is to give them only what they need not what they want.”
Geordie: “yeah, well I told the captain that I’d have (this) done done in an hour”
Scotty: “how long will this really take?”
Geordie: “AN HOUR…”
Scotty: “oh, you really didn’t tell him how long it would REALLY TAKE, did you?”
Geordie: “of course I DID”….
Scotty: “oh laddie, you got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a MIRACLE WORKER”. 😉😊😀
As a former Captain's chair, the amount of action the chair had in this episode really hit home
As a former tunic, the amount of tugging in this episode really hit home...
I'd like to know why you didn't have a seat belt..
As someone who did the Kessel run in 12 parsecs, this really hit home.
As a season 3 nannite hiding in the secondary computer core, this episode really hit home.
As a former warp feild, this episode really hit home. We finally had enough and went on strike.
As a former episode of the Orville this episode really hits home
As a former star base, this really hit home.
As a retired 50-year HD fleet mechanic, the 'hardest' job I had was my first 'running the rack' on a Detroit 8V-71 2 stroke engine. If anything went wrong, the engine could over-rev and cause engine damage. I had all the shutdown equipment ready, but the engine played nice and ran very well. There too the bus owner was watching, like Picard, wanting the best from me. Good for me, I had a good teacher! Thanks Craig Seyfried! 😎🏆
they stalled the ship they stalled the ship🤣
It's too bad I wasn't there to help; I have my brand new sonic screwdriver.
@@MFM230using the Sonic screwdriver in an urgent setting voids the warranty
I used a bungie cord to the governor lever before running the racks,never had a issue....40 + years ago
Thank you, sir, for your service.
As an episode that really hits home, this really retired starship engineers me.
As a former transwarp manifold out of alignment by .004 microns, this episode really hit home. When the deflector dish malfunction caused by an inverse tachyon stream from a strange probe sent the dilithium matrix flux converter out of sync, most of the ship suffered a protonic orbital array cascade that pushed my alignment off by just enough to make the static warp shell collapse and took us out of warp. We counted ourselves lucky we weren't the books that Worf had eaten earlier that day.
same
Man you took the words right out of my mouth.
From your lips to Q’s ears.
I like that Geordi taps his comm badge to contact the bridge. In the early seasons, most of the crew did this pretty consistently, but as the seasons went on, they stopped or did it sporadically anytime they wanted to contact someone or someplace aboard ship. This is the last season, so the fact that he does it, shows that it was pretty scattershot in the later seasons.
others had theirs set to Voice activate. Geordi after one fateful visit to the Holodeck never made that mistake again.
@@vontar1 He forgot his safeword. Gotcha. Any info on what was his "thing" ?
I like that the sound happens before he even touches the combadge.
@@TheTuckerVision If you look closely the sound track was slightly fast the entire episode.
Probably said Troy's name on the holodeck. Troy picks up the call and just hears moaning. Embarrassment ensues....
As someone who punches houses, this really hit home.
If they had been heading to Risa, Riker would have upgraded the engines himself and got them up to warp 15.
Everywhere Riker went was Risa.
Naw. He'da pushed it there.
That Risa Maneuver😂
Nah, it would have been warp in the factor of 5,6,7,8 while snapping his fingers
Even trying to reach warp 10 with that technology wasn't a smart or wise idea.
That opening shot is absolutely stunning.
As a former extra myself...Ensign Yates' performance really hit home.
Was she an extra at this point?
@@Shadowkey392 I would say so only because she's not listed under the cast. Her name is found at the end of the episode with all the other guests...but then again, it's been awhile since I've been in front of the camera and they may do it differently now.
She pretended to push buttons on a glass panel with gusto and verve! Her performance really made the entire show.
@@nedruss7040 Indeed it did! Why she wasn't nominated for an Oscar, we'll never know.
As a former Japanese Starfleet Admiral, this episode really hit home. The shame of losing face because they were late was something I'll never forget.
As your former samurai sword, your failure to commit hari-kiri at such insults from subordinates really hit home
As a new warp core myself, this episode really hit hard
As a former engineering LCARS interface. This episode really hit home.
1:16 - like the Excelsior 😂. “Good morning, Captain” 😂
As a former warp field this episode really hits home. I collapse every time the plasma conduits are out of alignment.
As a former guy who would say “engage” a lot, this episode really hit home.
As a former starship janitor, this episode really hit home.
As a former Cardassian Oppressor, This episode really hits home.
As a former Starfleet Combadge, this episode really hit home.
I like the wood burner attachment on the front of the reaction chamber. If Worf was there he could shovel coal into the warp core or whatever that blue thing is.
@@am5p8 Well, have Worf start shoveling coal.
The dilithium crystal chamber, containing the crystals in the articulation frame.
@@logicplague is it an anti matter-dilithium propellant? Lieutenant Uhura once implied that all space ships must have a tail pipe.
@@davidgriffiths7696 The impulse drive system has a "tailpipe", which expended plasma.
I dunno man, Worf is barely capable at his job...I think asking him to shovel coal may be a bridge too far.
As someone who has had to attend Admiral Nakomoto's receptions, I am jealous of Captain Picard.
But did it hit home?
As a commenter who can't help but notice inaccurate name spellings, this comment really hits home.
As someone who wanted to go Tosche Station to pick up some power converters, but wasn't allowed to, this episode really hit home.
Admiral Nakamura flew a Zero & a Corsair in WW 2 and has also flown an X-Wing, he really does get around 😉🤔😄
An still he manages to throw a banquet that even Picard finds boring.
Riker holodeck
He’s also a bit of a twat. He’s in measure of a man and refers to Data as ‘your android’ and is happy for him to be taken to pieces.
That wasn't Clyde Kusatsu (Admiral Nakamura) flying an X-Wing that was Paul Sun-Hyung Lee.
As Ensign Yates' vocal cords this failure really hit me hard. I was absolutely stunned.
Incredible Actress
She conveyed the emotion of some of the finest brick walls on this side of the galaxy!
That actually took me out of the scene. She didn't even react when the ship failed to go to warp...
Actually, she did react, I think her lack of speech could be a directing choice. The parley between Picard/LaForge needs not be interrupted for what seems like a very obvious issue.
@@ducminhduong9873 I wonder though if it also has something to do with the fact that actors also get paid by lines they speak. It's cheaper for an extra to just sit there with no dialogue than to incorporate dialogue especially if it doesn't add to the scene.
Picard: "Why isn't my ship moving?"
Geordi: "Well, technically we ARE moving sir. The ship is drifting at 6.4 meters per second toward our destination."
Picard: "Well done, Geordi. I let the admiral know we're making progress."
"To boldly go....absolutely nowhere."
That was DS9 😊
😂😂😂
As a former rookie computer builder, this episode really hits home. I would always get so excited when I have all the electronical thingy jigs and blinky lights and wind whirlers in place and just when I push the make it happener shiny round thing and be so surprised by the release of the magic smoke.
These comments 😂😂
Ah yes the the pixies start to escape through the cooling duct and dance on the table while they try to incinerate you.
At my USCG small boat station, we had a break in coxswain blow the reduction gear with a stupid maneuver. We got back home on one engine. When we got the brand new replacement part and started test runs (just like here) we discovered the new reduction gear housing had a major defect in the form of a crack that was painted over by the manufacturer. It sprayed the gear fluid all over the engine room. So we limped back on one engine….
Surprising how a Galaxy class starship can put in huge changes to something as fundamental as warp core just before a very important mission lol. That is like releasing to production right before the black friday shopping rush hits your website.
Anyone who's worked on their own car has felt what Geordi felt.
alright lets do this and the enterprise fails to go to warp this is why they don't make warp cores like they used to🤣
I know how they feel I have a stubborn Hyundai Santa Fe, but she never did leave me stranded.
Hahaha. Oath!!!
Or building a PC. I installed a new video card recently, and my PC wouldn't post or give me video. I went through everything I could think of. Reseating the RAM fixed it somehow, despite the fact that I never touched the RAM.
Whenever you change something major and don't really test it first, thinking "eh, it'll be fine," then it fails in front of top brass..
As a former overhead light in sick bay, this episode really hits home.
Laforge: "its going to take at least a couple of hours". Picard: "my staff assures me we will be there in an hour".
That really hits home.
As a former stellar expanse, this episode really hit home.
As a former nuke on aircraft carriers, this scene hits home so much more now than it did when I was a kid- leave it to shipyard to screw up something important during an overhaul, and the crew has to go behind them and spend a significant amount of time fixing it to get the ship underway, keep the lights on, or both.
Don't want to pull back into the yards because lord knows they're likely only going to make things worse, and aside from that, when propulsion plant casualties happen when you're underway in the middle of nowhere, you're going to have to fix it yourselves anyway.
You must be talking about NNSY.
@@grelauren Definitely NNSY
It happens in manufacturing on dry land as well. My favorite was the gearbox that threatened to shake two floors apart and drop them to the ground level. But there were others as well. Fire safety system , pellet distribution system update...Yah, it is universal.
The yards who "screw up something important" are often the same ones who built the vehicle in the first place ...
@@pwnmeisterage Which is why ships always go through a shakedown cruise before entering service as the people who built it always screw something up from the very start as it is actually pretty common to have numerous issues when a ship leaves the shipyard after just being built or having undergone a refit of any sorts.
As a writer, this episode really hits home.
As a former strip of pixels on the main display to the left of the admirals right nostril, this episode really hit me hard. I recall fondly the shading command and remember the deep disappointment when we had to switch back to transparent afterwards.
Nice clip. Made me watch this episode just now. First TNG episode I saw for 15 years. Enjoyed! 🙂
"Even in the future nothing works!"
As a former owner of the Millennium Falcon, this episode hits harder than any of you will ever know.
This is a geeks dream! Getting to tinker with your passion is the best!
Patrick Stewart. 💯😇God bless him. The best ever captain of star trek. Miss his awesome acting 😢
Wait. Did he die?
As a former Tech Support worker on Earth 🌎 this episode hits home.
As the former Enterprise D this episode really hits home.
Nakomora: We were expecting you yesterday.
Picard: Sorry, but my car broke down.
lol
As a former TV fan of the show ... Heck, I'm still a fan!!!!! But this episode was really impactful ... as was every other episodes in all of the 7 series!
As a former port nacelle on the Enterprise D, this episode really hit home.
As a former Galaxy Class starship this episode really hit home.
I was trained to be an engineer myself. If this happened to me I would have headed back on the first power shut down. LaForge’s interest in this warp core clouded his judgement and also lost impulse power to go back to base.
Technically if something went wrong immediately you go back to find out what it was. This was quite an amateur behavior considering his experience.
Geordi was always a sentimental romantic at heart...
I'm not an engineer, but have been in those situations and you're absolutely right. When a big piece of expensive and potentially dangerous equipment doesn't respond the way it it should during commissioning, you stop and figure it out. Then again, a realistic portrayal of something like that would have taken all episode long. And we have to remember that star trek was written for a broader audience.
Ships engineers can be like this. More then a few cases where ships have had engine failures and the engineers wanted to fix it themselves out of pride. Its usually the captains call after that if he wants to drop anchor and wait, or call for a tug.
Then it becomes the captains pride depending on the type of ship, if they want to be towed back into port or not. smaller ships often go for the tow... But larger ships, big cruise liners, aircraft carriers, seem to think they should be able to do it themselves.
Electrical engineer here who used to work on aircraft carrier reactor propulsion plants in a former life.
No, it really isn't amateur at all. When you pull into the shipyard, there's an annoying tendency for you to pull out with more things broken than when you pulled in, and there's always going to be adjustments that need to be made. Best not to trust the people who broke your ship in the first place, and just do the work yourself. After all, when you go dead in the water in the middle of nowhere, it's not like you can just send out a call and have technicians flown out to meet you - you have to fix the issues yourself.
This is one of the most accurate scenes in Star Trek I've seen in a long while.
@@jenniferstewarts4851 ship's engineers fix it themselves because they're going to need to be able to do that if they're mid-ocean anyway. Warships can't just call for a tow or technicians to fly out when you go dead in the water in the middle of the Pacific, especially if you're in combat operations or in a situation involving restricted maneuvering ability.
As a former bio-neural gel pack on an Intrepid-class starship, this really didn’t hit home for me as I have been stuck in the Delta Quadrant for almost 30 years. For the love of god, please save me from Neelix’s cooking.
For this comment on the galactic subspace network i sentence you to consuming a special mix of amino acids the doctor and neelix made together you will be begging for ration packs by time you get the alpha quadrant
Given their readiness to eject the warp core when the plot demanded it, you wouldn't have thought getting a new one would be all that big a deal......
As I understood it, they usually eject the warp core when the core is displaying risk of harming the crew or destroying the vessel. In some circumstances this would've left them stranded for days, even weeks, without anything more than impulse engines. They would've had to wait for another ship to come by and tow them to the nearest station. On top of that, while I'm sure diterium isn't too rare of a resource by this time, it probably takes quite a lot of time to construct a new core and install it.
The better question is, they just departed a station and didn't go to warp, which means they were still in range of the station. Why didn't they go back?
They didn't eject the core 8n Generations which is why the ship crashed. They had to evacuate everyone to the saucer section which took time. I don't know why they didn't just eject the core. Maybe the magnetic interlocks being damaged had something to do with it
@@mm-gl7szthat's exactly why they couldn't eject it.
No but as others have pointed out you be stuck for weeks either limping to the nearest planet/Starbase or waiting for another ship to give you a tow.
Also they never ejected the warp core in the next generation as Geordi pointed out in Season one the galaxy class has a high enough ejection failure rate that it is just simpler to evaluate the star drive and do a saucer separation then to try to dump a warp core.
lt shaxs should have been on board
Advise Admiral Knackermora that our engines are mora knackered than I thought.
The ships lights went off because Data tripped on the extension cord.
I think the same people who installed the new warp core were the same people who fixed the hyperdrive on the Millennium Falcon at Cloud City
"Can't fire bad people. We don't even pay them. There's no money in the future."
"Found the problem."
I know how Picard feels, pretty much the same thing happened to me when I got a new engine in my Ford Escort!
As a fan of TOS who never liked the new power generation, this episode really hit home 🏡
I love how no matter the problem and how unexpected it can always be fixed in a couple of hours. Good.
As a user of remote video conferencing, this episode really hit home.
As an expert YT comments reader this one really hits home. I inject my opinion into the stream and no one comments on it. Everyone is watching and yet I cannot get a single thumbs up.
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Cellular peptide cake, with mint frosting. Delicious! 😋
This engine is the replacement for the older styles. This was to combat the damage done to subspace by Warp Drive in a previous episode.
Lol yup and it worked like a charm 😂
Parallels of today 😂
That's an interesting follow up to that story. The old Warp 6 speed limit or whatever it was. Way too slow otherwise.
@@gamestheory3244 Turns out progress is hard.
@@barneyrubble4293People tend to confuse the words "new" and "improved". Progress is fine, if it is indeed progress.
As a person late to the comments and nothing more to add... this episode really hits home.
As Admiral Nakamura's mustache, this episode really hit home.
1:46 Thank you Commander Data for taking the Warp Coil Engines offline, since they don't exist
"Captain, there's something wrong with (looks at dictionary of random techno babble) the antimatter dilithium flux capacitor."
As a former warp core oil change technician this really hit home for me
I feel sorry for Geordi here. This was not a standard situation and probably made no sense as to why these failures are occurring.
it's called "speed of plot"
As a former visor, this really hit home. Oh, the things i saw...and gave the klingons.
As this being close to home, this episode really hits close to home at hitting home near hitting close to home
Maybe Picard could take a shuttle craft and keep his admiral happy?
Or one of the runabouts docked in the main shuttlebay.
Nah, too dangerous. 😂
Nah. He should charter a private space flight.
"How much is where."
"The place we're going is starbase 219."
"Starbase 219 is starbase forbidden!"
@@dreadfulspiller8766 the D's yacht has only impulse drive. might be a bit too slow 😁
After the first couple seasons of TNG, Star Trek took its starship technology so cavalierly afterward. The way Geordi and Picard are behaving in these scenes-Geordi insisting nothing is seriously wrong, and Picard with a case of "get-there-itis"-is so reckless. The warp drive is a giant bomb if not handled with great care. When you push the button and nothing happens, you'd take even with a single home electrical circuit, let alone a Galaxy Class warp core.
Well a car has basically a giant gasoline bomb under your butt, and we still get only slightly frustrated when we turn the key and it doesn't work.
Thats how routine warp cores had become by the late 2300s And by that time warp cores had been around for twice as long in universe as cars have been around in real life, so the tech is probably all the more mundane to them.
Kirk got reckless too, when trying to intercept V'Ger. The Enterprise was almost destroyed as a result.
Im wondering why they are installing a new warp core in deep space and not a starbase. They just had a new core in storage i guess and broke down on the road.
@@temparalflux914 They were at a starbase. The stabase is literally in the first shot of the clip on this video.
@starsiegeplayer
I thought we're treating the first star trek movie the same as the star wars holiday special...it never happened 😅
As a current member of the Q Continuum, Jean-Luc and his pals really amuse me. I should pay them a visit sometime soon.
one of my favorite episodes
Like when you miss the bus, for an appointment you don't want to go to and then the service is cancelled. 😁
this is proof they don't make warp core like they used to🤣
@@raven4k998 Should have come with a returns form. 🤣
As a scene that really hits home myself, this is me.
As a warp necelle on a galaxy class starship, this episode really hit home. I’d had enough and needed some time off.
As a former phantasm, this had me dead.
Poor Ensign Gates, reduced to stoic wordlessness in the face of repeated inexplicable technical failures because she wasn't on the full day rate. 😉
(The character's most delivered line -- an off-screen _"Aye, sir."_ in multiple episodes -- was recorded in post by a different actor. She only had one on-screen line of her own, but in fairness it was just before she flew the Enterprise inside an asteroid in _The Pegasus_ so she gets a million cool points for that.)
Seriously, I was waiting for Picard to berate her for not informing him of what she saw.
Yeah, I would rather have her slam her fist on the console, shouting, "WHAT THE FRICKEN HECK!!!!" . . . 'I'M GETTING NO RESPONSE FROM THE WARP DRIVE!!!!!! CAPTAIN!!!!!" **sobs** "WHY AM I EVEN ALIVE!!!"
@Elurin
Picard: "why aren't we moving? Did you tap the console correctly?"
Ensign: (gestures at the console) "You wanna give it a shot, big man?"
As a former overused joke in the comment section myself, this episode really hit home.
As former starbase Admiral, this episode really hit home.
As a former formal formica counter in 10 forward, I definitely remember red shirts in the air and feet on my face….there was loud music and most of engineering’s 1st shift present.